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At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. The original 28 principles are in print in The Five Thousand Year Leap. These principles have been distilled down to the 9 basic principles.
The formation of Constitutional TEA Party is based on these principles. The TEA parties held from coast-to-coast are based on these principles of our Founding Fathers.
So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Read The 9 Principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. Join with us at Constitutional TEA Party to spread these principles, one person at a time.
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”
from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
Honesty“I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.”
Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.”
Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.”
Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.”
George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.”
George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.”
Thomas Jefferson
* Reverence
* Hope
* Thrift
* Humility
* Charity
* Sincerity
* Moderation
* Hard Work
* Courage
* Personal Responsibility
* Gratitude
Gregg: Health Bill Would ‘Massively’ Expand Government
(Wall Street Journal, Washington Desk)
Greg Hitt reports on Congress.
Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) said the real issue at stake in the debate over health-care legislation was the expansion of the federal government.
Legislation approved by the House and pending in the Senate would, among other things, expand health insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans, and create new government subsidies to help individuals and families purchase insurance.
Gregg, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said the bills would “end up massively expanding the size of government” by creating new benefit programs. He estimated that under the House bill, the size of government would grow to as much as 24% of the U.S. economy from the current 20%.
“That’s simply not affordable,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.” He said that the government couldn’t cover the long-term costs of existing benefit programs, such as Medicare and Social Security, and suggested that the nation’s debt would likely spiral further if the health bill is enacted.
“The problem is you’re growing the government so dramatically,” he said. “We already have entitlements we can’t afford…Now you’re going to put a brand-new entitlement on top of that.”
Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.), appearing on “State of the Union,” also said he was worried about the national debt. But the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said the health-care legislation aimed to curb the rapid rise in health-care costs. Absent action, he said, “we’re going to bankrupt families, businesses and the government itself.”