Sorry I haven't posted in a couple weeks. Just haven't had much to say. I guess avoiding the news has made me less angry about certain current events eliminating political posts, as for the other varieties......Well just not much to say. I would like to comment a two bumper stickers I saw yesterday on the same vehicle. These made no sense whatsoever, I saw a van with an Obama sticker and next to it was one that said, "I am a constitution voter." Uhhh.....Message to Van Owner: Read the constitution and then read the legislation Obama has signed! This congress and administration may technically be following the constitution but listen carefully to their words and you can tell they are just trying to get around the constititution, not follow it.
Read this Interview President Obama gave:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK
But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
And that hasn't shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
If we allow the government to do things for us it will result in a government that holds too much power and control over us. This document may have been written by human hands but it is very true. One of the first lines is: "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." If redistribution and government help was a right it would be "happiness, (no pursuit required)." As far as things like health care, etc. well, first it ain't going to be cheaper. Initial estimates say health care per American under a government plan is $600. I don't know about you but my fantastic private plan doesn't cost that much! (News and Observer, Thursday December 10th).
Well, its been good folks, sorry about the delay and I think I might have to avoid news more getting mad about government and politics isn't fun but I guess someones got to get mad and share the truth.
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