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While Obama and his administration work to control every social aspect of our lives, the need to learn and understand our Founding Documents couldn't be more critical. What is the purpose of government, and what are its limitations? Important to know, and critical to enforce -- by the people. Because government will not do so on its own, as we have painfully witnessed over the past 20 months.
BLOOMBERG WANTS TO BE A KINGMAKER
He wants to remake the Republican Party under the label Moderate. http://bit.ly/9GYbIk
I'm asked often about what drove me to start this movement. Part of it is the Patriotic Oath the other is understanding of Life Experiences. Below is our mission statement followed to a inquiry by an AP Student:
“The Tea Party is a political organization that will bridge the gap of all parties, in particular Democratic and Republican Parties. It will welcome all peoples and ideological perspectives, with the intent to streamline government and adhere to the Constitutional Rights addressed in the U.S. Constitution, and by God above.”
To AP Student,
In college "88-93" I had identified that we have a systemic problem in our society that causes people to be polarized. I have both an Engineering and Political Science degree specializing in U.S. Constitutional Law. Needless to say, I've always have approach issues with an open mind and listen to multiple perspectives. It was clear to me in a class about, "Modernity," throughout history people have been pitted against each other. I realized that our recent form of government was perverted and not solving problems nor even being held accountable for bad policies (bailout, stimulus, budgets, earmarks, porkbarreling, etc).
My background as a Nuclear Engineering Electrician would be pivotal in developing this concept called the Tea Party. Nuclear Trained Personnel are required to know every aspect of Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Nuclear and aspects of physics and science) related to safely operate a Nuclear Power Plant. I called it Trival Pursuit of Nuclear Engineering. I called this method of thinking exponential thinking vice linear thinking that doesn't consider the its origins of behavior (beginning to the end of time).
Exposure to the great minds that put this nation together (Locke, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, etc.), became apparent this new form of governement was evolutionary. It formed a new nation that individuals we no longer subjecated to one another despite the form they had (individual, groups, organizations, or governments). The power is retained with the people and the people had the responsibility to keep this system of government in check, oppose tyranny. One voice is just as power as many though they collude together. While having a nation constantly subjective to change sounds very chaotic, it is the checks and balances incorporated in it that makes it almost impossible to change unless it was corrupted by an immoral people. Needless to say, government was suppose to behave like a dinosaur and could never respond quickly enough to radicalism. They provided a vehicle largely from luck and experimentation (see Jamestown attempts at utopia), capitalism was a dynamic economic model based on creativity and entreprenueralism.
After graduating from college I was unable to participate in politics, because I became a commissioned officer and military personnel are unable to openly participate. It is an issue of ethics. So I focused on the only areas that I could participate without compromising my integrity and responsibility and that would be the economic modeling. I have develop models to streamline government and businesses that incorporates the concept of exponential thinking. I had research theology, history, physics, nature everything follows this same model. It was an awakening know that the founding fathers got it right whether they knew (exponential thinking) it or not (linear thinking). Everything even at the quantum level of physics operates on an exponential model. Think about conception of any species after one cell subdivides in accordance with its DNA then a miracle it presented to the world.
This movement is founded on this concept. After I completed my career in the military I made the necessary career changes to provide for my family and I discovered first hand that I had to act on the political model, because politics was destroying the foundations of our nation. It was like a cancer and had become malignant. I researched every political party and noticed they were all being controlled by fringe groups. It was scary because Hilter only had 50 faith followers, so to restore this nation required an exponential model based on natural law and all constraints had to be removed. I tired to get some groups that I thought that understood the need for change, however, they operated on a linear model and resistant to new information. This movement is like planting a seed, however, if not given the right nutrients it will fail to thrive.
I had really been busy starting a new career and while I was preparing to launch an economic model and not until this last election cycle 2008, that it become clear that politics was hampering the economics. Political parties would use the same divide and conquer techinques to gain power (linear thinking - see nature and survival of the fittest). We had to make the transition back to a value based model (exponential thinking - I had been working on a Book called "The Evolutionary Mind, God). I dropped all my projects and my protest intesified as both parties were diliberately in collusion, creating crisis after crisis to gain access to our tax dollars. Creating problems but never providing any solutions. Needless to say by early Feb 2009, I knew that the political parties would take interest that is why after more than a year protesting here in Texas that I went to Washington, DC 5 February 2009. It also helped because I lost my job on 2 February 2009. Within a month arriving in Washington, the political parties jumped on this and funded by Freedom Works tried to co-opt the movement by funding events in 50 cities. What politicians don't know is the seeds of this movement actually was a page from history. I model my organization on three planks: 1) Non-partisan (watchdog organization); 2) Constitutionally (fiscally) Conservative Government, and Free Enterprise (creativity). The attempts to co-opt would only permit more rapid growth, however, they would not have any understanding of the movement because they would use the wrong model (desire for power). Needless to say the seeds planted long ago only required one person to grasp, nuture and get out of the way. However, the patient has had a relaspe of cancer from the seats of power.
I will leave you this one thought, what is an American? After your response I will let you know what my perspective. I wish you well and hopefully you have a better understanding of the Tea Party Movement. The Tea Party is synonymous with being American. In fact without the kernel of the Tea Party, the American Revolution would have never occurred.
Sincerely,
Dale Robertson
Tea Party Founder
P.S. You can find out more about me at www.teaparty.org under the link from my picture. Also, seats of power will use methods to subvert the truth by radical behavior (lie, cheat, steal and slander) to avoid reason. I've lived through poverty as a child, have a litteral multi-racial family and believe if your an American then we are family. We need to put aside division and unite to restore our nation. I can only plant a seed it is up the individual to nurture it. It is up to us to be fruitful or not, share the truth. Let Freedom Ring.
In 5,000 years of civilization, not one of the past remains. Civilization, under the tutelage of the Obama Administration, is now heading for one-world socialism, taking from rich nations and giving to poor nations. The poorest Americans are rich by world standards. Goodbye America.
In 1607, England’s King James established Jamestown in a totally hostile environment, in what is now Virginia. The residents had little more than the first to civilize 5,000 years earlier. Of the 9,000 who came, only 1,000 survived. From Jamestown, America’s pioneers, from trial and error, were ready in 1887 to accept the U.S. Constitution. There were no brand new ideas in it, but never before had so many good ideas been put together in a basic scheme of government. America became the envy of the world. America became the richest most powerful nation on earth. President Obama and the Democrats running for reelection don’t like America’s original Constitution. They insist on continually rewriting it, each time with less individual rights and responsibilities, and with each writing more government control.
Today, there is serious talk about scraping America’s Constitution altogether, replacing it with Marxist government. Not one civilization in 5,000 years has given humans what they want: individual happiness and self-realization. There never has been and never will be a government that gives anyone happiness and self-realization. So forget it. The individual is expendable. That’s the answer we get from Washington.
We’re now faced with a choice: a system that says happiness and self-realization is up to the individual, or the individual doesn’t count. In the latter case, it is not civilization that really counts; it is the dreams of control freaks that really count.
With America’s control freaks on my mind, in 1973 I studied the Constitution and came to the conclusion that my happiness and self-realization was all that counted. Everyone I knew felt it was a terribly selfish point of view. At the time, my life was in a state of chaos. No one had answers. There was my individual situation opposed by all the people with the right to vote, and I was expendable. To hell with that idea. If I was to get a life, I was on my own.
On Good Friday 1975, on the day Christians commemorate as the day Christ was crucified (not planned), I drove out my driveway and never returned. I did not begin my new life with happiness and self-realization. Far from it, there were all manner of road blocks put in my way. For cutting out, I deserved to be crucified. Christ’s answer: “Forgive them, Father. For they know not what they do.”
After my departure, I went to sea on a 37 foot sailboat. At sea, I was strictly on my own in an environment that could turn life-threatening in minutes. No one was there to save me from a watery grave, save “Higher Law.” Miraculously, I survived and saved six other people during my time at sea. I left my life at sea captain of my ship, and with the faith that a higher power allowed me to live the life I was intended to live.
It began with my notion, and from the Constitution, that in spite of the risk I could overcome all obstacles and proceed with my own life. My life has been getting better and better. I’ve just passed age 85, and the best year yet.
In review of my life, when I departed in 1975, on Good Friday, I had no thought of religion or Christ. All I had was voices of the past encouraging me in the Constitution. I felt a bigger than life calling. Much later I found Jesus on my own. Christ’s crucifixion stands as symbol: after the calamity, hope and renewal.
The Iranian Muslim, Ahmadimejad, at the United Nations claimed that the United States orchestrated the 9-11 attack. Muslims want to build a mosque next door to ground zero. U. S. Marxist control freaks approve of the mosque. I think of the 9-11 event as a symbol: after the calamity, hope and renewal.
It all fits. We are leaving the Age of Pisces, an age of authoritarian rule and weak wills, entering the Age of Aquarius, an age of strong wills and brotherhood. Along with the new age comes new science, recognizing consciousness as essential in the mix of things. We humans are observers. Our minds interact with the aspects of matter; that is, the microcosmic world of infinite possibility. A thought doesn’t have form or figure, but from it comes manifestation. We make our reality. Which is better, the individual’s reality, or society’s reality, the individual expendable—one individual with power to decide which individuals exist and which don’t. At the present, the IRS, unconstitutionally, has the authority to decide who has a roof over his head and who doesn’t. What’s next?
The choice: take a chance or go on a sure thing: moral, spiritual, and fiscal bankruptcy. Chance favors the prepared mind. If you accept mine as the right ideas, please pass them on. Our future depends on it.
Stepping Up To Preserve Freedoms! A new novel, "Matapalo," (written by just an average guy) illustrates just what the Tea Party Movement is all about. Fictional average people, in a fictional average medium-sized city, come to grips with an over-reaching Government, and slowly realize how guarantees strangely reduce freedoms. Who and why one individual steps up is a surprise. Available at Amazon.com.
Daniel Lechner
There I am enjoying the comedy of an insurance comapany's comercial ad on TV and then it's followed by an attack ad on Sean Duffy (R) and his campaign for the 7th Congressional District in Wisconsin. I listened to it as the Assistant District Attorney for Ashland County discribed Mr Duffy taking up the campaign and leaving his responsibilities as the District Attorney. It is powerful and to the point, I guess you can liken it to calling in sick to interview for another job at the expense of the customers of Ashland County and the services they paid taxes for. Sean has some explaining to do and so does the Assistant District Attorney. I mean, doesn't "assistant" mean to assist? But I degress....it is after all normal for a citizen to take up the challenge of running for political office. I mean how many clients did Attorney Abraham Lincoln leave hanging while he campaigned? Or how many days did then Senator Obama actually spend on the senate floor while he campaigned for President of the United States?
It didn't take long during the airing of the ad to (pardon the pun) add it up. You see, we all have a responsibility to serve our community and our nation in one form or another. When a citizen decides that they want to serve in an elected office they are in effect throwing their ideas and values in the ring. It is that action that allows us as voters to make a resonsible and responsible decision as to who or how we vote. Now, the politicain who aired this ad did not give a reason to vote for them. Rather it gave me reason to ask what happened to that responsibity when Obama was running? Or why can Abe Lincoln do it and not Sean Duffy? Wasn't John Kennedy a Senator at the time he ran for office? Julie Lassa a Assembly Member? Tom Barrett a large city mayor? Instead of airing her issues on how she would SERVE us....she attacked him. Julie Lassa would have better served me by informing me how she would stand on the issues in Washington.
Leadership is a responsibity to who you lead and to who you serve. And leadership, as I was mentored to lead, sets the example for others to follow. An example of it reminds me of Robert Dole who decided to run for the Presidency. In doing so, he bid a tearful farewell to his staff, fellow Senators and to the people of Kansas whom he SERVED for 27 years and resigned. He knew that his services as senator would be diminished while on the campaign trail. THAT is setting the example.
Now.....Lassa, Duffy.....or anybody else. Can you set an example for others to follow? If you can't then just stick with the issues and how you will sevre We The People.
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huge numbers of young and old citizens who were willing to hand this country over to a Marxist
groups of rogues who treat all voterrs as ignorant children who need a dictator to make all
decisions for them.
2. An educational system that has been fashioned by leftist Marxist to brainwash all impressionable
young people and teach t hem how bad and evil our country is.. It is evident that our once reputable Ivy League institutions are now advocates for a marxist President and are dedicated to
teaching their students to hate democracy and love socialism.
3. The American family is next to non-existent -when it comes to teaching their children to
love this country, its wonderful exemplary history , and its core Constitution. We have become
members of groups rather than a group of people who are Americans first, who will fight to
remain free, and who value all those virtues that made America the coutry that the world looked to
as beacon of liberty , intgegrity, honesty, and faith in Almighty God.
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/pledgetoamerica.pdf
"The land of opportunity has become the land of shrinking prosperity ... Our government has failed us, we will take back our country. We will restore for a better future. This is our pledge to you." Kevin McCarthy, California Representative
Republican “Pledge to America” Says,
“We’ve Learned Our Lessons”^^
Everybody needs 100% of the time to be cynical about the actions of politicians. Having said that and admitted that the new Republican “Pledge to America” (linked at the top of this page) is, of course, aimed at answering the progressive Democrats claims that the G.O.P. is a “Party of ‘NO!’” nevertheless, any thinking voter has to be pretty impressed with the “Pledge’s” twenty-one detailed and inspirational but no-nonsense pages. One can only hope the party and its candidates will keep the Pledge to America” front and center over the next 43 days and BEYOND. Finally, the Republican Party seems intent on reverting to the Party of Lincoln, to libertarianism. A Libertarian is a social moderate and even rarely social liberal that is utterly fiscally conservative and Constitutionally conservative. About 65% of the TEA Party would classify as Libertarians, live and let live on social issues but deeply committed to fiscal and Constitutional conservativism . . . and the Pledge to America is indeed a libertarian document.
One last theoretical-political point, some will say, that Democrats protecting slavery were the conservatives in Lincoln’s time and that the brand new Republican Party, was the party of abolition and other radicalism. Not even close, elimination of slavery was seriously discussed by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and George Washington before the Declaration, written by Jefferson, was approved. No, the words of the Declaration explicitly say “all men are created equal . . . endowed by their creator with certain UNalienable rights . . . life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, etc.” Springing back to the spirit of founding documents is real conservativism. Notice these truths about the G.O.P.’s “Pledge” . . . .
Social issues are barely touched. This is both smart and more importantly GOOD. When it comes to social issues (guns, abortion, drys vs. wets, gay rights, etc.) moderation is the key: respect old tradition and old law but don’t interfere needlessly with personal freedom. Don’t try to mandate social change through the ballot box or by edict.
Fiscal conservativism is the driving force behind 85% of the “Pledge’s” content. Get out of the way of the free market and out of the way of individual liberty and control by both the states and individuals over their own destinies. Constitutional conservativism is the glue that makes the whole thing worthwhile and workable. Common-sense Americanism is the result. A look at the chart depicting the Obamacare Law now on the books on page 16 is worth a billion times its weight in gold; as is the comparison chart of federal spending as a percentage of GDP on page 13 and the Federal Assistance chart on page 12. However, it’s not a perfect document. Let us point out two areas** where the pledge fell short, perhaps deliberately so:
1. No serious mention of “unfunded liabilities” such as Social Security, Medicare and the Federal Side of Medicaid and Welfare, etc. is made, nor any indication as to how to solve the total of $190TRillion drain these unfunded liabilities amount up to.
2. No serious treatment of term-limits is given.
Why were these “flaws” allowed? Probably because smart politics is the art of the possible and practical. Obama and the progressive Democrats were raised on Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and ACORN’s propaganda-machine and take-it-to-the-streets mob law to become experts at nit-picking, deliberately causing confusion and using unfair sound-bites to create false impressions that appear to vilify conservatives. Why give these traitors ammunition?
Despite these shortcomings, IF they live up to their words and continue to be the party of NO MORE OBAMANATIONS and to fight relentlessly for these principles, Republicans will have re-energized the American political argument and earned the country’s trust. Congratulations, G.O.P!
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
^^ Not directly relevant, but Rajjpuut would have gone to extraordinary measures to find a way to discuss Obama’s BIG LIE about the car (the economy) being driven into the ditch by Republicans in a footnote to the document. To wit . . . here’s the truth linked to the proof . . . .
** Using the same Cloward-Piven** strategy that DELIBERATELY created the bankruptcy of New York City earlier between 1967 and 1975 by deliberately overloading the welfare rolls . . . beginning especially after 1992, ACORN, OBAMA, First ACORN PRESIDENT Bill Clinton, and oodles of progressives (98% of them Democrats) DELIBERATELY were pushing the car toward a 500-foot cliff. George W. Bush jumped in and grabbed the steering wheel and hit the brakes. Bush was able to create a controlled-skid and guide the car to rest in a friendly-looking ditch!
10 Reasons to
Reject Socialism
| By TFP Student Action |
| August 09, 2010 |
Copywrite © All rights reserved, www.tfp.org ;(Posted by premission)
August 09, 2010
Why we must protect the family, private property
and America from the dangers of socialism
1. Socialism and communism are the same ideology
Communism is but an extreme form of socialism. From the ideological standpoint, there is no substantial difference between the two. In fact, the communist Soviet Union called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) and communist China, Cuba and Vietnam define themselves as socialist nations.
2. Socialism violates personal freedom
Socialism seeks to eliminate “injustice” by transferring rights and responsibilities from individuals and families to the State. In the process, socialism actually creates injustice. It destroys true liberty: the freedom to decide all matters that lie within our own competence and to follow the course shown by our reason, within the laws of morality, including the dictates of justice and charity.
3. Socialism violates human nature
Socialism is anti-natural. It destroys personal initiative – a fruit of our intellect and free will – and replaces it with State control. It tends to totalitarianism, with its government and police repression, wherever it is implemented.
4. Socialism violates private property
Socialism calls for “redistributing the wealth” by taking from the “rich” to give to the poor. It imposes taxes that punish those who have been able to take greater advantage of their productive talents, capacity to work or thrift. It uses taxation to promote economic and social egalitarianism, a goal that will be fully achieved, according to The Communist Manifesto, with the “abolition of private property."
5. Socialism opposes traditional marriage
Socialism sees no moral reason for people to restrict sex to marriage, that is, to an indissoluble union between a man and a woman. Furthermore, socialism undermines private property, which Friedrich Engels, founder of modern socialism and communism along with Karl Marx, saw as the foundation of traditional marriage.
6. Socialism opposes parental rights in education
Socialism has the State, and not parents, control the education of children. Almost from birth, children are to be handed over to public institutions, where they will be taught what the State wants, regardless of parental views. Evolution must be taught. School prayer must be forbidden.
7. Socialism promotes radical equality
A supposed absolute equality among men is the fundamental assumption of socialism. Therefore, it sees any inequality as unjust in itself. Private employers are quickly portrayed as “exploiters” whose profits really belong to their employees. As a consequence, they rule out the system of wage earning.
8. Socialism promotes atheism
Belief in God, who unlike us is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient, clashes head-on with the principle of absolute equality. Socialism therefore rejects the spiritual, claiming that only matter exists. God, the soul, and the next life are illusions according to socialism.
9. Socialism promotes relativism
For socialism there are no absolute truths or revealed morals that establish standards of conduct that apply to everyone, everywhere, and always. Everything evolves, including right and wrong, good and evil. There is no place for the Ten Commandments, neither in the private mind nor in the public square.
10. Socialism mocks religion
According to Karl Marx, religion is "the opium of the people." Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, agreed: "Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man." ■
May God protect America from socialism.
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Let us instead focus on the economy, energy, education, healthcare, military, and environmental policies. I believe there are many things that may help to improve both the infrastructure of our country and our economy that are not being considered seriously or debated seriously by our politicians/media/we the people. Today I want to discuss just one of those things that I feel should be considered/debated more seriously. I am not saying that we should jump head first into this and implement policies to do such right away, but I do believe serious discussion about this option, and others like it, is needed.
Now, I have heard from several engineers that there are potentially huge benefits in converting our general power source of large cities from coal & oil to nuclear power. In 2005 it was estimated that 40% of the nation's energy came from oil, 23% from coal, 23% from natural gas, 8.4% from nuclear power and 7.3% from renewable sources (such as wind, hydroelectric, etc.). By allocating government funding for the conversion of oil, coal, and natural gas plants to fail-safe nuclear plants we will be paying Americans to build facilities that will, in the long-term, save Americans money. With each facility that is built and operated, our fossil fuel consumption will drop, sending oil prices and dependency down. We all know that our oil money funds many of our enemies, even if it is inadvertently. I understand this will be a large fiscal responsibility, but this seems, to me, a reasonable way to spend what money we have to spend. It will provide jobs for hundreds of thousands of Americans directly and if we also buy the materials from American companies (steel, concrete, heavy equipment, etc.) it will provide millions of secure jobs for many years to come. These won't be low paying jobs either mind you. Indeed these will be secure, rewarding jobs for the American people and American companies, and when the work is complete, we will benefit again by having a steady supply of clean energy.
Having said what I've wanted to say, I implore you to express your opinions on the matter to both myself and others. First, I would like you to do some research on the matter. Here are some helpful links to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States, http://www.eia.gov/ (U.S. Energy Information Administration), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power. I can't wait to hear your diverse and unique opinions and when I do, I will respond with an updated post addressing your concerns and opinions with new information and citations of present information if needed. Thank you for your time.
Items of Interest for Thinking Americans
Item: According to pollsters at Rasmussen Reports, 43% of Americans believe that government programs increase poverty in the nation while just 22% of the nation’s likely-voting adults believe that those programs decrease poverty. 23% say they have no impact. 33% of all voters say the government anti-poverty programs are at least somewhat effective. 62% disagree and say they’re not effective. This includes 7% who believe the programs are Very Effective and 21% who say they are Not At All Effective.
Item: You GO, Arizona. They’ve done it again in Arizona where Proposition 106 (the Healthcare Freedom Act for Arizona) would amend the Arizona Constitution to prohibit any law from compelling any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system, allow a person or employer to pay directly for lawful health care services without being penalized or fined, and allows health care providers to accept direct payment for lawful health care services without being penalized or fined. Besides Obamacare being a mad law in a multitude of ways and increasing the National Debt it’s horrifically complicated and creates 388 brand new federal agencies or offices. Yeah, Arizona!
Item: the recently defeated Defense Funding Bill had provisions about illegal aliens; openly homosexual behavior in the armed forces; and abortion . . . wonder if there was anything in there about the military’s budget?
Item: According to Rasmussen, 52% of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s, while only 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate. Within the Political Class, however, 68% say their views are more like Obama’s, while 63% of Mainstream voters describe their own views as more like Palin’s.
Eighty-four percent (84%) of Republicans and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party say their views are more like Palin’s. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats say they think more like the president. White House Press secretary Robert Gibbs last week said Palin is perhaps “the most formidable force in the Republican Party right now,” but just 22% of all voters agree. Fifty-two percent (52%) do not believe Palin is the party’s most formidable force. Twenty-six percent (26%) aren’t sure.
Item: bumper stickers on a hybrid-electric car . . . “Save the polar bears, stop global warming” and “Don’t vote, it just encourages the bums” Sounds like the Dems are praying for a very light turnout . . . perhaps the bears will save them?
Item: Barack Obama’s aunt from Kenya, an illegal alien for several years, claims the U.S. now owes her an American citizenship.
Item: 50% of Americans give Obama a “poor” rating on economic issues, according to Rasmussen while 35% rate his performance on jobs and the economy as either excellent or good. 71% of Americans say the best way to create jobs is to cut taxes while only 17% prefer increased government spending as the best way to create jobs. In another poll, 61% of Americans want Obamacare repealed with 56% saying it will be bad for the country and 61% saying it will increase federal deficits and the national debt.
Item: Because of the new Obamacare regulations beginning to kick in or threatening to kick in by 2014, some insurance companies have dropped child coverage . . . which would soon be mandated till age 26 under their parents’ carrier by Obamacare and would even be required regardless of pre-existing circumstances no matter if the parents waited until their children were sick before signing up for coverage.
Item: Ever heard the term “shovel-ready?” The stimulus bill that funded a lot of $10,000 “your stimulus dollars at work” signs, liberal art projects and esoteric research grants immediately, but which was supposed to quickly get the country back to work with shovel-ready projects has apparently set up an almost impenetrable red-tape obstacle course for legitimate businesses seeking stimulus funds. Many reports exist of would-be employers spending a year or more seeking to clear legal hurdles thrown up before them to prevent their hiring of new people and receiving stimulus funds.
Item: Reports that officially the recession ended in May, 2009, appear to have been greatly exaggerated since the country’s lost more jobs than it created during the ensuing fifteen months.
Item: 56% of the HOPE-benefitted students (Helping Outstanding Students Educationally) did NOT need any financial help in Georgia (the originating state) and across the country and not surprisingly, HOPE programs are running out of money without helping very many needy students.
Item: Medical marijuana has caused police departments across the nation huge problems deciding who’s legal and who’s not and even who’s a dealer and who’s not.
Item: Remember Rachel Carson’s ecological disaster, ‘er ecological masterpiece Silent Spring? The sixty million malaria deaths that have occurred each year since DDT was banned (in 1971 only 43,000 deaths worldwide from Malaria occurred, today two million die from malaria annually) despite the paucity of scientific evidence (which actually amounts to zero scientific evidence) she provided have got scientists debating the virtue of a world without mosquitoes. Most say their environments might “hiccup” and then go on as normal. How do you kill several dozen TRillion of something? They’re working on it . . . . Rajjpuut suggests that mosquitoes, damn them, play an important role in pollination. The males (which don’t bite) are nectar drinkers and the scientists should know that. Kill ‘em, kill a lot of ‘em and prevent malaria and the other eight awful diseases they carry, but don’t go too far.
Item: President Obama recently denied that he and his administration have repeatedly vilified business and denied that Americans are growing frustrated with his job performance but he did it in a very strange way . . . “IF I was green or I was purple, people are still going to be upset if they have no job or they’re losing their home; we’ve done everything we could to buck up businesses.” Hmmmmm besides his grammar mistake . . . what exactly has the president’s color got to do with the economy? Somebody send the “too-cerebral” Barack a book on the subjunctive and remind him, that despite his much ballyhooed “post-racial presidency,” everything in this country is NOT related to someone’s skin color. And NO, MR. PRESIDENT, taking over businesses is NOT the same as bucking them up.
Item: The “Dream Bill” to benefit illegal aliens and “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” repeal amendments within the Obama defense budget proposal were rejected again today, both for the umpteenth time. There seems to be no statute of limitations for relief from facing ill-conceived laws.
Item: Why is it that no conservatives or Republicans ever mentions that 4.2% of Blacks voted for McCain and 48% of Whites voted for Obama (more than and a higher percentage than either Kerry or Gore received) when racism is implied as something that Whites only are guilty of?
Item: Some Republicans are coming to the rescue of Ms. Christine O’Donnell their Delaware senate nominee recently lambasted by Karl Rove and others. It seems to Ol’ Rajjpuut that Rove’s got it right and that Mr. Castle (whom O’Donnell defeated) was preferable to a one-time witch and an admitted present-time Marxist (Coombs, her Democratic opponent) . . . good work TEA Party Express.
Item: Obama’s still telling his “car in the ditch” lie . . . why don’t conservatives or Republicans remind the Democrats that with their help and ACORN’s abuse and 30 years of CRA ’77 mortgage-guarantee law and its expansions they took the country from ¼ of 1 percent bad home loans to 34% of all home loans being fiscally-irresponsible and granted at less than 3% down payment . . . why not remind progressives and Democrats that they created the sub-prime lending crisis and Obama’s treasury secretary recently said that without G.W. Bush’s 2007 law the recession would have been much deeper and home prices would have plummeted . . . why is this never mentioned?
Item: the Democrats and Obama Administration have made a big deal about them being behind “extending the Obama tax-cuts to the middle-class” while the Republicans, they say, want tax-cuts for millionaires. FACT CHECK. It is impossible to extend what doesn’t exist. There are no “Obama tax cuts for the middle-class” being presently discussed; the cuts in question are about nine years old now and were created by the Bush administration. Secondly, the Republicans want to extend tax-cuts to 100% of Americans while Obama wants to raise taxes on the job providers, the vast majority of which are not millionaires but rather individuals earning more than $200,000 or couples earning more than $500,000. Meanwhile Mr. Obama and his administration have pointedly refused to bring up legislation to extend his stimulus bill’s “Making Work Pay Tax Credit” which provided individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800 in credits from their withholding. If anything could be called an “Obama middle-class tax cut” that would have been it. But the Administration has pointedly NOT created a budget this year and any MWPTC tax cut extension would either have to be passed within the overall budget or raised as a separate item . . . which the Dems have also pointedly decided NOT to do thus far. Whatever names you call them by, eliminating such programs amounts to a willful tax increase which is a monstrously bad idea during a recession, much less a severe recession.
