Boston Tea Party Response to the 2010 State of the Union Address

President Obama claims “that if we did not act” on “an economy rocked by
severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a
government deeply in debt” that “we might face a second depression.” I’d
like to remind the President that his actions, as well as Congressional
actions and those of the Federal Reserve have not helped, but instead
caused higher inflation ad more federal debt. In fact, the Federal
government’s deficit from 2009 was the largest in American history. And
contrary to his opinion, “the worst” has not passed. Declining prices of
houses are not the problem, the problem was the “housing bubble” caused by
lose credit & risky lending, much of which was backed by the government.
The “decline” in “value” is nothing more than a return to where the prices
should have been. Attempting to keep prices high is nothing more than
trying to re-inflate a bubble that has already burst – and never should
have been inflated to begin with.

The President also claims he made the “financial rescue program”
“transparent and accountable.” Yet, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both refuse to tell Congress which
banks received “bailout” money. And just 3 months ago the Recovery
Accountability and Transparency Board was exposed for having posted false
data, claiming 440 “phantom districts” had received nearly $6.4 billion
and only “saved or created” 28429.7 jobs. How is that “transparent”? More
importantly, how has the “recovered” money been handled? Has that money
been removed from circulation? It was “created” by the Federal Reserve
before it was given to the banks; if it isn’t removed from the money
supply, it will only further increase inflation. Until banks are no longer
allowed to practice the fraud known as fractional reserve banking and
interest rates are no longer kept artificially low the financial markets
will not be “stable”. There will continue to be “booms & busts.”

The President claims to have “cut taxes for 95% of working families… for
small businesses…. for first-time homebuyers… for parents trying to
care for their children & for 8 million Americans paying for college.”
These were NOT tax cuts, they were tax credits. By doing so, the President
& Congress are trying to encourage certain actions. He also claims to have
added two million jobs, the vast majority of which are government jobs,
most of the remainder are dependent on government contracts.
While I applaud his plan to eliminate capital gains taxes on small
businesses, I’d like to ask that instead of proposing more “tax credits”
and “incentives” he ask Congress to eliminate the income tax & abolish the
IRS. Doing so would greatly encourage economic growth without “steering”
their actions to those preferred by a group of bureaucrats.

The President laid out an energy policy that doesn’t allow individual
choices about alternative energy sources. While I support alternative
energy, it is not and should not be the government’s job to dictate which
energy sources people use.

He also claimed, again, that further government involvement in “health
care” will reduce yearly budget deficits and somehow cause medical costs
to go down, something that hasn’t happened since the government first
involved itself in the health care industry in 1965 with the creation of
Medicare.

The President says he wants to “freeze” spending, but “spending related to
our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be
affected.” And says he’s identified $20 billion in savings for next year –
$20 billion out of a $4 trillion budget is only a drop in the bucket –
0.5% (½ of 1 percent) to be exact, which is the equivalent of the average
household saving $251. But, I digress, President Obama claims he “go
through the budget line by line to eliminate programs that we can’t afford
and don’t work.” How about comparing the budget with the Constitution and
eliminating what isn’t authorized by the Constitution? Doing so would
result in cutting approximately 60% of federal spending and drastically
reduce or eliminate the amount of unfunded future liabilities – currently
estimated at $107 trillion. The government is bankrupt, the only solution
is decreasing spending, not simply “freezing” spending on certain
programs.

I would like to encourage the President to reconsider his foreign policy
and adopt the foreign policy of Thomas Jefferson, that of “Peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations–entangling alliances with none.”
This involves not only “trade agreements” – true free trade requires no
treaty – but also military intervention. There is no Constitutional
justification for having troops stationed in over 130 countries around the
world, nor the two “wars” that are being waged. the troops should be
brought home immediately.

The President talks about a lack of “faith” in the institutions, but i
think it’s a lack of respect. One of the reasons the people don’t trust
the federal government is because neither the Congress, the Judicial or
the Executive has any respect for the Constitution – the document that
established federal authority – or individual liberties. You give respect
to get respect! Why should anyone respect any government if the members of
that government don’t respect their constituents?

All in all, the President wants to continue expanding the size & scope of
the government while decreasing the amount of individual freedoms. I’m
again reminded of the word of Thomas Jefferson, “I would rather be exposed
to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending
too small a degree of it.”

Sincerely,
Darryl W. Perry
2016 candidate for President of the United States of America
http://dwp2016.org
At-Large Representative Boson Tea Party National Committee
http://BostonTea.us
Managing Editor Free Patriot Press
http://FreePatriot-Press.com