Monday, August 24, 2009

Uphold Your Oath.

A Marine from Camas, Washington questions his congressman Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA). He brings up one major tough point--The call to remain faithful to the oath that they both took--to "Support and Defend the Constitution of The United States...". This is what we should all be asking our representatives and senators both at home, and in D.C. From one native Washingtonian to another. Amen brother, AMEN!

This is what the Marine wrote on the info section of the youtube post:

I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.




Sunday, August 23, 2009

We DO need reform!


The other day I stood across the street from Congressman Jim Cooper's (D-TN) office to show that I am another American that believes we do need reform but that a public option is not the right fix. Rep. Cooper has refused to meet with his constituents in a public forum during the entirety of the August recess, so the public showed up to voice their opinion on legislation that will essentially lead to government controlled healthcare. Sounds like the congressman does not want to be held accountable. Don't worry Mr. Cooper, your accountability will be in the 2010 ballot box. 

This notion that the government will be able to drive down cost by offering a public plan actually sounds like a really good idea--so was Karl Marx's 'Communist Manifesto'. What you don't hear about is the fact that a government run option will do more damage than it will do good. That plan will lead to a severe cut into the free market incentive that our nation has been built on. It will strangle private insurance and force a vast majority of the population into the public option thus leading to government controlled healthcare. It will, and I say WILL lead to some form of rationing, since it is entirely impossible to give everyone, everything--thus the reason socialism ALWAYS fails. Don't take my word for it, ask the recipients of government run healthcare in developed nations like Great Britain and Canada, and try to name one country where Socialism has worked for the greater benefit of the people. 

We need to start talking about things like portable health insurance, tort reform and less federal regulation that prohibits the free market to actually function in a capitalist manner. This will do two important things; it will stabilize and drive down the cost of private insurance, and it will reinforce the incentive motive to offer better insurance and better health care. Competition always produces better options. Trust the ingenuity of the American people, not the horrible track record of government run programs. 

The federal government has failed at medicare, medicaid, social security and now "cash for clunkers" to name a few. The first three are on the verge of bankruptcy leaving nothing for future generations, and the latter by admittance of the federal government is lagging because they did not realize how much manpower it would take to process the program from consumer, to dealer to government reimbursement. Seriously!? They couldn't put a program together successfully that has to deal with miles per gallon, but they want us to trust them with healthcare--which accounts for over 1/6th of the U.S. economy. And not only are they asking for our trust, they want it fast, they want it now, and they are even threatening to ram it through on a parliamentary procedure called "reconciliation" or the "nuclear option" which requires only a simple majority vote and no room for honest, open debate, regardless of the fact that poll after poll shows that a growing majority of American's do not want the current plan offered by the government.

Aside from the American electorate being against the current healthcare legislation, Congress has absolutely no right to even make a decision regarding private citizens choices when it comes to things like healthcare. Those things are reserved to the states and to the people. There seems to be this trend of disregard for the Constitution of the United States. It is still a relevant and governing document that limits the powers of the Congress to certain enumerated rights--see Article I Section 8. The only provision that the left can point to is the welfare clause. It's used twice when referring to the powers of the federal government. Once in Article I Sec. 8, and another in the preamble. 

Here's a refresher on the preamble:
We the people of the United States in order to from a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, PROVIDE for the common defense, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution of the Unites States of America. 

The function right before the "promote the general welfare" is "provide for the common defense". The word "provide" and "promote" were picked on purpose by our founding fathers. It's no secret that they often for long hours argued over the verbiage to be used in the Constitution. "Provide" means they will do it, "promote" means they will do things that will encourage the people to do it. They are only authorized to do things that will promote the free market principles to regulate the welfare, not provide healthcare so that the free market cannot compete. 

Another case in point. If healthcare being a right means the government should provide it. Then our right to bear arms means the government should provide free guns to all citizens payed for with taxpayer money. Alas, free guns for all!

Think about it.


Friday, August 7, 2009

The left's one way street.

The "mob" exercising free speech.



















The left exercising free speech.

"I think they are astroturf, you be the judge...they're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to town hall meetings..."

-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Madame Speaker, I think you have the American public confused. The astroturf activism you're speaking of more closely defines your supporters. I guess it's correct to exercise your constitutional rights as long as they don't oppose the Speaker of the House and the Democratic elite of D.C. 

Then again it would be a far stretch to even think that self-serving politicians like Pelosi (D-CA) have a clear grasp on the concepts of our founding documents.

Suggested reading for the D.C. elite:
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Emancipation Proclamation
BILLS YOU PLAN ON VOTING ON!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

The DNC wants you to shut the hell up.

The Democratic National Committee has launched a new ad calling concerned vocal American citizens who are attending Town Hall meetings with their senators and representatives an "angry mob". The ad was launched as a counter to the thousands of people turning out to voice their dissent and opposition to further government takeover of the capitalist private sector that is the essence of the Obama, Pelosi, Reid agenda. After a failed 6 month takeover of the America way of life, looming job-loss increases in a economic recession, and a failed attepmt at "swiftly" taking control of healthcare which accounts for more than 1/7th of the U.S. economy the liberals in D.C. are pissed that Americans, common people, the working class, and the their constituents are demanding that enough is enough. 

Every morning Americans of all ages start the day with a solemn oath of Allegiance. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Let those who oppose civil discourse, fair and honest debate, dissent and the power of the people be reminded what a republic is. We are a nation in which the supreme power is held by the people through their elected representatives. 

Whether or not the people attending the Town Hall meetings are bused there, or share a common set of beliefs is besides the point. The DNC would have you believe that this "mob" is staged and angry. Staged, let's try informed. Angry, I'd say hell yeah. The American people are fed up with government interference in their lives, and their vocal enmity towards those senators and representatives who turn a deaf ear towards their constituencies better pay attention, work for the will of the people or get the hell out of Congress--the people have the power to vote you out, and trust them when they say they will.