Patrick Padgett

[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

@SwPrayer Amen

[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Dear Fellow Americans,

I have a radical proposal. Brace yourselves. You might want to sit down for this one.

What if... and hear me out here... Congress had to ACTUALLY BALANCE THE BUDGET?

I know, I know. Revolutionary thinking from a science teacher. How utterly pedestrian of me.

Here's my proposed constitutional amendment: Congress shall pass a balanced budget EVERY SINGLE FISCAL YEAR. Not a "decrease in the rate of increase" (which is their favorite magic trick), not a "projected balanced budget in 2057" when everyone currently voting will be conveniently dead, but an ACTUAL balanced budget where spending equals revenue. Wild concept, right?

And here's the kicker: until that budget is balanced, Congress receives ZERO FUNDING. Not a single penny. No salaries. No staffers. NOT EVEN COFFEE. You want your fancy Capitol espresso machine? Balance the checkbook first. My students understand this concept by third grade, but apparently it escapes the intellectual grasp of our esteemed legislators who clearly couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Here's what our Founders actually said. James Madison, in Federalist No. 45, warned that federal powers are "few and defined" while state powers are "numerous and indefinite." Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 17, noted that matters like "the supervision of agriculture and other concerns of a similar nature... can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction."

The Tenth Amendment isn't a suggestion. It's not a gentle guideline. It explicitly RESERVES to the states and the people ALL powers not specifically delegated to the federal government. Healthcare? Not in Article I, Section 8. Food assistance? Nope. Housing subsidies? Try again. Energy assistance? Still no.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly confirmed this. In United States v. Lopez (1995), Chief Justice Rehnquist emphasized the "Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers." In Printz v. United States (1997), the Court held that the federal government cannot "command the States' officers to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program."

So here's my vision: GET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF WELFARE PROGRAMS ENTIRELY. Let the states raise their own revenue. Let them create their own programs tailored to their own citizens' needs. No more SALT deductions creating a federal subsidy for high-tax states. No more handouts from Washington with strings attached.

Want California-style social programs? Move to California and pay California taxes. Want Texas-style limited government? Texas awaits. THAT is federalism. THAT is what Justice Brandeis called "laboratories of democracy" in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann. Let states experiment, compete, and let citizens vote with their feet.

Here's the math nobody wants to discuss: The national debt exceeds $36 TRILLION. That's 123% of GDP. Mandatory spending accounts for over 70% of the federal budget. The deficit for fiscal year 2025 is projected at $1.9 TRILLION. Net interest alone will total $952 BILLION this year.

Let me put $36 trillion in perspective. If you stacked one-dollar bills, it would reach approximately 2.4 MILLION MILES HIGH. That's TEN TIMES the distance to the moon. If those dollars were laid end to end, they would wrap around Earth's equator over 140,000 times.

And Congress's solution? Keep spending! Keep borrowing! Keep kicking the can to our grandchildren! These bright lights are about as sharp as a bowling ball.

Quinn's Law #25 applies perfectly here: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." And Quinn's Law #1: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." Every federal program designed to "help" has created dependency, destroyed families, and concentrated power in Washington.

The federal government that was designed to be LIMITED has become UNLIMITED. The states that were supposed to be SOVEREIGN have become SUBORDINATE. The citizens who were meant to be SELF-GOVERNING have become DEPENDENT.

It's time to reverse course.

REDUCE federal taxes. ELIMINATE unconstitutional federal programs. LET STATES handle welfare, healthcare, housing, and education as the Constitution intended. REQUIRE a balanced budget or Congress gets nothing.

Make states self-sufficient. If California wants universal everything, let California pay for it. If New York wants cradle-to-grave entitlements, New York's taxpayers should foot the bill. Stop forcing Ohio teachers like me to subsidize policies in states where I have no vote.

The Constitution isn't complicated. The federal government has enumerated powers. Everything else belongs to the states and the people. Our national debt is an existential threat. The solution isn't more spending, more borrowing, more federal control.

The solution is constitutional government. Balanced budgets. State sovereignty. Individual responsibility.

But what do I know? I'm only a Army veteran who balanced his own checkbook while feeding a family of six on a teacher's salary. Apparently that makes me MORE qualified than most of Congress.

[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

@SwPrayer Amen!

[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

@SwPrayer Amen!

[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[Patrick Padgett @IloveJPII]

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[John-Henry Westen @JhWesten]

🚨 Censorship Alert 🚨

Bishop Strickland was locked out of his X account on March 3—silenced.

This was the last post he could make before being shut down. @elonmusk , please fix this!!!

🔥 Retweet if you stand with Bishop Strickland! 🔥

[Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins]

BREAKING: President Trump just signed an executive order expanding access to IVF—here’s our take.

President Trump, IVF is unethical, doesn’t cure infertility, and is a scam. Better and cheaper alternatives exist to help couples conceive.

1.    In the U.S., over 1 million embryos are created yearly for IVF. The majority are discarded, frozen indefinitely, or never implanted. More embryos are lost through IVF than through abortion each year.

2.    During IVF, children are treated as commodities, as “extra” embryos are discarded or used for experiments, and babies are bought and sold through the fertility industry. Not to mention, eugenics is involved—these embryos are often chosen for implantation based on “desirable” traits.

3.    The IVF industry is a scam because it is outrageously expensive and rarely works. The average cost is $15K–$30K per cycle, while the success rate is only about 25–30% per cycle. Most couples spend thousands and end up without a baby. Other ethical alternatives exist that treat the root causes of infertility, don’t destroy embryos, are more effective, and are cheaper!

President Trump, please do better!

[Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins]

BREAKING: Trump signs E.O. to expand IVF. This is tragic.

IVF kills children in the embryonic stage, and 93% of the children conceived in IVF will be killed or frozen, never born. For families like mine, IVF is frequently used as an eugenic tool.

@realDonaldTrump, I would love to talk to you about this and introduce you to real methods to help couples have children that do not exploit women &children, actually work to reduce infertility in couples (like NaPro Technology), and are 100% ethical.

https://t.co/CVIYUA1rzK

[Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren]

A grave evil. Children are not commodities, and it is not "great" for families to have babies in the freezer.

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

If you are a Christian who largely likes Trump and voted for him, you need to speak up and make abundantly clear that federally backed IVF is unacceptable and evil.

This could lead to millions of murders.

We must stop this now.

Do not be a coward.

Fear God rather than man.

[Bryan Kemper 🇺🇸 @BryanKemper]

IVF is literally creating humans knowing most will be killed. It’s pure evil.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

In vitro fertilization is a violation of human dignity.

IVF "is in itself illicit and in opposition to the dignity of procreation and of the conjugal union, even when everything is done to avoid the death of the human embryo." -- donum vitae

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

A moral tragedy.

As the Catholic Catechism states (par. 2377), IVF is “morally unacceptable” because, among other things, “[it] establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person.”

I hope and pray that President @realDonaldTrump repents.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Over 90% of children created by IVF die, either left frozen and abandoned, destroyed due to eugenics, experimented on, or miscarried. Only 7% are born. It’s dreadful.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

Reminder…