Another Landmark Day In Congress
Deborah Venable
08/03/10
No
surprise here! That catastrophic
financial reform bill passed the senate on July 15th – thanks to “moderate” help from the usual
suspect RINOs, (Maine’s two senators, Snowe and Collins and newly elected
Massachusetts RINO, Scott Brown.
From
this Wall Street crackdown article, one of the first to appear after the
passage of the bill, this quote from Connecticut Senator, Christopher Dodd,
Democrat:
"It is not a perfect bill, I will be the first to admit
that," Dodd said. "It will take the next economic crisis, as
certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill
will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators with
the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis."
What?????
Now
we have to wait for a “certain” economic crisis to evaluate how what Senator
Richard Shelby, R-Alabama has already called a “legislative monster” will
“minimize the effects” of said crisis?
What
more economic crisis situations do we need in order to test this theory? Why the one being meticulously manufactured
in the everyday workings of this current government of ours of course! Total collapse is the goal and they are hell
bent on seeing it happen!
This Reuters
article
from July 21, 2010, the date the bill was actually signed by Obama, contains a
timeline for what takes place between now and five years from now. That’s right – five years! The bureaucracy this bill creates would be
enough of a head shaker, but the unmitigated power it installs at all levels of
government over all financial institutions is unconscionable. All done in the name of protecting the dumb
consumer against his stupid decisions, of course!
Who is supposed to protect the wise citizens from the stupid decisions of government? Can anyone answer that one?
Simultaneously
this week we have seen another battle going on in Congress over yet another
extension of unemployment benefits.
This
ABC video shows Obama castigating
Republicans
for blocking extension of unemployment benefits – not bothering to explain that
Republicans are simply asking this be paid for and not “mortgaged” into the
national debt! About half way through
this video, after dredging up once again the tired old mantra of how
Republicans squandered a record surplus, (which never existed) Obama reminds
his adorers that Republicans didn’t have any problem spending hundreds of
billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthy. Uh, excuse me, how do you SPEND money on a TAX BREAK?
This
government is leading the way to showing everyone exactly how to spend money
you don’t have on things detrimental to the future of all freedom in this
country. It is bad enough that the
“have-nots” and the “have less than they would likes” of society have been
coerced into mortgaging their very souls for material goods on a debtor’s dime,
which they will probably never be able to pay back, but for the government to
insist that children who haven’t even been born yet be shackled with debt not
of their making – just to buy power and votes for people who shouldn’t even be
in power – is indeed criminal, just to put it mildly!
If
you haven’t had enough just yet, let’s move on to another atrocity recently
uncovered as we proceed to “see just what’s in” the Obamacare bill. That was another landmark day in Congress,
wasn’t it? Bad enough that the IRS was
put in charge of seeing to it that everybody buys insurance – clearly
unconstitutional – but now the IRS will be a conduit through which will flow
billions of dollars to help pay for that monstrosity. They will be tasked with collecting and reporting data on every
individual trying to do business in this country in a new and much more
insidious way. Set to take effect in 2012,
Form
1099
reporting on all expenditures paid to an individual or business for products or
services valued at over $600 in a calendar year. (There are penalties for failure to comply.)
If you need it spelled out for you, feel free to investigate further. To anyone who has ever owned and operated a business, I’m sure you can get the picture. That’s the problem though, isn’t it? The overwhelming percentage of folks now in control of what we have to do to comply with all their rules and regulations have NEVER had a real job – much less run a business of their own!
I
began this rant about two weeks ago, then set it on a back burner to wait and
see what would begin to boil over the side when things began to heat up. You know, like the Speaker suggested – pass
it and see what’s in it – I guess they do that with all the legislation these
days.
So,
here come the bubbles from that hot pot.
Read
this story
from July 28th and watch the accompanying video as we learned, just
yesterday now, that the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) will no longer
be required by the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) to comply with inquiries
from the public into any possible wrongdoing of theirs. Yep, it’s in that wonderful new Financial
legislation cobbled together to further “protect” the American people and their
finances that includes this little piece of absurdity.
As
the veil of secrecy continues to be gathered around what your government has
planned for you, the stench is rising on a scorched pot of toxic gruel – all
ready to be force-fed, once again, to a stupid American public.
You
aren’t supposed to ask questions of your government – but they can demand
anything in the way of information or money from you! Now that’s a sweet deal, huh?
Oh
yes, ladies and gentlemen, every day congress is in session is another landmark
day. It is no wonder that collectively
the congress is more mistrusted than practically any single individual who may
have graced that floor before being disgraced in any of a number of personally
reprehensible ways – including the likes of former senator and presidential
wannabe, John Edwards, who cheated on his cancer stricken wife and lied about
it until DNA evidence of the resulting lovechild called him on it. (I believe he tracks several points higher
on that popularity poll.)
If
you don’t refer to anything else in this article, don't
skip this little tidbit
of truth from a congressman’s own mouth about the perceived power of the
federal government. This is what we’ve
come to. This could be our future. The Constitution be damned simply because it
is no longer understood or adhered to by those who take what is obviously a
false oath (to them) to uphold it.
Thank
God for people like the woman who asked these questions at the town hall
meeting, and the photographer who recorded it.
Take note of just how many times this same congressman has been sent
back to congress to represent the people.
Last
week I wrote about the Faux News media becoming the Foe News media. It follows that this week we must focus on
the Faux Government becoming our greatest Foe.
I’m not the only one saying this.
Case in point, Sheriff Paul Babeu, Pinal County, Arizona, stated in a recent CNS
News interview that, “Our own government has become our enemy and is taking us
to court at a time when we need help.”
He was referring, of course, to the federal lawsuit brought against the
state of Arizona to block that state’s recent illegal immigration law – which
was gutted by a federal judge right before it could take effect.
If
there are still any patriotic citizens in this country who do not truly feel
the enmity of the federal government against individuals’ and states’ rights,
all I have to say is God bless you in your totally irresponsible
ignorance! You know not what you
believe.
So
many topics exist that I have not even mentioned, which would add to the girth
of this article, I could keep referencing examples for a very long time. The “swamp” has obviously not been drained,
as our illustrious Speaker promised.
Ethics violations by some of the most “well respected” and “esteemed”
members of congress have forced themselves to the headlines as court procedures
seem likely before the November election.
Just
another landmark day in congress, folks.
Ethics? What are they? Who can define them any more? Foe News – Foe Government – who can keep
up? Pour me another cup of tea if you will,
and uh, this time – spike it a little!