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Title: America's Constitutional Revolt
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Published: Apr 16, 2010
Author: Larry Kudlow
Post Date: 2010-04-16 20:48:19 by Eric Stratton
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America's Constitutional Revolt So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different voices hailing from many different towns across the country. But the tea-party message comes together in the “Contract from America,” the product of an online vote orchestrated by Ryan Hecker, a Houston tea-party activist and national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. With nearly 500,000 votes recorded in less than two months, this Contract forms a blueprint of tea-party policy goals and beliefs. Of the top-ten planks in the Contract, the number-one issue is protect the Constitution. That’s followed by reject cap-and-trade, demand a balanced budget, and enact fundamental tax reform. And then comes number five: Restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government in Washington. Note that two of the top-five priorities of the tea partiers mention the Constitution. Filling out the Contract, the bottom-five planks are end runaway government spending; defund, repeal, and replace government-run health care; pass an all-of-the-above energy policy; stop the pork; and stop the tax hikes. What’s so significant to me about this tea-party Contract from America is the strong emphasis on constitutional limits and restraints on legislation, spending, taxing, and government control of the economy. Undoubtedly, the emphasis is there because no one trusts Washington. As I read this Contract, tea partiers are reminding all of us of the need for the Constitution to protect our freedoms. They’re calling for a renewal of constitutional values, including -- first and foremost -- a return to constitutional limits on government. The tea partiers who responded to this poll are demanding a rebirth of the consent of the governed. The government works for us, we don’t work for it. All this makes me think of President Reagan, who never quite succeeded in gaining a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, or for limits on spending, or for a two-thirds congressional majority for any new tax hikes. But throughout his presidency, and for many years before, the Gipper argued for constitutional limits on government, especially government spending. And now this message is being echoed perfectly in the tea-party Contract from America. In effect, it picks up where Reagan left off. The tea partiers, whom I call free-market populists, desire a return to Reaganism. In particular, their demands for a balanced budget (third plank), for restoring fiscal responsibility (5th plank), for ending massive government spending (6th plank), and for stopping the pork (9th plank) all underscore the populist revolt against runaway government spending, and therefore runaway government power. There are mentions in the Contract of tax reform and stopping tax hikes. But it is pretty clear to everyone nowadays that the massive run-up in spending of recent years will inevitably result in an equally massive tax-hike movement -- that is, unless the spending is strictly curbed and reduced. Yet the tea partiers don’t trust Congress to do this, so they want to bring in constitutional restraint. A recent survey by the Brookings Institution spells out this spend-and-tax problem with great clarity. Under current spending trends, tax-the-rich efforts to bring the deficit to just 3 percent of GDP -- not balance, mind you, but 3 percent deficit -- would require a nearly 80 percent marginal tax rate on the most successful earners. And if taxes are raised across-the-board, the marginal rate would rise to nearly 50 percent for the top earners, with state and local tax burdens bringing it up to 60 percent. Otherwise, a European-style value-added tax (VAT) would become necessary. The tea partiers know this and they don’t like it one bit. And so, at bottom, they have formed a constitutionalist movement to revolt against big government and big taxes -- and oh, by the way, to stand against big-government control of large chunks of the economy, such as energy and health care. Harking back to the Founders’ principles of constitutional limits to government is a very powerful message. It’s a message of freedom, especially economic freedom. The tea partiers have delivered an extremely accurate diagnostic of what ails America right now: Government is growing too fast, too much, too expensively, and in too many places -- and in the process it is crowding out our cherished economic freedom. It’s as though the tea partiers are saying this great country will never fulfill its long-run potential to prosper, create jobs, and lead the world unless constitutional limits to government are restored. Now, as the tea partiers rally across the country, the big question is only this: Will the political class get it?
Larry Kudlow
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Why that isn't true at all. It is total rubbish and a worthless statement. Lots is being said .... "Sarah "Kiss my Torah" Palin" -- Jethro Tull, circa 2010-04-14
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
You would think with over 320,000,000 Americans that we could have a bit more than Sarah Palin or 0bama stuffed down our throats. With these obvious clowns as the media attention whores that they are ... no one can step up to the plate. There are only 319,999,998 other Americans to chose from. But all we get is either shit from Chicago or crap from Anchorage.
"Sarah "Kiss my Torah" Palin" -- Jethro Tull, circa 2010-04-14
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
The simple truth is that the people's protector has been replaced by an army of armed to the teeth thugs because the FEDERAL RESERVE bankers think it necessary to their safety.
"April 15th is really April FOOL'S DAY."
The PTB are a paranoid cabal of pencil necked bankers that fear those thousands (maybe millions) of people may pick up arms upon experiencing starvation, homelessness, and a general sense of nothing left to lose.
"April 15th is really April FOOL'S DAY."
This control of the message in MSM, operated by the Zionists, is just part of a program to make sure an anti-establishment revolution doesn't get underway.
Too late !
"April 15th is really April FOOL'S DAY."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
It has no teeth. It demands things that will never happen and merely demonstrates the movement's complete lack of awareness with the reality of the situation today. The TPM has all sorts in it ... some are ready to do the death dance even if they only take 2 with them. Others are learning more and heating up too, they just aren't "there" yet. The TPM is not good for the PTB other than it gives them some ability to spy on the good guys. Well, that's been going on anyway and for a long time. I still go to the TPM gatherings to witness their growth and see how desparate the republicans are to take it over and try to use it for getting some of their ilk elected but prefer gun shows.
"April 15th is really April FOOL'S DAY."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Doesn't really matter if the current political class gets it or not IF the TPM emphasizes the dire straits TPTB have gotten the nation into by working in the interests of the illegal Israeli state rather than giving priority to domestic matters. The main thing TPM has to do is is use the war budget and personnel for a credible domestic infrastructure program from which jobs will start generating tax revenues and tax money will will no longer be used on wars for Israel or to support that criminal state. Imagine, the current plan is to spend tens of billions of dollars moving equipment and personnel from Iraq to Afghanistan for a war which, as in the case of Iraq, has no beneficial relevance whatsoever for Americans.
Local police might have to think twice before carrying out house raids on their neighbors. Most police have families and won't want to see their houses blown up, their headquarters and cars attacked as has been happening in other countries where regimes have taken arbitrary action against a populace. Guns, explosives are more readily available in America than most other parts of the world.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
#2. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying.
#3. To: buckeroo (#2)
#4. To: Eric Stratton (#3)
#5. To: buckeroo (#4)
#6. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
#7. To: Eric Stratton (#5)
That's why, IMO, the TPM is defunct already.
#8. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying.
#9. To: Tatarewicz (#8)
This control of the message in MSM, operated by the Zionists, is just part of a program to make sure an anti-establishment revolution doesn't get underway.
#10. To: noone222 (#7)
#11. To: Tatarewicz (#8)
#12. To: noone222 (#9)
#13. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
I wouldn't at all be surprised if the TPM movement is a PTB creation.
#14. To: noone222 (#13)
#15. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Will the political class get it?
#16. To: Eric Stratton (#10)
There would be no coordination, the effort would probably have to last for a matter of weeks, gun owners would be forced to turn in their weapons to the local police "or else," likely getting their doors kicked down in strings of raid 24/7 with the local authorities and their muscle headed driven mentalities all feeling grand as they oppress their local populace
#17. To: Tatarewicz (#15)
#18. To: Tatarewicz (#16)
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