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Laurie Roth – Depopulation IS the big plan….. | AMERICAN BLOGGER: GUNNY.G ~ WEBLOG.EMAIL
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…..The Big Government, Marxist – Obama agenda must have control over medicine, business and food supplies. Depopulation is part of the big goal of Government. There are too many people, young and old.
Depopulation methods include: compromised seeds and foods; increases in abortion worldwide — hiding behind ‘choices’ and ‘female rights’ and rationing, controlled medical care for our Seniors.
Lies, Lies and more Lies
Commander in Chief guts more benefits of hated military members
Commander in Chief guts more benefits of hated military members
Coach is Right ^ | March 17th, 2013 | Jim Emerson
Posted on Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:15:09 AM by darkwing104
Suspension of military tuition assistance; Obama’s budget cut retaliation up-close and personal
This week the Air Force joined with the Army and Marines in cutting tuition assistance due to “sweeping” federal budget cuts. When faced with a budget crisis—whether real or imagined like Obama’s sequestration—too many politicians will threaten first responders before they cut their own bloated, nonproductive programs. The Armed forces is one of the few constitutionally mandated functions that exists today.
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Ground Shifting Rapidly Under His Feet, McCain’s Made Himself About as Relevant as the Whig Party
Ground Shifting Rapidly Under His Feet, McCain‘s Made Himself About as Relevant as the Whig Party
Reaganite Republican ^ | 11 March 2013 | Reaganite Republican
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 8:16:28 AM by Reaganite Republican
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For glaringly obvious reasons (ego, ego, + ego), John McCain chose not to retire after leading the GOP to defeat in 2008. This ushered-in the radical, damaging, and bizarre Obammunist era he’s done so much to collaborate with since.
(GyG: See Reader Responses… ) ~ Ten Neo-Confederate Myths…
Ten Neo-Confederate Myths
March 9, 2013 | vanity
Posted on Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:19:44 AM by BroJoeK
Ten Neo-Confederate Myths (+one)
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“Secession was not all about slavery.”
In fact, a study of the earliest secessionists documents shows, when they bother to give reasons at all, their only major concern was to protect the institution of slavery.
For example, four seceding states issued “Declarations of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify Secession from the Federal Union“.
Republicans for Big Government by Andrew P. Napolitano
Do you know anyone who voted Republican this past election in order to further President Obama’s big government agenda? Or is it more likely that Republican voters sought to advance a smaller version of the federal government? And if they did, why are Republican congressional leaders offering to help the president spend us into oblivion?
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I suspected that those questions might be asked when Mitt Romney was nominated to oppose Obama. My view of his campaign then and now has been that he presented a choice to the voters of big government versus bigger government, and bigger government prevailed. Romney argued during the campaign that he was at a disadvantage because the president had distributed federal tax dollars to persons and groups critical to his re-election. He has since argued that he lost the election because nearly half of Americans – some by chance, some by choice and some by force – are dependent on government for much of their income or subsistence.
Why psychiatry and big government are in a pornographic embrace ~ News You May Have Missed
Why psychiatry and big government are in a pornographic embrace
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November 25, 2012
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Reblogged from Jon Rappoport‘s Blog:
WHY PSYCHIATRY AND BIG GOVERNMENT ARE IN A PORNOGRAPHIC EMBRACE
by Jon Rappoport
November 24, 2012
Modern psychiatry is based on the premise that there is something wrong with almost everybody. But when it comes to dependence, psychiatry takes a distinct back seat to big government.
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Psychiatry and big-government actually share a bed. They both need dependents; otherwise, they’d fade away.
FEMA: Welfare Masquerading as Disaster Relief
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Hurricane Sandy hadn’t even touched down when liberals started blowing kisses to FEMA, or Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal disaster relief agency. A New York Times editorial declared that the impending storm proved that the country needs FEMA-style “Big Government” solutions more than ever. Salon, New Republic and other liberal outfits heartily agreed.
Why do liberals love FEMA so much? Certainly not for its glorious track record. Rather, FEMA has been a great vehicle for expanding the welfare state.
FEMA’s tragic missteps after Katrina earned it well-deserved disgrace. The Times blames those on the Bush administration, whose anti-government philosophy supposedly gutted FEMA. President Obama, the argument goes, straightened things out, and Americans should now “feel lucky” that the agency is there for them. Without it, local and state authorities wouldn’t be able to coordinate where “rescuers should go, where drinking water should be shipped, and how to assist hospitals that have to evacuate.”
Laurie Roth – Depopulation IS the big plan…..
Helping people starve, die and stay sick is big business. Those of us who want choices for medical care, natural foods and treatment options are simply in the way. Big Government, big Pharmacy and international companies know best – not the people.
An Independence Day that rallied patriots to the cause
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By Judi McLeod Thursday, July 5, 2012Three rousing cheers today for the ‘A Team’ behind The Campaign to Defeat Obama, who took to the airwaves over UStream on July 4thto raise $250,000 for mega advertising in the four swing states Obama won in 2008 but is now at risk of losing.
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The states are Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Nevada.The five-hour long Campaign to Defeat Obama Telethon from AM720 KDWN, out of Las Vegas, was hosted by “Central Florida’s 1st Lady of Space Coast”, Radio Patriot talk show host Andrea Shea King; Christian author and speaker Selena Owens and the much loved and celebrated “black, unhyphenated American” Lloyd Marcus.
Prison Planet.com » Infowars.com Readers Overwhelmingly Reject Rand Paul’s Romney Endorsement
…..The Libertarian Party wasted little time excoriating Paul: “No true libertarian, no true friend of liberty, and no true blue Tea Partier could possibly even consider, much less actually endorse or approve of, the Father of Obamacare, Big Government tax and spender, Republican Mitt Romney,” a statement exclaimed.
CRAIG, CO – MAY 29: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally at Alice Pleasant Park on May 29, 2012 in Craig, Colorado. Mitt Romney will campaign in Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
A Government of Waste ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano
What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on foolishness in Las Vegas, and against a dozen Secret Service agents for dangerously procuring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, while there to prepare for a visit by the president?
If the allegations are true — and they seem to be — the behavior of these government workers reflects a view of government hardly consistent with the idea of limited government and public trust. The United States is the only nation in history founded on the principle that people voluntarily gave up some personal freedom in order to form a central government of limited powers and for limited purposes. Those purposes, according to the Constitution, consist primarily of the maintenance of personal freedom, natural rights and property rights, civil liberties and commercial liberties.
Is the ‘Hunger Games’ Trilogy a Libertarian Manifesto? by Joshua Steimle
I’m about two hours away from finishing Mocking Jay, the last book of the Hunger Games trilogy. I wasn’t planning on reading the books, but once I got wind that there were some libertarian themes contained therein I figured…welllll, ok. So, do the books make up some sort of libertarian manifesto? One might think so based on this, this, this, this, and this.
My take? I was pleasantly surprised. I kept waiting for the typical progressive themes of “Yeah, these big-government types over here are bad, but these big-government types over here are good.” Instead, you get the pleasing “These big-government types over here are bad, and these others that you thought would be good? Well, maybe they aren’t any good either.” There does seem to be a pervading message that if all these power-hungry leaders would just leave people alone, they could take care of themselves and be just fine, and “just fine” would be worlds better than where they’re at.
(“What if enough is enough? What do we do about it? What if it’s too late?”) What If the Government Rejects the Constitution? Judge Andrew Napolitano…
What If the Government Rejects the Constitution?
Townhall.com ^ | April 12, 2012 | Judge Andrew Napolitano
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:14:38 AM by Kaslin
What if the government never took the Constitution seriously? What if the same generation — in some cases the same human beings — that wrote in the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” also enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which made it a crime to criticize the government? What if the feds don’t regard the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land?
What if the government regards the Constitution as merely a guideline to be referred to from time to time, or a myth to be foisted upon the voters, but not as a historic delegation of power that lawfully limits the federal government? What if Congress knows that most of what it regulates puts it outside the confines of the Constitution, but it does whatever it can get away with? What if the feds don’t think that the Constitution was written to keep them off the people’s backs?
What if there’s no substantial difference between the two major political parties? What if the same political mentality that gave us the Patriot Act, with its federal agent-written search warrants that permit unconstitutional spying on us, also gave us Obamacare, with its mandate to buy health insurance, even if we don’t want or need it? What if both political parties love power more than freedom? What if both parties have used the Commerce Clause in the Constitution to stretch the power of the federal government far beyond its constitutionally ordained boundaries and well beyond the plain meaning of words?
The Vetting: Obama Teaches Constitutional Law — Part II
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The Vetting: Obama Teaches Constitutional Law — Part II
Big Government ^ | 3/15/12 | Ben Shapiro
Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:55:16 PM by Nachum
Yesterday, we explored President Barack Obama’s teachings at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996. (Snip) Question 2 is even more interesting, and sheds light on how deeply Obama was influenced by Derrick Bell‘s Critical Race Theory. This question concerns a fictional “Mayor Dudley Duright,” the first African-American mayor of Wazoo City. The population of the city is 50 percent black and 50 percent white, and highly segregated. The Mayor decides to deal with two issues: racial disparities in city contracting, and racial disparities in the city’s Fire Department (foreshadowing the Ricci case, in which Justice Sonia Sotomayor was
GUNNY G: THOMAS DILORENZO ON LINCOLN, ETC. (EXCERPTS)…
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GUNNY G: THOMAS DILORENZO ON LINCOLN, ETC. (EXCERPTS)
In a sense, you’re not attacking Lincoln, so much as the very foundations of modernAmerican national government.
I call him the Founding Father of big government. It’s kind of strange. There are these self-described conservatives who are the big Lincoln idolaters, like the people at the Claremont Institute. But really, when you look at them, they advocate nationalism and executive power. That’s one reason why they idolize him so much. That’s totally at odds with the Jeffersonian tradition.
On the other side of the coin are the liberal historians. Liberals always have Lincoln and FDR as their number one and number two presidents, because they were the most dictatorial of all our presidents. So, you have this odd mix of liberal and conservative academics, both of whom idolize Lincoln because they really do embrace big government.
Big government conservatives don’t mind big government as long as people like themselves are in charge of it. They run the Bush administration, at the moment.
Doesn’t it seem terribly contrary that liberals attach themselves to Lincoln the way they do?
That’s my whole case. It doesn’t make sense. Lincoln spent 28 years in his involvement in politics, working diligently for policies that would use the government to benefit primarily big business and big banks, which were almost entirely in the North. Why would he spend 28 years in the political trenches, working for these things, and then, when he becomes president, why would that not be his main goal? I argue that it was. That’s why he waged war.
When the South seceded, they would’ve taken all that tax revenue with them. In 1860, the tariff was 95 percent of federal tax revenue. Ninety-five percent! He lost a huge chunk of the federal revenue. He could not have a transcontinental railroad, and an activist government, and a political career, frankly, without all that revenue. That is what really outrages the Lincoln scholars.
FEMA lives at your house ~ “The unveiled message to the masses: We’re capable of ‘disappearing’ Americans by rounding them up on suspicion of terrorism and”
The unveiled message to the masses: We’re capable of ‘disappearing’ Americans by rounding them up on suspicion of terrorism and keeping them under lock and key without due process. (National Defense Authorization Act)
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The reality is that as far as is known no one’s been “disappeared” yet. Yet untold numbers are trying to get off radar and worry that they’re coming to take them away.
They’re monitoring journalists including Internet website giants like the Drudge Report, and their all encompassing definition of journalists now includes bloggers. (DHS: privacy compliance review)
Far left power brokers who control most of the media have been monitoring journalists for decades. One of their biggest parlour tricks is their use of drones to write and threaten boycotts to the advertisers of the newspapers and websites who hire them, forcing victimized reporters and editors to move on to another job where the same practice takes place.
The only new about power broker potential for disappearing acts and monitoring journalists/bloggers is that Barack Obama gets to boast about having power over the little people and frighten them back from dissident activity into hiding.
Big Government Cannot Pay Its Bills, Again by Andrew P. Napolitano
Since Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget.
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It did not have one for the first two years of his presidency, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and it did not have one for 2011, when the Democrats controlled the Senate and the Republicans controlled the House.
The Senate – continuously under Democratic control during the entire Obama presidency – has not voted out and sent on to the House any annual budget since George W. Bush was president. The House sent a budget to the Senate a year ago, but the Senate rejected it and sent nothing back in return.
Do We Need Big Government?
Do We Need Big Government?
CATO / National Review ^ | 2011-12-24 | Michael D. Tanner
Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:58:30 PM by rabscuttle385
AAs Congress nears approval on a series of 2011 appropriations bills (only three months late, a near-record for recent history), Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.) told Fox News that he was encouraged by progress on the bills because “we’re dealing with the lives of people. Those appropriation bills relate to the daily lives of people in middle class of America, and that’s really what this is all about.”
Yet, if that is true, and so many Americans have become dependent on the decisions of federal appropriators in Washington, there seems to be something distinctly wrong.
During the 2011 debate over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama noted that the U.S. federal government sends out 70 million checks every month. Unfortunately, that is probably an underestimate. According to the Washington Post, the president’s estimate included Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and spending on non-defense contractors and vendors. But he did not include reimbursements to Medicare providers and vendors, or electronic transfers to the 21 million households receiving food stamps. (Nor did he include most spending by the Defense Department, which has a payroll of 6.4 million active and retired employees and pays nearly 1 million invoices and 660,000 travel-expense claims per month.) The actual number of monthly federal checks might be closer to 200 million.
An Underreported Truth: Big Government is More Unpopular Than Big Business
An Underreported Truth: Big Government is More Unpopular Than Big Business
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Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 20, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 3:37:51 PM by Kaslin
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RUSH: I want to repeat something else, ladies and gentlemen, that is from an earlier program, just as I repeated the Thomas B. Edsall piece, even though that did appear in the UK Daily Mail, so no reason to repeat it. I’m doing this because when I saw that poll out today, Washington Post, ABC poll, Obama’s approval numbers up five points, I knew what was in store for us. I knew what was ahead, and I know what they’re trying to do to you.
Here’s what they know. They know that you, as Tea Party members or as conservatives, they know that you are not happy with the Republican Party, and that makes them very happy. They know that you don’t think you have anybody fighting for you. They know that the people you would prefer to be nominated having that vote split. They are very much aware that you are unhappy with the country the way it is, and that your hope that your energy is rooted in having that all change, Obama defeated, right people elected president and to Congress, we start reversing some of the size of government, the spending and all that.
GUNNY G: IS “STATES RIGHTS” REALLY THE REMEDY TO BIG OPPRESSIVE GUBMINT?
OK, I’m for “states rights” alright, and that’s from full “independent” at that, and I lean/no, lunge libertarian (small r) but…
who does not see that should the fed gubmint disappear altogether even, that full oppression slack not be then taken up by the “states” with vigor ?????
After all, this ain’t Heaven, and human nature and all that…
For me, there’s the bugaboo in the ointment!
Dishonest Abe – Interview With Tom DiLorenzo – Bill Steigerwald – Townhall Conservative
Don’t hold your breath waiting for economic historian Thomas DiLorenzo to show up as a guest lecturer at your local Republican Party’s next Abraham Lincoln birthday gala. The professor at Loyola College in Baltimore has made too many enemies among Lincoln lovers and mainstream historians whom he says belong to the “Church of Lincoln.”
The Men Who Destroyed the Constitution by Thomas DiLorenzo
In his 1850 Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central government. Some mechanisms for assuring consensus among the citizens of the states regarding “federal” laws would be necessary.
Consequently, Calhoun proposed giving citizens of the states veto power over federal laws that they believed were unconstitutional (the “concurrent majority”). He also championed the Jeffersonian idea of nullification. To Calhoun (and Jefferson), states’ rights meant that the citizens of the states were sovereign over the central government that they created as their agent, and could only be so if such mechanisms — including the right of secession — existed.
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What if the Constitution No Longer Applied?
What if the Constitution No Longer Applied?
Townhall.com ^ | November 24, 2011 | Judge Andrew Napolitano
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2011 9:59:04 AM by Kaslin
What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to limit the government? What if Congress’ enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as justification to extend Congress’ authority over every realm of human life? What if the president, meant to be an equal to Congress, has become a democratically elected, term-limited monarch? What if the president assumed everything he did was legal, just because he’s the president?
What if he could interrupt your regularly scheduled radio and TV programming for a special message from him? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and texts without a search warrant? What if he could kill you without warning?
What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the states were mere provinces of a totally nationalized and fully centralized government? What if the Constitution was amended stealthily, not by constitutional amendments duly passed by the states, but by the constant and persistent expansion of the federal government‘s role in our lives? What if the federal government decided whether its own powers were proper and constitutional?
Prison Planet.com » Why ordinary people in positions of local power are adopting tactics of tyrants
When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors: a food tyrant in Nevada raids a farm picnic and orders everyone to destroy their food (http://www.naturalnews.com/034125_f…); student protesters in California get pepper-sprayed by thuggish cops who clearly enjoy causing pain and suffering (http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_ne…); and now nursing home staffers torture their own resident using techniques borrowed from Guantanamo Bay (http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11…).
Chuck Baldwin — I Am Now A Candidate For Montana Lieutenant Governor
Some are asking me why I, as the Constitution Party (CP) candidate for President in 2008, would run in a State race as a Republican. The motto of the CP is “Principle Over Politics.” For example, in 2008, the Montana State Constitution Party put a Republican, Ron Paul, on their Presidential ballot. So, there is certainly precedence for a constitutionalist running as a Republican in the State of Montana.
Bah Humbug – Obama administration’s decision to “delay” and “revisit” new tax on Christmas trees
Bah Humbug – Obama administration’s decision to “delay” and “revisit” new tax on Christmas trees
heartland.org ^ | November 9, 2011 | Maureen Martin
Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:31:58 PM by Iam1ru1-2
The news just broke on the Obama administration’s decision to “delay” and “revisit” its new tax on the sale of Christmas trees.
I’m seriously bummed because the tax, announced Tuesday, was such a gift. It was the perfect symbol of governmental incompetence.
First, the 15-cent tax on Christmas trees is just the latest example of crony capitalism aimed at aiding one industry segment – fresh trees – against another – artificial trees.
The Real Reasons Republicans Dislike Ron Paul
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Although his commitment to “limited government” is unsurpassed, establishment Republicans in both politics and the so-called “conservative media” labor incessantly to discredit Texan Congressman and GOP presidential contender,
Ron Paul. On its face, who couldn’t judge this phenomenon, the phenomenon of the most vocal champions of liberty ridiculing and trivializing the most vocal champion of liberty, as anything other than bizarre?
Any remotely curious observer couldn’t resist the impulse to inquire into the roots of this enigma.
We needn’t dig too deeply to discover that the establishment Republican’s apparently irrational conduct toward Paul stems from his angst regarding Paul’s foreign policy vision. Paul, you see, rejects in no uncertain terms the notion that Big Government is not only permissible, but desirable, as long as it is non-American citizens abroad upon whom our government’s designs would be brought to bear.
Long live the TEA party rebellion!! NO MORE RINOS!! NO ROMNEY, NO WAY!!
The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party sprang up in spontaneous rebellion to big government‘s big spending, big taxing ways. TARP, the bailouts, the PORKULUS package and ObamaCare lit the fuse. TEA partiers support the constitution’s limited government restrictions. TEA partiers are non-partisan, i.e., we oppose the big government, big spending, big taxing moves of both the major political parties.
This is an open rebellion against business as usual big spending, overreaching government! We demand a return to constitutionally limited government!!
The socialist/progressive Democrat party is our natural enemy and they understand that and attack us accordingly.
The big government RINO socialist/progressive wing of the Republican party is also our natural enemy and they attack us accordingly. They fear us, but they NEED us. They despise us, spit on us, call us right-wing extremists and hateful bigots, but beg us for our votes. They EXPECT us to bend over in the end and willingly accept their BIG GOVERNMENT candidates and programs without any real opposition.
Oh, they may try to sugar coat it a bit, and placate us here and there with some smooth talk, and toss us a bone from time-to-time with conservative head feints, but it’s clear they have no intention of ever changing their evil progressive ways.
The progressive wing of the GOP does not really comprehend that the TEA party rebellion is aimed squarely at THEM!!
They believe that we have nowhere else to go and that fear of an Obama second term will compel us to vote for a Republican version of BIG GOVERNMENT, big spending, big taxing, constitution ignoring progressive liar of a candidate.
Got news for them.
The TEA party rebellion is made up of tens of millions of liberty-loving, patriotic citizens who are totally fed up with corrupt, lying, two-faced, smooth-talking, big government socialists, corrupt crony capitalist bastard, progressives, Marxists, etc, and it makes no difference to us which party they belong to. And we’re madder than hell and loaded for bear!!
This is OPEN REBELLION at the ballot box!!
TEA party hating elite establishment, Romney, Rove & Co., had best get used to it. Your any RINO but Obama gig is up!!
The TEA party is here to stay and we’re NOT going to vote for your big government, TARP pushing, PORKULUS pushing, RomneyCare pushing, gun-grabbing, abortionist, gay-rights pushing, global warming advocating, mandate-loving, anti-Reagan, anti-liberty, socialist/progressive, flavor of the day RINO, the chief architect and advocate of ObamaCare, Mitt Romney!!
FUMR!! FUGOP!!
TEA partiers unite against Obama/Romney!!
The progressive GOP be damned!!
Long live the Republic!!
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Conservatives and Liberals Agree: End the Malignant, Symbiotic Relationship Between Big Government and Big Corporations
The Issue that Unites Conservatives and Liberals
While many pretend that liberals and conservatives are too far apart to work together, there are actuallymany issues on which everyone can agree.
For example, both liberals and conservatives hate the malignant, symbiotic relationship between big government and big corporations:
Conservatives tend to view big government with suspicion, and think that government should be held accountable and reined in.
Liberals tend to view big corporations with suspicion, and think that they should be held accountable and reined in.
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Conservatives hate big unfettered government and liberals hate big unchecked corporations, so both hate legislation which encourages the federal government to reward big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
Most Americans – whether they are conservative or liberal – are disgusted that virtually all of the politicians are bought and paid for. No wonder people of all stripes have lost all trust in our government.
And everyone hates government-enabled fraud. The big banks, of course, committed massive fraud. Butthe auditors, rating agencies and regulators also all committed fraud, which helped blow the bubble and sowed the seeds of the inevitable crash.
Indeed:
Both liberals and conservatives are angry that the feds are propping up the giant banks – while letting small banks fail by the hundreds – even though that is horrible for the economy and Main Street.
The Dodd-Frank financial legislation wasn’t a compromise where things landed somewhere in the middle between liberal and conservatives ideas. Instead, it enshrines big government propping up the big banks … more or less permanently.
Many liberals and conservatives look at the government’s approach to the financial crisis as socialism for the rich and free market capitalism for the little guy. No wonder both liberals and conservatives hate it.
And it’s not just the big banks. Americans are angry that the federal government under both Bush and Obama have handed giant defense contractors like Blackwater and Halliburton no-bid contracts. [And Solyndra and other solar companies]. They are mad that – instead of cracking down on BP – the government has acted like BP’s p.r. spokesman-in-chief and sugar daddy.
They are peeved that companies like Monsanto are able to sell genetically modified foods without any disclosure, and that small farmers are getting sued when Monsanto crops drift onto their fields.
They are mad that Obama promised “change” – i.e. standing up to Wall Street and the other powers-that-be – but is just delivering more of the same.
They are furious that there is no separation between government and a handful of favored giant corporations. [Indeed, Ben Bernanke has handed out more presents than Santa Claus to McDonald's Harley-Davidson, hedge funds and others.] In other words, Americans are angry that we’ve gone from capitalism to oligarchy.
As I noted Sunday:
The corrupt, giant banks would never have gotten so big and powerful on their own. In a free market, the leaner banks with sounder business models would be growing, while the giants who made reckless speculative gambles would have gone bust. See this, this andthis.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
It is the Federal Reserve, Treasury and Congress who have repeatedly bailed out the big banks, ensured they make money at taxpayer expense, exempted them from standard accounting practices and the criminal and fraud laws which govern the little guy,encouraged insane amounts of leverage, and enabled the too big to fail banks – through “moral hazard” – to become even more reckless.
Indeed, the government made them big in the first place. As I noted in 2009:
As MIT economics professor and former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson points out today, the official White House position is that:
(1) The government created the mega-giants, and they are not the product of free market competition
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(3) Giant banks are good for the economy
And given that the 12 Federal Reserve banks are private – see this, this, this and this- the giant banks have a huge amount of influence on what the Fed does. Indeed, the money-center banks in New York control the New York Fed, the most powerful Fed bank. Indeed, Jamie Dimon – the head of JP Morgan Chase – is a Director of the New York Fed.
Any attempt by the left to say that the free market is all bad and the government is all good is naive and counter-productive.
And any attempt by the right to say that we should leave the giant banks alone because that’s the free market are wrong.
The [corrupt, captured government "regulators"] and the giant banks are part of a single malignant, symbiotic relationship.
Indeed, while most Americans are in favor of free market capitalism, we don’t have capitalism at the moment. Instead, we have socialism, fascism or crony capitalism, where the government allows a handful of companies to succeed by propping them up, covering up their fraud and handing them guaranteed profts … but allows everyone else to struggle.
How Big is Big Government?
How Big is Big Government?
Townhall.com ^ | October 13, 2013 | Jeff Carter
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:28:46 AM by Kaslin
I read this linked article today. I have family that lives up in Alaska. They have told me that government rangers keep people out of plenty of public places all over Alaska. They don’t allow people on public lands. But then, they either take friends and family there, or take payoffs to guide people to the places that they prohibit the public from in the name of the law.
If we are going to have public land, shouldn’t the public be allowed on it?
So it doesn’t surprise me when either big government, or companies try to stop photographers from snapping pictures of things they deem inappropriate.
Last January, remember this?
The next day, my wife and I put our boots on and marched over to the park to just see all the cars out on Lake Shore Drive. We hiked over to the beach, and then police stopped us from going on the beach.
We thought we might take a few photos. Guess again.
Chicago police were threatening to arrest people taking photos of the cars being towed off Lake Shore Drive. They also kicked pedestrians off the pedestrian bridge that goes over the drive.
The above photo is from that same bridge. Wonder if it was a favored photographer, or how early they got there to snap the picture. Or, did they grease somebody’s palm to get access?
Cops got on their loudspeakers and warned people not to take photos.
Rather than try and set a Constitutional example in what we know are mostly corrupt Chicago city courts, we left. But, it shows how big government limits your freedom. We weren’t doing anything wrong. We were not in the way. No one was engaging in an unsafe act.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights are misinterpreted by most people. They don’t delineate the limits of people. They delineate the limits of government to trample the right of freedom of the people that elected it.
Government is way too big in the US. The left wing just wants more of it. Many on the right and left wing like big government because of the crony capitalism that ensues from it. That’s why we need to end it.
It occurred to me after reading this short blurb in Pork Network that government reports cost a lot more than they are worth.
Rarely are government numbers actually correct. Think about it. Unemployment reports from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics are usually incorrect. Virtually every unemployment number’s previous month is revised up or down. Many times by a fair amount.
This year, the volatility in the grain market hasn’t been caused by the weather so much. It’s been caused by inaccurate government reports. So far this season the grains have bounced or broken hard based on government reports overstating or underestimating the amount of corn in the ground, in the silo, or the expected harvest.
I haven’t followed the oil market, but I assume the same is true for oil inventories. I know the Fed doesn’t have a handle on money supply anymore. Dan Basse’s reports were always better than government reports and he made a business out of it.
The only numbers we seemingly can really rely on are ones that come from private sources. For example, the unemployment report is so sketchy and since the early 1990′s traders have felt like the number is manipulated so they look to things like the Challenger Report to see if the government report is honest.
Maybe one way to cut huge swaths out of the federal budget is too simply eliminate government collection of statistics and let private industry do it. Interested market participants and researchers can pay for the reports that are generated and the rest of us don’t have to.
Surely, lumber traders care about how many board feet of lumber are out there and how many acres are planted to different species of trees, but do the rest of us care. Does it matter to us? Or does it simply matter that your local lumberyard has enough in stock for your next project? Why are your tax dollars paying for that statistic?
We will save on the salary expenses and the pension expenses, but we will also save on the office expenses and office equipment expenses. It’s not as if every government employee would be out of a job. They could create private companies that charged for the data to interested participants. The better data that they spewed out, the more they could charge-and more importantly the more market participants would pay.
Markets might be more predictable, and less volatile.
Government could sell off the assets it wasn’t using, generating a profit for taxpayers.
Seems like a good idea to me.
A Message For The Government: Get Off Our Backs!
Government in America has gotten completely and totally out of control. Our founding fathers originally intended to set up a nation where the power of government would be greatly limited, but today government has become a horribly bloated monster that is relentlessly growing. It is not just the federal government that I am talking about.
All over the country, there are state and local governments that have become monstrous as well. No matter who we elect, they just want even more of our money, they demand even more of our time and our resources, they pile even more rules and regulations on to our backs, they seek even more control over us and our children and they take even more of our liberties and freedoms away. They have invented hundreds of different ways to drain money out of us, and yet it is never enough……………….
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Are Americans Ready for All-Out Civil War?| The Post & Email
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Are Americans Ready for All-Out Civil War?| The Post & Email:
HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, RISING CRIME AND THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN OBAMA’S AMERICA
by JB Williams, �2011
The surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to the Americans at Yorktown, PA
(Sep. 7, 2011) — As the political left drives the U.S. economy towards the brink of no return and an increasing number of average Americans find themselves in desperate financial situations, crime is on the rise and social tensions are rocketing towards a historic level in the land of milk and honey.
Yes, I am predicting the Second American Civil War, but only because the political left is working around the clock to incite outright socio-economic and race warfare in America.
Unlike any prior American administration, this one is………………………….
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Marco Rubio’s Courageous Speech
Florida’s young Republican Senator Marco Rubio gave an important speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in California that has set off the liberal talking head universe.
He had the temerity to suggest that the huge growth in government’s role in American life over the last century “actually weakened us as a people.”
The resulting onslaught from liberal blogs and cable hosts comes as no surprise because Rubio directly took on the idol at which liberals worship – Big Government.
But his analysis was courageous and profound.
Eighty percent of Americans are not happy with the direction of the country. And, new Gallup polling shows that only 17 percent are positively disposed toward the federal government.
Americans want answers.
Senator Rubio, in this speech, stepped up to the plate to provide answers.
If liberals disagree, they are going to have to get equally serious. They’ve certainly got to do better than MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, calling Rubio “a political hack” who wants “to get rid of social safety nets.”
Our fiscal crisis is undeniable. The trillions in debt we’ve taken on to finance massive government spending has resulted in the unthinkable downgrading in rating of our government’s bonds.
But Senator Rubio took a bold step beyond looking at our problems just as an accountant.
He suggested that we cannot separate our budget from our culture. The culture of government has displaced the culture of personal responsibility.
I have been making the point for years regarding what the welfare state culture has done in our black communities. How it has created a permanent underclass, defined by family breakdown, sexual promiscuity, disease, and crime.
American culture has changed profoundly over these years that Americans have come to increasingly believe that government social engineering can solve life’s problems and challenges.
A snapshot of today’s American family shows how much things have changed, even compared to 1981 when President Reagan took office.
Since 1980, the percentage of babies in America born to unwed mothers has doubled, from 20 percent to 40 percent.
Fifty two percent of Americans over the age of 18 are married today, compared to 72 percent in 1960.
Among blacks, 44% of the population over 18 has never been married, compared to 17% in 1960.
Sixty four percent of American children today live in a home with two married parents, compared with 75 percent in 1980 and 87 percent in 1960.
And, according to the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of those between ages of 18 to 29 “agree marriage is becoming obsolete.”
We used to be a nation, as Senator Rubio pointed out, where parents raised and cared for children, then those children cared for their aging parents. Where neighbors cared for neighbors.
We might note that the welfare state idea is not an American invention but an import from Europe. We also might note that about 20 percent of Europeans attend church regularly, half that of Americans.
Europe is characterized today by low birth rates – so low that they are not replacing themselves – and high unemployment rates. The unemployment rate in France has hovered between 8 and 11 percent over the last 25 years.
We must wonder if even we can take on our fiscal problems, if traditional American family life can be restored, and if we believe it even matters.
It is to Senator Rubio’s considerable credit that he has stood up to argue that we must look at the picture of our nation in its entirety. That we cannot separate our budget matters and our attitude toward government from our overall culture and our personal behavior.
What is before us today is not a battle of competing numbers but a battle of competing visions.
Is America to continue in the direction of welfare state materialism? Or will this be a free nation under God?
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“They are self-appointed overseers of the D.C. tax-slave plantation and sworn enemies of free speech.” ~ What a ‘Hate Group’ Hates: A Counterintelligence Report by Thomas DiLorenzo « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)
Reading most of the postings on the League of the South Web site has clarified in my mind what the real purpose of the Southern Poverty Law Center (which does not practice poverty law, by the way) is: to defame, libel, smear, and slander any and all Jeffersonian critics of the highly centralized, dictatorial, welfare/warfare state empire that so many Americans slave under today. They are self-appointed overseers of the D.C. tax-slave plantation and sworn enemies of free speech.
It would be politically risky for Congress to attempt to pass another Sedition Act to outlaw free speech, but congress critters like William Lacy Clay are more than happy to be assisted by the SPLC with its persistent attacks on speech that is critical of Big Government, all under the phony guise of “fighting hate.”
If Thomas Jefferson were alive today and repeating his speeches about how the tree of liberty must be drenched in the blood of patriots and tyrants; how a revolution every twenty years or so is a healthful medicine for a free society; or how secession should be welcomed and all secessionists treated as “our children,” Americans one and all, he would most certainly be on the top of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of haters and “hate group” instigators.
Gunny G: There could have been NO American “Civil War” without Big Government!
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO AMERICAN “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
Gunny G:
There could have been NO American “Civil War” without Big Government!
The US Constitution brought the potential of big government at the federal level to America.
In my opinion…
It is the nature of big government itself that enables a hierarchy that oppresses we the people. Many have spoken of “working within the system”; and they very well know whereof they speak. There’s the rub. The system lends itself all too well to manipulation.
Our first constitution, the Articles Of Confederation, had no provision for a big federal government; no president, no congress, no supreme court, no taxes–these were the function solely of state government–and, of course, none of the federal departments and agencies, a standing army, etc. that later came into being.
By Lincoln’s time, federal government, under the new constitution had grown (mushroomed) along with the growth of the country and beyond…
Today, our biggest problems and complaints have to do with all of the above and more– all at the federal level, and all at the expense of state’s rights!
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And, it has been chiefly since the civil war that federal big government has grown ever larger and even more oppressive.
The constitutional convention that met in secret in Philadelphia in 1787 was only to update The Articles Of Confederation, not to do away with it completely and replace it with a new constitution.
There were two major schools of thought involved at the ConCon, those of the Federalists and those of the Anti-Federalists…
And, the new constitution would never have come into being at all had not a Bill Of Rights been finally added.
The Constitution requires the constant vigilance of the people, otherwise it is corrupted by its officials and others and turned against the people themselves, as the founding fathers constantly warned.
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Gunny G: THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO AMERICAN “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO AMERICAN “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
Gunny G:
There could have been NO American “Civil War” without Big Government!
The US Constitution brought the potential of big government at the federal level to America.
In my opinion…
It is the nature of big government itself that enables a hierarchy that oppresses we the people. Many have spoken of “working within the system”; and they very well know whereof they speak. There’s the rub. The system lends itself all too well to manipulation.
Our first constitution, the Articles Of Confederation, had no provision for a big federal government; no president, no congress, no supreme court, no taxes–these were the function solely of state government–and, of course, none of the federal departments and agencies, a standing army, etc. that later came into being.
By Lincoln’s time, federal government, under the new constitution had grown (mushroomed) along with the growth of the country and beyond…
Today, our biggest problems and complaints have to do with all of the above and more– all at the federal level, and al at the expense of state’s rights!
.
And, it has been chiefly since the civil war that federal big government has grown ever larger and even more oppressive.
The constitutional convention that met in secret in Philadelphia in 1787 was only to update The Articles Of Confederation, not to do away with it completely and replace it with a new constitution.
There were two major schools of thought involved at the ConCon, those of the Federalists and those of the Anti-Federalists…
And, the new constitution would never have come into being at all had not a Bill Of Rights been finally added.
The Constitution requires the constant vigilance of the people, otherwise it is corrupted by its officials and others and turned against the people themselves, as the founding fathers constantly warned.
The question is, or should be, should our original, first, constitution have been amended only as originally intended? Or was the new constitution a good thing, but carried too far?
Could/would federal government be controlled?
For good reason the (small government minded ) founding fathers didn’t envision a federal establishment beyond what was needed to provide necessary supplemental service to the state governments. At that time there were 13 states (countries) in the union.
(Yes, states are countries.) Now 50 countries!
And consider the following from the Constitutional Convention, etc.:
“…If Mr. Yates was correct in his assessment that his country, in 1787, was too large and extensive to be a workable consolidated “republic” what would he think of the territory we currently occupy, supposedly as a “republic” (but actually as a consolidated democracy)? If thirteen states were too many, with too much area for a workable republic to function correctly, what can we say for fifty states, plus whatever other territories we currently occupy?…”
Ref
http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/constitution-really-inimical-states-rights-part-13.aspx
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Just think: No Lincoln, no civil war and all that came with it, and certainly no resulting big, huge, government, as we know it today!
Something to consider, and ponder deeply.
See Also:
Anti-Establishment History
http://www.cakewalkblogs.com/antiestablishmenthistory/entry_archives.aspx
Some Things To Remember About Our Constitution…
http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2011/06/gunny-g-u-s-constitution-apparently-not.html#links
How Bad Are Things Now?
http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2011/06/gunny-g-how-bad-can-things-get.html
Turning Point In American History?
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/when-america-went-crazy-by-eric-peters/
Our Greatest Crisis Since The Civil War…
http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2011/07/army-col-lawrence-sellin-obamas.html
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Gunny G: THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO AMERICAN “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO AMERICAN “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
Gunny G:
There would have been NO American “Civil War” without Big Government!
The US Constitution brought the potential of big government at the federal level to America.
In my opinion…
It is the nature, structure and organization of big government itself that enables a hierarchy that oppresses we the people. Many have spoken of “working within the system.” (i.e., government, business, people, politics, etc). There’s the rub. The system lends itself all too well to manipulation.
Our first constitution, the Articles Of Confederation, had no provision for a big federal government; no president, no congress, no supreme court, no taxes–these were the function solely of state government–and, of course, none of the federal departments and agencies, a standing army, etc. that later came into being.
By Lincoln’s time, federal government, under the new constitution had grown (mushroomed) along with the growth of the country and beyond…
Today, our biggest problems…………………..
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