This is chilling ...
In
1952
President Truman
established one day a year as a
"National Day of Prayer."
In
1988
resident Reagan
designated the
First Thursday in May of each year as
the National Day of Prayer.
In June
2007
(then)
Presidential
Candidate Barack Obama
declared that the USA Was no longer a
Christian nation.
This year
President Obama,
canceled the
21st annual National Day
of Prayer ceremony
at the White
House under the rouse
Of "not wanting to offend anyone"
On September 25, 2009
from 4 am until 7 pm,
a National Day of Prayer
for the Muslim religion was Held on Capitol Hill,
Beside the White House.
There were over 50,000 Muslims that
Day in DC.
I guess it Doesn't matter
if "Christians"
Are offended by this event -
We obviously
Don't count as
"anyone" Anymore.
The direction
This country is headed
Should strike fear in the heart of every Christian.
Especially knowing that the
Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
Converted they should be Annihilated
This is not a Rumor –
Go to the website
To confirm this info:
( http://www.islamoncapitolhill.com/ )
Pay particular attention to the very bottom of the page:
"OUR TIME HAS COME"
I hope that this Information will stir your spirit.
The words of 2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, Who are called by my Name,
Will humble themselves And pray,
And seek my face, and Turn from their Wicked ways,
Then will I hear from Heaven
And will forgive their Sin and will heal Their land."
We must pray for Our nation, our communities,
Our families, and especially our children.
They are the ones that are going to suffer the most
If we don't PRAY!
May God have Mercy...
IN GOD WE TRUST.
Maybe someone, somehow can figure out a way to put America
back on the map as it was when we were growing up,
a safe place to live and by
The Ten Commandments and Pledge of Allegiance.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Who Says the Stimulus Program is Not Working
Some have said that the stimulus hasn't saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved.
Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference).
When word of this reached Washington , Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year.
For those of you unfamiliar with Coach Robinson, he just so happens to be Michelle Obama's brother.
Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference).
When word of this reached Washington , Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year.
For those of you unfamiliar with Coach Robinson, he just so happens to be Michelle Obama's brother.
IN GOD WE TRUST
WRITE IT ON THE BACK OF YOUR ENVELOPES or front!
WE THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. WE'LL START WRITING IT ON THE FRONT OF OUR ENVELOPES, TOO! ! Including Bills
You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in Texas have been forced to take down small posters that say
'IN GOD WE TRUST ,' The law,they say, is being violated.
Anyway, we heard proposed on a radio station show, that we should all write ' IN GOD WE TRUST'
on the back of all our mail. After all, that's our National Motto, and it's on all the money we use to buy those stamps. We think it's a wonderful idea.
We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed.
If you like this idea, please pass it on and DO IT.. The idea of writing or stamping!
'IN GOD WE TRUST ' on our envelopes sounds good to us . WE'RE HAVING A STAMP MADE TOO! Heck,lets use it as our signature on e-mails too!
It's been reported that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, we have a very hard time understanding why there's such a mess about having 'In God We Trust!' on our money and having God in the pledge of Allegiance .
Could it be that WE just need to take action and tell the 14% to 'sit down and shut up'?
If you agree, pass this on, if not, delete!!! BUT REMEMBER IF YOU DELETE THIS,thats 1 reason why this country is in the mess we're in now WE SIT BACK & LET IT HAPPEN!!
WE THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. WE'LL START WRITING IT ON THE FRONT OF OUR ENVELOPES, TOO! ! Including Bills
You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in Texas have been forced to take down small posters that say
'IN GOD WE TRUST ,' The law,they say, is being violated.
Anyway, we heard proposed on a radio station show, that we should all write ' IN GOD WE TRUST'
on the back of all our mail. After all, that's our National Motto, and it's on all the money we use to buy those stamps. We think it's a wonderful idea.
We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed.
If you like this idea, please pass it on and DO IT.. The idea of writing or stamping!
'IN GOD WE TRUST ' on our envelopes sounds good to us . WE'RE HAVING A STAMP MADE TOO! Heck,lets use it as our signature on e-mails too!
It's been reported that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, we have a very hard time understanding why there's such a mess about having 'In God We Trust!' on our money and having God in the pledge of Allegiance .
Could it be that WE just need to take action and tell the 14% to 'sit down and shut up'?
If you agree, pass this on, if not, delete!!! BUT REMEMBER IF YOU DELETE THIS,thats 1 reason why this country is in the mess we're in now WE SIT BACK & LET IT HAPPEN!!
Get Ready
The Vat Cometh
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 26, 2010
WASHINGTON -- As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh.
With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable.
We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. Obamacare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks -- the unfunded $200 billion-plus doctor fix, the double counting of Medicare cuts, the 10-6 sleight-of-hand (counting 10 years of revenue and only 6 years of outflows) -- is at minimum a $2 trillion new entitlement.
It will vastly increase the debt. But even if it were revenue-neutral, Obamacare pre-empts and appropriates for itself the best and easiest means of reducing the existing deficit. Obamacare's $500 billion of cuts in Medicare and $600 billion in tax hikes are no longer available for deficit reduction. They are siphoned off for the new entitlement of insuring the uninsured.
This is fiscally disastrous because, as President Obama himself explained last year in unveiling his grand transformational policies, our unsustainable fiscal path requires control of entitlement spending, the most ruinous of which is out-of-control health care costs.
Obamacare was sold on the premise that, as Nancy Pelosi put it, "health care reform is entitlement reform. Our budget cannot take this upward spiral of cost." But the bill enacted on Tuesday accelerates the spiral: It radically expands Medicaid (adding 15 million new recipients/dependents) and shamelessly raids Medicare by spending on a new entitlement the $500 billion in cuts and the yield from the Medicare tax hikes.
Obama knows that the debt bomb is looming, that Moody's is warning that the Treasury's AAA rating is in jeopardy, that we are headed for a run on the dollar and/or hyperinflation if nothing is done.
Hence his deficit reduction commission. It will report (surprise!) after the November elections.
What will it recommend? What can it recommend? Sure, Social Security can be trimmed by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing and changing the indexing formula from wage growth to price inflation.
But this won't be nearly enough. As Obama has repeatedly insisted, the real money is in health care costs -- which are now locked in place by the new Obamacare mandates.
That's where the value-added tax comes in. For the politician, it has the virtue of expediency: People are used to sales taxes, and this one produces a river of revenue. Every 1 percent of VAT would yield up to $1 trillion a decade (depending on what you exclude -- if you exempt food, for example, the yield would be more like $900 billion).
It's the ultimate cash cow. Obama will need it. By introducing universal health care, he has pulled off the largest expansion of the welfare state in four decades. And the most expensive. Which is why all of the European Union has the VAT. Huge VATs. Germany: 19 percent. France and Italy: 20 percent. Most of Scandinavia: 25 percent.
American liberals have long complained that ours is the only advanced industrial country without universal health care. Well, now we shall have it. And as we approach European levels of entitlements, we will need European levels of taxation.
Obama set out to be a consequential president, on the order of Ronald Reagan. With the VAT, Obama's triumph will be complete. He will have succeeded in reversing Reaganism. Liberals have long complained that Reagan's strategy was to starve the (governmental) beast in order to shrink it: First, cut taxes -- then ultimately you have to reduce government spending.
Obama's strategy is exactly the opposite: Expand the beast, and then feed it. Spend first -- which then forces taxation. Now that, with the institution of universal health care, we are becoming the full entitlement state, the beast will have to be fed.
And the VAT is the only trough in creation large enough.
As a substitute for the income tax, the VAT would be a splendid idea. Taxing consumption makes infinitely more sense than taxing work. But to feed the liberal social-democratic project, the VAT must be added on top of the income tax.
Ultimately, even that won't be enough. As the population ages and health care becomes increasingly expensive, the only way to avoid fiscal ruin (as Britain, for example, has discovered) is health care rationing.
It will take a while to break the American populace to that idea. In the meantime, get ready for the VAT. Or start fighting it.
Copyright © 2010 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 26, 2010
WASHINGTON -- As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh.
With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable.
We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. Obamacare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks -- the unfunded $200 billion-plus doctor fix, the double counting of Medicare cuts, the 10-6 sleight-of-hand (counting 10 years of revenue and only 6 years of outflows) -- is at minimum a $2 trillion new entitlement.
It will vastly increase the debt. But even if it were revenue-neutral, Obamacare pre-empts and appropriates for itself the best and easiest means of reducing the existing deficit. Obamacare's $500 billion of cuts in Medicare and $600 billion in tax hikes are no longer available for deficit reduction. They are siphoned off for the new entitlement of insuring the uninsured.
This is fiscally disastrous because, as President Obama himself explained last year in unveiling his grand transformational policies, our unsustainable fiscal path requires control of entitlement spending, the most ruinous of which is out-of-control health care costs.
Obamacare was sold on the premise that, as Nancy Pelosi put it, "health care reform is entitlement reform. Our budget cannot take this upward spiral of cost." But the bill enacted on Tuesday accelerates the spiral: It radically expands Medicaid (adding 15 million new recipients/dependents) and shamelessly raids Medicare by spending on a new entitlement the $500 billion in cuts and the yield from the Medicare tax hikes.
Obama knows that the debt bomb is looming, that Moody's is warning that the Treasury's AAA rating is in jeopardy, that we are headed for a run on the dollar and/or hyperinflation if nothing is done.
Hence his deficit reduction commission. It will report (surprise!) after the November elections.
What will it recommend? What can it recommend? Sure, Social Security can be trimmed by raising the retirement age, introducing means testing and changing the indexing formula from wage growth to price inflation.
But this won't be nearly enough. As Obama has repeatedly insisted, the real money is in health care costs -- which are now locked in place by the new Obamacare mandates.
That's where the value-added tax comes in. For the politician, it has the virtue of expediency: People are used to sales taxes, and this one produces a river of revenue. Every 1 percent of VAT would yield up to $1 trillion a decade (depending on what you exclude -- if you exempt food, for example, the yield would be more like $900 billion).
It's the ultimate cash cow. Obama will need it. By introducing universal health care, he has pulled off the largest expansion of the welfare state in four decades. And the most expensive. Which is why all of the European Union has the VAT. Huge VATs. Germany: 19 percent. France and Italy: 20 percent. Most of Scandinavia: 25 percent.
American liberals have long complained that ours is the only advanced industrial country without universal health care. Well, now we shall have it. And as we approach European levels of entitlements, we will need European levels of taxation.
Obama set out to be a consequential president, on the order of Ronald Reagan. With the VAT, Obama's triumph will be complete. He will have succeeded in reversing Reaganism. Liberals have long complained that Reagan's strategy was to starve the (governmental) beast in order to shrink it: First, cut taxes -- then ultimately you have to reduce government spending.
Obama's strategy is exactly the opposite: Expand the beast, and then feed it. Spend first -- which then forces taxation. Now that, with the institution of universal health care, we are becoming the full entitlement state, the beast will have to be fed.
And the VAT is the only trough in creation large enough.
As a substitute for the income tax, the VAT would be a splendid idea. Taxing consumption makes infinitely more sense than taxing work. But to feed the liberal social-democratic project, the VAT must be added on top of the income tax.
Ultimately, even that won't be enough. As the population ages and health care becomes increasingly expensive, the only way to avoid fiscal ruin (as Britain, for example, has discovered) is health care rationing.
It will take a while to break the American populace to that idea. In the meantime, get ready for the VAT. Or start fighting it.
Copyright © 2010 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved.
This Type of Action Must Stop
It is this type of action that we as a country must stop... I know we have good intentions but this is not what we are about.... Sad day but why do we do such bazaar
acts of kindness come from... Why should we pay people for such acts and why only these... How about the Fort Worth terrorist act OH most of those were soldiers so lets not give them the same treatment... America we must stop trying to be everything to every boday... This is not how our country got to where we are today.
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by
because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of
this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're
going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of
$250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million..
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action,
the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get
$833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a
screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining
that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers. (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding
officers.)
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have
started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families
are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the
embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to
nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an
E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who
placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
acts of kindness come from... Why should we pay people for such acts and why only these... How about the Fort Worth terrorist act OH most of those were soldiers so lets not give them the same treatment... America we must stop trying to be everything to every boday... This is not how our country got to where we are today.
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by
because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of
this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're
going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of
$250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million..
If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action,
the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.
Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get
$833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a
screeching halt.
Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining
that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers. (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding
officers.)
We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have
started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families
are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the
embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad. Every time a pay raise comes up for the military, they usually receive next to
nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low-rent housing. Make sense?
However, our own US Congress voted themselves a raise. Many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month. And most are now equal to being millionaires plus. They do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system. If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an
E-7, they may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who
placed them in harm's way receives a pension of $15,000 per month.
I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
National Pray Day - Let It Be
This being the Bi-Centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, we thought that this year's National Day of Prayer Observance would be greatly enhanced, and God's people encouraged by reading Abraham Lincoln's 1863 National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer Proclamation.
There had been many national days of prayer in U.S. history before The National Day of Prayer was made an annual event in 1952. The Continental Congress issued a day of prayer in 1775 to designate "a time for prayer in forming a new nation." During the Quasi-War with France, President John Adams declared May 9, 1798 as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer, "during which citizens of all faiths were encouraged to pray, that our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it."
However none of America's many presidential prayer proclamations could be more appropriate for America today than the one issued by our sixteenth president in 1863. For a shocking wake-up call, and to see how far we've drifted from the historic and humble attitude of our Fathers, we include Abraham Lincoln's 1863, National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer Proclamation in its entirety below. It's hard to imagine this proclamation getting to first base in today's White House or Congress! We thank our friends at Intercessors For America for bringing this historic document to our attention.
President Abraham Lincolns 1863 National Day
Of Humiliation, Fasting & Prayer Proclamation
"WHEREAS, The Senate of the United States; devoutly recognizing the Supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And Whereas, it is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His Divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope, authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
Abraham Lincoln, President
William H Seward, Secretary of State"
There had been many national days of prayer in U.S. history before The National Day of Prayer was made an annual event in 1952. The Continental Congress issued a day of prayer in 1775 to designate "a time for prayer in forming a new nation." During the Quasi-War with France, President John Adams declared May 9, 1798 as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer, "during which citizens of all faiths were encouraged to pray, that our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it."
However none of America's many presidential prayer proclamations could be more appropriate for America today than the one issued by our sixteenth president in 1863. For a shocking wake-up call, and to see how far we've drifted from the historic and humble attitude of our Fathers, we include Abraham Lincoln's 1863, National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer Proclamation in its entirety below. It's hard to imagine this proclamation getting to first base in today's White House or Congress! We thank our friends at Intercessors For America for bringing this historic document to our attention.
President Abraham Lincolns 1863 National Day
Of Humiliation, Fasting & Prayer Proclamation
"WHEREAS, The Senate of the United States; devoutly recognizing the Supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And Whereas, it is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His Divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope, authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
Abraham Lincoln, President
William H Seward, Secretary of State"
One Persons View
Well I guess I have to wade in on this as well. Really does not matter about Democratic or Republican actually
Sorry to inform you that but the last group we want running any things is the US Government. If you can give me one example where the government can take our tax dollars and spend them effectively please share it with us. US Postal service- totally bankrupt, Social Security bankrupt, Medicare Bankrupt, FannyMay and FannyMac led us into the housing market meltdown – all because they were run and controlled by the government .
In fact a good example in 2003 when then President Bush sent a message to mr. Barney Frank and congress, due to the lending rules on housing, there was trouble coming with the housing market Mr Frank said and I quote, “ There is nothing wrong with the housing market, there is no indication that we have any problem with how either Fanny May or Fanny Mac are operating”. Not a problem… anyone could buy a house, income was not an issue, down payment not an issue just let them have the loan… everyone deserves to own a home the federal government will guarantee it…. And Just where does the money come from to guarantee those loans… yup… the good ol’ tax paying public. Strange when I bought our house I had to show IRS filings for past 3 years, had to show my current payments / expenses but heck back then congress had not decided that everyone should own a home regardless of their ability to pay. Please understand the laws of economics are much like other laws of nature they do not change. What happened 4 years later ... that is right the law of economics prevailed and they always will..
Today the average income of federal employee is above that of the private sector and their health care and retirement plans are better now does that make sense. When was the last time you heard of a big layoff in public service jobs when the economy turns down. Like today…. We have a few million folks out of work… want to guess how many of those are from the public sector. We have got to change the way state and federal work force are managed.
I am not so opposed to the universal heath care and agree that something has to be done but not under the governments control and not in the manner in which it was done.
Taking care of the powerless has worked real well. We have more people on welfare today than ever before. We incentivize women to not get married, to have kids out of wedlock so they can get on the US payrole. The entire entitlement system is a joke. Our tax dollars are being used to incentivize folks to never ever try and get a job. Yes, we incentivize them to go to college but after that it is in their best interest to have a couple kids and not have a man in the house and get in the line for handouts. If you do not believe this then you need to take a couple days and study the programs that we have out there.
Anyway this is not a Democratic or Republican issue… It is a problem that we as Americans had best get under control and real quick. In 10 years at the current rate our national debt will be 90 % of our GNP and that will end our way of life as we now know it.
Last week when we attempted to sell bonds the world market did not snatch them up as they have in the past. When that happens we have to raise the interest rate that we pay. Next month the same will happen again. This will continue because the countries that have the cash will simply force it to happen. We are no longer the nation in power. We are fast becoming a nation on the verge of bankruptcy… when folks stop buying our bonds and that will happen then the only option is to reduce spending, cut expenses like government services, welfare, health coverage, social security payments not a pretty forecast. In a time of economic downturn we are doing the exact opposite of what has to be done.
What we have to realize is that the federal government is much like a company. When the economy turns down you either cutback your expenses or you go out of business. What the US government is doing today is just the opposite. We are spending more than we are taking in trying to spend our way out of a recession, just the opposite of what a company would be doing. Buying back all those homes that people bought that could not afford them so they will not lose them, extending unemployment benefits, creating new regulations that increase cost of business to operate are all driving the cost of doing business which then delays recovery. This can be compared to you and I running out of money so what do we do we go out and spend more or our credit cards and borrow more to make ends meet.. some day we have to simply let those who made bad decision take the hit. Nowhere, does it say that the government should protect folks who make bad economic decisions. Why should you and I as a tax payer have to see our tax dollars go to bail out someone who bought a house they could not afford in the first place.
Either we get our countries expenses in line or we are doomed. This is not rocket science…It is simple economics. You cannot spend more that we take in… Today we are doing the exact same thing that got us into the economic meltdown. The US is living on borrowed money. We are having to go the loan sharks “China and Russia” who are now controlling us because they are buying our bonds and we are indebted to them . All of this so we can protect folks who made very bad decision. Because we have an administration who thinks we can spend our way out of a recession… this is against all economic principals. This is truly what separates the Democratic and Republican ideas today. Taking tax dollars and redistributing them to others does not create wealth it does just the opposite.
Anyway Republican or Democrat we are just about up s_ _ _ Creek in debt. I truly hate to see what we are leaving behind for the next generations to live with.
I offer this as trying to bridge the gulf of miss understanding. This is not about Dem or Rep it is about trying to save our nation from the pit falls of economic misunderstanding. Our Constitution guarantees us the rite to pursue it does not guarantee to provide somewhere along the way we seem to have lost sight of this.
I do want to make it clear that I fully support helping those who are not able to help themselves. However to pay able bodied people to do nothing is not healthy for them or the country and today we somehow have drifted way too far in that direction.
God Bless America in our time of trouble.
Sorry to inform you that but the last group we want running any things is the US Government. If you can give me one example where the government can take our tax dollars and spend them effectively please share it with us. US Postal service- totally bankrupt, Social Security bankrupt, Medicare Bankrupt, FannyMay and FannyMac led us into the housing market meltdown – all because they were run and controlled by the government .
In fact a good example in 2003 when then President Bush sent a message to mr. Barney Frank and congress, due to the lending rules on housing, there was trouble coming with the housing market Mr Frank said and I quote, “ There is nothing wrong with the housing market, there is no indication that we have any problem with how either Fanny May or Fanny Mac are operating”. Not a problem… anyone could buy a house, income was not an issue, down payment not an issue just let them have the loan… everyone deserves to own a home the federal government will guarantee it…. And Just where does the money come from to guarantee those loans… yup… the good ol’ tax paying public. Strange when I bought our house I had to show IRS filings for past 3 years, had to show my current payments / expenses but heck back then congress had not decided that everyone should own a home regardless of their ability to pay. Please understand the laws of economics are much like other laws of nature they do not change. What happened 4 years later ... that is right the law of economics prevailed and they always will..
Today the average income of federal employee is above that of the private sector and their health care and retirement plans are better now does that make sense. When was the last time you heard of a big layoff in public service jobs when the economy turns down. Like today…. We have a few million folks out of work… want to guess how many of those are from the public sector. We have got to change the way state and federal work force are managed.
I am not so opposed to the universal heath care and agree that something has to be done but not under the governments control and not in the manner in which it was done.
Taking care of the powerless has worked real well. We have more people on welfare today than ever before. We incentivize women to not get married, to have kids out of wedlock so they can get on the US payrole. The entire entitlement system is a joke. Our tax dollars are being used to incentivize folks to never ever try and get a job. Yes, we incentivize them to go to college but after that it is in their best interest to have a couple kids and not have a man in the house and get in the line for handouts. If you do not believe this then you need to take a couple days and study the programs that we have out there.
Anyway this is not a Democratic or Republican issue… It is a problem that we as Americans had best get under control and real quick. In 10 years at the current rate our national debt will be 90 % of our GNP and that will end our way of life as we now know it.
Last week when we attempted to sell bonds the world market did not snatch them up as they have in the past. When that happens we have to raise the interest rate that we pay. Next month the same will happen again. This will continue because the countries that have the cash will simply force it to happen. We are no longer the nation in power. We are fast becoming a nation on the verge of bankruptcy… when folks stop buying our bonds and that will happen then the only option is to reduce spending, cut expenses like government services, welfare, health coverage, social security payments not a pretty forecast. In a time of economic downturn we are doing the exact opposite of what has to be done.
What we have to realize is that the federal government is much like a company. When the economy turns down you either cutback your expenses or you go out of business. What the US government is doing today is just the opposite. We are spending more than we are taking in trying to spend our way out of a recession, just the opposite of what a company would be doing. Buying back all those homes that people bought that could not afford them so they will not lose them, extending unemployment benefits, creating new regulations that increase cost of business to operate are all driving the cost of doing business which then delays recovery. This can be compared to you and I running out of money so what do we do we go out and spend more or our credit cards and borrow more to make ends meet.. some day we have to simply let those who made bad decision take the hit. Nowhere, does it say that the government should protect folks who make bad economic decisions. Why should you and I as a tax payer have to see our tax dollars go to bail out someone who bought a house they could not afford in the first place.
Either we get our countries expenses in line or we are doomed. This is not rocket science…It is simple economics. You cannot spend more that we take in… Today we are doing the exact same thing that got us into the economic meltdown. The US is living on borrowed money. We are having to go the loan sharks “China and Russia” who are now controlling us because they are buying our bonds and we are indebted to them . All of this so we can protect folks who made very bad decision. Because we have an administration who thinks we can spend our way out of a recession… this is against all economic principals. This is truly what separates the Democratic and Republican ideas today. Taking tax dollars and redistributing them to others does not create wealth it does just the opposite.
Anyway Republican or Democrat we are just about up s_ _ _ Creek in debt. I truly hate to see what we are leaving behind for the next generations to live with.
I offer this as trying to bridge the gulf of miss understanding. This is not about Dem or Rep it is about trying to save our nation from the pit falls of economic misunderstanding. Our Constitution guarantees us the rite to pursue it does not guarantee to provide somewhere along the way we seem to have lost sight of this.
I do want to make it clear that I fully support helping those who are not able to help themselves. However to pay able bodied people to do nothing is not healthy for them or the country and today we somehow have drifted way too far in that direction.
God Bless America in our time of trouble.
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