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- IAP Bulletin 100704 July 4, 2010
The State Of The Union
Independence Day, 2010
- Our nation is facing a crisis of unsustainable debt. This is
happening because of the increasing expense of government
programs of socialism such as Medicare and Social Security
Insurance. It is astonishing that in the face of such recognizable
unsustainable debt due to these programs of socialism that our
Government would elect to give us more programs of socialism,
such as the new Health Care Insurance mandate, that not only
takes away more of our rights but, increases our tax burden and
debt.
It is not difficult for people to understand that when you are
forced to pay for my needs and failures, it is not freedom and it is
not sustainable in the economy of a free society. If we continue on
the present course, we will soon have dictatorship by a governing
elite to manage the affairs of an economically enslaved people.
This unfortunate event is now too close to becoming reality. If
we the people fail to stand up for freedom under the rule of our
Constitution's law that every veteran took an oath to defend, we are
not only refusing to hear the wisdom of our law and of past leaders
who are quoted below, all who were willing to lay down their lives to
keep this land of America free and independent of foreign control
will have sacrificed their lives in vain.
- Under the Health Care Insurance mandate law, our Muslim
brothers and sisters who are American citizens are given an
exemption from the mandate by the IRS on religious grounds. What
about the rest of us who are also American patriots, but who might
be of the same faith as those who wrote the laws of our
Constitution? It was their faith that we should worship only God and
depend only on Him for our needs rather than to depend on the
power of government.
The Christian Founding Fathers of our nation had that faith.
They purposely restricted the powers of government by the chains
of the Constitution's law because, it was their faith to be dependent
only on God. This faith was in their heart and in their prayers the
same as it is with many Americans today. It is in our hearts and
prayers to be free and dependent only on God.
We pray today with the same faith as those who established
our nation's Supreme Law. We remember and honor their faith that
was expressed in their prayers such as that given in the First
Continental Congress on the 7th of September of 1774: ". . . Look
down in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these our American States,
who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown
themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth
dependent only on Thee. To Thee have they appealed for the
righteousness of their cause; to Thee do they now look up for that
countenance and support, which Thou alone canst give. . . "
To abolish the IRS is as important to the restoration of our
freedoms as the Declaration of Independence was to the freedom of
the first American patriots of 1776. The Internal Revenue Service,
or IRS, is the bureaucratic arm of the federal government that
administers and enforces the income tax code. Against the will of
the American majority the IRS has been given increased power to
administer the new health care law that requires Americans to pay
for health care insurance or pay a penalty.
Could those people who do trust the government to increase in
its expanded service, power and cost be deceived? Rather than to
keep the government bound by the laws of the Constitution, could
they be deceived in their acceptance of a handout with total
dependence and trust in government? Is our Government with its
growing connections to a New World Order of international
governance and economy becoming part of the beast? As a result
of unelected rulers and foreign control, what is happening to our
independence that is celebrated on the 4th of July?
The ability of the American people to sustain their freedoms is
greatly dependent on their economic freedom. In this cause for
economic freedom, the IAP promotes support for H.R. 4995 which is
a bill to end the Health Care Insurance mandate. Also, the IAP
promotes concurrent support for H.R. 4972 which is a bill to repeal
the entire Health Care Act.
The IAP asks every American patriot of liberty to stand up now
in Committee of Correspondence or patriotic action of citizenship of
contacting elected representatives and all others. Stand up for our
rights while we still have the right and the means. Encourage
everyone to support the foundation of liberty upon which our nation
was built. Let everyone know that you support repeal of the Health
Care Insurance mandate through every lawful means such as
promoting support for U.S. Congressman Ron Paul's H.R. 4995.
You can contact your Congressman HERE.
Both of these bills, as well as similar such bills designed to
repeal bad legislation and put a halt to the unconstitutional power
grab by government, are assigned to Congressional committee and
will die there without consistent Committee of Correspondence
action by all of us.
In realization of this, Representative Steve King of Iowa
devised a plan through a process of motion by petition to bypass
this Congressional committee bottleneck and force his bill, H.R.
4972, to a vote on the House floor. See information page HERE. If
your Congressman's name is not seen on that page, ask him or her
to sign that motion. A minimum of 218 members of the House are
needed to force a vote for repeal. Through this C of C action, every
Congressman will be forced to declare their stand on this issue. If
they do not sign the petition to discharge the repeal bill from review
by the committees, they will be saying they are against our right to
choose our own means for care of our health. You can contact your
Congressman HERE.
Addition information concerning our right to choose our own
health care is addressed HERE, HERE and HERE.
To promote the end of the Health Care Insurance mandate is
an IAP priority. The IAP also promotes support for H.R. 25 which is
the Fair Tax Act. Passage of the Fair Tax will eliminate the income
tax and abolish the IRS. The IRS is the means used by the
Government to enforce income tax collections and the Health Care
Insurance mandate. The Fair Tax also has the great benefit of
relieving the tax burden from off the back of our manufacturing and
production industries. It is the one stimulus needed to bring jobs
and prosperity back into our American society.
Much appreciation is expressed to the former United States
Comptroller General, David Walker, for his warning the American
people about the unsustainable debt in our national economy
resulting from government programs of socialism. Since his
resignation in 2008, he has continued to be a leader in warning
America about our economic crisis. He sees the present recession
as no more than a bump in the road compared to the crisis in our
national economy that is caused by the programs of socialism.
His leadership is evident in the recent “America Speaks”
event. This event was a national network of town meetings for
discussion of the economic crisis. The event was organized and
linked together across the nation in 19 cities and 40 other locations
comprising a total of more than 3500 people. It is reported that a
workbook containing information and suggested options for action
was provided to all participants. The workbook led the discussion
groups to focus on suggested options that would reduce
government expenses on the one hand and increase government
revenue on the other. Participants in the meetings were told to
choose among these options to achieve a debt reduction goal of a
total of 1.2 trillion dollars by the year 2025.
With one very important exception, it explained all of the
options very well. The National Town Meeting event will surely
receive a good deal of consideration in the halls of Congress. The
one very important exception to being good and informative is the
fact that they omitted any mention of the Fair Tax. The closest they
came to mention of the Fair Tax was to mention the consumption
tax but, it was only in reference to a Value Added Tax or a VAT.
This omission is seen as odd since the Fair Tax has received
support from many Americans, especially from those who join the
TEA parties including members of Congress and constituents. The
Fair Tax is the one reform that completely eliminates the old tax
code including the IRS and replaces it with a completely new tax
code that has been described as being the best hope for the liberty
and independence of the American people since the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. The financial projections given to the
Fair Tax would greatly surpass the benefits of any other option.
This blatant omission should lead many people to doubt the
sincerity of intentions of the “America Speaks” National Town
Meeting event.
There are those people and special interest groups who want
to enslave mankind but, through the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States this land of America
became a protector and defender of mankind's unalienable rights
that come from God. Men of wisdom who respect their fellow man
and the rights that belong to them are the backbone of America's
freedom. Hear a few of these men in their following words:
"To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of
government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think
they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people.
It is in the power of government to prevent much evil; it can do very
little positive good in this, or perhaps in anything else." (Edmond
Burke, Works 5:133)
"Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general
welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and
that, as it was never meant they should provide for that welfare but
by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have
been meant they should raise money for purposes which the
enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the
specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they
may raise money." (Thomas Jefferson, Works 7:79)
"I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the
Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the
General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual
suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public
service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited
mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly
resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced
that though the people support the Government the Government
should not support the people.
"The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be
relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has
been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such
cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of
the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national
character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that
kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a
common brotherhood." (Pres. Grover Cleveland, Essays On Liberty
3:254)
"The administration of private justice between the citizens of
the same State, the supervision of agriculture and other concerns of
a similar nature, all those things, in short, which are proper to be
provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a
general jurisdiction. (Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, No. 17)
"When society's agency goes beyond its authentic function of
defending all of society's members equally and without favor and is
employed as an agency of plunder to 'help' some members at the
expense of other members, then and only then can the actions of
the agency be called slavery. Likewise, plundering the honest fruits
of one's labor for the 'benefit' of others classifies as robbery -- legal,
perhaps, but robbery nonetheless." (Leonard E. Read, Government-
An Ideal Concept, P. 60)
The IAP recognizes we have allowed ourselves to become too
dependent on federal programs of socialism. Our nation's problems
of unsustainable debt prove it. See IAP and C of C Freedom Alerts
in support of the economic reforms that America needs including the
Fair Tax HERE .
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