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This is the purpose for the mad-made global warming propaganda, cap and trade, and carbon dioxide scam.

This MUST be STOPPED

Copenhagen Summit December 6, 2009

http://216.221.102.26/blogger/post/ALERT!-Actual-video-of-Lord-Monckton-saying-Obama-poised-to-cede-power-in-Copenhagen.aspx

Transcript from Lord Monckton speech

http://216.221.102.26/blogger/post/Eleventh-hour-at-the-fifty-ninth-minute-and-fifty-ninth-second-OBAMA-POISED-TO-CEDE-US-SOVEREIGNTY-CLAIMS-BRITISH-LORD.aspx

From the UN- COP15

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sgsm12470.doc.htm

This is an article about the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, where they were setting this up.

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on September 29, 2009

While all eyes were on the rantings of Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, the United States -- under President Barack Obama -- was surrendering its economic sovereignty at the G-20 summit. The result of this conclave, which France's President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed as "revolutionary," was that all the nations agreed to coordinate their economic policies and programs and to submit them to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for comment and approval. While the G-20 nations and the IMF are, for now, only going to use "moral suasion" on those nations found not to be in compliance, talk of sanctions looms on the horizon.

While the specific policies to which the U.S. committed itself (reducing the deficit and strengthening regulatory oversight of financial institutions) are laudable in themselves, the process and the precedent are frightening. We are to subject our most basic national economic policies to the review of a group of nations that includes autocratic Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. Even though our GDP is three times bigger than the second largest economy (Japan) and equal to that of 13 of the G-20 nations combined, we are to sit politely by with our one vote and submit to the global consensus. Europe has five votes (U.K., France, Germany, Italy and the EU) while we have but one.

And the process will be administered by the IMF, whose counsel to less developed nations over the past two decades has consistently called for social pain and economic austerity. The IMF's misguided policies have been responsible for more revolutions than Marx, Engels and Lenin combined. Its bureaucrats' arrogance is legendary and their search for appropriate punishments to fit the crime of spending too much on the poor smacks of colonialism and imperialism. They are our new overseers.

This combination of the IMF and the G-20 will not only work to structure national economic policies but to limit executive compensation at financial institutions. The watchful, wise leaders of such nations as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia -- among others -- will monitor Wall Street to assure themselves that its compensation is not out of line. One particularly looks forward to the views of the Saudi monarchy on this question of excessive personal enrichment.

Perhaps as part of his public spasm of apology, President Obama also strove, successfully, to increase the voting strength of the debtor nations on the IMF from the current 43 percent to 48 percent. This is the economic equivalent of giving deadbeat debtors more votes on their bank's governing board of directors.

Thus, the world's most successful economy -- ours -- which is the only one that has produced reliable economic growth for three decades and has lifted real personal incomes almost every year, is going to subject itself to the burden of justifying its own economic policies in front of a global community of 20 nations, some of which do not even embrace free-market economies in the first place. Indeed, it is only through access to our markets that nations have been able to escape poverty. Japan, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China and India have sequentially trod this path into prosperity.

Obviously, we live in a global economy. But the United States is 24 percent of it. We are entitled to more than one-twentieth of a voice, and it is the world that should be following our policies -- not the other way around.

Much of the damage of the Obama administration can be undone at the next election. But such grants of sovereignty to autocratic, backward, bureaucratic and even communist nations will be hard to undo. The world is recovering from its leftist obsession -- e.g., the Merkel victory in Germany. But by the time the voters discover how phony, failed and fraudulent these policies are, we may have given it all away already. Irrevocably.

All the problems we see coming out of Washington, D.C.  including the items mentioned (which would destroy our sovereignty) are a product of politicians being in office too long.

With the notable exception of only a handful of Representatives and a couple of Senators, every other member of Congress has sold his/her soul to get re-elected because the job and associated "perks" are a much to good a deal.

Here in Iowa, classic examples are Harkin, Grassley and Boswell. All three have prospered immensely from being in elected office way to long.

If and I repeat, if the American voters only realized that both major political parties are calling almost all the shots in D.C. and the clones of those parties keep getting re-elected they are very beholding to their parties for campaign money and will go along with the Washington scene instead of representing their constituents and doing what is best for America.

The solution to our problems is really very simple IMO: TERM LIMITS. We wouls obviously lose the few good people who represent their districts but would through the weeding out process finally be able to send to Washington people who would do as we, the voters, want them to do.

America is a Republic, NOT a Democracy. Get out the dictionary and read the definitions of the two words. In a Republic the elected representatives do as their voters want them to do and are directly responsible to those voters: in a Democracy, basically "mob rule" prevails and that's why we now have huge deficits we can't repay for unConstitutional welfare programs and laws that govern every facet of life thus eliminating self responsibility. In a Republic you take care of yourself and do not depend on someone elses hard work to live off

TERM LIMITS WILL PUT A STOP TO ALL THE NONSENSE COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON, D.C.. 

Term limits, Fair Tax and go back to the 17th Amendment's original intent.  That's a good start.

I agree with the term limits idea.  Perhaps if politicians can't be reelected they will actually try to to some good for the people while in office instead of doing good for themselves.  Either way, we definitely need to remind our elected officials that they are public SERVANTS. 

Term limits may be ok, although maybe we should go towards how founders set things up more in the states hands. Seems to me it was originally that the states chose representatives to go to Washington. As locals, we react more quickly and potentially more affirmative on a local level. They can't hide from us.