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FED UP! with RINOs from Texas!

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By John W. Lillpop

In 2010, Governor Rick Perry(R-Texas) authored a book titled FED UP!, which chronicles the Governor’s anger and frustration at Washington, D.C. and what he sees as the deliberate usurping of the rights and liberties of American citizens by Washington bureaucrats.

From all appearances, Perry is the quintessential conservative, the go-to man when it comes to poking holes in the flawed logic of moon bat liberals who favor big government.

Unfortunately, upon further investigation, Perry’s conservative credentials are blemished, almost to the point of extinction, by virtue of his very liberal views on illegal aliens.

At the GOP Presidential debate in Orlando, Florida on September 22, Perry said:


If you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than that they've been brought their through no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart," Perry said. "We need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society. I think that's what Texans wanted to do. Out of 181 members of the Texas legislature when this issue came up [there were] only four dissenting votes. This was a state issue. Texas voted on it. And I still support it today."
 


Perry’s outrageous statement made it clear that he is another Texas RINO who simply does not respect the rule of law and American sovereignty.

Consequently, I have decided to publish my own book titled, FED UP with RINOS from Texas!, which chronicles my rage at cowboys from Texas who somehow manage to steal the White House based on false claims and who subsequently sell out the American people to the failed state of Mexico.

Excerpts from my masterpiece follow:


Dear Governor Perry:

Patriotic Americans all across our great land are flying the American flag upside down this morning, at least metaphorically, to signify our severe disappointment at your performance during the Republican debate in Florida on September 22.

Our ire was aroused by your position on illegal aliens which we believe to be “naive, arrogant, misguided, and dangerous.”

At issue is nothing less vital than homeland security, rule of law, American sovereignty, and preservation of American language and culture, all of which are threatened by those who propose to coddle illegal aliens and reward these criminals with in-state tuition and other lures that will only attract tens of millions more invaders to our blessed nation.

Just to make sure that our views are clearly understood, please be advised that we the people are FED UP with the attempt to undermine American sovereignty, homeland security, and culture.

In short, we the people are:

FED UP with the refusal of the federal government to secure our borders at time of war.

FED UP
when armed Mexicans illegally cross our borders and assault Americans, yet our government takes no action, and refuses to even protest.

FED UP when Americans defending the U.S. from drug smuggling illegal aliens are sent to federal prison, while invading criminals are to be forgiven via amnesty for violating our borders and laws.

FED UP with the fact that upwards of 20 million illegal aliens are currently in America, costing taxpayers at least $110 billion dollars every year.

FED UP with a president who orders thousands of young Americans into harm's way thousands of miles from home, but who refuses to secure America.

FED UP
with politicians who refuse to enforce immigration laws and who claim it is "impossible" to deport criminals here illegally.

FED UP with illegal aliens who can not and/or will not speak English.

FED UP with taxpayer dollars being wasted to print documents in foreign languages.

FED UP with illegal aliens who dump their medical bills on the backs of U.S. taxpayers, but who send $30-40 billion a year back to Mexico each year.

FED UP with the fact that providing free medical services to illegal aliens drives hospitals out of business, making those facilities unavailable to American citizens for whom the medical centers were intended.

FED UP with our schools being invaded by non-English speaking children who impede the learning process of students who genuinely belong here.

FED UP with the fact that federal, state, and local penal systems are overrun by illegal aliens, again costing taxpayers billions each year.

FED UP with the fact that the overwhelming majority of felony crimes being investigated in Los Angeles have been committed by illegals from Mexico.

FED UP with politicians who refuse to round up and deport millions of illegal aliens who are destroying American culture and language.

FED UP with politicians who pamper illegal aliens with driver's licenses and free public services such as in-state tuition, which encourage even more invaders to come to America.

FED UP
with the attempted Mexicanization of America. Mexico is a third- world slum, and we are FED UP with those who want America to be like Mexico!

Finally, we the people are FED UP with those who consistently work on behalf of illegal aliens and the state of Mexico, and against the interests of the American people!

Please know that because of your RINO support for illegal aliens, we cannot support your candidacy.

Regards,

AMERICA PATRIOTS FROM COAST TO COAST
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We could all learn so much from this elegant and gracious lady. You might recall that

John Hinckley was a seriously deranged young man who shot President Reagan in the

early 1980's.   Hinckley was absolutely obsessed with movie star Jodie Foster, and, in

his twisted mind, loved Jodie to the point that to make himself well known to her, he

attempted to assassinate President Reagan. There is speculation Hinckley may soon be released as having

 

been rehabilitated.  Consequently, you will appreciate thefollowing letter from Nancy Reagan to

John Hinckley.

 

 

 

To: John Hinckley

From: Mrs. Nancy Reagan

My family and I wanted to drop you a short note to tell

you how pleased we are with the great strides you are making in your
recovery. In our country's spirit of understanding and forgiveness, we
want you to know that we bear no grudge against you for shooting
President Reagan. We are fully aware that mental stress and pain could
have driven you to such an act of desperation. We are confident that
you will soon make a complete recovery and return to your family to
join the world again as a healthy and productive man. 

 

Best wishes,
  

Nancy Reagan & Family

  

P.S. While you have been incarcerated, Barack Obama has

been banging Jodie Foster like a screen door in a tornado. You might
want to look into that.

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Barack Obama: A Global Embarrassment

By John W. Lillpop


President Obama’s ‘Peace Is Hard’ speech before the United Nations on September 21 put U.S. allies, as well as enemies, on notice: America the great is no more.
Or to be more blunt, Exceptionally unexceptional is us!

The president appeared weak, tired, and confused, due in part to the fact that his soaring oratory from 2010 has proven unsustainable, when compared to reality.

Scoundrels in Syria, North Korea, and Iran must have found hope in the president’s weakness. The obvious muting of American strength and preeminence will surely embolden the ‘bad guys’ to take greater risks, a fact that makes the world dramatically less safe than it was when Obama took office in 2009.

What will motivate Iran to abandon its quest of a nuclear weapon now that America is no longer interested or capable of providing effective opposition?

Why would North Korea bother to be more civil and accommodating now that the United States is run by a pacifist who prefers to ‘lead from behind’?

Threatening Syrian President Assad with more sanctions is a far cry from rattling a few American sabers in the tyrant’s face.

To Americans, President Obama is now a major embarrassment, both domestically and on the world stage.

Although George W. Bush often delivered speeches replete in broken syntax and mangled grammar, at least the world knew that America was a force to reckon with. And yes, even fear.

By contrast, when Obama speaks, the only fear resides in the hearts of patriotic Americans who are witnessing first hand the decimation of a proud and great nation by an elitist more suited for lecturing than leading.
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Good Bye Old Friend..

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:-Knowing when to come in out of the rain; - Why the early bird gets the worm;- Life isn't always fair; - And maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies, don't spend more than you can earn and adults, not children, are in charge. His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights,I Want It Now,Someone Else Is To Blame,I'm A Victim.Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone If you'd like to remember him please repost if not do nothing
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Any private company CEO OR CFO would get the boot if they oked any of these earmarks. NO WONDER WE ARE BROKE.

 

10 Wasteful Stimulus Projects (source) www.usnews.com

1

. A Visitor's Center With No Visitors


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$554,763 to the U.S. Forest Service to allow it to replace the windows in a visitors center at Mount St. Helens, Wash., that is currently closed and which the Forest Service has no plans to reopen.

2. A Museum Off the Rails


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$1.2 million to convert an abandoned train station in Glassboro, N.J., that has been boarded up and unused for 40 years, into “a museum, public meeting space and welcome center.”

Analyzing Ants


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$1.9 million to allow the California Academy of Sciences to send researchers to the Southwest Indian Ocean Islands and east Africa, to capture, photograph, and analyze thousands of exotic ants

4. Monkey Business


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$677,462 to researchers at Georgia State University to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity and unfairness.


5. Artificial Comedy


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$712,883 to researchers at Northwestern University using stimulus money in an effort utilizing “artificial intelligence”

6. Divining Neptune


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$456,663 to University of California, Berkeley to support their getting a better understanding of the global circulation in the atmosphere and altitude of clouds on the planet Neptune.
 
7. Yoga vs. Hot Flashes


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$294,958 so that researchers at Wake Forest University can study whether Integral Yoga “can be an effective method to reduce the frequency and/or severity of hot flashes” in menopausal women.


8. Big Brother's Recycling Bins


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$500,000 to pay for blue, 96-gallon, microchip-embedded recycling bins for the city of Dayton, Ohio.


9. Better Skiing Through Tax Dollars


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$25 million to Mt. Snow in West Dover, Vt., “to replace the Summit Local and Sunbrook chairlifts, construct a 120-million-gallon storage pond for snowmaking, and install additional snowmaking fan guns” that take advantage of a provision in the stimulus that make funds available for “ski area capital improvements.”


10. Meta-Stimulus


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$193,956 to researchers at Houston’s Rice University and the University of Texas in Dallas, who are getting money through the National Science Foundation to “estimate the impact of stimulus funds

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Money

It appears that the monetary system is on the verge of collapse.  It won't be the first time.  While the masses go through very hard times, after the system collapses, some prosper. Why is that?

 

In a free market economy, you give me money in return for my effort. Comes government to take some of my money and give it to someone deemed to be in need of government help. There are soon going to be a lot more people in need of help.  What nice people we have in government! How do you deal with  those nice government people helping those they put in the poorhouse.

 

You figure out how to keep government out of  your cash box.  There are many ways. You get on the government dole. There are many ways. When you live in Rome, you do as the Romans do. The Romans lived lavishly. They had millions of slaves.  Let everyone slave away for you.  Live lavishly.

 

Of course the free enterprise system is better. Your slaves will soon learn the error of their ways.  We'll get back on track.  We have to learn the hard way.

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LAST NITE, I RECIEVED A PHONE CALL FROM REPRESENTATIVE TONKO WHO IS A CHARTER MEMBER OF MISTRESS NANCY PELOSI'S DUNGEON, TELLING ME THAT I WILL BE PART OF A TELEPHONE TOWN HALL TONITE

I HAVE RECIEVED 100% POSITIVE RESPONSES FROM THE LAST 2 RECOMENDATIONS THAT I HAVE SUBMITTED TO

SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND PUT ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN, AS WELL AS BLOGGING HERE.

I AM ACTIVE IN A TAX FORUM ON LINKED IN  WHICH HAS SEVERAL TAX ATTORNEYS, C P A'S AND MANY PROFFESSIONAL TAX PROFFESSIONALS ALL OF WHOM AGREE THAT MY SUGGESTIONS ARE TO RATIONAL FOR THE COMMON POLITICIAN BECAUSE THESE POLITICIAN CAN NOT GET PAST THEIR POLITICAL IDEAOLOGY TO BE COGNIZANT OF RATIONAL THINKING.  BUT I THINK THAT SOME OF MY COMMON, RATIONAL THINKING IS CREATING CHINKS IN THE POLITICAL ARMOR OF SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE. THIS IS BECAUSE I AM SENDING WEEKLY MESSAGES TO SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THIS IS WHAT I MEANT IN MY "CALL TO ACTION" BLOG, I DONT WANT TO GIVE THEM TIME FOR MORE THAN ONE DEEP BREATH BEFORE I GET BACK TO WORK TRYING TO OPEN THEIR MINDS TO COMMON SENSE.  

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Ex-President Clinton: Raising Taxes Won't Work!

Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jim Meyers and Christopher Ruddy-On September 20, 2011:

Former President Bill Clinton tells Newsmax that Washington should not raise taxes until the slumping economy is turned around — and says President Obama’s plan to increase taxes on the wealthy won’t solve the debt problem.

Clinton sat down for an exclusive interview with Newsmax Founder and CEO Christopher Ruddy in New York, where Clinton is holding the 10th annual gathering of the widely praised Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an event that brings together heads of state, business leaders, humanitarians and celebrities to devise and implement innovative and successful solutions to some of the worlds most pressing challenges.

In the wide-ranging interview, Clinton discussed his foundation, climate change, the economy, taxes, government regulations, fellow Democrat Obama, and the possibility of civil unrest in America.

He also spoke about his wife Hillary’s chances of running for president in 2016, calling her “the ablest person in my generation” — and offered his surprising take on the 2012 GOP presidential race.

Asked about the impact the CGI experience has had on him since leaving the White House, Clinton says: “First of all it’s been exceedingly good to know that you can still make a difference, that everything I always believed turned out to be true — that private citizens can also do public good.

“It’s enabled me to work with Bob Dole, for example, who was my opponent in 1996. We raised enough money to give college aid to the spouses and children of everybody killed on 9/11, or disabled.

“[I worked] with the first president Bush on the tsunami in South Asia and Katrina, with the second president Bush on the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.

“All this has been really rewarding, to think that you can just focus on what works and how to do it faster, cheaper, better. It’s been a joy — and a bit of a surprise. If you told me 10 years ago that half the people staying alive on AIDS drugs would have them on our contracts, that we could document 300 million lives in 170 countries we’ve affected, I wouldn’t have believed that.

“It shows what people can do if they just think about how to do something instead of how to talk about it and fight about it.”

Turning to climate change, Clinton observes: “Next year the Kyoto agreement, which was adopted in 1997 and early 1998, expires. They’ve had a meeting last year and they’re about to have one in Durban, South Africa, to figure out what to do next.

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“I have been saying for 10 years, and a lot of people thought I was crazy at the time, but the fundamental problem with climate change is not that it has become a political football in America, that there’s a difference of opinion about it. It’s that — take a country that fervently believes in global warming and that human activity is causing it but will not support an agreement, China.

“China’s the number one investor in clean energy technology. They still won’t support an agreement. Why? Because they don’t know for sure that a country can get rich, stay rich, and get richer without putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

“So what I decided to do was to dodge the debate, not because I won’t welcome the debate but because nothing’s going to happen in this space until people see that market economies can make profits and generate jobs out of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Clinton acknowledges that the worldwide economic downturn has made it more difficult to raise money for his foundation. “But we’re doing well,” he is quick to add. “We’re going to have $6 billion worth of commitments here over a 5-to-10-year period, and they’ll affect another 100 million people above the people we’re already helping. That’s pretty good.”

President Obama this week unveiled his plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in an effort to reduce the deficit, even though he could be sure that Republicans would reject the plan.

Clinton says Obama’s whole approach to the deficit is “a little confusing.”

He explains: “In the speech that the president gave to Congress, he didn’t propose any new taxes. The speech was $250 billion in tax cuts, $250 billion in spending over a period of two to three years. It focused mostly on a rather innovative set of payroll tax cuts and incentives to hire people.

“I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground. If we cut government spending, which I normally would be very inclined to do when the deficit’s this big, with interest rates already near zero you can’t get the benefits out of it.

“So what I’d like to see them do is come up with a bipartisan approach, starting with the payroll tax cuts because they have the biggest return.

“Then what I’d like to see is an effort made at a bipartisan resolution of the banking home mortgage crisis.

“One of the things that President Reagan did with the Democratic Congress in the early 1980s that never gets any discussion is the way they set up this system to purge the debt overhang from the savings and loan collapse. It was unpopular but it had to be done. And as soon as we flushed it out there was a big increase in investment.

“So that’s what we need to do here with this home deal. I don’t think you can tax or cut taxes, I don’t think you can spend or not spend enough to get America back to a full employment economy until we flush that debt.

“What I would like to say to the president and Speaker Boehner is, O.K., you both have your deal. Go work it out. Meanwhile focus on putting American back to work because it just confused Americans. Americans lost the fact that whatever you feel about this millionaire surcharge, it won’t solve the problem.”

Talk coming out of Washington is that there is widespread disarray in Obama White House. If Clinton could meet privately with Obama, he was asked, what advice might he give the president to jumpstart the economy and work with the Republicans.

“The first thing I’d say is we need to get a joint plan,” Clinton responds. “I would organize a meeting. There are two big chunks of money in this country, untouched corporate treasuries and banks. Companies have $2 trillion but they’re not investing it. Banks have $2 trillion but they’re not investing it. I’d like to see him have joint meeting with these people and say, tell us what it takes to get the money flowing again. We don’t have to borrow that from China. We don’t have to run the deficit up. The money’s there.”

Another way to get that money flowing is to pull back on the imposition of new government regulations, Clinton opines.

“What I find is a lot of business people can be supportive of new regulations and new standards, but particularly in a fragile time they don’t like to have too many things changing at once.

“A business can’t do five things at once and decide whether to get back into the investment business after it’s slow. It may be that there is a way, for example, to stagger out a way things are going to be done under the Dodd-Frank bill.

“The really important thing about Dodd-Frank, that we had to do to establish our financial bone fides again, was to have capital requirements on banks and investment banks so we have leverage limits.”

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and political analyst James Carville have both recently suggested that the nation’s economic woes could lead to riots and civil unrest.

Clinton comments: “There are two issues. One is the fact that the country has grown markedly more unequal over the last 30 years. This often happens when you change an economic paradigm.

“The industrial economy tended to settle out in a way that was very powerful in Europe and the United States and Japan. We had a big middle class and opportunities for poor people to work their way into it, and a successful class of businessmen and financial leaders. Then we moved into what Tom Friedman calls a flatter world and it changed everything. It changed the job mix and requirements for doing well in it.

“The bottom line is, things start growing more unequal again. In general that has not sparked riots in America. We don’t have a lot of resentment against people who are successful. We kind of like it, Americans do. It’s one of our best characteristics. If we think someone earned their money we do not resent their success. That’s why there’s been very little class conflict in American history.

“The second problem is that it appears that the jobs engine is bad on the vine. A lot of voters get that companies have $2 trillion but they’re not investing it. They get that banks have more than $2 trillion and they’re not investing it. Unless we can find a way to start the jobs engine going again, it is conceivable that someday we could have trouble.

“But I don’t think we should even think about that. I think we ought to think about how to get the jobs engine going because it’s the right thing to do. I wouldn’t worry about the other stuff. Let’s just put America back to work. That’s the right thing to do.”

Casting his eye toward the heated race for the Republican presidential nomination, Clinton agrees that Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are the definite front-runners. But he adds: “If you ask who has the power to get back into the mix, assuming no new people enter — I think Mitch Daniels would have been very competitive, I think Haley Barbour would have appeal, I think the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, would have appeal — but if you assume nobody else gets in, then of those that are there the question is can Speaker [Newt] Gingrich pull what McCain did last time.

“The one thing that makes it very hard to count him out is he’s always thinking. He’s always got a bunch of new ideas and some of them are pretty good. So a guy that can still use his brain cells and come up with good ideas, you’re never really sure what happens there.”

Jon Huntsman is a viable candidate “because he was governor of Utah, which is a conservative state, speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has an exemplary public career, but there may just not be enough space for him in the ideological bandwidth of the Republican primary. But it’s hard to say right now that he would never get anything going.

“If it stays between Romney and Perry, I think Perry will have the juice of being perceived as the more conservative one, Romney will have the power of being perceived as perhaps more electable because he’s more moderate.

“I just have this uneasy feeling that politics is not so static that it will be these two guys fighting it out all the way to the end, with nothing unpredictable happening. We just live in a world that’s too unpredictable.”

A recent poll found that Hillary Clinton is the most favored political figure on the scene today. The former president was asked under what circumstances Hillary might consider a run for the White House in 2016.

“You’ll have to ask her,” Clinton responds with a smile. “But when we were kids and I met her and we started our now 40-year-plus conversation — I met her 41 years ago this last spring — pretty quick I decided that she was the ablest person in my generation. And nothing has happened in those 41 years to change my opinion.

“I may have been a better politician, at least on the first go-round, but I never met anybody I thought had a better combination of mind and heart.

“If she wants to come home, I’ll be happy. If she wants to serve, I’ll be happy. But she has to decide that. All I know is I’m glad that she’s serving now.”

Source:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/bill-clinton-obama-taxes/2011/09/20/id/411720?s=al&promo_code=D16F-1

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I. Geithner: Hikes won’t hurt growth!

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Posted on The Hill-By Bernie Becker-On September 19, 2011:

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner insisted Monday that the administration’s proposals to raise taxes mainly on businesses and the rich would not further limit an already struggling economy. 

He also cast President Obama’s tax proposals as an effort to make the tax code more fair — an argument the administration is using to rally his base and fight back at GOP assertions that the tax hikes will hurt the economy.

Geithner said he was confident that if Congress approved the president’s $447 billion jobs package and other growth-oriented tax reforms, including reduced tax rates and the elimination of some deductions for the wealthy, the economy would emerge more strongly in the long run. 

“If Congress were to meet those basic principles he laid out, then I am very confident that the modest changes we’re suggesting in terms of revenues would have — would make the economy stronger in the long term, not weaker in the long term,” the Treasury secretary told reporters during a press conference laying out Obama’s proposals.

One of those principles, the “Buffett rule,” is named after the investor Warren Buffett and declares that the wealthiest taxpayers should pay a larger share of their earnings to the government than middle-class families.

Administration officials on Monday did not spell out how the Buffett rule would work, instead describing it as a guidepost for a revenue-raising overhaul of the tax code that also lowered rates. 

“How you achieve that principle, the Buffett principle, depends on the shape of the basic reforms,” Geithner said. 

The Buffett rule and proposed tax hikes were made in the context of a $4.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan, but new spending cuts made up a small portion of that total sum. 

The proposals are also intended to pay for Obama’s jobs proposal, and add up to about $4.81 trillion in total.

This includes the $1.2 trillion in cuts enacted in August after Congress approved a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Tax hikes on businesses and the rich make up $1.5 trillion, while reducing interest payments saves another $430 billion, according to a White House fact sheet. 

Most of the reduced spending, $1.1 trillion, comes from the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and the transition to a civilian-led mission in Iraq. Besides those savings, only $580 billion comes from reduced spending.  

Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, declared that the president’s plan needed to be bulked up on the spending side, noting the expected savings from the end of the two wars. 

“I think it’s great that the president’s embraced the notion that the supercommittee needs to go big,” MacGuineas said. “But if you peel back the layers, there really aren’t enough cuts in this plan to really get us where we need to go.”

As details of the Buffett rule began leaking out over the weekend, Republicans started blasting the president’s plan as just the latest Democratic attempt at class warfare. Business groups have also panned the proposal.

Conservatives have also expressed concern that taking aim at the wealthy could hurt investment. As Buffett himself has noted, one of the key reasons top earners have a reduced tax bill is that capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than income.

“Tax increases thinly veiled as tax reform isn’t reform,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a statement. “It’s time for a new approach that puts the American people back in charge built on a simpler, fairer tax code, reformed entitlements, and reduced federal spending.”

But Geithner argued introducing reforms that increase taxes on the wealthy is the best way to ensure the government can fund necessary programs for the poor and middle class while reducing deficits at the same time. 

“If you try to return this country to living within our means, if you try to restore financial soundness to the basic fiscal trajectory of the United States, and you do so without modest changes in revenues, then you’re just adding to the burden of people that have already borne so much of the burden of this crisis,” Geithner said. 

Democrats on Monday largely leaped to the president’s defense, noting that a slew of polls this year have reported that the majority of Americans believe the wealthy should pay more to help reduce the federal deficit.

Democrats also cited statistics showing that the top 400 earners in the country had seen their income skyrocket in recent years, even as they paid a lower share in taxes. And other observers have asserted that only a relative handful of taxpayers reporting small-business income make enough to be hurt by increasing taxes on the wealthy.  

“More than anyone else, these millionaires and billionaires benefited from Bush tax cuts and contributed $3 trillion to our deficit to help plunge this nation into a financial hole,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on the chamber floor on Monday.”

Source:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/182501-geithner-hikes-wont-hurt-growth

II. If you were Bill Clinton, would you want Obama re-elected?-Posted on The Wall Street Journal-By JAMES TARANTO-On September 20, 2011:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576582822740820248.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

III. The Obama Investigations!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Mike Brownfield-On September 21, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/21/morning-bell-the-obama-investigations/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

IV. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-scandals-victor-davis-hanson#

V. Obama vs. GPS!-Posted on National Review Online- By Arthur Herman-On September 21, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277939/obama-vs-gps-arthur-herman

VI. Brooks Breaks Up with Obama!-Posted on National Review Online-By PATRICK BRENNAN-On September 21, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277820/brooks-breaks-obama-patrick-brennan

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for-obama’s-impeachment/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought” 

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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Good Versus Evil

My wife, after reading Shirley MacLaine’s I’m Over All That, said to me, “Shirley sounds a lot like you.”  Curious, I’m reading the book. Shirley says she is over the expectation of the external world.  That’s me.

 

Says Shirley, “ I have a guiding sense of curiousity. I will never get over asking Why. . .As I grow older, I find myself reevaluating experiences on my walls and relating to them in the spirit of synchronicity. . . Somehow in each of our lives is evidence of the scenario and destiny we have outlined for ourselves in order to  discover who we really are, why we did what we did, and where our souls have actually been. These memories (and so many others, including those from past lives) are part of my consciousness now. . . I have come to understand that spirit and soul are the only permanent truths that matter.”

 

“I never cease to be amazed at how far religious people will go in order to turn their destinies over to God rather than take charge of them themselves. . . In fact, everywhere I’ve traveled in the world, the conflicts I’ve seen stemmed from organized religion in one way or another. . .Nothing is as important as zeroing in my passionate ability to be content with myself, the land, the pain, my intentions and the power of allowance. . .I felt in touch with the rhythm of nature for the first time. . .Maybe we choose  our destiny but we never know exactly what we’re getting into  until we are actually there. So my journey in this lifetime with all its success, failure, fame, searching for my true identity, and exploring new lands, is a mirror of my soul’s journey through time to understand not only who I am but who I was, and most important, what is my relationship with the Creator. . .What I was learning about religion around the world as I traveled was that it offered each denomination and culture an opportunity to bypass responsibility for itself and assign that task to God. . . We invented this outside evil and could justify any behavior toward him by saying were trying to protect our God. . .Therefore, I gave up religion a long time ago. “

 

Shirley says, “One may not reap what one sows in the same lifetime, but he or she will reap what has been sown eventually—even Hitler.”  Shirley visited Mother Teresa in India at her home for the dying. Mother Teresa said her reason for devoting her life to helping others was when she realized she had played a part of Hitler in her. Shirley says, “She became a saint because she exercised her self-responsitility, not because she was completely good and pure.” Shirley: “If I feel physically sick, I ask my higher self what caused it. And I always get some kind of answer. I’ll take that over fear-based religion any day.”

 

Shirley: “We know that more killing has occurred in the name of God than any other.  Did the Devil make us do it? Let’s investigate who we really are in relation to our beliefs, because if we don’t we are going to be forever manipulated by the real ruling elite in this world—the international banking community. In effect, ‘they’ understand the real polarities governing our live are not Good versus Evil, but rather Materialism versus Spirit.”

 

Yep, Shirley thinks a lot like I think.

 

 

P. S. This thought: The Constitution grants that you have personal and private rights, one of which is the right to your own personal God.  America's political orthodoxy has given government the authority to enter your home and examine  your personal records, and to use those records to tax you, and to give your rightful property to others in the name of fairness.  It is hard to determine which is the nuttier, the political orthodoxy or the religious orthodoxy.  

 

 

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