Law & Politics
Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. Our greatest enemy today is not Obama. It’s not the socialists in Congress, the liberal activists that serve as judges, it’s not Islamist terrorists, the Communist Chinese, the Federal Reserve, or illegal immigrants. Those who do not learn from history are bound to – what? - repeat it.
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The highly-trained Roman military, moving rapidly on their advanced road system, was over-stretched in conflicts at the boundaries of their vast empire. For the military industrial complex, business was booming.
Elizabeth: Hello?
Republican fundraiser: This is Sarah from the Ohio Republican Party. How are you ma’am?
Eliz.: Fine.
Repub.: This won’t take long at all. We know you’ve been a supporter in the past, and we have many key races coming up and…
Eliz.: Ma’am, let me just cut this short and explain something to you. Until the Republican Party begins to endorse candidates that are pro-family, pro-life, who are for limited government and true to the Republican platform, we are not going to continue to give money to your candidates or the GOP.
Repub.: Well, this is not the first time I’ve heard this. But we have a lot of phone-calling to do so we can stop the liberal agenda…
Please keep doing what you are doing. I agree that you should run for political office. I am a "timid" Christian, and after I listen to you I become fired up and feel drawn to get involved, especially concerning health care issues, as I am a registered nurse, certified in hospice and palliative care. You are very convincing and convicting when you speak and would motivate us to become actively involved in upholding the values our Constitution intended.
I thank the Lord for what you do and lift you and your family up to Him.
Nancy
Dear Dr. Johnston,
I just wanted to let you know how much my wife, Brigette and I appreciated your speech at the Zanesville Tea Party on Saturday. We are from Akron, but were camping at Salt Fork last weekend. I looked up the closest July 4th Tea Party, so we came to Zanesville. It’s so great to be among like-minded people. It’s easy for me to get downtrodden and say, “Forget it, the country is so far gone, it’s irreparable!” But when I attend a party, it’s so rejuvenating! Your anecdote about whether your descendents would spit on your grave or not was similar to a thought I recently had...
We are here today because our nation is speeding toward a cliff, and our leaders think the best remedy is to pick up speed. We are on the verge of an economic catastrophe the likes of which most of us have never seen. Our government owes $244,000 of debt for every taxpayer. Repaying the interest on the 11.1 trillion dollars of debt is the third largest expense in the federal budget. This is the equivalent of you maxing so many credit cards that your interest payments on your credit card debt takes up 1/3 of your paycheck! That’s just digging yourself deeper into the pit of your economic demise! Yet the budget this year breaks all records by increasing the debt trillions of dollars!
The government thinks that capitalism and free enterprise has failed us, and they want to increase their control as a remedy, when in reality too much government is the problem. Of course the state’s going to prescribe more of the disease to try to better our symptoms because they profit off of our exploitation! The politicians increase the likelihood of their re-election if they can coerce us out of money to give to causes that we would not give to freely if we had the choice. If you want to fund a cowgirl museum in Arizona, bail out a failing bank or a wall street executive, give drug addicts free needles with their Medicaid check, or fund a tattoo removal program in LA, you are free to write them a check. But when you use the power of government to force others, upon pain of fine or prison, to give to causes that they would not give willingly if they had the free choice, then you’ve violate the 8th commandment, which says do not steal.
Unemployment and home foreclosures may be the least of our problems. Tax rates comparable to the former U.S.S.R.’s, the loss of our nest eggs, and the bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare will be the least of our problems if we continue down this road. The consequences we will face as a nation will be the loss of our liberties and the enslavement of our children under the shadow of an all-consuming communist state.
Our forefathers intended to prevent this in the Constitution. The state’s remedy for our economic troubles is a blatant violation of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which says that any obligation not granted to the federal government within the Constitution belongs to the states or the people. Does the Constitution grant the federal government the right or duty to spend taxpayers’ money to bail out failing private industries? No. Defying the Constitution does not amend it. These bailouts and all this unconstitutional spending is unlawful.
“CRY LOUD, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show the people their sins”!!!!
Re: your tract “Judge Not Lest You Be Judged”: You don't know how many times I have explained the Judge lest ye be judged scriptures. My atheist friends who don't even know how to spell Bible quote this to me when I tell them to denounce sin, or come against abortion and homosexuality. If they would, I don't know, read the whole thing the concept would probably be bestowed upon them.
Just a letter of thanks I'll keep this devotional in my mind so I won't have to say a word, just hit send. lol
Neshiyqah Nash
Since Jesus is Lord of all, as individuals and as nations we have only one of two choices: submission or rebellion. We will be ruled by sinful man or we will be ruled by God.
When your pastor gives the invitation for unbelievers to repent and trust in Christ for salvation, the call often goes out, "Make Jesus Lord of your lives!" However, strictly speaking, no one can make Jesus the Lord. He is the Lord, whether we want Him to be or not. Our choice is submission to Him and His will or rebellion.
As King Saul learned after his partial obedience to God in his dealings with the Amalekites, partial obedience is complete disobedience (I Samuel 15). It is rebellion according to the prophet Samuel, and it is as the sin of witchcraft, which seeks another power and another ruler rather than the Creator. Samuel equated Saul's partial obedience with idolatry, for he worshiped another god when he refused to obey the true God.
Uncle Tom was the figure in Harriet Beecher Stow's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character in the novel was quite virtuous, but the term "Uncle Tom" is often used in a derogatory manner. Instead of resisting the enslavement of their race, "Uncle Toms" helped slave-owners maintain their control over the lesser field slaves. "Uncle Toms" would even be useful in mistreating and punishing other slaves, and would receive preferential treatment for it. "Uncle Toms" were Judas Iscariots who betrayed their own people for selfish reasons.
Obama's an "Uncle Tom."
Obama has officially consorted with Planned Parenthood in the slaughter of millions of black babies, and in office he plans to expand the reach of the black-baby-killers. In July of 2007, Obama told Planned Parenthood that the first piece of legislation he would sign would be the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would invalidate virtually all abortion limits approved by state legislatures in all fifty states. All partial birth abortion bans, all parental notification laws, virtually all state legislation that has decreased the amount of abortions would be overturned by Obama's bill. In fact, the Freedom of Choice Act would see the closing of Catholic and other religious or private hospitals. This legislation would remove any conscience-clause measures from state laws that protect doctors, hospitals, and medical professionals who don't want to be involved in abortions.
Obama's position on abortion is more extreme than any pro-abortion Democrat. As an Illinois State Senator, he publicly defended infanticide, the killing of living, breathing babies who survived late-term abortions. Even Hillary Clinton voted for the Born Alive Protection Act, the legislation in the U.S. Senate that was akin to the Illinois legislation that Obama opposed. He is a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion killing organization in the world.
Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an advocate of eugenics who coined the term "birth control". Her views were very extreme, and yet Planned Parenthood, the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, has never repudiated her, but continues to honor her and even distributes an annual "Margaret Sanger Award" to supporters. Margaret Sanger advocated birth control and, if necessary, forced sterilization for those deemed unfit for reproduction. She believed that African Americans were an inferior race that required white masters to control and subdue them for the betterment of civilization.
Margaret Sanger wrote of her dependence upon African-American ministers and social leaders in order to succeed in her "Negro Project" mission to exterminate the black race. In essence, she needed some Uncle Tom's. She said, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members... I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full-time Negro physician. It seems to me from my experience ... that, while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table, which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and ... knowledge, which ... will have far-reaching results among the colored people."
Barack Obama is the Uncle Tom of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, who had as their mission to "exterminate the Negro population." So are all the ministers who turned a blind eye to Obama's extreme pro-abortion views and endorsed him because of the color of his skin. The injustice of slavery and the Holocaust of black babies in America could never continue without the likes of them.
What hypocrisy for Obama to claim to champion the dream of African Americans since the time of colonial slavery, and yet lead the way in slaughtering more African American babies than ever! According to statistics provided by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, for every two African American women that get pregnant one will choose to abort. A black baby in America is five times more likely to be killed in the womb than a white baby. Even so, that's not enough dead black babies for Barack Obama.
The preborn child is Obama's "nigger-slave" - the dehumanized expendable human being whose rights are to be ignored and who is to be exploited and destroyed for the profit of the powerful.
I am amazed at the liberty Americans are willing to give up for a little treat. Americans were overwhelmingly against the bailout of Wall Street executives and high-rolling bankers. Investors who took big risks to earn big profits must also bear the losses. According to many experts, the government bailout only postpones the inevitable, making it much more painful and expensive over the long run. It also devalues the dollar through the Federal Reserve's inflationary printing of money to meet Congress' deficit demands. Over 400 economists - some renown - have signed a petition to strongly oppose the bailout. It failed in the House the first time, in part, because of the strong disapproval of most of Congress' constituents.
The Senate responded by attaching a hundred billion dollars of hand-outs and "targeted" tax breaks to the bill and it passed in the Senate 74-25 on October 2. The goodies in the bill have quieted the opposition. We saw the same thing in the House on October 3rd: so much pork for constituents back home had been attached to the bill that it easily passed in the House 263-171. Our children and grandchildren are already facing tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities with Social Security and Medicare, and yet we enslave them with even more intolerable debt.
James Madison, the "father of the Constitution," said, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." Unconstitutional spending is unlawful spending, its popularity notwithstanding.
Read political mailings and the letters to the editor and you will realize how so many want the state to pay for things that they do not want to pay for themselves. We demand the state to provide for cheaper health insurance, better educational institutions, free mental health services, better homes for less money, and cheaper fuel. Businessmen want the politicians to help their particular business with handouts from the treasury (in exchange for campaign donations for their re-election, of course.) We want more free milk from the governments teats, financed at the expense of everybody else. And if the taxpayers cannot afford the handouts we demand, then we borrow it and make our posterity pay it back with interest.
As with most of the unconstitutional duties with which government bureaucracies encumber themselves, the free market can do it better and with less expense. Private education, for example, costs half as much as public education. Yet the bureaucrats still want more money "for the kids." The Muskingum County Home is another example. It costs $68,208 per year per resident at the County Home, $56,508 of which is subsidized by the taxpayer. It would be far cheaper to pay any of the established homes in the region to care for our indigent seniors. We are already taxed for Medicaid, but the County Home is not even eligible for Medicaid funding. Imagine what the county could do to serve all Muskingum County residents with an extra $3 million per year, rather than spending those funds on just sixty residents whose care is already provided by Medicare and Medicaid.
The pit of economic bleakness looks like a black hole into the future to those attentive to the recent indiscretions of the federal government. I am concerned about the future of our national economy not primarily because of the predictable dramatic failures of private companies in recent weeks, but because of the government's responses to them. Risky business deserves most of the blame for the crisis, but government regulation, particularly Congress' delegation of monetary authority to the Federal Reserve company and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also deserves much of the blame. Now what do the politicians propose as a bipartisan remedy? More risky government spending and more government regulation!
The recent failure of Ameribank, the twelfth federally insured bank to fail this year, the failure of mega-mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bankruptcy of investment company Lehman Brothers, the demise of Merryl Lynch, and the colossal failure of one of the largest insurance companies in the world, the American International Group (AIG) - all this would be traumatic enough without a government response that irresponsibly wastes taxpayer money and devalues the dollar,
The $85 billion dollars bailout of AIG last week was a move so stupid that only a bureaucracy with no personal wealth invested could do it. With this move, the government is taking over a half-trillion dollars in worthless mortgages and other bad debt by failing institutions. And this, politicians are calling an investment? This is the largest intervention ever of the federal government into private industry. Fannie and Freddie will cost the taxpayers between $300 billion and one trillion dollars. (A trillion dollars, to put it into perspective, is the wealth of a million millionaires.) The taxpayers have also been forced pay $29 billion to take the risk for billions of dollars of bad investments by Bear Stearns. On September 24, Congress loaned $25 billion to "struggling U.S. automakers," a request that banks wouldn't touch because of its risk. This handout was endorsed by the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. There was also over 2,322 pet projects tagged to the September 24th bill which totalling $650 billion dollars, designed to rape the taxpayers' bank accounts to help the incumbants get re-elected. The politicians from both classes continue to spend, spend, spend, deficit or no deficit.
Our founders tried to prevent this kind of Communist intervention into the free market with the Tenth Article of the Constitution, which limits the central government to designated duties and gives all other obligations to the states or the people. Is there any constitutional authority for the federal government to take over private industry? No. These bailouts are unconstitutional and therefore unlawful.
It's so easy to be risky with someone else's money. Imaging a weekend of gambling somebody else's millions in Las Vegas - wouldn't that be fun? If you lose the money, it wasn't yours anyway. Think about all the friends you could make by handing fistfulls of money to fellow-gamblers, and all of the carelessness they could exhibit since it was not their money they were gambling. How giddy with compassion our politicians and bureaucrats get with our money!
Some of these failing companies, such as AIG, attempted to get private investors and banks to loan them the money they needed to stay afloat, but were unable. Why? They were not sufficiently profitable. Their investments were risky. Their income and equity could not sufficiently guarantee that the loans requested would be repaid. The books showed that they were unlikely to be able to pay their bills and keep their promises to investors. It was just too darn risky.
Unable to get loans from banks and free investors, the free-market demanded that these companies liquidate assets in order for them to compete. The free market was demanding that AIG's CEOs and automaker executives cut their million dollar bonuses, sell unprofitable assets, lay off employees that were less profitable to business, and make dramatic cuts of employee benefits. Isn't that the fiscally responsible thing to do when your bills are greater than your income? Spend less, sell something, and get out of the red and back in the black, right?