More Spending Less Liberties…
More things to get angry about, as if you are not angry enough already. Cloward-Piven anyone?
First this Omnibus bill…
The Omnibus Bill: Bad Government At Its Worst
Townhall.com Guest blog post from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah)
During a time that our deficit is growing at an unprecedented rate and our economy is suffering, the House yesterday passed the FY10 Omnibus Appropriations bill, by a vote of 221-202. The bill provides, among other things, massive funding increases for international family planning, domestic family planning, and condom promotion. We are in debt up to our eyeballs, living on a credit card, and hemorrhaging jobs. Subsidizing condoms is hardly our top priority.
This omnibus bill is bad government at its worst. There are so many reasons to be outraged by this betrayal of the American people.
– This bill spends nearly half the discretionary portion of the federal budget on just six federal departments.
– It was debated for just one hour (that’s $7.4 billion spent per minute of debate).
– No one could possibly have read the entire bill before casting their vote. It was released from the Rules Committee Wednesday and Members and the public had just one day to review this 2,500 page, $446 billion dollar bill before yesterday’s scheduled vote.
– The bill contains more than 5,000 earmarks.
– For the six departments included in the bill, it increases their base funding by 12 percent at a time when everyone else is cutting back.
The bill simply does not provide the necessary openness and transparency the usual appropriations process provides. Without proper oversight and evaluation, it’s easy to overlook egregious spending provisions that would never pass on their own merit. This bill is filled with such provisions.
For example, the bill allows the District of Columbia to use public funds for abortion and needle exchanges. It lays the groundwork to terminate the DC school voucher scholarship program. The bill also weakens the ban on funding for registration and benefits to domestic partners and the ban on medical marijuana. Is this what taxpayers sent us here to accomplish?
These provisions would never pass the House on their own merits. They cannot withstand public scrutiny, which is why Democrats have attempted to hide them in this behemoth bill. Democrat Leadership continues to force their agenda on the American people by cramming in multiple anti-family and anti-life provisions in one large omnibus package.
Congressman Chaffetz represents Utah’s third congressional district and serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Next, the Clean Water Restoration Act
A few year ago, residents of Bedford NH, along with many others including the ACLU, marched into the Statehouse in Concord to defeat a bill that would allow regional water districts to take control over their PRIVATE wells, wells that were on private property. Thank goodness the committee thought this was an utterly outrageous powergrab and the bill went nowhere.
Now the federal government, who already controls all “navigable” waterways, is getting ready to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act which would put it in charge of every pond, stream or puddle in the country, even wet areas on your private property.
In 1992, Agenda 21 was adopted by the United Nations at its Earth Summit in Rio. Chapter 18 of Agenda 21, dealing strictly with the protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources, is having increased effect on use and management of water in the United States.
Please read the International Implications of Water Use in America to see where this powergrab over water, just like all these other powergrabs over health care, land, energy, and food, is originating.
Agenda 21 encourages governments to form “partnerships between public and private sectors and NGO’s, aiming towards improved local capacity to protect water resources”. We are being ruled by quasi-government agencies whose initiatives not only do not pass approval at the ballot box, but whose attempts to take control over our private lives may go unnoticed until it is too late. Further it urges that governments “address the need for achieving universal access to water supply and sanitation.”
The nightmare of this administration has not ended with the health care debate. Now you know why Obama got a Nobel Prize; the elitists at the UN know there is no one more willing than he who would force us to comply with the goals and agenda of the UN’s global governance.
Related: Read more about land and water grabs and “climate change” as the overarching plan to rule the world by NGOs HERE and HERE.
COP15 – What it’s really all about…the destruction of America.
Excerpt: “The climate change conference being held from December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark has very little to do with climate change and everything to do with the dismantling of America.”