A Discussion of The President's Saturday Morning
Radio Address
Notes and Summary of the President's Weekly
Radio Address:
Finishing the Job on Wall Street Reform
The
White House Press Office: – In this week’s
address, President Barack Obama asks Congress to pass historic Wall
Street reform which will make the toughest financial reforms since the
Great Depression the law of the land. The Wall Street reform
bill, which reflects 90 percent of what the President originally
proposed, includes the strongest consumer financial protections in
history with an independent agency to enforce them. It ensures
that the trading of derivatives, which helped trigger the crisis, will
be brought into the light of day, and enacts the “Volcker Rule,”
which will make sure banks protected by safety nets like the FDIC
cannot engage in risky trades. And, this bill will create a resolution
authority to wind down firms whose collapse would threaten the entire
financial system. Wall Street reform will end taxpayer funded
bailouts and make sure Main Street is never again held responsible for
Wall Street’s mistakes. (continued
below)
What is a REAL
American?
Someone who believes in (or accepts) LIBERTY
UNDER GOD
Liberty: A Real
American wants to live safely under his own Vine
& Fig Tree. A real American opposes tyranny.
Strategy: The willingness to take
up muskets and kill tyrants is only one strategy for opposing
tyranny. This one particular strategy is not essential for being
a REAL American.
Freedom: America grants the
freedom for those who oppose liberty and religion to speak out
in favor of tyranny and atheism. This freedom is granted by true
Americans to false Americans.
Strategy: The willingness to take
up muskets and kill tyrants is only one strategy for opposing
tyranny. This one particular strategy is not essential for being
a REAL American.
A real American takes risks
to abolish tyrannical government.
If you love "security"
more than liberty, you are not a REAL American
The Second Amendment was not designed to protect
hunters and gun collectors
It protects the right of real Americans to
overthrow the government by force.
A REAL American is a FOLLOWER
of JESUS CHRIST
On May 2, 1778, when the Continental Army
had emerged from its infamous winter at Valley Forge, Commander-in-Chief
George Washington issued the following:
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.— The Writings of George
Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing
Office, 1932, Vol. XI:342-343, General Orders of 5/2/1778
On May 12, 1779, in a speech to the Delaware
Indian Chiefs, Washington coached them:
You do well to wish to learn our arts
and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ.
These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.
Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise
intention. The Writings of George
Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing
Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.
JOHN WITHERSPOON: "
. . . he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and
active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who
sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and
immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I
scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an enemy to his country."
John Witherspoon, The Works of the Rev. John
Witherspoon (Philadelphia: Wm Woodard, 1802) Vol 3, p. 46; cited in
Barton, p. 118.
Witherspoon was undoubtedly one of the most
influential educators of his day. His students at Princeton University
included one President, one Vice President, three Supreme Court
Justices, 10 Cabinet members, 12 Governors, 60 Congressmen (21 Senators;
39 Representatives) plus scores of state officials and members of the
Constitutional Convention.
SAMUEL ADAMS: [I] have a
thorough contempt for all men . . . who appear to be the irreclaimable
enemies of religion.
Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry
Alonzo Cushing, ed., (NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906) II:381, to William
Checkley on Dec. 14, 1772.
"A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a
paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he
whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining
the very bonds of Society? ...The Scriptures tell us righteousness
exalteth a Nation."
Abigail Adams, wife of President
John Adams in letter to husband John Adams 1776.
"...a true American Patriot must be a religious man...He who
neglects his duty to his maker, may well be expected to be deficient and
insincere in his duty towards the public." Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams in letter
to husband John Adams 1776.
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.
But most Americans are apathetic slaves.
They "oppose" 9 out of 10 congressional bills,
but the one they support puts a small government benefit
in their pocket. They accept this bribe and are enslaved
by the other 9 bills.
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 weekend, I’m traveling to
Toronto to meet with members of the G20. There, I hope we can
build on the progress we made at last year’s G20 summits by
coordinating our global financial reform efforts to make sure a
crisis like the one from which we are still recovering never
happens again. We’ve made great progress toward passing such
reform here at home. As I speak, we are on the cusp of enacting
the toughest financial reforms since the Great Depression.
Click
here to go to a replay of the May 15th, 2010 Ozarks
Virtual Town Hall : "Wall
Street Reform & Main Street"
I don’t have to tell you why
these reforms are so important. We’re still digging ourselves
out of an economic crisis that happened largely because there
wasn’t strong enough oversight on Wall Street. We can’t build
a strong economy in America over the long-run without ending this
status quo, and laying a new foundation for growth and prosperity.
That’s what the Wall Street
reforms currently making their way through Congress will help us
do – reforms that represent 90% of what I proposed when I took
up this fight. We’ll put in place the strongest consumer
financial protections in American history, and create an
independent agency with an independent director and an independent
budget to enforce them.
Credit card companies will no
longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print.
You will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and
penalties, or the predatory practices of unscrupulous lenders.
Instead, we’ll make sure credit
card companies and mortgage companies play by the rules. And
you’ll be empowered with easy-to-understand forms, and the clear
and concise information you need to make the financial decisions
that are best for you and your family.
Wall Street reform will also
strengthen our economy in a number of other ways. We’ll make our
financial system more transparent by bringing the kinds of complex
trades that helped trigger this crisis – trades in a $600
trillion derivatives market – finally into the light of day.
We’ll enact what’s called the
Volcker Rule to make sure banks protected by a safety net like the
FDIC can’t engage in risky trades for their own profit. We’ll
create what’s called a resolution authority to help wind down
firms whose collapse would threaten our entire financial system.
Put simply, we’ll end the days of taxpayer-funded bailouts, and
help make sure Main Street is never again held responsible for
Wall Street’s mistakes.
Beyond these reforms, we also
need to address another piece of unfinished business. We need to
impose a fee on the banks that were the biggest beneficiaries of
taxpayer assistance at the height of our financial crisis – so
we can recover every dime of taxpayer money.
Getting this far on Wall Street
reform hasn’t been easy. There are those who’ve fought tooth
and nail to preserve the status quo. In recent months, they’ve
spent millions of dollars and hired an army of lobbyists to stop
reform dead in its tracks.
But because we refused to back
down, and kept fighting, we now stand on the verge of victory. And
I urge Congress to take us over the finish line, and send me a
reform bill I can sign into law, so we can empower our people with
consumer protections, and help prevent a financial crisis like
this from ever happening again.
“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
Listeners' Questions
Orange, Calif: So many Christian commentators today
make the claim that virtually all founding fathers were really
members of anti-Christian secret societies, e.g., Masonic orders.
Your approach to the history of the founding period of our nation is
that the Founding fathers were Christian and by implication that the
intent behind the Constitution was overwhelmingly Christian. Could
you comment on the difference between these perspectives?
"In recent
years, Freemasonry and its links to the Founding Fathers has
been a focal point of controversy. This new work explores the
truth behind this connection and corrects the numerous myths
about Freemasonry and the Founders. Primary sources reveal
both the Founders' limited involvement with Freemasonry as
well as the dramatic changes that Masonry has undergone since
the time of the Founders. This work provides an insightful
history of the secret society and offers convincing proof of
its relatively small influence on America's foundations." WallBuilders.com:
The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers
"No political
order can be religiously neutral, and the modern political
order in the United States and other Western nations, called
"pluralism," is in reality polytheism. As in the
ancient world, polytheists are offended at those who claim
that there is only one God, and this is why orthodox
Christianity is increasingly under assault in the United
States and throughout the Western world. In this book, Gary
North brings his many years of theological and historical
research to bear on the question of how this polytheistic
state of affairs came about, and what must be done about it.
In a powerful argument, sure to be controversial, North points
a finger at the framers of the Constitution of the United
States, who self-consciously broke with 1000 + years of
Western heritage by not referring to the Trinity and to Christ
as King. This was the hole in the dike, North contends,
through which modern secularism has poured. No one concerned
about the state of the American nations can afford to ignore
this book." Free
online
"The question
of where ultimacy lies should be central to the Christian. It
is easy to see the social implications of allowing priority to
fall to either the one or the many. This volume examines
in-depth the Christian solution to the problem of the one and
the many — the Trinitarian God. Only in the Godhead is this
dilemma resolved. Only in the Trinity does there reside an
equal ultimacy of unity and plurality. Rushdoony examines the
history of Western thought from the standpoint of the one and
the many and demonstrates clearly that the most astute
thinkers were unable to resolve this philosophical conflict.
What is needed now is a complete return to the Trinitarian
view of God and its implications for a Christian social
order."
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 Paul Ryan – I
work for the people of Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District
and I serve as the top Republican on the House Budget Committee.
Yes, Congress does have a Budget Committee, but I’m afraid it
hasn’t been very busy this year.
In fact, this week the House
Majority Leader announced that Democrats are canceling this
year’s budget. Instead of reining in out-of-control
spending that has pushed our national debt past $13 trillion,
Democrats have made clear their intention to raise taxes on
middle-class families to fuel their continued spending spree.
Talk about a recipe for
disaster: Democrats are offering no budget, no priorities, and
no restraints – yet all their taxing, borrowing, and spending
continues unchecked.
With this budget failure – a
first in the modern era – Democrats are missing a critical
opportunity to provide the fiscal discipline economists say is
needed to create private-sector jobs and boost our economy.
This unprecedented budget collapse also sends a clear signal to
American families struggling to meet their own budgets that
Washington still doesn’t recognize the severity of its
spending problem.
Democrats say their decision is
about what’s best for the future of our country. It’s not.
With the political season upon us, Democratic leaders believe
it’s better to take a pass than to pass a budget. While
Americans ask ‘where are the jobs?,’ they
seem content to simply run out the clock and let their borrowing
binge continue to drain resources from our economy.
When Rep. Ryan
said "they," he probably meant "Democrats,"
but "they" could apply equally well to
"Americans" who are asking "where are the
jobs," but continue their borrowing binge.
The debt is on track to exceed
the size of our entire economy in the next 18 months. We have
run out of road to kick the can down.
If this is really about the
future of our country, then leaders should make the tough
choices they promised they would, put moral obligation before
political expedience, and focus on what’s in the best
interests of the next generation, not the next election.
This is a time to make tough
choices, not run from them. To that end, Republicans
on the Budget Committee have already identified $1.3 trillion in
specific spending cuts we would implement right now to
make Washington do more with less and help small businesses put
people back to work.
... if they were in
power. But actually, if they were in power, Republicans would do
what they did when they were last in power: increase government
spending and government debt.
These are specific,
common-sense ideas, such as canceling unspent TARP bailout funds
and "stimulus" money, that would help us focus on
creating more jobs, not more debt.
Ah, it turns out
that Republicans would not actually decrease
government spending, but cancel proposed spending.
We also propose reducing
federal employment and freezing government pay. Instead of
growing government, we need to restart the engine of economic
growth.
Of course, this is just a
starting point. Much more needs to be done to set our nation on
a sustainable economic course. We need to start
reining in unnecessary spending now
so that we can boost the economy and work together to address
our nation’s long-term fiscal challenges.
Republicans have
been promising to
"start" cutting government spending for decades.
It is our shared responsibility
to take on the challenges before us to make sure that our kids
and our grandkids have a better life. Let’s begin this
important work today. Let’s make certain we do not
simply retreat to the same failed policies. Let’s make
the tough, forward-looking choices that will restore the promise
and prosperity of this exceptional nation, and let’s do it
together. Thanks for listening. ####
If you take nothing else with you from
today's "Virtual Town Hall," remember this:
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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