KEEPING THE FAITH ACTION ALERT
February 7, 2009

THANK YOU SENATOR ISAKSON AND CHAMBLISS for your commitment to vote against the almost $1 trillion so-called “stimulus” package!
For a breakdown click here.

This in from Chris Carr, Senator Isakson’s Chief of Staff, late last night: “Johnny will vote no on cloture and final passage.”

Heard from Charlie Harmon, Senator Chambliss’ Chief of Staff, just now – Saxby is also going to vote no.

Please call to thank them for standing up for the people. While it is not over, we can be proud of our Senators for doing the right thing.
Senator’s Isakson: (202) 224-3643 * Senator Chambliss: (202) 224-3521

Conservative principle’s do not change based on the language of a bill. What Bush did – and Obama is trying to expand upon – is nothing less than a government out of control – taking over the economy – then it is Katy bar the door.

Once the government controls the economic well-being of the people the will to resist other government controls wanes. To whatever extent the “State” controls our economy ultimately directs every other aspect of our lives as well.

Edmund Opitz in “Religion: Foundation of the Free Society,” writes: “…whoever controls a man’s subsistence has acquired a leverage over the man himself, which impairs his freedom of thought, speech, and worship.

F. A. Hayek put it another way in “The Road to Serfdom:” “Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.”

WHERE IS TODAY’S DAVY CROCKETT?

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker --- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and, if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill.

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FLIP FLOP - I JUST WANT TO BE RE-ELECTED BARROW

Barrow’s leader, Speaker of the House Pelosi is a disgrace to her professed Catholic faith – and to women – and men - who do not put a price tag on human life. To think, she is third in line for the presidency if circumstances dictate. I am not sure who is the most virulent enemy of babies in the womb – Obama who voted against providing medical treatment for babies who survive an abortion – or a woman who believes they are part of a stimulus package.

While up for re-election, GA Congressman John Barrow (D-12) – no deaf ear to the Georgians who did not want the government bailing out anyone! - voted against the first bill issuing the statement below. After being re-elected in November he voted on January 29, 2009, for HR 1 – the second bailout. I have searched high and low to find a statement about why he supported HR 1 – it ain’t there.

Rep. John Barrow Statement on Senate Bailout Package

Friday, October 3, 2008

Following today’s vote on H.R. 1424, Congressman John Barrow released this statement:

“The economy is in real trouble, but that means we have to make sure that what we do will actually help. I believe this plan will do more harm than good – maybe not now, but sooner or later. The Senate tried to send us something we could all agree on, but all they really did was dress up the same bill we voted on earlier this week with sweeteners to get some members of the House to change their vote. Most of the new items in this bill I have voted for and would vote for again, but not if it means voting for a bailout that’ll do more harm than good. I hope I’m wrong, but that’s how it looks right now.”

Fast forward to January 29, 2009 – three months after being re-elected. Barrow voiced no objection to a bill that would have given states a 9-1 funding ratio for Medicaid services –“ family planning” (aka abortion funding and contraceptives) as proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Obama asked for this to be taken out of the “stimulus package” after he heard Nancy on the Sunday morning talk shows – in a pathetic, shameful attempt to defend her position.)

Roman Catholic Pelosi explains, “Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost,” Pelosi responded, when asked about the funding in HR 1 for family planning. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those--one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.” (Put into lingo we understand), “We can help the states with their financial problems by making sure fewer babies are born.”

Barrow did vote for what was left in the bill that has absolutely nothing to do with creating jobs, getting the economy back on track - and all the other pie in the sky stuff Obama has said this bill would do.

The ObamACORN payback. It’s still in there The Democrats’ “stimulus” proposals could make the group — and its lesser-known, even more radical ideological allies — eligible for upwards of $5 billion in new public cash. As expected, the slush fund/payback program for the left-wing fraudsters is still in there. Here’s the direct link to the section in H.R. 1. (Michelle Malkin • January 29, 2009)

And he voted for these additional “stimulus to the economy provisions:”

• 400 million for researching sexually transmit­ted diseases,
   
• $200 million for bike and pedestrian trails and off-road vehicle routes,
   
• $200 million to force the military to buy envi­ronmentally friendly electric cars,
   
• $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters,
   
• $75 million for a program to end smoking.

Thank you for Keeping The Faith,
Sadie Fields
 

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