THE DEMOCRAT'S KILLED THE CUT.CAP,AND BALANCE BILL
THEN WENT HOME FOR THE WEEKEND !!!
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By John W. Lillpop
Call me a skeptic, cynic, or even a Doubting Thomas when it comes to the secret, private meetings allegedly taking place at the White House between President Obama and Speaker John Boehner about the debt-ceiling crisis.
For several weeks now, the media have reported that these two “public servants” have sequestered themselves somewhere in the White House for hours of one-on-one negotiations, undertaken to end the bitter stalemate over raising the debt-ceiling, thereby avoiding a default come August 2.
Obama and Boehner have allegedly worked late into nights and on weekends, in addition to hours spent blabbing on the telephone.
The two even held a highly celebrated and public negotiation on the golf course, along with VP Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
While it is undeniable that the issue is hugely sensitive and a veritable political land mine for all involved, the fact is that Obama is stridently opposed to any and all spending cuts while Boehner is just as adamant in opposing taxes, or anything remotely resembling same.
So why the hell does it take these two powerful men hours and hours on end to keep saying, “Keep your slimy Republican hands off Social Security and Medicare!” in Obama’s case, and “Read my lips—no new or old taxes!” in Boehner’s case?
Suspicious minds want to know!
A conspiracy theory worth considering: Both Obama and Boehner know that America’s financial mess is so icky that the only way out is through default and bankruptcy. No other solution is viable, nothing else will work.
So why the hours and hours of torture behind closed doors?
It’s all a façade, folks! The President and Speaker have conceded that America will tank on August 3, but are engaging in these phantom meetings to give the appearance of working their fingers to the bones to avoid the default pain.
In truth, the president and Boehner shoot hoops in the White House gym for an hour or so, or until Boehner, a heavy smoker, collapses. Boehner then goes home, after logging out on the official White House visitor record.
There are no marathon meetings between these two powerful leaders, except for games of HORSE, inevitably won by the president!
Call me a skeptic, cynic, or even a Doubting Thomas when it comes to the secret, private meetings allegedly taking place at the White House between President Obama and Speaker John Boehner about the debt-ceiling crisis.
For several weeks now, the media have reported that these two “public servants” have sequestered themselves somewhere in the White House for hours of one-on-one negotiations, undertaken to end the bitter stalemate over raising the debt-ceiling, thereby avoiding a default come August 2.
Obama and Boehner have allegedly worked late into nights and on weekends, in addition to hours spent blabbing on the telephone.
The two even held a highly celebrated and public negotiation on the golf course, along with VP Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
While it is undeniable that the issue is hugely sensitive and a veritable political land mine for all involved, the fact is that Obama is stridently opposed to any and all spending cuts while Boehner is just as adamant in opposing taxes, or anything remotely resembling same.
So why the hell does it take these two powerful men hours and hours on end to keep saying, “Keep your slimy Republican hands off Social Security and Medicare!” in Obama’s case, and “Read my lips—no new or old taxes!” in Boehner’s case?
Suspicious minds want to know!
A conspiracy theory worth considering: Both Obama and Boehner know that America’s financial mess is so icky that the only way out is through default and bankruptcy. No other solution is viable, nothing else will work.
So why the hours and hours of torture behind closed doors?
It’s all a façade, folks! The President and Speaker have conceded that America will tank on August 3, but are engaging in these phantom meetings to give the appearance of working their fingers to the bones to avoid the default pain.
In truth, the president and Boehner shoot hoops in the White House gym for an hour or so, or until Boehner, a heavy smoker, collapses. Boehner then goes home, after logging out on the official White House visitor record.
There are no marathon meetings between these two powerful leaders, except for games of HORSE, inevitably won by the president!
A Key To Winning Our Country Back
Here we are 7 months into the new 112th Congress, who just last November, received a huge makeover and a mandate to "Cut Spending"! And how successful have they been? How much have they saved? That's easy "0"!
We started out with dreams of cutting $400-500 Billion a year, in light of deficits that had increased by over $1.2 Trillion per year! They quickly sliced and diced that down to $100 Billion, only to come back from negotiations with the President with $61 Billion, which quickly shrank to $38 Billion. But alas, as with most things Congressional, it was all smoke and mirrors, since that deal turned into just a few million in real dollars, just before we found out that the cost of the war in Libya, the first week, ate that up! And today the Speaker is negotiating tax hikes with Obama to make permanent many of his spending increases!
We have been through the Continuing Resolution battle, the 2011 Budget battle, the ongoing 2012 Budget battle and the Debt Ceiling debates, and where are we? We've not saved a thin red penny, but we managed to add $17 Billion to the Pentagon Budget!! It is said we are close to a deal, yeah right. They speak of spending cuts that that sound good until you realize they mean over ten years, a drop in the bucket, essentially meaningless, just sound bites. The promise of a Balanced Budget Amendment; at best, with a miracle or two, that process could be realized in 6 to 8 years and if it isn't indexed to a percentage of GDP, look out for tax hikes!! We need immediate answers, immediate spending cuts, no more rhetoric, just honest governing. We need the Congress to stop abdicating it's duty and begin exercising its First Branch powers!
The founding fathers were most concerned over two things, a standing army and a central bank, convinced that either was a great threat to liberty. Today we have both and neither of them is audited! That is frightening and can probably account for much of the mess we find ourselves in.
The DOD/Pentagon is the largest department of Government, indeed it consumes nearly half of the entire world's defense spending! I want to let you know about the “Pentagon Petition” which seeks to make sure Congress understands that all departments must come under the spotlight of scrutiny. I hope that you agree and can support the petition and forward to your associates and group members for their consideration as well. Join many leading conservatives and Tea Party Leaders in supporting responsible across the board cuts in all departments of the Federal Government.
If the Republicans can address DOD spending cuts, then it will be the key toward further, larger, more meaningful spending cuts and reforms that the Democrats have so vociferously refused to go along with to date. Especially since the base Pentagon budget has more than doubled over the last decade!!
If the Republicans insist on protecting the Pentagon, the Democrats will insist on protecting their sacred cows. Where do you start? If you are as tired as I am of the Congress spinning its wheels and getting nowhere on spending cuts, how about insisting the Pentagon/DOD institute a standardized accounting system so that they can be audited, the cost ratios can be determined and the Congress can assess the effectiveness of programs, because right now they don’t have a handle on it and just keep throwing money at the Pentagon to play it safe. Senator Tom Coburn illustrates the need to audit the Pentagon in this eye-opening letter: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Sen-Tom-Coburn-Americas-Fiscal-Defense-Crisis-06412/
Immediately, we can start cutting in Germany with over 200 bases! I thought the cold war ended a few decades ago. Then there is Japan with over 100 bases and S. Korea with more than 80 and counting. All told we have over 1,000 bases in 135 countries. Talk about an empire. Surely we can find a few to cut back on, or maybe, more than a few. At any rate we have to get the ball rolling. If we can't get them to give them up, how about relocate a few to the Southwest border and spend those dollars here!
Then of course there is the GAO report that shows duplicative and wasteful programs. There is a lot to cut without fear of hurting the troops or the defense mission. The troops serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are funded through supplemental appropriations separate from the regular Pentagon budget, but an open and fair process in reducing spending is needed to ensure they won’t be made the easy target and our security suffer as a result.
Speaking of duplicative programs did you know that besides the U.S. Air Force, the Army has it’s own air force, as does the Navy, which also has it’s own army, the Marines, who not to be out done has their own air force as well? Frighteningly this is not rare instance, but rather it is indicative of how the DOD/Pentagon operates.
The greatest threat our country faces today, is a financial one, wrought of the excesses of the DOD/Pentagon, the manipulations of the Federal Reserve, untended trade deficits and the avarice of the big banks and the financial industry. Reining in the Pentagon and DOD spending is not the whole answer, but is a start, and takes away the blind corner where the Congress continues to feed it’s spending addiction.
I know and appreciate how hard you work for the cause of liberty! Please take a couple of minutes to read the petition and go on line to sign it! And please, please forward this on to your friends and associates. Thanks so much.
For Liberty’s Sake
Tom Whitmore
Please Sign The Pentagon Petition
Please, sign the Committee For The Republic Petition to tell the 112th Congress that no department or program is sacred; that they must all remain on the table as we seek ways to cut spending, including Pentagon, and reduce the deficit. Until we get serious about cuts in the DOD, we will not gain significant support from Democrats on other spending cuts or entitlement reforms!
The Pentagon Petition
The 112th Congress, tasked with a clear mandate to cut spending, must look to not only cut spending now, but permanently arrest the bias towards the careless wastefulness, bred of cronyism, that has plagued Washington for too long. To that end, lawmakers must dismiss the erroneous assumptions that have led to sacrosanct budgeting; no longer can select departments and programs enjoy protected status in the appropriations process. Conservatives should enthusiastically reject the notion that any area of the federal budget should be protected from examination. Attempts to isolate departments or programs from scrutiny undermine any serious efforts for positive spending reform — for this and many generations to come. Any policymaker determined to cut government spending must commit to keeping spending cuts in all departments on the table — whether efficiencies can be realized in the Department of Defense or the Department of Education, they must all be considered fair game in the battle to instill fiscal prudence in federal spending.
http://committeefortherepublic.org/?page_id=9
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If you ever needed proof that when government grows too big, it will lose control, you have it here: In January 2011, at a news conference, Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: “My own experience here is that in doubling (the Pentagon budget over the last decade), we’ve lost our ability to prioritize, to make hard decisions, to do tough analysis, to make trades.” Adm. Mullen leads the largest government agency in the U.S.A., indeed, the whole world.
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"Our exploding federal debt is the greatest threat to the Republic. Republicans are in a unique position to make spending cuts in our largest federal department. Pentagon savings will enable Republicans to exact greater domestic spending cuts from Democrats. By adding your name to The Petition, you are helping address the $14 Trillion plus debt Washington politicians have run up.
Before CPAC, The Pentagon Petition was signed by dozens of leading conservatives, including Grover Norquist, David Keene, Richard Viguerie and Al Regnery. By coming together with one voice, The Petition persuaded Congressional Republicans to reverse their policy of exempting the Pentagon from spending cuts.
Unfortunately, our work has just begun. While paying lip service to The Pentagon Petition, the Republican leadership is timid and continues to rubberstamp Pentagon spending. That is why we need you to spread the word among fellow conservatives. We urge you to direct your friends and colleagues to http://committeefortherepublic.org/?page_id=9 and ask them to sign The Pentagon Petition.”
Thank You, for all that you do, for Liberty
U.N. to seize Jerusalem from Israel on July 26th. Take Action!
The United Nations Security Council has scheduled July 26th in New York, for open "debate" about whether or not they will seize Israeli land in September, and divide Jerusalem by establishing a Palestinian state, without negotiation or approval from Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he feared a "surprise" move after the Quartet of the United Nations, EU, USA, and Russia met last Monday in DC, to endorse President Obama's plan to enforce 1967 borders, and divide Jerusalem and seize Israeli land to form an independent Palestine, on either July 26th or in Sept. at the U.N.
Haaretz newspaper reported Quartet members "are expected to release a statement endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama's May 19 speech on the Middle East, which called for...the borders of a future state based on
U.N. to seize Jerusalem from Israel on July 26th. Take Action!
The United Nations Security Council has scheduled July 26th in New York, for open "debate" about whether or not they will seize Israeli land in September, and divide Jerusalem by establishing a Palestinian state, without negotiation or approval from Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he feared a "surprise" move after the Quartet of the United Nations, EU, USA, and Russia met last Monday in DC, to endorse President Obama's plan to enforce 1967 borders, and divide Jerusalem and seize Israeli land to form an independent Palestine, on either July 26th or in Sept. at the U.N.
Haaretz newspaper reported Quartet members "are expected to release a statement endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama's May 19 speech on the Middle East, which called for...the borders of a future state based on pre
CCC** Gone, Replaced by the University Rowing Team?
For years now, it’s been common-place for the conservative students on college campuses to be assaulted from each and every angle by students, profs and books belittling decent behavior, the nation’s traditions, the U.S. Constitution, our history, and our religious foundations. Believe it or not, things may have just gone from Carlsbad to Carlsworse for Christian conservatives attending schools of higher education in particular . . . . You know all those left-wing professors who’ve taken over America’s colleges and universities and begun organizing students into shouting down visiting speakers who express any agenda but Marxism and environmental ecotage? Well they have apparently succeeded in spreading the atheistic message of Mr. Marx really well according to the latest news on the college front . . . at least according to a surprising announcement first heard today . . . .
The well-known sixty-year old national Christian movement CCC (a.k.a. Campus Crusade for Christ) has decided it’s time to divorce Christ, figuratively speaking. The ubiquitous and venerable multi-faceted para-religious organization has stated their fear that the word “Crusade” might be “considered offensive” to some while also dropping the name “Christ” from their moniker altogether. Instead from now on the organization will be known as “CRU.” So they’re now running the college rowing team? “Stroke, Stroke, Stroke!” Or are they flaunting the first three letters of the word “Crucify?”
Apparently the name Christ is the most offensive thing they discovered about their organizational title since they still kept the first syllable of "CRUsade" but kicked "Christ" out completely . . . let’s see if we’ve got this right? Here’s CRU’s new "missionary" approach: “Say, there’s a guy who came down here to earth and did some absolutely great things for mankind including you, my friend, uh . . . ahem, but, er, we’d rather not talk about it because it’s just not politically correct . . .???? Sounds like they’ve taken more than Christ’s name out of CCC, they also removed another important C: “courage!”
“Stroke, Stroke, Stroke, Stroke!”
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
**CCC says they sifted out over 1,600 names before deciding on CRU. They also say that a lot of their followers for many generations have been referring to CCC as "Cru." Rajjpuut doesn't doubt either statement. However, the recent trends within the Christian community to even remove "Christ" from the names of Churches and this move all smack of the most gutless of political correctness . . . after all, the name "Christ" and the word "Christian" in your faith's name and that cross you removed from your steeple might have been extremely off-putting to terrorists, eh? Now with the advent of Mr. Obama there's been a sudden meteoric jump in the number of "faith" churches and "hope" churches -- with many of them now preaching radical environmentalism as Christ's message. One wonders what Jesus would say about banning DDT in 1972 and roughly 77 million^^ people dying of malaria and over 100 million deaths from all sorts of tropical mosquito-borne diseases on the basis of science fiction NOT science fact . . . is that the Christian, er, CRU thing to do?
^^ before Rachel Carson's pseudo-pscience book "Silent Spring" claimed that DDT hurt the environment, made eggshells too thin and even gave humans cancer (none of this proven; and almost certainly all 100% lies) the worldwide malaria death toll dropped to 42,000+ in 1972. It's been closer to 2.1 million deaths ever since the U.S. and the U.N. banned the substance that G.I.s in World War II sprayed directly upon their bodies, clothes and tents; and which Africans used to spray inside their homes 3-4 times yearly. Was Rachel her brothers' keeper?
COMPROMISE IS THE WAY TO GO, WITH THE DEFICIT RIGHT NOW. IF THE GOVERNMENT DEFAULTS ~ IT WILL NOT BE THE END. SOME
DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUS WILL CLOSE FOR A TIME. BUT WE MUST GET A BALANCE
BUDGET FROM NOW ON.
They sent my Census form back! AGAIN!!!
In response to the question: "Do you have any dependents?"
I replied - "12 million illegal immigrants; 3 million crack heads; 42
million unemployable lazy people, 2 million people in over 243 prisons; 300,000 leftovers from Katrina; Half of Mexico; and 535 more in the U.S. House and Senate.
Apparently, this was NOT an acceptable answer.
By John Lillpop
With America at risk of default what with the debt-ceiling crisis, President Obama allegedly suddenly finds comfort and wisdom in what the people want.
In fact, Obama gushed with pride recently while claiming that 80 percent of the American people agree with his “balanced” approach to the crisis.
However, as indicated at the reference, most voters do NOT agree with raising the debt limit and believe that Obama was using missed Social Security checks as a scare tactic:
Most American voters oppose raising the national debt ceiling and think talk of missed Social Security checks is just a scare tactic. Voters are optimistic that a debt deal will be made soon, and if it isn’t they will blame both Republicans and Democrats.
These are just some of the findings from a Fox poll released Wednesday.
Voters were asked to imagine being a lawmaker in Congress who had to cast an up-or-down vote on raising the debt ceiling. The poll found 35 percent would vote in favor of increasing the limit, while 60 percent would vote against it.
Most Tea Partiers (81 percent), Republicans (76 percent) and independents (63 percent) would vote against raising the limit. Views among Democrats are more evenly divided: 50 percent would raise it and 44 percent wouldn’t.”
Get that, Barack? Sixty percent, including 44 percent of Democrats, disagree with you on raising the limit!
The American people agree with the Tea Party!
Reference http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/20/fox-news-poll-majority-against-raising-debt-ceiling/#ixzz1SitDcUwn
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) calls Republicans "dead-beat debtors," among other things. "The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there," Harkin said.
Breaking news tells a different story. On July 11, 2011, the UN, the US, the EU, and Russia met to decide Israel’s fate, without Israel’s participation. On July 12, 2011, Glenn Beck, the man of the hour, addressed the Knesset, Israel’s legislative assembly. Glenn said that he sees people as just wanting to live their lives without official interference; it’s the power structure that brings about chaos.
The prophet Habakkuk, toward the end of the Old Testament, lamented, “O Lord, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!” Nothing has changed. Sen. Harkin, a voice from the past, the pot calling the kettle black, is a non compos mentis cultist.
There is a distinction between Habakkuk’s kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. Jesus said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Mt. 6:33).
I’m not involved in religious doctrines and dogmas. There are many omissions in the Old Testament’s kingdom of heaven. In my view, everyone is included in Jesus’ kingdom of God. If everyone believed as I believe, we would not have the current situation. Israel would be what Israel is. She is not literally a Jewish Promised Land. All religions are welcome in Israel. America’s Founding Fathers thought of the Promised Land as spiritual, and America God’s promise, that which Israel is today, not what America is.
Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are raving wolves.”
Oscar Wilde championed an aesthetic movement based on art for art’s sake. Reasoned Wilde, “Action is the last resort of those who know not how to dream.” Hello! Knowing how to dream and not act gave us the Holocaust. Anything for the sake of itself is the sustainer of La La Land. Harkin malarkey comes from the intelligentsia. Another word for control freak, it goes with socialism. Dreamers who don’t act against wrongdoing, Senator Harkin’s followers, known as do-gooders, are responsible for lots of atheists, lots of religious doctrines and dogmas, and lots of holy wars.
In The Physics of Consciousness by quantum physicist and brain doctor Evan Harris Walker, we learn there is no such thing as objectivity; therefore, no such thing as socialism. Harkin is a false prophet. Humans can’t be socialized. We are not hive-minded. There has never yet been a time that “the good of all” has produced better results than “the good of one.” It is a scientific fact that the good of one is natural.
If you want to know how something works you take it apart. That’s what quantum physics does with the universe. In lab experiments, science finds that light, which travels in waves, when observed becomes particle—changes in form. In the microcosmic world, reality doesn’t exist. Every time an atom is observed, it appears different. A thought doesn’t have shape or form. By observation of the world of infinite possibility, thoughts turn into reality. Each has his own experience, his own observations, and his own reality. In mine and quantum physicist Walker’s view, we are not here to dream of Utopia. Each of us is here as a creator. The cult fringe’s days are numbered. Goodbye, Sen. Harkin. It’s been nice to know you.
I looked up “cult” on Google. The cultist is someone abnormal and bizarre, more lately narrow and subjective. Sen. Harkin doesn’t know much. There is no such thing as an objective individual. We are all subjective. Only some of us, feeling inferior, try to control other people. Sen. Harkin fits the description.
People in distressing situations are likely to be influenced by the control freak. Their problems are reduced by one simple answer repeatedly emphasized. They adhere to the charismatic leader. They identify with the group. They are subject to entrapment.
