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Posted by New-Politico.Org on Sunday, May 10, 2009 3:58:28 PM
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Memories are made of this?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Monday, April 27, 2009 12:42:49 PM
What is it with Politicians and remembering things they did and said. Why are they possessed of faulty long term memory? We have seen it all through our history. Even my hero, Ronald Reagan said, “I do not recall….” It was a temporary attack of the “Feet of Clay” syndrome.
Now Ms. Pelosi seems to remember the Bush administration briefing on torture quite differently to every other person at the briefing. Peter Goss, erstwhile chief of the CIA and several other Republicans are accusing Pelosi of selective memory. It’s all part of the blame Bush game. As long as Bush and his administration remains a viable target for blame about anything, he will be used for such. What happened to looking forward? If the Democrats are determined to look back and rehash things which are long past, then they must take the fallout with it.
Right now Pelosi should be concentrating her mental and political resources on pushing through the Euro-Socialist agenda of the Obama Administration including the first-of-a-kind several trillion dollar budget, health care reform, the cap-and-trade proposal and additional funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead she is backing a truth commission which will root out what actually happened with the torturing of those poor blameless terrorists. Huh…as long as they don’t dig up too much truth about Madam Speaker…
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Let's Have Some Fun and Try Everyone....

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Friday, April 24, 2009 2:15:40 PM
Now the Obama Administration is going after George Bush’s counsels. This is, indeed, a great precedent to set. Every successive administration can investigate and try the previous one to appease supporters and frighten Presidential advisors into not speaking their minds when advising the Chief Executive.

Obama himself has waffled several times on this. At first he seemed to be taking the high road and rejecting any possibility of investigating the former President’s attorneys. Then George Soros and his left wing supporters got to him. The following day it suddenly became something that the Attorney General had to decide. Perhaps this is a good example of the complete lack of experienced leadership referred to several times during the campaign of last year, especially by the Presidents Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton.

If this goes through and I seriously doubt it will (how will he justify looking ahead and being bipartisan if he does go after Bush advisors) then we have to dig up Harry Truman and try him for wiping out several thousand Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We should also dig up FDR and try him for killing millions of Germans during the merciless bombing of industrial German in the Rohr Valley in 1944/45. How about Abraham Lincoln, whom Obama attempts to identify with all the time? Mr. Lincoln locked up the Governor of Maryland because of opposition to the emancipation proclamation and suspended Habeas Corpus for several confederate States during the Civil War. What about FDR, the Democrats previous messiah? Remember the Japanese internment camps? Shall we exhume Johnson and Kennedy and try them for Vietnam and Laos? Think Operation Rolling Thunder (if you’re a lefty…Google it).

The list will never end. Many Presidents have had to make concessions for national security or to win a war. But we aren’t at war. Remember? It is an Overseas Contingency Action! Who wins an Overseas Contingency Action? The Bush administration, in the awful days following the worst attack on American soil by her enemies did what they felt they had to do. They kept us safe while Japan, Italy, Spain and Great Britain all suffered attacks which killed their citizens. But Bush haters, who were the people who got Obama into the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue, simply wouldn’t be able to accept that. As far as they’re concerned, Bush, Cheney and Rove never ever did anything right.

My question is simply this. When will President Obama show a little leadership and stand up to George Soros, the zealots in the Daily Kos and Media Matters and Move –On.Org and do what he knows is the right thing.
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Watch out Shylock!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:38:27 PM

Do not let it ever be said that I do not give the Devil his due. Or the President. On most things I vehemently disagree with him. I believe that he demeaned America by shaking hands with Chavez. I also believe that talking with Achmedinajad would give that sewer vermin legitimacy. But those are President Obama plans and he deserves to try them out.

The point of this post is to separate myself from the lunatic left that never found anything redeemable with George Bush and Dick Cheney. I am not like that. I believe that President Obama is, this very day, handling something that is important to average Americans.

President Obama will investigate the lending practices of U.S. credit card companies today and, in doing so, will deal with an issue that has angered consumers of credit who have been bled by high fees and interest rates.

As an example, my sister, who is diligent with her credit card payments, received a letter from a credit card company, I cannot remember which one, that told her that since her balance was more than 65% of her credit limit, her interest rate was going up by 15% to (are you ready for this?) 23%. It was one of those companies who had offered her a card four years ago at some ridiculously low interest rate.

Now on the other side of the spectrum, my credit practices border on the profligate. My payments are frequently late and for about half of the time I pay the minimum. I know that this means that I will die in debt (to Capitol One and Wells Fargo and Bank of America) but so will our country. And, what's good enough for the greatest country on earth is good enough for me. But I am being facetious. While I deserve to die in debt for my consistently feckless spending habits, I do not deserve to pay 30% on my credit card balances when I am a few days late with a payment.

Like most Americans, I never read the fine print. Isn't that how everyone got in trouble with home loans in which variable rates could soar to unimaginable heights? They never bothered to read that this was a possibility for their loans.

Americans don't read fine print.

While I am not touting this behavior as something noble, I am saying that the average American expects to trust financial institution to provide their services with some fiduciary responsibility. We are a trusting people. This is why our enemies usually bank on to get the better of us. (Think Pearl Harbor and the Japanese, and more recently, the pirates of Somalia).

By the same token, we trust that the people, who offered us credit cards, do not carry the same

Mitochondrial DNA as Shylock, that monetary leech in Merchant of Venice.shylock-classic1.jpg

God knows we've learned the hard way, which this trust is severely misplaced.

Now President Obama is doing something about this, and good for him. This is one area where I hope he succeeds. I am not normally an advocate of rewarding irresponsible behavior. Doing so would make me sound terribly liberal. It makes me sound as though I want Big Brother to rescue me after I am in trouble because I spent too much. That is not the case. But taking advantage of people with interest rates as high as 30% is against the laws of God and the US Constitution.bags-of-money.jpg

The President is asking for the reduction of fine print and legalize in credit card contracts. He is requiring that credit card companies make it easier for consumers to comparison shop. He wants drastic reductions in penalties and interest hikes for delinquent accounts. Finally he wants oversight for this industry. I wonder if he checked with his own Vice President. Wasn't it Biden who sponsored and then worked hard for the passage of the Bill which changed the bankruptcy laws to make things better for credit cards companies?

But I shouldn't be diluting my praise of our President with referencesa to Biden's treachery....

The President is doing something worthy, and God Bless his for that. I, for one, hopes he succeeds.

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Tough Road to Hoe!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:30:14 PM
I recently signed up with the Patriotic Resistance in California and nationwide. The purpose if the movement is to take a leaf out of the Obama Presidential campaign of last fall enter the electronic age, use the internet to rally support and organize a grass roots conservative ground swell of people who still believe conservative causes. People who are part of what was once called the silent majority.

As their collective concerns they list the following: Illegal Alien Amnesty and Open Borders, Globalism and Transnationalism, Socialism, Tax Increases, Climate Alarmism, Judicial Activism, Universal Healthcare, Gun Control and Social Liberalism. There isn’t anything on this list I disagree with.

As a part of the sign-up deal I was encouraged to invite friends to join up as well. I did this; inviting all my address book contacts to join up. As a practicing Catholic, many of the people in my address book are also practicing Catholics and I felt sure they would sign-up. I was shocked at what I learned from the responses I received. Many, many people who, being devout Catholics, I was certain would not support President replied and said that they were solidly behind the President pro-choice stance and all.

What is it about this that is hard to believe? What has happened to people who would abandon their beliefs in support of a man who is so anti-life? Is this a snap shot of what the GOP has to do to win again? Is this a flavor of the roast we have to cook to get back in control?
We better start praying…
I pray that God is still willing to Bless America…
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No Freedom of Speech For You!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Saturday, April 18, 2009 2:10:59 PM

Today the Wall Street Journal reported, in an article on page one above the fold, that President Obama's administration is "starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from using radio stations and Web sites....that Taliban fighters use to broadcast threats, decrees and rules of engagement."

I must have been malnourished as a child, during the time when the part of my cerebellum which controls critical thinking was in the development stage, because there is something here that I don't understand about this policy.

Isn't this the same administration which swore to and then developed plans to close Guantanamo Bay because those terrorists deserved the right to Habeas Corpus in US courts? We couldn't just hold those poor guys just because they had been captured trying to destroy America. Isn't this the same administration that has changed the nomenclature of the War on Terror to something resembling "A Foreign Contingency Action" because as the Washington Post put it, "the damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound - is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against us in distant Afghan caves."

Isn't this the same administration which refuses to call the Islamic vermin who want to obliterate our American way of life, "terrorists?"

So are the far left liberals who brung Obama to the dance, going to stand by while we deprive the noble freedom fighters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda of their fundamental right to freedom of speech. Jamming radio stations and closing down websites? I ask you? What would Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Madison say about this? The founders must be spinning fast enough in their graves to generate enough power to keep the whole western grid happy for ten years.

You see, all progressive liberals believe that all American rights extend to everyone on the planet, including our enemies. Remember when Rosie O'Donnell said that the Taliban and Al Qaeda were also "just moms and dads"? ( no one reminded Rosie that Goering, Himmler and Eichmann were also moms and dads). This is akin to the administration asking that the suit against AT&T and the Federal Government regarding the releasing of cell phone records be dropped because it would damage the ...er...War on...or no, I am sorry..."the Foreign Contingency Action."

Mr. Obama is abandoning some of the elitist principles that he used to condemn Dick Cheney, George Bush and Karl Rove. Perhaps there's some kind of electronic device in the Oval office that Dick Cheney uses to take over the minds of all who enter therein....and Obama, now, just isn't the Obama that we knew and loved a few months ago and the change we got isn't the change we all expected?

As a Conservative Reagan Republican (remember "peace through strength" and "trust but verify" ?), my sides are aching from laughing so hard.

The Obama administration should charge for entertainment of this elevated quality. The revenue could be used to fund the national health plan.
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Let the Seals do the Job!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:11:22 PM
The success of the Navy Seals in taking out the pirates is finally proof that the worst enemies we face during a war are the politicians who decide to go to war in the first place. If you believe that a fighting force that contains experts like this patriot could not have ended the war in Iraq and Afghanistan within one year, then you are an idiot.

Please write a comment and tell me why you believe this.


Surely you must agree that it is the politicians who make all the stupid rules. Rules that will not allow our fighting forces to bomb or straif mosques, hospitals, orphanages, and aspirin factories, when our intelligence knows that all of these erstwhile buildings are safe houses for enemy combatants. If we could just get the damned politicians out of the picture, our military would clean out our enemies like so much vermin, just as the seal obliterated those scrawny little parasites in the Indian Ocean.

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Shed HIS Grace on Thee!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Friday, April 10, 2009 1:03:28 PM
Glenn Beck gets emotional very easily. He and I share this trait. Both of us start blubbering like idiots at the drop of a hat. It’s hard to make someone take you seriously when you are misty eyed and your lower lip is quivering like an aspen leaf.

Beck had an emotional moment today when he spoke about his mother. She committed suicide when he was a teenager. His message was very down-to-earth and easy to understand. Basically he said that America was facing a great deal of trouble and that being “un-hooked from God” we would never survive.

It got me thinking. As an immigrant who watched America prosper, from 15000 miles away, I often wondered why it continued to prosper. Then it occurred to me that there was a distinct possibility that the blessings of God were always bestowed on America almost to the exclusion of many other places, perhaps because America earned it. Every founding paper mentioned a creator with great respect and reverence. National monuments have Divine dictums carved into their marble slabs, and the main founding document declares, unassailably, that our rights are bestowed by a benevolent Creator.

The Psalms say that the man who reveres the name of God and honors his name will be blessed. And so it is with our country. Heaven forbid we forget this path. Heaven forbid that America forgets to honor the name of God. I, for one, do not want to go there. I love this land, and I want the almighty, who neither slumbers nor sleeps, to have a watchful eye on it, continuously.

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A Week of Really Bad Diarrhea to America!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:16:31 AM
Yesterday evening, while on Sean Hannity's show at Fox, Denis Prager said that liberals have an undiluted need to be loved. They want minorities to love their party. The want the whole world, the French, the Italians, the Spanish and all the rest, to love the President. They want the world to love America. The quintessential liberals on Capital, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Chuck Schumer and Harry Reed all want to be loved by everyone in both houses. They want the people to love them. This is way the whole Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac debacle started. It was liberals forcing them to make affordable loans to people who couldn't afford those loans. A Home for everyone. Plenty of love to spread around.

As parents, liberals want their children to love them and so real parenting is put on the back burner. Tough love is a vast right wing conspiracy. Liberal teachers want to be loved by all their students and so discipline disappears and so does "Reading, Riting and Rithmethic."

While fighting a war on terror, they really don't want the terrorists to hate us. Well, not quite as much. So if we do things correctly, as in changing the way we refer to the war on terror or terrorists themselves, the boisterous, rioting crowds on the streets of Tehran, will shout a modified slogan, instead of death to America, perhaps it will turn into, "Severe Gout to America!" Or, "A week of Really Bad Diarrhea to America!" and America will no longer be the Devil of the West (their word for it is Shaithan) America will only be the Fallen Angel of the West. Liberals seem to have this "lion will lay down with the lamb" attitude towards life. Unfortunately, as admirable as that attitude is and Biblical to boot, it is unrealistic when dealing with fanatic religious zealots who are convinced that it is noble to kill innocents in the name of God. If someone mentions the Crusades, I will puke.

The righteous anger displayed by all the Democrats on the Hill over the AIG bonuses turned out to have been completely feigned. The permissibility of the bonuses was

written into the bill by none other than Chris Dodd at the bidding of the Obama Administration. It is that need to be loved once again. AIG and her executives might have been really ruining things and hemorrhaging money like a head wound, but they were allowed to keep their bonuses, because heaven forbid, they should not love us as much were they deprived of something they didn't deserve.

The same rule holds true for the many people who think that entitlements are their right. The country owes them a living, a home, health care, child care and an education. Liberals have encouraged the entitlement attitude. There is a whole generation with this attitude tattooed on their very souls. It has worked, in as much as minorities and those waiting for handouts love the Democrat party. This will be the biggest obstacle for the GOP to win over Hispanics who have the same values as the GOP, but consistently vote Democrat in national elections

What would Tom Jefferson have said?

In the Declaration of Independence  he spoke of unalienable rights given us by the Creator. Those rights included Life (something that liberals routinely deny the unborn for convenience sake), Liberty ( again denied by anyone who wants to fend for himself, especially people of color) and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Pay great attention to the word "pursuit". The dictionary defines pursuit thusly: The act of pursuing. An effort to secure or attain. A quest the one is engaged in. It sounds like a sweat popping activity to me.

Jefferson didn't promise happiness. He didn't promise success either. Life and liberty are unquestionably guaranteed, but happiness is not. You are guaranteed the freedom to pursue it. To race after it. To chase it. And we all know that races are frequently lost even by those who strive with all they have to give!

The definition contains two words that might be disappearing from our lexicon. Effort and quest. Both of them require too much trouble; why bother.

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A Comedian in the White House...I Kid You Not!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Friday, March 20, 2009 8:54:53 PM
Yesterday night the President of the United States of America, the most powerful man on the planet, was on a late night comedy show. This was a first time. Now that the precedent has been set, I am fairly sure it will not be the last time. This is a pity. This is a terrible shame. I feel that it degrades the office of the President. It lowers the station of our chief executive to that of every brainless starlet or drug deranged celebrity who has ever been dragged across the Tonight Show set. Entertainers, most of them, are singularly without any self-esteem. This is evident by the way they dress, by the way they live their lives and by the way they raise their children. How many Americans would want any one of a host of movie idols raising their children? Yet, that is what our President lowered himself to last night. It is fine for the President to be interviewed in the White House or in a Hotel room by a reporter who has obtained permission to do so. The questions may be serious or lighthearted, but for the President to appear in a forum that is meant to entertain is out of place and demeaning. Campaigning politicians have frequently visited late night television land, but they are ordinary citizens running for office and hoping to reach as many people as possible, to convey their message. The President, especially this President, given the unbridled, unfettered, wide-eyed fascination/admiration that the media have for him, could summon up all three networks and a host of cable stations to give him a half hour slot in prime time for him to talk to the people. Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Larry King, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Gibson and Chris Matthews would come running; heavily slobbering all the way. He does not have to lower himself to the level of a David Letterman, a Jay Leno or heaven forgive us all, a Jon Stewart, with an audience, in attendance, responding to applause signs.
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IS AIG HIRING?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:28:05 PM
I am job hunting. If I don't find work soon, I will loose my home. One I have lived in for thirty years. I have cut back on every luxury I enjoyed in the recent past to conserve my severely reduced income.
As you read this Ed Liddy is addressing congress.

He is making all kinds of excuses as to why AIG has to give out the bonuses that everyone is upset about. He wants to keep the company going so that they can pay back the tax payer. If you believe that you are an unsuspecting simpleton, and if I do, so am I. Liddy says he has asked all those who received bonuses to return them, if they received more than $100,000. Liddy would not say who these people were. Barney Frank has threatened to subpoena their names. Liddy says that death threats have been received. His request for secrecy is merely to protect his employees. The payments made were retention payments. Payments made to keep employees in place. Employees who failed, miserably, at what they had to do. We, the people, kept them solvent. Why does AIG need to retain losers who failed at their jobs? 

It turns out now that all this a smoke and mirrors. The funds doled out to AIG have gone to help foreign banks and Goldman Sachs. These institutions would have lost a great deal if they had not received funds through AIG. So it was not just to protect stockholders, it was to protect many of their partners in crime.
This morning Newt Gingrich, in his letter on the internet has offered these facts to enlighten the American people. We have given AIG $170 billion which boils down to $1224 per tax payer. Personally, that would have made four car payments for me. It would have helped pay a third of one months mortgage, it would have given me free utilities for eight months and telephone services for a whole year. On the national front, Newt says that $170 billion would have allowed us to double the number of aircraft carriers in out Navy’s fleet. Two million Americans could have got a four year education at a public university for that money.

WE COULD HAVE GIVEN MORE THAN 40 MILLIION DOLLARS TO EACH FAMILY WHO HAS LOST A SOLDIER IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WITH THAT MONEY!!!

Instead we are dolling this money out to dead beat losers who are threatening to resign if they have to give back these bonuses. All these facts serve as an indication of exactly how much money is at play here. The American people have become desensitized to the words used to quantify money. We hear the word “billion” so often that it doesn’t have the effect it should, anymore. Now, thanks to Newt Gingrich and other watch dogs who are looking out for us, we know.

We need to stand up and let our feeling be known. After all, when was the last time you got $1224 free of charge…..?
For a family of four that would be almost $5000.
Are we mad?
You bet we are!

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Hari Kari American Style

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:04:55 PM
Now it seems as though Chris Dodd knew about the AIG bonuses. The Dodd Amendment actually contains loopholes allowing AIG to give their loser executives these large bonuses which are coming out of my paycheck. Are you asking us (read “We the People”) to believe that the Obama administration didn’t realize that this was in force? They didn’t know that the amendment had these provisions. And, we have to trust them to have their eye on the ball for everything else?  Is there anything else they knew about and forgot to mention to the American people? Can someone remind me how to spell transparency?
Senator Grassley, on Capital Hill suggested that like the Japanese, who when they fail and disappoint others, quietly rip out their viscera with a dagger to regain their honor, the executives of AIG should go forth and do likewise. I agree. It would be messy, but thoroughly enjoyable. Perhaps Chris Dodd and Barney Frank could do the same thing. Hari Kari….American Style. It could be televised live. The rating would sore through the roof.

Someone who is about to be sacrificed is poor little Timmy Geithner. The bus is coming trundling down the hill and White House spokesmen are saying that the President has full confidence in Mr. Geithner. Now here’s a little translation. When your boss tells the public that he has full confidence in you, he’s getting ready to fire you. Anyone want to make book on the fact that Geithner will resign in the next two weeks?

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Profiling Liberal Style!

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Saturday, March 14, 2009 9:11:17 PM
Let’s be clear about something.
Most Americans couldn’t care less about each other’s ethnicity.
We don’t give a hoot about whether you are an Italian American, a Polish American, A Native American, an African American, a Philippine American, an Irish American or a Indian American. No one is saying that you cannot speak Spanish to your children and family or eat Panset for Thanksgiving or get plastered on St. Paddy’s day or Columbus Day. That’s your prerogative. That’s your Right as an American. You own the right to do whatever you want to, as long as it is legal and it does not infringe on someone else’s rights.
Involved as I am in a job search, I am obliged to fill in copious application forms which have, as a part of the questions one is asked, a section on ethnicity. I am asked if I am Spanish, or Asian or if I am of one or more races or if I am of mixed race. Who decided to identify me as belonging to some group or other? And, isn’t this profiling? Isn’t this what the ACLU is constantly getting hemorrhoids over?
I get the feeling that if I can be hustled into a coral of similar looking people from the same part of the planet I can be afforded some extra privilege. As though I need all the help I can get. I am one of those Idiot Americans who need help getting a job. I am one of those Idiot Americans who need help taking care of my children. I am one of those Idiot Americans who cannot make life choices sufficiently well enough to survive. I, as a brown person, have been profiled to death. And the profiling is being done at the insistence of the very people who raise their liberal eye brows and roll their liberal eyes at the very thought of pulling an Arab looking twenty-something young man off a commercial aircraft if he looks suspicious. Even if he looks like Mohamed Atta’s twin brother!
When will this stop. When will I be just a plain good ol’ American…with no bloody adjectives or qualifiers.

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TRANSPARENCY? HUH?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:48:18 PM
Whatever happened to transparency?

Recall the campaign promise about how nothing would be signed into law unless the American People had had a chance to peruse it on the internet for a full five days. When it came time for the budget to be signed, our beacon of hope and “change we could believe in” conveniently forgot about that promise. The budget was signed within a thirty-six hour period. Was it even ever on the White House website?

We have already seen other promises broken.

The one about lobbyists.

There would be no former lobbyists working in the Obama White House. Then suddenly the rule had to be suspended because there were two people without whom the country would collapse.

Now picture George Bush breaking a widely touted promise like the “no-lobbyist” one. The New York Times, Media Matters, the Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post would have had paroxysms. Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw and the idiot comedians on late night television would have fainted in sheer disbelief that the President of the United States could lie with such impunity. President Bush would have been called out and publicly disgraced.

What about the promise regarding no porcine earmarks. President Obama was going to abolish earmarks. Now, we are being told, by the same President, that earmarks are a valuable device that Senators and Representatives can use to bring much needed Federal Funds to their districts and to their States. It is clear that Obama’s promises are like proverbial piecrusts…they crumble easily. President Obama’s legacy will a memorable one, but no other part of it will stand out in our memories as much as his ability to bend with the political wind; his ability to shift positions for political expediency.

He never tells it like it is….he tells it the way you want to hear it.

This is change we can believe in?

Can we even remember how to spell change?
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What's a Billion?

Posted by New-Politico.Org on Friday, February 27, 2009 4:41:44 PM
The statistics contained, herein, are not my work. I am told it came from some advertising agency. I want to be sure to give whoever gathered this data gets all the credit for having done so.

Politicians use the word "Billion" as frequently as they say, "I do not recall."

Billions are bandied about with reckless abandon and a frivolity that rivals that of kids in a candy store. I wonder how many Representatives and how many Senators could actually tell you how many zeroes there are in one Billion. Well, I googled it. There are 9 zeroes in one billion. When you look at the number written out it doesn't appear to be that much of anything. It is a big number, for certain, but it does not impress.

However, if you read what this brilliant AD agency did, you realize the enormity of a billion. You suddenly gain perspective. You suddenly realize that we have entrusted some 650 idiots with managing and disbursing many thousands of Billion of dollars, that it took months and months for you and I to earn. I hope that God is not fed up blessing the United States of America. Boy, do we ever need Him now!

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

YET....YET...A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

And if you want to be a little more annoyed....here is how those 600 odd idiots in Congress and the charmer in the White House are planning to raise all that money.


Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax


None of these taxes existed 100 years ago.
One Hundred years ago we had absolutely no national debt. We had the largest middle class in the world. Mothers stayed at home to raise the kids. We had far fewer prisons.  And, most of all; the average American knew that while he was endowed with an enormous list of rights, he didn't have a right to health care, or a house, or a car, or a job, or retirement, or unemployment, or welfare.

I wonder what the heck happened.

It occurs to me that 100 years ago everyone in Congress could walk upright. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe not.

If you know the answer...do leave a comment.

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