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●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes. .
●Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.
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The “religious” right tries to turn gay rights into an anti-Christian, religious oppression issue.
America has heard this song before. It was called “miscegenation,” aka “race mixing,” aka interracial marriage.
What follows is a brief outline of an excellent article that deserves a thorough reading:
Interracial Marriage Laws — A Short Timeline History
By Tom Head1664: Maryland passes the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves — a law that, among other things, orders the enslavement of white women who have married black men.
1691: The Commonwealth of Virginia bans all interracial marriages, threatening to exile whites who marry people of color. In the 17th century, exile usually functioned as a death sentence.
1780: Pennsylvania, which had passed a law banning interracial marriage in 1725, repeals it as part of a series of reforms intended to gradually abolish slavery within the state and grant free blacks equal legal status.
1843: Massachusetts becomes the second state to repeal its anti-miscegenation law, further cementing the distinction between Northern and Southern states on slavery and civil rights.
1871: Rep. Andrew King (D-MO) proposes a U.S. constitutional amendment banning all marriage between whites and people of color in every state throughout the country.
1883: In Pace v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that state-level bans on interracial marriage do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling will hold for more than 80 years.
Despite what you may believe, Justice Antonin Scalia was not a member of the 1883 Court that legalized the ban on interracial marriage. He was back there only in mind and spirit.
1912: Rep. Seaborn Roddenbery (D-GA) makes a second attempt to revise the U.S. Constitution in order to ban interracial marriage in all 50 states.
1922: Congress passes the Cable Act, retroactively stripping the citizenship of any U.S. citizen who married “an alien ineligible for citizenship,” which – under the racial quota system of the time – primarily meant Asian Americans.
1928: Sen. Coleman Blease (D-SC), a Ku Klux Klan supporter who had previously served as South Carolina’s governor, makes a third and final serious attempt to revise the U.S. Constitution in order to ban interracial marriage in every state.
1964: In McLaughlin v. Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that laws banning interracial sex violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
While the ruling did not directly address laws banning interracial marriage, it laid down the groundwork for a ruling that definitively did.
1967: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturns Pace v. Alabama (1883), ruling in Loving v. Virginia that state bans on interracial marriage violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
As Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for the Court:
“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men … To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law.
The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”
Substitute the words “sexual orientation” for the word “racial” and you have today’s discussion.
Compare the giant Earl Warren with today’s lilliputian Chief Justice John Roberts. Truly sad. The Christian right wing of the Supreme Court has learned neither from history nor from the “love all humanity” teachings of Christ.
2000: Following a November 7th ballot referendum, Alabama becomes the last state to officially legalize interracial marriage.
By November 2000, interracial marriage had been legal in every state for more than three decades thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Loving v. Virginia (1967) – but the Alabama State Constitution still contained an unenforceable ban in Section 102:
“The legislature shall never pass any law to authorise or legalise any marriage between any white person and a Negro or descendant of a Negro.”
The Alabama State Legislature stubbornly clung to the old language as a symbolic statement of the state’s views on interracial marriage
You can be sure the “red” states will adopt the same posture regarding same-sex marriage. Mike Huckabee already has begun his “resist” campaign.
Interracial marriage remains controversial in the Deep South, where a 2011 poll found that a plurality of Mississippi Republicans still support anti-miscegenation laws.
The Republicans will play to Southern bigotry, cynically portraying themselves as fighting for “religious freedom” (i.e. domination).
In the right wing world, “religious freedom” requires trampling minorities, while claiming that Christianity is the oppressed minority in America.
We all have heard this song, before — the high-minded claims of biblical support, the denials of bigotry, the attempts to revise the Constitution, the attempts to resist the law.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to hear it, again.
But despite the Scalias, the Alitos, the Roberts, the Thomases, the Huckabees and Santorums, Americans are fundamentally decent, and years from now, this bit of right wing bigotry will be but an historical oddity.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty
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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt
No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.
THE RECESSION CLOCK
Vertical gray bars mark recessions.
As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.
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And so the debate begins.
Good article:
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Will we ever know how the 9 justices voted—was it by the “Constitution or was it by individual bias or prejudice
Justice Roberts made the following statement
If you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.
Here is what Justice Kennedy had to say:
Under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, no State shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The fundamental liberties protected by this Clause include most of the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights. In addition these liberties extend to certain personal choices central to individual dignity and autonomy, including intimate choices that define personal identity and beliefs.”
Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons. In turn, those who believe allowing same-sex marriage is proper or indeed essential, whether as a matter of religious conviction or secular belief, may engage those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate. The Constitution, however, does not permit the State to bar same-sex couples from marriage on the same terms as accorded to couples of the opposite sex,” he said.
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Most Americans hold a seventh grade civics notion that the Constitution gives us certain rights. In fact the Bill of Rights merely sets limits on the FedGov making clear it has no power to infringe on rights we already natural possess.
Only if people would further their education about the constitution and Bill of Rights, the 14 Amendment. Due Process.
Substantive Due Process, and the “Privileges or Immunities Clause (P or I Clause) of the 14th Amendment.
Everyone knows about the “First Amendment right of free speech and the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self –incrimination. But few people know about the “Ninth Amendment” which reaffirms in broad terms rights “retained by the people. Indeed the Ninth flies so far under the radar that is has rarely been mention even by the Supreme Court.
Ninth Amendment: The enumeration in the constiution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people—(That is the Ninth Amendment—(Retained by the people these 4 words are strong)
What a pity. Even more, what a terrible oversight: the Ninth Amendment bears directly on such modern-day constitutional issues as abortion, the right to die, and gay rights.
Natural rights are so endless that they cannot possibly be enumerated in a constitution but instead are limit only by
One’s imagination. An example of the breath of this notion occurred in the House of Representatives during a debate on the language of what became part of the “First Amendment. During that debate, Representative Theodore Sedgwick criticized the attempt to enumerate natural rights because the enumeration would be “very lengthy” and include such
Minutia as the right to wear a hat, go to bed when one pleases, and get out of bed when one pleases.
This interpretation broadly defines natural rights to include the right to do anything that does not interfere with the exercise of other people ‘natural rights… People inherently possess natural rights, which exist regardless of whether or not the government actually protects those rights.Furthermore,natural rights form the basis of determining whether governmental action is just. According to some advocates and myself of natural rights and view of the Ninth Amendment,
Government should not interfere with natural rights without an “A COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION”
The decision that was made on Gay Marriage–had noting do with the
establishment of religion
It changes nothing for most Americans. I am still married to my wife of over 42 years. Men will still marry the women they love.
Churches will not have to marry anyone in a ceremony that goes against church teachings. You are free to speak against gay people getting married just as you and your church are free to speak against the EVIL that is abortion
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The right wing, owned by the rich and the religionists, fear to debate real issues, like the gap between the rich and the rest. Instead, they focus on invented issues like gay marriage, Benghazi and Hillary’s Emails.
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