Wow, sorry for the long delay in posts. After the election of President Obama, I’ve had to take some time off to recover, to wrap my mind around this new era we’re moving into in this country that I love. Things have been changing and moving in a direction that scares the daylight out of me so quickly that it just boggles my mind, hence the break in blogging.

I have started to read The 5,000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousan and it is re-energizing my passion and love for my country. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the sequence of events that lead up to our Constitution and the background of the amazing men who founded this Blessed country.

I am excited to educate myself on our history and teach it to my children. If we would all take the time to keep the real history of our country alive and pass it onto the next generation then there will always be hope that we will get back to the principles that made this country the most Blessed and powerful nation in all the world!

May God keep His Mighty Hand upon us as we pray for an awakening in the United States of America.

Read up fellow citizens, I’ll check in shortly… 

A Savior, one who came, not to rule over His people, but one who came to serve and save His people!  What an amazing gift, God is so good!

This world has been forever changed by the birth of one child born in a manger so many years ago. It is really mind boggling to think that this one life can & did effect all of humanity in such a way. Even non-believers cannot deny the impact of Jesus Christ.

This Christmas, let’s take the time to thank Almighty God for the gift of salvation through His beloved Son, Jesus. Show your children that it is important we honor God for the most amazing gift of love that we could ever receive. This gift enables us to have life and have it abundantly. It is a miracle that a birth over 2,000 years ago is still remembered and celebrated.

In these harsh economic times, it will do us good to remember the words of the angels to the shepherds on that first Christmas night, “An angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them and said, “Do not be afraid“ (Luke 2:10) Do not let fear steal away your joy for “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7) You can and will overcome anything when you put your trust in God.

Enjoy your time spent with family and I pray that God’s richest blessings be with you, not only this Christmas, but throughout the coming year.

Merry Christmas! 

The new $621 million Capitol Visitor Center in Washington has surprisingly (*sarcasm*) gotten many key facts about American history wrong.

The new Visitor Center has distorted the Constitution. Instead of teaching visitors about the powers of government depicted in the Constitution, the center instructs visitors about the Constitution’s “aspirations.” How conveniently progressive!

See for yourself. The Heritage Foundation has put the full text, including the script of an orientation film, online.

The new center has cut key passages from the Constitution, weighing in on a long-running debate about the scope & limits of federal power by taking the liberal progressive side of the debate, envisioning broad congressional powers that the Founding Fathers never intended.

We have got to wake up to the fact that there are those in power, whether it’s in the government or in the school systems, that want to rewrite history to leave out the pesky ”limiting of government power” verbiage and the “by the people, for the people” nonsense. It sounds absurd, but it is happening in our children’s text books and now in our own nations Capitol.

Instead of focusing on what the Constitution actually says, the Visitor Center suggests the founding document is a list of “aspirations” about knowledge, curiosity and other things not actually in the text.

We need to flood DC with complaints about this Visitors Center and demand that the truth about our Constitution be displayed and nothing less.

Contrary to what our liberal lefties in the educational system would have you believe, Thanksgiving is more than just a time to be thankful for our loved ones. Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful to our Creator, the Most High God. It is also a time to pray for guidance and continual protection for our nation.

President George Washington’s first federal Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789:

“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.… Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 … that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.”

Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving an annual holiday in 1863, during the Civil War, saying:

“No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.”

May the Most High God bless you and yours this Thanksgiving!

I must apologize for my non posting self, I am adrift in this post-election world. I have lost a bit of the zeal I had pre-election, all my passion to reach the masses and help unveil the truth has been, I fear, all for not. I am dumbfounded that so many Americans had not been convinced by my words of wisdom.

Where do I go from here? What do I write about now, post election/pre-inauguration? I listen to my radio talk shows and feel as though we are in a sinking ship. I still believe that we must not give up, it’s just that I’m waiting til the last possible minute before I begin to bucket out the water overtaking our ship.

I must wait until I feel ready to fight the impending storm that is coming our way. Once I am there, I will be back, posting away, fighting the good fight of conservatism.

But until then…

I would like to take the time to thank all of the brave men and women who have served this country over the years. It is your sacrifice that has made this nation the greatest on earth. It is your sacrifice that has brought us freedom and it is your sacrifice that we must always remember because without you and those who’ve given their lives, we would not enjoy the priviledged lives that we lead.

I appreciate all you’ve done to defend and protect my country and my family. I pray that our freedoms are never taken away from us. Far too many soldiers have died fighting for that freedom and that is something that we must never ever forget.

God Bless America!

I came upon financial expert, Dave Ramsey’s, website tonight and on it he has a plan for the economic crisis in Washington. I like what I read and sent it to my representatives in Washington. I’ll post it below, if you like it, please take the time to tell your congressmen about it. Remember, they work for us!

Ramsey’s “Common Sense Plan” 3 Steps:

I. INSURANCE

A. Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance. Government-insured and backed loans would have an instant market all over the world, creating immediate and needed liquidity.

B. In order for a company to accept the government-backed insurance, they must do two things:

   1. Rewrite any mortgage that is more than three months delinquent to a 6% fixed-rate mortgage.
      a. Roll all back payments with no late fees or legal costs into the balance. This brings homeowners current and allows them a chance to keep their homes.
      b. Cancel all prepayment penalties to encourage refinancing or the sale of the property to pay off the bad loan. In the event of foreclosure or short sale, the borrower will not be held liable for any deficit balance. FHA does this now, and that encourages mortgage companies to go the extra mile while
working with the borrower—again limiting foreclosures and ruined lives.

   2. Cancel ALL golden parachutes of EXISTING and FUTURE CEOs and executive team members as long as the company holds these government-insured bonds/mortgages. This keeps underperforming executives from being paid when they don’t do their jobs.

C. This backstop will cost less than $50 billion—a small fraction of the current proposal.
II. MARK TO MARKET

A. Remove mark to market accounting rules for two years on only subprime Tier III bonds/mortgages. This keeps companies from being forced to artificially mark down bonds/mortgages below the value of the underlying mortgages and real estate.

B. This move creates patience in the market and has an immediate stabilizing effect on failing and ailing banks—and it costs the taxpayer nothing.
III. CAPITAL GAINS TAX

A. Remove the capital gains tax completely. Investors will flood the real estate and stock market in search of tax-free profits, creating tremendous—and immediate—liquidity in the markets. Again, this costs the taxpayer nothing.

B. This move will be seen as a lightning rod politically because many will say it is helping the rich. The truth is the rich will benefit, but it will be their money that stimulates the economy. This will enable all Americans to have more stable jobs and retirement investments that go up instead of down.

This is not a time for envy, and it’s not a time for politics. It’s time for all of us, as Americans, to stand up, speak out, and fix this mess!
 
 

It seems clear that the mess we find ourselves in currently stems from a lot of shady dealings in both Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and our government.

Congress laid the foundation for this crisis with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, this basically forced banks to loan money to low-income borrowers as a way to ensure that financial institutions would “meet the credit needs of the local community”.  Proof that if government would just back off the private sector, we’d all be better off! (Democrats think government run national health-care would be different, yeah right.)

Under the Clinton administration, federal regulators began using the act to combat “red-lining,” a practice by which banks loaned money to some communities but not to others, based on economic status. “No loan is exempt, no bank is immune,” warned Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno. “For those who thumb their nose at us, I promise vigorous enforcement.”

So banks, fearing that “vigorous enforcement”, began issuing loans to people that could not afford them and now those people are foreclosing on their loans, hence sending the Fannie and Freddie house of cards crashing down.

Congress is always so quick to call for hearings when it comes to “big oil” or evil corporations but somehow they’re silent on Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac hearings. I wonder why, could it be because hearings would unveil that many in our current congress prevented changes to our system that would have stopped this financial crisis?

A key reform bill was passed in the Senate Banking Committee back in 2005. This bill would have required these companies to eliminate their risky investments and assets.

This bill was prevented from becoming law because of one group. You guessed it, the democrats blocked this bill, voting down party lines, thus making it a partisan issue. It is a shame that they took an issue that effects all Americans and turned it into a pawn in a partisan political game. 

We have found out that many of those who protected Freddie and Fannie also benefited by receiving mind-boggling contributions from them over the last couple years. Second only to Chris Dodd, Barack Obama has received more than $125,000. Hillary Clinton, ranked 12th among the top recipients of contributions, received $75,000. Funny how those who stopped that bill found themselves receiving the  most money from Freddie and Fannie.

Oh, and by the way, John McCain not only supported bill S.190, he was one of the co-sponsors. Many on the left will be quick to blame Pres. Bush but don’t be duped, Bush warned Congress to take action on the government backed enterprises at least 17 times in 2008 and at least 15 times from 2001 to 2008. Glenn Beck has put together a list of these warnings on his website at http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/15484/

Pay attention folks, this is important to note. Politicians will usually say anything to get elected, the only thing we can really rely on is their record. Polls suggest that Americans trust the economy to Obama slightly more than McCain. You might want to rethink that now.

Please do your homework before voting in November!

Can the Mexican government handle an influx in returning illegal immigrants? I doubt it, but that’s exactly what’s happening in record numbers. Why are so many returning back to Mexico? Simple. The American public is finally waking up to the fact that illegals are taking over and running our hospitals, our police, & our school systems into the ground especially in our border states. Illegals are feeling that they are unwelcomed and so they’re now returning to their home countries.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the illegal immigrant population has dropped 11% since August of last year. They’ve also found that 1.3 million immigrants have returned to their home countries.

Let me make myself perfectly clear, I am pro-immigrant, pro-legal immigrant. I absolutely see the need for welcoming immigrants into our country. That is what America has done since our beginnings, but if you break the law to get in here, you must be sent home. Our nation is one governed by laws, if you don’t abide by those laws, there must be consequences.

Our politicians, at least some of them, are also finally waking up to the fact that most Americans do not want open borders. We want to know who is in our country. We do not want anyone collecting medicare benefits or unemployment benefits or free medical treatment unless we know who you are & if you are a legal citizen.

We work hard to support our families and we work hard to pay our taxes. We should not be the ones paying for these government programs that help illegals. We are fed up and our voices are being heard loud and clear.

Illegal immigrants are feeling the heat and are starting to go back were they came from and, I for one, am glad. I am not glad that families are facing tough decisions. The parents are not citizens but the kids are, most American children would not want to change schools, let alone change countries. However, the parents made the choice to come here illegally, so unfortunately, tough consequences are the result.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he plans to help returning nationals by providing them with food, shelter, and medical care if needed. I hope that is true, I certainly do not wish these people harm. I just want to get this country back on track. We need to protect our borders, those citizens living in the border states need to feel safe. We need a fence along the south and the north. I pray our new President hears our plea.

Barack Obama supports open borders and supports social services providing aide to illegals. Just another issue we need to look closely at before voting this November.