Founding Father's quotes/ economy

I am starting out this email with a couple of quotes from our founding fathers. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do and recognize how far we have drifted from them.

1, I am for doing what is good to the poor, but I different in opinion in the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. ( BEN FRANKLIN)

2, Government is not reason, not elegance, government is brute force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master. (GEORGE WASHINGTON)

3, When people find a way to vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. (BEN FRANKLIN)

4, The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those willing to work and give it to those who will not. (THOMAS JEFFERSON).

Here is something that I am sure most if not all of you have not heard before but yet impacted everyone's lives. Around September 15th this comes from a Congressman from Pennsylvania during a interview on cspan. It is titled " the day the economy almost died". On this date there was a meltdown of the money market funds. This is what started the the current financial crises that we are facing. Around 11:00 am, the federal reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of the money market accounts to the tune of 550 BILLION DOLLARS in the span of 1 to 2 hours. The treasury opened up the window and pumped in 105 BILLION Dollars into the system but quickly realized they could not stop it. It is considered in the halls of the government the electronic version of a run on the banks. They decided to close down the money market accounts for the day, and announced a guarantee of 250 thousand dollars per account so there would not be any further panic. If they had not done that, and would have allowed it to continue, their estimation was that by 2:00 pm, 550 TRILLION DOLLARS would have been drawn out of the United States and would have collapsed the entire economy of the United States. Furthermore, with 24 Hours, the world economy would have collapsed. This was done purposefully by someone! We still do not know who did this. All we know is that with the span of about an hour, 550 Billion dollars left the United States. Changing subjects now, It looks like the stimulus ( spending ) package is going to pass the Senate. It has been reduced from 925 Billion Dollars to 890 Billion Dollars. I do not think there are enough people who are awake to call Washington and make their voices heard and so the spending package is going to pass and the debt it will place on our citizens will be passed not only to our children but our grandchildren as well. It has taken us 200+ years to accumulate the amount of deficit we are producing since September. To give you an idea of how much a Trillion Dollars is, If you take thousand dollar bills and stack them on top of each other, you will have a stack over 68 miles high. To put it another way, The debt we are putting on our children is equivalent to having spent 4 million dollars a day every since the birth of our nation, we would still have an additional 50 years of spending before we would match it. Think about the immenseness of these numbers. We will never dig ourselves out of this.

Additionally, there is a part in this bill that initiates the integration of Universal Health Care. What does this mean? The government will have all medical records from every doctor in the United States centrally located at an office within the government and whenever your doctor decides you need a specific test done, he or she must first consult this government advisor who will not be part of any medical establishment, but rather another Washington Bureaucrat. The advisor will have to say weather or not you can have that test because the government is paying for it. Furthermore, if you decide to appeal the decision of the advisor, it can and will take up to 18 months for them to reach a decision concerning your care.

This is not a conspiracy, this is in the spending bill that the Senate just passed. There are many, many more items in this bill that deserve mentioning but I am just alerting you to one of them. It is up to you to do your own homework and decide if socialized medicine is really what you want. Furthermore, it is up to you to decide if you want your country to be socialist or not. It is already there, but it can be turned around if enough people wake up and find their voices. You inherited a free country, it is your responsibility to ensure your children have the same. Do your part, call your legislature and spread this information to all your friends and acquaintances. Earl;