‘For Imposing Taxes On Us Without Our Consent’ – The Declaration’s Words
Media elites are debating whether ObamaCare is a tax or a penalty. They proclaim that if you buy insurance then you are not taxed. However, the plague has not fully run its course. The bill is diseased with taxes – taxes on instruments, machines, probably even the Kleenex. Not to mention that the morgue will be filled with IOUs from anyone who makes $18,700 or more and defiantly doesn’t care to pay the tax. The IRS pallbearers will be laden with the weight of unpaid bills.
The ultimate death is to American independence and to the American people whose health will inevitably suffer.
ObamaCare is a tax. ObamaCare is a government takeover. ObamaCare is a usurpation of 1/6 of the American economy. ObamaCare is the monster that will devour American’s renowned medical genius and ingenuity.
Obama deceived America and Obama usurped the legislative branch with his great pretend — that it was not a tax. Upon ObamaCare will be the fall of America unless it is overturned by the people.
Hence the greatness of the United States Constitution, one of the three miracles that made and keep America — the bravery of the men who designed the Declaration of Independence, the victory of the men who won the American Revolutionary War, and the genius of the men who orchestrated the United States Constitution.
Due to the separation of the powers and the three branches of government, Americans can save the republic with their vote in November. The buck does not stop with the Supreme Court. With a Republican majority in Congress and Romney at the helm, Americans can reclaim their independence from defiant, demanding, and duplicitous Democrats — President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate.
“They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity,” declared our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence. Sound familiar?
A well timed article as we celebrate independence day- and decide if we still want it. Surely, the tyrant forcing his will on us today is using the failed and outdated communist manifesto, not the Constitution he swore to uphold. The manifesto is specific about how to divide the people using class warfare and make them hostile toward each other. We cannot allow this, it must be specifically addressed by those that oppose the Socialist Democrats. We started surrendering over our freedoms with the New Deal in the name of compassion, but there is nothing compassionate about what this president and congress has done to us. In the absence of leadership, the people must lead in November- and insist our spineless polititians follow.
Janine,
Thank you for one of the best articles I have read yet on Obamacare….Bravo to you!
You are as smart and astute as you are beautiful
! I am ever optimistic about the majority of the American people….and I look forward to November!
Thank you again and have a wonderful 4th!!!!
I think the worst thing that happened during the Obamacare mess was that the Democrats in Congress totally ignored the will of the people. Approval for Obamacare never, EVER was in the majority in the polls. And it STILL is not in the majority. Forget about the idea of even putting up something as huge as Obamacare up for a national vote. You would think that a law that would change the fundamental course of this nation would at least be voted on by the people who are going to get stuck with the bill for this. But no, the liberal Democrats and ONLY the liberal Democrats in Congress wanted this thing, as well as our socialist president, and by God they were going to get it, regardless of how many Americans petitioned their elected representatives NOT to vote for it. So what happens when Congress no longer listens to the people they are supposed to represent? You have the tyranny the Founding Fathers feared. All of the town hall meetings, all of the phone calls, all of the e-mails, all of the mid-term elections, and all of the protests meant nothing to the Democrats because they “knew” what was best for us. And THAT, by any other word, is nothing but rank tyranny.
I have a feeling the American people are really, really, angry about all of this and will make their feelings known in November. I also believe the Democratic Party will not recover from this act of madness for at least a generation. Obamacare was not only wrong, but was and now is a major threat to the liberties we all hold dear, as well as the liberties we were striving for in the Declaration of Independence. Time to reclaim those rights this November and show the far left that you cannot take them away from us. Ever.
You hit it exactly.
The progressives/democrats decided that THEY knew better than anyone else and THEIR solution was the only right and correct one. THEY want single payer and to hell with anyone else. This is the major problem I have with progressives; their ginormous, busybody, self-righteousness. Can you leave the rest of us alone please? Is that too much to ask?
Yes. It’s too much to ask. It’s too much to ask because they need you as their tax slave.
Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Castro, Assad, Putin, Hu Jintao, and Kim Jong Un, are chuckling with glee at Obama’s grand deception, and the collapse of one of America’s mightiest fortifications against tyranny; The Supreme Court.
All is not lost; The House is in action against the funding for this travesty. See here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/house_guerrilla_tactics_attempt_to_stymie_obamacare_implementation.html
Last night saw a dramatization of Patrick Henry’s wonderful debate and “Give me liberty” speech that stunned me. These were words that could be said today, only the enemy is not the British. It is US. The courage of these men, to go up against the mighty British is almost mind-boggling. They were willing to risk it all to give us freedom. Freedom that has been handed down to us today. Yet we allow our feckless, selfish, cowardly politicians to take it away. Shame on them, Shame on us. We are (at least for now) the greatest country the world has ever seen. We seem to be willing to just waste it away until we become just another nation on the planet Earth. What a tragedy.
“One shudders to think what John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams would declare today, after a sweeping Supreme Court decision wiped independence off of the United States of America’s map and the individual American’s manifest.”
I think I’ve got a pretty good idea what the reaction of those fine gentlemen would be, and it if it makes me shudder it is with gleeful anticipation.
You are so correct Janine. Pray enough people wake up about all of this. It will take “We the People” and our” Faith in God ” to once more stand boldly in the face of tyranny. I agree wiith you Janine.
SECEDE! I began to say this at least 5 years ago. It is the only possible alternative. Obama will be reelected. The rats have a lock on national power. The eggheads, perverts, communists, union thugs and their paid rabble are an insuperable majority. This is no longer the United States of America. I do not want to be part of THIS country. I want to be free. It will not take a civil war. The military will not attack their own families. The red states must cease payments to the DC cabal.
I don’t even care if New England can be brought round eventually. Let them go their own way. Same for the western half of California, Oregon and Washington. We need national leaders, men of renown to call for secession. Unless a movement is started there is no hope for us.
So called conservatives who refuse to recognize that present day loyalty to ‘America’ is loyalty to a dead thing are part of the problem. We must form the New United States of America. The national capital should be in Wichita, Kansas or Oklahoma City.
There is nothing of patriotism to America or its Revolution or Constitution in your post.
Sorry my bad. I assumed and we all know about that. The idea would be to reinstitute the constitution. Preferably prior to the 16th amendment. We might go back and expunge a couple clauses or add a couple things. Would have to be worked out. But the idea would be to get back to the Framers original intent minus any racial or gender compromises.
As much as I would like to see only tax paying citizens able to vote I’m not sure we could make that stick. Worth a try though. Certainly the voting age should be raised back to 21.
No big. I’m not willing to countenance secession until I think the Constitution is a genuinely dead letter. And I think it ain’t.
Don’t wait too long. Personally I think its already too late. Even if Romney wins the election he won’t go very far in undoing the rot. He’s more big gubmint than George Bush.
I understand what you are saying and I agree. However, I think our biggest impediment is apathy. The left in this country number only about 20% of the population. By rights, we should be out-voting them on everything. The problem is that only a little over half of those eligible to vote, do.
I understand that the candidates are lousy and why should you vote for the lesser of two evils when you can choose NOT to vote for evil at all. But with so many people staying home we get these too-close-to-call elections that are won because a liberal “discovers” a trunk load of ballots in his car.
You are missing an important factor in your equation. You may be right in your assessment that only 20% of the population is truly left however they carry along with them another 30% that are useful idiots. All they know is they vote for whoever promises them welfare in all its insidious forms. This includes most of the students with big loans and that’s a big number. I believe this situation is insurmountable.
“call to action to limit bills in Congress to thirty pages”
Absolutely. This is a great proposal to suggest to your candidates and ask if they would support it. How dare any of them vote on our behalf on things they have not or could not even read?
Happy Independence Day, Janine. Thanks for the inspiration after a tough week.
“Chief Justice Roberts just made Obama accountable. ”
No. He gave aid and comfort to the enemy and general police power to the federal government.
There is no new opportunity for liberty in Roberts’ decision, there is only danger it will be accepted and promulgated.
I agree. Time to call it what it is – The Roberts Treason.
If the mandate is a tax then what kind of tax is it? It is not an income tax, not a sales tax, not an excise tax or property tax or transfers tax as it must be paid on inactivity, by the mere fact that you exist. That therefore makes it a capitation or poll tax – a fixed tax that everyone must pay in lieu of performing a service (buying health insurance). So the first thing we need to do when discussing this subject is call Obamacare what it is – The ACA Poll Tax. This is going to help the political argument because Americans hate poll taxes and because if it is a poll tax then it very possible falls afoul of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4.
It is interesting that Roberts in his opinion did not spell out under which of its taxing powers congress could levy a tax on not doing something. Probably he didn’t want to put his name on an opinion blessing the most hated form of tax in American History.
I would like to add that the Declaration of Independence wasn’t so much a resolution to justify the revolution as much as it was asserting a fact already in existence. King George was no longer behaving as a king, but rather as a foreign invader, treating the colonists not as British subjects but rather as an enemy to be conquered. The Continental Congress, for its part, did not resort to declaring independence from Britain until well after all hope of reconciliation had been destroyed. The war had been raging for a year beforehand and the Olive Branch Petition had been rejected. It was the British Army, not the American Colonists, who started the war, and it was only after all possibility of peaceful resolution had been exhausted that the Declaration of Independence was ratified and signed, asserting de jure what was de facto already true: the 13 colonies assembled in the Continental Congress were no longer part of the British Empire, but rather a Confederacy of 13 states (later to be united as a single Federal Republic).
We must do no different. We must not start any war against the government, though we retain the right to defend ourselves if they start one against us. We must not seek to be separated from the Federal Government, unless and until all hope of peaceful reconciliation has been exhausted.
I feel hopeless. They are using a lot of forms of warfare against now. They opened the border to allow in a foreign invasion force – 70 million stong – and are forcing us to feed, clothe, house and educate them. Pretty much like the British forced us to house their standing army only worse.
They bombard us with propaganda to break our spirit. They use lawfare to crush us and strip us of our God-given rights. There is no longer any equal protection under the law.
They are crushing us financially with their unlawful taxes – taxing us for the very breath in our lungs (C02 emissions). Our property rights have been stripped from us. The EPA can now declare a mud puddle wetlands and bankrupt homeowners allowing them no recourse to respond in court. Indeed, they threaten them with prison if they DARE try to bring it to a court to decide.
There is no free market and the goverment is picking who succeeds and they are bankrupting the competition. Industry has all but been destroyed through regulations and litigation in one form or another.
Please tell me what is there to POSSIBLY be optimistic about?
“I would like to go on record that the U.S. government is now more offensive and in violation of self-evident truths and God-given individual rights and liberties than the British government was in 1775.” – Ted Nugent
We are in exactly the same position as our forebears prior to the revolution. The Declaration reads line for line ( sans archaic language ) as the working-tax-paying-public’s complaint against Washington DC. We pay for everything. We pay to be oppressed by the Rat cabal of eggheads, perverts, communists, union thugs and their paid rabble AND they have now run up a debt due to the obscene war on poverty that out great grandchildren will still be carrying on their backs. This debt is crushing us right now. The effects are society wide and ubiquitous. And there’s much more debt coming right around the bend. Himalaya scale mountains of debt that can NOT be paid or escaped.
I have fundamental problems with accepting the premise of this article; that justice Roberts made a wholly political decision by writing a tax into a bill that did not include it in its language, nor was passed in The House of Representatives with the explicit understanding that they were imposing a tax on the American people. Furthermore and implying that such action is commendable if it produces the results intended, to have Obama lose the election.
The thesis of that premise is the acceptance of a dishonorable and unconstitutional act for ulterior political motives. That compromises the honesty of the Court and renders it useless in the responsibility of safeguarding the Constitution.
No, no, and a thousand no’s. We as conservatives cannot accept the destruction and corruption of the third branch of government even if ultimately, and on the short run, it favors our political goals. Justice Roberts has committed and illegal act and has done permanent injury to our balance of powers.
The piece, “Justice Roberts Is Our George the Third”, summarizes it better and points the way to the only solution at http://www.AmericasChronicle.com
What utter garbage.
There is no similarity between the situations. In 1776 we had no representation. The taxes involved were arbitrary and unfair to the colonies, and Parliament of England was beyond our ability to influence.
Today, while we may rail against it, our Congress is OURS. We voted it in, we decide it’s make up. The ACA was passed through the houses legally. Don’t blame Obama – he has no true power in the Capitol. OUR representatives and Senators do.
And don’t blame Roberts and his like-minded Justices. All they could do is make a decision on ONE point – was it Constitutional? A decision ultimately their job to make. They made it.
Oh, and it isn’t “the largest tax increas in history”. It’s about 18th, depending on how you square chages in inflation and real monetary value.
OUR reps passed this law, FOR US. Stop passing the buck. We did this to ourselves.
Tonto to the Lone Ranger as the indian swarm descended on them and the Ranger asked Tonto, “What are we to do, old friend?” … “What you mean ‘we’ white man?”
The usurpers of the Constitution i.e. the Democrat party and its minions are NOT my countrymen. They are traitors and evil-doers. I hate them and am willing to go to war with them if that’s what it takes and I will be justified.
No, you won’t.
They are not traitors. They are not evil. They are fellow Americans to us all, merely disagreeing on certain points. And as long as they fairly fight for what they choose to consider important, in our Congress and our society, with words and ideas, then you are justified in fighting them with words and ideas. That’s the whole point of living in a democratic state – we can resolve our differences without resort to violence.
I say, the ones that resort to violence, they are the evil ones. The real traitors to everything that America stands for – the freedom to disagree.
You are delusional. Probably a commie-lib yourself. It takes a conspirator or a fool to support the wholesale usurpation of our constitutional republic as has been going on for the last 50 years. This was not accomplished through the democratic process. It has been a conspiratorial pogrom brought about by the most dishonest propaganda effort of all time. You need to read Orwell. It’s all happening around us as we live. Even our very language has been co-oped. Thought control is an established fact. Our children are being brainwashed and debauched. Cameras are everywhere. Drones are being built by the thousand and deployed all over the land. Either we stop it this year or all is lost.
Benjamin Franklin warned us that a republic would be hard to keep. Its really already gone.
Please, try to keep your obsolete, cold-war era psychoses to yourself. The “commies” have gone to their beloved “dustbin of history”. The danger to our Republic comes from the extremists who want to control what we think, that’s true – the ones intolerant of difference, incapable of compromise, and unwilling to try to see the other point of view. And right now, that’s mostly the idiots on the Right (the idiots on the Left have other problems).
I’d suggest you take your own advice and read some Orwell. But not 1984 – try Animal Farm. And consider the big business types and their Republican bought-and-paid-for tools as the pigs.
WOW! Both of you have valid points and both of you are part of the problem. The battle should not be between Ds and Rs, it should be between individual liberty and large central government. Today most Ds and Rs are the same, they trade favors for personal gain. Opposing or supporting special rights (women, minorities, etc.) while opposing or supporting equal rights (gay marriage, polygamy, etc) points to large government and away from liberty. Strong technically advanced infrastructure benefits our common welfare, taking property from one person and giving it to another is not. Unfortunately our country is made up of D/R extremists and single issue voters, which is why we are where we are.
@Kevin R Cross – You are using a logical fallacy as your premise. Republicans do not and never have funded big business (what a joke). Most corporations and CEOs are democrats and vote democrat. They may pad a little money over to the GOP if they are in power, but really, the are all liberals. Look it up and quit with the fallacy that the GOP is for big business and democrats are for the little guy (unions – although unions vote 100% for democrats, also). It’s what they continually say – but it’s just not true.
Lolly, I to a certain extent agree with you. The Democratic Party certainly does not represent “the little man” – they represent special interest groups and think tanks, the loud voices and the ideologues. No one is representing the little guy.
But the Republican Party is most certainly the one fawning over big business, the rich and the powerful. Look at their policies – cutting spending (except when it would hurt the military-industrial types), reducing taxes (but only for the rich), INCREASING military spending (for aforesaid military industrial types), reducing services (but only for the poor).
Reducing spending and taxes is a good thing, but the way they’re going about it is anything but. Do we honestly need a Navy that has five times the size (and ten times the firepower) of every other country in the world combined? Why do we need a bunch of miltary bases in Europe any more? The Mid-East and Korea, sure, but Europe?
Sorry, don’t mean to rant. But the current Republicans are looking more bought-and-paid-for by the month.
@Kevin – You sound like a democrat stratigist with all your talking points.
Of course they cut taxes on businesses. We have the highest taxes on companies in the industrialized world. We have the most hostile business enviroment in all the western world and that includes the western socialized countries. They are trying to make businesses GROW so that PEOPLE are hired. To make our country business competitve so that people feel confident enough to start THEIR own business and hire more people. That is capitalism. You call it a tax break for the wealthy but I’d like to know the last time a poor person gave you a job? And services need to be monitored better. I don’t like the idea of half the country on welfare when they are capable of working. All we have are scammers working the system. That needs to stop!
As for the military, we have bases in Europe because it gives us a jumping off point to get to any place on the planet – same with South Korea. And BTW – we have TRIED to leave those places and they went crazy because their economies are tied to the US presence there and they know they’d go bankrupt. Literally, the ONLY country that has asked us to leave was the Philippines and we were OUT OF THERE in under a year. Totally! And now they regret it because they now have a strong islamic presence they have to deal with. Something they didn’t have to deal with when we were there.
As for our military’s size? Do you really want to go back to the Clinton years that left us with “the army we have, not the army we wish we had” when we needed something more at the beginning of hostilties in the ME?
If I sound a bit like the Dems, it’s mainly because the Dems have some good ideas (it’s that whole stopped clock thing…).
First, we don’t have the highest taxes on business. Our maximum tax rate for business is high, at 38%, but unlike most nations it’s a graduated tax – small business pays much, much less.
This is combined with another fact: small business hires better. Small businesses need more people to get things done, because they don’t have big infrastructure that allows consolidation of activity. So, if you want more people employed, it’s better to give breaks to the small businesses and the middle class people who own and run them than to the rich. But Small business doesn’t have oodles of money to throw at politicians, while big business does.
And no, they aren’t generally “scammers working the system”. That’s another bit of propaganda that has nothing to do with reality. Because the reality right now is that A) Big business isn’t hiring because of the economy and B) small business is going out of business for the same reason. Traditionally, Americans got out of this situation by starting their own businesses, but throughout most of the US today cost of living is too high to allow the working man or woman to save up enough to start one – and forget about the banks. You’ll only get credit if you don’t need it. End result: a lot of people who want work, will work, but can’t get work. While the only thing that’s keeping them a roof over their heads gets pecked at by the vultures on Capitol hill.
As to the military – Europe is a jumping off point to where, exactly? We have major military bases in Saudi, Korea (which, as I said, I agree with), Japan, the Indian Ocean, and transfer rights in Britain and Australia. The Euro bases provide us with nothing. And yes, I realize the nations involved want them there – but it is NOT our job to subsidize their local economy.
Oh, and when did I mention the Army? Leave it be, it’s about right. Our Navy, on the other hand, is horrendously bloated – we simply do not need 13 supercarriers. 6 would do the job equally well.
Quite right.
And it looks as if there are enough people either independently or moved by the sheep-dogs of legacy media and other self-arrogating and self-propagating elites to do it again.
Without caring that all the “elite”, the “liberal” groups that lead/drive them into the pens have interest,which has been no secret for at least a half century. Their interest to take citizens’ individual choices’ into their more astute, more adroit more competent hands, “for the good of the people”. To you and me that’s We The People.
The same people, again that We The People, in the elites eyes incompetent to manage effectively by their own devices. These incompetents who did however, without controls envisioned by these elite, develop that most creative, most admired, envied and until these elite were given the charge the richest nation in the world. So incompetent that other nations and peoples came to and still come to them for help when in trouble.
These university credentialled elite who rarely if ever had a dirty hands or hands on except in talking shops job know what the inferior CAN DO/HAVE DONE common Americans need for good management of their lives.
That does not excuse modern new-age Americans from their responsibilty for credit or blame in their selection of people to represent them in government. Too busy, too safe, too privileged and affluent, too uninterested, not enough incentive,not advertised in primary colours and thumping music and cajoled to the edge of the abyss by glamourous showbiz pundits, soi-disant comedians, and celebrities to learn they – the citizens – are sovereign in the USA. Sovereign means ultimate authority quasi king/queen. It does mean credit AND blame, as in the buck stops here..
Their sovereignty via representation in their Legislature/Congress, Judiciary/Courts, and Executive/head honcho. That does mean the citizens are responsible for who they select to represent them and what those representatives do in their name.
It the citizens’ responsibility \as the head of the house to oversee and hold accountable any of their representatives/servants to do what the citizens, the sovereign, the head of household want done and in what manner.
NONE of the government administration agencies or personnel are free agents. They answer first and finally to the SELF-GOVERNING citizens. The citizens, i.e. We The People are in charge for good or ill in this government of, by and for the people. And we cannot shirk that responsibility unless as seems now to be the case subsequent to the cold civil war managed by these interested elites “for the good of the people” during this past hald century we lose our identity as Americans.
First American liberty is freedom of religion, not European freedom FROM religion. That means freedom of individual conscience, that means economically purchaser sovereignty! Since 1960′s, individual conscience gave way to collective conscience, and values are now found in gang mentality! We identify ourselves with the gang rule, not some universal and eternal natural law! The shift to our secular civilization began in 1960′s rights-movement when many many females turned against religion over birth control and abortion rights! They sought freedom FROM!
“The ‘commies’ have gone to their beloved ‘dustbin of history’.”
No, they’re living comfortably in academia.
…and have you not noticed how many of Obama’s allies and appointees are commies and fascists?
…and are you not aware that Obama himself has said that he favors a corporatist (see Mussolini) form of government?
Thanks. I gave up arguing with the puppet. Commies are just like the devil. His greatest coup was convincing most people he does not exist.
No, I’ve seeen no such thing. I HAVE seen that many people have no idea what those terms actually mean – most assuredly including yourself. No, a person just slightly to the left of McCarthy is not a Communist.
Communism is DEAD. Even the remaining “communist” states aren’t any more – they’re just one-party capitalists these days. Every good idea that the communists had, we’ve done the American thing and coopted them for our own use, and discarded the detritus. The ONLY people who are harping on about “communism” are the extremist right-wing, and frankly, you do yourselves no favours – everyone else sees you as being stuck in arguments that were resolved thirty years ago. When you couch your arguments in obsolete, irrelevant terminology, anything important you have to say gets lost in the laughter. You make it easy for the left to say that your ideas are as old and worn-out as your terminology.
Wake up. This is the 21st century. If you don’t move with the times, we will move on without you.
I must, partially at least, concede your point. It’s just that when we use terms like statist and command-and-control economics the point can be lost. I guess ‘statist’ works to some useful degree. Statists and bureaucrats never stop their quest for more and more power over the population. This is where Orwell is so critical to people’s understanding of what is happening to them at present. Though ‘communist’ has been expunged from the newspeak dictionary the word is still very accurate. Of course everybody attaches their own meaning to words. I use it with my own mental pictures and years of acquired knowledge packed into my head and to me it is an accurate term. I guess I use it on these boards because I know most of the contributors here attach much of the same meaning to the word. I don’t use it with libtards. I talk about an insatiable bureaucracy or the exponential multiplication of rule upon rule, regulation upon regulation. I talk about the economics of a monstrous federal government eating out the very substance of the middle class.
Well, that’s good. The right has many, many good ideas – small government, low taxes, maximum power and responsibility to the individual, among many others. And many on the left will agree with a lot of that, if they are approached in ways they don’t find silly or old.
Many of the current cultural questions we’re in the process of resolving in the US are very confrontational and dividing, and I don’t think there’s any way around that. But our economic disagreements can be resolved with communication and compromise. When you come right down to it, a stronger America is in all of our best interests.
Communism didn’t die – it turned green. Like a watermelon.
GAO Report: $400 Billion Wasted Annually On 1,500 Duplicative, Fragmented, Inefficient Government Programs
http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=5b942c34-d1e5-49de-be92-a85dad8aa191&SK=42ED5BBA6767481D74B2057AC359ACD4
No, this is not tyranny if duly elected Senators, Representatives and President vote for and pass legislation; we get the government that we deserve. Please don’t over react and invoke the Declaration of Independence. The rallying cry was then No Taxation without Representation. Is our rallying cry now No Taxation because I disagree with my Representation.
So ‘deemed to have passed’ without a single pubbie having voted for it is honest representation. I don’t wish to live in ‘their’ world. They have violated the constitution to such an extent that the country is not the one the Founders created. I want my country back and voting won’t get it. As discussed above. 20% of the country is marxist Left, another 30% bought and paid for welfare hogs and then the rat party has dead people and illegal aliens voting for them on top of it all.
Secede!
Our representatives. We vote for a person because when running for office they say they will do what we ask of them. If this happens we vote for them again. No problem. If they don’t, we vote them out. Here is where the process breaks down. We don’t hold our elected representatives feet to the fire. We keep giving them a second chance and they know it. They have to screw up really bad to even come close to getting more than a slap on the wrist. Many times they do exactly the opposite of what we elected them to do but lie their way out of it if they even acknowledge us at all. Then, come election time, here they come again, spouting what we want to hear and we fall for it again.
This is what we the people have to fight against. We are just too trusting and gullible. Even if we’ve called them out on their lies, as soon as they promise to be good we put them right back in again. We’ve got to wake up. Get this dead weight out of there and I mean from both parties. Hold our supposed representatives accountable, don’t just let them know we are watching them, let them know we will do something about it.
The problem is also with the election process. It takes money and alot of times the best people don’t have it. Not only that, but when you are really motivated to vote some bum out nobody runs against him at all and he runs unapposed. You have no idea how frustrating that is!
Reality Check: What Makes America Exceptional?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Capbt84nWwE&feature=plcp
There is no need to start a revolution. No government that borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends and plans to spend even more is going to last long. Once it begins to implode it will start its own war on its citizens. Any government that wholesale opens its borders for the express purpose of replacing the electorate it has for one it prefers, and picks and chooses which lays it will obey and which enforce, and deliberately undermines the confidence of the people in the integrity of the voter rolls has already ceased to be representative. Its own contempt for the law undermines the citizenry’s respect for the law.
Passively resist, keep your powder dry, and Fort Sumter will miscalculate and fire the first shot. When they do the country will rise up. For now most Americans cannot understand the absolutely disastrous path the Obama administration has set us on and will not support even a little bit any active resistance to the law.
I think you are largely right although you leave out the conflagration that will surely ensue because it will be a nightmare. I’m not advocating a revolution. I’m advocating secession. I believe it can be entirely non-violent. We have to bring a stop to the slow motion pogrom we are enmeshed within. We are literally being subsumed day by day. If we allow things to progress much further there will be a declaration of emergency followed by marshall law. After that. Dictatorship.
Chikens
It may take another revolution to get our government straightened out.
Janine,
I agree with your introduction but not your solution… Repealing Obamacare is placing a finger in the dike of the leftist flood. To quote George Bernard Shaw, “A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul”( to vote for them ).