Has Missouri Sparked a Brushfire?

Missouri 
sets tone
By Cheri Jacobus - 08/05/10 06:16 PM ET

Tuesday’s primaries brought a few surprises. But the voter mandate in Missouri stands out as the One Really Big Thing that might define this fall’s elections.

Seventy-one percent of Missouri voters supported a ballot measure preventing the federal government from forcing anyone to buy health insurance, as dictated by the healthcare law signed by President Obama in March. Missourians aren’t going to stand for the federal government forcing them to purchase health insurance or penalize them if they don’t. In fact, as a result of ObamaCare, Americans seem poised to vote lawmakers out of office who voted for the bill. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) claims she now gets the message, but lucky for her, she is not up for reelection until 2012. Many of her Democratic colleagues are not as fortunate and find themselves in the crosshairs of voter anger over Obama’s healthcare reform folly.

When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he and then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton barreled forward with an ambitious healthcare reform agenda that was stunning in the level of control the federal government would have over each and every American. Equally stunning was the public’s rebuke of “HillaryCare” as opposition levels climbed. Like bulls in a china shop, the Clintons kept pushing, and pressured congressional Democrats as well. Public sentiment won.

Republicans took the House in the ’94 midterm elections for the first time in 40 years, due in no small part to the Clintons’ attempt to force government-run healthcare on the nation.

In 2010, it’s deja vu all over again.
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Democrats: The Audacity of Greed

Revolution in the air
By Brent Budowsky - 08/09/10 06:34 PM ET

Time is short. The stakes are enormous. The nation is angry. The jobs are dying. The mood is depressed. Democrats must get off their knees and fight. They should cancel the week of recess before Labor Day, go to the floor of Congress and fight for American jobs, rally the party base, and go to the country with a campaign worthy of the Democratic Party.

I am fed up with the lack of fight, lack of spirit, lack of energy and lack of cojones of a party that must renew its right to call itself the party of the people, and renew its fight to stand up for the hardworking, law-abiding, good-hearted patriotic men and women who have been shut out of the corridors of power for far too long.

I stand with the vast majority of Americans, who believe that Washington has become a fossilized town that is sickeningly out of touch with an America that hungers for leaders who lead, a Congress that acts and a president who stops telling voters they need teachable moments from him and starts listening to what voters, including many of his friends, are telling him.

The president has gone rogue. And Democrats. And Republicans. And everyone in this capital with eyes that don’t see and ears that don’t hear what an unhappy nation is telling them. Voters pray for action, but all they hear is self-praise from those who don’t listen, and all they see is vanity and self-indulgence from those who don’t care.
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Larry the Cable Guy Offers Solutions

Everyone concentrates
on the problems we're having in Our Country  lately:  Illegal
immigration, hurricane recovery,  alligators attacking people in
Florida . .    

Not  me -- I
concentrate on solutions for the problems --  it's a win-win
situation. 



* Dig  a moat the
length of the Mexican border.  

* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of
the levees. 

* Put  the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican
border. 



Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? 


Think about
this: 

1.  Cows 

2.  The Constitution 

3.  The Ten Commandments   



COWS  

Is it just me, or does
anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our
government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years
ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And,
they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11
million illegal aliens wandering  around our country. Maybe we
should give each of them a  cow.   



THE  CONSTITUTION 

They  keep talking
about drafting a Constitution for  Iraq ...why don't we just give
them ours? It was  written by a lot of really smart guys, it has
worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
  



THE  10 COMMANDMENTS 

The  real reason
that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this --
you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery'
and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and
politicians, it creates a hostile work environment.

Social Justice: The True Meaning

Here's a classic Walter E. Williams found at http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com

Ask the average person his opinion of politicians. You'll hear words like crooks, hustlers and tyrants.

The reason for this dim assessment of politicians is that in all societies, the scum, with few exceptions, tends to rise to the top. Let's look at it.

People want government to do all manner of things, things that if done privately would lead to condemnation and jail sentences. Some want government to give money to farmers, poor folk, college students, senior citizens and businesses.

There's no Santa Claus or tooth fairy. The only way government can give money to one person is to forcibly take it from another person. If I privately used the same method to raise money for a "deserving" college student, homeless person or businessman, I'd face theft charges.

Others among us want government to protect wild wolves, bears and the Stephens kangaroo rat even if it results in gross violations of private property and loss of lives.

The problem is that some people disagree with having their earnings taken to satisfy someone else's wishes. They don't want the Corps of Engineers and the Fish and Wildlife Service dictating to them what they can and cannot do with their property to ensure a habitat for the kangaroo rat. Force and threats must be used.

Here's the question: Could the average American kill a person who resolutely refuses to give up his earnings so Congress can give it to farmers? Could you kill a person who insists on using all of his property, even though some wolves have set up a den on it?

You say, "What do you mean, Williams: kill?"

Here s a scenario: The Corps of engineers commands me not to remove debris from a drainage ditch on my property, placed there by beavers building a dam, because the debris creates a wetland. I remove it anyway.

The Corps of Engineers fines me. I refuse to pay the unjust fine. The Corps of Engineers threatens to seize my land. I say no, you won't; it's my land, and I'll protect it.

A politician sends marshals to take it, and I get killed defending it.

Few Americans have the stomach or ruthlessness to do what is necessary to make their governmental wishes come true. But they are willing to abandon constitutional principles and rule of law so that those with the stomach for ruthlessness have the tools of massive central government power to achieve those wishes.

The path we're embarked upon, in the name of good, is a familiar one. The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the '30s and '40s with the men usually associated with- those names.

Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to the consolidation of power in central government in the name of "social justice."
It was decent but misguided Germans, who would have cringed at the thought of extermination and genocide, who built the Trojan Horse for Hitler to take over.

We Americans promote disrespect for our Constitution, rule of law and private property in our pursuit of "social justice." But the scum that rises to the top has an agenda of control that's leading toward totalitarianism.

Incidentally, it's no coincidence that most of those at the top are lawyers: people with a special, seemingly tutored contempt for our Constitution and rule of law.

http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com

Each taxpayer now owes over $100,000 in US government debt

On Monday January 25, 2010, 5:38 pm EST
WASHINGTON (AP)

Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

Total public debt subject to limit Jan. 22	12,245,872
Statutory debt limit	12,394,000
Total public debt outstanding Jan. 22	12,302,465
Operating balance Jan. 22	142,454
Interest fiscal year 2008	451,154
Deficit fiscal year 2009	1,417,121
Deficit fiscal year 2008	454,798
Receipts fiscal year 2009	2,104,613
Interest fiscal year 2009	383,365
Receipts fiscal year 2008	2,523,642
Outlays fiscal year 2009	3,521,734
Outlays fiscal year 2008	2,978,440
Gold assets in September	11,041

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OK, so the federal government, in 2009, took from us in taxes 2.1 trillion dollars.

However, spending was $3.5 trillion. So in one year, 2009, the federal government borrowed 1.4 trillion dollars. This raised the total 'national" debt to $12.3 trillion.

I've heard this means over $100,000 is owed for every taxpayer. This must assume about 123 million taxpayers. I think this may be a little over stated.

It is particularly striking to note that in little more than a generation, we went from a country whose money was backed by gold, to a country with only $11 billion in gold reserves and an annual budget of $3.5 TRILLION dollars.

This is not a sustainable situation. Also, keep in mind the world is in the process of replacing the dollar as its reserve currency. What happens when the dollar is no longer the basis for trading oil? More to the point, what happens when no one in the whole world is interested in dollars?

Are you angry yet?

Here is the problem ...

where is the solutions?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygtqaH-hnFs