The Perspective Of A Russian Immigrant

Investor's Business Daily

Like I've Been Saying All Along, The Government Caused The Mortgage Crisis!

How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Sank In The Subprime Quicksand

Private Sector Experience of The Obama Administration vs. Others

This is a very illustrative graph showing the private sector experience of cabinet members in Administrations since 1900.

A Great Article On Alternative Energy

From the American Thinker "Climate Fraud and the Environmental Agenda"

The Great Global Warming Swindle

You won't read about this in the lame stream media, because they don't want you to know about it, but there is a huge story on emails obtained from hacking into the server of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. The emails illustrate how scientists have been suppressing and manipulating data to fit in with their research relating to climate change. Here's another article from the Washington Times. Senator Inhofe is calling for Congressional hearings on "Climategate".

Healthcare By Numbers

Some numbers presented by Senator Orrin Hatch on the Senate floor

Cloward-Piven Government

An American Thinker article I encourage you to read.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Here it is Ladies and Gentleman! The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It's only 2,074 Pages! Start reading now!

This Administration Is A Joke Folks!

I still cannot believe that the Obama Administration is going to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to The United States of America and try him in a civilian court and give him and other terrorists the same rights as you or I have! This is absolute insanity! He's not American. He wasn't picked up in the U.S. He wasn't wearing a uniform. Have you ever seen these terrorists cut off someone's head with a kitchen knife while the victim is screaming? And while cutting their head off chanting "Allahu Akbar" which means God is great? Well I have and it sickens me! These terrorists deserve absolutely no rights, period! And the Obama Administration is treating these terrorists like they're common criminals!

Watch this exchange today between Senator Lyndsey Graham and Attorney General Eric Holder.



Today on Rush Limbaugh, he made some excellent points about the ensuing trial. I strongly encourage you to read the transcript from the show.

The (SEC) Securities and Exchange Commission Received Numerous Warnings About Bernie Madoff and Did Nothing!

So recently we've been hearing that there just aren't enough regulations of investment firms and "big business". I submit there are plenty of rules and regulations and plenty of Government oversight, but the Government doesn't do its job. Despite numerous letters written to the SEC, Bernie Madoff was still able to get away with his ponzi scheme. Do you think any of the Federal employees will ever be held accountable for dropping the ball? Hell no!
Here's one of the letters sent to the SEC in November 2005 warning the SEC about Madoff.
Here is the Executive Summary to SEC Inspector General David Kotz. Please read the second paragraph!
Part I and Part II of a great blog about the executive summary.

Let's Make A Comparison Between Cambridge Police and Fort Hood

Here's the President commenting on the case of the Cambridge police where he admits he doesn't have all of the facts and then goes on to make his judgment based on what's been reported in the news.



So he can say that the Cambridge police acted stupidly, without knowing all of the facts. Then he goes on to say that African Americans and Latinos get stopped by the police disproportionally and that's just a fact. So he can make all of these claims without having the facts.

NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE TERRORIST ATTACK AT FORT HOOD.



Now he says we don't have all of the facts, yet we shouldn't jump to conclusions. That's kind of strange isn't it? And it's also strange that on the day of the shooting, I was listening to the radio and the news station cut in to listen to the President comment on the shooting at a summit he held for Indian Affairs. He talked for two minutes, giving shout outs to some of the people there and yucking it up with everyone before commenting on the shootings. Very strange. Something just doesn't seem right about this administration.

"The General Welfare Clause"

I can't tell you how many times I heard Democrats on the House floor come up to the podium and say that the "General Welfare" clause of The Constitution is the reason for them to vote for the health care bill! WHAT A DAM PERVERSION OF OUR CONSTITUTION!!! Do these people, our "representatives", even have a clue about where in The Constitution this statement is? It's not even in the main text of The Constitution, it's in the preamble!

Here's what the preamble to The Constitution says:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It doesn't say anything about giving The Government the power to enact any legislation it wants for the general welfare of The United States! All it's saying is that in order to do these basic things, we made a Constitution! And we are going to spell out exactly, in the following 7 articles, what power we are going to delegate to The Federal Government! It doesn't give them free reign to do whatever they want!

After doing five minutes of research on this, let me give you a couple of quotes from Thomas Jefferson regarding the "General Welfare Clause".

"Aided by a little sophistry on the words "general welfare," [the federal branch claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare." - Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1825. ME 16:147

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"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please... Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." - Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on National Bank, 1791. ME 3:148

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"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." - James Madison

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"It has been urged and echoed, that the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare."

"But what color can the objection have, when a specification of the objects alluded to by these general terms immediately follows, and is not even separated by a longer pause than a semicolon? If the different parts of the same instrument ought to be so expounded, as to give meaning to every part which will bear it, shall one part of the same sentence be excluded altogether from a share in the meaning; and shall the more doubtful and indefinite terms be retained in their full extent, and the clear and precise expressions be denied any signification whatsoever? For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? Nothing is more natural nor common than first to use a general phrase, and then to explain and qualify it by a recital of particulars. But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, is an absurdity,..." - Federalist No. 41 James Madison

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Mr. GEORGE MASON. Mr. Chairman, gentlemen say there is no new power given by this clause. Is there any thing in this Constitution which secures to the states the powers which are said to be retained? Will powers remain to the states which are not expressly guarded and reserved? I will suppose a case. Gentlemen may call it an impossible case, and suppose that Congress will act with wisdom and integrity. Among the enumerated powers, Congress are to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and to pay the debts, and to provide for the general welfare and common defence; and by that clause (so often called the sweeping clause) they are to make all laws necessary to execute those laws. Now, suppose oppressions {442} should arise under this government, and any writer should dare to stand forth, and expose to the community at large the abuses of those powers; could not Congress, under the idea of providing for the general welfare, and under their own construction, say that this was destroying the general peace, encouraging sedition, and poisoning the minds of the people? And could they not, in order to provide against this, lay a dangerous restriction On the press? Might they not even bring the trial of this restriction within the ten miles square, when there is no prohibition against it? Might they not thus destroy the trial by jury? Would they not extend their implication? It appears to me that they may and will. And shall the support of our rights depend on the bounty of men whose interest it may be to oppress us? That Congress should have power to provide for the general welfare of the Union, I grant. But I wish a clause in the Constitution, with respect to all powers which are not granted, that they are retained by the states. Otherwise, the power of providing for the general welfare may be perverted to its destruction.

Many gentlemen, whom I respect, take different sides of this question. We wish this amendment to be introduced, to remove our apprehensions. There was a clause in the Confederation reserving to the states respectively every power, jurisdiction, and right, not expressly delegated to the United States. This clause has never been complained of, but approved by all. Why not, then, have a similar clause in this Constitution, in which it is the more indispensably necessary than in the Confederation, because of the great augmentation of power vested in the former? In my humble apprehension, unless there be some such clear and finite expression, this clause now under consideration will go to any thing our rulers may think proper. Unless there be some express declaration that every thing not given is retained, it will be carried to any power Congress may please.

Mr. HENRY moved to read from the 8th to the 13th article of the declaration of rights; which was done.

Mr. GEORGE NICHOLAS, in reply to the gentlemen opposed to the clause under debate, went over the same grounds, and developed the same principles, which Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Madison had done. The opposers of the {443} clause, which gave the power of providing for the general welfare, supposed its dangers to result from its connection with, and extension of, the powers granted in the other clauses. He endeavored to show the committee that it only empowered Congress to make such laws as would be necessary to enable them to pay the public debts and provide for the common defence; that this general welfare was united, not to the general power of legislation, but to the particular power of laying and collecting taxes, imposts, and excises, for the purpose of paying the debts and providing for the common defence, — that is, that they could raise as much money as would pay the debts and provide for the common defence, in consequence of this power. The clause which was affectedly called the sweeping clause contained no new grant of power. To illustrate this position, he observed that, if it had been added at the end of every one of the enumerated powers, instead of being inserted at the end of all, it would be obvious to any one that it was no augmentation of power. If, for instance, at the end of the clause granting power to lay and collect taxes, it had been added that they should have power to make necessary and proper laws to lay and collect taxes, who could suspect it to be an addition of power? As it would grant no new power if inserted at the end of each clause, it could not when subjoined to the whole.

He then proceeded thus: But, says he, who is to determine the extent of such powers? I say, the same power which, in all well-regulated communities, determines the extent of legislative powers. If they exceed these powers, the judiciary will declare it void, or else the people will have a right to declare it void. Is this depending on any man? But, says the gentleman, it may go to any thing. It may destroy the trial by jury; and they may say it is necessary for providing for the general defence. The power of providing for the general defence only extends to raise any sum of money they may think necessary, by taxes, imposts, &c. But, says he, our only defence against oppressive laws consists in the virtue of our representatives. This was misrepresented. If I understand it right, no new power can be exercised. As to those which are actually granted, we trust to the fellow-feelings of our representatives; and if we are deceived, we then trust to altering our {444} government. It appears to me, however, that we can confide in their discharging their powers rightly, from the peculiarity of their situation, and connection with us. If, sir, the powers of the former Congress were very inconsiderable, that body did not deserve to have great powers.

It was so constructed that it would be dangerous to invest it with such. But why were the articles of the bill of rights read? Let him show us that those rights are given up by the Constitution. Let him prove them to be violated. He tells us that the most worthy characters of the country differ as to the necessity of a bill of rights. It is a simple and plain proposition. It is agreed upon by all that the people have all power. If they part with any of it, is it necessary to declare that they retain the rest? Liken it to any similar case. If I have one thousand acres of land, and I grant five hundred acres of it, must I declare that I retain the other five hundred? Do I grant the whole thousand acres, when I grant five hundred, unless I declare that the five hundred I do not give belong to me still? It is so in this case. After granting some powers, the rest must remain with the people.

Gov. RANDOLPH observed that he had some objections to the clause. He was persuaded that the construction put upon it by the gentlemen, on both sides, was erroneous; but he thought any construction better than going into anarchy.

Mr. GEORGE MASON still thought that there ought to be some express declaration in the Constitution, asserting that rights not given to the general government were retained by the states. He apprehended that, unless this was done, many valuable and important rights would be concluded to be given up by implication. All governments were drawn from the people, though many were perverted to their oppression. The government of Virginia, he remarked, was drawn from the people; yet there were certain great and important rights, which the people, by their bill of rights, declared to be paramount to the power of the legislature. He asked, Why should it not be so in this Constitution? Was it because we were more substantially represented in it than in the state government? If, in the state government, where the people were substantially and fully represented, it was necessary that the great rights of human nature should {445} be secure from the encroachments of the legislature, he asked if it was not more necessary in this government, where they were but inadequately represented? He declared that artful sophistry and evasions could not satisfy him. He could see no clear distinction between rights relinquished by a positive grant, and lost by implication. Unless there were a bill of rights, implication might swallow up all our rights.

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But the rhetoric of the gentleman has highly colored the dangers of giving the general government an indefinite power of providing for the general welfare. I contend that no such power is given. They have power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States." Is this an independent, separate, substantive power, to provide for the general welfare of the United States? No, sir. They can lay and collect taxes, &c. For what? To pay the debts and provide for the general welfare. Were not this the case, the following part of the clause would be absurd. It would have been treason against common language. Take it altogether, and let me ask if the plain interpretation be not this — a power to lay and collect taxes, &c., in order to provide for the general welfare and pay debts.

I observed that the honorable gentleman's proposition comes in a truly questionable shape, and is still more extra? ordinary and unaccountable for another consideration — that, although we went article by article through the Constitution, and although we did not expect a general review of the subject, (as a most comprehensive view had been taken of it before it was regularly debated,) yet we are carried back to the clause giving that dreadful power, for the general welfare, Pardon me, if I remind you of the true state of that business. I appeal to the candor of the honorable gentleman, and if he thinks it an improper appeal, I ask the gentlemen here, whether there be a general, indefinite power of providing for the general welfare? The power is, "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare," so that they can only raise money by these means, in order to provide for the general welfare. No man who reads it can say it is general, as the honorable gentleman represents {600} it. You must violate every rule of construction and common sense, if you sever it from the power of raising money, and annex it to any thing else, in order to make it that formidable power which it is represented to be.

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Gov. RANDOLPH
The sweeping clause, as it is called, is much dreaded. I find that I differ from several gentlemen on this point. This formidable clause does not in the least increase the powers of Congress. It is only inserted for greater cautions and to prevent the possibility of encroaching upon the powers of Congress. No sophistry will be permitted to be used to explain away any of those powers; nor can they possibly assume any other power, but what is contained in the Constitution, without absolute usurpation. Another security is {207} that, if they attempt such a usurpation, the influence of the state governments will nip it in the bud of hope. I know this government will be cautiously watched. The smallest assumption of power will be sounded in alarm to the people, and followed by bold and active opposition. I hope that my countrymen will keep guard against every arrogation of power. I shall take notice of what the honorable gentleman said with respect to the power to provide for the general welfare. The meaning of this clause has been perverted, to alarm our apprehensions. The whole clause has not been read together. It enables Congress "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States." The plain and obvious meaning of this is, that no more duties, taxes, imposts, and excises, shall be laid, than are sufficient to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare, of the United States.
If you mean to have a general government at all, ought it not to be empowered to raise money to pay the debts, and advance the prosperity, of the United States, in the manner that Congress shall think most eligible? What is the consequence of the contrary? You give it power by one hand, and take it away from it by the other. If it be defective in some parts, yet we ought to give due credit to those parts which are ackowledged to be good. Does not the prohibition of paper money merit our approbation? I approve of it because it prohibits tender-laws, secures the widows and orphans, and prevents the states from impairing contracts. I admire that part which forces Virginia to pay her debts. If we recur to the bill of rights, which the honorable gentleman speaks so much of, we shall find that it recommends justice. Had not this power been given, my affection for it would not have been so great. When it obliges us to tread in the path of virtue, when it takes away from the most influential man the power of directing our passions to his own emolument, and of trampling upon justice, I hope to be excused when I say, that, were it mote objectionable than it is, I should vote for the Union.
THE DEBATES IN THE CONVENTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

What The Health-Care Bill Says

The Wall Street Journal

111 New Bureaucracies In Health Care Bill!

Fox Article

The Worst Bill Ever!

Wall Street Journal Article

Best Halloween Costume Ever

Top 12 Crosswind Landings!

9 Signs of America in Decline

Article

Benjamin Netanyahu Speech At U.N. on September 24, 2009

This is a great speech.

Surprise! Fraud In A Government Program!

In subcommittee hearings yesterday, The Treasury Department heard testimony that a 4-year-old received an $8,000 refundable tax credit for a new home. Even 52 IRS agents were involved with other fraud, adding up to around $500 million. I doubt you'll hear about this in the "mainstream media".
Here's an article on the fraud.
Here's the hearing video.

An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich

Democrats 1928
This Const The Original Const


Quote about two parties "two party death grip" "lesser of two evils"

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.

- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

Ran for 20 years. In 1957 Ike 50 or 6 years I don't have to run

presidential candidate in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948.

“The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”

The New American Magazine

Norman Thomas quote

“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

Norman Thomas

The Continuing Battle Between Fox News and POTUS

POTUS Suggests Fox News is Like 'Talk Radio'

Who Attended Off-The-Record Briefing Between Media and POTUS?

Who Else Has Obama Endorsed?

Cheney Speech From October 22, 2009

Your Pay Czar Hard At Work!

Pay Czar To Slash Compensation At Seven Firms

Here Comes The FDA

Now the FDA is going to create more regulation "for our own good".
Here's the link.

Good Article From Pravda (Yes, The Russian Newspaper)

Here's an article warning the U.S. regarding our own self destruction.

This Video Has Been Shown To Thousands Of Schoolchildren Throughout The Country !

Does This Video Agree With How You View This Country?
This video was produced by the Tides Foundation.
To see what they're about go to this link.

Government Is Repeating What Caused The Mortgage Crisis!

Do you know what the definition of insanity is? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. But that's exactly what the Government is doing. you may not realize it, but the Government is the reason why the whole mortgage mess occurred in the first place by giving low income families loans with little or no money down and forcing banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to give out these loans (please watch the last half of the video that I posted entitled "Directed Distraction About AIG and Barney Frank"). And now guess what? The Government is going to continue these low cost loans with as little as a 3.5% down payment! This will be the beginning of a new "bubble" caused by the Government that will again blowup once again. Stupid!! Here's a good editorial explaining what the FHA is now doing which is a repeat of the past Government policy that caused the first mortgage crisis. Can you now start to see how the Government can't do anything right and just causes more problems than they solve? But they always do it with "the best intentions" never realizing all of the unintended consequences. FOOLS!!

A Very Timely Article by Samual Adams

Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice. For they cannot live in any Country where Virtue and Knowledge prevail. The Religion and public Liberty of a People are intimately connected; their Interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this Reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the People's Liberties, practice every Art to poison their Morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all Events, to put a Stop to the Progress of Tyranny. It is advanced already by far too many Strides. We are at this moment upon a precipice. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise Men; calmly took around us and consider what is best to be done. Let us converse together upon this most interesting Subject and open our minds freely to each other. Let it be the topic of conversation in every social Club. Let every Town assemble. Let Associations & Combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just Rights.
October 5, 1772

Americans, we are about to lose our Sovereignty!

Kids singing Battle Hymn of The Republic

Daring to Question Al Gore

School Kids Indoctrination Song

Obama Townhall meeting in fort myers florida Julio Osegueda

Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!

Wonderful!?

School Kids Sing For Health Care Reform On CNN

Something I Left Out About HR 3200 (The Health Care Bill)

If you go to the top of page 16 of the bill it states:

SEC. 102. PROTECTING THE CHOICE TO KEEP CURRENT COVERAGE
GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term ‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A)
IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.

WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT IF YOU HAVE YOUR CURRENT PRIVATE HEALTH CARE PLAN NOW, YOU CAN KEEP IT, UNLESS YOU CHANGE ANY PART OF IT. THEN YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PUBLIC PLAN. HOW'S THAT FOR CHOICE?

HERE'S A LINK TO INVESTERS BUSINESS DAILY, WHO BROKE THIS STORY BY ASKING THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE IF THIS WAS INDEED TRUE.

Let's Go Trough Some Numbers Based On The CBO Report

Now follow me on this folks. According to the Presidential speech to Congress a few weeks ago, there are currently 30 million people who don't have health care right now. Today Democrats came out and said that the new health care bill will cover 94% of the people in the country. So let's use some basic math. If 94% of people will have health care if this bill passes, that means there will still be 6% without health care. So, with a current population of 307,545,788 times 6% will still leave 18,452,747 who still will not have health care! The CBO came out today and said the health care bill will cost $829 billion. If you take $829 billion and divide it by the people who will get coverage due to the health care bill, which is the remainder of the 30 million people, you get $71,792 per person who will now get coverage. Unbelievable!

The Value Added Tax (VAT) will destroy this country folks!

Pelosi says VAT is on the table

This is a good article by Charles Krauthammer about how The President waited a day to tell the world about the second Iranian nuclear enrichment plant

Article

This is Funny!

Incredible Video of What Happened When The Wing Broke Off of This Plane!

Good Video About Gun Control

You be the Judge

This is pretty interesting!

The Democratic Platform of 1928. In particular, "The Rights of States", "Immigration", "Radio" and "Education".

So you think Republicans are any better?

This really pissed me off! I was on the web looking at bills recently passed by the Senate and came across this one.
It's HR 3357.
It's a really short bill (only 2 pages). O.K. So it's a bill for the Highway Trust Fund. It appropriates $7 billion to the Highway Trust Fund. That seems o.k. But then I read on and it also appropriates "such sums as necessary" for the unemployment trust fund. I can even understand that with all the unemployment. But then it adds an additional $85 billion for the FHA. And it also adds an additional $100 billion to the (GNMA) Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account.

So with this bill, the Government just took an additional $185 billion from the American People? Did any of you here about this on the news? I didn't! Do you realize with a U.S. population of 307,545,788, that comes out to $601.54 for every man, woman and child in this country! Just in one stupid bill!

So I'm already starting to get pissed and I decide to look and see who the hell voted for this and guess what? My two Republican Senator's (Cornyn and Hutchison) both voted yes for it! Here's their vote. Holy crap!!

So I e-mailed both of them and asked them why they voted for it. I got a reply from Cornyn giving me his website address and the typical letter sent out to everyone who e-mails him and that was it. Can't they answer my question or are they too busy?

Then to top it all off, I'm on my way to work the next day and there's report out that Senator Cornyn issued a statement about GITMO and he has the nerve to say "I implore the President to keep that in mind and immediately stop throwing good taxpayer dollars after bad policy ideas. If he is looking for a creative way to spend money, I respectfully suggest leaving GITMO open and using the millions of dollars in ‘savings' to pay down the monumental deficit he has racked up since taking office in January." Here's a link to his whole statement.

Can you believe this! Our "fiscally responsible" Republican Senators voted for this! Talk about two faced political liars! It's no wonder there are so many people totally fed up with our Government. I've been fed up with both parties for ten years. They just don't get it!

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the 12th Imam

After all that's been going on recently in the U.N. and with the Iranian government trying to produce Uranium, I wanted to show you why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is so dangerous. The one thing to know is that he believes in the 12th Imam. I've listed some links below to help explain exactly what the 12th Imam is.

Iran's Nukes, the Twelfth Imam and Apocalyptic Martyrdom

The 12th Imam: What Is An Imam?

In Iran, Arming for Armageddon

Iran’s President and the Politics of the Twelfth Imam

Obama says under my plan, electricity rates will "necesarily skyrocket".

Obama Doctors Taking Tonsils Out For Money Instead Of Diagnosing It As Allergies.

Obama says surgeons amputate a limb for the money.

Competition? Here's What David Axelrod Had To Say About Competition.

Glenn Beck on The Goldman Sachs Connection

The New Face of Environmentalism

This is the newspaper article from the East Bay Express News where Van Jones says he is a Communist.

If You Don't Like To Read

This is a link to a series of lectures on different aspects of our Government. There are a bunch of references to God and stuff (it was filmed at a church), and on some of the slides the focus goes back and forth and kind of drives your eyes bonkers, but the majority of each one is very informative. The one on "Empire of Debt" is very revealing (and disturbing). If you have some time and you don't like to read, these are really interesting.

UPDATE: Please watch the video "America's First Founding" Part 1. Load it and start it at the 15:15 for an awesome explanation of what our country is all about. You will learn more in this segment than you ever thought possible!

Cap and Trade Speech by John Boehner

This is a great speech by John Boehner on the House floor right before July 4th weekend when the Cap and Trade bill was passed, where he goes over the Amendment to the Cap and Trade bill that was added at the last minute, page by page. It gets really good around 18:30 in the audio, but I encourage you to listen to the whole thing. This is what's coming!

Here is a link to the Amendment if you want to follow along with his speech.

Justice Clarence Thomas on Racism

Neo - Marxist Saul Alinsky - His "Rules for Radicals"

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength."

List of Obama's Czars

MSNBC Host on Hardball states that The President NEVER said he was in favor of a single payer system

Here is Lawrence O'Donnell from Hardball talking to someone who asked Arlen Specter a question at a town hall meeting. Listen to how he says that The President never said he was in favor of single payer. Just the other day at the town hall meeting in New Hampshire, The President said he never has said he is in favor of single payer.



But here is The President saying he is in favor of a single payer system. At 1:00 in the video, he says "I happen to be a PROPONENT of a single payer, universal health care plan". When The President is with people who are his buddies, like the AFL-CIO, ACORN, SEIU, etc., he tells them what he truly believes. But when he gets in front of the general public, he says what he has to say in order to get his agenda passed and sound like a moderate.



So, in fact, The President did say he is in favor of single payer. I guess MSNBC didn't see that video or are they not reporting it so people don't find out about it. Wake up America!

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PART 4—HEALTH WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT
SEC. 2271. HEALTH WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 761 (42 U.S.C. 294n) is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and
(2) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the following:
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, based upon the classifications and standardized methodologies and procedures developed by the Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment under section 764(b)—

(1) collect data on the health workforce (as defined in section 764(i)), disaggregated by field, discipline, and specialty, with respect to
(A) the supply (including retention) of health professionals relative to the demand for such professionals;
(B) the diversity of health professionals (including with respect to race, ethnic background, and gender); and
(C) the geographic distribution of health professionals; and
(2) collect such data on individuals participating in the programs authorized by subtitles A, B, and C and part 1 of subtitle D of title II of division C of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.

Why is the Government looking at the diversity of health professionals? Shouldn't the makeup of our health professionals be based on their qualifications?

Please read this section. Why is the Government telling hospitals when and how they can expand their facilities?

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(C) PROHIBITION ON EXPANSION OF FACILITY CAPACITY.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital at any time on or after the date of the enactment of this subsection are no greater than the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds, respectively, as of such date.

(2) EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON EXPANSION OF FACILITY CAPACITY.—
PROCESS.—
(i) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish and implement a process under which a hospital may apply for an exception from the requirement under paragraph (1)(C).
(ii) OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY INPUT.—The process under clause (i) shall provide persons and entities in the community in which the hospital applying for an exception is located with the opportunity to provide input with respect to the application.
(iii) TIMING FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary shall implement the process under clause (i) on the date that is one month after the promulgation of regulations described in clause (iv).
(iv) REGULATIONS.—Not later than the first day of the month beginning 18 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to carry out the process under clause (i). The Secretary may issue such regulations as interim final regulations.
(B) FREQUENCY.—The process described in subparagraph (A) shall permit a hospital to apply for an exception up to once every 2 years.


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(ii) 100 PERCENT INCREASE LIMITATION.—The Secretary shall not permit an
increase in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of a hospital under clause (i) to the extent such increase would result in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital exceeding 200 percent of the base line number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital.


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(E) CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL OF AN INCREASE IN FACILITY CAPACITY.—The Secretary may grant an exception under the process described in subparagraph (A) only to a hospital—
(i) that is located in a county in which the percentage increase in the population during the most recent 5-year period for which data are available is estimated to be at least 150 percent of the percentage increase in the population growth of the State in which the hospital is located during that period, as estimated by Bureau of the Census and available to the Secretary;
(ii) whose annual percent of total inpatient admissions that represent inpatient admissions under the program under title XIX is estimated to be equal to or greater than the average percent with respect to such admissions for all hospitals located in the county in which the hospital is located;
(iii) that does not discriminate against beneficiaries of Federal health care programs and does not permit physicians practicing at the hospital to discriminate against such beneficiaries;
(iv) that is located in a State in which the average bed capacity in the State is estimated to be less than the national average bed capacity;
(v) that has an average bed occupancy rate that is estimated to be greater than the average bed occupancy rate in the State in which the hospital is located; and
(vi) that meets other conditions as determined by the Secretary.

What other Conditions?


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(D) INCREASE LIMITED TO FACILITIES ON THE MAIN CAMPUS OF THE HOSPITAL.—Any increase in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of a hospital pursuant to this paragraph may only occur in facilities on the main campus of the hospital.

So we’re telling hospitals not only if, but where they can add to their facilities.

tax on "small Employers"

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SMALL EMPLOYER.—For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘small employer’ means any employer for any calendar year if the annual payroll of such employer for the preceding calendar year does not exceed $400,000.

So folks it’s not businesses that make a PROFIT of $400,000, it’s businesses with a PAYROLL of $400,000 that mandates the tax! This bill doesn't just target the "evil rich people" earning over $250,000, it will affect thousands of small businesses. Small businesses who create 70% off the jobs in our economy.

So you don't believe the Government will have access to bank accounts?

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(C) enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with the related health care payment and remittance advice;

So there will be bureaucrats in Washington with access to our bank accounts?

Plain Language?

Middle of Page 39

(2) PLAIN LANGUAGE.—In this subsection, the term ‘plain language’ means language that the intended audience, including individuals with limited English proficiency, can readily understand and use because that language is clean, concise, well-organized, and follows other best practices of plain language writing.

(3) GUIDANCE.—The Commissioner shall develop and issue guidance on best practices of plain language writing.

More HR 3200 excerpts

At the bottom of Page 22 and the top of page 23 the Bill states

"Such report shall include any recommendations the Commissioner deems appropriate to ensure that the law does not provide incentives for small and mid-size employers to self-insure or create adverse selection in the risk pools of large group insurers and self-insured employers."

So the Government wants to make sure that the law doesn’t provide incentives for employers to self-insure?

Some of the HR 3200 bureaucracy

Page 30 and Page 31 the Bill states

(1) IN GENERAL.-There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans.

(2) CHAIR.-The Surgeon General shall be a member and the chair of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee.

(3) MEMBERSHIP.-The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall be composed of the following members, in addition to the Surgeon General:

(A) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the President.

(B) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States in a manner similar to the manner in which the Comptroller General appoints members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission under section 1805(c) of the Social Security Act.

(C) Such even number of members (not to exceed 8) who are Federal employees and officers, as the President may appoint.

O.K. So we're going to have a committee of up to 26 members all appointed either by the president or the comptroller. No bureaucracy here.


(5) PARTICIPATION.-The membership of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall at least reflect providers, consumer representatives, employers, labor, health insurance issuers, experts in health care financing and delivery, experts in racial and ethnic disparities, experts in care for those with disabilities, representatives of relevant governmental agencies. and at least one practicing physician or other health professional and an expert on children's health and shall represent a balance among various sectors of the health care system so that no single sector unduly influences the recommendations of such Committee.

Excuse me, why do we need "experts in racial and ethnic disparities" and "labor" and yet we only have "at least one practicing physician or other health professional and an expert on children's health"? Shouldn't it be mostly doctors who know how to practice medicine that should be on this committee!?


Middle of page 32 the bill states

"The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services benefit standards."


So this new bureaucracy of mostly non-medical members will be recommending what our benefits will be. Not us!

Page 35 and 36

DETERMINATION TO ADOPT STANDARDS.-
If the Secretary determines-

(A) to propose adoption of benefit standards so recommended as a package, the Secretary shall, by regulation under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, propose adoption such standards; or

(B) not to propose adoption of such standards as a package, the Secretary shall notify the Health Benefits Advisory Committee in writing of such determination and the reasons for not proposing the adoption of such recommendation and provide the Committee with a further opportunity to modify its previous recommendations and submit new recommendations to the Secretary on a timely basis.

So the Secretary will "provide the Committee with a further opportunity to modify its previous recommendations and submit new recommendations to the Secretary on a timely basis." What's the reason for a committee if the Secretary can overwrite the committee!? Can he just keep sending their recommendations back to the committee until they make, "the right decision?"

Here is HR 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"

HR 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"

Obama to Jane Sturm take a pill (long version in context)

Representative Dingell on Cap and Trade. It's a great big tax!

An excellent explanation of different forms of Government.

Glenn Beck - He Explains how much 1 trillion dollars is!

Glenn Beck: Directed Distraction About AIG and Barney Frank

Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government. I wish our Representatives spoke this eloquently!

Great Article about Barney Frank and the Financial Fiasco

Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco

Barney Frank in 2005: What Housing Bubble?

McCain's Early Recognition of Fannie/Freddie Crisis

Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and Democrats are Clueless on Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and the financial credit crisis

Barack Obama at the AFL-CIO Presidential Forum

Obama AFL-CIO Video

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Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance

Obama, Healthcare & the Post Office

Schumer: The American People Don't Care About Pork Projects In Stimulus

Barack Obama "Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk"

Obama Says "Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face"

Democrat John Conyers Questions why read the 1000 page health care bill

Obama Civilian Security

We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America

This is a great way to find out how your Senators are voting, and how to view the bills.

http://www.senate.gov/

At the main page, click on "LEGISLATION & RECORDS". Then select "Roll Call Votes".

This link is a great way to find out how your representatives are voting, and the text of bills in the House.

http://www.house.gov/

After going to the site, click "Roll Call Votes". Then select "111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)".

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