“Notice the highlighted statement in the Preamble” There is no mention of the words providing welfare.

Isn’t it funny the more you listen the more you hear “political” talking points from back in the day.

President Obama, at the Harry Reid fund raiser, brought up the term “privatization” which we haven’t heard since the Bush’s 2005 attempt at reforming Social Security. He, Obama, suggested that Sharron Angle, Reid’s GOP challenger, was even more radical right than her Republican counterparts. Obama is totally wrong, not only President Bush was in favor, but other Republicans have also presented this idea before. Also, just about every American who has an IRA or 401K is doing it right now. You might ask why? They know they can not trust the Federal Government to be there with a check when they retire. Privatization is only a dirty word the Social Democrats use when they have no solutions for fixing the Social Security problem. Believe me they too are all invested in the private market.

The Democrats, back then, said that President Bush was just saying there was a crisis and was trying to scare our old seniors into voting for him. The following is a letter I sent to the AARP in May of 2007.

To the AARP Bulletin Editor:

“It is time for AARP to get real on Social Security. The article, “Keeping It Afloat”, in the May, 2007 issue of the AARP Bulletin, praises the Democrats for their support of the status quo and criticizes the Republicans for innovated ideas for replacing the bankrupt Social Security System (SSS).”

“The Democrat’s have put the fear of what they call “Privatization” into AARP. AARP is lobbying, for the government’s control of our money. The fact is, if I had the option to invest the money the government said they would manage for me, I would have 2.5 million in my “Private Retirement Account”, after 49 years of working. AARP’s Czar, Max Bucaus, is a typical Democrat example for not realizing the current system has failed because there were no investments of the funds we were mandated the give to the Federal Government.”

My old saying is: “If you depend on the “Government” for your “daily bread” you can be sure they will take it away slice by slice.”

Case in point:

Americans, since the Clinton administration let the cat out of the bag, found out Social Security money was not being placed in a locked account, accruing interest, protected from the Federal Government, but instead using our money for anything they want, by writing IOUs in the form of Government Bonds, proving the program was DOA. In fact, I don’t think the Federal Government can make money, in any way shape or form.

Our responsible Government has always been, in order to pay Social Security distributions, borrowing the money from the Treasury Department who in turn issued a stack of IOUs, in the form of Treasury bonds, and in turn has too borrow the money with interest from places like China.

This is what is called “an unfunded liability” which adds to the National Debt but not reported as such. Why is that, because it is estimated to be around $60,000,000,000,000.00 (trillion) and they don’t want you to know they already took the whole loaf of bread. Don’t forget every person born in the USA from this minute on is already an unfunded liability, that’s why something has to be done now.  

Isn’t this the type of program, if you had a choice, you would put your money into for 40 years? One that offers no return on investment an in fact gets wiped out days later and you still have to pay income taxes on it when you use it. Talk about a PONZI scheme, this is a big one.

Of course any suggestion that takes the Government out of the equation, is a radical departure from the “Social Democrat’s’ frame of mind.  

This is what the Social Democrats consider “Radical.” Sharron’s Plan:

“We must keep the promise of Social Security by redeeming the "IOU's" that have been written to the Social Security Trust Fund and then putting that money in a lock box that cannot ever be raided again by Washington politicians. The only way we pay for it is by cutting spending.

We should also create personalized accounts for the next generation that cannot be raided.”

The Economics Resource Center, according to Obama must also be a radical organization, because they have discussed and entertained “radical solutions” to the Social Security viability as well:

One proposal for reforming social security involves the development of an individual accounts plan in which the social security tax rate would be increased to fund an individual investment account that is managed by the government. Alternative proposals involve a privatization approach in which some portion of the social security tax is diverted into mandatory individually managed retirement accounts.

Part of the reason for this is that forecasts of future social security revenue depend on factors such as future rates of economic growth, the level of future unemployment and labor force participation rates, and similar factors. Small differences in rates of economic growth can have dramatic effects on the level of output (and tax revenue) over the course of a 20-30 year period. Different assumptions about such future outcomes result in very different conclusions about the future solvency of the social security system.

Obama’s reaction is typical of that of the Social Democrats when their solutions only include big government. The real radical scheme is to do nothing and push the problem ahead to the next president, which he is trying to do.

My suggestion is the following:

The people who are 55 years old and the ones who are now collecting Social Security must continue to rely on the current plan, because it has already been built into their retirement plans, and the Government should continue to fund it and pay based on the current rules.

The people who are 54 and under should get a lump-sum payment equaling the amount already paid into the plan. That amount should be put into an “Individual Retirement Savings Account” (IRSA), similar to the Roth IRA, and a mandatory amount taken out each pay period for the entire year, like FICA, should be directed to that account. The individual should be allowed to put as much as they want into their IRSA over and above the mandatory payment also be able change investment accounts at least once per year.

Parents should be allowed to set up an IRSA for each child starting at birth, contributing as much as they want, which would be taken on by the children when they start working.

The individual should be allowed to take a loan from the account, of some amount percentage, and to be paid back by increasing the mandatory salary deduction plus a small management fee back to the account.

Needless to say the only Government intrusion into my plan would be setting the mandatory minimum amount to be taken out, but that should be talked about before implementation.      

The people, who can not work, because of disabilities or other reasons, should be given a set amount each year, but given it monthly, by the Federal Government and allowed to set up their own IRSA in which the money would be placed.

If anybody thinks that the current Social Security System is still the best way to use your money for securing your retirement then disregard what you just read, If you think there is a better way of solving this problem then all is not lost, but please let us all know about it.    

 Why Not???

What has been taking our county down is the idea that our large entitlements were some how always going to be there for us during sickness as well as in health when we retired.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in fact have been slowly taking our country down. These entitlements have been working against our country’s core principles, free enterprise and capitalism since the day they were mandated. Together these babies have put us more and more in debt and now our country is bankrupt by any business standard.

These entitlements are not just the reason. Total mismanagement of the taxpayer’s tax revenue and the disgusting spending sprees of administrations, and most of all Congress, have put us in the position that even foreign governments are now looking for another standard other than the U.S. Dollar.

Our Country’s Government can not pay the nation’s bills by printing paper fiat money. The funding of special giveaways (bailouts), endowments, grants, foreign aid, duplicate agencies, outrageous Government salaries and benefits, bloated Government staff’s, and Union driven government policies, is just throwing bad money at bad at policies.

In short we have shot our WAD.

However, there is one person, at least, who has his head in a dark hole. The President of the United States seems to think there is no crisis. He says, with a little tweaking of the system, not replacing it, he can make these problems more tolerable for another 75 years and still provide required benefits. In this case however, he was only talking about the Social Security System. Remember my old saying “if the Government supply’s your daily bread they will find a way to take it away slice by slice.” If the current system remains, the tweaking or slices will be less coverage, smaller Dr. reimbursement’s and more taxes.  

Moving the Social Security crisis, entitlements and money drains into the future is certainly one way of getting them off his back and onto the next administration’s, which is the way Democrats have always handled other major problems, but it doesn’t solve anything.            

The President, the Congressional Democrats, and the mainstream media are lying to us as always. They don’t dare tell the truth, they would not get elected. They really think we are stupid and now they are launching attack campaigns calling people who offer new ideas “radicals” using the ancient adage of “Privatization”, like all of them are invested in the Government entitlements.

There is nobody in this administration who has ever had any experience in the private sector producing jobs, so is stands to reason that they have no other solutions other than tax, spend, Government control and delay all major decisions for the next generation to solve and pay off.

They do know how to create Government jobs, since Jan.2009 they have added 176,000 of them to the Government payroll, paying $70,000 to $120,000 each.

USS Murtha

Why do I write about the things that I write about?

If that makes any sense to you, maybe you should write as well.

Writing about common sense things is very boring, but writing about things that make no sense what so ever is exciting.

One thing that makes no sense just happened today, April 24, 2010. The Navy decided to name the next amphibious ship after the late Congressman from Pennsylvania, John Murtha. The USS Murtha has to be the most ridiculous name ever put on a ship from the United States of America. John Murtha is one of the most corrupt members of Congress. In fact Judicial Watch, a congressional watch group, has Murtha sitting number nine out of the ten most corrupt congressmen of 2009.

Even worse than the numerous scandals, Murtha accused Marines of killing innocent civilians while performing their duties in a fire-fight, while in a combat zone. All but one of these Marines was found not guilty and the one still has to be tried.

I think you will see many Navy and Marines reluctant to serve on that now cursed ship.

Now if common sense was involved here, you would never have heard about it, that is why common sense is boring to write about.      

It truly surprises me that President Obama can face, want must be the dumbest Americans, the people of Iowa who attended this stump meeting, and tell them that ObamaCare was their victory. I guess he can say what he wants but winning a vote, by three votes, in my opinion, does not a victory make.

Thirty of his own party voted against the ObamaCare bill and Ole Harry Reid could not make up his mind what he was voting for, twice changing his vote to yes after voting no.

At this, stacked meeting, which by the way, Governor Culver, Obama said was in attendance but nobody saw him, must be a Republican, people applauded on cue and even the one person who I guarantee was planted, shouted out “what about the public option” and on cue the President answered “we couldn’t get it through Congress, that’s why” and then said “there was no need to shout young man.” All this Bull crap when the largest employer in Iowa is thinking about closing some plants and laying off thousands of workers. These people can’t be this stupid, can they?

However the fact of the matter is that there is a public mandate, an implied public option, which is if you don’t buy Health Care insurance the IRS will garnish what ever income you have forcing you to pay for it against your wishes.

He then told these attendees, in Iowa, that they will always have a committed partner in his administration to support their road to recovery, like he was the only President that ever did this. You may remember that parts of Iowa were hit with a devastating winter storm in early March which entitles the Governor to declare counties disaster areas and apply for Federal relief. This has been done regardless of what administration was in the White house.  It’s called FEMA. Obama’s attempt here was to desperately feed his ego with something he could claim he did.

He proceeds to tell these lame brains it was their victory when the special interests sent an army of lobbyists to congress and blanketed the airwaves with negative ads, you dumb “Iowans mobilized and refused to give up. You never lost sight what was right or wrong.” You must have been the only little group of people who thought ObamaCare was the best thing since your last organism. All the polls showed, and the Real Clear Politics average was at 39.4% in favor and 50.7% opposed

CNN/Opinion Research        39% in favor     59% opposed

CBS News                             37%                 48%

Rasmussen                             41%                 54%

Fox News                              35%                 55%

NBC News/WSJ                   36%                 48%

So the people in this little group all by themselves pushed ObamaCare over the top. You knew it was right and the rest of America was wrong, how cool is that?

Obama is the most arrogant person since Ted Kennedy I have ever seen, bar none. It is no wonder the people get real angry and do stupid things, you only have to listen to him talk and make fun of the majority on Americans who think this is the financial Armageddon the experts say will happen. I agree with Newt Gingrich when he said:

"People should not engage in personal threats. I'm happy to condemn any effort to engage in personal threats. But I think the Democratic leadership has to take some real responsibility for having run a machine that used corrupt tactics that bought votes that bullied people, and as a result has enraged much of the American people."

The wave of Lobbyists that came to Congress, were all the Lobbyists in his own administration to bribe the hold out Democrats. But what he really was talking about were the American citizens who came from all parts of our country, members of the many conservative action groups and individuals to, by right, lobby their congress to vote against this massive Government take over of one sixth of our economy, you know the same ones Pelosi called “Nazis” and other demeaning names.

Obama and the Democrats paid no attention to the real Americans and bribed corrupt politicians in the backrooms of congress, in the middle of the night, in order shove this financial “Armageddon” through Congress. They lied when the submitted their last budget and gave the CBO numbers that didn’t reflect last minute changes which added over $1trillion more to the national debt.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/26/cbos-2020-vision-debt-will-rise-to-90-of-gdp/

Obama did the same thing with the ObamaCare numbers, and the CBO will find them-selves in the same predicament again in the months to come.

Obama said when he signed ObamaCare into law “he looked around to see if there any asteroids falling or some cracks opening up the Earth.” Well maybe instead of looking up like he usually does, he should be looking at the ground-swell of citizens taking him up on his “bring it on” challenge.

Look folks the problem, we see out on the street, is the lack of jobs, and we know with this mandate we will lose thousands more of them. Obama’s answer to this is we can’t have jobs without HealthCare first. When we pass health care reform the job issue will go away. In reality it is jobs that pay the cost of health care, not the other way around. Maybe he is thinking about the thousands of Government regulation jobs that will be created.

This is being treated just like Obama’s energy policy, which is we must develop “green energy” solutions before we get off the foreign imported oil. That is just as stupid, green energy alone will not take away our dependence of foreign oil, and since Obama shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear disposal site we can no longer count on Nuclear Energy to help us deliver some of the energy we need. Solar farms are being halted because Unions are not involved in their construction, or some snail (is it Ole Harry) lives in the area. I will believe in “green energy” when I can stick an ear of corn in my so called “fuel tank.”

As usual, in a stacked audience there is planted some, poor, person who lost someone because of not having health care, or switched or lost their job and could get healthcare. His answer was” because of you, Iowans, and the work you did” this woman’s Father will finally have access to health insurance. Another Iowa back room deal, is the only thing I can think of.

What is “preventive care” anyway? If you know what it is, Obama says everybody will get it without co-payments and deductions, including our seniors. WOW isn’t that special?

Nancy Pelosi said, with this plan, people who aspire to do anything they dreamed about, can now leave their day jobs and do it because we, all the other people, will now pay for their health care insurance.

All of this, Obama says is not going to raise the debt one red cent, but we are getting all this great stuff for little, and sometime for nothing, so where is the money going to come from? We now know some of it is coming from the $500million worth of abuse and fraud in the Medicare program. This is also bull crap, don’t you think if this were true the FBI would have been all over it? Obama said at this meeting “for all you seniors who are in the audience, if you fall in the coverage gap known as the “doughnut hole,” your are going to receive $250, that’s not even the cost of one of  my wife’s drugs, to help pay for prescriptions.” “These reforms will not cut your guaranteed benefits.” Of course it won’t it will just cut the reimbursements your doctor will get by 21% and the Hospitals by more and that will cause less access to Medicare because the doctors will not take on any more Medicare patients, but you will still have the plan. This has already happened with Medicaid.

How are exchanges made? Because Obama said, they are the “core” of this reform thing if you are looking for coverage? I guess everybody is going to jump into a “Big Pool with the members of Congress”. You know there will be some shady deals going on, in that pool, with that crowd. This is bull crap too. He was just talking about the congressional staff members, not the congressmen.

We are going to be taxed up to our eye balls, plus a new Value Added Tax (VAT), so just give the IRS you checkbook and make it painless. During the course of this debate you will most likely hear about the Fair Tax. What ever you do, please do not confuse VAT with the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax is a method by which the taxes paid by corporations, capital gains, personal income, and others, are not collected at all these are called imbedded taxes. The prices of the produced goods or services would be subtracted from the various entities and the cumulative value would be collected at the point of sale and would be part of the sale price which would be the same as price already on the shelf. A monthly prebate would also be given to people who are considered at the poverty level. Your income will be all yours. No filing tax returns, and no more IRS, a big saving for the Government.

The VAT does not due away with any of the current taxes. The value-added tax (VAT) is a fee that is assessed against businesses by a government at various points in the production of goods or services—usually any time a product is resold or value is added to it normally referred to as a regressive tax.  For tax purposes, value is added whenever the value of a product increases as a result of the application of a company's factors of production, such as labor and equipment. VAT must be paid by every company that handles a product during its transition from raw materials to finished goods. For example, tax is charged when a manufacturer sells to a wholesaler and again when a wholesaler sells to a retailer.

With VAT, the taxable amount is based on the value added at each stage of the process of producing goods and bringing them to market. As an example, say that a company that makes socks buys cotton yarn for $1,000; adds $500 to its value in terms of labor, depreciation of knitting machines, and profits; then sells the completed socks for $1,500. VAT would be calculated as a percentage of the $500 value added by turning cotton yarn into socks. Of course, the sock company would also get credit for the amount of VAT it paid on the purchase of inputs, like cotton yarn, by passing it down to the consumer.

In general, the total VAT accrued during the production of goods is reflected in the price of items sold to final consumers, because each reseller along the way usually passes along its VAT costs. In this way, VAT is somewhat similar to a national sales tax, and the two forms of taxation are often compared by governments. Experts claim that VAT entails higher administrative costs but is easier to enforce than a national sales tax, just the opposite of the Fair Tax which requires very little administrative cost, if any.

Of course taxing was not mention in this speech, such is the case with all politicians. However there was mention of a tax credit of 35% for small businesses that can be used for health care cost, of what is the question? “The Devil is in the detail.” All experts say that the figures do not add up and in fact when the final figures are in, the Government will be floating a debt of over $14trillion. The only solution the current administration has, is to tax us to death, therefore the VAT is a valid alternative.

Also not mentioned, was the Government take over of the Student Loan Program (SLP) which somehow was part of the ObamaCare bill.  I guess that would have been too much for this bunch to take in at this time. I wonder how many new Government employees are going to be required for this unfunded endeavor.           

I guess by this time you are aware of the fact, this whole speech was a play on words and the “ole snake oil salesman,” Obama must think the rest of America is has stupid as this little Obama Cult in Iowa.                   

Welcome to the UNITED SOLALISTS STATES OF AMERICA

Did you ever have the feeling that you were about to be screwed? I have that feeling every time the trilogy of Obama, Pelosi and Reid open their ‘Pie Hole’s.”

The so called politicians could care less about the majority of the country’s voters and more about the few letters they receive from people who got caught between the cross hairs of the Government created mess, Debt.

The latest Rasmussen Poll shows the majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare, 53% with 43% in favor. 55% of Americans would like to see the current plan scraped and started over with an incremental approach. Oh by the way Congressional job approval is now 19.3% and trending downward. “Why I wonder”?

Obama’s plan seems to be to force the Democrats in Congress into saving his Presidency, in other words screw the voters, and send them running of a cliff like Lemmings. These Democrats are stupid enough to do just that and they did on Sunday March 21 2010. The fact of the matter Obama has never been concerned with the consequents of his actions, so why start now with Health Care (HC).

There are a lot of things wrong with the HC plan which we should all know by now, but what you may not know is the inclusion of the Student Loan Program hidden within the plan, which has nothing to do with HC, and the reason for this is because the students will save money if the Government has control of it. I guess it also has something to do with banks not pursuing defaults because the Government is insuring the loans. You and I both know if the Government saves the “people” money it is because their plan will run in the “red” year after year just like all the other entitlements.

The real reason Obama wants the student loan program is so the Government will have complete control of over who gets the loans, thereby selecting the kids who they feel deserves them based on attributes other than academic achievement. See Obama wants the dumb or minority kids to have the advantage because the smart one’s parents, more than likely, have saved some money for college and can pay cash or co-sign bank loans with no government guarantees, so why not have them support the dumb ones as well with their taxes. This Government controlled program will eventually end up lowering the education achievement levels just like the Government run high school programs have been doing for years. My GOD, you are seeing the downgrading of the Medicare Program, what makes you think this will be any different?

Parents, start saving for your kid’s college education as soon as they are born, so you will be able to pick the private college of your choice.

I remember way back when, I wrote an opinion article for my local paper, The Myrtle Beach Sun News, about the “Fairness Act” being the path to Communism. Although the jury is till out on that, I now believe, with the Government in control of Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SCHIP, and the Student Loan Program, we are on a faster path toward, at least, true Socialism, the European Way. Eventually all these programs will be merged together and become one “womb to tomb” welfare program.

What else is there? I know, how about paying 60% of your income to the Government so you too can say it is free.

Let’s not forget there are some very large egos involved with the passing of this Health Care/Student Loan Program. Just by getting the recognition of being the first President, Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader to do so, will cause these three to have the biggest organism of their lives.

The Speaker Of the “Slaughter House”, Nancy Pelosi was attempting to invoke rule called “Deem & Pass” or the Slaughter Solution, which allows the House to pass ObamaCare without having to cast a direct vote for the actual HC legislation, but instead, vote on a rule deeming the Senate bill enacted. This bill will encompass all issues that the, “on the fence,” Democrats wanted put in or taken out of the HC bill. They will vote this bill up or down which will deem the HC bill approved, without voting for the real HC bill. This is supposed to provide Democrats, cover for their reelection efforts, who don’t like the Health Care bill. If this happens, in my opinion there will be some challenges deeming it unconstitutional. It got voted down in the house, on Saturday March 20, 2010. Just the thought that these Commies would do such a thing, should make us aware, they will find another way that will lead us to Communism. Why in GOD’s name would you want to vote for your Congress Person who puts the President of the United States over the wishes of their voters, who put him or her in office?

As I am writing this, the CBO released the “Number” which is a big farce. However watching James Clyburn House Majority, Pelosi’s token WIPPING boy, having an organism talking about the 940billion HealthCare/Student Loan program, was almost worth it, you would think it was the best things since Medicare. Oh speaking of Medicare.

Pelosi says; that now all of the various artists can leave their real job and carry the insurance with them to achieve their dreams. This is how stupid this woman is. She forgot to tell them that they will have to still pay the insurance that their former employer was paying for or not be allowed to make money at their art, thereby being eligible for the Government exchange.  

I just hope all you AARP members are very proud of their support for the shredding of your Medicare Senior HealthCare entitlement. I know I am happy as a clam. If the Government supplies your daily bread, the Government and its agents will take it away slice by slice. Now since the Government so going to take $500billion out of the funding of Medicare and limit your doctor’s reimbursements another 21%, your AARP Medicare Supplement insurance, and others, will go up to make for that difference. Why do you think they are in favor of ObamaCare? Maybe you should will take control of your HealthCare and find a better solution instead of having a commission driven insurance Agent like AARP represent you for health care and you senior rights. There will be no safe haven, except the Government exchange, for the ones that can’t afford the additional cost. Standby it is about to sink in.  “Change we can count on.”       

Amen, Amen I say to the GOP, make a Bucket and fill it with Conservatives  

In light of this new opportunity that the Republicans have to gain a significant number of seats in both Houses of Congress, what is it they have to do to have success. I am of the opinion that the Republican Party is not the ones who have to drive this take over.

The “people” have spoken and they are not just Republicans, however, they are Conservatives of all four persuasions, Democrat, Republican, Independent, and Tea Party, which is a mix of all people.

If the Republican Party is going to be the Party of the “Conservative Bucket,” then they will have to the put typical party structure aside and agree to the common goals that will fill their conglomerate “Bucket.” Each of these persuasions now have their own goals in mind, and the Republican Party will have to come up with a strategy that entices all persuasions to jump into the Bucket with them. This could be easier to do than it sounds, because there is a set of issue oriented goals they all have in common, at least I think so.

1. They all agree that job creation is number one, if the economy is going to recover.
2. They all agree that, big government, and its spending sprees are causing massive debt.
3. They all agree the need to define a tax structure that supports free market competition.
4. They all believe in a new tax code that serves the individual fairly still supports the essential Government activities.
5. They all believe that, everything that can be done, must be done, to maintain our national security.
6. The all believe in a very strong Military.

One thing that will screw everything up is if there is a notion of starting a third party under the Conservative banner. This has been tried before and will only divide the Conservatives and hand the Congress over to the Socialist Democrats with a mandate. The Country will lose the opportunity not only to gain the number of congressional seats required to make a difference, but will lose the “People” in the next election cycle. However; in some States there still resides the good ole boy mentality which selects the Republican candidates instead having the people decide in the primary process. If their choice is not a Conservative then a Conservative candidate should run as an independent, in those States or Districts to give the people a choice.

We, the people, must understand that we must find the right people who are bona fide Conservatives to run for Congressional office. People who will put our Constitution and the Rule of Law, first and foremost and will not use their time, in office, trying to get themselves reelected. We should also insist that they will agree to serve only 4 terms in the House and 2 terms in the Senate and fight for a Constitutional amendment to ratify term limits, when in office. 

The first priority of the groups, in the Conservative Bucket, must be the creation of jobs and the invigoration of the economy.

Because the Obama administration is trying to pass his massive ideological entitlements and excessive spending on stimulus packages, or if they pass these bills, the solution for solving the priority problems along with strategy and tactics are going to be a nightmare to design. This would be really compounded if the Conservatives do not attain a ruling majority in both Houses of congress.

We know that the President in office until 2012 will be a Socialist Democrat and most likely we will still have some “RINOs” in Congress as well, we might just have to do more Socialist legislative blocking and planning for two more years until we get a Conservative President. That’s why we have to get as many Conservatives elected, this year, in order to have any impact on the way the Socialist Democrats vote.

I doubt there are any Democrats and maybe just a few Republicans who have the incentive or even capable of doing this job in Congress today. Many, who will be left, are corrupted by special interest lobbies and would fight tooth and nail to keep them sending money to finance their campaigns.

The natural first step by Congress is always to borrow and then spend the money with hopes of spurring job growth. Any moneys coming from the Federal government for creating jobs, is borrowed money that will run out in a relative short time, again leaving workers without jobs as well adding to the deficit.

The natural first step for Congressional Conservatives should be to provide a stable environment, in order to create the much needed jobs which will bring money into the Government coffers. These jobs have to be private sector jobs, because they provide marketable products and services which can be purchase by consumers that will keep feeding the economic cycle.  

There are trillions of dollars that have been sheltered and millions of jobs that have been moved off shore because the taxing environment, in this country (US), is not conducive for doing business, even before this mess.

Add on the hostility towards large multinational corporations generated by the Democrats during the last Presidential campaign, which still continues, with statements of higher taxes on profits, taxing money made offshore, charging a special tax for every job moved off shore, the threat of a new energy policy of Co2 cap and trade, and for other businesses large and small a government run health care plan, letting the Bush tax policy expire, and the fact that they had no idea how all of this was going to impact businesses if the Democrats were to come into power. In my opinion the last campaign season started this mess and caused companies of all sizes to put on the breaks. They sheltered more money offshore, did not borrow money for expansion, slowed down their R&D activities, started laying off workers, and some started planning for shutting down altogether.

This caused the domino affect, leading people not being able to pay their mortgages, which cause lending investment banks to look for cover with the Government and private insurance agencies like Fannie and Freddie and AIG, stock market taking a hit, people losing their savings and retirement nest eggs, no jobs, no spending, and so on leading up to the mess we are now in.

We now will have a reported $14trillion plus debt and by the end of the year could hit $20trillion. We are also heading towards 30milloin people out of work, so where do we start to stop the bleeding. I don’t know the sequence of actions we must take, whether it’s trimming the size of government or providing an enduring favorable individual and business environments, but they both have to be done.

I think getting businesses of all sizes up and running again should be first. Remember a solution design has to be done to get this right, especially if these new Socialist programs are in place.

Lowering the corporate tax to match or beat the lowest in the world, around 12%. I should say here, I am in favor of the Fair Tax approach as the final solution, I think we have to move faster, meaning now. The individual income tax should be flat a lowered to around 8% of gross income with no deductions. The capital gains tax should be eliminated and deprecation of tools and machinery should be over a three year period. Taxes on all pensions, Social Security, the so called death tax should also be eliminated. Since the Fair-Tax has to have a Constitutional Amendment passed or repealed, that process should start at the same time so it can be ready for the next presidential election.

What administrations do not seem to understand is that businesses must have a stable environment in order to plan for the future, 5 to 20 years, which is what started this current mess. The lack there of, and business will do nothing, therefore what ever new tax structure is put in place, it must be permanent, not 2 years as some have suggested, but allowing for a better tax environment later on.         

What happens next must be what business and households do when money is tight. The Government must stop the bleeding of the Taxpayer’s money and curb their spending. This is where things get real tough for elected officials but really it should not be any tougher than what businesses and households do on a daily bases. There are 51million people employed by the Federal Government making 70k on up. Every one of these salaries is being paid with our tax money and coming out of the U.S. Treasury, which means each salary adds to the National debt. Yes the Government employees pay taxes also, but for example, if one makes a gross salary of $100,000 which is taken from our tax money in the U.S. Treasury and pays the Federal taxes of $30,000 then the national debt goes up $70,000.

The first thing we should do is start reducing the total work force of the Government. For instance, if the new tax structure, above, gets put in place than the number of IRS employees can be reduced because the revenues collected when using the flat tax approach goes directly to the treasury from the employer on each employee pay period, and no end of year filing of tax returns. There are 115,000 IRS employees, making $70k to at least 100k per year, which I believe could be reduce at least by 75% or more. With the Fair-Tax, we can eliminate the agency altogether.

You can imagine how many agencies can be slashed, how many endowments and grants that were put in place just for political and payback reasons, that do not support Government essential services can be cut back. Government departments should be downsized, the exception should our Military and security services (CIA, FBI).  

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all Government employee health and pension plans, including all members of Congress staffs, should also be reformed or reduced.

There is a $500billion number that the Democrats keep quoting as the amount of fraud and waste that are in these programs. If that’s true, and we know this all ready, why does the new Obama HealthCare plan, create a commission of doctors and medical experts to identify them again. I think they pulled this number out of the air and now want somebody to make sure they fine that amount. Let me just say, if they had known that there is that much abuse, waste and fraud, shouldn’t there all ready be FBI investigations going on? Another dereliction duty and we want the Federal Government to run this new HealthCare plan, I don’t think so.

I almost spilled my cookies when I heard Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say that the Senate’s emphasis will be on the Creation of Jobs from now on.

I thought jobs, jobs, and more jobs were what we common folk and the Republican Party have been saying for over a year now. I know Senator Reid always looks like he is walking dead or sleeping, but my God, the alarm clock going off of the people showing up at the Town Halls across the Nation should have been loud enough to wake the dead or sleeping Senator. Now if he pushed the snooze alarm he should have been woken up by the massive 9-12 demonstrations in Washington, D.C. or the Tea Bag rallies that were held in just about every city in the nation.

To be fair to Ole Harry, he has a leader who has another agenda, Socialism. Ole Harry has to go in lock step with Obama, why for God sake? Democrats have the ruling majority in both Houses of Congress that’s why. Obama must have told Ole Harry and Ms. Nancy that they should be able to ram anything through the process so let’s take advantage of this crisis, and they are.

Even though the people have not been working for more than a year, because of the majority ruling Democrat’s emphasis on their Stimulus Bills, Health-Care and Cap & Trade priorities, it took three Republicans being elected in formerly Democrat States to finally get Ole Harry out of bed.

But that didn’t seem to slow down President Obama who said, at the last State of the Union Address, for the Democrats not to worry about being reelected in November, just stay the course, and oh by the way he would like another Stimulus bill included within the Jobs creation package. The strategy here is, if we can’t get these other bills passed on their own then we can make them part of the Jobs bill, which would make it harder for anybody to oppose it. That will show the public that the Republicans are the party of NO.

President Obama said at the Republican getaway recently, “I am not an ideologue”. In my opinion that’s the biggest lie he has told so far, and he has told a lot of them. If he’s not a Socialist Ideologue than what the heck is he? He has taken over numerous banks, trying to get a Government run Health-Care plan passed, he wants to control the student loan program which will control our college educational system, he made the Country part owners of two major automobile companies, trying to institute a devastating energy program, and controlling the salaries of major corporations. These are the same programs the European Socialist Countries are doing. I’m sorry this man is as pure a Socialist as you (we) can get.

So now that we will have this reported $14trillion plus debt by the end of 2010 and we are going to be dug in so deep, in fact, all the way to China, Ole Harry is going to be laid on the sacrificial alter waiting for the knife of the jobless in the midterm elections to put him into the state of never again seen again-land.

Let’s face it, the numbers we’ve been hearing are bogus. The debt is more like $100trillion when you figure in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security all Socialist Government run programs. The Job numbers are not 9.7%, they are over 20% when you figure in the people that have fallen of the unemployment roles. Getting us back on track is not going to be easy. Right now the European Union is beginning to crumble under the weight of Socialism. Many countries are rethinking the fact that the EU is in control of their finances and may just get out from under the EURO. Europe has been taxing everything it can. The citizen’s incomes are taxed to the hilt, 40% to 60%, but ask them and they will tell you everything is free.

Many countries are starting to cut back on Government services which are driving the people to riot in the streets. We may see some of this in our Country, and the longer we wait starting to repair this mess, the messier it will get. There is no room for Socialism in this Country and the sooner we break or prevent President Obama’s arm lock on us the better off we will all be. When the Government supplies the daily bread to its citizens, the Government can take it away, slice by slice.

Now President Obama wants to have a meeting with Republican leaders, get this, on CSPAN, to lecture them like he has the Democrats. Republicans better be ready to take him on and tell Obama after his numerous lectures across the Country they and the people know what his policies are and they don’t like them. They better be ready to offer specific solutions to specific issues in question, specifically on Health-Care and Job creation. The President better be ready to start over on Health-Care. However I feel this will be just a show for the President trying to embarrass the Republicans. The fact is he will allow one or two of their minor suggestions but he will reject their solutions on major issues when the bills are written. If the Republicans vote no, Obama will tell the world, “see! I told you so they are the party of no”. Obama’s short history shows he can not be trusted. 

America, we have to keep the pressure on the Administration and the Congress. We have to vote these radical socialistic wing nuts out and replace them with candidates with Conservative values. We can not allow these career politicos stay in Congress regardless of the party they belong to. We also can not allow the newly elected to stay in office too long as well. 

                          WE HAVE GOT TO START NOW                         

I ended the first part of Angels and Demons with the following two Paragraphs:

President Obama must soon find his way and take ownership of these problems. He might think HC is what propelled him into office but it wasn’t. He pitched Change, Change. Change, he knew what the problems were but he just wanted to take advantage of the crisis and get his dream of a Government Health Care single payer system voted in.

When Obama is home from vacation he is going to schedule a joint meeting of Congress sometime Labor Day week. Let’s see if he has learned anything while he was away.      

We now know he didn’t learn anything. He also reverted to the Urban, Southside Chicago slang meanings of “tea baggers” one of them being “one who has a job or talent that is of low social status”.  Another one is “a conservative republican who protests against income taxes by rubbing their nutsacks in each other's faces”. Also in Urban slang “Teabaggers” is spelled as one word and has many other meanings, which he must be very familiar with, just Google it to find out where our President has come from.

So now that he has blown just about every rule of The Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by attacking the very people he represents, he has to create other targets to blame for his disastrous slippage in the job performance polls. Of course it is never him, is it.

This is what I call “The Obama Initiative” because all initiatives must include a set of attack, Tactics. He is now going back to Saul Alinsky’s book for help. I also believe he will fail is this endeavor as well, because his targets are still the ones who have better approval ratings then He and the Congress. His enemies list included the following targets:

            The CIA

            The Bush Administration

            The FOX News Network

Conservative Talk Radio

The Chamber of Commerce

Alinsky always puts labels on groups of people, hence Angles and Demons, to make it easy for the Community Organizers (CO) to comprehend, but nothing in the CO handbook has anything to do with the same name for both groups. Obama now has to consider these new groups as the “Haves, not the Have-NOTS, in order to apply the Alinsky Tactics. So we should find this very interesting to see how his will plan will play out since he now is the leader of the “HAVES” and will be applying his tactics on what Alinsky considers the “Haves”.

What is it that these organizations have, in common, that makes Obama think they are bad enough to attack them publicly. The most talked about and in just about every speech is the Bush Administration. Obama has never taken ownership of any aspect of the current government without blaming the previous one. What he has taken ownership of is a Government Controlled Healthcare and the Government controlled energy policy called Cap and Trade, but uses the last eight years as an example of being disastrous when it came to solutions.

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The Bush Administration racked up a $1.2Trillion deficit and 5% unemployment by the time they left office. Most of the deficit was brought about by the meltdown of AIG which led to a $700Billon spending bill “TARP” for bailing them and other Wall Street investment banking firms out. $80 Billion of that money was unconstitutionally use for keeping the auto industry from going bankrupt, which they did any way. Approximately only about $300Billion of the TARP money has been spent.

Obama, in his own mind, has made this the Bush legacy, which he can fall back on when his policies do not produce his desired results. He also can use it for an excuse for more spending, which now he has produced a $14Trillion deficit. He can blame Bush for having to turn the Nation’s governmental structure into a Socialistic Government.

The National Chamber of Commerce (NCC) represents businesses that require a free enterprise system and what we call the capitalistic way of producing goods and services the people want thereby letting them create the demand and set price competition, high demand higher prices, low demand, lower prices.  Not what the Obama administration is in favor of.

Obama did not invite the NCC to his White House job summit simply because their view of the way he is solving the job’s problem is not the same has his. The largest small business federation was also not invited.

We already have injected Socialisms into are free enterprise system. Labor Unions are one of the biggest Socialistic intervention causing providers of goods and services from taking advantage cost cutting methods and new technologies to remain competitive.

The best example is in the automotive manufacturing sector. Over the year’s American auto prices have gone up and quality has gone down. Hence the higher ratings of the foreign automotive makers in quality, reliability, features, as well as their speed in bringing new and more efficient autos to the market place at much lower costs. Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program proved this with over 65% of the cars being purchased were foreign cars.

American Labor Unions have supported the Democrat party with billions of dollars so that they would have control over the party. They have succeeded with the labor unions and professional associations now being Obama’s major focus. They fit his new Para-dyne of a Socialistic Government and equal pay for all regardless of value to the enterprise.

One of Obama’s and the Democrat Congress biggest mistakes was to include the CIA as a target. This ties in with the Bush Administration being on the list. AG Eric Holder convinced the President that everybody associated with the enhanced interrogations under Bush should be investigated and then be charged when completed. Part of the plan was to appoint the totally unqualified Director of Home Land Security so that Holder would have an easy time doing this. He did exactly that with Janet Napolitano.

Nancy Pelosi also implied she lacked confidence, in the CIA, when she said she was not briefed “fully” on enhanced interrogation methods.  From this moment on the effectiveness and the morale of the Agency started to fall. Leon Panetta, CIA Director, tried his best to take control of this problem but as we see now things have been falling apart the last eight months.

On Christmas Day there was an attempt to blow up an airplane going to Detroit, which was foiled by a passenger. All hell has broken loose in Washington and just about everybody wants Napolitano fired. Obama gave a speech his usual way for showing leadership, buy telling the Security Council that he will not stand for this and he wants it straighten out. It was an OR ELSE speech and in my opinion the wrong way to approach fixing this major problem. His major problem is himself thinking he can just make a speech and everybody and everything will just be great.     

According to the Washington Post the Obama Administration wants Errol Southers, a former FBI agent, for TSA Director. He has described inconsistencies in his accounts to Congress as "inadvertent" and the result of poor memory of an incident that dates back 20 years. He said in a Nov. 20 letter to key senators obtained by The Post that he had accepted full responsibility long ago for a "grave error in judgment" in accessing confidential criminal records about his then-estranged wife's new boyfriend. Sounds like the typical Obama Type.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102257_pf.html

Obama has a tendency to commit suicide when he names targets to attack and a good example of that is when he named Conservative talk radio. When he did this talk radio listeners came together with Conservative television and many other associations all over the country and promoted the formation of the Tea Bag parties, participation in Town Hall meetings, and the 9-12 Express movements.

Obama and his cohorts in the Democrat party started calling them Nazis and other demeaning names. Wrong again. All this did was to wake up a sleeping Tiger, now many different organizations banned together with individuals across the Country, and put on some of the largest Demonstrations Washington had ever seen.

Obama’s vendetta against Fox News was his biggest mistake. He tried to isolate FOX from the interviewing process, thinking the Mainstream press would back him up. Wrong big time, instead they turned on him and refused to do any interviews with him or any one in his admistration unless FOX would get interview time as well. This was one of Obama’s biggest embarrassments.

The bottom line is and what should be a lesson for the President is that when you pit HAVES against HAVES instead of the HAVE-NOTS the Alinsky method goes out the window. What ties all of these targets together is the fact is that President Obama is the President of “unintended consequences”.  He has no idea what his decisions will cause in the future. He thinks this is all Bush’s fault, his back up plan  

This battle is not over and Fox has one of the best investigative staff in the business. It will someday unload on the President. It takes a real leader to navigate the opposition and he certainly is not one.

Check out: http://townhall.com/columnists/BillOReilly/2010/01/02/merry_christmas,_al-qaida_style

Alinsky says in his book Rules for Radicals “that the basic tactic in warfare against the HAVES is a mass political jujitsu: The HAVE-NOTS do not rigidly oppose the HAVES, but yield in such planned and skilled ways that the superior strength of the HAVES becomes their own undoing”. What this quote is saying that the HAVE-NOTS must use the HAVE’S own strength against them”.

One thing the media and the Republicans are using against him is statements during the campaign of having all negotiations on CSPAN. All the Healthcare negotiations are being held secretly without any minority party participation. Alinsky says “use what the HAVES say and what they believe against them. “OUCH”

You can see the Alinsky method will only work with the weak against the strong. Obama has failed for three reasons, because he rigidly opposed and hates his targets and he used the HAVES, the Government, against other HAVES, which were groups of media, business associations, and common hard working citizens. The third reason is that he, Obama, is shadow boxing the Bush Administration which does not exist and does not have a dog in this fight anymore.   

My Wife and I were watching the President’s speech on 12/02/2009 and when he finished we both said, almost at the same time is this guy stupid or did we miss something.

I wouldn’t want the President to be my coach of the football team I was playing on because what he did was to give the Taliban and the al Qaeda our play book which we are going to use against them. There are many things wrong with this approach, which by the way was use before in Vietnam. The main purpose of  his so called surge is to train the Afghan’s national and local security forces so he can get the US forces out of there starting in 1011. Not once did he say that he wanted to WIN.

If I were one of the Taliban leaders, since Obama set a withdrawal date, I would pull back on any offensive actions and just wait for the US and Afghan forces to find us. Then I would put up enough of a fight to make it look like a real fight I would have some of the foreign insurgents try to overrun some US camps and be killed giving the impression of a US victory. In the mean time, over the eighteen months, I would build up our strength.

Obama said they would try to flip some of the Taliban fighters and have them join the Afghan forces. Believe me when I say the Taliban would readily take them up on that offer, there are most likely more Taliban in there than he wants, and who are understanding the Afghan forces strengths and weaknesses waiting for the right time to strike.

After the US forces leave the country, thinking they have won, the Taliban in-beds will turn on the Afghan forces and at the same time Taliban fighters will hit the Afghan Capital with everything they have.

Obama lays a lot of his success on the fact that Pakistani forces are going to employ a surge of their own against the Taliban and al Qaeda regrouping and training centers in Pakistan. So what is plan “B” if there is a radical coup, take over of the Pakistani Government? This is certainly very probable, since much of the Pakistani population sympathies and backs the Taliban with money and manpower. Obama’s short history shows that he does not consider the unintended consequences of his actions.

There are many, many things that could happen, which any commonsense person could conger up. The question here is there any commonsense in the Obama Admistration or are they just working and planning based on the political consequences?

Winning a war is based on true leadership and in our country the President must be willing to win if he decides to fight. Obama is not. He is worried about the cost, but will he pull the plug on Obama-care, or Cap & Trade. Will he relieve the taxes on business of all sizes and individuals of all pay grades and let the economy take hold creating jobs, which will provide the much needed funds?? We shall see. I hope this will not be the Obama Vietnam and that our troops will not get caught up in it. “God Bless Them.”          

At a time when our Country’s Taxpayers are facing a record $59.1 trillion in “unfunded liabilities” a 2.3% increase from 2006 and about a $4 trillion deficit, and unemployment is now 10.2%, is it the proper time to introduce a Cap and Trade policy, which will cause higher taxes, loss of jobs and consumer costs rising considerably?

It appears that our lets play nice S.C. Senator Lindsey Graham thinks it’s just the right time. His last letter to me on September 9, 2009 on this subject Senator Graham stated that “we have the opportunity to address climate change in a manner that benefits both the environment and the economy. I believe that the best solution to climate change is placing caps on emissions”.

Assuming man is the real cause of climate change, which I do not, why don’t we implement the “Nuclear Energy” option, which the Senator seems to support, now? That will drive down the carbon emissions and over time replace coal and other fossil fuels before capping and taxing. This can be done without major legislation.  

Senator Graham, in my book, is always backing liberal, big government, causes for the sake of making nice with the Democrats. He has been on the losing side on just about all them, Thank God. When his voters disagree with him he calls them names, such as “BIGOTS, or ANGRY WHITE MEN”.

He jumped on the Mc Cain/ Kennedy Immigration Reform bandwagon, which came close to allowing 13 million Illegal Aliens amnesty, stopped by the overwhelming response of the voters.   He voted for the TARP redirection of funds to automakers which led to the Government buying into two of them, now into the compromise Obama Health Care Bill which he may or not vote for. He appears to be “all in” on Cap and Trade.  In all cases these bills where or are opposed not only by his State’s voters but also the Country’s.

I would like him to explain to the South Carolina voters his reasoning. Senator Graham was reelected to a second term only because he was not opposed by any serious alternative candidates and if he can’t read and listen to his voters lets hope this will be his last.

I hate taxes on anything, as most of us do, but living in South Carolina what I can’t stand is watching young men and women who are grossly obese drinking 20oz bottles soda. I can’t believe, even though I see it with my eyes, men and women filling up their one gallon drink cup with regular soda then picking up a few packaged Danish cakes, did you ever read in caloric content and ingredient listing in those things. These people, in my opinion, seem to also gouge themselves with fast fattening foods and frankly their parents, or adults sitting with them, are doing the same thing. I have seen people with butts and thighs that hang over both sides of the chair and also some that filled a whole booth bench. I see, every day, kids under the age of ten who can barely walk. One thing that really gets to me is a well built and fit Mother pulling along her obese Daughter. To me, it seems she wants to make sure that her Daughter will never be as good looking as she. Kids go through hell in school when they are obese and if the parents don’t care we have to do something.

I know we have the right to eat and drink as much as we want and I don’t want to impinge on that right so that’s why I think this is a well thought out way of bring the manufacturing of soda and other sugar loaded drinks under control. Yes the consumers will see an added cost at the point of sale (POS) but they would still have to make the final decision. “To Buy, or Not to Buy, that is the question.”           

From the New England Journal of Medicine:

An Effective Tax Policy and Projected Effects

Key factors to consider in developing an effective policy includethe definition of taxable beverages, the type of tax (salestax or excise tax), and the tax rate. We propose an excise taxof 1 cent per ounce for beverages that have any added caloricsweetener. An alternative would be to tax beverages that exceeda threshold of grams of added caloric sweetener or of kilocaloriesper ounce. If this approach were used, we would recommend thatthe threshold be set at 1 g of sugar per ounce (30 ml) (32 kcalper 8 oz [237 ml]). Another option would be a tax assessed pergram of added sugar, but such an approach would be difficultto administer. The advantage of taxing beverages that have anyadded sugar is that this kind of tax is simpler to administerand it may promote the consumption of no-calorie beverages,most notably water; however, a threshold approach would alsopromote calorie reductions and would encourage manufacturersto reformulate products. A consumer who drinks a conventionalsoft drink (20 oz [591 ml]) every day and switches to a beveragebelow this threshold would consume approximately 174 fewer calorieseach day.

A specific excise tax (a tax levied on units such as volumeor weight) per ounce or per gram of added sugar would be preferableto a sales tax or an ad valorem excise tax (a tax levied asa percentage of price) and would provide an incentive to reducethe amount of sugar per ounce of a sugar-sweetened beverage.Sales taxes added as a percentage of retail cost would havethree disadvantages: they could simply encourage the purchaseof lower-priced brands (thus resulting in no calorie reduction)or of large containers that cost less per ounce; consumers wouldbecome aware of the added tax only after making the decisionto purchase the beverage; and the syrups that are used in fountaindrinks, which are often served with multiple refills, wouldremain untaxed. A number of states currently exempt sugar-sweetenedbeverages from sales taxes along with food, presumably becausefood is a necessity. This practice should be eliminated, whetheror not an excise tax is enacted.

Excise taxes could be levied on producers and wholesalers, andthe cost would almost certainly be passed along to retailers,who would then incorporate it into the retail price; thus, consumerswould become aware of the cost at the point of making a purchasedecision. Taxes levied on producers and wholesalers would bemuch easier to collect and enforce than taxes levied on retailersbecause of the smaller number of businesses that would haveto comply with the tax; in addition, the sugar used in syrupscould be taxed — a major advantage because of the heavysales of fountain drinks. Experience with tobacco and alcoholtaxes suggests that specific excise taxes have a greater effecton consumption than do ad valorem excise taxes and can alsogenerate more stable revenues because they are less dependenton industry pricing strategies.³² In addition, tax laws shouldbe written with provisions for the regular adjustment of specificexcise taxes to keep pace with inflation, in order to preventthe effect of the taxes on both prices and revenues from erodingover time.

A tax of 1 cent per ounce of beverage would increase the costof a 20-oz soft drink by 15 to 20%. The effect on consumptioncan be estimated through research on price elasticity (i.e.,consumption shifts produced by price). The price elasticityfor all soft drinks is in the range of –0.8 to 1.0.³³(Elasticity of –0.8 suggests that for every 10% increasein price, there would be a decrease in consumption of 8%, whereaselasticity of 1.0 suggests that for every 10% increase in price,there would be a decrease in consumption of 10%.) Even greaterprice effects are expected from taxing only sugar-sweetenedbeverages, since some consumers will switch to diet beverages.With the use of a conservative estimate that consumers wouldsubstitute calories in other forms for 25% of the reduced calorieconsumption, an excise tax of 1 cent per ounce would lead toa minimum reduction of 10% in calorie consumption from sweetenedbeverages, or 20 kcal per person per day, a reduction that issufficient for weight loss and reduction in risk (unpublisheddata). The benefit would be larger among consumers who consumehigher volumes, since these consumers are more likely to beoverweight and appear to be more responsive to prices.⁷ Highertaxes would have greater benefits.

A controversial issue is whether to tax beverages that are sweetenedwith noncaloric sweeteners. No adverse health effects of noncaloricsweeteners have been consistently demonstrated, but there areconcerns that diet beverages may increase calorie consumptionby justifying consumption of other caloric foods or by promotinga preference for sweet tastes.³⁴ At present, we do not proposetaxing beverages with noncaloric sweeteners, but we recommendclose tracking of studies to determine whether taxing mightbe justified in the future.

Please send this letter, E-Mail, FAXs now.

E-Mail: Your Sen./Rep.] [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]

Send letters or FAX all others.  

RE: Please REJECT Socialized Health Care!

Dear [Sen./Rep.] [LAST NAME]:

This is a letter I thought I would never write. I know you know what I am about to say but it appears some of you have forgotten. You keep adding more and more junk entitlements to the political menu. We have ragging debt which is causing us to pay an interest payment of around the amount of $9m a month. We have people out of work. The housing market is in the tank. The stock market is falling. (This upturn is a reaction to Obama’s falling approval numbers). All other major sectors are falling as well.

So what does Congress do but introduce new TRILLION DOLLAR programs (Government take over of health, A Cap and Tax energy bill, Bail-outs and the take-over of other sectors),  and all this with no money in the bank. This is like adding fuel to an already out of control fire. So now what does the administration say their going to do? They want to RAISE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE INCOME EARNERS, because, there are not enough rich people to tax. Oh wait a minute aren’t they, the middle income earners, the ones out of work??         

Without jobs no one can pay taxes. We have around 10% of Americans out of work. That equates close to 22% less revenue for the government coffers. In terms of dollars the Government as lost $330 Billion in revenue in the first six months of this year.  

You don’t have to be a tax evader to figure this out. Lets just stop all of this BS and concentrate on the one problem that has to be solved first. THAT AIN’T HEALTH CARE.

I'm writing to ask you to please REJECT H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009," or any other attempt to force socialized health care or government-mandated health insurance on Americans.

Our current health care system is not broken, it is just too expensive. About 95% of Americans have health plans available to them and around 85% like what they have. A lot of that cost has to do with government mandates of which there are 6,000 of them across the country. Malpractice insurance for doctors one other reason for the high costs as well. 

The technology boom, not physician care have completely changed the playing field in regards to medical care. If we didn't have all the technology that is at our fingertips for the care of so many exhaustively expensive medical conditions we wouldn't be having this discussion today.

There are a variety of procedures that cost upwards of $100,000, and extended care conditions that run upwards of $1,000,000. Organ transplant surgery, in vitro fertilization, high tech care of extremely premature infants, multiple modality cancer treatments, whole body and organ scanning, cardiac procedures, endoscope procedures, have all exploded in terms of their use in our country. This would never have occurred if they were not all subsidized with health insurance monies. All this could be lost if the government got control of the insurance plans. 

 At least in my opinion leave the current health care plans as is until the real problem is solved. Just in case you forgot, nothing will get fixed or work if people don’t have JOBS. Money must be generated FROM JOBS. Government revenue is generated from taxes on people who HAVE JOBS. JOBS that produce products and services, from the private sector not Government jobs that consume taxes. JOBS must be created first, fast, and foremost.

 
Sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

As I watched TV last week I saw something that I did not believe. I saw the President of the US go into a complete meltdown. I think the President’s hidden agenda, by that I mean hidden from all the people who voted for him, reared its ugly head.

I think the Clintons had it right, during the primary campaign, when they pushed the notion that Obama would be a black President for black people and all others were non-players. Obama pushed the race card frequently, and only started to back off when his beloved Pastor Reverend Wright’s sermons came to the fore front and temporarily derailed his campaign. He must have been sleeping for the 20years he attended Wright’s Church, because he claimed he never heard them. Check out my BLOG Post “The Clinton’s Strategy and Tactics”

President Obama is half black and half white. What better reason could one have to bring the two races together? Obama instead, in his younger life while he was smoking whatever, decided that he was going to be Black so he could obtain better governmental perks. He has no slave blood flowing in is veins so why else would he push the Radical Black Theology instead of trying to promote Black and White togetherness and put an end to the racial hate divide the Black population have been preached to for a hundred years? My BLOG Post “Can Wright Be Right” andBLOG Post “Black Suppression”

We all knew of his associations with a lot of shady people. We knew he was a study of the radical Saul Alinsky, as was his Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton. We also knew of his wife Michelle’s Princeton Thesis on the separation of the races. My Blog Post “Is This the Real Michelle Obama”.  President Obama’s Thesis has a lock in it so we really don’t know what his thoughts were “back in the day” but I don’t think we would be at all surprised.

So what happened last week that made me reflect on the past? Well four things:

First, The President nominated a racial empathically candidate for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. She has been, when she was on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, turned over by the U.S. Supreme Court many times. She may be qualified but her past clearly puts her on the side of people of color.

Second, the latest case was the reversal of the New Haven Firefighters because of a test for promotion eligibility, which none of the Black Firefighters passed. Consequently the test was thrown out by city because they were afraid of having a NAACP law suite filed.

In its last session until September, the Supreme Court's conservative majority prevailed in a 5-4 ruling that faulted the city of New Haven and the lower courts that had upheld the city's discarding of results of an exam in which no African-Americans scored high enough to be promoted to lieutenant or captain. Obama did not agree with the Court’s decision and thought the lower court should have been upheld, in favor of the city.  He said the court took a different turn.  Does this mean that the test was two hard for the Black Firefighters? “Just what we need taking the dumbest to lead men into a fire storm”.  Do you think?

Third, the President jump in on the case in Cambridge Police being called by 911 to investigate a break in at what turned out to be a house of a friend of the President. I might add that this house was being rented and Henry Louis Gates Jr. was trying to jimmy the door. Again the President played the race card by saying: "Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact," Obama said.  He also should have said, it could be the fact that 70% of the crime in this country is being committed by people of color.

Fourth, remember the picture of the Black Panthers standing in front of a polling place with night-sticks in hand? Well a civil action has been in the works since November for the intimidation of the white voter’s trying to enter to vote. That action was dismissed, by the Justice Department just today, 07/29/2009, without explanation. “Back On Black”

I said before, I don’t remember where or even when, our new President is not the caliber of person we need as President. He is not a leader, he has never ran a business, or even collected a paycheck very long, his experience and view of the economy is not even at a 101 level, his foreign policy is out to lunch, he does not love this country which comes out in all his speeches overseas, despises our troops and the police, and he has never taken ownership of the major problems. He is still running a campaign against President Bush. Every time he opens his mouth he knocks the heck out of big business and the rich by telling them he will tax more and more, and cap their wages, which they did today 08/01/2009, and he seems to want to maintain the separation of the races. He always puts the Black population first, even if it doesn’t make any sense.

WE MUST VOTE THESE RACIAL, RADICAL SOCIALESTS OUT OF OFFICE, COME THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, AND STOP THIS ASSUALT ON OUR COUNRY.