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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Yes it's true that there are indeed limits to your second amendment right
Clinton to deliver Keynote speech at Democrat convention
Debbie Wasserman Schultz blasts Romney in Israel
Imagine... No Red Tape
Imagine the work this country could do without Government Red Tape.
Watch the Video...
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) is explaining how trillions of dollars of regulations are killing business, he not only receives a standing ovation but members on the House floor start chanting “USA” over and over.
http://www.therightscoop.com/must-watch-rep-mike-kellys-epic-floor-speech-on-the-cost-of-regulation/
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Forget No Child Left Behind...They're Coming With Us No Matter What!
"The District [of Columbia] is paying 305 students with poor academic and behavioral records to attend summer school, The Washington Examiner has learned."
"The rising ninth-graders are earning $5.25 an hour to participate in the "Summer Bridge" program, which targets students identified by D.C. Public Schools as less likely than their peers to graduate high school within four years."So, let’s find those least likely to succeed and reward them? What could possibly go wrong?
Better yet, what are they trying to accomplish?
Is the project geared towards getting “at risk” and/or under-performing children into a program to help them succeed in the classroom, or is the project geared towards providing essential work skills for use in post high school life?
Julian Castro To Deliver DNC Keynote Address..Because Gay Latino Woman Was Unavailable
Wow – al Latino! Really?
Well, it’s been a long time coming!
Yeah, and if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in New York to sell you (well it’s mine to sell…didn’t we all build it?)!
At a convention where same sex marriage and the war on women will make up a large portion of the 2012 Democratic platform, of course we’ll need a Latino for the keynote address.
Gays, Latinos, and Women spell votes for this year’s Democratic Party, and in the absence of a Gay Latino Woman, they’ve offered the honor to Castro.
Jake Stern Show: Mitt Romney Stands With Our Ally
On The Jake Stern Show:Mitt Romney visited Israel and expressed steadfast and unwavering support for our only true ally in the Middle East. In stark contrast to President Obama, Romney displayed the courage to stand with Israel against Iran, the PA, and many other issues. He's been brutally attacked by the media and the Democrats, as is often the case when a politician stands up for what's right. After so many years of Israel bashing, this is a breath of fresh air. Plus: White House blunder on the bust of Winston Churchill, some forgotten quotes from Obama that illustrate his true character (or lack thereof), and lots more!
America's Malaise Is BACK! ... J. D. Longstreet
America's Malaise Is BACK!
The Misery Index Is Rising
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
***********
The dictionary defines malaise as: "an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of, or accompanying the onset of, an illness ... ."
Malaise in an individual is bad. Malaise in a nation can be fatal.
America is currently mired in the worst case of malaise in my lifetime.
I've been around since FDR was President. I have experienced American national malaise twice in my lifetime. Both times it was during the administrations of Democratic Party Presidents.
The first case of American malaise (in my lifetime) was under the administration of the 39th President of the United States -- Jimmy Carter. It was BAD.
I was trying to run a business -- and it was pure hell. All business could do was hunker down and wait for a flicker of light at the end of that very long and very dark tunnel.
When it came, it was not a flicker -- it was a sunburst by the name of Ronald Reagan.
America came roaring out of her national depression and raced back to the to the top -- turning on all the lights as they went -- illuminating "the shining city on a hill."
Now, under the Obama administration (another Democratic Party President) here we are -- in an even deeper national depression -- or malaise -- than we were even under Jimmy Carter. This time -- there is no Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings. In my opinion THAT is why THIS malaise is even deeper than Carter's. We just don't see the promise in Mitt Romney that we saw in Ronald Reagan.
Having said that, allow me to say that it is not Romney's fault. NOBODY can live up to Reagan. And no one can come anywhere near matching the legend of Reagan. Reagan was one of a kind. We will likely never see another Ronald Reagan -- and THAT, I believe is adding to the depth of our national malaise.
Understand: national malaise is what happens to people when they are saddled with socialism. THIS is IT. And it only gets worse until socialism is thrown off and people can breath free again.
Let me be clear. Liberalism is one thing. Socialism is entirely another -- and what we have in the Oval Office in Washington, DC is a socialist President with a socialist agenda and a socialist Democratic Party in charge of the US Senate, which is hell bent on destroying America. Period!
To top if all off, if we don't catch a break, we're going to have a socialist Supreme Court -- very soon -- and THAT will be the end of America.
Any day now, I expect to awaken and find women with babushkas covering their heads glumly sweeping the streets of the silent cities of America. (If you didn't get this -- think 1950's Soviet Socialist Russia ... or just Google it.)
There is a sense of impending doom in America. The expectation that Obama will somehow pull a rabbit out of his hat and win a second term as America's President has blunted the enthusiasm and the energy of America's right. No. There is no joy in Mudville.
Look around, dear reader. THIS is what you get when you elect a socialist to lead a capitalist nation. THIS is what you get when you elect socialists to Congress. And don't kid yourself, Obama and his cadre of communists have only begun! Given a second term he WILL finish the job. He WILL take America to the outhouse of history.
Eighty-six percent of Americans do not believe their children will have a better life in America than they. That bit of earth shaking info came recently from one of America's leading polling companies. I believe it.
Try as they might, Americans cannot see a clear path, an optimistic path, into the future for their children. They know that, no matter what happens November 6th, their kids are already saddled with crushing debt that will smother their future and short circuit their plans for a happy, prosperous, life for themselves and their families.
Like the mercury in a thermometer held near a flame the "Misery Index" continues to rush upward as Obama's socialist government binds Americans ever tighter to central oversight of every facet of American life.
There is not a moment of the day that Americans can feel truly alone. We are monitored twenty-four hours a day by the government -- for our safety and security, of course. If you believe that lie, I have a bridge -- on sale this week.
For America to survive it is imperative that we take back the government from those who intend the destruction of the republic. Make no mistake about it -- that is exactly their agenda.
Mitt Romney is not Ronald Reagan, but he has made himself available and offered his business experience to, at least, get America back on track again.
America's Malaise Is BACK! It is a given that no one president can undo the damage the Obama Administration has wrought on America. THAT will take generations. I have concluded, in the past few weeks, that Romney can do three things. He can replace Obama in the Oval Office -- he can slow America's slide into oblivion -- and he can prepare the foundation upon which our recovery must be built over the coming decades.
If Providence smiles on America and Romney wins, understand, it will be a long, difficult, journey back. Some Americans do not believe just how close to disaster and complete collapse the country is today. Rescuing America will require a massive effort over many decades. Yes, we are THAT close to disaster.
Watching Romney stand before the people of Israel, last weekend, and observing the connection between the Israeli people, the leaders of Israel, and Romney, it was clear that in THIS election the choice for America is clear and definitive. To SAVE America, and to RESTORE America, electing Romney is absolutely crucial.
On November 6th the choices for America are clear: Romney -- or -- Destruction.
J. D. Longstreet
The Misery Index Is Rising
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
***********
The dictionary defines malaise as: "an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of, or accompanying the onset of, an illness ... ."
Malaise in an individual is bad. Malaise in a nation can be fatal.
America is currently mired in the worst case of malaise in my lifetime.
I've been around since FDR was President. I have experienced American national malaise twice in my lifetime. Both times it was during the administrations of Democratic Party Presidents.
The first case of American malaise (in my lifetime) was under the administration of the 39th President of the United States -- Jimmy Carter. It was BAD.
I was trying to run a business -- and it was pure hell. All business could do was hunker down and wait for a flicker of light at the end of that very long and very dark tunnel.
When it came, it was not a flicker -- it was a sunburst by the name of Ronald Reagan.
America came roaring out of her national depression and raced back to the to the top -- turning on all the lights as they went -- illuminating "the shining city on a hill."
Now, under the Obama administration (another Democratic Party President) here we are -- in an even deeper national depression -- or malaise -- than we were even under Jimmy Carter. This time -- there is no Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings. In my opinion THAT is why THIS malaise is even deeper than Carter's. We just don't see the promise in Mitt Romney that we saw in Ronald Reagan.
Having said that, allow me to say that it is not Romney's fault. NOBODY can live up to Reagan. And no one can come anywhere near matching the legend of Reagan. Reagan was one of a kind. We will likely never see another Ronald Reagan -- and THAT, I believe is adding to the depth of our national malaise.
Understand: national malaise is what happens to people when they are saddled with socialism. THIS is IT. And it only gets worse until socialism is thrown off and people can breath free again.
Let me be clear. Liberalism is one thing. Socialism is entirely another -- and what we have in the Oval Office in Washington, DC is a socialist President with a socialist agenda and a socialist Democratic Party in charge of the US Senate, which is hell bent on destroying America. Period!
To top if all off, if we don't catch a break, we're going to have a socialist Supreme Court -- very soon -- and THAT will be the end of America.
Any day now, I expect to awaken and find women with babushkas covering their heads glumly sweeping the streets of the silent cities of America. (If you didn't get this -- think 1950's Soviet Socialist Russia ... or just Google it.)
There is a sense of impending doom in America. The expectation that Obama will somehow pull a rabbit out of his hat and win a second term as America's President has blunted the enthusiasm and the energy of America's right. No. There is no joy in Mudville.
Look around, dear reader. THIS is what you get when you elect a socialist to lead a capitalist nation. THIS is what you get when you elect socialists to Congress. And don't kid yourself, Obama and his cadre of communists have only begun! Given a second term he WILL finish the job. He WILL take America to the outhouse of history.
Eighty-six percent of Americans do not believe their children will have a better life in America than they. That bit of earth shaking info came recently from one of America's leading polling companies. I believe it.
Try as they might, Americans cannot see a clear path, an optimistic path, into the future for their children. They know that, no matter what happens November 6th, their kids are already saddled with crushing debt that will smother their future and short circuit their plans for a happy, prosperous, life for themselves and their families.
Like the mercury in a thermometer held near a flame the "Misery Index" continues to rush upward as Obama's socialist government binds Americans ever tighter to central oversight of every facet of American life.
There is not a moment of the day that Americans can feel truly alone. We are monitored twenty-four hours a day by the government -- for our safety and security, of course. If you believe that lie, I have a bridge -- on sale this week.
For America to survive it is imperative that we take back the government from those who intend the destruction of the republic. Make no mistake about it -- that is exactly their agenda.
Mitt Romney is not Ronald Reagan, but he has made himself available and offered his business experience to, at least, get America back on track again.
America's Malaise Is BACK! It is a given that no one president can undo the damage the Obama Administration has wrought on America. THAT will take generations. I have concluded, in the past few weeks, that Romney can do three things. He can replace Obama in the Oval Office -- he can slow America's slide into oblivion -- and he can prepare the foundation upon which our recovery must be built over the coming decades.
If Providence smiles on America and Romney wins, understand, it will be a long, difficult, journey back. Some Americans do not believe just how close to disaster and complete collapse the country is today. Rescuing America will require a massive effort over many decades. Yes, we are THAT close to disaster.
Watching Romney stand before the people of Israel, last weekend, and observing the connection between the Israeli people, the leaders of Israel, and Romney, it was clear that in THIS election the choice for America is clear and definitive. To SAVE America, and to RESTORE America, electing Romney is absolutely crucial.
On November 6th the choices for America are clear: Romney -- or -- Destruction.
J. D. Longstreet
Monday, July 30, 2012
President Obama and his You Didn’t Build That Speech
by Mark A. Cohen
In the fall of 2011, Elizabeth Warren said, “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.” President Obama agrees. In his July 13, 2012 speech at Roanoke, VA, he presented his true ideology. The famous quote is, “If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Conservatives immediately recognized this as a knock on entrepreneurs and nodded as this confirmed their belief that the president doesn’t like business people. Whoa! He and his supporters said we took his remarks out of context. As President Bill Clinton once argued about the meaning of the word, “is,” President Obama is arguing about the meaning of the word “that.”
Conservatives laugh because we know what he meant, but if we listen hard enough, liberals twist his words into a slightly different version. According to the left, the president said that they didn’t build society’s infrastructure, which government crafts for all, including business people, to use. But, if he meant that they didn’t build roads and bridges, trains and trestles, don’t we then say, “no kidding?” It’s obvious, so, what’s the point? President Obama’s been saying we need teachers, road builders, and brick layers. Again, “no kidding,” and, ”so what?” I think President Obama meant (and said) that business owners don’t own their own success; they owe much of it to all of us, the taxpayers. It reveals his lack of experience in the real world, and a huge misunderstanding about the risks entrepreneurs take. Thanks to the old left, our bosses owe us a comfortable workplace, respect for our humanity, and a competitive wage, or salary – but, that’s all. How out of touch he seems when it comes to free enterprise and how it works, but that’s just me.
I should be fair. Let’s take the quote in context. Mr. Obama said, “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. [Insert famous quote here.] Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges… Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” I’m tempted to say, “no kidding,” again, but he implied this: Since the guy who created his business thrived, everything it’s built on contributed to its success. While self-evident, this argument falls on its face when you consider that the failed business people used the very same infrastructure, the same school system, the same public transportation. So did criminals, and the poor. Did the roads and bridges and all of that make them fail?
The president points out that we succeed when we work together. His illustration is that we can’t all have our own fire departments, our own Internet, our own bridges. Of course, that’s right, but we don’t want to do everything together, either. We have our own enterprises, whether that’s working for someone or working for ourselves in our own businesses.
President Obama said, “You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.” This is the centralized federal bureaucracy, red tape, big government view, and I disagree with it. We are not alone in life, but the struggle toward our own success is an individual one. I hope we all succeed.
The Entire ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Speech
Elizabeth Warren on the infrastructure we all paid for
I tried, but could not find a single article supporting President Obama’s meaning for “You didn’t build that.” Perhaps you can.
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"Common Sense" Gun Control Laws? ... J. D. Longstreet
"Common Sense" Gun Control Laws?
"Reasonable" Gun Control Laws?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
***************
First allow me to try and clear something up.
The Second Amendment does not grant US citizens the right to own and bear arms. It recognizes that right, already granted by God, and makes darn sure the government KNOWS they (the government) cannot tamper with it.
Problems is -- modern government is not nearly as smart as those first American politicians (though they THINK they are) and modern politicians are hell-bent on subjecting every American to the yoke of government -- just like the government burden of King George from which our forefathers went to war to free us.
Whenever a left-wing, liberal/progressive politician begins to speak of "common sense" gun regulation, there is a near audible gasp from Americans coast to coast. The reason? Common sense is in extremely short supply among the political practitioners of the political left. It is one of the characteristics that marks them, sets them apart, sanctifies them, for the world to recognize. There simply is NO COMMON SENSE amongst them.
When they use "common sense' and "reasonable" in referring to gun control laws then you know it is time to hide your guns (as many Americans are busily doing today).
"Reasonable," to the political left, is defined as: agreeing -- totally -- with them. Period.
One shudders when the left raises the suggestion of common sense gun control laws.
Immediately one is wary because clear thinking Americans, that is to say -- those American who actually think with their minds and judgment unclouded by the emotions of the political left -- already know that no gun control laws are needed in the first place.
Try as I might, I simply cannot get a grasp on the left's definition of common sense. So little of it is displayed by them, that it is difficult to form an opinion based on the left's context.
However, judging from their overall performance one would have to say, I believe, that common sense to the left, simply means allowing the government, which they believe is far superior to the individual, to control one's life from cradle to grave -- and -- that would include making sure we don't hurt ourselves with our guns.
Yeah, I know. In sensibility it ranks right up there with a mother demanding that her child go nowhere near the water until he learns to swim. But then, who among us, other than those on the political left, think sensibility had any part in the major screw-ups the left has given this country down through the decades?
"Oh, but their intentions were good!" Right! And the road to Hell is paved with them. Plus -- the patchwork on that road is made from "unintended consequences."
Look. Any sensible human being inherently knows that taking guns away from people will not stop people from killing other people. There are lots of other weapons available for dispatching one's fellowman. If one is not readily available for you -- you simply produce your own.
You may recall that in the event that took three thousand American lives on 9-11 not a single firearm was employed -- not one.
In some cases not even gun powder is required -- as in the Oklahoma City domestic terrorist attack.
Do you realize that a good crossbow can put a bolt into the engine block of an automobile? And they are deadly accurate. Is that not a powerful enough weapon?
The point is -- Americans are going to be armed -- period.
Of course when one bothers to clear some of the smoke from the hot air surrounding the debate one quickly learns that common sense gun control is not about protecting the American citizens from other American citizens, it is about protecting the American GOVERNMENT from American citizens who, finally, having had enough, MIGHT (one day) decide to dump them and replace them with a truly constitutional government. THAT is what they are afraid of. THAT and THAT alone.
I fear that with an Obama 2.0 America is going to get gun control. So far as I am concerned -- that is a given. Obama's henchmen have, I feel certain, ascertained how to use Presidential Executive Orders to saddle the American people with gun control. I believe it as surely as I believe the sun will rise in the morning. (Actually, I believe in Obama's power-grab more than I believe in tomorrow's sunrise!)
At this point, one has to wonder how Obama's Civilian National Security Force is coming along. I ask because -- it is they who will be charged with the confiscation of America's guns. Too many members of the US military, you see, take their oath to protect the constitution seriously, and the same applies to police officers across America. For that reason Obama cannot rely upon them to snatch their neighbor's weapons.
As I observe the power plays going on in our nations' seat of government -- and -- as their agenda becomes more and more apparent, I find that I am beginning to FINALLY understand the French Revolution for the first time. (Look it up. You'll understand.)
And, finally, I believe I am beginning to understand what motivated Samuel Adams, (John Adams' second cousin) one of this republic's founders.
America is quickly approaching a decision point at which American citizens are going to have to decide between slavery to the state and maintaining their freedom and the republic. What will you do? What will you decide?
I suggest you begin thinking, seriously, about that before you are blind-sided when your door is kicked-in at 3 o'clock one morning in the not too distant future.
J. D. Longstreet
"Reasonable" Gun Control Laws?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
***************
First allow me to try and clear something up.
The Second Amendment does not grant US citizens the right to own and bear arms. It recognizes that right, already granted by God, and makes darn sure the government KNOWS they (the government) cannot tamper with it.
Problems is -- modern government is not nearly as smart as those first American politicians (though they THINK they are) and modern politicians are hell-bent on subjecting every American to the yoke of government -- just like the government burden of King George from which our forefathers went to war to free us.
Whenever a left-wing, liberal/progressive politician begins to speak of "common sense" gun regulation, there is a near audible gasp from Americans coast to coast. The reason? Common sense is in extremely short supply among the political practitioners of the political left. It is one of the characteristics that marks them, sets them apart, sanctifies them, for the world to recognize. There simply is NO COMMON SENSE amongst them.
When they use "common sense' and "reasonable" in referring to gun control laws then you know it is time to hide your guns (as many Americans are busily doing today).
"Reasonable," to the political left, is defined as: agreeing -- totally -- with them. Period.
One shudders when the left raises the suggestion of common sense gun control laws.
Immediately one is wary because clear thinking Americans, that is to say -- those American who actually think with their minds and judgment unclouded by the emotions of the political left -- already know that no gun control laws are needed in the first place.
Try as I might, I simply cannot get a grasp on the left's definition of common sense. So little of it is displayed by them, that it is difficult to form an opinion based on the left's context.
However, judging from their overall performance one would have to say, I believe, that common sense to the left, simply means allowing the government, which they believe is far superior to the individual, to control one's life from cradle to grave -- and -- that would include making sure we don't hurt ourselves with our guns.
Yeah, I know. In sensibility it ranks right up there with a mother demanding that her child go nowhere near the water until he learns to swim. But then, who among us, other than those on the political left, think sensibility had any part in the major screw-ups the left has given this country down through the decades?
"Oh, but their intentions were good!" Right! And the road to Hell is paved with them. Plus -- the patchwork on that road is made from "unintended consequences."
Look. Any sensible human being inherently knows that taking guns away from people will not stop people from killing other people. There are lots of other weapons available for dispatching one's fellowman. If one is not readily available for you -- you simply produce your own.
You may recall that in the event that took three thousand American lives on 9-11 not a single firearm was employed -- not one.
In some cases not even gun powder is required -- as in the Oklahoma City domestic terrorist attack.
Do you realize that a good crossbow can put a bolt into the engine block of an automobile? And they are deadly accurate. Is that not a powerful enough weapon?
The point is -- Americans are going to be armed -- period.
Of course when one bothers to clear some of the smoke from the hot air surrounding the debate one quickly learns that common sense gun control is not about protecting the American citizens from other American citizens, it is about protecting the American GOVERNMENT from American citizens who, finally, having had enough, MIGHT (one day) decide to dump them and replace them with a truly constitutional government. THAT is what they are afraid of. THAT and THAT alone.
I fear that with an Obama 2.0 America is going to get gun control. So far as I am concerned -- that is a given. Obama's henchmen have, I feel certain, ascertained how to use Presidential Executive Orders to saddle the American people with gun control. I believe it as surely as I believe the sun will rise in the morning. (Actually, I believe in Obama's power-grab more than I believe in tomorrow's sunrise!)
At this point, one has to wonder how Obama's Civilian National Security Force is coming along. I ask because -- it is they who will be charged with the confiscation of America's guns. Too many members of the US military, you see, take their oath to protect the constitution seriously, and the same applies to police officers across America. For that reason Obama cannot rely upon them to snatch their neighbor's weapons.
As I observe the power plays going on in our nations' seat of government -- and -- as their agenda becomes more and more apparent, I find that I am beginning to FINALLY understand the French Revolution for the first time. (Look it up. You'll understand.)
And, finally, I believe I am beginning to understand what motivated Samuel Adams, (John Adams' second cousin) one of this republic's founders.
America is quickly approaching a decision point at which American citizens are going to have to decide between slavery to the state and maintaining their freedom and the republic. What will you do? What will you decide?
I suggest you begin thinking, seriously, about that before you are blind-sided when your door is kicked-in at 3 o'clock one morning in the not too distant future.
J. D. Longstreet
Friday, July 27, 2012
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Batman shooting: Uncle Ted Nugent in another stellar interview
Anaheim unrest: Mother wants to honor her now dead gang banger son
Rahm Emanuel's Chicago: Murder rate at 42 murders a month
Never Let A Crisis (Or In This Case, A Tasty Chicken Sandwich) Go To Waste!
But, that’s certainly not the case. Democrats smell blood in the air and have unleashed the queers (their word not mine) to wreak havoc on a business that, until recently, was known simply for their tasty food and excellent service.
Tasty food and excellent service that until now was enjoyed by all, including our queer brethren!
I guess they evolved too, just like our President.
Obama has put more than 100 Million Americans into Poverty
You can blame Obama for creating most of this mess. Obama policy is creating this great country into a third world country.
(Infowars) The following are 40 facts about poverty in America that will blow your mind….
#1 In the United States today, somewhere around 100 million Americans are considered to be either “poor” or “near poor”.
#2 It is being projected that when the final numbers come out later this year that the U.S. poverty rate will be the highest that it has been in almost 50 years.
#3 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be either “low income” or impoverished.
#4 Today, one out of every four workers in the United States brings home wages that are at or below the poverty level.
#5 According to the Wall Street Journal, 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives financial benefits from the government. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
#6 It is projected that about half of all American adults will spend at least some time living below the poverty line before they turn 65.
#7 Today, there are approximately 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.
#8 During 2010, 2.6 million more Americans fell into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.
#9 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of “very poor” rose in 300 out of the 360 largest metropolitan areas during 2010.
#10 Since Barack Obama became president, the number of Americans living in poverty has risen by 6 million and the number of Americans on food stamps has risen by 14 million.
#11 Right now, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
#12 It is projected that half of all American children will be on food stamps at least once before they turn 18 years of age.
#13 The poverty rate for children living in the United States is 22 percent, although when the new numbers are released in the fall that number is expected to go even higher.
#14 One university study estimates that child poverty costs the U.S. economy 500 billion dollars a year.
#15 Households that are led by a single mother have a 31.6% poverty rate.
#16 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.
#17 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4 percent of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1 percent of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6 percent of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6 percent of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
#18 Since 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent.
#19 Child homelessness in the United States has risen by 33 percent since 2007
#20 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.
#21 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.
#22 A higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty (6.7 percent) than has ever been measured before. #23 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero. #24 A lot of younger Americans have found that they cannot make it on their own in this economy. Today, approximately25 million American adults are living with their parents. #25 Today, one out of every six elderly Americans lives below the federal poverty line. #26 Amazingly, the wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans own more wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined. #27 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans combined. #28 At this point, the poorest 50% of all Americans now control just 2.5% of all of the wealth in this country.
#29 Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
#30 Right now, the United States actually has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.
#31 Half of all American workers earn $505 or less per week.
#32 In 1970, 65 percent of all Americans lived in “middle class neighborhoods”. By 2007, only 44 percent of all Americans lived in “middle class neighborhoods”.
#33 Federal housing assistance outlays increased by a whopping 42 percent between 2006 and 2010.
#34 Approximately 50 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all right now.
#35 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6Americans is on Medicaid.
#36 It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
#37 Back in 1990, the federal government accounted for 32 percent of all health care spending in America. Today, that figure is up to 45 percent and it is projected to surpass 50 percent very shortly.
#38 Overall, the amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the American people has risen by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
#39 It was recently reported that 1.5 million American families live on less than two dollars a day (before counting government benefits).
#40 The unemployment rate in the U.S. has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row, and 42 percent of all unemployed Americans have been out of work for at least half a year.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Racial Tension Ramping Up In America ... J. D. Longstreet
Racial Tension Ramping Up In America
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*************
It's not pleasant to bring up a subject seemingly NO ONE wants to talk about. It's even more unpleasant when you know you are opening yourself up to accusations of the filthiest kind.
So -- here goes.
America has a race problem. It is a problem that may be about to erupt into nationwide violence. In fact, some believe it has already begun.
The "War on Poverty," it appears, may be about to morph into a real shooting war.
I am seeing report after report, on the Internet, concerning the sky rocketing rise of black on white crime and yes, black on black crime, as well. But, most horrible is the black mob violence which is becoming so prevalent that even the Mainstream Media is ALMOST forced to report it. Notice: I said "ALMOST."
There are the so-called black "flash mobs," the "rob mobs" and, of course, the old stand-by -- the out and out "riot."
Thing is -- it's happening all across the US. This time, thankfully, my "South" will not bear the brunt of the criticism from the "Limousine liberals," the "Guilt-Trip Lefties," and the "Poverty Pimps." But then, they have heaped defamation on us Southrons for so long they may just feel compelled to continue.
News reports bear out the fact that this black mob violence is nearing -- if it has not already reached -- epidemic proportions. But, there are two things I'd like to point out.
First, the geography of the mob violence and the MsM's self-censoring their reports so as not to make mention that the individuals constituting the mobs are almost exclusively black.
As an example, earlier this month as Americans tried to celebrate Independence Day, black violence broke out in Georgia, Florida, Ohio, California, Texas and Illinois.
It is reported by WND that on Independence day Chris Rock tweeted the following: “Happy white peoples Independence Day.” He continued his tweet by saying: “The slaves weren’t free but I’m sure they enjoyed fireworks.” SOURCE: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/racial-violence-explodes-in-3-states/
Rock, born in Andrews, South Carolina, is a native "Sandlapper" -- the same as "yours truly." Mr. Rock is a great disappointment to me, personally. I will not weary you with my "responsibility lecture," -- at least not at this point. But I must mention that Rock was raised, according to his biography, in Brooklyn, NY.
In an editor's note on a piece written by Colin Flaherty entitled: "Black mobs now have soundtrack for violence" from WND (formerly known as World Net Daily) the editor says the following: "Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of sky rocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims." SOURCE: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/
WND has published a number of reports on this growing problem in America. Here is a list of some of them you might want to check out for yourself:
Blogger: Why don’t blacks behave?
Judge to black perps: What are you doing with your lives?
Black mobs terrorize 1 of ‘whitest big cities’
Black mob … in the Hamptons?
Racial violence explodes in more states
Black mobs now beating Jews in New York
Black mob violence hits Nordstrom
Chicago’s unreported race war
Black expo ‘inescapably tied’ to race violence
Black-on-white link found in Minneapolis violence
Call for crackdown on black-on-white terror
‘Boredom’ proves to be triger for ‘flash mobs’
If you navigate over to: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/ and scroll down the page you will find hot links to each of these articles. Be prepared for bone-chilling fare as you read them.
The report(s) from Mr. Flaherty is/are, indeed, chilling, but, I hasten to add, important because it now appears the undercurrent of rage in the black community of America is forcing its way to the surface and we may be receiving a tiny foretaste of a nationwide tsunami of black on white crime many believe will be unleashed on America if Obama loses to Romney in November.
Now it has been said. The paragraph above expresses the whispered rumor circulating within America's white community for months now.
These are truly perilous times in America. Nerves are on edge. Patience has worn extremely thin -- in both the black and white communities -- and if cooler heads don't, somehow, prevail, a bloodbath will ensue in the streets of America.
Can anyone doubt there are elements in both the black and white communities that would like nothing less than a race war in America.
God help us should such a devastating orgy of blood lust occur. No matter what you may have heard, read, or been told, there can be no winner in such a conflict. Let there be no doubt America's black community would be decimated. If there is any lingering doubt about the outcome of such a racial insurrection in America one only has to refer to the history of the Native Americans.
We cannot know, at this point, if the dye has been cast. If the Mainstream Media was doing its job, we all would be better informed and it is possible a national racial confrontation could be avoided.
If they remain silent and America is blind-sided by a national tide of black on white crime, once the white community shakes off its shock and surprise, unfortunately, reprisals will be the order of the day. And it will be a national nightmare.
To deny racism exists in both the black and the white communities of America is to deny breathing. Denial does absolutely nothing to solve or, at least, contain the problem.
It is past time for those in the mainstream media -- and those of us who subscribe to their products -- to demand the editors and news directors report the news of the racial unrest fully and completely. Believe it or not, it actually IS one of those things we have a right to know.
J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*************
It's not pleasant to bring up a subject seemingly NO ONE wants to talk about. It's even more unpleasant when you know you are opening yourself up to accusations of the filthiest kind.
So -- here goes.
America has a race problem. It is a problem that may be about to erupt into nationwide violence. In fact, some believe it has already begun.
The "War on Poverty," it appears, may be about to morph into a real shooting war.
I am seeing report after report, on the Internet, concerning the sky rocketing rise of black on white crime and yes, black on black crime, as well. But, most horrible is the black mob violence which is becoming so prevalent that even the Mainstream Media is ALMOST forced to report it. Notice: I said "ALMOST."
There are the so-called black "flash mobs," the "rob mobs" and, of course, the old stand-by -- the out and out "riot."
Thing is -- it's happening all across the US. This time, thankfully, my "South" will not bear the brunt of the criticism from the "Limousine liberals," the "Guilt-Trip Lefties," and the "Poverty Pimps." But then, they have heaped defamation on us Southrons for so long they may just feel compelled to continue.
News reports bear out the fact that this black mob violence is nearing -- if it has not already reached -- epidemic proportions. But, there are two things I'd like to point out.
First, the geography of the mob violence and the MsM's self-censoring their reports so as not to make mention that the individuals constituting the mobs are almost exclusively black.
As an example, earlier this month as Americans tried to celebrate Independence Day, black violence broke out in Georgia, Florida, Ohio, California, Texas and Illinois.
It is reported by WND that on Independence day Chris Rock tweeted the following: “Happy white peoples Independence Day.” He continued his tweet by saying: “The slaves weren’t free but I’m sure they enjoyed fireworks.” SOURCE: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/racial-violence-explodes-in-3-states/
Rock, born in Andrews, South Carolina, is a native "Sandlapper" -- the same as "yours truly." Mr. Rock is a great disappointment to me, personally. I will not weary you with my "responsibility lecture," -- at least not at this point. But I must mention that Rock was raised, according to his biography, in Brooklyn, NY.
In an editor's note on a piece written by Colin Flaherty entitled: "Black mobs now have soundtrack for violence" from WND (formerly known as World Net Daily) the editor says the following: "Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of sky rocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims." SOURCE: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/
WND has published a number of reports on this growing problem in America. Here is a list of some of them you might want to check out for yourself:
Blogger: Why don’t blacks behave?
Judge to black perps: What are you doing with your lives?
Black mobs terrorize 1 of ‘whitest big cities’
Black mob … in the Hamptons?
Racial violence explodes in more states
Black mobs now beating Jews in New York
Black mob violence hits Nordstrom
Chicago’s unreported race war
Black expo ‘inescapably tied’ to race violence
Black-on-white link found in Minneapolis violence
Call for crackdown on black-on-white terror
‘Boredom’ proves to be triger for ‘flash mobs’
If you navigate over to: http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/the-soundtracks-of-racial-violence/ and scroll down the page you will find hot links to each of these articles. Be prepared for bone-chilling fare as you read them.
The report(s) from Mr. Flaherty is/are, indeed, chilling, but, I hasten to add, important because it now appears the undercurrent of rage in the black community of America is forcing its way to the surface and we may be receiving a tiny foretaste of a nationwide tsunami of black on white crime many believe will be unleashed on America if Obama loses to Romney in November.
Now it has been said. The paragraph above expresses the whispered rumor circulating within America's white community for months now.
These are truly perilous times in America. Nerves are on edge. Patience has worn extremely thin -- in both the black and white communities -- and if cooler heads don't, somehow, prevail, a bloodbath will ensue in the streets of America.
Can anyone doubt there are elements in both the black and white communities that would like nothing less than a race war in America.
God help us should such a devastating orgy of blood lust occur. No matter what you may have heard, read, or been told, there can be no winner in such a conflict. Let there be no doubt America's black community would be decimated. If there is any lingering doubt about the outcome of such a racial insurrection in America one only has to refer to the history of the Native Americans.
We cannot know, at this point, if the dye has been cast. If the Mainstream Media was doing its job, we all would be better informed and it is possible a national racial confrontation could be avoided.
If they remain silent and America is blind-sided by a national tide of black on white crime, once the white community shakes off its shock and surprise, unfortunately, reprisals will be the order of the day. And it will be a national nightmare.
To deny racism exists in both the black and the white communities of America is to deny breathing. Denial does absolutely nothing to solve or, at least, contain the problem.
It is past time for those in the mainstream media -- and those of us who subscribe to their products -- to demand the editors and news directors report the news of the racial unrest fully and completely. Believe it or not, it actually IS one of those things we have a right to know.
J. D. Longstreet
Even Queers Like Tasty Chicken Sandwiches!
What's drawn the ire of the LGBTTIQQ2SAA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited, Asexuals and Allies) community?
I stopped by there yesterday and didn't see a sign on the door that said Queers not welcome.
In fact, I'm almost positive there are members of said community working at my local Chick-Fil-A...I've seen the rainbow bumper stickers in the parking lot!
So what did they do? And, why now are those tasty chicken sandwiches that I love so much considered a threat to society?
Well, their management came out against same sex marriage, of course...
Read More At Conservative Outcry
Terror Group Member Invited To White House, Requests Release Of Blind Sheik
Jake Stern Show: A member of an Egyptian terror group, and the Egyptian Parliament, who was invited to the White House. When he got there, he requested they release the Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, his leader. But don't worry--he was vetted. Apparently being part of a terror group doesn't disqualify you from the White House vetting process. (See video above of Congresman Peter King questioning Homeland Security Sec'y Napolitano about this issue.) Also: Iranian government forces its athletes to lose intentionally rather than compete against the "zionist regime." Plus--mainstream media again using misleading headlines. And lots more
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Now It Is Change And Hope ... J. D. Longstreet
Now It Is Change And Hope
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
If there is anything quite as pathetic looking as a democrat after having been taken to the woodshed by either the President, or their party, I honestly don't know what it is.
See, being a democrat means you absolutely must walk in lockstep with your President and/or the party. Get out of step and they'll be all over you like white on rice.
In order Io understand the democrats it is absolutely necessary to understand that "liberalism is an authoritarian ideology."
To be considered a good liberal, and remain in the good graces of the bosses of the party, you must follow orders without question -- even when you are humiliated by them. And you must be willing to fall on your sword to save the political career of the party bosses -- even if it means the end of your own career.
Now, if this sounds a bit more like the communist party that an American grown political party, well, it DOES. You are forgiven for thinking that.
The latest example, at least at this writing, is Senator Dianne Feinstein , democrat of California, who said plainly, earlier this week, that leaks were coming from Mr. Obama's White House. The next day she had to say she had gone too far and she should not have said that.
No matter that Senator Feinstein was correct, truth has very little to do with the Democratic Party. See, the Democratic Party has an agenda. The truth has no agenda. Like matter and anti-matter truth and the Democratic Party and truth cannot coexist, or share the same space.
The GOP, on the other hand, is often accused of "eating its own." Why? Because the GOP simply refuses to get in lockstep with a leader, any leader, and march blindly into the fray allowing themselves to be used as cannon fodder for the party bosses. They lose a lot. But they sleep nights.
Even in the midst of a Presidential Election cycle the party is divided two, maybe three, ways. I count myself in one of those groups in disagreement with the party bosses. I, along with a few million other Americans, reserve the right to form our own opinions, hold them, and defend them from all comers, even if that happens to be the President of our own party.
I went after George W. Bush when I thought he was wrong, and frankly, that was a lot. If Romney is elected, I'll do the same. Not only is it what I do -- it is Who I AM. I'll not give that up for membership in any political party -- period.
For reasons I have never been able to fathom democrats will stay with the herd of lemmings and run helter-skelter right off the cliff and drown in the sea. They've done it time and again and they appear set to do it again.
I am not a supporter of Mr. Romney. That is no secret. Yet, I hope he wins because I just don't see how America will survive another term under Obama.
The Obama Administration has been, I HOPE, a learning exercise for Americans about how delicate democracy is. Countries that practice different forms of democracy always, always, run the risk of the electorate electing someone who will destroy their democratic form of government and replace it with a more dictatorial form of governance.
All one has to do is look at Iraq, look at Egypt, and soon, Afghanistan. Or one can simply look at what happened in 2008 -- and since -- right here in America.
In the last Presidential Election Americans flocked to the polls and elected a man, of whom, practically nothing was known. He was a blank slate and each voter wrote upon that slate that which he/she wanted to see. Of course, in the end, we all got what Obama really was -- a socialist.
It is a slick trick. Its an old advertising gimmick to advertise a product with as little detail as possible and use a lot of puffery to create a desire in the consumer's mind for that product -- about which -- they actually know very little. Works like a charm.
I find it funny that the Obama campaign is screaming after Romney for all the detail of his tax returns, his private life, etc., when the blanket of secrecy has never been removed from the previous life of Obama. Eventually, we will know, and I predict, America is going to be astounded and stunned by Obama's background.
I watched Mr. Romney's speech before the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) recently and even with a voice threatening to give up on him at any second, I thought he made a terrific address. He called Mr. Obama out on those security leaks, the same ones Senator Feinstein had said Obama was going to have to recognize a day or so before. He told us, plainly, what he would do and what he would not do. Frankly, I believe Romney.
This week, Romney will fly to Israel, a country one suspects Obama couldn't find on a map. President Obama has never been to Israel. Romney, only a prospective president is going to Israel.
Romney and Netanyahu know each other,. Many years ago they worked together in a firm in Boston. If Romney is elected, and Netanyahu remains Prime Minister of Israel, look for things to change in the US relationship with Israel. That would be a good thing.
When a nation turns its back on Israel bad things happen to that nation. It is a promise, or a curse, as old as the founding of the Hebrew people. When one considers Obama's shunning of Israel and the problems visited on the US since, can anyone really doubt the veracity of that promise?
I wish Mr. Romney all the luck in the world with reestablishing a link between the people of America and the people of Israel. It is a link that should never been broken.
At the risk of waxing religious here, often, when thinking of the damage Obama has done this nation, I think of the Hebrews who demanded of God an earthly king. When the prophet Samuel told them they had no need of a king because they had God, they demanded, even more vociferously, that they wanted a king -- like every other country around them. God acquiesced and warned them they would rue the day they chose a king over God. The king they got was Saul.
Saul, you may recall, almost immediately overstepped his authority and in the end went nuts. Now, having a king, in and of itself, is bad enough, but having a CRAZY king is about the worst thing imaginable.
How does this apply to America? America desired a leader like all the European countries. We got him. He, too, has overstepped his authority and, as it turns out, is dangerously narcissistic.
With age I have learned a few things. One of the most important lessons I have learned is that no matter what one thinks, no matter what one believes -- there exist boundaries. When a person, a people, a nation crosses those boundaries-- there is a price to be paid. One does not have to look to the holy books for those boundaries and the consequences of violating them. All one has to do is look at recorded history.
I have HOPE that American can CHANGE her President in November. For without that CHANGE -- there is no HOPE.
J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
If there is anything quite as pathetic looking as a democrat after having been taken to the woodshed by either the President, or their party, I honestly don't know what it is.
See, being a democrat means you absolutely must walk in lockstep with your President and/or the party. Get out of step and they'll be all over you like white on rice.
In order Io understand the democrats it is absolutely necessary to understand that "liberalism is an authoritarian ideology."
To be considered a good liberal, and remain in the good graces of the bosses of the party, you must follow orders without question -- even when you are humiliated by them. And you must be willing to fall on your sword to save the political career of the party bosses -- even if it means the end of your own career.
Now, if this sounds a bit more like the communist party that an American grown political party, well, it DOES. You are forgiven for thinking that.
The latest example, at least at this writing, is Senator Dianne Feinstein , democrat of California, who said plainly, earlier this week, that leaks were coming from Mr. Obama's White House. The next day she had to say she had gone too far and she should not have said that.
No matter that Senator Feinstein was correct, truth has very little to do with the Democratic Party. See, the Democratic Party has an agenda. The truth has no agenda. Like matter and anti-matter truth and the Democratic Party and truth cannot coexist, or share the same space.
The GOP, on the other hand, is often accused of "eating its own." Why? Because the GOP simply refuses to get in lockstep with a leader, any leader, and march blindly into the fray allowing themselves to be used as cannon fodder for the party bosses. They lose a lot. But they sleep nights.
Even in the midst of a Presidential Election cycle the party is divided two, maybe three, ways. I count myself in one of those groups in disagreement with the party bosses. I, along with a few million other Americans, reserve the right to form our own opinions, hold them, and defend them from all comers, even if that happens to be the President of our own party.
I went after George W. Bush when I thought he was wrong, and frankly, that was a lot. If Romney is elected, I'll do the same. Not only is it what I do -- it is Who I AM. I'll not give that up for membership in any political party -- period.
For reasons I have never been able to fathom democrats will stay with the herd of lemmings and run helter-skelter right off the cliff and drown in the sea. They've done it time and again and they appear set to do it again.
I am not a supporter of Mr. Romney. That is no secret. Yet, I hope he wins because I just don't see how America will survive another term under Obama.
The Obama Administration has been, I HOPE, a learning exercise for Americans about how delicate democracy is. Countries that practice different forms of democracy always, always, run the risk of the electorate electing someone who will destroy their democratic form of government and replace it with a more dictatorial form of governance.
All one has to do is look at Iraq, look at Egypt, and soon, Afghanistan. Or one can simply look at what happened in 2008 -- and since -- right here in America.
In the last Presidential Election Americans flocked to the polls and elected a man, of whom, practically nothing was known. He was a blank slate and each voter wrote upon that slate that which he/she wanted to see. Of course, in the end, we all got what Obama really was -- a socialist.
It is a slick trick. Its an old advertising gimmick to advertise a product with as little detail as possible and use a lot of puffery to create a desire in the consumer's mind for that product -- about which -- they actually know very little. Works like a charm.
I find it funny that the Obama campaign is screaming after Romney for all the detail of his tax returns, his private life, etc., when the blanket of secrecy has never been removed from the previous life of Obama. Eventually, we will know, and I predict, America is going to be astounded and stunned by Obama's background.
I watched Mr. Romney's speech before the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) recently and even with a voice threatening to give up on him at any second, I thought he made a terrific address. He called Mr. Obama out on those security leaks, the same ones Senator Feinstein had said Obama was going to have to recognize a day or so before. He told us, plainly, what he would do and what he would not do. Frankly, I believe Romney.
This week, Romney will fly to Israel, a country one suspects Obama couldn't find on a map. President Obama has never been to Israel. Romney, only a prospective president is going to Israel.
Romney and Netanyahu know each other,. Many years ago they worked together in a firm in Boston. If Romney is elected, and Netanyahu remains Prime Minister of Israel, look for things to change in the US relationship with Israel. That would be a good thing.
When a nation turns its back on Israel bad things happen to that nation. It is a promise, or a curse, as old as the founding of the Hebrew people. When one considers Obama's shunning of Israel and the problems visited on the US since, can anyone really doubt the veracity of that promise?
I wish Mr. Romney all the luck in the world with reestablishing a link between the people of America and the people of Israel. It is a link that should never been broken.
At the risk of waxing religious here, often, when thinking of the damage Obama has done this nation, I think of the Hebrews who demanded of God an earthly king. When the prophet Samuel told them they had no need of a king because they had God, they demanded, even more vociferously, that they wanted a king -- like every other country around them. God acquiesced and warned them they would rue the day they chose a king over God. The king they got was Saul.
Saul, you may recall, almost immediately overstepped his authority and in the end went nuts. Now, having a king, in and of itself, is bad enough, but having a CRAZY king is about the worst thing imaginable.
How does this apply to America? America desired a leader like all the European countries. We got him. He, too, has overstepped his authority and, as it turns out, is dangerously narcissistic.
With age I have learned a few things. One of the most important lessons I have learned is that no matter what one thinks, no matter what one believes -- there exist boundaries. When a person, a people, a nation crosses those boundaries-- there is a price to be paid. One does not have to look to the holy books for those boundaries and the consequences of violating them. All one has to do is look at recorded history.
I have HOPE that American can CHANGE her President in November. For without that CHANGE -- there is no HOPE.
J. D. Longstreet
• THE JIMMY Z WEDNESDAY SHOW™
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The making of Madison Rising's Star Spangled Banner
Mayor Bloomberg backs away from his national police strike comment
Romney rips Obama's 'you didn't build that' statement
Republicans Want Nothing More Than To Tax The Poor!
How will Republicans pay for their proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans? In part, by raising taxes on low- and moderate-income working families.
According to the watchdog group Citizens for Tax Justice, the GOP's tax plan would allow the expiration of tax breaks worth a total of $11.1 billion for 13 million working families. (Democrats want to keep those tax breaks in place.) That's enough money to make up for 40 percent of the value of the GOP's proposed tax cuts for the richAnd the popular opinion war continues. The rich still don’t pay their fair share, but this sounds better…”Republicans Want To Tax The Poor!”
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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THE MICHELE BACHMAN / HUMA ABEDIN / MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD INFILTRATION ROUNDUPMark Levin talks Muslim Brotherhood with Andrew McCarthy
Articles: Walid Shoebat & Bare Naked Islam on Huma Abedin
Bloomberg: Police should go on strike in support of gun control
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS SEGMENT THREE: DO WE STILL HOLD THESE TRUTHS?
In segment three of Constitutional Conversations Dr. Richard Brake and Dennis Gallagher discuss in detail the Constitution’s principles and whether or not we still revere the principles inherent in the Constitution.
President Obama’s Smashed Hopes, Broken Dreams, and Broken Promises (Part II)
by Mark A. Cohen
President Obama promised to eliminate earmarks and go “line by line” in every bill to eliminate them. Meanwhile, he remained aloof and detached from all legislation. He told us that here would be no lobbyists in his administration and said, “They will not fund my party; they will not run our White House...” But just look at how his failed stimulus favored Obama campaign donors like Solyndra, regardless of the wisdom of such special favors.
This president said he’d return the White House to the people, but instead instructed his staff to play its Secret Service security, ‘loosey-goosey,’ so the Salahi’s, who didn’t appear on his guest list – or anyone else - could enter the White House unquestioned. He said he wouldn’t take money from PACs, then turned around and did it.
Obama supporters insist that Mitt Romney bear the responsibility for what happened after he left Bain Capital in 1999. Yet, the president (who refused to release his college transcripts for some reason) and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, find hiding behind executive privilege acceptable, and refuse to turn over thousands of requested documents to Congress. The mainstream media and their allies take the president and Mr. Holder at their word when they claimed that neither one of them knew anything about the disastrous and failed gun-running program, Fast and Furious – in which the U.S. government sold guns to the Mexican cartels. (How many liberals have told me they hated when Reagan armed Saddam Hussein? Yet, F+F is okay with them – because this president gets a pass on everything.) Their response is eerily similar to responses they themselves give regarding moral questions - and right and wrong. They say that President Bush did the very same thing under a similar program (but here are the differences between F+F and Operation Wide Receiver:
1. No one died under WR.
2. WR traced those guns, F+F did not.
3. WR = 300 guns, F+F = 2,000 guns, and lost 1,400 of them.
4. WR shut down in 2007 after it was unveiled as a failure by President Bush’s admin., F+F shut down under President Obama – but only after pressure from Congress and after hundreds of Mexicans and one U.S. Border patrol agent died).
President Obama’s speech on July 16 contained his most disappointing statement to date. He said, “…If you built a business – you didn’t build that.” He suggested that business people didn’t succeed alone! They relied on the Internet, road builders, teachers who taught them in grade school, and public transportation systems. In other words, they owe their success to government programs. This is not only foolish and insulting, but it’s also a socialist idea: Ask me how I know. Let me pose a question. To paraphrase Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld, “If government claims the credit for entrepreneurs’ successes because they used roads, doesn’t it bear the blame for every evil act committed by all the criminals who used the very same roads?
We Americans succeed because we innovate and start businesses when government is non-intrusive and refrains from imposing punishing taxes upon them. These companies flourish when a comfortable climate exists for the people who run them and for their investors. Hopefully the people will throw out this radical president and replace him with one who understands successful people. Perhaps then, we can get back to work, rebuilding the America which President Obama, up to now, has worked so very hard to destroy.
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(martysoffice) "I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment, and I also believe that with emotions so high right now, this is really not the time to talk about the politics associated with what happened in Aurora," Mitt Romney said in an interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow. "This is really a time, I think, for people to reach out to others in their community that need help or a comforting hand. Let's do that for now and then we can get on to policy down the road."
"I still believe that the Second Amendment is the right course to preserve and defend and don't believe that new laws are going to make a difference in this type of tragedy," Romney said.
"Our challenge is not the laws. The challenge is the people who are distracted from reality and do unthinkable, unimaginable, inexplicable things," he said.
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Absurdity After Absurdity.
Between the lies of the Lame Stream Press and the lies of our glorious leader, there’s little to choose. The country is in horrific shape. The ‘recession’ looks far closer to a depression to me… and to a bunch of other people, too. Hold on to your hats and everything else because it’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to what’s coming if President Barack Hussein Obama manages to get re-elected.
What he, Reid, Pelosi and others have planned for you will be just a shade less onerous than Soviet-era Romania, with jack-booted thugs running around our airports, train stations and bus terminals. Stasi-like informers will be in every apartment block, after they manage to separate us from our property and force us into their high density ‘stacks’.
Our republic is as sorely beset from without as from within. The people running this country are purely, visibly anti-American. To be anti-American is to be anti-freedom… to be anti-freedom is to be someone else’s slave. That these people are driven by a discredited and disproved ideology, which has never been successful in any of its various manifestations, tells worlds about the mindset, or lack of, that permeates the left.
It’s going to take every single patriot getting themselves, and everyone else they can muster, to the polls to defeat this blight on our beloved country. Talk to your friends, your co-workers and family members. All but the thickest of them have figured out that there’s something radically wrong about the state of the economy. There’s not a person I know who hasn’t had at least one friend or acquaintance that has been layed off, and recently at that. California, just days ago, was braying to the media about a fractional decrease in an already obscene unemployment number… which will, of course, be raised again when the numbers are reviewed and analyzed as they always are.
Barack Obama and his Marxists are the obvious enemy of the republic. There are others perhaps less obvious, some in our own camp who, for reasons of their own, work against the wishes of the people and party that supports them and to whom they are responsible.
Michele Bachmann has showed immense courage by taking on the Muslim monster within. It’s about time, too. So, the first thing that happens is that John McCain and the ever-slimy Lindsey Graham have crawled out from under their rocks long enough to denounce Michele Bachmann over her comments regarding Hillary Clinton’s aid, who is Muslim. It seems that the lady in question has family members who have attachments to the Muslim Brotherhood. So it begs the question… Who scrubbed her security clearance? The State Department is a shambles at the best of times. I’ve written about the infiltration of our government at the highest levels by Muslims who have direct connections to terror organizations. How do these people get visas? How do they get clearance to visit our White House?
I see that Keith Ellison is in Bachmann’s sights, too. It’s about damned time somebody started asking some really pointed questions. How is it that CAIR has had hundreds of meetings at the White House? We really do need to dump RINO leftovers like McCain and Graham. This election should be interesting in that regard as well.
In the meantime, Patriots, keep the focus and keep up the pressure.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2012
Eye In The Sky ... J. D. Longstreet
Eye In The Sky
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*************
For millenia man has cast an eye toward the sky in an unconscious gesture of yearning -- yearning, perhaps, for his home? Science certainly does not know.
When the religious among us pray, more often than not, we direct our prayerful petitions skyward toward what we suppose is the home of the deity to/for whom we are supplicants.
Today, however, that has changed. Today, man casts an eye toward the sky in wariness -- not wary of the lightening bolt from an angry god, but wary of the spying of a far too powerful and intrusive government.
My thoughts go to the icon of the "all seeing eye" engraved on US paper currency. Modern circumstances give new meaning to that early American declaration of God's omnipotence and omnipresence.
Scrub all of that!
Times change. Things change. Men change. Governments change. And now -- we Americans have a continual presence of the US government 24-7, 365(6) -- whether we want it or not.
America's skies are filled with government spies watching you and me -- and everything we do -- around the clock. And it stinks!
America is now approaching the likeness of a police state. We will, in fact, BE a police state very soon. (Some argue that we are already a police state. I would argue -- not yet-- but we ARE getting there.)
"Since Jan. 1 of this year, according to congressional testimony presented Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Aviation Administration has authorized 106 federal, state and local government “entities” to fly “unmanned aircraft systems,” also known as drones, within U.S. airspace.
“We are now on the edge of a new horizon: using unmanned aerial systems within the homeland,” House Homeland Security Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Michael McCaul (R.-Texas) said as he introduced the testimony.
“Currently,” said McCaul, “there are about 200 active Certificates of Authorization issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to over 100 different entities, such as law enforcement departments and academic institutions, to fly drones domestically.”
SOURCE: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/faa-has-authorized-106-government-entities-fly-domestic-drones
What has happened here, dear reader, is the US citizen just lost a (another) constitutional right. I refer, of course, to the right to privacy. It's gone -- likely forever.
You may argue that with the Internet and social networking, etc, our privacy was already gone. You are correct -- up to a point. Much of the social networking loss of privacy was/is voluntary. That is one thing ... and it is quite different from having your privacy TAKEN from you, especially by an over-reaching, all to intrusive federal government. It's even worse when you consider it is illegal -- and they are gong to get away with it!
What I am referring to is the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.
The Fourth Amendment reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." That's right out of the Bill of Rights.
See, those pesky colonists had had enough of the British soldiers crashing through their doors and rummaging through their private papers and possessions so they intentionally made it very difficult for their own government, the one they were creating, to do it. It was intentional.
But, HEY! This is that "living, breathing, thingy" the liberals like to stretch to cover activities they favor, or to prohibit activities they do not favor -- or just plain ignore it at will.
I'm not an attorney, and I'm sure as heck not a constitutional lawyer, but, that's the beauty of the US Constitution. You needn't be an attorney at law to read and understand it! Well, at least for us "originalists," that is. See, I believe the constitution says what it means, and means what it says, and that's all there is to it. I'm one of those dread originalists.
It is as clear as the ringing of a bell that under the Fourth Amendment, having tiny little government aircraft -- with cameras -- flying about observing you, looking through your windows, or whatever, is as unconstitutional as it is possible to be. It is unlawful. It is clearly an unreasonable search.
There are only two kinds of people who dare say it is constitutional: Fools -- and people with an agenda unkind to the constitution.
No mental athletics are required to determine that the Obama Administration considers the constitution a speed bump, an irritant, anything but a serious threat their power grab. That have become so big, so powerful, so bold, that Americans feel they can no longer even trust their own Supreme Court, their court of last resort.
The US government is no longer of, by, and for the people. It is now alien to the people. There is now an adversarial relationship between the people of the US and the government that is supposed to answer to them.
You know, maybe it is time to call that Constitutional Convention -- and among the changes I'd like to suggest is this: If thirty-six states decide the Congress is unresponsive to the will of the people, they have the power to "dissolve" the Congress, send them all home, and hold nationwide congressional elections in sixty days.
Oh, don't get your shorts in a wad! It's not going to happen! No, America is too far gone to do anything as radical as make an effort to save herself. Heck, that would be too much work, entirely.
With that in mind, may we suggest you get yourself some old fashioned pull-down window shades as soon as you can. I have an idea the local super big box store is going to be sold out shortly.
J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
*************
For millenia man has cast an eye toward the sky in an unconscious gesture of yearning -- yearning, perhaps, for his home? Science certainly does not know.
When the religious among us pray, more often than not, we direct our prayerful petitions skyward toward what we suppose is the home of the deity to/for whom we are supplicants.
Today, however, that has changed. Today, man casts an eye toward the sky in wariness -- not wary of the lightening bolt from an angry god, but wary of the spying of a far too powerful and intrusive government.
My thoughts go to the icon of the "all seeing eye" engraved on US paper currency. Modern circumstances give new meaning to that early American declaration of God's omnipotence and omnipresence.
Scrub all of that!
Times change. Things change. Men change. Governments change. And now -- we Americans have a continual presence of the US government 24-7, 365(6) -- whether we want it or not.
America's skies are filled with government spies watching you and me -- and everything we do -- around the clock. And it stinks!
America is now approaching the likeness of a police state. We will, in fact, BE a police state very soon. (Some argue that we are already a police state. I would argue -- not yet-- but we ARE getting there.)
"Since Jan. 1 of this year, according to congressional testimony presented Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Aviation Administration has authorized 106 federal, state and local government “entities” to fly “unmanned aircraft systems,” also known as drones, within U.S. airspace.
“We are now on the edge of a new horizon: using unmanned aerial systems within the homeland,” House Homeland Security Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Michael McCaul (R.-Texas) said as he introduced the testimony.
“Currently,” said McCaul, “there are about 200 active Certificates of Authorization issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to over 100 different entities, such as law enforcement departments and academic institutions, to fly drones domestically.”
SOURCE: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/faa-has-authorized-106-government-entities-fly-domestic-drones
What has happened here, dear reader, is the US citizen just lost a (another) constitutional right. I refer, of course, to the right to privacy. It's gone -- likely forever.
You may argue that with the Internet and social networking, etc, our privacy was already gone. You are correct -- up to a point. Much of the social networking loss of privacy was/is voluntary. That is one thing ... and it is quite different from having your privacy TAKEN from you, especially by an over-reaching, all to intrusive federal government. It's even worse when you consider it is illegal -- and they are gong to get away with it!
What I am referring to is the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.
The Fourth Amendment reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." That's right out of the Bill of Rights.
See, those pesky colonists had had enough of the British soldiers crashing through their doors and rummaging through their private papers and possessions so they intentionally made it very difficult for their own government, the one they were creating, to do it. It was intentional.
But, HEY! This is that "living, breathing, thingy" the liberals like to stretch to cover activities they favor, or to prohibit activities they do not favor -- or just plain ignore it at will.
I'm not an attorney, and I'm sure as heck not a constitutional lawyer, but, that's the beauty of the US Constitution. You needn't be an attorney at law to read and understand it! Well, at least for us "originalists," that is. See, I believe the constitution says what it means, and means what it says, and that's all there is to it. I'm one of those dread originalists.
It is as clear as the ringing of a bell that under the Fourth Amendment, having tiny little government aircraft -- with cameras -- flying about observing you, looking through your windows, or whatever, is as unconstitutional as it is possible to be. It is unlawful. It is clearly an unreasonable search.
There are only two kinds of people who dare say it is constitutional: Fools -- and people with an agenda unkind to the constitution.
No mental athletics are required to determine that the Obama Administration considers the constitution a speed bump, an irritant, anything but a serious threat their power grab. That have become so big, so powerful, so bold, that Americans feel they can no longer even trust their own Supreme Court, their court of last resort.
The US government is no longer of, by, and for the people. It is now alien to the people. There is now an adversarial relationship between the people of the US and the government that is supposed to answer to them.
You know, maybe it is time to call that Constitutional Convention -- and among the changes I'd like to suggest is this: If thirty-six states decide the Congress is unresponsive to the will of the people, they have the power to "dissolve" the Congress, send them all home, and hold nationwide congressional elections in sixty days.
Oh, don't get your shorts in a wad! It's not going to happen! No, America is too far gone to do anything as radical as make an effort to save herself. Heck, that would be too much work, entirely.
With that in mind, may we suggest you get yourself some old fashioned pull-down window shades as soon as you can. I have an idea the local super big box store is going to be sold out shortly.
J. D. Longstreet
Monday, July 23, 2012
Democrats Running from their own Convention
Ha!! They will lay up un bed with him, but they won't kiss him in public.
NRCC Political Director Mike Shields discusses North Carolina Democrats who won't be attending the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.
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Obama WILL Bring Poverty Rate to Highest Peak Since 1960s
Obama is truly the food stamp president. Poverty in America is growing at an accelerate pace because Obama sucks as president. Where are the jobs, mr. president?
YAHOO(AP) — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections. The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest level since 1965. Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor. More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth.
Goodbye United Nations...You Were Never Very Useful Anyway!
A bit more like this please.
"But, it’s the economy stupid..."You’re right, that’s part of it. But, while the economy is tanking, the rest of the world is laughing. And, they’re laughing at us!
They’re laughing at what we’ve become, where we are going, and who we’ve tabbed to get us there…for now.
So, why not make the United Nations an issue in this election?
A Guaranteed Minimum Income In The US? ... J. D. Longstreet
A Guaranteed Minimum Income In The US?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
**********
If the Obama Administration and his fellow Socialist/Marxist/Progressives (who camouflage themselves as democrats) in the US government aren't sent packing in November, I fully expect the next step in securing a socialist state in America is a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for every American.
Think about it. It is one of the few steps remaining that would solidify the hold government has on every man, woman, and child in America.
We know from the records that the welfare rolls have increased exponentially under Obama. Recently, changes were made by Presidential Executive Order to redefine "work" allowing even more applicants for welfare to be added to the welfare rolls. Why? Could it be the Obama Administration is deliberately attempting to "crash" the US welfare system? If so -- why?
I contend -- that is exactly what is happening.
If I an correct, then we are actually seeing the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" at work. We are observing the foundation, the groundwork -- if you will -- for establishing a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for American citizens. It is very, very, worrisome. But -- it is only the latest move by our socialist leaders to break America so they can re-mold her in the image of their choosing, which is, unarguably a socialist/Marxist state.
America is in a death spiral, dear reader. If the American electorate doesn't shake itself out of this stupor in which it is currently wallowing and come out swinging like the people we like to think we are, we are going to lose our liberty, our individual freedom, and our country.
What we are talking about here is "a government-ensured guarantee that all citizens unconditionally receive an income sufficient to meet their basic needs." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/index.php
Look around you. Consider the extremely high percentage of Americans already on what we call "Welfare" and consider, too, that nearly half of all Americans currently receive some form of government monetary assistance every month and then -- ask yourself what will happen to America's economy if Americans are guaranteed an annual income whether they work and contribute to our society or not.
Let's look a bit closer: What is a BIG? It is a Basic Income Guarantee. "The basic income guarantee (BIG) is a government insured guarantee that no citizen's income will fall below some minimal level for any reason. All citizens would receive a BIG without means test or work requirement. BIG is an efficient and effective solution to poverty that preserves individual autonomy and work incentives while simplifying government social policy. Some researchers estimate that a small BIG, sufficient to cut the poverty rate in half could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/index.php
Here's more: "The Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is a government ensured guarantee that no one's income will fall below the level necessary to meet their most basic needs for any reason. As Bertrand Russell put it in 1918, "A certain small income, sufficient for necessities, should be secured for all, whether they work or not, and that a larger income should be given to those who are willing to engage in some work which the community recognizes as useful. On this basis we may build further." Thus, with BIG no one is destitute but everyone has the positive incentive to work. BIG is an efficient, effective, and equitable solution to poverty that promotes individual freedom and leaves the beneficial aspects of a market economy in place." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.phphttp://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php
OK. So, how would we pay for it? Those who advocate the BIG say (above): " ... could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes."
HUH?
That's strange because just a bit lower on the page we find this: "The most commonly cited source of revenue for BIG is the income tax. Most proposals combine a basic income guarantee with a flat tax on income. Charles Clark estimates that a flat income tax rate of less than 40% would be enough to finance all current government spending and a BIG large enough to eliminate poverty."
SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php
I have to wonder if "less than 40%" means 39.99%?
It's coming. How can I be so sure? Because the next attempt at a BIG for the US will be only the latest iteration. The movement for a guaranteed income has been around for a long time. A quick check for advocates of a guaranteed income at Wikipedia brought some surprises. For Instance: American revolutionary Thomas Paine advocated a basic income guarantee to all US citizens as compensation for "loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property" (Agrarian Justice, 1795).
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte echoed Paine's sentiments and commented that 'man is entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence' (Herold, 1955).
In 1962, economist Milton Friedman proposed a Negative Income Tax coupled with a flat tax in support of a guaranteed minimum income.
In 1963, Robert Theobald published the book Free Men and Free Markets, in which he advocated a guaranteed minimum income (the origin of the modern version of the phrase).
In 1966 the Cloward–Piven strategy advocated "overloading" the US welfare system to force its collapse in the hopes that it would be replaced by "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".
In his final book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) Martin Luther King Jr. wrote[3]
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
—from the chapter titled "Where We Are Going".
In 1968, James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another 1,200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.
In 1973, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote The Politics of a Guaranteed Income in which he advocated the Guaranteed Minimum Income and discussed Richard Nixon's GAI proposal.
We encourage you to read the article at Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income
There are references to other advocates of a national guaranteed income in the article at Wikipedia, but I think you get the idea.
Oh, and while you are on the Wikipedia page, scroll down and check out the list of suggested means of funding for a national guaranteed income. But -- be sure you are sitting down before you do.
A guaranteed income for all Americans is the worst idea for America since, well, Obamacare!
Item number two in the The Black Panther Party: Platform and Program includes the following statement: "We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income." SOURCE: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6445/
As I mentioned above -- I have to wonder if the massive increase in the number of Americans on Welfare under the Obama Administration is in keeping with the Cloward–Piven strategy which suggests overloading the US welfare system forcing it to collapse and setting the stage for a guaranteed income for all Americans. You can read more on the Cloward-Piven strategy at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
I cannot even begin to tell you how deeply, deeply, opposed to the entire idea of a guaranteed annual income for all Americans I am. The American republic would be crushed and wiped out by internal rot!
If you think Obamacare is bad for America, if you think the UN's Small Arms Treaty is going to disarm America (as I do), then you will not be surprised when the call goes out from the Obama Administration to replace the welfare system with a guaranteed income.
I am convinced that if Americans don't wake up and get a grip and reclaim their/our country -- the UN Small Arms Treaty will become the law in America NEXT YEAR and I am convinced there is a sub-Rosa movement to give America a guaranteed minimum income. (I spoke to a young man, over the past weekend, who told me emphatically that beginning this week he is going to begin buying all the ammunition he can lay his hands on -- while he still can! He, too, is convinced that America's weapons are about to be seized by the US government.)
A second term for Obama is America's death knell. The damage from his first term will take generations to repair and restore.
There is a reason we cherish the words of our national anthem -- "land of the free, and home of the brave." Free and brave go hand in hand. As it always has, throughout America's history, it will take brave people to keep America free.
Yes, America is FREE -- because of the BRAVE! It is time for the brave to raise their colors and state emphatically: "This far and no farther!"
Yes, it will take courage. But, it should be clear to every sentient American that if we don't stop the attack on our freedom and liberty, here and now, very soon we will awaken one morning to find we are a people enslaved to -- and by -- the state.
J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
**********
If the Obama Administration and his fellow Socialist/Marxist/Progressives (who camouflage themselves as democrats) in the US government aren't sent packing in November, I fully expect the next step in securing a socialist state in America is a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for every American.
Think about it. It is one of the few steps remaining that would solidify the hold government has on every man, woman, and child in America.
We know from the records that the welfare rolls have increased exponentially under Obama. Recently, changes were made by Presidential Executive Order to redefine "work" allowing even more applicants for welfare to be added to the welfare rolls. Why? Could it be the Obama Administration is deliberately attempting to "crash" the US welfare system? If so -- why?
I contend -- that is exactly what is happening.
If I an correct, then we are actually seeing the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" at work. We are observing the foundation, the groundwork -- if you will -- for establishing a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for American citizens. It is very, very, worrisome. But -- it is only the latest move by our socialist leaders to break America so they can re-mold her in the image of their choosing, which is, unarguably a socialist/Marxist state.
America is in a death spiral, dear reader. If the American electorate doesn't shake itself out of this stupor in which it is currently wallowing and come out swinging like the people we like to think we are, we are going to lose our liberty, our individual freedom, and our country.
What we are talking about here is "a government-ensured guarantee that all citizens unconditionally receive an income sufficient to meet their basic needs." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/index.php
Look around you. Consider the extremely high percentage of Americans already on what we call "Welfare" and consider, too, that nearly half of all Americans currently receive some form of government monetary assistance every month and then -- ask yourself what will happen to America's economy if Americans are guaranteed an annual income whether they work and contribute to our society or not.
Let's look a bit closer: What is a BIG? It is a Basic Income Guarantee. "The basic income guarantee (BIG) is a government insured guarantee that no citizen's income will fall below some minimal level for any reason. All citizens would receive a BIG without means test or work requirement. BIG is an efficient and effective solution to poverty that preserves individual autonomy and work incentives while simplifying government social policy. Some researchers estimate that a small BIG, sufficient to cut the poverty rate in half could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/index.php
Here's more: "The Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is a government ensured guarantee that no one's income will fall below the level necessary to meet their most basic needs for any reason. As Bertrand Russell put it in 1918, "A certain small income, sufficient for necessities, should be secured for all, whether they work or not, and that a larger income should be given to those who are willing to engage in some work which the community recognizes as useful. On this basis we may build further." Thus, with BIG no one is destitute but everyone has the positive incentive to work. BIG is an efficient, effective, and equitable solution to poverty that promotes individual freedom and leaves the beneficial aspects of a market economy in place." SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.phphttp://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php
OK. So, how would we pay for it? Those who advocate the BIG say (above): " ... could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes."
HUH?
That's strange because just a bit lower on the page we find this: "The most commonly cited source of revenue for BIG is the income tax. Most proposals combine a basic income guarantee with a flat tax on income. Charles Clark estimates that a flat income tax rate of less than 40% would be enough to finance all current government spending and a BIG large enough to eliminate poverty."
SOURCE: http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php
I have to wonder if "less than 40%" means 39.99%?
It's coming. How can I be so sure? Because the next attempt at a BIG for the US will be only the latest iteration. The movement for a guaranteed income has been around for a long time. A quick check for advocates of a guaranteed income at Wikipedia brought some surprises. For Instance: American revolutionary Thomas Paine advocated a basic income guarantee to all US citizens as compensation for "loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property" (Agrarian Justice, 1795).
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte echoed Paine's sentiments and commented that 'man is entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence' (Herold, 1955).
In 1962, economist Milton Friedman proposed a Negative Income Tax coupled with a flat tax in support of a guaranteed minimum income.
In 1963, Robert Theobald published the book Free Men and Free Markets, in which he advocated a guaranteed minimum income (the origin of the modern version of the phrase).
In 1966 the Cloward–Piven strategy advocated "overloading" the US welfare system to force its collapse in the hopes that it would be replaced by "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".
In his final book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) Martin Luther King Jr. wrote[3]
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
—from the chapter titled "Where We Are Going".
In 1968, James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another 1,200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.
In 1973, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote The Politics of a Guaranteed Income in which he advocated the Guaranteed Minimum Income and discussed Richard Nixon's GAI proposal.
We encourage you to read the article at Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income
There are references to other advocates of a national guaranteed income in the article at Wikipedia, but I think you get the idea.
Oh, and while you are on the Wikipedia page, scroll down and check out the list of suggested means of funding for a national guaranteed income. But -- be sure you are sitting down before you do.
A guaranteed income for all Americans is the worst idea for America since, well, Obamacare!
Item number two in the The Black Panther Party: Platform and Program includes the following statement: "We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income." SOURCE: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6445/
As I mentioned above -- I have to wonder if the massive increase in the number of Americans on Welfare under the Obama Administration is in keeping with the Cloward–Piven strategy which suggests overloading the US welfare system forcing it to collapse and setting the stage for a guaranteed income for all Americans. You can read more on the Cloward-Piven strategy at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
I cannot even begin to tell you how deeply, deeply, opposed to the entire idea of a guaranteed annual income for all Americans I am. The American republic would be crushed and wiped out by internal rot!
If you think Obamacare is bad for America, if you think the UN's Small Arms Treaty is going to disarm America (as I do), then you will not be surprised when the call goes out from the Obama Administration to replace the welfare system with a guaranteed income.
I am convinced that if Americans don't wake up and get a grip and reclaim their/our country -- the UN Small Arms Treaty will become the law in America NEXT YEAR and I am convinced there is a sub-Rosa movement to give America a guaranteed minimum income. (I spoke to a young man, over the past weekend, who told me emphatically that beginning this week he is going to begin buying all the ammunition he can lay his hands on -- while he still can! He, too, is convinced that America's weapons are about to be seized by the US government.)
A second term for Obama is America's death knell. The damage from his first term will take generations to repair and restore.
There is a reason we cherish the words of our national anthem -- "land of the free, and home of the brave." Free and brave go hand in hand. As it always has, throughout America's history, it will take brave people to keep America free.
Yes, America is FREE -- because of the BRAVE! It is time for the brave to raise their colors and state emphatically: "This far and no farther!"
Yes, it will take courage. But, it should be clear to every sentient American that if we don't stop the attack on our freedom and liberty, here and now, very soon we will awaken one morning to find we are a people enslaved to -- and by -- the state.
J. D. Longstreet