From our Founders to Obama

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury, “Think Barry’s BBQ ribs in every pot and home ownership for deadbeats”. “The result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy is always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two-hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back again into bondage.”
—Alexander Fraser Tyler, 1700 Quotation found in SYNERGY Server [Note: The Professor wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over a thousand years ago this when America was a British colony.]

I begin this most prescient posit quoting Professor Tyler primarily for his profound ability to stand askance as to the execution of government when the enumerated powers loaned to the federal government are ignored and/or adulterated. Thomas Paine, “the Rush Limbaugh of his time” said, “Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one”. This is the state of governance we are compelled to tolerate and endure.

“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” — James Madison, {general author of our constitution}

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

These quotes from our founders; “whom I believe were rooted in divine inspiration” have been totally filed under, “I” for irrelevant and looked upon by our present day congress and the executive branch as merely a super sized roll of Charmin® three ply in the same men’s room formerly occupied by the toe tapping, wide stance Senator from Idaho; A.K.A Larry, “men seeking men” Craigslist.

When James Madison said that the text of our constitution specifically states that no where in that document was there a codicil or even the intent that our federal government has purview over the distribution of charity; Or taking income from those engaged in productivity and transferring it to baby machines and winos whose preference is to suckle at the teat of earners.

After all; it was James Madison who actually wrote the constitution with the help of Thomas Paine; thus answering once and for all the intent of this sacred parchment.

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

Abraham Lincoln, “the object of Barry’s man crush” also had thoughts about spreading the wealth, though his thoughts were diametrically opposed to the temporary lease holder of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties”.-President Abraham Lincoln.

As the ratings for the Obama sitcom dwarf those of American Idol; thanks in large part to the Presidents decisions to close club Gitmo and relocate its clients to a halfway house in Crawford Texas, while rescinding the water sports portion of their daily entertainment and limiting the questioning of these misunderstood, peaceful reformers, “ who accidentally go BOOM” on occasion to, “ how can we make you more comfortable” or “ would you like President Obama to sign your Koran” ? We the people are treated to an administration most reminiscent of a three stooges re-run…Nyuk, Nyuk!

Meanwhile; back at the White House, “where the black guy lives”, Obama spends most of his time rating female interns from 1-10 yet, has found time to jimmy the government cash register and pilfer $1 gazillion greenbacks to finance Ass Chaps on Rabid Nuts, or “ACORN”. Abortions for European cheerleaders, their mothers, unwed sheep and that mother in California that just gave birth to eight children; now possessing a football team, complete with backups.

And; as Obama plays Santa Clause for every mega-liberal wet dream, he intends to pay for this shopping spree by placing his picture on the dollar bill and stenciling in twelve zeros next to the $1. That and combining his fight against obesity by taxing Americans by the pound, sending jackbooted IRS thugs out to literally make change by hoisting citizens by their ankles and shaking them; dislodging the change from their pockets, appointing Bernie Made-off as confiscator of wealth from the wealthy, changing the mission of the peace corps to picking up aluminum cans, unionizing the homeless, taxing sex by the inch, “Democrats would be allowed to estimate” taxing children’s allowances and playing the lottery. I’m reminded of the words of very wise men and thier thoughts on taxes.
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
—Winston Churchill

“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve such spending] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”
—President Franklin Pierce (1854)

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built”.- Abraham Lincoln

So why the historical perspective, why the history of those great men who not only conceived this document, “our constitution” a document we conservatives consider to be divinely inspired and sacrosanct; A document that these great men pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, under the penalty of death? Why? Because my friends it is being dismantled, one section at a time, under our very noses.

Sadly; we have become a politically correct, Oprah watching, spoiled, fat, sassy, entitled, lazy, sappy, microwaveable, remote control, blasphemous, fast food, Hollywood worshiping, selfish, non-voting, politically illiterate, government dependent, credit card, sub-prime, ignorant sheep. Quick; what is enumerated in our tenth amendment? What are the names of all nine Supreme Court justices?

These questions were put to a cross section of college seniors with predictable results. Less than 10% could name even five justices, less than 1% could paraphrase our tenth amendment. None of the participants could give even a basic explanation of economics.

Perhaps it’s just my conspiracy, black helicopter, and grassy knoll, nature that believes this is but coincidental and arbitrary. Though, After all; were our founding documents ingrained into our young skulls full of mush, along with a basic understanding of economic principals; the democrat party would be extinct and exhibits of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, ET. Al., would be featured in the Smithsonian next to the Neanderthals.

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power”.- Thomas Jefferson

The Rhetorical dagger I most often use when skewering you Lilliputian, liberal, bootlicking lackey loons from the left as I Lionize conservatives and belittle the salmonella tainted, peanut size frontal lobes possessed by you water head, short buss, Forrest Gump’s, Is simply common sense combined with my inherent, unequaled, unqualified brilliance.

Even with your diminished liberal mental faculties; I have but one question for you special ED, Special Olympics flunkies. And; it is this. Even taken for granted that the majority of you lack of the gray matter to form a coherent thought, tie your shoes or chew gum at the same time you must accept the gold standard of substantive recumbentibus pertinent thelemic freedoms that we are indeed endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights that do not come from government; but no, our rights are God given and simply loaned to government as a temporary note.
Meaning; what government hasn’t the authority so enumerated to that body in the text of the constitution, they have not the authority to exercise. There is no federal, constitutional, powers which would allow government to empower the treasury secretary to allocate funds, to collect earnings from one taxpayer and deliver them to a slacker, to regulate states exploration of energy, to bailout anyone or anything, to fund abortion, to set, “CAFÉ” standards, to fund education, to apply federal taxes to any goods or services, to regulate anything that does not involve a commercial dispute between the states, or the thousands of duties our federal government has taken upon itself.
Our constitution is clear and unambiguous. The federal government is charged with three and only three duties and is limited by the tenth amendment from straying into other legislative arenas. Those authorities are; to provide for a common defense, to negotiate international treaties and to settle disputes between the several states, only in the context of interstate commerce. All other governing responsibilities reside with the states.
These weren’t simply suggestions postulated by those great men whom born this country by sacrificing blood and treasure. No; our founders actually put quill to parchment and specifically enumerated those edicts as governing principals to be adhered to. And; lest there be any doubt they also affixed their John Hancock’s to their document and swore an oath to protect and defend the principals within the text. By the way; this is the same oath taken by our President and congressional representatives.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s time for those elected, spoiled, greedy corrupt bastards and bitches who have made a career out of screwing the people they are supposed to be working for, just maybe they should dust off the constitution and give it a look see. For those career politicians with the courage to do so I would expect a speedy resignation. For the document they swore to protect and defend, they have adulterated and defiled.
Conservative Springfield 09FEB09