The Right Lane update 3.18.13

The pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington

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Obama’s Advisors: Disarm America Through Taxation by William Lafferty

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy,” - Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.

Here’s what Obama’s advisors are telling him about the way to confiscate guns: Tax them. They are advising him to tax guns, ammunition, magazines, and licenses and then attach draconian remedies for failure to register and pay the taxes. Set the taxes low the first year, then increase them gradually to the point where a person owning an AR 15, three magazines and a box of ammo would owe $5,000 a year in taxes.  If a gun owner doesn’t pay, the small print at the end of the tax law would subject him to jail and confiscation of everything he owns.

Why use this approach? Because people ignore gradual change and taxes can be imposed as a gradual change. It’s only when two things happen simultaneously that revolution occurs. First, the ideals underlying the society must be undermined. That has already happened. And second, there must be a spark that ignites revolt. Since traditions and ideals of the country have already been compromised, it would be unwise to create any sparks.

Taxes ignite no sparks. Getting a tax bill is a non-event. Under this taxing approach you increase taxes to the point no one can pay them, then send a tax bill to the gun owners you know about (in Pennsylvania, that’s pretty much everyone who owns a gun), and you wait for someone not to pay. When a preferred target doesn’t pay, you send the storm troopers to his house, find his guns, and arrest him. You take the offender’s guns and his house and put him in jail for twenty years. Then you publicize the arrest and declare a period of amnesty for other weekend rebels and watch the guns flow in. At that point, the country will have been effectively disarmed.

Norman Thomas described America’s descent into socialism very much in the way I have described America’s descent into gun confiscation:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without every knowing how it happened.”*

That’s the smart way to do it, Barack. Get us a little farther down the road to socialism, then quietly tax guns, and finally, take them all. See below

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Believe a Politician and You Will Lose Your Money  

The president of Cyprus assured voters that he would never, ever tax their bank accounts. Now he says the government must do this. Any voter who heard this assurance should have gone to his bank immediately and withdrawn half of his money. Then he should have sent another 40% to a German bank. The other 10% he might have left in his bank to meet existing expenses. Anyone who left all of his money in the bank was a fool. He trusted the head of the country. What just happened in Cyprus shows why Americans MUST be concerned about our Nations drift into socialism and an all powerful government. There are millions of trusting bank depositors. You are not safe as long as there is a too big and out of control government that sees YOUR money as a way out of the mess they have created.  Your money and security is not a left or right posture.  It is a liberty and security posture.  Kill off the beast that is threatening all of us or we shall surely all suffer the SAME consequences!

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When it becomes personal, people have a change of heart

He took a staunch position and refused to budge.  Then he had a deeply personal experience that caused him to have to rethink his position.  After much thought and consideration, he changed his mind.  Did you think I was talking about Rob Portman?  No, I'm talking about the despicable Bill Maher!  Sunday, Bill Maher announced  "Taxes Too High on Rich, Liberals ‘Could Actually Lose Me’"  Even Bill Maher thinks California taxes are too high. On his HBO show “Real Time” on Friday he was quick to jump in during a panel discussion on Washington budget proposals, Newsbusters first reported. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow slammed Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan as “a document that says the big problems in America right now are that rich people do not have enough money. They need relief from confiscatory tax rates. And poor people have too much access to affordable health care.”  But the liberal Maher disagreed.  "You know what?” Maher responded, “Rich people … actually do pay the freight in this country." "I just saw these statistics. I mean, something like 70 percent. And here in California, I just want to say liberals -- you could actually lose me. It's outrageous what we're paying -- over 50 percent. I'm willing to pay my share, but yeah, it's ridiculous."

In 2010 Maher had a different outlook when writing on The Huffington Post, “I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy a--hole.”  Message to the GOP; high taxes is are not a left/right issue.  Everyone suffers under the Obama/Democrat plan to tax and spend.  Stop blaming the Democrats and talk to tax payers.  "Look at your pay stub.  Are you paying enough in taxes?"

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John Boehner Says He ‘Absolutely’ Trusts Barack Obama

Mr. Boehner was asked directly during a Sunday talk show: Do you trust the president? “Absolutely,” he said, as Politico reported. ABC then reported the follow-up question: “Absolutely?” And Mr. Boehner repeated: “Absolutely,” as ABC reported.   When I first read this, I was really angry.  Then it hit me.  We can all trust Obama.  We can trust that he will tax anything he can, spend the nation into the poor house, demonize successful people, be anti-capitalist and berate the Constitution as getting in the way of progress.  Yes, Mr. Boehner we trust Obama to be the socialist pig that he is.

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Growing Number of States Eye Bills to Defy Federal Gun Laws

Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states. “We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said. Although the state measures defy federal law, it appears Barack Obama is giving each state a pass on this issue.

But, will Obama also respect states that pass legislation in defiance of federal law when it comes to firearms? On March 12 and 14, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed both Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) “Fix Gun Checks Act,” which would criminalize all private firearm sales and Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) “Assault Weapons Ban.” These bills have a long way to go before they become law – if they ever do – but states across the nation are introducing their own legislation to preemptively defeat any new federal gun laws.  As you read above, these folks trust Obama too.  To take their second amendment rights away.  Darn constitution getting in the way again!

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Thomas Sowell: Minimum Wage Responsible for High Black Unemployment

In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” with fill-in host and Daily Caller editor in chief Tucker Carlson, black author Thomas Sowell argued that the federal minimum wage law has been used to undermine companies that employ blacks. In the fourth quarter of 2012, the black unemployment rate was more than double the rate for whites. But prior to the 1930s, Sowell said, black unemployment was actually lower than white unemployment. “What changed was the government intervention into the labor market,” Sowell said. “1930 was the last year in which there was no federal minimum wage. They brought in the Davis Bacon Act.”

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Obama Administration Caves to Putin on Missile Shield for Europe By: Kenneth Hanner

Buried in the news made late Friday made by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that the U.S. planned to deploy missile interceptors in Alaska and California was the equally important news that the Obama administration was going to stop long-held plans to fully deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

The Pentagon insisted that the change in deployment had nothing to do with trying to assuage Russia and everything with the threat from North Korea, which in recent months has sent a long-range missile into space, detonated a nuclear device, and, last week, sent a barrage of missiles into the Sea of Japan. But the issue of the missile shield has long been seen as a sign of NATO's commitment to protect Europe and former Soviet satellite states against a potentially belligerent Russia, which has made the anti-missile deployment a key target in their diplomatic efforts with the U.S.

The U.S. plan had called for interceptors in Poland and Romania, complemented by deployed U.S. naval ships outfitted in the Mediterranean. Hagel said the first three phases would be fully implemented, but the fourth, the deployment of a large interceptor warhead, would not go forward.  At a meeting last March in South Korea, Obama told then-Russia President Dmitri Medvedev in remarks picked up by a live microphone that he would have “more flexibility” on the missile shield issue following an election victory. Hagel's decision Friday confirms that Obama may be trying to live up to the promise, resolving a key part of the issue in Russia's favor early in his second term. The Obama administration reportedly believes the move may encourage Russia to additional nuclear arm cuts. The Obama Administration recently offered an olive branch to Russia, indicating it planned to de-activate one-third of the U.S. nuclear arsenal unilaterally and without Congressional approval. The Pentagon said if the fourth phase deployment of the missile shield in East Europe, if re-started, would not take place earlier than 2022.

Russia and the United States have been at odds over a Central Europe-based missile defense system since first proposed by President George W. Bush to protect against missiles from Iran. NATO has argued the system's placement is not solely based on Russia's strategic arsenal, but places interceptors close to the treaty organization's southern flank, able to deflect Iran's growing missile capabilities. Russia has maintained that the system is meant to counter its own missile arsenal. Russia maintains the world's largest nuclear arsenal and continues to modernize and upgrade its missile capabilities.

Hagel also said there were technical difficulties with the system that was set to be deployed in Poland and Romania by early next decade and cited the $1 billion cost of the new North Korea defense system as playing a key role in his decision. Hagel made no reference during the Pentagon announcement to Russia’s objections to the system in Central Europe, but said that the U.S. commitment to missile defense there “remains ironclad.” Republicans in Congress criticized Hagel’s announcement on both fiscal and national security grounds. The President's first and foremost responsibility to the U.S. citizens is to National Defense. As stated above, you can TRUST Obama to NOT have that as a priority! Or worse, deconstructing our National Devense.

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Senator Ted Cruz: Defund Obamacare or Shut Down Government

Senator Ted Cruz wants to defund ObamaCare or defund the government.  The House has already passed a continuing resolution that would avert a government shutdown that is set to take place on March 27^th, the date that the Continuing Appropriations Resolution of 2013 expires. Now, the CR is in the Senate where Senator Ted Cruz offered up an amendment that would remove any funding for the implementation of Obamacare. Of course, since the Democrats are all good team players, and since they control the Senate, the amendment failed. But Senator Ted Cruz pointed out that if the Senate ends up making any changes to the continuing resolution, they’d have to send it back to the House, and when they do, the GOP should add an amendment like his that would defund Obamacare. That way, the President and the Democrat-controlled Senate are left with the option to either defund Obamacare or let the government shut down. Their choice.  Senator Cruz is playing the game, and he’s playing it well. But others aren’t being good team players. Boehner doesn’t want to defund Obamacare. He says he promises he’ll work on repealing it later, but not now:

 “We have voted many times over the last 2 years that we’ve been in the majority to defund Obamacare, to repeal Obamacare, and we will do so again here in the House in the coming months. Our goal here is to cut spending. It’s not to shut down the government. I believe that trying to put Obamacare on this vehicle risks shutting down the government. That’s not what our goal is. Our goal here is to reduce spending.”

The GOP has voted to defund/repeal Obamacare on 30 different occasions, but not on legislation that had to pass. In other words, they were no more than symbolic moves on the GOP’s part to make their constituents happy, knowing that their actions would have no real effects. But at least they could secure their re-elections and increase their popularity by telling their voters that they voted to repeal Obamacare. But every time a piece of legislation has to pass in order to keep the government funded (like the CR), the GOP decides not to touch Obamacare. If the Senate does indeed make any changes to the CR, and it goes back to the House, the GOP needs to take Senator Cruz’s lead. This is a perfect opportunity to get rid of Obamacare. And we shouldn’t replace it with anything. The Obama administration is perfectly willing to let thousands of criminal illegal aliens go and shut down the White House tours in order to play their little political games to get what they want. If they really want to keep Obamacare, they should be willing to let everything else shut down too. Or, if they really don’t want that, they should pass the CR with Cruz’s amendment and give up Obamacare. Boehner just needs to get out of the way.

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Dr. Ben Carson: Defunding Obamacare: ‘Fine’ By: Todd Beamon

World-renown pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has no problems with losing Obamacare in the quest to find a more affordable, efficient, and patient-friendly healthcare system for the nation.
“There are many more economic models out there that can be used to give us much better healthcare than what we have now,” Carson said on Saturday in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Caucus outside Washington. “If we have to work within the framework of the Affordable Care Act, fine. If we can find a way to defund it, fine.”  His Obamacare suggestion brought rousing cheers from the audience at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, Md. “We have to find more efficient ways.” Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, added: “Healthcare is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control anything. We were asleep at the wheel to let it happen,” he said, referring to Obamacare, “but we still have to find a way to make it work.” Carson discussed the importance of health savings accounts in controlling spiraling medical costs. “Eighty percent of the encounters between a patient and a healthcare provider could easily be handled by a health savings account, without the need to insinuate a third party or a bureaucracy that sucks out at least a third of the money,” he said. “There are ways we can do this: We can use bridge insurance and catastrophic insurance.”  The famed neurosurgeon, who also announced that he was retiring from medicine this summer, hinted at a possible White House bid. “What if you magically put me in the White House?” he hypothetically posed, also to cheers, in an earlier part of his speech.

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America’s altar of abortion

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. …”

That the First Amendment requires separation of church and state is an erroneous claim. The religion clause bars Congress from establishing a national religion or interfering with citizens’ right to exercise their religion. Requiring a business owner religiously opposed to the killing of unborn babies to pay for the killing of unborn babies is a blatant violation. In another obeying-immoral-laws case, the Roman Catholic owners of Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics provide health insurance for employees but exclude coverage for contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization. The Obama administration requires the owners to provide such coverage beginning April 1 or face fines. Christian retailer Hobby Lobby faced a similar choice and said it would not obey the law. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed suit on behalf of Freshway’s owners, the Gilardi brothers, seeking a preliminary injunction. Earlier this month, a federal judge denied the motion. The Gilardis have a choice: Cover employees’ contraceptives, abortion, and sterilization—a violation of their religious beliefs—or face millions of dollars in fines. It reminds me of the gun-to-your-head dilemma. You can do the awful thing the person says you must do, or you can take a bullet. A bad choice, but a choice nonetheless. There is a lot being said today about the low information voter.  There is another concern.  The "propagandized" voter. Are you one of the many Americans that believe the inaccurate view of the first amendment? If you, the atheist anti God propagandist have won!!

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"A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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