Republican Ideas

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We are Taxed Enough Already!

What about the LSU baseball team? Another national championship! On the road to Omaha they were not ‘perfect’ – our own UL  beat them; yet LSU was successful! Why? They had a ‘goal’; they had a great leader; they were ‘united’ in their effort. Each player had a specific talent to contribute. Yet, it was more than these things. They CARED! Our founding fathers CARED when they hammered out the Constitution of the United States. Men and women who have died in the cause of freedom CARED. Our parents and grandparents won WWII because they CARED. They were united and had a common goal.

You may ask, “Who is this guy?” Actually, I’m just a ‘regular’ guy. I am a ‘concerned’ citizen of the greatest nation on earth – the United States of America! I have been a ‘silent’ citizen. Today, I am angry at the ‘gang of thieves’ who are stealing my country!! Are YOU angry???

My mother, a member of the ‘Daughters of the American Revolution’, and father taught me that hard work, education, morality, worship of the Lord, and ‘truth’ were worthy ideals. The Bible teaches:  “Raise up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not forget”.

We are here today because we have been silent! Our government is ‘supposed’ to answer to us. By our ‘ignorance and apathy’, we have allowed our government to get out of control. Do YOU like that?

Our parent organization, the ‘Boston Tea Party’, was established on December 16, 1773. A group of 60 colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and threw over 300 chests of tea into the harbor.  This defiance spurred a revolution. NOW, the REST OF THE STORY! The East India Company’s stock had been falling on the London Stock Exchange – ‘They were too big to fail’!  Parliament passed the ‘Tea Act’, which gave the East India Company exclusive rights on selling tea to the colonies! DO I HEAR “Bail-out”??? Then, as now, the Revolution occurred first in the ‘hearts and minds’ of men. Their revolution escalated into ‘full-fledged’ war. Today, war is not an option. Today we need to ‘take back’ our country by knowledge, hard work, unity, caring, and, most importantly, NOT sending back to Congress those who have betrayed our TRUST. I know it is difficult to keep up with what is happening in our government when you are working to make a living, paying taxes, raising a family, and trying to make ends meet. I am guilty of not paying attention. I depended on elected officials to ‘take care of business’. Unfortunately, they do not know what they are doing OR they do not care.

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president, said, “I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of CARING for them, they will be happy.”

We have entrusted our hard-earned money to Congress. Why? These people cannot even handle their own bank accounts! Remember the “House Banking Scandal”? The House had their own bank. These folks ‘bounced’ 8,331 checks. The bank closed and reopened. They ‘bounced’ another 4,325 checks. They must have thought it was your money instead of theirs!

These same people, who cannot keep track of their own bank accounts, have raised our national debt at an almost ‘exponential’ rate – in the TRILLIONS! How much is a ‘trillion’? In ‘seconds’ – about 10 days is a ‘million’ seconds; about 31 years is a ‘billion’ seconds; and about 31,000 years is a ‘Trillion’ SECONDS! STAGGERING! The interest on this money alone is impossible to pay unless they PRINT and CREATE more money! That’s called “INFLATION”! Remember the campaign pledge, “No new taxes on those making $250,000 dollars or less”? Consider this: Inflation pure and simple is an increase in money supply. Inflation is the most unfair tax of all! It erodes your savings. The only ‘entity’ that can cause inflation is the government.

The folks behind this understand that CAPITALISM can be DESTROYED by inflation. That leads to ‘socialism’, and, in turn, to TYRANNY and then ‘One World Government’! DO WE WANT THAT??? Congress has played a “Ponzi” scheme on us. What is a ‘Ponzi scheme’? It’s when you pay off early investors with later investors’ money. Pretty soon you run out of money to pay to the later investors. These guys are GOOD at PONZI schemes – look at Social Security and Medicare. I don’t want my grandchildren to one day say: “Why did Paw Paw let ‘them’ spend all of our money?” Bernie Madoff was convicted of ‘pulling off’ the greatest Ponzi scheme ever – approximately 50 billion dollars. He has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. This guy is an ‘amateur’ – our Congressmen are ‘professionals’! I guess only ‘amateurs’ go to prison.

Excessive national debt is inversely related to our National Security. The higher the debt, the less our National Security. DO YOU WANT THAT? Our government is increasing taxes on U.S. corporations and passing crippling regulations. I read the other day that China is decreasing taxes, decreasing regulations and increasing tariffs. Tell me WHY a Communist country is better at business than a capitalist country?

Excessive debt is a killer! Let’s apply excessive debt to our own households. If you spend more than you take in, sooner or later you are in trouble. The same thing applies to nations.

There are SEVEN DEADLY SINS recorded in the Catholic Annals. They are:

  1. Pride
  2. Envy     
  3. Wrath
  4. Sloth  (Laziness)
  5. Greed
  6. Gluttony
  7. Lust
I applied these SINS to the conduct of our leaders:
  1. PRIDE: I need an airplane. I am Speaker of the House, and third in line for the Presidency. In fact, I need a BIG plane so I don’t have to stop and refuel on my way home.
  2. ENVY: Last week a Congressman was asked where Congress was going to get the money to pay for the Health Care Bill. His response was, “From the military budget because we don’t have enemies anymore!” Obviously he is ‘jealous’ of the military budget.
  3. WRATH:  “JOE the PLUMBER” and his IRS investigation;  he dared ‘question’ the ‘powers that be’. We have a Senator who ‘chastised’ a military General on national T.V. because he referred to her as “M’am” and not ‘Senator’. She said that she had ‘worked hard’ for that title and she wanted it used! Like that General didn’t work hard for HIS position? Then there are the ‘rabid’ attacks on Sarah Palin for daring to speak out on ‘traditional family values’!
  4. SLOTH or Laziness: Congress had to ‘hurry up’ and pass a questionable ‘stimulus’ package. They were too lazy to read it! Recently the House passed the ‘Cap and Trade’ bill – again, without reading it!
  5. GREED: They are plunging us into an enormous national debt for future generations to pay  – ‘Instant gratification’. Some of this money will be ‘Pork Packages’ that are used to get them re-elected. Some will go to companies that don’t need it. Some will go to companies that are destined to be bankrupt anyway.
  6. GLUTTONY: How many of these people have gotten into trouble with their ‘excessive’ drinking? They like  being ‘wined and dined’ by the lobbyists trying to ‘buy’ their votes.
  7. LUST: Do you have enough ‘fingers and toes’ to count those who have been involved in SEX scandals?
JUST A FEW OTHER THINGS THESE GUYS HAVE DONE:

 NOW – What can we do and where do we start?

  1. Register to vote and VOTE! If you don’t vote, don’t complain  – I won’t listen!
    Vote for the person that best represents your values.
  2. Educate yourself. Critically read and evaluate media stories. Be sure the source is giving the ‘news’ instead of an ‘opinion’. The mainstream media often times ‘slant’ their stories to ‘protect’ the government. We must ‘network’ at the grassroots level.
  3. Call, write or e-mail your Congressmen on important issues. Hand-written letters are especially effective! Make your voices heard! Contacting them does make a difference – don’t let anyone tell you that it doesn’t!!!
  4. Follow-up on these guys and see how they are voting.
  5. Join a patriotic organization and become an ACTIVE member.
  6. Find out what is being taught to your children at school. Look at their textbooks  - You may find some surprises!
  7. Moral values are learned at home, not at school. Remember, “Raise up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he won’t forget”.
  8. Make the SILENT majority a VOCAL majority!! I am NOT a ‘Right-wing Radical’, a Politician, or an Organizer. What I AM, is ‘a Patriotic American’ who loves his country!

I have this to say to politicians: “I really don’t care if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ or an ‘I’ behind your name. What I do CARE about is your CHARACTER, your MORALS, your COMMON SENSE, and YOU doing the RIGHT thing for OUR country!

Ladies and Gentlemen: We are in the bottom of the 9th inning; bases are loaded; there are 2 ‘out’; and we are behind 3 – 0. I expect YOU to ‘step up to the plate’ and ‘HIT A HOME RUN’! Warren Morris did – for LSU in 1996 and it resulted in a National Championship for the Tigers!!! This was Morris’ ONLY homerun of the season – the announcers said: “He stepped into history at that moment” and that it “was a shot heard ‘round the Bayou”.

Fellow citizens, WE need to ‘step into history’ with a ‘noise’ that will be heard “round the nation”, just as our forefathers did and just as those LSU Tigers did!!! Thank you!

Ray C. Boyer, M.D.
Speech given at July 4th Acadiana T.E.A. Party