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:
- which constituency was going to get the loot, the benefits of Our
Brand of socialist spending; and more importantly,
- 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.
- One is to find more money. (Or credit -- these fools thought it
was the same thing! They still do!)
- 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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