Posted on 04/12/2011 9:10:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
The choice is between what someone has described as a "socialist" budget versus what might be described as a "constitutional" budget.
The very concept which was described presents a novel new opportunity for reframing the deficit/debt/budget debate!!
The so-called "progressives" will own the Obama "socialist" budget he proposes and they approve.
Going forward, real "conservatives" (those citizens who are dedicated to preserving America's Founding principles), should distinguish themselves by advocating for a constitutional budget. Such a debate would place the focus on the Constitution's limits, and how those limits were put in place to preserve individual liberty.
Let the argument for liberty and against coercive rule by self-appointed political elites begin.
Sir Winston Churchill, upon leaving office as Prime Minister in 1945, described what he believed to be the state of his country at that time:
"I do not believe in the power of the State to plan and enforce. No matter how numerous are the committees they set up or the ever-growing hordes of officials they employ or the severity of the punishments they inflict or threaten, they can't approach the high level of internal economic production achieved under free enterprise. Personal initiative, competitive selection, and profit motive corrected by failure and the infinite processes of good housekeeping and personal ingenuity, these constitute the life of a free society. It is this vital creative impulse that I deeply fear the doctrines and policies of the socialist government has destroyed. Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the main spring and until we get a new one, the watch wil not go. Set the people free. Get out of the way and let them make the best of themselves. I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing society--instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance--has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead."
America needs to rediscover the formula for a "benign" government, if it is to recover its greatness among the nations. That formula is contained in the Founders' Constitution, as written and interpreted by them. Let today's so-called conservative members of the "tea party movement" frame an argument for liberty and against a malignant government power which eats up "the People's" labor and liberty.
Nobody describes our current predicament better than Thomas Jefferson, who warned Americans:
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
If you agree, please pass this post on to your favorite "tea party" person.
Indeed
This is what the leftists want, they hope it brings communism
Cloward-Piven.....
And we wonder why Trump is getting so much attention?
The problem is that it is not clear who would win such a battle.
Two words Smith and Wesson
Target acquired
We will the ones that cling to our Bible and guns
Don't think for a second that you'll get a "free house" out of this mess!
In 1923 Germany, most of the damage to owned real estate was caused by property taxes. The appraised values were raised mercilessly billions of times, causing people to abandon their homes and landlords to hand tenants the keys to their rented property. The increases and confiscations were tolerated because governments had to have something to pay police and firemen, who understandably refused to work without compensation.
My guess is it will be the side with the 88 million gun owners.....
Easy to say in hindsight.
Today, the GOP is faced with a tough choice -- hold on to political capital and just cut $38B here or there, or go for the big event (debt ceiling) and force the whole issue of runaway government spending to be faced head-on.
I suppose risking a crash might be a tactical mistake and might be like firing on Ft Sumter. But I sure don't see how we get free from tyranny by cutting $38B here or there.
Given the looming/ongoing precipitous drop in the value of the dollar, I’m strongly considering cashing in a large portion of my investments and paying off my mortgage.
I’m not sure if trading paper for real estate is even wise given what we are facing.
Thoughts?
****4) Your payments from the government will dramatically decrease or stop altogether.****
I have this strange feeling I will see my worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money) show up on my porch.
He has been on the government dole since 1980.
A country’s bankruptcy can also be solved in blood. Eliminate the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers stealing the wealth and stop the thieves from receiving it. America will look like Detroit unless the thievery is stopped.
Right now we’re trying to remove the thieves via the ballot box, but time is short.
The one advantage we have is that we’re not Weimer Germany due to the vast amount of resources we sit on.
The "good" news, if you can call it "good" is your debt won't increase, i.e. already existing debt like your mortgage. If you have a fixed rate, it shouldn't be affected, you can pay for it in deflated dollars and the bank has to accept those deflated dollars in payment.
Of course because of hyperinflation on other things, you'll have less cash on hand to pay your mortgage.
It's becoming clear this morning as folks have had a chance to analyze the agreement that the real "cut" is closer to $2 billion than $38 billion. A lot of the "cuts" that are counted have appeared in previous CR's and have already been counted, $22 billion roughly of the $38 billion. The rest of the non-cuts are baseline budgeting gimmicks.
LLS
I’d argue it will be a civil war, left vs. right, as opposed to overturning our system, the US Constitution.
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