Obama '08?

Obama: Serving Ambitions, Not Citizens

This recession is not going to end as long as Obama is in office. The recession is an esstential part of the "progressive" plan to transform the foundation of the country from capitalism to socialism. The unemploymen rate of {9.9} percent represents only about half of the workforce that would be working if jobs were available. Jobs in the private (productive) sector continue to decrease, while government and SEIU (Service Employees International Union) type, taxpayer paid jobs, continue to increase.

With less and less revenue from private sector production and more government dependence, you can see where this is headed. You can also see why our government keeps borrowing more money to pay for liabilities that aren't being covered by tax revenue.

Eventually, the loan interest rate becomes unaffordable, or credit is denied altogether, and the nation's economy collapses through default. That's when the Socialists take over and begin confiscating 50% or more of your income in taxes as a necessary step toward economic recovery.

They tell you it's for "the common good" of the country, but if they cared about the common good of the country, they never would have caused this to happen in the first place. But they will gladly hold you and your income liable for their reckless policies and spending. We must hold them accountable first before this happens. We must elect a Congress in November that will put a stop to this abuse of the American citizens.
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Most liberals exhibit a narcissistic pathology marked by grandiosity, envy, a lack of empathy, illusions of personal perfection, and a sense of entitlement.

Radicals should be "political relativists." and should take an agnostic view of means and ends;
The most basic principle for radicals is lie to opponents and disarm them by pretending to be moderates and liberals;
The radical organizer does not have a fixed truth"truth to him is relative and changing;
Radicals are not virtuous by not wanting power, because power is good and powerlessness is evil;
Life is a corrupting process;
He who fears corruption fears life;
The radical is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer;
The radical is building his own kingdom;
The radical’s purpose is to undermine the system by taking from the haves and giving it to the have-nots;
The stated cause is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause;
The real cause is accumulation of power to make the revolution;
The standard of the revolution is a democracy which upends all social hierarchies, including those based on merit.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.cpseea1.txt
Year………………………..USA Total Civil Employed
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2001………………..............136,933,000 [BUSH43 2001 TO 2009]
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2007...........................146,047,000
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2008:
August........................ 145,273,000
September.................... 145,029,000
October....................... 144,650,007
November................... 144,144,000
December.................... 143,338,000

2009: [OBAMA 2009 TO ?]

January.................... 142,221 ,000
February................... 141,687 ,000
March......................140,854,000
April...................... 140,902,000
May........................ 140,438,000
June....................... 140,038,000
July....................... 139,817,000
August..................... 139,433,000
September................ 138,768,000
October.................... 138,242,000
November................... 138,381,000
December................... 137,792,000

2010:
January (3)................ 138,333,000
February................... 138,641,000
March...................... 138,905 ,000
April......................... 139,455,000

http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=27763
3:13 pm CST - May 28, 2010

Countdown to … Repealing Obamacare
By Merrill Matthews

The states are embracing federalism once again, and we have Obamacare to thank for it. Several states have decided to push back against Washington’s takeover of the healthcare system and its expanding control over areas that neither Congress nor federal agencies have any constitutional authority to deal with.

The effort getting the most media attention comes from 20 states, led by Florida Atty. Gen. Bill McCollum, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, who have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s individual mandate that requires Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

The states so far participating in the attorneys’ general lawsuit are:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington

Along with other issues cited in the lawsuit, these states point out that Obamacare will add millions of Americans to Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor. States are already struggling from lower tax revenues and will eventually have to shoulder billions of dollars in federally imposed costs to cover the new Medicaid enrollees.

NFIB on Board

And now the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which represents some 350,000 small-business members, has decided to join the suit.

That’s an important development.

The NFIB was much too quiet in the early days of the healthcare reform debate. Now the organization has come to realize how bad the legislation will be for small businesses and has decided to fight it in court.

But challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare isn’t the only way states are demonstrating their independence.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a membership organization of conservative state legislators, has been working with states to adopt model legislation known as the Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act. So far some 38 states have filed or prefiled the legislation and three states " Idaho, Virginia and Arizona " have already passed it in their legislatures.

The act prohibits a state’s citizens from being required to have health insurance or penalized if they don’t.

According to Christie Herrera, Health & Human Services Task Force director at ALEC:

“The bad news for the President and congressional leaders is that conservatives have ‘big mo’ on our side. We’ve seen a groundswell of grassroots activists who are driving anti-Obamacare initiatives in the states, and who are motivated to elect conservative candidates who will continue that legacy.”

And more states will likely join the effort soon. For example, several state legislatures did not meet this year and so couldn’t introduce or pass the legislation. But lawmakers in Texas, Montana and Utah have indicated their intent to introduce the legislation when their state legislatures meet next year.

In Colorado, the Independence Institute, a conservative think tank, is leading a ballot initiative so that citizens can vote on whether or not to fight Obamacare, since the Democratic-controlled statehouse won’t do it.

Some states are part of both efforts " challenging the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate and attempting to pass the Freedom of Choice Act " an overlap that actually enhances the fight. The Freedom of Choice in Healthcare Act puts the weight of a state’s legislature and citizens behind the effort, not just one elected official as in the lawsuit.

Democrats cannot argue that the public supports Obamacare when the large majority of states are doing so much to fight it.

While some Republicans want to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, that effort will take time " and probably a new President who would sign the repeal.

States, by contrast, are already taking the lead.

Initially, Democrats and the media dismissed the states’ responses as silly and doomed to defeat. But several constitutional scholars have weighed in and it is clear that Obamacare raises serious constitutional issues.

As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in Printz v. New York:

“The federal government may neither issue directives requiring the states to address particular problems, nor command the states’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policymaking is involved and no case-by-case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”

Legal experts indicate that the widespread opposition at the state level greatly strengthens the chance the Supreme Court will hear the case " and decide in favor of freedom and a constitutionally limited government. Declaring the individual mandate unconstitutional would have a significant negative impact on Obamacare.

It might not kill the beast, but it would be severely wounded.

More importantly, it may force Congress and the Obama Administration to reconsider whether the Constitution, the states or the public will accept their power-grab unchecked.

Mr. Matthews Jr., Ph.D., is a resident scholar for the Institute for Policy Innovation.

As an English professor who must be on the outlook for plagiarism, I know how to look for it. ....

As an English professor who must be on the outlook for plagiarism, I know how to look for it. ....

Rep. Michele Bachmann offered this week's winning cut on the House Floor; an amendment to eliminate a pay raise for federal government employees - including right here in the Capitol - saving the taxpayers over $30 billion.

The Democrats gaveled it down from the Speaker's chair, shutting down debate. The reason the Democrat Majority gave? It would prevent federal workers on Capitol Hill from getting a pay raise, so it could not be considered. That is literally the reason they gave. It is astounding, and an affront to every small businessperson and struggling family across this country.

The up-or-down vote was clear, the majority in the U.S. House voted to allow pay raises for non-military federal employees, while the rest of the country is facing pay cuts.

Tell me about my sphere . . . since you seem to know soooooo much about it.

Anyone notice how ican ignored my correction of his mistakes?

I would think that at some point even you most rabid right wingers would show some embarrassment but you don't. You can always stoop lower & lower. Quoting Michelle Bachman, the biggest wacko in the Congress and Granny Palin (Drill Baby Drill) has become your mainstay.

Your federal government? You can't even see the hypocrisy in your own idiotic comments can you?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed the Bush administration for any lack of oversight leading up to the Gulf oil spill. The Obama administration, on the other hand, is blameless.

From Talk Radio News Service:

“Many of the people appointed in the Bush administration are still burrowed in the agencies that are supposed to oversee the [oil] industry,” Pelosi said when asked if Democrats could have prevented or mitigated the crisis by keeping a closer watch on the industry.

Added the Speaker, “the cozy relationships between the Bush administration’s agency leadership and the industry is clear…I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated.

On Friday, the Washington Examiner requested that Speaker Pelosi’s office release the list of Bush appointees to whom she was referring. We’ll let you know when we hear back.