Bankruptcy, U.S. Government Style

The audacity of this administration, with tomorrow's approach of the sequestration cuts, never ceases to amaze me. Here is a Government that does nothing but grab every tax dollar it can and insinuate itself into every aspect of American life. At the same time, it consistently spends at least $1.2 Trillion per year more than it takes in through annual taxation. The President's 2013 "budget" proposals, not yet presented formally to Congress, supposedly total $3.8 Trillion, with projected annual revenues at $2.49 Trillion. That proposed "budget" is $1.31 Trillion higher than revenues.  "Discretionary spending" in this "budget" is around $1.2 Trillion. Isn't it funny that you have $1.2 Trillion in discretionary spending when you don't even take in the $3.8 Trillion you propose to spend? In my mind, EVERYTHING above $2.49 Trillion is discretionary, nice to have IF you had it, spending. The sequestration imposes $1.2 trillion in across-the-board, automatic cuts (over 10 years) to both military and domestic programs, set to begin this year. The 2013 share of these cuts is $85 Billion. That is a 2% cut in PROPOSED spending! Unfortunately, despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the sequestration WILL NOT BRING TOTAL SPENDING IN 2013 DOWN TO MATCH REVENUES! The Government will still spend $3.715 Trillion! We will still have to borrow at least $1.215 Trillion dollars if the Federal government spending matches the President's proposed $3.8 Trillion budget (less the $85 Billion in sequestration cuts). What does sequestration get us? It gets us CONTINUED SPENDING FAR ABOVE OUR MEANS and matches the exact spending curve that got us into this mess! It gets us GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING AS USUAL! Congress, again, has failed the American People. It refuses to meet its fiduciary responsibilities to spend within annual revenues. Until the People express their outrage in terms that throw "the fear of God" into Congress and the Federal Government, we will continue down the path of ancient Rome into ruin. People, at this rate, we have less than 10 years until that ruin is complete. Under President Obama, the Federal Debt will double from $10 Trillion when he took office, to more than $20 Trillion at the end of his second term. Make your decision. I can only pray it is the right one. I, and Patriots like me, will remain voices crying out in the wilderness until a responsible majority does what must be done.

Stand strong, Patriots! No Compromise, No Surrender!

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

The right of the People to keep and bear arms is a major discussion today. The unfortunate thing is that it shouldn't be. This right, under the general description of self defense, is a God-given, inalienable right of all free men. The U.S. Constitution recognized that right and said it "...shall not be infringed." The political scene has become infested with those who think they know what is best for us and want to control every aspect of our lives. The right to keep and bear arms is a major impediment to them doing so, because that right allows free citizens to fight for their rights. I advise all free men to stand up and fight for their right to keep and bear arms. As said by Tench Coxe, one of the Founding Fathers:

"The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The Powers of the Sword Are in the Hands of the Yeomanry of America from Sixteen to Sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American.... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

If we desire to remain free, we need to stand up and fight those who would try to deprive us of the right that would defend all other rights, the Second Amendment. I, for one, will be one of the fighters. I swore an oath to defend and protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It seems the domestic enemies are at the gates.

One of the best discussions of the Second Amendment I have read is: 

  

The Right of the People or the Power of the State
Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment

by

Stephen P. Halbrook

I highly recommend it:  http://constitution.org/2ll/schol/jfp6ch04.htm

Stand strong, Patriots! No Compromise, No Surrender!