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Putting Unemployment Numbers Into Prospective

February 15, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Liberal MSM Bias, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Ohio Politics, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, The Economy, Unemployment Comments Off

In the back and forth over unemployment/underemployment numbers, we lose sight of the fact that some areas of the country are hurting more than others. Throwing off the true numbers are areas like Washington DC where the federal government is hiring but yet private sector jobs are almost non-existent.

I took a look at one state – my own – and specifically each county within that state to gain a prospective as to how the Obama Infestation and Uncle Ted[1] are handling the economy.

In Ohio, there are only 19 of the 88 counties that are below the national unemployment average. The county with the lowest unemployment numbers (as of December 2009) is Holmes County with an unemployment rate of 7.4%. In contrast, Holmes County had an unemployment rate of 5.9% in December of 2008.

Other Ohio Counties with unemployment numbers below the national average of 9.7%…

Licking County 9.6%
Hancock County 9.6%
Madison County 9.5%
Lorain County 9.5%
Warren County 9.3%
Fairfield County 9.3%
Union County 9.2%
Athens County 9.2%
Lake County 8.9%
Cuyahoga County 8.9%
Franklin County 8.8%
Medina County 8.2%
Mercer County 8.2%
Lawrence County 8.0%
Geauga County 7.9%
Delaware County 7.7%

Of the 88 Ohio counties, 18 of them were in excess of 14.0% unemployment as of December 2009. The county with the highest unemployment rate is Morgan County with 17.5%. This is an actual recorded unemployment number not an estimated underemployment number. In contrast, Morgan County had an unemployment rate of 12.8% in December of 2008.

Other Ohio counties above 14.0% in Ohio…

Highland County 17.3%
Ottawa County 17.3%
Pike County 16.7%
Clinton County 16.2%
Noble County 16.2%
Huron County 15.9%
Adams County 15.8%
Meigs County 15.8%
Williams County 14.9%
Carroll County 14.5%
Monroe County 14.3%
Perry County 14.3%
Fulton County 14.3%
Ashtabula County 14.2%
Vinton County 14.2%
Jefferson County 14.1%
Crawford County 14.0%

Of Ohio’s 88 counties, only 9 are below the state unemployment average of 10.9% and above the national average of 9.7% (as of December 2009). They are…

Summit County 10.8%
Portage County 10.7%
Greene County 10.6%
Auglaize County 10.6%
Clermont County 10.6%
Gallia County 10.4%
Belmont County 10.3%
Washington County 10.0%
Butler County 9.9%
Knox County 9.7%

This leaves 51 Ohio counties in excess of the nation’s unemployment average. There are 42 counties in excess of the 10.9% state average but below 14.0%. They are…

Henry County 13.9%
Trumbull County 13.8%
Scioto County 13.6%
Van Wert County 13.6%
Columbiana County 13.5%
Muskingum County 13.4%
Ashland County 13.1%
Coshocton County 13.1%
Fayette County 13.1%
Seneca County 13.0%
Richland County 13.0%
Ross County 13.0%
Brown County 12.9%
Guernsey County 12.9%
Mahoning County 12.8%
Defiance County 12.8%
Wyandot County 12.7%
Paulding County 12.7%
Shelby County 12.5%
Erie County 12.4%
Miami County 12.4%
Preble County 12.3%
Lucas County 12.3%
Harrison County 12.3%
Stark County 12.2%
Hardin County 12.2%
Hocking County 12.1%
Pickaway County 12.1%
Logan County 12.1%
Sandusky County 12.1%
Montgomery County 12.0%
Champaign County 11.9%
Morrow County 11.9%
Jackson County 11.7%
Darke County 11.7%
Allen County 11.6%
Tuscarawas County 11.4%
Marion County 11.2%
Clark County 11.1%
Wood County 11.1%
Putnam County 11.0%

Don’t get me wrong, before Obama took over, Ohio was no employment mecca. Our state has been shedding high-paying manufacturing jobs for decades and as a result has had to re-educate ourselves. An abundance of these new lost jobs are not manufacturing jobs. They are skilled jobs. How can anyone justify the federal government enticing a major high tech employer to move from Ohio to another state through the Stimulus bill? Not to China or Mexico. NCR is moving from Dayton, Ohio to Duluth, GA thanks to the American Robbery and Redistribution Act.

What is Obama’s answer to America’s job losses? Green Jobs.

In Spain the government encourage the building of “green jobs” industries and it has had disastrous effects. For every green job created, 2 were lost. Spain is next in line to collapse after Greece.

Here in Ohio we had one of those much touted Ethanol plants in Lima. It went bankrupt and closed 2 years ago. So much for green jobs.

As for Uncle Ted… He’s been right there with Obama chasing jobs out of our state and out of our country. Obama promised ‘Change’ in the 2008 election cycle and ‘Change’ is about to come. Ohio is going to resist becoming another DPRM* come November 4th and Uncle Ted will be in the unemployment line with the rest of the state.

Mrs. Gribbit and I live in Auglaize County. As of December 2009 our unemployment rate was 10.6%. According to ODJFS’s numbers, as of December 2009 Auglaize County had a workforce of 26,400 workers with 23,600 actually working and 2,800 residents looking for work. In November 2009 Auglaize County had an unemployment rate of 10.0% meaning the unemployment rate rose .6% during a month that the Obama Infestation claims indicates that the economy is improving based on a .3% decline in the national unemployment rate. In contrast, the unemployment rate for December 2008 for Auglaize County was 6.8%. In the event you’ve linked over from one of those non-thinking DRONE sites, that is an increase of 3.8% in 12 months. That ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ thing isn’t working out for rural Ohio.

In Montgomery County (Dayton) where we used to live, the unemployment picture is much more bleak. The County has 263,800 workers with 232,200 of them working and 31,600 jobless for an unemployment rate of 12.0%. In November the unemployment rate was 11.4%. So as the Emperor touts his economic recovery, cities like Dayton are still losing jobs.

In Dayton – Montgomery County’s largest city – only 59,400 workers out of a workforce of 68,400 were actually working leaving 9,000 workers without a job. Dayton saw a December unemployment rate of 13.2% following a November at 12.6%. By contrast, Dayton had a jobless rate of 9.5% in December of ‘08 with Montgomery County coming in at 8.5%.

So it is evident that the ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ thing isn’t going so well in urban Ohio either. And oh, Montgomery County broke heavily for Obama in the ‘08 Presidential election.

Let us keep in mind that these numbers do not represent the number of Ohioans who have stopped looking for work or who have taken jobs for substandard wages (underemployed). The numbers being thrown around to represent these workers (nationally) are in the neighborhood of 18%. Judging on these numbers, it is my opinion that Barack Hussein Obama is a complete and utter failure. Likewise as an Ohio resident I can only characterize Uncle Ted’s job performance as negligent at best. At worst – criminal.

Ohio’s statewide numbers…

Labor Force – 5,883,500
Employment – 5,254,800
Unemployment – 628,700
December Unemployment rate – 10.7%
November Unemployment rate – 10.2%
December ‘08 Unemployment rate – 7.7%

[NOTE]

The data contained in this post originated from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Office of Workforce Development Bureau of Labor Market Information in a report titled, “Civilian Labor Force Estimates for Counties & Cities with Population Over 50,000: December 2009″. This data does not include information concerning those employed by city, county, state, or federal governments and is NOT seasonally adjusted.

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Uncle Ted = Ohio Governor Ted Strickland [↩]

Is the Congressional Democrat Leadership Deaf Or Just Plain Stupid?

January 23, 2010 Death Care, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, socialism View Comments

A Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates poll showed that 78% of voters supporting Scott Brown said their vote was intended to stop the Death Care bill. Let us not lose sight of the fact that only 12% of registered voters in Massachusetts are Republican. Let us not forget also that Independents broke 3:1 for Brown. But yet Pelosi and Reid desire to push through Obamacare anyway.

This begs the question… “Is the leadership of Congressional Democrats deaf? Or are they just plain stupid?”

Albert Einstein famously said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Using Einstein’s logic, Reid and Pelosi are insane.

They spent nearly a year trying to ram through this Death Care proposal but the People of the United States revolted. First they had to have it by August 1st. Then it was pushed back to October 31st, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas. Both houses have past their own versions of what they wanted Death Care to look like. But they are far from similar.

The next push? Get it reconciled by the State of the Union. Problem, Massachusetts that was supposed to be a lock for Democrat Martha Coakley – well the voters had other ideas.

Instead of letting it die, Reid and Pelosi are fantasizing about playing Frankenstein with the now deceased bill. They wish to bring it back from the dead and parade the legislative monster in front of the American People as if to say –

“It doesn’t matter what you want. We are in charge and what you want does not matter. We rule this nation so just sit back and watch American Idol and we’ll tell you what you will do.”

Their collective manner is insulting to the American voter and it is this attitude which has led to first the angry townhalls, the Tea Party protests, and finally to the election of Scott Brown in a state where a Republican hasn’t held national office since 1973. The next “teaching moment” for liberals on Capital Hill will be on November 4th. Their affinity for ignoring the American People will likely put more seats in play than previously thought.

FoxNews.com is reporting…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly are considering a new list of changes to the Senate health care reform bill that could be passed separately as a way to advance the suddenly stalled overhaul of the health care system.

If such changes are passed in a separate piece of legislation, it could make the current Senate health care bill acceptable to enough liberal House members to pass it, allowing Democrats to achieve their goal of sweeping health care reform, Politico reported.

With the number of people rejecting Death Care in the “bluest of blue states”, it seems to me that Democrat leaders must either be deaf or just plain stupid. Which? I care not to speculate about. But I will say that Einstein’s comments on insanity seem to be in play as well.

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Boehner Responds to Obama’s Ohio Libtard Pep-Talk

January 22, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Chicago Politics Goes National, Democrat Incompetence, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics View Comments

In response to the Emperor’s appearance, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R OH-8) had a few choice words…

“When he last visited Elyria, candidate Obama promised that as President he would enact a ‘job creation agenda.’ Yet for the past year, Ohioans have watched anxiously as Washington Democrats’, with the approval of President Obama, have pushed a job-killing agenda that includes a ‘stimulus’ that isn’t working, a government takeover of health care that will raise taxes, increase premiums and cut Medicare for seniors, and a ‘cap and trade’
national energy tax that will devastate Ohio’s economy and kill jobs at a time we can least afford it.

“Ohio’s unemployment report released this morning marks nine straight months of double-digit unemployment in our state. Tens-of-thousands have lost their jobs since the ‘stimulus’ was enacted. Ohioans fed up with Washington Democrats’ job-killing agenda are asking ‘where are the jobs?’

“A jobless recovery is a far cry from what Ohio’s hard-working families were promised. In Elyria today, Ohioans will be looking for the president to signal he will scrap the job-killing policies that are freezing employers large and small from hiring, and work with Republicans on a true job creation agenda built on common-sense solutions to help small businesses create jobs and put Americans back to work.”

Today the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released December’s unemployment numbers for our state. Ohio’s unemployment rate jumped from 10.6% in November to 10.9% in December.

The Obama Infestation continues to tout his phantom job creation, none of those jobs apparently are in the Buckeye state. During the same period, the national unemployment rate has fallen from 10.5% in October to 10.3% in November and finally 10.0% in December. That is according to the Obama Infestation which has a vested interest in releasing numbers that looks good for the increasingly unpopular Emperor.

Obama came face to face with reality on Tuesday when the voters of Massachusetts rebuked the Obama plan by elected a Republican to a seat that Ted Kennedy held for 47 years. A seat previously occupied by Kennedy’s brother Bobby and before that his brother John. How can it be that this moron saw this as a sign to redouble his efforts to shove through his very unpopular Death Care bill?

Obama told George Stephanopoulos in an interview this week…

“We lost a sense – of – ah… speaking to the American people about what their core values are.”

Look at the wording… He actually said “… speaking TO” not speaking with. To me that spoke volumes about what his true goal is. His goal is to control all of us.

Any sane person looking at that quote would come to the same conclusion. He said that he didn’t speak TO us enough to define for us what our “core values” are supposed to be as defined by him. You’d have to be blind not to see the meaning in his own words.

If he had said “… speaking with” that would imply a discussion. But he didn’t. He said, “… speaking to”.

Later, I will be releasing a post identifying Obama’s destruction of the US economy. He cannot continue to blame our problems on his predecessor.

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Kasich Announces Running Mate

January 15, 2010 Announcements., Ohio Politics, Opinion, Taxes, The Economy Comments Off

Former United States Congressman and Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Republican John Kasich announced his pick for the next Lt. Governor of Ohio, Auditor of State Mary Taylor.

From the John Kasich for Governor website Auditor Taylor writes…

It truly is a new day in Ohio and I am excited to join John Kasich as we embark on a mission to transform state government as we know it.

The failed policies of the past three years have resulted in a 10.6 percent unemployment rate and the loss of 330,000 jobs. Ohio can’t take it anymore.

John Kasich and I will use our experience and accomplishments to reinvent state government. We will work together to bring jobs back to Ohio because we know that if government gets out of our way, Ohioans will prosper.
I am excited about this winning ticket and the more John and I talk and discuss the important issues facing our state, the more I realize how similar our record of leadership and accomplishments really is and how much this partnership truly makes sense.

I hope you will join us as we spend the next several months outlining our plans to establish an environment conducive for job growth and prosperity for all Ohioans.

Mary Taylor tried to warn Uncle Ted that he was facing a hole that he couldn’t spend his way out of but he wouldn’t listen. Now Mary is joining John Kasich in building a team that will not only bring Ohio out of that hole but create a business environment that will attract new businesses to the Buckeye State.

Our businesses are leaving us at an alarming rate. Why? Because of the aggressive tax system in place in Ohio. Kasich and Taylor want to eliminate the estate tax (6%) and phase out the income tax. These efforts along with other pro-business initiatives will create an environment that people want to live and work in. And if the costs of business go down, jobs will come back.

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Huckster’s Potential 2012 Bid Already Over

December 2, 2009 GOP/RNC, Huckster's Futile Campaign, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics Comments Off

During the 2008 Republican Presidential Primaries I made no secret of the fact that I am NOT a Mike Huckabee fan. It is my opinion that his background of being a Baptist minister is detrimental for America and it seems my instincts are correct.

As governor of Arkansas, Huckster granted in excess of 1,000 commutations of convicted criminals including 12 who were convicted of murder. There has been suggestion in some circles that he tended to grant commutations and pardons not on evidence before him as he suggested in a rebuttal printed on RedState but rather if the convict had found GOD within the prison walls. In his attempt to save face and deflect responsibility for commuting the sentence of a man who went on to murder 4 police officers in Washington, Mike “Huckster” Huckabee bravely states that he did not pardon Maurice Clemmons. This may be true. But the commutation of Clemmons made him eligible for parole which was ultimately granted.

Had Huckster kept his nose out of the Clemmons affair in the first place, Maurice would still have been sitting in a prison cell not out there killing police officers. The only thing that could be worse than what happened in Washington would be if Huckster got himself elected President in 2008. Lord only knows how many felons would have eventually been set free by this charlatan had he been just because they found GOD behind the prison wall.

Don’t get me wrong, I do believe that many people do find GOD after committing crimes. They do repent and they do seek forgiveness and it should be granted. But a debt to the state for the crimes committed is not relieved by GOD’s forgiveness.

Mike “Huckster” Huckabee is governed by his theology. A theology mind you that is fundamentally flawed might I add. He comes from the “once saved always saved” department of theological stupidity which confuses the lines drawn by GOD himself through His Word in Jesus Christ who said in the Gospel According to Matthew, “Then repay to Ceasar what belongs to Caesar and to GOD what belongs to GOD.” [1] In this context Christ was speaking of taxes but a debt to the state is a debt to the state. In this case, prison time owed to the state for a crime committed should not have been altered simply because one finds religion behind the prison walls. This is akin to an terrorist not killing you because you suddenly proclaimed belief in the 8th century pedophile prophet Mohamed. Whether you actually do or not is immaterial.

Under a President Huckster, the exit lines at our nation’s prisons would be filled with a new wave of born again types who suddenly understood that declaring a belief in GOD was a ticket to freedom. That is something that cannot be permitted.

He may lead in every single straw poll being conducted, but it is my belief that his political future is forever tainted. In this way, he and Gary Hart have a lot in common.

For the record, I do not wish to offend my Protestant colleagues but this is an individual who poses a threat to ending the free spending ways of the Democrats currently in charge. He is unelectable and would be ineffective as a chief executive. He raised taxes on the people in Arkansas and would have raised them on the American people.

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Matthew 22:21 New American Bible Catholic Edition [↩]

The White House Mob – The True Gangsters At Work In America

Obamacare (aka the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care boondoggle) opponents have been accused of being a mob by the White House. Insomuch as this is meant to be a smear to the genuine anger the people of this nation have been driven to by their congresscritters, it’s actually become a badge of pride worn by many a townhall protester and blogger alike. Hence the reason I have a graphic in the sidebar.

All of these truths aside, lets take a moment to recognize the true gangsters of politics.

Lets begin with Rham Emanuel. White House Chief of Staff and former Clinton Infestation official who in 1992 while celebrating Billy Bob Bubba’s election actually took a knife and began naming the names of their political enemies and shouted the word “dead” as he slammed the blade of the knife into a table. Ironically, many connected with the Clintonian Infestation actually did die. Coincidence? You decide.

This is the same Rham Emanuel who is widely understood to have sent a dead fish to a political opponent. A true Chicago-mob type Democrat Machine cog whose brash language combined with pitbull demeanor is the actual “brains” behind the Obama Infestation.

- That is if anyone could possibly accuse anyone in the Obama Infestation of actually having a brain. Personally I don’t think there are 10 functioning neurons in the whole damned White House. Perhaps Barry should have “Just Said No” to all that “blow” he “experimented” with. But I digress -

Emanuel has actually attempted to intimidate a state governor with threats of withholding federal stimulus funding from her state because of the opposition from one of the United States Senators elected from her state.

From The Politico 7/16/09:

Earlier this week, the administration launched a coordinated effort to jam Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican who’s argued that the government should “cancel the rest of the stimulus spending.” No fewer than four Cabinet secretaries wrote to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer — also a Republican — to ask her if she agreed with Kyl that it was time to turn off the state’s stimulus spigot.

“If you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to your state, as Sen. Kyl suggests, please let me know,” wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. For good measure, he attached a three-page addendum listing each of the Arizona projects paid for by the $521 million the state is getting.

Sounds like a mob tactic to me.

They are using Union Thugs to attack innocent protesters at Townhalls. Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) clothed in purple t-shirts are being bussed to events, escorted into the townhalls via back and side doors in order to intimidate those present into NOT protesting.

Take the case of a townhall for Rep. Russ Carnahan (D MO-3) on August 6th for example…

From Eagle Forum.org:

At Rep. Russ Carnahan’s (D-MO) Town Hall meeting on August 6, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) thugs, clad in purple shirts, punched in the face, brutally beat, and kicked in the head when he was down, an African American named Kenneth Gladney while hurling a torrent of racial slurs. The SEIU goons were following White House advice: “Don’t do a lot of talking,” and if they encounter resistance, “punch back twice as hard.”

So what could Gladney have been doing to draw the ire of the SEIU goons? Although the President was the promise of a post racism President, Mr Gladney is an African-American and he was passing out Gadsden flags. After-all it is a crime in the minds of liberals for an African-American to be a Conservative don’t you know?

Six people were arrested in connection with Mr. Gladney’s beating. Personally I am hoping that they are charged with hate crimes.

The President himself set the tone for the past week of protests and the response by those on the hard left including the SEIU. He said, ” I don’t want the folks who created the mess, I don’t want the folks who created this mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” He went on to say, “I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” Doubt me, here’s the video (AGAIN)…

So when the SEIU thugs beat up on Mr. Gladney, they didn’t want him or anyone else to do a lot of talking. They want him to get out of the way so that Obamaramadingdong could clean up after the “folks who created the mess”. But someone should have informed the SEIU who created the mess. Because those folks happen to be Congress with their regulations and federal interference.

So in a sense the “folks who created the mess” have been the only folks talking to this point and the American people are sick of the campaign speech platitudes as they see their life’s work being squandered in Washington by these tone deaf congresscritters. And now it is their turn to be heard.

And let me remind you people of a truth that is being missed. There is no crisis. Depending on the poll you read this week, between 70 and 85% of Americans are happy with their current health care. There is no crises. So if nothing is done, nothing will happen. But if Congress and the President get their way with this, we are all doomed.

Reject Big Bro and his Orwellian future. Go to a Townhall and try not to shout. Ask in a respectful tone pointed questions to catch your congresscritter in a lie.

Take a copy of bill along with you and when you ask your question, refer to the section where the issue is located and cite it word for word to show them why they need to read the bill. We all know that anyone who bothers to read the bill can’t possibly be for this legislation. Use the bill itself against them.

No – the only mob that I see is the mob leading this boondoggle. The only goons that I see are in the pocket of the President. The only gangsters I see are the Chicago Machine that has been promoted to Washington.

One final fact before I leave.

Remember, Rham Emanuel has a big stake in this bill. His brother is the key individual who will be rationing care under Obamacare 1.0. Dr. Ezekial Emanuel has written extensively on how to lower costs through rationing. He, like many of Barry Obama’s “advisers” is a scary individual. Read what he has to say about controlling costs and the best distribution of medical care. If you do, you’ll join the protest.

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The Downfall of America

August 12, 2009 Abortion, American History, Opinion, Taxes, The Fight For FREEDOM, US Senate, United States Constitution Comments Off

Recent events in this nation have begun to raise some questions about how far we have drifted away from the original intent of the founding fathers of this country. A nation originally conceived as a collection of smaller countries. Each state maintaining a level of sovereignty in the world but banded together for mutual defense. Our nation actually has 2 founding documents. The first, the Declaration of Independence put the world on notice that we no longer considered ourselves subjects of the British Monarch King George III. But more especially, it put King George III on notice that we were not going to accept his oppressive treatment any longer without a fight. The second founding document, established a governmental framework around which that mutual defense was to be structured. This document is the Constitution.

The Constitution is the people’s permission for the federal government to operate. As originally written, any issue not directly given as a responsibility of the federal government was to be left to the states. As specified in the 10th Amendment.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The supreme authority in the United States is actually granted to us, the people, by our Creator as stated in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was much more than our asserting our emancipation from an oppressive dictator, it was our establishment as a people. This establishment went on without direction until after the American Revolutionary War when the Articles of Confederation were established. This loose agreement among the newly freed former colonies of the British crown established them as independent states with no way to settle disputes among them. This facilitated the Constitutional Convention which was empowered by the states to refine the existing Articles of Confederation.

When it was convened a decision was quickly made that the current Articles of Confederation were so flawed that they needed to be abandoned and a new agreement of the states needed to be made.

The intent of those who drafted our Constitution need not be interpreted as those who believe that it is a living breathing and evolving document would have you believe. For the love of Pete it is written in English. The intent is just as clear today as it was in 1787 when it was signed. The United States was and is to be a Constitutional Federal Republic in that the political power of the nation is to be centered in the various states NOT as some would have you believe the federal government.

Upon its signing, the US Constitution was nothing more than 7 Articles establishing the responsibilities of the Congress, President, Supreme Court and subordinate courts, interstate relations, a method of amendment, an establishment of authorization for the payment of debts, supremacy, and oaths of office, and the mode of ratification. It was to be understood, that if the Constitution did not address an issue specifically, it was for the states themselves to deal with or the people.

The USA Began to Unravel Before the Ink Was Dry

Since it’s ratification in 1789, the United States Constitution has been modified for better or for worse according to Article V.

The first fracture in this limited government was made with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Jefferson, the Democrat that he was, believed that by establishing a bill of rights it would open the Constitution up to assumptions. If the government can assume one right over the people, where would it end. We now know. It doesn’t end.

How Abortion Has Led to the Downfall of a Nation

The next crack was with the adoption of the 14th Amendment. As necessary as the 14th was at its time in history, the amendment was written so broadly that those who cannot understand that a document written in English needs no interpretation will find meaning in its lack of wording to define rights or responsibilities that were never intended. This is how a Constitutional right to terminate life can be found in an amendment adopted to establish citizenship for all persons living in the United States at a specific moment in time regardless of previous state of servitude; and that those persons could not be denied due process under the law. I’m sorry people but slavery has been illegal in the United States since 1862. NO ONE living in 1972 – or since – had ever been a slave. Subsequently they could not be denied due process of law based upon a previous status of servitude. The basis for the legalization of abortion in the United States as legislated by the Supreme Court – a clear violation of Articles I and III of the Constitution – could not and should not have been made by the Warren court. The Amendment cited does not apply.

In contrast to the Warren Court’s establishment of the superiority of the 14th Amendment over all other provisions of the US Constitution, the 10th Amendment shines brightly above it. Or at least with any free thinking individualist with skills to comprehend a sentence written in plain English.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Abortion is in the most liberal of terms a medical procedure. There is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to regulate, over-see, fund, or otherwise interfere with medical procedures in this country in spite of the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid. There simply exists no authorization the federal government to do so in the Constitution. However, under the 10th Amendment the states have such a right.

The Warren court decided to supercede the right of the State of Texas to deny a woman an abortion because the state had established the procedure as being not lawful within its jurisdiction. The Warren court’s decision to hear the case much less find some twisted “Constitutional right” was a clear violation of states’ right as defined under the 10th Amendment. Their justification for even hearing the case in the first place – interstate commerce. A medical procedure – legal or illegal – has suddenly become a matter of interstate commerce. This will be the justification for Obamacare next. But I digress.

With this decision, the Warren court made it possible to argue that since every product and/or service performed in this country – legal or illegal – has an intrinsic value and might be a cause for an individual to cross a state line in order to seek said product or service, it is automatically a matter of interstate commerce and thus the jurisdiction of the federal government. And if a product or service is denied to a citizen of a state by the state, it can be argued that the citizen’s rights of due process have been violated even though, that person had no previous condition of servitude.

Using that argument, in Nevada, anyone can walk into any public building and play a slot machine. Here in Ohio we cannot. Therefore my right to feed a potential gambling addiction (which I don’t have) cannot be satisfied. Because companies in Nevada supply these type of machines, it can be argued that Ohio’s anti-gambling laws constitute a violation of my 14th amendment rights under interstate commerce. I don’t have readily available access to those machines. (note: this is actually a better argument for interstate commerce due process interference than the Roe decision was.)

In a sense, the Roe decision opened the 14th amendment up for bastardization by any liberal crazy with a wild hair to do anything that is currently forbidden by a state government.

The Income Tax and the Beginning of Class Warfare

The next modification to our Constitution that contributed to our demise as a country is the 16th Amendment. A very simple amendment the establishment of an income tax.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

This removed the requirement established in Article I requiring an enumeration of the people before the levying of any taxes in Article I Section 2 Paragraph 3. I know the reason for doing so however, that does not justify the levying taxes without an enumeration of the people as required by our founders. Removing the racial make-up and devaluation of the human-being implied by Article 1 Section 2, it still should be required that if any new tax is to be imposed on the people, an enumeration of the populous should be conducted in order to know how much revenue would be generated by said tax. This only makes common sense and thus why it was originally written into article I.

This income tax has been a vehicle by which a particular political party has created a separation of the people based solely on one’s ability to earn. Hard work, effort, and the taking of risks in this country is what makes it great. Those who wish to impose some twisted sense of social equality based solely on existence have created in a sense a war among the classes that takes place every 4 years at the ballot. Those who ‘have’ continue to be vilified in this nation rather than rewarded for creating wealth and providing opportunities for others to establish themselves and provide for their families. A progressive and overly burdensome tax system has been implemented in order to spread the wealth in a quest to redistribute the wealth of the nation according to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

The worst kept political secret in this nation is that the Democrat party has been working towards full implementation of social Communism by way of income redistribution. And the vehicle used most often is the 16th Amendment.

The Popular Election of Senators – The States Are Removed from the Equation

With the passage and ratification of the 17th Amendment, the people would in a sense have two Houses of Representatives. Originally, the state legislatures had the responsibility of appointing 2 Senators in different term classes to the United States Senate for terms of 6 years. This is outlined in Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Being appointed by the state legislature made a Senator accountable to the state from which he/she was appointed. This gave the state more power. With the passage of the 17th Amendment, the people of this nation removed this accountability to the states and in a sense made the states subservient to the federal government. And the end of our Republic was begun.

Clause 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

Clause 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

Clause 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

As of the ratification of the 17th Amendment, we are no longer a collection of 50 separate and independent nations, we are nothing more than 50 provinces or districts within the out of control monster known as the United States.

Conclusion

Many cite the Constitution as the ultimate authority in the United States. This idea is nothing more than fiction. It is the will of the people as expressed by the people. We will it or it cannot be so. This authority is granted to us by GOD and declared to the world as such by the Declaration of Independence.

With the growing emergence of the sovereignty movement among the states, I can see a day when the United States as we know it could – and I emphasize the word COULD – be obsolete. If every one of the 50 states declared itself independent again – like the Constitution originally intended – then perhaps a new agreement among the states could replace the now totally flawed and bastardized Constitution like it replaced the Articles of Confederation. One could only hope.

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The Counterproductive Obama

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Obamaramadingdong campaigned promising big labor that he would impose penalties on companies that move American jobs off-shore. This got him millions of union votes from labor thinking that jobs would return as companies seek to avoid the punitive actions that Obama promised. However, Obamaramadingdong in his lack of vision hasn’t thought to himself, “If I tax these companies, what will they do?” The answer my friends is clear. Move their corporate headquarters offshore as well.

From al-Reuters:

The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom.

Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland — mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama’s tax-seeking administration.

In a country with scant crude oil production of its own, the virtual energy boom has changed the canton or state of Zug, about 30 minutes’ drive from Zurich, beyond all recognition. Its economy was based on farming until it slashed tax rates to attract commerce after World War Two.

Obama can’t impose taxes on a company that doesn’t do business in the United States. What’s next? Are they going to move their oil refining to China? That is very possible.

China won’t impose the silly restrictions on building new refineries as has been done in the US nor will it threaten any asinine “profit windfall tax” to stunt growth in these companies as has been called for among liberals on Capital Hill.

The nation is becoming well aware of the dangerous prospect of another 3 plus years of Obamaramadingdong in office. He, in all his Imperial wisdom, cannot understand that changes in the business environment in a global economy means that business will seek the most profitable solutions to any problems created by government.

Liberals in general believe that business in the US is static. That it won’t change. Just like raising income taxes on the so-called wealthy – they believe that the wealthy will always be wealthy and accept their taxation without a fight. I’m sorry to inform them but the wealthy in this country didn’t get that way by ignoring reductions in personal income. And let us not forget that it is the wealthy who employ the rest of us. Begin to cut into their standard of living and people who rely upon them for jobs will lose said jobs and become dependent upon mother state to provide.

But what will happen when mother state is no longer capable of providing because its tax base moved off-shore? Perhaps that is a question that the new President should face in the coming days.

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s Rebuttle to Obamaramadingdong’s State of the Economy

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WASHINGTON– Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement tonight:

“Watching President Obama address our nation–and feeling the pride that is in every American’s heart–it’s worth pausing to celebrate our nation’s achievements. Yet even as we mark this historic event, we recognize the deep problems that continue to face our nation. Republicans are eager to work with President Obama on the challenges he discussed, especially restoring fiscal responsibility and growing our economy.

“After last year’s State of the Union, then-candidate Barack Obama asked the nation to imagine a time when a President’s agenda would draw standing ovations from both sides of the aisle. That sort of bipartisanship is an admirable goal–and one that unfortunately continues to elude Washington. The Democratic leadership in Congress must be willing to work with Republicans to stop out-of-control spending, promote the creation of jobs, and to keep our troops properly funded.

“Now would be a good time for this young Administration to ask the Democrat leaders in Congress to actually consider working in a bipartisan way to solve the real problems Americans are facing.

“I am more confident than ever that the American people will stand up for the principles our nation was founded on and will hold their representatives accountable to overcome the challenges that this nation faces.” emphasis mine

Unfortunately I do not share Chairman Steele’s optimism when speaking of bipartisanship when it comes to Reid, Pelosi, and especially Obamaramadingdong. I applaud his work in implementing his stated goals within the GOP BUT any hope of compromise and working together with the Obama Infestation is a pipe dream.

Bipartisanship is unattainable in the current political climate in Washington. With the Democrats heavily indebted to the extreme left and the GOP in rebuilding mode, I don’t see any wiggle room especially when bipartisanship to Democrats means Republican capitulation.

Those who voted against The Democrat Lard Act of 2009 need to keep that unity. Along with that the RNC led by Steele, the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the rank-in-file need to put pressure on Snowe, Collins, and Specter to bring them into line BEFORE any more additional harm is done to this nation.

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From FoxNews.com:

Illinois Governor Arrested on Corruption Charges

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested in Chicago Tuesday on two counts each of corruption charges relating to trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday morning in Chicago on two counts each of federal corruption charges stemming from allegations Blagojevich was trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.

The arrest is part of a three-year probe of “pay-to-play politics” in the governor’s administration. The criminal complaint by the FBI says each man was arrested on two charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery.

The charges also relate to allegations that Blagojevich and Harris schemed with previously convicted defendants and Obama associates Antoin Rezko, Stuart Levine, Ali Ata and others to arrange financial benefits in exchange for appointments to state boards and commissions, state employment, state contracts and access to state funds.

Blagojevich and Harris will have an initial appearance in U.S. District Court Tuesday.

A statement by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant said Blagojevich and Harris “allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointment, engaged in pay-to-play schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce purge of newspaper editorial writers.”

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” Fitzgerald said in a statement.

“Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism,” he added.

Grant noted that Blagojevich was elected in 2002 after Illinois Gov. George Ryan retired in the face of federal corruption charges. He was convicted and sentenced in 2006 to six and a half years in prison.

“Many, including myself, thought that the recent conviction of a former governor would usher in a new era of honesty and reform in Illinois politics. Clearly, the charges announced today reveal that the office of the Governor has become nothing more than a vehicle for self-enrichment, unrestricted by party affiliation and taking Illinois politics to a new low,” Grant said.

Federal authorities were permitted by a judge to record the governor secretly before the November election after raising concerns that a replacement for Obama would be tainted.

Fitzgerald’s office said the 76-page FBI affidavit alleges that Blagojevich was taped conspiring to sell or trade Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat for financial and other personal benefits for himself and his wife, including an annual salary of $250,000-$300,000 at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

They also allege Blagojevich is heard on tape demanding a corporate board seat for his wife worth as much as $150,000 a year; promises of campaign funds, including cash up front; and a Cabinet post or ambassadorship for himself.

The Chicago Tribune was first to report the arrests. Informed Monday of the wiretap, Blagojevich told reporters that his discussions were “always lawful” and he defended a close confidant, John Wyma, who turned on him. Wyma as “an honest person who’s conducted himself in an honest way,” Blagojevich said.

“I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it,” he said.

However, the Tribune was also named in the affidavit because tapes allegedly play Blagojevich directing Harris to inform the newspaper’s owners and advisers that “state financial assistance would be withheld unless members of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board were fired, primarily because Blagojevich viewed them as driving discussion of his possible impeachment.”

The Tribune Company, which declared bankruptcy on Monday, owns the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs, and had explored the possibility of obtaining assistance from the Illinois Finance Authority as part of the effort to sell the Cubs and finance the sale of Wrigley Field.

Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Solicitation of bribery carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Both carry a maximum fine of $250,000.

Isn’t it reassuring that our new President comes from the most corrupt party, from the most corrupt state, and the most corrupt city in this nation?

Details Of Complaint Against Blagojevich
Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, chief of staff, arrested

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