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We will not be mocked and marginalized!
Mathew Staver, Chairman Liberty Counsel Action
Liberty Counsel Action's message on our nation's
financial crisis has been clear and consistent. We
will not be marginalized! Arrogant elected officials
MUST be forced to accept the fact that their very
offices exist through "the consent of the governed!"
Read my urgent message below - Mat.
The "Budget Control Act of 2011," was passed and signed
into law Tuesday by President Obama. Before the ink was
dry, the political spin was spreading as fast as the liberal
media could possibly "report" it.
In the aftermath of August 2nd, here is the truth
fiscal conservatives now face: This bill was yet
another product of crisis management (a "crisis"
that was most likely not legitimate in the first
place) and it does absolutely nothing to reduce the
federal deficit!
In fact, the $2.4 trillion in "cuts" are actually reductions
in future spending, which still allows Congress to act on
"baseline budgeting." Since the "baseline" assumes ever-
increasing spending levels, the "cuts" in the so-called
"Budget Control Act of 2011" will in reality result in
another $7 trillion in automatic increases over the next
decade!
So the real effect of this bill is to "increase our
spending at a decreasing rate," and THAT fiscal
delusion is somehow being heralded as "spending cuts!"
Further, some of the proposed "savings" in the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) scoring came from anticipating the end
of the Bush-era tax breaks. Of course, Barack Obama, Harry
Reid, and other spendthrifts are vowing to end the Bush tax
cuts at the earliest possible opportunity in order to
effectively get the tax hikes they had to "give up" in order
to get the debt ceiling raised.
If this all seems a bit confusing, that's because the
negotiating parties all needed to obfuscate what no one
could admit: We STILL haven't begun to address our
outrageous, out-of-control spending and we are STILL
kicking this disaster down the years to fall on
subsequent generations of Americans!
++Liberals are shedding crocodile tears over their "loss."
Leftist voices are calling this a "conservative
victory" only because they didn't get EVERYTHING
they wanted, sulking like the spoiled lawmakers
they've become after more than two years in a
Democrat-controlled Congress patronizing the whims
of a socialist President.
Nancy Pelosi has already predicted that this raise in the
debt ceiling will last less than 18 months, which nonetheless
gets liberals past the 2012 election cycle.
++ Liberty Counsel Action is holding our lawmakers accountable!
In a letter to one of our Liberty Counsel Action team members,
Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) wrote,
"While today we feel the pain of past decisions, let us
have the resolve to protect our nation's future from the
deception that comes with the belief that the principles
of economic reason apply to everyone but ourselves."
Representative Forbes called for a "constitutional solution to
put an end to the spending-driven debt crisis and save our
children and grandchildren from a bankrupt future." As you may
know, Forbes supported the Cut, Cap and Balance initiative,
which passed in the House but was promptly killed in the Senate.
Congratulations to Representative Forbes and the other
lawmakers who saw through the smoke and mirrors of the
"Budget Control Act of 2011." And we join him in calling
for passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment at the
earliest possible time!
Soon, congressional votes on the key issues we are most
concerned about will be reported in the inaugural Liberty
Counsel Action Congressional Scorecard due to be released
later this summer.
For the record, Liberty Counsel Action is scoring any
legislator's "yea" vote on the recently passed debt deal
as a negative mark in our Scorecard. Rest assured, we
WILL hold the "crisis creators" accountable!
We are growing quickly both in numbers and
impact, but Liberty Counsel Action needs your help to do all
that we have been commissioned to do.
Please consider making a special financial gift to Liberty
Counsel Action today. Your gift of any amount will help us
further our God-given mission to advance pro-life, pro-faith,
and pro-freedom causes impacting our nation's culture.
Together, we will make a crucial difference in this nation!
Please click here to make a gift:
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++Fiscally conservative Americans are growing in influence!
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 22 percent of
Americans supported the "Budget Control Act of 2011" and
consider it to be a totally compromised bill. Most doubt
it will actually cut spending (with which we wholeheartedly
agree).
Christian statesman Chuck Colson recently wrote this:
".the Pew Research Center released a survey on public
attitudes towards the budget debate. Only two percent
of the American people said they approved of the
government's behavior. Let me repeat that, because
you may think I misspoke. Only two percent of the
American people approve of the government's behavior."
"This is one of the most chilling statistics I've ever
seen, because representative democracy only works at the
consent of the governed."
++Liberty Counsel Action was founded to oppose this kind of
tyranny!
In America, "we the people" issue to lawmakers and government
executives OUR "consent of the governed!" Advancing this core
tenet of Liberty is the very reason Liberty Counsel Action was
formed! We came into being in order to be a force to be
reckoned with by leftist and radical groups that are trying
to destroy America's foundation of freedom.
Together, we will impact the structure of legislation
to come.
Together, we will impact the thinking of legislators
crafting these bills, laws, and budgets.
Together, we will impact the outcome of the 2012
elections!
++Liberty Counsel Action amplifies YOUR voice in the ongoing
struggle to defend freedom!
Patrick, I believe that we are destined to be among
the most significant organizations impacting America's
culture and that we are already making a crucial difference
in this nation!
Over the final week of the debt ceiling debate, Liberty
Counsel Action team members flooded the Senate with over
50,000 faxes. That's an average of 500 fax pages per office!
Believe me when I say that your prayers and actions DID make
a difference. You heard from me and diverse media sources that
Tea Party and fiscal conservatives were overwhelming Capitol
Hill phones and Congressional offices were being flooded.
You heard it reported that lawmakers were feeling the pressure
from US. We kept the fiscally conservative dialogue ALIVE!
Believe me, passage of an ultra-liberal bill would have been
possible except for the pressure that citizens like you and I
put on our elected officials.
++Consider what we accomplished together in this battle!
With the help of tens of thousands of like-minded American
patriots, Liberty Counsel Action consistently called attention
to the "two views of America" that is at the heart of the
ongoing fiscal debate.
Just one day after signing the bill, President Obama was back
in his bully pulpit calling for a new round of "fair taxes,"
yet another code phrase for more job-killing tax hikes.
Without OUR voice, it would have already happened!
Because our supporters took action and made their collective
voices heard, the debate over Big Government and the explosive
growth of statism moved to center stage! And although there
will be many more battles on this issue ahead, we helped avert
the economic disaster that leftists claim "terrorists" like
us wanted all along!
What?! Leftists spend and "stimulate" the nation
into paralyzing debt and fiscal conservatives are
waging "jihad" (the latest slur from the New York
Times) against America?
But perhaps the most valuable contribution we made in the
debt ceiling fight was to underscore how important it is
that we turn out to vote and take back the United States
Senate and the executive branch in 2012. Elections have
consequences!
++For now, we must continue to "hold their feet to the fire"!
Today's culture of tyrannical leadership, cronyism, and
legislators who marginalize the wishes of their constituents
while displaying an arrogant, "I know better" attitude can no
longer be tolerated!
Our elected representatives MUST be regularly reminded
why they were elected and "encouraged" to do the jobs
they were sent to Washington to do!
But the fact is that Liberty Counsel Action needs your help
to do that "reminding" and successfully perform all the other
important jobs we have been commissioned to do.
Again, PLEASE consider making a financial gift to Liberty
Counsel Action today. Together, we will make a crucial
difference in this nation!
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I believe the pressure from Liberty Counsel Action team
members across the nation is having a real impact. Your
generous financial gift today will enable us to continue
monitoring and acting on the vital issues of the day.
Please go here to help:
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And thank you, as always, for being a valued team member
of Liberty Counsel Action!
God bless you,
Mathew Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
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August 4, 2011