Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Trojan Horse - the enemy from within
In a recent speech to the American people (or for those disconnected few still listening to this president's drivel), Obama sounded more like a starving baby in search of a bottle, or one needing it's diaper changed, than a man supposedly having the most powerful position on earth. People are finally waking up to his fake transparency and are standing up for their rights and for this they are called many things and none of them good. However I must remind the reader that he kept his promise to change America. We are fast going away from the America that we once knew and grew up in. Some of the things that he has done already are mind boggling and beyond all comprehension. If there was ever a time when the sense of smell oozed from the television and filled the living rooms and homes across this nation, it was during Obama's infamous "It's Not About Me" speech. The problem with him is it is all about him. A little over six months ago America's economy was not good; however, as bad as it was then, it was nothing compared to how bad the US economy is presently. And for that matter, if Obama continues to get his way, America has yet to see just how bad her country's economy will suffer, but not only the economy but our freedoms also.
It goes beyond all belief that a paid government official, (a bureaucrat) who was not even confirmed by the Senate but just one of the many "czars" selected and put into place by Obama, could at a whim just cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? No up or down vote by congress, it was just done. Who would ever believe that this would happen in America. Did you know that a Obama appointed czar wants to restrict and limit talk radio? They want to do this to keep the talk within their fixed limitations. Obama and his czars also have plans to subsidize and fund newspapers. This means that Obama and his czars want to make a situation where the newspapers' existence would depend on the government saying it is okay what they write? Did you ever think that anyone would even be talking about having a group who would make a decision who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments? Chilling as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of our freedom. If you have a parent who needs a major operation or a child with some grim medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the authority to make life and death decisions about your loved ones? Does any of this sound like America that you grew up in? How about a government organization giving your children and other children information to enroll them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is clearly not enough. Are we headed for trouble? This not the country that we grow up in and our soldiers bleed and died for. At the rate we are going Americans can kiss their freedoms good bye.
How much of our freedom will be left if Obama is allowed to continue on this path? There will be none! Our lack of liberty and choice will be gone. Obama already wants a national police force. Why would he want this? We already have local police forces in most towns and cities. We have military forces for the defense of our country. We also have the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard is located in every state of this union for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him and answerable only to him? It seems more like the brown shirts and the Gestapo in world war two Germany than like anything we have in this country. What would be the reason for this? How far Obama will go depends on how much resistance and opposition he encounter as he tries to do these things. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or speech-making. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with and next to for years have expressed in words and deeds their opposition to the values, the principles and the main beliefs of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it, over national TV with these words: "God damn America!" Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he put in government buildings and just recently said he did not do enough. This is Obama's friend. Obama's Community activist buddies have said it with their contempt and dislike for the constitutional rights of other people, for example the 2nd amendment. Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao and Castro. Some have accused Bush of being behind the tragedy of Twin towers on 911. For those of you who say that the Obama should have looked into those people's back ground more carefully and in more detail before he appointed them are not seeing who Obama really is and are totally missing the point. Why should anybody think that Obama didn't know what these people were like, when he has been associating with these kinds of people for ten or twenty years before he moved into the White House? Nothing is more like a roadmap than Obama's consistent lifetime patterns than putting such people in government, people who reject and hate American values, resent Americans in general and Americans who are successful in particular, as well as resenting America's influence and power in the world. Any blunder or boo-boo about this on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these cunning appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel and people like Glen Beck, Bill O'Reily, and Sean Hannity these cunning appointees might have never been known for what they are until it was too late. This is one of the reasons Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list. The cat is out of the bag.
Nothing so exemplifies Obama's own contempt and disrespect for American values and traditions than apologizing to other nations for the United States. Most folks, in this country are starting to wake up to ask: "Where is the transparency he promised. They are beginning to see that he is taking away everyone of our freedoms, one by one. We have let the Trojan horse in. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled and taken apart, disassembled piece by piece, and given to the Muslim terrorist is another question, and it is, by far, the biggest question for this generation of Americans. For what they are, if Obama's skills and experience as President could be transferred to that of a surgeon, how many of his followers, if they needed surgery, would willing go under his knife?
Will there be a America left after his four years?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Team Obama
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Monday, October 19, 2009
TOTAL CONTROL – Here A Little and There A Little
We do not need or want a dictator (someone who wants to be in total control) or a dictatorial government that rules over everybody and everything. A government ruling with absolute power over a population has always presented the greatest danger to the citizens of any nation, Our Freedoms that was put forth in the Declaration that come from God have always been despised and hated by evil and ignorant men. I can think of no other time in our nation's history when our God given rights and freedoms have been endangered by a list of statistics and worthless gun control laws, as well as other worthless laws, by liberal politicians, communist, and socialist, who hate every building block upon which our nation rests. We have people that have been elected to our government at all levels that hate this country and would tear it down if they could. And if they need help in doing it the Obama appointed Czars will help in tearing it down. We have a president and a attorney general who are one hundred per cent behind gun control and other laws that take away your freedom.
What is the real purpose of gun control? The government would have you to believe it is to prevent crime and for the peoples best interest. The states and cities in this country that have the most strictest gun laws, that is where crime is the highest. For example, Washington, DC and Chicago. The government is using gun control laws to do what they want. It is for people control. Gun registration allows the government to know that you own guns, what kind they are and where you live. THAT INFORMATION should be none of their business. Most of the present gun laws are not to keep the citizen safe even though that is what they would have you to believe. These laws were made to lay the ground work for the government to knock at your door and taking every gun that you have and it will come to that very thing in the near future.
Keep an eye on the development of the Obama Civilian Security Force (what was once known as the "Gestapo" a little over 60 years ago in a country called Germany). He said this security force would only be answerable to him. When these people start showing up, it'll will be all over. You will have to turn over your fire arms because it will be the law.
The new Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic (within the United States) FBI Operations authorize the FBI without going to a court to open a investigation and to give an assessment of any American without any exact information based on fact to open that investigation. Such 'assessments' allow the use of invasive practices to secretly and underhandedly collect information on people suspected of no wrongdoing and in no way are connected with any foreign entity. What is happening here is the total loss of our freedom. Obama has expressed no objections to these far-reaching revisions of the Constitution in a founding document he used to educate students about it at the University of Chicago. His attorney general, Eric Holder, said during his Senate confirmation hearing: "The guidelines are necessary because the FBI is changing its mission from a pure investigating agency to one that deals with national security." This the same Eric Holder who said, while George W. Bush was president: "I never thought that I would see the day when a president would act in direct defiance of federal law by authorizing warrantless NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance of American citizens." Obama now has a unrestrained FBI and it will get even worse if he is allowed to start his national security force.
The Second Amendment was designed as a way for the people to maintain their freedom by giving them the tools to resist repressive government. Doing away with or changing the 2nd amendment will be the cause of all our other rights to be taken from us. Gun ownership (the right to bear arms) was never about hunting or stopping a burglar even though they are certainly a great benefit of gun ownership and always will be. The greatest danger to life and our freedoms in this world is government. That has always been the case. Down through the years it has always been that way. For examples look at Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia and on and on. Now we are seeing the same thing in this country. I think that it is now being called: "CHANGE". And that change is from a capitalist form of government to a communist form of government. Making sure the government knows the population is fully capable of resisting goes a long way toward keeping that government on the right track. There is always a cost for freedom. The price is always high. Being unwilling to accept the cost guarantees the loss of freedom. A dictator or a dictatorial government has always presented the greatest danger to the citizens of any country including ours, Our Freedoms listed in the Declaration that come from God have always been despised by evil and ignorant men. I can think of no other time in our nation's history when our God given rights and freedoms are being endangered by a list of laws made mostly by people who hate every building block and joint upon which our nation rests than this present time in our history. Our country is at a cross road and all conservatives, gun owners, and people who believe in our Constitution (as the founding fathers laid it out) need to stand up and be counted. The weapons of these people are deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness, confusion, a "in the tank" news media, just plain outright lies, and the power of government itself. These weapons are far more dangerous to our country than the fire arms that law abiding citizens own.
If you are a gun owner you must realize that gun control is not the only freedom issue we have in this country. There is a list of issues that need to be spoken about. Government takeover of banks, lending institutions, the takeover of private business, the automobile industry, and health care, the taking of your hard earned money and spreading it around, and this is only the start. Appointing czars that are not answerable to you, the American citizen, as to how they run the country. That was not how our country is founded. Some of these Czars are proven communist and socialist. Here a little and there a little we are heading to a government that will have 100% control over every aspect of your life. Our freedoms and way of life as Americans are under attack and soon will be gone" HEAR A LITTLE AND THERE A LITTLE"
May God have mercy on our nation and open the eyes of more and more of its people to rise up against the vile and deliberate attempts to erode our freedoms, to take the creator out of things, and turn our nation into a communist slave state. Laugh if you want but that is what is happening right before your eyes AMERICA. Do you have the same amount of freedom that you had twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even five years ago? The answer is no! Is the government bigger or smaller than it was ten years ago? We all know it is bigger! If the Constitution does not mean EXACTLY what it says, according to the plain meaning of the words as understood at the time it was written, (and it does) then there is no point to having a written constitution at all. What good is it. Our form of government was formed the way it was to have checks and balances so no certain branch of government could not have it all and become a threat to the common folk of this country. But look what is happening before your very eyes, the supreme court is now in the business of trying to make laws instead of interpreting the law, the congress do not care about or will listen to the citizens. All they want is their liberal agenda passed and their ear marks attached to bills that are passed, Then we have a president that wants TOTAL CONTROL over everything, even a police officer doing his job. It is time not only for gun owners to take heed but for all true Americans to do the same thing. You need to ask yourself this question: "IS THIS THE AMERICA THAT I GREW UP IN?"
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Coming Loss of Our Freedoms
We do not need or want a tyrant (someone who wants to be in total control) or a tyrannical government which has always presented the greatest danger to the citizens of our nation, Our Freedoms that was put forth in the Declaration that come from God have always been despised and hated by evil and ignorant men. I can think of no other time in our nation’s history when our God given rights and freedoms have been endangered by a list of statistics by liberal politicians who hate every building block upon which our nation rests. We have people that have been elected to our government at all levels that hate this country and would tear it down if they could.
What is the real purpose of gun control? The government would have you to believe it is to prevent crime. Where they have the most strict gun laws crime is the highest. The government is using these laws to do what they want. It is for people control. Gun registration allows the government to know that you own guns and where you live. THAT INFORMATION should be none of their business. Most of the present gun laws are not to keep the citizen safe even though that is what they would have you to believe. These laws were made to lay the ground work for the government to knock at your door and taking every gun that you have and it will come to that very thing in the future. Keep an eye on the development of the Obama Civilian Security Force (what was once known as the "Gestapo" a little over 60 years ago in a country called Germany). When these people start showing up, it'll will be all over.
The Second Amendment was designed as a way for the people to maintain their freedom by giving them the tools to resist repressive government. It wasn't about hunting or stopping a burglar. The greatest danger to life in this world is government. That has been demonstrated to a unspeakable and horrifying degree in Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia and on and on. Now we are seeing the same thing in this country. I think that it is now being called: “CHANGE” or “YES WE CAN”
Making sure the government knows the population is fully capable of resisting goes a long way toward keeping that government on the right track. There is always a cost for freedom. Being unwilling to accept the cost guarantees the loss of freedom. A tyrant or a tyrannical government has always presented the greatest danger to the citizens of any country including ours, Our Freedoms listed in the Declaration that come from God have always been despised by evil and ignorant men. I can think of no other time in our nation’s history when our God given rights and freedoms have been endangered by a list of laws made mostly by people who hate every building block upon which our nation rests than this present time in our history.
The weapons of these people are deception, dishonesty, deceitfulness, confusion, a “in the tank” news media and the power of government itself. May God have mercy on our nation and open the eyes of more and more of its people to rise up against the vile and deliberate attempts to erode our freedoms, and turn our nation into a communist slave state. Laugh if you want but that is what is happening right before your eyes AMERICA. Do you have the same amount of freedom that you had twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even five years ago? The answer is no! If the Constitution does not mean EXACTLY what it says -- according to the plain meaning of the words as understood at the time it was written -- then there is no point to having a written constitution at all.
Friday, October 2, 2009
GUN OWNERS – beware of the back door Obama administration
While high profile issues like passage of a healthcare reform bill and cap and trade energy tax are getting front page headlines and top billing by television talking heads, be very wary and careful of the
sneakiness and craftiness in the legislation slowly working its way through Congress to restrict and in the end to do away with gun ownership. If congress passes either of two bills, HR 45 (also known as Blair-Holt Firearm Licensing and Record Sale Act of 2009) and S 1317, would be a unsetting and devastating blow to Second Amendment rights. Take a close look at this bill, S 1317, introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg. This bill would give the attorney general the right to block gun sales to people on the terror watch lists. A third bill, HR 2647, contains a companion clause to S 1317 that gives the attorney general the authority to determine who belongs on terrorist watch lists. This sounds okay but who are the terrorists? In Obama world it's not the Islamic-fascists flying airliners into buildings, planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or strapping bombs to their waists and setting them off in crowded areas. No, because in Obama world, for the most part, the word terrorism no longer applies to those who were once called terrorists. And those who used to be considered terrorists no longer commit acts of terrorism. No they ( the Islamic fascist) commit man-caused disasters. The word terrorist, at least in its past usage, has been dropped from the word list that we had.
Today's terrorists, according to those now in power in the United States (the Obama crowd), are people in this country who believe the Constitution is sacred, revered, untouchable and that the Second Amendment actually means that people are free to own guns without restriction. Our own country's Department of Homeland Security issued an assessment and evaluation earlier this year warning law enforcement of a possible rise in home-grown terrorism from "right wing extremists." And who are those rightwing extremists? The assessment tell us: "Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements and believers that are for the most part, primarily, hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority completely. It may include groups and individuals that are devoted to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
Please read these related stories from Personal Liberty.com and Fema Exercises Includes you will see the Obama World administration is no friend to gun owners. This is what is now sneaking in the back door, not out in the open where all can see. What does Eric Holder, the attorney general for the United States and the person who would under S 1317 be granted the authority and power to decide who belongs on terrorist watch groups.
As we already said he is already for gun control to the point that he is already is against gun ownership.
Following are few of his quotes that have appeared in different newspapers over the last few years:
- "As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons."
- "The second amendment does not protect firearms possession or use that is unrelated to participation in a well-regulated militia."
- "To further strengthen the ability of law enforcement officials to track those suspected of terrorism or other criminal acts in this country, Congress should also pass legislation that would give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale."
Holder's boss, Obama, is equally unfriendly to gun owners. Read this article that gun lobbyist Richard A. Pearson wrote in which he called Obama an enemy of the law abiding firearm owner. You can read his article at Gun Digest. Some of Obama's own quotes, as they have appeared in various publications, will back this article up for those liberals that will laugh and send stupid comments for this article:
- "I am consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry."
- "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
- "The package (legislation passed in the Illinois Senate) closes the Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card loopholes which resulted in the shooting out in Melrose Park. We're eliminating 17 specific assault weapons. There is no reason why anybody should need an assault weapon to protect themselves or their family. We're limiting handgun sales to one a month. We're calling for handgun registration. It's very hard right now to track whether or not a felon has turned in his weapons or if he has a void card because we don't know how many weapons he has purchased."
is the real reason people control? This administration is bent on taking are guns. Obama wants to control everything as we can already see. He wants to control the banks, car makers, your health care, and do away with your firearms. Our congress is being replaced by Obama's hand pick czars . What is next? We are losing more of our freedoms everyday under this present administration. We cannot sing Christian songs in school anymore but what we can do is sing a song about Obama played to the notes of a Christian song. We need to watch out and be a informed citizen and most of all be sure you cling to your guns and religion. They may soon be all you have. We are fast becoming a socialist (communist) country. The country that our founding fathers wanted will soon not be here for us.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
WE ARE THE WORLD
Take notice that he didn't say, "For those who question America's character, I want to mention to you our record of international compassion, kindness, goodwill, peacemaking and peacekeeping, liberating countries from cruel tyrants, upholding democracy throughout the world, and leading the world in industrial and scientific improvements and the very advancement of civilization." Never once did he say anything about the billions and billions of “United States Dollars” that was given to hurting and undeveloped countries. Not once did he say whenever there is a major world disaster the United States is always there with over whelming man power and aid. Did he say anything like that? “NO” Instead, he made it very clear that he shares the view of the world's liberals, socialist, and communist critics that America has acted "to do what the United States wants to do without regarding or considering the interests of others," He said that the American people were "arrogant" and "sometimes dismissive." In other words, he is saying, that the we are bigheaded, arrogant, and high and mighty. Is this what we want from the man that was elected to the highest office in our land? Is this who was voted for and elected to be the leader of the free world?
For the people that still does not believe that Obama is not particularly fond of this country’s founding values, freedom and our traditions, you can at least concede that Obama has contempt for American’s outstanding and extraordinary excellence and prefers that this nation not be the world's sole superpower? He has said it and has showed it in his actions. Or that he believes Americans possess an large amount of the world's wealth, which is morally wrong and he is also not especially protective of America's national sovereignty? We can see all this by the way he speaks and by his actions. Once again this is the man that was elected to the highest office in this land.
Obama isn't content merely engaging in a scheme to totally redistribute the income and wealth of Americans internally (to the tune of some $1 trillion from the top 30 percent of income earners to the lower 70 percent through his proposals on taxes, health care and the environment, according to the Tax Foundation). He also believes Americans should be compelled to redistribute their resources to the world's poor, as well. This is who was elected as our president. Do you remember when Obama said the following in Chicago on Oct. 2, 2007? "In the 21st century, progress must mean more than a vote at the ballot box; it must mean freedom from fear and freedom from want. We cannot stand for the freedom of anarchy. Nor can we support the globalization of the empty stomach. We need new approaches to help people to help themselves. The United Nations has embraced the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015. When I'm president, they will be America's goals. The Bush administration tried to keep the U.N. from proclaiming these goals; the Obama administration will double foreign assistance to $50 billion to lead the world to achieve them. In the 21st century, we cannot stand up before the world and say that there's one set of rules for America and another for everyone else."
True to his word, though it was hardly reported in the news, Obama made this statement in his U.N. speech: "We have fully embraced the Millennium Development Goals." I'm not sure where he got the authority to make that one-sided statement, but needless to say he made it. I guess now since he is president, he thinks he can do what he wants and say what he wants instead of having to deal with the legislative process. Obama and his czars rule. Take a look at why the Bush administration opposed the harmless sounding "Millennium Development Goals"?
These goals by the united nations has a multi pronged assault on America's national sovereignty? It also commits contributing nations to be bound by the International Criminal Court treaty; (you would be tried in a world court of laws not ours) support regional disarmament measures for small arms and light weapons; (in others words we would have no second rights amendment. You would not be allowed to own a gun.) and press for the full execution of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which Wikipedia describes as "an international legally binding treaty" that includes among its goals a "fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources," the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, described as "an international bill of rights for women," and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which purports to be a "legally binding international instrument" that gives children the right to express their own opinions "freely in all matters affecting the child" and requires those opinions be given "due weight." The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as "the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development." Where does the family unit come in this goal.
Without a doubt we are becoming less and less a free nation because under Obama, "We Are the World."
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
SPREADING THE WEALTH AROUND – or the makers verse the takers
I was told in a comment in one of my recent articles that I beat things to death and it is time to move on. I might go overboard sometimes with my articles but to be quite frank, I'm tired of being beat to death with all the programs that this government has, or is, putting into place, which is breaking my back and all other working taxpayers in this country. It is a time for all Americans to speak out. When Barack Obama told Joe the Plumber he planned to "spread the wealth around," many people didn't realize he was not talking about spreading the wealth only of the super-rich. Now after Obama is elected, he is rapidly expanding welfare handouts for non-taxpayers, running up a incredible national debt that will without doubt lead to higher taxes on working middle class Americans. Without a doubt this is in the process of happening. Did you ever stop to think why he is doing this?
The sheer size of this transfer of money away from working, taxpaying Americans to non-taxpayers (who voted overwhelmingly for Obama for president in 2008) has just been detailed in a incredible 53-page report by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. This is a very good and informative article to read. I recommend everyone to read this. There are not enough words in the English language to effectively describe the massive amounts of money involved in the Obama administration's shocking cash transfers. He is spreading the wealth around as he said he wanted to do during his campaign.
Most people don't realize that the federal budget has become a vast machine for transferring wealth from the upper third of Americans (who pay 90 percent of federal income taxes) to the lowest third of people, who earn less than 200 percent of the government-stipulated "poverty" level and pay no income tax. The size of this massive annual transfer rose by 40 percent to $714 billion over the last 10 years and is projected to rise to $1 trillion per year by the end of Obama's first term because he is helping it along by his spreading the wealth around.
The term "welfare" embraces much more than this one program which was called AFDC that was "reformed" (and renamed TANF) in 1996. It includes 70 other programs that provide unearned cash and non-cash benefits to people living in low-income households (but does not include Social Security, Medicare and unemployment compensation, which are earned through work and available to almost everyone). Obama did not start them, he is just expanding these programs beyond all imagination. Most of these government programs was started with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfare programs. Like most government programs, the cost of these welfare and aid-to-poor-and-low-income-persons handouts has increased, and Obama has demanded enormous additional increases, which Congress passed in the stimulus and omnibus bills. So part of our money in the stimulus package goes to people who will not work. Maybe it is to stimulate them to work.
Welfare spending was 13 times greater in the fiscal year 2008 than it was when LBJ started the Great Society in 1964. Welfare spending then was 1.2 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP) and now has reached 5 percent. How much longer can this be put on the back of working tax payers? I wonder how much of our welfare system is being used to keep people who really could work but will not?
These programs are now the third most expensive government activity, ranking below Social Security and Medicare spending, and education spending. National Defense ranks only fourth. The real cost of these programs is unknown to the American people (one could say, kept secret from them) because the spending is dispersed and circulated by 14 departments and agencies though 71 different programs. We are fortunate that Robert Rector, a numbers expert, has made a painstaking investigation and study to show some light upon these transfers.
In fiscal year 2008, government spending on welfare or aid to the poor amounted to $714 billion, of which approximately three-fourths was federal spending and one-fourth came from state government funds. States are required to match a percentage of federal welfare outlays.
Of the total spending in Fiscal Year 2008, 52 percent was spent on medical care for the poor and low-income persons, 37 percent was spent on cash, food and housing aid, and 11 percent was spent on social services, training, child development, federal education aid and community development for low-income persons and communities. Roughly half goes to disabled or elderly persons, and the other half to households with children mostly headed by single mothers. (Where is the father in this deal?) Look at the cost of just this one thing!
Robert Rector ran an adding machine tape and concluded that handouts in Fiscal Year 2008 amounted to about $16,800 for every poor person, defined as below 100 percent of the selected poverty level. When welfare spending is related to the larger group of persons who qualify for benefits below 200 percent of the "poverty" level, we are giving $28,000 per year to every lower-income four-person household. How can a country keep this sort of thing up?
Why are we told that we have so much unfairness in the United States? Where is this unfairness? The unfairness is supporting millions of people who are truly capable or working and supporting their self and their children. It is because the Census counts only 4 percent of these welfare gifts to low-income people as their income, and most government discussions of poverty do not even refer to the massive transfers of money taking place as we can see here. To get an idea of how big the debt Obama is creating is, which in the end will have to be paid by the middle class tax payer, let's compare spending on welfare to spending on fighting wars. Since the beginning of LBJ's Great Society, our government has spent $15.9 trillion (in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars) on welfare, which is more than twice the cost of all major fighting wars in U.S. history. We spent only $4.1 trillion (in 2008 dollars) on World War II, which was the most expensive single undertaking in U.S. history.
Under Obama's budget, which has already been passed by Congress, federal welfare spending will increase by $88 billion in 2009, plus an additional $175 billion in 2010. This two-year increase of $263 billion will bring total federal and state welfare handouts to $890 billion a year. Needless to say there are some people who need our help and we should do everything we can for them, We should be exactly like "The Good Samaritan", we should all go all out to help the needy, but the buck should stop there and it does not. We have people that have been kept by this Great Society since its conception during the LBJ years who would rather live off the government than work. The problem is that their children have been taught the same thing and their children's children are doing the same thing. This is one of the main reasons for the over load. The problem is increasing year after year. The fact is some people know that if you are a low income person you can get more money from the government by not working and still get more food, more health care, and a ton of other free benefits from this Great Society. This kind of help not only hurts the people who truly need it, it strains the tax payer, and takes away much needed resources from other important projects that are needed.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Protecting The Vulnerable

The countries of Poland and the Czech Republic are speaking out about Barack Obama's decision to cancel and abandon plans for a Europe-based missile defense system. Several officials, from different countries, in the region have said that the move will improve Washington's interaction with Moscow at the expense of the United States Eastern European allies. They are the allies who have stuck with us since 911 and supported us with troops and other things that are needed to fight terrorism. What a price tag! Obama said that the United States is abandoning plans to build a defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic aimed at intercepting missiles from other countries.
This missile based system was endorse and put forward by former president George W. Bush to defend against missiles launched from what he called "rogue" states such as Iran and North Korea.
Russia was strongly opposed and against the system, saying it undermined its national security interests and could lead to more instability in Europe. Obama has said and made clear that it wants to "reset" relations with Russia, so the two former Cold War foes can cooperate and work together on Iran, fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, and reducing their vast nuclear arsenals. The question is who is really reducing their arsenals. What will it take next to reset our relations with Russia the next time? How can a country with this country that is helping Iran? What is the real goal here?
Poland's National Security Bureau are expressing concerns and alarm about the move, saying the presence of American troops on Polish soil would have increased the country's security. They say Russia will now try to increase its influence and power in former Soviet satellite states, including Poland. Are we going backwards here?
This kind of decision presents proof to the world and our allies that the United States is recognizing Russia's wishes in this part of the world. It is like kicking our allies to the curb. This is just like endorsing what Russia wants. I think we should be very worried about that kind of approach. Nobody opposes better relations between the United States and Russia. It is what we all want. But it should never be done at the expense and security of our allies or in a manner which confirms Russia's unfounded claims to be the decisive force in this part of Europe." This is the same as turning our back on our friends when a bully is looking over them. While Moscow insists that this will lead to more stability in Europe, some analysts and officials in Eastern Europe are not convinced of that. They cite as a reason Russia's brief war with Georgia and also Russia's conflict with Ukraine over natural gas supplies last year as reasons to remain cynical about the Kremlin's goal. We know that Russia always has a motive other than what is on the table when they want something. How long will it take our "community organizer president" to understand this or could there be another reason for his actions.
Friday, September 18, 2009
THE FREE PRESS - or is it?

that the news outlets whether they be the newspaper, TV, radio, or magazine, no longer have a goal of showing us both sides of the issues facing this country. They no longer want to report the news in a manner that we, the people, can decide our own selves on the right choices, but they want to create news according to their own personal bias and they are being very unfair when they report it. They want the reader to have a foregone conclusion of what is right, even though it is not right. What is wrong with that picture?
Let's look at just one case in point. Do you remember the "Tea Parties" held across the nation. At the same time as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal reported on these events, the other major news sources either disregarded them or reported on them as if the tea parties were a bunch of right wing, anti-government anti-tax people who were really bunch of eccentric nut cases. As I watched the CNN coverage of the Chicago tea party by a CNN reporter Susan Roesgan, I was a witness to the deceit and partiality and unfairness of that news network. It was so plain! We have to come to the overall conclusion that the American news media extremely dislike and detest conservative and Christian America. They get satisfaction and enjoyment in mocking and criticize the conservatives because we are Pro-Life, and Pro-Gun. They also liken those of us who are against illegal immigration to the Klu Klux Klan and Adolf Hitler! If you do not go along with Obama's agenda then you are a racist!
Every reporter at major news outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, are so liberal that it goes against all description! We can also add the TV news reporters of ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC! Most of the reporters that work for these stations are so bias when they report to the American Public that it comes close to being disgusting and it shows total disregard for the rights of others. Most all of these were great news papers at one time but they have lost it all because of their bias liberal reporting.
The fact of the matter is that we can no longer believe what we read or hear on the news. So how can we make the right decision when it comes to issues of the day? I no longer watch a lot of TV news, like I use to because I have better things to do than listen to a bunch of bias reporters that cannot and will not tell the truth. When I do watch the news it is Fox News, because, as they claim, they are fair and balanced. Most of the time you will hear both sides of the story. When the millions of people, in this country no longer want to be a informed citizen and no longer want to know or hear the truth, but only want to hear what they are told, then that is how you get the government we have today. That is how (as Obama calls it) we get the change we have today in our government.
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