A new civil war???

Lately I have been a little concerned about some of the issues I have been seeing. They are really reminiscent of what led up to the Civil war of 150 years ago. As I was trying to explain what I was seeing to my wife she summed it up with the sentence, “It’s Never, always just one thing.”

Now out of context that sounds like a strange sentence... Even improper but it really does make sense!
Today if you ask anyone who has had a basic public school education what caused the civil war, or what was the point behind the civil war. The answer you will get is “it was to stop slavery.”

Now that statement was true… for SOME of the people involved/ when you think about John Brown and the underground railroad and so on yeah that does make a compelling argument.

My follow up Question though seems to be unanswerable by those same people.

If the reason the southern states seceded from the union was BECAUSE of the slavery issues than why did they secede BEFORE THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CAME OUT???

Alternatively if Abraham Lincoln was so eager to take the battle to the south, was doing so because of slavery why did he WAIT through three years of war before signing the Emancipation proclamation?

See the Issue that led to the civil war was NOT JUST slavery, there were several reasons. The states that seceded listed state rights as their main grievance, NOT SLAVERY.

Today I am hearing the same cry for state rights being called for. And as we watch the federal government trample on state rights I am worried that we are going the same way.

What do I mean about state rights?

Here’s a laundry list…

The 10th amendment tells us that any right/s NOT EXPRESSLY GIVEN TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION remains a right for the state/s and or the people.

We have seen The federal Government tell the states that they HAVE to administer Obama’s health care program, but that is NOWHERE in the constitution.
The constitution does NOT give the federal government the right to mandate that people have to have health insurance, neither does it say the government can tell us that we have to purchase a private product at a price the private company chooses to levy.

The Accident in the gulf of Mexico resulting in the large spill of crude oil was handled poorly and one of he reasons that it became such a large disaster was because the Federal Government denied the states the means to fight the damage.

Now the federal government is suing a state because that state said "enough ,If you will not fulfill your obligation and stop the international crime spree that is pouring into this state WE WILL."

So to sum up… The federal Government has said to the states,
You have to force your citizens to buy this product because we say so.
You cannot stop an ecological disaster because we don’t want to see anyone able to fix it when we won’t.
You cannot protect yourself from being robbed, raped, murdered, or you can’t stop your kids from being molested or kidnapped or hooked on drugs or given STD’s, because we want to have illegal immigrants.

These are the reasons that there are issues going on here.

The other side are trying to make it a smaller issue though. They are belittling the arguments given there.

See liberals like to make it all about Emotions.
“you are just being racist.” “you are so cruel trying to deny people the freedoms you have.”
“these people aren’t causing all the crimes.”

I notice they can never cite any facts to support their side... but that is a small concern.
And yet at the same time that they try to make those arguments their actions show they know otherwise. If there is not, as they claim, a problem at the southern border with criminal activity from these “safe, poor migrants” then why do they have to post signs warning people to stay away because of the danger?

This week alone on four separate occasions I heard four different representatives of our Federal government declare something along the lines of “the federal government can do what it wants, no matter who is hurt, the states have no say and what the people want is immaterial.”

This was said in a democrat’s town hall meeting, the senator is who said it, this was said by a judge in California AND a judge in Arizona when they ruled on the laws put in place BY the people or states in question. And this was said by Robert Gibbs the press secretary for the president when he was questioned about the law passed in Missouri stating that the federal gov’t could not impose the health care debacle on it’s citizens.

I believe this attitude is dragging us to the next civil war. And that is something that I would not wish on my children… on the other hand I would prefer a civil war to the new slavery that this government is trying to place on my children, AND grandchildren.

I ought to have started here...

One thing I ought to have started this with was a major point that I now make.

I want to make sure I let you all know, I have no problem with authority or authority figures.

My problem is with abuse of authority.
That is what I am seeing and therefore fighting in our society.
what with people trying so Hard to be politically Correct, or touting Diversity as the only way to get things done. Forcing people into comprimising their values, threatening the wellbeing and health of Americans who disagree... well those are things that the Founding fathers went to great lengths to stop.

An example I would like to use; now that they have the Government tied up the democrats are doing everything in their power (Which is considerable right now)to promote their agenda.
This agenda has nothing to do with the well being of America! it serves ONLY the democrats; it includes making sure Democrats have the edge in ALL future elections, it includes paying off the people they like (especially if that gets them future favors), and it includes doing whatever they can to make sure that, if ever someone tries to reinforce the Constitution they will still get there piece of the pie. ( in other words it includes decimating the Constitution and all it stands for.)


Case in point it recently came to my attention that when GM went into bankruptcy the Government took it over (which they even admit too, why is our GOVERNMENT not doing the job of government and is instead micro managing a car company?).
Then the Dems refuse to abide by the laws of bankruptcy in order to make sure that their favored group/s, namely the UAW, got preferred treatment over the stock holders who got hit with enormous loss.
They shoved BILLIONS of dollars into failing companies in order to " keep them from going bankrupt", which they did/are doing anyway, and now that they are going bankrupt they are forcing GM and Chrysler to give up all the lines of vehicles the democrats don't like in favor of more dangerous cars, "oh but they are better for the environment" ( yeah right... A Republican senator from Colorado recently pointed out that they are on the verge of figuring out how to build the Hummer so that it will get "100 miles to the gallon". but that technology has been stopped because the Dems want Hummer to go to China.)

And they are also closing dealers... oh but wait, not just any dealers. apparently as I understand it, it turns out that most of ( if not ALL of) the dealers on the list to be closed contributed significantly to the Republican party (or at least They donated to Obama's opponents). Meanwhile if a dealer gave money to the Obama? nope it is business better than usual for them.

Look here for details...Dealergate

Or HERE

and HERE I have a link to a letter written by one of those dealers who is losing his livelihood. Although I do want to point out one thing in particular to think on.

"On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them. My new vehicle inventory consists of 125 vehicles with a financed balance of 3 million dollars. This inventory becomes impossible to sell with no factory incentives beyond June 9, 2009. Without the Dodge franchise we can no longer sell a new Dodge as "new," nor will we be able to do any warranty service work. Additionally, my Dodge parts inventory, (approximately $300,000.) is virtually worthless without the ability to perform warranty service. There is no offer from Chrysler to buy back the vehicles or parts inventory.

Our facility was recently totally renovated at Chrysler's insistence, incurring a multi-million dollar debt in the form of a mortgage at Sun Trust Bank.

And there you have it. THIS ladies and Gentlemen is the "change" that Obama wants to bring to the United States.
The Change of making the Democrats the ruling party in a sort of democratic dictatorship if you will.

Well where is the change?

This Blog comes to us from, Wednesday, February 4, 2009 (bonus at the end there is an update to the situation it talks about!)

I am a little frustrated today.

I remember that during the elections a lot of people wanted to vote for Obama because he was going to "make [their] lives better." Or they stated (as one of my own family members said) that Obama's getting elected brought them a sense of "hope".

some of these people Cried whined and complained right and left about George Bush!

"His staff was corrupt."

"He didn't help enough with Katrina."

"He drove the Economy into the ground."

"He started a war in Iraq where we didn't need to be."

So let's look at recent "presidential" events!

Yesterday two of Obama's appointments had to back out of consideration because they were found to have cheated on their taxes.

There is a major disaster (freezing and power loss in Kentucky) almost as high in death toll now (50+) as Katrina ever was And Barack Obama hasn't even gone to look at the problem let alone TRY to help.
At least George Bush was on site as soon as he could be! Where is Obama?

Obama's plan to "rescue the economy" is literally nothing more than "let's spend more money we don't have and maybe that will fix it!"
EVERY REPUBLICAN and several Democrats have already rejected the plan at least till it can be pared down some.
Even the liberal New York press has proclaimed this bill to be a disaster.

As for Iraq? we are still there. of course one could point out that (gasp) they recently had honest to goodness elections! and they were even FAIR oh my.
Something they haven't had in FOUR THOUSAND YEARS. all because the American Soldiers went over there and gave them that chance.

So where are all the whiners now?

Interestingly enough I note that many of the promises Obama made while on the campaign trail have fizzled.

He promised a full and immediate withdrawal from Iraq. (still there.)

He promised to close Guantanamo bay in his first week, nay in his first day. (nope not yet)

He promised to eliminate the don't ask don't tell policy of Clinton's. (still there)

And so the very people who he was trying to cater to from the start are becoming quite upset with him.
He is trying now to reach the part of the population who didn't vote for him and he is failing there too.
He is failing BECAUSE one, he is pro abortion and Two, he is opening our system (health care, benefits, schooling) to ILLEGAL immigrants.

On a side note (since the bit about Immigrants came up) I find it interesting to note that in the last year there have been 2.5 million American jobs lost. That's 2,500,000 Americans on unemployment who have no work.
They are trying to make ends meet on welfare!
At the same time there were 1.5 million (Yes that's right 1,500,000) NEW visa's /green cards issued for Immigrants to work here in America.

This might not seem "P.C." but, why couldn't we have denied those visa's and put 1.5 million Americans back to work? then we might not have all these big problems.

So back to my point...
I am still waiting to hear, why it is that all these people had so much hope about Obama's getting elected. where is the change... or wait I guess he didn't promise GOOD change just change.
Still it seems like business as usual in our Capitol city.





One advantage to this BLOG move, Now we are in June, while All this I reported was only a month after he took office the problem is the same factors are still in force that I blogged back then. Actually some of them are worse. Obama recently held a little get together to tell us all how wonderful things are. He did this in Nevada which state has lost something approaching 3 MILLION dollars in revenue so far this year, DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF HIS POLICIES! To say the citizenry was less than thrilled would be an understatement.