Well, folks, the Hellth Scare (my way of referring to this idiocy) travesty has passed the Communist Central Committee. Oh! Wait! It was actually the Deemocrat dominated U. S. House of Representatives. Or is ‘house of representatives’ an oxymoron? I appear to have a problem defining the problem today. But no sweat, I’ll just ‘deem’ that I have figured it out!

 Some people refer to the spending spree in which the pipsqueak in chief and his henchmen in congress are engaged as, “…spending money like drunken sailors!” Nothing could be farther from the truth for two reasons. Drunken sailors are spending their own money! And drunken sailors stop spending when they are out of money.

 In a previous post I noted that the basic purpose of the Constitution, aside from establishing the three branches of government, is to restrain that government from infringing on the rights of the people. It is well to remember that those rights are not conferred by the Constitution and its amendments. The Declaration of Independence clearly states that our rights (with which our government is forbidden to tinker) are given to us by our Creator. What is so hard about that that our Deemocrat representatives and senators do not understand?

 It is interesting that the attorney general of Florida, and several others, is preparing a suit in federal court that challenges the constitutionality of the portions of the Hellth Scare mess that require certain things of the states.  The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reserves to the states or to the people those rights not assigned to the congress. And I cannot find anywhere in the Constitution the authority to pass this piece of male bovine excrement. Let’s hope SCOTUS sees it the same way.

 I think it says a lot about the character of our pipsqueak and the Deemocrats who bribed (with or money), threatened, traded and blackmailed this thing into being. But one must consider the training and associations our pipsqueak sought in his ascent from an obscure biracial child of questionable citizenship to his present position as the leader of the free world.

 We have two kinds of people in the good old U. S. of A.

- One group, the real patriots, respects the Constitution and strives to preserve, protect and defend its unique mission of freeing and shielding people from oppressive government. These people quote Washington, Jefferson, Adams and the other founders of our great nation; the founders who recognized that governments, unless restrained by a strong Constitution, eventually will abuse the power with which they are entrusted to govern free people.

- The other kind, the America haters, is presently shredding the Constitution and working tirelessly to turn us into an inconsequential, bankrupt third world dictatorship. Insulting allies and genuflecting to thugs. Political correctness is their ‘constitution.’  They dress up their sophistry with sweet sounding words and phrases like, “It’s the right thing to do,” or “our moral duty,” or “help the poor,” or “compassion.” Isn’t it ironic that those are the same kinds of words and justifications used by Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez and a host of lesser known genocidal practitioners?

 Which kind of person are you? I guess we will find out in November!

The U. S. House of Representatives, at the urging of the Pipsqueak in Chief, is gearing up to deem the Hellth Scare reform (my way of referring to the insanity San Fran Nan is crafting) passed this weekend. Deeming, as I understand it, means that there will be no vote. They will just pretend it would have passed had there had been a vote.

That brings me to today’s subject: the United States Constitution and how the Deemocrats are ignoring it.

Everyone should know by now that we do not get our rights from the Constitution. Or from the Congress. Or from any government bureaucrat. Any eighth grader can tell you that our rights come from our Creator. The Declaration of Independence tells us that.

Now that we know we have rights completely independent of our elected bumblers, how does the Bill of Rights figure into this equation? The Bill of Rights reinforces certain of our God given rights by specifically prohibiting our government from infringing on them. So there can be no misunderstanding by anyone in the government, they shall keep their hands off those specific rights. The basic function of the Constitution, aside from the administrative instructions, is to restrict the power of the government to infringe on the rights of the citizens. Seems to me that our elected officials at just about every level have either forgotten this principle, or they never knew it. Sadly, that includes a lot of so-called RINOs–Republicans In Name Only. The Deemocrats seem to believe that the Constitution permits whatever they need to do to get elected during the next election. President Reagan is famously quoted as saying, “It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”

Any number of liberals, statists, progressives, socialists, communists and a multitude of other enemies of the Constitution argue that the “…general Welfare of the United States…” reference in Article 1, Section 8, gives the congress the authority to do whatever they say is for the ‘general Welfare’ of our nation. The problem with that argument is that if their interpretation is correct, the rest of the Constitution and the 27 amendments are null and void.

 The question now is, can SCOTUS, or maybe more importantly, will SCOTUS declare this Hellth Scare travesty unconstitutional? And if they don’t or won’t, will a Republican majority house and senate be able to repeal this insanity with enough votes to override a presidential veto?

 Makes the November 2010 election seem pretty important, doesn’t it?

 There has been considerable talk lately about the size of the federal budget deficit and the national debt. Billions and trillions of dollars sound a bit confusing because those numbers are beyond the understanding of most Americans. Let me put these figures in perspective so that we can at least visualize just what the deficit and debt would look like in cold cash.

 Let’s assume that one strap of  $100 bills ($5,000) is ¼ inch thick.

 A stack containing one million dollars ($1,000,000) in $100 bills is 50 inches tall. That is 4 feet, 2 inches tall.

 A stack containing one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in $100 bills is 50,000 inches tall. That is 4,166.66 feet, or about 0.789 miles tall.

 A stack containing one trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) in $100 bills is 50,000,000 inches tall. That is 4,166,666 feet, or about 789 miles tall.

 Now let’s see how tall our estimated federal budget deficit for 2010 is, and then how tall our national debt is.

 The federal budget deficit is the annual amount of money the U. S. Treasury has to BORROW to pay the nation’s bills each year. Tax revenues are simply not enough to satisfy our free spending leaders. The estimated deficit for the 2010 fiscal year ending September 30 is $1.4 TRILLION ($1,400,000,000,000). That amount—what we will borrow this year—is about 1,104.6 MILES tall.

 Now for the really mind boggling national debt. That is the accumulated amount that we have borrowed and not yet paid back. As of this writing—March 18, 2010, the debt clock says the national debt is a bit over $12.651 TRILLION ($12,651,000,000,000), and that amount of $100 bills is a staggering 9,981.639 MILES TALL! Just to make the math easier, let’s round that off to 9,980 miles.

 Now you may have trouble believing this, but, laid on its side and wrapped around the globe, that stack of $100 bills would reach roughly from Quito, Equator, straight through the North Pole and continuing south to the vicinity of Bangkok, Thailand! Driving 24 hours a day at 100 miles per hour, it would take you a shade longer than 4 days and 3 hours to drive that distance! Laid out flat, side by side, those bills would cover 2,241.776 square miles!

 If our forefathers had a printing press that printed 10 $100 bills a second ($1,000 a second, $3,600,000 an hour), to accumulate the amount of money equal to our national debt they would have had to print continuously, 24/7, starting in the year 1611 AD!

 Do I have your attention yet? Are you looking forward to the election in November?

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