Taxes and Prosperity

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

Spreading The Wealth

Evidently BHO only believes in "spreading" other peoples "wealth around!"

From The Times

October 30, 2008

Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango

James Bone in Boston, Rob Crilly in Kogelo and Ben Macintyre

Barack Obama has lived one version of the American Dream that has taken him to the steps of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court...

In Their Own Words

Here are links to both the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. If you want to know what the founders were truly thinking when they wrote The Constitution and The Bill of Rights then just read these and make up your own mind. You DO NOT need a professor or teacher to tell you. You can figure it out on your own!

The Federalist Papers

The Anti-Federalist Papers

From The Founders

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise 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, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, ME 15:332

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
-John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:
“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
-James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

“…[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
-James Madison

“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” James Madison, “Letter to Edmund Pendleton,”
-James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of Virginia,1984).

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.”
-James Madison, Federalist No. 58, February 20, 1788

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
-James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788

" I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1776

"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute."
- Thomas Paine

"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Ben Franklin, Respectfully Quoted, p. 201, Suzy Platt, Barnes & Noble, 1993

These and many other quotes can be found at Dr. Walter E. Williams web site. The specific portion is titled, "Quotations From Framers of the Constitution ... and Others" These should be MANDATORY reading for all citizens of this country!

In His Own Words

He clearly doesn't like The Constitution! He also clearly states that he believes in wealth redistribution and that the courts failed by not imposing it on the people. That IS socialist/marxist!!!

Asking The Tough Questions

And Ol Joe can't handle it!



Me thinks thou dost protest too much, Joe...



Hey "ole buddy" if ya can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen! Oh, that's right, you just ban them if you get meals you don't like while feeding everyone else excrement sandwiches!

Hmmmmmm...

Share The Wealth
By Tim Kelly

I don't believe any further comment is needed!!!

Just a Thought

"...These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine

Barack Marx???

"Spread the wealth, huh?!" That's straight out of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto!" What makes Barack Hussein Obama think that he's qualified to determine who makes "enough" and that above that amount a person needs to have him confiscate a large portion of that and then give it to someone who DID NOTHING to earn it?! What business is it of his what anybody makes??? Enough with the class warfare! So, if I bust my butt and get into a position where I want to start my own business and give people jobs(BTW, that word has FOUR letters Sen. Biden) then I am not worthy of having a tax cut!? Instead, I must pay MORE taxes, oh, that's real "FAIR" Barry!!! BTW, taxes are to pay for infrastructure and national security, not spread "fairness."

Also, paying taxes IS NOT patriotic!!! If you don't believe me then go read a bit about our history called "THE BOSTON TEA PARTY." This is part of our Revolutionary War history. The people who did this DID NOT see paying taxes as patriotic! Taxes were a big reason for the Revolutionary War. Here's a helpful link to an eyewitness account of the event, THE BOSTON TEA PARTY: BY George Hewes

FOLLOW UP: BHO and Biden are now attacking Joe, making fun of him and ridiculing him. So much for their being for the middle-class and the blue-collar worker. That's exactly what this man is, but because he dares question "the messiah" he must be destroyed.

Obama and ACORN in Action!!!

The theft of the election is well under way! Here's Chicago style politics being used in Cincinnati. This is just one of several such vehicles that I've seen cruising Cincinnati streets.

Obama Reading Material

Apparently he's ready for a "Post American World" with a Muslim slant! The man clearly doesn't view this country as the great nation it is or as the greatest force for good in the world. He clearly doesn't have the vision of the Shining City On A Hill! He also has no understanding, looking at his reading material, of the blessings that God has given this country.

Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal

In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay

Barbara Slavin
Friday, October 10, 2008

EXCLUSIVE:

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval...

The man will say and do ANYTHING in order to get elected!!!

Who Helped Plant That ACORN, Hmmmm?!

Media Bias
By Eric Allie

"The 'ACORN' doesn't fall far tree!" - Remember who recently said this?

Where The Blame REALLY Lies!

Financial Crisis
By Eric Allie

Oh how true!!!

Dead On Acurate!!!

...and hard to believe this was done by Saturday night Live!



This video may not be viewable at some point in the near future. It has been posted and pulled multiple times by NBC. Just in case the Obama apologist, Democrat boot licking Nazi's at NBC/GE pull it again, it can be found at PatDollard.com. Here are 2 copies of it. The one on Hulu.com has been slightly edited, for some reason. Not sure why, but if you watch both you'll see the edit and it is curious.

EDIT: Looks like the youtube version got pulled again. If you want to see the original and unedited version go to Pat Dollard's site by just clicking on the link I gave above. Some of the edits are obvious, some are not.

Found at Little Green Footballs

Obama's Employer Desecrated Flag

Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:31:14 am PST

Here’s a photo of former Weather Underground terrorist (and friend of Barack Obama) William Ayers in 2001 (when Obama was much older than 8), proudly stepping on a United States flag. The full article on Ayers’ deeply held radical ideas is here: No Regrets.



The article "No Regrets" is disgusting! It's writer clearly admires this worthless piece of human debris. There is NOTHING admirable or, most especially patriotic about this loser. Any parent that would allow their son or daughter to sit in his class needs their head examined! This piece of crap needs to be in jail, not teaching at a university, but it sure isn't a surprise where he's working!

The Truth!!!

If you look at who his friends and mentors are you can't help but question him!!!

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