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We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent of those precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment, which grants that all 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 American people do not accept these counsels of timidity, failure, and despair. In town halls and on public squares, in every corner of this country, people have gathered and spoken out – in small groups and larger crowds, through phone calls and in letters, through websites and new technologies. Though these petitions come from different walks, their message is uniform: Washington has not been listening.
Our plan puts forth a new governing agenda that reflects the priorities of the American people – priorities that have been ignored, even mocked by the powers-that-be in Washington.
Since January 2009, President Obama and Congressional Democrats have enacted $680 billion in gross tax increases, $316 billion of which are tax hikes that hurt the middle class families President Obama said would not see a tax increase.
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
There is literally no aspect of our economy or our society that the federal government doesn’t tax, regulate or subsidize, and often it does all three at the same time. The most recent edition of the Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance listed 2,050 different assistance programs available to states, local governments, for-profit and non-profit organizations, groups, and individuals. Taxpayers are literally funding programs from cradle to grave:
• Through July 31, 2010, 3,833 pages of federal regulations have been issued regarding the new law.
• Roughly 16,500 IRS auditors, agents, and other employees may be needed to collect the hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes levied on the American people by the new health care law.
• The new health care law includes $569.2 billion in tax increases – including taxes that will directly increase the cost of health care goods and services – and $528.5 billion in Medicare cuts, which will be used to create new programs not related to seniors.
• The new health care law provides for the creation of more than 160 boards, bureaus, and commissions. Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee have released a chart detailing this maze of busybodies and bureaucracies:
• When the House was poised to consider legislation to impose a “cap-and-trade” national energy tax, a 300-page “manager’s amendment” rewriting key provisions of the bill without a separate vote was dropped in the laps of lawmakers at 3:00 am. The House began debate on the bill just a few hours later.
• For the first time in modern history, the House failed to pass or even debate a budget, allowing spending to continue to grow at a breathtaking rate without any blueprint for making fiscal decisions.
TAdvance Legislative Issues One at a Time: We will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with “must-pass” legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time.
Establish Operational Control of the Border: We must take action to secure our borders, and that action starts with enforcing our laws. We will ensure that the Border Patrol has the tools and authorities to establish operational control at the border and prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from interfering with Border Patrol enforcement activities on federal lands.
Originally posted by Logarock
So you see.....just another round. They should call it ....Masturbating America...again. Here america youre all pissed off and up tight...let us give you a good hand job....work off some of that tension.
Originally posted by whatukno
- Will require that every bill have a citation of constitutional authority
"According to the Constitution, we can do this"
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by iterationzero
im sorry but i gotta comment on what odonnel said. she right it is a sin
and only the left would have a problem with that i thought you people were so smart
Originally posted by iterationzero
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by iterationzero
im sorry but i gotta comment on what odonnel said. she right it is a sin
Right by what account? Can you show me in the Bible where it specifically says don't masturbate? Because her "masturbation = adultery" logic is pretty flimsy.
and only the left would have a problem with that i thought you people were so smart
Assuming I'm on the left because I disagree with Christine or because I enjoy giving the purple helmeted warrior marching orders on occasion is more indicative of your mentality than mine. It's lazy reasoning.
when you get past the adjectives and soaring language, the talk of inalienable rights and constitutional guarantees, you're left with a set of hard promises that will increase the deficit by trillions of dollars, take health-care insurance away from tens of millions of people, create a level of policy uncertainty businesses have never previously known, and suck demand out of an economy that's already got too little of it.
What, exactly, does the Republican Party believe?
The document speaks constantly and eloquently of the dangers of debt -- but offers a raft of proposals that would sharply increase it.
It says, in one paragraph, that the Republican Party will commit itself to "greater liberty" and then, in the next, that it will protect "traditional marriage."
It says that "small business must have certainty that the rules won't change every few months" and then promises to change all the rules that the Obama administration has passed in recent months.
It is a document with a clear theory of what has gone wrong -- debt, policy uncertainty, and too much government -- and a solid promise to make most of it worse.
Take the deficit. Perhaps the two most consequential policies in the proposal are the full extension of the Bush tax cuts and the full repeal of the health-care law.
The first would increase the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next 10 years, and many trillions of dollars more after that. The second would increase the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years, and many trillions of dollars more after that.
So to cut through it all and expose it for what it truly is, here's the real GOP Pledge to America:
-To lower taxes for the rich
-To cut spending on all programs that help the poor and middle class
-To end any program that helps you buy a house, a car, pay for college, save for retirement
-To cut Social Security and Medicare
-To repeal all those horrible Health Care Reform benefits such as no pre-existing condition exclusions; no lifetime caps; coverage for kids up to 26; and affordable coverage for everyone
-To eliminate those "unconstitutional" unemployment benefits
-To permanently freeze the minimum wage
-To let corporate special interests and lobbyists set policy
-To cancel aid and tax breaks for small business
-To waste trillions on unnecessary defense spending
-To let Wall Street run wild and reckless with the same sort of high-risk investment schemes that brought about the financial crisis of 2008
-To let corporations influence elections without any transparency whatsoever
-To let right-wing religious extremists run the country
-To ban gay marriage
-To ban abortion
-To mock scientific reasoning
-To eliminate funding for environmental/clean air/climate control initiatives
-To cut funding for sex-education programs
-To "take America back" to the days when blacks, Hispanics and Muslims were discriminated against and deprived of their basic civil rights and liberties
-To fear-monger and further turn Americans against Islam
-To demonize and attack as "hating America" anyone who disagrees with us
-To obstruct government and reject every single initiative of the Obama administration
There's your choice America: this, or the Democrats.
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
*I disagree with and criticize the Tea Party, but I would rather have it as a third American party than have no viable third party at all*