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“The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit …..”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Jared Polis:
How long will it be until you make some sort of response to the illegal behavior of the Obama administration? How long until you speak out on the corruption, to say nothing of the outright intimidation of this regime? Your website is a mishmash of leftist propaganda, designed to promote your image as a family-friendly education reformer. Although nothing could be further from the truth, the fact that you don’t address the difficult underlying issues (debt, burdensome taxation, regulation, stultifying conformity in education, academia, the bar, etc. etc. etc.) that your constituents and all Americans expect, doom you even further to a position of mediocre influence. When will you confront the serious issues? The ‘Issues’ – ‘Economy’ tab on your website, for just one politically correct instance, is still without any reference to the Community Reinvestment Act, nor the graft and corruption at the major government mortgage investment entities which many Americans believe is really behind this Obama Depression. Excepting your benighted supporters, naturally, do you really think Americans like or respect your party’s class warfare strategy?
Now, concerning ‘Obamacare’. Is neither federal judge Roger Vinson’s summary judgment ruling it unconstitutional, nor lawsuits from a majority of states, enough to make you reconsider your stand on this issue? Americans are sick and tired, not only of the graft and corruption so obvious among your colleagues, but of the sheer waste of their money in bogus schemes supposedly benefitting the poor. Stop buying American’s votes! That is a corrupt practice, as was the way this redistributive nightmare was passed through your corrupt institution. One can only imagine the caterwauling we would hear from the left, should a conservative or even a Republican president dare to defy a federal judge’s ruling. Except for a few cases, the summary judgment would be enough to halt this freedom-killing bill; indeed, it is your responsibility to bring what pressure you can on the president to reverse this, and other, very poorly thought out policies.
Which brings us to Libya, and my need to reiterate what epic complaining the left would be doing, were a conservative or even Republican president to have involved us in a war, not only without UN consultation, but without Congressional approval as well! If you are not front and center on this issue, then you are seriously derelict in your duties to hold the executive branch responsible for their criminal behavior in this matter. Again, the left’s hypocrisy is on bold display, as your party complained incessantly about President George W. Bush’s attempt to destroy organized Islamic radical terrorism. Is everything politics to you, Congressman?
And what is the reason for your silence on all these matters, Congressman? Is the president’s stance on the homosexual agenda, a fringe issue for most Americans, really enough to buy your silence and complacency? Now might be a good time for leadership.
The Republicans, rightly, will not accept any new tax increases. You in Washington have squandered not only our economic birthright, but the public’s trust as well. By every measurable poll Congress is detested, again rightly, by a large, and increasing, percentage of Americans. Apparently government schools and their accompanying propaganda have as yet been unable to completely brainwash our children into believing the class warfare your party espouses, although efforts continue apace.
Your continued inattention to the grave problems confronted by 21st century America, your inability to face the failure of your Kenseyian stimulus , your inaccessibility to your constituents, the condescension you countenance among your political brethren, to say nothing of your congressional staff, all add up to one thing: EPIC FAIL for the Colorado 2nd Congressional District. You have done nothing to improve the situation in your tenure; indeed, you and your party’s divisive strategy have exacerbated the problems we Americans face. You should consider resigning.

“We don’t intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.”"
– President Ronald Reagan

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
President Ronald Reagan

Hello again my friends:

These days it’s often all the fashion in elitist Washington circles to discuss the proper scope of the federal government and how it affects the everyman. This is a natural result of the pushback from the unprecedented and unholy usurpation of rights by the leftist cabal in DC, a group spanning not only both major political parties and all three branches of the federal government, but a de facto fourth and fifth branches, that is, the permanent bureaucracy and the media. This witches brew seems a bureaucratic nightmare immune to reform.

Yesterday, employing his best William Jennings Bryan ‘don’t crucify the poor with your cross of budget cuts’ shtick, the president, in a speech to some of his more fashionable zombies, was right back on his class-warfare rhetoric. Really, can anyone think of a more divisive and partisan lip-wrangling? The president’s sickening pandering to the poor aside, none of whom were present when he delivered his speech yesterday at Sony Studios, Hell-A, Kaleefornia, it is just more of the same workingman-vs-the rich rhetoric that these frauds are infamous for. And, similarly, like the Jacobins they so ominously resemble, and in the way of all radicals and ideologues, they will give way to something even worse.

Speaking to 2500 ‘supporters’ in Los Angeles yesterday, here’s what he had to say: “Because of you, we did what folks have talked about for 100 years. We said healthcare should no longer be a privilege in this country. It should be affordable and available to every single American. We said in America, you shouldn’t go broke because you got sick.”

Ok Mr. President, but if healthcare is a right for every American (and illegal alien also, apparently) then shouldn’t ACCESS TO THE LEGAL SYSTEM be a right also? Why is it that rich people like OJ Simpson and Barry Bonds, Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff have access to the best lawyers money can buy, and can in many cases BUY the justice they need, while the rest of us have to practically go broke in order to have an attorney represent us, often for the simplest matters, or simply to defend oneself, in court?

My solution? Let’s governmentize the legal profession! If it’s good enough for health care workers, good enough for airport screeners, good enough for teachers, good enough for truck drivers and food workers and millers and laborers, if it is good enough for bureaucrats and administrators of every imaginable stripe, surely it is good enough for lawyers also. What do you think? Like to visit the local DMV? Fine experience for ya? Get ready, it will soon be that way when you visit your doctor as well. Simple fairness dictates that lawyers get the same treatment.

Need a will? No problem, a government-appointed attorney will meet with you to draw one up. Too many parking tickets? Esquire Vincent Voracious from the firm of Rapem, Robem and Howe will meet you in court to take care of it. Oh, and also, let’s just throw in a provision that the salaries permitted will be regulated by some entity like the Public Utilities Commission, and members of the bar must justify rate increases similar to public utilities and other natural monopolies. If I were King, attorneys get paid $50/hr, period. Why should lawyers be able to charge whatever they want when doctors and all other health care professionals are to be told what they will be paid by big uncle?

I know what you’re thinking, the obvious conclusion that every thinking adult has come to realize: that it will never happen because so many of our lawmakers are themselves attorneys, and in that you’d be only too correct. What is the answer when those we elected to serve, instead exploit us?

My goodness I was completely blown away by the following email I received, especially the many prescient quotes at the end. Can anyone doubt JFK’s words, again true? Many thanks to a good friend for the following:

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable
Man who started learning very early
In life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his
Cousins tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and
French.

At 14, studied classical literature
And additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of
William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years
Starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia
House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated
“Summary View of the Rights of
British America” and retired from
His law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the
Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of
Independence.

At 33, took three years to revise
Virginia ‘s legal code and wrote a
Public Education bill and a statute
For Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second
Governor of Virginia succeeding
Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two
Years.

At 41, was the American minister to
France and negotiated commercial
Treaties with European nations
Along with Ben Franklin and John
Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary
Of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and
Was elected president of the
American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky
Resolutions and became the active
Head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third
President of the United States .

At 60, obtained the Louisiana
Purchase doubling the nation’s
Size.

At 61, was elected to a second term
As President.

At 65, retired to Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe
Shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly
Created the University of
Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary
Of the Signing of the Declaration of
Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself
Studied the previous failed attempts at
Government. He understood actual history,
The nature of God, his laws and the nature
Of man. That happens to be waaay more
Than what most understand today. Jefferson
Really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to
Lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the
White House for a group of the brightest
Minds in the nation at that time. He made
This statement: “This is perhaps the
Assembly of the most intelligence ever to
Gather at one time in the White House with
The exception of when Thomas Jefferson
Dined alone.”

When we get piled upon one another in
Large cities, as in Europe, we shall become
As corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when
You take away from those who are
Willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay
Its own debts as it goes. A principle which
If acted on would save one-half the wars of
The world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if
They can prevent the government from
Wasting the labors of the people under the
Pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that
Most bad government results from too
Much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the
Use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to
Retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as
A last resort, to protect themselves against
Tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
Time to time with the blood of patriots and
Tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his
Taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are
more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. If the American people
ever allow private banks to control the issue
of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that
will grow up around the banks will deprive
the people of all property – until their
children wake-up homeless on the
continent their fathers conquered.

And even as Jefferson predicted, our children today face the diminishment of liberty, for the very reasons he warned us against: rapacious government, an entitlement mentality encouraged and abetted by corrupt politicians, an ever-increasing state weighing the souls of our inhabitants who want to breathe free.

I noticed a marked decrease in turnout at the various Tea Party rallies last weekend. The ruling elite may take that as a sign that the movement for smaller government has crested. They do so as their peril. Americans have never been more energized, having finally awoken from the collectivist spell the democrats managed to work in 2008. Don’t think that will happen again.

“Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now”
-John F. Kennedy

April 6 2005 – the day my dear friend Joe Iten died. Although we had lost touch as many friends do, his life, tragic disablement and death still affect me very much. In the nature of these things I began to reminisce about Joe.

I remember when we became fast friends, 2nd grade at St. Patrick’s school, my very first good friend since moving to Denver the previous summer. Sister Lawrence Marie would pick Joe and I to take out the trash from the milk we used to drink ($.04 per carton) at midmorning, so we would pal around and take the long way back to class. He was funny and would always pull some kind of prank like opening the door to the fire extinguisher or scuffing his shoes loudly on the floor. The nuns scared the hell out of me so this was heady and dangerous stuff! We used to have to sell that ‘World’s Finest’ candy, remember that? I lugged that stuff around a lot of north Denver neighborhoods. Fifty cents a bar, right? Anyway Joe would always win the class contest to sell the most candy due to his many friends and relatives, because he was so handsome and popular, very good athlete, all the things I was not! (I know, this is starting to sound like the plot from the novel ‘A Separate Peace’ – if you haven’t read, pick it up!)

Joe and I played (I won’t say ‘competed’ because I wasn’t in his league) in football,basketball,baseball; he was always down to play any sport because he excelled in them all, especially baseball. We used to go throw frisbees and baseballs at Zuni Park near our houses. We used to walk all over, in the neighborhood, to dances and basketball games at Holy Family; I was always either at his house or he at mine. I’m not even going to mention some of the other stuff he and I pulled. As a catcher he had a great arm, was a powerful and quick hitter and just generally impressive ballplayer. Injuries cut short more than one season for him, unfortunately.

Joe’s parents were also like family to me. When his grandparents visited (Joe Sr.’s parents) they would always give me money, $5 or so, refuse to let me refuse it. Joe’s dad liked me very much and I respected and feared him very much. His mother Mary Ellen was equally wonderful to me and I miss his whole family.

Joe’s good looks and wonderful, charming personality made him a very special man who is still missed greatly. I invite you my friends who knew Joe to remember him in April, the month of his birth and death. Thanks!