Alisa Weidenheimer

For the past few days, I am listening and learning from websites and the news regarding their opinions about where our country is leading. The one thing I agreed is that our country is leading down to a socialism path that has stemmed up way back from the New Deal. I have to say that I am really surprised that it has taken so long for people to realize that socialism is not good for our country because I didn’t know enough about politics growing up. I was just a kid, and I thought everything was great until I felt a financial instability in my adult years. The same will go for our children and grandchildren! I want to fight this with the rest of the people who believe that socialism is bad for our country and that we need to restore our constitution. Boy, they really either have been asleep or have literally given up their fights long ago!

I have been reading from “Liberty and Tyranny.” I want to share my understanding why the conservatives were having a hard time fighting what was right for our country. Unfortunately, many people are being misinformed and misrepresented by a few well-known conservatives. Here’s an example: “Michael Gerson, formerly chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, has written in his book, Heroic Conservatism, that “if Republicans run in future elections with a simplistic anti-government message, ignoring the poor, the addicted and children at risk, they will lose, and they will deserve to lose.” Gerson argues for a “compassionate conservatism” and “faith-based initiatives” in which the federal government plays a central role. Gerson all but ignores liberty’s successes and the civil society in which humans flourish, even though he is surrounded in his every moment by its magnificence. So numerous are liberty’s treasures that they defy cataloguing. The object of Gerson’s scorn is misplaced. Gerson did not ask, “How many enterprises and jobs might have been created, how many people might have been saved from illness and disease, how many more poor children might have been fed but for the additional costs, market dislocations, and management inefficiencies that distort supply and demand or discourage research and development as a result of the federal government’s role?” Now, here’s the liberal view, but before I quote this, I want to share one important quote that Obama has stated during the campaign (a very dangerous ideology): “Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” But salvation is not government’s to give. Indeed, it is not a grant to mankind from mankind. Under the wrong conditions and in the wrong hands, this deviant view is a powerful tool against humanity. The difficulty if not impossibility is in containing the soft tyranny so it does not metastasize into a more absolute tyranny, since the diminished and then vanquished civil society is the sole anecdote. (“Liberty and Tyranny” quote)

We need to be careful in how we represent a party such as Independent. What is it that drew many people away from the Independent ideal for so many years? There is always going to be so many speculations, sigh. I agreed that there shouldn’t be a two party system because it draws the American away from the core importance of the constitution. The constitution is a building block that had made our country strong and true. We need to entrench our words and educate people about the government system and how it is shaping in our country today. We got to brainstorm on something that will captivate the public and win the hearts of many. When I was out playing softball with the men and women last night, I sat down on the bench and started talking about what I was doing for the Tea Party movement. This woman had no idea what it was and she didn’t feel quite an impact of where our country is going. I was just literally SHOCKED! I was a little discouraged on the way home. I wondered how many people like her don’t pay much attention to politics. I really do think that the majority of the people are LAZY or don’t have government/economic 101 education. “His watchmen are blind, all of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, dreamers lying down, who love to slumber; and the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned their own way, each one to his unjust gain, to the last one. “Come,” (they say) “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; and tomorrow will be like today, only more so.” Isa 56:10-12 Unfortunately, this is the world we live in today and too many of them have a mindset like this… The rest of us who are fighting for our country and serving our country: “Beware of the false prophets (politicians), who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.” Matthew 15-23 When our country and people ignore our constitution that was founded on Christian principles, our country and people produce bad fruit and terrible consequences. It is obvious that constitution has lived so long before corruption has started to take its place. It is there for a reason. Without this foundation in our lives, everything gets out of control. We must persevere our faith in every circumstance.

God Blesses,
Alisa

NO MORE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

Here I am, sitting down in our peaceful, comfortable, and ordinary middle-class home with three healthy, beautiful girls, typing away in front of my simple laptop; I’m home teaching all three of them. I thank God everyday for these healthy girls, giving us His trust in raising them, and providing us what we need: a home, food, clothes, knowledge, and safety. I know that there are many who are unfortunate, and I have GREAT hope for the unfortunate. I am angry that this administration is continuing to give false hope to the unfortunate. I hate to see them living in a dependency lifestyle. They have nothing left to fight.

I have profound nerve deafness in both ears since 18 months old. I was raised in a hearing family who were democrats. I was the only person in my family who registered as republican because I believed that I do not need a government to take care of me. I was a federal employee for over 11 years at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). During my career, I saw the taxation abuse in the workplace. I didn’t like what I saw, and I left the federal government because it was a total wasteful government spending. Federal employees were hiring contractors to do their job. There is no accountability in the government anymore. The federal government hires prestigious corporations as contractors like Norman-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Titan, L-3 Communication, etc. to provide reliable technologies to our military and defense system. This is double taxation and it is wrong! If I hadn’t worked for the government, I would not have met my husband who was an engineering contractor for ARL. TAXPAYERS DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THEIR MONEY!

I want to share my thoughts with those who are reading this because it kills me what all of our politicians and past administrations have been doing to our country that used to be so GREAT and SIMPLE. With the new administration, they have wreaked havoc to the present economy at an accelerated rate than ever before! It has not gotten better; it has gotten worse.

It is hypocrisy for a corrupted government to intervene every area of our lives and think that they have all the answers in solving problems. Really, the only, simple answer is we don’t want them meddling our lives. As I watch our children grow, I watched their mistakes, and I wanted to help them, but they don’t want Mom and Dad to come in and rescue them; they wanted to think and explore for themselves. If Mom and Dad continue to help and save them from mistakes, these children will depend on Mom and Dad most of their adult life. Unfortunately, I see that kind of behavior in some families today. I also see similar behavior cycle in the government system. The unfortunates fall in that trap. The vicious cycle has to stop! They will never be free if they don’t learn from mistakes, and the government has all of us stuck into a vacuum to pay for their mistakes and cover up their losses. If my daughter carries a wallet full of $100 and she loses it, do I bail her out? No, she will have to suffer the loss and will have to be more careful to carry her wallet. Who would want to lose $100 again or make that same kind of mistake? It sucks, but she knows that she will not be bailed out if she makes the same mistake! It is human nature to make mistakes and learn from them. We are not perfect. If the government continues to bailout people or companies for their mistakes, they will never hold themselves accountable. It is a repeated, merciless cycle. The government decides whom to bail them out or not, and this is WRONG! What a complete conflict of interest! I am sure that I will lose my relationship with my oldest daughter if I bailout my youngest daughter out for $100! THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY DIVIDED AND THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG TAXPAYERS IS NOT GOOD!

If we want our teenaged daughter to be a doctor, she will have to strive for it because it is not her passion. A passion of doing a job is a special gift. No parent, no government, no teacher, can tell a child what he/she is good at. Otherwise, there is NO value in our society. God gave us a certain gift. The government has neither power nor control how a society should shape. This is what the government has been doing for a long time in the school system and in universities across the country. “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

Should we blame all political parties for creating this mess? What is the benefit of blaming them? Of course, our children blame on each other or others for getting them in trouble or getting caught, but they know that blaming others cost them consequences. They also learned that they don’t benefit themselves by blaming others for their problems. We have to take a hard, cold look at ourselves because this mess is part of our fault! We’ve got to acknowledge it! We have let all of our politicians run the show in Washington for so many years, and we sat in the backseat too long. We’ve been lax on them, too. We’ve trusted the government to enforce laws to protect our individual rights and properties, but they are not. Why make the same mistakes again and again for trusting them to handle our tax money and to reform/make regulations? They have created unfair policies to pursue their own interest, not ours: the governing powers of Federal Reserve, AIG, bailing out large corporations and taking over, selling treasury bonds to other countries, giving out our money to special interest groups, traveling to other countries for their own leisure times, etc.

We work hard for our money and have invested stocks with our money to help technology and research and development companies to grow and they fit our values. They are helping us, too. We don’t need taxpayers’ money to help us out. This tax money should go to maintaining roads, buildings, schools, etc. We’ve got missionaries, non-profit organizations, or ordinary people like us who contribute their time, money, and/or education to help unfortunate, disadvantage people in our small town communities, around the country, and/or around the world. We don’t want government’s intervention. It is time for us to take the helm by taking away their powers that have manipulated and cheated us. Our children and grandchildren don’t deserve this.

As I am sitting down, thinking about what in the world am I going to do to help stop this irrational behavior that is going on in Washington. I’m in the West coast, relying on our representatives to do their job in Washington, but obviously, I’m seeing that they are not using common sense regarding what is right for our country. All news medias are bias, but when I turn to Fox News, Glenn Beck, Huckabee, and CBN, they have more common sense and are aligned to our values. They give us information more than any other news media that don’t report them and ask us what we think. They have invited people from many different party affiliations to share their opinions. I know and feel when they are sugarcoating their words or are covering up something that doesn’t fit the puzzle. They are like children, and I know when my children are not telling the truth. They are going to get caught and there are huge consequences to pay. We want politicians to come forward and acknowledge the mistakes. It is an honorable thing to do.

The government will tell you that it is complicated, but it is not! They want you to think that they MIGHT have all the answers and to give them a chance to make it work. We did, time and time again. Politicians talk about promises all the time, and we know that they can’t keep promises because they are not God. I can’t even keep my promises with our children! I try, but I am not perfect. Our children know that they can’t expect too much from us because we break our promises sometime. It is VERY hard to keep promises. I do tell our children that I PROMISE that I will strive VERY hard not to disappoint them TOO many times. And that is the truth! They know that I am not perfect, and they see that I do my best. THE FREQUENCIES OF BREAKING PROMISES FROM OUR GOVERNMENT ARE TOO GREAT, AND IT COSTS OUR COUNTRY IN A TERRIBLE FINANCIAL TURMOIL AND COMPROMISES OUR SAFETY THAT WE CAN’T AFFORD TO LOSE. What happened if I break too many promises with our children? I will probably lose vital relationship with my children. Well, we feel that we’ve lost our relationship with the government, and we feel that we are the enemies to our government. For example, our Homeland Security labeled our right wing, conservative military and veterans, terrorists and other Americans, terrorists who are simply voicing their opinion without violence about their country.

I listen to the news everyday, and I am not too surprise regarding what is going on in our own country because we are feeling the financial instability in our homefront. I am extremely grateful for FoxNews, Glenn Beck, Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Bill O’ Reilly, and CBN for reporting and researching information for us. I can see how patriotic they are and how much they love their country. It is clear that they do share common ground with rest of us. It is not an easy job for these news people.

I’m home teaching the girls at home, and I teach them valuable lessons about our country, the hardships and successes. The girls want us to fight for their future, and they want their country back to where the constitution was enacted. I am working extremely hard getting out information to people, educating them, gathering homemakers, homeschooling parents to band together for the common good of our country and constitution while our spouses have to work and pay the bills. These news people are our voice, and please keep up the good work! Sigh, I am tired and worn out by doing the right thing because I care about issues like this that are too close to home and about the effect on our children’s future well-being.

I am angry about what the government is doing to our country! We have been too lax on the government too long! PLEASE stand up with me because I can’t do this without all of you! It is foolish to deny the problems that we are having in our country because we watch our investments sloping downward pretty rapidly and the difficulty to pay our bills.

When we are lax with our children, what happened? They get out of control! We set boundaries and limits for our children in order to be held accountable. If they step out of boundaries, then there are consequences to pay. When our founding fathers established the Constitution of the United States, they placed appropriate roles or positions to set boundaries to protect our individual rights and properties and to prevent from corruption and too much power. When boundaries are not in place, things get out of control. This country has slipped out of that boundary TOO long and this is the consequence we have to pay. PLEASE LET OUR CONSEQUENCE BE BY FINDING THE TIME AND ENERGY TO STAND UP AND RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION RATHER THAN LETTING IT SLIP AWAY AND BE A SLAVE TO OUR GOVERNMENT!

I’ve seen, lived, and experienced hardships throughout America and how we’ve overcome them in an amazing way. I’ve shared and read stories of hardships and successes with our children almost everyday, and they are so captivated by these stories because they feel relieved that anything is possible. When the government intervenes, rescues, enables, etc. people or companies from failing, they will never acquire the skills to learn to survive on their own. Otherwise, we all go down. That is why it makes absolutely no sense that the government can help the unfortunate to escape poverty.

What made America great is that we learned from history and how people survived from hardships. Historical people and countries are a great example of how we shape our country. The founding fathers learned mistakes from the British’s power, weaknesses, and strength and built our constitution to help keep our country safe and strong. It did a few years after so many new amendments have been introduced and ratified. One of the amendments such as the 16th Amendment has given the government too much power over our income tax. Our government has put a burden on our taxes by hiking. They are forcing what we can have, what we can’t have, or us to be charitable. The government is giving our money to a cause that we don’t support or believe in. There is no sense of liberty. We don’t support an enabling people and/or companies by bailing them out because we believe that they can pull themselves together, move on, and/or learn from failure, and do anything that is possible. WE ALL HAVE TO BE CONVICTED IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!

The government has spent our taxes to failed programs and continued to bailout companies and people, and our country is BROKE. They continue to enable that behavior, and we have got to let them stop that vicious cycle. They are selling treasury bonds to other countries that we can’t even afford to pay back or they will put a tax hike on us. Why should our government give other countries some privileges if they have no regards to human life?

It is human nature to testify to others how we’ve overcome hardships. It is human nature to seek freedom from oppression. Freedom is not free. We reap what we sow. Our children follow our examples, and it instills them. (We have to be careful what we do because what we sow, we will reap.). So the government has reaped what it sowed because it has instilled people. The government wants them to feel that it is impossible to find any opportunity and that the tax money is there to help them. The government wants people to take tax money in order to have control over them. When our children grow up to become adults and they want to live under our roof for awhile, they still have to abide by our rules because we pay them food and shelter. It pales similar comparison in our government today.

It’s not TERRIBLE to have materialistic things if we can afford it. I am not going to tell our adult children what they can have or what they can’t have. I will not give them the things that they don’t need if they can’t afford it. They know that they will have to make changes. There is nothing wrong living in a lavish lifestyle, but it is wrong if we can’t afford it and allow other people to take over our obligations to pay.

Many years ago when I was working for ARL, I sponsored along with a few other people in my department for disadvantaged family on a Christmas holiday. We delivered groceries, clothes, and gas money at their house. They were all so grateful, but when I came home, something about them didn’t click. This was a single mom of three children. This single mom looked healthy, bright, and didn’t have a job. I started investigating on my own why there were so many single moms like her not working and were receiving benefits from the government for quite awhile. I discovered that if they worked, they would not receive benefits to help pay the bills for food, clothing, shelter, and utilities. It is hard to live on one income with children. These moms really had a tough time paying bills while working and they actually earned less than what they get from our tax money. There was a certain salary bracket to determine for government benefit eligibility. I began to understand why the government was not actually helping them to get out of the welfare system. This is why we don’t want government intervention because it is difficult for anyone to get out of the system. There are non-profit organizations across the country that can help give these single moms good education and pay the things that they need for a period of time. The government shouldn’t tax too much on companies who hire people for jobs. This opens the doors for others like them to find opportunities. WE DON’T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO FOOT THE BILLS WITH OUR TAX MONEY! TAX MONEY SHOULD GO TO SIMPLE THINGS: MAINTAINING ROADS, BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS, ETC. AND DEFENSE.

We are cutting back more and more on expenses that we’ve never done before. We have been on the same middle-class income. We are paying out of pocket school expenses for homeschooling, left over health bills, some for my elderly, ailing mother-in-law’s living and health expenses, etc. Now, the government is expecting us to pay more taxes and credit card companies are expecting us to pay more interest for their mistakes. Credit card companies have allowed to issue credit to people who can’t afford it, banks giving mortgage loans to people who still can’t afford it, and government is still continuing to bailout failed corporations and banks. WE HAVE NO SAY IN THIS! WE CAN’T STOP PUBLIC MONEY FROM SPENDING. They are redistributing our tax money everywhere and it is so out of control! This is our tax money! It doesn’t take a rocket science to figure out how things really get out of control. I am totally deaf, and I feel it and see the activity in our investment portfolios and bills. I have some friends who are losing jobs. It really does hit home pretty hard. IT’S A GOOD THING THAT I CAN’T HEAR ANY OBSCENE LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FEEL THE FRUSTRATION REGARDING TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT CONTROL IN ALMOST EVERYTHING!

We shouldn’t be ashamed of what we have that most countries don’t have because we can set examples to other countries how we’ve overcome struggles and hardships. We need to show them that we are holding on to our hope for them that they can accomplish because we were in their shoes for a long time until our freedom was defeated and of what we’ve accomplished out here. Our founding fathers and people who have fought freedom shed their blood for us. It is time to take back our country! In order to make this happen, join the Tea Party movement and/or the 9-12 project. It is time for us to become self-sufficient again, and we need each other! RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION AND ELIMINATE MOST OF THE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE GIVING OUR GOVERNMENT TOO MUCH POWER! We the people have the right to re-establish our government. The senate and the house of representative have added too many amendments in order to have more power over us. This is why our constitution was written by brilliant founding fathers who valued human life, liberty, and happiness. This is founded by the Christian principles. I’M SO BLESSED THAT IT HAS WORKED SO LONG THROUGH HARD TIMES, AND IT WAS INTENDED IN THERE FOR A REASON!

Imagine, when the volcano becomes active, we will never know when this is going to explode. Well, people throughout history have warned us even dictators that our economy will go down the tube and our financial system will go out of control. This is just the beginning of a vigorous, boiling stage from a volcano, but when is it going to explode? Once the volcano starts to explode, everything is damaged. It will take years to repair from the damage just like the Great Depression. We are repeating the same mistakes from the Great Depression. LISTEN, LEARN, AND ACT BEFORE IT EXPLODES. WE REAP WHAT WE SOW!

Our government has NO MORE MONEY. We are PRINTING money so the dollar will continue to decrease in value. China OWNS our country and if we keep printing money that is worthless, China will not loan us more because we are borderline at this point a bad risk.

There is nowhere in the near future that we won’t be dependent on oil and we are held hostage to the Arab countries for the cost and amount of oil they will sell us. The money we pay them for oil goes towards their ability to train terrorist and make nuclear weapons. We need to drill for oil in our country now. (SECURITY REASONS) Windmills if every area of our country were covered with them would only produce about 3 to 4 percent of energy.

CA is an example of what raising taxes has done to help an economy. People and industry are leaving the state in record number. CA has followed all the ingredience to becoming a failure and now they want the taxpayers to bail them out. This is the exact model that Obama and/or other politicians want for our country.

Health Care:
Compare (it is on record) the deaths from breast cancer in the US versus Canada and England which have socialized medicine.
Compare (it is on record) the deaths from Colon cancer in the US versus Canada and England which have socialized medicine.
Compare (it is on record) the waiting time for screening tests and elective surgeries in US versus Canada and England
NOTE: Obama is going to start taxing the health insurance that your employer is paying for. If for example the insurance your employee gives you is worth $10,000 a year, you will have to add that as income when you file your Income Taxes each year. (That is a tax increase)
He wants to add a carbon tax for the environment - well I don’t really think the public understands that everything will be taxed, i. e. heating, gasoline, water, plastics, drinks, etc.

The government has FAILED at running:
Medicare
Medicaid
Social Security
The US Postal Service
The VA Hospitals
(The cost has increased so significantly they are going bankrupt in a few years. They were suppose to have kept this money collected thru the years in a special fund to pay for these services but never saved them just spent the money as they collected it. ( A real failure and we citizens are taxed for this mess)

The government has collected through the years a GAS TAX on every gallon of gas you buy and was suppose to keep this money in a special fund for road repair. They spent it as they collected the money and now this highway fund is BANKRUPT.

What major enterprise has the government ever taken that has been successful? All these above listed endeavors they have tried are now going bankrupt and our taxes have been continually increased thru the years and dumped into these failing institutions.

Public Education

Taxes have increased each year to fund public education and with all the money and resources put in, it is a failure. We trail far behind educational facilities in other countries that invest less money per student and get far better results.

IN SUMMARY:

Increasing taxes IS acceptable when results from programs have been successful. NO GOVERNMENT PROGRAM HAS EVER BEEN SUCCESSFUL. Taxpayers are continually paying higher taxes which are invested in FAILED PROGRAMS.

In our daily lives before we purchase an item or make an obligation to pay for goods and services we want accountability and information before we put our hard earned money into the venture. WHY SHOULD WE NOT LOOK AT THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SAME MANNER AND DEMAND THAT OUR HARD EARNED MONEY BE INVESTED IN SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVORS.

The government has only done ONE thing well and that is the success of our military. The reason this has been successful is because the politicians have stayed out of this and allowed the military to handle this organization.

Here are a few reasons why raising taxes are wrong. We the taxpayers just blindly hand over our money for programs that have failed and now we are being asked for more of our money to fund new programs when the government’s rate of success on every program they have run is ZERO.

If this is a democracy, individuals have got to gather together and demand that our politicians stand for something more than their self interest of getting re-elected by any means they can with no interest in the good of the people. We just listen to sound bites on TV and great speeches from Obama and other politicians but we don’t question the very direction our country is going.