The Washington Times
HURT: Deflecting blame for tax-cut logjam
Democrats finally find a tax cut they can abide, and so both sides agree to extend it. But just as they are about to partake in the bipartisan peace pipe a few days before Christmas, Congress promptly grinds to a squabbling halt threatening a $1,000-tax increase for workers and the evaporation of unemployment benefits for those out of work.
Merry freaking Christmas, American people!
And then when it comes to explaining themselves, Democrats walk out with straight faces and blame - who else? - the tea party.
Yes, that would be that pernicious group of fed-up voters who banded together around the single premise that taxes were too high. Not too low, but too high. And so now, according to Democrats, they want to raise your taxes.
“Here we are, just a few days before Christmas, and the Republicans are just coming up with another excuse,” House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi told her liberal cohorts in the press. “It’s just the ridiculous tea party Republicans who are holding up this tax cut for the American people and jeopardizing economic growth.”
The three ways you know Nancy Pelosi is lying here are that she pays homage to “economic growth,” a “tax cut” and “Christmas” - all three of which her political career has been dedicated to destroying.
Yet in every corner on Capitol Hill, you hear this same absurd canard about how the tea party is somehow to blame for a looming tax increase. And the ever-adoring press obediently shovels it around for widespread consumption.
But wait! The vast majority of tea partiers in Congress actually voted in favor of extending this tax cut. In the Republican-controlled House, they overwhelmingly supported the bill to extend the tax cut for a year. The Democrat-controlled Senate, meanwhile, approved a bill to extend the tax cut for only two months.
So the tea party supports a 12-month extension, Democrats want a two-month extension, therefore the tea party wants to kill this tax cut. Only in Washington and only among liars.
The truth is that, in a very rare accomplishment, the Senate approved a measly two-month extension of the tax cut. Then they high-tailed it out of town for holiday vacations in far-flung places.
Calling them back to town to properly extend the tax cut for at least one full tax year would interrupt their sunny vacations and quite likely lead to yet another giant failure by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.
It is moments like this that voters turn to the White House for leadership. President Obama may be miserably incapable of leading the country, but at least he might be able to show a little leadership among his own party in Congress. And he could be the hero who stopped a big tax increase and saved millions from losing unemployment insurance for the holidays.
But don’t count on it. White House spinners are too busy blaming the “tea party revolt” for raising your taxes.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/20/deflecting-blame-for-tax-cut-logjam/
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Jobs bills collecting dust on Harry Reid`s desk!
Someone asked: "Where are the jobs bills from the House?"
The jobs bills already passed by the House are stuck on Harry Reid`s desk collecting dust.
Empower Small Business Owners
Small business owners are being bogged down by burdensome regulations from Washington that prevent job creation and hinder economic growth. We must remove onerous regulations that are redundant, harm small businesses, and impede private sector investment and job creation.
Review of Federal Regulations
H.Res. 72 - Passed by the House (391-28) on February 11, 2011
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
H.R. 872 - Senate has taken no action to date
Energy Tax Prevention Act
H.R. 910 - Senate has taken no action to date
Disapproval of FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations
H.J.Res. 37 - Senate has blocked a companion measure by a vote of 46-52
Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act
H.R. 2018 - Senate has taken no action to date
Consumer Financial Protection & Soundness Improvement Act
H.R. 1315 - Senate has taken no action to date
Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act
H.R. 2587 - Senate has taken no action to date
Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on The Nation
H.R. 2401 - Senate has taken no action to date
Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2681 - Senate has taken no action to date
EPA Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2250 - Senate has taken no action to date
Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
H.R. 2273 - Senate has taken no action to date
Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act
H.R. 3094 - Senate has taken no action to date
Regulatory Accountability Act
H.R. 3010 - Senate has taken no action to date
Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act
H.R. 527 - Senate has taken no action to date
REINS Act
H.R. 10 - Senate has taken no action to date
Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act
H.R. 1633 - Senate has taken no action to date
Fix The Tax Code To Help Job Creators
America’s tax code has grown too complicated and cumbersome. We need a tax code that is flatter, fairer, and simpler to ensure that everyone pays their fair share, lessen the burden on families, generate economic expansion, and create jobs by making America more competitive.
Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act
H.R. 4 - Signed into law by the President on April 14, 2011
3% Withholding Rule Repeal
H.R. 674 - Signed into law by the President on November 21, 2011
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act
H.R. 3630 - Senate has taken no action to date
Increase Competitiveness for U.S. Manufacturers
The more that American businesses export, the more they produce. The more businesses produce, the more workers they need. This means job creation. Expanding market access for U.S. made products will be a shot in the arm for businesses small and large and will create jobs.
U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3078 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3079 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3080 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
Southeast Arizona Resource Utilization & Conservation Act
H.R. 1904 - Senate has taken no action to date
Encourage Entrepreneurship and Growth
America has historically been on the cutting edge of innovation and technological development, but we are increasingly falling behind our global competitors. We must make it easier for existing businesses to grow and allow more start-up companies to flourish.
The America Invents Act
H.R. 1249 - Signed into law by the President on September 16, 2011
Veterans Opportunity to Work Act
H.R. 2433 - Signed into law by the President on November 21, 2011
Small Company Capital Formation Act
H.R. 1070 - Senate has taken no action to date
Small Banks' Access to Capital Act
H.R. 1965 - Senate has taken no action to date
Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act
H.R. 2930 - Senate has taken no action to date
Access to Capital for Job Creators Act
H.R. 2940 - Senate has taken no action to date
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act
H.R. 3012 - Senate has taken no action to date
Maximize Domestic Energy Production
The energy sector is crucial to our economic growth, and high energy costs have a major impact on job creation. We need policies that allow us to harness our abundant supply of natural resources in America, develop new sources of energy, and create jobs here at home.
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
H.R. 1230 - Senate has taken no action to date
Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
H.R. 1229 - Senate has taken no action to date
Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
H.R. 1231 - Senate has taken no action to date
Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011
H.R. 2021 - Senate has taken no action to date
North American-Made Energy Security Act
H.R. 1938 - Senate has taken no action to date
Pay Down America's Unsustainable Debt Burden
The federal government is spending and borrowing so much that the United States will soon go broke. Washington’s spending binge has put our nation in debt, eroded economic confidence, and caused massive uncertainty for private sector job creators. It's time to live within our means.
Budget for Fiscal Year 2012
H.Con.Res. 34 - Senate has not yet considered a budget of its own
The jobs bills already passed by the House are stuck on Harry Reid`s desk collecting dust.
Empower Small Business Owners
Small business owners are being bogged down by burdensome regulations from Washington that prevent job creation and hinder economic growth. We must remove onerous regulations that are redundant, harm small businesses, and impede private sector investment and job creation.
Review of Federal Regulations
H.Res. 72 - Passed by the House (391-28) on February 11, 2011
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
H.R. 872 - Senate has taken no action to date
Energy Tax Prevention Act
H.R. 910 - Senate has taken no action to date
Disapproval of FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations
H.J.Res. 37 - Senate has blocked a companion measure by a vote of 46-52
Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act
H.R. 2018 - Senate has taken no action to date
Consumer Financial Protection & Soundness Improvement Act
H.R. 1315 - Senate has taken no action to date
Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act
H.R. 2587 - Senate has taken no action to date
Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on The Nation
H.R. 2401 - Senate has taken no action to date
Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2681 - Senate has taken no action to date
EPA Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2250 - Senate has taken no action to date
Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
H.R. 2273 - Senate has taken no action to date
Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act
H.R. 3094 - Senate has taken no action to date
Regulatory Accountability Act
H.R. 3010 - Senate has taken no action to date
Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act
H.R. 527 - Senate has taken no action to date
REINS Act
H.R. 10 - Senate has taken no action to date
Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act
H.R. 1633 - Senate has taken no action to date
Fix The Tax Code To Help Job Creators
America’s tax code has grown too complicated and cumbersome. We need a tax code that is flatter, fairer, and simpler to ensure that everyone pays their fair share, lessen the burden on families, generate economic expansion, and create jobs by making America more competitive.
Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act
H.R. 4 - Signed into law by the President on April 14, 2011
3% Withholding Rule Repeal
H.R. 674 - Signed into law by the President on November 21, 2011
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act
H.R. 3630 - Senate has taken no action to date
Increase Competitiveness for U.S. Manufacturers
The more that American businesses export, the more they produce. The more businesses produce, the more workers they need. This means job creation. Expanding market access for U.S. made products will be a shot in the arm for businesses small and large and will create jobs.
U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3078 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3079 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
H.R. 3080 - Signed by the Preisdent on October 21, 2011
Southeast Arizona Resource Utilization & Conservation Act
H.R. 1904 - Senate has taken no action to date
Encourage Entrepreneurship and Growth
America has historically been on the cutting edge of innovation and technological development, but we are increasingly falling behind our global competitors. We must make it easier for existing businesses to grow and allow more start-up companies to flourish.
The America Invents Act
H.R. 1249 - Signed into law by the President on September 16, 2011
Veterans Opportunity to Work Act
H.R. 2433 - Signed into law by the President on November 21, 2011
Small Company Capital Formation Act
H.R. 1070 - Senate has taken no action to date
Small Banks' Access to Capital Act
H.R. 1965 - Senate has taken no action to date
Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act
H.R. 2930 - Senate has taken no action to date
Access to Capital for Job Creators Act
H.R. 2940 - Senate has taken no action to date
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act
H.R. 3012 - Senate has taken no action to date
Maximize Domestic Energy Production
The energy sector is crucial to our economic growth, and high energy costs have a major impact on job creation. We need policies that allow us to harness our abundant supply of natural resources in America, develop new sources of energy, and create jobs here at home.
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
H.R. 1230 - Senate has taken no action to date
Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
H.R. 1229 - Senate has taken no action to date
Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
H.R. 1231 - Senate has taken no action to date
Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011
H.R. 2021 - Senate has taken no action to date
North American-Made Energy Security Act
H.R. 1938 - Senate has taken no action to date
Pay Down America's Unsustainable Debt Burden
The federal government is spending and borrowing so much that the United States will soon go broke. Washington’s spending binge has put our nation in debt, eroded economic confidence, and caused massive uncertainty for private sector job creators. It's time to live within our means.
Budget for Fiscal Year 2012
H.Con.Res. 34 - Senate has not yet considered a budget of its own
Friday, December 16, 2011
Government
Why do we Americans continue to put up with this Government? Today`s news tells us that Government is about to vote on regulating the Internet in an effort to silence free speech. See link:
http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/14/in-less-than-24-hours-congress-could-vote-to-change-the-internet-forever/
Earlier this week we learned that Government is about to pass a bill which will allow Government to arrest and detain indefinitely American citizens without charge or trial. Our public servants have forgotten their place in American society. You people ARE public servants. You are NOT our rulers. Regulating free speech on the Internet stinks. They want to silence the American citizens to freely pass along information. They want you to only get your information from the Liberal mainstream media. Biased news.
I saw tee shirts for sale online a few months ago that said: Our Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now. I bought one. And it`s true. Everything that`s wrong with America today can be traced to Government. This recession for example. Affordable Social Housing where Government forced the banks to open up billions of dollars a year in new credit to millions of Americans who previously did not qualify. Government bankrupted the banks. Then they blamed Wall Street. And they blamed George Bush even though Bush warned Congress something like 34 times about the dangers of Affordable Social Housing and the effect it could have on the entire economy. Bush was ignored. Barney Frank was the voice of reason... Thanks Barney for killing the economy.
Gun sales are at an all time high. Ever wonder why? It`s the people arming themselves because our President is waging a Class War. Our leader is telling the masses, it`s OK to hate anybody who has more stuff than you. Disgusting. And they are listening. The media will not even touch all the stories out there about these flash mobs going into American businesses in large numbers and just walking out with what they want. Mass looting. The stories are out there. Google it. ABC-DNC won`t touch these stories. They know why it`s happening. So do I.
ABC-DNC never told the people about Obama`s Radical Marxist past. They didn`t want you to know about it. He was NOT vetted by the media. He was asked hard hitting questions like: "How are you holding up on this grueling campaign trail?" Did they vet Herman Cain? Yes, they did.
Our Government is the problem. Our LAPDOG media to the Marxists is also a problem. Mark Twain once wrote: "If you don`t read the newspaper, then you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, then you are misinformed..." Twain got it right.
The ObamaCare mandate is a disaster in waiting. After Government successfully takes over paying for all our health care, they will then turn around and regulate what you eat. What you can and cannot drink. What you do. Where you can and cannot go. It`s a disaster. So much for Liberty and Freedom.
The people MUST not allow Government to silence free speech on the Internet. Call, write or email your Congressman (RULER) today and tell them what you think about Government regulating the Internet.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/14/in-less-than-24-hours-congress-could-vote-to-change-the-internet-forever/
Earlier this week we learned that Government is about to pass a bill which will allow Government to arrest and detain indefinitely American citizens without charge or trial. Our public servants have forgotten their place in American society. You people ARE public servants. You are NOT our rulers. Regulating free speech on the Internet stinks. They want to silence the American citizens to freely pass along information. They want you to only get your information from the Liberal mainstream media. Biased news.
I saw tee shirts for sale online a few months ago that said: Our Forefathers Would Be Shooting By Now. I bought one. And it`s true. Everything that`s wrong with America today can be traced to Government. This recession for example. Affordable Social Housing where Government forced the banks to open up billions of dollars a year in new credit to millions of Americans who previously did not qualify. Government bankrupted the banks. Then they blamed Wall Street. And they blamed George Bush even though Bush warned Congress something like 34 times about the dangers of Affordable Social Housing and the effect it could have on the entire economy. Bush was ignored. Barney Frank was the voice of reason... Thanks Barney for killing the economy.
Gun sales are at an all time high. Ever wonder why? It`s the people arming themselves because our President is waging a Class War. Our leader is telling the masses, it`s OK to hate anybody who has more stuff than you. Disgusting. And they are listening. The media will not even touch all the stories out there about these flash mobs going into American businesses in large numbers and just walking out with what they want. Mass looting. The stories are out there. Google it. ABC-DNC won`t touch these stories. They know why it`s happening. So do I.
ABC-DNC never told the people about Obama`s Radical Marxist past. They didn`t want you to know about it. He was NOT vetted by the media. He was asked hard hitting questions like: "How are you holding up on this grueling campaign trail?" Did they vet Herman Cain? Yes, they did.
Our Government is the problem. Our LAPDOG media to the Marxists is also a problem. Mark Twain once wrote: "If you don`t read the newspaper, then you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, then you are misinformed..." Twain got it right.
The ObamaCare mandate is a disaster in waiting. After Government successfully takes over paying for all our health care, they will then turn around and regulate what you eat. What you can and cannot drink. What you do. Where you can and cannot go. It`s a disaster. So much for Liberty and Freedom.
The people MUST not allow Government to silence free speech on the Internet. Call, write or email your Congressman (RULER) today and tell them what you think about Government regulating the Internet.
"The U.S. Constitution is a
limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not
prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government
... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's
protection against the government."
Mark Steyn gets it.
Where do you go to...? by Mark Steyn
Liberalism, as the political scientist Theodore Lowi put it, "is hostile to law," and has a preference for "policy without law." The Law itself doesn`t really matter so much as the process it sets in motion - or as Nancy Pelosi famously told the American people regarding health care, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what`s in it." When Lowi was writing in the Seventies, he noted that both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consumer Product Safety Administration (CPSC) were set up by a Congress that didn`t identify a single policy goal for these agencies and "provided no standards whatsoever" for their conduct. So they made it up as they went along.
Where do you go to vote out the CPSC or OSHA?
Or any of the rest of the unaccountable acronyms drowning America in alphabet soup. For more and more Americans, law has been supplanted by "regulation" - a governing set of rules not legislated by representatives accountable to the people, but invented by an activist bureaucracy, much of which is well to the left of either political party. As the newspapers blandly reported in 2010, the bureausrats weren`t terribly bothered about whether Congress would pass a Cap and Trade mega bill into law because, if faint-hearted Dems lose their nerve, the EPA will just "raise" standards all by itself.
Where do you go to vote out the EPA?
Congress stripped provisions for end-of-life counseling (the so called death-panels) out of the ObamaCare bill, but Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, put`em back on her say so. And why shouldn`t she? As Philip Klein pointed out in the American Spectator, the new law contained 700 references to the Secretary "shall", another 200 to the Secretary "may", and 139 to the Secretary "determines." So the Secretary may and shall determine anything she pretty much wants. Plucked at random:
The Secretary shall develope oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.
"Tooth-level surveillance": from colonial subjects to dentured servants in a mere quarter-millennium.
Where do you go to vote out "the Secretary"?
And so "We the People" degenerates into "We the regulators, we the bureaucrats, we the permit-issuers, we the czars." Dancing with the czars is unrepublican. "Ignorantia juris non excusat" is one of the oldest concepts of civilized society: ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Where do you go to vote out the Czars?
Mark Steyn gets it.
Where do you go to...? by Mark Steyn
Liberalism, as the political scientist Theodore Lowi put it, "is hostile to law," and has a preference for "policy without law." The Law itself doesn`t really matter so much as the process it sets in motion - or as Nancy Pelosi famously told the American people regarding health care, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what`s in it." When Lowi was writing in the Seventies, he noted that both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consumer Product Safety Administration (CPSC) were set up by a Congress that didn`t identify a single policy goal for these agencies and "provided no standards whatsoever" for their conduct. So they made it up as they went along.
Where do you go to vote out the CPSC or OSHA?
Or any of the rest of the unaccountable acronyms drowning America in alphabet soup. For more and more Americans, law has been supplanted by "regulation" - a governing set of rules not legislated by representatives accountable to the people, but invented by an activist bureaucracy, much of which is well to the left of either political party. As the newspapers blandly reported in 2010, the bureausrats weren`t terribly bothered about whether Congress would pass a Cap and Trade mega bill into law because, if faint-hearted Dems lose their nerve, the EPA will just "raise" standards all by itself.
Where do you go to vote out the EPA?
Congress stripped provisions for end-of-life counseling (the so called death-panels) out of the ObamaCare bill, but Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, put`em back on her say so. And why shouldn`t she? As Philip Klein pointed out in the American Spectator, the new law contained 700 references to the Secretary "shall", another 200 to the Secretary "may", and 139 to the Secretary "determines." So the Secretary may and shall determine anything she pretty much wants. Plucked at random:
The Secretary shall develope oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.
"Tooth-level surveillance": from colonial subjects to dentured servants in a mere quarter-millennium.
Where do you go to vote out "the Secretary"?
And so "We the People" degenerates into "We the regulators, we the bureaucrats, we the permit-issuers, we the czars." Dancing with the czars is unrepublican. "Ignorantia juris non excusat" is one of the oldest concepts of civilized society: ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Where do you go to vote out the Czars?
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Latest...
Wow. A week and a half before Christmas and I still have not bought the first gift. Thank God for my wife Cindy who always shops early for our kids. I usually wait until the 23rd or 24th to do my shopping. This year will be about the same. It`s a tough economy out here. My job which I have been employed for over 20 years seems to be slowing still. Could be a tough winter in the ready mixed concrete business. Hope for the best.
I have not had a raise in over 4 years but the costs of everything just keep going up. We are doing some things to make up for the difference. We traded cars and cut our car payment in half. We are working on a home refinance at a better rate and should save alot per month with it. Just taking care of what matters. We had a rental property we did a short sale on last spring and we had to cut a check for about $4,600.00 to make things right. Done.
My kids make me so proud. Adam works his tail off and has always had straight A`s and in this his Junior year, he has at least five different advanced placement classes. Colleges send him stuff everyday. They are actively trying to recruit him even as a junior in high school. Katie makes me proud too everyday. She`s such a great kid and a real JOY in my life. She has a lot of my traits. I can see some of me in her. She has a big ole sweet heart. She gets up for 5th grade with no issues at all. She also gets great grades. She loves her friends and her family although, she never gets to see them much. My sister Donna sent her a gift and she simply adores it. Thank YOU Donna! (it relates to Mom Trent)
My Cindy. What can I say about my wife/best friend. We joke about "it`s us against the world." And it`s true. We also joke about "Just Keep Swimming" (Nemo) when one of us is having a tough day. I love her with all my heart and I know I am blessed because of her. Life is good!
I am not perfect. I make mistakes. However, I do not apologize for being an individual or a free thinker. I make some people mad and I don`t mean too. I`ve been called a lot of mean and nasty names over the last few years by people who should be close to me. People can be so intolerant...
I miss the days of big family get togethers at my Moms house when I was growing up. Such Good Times. The house would be full of just happy people. Nobody seems very happy these days and nobody ever really wants to get together anymore. Life`s tough, I know.
I read something about a month ago - "Sometimes there comes a point in your life where you realize, who really matters, who never did, and who always will." Pretty sure I know about that and I like it. That`s great. Anyway...
Life is great. I have a great family. My wife and I both work hard and we are raising good kids. What else is there?
I have not had a raise in over 4 years but the costs of everything just keep going up. We are doing some things to make up for the difference. We traded cars and cut our car payment in half. We are working on a home refinance at a better rate and should save alot per month with it. Just taking care of what matters. We had a rental property we did a short sale on last spring and we had to cut a check for about $4,600.00 to make things right. Done.
My kids make me so proud. Adam works his tail off and has always had straight A`s and in this his Junior year, he has at least five different advanced placement classes. Colleges send him stuff everyday. They are actively trying to recruit him even as a junior in high school. Katie makes me proud too everyday. She`s such a great kid and a real JOY in my life. She has a lot of my traits. I can see some of me in her. She has a big ole sweet heart. She gets up for 5th grade with no issues at all. She also gets great grades. She loves her friends and her family although, she never gets to see them much. My sister Donna sent her a gift and she simply adores it. Thank YOU Donna! (it relates to Mom Trent)
My Cindy. What can I say about my wife/best friend. We joke about "it`s us against the world." And it`s true. We also joke about "Just Keep Swimming" (Nemo) when one of us is having a tough day. I love her with all my heart and I know I am blessed because of her. Life is good!
I am not perfect. I make mistakes. However, I do not apologize for being an individual or a free thinker. I make some people mad and I don`t mean too. I`ve been called a lot of mean and nasty names over the last few years by people who should be close to me. People can be so intolerant...
I miss the days of big family get togethers at my Moms house when I was growing up. Such Good Times. The house would be full of just happy people. Nobody seems very happy these days and nobody ever really wants to get together anymore. Life`s tough, I know.
I read something about a month ago - "Sometimes there comes a point in your life where you realize, who really matters, who never did, and who always will." Pretty sure I know about that and I like it. That`s great. Anyway...
Life is great. I have a great family. My wife and I both work hard and we are raising good kids. What else is there?
Monday, November 7, 2011
Obama`s Children by Neal Boortz
By Neal Boortz
Barry’s Brats held a little “occupy” demonstration in Naples over the weekend. The drew 100 people. You can get more than 100 people at a fish fry around here … 100 people for an “occupy” demonstration is barely worth a second glance. I did enjoy some of the pictures though, and I noticed that some of the people identified in the news coverage were the same leftist loons I see regularly writing letters to the editor of the local newspaper. Those letters are better than the comics.
I mentioned the pictures, didn’t I? Nothing like the sight of a gnarled old lady holding a clenched fist aloft. Probably a flashback for her to the ‘60s. What an exciting time, right old girl? But the signs were the most entertaining.
But let’s consider your signs one-by-one.
PEOPLE NOT PROFITS
Would you mind putting your sign down for just a moment and explain this to me? People earn profits. People spend profits. People not Profits makes about as much sense as Gerbils not Grapefruits. In fact, if you were to wander into an OccuTard protest with a “Gerbils not Grapefruits” sign you would suddenly see dozens more. Your fellow useful idiots would think that some sort of an immensely deep political thought is being expressed.
Now there is a website out there, www.peoplenotprofit.com, which has the subtitle “Beyond Capitalism.” I notice on that website the liberal (so-to-speak) use of the word “comrades.” I’ve done some studying on that word, and its first use was in Marxist circles in Europe in the late 1800s. It was also a common form of address for Communists throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. So we combine the “beyond capitalism” line with the use of traditional communist rhetoric and what do we have? Communists? Well, in some cases that is most certainly true. (See “useful idiots” below). Most of Obama’s Children though are not communists. They’re just anxious ignoranuses carrying signs with slogans they couldn’t write a three sentence essay defining. They sense that something is wrong – and something most certainly is. But they either haven’t made the effort to see just what it is that has gone awry and how to fix it, or they simply don’t have the mental capacity to understand it.
So … what are you saying? Are you saying that a businessman should take his capital – his money – and start a business with no intention of ever making money off that business? You’re worried about jobs, right? And you do know that about 70% or more of all new jobs come from small businesses, right? So you think that some individual should take whatever wealth they have, and borrow more money on top of it, to put into a new small business or to expand an existing one? And for what purpose? People? Sure … this guy is going to put his wealth at risk for “people.” God forbid the individual might want to actually earn any money in the process, for if he did … if he were to have money left over after hiring and paying 100 people and selling the products they produced … that money would be (gasp!) PROFIT! Now you have some fool carrying a sign somewhere that is mightily pissed off at you! Your very participation in these “occupy” protests is indication enough that you haven’t put a great deal of thought into your protests … but do you really want to remove the profit motive from entrepreneurship? If a corporation decided that it no longer wanted to earn a profit … how long do ou think it would take for the shareholders to bail? How many people lose their jobs when that happens?
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
There you are … marching down the street chanting “This is what democracy looks like.” The trouble is you don’t realize just how right you are; and that would be because you’re basically ignorant as all purified hell about just what democracy really is. You didn’t know that our founding fathers abhorred the idea of a democracy, did you? And there’s not one of you who could correctly guess the number of times the word “democracy” appears in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, or the constitutions of all 50 states. The answer? Zero. Not once. And not one of you would know – it would take actually studying our history – that the word “democrat” used to be an epithet. If you were to read “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph Ellis, you would learn that “democrat” referred to “one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.” As it was then, so it is now.
But back to your protests and your “This is what Democracy looks like” signs. Democracy is best defined as mob rule – majority rule. Define it as you might, but it will always be three wolves and one sheep deciding on what’s for dinner. Have you ever heard of the “Rule of Law?” That’s what our founding fathers gave us. That was supposed to be our operating system, so to speak. Sure .. we chose representatives to represent us in local and federal governments using democratic processes, but they, as we, are then required to abide by the laws of the land .. and that includes the Constitution. But this rule-of-law thing doesn’t really appeal all that much to Barry’s Brats, does it?
WE ARE THE 99%
Really … just what in the hell does THAT mean? The 99% of what? Oh .. I know where you got that 99% bit. You’ve been listening to your figurative father, Barack Obama, haven’t you?
WE ARE THE USEFUL IDIOTS
You Occutards do realize, don’t you, that more and more you’re being referred to as “useful idiots.” The phrase is even featured in a website you probably visit often, UrbanDictionary.com. Here – I’ll give you the definition from Urban Dictionary so you won’t have to look it up. After all … someone else might be using the community computer to search for treatments for head or body lice and for STDs.
Useful idiot? Useful to who? Well, labor unions for one. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama for another. As you first gathered in Zuccotti Park it was clear you didn’t really know what you were protesting and what solutions you might propose. You issued a list of demands including the forgiveness of all debt everywhere in the world. That was enough to label you as idiots. All that was left to be done was to figure out how to put you to use. Experienced leftists went to work immediately. The labor unions started sending people to your encampments with aid and suggestions as to what you might want to protest. They arrived along with the Communist Party USA, The American Nazi Party, the Socialist Party USA, the Marxist Student Union and others. They knew that you were uninformed but motivated … and ripe for manipulation. You certainly haven’t disappointed them. Now your encampments and demonstrations are filled with signs promoting the various causes of those who have put you to use. Congratulations.
KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP.
Let’s finish off here with a list of some of the known supporters of the so-called occupy movement. We covered some above .. but here’s a more comprehensive listing:
I mentioned the pictures, didn’t I? Nothing like the sight of a gnarled old lady holding a clenched fist aloft. Probably a flashback for her to the ‘60s. What an exciting time, right old girl? But the signs were the most entertaining.
- People not Profits
- This is what democracy looks like
- We are the 99%
But let’s consider your signs one-by-one.
PEOPLE NOT PROFITS
Would you mind putting your sign down for just a moment and explain this to me? People earn profits. People spend profits. People not Profits makes about as much sense as Gerbils not Grapefruits. In fact, if you were to wander into an OccuTard protest with a “Gerbils not Grapefruits” sign you would suddenly see dozens more. Your fellow useful idiots would think that some sort of an immensely deep political thought is being expressed.
Now there is a website out there, www.peoplenotprofit.com, which has the subtitle “Beyond Capitalism.” I notice on that website the liberal (so-to-speak) use of the word “comrades.” I’ve done some studying on that word, and its first use was in Marxist circles in Europe in the late 1800s. It was also a common form of address for Communists throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. So we combine the “beyond capitalism” line with the use of traditional communist rhetoric and what do we have? Communists? Well, in some cases that is most certainly true. (See “useful idiots” below). Most of Obama’s Children though are not communists. They’re just anxious ignoranuses carrying signs with slogans they couldn’t write a three sentence essay defining. They sense that something is wrong – and something most certainly is. But they either haven’t made the effort to see just what it is that has gone awry and how to fix it, or they simply don’t have the mental capacity to understand it.
So … what are you saying? Are you saying that a businessman should take his capital – his money – and start a business with no intention of ever making money off that business? You’re worried about jobs, right? And you do know that about 70% or more of all new jobs come from small businesses, right? So you think that some individual should take whatever wealth they have, and borrow more money on top of it, to put into a new small business or to expand an existing one? And for what purpose? People? Sure … this guy is going to put his wealth at risk for “people.” God forbid the individual might want to actually earn any money in the process, for if he did … if he were to have money left over after hiring and paying 100 people and selling the products they produced … that money would be (gasp!) PROFIT! Now you have some fool carrying a sign somewhere that is mightily pissed off at you! Your very participation in these “occupy” protests is indication enough that you haven’t put a great deal of thought into your protests … but do you really want to remove the profit motive from entrepreneurship? If a corporation decided that it no longer wanted to earn a profit … how long do ou think it would take for the shareholders to bail? How many people lose their jobs when that happens?
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
There you are … marching down the street chanting “This is what democracy looks like.” The trouble is you don’t realize just how right you are; and that would be because you’re basically ignorant as all purified hell about just what democracy really is. You didn’t know that our founding fathers abhorred the idea of a democracy, did you? And there’s not one of you who could correctly guess the number of times the word “democracy” appears in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, or the constitutions of all 50 states. The answer? Zero. Not once. And not one of you would know – it would take actually studying our history – that the word “democrat” used to be an epithet. If you were to read “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” by Joseph Ellis, you would learn that “democrat” referred to “one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.” As it was then, so it is now.
But back to your protests and your “This is what Democracy looks like” signs. Democracy is best defined as mob rule – majority rule. Define it as you might, but it will always be three wolves and one sheep deciding on what’s for dinner. Have you ever heard of the “Rule of Law?” That’s what our founding fathers gave us. That was supposed to be our operating system, so to speak. Sure .. we chose representatives to represent us in local and federal governments using democratic processes, but they, as we, are then required to abide by the laws of the land .. and that includes the Constitution. But this rule-of-law thing doesn’t really appeal all that much to Barry’s Brats, does it?
- The law says you can’t camp out overnight in the parks, you ignore it. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
- The law says you need a permit for demonstrations and marches on public streets? You ignore those laws. They just don’t suit your purpose. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
- The law defines and protects property rights. But you and your fellow occupiers want to destroy some private property – trash some ATMs – bust out some bank windows – trespass into private businesses. You have the numbers, so to hell with the law. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
- Hundreds of workers at the Port of Oakland lost a day’s pay so that you could throw your little anti-capitalist temper tantrum and shut down the port. You broke the law in doing so, but what the hell. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
- People have the right to the wealth earned through their labors and through the sacrifice of portions of their lives. You want that wealth seized and given to people who neither worked for it nor earned it. There are more of you than there are of them. So hand it over. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
- Dozens of people who work in the area of Zuccotti Park in New York City, the gathering place for Obama’s Children, are now out of work. Your protests have so disrupted those businesses that some have closed and others have cut back on hours and workers. Doesn’t matter. You are the 99%, right? Those business owners are the evil 1%. Mob rule over the rule of law. Democracy.
WE ARE THE 99%
Really … just what in the hell does THAT mean? The 99% of what? Oh .. I know where you got that 99% bit. You’ve been listening to your figurative father, Barack Obama, haven’t you?
WE ARE THE USEFUL IDIOTS
You Occutards do realize, don’t you, that more and more you’re being referred to as “useful idiots.” The phrase is even featured in a website you probably visit often, UrbanDictionary.com. Here – I’ll give you the definition from Urban Dictionary so you won’t have to look it up. After all … someone else might be using the community computer to search for treatments for head or body lice and for STDs.
Today, it refers to brainwashed liberals and leftists the world over (usually college students that aren't necessarily idiots, but just misinformed, naive, and ignorant of facts due to being indoctrinated with liberal/socialist propaganda through their public education) who believe that George W. Bush has committed more crimes against humanity than leftist darlings like Saddam Hussain, Yasser Arafat, and Osama Bin Laden, and still defend Communism, the cause of over 100 million deaths to this day.The phrase actually originated in the days of Lenin and the Communist revolution. It was used to identify people who blindly supported the Communists even as people like Lenin and Stalin murdered hundreds of millions of people.
Useful idiot? Useful to who? Well, labor unions for one. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama for another. As you first gathered in Zuccotti Park it was clear you didn’t really know what you were protesting and what solutions you might propose. You issued a list of demands including the forgiveness of all debt everywhere in the world. That was enough to label you as idiots. All that was left to be done was to figure out how to put you to use. Experienced leftists went to work immediately. The labor unions started sending people to your encampments with aid and suggestions as to what you might want to protest. They arrived along with the Communist Party USA, The American Nazi Party, the Socialist Party USA, the Marxist Student Union and others. They knew that you were uninformed but motivated … and ripe for manipulation. You certainly haven’t disappointed them. Now your encampments and demonstrations are filled with signs promoting the various causes of those who have put you to use. Congratulations.
KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP.
Let’s finish off here with a list of some of the known supporters of the so-called occupy movement. We covered some above .. but here’s a more comprehensive listing:
Communist Party USA. The American Nazi Party. Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. The North Korean government. Louie-the-Lip Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. The Revolutionary Communist Party. David Duke. Hugo Chavez. Barack Obama. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The Black Panthers. Socialist Party USA. CAIR. Nancy Pelosi. The Communist Party of China. Hezbollah. Marxist Student Union. Freedom Road Socialist Organization.Wow. That list of supporters must make you very proud.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
GOP
The candidates. Mitt Romney was for everything before he was against everything. I don`t trust him. No thanks. Rick Perry is just another career politician who once supported Al Gore and is soft on illegal immigration. No thanks. Herman Cain has the expierence that our Country needs to turn this economy around.
The Democrats seem to only want to help Government workers and union workers which is only about 11% of the US workforce. What about the other 109,000,000 US workers? Herman Cain will help all of us. He will reduce the WORLD RECORD deficit spending and the debt. He will create the atmosphere for growth. Big government does not work for all of us.
The Democrats seem to only want to help Government workers and union workers which is only about 11% of the US workforce. What about the other 109,000,000 US workers? Herman Cain will help all of us. He will reduce the WORLD RECORD deficit spending and the debt. He will create the atmosphere for growth. Big government does not work for all of us.
Warning!
I don`t do Politically Correct Speech. I`m big on Free Speech. If I offend you then by all means, use your Freedom granted to you by our US Constitution and read something else!
Scott Trent
Scott Trent
Monday, August 29, 2011
We can`t wait...
So the "smartest guy in the room" is going to fix the Fannie and Freddie CAUSED Affordable Social Housing mortgage foreclosure crisis recession with MORE Fannie and Freddie Affordable Social Housing mortgage foreclosure crisis LENDING?
Affordable Social Housng. In the mid 1990`s, Government forced the our banks to open up billions of dollars a year in new credit to millions of people who previously did not qualify for credit causing the mortgage foreclosure crisis and the recession.
Warning were given and ignored by some in our Government...
2001
Affordable Social Housng. In the mid 1990`s, Government forced the our banks to open up billions of dollars a year in new credit to millions of people who previously did not qualify for credit causing the mortgage foreclosure crisis and the recession.
Warning were given and ignored by some in our Government...
2001
- April: The Administration's FY02 budget declares that the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is "a potential problem," because "financial trouble of a large GSE could cause strong repercussions in financial markets, affecting Federally insured entities and economic activity." (2002 Budget Analytic Perspectives, pg. 142)
- May: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calls for the disclosure and corporate governance principles contained in the President's 10-point plan for corporate responsibility to apply to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (OMB Prompt Letter to OFHEO, 5/29/02)
- February: The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) releases a report explaining that unexpected problems at a GSE could immediately spread into financial sectors beyond the housing market.
- September: Then-Treasury Secretary John Snow testifies before the House Financial Services Committee to recommend that Congress enact "legislation to create a new Federal agency to regulate and supervise the financial activities of our housing-related government sponsored enterprises" and set prudent and appropriate minimum capital adequacy requirements.
- September: Then-House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Barney Frank (D-MA) strongly disagrees with the Administration's assessment, saying "these two entities – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – are not facing any kind of financial crisis … The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." (Stephen Labaton, "New Agency Proposed To Oversee Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae," The New York Times, 9/11/03)
- October: Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) refuses to acknowledge any necessity for GSE reforms, saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Sen. Carper, Hearing of Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 10/16/03)
- November: Then-Council of the Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Greg Mankiw explains that any "legislation to reform GSE regulation should empower the new regulator with sufficient strength and credibility to reduce systemic risk." To reduce the potential for systemic instability, the regulator would have "broad authority to set both risk-based and minimum capital standards" and "receivership powers necessary to wind down the affairs of a troubled GSE." (N. Gregory Mankiw, Remarks At The Conference Of State Bank Supervisors State Banking Summit And Leadership, 11/6/03)
- February: The President's FY05 Budget again highlights the risk posed by the explosive growth of the GSEs and their low levels of required capital and calls for creation of a new, world-class regulator: "The Administration has determined that the safety and soundness regulators of the housing GSEs lack sufficient power and stature to meet their responsibilities, and therefore … should be replaced with a new strengthened regulator." (2005 Budget Analytic Perspectives, pg. 83)
- February: Then-CEA Chairman Mankiw cautions Congress to "not take [the financial market's] strength for granted." Again, the call from the Administration was to reduce this risk by "ensuring that the housing GSEs are overseen by an effective regulator." (N. Gregory Mankiw, Op-Ed, "Keeping Fannie And Freddie's House In Order," Financial Times, 2/24/04)
- April: Rep. Frank ignores the warnings, accusing the Administration of creating an "artificial issue." At a speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association conference, Rep. Frank said "people tend to pay their mortgages. I don't think we are in any remote danger here. This focus on receivership, I think, is intended to create fears that aren't there." ("Frank: GSE Failure A Phony Issue," American Banker, 4/21/04)
- June: Then-Treasury Deputy Secretary Samuel Bodman spotlights the risk posed by the GSEs and calls for reform, saying "We do not have a world-class system of supervision of the housing government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), even though the importance of the housing financial system that the GSEs serve demands the best in supervision to ensure the long-term vitality of that system. Therefore, the Administration has called for a new, first class, regulatory supervisor for the three housing GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banking System." (Samuel Bodman, House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Testimony, 6/16/04)
- April: Then-Secretary Snow repeats his call for GSE reform, saying "Events that have transpired since I testified before this Committee in 2003 reinforce concerns over the systemic risks posed by the GSEs and further highlight the need for real GSE reform to ensure that our housing finance system remains a strong and vibrant source of funding for expanding homeownership opportunities in America … Half-measures will only exacerbate the risks to our financial system." (Secretary John W. Snow, "Testimony Before The U.S. House Financial Services Committee," 4/13/05)
- July: Then-Minority Leader Harry Reid rejects legislation reforming GSEs, "while I favor improving oversight by our federal housing regulators to ensure safety and soundness, we cannot pass legislation that could limit Americans from owning homes and potentially harm our economy in the process." ("Dems Rip New Fannie Mae Regulatory Measure," United Press International, 7/28/05)
- August: President Bush emphatically calls on Congress to pass a reform package for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying "first things first when it comes to those two institutions. Congress needs to get them reformed, get them streamlined, get them focused, and then I will consider other options." (President George W. Bush, Press Conference, the White House, 8/9/07)
- August: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Christopher Dodd ignores the President's warnings and calls on him to "immediately reconsider his ill-advised" position. (Eric Dash, "Fannie Mae's Offer To Help Ease Credit Squeeze Is Rejected, As Critics Complain Of Opportunism," The New York Times, 8/11/07)
- December: President Bush again warns Congress of the need to pass legislation reforming GSEs, saying "These institutions provide liquidity in the mortgage market that benefits millions of homeowners, and it is vital they operate safely and operate soundly. So I've called on Congress to pass legislation that strengthens independent regulation of the GSEs – and ensures they focus on their important housing mission. The GSE reform bill passed by the House earlier this year is a good start. But the Senate has not acted. And the United States Senate needs to pass this legislation soon." (President George W. Bush, Discusses Housing, the White House, 12/6/07)
- February: Assistant Treasury Secretary David Nason reiterates the urgency of reforms, saying "A new regulatory structure for the housing GSEs is essential if these entities are to continue to perform their public mission successfully." (David Nason, Testimony On Reforming GSE Regulation, Senate Committee On Banking, Housing And Urban Affairs, 2/7/08)
- March: President Bush calls on Congress to take action and "move forward with reforms on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They need to continue to modernize the FHA, as well as allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to homeowners to refinance their mortgages." (President George W. Bush, Remarks To The Economic Club Of New York, New York, NY, 3/14/08)
- April: President Bush urges Congress to pass the much needed legislation and "modernize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [There are] constructive things Congress can do that will encourage the housing market to correct quickly by … helping people stay in their homes." (President George W. Bush, Meeting With Cabinet, the White House, 4/14/08)
- May: President Bush issues several pleas to Congress to pass legislation reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the situation deteriorates further.
- "Americans are concerned about making their mortgage payments and keeping their homes. Yet Congress has failed to pass legislation I have repeatedly requested to modernize the Federal Housing Administration that will help more families stay in their homes, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure they focus on their housing mission, and allow state housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to refinance sub-prime loans." (President George W. Bush, Radio Address, 5/3/08)
- "[T]he government ought to be helping creditworthy people stay in their homes. And one way we can do that – and Congress is making progress on this – is the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That reform will come with a strong, independent regulator." (President George W. Bush, Meeting With The Secretary Of The Treasury, the White House, 5/19/08)
- "Congress needs to pass legislation to modernize the Federal Housing Administration, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure they focus on their housing mission, and allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to refinance subprime loans." (President George W. Bush, Radio Address, 5/31/08)
- June: As foreclosure rates continued to rise in the first quarter, the President once again asks Congress to take the necessary measures to address this challenge, saying "we need to pass legislation to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." (President George W. Bush, Remarks At Swearing In Ceremony For Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 6/6/08)
- July: Congress heeds the President's call for action and passes reform legislation for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as it becomes clear that the institutions are failing.
- September: Democrats in Congress forget their previous objections to GSE reforms, as Senator Dodd questions "why weren't we doing more, why did we wait almost a year before there were any significant steps taken to try to deal with this problem? … I have a lot of questions about where was the administration over the last eight years." (Dawn Kopecki, "Fannie Mae, Freddie 'House Of Cards' Prompts Takeover," Bloomberg, 9/9/08)
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
President Hate and Blame!
President Hate and Blame Obama.
The Obama administration of HATE and CLASS WARFARE.
Obama came out yesterday and finally spoke to Americans after the big US Credit rating downgrade. Did he use this oppertunity to lead? To settle the markets? No. He simply continued his class warefare. This is how Obama leads. He leads his followers to hate the rich. To hate millionaires and billionaires. To hate big oil. To hate right to work States. To hate Arizona. To hate Red States. To hate corporate jets. To hate the auto manufacturers. To hate our insurance companies. To hate capitalism. To hate Republicans. To hate George Bush. To hate Fox News. To hate people making iver $200,000 a year. To hate fat cat bankers. To hate main street Tea Party Patriots. To hate S & P. To hate Wall Street. To hate whites...
President Obama so far has been the worst President in the History of our nation and he indeed did make History last week with the US Credit downgrade. Obama is the Great Divider...
The Obama administration of HATE and CLASS WARFARE.
Obama came out yesterday and finally spoke to Americans after the big US Credit rating downgrade. Did he use this oppertunity to lead? To settle the markets? No. He simply continued his class warefare. This is how Obama leads. He leads his followers to hate the rich. To hate millionaires and billionaires. To hate big oil. To hate right to work States. To hate Arizona. To hate Red States. To hate corporate jets. To hate the auto manufacturers. To hate our insurance companies. To hate capitalism. To hate Republicans. To hate George Bush. To hate Fox News. To hate people making iver $200,000 a year. To hate fat cat bankers. To hate main street Tea Party Patriots. To hate S & P. To hate Wall Street. To hate whites...
President Obama so far has been the worst President in the History of our nation and he indeed did make History last week with the US Credit downgrade. Obama is the Great Divider...
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Affordable Social Housing
Some Liberals like to say tax cuts for the rich and fighting two wars caused the recession! HA...
So fighting two wars and tax breaks for the rich caused the Affordable Social Housing mortgage foreclosure crisis which is the root cause of this recession. I fail to see the link.
Oh, and Bush failed to regulate what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?src=pm
Published: September 11, 2003
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
Or are you just going to blindly spout out that Bush failed regulate Wall Street? What was Wall Street trading, bundling up and trading as derivatives? Toxic mortgages? Where did the toxic mortgages come from? Bush? Hardly. Bush was trying to regulate these toxic assets starting in 2001.
Affordable Social Housing. In 1995 Bill Clinton threatened the banks with cease and disist orders if they didn`t open up Billions of dollars a year in new credit to people who previously did not qualify from 1995 until it bankrupted the banks and Wall Street in 2007/2008. Bush started sounding the warning of this bad idea this Affordable Social Housing as far back as 2001. In 2003, Bush upgraded his warning to a systemic economic failure if the lending wasn`t regulated tighter...
Guess who is calling for more of the same? More subprime lending to the poor or people who do not qualify? Barack Obama.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_20/b4228031594062.htm
In the wake of the subprime implosion, the Obama Administration has stepped up its scrutiny of disadvantaged neighborhoods' credit access...
Barack Obama is a complete dumbarss. He wats to go back to the root cause of the recession and DO IT AGAIN!
So fighting two wars and tax breaks for the rich caused the Affordable Social Housing mortgage foreclosure crisis which is the root cause of this recession. I fail to see the link.
Oh, and Bush failed to regulate what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?src=pm
Published: September 11, 2003
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
Or are you just going to blindly spout out that Bush failed regulate Wall Street? What was Wall Street trading, bundling up and trading as derivatives? Toxic mortgages? Where did the toxic mortgages come from? Bush? Hardly. Bush was trying to regulate these toxic assets starting in 2001.
Affordable Social Housing. In 1995 Bill Clinton threatened the banks with cease and disist orders if they didn`t open up Billions of dollars a year in new credit to people who previously did not qualify from 1995 until it bankrupted the banks and Wall Street in 2007/2008. Bush started sounding the warning of this bad idea this Affordable Social Housing as far back as 2001. In 2003, Bush upgraded his warning to a systemic economic failure if the lending wasn`t regulated tighter...
Guess who is calling for more of the same? More subprime lending to the poor or people who do not qualify? Barack Obama.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_20/b4228031594062.htm
In the wake of the subprime implosion, the Obama Administration has stepped up its scrutiny of disadvantaged neighborhoods' credit access...
Barack Obama is a complete dumbarss. He wats to go back to the root cause of the recession and DO IT AGAIN!
Friday, February 25, 2011
ObamaCare and the Unions.
Pelosi strikes deal with unions – no tax on high-cost health care plans
You knew this would happen. The unions deserve payback for support of Democrats and President Obama, so when the plan to tax “Cadillac” health care plans would obviously included those negotiated by collective bargaining teams, something had to be done. It’s change you can believe in!
Two days after union thugs warned the Obama administration and Democrats they could loose union support in the future if they moved forward to tax the health care benefits, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made promises to union leaders.
Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help raise revenue for the healthcare overhaul.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger met with House Speaker Pelosi Tuesday, a day after labor leaders met at the White House to express their opposition to the excise tax.
You people forced ObamaCare on us while begging for your own exemptions. Do we feel sorry for you today? NO. Are we glad to see you stripped of your union collective bargaining so called rights? YES.
So... How does it feel? How does it feel having Legislation crammed down your throats that you completely disagree with - with every fiber of your existance? How does it feel when you see smug politicians cracking jokes and smiling while telling you how you are going to live your lives...? How does it feel to feel completely powerless against the tides of Change...? Change that you do not want?
That`s how we felt when you passed ObamaCare...
Thank you Wisconsin teachers unions for alerting we the taxpayers that you currently pay ZERO, ZILTCH, NADA for your health care and pensions! We must now fight all across this land to put a stop to this abuse of we the people - we the tax payers! YOU supported ObamaCare and even elected Obama, Pelosi and Reid while at the same time having a free ride on our backs. Now we know. The word is out. Government union must go. They must be dismantled from Maine to California.$14 Trillion debt and you are protesting for your free ride to continue un-noticed! How greedy you people look to we the tax payers! Now this is some Change I can believe in!
Nothing like shoving some good ole fashioned Union Busting down the throats of Obama Zombies on a sunny day! Remember ObamaCare? You were paying NOTHING for your health care while shoving this crap down our throats. All Government Unions must GO!
“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,”
Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.)
Gabby Giffords would be so proud of Mike Capuano!
You knew this would happen. The unions deserve payback for support of Democrats and President Obama, so when the plan to tax “Cadillac” health care plans would obviously included those negotiated by collective bargaining teams, something had to be done. It’s change you can believe in!
Two days after union thugs warned the Obama administration and Democrats they could loose union support in the future if they moved forward to tax the health care benefits, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made promises to union leaders.
Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help raise revenue for the healthcare overhaul.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger met with House Speaker Pelosi Tuesday, a day after labor leaders met at the White House to express their opposition to the excise tax.
You people forced ObamaCare on us while begging for your own exemptions. Do we feel sorry for you today? NO. Are we glad to see you stripped of your union collective bargaining so called rights? YES.
So... How does it feel? How does it feel having Legislation crammed down your throats that you completely disagree with - with every fiber of your existance? How does it feel when you see smug politicians cracking jokes and smiling while telling you how you are going to live your lives...? How does it feel to feel completely powerless against the tides of Change...? Change that you do not want?
That`s how we felt when you passed ObamaCare...
Thank you Wisconsin teachers unions for alerting we the taxpayers that you currently pay ZERO, ZILTCH, NADA for your health care and pensions! We must now fight all across this land to put a stop to this abuse of we the people - we the tax payers! YOU supported ObamaCare and even elected Obama, Pelosi and Reid while at the same time having a free ride on our backs. Now we know. The word is out. Government union must go. They must be dismantled from Maine to California.$14 Trillion debt and you are protesting for your free ride to continue un-noticed! How greedy you people look to we the tax payers! Now this is some Change I can believe in!
Nothing like shoving some good ole fashioned Union Busting down the throats of Obama Zombies on a sunny day! Remember ObamaCare? You were paying NOTHING for your health care while shoving this crap down our throats. All Government Unions must GO!
“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,”
Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.)
Gabby Giffords would be so proud of Mike Capuano!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Freedom in the Middle East
Freedom honors and unleashes human creativity -- and creativity determines the strength and wealth of nations. Liberty is both the plan of Heaven for humanity, and the best hope for progress here on Earth.
The progress of liberty is a powerful trend. Yet, we also know that liberty, if not defended, can be lost. The success of freedom is not determined by some dialectic of history. By definition, the success of freedom rests upon the choices and the courage of free peoples, and upon their willingness to sacrifice.
Iraqi democracy will succeed -- and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Teheran -- that freedom can be the future of every nation. (Applause.) The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. (Applause.)
President George W. Bush, November 6, 2003
The progress of liberty is a powerful trend. Yet, we also know that liberty, if not defended, can be lost. The success of freedom is not determined by some dialectic of history. By definition, the success of freedom rests upon the choices and the courage of free peoples, and upon their willingness to sacrifice.
Iraqi democracy will succeed -- and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Teheran -- that freedom can be the future of every nation. (Applause.) The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. (Applause.)
President George W. Bush, November 6, 2003
Thursday, February 10, 2011
22 signs that Austerity has arrived in America.
The following are 22 signs that austerity has already arrived in America and that it is going to be very, very painful....
#1 The financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, Robert Bobb, has submitted a proposal to close half of all the schools in the city. His plan envisions class sizes of up to 62 students in the remaining schools.
#2 Detroit Mayor Dave Bing wants to cut off 20 percent of the entire city from police and trash services in order to save money.
#3 Things are so tight in California that Governor Jerry Brown is requiring approximately 48,000 state workers to turn in their government-paid cell phones by June 1st.
#4 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing to completely eliminate 20 percent of state agencies.
#5 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has closed 20 fire departments at night and is proposing layoffs in every single city agency.
#6 In the state of Illinois, lawmakers recently pushed through a 66 percent increase in the personal income tax rate.
#7 The town of Prichard, Alabama came up with a unique way to battle their budget woes recently. They simply stopped sending out pension checks to retired workers. Of course this is a violation of state law, but town officials insist that they just do not have the money.
#8 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently purposely skipped a scheduled 3.1 billion dollar payment to that state's pension system.
#9 The state of New Jersey is in such bad shape that they still are facing a $10 billion budget deficit for this year even after cutting a billion dollars from the education budget and laying off thousands of teachers.
#10 Due to a very serious budget shortfall, the city of Newark, New Jersey recently made very significant cuts to the police force. Subsequently, there has been a very substantial spike in the crime rate.
#11 The city of Camden, New Jersey is "the second most dangerous city in America", but because of a huge budget shortfall they recently felt forced to lay off half of the city police force.
#12 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Sacramento have all instituted "rolling brownouts" during which various city fire stations are shut down on a rotating basis.
#13 In Georgia, the county of Clayton recently eliminated its entire public bus system in order to save 8 million dollars.
#14 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts has announced that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.
#15 In Connecticut, the governor is asking state legislators to approve the biggest tax increase that the state has seen in two decades.
#16 All across the United States, conditions at many state parks, recreation areas and historic sites are deplorable at best. Some states have backlogs of repair projects that are now over a billion dollars long. The following is a quote from a recent MSNBC article about these project backlogs....
More than a dozen states estimate that their backlogs are at least $100 million. Massachusetts and New York's are at least $1 billion. Hawaii officials called park conditions "deplorable" in a December report asking for $50 million per year for five years to tackle a $240 million backlog that covers parks, trails and harbors.
#17 The state of Arizona recently announced that it has decided to stop paying for many types of organ transplants for people enrolled in its Medicaid program.
#18 Not only that, but Arizona is do desperate for money that they have even sold off the state capitol building, the state supreme court building and the legislative chambers.
#19 All over the nation, asphalt roads are actually being ground up and are being replaced with gravel because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and 38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have transformed at least some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.
#20 The state of Illinois is such a financial disaster zone that it is hard to even describe. According to 60 Minutes, the state of Illinois is six months behind on their bill payments. 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Croft asked Illinois state Comptroller Dan Hynes how many people and organizations are waiting to be paid by the state, and this is how Hynes responded....
"It's fair to say that there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people waiting to be paid by the state."
#21 The city of Chicago is in such dire straits financially that officials there are actually toying with the idea of setting up a city-owned casino as a way to raise cash.
#22 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is desperately looking for ways to cut the budget and he says that "hundreds of jurisdictions" in his state could go bankrupt over the next few years.
But everything that you have just read is only the beginning. Budget shortfalls for our state and local governments are projected to be much worse in the years ahead.
So what is the answer? Well, our state and local governments are going to have to spend less money. That means that we are likely to see even more savage budget cutting.
In addition, our state and local politicians are going to feel intense pressure to find ways to "raise revenue". In fact, we are already starting to see this happen.
According to the National Association of State Budget Officers, over the past couple of years a total of 36 out of the 50 U.S. states have raised taxes or fees of some sort.
So hold on to your wallets, because the politicians are going to be coming after them.
We are entering a time of extreme financial stress in America. The federal government is broke. Most of our state and local governments are broke. Record numbers of Americans are going bankrupt. Record numbers of Americans are being kicked out of their homes. Record numbers of Americans are now living in poverty.
The debt-fueled prosperity of the last several decades came at a cost. We literally mortgaged the future. Now nothing will ever be the same again.
#1 The financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, Robert Bobb, has submitted a proposal to close half of all the schools in the city. His plan envisions class sizes of up to 62 students in the remaining schools.
#2 Detroit Mayor Dave Bing wants to cut off 20 percent of the entire city from police and trash services in order to save money.
#3 Things are so tight in California that Governor Jerry Brown is requiring approximately 48,000 state workers to turn in their government-paid cell phones by June 1st.
#4 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing to completely eliminate 20 percent of state agencies.
#5 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has closed 20 fire departments at night and is proposing layoffs in every single city agency.
#6 In the state of Illinois, lawmakers recently pushed through a 66 percent increase in the personal income tax rate.
#7 The town of Prichard, Alabama came up with a unique way to battle their budget woes recently. They simply stopped sending out pension checks to retired workers. Of course this is a violation of state law, but town officials insist that they just do not have the money.
#8 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently purposely skipped a scheduled 3.1 billion dollar payment to that state's pension system.
#9 The state of New Jersey is in such bad shape that they still are facing a $10 billion budget deficit for this year even after cutting a billion dollars from the education budget and laying off thousands of teachers.
#10 Due to a very serious budget shortfall, the city of Newark, New Jersey recently made very significant cuts to the police force. Subsequently, there has been a very substantial spike in the crime rate.
#11 The city of Camden, New Jersey is "the second most dangerous city in America", but because of a huge budget shortfall they recently felt forced to lay off half of the city police force.
#12 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Sacramento have all instituted "rolling brownouts" during which various city fire stations are shut down on a rotating basis.
#13 In Georgia, the county of Clayton recently eliminated its entire public bus system in order to save 8 million dollars.
#14 Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts has announced that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.
#15 In Connecticut, the governor is asking state legislators to approve the biggest tax increase that the state has seen in two decades.
#16 All across the United States, conditions at many state parks, recreation areas and historic sites are deplorable at best. Some states have backlogs of repair projects that are now over a billion dollars long. The following is a quote from a recent MSNBC article about these project backlogs....
More than a dozen states estimate that their backlogs are at least $100 million. Massachusetts and New York's are at least $1 billion. Hawaii officials called park conditions "deplorable" in a December report asking for $50 million per year for five years to tackle a $240 million backlog that covers parks, trails and harbors.
#17 The state of Arizona recently announced that it has decided to stop paying for many types of organ transplants for people enrolled in its Medicaid program.
#18 Not only that, but Arizona is do desperate for money that they have even sold off the state capitol building, the state supreme court building and the legislative chambers.
#19 All over the nation, asphalt roads are actually being ground up and are being replaced with gravel because it is cheaper to maintain. The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and 38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have transformed at least some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.
#20 The state of Illinois is such a financial disaster zone that it is hard to even describe. According to 60 Minutes, the state of Illinois is six months behind on their bill payments. 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Croft asked Illinois state Comptroller Dan Hynes how many people and organizations are waiting to be paid by the state, and this is how Hynes responded....
"It's fair to say that there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people waiting to be paid by the state."
#21 The city of Chicago is in such dire straits financially that officials there are actually toying with the idea of setting up a city-owned casino as a way to raise cash.
#22 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is desperately looking for ways to cut the budget and he says that "hundreds of jurisdictions" in his state could go bankrupt over the next few years.
But everything that you have just read is only the beginning. Budget shortfalls for our state and local governments are projected to be much worse in the years ahead.
So what is the answer? Well, our state and local governments are going to have to spend less money. That means that we are likely to see even more savage budget cutting.
In addition, our state and local politicians are going to feel intense pressure to find ways to "raise revenue". In fact, we are already starting to see this happen.
According to the National Association of State Budget Officers, over the past couple of years a total of 36 out of the 50 U.S. states have raised taxes or fees of some sort.
So hold on to your wallets, because the politicians are going to be coming after them.
We are entering a time of extreme financial stress in America. The federal government is broke. Most of our state and local governments are broke. Record numbers of Americans are going bankrupt. Record numbers of Americans are being kicked out of their homes. Record numbers of Americans are now living in poverty.
The debt-fueled prosperity of the last several decades came at a cost. We literally mortgaged the future. Now nothing will ever be the same again.
Friday, February 4, 2011
What we have is a Rogue President!
On Wednesday, the inarguably correct Mark Levin, aided by flashbacks to monologues earlier in the week, laid out in detail the rule of law standoff the Obama administration has created in choosing to defy Monday's federal court decision declaring Obamacare null and void and continuing its implementation as if the ruling doesn't exist.
In the process, he also ripped in to the clear establishment press double standard at work.
Choice excerpts follow (internal links added by me; bolds refer to media-related comments; the rest is important for grasping just how serious this is):
... Look at Page 75 (of the ruling). The judge said, "This is a declaratory judgment," finding the entire statute unconstitutional, (saying in effect) "I don't have to issue an injunction. The government can't impose an unconstitutional statute on the nation."
I said that if the administration failed to follow the law, then it was lawless. (I said that) it was violating the constitution, that this was a serious as Watergate.
... There it is on Page 75. He voided the law. It's dust. It's gone, until a higher court does something else.
... What will the media in our country do when a President of the United States intentionally and knowingly refuses to comply with a court order? Whether it's civil rights in the 1960s, whether it's anything else, does this not remind you of Watergate in a sense if the Executive Branch does not comply with this federal judge? Do we not have a constitutional crisis if the Executive Branch refuses to comply with a Judicial Branch order?
... (the Executive Branch's) only relief is to appeal it. You must cease and desist from further attempts to implement it. But I guarantee you ladies and gentlemen, that the media in this country, which would call for the impeachment of a Republican president who openly defied a federal court order, and in fact did, will support this president because they believe in Obamacare and they want the result changed.
... What does the Obama administration do? (It) calls the reporters together in a phone conference -- this is CBS News, and I quote from CBS News -- "the White House official said the ruling would not have an impact on implementation of the law. which is being phased in gradually. The individual mandate, for example, does not begin until 2014. They said that states cannot use the ruling as a basis to delay implement in part because the ruling does not rest on anything like a conventional constitutional analysis."
... This (ruling) is a de facto injunction issued by a federal judge, and they cannot pretend that it hasn't been done, and play so ruthlessly with the rule of law.
... They don't get to enforce what they want, and ignore what they want ... Either the court has the final say or it doesn't, and if does, there's nothing else to say.
... Now the states of Wisconsin and Florida, it appears, have decided that there's no law for them to implement any longer. And they are in fact correct, since the last position of the law as it applies to Obamacare is that there is no law. And so the states should stop implementing this statue until there is a different ruling from a higher court. If the Obama administration wants to continue to violate the Constitution, to defy a federal judge, and play rope-a dope, then you states have no responsibility whatsoever to comply.
And you insurance companies ... there is no Obamacare law officially. It's been voided. And it is not an act of civil defiance to refuse to adhere to any aspect of it. The act of civil defiance -- that is, the act of constitutional violation -- are occurring on the other side.
Barack Obama today, the Attorney General of the United States, the Secretary of HHS today, are conducting themselves in a lawless fashion. It is they, it is they who are leading opposition to the United States Constitution. ... It is they who are disregarding our universal values. It is they.
In the process, he also ripped in to the clear establishment press double standard at work.
Choice excerpts follow (internal links added by me; bolds refer to media-related comments; the rest is important for grasping just how serious this is):
... Look at Page 75 (of the ruling). The judge said, "This is a declaratory judgment," finding the entire statute unconstitutional, (saying in effect) "I don't have to issue an injunction. The government can't impose an unconstitutional statute on the nation."
I said that if the administration failed to follow the law, then it was lawless. (I said that) it was violating the constitution, that this was a serious as Watergate.
... There it is on Page 75. He voided the law. It's dust. It's gone, until a higher court does something else.
... What will the media in our country do when a President of the United States intentionally and knowingly refuses to comply with a court order? Whether it's civil rights in the 1960s, whether it's anything else, does this not remind you of Watergate in a sense if the Executive Branch does not comply with this federal judge? Do we not have a constitutional crisis if the Executive Branch refuses to comply with a Judicial Branch order?
... (the Executive Branch's) only relief is to appeal it. You must cease and desist from further attempts to implement it. But I guarantee you ladies and gentlemen, that the media in this country, which would call for the impeachment of a Republican president who openly defied a federal court order, and in fact did, will support this president because they believe in Obamacare and they want the result changed.
... What does the Obama administration do? (It) calls the reporters together in a phone conference -- this is CBS News, and I quote from CBS News -- "the White House official said the ruling would not have an impact on implementation of the law. which is being phased in gradually. The individual mandate, for example, does not begin until 2014. They said that states cannot use the ruling as a basis to delay implement in part because the ruling does not rest on anything like a conventional constitutional analysis."
... This (ruling) is a de facto injunction issued by a federal judge, and they cannot pretend that it hasn't been done, and play so ruthlessly with the rule of law.
... They don't get to enforce what they want, and ignore what they want ... Either the court has the final say or it doesn't, and if does, there's nothing else to say.
... Now the states of Wisconsin and Florida, it appears, have decided that there's no law for them to implement any longer. And they are in fact correct, since the last position of the law as it applies to Obamacare is that there is no law. And so the states should stop implementing this statue until there is a different ruling from a higher court. If the Obama administration wants to continue to violate the Constitution, to defy a federal judge, and play rope-a dope, then you states have no responsibility whatsoever to comply.
And you insurance companies ... there is no Obamacare law officially. It's been voided. And it is not an act of civil defiance to refuse to adhere to any aspect of it. The act of civil defiance -- that is, the act of constitutional violation -- are occurring on the other side.
Barack Obama today, the Attorney General of the United States, the Secretary of HHS today, are conducting themselves in a lawless fashion. It is they, it is they who are leading opposition to the United States Constitution. ... It is they who are disregarding our universal values. It is they.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Debt Ceiling.
I read an idea today that I like very much. House and Senate Republicans should tie the ObamaCare repeal to the debt ceiling vote! If they want to raise the debt ceiling again, then we have to have something in return. Repealing ObamaCare and pass real reform that works on lowering the cost of our health care which is something ObamaCare failed to do. Me personally, I went from a $25 copay from last year to a $3,000 deductible under the ObamaCare changes. With insurance companies being forced to cover people who previously did not qualify because of pre existing conditions - the insurance companies have to make that lost money up somewhere. They`ll make it up on the rest of us. That`s what ObamaCare does to the rest of us. We`ll pay more for less...
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Government what?
GE is now Government Electric! GM is Government Motors! Health Care is well on it`s way to 'Single Payer' Government run...! Financial Reform, Government Banks! Cap and Trade or Government Regulated Energy by the big new EPA! Government Schools...!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Top 5 new jobs for Keith Olbermann...
Number 5. Al Gore`s weatherman. 4. Hillary Clinton`s pantsuit coordinator. 3. Driving Miss Pelosi! 2. New Obama Civility Czar - Micheal Moore`s fluffer. 1. Barney Franks`s Wing Man!
A Moral Code!
"The U.S. Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." Our government is over-stepping its boundries and flipping us the bird at the same time.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it."
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Random Thoughts!
The House votes to repeal ObamaCare! 26 States have filed suit over ObamaCare yet the Senate and White House will ignore this. Change! I love my new $3,000 deductible! Last year I had a $25 copay! My new $3,000 HC deductible resets every Jan 1. So we paid the $3K by October of last year and it reset Jan 1! Now we are on the hook for it again! So far... it`s like NOT even having HC ins. yet we still pay the premiums!
We are going green! YEAH! Bush was evil. He was big oil. We went to war for Iraqs oil.. only China ended up getting all the oil contracts from Iraq. The average price for a gallon of gas on the day Obama was sworn into office? $1.85 a gallon! It`s $3.09 here in Forsyth County GA and climbing!
Our President's choice for Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal in a 2008 interview, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Today, gasoline prices in Europe range from $7.24 a gallon in France, to $7.98 a gallon in the Netherlands LOL. Good luck out there!
Let`s see. $7 a gallon times 22 gallons is $154 a TANK! Wow! I`m so glad the government unions and the auto unions and Cecil Roberts of the UMWA supported this kind of CHANGE! YEAH! I also can`t wait for the Obama`s EPA to Cap and Trade those evil power companies for burning coal and cause our power bills to be even bigger than our mortgages! Won`t that be just GREAT!
After all, Bush was evil. He was "big oil"... $154 a TANK! YEAH! That`ll show us. I really like my new price for a carton of smokes under our big new government. Pre Obama I paid $24 a carton. After Obama showed me... I now pay $44 a carton! I guess it`s just my duty to help other have health car! Maybe next year he`ll raise them up to $100 a carton!
We are going green! YEAH! Bush was evil. He was big oil. We went to war for Iraqs oil.. only China ended up getting all the oil contracts from Iraq. The average price for a gallon of gas on the day Obama was sworn into office? $1.85 a gallon! It`s $3.09 here in Forsyth County GA and climbing!
Our President's choice for Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal in a 2008 interview, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Today, gasoline prices in Europe range from $7.24 a gallon in France, to $7.98 a gallon in the Netherlands LOL. Good luck out there!
Let`s see. $7 a gallon times 22 gallons is $154 a TANK! Wow! I`m so glad the government unions and the auto unions and Cecil Roberts of the UMWA supported this kind of CHANGE! YEAH! I also can`t wait for the Obama`s EPA to Cap and Trade those evil power companies for burning coal and cause our power bills to be even bigger than our mortgages! Won`t that be just GREAT!
After all, Bush was evil. He was "big oil"... $154 a TANK! YEAH! That`ll show us. I really like my new price for a carton of smokes under our big new government. Pre Obama I paid $24 a carton. After Obama showed me... I now pay $44 a carton! I guess it`s just my duty to help other have health car! Maybe next year he`ll raise them up to $100 a carton!
Global Warming HOAX!
Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza.
Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.
Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.
You’ll also enjoy (or hate) our article, 25 Global Warming Debunking Videos Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza.
Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.
Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day
“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
• Life Magazine, January 1970
“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director
“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.
You’ll also enjoy (or hate) our article, 25 Global Warming Debunking Videos Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To See.
Taxes
Tax brackets in it`s simplest form. A guy is EARNING $1 Million a year and the top tax bracket is 35%. On paper (that`s before the horrid 13,000 pages of IRS tax code kicks in) he will pay about $300,000 a year in taxes thanks to our progressive tax formula. Think sports, ok. Now this other guy stays up all night smoking dope and pretty much is an outlaw or a thug and he does just enough to get by in life. He makes $18,000 a year. The bottom tax bracket is set at 10% (thanks to Bush - it was 15% but W gave this guy a tax break). Stoner pays $1,800 a year in income taxes yet he is the Obama supporter who is screaming for Obama to raise taxes on the evil rich guy because he needs to pay his fair share. The guy is already paying over $300,000 a year and the guy screaming at him is only paying $1,800. Go figure. And Stoner will qualify for tax credit after tax credit and not only will he pay zero in income taxes, he`ll most likely get a check - money taken by force from somebody who actually earned this money and given to him... Disgusting!
Affordable SOCIAL Housing, Health care...
You gotta love it! We have a President who thinks our Constitution is "flawed" because he thinks it does not do enough to redistribute the wealth. You have Pelosi, when asked about the Constitutionailty of ObamaCare, replied - "Are you serious, are you serious". Our Constitution is the law of the land. Every one of these politicians took an oath to uphold and to defend this most sacred of documents. This fundamental transformation of America, with no jobs and no growth to speak of, will be reversed. ObamaCare is simply yet another new massive entitlement to be funded by taking from one group by force, and giving it to another. And, it`s a jobs killer in an Affordable SOCIAL Housing recession. Not a good idea. Yes, I said that. The Affordable SOCIAL Housing mortgage foreclosure crisis caused the recession. Government caused this by opening up BILLIONS of dollars a year in new credit to people who previously did not qualify from 1995 to 2007 when it collapsed our banks leading up to the bailouts. Some Republicans even sounded the warnings of Affordable SOCIAL Housing as far back as 2003. Bush warned Congress 34 times in the years leading up to the collapse. McCain also sounded the warnings before the crash. What effect will Affordable SOCIAL HealthCare have on our economy in say 10 years if it`s not ripped out by it`s roots before then? Medicaid programs will be swamped and the Feds will turn away causing heartache to most States. Affordable Social Housing and Affordable Social Health Care - A One Two Punch on how to bring a SuperPower to it`s knees!
msnbc
I hold the honor of being banned from ABC News comment boards, CNN comment boards and today I have now been banned from msnbc`s newsvine comment boards. All three of these cowardly news organization are nothing more than lapdogs for the marxists and socialists. They ceased to be watchdogs of Government for the people many years ago. They are a disgrace to journalism. They love it when Liberals get on their comment boards and spew vile hatred but when voices of reason or even a simple opposing views post - they ban that voice. They are playing the Communist Manifesto handbook out play by play. Silencing free speech. That`s ok. They can Bite Me!
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