The Petition We Are Sending

PETITION
For over two centuries our America has embraced a people with an unshakeable demand for freedom, self-reliance, and independence, with a uniquely American culture that insists on our God-given right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

We have always taken these beliefs for granted, secure in the knowledge that the American people, by consensus, viewed these tenets as articles of faith. This is no longer the case. Some of us, by lack of understanding, years of indoctrination, or selfishness no longer ask what they "can do for their country," but now demand that their "country do for them". These misguided citizens no longer wish for an equal opportunity, for the chance to pursue happiness, for the freedom to succeed; they wish, instead, that government give them an equal result, to supply them with all the rewards of work without the troublesome matter of merit. These citizens have forgotten that "any government big enough to give them all they want is also big enough to take away all they have."

We believe that the vast majority of Americans do work, earn an honest living, support their families, live within their means, pay their debts, and taxes. We also believe that the vast majority of Americans are appalled by a government completely out of control, a government that has grown so large, so cumbersome, so frightful, so irresponsible that we must petition our government for redress of our grievances. Unless our government is reined in, and once again becomes limited in scope and power, we are in grave danger of becoming as equally victimized as our forefathers were in 1776.

We believe:
1. The federal government had no right, using an "economic crises," as a pretext, to use billions of our dollars to bailout private business, whether it be a wall street firm, brokerage house, auto manufacturer, or any bank or lending institution. To subsidize incompetence and failure will do nothing to cure the problem but only reward it.

2. The federal government had no right to compel lending institutions to grant billions of dollars in loans to unqualified home buyers causing an abundance of foreclosures, then forcing us taxpayers to pay their mortgages!

3. The federal government had no right to rush through and pass a 1000 page legislation without the common sense of reading it and knowing what it contained.

4. The federal government had no right, at this precarious time, to spend billions of dollars on idiotic pork barrel projects then term the legislation as a "stimulus package."

5. The federal government has no right to try and push through congress a cap-and- trade tax on our energy consumption which will cause our energy bills to skyrocket.

6. The federal government has no right to try to federalize education to further indoctrinate our children in a leftist, socialist agenda.

7. We believe the administration is helping to create this sense of crises and fear in order for this crises "not go to waste" by changing America to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation in our lifetime, from a country based on liberty and free enterprise to a country based on European liberal fascism and socialism.

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If you still need to sign the petition, vist the Robin's Nest B&B at 1508 Alger Ave. We will be sending it to Congress and the Adminstration at the end of the month. Please sign before April 30.