Two things from Rep. Eric Cantor. First is an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor that I thought I’d post, in case you missed it last week. Laura Ingraham filled in for O’Reilly and pressed Rep. Cantor on his commitment to, among other things, repealing ObamaCare. This is an issue we’ve been highlighting on this blog, so I thought you’d want to see the congressman’s response. You can decide if his general attitude of, “Laura, you know me better than that.” is compelling.
Second is an op-ed he wrote for the USA Today in which he accurately addresses the massive tax hike bearing down on us, ready to strike on January 1, 2011:
•Taxes will jump next year on everything from ordinary income, capital gains, dividends and estates. And with our national debt soaring, the prospect of even more tax increases in the future seems more likely.
•Health-care costs are growing as a result of Obamacare’s mandates and inflationary impact on premiums.
•Energy costs remain in limbo as leading Democrats, led by Sen. John Kerry, float the idea of passing cap-and-trade during the lame-duck session of Congress.
•Credit is becoming more expensive and is increasingly out of reach for most small businesses, partly because the 2,300-plus page financial regulatory bill encourages banks to horde their capital rather than lend it.
•Labor costs also threaten to climb higher as labor unions dig in their heels and gear up for another push to pass card check.
I thank Rep. Cantor for raising this important issue. It’s interesting because Democrats know (a) this tax hike will crush the economy even more, but (b) extending the Bush tax cuts will go a long way to soften the blow. Some are even open to doing just that.
Maybe it’s time we tell Senators Webb and Warner we expect them to join this growing bi-partisan coalition to do something that will actually help our battered economy.
If you were unable to attend or watch the historic Restoring Honor rally in DC this past Saturday, you can watch the entire event at CSPAN.org.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”–Edmund Burke, a founder of modern conservatism.
Many of us ally with the Tea Party because we want to do something, if only to show up at rallies and add our presence to the force of their message.
I discovered another way to do something that’s easy and effective and can be highly influential.
My subdivision of more than 200 families is tied together by a listserv or e-mail group. If you want to send a message to everybody else, like “Who knows a good plumber?” you simply send it to the e-mail group and everybody gets it. They can reply to the group or to you personally.
I established a conservative e-mail group for the subdivision. Members e-mail such things as links to interesting articles, columns, or videos, usually serious but occasionally humorous. Once in a while someone will post a personal opinion or observation. People let others know about the Restoring Honor rally and encouraged them to go. It’s proven a good way of getting around the old media to circulate conservative news and opinion. We’ve held one party that was entirely social.
I recruited members through the general e-mail group and personal contacts. Recruitment might also be done by distributing fliers throughout a neighborhood. Similar e-mail groups could also be formed within organizations, churches, associations, and other large assemblies.
I used Yahoo to form the e-mail group. It’s a free, simple, fill-in-the blanks process even for a technological illiterate. Do it here. Click on the words “Easy as 1-2-3. Start your group today.” A Yahoo account is required to form the group and participate, but that’s also free and simple.
I read an article on WSJ online about the rally and it was the only one that came close to describing the event as it happened. WSJ describes a peaceful rally where attendees were polite and left the Mall in better condition than they found it.
They also noted that the message was for Americans to “cling to their best traditions.” FINALLY, a real journalist doing real reporting. The only place I think WSJ was off base was when they stated that this rally could bode well for the GOP in November. It COULD bode well for the GOP if there are TRUE conservatives running on the GOP ticket. This rally nor its attendees are beholden to a party but to ideals.
This is not to be construed as investment advice, nor is anything else I post here. Consult your financial expert before making any investment decisions.
Are you still holding dollars?
Alan Greenspan, before he sold out and became a tool:
- “In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good and thereafter decline to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as claims on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to be able to protect themselves.
- This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”
- – Alan Greenspan, ‘Gold and Economic Freedom’ in 1966.
Now that the GREAT EVENT is over we have to ask ourselves, “What did we go to Washington to see?”
Read the Rest at: The History of the Future:
http://drrobertowens.com/2010/08/30/restoring-honor-8-28-10/
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com):
10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from you.
9. One word: emails.
8. Tea Party & Patriot group supporters won’t shut up and eat their cake.
7. Qualifying for a lifetime pension the day they take office apparently isn’t enough for members of Congress.
6. Two other words: phone calls.
5. Tea Party & Patriot group supporters APPARENTLY ARE NOT READING THE FORM LETTERS THAT THEIR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE SENDING THEM.
4. Tea Party & Patriot group supporters are crazy lunatics obsessed with things like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
3. Tea Party & Patriot group supporters act like Congress works for them. What’s up with that?
2. How can anyone who doesn’t have a personal driver know anything about how the country should be run?
1. Tea Party & Patriot group supporters seem to think that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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I have been asked by many who knew I went to the rally on 8/28, what was said, what was the message, who spoke? I have had a couple of days to think about the message and I have come to the conclusion that there were many messages wrapped up in one rally. Many messages directed at many different groups. I am not going to re-iterate who said what or what the message contained, most of you have probably seen or heard the rally by now. Instead, I am going to focus on what I took away and what I think it means for our country and citizens.
The message that was presented to the audience was a strong one and had a life changing impact. Not only for those present but for those who weren’t present. For those who are trying to fundamentally change our country and therefore the world, your lives and your fight just got a lot harder. As Thomas Jefferson stated “It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate, to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.” We are Americans. We are the people who brought freedom to the world and we will be the ones to maintain freedom for the world. We have seen that our soft lives have led to our current situation and are ready to remedy the situation by whatever means necessary.
The message to Congress is this: we are no longer concerned what the letter beside your name reads, we are judging you by your “content of character.” What is your voting record? What is your behavior outside of office? (If you will cheat your very own family or friends then you will probably not think twice about cheating a nameless faceless Joe Q. Public) Who do you surround yourself with? These are the things that we are going to be looking for from now on.
The message I took away is this: No compromise. This goes back to the last post I made when I stated how dangerous compromise can be and now I see that I was a part of that problem. When it comes to choosing in the future, whether is be a vote for Congress, the PTA or HOA board I am done choosing the lesser of two evils, that’s how we got into the mess we’re in. Only people who represent my values and ideals deserve my vote and they will be the only ones to get it. I don’t care if my guy is a long-shot, I am no longer compromising my voice. As Beck stated on Saturday, finding God and living his principles is the most freedom you will experience but it does not mean it will not be uncomfortable. Having values means sticking to them even when it hurts.
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