State of the Union is a JOKE

Same o song. Sang in a different key. We know the song. It's a pep talk about nothing that is really having anything done about it. It's the same song sang it the collapse of 07-08 with the pep talk to borrow $ for the American recovery act & shovel ready jobs. I haven't even seen the first shovel bought, much less used for a job. THE STATE OF TH UNION IS SUPPOSE TO BE about the "STATE OF OUR UNION." Currently the state our union is unemployment, no jobs, gov health care starting to effect workers with lower hours & job loses, inflation, debt out of control, bill of rights at every angle being assaulted, Our taxes going up on a program that we will not see the benefits from, hidden taxes on all our purchases to fund healthcare, our soldiers salaries being cut & not being taken care of after their service, food stamps & welfare at a all time high, our nations credit rating down graded twice in four years, borrowing more money from china while we send billions to other countries with no return or payment back to us, sending military equipment to the brother hood of Muslims that in turn kill us, drones flying over our homes, I'm tired of writing, but the list goes on & on. People that is the STATE OF OUR UNION. Not a speech of pipe dreams & campaign promises to give people hope such as a pep talk is to give the illusion that things are fine. They are not. The reason our constitution mandates that the pres give a state of the union is to inform we the people of the situation our nation is in...the actual things that are happening to us, what we are paying for, and the state of our military & defenses.

Are we free? Or ruled by a King

In our goverment, we have to have some sort of an agreement in order to create a law.  We are a republic that has been treated as a democracy.  That democracy through welfare is slowly becoming a socialist state with a touch of Constitutional Monarchy. 

The simplest idea of government is those who rule over people and land.  This could be a small community, village or continent.

SEVEN BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION

· Popular Sovereignty- the governments right to rule comes from the people
· Limited Government- the government has only the powers that the Constitution gives to it
· Separation of Power-the Constitution divides the government into three branches:

Congress-legislative branch makes laws

President-executive branch carries out the laws

Courts-judicial branch explains and interprets the laws

· Checks and Balances- each branch of government has the power to check or limit the actions of the other two
· Federalism-division of power between the federal government and the states.
· Republicanism- citizens elect representatives to carry out their will
· Individual rights-The Constitution protects individual rights such as freedom
  of speech, freedom religion etc

Civil liberties are about freedom. They determine what you as an individual are free to do, and what the government cannot do to infringe on your freedom. People often use the terms "civil rights" and "civil liberties" interchangeably, but they're somewhat different. Rights protect you from unfair treatment under the law. Your individual civil liberties are those - inalienable - liberties mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

The Right to Life


Your right to life is more than a matter of waking in the morning and breathing. It involves making your own choices about how you're going to live. It means choosing a career that's right for you, not one the government has decided you should pursue. Your right to life lets you choose where you want to live and the freedom to live however you like. You can have children, or not have children, or have as many as you like. You can marry, or remain single. The right to life is about personal decisions.

The Right to Hold Property

Your right to hold property is an extension of your right to life. It doesn't mean the government has an obligation to give you property. It means that you have the right to earn income and then spend it however you want. Once you own something, the government can't in the normal course of events take it away from you. Some exceptions exist, such as if you file for bankruptcy or gain the property illegally.

The Right to Liberty

Liberty literally means freedom. Your constitutional civil liberty to freedom allows you to live your life free of government control. Of course, you have to pay taxes and obey laws. But the government can't force you to take certain actions against your will, in the interest of society at large. It can't tell you that you must vote a certain way. You have the right to make up your own mind about issues, including those that affect the whole country, not just yourself.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Your right to happiness overlaps your right to life in some respects. It gives you the freedom to pursue choices that give you pleasure, satisfaction, and self-fulfillment, as long as you don't break any laws in the process or hurt others. The government can't order you to live in a way you don't choose. It can't tell you that you must sacrifice your personal happiness for the good of your country.


FORMS OF GOV.
Democracy......... The most common in the Western world is called democracy. In democracies, all of the people in a country can vote during elections for representatives or political parties that they prefer. The people in democracies can elect representatives who will sit on legislatures such as the Parliament or Congress. Political parties are organizations of people with similar ideas about how a country or region should be governed. Different political parties have different ideas about how the government should handle different problems. Democracy is the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

 Monarchy............A monarchy is a government ruled by a king or a queen who inherits their position from their family, which is often called the "royal family." There are two types of monarchies: absolute monarchies and constitutional monarchies. In an absolute monarchy, the ruler has no limits on their wishes or powers. In a constitutional monarchy a ruler's powers are limited by a document called a constitution.

 Aristocracy............An aristocracy is a government by the "best" people. A person who rules in an aristocracy is an aristocrat. Aristocracy is different from nobility, in that nobility means that one bloodline would rule, an aristocracy would mean that a few or many bloodlines would rule, or that rulers be chosen in a different manner.

 Dictatorship...............Under a dictatorship, the government is run by one person who has all the power over the people in a country. Originally, the Roman Republic made dictators to lead during time of war. The Roman dictators (and Greek tyrants) were not always bad. The Roman dictators only held power for a small time. In modern times, a dictator's rule is not stopped by any laws, constitutions, or other social and political institutions. After World War II, many governments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa were ruled by dictators. Examples of dictators include Idi Amin, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and Gamal Abdul Nasser.

 Oligarchy............An oligarchy is a government ruled by a small group of powerful people. These people may spread power equally or not equally. An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. An oligarchy does not have to be hereditary or passed down from father to son. An oligarchy does not have one clear ruler, but several powerful people. Some past examples of oligarchy are the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Apartheid South Africa. A fictional example is the dystopian society of Oceania displayed in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Some critics of representative democracy think of the United States as an oligarchy. This view is shared by anarchists.

Something is Wrong.......This is not America

People are messed up with there thinking.....

You know, I'm dumb founded.  Have been for a few years now.  It seems like everything that is normal is wrong, everything that is right is now a sin and people are complaining about their on lazyness.

I often wonder why people don't love this place we live as being blessed to do so and thankful of our founders for establishing a land of liberty not found in the rest of the world.  I believe it's because we have become ungrateful, spoiled children that thinks we are owed everything

When this country was founded, if you ate you grew it. If you you had shelter, you built it. If you were in danger, you protected your self.  You had communities that would trade with each other the things you needed.  If someone was hurt, sick or disabled, that community would help out.  People came together under a common cause and depended on each other and what they deemed was their god. 

Today, we have become spoiled.  We do not depend on our selves but gladly take from those who do.  At one point in history this was called lazy, deadbeat, and shameful.  Today, it's called social justise. 

When a gov taxes people that work and work hard to build their dreams because they have the freedom to do so, and then they have it or at very least a large part of it taken away through taxes to give cell phones, food, shelter, ect and ect. to those that just sit back and complain that life is not fair...  well, it's pretty much isn't.  Never in world history has it been, ever. 

We are the only country in the world that allows people freedom to do what they want, when they want, and how they want.  However, the problem with this now days is the gov has passed so many laws and taxes that it restrict business, (large and small)  in such a way that it is difficult to grow, hire people and prosper.

With that said, the gov has as always prospered off the backs of others freedoms and has given and created a voting base by giving that hard work of others to people that don't, can't, will not work.  They have created a social justice society rather than a equal justice society.  Or rather taken our county toward a socialist type on the back of political correctness.  What was once right is now wrong and what was once wrong is now right.

Now, you may say... I can't get a job.  The economy is bad.   YES!!!  This is true.  The gov cannot created jobs, free people do.  What the gov can do is get out of the way like they have since our beginnings, let people created ideas that allow those people to hire.  What the gov has done is creat laws, taxes, rules and regulations that have pretty much shut down the ability to even be able to be prosper.  So what's the point. 

The most prosperess times in our history is when they stepped aside and let us the people built, discover, create, hire, think and take care of ourselfs.  But that's kinda hard to do when a gov raise taxes, gives people free stuff, spends more than they steal from us and borrow's money on the china credit card system. As well as hire 15m gov IRS agents to be sure they get our money. 

Wake up people, this is not a free stuff society.  It's a free society that is being transitioned to a social cry baby, help me help me, this is not fair, Tom's got more stuff than I do society. 

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COMMON CAUSE-The search for Independence

It was a day unlike any other day, when on July 8, the Declaration of Independence was read in public for the first time in Philadelphia. The year was 1776 and it was published in newspapers, copied, reprinted, and widely disseminated throughout the colonies.

Upon being elected to the Second Continental Congress in 1775, Thomas Jefferson drafted the "Declaration of Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms." During the first Continental Congress, (which he did not attend because of his wife's illness) Jefferson sent A Summary View of the Rights of British America, which advocated a natural right to self government for America.

I believe it is very important to always realize this was not a decade of rebellion, but rather a decade of taking and reclaiming a freedom that the people of the colonies were afforded before the tyranny of the government of Great Britain.

Thomas Paine, a man of great insight wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense. Common Sense caused a decisive and spontaneous change in thought and action across America. The word first whispered by John Adams to members of Congress-"INDEPENDENCE"-was now shouted across the land.

George Washington at a low point of morale had Common Sense read aloud to the troops, and stated that it had "sound doctrine and un-answer able reasoning" and that it was "working a powerful change in the minds of many men."

In the writings of Common Sense, Thomas Paine openly advocated a new and original political thought. "Power of the People."

Common Sense was read aloud on city streets, passed around schools and preached from the pulpits of churches. (now days progressives are disconnect from such a thought) It was heard by almost every American citizen and in turn transformed them into patriots with a fearless spirit. And after returning from the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Colonel Christopher Gadsden burst into South Carolina's provincial congress carrying a copy of Common Sense in one hand and in the other, a handmade yellow flag bearing the inscription: "DON'T TREAD ON ME." (today known as the Gadsden Flag) He immediately advocated "absolute independence for America."

When Common Sense was first released, the Continental Congress watched and waited for the reaction of the people at large.

On May 15, Congress recommended that the individual colonies sever all relations with Great Britain and created new and independent governments. This resolution was introduced by none other than John Adams. The man that years earlier had refused to have his ships boarded and was arrested for it back in 68. He had proposed the idea in 1774, but now was the time.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution with three primary elements: 1) formulation of new continental constitution. 2) establishment of foreign commercial alliances, and 3) a declaration of independence.

Four days later on June11, Congress established a committee of five to draft the document. The appointed members were: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingstion and Thomas Jefferson. The members asked Jefferson to take the job of writing the declaration. Jefferson was asked to write the document because he was thought well of through out all the colonies and it was considered support would be thought of as well. Adams gave three reasons why he wanted Jefferson to take the lead. These are the reason he gave in a conversation with Jefferson: 1) He was a Virginian. 2) Adams said, "I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular." "You are very much otherwise." 3) Telling Jefferson, "you can write ten times better than I can."

The humility and self-knowledge displayed by John Adams paved the way for the creation of one of the most compelling documents in History.

Jefferson took two weeks to draft the Declaration of Independence. Franklin and Adams reviewed Jefferson's first draft, made a few minor revisions, but it was presented to the entire Congress largely untouched. The birth of a nation was about to take its first breath of air.

John Adams quickly became the Declarations most ardent advocate in an attempt to persuade the doubting states. Thomas Paine was one of the main lobbyist (yes there was lobbyist then) in favor of the Declaration. But it was George Washington's report that a British fleet of more than a hundred vessels had sailed into New York Bay that did it. The fleet seemed to be an all out attack on American positions and the final straw.

The Declaration was not only to declare independence, but to justify a separation from Great Britain. The Declaration was specifically aimed at King George III, largely because the colonies had already disclaimed Parliament's authority.

PEOPLE NOW HAD A COMMON CAUSE.

Similar to Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence was an act of treason against the government of Great Britain.

John Hancock was the first to sign the Declaration. He signed in large letters so that King George III "might read it without his spectacles." John said. This may have been some displayed anger because of his arrest back in 1768.

"We must be unanimous" said Hancock to the others on July 4. "There must be no pulling different ways. We must all hang together."

"YES," replied Ben Franklin, "we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

The founding fathers knew there would now be no turning back. It was all or nothing. The last line in Jefferson's document stated their dedication: "FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE DECLARATION...WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR."

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Uncommon good Sense-Our founding history Part I

The period surrounding the American Revolution was a time of tremendous creativity and innovations. Clearly, something was waiting to be born.

Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison mapped strategy, forged consensus, picked unproven talents such as Lafayette and John Paul Jones. They among others made crucial decisions and daring choices.

Through intimidating, out maneuvering, and outsmarting the British, As well as Benjamin Franklin's private mission to Paris in search of a strategic alliance, these men faced challenges and dissension in their own ranks with an enlightened vision from which they would not stray.

It was a time of great change. There was anxiety among the masses, dissent would soon turn to action and a spark of fire is all it would take.

As tempers and passions began to rise the American people became something of a volcano waiting to erupt. Just one major quake was necessary to set them off. And Great Britain provided that catalyst with imposition of a series of new oppressive government decrees. Thus, sparks for a fire.

"A free born people are not required to submit to tyranny!"
Citizens of Marlborough Massachusetts, 1774

The spark of fire that would eventually burn around the world began in the so called New World in the thirteen American Colonies. The people of the colonies were people that for the most part had been born into the freedom that the New World and its distance from Europe afforded. The rest were seeking a better life than they had experienced in Europe. By the mid eighteenth century, all colonies had become members of the British Empire. Due to the geographic location, along with the wisdom of Old Ding George II, Americans were pretty much allowed to run their own affairs.

Philadelphia, with a population of 34,000, was the second largest in overseas British Empire. New York had a population of 22,000 and Charleston with 10,000. Because the Americans were prolific producers of goods, They had a dynamic and prosperous economy. America was famous for its "ragged currency". So named because it changed hands frequently.

HOWEVER, FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE WAS ON THE WAY.

George III, at the age of twenty two, ascended to the throne of Great Britain in 1760, American autonomy was significantly disrupted. The King immediately set out to establish his power and influence over Americans, with no respect for the culture or individuals that were already in place. King George III attempted to impose his will and personal values on a proud and fiercely independent people.

One of the Britain governments moves against the colonies was to establish the Revenue Act of 1764 (Sugar Act). This Act imposed a duty(tax) on American imports of molasses and limited distribution to and from the West Indies to America. The effect was devastating. The colonies immediately united and sent out numerous protestations to London-all of which fell on deaf ears.

Britain was now threatening their very livelihood and Liberty.

And that was a different matter altogether.

END OF PART I

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People-the bedrock of American Freedom

The Bill of Rights were written to highlight those rights enumerated to "the people", not to the government. It is illogical to even think that any of the 10 amendments were written to describe a "right" of the government.

The constitution was written to set the powers of the government, the 10 amendments were written to address the shortcomings of that document. Those amendments were expressing the rights of the people that the government could not take away. Those rights are expressly important because they are powers that are exercised to counter the power of the government.

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Another gov BILL in sheep's clothing

As everyday, I woke again. I have no complaints with that fact and I hope to do the same tomorrow.

However each day brings another day of finding out that our gov is yet lurking around in the shadows and backrooms of their smoke filled rooms thinking, pondering and figuring out ways they can make this a better American and help all us little people out. BaHaaaa.

Every bill they come up with is a bill that by it's very title or name is one that is designed to appeal to us we the people. They want us to know (yeah right) that they are fighting and doing all they can for us. I like to think of it in the same way a parent sorta tries to make their children think they are doing something for them, but in reality work things out in the parents favor. You know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then maybe, just maybe I stink as a parent. [smiles]

Anyway and Anyhow, Just as the health bill that was praised as helping millions while screwing millions more, and was shoved down the majority of Americans throats...now comes finacial reform.

While the title seems great, it's still just one line that preceeds many, many lines of stuff that most Americans don't see, care about or even effects them until it does. And then that's when it becomes a big deal.

And you see, that's the problem. Most Americans just sit back, have become dependtant and trust their gov. Hell, today most every elected offical could not even tell you how many admendments are in the constitution.

Back to the subject. Part of this "finacial reform" bill, you know the bill that everyone is smiling about because big business is finally going to get their due. Oh yeah, that can't do this to us again. Well, here is one of those little parts that is hid in the bill.

(Section 152, page 63) of the Obama administration's Financial Reform bill would create a new 1,000-employee office within the Department of the Treasury, the Office of Financial Research, which is raising alarm bells among Senate GOP staff, who say the entity would have broad powers to invade the privacy of American citizens and monitor their finances and financial activity at a level never before allowed by the federal government.

Yes, it says to invade the privacy of American citizens and monitor their finances and financial activity. Now why would they want to do that? And what does that have to do with wall street.

People!!!! you better wake up!! If you don't, one day you will wake up with every freedom gone in the name of something other than what you want.

WEL3

COPY AND PASTE LINK TO READ ARTICLE

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/30/financial-regulatory-windfall

Self-reliant

Do people really believe that it is our goverment responsibiliy to take care of us with each and every one of our needs and to control even the air we breath?? I don't know, I may be wrong but should we not take care of ourselves....I mean is that not the American way and what our fore fathers ran from and the whole reason this country was formed. And by the way, I'm not wrong. You should be able to take care of yourself. That is your right as a free born.


I understand helping the less fortunate, and meeting our fellows americans needs in a time of crisis. We as a country have always been there to meet the needs of people and nations all over the world. That is the one and only beauty of power. When it is used for good.


Getting back to point. Would you send me your money, I don't know maybe 15 to 25% and let me give it back to you in the way I see fit for you. Or would you rather do what you want to do with your own money. Just asking.


Self-reliant-relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.