Obama vs T.R.

President Obama gave his first speech before Congress, which outlined his views of what the Federal Government should be doing to help the country. Along with defending new spending programs, which have little to do with creating jobs he brought out the name of our favorite President. Evoking the name of Theodore Roosevelt will not help an ill- conceived program. Mr. Obama stated:

“But I also know that nearly a century after Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and the conscience of our nation long enough.”

So does this mean that the Federal Government will now expand will give us socialized medicine? Mr. Obama also stated:

“We’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we’re not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don’t use.”

President Theodore Roosevelt modernized our military, doing away with some weapon systems that dated back to the Civil War. At the same time he gave us the Great White Fleet, which prepared us for World War I. T.R. did away with the old but also prepared us for the future, will our current President do the same? Will Mr. Obama’s plan for the military do away with Cold War20weapon systems without any thought for the future military threats to this country?

I don’t think anyone can seriously compare President Theodore Roosevelt with President Barack Obama.

Freedom vs Politics

Why would anyone want to go into politics? That is what a good friend said about Illinois politics. He went on to say that he would consider hitting his son with a big stick if he came home with the idea of running for public office. I have attended many public meetings of village, library, and park district board meetings. The one thing they all had in common was lack of public attendance.

What happens when the citizens of this state stop caring about what happens in government? If people of good character are scorned or considered naïve for wanting to serve their community, what are we left with? The professional politicians will eventually take over and assure us that government will watch over us.

There are still patriots in this land that are willing to serve and fight for this country. We have good neighbors that want their children to grow up in a land of opportunity. There are good politicians that believe in individual responsibility and liberty. Our Founding Fathers and untold veterans fought for the freedom of this country. They fought knowing our government does not decide what freedoms and liberties its citizens will have. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution state that, God not government gives these liberties. If we ignore our government and scorn those that serve in it, we may one day wake up and find that the government no longer serves us, it will be us that is enslaved by government.


Take the time to know who is running for public office and what they are doing with your tax dollars and your freedoms.

What is Truth?

President Obama said he would give Congress and everyone time and access to the stimulus package before it was passed. He also said that there was no pork in the stimulus package. I think he has a little problem with the complete truth on those statements.

Senator Burris is having a hard time with the truth or at least the truth has he currently remembers it. All this from the downfall of former Governor Rod Blagojevich who has had his own problems with the truth.

Lake County State's Attorney Michael Waller has been investigating misconduct charges made by Democratic Lake County Board Members Bush and Wilke against Republican Board Members. Both Bush and Wilke admitted they had no factual information or evidence to substantiate the allegations. In other words they had problems with the truth.

What do all these have in common? They all come courtesy of the Cook County Democratic Party. These are the same people that have brought you the highest sales tax in the country and one of the most corrupt county governments in the country. Let us keep Cook County politics and lack of truth in government in Cook County. The people of Lake County deserve better.

The Missing Bean

The local libraries of Lake and northern Cook held a legislative breakfast today to promote the needs of the library system. Most of our State Representatives and Senators attended to hear about library concerns and report how things are going in Springfield. The only disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats was the size of the State budget shortfall, Republicans say 10 BILLION and Democrats say 9 BILLION. I don't care which number you use, it is a large hole in the state bank account that we taxpayers will be asked to fill.


The two big no shows were State Senator Terry Link, who did not even send anyone to explain his absence or take notes on what was said. The second big no show was Congresswoman Melissa Bean, her aid explained that Melissa Bean was home but decided that staying home with the kids was more important. Could it be that Congresswoman Bean just could not find where in her district the breakfast was being held at. We know she does not want to live in the 8th district, but can she at least visit it between election campaigns?

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

One of my favorite movies is “Mr. Smith goes to Washington”. The plot of the film involves a group of corrupt politicians that appoint a naive man to be a US Senator. They have a large piece of legislation which would help economy that needs to be approved as soon as possible. Hidden in the legislation are pork barrel appropriations that will make them rich. At one point the naive Senator wakes up and tries to stop the wasteful spending. This of course looks hopeless since a majority of the Senate including some of the minority party members only care about passing it and don’t want to wait to investigate what they are about to vote on. I really do like a good fiction story to keep my mind off the real world.

President Obama, 2/4/2009: “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into catastrophe.”

The President will have on his desk Monday legislation that Congress with the help of some minority members passed in such a short time that most did not have time to investigate what they were voting on. Some lone minority members of the Senate claim there is pork in the Trillion Dollar bail out package.

I wonder if some Hollywood studio is considering suing the Congress under the copy write laws?

Obama vs Reagan

President Obama:

“The federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life,"

President Reagan:

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”

Sounds like big government doing everything or the individual building success.

Conservatives & Reagan

It’s not often that I would quote Rush Limbaugh, however his speech on December 4, 2008 for the Hillsdale College Churchill Dinner is one that all conservative Republicans should consider.

His speech was titled “Do conservatives need to get beyond Reagan?” One part really hit home with me. “America was founded on the idea that our individual freedoms derive from God, not fro m government, and that government should protect those freedoms and never violate them. Reagan argued, and history has shown, that America does best when it is true to its original idea. …conservatives need to continue to tell the American people as a whole that the ideas of individual liberty and limited government are right and the policies that come from those ideas work best to produce prosperity.”

Have you ever looked at who are considered are best Presidents?

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson

Abram Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan

Don’t take my word, just look to Mount Rushmore and you will see four of those five there. The common element with these men is they believed in the individual, not big government or big business. Does a Trillion Dollar bailout of big business and increasing the size of Federal Government make sense? If you could ask those five presidents I think they would answer NO. We need to improve our transportation system to help business ship goods across this country, which will help the economy. From the very beginning our government has helped to build roads, bridges, railroad tracks, and canals, that is what we should be doing now. The government has already given the large banks over $300 billion dollars and nothing happened. It is the individual taxpayer that will turn this economy around not the large banks, Wall Street corporations, or big government.

100 years of Mundelein

Mundelein had a celebration today of 100 years as a village. The celebration started at Lincoln School with most of the local elected officials on hand to congratulate the village on this landmark status. Diana O'Kelly and Ed Sullivan Jr. gave Mayor Ken Kessler proclamations from the County Board and the State House congratulating Mundelein. We heard Abe Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address, with such feeling as if you were really there hearing President Lincoln. Mundelein High School Band members played the National Anthem without anyone singing solo, but before the band finished the audience sang it spontaneously, which meant more to me and I think everyone else there.

After the program ended you were encouraged to visit several sites of Mundelein, to learn more about the village and the people who live and work here. We visited the first Mayor’s home, which is now a very nice Bed & Breakfast Inn, the old firehouse, the police station, village hall, and the new firehouse. At each stop we met friends, neighbors, firemen, policemen, village workers, and public officials. It was very nice day for everyone in the area, not just Mundelein residents.

After getting home from this nice day it dawned on me who was not there or not even heard from. Congresswoman Melissa Bean was a no show. I checked the calendar for the U.S. House of Representatives and it shows they have no meetings at all going on right now. But of course, this is not an election year for Congress so why should she be here or even send someone in her place. Not to worry next year Melissa Bean will be here to tell us all how she is one of us and fighting for us in Washington DC.

Only the People pay taxes

So far the President has had some difficulty in finding qualified candidates for his Cabinet. Maybe I should say he has had difficulty in finding candidates that have paid their taxes. So far the count is four nominees that have run foul in someway with paying taxes.

Timothy Geithner confirmed Treasury

Tom Dschele past nominee for Health and Human Services

Nancy Killefer past nominee for Chief Performance Officer

Hilda Dolis nominee for Labor

This is the party that wishes to increase the Federal Budget shortfall by One Trillion Dollars. But maybe that is because some Democrat Leaders feel they should not share the tax burden that they propose for the rest of us. Some would say Washington DC is just getting a taste of Cook County politics. All I know is that the new Administration of Change looks very much like the old politics of Cook County.

This is the time for the Republican Party to show leadership in both the nation and our State of Illinois.