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There is one solution to this
financial mess,
and the Constitution Party has it.
You can thank the Republicans
for this financial mess today. The Democrats
did not do this by themselves.
Have you noticed that
over the past half a century, the Republicans have
come to accept the Democratic Party's mantra that
deficit spending is acceptable, and that it can go on
forever? (Don't look at their platform, look at
their voting records.) This very week, Obama's
"Cap and Trade" power grab was barely passed with
just enough Republican votes to make it happen, while
all the rest got to cry, "Foul!", in what was
portrayed to us as a narrow, losing battle. It
wasn't. It was as real as professional
wrestling, only it wasn't so clean.
Both Ruling Parties have bought the lie, and promoted
it, that, "the Federal Government is too big to go
broke." Guess what! They were
wrong. They are wrong. And it is this
coalition of socialists, pretending to be involved in
a grand political debate, who have brought this
nation to its knees. Their "debate" was not
over the issue of whether we should be in debt, but
rather:
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which constituency was going to
get the loot, the benefits of Our Brand of
socialist spending; and more importantly,
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who was going to control that
redistribution of the wealth.
The People are the losers in this
game. Both parties have engaged in the classic
Marxist/Hegelian trick of controlling the terms of
the debate, so that it looked like a debate, when in
reality, both have worked for over half a century to
turn this nation into a socialist nation -- and
they have succeeded. While the nation will
continue to exist, the light of Liberty is going out,
before our very eyes. We live in interesting
times. Worse yet, we have been sold down the
river, and to think we actually voted for the tyrants
who have sold us to our new masters.
The Financial Solution
How do we balance the budget? Forget
the "Fair Tax" and forget the "Flat Tax". Both
are unworkable. Forget the National Sales
Tax. It's a direct tax upon the People, and it
just happens to be forbidden by the
Constitution.
First of all, let's remember that there are TWO ways
to balance a budget.
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One is to find more money.
(Or credit -- these fools thought it was the same
thing! They still do!)
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The other is to reduce
spending. Oho! Now THAT is big news
to our elected representatives of both
parties!
Howard Phillips has said it often
-- "I can balance the Federal Budget by noon on the
first day of my administration, then go to
lunch. When we strike out of the budget all
items that are not constitutional, the budget
balances. And then you don't need a Marxist tax
on income."
Imagine that. (Yes, I know. Imagine riots
in the streets when welfare is ended.)
The Constitution Party's solution to the
unbalanced budget and all deficit spending is pure
brilliance. That is to simply invoice the
States for the shortfall every year. We didn't
make this up -- it was the concept of the Founding
Fathers. IF the Congress, sent by both the
States and the People, to represent each, had
mandated that certain expenditures be made, then the
States, and the People respectively, could and would
jolly well pay for them. Within the coming
fiscal year. Failure to do so would place that
State in default Should a State default
on its share of the national debt, then it would be
banned from receiving any Federal monies at all,
period, in any form. (That would include
welfare. You want your welfare? Flee to a
State that's not in default.)
People immediately counter with, "But, but, but...
how would you pay for (my favorite federally
subsidized program)???" Answer: "That
would be up to your State Legislature, which would
extract the money from YOU!" This reaction is
not merely akin to, it is identical to the reaction
of the alcoholic or drug addict who is informed that
the supply of money has ended, and he will have to do
without his favorite joy juice. America is so
drunk/drugged on unconstitutional subsidies, that we
have completely given up our status as a free people,
and the now visible chains of control over every
aspect of our society by Washington, D.C., is nothing
less than the inevitable result of having become a
dependent society. (It may also be argued
that this is the direct result of allowing addicts to
vote! They tend to ignore constitutional
principles in favor of programs that feed their
addiction, whether that means a monthly welfare
cheque or tuba lessons for Junior. One should
not allow the inmates to elect the administrators of
the asylum.)
Keep voting for "the lesser of two evils", if evil is
your preference. You keep believing the lie
that it's better to indulge in easy fixes instead of
biting the bullet, going through withdrawal, and
becoming fiscally responsible once again -- you do
that and you are consigned to poverty, to addiction,
and to bondage.
America is losing its freedoms wholesale, for the
simple reason that we cannot shake the addiction of
deficit spending. We don't have the will to
break the addiction, hence we are all hooked
-- and worse yet, our children are hocked to
make it happen. We've sold their Liberty that
we might enjoy the indulgences of spending money we
did not have for things we badly wanted, but did not
necessarily need.
The Political Solution
Americans MAY actually have a choice, next
year, in 2010, if it's not already too late.
But I doubt we have the political will to exercise
that choice. Let me define it for you in
starkest and most desperate terms -- throw out of
Congress EVERY SINGLE INCUMBENT! Yes, all of
them. Re-elect no one! Or accept
your financial and political bondage, and quit your
whining.
Yes, this solution means throwing out the dozen or so
"good congressmen" (which really does sound like an
oxymoron). A small price to pay.
Replacing the existing Lords of the Land --
435 Representatives and 100 Senators -- is the only
alternative we have to either slavery or a bloody war
of revolution. We're down to it -- no more time
for the political games over which brainless
politician has the best hair-do. Most of them
are idiots. At the very least, we need fresh
idiots.
I'm serious. If you simply take the first 535
taxi drivers who pass a certain corner in Washington,
D.C., you could not do worse that what you have
now. In fact, you would find some incredible
common sense in that new batch of temporary royalty,
just before throwing all of them out at the next
election as well!
Because of the nature of the emergency, this may mean
replacing all Democrats with Republicans, and all
Republicans with Democrats. That, in and of
itself, would address the problem, but not the
solution. The solution is to elect third-party
candidates -- to turn our back on the two parties
most responsible for this economic melt-down.
The solution entails electing Constitution Party
candidates, Libertarian Candidates, Independent
Candidates, and yes, even Green Candidates.
(Hey, communists are entitled to continue to have
representation. The Greens, at least, were not
in power to bring this country to bankruptcy.)
If you want to see "Change and Hope", for Liberty
instead of the Welfare State, then you need to
duplicate this editorial and convince 1,000 of your
best friends to join you in overturning the existing
political elites (both Democrats and
Republicans). If not, then you can kiss all
concept of Freedom goodbye, until that point in the
future when your descendents decide they want to be
free bad enough to pay the price that you were not
willing to pay.
Do you have the political will to be free?
(c) Daniel New, June 2009
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