CALIFORNIA - SHOWING THE COUNTRY JUST HOW BROKEN WE HAVE BECOME.

With a budget almost a month past due and both houses on vacation the real victim of the California budget crises is starting to emerge.  Governor Schwarzenegger, looking for a shock and awe effect has proposed paying state workers the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour.

The true shock will be felt by the hard working middle-class employee come payday.  While doing the right thing each and every day to help make the state run, they will be repaid with a drastic reduction in pay.  The awe will come when these hard working people join the large number of people struggling financially, choosing between gas and food and deciding just how late their house payment will be.

The hard truth is that the citizens of the state have come to expect this and have taken no real stand or action calling for their employees go back to work and get the job done.  Yes, that is right people of California the "leaders" in Sacramento are your employees.  You have elected them to represent you and to have your best interest in mind as the conduct the peoples business.  You and only you can demand their return and resolution to this problem.

Or will you allow the elitist Democratic leaders to do as they wish.  Will you allow them to forget that they although leaders, are servants of the people who elected them.  Will you allow them to forget that they are entrusted with the peoples business and not a political power grab that does nothing more then hurt those they serve.

The current situation in California is not caused just by those who sit in Sacramento, but also by you.  We elect and entrust in great numbers, but we hold accountable in small numbers.  Being a good citizen is more then just voting.  It is following the actions of those we have elected and in great numbers telling them when they have failed the people. 

For any government large or small that is based on the premise of being for and by the people, must always have the peoples involvement.  All people in the state should take the five or ten minutes needed to send off any e mail or make a phone call demanding that the servants of the people return to Sacramento and do the peoples work.  Pass a budget with out making those who truly do the work suffer.

History by Senator Obama:

The United States liberated Auschwitz. 

America has 57 states.

Senator Obama Chairs the Senate Banking Committee.

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The truth:

Russia liberated Auschwitz.

The United States has 50 states.

Senator Obama does not Chair any committees in the Senate.  He is a member of four.

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The statements made by Senator Obama goes to prove that 143 working days in the Senate is not enough training to become President of the United States.  Given that some of Senator Obama's basic education took place in Indonesia I can understand how he would miss some simple trivia questions based on US history.  However, you would think that after a little more then 20 weeks of national public service, enough training to qualify him to be President of the greatest nation in the world, Senator Oboma would at least know what committee he belongs to. 

Oh, wait a minute, after his 143 day crash course in federal government as a junior member of the Senate, Mr. Obama has been out running for the job of CEO.  I guess it is easy to forget your old job.

Sorry so short today but, I am off to my next big challenge, I need to learn the capitals of 7 more states.  Wish me luck.

This year the debate over gay marriage comes to a head in the State of California.  Although the people of California have already decided by an over whelming majority that marriage is defined as one man and one woman joined together, there was once again a court that decided that they would legislate from the bench and override the will of the people. 

In November, once again the people of California will decided the definition of marriage.  This vote is being closely followed by most groups of interest across the nation.  Both sides are going full force into what many believe will be this countries most expensive state ballot measure ever. 

The question that neither side seems to be asking is why is the government involved in this debate at all.  As promised when I stated this blog, the most complicated issues facing this nation would be solved in the simplest of ways.  This debate can be solved with five simple words:  SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

For many years this was debated.  But it was not until 1947 that this debate was for most solved by the Supreme Court. In the case of Everson v. Board of Education, Justice Hugo Black clearly defined that there must be a wall between church and state.  It should be noted that one of the most powerful decision to come from the Supreme Court was written by an ex Ku Klux Klan member. 

In the decades since Justice Black wrote his decision the wall has been moved several times.  It is the opinion of this author that it has moved in the wrong direction.  From prayer in schools, to the words Under God in our pledge there are those who would like to remove God from every aspect of the public circle.  It must be noted that in doing so we are turning our back on the founding principals and core beliefs that this great nation was built on.  But that is a topic for another day.

So you might now be asking what separation of church and state has to do with gay marriage in this country.  It is simple.

In Genesis we find the following:

Genesis 2:18, 21-24:  The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'...and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (NIV)
In the beginning God created the havens and the earth and as we can tell from the above passage of scripture, God created marriage.

This is clearly the first record of marriage in the history of mankind.  Weather you agree with it or not, this definition clearly defines marriage as the unity of one man and one woman into one flesh.

The institution of marriage itself is one of a religious and biblical nature to begin with.  There was a time when a man and a woman would stand in front of God and family and profess their commitment to each other. In the eyes of many including our government, as long as this was done with the oversight of a recognized man of God it was legal and binding.  At some point with the justification of the public welfare, the government stated to regulate marriage.    With the thought of disease control, the census and to make sure that the parties involved could legally enter into a marriage the government started to require that one be licensed by the state in order to enter this biblical union.  Of course as with all things government there was a fee involved. 
If the government can argue that a bible in the classroom of John Freshwater in Columbus Ohio is a violation of church and state then clearly we can argue that the government has no right to violate its own rules and jump the wall that they themselves have so forceful erected. 

I am not a proponent of the separation of church and state, but if the government is going to establish law then they should be forced to abide by it.  Government has no right to redefine that that is clearly a religious institution.
A simple solution to a complicated problem, it only took five words.

PELOSI: BUSH 'A TOTAL FAILURE'

I don't care what side of politics you are on this is just wrong.  No sitting leader such as Ms. Pelosi should ever speak about any President in this manner.  With the position of President as with the position of Speaker there is a understood respect.  Ms. Peosi clearly does not understand that.

But now that Ms. Pelosi has opened the door, might we take the time to talk about the Democrats 9% approval rating, or maybe we should talk about the fact that this Congress is doing nothing to address the true problems currently facing this nation.  Speaker Pelosi has removed all billing concerning energy from the house floor.  The more work less time off promised when the Democrats took power has proven to be nothing but pure political lies.  This Congress has done nothing to help average Middle-Class Americans. 

Going after an imperfect President does not show that you are getting the job done.  it shows that you are passing the spotlight off to someone else so that people don't notice that you have done nothing you have promised to do.

Speaker Pelosi and her band of merry men do not understand any of the threats that face this nation on an international scale nor do they understand the treats faced by the Middle-Class every day.  Stop trying to smear a good man and do you job.  I bet if you did your approval rating would at least reach double digits.

Remember Madam Speaker, you work for us......and yes we will fire you.  I would get the resume ready!