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A New Declaration of Indepencence

 

IN AMERICA, JULY 4, 2009

The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America

When in the course of American events it becomes necessary for the people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them and to re-assume the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience have shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these States and their citizens; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present Supreme Court, Congress and President of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States and their citizens. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

They have made a mockery of our legislative process by passing bills in the dead of night with no time to read, review or debate the bill.

The have mocked the citizenry who have complained by hiring speed readers to read bills so they can claim they have been read.

They have destroyed the inalienable Right of Life by legalizing abortion.

They are destroying the right to own private property by allowing the government to take private property for reasons beyond the constitutional “public use.”

The now control 90% of the media and intend to take control of the rest.

They have refused Assent to Laws such as the rights of corporate bond holders.

They have corrupted our voting by allowing criminals to falsely register voters, vote more than once and in states in which they do not reside, miscount votes, allow illegal aliens to vote and allow voter intimidation without prosecution.

They have illegally fired public servants who have made their corruption public.

They continually lie and tear down American institutions with premature or false assertions such as “The war is lost” and ‘The CIA lied.”

They have corrupted the census by allowing a criminal organization to run it.

They have illegally taken over private corporations.

They have erected a multitude of New Czars, and sent them to harass our people.

They have spent us into unrecoverable debt that has the nation on the precipice of bankruptcy.

They refuse to protect the citizens by controlling our borders to prevent criminals and illegal aliens from crossing into our beloved country.

They are intent on allowing criminals who have entered this country illegally to become citizens in order to garner their votes and further cement their authority.

They are intent in eliminating our national sovereignty and putting us under the control of a world government.

They fail to support democracy in Iran and protest the Honduran democracy saving itself.

They are intent on destroying the family by legalizing same sex marriage allowing children to have abortion without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

They are intent on destroying free speech as it exposes their lies and schemes.

They are intent on eliminating our right to bear arms as it prohibits them from forcibly taking over the country and destroying our Republic.

They are intent on passing new environmental laws based on false science while suppressing the truth.

They are intent on taking over national healthcare so they can have total control over our lives.

They are intent on government takeover of the private sector and destroying the entrepreneurial spirit that has made this the greatest country on Earth.

They exempt themselves from the laws they oppress the citizenry with.

They are attempting to remove God and Religion from our lives and claim that we are no longer a Judeo-Christian nation.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. The Supreme Court, Congress and the President, whose characters are thus marked by every act which may define Tyrants, are unfit to be the leaders of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Government. We have warned them repeatedly of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of their folly. We have appealed to their intelligence and integrity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections. They have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, accountable for their excesses.

We, therefore, the People of the united fifty States of America, in unanimity, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these united fifty States are, and of Right ought to be Free from the current Federal Government, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the current Federal Government, and that all political connection between them and the current Federal Government, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do including the formation of a new Federal Government. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to legally take back our Country and Government.

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Universal Medicare

The federal government already runs one national health care system for those over the age of 65; it's called Medicare.
Medicare is underfunded and is growing broke.  The only way to fix this is to raise everyone's taxes.  Medicare pays poorly.
As a result many doctors and medical facilities will not treat Medicare patients.  Medicare's coverage is not very good either.
Seniors must have a second, private insurance policy to cover what Medicare doesn't pay for or they risk going broke from
medical expenses.
 
Nationalizing our healthcare system is nothing more than government creating a Medicare program for everyone -- Universal Medicare.
So, why does anyone want national healthcare.  It won't be any better than Medicare.  If it is, why doesn't the government fix Medicare
first and show us how wonderful a government run healthcare system can be?  It will definitely be worse than Medicare.  It will cost us all
more in taxes and it will go broke faster.
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The Myth of Man Mad Global Warming

Q: How much carbon dioxide is the atmosphere?
A: Less than 0.04%.  It could increase by 25 time and still be less than 1%.
 
Q: How much carbon dioxide is in the air you exhale with every breath?
A: Between 4 and 5%.  So, with every breath you are "polluting" the atmosphere with more than 100 times the amount
     of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
 
As my mathematics books used to say, it should be "intuitively obvious" that man made global warming is ridiculous.
 
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Read Before You Vote - Obama: "Ego and Mouth"

http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/10/31/ego_and_mouth
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Obama and Taxes, Part II

Even if I have to say so myself, I hit the nail on the head with my previous "Obama and Taxes" post last week.
Today Obama lowered his tax threshold from those making less than $250,000 to those making less than $200,000.
Ah, then Biden trumped him and stated no new taxes for those making less than $150,000.  And now today, Governor Richardson of New Mexico (a Democrat supporter of Obama) said less than $120,000.   Where does it stop? It stops with EVERYBODY paying more taxes.  You won't be able to say I didn't warn you.
Tags: obama   Taxes  
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Mortgage Bust - The Truth Be Told

Couldn't possiblly have said this better myself.

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
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Obama on Taxes

Barak Hussein Obama keeps repeating he won't raise taxes on those making less than $250,000/yr.  Really?  He will let the Bush tax
cuts expire.  Now I know the Democrats keep saying the tax cuts only helped the rich, but, as usual, they lie.  As an example, the Bush tax cuts reduced the tax rate from 15% to 10% on the first $10,000 of taxable income.  Let me see, I think that applies to EVERYONE with
any taxable income.  I could go on, but this is enough to prove that Obama is not telling the truth (and that's putting it mildly).
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Why Privatizing Social Security Will Never Happen

President Bush's initiative to privatize Social Security was a good idea in concept.  The easiest way to tell was because all Democrats were against it.  Now we could argue about letting individuals invest their own money in stocks and bonds, but that isn't the point.  It CAN'T happen; not in the forseeable future anyway.
 
When you invest in a retirement account such as an IRA, the money you invest is yours.  You can get it whenever you want. You may have to pay a penalty if you take it before you are of retirement age, but that money can be accounted for and is accessable.  Not so with your Social Security retirement money.  It is not kept in the ficticious "lockbox" that Al Gore was so fond of refering to.  If the lockbox existed, it would be filled with IOUs.
 
The money we all pay monthly into Social Security first goes to pay current Social Security obligations (i.e., your parents montly Social Security check).  The leftover goes into the federal government's general fund to pay its current obligations (i.e., interest on the national debt).  You get a promise to pay your back in the future - an IOU.
 
If your Social Security contributions were to be privatized, that money would have to go into an account with your name on it.  That money would have to exist in one form or another.  It could not be used to pay current Social Security of federal government obligations.
That would mean the federal government would have to come up with the money to pay current obligations.  Where would they get it from?  They would have to raise taxes.  They would have raise taxes quite a bit.  And if the privatization were to include all the past money you have paid into Social Security (to cover all the IOUs in your Social Security account), the cost would be enormous.  I haven't done the math, but my guess is that is would be considerably higher than current bailout.  (I won't go into the alternative of reducing government spending. We both know that will never happen; certainly not in the magnitude that would be required.)
 
Obviously the politicians in Washington know this (well, a few must - right?), but they're not going to admit it to the public.They will never admit that our future Social Security benefits are in the from of IOUs and that they don't have the actual money "in hand" to pay them.  They would have to "come clean" and admit to the Ponzi scheme.  They already know there is a problem coming to pay future beneifits with a growing retirement community and a declining ratio of workers to retirees. 
 
Think about this - why do you think most in Washington want to legalize all the illegal immigrants in this country?  Now, I know they keep saying that they are hard workers and paying taxes .. yada, yada, yada.... But the truth is most illegals are working for cash and not paying taxes.  Making them legal would force them onto the payroll and force them to pay into Social Security.  This would instantly increase
the number of people paying into Social Security and delay the day when there isn't enough money coming in to cover the money going out.  Who said politicians are stupid?  They just think we are.
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Obama and Taxes

Barack Obama keeps saying he will NOT raise taxes on anyone making over $250,000 a year. He has also said he wants to
eliminate the cap on the social security payroll tax. In 2008 the payroll tax is capped at $102,000.  That is, one doesn't pay any more
payroll tax on income above $102,000 for the year.  Eliminating the cap would increase taxes on everyone making more than $102,000.
Last time I checked $102,000 was considerably less than $250,000.
 
To be fair, Obama has said he would "consider" exempting those making between $102,000 (in 2008) and $250,000.  Consider? What's
to consider?  Either is ISN'T raising taxes for people making less than $250,000 or he is "considering" not raising taxes on them. I'm betting on "HE IS!"
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