Obama to warn Republicans on budget tactics

President Barack Obama will use the backdrop of a busy commercial port in Florida to warn congressional Republicans on Thursday that using the threat of government shutdown or debt default puts a fragile economic recovery in jeopardy.

Obama has said repeatedly that his primary focus is to restore economic stability to a middle class that is still wobbly after the deep recession of 2007-2009. That aim has been sidetracked since his re-election last November by his efforts to pass gun control and immigration legislation.

It has also been overshadowed by controversies that have kept the administration on the defensive, such as the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and revelations of widespread surveillance of citizens' phone and internet records by the National Security Agency.

Congressional Republicans, concerned about a large budget deficit and bills to come due in the future as a result of government retirement and health programs, want spending cuts and lower taxes as part of the budget process.

Despite Obama's desire to change topics, his efforts to launch infrastructure repairs are emblematic of his frustrations in getting Congress to agree to his economic agenda.

Boehner has repeatedly stated his baseless fear that “If the Republicians stand up and oppose Obama we might be blamed by the Liberals for __________________(Fill in the blank).”

He [and the other Republican politicians]listen to their consultants [who probably are working for the Democrats] instead of their constituents. That is why they lose election after election. That is why they always cave to the Democrats. On second thought, the reason they do not listen to their constituents and always cave in to the Democrats is because, like the Democrats, they have no core values or principles to guide them. But yet they are elected and re-elected. The reason given: They are better than the Democrat.

In recent years, here in Florida, we have had a woman judicially murdered. A woman who had committed no crime, let alone a crime worthy of death. A woman who was unable to defend herself. Also, we have and an innocent, decent man charged with a crime when the only thing he did was successfully defend his life from a criminal who wished to take it. Both these events happened on the watch of a Republican Governor. In the woman's case, it was a Republican judge who issued and signed her death warrant. Their also happened to be a Republican State Attorney and a Republican Sheriff. The Republican State Attorney did nothing to help her. The Republican Sheriff aided and abetted the sentence of death being carried out, even arresting a child who did nothing more sinister that to try to offer her a drink of water. The method of death? Deprivation of food and water until she died. The only difference between their actions and those of the Democrat lawyer was they did not orgasm while describing her death throes at the press conference as he did.

A reminder for all who wish to see the economy grow, provide freedom and opportunity for citizens, and assure liberty for future generations: we might wish to be reminded of the original "miracle of America."

The Miracle of America

from

axes and hoes to high technology;

log cabins to air-conditioned condos;

horsedrawn wagons to autos, planes, and rockets;

scarcity to abundance; &

from tyrannical government rule to individual liberty

HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN?

Most of our history books don’t tell us that, in the beginning, the pilgrims established a communal economic system. Each was to produce according to his ability and contribute his production to a common storehouse from which each was to draw according to his need.

The assurance that they would be fed from the common store, regardless of their contribution to it, had a peculiarly disabling effect on the colonists. Taking property away from some and giving it to others bred discontent and retarded employment. Human nature was the same then as now, and before long, there were more consumers than there were producers, and the pilgrims were near starvation. Governor Bradford, his advisors, and the colonists agreed that in order to increase their crops, each family would be allowed to do as it pleased with whatever it produced. In other words, a free market system was established. In Governor Bradford’s own words:

“This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corne was planted than other waise would have bene by any means ye Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into ye field, and tooke their little-ons with them to set corne, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene though great tiranie and oppression. . . . By this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now God gave them plenty, and the face of things was changed. . . . and some of ye abler sort and more industrious had to spare, and sell to others, so as any generall wante or famine hath not been amongst them since this day . . . .” (Wm. Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation,” original manuscript, Wright & Potter, Boston, 1901)

Those who, today, favor central government planning, common ownership and redistribution of the earnings of others are advocating a system that Americans tried and rejected over 350 years ago. Their wisdom gave birth to the great American miracle!

Are we as wise today?

You Can Do Something About This!

(This message originally published in the mid-1980’s by Stedman Corporation’s Government Affairs & Free Enterprise Education Program – a former NC textile firm. For more history of America's founding containing essays in this series, visit www.ouragelessconstitution.com)

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