Cousins’ Wars

Friday, January 21st, 2011

“New England politicians were content in the 1790s because the North had won the early financial and commercial battles. Congressional support for Alexander Hamilton’s debt program of 1791 divided along regional lines.  On the issue of the fedl govt assuming state Revolutionary War debts, northern members of the House voted YES by 24 to 9 while their southern colleagues voted NO by 18 to 10.  On the related question of a Natl Bank, northern members favored it 33 to 1 and those from the South were opposed 19 to 6….

Jefferson’s defeat of Adams in 1800 turned the tide in favor of southern and western economics. The national debt reduction of 1802 was one signal… The Jeffersonians again shook the pillars of northern finance in 1811 by refusing to extend Hamilton’s First Bank of the US.”       p. 355 The Cousins’ Wars

Southerners have historically always favored Smaller Govt and more Personal Responsibility.  Northern Banking and Commercial Interests have historically favored Big Govt  w/ an intrusive Fedl Bank. Deficit spending leads to massive Debt which mortgages the economic freedom of future generations.  The Jeffersonian Constitutionalists broke the power of Big Govt Federalists (Jefferson to Buchanan 1801-1860) for the most part.

With the GOP back in control of the House and the impetus of the Tea Party Movement, the time to break it again has come. Internationalist Financiers have dominated the US from the Radical Republicans (1861) through WWI, the Great Depression, the New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society.  The Military Industrial Complex, warned of by Eisenhower, finds an enemy to justify defense spending levels greater than most of the rest of the world combined.

Support leaders like Ron Paul as they work to uncover and dismantle years of financial abuse.

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Obama’s Pals Hate War Policies

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Candidate Obama made brash promises to end the war in Iraq, finish the war in Afghanistan, and close GITMO immediately. BUT, President Obama has found each of these more difficult to accomplish.  If you read previous articles here, you see the mixed feelings on Iraq I now have.  Was it necessary to dismantle al-Qaeda?  Probably not. The world should be glad Saddam is dead and his sons as well.  But if a Shiite dominated Iraqi govt tilts toward Iran, that is not good.  GITMO should be closed, but only after every ounce of intel is drained from its prisoners and then all are executed by firing squad or public hanging.  The war in Afghanistan was the Dems’ and the president’s “acceptable” war–  the home of the Taliban Radical Muslims who allowed al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden refuge and training facilities. 

But, if the primary mission was to topple the Taliban regime,  destroy al-Qaeda as a viable terrorist organization,  and kill bin Laden and his lieutenants responsible for the September 11 attacks,  then let’s get the bulk of the troops out- declare victory- and use special ops and air power to finish off bin Laden.  al-Qaeda has been disrupted been it has not been eradicated, they will continue to recruit and plan ops around the world.  bin Laden has been in the crosshairs several times dating back to the Clinton years, but he continues to exists.

Why doesn’t Obama, the Far Leftist ideologue, end these wars?  His Leftist friends who helped him win the White House loathe the Military and our nationalist patriotism to a country they see as meddling, selfish, racist,  and evangelically patronizing.  The answer I am beginning to see is difficult to comprehend.  It is like an enormous puzzle that we watch as pieces are dropped into place.  It is impossible to know everything that goes on in countless governmt agencies and private organizations, but there seems to be two powerful groups working toward the single goal of ruling the US outside the boundaries set by the Constitution.   Although they work from opposite poles, their ideologies often overlap. 

The thesis is this, and time will tell:  The Far Left Marxists-Socialists ideologues control vast areas of the Democrat Party; in Academia; and the Mainstream Media.  Through our schools, universities, local urban governments, state legislatures, and Congress, the Leftist domestic agenda proceeds incrementally.  It began in theory with the Wilson administration and gained influence w/ FDR’s New Deal w/ the onslaught of the Great Depression.  LBJ’s Great Society furthered the process and no one has had the guts to derail it since (though Reagan tried harder than all the others).  But when the candidate of the Left gains the White House (since the Cold War), they too run head-on into the neo-Fascist Military Industrial Complex.  Regardless of the party in power in the White House, the MIC reigns supreme in US foreign policy decisions.

The US defeated Mexico in 1 1/2 yrs; Spain in 90 days; finished off the Kaiser in 1 1/2 yrs; and defeated the Nazis and Japan in less than five yrs.  Since then (after Eisenhower warned of this entity’s sinister influence), we fought North Korea to a draw; could not “save” South Vietnam or Cambodia;  and left Saddam in power after he invaded Kuwait, gassed innocent people, and threatened to kill the President.  The MIC needs an enemy, a boogie man to scare Americans into accepting their “defense” spending levels and neo-imperialist operations: the Russian Bear and Communism, “Humanitarian” efforts (Reagan and Lebanon; Clinton and Somalia; Clinton and Yugoslavia), now “Terrorism” (Bush II and Obama), and soon Iran for Obama.

Radical Islam is a dreadful threat to world peace and our personal well-being. A nuclear Iran  is not acceptable with the present apocalyptic-minded type of government in control there.  Communism by its very internationalist ideology was a threat to be faced.  I am not attempting to make light of these adversaries.  As the Left’s domestic agenda is anathema to America’s traditional constitutional foundations, so also is the fear-mongering of the Internationalist Financier- backed Military Industrial Complex.  Obama and his crowd of Marxists, closet Muslims, and Black Liberation Theologians, cannot wrench free of the wars, increased military spending, and domestic spying, because they like the dirty money and feel of power they get from the MIC.  They are like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day. The Jewish Pharisees turned over the Messiah to the Roman authorities, murdering their potential King and damning their souls, to hold on to the miniscule amount of authority they held within the Roman empire system.

If you love Liberty, understand what America faces from Right and Left, from the Establishment which controls both major parties, and stand ready to defend our Biblical and constitutional values with the soap box, the ballot box, and if need be, the ammo box. Lord, have mercy on America.

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Congress Raises Debt Limit

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

At the end of January, Congress voted to raise the national debt ceiling higher allowing the Federal Gov’t to go another $1.9 trillion deeper into debt.  For every dollar spent of the 2011 Obama Budget, 4o cents is borrowed (deficit spending).  Much of the debt is owned by Red China, Japan, and the Arabs. 

High deficits are not new;  Bush’s tax cuts, Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, No Child Left Behind and TWO wars led to record deficits.  He kept war budgets separate from the general budget to mask some of the costs.  BUT, Obama’s budgets have set new records for deficit spending w/ the continuation of the TWO wars and drastic domestic spending increases.

By October 2012, the end of this fiscal year, the national debt [the sum of annual deficit spending] will reach $14.3 trillion –  more than $45,000 for every man, woman and child in the US.  “Through the turn of the 20th century, taxes remained very low; the national debt was less than $1 billion (in 1910, $1 billion = $12.40 per US citizen” (For The Cause, p.19;D. Hinson).

At the end of World War I (1919), the debt was $1 billion; it ballooned between the wars (with the New Deal) to $25+ billion.  With victory in WWII (1945), the debt had risen to $150+ billion.  It leveled off during the prosperous Fifties and Kennedy years before exploding with LBJ’s Great Society and  the prolonged Vietnam War. It has continued spiraling out of control since. 

You cannot run a home or any Business like Washington runs the Federal Gov’t.  Foreign governments own most of the debt w/ interests in direct conflict to ours most of the time.  The Federal Reserve prints money, with no foundational security outside of the confidence of the American public, which serves only to devalue our currency.  A day of reckoning must come eventually. When it does, the Great Depression will look like  a vacation at Disneyland.   

Ed.Note-  The quote is from the book For The Cause  available on this website.

Tags: deficit spending, Federal Reserve, For The Cause, Great Depression, great society, national debt, new deal, obama budget
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Open Elections: More Choices

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Political parties were probably inevitable, but the Founding Fathers didnt really see them as a positive influence when you read the Federalist Papers.  They formed relatively quickly after the Washington administration.  Hamilton’s central bank/ strong central Gov’t ideology clashed w/ Jefferson’s states’ rights/ weak central Gov’t views, and the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were born.

The names changed through the years, but the opposing ideologies basically remained the same until after World War I.  The Great War was not enough of a threat to Americans to convince them to surrender sovereignty to a League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate in defeating the Versailles Treaty in 1919.  Woodrow Wilson’s close advisor Col Edward House organized a group of political and business leaders from both major parties with a long term plan to move the United States toward integration in a World Government.  The Council on Foreign Relations went to work on achieving this goal. The deadlier and costlier WWII proved to be the catalyst to start the process as the United Nations was instituted and placed on American soil in 1945.

Southern Democrats once fought for states’ rights, but they are few and far between now in a party dominated by northeastern ultra-liberals; Ronald Reagan brought to fruition the seeds of Conservatism Barry Goldwater planted, but the GOP never used their years in power to undo the New Deal and Great Society. Do you wonder why big government incrementalism continues unabated regardless of the party in power since 1945?  The two major parties are ensconced with members of the CFR.  There are still good conservatives here and there, but the socialistic world gov’t ideologues control both parties. 

The Democrat party, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, anti-2nd amendmt, and weak-kneed in foreign policy, is hopeless for America’s future.  While disgusted with the GOP over the last five years, one can hope the recent grassroots movement to stop Cap and Trade legislation and Government-Run HealthCare builds momentum in 2010 and on to 2012.  The disgust with the GOP is due to their ranks being dominated by RINOs.  CONSERVATIVES- more Americans refer to themselves as conservative more than any other label.  GOP- 20%, Democrats 33%,Liberal- 15%, Conservative- 35%.  Less Gov’t, lower taxes, free-enterprise capitalism, individual responsibility- traditional conservatism is the answer for what ails us.  No more blind support for Republicans who act like Democrats or sellouts to the CFR. Sarah Palin made the right stand this week supporting the conservative party candidate in the 23rd NY House district race whereas Newt Gingrich blindly supported a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, anti-2nd amendmt Republican in the race.

The two major parties in the US, dominated by the CFR, have control of the election process infrastructure.  In the state of NC, it is almost impossible to get third parties on the ballot.  Where do these parties get constitutional authority for freezing out other choices for elections across this republic? It is unethical and in violation of the founders’ spirit.  While no third party candidate has won the presidency, several have affected the outcome — 1824, 1860, 1912, 1968, 1992, and 2001.  I attended the NC Libertarian Party convention last April and came away impressed with the folks involved with it. Dr Mike Munger (of Duke University) got 3% of the votes in the NC 2008 gubernatorial race; Dr Mike Beitler (of UNCG) is currently running for the US Senate seat held by Richard Burr for 2010. These are good men worthy of support. They offer a fresh choice from the run of the mill professional politician.  While I cannot support all of the Libertarian social issue and foreign policy positions, I score a 90 on agreement w/ their economic platform. There is a Conservative Party which is strong in some states, but not currently organized in NC.   Maybe it has a future here as well.  It is time to press the NC Legislature to amend the elections process and allow greater third party or independent candidate participation.  The major party monopoly on the process must be broken to overcome their wrong-headed policies.

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