News And Views 10-10-09
October 10, 2009
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Fighting starts over Obama prize
DNC humor Czar has no sense of humorFinally,someone speaks out in defense of Glenn Beck
Wht the GOP should give O a prize
Dems change stance on miltary and Afghanistan
Obama Declares war On The Middle Class
July 25, 2009
(I wish some of these millionaire liberals who want to tax everyone to “help out the less fortunate” would send me a few bucks.)
Like a PacMan gobbling up everything in sight, going after folks making more than $250,000 a year is not enough to satisfy Obama’s insatiable appetite for money and power. He wants more. Although it means breaking a campaign promise to only tax the “rich,” Obama’s mad rush for revenue to fund his social engineering has transformed his agenda into a war against the middle class.
While Obama rides his luxury 747 around the globe, glad-handing with other world leaders discussing “healing the planet” and other grandiose plans, the average American is struggling to find work. As Michelle Obama totes around a $6,000 Italian alligator-skin clutch, the only thing most Americans are “clutching” is their wallets, trying to figure out how to get by this month. Obama is out of touch with Middle America. However, even worse than his overt elitism…Read the rest of this entry
Obama’s Health Scare Tactics Won’t Work This Time
July 23, 2009
Back when we “absolutely needed” the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to save us from impending doom in the financial markets, I wrote that the crisis was being overblown in order to shove that enormous spending bill down the voters’ throats. That analysis has held up to this point and I believe history will show this is exactly what happened.
President Obama is now trying to cash in on his remaining political capital with a health care bill that will enable the federal government to take over one fifth of the U.S. economy. Beat that Hugo Chavez!
Predictably, President Obama with his chief-of-staff Rahm “never waste a crisis” Emanuel, are looking for some new imminent disaster they can use to scare the public into backing their health care plan before fully understanding what it involves and what the alternatives are.
Many people have been asking of the president, “Why the rush?” If we are going to pass a health care bill that allows for government takeover of 20% of the economy, shouldn’t politicians be taking their time to make sure they get it right? The public should know up front what it is that the government is proposing, what it will cost, and what the alternatives are in order to make an informed decision on whether or not to support it. Members of Congress and the president will at least have time to read the bill, right?
The question has prompted radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh to speed up all of his sound bites of politicians trying to get a health care bill pushed through the Congress. I guess if the politicians are in such a hurry, Rush wants to make sure that all of their sound bites are played in time to inform the public as much as possible before the president’s deadline for legislation (now up in the air). If you tuned in to Rush over the past week and didn’t know any better, you’d get the sense that Alvin and the Chipmunks really want health care reform passed, but they can’t logically explain how it will be paid for and why it is better than health insurance reform. What is clear now, however, is what the president has chosen to be the pressing crisis that is prompting the momentous health care move.
Obama has long whined that he “inherited” a trillion dollar annual deficit. A false statement that denies his and the Democrat controlled Congress’s responsibility for the deficit. The $1.3 trillion deficit that Obama is “inheriting” this year is due to the enormous bailout bill, mentioned above, that Obama lobbied for during the presidential elections and that was pushed through the Democrat Congress to be signed by President Bush. That is Obama’s definition of inheriting a deficit. He scares the hell out of the citizens – who lobbied Congress to vote down the first bailout bill – and pushes the bailout bill to the president’s desk. Then when Bush signs the bill, Obama says now he has “inherited” the deficit the bailout bill caused.
But if you listen to Obama you would think that health care costs are somehow responsible for this year’s deficit and that “rising costs of health care” will lead to a projected deficit increase of $9.3 trillion between 2010 and 2019. To get an understanding of how the Obama Administration explains this, you can read Peter Orszag’s column in the Wall St. Journal. The basic gist of their claim is that Medicare and Medicaid expenses stand to increase from 5% of GDP – where it is now – to 20% of GDP by 2050. Ok, but that just says to me that Medicare and Medicaid are failed entitlement programs that should be ditched. It says that these programs are part of the problem in the health industry and expanding them to generally cover the entire population is NOT the answer to our problems.
In addition to the claim of health care costs being the principle driver of the skyrocketing deficit, Obama has also decided to scare people into supporting him by claiming that if we don’t pass this legislation now, our health insurance premiums will double over the next ten years. Those numbers are likely coming from Obama’s Ministry of Truth.
The real problem here is that consumers of health care never see what they are being charged in the first place. The bill goes to the insurance company, they decide what they are responsible for and what the consumer is responsible for and the consumer gets their bill. Consumers never see an itemized bill showing what they and the insurance company paid for. There is almost zero ability for consumers to bargain and shop around for their health care. The health care industry is the only industry in our economy that behaves this way.
Not to mention the desperate need for tort reform in the medical industry. But instead of addressing these issues, Obama would rather just control the whole thing and force out private insurance companies.
If Obama cannot get anything passed through Congress without using scare tactics, then Senator Jim DeMint could very well be right. This could be Obama’s last stand. The citizens do not appear to be falling for the scare tactics and sob stories this time, which is a very good sign. It looks like the deadline will be pushed back on this legislation for now, but make no mistake; when Congress is back in session Obama and Emanuel will be right back in their faces trying to get a bill through. We all need to stay on top of our Reps and Senators to make sure they do not cave and sacrifice our country for their own political ambitions. And we need to show Obama that we will not be fooled into believing that the end of the world is around the corner if we don’t do what he wants us to do anymore.
Don’t Call it A Coup Barack!
July 2, 2009
Let’s imagine for a minute that our worst collective nightmare has come true. Yeah, you guessed it, I want you to imagine – just for the sake of this argument – that the Obama Administration has won a second term in the White House.
Now imagine that at the end of that second term, after eight years of damage done by Obama, he decides that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution does not apply to him and he is going to serve another term no matter who wins the next presidential election.
We would not stand for any president trying to pull this in our country and we should not support actions such as these in any other country. Removing such a president from office would not be a “coup”, it would be the preservation of our representative republic government and our Constitution.
President Obama seems to disagree however based on his handling of the crisis currently taking place in Honduras.
The Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, has been moving to extend the term limits restricting him to his single term in an attempt to follow the lead of other Latin American presidents in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. On the surface, it appears as though the Honduran government has acted too hastily by removing the president before he has finished his term, but a deeper look shows that they followed a very strict legal guideline to justify the removal.
Since the health of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been in decline, power in Latin America has been accumulating in the hands of Hugo Chavez. Chavez has nationalized much of Venezuela’s industries moving the country closer to communism and making his government very rich on profits that come primarily from oil exports.
Chavez has been effectively using the influence that has come with his power and money to spread Marxism across Latin America much in the same way Russia grew into the Soviet Union. He is able to provide both economic and military security to countries that follow his lead and Honduras is just the latest gem he has had his eye on.
President Zelaya has been more than complicit in helping Chavez gain influence over Honduras, which is something that the Honduran government and population has been exceedingly aware of (as well as the US Department of State). Having recognized the danger their president has put them in by succumbing to Chavez, the government decided to act.
The Untied States should be backing the actions of the Honduran government 100% (you know Reagan would have), but instead the Obama Administration has decided to side with communist dictators Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro calling the actions of the Honduran government an illegal military coup.
Check that, the administration is still “studying” to find a legal technicality in order to call it a coup so that we could then cut financial assistance to Honduras. We have already suspended military assistance.
But why would Obama go through so much trouble to punish Honduras, a government struggling against a fall to communism, on a legal technicality? Why would he go out of his way to fall on the side of Chavez and Castro?
Weren’t we all scorned and chastised during the 2008 election when we called Obama a socialist because of his statement on redistributing wealth and his associations with radical Marxists? After all since he had no experience we had to make a judgment of how he would act as president based on something didn’t we?
Well it’s sad to say, but our judgments are looking to be correct more and more each day based on Obama’s actions. It is even more clear now that the “change” Obama was promising was a change in the foundation of our government, not a change from “politics as usual” as he played it off.
So, when our president sides with communist dictators, nationalizes the auto and banking industries, allows countries in our backyard to fall to communism and pushes to redistribute the wealth of the United States, is there anyone left to defend Obama as not being a socialist?
News and Views 6-26-2009
June 26, 2009
As usual, we bring you the top news stories and opinion pieces from around the world, in addition to our own daily commentaries.
EPA Plays Hide And Seek, Suppressed Report Revealed
Iran Revolution Day 14: Makeshift Hospitals, News Blackout
The Voice Claims Another Victim
When Did The Lowbrows Take Over The Culture?
News and Views 6-25-2008
June 25, 2009
We strive to bring you all of the news you need, in the hopes of stalling the liberal agenda for America.
We search the Internet for some of the top stories by the best conservative writers.
In addition to our own commentaries, here you will find various viewpoints on a multitude of subjects, all in one place.
Obama To Iran: Let Them Eat Ice Cream
North Koreans Mass At Rally To Denounce U.S.
Climate Bill Will Be Biggest Tax Increase In U.S. History
News And Views 6-23-2009
June 23, 2009
We strive to bring you all of the news you need, in the hopes of stalling the liberal agenda for America.
We search the Internet for some of the top stories by the best conservative writers.
In addition to our own commentaries, here you will find various viewpoints on a multitude of subjects, all in one place.
Project Vote Sues Whistleblower, ObamACORN Bully Tactics Exposed.
Wee The People: Port-A-Potty Named For Pelosi
Iran:The Bloody Revolution Marches On.
Democrats Fleeing Obama Healthcare Plan.
China Warns Federal Reserve: Stop Printing Money!
June 11, 2009
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, said: “Senior officials of the Chinese government grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetise the actions of our legislature.”
“I must have been asked about that a hundred times in China. I was asked at every single meeting about our purchases of Treasuries. That seemed to be the principal preoccupation of those that were invested with their surpluses mostly in the United States,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
His recent trip to the Far East appears to have been a stark reminder that Asia’s “Confucian” culture of right action does not look kindly on the insouciant policy of printing money by Anglo-Saxons.
Mr Fisher, the Fed’s leading hawk, was a fierce opponent of …Read the rest of this entry
If It Works In California, It Can Work For The Rest Of America
May 28, 2009
You know, the older I become, I see more and more things that I never thought would come to pass.
I never thought I would see General Motors about to go belly-up.
I never thought I would see modern-day American citizens holding Tea Parties.
I never thought I would see Congress pass a bill to draft young Americans into a Civilian Defense Force.
And I never thought I’d see that bastion of left-wing liberalism, California, finally wake up and smell the coffee.
And that I would hope that the rest of America would follow California’s lead.
Click Here to see why we need to follow California’s lead.
A Blatant Misuse Of Federal Bailout Funds
May 18, 2009
Salvaterra and I have been working the staff here at Freedom Medium pretty hard.
They all put in long hours, and each and every day show their dedication to broadcasting the truth to the American people.
And many is the time that their life outside away from here suffers for it.
Hell, we have one guy on staff who has been sitting in a corner for so long he is starting to think he is a gopher.
And if all of that isn’t enough, we will soon be moving the entire operation to new and bigger offices.
So one day Savaterra and I decided that we need to do something really special to show our staffers just how much we appreciate their hard work, and we came up with a plan.
The only drawback was, with the move to the new offices costing more than we had planned for, our funds were stretched pretty thin.
And we did briefly think about applying for some federal bailout money.
We figured that the way the feds were handing out cash with little or no accountability, getting the money for our purchase wouldn’t present much of a problem.
We soon discarded that idea.
Being dedicated capitalists, we just couldn’t see our way clear to asking the taxpayers of America to fund a private enterprise.
And even if we could have justified such an action, upon further reflection we decided that we may not have qualified for any federal bailout funding after all.
You see, the plan that Salvaterra and I came up with was to have a weekly cookout for the Freedom Medium staffers, and we were looking to purchase a BBQ grille.
It is probably just as well that we decided to dig into our own pockets and buy the grille ourselves.
We couldn’t help but feel that the current administration would have a problem with this acquisition on numerous levels.
You tell us, do you think asking for federal funding for this purchase would have been the wrong thing to do
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