a copy of a letter I sent to Shelley Moore Capito

To the Honorable Shelley Moore Capito,

            I would like to thank you for your support of the Ryan budget plan. A few days ago  you were in Martinsburg and I felt you articulated well a rebuttal of the erroneous charges that republicans are attempting to “ruin Medicare” when it is Obamacare that actually cuts Medicare and institutes the ground work for rationing and cost benefit health care decisions made outside of the doctor-patient-family context. My concern is that, we are being led to believe at least, that the majority of senior citizens believe that it is more important to make sure they get theirs even if it means bankrupting future generations. I am not sure if I believe this but if so we have a serious cultural issue to contend with. Further, when I contacted your office to express my opposition to the “Boehner budget blunder” because I felt it did little to make a substantial change your response implied that you were receiving calls afraid of too much cutting in spending! If this is the case I have long overestimated the people of West Virginia. I had hoped that the days of Senator Byrd and the pork project as the WV gold standard for political achievement were forever behind us. If West Virginians, and Americans for that matter, are not willing to forsake the failed policies of the left and return to good old American self reliance, it really may be too late!    

I do not believe this to be the case. In Greece and London we see thousands riot to oppose any cuts in the entitlement system, but in America we see the Tea Party step forward to demand that government do less not more, that punitive taxation and crushing regulation are the factors crippling our economy and that  less government is the answer not more. Still as long as politicians can spend limitlessly and secure reelection by “bringing home the bacon” the real motivation to cut spending dramatically will be lacking.

This is why I wish to encourage you to support a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution. As a rule I am very hesitant to support any such changes to our founding document, as I feel that tinkering with our basic governmental structure should be done advisedly and cautiously. However I cannot conceive that the founders ever imagined a day when our nation would spend so extravagantly beyond its means to be so intrusive into the lives of the average citizen. To quote Rep Tom Perriello  (D-VA)   "The only way to get Congress to balance the budget is to give them no choice. The only way to keep them out of the cookie jar is to give them no choice. Which is why, whether its balanced budget acts or pay as you go legislation or any of that -- it's the only thing. IF YOU DON'T TIE OUR HANDS, WE'LL KEEP STEALING."  The truth is that Pay-go and all other promises are meaningless as they are ignored by so many of our representatives.

As a supporter of the Ryan plan I know that you are in favor of real change so I ask you to please consider lending your support to this amendment.

Sincerely,

John W Tabler

manhood for father's day

Some time ago a friend asked me to write a few thoughts on manhood for her son's 16th birthday. Afterwords I realized that I couldn't write any thing better so I re-titled it for my son. I think its worth your time, happy Father's day

.Dear Larue

A few thoughts on manhood

The boy does as he wishes

                   The man does as he should

The boy needs protecting

                   The man protects

The boy has others to provide for his needs

                   The man provides for the needs of others

The boy cries and needs held

                   The man holds back his tears and holds the boy

The boy would help his mother

                   The man would die for her

The boy may battle a bully

                   The man must fight the world for the sake of his family

The boy asks “Can it be done?”

                   The man says “I will do it because it must be done”

The man must bear his own grief, his own sorrow, his own disillusionments, and still be strong enough to carry his family through the trial as well

The man will seek the help of others, but will never hand over his responsibilities to anyone else

The man will seek advice but will never shirk making a decision

The man will accept the consequences of his action

The man must be his wife’s prince and his children’s hero

The man strives to keep chivalry alive in a world that mocks him for it

The man must be faithful to his wife with his eyes, mind, and heart

The man’s family seldom appreciates him, his church criticizes him, his culture mocks him, yet he strives with his last breath to make these institutions work

There could be no full time mom’s if not for men with full time jobs

Being an adult does not make a boy into a man, it is a decision and a lifestyle of responsibility

The man realizes he cannot be all he needs to be so he calls on God to be his help

In the classic western “Magnificent Seven” gunfighter Renaldo Riley tells some village children, “You think I am brave because I carry a gun? Your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a giant rock, it weights them down and crushes them, and there is nobody that says they have to do this, they do it because they want to and they love you. I have never had this kind of courage.”

But a real man does.

- How to handle hate

            There are certain absolutes in American news media. If a group of conservatives devised a plan by which minorities could better themselves though entrepreneurial endeavors and move beyond public housing.  The New York Times headline would read, “Republicans try to take away black people’s homes”. I do not recall all the details of the story but as a youth I picked up on this bias when I heard this quote in a story about the Middle East “Israeli soldiers today violated a cease fire agreement when they returned fire against Palestinian gunman”. Those danged Jews, defending themselves like that!

This still goes on, CNN recently referred to Sarah Palin speaking to a tea party gathering “of at least dozens” in Searchlight Nev. The crowd was 8-10 thousand. Sen. Harry Reid could only muster a hundred in the same town, his home town. Truthfully this type of bias is so obvious and so over the top it could be considered great comic material, but recent fraudulent attacks on tea party patriots and other outspoken conservatives is no laughing matter.

            There is a danger. Hate crimes laws can easily be twisted to hinder free speech. Our tolerant open minded friends north of the border at the University of Western Ontario were transformed into a mob from a Frankenstein movie at the fear Ann Coulter might utter an opinion they disagreed with. Political correctness in its finished form is tyranny. The President and his supporters in congress and the press are every bit as determined to smear and degrade any political opposition as they are to raise the debt and defile the constitution. The ‘bridge too far’ in their strategy is the accusations of racism and violence against the tea party protests. When speaker Pelosi  and the Democrats walked through the crowd with the Medicare gavel intentionally provoking angry Americans whose liberty they were stealing on that dark Sunday Healthcare was passed, they intended to provoke someone to yell something inappropriate. While they claim to have heard the n word and the f word video and audio evidence is as hard to find as a fact in an Al Gore movie. Facts mean nothing to liberals.

            What shall we do? First, remember this is a blatant shameless attempt to silence you, do not let it. Shout louder, proclaim liberty, and take inspiration from Paul Revere, “bankruptcy is coming, healthcare rationing is coming, and restrictions on free speech are coming”. Our founders were not deterred by threat of the rope; neither shall we be silenced regardless of the danger.

            Next, disagree factually. When the liberals accuse us of racism in opposing Pres. Obama be ready with facts, when you counter “you racist idiot you,” by quoting article 9 of the constitution and applying it properly the debate is yours. Those facts so despised by the left are our best friends. Attempts to vilify and even criminalize opposition will fail, when confronted with the truth. Read the bills, know the constitution, and familiarize yourself with representative’s voting records and candidate’s positions on issues. Consider joining an organization like the Heritage Foundation, and reading some of the fine books about conservativism. Any chance you have to read and quote Reagan, take it.

                                               

            Finally, disagree respectfully, accept that nasty false accusations are coming, and make certain that whatever they accuse us of is a lie. Barrack Obama has said “if they bring a knife we bring a gun.” The left’s dagger is intimidation, our revolver is our resolve. I realize that every example of bad conduct in the country will be blamed on Palin, Limbaugh or the tea party’s angry rhetoric. Yet when it comes to bad behavior we are amateurs compared to the left, and it will stay that way, I’m certain. The difference is thanks to the internet and talk radio they no longer can hide their reprehensible conduct behind a complacent and compliant press.

            As far as anger goes, I am angry. I struggle to find words to state my emotions that are not profane. This is not the “go outside and throw things” anger that will simply fade away. It is a righteous anger that manifests itself in a determination to force the liberals to get their d---- hands of my country and stop threatening my children’s future.

It is the same anger I feel when I see a picture of the New York City skyline taken in 1999. No one would have guessed when they awoke September 11, 2001 that the World Trade Center would be gone when they went to bed; just like few Americans thought when they elected Barrack Obama that our constitution would lie in smoldering ruins one year later. Did I really just compare the Democrats to Al-Qaeda? (Pres Obama’s good friend Bill Ayers did try to destroy the Pentagon, just like a few of the late Osama bin Laden’s pals did. Besides, the liberals and the terrorists have one very important thing in common, they dislike this country and intend to make it something very different from what the framers intended.

            We intend to stop them.

 Until next time, keep on the firing line.