Transcript of Melissa Pehle-Hill's speech from the Tea Party in Tyler Texas.First let me say I’m thrilled to see all of you here and I want to thank you for coming. It does my heart good to see people out here readying for the fight to regain our country.
So, how do you like the tour of Europe that Barack Obama went on? It looked like he was still campaigning, didn’t it? And that brings two questions to my mind—what is he campaigning for and why are we footing the bill? I ask these questions with the full realization that all Presidents visit foreign dignitaries after taking office, but in this case it is different. After all, all previous Presidents upon arriving in Normandy visited the graves of our fallen soldiers and he didn’t and none of them before were going around apologizing for the behavior of America, saying we are arrogant and that we don’t acknowledge the leadership role of Europe enough. Can you imagine the outrage from the Mass Media if President Bush had uttered those words in his sleep, let alone on foreign soil? Or President Clinton for that matter—considering they would actually likely know if he said it in his sleep.
And, I just have to add this before going back to talking about the misuse of our tax dollars—what do you think about our President bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia?
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We must also not forget that while at the G20 conference he signed an agreement with the other nation members placing oversight of our economic institutions in the hands of an international banking group. Is that what you want? Do you want the world telling us how to do our banking and overseeing what we do financially? These Tea Parties were planned to protest the wild spending going on in Washington by the controlling party. The Bush Administration spent a lot, but it was on national security following an attack on our homeland and whether we agree with the war in Iraq or not there is one point we must not overlook—there has not been another attack on American soil since 9-11! That said, both sides need to get this message loud and clear—you work for us, not the other way around and we are more entitled to our money than you are!
Here in Tyler, you are lucky to have a wonderful man representing you in Washington—Congressman Louie Gohmert. I wish we could clone him because he symbolizes what we need in Washington. He is an honest man who is there trying to do the job he was sent there to do—represent the people who voted for him. He is not up there voting for bills without reading them like most of the rest. He is not up there voting for an outrageous national debt that our grandchildren and great grandchildren will still be paying off. He is up there doing his job and fighting for the rest of us.
Here in Texas we are also lucky to have a governor fighting against the strings most of the other governors are simply tying their people down with. And, not only is he working for us in regards to the stimulus package overloads, he is also working to get HCR 50, written by Rep. Creighton, passed which states, in no uncertain terms that Texas is a sovereign state and not subject to complete federal control per our Tenth Amendment which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." We can be doubly proud with the realization that he was one of only four willing to stand up and say no to more debt for their constituents.
But they are only two. Yes there are others out there who are truly working for the people, but there are way too many others who are up there acting like they are on a spending spree with their parent’s credit card with one hand while stripping us of our freedom with the other. The corruption in Washington needs to be stopped, dead in its tracks! Any member of Congress that voted for the stimulus package needs to find themselves unemployed at the next election. No exceptions! We can’t afford to overlook it this time or we have only ourselves to blame when we get even higher taxes for decades to come, or worse case, the country going into bankruptcy.
In the supposed stimulus package our government gave $50 million to the National Endowment of the Arts, $1.8 billion to repair National Park Service facilities, $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs or training camps for our kids, $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities, over $4 billion dollars for neighborhood stabilization activities, also known as ACORN and groups like it. And for all you smokers out there you ought to love this one--$75 million for "smoking cessation activities." Do you think that means the plan is to do more than raise the price on cigarettes and more like banning them? That, my friends, is not democracy at work nor the actions of the government of a free people—that is the socialist regime deciding whether we are allowed to smoke or not. Where will that end and when will the over-spending and over-taxing end?
The answer to this one is that it won’t end until we remove the controlling party from power. The agenda of the far-left is no longer simply a liberal approach to life as it once was. Now their agenda is the socialization of the United States, and they are the ones in power in the form of Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.
We have much more to fear other than higher taxes, and crooks such as Tim Giethner being Secretary of Treasury though that one is very serious as a man who claims he made a $35,000 "mistake" is now the Secretary of Treasury over all of our money. We have Obama’s desire to redistribute wealth. As you may have figured out, from the day Obama took office, going after the American Dream is only to be done if you feel a real need to pay for the medical care of illegals and all of the rest of the pork. And that is not what our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution.
In the Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8, our Founding Fathers said of taxes, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, and Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States". There are no references to foreign aid, giving ACORN money, or paying medical bills for the illegal aliens rushing across our borders unabated. There was no intent to take huge chunks of our income and spend it on whatever someone thought up. In fact, the Amendment allowing Congress to levy taxes on our income wasn’t ratified until 1913 by the Taft Administration.
In regards to taxation one Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson said, "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." So, by his words would not the taxation we are now subjected to be tyrannical? Thomas Jefferson also clarified the job of the government when he said, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." Once again we are back to the fact that they are supposed to provide for the common defense, not the common bankruptcy.
It is time for us to speak up and tell them in Washington that we aren’t going to take it anymore. And at this time also remember other words spoken by Thomas Jefferson, "I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." That is what we are doing here, as they did with the Boston Tea Party. We are telling the powers that be that we are watching and we will not be taxed into bankruptcy, nor will we let them do that to our children and grandchildren. It is up to us to start this fight today and keep it going until those in Washington are dancing to our tune rather than us dancing to theirs.
In closing I’d like to repeat words spoken by a great man a scant 20 years ago, "If we loose this war and in so doing loose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to loose did the least to prevent its happening. But I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedom’s intended for us by the Founding Fathers." " Whether we believe in our capacity for self government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant Capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." Those words, ladies and gentlemen, were spoken by Ronald Reagan.
God Bless and God Bless America!
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