While I’m still looking for the language in the Constitution that gives the federal government to meddle with the Internet, the bureaucrats are moving full steam ahead to achieve, “goal of 100M bps service to 100 million homes.” The excuse is that it will help the United States better compete in the global marketplace.

What it will actually do is give the government a bunch of companies dependent on them and cost the tax payers billions. Still, I’m sitting here looking for the Constitutional verbiage that gives this power to the government in Washington D.C.

In this day and age of enourmous deficits is this really what we should be doing?

Congress should spend an additional $9 billion over three years to speed broadband deployment, but the USF money should be enough to bring broadband to 99 percent of the U.S. population by 2020, said the FCC’s Levin. Combined with $7.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for broadband deployment, the redirected USF program will pay for broadband deployment across the U.S., he said.

We’re not talking peanuts here. And not to sound like a broken record, but I still cannot find the clause of the Constitution that gives the feds this authority. No, what we have is just plain and simple another corporate welfare program to provide something that the marketplace does not dictate is wanted.  Because believe me you if people were clamouring for wireless broadband access in rural areas that don’t have it it would be there. What this is really about is companies that don’t want to front the full cost of what the service would entail to get set up looking for a handout from Uncle Sam to do something that they cannot afford to do and that their customers cannot afford.

We have to start cutting back this government somewhere people. How about this boondoggle? No, seriously! If not here then where?  Why should another taxpayer’s pocket be picked so that another can benefit?  It is simply not right on any level.

To pass the the bill Nancy Pelosi and the liberals need 216 votes.

It is almost over however. No, not the budget crisis and our bloated national debt; those are still here and looming larger than ever. What is almost over is this series about ways to solve the problem. Now, before we get on to discussing the last unthinkable option, number five, I do want to address a particular concern that so many of you have emailed me with. Some of you are asking me why I have not proposed simply selling off the trillions of dollars in land our federal government owns as a way of dealing with our federal deficits. Especially since by some accounts there would be more than enough to make us whole. Well, yes, that is true. But it is only a temporary fix to the problem you see because let’s say we were to sell off about $12 trillion in land tomorrow and make the deficit go away. What then? Well, the very next day we would be right back in the red racking up more debt spending. In reality this is no different than unthinkable option number one where even though we staved off the inevitable, we would just keep on doing what we were doing.

Personally I think that it would be a great idea for the federal government to divest itself of land that has been acquired by time and again violating the sovereignty of many States within our Union in the course of procuring it. But unless we cut spending then nothing changes. At the rate our current President and Congress are spending we would be right back here again in ten to twelve years and that time around there would be no land to sell as a fix.

This series of articles is about living within our means and ways to do so. And with that explained we are on to the final unthinkable option.

I hope that you have enjoyed the ride of welfare and transfer payments system which this country has been on for decades. Because under unthinkable option number five it all ends. Kick and scream all you like about how such a proposal is anti-poor or how you as a senior citizen have “earned” those monthly checks because you paid someone else’s way previously. All you are going to do become is horse.

Last week I showed you how much needed to be cut from every program of the federal budget just to pay down the debt in a reasonable time frame. The week before I showed you that in order to even have a shot at paying down the debt every single item other than the big welfare spending line items would have to be let go. This week though we are going to take a novel approach and adhere to the Constitution. That means if it is not in the Constitution as a power of our government then it is gone.

Weep if you are getting a government check. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

While in previous weeks it has been a struggle to get the budget under control this week, by simply eliminating unconstitutional spending, it is very easy. Not painless, but easy. Oh, and once again, as much as I hate saying it, even though we cut this spending taxes must remain the same. Again, I realize that cutting taxes would actually raise revenue and even though I have said that many times in this series people still scold me for this part of the plan. Listen, again I am going to tell you we are not going to deal with an argument over tax rates here. We are just dealing with numbers we know (those from 2008 and previously noted) and we are not going to get in a bind by guessing at what new revenues could be if we had a more sound tax policy.

And spare me all your cries about these programs not being unconstitutional because of this court ruling or that court ruling. Courts, in case you are unaware, cannot rewrite our federal Constitution. Oh, they try and often the people just go along with it but they still have not in fact changed the actually meaning of the document.

This week is when the guillotine comes down. No scalpel. No axe. We are bringing out the mother of all blades.

Now, we are still working with 2008 numbers here. And as much as you may not like it, they are the same as has they have been in previous weeks where we have $2.569 trillion in revenues and $3.094 trillion in spending and a $525 billion in debt each year with $12 trillion in total debt. Don’t worry, this will be quick.

Lop off the $608 billion spent on Social Security. Lop off the $386 billion spent on Medicare. Lop off the $209 billion in Medicaid and SCHIP.

Do this alone and we are running, with current taxes kept as they are, a surplus of just under $678 billion each year and can have the debt paid down in 18 years.

Let’s cut some more heads off. Come here you $324 billion in Unemployment payments, Welfare, and other “Mandatory Spending.” That leaves us with a trillion dollar surplus and a payoff period on the debt of just 12 years.

Yep, where as under unthinkable option number three when we had to spend iteration after iteration knocking off this program and that program to scrimp and save enough while we protected these precious little programs above to sooth the angry masses partaking of them, just four quick chops here have us well on the road to fiscal responsibility.

But we can go further. If we cut other unconstitutional discretionary spending the numbers get better. Ditch the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor and the “Off-budget” spending our yearly surplus balloons to $1.236 trillion allowing us to pay off the debt two years quicker. Yes, in just ten years we would have the deficit retired! And reasonably by also cutting waste in even the Constitutional programs such as the Department of Defense we can save even more.

All it would take is for us to abide by the Constitution.

Would there be misery? Sure. But as I have said before, we have misery now where the productivity of the producer class is confiscated to provide hammocks to the rest of America in which they sleep waiting eagerly each month for their checks signed boldly by Uncle Sam. And personally I think it is high time that the producers be cut a break in this country.

So there you have it my friends. The five unthinkable options are laid out before you. Which will you chose? You can even come up with your own if you think you have a better option. But the fact is that even if you do so misery will stem forth from all of them be they the ones I have set out on the table or any further ones that you concoct. Do you make our children suffer? Dose the current day’s working middleclass suffer? Do the dependant classes suffer? You just have to hold your nose and pick your poison.

Laus Deo.

At 2:54 PM on Wednesday Ms. Conyers got her 37 month sentence handed down although she does not have to report until July 1st reports wxyz.com. She has 10 days to appeal and, if you ask me, failing to do that she should be in jail immediately.

The soap opera that is this case was not without its moments as Ms. Conyers tried to withdraw her guilty plea now saying that she did not do the deed she was accused of. Only a dunce, I suppose, would think it reasonable to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit. Come on Monica, just suck it up. Its not like you are going to be doing hard time or anything, even though you should be. Get your pretty orange jumper and go to your cell and enjoy the creature comforts you shouldn’t be afforded.

Corrupt politicians are right up there with child molesters and rapists if you ask me.

You know, if we would stop setting up the system so that it rewards corruption then we wouldn’t have this sort of monkey business going on in our governments.

FYI, that is pretty low.

This of course is very surprising since we have the messiah sitting in the oval office.  You know, the great leader and unifier that was supposed to point us out of the wilderness?  Remember him?   Gee, guess spending hundreds of billions of dollars, selling our great, great grandchildren into crushing debt and watching the economy sputter along thanks to decades of laws passed by liberals (both Republicans and Democrats) which are dragging us under the waves will wake people up pretty fast huh?

Yeah, yeah, I know. It is all George Bush’s fault.

The question is why? Oh, I know the excuses because I have been told them every year for as long as I can remember. Road crews are out early in the morning because that is when they start working. With the slight chance of rain later on they wanted to get as much work done as they could before that rain might start to fall. It was one of the first days this year warm enough for crews to work and do the job and they had to get as much done as possible. Then there is the one I really like, the one where they claim that they are just being responsive to complaints as these massive craters are annoying motorists who keep slamming into these broken pieces of pavement with their cars.

Yeah. Well call me cynical. Some of these pot holes have been out there since last December and many have been there since January so what is one or two more days if it takes that long to get the job done by not causing thousands of commuters to be later than normal? Silly me for thinking that, even though I find the inevitable potholes annoying each year, one more day or week just won’t make that much difference in the grand scheme of things.

Nope, the only thing I can come up with is the road crews and those commanding them just wanted to remind us people that pay their salaries that they can show up and make our commutes even more miserable. Silly me for thinking that they could just start a few hours later instead of rushing out to find ways to make Pittsburgh traffic even more horrendous.

I can understand if there was a huge, completely impassable pothole on a road that you would want to get these crews out there right away. But most if not all of those being patched at the absolute worst time of day, a time of day that only an insane person would suggest the work be done at, were not such hazards.

What is even better is what the letter says, or should I say, does not say. I’ll fill in the blanks with commentary between ‘[]’s.

Dear Resident,

About one week from now, you will recieve a 2010 Census form in the mail [complete with many questions the federal government is not authorized to ask you]. When you receive your form, please fill it out and mail it in promptly.

Your response is important. Results from the 2010 Census will be used to help each community get its fair share of [unconstitutional] government funds for highways, schools [even though such expenditure is unconstitutional], health facilities [even though such expenditure is unconstitutional], and many other programs you and your neighbors need [well, not "need" but that you really, really want. Again forget that whole Constitutionality question]. Without a complete, accurate census, you community may not receive its fair share [unconstitutionally distributed funds].

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Robert M. Groves
Director, U.S. Census Bureau

Couldn’t they have just sent this letter with the Census and saved the postage?  No, I’m sure that would have cost some pathetic bureaucrat their job if there was let junk to mail.  And Lord knows we cannot have that.

Remember folks, the only question the federal government is allowed to ask, as the Constitution says, is how many people live at a residence. They are not allowed to ask age, gender, etc. about those people. And one has to wonder why they ask those extra things anyway. Most of it is data the government already collects on things such as your tax form. Hey, I for one am not going to be a good little sheep and follow the government blindly. All they are getting from me is the enumeration question and let them try to come after me with their fines and threats because a lot of lawyers I know are chomping at the bit to be my council if such a case is ever actually brought.

Want to dance feds? I am in the mood to!

It is nothing new. The left hates the mere thought of us common folk having guns to defend our lives and they hate even worse the thought that us common folk would have guns and one day get fed up with their fascist left wing ways and turn those weapons on them. But here are the facts. Despite the city’s current “gun ban” Chicago is a hell hole of violent crimes committed by guns. Yeah, proving once again that criminals don’t obey the laws. A shocking revelation for liberals to be sure and one that they will quickly dismiss with their typical intellectual vacancy.

You know how it goes. They claim that it would be much worse if they didn’t have the gun ban and other such nonsense. Actually I would contend, and the data shows, that when criminals fear that the citizenry is armed criminals get a lot let bold and gun violence goes down. Criminals are indeed dumb but they are not stupid. They don’t very much like the prospect of picking on someone packing heat and that is much more likely when a city like Chicago doesn’t criminalize law abiding citizens and make illegal basic Constitutional Rights.

Daley and the left are not going down without a fight and they are not going to go away without once again doing what they do best and lie. In defense of the stupid law the response from the Mayor is:

“We have the right for health and safety to pass reasonable laws dealing with the protection and health of the people of the city of Chicago,” Daley said.

Nice leap right over any sense of logic there Mr. Daley! Yes, you do have the right to pass “reasonable laws” but a gun ban like the one you currently have is not “reasonable.” see, that’s the problem! It is not reasonable because it is unconstitutional and like it or not the Constitution trumps your claims that the gun ban is reasonable! The law of the land is that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed Mr. Daley. It is not, shall not be infringed if the all-knowing, all-seeing Mayor Daley decides that in Chicago it should be. Sorry, that caveat does not exist and try as you might you will never find it.

Maybe you flunked English Mr. Daley or maybe you are just really dumb as a post. I don’t know. What I do know is that you are too stupid to be a leader of free men and women.

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Now, according to President Mahmoud INeedAJihad the 9/11 attacks are just a “big lie.” This is different than previous statements he has made on the topic such as in 2007 where his official line was:

At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were “a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S,” and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.

It is amazing how a story can change isn’t it? Now instead of the 9/11 attacks being the result of America’s actions it was, according to the wacko President of Iran, “complicated intelligence scenario and act,” by the United States.

Well, what’s another nutball for the Truther movement I say. Maybe he and Debra Medina can compare notes? And maybe he can give her answers to some of the questions she has surrounding the events of that fateful day since she apparently is not sure what exactly happened.