I know I’m one of the those in this country that is extremely political, and I will be the first to admit that most of the news I get is from Fox News and the few neutral sources I can find on the ‘Net. But watching the news, and watching our government in action on C-SPAN, I have begun to feel more and more enraged about how we as a nation continue to be slipping away from what the Founding Fathers wanted for our country when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Now, I watch a lot of “The Glenn Beck Program” on FNC, although I started watching and listening to his show when he was on Headline News. Recently, he started this thing called the 9/12 Project (9 Principles, 12 Values), and it’s really taking off. I urge all of you to take a look at it, because there is some truth to the things laid out.  Looking at these items, it becomes even more difficult to comprehend the travesty that our government is perpetuating every day.  To that effect, I’m going to lay them out here for you:

The 9 Principles

1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred.  My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government/
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty.  Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to.  Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me.  I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

The 12 Values

• Honesty
• Reverence
• Hope
• Thrift
• Humility
• Charity
• Sincerity
• Moderation
• Hard Work
• Courage
• Personal Responsibility
• Gratitude
  

I know I’m hopping on a soap-box, but I feel that I must in order to air what I consider to be my thoughts on the issues that affect all of us. We are sliding into an abyss, and our government is doing everything in its power to keep us in awe of it. Liberals in Congress tell us we need them in order to survive, Conservatives have lost their backbones. No member of our government can claim that they stick to their principles, because this current group of politicians in Washington have none to speak of, including our President. I quote the Declaration of Independence:

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Well, it is in the opinion of this conservative American that our government has become destructive. Washington needs to be wiped clean, and a new day needs to dawn. Our leaders have decided that we are not smart enough in Middle America to do things for ourselves, that we cannot survive without their benevolence. Well, screw that. I happen to believe in the power of perseverance and determination, that we can all have what we dream and wish for if we just throw a little elbow grease into it and push through the bad times towards the light of the good.

This economy will turn around, our country will survive, but we are standing at the precipice of irrevocable change if we continue to spend as we do in Congress. Right now, with the “Pork-ulus” Bill and President Obama’s budget, we have signed ourselves to paying this deficit well into the 2020s, and possibly even farther. Is this the change that we wanted last November? Is this the change that Obama campaigned on?

No.  We did not want business as usual in Washington.  We did not want the Democrats and the Left to destroy our country by changing us into a newer model of failed European Socialism.  We did not want the continued spending of the Bush Administration.  We did not want higher income taxes on those that are successful, and we did not want to carry those that have decided to let the government swoop in and care for them because of their laziness.

America is not a welfare state!  America is not a home to those who flout our laws and want for government intervention on every aspect of their lives!  America is a home to ingenuity and hard work, inventiveness and free markets, small government and the dedicated respect of the rule of law!  Our Constitution has guided us for over 200 years, and in the span of the first six months of this new administration, our President and Congress have decided to throw it out in favor of a model that sounds great when hashing it out over coffee in the halls of the Ivy League, but it has already been proven a failure by the governments of Europe.

WE DESERVE BETTER!  WE DESERVE CHANGE!

I call on all Americans to demand a return to the rule of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Write your leaders in Congress.  March on your state capitals!  Demand a return to the proper rule of law so our children and grandchildren can look back on this administration as a bad dream, rather than the nightmare we are living through.

President Obama is only high in the polls because people like him personally. When they get onto the subject of the economy, health care, and other subjects, his numbers go lower and lower…
There will be two huge things that will sink him in the coming months, more than others. Legalizing 20 million illegal immigrants, and then stuffing them into overcrowded lines at the hospital. Wait for it.

There are two things in the coming months that will ensure that President Obama’s popularity will sink faster than a round skipping stone.  Health Care and Amnesty For Immigrants…

It’s not going to be pretty when it happens.  He wants to ensure paybacks for those who helped fund his campaign of course, and some of his biggest contributors were prescription drug companies.  When Bill Clinton pushed for socialized medicine in the early Nineties, most of these companies did not favor such reform as it was guaranteed to sink them the way they were organized at the time.  Nowadays they are very much in favor of it, but more on that later.

There are two ways to guarantee your sinking popularity with the American public.  The first one is the legalize 20 million illegal immigrants.  Granting them amnesty will please them and their families here, but they will not make many friends from born and naturalized citizens of the US.  Those who were born on our soil will certainly resent.  And what about the legal immigrants, who did sign their name on the guestbook on the way in?  How fair is that to them?  I’m sure that President Obama is not thinking of how those people would vote for him in 2012 as a way of saying ‘thank you,’ of course.  

The second way to piss people off?  Take those twenty million new citizens, and stick them in the already overburdened health care system.  Put in long lines and waiting lists, and you’ve got socialized medicine.  Not only will there be Millions of illegal immigrants now entitled to health care, but there will also be over 30 million US citizens who will have it now on everyone else’s dime.  Swell in 50 million people into the health care system, and you have very long lines.  In Britain, they have began to ration out medicine for breast care patients, not giving it to those they deem ‘too far gone.’  In Canada, one can wait for weeks or even months for an important surgery.

President Obama is only popular nowadays because of his personality.  He gives a great speech, and that has people enamored, but enough about the press…

The drug companies want him because of all the new clients they will be taking on under his plan.  But average every day Americans will not stand for it for long.  They rose up a few years ago and fought back against Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and they will do it again.  Couple it with Socialized Medicine, and you have a mix for trouble.  

We conservatives do not have the numbers in congress to stop him, we can only let him own it.  When people get angry, they will see there was an alternative offered.  The next time they go to the ballots, there will be payback for our patience.

Michelle Obama actually wore this monstrosity to Westminster Abbey…

The British press is all over it…

Barry isn’t so immune to pictorial gaffes. The White House released a photo of the Man with the Middle Name Hussein on the phone with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu which shows the soles of Barry’s shoes. Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that such a photo is an insult.

And CBS of all news agencies has the story…

For someone who campaigned on the image of the US in the world Barry is doing his best to destroy what little image we had left. After-all, he gave the Queen of England an IPod loaded with HIS speeches. And he gave Gordon Brown cds from Walmart which wouldn’t play on his player. What an arrogant moron.

I’d list this under humor but there isn’t anything funny about it.

Gribbit reporting for YGCRadio – Ohio