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If you murder one, you murder them all

3/14/2023

Tom Hoefling

After the birth of her second child, in the wake of severe post partum depression, a young woman in her twenties was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent most the next decade in the mental institution, but two years into her commitment, on a short visit home, she and her husband conceived another child.

Since there was no way that she or her husband was going to be able to care for this child, should he have been aborted?

That woman was my mother. The child was me.

Seven years into her commitment, my mom was raped in the hospital and conceived child number four.

Should that child have been aborted?

That child was my half-sister.

If my sister and I had been aborted, our 25 amazing, wonderful children and grandchildren would not exist.

You see, when you exterminate a helpless child, for any reason at all, you exterminate posterity too.

We must repent and restore American constitutional self-government

11/12/2022

Tom Hoefling

Civil government is of God. He instituted it as a force for the restraining and punishment of evil in a fallen world, one which will be needed until He comes again and destroys evil. The scriptures are quite clear about this. You can read Genesis chapter 9 and Romans chapter 13 for yourself.

Americans were, at the beginning of this republic, almost entirely professing Christians who understood all of this quite well. For all their faults, they did set up functioning civil governments that more or less reflected a moral, biblical model. All officers of that government were, and are, required constitutionally to swear a sacred, solemn oath before God to uphold moral, constitutional, republican self-government.

Why is the great American experiment in self-government beginning to fail? It's so simple. It's because the people, including the professing Christians, have lost their fear of God. They have abandoned basic morality. They have become corrupt oath-breakers. They put other corrupt oath-breakers into public office. They reject the Lord's sovereignty over all things, and sneer at those who continue to advocate for just, righteous, decent politics.

Without repentance, there is no hope for our country, or for our children and grandchildren. And that repentance, not just in words, but in deeds, must start with those who name the Name of Christ.

Black and White in the Red, White and Blue

11/7/2022

My rose-colored glasses have been shattered,
Turns out the world has always been black and white, you see,
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

Don’t sell your immortal soul to the red, white and blue,
Don’t give it to the Reds, or to the Greens.
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

“It’s fine, it’s lawful, it’s a good thing, to kill the babies,” they say
“The blood of the multitude of the innocents that is on our hands, it will wash clean.
God is far too loving to punish us, things will remain the way they’ve always been.”
But, sorry, man, good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, bloody shades in between.

Someday very soon, no matter who you are,
No matter what else, in your own own righteousness, in your own power, you try to do,
You’ll run smack into black and white reality,
And your rose-colored glasses will shatter too.
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

God is a God of mercy,
But, you know quite well He’s a righteous God of judgment too.
The whole world, for its sin, stands judged.
No matter the shape or the shade of your banner,
We’re all going to be called to account, except we truly repent,
Even here, in the land of the free and the brave
In the land we love, the home of the red, white and blue,
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

(c) Tom Hoefling, Nov. 7, 2022

Location, Location, Location?

6/27/2022

More of Justice Alito's Gross Hypocrisy in Dobbs v. Jackson
Tom Hoefling
June 27, 2022

Our natural rights adhere to us because of who and what we are, not because of our location. We are, each of us, made in the image and likeness of God. (See Genesis 1:26). Our value derives from that fact, from that reality, not from where we might happen to be today.

When God said, "You shall not murder," He meant that you shall not murder anyone, obviously. When He said, "You shall not steal," He meant that you shall not steal from anyone, obviously. These are the simple moral premises of decent, just human government. I have a right, granted by God, not to be murdered or stolen from. And you have an equal right not to be murdered or stolen from. It's simple. This is American Civics 101.

He never said, "You shall not murder or steal, unless your victim is over there rather than over here." No. Everyone has an intrinsic God-given, unalienable right to not be murdered or stolen from, no matter where they are. These rights precede and supersede all manmade laws and constitutions. They apply to all human beings, all persons, everywhere, in all ages. We are ALL supposed to be protected by our laws, not by our location.

These natural law principles were the very foundation stones of the American republic.

In Dobbs v. Jackson, "Justice" Samuel Alito rightly points out the arbitrary nature of Roe v. Wade, and how foolish it was for the Blackmun court to determine whether a child would be protected based on their location in relation to a hospital. But, then, hypocritically, he and his colleagues ruled that innocent babies would henceforth be protected based SOLELY on their location, i.e., what state they happen to be in today. And, very poor protection that is, in light of the fact that any murder-minded mother can still simply change her location in order to slaughter her offspring, at any time, under the color of "law."

The phrase "overturning Roe" is utterly meaningless when any and all unborn children can still be murdered in our country, as long as they are murdered in the government-approved place.

It's not supposed to be that way in America. Our republic was founded and established on the principle that government - all government, at all levels - exists to provide equal protection for the God-given, unalienable, individual right to life.

Our Constitution's ultimate stated purpose is "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity."

And that Constitution, which every officer of government in this country is required to swear an oath to support and defend, absolutely requires equal protection under the law for every innocent person, in every state. It's not optional. It's not "up to the states to decide." Please, America, stop pretending that it is. And, stop doing the wicked things that these foolish, hypocritical judges tell you to do.

Ukraine, give God the glory, and depend solely upon Him

6/10/2022

Tom Hoefling

Deep down in their hearts, both the radical American Left and the Trumpish so-called "Right," very much want to appease the dictator of Russia, war criminal Vladimir Putin. They're hedging their words very carefully at the moment, but it's right there between the lines of everything they say, if you know how to listen. They're just waiting for their opportunity to once again gain the political ascendency.

As costly as it is to them and their country, the Ukrainians should thank God that they're forced to fight their own war, without NATO or American boots on the ground. Because, depending on the United States to fight your battles for you, long-term, has been, for many throughout the history of the last century, a losing proposition. Ask the Poles, or the South Vietnamese, or the Afghans, or the Iraqis, or the Kurds. They'll tell you. Swings in American public opinion and politics make it an unreliable ally in long wars, in far too many instances: especially for those in the most dangerous circumstances, militarily, geographically, and geopolitically.

If I was advising the Ukrainians, I would tell them to get everything they can out of the West. But, don't put all your precious eggs in that basket. Technology can only get you so far. In the end, all you can truly depend upon is yourselves, and, more importantly, upon Almighty God.

"Slava Ukraini," they say with justifiable patriotic pride. But, the only way that real glory, and security, can come to Ukraine is for Ukrainians to give the glory to God, and to rely entirely upon Him to defend their land and people. The West is not your savior. Only Jesus is. Depend upon Him, and continue your glorious fight, against the invaders from the east, and against the appeasers, in faith.

First you must make the demand

3/13/2022

Tom Hoefling

The natural moral law is the basis for republican self-government, the rule of law, and justice, in America.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of our land.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." "No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Both explicitly require equal protection under the law for the right to life of every innocent person, in every jurisdiction. It's not optional. It is imperative.

No additional laws or court opinions are needed to provide equal protection under the law for the innocent unborn child and thereby end this bloody holocaust that has claimed the lives of so many tens of millions of helpless, defenseless, innocent boys and girls.

All that is needed is enforcement of the law by the executive branch of government, at both the federal and state levels. Nothing more, nothing less.

But first, you, Christian, must make the demand that it be so.

"The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever . It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78

Obey, America, or be destroyed

2/14/2022

By Tom Hoefling

Abortion costs a helpless, defenseless, innocent little boy or girl their life. But it is also a dagger in the heart of American republican, constitutional self-government in liberty.

Abortion utterly destroys the natural law moral principles spelled out in our national charter, the Declaration of Independence. It represents the total denial of our Creator, of the concept of God-ordained equality and God-given unalienable rights, and of the very raison d'etre of human government, which is to secure that equality and those rights to every person.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

Abortion destroys every stated principle of our Constitution. Our national Union is attacked by abortion at the most fundamental level: the natural bond between the mother and her child, which is the essential first building block of our entire civilization and society. Instead of establishing Justice, abortion establishes the worst kind of injustice. What greater wrong can be committed in the physical sense against the individual person than that you murder them? How can you have any sort of true domestic Tranquility, i.e. peace at home, when you have entered into the very heart of that home and annihilated the children? Our society is supposed to assure the common Defense, or the defense of all. How can anybody consider themselves to be safe when certain disfavored classes of human beings are declared to be the "legal" prey of hired mass murderers? How can you claim to be defending the Welfare of all, when you are sacrificing the most innocent and helpless among us on the altar of ease and convenience? How can a nation possibly claim to be securing the Blessings of Liberty to a Posterity that they are slaughtering by the tens of millions?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Democrats and the Republicans both claim to stand for the Constitution. When elected, they all swear the Article VI oath, as they are required to do, to support and defend that Constitution. How many of them are actually doing it? None. Not as long as a single innocent child is being destroyed under the color of "law" in this country.

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Here is the stark truth: unless and until equal protection is restored to the little children, in compliance with the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution, all hope is gone for this country's survival. Union, Justice, Tranquility, our national security, the good of the entire nation, Posterity itself, is gone, trampled into the dust because the people were too immoral, and too stupid to understand what it was that they inherited from their much wiser forefathers.

Obey the Lord, and live. Disobey the Lord, and keep destroying the innocents He made in His image, and you will be destroyed. It's as certain as the sun rising.

That's your choice, America.

"You shall not murder."

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Stop saying that abortion is legal

10/6/2021

Tom Hoefling

I'm gobsmacked every time I see abolitionists continue to use language that cedes legality to abortion. They simply don't listen, no matter how many times it is patiently explained to them that this is a destructive fallacy, one that digs a deep hole for our side that cannot be overcome as long as it is continued.

Abortion violates the law of God. It violates the laws of nature that God ordained. It violates every stated purpose, and the explicit equal protection requirements, of the supreme law of our land. It is not, and cannot, be legal in America.

Laws or court opinions that violate the laws of nature and/or the Constitution are, by every principle this free republic was founded upon, absolutely null and void. That means that, legally, we are to act as if they do NOT exist.

Please, please, please, get this vital, fundamental lesson through your head, because as long as you refuse to do so, you are, whether you know it or not, or whether you will admit it or not, continuing to give (im)moral, legal, and political strength to those who are perpetrating this bloody holocaust.

"When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void."

-- Alexander Hamilton

"[A] law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and [...] courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."

-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Inform the ignorant

7/16/2021

I am what I am, and I believe what I believe, in spite of them

2/16/2021

Tom Hoefling

I am an abortion abolitionist, in spite of all of those who are compromising the basic principles of abolitionism in the way they do their politics. Why? Because conscience dictates that abortion must be abolished.

I am against socialism, in spite of all of those who also say they're against socialism while supporting every unconstitutional socialist government program under the sun. Why? Because socialism is theft, writ large, and it destroys nations and peoples. I love my children and grandchildren, and I don't want to see them destroyed, economically and politically.

I'm a conservative, in spite of all of those who have made a mockery out of that title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is worth preserving and conserving.

I'm a republican, small "r," in spite of the political party that continues to dishonor that honorable title. Why? Because the American system of republican, constitutional self-government built on the natural, God-ordained moral law is the best form of human government there is in this fallen, sinful world, and it's worth fighting for.

I'm a Christian, in spite of the large percentage of Americans who have taken that label upon themselves while putting the lie to it in the way they act in their civic life.

I'm a Christian, in spite of my own terrible failures to live up to that most honorable of titles. Because, Christianity is all about repentance, and mercy, and grace, and perseverance.

Figure out who you are, and what you stand for, folks. And then stand, without wavering. Otherwise, moral compromise is going to be the death of us all.

Ignore the hypocrites and the liars, and simply resolve to do what is right, no matter what anyone else may or may not do.

Donald Trump is the opposite of George Washington

2/10/2021

Tom Hoefling

At the conclusion of the American Revolution, when King George III of Great Britain heard that General George Washington would resign his commission to a powerless Congress, he reportedly told the American painter Benjamin West: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

Years later, Washington willingly gave up power again when he left the presidency after only two terms, even though there was at that time no constitutional barrier to him serving as many terms as he wanted, or, more properly, as many terms as the people would be willing to give him. In his case, of course, that probably would have been as many terms as he wanted.

George Washington set the example for the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America, an example that has been followed perfectly for more than two centuries.

Until Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is nothing like George Washington. In fact, he is the exact opposite of George Washington.

It's crystal clear that Donald Trump was willing to do literally anything, up to and including the unleashing of a violent insurrectionist mob on the Congress of the United States during the conclusion of the presidential electoral process, to prevent the peaceful transfer of the power of the presidency to the candidate who clearly defeated him in the 2020 election, Joseph Biden.

Donald Trump is not the greatest man in the world. In fact, he is the worst man in the world. He is the worst man, by far, to ever step foot onto the public stage in America. No one else is even close.

The Senate must convict Donald Trump and block him from ever holding any public office ever again. It's absolutely necessary.

If the Republicans refuse once again to uphold their oaths and convict Trump, they will go down in history as feckless, unprincipled, oath-breaking fools - like Trump, utterly unworthy of their high offices.

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"Impeach and remove Trump" - Tom Hoefling

1/13/2021

"For the record - just so there is no mistake by anyone - I stand foursquare against Trump and his violent insurrectionist mobs.

I also support his immediate impeachment and removal from the office of the president."

-- Tom Hoefling

Figure out what is right and do it

12/29/2020

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The greatest gifts

12/23/2020

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Socialism is a deadly parasite

12/9/2020

Say NO to Socialism!

No matter how you organize yourselves, don't act like a goat

9/17/2020

Tom Hoefling

Some abolitionists choose to form themselves into groups and/or organizations that are, in their minds, largely exclusive to their theological standpoint. They look at the task of abolishing abortion as if they were building a church or a Christian denomination. And you know what? That's perfectly fine. That's their right. If I was trying to start a church, or run a parachurch organization, I'd do it that way too. I certainly wouldn't want to include people who disagree with my theology, or the theology of my coreligionists. That would be ridiculous.

Many of us, on the other hand, a dozen years ago--thinking that stopping the abortion holocaust is a civic matter, one that is a life-and-death question for the entire country, for the entire body of the people, not just for those with perfect theology--decided that we want the help of any American citizen/Judeo-Christian theist who truly wants abortion ended immediately. So, we decided to start a non-sectarian political party, one that, even though it doesn't divide politically along denominational lines, is absolutely committed, from the get-go, to the core American moral and constitutional principles that without exception argue strongly and conclusively against abortion.

Even if you view Catholics, or Latter-day Saints, or Jews, as Samaritans, (or, as one "five tenet abolitionist" called them yesterday, "pagans") ask yourself the question:

If Samaritans are committed to helping the poor robbery victim lying bleeding in the ditch, or to stopping the mass murder of tens of millions more innocent children, shouldn't you work with them to bind up the wounds and bring healing to those who are being violently attacked? Can you justify to the Lord strutting on by like the priests and the Levites in Luke 10, who were busy going to do God's work, but stuck their noses up at people who were truly serving, and showing mercy, and being a true neighbor to their fellow human beings, even though they didn't have the right religious label attached to them?

I know that most abolitionists understand these concepts, because they are already working with their fellow citizens, without regard to religious designations, to try to pass abolition legislation in the several states.

But, in 2020, we are watching some few "five-tenet abolitionists," folks who have advocated for abolition as being solely a gospel project, inexplicably compromise those tenets for the pro-abortion incumbent Donald Trump. This simply can't pass without comment. Thousands more babies are being slaughtered in America TODAY. We don't have time for any more silly little Utilitarian political games. We have to convince the people to stop supporting wicked candidates, or we're never going to get anywhere.

If you won't even live up to your own standards, who is going to listen to you? Who is going to believe your professions of faith when you keep supporting politicians who think it's okay to murder innocent children? Who is going to demand abolition if you don't demand abolition, in actual practice? Who cares how you've organized yourself if you're being morally compromised?

These are fair questions.

Because, you know what? In the end there are only two labels that are really going to matter: "sheep" and "goats."

Go read Matthew 25:31-46. It's all right there.

Do unto these babies as you would do unto the Lord Himself. No exceptions, for any politician, or for any reason.

Without that kind of steel in the backbone of abolitionism, it is going to come to the same bad end as pro-life-ism. It's inevitable.

Core of the problem with abortion exposed in Texas

4/16/2019

Tom Hoefling

The debacle in the committee hearing room in Austin, Texas last week exposed the core of the problem with abortion. It all comes down to the humanity, and the God-given, unalienable, equal rights of the individual child, and whether or not the perpetrators who seek to slaughter them will be punished in the same way other murderers are dealt with under the law.

In other words, it all came down to the same things it came down to in front of the Supreme Court in 1973. Prior to Roe vs. Wade, Texas had unjust, immoral, unconstitutional laws on the books that deprived the unborn child of their equal rights, and punished their murderers differently, and much more leniently, than the murderers of those fortunate enough to have passed through a birth canal. Which, of course, provided the pretext the wicked Blackmun court needed to dehumanize, to depersonify, the unborn child. Which, of course, then led to the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of more then sixty million innocent, helpless, defenseless children.

And what was the response of Pro-Life, Inc., and their faithful minions in the Texas legislature when presented with a just, constitutional bill that would criminalize all abortions in their state? They were steadfast in their determination to make the exact same moral, constitutional, and legal error that led to Roe in the first place, even though more than 98% of the more than three hundred citizens who testified in front of their committee spent more than eight hours, late into the night, explaining to them in great depth, in exquisite detail, why doing this would be a gross violation of the most sacred obligations of their solemn oaths.

And the innocent blood continues to flow.

Tom Hoefling testifies for abortion abolition in Texas - April 8, 2019

4/10/2019

Tom Hoefling and Scott Mahurin to debate abortion abolition vs. regulation - Sat. March 30, 2019, 2 pm Central time - LIVE STREAM

3/26/2019

Tom Hoefling

Please hold me up in prayer this week as I prepare for Saturday's abolition vs. regulation debate with Scott Mahurin.

If you're near Des Moines, come join us at 2 pm at 315 SW 14th St, Des Moines, IA 50309-4311.

If you're not able to come, the live stream will be on the Des Moines Patriots for Christ page, starting at 2 pm Central time.

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The Fear Of God Is The Missing Ingredient

3/24/2019

Tom Hoefling

The fear of God is the missing ingredient in our politics today - on the part of the people themselves, and on the part of those they elect to public office who are required to take the oath.

Our system presupposes a just and perfect judgment on our words and actions in the hereafter, as the mainstay against abuses and usurpations in the civic here and now.

Without that healthy dread in our hearts and minds, and in the hearts and minds of our chosen representatives, the whole edifice of constitutional republicanism falls apart.

"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"

-- George Washington

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding."

-- Proverbs 9:10

Don't laugh off the "Green New Deal"

3/12/2019

Tom Hoefling

So, on January 7th of this year the Communist Party USA began touting what they called a "Green New Deal." One month later, on February 7th, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released her "Green New Deal."

Now, you can try if you will to track the timeline of just exactly who was cribbing whose notes, but the simple fact is, the whole thing is thoroughly communistic in nature. Its obvious predicate is the notion that all things belong to the state.

If they want to tear down all the buildings, including those buildings you own, their assumption is that they have the right and authority to do so. If they want to kill all your cows, they can. If they want to ground all your airplanes, there is nothing to prevent them from doing so. If they want to force you to live in an undefended, unheated shack, shivering in the dark, and only give you a little rice to eat each day, they can.

Make no mistake: If these people are not stopped, and soon, that is exactly what they will do, too.

Sure, their ideas are stupid and off-the-wall. But communist ideas have always been stupid and off-the-wall. That didn't stop them from murdering and enslaving a large part of the population of the world in the last century though.

Don't simply laugh this stuff off, folks. It's deadly serious business.

Cannibalism for the Public Good

3/11/2019

by Tom Hoefling

In 1729, Jonathan Swift anonymously wrote an intensely satirical piece entitled "A Modest Proposal," in which he wryly proposed cannibalism for the public good. And those who were to be eaten were unwanted, poor children. Children who were "unwanted," not necessarily by their parents, but by the intelligentsia of his day.

So, let's jump forward almost three hundred years to our present time. And this is no satire. The bodies of aborted, i.e. murdered, children - children who are not only unwanted by the intelligentsia, but unwanted by their own flesh and blood, by their own parents - are being cannibalized, with their plundered cells being used to make vaccines.

To make matters even worse, the intelligentsia of our time not only insist on making these products of cannibalism AVAILABLE to the general public, they INSIST on making the injections MANDATORY.

We're now beyond the ghastly point of them saying that you MAY be a cannibal if you would like, to them saying that, to be a responsible citizen, you and your (unaborted) children MUST BE CANNIBALS.

My comments here have nothing to do with any argument over the morality of vaccinations themselves. It's not even about the dubious morality of governments forcing people to receive inoculations in general. This is about CANNIBALISM, and, I repeat, not just about cannibalism, but FORCED CANNIBALISM.

There can be little doubt that modern medicine has, in many respects, been a blessing to humanity. Mortality rates have fallen with the increase of our scientific knowledge about sanitation, human physiology, and health.

But, when science abandons decent moral considerations, nothing can be more of a curse for humanity. Nothing can be more of a plague. When doctors insist on going down the cursed path of a Mengele, the only thing that can follow, inevitably, is a curse on our nation.

These inhuman abominations must be stopped, once and for all, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our posterity.

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties."

-- Winston Churchill, Finest Hour speech, June 18, 1940

List of vaccines that contain the cells of cannibalized babies, as of Feb. 2019.

Click the image:

Data courtesy of cogforlife.org.

There's only way way out of this fiscal mess

2/12/2019

Tom Hoefling

So, we're now on track to run trillion dollar deficits every year as far as the eye can see. We just hit $22 trillion in debt, which is up more than $2 trillion in additional debt since Trump took office only two years ago. We're spending a billion dollars a day on interest alone.

Under these circumstances, any "tax cuts" are illusory. The burden continues to radically rise, not lessen, on current taxpayers, and on our posterity, who haven't given their consent to any of this nonsense.

There's only one way out of this horrible mess, and that's to apply my three-fold criteria for any and all public spending.

Ask yourself:

1) Is it moral?

2 Is it constitutional?

3) Is it absolutely necessary?

If the answer to any of these questions is "NO," then it's high time we got rid of it.

Then what we have to do is to take the tax and regulatory burdens off of the producers in this country. We can start by completely dismantling the federal income tax, and replacing it with a simple, transparent, efficient retail consumption tax.

It's stupid and counter-productive to tax businesses and productivity. It's the equivalent of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Put the tax burden on consumption, and you will encourage thrift and savings, which are the only things that can provide the seed for even more production of physical wealth and private property.

And last but not least, dismantle the massive regulatory state which is throttling our economy and disadvantaging us in the world market. Most of it is unconstitutional anyhow.

In the clean air of liberty, Americans can and will out-work, and out-think, and out-produce anyone in the world, no problem.

Restore our national moral basis. Restore respect for our Constitution. Restore liberty. The rest will take care of itself.

Border Security: A good cause, ineptly defended

1/14/2019

Tom Hoefling

The people of this country are being remorselessly, relentlessly, and very skillfully, propagandized against the securing of our sovereign territory from the millions of foreign nationals who are invading it.

They are being convinced to happily accept the demise of our right to govern ourselves in liberty, which will, of course, also strip our earthly posterity of the precious gift of the Blessings of Liberty.

And Trump being the poster boy for border security will likely be one of the worst things that has ever happened to the cause of preserving and defending our sovereignty, security, and borders.

My best guess is that he will ultimately accomplish nothing, and compromise away everything, because he lacks the basic understanding of, and commitment to, the principles that are necessary to actually secure this country.

He's making the job of those who want to destroy this country and its sovereignty and independence much, much easier.

"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." -- Frédéric Bastiat

"All comes out even at the end of the day"

2/11/2018

"If a government has no moral scruples, it often seems to gain great advantages and liberties of action, but 'all comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.'"

-- Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

Churchill wrote these wise words in his great history of World War II, specifically in reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Agression Pact, which, via its secret protocols, enslaved the Baltic States and carved Poland into bloody pieces.

Within a few short months, Stalin paid dearly for this most cynical and cold-blooded of all agreements between nations. More than twenty million Russians were to perish in the holocaust which ensued.

Ultimately, Hitler paid for it too, with everything, including his own life. Germany was crushed in a vice from East and West, and was left in total ruin, occupied for decades by its enemies.

But, the greatest irony of all was to wait half a century, when the Baltic States used the illegality of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as the basis for its own bid for liberty from the Soviet Union, a successful bid that ended ultimately with the breakup of that evil empire.

No matter how things may appear, the Almighty remains completely in control.

Always, the only wise course for men, or for nations, is to do the right thing, no matter how things might look, and to leave the results to God.

“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.”

-- Daniel 4:17

'Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.'

Tom Hoefling on Government:

"Just as 'good fences make for good neighbors,' good government is mainly about knowing where the legitimate boundaries are, and having the courage to defend those borders forcefully. This is true in terms of the defense of our territory, our security, and our national sovereignty, but it also applies to the sworn duty of all of those in government to equally protect the God-given, unalienable rights of each individual person, from their creation onward, their sacred obligation to stay well within the enumerated powers of our constitutions, and of the role legitimate government must play in balancing the competing rights and interests of the people, in order to establish justice."