The joke is on us, for now the CHINESE own America.

Haven’t you heard? Debt is the new definition of wealth.

It surely is amusing to them to have control of that printing press…….their only trouble is that adding digits will make it break down….for good.

When that happens we ‘hostiles’ will set upon them in another Night of the Long Knives.

When the Founders established Freedom of the Press one that makes a Gazillion FRN’s was not what they envisioned.

They put in the Constitution that money had to be gold and silver….but the politicians decided that was too “quaint” and dumped all limits on the creation of money. Worse they allowed the Fed to govern money.

The joke is on us, for now the CHINESE own America.

First Rule of Politics: There is no shame in politics.
Second Rule of Politics: True politics means never having to say you’re sorry.

There is no way possible to overcome these excesses. NONE.

By sledgehammering the rights of states, its citizens, its finances, and stealing -yes that is the operative word – from everyone on the planet, this government can only through repressive force. The only question remaining is whether US armed forces will fire upon the people.

The above is in no manner unavoidable.

Forces this great are what gave rise to the revolution and to the Civil War.

These ‘irresponsible’ Republicans are only giving voice to what the people are thinking……the excesses are getting too great, too extra Constitutional, and the property seizures that have begun (see confisation fromGM and Chyrsler bondholders to give the new union “ownership.”) will be the last thread to break.

Even now the fraudsters in world finance are talking of negative interest on savings…charging people to hold cash.

These fools do not understand the forces that they have unleashed with their corruption and the effort to EXPAND AND EXTEND it on the backs of responsible people.

The Sword of Damocles is falling.

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.

I might have voted Dem in the Governor’s race. Now I might be forced to make a Deal.

I disagree with the solutions Ray has put forward on this issue but I will give him and his supporters’ credit for being honest about their position. As I said I have known Ray for awhile and agree he has indentified some issues we should be concerned about and even though I disagree with him on solutions from what I have seen he has always been honest about his views

Taxes, Tea Parties, and Constitutional Principles

By Sen. Chip Pearson

ATLANTA (April 17, 2009) – Thousands of discontented Georgians lined the streets around our state Capitol this week to protest excessive Washington spending and an increasingly burdensome tax code. In response to a federal government that thinks it knows how to spend your money better than you do, and continues to grow nearly unchecked, the Georgia Senate voted to reaffirm our rights as a sovereign state to prevent the federal government from continuing to expand.

As a country governed by a written Constitution, the right to keep government in check is vested in We the people. That means that we, the people of this country, cannot be forced to accept an oppressive and intrusive federal government. Under Senate Resolution 632, the Georgia Senate expressed bipartisan support for the principles of Jeffersonian democracy.

This resolution has been severely misrepresented in the media. In his AJC editorial, Georgia Senate endorses radical idea (April 16, 2009), Jay Bookman tries to play constitutionalist by expressing views that are disingenuous for the sole purpose of provoking fear. He argues that the resolution will likely lead to Georgia to secede from and disband the United States. This extreme view is a loose interpretation of the measure’s language. Most of the text of the resolution is based on the words of those two well-known “extremists,” Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Kentucky Resolution of 1798.

The idea of limited government and state sovereignty is far from a radical idea—it is common sense and the basis of our Constitution. The assumption that dangerous criminals would be set free under this resolution is utterly false. The language in the resolution related to crimes, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, was drafted well before subsequent amendments to the Constitution expanding Congress’ authority in certain areas. This resolution is designed to reinforce the principle of limited government that protects all of us from an ever-expanding federal government.

Under the Constitution, the federal government is given a clear purpose: to protect the safety and rights of its people. When that government oversteps its bounds, citizens have every responsibility to bring the federal government back to its foundation principles. This can occur through elections and judicial opinions. But the Georgia Senate decided to weigh in on a national movement to return to the original meaning of the Tenth Amendment, which states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Our founding fathers included this Constitutional guarantee because they knew only too well that a small, limited government works best. These principles affirm that states did not unite under the practice of unlimited submission to their federal government.

The resolution includes a list of items that demonstrate what the Senate considers federal overreaching. Most Georgians would agree with most of the list, which includes the federal government establishing martial law, limiting political speech or the press, or limiting the right to keep and bear arms.

Georgia is just one of many states involved in a movement to limit the continuing growth of the federal government. Over thirty other states are introducing sovereignty resolutions of their own, many with bipartisan support, and our Georgia congressional delegation has also done an excellent job of working to limit the growth of federal spending and taxes. Additionally, such nationally known groups as the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council support these principles.

We must ensure that government continues to work for the people, not the other way around. American citizens are not willing to let their government dictate every area of their lives, a fact made evident by the thousands who gathered in Atlanta for one of the biggest anti-tax rallies this country has seen since the Boston Tea Party more than 235 years ago.

As Washington continues to add to the more than $11 trillion our country already owes, it is apparent that the federal government is having a hard enough time managing its own affairs and should not meddle in that of the states. It is time to bring back common sense and put an end to the runaway growth of government. SR 632 is a reaffirmation of the principles of our nation’s founders.

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Sen. Chip Pearson serves as chairman of the Economic Development Committee. He represents the 51st Senate District which includes Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, and Union counties and portions of Forsyth and White counties. He may be reached at 404.656.9921 or via e-mail at chip.pearson@senate.ga.gov.

FROM OX

John Oxendine: Georgia’s Conservative 10th Amendment Champion
Like Texas Governor Rick Perry, I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference into the affairs of the states. I join Governor Perry in his call and offer my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Like Governor Perry, I believe we need to follow the letter and original intent of the U.S……

http://republicancandidates.blogspot.com/2009/04/john-oxendine-georgias-conservative.html

FROM PERRY

Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry repeated his running theme that Texas’ economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the “federal budget mess.” Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.

Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters’ questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.

“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” Perry said. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html

Here’s the rub:

Based on my own – admittedly limited – knowledge of the Dixiecrats, the GOP IS the Dixiecrats of old.

What was that 150 yr old quote about conservatism? That they do NOTHING ‘conservative’ and are simply ’slower than the Progressives’… still sounds all too true…

I certainly agree with the point the General makes that calling for secession is on its face anti-American and un-Republican. Frankly frankly the very defintion of RINO would have to be someone who associates themselves with the party of Lincoln and in the same breath talks about secession. Unfortunately, the general so obviously lied about the positions of the candidates he is attacking that he calls his own honor and integrity into question.

That said, I do believe that if you want to talk about secession and if that Lee Greenwood song the GOP always plays at every gathering makes your teeth hurt because your really aren’t all that “proud to be an American” then you probably should disassociate yourself from the Party of Lincoln and go back to the party in which you would clearly be more comfortable – the Dixiecrats.

Books.

“And if they did have it, why don’t they put it in?”

NY, RI, and VA all explicitly withheld the right to leave in their ratification documents. This is a well known fact of the historical record.

I do appreciate your honesty. The truth is we covered up the lack of production and over spending by letting leverage rate go from 8 to 1 to up to 50 to 1. We now have the opposite problem with leverage swinging to hard the other way. For example without leverage your house is worth less via less buyer being able to buy it. And if the price of products drops people make less and or get laid off because less money for the employer to pay out or keep people employed.

That is why we must start producing more and buying less from overseas. Also we must cut back on government spending because it is crowding out the private sector. Also what we do spend must be focused on smart project that throw off revenue like an updated electrical grid system vs. wasted spending like the war on drugs.

McBerry has probably come closest on the rhetoric and Ox, being his pandering self, probably implied he was for it when speaking to the flaggers.