The Debt Careening Out of Control

Thanks to Mommy Life for putting up this YouTube video. This is an amazing representation of the national debt.. and worth watching and passing on.

Happy Fourth of July ~ The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

John Hancock
Button Gwinnett
William Hooper
Samuel Chase
Robert Morris
William Floyd
Josiah Bartlett
Lyman Hall
Joseph Hewes
William Paca
Benjamin Rush
Philip Livingston
William Whipple
George Walton
John Penn
Thomas Stone
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Lewis
Samuel Adams
Edward Rutledge
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
John Morton
Lewis Morris
John Adams
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
George Wythe
George Clymer
Richard Stockton
Robert Treat Paine
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Richard Henry Lee
James Smith
John Witherspoon
Elbridge Gerry
Arthur Middleton
Thomas Jefferson
George Taylor
Francis Hopkinson
Stephen Hopkins
Benjamin Harrison
James Wilson
John Hart
William Ellery
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
George Ross
Abraham Clark
Roger Sherman
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Caesar Rodney
Samuel Huntington
Carter Braxton
George Read
William Williams
Thomas McKean
Oliver Wolcott
Matthew Thornton

Stop Cap and Tax... Obama said under his plan energy prices will skyrocket.

Update.. the House may have passed this.. but we still have the Senate battle to come.. and it will likely be tougher for the Democrats to pass there as they will need 60 votes to overcome the inevitable filibuster. If only one or two Democratic Senators from coal states or manufacturing states stand for what is right it will not pass.

This is something about to be passed. NOW. Call your Congressmen right away. Even they admit that it will cost a LOT.... the first year of actual increased restrictions,.. with the easiest restrictions, you will only pay an estimated $175 more... but they leave out lots of important details. Add to that that companies will pay MUCH higher energy bills.. and we will see increased prices on products.. and even worse, companies moving overseas to avoid the cost. That is what happened in much of Europe when they tried cap and trade. It is a bad idea... and an expensive one.

To get a more realistic view of the cost I think it is fair to assume it will be like Britain.. where the estimated costs is $1300 per family over a year just a few years into the program. The Heritage Foundation's estimates are worse, saying that in 2020, when the restrictions hit... it will cost $1800 per family per year.. and going up, up, up and the restrictions get tougher and tougher... eventually costing over $6,000 per year.

The goal is to force us to change to more eco-friendly energy.. but the reality will be that for the most part factories and businesses will flee to Asia, just as they have in Europe.. so the net on the environment will not be better. In fact, Europe has found that companies do NOT reduce carbon use... they just raise prices. We have many failed examples of this program... I do not want us to be yet another.

Here are a few videos on the matter.. the first is a democratic Congressman sharing the facts on Cap and Trade.. and the other is a Republican ad that includes Obama's quote on skyrocketing energy prices.

This is a matter of HUGE URGENCY. They are likely to vote TOMORROW. Call first thing. Don't let this be an issue you stay on the sidelines for. You can get contact info in my sidebar for your Congressmen and women. ACT NOW.





An article worth reading: The Cap and Tax Fiction, of the Wall Street Journal.

Looking Past the Rhetoric: The Real Unemployment Numbers

I found this chart found at an excellent article at Innocent Bystanders . I hear over and over again about how this is all Bush's legacy. I don't buy it. Those red dots? The actual numbers climbing up, up, up.. those are Obama's failed policies and the results. Obama promised us such a rosy result if we just spent the billions in the recovery plan. He promised such dire results if we did not pass it. Hmmmmmm.

Clearly his policies are not doing as promised. Now he says they need more stimulus money. More. More. More. That will bring the jobs he promised the first time. If you go back and do the numbers... even being generous to Obama... the per job cost is hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But do we hear about the wastes of government now? About Obama's wasteful spending on a trip to the theater? No... but during Bush's presidency we heard about how children were starving while he played golf... and the unemployment numbers were nothing compared to now. Media bias? uh. yeah.

Pres. Obama, This is NOT a Muslim nation.. it IS a Christian Nation!

When in Turkey, our President, Obama, announced that this nation is no longer a Christian nation. This saddened me greatly. And I posted at the time on this matter. Then... on his most recent trip in the Middle East, he said something that when juxtaposed with his earlier statement made me shiver. He said that the United States was one of the world's largest Muslim nations. Put aside that this is NOT even true.. we are way down the list of Muslim population... it was only a month before that our president said we are NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION.. and now he says we are a MUSLIM NATION???

I can not begin to express my anger over that terminology. I can not understand the media silence on this and so many other issues. How is it that this country with only a few percent of our population is Muslim is a Muslim nation but with an overwhelming majority of Christians here, we are no longer a Christian nation.

Recently I was shown this youtube video where Congressman Forbes lays out the facts about our Judeo-Christian heritage. I wanted to share it with you all.



Get active everyone.. in politics.. locally.. and write and call your Congressmen. Watch our leadership carefully. Changes are so quickly coming. They undermine our nation. They undermine our faith. We can no longer sit idly by.

And pray. " If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Menu Plan Monday

Monday ~ Pork Chops with BBQ sauce, Baked Beans, Ranch Mashed Potatoes

Tuesday ~ Porcupine Meatballs, Fresh baked bread

Wednesday ~ Ravioli with Toasted Garlic Bread

Thursday ~ Buffalo Chicken Wraps

Friday ~ Pizza Night

Saturday ~ Easy Crustless Quiche, Salad

Sunday ~ Pork Burritos, Unfried Refried Beans, Mexican Rice

Obama's Plan for a Single Payer Health Care System Revealed

Thanks nicedeb.. once again.. for finding an awesome video that clearly spells out the goal of Obama's health care plan.. in his own words over time. What amazes me is not that he wants single payer.. he clearly is a socialist and his decisions in a wide range of areas makes this abundantly clear.. but that the media is so thoroughly avoiding doing any journalistic work to reveal his agenda. Sigh.

This means it falls to US. We must get the word out. We must call and write our Congressmen and women. Spread the word. Don't go down without a fight for what we believe in.

Not so Funny Friday Funny

Sad Day for the United States of America ~ Israel in Danger

Please watch this video of Dick Morris talking about the US and Israel and then read more about it at Nice Deb and another piece by Dick Morris.

Menu Plan Monday

Monday ~ Spaghetti served with baby italian zucchini
Tuesday ~ Bratwurst with sauerkraut
Wednesday ~ Pork Chops with gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, corn on the cob
Thursday ~ Rice Meatballs made with ground turkey
Friday ~ Mexican Pork Burritos, non-fried refried beans, guacamole
Saturday ~ Mexican Rice made with leftover pork
Sunday ~ Buffalo Chicken Wraps