Captain Obonga, I mean President Obonga, has just completed his State of the Union Address. (He was rambling again and saying crazy things so I’m sticking with the Obonga nick name) I’m relieved. I have nothing to worry about now. Captain Obonga has got it under control. He’s going to fix the economy, government transparency, health care, the environment, the energy crisis, the nuclear power industry, education, bi-partisanship, government secrecy, foreign affairs, terrorism, actual government, the deficit, the Supreme Court decision of last week, ear mark abuses, the American spirit, both parties in congress, HIV, foreign relationships, the nuclear arms race, carbon emissions, the middle class, small business, protect us from the banking industry by punishing Wall Street and has already done so much. How can a person not be in awe of Captain Obonga. Especially when, according to his State of the Union address, he told us little guys, (he called us “they” and called Washington folks “we”) what he had accomplished so far. I didn’t know that he saved us from a second Great Depression? Boy, I am so unappreciative. I didn’t know that he saved millions of jobs. I had no idea that 300,000 teachers were ready to be laid off but for Captain Obonga’s rescue efforts. I had no idea that he hadn’t raised my taxes. Of course I’m one of the “they” and am so naive that I believe that I will never have to pay off the national debt, not a penny of it Captain Obonga, right? And of course, he said “hadn’t” raised my taxes and although us “they” people are naive, we’re not illiterate. We know the difference between “raise” and “raised.” And I’m definitely not not so illiterate to suggest that trying to raise my taxes through the health care bill, the proposed banking fee and Cap and Trade, is actually raising my taxes. You got me there Captain Obonga. You’re right, you didn’t raise my taxes-YET. By the way, can I get Scott Brown’s address to send him a thank you card?

I am so relieved. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Captain Obonga. I had no idea that the government, that failed to prevent a terrorist on the watch list whose father reported him as a radical without a passport from getting on a plane headed to Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear, no idea whatsoever that that government could fix everything else. The next thing you know they’ll be joking that the government can’t even keep strangers out of White House dinners? But you set me straight Captain Obonga. Thank you.

O.K., on a more serious note (although the first note was serious, I just utilized humor to demonstrate the seriousness, now I’ll get rid of the humor) was that a speech or what? Shoot, here comes the humor again. Captain Obonga is going to do everything. Pheewww! Say good bye to worries my little friends, I mean you American People. You “they” people.

O.K., O.K. O.K., I took a serious pill, so here goes, firm, fair and frank. The State of the Union address was a rambling cacophony of lies, misrepresentations, false promises, insincerity, rewriting of recent history, bragging, blaming, arrogance, ignorance, condescension, and otherwise consistent with a complete ripper of a marijuana fest. Thus, the “Obonga” nick name. We’ll call it a “BS”-afest instead.

Folks, he’s going to raise our taxes either directly or indirectly and has already done so with his deficit spending. Wait, small correction-maybe. He may have only raised our childrens’ taxes. Folks, he’s not going to endorse nuclear energy or off shore drilling. Folks, he has no desire to assist small business. He doesn’t even respect business for what it does. He said that all student loans would be forgiven in twenty years but in ten years if a graduate goes into public service. That’s right, we need more social workers and bureaucrats in our future than business people because social workers and bureaucrats are just so damn critical. See folks, this is another window into Captain Obonga’s soul. He values government more than the private sector. And he doesn’t understand basic values either; like paying off your debt. What in the world would justify a person to stop paying a debt if it’s not paid off? Shoot, that’s that pesky “keep your word” stuff. God that’s irritating. So what’s the big deal? I cut a deal, borrow some money for a four year degree which I actually spend six getting, drag the payments out for twenty years and then tell the lender that Captain Obonga told me I didn’t have to pay anymore after twenty years. Wait, wait, wait. I thought of something. Why don’t I just grab a public sector job in let’s say year nine, work it for a year, stop paying which is absolutely justified since I’ll be doing something so critical to America, actually serving the public for America, like for example, collecting tolls on a turnpike, and then, when I’m free of my promise to re-pay my student loan, I quit my cherished public sector job and go into the private sector and stick the tax payer with the rest of my debt. So many possibilities.

O.K. Folks, now I’m really going to be serious, actually I have been. I was just using humor to exemplify how much of a joke the State of the Union Address was. Our president has never made a bottom line, hangs out with communists and terrorists, loves Government, big government, is a progressive democrat, wants to socialize medicine, (He said he’s not quitting in his pursuit of his anti-American Agenda (He didn’t say “anti-American” but it is)), has no understanding of the economy, nothing is his fault, and after listening to his speech, wants to run everything.

Prior to his address, it was suggested that the Obama Administration was going to do a “re-set” on its agenda due to the rapidly growing trend against them. The pundits got it half right. Obama did do a reset but not on his agenda. He did a reset on the focus button so that the picture we see is different than before, blurred; but the content, the actual content, is exactly the same.

Beware folks, this guy does not like us “they” people. But he’s afraid of us and that’s why he reached out last night and spun the focus button. He changed the focus to hide. What he didn’t change was the content of his ambitions which are very un-American. Only our ability to see it was changed. But folks, you need not worry. I know this guy and his ambitions will come back into focus sooner than you think, definitely by November.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

NOTE: I use the “Captain” title to remind folks of the Titanic, you know that unsinkable ocean liner that sank on its first voyage. Of course, America could never be like the Titanic.

In response to Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, the great one, OBONGA (A new nick name since he must have been stoned when he blamed the anger against the George Bush years for the victory) has decided to start some class warfare. No big surprise, its always somebody else’s fault to a liberal; well, as long as the liberal can usurp the alleged remedy it is. If there’s no government in the remedy, then liberals won’t take that cure. And now it’s the Bankers’ fault. OBONGA says the tax payers want their money back. Hey president, a lot of the banks already paid it back with interest, so of course, you won’t take their money, right? Wrong, he wants their money whether they owe or not. There’s no distinction between those which have reapid and those that haven’t. They all get taxed, or “fee-ed” (OBONGA uses the the term fee instead of tax) in this particular proposed taking of other people’s money. And there’s the lie in OBONGA’s proposal. If he gets his way, gets his fee, the money he takes has a snowball’s chance of hell in being returned to the the actual tax payer. At best, the money will be a minute sea anchor on the ship of debt Washington has built and OBONGA is captaining. Picture a McDonald’s napkin on a thread being towed behind the Titatanic. I tend to believe it still would have hit the ice berg. So he’s not really getting the tax payer’s money back and it is a tax no matter what he calls it. Wow, thats two lies in a single message. Good work OBONGA. Wait, actually there’s three. Because not only is the tax payer not getting the money back, but he wants to take it from those who already paid it back, so there’s two blatant lies and one of the lies has two sub-parts. The getting it to the tax payer part and the getting it back part. I’m no genius, but I don’t think I can take something that was never mine and claim I’m getting it back. So shazam!. OBONGA got three lies in a single message. Impressive.

But here’s the biggest lie which is hidden beneath the surface of this particular OBONGA-ISM. Yes, there’s a class that we should be at “war” with, but its not Wall Street, or Oil Corporations, or Rich folks. It’s the political “class” that is our true enemy. It is the political class which is the biggest cost to our society. It is the political class which passed legislation and at times forced banks to loan money to unqualified borrowers. It is the political class that starts actual wars. It is the political class that is corrupt and unjustly takes our money and gives it to their friends. (UAW, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.). It is the political class that is committing generational theft. It is the political class that is behind just about every problem we have in this nation.

And the political class carries on, lying, stealing, transferring freedom, I mean wealth, (same thing), in their luxury accommodations, premium health care, and mode of travel (think jets).

So OBONGA, you’re right, we should have a class war. But you’re the king of the class that is the enemy, so to speak. So OBONGA, look in a mirror and point your finger at your reflection and let the true class warfare begin. Maybe it already did in Massachusetts? And Virginia? And New Jersey? Maybe.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

My intelligence gets repeatedly insulted by OBONGRESSMEN (People in congress or the Obama Administration) stating that they have to create jobs. Here’s the first lesson OBONGRESS, government doesn’t create jobs in the big picture. Really? Yep, Government doesn’t create jobs. Here’s the hard economics and then I’ll get to the right way to create jobs.

There is an economic term called a “multiplier effect.” The multiplier effect is the efficacy of spending. It is the ability of spending to produce an effect on the economy, either growing it or shrinking it. Let’s assume the government spending multiplier effect is 1.0 (one). That means that an increase in one unit of government purchases, and thereby, in the aggregate, demand for goods would lead to an increase by one unit in real gross domestic product (GDP). Thus, the added public goods are essentially free to society. If the government buys another airplane or bridge, the economy’s total output expands by enough to create the airplane or bridge without requiring a cut in anyone’s consumption or investment. If the multiplier is greater than 1.0 as OBONGRESS tells us, then government spending creates more growth than the actual spending. That’s the multiplier effect. But we have a problem OBONGRESS, government spending has a multiplier effect of less than 1.0. Studies, focusing on World War II and the Viet Nam War, have shown that at best the multiplier effect is .8, less than one. This is probably higher than it actually is because war time shrinks the supply of labor so wages tend to rise and the unemployed become employed. A negative multiplier, which .8 is, is a bad thing. It means it costs us more as a nation to spend a dollar than a dollar. Spending shrinks the economy and OBONGRESS, here’s a hard fact, that’s what’s going on right now. Your spending is shrinking the economy. You’re spending is hurting the economy, that thing you claim to be so concerned about. Here’s a hard analysis. If OBONGRESS were right, why isn’t its spending growing the economy. Spend like a drunken sailor and grow the economy, right? Wrong, it doesn’t work. History proves it doesn’t work, over and over again. Damn that history. Governments, including ours, hate history. It’s such an irritation to their voluminous tripe.

But, and this is a big “BUT”, if OBONGRESS really cares about people, and really doesn’t just want to collapse the economy to mass produce need and thereby mass produce needy voters who vote for help, not change, then here’s what they’ve got to realize.

As stated, as history proves, government spending shrinks the economy and hurts people. Sure, if you get a nice government contract you make some money, but you make it at the expense of the economy. The dollar you make, costs the economic society more than a dollar. That’s the point. You also risk partaking in a downward spiral much like the one our nation is in presently.

So what do we do stimulate the economy? How do we create jobs? I will tell you soon. It’s been established that government doesn’t create jobs in the comprehensive national economy. Who does? The private sector. But why isn’t the private sector creating jobs? Because the private sector is cautious, it is financially conservative by nature. What does the private sector fear the most, what does money fear the most? Risk and Uncertainty, that’s what. What does the private sector do when faced with risk and uncertainty? It reduces risk, it tightens its belt. It doesn’t hire, doesn’t expend venture capital, doesn’t expand. It hangs on to what it has which is the smart and natural thing to do.

Right now, given the OBONGRESS agenda, which is creating debt at the greatest rate in history, what it is really creating is risk and uncertainty. It is scaring the hell out of the private sector. The private sector is terrified about the exploding national debt, looming regulation, looming increased taxes, government take overs of industry, cap and trade legislation, and based on my analysis, everything OBONGRESS is doing or proposing. So, based on the private sector’s fear, they have and will continue to tighten their belts, avoid risk, and avoid expansion. So as long as OBONGRESS presses on with its agenda, it will shrink the economy. Econ 101, there it is.

Now, here’s the solution. If OBONGRESS really wanted to create jobs, really wanted to grow the economy, then here’s what it needs to do. Eliminate risk and uncertainty, that’s what.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that if the private sector were confident that the dollar would hold its value, the government wouldn’t explode, taxes wouldn’t explode, the cost of employment wasn’t going to sky rocket, and regulation would be reduced, the private sector would take risks. The private sector would chance into new innovative projects with new products, new ideas, and most importantly, new jobs. And here’s a somewhat important point; the private sector has a positive multiplier effect. That means that when McDonald’s, the franchise or some family named McDonald, ventures out and spends money, it grows the economy more than a dollar for every dollar they spend or invest in a venture.

This economic analysis isn’t unknown, it is basic. It is well known. And yet, OBONGRESS ignores it. As a side note, OBONGRESS claims they saved the auto industry and the banking industry. Really? Sort of, is the answer. Yes there are banks in existence and auto manufactures in business that wouldn’t be if the government hadn’t stepped in. But, the overall cost to our economic society to save these companies is greater than the benefit. If you’re an auto worker you receive a benefit. The rest of our economic society receives a detriment greater than the benefit received by the auto worker. Evidently, OBONGRESS doesn’t just want to redistribute the wealth, they also want to redistribute the suffering.

So OBONGRESS, take a look at history, read up on economics, and do the right thing. Give the private sector a climate without uncertainty and risk. Let the private sector keep what it earns and believe it will continue to keep what it earns in the future rather than having it be expropriated by a drunken OBONGRESS, because that fear, that fear that our government is a growing cancer, shuts down the private sector. It hurts folks, hurts them bad.

One more note, for my entire business life, the biggest bill I’ve ever had to pay is the bill to the government. It has never been an insurance premium. It has never been health care. It has always been you government. And that bill, that I pay monthly, limits what I can spend with a positive multiplier effect. So do the right thing, and give us hard working Americans our confidence back. Let us believe that the cancerous government is going to stop growing. If you do, you’ll get your jobs and you’ll get to take credit for creating them, a minor league lie by your standards, but I’ll let you run with it.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Note: Here’s a link which I took my multiplier effect lanaguage from. A good article by Robert J. Barro. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258618204604599.html

Second Note: Thank God for Massachusetts. A second revolution has begun. It might have started in Virginia and New Jersey actually.

Scott Brown handed you a pink slip on Tuesday Mr. Obama, well maybe a warning. He handed it to you and OBONGRESS and you know it. So now what do you do? I know, I know, you have an agenda but a very un-American agenda and now, thank god you are stymied. OBONGRESS has lost its ability to shove whatever you want to shove, down the throats of the American people. So what in the world do you do? A big problem is looming for you. You’ve got a State of the Union address coming up. And the irony of it all. You get your pink slip, warning, on Glenn Beck’s one year anniversary and a day before your one year anniversary. How timely. So again, what do you do? Here’s some advice and it will work if you have the hutzpa to listen. I know it’s hard, I know you’ve always been the chosen one, without fault, without deficiency, smarter than the rest of us, but what do you know, the American people don’t like your plans. And they don’t like it big time, so again, what do you do? Here it is. This is the State of the Union speech you should give:

My fellow Americans. In the months past I have realized that my ideologies are not in line with American desires. I do not apologize for my ideologies, I do believe in them. But you don’t. I have received the message and as much as I believe in my ideologies, I believe in democracy more. I understand that my role as President is to lead according to the people’s wishes and I have been advised of your wishes and I hear you America. I hear you. So, using an old American cliche, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. I know that there are folks that are in need of affordable health care. But I also know, have been told by the people of Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, that the majority of Americans relish their freedom, their liberty, and do not relish the idea of a government run health care system. I have heard you America. However, I continue to hold to my desire to provide for those Americans who cannot afford health care. I will not let you folks down. So tonight I propose that we go back to the drawing board. That we reset the process and truly make it bi-partisan, truly make it transparent. I believe that working together, truly working together we can produce a bill that satisfies all people, their needs, their expectations, their desires. So I am proposing that we scrap the current bill, toss it out, it has been rejected and my proposal is consistent with this democratic mandate of the American people.

And I do not deny that I was wrong in my ambitions as far as process, not goals, but methodology. I do not deny that the American people disagreed with me, not necessarily my ideologies, buy my solution. And I am man enough, American enough, to admit when I am wrong and I am doing so tonight. But I will not quit, I will not surrender. I will keep pushing for a health care system that is fair, affordable, and not a burden on the American people. A health care system that utilizes true competitive principles, increases the supply of health care, has incentives to be better, to strive for perfection. Not a French system, a British system, or even a Canadian system, but an American system that does not violate our ideals, our principles, or our constitution. And as I have admitted my error, my misread of the American way, I ask that America have faith that at heart, I am an American, that my goals are American in every respect. And I ask America to accept my admission, forgive if you need to, and work with me to create and pass a bill that truly builds the greatest health care system in the world. A system that provides for need, but does not encourage it. A system that is fair. A system that does not steal from Peter to pay for Paul.

I am not going to quit, I am not going to give up. I am proposing a new path, a path reflective of the obvious message given to me by America.

I thank you for your support. God Bless America.

Why don’t you try that Mr. Obama. It would be the manly thing to do and it might save your second term. Might.

So do yourself a favor, step down from your pedestal, listen to the people, and do the right thing. Just a suggestion Mr. Obama.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

“Tyranny” is defined as arbitrary or unrestrained use of power. It has arrived. Let’s take a look. The leading debate today is Obama care. Poll after poll prove that the American people do not want it. Sure, we want health care reformed but wait, “reform” is defined as the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. That’s the Webster’s College Dictionary definition. I used the same dictionary to find the definition of “tyranny.” Wait a minute, maybe “reform” is the wrong word. Our current health care industry is not wrong. It is not corrupt, well except for the medicare and medicaid fraud which Washington sings about all the time saying “we’ll fix it, as long as you let us take over one sixth of the economy.” Health care is not unsatisfactory either. We have the best health care in the world. I know, I know, some people can’t afford it so to them it’s unsatisfactory they argue. Is it unsatisfactory that I can’t afford a Rolls Royce? It is if you call Health care unsatisfactory. But in reality, it’s not. Even worse, if I show up at a Rolls Royce dealer and tell them I really need one but can’t afford it, they, unlike our health care system, would laugh in my face. In our “unsatisfactory” health care system, I’d get treated. Sounds pretty satisfactory to me. So, I’ve decided, we shouldn’t use the word reform unless I am given a Rolls Royce. We should use the word “improvement.” Sure we want to improve health care. I thought we Americans wanted to improve everything? What we don’t want is one sixth of our economy taken over by a bunch of incompetent buffoons in Washington lead by Obama. So, great, the majority of Americans don’t want Obama-care, we live in a democracy, so they won’t pass it right. I wish! O.K. Tyranny check number one. OBONGRESS (my new term for the current congress lead by Obama) is using their power unrestrained by democratic principles. That’s the unrestrained use of power. Again, strike one!

Is it an arbitrary use of power? Let’s go to the Dictionary. “Arbitrary” is defined by Webster’s as subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely on one’s discretion. Uh Oh, Obama and Congress, OBONGRESS, strike two on the tyranny test. OBONGRESS wants Obama-care. The majority of American people don’t want it. OBONGRESS doesn’t care. It is their unrestrained will to pass it, so bingo, strike two! By the way, don’t forget, the restraint that they should be controlled by is the people, well, in a democracy. They are not. This could be strike three, but I’ll give them a break and call it a foul ball.

So OBONGRESS is unrestrained by the majority desires of the people. They are acting according to their own will. It is arbitrary. Just check out the gifts to unions and government workers that were gifted in the back room out of sight of the people in direct contradiction of Obama’s promise to have transparency. Obama is a liar. How do I know this? Again, Webster’s College Dictionary. “Lie” is defined by Webster’s as a false statement made with the deliberate intent to deceive; a falsehood. Something intending or serving to convey a false impression. Remember Obama said eight times he would allow the cameras into the negotiations? Remember Obama said that it would be a new transparent Washington? Now if he meant these things, wouldn’t he be at the podium with his teleprompter explaining why he broke his word? And breaking his word is bad enough, just about everybody has not kept a promise in their lives. But if it’s just that, just breaking your word, a decent human being explains what happened. Not Obama. Why? Because his explanation is this; he lied. He is a liar. And no teleprompter in the world can explain it away. So, Obama is not even restrained by his own words or put another way, the truth. He is by definition, acting arbitrary. Strike three. Can you imagine an employee who mislead you, lied, and never even hinted at an explanation? You don’t have to, it’s our President.

So we have an unrestrained arbitrary liar as our President. But does this make him, by definition, a tyrant? Let’s look at what doesn’t restrain him or OBONGRESS.

1. Truth and Honesty.
2. Democracy.
3. The will of the people.
4. The Constitution.
5. The press.

These are hard facts. Now let’s flip things around and ask this question. What if Obama were honest and said here’s my plan? “I’m going to take over one sixth of the economy. I’m not going to keep my word. I’m going to do this in secret. And as far as what the American people want, I don’t care, I’m acting according to my own unrestrained will. And finally, I will not be restrained by the Constitution.” What if he were honest? He wouldn’t be president, that’s what.

We are in a crisis but it’s not a financial crisis, a climate crisis, or a health care crisis. Think about this: Each of the solutions proffered by Obama and OBONGRESS for these alleged “crisis” include massive growth of government, redistribution of wealth, increased taxation, massive new debt, massive increased government control, and all of these things, contrary to what the people of this nation want. Ouch.

The real crisis we are facing is a government crisis. We are by definition being ruled by an unrestrained tyrant. Sure, he hasn’t set up concentration camps or overtly attacked the constitution, but what if we behave as Americans and live by our principles? What if we just say no. Then what? I’m not sure, but my uncertainty both scares and amazes me. Where has our America gone? How did we let it happen? How do we explain it to our children? I’m trying to figure it out, but presently, like many, I’m mostly stunned.

God Bless America which I’ve decided is not a place anymore, not a geography, not even a government. America is a a set of God Given principles that can be taken anywhere because God gave them to us, not some government or individual or tyrant. And one more point OBONGRESS, do you really want to mess with God. You may have the Black Panthers and Acorn on your side in November, but it would be contradictory to assume you have God on your side when your words, policies and actions conflict with God given principles.

We’ll see if I am right in November. I pray so.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the Read.

Brett Reetz

Note: In my list of five things that don’t restrain OBONGRESS my enemies, yes enemies (I think it’s great to disagree, but when you disagree on something as fundamental as our American principles, you become an enemy of sorts) will argue that “hey” they got elected. True. But they have threatened to use reconciliation to pass health care. Reconciliation is a procedure used for budgetary matters. It is not to be used for fundamental change. The people voted people in who created “reconciliation” for budget matters. Thus, to the exent OBONGRESS uses it to fundamentally change our country, misuses it actually, they are violating democratic principles. Let’s do a basic analysis. OBONGRESS is threatening to use a law in a manner for which it was not intended to pass legislation that will fundamentally change our country in a way that is opposed by the majority of Americans. See, unrestrained by democracy.

Next Point. My father always told me that we were a nation of laws and not men. I finally, after years of almost daily debate with my father, a law degree, and much thought, admitted that he was right. But what do you know? It now appears that I was right. It appears that way to my father as well. What he should have said is that we “should” be a nation of laws rather than “are” a nation of laws. Because we’re not a nation of laws. Here’s the example of the week. The Attorney General is ignoring the law and not prosecuting the Black Panthers for voter intimidation. Here’s another example: Where’s the IRS? Shouldn’t they be prosecuting the tax cheats in Washington? Of course not, the tax cheats are in the “in” crowd in this nation, sadly now, of men.

Here is a great piece on the constitutionality of the proposed health care bill. Like I advised months ago, it is not about health care, it is about the taking of freedom from the people. It’s an informative read but a scary one at that. Here it is:

The following comment is from Michael Connelly of Carrollton , Texas , a retired attorney and constitutional law instructor who states he has read the entire health care bill and has some comments, not about the bill, but about the impact upon our Constitution. It’s a broader picture than just health care reform.

Looks like something to sit up and pay attention to; once this happens, it will be irreversible.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILLS?

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House
Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law.. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface.
In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the
Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Choices
Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out of the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides:

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people”

The 10th Amendment states:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas

That’s my reetzality for the day. Hopefully, it is not our reality for tomorrow.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Iran is defiantly seeking to acquire a nuclear arsenal which doesn’t sit to well with their stated contempt for the United States and Israel. Anybody of limited sanity would agree that a Nuclear armed Iran would create huge instability in the world and put millions of lives at risk. All true.

But is Iran wrong for wanting Nuclear Weapons? I’m not so sure. Here’s my analysis and as I oft times do, I’ll use a basic family type analogy of sorts to make my point. Here goes:

Picture yourself in a disparate neighborhood where some folks possess lots of things including but not limited to wealth and power. We’ll call these folks the rich folks. Other folks don’t have those things. We’ll call them the poor families. Now let’s say that the rich folks have a tool (i.e. a nuclear bomb), pick your tool, a high credit limit, a better vehicle, a nicer house, whatever. Now picture yourself as a poor family. Of course, you want the things the rich families possess. You want the tool that helps them get, be, and stay rich and powerful. You’re entitled right? Why not, all men are created equal. There’s no rule against wanting to be equal, right? It is supposedly a free neighborhood with each family having equal rights. So you, the poor family, start building the tool and what do you know, the rich families get together and confront you and say, “Hey poor boy! What do you think you are doing? You answer, “I’m trying to be like you, that’s what I’m doing.” The consortium of rich families tell you, “Oh no you don’t.” You respond with a “why not?” The rich consortium tells you that “you are not capable of handling the tool. You would misuse it. You cannot be trusted with the tool. You just can’t have the tool that would make you more like us.” Would you stand for that? Doubtful at best. I wouldn’t. I’d give the rich families the finger and keep building. (Iran has, I think only metaphorically, done this.) Who are they to tell me I can’t have something, something that I’m building with my own resources? See my point. Iran can’t be faulted for wanting a nuclear bomb, we have one they say, why shouldn’t they have one? A legitimate question.

Now, do you think the rich families could, through diplomacy and conversation, convince you that they are right, that you are not capable of having the tool that would make you more like them? Do you think the rich families could convince you to abandon your ambitions because you are just too irresponsible, too dangerous, to reckless? No way.

And yet, the Obama administration is attempting to do just that, to convince the poor family, Iran, that they are not worthy of possessing the tool, that they are just not as good and honorable as us Americans to entitle them to have a nuclear bomb. It will never happen. There is no way through negotiation, conversation, or diplomacy you’re ever going to convince somebody that they are simply not entitled to possess something that you have. Never. So, the Obama plan is ridiculous. It defies common sense, reason, and efficacy. It will not work. Don’t believe me, try convincing somebody that they are inferior to you and always will be. Good luck. You’ll fail.

Here’s the bigger problem. The Iranian leadership cannot be allowed to possess a nuclear bomb because they are in fact too dangerous, irresponsible and reckless. Really? Think about this. Have you ever heard the phrase, “If I were in his shoes?” Sure you have. It is an analytical technique of putting yourself in the other guys position (shoes). You are thinking that I am going to put us in Iran’s shoes but you’re wrong. Let’s put them in our shoes. Let’s give them our nuclear arsenal and our power just for the sake of analysis. We’d be dead in a minute. They would kill us at once, unless we bowed down to their religion, their tyranny, so long western world. That is why they cannot be trusted with nuclear bombs, and that is why the Obama Administration’s attempt at a diplomatic solution is both ridiculous and terrifying. Remember, radical Muslims are not afraid to die and radical Muslim leadership has no problem convincing their followers to die for their cause.

So, the Obama Administration is pursuing a dangerous course for two reasons. The first reason is that the course will fail. They will not be able to convince the Iranians that they are not worthy of being a nuclear armed nation just as you or I would fail at convincing a poor neighbor that they are not entitled to be and “have” like us. The second reason is that failure to keep Iran nuclear bombless will shift the world paradigm to a horrific state of imbalance. The Obama Administration’s policy is almost as reckless as the Iranian ambitions.

So keep up the futile work Mr. President. Risk the already precarious stability of the world. On the other hand, you did convince the folks of the United States that you were going to create “change” in Washington. Maybe you can sell snow to the Eskimos? But can you sell the Iranian’s on their inferiority? Highly doubtful Mr. President. Likely impossible.

Mr. President, think sanctions, extreme sanctions. And maybe consider giving a, what was your term, a “shout out,” to Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader in Iran. They could use it and we need it.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz