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A Chinese auto company having just won the auction for bankrupt A123 Systems, one of Barack Obama’s car battery darlings that received a $249 million grant from the Obama government further illustrates why the White House playing capital investor with taxpayer funds investor is a very bad idea.

When Obama took office in January 2009, five million “green” jobs were promised, yet nowhere near that number have been created. The companies Obama invests in keep failing because Americans do not want to purchase inefficient energy at inflated prices.

Furthermore, eighty percent of the green loans, loan guarantees, and grants given out by Department of Energy went to Obama campaign backers:

•SunPower, after receiving $1.5 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.

•First Solar, after receiving $1.46 billion from DOE, is reorganizing, cutting jobs.

•Solyndra, after receiving $535 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Ener1, after receiving $118.5 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Evergreen Solar, after receiving millions of dollars from the state of Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•SpectraWatt, backed by Intel and Goldman Sachs, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Beacon Power, after receiving $43 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Abound Solar, after receiving $400 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Amonix, after receiving $5.9 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Babcock & Brown (an Australian company), after receiving $178 million from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Solar Trust for America, after receiving a $2.1-billion loan guarantee from DOE, filed for bankruptcy protection.

•Nevada Geothermal, after receiving $98.5 million from DOE, warns of potential defaults in new SEC filings.

“progressives” continue to promote global warming, or to use the most recent and now more popular vernacular: climate change.  The narrative is that planet earth is experiencing a warming climate due primarily to the emission of man-made ”greenhouse gases”.  The most often and specifically referenced gas is carbon dioxide.

According to Matt Rosenberg at Atmosphere Composition, the earth’s atmosphere is composed primarily of Nitrogen and Oxygen. Together, the two comprise about 99% of the gas in the atmosphere. Here’s a listing of the key components of the atmosphere:

Nitrogen – 78.084%

Oxygen – 20.95%

Argon – 0.934%

Carbon Dioxide – 0.036%

Neon – 0.0018%

Helium – 0.0005%

Methane – 0.00017%

Hydrogen – 0.00005%

Nitrous Oxide – 0.00003%

Ozone – 0.000004%

In addition, water vapor is variable but typically makes up about 1-4% of the atmosphere.

“progressives” would have the world’s population believe that fluctuations in a trace element of earth’s atmosphere (0.036%) caused by the burning of fossil fuels like petroleum and coal has resulted in such catastrophic events as the melting of earth’s polar ice caps and glaciers.  They contend this will lead to the flooding of coastal areas and the extinction of species.

A nation of over 300 million people, which currently derives less than 5 percent of its energy from “alternatives” cannot expect to put an immediate end to the use of fossil fuels.  This could quite possibly bring the nation’s ailing economy to a grinding halt, resulting in a massive loss of business, leading to a dramatic decrease in already insufficient tax revenue and an extremely painful increase in unemployment.

Is putting an end to the use of petroleum worth the accompanying reduction in the living standards and the overall prosperity of a nation?  Is it worth the resulting ballooning of America’s national debt and further devaluation of its currency?

“progressives” feel an ongoing, compulsive need to force America to accept their “green energy solution”. Proposals made by the current administration and fellow “progressives” indicate a desire to achieve this end at all costs come what may.  Stiffer regulations on auto emissions and mileage, EPA regulations on energy providers, resistance to development of domestic natural resources, deficit government spending on inefficient and uncompetitive solar, wind, tide and bio-fuel technology dominate the political landscape.

America’s public and industrial infrastructure is based on the use of petroleum, natural gas and coal.  Nearly everyone drives a vehicle that burns gasoline or diesel fuel. Public transportation relies on fossil fuels as well. Natural gas, heating oil and coal are used in furnaces to heat homes and places of business. Coal and nuclear power generate electricity, which powers countless devices; the uses of which are taken for granted every day. Coal, natural gas and petroleum products power American’s industrial complex, the base of the American economic engine. America’s economy depends heavily on the existing sources of power. These methods of providing and consuming energy are all deeply ingrained into America’s business, manufacturing and home life.

Why does America continue spending hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign energy while America has undeveloped energy? Why not keep those billions of dollars at home, in America’s cash starved economy?

At a time when millions of Americans are looking for work, the economy is starving for liquid capital, and the IRS is in desperate need of revenue why not take advantage of America’s wealth of natural resources? Why not give Americans jobs drilling for oil and natural gas or digging for coal? Why not put people to work building refineries and power plants? Why not give energy employees jobs delivering gas, coal and natural gas to consumers? How many peripheral jobs will be created in the process? For every new oil well, power plant, refinery or mine there will be new infrastructure built, followed by grocery stores, restaurants, shopping malls, housing, schools, and everything else everyday Americans need for their lives.

All generated by the only force capable of powering America’s economic recovery: the private sector.

And none of those jobs could possibly be moved overseas.

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/green-energy-equals-american-decline/ 

When the Republicans bought into the democrat bait and decided that they would be against “tax increases for the rich” they set the stage for when Romney “the “rich man” would become their candidate and the republican party would appear to be for rich people. And so the Obama propaganda machine convinced people that the republican party is for rich people and has disdain for the poor and middle class. Of course this is ridiculous, but the ignorant voters drank the Kool Aid and believed it.

Now this has become the main sticking point in the budget negotiations; the seeming stubbornness of the republicans to look after the welfare of the rich, when they're really trying to bring sanity into the government by restraining profligate spending.

Of course Obama is hypocritical in that he has many millionaire “rich” donors and members of his administration; for example Warren Buffet who says he should be paying more taxes; while at the same time fighting in court NOT to pay the taxes he already owes.

The Democrats are trying to co-opt the tea Party conservatives by coaxing them to compromise on their commitments not to raise the taxes, reminiscent of George, “read my lips” Bush Sr. That betrayal cost Bush the presidency.

So now it appears that the republicans are over the barrel as they’re coming to the dubious “cliff”. They must now either back out of their commitment not to raise taxes or be accused of being the one’s who’re bringing the country over the cliff. This clever democrat ruse not only makes the republicans either liars or fiscally irresponsible; it also will create divisiveness between republicans.

Nick Fortunato

What patriots find most alarming about the reelection of Obama is the feeling that we have lost America.

Recently, a pro football player committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend. The media blames guns and football for the shooting. They act as if the football player bore no responsibility, which is in keeping with Obama's new America.

This is why we who cherish morals, decency, hard work and personal responsibility are so upset that Obama has four more years to further his decline of America.

Admittedly, the decline of America began long before Barack Obama. However, under Obama, America's decline has been on steroids. He won reelection promising to punish the rich and encouraging Americans to indulge in an orgy of mediocrity featuring endless unemployment benefits, an unprecedented number of Americans on food stamps, half the country on welfare and free Obama phones.

Such is the new normal in Obama's new America.

So yes, we patriots are heartbroken.

After serving in the Merchant Marines, my black dad earned a humble living as a day laborer. In 1956, he broke the color barrier into the Baltimore City Fire Department. The white firefighters hated my dad and did not want him at Engine 6. And yet, despite horrific conditions, dad won Firefighter of The Year two times.

Dad did not win because of lowered standards, Affirmative Action or someone deciding it's the black guy's turn. Dad won because he was the BEST! Such was a time when America celebrated excellence.

Have we totally lost that America?

What offends me most about the Obama Administration is that he continues to lower the bar of what it means to be an American. Given his reelection, one can only assume that a large percentage of Americans are OK with Obama's ask-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-rather-than-what-you-can-do for-your-country new vision for America. Screw work! Just gimme, gimme, gimme!

Dad did not believe government owed him or his five kids the American Dream. With me at his side, dad marched with Dr Martin Luther King Jr. to assure that his kids would have an opportunity to pursue the American Dream. Today, far too many Americans believe the job of government is to confiscate wealth to divvy out the American Dream equally to every American.

When did we lose Dad's America?

When did we become a country in which government and media celebrates immorality, laziness and covetousness? Occupy Wall Street thugs are declared heroes of a majority of Americans for demanding that government confiscate the earnings of achievers for redistribution. When did it become morally correct in America for government to confiscate and give away the harvest reaped by hard working citizens?

Were we asleep when America launched its War on Achievers?

Athletes who perform at the highest levels are inducted into the Hall of Fame. And yet, extraordinary success in the arena of finances is frowned upon and deemed evil. Remarkably, Mitt Romney's extraordinary financial success was effectively marketed as a negative against him in the presidential campaign.

When did exceptional-ism in business become demonic in America?

Well, here is a dirty little universal truth that the gimme crowd may not be aware of. The word is reciprocity. Reciprocity means we mutuality give to/help each other. But when that relationship becomes one sided, the giver stops giving. How long will Obama get away with seducing new voters by taking from achievers to redistribute to non-achievers before the givers say, “Screw it” and stop working?

How do we restore America? The answer: We continue to Tea Party.

The Tea Party began when patriots looked behind the curtain of white guilt and media hype to see Obama's overreaching, trashing of the Constitution and his socialistic/progressive agenda. Over the last four years, the Tea Party has evolved into countless organizations and a growing army of sophisticated political activists.

Obama winning reelection was the loss of a major battle. However, beware Obama and company, we have no intentions of surrendering our country or losing this war.

Future battles will include taking back our culture and educating dumbed down clueless Americans to the superior virtues/benefits of Conservatism over Liberalism.

And another thing – we MUST STOP being passive when democrats throw absurd character-assassination-grenades such as Republicans/Conservatives want blacks in slavery and women barefoot and pregnant. We must boldly get in their face and rebuke their vile, hate-inspiring, divisive lies.

I have also had it with black Americans being allowed and even encouraged to be racist. Black racists believe Authentic Blackness or “Racial Pride” means maintaining at least a minimal resentment against whites and our country. Racism is evil wherever it flexes its venomous tongue – time to call such people out!

So, I am ready. I am prayed up and my powder is dry. Let's roll!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

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Saturday, December 08, 2012

The first night of Chanukah marks the beginning of a holiday that for  many of its celebrants has no identity, that celebrates 'celebration',  with no thought to what it is celebrating. For many Americans, Chanukah  appears to overlap with Christmas, but there is no similarity between  the two other than the season. The more appropriate analogy is to the  4th of July overlaid with Thanksgiving, a celebration of divine aid in a military campaign against tyrannical oppression.
The overt militarism of the Chanukah story has made it an  uncomfortable fit for many Jews who have  found it easier to strip away its dangerous underlying message that a time comes when you must choose between the destruction  of your culture and a war you can't win. In those dark days a war must be fought  if the soul of the nation is to survive.
There are worse things  than death and slavery, the fates waiting for the Maccabees and their  allies had they failed, the fates that came anyway when the last of the  Maccabees were betrayed and murdered by Caesar's Edomite minister, whose sons went on to rule over Israel as the dynasty of Herod.
Nations can survive the mass murder of their bodies, but not the death of their spirit. A nation does not die, until its soul dies, and the soul of a nation is in its culture and its faith, not in the bodies of its citizens.
Tonight that first candle, that first glimmer of flame over oil, marks  the night that the Maccabee forces entered Jerusalem, driving out the  enemy armies and their Jewish collaborators, and reclaiming their  people's culture and religion.
The light of the flame was a powerful  message sent across time, that even in the darkest hour, hope was not  lost. And Divine Providence would not abandon the people. Time passed  the Maccabees fell, Jerusalem was occupied and ethnically cleansed over  and over again, and still the menorah burned on. A covert message that still all  hope was not lost. That Israel would rise again. 
Israel had used signal fires and torches held up on mountain tops to  pass along important news. The lighting of the menorah was a miniature  signal fire, a perpetuation of the temple light, its eight-day light a  reminder that even the smallest light can burn beyond expectation and  light beyond belief and that those who trust in G-d and fight for the  freedom to believe in Him, should never abandon hope.
That divine signal fire first lit in the deserts by freed slaves has been passed on for  thousands of years. Today the menorah is on the seal of the State of  Israel, the product of a modern day Chanukah. The mark of a Jerusalem  liberated in a miracle of six days, not eight. Six as in the number of  the original temple Menorah. And the one on the seal as well.
For those liberals who believe that Jewish identity should be limited to donating to help Haiti, agitating for  illegal aliens and promoting the environment; Chanukah is a threatening  holiday. They have secularized it, dressed it up with teddy bears and toys, trimmed it with the ecology and civil rights of their new faith. Occasionally a Jewish liberal learns the history of it and writes an outraged essay about nationalism and militarism, but mostly they are content to bury it in the same dark cellar that they store the rest of the history of their people and the culture that they left behind.
Holidays aren't mere parties, they are messages. Knots of time that we  tie around the fingers of our lives so that we remember what our  ancestors meant us to never forget. That they lived and died for a  reason. The party is a celebration, but if we forget what it celebrates, then it becomes a celebration of celebration. A hollow and  soulless festival of the self. The Maccabees fought because they believed they had  something worth fighting for. Not for their possessions, but for their  traditions, their families and their G-d. The celebration of Chanukah is not just how we remember them, but how we remember that we are called  upon to keep their watch. To take up their banner and carry their sword.
History is a wheel and as it turns, we see the old continents of time  rising again, events revisiting themselves as the patterns of the past  become new again. Ancient battles become new wars. And old struggles  have to be re-fought again until we finally get them right.
Modiin, the rural center of the old Maccabee resistance, is a revived city today, larger than it ever was. Modiin-Maccabim has some 80,000 people living there. In the ancient days, this was where the Maccabee clan rose against the Seleucid conquerors over religious freedom. Today it is a place that the European Union labels an illegal settlement. A place that Jews have no right to live even though it is within sight of the Maccabees who lived and died there. Over two thousand  years after Chanukah, Jews are still not allowed to live in peace in  Modiin.
The new Maccabees are farmers and teachers, men and women who build families and homes in the lands of their ancestors, who brave the threats of terrorists and international tyrants to live their lives and raise their children. Knowing that they will not be allowed to live in peace, that everything they stand for is hated by the UN, in the capitals of great empires and even by their own government, they still put flame to wick and mark the first day of many days of the miracle that revived the spirit of a nation and inspires it to this day.
Nor are they allowed to live in peace in Jerusalem. In Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood dispatches paid rapists to harass protesters and runs torture chambers for opponents of Morsi, without a word of direct condemnation from Washington. But Jewish homes always earn a swift condemnation from Washington and Brussels.
Not only may Jews not live in Modiin, but they may not live in Jerusalem either. And yet they do. They persist, to the eternal frustration of empires, in this quiet resistance of building a future with their buildings, their bodies and their lives. They persist in living where so many would like them to die. And they persist in lighting the menorah when so many would rather that it be forgotten.
The Jew today is called on to forget. To turn his children into  bricks in order to construct the utopia of their new world order. To bend  to the progressive wheel and wear the social justice chain, and cast his own offspring into the sea of zero population growth. To give up his  nation, his land, his faith and his future to toil in the shadow of  the pyramids of socialism. To go down to labor in Egypt once more, in South  America and Haitian slums, in barrios and villages, in ghettos and  madinas, to give up who he is in order to serve others in the  new slavery of social justice.
It takes courage to resist physical oppression, but it takes even greater courage to resist cultural oppression. The terms of physical resistance are easy to understand. Force is used against force. Cultural resistance is far more difficult, and by the time the necessity for it is apparent, it can often be too late.The Maccabees had to resist not only  physical oppression and armed force, but the cultural oppression of a  system that regarded their monotheism, their nationalism, their  traditions and rituals as barbaric. A system that much of their own  fellow Jews had already accepted as right and proper.
The Maccabees rose up not only against physical oppression, Israel had and would face that over and over again, they rose up against an assault on their religious and cultural  identity.  The lighting of the Menorah is the perpetuation of that cultural resistance and when it is performed properly then it reminds us that cultural oppression, like physical oppression, is ubiquitous, and that just as the forms of cultural oppression can often go unnoticed, so too the resistance to it can go unnoticed as well.
Every year that we celebrate Chanukah, the left makes another attempt to "desecrate the temple" by destroying its meaning and replacing it with the usual grab bag of  social justice issues under the union label of "Tikkun Olam". And each  time we push back against their ruthless assault on Jewish  history and tradition the same way that the Maccabees did, by reclaiming our sacred places, cleaning away the filth left behind by the occupiers, and lighting the Menorah to remind us of who we are.
Chanukah marks the culmination of the Maccabee campaign for the  liberation of Jerusalem. It is the time when we remember the men and  women who refused to submit to the perversion of their values and the  theft of their land. It reminds us that we must not allow our land to be stolen under any guise or allow our religion, history and culture to be perverted on any pretext. The light of the Menorah reminds us that the sacredness of a nation is in its spirit and that preserving that spirit is an eternal struggle against the conquerors of land and the tyrants of souls.

Chanukah is a Holiday of Resistance. It commemorates the physical and spiritual resistance that is required of us sooner or later in all times. Chanukah takes us back to the armed resistance and the moral awakening that  liberated Jerusalem and connected the Jewish people with their G-d once  again. And that reminds us to never give up, not in the face of an assault on our bodies or on our culture. The lights go out, but they are lit again, each day, for thousands of years, reminding us to hold on  to our traditions and our faith, rather than trade them in for the  trendy trinkets and cheap jewelery of progressive liberalism.
To light the menorah on Chanukah is to pass on a signal fire that has been kept lit for thousands of years. From the first  holiday of Passover, after which the freed slaves kindled the first  Menorah, to the final holiday of Chanukah, that light burns on. The  historical cycle of Jewish holidays begins with Moshe confronting  Pharaoh and demanding the freedom of the Jewish people. It ends with the Maccabees standing up to the tyranny of Antiochus and fighting for the  right of the Jewish people to live under their own rule on their own land.
The lights of the menorah embody the spirit of the Jewish people. A spirit that has outlived the atrocities of every tyrant. In the heart of the flame that has burned for a thousand years lives the soul of a people.

Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Should America pay for Obama Bailout Bacon for Detroit $200 million deficit because of voter election support?

When President Obama visits the Detroit area Monday, December 10th, should he bring a plane fill of election bacon payback for loyal Detroit voters? City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson is demanding America give the city bailout bacon to erase Detroit’s $200 plus million deficit as a quid pro quo for Detroit’s overwhelming presidential election support of Obama. “Elections have consequences,” she believes. So should you prepare to heat up the frying pan and get that bacon ready for Detroiters at your pocketbook’s expense?

In a Tuesday, December 4th City Council Meeting, Councilwoman Watson reminded those in the council chambers that , “After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander, he went to Washington, D.C. and came home with some bacon,” she also emphasized, That’s what you do!”

Is that what this nation has come to, that cities can spend exorbitantly more than they take in on fat union retirement pensions, salaries and bonuses, and obligate their citizens and the children to a bleak monetary wasteland? The financial aftermath is then left to the state or the nation to be the financial cleanup crew because city officials refuse to demonstrate budgetary leadership?

As much as its Detroit officials claim they want to get their financial house in order, the city public unions demand more, the city cannot afford to tax more, and the citizens are left with escalating crime and deescalating essential city services.

It actually gets worse. Much worse!

If you are a Detroiter and you are in desperate need of a police officer to respond to a crime, or a fire fighter to address a raging fire nearby or at your home, your best response time is a guesstimate. Detroit residents that need rapid EMS services would be better off asking a neighbor or friend to drive them to the nearest emergency room, because EMS response time is totally abysmal according to a recent 2004 city audit.

In fact, the Detroit News suggests from that same study, that in addition to very substandard communication equipment, “Detroit is the only major American city that does not allow a firefighter or a police officer to aid a victim before the ambulance arrives.” If you are one of the fortunate Detroiters that do receive EMS assistance, two Detroit hospitals have shuttered their doors and EMS staffing has been slashed. Sorry, but good luck with that.

So where does that leave Detroiters and many other urban cities as well as states like California and Illinois with huge multi billion dollars bailouts and have informal requests into Washington for tax payer federal bailouts?

It leaves the nation grappling with the hard truth that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to highlight during the 2012 campaign. America’s mainstream media as well as liberal and many moderate Republicans skewered him for telling the truth about the quid pro quo that exists in this “You earned it and I want it nation.” This is the new political landscape that is strangulating America’s self initiative and individual responsibility.

Romney was clear and honest when he stressed, that Obama promised, “Gifts” to minorities, young voters, and women.” Everything is free and the Christmas tree and all that is under it are up for grabs in Obama’s new America.

Romney went on to affirm, “It’s a proven political strategy, which is give a bunch of money to a group and, guess what, they’ll vote for you,” So why was he vilified by the same liberals who have their free abortion pills, free government bacon, free illegal immigration rights hands stuck out?

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Why is it unethical to comply with the law? That is precisely what anyone who claims a company or the “rich” is immoral if it legally minimizes its tax is saying. This also rings true for the 24% who pay 87% of our Federal Taxes , as universally they are net investors in the economy.

First of all, what place does morality have in this? There are some universally agreed moral principles – do not kill is pretty widely accepted – but does this really fall into the same category? Is it right, for example, to have a friend round to dinner rather than send some money to feed the hungry? Some will say one thing, some another. Universal moral principles are of the greatest importance, but are not a guide to every detail of life.

And in practical terms, companies actually do not bear the burden of a tax. Companies are not individuals. They are organizations designed to produce and supply things. They employ people, machinery, intellectual property, capital, raw materials, and so on, and combine them to produce things for people. Companies are intermediaries.

If a company has to pay as tax some of the money it makes from selling its output, that leaves it with less to distribute. So it pays less to shareholders, employs fewer workers, and buys less in the way of raw materials. And of course it makes and sells fewer goods. In other words, some of the profits may be handed over by the company, but the burden is borne by the company's shareholders, employees, suppliers, and customers.

Note too, that much tax is paid in consequence of the activities of companies; income tax, capital gains tax and, in many countries, sales tax etc. That is one of the reasons governments try to produce tax regimes designed to attract businesses. Those who complain about tax avoidance by companies should see that the more tax a company avoids, the more tax its owners and employees will pay. Criticizing corporations for avoiding tax is actually criticizing them for doing what governments want. Governments all round the world compete to provide favorable tax regimes for business. They accept the phenomenon of legitimate tax avoidance, taking advantage of the tendency in, for example, efforts to incentivize pension saving, or industrial development in particular regions. Obama and his socialist czars are making the US very unattractive. Only this week my Firm and I had serious offers from Singapore and Australia to set up  primary offices and transfer our capital.  This is fair play really they see Obama making life uncomfortable for the investment community and they see an opportunity to boost their own economy by Billions of Dollars.

Governments also engage in tax competition to attract firms. They do that to bring jobs, investment, and innovation to their countries, with all the benefits that can spill over from those to the rest of the economy. Companies follow such tax incentives because if they can conduct their business with decisions unaffected by tax paid by the business, then they can operate as efficiently as they can and let the taxes on the outcome be paid by the individuals who actually benefit from that outcome – the shareholders, employees, and suppliers.

When companies do what is legal to minimize the taxes they pay, they are actually doing what governments want them to – they are responding to incentives. If governments complain about this, it may be because the structure of the business is not what they thought or because they have made taxes so complicated that there are numerous ways to avoid them. Governments may want money in difficult times, but companies can use it too, to create jobs.

Obama "If you want different results, you have to have a different set of rules."

In thinking about these rules, politicians, and others concerned about the taxes companies pay, should remember the advice of two politicians of earlier generations. When he was UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, under the tremendous Lady Thatcher, Nigel Lawson said that taxes should be "low, simple, and compulsory". Tax competition helps keep taxes low. If politicians want taxes to yield what they expect – want them to be compulsory – they should keep them simple, not make them so complex that the result is a surprise. And on morality they might be better to "leave morality to the church and people’s belief in god".

Integrated misery under Obama allows every American segment to experience similar deprivation, regardless of past history or advantage. 

Rev James David Manning of ATLAH Church in Harlem uses You Tube to warn viewers how perilous times really are. 

Integrated misery under Obama allows every American segment to experience similar deprivation, regardless of past history or advantage. 

Rev James David Manning of ATLAH Church in Harlem uses You Tube to warn viewers how perilous times really are. 

http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2012/12/06/news/20local_12-06-12.txt

The above link is to an article about an issue that I was just made aware of yesterday. The basic jest of it is this. Under the new mandate of Obamacare, Hobby Lobby will, as of Jan 1 of 2013, will be required to provide, as an add on to their employees' health care package, insurance that would pay for abortions or face 1.3 million dollars a day in fines which would certainly run their company out of business. Hobby Lobby, however, is a Christian owned and run company and as such, it is against their religious beliefs to aid in abortions. The company has filed for a temporary injunction with the Oklahoma district court while the company prepares a law suit that will hopefully provide a permanent injunction to protect the companies first amendment rights of religion, as well as speech and association. The court, however, dinied their injunction saying that the mandate does not violate their 1st amendment rights. The company plans to appeal the decision to the 10th circuit court of appeals, and, if nessisary, the supreme court, but if they can't get a favorable decision, the companies owners will have a difficult decision to make, close their doors or violate their religious beliefs.

I do not think that the founding fathers ever intended this to happen, nor do I believe that any of the men and women who have died protecting America ever intended for this to happen, but we have a government that is willing to do whatever it takes to make America what they want it to be. I end this blog with a request, share this information. The liberal media is not covering this issue, so not many people know about the horrible violations of our basic freedoms that is happening right under our noses, so if we do not spread the news, how will people know? How can we expect things to change, or how can we expect to avoid the disaster at the end of the road we are on if we do not do something to change the path we are on? Please, do not let our freedoms, or our nation, slip away quietly to the memory of history. Fight on America, fight on for freedom!

http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2012/12/when-faith-love-and-charity-win.html

“ When Faith, Love And Charity Win”

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“ When Faith, Love And Charity Win”

Rare, very rarely do we see actions of Christian faith love or charity in the world today. In a time where visibly we see so much hate, anger, unforgiveness and evil-violence everywhere, sadly any glimpse of any acts of what the Christian Bible describes as something Christ-like, is rarely at all seen or heard. Some reading this article are already making facial expressions in disapproval, but deep inside, they are fully aware that what I am sharing is true and every heart knows it. People can be in denial all they want, but we see the world changing for the worse by the hour. How sad, but I am not trying to be negative here but I am a realist. This world is waning worse instead of better. In a supposed “post-Christian” world, many secularists, Atheists, Communists, Feminists and others who promised the world that “we would be much better without the influence of Jesus Christ” have as suspected by every real Christian-everywhere, were and are liars. Just look at how sick our world has become.

With the news dragging on and on about all the man made tragedy's shown on television night after night, I was nearly shocked to see one recent news item that was practically shown on an hourly basis. The story was of one New York City Police Officer named Larry DePrimo who was “caught” on camera giving a pair of shoes to a homeless man living on the streets. This caring action of Officer DePrimo was wonderful but so rare, others like myself all around the world were as I shared early; nearly shocked. I have heard and learned of so much abuse in recent years by New York City's “finest” from several attorneys in the New York City area as well as others in New York, that the actions of this one officer has brought people to unbelief and surprising awe.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/larry-deprimo-nypd-cop-gives-homeless-boots_n_2209178.html

What a shame that here in America(and the world)that actions such matters of faith, love and charity that Officer DePrimo exhibited have become a very rare thing. I remember growing up in the 1960's and 70's where it was largely accepted to leave your house or apartment doors unlocked at night, that if you seen someone in need, you did not ask for permission to help them or that you would help someone for fear of a law suit being filed against you in court. No you never questioned helping someone, you helped a person in need, plain and simple. What a world in which we live in today however where in contrast to attitudes I grew up in, someone who does something the Christian Bible calls all Christians to do, every day--- is now a person which society terms a “hero.” This modern attitude of rarity of being a blessing to someone and or ignoring the needs of others definitely should not be. There is no other term for such attitudes of looking the other way and not performing through way of action in helping others, than that of “sinful selfishness.”

Back to that earlier mention of “hero.” I just don't like that term for something that all humans everywhere should already be doing. In our world, “self” has taken place of “we” and self should be secondary when considered when we see a person, or people in need. Perhaps you are reading this article and you believe that what my Biblical view is quite strange and is a very weird point of view, but in reality, I am only sharing what the Christian Bible speaks. In fact it is very strange to me to see how this world has come to such a place where the police more often than help folks in need, actually abuse it's citizenry. I mean, as a child growing up, would I have ever imagined that a City of Batavia, NY cop would have conspired with a Filipina Migration Marriage Scammer and New York State/Genesee County, NY judges, lawyers, domestic violence program workers and some others to threaten to murder me ? I never would have thought that in a million years.

The world has come to this; that during this Christmas Season(at which time this article is being written), people seemingly want to feel good, which is natural but the focus of where feeling good should be rightfully questioned. As the news media(from both politically “left” and “right”) are feeding willing folks all the Santa ho-ho-ho non-sense people will gravitate to help them in gaining their quest for worldly joy. The Biblical truth however is that we can feel good without such artificial injections of filling our minds with worldly ways. I am not sure what people are waiting for in regards to finding true happiness in following the Bible through actions in a natural blessing towards others, but I will say this; when our world has now come to a place where faith, love and charity have become so rare that we should be in shock or awe or even pleasantly surprised, that indeed, our world is truly in trouble.

Personally, I don't think we need more man made hero's. Instead, after careful Biblical consideration, I think we should all just follow the Bible. The world really need hero's, it just needs people who really care about others. If you need an example of such caring, just open the Bible, no special classes or money needed. Just follow the Bible...you know, the Book with all that “ Faith, Love and Charity “ stuff.

Pastor Paul Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor

Barack Obama, who seemingly has remained in campaign mode since first entering public life, continues to insist House Republicans obey his command to hike tax rates on upper income earners.  If Republicans do note cede to his demands, Obama is willing to let everyone’s taxes go up and to cut one trillion dollars from the budget, a disproportionate amount of which will come from defense.

Were Obama sincerely interested in solving America’s fiscal dilemma, this would not be his stance.

He continues to make campaign appearances claiming that these higher tax rates are needed to lower the U.S. deficit and cut the national debt.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The amount of revenue collected by the IRS as a result of such a tax rate increase would fund U.S. federal spending for less than nine days.

According to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office, at current spending levels the federal government is borrowing forty six cents of every dollar it spends.  Through the first two months of fiscal year 2013 the government is already almost $300 billion in debt.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/government-borrows-46-cents-every-dollar-it-spends/print/

Medicare, Social Security and interest on the debt are the biggest drivers of the debt.  The true costs of Obamacare have yet to be revealed, but given the U.S. federal government’s track record it is safe to predict that it will be far more expensive than projected and finish in the red every year.

Collecting eight days’ worth of spending from upper level incomes will do nothing to affect the level of spending on any of these programs.

Additionally, Obama willfully ignores that at current tax rates, revenues are up by thirty billion dollars over last year.

Obama, his “progressive” political allies and the obedient lapdogs within the “progressive” Party Pravda continue to foster the notion that raising tax rates on the highest income earners, those who already pay forty percent of all income tax revenue, will be a panacea, the magical elixir needed to solve America’s fiscal woes.

They also continue to lay the blame for today’s deficits on former President George W. Bush.  Bush’s highest deficit was $438 billion during his last year in office.  Obama’s government is poised to post another $1 trillion deficit, which will mark the fifth straight year of $1 trillion or more deficits.

America’s current financial predicament is the result of wasteful “progressive” spending on big government socialist programs.

That is the reason.

America’s debt and deficit dilemmas can only be solved through reduced spending.  If and when the United States falls off a fiscal cliff or receives another credit downgrade, it will be because of “progressives”, not Conservatives.

The conversation should be about how to cut spending, not about how to increase taxes.

Political Party or media employer notwithstanding, anyone who says differently is being intellectually dishonest.

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/its-the-spending-stupid/ 

The unemployment rate for government workers plunged from 4.2 percent in October to 3.8 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as government added 35,000 to its taxpayer-funded payrolls during the month. ...

As recently as July, the unemployment rate for government workers was as high as 5.7 percent, according to the BLS.  That month, government employed only 20,015,000.

Since July, times have been very good for government in the United States, with governments managing to add 544,000 workers to their payrolls.

By Joe Guzzardi
October 3, 2012

Here’s more utter nonsense from Capitol Hill. Hoping to avert what legislators predict may be the road to a “fiscal cliff,” Senate leaders plan to use the upcoming lame duck session between the November election and the 113th Congress to reach a comprehensive long term debt reduction agreement. Their goal is to slash $4 trillion from the federal debt during the next decade. This would be achieved through revenue raised by a tax code revision as well as savings generated by revamped social programs like Social Security, Medicare and food stamps.

At the same time, however, the United States continues to import poverty in the form of legal immigrants who are dependent on the same social services that the Senate wants to restrict. Ironically, immigration law expressly bars those seeking entry to the U. S. who may become “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence,” or as they are more commonly referred to, public charges. Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act explains that immigrants are “inadmissible” to the United States if the U.S. Attorney General or any consular officer who interacts with them determines that he or she “is likely at any time to become a public charge.”

Yet of the 80 welfare programs that should disqualify immigrants, only two are actually counted against them, Supplemental Social Security (SSI) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). DHS argues, however, that non-cash or special-purpose cash benefits are considered supplemental in nature and do not make the recipient primarily dependent on the government. Therefore, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services spokesman Christopher Bentley: “Past, current, or future receipt of these benefits do not impact a public charge determination.”

Unquestionably, immigration policy as currently applied increases U.S. poverty levels. A new Center for Immigration Studies report titled “Immigrants in the United States: a Profile of American Foreign-Born Population” uses 2010 data and found that of the 46.2 million people in the United States are living in poverty. Of those, 11.9 million or 25.8 percent, are immigrants. Among persons under age 18 below the poverty line, 31.1 percent are either immigrants or the young children of immigrant fathers.

Ranking Republicans who sit on the Senate Finance, Agriculture, Budget, and Judiciary Committees (Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley have been pressing the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security for an answer to the obvious question: “Why, if the nation is indeed on the edge of a “fiscal cliff,” would the government persist in importing poverty?” The Senators charge that DHS is deliberately trying to conceal from the American public its immigration policy as it relates to welfare.

While pursuing the scandal’s depth, Senator Jeff Sessions learned that virtually no immigrant applicant is denied based on his financial standing. In FY 2011, out of more than 10.37 million (immigrant and non-immigrant) applications the State Department processed, only 7,069 were declared ineligible (.068 percent) based on the likelihood that they would become public charges. However, since petitioners can reapply and many eventually are able to reverse the original denial, the net percentage of those rejected on public dependency grounds dropped to an infinitesimal .003 percent. To date, DHS and State Department officials have rebuffed the Senators. Two deadlines for replies have been ignored. But that’s how the administration handles immigration. Unless it can be converted into a vote getting vehicle, the Obama administration pretends that more immigration is better regardless of its financial or emotional cost to the nation.

Speaking as one American, the whole " GOP outreach to Black folks " argument rings hollow for this reason, 

" Be your OWN Superhero!"

Congress impeached President Nixon for a lot less then the murder Obama is responsible for.  Benghazi deaths demand justice, and the future of America is at stake.  Demand impeachment of Obama.

With the re-election of Barack Obama and the continuation of Harry Reid's reign of terror in the U.S. Senate, these are dark times for America.

For America to survive, Americans must save it.  Expressions to the contrary notwithstanding, Americans reside within the Tea Party.

Members of the Tea Party must stop their infighting turf wars if they ever hope to successfully combat those in the GOP currently working to marginalize the Tea Party.  For so long as Tea Party members struggle to peacefully co-exist, they will experience difficulty replacing "progressives" within the Republican Party.

The Tea Party must removes "progressives" from the GOP before going against the combined forces of the institutionalized "progressive" left.

The institutionalized “progressive” left is relentless, determined, well-funded, organized and extremely aggressive. Their views of America are not fondly nostalgic. Some may have even cheered the final flight of the Enterprise with the same glee that 9/11 was celebrated by Islamo-fascists in the Middle East…and for reasons that are not dissimilar. Some may have toasted the final flight of the Enterprise as an enduring, meaningful symbol of the decline of American civilization. Their goal is to bring about, by whatever means necessary, an end to what President Abraham Lincoln called “the last best hope for man on earth”.

Tea Party principles are based on the belief in the U.S. Constitution.  Across America, a huge natural constituency exists for the bread-and-butter American issues of lower taxes, reduced government, a strong national defense, secure borders and a return to the traditional American values of: E Pluribus Unum, Liberty and in God we trust.

E Pluribus Unum means from many, one. It does not mean unquestioning acquiescence to multiculturalism and diversity. Liberty means opportunity for all, not equality of results. In God we trust means reliance upon the Creator of all things. It does not mean passive acceptance of secularism, atheism or submissive surrender to “progressive” statist mandates.

The Tea Party movement began as a peaceful protest against big government, reckless government spending, high taxes and oppressive regulations. The Tea Party’s Contract from America expressed principles held by its members. The most basic being that: “Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government.”

The principles of the Tea Party were clearly expressed in the Contract:  Protect the Constitution, reject Cap & Trade, demand a balanced budget, enact fundamental tax reform, restore fiscal responsibility and Constitutionally limited government in Washington DC, end runaway government spending, defund, repeal and replace government-run health care, pass an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy, stop the pork, and stop the tax hikes.

The American idea, the shot heard round the world, is that We The People can govern ourselves. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God we are entitled, by virtue of our humanity, to the maximum amount of Individual Liberties consistent with law and order, and to the Right of private ownership, not the least of which is the Right to own and decide for ourselves. These Liberties and Rights are to be equally protected by a constitutionally limited, representative government that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. This is a distinctly exceptional American idea.

The “progressive” idea is that an all-powerful centrally planned government, with extreme hostility towards private ownership, forces redistribution of wealth through “progressive” policies in the name of social or economic “justice”. In order to ensure “fairness”, an oligarchy of self-imagined, self-appointed “intellectual elite” must be responsible for controlling businesses, industries and “the masses”, who are incapable of governing themselves. This idea came to America from Britain’s Fabian Socialists and Germany’s Frankfurt School. This is a European idea, not an American one.

Before the country can be united, the GOP must be united behind the American message. Before the GOP can be united, the Tea Party must be united.

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/tea-party-unite/