Jefferson Says

Jeffersonian Facts:   

-- Thomas Jefferson Says: 

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities,  as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  82% of Americans live in urban areas.  50 million in the top 50 cities in the US

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-- Thomas Jefferson Says: 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  50% pay no taxes

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-- Thomas Jefferson Says:

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." 

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  15.5 Trillion in debt by feds.  More by states and counties.  Student loans 1 trillion. Unfunded debt 25 Trillion.     

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-- Thomas Jefferson Says: 

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  The biggest Nanny state in the free world.  Obamacare, Social Security, General Welfare, Johnson Great Society.

          Reality of 2012;

               Spending                Revenue

               1967 1 Trillion      Less than 1 Trillion

                1993 2 Trillion   Less than 2 Trillion

               2007 3 Trillion      Less than 2.5 Trillion

               2012 4 Trillion       Less than 2.77 Trillion

               $15 ,000,000,000,000 in debt

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-- Thomas Jefferson Said:

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  3,000,000 Million Employees with Life time benefits and jobs for life. This does not include contractors or military.  . 

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-- Thomas Jefferson Said: 

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

              

Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  Continued legislative attempts to restrict gun ownership. We must remember that gun ownership is necessary to take on a tyrannical government at base. 

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-- Thomas Jefferson Said

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

          Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012;  Un declared wars, taxes with out representation, corruption, searches and seizures and detentions with out court orders.  A law for everything and the attempt to legislate human behavior.    

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-- Thomas Jefferson Said:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

           Terryselbysays:

Reality of 2012; Liberty is paid for with blood not negotiated away in deals, political correctness, turn the other cheek, redistribution of world wealth, socialism, communism, radical Islam or compromising of principals.

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-- Thomas Jefferson Said: 

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

          Terryselbysays:

               Reality of 2012;  Obamacare and abortion and contraception.  We have no say in where our tax dollar is spent. Is all I know is that taxes, local, state, federal always go up over time and over time there are less people paying the tax. 

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Why can we not see as a country what is happening to us.  Is it the media and the money?  Is it the power elite who do not want us to get involved and discover that their only interest is in getting reelected?.  That, they will do anything to be reelected.  Maybe we the people have just given up on congress.  The problem is that is just what they want.  They want to have their power uncontested.  They want to do as they wish not as we wish. 

The BIGS

The BIGS,

It has been awhile since I posted to my blog.  I find that it is hard to get cranked up about anything right now.  Obama is what he is.  We are stuck with him till next Jan at the earliest and till 2016 at the latest.  In my late years in life (65) I may have to live to 95 to see a conservative elected to the Whitehouse.  I was just to young to vote for Goldwater but not to young to know he was right.  I have a hard time understanding why the majority of Americans at this time in our history think that it is ok for the government to spend money they do not have, tax us more for less, move further away from the constitution, add rights to the law that are just privileges, take constitutional rights away, mandate that every individual in the country, some 300,000,000, buy a product that only a few congressman and senators voted for.  I know it was the majority vote in congress. But, when fewer than 300 votes in the congress mandate something that 300000000 people have to buy, it seems a bridge to far in the governments reach to control our lives.

             Individual rights are being lost to the governments need to control all our behavior, personal , economic, religious as well as social.  It will not be long before those who pay no tax out number those who do.  What happens then.  I guess we become Denmark.  I am so fed up with the likes of Carl Rove and all the power brokers in the repub party that can have their way just because they can raise money and use the media to spin lies just to get their guy, who will be bought and paid for by them, elected.  No difference between repub moderates and dem moderates.  They keep the status quo.  What runs government now is Big Money, Big Media, Big Labor, Big Lobbies.  Who pays for this.  We the people.  Who has the major benefits for government run by the BIGS.  Not me.  Buy the way it is not the rich either.  They do not benefit but they are the scapegoat for the Dems.  The only group of people who benefit our the power elite who control the purse strings of the US government.  Mircosoft, Apple, IBM, GE and other Giant corporations still have to pay a congressman to vote a specific way.  If they do not get paid they, the power brokers whose only interest is in their own nest, just sick the Justice department on them and punish them with investigations that you and I pay for.  The Government did break up ATT, IBM, Mircosoft , Railroads, Energy, Oil, Coal, Agriculture and others in the past 50 years.  They took on the great robber barrons at the tern of the century and won.  They used the unions to beat them.  Remember “fair share”.  They broke up ATT and Microsoft.  They tried to break up IBM and failed but not after they had lost market share and had spent 10 Billion on a 10-year lawsuit.  They have given life time pensions to public employees and bought their loyalty and votes.  They have allowed unions to take money from private persons with out there permission all in the name of fairness.  Now they want to break up Medicine by socializing the process and payment they control.  By the way if you control payment  you control medicine and we have lost more freedoms again.  Ask the Canadians who cannot get treatment for chronic cancers after 65.  No bang for the buck. 

Remember I am talking about power not money.  Just because you are wealthy or rich does not me you have power.  The real power in this country is with elected officials from all sides.  National, State, local and even Labor.  When you here a legislator talk about the rich as if they are the problem that is misdirection and it is a red herring.  It is in fact those doing the finger pointing that are the problem.  It is the powerful who need to be rained in. 

There is no where I can find in the founding of this Republic that it was intended to be run by a few with so much power.  That was what we fought a war with Britain about.  A few with a lot.  We now have the equivalent of 1700’s Britain and France,  in our professional class of politicians  who sell votes to the BIGs. It does not matter whether it is the unions who us money legally stolen from the membership or grants to Solyndra for campaign contributions, or a lying campaign surrogate like Ann Coulter, who says “Romney is the only candidate who has kept his focus on Obama not on the other candidates”.  Liar, He has out spent in negative attack adds the other 3 candidates combined adds 15 to 1.  Close to 40 million dollars so far.   Maybe Coulter is vying for the Communications Directors job.  Who knows.  The point is Government has become way to powerful.  Way to secretive.  Way to expensive.  Way to big.  Way to intrusive in personal lives.  Way to legalistic.  Way to demanding of we the people.    I am not interested in any more demands from Washington until they meet some of my demands.  Not just make promises but meet my demands. 

1.      Term Limits; this will stop big money from running the congress.  It will stop the ability to corner power over 40 years in congress. 

2.      Smaller government:  get out of running ever bodies business from DC.  Close the Dept of Ed, close the Labor relations Board, fire 100 Czars, especially the car Czar, fire half of the Post office,.  Make government smaller.  Less employees.

3.      Congress needs to live as we do.  Same insurance, same retirements, same laws.

4.      Paid when they work .  Congress is a season job. 

5.      No more 2 million dollar gifts to run the office of a congressman.  That only makes the process more complicated.  Iacoca fired most of the VP’s at Chrysler and the company developed a new line of cars that bailed them out. 

6.      Open up our energy,  drill, mine, refine our own resources. 

7.      Use the military only to win at all cost.  No more reading people their rights.  And for Gods sake no more apology for burning some Religions materials and having our military killed on the same day. 

8.      Freedom of political speech should not mean you can just lie and lie and then lie some more.  Freedom must be tempered with with character, trust, honesty, not just the ability to by air time.  The public air waves should not support the continued lying by the superpacs and others. 

Get  back to under one law for all.  No more federal and state and Indian laws for special people.  One law.  

Money Money

Billions, and Billions of dollars spent and borrowed But not one is Theirs

Term limits will work nothing else will in the long term

Just a short note that just has me in a tizzy.  It must be election year and everybody has forgotten about “we the people” and are now running and voting our money away so they can be reelected.  I am so tired I have just about decided to not pay anymore taxes until they, local, state and federal executive and legislative branches vote for and implement term limits.  If anybody thinks anything will change substantially in the next election or in our life time with out term limits they are completely diluted and have not seen what has happened with special interest, seniority, special government service deals, better health care, legal insider trading, self enrichment by the political class and the complete bilking of “we the people”. 

Obama budget adds $10,000,000,000,000.00 to our deficit over 10 years.  That is the best estimate.  Others say it will add as much as $25,000,000,000,000.00 in ten years. 

Boehner , and the boys of  “who’s a real conservative”.  They just added $100,000,000,000.00 to the deficit.  They said they had some offset and other accounting gimmicks that we have already borrowed money for.  They just can not tell it like it is.  I need to get reelected instead of making the hard choice I (the politic) choose myself.  Boehner is just full of it.  He wants to keep his power that is all that is happening and we pay.  By the way anytime a politician says “ I have to do this now because this is the best thing for the American people now, but I will work hard on it next term” is a liar.  Plan and simple.  He is doing what is best for himself that’s it. 

The only industry that seems to be making any money on all this is Big Media.  Big Advertising.  When I was a young man the advertisers had only 3 TV stations.  Now there are hundreds of TV,  cable, radio, print, social media, the internet and many other.  The spending is out of control.  Nobody that is not a billionaire or who has access to a billionaire’s money cannot possibly run and win a national election.  

 I am absolutely convinced that in order to get elected, if we use the facts of the past, you have to lie, cheat, steal, attack, ruin, loose all sense of morality, have no conscience, be willing to do to anybody anything that gets you a vote.  Winning is the only outcome that matters.  For example lets think about this.  Ron Paul is not running for president.  He is splitting the conservative vote but is running for Rand Paul down the road.  Romney is running for president as a Moderate, Liberal, Conservative, Religious, Pro choice, pro life, single payer health, and anything anybody wants to here.  He is willing to do what ever it take to win.  Winning in his campaign  is all there is.  Santorum is running  for the future and is splitting the conservative vote.  He knows he can not win but will stay in it for the future not the present.  Gingrich has nine lives and tried to stay positive in Iowa and lost.  He turned it around with attack adds and won South Carolina.  He did not have and still is out spent by Romney 5 to 1.  In my way of figuring out who is the winner at this moment it has to be Romney.  Newt does not have the money.  So He who is the most immoral and has the most money wins.  Remember the most money means that Big Media then gets behind he who has the most money.  What a presidential candidate that makes.  It at least makes for good TV.  I tape everything so I do not have to watch the Attack Adds.