AGK: America’s Gotta Know

Ready to take your tea party and town hall activism in the interest of preserving our personal liberties and capitalist way of life (ie. the American Way) to the next level? Be there or be square. Go here to sign up and get the details…
http://www.912dc.org

Well, I made it yesterday morning to the second row of Senator Arlen Specter’s Town Hall Meeting at Harrisburg Community College in my childhood hometown of Lebanon, PA. I arrived there to stand in line at about 7:15AM for a 9AM door-opening and a punctual 9:30AM start when the Senator and his entourage arrived. I can tell you from the ground, there was no appearance of a consolidated conspiracy to undermine the House’s current version HR 3200 healthcare bill. There was, however, an outpouring of passion by concerned Americans about the direction that this bill and many others which have been and are currently being pursued by Congress are taking this country. It was not the radical, organized, anti-American “Nazi”, “KKK”, so-called “astroturf” “mob” being portrayed by liberal congressional Democrats and echoed by the mainstream media. It was just average Americans, who wouldn’t even be there had they not been “awakened”, exercising their 1st Amendment constitutional rights in voicing their displeasure with the Obama Administration and this Congress. For this they are being demonized and marginalized despite their numbers, which cannot be ignored.

The response was overwhelmingly in opposition. In fact, out of 31 citizen speakers, only 1 indicated any favoritism at all to the healthcare bill in its current form and/or the path on which the federal government is leading us, in general. A professional colleague of mine, even got an opportunity to express himself (he’s the one in the red shirt, the final speaker shown in the video that follows). Here’s a news video…
http://www.necn.com/Boston/NECN-Extra/2009/08/11/Specter-faces-angry/1250003127.html

The Democrats, however, appear to be indignant and in denial to the reality that confronts them. Either that, or they are just so set in their ways that they believe they can, in partisan fashion, do whatever they want to do due to their numbers in Congress, regardless of the desires of their constituency. Post town hall statements by Specter and PA Governor Ed Rendell substantiate this fantasy…
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20090812_Specter__Town_hall_protestors_
are_not_representative.html

Specter did apparently, however, take to heart the healthcare referendum recommendation made by one of the Lebanon town hall speakers…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/11/sen-specter-says-hell-pitch-fascinating-option-health-care-referendum/

I’d say congressional Democrats had better wake-up. No one can force feed such significant liberty infringing legislation upon American people who have this much animosity toward it, without suffering retribution by those same passionate Americans. My prediction is that, unless the Democrats experience a near-term epiphany and respond accordingly, they will find themselves at a significant numeric disadvantage in Congress following the Nov-2010 mid-term elections.

Healthcare or Cap-and-Trade legislation passed anywhere close to their current forms will be not only a death knell for America as we know it but, as well, the political aspirations of many career politicians. Who knows, maybe fending for themselves in the private sector is just the dose of reality they need to become productive citizens as opposed to the condescending, elite royalty of which they currently believe they are the benefactors?

Tax Day Tea Parties including Harrisburg’s
Tax Day April 15th is fast approaching and the fiscally responsible Americans among us are preparing for a peaceful, yet forceful, demonstration of their dissatisfaction with Congress’ partisan and socialist private sector bailout (and socialist takeover), economic stimulus (entitlement spending the likes the U.S. has never seen) and budget legislation (which, in even the most conservative estimates, triples the national debt that existed during the Bush Administration) already passed or currently being proposed, which is encouraged and endorsed by the Obama Administration. The liberally biased mainstream media, who is invested too heavily in the Obama Administration’s success, predominantly refuses to report this rapidly growing capitalist revolution, dismissing its proponents as the lunatic fringe of the conservative movement, despite the significant numbers of concerned Americans that have been flooding the streets for capitalist tea party rallies in a growing number of American cities. President Obama, although he won’t acknowledge it publicly, realizes the challenge to his socialist agenda that this peaceful revolution represents because the premise for it is data-based and grounded in history, in fact, he has gone viral. He has perpetrated an aggressive email video campaign to his “followers” professing the benefits of his endorsed excessive spending and is asking these individuals to knock on doors and influence their neighbors to give his plan a chance.

Despite the mainstream media’s failure to do their job, please see for yourself how pervasive this movement truly is. Here is a link to a site which is keeping track of all the Tax Day Tea Party rallies scheduled to be held across the U.S. on April 15th…
http://www.officialtaxdayteaparty.com/index.html

Calling for an American Capitalist March on Washington
These demonstrations are just encouragement and a spring board, however, for the vigilance that each of us who are concerned about our country’s future must maintain on a daily basis including factually influencing our friends, family, neighbors and congressional leaders to the danger this administration’s fiscal policies pose to the American way of life. The same life that responsible, hard-working, productive Americans have contributed toward and benefitted from for over 230 years. Ours and our children’s livelihood, that for which extremely brave Americans have valiantly fought and many have distinguishably died, is under assault. We cannot permit it to be vanquished by politically-oriented, career-motivated, power-mongering politicians who are sequestered secretly in some smoke-filled room making decisions over a cup of coffee that will impact you, me and ours forever.  

Take charge of a like-minded initiative in your community. My aspiration is that, within the next 60 days, this conservative activism metamorphosizes into an American Capitalist March on Washington, a peaceful, yet persuasive, demonstration large enough to dwarf Obama’s recent 1.5 million person inauguration turnout, such as to bring so much nationwide and worldwide attention that it cannot be ignored or dismissed by anyone. This is the only way to redirect the partisanly liberal Congress’ rubber stamping of every Obama Administration fiscal initiative.

Please join me in this patently American fight worth fighting.

As you know, the Obama Administration has been throwing around alot of huge dollar amounts in their proposals for bailouts and budgets. In line with 50 being the new 40, I guess trillion is the new billion?

Anyway, here’s a link to a site that does a good job at putting this into visual perspective…
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Were you impressed by Rick Santelli’s rant last week at CME Group in Chicago. Well, he’s stirred some things up with his mention of coordinating a Chicago Tea Party in July. This has generated similar enthusiam in many cities across the country, including Harrisburg.

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   1. Are You troubled with the recent actions of our elected officials? 
      1. Are you frustrated by austentatious & gratuitous government pork barrel and socialistic spending masquerading as economic stimulus and jobs legislation?
      2. Are you tired of the never ending litany of government bailouts of private companies who have placed themselves in position of imminent failure due to poor business practices (ie. wasting your hard earned tax dollars on companies who are destined to fail anyway)?
      3. Are you sick of your tax money being controlled and used at discretion by the very same political characters whose complicit behavior, poor decision making ability and/or lack of action led to the failure of the mortgage market which led to the ultimate collapse of the entire real estate structure and all lending markets?
      4. Do you think it is ridiculous that illegal immigrants are being granted opportunities, rights and government funding that is out of reach for U.S. citizens?
      5. Do you believe it is ludicrous that President Obama believes he can convince the job creators in this country to hire us out of the recession then come back in two years and increase their taxes to the 60%+ range including eliminating the interest reduction on their mortgage and increasing capital gains taxes to around 40%?
      6. Is your intelligence offended by the Obama Administration and liberal members of Congress looking down upon you saying that they know what you need better than you know what you need and that we’ll be able to spend our way out of a poor economy despite the fact that it’s never successfully been accomplished before in the history of the world?
      7. Are you exasperated when hearing Obama Administration officials saying that America voted for change therefore they have a mandate to do so in whatever manner they see fit, despite the pesky fact that the popular vote was extremely close at 54% to 46%, far from a referendum?

Then do something about it and here’s a place to start
Be at Harrisburg at noon on Saturday to find out how you can join the grass roots conservative and capitalist revolution to take our country back. Make the statement that you will not permit our great nation to be destroyed by socialist economic policies that have recently left many European countries in shambles, who are now grasping for capitalism to save themselves. OK, here’s the scoop…

Harrisburg Tea Party
Saturday, March 7th, 12:00-1:00PM
Harrisburg State Capital, West Steps (River Side)
Host: PA Commonwealth Foundation http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org
More Info:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=66211464032

See the video, below, and the poll in which you can participate.

Heroes rise out of the ashes of despair and Rick Santelli has become one of mine following his capitalist rant during an MSNBC live interview at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group on Thursday in response to the recently passed and signed into law, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, more commonly known as the Economic Stimulus Bill. In this video he’s speaking the language of every thinking American who maintains a capitalist/ entrepreneurial desire to succeed on their own terms without government intervention. Rick emplores President Obama to empower the private sector to utilize its financial resources and keen insights to purchase and revitalize the currently financially toxic mortgage assets toward stabilizing the economy without utilizing taxpayer dollars. Like he says, the government can’t spend its way out of a recession, however, it can surely buy its way into socialism, which appears to be exactly what the President wants.

If you’re a fan of the underdog, which at this bleak time in our great nation’s financial history, every capitalist, supply-side touting American is, I know you’re going to really enjoy this one… 

Take Less Than 30 Seconds to Voice Your Opinion on the Stimulus Bill Referendum Poll
I’ve taken Rick’s advice, since President Obama hasn’t yet done it, and have created a referendum poll on the President’s stimulus package. Make your voice known by going to the poll.

Liberal Senators aren’t content to enjoy a virtual propaganda monopoly on every media outlet. They want to mandate “fairness” or equal time on talk radio, too, despite the fact that it would be economically unviable for radio stations to do so because it’s been proven that virtually no one listens. Why would they, when they can get their fill of liberalism and socialism on ABC, CBS, NBC, most cable news and prevalently on the Internet.

Listen to the ridiculous arguments that these Senators have in support of the “Fairness Doctrine” and, conversely, the intelligent arguments opposed to the equivalent of government censorship, in this WND article…
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88603

Liberal Democrats and Republicans are at it again with their interest to undermine freedom of speech and the free market by reinstituting a federal mandate to be placed upon media outlets that would dictate their commentary programming despite the economic viability of such programming. “The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that became known as the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be balanced and fair”. Here’s a link to more information on the “Fairness Doctrine”…
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm

This FCC policy which was instituted in 1949 was eliminated early in the Reagan Administration and there have been several attempts by Congress to put it into law, however, it has always met with Presidential veto.

It seems, despite President Obama’s statement during the campaign to not be interested in revisiting this because diversity is something to be encouraged on the airwaves, he has recently been quite vocal about his opinion of talk radio by making statements like “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” His position and proposals presented on the the White House website mirror those of a liberal think tank report published by John Podesta in June, 2007 called “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio”. Now, many in Congress appear to be lining up to pen legistation to this effect, which will certainly get rubber stamp approval by Obama. Here’s the full WND article…
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88113

As we all know, the reality is that the only way there can be any “fairness” in broadcasting today is for freedom of speech to prevail and for the free market to dictate what programmers will air. Liberals have tried many times to create liberal commentary shows like Air America, however, they never last because nobody listens to and/or watches them. Thinking and intuitive people, those who subscribe to the values and beliefs of our founding fathers and know that adhering to this is what made America the great nation it is today, naturally gravitate to conservatism and that’s the reason for the resounding success of conservative talk radio and cable shows. The mainstream media is on longer a news outlet, but is predominantly a commentary and advertising conduit for liberal policies and proposals. Conservative talk radio and television is required so the American people have an opportunity to understand the other side to that which they are bombarded via the mainstream media. If it is gone, there is nothing to fuel and inform those of us who are interested in taking action to counteract the socialist assault which is currently being perpetrated upon our great nation by the mainstream media, the Obama administration and Congress.

This CANNOT happen. Please contact your Congressmen to let them know how you feel about this. You can, also, sign and forward to others, WND’s petition which will be presented to Congress…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=87882