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Britain P.M. Callaghan (leader of Labor Party - 1976)

Posted by Scott Senffner on Monday, February 09, 2009 9:20:57 AM
I just read the radio address Ronald Wilson Reagan gave on Nov. 16, 1976 about Britain.  Here is a snippet of the radio address that day and I think it pertains to us pretty well.  You can find the whole address and many other prophetic ones in the book, Reagan's Path to victory: The shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision" Page. 93 - 94.

Prime minister Callaghan of the Labor Party in Britain said in 1976: “The cosy world which we were told would go on forever, where full employment would be guaranteed by a stroke of the chancellor’s pen, cutting taxes, & deficit spending is gone.”  The P.M. is is said now sees socialism as a oversold superstition among the British working class.
If it is true that somehow we take a parallel to Britain then we’d better listen to what the labor P.M. told the British Labor party at it’s recent convention.  He oviously was not out to win a popularity contest and didn’t but even those who jeered the loudest must have wondered if they could equal his courage.

“We must ask ourselves, unflinchingly, “ he said, “ what is the cause of high unemployment?  And he answered his own question, “Quite simply & unequivocally it is caused by paying ourselves MORE than the value of what we produce.  This is an absolute fact of life which no government be it left or right can alter.  We have lived to long on borrowed money & even borrowed ideas and lived in too troubled a world to be able in a matter of months or even a couple of years to enter the promised land.”

He went on to say to his surly audience, “We used to think you could just spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending, I tell you that option no longer exists and insofar as it did exist it worked by injecting inflation into the economy.”  He added, “ Higher inflation followed by higher unemployment. That is the history of the last twenty years.

Then he hit them with this, “We can oly become competitive by having the right kind of investment at the right kind of level and by significantly improving the productivity of both labor and capital.  Nor will we succeed if we usse confetti money to pay ourselves more than we produce.

This was part of Ronald Reagan’s Radio address on Nov. 16, 1976 from the book “Reagan’s Path to Victory: The shaping of Ronald Reagan’s Vision”  by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson

It looks to me that we were experiencing the same problems then as we are now, we just have a socialist in the White House and Congress.



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Stimulus (Porkulus) Bill and Religious Discrimination...

Posted by Scott Senffner on Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:04:40 PM

Religious Discrimination:

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are out for Freedom of Religion and they think this is going to stimulate the economy. I think we are getting to close to socialism. No granted, I did not read the whole stimulus bill, but I did skim through it and I missed this part. According to the American Center for Law and Justice  (ACLJ), there is a part in this bill that says NO money is to go to a public facility if there is religious worship. 

Here is the section at dispute; Section 803 “shall be for the purpose of modernizing, renovating, and repairing institution of higher education facilities that are primarily used for instruction and research . . .”

“PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS. - No funds awarded under this section may be used for - (C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities - (i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.”

This is absolutely appalling because this is going to restrict bible studies at colleges, dorms, etc. 

We need to storm the senate and have them vote again on an amendment. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has submitted an amendment (DeMint Amdt. No. 189) but it was defeated 54-43.

Other articles talking about this subject:

Targeting Religious Broadcasters 

Stimulus to ban religious worship 

Now is the time to contact congress again because it sounds like they are split on the stimulus package, at least according to The New York Times. 

GOP Senators Risk Backlash 

Don’t just contact your congressmen or senators, contact others especially Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA) and Sen. Susan Collins, (R-MA) are the two supposedly wanting to go with the democrats. We need to pound them hard with emails and phone calls. 

Here is a list of all of the congressman and senators in the United States. 

Spread the word

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