Thousands–perhaps millions–of us will head to area Tea Parties this weekend to show our displeasure with our federal government. The root cause is an oldie, but not a goodie.
by Michael Naragon
The real issue that brought many of the Revolutionary patriots into the fight was a lack of representation. The government was passing laws while remaining deaf to the protests of its constituencies. Is this 1776 or 2009?
Our current Congress and administration are the most elitist, most distant governing bodies our nation has yet known. In the midst of the highest unemployment numbers in 26 years, our president exudes confidence.
“I’m absolutely confident that we can, at this period of difficulty, prove, once again, what this nation can achieve when challenged,” Obama told reporters Thursday. Attempts to spread confidence in dark times is normally admirable, but not for a man who has, for months, attempted to destroy confidence and spread fear of financial oblivion in order to pass his Marxist agenda.
The president used the press briefing to push that agenda, making reference to the passage of the cap-and-trade bill by the House this week.
“It’s now up to the Senate to continue the work that was begun in the House to forge this more prosperous future,” Obama said. “We’re going to need to set aside the posturing and the politics, and when we put aside the old ideological debates, then our choice is clear.” By the “posturing and the politics,” I would presume he means the resistance to this slavery mandate that has been opposed by a vast majority of Americans, many of whom will be showing their disgust of the House’s ruling this weekend. Millions of phone calls and e-mails to representatives demanding they vote against cap-and-trade were ignored.
Obama has repeatedly promised transparency and openness. We have received none. What we have received, instead, are admonitions to accept his takeover of our country without “posturing.” We are to sit quietly by while the federal government applies the standards of a failed, bankrupt state like California to the entire nation.
Why should we expect anything less?
The government, and their accomplices in the unions, will reportedly be exempt from the nationalized health care and the taxes which will pay for it.
According to a July 2 CNN story, White House staffers will be exempt from the president’s tax increase on those making over $250,000. Or at least until he drops that threshhold to $200K or lower.
Congress and the White House have been ruled exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, meaning citizens cannot view lists of lobbyists who have seen particular Congressmen, nor can we read the minutes of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac meetings. Reporters from the Chicago Tribune attempted to secure those records under FOIA to find out exactly what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel did as a Freddie Mac board member.
During Emanuel’s tenure, the lending giant began to use accounting tricks to mislead investors. It’s unknown what Emanuel’s role was–he served on none of the committees in which other board members participated–but he managed to make over $320,000 in a very short time there.
We are being represented by a very aloof, arrogant group of elitists who firmly believe that their judgment is better than ours. During the push for the stimulus bills early in the year, thousands of Georgians wrote and called Representative Jim Marshall to urge him to vote against the bill.
Marshall’s office, like most of his comrades in Congress, was inundated. His response? In a very polite letter sent a week after the vote, Marshall said, in essence, that the decision to spend $800 billion we didn’t have was difficult, but that if citizens truly understood the situation, we would agree with the necessity of it.
Somehow, these pompous windbags feel as though We the People do not have the understanding to grasp why it is inadvisable to spend ourselves trillions of dollars in debt.
In their years of hard work, Senator Barbara Boxer and her ilk must have gained some kind of otherworldy insight into the issues that we, as their peon citizens, cannot grasp.
They, in their wisdom, apparently have the intelligence to know why it is beneficial to the nation to tax coal companies out of business while denying oil companies the right to drill offshore or in ANWR.
Congressmen must have some innate ability to know why it is good to require homeowners to bring their homes up to ridiculous California environmental standards before the homes can be sold, adding cost and expense to home buyers and sellers.
Our elected officials, once they arrived in Washington, must have received the clairvoyance necessary to know why it is a positive thing for the country’s health care industry to be taken over by government. Liberals squarely deny this will happen, assuming We the People have no sense. Are they lying? Or do they honestly think that by levying taxes on benefits and by introducing “competition” from an entity that does not need to turn a profit they are not looking toward the day when the only insurance will be government insurance?
When you head off to your local protest this weekend, keep in mind what we are fighting and why we fight. Our demand is simple. We demand our representatives in Washington uphold the Constitution of the United States, not the whim of a Kenyan-born president or his radical ideology of dependence upon government.
