How did Thomas Jefferson know? by Don Torgersen posted on Friday, July 30, 2010

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Especially read the last quote from 1802.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe...  Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not... Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world...Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them...Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government...   Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms...  Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government...  Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants..Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...Thomas Jefferson

  Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
  'I believe that banking institutions are more
  dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
  If the American people ever allow
  private banks to control the issue of their
  currency, first by inflation, then by
  deflation, the banks and corporations that will
  grow up around the banks will deprive the people
  of all property - until their children
  wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
  conquered.'

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The American People’s TO DO List by American Reform Party posted on Friday, July 30, 2010

1.         Favors in exchange for votes on legislation must be stopped. The public looks at this practice as “buying votes” and is one reason why we, the public, think our government is so corrupt and dishonest. Tit for Tat is CRAP. Ban this practice in both the Senate and House.

2.         “EARMARKS”. If a Senator or Congressman has a project he would like to see get funded, then be honest about it. Come up with a spending bill just for that project. If it is a worth while project it will pass. If not, refer the project to the State in which the project is located and let them get funding for it. We don’t need any more John Murtha airports! If all the earmarks from 2000 till now were added up, I’m sure that total would more than cover the cost of new computer systems for every major airport in the U.S.

3.         Piggybacked Bills. This practice really gets the public irritated, miffed, up-in-arms, irate, fuming, and just plain MAD. If a bill cannot stand on its own and get passed, don’t stuff it into another just so it can get passed. If it can’t pass on its own, it wasn’t a good bill to begin with.

4.         Illegal immigration. This is a no brainer. No amnesty, no shortcut to citizenship, no anchor babies, no free medical, no welfare, no free education, no social security. Go back home and come here legally. If you show up again without proper documentation, you’re banned for life and will never be allowed to enter the country legally. Finish the fence from California to Texas and put the U.S. Military on it. It’s part of their job anyway. Twice in our history we have had mass deportation of all illegal aliens in the country and each time it was in the 20^th century. I see no reason why it cannot be done again. All you need is the willpower. And think about this: If our nation suffers another 9-11 type attack and it turns out they came here illegally, whose neck is going to be on the chopping block because they did not secure the borders? Cheap labor for Republicans and more voters for Democrat are an appalling trade off for our national security.

5.         Create an “Office of Constitutional Compliance”, in the House and Senate that has one job and one job only. That job is to make sure every bill passed by either house is in compliance with the Constitution. This has been needed for over four decades and it is about time it gets put into practice. These offices MUST be non partisan to be effective.

6.         Amend the Constitution so that no bill can reach either the House or Senate floor unless it has been written in its entirety and read by every member. This business of writing just the title of the bill and then writing the rest of it after it has been passed MUST stop. We are tired of you people passing bills that are incomplete and/or have no idea what’s in them.

7.         Ban the use of “Czars” or any other such position that is not authorized by the Constitution. These positions circumvent the Constitution and upset the balance of power as it was set forth by our Constitution.

8.         Audit the Fed.  No explanation is needed here. The Fed is not above the law and we need to find out exactly how much money the people of this country are on the hook for.

9.         DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT agree to any U.N. Treaty that would deprive any U.S. Citizen of their 2^nd Amendment rights. Do not pass any legislation that would infringe on those rights either. We need to be more like the Swiss when it comes to the 2^nd Amendment.

Dr. Suzanna Hupp of Texas had it right during her testimony before a congressional hearing when she said; “The Second Amendment is not about hunting, it’s about all of us (meaning the people) protecting our selves from all of you” (meaning politicians). Read the Federalist Papers. There are currently over 20,000 gun laws on the books, we don’t need any more.

10.       Stop exempting Congress from the bills it passes. If  a law is good enough for us to live under, then it’s good enough for you as well. You people in Washington are not any better than we are. And in fact, some of you could really use an image makeover. This should be an Amendment to the Constitution.

11.       Stop spending money WE the people you represent, DO NOT HAVE. A national debt of $130 Trillion (funded, unfunded, plus future liabilities) is appalling.  Just stop spending like a drunken sailor. Make sure every dollar spent is well spent and mandated by the Constitution. Do not throw our money down a rat hole.

12.       Amend the Constitution so that any person who runs for President, Senator, or House Member must provide proof of U.S. citizenship when filing for elections. Education and Military records (when applicable) must also be made public. We must know who we are potentially voting for and what their qualifications are. I’m sure that had this been the law of the land prior to 2008, Obama never would have been elected.

13.       Repeal the 1995 Community Reinvestment Act signed into law by then president Bill Clinton. This bill created the biggest housing bubble we have ever seen. It is also the reason why the housing market collapsed, why the banking sector collapsed, and is why we have lost so much money with Fannie and Freddie. I know this is true because I have researched it. To leave this bill intact would leave the door open for all this to happen again in the future and we don’t need that to happen again, ever!

14.       The repeal of the Glass Steagall Act has given Wall Street too much control over community banking. Ask yourself this question; How many community banks went under because they were joined at the hip to an investment bank? Investment banks and community banks need to be separated as they once were. Repeal Gramm-Leach-Bliley November 12, 1999.

I find it interesting that the Community Reinvestment Act 1995 and the repeal of  the Glass Steagall Act 1999 were both during the Clinton Administration. Wow, that’s freaky…..

15.       Starting in 2012, we need at least a 20 year Moratorium on all Immigration. When it starts up again in 2032, it should be only half of what we are currently accepting. We need this brake in order to weed out all the undesirables that have entered the country since the 1980s. We really do need to slow down the growth rate of the nations population or we will run out of water and not be able to feed our selves.

16.       Amend the Constitution to make English the official language of the United States. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written in English, so why not make it official. When this is done, stop government printing in other languages. All government printing needs to be in English only. As long as we keep printing documents in foreign languages, foreigners who live here will have no incentive to learn English and that destroys the necessity for assimilation as it has been doing for the last 60+ years.

17        Eliminate any and all Tenure for Teachers and Professors at all educational institutions public and private. Too many bad teachers and professors are still teaching because we can’t get rid of them. New York is a prime example. This would make them accountable for what and how they teach.

18        Attach School funding to the student and let the parents choose the school they want their child to attend. School Vouchers are the only sure way the U.S. will ever get back to the top of the Math, Science, and History lists. In the last 20 years we have thrown untold fortunes into our education systems and the results have been extremely disappointing. It’s time to change that. I have come to the conclusion money is not the problem. The problem is what and how the teacher teaches. Getting rid of teacher’s unions might be necessary as well.

In most of these comments we recommend an amendment to the Constitution and have good reason for that. If these are just passed as a matter of law, you people will find ways around them. You have shown us in the past that this is exactly what you would do. That would make the past 234 years an exercise in futility. We live in the freest, most prosperous, and most powerful nation in the history of mankind. We owe all of this to the Constitution, those who gave it to us, our desire to live in freedom and defend it against all who would destroy it. Over the past 120 years there have been those who have attacked the Constitution and tried to destroy it by trying to transform it into what they call a living, breathing, document that must evolve. Again we find our selves with the need to rise up and defend the Constitution against those who seek global domination by a single ideology. In a time when most of the world is dumping socialist leaning governments, we are on the verge of being saddled with one. Acting on this “To Do List” may not stop the attacks completely, but they will definitely let the attackers know they are in for one hell of a fight……..

Please get this into the hands of as many Tea Party Organizations as possible. Add any good ideas if you have any. We need as many as we can get…………         

This list was submitted by James W. Lowder.                                                                             

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7 Reasons Why Government can no longer be trusted by American Reform Party posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Government has FAILED miserably in every service, business or  Entitlement program it has created and forced upon the American people since 1775. Their irresponsible trend and actions continue today with the creation of the Health Care Reform Law, Government controlled Student Loan program and if we don't stop them we will have the Cap & Trade program.

Here are just seven examples of programs created for the "Good of the People" by our caring Federal Government in which they have either completely looted, as in the case with Social Security, or have virtually Bankrupted.

1. The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775.  They had 234 years to get it right and it is BROKE.
2. Social Security was established in 1935 (An illegal Ponzi Scheme).  They had 74 years to get it right and it is BROKE. 
3. Fannie Mae was established in 1938.  They had 71 years to get it right and it is BROKE. 
4. War on Poverty started in 1964.  They had 45 years to get it right; $ trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more. 
5. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.  They had 44 years to get it right and they are BROKE.
6. Freddie Mac was established in 1970.  They had 39 years to get it right and it is BROKE. 
7. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before.  They had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal FAILURE. 

SO HOW CAN WE TRUST GOVERNMENT TO RUN A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?? IF WE DON'T BRING AN END TO THIS LUNACY THEY WILL EVENTUALLY BANKRUPT EVERYONE OF US.

We must stop the government madness before it passes any further entitlement programs or destructive legislation like the proposed Cap and Trade bill that will grant government the right to tax every individual for the very air we breathe.

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Tea Party Movement Will Fail Without a Well Defined Platform by American Reform Party posted on Monday, July 26, 2010

The TeaParty movement is the largest single political effort ever mounted by the American people in over sixty years in an effort to bring about common sense reform and change in our political system and its elected officials. And it is none-too-late!

The American Reform Party is a staunch supporter of the Movement across America and wants to see it succeed as an independent, non-party, movement for stripping government of its control and power over the people and restoring basic common sense principles to our governmental system. However, should the Tea Party continue to operate under its current disjointed leadership and without a clearly defined plan and united voice for all to follow, the movement is in severe jeopardy of failing.

As in any movement there is a point in time when a collective decision must be reached by its leadership and supporters to clearly define its position and gain the additional support and momentum needed to insure the success of its objectives and goals. That time is "NOW" for the TeaParty. The TeaParty can no longer afford to act merely a disjointed movement but must now provide a well defined plan and goal its wants to achieve for both government and the representatives it seeks to elect. In other words, the movement must start walking, talking and acting like an organized political party with a single united voice and political platform of views and objectives they wish to achieve. Without a clearly stated plan, no one, including the press, knows how to properly characterize and explain the movement to others who would be more than willing to throw their support behind it. Like it or not, neither the liberal press nor the people to whom they appeal or a less caring populous are able to follow or support a disjointed, undefined movement.

To be successful you need to beat government at its own game. You need to use the same or similar tactics while using the press to get you opinions and position out daily otherwise you loose. Keep in mind, the press and existing major political parties get 365 days of press coverage expressing their views, positions and actions. The Tea Party can achieve this same visibility by organizing nationally.

Without a clear approach a united voice or a published platform offering a clear common sense path for like minded Americans to follow, the movement will fail and fall flat on its face in the up coming mid-term and National elections. Without a well defined position there is no way in which a legitimate candidate sharing the TeaParty views and concerns can align themselves or that sympathetic voters can fully support. Lack of a defined platform further allows undesirable candidates or conservative radicals to capitalize on the movements efforts potentially resulting  in a disastrous end. The movement will be used and abused by all contending parties and their candidates, or worse, unscrupulous independent candidates claiming to be TeaParty supporters being elected. The movement will continue to be attacked and painted by the Liberal Democratic Party as a subversive, racists organization while the Progressive Republicans will align themselves with the movement by saying it will remain conservative to regain their political control only to cast aside these basic principles to perpetuate the same progressive out of control government spending and power created by both parties over the past sixty years.

We all need to get our act together. We all need to be responsible for keeping our government and elected representatives accountable and in check. We need to have assurances and agreements from those we elect with a penalty or a process in which to remove them if they fail to perform as agreed. We need true reform in the Electoral process. We need true reform in the legislative process. We need to control and cut government spending. But above all, we need a return to the basic fundamentals of the Constitution and a well controlled government by the people with common sense and integrity in our appointed representatives, all of which we believe the TeaParty stands for.

The American Reform Party would like to invite the Tea Party leadership and supporters of the movement to review our Independent Conservative common sense approach, position and platform that will bring about the right change and results in our government that benefits all Americans regardless of party.

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OBAMA’S MASTER PLAN Circumvents Americans Will & Rights to Self Rule by Sharon Sebastian posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010

Brace yourself. If President Obama rams through health care with tactics that circumvent the Constitution, obliterates checks and balances and ignores the will of the majority of the American people, be prepared for the same bully tactics to be used in other critical upcoming legislation. If voters think the health care debacle is ugly, expect it to get uglier based on the President’s planned agenda. Health care reform is not the ultimate objective. Devising “the formula” needed to get it passed is. Unlocking the formula to open the floodgates to enact whatever future legislation Obama wants, is the goal. Once the formula is in place, then the Obama administration has the key to do to America and Americans whatever it wants. It won’t matter how Americans vote in the mid-term.

Senate leader Harry Reid revealed that legislative checks and balances were neutered when he said the reason he is pushing so hard for Obamacare is because, “the President wants it.” Democrats supporting a Democrat President is expected, but to do so to the point of rewriting rules and ignoring Constitutional guidelines in order for the President to get his way, eviscerates the legislative branch and empowers the executive branch with unchecked powers. It is dangerous. Our founding fathers warned of its dangers.

The President desperately needs to ram through health care to allow him to use the same tactics to ram through Cap-and-Trade, nationalizing illegal immigrants, education reform, takeover of the airwaves, and more, in a blitzkrieg of legislation. The President’s plan has been laid-out in his own words or in the words and actions by his administration.

Trial balloons were first sent up to gauge the sentiment of the American people so Obama’s team could refine its strategy. Upon receiving negative blowback after demeaning Town Hall attendees, describing returning military as a danger to society, suggesting Americans spy on their neighbors and report “fishy speech,” attacking conservative media, seeking to separate Americans on issues of “clinging to their guns and religion” (implying that doing either was a negative), devaluing the unborn and seniors as dispensable, team Obama stopped wasting their time with an unsupportive public and decided to play hard ball.

President Obama said that he believes the U.S. Constitution, that protects Americans from government tyranny “is fundamentally flawed,” and essentially said in a 2001 Chicago NPR interview that the Constitution should not so much “protect” people, but “provide” for them, thereby turning it into a wealth redistribution welfare document. Obama created a vast shadow-government of Czars, reporting only to him, effectively diminishing the relevance of both the Cabinet and Congress. Media Czar Mark Lloyd opted out of the Fairness Doctrine for the more effective idea of “a 100% tax on operating cost” that could, if implemented, tax private conservative and religious radio out of existence. President Obama diminishes the nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage as laws are passed to legislate God out of society. The President is adamant that he wants control of the Internet during crisis and plans to establish a civilian militia as well funded and powerful as the U.S. military under the oversight of the White House. Some see it as an enforcement arm of the Presidency at the will of Obama to assure compliance to all of the above. Obama’s own words and actions have spurred the mistrust welling up in America.

The amount of damage that can be done to the country by executive order and “reformulated legislation” between now and the November elections may be insurmountable. Is that why Obama has said so cavalierly that the matter can be taken up at the ballot box -- after the fact? Conscience is required for Congress to understand the ire of the American people and the cost of standing against this great nation. In this period of our nation’s history with leaders who have demonstrated a willingness to sell-out -- the buck, this time, stops with the American people. The time is now, not tomorrow, to let Washington know there will be consequences for their actions.

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