A NATION OF LAWS

 

The DC Circuit Court recently handed down a 2 to 1 decision in a case entitled Halbig v Burwell.  That decision sent shock waves through the Beltway because it ruled that anyone who receives health care through an exchange established  by the Federal Government and not by a state is not eligible for and should not receive a Federal subsidy in the form of a tax credit or other relief.  "Section 36B plainly makes subsidies available in the Exchanges established by states," wrote Judge Thomas Griffith, who was joined in the majority decision by Senior Circuit Judge Raymond Randolph.

 

The  ACA was purposely designed to make the states the portals whereby "ObamaCare" was delivered.  Confining the subsidies to qualified individuals who purchased their health insurance through a state created "Marketplace " was a deliberate effort to create incentives for the states to participate, as those who conceived and wrote the law intended.  The language is as the court noted, plain and unambiguous leaving little to no confusion as to its intent. 

 

36 states however, refused to establish an exchange thereby requiring the Federal government to step in and create a Federal Exchange.  As a result, 4.7 million Americans who enrolled through the Federal exchange and who have been receiving subsidies due to an IRS ruling which turned the plain language of the statute on its head, may down the road lose this assistance.  This loss is estimated to  increase the cost of their coverage by a factor times four or greater and would gut "ObamaCare" to the bone. 

 

 A joint investigation of the House Oversight and Ways and Means Committees found this rule, which the working group tasked with developing regulations for the ACA believed to be contrary to the language of the law, was written at the insistence of political appointees in Treasury and the IRS and in collusion with officials of HHS.  

 

 

An hour after this decision was announced the Fourth Circuit Court in Richmond arrived at an entirely opposite  decision unanimously in an almost identical case named King v Burwell.  This division by Appellate Courts is seen as an automatic path to the Supreme Court ( SCOTUS) for final determination.  The White House in an attempt to offset this possibility  moved to have the three Judge DC Court decision reviewed  en banc or by all 11 Judges, three of whom were recently named to the court by the Obama administration.  Two other cases await decision in other circuits.

 

Judges Griffith and Randolph however have identified and elevated a core issue in these cases, that rises above  the clear language of the law and now haunts it along with other ghosts.  The main issue now is the sovereignty of the Legislative Branch to write laws in plain language and not have the Executive  or Judicial branches change their meaning via regulation, executive order or opinion. 

 

Ironically Halbig now resides in the same constitutional domain as Speaker Boehner's law suit against the President  where we are facing basic questions.  Who in this Constitutional Republic has the sole responsibility to make law, enforce law and interpret law?  The confusion that these questions insinuate lie at the heart of the larger constitutional crisis this President and this Attorney General has put the country in. 

 

The defenders of "Executive legislation" will probably insist that they are not legislating at all and will instead focus on the word "establish" and argue that when a state demurs  in "establishing" an exchange , they are simply asking the Federal Government to "establish" one for them so that in reality it is not a matter of ownership but rather of methodology that arrives at the same end. 

 

Don't laugh, Eric holder tried something similar in trying to make the District of Columbia  a state without going through the process of amending the Constitution.  Nor should any one forget all of the Presidents lies about keeping your health plans which were later explained as not being as specific as they should have been. 

 

They will also attempt to defend the notion that it was the intent of Congress, or in this case the Democrats in Congress, to make sure that subsidies were available for all even when the record will not sustain that point of view. 

 

For example Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist who was instrumental in developing the law and who has bragged that " he knows more about the law than any other economist" said  at least twice in 2012 that "What's important to remember about this is if you are a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits-but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill.  So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billion of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges.  But, you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this."

 

Now Gruber is shamelessly changing his story because the political and fiscal strong arm tactics towards the states failed and is saying that it was a typo or a "speak-o you know like a typo". Such is the "ugly" politics of ObamaCare, which is after all the law of which Nancy Pelosi famously said "we will have to pass it in order to see what's in it"! 

 

Every day it seems a little clearer that the "sausage" the sausage makers made in this law is not even made of meat and is truly inedible.  Upholding Judges Griffith and Randolph will cause great confusion and hardship but upending the separation of powers is a far greater and lasting calamity to the Republic.  When one or more of the branches decide to escape from the tree it means that both branch and tree will perish.  Given all of this the only real fundamental issue for the next election will be the questions... are we still and do we want to be... a nation of laws? Or are we satisfied in not being who we used to be?

 

ERLANDSSON

 

 

HE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY

 

On Thursday July 17, 2014. Israel began a land, sea and air incursion into the Gaza Strip, in order to neutralize Hamas, one of the most pestilent Islamic terror groups on earth.  On that same day Pro Russian separatists, most probably working with or under the command of Russian Federation Spetsnaz forces in the rebel Donets region of the Ukraine, used a very sophisticated ground to air missile system to shoot down a  Malaysian Air 777 passenger jet  killing all 298 on board.  This included 80 children, 3 infants and at least one American citizen.

 

While all of this was unfolding, Barack Obama went to two fund raisers in Manhattan.  Six days later as the fighting in Gaza intensified and the bodies of the dead from MH-17 were put into body bags , he jetted out to the west coast for six more.

 

This was not the first time he has shown such bizarre detachment.  He did exactly the same thing the day after Benghazi,  when the Russians invaded the Crimea,  and most recently in Texas at the peak of the crisis of the "Border Children.  He steadfastly refused to visit the southern border or any of the detention camps where the children were being warehoused.

 

Having to face the predictable outcomes of his awful domestic and foreign policies is not Obamas strong suit.  His vision of being President is  first and foremost being adored by either mega-rich celebrities in Hollywood where he is the star and they are relegated to supporting roles or  Texas oil men or bankers, hedge fund moguls and financial titans from Wall Street  or billionaire "geeks" from Silicone Valley... and the list goes on. 

 

These are the comforts zones for the strangest man ever to be President.  These venues appeal to him even more than the golf course or extravagant vacations which have now cost the taxpayers over $44 million.

 

He needs the adulation, the applause, the grinning perfect teeth in tanned and botoxed faces attached to whippet  thin  men and women who have taken their bodies in for a "do over" and "tune up" more than once.  So many of his high on vanity fan base search for eternal youth.  He searches for perpetual worship.  To paraphrase the fictional Frank Underwood, he loves to be worshipped "like a shark loves blood".

 

The nation and the world descends into chaos largely caused either by his inability to lead or a malevolent plan to destroy ( take your pick the outcome is the same) and he seems not to care a wit...not a fig...not a smidgen.  He gave a speech...his work is done...it's now up to someone else...the buck stops over there!

 

His obsequious  and fawning press  and media, while beginning to slowly slink away from him, will still provide him cover because so many of them are professionally invested in him being the messiah they have proclaimed him to be.  But nothing stops the music so fast as when the first acolyte says "wait, I've heard this song before and I'm bored" and then the realization begins that he is a one hit wonder and not the Beatles.

 

His lack of interest in us or in the disasters he has and is still causing us, demonstrates a cold blooded and almost reptilian streak that does not comport with the traditional role of a President being the "father of the nation"  Instead his chief concern seems to be that we not make a face or grimace as we stand behind him and listen to the same speech he has given for over five and a half years.  We are his props not his friends...not his constituents...not the people he has sworn to protect.

 

His Presidency has also been the Presidency of the never ending campaign where there are no hard decisions no specifics, and no finger pointing at him only finger pointing by him.  He eschews the art of governing because he never learned it or bought into democracy at "Alinsky University".  He learned instead the arts of vagueness, deflection, "ad hominem" attack, slander and disingenuousness..

 

This is the skill set that got him to where he is today...an ongoing appeal to the emotions targeted to the superficiality of the age we live in.  This is the act he knows and the one he will continue to perform in the light of day. None but a few know what role he assumes in the dark of night. 

 

Fundraisers, meamwhile, never become extinct and there in the salons of the rich and famous, the banquet rooms of the high and mighty , the beach front Xanadus of the "glitterati" he becomes the President  he loves to be and he works hard for the money.

 

ERLANDSSON

 

2016  

Both Republican and Democrat presidential candidates should understand that to win in 2016 will mean changing the dangerous trajectory that Obama and the "progressives" have inflicted on the nation.  In a bi-partisan manner, if possible, they should  demonstrate to an exhausted, skeptical, fearful and angry public that the country can be turned around and led to growth, strength, full time jobs with good wages, individual freedom and prosperity.

This will mean the return of "certainty" to our domestic and foreign affairs, reestablishing the rule of law and renewing national fidelity to the Constitution.  At a minimum these will require a sharp curtailment of the administrative state that the left so reveres.  It will also necessitate a well thought out  and long overdue shrinkage of a bloated and morbidly obese Federal government.

  

Regulatory and other governmental agencies that have become power mad should be abolished and/or de-funded and only their most fundamental and essential legal functions should be preserved.  The IRS, EPA, CSB, NLRB, OSHA, NRC, BLM, NMB, FERC AND FEC have all violated their mandates and are no longer trusted.  Add to this, DoJ, DVA  and HHS which also act like imperious thugs and you begin to see a government out of control, behaving like criminals and contemptuous of the people who pay their salaries. 

The country must grow and become the most prosperous nation on the globe once again.  We must become energy independent in such a way that it results in us have the cheapest and most varied amount of power in the world causing investments and job creation to flow into the country.

We must fix what the Heritage Foundation calls our "confused, unfocused and dysfunctional"  immigration system by closing the southern border and then rethinking logically and systematically, what our immigration priorities will be.  For those here legally and illegally criminal behavior must result in immediate deportation after conviction and punishment.  Amnesty with a path to citizenship should be limited to those who were brought here as small children and those who serve honorably in the military.  Work visas should be available for those who have skills in areas experiencing difficulties in filling openings or capital to invest in legitimate job creating businesses.  Interior enforcement should be robust and unambiguous.  The primary goal of immigration should be patriotic assimilation into an equal opportunity society and not multicultural assimilation into a dependency society with open borders.

We must insist upon fair and honest elections that are verifiable.  The dead, the fictional, the clones, the 

Doppelgängers ,  the ineligible,  and the non citizens must stop registering and voting.  Rasmussen reports that 68% of the country believe that elections are rigged for incumbents and there have been voting irregularities reported in 46 states. 

Growth and prosperity is also directly linked to a total overhaul of the tax code which now smothers the economy with both crony capitalism and crony socialism.  The trillions of dollars earned and taxed abroad should not be taxed again if they are brought home.  This alone would begin to reduce the additional trillions of dollars now being invested abroad  instead of at home.  Tax rates for personal and business should be lowest per capita on earth and the tax base should be the broadest.  Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley need to be either repealed or redrawn so that banks can function productively and the market can function efficiently while both sectors operate transparently and honestly.

Our future workers, citizens and leaders must be the best educated in the world.  This means that the union monopoly should be ended and parents given as much choice as possible in a new globally competitive elementary and secondary school environment dominated by great teachers and not absurd work rules.  The emphasis on STEM education should be matched by equally emphatic  efforts to teach History, Civics, English, Literature, Art and Music. 

Academia  needs to become ideologically and politically diverse.  Our higher education system now currently resembles something out of the  old Soviet Union.  Free speech has given way to political correctness on steroids and tuition for this ghastly parody of university education has been stimulated by PC requirements of the Federal Government and its monopoly on student aid.  Public monies  should follow free speech and diversity should be focused on ideas and not group think and quotas.

The social safety net must be repaired or it will disappear.   Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are busting budgets on the Federal and/or state levels.  Healthcare alone represents over 20% of the GDP and ObamaCare will only make that number grow while delivering more expensive sub-standard care to the majority  of Americans accompanied by millions of man hours of administrative paperwork now required of health care providers.  ObamaCare needs to be replaced with a market driven program and bureaucrats need to get out from between patients and their doctors.  The over 80 programs for children and adults must be streamlined and sent to the states in order to end duplication, fraud and exorbitant administrative costs.

We need to be the most powerful military nation in the world.  This President is in the process of unilaterally disarming us.  His pattern of weakness, indecision and appeasement has created the most dangerous threat to world peace and stability in history. To reverse this we must make the nation invulnerable to any kind of attack including CYBER, EMP and WMD.  Our defense and intelligence forces should be second to none and able to prevent or respond to both symmetrical, asymmetrical or terrorist threats and challenges.  Our allies and our enemies and any and all in between should understand with perfect clarity and certainty that threats to peace and freedom will be met with resolve and overwhelming strength.  In short we need the defensive capability to withstand any attack and the offensive capability to deter an attack or obliterate anyone who attacks us.

We now live in a weak country with a diminishing and under educated workforce, massive dependency on the Federal Government, infinitesimal annual growth,  crushing debt and sky high annual deficits, a threatened social safety net and health care system, a degraded and demoralized military, non existent national borders and Federal agencies making up law as they go along. 

All of the above is now sustained by a lack of intelligent and mature leadership that places country above party.  2016 will be...no it must be... the election that restores America. 

ERLANDSSON

ABORTION AND OTHER "SACRAMENTS"

 

Abortion has become a secular sacrament for the secular left. 

 

The response by so called "feminists" and Democratic female politicians to the "Hobby Lobby" decision would have you believe that Sharia law  has just been instituted in the United States.  The irony in this is that normally these same actors are silent about the real evils of Sharia inflicted on women in Islamic countries.  They explain this by not wanting to be" Islamophobic" and so it goes in the "progressive asylum" that America has become.

 

We have heard from Hillary and NOW and Sandra Fluke and Elizabeth Warren and Debbie Wasserman- Schultz and of course  Nancy Pelosi, who just the day before told us that border states and Mexico are just one big community with a river running through it.  "San Fran Nan" also seems unfazed by a Cardinal's call to deny her communion.  I supposed she sees it as just another way to lose weight.

 

 

Hillary's denouncement is also ironic since the decision was based on the regulatory requirement to provide birth control  being a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993.  Put more succinctly this was not an "ObamaCare" statutory requirement ...it was an Obama personal requirement.

 

The always foaming at the mouth Dems see the Burwell v Hobby Lobby decision handed down on June 30th as a new opportunity to whip up the base in order to avoid disaster at the polls in November.  The very idea that people who own the majority share of for profit companies might have genuinely held religious beliefs seems quite beyond their ken.

 

In reality however many do understand it...they just hate it.  Religion to them is in the words of Karl Marx "the opium of the masses".  In response to that I would quote Groucho Marx who said "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you've got it made".  Faking honesty and fair dealing has become the leitmotif of all progressives and particularly progressive women who try to frame the issue as a mostly Catholic attack on "Women's Health Rights".  I mean "get your Rosaries off my ovaries" has such intellectual heft to it.  It's sheer poetry if you are a Fascist or a lunatic or both.

 

 

The basic question posed in "Hobby Lobby" is ignored by those shrieking about a conservative war on women and in fact ignored by SCOTUS in their decision.  That question is why  would any person believe that I or any other citizen should subsidize another persons sex life?  Where does this new right come from? 

 

The left loves to make things that are the personal responsibility of  individuals into "rights" that become the responsibility of everyone.  They do this to enlarge the powers of the state and diminish the rights of each person.  They create faux victims who henceforth demand and are entitled to social justice which today is the only growth industry in the United States.

 

The fact is that the decision left intact 16 out of 20 birth control products which would be covered by Hobby Lobby.  The 4 that were exempted were abortifacient  products which violated the religious rights of the owners. 

 

Justice Ginsburg was so outraged by the 5 to 4 decision that she read her dissent from the bench and warned “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.”  The fear is that this decision would proliferate and would lead to the denial of vaccinations, blood transfusions and I suppose if you take it to the absurd the right to commit honor killings because of religious beliefs.  I have no doubt in the Bedlam created deliberately by  progressives that this indeed will be the case since their agenda is to strip reason and judgement from our public and private affairs in order to bring down American democracy and traditional culture.  Notwithstanding all of the above,the decision was confined to the regulatory  mandate in question in this case.

 

 

 The argument today is  not about birth control.  It is about abortion, including efforts to deny lifesaving treatment to babies who survive botched abortions.

 

The majority of Americans oppose unlimited abortions on moral grounds. According to one poll,  58% of all Americans believe that all abortions should be banned.  According to Rasmussen, a plurality of 49% believe that private companies should  be exempted from providing coverage for abortion. 

 

This is a debate which has monumental and fundamental human and civil rights implications.  To turn it into sleazy political opportunism is to turn away from one of the great moral struggles in history

 

It is frightening to understand that we are but one Justice away from the legalization of a new proto-Fascist America where zealots like Sandra Fluke calls the shots and abortion becomes a secular sacrament for all of us.  Is this the dark world framed by  death that we want for our future? I say never..I say l'chaim...I say here's to life and here's to love.

 

  

 ERLANDSSON

 

ABORTION AND OTHER "SACRAMENTS"

 

Abortion has become a secular sacrament for the secular left. 

 

The response by so called "feminists" and Democratic female politicians to the "Hobby Lobby" decision would have you believe that Sharia law  has just been instituted in the United States.  The irony in this is that normally these same actors are silent about the real evils of Sharia inflicted on women in Islamic countries.  They explain this by not wanting to be" Islamophobic" and so it goes in the "progressive asylum" that America has become.

 

We have heard from Hillary and NOW and Sandra Fluke and Elizabeth Warren and Debbie Wasserman- Schultz and of course  Nancy Pelosi, who just the day before told us that border states and Mexico are just one big community with a river running through it.  "San Fran Nan" also seems unfazed by a Cardinal's call to deny her communion.  I supposed she sees it as just another way to lose weight.

 

 

Hillary's denouncement is also ironic since the decision was based on the regulatory requirement to provide birth control  being a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993.  Put more succinctly this was not an "ObamaCare" statutory requirement ...it was an Obama personal requirement.

 

The always foaming at the mouth Dems see the Burwell v Hobby Lobby decision handed down on June 30th as a new opportunity to whip up the base in order to avoid disaster at the polls in November.  The very idea that people who own the majority share of for profit companies might have genuinely held religious beliefs seems quite beyond their ken.

 

In reality however many do understand it...they just hate it.  Religion to them is in the words of Karl Marx "the opium of the masses".  In response to that I would quote Groucho Marx who said "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you've got it made".  Faking honesty and fair dealing has become the leitmotif of all progressives and particularly progressive women who try to frame the issue as a mostly Catholic attack on "Women's Health Rights".  I mean "get your Rosaries off my ovaries" has such intellectual heft to it.  It's sheer poetry if you are a Fascist or a lunatic or both.

 

 

The basic question posed in "Hobby Lobby" is ignored by those shrieking about a conservative war on women and in fact ignored by SCOTUS in their decision.  That question is why  would any person believe that I or any other citizen should subsidize another persons sex life?  Where does this new right come from? 

 

The left loves to make things that are the personal responsibility of  individuals into "rights" that become the responsibility of everyone.  They do this to enlarge the powers of the state and diminish the rights of each person.  They create faux victims who henceforth demand and are entitled to social justice which today is the only growth industry in the United States.

 

The fact is that the decision left intact 16 out of 20 birth control products which would be covered by Hobby Lobby.  The 4 that were exempted were abortifacient  products which violated the religious rights of the owners. 

 

Justice Ginsburg was so outraged by the 5 to 4 decision that she read her dissent from the bench and warned “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.”  The fear is that this decision would proliferate and would lead to the denial of vaccinations, blood transfusions and I suppose if you take it to the absurd the right to commit honor killings because of religious beliefs.  I have no doubt in the Bedlam created deliberately by  progressives that this indeed will be the case since their agenda is to strip reason and judgement from our public and private affairs in order to bring down American democracy and traditional culture.  Notwithstanding all of the above,the decision was confined to the regulatory  mandate in question in this case.

 

 

 The argument today is  not about birth control.  It is about abortion, including efforts to deny lifesaving treatment to babies who survive botched abortions.

 

The majority of Americans oppose unlimited abortions on moral grounds. According to one poll,  58% of all Americans believe that all abortions should be banned.  According to Rasmussen, a plurality of 49% believe that private companies should  be exempted from providing coverage for abortion. 

 

This is a debate which has monumental and fundamental human and civil rights implications.  To turn it into sleazy political opportunism is to turn away from one of the great moral struggles in history

 

It is frightening to understand that we are but one Justice away from the legalization of a new proto-Fascist America where zealots like Sandra Fluke calls the shots and abortion becomes a secular sacrament for all of us.  Is this the dark world framed by  death that we want for our future? I say never..I say l'chaim...I say here's to life and here's to love.

 

  

 ERLANDSSON

 

NO TAXATION WITHOUT A REAL INVESTIGATION

 

The IRS is a government agency on life support!  As many have said before me, it is and has been the most hated and feared agency in the history of the US.  Now it is also the most distrusted and despised.

 

Being hated as a part of a bureaucracy is not a fatal flaw but being mistrusted in a democracy is.  The American people will not for long countenance the scandal that is turning into a demand for a criminal investigation.  This IRS scandal is far more serious than the one that faced the Nixon Presidency where the "plumbers" and the President merely "endeavored" to use  the agency to attack their enemies. 

 

In the present situation, the feeling is mounting that crimes have been committed, a Special Prosecutor should be appointed and people should go to jail.

 

Lois Lerner has a history of inappropriate partisan activity and she comes across as contemptuous of both the Congress and the people who paid her salary but she and others could not have concocted and managed  this assault on the enemies of Obama, without orders from above.  Nine Democratic Senators   wanted to sic the IRS on 501 (c) (3) and 501 (c) (4) tax exempt applicants whom they believed privately were political enemies while claiming publicly they were law breakers but they would not have taken this unethical and probably illegal path without a White House which micro manages all things political...giving the OK.

 

Everyone who is found to be involved with this outrage should be investigated, prosecuted or impeached or thrown out of office.  The IRS should cease to exist and the monstrous, ridiculous and unintelligible Tax Code  should disappear with it.  This is the moment for serious tax reform with limited deductions and credits and lower rates for everyone across the board from personal to corporate to money earned by investments or earned outside of the country.

 

In the short term there should be no taxation without a real and thorough  investigation.  In the mid and far term there should be no taxation without clarity and simplification.  Lastly there should never again be created  an undemocratic, unaccountable and un-Americam governmental entity like the IRS.

 

On another note but directly related to the above is how most of the press and media is covering (or not covering) the entire  IRS debacle. 

 

The vast majority of what is now clearly Democratic or Obama press or media have failed to even mention the latest chapter of the IRS scandal...i.e. the lost emails.  Again despite the entirety of the calumny of this affair which has yet to see an end...it is a thousand times more egregious  then what Nixon tried to do.   Why is it that in that infamy, one could not escape for a moment, the wall to wall reporting about it?   The answer is that the so called "mainstream" press and media have stopped even trying to pretend that they are objective purveyors of the news.

 

They either don't report the story or they distort the facts of the story or they under report the story  or they lie.  They do all of the above with arrogant disregard for both  facts and the truth. 

 

In the case at hand they have failed to report on the targeting of Obamas' enemies and then failed to report on the administrations' cover up of that targeting and then failed to report on their failures to do either.

 

The Bill of Rights set aside special protections for the Fourth Estate because the press was yet another check and balance on the government.  If government and its practitioners should become inept, corrupt or immoral and neither of the other branches should protest or not be heard or paid attention to in their protest, then it was the job of the press to inform, alert and warn the true rulers of the nation...the people.

 

The press was supposed to be the sunlight that disinfected the wound  made on the body politic by villains, zealots and fools.  The press is supposed to be the sentinel on the watchtower of the Republic.

 

Todays' press and media phones it in.  Gallup now shows the favorability of the press at 22% and sinking.  It is a reflection of  a growing and shared perception that there seems to be not a smidgen of integrity left in the modern American Fourth Estate.

 

ERLANDSSON

 

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TODAY IS THE FOURTH OF JULY...WE HAVE SURVIVED 238 YEARS TOGETHER THROUGH REVOLUTION, INVASION, CIVIL WAR AND WORLD WARS, DEPRESSION, SLAVERY, SEGREGATION, ISLAMIC TERROR AND NOW SOCIALISM, FASCISM AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS...WE HAVE BUILT A NATION THAT IS UNIQUE AND EXCEPTIONAL  IN HISTORY AND THE ENVY OF THE WORLD...WE ARE  THE HOME OF IMMIGRANTS FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD AND WE SUCCEED BECAUSE IN RETURN FOR OUR REFUGE AND OUR FREEDOMS ALL WE ASK OF THOSE WHO COME HERE IS TO BECOME A TRUE AMERICAN AND LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND , FOLLOW OUR LAWS AND RESPECT OUR HISTORY BECAUSE NOW IT IS YOUR HISTORY...WE LIKE WHO WE ARE AND WE DON'T WANT TO BECOME WEAK, DIVIDED, AND IGNORANT... SO ON THIS FOURTH OF JULY... LET US EACH RENEW OUR INDIVIDUAL  OBLIGATION AS A CITIZEN TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH ANY AND ALL WHO WOULD TRY AND CHANGE US OR DESTROY US...