Obama has been campaigning with claims of “a bleak future” should he not be reelected. Obama himself is the single most central person responsible for why America is looking at a bleak future!
The black minority has begun clamoring for “economic equality.” So if those better off don’t just hand it over, they’ll expect government to step in and do it for them by stealing from the rest of us through taxes, money-printing inflation, and giveaway programs? Apparently we have something, they want it, and therefore have a right to it! Whatever happened to learning, sweating, and earning?
Warren Buffet cries that tax rates should be raised for the rich. Buffet may be smart with investments, but his politics are idiotic. Let him donate all he wants of his own free will; let others choose for themselves. The idea that those who have more should pay proportionately more is corrupt. Those who clamor for government to take from “the rich” and give to them are thieves. 10% of a $1 million is far more than 10% of $50,000. Taxes are percentages. The complete idea of higher tax rates as earnings rise has always been immoral.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can’t offer any real help for the economic slump that is killing the country, because central monetary control is a flawed concept. You can’t repair wild spending with more of the same or with interest rate manipulation. Such attempts fail outright or merely delay and intensify the consequences. The federal government doesn't suffer from inadequate income. The problem is too much spending. Cutting spending and cutting government are the only viable solutions to the economic mess.
BLAME GAME: The consummate liars at the White House are blaming the Tea Party movement for the failure to fix the debt crisis! The fact is that the Tea Party is why Washington even partially faced the music. The true failure was the White House and friends who refused to actually cut the debt enough to even keep the nation’s credit rating sound. Obama, et al will not give up monstrous government, monstrous debt, and the “blank check” mentality they use to buy votes; if they really cared about America more than political power, they would stop finger-pointing and get serious about what is good for the nation instead of making excuses. How to solve our financial problems is no secret: cut government drastically, balance the budget, pay off the debt, adhere to the Constitution, and be honest. Unfortunately, there appears to be little likelihood we’ll see any of that.
The U.S. economy, along with much of the world’s, is in trouble. Is any real adult surprised? The problem was caused by both parties, especially under Obama/Reid/Pelosi who tripled our debt beyond anything of the past (which their supporters continually ignore). People are crying “juveniles!” at Washington, but the solution can only come through those willing to bite the bullet and force us to swallow nasty medicine. Forget parties; if a politician supports cutting spending (hence, government) and refuses to raise taxes for more spending, that person deserves our support.
The President is waving sabers, daring GOP negotiators to call his “bluff” (recklessly admitting that it’s a bluff!) and threatening vetoes. Then he tacks on threats of government shutdowns, stopped SSA checks, welfare recipients starving, retirees being denied healthcare, and other such political nonsense. This arrogant socialist-in-chief wants total and unfettered power to continue destruction of the nation’s economy and our freedoms. His bluff should indeed be called.
Time Magazine has published an article questioning the relevance of the U.S. Constitution. Extreme, leftist news media do and will raise such anal arguments in their charge to “fundamentally” change the foundations upon which the nation was laid: those foundations are principles – principles of truth and freedom.
The CBO says the national debt will equal the annual GDP by 2020, a level that kills nations (like Greece, Spain, etc.). Yet there is zero indication from any of the spendthrift liberals and progressives in Washington of willingness to roll back the massive spending and debt imposed at triple-rate dimensions by Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al. Both parties have been guilty for many decades, but the reign of these even-more-irresponsible idiots is a nail in the coffin that will seal our economy’s doom if a distasteful dose of medicine isn't administered. Continual application of the bandaids of lies, pretence, and procrastination will only compound the eventual pain.
These days the national debt is expanding as more lives are placed at risk by continued military deployments, now including Yemen. Other spending continues unabated, and Americans feel the ever-tightening noose around freedom and our wallets. Yet millions continue to support the progressives, liberals, and free market haters, including the hater-in-chief, Barak Obama. The rest of us have to wonder about the viability of our survival.
Latest taxpaying figures report that 51% of American households pay no federal income taxes. This is an impossible situation. Those who pay nothing can never appreciate the freedoms the nation and its Constitution provide, and will willingly surrender freedom and destroy the nation’s prosperity – the greatest ever known – by voting for those who will continue to provide them free handouts by stealing and redistributing the fruits of the productive.
Just 6 pages of Obama’s healthcare bill (out of 907) have resulted in 429 pages of new HHS regulations! Can’t Americans see that government is killing them instead of saving them?
President Obama authorized American participation in the “no-fly” zone over Libya. And this from the leader of the progressive, liberal left where usually just criticism arises over sending our fighting men and women hither and yon around the world. Thus we add Libya, another spot on the map where we’re trying to police the world. And we’re a bankrupt country that doesn’t have enough money to afford our own defense budget!
Our socialist president, Barack Obama, has announced that the government will now start creating drugs because it’s taking too long to get them developed and to market! So never mind that the government is responsible in the first place for things taking too long – will the same idiots now create drugs faster?! But the larger problem is government taking over the drug industry. If that isn’t socialism and the best way to ruin the process of creating miracle drugs, what is?
Congress has passed, and Obama will sign, the “Tax” bill that is a monster of hypocrisy. Pretending to “cut” taxes that were raised too high in the first place, and then stuffing the bill with tons of pork mean just another nail in the economic coffin of the nation. The politicians and the system are simply out of control.
More regulatory stupidity: The new “Food Safety Act” is just another example of suffocating regulation by Washington and its fools who think they should be controlling everything in our lives. Too bad so many Americans have become mental wards of the state and thus silly enough to put up with this nonsense. What they don’t realize is that each of such nails in the coffin helps seal their eventual and fateful loss of freedom.
Meeting in 2010 at Jekyll Island, GA where the infamous Federal Reserve monster was secretly organized in 1910, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that all this debt monetizing is not inflationary, but merely a financial “tool.” We already know that Bernanke, who boldly testified in Congress that the recent insane spending would NOT be monetized, is a liar. Now he pretends that monetizing is not monetizing. Not only do the world’s financial leaders know better, but so does every person who actually goes to stores to buy things. Inflation is already up significantly, in spite of government’s crooked measuring stick and claims to the contrary.
Welcome to your new 20% tax hike!: The Fed announced it will buy another $600 billion dollars of our debt by mid-2011 - plus another $250 billion or so! This is more “monetizing” of the debt again. Doing it in ignorance would be one thing; but the people fomenting this insanity are attempting to retain political power rather than looking out for the nation and its citizens. That makes it not just stupid, but criminal. One major financial source says it will make every dollar we now own worth 20% less (if it even stops there). This is worse than the tax hikes Obamaites want by removing tax cuts.
Washington officially claims that our inflation rate is 1 percent. But they have changed the way they measure it, and don’t bother to explain that. If inflation were measured as it was in the early 1980s our inflation rate is really 10 percent! This is another example of the kinds of liars and prevaricators who run the nation. They played a similar word game, for example, when they took Social Security “off budget” to pretend it wasn’t part of the national debt any more. Sadly, the worst is that their dishonesty merely reflects that among citizens generally – which indicates the real depth of the trouble we’re in.
The so-called “One Nation” rally, sponsored by hundreds of leftwing radical organizations, unions, communists, socialists, progressives, and Marxists, and promoted by the Democratic party and Obama, was held in Washington at the end of September. But it drew something like one-fifth as many people (many bused in for a free meal) as the Glenn Beck rally of 8/28, which Beck organized himself. And what a difference – in content, behavior, interest, and the mess they left when it all ended. It was really an inconsequential “trash" event.
Fools everywhere are proclaiming the “success” of TARP. What nonsense. TARP was and is a failure for a number of reasons, among which are not least: 1) It was unconstitutional – where does the Constitution allow such expenditures, particularly by indebtedness?), 2) It was another major, reckless expenditure and also contributed to dangerous precedents, 3) It didn’t let failure be rewarded as it should have – what would have been an “ouch” now will likely turn out to be a much bigger “ouch” later, 4) It was evil and grossly unfair in favoring certain entities and sectors of the economy, 5) By what measurements used and by what logic can anyone really claim it “worked?”, 6) There is no assurance whatever that the money will still not be spent on something else by the reckless spendthrifts in Washington, 7) Do we know yet what the still badly ill economy will do in the midst of our overwhelming fiscal bankruptcy and the destruction of the free market system which continues at a wildfire pace?
It has been reported that the “healthcare” bill contains rules and regulations governing the ability of private citizens to buy and sell gold. No one seems to know yet – as with many of the provisions of this massive, disorderly, and sick piece of socialist legislation – exact details and specific effects. But why is that stuff in a “healthcare” bill anyway? It’s just another example of the despots who are behind the 2-year splurge of communistic, big-government, anti-freedom, heedless-debt-madness battle against freedom and our Constitution by imposters who no more should have power in America than some third-world dictator.
Bill Clinton claimed that the Republicans took 8 years to dig the hole we’re in and so America should give the current leaders 4 years to dig back out of it. What “Mr. Immoral” didn’t point out is that, in less than 2 years, the current powers jumped into the hole with a nuclear shovel that made the hole four times deeper!
Obama announced the latest plan to spend another $50 billion in fruitless efforts to “stimulate” the economy (read: try to salvage November elections). No matter the claims about sleight-of-hand methods to finance it, the bottom line is that all of us will pay for it; there is no free lunch, no magic way to create wealth. Obama is the most arrogant and dangerous president we have ever had – destroying the economy, our freedom, and rushing into collective devastation. Our nation has never suffered such freedom-killing and economic ruin in such a short time.
Monetization Arrives: During the wildest, economy-destroying, and most irresponsible spending spree in our history, Obama-ites and the Federal Reserve Chairman all promised that they would never “monetize” the insane debt they were knowingly, deliberately, and recklessly creating. (“Monetizing” the debt is a phony paperwork exercise where they “buy” the debt in the right pocket with promised money they don’t have – or simply print – in the left pocket, and thus pretend that the debt has been funded!) Now the Fed has announced that they are indeed monetizing debt, thus proving to be liars and irresponsible despots.
There is an absurd argument made in the illegal alien debate: The claim that what illegals do is nothing more than exceeding the speed limit by 5 or 10 MPH. That nonsense is a whitewash ignoring logic, fact, and reality. The laws are totally different, as are their effects. Minor speed violations are punished by a fine. The punishment for illegal border crossing is arrest and deportation - when it is enforced.
Much transpiring in Washington baffles many citizens because, having character, true Americans can’t understand that there are so many in Washington whose goal is to transform the country into a “progressive,” welfare, socialist state where they control everything. To reach their agenda they do anything. Power, control, and wealth are their goals. Take the illegal “immigration” debacle: most Americans want the border sealed and the laws enforced. Those in power do not because their goal is to change the balance of the electorate to stay in power. What happens to America is irrelevant to them. They have burdened us with massive and madly irresponsible debt, crammed healthcare, financial “control,” and a raft of unconstitutional legislation down our throats to gain power – freedom, the Constitution, and the nation be dammed.
Recently some concern arose about tax changes in a bill, but even after it passed no one seemed sure what the changes might be—another example of the current malfeasance in Washington combined with deliberate obfuscation which have led to a crisis threatening to destroy the legislative process altogether. Bills so large no one knows what’s in them, passed without being read or understood, deliberately filled with broad measures and the unknown—all such take away the power of Congress and pass it to bureaucrats, the executive branch, and the courts. It amounts to murder of the republic’s Constitutional form of government. Yet while things crumble around us there are millions asleep, even praising the traitors and crooks intentionally railroading us into a socialistic totalitarianism.
There’s a big buzz going around over a report of massive growth of security agencies, offices, and installations around the nation since 9/11. Why should that surprise anyone? Logic 101 and Experience 101 teach anyone with an IQ over 40 that this is what happens with government. Look at all the other departments of government! The Founders took great pains in their attempts to limit government for these very reasons. Obama, leftists, progressives, socialists, et al – who continually ignore the simple logic and lessons of history are destroying America as a result; they don’t care about America but are concerned with power and wealth. Government is a parasitic operation: it does not create wealth but sucks it from the productive sectors of society. Guess what happens when a parasite grows bigger than its host? The host DIES.
KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE: Obama, progressives, and liberals decrying the free market system deny the goose which created the wealth and economy they now rush headlong to best one another in destroying. Their socialistic drivel, anti-market blather, and miscued slogans ignore reality. Will it be too late by the time everyone recognizes their insane folly?
Today the financial “reform” bill passed – another millstone around the economy, loaded with all kinds of garbage having nothing to do with financial reform. This is another sledgehammer blow to American, freedom, and prosperity. The tyrant Chavez of Venezuela was right for once: America is more and more a totalitarian state.
The federal government has announced that abortions are now being funding under the new healthcare legislation – this after the President earlier accused others of lying (“bearing false witness” was his phraseology) that the then pending healthcare bill would fund abortions. All his promises are now lies, and his executive order seems all forgotten.
As of July, 2010 – barely half way through the year - the federal budget has already reached $1 trillion! And the idiots keep on spending....
The “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act” hit will soon hit the House floor. This disastrous tar-ball of legislation would open up unionism to government employees and further submarine the nation’s economic health (what’s left of it). The fools in power are driving stakes into the heart of America and destroying our nation. How long will the public stand for it?
The House did a “Deem and Pass” exercise to approve a budget of over $1 trillion. So without presentation, debate, or openness, the insane leaders in power today can now continue to spend crazily for 2011.
Our leftist, progressive-led Congress (the House, specifically) is refusing to pass the annual budget resolution. The fact is that Obama and his cronies are afraid to do anything that helps reveal the atrocious cliff we've over which they've pushed the nation by their insane and irresponsible spending. Now their irresponsible, lying, hidden-agenda leadership is simply making the awful situation yet worse.
Ron Paul is right: Obama is taking heat he doesn’t deserve on the BP oil leak problem. But true to form, Obama is grabbing the event to begin cramming more control government down our throats. What Americans should really be concerned about is his destruction of the nation’s freedoms and economy with violent spending and massively-bigger government.
Our prince of arrogance Barak Obama says he wants a group of experts to tell him “Whose ___ to kick!” Since when does a president think he has that kind of power or assignment? The man should be hounded out of office.
Most Americans don’t really understand what the spendthrifts in Washington – both parties – have done to our country while we’ve been asleep at the wheel. Even if you ignore the actual current tax load and you take into account the unfunded liabilities the nation has racked up, each family of four owes $1.3 million dollars! That’s the kind of irresponsibility that destroys governments, economies, and nations.
The proposed finance “reform” bill is another massive movement into socialism. It would give unprecedented power to the government. Private property would further become history in that the treasury secretary could simply take over financial concerns of all kinds, regulate them, and otherwise govern them without so much as a court hearing. Deepening of the morass of Freddie and Fannie and other onerous centralization would occur. Such power is tyranny, not regulation. That America would ever reach the kind of stages of central takeover seen since Obama took office is astounding. Where are the citizens who love freedom?
At a public microphone, Nancy Pelosi openly promoted the idea that you can quit your job to pursue your dreams, because under the new healthcare bill your fellow citizens will be paying for the healthcare you will now still have! If she isn’t a mindless twit, she certainly sounds like one – and is indicative of the depth of the serious problem with elected officials in Washington.
Obama says he “won’t tolerate” further objectionable behavior by oil companies and their executives. Wow! Since when does he become the one to make such claims? Is he now king, or god? If he had even sufficient humility to say “America will not tolerate” the behavior that would be a little more palatable. Obama reveals how arrogant he is. This kind of arrogance infects the worst kinds of demagogues, which is why he is a bad and dangerous person to have leading the nation.
The Democrats have refused to put forth a budget for 2011 – something normally is due in April. The problem is they don’t have a budget, can’t pass one, and can’t control ruinous spending.
The CBO now says the Health Care debacle will cost yet another $115 billion more than they formerly estimated. My, what a surprise!
The 2010 April deficit was over $80 billion – over 4 times that of April in 2009! If this is the kind of “change” and transformation Americans want – they’ll deserve what they get.
CRY OF DESPOTS: Obama and his cronies are whining that there is danger in the "information" available on the Media, Internet, and other sources. This is something despots typically do because they fear losing power. Patriots don't make such claims because they serve by the public's choice and if the public doesn't want them anymore that's their option. If the public believes falsehoods or truth, to honest people it doesn't become a matter of seeking control and power to promote their own selfish interests.
Obama is threatening freedom of speech and political discourse again, claiming that those who don’t like big government might incite violence. That is how left-wing socialist extremists work: they bloat government, destroying freedom as they go, and then smear those who speak out against them as being dangerous. Obama said “government is us” but that doesn’t include most Americans, who prefer George Washington’s description: government is a necessary evil. And most prefer the Founders’ intentions as reflected in our Constitution – to limit government and keep it as small as possible. Obama and his socialist cronies want the opposite – government as big as possible.
Obama’s “Debt Commission” won’t be revealing what, if anything, they will recommend until after the November elections. Hmmm – small wonder.
General Motors is proclaiming that it has repaid the “loan” the government stole from taxpayers and gave to them - an outrageous lie. They have paid only $6 or $7 billion, and the rest (the other 90% or so) is being forgotten, along with the interest. And guess how they’re “repaying?” With TARP money!
Obama-ites are laying a carefully-painted groundwork of blame on those who disagree with them as extremists and fomenters of “sedition.” Hmmm…why didn’t we hear all these concerns back in the days of the Bush administration, when Hillary and their other ilk decried opponents in language that caused civilized people to blush?
Obama and progressives are again dismissing Tea Party protests with claims that taxes went down in the past year for some – more disingenuous liberal stupidity. All the legislation passed will result in rising taxes, and crazy, insane spending is bankrupting us at breakneck speed. They just won’t face the facts that people don’t like what they’re doing.
Talk of a VAT, or “Value Added Tax,” grows wildly. Overlooking the insanity of the VAT (and it actually has one small advantage in that everyone suffers equally), along with many other tax issues it misses the whole point: Our problems can only be solved by CUTTING SPENDING! Tax or no, the real issue is OVERSPENDING. We must CUT SPENDING! End of sentence, end of paragraph, and end of Republic if we don’t.
The latest report is that 47% of all American households pay no income taxes. No country will survive as free when half of the people don’t pay for the privilege.
SAD DAY: Sunday, March 21st was disastrous for our nation. One of the largest steps into socialism was voted in by Congress. Liars who have hastened to inflict unconstitutional government upon us have stood and hypocritically quoted famous words from our history even as they continue destroying it as fast as they can for their own power and control. Watching and hearing them gags true Americans.
The progressives and liberals bought off two California congressmen by suddenly announcing that water in their districts of the California delta would have their water turned back on; it had been shut off due to eco-freaks and court rulings. Mysteriously, these two congressmen were “swing vote” house members whose votes Obama and his cronies wanted and were willing to bribe to obtain.
The government has begun more borrowing in order to pay off Social Security IOUs. Most Americans weren’t even aware they had been formally issued. Most seemed even unaware that a lying Congress had been borrowing against Social Security funds for decades. This ominous news further illuminates the perilous financial situation the nation faces from reckless overspending by all parties - especially since Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.
The administration insists on defending Obama’s State-of-the-Union insults to Supreme Court justices over their campaign finance ruling which reestablished freedom of speech for corporations. If only the court would declare the rest of the country deserving of the same privileges! The whole McCain-Feingold abomination was unconstitutional in the first place. In reality it was intended to assure keeping those in power elected. Yet the White House says the court’s ruling is a danger to liberty? That kind of upside-down lying is what we typically hear from the likes of Hugo Chavez, Putin, Castro, etc.
Hard Truth: 60% of American households receive more government services and benefits, measured in dollars, than they return in taxes! Obama’s first year budget raises that to 70% all by itself. Adding the “Health Care“ insanity will drive us even faster than ever to bankruptcy.
Hypocrite-in-Chief: Just 5 years ago under Bush, then-senator Barak Obama whined “A vehicle designed for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked to facilitate reckless deficits and unsustainable debt.” Not only are the Dems gearing up to ram their health care bill through with that same vehicle but the hypocrisy of this most reckless and unsustainable spender we’ve ever had is appalling.
MORE ON AGW SCAM: The UK's Daily Telegraph reports that among other intentional scare tactic claims in the U.N.'s IPCC 2007 report, "[T]he notorious ‘hockey stick’ graph purporting to show that in the late 20th century, temperatures had been hurtling up to unprecedented levels...had been exposed as no more than a statistical illusion…The reputation of the IPCC is in shreds…to say nothing of the personal reputation of the man who was the mastermind of its 2007 report, its chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri. [T]his newspaper...first revealed how Pachauri has earned millions…for his Delhi-based research institute Teri, and…how he has parlayed his position into a worldwide business empire...The new global ‘carbon trading’ market, already worth $126 billion a year, could soon be worth trillions. Governments...are calling for hundreds of billions more to be chucked into absurd ‘carbon-saving’ energy schemes, with the cost to be met by all of us….”
Duhhh: Even politicians are complaining about the “bitter partisanship” they see these days, but they just don’t get it. The rancor has nothing to do with parties. We’re getting “transformed” – by Republicans and Democrats. Call it blue or red, progressive or socialist. Out-of-control government, monstrous debt, destroying our free-market economic system, and trampling the Constitution by idiots and traitors to it in Washington is making us slaves to the state and we’re not happy about it!
Obama wants to create another federal agency. His proposed “Climate Service” will doubtless be dedicated to shoving climate change, cap-and-trade, etc. down our throats. Just what we need – more government spending when we should be eliminating a bunch of worthless federal agencies.
Upon news of government’s likely paying up to 50% of American healthcare costs next year through Medicare and Medicaid - progressives, liberals, and socialists are suggesting “Why the fuss” over the Obamacare legislation? That’s like “Since you already have polio, why are you complaining about the cancer we’re trying to shove down your throats?”
Obama promises to continue working on healthcare – what a surprise. The problems and answers really are simple, but Obama and his minions will mess it up. First, there is no “right” to healthcare. Second, the Constitution gives no power to government to provide or require healthcare. Third, there is no way to provide universal government healthcare without either A) bankrupting the country, or B) cutting back and rationing services. Those are realities that Obama, liberals, progressives, socialists, and politicians in general (who would sell their mothers for votes) refuse to face. The free market isn’t perfect but it’s the most efficient process we have. When government gets involved everything heads south in efficiency, cost, and fairness. In fact, government healthcare has long been infecting healthcare. The current administration and controlling political initiatives are only going to massively accelerate the decline and cut the heart out of what is the world’s best healthcare system.
Obama has proposed an unholy budget that buries America in economic slavery: a $3.8 trillion monster that not only imposes insane debt now but mortgages the future of the nation’s children and grandchildren. Such fiscal irresponsibility warrants impeachment.
The president with the lowest one-year approval rating in history proposes to give away almost-free college educations! To get them, all graduates have to do is work for the government! Just what we need – more inefficient government to suck away the productive sectors of society, more progressive/socialist lunacy to destroy the nation.
An insane and lopsided Washington voted to raise the debt ceiling by almost $3 TRILLION (2.9) dollars, to over $14 Trillion. And they don’t even consider the long-term debt total which is now beyond $100 Trillion!
The Supreme Court - if one assumes it really has any right to pronounce what is Constitutional – actually stepped up to the plate for once in defense of freedom and removed a chunk of the restrictions on freedom of speech imposed by the completely unconstitutional “Campaign Reform Act.” (And are progressives and socialists howling!) Now if we could just dissolve the whole thing altogether, along with the complete farcical FEC bureaucracy.
Obama blames the game-changing Democratic Party loss in Massachusetts on the Bush Administration! So Massachusetts voters are so angry at Bush that they voted for a Republican? Either this man is an arrogant, prevaricating worm or he thinks all the rest of us are as dumb as a fence post.
Big flag missed: There was a rally in the financial markets at the news of Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. Why such impact from one simple Senate race results? Because it indicates a chance for some sort of brake on the absolute madness and destruction occurring in Congress. This simple indicator speaks volumes about Obama and his cronies.
“OBAMALOANS”?: Obama wants to nationalize the student loan business. Here we go some more – progressives, socialists, and fools trying to destroy the free enterprise system, when government shouldn’t even be in the education business in the first place.
In spite of the deep implications of Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, White House administration spokesmen, such as David Axelrod, claim that failing to push healthcare legislation forward would only cause health care to get worse? Strange. The American healthcare system is the best in the world, and continues it age-old progress will continually improve so long as government keeps out of it!
The progressives, leftists, and socialists think the system is good if it works to their advantage - but if it allows blocking their anti-American, big-government, socialism schemes then it’s bad. Barney Frank, a prime screwball for all the insane government growth, corruption, and spending, says the Constitution and Senate rules need to be changed to eliminate filibustering since it may preclude the ongoing liberal train wreck. You can be dead certain he wouldn’t be making any such complaints if the shoe were on the other foot.
To obtain union support for Obamacare, the administration and its congressional cronies, again working in secrecy, sold out America anew by making a “deal” with labor unions whereby union-negotiated benefits are exempt from the pending 40% taxes of quality healthcare plans for most of the coming decade. Vote-buying attempts to extend this exemption will doubtless occur in the future. The rest of us will pay this blatant $60 billion bribe which exposes more of the appalling corruption that exists in the White House and the majority party.
Obama has nominated a former FBI agent to head of the TSA who illegally used his access privileges to purge information on his ex-wife’s boyfriend. This is typical of Obama’s lame nominations of people unable to abide by law and good morals. Unfortunately, these episodes are also vivid revelations of the bad character of Obama himself – a man unfit to lead the nation.
In spite of many campaign promises of “transparency” and that the healthcare debate would be open, public, and televised, in fact the whole healthcare debacle has mostly taken place behind the scenes away from the press and the public, and quite largely in secret. (When asked about it, Nancy Pelosi laughed stupidly while openly admitting that total mis-belief in keeping campaign promises anyway.) Obama has announced that he will now keep his promises by allowing C-Span to televise one whole hour of the debate! This administration and the current group of scoundrels in Washington are the greatest batch of liars we’ve ever collectively had.
During another "midnight maneuver" amidst the holidays when the press was largely on vacation, congress declared “unlimited” help for Fannie and Freddie – further killing the free market, deepening the eventual pain, and hastening the inescapable demise of the housing market with all the added financial torture that implies. Whether sneaky or blatant, these traitors to the Constitution lead the way in destroying American prosperity.
Obama claims the health bill will the greatest deficit reduction legislation of the century? The king of debt and fiscal irresponsibility claims that his health initiatives will help federal deficits! Of course, he failed to mention the ruination of the best healthcare system in the world.
Former Democrat Congressman Parker Griffith of Alabama announced his switch to the Republican Party, saying he could no longer align himself "with a party that…is bad for our country…and drives us further and further into debt.” The man deserves commendation for his courage. Too bad there are not more of such elected men or women in Washington with the spine to stand up for their nation.
A judge has ruled that Congress’ cutoff of funding for the corrupt ACORN organization is lack of “due process.” There is nothing that requires so-called “due process” in giving of taxpayer money to corrupt organizations. The legal system has again exposed itself as a process of “due stupidity.”
Since the legislators in South Carolina don’t have the guts to impeach their immoral governor, hopefully the voters will redeem the state’s honor at election time. Even ignoring Sanford’s other disgusting behavior, “misuse of funds” is stealing and results in jail time for others.
Obama says he’ll “work with anyone” to fix the economy? How about working with America’s citizens to stop spending the nation into bankruptcy, leave the free market alone, and get government out of our lives so that the economy can actually recover!
The latest Rasmussen poll shows that 71% of Americans are angry at the federal government. But does that seem to bother the idiots now in control?
Obama's approval rating is now down to 47% - the lowest any president's has been at this point in a presidency since Harry Truman.
On December 8th President Obama openly announced that we must “spend our way out of this recession” (you know, the one that was caused by reckless overspending and speculation)! With that kind of idiotic thinking, no wonder the country’s is in such disastrous straits. Meanwhile he proposes to use $200 billion that we never had, and which was already “spent” once for “stimulus” reasons but now is coming back and by law is supposed to be used for deficit reduction – for more spending!
On the opening day of Copenhagen and in another baldly unconstitutional ploy by government bureaucrats and eco-freaks, the EPA announced that it considers carbon emissions an “endangerment” to human health and intends to now regulate them. This move has the potential to become one of the great dangers to the once free government of the United States.
The plan for cramming healthcare down the throats of America appears quite clearly to have been written by a convicted felon, Robert Creamer, a White House confidant and operative from the Illinois political machine. Obama and other “progressives” in Washington have followed the plan of Creamer’s prison-penned book in how to ram through the destruction of free-enterprise healthcare almost to a "T."
A mere 35% of Americans favor the current proposed healthcare reform, a number that doesn’t even surpass once-upon-a-time “Hillary-care” which died an ignoble death years ago. But the un-American, power-seeking crooks in Washington don’t care; they have an agenda, they’re going to force it through, and America and free-enterprise (and freedom with it) be damned.
Railroaded efforts continue by those bent on destroying America as we know it. So-called “healthcare reform,” “Cap and Trade,” “stimulus” plans, and the like blast us into ever more and tyrannical government. As George Washington said at the outset, government is not benevolence, but FORCE . Obama works on the premise that “Government is the solution” whereas Reagan truly described it: “Government is the problem.” Congress is corrupt. Personal responsibility dies daily. For decades we have been pushed down the road to bigger government. Now we are rushing pell-mell into such malignant stupidity.
Wavering Senator Mary Landrieu was bribed to vote for opening of debate on the Senate floor – to the tune of $300 Million dollars for her home state of Louisiana. Without her vote the debate could have been stalled.
Even the White House has announced that to support ongoing deficits, it will cost over $700 billion annually by 2019.
The national debt—not even counting interest—couldn’t be repaid if we took the entire income of the Fortune 500 for the next 144 years! But do you hear Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank and/or any of dozens of others "progressives" and spendthrift Washington screwballs expressing real concern?
In October the unemployment rate officially topped 10%, the highest it has ever been for almost 30 years, since the 1983 recession. Yet the left and Washington politicians are still claiming that they have saved the situation!
Thousands marched (again), peacefully (again), in Washington DC in a call to “Kill the Bill” – the proposed healthcare bills. Most Americans simply don’t want government getting any further involved in healthcare. Will the elected idiots pay any attention, or simply continue bulldozing freedom?
Copenhagen Approaches: The “climate” panel of the UN, main impetus of the “global warming” hubbub, was established and structured by design of a so-called scientist who really aimed for a political panel - and succeeded handsomely. Meanwhile the U.N., a mostly fruitless organization funded mainly by the U.S., has worked against U.S. interests from the beginning of its existence, rather like a rebellious child harming foolish parents who continue paying a ridiculously-high allowance for such extortion. The large majority of U.N. member countries are sponges (like many on welfare in the U.S.) who wish to “redistribute” wealth from the U.S. to themselves. To assuage long term fears that the U.S. might someday cease subsidizing this sinkhole of worthless internationalist nonsense and to fund their constant march toward dominance (meaning undermining U.S. sovereignty among other things), their latest vehicle is environmental alarmism – the bogus “science” of so-called global warming. Primarily the U.S. will be taxed by the proposed treaty and that money appropriated to control of the U.N. Americans must prevent signing of the ridiculous Copenhagen treaty by Obama, and in any case assure rejection of this nonsense by the Senate who must ratify any such treaty.
Barack Obama plainly stated in a 2001 public interview that "Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties." If a president of the country feels like that it’s no wonder we're in such trouble!
The White House tried to exclude Fox News from the White House Press Corps. The rest of the networks rebelled, causing the administration to back down. This is an example of heavy-handed goonsmanship practiced by tyrants and an attack on Freedom of the Press.
Nancy Pelosi is spouting off that the proposed Healthcare bill costs “under $900,000,000.00!” What kind of sick minds brag about something costing almost a trillion dollars?! It is truly a tragedy when such insanity takes root and is openly boasted.
The FCC is “voting” upon our freedom of speech rights on the internet – in reality just another thinly-veiled attempt to impose government control over the Internet and the content allowed on it. When will Americans wake up and throw out all the “progressives,” socialists, marxists, and tyrannical thugs in power today?
The powers in Washington claim that their new healthcare legislation will not expand the deficit. Who are they kidding? The only way it won't - assuming they can even keep that promise, which is doubtful - is by making the rest of us pay for it. And that is exactly what they have in mind. Insurance will go up, up, UP and all those except the "poor" will pay for it. That's the same bottom line as raising taxes or expanding the deficit! The liars, skunks, and maneuvering weasels are fast at work.
The White House now says Fox News is just like any other “enemy.” Huh? They just can’t stand someone reporting from a more neutral aspect (polls show that Americans actually do trust Fox for a more balanced view than other networks or cable broadcasters), or asking real questions. That sends a very large message to everyone in this country and abroad about how crass and crazy our current leadership is.
Tell us it’s JOKE: Obama is receiving a Nobel Prize? For what? If they award one to a leader for socializing and destroying his country's freedom and system of government, mortgaging its future, and trashing it worldwide, then the Nobel System has trivialized itself into meaningless irrelevance.
The House added a massive expansion of hate-crimes legislation to a military funding bill. It was under-the-table and unscrupulous, and the expansion is unconstitutional. Will Americans wake up enough to keep these big brother socialists from killing off freedom?
The CBO (non-partisan Congressional Budget Office) reported the 2009 Federal government deficit will be $1.4 trillion, three times the deficit of 2008! Do enough Americans care about our future being sold down the river to stop the madness by the insane bunch currently in control in Washington?
Retired law professor Michael Connelly gives healthy input on the unhealthy, unconstitutional approach of proposed healthcare legislation. Read what this Constitutional scholar says.
Obama’s U.N. speech is disturbing both for its naiveté and implications of serious foreign policy course corrections, and follows his reckless abandonment of the eastern Europe missile shield.
Obama’s claim to have been unaware of ACORN receiving significant federal funds is so absurd as to strain credulity. “You lie” comes to mind.
The White House blatantly issued what is aptly termed a “gag order” to health insurers who lobby their customers on healthcare reform contrary to the administration’s political goals – an order which abuses power as well as transgresses free speech.
So Obama is abandoning our allies in Europe and leaving us less defended than ever by dumping missile shield deployment over there. That’s just what our enemies want us to do. Unfortunately, our worst enemies are right here in America, and the biggest one is the president himself.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s claims that Rep. Wilson and other detractors who don’t like the liberals’ healthcare plans are “racist” is so ridiculous that even the White House doesn’t believe them. Carter should retreat back into forgotten retirement.
Now there are four publicized tapes of undercover reporters getting advice from knowing ACORN workers to circumvent laws and regulations, and to perpetrate immoral acts. How long will it take before crooked leftists who have utilized this organization of thugs and it sister-in-crime, SEIU, to be trumped by demands for serious investigations and cutoff of taxpayer funds from such insults to decency and freedom?
A great many thousands – some say over a million – in any event it was a great many people, marched in Washington on 9/12/2009. The administration and leftists simply dismissed them with disdain. The mainstream media mostly ignored them and offered minimal mention. It seems many hope ignoring the massive millions of Americans not in favor of turning our republic into a socialist welfare state will somehow make them go away.
Obama has announced that he is a “believer in the free market” and that we should “not disparage wealth.” It’s hard to believe the man when he’s spent us into heavier socialism that any president in history, has engineered takeover of private industries as never before, and who surrounds himself with socialist and Marxist radicals. His new evangelism can only be considered hollow rhetoric until his actions prove otherwise.
“Tens of Thousands” was the sort of media terminology used to describe the numbers who marched in Washington on 9/12 against Obama, socialist liberalism, big government, insane spending, and healthcare reform. It was amazing. There were numerous local protests the same day. Yet those who favor the current big-government collectivist steamroller are already attempting to trivialize the marchers and protests. They have advanced loud dialogue, impatience, and speaking out when it supported their ideologies but suddenly belittle and critcize others who do the same.
One ignoramus wrote a letter to the editor of his local newspaper with this sappy sentiment: “The United States is the only advanced nation that does not have universal health care and responsible gun control.” Holy cow! The poor soul doesn’t recognize the signs of FREEDOM. The newspaper who considered it the “Letter of the Week” suffers from similar idiocy. They should be rejoicing rather than lamenting America, the hope of the free world.
Obama’s campaign “Organizing for America” entity removed a statement from its website accusing those who politically disagree with him of being “terrorists.” The burning question is why these kinds of things occur in the first place? The burning answer is: Obama is a radical president who has politically grown up and surrounded himself with radicals and extremists, and one whose vision of America doesn’t coincide with our Constitution and the hearts and minds of Americans!
ACORN "disconnected" from Census: The announcement that this thug-ridden organization (which has almost $6 billion coming from the stimulus package) is no longer connected with the Census amounts to another small though welcome victory. Now, is the Census still under White House jurisdiction? Meanwhile a second undercover tape has been published showing two more ACORN housing officials giving dishonest and illegal advice to potential housing applicants openly posing as a prostitution operation - to help them fraudulently obtain a housing loan. Among additional things, ACORN is being prosecuted for voter fraud in some 16 states. No one but Obama and friends can avoid the conclusion that this is a corrupt and evil organization. Why isn’t ACORN being investigated and cut off from public funding?
Obama and fools assisting him in Congress have run up more debt in 8 months than all previous administrations combined! Yet the continually blame their debt problems on prior elected officials?
Cass Sunstein got approved in the Senate as head of the Office of Regulatory Affairs - an enormously powerful post - through invocation of the cloture rule to overcome objection to his vote by senators. Sunstein, usually described as "thoughtful" rather than as an extremist, basically considers the second amendment as legally unsupportable, rates humans as no more important than animals, believes animals should have the right to sue in court and have attorneys to represent them, and that animal suffering rises to the same level as human slavery and human extinction. Wait a minute – if someone believes such things, isn't that the definition of an extremist?
Whither the economy? Consumer borrowing dropped by over $21 billion since July. “Economists” had been predicting a mere $4 billion drop! The drop is intrinsically good because most Americans as well as their government embrace insane debt. But it should make us skeptical of the claims of “economists” about what the “stimulus” and crazy spending will supposedly do to keep things out of the toilet.
One Small Victory: The White House announced the resignation of Van Jones, one of the worst radicals in the administration. That’s one small step for America, but we must remember that Obama knew Jones well, and the woman (also from the old Chicago political machinery) who is his closest personal adviser knew Jones well and touted him as a person whom they had been watching, about whom they were impressed, and as a marvelous addition to the administration’s team. Jones was only dumped because he engaged in extremist hate speech confirming what his detractors had said; no one, least of all Jones, has disavowed his radicalism and anti-American agenda. And interestingly, the liberal media failed to even mention Jones’ recent proud public claim of being a communist. DANGERS: While this is a victory, there are associated dangers: 1) Will the more radical side of the administration now simply become more muted, go "underground?" 2) There are numerous anti-American extremists among the czars, appointees, bureaucrats, and associates of this radical president – to say nothing of the man himself who must hate our constitutional republic because he is so bent on “fundamentally transforming” it. Pressure must continue, resistance must be applied at every turn, every opportunity to disclose the truth must be taken, until his disastrous cronies are gone and until Obama himself is out of office.
David Horowitz, now a national conservative figure, was a child of two card-carrying communist parents, past communist himself, and 60’s radical who changed upon slowly realizing the follies of such radicalism. Horowitz is one of the most knowledgeable sources in American to explain what is really happening in the radical world of people like George Soros, Van Jones, The Center for American Progress, and similar parties with their ACORN, SEIU, and so-called “worker” collusions. Horowitz points out that these people are not just liberals in the sense of long-time Democratic Party idealism, but radicals in the truest sense of the word – people with an agenda who are bent on destroying America as we know it. And Horowitz, who should know, points out that Barak Obama has that same agenda. Didn’t Obama publicly and powerfully proclaim his goal of “fundamentally transforming The United States of America!”? So many of the president’s associates, czars, advisers, and connections consist of old SDS, socialist, and communist radical figures and organizations that anyone willing to examine the facts can’t rationally deny his roots and real goals. It’s time for true and patriotic Democratic Party members wake up and realize that their party – and our country – has been hijacked by radicals who believe in socialism, communism, power, and government control of everything possible. Where are their hearts - on politics and power, or America and freedom?
There is a flap over Obama’s scheduled televised speech to schoolchildren. The administration has made light of the honest concerns of a great many American parents – a disturbing trend among both the administration and many other liberals in Washington. Do they think belittling critics will make them go away? Or are they just so arrogant that they ignorantly and dangerously dismiss the protests? Obama has shown such disregard for the principles of American freedom and the Constitution and been proven to have engaged in so many underhanded undertakings and so much dishonest propaganda that even if he does nothing more than encourage children to gain an education, many parents don’t even want him appearing before their children as some sort of respected or authoritative figure – even if he is the president.
Texas Representative John Carter has described how Pelosi and her majority have been ramming bills through the House. At mid-July this year Carter’s list of major bills rammed through ignoring the 3-days’ notice rule, without dissenting debate, on a an emergency basis, "before the public has time to learn what is actually in the bills," included:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“Stimulus”)
Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization (“SCHIP”)
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009
AIG Bonus Tax Act
Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009
The American Clean Energy and Security Act/National Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax
What's next? How long will Americans put up with such tyranny?
Another Nail in Free Speech? Two senators introduced a bill in April that would allow the President to shut private users off the Internet whenever he decided it was necessary! A version being revised says companies must provide information on their networking, and “shall” comply with requests for that information. This on top of the nutcake in the FCC who wants to do away with private broadcasting?
Appliance “Clunkers”? Another “Clunkers” program is rumored to be in the works. This one is supposedly for appliances, and would be just as unconstitutional, immoral, and unfair as the one for cars. As with cars, government force would be applied to rob all of us Peters to pay selected and favored Pauls. One definitely suspects GE as looking forward to such a windfall, since GE is now in bed with the government on a big-time basis.
The Obama administration has revealed that the budget deficit is now expected to be $2 trillion higher over the next decade than they expected! Well, what’s another couple of trillion one way or another? These excesses are a result of runaway government and immoral, irresponsible spending by the White House and Congress. The saddest part of this debacle is that there is no escaping the resultant, awful negative consequences that will impact the nation and its monetary systems.
The NEA, largest teacher union in the country, is complaining about Obama’s reliance upon charter schools and testing. That is interesting since the corrupt union usually supports leftist, progressive, and socialist bureaucrats. But the real problem is in anyone clamoring for the government to “fix” education. The federal government has no business meddling in education in the first place; that’s just another of the unconstitutional, socialist trends that have grown out of Washington’s big-government corruption.
Washington announced that the U.S. is giving $2 billion to Brazil’s state-owned oil company for offshore drilling. This from an administration which denounces offshore drilling around America’s coasts? What hypocrisy. And is such an expenditure actually authorized anywhere by the Constitution or constitutionally-sanctioned legislation? It’s more than a little suspicious that the largest hedge fund holding of billionaire George Soros (big Obama supporter) is that very Brazilian energy firm.
Clunker Program Prematurely Ended: The government announced that the “Cash For Clunkers” program will end on Monday, Aug. 24th – an early demise. Since the program was unconstitutional and purely stupid anyway, ending it is at least a small benefit for citizens. The car company which most benefited from the program was Toyota, not any American automakers.
MT Town Hall Staged: A local family from Montana reported that the Belgrade, MT healthcare Town Hall meeting was pre-planned by the White House and there was nothing “town hall” about it. Participants were pre-picked and all questions were required to be submitted in writing, in advance. Protesters were not allowed near the airport hangar or the major press where the meeting was held, 900 of 1500 tickets “disappeared” under control of the White House, non-local SEIU thugs were bused in to intimidate protesters. It was a misleading, manufactured publicity stunt which did not really represent Montana or Americans in general.
More Attacks on Free Speech: Obama has engineered the placement of one of his cronies as “Chief Diversity” officer at the FCC, a new czar-like office. Mark Lloyd, a leftwing nut who fully embraces Marxist-socialist doctrines, proposes to destroy conservative-dominated private radio – because the administration and liberals in congress hate it – by forcing private stations to pay an annual tax equal to their total yearly operating budgets to the FCC, who will then use the money to fund “public” broadcasting, like PBS. PBS? Isn’t that the socialistic, government-paid broadcasting system that’s unconstitutional to begin with? BTW, the reason conservatives “dominate” the radio waves is not because there’s any conspiracy, favoritism, or government sponsorship, but because people listen to it enough that advertisers will pay for it! That’s known as “free market,” v. the tyranny of liberal and Obama-favored socialism.
At a Town Hall Meeting in Houston, a Texas Obama Delegate falsely claimed to be a pediatrician and then phrased a question just the way the administration would want. How much of this kind of thing is going on?
Ben Bernanke told Congress in June that he would not monetize the debt. In August the Treasury Department sold a ton of bonds to help finance the skyrocketing deficit, and 10 days later the Federal Reserve bought back 47% of the bonds with newly-printed money – monetizing it! Not only is this a direct contradiction of Bernanke’s promise, but it smells suspiciously like the buy-back was arranged in advance. Meanwhile, many Americans don’t understand that while the Fed and government officials claim they don’t want inflation, in fact inflation is a “treasured” occurrence in government because it means there are automatically more tax dollars that flow into federal coffers – thus helping out insane spending and debt. This is part of the whole picture, which is completed by Treasury Secretary Geitner’s just-issued request to Congress for a raise in the legal U.S. debt ceiling.
Out w/Pelosi? Coming from someone like Camille Paglia, noted liberal and Democrat, a call to send Pelosi packing is a watershed ('Obama's Healthcare Horror' on Salon.com). Paglia says Pelosi has “gone off the deep end,” and “She is doing grievous damage to the party...”
Healthcare: A provision in the proposed healthcare legislation that requires the government’s “Healthcare ID Card” to have personal bank account information access has been uncovered. Isn’t it interesting that such things keep appearing and no one behind the legislation mentions them until they’re forced to respond by publicity or outcry? The problem of government healthcare is government; government needs to get out of healthcare altogether. Medicare and Medicaid are in trouble because they’re government programs – and they should be phased out.
Obama's Phony Town Hall: The president held a Town Hall Meeting on healthcare in New Hampshire, but it was obviously programmed, with pre-screened citizens asking questions worded just the way the president wanted and pushing his agenda. Obama openly lied, saying that he didn’t claim to be “a supporter of single-payer” in spite of publicly saying just that as a senator. Frankly, the meeting was a political joke – but of no humor for the American people who don’t want what’s being shoved down their throats. There is a serious disconnect here. The people now in power in Washington do not see themselves are elected representatives to server the people, but rather as rulers.
The White House, Democrats, liberals, and unions have “organized” to ask for help against ordinary but contrary citizens at town hall meetings (whom they claim are “organized” against them, although they have presented no proof to back up those claims). The SEIU responded, beating up a peaceful citizen at a St. Louis town hall meeting who was distributing literature that disagreed with the Administration’s agenda. SEIU “purple shirts” thugs have been compared to Hitler’s “brown shirt” thugs, a label some have decried. But so far as thuggery goes, if you hire thugs to inflict your ideas and shut up your opponents by force, is there really a difference?
The insanity of government healthcare: Britain’s government-run healthcare is that nation's largest budget item, the 3rd largest employer in the world – and over half of those employees are administrators! (And the nuts in Washington place major blame on insurers and whine about insurance costs of healthcare?) Heaven help us if our system, the best in the world notwithstanding its imperfections, is destroyed by the current Washington madness.
Liberals, who are behind bussing of ACORN and SEIU thugs, are squealing like crazy about those who don’t want their “reform” of healthcare and say so at public “town hall” meetings. What is it about plain English from ordinary citizens that the socialist-welfare-state Marxists don’t get?
Congress voted $200 million for private jets to haul themselves around, and this after squawking about bailed-out private companies using private jets for their executives.
Obama and Democrats keep claiming that they are not trying to institute government healthcare insurance or a single-payer system. See their lies exposed in their own words. The administration subsequently distributed their own video showing the president claiming we could keep our current doctors and insurance, yet there was no denial or retraction of the earlier claims and speeches. The White House has only proved he’s doing exactly what he said he would: propose a softer approach until he later gets the “single-payer” government system he wants.
The $700 billion TARP money was just the tip of the iceberg (as already reported). What most Americans don’t know is that the Federal Reserve has spent additional trillions behind the scenes – in secrecy – such as “loans,” including to foreign central banks, for which we’re now on the hook. It’s way beyond time to force an audit and elimination of this unconstitutional organization which is responsible for many of our national economic problems.
An interview of then-Senator Barack Obama in 2004 by a leftwing talk show host has surfaced, where Obama complains that President Bush was pushing legislation through without giving legislators time enough to read it!
HealthScare Tactics: Is desperation setting in? Obama claims that the biggest driver of the deficit is healthcare, but that is another great lie. The biggest deficit drivers are all the crazy spending that this administration and congress are doing, and previous healthcare spending is a smaller part now – until they pass something really crazy like they’re currently trying to ram through. Washington and a great many Americans seem to forget that all the Constitution guarantees is the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” There is NO RIGHT to healthcare! (And BTW, there’re no rights to a house, job, or a great many other things those in Washington seem unconstitutionally bent on trying to mandate in their hell-bent destruction of our freedoms and way of life.)
TARP Madness: Whatever happened to the ridiculous original $700 billion? The Treasury Department’s own Inspector General for the TARP program (Neil Barofsky) says the real cost of TARP is going to be $23.7 TRILLION!
Obama’s Secretary of Commerce says America should pay the costs of greenhouse emissions created by China to produce goods sold to America! Wow - not only is he promoting China’s own policy – it’s all based on the phony “global warming” nonsense to begin with.
Biden-omics: Vice-President Joe Biden says that our current health system will bankrupt us. Huh? All the insane spending going on is already doing that in spades. Then the Veep said we have to spend more money to avoid bankruptcy! Hmmm – try selling that to anyone with a nickel's worth of common sense.
The head of the Congressional Budget Office (a non-partisan, independent agency) says proposals of the current health care plan will increase long-term costs and result in larger deficits.
Czars: Obama’s “Green Jobs” Czar declared himself a communist a few years ago. His “Science” Czar has long advocated (although he's now trying to deny it) government-enforced sterilization for population control!
The sycophantic, driveling, sophomoric gushing over Sotomayor by many during confirmation hearings presage her likely approval with resulting long-term adverse effects on the nation’s ideals and Constitutional foundations.
Goldman Sachs reports great profits, and what’s so strange about that? Mainly that all sorts of Goldman Sachs people have infiltrated government and joined in what looks like, smells like, and appears to actually be complicity to enrich Goldman Sachs and those associated with it. Goldman Sachs has also managed to set itself up to receive fees for 10% of all those phony "Cap and Trade" manipulations.
The socialists in government want to help pay for government-run healthcare by “taxing the rich” as they love to describe it. (The projected costs are of such mammoth proportions that this could only “help”.) Since only “the rich” are paying taxes anyway, this ridiculous and immoral process will eventually backfire, like all other out-of-control government tax-and-spend programs.
The Inspector General reports that domestic surveillance undertaken after 9/11, spying upon Americans in other words, turns out to have been massively greater than ever claimed. Most of it is unconstitutional on its face but those in government simply forced it through – similar to what is now happening in other areas of Constitutional concern - only at exponential rates.
The chicken-little duet of false prophets, Al Gore and Prince Charles, are both running loose squawking that the global-warming sky is falling. How long will it take government to devise even more extreme legislation and regulations above and beyond the Cap-and-Trade insanity they’re already pushing?
Congress is now proposing a deceptive bill to kill Freedom of Speech. Supposedly the bill is about “hate crimes” but it contains provisions allowing the government to shut down anyone who claims they’ve been offended or victimized by what someone else says about them on the air, over the internet, etc. Nazi-ism is bubbling right along here in America.
Czars: Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that there are now 32 “Czars” - for which there is no Constitutional basis. The power-hungry executive branch continues its growth towards control and dominance in government.
The Administration announces that it wants another federal agency for “consumer protection” that will vastly expand regulatory powers. Government isn’t the solution; government is the problem! But the fact is these people want unsatiable power and control. Throughout history there's a name for this: “dictatorship.”
The EPA suppressed its own 98-page report which said temperatures are, if anything, going down! The agency refuses to further address the issue - along with most of the media. Facts don't matter among the "global warming" fantasy crowd.
Chairman Bernanke refuses to let Congress look at the Federal Reserve's books, claiming it would be like taking control or losing independence. Huh?
The House passed the so-called “Cap and Trade” bill which has nothing to do with global warming (estimates are that it might make 1/100th of a degree difference in temperature!), over 1300+ pages of legislation handed to them the day before another rush-rush vote on what is labeled “the biggest tax increase in history.” Where are the citizens clamoring to root out these maniacs? Will the Senate save us or join in this national destruction?
Asked about government healthcare insurance driving commercial insurance out of business, Obama gave a misleading answer by mocking private insurers’ and advocates’ claims that government is always inept and expensive compared to the free market; thus, he reasoned, how could private insurance fail if such claims were valid and it really was better? His reply overlooks the obvious in that businesses and others will be reluctant to pay for private insurance and also pay taxes to support a government insurance system. Unless direct credit is given to offset such “double” paying, government health insurance is clearly a threat to private insurance, and the President’s answer was deliberate subterfuge.
Obama has now floated the idea of another “stimulus” package when we’re already saddled with mind-boggling and insane debt from the first ones and all the other reckless, destructive, and anti-American spending going on.
While in Egypt speaking to leaders of Middle East nations, President Obama passionately claimed that a basic desire of all people was a government that would “not steal from them.” And yet his administration and the current legislature have stolen more from this generation and future generations than all previous combinations - combined!
The administration, with complicity of majority members of both houses of Congress, is setting up an overlying tier of extra-constitutional government – replacing that specified by the Constitution with their own brand of tyrannical bureaucracy: “czars,” arrogation of Census control, new powers for the Federal Reserve, takeovers of private enterprise, politically-motivated firings and replacements, giving our tax moneys to private but politically-controlled organizations such as AmeriCorps and the thug-ruled ACORN, etc.
The President complains that his healthcare program is being misrepresented by those claiming his real goal is a single-payer government-controlled system. But in fact that is what he and his supporters have been claiming and aiming for, in their own openly-documented words.
The White House has outlined new, deep, and further unconstitutional powers it wants for the Federal Reserve - not good for America, not good for freedom, and not good for private enterprise. Even is Congress were to pass laws giving such powers as are being sought, it would NOT be constitutional! And once government controls the financial world (more than it already does) our economy will be managed by bureaucrats instead of businessmen who must hearken to the market. Haven’t we learned anything from the constant and massive failures of centrally-controlled systems? Governmental control has already screwed things up so badly that no sane person can really believe that those clamoring for such dictatorial controls actually believe it is good for the nation; what they obviously believe is that it’s good for them and the power they seek.
On July 16th, there was a funding bill in Congress supposedly to have been voted on, but the House leadership cut off debate. A great many representatives (if we can call them that any more), assuming the vote would occur the following day, left the chamber. House leaders subsequently decided to suddenly vote on the bill. About a third of the House were reported as unable to even return in time to vote. So game-playing thugs in Congress managed to perversely manipulate the system to shove legislation through. Americans, do we care any more about these kinds of shenanigans?
Congress is preparing to give $105 billion dollars to the IMF – another bailout, only to the “international” world this time! There’s just no end to the way those idiots can spend everyone else’s (i.e., our) money (that we don’t have!) and increase the obscene debt load being placed upon future generations.
The Inspector General of AmeriCorps was illegally fired by the White House in violation of the Inspectors General Reform Act. The IG investigated an Obama friend and supporter (now mayor of Sacramento, CA) who was found guilty of misuse of AmeriCorps funds. As the press source who revealed this chicanery labeled it, this is "gangster government." How long will the public sit still for this kind of tyranny? UPDATE: The White House is now smearing the gentleman, claiming that he is senile or incapable.
The Census Bureau (you know, the one just unconstitutionally put under White House supervision) has sent out a 28-page, invasive “American Community Survey” booklet to 3 million homes – asking all kinds of questions that have nothing to do with the “Census.” This is just another example of the unconstitutional, illegal, totalitarian power being wielded by our corrupt national government. And you know that any data thus collected is not going to be used validly, but for political purposes.
A corrupt Supreme Court has acceded in perversion of law and the Constitution by refusing to halt the illegal, unconstitutional fraud and thievery undertaken by the executive branch. Bondholders were cheated out of their legally-binding preference in the case of the Chrysler bankruptcy and unions were blatantly given free ownership – acts that no longer represent mere socialism but outrageous immorality and open tyranny. Our infamous "rule of law" has been replaced by totalitarianism.
The administration announces “pay-go” (pay as you go) – after spending more than all previous administrations in history combined! Wow! Now? That’s not only hypocrisy in the extreme - but shutting the barn door after all the animals are out. And massive exceptions are involved, such as health care "reform" (which will likely ruin the world's best health care system).
Latest TARP news: After unconstitutionally using force to confiscate and redistribute the funds, the administration is now using the money from those they do allow to pay it back as a “slush fund" to promote the political whims of their agenda. This not only subverts the language, purpose, and intent of TARP, but constitutes more blatantly unconstitutional misdeeds by government that is out of control.
The idea of a new Federal VAT, or "Value Added Tax" of 25% on everything is being floated. At first mention it sounds like a fiscally-reckless hallucination, but could soon enough become a real-life nightmare. Move over, socialist Europe! (Actually, trading other taxes for a reasonable flat rate VAT could be an improvement, and in that respect the proposed Fair Tax Act of 2009 takes a better approach, but there are two problems: 1 - Congress never drops taxes, and 2 - 25% is already obscene, but there will be nothing to keep the tyrants in Washington from continually raising the rate.)
California is asking the Federal government to guarantee loans - which means everyone will likely be paying for California's stupidity, because we all know what happens to government-guaranteed loans when the borrower defaults, as California surely will once the guarantees are in place. Then we'll be trampled by other irresponsible, bankrupt states getting in line.
Congress has sunk so low as to openly admit passing legislation that they neither read nor understand! A new energy bill of some 900 pages, about 30 times what was involved for anything similar 50 years ago - was passed, another morass or regulation sans reading and understanding. (In a mocking insult a "speed" reading commenced but was soon canceled.) The committee chairman publicly admitted not knowing all of what was in the legislation.
We are now the U.S.S.A. - the United Socialist States of America. The Federal government has engineered the takeover of banks, auto companies, and other private enterprises by unconstitutional, bald-faced decrees - even extortion. We have been shocked when corrupt governments led by petty tyrants like Hugo Chavez have nationalized major industries, but our own government has now done exactly the same thing! (The Feds have even begun specifying how cars must be made in the future - cars most Americans don't want to buy.) Where is the outrage?
Use of bribery and threats by the executive and legislative branches behind closed doors - and brazenly in public - to intimidate executives of private enterprises into complying with unconstitutional manipulations and scheming.
Turbocharging the money presses into inflation-inflaming overdrive and incestuous federal "borrowing" from its own departments to prop up calamitous, reckless, ruinous spending while disguising what is really happening.
Blatant union favoritism, including advancement of "Card Check" (what valid argument could ever really be advanced against secret ballots for union organizing?).
Usurpation of control of the Census process under executive branch control, with Federal funding and collaboration with such secretly-controlled, malfeasant, and thug-ruled groups as ACORN.
Repeated nominations of tax cheats, liars, and scoundrels to Federal offices and posts.
A $3.5 trillion Budget which exceeds all past history, passed in secret and railroaded through Congress without even a reading.
"Stimulus" funding and attempts to get Americans to solve overspending and debt by spending more.
"Bailout" funding to insurance companies, banks, car companies, etc.
TARP expenditures - to "fix" toxic mortgage financing resulting mostly from bungling government demands and regulations! (As usual, they're blaming everyone else.)
NOTE: Latest issues are at the top of the list, earlier at the bottom.
