More on S815 "Gay Bill of Rights"

S815 is so far of the beaten path that it mocks logic. Under the Constitution ("freedom" etc) the gays already have the right to do to do as they please (as are all of us), BUT none of us has dominance over another. And this is the claim of all socialists, so in the vein of the expressed gay desire, there is nothing new needed for them to proceed as they please. So why write and push S815?

On Obama Obamacare and Prohibition:

The title item may seem incongruous.

Prohibition came to being via the WCTU. Alcoholism might be just a disease of society, but it aroused the ire of the gentler folks a century ago.

Like present day obamacare, it was politically aimed at solving a perceived problem, was log-rolled into a national llaw, and allowed to languish even with grave unintended consequences (much crime, many deaths and high law enforcement costs).

It's ah harbinger for obamacare's fate.  

"There are none so blind as those that WILL NOT see."
Matthew Henry (1662-1714)  English Presbyterian minister and writer 

Ange

Dear Folks:

   Once in a while, a newspaper creates a common-sense article.

  It is to be cherished because such are so rare.

This one recently came from the Columbus (OH) Dispatch about federal binge spending and how our Governor( Kasich): has stemmed that tide in Ohio:

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   The U.S. government has developed a harmful addiction to spending, something Gov. John Kasich wants to address by passing a federal balanced-budget amendment through a convention of the states.
The first step toward conquering a problem is recognizing that one has a problem; that requires a break from business as usual, something at which Kasich is expert.

   While serving in Congress in the 1990s, Kasich chaired the House Budget Committee and, along with Republican congressional leaders at the time, urged President Bill Clinton to endorse a balanced budget. Before that, Kasich was a fiscal hawk during his time in the Ohio Senate.

   Ohio last year became the 23rd state to call for a constitutional convention to initiate a federal balanced-budget amendment. Getting the 34 states necessary to call such a convention likely will be an uphill battle. Republicans, who represent most of the backers of an amendment, have made significant gains in state governments around the country, but still face formidable obstacles. Even if a convention were called, 38 states would be required for ratification.
Ohio and most other states are legally obligated to balance their budgets each year. That doesn’t guarantee good fiscal management — Kasich’s predecessor as governor, Ted Strickland, for example, used one-time federal stimulus money to paper over a gaping budget hole — but it helps. Kasich makes a sound case that Washington also should be compelled to live within its means to avoid unpleasant consequences.

   The federal debt recently soared past $18 trillion. President Barack Obama has been in a league of his own in loading up debt, but George W. Bush before him also set the bar high. And Congress has abdicated its responsibility in this regard, with most politicians preferring to kick the can down the road for future generations.

   Obama recently has been touting a reduction in the deficit, which is the gap between how much the U.S. takes in and how much it spends. While that is true, it is only a small decrease from a postwar high; meanwhile, the debt has continued to soar, and the amount the U.S. owes in interest represents a potential ticking time bomb.

   As explained in the Washington Times early this year by J.T. Young, a former staffer in the Treasury Department and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, record-low interest rates “obscure the looming threat to Washington’s budget and America’s economy” of the enormous cost of servicing the debt. If interest rates were to rise to the 40-year average of 2.2 percent, that would mean federal debt service costs would equal 4.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, nearly double the 40-year average.
 
   That translates to $694 billion. In case one has a hard time grasping the enormity of that figure, it falls between the annual cost of Medicare and Social Security, the two largest federal entitlement programs.

   A balanced-budget amendment wouldn’t be a silver bullet, but would provide a necessary incentive for the nation’s leaders to make tough choices rather than politically expedient ones.
Kasich has the track record and the understanding to give the balanced-budget amendment a boost. He is to be commended for taking on the challenge.

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.                                        TO THAT I SAY "AMEN!"

  It's interesting to note that Obama  has this country in economic "Irons" (an old sailing term meaning there is no wind available to move you boat or that you are unhandy with its sails). The Treasury now dares not raise interest rates because that would make "servicing" (paying off) the national debt impractical to impossible because of the resulting VERY high interest costs that will bankrupt out treasury.

  NOT raising interest rates means instead that new printing of money (Quantitative Easing) is constantly required. (ALL dollars then buy less and less.) Therefore, everybody except the federal politicians looses.

  The only way we can come out of this debt and economic crisis is to cut back on Federal Spending for unnecessary and costly programs.

   OUR Congressmen, all 535 of them are the BANDITS here because they hold the purse strings, THEY they all get to vote on every spending program, but they don't want to cut back (PORK mentality). Give your congressmen HOLY HELL about this, and again, and again. Make YOUR voices heard, just like John Kasich has done!!!!!!!!!

.                       Ange