Driving US Families Into Poverty

Townhall.com ^ | January 2, 2010 | Niger Innis

[Niuhuru]

You sound self sufficient.

[Bronzy]

Wonder what Congress would do if thousands of citizens did an auto convoy on the Capitol like the truckers in the 1970’s?

[MsLady]

I know, thank God for Texas.

[hinckley buzzard]

C'mon. The trump card of the bureaucracy is the "regulation." Congress gives these a-holes wide latitude in fulfilling the "laws" that they pass. It was no different in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.

The people's interface with the gubbermint was the faceless bureaucrat, unelected, unaccountible, potentially vicious little factotums living in a world of their own. The morally diseased psychopath Lisa Jackson at EPA is a classic example of the Obersturmbahnfuhrer of das Dritte Reich.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“That is unbelieveable.”

Think about the possibility that the most radical, “cutting edge”, depraved, and morally indifferent Harvard assistant-professor in “advanced demographic studies” who was abused as a child has already formulated this as a deliberate means of “trimming the fat” out of an aging population.

Now think about the possibility that this happened 15 years ago and the former research-assistant is now an 0bama czar or sub-czar.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Unless we get stopped - then I can’t imagine what will happen in this State. Thanks though

[danielmryan]

“Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat.”

That is ubelieveable.

"Environmental justice"...

[MsLady]

If Texas loses this one, it’ll affect the whole country. If they win I think it’ll embolden other states to do the same.

[Doomonyou]

bfl

[SeaWolf]

The states should fight Washington regardless if Texas wins or loses, in fact a loss should prod them into refusing to follow EPA’s edicts. But the states reflect their citizens and their citizens are far too comfortable to elect state legislatures who will fight. For far too many the gray goo of socialism is easier to accept than the effort required for individual liberty.

[familyop]

I'm out.

Yes, one side wants to implement the carbon credit scam. But both sides want continuing tax credits welfare for unneeded systems for the wealthy (grid-tied, suburban), and to regulate against home-built wind turbines and solar heating systems (which I am building, being way off of the grid, ineligible for government funding, and according to the effeminate, government-back status quo, unlicensed, un-pedigreed and unauthorized to build...or even to live).

[familyop]

BTW, I’m over 50, and the other day, I plugged (fixed) a flat tire out in the open, in the dark, over 9,000 feet, when it was -17 F with a 40 mph wind. ...a bent fence staple, probably dropped on the road by a bipartisan, formerly government-employed NIMBY, HOA hag. Retire early, stay in the house all winter, die sooner.

[Little Bill]

Niger Innis is the real deal, saw him speak at several FReeps in DC. He and His Father were probably the only sane people to came out of the Civil Rights Movement.

[roadcat]

“manmade global warming" - You can request thousands of free periodicals and information packages from various government offices. Receive stacks of them delivered to your door. Chuck them into your fireplace for your free heat.

Where I live, they frequently have no-burn days. However, if the fireplace is your sole source of heat you're exempted. My bad neighbor does that, claims a broken furnace for the last 20 years (cheapskate), and burns trash in his fireplace.

[Glenn]

our Governor is fighting the EPA restrictions now.

The only way to fight the EPA is to defy it, I'm afraid.

And no one seems to have the fortitude to do that because they are so dependent on federal dollars in the other sectors of the puzzle that is state government.

[MsLady]

So many of the sheeple have been raised in our socialist schools, they don’t know any better. And a good portion of American’s don’t care what the politican’s do, as long as their personal troughs are full.

[samtheman]

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims these actions are needed to ensure “environmental justice” for poor and minority families threatened by “manmade global warming.” Meanwhile, the United States and entire Northern Hemisphere are enduring yet another nasty winter, marked by early snow storms and record cold temperatures. Some scientists say Earth could be entering another prolonged period of cooler temperatures.

I want to see Lisa Jackson in front of congress, answering questions on this. And I want to see her soon.

The number one question for 2011 is this:

Is the Republican House a house of warriors or a house of wimps?

[loveliberty2]

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322

"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23

"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40

That the Obama Administration can view those who might take a stand on stopping the madness of debt and deficit as "playing chicken" reveals the shallowness of their intellect and their total disregard of human liberty. Their counterfeit vision of a Marxian Utopia is the same claim to "doing good" that all tyrants have utilized to enslave citizens. Hear John Adams on that subject:

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 2, 1816:

"Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service, when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambition, avarice, love, resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety, and so much overpowering eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience, and convert both to their party."

[Cobra64]

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[redpoll]

This is how the left does things when they’re in control.

The Soviets wanted to collectivize the farms. They did it, creating famine as their primary result.

The Chinese Communists thought the people were better off living in the country than living in cities. Millions died.

The National Socialists wanted to breed a better kind of human being. We know how that turned out.

Our communists are focused on what they called social justice, environmentalism, and equality for minorities and women. I have no idea what happens next, but it certain to be ugly.