Lehigh Valley Project 9-12 Tea Party Group

This is not a revenue problem or fiscal cliff

In response to the current 2013 Government Spending Crisis (deceptively called the “fiscal cliff”), the Lehigh Valley Tea Party (LVTP) asks our Representatives and Senators, as a first step toward a solution to this crisis, to vote for legislation cutting the size and power of government.

The federal government cuts should start with eliminating the wasteful cost of departments performing improper functions of government at the federal level. The first federal departments to be abolished with the control of these functions picked up by the states are: Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Commerce, and the Environmental Protection Agency.  These department eliminations will help to eradicate costly waste in addition to the abuse of power by government operatives and regulators.

Further, the LVTP asks our Representatives and Senators to work on legislation dissolving the Federal Reserve System and returning the banking function to its rightful place in the private sector. The Federal Reserve has failed to maintain a sound currency which should have been its primary function.

The LVTP asks our Representatives and Senators to work on legislation that replaces “baseline budgeting” by the federal government with “zero-based budgeting” to terminate the perpetual and unjustified growth of Big Government.

The LVTP asks our Representatives and Senators to fight against and vote against any future attempt to raise the debt ceiling, and especially to fight against any unconstitutional attempt by President Obama to seize Congress’s rightful power to control the debt ceiling and, thus, government spending.

The LVTP judges that these dramatic cuts to government size and power and reductions in government interference in the economy are the only morally, politically, and economically justifiable method for delaying the effects coming from massive and unjustifiable government spending. We hope that these measures will delay the American people having to suffer the collapse of the dollar by inflation or the enslavement of future generations by massive government borrowing. The destructive inflation would be caused by the Federal Reserve System printing outrageous amounts of money (i.e., Quantitative Easing, QE1 & QE2) in order to support unjustifiable government spending. The destructive borrowing would be the result of incurring massive debt to foreign nations that are hostile to Individual Rights in order to support unjustifiable government spending.

Executive Board of the Lehigh Valley Tea Party

CANDIDATE FORUM 10-5-12

September 17, 2012 – Bethlehem, PA: The Lehigh Valley Project 9/12 Tea Party Group, established 2009, announces it will conduct its Candidate Forum Meeting on October 5th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Charles Chrin Community Center of Palmer Township.

As Election Day approaches, the Forum is designed to give Lehigh Valley residents an opportunity to meet with, question, and personally hear the views of political candidates running for local congressional and senatorial seats in this region. Candidates in attendance will include:

• US Congressional Candidates Charlie Dent (R) and Rick Daughetry (D) from the 15^th district.

• US Congressional Candidates Laureen Cummings (R) and Matt Cartwright (D) from the 17^th District.

US Senatorial candidates Senator Bob Casey (D) and Candidate Tom Smith (R) have also been invited to participate but have not confirmed their attendance at the time of this release. Candidates will take questions from audience members, and are free discuss any issues the public would like to address.

“The Lehigh Valley Tea Party strongly believes in a citizenry that engages in government at all levels. We’ve arranged this forum event to allow residents to become more informed about their local representatives and to find ways to keep these politicians as accountable as possible to the people they serve,” said Lehigh Valley Project Tea Party (LVTP) Chairman Barbara Walters.

“As stewards of the government, direct communication with and involvement in our own political system is the best chance we have to preserve individual rights,” Walters continued. “One of our goals as part of the Tea Party movement is to remind legislators about the benefits of individual rights, limited government, reduced spending, and reduced debt—elements that are crucial to our ongoing viability as a nation. The decisions we make in this election will have ramifications not just to our children and our grandchildren, but to the immediate economic environment as well. It is our obligation, then, to demand a conscientious response from our government.”

About The Lehigh Valley Tea Party

The Lehigh Valley Project 9-12/Tea Party Group is a non-profit, non-partisan, pro-active organization, dedicated to the education of our members and citizens about constitutionally limited government and many of the important issues of the day including taxes/spending/debt, healthcare reform, illegal immigration, the Second Amendment, energy policy and more. Its mission, through community education and public activism, is to restore America through the preservation of unalienable Individual Rights as established by the Declaration of Independence, thereby returning government to the limits placed on it by the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Press Release from the Lehigh Valley 9/12 Group/Tea Party 6/29/2012

Re: The Supreme Court Decision on ObamaCare

The Lehigh Valley 9/12 Group/Tea Party is greatly disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision ruling that ObamaCare can be regarded as constitutional if the associate fees are treated as a tax. This ruling sets a precedent for giving license to the federal government to impose similar demands covering any product or service it determines are “in our best interests”. It is a tragic blow to both state and individual sovereignty and represents a substantial and frightening loss of individual freedom.

The details about the hundreds of little tyrannies in this law are only of secondary concern. The unifying fundamental battlefield to fight for ObamaCare’s repeal is—that the law violates the unalienable individual rights of medical professionals and patients to freely make choices that are theirs by right and by the blood of the hallowed line of patriots who died to protect those rights.

Hopefully this constitutional assault will awaken all those citizens who have not yet become aware of the concerted effort of “liberal progressives” to transform our government into a centralized socialist state.

As Justice Roberts has said “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices”. That is why we, the voting public, must do our homework and know the voting record of the ones we elect into office.

The Lehigh Valley Tea Party meets the first Friday of the month at the Chrin Community Center. For more information go to our website at www.lvtp.org

The Executive Board of the Lehigh Valley 9/12 Group/Tea Party

PRESS RELEASE - Individual Rights Always Trump Government Power: Obama Administration HHS Edict Violates Individual Rights

The Obama administration’s Secretary of Health & Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has intolerably abused her government power. She recently issued an edict clarifying the vague language on preventive services in the ObamaCare Act. This edict clearly violates the First Amendment Right to the free exercise of religion of those religious denominations morally opposed to sterilization, contraception, or abortion.

However, this edict has greater implications and opens a far wider path of destruction of all our liberties than just abolishing one Individual Right protected by the U. S. Constitution.  This edict asserts the new and dangerous principle of the supremacy of government power over Individual Rights which threatens every Individual Right of every American, whether they hold religious beliefs or not. This edict demotes individual rights from being the supreme moral authority possessed by sovereign individuals to being mere revocable privileges granted by the government to submissive citizens who are wholly dependent on an all-powerful, totalitarian state.

The Catholics and Lutherans, having recognized the totalitarian state premise lurking behind this edict, have already publicly announced that they will not obey this immoral, rights-violating government edict.  However, almost no one in the political and media worlds seems to clearly understand either what Individual Rights are or the vital importance of the moral hierarchy of Rights being superior to government power – a moral hierarchy that was established by our Founding Fathers.

Defining Individual Rights is quite straightforward. Rights are the freedom of each individual to take actions (e.g., worship, speak, assemble, publish, bear arms, produce, purchase, sell) based on his own rational judgments free from physical force or coercion by other individuals, groups, or governments. Each individual’s rights end where the next individual’s rights begin.  The reason these freedoms of action must be treated as sacred absolutes, inseparable from the individual who possesses them, is that his life belongs to him and he must not be forced to act on someone else’s judgment when he thinks it is wrong - even if he himself is wrong.

In issuing this edict, the statist Obama administration has asserted the tyrant’s principle that government power is superior to individual rights.  This is the foundation underlying all of their efforts to increase their power and control over this nation.   

This edict and its wider, dangerous totalitarian intent must not be discussed as if it were a rational policy disagreement among honest men.  The response to this edict must not be a Congressional “deal” compromising our Individual Rights.  Principles must never be compromised.  This edict, if left to stand, would be regarded by the Founding Fathers as a High Crime and Misdemeanor.

This willful attempt to make government power superior to individual rights is nothing less than treason (“a violation of the allegiance owed by a person to his or her own country”) to this nation’s Founding principles and to its Constitution – the Constitution to which those in power have sworn their allegiance.  One has to ask, is this a situation where any of those officials, who insist on the continued promulgation of this unconstitutional edict, might be subjecting themselves to articles of impeachment? How egregious must the actions of our elected representatives become before they elicit a severe moral and legal response?

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