AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

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How ObamaCare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) puts cash-strapped states in a tenuous position, forcing them into one or more unattractive policy choices: cut spending in crucial areas (such as public safety and education) to compensate for the additional health care costs, raise taxes to fund the new spending, or borrow money to pay the bill and sink further into debt. Given the political and economic challenges associated with higher taxes and more debt, it is likely that states will choose the least of three evils and make even deeper budget cuts, says Lanhee Chen, a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies.
Several states have initiated their own estimates of PPACA's impact.
• Texas recently concluded that the Medicaid expansion may add more than two million people to the program and cost the state up to $27 billion in a single decade.
• The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration estimated in April 2010 that PPACA's Medicaid expansion would require an additional $5.2 billion in spending between 2013 and 2019, and more than $1 billion a year beginning in 2017.
• In California, the Legislative Analyst's Office concluded that PPACA's Medicaid expansion will likely add annual costs to the state budget in "the low billions of dollars."
In every crisis there is opportunity -- state policymakers should act quickly to seize it, says Chen.
• First, state lawmakers should focus on cutting or holding constant all discretionary spending.
• Second, states should proactively enact their own health care reforms that focus on controlling costs, improving quality, and expanding consumer choice and market-based competition.
• Finally, state lawmakers should demand that federal officials be held accountable for dumping billions in unfunded liabilities onto states.
Source: Lanhee Chen, "How ObamaCare Burdens Already Strained State Budgets," Heritage Foundation, November 10, 2010.

The possible 2012 presidential candidate added, “The challenge for us is to have a Republican Party of jobs and paychecks replace a Democratic Party of bureaucracy and food stamps.”

Gingrich also listed 12 ideas for the assembled Republican governors here. Those ideas included: turning the millions spent on unemployment insurance into a job-training program; turn Medicaid funds into block grants by the number of people in poverty per state; and insist on the teaching of “American exceptionalism” in all public-financed schools.

What a freaking waste of legislative time and money!

I do not accept the rules imposed by others. If I did, I would not be alive today. I am a law-abiding citizen, but I recognize that there are regimes that need to be opposed rather than accepted. And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don't apply. One needs to adjust one's behavior to the changing circumstances.

Tividar [George Soros's father] saved his family by splitting them up, providing them with forged papers and false identities as Christians, and bribing Gentile families to take them in. George Soros took the name Sandor Kiss, and posed as the godson of a man named Baumbach, an official of Hungary's fascist regime. Baumbach was assigned to deliver deportation notices to Jews and confiscate Jewish property. [Baumbach] brought young Soros with him on his rounds.

My goal is to become the conscience of the world

Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in direction.

Ousting Bush from the White House is the central focus of my life. It's a matter of life and death.

My greatest fear is that the Bush Doctrine will succeed--that Bush will crush the terrorists, tame the rogue states of the axis of evil, and usher in a golden age of American supremacy. American supremacy is flawed and bound to fail in the long run.

What I am afraid of is that the pursuit of American supremacy may be successful for a while because the United States in fact employs a dominant position in the world today.

These are not normal times.

The principles of the Declaration of Independence are not self-evident truths but arrangements necessitated by our inherently imperfect understanding.

In April 2005 the Soros funded Campus Progress web site posted this headline: "An Invitation to Help Design the Constitution in 2020" (This was an invitation to a Yale law School Conference on "The Constitution of 2020: a progressive vision of what the Constitution ought to be.")

On December 9, 2004, Eli Pariser, who headed Soros's group Moveon PAC, boasted to his members, "Now the Democratic Party is our party. We bought it, we own it."

Soros … pushed for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 which was intended to ban "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Soros has responded that his donations to unaffiliated organizations do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.

Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, committed $5 million to MoveOn, while he and his friend Peter Lewis each gave America Coming Together $10 million. (All were groups that worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.) On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush[19] delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

George Soros, " My goal is the establishment of a new and stable world order. ... The USA is the main obstacle to establishing a new and stable World Order. ... My process was and is:
Establish a shadow government;
Control communications;
Destabilize the state;
Provoke an election crisis;
Take power."

GEORGE SOROS in his 1995 book, page 145, [I]Soros on Soros[/I], wrote:

I do not accept the rules imposed by others. If I did, I would not be alive today. I am a law-abiding citizen, but I recognize that there are regimes that need to be opposed rather than accepted. And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don't apply. One needs to adjust one's behavior to the changing circumstances.

Bruck, in The World According to Soros, page 58, wrote:

Tividar [George Soros's father] saved his family by splitting them up, providing them with forged papers and false identities as Christians, and bribing Gentile families to take them in. George Soros took the name Sandor Kiss, and posed as the godson of a man named Baumbach, an official of Hungary's fascist regime. Baumbach was assigned to deliver deportation notices to Jews and confiscate Jewish property. [Baumbach] brought young Soros with him on his rounds.

Michael Kaufman in his biography of George Soros, page 293, [I]Soros [/I], wrote:

My goal is to become the conscience of the world

GEORGE SOROS in his 2000 book, page 337, [I]Open Society[/I], wrote:

Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in direction.

GEORGE SOROS in the Washington Post, page A03 of November 11, 2003, wrote:

Ousting Bush from the White House is the central focus of my life. It's a matter of life and death.

GEORGE SOROS in the 2003 edition of his book, page 15, [I]The Alchemy of Finance[/I], wrote:

My greatest fear is that the Bush Doctrine will succeed--that Bush will crush the terrorists, tame the rogue states of the axis of evil, and usher in a golden age of American supremacy. American supremacy is flawed and bound to fail in the long run.

What I am afraid of is that the pursuit of American supremacy may be successful for a while because the United States in fact employs a dominant position in the world today.

GEORGE SOROS on June 10, 2004 to the Associated Press, wrote:

These are not normal times.

GEORGE SOROS in his 2004 book, page 159, [I]The Bubble of American Supremacy[/I], wrote:

The principles of the Declaration of Independence are not self-evident truths but arrangements necessitated by our inherently imperfect understanding.

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In April 2005 the Soros funded Campus Progress web site posted this headline: "An Invitation to Help Design the Constitution in 2020" (This was an invitation to a Yale law School Conference on "The Constitution of 2020: a progressive vision of what the Constitution ought to be.")

Sam Hananel in his associated Press article, December 10, 2004, wrote:

On December 9, 2004, Eli Pariser, who headed Soros's group Moveon PAC, boasted to his members, "Now the Democratic Party is our party. We bought it, we own it."

Quote:

Soros … pushed for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 which was intended to ban "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Soros has responded that his donations to unaffiliated organizations do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.

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Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, committed $5 million to MoveOn, while he and his friend Peter Lewis each gave America Coming Together $10 million. (All were groups that worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.) On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush[19] delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

I hope you don't delude yourself into thinking anyone reads what you post.

Specifically, Cyclo, what is wrong with those quotes of Soros?

If you do not rationally answer this question, then it is obvious that you do not know the answer, but only wish these Soros quotes to be wrong.

Then it would be you who "just think so because you have little ability to separate truth from fiction, and your masters have told you he's [your god], and you believe it."

Soros and Obama are of the same mindset.

Michael Kaufman in his biography of George Soros, page 293, Soros , wrote:
My goal is to become the conscience of the world

GEORGE SOROS in his 2000 book, page 337, Open Society, wrote:
Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in direction.

GEORGE SOROS on June 10, 2004 to the Associated Press, wrote:

These are not normal times.

Quote:
Soros … pushed for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 which was intended to ban "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns. Soros has responded that his donations to unaffiliated organizations do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.

Quote:
Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, committed $5 million to MoveOn, while he and his friend Peter Lewis each gave America Coming Together $10 million. (All were groups that worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.) On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush[19] delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

GEORGE SOROS in his 2000 book, page 337, [I]Open Society[/I], wrote:

Usually it takes a crisis to prompt a meaningful change in direction.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with any of that or any of those quotes. At all. Cycloptichorn

It is evident from what Soros believes that he intends to overthrow the United States as we know it.

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It is evident from what Soros believes that he intends to overthrow the United States as we know it.

Actually, that is not evident from what he says. I think it would be difficult for you to show how this is true.
Cycloptichorn

George Soros, " My goal is the establishment of a new and stable world order. ... The USA is the main obstacle to establishing a new and stable World Order. ... My process was and is:
Establish a shadow government;
Control communications;
Destabilize the state;
Provoke an election crisis;
Take power."

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Quote:

It is evident from what Soros believes that he intends to overthrow the United States as we know it.

Actually, that is not evident from what he says. I think it would be difficult for you to show how this is true.
Cycloptichorn

Then you do not interpret as any reasonable person would - this statement posted by ican as one of the things Soros wrote and apparently believes, as follows:

Quote:

George Soros, " My goal is the establishment of a new and stable world order. ... The USA is the main obstacle to establishing a new and stable World Order. ... My process was and is:
Establish a shadow government;
Control communications;
Destabilize the state;
Provoke an election crisis;
Take power."