Missouri's 7th District, U.S. House of
Representatives
Bringing LIBERTY to
Capitol Hill -- 2010 OZARKS
VIRTUAL TOWN
HALL
Saturday Morning, July 24th, 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 Praises New Wall Street Reform
Law; Says GOP Plan Will Take Us Backward
The
White House Press Office: – In this week’s address,
President Obama praised the Wall Street reform bill that he signed
into law on Wednesday and explained how it fits into the greater
strategy to bring the country out of recession and build an economy
for the long run. The president’s plan is aimed at
strengthening the middle class and gives tax breaks to small
businesses that creates jobs here, invests in homegrown, clean energy,
and cuts taxes for working families. Unfortunately, when the
Republican leader in the House offered his plan to create jobs this
week, he presented the same policy ideas that led to this recession
– ideas that will kill jobs instead of create them, and will add $1
trillion to the deficit, not reduce it. (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.
This week, I signed into law a
Wall Street reform bill that will protect consumers and our entire
economy from the recklessness and irresponsibility that led to the
worst recession of our lifetime. It’s reform that will
help put a stop to the abusive practices of mortgage lenders and
credit card companies. It will end taxpayer bailouts of Wall
Street firms. And it will finally bring the shadowy deals
that caused the financial crisis into the light of day.
Wall Street reform is a key
pillar of an overall economic plan we’ve put in place to dig
ourselves out of this recession and build an economy for the long
run – an economy that makes America more competitive and our
middle-class more secure. It’s a plan based on the Main
Street values of hard work and responsibility – and one that
demands new accountability from Wall Street to Washington.
Instead of giving tax breaks to
corporations that ship jobs overseas, we want to give tax breaks
to small business owners who are creating jobs right here in
America. Already, we’ve given small businesses eight new
tax cuts, and have expanded lending to more than 60,000 small
business owners.
We’re also investing in a
homegrown, clean energy industry – because I don’t want to see
new solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars manufactured
in some other country. I want to see them made in America,
by American workers. So far, we’ve provided new tax
credits, loan guarantees, and investments that will lead to more
than 800,000 clean energy jobs by 2012. And throughout
America, communities are being rebuilt by people working in
hundreds of thousands of new private sector jobs repairing our
roads, bridges, and railways.
Our economic plan is also aimed
at strengthening the middle-class. That’s why we’ve cut
taxes for 95% of working families. That’s why we’ve
offered tax credits that have made college more affordable for
millions of students, and why we’re making a new commitment to
our community colleges. And that’s why we passed health
insurance reform that will stop insurance companies from dropping
or denying coverage based on an illness or pre-existing condition.
This is our economic plan –
smart investments in America’s small businesses, America’s
clean energy industry, and America’s middle-class. Now, I
can’t tell you that this plan will bring back all the jobs we
lost and restore our economy to full strength overnight. The
truth is, it took nearly a decade of failed economic policies to
create this mess, and it will take years to fully repair the
damage. But I am confident that we are finally headed in the
right direction. We are moving forward. And what we
can’t afford right now is to go back to the same ideas that
created this mess in the first place.
Unfortunately, those are the
ideas we keep hearing from our friends in the other party.
This week, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives
offered his plan to create jobs. It’s a plan that’s
surprisingly short, and sadly familiar.
First, he would repeal health
insurance reform, which would take away tax credits from millions
of small business owners, and take us back to the days when
insurance companies had free rein to drop coverage and jack up
premiums. Second, he would say no to new investments
in clean energy, after his party already voted against the clean
energy tax credits and loans that are creating thousands of new
jobs and hundreds of new businesses. And third, even though
his party voted against tax cuts for middle-class families, he
would permanently keep in place the tax cuts for the very
wealthiest Americans – the same tax
cuts that have added hundreds of billions to our debt.
Really? And
Obama's goal is now to take hundreds of billions of dollars from
those who create jobs?
These are not new ideas.
They are the same policies that led us into this recession.
They will not create jobs, they will kill them. They will
not reduce our deficit, they will add $1 trillion to our deficit.
They will take us backward at a time when we need to keep America
moving forward.
I know times are tough. I
know that the progress we’ve made isn’t good enough for the
millions of Americans who are still out of work or struggling to
pay the bills. But I also know the character of this nation.
I know that in times of great challenge and difficulty, we don’t
fear the future – we shape the future. We harness the
skills and ingenuity of the most dynamic country on Earth to reach
a better day. We do it with optimism, and we do it with
confidence. That’s the spirit we need right now, and
that’s the future I know we can build together. 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.
In the worst economy in a
quarter of a century, American families are hurting. That's
obvious to just about everybody, except, that is, the Democrats
in Washington, D.C.
Useless political
fluff. Of course the Democrats are aware of the recession and
its effects.
You know, it's more clear every
day, they just don't get it. Washington politicians just aren't
listening and the American people know it.
To whom should
Washington politicians listen? "The American people?"
Do the American people know how to end the recession?
With nearly 15 million people
unemployed and the Pelosi-led Congress poised to take a six-week
paid vacation, the American people deserve better.
Now, President Obama says
things are getting better. But American families see things a
little differently. The economic policies of this administration
have failed. Last year the Obama Administration said that its
trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ plan would create jobs
‘immediately’ and keep unemployment below 8 percent.
Today unemployment remains near
a heartbreaking 10 percent, and since the stimulus bill became
law, our economy has lost about 3 million jobs.
And if they haven’t already
done enough to wreck our recovery, Democrats in Washington are
pushing more spending, more regulation, and right around the
corner: more taxes. Democrats in Washington are now actually
talking about embracing what would be the largest tax increase
in American history.
Let me say that again. After 18
months of runaway spending, bailouts and takeovers, Washington
Democrats are poised to allow the largest tax increase in
American history to take effect next year. The American people
deserve to know every income tax bracket will increase on
January 1, 2011. Every single one.
So, if this year you receive a
$1,000-per-child tax credit, next year you’ll get just $500
per child. If you run a small business and pay 35 percent in
federal taxes, next year you’ll have to pay nearly 40 percent.
And if you own a family farm, you’ll see death taxes rise from
zero to 55 percent in a single year.
Washington, D.C., doesn’t tax
too little. Washington, D.C. spends too much. I don’t know
anybody back in Indiana who thinks they pay too little in taxes.
And only in Washington, D.C., would anyone believe that raising
taxes creates jobs.
The American people know we
can’t tax and spend and bail our way back to a growing
economy. House Republicans opposed the Democrats’ failed
stimulus bill, their national energy tax, their government
takeover of healthcare; and House Republicans will oppose this
tax increase with everything we’ve got.
Congress must take immediate
action to prevent any tax increase on working families, small
businesses and family farms before next year.
So why are we in this mess? You
know, it’s like I said before. Democrats just aren’t
listening to the American people. The good news is that after
seeing so many important decisions made behind closed doors and
so much money being funneled into backroom deals, the American
people finally have a way in, an unambiguous seat at the table.
It’s called AmericaSpeakingOut.com.
Now in its third month, the
Republicans’ America Speaking Out project is giving the
American people a chance to share their ideas for building a
more accountable government and a better country. Every day,
thousands of potential solutions are being debated, discussed
and voted on.
This week alone, Republican
lawmakers initiated national discussions on ideas to prevent
taxpayer dollars from being used to bail out European countries,
to ensure that no new major federal regulation can be
implemented without the approval of Congress, and debated making
all legislation subject to a three-day mandatory public review,
so lawmakers will have to read the bills.
Which European
bailouts are we talking about here? Probably not those which
secretly emanate from the Federal Reserve Board. Republicans
steadfastly refuse to follow Ron Paul's leadership to audit the
Fed and find out how much money is being printed up for
European bankers.
With each of these dialogues,
we’re breathing new life into the founding principle that
government governs best when it governs closest
to the people. And we’re forming a new path to
prosperity that is built brick-by-brick on the hard work,
innovation, entrepreneurship and good ideas of the American
people.
I think that
principle is, "That government governs best which governs least."
I heartily accept the
motto,—“That government is best which governs least;” and
I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I
also believe,—“That government is best which governs not at
all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind
of government which they will have. Government is at best but an
expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments
are sometimes, inexpedient.
HENRY
DAVID
THOREAU,
Civil Disobedience, first paragraph, Walden and Civil
Disobedience, ed. Owen Thomas, p. 224 (1966). This essay was
first published in 1849.
Thanks for listening.
If you take nothing else with you from
today's "Virtual Town Hall," remember this:
Third, the purposes
for which today's government uses taxes
are destructive of civilization itself.
What Would America's Founding Fathers Do?
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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