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My Personal Stimulus Resolution

Posted by Terry Hestilow on Monday, February 16, 2009 3:10:17 AM
   I am an American citizen.  I have loved this nation and served in her defense, participating in two wars in the last thirty-eight years; one against Marxist-Socialist (Communist) agression in the Republic of Vietnam, and one against a hellish Islamic worldwide aggression with duty in Afghanistan.  Over the course of my adult life it has been demonstrated to me that at least half of the people of the United States of America hold that service in contempt and want to destroy the free-enterprise Capitalist system of economic industry wherein the elements of production are transferred from individual ownership and private industry into the hands of the federal government.  Indeed, based upon the recent acts of all branches of the federal government, with the willing participation of our nations largest corporations, we have seen a massive transfer of America's wealth from individual Americans to the federal government as these corporations beg for bail-outs and agree to the nationalization of their industry.  This is nothing less than a full-scale power grab by the Democrat Party and organized labor in the biggest single attack upon modern Capitalism seeking to move the United States of America into a socialist economic paradigm!
   I want to thank US Representative Kay Granger, R-12th Congressional District of Texas, US Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, and US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, for their steadfast resistance to the latest "stimulus" efforts in Congress.  Certainly, with the exceptions of Senators Spector, Collins, and Snowe, the Republican Party has done everything possible to stop this power grab which has absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy of the United States!  Placing federal agents outside of a shopping mall to confiscate the money and resources of customers and businesses cannot stimulate; but only crush economic activity!  The present efforts at economic stimulus by our federal government have the same effect!
  Further, economic stimulus has nothing to do with establishing new federal medical agencies to review care for the elderly and deny them the medical procedures they need!
   Empowerment of labor unions at the expense of other workers has nothing to do with economic stimulus or recovery! 
 
   I realize that I am only one small person in this economic contest of philosophies and wills.  I know that as an individual I alone can have very little impact on the economic decisions that are made by businesses and government; but even still, I know that I have at least some control over that portion of my discretionary spending I yet am allowed to exercise.  It is for that reason that I declare to all who read these presents, and invite all freedom loving Americans to join with me in making the following:

Personal Stimulus Resolution.
 
   Whereas, the Democrat Party, their supporters, and organized labor unions have declared war upon the free-enterprise Capitalist economic system of government in favor of a nationalized Marxist-Socialist model and philosophy of economics; and,
 
   Whereas, many United States businesses have forsaken the principal of private ownership of capital in favor of a "Command" economic model where the government directs economic decisions for the corporation; and,
 
   Whereas, members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate are presently intent upon passing spending legislation that will place a burden of taxation upon generations yet to be born, and have no representation in said houses of government (since those electors now present will have long passed away of natural causes) when these bills come due, and hence, have no personal interest at stake in the impact of the present legislation upon future generations (reference the American Revolution and the arguments against "taxation without representation" in the British Parliament); and,
 
   Whereas, since the legislation enacted is intended to benefit organized labor as a pay-off for political support with the effect of the impoverishment of  non-labor union workers across the nation to drive them into labor unions;
 
   I am resolved, that although I have in the past sought to purchase products made in the United States of America made by workers in the United States, I hereby adopt a new economic philosophy such that I shall, to every extent possible and reasonable, refuse to purchase goods and services from corporations that have sought "stimulus" support from the federal government of the United States of America; and I am further resolved that I will, to every extent possible and reasonable, refuse to purchase goods and services provided by members of organized labor in the United States of America!  I am also specifically resolved that I shall refuse to purchase any automobile from any of the three major auto makers of the United States of America (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) to ensure that none of my purchasing power and benefit is directed to one of these nationalized corporations, or corporations that sought nationalization, or that produces goods principally produced with organized labor.
 
   Finally, I invite every patriot to join with me in this resolution so that true economic recovery may take place where free markets and not government mandate steers economic activity.  Congress, the Courts, and the White House have refused to hear our voices (including the White House under President George W. Bush) calling for government to stop manipulating markets.  Only you and I, through the spending discipline called for in this resolution, can force the federal government to stop preventing and destroying the economic recovery that would take place naturally if the free-enterprise Capitalist system was allowed to operate.  I call on each one of you to join me today in your own resolution.  If we, the other half of America, stand strong in one accord, we can yet avoid the economic disaster that the Democrat Party and organized labor is forcing upon our nation, our children, and our grandchildren.  Together we stop them at the markets; or we lose everything this nation's greatness was built upon!
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Open Letter to Congress!

Posted by Terry Hestilow on Friday, February 06, 2009 6:01:55 PM
The following is an open letter to the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.  While the author has sent this letter to Representative Kay Granger, (R), 12th Congressional District, Senator John Cornyn, (R), Texas, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R), Texas, you are encouraged to copy this letter, or write one yourself, to your House and Senate representatives.

History has demonstrated that each and every time efforts to "stimulate" the economy through the confiscation of the private resources, personal wealth and the productive capacity of the people has been tried, it has resulted in utter failure.  Uniformly, this failure has resulted in driving the national economy to greater depths of pain and difficulty over longer periods of time.  Hold your representatives accountable for their votes on this issue, be they Democrat or Republican.  It is time for patriots to once again stand and defend the nation; you and me!  May we ever reject the poverty of Marxist Socialism!

The "Open Letter to Congress" follows:

To those men and women entrusted with the great honor and responsibility of representing the people of the United States of America,

 

Greetings,

 

It is with the greatest abundance of grief and foreboding of impending danger to the survival of our nation that I write to you today.  At this very moment, as the lives and hopes of American citizens are being irrevocably damaged by the actions of our new and misguided government, the opportunities of entrepreneurs, and the workers they depend upon to deliver their goods and services to market, are being destroyed by partisans bent on the destruction of capitalism and the advance of the parasitic political philosophy of socialism in America championed by the Democrat Party!

 

I implore you to refuse to hear the demands of the tyrannical left!  As one who, after decades of military service, with active duty in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and one who is personally suffering today from long-term unemployment due to the parasitic philosophy of government in Washington this day, stop taking the resources of American productivity away from those in private industry and enterprise!  Instead, if you truly desire to stimulate the economy, cut taxes and government spending to only those levels absolutely required for civil government and national defense!  Stop the attack upon American businesses and cease to choke the engine of economic development through the confiscatory doctrine of the federal treasury by the Democrat Party!  Indeed, the objectives of the Democrat Party seek not only to confiscate the property, wealth and productive capacity of the current citizens of this nation; but, if they are successful, they will likewise reach far into the pockets of Americans yet to be born to support their efforts to rob the nation of its treasury!

 

In the days leading up to the American Revolution the colonists objected to the concept of “taxation without representation.”  Colonists recognized that the reality of their circumstance prohibited them from having a legitimate voice in the affairs of government through the English Parliament.

 

Instead, the Crown and Parliament argued that the colonies benefited from a virtual representation by members of Parliament who exercised a benevolent governance toward them.  The colonists rejected such representation, as well they should.  After all, what honest American could suggest that “property-owning adult males…virtually represented non-voting women, slaves and men without property” [http://u-s-history.com/pages/h640.html]?

 

Certainly you cannot presuppose that you are the virtual representatives of the best interest of generations of Americans yet to be born [at least those who are not destroyed through abortion]!  Yet in the legislation before you, you are appropriating the very productive capacity of these citizens before they have even been conceived!  How utterly shameful if you agree to this!
 
Answering arguments against the colonist’s objections to unrepresented taxation, an anonymous writer of 1775 wrote:
 
But an American can have no possible influence in the choice of an English senator; and an English senator, when he taxes an American, cannot tax himself also, because he has no property in America to be taxed: yet self-taxation is the sole pledge of the taxer, for security of the taxed. He, who does not tax himself, taxes others without feeling: he may, therefore, tax without propriety, and without measure; may take, not only a fifth, or a fourth, but the half, or even the whole of property; and make the wealthy subject an impoverished slave. The wisest forms of government, adverting to the imperfection of human nature, have, as much as possible, avoided leaving one man at the mercy of another; they have ever contrived some rational restraint on action, some bond of reciprocal safety.
 
You allow, that “the colonists inherit all the privileges of Englishmen, all the privileges that their ancestors had.” They then inherit the grand privilege of Englishmen, free government; but this privilege they do not enjoy, if they are taxed without being represented. It is an axiom which cannot be too forcibly impressed on the mind “Government cannot be free, where property is taken not given.”
 
Sandoz, Ellid, Ed., “A Constitutional Answer To Wesley’s Calm Address, by Anonymous (1775)” Volume: Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1, [ISBN: 0-86597-181-1 (Pages 425-435), Edit Year: 1998]; ConSource.org.
 
The hounds of the U.S. Treasury, the I.R.S., may soon, I expect, be searching through all of my personal history to try and discover some means of punishing me for speaking out on this subject.  So be it!  I have defended the United States of America over more than three decades against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.  If they try to silence men and women who cry out against the destruction of the economic and moral foundations upon which this nation was founded, and you, our elected representatives stand by supporting it, the shame and guilt will be yours!
 
Defeat this confiscatory bill being presented falsely as a “stimulus”!  Instead, allow Americans to keep what they earn and produce, only requiring the support of those functions of government that are essential for sound civil government and national defense.
 
Represent us with integrity and honor; not the greed of a socialist government!
 

This “open letter to Congress” may be found on the web at:  http://Combatsoldier.blogtownhall.com.
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