Freedom-Fighters Forum

By William J. Dell – 27 February 2010

President Obama [February 2010] has stated the single largest driver of the Federal deficits is Healthcare. This is NOT true! The largest single driver of the Federal deficits is the federal government itself. It is the:

1. “Pork barrel” spending by both Democrats and Republicans.
2. Robbing for decades of the Social Security Trust Fund, so that interest could not accrue.
3. Social-justice programs that rightly belong to the States under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.
4. Socialist-DINO’s [Democrats In Name Only] efforts to change our Constitutional Republic into a welfare socialist state.
5. Politicians in the Congress seeking their own interests and political careers instead of Statesmen whose only interest is what is best for We the People  and our Constitutional Republic.
6. Politicians and Bureaucrats who DO NOT understand basic economics — That you cannot spend more than you have coming in.

Additionally there has been an extensive an unconstitutional expansion of the Executive Branch of the federal government as they, the progressives of both parties, have sought to build the welfare socialist state. For the first 73 years of our Constitutional Republic, until 1862, the President’s Cabinet was only one-third the size of the cabinet today. [In the following listing is the name of the department and the date of creation.]
1. Secretary of State                                                         July 27, 1789
2. Secretary of the Treasury                                             September 2, 1789
3. Secretary of Defense                                                    September 18,1947,
                                [September 12, 1789 as War Department;
                                      April 30, 1798 as Navy Department]
4. Attorney General                                                           September 24, 1789,
                                [June 22, 1870 as Department of Justice]
                                      [Postmaster General 1829 - 1971]
5. Secretary of the Interior                                                 March 3, 1849

Many of the following departments were created without regard for the Ninth and Tenth Amendments usurping powers reserved to the States and We the People .  Many of the following departments true objectives are the redistribution of wealth and the destruction of the self-reliance of We the People .  They exist solely to make more and more of  We the People   slaves and dependent on the federal government for our existence and support. In this effort the Congress at the request of the President has created the following departments all with enormous budgets and numerous federal employees and bureaucrats:

6. Secretary of Agriculture                                                 May 15, 1862
                     [Secretary of Commerce & Labor February 14, 1903]
7. Secretary of Commerce                                                March 4, 1913
8. Secretary of Labor                                                          March 4, 1913
9. Secretary of Health & Human Services                         April 11, 1953
10. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development               September 9, 1965
11. Secretary of Transportation                                         October 15, 1966
12. Secretary of Energy                                                     August 4, 1977
13. Secretary of Education                                                September 27, 1979
14. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs                                      October 25, 1988
15. Secretary of Homeland Security                                  November 25, 2002

With the nation facing staggering deficits projections, the unconstitutional departments above should be eliminated over a period of FOUR years. The first budget cut should be 25%. In the second year the budget cut should be 33%. In the third year the budget should be cut 50%. And in the fourth year the program and department should be eliminated.

THE AMENDMENT FIX:

1. Term Limits Amendment
     a. Twelve years in the House
     b. Twelve years in the Senate
     c. No Federal retirement for Members of Congress with less than 20 years service. If it is good enough for the military, it should be good enough for our Members of Congress.

2. Balance Budget Amendment with a Line Item Veto
     a. Deficit spending only permitted for actual war expense NOT normal Defense Department Budget expenditures.
     b. Special Projects [Pork] must clearly benefit the entire nation and NOT just one of the States or a particular Congressional District; and definitely NOT a foreign entity or government.
     c. Federal Spending for Special Interest Groups is to be expressly prohibited.
     d. No “Unfunded Mandates” passed on to the States.

3. Repeal the 17th Amendment and give the States their voice back in the Congress
     a. Return to the practice of Senators being elected by the State Legislatures so they are beholden to the State Governors and Legislatures.
     b. The Senate would then have a vested interest in protecting the Tenth Amendment of our Constitution.

4. Amend the 16th Amendment to limit the federal government to a “Flat Income Tax” of 10%, WITH NO EXEMPTIONS, for everyone and all “for profit” corporations. This tax would be on the annual increase of the taxpayer ONLY.
     a. Eliminates the majority of IRS reducing the size of the Federal Government.
     b. If a voluntary 10% is good enough for Jesus – A compulsory 10% should be good enough for Uncle Sam!

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you’re so darn stupid that we’re going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That’s what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below……………

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren’t going to believe this.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!) Alas, it is true – all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening. She quotes…’ We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn’t Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.’ (I am not rich, are you?)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:

‘We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as ‘Americans’.’

Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) ‘Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it’.

This lady is out of her mind and she is the Speaker of the House!

Not long ago I read a joke… It said —  All the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.

Funny? Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny. But that got me to thinking… They all promise change.

A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable. Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.

WE USED TO:
Have a strong dollar… Politicians changed that.
Consider Marriage sacred… Politicians changed that.
Be respected around the world… Politicians changed that.
Have a strong manufacturing economy… Politicians changed that.
Have lower tax structures… Politicians changed that.
Enjoy more freedoms… Politicians changed that.
Export many American made goods…Politicians changed that.
Teach patriotism in schools… Politicians changed that.
Educate children in schools… Politicians changed that.
Enforce LEGAL citizenship… Politicians changed that.
Have affordable food & gas prices…Politicians changed that, too…
And one could go on and on with this list.

What hasn’t been changed, politicians are promising to change that as well, if you will elect them.

When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say, enough is enough?

The trouble is, America’s youthful voters today don’t know of the Great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed, as it is now.

When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize… Politicians are what is wrong with America? This goes for BOTH parties… Republicans and Democrats, there is no difference anymore… They all do only what they can to be re-elected, not what is best for the citizens! 

What is needed is for the constitution to be amended to limit all Senators ONE term and Representatives to TWO terms in office like the president. They must take their staffs with them.

Oh, by the way, no big pension either, social security just like the rest of us. How do they rate bigger and better entitlements than the people THEY WORK FOR… WHICH IS US!

Being a politician shouldn’t be a person’s life work but rather a call to public service then back to being an honest hard working citizen.

Politicians are no more than housekeepers and janitors…
Unfortunately they act like they own the building

EDITOR’S NOTE:  What we need as a Nation are Statesmen.  Men and Women willing to folow the example of our Founding Fathers.  America has been in decline for nearly a Century.  We DO NOT need the change touted by the Politicians of either party — Democratic or Republican.  What we NEED are Statesmen determined to bring We the People  – CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION!!!