There is a bipartisan coalition bent on passing many amnesty bills for illegal immigrants prior to Congress adjourning for the year. Not one uses the term "amnesty", yet they all in one form or another provide just that. Although there is nothing new in our politicians using deceptive terminology, such as the "Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act" (H.R. 2899 and S. 1461), which would effectively grant amnesty to millions, it is not what I would call honorable. Contact your Congress Critters and tell them you are adamantly opposed to anything that grants amnesty no matter what terminology is used

Another egregious piece of legislation which thankfully failed to pass the Senate, no thanks to the two Senators from Florida, is the "Climate Stewardship Act of 2003" (S. 139). Introduced by Senator Lieberman and cosponsored by at least 8 others including John McCain, this bill would have mandated reductions in so-called greenhouse gases to supposedly combat a non-existent problem called "Global Warming". Mandating reductions in these gases would effectively change our standard of living back to 1950's levels via reducing power generation because of a worst-case computer model with flawed data. The real agenda is, once again, political control. A man once told me the best way to control poor people is to keep them poor. I submit that making them poor is also in the playbook. Notice the shrinking middle class?

Surprise! An actual Americanist bill! Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced H.R. 3228, a bill to withdraw Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) from the Peoples Republic of China in order to stop some of the massive transfer of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to China. While I support true free trade (which is a voluntary exchange between two parties free of government intervention) I fully support this legislation. I cannot see how our government, using our tax dollars to subsidize moving our manufacturing jobs to China is "Free Trade". I also fail to see how our government using our tax dollars through the auspices of the Export-Import Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and various and sundry other vehicles to guarantee loans to many countries including China will promote true free trade. It is nothing more than a way to commit economic suicide. Add to all of this the Draconian regulations our businesses have to comply with and there is no wonder we have an "economic downturn". To top it all off, our inflationary fiat monetary system (see the Federalist #44 and The Creature From Jekyll Island) has just about run its' course and is about to come crashing down on top of us.

All of this serves to illustrate a very important point we seem to have forgotten. Put your faith in God and keep a tight rein on politicians.

I believe two quotes are appropriate here: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution" Thomas Jefferson.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

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Pat Baska 

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