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Government schools teaching Marx not Jefferson

I suppose Pat Powers will call Frank Rosenbloom a paranoid black helicopter hillbilly:

Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the republic last …

That line paraphrases Paul Simon's song that recommends moving slowly. President Obama stated that he will not accept delay in passing health care reform. What's wrong with a little delay? This country has done quite well without health care reform for 233 years, so what are a few more months? Other leaders have said that they would not tolerate delay, but they've generally been from countries we didn't like very much.

"To delay action is the same as death." Vladimir Lenin

Perhaps President Obama should review the thoughts of some of our Founding Fathers in this regard.

"Delay is preferable to error." Thomas Jefferson

"When in doubt – don't." Benjamin Franklin

This rush to create greater dependence on the government demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the intent of our Founding Fathers and our Constitution. The left envisions a democracy ruled by the unlimited power of an increasingly liberal majority. However, our Constitution does not mention the words "democracy" or "democratic" at all! Some constitutions do, such as the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, and we know how democratic they are.

"The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class. ..."

Democracy, from the Greek Demokratia, or "people power," is a system in which the majority rules. Why, then, is there no mention of democracy in the Constitution? Why does it direct that the states shall ensure a republican form of government and not a democracy? The reason is that our Founding Fathers never intended that we have a democracy. Many citizens would be surprised to learn that the United States is not a democracy; it is a republic.

All our founders' inspiring, biblical quotes in one place – a must-have for your library: "America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations"

The word "republic" is from the Latin "res" or "thing" and "publicus" or "people." Our republic (thing of the people) is designed to protect the rights of the minority from the majority while ensuring representation in a constitutionally limited government. In a democracy, majority decisions can eclipse individual rights. In our republic the law rules, individual liberty is the goal and the people elect representatives. Thomas Jefferson said: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49." The founders knew that democracy was unsustainable. Thomas Jefferson said: "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

The founders understood history, something our liberal brethren have neglected to study. They therefore established a republic to prevent rule by a simple majority, not to promote it. Unfortunately, civics is being taught by an education system long ago taken over by the far left. American educators are more likely to teach the thoughts of Marx than those of Jefferson.

Time to cap and trade Congress

Joseph Farah goes polemic:

I don't think you can cap and trade the production of water vapor, which is what the House of Representatives voted to do last week.

I don't think it would be advisable to do so even if it were feasible.

But I do know the American people have the ability and the justification to cap and trade Congress next year.

And that ought to be our slogan.

What the House did last week is potentially the most dangerous, destructive and unconstitutional attack on the American economy in history.

Obama leading us down the road of communism

Janet Porter has it:

While the world was focused on the death of Michael Jackson, the U.S. House passed the largest tax increase in our history. The "Cap and Tax" bill passed on Friday has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with tax and control. In his speech about it, Obama pointed to California as the example to follow. The amazing thing is that he did it with a straight face.

While California lies in bankruptcy, we are now seeing a hostile government takeover of our banks, our finances and our car industry, and they are now aimed at our energy, our mobility and our health.

I thought we beat communism. I thought when the Berlin Wall came down so did its failed ideology. I was wrong. It's baaaack. And if we are to have anything left of our free market, we must rise up and fight our government that invades us from within.

In an article from the Russian Pravda by Stanislav Mishin titled "American capitalism gone with a whimper," he reminded us of Prime Minister Putin's warning to Barack Obama not to follow the path to Marxism – "it only leads to disaster."

They should know.

But we won't listen: "The descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple," said Mishin.

Thune putting pressure on EPA for burying report not kind to Obama’s energy tax

Bob Ellis has the report:

According to a release from Senator John Thune (R-SD), he is joining Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) in calling for an investigation concerning the report casting doubt about anthropogenic global warming that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) buried before the cap and trade global warming tax vote last week.

On the eve of the HR 2454 "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" vote last Friday it came to light that the EPA had in its possession a report which pointed to natural causes for planetary warming, but it refused to make that report public. What’s more, several emails regarding this report were also outed. One said, in part:

They are significant because they present information critical to the justification (or lack thereof) for the proposed endangerment finding. They are valid because they explain much of the observational data that have been collected which cannot be explained by the IPCC models.

Meanwhile, the U.S. House voted 219-212 Friday to gouge the American people with the biggest tax in history–all for a problem that does not exist.

Yesterday Senator Inhofe announced he was going to see the matter of the hidden report investigated. From Fox News:

The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

"He came out with the truth. They don’t want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he’s ordered an investigation. "We’re going to expose it."

I doubt the report would have made a difference with the die hard socialists in the House, but it might have made the difference in the vote with some of the more reasonable ones. What’s more, the American people have a right to know.

AARP admits problems with current government health care

KSFY provides coverage for another Tea Party in Sioux Falls:

In April, we saw the Tax Day Tea Party, one of many throughout the nation, and now, this July, the same organizers will hold an anti-social medicine rally.

"If the government takes over health care, it's the last nail in the coffin of capitalism," said Dr. Allen Unruh.

Unruh says we should definitely be concerned about the potential of socialized medicine, but the most recent edition of AARP Magazine says the latest reform proposals don't include socialization.

"But rather, a uniquely American System that is based on current employer provided care, private insurance and a greatly improved medicare system," said Pat Gross, AARP South Dakota.

"All decisions should be made by doctors and patients. We need managed care, but all that management should be made on the local level," said Unruh.

The government says there are 46 million people without health care in the United States, but Unruh says many of them choose that route.

"11 million are making over 75 thousand a year, so they could buy health insurance - but they choose not to. Another 14 million make 50 thousand a year. They choose not to," said Unruh.

Meanwhile, Pat Gross, who serves as the AARP-South Dakota President, says many of their members don't have that choice.

"We have many of our members who have to choose between taking pills, buying those pills and those medicines or putting food on the table for their family," said Gross.

So retired folks who have access to the government’s Medicare program are not fairing very well. And know Obamacare wants the taxpayers to subsidize an expanded government program?

The rally will be at 12:30PM on July 2 at the Sioux Empire fairground grand stand.

We already have socialized health care

Senator Johnson is bragging about the Pork coming into the socialized health care programs we currently have:

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) announced today that the Sioux Falls Health Department will receive a $629,890 federal grant from the Recovery Act Capital Improvement Program in the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will be used to improve and expand services at the Falls Community Health Center in Sioux Falls.

"This funding will help improve health care in Sioux Falls and around the state to help ensure that our citizens receive the best health care available," said Johnson. "This funding is a great example of how the economic recovery package is helping local communities in South Dakota."

This funding for Sioux Falls is part of a total of $3.5 million in grants for six health centers around the state. These grants will be used to address health center facility and equipment needs and increase access to health care. Six different community health organizations are receiving the funding including Isabel, Fort Pierre, Elk Point, Rapid City and Howard.

Resources from the stimulus package are continuing to help local communities across South Dakota. Funding has already been distributed to local housing commissions to improve our communities and to cities and towns to continue the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, and for weatherization, the state energy program, rural housing programs, and local health services. Additional resources from the legislation will continue to be distributed in the weeks ahead.

The stimulus package signed by President Obama is focused on tax cuts for the middle class, infrastructure investments and job creation. This funding is a prime example of the kind of resources the legislation provides to help improve communities while advancing South Dakota’s economy.

What Senator Johnson does not explain is how the printing of money to fund the stimulus package will cause future inflation that impacts all Americans. That will lower wealth for all of us. You can call that the secret tax.

Will Johnson follow Herseth Sandlin on Obama’s energy tax

Herseth Sandlin explains her no vote against Obama’s latest power grab:

Respresentative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is explaining why she's not supporting the controversial climate bill. The bill squeaked through the house by 7 votes.

Republicans are overwhelming against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of recession while burdening us with a new tax in the form of higher energy costs.

The government estimates the bill will cost each american household between 80 and 175 dollars a year.

Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin says she cannot support the bill because she worries not enough time has been taken to make a comprehensive bill, and she's worried for rural america.

She said, " I have heard from several utilities serving South Dakota, such as The Black Hills Corporation, which serves tens of thousands of South Dakotans, that the allowances for emissions in the bill still aren't fairly distributed and this disparity could mean dramatic rate hikes for its customers in south dakota."

The bill needs sixty votes to prevent a filibuster in the senate.

So will Senator Johnson follow Herseth Sandlin? It depends. If they need one more vote to pass it, then he will have too. That is the way things work in DC. This unpopular power grab by Dictator Obama could hurt Democrats in conservative states. And this is a new tax, so Obama is breaking his promise not to tax those making less than $250,000.

Marxism applied to student loans

Here is the latest taxpayer ripp-off from the Educrats:

Starting on Wednesday repaying student loans may become a little easier. A new program run by the Department of Education could cap monthly student loan payments and forgive balances for those who are eligible.

Calculating your student loan payment every month and then shelling out the money can be trying on finances. Now a new program can help ease the burden and some students say it's a good idea.

Amanda Madden and Ashley Spieker are both Seniors at Northern State University but graduation holds future challenges.

"I've gotten a few notes from the financial aid office about how much I'm going to have to pay per month for how many years. That's a little intimidating going out without a set job right now."

The Department of Education is hoping to ease some of those student concerns with income-based repayment determined by income and loan size. Amanda is planning on working in the field of graphic design.

The "income-based repayment" is straight out Marxism. An American free-market based analysis would say that if your education doesn’t produce enough money to repay the loans, the education wasn’t worth the trouble. In other words, you were ripped off. Now the Educrats expect the taxpayers to fund the rip-offs…yet again.

Socialism or freedom

That is our choice (maybe). Michael Farris is on another crusade:

Socialist solutions to America's struggles have been sweeping through the country virtually unchecked recently, from trillion-dollar federal bailouts to government control of the auto industry to calls for Uncle Sam to dig deeper into health care.

Meanwhile, those who would stand in opposition have been in disarray, as Republicans, conservatives, constitutionalists and capitalists of all colors haven't yet decided whether they can agree to agree with one another.

Out of that disarray has stepped Michael Farris, chancellor of Patrick Henry College and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, who believes there do exist a core set of principles that liberty-loving Americans can unite behind to stop the swell of socialism.

Through WND, Farris is announcing an invitation to "the citizens of this country that believe in the Constitution, who believe in traditional morality and virtue, who believe in a free America and reject the concepts of socialism and the secularist moral view" to unite in signing a newly drafted Declaration of the Principles of Liberty.

"Freedom is the ability to make your own decisions," Farris told WND, "but socialism inherently takes away private decision making. When the president can decide who is the chair or CEO of General Motors, that's socialism. America was founded on the principle that Americans can make their own decisions; the government can't tell us what to do. Socialism erases that line and invades the private decision making of companies, of families, of everyone."

Now, says Farris, "Socialism faces an ardent new foe" – not Farris himself, but the combined grassroots voices of Americans he hopes will rally behind the Declaration of the Principles of Liberty.

"A powerful voice for socialism has arisen in our nation. The government is here to provide for your every need," begins the declaration. "America must decide whether it wants to pursue the path of freedom or the path of socialism. Let us be clear. These are two separate paths, and, in the long run, no nation can be free if it pursues the path of socialism.

Calvin vs. Darwin, America vs. Progressives

I have been saying for years that the real debate is one based on worldview. The Biblical Christian worldview that America was founded on and the Progressives who follow the humanist worldview. Now comes the debate:

The "Boxing Match of the Millenium," a head-to-head debate that pits the teachings of Reformation leader John Calvin, born 500 years ago this year, and evolutionist theory author Charles Darwin, born 200 years ago this year, is being planned during the Reformation 500 Celebration in Boston starting July 1.

It's far more than just a clash of words.

"We're trying to point out that there needs to be a debate, a public discussion on the elitist philosophy that currently dominates and would suppress that debate," said Doug Philips, president of Vision Forum Ministries, the sponsor.

"And we're trying to point out that there are two world views, one largely coming from Christianity and the second from evolutionary humanism. … The future of our nation really rests in part on how we respond," he said.

And here is how the sides match up:

"No two men of the millennium have done more to shape the thoughts of mankind or to affect the political and social destiny of nations than Calvin and Darwin – the former for great good and the glory of God, and the later for unimaginable evil," Philips said.

"The children of Calvin and the Reformers gave us the rise of nation states that embraced republican representative government. The children of Darwin gave us Marxism and totalitarianism," Phillips explained. "Calvin's legacy included respect for life, a defense of the biblical family, and the rule of law under God. Darwin's philosophical progeny introduced the world to the horrors of eugenics and legalized widespread abortion on demand.

"Where Calvin insisted that law was transcendent, being created by God for the good of man and as a reflection of his unchanging righteousness, the followers of Darwin would insist that laws evolve, that the Bible is non-applicable to matters of the state, and the transcendent standards of morality do not even exist," Philips said.

My commentary on the Declaration of Independence, that is scheduled for 10AM July 4 at the Davison County Court House in Mitchell, will get into the Biblical principles used in the Declaration, and I will also bring out the Progressives movement who are out to destroy the Natural Law foundation and replace it with a "living" Darwinian state controlled system that says forget God, man can evolve into an Utopian society without Him.You will find links tp some of my research under the Natural Law section of my sidebar.