Think of that. [...]]]> Two hundred twenty-two years ago—or, perhaps I should say, “Eleven score and two years ago,” our forefathers signed the most brilliant document ever to have set up a government. Just as Lincoln said four score and seven years later, it was a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Think of that. In all of civilization up until that point, nothing like that had ever been created. Sure, there were other documents that had previously listed limitations of their governments, but none were so wide ranging; none before had balanced the government to prevent tyranny the way the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution.

It’s no wonder, then, that President Obama calls the Constitution “a charter of negative liberties.” (Hat-tip: Ed Morrissey on HotAir.com, who discussed this audio clip very nicely last October.) He sees the Constitution as something that constrains the government, preventing it from doing what he wants it to do.

The Founding Fathers fought, sacrificed everything, and died to remove the very shackles on the American people that the current administration (and many others in and out of government!) wish to reapply.

Today, and every September 17th, let us resolve to celebrate Constitution Day as we ought—with parades and parties and everything else that comes with a holiday—much like Memorial Day and Independence Day. Constitution Day is certainly an important day like those are!

Wouldn’t you agree?

Just as the Lord has blessed us with this “shining city on a hill” of a country, may you have a wonderful Constitution Day.

Evil is evil. And it must be stopped at all cost.

Never forget.

So far this year, it is estimated that nearly $40 billion in Medicare fraud has been committed. Think [...]]]> Have you seen the debt clock lately? While one giant number that is unfathomable to most of us may look benign, just look at all the debt put together at USDebtClock.org, and you’ll be sure to be scared.

So far this year, it is estimated that nearly $40 billion in Medicare fraud has been committed. Think that’s bad? Ever stop and think about how much money in toxic assets there are? Try nearly $645 trillion.

And the $38,000 owed per person is a drop in the bucket when one adds the per capita cost of unfunded liabilities (nearly $192,000) and the per capita private debt (nearly $24,000).

We’re not spending our way out of debt; we’re spending our way into oblivion.

Speaking of presidential elections, the Obama campaign machine is due to continue unabated. (In fact, some don’t see why it should stop after 2012.) [...]]]> Please pardon our silence; things have been rather busy these past few months. And I’m sure we’re not the only ones who have suffered from news fatigue after the two-year-long presidential election.

Speaking of presidential elections, the Obama campaign machine is due to continue unabated. (In fact, some don’t see why it should stop after 2012.) It sounds a lot like HAMAS to me, though.

For me, I’ve also been dealing with the added joy of buying a house and moving, which is sure to keep me busy for a little while longer. But, thanks to the Democrats and other liberals tanking our economy by throwing good money after bad for the past thirty years, I got a great rate on a mortgage!

Incidentally, according to the president (through Robert Gibbs) today, no one is getting any money because the banks aren’t loaning it out. Well, unless I’m nobody, I did get a loan. And so did the family I bought the house from. So, the president is a lying sack.

Anyway, I’m glad to see that every single Republican congressman and even eleven Democrats voted NO on Obama’s stimulus plan today. For once, they have principles and are willing to stick to them.

As for the Republican senators, I doubt that will happen. I’m sure Senator #60 (John McCain) and Senator #61 (Lindsey Graham) will do their part to be “bipartisan” (read: Democrat lapdogs) and vote for it, at the very least.

While at work, Chris and I glanced up at the news on TV and noticed something interesting about what Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was saying at today’s White House press conference on behalf of Obama. He said that Obama wants Republicans not to look at the details of his stimulus giant spending bill but at the “totality” of the bill. Funny, but to me, that means that he doesn’t want us to look closely at the steaming mass that this bill is, teeming with post-election payoffs to industries and organizations that helped Obama get elected, as well as other programs that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy and creating jobs. How does the National Endowment for the Arts create jobs? And correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s not the economy that STD education for children will stimulate.

I get the impression that Obama is trying to be a salesman making a high-pressure pitch for a bad product: “Limited time offer! Act fast! Buy! Buy! Buy!” He wants us to leverage our children’s money for their bad decisions. The Democrat Party—the party that is supposedly on the side of the downtrodden and the little guy, the party that ALWAYS does things “for the children”—is choosing to rob the downtrodden, the little guy, AND our children to pay their fat cat buddies, lobbyists, election fraudsters, crooks, and CEOs. What a party full of Robin Hoods! (Oh, wait a minute….)

Incidentally, did you see Rush’s Obama Stimulus Plan of 2009? It’s actually quite a brilliant idea: simultaneously give both Keynesian and free-market economics a try in a proportion that reflects the popular vote of the presidential election. And that sounds much more bipartisan than anything ever floated by a Democrat, who we all know define “bipartisanship” as “Republicans voting for Democrat proposals”.

America has spoken, and rightly or wrongly, they chose [...]]]> Things have been a bit interesting around here lately. Between computer issues, medical issues, and schedule issues, with a little election burnout thrown into the mix, it’s been somewhat difficult to write anything here. But that’s beside the point of this post, so I won’t belabor it.

America has spoken, and rightly or wrongly, they chose Senator Obama and the Democrats’ policies over the Republicans’.

For months, now-President-Elect Obama and the rest of the Democrats have been railing against the “failed Bush economic policies that have gotten us into this mess.” They have pinned everything that has happened on President Bush and the Republicans, blaming the way they viewed the economy and the government’s role in it. They have stated unceasingly that America ought not let those with the “failed economic policies” to continue to run things.

Today, the Democrat-run Congress takes up the mantle of bailing out the auto industry, just a couple months after “bailing out” the banking industry with $700 billion of our money. I find it funny that while Democrats want to throw out the Republican leadership for what they believe to be Bush’s “failed economic policies”, they would choose time and again to reward the leadership of companies who themselves have failed business models and plans.

How different are these companies to what the Democrats claim to be the problem in Washington? Do Democrats understand even the simplest concepts of economics and business? What about supply and demand? When a business has a bad business plan, it fails. But when a business or industry is big enough and donates enough to Democrats, it becomes “too big to fail”.

In the real world, when a business or even a family fails to manage its money well, it runs into problems and will ultimately fail without drastic reform. If a business is created, but no market exists for what it produces (like Air America!), it fails. If unions and business leadership agree to contracts that are so onerous that over time, the payouts to retirees outpace any other costs including to the current labor force, it will ultimately fail. (Gee, does that make anyone else think about Social “Security”?)

Why should we reward bad business planning on the backs of decent, hardworking Americans who do everything the right way—who have a good business plan, who don’t spend or operate beyond their means, who don’t spend millions on fancy junkets to resorts? Why should we reward bad business planning on the backs of decent, hardworking American families who do everything the right way—who make and keep a budget, who struggle to live within their means, who don’t buy houses or cars that they cannot afford?

There are laws that exist to help companies out of a spiral into total bankruptcy. One of them is Chapter 11 Restructuring. It nullifies contracts and allows companies to restructure into a leaner, slimmer company that can better operate in the market. It’s no different than a family slashing expenses and restructuring its own budget.

Why shouldn’t we require failing companies to go through a restructuring before we throw billions of our own money at them? Should we allow the unions and business leadership that have led the auto industry down a path toward bankruptcy to keep operating with a failing business model? Should we reward failure at the expense of success?

If so, where does it end? Should all successfully operating companies and families start operating in such a way that they will eventually need bailing out, too? Will there be money there for everyone? Because that is precisely what is being taught, here: spend however you want, and the government will bail you out with your neighbor’s money.

There is a finite amount of money out there, and it needs to be put to economically feasible uses—plans that will grow the economy, promote expansion of wealth for everyone, and get this country out of the financial hole in which it finds itself. No country can survive when its government intrudes into a free market and bails out the failures when the economy goes south. Taking our hard-earned money and giving it to utter failures just to prop them up a little longer will only bankrupt all of us.

And where will that lead us in the end?