THE RICH'S HYPOCRITICAL OATH

Warren Buffet, George Kaiser, George Soros, George Lucas, (Star Wars) David Geffen, (DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg, (ET) Eric Schmidt (Google) Bill Gates, (Microsoft) Mark Zuckerberg, (Face book) Terry Semel (Yahoo) have given money to Obama and or the Democratic Party.

Check out the list below and then read my commentary on why this is hypocritical;

Chris Albrecht, HBO chairman
Big Kenny Alphin, recording artist
Marc Andreessen, Internet pioneer
Jennifer Aniston, actress
Rosanna Arquette, actress
Tyra Banks model, talk show host
Lawrence Bender, producer
Halle Berry, actress
Valerie Bertinelli, actress
Arthur Blank, Falcons owner
Judy Blume, author
Steven Bochco, producer, writer
Andy Borowitz, satirist, writer
Zach Braff, actor
Steve Brill, Court TV founder
Christie Brinkley, model
James L Brooks, producer, director
Jackson Browne, musician
Warren Buffett, billionaire
Mark Burnett, game show producer
Ken Burns, independent filmmaker
Peter Buttenwieser, political fundraiser
Kate Capshaw, actress
Michael Chabon, author
Jay Chandrasekhar, director, writer
Peter Chernin, News Corporation president
Richard A Clarke, security expert
George Clooney, actor
Cindy Crawford, model
Drew Curtis, fark.com founder
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
Larry David, comedian, writer
Laurie David writer, activist
Barry Diller, media mogul
Paul Dooley, actor
Michael Douglas, actor, director
Michael Eisner, Disney CEO
Kenneth Feinberg, attorney
Tom Ford, fashion designer
Jodie Foster, actress
Jamie Foxx actor, comedian
Morgan Freeman, actor
David Geffen, Dreamworks co-founder
Jami Gertz, actress
Charles Gifford, Bank of America chairman
Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
Berry Gordy, record producer, entrepreneur
Lou Gossett Jr., actor
Brian Grazer, producer
Jasmine Guy, actress
Herbie Hancock, musician
Tom Hanks, actor
Tom Hayden, activist, author
Dennis Haysbert, actor
Christie Hefner, Playboy CEO
Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder
Cheryl Hines, actress
Bruce Hornsby, recording artist
Ron Howard, director, producer
Phil Jackson, NBA coach, player
Samuel Jackson, actor
Scarlett Johansson, actress
Michael Jordan, basketball star
Vernon Jordan, Washington power broker
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks co-founder
Gayle King, editor, Oprah’s BFF
David Koepp, screenwriter
Cedric ‘the Entertainer’ Kyle, comedian
Christine Lahti, actress
Sherry Lansing, Paramount Studios CEO
Sharon Lawrence, actress
Norman Lear, television producer
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
Seth MacFarlane, animator, screenwriter
Tobey Maguire, actor
Norman Mailer, author
Natalie Maines, recording artist
Barry Manilow, singer/songwriter
Stephon Marbury, pro basketball player
Branford Marsalis, musician
Greg Mathis, TV judge
Bette Midler, singer, actress
John Morgridge, Cisco chairman
Rob Morrow, actor
Alonzo Mourning, NBA star
Eddie Murphy, actor, comedian
Paul Newman, actor, philanthropist
Craig Newmark, craigslist.org founder
Leonard Nimoy, actor
Edward Norton, actor
Rosie O’Donnell, actress, comedian
Stan O’Neal, Merrill Lynch CEO
Adrian Pasdar, actor
Holly Robinson Peete, actress
Sidney Poitier, actor
Ellen Pompeo, actress
Maury Povich, talkshow host
Penny Pritzker, hotel heiress
Harold Ramis, director, actor
Phylicia Rashad, actress
Jerry Reinsdorf, Chicago White Sox owner
Paul Reiser, comedian, actor
Chris Rock, comedian, actor
Robert Rubin, US Treasury Secretary
Edward Rust, State Farm CEO
Susan Sarandon, actress
Thomas Schlamme, producer, director
Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO
Ben Silverman, NBC Universal chairman
James Sinegal, Costco CEO
Tom Skerritt, actor
Emmitt Smith, pro football player
Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
Will Smith, actor, recording artist
George Soros, financier
Steven Spielberg, filmmaker
Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
Fisher Stevens, actor
Ben Stiller, actor
Oliver Stone, director
Christine Taylor, actress
Richard Thalheimer, The Sharper Image CEO
Heather Thomas, actress
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
Denzel Washington, actor
Isaiah Washington, actor
John Wells, television producer
Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone CEO
Tom Werner, Boston Red Sox co-owner
Forest Whitaker, actor, director
Paula White, megachurch “life coach”
Bradley Whitford, actor
Gene Wilder, actor
Rita Wilson, actress
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, actress
Joanne Woodward, actress
Jeffrey Wright, actor
Robert Wright, NBC Universal head
Andrew Young, civil rights activist
Edward Zander, Motorola chairman
George Zimmer, Men’s Wearhouse CEO

The list of famous billionaires and multi-millionaires in business and entertainment that have contributed to the Obama socialist re-distribution of wealth vision making the hard working average American that believes in our capitalistic system apoplectic.

Why are these rich and famous tycoons who benefitted from our capitalistic economic system contributing to its demise? Why would wealthy successful upstarts want to change the rules and for the many want-a-be rich and famous dreamers awaiting their chance at success?

I can only think there are two answers. One they did not know before they contributed to Obama’s campaign that he was a socialists and like all people influenced in a small insular circle of like-minded friends they went along with “Hope and Change” assuming the best at its inference. Some might refer to this as ignorance lives as well with the rich as it does with the poor.

Or two they really begrudge the way they earned their riches in America and look down their noses at the rest of us that contributed to their fame and fortune. This self-rich loathing tends to shift from hand-out charity for the poor to looking to find the panacea answer to cure poverty.

The rich suffer from what I will call the “What’s next” syndrome after they arrive at the apex of their wealth and fame. They are freed from the ardors of the climb to success but their ambition still hungers to achieve the next venture. Giving away money or being a patron for others to follow in their footsteps is not as ambition lustful as changing the world.

I believe that when the charity of the rich extends beyond reseeding the field in apreciation of where its wealth bloomed but instead decides to reengineer the soil from others by experimenting with a new crop it shows a miserly ego that reaps a cynical harvest of ingratitude.

The notion that money buys you the power to change the rules for everyone else is what is wrong with the corruption of money and politics. No one waiting to be the next successful owner of wealth and fame begrudges those who won before them by achievement. For that merely proves that success lives hopeful for their dreams but if winners then re-write the rules; the game is for patsies.

Celebrities have a right to believe in whatever whimsical thought crosses their mind and equally they have the right to throw money at their personal causes.
However, I am hard pressed to call any celebrities or titans of industry who donate to causes that change the rules for America’s capitalist system that they advantaged truly generous and charitable Americans.

Moreover, when we all paid to see your movies, read your books or bought your products we did not know we were supporting the liberal success story that would then crush our American dreams.

You must remember you earned your fame and wealth as much out of the hard working conservative wallet as the liberal left portion of the little guy’s paycheck! Or did you forget that fact!

I don't buy the argument that an equal dole out to both political sides makes you neutral against being charged with hypocrisy and criticism.

Leave my country alone and stop supporting anti-American policies in your quest to save the United States with your own ego-maniacal vision of what America should be.

 If you want to truly pay back the country and people who allowed you to acquire your wealth and fame then stop giving to politicians supporting socialist big government intrusion over our Republic of individual liberty.

We the poor struggling nameless faceless rift raft beseech you to buy a library and immerse your mind and soul in the many books available to help you understand why you were successful in America. You have no right to use your wealth against the many Americans that are left standing in line waiting their turn at the chance for what you enjoy.

How can you want to lock the barn door to me and my children’s capitalistic dreams when you enjoy your notoriety and comfort from no other than its rage to riches promise?

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” (Socrates 469 BC – 399)

J ust O bama B lowing S moke

We have been hearing the president talk about his focus on jobs since he took office. There has been little change in his speeches or political solutions that sounds straight out of the “tax the rich more, spend for the poor more” Democratic Party idea book.

Not only is nothing new in Obama’s latest JOBS proposal except that the word “stimulus” is purposely avoided, his Jobs Plan is being used as a political talking point for Obama’s re-election bus tour and is blatantly cynical.

Yet he and his party have the cheek to suggest that the Republicans are the party of NO and just wishing to keep the economy weak in order to defeat Obama in 2012.

If the Democrats and Obama want to say that the Republicans are blocking real growth and job creation then okay call the bluff.

Why not call the Republicans and see if they join you Mr. President in allowing oil drilling production to proceed by loosening regulations? Why not call them out by suspending all EPA regulations? Why not call them out by giving the Republicans all the cuts, and proposals they have asked for to see if they say NO?

Why not? I think all Americans know why not. The reason is that Republicans would pass those reforms and the country would start to see the economy grow. You don’t want Republican ideas to succeed where you and the Democrats Keynesian policies proved abysmally unsuccessful.

Solyndra the bankrupt poster child solar panel company for stimulus back green job energy alternatives reflects three truths about socialist’s policies, failure, incompetency and corruption.

Whether we call it socialism or crony capitalism the objective and the results mirror the same truth of why government run or backed private industry is an oxymoron. The simple fact that if a company was either successful or had the potential to be successful to private sector investors then the company would not need government financing nor want it.

What company wants to have the government peering over its books or making edicts about how to run its business? The fact that Solyndra could not find private investors until it secured a half billion dollars in federal loan money shows it was a risky venture. The capitalist system has a cure for risky business it is called failure, collapsing as a company and selling off assets or bankruptcy.

Solyndra was begging for government funds to keep it afloat and not only was it awarded half a billion dollars of taxpayer money but also received investment from the Kaiser Foundation that co-incidentally is connected to the President by George Kaiser a big donor to his campaign. This impropriety reeks of corruption well beyond cronyism.

Lastly, we turn to incompetency which must first start with the premise that the only companies standing in a government line for a government handout are already suspect as to their risk. Then you add a bureaucratic cadre of civil servants making determinations as to whom should be favored with taxpayer money and expect them to due diligence with the same vigor as if their own money was on the line.

Moreover, beyond number crunching most private investors know that having or utilizing the brain trust of people knowledgeable about the different industries is vital in the ultimate determination of risk return investment decisions.

 The bureaucrats in government have a vast ignorance of practical application relying more heavily on theoretical business models.

Yes, like Keynesian economics which works great as a college theoretical discussion but has proven time and time again in the practical world to be a huge flop!

Solyndra was Obama’s poster child of success until it went bankrupt. Many questions will be asked of this administration as to whether there was corruption in the form of bribes, pressure applied to regulators or quid pro quo proof of buying White House influence.

One thing is certain; this administration continues to extol capital cronyism and socialists policies in its never-ending bullying of America's capitalists that want the opposite economic policies returned to Washington.

The President may have stopped a personal habit of blowing smoke but when it comes to his desire to ruin this country’s capitalism and turn her into a socialist’s Republic he continues to blow smoke into American faces that just want to have a job.

911 NEEDS 911

It would appear that Mayor Bloomberg is following the Political Correct version of the Fairness Doctrine when it comes to banning religious speakers at the upcoming 10th anniversary of 911.

The scuttlebutt is that the reason for not allowing any Rabbis, Priests and or Ministers of the Judeo-Christian religions from speaking at the services is because you would be required to allow an imam of Islam to speak as well. The fear of course being that allowing Moslem speaker would incite anger showing disrespect for 911 victims.

His solution is to ban GOD from the memorial services completely and thus making it an atheistic display of remembrance to satisfy all by his Pontius Pilot thinking.

Washing his hands of what might be a small protest by Moslem and atheists Bloomberg serves up God to be sacrificed at the altar of his political popularity. First there was the mosque at ground zero uproar, then it was the lawsuit by atheists over the artifact cross and now all religion is banned from a memorial that cries out for faith.

The leadership in this country has lost its moral compass, lost its respect for the historic religious interconnection with our country’s founding and has it appears finally succumbed to the soulless vanity of the Gods (polls).

Where is the sanity from public figures that regardless of their own personal religious beliefs respect is required for the overwhelming majority of religious American citizens? A moment of silence is not the same as having a loud speaker with GOD’s own words echoing in the microphones to soothe both victims’ families and tell the world what Americans believe.

It is the height of callousness to all Americans that in light of the most evil attack on civilians in American history we are allowing the godless world of political correctness to restrain our pronouncement of our strongest value as a nation under GOD.

We were attacked because we are a Christian nation in full support of Israel. We were attacked because we are a country not in support of Sharia Law. We were attacked because we support the sacred faith and belief that all human life is precious and free under God our creator.

Yet here we are ten years after being savagely attacked for nothing more than those beliefs and the mayor of New York wants to bury America’s most notable signature underneath the Trade Tower rubble. It is not just outrageous it is a sign. A sign of how off course is the America we have become by allowing socialism to breed amid her creed.

911 is not just a memorial to remember a deadly day of murderous carnage but a call. It is a call for Americans to stand up once again to tyranny wherever and however it manifests itself to attack our values and diminish our beliefs.

 

The mayor of New York may have silenced God’s words at the podium but most Americans have God’s words ringing in the ears along with his love in their hearts.

They know they must have the courage to wear their patriotism weaved with faith and loudly boldly stand for only one Country, the country that “God shed his grace on thee…” America.

(SAMPLE OF) ARE WE THE PEOPLE OR THE SHEEPLE?

What the heck are we thinking today in America? Why are we sitting on our hands and not voting with our heads? Why are we allowing a small minority of ultra liberal socialists to turn our successful nation into a bankrupted system like Europe or worse the old Soviet Union?


What happened to “We the people” and the civic responsibility to vote. Why have we allowed ourselves to become “We the sheeple” as we keep believing in political lies?

We have individual rights that are being systematically dismantled by those on the left and the right through corruption and collusion for political power. The left wants to take away every individual right to supplant it with social justice while the right is too worried about losing elections to stand up for the people they represent!

The Democratic Party is no longer the Party of moderates and “Blue Dog Democrats” but today is a consortium of radical special interest groups that wishes to micro-manage our lives from an elitist high perch of vainglory. They have the environmental solutions, they have the labor solutions, they have the healthcare solutions, they have the equality solutions, they have the poverty solutions, they have the education solutions and they have the interest of Americans at heart! Really! Really! Look around you!!!! Do you see what I see? Does anybody believe that big brother big government Democrats care about anything other than to re-write America’s capitalistic Republic? Are we alive out there America? Are we going to let our Country be co-opted by the ultra left wing zealots that fame to know best how to protect us from the cradle to grave? Not me! What about you?

How much government do you want? The Democrats are already squatting in your home dictating what light bulbs to buy. They have poked their noses in our lives with arrogance, hubris, social intimidation like a neighborhood of busybodies telling homeowner what color to paint their house. I hate it! I hate the patronizing smugness! I hate the “we know best” mentality! I hate the conformist mentality! I hate bullies! I will not be bullied!

The Democrats are big bullies! They knew Americans did not want this Healthcare Bill but they did not care because they had the power, they have the righteous answers and we are the sheeple.

I am very upset that Americans are blind regarding the Democratic Party that unabashedly reveals itself today as the socialists Party. They have graduated their ideology from a big government tax and spend liberals to socialists’ policies intent on ruining our capitalistic Republic.

Why are we voting for representatives from a Party that wants to undermine are core principles and freedoms? Why are we still sending these people into the House and Senate? The polls tell us that we are a center-right nation of voters yet we continue to elect members from the Democratic Party? What is centrist, middle of the road, fair minded and reasonable about the Democratic Party of today?

Are we so unaware of the transformation that has taken place within the Democratic Party that has walked completely to the socialists left? Do we not understand that the Blue-dog Democrats are extinct and replaced with Alinsky loving socialist’s political storm troopers?

America is ill, with a high grade fever from an internal virus that is threatening to extinguish her bright light of liberty. The patient named America is not only infected with socialism coming from the Democrats but as she fights and languishes as the Rino (Republican in name only) pose as her immune system but rather than protect her they cede her vital organs calling for compromise.

As an American I am outraged, shocked frustrated and on fire! Brave men and women are dying for our freedoms while American politician are systematically dismantling those same freedoms?

When did we decide to give up our independent freedoms to a group of zealots in Washington dictating with king-like edict every choice and every move we make from diet to products we purchase? Why are more Americans not standing up to the bully that the Democratic Party has become to our Bill of Rights?

I for one do not need or want to be saved from myself! I do not need a nanny! I do not enjoy big government bossing me around! We once were a nation skeptical of government. We once understood that freedom meant accepting life’s folly without the safety net of government interference. Why have we lost this spirit of individualism once religiously adhered to by the American citizen’s soul? It was once a signature that defined us as nation. It was why so many immigrated to our country hungry to become free from the economic and political chains imposed in other nations. Puritan to immigrant stubborn rugged individual acceptance of freedom over security was the founding of our nation and its allure to newcomers.

Today we have become a quasi-socialist nation putting chains and bridles on our children’s future and leaving them an enslaving legacy no less egregious than King George III. The only difference is that this “Federal Monarchy” of Washington D.C. has been born from our own hands.

All of us have participated one way or another in the making of our government’s monolithic realm whether by apathy, selfishness, ignorance or being fooled by the political game that continues to lead us into divisive pens while they carve up our country.

I write this rant of a book to reach out to my fellow Americans of all stripes, colors and beliefs and implore you to step away from the single minded issues that politicians use to divide us.

The Democratic Party has been co-opted by those that espouse anti-American values and have finally come out from behind the shadows to openly chant their ideology to re-distribute individual wealth, evolve a translation of our Constitution to boundless federal power and knight with hubris business and special interest with their legislative bailout scepter.

We Americans rightfully feel paralyzed by the enormous weight of laws, regulations and endless tithing’s to the “Federal Monarchy”.

Those of you who worry that the Republican Party is painted with the mud smeared by the liberals as a ideology that promotes interference with your rights, wishing to peer into your bedroom, return child labor, increase poverty, throw the old folks on the street to collect cans or make women return to death by coat-hanger abortion are being played BIG TIME!

The reason I know this is that as an eighteen year old pup I registered as a Democratic. I was a sheeple who “bah-lieved” their depiction of the Republican Party as the moral police. The Republicans did not help their image when they allowed Jerry Farwell to speak as though he owned the Party. The propaganda by the liberal Press helps the Democrats slam Republicans.

However the true Republican Party platform has been misrepresented by Democrats along with being hijacked by conservative pretenders. The true Republican Party platform is to keep government small viewing it as a “necessary evil” that invades individual freedom if it is allowed to grow and flourish as it has done for a century, little by little step by step, reach by over -reach.

It is not the party that seeks to moralize and intrude upon the private adult practices in the American family home but quite the contrary. It is the Party of Thomas Jefferson espousing as much liberty for the individual as can be practically done while equally believing in a strong military.

This is the smear tactic of the Democratic Party to scare people from joining the Republican Party. Truly, it is the socialist’s Democrats wishing to peek in our windows and wave their finger at the naked American undressed of our individual rights with their elitist’s scowl chiding us as we cower that we are too fat, not eating enough organic vegetables, not energy efficient, engaged in bad habits they disapprove of as they sniff our air for the telltale signs of tobacco. They who want to invade every last inch of domestic tranquility and crawl into our heads to make us mindless robots to their socialist’s mindset.

Political correctness is “Newspeak” sophism written about by Orwell’s celebrated novel “1984” already within our everyday society while we continue as Americans to be in denial.

The cat is out of the bag! The time has come for Americans of all beliefs to stand together as individuals in pluralism to refuse to be divided by the socialist Democrats and the pretending Republicans.

The Tea Party Movement formed as a result of Americans acknowledging that our political system has become fouled by anti-capitalists and anti-constitutional politicians on both sides of the aisle. The socialists are running amuck in today’s Democratic Party and we need to stop their Big Brother control. New Republican candidates must be sent to Washington to seize control back from socialists and the old guard corrupt Republicans that continue to compromise with socialistic ideology.

How do you compromise with wrong? Why are the Republican Representatives still talking about bi-partisanship with socialistic ideas? Americans are being thieved by Democrats and stabbed in the back by Republicans in Washington. We need to send a clear unambiguous message to the “Federal Monarchy” that “We the People” are back at the helm of the American ship of state.

We are Sheeple because we lost our way. We need to remember our roots, return a healthy skepticism of government and stop allowing Democrats to scare you against voting for Republican candidates.

Americans need to vote for “Constitutional Conservatives” not social issues if we have any hope to bring our wayward government back on track. It is not about Gay rights, Abortion, environment, or any of the divisive issues the politicians use to corral us into pens while they snicker at our stupidity! It is about your private inalienable rights as a citizen of this great country to be free of governmental tyranny.

Yes it is just that simple and yes we better wake up before it is too late to put the genie back in the bottle!

I am so hot right now my smoke alarm just went off! Not to worry I am a demure woman with a heart of silver. Yes I said silver instead of gold because gold assumes I am perfect and that is a hubris attitude I never could hold of myself. In fact I like being an average everyday nameless faceless “salt of the earth” American.

Let the soap box rant begin, shall we?

BUREAUCRATIC PARALYSIS

Big government bureaucracies ultimately fail to resolve the problems but instead become the problem. Theory does not always find practical application and many government programs appear better on paper where they should stay. Forcing a square peg into a round hole with a sledgehammer not only breaks the mold but it paralyses practical solutions.

Americans once comprehended the simple adages of “too many cooks spoil the soup” and the notion that “if you want something done right, then do it yourself.”

We rightfully in our American heritage were wary of the strangling noose of government with multiple laws persuading us to cede our self-determination for the collective will that invariably made problems worse like over seasoned soup. Even when solutions do come from government there are always tradeoffs in which a new tangential problem arises as a result of government involvement.

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THE STATE OF THE STATES

  

The debt deal has States readying for the revenue losses that they expect will dry up from Washington. Some are proposing cutbacks in benefits while others are discussing tax hikes.

The problem is that unless Washington changes the mandatory spending and regulations by States then without Federal funding the States must continue to run in the red.

That means tax increases and increased pot holes or both for the citizens. The only real way to reduce government spending at both the Federal and State level is to get rid of Federal mandates.

That requires repealing Obamacare along with the long list of federal regulations from Transportation to Commerce but that cannot be done in a democratically controlled White House and Senate.

"States rely on federal aid to pay for many popular programs, including Head Start, work study, energy and housing subsidies, highway repair, and emergency response. With fewer federal dollars available, states will need to restrict their own resources to vital institutions, while cutting or charging fees for less-crucial services."

"Since August 2008, state and local governments have trimmed workforces at a rate of about 10,000 to 20,000 positions per month, according to the CBPP. Reduced federal aid will likely mean more state-level job and benefits cuts, which in turn could slow states’ recoveries."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0802/Fewer-cops-more-potholes-How-debt-deal-could-hit-states-hardest

Yet a big federal government has all the States by the throat and the only way to really cut big government is to rid our nation of federal mandates and entitlements. That requires that the American people call on our leadership in Washington in 2012 to get rid of Agencies not just cutting their budgets.

However some Republicans hedge on ridding the Federal Government of extra constitutional tentacles such as EPA and Agriculture worrying that doing away with these agencies will both lose them votes and increase unemployment in a lackluster economy.

Yet, the redundancy of these Federal Agencies that then require States to enact laws and layers of bureaucracy to comply is what is wrong with big central government that belittles States’ Rights along with raising taxes to the citizens at the State level.

The only rational way to reduce the size of the Federal government is to abolish its many intrusive Agencies that strangle our economy and franchise Statehood leaving it powerless to practice individual experimentation.

America needs to cut Federal Agencies wholesale such as the Education Department but do it incrementally in a 5 year phase out to give federal workers time to look for private sector jobs. Some of the federal employees could be absorbed by State government while others would be given a warning a year in advance that their job will become obsolete. Thereby incrementally culling the Departments annually until the Department is finally retired.

Business routinely expands and contracts its divisions of labor by absorbing some workers into other departments and giving other employees time to seek new work outside the company. Not all business just blithely lay off workers and the government could use this ratchet down approach to rid Americans of wasteful ineffective government bloat.

Americans are tired of politicians claiming that if it reduced its bureaucracy, regulations and workforce that the sky will fall down. Contracting the size and regulatory power of the Federal government along with tort reform and tax reform (flat tax) would have long term investment spurring economic growth.

The States are going to hurt if federal mandates and regulatory agencies such as EPA continue to dictate money spending to States without offering the States a check. Americans want not just a smaller Federal government in reduced budgets for bureaucracies they want the federal government redundant and unnecessary Agencies off the State and citizens pocketbook totally.

Then States could manage with block grants education, environment, commerce, energy, agriculture, and transportation leaving the Feds the military, Social Security, Center for Disease Control and Immigration and Naturalization where perhaps with only those few agencies they might consider watch dogging waste.

If the politicians say it can’t be done then their time in office should also be considered done by the voter. We the people need to demand a change until Washington changes!

GIVE ME FREEDOM NOT ENSLAVED BALANCE!

The wrong answer to both the current spending and size of the federal government is the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. Once again the lack of real leadership and principle has led to a wayward desire to again limit the voice of the people.

Franklin Roosevelt dynasty bore the legacy of the 22^nd Amendment that limits a president to two four year terms because the people were not trusted to place an educated vote.

The 18^th Amendment was enacted because the Temperance Movement held sway with legislators who once again decided in their king-like paternity that the people needed to be protected from themselves.

The 14^th Amendment is the most egregious of the post Bill Of Rights Amendments as it reacted to the Civil War and decided that the Federal Government should reduce the power of the States to act jointly against the federal authority. The argument that it was needed to ensure against “Black Codes” by southern States is sophomoric and more importantly redundant in that the original Bill of Rights and the 13^th Amendment already guaranteed Constitutional protection for minorities.

The 14^th Amendment re-wrote our forefather’s Constitution that envisioned a strong independent union of autonomous States with a small subservient centralized government to play a facilitator’s role. Instead the 14^th Amendment gives the Federal government dictatorship over the states and renders powerless the 10^th Amendment.  

Enter now the new constitutional proposed amendment called the Balanced Budget Amendment that would take the power of Congress to appropriate money out of the hands of the majority of Representatives and instead be vested in a piece of paper.

Looking beyond the current overspending of Congress what would happen if the World saw the coming of World War III? Would we look at the Balanced Budget Amendment and say that we are already at 18% of GDP and therefore we must wave the white flag of surrender to our enemies because we can’t afford to fight?

Handcuffing our Republic and transforming our Constitution’s stated enumerations is statism by those that claim to want to return to our founder’s original intent. Don’t be deceived that this is being proposed by conservatives and therefore it must be a right minded course of correction.

If anything Americans wishing for a return to our historic freedom and independence should be looking to abolish Amendments beyond the Bill of Rights; not call and cry for more constraining Amendments.

A representative Republic is slow messy and always with opposition and debate. It is normal, natural, healthy and intellectually honest to hold differing opinions with others as one wrangles with decisions. I would rather be free and frustrated in the minority opinion than be dull-witted and trapped by an Amendment that excludes my voice.

DeMint and Rand Paul might be well meaning but they are ignorant of the most important part of why America’s Constitution is the most enviable form of self governance the world has ever known. It is individual liberty! Individual Freedom!

Individual rights are not an assurance that one’s choices are always correct, long-sighted, reasonable or unchangeable. Individual freedom does not require perfection, monolithic agreement or universal truth. It allows me to be wrong and not persecuted for it. It allows me to watch others jump on the bandwagon of current trends and decide to refuse acceptance.

Amending the Constitution to force fiscal compliance is taking away freedom. Freedom does not mean you are only free to be responsible, instead freedom means you are equally free to fail as well as succeed. 

The Tea Party Movement must not support this new Amendment proposal no matter how frustrated they are about Washington spending. We have an election process in place to restore fiscal integrity by defeating the deaf ears in Washington. Stop taking away my rights because voters remain ignorant and continue to put socialist’s thieves back into office. We need to wake up the Sheeple and work harder to preserve every ounce of freedom citizens of this great country have left!