URGENT ACTION ALERT: INDEPENDENCE DAY STARTS NOW
June 29, 2012 at 2:34 pm in News by Tea Party Patriots 87 Comments
Will This Be Your Last Independence Day?
July Fourth.
Independence Day.
Normally we celebrate this day and enjoy our freedom. This year we cannot sit back and rest with BBQ during the day and fireworks at night.
This year – this week starting today – we must fight for our independence. If we do not fight now, we may never be free again to celebrate Independence Day.
As it stands, we have one party that wants to trample our freedom and will do whatever it takes to achieve their goal of a massive government takeover of our lives. We have another party that is afraid to take a stand and wrings its hands saying there are problems, but never corrects the problems.
The burden of protecting our Constitution, and America’s independence, is on our shoulders. This week’s Supreme Court decision reinforces the fact that We the People must defend our Liberty. Americans have known this from the moment Benjamin Franklin walked out of Constitution Hall and replied to the lady who asked what form of government we got, “a republic, madam, if you can keep it.” We must keep our republic.
Our country is in grave danger. Some are trying to sugarcoat our problems. They are not being honest or worse they simply do not understand how serious the situation truly is.
You deserve the truth. Most of you reading this know the truth already: we are headed toward economic collapse because of out-of-control spending on out-of-control government programs. The ruling elites control more of our lives than ever before. Some citizens do not understand how precious and rare and fragile our freedom is. Others know what is a risk, what could become our future, and are scared, angry, and left wondering what to do.
We have college students in this country who think that anarchy is the answer. 49% of Americans do not pay taxes and want those who do pay taxes and do support the country to support these “takers” as though they were dependent children, not independent Americans. Our country is divided and the ruling elites think these divisions will help them secure even more power and control over us. They don’t seem to care that the risky game they are playing by dividing America on race, gender and class could have harmful and even history-altering ramifications for the great “melting pot” of America.
In the face of these threats and assaults on our Liberty from America’s ruling elites, Tea Party Patriots have stood firm for our core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Our values, and our strength in numbers, brought the largest turnover in Congress in decades, stopped the Wisconsin recalls, educated our fellow citizens that the affordable health care act was anything but affordable, increased awareness and understanding of the Constitution across America, and stopped cap and trade.
But our work is not done. Now, more than ever, we must stand up and save our country – before it’s too late. Don’t look to the White House, or to Congress, or to the Senate or the Supreme Court. Look in the mirror. It’s up to you. Because you, me, and everyone in the Tea Party Patriots – we are the last people left standing for our country.
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance. Your eternal vigilance. Your country needs you now.
Here is what you must do, to save our country, starting right now:
1. Congressmen are going home on vacation to celebrate our Independence. How ironic and sad that week from Independence Day the Supreme Court got it wrong and upheld the biggest government takeover in America’s history. Nevertheless, the Congressmen – Representatives and Senators – will be home over the next 10 days.
2. We need you to call their offices and find out every parade, town hall, civic speaking engagement they plan to attend. If the Congressional office won’t tell you, call the campaign office to get the information. We know the so-called “representatives” love a good photo op on the Fourth of July. They will not be able to help themselves and will gravitate towards cameras and microphones.
3. Let us know where they are going to be so that others in your area can join you to show up everywhere they are over the next 10 days.
4. Find the candidates running against incumbents to let us know where they are as well.
5. When you see them, ask them 2 questions ON VIDEO:
a. “If elected will you repeal government-controlled health care in full in early 2013 so that the taxes increases are not implemented and we maintain control of our doctor-patient decisions?”
b. “If elected will you vote to balance our budget in 5 years without raising taxes and actually have the fortitude to stick to the budgeted spending?”
6. Upload the answers to YouTube and send us a link.
7. Tea Party Patriots will work to compile the results in a scorecard that links to the videos. We cannot create such a scorecard without your help and without every one of us working together to make it happen. We MUST first get the candidates on the record for meeting our demands so that we can hold them accountable beginning on election night.
8. Once they are on the record, we can inform and educate our fellow voters why these legislative goals must be accomplished. Immediately following the elections we will use these promises to hold our elected officials accountable. We did not completely understand how quickly the freshmen could stray in 2011. We do now and we will not let that happen in 2013. It starts with knowing where they stand, what they promise.
What happens if the elected officials or candidates act as if they are better than you and that you do not deserve the respect of an answer? RECORD IT on VIDEO, upload it, and send us the link!
What happens if they tell you they do not want cameras in their town hall? RECORD IT on VIDEO, upload it, and send us the link! We will make them famous.
We are not going away! We will fight and this is our mission for Independence Day week 2012. If you are not willing to do it, you better enjoy your Independence Day because it might be the last one you truly have as free citizens.
It’s up to you to save our country. We are the last Patriots standing. Make this week count – to keep America Independent.
PS. If you have any thoughts you’d like to share after yesterday’s ruling, click here to share them with us.
You’re article was the best! I completely agree, now is the time 4 action! We MUST act if we want to keep the land of the free out of the hands of those Carl Marx-loving facists in Washington!
I have started a petition to repeal healthcare and I am planning a march on Washington. Help get the word out! The Tea Party (true patriots) are already behind me but we NEED you’re help! Please sign our petition today! All of the info on the march (July 14th!) can be found with the petition here: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3pwwch/
If you want to get involved, PLEASE email me at raustingbright@gmail.com
Before you get started Louis, a couple of things.
1. The political philosopher’s name you mention, well, ahem, his first name was spelled “Karl” and not “Carl.”
2. Karl Marx invented a political philosophy called “Marxism.” He did not invent Fascism and he was not a Fascist. That came later and was invented by your political antecedant, Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy. Italy, along with Nazi Germany and Japan, was one of our enemies during World War II. Did you know that?
P.S., our president Barack “Hussein” Obama is not a Fascist. He is not a Marxist. And he is not an Islamist. He is a Christian and a member of the Democratic Party. He governs as a center-right president, much like Bill Clinton.
Teaswiller, as an economic system fascism is characterized by the state exerting tight control over ostensibly private industries. The Obama administration’s attempts to take over the health care industry and, to a lesser extent, Detroit’s manufacturing sector are exactly this sort of thing. Christian and Democrat or not, his policies are economically fascist. If you’re going to resort to petifoggery, at least do it right.
For once and for all, Obama the Affordable Care Act is not “taking over the American health care industry.” If anything, it is a boon to the industry, by requiring everybody to purchase insurance. If it was up to me we wouldn’t rely on a Republican-devised half-assed measure such as this, but rather adopt a single payer system. Also, rescuing Detroit was one of the smartest things Obama did. How is that Fascist?
Finally, you forgot the political dimension of Fascism, which actually sounds as if it came straight from the Tea Party/Birther clique. Fascists seek elevation of their nation based on commitment to an organic national community where its individuals are united together as one people in national identity by connections of ancestry and culture through a totalitarian state that seeks to eradicate perceived foreign influences that are deemed to be causing degeneration of the nation or of not fitting into the national culture.
If anyone is Fascist, it is the Tea Party.
The only thing you got right is that BO is a member of the Democratic party. Everything else is to be determined, and Clinton like the rest of the Democratic party only believes in WIIFM. And while you are cutting hairs…. The end result of what Marx, Lennin Stalin and all the other so called critical thinkers were was genocide. History does tell a gruesome tale, so before this country gets to anything Marx, common sense has to prevail and the current party has to go.
This is taxation without representation in it’s truest form. There is a passage in the Declaration Of Independence that states when the government takes too much power it is the responsibility of every citizen to overthrow said government and replace it with a government that will do the people’s will. It is time that not only for us to get OUTRAGED, but also time for us to REVOLT! I do not care if this lands me in prison! If it does it only says one thing they are afraid of people like me and want silence us!
Brian, how can the Affordable Care Act be “taxation without representation” when it was passed by a majority of both houses of Congress?
I think you are worrying about things that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t actually do, and you may not be aware of what it will do.
If you would like to see what its provisions are and when each one will be implemented, you can look at this timeline: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/
But remember:
1. The law doesn’t change the fact that you receive care from a private physician. Bottom line: the law is built on our current system of employer-based health insurance, private insurers, and private healthcare providers. You won’t be purchasing healthcare from the government.
2. If you currently purchase insurance from a private insurer through your employer, that is not likely to change. Most employers will still offer insurance, and more employers will have incentives to offer it if they don’t currently do so, because tax credits are available to small business owners to make this a more affordable option.
3. Insurers will no longer be able to refuse coverage to people with preexisting conditions or end coverage for policyholders whose illnesses make them very expensive to insure.
4. Young people can stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26.
5. Prescription drug benefits for seniors will be more affordable, since $250 rebate checks were issued in 2010 to bridge the “doughnut hole,” and in 2011, seniors began getting a 50% discount on name-brand prescription drugs. By 2020, the government will pay to provide up to a 75% discount on brand-name and generica prescription drugs.
5. The penalty for not purchasing health insurance will go into effect in 2014, but it will only apply to people who can afford to purchase it and decide they don’t want to. Here’s how those penalties would be assessed: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/19/us/politics/20100319-health-care-reconciliation.html?ref=healthcarereform#tab=0
6. Families earning between $33,075 and $88,200 for a family of four would qualify for a sliding scale of subsidies to purchase insurance.
7. By 2014, each state will have set up online health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, that will make it easy for individuals who don’t purchase insurance through an employer to compare plans and choose the one that’s best for them. These statewide exchanges will also expand the risk pool for people in the individual market, so this, plus the competition of the marketplace, should lower the cost of what has been an incredibly expensive insurance marketplace for individual policyholders who can’t access the advantages available to people purchasing insurance through employers.
8. With some insurance plans, preventive care is now free, while for others that were grandfathered under the ACA, those benefits will begin in 2014. To see a list of which preventive services will be made available without copays, check out this link: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/preventive-care/index.html
I hope you’ll actually take a look at some of these resources and that if you do, you’ll feel better about the Affordable Care Act and the fact that it is not only the law, it has been confirmed to be constitutional by the highest court in the land.
NESR
Breezed over some of the rhetoric of the link you provided and have to say there is MUCH to be read between the lines… It appears nothing has changed about insurance companies being able to sell across borders and the restrictions the act can put on providers is paramount to anti-business (more control, control, control).
In addition, there is nothing in the http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/ government sponsored information about who is going to pay for this. And did you forget the home sale tax and the hook for the government to snag your 401k (only if they need it, but since when did a democratic run government not enjoy other peoples money, especially when they can legally steal it from you)? I thought so.
In addition, why has your government exempted themselves from the program as well as some of the unions, if not all?
There is much to be said about this outlandish program and your government is not saying it.
My advice to all who read this is to demand that no one be exempted from its claws or get it repealed, or better yet, Vote them all out November 2012!
Brian,
Did you know that advocating armed resistance against your popularly elected government makes you a traitor?
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
– US Constitution, Article III, Section 3.
I am angry and frustrated at the whole government, I mean no disrespect but i will be flying my american flag in a manor showing for those who know, extreme distress, and eminent danger to life and property, as to this governments direction , immigration policies, oboma care, etc……..
I believe flying your flag as such is totally appropriate . .
As a disabled vet who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, I can think of no more fitting time than when all branches of government have failed to follow their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution. I only caution that some might think you were in imminent danger… which might not be far from the truth if things keep going the way they are. Good luck to all true patriots in these troubled times.
We need to replace Obamacare with Medicare Part (E) — “E” for “Everybody”!
Hey, it is spelled “manner,” not “manor (that is a large rural estate).” Get a brain “Moran.”
How about some kindness here. This nation is distressed and in danger. After we save our country, then we can concentrate on correct word usage. Direct your name calling to Washington.
You don’t have the rite( yes I spelled that wrong but that doesn’t make me a moron) right to call anybody a name.It just shows what kind of person you are(not very nice).Judge not lest you will be judged
by the way I think you spelled moran wrong (I think it is spelled moron.
“You can not judge a wise man by the way he speaks or spells………..it is never more important than the message that he tells.”
Why don’t you concentrate on the MESSAGE???? Geesh!
Jeez, you guys don’t get irony at all. I spelled it “Moran,” because of that famous photograph of the tea party rally outside St. Louis that showed one of you baggers holding aloft a sign that said “Get a Brain Morans!” I assume that he meant “Moron.” Get it?
I have four little words for Obama and his Marxist healthcare power grab.
I WILL NOT COMPLY.
Bring your totalitarian police force (IRS) against me, just remember to bring lots of body bags. You’re going to need them.
Well put frank.
As a matter of fact…. YOU AIN’T GETTING MY GUN EITHER….UNLESS YOU COME TRY TO COLLECT YOUR “TAX”!
I believe most people that have guns purchase them to protect their family. They obviously have much more “foresight” than you. We can see the handwriting on the wall. Maybe you should get your glasses, and hearing, checked. It’s been my experience that most Patriots don’t have to compensate for ANY small thingy, unlike the socialist progressives who attempt to compensate for that small thingy between their ears.
Since Patriots have no desire to be dependent on the Gubermint, corporations, or UNIONS and “community” groups, it’s impossible to have anything in common with regressives that are looking to go back to the days of Hitler.
Because the only thing that can be confiscated from us is lead at high velocities. The truth is Fast and Furious was a set up to restrict gun sales. “Assault Weapons Bans” are nothing but misnomers for “scary looking” gun bans. It’s a gradual encroachment and infringement on our rights, that the far left has taken a long-view approach to. They would love to turn off our gun rights overnight, but they know they can’t- what they do is take a gradual approach over time while most people are engrossed in reality TV. Obama stopped the importation of M-1 Garands that were loaned to Korea. Those should have gone to the CMP, so citizens could buy them, but they did not. There are 3 types of people- sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. Choose your role. Choose it carefully.
I’m a moderate, progressive, liberal and I don’t know of anyone who wants to take your guns away unless you are a dangerous nut. Those are lies fed to the paranoid to sell more guns and ammunition.
We want strict background checks for all and assault weapons kept out of the hands of gangs, cartels, terrorists, and nuts. That’s it! I consider the NRA a terrorist organization especially when they defended the rights for terrorists to buy guns in America. We just want some common sense for once!
It’s a freedom thing. You wouldn’t understand sonny boy.
If we buy them, they can’t take them so easily. Germany’s Hitler took all the guns before he started herding the people into railroad cars. They had nothing to defend themselves, for they had given up their guns.
People are not buying guns to store them. People are buying guns for the time they will need to use them. Our freedom is in danger time to pray, load up, and get ready to fight.
Traitorous much Baggers?
Jim,
With all due respect, you should wake up and smell the coffee. In 1933 Hitler got the Reischtag to pass a law giving him absolute power. We are not there yet, but the Obamacare ruling set the precedent that the government can in essence do anything it wants, including confiscating your property, and by calling this a “tax” instead of a penalty you have no recourse and have just lost your right to equal protection, your protection against unreasonable search and seizure, your right to due process, and other rights because they do not constitutionally apply to taxes. The ruling also said, in effect, that, then government can “tax” whatever it wants, wherever and whenever it wants, in whatever amount it wants, at any and all times. This is a seminal event inAmerican history and if allowed to stand is the end of the Constitution. Don’t take my word for it. Search the web and see what constitutional scholars, lawyers and judges are saying.
We cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand and think that “it will all work out”. It won’t unless we act now, act strongly, and stand up for our rights and our liberty.
We MUST NOT bury our heads in the sand or we are done for.
Well, actually, John Gregory, the government can only impose taxes that Congress passes by a majority vote. The same goes for tax breaks (like the Bush tax cuts, which I don’t support), wars (funded or unfunded), and many other uses of our tax dollars that you and I don’t agree with.
So that’s the way things work– I’m OK with democracy.
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are you a funny little thing ,is that the problem
Hey Jim maybe it is time to pull your head out of the sand and take notice, this is the first steps to government taking over our lives and I for one will buy has many guns has I please. It’s the people that can live off the land. Hank Jr said it best, I skin a buck and run a trout line, country boy can survive.( A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government) quote by George Washington. Maybe we need to think about what this means
That whenever any form of goverment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. (Declaration of Indepence), this 4th of July, I will be thinking of the brave men and women that have fought for our country to be free. I believe that there is a war coming. Our fore fathers are turning over in their graves to know how bad this country is run. At the time they were considered traitors to the crown but to me they were patriots. Use to this country was run by great men, now we have to vote for the lesser of two evils. They all rape and pillage this country and it is really sad.
Sure Roger, a religious war over healthcare for all Americans.
I dispair at the ingnorance displayed in you comment.
Jimbo, just what part of the declaration of independence do you find to be in ignorance? Please go watch TV while the patriots of this country save it from the tree hugging, Birkenstock wearing, pine cone eating liberals, that are happy to let their government make all of their decisions for them, and then tax them for the privilege.
Your comment is gibberish. Seriously, it’s a word salad of meaningless phrases. What does the Declaration of Independence have to do with anything being discussed?
Do you think the Congress sits around talking about what Jefferson would think about healthcare? No, they discuss lobbying and money and how to take money out or your pocket and give it to the health care companies. Both Democrats and Republicans do this. They think you’re a chump. And they’re right.
Jesus didn’t write the Constitution or the Declaration. People did. Intelligent people, yes, but people just like you and me. Why are you deifying this? Sorry, I mean people like me. Jefferson, the atheist, the inventor the scientist would laugh at you. Or pity you. Or more likely be appalled at how simple you are.
This country needs to fix it’s healthcare system, and that is going to require considered thought and reasoning and common sense, not some childish jingoistic nonsense about flag waving and singing the national anthem.
Please stop and use your brain. Your ignorance is hurting your country. Stop.
Jimbo, why are you even on this site? Why don’t you go and kiss your gay loving liberals backsides and live off of your welfare! Let them tell you everything you can do and then tax you for it, even if you don’t buy it! Government idiots need to stay out of our lives! Socialism DOES NOT WORK!!! Just get off of here!
Jefferson was a deist.
Peter’s not the one compensating Jimbo. I’m just sayin’.
Folks,
This is a war for our country and its future.Vets, remember your oath!!! To defend and protect the Constitution against all ememies foreign or domestic.The enemy has revealed themselves and we must respond aggressively and decisively!
I agree with you Kurt, and thank you for your service to this country
I never said anything about a religious war jimbo. You need to go back and reread what I put, I quoted things word for word that are in the declaration of Indepence. You are the one I feel sorry for, you said what I put was ignorance but that does to show you that their are people out there that will give in to what the government says. I hope when the government comes infringing on people’s rights, I hope they visit you first, jimbo. You do you think will pay for this health care, do you think it will be the rich that pays for it, hell no. It will be the people that are in the middle class or the poor people. What gets me is that we pay high prices at the pump. Some families lost their job and lost their home but hey why don’t we just tax these people even more, maybe they can everything you own. So jimbo maybe this your ideal America but I think our founding fathers would be ashamed of how America looks now. But maybe with this new health care you get your eyes checked.
Roger: the healthcare law doesn’t add taxes to the middle class, working poor, or poor, and it provides a sliding scale of credits and subsidies to make the purchase of health insurance, co-pays, and deductibles more affordable for families (of 4) earning between $33,075 and $88,200. Under the Affordable Care Act:
- Households below 150 percent of the poverty level ($33,075) would pay 2 percent to 4 percent of their income on premiums. Health plans would cover 94 percent of the cost of benefits.
- Families earning between $77,175 to $88,200 for a family of four would pay 9.8 percent of their income on premiums. Health plans would cover 70 percent of the cost of the benefits.
- People earning below the poverty level are exempt from the mandate to purchase health insurance.
- Other than the penalties for people who can afford insurance but decide not to purchase it (see what they are here, in the “Reconciliation” column: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/19/us/politics/20100319-health-care-reconciliation.html?ref=healthcarereform#tab=0), the only taxes on individuals to support the bill are
1. an increased Medicare payroll tax on unearned income like dividends, interest, and capital gains for households earning more than $250,000 a year; and
2. an excise tax on very expensive, cadillac health insurance policies (ones with premiums of over $10,000 for individuals and $27,500 for families). This would begin in 2018, and as you can see, it isn’t going to affect low and middle-income earners.
I am a progressive who supported Obama against the Evil overlords Bush and Cheney in 2008. But now Obama is the evil overlord drunk with power and sheltered in his cocoon of advisers and CIA/Military advisers
The tyranny of the right is endless war/police state fandango and a world beating prison and punishment industry the envy of any totalitarian dictator the world over…
BUZZER SOUND!!!!!!
The tyranny of the left is endless welfare state and do gooderism the envy of any communist empire the world over. double BUZZER SOUND!!!
The end result of these codependent mirrored tyrannies is a perpetual onslaught upon liberty and a perpetual tyrranical interference into our lives, our homes, our thoughts, our bedroom, our breathing and yes, our very existence as “free” people. But we are not free people. Our government lords 100x the power over us that King George did in the 1770s.
I am still a progressive. As was Thomas Jefferson. Who would be devastated recremated alive if he were here to witness the blood soaked firmament upon which is scattered remains of the beheaded and dismembered corpse of liberty, which has been ripped so gleefully asundert from both the left and right that there is not even enough of liberty’s bones on the ground for a starving dog to chew on….
We are not a free people. We are an embarrassment to the world. We lead the world in prison, taxation, government mandates and spending. We send our soldiers all over the world to protect a freedom that we don’t even have at home. I am embarrassed to call myself an American. I am embarrassed that I let things get so far out of hand.
But I will fight to get my country back. If it’s the last thing I do.
WTFamerica? Let’s take our country back!!! “Let’s Roll!”
Jim, keep you sexual pet names to yourself!
The reason I support Ron Paul, is because Ron Paul is the only one who is a true conservative. He is a defender of the constitution. I do not see politics as political. I see politics as spiritual. We are in a “spiritual” battle. Obama is the son of Satan, and so is Romney! Ron Paul is a good Baptist, 100% pro-life. And this is the reason the ESTABLISHMENT has rejected this good ole doctor! I think that the Devil is controlling America’s politics. ♥
Paul is a bigot and way too old. You got anyone else?
You are all such drama queens. Put your weapons away and get some therapy. If most of the industrialized world, including Israel, can have universal healthcare then so can we. We are NOT broke, the bill IS constitutional and any taxes will be minimal if none at all. Also, many of you may receive a rebate check from your health insurance company soon. Google it. Now come down and go have a happy 4th of July!
*calm down
Congress shall pass law that does not equally apply to them. Constitutional I think not.
Diane,
Did anyone think that we wanted to be “just like everyone else” when this country was born back in 1776?
The last time I checked, we have the BEST healthcare anywhere in the world! Its fools who think that a level playing field is best for everyone with the government telling you all when and what to do. If you want to go back in time for healthcare, declare yourself a citizen of another country and get on a plane. We’ll gladly want to see how well you fare 40 years from now, but not in this country.
Diane, If you believe as you have stated in the above post that “We are NOT broke, the bill IS constitutional and any taxes will be minimal if none at all” The lack of knowledge within that statement truely shows how some American’s heads are in the sand. The link below is a Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare or ObamaTax. Consider before making inaccurate statements… research. http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758 . You also have the ability to print it and read carefully as you “go have a happy 4th of July” As for hundreds of thousands of other Americans who have been cured from the ostrich syndrome we will be contacting Congress as suggested in “Will This Be Your Last Independence Day?”
IS IT ALREADY TO LATE?
John Adams said, “But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Monica, 1% will pay the tax fine. (fact). Most of the other new taxes are for businesses who will receive subsidies. Even if I do pay a little more in taxes, I will. Taxes are at an all time low (fact) and I care for my fellow Americans and my country. I am a true American patriot. We are still the richest country in the world. (fact) Don’t believe the right-wing hysteria. We just need to work together to get the money flowing in all the right directions.
It is sad that the tea party wants to use government perks like maybe the state park you are celebrating in this week but you don’t want to pay for it. You want to benefit from
government funded medical research but you don’t want to pay for it. That is called free loading. I would prefer that my tax money never went to wars based on lies (Iraq=1 trillion dollars) but I have little choice except to keep a close eye on the neocons and protest.
Well anyway, let me know when you have some real issues to fight and not just hyperbole and rhetoric aimed at taking down my democratically elected president.
Peace out!
Diane you must not own a small business or you would know better.
Small businesses will get tax rebates. Didn’t you hear about that? Oh, and finally they’ll be doing the right thing for their employees.
Actually tax credits not rebates.
Diane is right. If you’re a small business owner, you might be interested in what the Affordable Care Act offers you, including a tax credit to offset the cost of providing healthcare to your employees. You would qualify if you have fewer than 25 full-time employees earning an average of less than $50,000 a year and you pay at least 50% of the cost of providing them with “single” health insurance.
Here are some resources about the Affordable Care Act and employers with small businesses:
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/brochures/small-business-owners-top5.pdf
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/03/betterbenefits-small-business.html
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/brochures/small-business/small-business.pdf
If you are going to write “fact” behind your words back it up with resources as to where your getting these so called facts. I do believe your on the wrong posting site and that is my opinion.
By the way, if you vote for Romney you are probably also voting for another trillion dollar war, but with Iran this time. The republicans have been drooling for this war for a long time. If that happens there will be no choice but to tax your butts off. Romney has many of Bush’s foreign advisers working for him. Vote wisely.
Diane you have been drinking the KOOL AID again haven’t you?
I prefer TEA..so shut up and sit down and stop watching and beliveing all that T.V. News
bull….just get back in line for all your free goodies ( that we all pay for)!
Getting defensive Michelle? No facts to dispute what I said?
Ask your local republican congressman or even Romney himself what his stance on how to deal with Iran if he becomes president. I would love to know too since he refuses to comment on anything. All I see is his Bush advisers and past anti-Iran comments and I am nervous.
Typical Liberal….changing the topic. Demanding sources for info that they themselves don’t provide in their ‘facts’.
It is most definitely time for a get out the vote campaign. Lets put Obama in with rest of the trash…place him at the side of the road.
Bill, I hated Bush and his crappy policies but I never spoke about him in that way. I think you need to get a grip!
I am an American, I believe in God, I believe God granted us the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. God gave those rights, only God can take them away. If we as Americans continue down this path, and continue this moral decay, I do believe God will turn his back on us as a Nation and our rights will be removed. I pray for America and the World everyday. They have removed the 10 commandments because they do not want us to think about them. They want to removed God from our everyday lives so they could slowly demoralize us. Look what has happened. We are a breathe away from Socialism. The rule of law is not even respected by our President. We can’t do that. Thank goodness for that, when we get there though, if we stay on this path and we have no one to blame but our selves. We have allowed our principles to be compromised, respect gone, honesty destroyed, on the premise that we can not stop it so we might as well join in. They are getting free stuff, might as well get it too. One person can not make a difference. WRONG!!!!, With Gods help, we can make a difference, but it starts with us, each one of us has a choice to either allow our country erode or step up and do something about it. Stop taking the free stuff, it is not free! The price is your indivdual freedom. You may not realize what you have until you lose it but then it will be too late. The only problem is we want change but we do not want to do our share to make it happen. That is why we are here today. WE THE PEOPLE, we are the people! Each of us can do something, do what we can. If each of us do what we can, then we will make a difference. God gave each of us all a talent, find yours and use it for God, not the Government. It could be making sure your registered to vote, making sure your family and friends are registered. Then vote. Take people to the polls. Educate yourself, your children and then others. Use fact and not lies or talking points to argue your case. If a person can lie to get elected, lie while holding the highest Honor in the Land, not protect our boarders, not inforce our laws, not keep any of his promies and then we put him back in office, shame on us!!!! We have no one to blame but ourselves for not getting the word out and the people to the polls. We the people can and must remove him from office. We must ALL vote in November. We need to fight for term limits and a balanced budget. We must commit to stay involved and pass that down to our children and grandchildren. We all went to sleep and now do not want to admit it, we went to sleep on our watch, all of us. If we do not win this battle, America will never be the same and we will not be leaving our Kids and Grandkids a better tomorrow, why because we never thought it could happen to us. Well, it is happening, wether you want to believe it or not, Will we let America sink or stand up and fight for our Freedom. First we replace replace the president, gain control of the senate, start holding all of congress responsible for what they say and do, join freedom works if you haven’t already, get involed and stay involved. Everyone of us can do something, it all counts! May God continue to Bless America!
Jackie, I think you have the Bible and constitution confused. They are NOT one in the same. You insult the Bible by putting the constitution on the same level as it and you insult the constitution by ignoring the separation of church and state. Anyway, I like your spunk. Just don’t get violent.
First Prayer of the Continental Congress, 1774
The Prayer in the First Congress, A.D. 1774
O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the Kingdoms, Empires and Governments; look down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, under Thy nurturing care; give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their Cause and if they persist in their sanguinary purposes, of own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people. Preserve the health of their bodies and vigor of their minds; shower down on them and the millions they here represent, such temporal blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior.
Amen.
Reverend Jacob Duché
Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m.
Separation of church in state is not in our constitution. All our founding fathers wanted to do was keep the state out of the church.This nation is going under because we have left our roots, our Christian heritage. The Bible says that a nation who honors God is blessed.
I believe the exact words of the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment are “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
It means that we do not have an established, state religion.
Matthew, first amendment.
Diane,
First Ammendment!
Congressional Fast Day Proclamation
Congress proclaimed days of fasting and of thanksgiving annually throughout the Revolutionary War. This proclamation by Congress set May 17, 1776, as a “day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer” throughout the colonies. Congress urges its fellow citizens to “confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease his [God's] righteous displeasure, and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness.” Massachusetts ordered a “suitable Number” of these proclamations be printed so “that each of the religious Assemblies in this Colony, may be furnished with a Copy of the same” and added the motto “God Save This People” as a substitute for “God Save the Kin
“Separation of church and state” (sometimes “wall of separation between church and state”) is a phrase used by Thomas Jefferson (in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists) and others expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The phrase has since been repeatedly cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ….” and Article VI specifies that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase “separation of church and state” in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Echoing the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams—who had written in 1644 of ” hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world”— Jefferson wrote, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
Jefferson’s metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States (1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson’s comments “may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment.” In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: “In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state.”[2]
However, the Court has not always interpreted the constitutional principle as absolute, and the proper extent of separation between government and religion in the U.S. remains an ongoing subject of impassioned debate.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .
I never said they were one and the same, you did. The First Amendment does not say anythng about the seperation of Church and State.
Amendment 1.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the righrt of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
That is it, that is all it says.
Also, At its initial meeting in September 1774 Congress invited the Reverend Jacob Duché (1738-1798), rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, to open its sessions with prayer.
National days of thanksgiving and of “humiliation, fasting, and prayer” were proclaimed by Congress at least twice a year throughout the war. Congress was guided by “covenant theology,”
Jackie, this is *not* a theocracy. Most of the founding fathers were Deists, not fundamentalist Christians. If you don’t know what this means, look it up. Examples of theocracies: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan (under the Taliban).
That is not correct. There were Episcopalians, Quakers, Anabaptists, Presbyteriams, and Congregationists.
There was a Congressional Fast Day Proclamation May 17, 1776 as a Day of Humiliation. Fasting and prayer, throughout the colonies. Congress urges it’s fellow citizens to confess and bewail our manifold sins and trangressions, and by sincere repent and amendment of life appease his [God's] righteous displeasure and through the merits of meditation of Jesus Christ, obtain his parden and forgiveness.
At the end of this Proclamation the added the motto “God Save This People” as a substitute for “God Save the King”
This is just one of several Procamation’s that they put out.
They believed in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The expressed that in the
Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation December 18, 1777,
I just read an interesting historical commentary that is just in time for Independence Day, and I thought Tea Party Patriots might find it interesting too, because it’s about the Founding Fathers.
“The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of their own. In 1790, the very first Congress—which incidentally included 20 framers—passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was then signed by another framer: President George Washington. That’s right, the father of our country had no difficulty imposing a health insurance mandate.
That’s not all. In 1792, a Congress with 17 framers passed another statute that required all able-bodied men to buy firearms. Yes, we used to have not only a right to bear arms, but a federal duty to buy them. Four framers voted against this bill, but the others did not, and it was also signed by Washington. Some tried to repeal this gun purchase mandate on the grounds it was too onerous, but only one framer voted to repeal it.
Six years later, in 1798, Congress addressed the problem that the employer mandate to buy medical insurance for seamen covered drugs and physician services but not hospital stays. And you know what this Congress, with five framers serving in it, did? It enacted a federal law requiring the seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. That’s right, Congress enacted an individual mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance. And this act was signed by another founder, President John Adams.
Not only did most framers support these federal mandates to buy firearms and health insurance, but there is no evidence that any of the few framers who voted against these mandates ever objected on constitutional grounds. Presumably one would have done so if there was some unstated original understanding that such federal mandates were unconstitutional. Moreover, no one thought these past purchase mandates were problematic enough to challenge legally.”
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/102620/individual-mandate-history-affordable-care-act
Who knew?
Is this true? If so it would be nice to see the cites and references from which the article was written so further research can be done. But then I suppose that would be a bit difficult given the liberal journalistic spin of the site itself.
Readers beware of any liberal spin and do your diligence before believing….
Below are two quotes from Chief Justice Roberts on the Supreme Court’s responsibility in handling the health care law.
“We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders.”
“Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
Our first priority is to REMOVE Obama and his whole entourage in November. Then, we can hold our own RINOs’ feet to the fire.
Wow! Are you guys ever misinformed and mislead! Where do you get your “Facts”? Unbelievable some of the nonsense on this site. Get the facts and become informed instead of listening to rhetoric and Fox News.
WOW!
If this site represents America, we are in deep trouble.
Government can be abolished by peaceful means and returned to to its citizens.
Forget the corrupt DoJ
Forget the Supreme Court
Forget the hopeless/ hapless White House
Join me on Nov 6 in Voters Court to
VTCLBO ! ! ! !
Question:
Are there any planned activities in demonstration of our displeasure with the SCOTUS decision planned for the 4th of July,
Or are we all going to pound keyboards at each other?