Missouri's 7th District, U.S. House of
Representatives
Bringing LIBERTY to
Capitol Hill -- 2010 OZARKS
VIRTUAL TOWN
HALL
Saturday Morning, July 10th, 2010, 10:30am
A Discussion of The President's Saturday Morning
Radio Address
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Notes and Summary of the President's Weekly Radio
Address:
President Obama Announces Changes to Help Veterans
with PTSD Receive the Benefits They Need
The
White House Press Office: – In this week’s
address, President Barack Obama announced that on Monday the
Department of Veterans Affairs, led by Secretary Shinseki, will begin
to make it easier for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to
receive the benefits they need. For many years, veterans with
PTSD have been stymied in receiving benefits by requirements they
produce evidence proving a specific event caused the PTSD.
Streamlining this process will help not just the veterans of the
Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, but generations of veterans who have served
and sacrificed for the country. (continued
below)
The federal government only has the powers granted to it --
"enumerated" -- in the
Constitution.
The "General Welfare" clause is no
exception to this principle.
"States Rights" --
most government should be carried out on a local level.
The Constitution created a federal government with
very limited powers, bound down by
the "chains of the constitution."
The Bush-Obama Regime believes it has vast, unlimited powers to
cure all diseases, fund all causes, and bring salvation.
These are the reasons given by Osama bin Laden for declaring a
"fatwah" (holy war) against the U.S.
All of these accusations are true.
All of these government actions are contrary to the
Constitution.
The biggest cause of terrorism --
and the most dangerous threat to the personal safety and
security of ordinary Americans like you and me -- is the Federal
Government of the United States.
America's Founders envisioned the American people, acting as
businessmen, humanitarians, and missionaries, engaging in
commercial and charitable activities around the world, bringing
peace and receiving the admiration of the world.
"The great rule of conduct for us, in
regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial
relations to have with them as little political
connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796) [Washington’s
emphasis]
"I deem [one of] the essential
principles of our government, and consequently [one] which
ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances
with none."
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Bush's unconstitutional military invasion
of Iraq has destroyed Christianity in that country.
Under Saddam Hussein's secular government, Christians in
Iraq had greater freedom than in most other Arab nations,
and one of the largest Christian populations in the Muslim
world was in Iraq.
Iraq is now an Islamic theocracy under Sharia law. The
Christian population has been destroyed. Christian Churches
are burned and terrorized with impunity.
Obama is following in Bush's unconstitutional, anti-Christian
footsteps.
This money-creation system is immoral and unconstitutional. It
steals from the poor and elderly.
America's Founding Fathers would conclude that The First
Amendment had been repealed
There is no freedom of religion: the U.S. is officially atheistic.
There is no freedom of the press: the media is the lapdog of
"the Establishment."
Everyone who signed the Constitution, if they were here today,
would urge the repeal of the Constitution and the abolition
of the government created by that document.
They were just like the thousands
of active duty personnel and veterans I’ve met across this
country and around the globe. Proud. Strong.
Determined. Men and women with the courage to answer their
country’s call, and the character
to serve the United States of America.
What kind of
character does a person exhibit who signs up to kill people as
ordered by a tyrannical government that
violates the Constitution by waging an illegal war, yet not so
much because he (or she!) believes the government policy is noble,
but because it's an easy path to personal career advancement?
Because of that service; because
of the honor and heroism of our troops around the world; our
people are safer, our nation is more secure, and we are
poised to end our combat
mission in Iraq by the end of August, completing a drawdown
of more than 90,000 troops since last January.
IRAQ – 2,622 days since major combat
operations were declared over in Iraq.
Still, we are a nation at war.
For the better part of a decade, our men and women in uniform have
endured tour after tour in distant and dangerous places.
Many have risked their lives. Many have given their lives.
And as a grateful nation, humbled by their service, we
can never honor these American heroes or their families enough.
What were the motives for enlisting: service
to country, or personal aggrandizement?
A Constitutional War?
The great rule of
conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our
commercial relations to have with them as little political
connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell
Address (1796) [Washington’s emphasis]
I deem [one of] the
essential principles of our government, and consequently [one]
which ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with
none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural
Address (1801)
A Christian War?
The commander-in-chief directs that
divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in
those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have
none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is
expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set
an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the
duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be
inattentive to the higher duties of religion.
To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our
highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
The signal instances of providential
goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost
crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a
peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the
Supreme Author of all good.
— George Washington, General
Orders, May 2, 1778
Just as we have a solemn
responsibility to train and equip our troops before we send them
into harm’s way, we have a solemn responsibility to provide our
veterans and wounded warriors with the care and benefits
they’ve earned when they come home.
Signing up for the
military in order to procure career benefits is less than the
sterling and heroic motivations usually ascribed to those who
"serve" their country.
That is our sacred trust with all
who serve – and it doesn’t end when their tour of duty does.
The true sacred trust
would be not sending military personnel around the world to
overthrow governments for the benefit of multinational
corporations in the first place.
To keep that trust, we’re
building a 21st century VA, increasing its budget, and ensuring
the steady stream of funding it needs to support medical care for
our veterans.
To help our veterans and their
families pursue a college education,
we’re funding and implementing the post-9/11 GI Bill.
Kill an Afghan
peasant, get a degree.
To deliver better care in more
places, we’re expanding and increasing VA health care, building
new wounded warrior facilities, and adapting care to better meet
the needs of female veterans.
To stand with those who
sacrifice, we’ve dedicated new support for wounded warriors and
the caregivers who put their lives on hold for a loved one’s
long recovery.
And to do right by our vets,
we’re working to prevent and end veteran homelessness –
because in the United States of America, no one who served in our
uniform should sleep on our streets.
We also know that for many of
today’s troops and their families, the war doesn’t end when
they come home.
Too many suffer from the
signature injuries of today’s wars: Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. And too few receive the
screening and treatment they need.
Now, in past wars, this wasn’t
something America always talked about. And as a result, our
troops and their families often felt stigmatized or embarrassed
when it came to seeking help.
The government cultivates
the love of killing. Therefore it denies the revulsion many
soldiers feel at what the government does to the people of other
nations.
Today, we’ve made it clear up
and down the chain of command that folks should seek help if they
need it. In fact, we’ve expanded mental health counseling
and services for our vets.
But for years, many veterans with
PTSD who have tried to seek benefits – veterans of today’s
wars and earlier wars – have often found themselves stymied.
They’ve been required to produce evidence proving that a
specific event caused their PTSD. And that practice has kept
the vast majority of those with PTSD who served in non-combat
roles, but who still waged war, from getting the care they need.
It's not necessarily
a specific event. It's the entire war.
Well, I don’t think our troops
on the battlefield should have to take notes to keep for a claims
application. And I’ve met enough veterans to know that you
don’t have to engage in a firefight to endure the trauma of war.
But Obama still sends
the troops off to protect the oil companies and kill the innocent.
So we’re changing the way
things are done.
On Monday, the Department of
Veterans Affairs, led by Secretary Ric Shinseki, will begin making
it easier for a veteran with PTSD to get the benefits he or she
needs.
The Department of
Veterans Affairs is just another government welfare program.
Government charity -- based on compulsory or fraudulent
confiscation of wealth -- is inferior to private charity, which
comes from the heart -- or is at least motivated by a healthy
desire to keep one's money out of the government's hands (tax
deductions).
At the very least we should move Toward
a Responsible Defense Budget by slashing unnecessary weapons
projects and avoiding regime change around the world, and target
those cuts toward victims of the wars, both "ours" and
"theirs."
This is a long-overdue step that
will help veterans not just of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, but
generations of their brave predecessors who proudly served and sacrificed
in all our wars.
U.S. military
personnel do not make as many sacrifices as unarmed Christian
missionaries, and Christian civilization in Muslim nations should
be our goal, not "military defeat" -- death of
innocent people, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and
installation of a regime friendly toward U.S. corporations.
It’s a step that proves America
will always be here for our veterans, just as they’ve been there
for us. We won’t let them down. We take care of our
own. And as long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, that’s what
we’re going to keep doing. Thank you.
“Why
Americans Should
Celebrate Christmas
365 Days
a Year”
The word "Christ" means "King." The Message
of Christmas and the Principles set forth by the Christ (the
Messiah) who came that first Christmas are the real solution to
America's problems. The Federal Government is at war with Christmas
and "The
Way of Peace" announced by the Prince
of Peace. The Government should be on His
shoulders (Isaiah
9:6-7). Abolishing a Messianic State
is the only appropriate way to honor the Messiah. Otherwise
Christmas becomes mass hypocrisy.
The Word became flesh. The Creator of the universe
becomes a human being. He came to His own, but His own did
not receive Him, preferring darkness rather than light.
John the Baptist prepares the way for the Messiah, as
prophesied of Elijah.
As you read the
Gospel accounts, ask yourself how you would react if you knew
these accounts were really true. Not just true in some
"religious" sense, but reported in the New York
Times, proven in a court of law, or acknowledged by your
personal hero. (How do you know something
is true? Do you even have any "heroes?") How should
you change your life if your Creator became a human being? How
should Washington D.C. react if this human being claimed to be
the true Ruler?
The Prophet Micah predicted
that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Jesus'
parents lived in Nazereth. Therefore God predestined
Caesar to issue a decree (probably relating to taxes) that
would bring Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem before Jesus was
born.
Bush claims the same global
power of confiscation and migration as Caesar did. Thousands
of Christians have been forced to move out of Iraq to make way
for Bush's Islamic Theocracy.
An army of angels announces the birth of the Messiah,
saying,
“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace to
those with whom He is pleased!”
Man's chief
end is to glorify God and live in
peace. The Bush Administration's chief end is to erect a
"wall of separation"
between God and government so that the State gives no glory to
God, and to wage war, thereby "stimulating the
economy."
“Now when they had seen Him, they made widely
known the saying which was told them concerning this
Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things
which were told them by the shepherds.”
When Herod got word of the birth of a rival king, he
behaved in a perfectly logical way (for someone who wants
to protect his power): he massacred all male babies
the age of Jesus. Herod recognized that Jesus was a threat
to Herod's power.
Every day in America 4,000
unborn babies are murdered. These babies must threaten
something.
Millions of Americans who call themselves Christians, on
the other hand, are no threat to tyranny.
None of them are being killed. Bush has killed a thousand
times more human beings than Herod did, and confiscated a
billion times more wealth than Herod did.
Herod's son Antipas played a small role in the execution
of Jesus Christ. But Jesus rose from the dead, was
enthroned on the throne of David at the right hand of God,
and assumed the rightful role of King over all nations.
"Beginning today and
culminating on Sunday morning, Christians will celebrate with
their families the resurrection of Christ, His victory over
death. We will remember that He gave His body and His
blood—washing clean the faults and the
shortcomings of the world. In our rejoicing we will renew
the hope that is ours through the risenLord." Ronald
Reagan: Statement on the Celebration of Passover and Easter
Every American could be born with a comfortable
inheritance for education, a first home, or medical care; instead,
every American is born in great debt.
Washington D.C. central planning increases debt, does not create
the "Vine &
Fig Tree" life.
Hello, I’m Dr. Phil Gingrey,
and I work for the people of Georgia’s 11th Congressional
District.
Americans are fed up with how
things are going in the country right now. They see more job
losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let
down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar
law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems
Americans worry about every day.
Republicans are listening and
offering better solutions that get Washington out of your way,
out of your pocket and back
on your side.
Government is never
on our side. It never has been, it never will. A nuclear weapon
is not "on our side." It is not to be trusted. It is a
tool, according to some who advocate their manufacture and use.
George Washington is reported
to have said,
Government is not
reason, it is not eloquence — it is force.
Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. . .
.
Government is trusted as a dangerous but potent servant by
some, but it is our dangerous enemy. It is the enemy of freedom,
of productivity, and of morality. Every government program is a
socialist approach to a problem. Socialism will never be
"back on your side."
Just look at jobs. President
Obama and Democrats in Washington are still trying to convince
Americans that their trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ is working.
But our economy has lost more than three million private-sector
jobs since February 2009. During that same time period, the
federal government has actually grown by more than 400,000 jobs.
More government, fewer jobs –
that’s not recovery, those aren’t results; they’re just
more of the same broken promises. Republicans are offering
specific proposals to cut spending now. We can provide the
fiscal discipline economists say is needed to create
private-sector jobs and boost our economy.
Americans are calling for a
return to common sense in how we solve problems – and how the
people communicate with their government. Because even
though the world is becoming more connected through the Web,
mobile apps and social media, our government is growing more out
of touch, doing an awful lot more talking than listening.
That’s why Republicans have
launched America Speaking Out, a new project that is
revolutionizing the way we govern by engaging the American
people and seeking their ideas for making things better.
The hub of this unprecedented
initiative is an innovative Web forum – AmericaSpeakingOut.com
– that allows you to submit your ideas for a new agenda,
regardless of what party you’re affiliated with.
Once you post an idea, it is
then debated, discussed and voted on. Republican lawmakers
are also sharing their ideas and putting together new proposals
based on your feedback.
We’re also taking America
Speaking Out to your communities by holding town hall meetings
in rooms just like this to get a real, face-to-face dialogue
going about what we need to do to turn things around. I
hosted one such event earlier this week at a senior center in
the town of Rome, Georgia, in my district.
One father stood up and said,
‘My family has to budget, so why isn’t Washington?’
A small-business owner said he’s still struggling to figure
out whether he’ll be able to continue providing health
insurance for his nine employees after the government takeover
of health care.
But what got everyone nodding
was a World War II veteran who stood up and said, ‘I don’t
believe my children and grandchildren will enjoy the same
freedoms and the same prosperity that I have enjoyed.’
Americans are proud of this
country, they want to see things get better, and they want to be
part of that turnaround. That’s what America Speaking
Out is all about.
So I hope you will take this
opportunity to visit AmericaSpeakingOut.com and contact your
representative to find out about upcoming America Speaking Out
town halls in your area. Thank you so much for listening.
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The men who threw tea into the Boston Harbor over a tax of 3 pence
per pound would not be happy with a tax ten times greater on
every gallon of gas. Those who took up muskets over a total tax burden
of less than 3% would not be happy with
the fact that the federal government now takes more
than half of everything you earn.
Today it is illegal for public school teachers to teach their
students that the Declaration of Independence is really true (and not
just an outdated historical document). The federal government is
clearly at war with everything the Founding Fathers stood for.
America's greatest Americans would abolish
today's federal government.
Muskets are Not an Option
There are two reasons why we should not take up arms to pull off
the violent overthrow of the federal
government, even if America's Founders would surely do so. First, the
feds have nukes. Second, violent revolution is unChristian and
unBiblical. We must beat our swords into
plowshares and use persuasion to
abolish tyranny. This is time for a
revolution of ideas.
Revolution Won't Come in a Day
John Adams once wrote that the American
Revolution began in 1761, when Massachusetts attorney James Otis
began legal challenges to the Writs
of Assistance. He lost the case, but "American
independence," Adams wrote, "was
then and there born." Now do the math. That means it took 15
years to convince the rest of America to declare Independence
(1776). Then another seven years of war was required before a
Peace Treaty was signed (1783), and then six years before the
Constitution was finally ratified (1789). That's almost 30 years. (And
Jefferson said we shouldn't go 20
years without another rebellion!) How can we hope to convince
Americans to fight for principles they were never taught in government
schools? We need to be in this battle for the long term. "Eternal
Vigilance is the Price of Liberty."
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Help End the Mexican Civil
War
Black-market profits caused by drug prohibition fund a civil
war in Mexico that's threatening to spill over our borders.
Drug profits also fuel the terrorists who are killing U.S.
soldiers in Afghanistan. It's time to dry up the black-market
profits. It's time to end drug prohibition.
Make
Congress Read Their Bills Before Voting
Make Congress read every word of every bill they create before
they vote on it.
Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor
DownsizeDC.org's “Read the Bills Act” (RTBA).
End
the FED
The Federal Reserve System constantly inflates and deflates the
supply of money and credit, causing booms and busts. It's time
to get off this roller-coaster. It's time to end the Fed.
No
Bailouts!
No government money, whether borrowed or taxed, should ever be
used to bailout private financial interests. If you agree,
please send Congress a message telling them so.
TWIC
- A Backdoor Real ID Card
Real ID is dying. But the Department of Homeland Security has a
new plan to subject every American to a national ID card anyway.
They plan to pick off one occupational field at a time, starting
with the maritime industry. One man is fighting back. Meet him,
and help stop this backdoor Real ID plan.
Stop
the Killer Horse Hormones
The FDA "outlawed" the use of Estriol, an estrogen
medication that's bio-identical to human estrogen. Doctors must
now prescribe animal-derived estrogen instead. Are bio-identical
hormones dangerous, while animal-derived hormones are safe? No.
The practice of medicine is moving to chemically identical to
human hormones and away from animal hormones. Learn why the FDA
decided to endanger women's health in this way, and take action.
End
Asset Forfeiture
If the government suspects you used your house or car in a
crime, they can take it and sell it at auction. They don't even
have to prove your guilt. They call this practice civil asset
forfeiture, but it's really theft. It violates the 4th, 5th,
6th, 8th, 9th and 14th Amendments. It also encourages law
enforcement to put profits before justice. Tell Congress to end
civil asset forfeiture.
Support
an Iraq Referendum
Americans keep debating when, how, or if to leave Iraq. Maybe
we should ask the Iraqi people what they want. After all, it's
their country. Tell Congress to request that the Iraqi
government hold a public referendum on the U.S. occupation. Learn
more »
Make Congress read every word of
every bill they create before they vote on it.
Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor
DownsizeDC.org's “Read the Bills Act” (RTBA).
Unelected bureaucrats create
tens-of-thousands of new dictates each year. Making rules is
the job of Congress, not bureaucrats.
DownsizeDC.org has drafted the “Write the Laws Act” to
end bureaucratic “legislation without representation.”
Click here . . .
"Cap
and Trade" is not the way
The politicians seem to be unifying around "cap and
trade" as a way to cut CO2 emissions. If they take this
step it may be the largest increase in the size, scope, and
intrusiveness of government since the creation of Medicare.
Worse still, it may not even achieve its purpose. Please
tell Congress to oppose "cap and trade." Learn
more »
Iraq
Waste
Big government prospers through failure. Each new failure is
used to justify more spending and new powers. Wasteful spending
in Iraq is the latest example. One way to change this is to hold
government accountable. A new bill in Congress seeks to provide
some of the needed accountability. Please support it. Learn
more »
Stop
the War for Terror U.S. policy has inflamed the Middle East. It has made
terrorism more likely rather than less. We seem to be fighting
a war for terror, rather than on
terror. This policy must stop. The place to start stopping is
with Iran. We must not attack Iran. War with Iran
would devastate our economy, disrupt world oil supplies, and
recruit more terrorists. Click
here to stop this war before it starts.
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