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4063370385?profile=originalLast year when Tea Party Express rolled into Elko, NV, Mr. and Mrs. Thayne Church had 15 children. Yesterday, the Church family showed up at our tea party rally with mom holding number 16. I really like these people folks. Their kids are well behaved, upbeat and bright.

I asked momma Church the secret to having such an obviously happy family. Mrs. Church said, “We teach our kids they are a blessing to each other”.

 

The Church family is the kind of salt of the earth good people I have met on all of my five Tea Party Express tours around America. They are not the angry white racist mobs reported in the Obama media.

 

We did a rally in Salt Lake City, UT and spent the night.

 

This morning at 5:45am, CNN sent a car to bring me to a studio for a 6:30am TV interview. Yesterday, a producer called me for a “pre-interview interview”. I wanted to take this opportunity of being on CNN to defend the tea party against the left's despicable false charges of racism.

 

The program producer said they would prefer to discuss my thoughts regarding the Republican presidential field; which candidates are not tea party enough for me. I sensed the producer was baiting me to beat up on Republicans and stay away from the topic of race.

 

On the TV program, the CNN host had an agenda to trash, minimize the effect and demoralize the Tea Party. I refused to allow her to get away with it.

 

To the CNN host's displeasure, I even defended the tea party against the false accusations of racism. Arrogantly, the left are relentless in their efforts to portray the tea party as racist and get extremely annoyed when we counter their accusations with the truth.

 

After my CNN interview, I was back on the Tea Party Express bus for a six hour ride to our next rally in Cheyenne, WY.

 

Our team includes Gold Star Mom, Debbie Lee. Her son, Marc Alan Lee was the first Navy Seal killed in Iraq. In honor of her decorated son, Debbie founded, AmericasMightyWarriors.org which benefits the families of fallen soldiers.

 

As we crossed great plains canopied by spacious skies, Debbie asked if I had ever seen a jac-ca-lope which looks like a cross between a jack rabbit and an antelope. I am a city boy originally from Baltimore. So, I was excited about seeing this animal indigenous to the plains.

 

I parked myself at the front of the bus along side our bus driver hoping to see a jac-ca-lope. After about an hour, my wife Mary joined me. I told her why I was filled with anticipation visually scanning the massive countryside.

 

Mary said, “There is no such thing as a jac-ca-lope”.

 

Then, I heard Debbie Lee laughing. I know the Bible speaks against revenge. But, I am planning my perfect opportunity to pay back Debbie Lee.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Co-Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.

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Daily Caller

 

Penned By Caroline May

 

Former Department of Justice officials are calling for an investigation into current hiring practices, which they say have become politicized under Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration.

 

Pajamas Media conducted an analysis of the resumes of hired individuals in five Civil Rights Division sections. The conservative media outfit was only able to obtain the documents after filing a federal lawsuit in response to DOJ’s 10-month delay in responding to a Freedom of Information Act request.

 

Based on their investigation, the researchers found that every single new hire — 70 in all — boasted far-left résumés. They found no conservative or apolitical new hires in the Voting Section (16 hires), the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment... (5 hires), the Special Litigation Section (23 hires), the Education Section (11 hires), or the Employment Section (15 hires).

 

“The Department’s political leadership clearly recognized that the resumes of these new attorneys would expose the hypocrisy of the Obama administration’s polemical attacks on the Bush administration for supposedly engaging in ‘politicized hiring’ — and that everyone would see just how militantly partisan the Obama Civil Rights Division truly is,” wrote former Justice official and Pajamas Media investigator Hans von Spakovsky, explaining why the Department stonewalled FOIA requests for nearly a year.

 

When confronted with Pajamas Media’s findings, the Justice Department did not acknowledge the ideological discrepancy or the fact that the Pajamas Media had to sue in order to obtain the documents, but instead reiterated its commitment to transparency and that political ideology is not a factor in hiring.

 

“This administration’s Civil Rights Division has restored the career-driven, transparent hiring process that has resulted in hiring the most qualified attorneys for the job, including attorneys with civil rights experience,” Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa told The Daily Caller. “Actual or perceived political affiliation is not a factor in the Division’s career hiring process.”

 

“The quality of our new hires, coupled with the our longstanding and dedicated career staff, is reflected in the Division’s robust record of accomplishment,” Hinojosa added. “For example, in Fiscal Year 2010, the Division prosecuted a record number of criminal cases (125), topping the previous record set in Fiscal Year 2009; in addition, the Division has reached the largest monetary settlements ever secured by the Department in both a fair lending case and in a case under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

 

Former Justice Department official and study co-author J. Christian Adams took issue with the Department’s response.

 

“It is dishonest to say they hired people with civil rights experience. First, the experience often had nothing to do with the topics they handle at DOJ,” Adams told TheDC. “Most never saw the inside of a courtroom at these internships or time with these left wing groups. Second, work with these left wing groups served as an ideological admission ticket based on what I know [Civil Rights Division chief] Loretta King did in hiring committee meetings. Non-leftists need not apply.”

 

“Hopefully the DOJ inspector General will be as unkind to her as they were to Bush DOJ officials,” he added, referring to a Bush-era scandal in which the Justice Department came under fire for turning away applicants with far-left résumés.

 

Spakovsky told TheDC that the reason DOJ representatives’ responses were so vague is because they cannot answer the question.

 

“They completely avoid answering any of the issues we raised and I think that shows they are unable to do so. The résumés speak for themselves and they show the hiring bias that has been implemented in the division in the last three years,” Spakovsky said.

 

He added that it will be up to Congress, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to get to the bottom of the matter.

 

“[They] need to do the same identical type of investigation they did of the Bush Administration,” he said. “If they don’t do that, it will be evidence of the partisan bias in OPR and OIG, because how can they justify doing an investigation when these issues were raised during the Bush administration, and not conduct the same type of investigation now when the resumes speak for themselves?”

 

During the Bush administration’s run-in with similar charges, a great deal of media attention was devoted to the charge of political hiring. Little ink, however, has been devoted to Pajamas Media’ findings. Former Bush Justice Department official Robert Driscoll explained to TheDC that the discrepancy is likely due to a larger failure of understanding about the purpose of the Civil Rights Division.

 

“It’s depressing, but the story gets no traction because everyone who doesn’t follow the issue closely presumes that, of course its [okay] to hire agenda driven civil rights lawyers because that is what civil rights is about,” Driscoll wrote in an email. “There is no understanding (by most) that you would want non-activists in those jobs. It’s ridiculous, that no one cares, but there you have it.”

 

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Muslim pretend to be 9/11 victims via Chevy Ads, expect this to be mantra for radical extremists (terrorists).  TPF

After Schlussel Inquiry, Chevy Dealers Drop “Muslims Are the Real Victims” 9/11 Ad; CBS Detroit Created False “Ad”

By Debbie Schlussel

CBS Radio Detroit has chosen to portray 9/11 as an attack on Muslims across America, and now the propaganda “ads” for this absurdity have lost a sponsor, Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers, because I called and asked around about the ad in preparation for this article.  This is the same CBS Detroit, which is about to launch a “conservative” talk radio station (with a known liberal as its morning host).  They apparently think conservatives are a gullible bunch.  And maybe they are.  Time and the ratings will tell.

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Memo for CBS Radio Detroit’s Deb Kenyon: Muslims Were the PERPETRATORS of 9/11, NOT the “Victims;” Stop Broadcasting Propaganda & Lies Disguised as “Public Service Announcements”

(Thanks to Reader “Doda McCheesle” for the Graphic)

For the last several days, all CBS radio stations in Detroit  (including the highly rated WWJ-950 AM) have been running a “public service announcement,” which says Muslims are “the real victims” of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on America, not the 3,000 Americans murdered BY Muslims.  The ad says it is sponsored by Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers and urges listeners to come to local Chevy Dealerships to get a “lantern” to light on 9/11 to honor the Muslim victims.  In the ad, an unidentified Muslim woman tells us how Muslim religious schools around the country have to be repeatedly evacuated because of bomb threats and how Muslims constantly live in fear of Americans.

The ad is a lie.  In fact, Muslim schools were not repeatedly evacuated because of bomb threats and Muslims do not live in fear.  Reality Check: report after report notes that Muslim Schools in America are where hate is taught, where perpetrators are created, NOT victims. There hasn’t been the backlash they claim, and instead, we’ve bent over backward for Muslims.  The Bush administration set up a special division of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Office, just to go after Americans who allegedly commit “hate crimes” against Muslims, and it has prosecuted Americans for merely exercising free speech rights.  And we’ve increased Muslim immigration significantly.

Today, I contacted both CBS Radio Detroit and Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers, who confirmed that CBS Radio created a public service announcement to remember the victims of 9/11.  But none of the Chevy Dealers, including their advertising agent, had ever heard the ad, which was created by CBS Radio Detroit group chief, Deb Kenyon to honor a current Detroit Muslim employee she declined to name, as a victim of 9/11.  Chevy dealers I spoke with were entirely unaware of the ad and flabbergasted that their dealerships were associated with this outrageous ad (except dealer Mike Savoie, a wimp who refused to comment–might upset his Muslim clients?).  They wanted people to come to their dealerships to remember the 3,000 Americans who were murdered.  After a long discussion in which she initially told me that “everyone is entitled to their opinion in America” in the public service announcement, Barb Mozer, of Mozer Media, which places ads for Metro Chevy Dealers, told me, this afternoon, that the Chevy Dealers would be pulling the ad.

But the ad might continue anyway, because CBS Radio Detroit chief Kenyon–who, again, is creating a new conservative talk radio station–personally created the disgusting ad with a Muslim employee and she’s very “proud” of it.    Check out this e-mail discussion I had with Kenyon and let her know, if you live in Detroit, whether this will endear you to her new “conservative” talk station:

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Deb, Questions Re- Your Offensive “Muslims Are the Victims of 9/11″ Ads . . .
To: “Kenyon, Debbie” Debbie.Kenyon@cbsradio.com

Deb:
I’m writing to ask about the very offensive “Muslims were the real victims of 9/11″ PSAs that are running throughout the Detroit CBS radio group. As you know or should know, the ad features the voice of an alleged Muslim woman claiming that Muslims are the real victims of 9/11 because allegedly, Islamic school were evacuated repeatedly since 9/11 (something that isn’t documented anywhere as the ad admits because it just didn’t happen), and because Muslims “have been forced to live in fear” ever since. The ad then asks people to go to metro Detroit Chevy dealers and ask for a peace lantern to light up on 9/11. The ad is outrageous, and if I had a show on your station, I would run this ad and then rant and rave about it to your listeners.

I understand from your WWJ Sales manager, Bruce Stoller, who has not heard the ads, and from other officials I spoke to today at WWJ, that this highly disturbing ad was your idea, and that you wanted to do this to “reach out to the victims of 9/11 ten years later.” HUH? Deb, 3,000 AMERICANS–not Muslims–were murdered because they are Americans. 19 MUSLIMS were the PERPETRATORS. This is how you reach out to victims??? PUH-LEEZE. Bruce Stoller said that you not only dreamed up the ad and the idea of the lanterns, but that you approached the Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers to sponsor the ad. What were you thinking? I’m now going to write about this and urge people to boycott the Chevy dealers over this, so you just hurt your advertiser by pulling them into disgusting political correctness.

Why did you do this, Deb? Is it the position of CBS radio that Muslims are the real victims of 9/11? If not, why the heck are you running this ad? Why did you approach advertisers and get them in on this absurd, liberal, PC message? And yet you are running a “conservative” radio station? Hilarious. You must think conservative listeners are very gullible.

Looking forward to your response.

Debbie Schlussel

Here’s her response, and you should note that despite her claims, I’ve repeatedly heard this “Muslims are the victims of 9/11″ spot and no others regarding 9/11. Even if there were others (and there aren’t–this one ran frequently), would we let Nazis cut spots about the 10th anniversary of World War II? Apparently, CBS Radio Detroit boss Deb Kenyon would. (She copied Dom Theodore, a consultant to Glenn Beck, and the program director of the new “conservative” talk radio, on her response. He’s the one who picked a liberal to host the only local show on the station, the morning show.)

From: Kenyon, Debbie Debbie.Kenyon@cbsradio.com
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Subject: RE: Deb, Questions Re- Your Offensive “Muslims Are the Victims of 9/11″ Ads . . .
To: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com

This is a personal story by one of our employees. We are asking our listeners, clients and staf,f [DS: sic] if they choose, to cut a 9/11 remembrance spot. The 9/11 concept was my idea and I am proud of the message we are sending at CBS Radio Detroit.

Well, she’s got the “story” part right. There’s no truth in anything the Muslima said in the PSA. It’s all lies. There’s nothing “personal” about it. It presents absolute falsehoods she didn’t personally experience (because they never occurred) as “fact.”

My responses:

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Deb, Questions Re- Your Offensive “Muslims Are the Victims of 9/11″ Ads . . .
To: “Kenyon, Debbie” Debbie.Kenyon@cbsradio.com

Deb:
It can’t possibly be a personal story b/c she says that Muslim schools around the country were repeatedly evacuated due to bomb threats. That simply NEVER happened–not anywhere else, and NOT in Detroit. It’s a lie. You are lying to your listeners and invoking your advertiser, Chevy Dealers, in the lie. She also says that Muslims lived in fear after 9/11, as if the rest of us Americans are bigots who ran to kill them. Sorry, but again, that backlash just didn’t happen. There is only one such case–in which people murdered a Sikh gas station owner in Arizona. On the contrary, we bent over backward for Muslims in so many ways since 9/11, the list would circle the moon. Who is the person who told these lies in this ad which is running repeatedly on your stations and why are you shielding her identity and giving her airtime to lie?

Essentially, you are proud of saying that Muslims are the real victims of 9/11, not the perpetrators. And that 3,000 Americans who died then are not the victims, but Muslims are? I’ve started calling Chevy dealer owners in Detroit who know nothing about this ad, and they are flabbergasted. The ad is disgusting. Again, you must think that conservatives–and other Americans–are very gullible. Sad, very sad. My cousin was murdered in the towers, and I doubt you could face his family after playing that sickening ad for them.
DS

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From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Subject: PS: Deb, Questions Re- Your Offensive “Muslims Are the Victims of 9/11″ Ads . . .
To: “Kenyon, Debbie” Debbie.Kenyon@cbsradio.com

PS, Deb:
Since you say this is a “personal story” by your employee, have you gotten her to name a single Muslim school in Detroit which was “evacuated repeatedly” as she claims in the ad? Can you provide the name of the school and documentation? Of course, not. Because it NEVER happened. You are lying to your listeners.
DS

Of course, Kenyon did not respond, nor would she name the employee or any Detroit Muslim school allegedly “repeatedly evacuated because of bomb threats after 9/11.” It never happened.

But now you know how reliable the information you get from CBS radio is: they shill for jihad in “honor” of the “victims” of 9/11.

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BTW, I don’t believe we’re getting the full story here. One of CBS Radio Detroit’s biggest advertisers is Yahya Basha, a Syrian Muslim doctor who does breast exams and who has been cited by the FDA in a warning letter. (Get your breasts checked there at your own risk . . . if you’re a moron.) He was on the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and headed the American Muslim Council until it was shut down by the federal government for fundraising for HAMAS and for its executive director’s planned murder plot on then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdulllah, after being paid to do the job by Muammar Qaddafi. Basha recently settled a lawsuit after he fired his General Counsel after he learned that she was married, had children, and was a Jew. Basha (who is a Republican and who frequently met with President Bush) is an extremist and he pays CBS Radio Detroit big bucks. Cha-ching!

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Aug 28th, 2011 | By R. Mitchell | Category: 2012 Election News, Featured, Politics

FEC-logo.jpgThe six commissioners of the Federal Election Commission are being tasked with a Constitutional question: Can a foreign-born citizen run for President of the United States?

 

The Constitution strictly forbids anyone but a “natural-born citizen” from becoming president, but it does not restrict candidacy. Now, the FEC won’t either.

 

Guyana-born New York attorney Abdul Hassan would like to file papers, take campaign contributions, and collect federal matching funds for his candidacy. Two draft advisory opinions from the FEC may let him do just that – even though he can never be sworn into that office.

 

Hassan had posed four questions to the commission.

1) As a naturalized American citizen, will Mr. Hassan be considered a “candidate ” or “person ” running for President under the Act?

2) As a naturalized American citizen, is Mr. Hassan eligible to receive presidential matching funds under the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account Act?

3) As a naturalized American citizen, will Mr. Hassan violate 2 U.S.C. 44Ih(b) if he solicits and receives contributions for his presidential campaign?

4) Is Mr. Hassan required to comply with the Act’s provisions regarding expenditures, contributions, record keeping, and reporting?

The opinions state that he can be a candidate, can collect campaign contributions and would be required to disclose his campaign finances to the commission. The difference between the two opinions is the question of whether or not he may receive federal matching funds for his campaign. Draft A forbids him from collecting the matching money and Draft B sidesteps the question as “hypothetical”.

 

Why Hassan is pressing this issue, with full knowledge that he will not win the election and even if he did, could not be president is not immediately clear. It could be the slippery-slope approach that liberals take when attempting to erode the power of the Constitution. Before long, the FEC may be questioning the definition of “natural-born” or “citizen”. It would only take a single challenge to his candidacy to open a legal case that would ultimately end up in the Supreme Court.

 

The Constitution does not define “natural-born citizen”. That term is defined in section 8 of the United States Code of  Laws. This challenge could open up the question of whether the U.S. code is an accurate or Constitutionally-acceptable definition. Semantics are the tool of the left and they may be at work to change the application of a fundamental clause in the U.S. Constitution.

 

This is not the first attempt to circumvent the natural-born citizen requirement to be president. More than 20 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed to change the requirement. Perhaps the most famous being one that was intended to allow Henry Kissinger to serve as President.

 

The FEC could vote on the opinions as early as Thursday and for either opinion to be accepted, four of the six commissioners must agree.

 

Public comments must be submitted by Noon on Wednesday August 31st, 2011. Those wishing to comment on the Draft A or Draft B of the Draft Advisory Opinion 2011-15 should follow these directions:

  1. Comments must be in writing, and they must be both legible and complete.
  2. Comments must be submitted to the Office of the Commission Secretary by hand delivery or fax (202) 208-3333, with a duplicate copy submitted to the Office of General Counsel by hand delivery or fax (202) 219-3923.
  3. Comments must be received by noon (Eastem Time) on August 31,2011.
  4. The Commission will generally not accept comments received after the deadline. Requests to extend the comment period are discouraged and unwelcome. An extension request will be considered only if received before the comment deadline and then only on a case-by-case basis in special circumstances.
  5. All timely received comments will be made available to the public at the Commission’s Public Records Office and will be posted on the Commission’s website at http://saos.mctusa.com/saos/searchao

If you would like to deliver your comments by hand, one copy each should be delivered to:
Office of the Commission Secretary
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20463

-AND-

Office of General Counsel
ATTN: Rosemary C. Smith, Esq.
Federal Election Commission
999 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20463

 

Rich Mitchell is the managing editor of ConservativeDailyNews.com and a Conservative political commentator. You can follow Rich on twitter, facebook, Google+ and hear him on the air.

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Senior Official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad: If We Come to Power, We Will Launch a Campaign of Islamic Conquests to Instate Shari'a Worldwide

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On August 13, 2011, the Egyptian daily Roz Al-Yousef published an interview with Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, a senior official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), who, on March 23, 2011, was freed from prison in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. He was imprisoned in 1991 upon returning from a three-year sojourn in Afghanistan.

 

To read the full report, click here.

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545 vs. 300,000,000 People

Charley Reese's final column
Just a Friendly Reminder

A very interesting column. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL
Be sure to Read the Poem at the end.
Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel.
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
- By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy","inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to Tax his ass.
Tax all he has then let him know that you won't be done till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid..
Put these words upon his tomb, 'Taxes drove me to my doom...'
When he's gone do not relax, Its time to apply the inheritance Tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN.
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BANK ACCOUNT!!!

BANK  ACCOUNT!!!  


This  is AWESOME ... something we should all remember.  


A  92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed  each   morning  by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and  shaved   perfectly,  even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home  today.  


His  wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.  After   many  hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he  smiled   sweetly  when told his room was ready.  


As  he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual  description   of  his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his  window.   I  love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having  just   been  presented with a new puppy.  

 

Mr.  Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.'  

 

'That  doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied.  

 

Happiness  is something you decide on ahead of time.  

 

Whether  I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture  is   arranged  ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love  it.   'It's  a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a  choice;   I  can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with  the   parts  of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be  thankful   for  the ones that do.  


Each  day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new  day   and  all the happy memories I've stored away.. Just for this time in my  life.  

 

Old  age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put  in.  

 
So,  my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the  bank   account  of memories!  

 

Thank  you for your part in filling my Memory Bank. I  am still depositing.  


'Remember  the five simple rules to be happy:  

1.  Free your heart from hatred.  

        
2.  Free your mind from worries.  
      
     
3.  Live simply.  

   
4.  Give more.  

  
5.  Expect less.  
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The Fellowship of the Right Wing

The Fellowship of the Right-Wing

Barak Obama may indeed be the Messiah.  He has certainly worked a political miracle in the last  2 years that has astounded many Americans. He has worked a healing miracle as the myriad bone cells that make the skeletal tissue of America, fractured and splintered, have knit themselves together. The breaks have been replaced by tissue that is not only healed, but stronger than before. The coalescing of The Fellowship of the Right Wing is a miracle because the nature of the conservative individual is stubbornly independent.

The Tea Party, The Conservative Patriot Resistance, The Red Stampede, the Resurgent Right, whatever you want to call it, is the ideological combination of disparate thinking, lifestyles, regionalisms, religions, and talents. Conservatives have never been followers of charismatic individuals. But we are followers of the heady principles of Liberty and of Constitutional government. Most of us will freely follow God, but we bristle when we are asked to follow a man. We question and vet, and we may treat a leader "pretty ugly"  if he is hypocritical or destructive. We reject the self-serving and duplicitous who wear the Conservative label on their sleeves, who follow some lesser star such as power or notoriety.  We trust only leaders who follow the highest, Divine Authority. We are headstrong, self-governing, free-thinking and we have contempt for government interference and the fawning sycophants who worship the god of the state.

The Fellowship of the Right Wing has come together, thanks to the great physician, (oops, I just puked a little in my mouth) Barak Obama. Conservative activist groups, PACs, think-tanks, blogs and news outlets, social networks, community and neighborhood liberty groups, and the new conservative political class has inundated the American scene.  I am chin-deep in the activities of the Right Wing, and I can tell you that my 'friends', 'followers', fellow activists, conservatives, Republicans, bloggers, campaign workers, and ideological soul mates are the cream that has risen to the top of political activity. Secure, educated, actualized and accomplished men and women who have a deep love of America, a love of the truth, and an appetite for freedom are enmeshed, cells in a protective tissue, healing and growing, that will cover the deep wounds of a brutalized nation.

Barak Obama has assaulted the nation with his socialist policies and inept handling of military, social, and economic challenges. But he is just one face on a many-headed dragon. He is a failure, the worst president in American history. But he, like an infection or an injury, has signaled the healing cells within the healthy body of America to rally to attack their invaders; all the social and political diseases that define the Left.

Yeah, this is not just synapse soup, but metaphor soup as well.

 

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By John W. Lillpop

Barack Obama’s treasonous  decision to ignore the law and permit illegal aliens to avoid deportation has agitated a large number of people who would remind The One that his job is to enforce the law, rather than break it.

Some patriots are pressed to understand why the president is so anti-rule of law when it comes to illegal aliens.

Shaking down the Obama family tree may provide answers.

To begin with, Obama's Auntie Zeituni lived in America as an illegal alien for several years.

Then we have his Uncle Obama who made news by virtue of his DUI and arrest as an illegal alien.

 

It appears to be in the Obama family DNA to live in America illegally. A trait which also applies to our community organizer posing as president!


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THE FIX......VERY SIMPLE

There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg , Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?" I think this guy nailed it!



Dear Mr. President,



Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.


You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":



There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:



1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.



2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN Car. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.



3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.



It can't get any easier than that!!



P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes..



Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!


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Bankruptcy 101...why Arizona did the right thing!!

 

 

 

 

It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.

 

A Real Eye Opener

WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?

Informative, and mind boggling!

 

You think the war in Iraq was costing us too much? Read this:

 

We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

 

 

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

 

 

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification

of all the following facts...

 

1.

 

$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

 

Verify

at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

2.

 

$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

 

Verify

at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

 

3.

$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

 

Verify at:

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4.

 

$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

 

Verify

at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML

5.

$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

 

Verify

at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

 

6.

 

$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

 

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML 

7.

30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

 

 

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

8.

 

$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

 

 

Verify

at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML

 

 

9.

$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

 

 

Verify

at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI < http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute/

13.

 

In 2006, illegal aliens sent home

$45 BILLION in remittances to their

countries of origin.

 

 

Verify

at: <http://rense.com/general75/niht.htm>; >

 

14.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:

Nearly One million sex crimes committed

by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .

 

Verify

at:http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

 

The total cost is a whopping " href=;

$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS

A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,

HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING

THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS

$338,300,000,000.00 WHICH

WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE

THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF

 

THIS COUNTRY.

 Are we THAT Stupid?

YES, FOR LETTING THOSE

IN THE U.S. CONGRESS

GET AWAY WITH LETTING

THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER

 

YEAR!!!!!

   

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Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material.

He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender, repeatedly sent him to prison, state records show.

But over more than two years, the state paid Osborne nearly $5,000 to baby-sit two children, before his latest conviction — for dealing drugs — put him back behind bars.

Osborne, of Chicago, wasn't the only sex offender paid by taxpayers to baby-sit, according to a Tribune investigation that found cases of convicted rapists, molesters and other violent felons given access to children over the past decade. The money comes from a $750 million-a-year program that subsidizes child care for more than 150,000 impoverished Illinois families.

The state Department of Human Services poorly vetted baby sitters for years — and when a 2009 law forced better checks, it took nearly 18 months to start them, the newspaper's investigation of the Child Care Assistance Program found.

Also, despite the reforms, the Tribune found that even now the state lacks safeguards to weed out baby sitters who watch children while living in the homes of sex offenders and other felons deemed too dangerous. Based on those findings, the state is vowing further reforms.

It's nearly impossible to determine just how many of the illegal baby-sitting arrangements the state has allowed. The newspaper found no cases where children were harmed, although privacy laws shield data needed to do an in-depth study.

Still, the Tribune's findings are frustrating to Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, who pushed for the reforms mandating better checks to weed out illegal arrangements.

"You're talking about not only the state sanctioning, but the state creating, an economic incentive for someone with a criminal record to be in a room with a kid," Murphy said. "That's frankly not a situation that I find acceptable."

Advocates such as Maria Whelan insist that the vast majority of baby sitters are aboveboard and that the 14-year-old federal-state program is key to helping parents work their way out of poverty. About half of the subsidies are in Cook County, where they are administered by the nonprofit Illinois Action for Children run by Whelan.

"This is a program that is absolutely essential if we are going to, with a straight face, tell families that if they work and if they continue to develop themselves, we can help them make a difference for their families," she said.

Program administrators have gotten national recognition for weeding out parents who don't qualify for the subsidies. But records show they've struggled for years to weed out disqualified baby sitters, such as Osborne.

The honor system

All it took for Osborne was a 2004 application mailed with the help of his sister, whose two children he would be paid to watch in her Englewood apartment.

She was able to pick the baby sitter, and she told the Tribune she didn't worry about her brother hurting the kids. But she did worry the state would object.

"I thought he would be rejected," she said, "but they didn't. I never got a call. They never asked about it."

They should have. The program has long barred those convicted of sex crimes and the most violent felonies. But Osborne wasn't spotted because of how the form was filled out. It asked him if he had been convicted of any crimes and, if so, which ones. His response showed "drug trafficking" — a crime that at the time didn't disqualify him.

He didn't mention the prison stints for rape, robbery and kidnapping, which would have.

And there's no record anyone checked further.

At the time, the state trusted Osborne and tens of thousands of other applicants to be honest.

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Who We Are Dealing With---In His Own Words

This is not easy to watch.  This is probably the sickest I've ever been, at heart, upon viewing this accurate compilation of our Dear Leader, in his own words.  Fox News had been trying to get it out, as I understand it, but is unable to.  Irregardless, if there is any question in anybody's mind as to how essential it is for us to remove, at ALL COSTS, this traitorous cretin that has taken control of this nation, here is an answer to that question...in HIS OWN WORDS:

 

It's one thing, hearing this stuff disjointed by time and circumstance.  Put together, it is the most revealing and shocking thing you probably will ever see.  Then again, never assume anything.  Something else will probably come along!
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Opening Day: Tea Party Express V

4063369372?profile=originalMary and I left our home in Central Florida at 5am. We flew/traveled 12 hours to hook up with the Tea Party Express bus in Oakland, CA. After a quick shower and wardrobe change, we arrived in Napa, CA where I performed at the tour launching fund raising VIP gala.

 

Still on east coast time, I awoke at 5:30am for our 11am Napa Tea Party. Napa is absolutely beautiful. I do not drink. But, my wife Mary throughly enjoyed sampling the local wines.

 

I was excited to meet a young Christian band called “Remnant” who was the opening act before our Tea Party Express team took the stage. Check out “Remnant” on Youtube.

 

4063369390?profile=originalThe beauty of our extraordinary Tea Party movement is We The People using our gifts and talents and following our passions; patriots doing their part to take back America.

 

One such patriot I met today at our Napa rally is author, Robin Bohr. Robin's husband Mike got tired of her yelling at the TV. He suggested Robin write a book.

 

Robin penned, “Tea Party: American Revolution 2.0”. It is the compelling history of average Americans entering the political arena for the first time.

 

After Napa, we traveled three hours to do our rally in Sparks, Nevada. Then, we traveled three hours to Winnemucca, NV where we spent the night.

 

4063369489?profile=originalOur bodies still not totally on west coast time yet, we are on the bus headed to Elko, NV, our first rally of two today. Our second rally is in Salt Lake City, UT, four hours away. The mountains and spacious skies are breathtaking. I think I will sing, “America the Beautiful” at our Elko rally.

 

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Co-Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.

Please help me spread my message by joining my
Liberty Network.

Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the
American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin

LloydMarcus.com

 

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4063369078?profile=originalPlease, please, please understand, as we said in the 60s, “where I'm coming from”. This article is NOT about bashing homosexuals. I have homosexual family and friends whom I love very much.

 

However, I found David Gregory's attack on Michele Bachmann for comments she made regarding homosexuality to be extremely disturbing and offensive. Bachmann is a Christian and simply compassionately espoused the biblical point of view.

 

Just as Muslims live by the Quran, Christians strive to live by the Bible. Here are a few Bible quotes about homosexuality.

 

Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."

 

Lev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act;...”

 

Rom. 1:26-27, "...for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts...”

 

Whether you agree with the Bible or not is irrelevant. My point is Bachmann did not “make up” her take on homosexuality. It came from a holy book considered sacred by mega millions worldwide.

 

So, when Gregory beat up on Bachmann, he was really attacking Christians and the Bible. But, most disturbing was Gregory's arrogant bullying and implicit threat to all who disagree.

 

In effect, he announced: We, the media, have declared homosexuality normal; period, end of subject. Anyone of you Neanderthals daring to suggest otherwise will suffer the consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEzeAZV6Rk

 

Would Gregory have been so aggressive interviewing a Muslim presidential candidate about their beliefs? I suspect not.

 

Most Americans accept homosexuals and are repulsed by anyone abusing them. However, America's acceptance of homosexuals is not good enough for the left. The left wish to bend our arms behind our backs until we cry “uncle”, proclaiming homosexuality to be normal.

 

Even home improvement and cooking TV programs feature a high number of homosexual couples disproportionate to the population. Clearly, many TV producers have an agenda to normalize the homosexual lifestyle.

 

My dad has been in Christian ministry as a pastor for 50 years. Dad said he is being pressured to embrace the Gospel of Homosexuality. He added, “Those of us who disagree are being pushed into the closet.”

 

Has the left won? Are we afraid to quote the Bible's rebuke of homosexuality?

 

Think about this folks. According to the left, if you disapprove of men sodomizing each other and women performing cunnilingus on each other, not only are you a “hater”, you are deemed mentally ill; diagnosed as homophobic and in need of treatment.

 

During his Bachmann interview, Gregory kept referring to homosexuals as “Gay Americans” in an attempt to make disapproval of a “sexual behavior” the same as discriminating against an ethnic group; African, Hispanic and other Americans. The left reinforces the theme, calling opposition to the homosexual agenda “bigotry”.

 

Black Civil Rights groups are offended by the left comparing their struggle to that of homosexuals.

 

I state again, “I have homosexual family and friends whom I love very much.” However, loving them does not mean I must submit to dictatorial pressure from the media to embrace the homosexual lifestyle as being normal.

 

To get their way, the left always distorts the discord, portraying all opposition to equal the extreme evil.

 

For example. Americans welcome “legal” immigrants with open arms. We oppose “illegal” immigration and all the crime and stress on our welfare system which comes with it. The left brands anyone seeking to protect our borders extremist, anti-immigration and racist.

 

If you believe elementary kids should not be forced to celebrate Gay Pride Day and not be encouraged to experiment with homosexuality, the left numbers you among the minority of nut cases seeking to harm homosexuals.

 

Regardless of the issue, the left via their liberal media enforcers, slanders the opposition, painting them to be haters and extremists. Former Obama supporters turned off by his unfolding socialistic agenda are suddenly, “redneck racists against a black president”.

 

Patriots, I realize all of you are not Christians and my purpose is not to force my faith on anyone. This article is not about whether homosexuality is right or wrong. It is about the liberal media throwing down the gauntlet saying, “Hey, you Christians had better get with the program regarding the normalcy of homosexuality, or else!”

 

The liberal media usurping ultimate authority to enforce their “ultimate consensus” on an issue, destroying anyone who dares think otherwise, is a serious assault on our freedom.

 

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Co-Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.

Please help me spread my message by joining my
Liberty Network.

Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the
American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin

LloydMarcus.com

 

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Illegal Immigration

      I believe another way to cut costs in the budget without truly hurting the wrong people is to go after the right people.  Illegal immigrants are a massive drain on many institutions in this country.  Healthcare, education, our courts and prisons, housing, jobs and many more that probably could be named all suffer due to the lack of enforcement of our immigration laws by our politicians.  Allowing lawbreakers access to what law-abiding citizens pay into with their hard-earned money is simply just wrong.  When you allow this to happen, it's no wonder why this country is going bankrupt.  You cannot continue to take out more than what you put in. Before you know it, you are basically robbing Peter to pay Paul and sooner or later, the well will run dry.  

      One way to work towards solving this problem is stop offering incentives for people to enter the country illegally.  Anyone who is not a legal citizen of this country should not be allowed ANY benefits whatsoever: no free money, no free or subsidized housing or healthcare, no free education, no Medicare or Social Security.  NOTHING AT ALL.  There is something wrong with this picture when people who don't basically pay into the system get to receive benefits from this same system.

      Another thing, no more anchor babies.   If you come here illegally, it's not our fault you have a child so don't expect us to pay for it in any way.  No free benefits at all.  Sorry. It may sound hateful but there is nothing hateful about wanting to be able to support all the poor people and children that we already have in our country who by the way are legal Americans.  When illegals drain the limited resources that we have in place, soon those citizens who legitimately need the help can not receive it.  I know too many people who need the help yet can't receive anything.  Of course, i don't only blame this on illegals, because I know that there are many Americans who abuse these systems in place to help those in need.  Root out fraud, corruption and waste and that will also go a long way into helping us save possibly billions of dollars alone per year.

 

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The Black Caucus in America ....

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As a Canadian I was surprised when I heard such a caucus existed in America. I have come to understand that special interest groups have led to a lot of corruption in both our political arenas but when I heard that existed dedicated to a specific race of people gave me great pause. It still does.

I never think about the colour of the persons skin when I cast my vote. In spite of what naysayers echo there is a majority among us in North America that vet our candidates and make our decision on who to vote for based on that alone. It has absolutely nothing to do with the colour of someones skins but rather a personal assessment of the character and experience of those we choose to support. I vote for the person who promises to represent most of what I want my government to do. I say 'most' because you never get everything you want in any candidate.

Why then is there a 'black caucus' made up from elected officials in America? What does that mean? Does it mean they only represent the black voters in their districts? Why would an elected official even feel the need to join a segregated club? Do they feel the need to join because of ongoing race discrimination or grave difference in needs being met in America and if so what does that say? The needs of the black population are more important than the white?  As a white voter am I then pushed to the end of the line of importance by my representative because they happen to be black? If I have a black neighbour are his needs more likely to be met than those of mine because I am white?

Newsflash America!   After watching your politics for a number of years now it would appear that might just be the case. There is now a form of reverse racism taking place in your country that you would do well to recognize and demand be stopped before it gets out of hand! America, like Canada is a melting pot and it is my opinion there are all things special about all citizens no matter what race, colour or creed we happen to be. It does not matter how or when we got to North America. What matters and should matter is the here and now and how we cope with living side by side with each other.

When I hear of groups like this caucus in your government it leads to division and not unification of your country because it means those representatives went there to take care of their own special interest group. When I hear the like of Charlie Rangle and Maxine Waters (to name just a few of the members) spouting off about how mistreated 'my people' are it causes me to listen up and understand that if I were a white person in their district they are not talking about me.

Special interest groups here in Canada have led to be handicapped by an outreach of special treatment. Instead of giving all Canadians equal treatment under our laws my government decided the French speaking population in Quebec needed special treatment. It divided us. My provincial government decided to deal with a large influx of immigrants whose kids started school without being able to speak english with special treatment. All kind of people are now employed on the public dole to teach these kids to speak english and every citizen is paying for this. All of us out of the tax money we surrender and our children who do speak english because time is taken away from them while the special interests are catered to. This has further divided Canadians. Then there was the government many years ago deciding to 'parent' our vast native Indian population and they almost wiped them out entirely.

No one takes better care of myself and my family than I do. No one represents me better in the political areana than the person I help get elected and then follow. To allow special interest groups to form within a government is asking for big, big trouble. It will help the few and not the many.

I have never seen this discussed among Americans so ask again - "Why is a black caucus allowed in your political arena?" With the exception of the colour of our skin everything about us here in North America IS THE SAME. If we are to be given equal representation I think it is long past time that caucus is dissolved. Elected officials can join any club they want to privately but to publicly join a club which divides the people is a boil on the political arena that needs to be lanced.

As a final note when I visited the website of this caucus they were flashing a photograph of Martin Luther King. I followed him in my younger years. Attended many marches across the line demanding equal treatment for all men and women. Dr. King was a uniter. Not a divider. His vision for America was one of equal rights and equal treatment for all. Somehow it would seem that this caucus has corrupted the message he sent around the world to all people of good heart.

 

I find that very sad indeed.

 

Just a view from my side of the fence,

I am your Northern Neighbour,

Cam Vallee

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Waste, fraud and illegal immigration.

I believe that many of our problems today that arise from our monetary woes in this country, if tied in together, could go a long way into helping us resolve these woes.  For instance, rather than cutting programs like Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Veterans benefits, etc., if only we went after all the corruption, fraud and waste in these programs, these efforts would go a long way in saving probably  millions, if not billions of dollars being thrown away.  Simply by cutting funding to these programs, it is only those that truly need them who will be hurt.  Those who don't will still be reaping what they don't need or deserve. 

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