Grover Cleveland on socialist welfare

A quote from a Democrat President before Dems were overthrown by socialist doctrine.....
Grover Cleveland:
"I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan as purposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the approriations of public funds for that purpose. I can find NO warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and the duty of the General Government ought to extend to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government the government should not support the people...The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the
expectation of parental care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood."

Big Tent Republicans

There has been a lot of talk lately about the Republican need for a 'Big Tent'. What they mean is that if the Republicans want to win they have to do as Reagan did and win the moderate vote. An elusive task for the McCain-Palin campaign. Logic would then lead one to believe the only way we can win is to pacify and appease those who teeter on the fence. But I have another idea, perhaps a less popular idea but I am not dissuaded.

Big tent politics wins elections, Obama more than proved that. However, I believe it is as useless to the moral fiber and direction of this nation as chocolate cake is for the health of our bodies. Sure it's filling but its nutritionally vapid and ends up rotting your teeth. If a party such as the GOP begins to be all inclusive they become weak in the face of legislative and judicial evils. Conservatives have been the majority in the Republican party for many decades. It is our party! If we decide that our principals mean nothing and political power means everything we become as venomous as the Democrats. We must win people to the Republican party by winning them over to Conservatism not watering down Conservatism.

What if your local church decided that to boost revenue they would now begin supporting the strip bar across town and every Sunday during offering instead of heavenly voices from the choir, strippers do a live show. Hey, have you seen the kind of money guys spend at these bars? The church could be rolling in cash! Then they could denounce the first books of the Bible so evolutionists would join. The Main Stream media would come and film it and Obama would join as soon as we made Rev. Jeremiah Wright our new pastor. Yes the coffers would grow but the message and the goal would be lost. Christ threw out the gamblers and bookies! The church has a duty to grow by winning hearts and minds through teaching God's word. Conservatives must also grow the Republican party by winning hearts and minds! They too must get out there and take the word of Capitalism and Liberty to the public. We must grow our party as we grow our churches, one convert at a time. So quit sitting there in the pews nodding your head and saying 'Amen!' every few seconds, get out there and preach the virtues of Conservatism. Teach people that a less intrusive government, states rights and individual Liberty is better than tyranny and serfdom offered by the Left!
We don't need a bigger tent, we need a knowledgeable public that recognizes tyranny and bands together to defeat it.

Obama to cede American Sovereignty

He is the British Benjamin Franklin of our time. Instead of dispatching him to France as revolutionary America did; today's Great Britton has sent 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (Lord) Christopher Monkton to rally America to the cause of defending freedom!Please Watch the video and/or read the transcript below.

Transcript:

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,

Is hanging breathless on thy fate.

The American Trinity

1961 Reagan speaks out against Socialized Medicine!

On the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign, Ronald Reagan Speaks out against Socialized Medicine.

New Order

In her 1938 novel, 'Anthem', Ayn Rand wrote about a futuristic form of totalitarianism in it's truest most virulent form. She was worried that what happened to her homeland of Communist Russia would take root here. She wrote Anthem to warn Americans and other free nations that tyranny is just a breath away from any generation and that loss of the individual and our sense of self rests in the ashes of a Communist\Socialist based dictatorial rule. Rand understood that the strangling of Capitalism and the 'Snuffing out' of free enterprise lends to the rapid loss of freedom and liberty.

Obama and his cohorts in Congress may wear faces of incredulity when they hear us compare their recent initiatives to the undertakings of the world's most vicious tyrants, but they know full well what they seek is no different from the 'Utopian Society' prophesized by Karl Marx and Engels in 'The Communist Manifesto'. They seek equality through the involuntary egalitarian law of wealth redistribution. They seek consolidation and arbitration of Financial, Governmental, Medical and Private institutions while using junk science like 'Global Warming' to regulate all aspects of the citizenry. These are not mere extrapolations of the Manifesto's penumbra, these are text and verse, line for line, adherences to Marx, Goering, Alinsky, and Mussolini.

The indubitable Pelosi called Townhall attendees "un-American" and claimed they were wearing swastikas. Conservatives are regularly derided and disregarded by this new brand of leftist. Regardless, we continue to raise our voices, not because we are partisan or religious zealots, but copiously frightened! We are not acting and speaking out as bigots, racists or xenophobes. We are driven to unambiguously state our opinion on these matters because we have learned the lessons of history, we have read the writing on the wall and we know our very lives depend on stunting the growth of this new more powerful strain of socialism! We do not want to walk down Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' and end up being Rand's lead character....'Equality 7-2521'.

Poverty Redistribution

Early 20th century writer Hilaire Belloc wrote in his book, 'The Servile State', that "To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life..." Belloc was right and this quote reminds us that the freedom to succeed or fail is intrinsic in all people. Some nations are led by governments who do not understand or respect this right. America survives only due to it's respect for this right of the individual to succeed or fail.

Yet some, like our President, believe you have neither the right to succeed or fail. This is an absurd and dangerous belief. Leftists believe it is the duty of government to redistribute wealth by punishing successful hard working Americans and rewarding the non-contributing masses; they call it equality.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that, "All men are created equal". President Jefferson would have been disgusted by the defiliation of his words by President Obama at his inaugural address, where he announced that we have, "..the God-given promise that all ARE equal.." Obama did not mis-speak, he meant what he said. He believes equality is possible. But all are not equal. A hard working 45 yr old CEO is not nor should he be equal financially to the twenty year old high school drop-out who spent the last five years getting high and sleeping on his mom's couch. Should we hobble the superior athlete or blind fold the faster reader in the name of equality? Should the government be given the power to decide the winners and losers by turning winners into losers?

Let's consider this line of thinking for a moment. All people are NOT equal. All Americans are born with the same rights but none are intrinsically equal. The idea that all can be 'MADE' equal through government regulation and redistribution is an impossible task. Any attempt to implement this philosophy will result in great loses of liberty and the producers in our society must be robbed of their personal property and their lives!

Americans must come to understand, tyrannical growers of government like Obama, must take liberties, properties and wealth from individuals to procure this growth. Absolute despotic governmental power to redistribute wealth is only obtainable through a large scale rape of individuals and private business. Leftists never argue that everyone should be rich; they seek to make everyone poorer not richer. When the government redistributes wealth they take more than money, they take away your ability to succeed in life.

FA Hayek referred to this as a 'Planned or Controlled Society'. In order to dictate fairness and equality the President must control every aspect of our lives, not only monetarily. It is a great misconception of the Left that wealth redistribution and legislated fairness or equality only effects our economic situation. Wealth redistribution is actually a misnomer. When neo-Marxist/ Socialist leaders like Obama gobble up the private sector and begin to control more and more of our economy, they don't then give that power and wealth to poor people, the government absorbs it. There is no wealth redistribution, only poverty redistribution.

If you have two cars and your neighbor has none, a controlled government would seize your second car and give it to your neighbor. Did that make your neighbor richer like you? No, it made you poorer like your neighbor; while making government the arbiter of your possessions and your life.

So when you hear Obama continue to tout equality and fairness remember what President Ford once said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have,".