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WAKE UP CALL: TEXAS GOV. BACK RESOLUTION AFFIRMING SOVEREIGNTY
Tue Apr 14 2009 08:44:54 ET

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

Developing…

Secession is good in that it allows states to compete with each other. America needs intra-state competition to become strong enough to once again compete sucessfully in the world. I think every state should become independent of the federal government. It would probably be advantageous for the states to pay for a common airforce and navy.

The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’
You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’

But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.

Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say
Can’t you feel the fears I’m feelin’ today?
If the button is pushed, there’s no runnin’ away
There’ll be no one to save, with the world in a grave
[Take a look around ya boy, it’s bound to scare ya boy]

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.

Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’
I’m sitting here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.
Handful of senators don’t pass legislation
And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
You may leave here for 4 days in space
But when you return, it’s the same old place
The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace
And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don’t believe
We’re on the eve
Of destruction
Mm, no no, you don’t believe
We’re on the eve
of destruction.

This is not free trade, it is tariff free trade

Asian governments decided to adjust the air-fuel mixture of the worlds’ great economic machinery to produce more manufacturing jobs for themselves. As America lost jobs, we stimulated our economy to try to create jobs. Bush tweaked another knob trying to get things working again. Obama is tweaking yet another knob.

The first knob tweaked was reduction of tariffs, a.k.a. free trade.

The second knob tweaked was the rate of exchange of the Yuan to the dollar as Asian governments tried to stimulate Asian production by pegging the Yuan to the dollar.

The third knob tweaked was by the Asian governments that tried to keep the exchange rate low by buying American real property and T bills.

The forth knob tweaked was tax reductions and deficit spending by the American government as a stimulus to create jobs lost by free trade.

The fifth knob tweaked was the interest rate in an effort to stimulate the slowing economy.

The sixth knob tweaked was to stimulate the economy by making it possible for everyone to buy their own home.

The seventh knob tweaked was to stimulate bank lending by giving banks money to make loans so people can buy homes and companies can produce.

This financial Armageddon has seven broken seals.

From down under:

“Everything we were force-fed about the benefits of free trade, by governments from Hawke and Keating on, was garbage,” he charged.

“All it has done is send the world—including China—bankrupt, so now each nation’s government must take the necessary measures to get their economies producing for their people’s needs.

“We must learn from history: in World War II John Curtin and Ben Chifley transformed our economy in a few years from a grazing/mining backwater into a modern manufacturing powerhouse.

“As Trade Minister from 1949-1970, the great Country Party leader John ‘Black Jack’ McEwen consolidated that transformation through comprehensive protectionist measures.

“Since then, the wankademic economists and political leaders babbled from the same script about ‘inefficient industries’ and ‘consumer costs’ to justify slashing tariffs, and look where it’s got us—an unpayable $1 trillion foreign debt, a household debt to annual income ratio of 175 per cent—one of the highest in the world, a dangerous vulnerability in our dependence upon China to buy our resources and manufacture our consumer goods (neither of which it is reliable for anymore), and an economic breakdown crisis worse than the 1930s Depression. “

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00005.htm

Letter published the The Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming’s article, “Protectionism Doesn’t Pay” (op-ed, Feb. 20), is concerned about the possible rise of protectionism in the current world recession. Well he might be concerned. China has enormous trade surpluses, especially with the U.S. If American trade gurus attended to American interests, those surpluses would disappear. The U.S. needs an across-the-board tariff sufficient to bring U.S. trade into balance.

The 1930 U.S. Smoot-Hawley tariff is a false analogy. The U.S. ran trade surpluses throughout the 1920s and ’30s. In comparison, the U.S. has not had a trade surplus since 1975. Its trade deficit is now about $700 billion per year. The cumulative deficit is over $7 trillion.

Mr. Chen’s real concern is to protect China’s enormous trade surplus with the U.S., $256 billion in 2007. China manages the value of the yuan at about 20% below its real value compared to the dollar. This is equivalent to a 20% subsidy on China’s exports, and a 20% tariff on its imports. Please, Mr. Chen, peddle your crocodile tears about protectionism and Smoot-Hawley elsewhere.

Lawrence Briskin
Centerville, Ohio

“It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude.” ( Aldous Huxley in a 1962 speech at Berkeley)

By Gaither Stewart

(Rome) It’s undeniable that the American social model is a paradox in the world. All you have to do is look around at other nations and the difference is clear as the Rome sky in July. Even though today at the nadir of its profound social crisis because of its flagrant, outright failure, America continues unabashedly to hammer away at its people how fortunate they are, while simultaneously proposing itself to the world as the paradigm, the quintessence, the very epitome of western civilization. But is history not carrying America into a faded American Dream?

Ah, the American Dream! To the degree the model appears to the rest of the world as honeycombed and as full of holes as Swiss cheese, the more America’s ideological operation morphs into a contest between good (the US model) and evil (the rest).

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