CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people";
and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of
federal power as being that specifically granted by the
Constitution of the United States and no more; and
WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment
means that the federal government was created by the states
specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, Today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated
as agents of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, Many federal laws are directly in violation of the
Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union
of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal
government may not usurp; and
WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the Constitution says,
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government," and the Ninth Amendment states that
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people";
and
WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New
York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that congress may not
simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the
states; and
WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations
and some now pending from the present administration and from
congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise
enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
Constitution of the United States; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand to the federal
government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective
immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these
constitutionally delegated powers; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation that
directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal
penalties or sanctions or that requires states to pass legislation
or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the
senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

Author: Celia

God bless our Troops!

It's a sad day in America when our seasoned men and women come home to a rude welcome- from the VERY ONES they protect every day. It puts me in mind when this country was young and fighting for her independence from Britain. I'm sure they considered the colonists "Extremists" back then, too. But it didn't stop us from fighting and winning our independence.

And it should not stop us now. We have a rich heritage and a big legacy that we must protect, defend, and live up to.

I encourage each and every American to hold fast to the liberty granted us by our forefathers. Don't give an inch! We owe them and ourselves that much and more.

God bless America!

Left wing Media has taken sides

I was watching the news coverage on the Tea Party from the different Networks.
It is appalling that everyone I watched but Fox News trashed decent honest hard working Americans!

These people are below anything that is decent....In fact they are trashy Un-American low life's that would denigrate Americans that have given of themselves to helping make this nation the great Nation it is.

The more the left wing media spout their filth again people that love their country....that are patriotic.....and do the best that they can to instill honesty and love of country in their children........The more the American people will disown them.

So.........................................Keep it up!

Yes you heard me....................Keep it up!

The American people are not stupid!

American people will stop listening to the filth you and your Ilk spew out on a daily basis.

Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA; Updated By Michelle Malkin • April 15, 2009 03:52 PM

This coming from one of the greatest Conservatives that we have that reports and brings to the forefront of what is going on in our country to day.
Yes those Tea Parties no matter how it is portrayed by the left wing Media sent the shock waves throughout our elected officials.....Republican, Democrats...etc...
American people that raise their families to do what is right......Bringing up their children to believe that the truth...honesty...liberty always win out in the end.

From Michelle Malkin who is brings honesty and integrity to bringing out the real truth to you and I as well as millions of concerned citizens just like us:
I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here’s your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often…I’ll keep updating…11:20pm…just added tons more crowd pix and vid…trying to keep ‘em all in one post to give you the full breadth and scope of the protests......

Read more : http://michellemalkin.com/

Author: by An average Joe..I love America

Wake up America

It doesn't matter what party one is affiliated with: Republican, Democrat, Independent, or Libertarian.

We as Americans want the best for our country..Our families...Our right to remain free and have liberty and justice.

Now is the time to come together as a people and stop the insane spending and taxation that is destroying all that is great about our country.

So now Average Americans are Extremist?

Now average Americans just like me who are true Conservatives are being called radical right wing extremist.

What happened to the liberty and freedom to speak out?

By Dan

1. If you disagree with the current administration you will be labeled as a right wing extremist. People in this country MUST read the Department of Homeland Security report which is posted as an unclassified document. This is a picture of what this administration thinks of those who do not fall in lockstep with what the administration thinks of as meaningful change. Wake up America. Napolitano should resign… Obama should resend this report and apologies should be made. Can you imagine what would have happened had Bush released such a report targeting American citizens? Scary.

   By Nicole on Apr 14, 2009
   

It is so frustrating to me that people are still taking sides on this issue. Last time I checked it doesnt matter to Uncle Sam whether you are Republican or Democrate we still all pay taxes. Our government is like a two year old child. They keep trying to see how far they can push us and test us before we give them a swat on the behind and let them know we rule the roost and we will guide them in the right direction. Well the American people are fed up it doesnt matter which end of the spectrum you fall on this is our money, our country and our future as people of a still free country. I encourage everyone to attend a tea party in your area tomorrow. Its time to take our country back from the politicians who are try to sell us and our country out.

By mike on Apr 14, 2009

Physically ill from the Anderson 360 report I just saw with that stupid Peter Bergen. I worked for Homeland Security, on a local district level (coalition of counties) for 3 years and had a small amount of respect for this guy. I think the fact that he’s British and these are tea parties are just too much for him. He and Anderson had the most incredible paranoid story supporting story on us right wing conservative homegrown terrorist. If anyone has read that piece of crap report, which I did for a living for 3 years , they know what a partisan unfounded pack of lies it is. However, I can deal with being attacked for my views. I am, after all, a farm girl who rescues stray cats and volunteers to feed the hungry, so I totally understand I am a perfect example of a “lone wolf operative”, but for goodness sake, attacking returning veterans as possible mindless recruits for some kind of mass right wing anarchist movement? Have they no shame? I am trembling angry and SO at the Mt. Juliet tea party tomorrow. My sign will read “Mr. Obama’s tax plan “REVOLTS” me”.

By Jennifer on Apr 14, 2009

Mr. Obama

During his campaign Mr. Obama said what he was going to do when he got in to office.
What I want understand is: How is all the name that is holy that people are having buyer's remorse now?! This guy is so far left...He goes all over Europe trashing America and even bowing to a king...Geeze!

I have heard many a folk saying now: Whoa!...............I did not know he was gonna do what he's doing now!
My question to them is this: How in the stuffin's could you now know this before you voted for the weak kneed man who has every intent on destroying American as we have come to know and love it?!

I can not in good conscience call this man ( Mr. Obama ) my president.
Mr. Obama is seeking to bring down this great country of ours to a third world status.
If people think now that they are having it rough...Just wait till this man gets down with things.

To those who are now having buyer's remorse: Get your lazy cans up off the couch and and seek to defeat that with has every intent on bringing this nation to it's knees!

Excerpt from: Right Side News

Our Leaders Betray Us - Immigration and Jobs http://www.rightsidenews.com/200903314210/border-and-sovereignty/our-leaders-betray-us-immigration-and-jobs.html

March 31, 2009
by Kent Lundgren
Chairman, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

Let us begin by stating a first principle.
As something becomes more available, it becomes cheaper, and vice versa. This is the law of supply and demand. It is a fundamental, irrefutable law of economics, so well-proven that it needs no discussion. What must be pointed out here, though, is that sweat is a quantity covered by the law of supply and demand. As sweat becomes more available, it becomes cheaper.

One purpose of immigration laws

is to regulate the amount of sweat in the country, that is, the size of the labor pool. Immigration adds workers to the labor pool; that diminishes the value of all labor, because as supply goes up, price (that is, wages) goes down - there's more of it, so it's cheaper. Immigrants, legal or illegal, don't depress wages because they are Latino or Filipino or African and want to work cheap. It happens because, in their millions, they form a pool of additional sweat that becomes cheap because of its sheer volume. This seems to be such a simple connection that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all our politicians should be able to understand it.

It seems they do not, though - or perhaps they do, and just don't care. Or maybe they are responding to their vision of a higher calling than the good of the American public. Whatever their motives, though, make no mistake: when they call for "bringing workers out of the shadows," they are not talking about helping the legal workers of America, and when they say we should have "Immigration Reform" they are proposing laws that will benefit foreigners, not our own workers. For their own, political reasons, they are willing to damage individual Americans to benefit foreigners.

In justification of their calls for liberal immigration laws, they say that Americans won't do "that kind of work," whatever kind that is. What a contemptible statement! What an expression of disdain for their fellow Americans. Any politician who believes that of his constituents has a very poor opinion of them - but then, he knows them best; maybe they are lazy sluggards. He should not dare to speak for other Americans, though, who have done every job in this country, and do them still. They do them despite wages held down by the actions and inactions of the very people making those scandalous statements - our elected representatives

Now, we are in a crisis. Good, working Americans who have played by the rules are losing their homes as they lose their jobs. They cannot buy shoes for the kids, much less pay next semester's tuition. They will work. Millions of them will take any job that will keep a roof over their heads and food on the table and clothes on their family. But the jobs have to be there.

A tragic aspect of this failure of national will is that the very people who most need low-end jobs, our own undereducated, under skilled workers, are the ones most often displaced by illegal aliens. The American Dream is being moved farther and farther from their reach by the presence of foreign workers who take jobs our own people ought to have and depress the wages that are paid.

President Obama claims repeatedly that he will create new millions of jobs, that he will fix the problem with public works and stimulus packages that will pay for "shovel-ready" projects that will put people to work. He, and his cheerleaders in Congress, ignore the more obvious solution in favor one that requires spending on an unimaginable scale. Millions of jobs are still out there, but they are filled by illegal aliens who ought not to have them at all, much less at the expense of an American worker. We note with amazement that, apparently, there will be no extra effort made when those Obama-generated stimulus jobs are filled to screen out illegal aliens.

What the Administration and Congress should do is this: vigorously enforce existing immigration laws, and pass new ones that make it inconvenient to impossible for illegal aliens to stay here. The Secretary of Homeland Security

, Janet Napolitano, is impeding interior enforcement of our immigration laws; in fact, she has nearly brought it to a complete halt. As a matter of official policy, she is deliberately protecting illegal aliens with jobs from detection and removal. She should stop that immediately and begin carrying out at least one aspect of her duty, that is, to protect the American people's jobs from illegal foreign competition.

An editorial does not offer the space to set forth the volumes of evidence that exist showing that illegal aliens have created a labor surplus that depresses wages, and that Americans will take jobs vacated when illegal aliens leave. Here, we offer only one recent example. In the spring of 2008 ICE conducted a series of enforcement operations at Swift meatpacking plants in several locations across the country. ICE arrested hundreds of illegal aliens, and caused hundreds more to leave. In every case, the jobs opened were filled within days by legal workers, and in nearly every case, at wages higher than were being paid before. Slaughterhouse work is among the jobs that, supposedly, American workers won't do. We can see that they will.

For further discussion and evidence of this proposition, visit the website of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers at http://www.nafbpo.org/ and click the button American Jobs for American Workers. There, we offer evidence and the outline of a solution to this problem.

In closing, we call for the administration and Congress to live up to their duty to see that American workers are protected, not sacrificed to foreign interests, and that the laws be faithfully executed. So far, they have failed miserably. We hope they can change. If they do not, we will surely change them.

Kent Lundgren
Chairman
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

Written by: Kent Lundgren Chairman, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

Today...not Tomorrow

The time for waiting and hoping that things will get better is past. Every day that we allow evil to reign in this country is another day that we move closer to losing all that we hold dear in America.

The ball is in our court. No one is going to make the jump shot for us. We must do it. Certainly Washington isn't going to. They are interested in only one thing: themselves. And when our representatives put their interests above ours, it is time for a change. We the people still have a say in the operation of this great nation and we need to let our voices be heard.

Over 200 years ago, when the powers that were decided we could not rule ourselves, our founding fathers stood in protest. They sacrificed so much to stand for freedom in a time when so much was against them. And they prevailed. Are we going to throw away all that they worked for, make it of none effect?

Or are we going to stand and say: "Enough is enough. God built us, guided us, and has sustained us. We will not let you or anyone destroy the godly foundation that has been laid. We will not let you turn this country from the land of the free to the land of the slaved. "?

We have a mission: the folks at the Capital care little for what we hold close to our hearts. We will have to do the protecting. And that means that they need to know we are not backing down. We will see this through. With God's help, we will prevail and be a stronger and better nation because of it. God bless America.

Author: Tara

Are you gearing up?

Just one week from today...April 15th...there will be many tea parties taking place throughout our great nation!
I think this is an exciting endeavor on the part of conservatives.
I have heard different people speak about how we should conduct ourselves at that time, should we choose to attend one of these parties.
We should be well-behaved, organized, focused, and definitely patriotic!
There is so much at stake; I think we must grab EVERY opportunity!

So...gear up...and may God bless America in a special way!!