I concur with all stated. The "disconnect" of our government penetrates most if not all of our elected officials. No transparency as promised by Obama and "his" administration....what we get is opaque at its best, and through that opaqueness all I see is smoke, string and mirrors. The status quo on the HILL is still maintaining the status quo. Little if anything is being said by M.S.M's about the amount of troop build up in that tiny GOD forsaken island nation of Haiti. The U.S. now has over 17,000 "boots on the ground" and the U.N. has over 8,000 ! Both x-presidents Bush Jr. and Clinton have cleared their way for having an off shore, tax exempt, never to be audited 501(c) 3 account. They have both pleaded for just cash to be sent to their "Haitian fund". Bush is heading up the U.S./U.N. efforts there much akin to other recent disasters in the world that both he and Clinton have been apart of. Both Bush and Clinton gave little if any credence or support to the government of Haiti during their administrations. Of note and little known is the recent discovery of oil in and around the island of Cuba and Espanola...Haiti and the D.R. It's estimated that there is over 20 BILLION barrels of crud oil in this are of the world...exceeding that of other O.P.C.'s in the region. Of other interest is the fact that the U.N. has not account for over 300 of it's people lost during the earth quake in Haiti. I wonder just what the U.N. was doing with over 330 personnel there ? It would be outstanding if The Patriot Post could shine some light on these issues. It seem as if the U.S. along with the socialist's New World Order mainstay.... the U.N.... is going into the nation building business together without permission to do so !

From your column to Congress' ear please. They MUST listen to the American people and STOP the elitist crap they have for so long gotten away with. I think there are far too many lawyers elected to public office. Government needs to be run more along business models by business people. The social programs need to be eliminated and we need to go to a flat 10% consumer tax collected at the state level. The federal government can then be supported by the states. Government needs to GOVERN not put themselves in the position of being the MacDaddy of all nannies. Or worse, put themselves in the place of God.

"The taxpayer is King", Just call Washington and the response will astonish you. Some are even "cut off" from calling their Congressional offices. Because "they don't treat the "children" answering the phone with respect."

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen" and this does not refer to profane, vulgar talk, this is in reference to stern talk that is truthful and straight.

Washington is certainly in a "disconnected attitude" and that is exactly why the taxpayer- citizens are "outraged" by the violations of the Beloved Constitution that take place everyday.

This "high and mighty attitude" that is exhibited by the elected officials and their staff is not expected by the common, God-fearing citizen. But since we can not "trust" representative government to stay within the Boundaries of the Constitution that they under sacred Oath to "uphold and defend", we, the people, have had to "call" to the office of the "boundary breakers" and lo, we find the "children in charge of the office". UGH

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

I sound like a broken record, but the only way we will be able to stop the progressives that infect both parties is to start a National referendum that limits term limits for Congress and the Senate. This is the movement that I hope the Tea Party takes up as the way to stop the concept of "bringing home the bacon" to special interests that presently keeps a Senator or Congressman in office.The way Congressional districts are drawn up today it is almost impossible to get people like Barney Frank or Maxine Walters out of Congress. Term limits is the answer, and forget seniority!

I respectfully disagree. You are an American. You have "stuck by the stuff".

The answer is not a "Constitutional Convention" to get "term-limits", that is a "TRAP OF the ENEMY". The answer is STOP ALL BENEFITS AND PENSIONS. If you offer yourself for Public Service, you will be paid a salary ( and they are paid handsomely) that's the end of the monetary compensation.

We, the people, are not "running a "Union racket". If you have a pension as a Public, elected official, it is because you took your "salary" and made a retirement for yourself, like We, the people who have Small Businesses do.

If you like the idea of "Union Pensions", Get a job where that "Utopian Scheme" exists. Notice the word "Utopian", it was for awhile, but not for long.

The Public School System is the chronic problem. REVERSE 1963 Supreme Court ruling at the request of the atheist O'Hare that took prayer and Bible reading out of the Public Schools. Education went in the "ditch". God was insulted and He left. We had better "fix" it. (now, I sound like the "broken record)??!!!

Ileana, don't give up. Your posts are good and educational. We need YOU. WE need Mr. Wegmann. We are Americans. Keep, Keeping on. "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Gal. 6:9

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

My default position when I hear how Congress is doing this and doing that concerning business and the economy is the 10th Amendment.

Congress does not lead, decide, build, or stand responsible for the economy. Govt. is not supposed to be in my business, in my bedroom,in my church, in my school, in my doctors office, or in my gun cabinet. Taxes will decrease when govt gets smaller. Term limits with no retirement would make the corruption they call "public service" a plus to society instead of the cancer it is today.

We must handcuff DC with a Constitutional amendment to forbid deficit spending, except for the direct costs of a declared war; and a limit on the size of government as a percent of GDP - I'd recommend 14%.

We must make the politicians very, very afraid of us so as to retain their attention.

Can we wait for another election to remove those disconnected royal elites that gained their positions through a media manipulation blitz? Our so called trusted servants in DC lied about and misrepresented what and who they are. I can understand that as Americans we need to believe our government would not blatantly lie to us and the media will only report the truth. Well wake up America and smell the coffee! Like it or not we have become nothing more than a population of serfs, slaves to all levels of the elitist royalty that refers to themselves as our freely elected government and mostly get our news by government supported and controlled Marxist media hacks.

It is not those who vote that put those hacks in office it is the ones that count the votes! Do you think for one second that this governmental problem we have will be solved with the next election or any election for that matter? Remember Athens, TN August 2nd 1946 AKA, The Battle of Athens. There may be an example to follow there.

It's called optimism.

larry,is that why sarah palin and daniel pipes are calling for an invasion of iran?

Ruth Ann Wilson: Thank you for the vote of confidence, you, MichaelSEC, Mr. Wegmann are American patriots and your comments on the Patriot Post site contribute greatly to our education and to the fight to preserve the U.S. Constitution.

I am NEVER giving up - the communists did not indoctrinate nor kill me for 21 years and certainly I am not going to allow this new batch of "regressives" (progressives? I think not) to plunge us into a failed utopia in our beautiful and bountiful country that God has blessed.

I do get discouraged when I see and hear people who are so misinformed about their own country, it is truly frightening.

Everything this administration is doing is "deja vu" for me, I am reliving my youth - confiscation of property, of homes, of books, forced communist marches, forced military service, forced indoctrination, revisionist history and textbooks exalting the virtues of communism, of the dear leader and his wife, poor medical care, or none at all, no drugs, gulags, beatings, starvation, spying on neighbors, on relatives, confiscation of passports, forced labor union membership, inability to move freely in your own country, no electricity, no TV, no radio, food rationing, water rationing, pollution beyond belief, forced "volunteer" labor in the fields to harvest the crops, civilian army of thugs, no religion except the worship of socialism, no Bibles in homes, no church attendance, destruction of churches, etc.

Today I was elated, however, when I saw an African American lady driving a car proudly displaying a bumper sticker, "NOBAMA 2012." Finally, the pro-Obama bumper stickers are disappearing around Washington, D.C. and the Obama supporters are waking up from their trance and wiseing up. People in general are waking up. There is hope for a positive change.

Throw the bums out - it's the logical course.

Start a movement to vote for ANYONE but the two current parties. Otherwise, this will NEVER change.

Somewhere I recently heard or read that Lawrence Kudlow was going to run against Charles Schummer(sp) for the Senate...any truth? I hope so.

When I moved to this beautiful country, I was thinking how fortunate my people were that they did not know how unfortunate their lives were; now I am pensive about how unfortunate Americans are that they do not know how fortunate their lives truly are.

Mr. Rehling,

Would you mind to give the details on the Battle Athens, Tennessee after WWII and what those warriors did when they came home and found corruption?????

Ilena, you have much to contribute as does Mr. Wegmann and it doesn't sound like a "broken record to my ears". In fact, it sounds like the OLD Hymn, "A Glorious Church"

Do you hear them coming, brother"

Thronging up the steeps of light,

Clad in glorious shining garments,

Blood-washed garments pure and white.

Tis the glorious church without spot or wrinkle

Washed in the blood of the Lamb;

Do you hear the stirring anthems (The Star-Spangled Banner)

Filling all the earth and sky?

Tis a grand, victorious army

Lift its banner upon high (Glorious American Flag)

It is the American Covenant - God & Country

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

For g. wegmann: I agree with you completely. We need term limits so we don't have these 40+ yr. career politicians. Right now 98% of all federal politicians are re-elected.

Plus, multi-million dollar campaign donations (bribes) quickly eliminate all of us out of the election process thus making both political parties in total control & us with no choice but what they give us. I'm truly tired of it.

If your interested, there is a new book out about a small town in America that does stand up to political tyranny (corrupt political system) & starts the 2nd American Revolution.

It happened before in American history. I recommend it as a must read for 2010 & upcoming elections.

www.booksbyoliver.com

What would Samuel Adams or Patrick Henry do? Did anyone say, Tar and Feather?

I was taught in grade school that there was to be no aristocracy in this country. Evidently my teachers were wrong.

Misery and Suffering (poverty) is directly proportional to the funds set aside for its relief. Entitlements are causing people to become parasitic and will destroy the host! Let's not let our congressmen continue buying goodwill. The greatest charity is to give a person a good job and yes work is honorable. Let's also stop them from receiving entitlements voted for themselves only. Maybe they are the parasites? Let's clear foggy bottom? How?

November 2010!