Secretary HHS on Subsidy Case Before SCOTUS

___Secretary Burwell says that it is not fair for people in one state to get a taxpayer subsidy and people in another state to be denied the subsidy. The problem is the PPACA law. It says Federal subsidies may only be paid to people in states which set up state exchanges.

___The Obama administration has been paying the subsidies illegally despite the clear wording of the law. The President and his Democrat-controlled Congress passed the law in 2010. Surely by now they have read what they enacted and know they are acting illegally. You may not pass a law and change the provisions at will!

Central Banks Will Usher in the One World Government

Central banks have cut interest rates to below zero. The longer such conditions persist, the greater the risk of perverse consequences.

The "Separation of Church and State"

___Congress [435 Representatives in the House; 100 Senators in the Senate] shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion [state religion like Church of England], or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. [United States Constitution, 1789]

___The General Assembly [124 Representatives in the House; 46 Senators in the Senate] shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion [state religion] or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government or any department thereof for a redress of grievances. [SC Constitution, SECTION 2. Religious freedom; freedom of speech; right of assembly and petition, 1970]

___In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: "In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state."

___A text without a context is a pretext! Thomas Jefferson was assuring the Danbury Baptists that the Federal government had no intention of interfering in their free exercise of religion:

Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen s. Nelson

A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut.

Washington, January 1, 1802

Gentlemen,--The affectionate sentiment of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature would "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.

Th Jefferson Jan. 1. 1802

Pro-Amnesty Folks Lied in 1986 About Enforcing Immigration Laws, Why Trust Them Now?

___In 1986 a Democrat Congress got an amnesty for illegal aliens by promising an immigration bill with strong enforcement. They lied! About 3 million illegals were granted amnesty. Little if anything was done to punish employers if they hired illegals. Little if anything was done to prevent citizens' money from being spent on illegals.

___We are a compassionate nation, but we are a nation of 320 million. The world has about 7,000 million, most wanting what the American idea has provided for citizens. We have a written Constitution which is the basis of our rule of law. We must protect and defend that law.

Why Democrats Need Amnesty For Illegal Aliens

___If granted citizenship, then illegal aliens will probably vote to keep Democrats in power.

___The Democrat programs Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are bankrupt and new taxpayer blood is needed. The same is true for the Medicare Drug portion passed under George W. Bush. American birthrates are not at replacement levels, certainly not sufficient to provide a growing number of taxpayers to support the growing number of Americans turning 65.

___The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress and President in 2010 because 47 Million Americans were without health insurance. After almost five years, there are currently 41 Million Americans were without health insurance.

Barack Hussein Obama in 2015 State of the Union

My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I've had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol -- to do what I believe is best for America.

False Environmental Prophets of Doom

___In 1798 Thomas Malthus saw that the world population was growing faster than the food supply. He predicted worldwide starvation and wars fought over resources.

___What happened is that automation and chemicals dramatically increased the food supply and made harvesting and transporting it easier. Wars still occurred, but not over food.

___In 1968 Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb. As a “scientist” he closely follows Darwin and calls for a 2 billion cap on human population by 2050 using a “responsible breeding program” which would allow “superior” humans to breed while “inferior” humans are sterilized. He is willing to accept increased intelligence through “environmental” changes to home and school and improved diet. “In the 1970s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death”, and “we must take action to reverse the deterioration of our environment before population pressure permanently ruins our planet. The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself onto oblivion.”

___Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. The current scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but underwent global warming throughout the 20th century. The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it."

___On October 23, 2006, Newsweek issued a correction, over 31 years after the original article, stating that it had been "so spectacularly wrong about the near-term future" (though editor Jerry Adler claimed that 'the story wasn't "wrong" in the journalistic sense of "inaccurate."')

___An Inconvenient Truth...Or Convenient Fiction? is an American documentary film by Dr Steven F. Hayward, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The film, produced by the Pacific Research Institute and filmed at the Heritage Foundation, disputes many of the claims in the film An Inconvenient Truth, arguing that it goes too far in predictions of doom. Dr Hayward generally believes that the Earth's environment is far more resilient than public opinion would think. "Global warming extremists" "distort the science, grossly exaggerate the risks, argue that anyone who disagrees with them is corrupt, and suggest that solutions are easy and cheap," and that dealing with the issue in such a manner creates "an all too convenient fiction."

___Five years ago, Al Gore predicted the North Pole’s ice cap would become a fond memory, a casualty of the raging inferno of global warming. The “entire North Polar ice cap will be gone in five years,” he solemnly told a German TV audience.

___Mr. Gore’s deadline has passed, and neither Santa Claus, Rudolph and the other reindeer, nor the polar bears are looking for a life raft. There were 7.3 million square miles of Arctic ice on Dec. 7, 2008. Fast-forward five years, and there are still 7.3 million square miles of Arctic ice, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. This figure does go up and down with a natural cycle of melting and freezing, but the total today is within 5 percent of what it has been for the past 30 years.

___In “The Inconvenient Truth,” the country’s foremost doomsayer warned that the world’s sea levels would rise 20 feet as a result of the polar ice melting. Mr. Gore saw dire portents in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Two weeks after the storm hit, Mr. Gore announced that “the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming.”

___Wrong again. The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended Nov. 30, was the meekest since 1982. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that “no major hurricanes formed in the Atlantic basin [for the] first time since 1994.” This was despite 19 additional years with carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere.

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