Posted on 09/24/2013 12:54:38 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
As I compose this, I'm watching Ted Cruz as he filibusters to halt the disaster called Obamacare. I hope you will watch it as well. If he has used it once, he's used the phrase "...we no longer listen to the people, our constituents..." over a hundred times. And he's right...they don't. And the fact is, THEY NO LONGER NEED TO. I've sent my little rant on this topic before but Ted's honest comment compels me to do so again. Dick Bachert
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WHY THE POLITICAL RULING CLASS NO LONGER LISTENS TO US!
Among others, Thomas Jefferson warned that the financial disaster we now face would be but one of many problems paper money would visit upon us if we allowed our “leaders” to remove the backing from the currency, to wit:
“When the servants if the people are paid with something other than that which the people themselves have produced (i.e. the real, tangible products of their labors or some fixed and real medium of that exchange), the roles of master and servant will be reversed.”
It was believed by Roger Sherman and a majority of those at the Constitutional Convention that un-backed currency would so damage the fabric of the nation that they ATTEMPTED to prohibit it with these few words at Article 1, Section 10, requiring the states to enforce the prohibition: “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”
If the people and their states grew inattentive to this matter (and they have!), Jefferson also saw this problem ahead:
In a letter to John Taylor in 1816, he wrote, "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
We have been “…swindling futurity…” for a long time and this is now where we find ourselves. If the government, through its banker masters at the Federal Reserve, can create “money” from thin air, they certainly don’t need ours every April 15th. That annual sheep shearing is simply an attempt to vacuum enough of the excess paper from the system to keep the rest of us from catching on to the biggest theft ring in the history of man. They have now created so much that their attempt is failing and failing badly to a point where all but the dullest among us (Obama voters and his growing cadres of personal and corporate welfare beneficiaries) are starting to “get it.”
If you understood that last paragraph, you can now make the small leap to an understanding as to why the “progressive” utopian welfare state hacks in Washington don’t give a damn WHAT you think. Their power to create all the “money” they need to fuel their infernal machine and fill the gaping maws of enough of those hoards of welfare constituents to assure their perpetual re-election means that -- ready -- THEY NO LONGER NEED YOU! They have become, as Mr. Jefferson predicted, our MASTERS.
That they are taking down a nation and a system that has provided more wealth, safety and abundance to more people than any other in history matters not to them. Failing to grasp the lesson of the French Revolution, they believe themselves to be above the impending disaster.
We’re running out of time to get this increasingly rapacious beast back into the cage from which we have carelessly allowed it to escape.
How many republicans even bother to write to their democrat representatives?
Its a pet peeve of mine.
Because it doesn’t have to.
Are you kidding? My "Senators" are Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Why should I waste my time? I do send money to credible conservatives who are trying to replace them.
They are not afraid of us. They keep getting elected.
I’m hip - I’m stuck with schumer and gillibrand.
FML
And that's it. As far as they are concerned, they are doing a FANTASTIC job ! They keep getting re-hired !
I’ve done it several times myself... enough to know it is an exercise in futility.
So basically you’re behaving exactly like the McCains and Grahams of Washington.
I’d fight them but writing a letter is just too hard.
And they keep getting elected because the libtards can continue to dispense the federal goodies. And they can do that because they can print — from THIN AIR and until the system collapses ala the Wiemar Republic — enough FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators erroneously called “Dollars”) because, in violation of Art.1, Section 10, there is NO THING OF SUBSTANCE behind them.
If, as Jefferson observed, that sort of system required that every REAL dollar for that vote buying were required to be extracted from those who PRODUCED THAT WEALTH, it would have long ago triggered ANOTHER REVOLUTION.
And they keep getting elected because the libtards can continue to dispense the federal goodies. And they can do that because they can print — from THIN AIR and until the system collapses ala the Wiemar Republic — enough FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators erroneously called “Dollars”) because, in violation of Art.1, Section 10, there is NO THING OF SUBSTANCE behind them.
If, as Jefferson observed, that sort of system required that every REAL dollar for that vote buying were required to be extracted from those who PRODUCED THAT WEALTH, it would have long ago triggered ANOTHER REVOLUTION.
“How many republicans even bother to write to their democrat representatives?”
Go ahead it’s fun. They send me lots of form responses full of flat out lies.
It has nothing to do with how hard it is, but rather how effectve that effort is. Why spend the time/effort/etc. into a letter or e-mail that--if it is read at all--will be thoroughly ignored or laughed at by idiots?
There are much more effective and useful ways to spend our time and effort.
Another pathetic excuse.
Your democrat senator appreciates your silent support.
It's my Rep that's killing us. And she's not intelligent enough to read, anyway.
Good stuff, thanks. I’m glad Ted Cruz is there.
I dispute that. In fact it's insulting. Letters and emails to them in the past have had no impact. Einstein said insanity is defined by doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. You seem not to grasp realpolitik as practiced by Democrats. Are you so naive as to think they can be influenced by mere constituents?
I do, it’s just so hard to stomach the staffer responses.
The way I see it is that we lose every battle we don’t fight and the democrats fight every single battle.
I personally know my congressman and he says he gets buried with emails and calls from both sides of the issues.
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