When did we become a country for the minority?

Image via WikipediaPosted by :xPureEvilx April 3, 2011 - 3:29pm at Conservative Outpost.

The whole point of a democracy is to do what the majority of the people want. Yet all I see are laws being passed everyday that benefit a minority group of people. Does anyone else see a problem with this? What happened to the rights of the majority? Look at ObamaCare the only people who wanted it were democrats who are incapable of understanding the full cost and effect of something like that, all they see is "Free Health care" but don't understand that someone has to pay for that. Their answer is always "Raise taxes on the rich" but what good does it do to raise taxes on the people who sign your paycheck? Do you really think your going to get a raise or see your company expand when the guy in control of those decisions keeps making less money? How high of taxes would you  pay until you just say screw it, and move you company to a country who welcomes people like you?

Then we have laws that seem to get passed anytime some small outspoken group gets attention on the news.  Women aren't aggressive enough to get promotions or raises so they sue Walmart... Blacks don't pass a test to be cops or firemen so they make the test easier rather then telling them to study harder, I would be offended if they did that for white people! Gays get bullied at school so they pass bulling laws. What happened to a dad just telling them to punch the kid in the face? You might not win the fight but I bet the bully will think twice before picking on you again. Maybe these aren't the best answers, but its better then putting a new law on the books that will no doubt be twisted by some liberal lawyer to be used in the wrong way. They need to reverse this whole process and start removing laws not adding them. Telling me I have to were a seat belt or a helmet. Not allowing a small business owner to have a smoking area in his restaurant or bar. Its his business if he thinks he will make more money by not having a smoking area he will do it, but he should have the right to make that choice.

I Just don't understand how this stuff gets passed. We elect these people to do what the majority of us want and they just give us the middle finger and do whatever they feel like doing. Elected officials use to be outspoken people who had every intention of making their city, district, state, and country a better place. Now it just seems that everyone is just power hungry and more worried about "how is this decision gonna effect my re-election" this just isn't right! I do have some high hopes for the Tea Party as they seem to have the right ideas and are at least attempting to do what we ask them to. Its kind of refreshing to have a large group of people running for office who have the same opinions as I do, and now to see them attempting to accomplish what they promised. Not to mention all the Tea Party rallies that showed a lot of us that we weren't alone in this fight for freedom.

Seriously people we need to wake up and take our country back!

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Complaining About Conservatives

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Unfortunately, the best thing you can usually say about Republican politicians is that the Democrats are worse.

For instance, it’s easy to fault those on the left for ObamaCare, but why is it that those on the right side of the aisle never bothered making it possible to shop for health insurance in other states or cleared the way for a worker to take his health insurance to a new job? Instead, as usual, the Republicans merely reacted once Obama and his cronies cooked up their vile stew, consisting of rat tails, bat wings and eye of newt.

Republicans aren’t the Party of No, as the Democrats have snidely suggested; rather, they tend to usually be the Party of I Don’t Know. Aside from objecting to the nonsense concocted by those on the left, Republican politicians rarely have convictions or policies of their own. Which is why they got so little done between 2001 and 2007, when they controlled the House, the Senate and the Oval Office.

I’m reminded of a conversation I had a while ago with a Hollywood insider. I was complaining about how difficult it’s been to line up interview subjects for my next book. The problem isn’t simply that those I approach don’t agree to be interviewed. After all, these people are strangers and they don’t owe me a favor. The problem is that in spite of the fact that I provide an email address, a mailing address and a phone number, I so rarely receive a response.

The Wolf Unmasked

This is a great commentary by John Feeney, which was posted at America's Right.

The Wolf Unmasked

As I was coming of age throughout high school and college, my favorite classes were always literature and those that involved the social sciences – history, psychology, and sociology. Consequently, I always had a vague interest in the dichotomy of Left and Right as it applied to the manner in which people identified themselves. I’d very often hear many of those around me refer to themselves as a “Liberal” (growing up in Rhode Island will do that), as though this were the proper, enlightened way of viewing the world. I never much immersed myself in trying to get to the root of their way of thinking, however. They always struck me as those who were more interested in the abstractions of life rather than everyday common sense. Above all else, though, it seems to me that we were all taught that those on the Left were those who were “peaceful”, put more emphasis on “understanding” those who viewed the world differently, were those who stood on principles and ideals, and were, of course, those of true intellect.  Those who were considered “conservatives” on the Right were angry, intolerant, selfish, mean, in addtion to being people who wanted to shoot others,  went to church every Sunday, and were, of course, quite stupid. 

As I grew and matured, I came to realize that my values – which certainly struck me as being much more aligned with what America historically represented – were decidedly conservative. As such, I often found myself troubled, because I have never been an angry, intolerant, selfish, mean person who wants to shoot people – though I do go to church.  As a thinker, I spent years trying to resolve this seeming obvious contradiction.

The first decade of this century has now validated what I saw as a serious socio-political misunderstanding – one might venture to say deliberately-crafted misunderstanding – in the minds of the American populace, so much so that those who identify themselves as “Liberals” or Leftists don’t even realize what it is that they’ve been led into following.  As I began to read more and more about politics and more closely to observe the behavior of those around me, one of my first observations was that those on the Left were just as intolerant, if not more so, than the people to whom they objected. It’s just that they were intolerant of the people to whom they objected. Of course, in their mind, that didn’t seem to matter, because in the end, they were right.

Link List

Are Health-Care Waivers Unconstitutional?

Amateur Hour in the White House

Internet Police

Tax Dollars and Teachers Unions

Obama's Tax Whopper

Ronald Reagan From a Black Prospective

All Hands on Deck

Health Care a Right?

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John Lewis, a Democratic Congressman said, "I happen to believe that health care is a right." I wonder how that concept came to be accepted. Neal Boortz has a great write up about this so-called "right." You can read it here:

Health Care a Right?

The top 10 violations of the Constitution by Obama and the 111th Congress by Paul B. Skousen

At the close of the 111th Congress, America is deeply in the bog of Thomas Jefferson’s prophetic warning: “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Unfortunately, the broken chains of the Constitution have failed to contain the federal government.

By way of review, let’s take a stroll through the junkyard of constitutional violations that have been painted fresh by President Obama and the 111th Congress. Here’s my top-ten list, highly abbreviated for length."

A Lesson For Washington

David Crockett, Charity, and Congress

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I was one day in the lobby of the House of Representatives when a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support, rather, as I thought, because it afforded the speakers a fine opportunity for display than from the necessity of convincing anybody, for it seemed to me that everybody favored it. The Speaker was just about to put the question, when Crockett arose. Everybody expected, of course, that he was going to make one of his characteristic speeches in support of the bill. He commenced:

"Mr. Speaker -- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it.

In Honor of D-Day

In honor of the 63rd anniversary of the D-Day invasion, I thought it would be appropriate to compare it to today's struggle in Iraq. The following essay was written by Raymond S. Kraft, a writer living in Northern California who has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion. The essay follows. It is a long read, but well worth it.

Historical Significance for today's world:

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials. At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, who had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies.