Ok, folks. Watch this video from Obama’s “Organizing for America” team and then tell us why you aren’t going to help us this Saturday do some door knocking in Congressional District VA9 against Rick Boucher. Time to put your words into action. Free bus trip to VA9. Contact us for a free ride to help out for the day at susanl@richmondteaparty.com.

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When taxes become destructive they surpass the consent of the governed bending to the will of tyranny. When regulations strangle competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they become counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they were proposed. When foreign entanglements bleed the nation but do not secure the peace or defeat the enemy they become interventionist vehicles for vested interests. When spending becomes a hemorrhaging of assists leading to national bankruptcy those who continue to pile debt upon debt seek not the good of the nation but instead its destruction. When leaders selected to unite instead do all they can to divide they no longer advance the interest of the whole and are instead partisan leaders in a factional fight.

A social contract is one made between a people and their government. It is an agreement whereby the people surrender certain aspects of their independence for the guarantee of corporate security and the enjoyment of a general welfare. In the case of most countries this is an unwritten and unconscious arrangement built upon tradition and precedent as in the case of England. However in the United States we have an actual contract, the Constitution. This was ratified by the original states and the subsequent states were formed under it and admitted as full partners to it.

All contracts may be legitimately changed over time as long as there are mechanisms either within the document or established by the document to do so. Within our Constitution there is an amendment process, and it has been amended 27 times so far. Whether we agree with those amendments or not they have been legally ratified and accepted becoming part of the document. However, over the years our government structure has been changed, and our manner of life transformed more by the informal changes than by the formal. Nowhere in the Constitution is the central government given the power to wage unending undeclared war. Nowhere is the central government given the right to ignore the requirement to protect the states from invasion. Nowhere is there found any basis for executive orders, signing statements, or bureaucratic regulations to have the force of law without legislative action by Congress.

Well-connected rabble rousers now say equality will not be achieved until everything is equal in everybody’s house. Leveling the playing field has finally thrown off its cloak of deceit and exposed itself as from each according to their ability to each according to their need. The professional civil rights entrepreneurs who’ve extorted vast amounts of personal wealth with threats of boycotts and demonstrations have been unmasked as the true purveyors of prejudice seeking to keep race and gender differences alive for their own benefit. Union bosses build political empires using the legally forced dues of members with more money spent on political activity than on member service. The union bosses ride in limousine comfort from board meetings to political rallies while their members lose jobs. The pensions of the bosses are golden parachutes while the pensions of the members are underfunded.

The Land of the Free is held captive, locked in a two party system where both parties are merely two heads on the same bird of prey. Both parties are dedicated to more spending and bigger government. Both parties exploit gerrymandering of districts and overwhelming corporate donations to ensure a hierarchy of the perpetually re-elected that use a system of seniority to enhance their power. Legal barriers exist at every turn to stop any new parties from gaining access that might deflect the central government from its ever increasing growth towards totalitarianism.

When will enough be enough? When will citizens rise in their righteous anger and demand not a New Deal, not a Great Society, a New Frontier or a Fundamentally Transformed America but instead their original deal. The one we wrested from the hands of the tyrant King George. The one we’ve fought to establish and defend from Yorktown to Kandahar, and the right of a people to be free to live as they choose, to work for their own benefits and choose their own destiny. Free from the smothering governmental control which has been the lot of most people in most places since the beginning of time. When will the yoke of tyranny become too heavy to be borne? What will be the spark that lights the torches and brings the incensed villagers to the gate of the castle demanding, “Bring the monster out!” so that a stake can be driven through the heart of tyranny and freedom can return to the land?

When that day comes what will we the people do? Will we try to resurrect the government of old that ultimately brought us full circle, or will we be bold enough to forge anew the social contract and design better ways to ensure the beast of tyranny doesn’t once again break the chains of restraint.

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for Southside Virginia Community College and History for the American Public University System. http://drrobertowens.com © 2010 Robert R. Owens dr.owens@comcast.net

Cross-posted at http://drrobertowens.com

Rasmussen reported on July 21 that:

Over the past year, the Democrats fixed on what they thought was a devastating four-word slogan to defeat Republicans in 2010: “The Party of No.” Unlike many campaign slogans, it was fair enough. After all, the Republicans had opposed almost unanimously all of President Obama’s major bills (socialized health care, stimulus, nationalization of GM and Chrysler, “cap and trade,” financial overregulation, multitrillion-dollar yearly deficits, tax increases, etc.)

But the Democrats seem to have stopped using that phrase in the past several weeks as, apparently, White House strategists have come to appreciate that the only people screaming “no” louder than the Grand Old Party are the American people. (The president is now opposed by more than 60 percent of independents, 60 percent of whites, almost 40 percent of Hispanics and a full 19 percent of registered Democrats — all historic worst numbers for the president.) [bold emphasis mine]

So there you have it! November can’t come quickly enough so we can at least take care of Congress.

The Obama White House has released a new report that claims that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has saved or created millions of jobs. Mini-Me crows about it: 

“Everyone now acknowledges there would be somewhere between 2.5 (million) and 3.6 million fewer jobs available today, fewer people working today, were it not for the Recovery Act,” Biden said.

I wonder who “everyone” is? Perhaps he means everyone whose new, non-productive government job has been created through printing and borrowing, and then spending 10% of GDP on consumption? Remember, none of this money is being invested in new businesses and industries, even according to the Fed itself. If no one is hiring for productive economic activity, we’re just borrowing and spending and calling it economic growth. This means, unfortunately, there is no real recovery, and as soon as the borrowing and spending stops, the economy stops.

Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) actually cites their own estimates as the source of the technical data for the report:

The CEA estimates that as of the second quarter of 2010, the ARRA has raised employment relative to what it otherwise would have been by between 2.5 and 3.6 million. These estimates are broadly consistent with the direct recipient reporting data available for 2010:Q1.

So, according to Jimmy, when Jimmy graded his own math test, Jimmy got an “A”. Way to go, Jimmy!

Shooting holes in this ridiculous pronouncement is just too easy. Here’s what the original sales pitch for the $787 Billion “Stimulus” bill (ARRA) looked like:

Here’s the number of reported unemployed (which doesn’t even include the millions who’ve given up looking for full-time work):

Here’s the reported unemployment rate:

So, the number of unemployed stayed the same, and while the unemployment rate has fallen slightly from its peak it is still higher than when the ARRA was passed by CONgress in February 2009. The taxpayers are now $787 Billion poorer. By all measures, then, ARRA has been a dismal failure, more proof of the government’s ability to spend other people’s money stupidly. So, either the White House is lying, or CONgress is a bunch of hapless morons (more likely, both). Way to go, Jimmy!

Here’s a chart of the number of Americans on food stamps (yes, that’s 40 million on food stamps):

So are you guys feelin’ the love yet? Me neither.

And we’re not alone. This CBS poll reports that 75% of Americans think the effects of the recession will last another two years or more.

More than eight in 10 say the condition of the economy is bad, up five points from last month.

I guess CEA is smoking hopium. And if I just planted in anyone’s mind a mental image of Christina Romer passing a pipe, forgive me.

In a Bible passage so powerful even those who don’t believe the Bible unknowingly quote it an arrogant young ruler is so enamored with his exalted position he thinks he can disregard the traditions of his predecessors with impunity. In the midst of a celebration of his greatness the proud young man calls for the sacred vessels captured when his father conquered Judah so that he can drink toasts to himself. Suddenly before a stunned king and his smug courtiers a hand appears in mid-air writing on the wall of his palatial palace. Never having seen a teleprompter the king had no idea these words would come to define his reign. He called for the wisest man in his kingdom to tell him what they meant.

When Daniel arrived he told the haughty king, “The writing reads: ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.’ The meaning of the words is this: Mene: God has measured your sovereignty and put an end to it; Tekel: you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; Parsin: your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.” That same night through an unperceived chink left by neglect in their previously impregnable defenses Babylon was conquered, the king was overthrown, and the rest is history.

If History doesn’t help us in the world today it’s useless. We might as well study tea leaves if we can’t learn from the past to live in the present and shape the future. There are numerous old sayings which attempt to pass this wisdom along to the oblivious young who always act as if youth was a new invention or something clever they have personally devised instead of a fleeting possession most of us squander. These sayings include; “Those who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it.” “The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.” Or, my personal favorite, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” However you say it if we fail to do it we’ve sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind.

History tells us that on New Year’s Eve 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. A Cold War which had often blazed hot ended in the unequivocal demise of one super-power and the undeniable triumph of the other. What lesson did we learn? What truth did we walk away with that would allow us to avoid the dust-bin of history which had devoured them?

Before the dust had a chance to settle the joy of victory over the agony of defeat was turned to political maneuvering, military mission creep and economic chicanery. The same people who wanted us to unilaterally disarm during the darkest days of the fifty year confrontation, since it was obviously our belligerency causing the Soviet dictators to follow their oft announced plan to bury us, wanted to cash in the peace dividend the people who had ignored their previous advice had earned. After George the First shot himself in the foot by going back on his no new taxes pledge the man from Hope was only too eager to comply since he had been one of the people marching in the streets and leading the charge to disarm in the face of aggression. Cutting defense and expanding government, the Clinton administration partied its way across the stage of history leaving us weaker then they found us. George the Second rallied the world to punish the terrorists who assaulted us on 9-11. Then instead of declaring victory and coming home he opened a second front, and frittered away the admiration and allegiance of the world and our truncated military capacity in a pre-emptive war he knew how to win but didn’t know how to conclude. Now ignoring the fact that it was in large part a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan that set the stage for the collapse of the Soviet Union our current commander believes we can win a war by dispatching more troops with a pre-announced date of departure.

Recalling the “Those who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it” truism here’s a history lesson. Great Britain led the world into the Industrial Revolution becoming the number one manufacturer on earth by 1780. This led to over a century of British ascendancy. The United States over took Britain and became the number one manufacturer on earth after Europe committed suicide on the Fields of Flanders and assumed the acknowledged lead of Western Civilization after Europe administered the coup de grace in World War Two. If current trends continue, China will become the number one manufacturer on earth by 2011 while at the same time America is seeking a cure through bleeding itself in two hot wars with no end, open borders and one-way free trade. Is there something we should learn here? Is there some remedy we could apply?

We must stop the hemorrhaging. We must stop the invasion. We must insist on fair trade. We must rebuild our industrial base. If we don’t, one day we’ll wake up to hear a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen, Babylon the great is fallen!”

Cross-posted at http://drrobertowens.com

This is a great visual to show the rate at which former presidents, Congress and current President Obama are spending our country into oblivion. I received a call from a reporter last week wanting to know the tea party response to the fact that Obama gave 98% of Americans a tax cut this year. Why weren’t we giving him credit? Seriously…that was the question.

This video demonstrates why you don’t get credit President Obama. You can’t propose this rate of spending and then say you can keep a few hundred dollars (the tax credit is only good for two years) in exchange for trillions in spending. Give me a break! We are going 174mph off a cliff and we are excited about a few hundred dollars?  The Tea Party can see through that guise.

This is an absolutely amazing video and worth 1:38 minutes of your life. This puts in perspective the sham of proposed budget cuts. Cutting $100 million from the budget won’t even leave a dent. See for yourself. WATCH!

I am sure many of you have seen this video, but I want to post it here so we can be fully aware of how Tea Party activists are being treated and that we are being potrayed as some sort of threat. We are advocating mainstream ideas that have been the bedrock of this country: constitutional adherance, limited government, fiscal restraint, free markets, and virtue and accountability. From this video it is obvious that the police were told to consider the Tea Party a threat.

This is a group of peaceful Tea Party activists (parents, children, and senior citizens) singing patriotic songs and holding signs. This free assembly and free speech action of the Tea Party in Quincy, IL, last Wednesday prompted the riot police, in full gear, to stand guard over the tea party. This is pretty astonishing.

What is even more amazing is that ILLEGAL immigrants can actually RIOT, throw plastic bottles at police, deface property, and the media says absolutely nothing….

To see more about this go to these articles:

It’s time to face facts: the national government is broke. The following chart is from the website of the Federal Reserve. It shows federal expenditures (blue) compared to federal tax receipts (red). The difference between the two is, of course, the federal deficit, which has ballooned to truly historic proportions.

Clearly, the path we’re on is unsustainable. If we don’t restore sanity immediately our financial credibility in the world will be destroyed. Yet, Congress just passed a national “Health Care” measure, one they claim is spending-neutral. I leave it to you: has Congress EVER passed a bill creating a new entitlement that was spending-neutral?

Around 2001 we had a recession, which you can see on the above chart. You can also see that tax receipts plummeted. In response, then-Fed chairman Greenspan lowered interest rates thirteen times in order to boost the economy, which of course also boosted tax receipts. And while the Fed can make credit cheaper, they can’t decide where it goes. The credit went into housing, inflating the housing bubble that exploded in 2007.

But this time, interest rates are already at zero, so in order to blow another bubble Fed Chairman Bernanke has begun printing money. The next chart, also from the Fed, shows growth in the monetary base:

In finance, charts that look like this are called “hockey sticks”, and they always show a situation that is unsustainable and that will end in catastrophe. If we don’t stop them, Congress and the Fed will destroy the dollar.

Where did all of Bernanke’s new money go? Straight to the banks’ reserves, and interest-free:

It makes no sense at all to be paid small amounts of money for a day’s labor when vast quantities of that same money are effortlessly clicked into existence at the whim of one man. It makes even less sense to work for a living when the banks get free money, our money, which they then loan back to us at 5%, 8%, even 20% or more.

Think about it: if all of this “new” money has value, why doesn’t Bernanke just print up $100 Trillion or so and we’ll all stop working? And if it doesn’t have value, what good is it? Who do they think they’re kidding?

I think it’s fairly obvious that the people who believe they’re smart enough to manage the economy are no smarter than the rest of us and are, rather, less so. We must stop the fiscal madness now!

So it turns out President Obama received roughly a million dollars of contributions from Goldman Sachs-affiliated executives and employees. Goldman Sachs is currently under public scrutiny for a potential $1 billion of fraud. Remind you of anything?

From the Washington Examiner:

Campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs employees to President Obama are nearly seven times as much as President Bush received from Enron workers, according to numbers on OpenSecrets.org.

President Bush’s connections to Enron were well-hyped during the company’s accounting debacle that rippled through the economy. Time magazine even had an article called, “Bush’s Enron Problem.” The Associated Press ran with the headline, “Bush-backing Enron makes big money off crisis.” David Callaway wrote that Enron for Bush was worse than Whitewater for Clinton.

So that means we can soon expect a story from Time titled “Obama’s Goldman Sachs Problem,” right?

Riiiight.

I suppose it won’t matter to the mainstream media that Robert Gibbs said that despite calls for Obama to return the money, he won’t because none of it came from a PAC. And because it won’t matter, the Obama administration will continue arrogantly to do whatever they want, whenever they want, and never worry about the consequences. They know the mainstream media will never hold them accountable for their actions.

But we will.

November. 2010. 2012. Get everyone you can registered to vote. Now.