GOP invokes 1700's doctrine in health care fight

Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history to fight Obama's Socialist takeover of our health care system.
They are introducing measures that hinge on "nullification," Thomas Jefferson's late 18th-century doctrine that purported to give states the ultimate say in constitutional matters.
GOP lawmakers introduced such a measure Wednesday in the Idaho House, and Alabama, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming are also talking about the idea.

The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Yet, the Federal Government has expanded its powers well beyond the scope intended by the founding fathers of our country.
How do we stop this unconstitutional expansion of federal power?

Nullification is a legal theory that says states, through their legislative bodies, have the right to nullify or invalidate any federal law deemed unconstitutional by that state. Nullification argues that because the states originally entered the Union as sovereign entities on the terms of a compact, they have the power to nullify any law passed by the federal government they believe is unconstitutional.

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In this video, Thomas Woods sets the foundation for the principle of nullification through illustration of Thomas Jefferson's actions in 1798.

U.S. Senate lifts veil on secret bailout funds

By Congressional mandate the Federal Reserve banking cartel was forced to divulge on Dec. 1, 2010, 21,000 lending transactions, that show it disbursed $3.3 trillion from Dec. 1, 2007, to July 21, 2010. It has also been disclosed that numerous institutions and many foreign banks received over $9 trillion off-balance sheet transactions. So $12.3 trillion tax dollars were thrown around in secrecy by unelected bankers… and Congress didn’t know any of the details!?

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• McDonald’s took $203 million from the Federal Reserve
• Six Minnesota banks received a total $450 million
• Caterpillar took $733 million from the Federal Reserve
• The USA based Verizon Communications took $1.5 billion from the Federal Reserve
• Harley-Davidson received bailout money 33 times, for a total of $2.3 billion
• The amount injected by loans into Utah-based financial institutions was $6.6 billion
• $9.6 billion went to the Central Bank of Mexico
• General Electric Co. needed funding 12 times for a total of $16 billion
• Deutsche Bank got 73 loans totalling about $76 billion
• Barclays pulled in $232 billion via 188 loans
• Goldman Sachs received nearly $600 billion
• Bear Stearns received just under $1 trillion
• Morgan Stanley got $1.9 trillion coming from 212 loans
• Merrill Lynch received $2.1 trillion, spread across 226 loans
• Citigroup got 279 loans totaling $2 trillion

"I think they [the Federal Reserve], prevented a deep recession for the people who deserved it, the big money people... the Goldman Sachs of the world.”

- - Ron Paul

Call Reid's Bluff

Conn Carroll reports that Gallup released a poll this morning showing that the American people dislike this 111th Congress more than any other Congress. Specifically, a full 83% of Americans disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job while only 13% approve. That is the worst approval rating in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance.

Why do Americans so despise this Congress? The reckless way it spends other people’s money, for starters. One would have thought that after getting “shellacked” at the polls this November, Congress would have gotten the message. No luck. Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a $1.27 trillion 1,924 page omnibus spending bill last night that contains 6,000 earmarks worth $8 billion. Oh, and all this has to be approved by midnight Saturday or the government shuts down.

By waiting until late yesterday to unveil this 1,924-page monstrosity, Reid is playing a high stakes game of chicken with small government conservatives. Since the FY 2010 budget expired on September 30th, the federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions (CR). The most recent CR expires on midnight Saturday. If the Senate does not pass a bill by then the federal government shuts down. Reid believes that conservatives do not have courage to back up their spending cut convictions. Conservative Senators should call Reid’s bluff.

Full article by Conn Carroll at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/15/morning-bell-call-reids-bluff/

Here are a few of the wasteful measures included in Harry Reid's disgraceful spending binge:

$247,000 - Virus free grapes in Washington State

$413,000 - Peanut research in Alabama

$125,000 - Fishery equipment for the Guam Fisherman’s Cooperative Association

$349,000 - Swine waste management in North Carolina

$277,000 - Potato pest management in Wisconsin

$246,000 - Bovine tuberculosis treatment in Michigan and Minnesota

$522,000 - Cranberry and blueberry disease and breeding in New Jersey

$500,000 - Oyster safety in Florida

$400,000 - Solar parking canopies and plug-in electric stations in Kansas

$165,000 - Maple syrup research in Vermont

Source: http://www.redstate.com/jrichardson/2010/12/14/redstate-action-alert-dissect-the-omnibus/

“Governments that are supposed to be of the people and for the people routinely incur debts against the people. Some governments even borrow money to oppress their citizens, and then expect them to pay for their own oppression with interest.”

– Ron Paul

AUSTRALIA REJECTS GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD

In rejecting its emissions trading system, Australia has fired a shot now being heard round the world.

E-mails have surfaced from the University of East Anglia, exposing leading scientists and scientific institutions profiting by creating and fostering the lie, that global warming is a global crisis.

Lord Monckton, the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and adviser to Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit in the 1980's said:

• [The news that the world's leading climate science institutions had been collaborating internationally for many years in a systematic and ruthless scientific and financial fraud by which they altered, suppressed, reprocessed, concealed, and conspired to destroy the data on which the world's temperature records are based has come as a wake up call to politicians previously slumbering.
• The first effects are evident in Australia, where the leader of the opposition Liberal Party was removed from office when more than half of his members of Parliament voted against his declared support for an emissions trading scheme which the world now knows to be unneccesary.
• The day after Mr. Turnbull's humiliating, but richly deserved defeat, the upper house of the Australian National Legislature, the Senate, voted decisively to reject the emissions trading scheme.
• No longer will the world's politicians allow themselves to be misled by self-serving scientists and institutions who have been making enormous financial profits at the expense of ordinary working people by fabricating the global warming scare and by then saying that they are the only people who can make that scare go away.
• Politicians worldwide who may previously have thought that there were votes to be gained by joining the global warming conspiracy should be warned first that every opinion poll shows smaller and smaller proportions of the electorate believing in this conspiracy and that the public authorities have already been called in to investigate criminal aspects of the conspiracy.
• Politicians should understand that they will not be immune from indictment themselves if they continue to pretend that global warming is a global crisis when it is now known that the crisis was fabricated by scientists who have proven themselves to be no better than profiteers and racketeers.
• The voters will not tolerate the largest tax increase in the history of human kind in the name of saving a planet which was successfully saved 2,000 years ago and does not need to be saved again.
• Now that the people have been told the truth about a conspiracy to spit on the scientific method and to invent what everyone now knows to be a baseless scare, they will not vote for politicians stupid enough, or crooked enough to speak out in favor of what is simply nonsense.]

Stop the cap and trade scam:

http://allpainnogain.cfact.org/

Obama's manufacturing czar - Ron Bloom

Just a sample of the czars, Obama has appointed:

• Van Jones: an avowed Communist, the former green jobs czar.
• Anita Dunn: Obama's czar of Homeland Propaganda. She cites Chairman Mao Tse-tung as one of her favorite political philosophers.
• Cass Sunstein: Obama's regulatory czar is an anti-gun progressive activist judge, who believes that citizens’ rights exist only to the extent that they are granted by the government.
• John Holdren: Obama's science czar has advocated coercive population control as far back as the 1970's.
• Ron Bloom: now we have Obama's manufacturing czar citing Mao Tse-tung, and calling the free market, "nonsense."

How can we not conclude, that this regime's goal is to malign the work of our founding fathers, and impose another kind of government entirely, on the citizens of America - completely abolishing our Constitutional Republic.

The entire world will be devastated, if Obama's radical anti-American transformation destroys our country - the last beacon of freedom left on the globe. Obama's compliance with The United Nations Climate Change Summit, to take place this December in Copenhagen, Denmark, will end the sovereignty of the United States of America, forever. We will be controlled by a United Nations global governance, all predicated on the global warming hoax, solely designed to extort tax money from Americans, as they implement a wealth distribution mechanism throughout the planet.

It becomes clearer as the months progress... Obama's aspirations may go well beyond the Oval Office. After transforming the U.S. into a third world country through cap and trade, (in addition to a government-run healthcare system that will bankrupt our country even further), the ultimate goal of this menace, may be to head the United Nations. That will then enable the fascist-in-chief, and his minions, to achieve a progressive, "correct thinking" collective regimentation, on a global scale.

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This disturbing video shows part of a speech by Ron Bloom, while he was an assistant to the president of the United Steel Workers Union, at the 6th Annual Distressed Investing Forum, Union League Club, NY, on February 27-28, 2008.

At http://www.haltobama.com/2009/10/556/#more-556 Dr. Rick Scarborough said:

[Despite a degree from the Harvard Business School, Bloom apparently believes that the free market is a con game — that it’s not about investors and innovators, entrepreneurs and workers getting together to offer useful goods and services at competitive prices, but a carnival side-show attraction whose objective is to fleece the rubes.
It seems the president believes this too. Every one of his policies seeks to undermine the market, take power away from businesses, transfer income from consumers (via taxation and inflation) and put it all in the hands of unelected and unvetted government bureaucrats – like Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom.
No wonder Mr. Obama has chosen to by-pass the Senate and its constitutional mandate to advise and consent, which would have required open hearings, before such ideologues were given sweeping powers, as have the more than three dozens Czars appointed during his first year in office. This president has built a shadow government, and the more we learn, the more we see that his agenda isn’t “hope and change” but “bait and switch.”]

Further analysis at: http://digg.com/d317jzx

"We get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they're convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults-only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun."

- - Ron Bloom

Grove Parc Olympics

Still living like royalty at taxpayer expense, in her speech in Copenhagen, on September 30, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her "dear friend" Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow's visit by President Obama, is a "sacrifice" on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. They were in Denmark groveling at the alter of the International Olympic Committee, (IOC), to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016.

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• "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days,"

the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project,

• "so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."

ABC news reported:
[The White House billed the trip as an "official" journey, so taxpayers picked up the costs for the slightly more than 14-hour round trip on Air Force One. The Defense Department pegs the operating costs for the president's 747 at $100,219 per flight hour. Double it to include the backup plane that always accompanies the president. Add the costs of the Air Force 757 that Mrs. Obama used to fly to Copenhagen earlier in the week. It adds up to nearly $3-million dollars. And that doesn't include the aircraft used to fly the presidential limousines and Secret Service vehicles there as well.]

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Almost before Obama could get back on Air Force One, Chicago was rejected in the first round. Was it all about celebrating the greatest athletes in the world or was the Obama Olympic push 'political payback' for Chicago cronies?

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Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine and is the Senior Advisor and assistant to the president. Before that, she worked not only as the deputy chief of staff for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, but served as the CEO of Habitat Company, the group that managed the federally subsidized Chicago housing project, Grove Parc Plaza Apartments, located in Barack Obama's state senate district. Federal inspectors have graded the condition of the Grove Parc complex, substandard, as it has been beset with code violations. In other words, at the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality, (11 on a 100-point scale in a 2006, inspection). It was run into the ground under Valerie Jarrett's tenure.

FOX News asked Michelle Malkin her take on Grove Parc Plaza:

• "It sits in the shadow of where the Olympic stadium would be built. And that's not a coincidence."
• "And, look, there is no question that property values would rise and all of these developers would benefit from that. That's why they are lobbying so hard to bring it there in the first place."
• "And all you have to do is look at how these economic development boondoggles have worked in other cities. They will use eminent domain to clear all of this land, push poor people out, and build these sports palaces that will be empty after the Olympics. That's how it always works."

Massachusetts Senate Bill (S.2028), Would Allow Forced Vaccinations

"The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the “Pandemic Response Bill” (S. 2028), reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone “suspected” of being infected to submit to interrogations, “decontaminations” and vaccines."

- - Mike Adams

Written by Alex Newman
Tuesday, 01 September 2009 17:00

Full article at: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/1797

“Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a medical police state. There is no debating it,” wrote Natural News editor Michael Adams in an August 28 article entitled "Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory 'decontaminations,'" where he suggested America was delving into medical fascism. “The citizens of Massachusetts will have no rights, period. The Constitution is ancient history. You are now the property of the State.”

The bill contains a number of controversial, alarming, and blatantly unconstitutional provisions. Under an emergency declared by the governor, the statute purports to give the health commissioner, and law enforcement and medical personnel broad authority to mobilize forces, vaccinate the population, enter private property with no warrants, and even quarantine people against their will.

The legislation provides severe penalties — $1,000 fine per day and possible jail time — for not complying with state orders, while also claiming to shield everyone involved from liability. It gives local health authorities the power “to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons” and gives government agents the authority to “arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order” while using “reasonable diligence to enforce such order.” Also, law-enforcement authorities “shall assist” medical personnel in the “involuntary transportation” of people to “treatment centers.”

The provision on vaccines does give citizens the authority to refuse the vaccination, but people who do can be “isolated or quarantined.” The same fate awaits those are “unable or unwilling to submit to decontamination or procedures necessary for diagnosis.” One part of the legislation requires that owners or occupiers of a property “permit entry into and investigation of the premises,” and another section creates price controls.