Lie after lie after lie. David said it quite well when he said "Obama not only wasn't contrite about his broken promises and disastrous record; he was on the attack, daring anyone to oppose his agenda."
Here are a few of the adjectives I would use to describe Chairman Maobama's State of the Union(s) speech: angry, narcissistic, disjointed, dishonest, unrepentant, unpresidential, classless, lacking decorum,and pathological.
The writer of his speech should be fired, then taken to the woodshed for the number of lies, lack of facts, and other breaches of decorum in the speech. But we know that will never happen, because O-bow-ma believed just about every word of the speech (except, of course, the part about drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants.)
The few democrats left that might remotely consider themselves as AMERICANS need to head for the life boats. The true "progressives," the followers of "the one," are going down with the ship.
It's time to start whispering "IMPEACHMENT."
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2010/dl_0129p.shtml
There Was the President's Speech, and There Is Reality
By David Limbaugh
January 29, 2010
Watching President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech makes me wonder whether the reason he tells so many fibs is that he believes them himself. Either that or he is an even better actor than he is a teleprompter reader.
Obama not only wasn't contrite about his broken promises and disastrous record; he was on the attack, daring anyone to oppose his agenda -- even in the face of the Massachusetts rebuke. But let's see how some of his statements match up with reality.
On health care, he taunted congressmen to "let me know" if any of them have "a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses," as if his own plan would do those things.
Even the Congressional Budget Office has said most of the Democratic plans would increase the budget. Besides, you can't reduce overall costs when government forces an increase in demand, even if it caps insurance premiums and shifts costs elsewhere and/or imposes rationing. The CBO has also reported that with Obamacare, millions would remain uninsured. So under his plan, costs would rise, quality and choice would decrease, care would be rationed, millions would remain uninsured and, worst of all, the government would acquire an unprecedented level of control over all aspects of our lives.
Do conservatives have better ideas? Of course. Restore market forces through tort reform, strengthening health savings accounts, abolishing government coverage mandates, allowing consumers to purchase policies across state lines and eliminating the tax laws incentivizing employer-provided health care, which unnecessarily increase demand by making prices invisible to consumers.
A candid Obama would have said, "If any of you have a plan that does not involve restoring market forces and reducing government's role in the health care industry, I'll at least pretend to look at it." "Make no mistake," neither Obama nor his Democratic colleagues will support genuine health care reform, because to reduce costs, we must reduce government control, and they can't abide that. Period.
As for spending, Obama didn't once apologize for his reckless expenditures. Instead, he blamed his soaring deficits on his predecessor, completely misrepresenting the projected deficits under President Bush and ignoring his own deliberate doubling of the national debt over the next 10 years. That's the issue Americans are losing sleep over, and he offers only Band-Aids and smoke and mirrors.
He says he will freeze a portion of the discretionary budget, but as Cato Institute reports, 83 percent of the budget will be off-limits. Other than his "stimulus" insanity, the real explosion in spending is occurring in the entitlements that he refuses to touch. Even his mini-freeze wouldn't begin until 2011 (why wait?), and it would be dwarfed by his planned spending increases for other socialistic projects, including a new "stimulus plan." And how about that assault on personal and fiscal responsibility with his promise to forgive student loans after 20 years?
How Obama can stand before the nation and insist on spending more borrowed money to accomplish something his first "stimulus plan" didn't achieve (job creation), but exacerbated, is beyond me. How he can blame President Bush for his own broken promise that unemployment wouldn't exceed 8 percent if his "stimulus" bill were implemented is jaw-dropping. He even said he saved 2 million jobs. Scary delusional! Or scary sinister!
Speaking of chutzpah, did he actually dare to utter the words "transparent" and "accountable"? How about those phantom legislative districts receiving stimulus monies, Mr. President? How about that promise to televise the health care debates on C-SPAN?
He said he hadn't raised income taxes "a single dime" on 95 percent of the people. Yet in almost the same breath, he promised to redouble his efforts on cap and tax, which would increase the average family's energy costs by almost $3,000 per year. I don't believe his campaign promise was limited to income taxes, by the way. (He also said he had CUT taxes on the middle class. Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if that had actually happened. Reducing my withholding so it looks like I’m getting a tax break, when it actually pushes me into a higher tax bracket forcing me to pay that much and more on April 15th is NOT a tax cut. A “stimulus” check, which just gives back a small portion of what was mine to begin with, is not a tax cut. Giving that same “stimulus” check to those who don’t pay taxes at all is just a handout, and communist redistribution of our hard earned money.)
How about his righteous ranting on earmark reform? Sorry, we've been down that twisted road with you before, Mr. President. (There were some 9,000 earmarks in the O-bow-ma porkulus bill. I’d call that a step in the right direction, wouldn’t you? (facetiousness intended))
Then there was his audacious riff on lobbyists. Been there, done that, too, Mr. President, with your phony promise to keep lobbyists out of the White House.
Obama also railed against "partisanship, shouting and pettiness" as he filled most of his speech with just those things, even castigating the Supreme Court, erroneously, for opening the door to foreign corporations' campaign contributions.
How about his statement that "America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity"? Hmm. Tell that to the Iranian and Honduran peoples. He must have meant once he's out of office.
Then there was his bizarre out-of-body pivot, when he blamed Washington for our problems. (Narcissistic clown.)
All of this, especially Obama's obvious incapacity for self-doubt, is disturbingly surreal. (It’s like the speech he gave the other day on “tax cuts.” In that speech, he said “I” over 120 time while mentioning the subject of the speech, tax cuts, only TWICE. It’s kind of like the Toby Keith song “I wanna talk about me.” (I wanna talk about me, Wanna talk about I, Wanna talk about number one…) He is a self-centered, communist/progressive, anti-America, probably NOT American danger to America, our constitution, and our way of life.)
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Nancy Pelosi: “Let them eat cake. THEN off with their heads!”
Taking artistic liberty with the words of the great Winston Churchill,
These elitists (not to be confused with ‘elites’) have not earned, nor do they deserve the privilege they partake in, and the respect they demand. They are confiscating and squandering the blood and treasure of Americans more for their own benefit than for the benefit of America.
Nancy Pelosi may fancy herself a modern day Marie Antoinette, but she would do well to remember the fate of Marie.
Nancy, we are about to storm the palace.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=123472
Friday, January 29, 2010
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Taxpayers paid $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’
Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’
Posted: January 29, 2010
12:20 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
It reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.
“Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”
Pelosi, D-Calif., who joined President Obama on a list of Top 10 corrupt politicians, was added to that list for her “sense of entitlement,” Judicial Watch said when the “honors” were announced not long ago.
“Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline,” the evaluation said.
And WND reported almost a year ago that Pelosi was shown to have been erratically canceling and rescheduling flights, like one would with an on-call taxi service.
“We have … folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc,” said one Department of Defense e-mail then. (Having worked in a DV airlift squadron, I can tell you with certainty of personal experience that the preparation for these VIP flights is quite involved. There’s flight planning (routing, diplomatic clearances, permission to land at certain airports), and logistics (fuel, food, hanger/tie-down space coordination, ground transportation), all of which is time sensitive and tied to the party’s request for travel. Because the professionals in the military who make it seem effortless, and nearly always “make it happen,” these self-proclaimed royalty like Nancy Pelosi, the Botox Bolshevik Barbie, have zero appreciation for the effort and wealth expended on their behalf. Nor do they care.)
Another official sent an e-mail questioning a series of Pelosi’s requests for aircraft.
Yet another e-mail exchange at that time revealed Pelosi’s demand that jets pick her up at Travis Air Force Base rather than San Francisco’s airport.
Among the newest highlights revealed:
Judicial Watch, Inc. is a constitutionally conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.
“Never in the field of human conflict, has SO MUCH, been done BY SO MANY, for SO FEW.We have allowed our government to gain a sense of self importance that was never intended by our founding fathers. For those in government, the government has become more important than the people whom they are supposed to serve. They embody the sense of entitlement which they are forcing down the throats of America, which is also dividing America.
These elitists (not to be confused with ‘elites’) have not earned, nor do they deserve the privilege they partake in, and the respect they demand. They are confiscating and squandering the blood and treasure of Americans more for their own benefit than for the benefit of America.
Nancy Pelosi may fancy herself a modern day Marie Antoinette, but she would do well to remember the fate of Marie.
Nancy, we are about to storm the palace.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=123472
Friday, January 29, 2010
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Taxpayers paid $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’
Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’
Posted: January 29, 2010
12:20 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
It reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.
“Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”
Pelosi, D-Calif., who joined President Obama on a list of Top 10 corrupt politicians, was added to that list for her “sense of entitlement,” Judicial Watch said when the “honors” were announced not long ago.
“Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline,” the evaluation said.
And WND reported almost a year ago that Pelosi was shown to have been erratically canceling and rescheduling flights, like one would with an on-call taxi service.
“We have … folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc,” said one Department of Defense e-mail then. (Having worked in a DV airlift squadron, I can tell you with certainty of personal experience that the preparation for these VIP flights is quite involved. There’s flight planning (routing, diplomatic clearances, permission to land at certain airports), and logistics (fuel, food, hanger/tie-down space coordination, ground transportation), all of which is time sensitive and tied to the party’s request for travel. Because the professionals in the military who make it seem effortless, and nearly always “make it happen,” these self-proclaimed royalty like Nancy Pelosi, the Botox Bolshevik Barbie, have zero appreciation for the effort and wealth expended on their behalf. Nor do they care.)
Another official sent an e-mail questioning a series of Pelosi’s requests for aircraft.
“Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?” it stated. “[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…”The e-mail noted that the speaker’s office had “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”
Yet another e-mail exchange at that time revealed Pelosi’s demand that jets pick her up at Travis Air Force Base rather than San Francisco’s airport.
“She lives about 1.5 hours from SFO and much closer to Travis. … Whether it is the best use of assets is not the question. But instead is it worth upsetting the speaker…” (Heaven forbid we upset the Botox Bolshevik! She should be traveling commercial like the rest of us commoners, especially since WE ARE FOOTING THE BILL!)Said another,
“This is a battle that we are bound to lose if we tell the speaker(’s) office. In the end, this is what will happen. I wish that I could say this is a one-time request, but we know it will probably happen again in the future.”Yet another indicated a deep level of frustration:
“Here is the laydown: there are five G5s. Two are broke. Two off on CODELS. One slated for priority White House… we should keep on G-III for now for Tuesday afternoon and start sacrificing goats and chickens.”Judicial Watch said the newly obtained 2,000 pages of documentation show Pelosi’s military travel cost the U.S. Air Force $2,100,744.59 over two years – including $101,429.14 which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
Among the newest highlights revealed:
- Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House speaker’s family.
- One CODEL traveling from Washington, D.C., through Tel Aviv, Israel, to Baghdad, Iraq, May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. This flight included the purchase of the long list of alcoholic drinks.
- According to a “Memo for Record” from a March 29-April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, “CODEL could only bring kosher items into the hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. bourbon, whiskey, scotch, vodka, gin, triple sec, tequila, etc.
Judicial Watch, Inc. is a constitutionally conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Obama and Dems: Fiscal Responsibility is for Suckas’
Just like he has for the last year, and throughout his candidacy, O-bow-ma is lying to us again. He thinks we are all stupid. After all of the broken promises he has made, why should we even entertain the thought that he might be telling the truth this time? Even if his “spending freeze” becomes a reality, it is like trying to bail out the Pacific Ocean with a tea cup.
Imagine that you send your son or daughter to college. They come home at the end of the first year and confess that they have run up a $50,000 tab on your credit card. But they say “It’s OK, Dad. I’m going to freeze my spending at that level for the next 3 years.“ Does that make you feel any better about going to the poor house?
If we are serious about cutting the debt and the deficit, stimulating the economy, and preserving the American way of life, then we will not only cap NON-DEFENSE spending to include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all the other social entitlement spending that no one is actually “entitled” to, we will do away with the IRS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and most of the other unnecessary governmental agencies that don’t live up to the purpose for which they were commissioned. Return to the LIMITED role of government that was intended by our founding fathers, and watch Americans rise to the occasion and restore us to our place as the greatest nation on earth.
Imagine that you send your son or daughter to college. They come home at the end of the first year and confess that they have run up a $50,000 tab on your credit card. But they say “It’s OK, Dad. I’m going to freeze my spending at that level for the next 3 years.“ Does that make you feel any better about going to the poor house?
If we are serious about cutting the debt and the deficit, stimulating the economy, and preserving the American way of life, then we will not only cap NON-DEFENSE spending to include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all the other social entitlement spending that no one is actually “entitled” to, we will do away with the IRS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and most of the other unnecessary governmental agencies that don’t live up to the purpose for which they were commissioned. Return to the LIMITED role of government that was intended by our founding fathers, and watch Americans rise to the occasion and restore us to our place as the greatest nation on earth.
GOP Skeptical of Obama’s Commitment to Fiscal Prudence
(CNSNews.com) – While calling for a modest spending freeze and the creation of a bipartisan task force to examine government spending, President Obama also announced a number of new spending proposals in his first State of the Union address. (It’s worse than a woman who spends $3,000 at the after Christmas sales and comes home boasting of how much money she has saved. Obama is saying “I’m going to save money by spending more of it.” Let’s see him put his money where is big, fat, left-leaning ideological mouth is and donate his entire salary to charity.) …
…The freeze – which is projected to save $250 billion over 10 years — would make only a marginal dent in the federal deficit, which was $1.4 trillion in 2009 and will be an estimated $1 trillion per year for the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The national debt, meanwhile, is $12.3 trillion. (Understand that his “freeze” only saves $25 billion per year, while running up an additional $1 trillion deficit per year. So Obama’s scam ONLY SHAVES 2.5% FROM HIS SKYROCKETING SPENDING.)
President George W. Bush’s final budget for fiscal year 2009 included $589 billion in discretionary spending. Obama’s first budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 hiked non-defense discretionary spending by 19.5 percent to $704 billion. …
Spending Cuts – Not Revenues – Key to Solving Budget Shortfall, GOP Leaders Say
(CNSNews.com) – Top House Republicans Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that spending cuts, not increased revenues, were the key to resolving the nation’s projected $6 trillion in deficit spending over the next decade. …
…“Keep in mind the president promised he was going to go through that budget line-by-line and scrub that budget. I have a dream someday the president’s going to do what he says,” Gohmert said. (he’ll scrub defense spending and anything not directly connected with buying votes for liberals from the budget.)…
…“Their progressive ideology is taking us down what I call a tipping point, after which a majority of Americans are [more] dependent upon the federal government than they are on themselves – a kind of European-style welfare state where high unemployment is a fixture and there is no reward for personal initiative and responsibility, people just expect the government to take care of them.”…
…CNSNews.com asked Ryan whether he supported doing that by cutting spending by $6 trillion over the next decade, the amount necessary to return to a balanced budget. Ryan said that not only did he support the idea – his legislation provided a responsible way to do it. …
Sen. Gregg: Eliminating Some Federal Agencies to Reduce Spending Is ‘Great Idea’
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Judd Gregg, the Budget Committee’s ranking Republican, told CNSNews.com that eliminating some federal agencies to reduce spending – with the goal of balancing the budget — is a “great idea.” …
… “Well, you’re going have to reduce the rate of growth of the federal government,” (Hey, Judd. How about STOPPING the growth of the federal government? This windsock style double speak is why you need to follow your democrat counterparts to the train station and board the train permanently leaving Washington.) Gregg told CNSNews.com. “You’re going to have to increase the activity in the economy to get the revenues back up, but yes, you’ve got to control spending — that’s the bottom line.”
“We’re spending too much money,” Gregg continued. “We’ve taken the size of the government — 20 percent of GDP, up to 25 percent of GDP — just in a year, and we simply can’t sustain a government that’s 25 percent of GDP.” …
McCain Says He Supports Cutting Federal Spending Enough to Counter the $6 Trillion in New Debt CBO Predicts over Next Ten Years
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday he would support cutting federal spending enough to counter-balance the $6 trillion in new debt that a newly released Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicated would be added to the federal ledgers over the next ten years if current laws govering taxing and spending are maintained. …
… Is each of you prepared to support that budget, or–excuse me—spending cuts to that extent over the next decade to bring the budget in line over the course of 10 years?”
“Yes,” said McCain, ”and everybody’s going to – the reaction to this is going to be, ‘It’s too hard. We can’t do it. It’s too hard. You can’t do it. You can’t do that.’” …
… McCain’s chart showed that the federal debt in 2001 was roughly 57.4 percent of GDP back in 2001, but was projected to balloon to 114.4 percent of GDP by 2019. As a reference point, the highest that ratio ever climbed during World War II was 121.7 percent, just slightly higher than these new projections. …
Senate Budget Chairman: ‘We Can Handle’ Current Level of Debt But Long-Term Trajectory ‘Unsustainable’
(CNSNews.com) – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) in reference to the latest economic forecast by the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] said “we can handle” the current level of debt. (You think so? We can never pay off the debt we have today, much less if we pile another $6 Trillion in debt. You say we can handle it like we did post WWII. But that assumes we have an economy that actually produces wealth. If we don’t bring back industry and business to America with a favorable business environment, we’re finished.) …
… In the long-term, “if we stay on the course we’re on, it is completely and totally unsustainable – the debt that will approach 400 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States,” Conrad said. …
Sen. Casey Won’t Commit to Cutting the $6 Trillion Needed to Balance the Budget; Blames Bush for Deficits
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) would not say, when asked, if he would support a federal spending cut of $6 trillion over the next decade, the amount needed to bring the budget into balance, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. …
… “Well, what we need to do is get back to fiscal responsibility, and one of the problems — one of the reasons why we’re still in the hole, and digging out of the hole, is because President Bush came into office and ran up — he and his Republican friends — ran up a lot of deficits,” Casey said. (There it is. You knew you wouldn’t have to wait long to hear a democrat blame Bush for something, anything, and everything. As irresponsible as Bush and the Republicans were in the previous 8 years, Obama and the democrats have more than doubled what Bush spent IN JUST ONE FREAKING YEAR! So shut that putrid pie hole under your stuck up elitist noses, you stupid liberals. The “blame Bush” excuse is over. You bought this steaming economic turd. You own it now.)…
… In addition, the CBO said the unemployment rate would probably not go below 9 percent until 2012, while individual income taxes are expected to rise by 33 percent in 2011. (Did you copy that? YOUR INCOME TAXES WILL GO UP 33% NEXT YEAR. That should piss you off to the point you are frothing at the mouth. Mr. O-bow-ma throws lavish parties and jet sets all over the world living at our expense with no worries at all. He sacrifices NOTHING while we are pushed into the salt mines. If my taxes go up 33%, I’ll be bankrupt. He can come and try take my house from me in person. I’d like that.)
President Obama has announced that he would like a three-year freeze on ‘non-security’ spending which would amount to around $15 billion saved per year — a small fraction of the total projected deficit. (Yet he will do nothing to CUT spending. Saying he has identified $25 Billion in cost savings (which I don’t believe) is just as insulting as saying he has “saved or created” umpteen million jobs when the unemployment rate continues to march steadily upward every month. He’s lying about that AGAIN. EVERY month since he has been in office an additional several hundred thousand people have lost their jobs.) …
Obama’s State of the Union, January 2010: Unpresidential and Uninspiring
An open letter to Barack Obama in response to his State of the Union speech:
First of all, let me make one overall recommendation to you, Mr. Obama.
You said that you understand the “burden of working harder for less,” and “I know the anxieties out there now.” Really? Sir, most of your life has been one of privilege financed by others. Now you are at the pinnacle of that life living in the lap of luxury, throwing lavish parties, traveling all over the world, flaunting power all at the expense of the American taxpayer. If you really understood, you wouldn’t be throwing your weekly parties for your cronies, and you wouldn’t be spending millions of taxpayer dollars flying all over the country and world on Air Force One just to get photo ops for your never ending campaign. You would be staying in Washington, D.C. working on REAL, bipartisan solutions.
You stated that you had cut taxes for millions of us in the middle class. Really? Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if you had. Allowing us to keep more money up front and then taxing it away from us on April 15th is not a tax cut. Mailing me a check for a SMALL PORTION of the tax money that was mine to begin with is a REBATE, not a tax cut. When you mail those same checks to the 50% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes anyway, that’s just a handout. When you’re charitable with your own money, that’s generosity. When you’re charitable with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, that’s called THEFT or REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH when it’s done by the government.
You talk of creating government/public service jobs to help the economy. Since you were supposedly a “professor,” I would expect you to be educated enough to understand that public-sector, government jobs by definition CAN NOT CREATE WEALTH, which is what will stimulate our economy. A government job by definition takes money away from the economy to pay for itself.
Mr. Obama, you said you wanted a “jobs bill” on your desk immediately. Sir, here’s the jobs bill guaranteed to create jobs, and stimulate economic growth. I’ve delivered it to you before congress could, and kept it so brief that any child could understand it. Here it is. Are you ready?
You also mentioned that you were going to “double exports” to reduce our trade deficit. That sounds good, but how do you plan to achieve that, and what do you plan to export? The liberal policies of taxing businesses and creating a business climate that forces them to move their businesses overseas has left us with very little to export. When you make a corporate environment that ATTRACTS businesses, we will once again produce what the rest of the world wants, and exports will be a natural byproduct of that.
When it comes to health care reform, you have been wrong, and continue to be wrong. You have been dishonest in your dealings with the American people, and have outright lied about the “transparency” that was supposed to be the hallmark of these negotiations and of your administration. CSPAN? How’s that working for you? I guess I just missed all of those broadcasts, because I haven’t seen any of them. You said “if anybody has a better idea (about health care) let me know.” Oh, dear Lord in Heaven (I can introduce you to Him), please keep my head from exploding. You and the rest of your “progressive” (read communist) buddies have SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED REPUBLICANS from the entire process, and refused to listen to, include or consider ANY of their ideas while crafting your government takeover of the health care system. Sir, the ideas are there but you are unwilling to listen to any ideas that do not fit your agenda. Tort reform, tax cuts, competition across state lines, and several other ideas have been put forth that are proven successful strategies for making health care better and more affordable. Yet you won’t allow them to be put on the table because they don’t pay your union buddies, or contribute to the takeover of health care. I pause to conjure the spirit of Rep. Joe Wilson.
You said you were going to “freeze spending for three years.” You speak of how that won’t start until 2011 because “that’s how budgeting works.” How convenient that it works out that you are putting it off until AFTER the midterm elections so that any possible pain associated with your policies won’t be felt until after Americans cast their votes. Your “spending freeze” sounds good to the uninitiated and uneducated that you hoped were the majority of your audience last night. But the reality is that you have already allowed HUGE spending increases in nearly every government agency that they wouldn’t have seen in the next 5-7 years COMBINED. Then you exempt the largest portion of government spending from any freeze. That would be the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING upon which you and the liberals depend for your political lives, and to which NO ONE IS ACTUALLY ENTITLED. If you were serious about eliminating the deficit, and paying down the debt, then you would get serious about ELIMINATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Go to a flat tax (which is a FAIR tax) with no exemptions and eliminate the IRS. That would save about $11 Billion per year. The Department of Energy was established to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” How would you say that’s working? The DoE is about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog. Scrap it and save the billions of dollars per year that it sucks up from the tax payers. You could legitimately close the doors of 75% of the Federal government with no negative impact on America. You would in fact allow America to prosper by simply getting government out of the way, and saving us all of that money.
You speak of dismantling our nuclear arms and “agreements” with the Russians. You obviously are not a student of history. When we weaken ourselves, our enemies do not follow suit. Whether it be the Soviets/Russians, the Iranians, or the North Koreans, they have proven themselves to be liars. They will say whatever you want them to say to gain short-term political favor. They will not disarm themselves. Disarming unilaterally and dealing from a position of weakness will only open us up to aggression and attack from the likes of Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the many terrorist groups who want nothing more than to see Americans die. We need to be the biggest, strongest kid on the block to ensure peace for us, and for the rest of the world.
The one thing from your speech on which we agree is the building of nuclear power plants, and removal of restrictions on offshore drilling. Everyone agrees that we need to try to develop clean, self-sustaining forms and sources of energy. But letting private innovation lead the way and develop products that Americans ACTUALLY WANT is the only way to make “green” energy a success. By forcing it down our throats while demonizing and destroying our other inexpensive, reliable forms of energy will only destroy those jobs before new ones emerge, skyrocket the cost of energy (which you promised us under YOUR plan), and destroy an economy that depends on energy at an affordable price. I’m beginning to think this may actually be your intent.
Finally, you displayed your true, anti-American, communist, thug, street organizer colors when you quietly announced your “enemies list” during your speech. You and your band of thugs like Rahm Emanuel bully and intimidate people to get your way. You did so with Fox News and the other news outlets when you declared that Fox News was not a legitimate news organization, would not be treated as such, and that the other “news” outlets would be “wise” not to treat them that way either. Attempt to destroy one to make an example of them, and use fear to control the others, a strategy from your idol, Saul Alinsky. In a total breach of decorum and decency, you publicly flog the Supreme Court, who can’t defend themselves, and lie about their decision that actually reaffirms the 1st Amendment freedom of speech. You hand down the list of people whom you will combat and try to destroy if they stand in your way, a list which includes bankers, capitalist “fat-cats,” the Supreme Court, and anyone in the media or with a microphone, megaphone, or pulpit from which to deliver a message that exposes the fallacies of your agenda. You are blatantly trying to stifle free speech. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were two of the “progressives” who employed similar tactics. No more, Mr. Obama. We will not tolerate your attempts to silence us.
Mr. Obama, you simply don’t care about Americans or America. The people of Massachusetts, a solidly liberal state, sent you a loud and clear message. But you won’t listen. Congress didn’t give you what you wanted, so rather than reevaluate whether what YOU want is what Americans want or need, you boldly declare that you will simply sign executive orders to bypass the congress, and any other entity that stands in your way. You attack and besmirch the Supreme Court because you don’t control them. You lied when you said you “never said you could end divisiveness and start a post-partisan, post-racial era.” BULL CHIPS! You campaigned on EXACTLY THAT PROMISE!
Sir, you are an arrogant, dishonest narcissist who is a danger to America. You attempted to include yourself in the greatness of America when you said that “our ideals built America.”
Mr. Obama, it was OUR ideals that build America, NOT YOURS.
Out of patience,
///SIGNED///
State of the Union, January 2010
Mr. Obama, here are my reactions to and impressions of your State of the Union speech last night.First of all, let me make one overall recommendation to you, Mr. Obama.
Grow up and take responsibility.
You say “I’m not interested in re-litigating the past.” Yet you continue to blame George W. Bush for EVERYTHING under the sun. You point fingers and blame everyone else on the planet for your problems, and for things you don’t like while dodging any and all personal responsibility for events taking place in America now. It makes you look immature and petty. The minute you signed onto the stimulus and began taking over companies and banks, you owned this economy, and your senatorial votes during the Bush administration played a significant part in the economy’s demise.You said that you understand the “burden of working harder for less,” and “I know the anxieties out there now.” Really? Sir, most of your life has been one of privilege financed by others. Now you are at the pinnacle of that life living in the lap of luxury, throwing lavish parties, traveling all over the world, flaunting power all at the expense of the American taxpayer. If you really understood, you wouldn’t be throwing your weekly parties for your cronies, and you wouldn’t be spending millions of taxpayer dollars flying all over the country and world on Air Force One just to get photo ops for your never ending campaign. You would be staying in Washington, D.C. working on REAL, bipartisan solutions.
You stated that you had cut taxes for millions of us in the middle class. Really? Being solidly in the middle class, I think I would know if you had. Allowing us to keep more money up front and then taxing it away from us on April 15th is not a tax cut. Mailing me a check for a SMALL PORTION of the tax money that was mine to begin with is a REBATE, not a tax cut. When you mail those same checks to the 50% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes anyway, that’s just a handout. When you’re charitable with your own money, that’s generosity. When you’re charitable with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, that’s called THEFT or REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH when it’s done by the government.
You talk of creating government/public service jobs to help the economy. Since you were supposedly a “professor,” I would expect you to be educated enough to understand that public-sector, government jobs by definition CAN NOT CREATE WEALTH, which is what will stimulate our economy. A government job by definition takes money away from the economy to pay for itself.
Mr. Obama, you said you wanted a “jobs bill” on your desk immediately. Sir, here’s the jobs bill guaranteed to create jobs, and stimulate economic growth. I’ve delivered it to you before congress could, and kept it so brief that any child could understand it. Here it is. Are you ready?
CUT TAXES!
Cut personal income taxes, cut corporate taxes, and eliminate the “death” and “marriage” taxes, and I GUARANTEE that the economy will take off like a rocket.You also mentioned that you were going to “double exports” to reduce our trade deficit. That sounds good, but how do you plan to achieve that, and what do you plan to export? The liberal policies of taxing businesses and creating a business climate that forces them to move their businesses overseas has left us with very little to export. When you make a corporate environment that ATTRACTS businesses, we will once again produce what the rest of the world wants, and exports will be a natural byproduct of that.
When it comes to health care reform, you have been wrong, and continue to be wrong. You have been dishonest in your dealings with the American people, and have outright lied about the “transparency” that was supposed to be the hallmark of these negotiations and of your administration. CSPAN? How’s that working for you? I guess I just missed all of those broadcasts, because I haven’t seen any of them. You said “if anybody has a better idea (about health care) let me know.” Oh, dear Lord in Heaven (I can introduce you to Him), please keep my head from exploding. You and the rest of your “progressive” (read communist) buddies have SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED REPUBLICANS from the entire process, and refused to listen to, include or consider ANY of their ideas while crafting your government takeover of the health care system. Sir, the ideas are there but you are unwilling to listen to any ideas that do not fit your agenda. Tort reform, tax cuts, competition across state lines, and several other ideas have been put forth that are proven successful strategies for making health care better and more affordable. Yet you won’t allow them to be put on the table because they don’t pay your union buddies, or contribute to the takeover of health care. I pause to conjure the spirit of Rep. Joe Wilson.
You said you were going to “freeze spending for three years.” You speak of how that won’t start until 2011 because “that’s how budgeting works.” How convenient that it works out that you are putting it off until AFTER the midterm elections so that any possible pain associated with your policies won’t be felt until after Americans cast their votes. Your “spending freeze” sounds good to the uninitiated and uneducated that you hoped were the majority of your audience last night. But the reality is that you have already allowed HUGE spending increases in nearly every government agency that they wouldn’t have seen in the next 5-7 years COMBINED. Then you exempt the largest portion of government spending from any freeze. That would be the ENTITLEMENT SPENDING upon which you and the liberals depend for your political lives, and to which NO ONE IS ACTUALLY ENTITLED. If you were serious about eliminating the deficit, and paying down the debt, then you would get serious about ELIMINATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Go to a flat tax (which is a FAIR tax) with no exemptions and eliminate the IRS. That would save about $11 Billion per year. The Department of Energy was established to “end our dependence on foreign oil.” How would you say that’s working? The DoE is about as useful as mammary glands on a boar hog. Scrap it and save the billions of dollars per year that it sucks up from the tax payers. You could legitimately close the doors of 75% of the Federal government with no negative impact on America. You would in fact allow America to prosper by simply getting government out of the way, and saving us all of that money.
You speak of dismantling our nuclear arms and “agreements” with the Russians. You obviously are not a student of history. When we weaken ourselves, our enemies do not follow suit. Whether it be the Soviets/Russians, the Iranians, or the North Koreans, they have proven themselves to be liars. They will say whatever you want them to say to gain short-term political favor. They will not disarm themselves. Disarming unilaterally and dealing from a position of weakness will only open us up to aggression and attack from the likes of Russia, China, and Iran, not to mention the many terrorist groups who want nothing more than to see Americans die. We need to be the biggest, strongest kid on the block to ensure peace for us, and for the rest of the world.
The one thing from your speech on which we agree is the building of nuclear power plants, and removal of restrictions on offshore drilling. Everyone agrees that we need to try to develop clean, self-sustaining forms and sources of energy. But letting private innovation lead the way and develop products that Americans ACTUALLY WANT is the only way to make “green” energy a success. By forcing it down our throats while demonizing and destroying our other inexpensive, reliable forms of energy will only destroy those jobs before new ones emerge, skyrocket the cost of energy (which you promised us under YOUR plan), and destroy an economy that depends on energy at an affordable price. I’m beginning to think this may actually be your intent.
Finally, you displayed your true, anti-American, communist, thug, street organizer colors when you quietly announced your “enemies list” during your speech. You and your band of thugs like Rahm Emanuel bully and intimidate people to get your way. You did so with Fox News and the other news outlets when you declared that Fox News was not a legitimate news organization, would not be treated as such, and that the other “news” outlets would be “wise” not to treat them that way either. Attempt to destroy one to make an example of them, and use fear to control the others, a strategy from your idol, Saul Alinsky. In a total breach of decorum and decency, you publicly flog the Supreme Court, who can’t defend themselves, and lie about their decision that actually reaffirms the 1st Amendment freedom of speech. You hand down the list of people whom you will combat and try to destroy if they stand in your way, a list which includes bankers, capitalist “fat-cats,” the Supreme Court, and anyone in the media or with a microphone, megaphone, or pulpit from which to deliver a message that exposes the fallacies of your agenda. You are blatantly trying to stifle free speech. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were two of the “progressives” who employed similar tactics. No more, Mr. Obama. We will not tolerate your attempts to silence us.
Mr. Obama, you simply don’t care about Americans or America. The people of Massachusetts, a solidly liberal state, sent you a loud and clear message. But you won’t listen. Congress didn’t give you what you wanted, so rather than reevaluate whether what YOU want is what Americans want or need, you boldly declare that you will simply sign executive orders to bypass the congress, and any other entity that stands in your way. You attack and besmirch the Supreme Court because you don’t control them. You lied when you said you “never said you could end divisiveness and start a post-partisan, post-racial era.” BULL CHIPS! You campaigned on EXACTLY THAT PROMISE!
Sir, you are an arrogant, dishonest narcissist who is a danger to America. You attempted to include yourself in the greatness of America when you said that “our ideals built America.”
Mr. Obama, it was OUR ideals that build America, NOT YOURS.
Out of patience,
///SIGNED///
Monday, January 18, 2010
Audit the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve is aiding in the financial destruction of America. There are TRILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars that the Fed will not, and can not account for.
Americans are starting to wake up to the need to retake control of our government, and this is just one of the bad dreams we will have to wake up from.
Sign the petion below, and push your representatives to support H.R. 1207/S 604.
http://www.chooseliberty.org/auditfed2.aspx?pid=w6a
Americans are starting to wake up to the need to retake control of our government, and this is just one of the bad dreams we will have to wake up from.
Sign the petion below, and push your representatives to support H.R. 1207/S 604.
http://www.chooseliberty.org/auditfed2.aspx?pid=w6a
“Audit the Federal Reserve”
Petition to the US Congress
| Whereas: | The Federal Reserve refuses to give a public accounting of the TRILLIONS in recent taxpayer-backed loans; and |
| Whereas: | Congress has the responsibility to force a public audit of the Federal Reserve, and the American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent; and |
| Whereas: | Allowing the Fed to remain out of control and shrouded in secrecy clearly allows for abuse and the continued stealing of our tax dollars through inflation and unaccounted electronic bank “loans”; and |
| Whereas: | The Federal Reserve’s abuses lead to constant economic crises like the current housing crisis, international banking crisis and the resulting chaos; and |
| Whereas: | The Federal Reserve System forces fuel, food, housing, medical care and education costs upward, meaning that everyone who is NOT on the government dole is forced to make do with less as the value of money slowly decreases; and |
| Whereas: | History shows us that riots, violence and full-scale police states can result when people finally realize fiat money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and REFUSE to accept it; |
| Therefore: | I urge you to cosponsor and make every effort to seek roll call votes on the Audit the Fed Bill, H.R. 1207/S 604. |
Obama TSA Nominee Sees 80% of Americans as Threats
Why are Obama and the left using their same "stimulus" type fear tactics concerning the appointment of Erroll Southers as TSA chief? They are saying that America is unprotected because the TSA chief hasn't been confirmed yet, and we must act quickly to confirm him. Does anyone remember what we were told by this same group of communists before the "bailout/stimulus" was passed?
This is the type of radical, left-wing, communist nut that Obama surrounds himself with because this is the type of radical, left-wing, communist nut that Obama REALLY is.
Here's a glimpse at the soul of Obama nominee for TSA chief, Erroll Southers:
So, let's see if I have this correct. If I'm for less/smaller government (anti-government?), I believe abortion is wrong and is murder (anti-abortion), I was a Boy Scout who believes the motto "Be Prepared" is smart, so I have two weeks worth of food and other supplies in the event there is a natural disaster, and worst of all, I'm a Christian, THAT MAKES ME A TERRORIST?
These definitions make the founding fathers "terrorists." The real terrorists are the radical left communists who are trying to undermine and destroy the United States Constitution. The real terrorists and enemies of the state are those who are trying to spend our nation into oblivion, weakening our military, and stealing freedoms from the citizens.
The enemy of the state terrorist at the top of the heap lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
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- "If we don't pass this stimulus, the economy will collapse."
- If we pass this stimulus, the unemployment rate won't go above 8%."
- "All the money will go to shovel-ready jobs and stimulating the economy."
This is the type of radical, left-wing, communist nut that Obama surrounds himself with because this is the type of radical, left-wing, communist nut that Obama REALLY is.
Here's a glimpse at the soul of Obama nominee for TSA chief, Erroll Southers:
"Most of the domestic groups that we pay attention to here are white supremacist groups. They're anti-government, in most cases anti-abortion, they are usually survivalist type in nature, identity oriented." "Those groups are groups that claim to be extremely anti-government and Christian identity oriented,"
So, let's see if I have this correct. If I'm for less/smaller government (anti-government?), I believe abortion is wrong and is murder (anti-abortion), I was a Boy Scout who believes the motto "Be Prepared" is smart, so I have two weeks worth of food and other supplies in the event there is a natural disaster, and worst of all, I'm a Christian, THAT MAKES ME A TERRORIST?
These definitions make the founding fathers "terrorists." The real terrorists are the radical left communists who are trying to undermine and destroy the United States Constitution. The real terrorists and enemies of the state are those who are trying to spend our nation into oblivion, weakening our military, and stealing freedoms from the citizens.
The enemy of the state terrorist at the top of the heap lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
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The Sheeple Have Awakened
Mr. (undocumented) president, I know you don’t care, but here is what America thinks of you and your agenda.
They F’ing HATE IT!
Since honor is something you don’t possess or display, I’m sure you won’t do the honorable thing and resign, or at least DO WHAT YOUR EMPLOYER TELLS YOU TO DO.
So I guess we’ll have to do it the hard way. We will oppose your socialist agenda at every turn. We will vote your fellow socialists and communists out of office. If you haven’t been impeached or run out of Washington, D.C. on a rail by 2012, we will vote YOU out of office.
The sheeple have awakened, Mr. Obama.
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(click on links below for articles)
They F’ing HATE IT!
Since honor is something you don’t possess or display, I’m sure you won’t do the honorable thing and resign, or at least DO WHAT YOUR EMPLOYER TELLS YOU TO DO.
So I guess we’ll have to do it the hard way. We will oppose your socialist agenda at every turn. We will vote your fellow socialists and communists out of office. If you haven’t been impeached or run out of Washington, D.C. on a rail by 2012, we will vote YOU out of office.
The sheeple have awakened, Mr. Obama.
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(click on links below for articles)
What Washington Post Story Did Not Say about Its Own Poll: Most Americans Say They Want a Smaller Government
Only 36% of Likely Mass. Voters Support Obamacare; Only 48% Approve of Job Obama’s Doing
Sixty-Two Percent Say America Has ‘Gotten Pretty Seriously Off on the Wrong Track,’ Up 14 Points from April
Corruption is How Obama Rolls, or Why Unions are Bad for America
How many times have I and other conservatives told you that Obama is beholden to unions who got him elected? Continued payouts of taxpayer money to ACORN even after congress said “no,” and union lobbyists streaming in and out of the White House, both as employees and visitors, despite Obama’s pledge that no lobbyists would be anywhere near his administration. Need more proof that Obama will willingly screw you to pay off the unions? Here ya’ go.
Yet another in a continuous stream of non-transparent, smoke filled backroom deals has produced another payoff for the unions who elected Obama.
Obama is exempting the unions from the “Cadillac tax” on “high-cost” health care plans. Because of Obama’s and the liberals/democrats efforts to destroy the health care system, the cost of your insurance will go up to the point that a whole lot more of us will be considered to have “Cadillac” plans under the new bill. So what does that mean?
It means if you individually have a plan costing more than $8,900, or $24,000 as a family, you will pay a 40% excise tax on that plan. That tax was intended to reap some $149 billion in revenue to offset the cost of the government takeover of health care. But with the unions not paying their “fair share,” it will take $60 billion out of the revenue pool. So who is going to pay for it? You will, and I will.
Obama and the democrats aren’t dumb enough to think their takeover will actually improve health care. This is just part of their Cloward and Piven strategy to collapse the whole thing so they can seize more power and install a command economy, i.e. communist oligarchy. Conspiracy theorist? Believe that if you want. If you are actually listening to what they are saying, they are only hiding their intentions under a thin, lacy veil. Sometime they let things slip that reveal very clearly their true intentions.
Either way, this deal is unconstitutional as it unfairly burdens some segments of society to benefit others who are merely political special interest groups.
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Last Updated: 10:55 AM, January 15, 2010
Posted: 2:49 AM, January 15, 2010
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.
The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won’t be as lucky — they’ll have to cough up almost $90 billion.
The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called “Cadillac” health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018.
In another major concession to labor, the value of dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years, negotiators said.
Under the plan to help fund health-care reform, the tax would kick in for plans valued at $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families.
That’s slightly higher than the $8,500 and $23,000 thresholds in the bill passed by the Senate last month.
The threshold will be even higher for certain plans with many older workers and women — a move to benefit unions with a high proportion of female membership, sources said.
New York labor leaders — who had initially campaigned against the Cadillac tax, favoring instead a surcharge on the wealthy — said they are thrilled.
“We can live with it. We have an agreement that nothing will be taxed until 2018,” crowed George Boncoraglio, regional president of the Civil Service Employees Association.
Officials said the deal was thrashed out over more than 15 hours of negotiating at the White House that ended after midnight Wednesday.
Powerful unions were well-represented around the bargaining table.
Participants included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Andy Stern, head of Service Employees International Union; Anna Burger, head of Change to Win; and the leaders of unions representing teachers, government workers, food and commercial workers, and electricians.
Stern has been among the most frequent visitors to the White House over the last year, showing up more than 20 times, according to logs.
Originally, the Cadillac tax included in the Senate bill was estimated to raise $149 billion through 2019.
But Trumka said the exemption would reduce that amount by $60 billion — money that negotiators will now have to find elsewhere, or reduce the coverage in the legislation.
Boncoraglio said CSEA leaders were meeting in Albany — preparing to wage a major offensive against the tax — when their Washington lobbyist called and briefed them on the changes.
Obama backs the Cadillac excise tax, citing economists who say it would drive down costs by encouraging insurance companies to offer employers and workers a chance to buy lower-cost health plans to avoid the levy. (This is the democrats way of RATIONING HEALTH CARE. They just make it too expensive to afford the plan you need or want, but give you the “opportunity” to buy one of the (mandatory) government plans that is cheaper (and offers fewer benefits and services).
carl.campanile@nypost.com
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Yet another in a continuous stream of non-transparent, smoke filled backroom deals has produced another payoff for the unions who elected Obama.
Obama is exempting the unions from the “Cadillac tax” on “high-cost” health care plans. Because of Obama’s and the liberals/democrats efforts to destroy the health care system, the cost of your insurance will go up to the point that a whole lot more of us will be considered to have “Cadillac” plans under the new bill. So what does that mean?
It means if you individually have a plan costing more than $8,900, or $24,000 as a family, you will pay a 40% excise tax on that plan. That tax was intended to reap some $149 billion in revenue to offset the cost of the government takeover of health care. But with the unions not paying their “fair share,” it will take $60 billion out of the revenue pool. So who is going to pay for it? You will, and I will.
Obama and the democrats aren’t dumb enough to think their takeover will actually improve health care. This is just part of their Cloward and Piven strategy to collapse the whole thing so they can seize more power and install a command economy, i.e. communist oligarchy. Conspiracy theorist? Believe that if you want. If you are actually listening to what they are saying, they are only hiding their intentions under a thin, lacy veil. Sometime they let things slip that reveal very clearly their true intentions.
Either way, this deal is unconstitutional as it unfairly burdens some segments of society to benefit others who are merely political special interest groups.
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Updated: Fri., Jan. 15, 2010, 10:55 AM
Unions will dodge O’s health tax
By CARL CAMPANILELast Updated: 10:55 AM, January 15, 2010
Posted: 2:49 AM, January 15, 2010
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.
The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won’t be as lucky — they’ll have to cough up almost $90 billion.
The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called “Cadillac” health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018.
In another major concession to labor, the value of dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years, negotiators said.
Under the plan to help fund health-care reform, the tax would kick in for plans valued at $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families.
That’s slightly higher than the $8,500 and $23,000 thresholds in the bill passed by the Senate last month.
The threshold will be even higher for certain plans with many older workers and women — a move to benefit unions with a high proportion of female membership, sources said.
New York labor leaders — who had initially campaigned against the Cadillac tax, favoring instead a surcharge on the wealthy — said they are thrilled.
“We can live with it. We have an agreement that nothing will be taxed until 2018,” crowed George Boncoraglio, regional president of the Civil Service Employees Association.
Officials said the deal was thrashed out over more than 15 hours of negotiating at the White House that ended after midnight Wednesday.
Powerful unions were well-represented around the bargaining table.
Participants included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Andy Stern, head of Service Employees International Union; Anna Burger, head of Change to Win; and the leaders of unions representing teachers, government workers, food and commercial workers, and electricians.
Stern has been among the most frequent visitors to the White House over the last year, showing up more than 20 times, according to logs.
Originally, the Cadillac tax included in the Senate bill was estimated to raise $149 billion through 2019.
But Trumka said the exemption would reduce that amount by $60 billion — money that negotiators will now have to find elsewhere, or reduce the coverage in the legislation.
Boncoraglio said CSEA leaders were meeting in Albany — preparing to wage a major offensive against the tax — when their Washington lobbyist called and briefed them on the changes.
Obama backs the Cadillac excise tax, citing economists who say it would drive down costs by encouraging insurance companies to offer employers and workers a chance to buy lower-cost health plans to avoid the levy. (This is the democrats way of RATIONING HEALTH CARE. They just make it too expensive to afford the plan you need or want, but give you the “opportunity” to buy one of the (mandatory) government plans that is cheaper (and offers fewer benefits and services).
carl.campanile@nypost.com
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Obama and Liberals: Domestic Enemies of America
What are congressmen and senators of this country sworn to do? What are the military servicemen and women of America sworn to do? What does one have to do to be labeled a “domestic enemy?” Let’s take a look.
So, we have defined what constitutes a “domestic enemy,” we have several examples that fit the definition quite easily, and we have the actions required by oath of office in relation to “domestic enemies.” So what does this mean? I am bound by the Constitution of the United States to oppose Barack Hussein Obama and his legion of liberal socialists. All citizens who honor our Constitution are bound to do the same. So what does that mean for the liberals who are gleefully destroying this country?
You can do the math.
I ask the same question that Marine Corps veteran David Hedrick asks of his representative Brian Baird in the following video. “I (we) have kept our oath. DO YOU EVER INTEND TO KEEP YOURS?“
Current Senatorial and Congressional Oath of Office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Current United States Air Force Oath of Office:
I, (Full Name (First, Middle, Last)) (Social Security Number) having been appointed a (Grade in which appointed), United States Air Force do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, SO HELP ME GOD.
Domestic Enemy of the United States of America:
Here is one possible definition provided by Richard L. Wilde: (read his post by clicking here)Domestic Enemies (to the US Constitution) are those who manipulate the law or lawmakers to violate the Founder’s intent, remove their safeguards, distort, circumvent, or in any way threaten the Constitution, threaten sovereignty, infringe upon state and individual rights, usurp authority, advance tyranny, or provide immunity or pardons for such.Richard makes a very astute observation and analysis of the origin and intent of the oaths of office required of our elected officials.
Based upon this analysis and definition, which I feel are quite fair and accurate, it becomes quite easy to identify Domestic Enemies of America. Here is a short list, but many names can easily be added from both the democrat and republican parties:After further thought, it made sense to me that the only entities who could constitute any possible threat to our Constitution are its guardians … those who have legal access to it.So it follows that these oaths are aimed explicitly at the Federal Government, and those behind the scenes who manipulate them. The warning is: “If you alter or change the intent of the US Constitution or attempt to circumvent it, you are the enemy.”
- Barack Hussein Obama
- Nancy “Nazi” Pelosi
- Harry Reid
- John Murtha
- Ted Kennedy
- All of those voting for or supporting: Nationalized health care, carbon/environmental taxes, amnesty and/or benefits for illegal aliens, etc.
- etc.
So, we have defined what constitutes a “domestic enemy,” we have several examples that fit the definition quite easily, and we have the actions required by oath of office in relation to “domestic enemies.” So what does this mean? I am bound by the Constitution of the United States to oppose Barack Hussein Obama and his legion of liberal socialists. All citizens who honor our Constitution are bound to do the same. So what does that mean for the liberals who are gleefully destroying this country?
You can do the math.
I ask the same question that Marine Corps veteran David Hedrick asks of his representative Brian Baird in the following video. “I (we) have kept our oath. DO YOU EVER INTEND TO KEEP YOURS?“
Liberal Desperation Mounts as Brown’s Momentum Builds in Mass.
The liberals are DESPERATELY clinging to power, and are pulling out all the stops to hang on to it. They are slinging mud, calling names, making plans to stiff-arm Brown’s confirmation until they can swing a vote on health care, and planning to get that vote by circumventing the constitution by using a voting measure intended to keep governments from shutting down when a budget must be passed.
Harry Reid, Obama, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, and all the rest of these tyrants must go. They care nothing about the American people, only about power and setting up a system that gives them and/or people they designate more of it.
Time is growing short. Donate via the internet to Scott Brown’s campaign so he can fight back against the onslaught of deceit from Coakley and the democrats that is sure to happen this weekend.
Expect an “October surprise” this weekend. The democrats will likely come out with some outlandish charge on Sunday or Monday before the election that will not give Brown enough time before Tuesday’s election to effectively counter it. The thing he needs is AIR TIME, and that’s expensive. Let’s help him have the ammunition to fire back. I’ve already donated twice from my last two paychecks. It wasn’t much, but it was all I could afford to give. It all adds up. Donate what you can.
http://redinvadesblue.com/Moneybomb/Donate.html
http://www1.whdh.com/features/articles/hiller/BO133471/
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/14/schumer-pulls-tea-bagger-card-gop-candidate-brown/
Updated January 14, 2010
New York Sen. Charles Schumer, who famously hammered then-Sen. Alfonse D’Amato for calling him a “putz-head” in their hot 1998 campaign, was accused Thursday of stepping into the gutter himself after he sent out a fundraising e-mail in which he called Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown a “far-right tea-bagger.”
(Complete article HERE)
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Even if Democrats lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator, Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.
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Using reconciliation would likely force Democrats to scale back their health-care plans. The procedure is designed to make deficit-cutting easier by reducing the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts. Lawmakers can’t include policy changes that the parliamentarian deems have only an “incidental” connection to budget-cutting, and senators would need 60 votes to override those rulings. (Reconciliation was NOT intended to pass these kinds of bills. “The constitution and the law be DAMNED!” say the democrats. “We want what we want, and we want it now. We don’t care about America.”)
(Complete article HERE)
Harry Reid, Obama, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, and all the rest of these tyrants must go. They care nothing about the American people, only about power and setting up a system that gives them and/or people they designate more of it.
Time is growing short. Donate via the internet to Scott Brown’s campaign so he can fight back against the onslaught of deceit from Coakley and the democrats that is sure to happen this weekend.
Expect an “October surprise” this weekend. The democrats will likely come out with some outlandish charge on Sunday or Monday before the election that will not give Brown enough time before Tuesday’s election to effectively counter it. The thing he needs is AIR TIME, and that’s expensive. Let’s help him have the ammunition to fire back. I’ve already donated twice from my last two paychecks. It wasn’t much, but it was all I could afford to give. It all adds up. Donate what you can.
http://redinvadesblue.com/Moneybomb/Donate.html
http://www1.whdh.com/features/articles/hiller/BO133471/
The Hiller Instinct: Suffolk University Poll
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/14/schumer-pulls-tea-bagger-card-gop-candidate-brown/
Updated January 14, 2010
Schumer Pulls ‘Tea-Bagger’ Card on GOP Candidate Brown
FOXNews.comNew York Sen. Charles Schumer, who famously hammered then-Sen. Alfonse D’Amato for calling him a “putz-head” in their hot 1998 campaign, was accused Thursday of stepping into the gutter himself after he sent out a fundraising e-mail in which he called Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown a “far-right tea-bagger.”
(Complete article HERE)
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
Health Bill Can Pass Senate With 51 Votes, Van Hollen Says
By Jonathan D. SalantJan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Even if Democrats lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator, Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.
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Using reconciliation would likely force Democrats to scale back their health-care plans. The procedure is designed to make deficit-cutting easier by reducing the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts. Lawmakers can’t include policy changes that the parliamentarian deems have only an “incidental” connection to budget-cutting, and senators would need 60 votes to override those rulings. (Reconciliation was NOT intended to pass these kinds of bills. “The constitution and the law be DAMNED!” say the democrats. “We want what we want, and we want it now. We don’t care about America.”)
(Complete article HERE)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Update: Defeat Liberals and Obama-care, Support Scott Brown for MA Senate
Scott is gaining ground on his liberal opponent, but we can't give up now. The slime throwing, character defamation, outright lying, ACORN ballot box stuffing, Black Panther voter intimidation, dead people voting, and every other play from the liberal play book is about to be used by the democrats in their desperate bid to hold onto their power.
How desperate are they? The campaigner-in-chief, the commander-in-grief, Chairman Maobama, the undocumented president himself is going to Massachusetts this weekend. I guess he will be returning to his roots as a thug street organizer whipping up or intimidating support for his communist candidates.
We must do EVERYTHING we can to break the left's tyrannical stranglehold on our government before they strangle America.
To the citizens of the great state of Massachusetts who are awakening from their 3 decade slumber, God bless you. Stand strong. When the Black Panthers, and the SEIU and ACORN thugs try to intimidate you and keep you from the polls, overwhelm them and push back. They are trying to steal YOUR VOICE.
If you see ANY irregularities concerning this election, DOCUMENT IT WITH VIDEO AND PICTURES. Don't let them steal this election from you. I have a feeling that this election is more in Scott Brown's favor than the polls show, but with the lopsided liberal money and corruption advantage they are like cornered animals. They are very dangerous.
Stand up, America! Donate whatever you can to help the people of Massachusetts shirk the bonds of liberalism, and in turn send the message that the rest of America won't stand for this bum rush toward socialism, communism, and oppression.
Original Post: http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/defeat-a-liberal-stop-obama-care-support-scott-brown-for-ma-senate/
The Hill newspaper has just broken the big news story that Barack Obama is heading to Massachusetts this weekend in a desperate attempt to save the Senate seat for the Democrats in this Tuesday's Special Election.
This comes as Democrats have just dumped MILLIONS of dollars more into the race. Check out these 24-hour filings from the FEC from Planned Parenthood, the League of Conservation Voters, and big unions:
And that's not all. This news report just out documents some of the millions of dollars that Democrats have dumped into the race this week to defeat Scott Brown. It's astounding.
An email from Ted Kennedy's widow raised $600,000 for the Democrats. MoveOn.org raised another $650,000+. Harry Reid, Chris Dodd & Al Franken raised another $500,000. Democrat committees dumped in excess of $1 million.
You can see it for yourself in the report here:
We must keep up our momentum and fight back against this late push by the Left.
The final deadlines for us to purchase advertising for Scott Brown for Senate is the end of the day Monday. This is it, there are no more tomorrow's - we must make our final push now!
You can make a contribution to our campaign effort for Scott Brown - HERE.
We must take action, for if we can pull out a victory, we stop the Democrats dead in their tracks in their effort to secretly ram through their socialistic healthcare plan.
That's because Scott Brown wholeheartedly opposes the Democrat's government-run healthcare plan and has made his opposition to it a central part of his campaign.
If Brown wins then he will be the deciding vote to kill the socialistic healthcare monstrosity in the Senate!
(WHEN he wins, don't let the tyrants in the senate delay is confirmation just so they can get their health care vote through!)
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How desperate are they? The campaigner-in-chief, the commander-in-grief, Chairman Maobama, the undocumented president himself is going to Massachusetts this weekend. I guess he will be returning to his roots as a thug street organizer whipping up or intimidating support for his communist candidates.
We must do EVERYTHING we can to break the left's tyrannical stranglehold on our government before they strangle America.
To the citizens of the great state of Massachusetts who are awakening from their 3 decade slumber, God bless you. Stand strong. When the Black Panthers, and the SEIU and ACORN thugs try to intimidate you and keep you from the polls, overwhelm them and push back. They are trying to steal YOUR VOICE.
If you see ANY irregularities concerning this election, DOCUMENT IT WITH VIDEO AND PICTURES. Don't let them steal this election from you. I have a feeling that this election is more in Scott Brown's favor than the polls show, but with the lopsided liberal money and corruption advantage they are like cornered animals. They are very dangerous.
Stand up, America! Donate whatever you can to help the people of Massachusetts shirk the bonds of liberalism, and in turn send the message that the rest of America won't stand for this bum rush toward socialism, communism, and oppression.
Original Post: http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/defeat-a-liberal-stop-obama-care-support-scott-brown-for-ma-senate/
The Hill newspaper has just broken the big news story that Barack Obama is heading to Massachusetts this weekend in a desperate attempt to save the Senate seat for the Democrats in this Tuesday's Special Election.
This comes as Democrats have just dumped MILLIONS of dollars more into the race. Check out these 24-hour filings from the FEC from Planned Parenthood, the League of Conservation Voters, and big unions:
- The very same rich, limousine liberals who complain that "rich" conservatives are funding this "right wing conspiracy" are themselves throwing MILLIONS of outside dollars into a local campaign. Mr. Brown has raised a fraction of what his liberal opponent has raised, and most has come from donations less than $100 each.
An email from Ted Kennedy's widow raised $600,000 for the Democrats. MoveOn.org raised another $650,000+. Harry Reid, Chris Dodd & Al Franken raised another $500,000. Democrat committees dumped in excess of $1 million.
You can see it for yourself in the report here:
- Limousine liberals struggling to keep their grasp on power.
The final deadlines for us to purchase advertising for Scott Brown for Senate is the end of the day Monday. This is it, there are no more tomorrow's - we must make our final push now!
You can make a contribution to our campaign effort for Scott Brown - HERE.
We must take action, for if we can pull out a victory, we stop the Democrats dead in their tracks in their effort to secretly ram through their socialistic healthcare plan.
That's because Scott Brown wholeheartedly opposes the Democrat's government-run healthcare plan and has made his opposition to it a central part of his campaign.
If Brown wins then he will be the deciding vote to kill the socialistic healthcare monstrosity in the Senate!
(WHEN he wins, don't let the tyrants in the senate delay is confirmation just so they can get their health care vote through!)
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