“General Welfare” not “General Healthcare”
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Those are the words to the preamble of the document that every single military member has sworn an oath to protect and defend “against all enemies foreign and domestic.” Lately, we’ve had about as many domestic enemies as we have foreign ones. This is not a partisan issue I’m about to discuss, it’s a constitutional one.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill to regulate energy consumption in this country. The President said the bill would create jobs, make renewable energy profitable and decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil. What he didn’t say is that the bill would also result in a massive loss of jobs, tax hikes, and inflation.
If we truly wanted to “decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil” we would use more of our own! The government did not legislate the use of oil in the early 20th century when the combustion engine was developed to move people further, faster. It was a product of commerce and capitalism. Likewise, the use of more energy efficient means should not be a government mandate. If the people spoken of in the preamble I quoted earlier really want cleaner air, the market will dictate it. When the government gets involved, it creates a false demand which forces commercial industry to spend more money on a technology that doesn’t exist within a more combat timeframe.
This increase in research and development to meet government-imposed deadlines adds to the cost of these technologies making them unattainable by the masses. They then become unaffordable and disappear – or the government subsidizes them. By subsidizing an industry, taxes go up! You and I pay for that subsidy, it doesn’t just appear. By charging the so-called “polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions” that you and I use, you and I will be paying more for it! Our power does not come from nuclear power or turbine water power. Most of it comes from coal power which means we’ll be paying more to turn on our reading lights, cook our dinners, and watch the non-stop Michael Jackson coverage!
Yes, this bill will create jobs in one segment of society – while it crushes and vaporizes jobs in another. Those mean, nasty oil companies that our government wants to eliminate are responsible for literally millions of jobs!
Today I went to the local weekly gathering to honor our troops – and oppose the wingbats across the street that think hugs and kisses can solve everything. It’s also the same place where the false WWII veteran resides each week.
But, today wasn’t like most weeks. The local Tea Party organizers had teamed up to protest the massive spending by our politicians in Washington who want to spend us into oblivion combating fake energy and health care “crises.” We’re all fed up and standing up for our rights. These people melted the phone lines in D.C. against this bill, but were ignored. Hopefully, the Senate isn’t as spineless and honors their obligations to represent states’ rights. Below is a video I took of the gathering today, though I probably walked a little more quickly than I should have.
