Archive for March, 2010
The People Ignored on Red Sunday
By Dr. Harold Pease
Near midnight March 21, now known as “Red Sunday” the House of Representatives voted to pass the Senate version of a national health care bill following many late night, behind closed-door deals made to buy or threaten holdouts and organizations amidst uncommon legislative trickery. Shame had no limits.
I join the millions across the country disappointed—even angered—with our Imperial Congress, which has voted to clear the way for the end of freedom as we know it in healthcare—government takeover of 1/6 of the economy. They have done so with full knowledge that this intrusion is not supported by the people and is not constitutional.
Tea Party Patriots Rocked 2009
By Dr. Harold Pease
Thank you fellow Tea Party Patriots who in 2009 demonstrated your commitment to the United States Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and to those principles that made us the freest and wealthiest land on the earth: limited government, fiscal responsibility and the free market. We assembled to protest the abandonment of that sacred document and these inspired principles it protects.
The Tea Party movement expressed itself most fully last April 15, when nearly 800 cities throughout the land demanded that both political parties stop the insane spending that was taking our children and grandchildren into massive debt before they were even born. Over a million gathered in the capitol alone. In Bakersfield the number exceeded 3,500. At no time in U.S. History was there a greater, more universal, and more grass roots outpouring of populous sentiment and anger toward both parties than on that single day. Millions gathered with the same message: slow down! The sky is not falling. What is right in America is still accessible.
Job Creation: The Founding Fathers Had the Answer
By Dr. Harold Pease
“Outdated. Ancient. Irrelevant.” Those are some of the words used to describe the United States Constitution by many who wish to dismantle the freedom it protects. What many people fail to recognize is that at no other time in history has a nation been more prosperous, industrious, and innovative as America has been under the guidance of that document. At least 80% of all inventions on the planet came from our soil because the Constitution unleashed freedom and incentive as never before.
The answer to how we create jobs would be the same as the founding fathers: get the government’s nose out of business. Imagine if I offered my grandson an hourly allowance for mowing the lawn, and yet I required him to spend extra money on environmentally friendly gas, forbade him to work on days where the air quality was poor, and forced him to purchase health insurance, mower insurance, and unemployment insurance. To make ends meet, my grandson would have to double his cost. The whole operation becomes too expensive, so I lay off my grandson and hire the illegal immigrant down the street who will practically mow my lawn for free.
George Washington Advises Posterity
By Dr. Harold Pease
Sept. 19, 1796, just prior to leaving the presidency, President George Washington issued his famous Farewell Address. In his usual stately manner as the father of this great nation he warned posterity of possible pitfalls that could undermine or destroy this great experiment in liberty. His warnings may well be timelier nearly 220 years later as we near his birthday February 22.
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