Washington's increasing Assaults on our Freedoms, Prosperity, and Future - Granite Grok

Washington’s increasing Assaults on our Freedoms, Prosperity, and Future

Today 257 Congressmen joined 68 Senators and President Obama in stabbing most Americans in the back. To curry favor with their supporters and to benefit themselves, Congress and President Obama are enacting legislation that will make our lives, and the lives of family members and future generations, much more difficult.

If you have a job, this legislation will increase the number of people who can legally compete for your job; that means fewer and lower pay raises and possibly replacement of current employees with people willing to work for lower wages.

If you are looking for a job, this legislation will increase the number of people competing for the job you need to have a shot at your American dream; it will be harder for you to get a job and the pay will be less.

If you have children in public school, this legislation will put more poorly educated, non-English speaking children in our public schools where they will divert teacher attention from your children. And, some of these newcomers will bring contagious, rare, and potentially lethal diseases into the classrooms with your children (they have already and more are coming). 

If you require and are scraping by on public assistance, don’t expect an increase because this legislation adds millions more people to the public assistance rolls.

If you struggle financially, your taxes may increase because this legislation increases the cost of government by at least $50 -100 billion.

If you are waiting for a loved one to immigrate legally, this legislation will probably increase your wait time.

If you use risky roads or bridges, you’ll probably wait longer for repairs; this legislation prioritizes rewarding illegal aliens ahead of infrastructure repairs.

You or a family member are more likely to become a crime, accident or terrorist victim because this legislation allows even convicted violent criminals to stay in this country legally, and it encourages millions more foreigners, including violent criminals and terrorists, to come here illegally.

This legislation makes a mockery of our laws by generously rewarding law breakers (illegal aliens).

This legislation makes a mockery of our Constitution by financing implementation of President Obama’s rewrite of our immigration laws, which is a usurpation of an exclusive authority of Congress.

The President’s new immigration law (his amnesty plan) legalizes 4.5 million illegal aliens, gives them work permits and social security numbers, authorizes welfare, and enables rewarding low-income illegal aliens with up to $24,000 (or more) per head of household.

By threatening to shut down the Homeland Security Department unless the new immigration plan written by President Obama was funded, Democrats blackmailed weak Republicans to fund President Obama’s unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s exclusive authority to create our laws.

Those who benefit from amnesty, (the rich, politicians and special interests) apparently don’t care how much these actions hurt other Americans or our Constitutional form of government.

Out of 523 members of Congress, 325 members including Senators Ayotte and Shaheen, Congresswoman Kuster, and Congressman Guinta voted to put their personal interests and the interests of their special interest supporters ahead of the interests of most Americans. In addition, they showed that they will do nothing to curb President Obama’s inclination to make unilateral decisions, evade legal requirements regarding transparency in government, violate court orders, and exercise dictatorial powers. The President is increasingly limiting our freedoms, threatening and using government power against political opponents, and his actions have made the rich richer, and the rest of us poorer.

Only 198 Congressional members, all Republicans, stood up and fought for middle income and poor Americans, for a decent future for subsequent generations of Americans, for the rule of law, and to preserve our Constitutional Republic.

Today’s action clearly showed that members of our Federal Government have sided with the rich and special interests against the best interests of the American people and our Constitution. Will we let our freedoms, prosperity, and government of the people, by the people and for the people be taken from us? They have a big head start; it is long past time for the American people to wake up and fight back.

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