Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Dick Armey is the former House Majority Leader and an Economist from Texas. He was elected to Congress in 1984,and arrived in Washington as a novice. Dick, being an economist, was a strong believer in the policies of Ronald Reagan. He was a staunch supporter of his policies, which were revolutionary for Washington. Because of his background, Dick quickly rose through the ranks of his party in Washington and became the primary author of the “Contract with America.” That was actually a collection of ten bills that would be brought up for a vote during the first 100 days of a Republican-controlled Congress.
Bill Archer served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1970 to 2001. Bill was a lawyer and originally a Democrat who saw the light of failed Marxism and switched to the Republican Party in 1969. He later on represented Texas in the House of Representatives for 30 years, from 1971 until 2001. Bill’s last six years was as chairman of the most powerful committee, the House Ways and Means Committee.
Dick was for the Flat Tax and Bill was for the Retail Sales Tax. I found myself trying to negotiate between the two and that was the end of my effort to try to contribute in Washington and ended my naivety. I was sitting in Dick’s office and he said to me, “Marty, you know cycles.” He explained that he could not support Bill because without repealing the 16th Amendment that created the income tax, “when the Democrats get back in, we will have both.”
It was at that moment that I realized my effort was hopeless. I said: “Dick, you are right.”
An amendment to the Constitution may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose.
There is no way the Democrats were being honest. They knew they could NEVER create a Constitutional Amendment on abortion, gay marriage, or repealing the Income Tax. Such amendments are impossible for even getting passed in the House and Senate, they still must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.
Perhaps all the women who voted Democrat solely because of the lies they told about abortion will wake up and realize in politics, all is fair as in war. It NEVER has anything to do with truth.
I can run for office and promise whatever is fashionable to win. However, when you get to Washington, you are given a little greeting ceremony and then you are told that means nothing. You will be instructed what to vote for and that is why you see all these votes down party line. You NO LONGER vote for any politicians individually, you vote for the party and people in the backroom determine what will be the vote – the unelected bureaucrats.
So the Democrats outright lied to win. They could NEVER get abortion as a constitutional right – total BS just as repealing the 16th Amendment to end income taxes. We do not live in a Democracy for We the People have no direct right to vote on anything.
We live in a Republic which is becoming an Authoritarian Regime abandoning the foundation of civilization turning one group against another until the whole thing comes crashing down, Civilization exists ONLY when everyone benefits – not what we have today rising hatred and political arguments pitting man against his brother until mankind exists no more.
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One provision of the ‘Contract for America’ was term limits….Newt never called a vote on that one!
Wouldn’t matter, only slows down the process a little is all. The politicals run very little and can be swapped out in short order. The real dirtballs running the show are the career bureaucrats and
lobbyingbribery groups that write the laws. The politicals are just the scummy parasites that are the front men. Funny too, how most of them are lawyers…Oh my! Politicians lied to get elected???? This is a fuckin catastroph.
Get real, Marty.
Martin is a tea leaf reader and a prognosticator…not a journalist. Have we always ridiculed people for stating the obvious? It’s getting hard to remember life before the New Normal.
good one
If their lips are moving………..
another good one– funny cause it’s true
If their lips are moving, then we the people have yet to rebel hard enough.
The 16th Ammendment was never ratified:
https://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/
Even had it been, it’d still be immoral and anti-freedom.
Do you know what ratified means?
Yeah. It means a bunch of whores agreed to pretend that, as long as they go through a justification-hamster OCD dance first, they then can do whatever they want to whomever they wish, morally.
But I wasn’t arguing with you. I don’t care, as a true liberty-loving, abolitionist sand anarchist, about their processes. Taxation is theft; .gov is arbitrary, immoral force. One size simply does not and never will fit all.
I am a sovereign man, not a dog or cattle or chattel, not the property of another or of a group, no matter what justification is offered. I also have right to own another, for any reason offered.
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.” ― Lysander Spooner
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/238917.Lysander_Spooner
I agree. Are you the Anon that wants to go back to the Articles of Confederation? Too bad that’s not possible, freedom would have had a much better chance to exist.
The election wasn’t about abortion, vast majority said inflation was their concern. Election wasn’t won because of abortion, it was won because Democrats delayed counting, had ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, sued to allow fraudulent ballots and Democrat poll workers that could change your vote electronically to cheat to a win.
TBP needs to stop peddling MSM red herrings and focus on the real reason behind the midterms outcome.
The mid-term (s)election result is because the Communists have not a scruple, execute the will of their masters as best they can, and strive to achieve the dictatorship of the Evil Fuckers.
The R party just plain lame, with a very few exceptions, while working for their overseers just as eagerly.
Finally, the USSA electorate is collectively a bunch of mostly really stupid people.
Definition — Ballot: noun A piece of paper used to cover a slave’s eyes so that he does not see he is standing on the auction block.
Definition: Necktie: noun. A leash that your master no longer needs to hold on to.
I do declare! This shocking revelation has given me the vapors! I need to sit down.
You don’t say…but I have the feeling the massive vote fraud had more to do their ‘win’ if you could call it that.
Just because they did away with precincts and had one gigantic voting center for 30,000 people in Republican areas and the machines didn’t work only in those Republican, overcrowded voting centers, and had pre stuffed the Box #3 for the ballots the machines refused………….
Politicians lie about everything all the time, results vary. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time” . . . a quote from a well known American tyrant.
Belief in any polling data requires a level of idiocy that is immeasurable, deliberately ignoring the reality that all polls are always garbage all of the time.
They lie about everything, just to lie.