White House (CNSNews.com) - A bipartisan coalition of 36 members of the House of Representatives–including 30 Republicans and 6 Democrats–has sent a letter to President Obama asking him to return to Congress its constitutional legislative authority to oversee the bailout of the auto industry.

When did the Executive branch of the federal government get the constitutional authority to tell a private business what products to produce, how to produce it, how to design it, who can work on it, how much the employees should be paid, what private dealers can sell the items, and then pay the private citizen buyers a bonus to purchase the new improved items if they sell off the older unimproved items?   When was the constitution amended to allow this usurpation of power?  When was the last time the president refused to sign a bill because the constitution forbade him?

If Microsoft ever got into financial trouble, what would prevent Washington from nationalizing the company because so many millions all over the world depended on it’s software updates?   What would prevent Washington from nationalizing Home Depot because the company was not providing it’s customers with environmentally friendly wood?  McDonalds, because the company was encouraging obesity?  Your local grocery store for selling produce without a government safety inspection?   Wal-Mart, because the employees were not unionized?  

The Obama administration is taking the country on a trip down a 12 lane highway without any defining lines.  

Without a defining border, without a defining yardstick, this country is heading toward Government Motors czars, along with Government Cyber Space czars, Government Banking czars, Government Insurance czars, Government doctors, Government Meal Preparation Specialists, Government Child Care Specialists, Government Home Care Operatives, Government recycling czars, Government home building czars, Government Radio watch dogs, and on and on, including a Government gun free zone from border to border. 

And the people said: Just don’t mess with the entertainment industry.

And the government said "we wouldn’t dare."

The following is an article from the Russian news PRAVDA.   How come they get it, and our news agencies don’t?

"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?"

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A June 3rd hearing is set to look at the new and greatly expanded food safety bill, which would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to access a $1000 yearly registry of all food facilities serving American consumers. 

Hard hit by this bill will be the small food suppliers we really don’t need, but enjoy their usefulness.   Once such area would be your local farmers market, where local growers of vegetables and fruits etc. sell their products from the back of pick-ups etc.   We have one of those in town which just opens during the growing season and attracts quite a crowd on Thursday and Friday evenings and all day Saturdays.   Another is the parking lot stands serving snow cones etc.

Do you really think that the owners of these small acreage, often peddling organically grown healthier veggies are going to fork up the $1000 registry fee?  

Do you really think those kiosk size snow cone sellers will fork up the $1000 registry fee, so that they can make a few bucks over the summer?

Nope, say goodbye also to these and other small operations, like the mom and pop restaurants opening for lunch only.  

Summary of Discussion Draft of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
I just picked out a few of the items.

• Creates an up-to-date registry of all food facilities serving American consumers.
• Requires all facilities operating within the U.S. or importing food to the U.S. to implement safety plans.
• Directs FDA to issue regulations for ensuring the safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables.
• Increases inspections of food facilities:
• Improves traceability of food:

Now how about this item:  Directs the Secretary to include food in an active surveillance system to assess more accurately the frequency and sources of human illness.  What does that mean?  ". . . the frequency and sources of human illness" can be just about anything that a human being encounters during the day, but would certainly require the full cooperation by doctors and hospitals to monitor the "surveillance system."

What’s the constitutional authority for this?   The old standby that can be used for everything under the sun: "general welfare."

The Obama team of economic advisors are recommending that the US impose a 10% VAT (Value Added Tax), on the American people.   In more common terms, the VAT would be called a National Sales Tax,    Why are they proposing a tax increase after sending out all those stimulus funds?   Well, according to Obama, the government has run out of money. 

Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look

At a White House conference earlier this year on the government’s budget problems, a roomful of tax experts pleaded with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to consider a VAT. A recent flurry of books and papers on the subject is attracting genuine, if furtive, interest in Congress. And last month, after wrestling with the White House over the massive deficits projected under Obama’s policies, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee declared that a VAT should be part of the debate. 

With the debate about a national health care being debated in a halfhearted way of debates by our debate loving Congress, and in light all of the other spending that the feds have been doing to revive this economy, which is the fault of too much government intervention anyway.   What then does the government intend to do to correct the spending that caused the huge deficits?   What else, but tax the citizens before they die, and then again after they die.   Throw in a tax on the soda pops, a tax on the high in fat foods, a tax on the carbon dioxides of cows, a tax on the carbon footprints of each and every one of us.   Throw in there also a tax on energy busting light bulbs, a tax on appliances, a tax on kiddies too.   Soon, a tax to throw a tea party.

Because Social Security is in trouble.

Because Medicaid is in trouble.

Because the IRS is not collecting taxes at the forecast rates because many more people are out of work.

Because the deficit is rising.

Because people are not spending monies on tobacco products as great because of the taxes raised for tobacco products.  

Because the middle class is shrinking back into the welfare rolls and not paying their taxes as before.

Because the investors were hurt bad when banks and wall street went down the tube.

Because the rich are moving offshore into tax havens.

Because the government is growing at a faster rate than industry can afford.

Because sometimes people cheat on their taxes, so the IRS hired more people to find the cheaters.

Because people are not cooperating by volunteering to send in additional tax monies. 

Just Because.

The statements below are attributed to Obama’s nominee to the supreme court, and for a supreme court nominee, those statements should be enough to disqualify her for the highest court in the land.   She’s definitely an activist, who has used the court to advance partiality.    Bork her.

• “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,”
• a “court of appeals is where policy is made.” She then immediately adds: “And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it. I’m — you know.”
• “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said, for jurists who are women and nonwhite, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
• “Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,”

A Judge’s View of Judging Is on the Record   The New York Times.

Now, we’ll see if any of the republicans vet her on those statements.

Hopefully the republicans will treat her with the same fire and determination to send her back to where she came from as the democrats treated Robert Bork.

Oh well, Obama has made his pick and the democrats have the majority, but do they have the super majority of 60 votes?   We’ll see soon how the voting turns out.  We’ll see soon how the republicans stick together.  We’ll see soon if the democrats stick together and relegate the constitution to the trash heap, as part of the progressive recycling program.

A democracy will last to the time the people realize they can get things from the government.

Is the greatness of America a thing of the past?

The Tom Brokaw of NBC was one of the many liberals invited to give commencement speeches this year.   His was at Fordham University in New York.

Tom Brokaw fretted that the "vital signs" of "Mother Earth" have "taken a turn for the worse," as he cited global warming as a problem this year’s graduating class would need to help solve. He also used the term "economic justice," a term commonly invoked by the Left, as he called on graduates to "restore economic justice." Brokaw: "We need you to celebrate one another in a common cause of restoring economic justice and true value, advancing racial and religious tolerance, creating a healthier planet."   More. . .

The usual stuff of lefties.   Fear mongering their vision of death for the planet.  Citing population increases as a problem to tackle.  Pushing the economic disparities of the US free market system as being unjust.  Pushing racial and gender divides.  etc. etc.

According to a biographical sketch of Brokaw, his salary at NBC is $7,000,000 for broadcasting his version of the news he decides America is in need of hearing.   That’s what all of our major network news departments do anyway, so Tom is not alone.  We the people get what they, the media, decide what we the people ought to know about.  Another reason why I do not watch any, not any news reports from any TV station.   I prefer to pick and choose my own news that I wish to know about.

Anyway, for economic justice, Tom should perhaps share most of that $7 million to the ones in need.    Did he cite greed as being a problem of the CEO’s of GM, Ford, or Chrysler?  

It’d be interesting to know just how much Tom gives away to charities each year to do his part to correct that "economic injustice" he talks about.

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, liberals do not give nearly as much to charities as do conservatives, but yet liberals talk a whole bunch more about their giving than conservatives.

Currently the US emits in the neighborhood of 1,600,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.   That figure is according to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.

Now the Waxman-Markey nearly 1000 page unread bill that is likely to pass the mustard test in the house and the senate and then go on for a signature to make it law, requires that carbon dioxide emissions in the US be reduced by 83% by the year 2050, 41 years in the future.  Reduce 1,600,000 by 83% and you get 272,000, and that my friends is their goal, that’s 83% less than what is being consumed now.   And that takes us back to the year 1905.

It has taken America 104 years of an industrial revolution, a few major wars, a great depression. a recovery, and landing men on the moon to increase our carbon dioxide emissions to it’s current level, and congress now wants the country to decrease it’s carbon dioxide emissions to the 1905 level and do it in just 41 years.

Now, how do they plan to do that?

They don’t really know.  They just want to cut our emissions and pulled a figure out and said, yeah, that’s a worthy goal.   That sounds doable.   A little sacrifice here and there and we should be able to, if we all just work together and stick with it.   Changes are good.   Turn it off.   Start walking.  Grab a blanket.   Abort the kids.   Euthanize old granddad.

Hey, you think I’m kidding.   Well, each of those suggestions are living breathing program suggestions by the “sustainable living” crowd.   Too many people on the planet.

What was life like in 1905?

• Life expectancy was 47.
• Only 8% of homes had a bathtub.
• Only 8000 cars in entire US using just 144 miles of paved roads with a speed limit of 10 mph.
• The average wage was 22 cents an hour, adding up to an annual income of $400, if you worked all year.   But, sugar only cost four cents a pound, eggs were fourteen cents a dozen, and coffee was fifteen cents a pound, and marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter because of their life enriching ingredients.

Let’s make some more worthy goals.

By the year 2050 100% of the cancer patients should be cured within 1 month of initial diagnosis.

By the year 2050, the war on poverty and drugs will be over.

By the year 2050, a government provided personal Segway on every front porch and a government paid personal assistant, nurse, nanny for every family.

Obama’s energy, climate plans would drag U.S. back to 1905 – or 1862

We’re in for a bumpy ride.

Never let a good opportunity slide by is the game plan of Obama.   It has been said that the US lost credibility the world over because of the "waterboarding" that Nancy did, did not approve of for use at Gitmo.   Obama is taking this opportunity to "change" the way we deal with terrorists by bringing some of the more responsible ones back into the US for a fair trial under the US civilian court system, since they are not classified as prisoners of war.   They are people too.   They deserve a fair trial.   Let a jury of their peers decide.    

“In dealing with this situation, we do not have the luxury of starting from scratch. We are cleaning up something that is – quite simply – a mess; a misguided experiment that has left in its wake a flood of legal challenges that my Administration is forced to deal with on a constant basis,” Obama said. “The problem exists because of the decision to open Guantanamo in the first place.”

"Barack Obama and Dick Cheney battle over war on terror policies - Josh Gerstein and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com" -

If Gitmo was never opened in the first place, then the US would be in better position in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Israel/Palestine situation would take care of itself, and Iran would be welcoming a Perez Hilton performance.

"President Barack Obama agreed Wednesday to share US nuclear power technology with the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, giving his consent to a deal signed in the final days of George W. Bush’s administration." 

Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST

Nuclear power is good for anyone else to develop and use, but not good enough for the US.   According to those in power over these things, the option of expanding our Nuclear power stations is off the table, not even considered as an option.  Why not?  The Arabs think it’s the best way to go.  "The United Arab Emerates wants to break its dependence on outside sources for its energy needs and settled on nuclear power as the best option."  Why would the US not proceed in that direction?   Fear mongering about 3 mile Island.

Who’s running the show in Washington, anyway?   No, It’s not president Obama.   And no, it’s not the democrat majority in congress either.

The Environmentalists are running America.

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Union leaders, clergy and liberal members of Congress gathered in the mostly empty U.S. Capitol Visitors Center early Tuesday morning to hear multicultural choir music, speeches from religious leaders–and to pray for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

I have a hard time reconciling the fact that religious leaders are backing and supporting this bill (EFCA), when the purpose of the bill is to remove a persons right to privacy.  By removing a persons right to vote in private, it violates their freedom of choice by possible intimidation.   What Christian church leaders could possibly reconcile this with scripture that tells of God’s creation of individuals with free wills.   Even God himself will not violate a persons free will.  This bill is not about free choice when a union representative (thug) would know which way each and every person voted.   These liberal clergymen are confusing God’s unlimited love for people as being dependent upon embracing the behavior of people.   No, you can love someone and not love his behavior.  In fact, you better treat your kids that way.

But why would Christian clergy embrace an act that defies God’s plan?   Again, they are the ones who get the ten commandments as the ten suggestions.

We get the answer in the next sentence in the story.  The event was a prayer breakfast sponsored by Faith Leaders for Workplace Fairness–a coalition of liberal religious groups that was formed for the sole purpose of promoting EFCA, commonly known as the “card-check” bill.

This is a Liberal religious group formed for the sole purpose of promoting EFCA.   They are in cahoots with the unions to persuade the likes of just average Joes who may be confused by just reading the title of the bill: Employee Free Choice Act.   This group was formed to provide liberal politicians talking points they could use to promote EFCA and continue to get Union backing for their campaigns.   "EFCA is all about fairness in the workplace."  This group was formed to provide the media with ammunition to broadcast to viewers.   "Church leaders have now given their support to EFCA."

EFCA is about Unionizing America, it’s about sending in a group of people to unionize companies like Wal-Mart and then work their way down to the smaller businesses with just 100, 50, or 20 employees, like your local landscaper, so that the union gets bigger and bigger and can send more money to Washington to get more favors from the politicians. 

Where in the constitution does it authorize the federal government to mandate how an election must be held to organize a private business?