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Stimulus Plan Passed

2009-02-14T09:26:00.005-06:00

Thank you Congress for doing your job! In an effort to get America back on track both the House and the Senate voted on and passed the Economic Stimulus Plan.

I am truly amazed at how lucky we are to have such great intellects and speed readers representing us. The final version of the plan all 1,419 pages was completed sometime around midnight on Thursday and passed through Congress in less than 24 hours.

Do you think anyone had any time to read this thing? It was the largest spending package and one of the most important pieces of legislature ever voted on. Effecting 300+ Million Americans and most of the worlds economies, but do you think these idiots would take the time to read it? Hell NO! Now that is what I call earning that $93,000 pay raise!

Taking Back Our Rights "HCR 6"

2009-02-13T16:29:00.003-06:00

I applaud the state of New Hampshire for working on legislature that declares enough is enough! This is a resolution affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles. Read the resolution in its entirety below.

HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED

2009 SESSION

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09/01

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

09-0274

09/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled; and

Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign and independent body-politic, or State, by the name of The State of New Hampshire; and

Whereas the State of New Hampshire when ratifying the Constitution for the United States of America recommended as a change, “First That it be Explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly & particularly Delegated by the aforesaid are reserved to the several States to be, by them Exercised;” and

Whereas the other States that included recommendations, to wit Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia, included an identical or similar recommended change; and

Whereas these recommended changes were incorporated as the ninth amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and the tenth amendment, the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, to the Constitution for the United States of America; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, -- delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress; and

That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no other crimes whatsoever; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” therefore all acts of Congress which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution are altogether void, and of no force; and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and, of right, appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own territory; and

That it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the Constitution, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people;” and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated, rather than the use be destroyed. And thus also they guarded against all abridgment by the United States of the freedom of religious opinions and exercises, and retained to themselves the right of protecting the same. And that in addition to this general principle and express declaration, another and more special provision has been made by one of the amendments to the Constitution, which expressly declares, that “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:” thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press: insomuch, that whatever violated either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehood, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals. That, therefore, all acts of Congress of the United States which do abridge the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, are not law, but are altogether void, and of no force; and

That the construction applied by the General Government (as is evidenced by sundry of their proceedings) to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” and “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof,” goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to their power by the Constitution: that words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument: that the proceedings of the General Government under color of these articles, will be a fit and necessary subject of revisal and correction; and

That a committee of conference and correspondence be appointed, which shall have as its charge to communicate the preceding resolutions to the Legislatures of the several States; to assure them that this State continues in the same esteem of their friendship and union which it has manifested from that moment at which a common danger first suggested a common union: that it considers union, for specified national purposes, and particularly to those specified in their federal compact, to be friendly to the peace, happiness and prosperity of all the States: that faithful to that compact, according to the plain intent and meaning in which it was understood and acceded to by the several parties, it is sincerely anxious for its preservation: that it does also believe, that to take from the States all the powers of self-government and transfer them to a general and consolidated government, without regard to the special delegations and reservations solemnly agreed to in that compact, is not for the peace, happiness or prosperity of these States; and that therefore this State is determined, as it doubts not its co-States are, to submit to undelegated, and consequently unlimited powers in no man, or body of men on earth: that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis), to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: that nevertheless, this State, from motives of regard and respect for its co-States, has wished to communicate with them on the subject: that with them alone it is proper to communicate, they alone being parties to the compact, and solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it, Congress being not a party, but merely the creature of the compact, and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom, and for whose use itself and its powers were all created and modified: that if the acts before specified should stand, these conclusions would flow from them: that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism -- free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power: that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. That this State does therefore call on its co-States for an expression of their sentiments on acts not authorized by the federal compact. And it doubts not that their sense will be so announced as to prove their attachment unaltered to limited government, whether general or particular. And that the rights and liberties of their co-States will be exposed to no dangers by remaining embarked in a common bottom with their own. That they will concur with this State in considering acts as so palpably against the Constitution as to amount to an undisguised declaration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Government, but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States, of all powers whatsoever: that they will view this as seizing the rights of the States, and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government, with a power assumed to bind the States, not merely as the cases made federal, (casus foederis,) but in all cases whatsoever, by laws made, not with their consent, but by others against their consent: that this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority; and that the co-States, recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void, and of no force, and will each take measures of its own for providing that neither these acts, nor any others of the General Government not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution, shall be exercised within their respective territories; and

That the said committee be authorized to communicate by writing or personal conferences, at any times or places whatever, with any person or person who may be appointed by any one or more co-States to correspond or confer with them; and that they lay their proceedings before the next session of the General Court; and

That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government of United States of America by the Constitution for the United States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America. Acts which would cause such a nullification include, but are not limited to:

I. Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the United States of America without the consent of the legislature of that State.

II. Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.

III. Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.

IV. Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.

V. Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.

VI. Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition; and

That should any such act of Congress become law or Executive Order or Judicial Order be put into force, all powers previously delegated to the United States of America by the Constitution for the United States shall revert to the several States individually. Any future government of the United States of America shall require ratification of three quarters of the States seeking to form a government of the United States of America and shall not be binding upon any State not seeking to form such a government; and

That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to the President of the United States, each member of the United States Congress, and the presiding officers of each State’s legislature.

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Is Stealing Your Money

2009-02-12T23:03:00.021-06:00

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In an effort to warn as many people as possible of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse please pass this on. The job you save might be your own! This cute little endangered species looks so harmless but in reality he is a $30 Million dollar THIEF!

That is right I said THIEF! He is trying to steal $30 Million out of the Economic Stimulus Package, so that he can protect his home while many of us loose ours because that money wasn't spent on creating jobs.

The Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse is the PORK PROJECT...err I mean pet project of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who represents the San Francisco, California's 8th District where this $30 Million THIEF lives.

So remember when you are homeless and jobless, that the leaders of our government thought more about protecting a mouses family and home than yous!

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
"Protector of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse"

Americans Really Don't Care

2009-02-12T18:18:00.004-06:00

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Americans Really Don't Care about tiny little pork projects! Those were the words of Senator Charles Schumer D-New York the other day. I saw this video and thought to myself are you F#*k%n kidding me? Everyone I talk to are so sick of these pork projects being stuck into legislation. These idiots just don't get it!

This is a time to come together and do what needs to be done to get this nation back on track. Unfortunately pork projects come before this nations well being. It is always easier to go back to your voters and boast about the millions of dollars that you brought back to your state than do the right thing and pass good pork free legislature.

Oh and by the way Senator Charles Schumer I am from Illinois and if you were my Senator I would be calling your office just to let you know that I do care and that you would not be getting my vote next election time!

Please everyone be aware of what your Representatives are doing and if you don't like it call them and make them aware of it before you loose the right to even do that!

What We Can Learn Form Australia

2009-02-12T17:35:00.004-06:00

America needs to wake up! We need to quit trying to go easy on criminal activity coming into the United States. Whether it is illegal aliens, illegal drugs, or anything else that is against our laws. For to long we have been too easy on these people that come to our country and break the laws that the rest of us are held to.

I think we can learn a lot from our Australian friends, especially on how they deal with drug smuggling. I know this is a little bit of an older video but it sends a direct message to the people who try to break their laws and the best thing about it is that they show what happens to these people on national tv.

The North Korean drug ship Pong Su was boarded and searched by the Australian Navy. After finding a large quantity of drugs on board, the crew of the Pong Su were removed from the ship, so that the Royal Australian Air Force could be called in. An RAAF F111 aircraft was called in and dropped two 2000 pound laser guided bombs on the ship.

So not only did the Australian government destroy the ship, but they broad casted the the video of it on the news along with a statement saying that the Australian Federal Government would take all measures necessary to stop illegal drug importation.

In my opinion this is how you deal with these people. I wish the United Sates would step up and say we aren't going to put up with this anymore. Thank you Australia for being a role model for the rest of the world.

Second American Revolution

2009-02-11T16:39:00.003-06:00

Thomas Paine pretty much sums it up in this video. If your a true American watch this video and then Join the 2nd American Revolution by calling you elected Representatives and let them know where you stand!

No Stimulus Petition

2009-02-10T18:41:00.002-06:00

If you haven't heard there is an advocacy group calling themselves “Americans for Prosperity” that has started a No Stimulus Petition drive. Basically Americans for Prosperity are requesting that there be no spending in any government passed stimulus package.

I don't know that I necessarily agree 100% with their No Stimulus Petition but it does have some merit. Why do we as a nation have to accept our leaders borrowing $1.1 Trillion ($827 Billion + $300 Billion Interest) to be spent on projects that don't stimulate the economy very well when there are so many good ideas out there that actually cost far less.

Here are just a few of my ideas, please feel free to leave some of your ideas in the comments.

-Lower or temporarily suspend payroll taxes

I personally pay around $70 a week just in the Federal Withholding Tax, that's $280 a month. Imagine if you multiplied that by 2 for a couple. I don't know of too many families that couldn't use an extra $560 a month!

-Regulate the Credit Card Industry

Make federal mandate that the credit card companies can not charge more than 12 or 13%. The credit card companies are Raping the American public by charging upwards of 33%.

Most people are unaware that almost all the states have laws on the books that regulate the amount of interest that can be charged by these companies. From what I remember this rate was in between 10 to 15% maximum. So how do the credit card companies get around this and legally charge you 33%? They incorporate in states like Nevada that doesn't have these laws. So when you sign your credit agreement you are agreeing to that states credit laws not your home states.

-Help people refinance their houses

By refinance I mean help get people loans with good fixed interest rates and a monthly payment that they can afford. Even if the loan has to be for 40 or 50 years. It is better than these people defaulting on their loans, besides the average person only lives in their house for about 7 years. I in no way agree with just giving these people money or paying part of their loans.

-Don't bail out the Auto Manufacturers

Why just give the auto manufacturers money to keep going? There is no value there. How about giving every American that wants to buy a new car a $5,000 tax credit for buying it?

There are still a lot of people out there with good jobs that aren't worried about loosing them that would love to buy a new car if they had an incentive. I know of a lot of people that went out and bought new cars when they were first offered at 0% interest.

These are just a few of my thoughts, but I would urge everyone in these tough times to keep up to date on what is going on in our government, know who you Senators and Representatives are! Remember your vote put them there, they represent your interests. Call them and let them know what you think on the issues that are important to you, thats what they are there for!

2009 Economic Stimulus Plan

2009-02-08T00:30:00.004-06:00

I turned on the TV this morning and heard some shocking news that the senate was close to reaching a bi-partisan agreement! Then I surfed the Internet and everyone on here is saying the same thing!

I am kind of scratching my head on this one, evidently none of these people actually watched the LIVE CSpan Senate session like I did Friday night. It is pretty bad when the national news blatantly lies to the American public and no one notices.

Out of all the Republican Senators only two are in favor of the Senates revised version of the Economic Stimulus Plan, and those two senators were part of the four person committee that wrote it. WOW! That really sounds like a bi-partisan plan to me! But wait it gets better.

This new Economic Stimulus Plan isn't like the Houses version that was full of PORK and would have cost the American Taxpayer $820 billion. This new Senate version supposedly cut out $100+ billion of pork and will only cost us $827 billion! Oh, I almost forgot since we are borrowing this money don't forget to add the $300 billion in interest! I guess this is a small price to pay for getting the economy back on track.

With this $1.1 trillion Economic Stimulus Plan it should create 1.5 million to 4 million Americans jobs! Which doesn't sound too bad. Well lets do a little math. If in the remote chance that this plan creates 4 million new jobs, which I think most would agree is pretty slim. Those 4 million jobs will only cost a little over $220,000 each! I don't know anyone who would think that sounded like a good plan. If we are just going to waste money like this why don't we just give 32 million people $22,500 to spend as they like?

Don't get mew wrong I am all for getting the economy and my fellow Americans back working again, but not at this price!

John Forte's Prison Sentence Commuted

2008-11-24T20:14:00.006-06:00

President Bush commuted the remainder of John Forte's prison sentence today along with one other prison sentence commute and fourteen Presidential pardons.

John Forte is a hip-hop artist and a backup singer for singer and children's book writer Carly Simon.

John was arrested in 2001 for trying to transport a briefcase with 31 pounds of liquid cocaine worth $1.4 million at the Newark international Airport. He was convicted of aiding and abetting in the distribution of liquid cocaine and received the mandatory 14 year minimum sentence.

$35 Million Movie Debut for Twilight

2008-11-22T16:35:00.000-06:00

Topping the box office this weekend is Twilight, the new vampire movie. So far Twilight has grossed around $35 million on Friday. With $7 million of that from Friday's 12 a.m. Showing.

Twilight's Friday take is bigger than the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that brought in $25 million on its Friday debut and when all the counting is done it may rank as the 14^th or 15^th biggest grossing movie opener of all time.

Going into Friday, Twilight was expected to gross $60 million at the most for the weekend. But now prediction are going as high as $75 million by the end of Sunday.

Napolitano Top Contender For Homeland Security

2008-11-20T21:32:00.000-06:00

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is emerging as President-elect Barack Obama's top contender for the head of the Homeland Security Department.

Fifty year old Janet Napolitano is a former United States attorney for Arizona and state attorney general. Being the governor of a border state, Janet is closely involved in immigration issues, which also falls under the Department of Homeland Security's jurisdiction.

With over 200,000 employees and a budget of $52 billion, The Department of Homeland Security is the third largest cabinet department, after the Department of Defense and the Department of veteran Affairs. As head of the Homeland Security Department Napolitano will be responsible for protecting the United States from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.

Unemployment Extension Passes Senate

2008-11-20T19:59:00.000-06:00

The Senate voted today overwhelmingly today in favor of a bill extending federal unemployment benefits. Having already been approved by the House, the bill now goes to the White House. Where President Bush is expected to sign it after White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement that President Bush will sign the legislation "because of the tight job market."

In most states, unemployment benefits are paid for a maximum of 26 weeks. This new measure calls for extending unemployment benefits by at least 7 weeks and up to 20 weeks in states that have the highest unemployment rates.

The Senate vote came on the same day the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of people filing for unemployment insurance had reached a 16-year high. Initial filings for state jobless benefits increased by 27,000 to 542,000 for the week ending November 15. This marks the third time since 1992 that initial claims have exceeded 500,000. This time last year initial filing claims stood at 333,000.

U.S. job losses have been mounting for months. This month, the Department of Labor reported that the economy lost over 240,000 jobs in October, bringing the total number of jobs lost in 2008 to nearly 1.2 million. The unemployment rate rose to 6.5 percent, a 14-year high, last month.

Several companies reporting layoffs in past week include Citigroup, which cut 20 percent of its work force, or 50,000 jobs, the biggest cut by a corporation in 15 years. Fidelity Investments announced that it will cut 1,700 jobs, and Sun Microsystems reported that it would lay off 6,000 people, or 18 percent of its work force.

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2008-11-01T20:00:00.000-05:00

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