Posted on 11/06/2009 7:21:28 AM PST by timesthattrymenssouls
10.2% and Rising.
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"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." --Ronald Reagan
I miss Ronnie. Don't you?
Frankly, I am sick and tired of being told American is no longer great. That our only hope is for the government to take over every part of our lives. That we must pay for past sins and successes. I am tired of the finger wagging. And the somber faces. Tired of the incompetence and the arrogance. And I am tired of the lies. Especially Obama's.
The Chief Fiddler speaks and acts without experience to support the veracity of his words. He speaks and acts without ever considering the consequences. Like an adolescent. Like a teenager I wouldn't trust with the keys to my car. Let alone the keys to our future and that of our children. He has shown reckless abandon for the truth. Joe Wilson was absolutely right when he shouted out in the dignified auditorium of the Joint Session: "You lie." The one desecrating the great office was not Joe Wilson.
When my children lied to me, I punished them. One of them had to clean up after our 190 pound Newfoundland all summer, every day, morning and night because lies are like...well you know, and integrity requires an acknowledgement of that. So the poor child cleaned the mess each day as a reminder to truth. The message was received. The behavior changed. The stakes for truth are high. There is no compromise. There is no other side. There is no negotiation.
When Barack Obama told us passing his $787 billion stimulus bill would ensure unemployment would never rise above 7.8% and that by 2010 the economy would employ 138.6 million jobs, he was either lying or recklessly uninformed. Nothing in the stimulus bill could guarantee that claim. Keynsian policies never have and never will create jobs but even if the policies did work, the claim was simply unsupportable. It was what is called an expedient lie. Like many we have heard over the past months.
(Remember the one about transparency in the Obama Administration? We were going to have the opportunity to view legislation on-line for two weeks, then 72 hours prior to passage. Nancy Pelosi promised a 72 hour viewing of the health care bill as recently as a week ago. But now she says not. We are not entitled to see the bill. And it wouldn't be fair anyway. Why should we have the opportunity to read something our legislators haven't and won't read before they vote on it?)
Simultaneously loading down business with health care reform (read TAXES) and cap and trade (read EXCESSIVE TAXES AT EVERY LEVEL) will only ensure that today's 10.2% unemployment rate will continue rising. The big LIE is: government is not the solution. It is the problem. The Founders knew that. Reagan knew that. The Administration, too, knows that. But the power is intoxicating and they will do whatever they can to grab as much as possible. No matter how many people are trampled in the process. 190,000 freshly unemployed can attest to that.
I have a secret to share with Mr. Obama. The money has to come from somewhere. You can't keep printing it forever. These are real people losing real jobs. And though we are a tolerant lot, there will be consequences.
Oh yes and Ronnie said one more thing for us to consider: "All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
Buy a copy of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, The Founder's Manual--all available at the Heritage Foundation or get a copy of Liberty and Tyranny and read it to them a little bit at a time each night. Jefferson was right: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Yup, this is the quiet Maoist revolution. Get the working class so terrified and depressed that they vote for “Hope and Change.”
Carter was the same way. Same playbook. And Carter almost was re-elected! The recession killed him. Obama can only blame Bush (actually, Bush had nothing to do with it - it was Congress and the Federal Reserve that caused the bubble and crash) for so long.
>>Frankly, I am sick and tired of being told American is no longer great.<<
Truth hurts too much?
People simply do not understand that nations and people, without God, simply do not STAY great.
This nation is like an individual that became a Christian, prayed to God, did great things in partnership with God, and then said, “thanks God, I’ll take it from here”.
Or worse, said “There never really was a God. I was just highly skilled and talented and did this on my own.”
This is gonna leave a mark before it’s over.
You can be sure that if there was a republican majority in either/both of the houses, that is the argument they will make. It is their battle plan for 2012 after the majority switches in 2010. They are pushing all this crap so hard, I think the dems are ready to give up their seats in 2010 so that obama will have the republican whipping boy to get re elected in 2012, along with re electing a majority to both houses in 2012.
CHANGE
Amen, and amen!
Any song writer here want to take a stab at converting this Johnny Cash tune to comment on rising unemployment and the economy going underwater?
Five Feet and Rising
How high’s the water, mama?
Two feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, papa?
Two feet high and risin’
We can make it to the road in a homemade boat
That’s the only thing we got left that’ll float
It’s already over all the wheat and the oats,
Two feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, mama?
Three feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, papa?
Three feet high and risin’
Well, the hives are gone,
I’ve lost my bees
The chickens are sleepin’
In the willow trees
Cow’s in water up past her knees,
Three feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, mama?
Four feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, papa?
Four feet high and risin’
Hey, come look through the window pane,
The bus is comin’, gonna take us to the train
Looks like we’ll be blessed with a little more rain,
4 feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, mama?
Five feet high and risin’
How high’s the water, papa?
Five feet high and risin’
Well, the rails are washed out north of town
We gotta head for higher ground
We can’t come back till the water comes down,
Five feet high and risin’
Well, it’s five feet high and risin’
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