"This is John Galt Speaking" Part 10

"This is John Galt Speaking" Part 9

"This is John Galt Speaking" Part 8

Happy Thanksgiving

On this uniquely American holiday, so tightly linked to our history as a nation, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude.

I am thankful for the wonderful, brave men and women of courage who left the safety of their homeland over 300 years ago to set sail into the unknown. They forged the original character of this fiercely independent and historically self-reliant nation.

I am thankful for the Founding Fathers, who, in their boundless wisdom, crafted the finest Constitution any country has ever known, granting, for the first time in histroy, true freedom to a people. Their sacrifices were epic, their vision unique and immutable.

I am thankful for all who have served to preserve our freedoms through the centuries, and to bring freedom to countless millions globally. The debt we owe them can never truly be repaid.

I am, of course, thankful for all of the traditional blessings of life, family and home. I am wealthy beyond belief, with a large, wonderful family, dear friends, a home I love and a job which affords me security and freedom from want.

This year I am perhaps more thankful than at any time in my life. This year I have discovered that there are, still, even in this age of decadence and failing morality, millions of God-fearing, red-blooded, brave, humble and dedicated patriotic Americans who still believe in and support the Constitution which is our greatest gift of all. I stood shoulder to shoulder with more than one million of them in our nation's Capitol in September, and will again next August. It is our greatest blessing of all in this era to have these wonderful souls who still possess the courage of the Founders and the strength of the original pilgrims, and are willing to sacrifice all that they have, including their very lives if necessary, to preserve the original vision that is this, the last best hope of the world.

As a firm believer that the "next right thing" always happens, I am even thankful for those in Washington, D.C. who have so obviously forgotten our history and the meaning our the founding documents, and seek to fundamentally transform this nation from the shining city on the hill into a ghetto of filth, poverty, misery and repression in the name of social and economic justice. Without them, the awakening from complacency and apathy that has been in place for the last century would not have occurred. Without their radical and absolutely un-American pursuits, true Americans would have slumbered on, allowing ever more of our freedoms and rights to be stripped away. The future is frightening and uncertain, but as long as good people who support good principles exist and refuse to remain silent, there is hope.

Thank you all. Happy Thanksgiving.

A Message to Moderates and Liberals from a Tea Party Patriot

Let's make a deal.

For years, Washington politicians have sought to divide us along party, race and ideological lines. You've seen them - they spew every kind of hateful venom imaginable about anyone who isn't in their clique...until the cameras leave. Then they are best buddies with the guys across the aisle, while we continue to look at those who disagree with us with suspicion...or worse. This is just wrong.

Remember the Constitution? The first three words of the preamble are "We the people." We. Not "some of us," "liberal people" or "conservative people." We the people. And then there's that old saying from the founding times..."United we stand. Divided we fall." We are divided, and we are falling. Precipitously.

The dollar is descending at alaming rates. Look at this graph. It tracks the value of the dollar against the Euro - the Euro, from financially strapped Europe - over the last five months or so.

That line just isn't going in the right direction. It should look like this one:



But, alas...no. That would be the unemployment rate. There's a pretty simple reason why these two charts are inverted from what they should be...easily illustrated by a couple more charts.



Notice what's about to happen? For the first time in American history, the National Debt is about to exceed our Gross Domestic Product! I know you know this, but think about it - the Gross Domestic Product is the sum total of everything produced in this country, by all of us, for an entire year. Every nickel of every wage, every dime of profit...all of it. And note the trajectory of the two lines - the debt is rising at a far faster rate than the estimated GDP over the next few years. Full disclosure: I pulled the debt numbers from the Office of Management and Budget - they are the White House's own estimate - but I estimated the GDP by taking the 2008 GDP and adding the same percentage to it each year as it rose in 2008 over 2007 - 2.58%. Given the unemployment chart above, this is likely to be a vastly inflated GDP amount going forward - but it's the best guess I know how to make.

Now look at this chart. It's a representation of the Debt as a percentage of the GDP since 1980.



Doesn't look like it's going to change course anytime soon. And, this does not include any new spending, like health care, cap and trade and whatever other diabolical plans Washington has for us.

Any rational person knows that you can't continue borrowing money you can't pay back. The interest on all of this debt was $22,831,444,696.60 in October! Actual hard numbers from the Treasury say that we are spending $736,498,216.02 every single day just to pay the interest on our country's debt. This is utter insanity, and is absolutely unsustainable.

Every other country on the planet is running full speed ahead away from the United States dollar. No one wants to hold them anymore...they know that our government is destroying their value. Soon inflation will begin, and it will take more and more of those increasingly worthless dollars to put dinner on the table for your family.

Do you realize, including all the money the United States government has borrowed and promised, every single citizen of this country is currently in debt for $344,848.00? Every citizen, not every taxpayer, or every household. Every single American, newborn to the grave. And still Washington screams, "Spend! SPEND! SPEND!!" How will you pay your share? How about your children? Will they thank you for bankrupting their future?

So here's the offer. I won't vote for any Republican incumbents this year if you will agree not to vote for any Democratic incumbents. Not a single one, on the national level. Throw them all out. This is not a single party problem, it is a corruption and power problem. Each party, when in power, tries to outdo the other's most recent performance. Sadly for America, they are fighting to see which party can destroy the country the fastest. Right now it's the Democrats, but it was the Republicans a couple of years ago, and, if they were to win big next year, it would be the Republicans again. Neither party is the least bit interested in what's good for the people who elect them anymore - it's all about their cronies and special interest groups. It's all about power and vying to see which elected official can manage to have his or her name on the most public buildings, streets, museums and airports. They have gone completely insane, all of them, and it is time for a mulligan.

In a little under a year, 33 Senators and all 435 members of the House of Representatives will be up for reelection. Vote them out. You don't have to vote for a candidate with whom you disagree - virtually every race has either a primary or an independent of some sort running - just vote against the crooks who are hell-bent on destroying our country. At this point, the student body from the average elementary school would evidence more wisdom and better judgment than these fools. It is time to send them home.

Let us come together as Americans, lock arms and stand up to the Washington, D.C. crowd. Tell them that we are done - that they no longer have our permission to force ever more government, ever more debt on we the people. Remind them that they work for us, and that their insubordination will not be tolerated any longer. If we do not, if we remain divided and bickering amongst ourselves, they will destroy what is left of our country and we will ultimately be permanently locked together - in the poor house, burning our worthless dollars for heat as we wonder where it all went wrong.

If you agree, please share this with everyone you know. Time is running out.

To The Liberals

it is a toss up as to who is most hated...

Is it George W. Bush and members of his administration?
Is it the C.I.A.?
Is it the U.S. Military?

And so, to their eternal joy, they have now created the opportunity to put them all on trial at once.

It will be an expensive and painful trial for America, but with the Dems, the means will justify the end.

The decision to try the 911 planners in New York, they say, is to prove that America is better than the rest of the world. And, they say, they are confident of a conviction.

I don't know how "the world" looks at that, but I want to know how you square the American idea of "innocent until proven guilty" with confident of a conviction?

But, that doesn't matter. They will get to vilify the C.I.A. as they endanger members of the U. S. Military and heap scorn upon everything ever done by George W. Bush.

The Jihadists are winning a huge victory here, even in the face of a guaranteed conviction.

Tea Parties: Misunderstood and Vastly Underrated

Just ran across this piece by Kyle-Anne Shiver in the American Thinker. It says it well.

Elected officials of every political stripe ought to be shaking down to their Gucci loafers and pumps. History is forming and firming up harder than the proverbial brick wall right outside their congressional glass house. Yet they seem utterly oblivious.

Since last April, I've written a few columns on the Tea Parties, but I had never actually attended one in person. I harbored a few misconceptions, formed at a distance through the media's drive-by lens. Being a woman who tends to cower in crowds and who loves the security and solitude of my little office-cloister, I had been content to write based on the observations of others. But an Alabama homemaker-turned-activist, Suzanne Green of Birmingham, pulled me into the bosom of the Tea Party movement along with the Rainy Day Patriots.

And, honey, I'm here to tell you, it's a fiery hot bosom indeed.

Click the link above and read the rest. Then get the hell out of our way.

While you were sleeping...

...your country went on life support.

In the middle of the night, on a Saturday, that paragon of American virtue, Nancy Pelosi, aided and abetted by the Thug-In-Chief's considerable power to bribe our elected "representatives," passed what The Wall Street Journal called the worst piece of legislation since the New Deal. By now, this is old news to those of us who pay attention, so I won't dwell on the details. We know who voted for this boondoggle, and we will deal with them in due course. Now, we must shift our focus to the Senate, and pull out all the stops to prevent this massive, unconstitutional infringement on our liberties from ever becoming law.

To my way of thinking, something much more important happened last night.

Last night the House of Representatives (or, more precisely, 220 of its members) officially declared that they have become a lawless, unregulated body. Despite massive opposition from the parties affected by this legislation, on the order of 100 to 1 against, 220 men and women voted to permanently destroy their country's prosperity and well-being. In short, they issued a formal declaration of war on the American people and the United States Constitution.

This will not stand.

I hereby pledge to stand against the tyranny that is being foisted upon us by Washington, D.C.

No longer will I be concerned with offending those of different political perspectives - you are wrong, too foolish or uninformed to know it, and I will not place my friendship with you ahead of the continued existence of my country.

No longer will I pull any punches regarding Barack Obama and his illegitimacy. I do not believe that he was born in Hawaii, I do not believe that he meets the basic qualifications to serve as President of these United States, and I will fight tirelessly to force him to prove me wrong.

No longer will I tolerate political correctness from any quarter. Islam is not the religion of peace, it is the religion of pieces. Their faith commands them to kill non-believers. Their laws demand the subjugation, or worse, of women. Their doctrine demands world domination, and they are well on the way to achieving it. Unless and until a majority of Muslims stand with reasonable people everywhere in unwavering condemnation of these tenets, I will oppose Islam and all that it represents.

No longer will I recognize as a right the ability of any elected representative to refuse to allow me to voice my opposition to their plans and policies. Screaming liberals in San Francisco and Massachusetts do not have the right to steal my freedoms without a whimper. I will call, mail and fax any Congressman I believe is wrong and will voice my opposition forcefully, with supporting arguments. They will ignore me at their own peril.

No longer will I pretend that there is anything reasonable about the Communist/Fascist agenda of the current administration. They do not have the right to pass laws which are in direct violation of the Constitution, and I, as a staunch supporter of that Constitution, refuse to obey their commands. I will give my liberty, or my life if necessary, to support the original intent of the founders of this nation.

No longer will I allow the condemnation of politicians or the media to influence my words or deeds. I am not a racist, a mobster, a potential terrorist or a right-wing nut. I am an American, in every possible sense of the word, and, like my ancestors, will speak out, loudly and often, for all that is right and true and just. If you disagree with my interpretation of the values and beliefs upon which this nation was founded, tell someone who gives a damn. I do not.

I am done. There can be no victory in this fight as long as we are willing to compromise. It's similar to being a little bit pregnant...ridiculous and impossible. From this moment forward, I demand strict adherance to the Constitution of the United States and will stand for nothing less.

This is my pledge to my country and my fellow countrymen. I hope you will choose to join me. Know this: I am fully aware of the magnitude of the statements I am making, and that this will be a battle which will consume the balance of my time on this Earth. It is not a commitment I make lightly, or in the heat of the moment. It is, for me, my only choice.

November 5

We had a little mini protest in our town today. About 50 locals showed up at the office of our Congressman (Harry Teague - Democrat). Each signed a message to the Congressman, urging a no vote on HR 3692 - the health care bill.

Later, our phone rang at home, and I answered. A recorded voice identified herself as a spokesperson for A.A.R.P., and urged me to contact my congressman to support the health care bill. The voice even offered to connect me directly for a no-charge call directly to my Congressman's Washington office. It took a bunch of button pushing, entering my zip code, and waiting through about ten rings, but finally a person answered from Congressman Teague's office.

I explained that I was opposed to the pending health care legislation and urged the Congressman to vote no. She asked for my name, promised to give my message to Mr. Teague and thanked me for my call.

This event gave me special pleasure. I had been a member of A.A.R.P. for a number of years - until this spring when I cancelled my membership. It was a joy to note to myself that their "get out the vote" operation had resulted in a protest "vote" to the Congressman.