My Final Adieu

Good Morning,

Yesterday I wrote “I have NO CLUE how we are going to save ourselves or this country anymore” and I meant it.  After writing of the news these past few years, I, like you, am exhausted. We have gone to DC; we’ve gone to meetings; we’ve gone to rallies; we authored a newspaper; we’ve written letters; we’ve made countless phone calls; we’ve spoken up and out to no avail.

Here in NYS, Mr. Cuomo has proposed increasing the minimum wage to $8.75 an hour from $7.25 an hour, public financing of elections, tougher greenhouse gas standards, solar jobs programs, a $1 billion affordable housing initiative, grants for schools that extend school days and a 10-point women’s rights program that garnered loud applause for its provisions strengthening abortion rights laws and enacting equal pay legislation.

“We are a community based on progressive principles…We must remain that progressive capital of the nation” the governor said.

There is nothing ‘progressive’ about being Conservative or one’s principles in my book, and as such, this issue will serve as my final ntkn as I begin to make plans of leaving New York.

Yes, this will make many a Republican hack/RINO happy – you’re welcome – but I will always wonder how you lay your heads down at night. Jesus once prayed “forgive them Lord, they know not what they do”, and so I will pray the same for you and ask that he speaks to your soul and inspires you to change. To the rest of you, we all know that the banging of our heads against the wall is only going to get worse.

Just a quick perusal of today’s top stories will prove that:

• When it comes to big banks, we’re like overly doting parents: Four years after the financial crisis, we just can’t stop babying them. Apparently, despite the personal guarantee of Warren Buffett that the banks are okey-dokey, they still need our assistance. Their profit margins are getting squeezed in several ways, writes Robin Sidel in the Wall Street Journal (as we’ll observe when they report fourth-quarter earnings, starting with Wells Fargo today). For one thing, they have way too many deposits, on which they must pay interest. For another, they’re having a hard time finding anybody they want to loan money, so they’re not getting as much interest back. As a result, their net interest margins are too thin. Meanwhile, they also just can’t seem to stop getting into trouble and paying hefty fines all of the time, which is also not great for business. Big lenders will take hits totaling about $20 billion in fines this quarter from their various settlements with the government, Sidel notes — settlements that weren’t too awfully onerous and that almost never involved any criminal charges being filed, mind you. Even as we speak, they’re getting into more trouble: A couple of top UBS executives testifying before a UK parliamentary commission yesterday expressed shock and ignorance about rampant Libor fraud at their bank, for which it has paid $1.5 billion in fines. And Reuters reports that JPMorgan Chase will soon get a strongly worded letter from the U.S. government that it needs to do a better job of keeping an eye on the money going through its coffers, lest it run afoul of money-laundering laws, as HSBC, Standard Chartered and many other banks have before. Meanwhile, banks complained so much about the fragile state of housing that they won some key concessions in the new mortgage-lending rules announced yesterday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, notes Peter Eavis in the New York Times. The rules may prevent some of the pre-crisis abuses in mortgage lending that helped lead to the housing collapse, but they will take effect over many years, and the CFPB offered possibly unnecessary protections to the banks against being sued by homeowners.

 

• The Federal Reserve turned a record profit of $88.9 billion last year, the WSJ writes. That will go straight to the Treasury Department. Funny thing is, that profit came from the Treasury Department, in the form of interest payments on the mountain of Treasury bonds the Fed holds as a result of its stimulus programs.
  

 

• The payroll tax increases hitting the middle class was the main topic of discussion in The Daily Caller’s latest man-on-the-street video, filmed Thursday at Union Station near Capitol Hill.
   http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/11/in-dc-the-public-reacts-to-payroll-tax-hike-it-pisses-me-off-video/#ixzz2HfjbKd9P

 

• The Washington Cathedral will now per.form gay marriage

 

• “The nomination signals to the world Obama’s desire to shrink U.S. influence “The puzzle of the Chuck Hagel nomination for defense secretary is that you normally choose someone of the other party for your cabinet to indicate a move to the center, but, as the Washington Post editorial board points out, Hagel’s foreign-policy views are to the left of Barack Obama’s, let alone the GOP’s. Indeed, they were at the fringe of the entire Senate. “So what’s going on? Message sending. Obama won reelection. He no longer has to trim, to appear more moderate than his true instincts. He has the “flexibility” to be authentically Obama. “Hence the Hagel choice: Under the guise of centrist bipartisanship, it allows the president to leave the constrained first-term Obama behind and follow his natural Hagel-like foreign-policy inclinations. On three pressing issues in particular . . .” http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337428/meaning-hagel-charles-krauthammer?pg=1

 

• Conservative pastor Louie Giglio has been forced to drop out of O’s inauguration http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2013/01/10/25fb83bc-5b6e-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

*On a side note – On his Thursday program, MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell said the Bible shouldn’t have any role in the upcoming Inauguration Day ceremonies.

 

• President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday guaranteeing himself Secret Service protection for the rest of his life. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama signed the “Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012” on Thursday. The law affects Obama, former President George W. Bush and future presidents, who under current law would only be protected for 10 years after leaving office.

 

• Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew has spent most of his career in government, but during the financial crisis, he was embedded inside one of the country’s biggest banks as it nearly imploded. From 2006 to 2008, he worked at Citigroup in two major roles, a notable line in his résumé given that as Treasury secretary, he would be charged with implementing new rules regulating Wall Street. But Lew did not have just any position at the bank. In early 2008, he became a top executive in the Citigroup unit that housed many of the bank’s riskiest operations, including its hedge funds and private equity investments. Massive losses in that unit helped drive Citigroup into the arms of the federal government, which bailed out the bank with $45 billion in taxpayer money that year. The group had been under pressure to compete with similar units at other big Wall Street firms and, some analysts say, took on too many risks as it played catch-up. “The mismanagement of risk was comprehensive at that organization,” said Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

• Obama Admin Funds $100,000 Video Game Featuring Female “Superhero” Who Fights Global Warming http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/10/groan-alert-obama-admin-funds-100000-video-game-featuring-female-superhero-who-fights-global-warming/

 

 

• White House Pretends Taxes Haven’t Gone Up on Middle Class After Fiscal Cliff Deal http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/01/10/white-house-pretends-taxes-havent-gone-up-on-middle-class-after-fiscal-cliff-deal-n1486213

 

• Obama Admin Funds $100,000 Video Game Featuring Female “Superhero” Who Fights Global Warming

 

Let the head banging begin.

And to that end I offer one final answer to the plaguing question of our times…..

Why are our “representative” congressmen, presidents, governors, and other elected officers of the UNITED STATES (a federal corporation in the District of Columbia) not representing the interests of the people of the states for which they represent.

A:

At some point in history, the original intended constitutional description of an elected politician went from being a “delegate” of the people to being a “Representative” of the people.

Clint Richardson answers:

What is a delegate?

A delegate is a person chosen by the people or any other entity to represent the will of the people or that entity. That person (one of the people) is generally referred to as a “statesman” because his or her interest was only in that of the state or area (now called a district) for which he was an elected delegate. When in a national setting, such as in a congressional session with other delegates from other areas, this chosen representative of the people was there on behalf of the people and interests of those people in his district or state (statesman), and nothing else. National issues, therefore, would not trump local ones.

But the most important difference between a delegate and a representative is this: a delegate was required to bring any legislation created in that lawmaking session either locally or nationally back to his area (district) for a vote of the people. In other words, he did not have the freedom to make decisions for the people, he merely was the chosen voice and scribe of the people as a representation of the people’s interests. The delegate and the laws he or she created had no power except that granted by the vote of the people. This made the laws passed by the delegate the actual law of the people. And this made it very difficult to pass a law that was tyrannical and not representative of the people.

What is a Representative?

A representative in today’s legal standing is a person chosen by the people or any other entity to represent the will of the people or entity, that much is the same. But today’s elected politicians are no longer delegates of the people, but rather the parent (parens patria) of the people will.

Today’s politicians become TITLE 2 and TITLE 5 employees of the federal government, not delegates of the people.

What does this mean?

It means that as a representative, today’s elected delegate is conferred with the legal power, authority, and jurisdiction to make their own decisions (i.e. to vote for legal CODE without a vote of the people – with disregard of a people’s vote).

A representative is not a statesman. And a representative does not make law, but rather creates legal CODE. This CODE is not the will of the people, as it is not voted upon by the people. A representative does not have the interests of his area (district) or state in mind when voting or creating legal CODE.

Therefore, a representative is not acting in the people’s interest, for he is not delegating the peoples will. He or she is no longer a delegate of the people. And these legal CODES which are passed off as laws are very easy to pass, simply because the people have no say in their content or their passing.

In short, comprehending the distinction between a delegate and a representative it is fair to say that the entirety of the legal US CODE has no lawful power, authority, or jurisdiction over us as one of the people without my personal consent, since all law is always based on the consent of the people.

If the people as a whole did not vote for a law, it is not the law. It is prima facie legal CODE requiring the consent of the people in the enforcement of that CODE. This includes state, county, local, and district legal CODE as well.

And remember that judges are “elected” as well, and are the adjudicators of legal CODE, not the law. And please understand that you also “elect” an attorney to “represent” you. BAR attorneys swear an oath to uphold that copyrighted legal CODE and to follow legal court procedure. An attorney is not a delegate, but a representative of yourself as a ward of the court not fit to represent yourself. All BAR attorneys and judges are on the same team, representing the legal CODE, not the people. And these BAR attorneys make up a majority of our elected officials in the senate, a large majority of the house, and of course our representative President, who has granted himself the authority to make his own law (legal CODE) through the use of Presidential Directives and Executive Orders, giving force to legal CODE’s without and above constitutional considerations.

Just because a politician makes a pretty speech about being a statesman and representing the will of the people doesn’t make this a reality. Most politicians want nothing more than the corporate clout and money that being a post-politician carries with it, not to mention a multi-million dollar tax-exempt expense account and a life-long taxpayer funded pension virtually unmatched in the private sector.

*For a full review of the history on this read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

 

So, I leave you to follow the money when you hear of ‘gun control’, follow the money when you hear of ‘flu epidemic’, follow the money on ‘Benghazi’ and ‘Fast & Furious’, follow the money when a Republican ‘leader’ tells you “The Governor deserves high marks for…”. Follow the money on every single issue coming out of the ‘representatives’ mouths. The money is where their loyalty is housed.

Once upon a time Abraham Lincoln said

“..this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”.

With sadness, his words have been deleted from memory, from politics, from America.

My youngest son said to me this week – “It is what it is. You can’t change anything when the majority don’t believe you – can’t believe you b/c they weren’t raised that way or taught the way/things you were. Sure, you can get a few people elected but you are putting them into hell and they won’t succeed in hell.” From the mouths of babes.

Seems Armstrong Williams would agree saying “Sometimes, looking at the political discourse in this country, I wonder if we really understand the ratchet effect of increasing government programs and power over time: unlike in business, unlike in nature, unlike in, well, real life, failure is not punished, but at best ignored, at worst rewarded”. http://www.newsmax.com/ArmstrongWilliams/Obama-debt-entitlement-spending/2013/01/10/id/470839

 

It has been one of my greatest pleasures getting to know you through the fight to save our country and although I still believe we will not vanish without a fight, I believe there to be too much corruption to alter much. Short of a full sweep of our current ‘representatives’, both local and afar, ‘it is what it is’. I leave it in God’s hands now, for through it all we must ask ‘his will be done’.

With all my heart I hope you change your party affiliation – we must strike the heart of the corrupted beast and without our verbal and financial support – they will hurt. Will it be enough for them to change?  Only God knows, but anything is still worth a shot.

My parting suggestion is for us to continue to leave comments on anything and everything we read…especially the likes of NBC, MSNBC, and CNN articles. While our comments may fall on deaf ears – they, based upon facts and our Constitution, have the potential to plant seeds that may counter their emotions.

And, don’t forget to ‘go Galt’ as we spoke of earlier this week.

I leave you with one of my favorite videos and one final link to read.

Where Does the Hatred of Constitutionalism Come From?

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/where-does-the-hatred-of-constitutionalism-come-from_01102013

Pray that God protects each and every one of us against the ugliness of what ‘progressivism’ is surely going to ‘giveth’ and ‘taketh’ away.

God Bless America – God Bless You.

Godspeed to us All,

Lisa