Take OUR Country Back!
In response to a recent blog, Joe F. unleashes some wisdom on the political elite and the need for us as Americans to take our country back. Give us your take on the mess, as we will continue to feature your submissions:
The country is in such a mess simply because those gangsters in the political class in DC led by the gangsters in New York and those running the Federal Reserve (one and the same) decided long ago to totally and completely disregard our Constitution. So, the question becomes one of: are we a nation of law or not? Do we have a legitimate government (based on the founding father’s Principles as outlined in the Constitution) or not?
I am 72 years old and I have been reading newspapers since I was 13 years old (June 25th, the day the Korean war broke out). I have seen a lot in my time. And one observation I have made over the years, especially in the past 25-30 years, is that no matter what party is in power, nothing changes. Things get worse. The reason for this is simple. The educated gangsters who have been running this country for the past quarter century or so have almost completely disregarded the Constitution. They have decided that what our founding fathers put together is no longer applicable, and so they have gone their own way, with their own agenda, for their own purposes. The question now is: what do the American people do about this?
Well, the people in New Hampshire have come up with an answer. The bill before the New Hampshire legislature has told the US government in no uncertain terms that this country is made up of the United States NOT the US government. That it was the United STATES that created the US government and not the other way around (read your history–read the Constitution). It is made up of WE THE PEOPLE not a ruling political class. That the President does NOT have authority to declare marshal law without the consent of the people (as the existing Presidential executive order signed by Bush does). But make no mistake about it: all the branches of the US government are guilty: the executive, the legislative AND the judicial. All have way overstepped their bounds. And it is way past time that the American people start waking up to this nightmare before it is too late.
They have succeeded in dividing the American people with this Democrat/Republican, liberal/conservative BS. Look back at the record of the past 30 years, Republican or Democrat in the White House or in control of the Congress, whether they be liberals or conservatives it made no difference (look at Bush’s “conservative” record when it came to spending money the government does not have–taking the country broke and putting future generations in debt). These people who write into this website and others with their complaints of “the Republicans this…” or the “Democrats that…” better wake up and realize we are Americans FIRST or we will all be in a lot more trouble than we are now. We the people need to get together! Wake up before its too late!
We need to take OUR country back from the gangsters in DC and New York. They are in the process of taking the country from us! Look at the power Paulson had during last summer’s banking crisis. For God’s sakes, the man was not even elected! Yet he was calling the shots! We have a change of administration, change of party in power, and who heads up the Treasury Dept.? Another Wall St gangster from Goldman Sachs! The country is being run by Geithner and Bernanke, neither of whom have been elected or are answerable to the people.Yet we all go on our way as though everything is just honky-donky. WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!
-Joe F
Joe said:
Joe F. , excellent points you bring up my friend, thank you for bringing these points up - Joe
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Christopher L. Keister said:
WE the people need a party that have party incumbent term limits. We the people need a party to enforce rules we want inside the party.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 am
James Stoll said:
An Open Letter to President Obama
Dear President Obama,
The time has come for everyone to cease the discussion on how to same our economy. Any discussions today should be centered on “How to save America”. The first segment of that discussion must be centered on “The Rules of Engagement” involved in the task of Governing the United States. This discussion should be short and simple because these rules of engagement have already been clearly defined in a document almost as old as our nation. However, it is a document that is seemingly seldom read or even referenced by most elected officials in Washington. It is called “The United States Constitution”. It is a document that each elected official must swear a solemn oath to uphold before they can even be allowed to assume the office to which they were duly elected.
In light of current events that are swirling about in the Executive and Legislative Branches of the United States government in Washington these days, it would seem appropriate to refresh the memories of current elected officials who have apparently forgotten what the U.S. Constitution says, relative to their duties and responsibilities:
1) Amendment X to the U.S. Constitution states: “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”. That seems pretty clear.
2) Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states; “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States, but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”. That seems quite clear as well.
3) Discounting references covering the Judicial Branch, the rest of the U.S. Constitution essentially describes how elected officers of the United States shall go about doing their jobs, what they can do, how they must do it and what they cannot do, or “The Rules of Engagement” in government. So let’s discuss a few of those “rules of engagement, as our elected officials like to call them when they pertain to the activities of those who are risking their lives in wars to preserve our nation.
4) Article I, Section 8 states that the Congress shall have the power to collect taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States. Nothing is stated therein to infer that “the general welfare of the United States” authorizes them to borrow money to pay the cost of food and shelter for anyone who does not care to work, for life, at the expense of all other taxpayers who accept responsibility and choose to pay their own way.
5) Nothing in the U.S. Constitution defines “to provide for the general welfare of the United States” as authorization for Congress to borrow money to reduce the amount owed on valid home mortgage contracts of “selected individuals”, to allow them to forego foreclosure, at the expense of all other taxpayers who have chosen to reduce their standard of living in order to fulfill their contract obligations.
6) The third subparagraph of Article I, Section 8 states: “To establish a uniform rule for naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies”. Nothing is stated in the U.S. Constitution to authorize establishing multiple rules for immigration and naturalization, and nothing is said about bailing out, or semi-nationalizing, selected publicly owned businesses who are determined by the government to be “to big to fail”, while others are left to suck air.
7) I can find no wording anywhere in the U.S. Constitution that authorizes the U.S. Congress or the Federal Reserve to borrow money from other nations, in amounts that are beyond citizen comprehension, in an attempt to maintain “the status quo”, thereby driving the nation rapidly toward national bankruptcy, leaving the wreckage for future generations to resolve.
I think it is high time for those elected to national public office to cease and desist all conversations regarding stimulus plans, bank survival plans, government nationalization plans, publicly owned business bailout plans, home mortgage salvation plans and alternative tax rebate plans. I think it is time for all those elected officials to take a week off, to read and memorize the U.S. Constitution and then return in session to debate what they can and cannot do and how they must go about doing it, under the long ago written “rules of engagement” contained in that document. The comment: “So What, We Won”, is not to be allowed in that debate. The phrase “We are the Rulers and you are the Serfs” does not yet apply in America. Any elected official thereafter who continues his or her self-centered ways and again violates his or her solemn oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution should be immediately tried for Treason against the United States of America.
May God save us from our government and ourselves.
James S, Ex-U.S. Navy & Veteran of the Korean Conflict
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
Rob Meier said:
Right on JoeF!!! I would like to suggest that people who have come here and agree with Joe to read The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. You can find it at Amazon or http://www.realityzone.com. This book is about the Federal Reserve and tells the United States history in dealing with banks. Ron Paul , Peter Schiff, and I’m sure Rick Santelli have read this and all agree with it.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Don Ruane said:
Do we Need Congress?
Now that we Have Obama, do we really need Congress. Lets look at the recent work the Congress has performed for us.
1: Does Congress fit Obama’s definition of good money management. Need Congress: No.
2: Tarp 1 and Tarp 2: From all the reports most, if not all members of Congress did not bother to read either of these bills. Not enough time, the sky was falling. These bills were rushed through Congress without anyone knowing the contents of the bills. We are talking about spending $750 Billion Dollars and it all happened in the middle of the night.
Need Congress: No.
3: The Stimulus Bill: Obama sent the Stimulus Bill down to Congress late in the afternoon and by midnight it was passed by both Houses of the Congress. The Stimulus Bill, $890 Billion, was 1200 + pages and not one Congressmen or Senator could have possibly read, no less understood, what was in the bill. Need Congress: NO.
4: Budget Bill: This is the largest budget bill every in the history of the United States. This bill is not getting any better treatment the Tarp 1&2. It is not getting any better treatment then the Stimulus Bill.
It will also be passed in the middle of the night without meaningful debate. I have looked at the bill online and no one can possibly read or understand the content of the bill, no matter how much time you spent reading the bill. Need Congress: No.
So, we see that Obama is calling all the plays for the Congress and Congress is give all it powers to Obama, so why do we need Congress. If you are looking for true saving, getting rid of the Congress would save over $Billion Dollars, each year, to get to the people who do not pay taxes.
There are a couple other questions we need to ask ourselves.
1: Do we need the Media. No voices of truth there!
2: Do we need the Supreme Court. Looking at their record of destroying the Constitution. No truth there.
3. Do we need the States. When the 17th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1913 the State lost their voice in the Federal government. Nothing loss there.
4: Do we need the Federal and State courts. Obama is going to stop the reasons for crime. So we have no need for the Federal and State courts. We could also close all the Law Schools they are not going to be needed. That would be so great.
5: Do we need the military. Probably not because Obama is going to make everyone love America, even the Muslins.
Lets’ get rid of Congress. What do you think?
Please let me know you feelings on these matters
Don Ruane.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
L. Napoleon Cooper said:
The American Public elected a black man to the Office of the President of the United States: Get over it.
September 5th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Bobby Newland said:
Joe,
I am a two combat tour veteran of the Korean War.
Do you know of a group that really wants to take our country back. There is a way. If you do send them my email address and I will talk to them.
bobby
October 11th, 2009 at 9:01 am