Raucus Caucus Faucus

Could any political party have a more desperately disaster of a week? In a blog post from July of 2018, “The Straw That Broke The Donkey’s Back,” I wondered about the lack of leadership of the Democrat Party. In that case it was the outlawing of straws that seemed to be not well thought out. It appears that they are no long playing the long game.

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The current leadership has shown none of the of gamesmanship of the former Democrat Party Leaders. Today the current leaders appear to be so closely tied into what the appearance of political corruption that they are running scare. To be fair the leadership has never faced the one of a kind President Donald J. Trump. I respected Ronald Reagan. However I feel he was too trusting of his political opposition. He expected them to follow through on their commitments. But anyone who lived through those year know that they did not honor their word. From their constant attacks upon him and such betrayals as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act after which the Congress failed to fund enforcement of the border control provisions.

Nevertheless, George H. W. Bush, in an effort to be “liked”, undid most of the tax and spending reforms championed by his predicator. Which made him a one term president. That has been the problem with the GOP presidents with their relations with the media and the Democrat Party. The Democrats can say whatever they wish, no matter how inflammatory about any Republican, and the Maxis Media (MXM) reinforces the narrative. However, whenever a Republican defends themselves the MXM dutifully attacks them as if they have no right to self-defense. That has changed and the many on the media and the Progressives are lost on how to take back the narrative.

With the change in the political climate the Progressives have opened themselves up to the radical Socialist and Communist. People like AOC are power hungry and don’t seem to care how they obtain it. Even the longtime fan of Communism and Independent, Bernie Sanders has gained a strong foothold amongst their ranks.

I have no doubt that the Democrats will do everything that they can to keep a person who refuses to join the party to run under their banner. However they were shamed into modifying their (very un-democratic) super delegate process after the 2016 nomination fiasco. Contrary to what they claim the actual process puts control of the nomination into the hands of a group of party leaders that can by fiat select the party’s candidate. This is how they excluded the non-party member from running as a Democrat in 2016.

This is where I think things get interesting. A party that claims to hate the Electoral College uses a process that, to some extent, resembles it. By not making the process directly tied to the popular vote they betray the basic rules of democracy. In this case, it is more about control by a select group as compared to allowing more equity based upon the will of the states as a whole. They like the control that the super delegate process because it gives the leaders of the party a veto. I am very sure that they would love the Electoral College if they could control it. This is the very definition of tyrannical rule. Rule by the few over the will of the governed.

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Well this week the Democrats had their first caucus of the 2020 Presidential Election Year and there are a lot of question about why it is taking so long to determine the results. There is a lot of speculation that the results have been held up due to Mr. Sanders was winning. That is almost certainly true due to some interesting results that were release, which showed Mayor Pete winning the most delegates, while Sanders received the most votes. As I write this writing, the head of the party is calling for an immediate “recanvass” of the botched Iowa caucus. To me this raises the specter of more funny business. Even the MXM cannot fully cover up this disaster.

One of my best guesses, and there is other speculating on this, is that the Democrats want to abandon Iowa and most of the rest of the nation in the heartland of the country, that they are unable to control. The leaders of the party seem to be more in favor of letting New York, Illinois, California, and the large Metropolitan areas select their candidate and the winner of the election. They are working hard to do anything to enforce their rule upon the nation and defy the will of the people across the nation. I would also speculate that the totalitarian Communists and Socialist in the party that are pushing this so that they can obtain that power they crave.

Therefore, after this week, the GOP is in a very strong position. The Impeachment fiasco and the implosion of the Democrat’s Caucus in Iowa left the Progressives wounded. However, this is not the time to drop our guard. The Democrats have shown me that they are the sworn enemies of our freedoms and the Constitution as a whole. As they continue to embrace totalitarian Communism I will continue to dedicate myself to defeating them. Until a party emerges that will work to protect our freedoms and the health of the nation as a whole I will do what I can to defeat them. The Democrats are selling snake oil and only helping those who help them.

Today is the day for all freedom loving Americans to fight against those who will overthrow our government and hand our lives to the Globalist who dream of a perfect world. There idea of a perfect world is them in complete control. They claimed that they were protecting the Constitution while ripping it up even more than what the Speaker of the House did to the State of the Union speech.

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Chess, Checkers, or Poker

For many of the people in politics they spend their lives playing games. They’re constantly jockeying for positions and positioning themselves for power. The games they play can and do have different degrees of effect on the population as a whole. Some good and some bad, but sometimes the most benign policies can have the most devastating effects. These plays for power can be even more dangerous when the goals of those playing the game are hidden or obscured by lies and political trickery. It is not surprising to me that during the height of the so called government shutdown the Congress declared that week National Chess Week. Most people did not understand the message that they were sending. They were telling the political class that they were beginning to play a game with the nation.

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After the last election the Democrat party made no secret to the fact that their goal was to destroy the Republican Party. They seem to be doing a good job of it. This would create by default a single party system. There is another name for single party rule. It is called a DICTATORSHIP. One of the first acts of a dictatorship is to eliminate all opposition and outlaw other political parties. Dictators do not negotiate. Dictators do not compromise. Dictators rule through force of will, executive orders, and thug tactics. They suppress any opposition through any means available. They play both chess and poker by both planning their moves far in advance and then executing them or if that fails they bluff their opponent into caving.

The greatest danger of a person who is an egomaniac and has sociopathic tendencies is that you don’t know how far they will go to obtain their goal of total power. It is very possible that they will take a scorched Earth tactic that says: if I can’t have it, no one will. This was the danger warned about with the latest debt ceiling debate. There was a justifiable fear that Mr. Obama would violate the Fourth Amendment and refuse to meet the physical and financial obligations of the nation in order to through the world into chaos. Only an anarchist or dictator would be willing to punish those who he was elected and serve in such a manner.

But let’s also consider that the leadership of the Democrat Party is not as egotistical or sociopathic as it seems. True they had no problem shutting down the government and doing unnecessary things to elevate the pain of the American people. From closing the White House tours due to the Sequester to Barrycading national monuments to closing private businesses and evicting people from private homes due to the so-called government shutdown. They wasted a lot of money to punish people to place the blame on the Tea Party. The Democrat Party leadership went as far as closing overlooks on state highways just to inconvenience vacationers and the random traveler. It was enough to convince a lot of people that with the threats of default being used by not only the president but by the leaders in both parties it could have happened. Yes there were Republicans repeating the threat and not pointing out that it would be a violation of the Constitution for the government to not pay its obligations or that Social Security is self-funded from the SSI trust fund and by law, payments must be made. But that didn’t stop the threats or the fear that this government would ignore the law and The Constitution. It’s not like anyone in any of the leadership positions seem to show any concern for their oath of office.

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It appears that the leadership of the Republican Party is happy to help the president and Democrats with that goal by destroying the support for the party among its base in the general population. Without popular support and a loyal party base there is no way they can win. The establishment GOP has not only abandoned their base. They have alienated some of their strongest supporters.

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The leadership of the GOP is either extremely stupid or they are in league with the Democrats. There is no doubt that the Republican Party has no love for the Tea Party. They see them as interlopers who are interfering with the finely tooled machinery of Washington. How many times have you heard John McCain or another leader within the GOP talk about how this is not the way we do things in Washington? Yes GOP attempted to take over one of the largest Tea Party support organization, Freedom Works. They’ve worked hard to discredit and discourage members of other organizations because they consider them a threat, not to the nation, but to the power structure of the GOP.

So it seems to some people that the Democrats are playing Chess while the GOP has been playing Checkers. Well I really don’t know if it is that simple. Yes the Democrats want to destroy the Republicans but that would be too dangerous for them until they can take complete control of the nation as a whole. As long as they need an antagonist they want to keep the GOP alive but very sickly. They need an adversary to blame all the bad things that occur. The Democrats still must worry about the state governments. Although they have a strangle hold on Washington, with a very accommodating opposition party, there are state governments that are not falling in line. For your average tyrannical government this is not a problem, but time may not be on their side as long as there is a strong grass roots effort opposing their goals.

It now seems that the kabuki theater in the District of Columbia over the budget battle and the debt ceiling has been won by the Democrats and a major lose for the Tea Party. It seems that way because the media and the political leaders of both parties are busy blaming them for all the trouble over the government budget issues. But is it possible that both parties have overplayed their hands? Could it be that they were only bluffing themselves? Could it be that too many of these so called leaders have spent too much time in government and lost touch with the populace? It is too early to tell, but the idea that we are still back in the 90s when the major networks had a total monopoly on the information given to the public is a bit naive. There are forces at work that make the political games very important to all Americans. Will the GOP and Democrats win their games? Well I don’t know, but it is not a game when you are talking about the lives of millions of people.

The ideas that made this nation the greatest in the world were freedom to succeed or fail by controlling our own destinies. There are people awake to the destruction of our way of life and they want it stopped. We are tired of the corruption in Washington. We want leaders who will protect our rights, not look for ways to circumvent them. We want respect for our views, not condescension from a self-appointed ruling class that uses their power and influence to become millionaires and then use it to solidify their power. We need to remove this every growing government that thinks they know how to run our lives while they run their own. It is time to stop playing games with the middle class, buying off the poor with empty promises that only keep them poor and enrich the rich.

No matter the game being played by the politicians in our capitals, they win and we lose. It is time for a change. We need to realize that the system is not a two party system. It is a one party system playing all of us for fools. It is time to put an end to their games. It is time to look for new leadership that will return us to the original intent of those who created this nation and made it great. It is time for free people to once again be free. It is time for We The People to end the games that are being played by the politicians, no matter if it's Chess, Checkers, of Poker.

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RHIP

If you’ve ever been, known someone, or lived with anyone in the military then you should have heard of RHIP or Rank Has Its Privileges. This comes some cold hard truths. The higher your rank the more important you are to the success of the whole. Officers can do things that enlisted personal cannot. At each level up the more privilege an officer will be able to access. This is also true in civil and political life.

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But with privilege comes another something else. RHIR or Rank Has Its Responsibilities. One of my favorite movie scenes is from Ben-Hur. It is were Judah Ben-Hur stands before Pontius Pilate and is meet at the bottom of the steps to his throne. He comes to him as a friend and warns him that if he will only go back to Rome he will not punish him. But once he climbs the steps, he is no longer his friend but the representative of the Roman Empire. We select people every 2, 4, or 6 years to represent not only us, but to protect the nation and the laws that guarantee the safety and security over the long term.

Our elected officials are just citizen servants charged with the assume responsibility. They should not only be looking at the needs of the present, but also considering the future. Today too many of the people serving in Washington seem to be looking more to the next election or next year then the ramification of their decisions made today. This short sightedness can lead to disaster. Not only their legislation but their words are very important.

The President holds a very special position in this nation. He helps to set the example for the nation and by his words alone can make dramatic changes to the culture. President Obama was elected as much of an unknown to many of those who voted for him. Mr. Obama like any president is responsible for holding the nation’s people together, to comfort them in times of trouble, and console them in times of need, hardship, or disaster. But he has failed at every attempt to do so.

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We are a nation of minorities but the president seems to favor one minority of all the others. At every opportunity that he has had to calm the nation he has instead seemed to gladly divide us. This is such an epic failure. But many of those he choices to pander to are more than willing to not only accept it, but seem to love the division created. Since his election he is quite willing to play down to the lowest common denominator in our society. It is easy to understand why those who are protesting the death of a person by looting and rioting are not interested in the law or equal justice. They only see an opportunity to commit crimes with the blessing of those in power.

Those whose jobs requires the protection of the innocent citizens must make sure that those willing to ignore the rules of a civil society are not encouraged by their actions. No matter if you agree with what you are doing or not the needs of the many do outweigh the wants of the few. The President has and continues to fail every time he makes inflammatory statements to incite violence.

We must find leaders who are willing to not only protect the nation from enemies from without but from within. When leaders no longer are willing to make the hard choice and serve only their narrow minded objectives, then we as a people will not be a nation for much longer. The violence in the streets being promoted and applauded by many who claim leadership roles are not what is best for our nation. Before this cold race war becomes a hot race war, those who are pushing it should really look at will could be gained and lost. It is not always the leaders of the revolution who wind up in power. Minority armies even with the support of the government may find that they are just pawns in a bigger game.

It is time for those in Washington and around the nation to step up, take responsibility, and do their jobs. Or we as a people must band together to restore law and order to our nation before it collapses under its own weight.

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Memos From Monday 2-13-2012

Obama’s Accommodation: The most high, might, and holy Emperor Barack Obama once again has commanded from his throne a new accommodation to replace his compromise. In his wisdom and a show of his ultimate power he announced that the matter of the proclamation to the Catholic Church is settled.

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Somewhere along the way this man seems to think that he has ultimate power. Even though he has been very successful in his efforts to shred the Constitution, those days may becoming to an end. The Democrat Party and their success in cramming the unconstitutional ObamaCare down the throats of the American people. They really believed that they could create a new right, by ignoring the fact that humans are not capable of create new rights. The idea that the government can run something as complex as the health care system in this nation is laughable. The idea that the leader of that party feels that he has unlimited power is frightening. It is time to stand up to this self imposed dictator and overturn his edicts.

So this is were we are as a nation. The President continues to grab power not assigned to him in our governing documents. The Congress ignores the will of the electorate. The courts are creating laws. It seems that no one is interested, but that would be wrong. The Left Stream Media may be complaisant with the Progressive agenda, but the winds of change are blowing. there are enough people becoming aware of the way our freedoms are being betrayed. Now is not the time to lose faith in our neighbors and family. It is easy to think that their is no way to fight those in power, but we still have the ability to take back those freedoms lost.

If the American people of faith don’t unite to overturn this illegal power grab by the current representatives in Washington we will soon be unable to stop the erosion of liberty. Too many people have already lost sight of what has been and is being taken. This attack on the First Amendment and those continuing on the Second Amendment must be stopped. Those who are moving quickly to enslave us must be sent packing. As I see the number of government officials that are choosing to retire leaves me with hope, but we must make sure that those who replace them are willing to put a stop to the status quo.

The Obama accommodation is not within his power to make. It seems that he really believes that he can order independent companies to give away any product or service at his will. He really thinks that his power has no limits. His order violates everything that this nation was based upon. November is the time to show the Obama Administration and Washington the true meaning of limited government and the real meaning of the US Constitution.

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Obama’s Truth: The President once again shows his Chicago roots. His campaign is organizing troops to take to the streets. Could it be that these street troops are going to engage in intimidation? Will we see more tactics that were seen in past Obama campaigns? It is time for a new Attorney General that will actually protect the system and not the people within the system. The idea that once again the President and his allies once again is attempting to control free speech. Never in this country have neighbor turned against neighbor. We can not allow a corrupt President, who only cares about his personal power to corrupt the entire system. The lies that he tells that are then ignored by the Left Stream Media are bad enough, we can not allow him to determine what is the truth or a lie. I will continue to point out the errors of this President and Congress as long as I’m allowed.

$3.8 Trillion Budget: The Idea that $3.8 Trillion and budget are in the same sentence is a crying shame. The fact that anyone could stand up and tell anyone could say that they were going to cut spending while spending over $1.3 Trillion of borrowed money is contemptible. Too many people have lost touch with reality if the majority really believes the tripe that the President put out today. There is no way that we can continue spending money like there is no tomorrow. The fact that any politician could present something called a budget that continues the failed policies of the past.

It is clear that the whole thing is nothing more than political maneuvering. As Harry Reid has refused to consider a budget for over 3 years now, the Democrats continue to blame the Republicans. The President’s Chief of Staff told the nation one of the biggest lies of the last week by saying that it required a super majority to pass a budget. That is a bold face lie. It the Democrats wanted to pass a budget they could have done it when they had a super majority or at anytime during the last 3 years. The calculation has been that they could continue to spend money at an uncontrolled rate. The way that the law has been written, the projects that were in the last budget that was passed must be funded. It also means that any new projects can be presented and funded through a number of ways. So the idea that anyone in the Democrat Party leadership has any desire to control the run away spending. They only wish to blame everything on the opposition so they can maintain their position and power.

It is time for a serious budget and some serious leadership that is willing to protect the nation and the rule of law.

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SOS

For years the military has served a breakfast item know to many a Solder, Sailor, Airman, and Marine, as “SOS or SHI*…eh...Stuff On a Shingle.” I've also heard it called Same Old SHI*...eh…Stuff. Of course most people should know that SOS is the international distress code. Well if ever the US needed to send out an SOS it is now. But what we don't need is the SOS that the President and his Progressive allies are giving us.

It has now been a month since the President started his reelection campaign with a heaping pile of SOS. I've waited a month to write anything about the President's plan.  As any veteran will tell you: There is nothing worst than warmed over SOS that is over 3 years old. But that is what the President wants. This new plan that he presented and tells us will fix all of our problems is nothing but his old plan using new terms and new spin. After waiting I realized that Obama's new plan is the same as the old plan.

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In his speech he talked about an American compact. He asked whether the government could do something to help the American Economy. He asked that the government can restore some of the “fairness and security that has defined this nation since our beginning.” That he was sending Congress “The American Jobs Act” that has everything paid for, and will cut taxes for all “working American” in half. He claimed that this bill will give a jolt to the economy and encourage business to invest and hire new workers. The President also promised more tax loopholes for businesses, when he said that businesses would be able to “write off” their investments.

The President then talked about more “investments” (spending) that could be done to “put American workers back to work” without saying that most of those tasks are the responsibility of the local and state governments. He once again talked about how they would better control the spending while saying that they would cut red tape to speed up the approval of projects. (Does Solyndra ring a bell?) He talked about a ladder out of poverty.

Over and over again he called his speech the “American’s Jobs Act.” He then said that the bill was paid for, as he passed the way to do it off to the future. He then launched into his standard class warfare talk while talked about reforming Medicare. Then he went back to class warfare just after he promised to give more loopholes to businesses. The majority of his speech was filled with the duplicity he is famous. He denies class warfare while attacking a whole class of Americans.

The President claims that he wants to create a climate that will make American more competitive. He wants companies to invest and help startup companies get off the ground, but he has done everything to discourage businesses to start or invest. While he talks about trade agreements, he has sent nothing to the Democrat controlled Senate for approval.

His entire campaign speech was an attack upon the American system. He continues to promise that he will cut regulations and wasted spending, while he has unelected czars sitting around writing new regulations. His Health and Human Services Secretary was given the task of writing thousands pages of healthcare regulations as part of ObamaCare.

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This man can not present a balanced picture and can not compromise. His view is a all or nothing view, his way or the highway. (Of course that highway must be paved with Federal money.) He still plays upon the fears of the uninformed. He refuses to admit that regulations hurt business. That the government cannot cure poverty, spend the nation into prosperity, or eliminate risk and make everyone equal.

After his highly hyped and staged reelection kick off speech before a joint session of Congress, the President started a series of speeches telling the American people to demand that “Congress pass his bill.” The only problem with this demand was that at the time there was not a bill only a speech. It took him over a week to present a bill. As of this writing there are no Democrats in Congress that have sponsored the bill. While he still demands that Congress pass the bill and the DNC is running commercials claiming that the Presidents plan is the cure all and should be passed, not one Democrat in Congress is willing to put it up for a vote.

So this “new plan” from Mr. Obama is nothing more than the old plan reheated and served on a new plate with new names. In the time that has passed this speech has become just another rehash of his old plan of more tax and spending. He wants to spend more money on green and shovel ready jobs, have targeted tax credits, continue to pay people to not work, raise the Capital Gains Taxes, and punish the “rich.” But we’ve seen through the Solyndra mess that stimulus money hurriedly spent on so called green jobs only waste money.

It is clear that many who collect unemployment really need the help, but that far too many abuse it, while those out of work for too long become disconnected from work. Employers need people to do work not just draw pay checks. A healthy company needs every employee to make more money for the business then the cost of their employment. Without profits there will be no companies, no jobs, and no tax revenues.

Mr. Obama knows that raising the Capital Gains Tax will lower revenues to the treasury, but his sense of “fairness” tells him that raising the rate would be good for his reelection chances. He is depending on dividing and conquering tactics. He still thinks that as long as one person has more that another, that the nation as a whole is unfair. His Socialist ideals will not allow him to really understand that the Federal Government did not make this country great. Or that the government can not spend its way out of debt. He still thinks that the same old plan will work and that bigger is better as long as it is the government is bigger.

Tax credits don’t work. They are not tax cuts, but only targeted spending. Too many times these tax credits only open up new ways to defraud the government or redirect money that would be better spent in other areas. The idea that small businesses (who the Obama says create the majority of jobs) can create new jobs based only on a $1500 tax credit is beyond belief. Mr. Obama tells us to do the math, well it appears that he has a problem with math. No one with any business sense is going to create a job, even at minimum wage, that will cost the business at over $20,000.00 to get a $1500 a tax credit. Sure there will be a few examples of die hard supporters that will create token jobs to allow bragging rights, but this is just bad business.

Will the American people once again be able to stomach this attempt to impoverish the nation through his ideas of fairness and wealth redistribution? Will the uninformed in this nation once again fall for a speech full of contradictions and empty promises? Will the Socialist, Marxist, and Communist in this nation gain even a greater foothold? Will our Constitutional Government fall into anarchy with the collapse from this uncontrolled spending and crony Capitalistic/Socialistic leadership in Washington? Is it too late to save our nation? The Progressives have complete many of the things that they needed to collapse the system. We must work to defend our Constitution and throw out the corruption in Washington. I don't believe that sending out an SOS will get us much help from the rest of the world.

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Stating the Union 2011

Well the annual political sideshow occurred and there is one thing very obvious: The President can talk for one hour and not really say anything. He is very good at speaking in circles and saying what people want to hear. This is a talent that many politicians have to varied degrees. The President has mastered the technique. But we don’t need a well crafted speech from a talented speaker. We need someone who has real answers. This nation needs solutions, not academic theory. We need direction not division. We need the Progressive movement to stop their revolutionary rhetoric, race baiting, and calls for violence. The President past shows that he is not a supporter of the American system. He does not identify with the medium class. He was raised in a world of privilege. This has created a person who not only does not understand the people he now leads, but he does not understand the basic sensibilities that make the average person loyal to this idea known as The United States of America. Instead of coming out and calling out those in his party and his supporters who tried to take advantage of the deaths of innocent victims.

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Listening to Mr. Obama, for me, has always been an exercise in control. His rhetoric is always contradictory. You can not cut spending by increasing spending for one thing. Hearing the word “invest” so many times reminded me of an alcoholic saying: “I’m investing in a case of beer and half gallon of whiskey.” This spending addiction is leaving the nation with a hangover that will last for years. We must not allow these addicts continue to abuse the country. When calling for spending cuts in one breath while talking about “investments” sends the wrong message. The President has said several times that the US is out of money or that we must cut spending while running up record deficits. The problem as I see it has to be at least one of three things: He either does not believe what he is saying, he has no idea how to fix the problem, or he really believes that we can spend our way out of debt.

As those in Congress and the White House were marching us down the road to financial ruin many of the citizens who love our country have sent a message to Washington. I fear that many in the capital are refusing to accept that message. The Democrat minority and the President seem to want to believe that the message was jobs. To be more precise they believe that the message was; that they were not spending enough money to create jobs. They refuse to understand that government spending, especially government spending of borrowed money, does not create prosperity. Government spending can not create the wealth that creates jobs and allows a nation to prosper. Most government jobs only consume resources. Education produces a product, but that product has declined in quality as the federal government has taken more and more control over local schools.

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This centralizing of control and power that Washington has seized is the stating of the union. The idea that the individual states that make up the United States of America are slowly being made less important as Washington attempts to take full control is in total disagreement and is destroying the foundation of our country. We as a nation must return to the foundation of our government and expel those from their seats of power who have ignored their oath of office by not defending the civil rights of the citizens of this nation. We must also undo the damage done by those who have attacked our system with lies and distortions. We must have another look at the state of our union. I think I can do it in less than an hour.

Pedro’s State of the Union
My fellow Americans, I come before you to tell you of the state of our union. I must tell you that we face some very challenging times. For too many years the past elected politicians have not only violated the trust of you, the American people, but have endangered the future of our nation and the republic. In misguided by some and intentional efforts by a few our economy has been dealt a crushing blow that we must overcome.

The last 4 years of Democrat control of the House and Senate have shown that, although they calm superior ideas, in practice their ideas were good at crashing the economy and causing misery for all Americans. Their policies have also worked to increase the income divide between the American people and Democrat supporters. This includes out of control spending that out paced the spending of the past. That spending seems to have been diverted into the hands of labor unions and various other friends of those in power. Now we find ourselves even deeper in debt with little to show for the money spent.

The country still faces the issues caused by years of neglect at our southern border. Since the last illegal amnesty in 1986 a lack of border and workplace enforcement has created the situation of millions that received amnesty in the past and those who illegally entered the country to demand another round of blanket forgiveness. Elected officials continue to sell out their offices to the “cheap” labor advocates and those who are willing to sell out this country. This, in my opinion, means that the government has betrayed our country.

The betrayal goes farther than many Americans are willing to admit. The depth of this treachery extends to the passage of unconstitutional laws with no idea of the content. Many have not only ignored their oath of office but have openly admitted that they are not concerned about their duty under the Constitution. This type of disloyalty to their sworn pledge has pushed this nation further away from our historic liberties even closer to tyranny. As more individuals stand up for the rights that are protected by the foundation of our government, we see even more direct attacks on the founders and our founding principles.

But not all is lost. The American people are beginning to awaken. The elections of last year have shown that many citizens are beginning to see the duplicity and betrayal that is endangering our way of life. Even though many of the “spin doctors” (liars) that work to influence those in power, many of the newly elected member of Congress understand and are loyal to the country. They know that elected governments are temporary and left undefended the nation will be the same.

But we must do our part. We must educate our fellow Americans to the truth of past. We must continue to communicate with the members of Congress and remind them of their responsibilities to the people of this nation and their oath to defend the Constitution. Our duty is to continue to defend our rights and to oppose all enemies who would redefine or distort the meaning of those rights.

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