Posted by
Charlie on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:46:40 AM
"The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Impost/s and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and GENERAL WELFARE of the United States;"
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States
If anyone can think of anything the Congress has done lately to enhance the General Welfare of these United States I wish he/she would let me know what it is. I can't think of anything Congress has done except engage in bickering and finger pointing on a grand scale and, of course, spend us into an ever deepening deficit hole.
The latest outrage in the spending department is the passage in the Senate of H.R. 5501 a bill to help third World countries combat AIDS, TB and Malaria. This bill spends $50 billion in taxpayer money and triples the amount previously spent. The vote in the Senate was 80-16. Every Democrat voted for this boondoggle and considering the number of votes in favor they had plenty of help from Republicans. All 16 nay voters were Republican. Voters with a senator running for re-election take note.
Speaking of outrages the Democrats are still blocking every attempt by Republicans to increase energy supplies. Our politicians are wrangling over ANWR and delaying, as far as I can tell, debate about oil shale, gasoline from coal and other abundant sources of energy.
We must drill AND dig our way out of this problem. We must press ahead on all fronts including wind and nuclear. The politicians are not working for the "General Welfare of the United States" rather they are placing their own welfare above the security and welfare of their countrymen who they swore to serve.
Abraham Lincoln said:
"At what point shall we expect the approach
of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect
some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a
blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with
all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military
chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a
drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a
thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be
expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us.
It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must
ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must
live through all time, or die by suicide.
How right Lincoln was. Our greatest enemies are not China and Iran. Instead they are our own selfish, power hungry politicians. We have an opportunity this November to send a profound message by defeating a large number of incumbents.
A message that would reverberate through the halls of Congress. There would be change in the "Public be damned" attitude that now pervades congress.
As Lincoln warned we would be committing suicide by returning these scoundrels to office.
DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS !!!!!