Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Obama's SEC & Union Pay-Offs

The Security and Exchange Commission managed by Chairwoman, Mary Schapiro, appointed by Socialist President Obama, is fast becoming an arm of big unions in America rather than a protector of shareholder rights. Ms. Schapiro has handed senior roles at the SEC to former union pension fund officials. And, based on a 3-2 party line vote, Ms. Shapiro has given big union pension funds a power they never had before - the ability to force their preferred candidates for board directors on the proxy ballots that publicly traded companies must send to shareholders. The obvious goal is to get more union members serving on corporate boards to exert more control over management decisions including compensation and benefits provided to union members. What they can't win through collective bargaining, the unions want to win at the Board table.

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in their August 30th editorial, this move is right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook "Rules for Radicals". Alinsky was a Communist and one of Obama heroes, often cited by the President when he was a college professor, related to "transforming" America and the redistribution of income. By now, there should be no doubt that Obama is a radical Socialist and he may even be a Communist to be determined. Clearly, members of his Administration like Schapiro in charge of the SEC are also Socialists. Schapiro sees her constituencies as Congress and unions rather than shareholders. So in Schapiro's Socialist world, her role is not to protect shareholder rights; but instead to do the bidding of Congress and unions. There is something very wrong with this picture.

However, this should be no surprise. When Obama nationalized General Motors, he stole assets that legitimately belonged to bondholders and creditors and gave those assets to the auto workers union for nothing. Let's face it, President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress are owned lock, stock and barrel by the unions in the United States and so they are constantly obligated to provide union pay-offs. And, Public employee unions are bankrupting our states and country with the help of their Socialist benefactors.

The AFL-CIO and the SEIU just committed $88 million to Socialist campaigns in this election cycle. Other union will give even more. Whose bread you eat whose song you sing and Obama is singing like a canary at every turn in support of union pay offs. At the same time, Obama wants to prevent corporations from making political donations even though the Supreme Court recently ruled that doing so was unconstitutional and a violation of First Amendment rights. Obama supports union involvement in politics; but not business involvement. I wonder why?

Manufacturing in America is dead because of Unions, environmental wackos, frivolous lawsuits and crazy Socialist Schemes, like HealthScare, that have raised the cost of doing business in the US. If union members win election to corporate boards to impact management decisions to their advantage, it will only make matters worse and push more jobs overseas. And, if it gets really bad, more American companies will simply leave the United States to avoid all of our crazy regulations and/or companies will go private to avoid these same regulations. Once again, Socialists do not understand the law of unintended consequences when they enact all of their job killer laws. In a global economy, companies like people can vote with their feet. There is always a final straw that causes a move. This new SEC ruling, in addition to Sarbanes Oaxley and other crazy Socialist Schemes, may just be it for many companies. Enough is enough!

We must sweep these Socialist job killers out of office in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation in our country.

Most important, we must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must sweep these job killer out of office in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Securing the Border, Deficit Spending & National Security

Socialist President Obama is sending 1,200 National Guard Troops to our Southern Border so he can say he is doing something to secure the border. This is just a token force and not nearly enough troops to have any impact. We need a surge of 30,000 or more troops as we had in Iraq, to win that war, or in Afghanistan. Funny, we can implement a surge in these countries; but we can't seem to implement a surge of troops in our own country. The question is why? The answer is simple. Obama has no intention of securing the border because ultimately he wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens that Obama sees as potential voters for Socialists.

To make this even more clear, the 1,200 troops being sent to the border are not allowed to directly participate in law enforcement meaning they cannot use their guns to secure our border. Keep in mind, the drug and people smugglers operating on our border not only have guns, they have automatic weapons. These are Narco gang land criminals, not just Mexicans trying to come across our borders for jobs. This is a war not just a day in the desert and should be recognized as a war. We need to send in the army to secure our border. We need army encampments all along the border to stop illegal immigration and drug smuggling. We need an electric fence and loads of barbed wire to get serious about securing the border.

This issue is about deficit spending, national security and drugs. Illegal Aliens are tax users not tax payers. And, while Mexicans who come to the United States illegally for work are hard workers, the fact is that they cost American tax payers billions of dollars each year by impacting our schools, hospitals and criminal justice system, which is contributing to the bankruptcy of the United States. We just can't afford to be Mexico's safety valve any more. The 38 families that control Mexico do not want to stop their citizens from coming to America because they fear revolution in Mexico. In essence, the United States is Mexico's welfare system. This has just got to stop. Further, we know that Terrorists are also crossing our border illegally, which makes this a national security issue. Finally, the drugs coming across our border not only contributes to drug abuse in the US, it is causing gang wars in our inner cities.

Both political parties have failed to control our border for different reasons. Republicans support businesses that want cheap labor. Socialists won't close the border because they see these poor people as potential union members and voters. Either way, it is time to secure our border. We already have 17% of Americans on welfare or Medicaid at tax payer expense. We just can't afford any more tax users in the United States than we already have.

Socialist President Obama will not secure our border, which is one more reason we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and jobs in America. It is also the only way to stop the trillion dollar deficit spending that is bankrupting our country.

Most important, we must sweep these Socialists our of office in 2010 and 2012 and elect Conservatives who support our Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 and secure our border. We can do it. We must do it for to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Obama's Double Dip Recession - Recovery Summer??

Many economists now believe that the United States will experience a double dip recession in 2011. They are looking at all the key indicators, unemployment, gross domestic product, housing sales, foreclosures, bankruptcies and consumer confidence. Since cards talk and numbers that are all going in the wrong direction don't lie, economists are concluding that a double dip recession is near certain. This should be no surprise to anyone who has learned the lessons of Economics 101. Raising taxes and implementing more regulations on business, in addition to higher health care cost, along with the threat of higher energy costs is a recipe for recession if not Depression. And, these are all included in Socialist President Obama economic policies.

In the mean time, Vice President Joe Biden is going around the country speaking about "Recovery Summer" as though all of these economic indicators are positive, rather than negative. What planet is Biden living on? The Vice President continues to tell us that Obama's trillion dollar deficit spending SwindleUS Plan, all the bail out's and Obama's HealthScare Plan have worked beautifully and/or that things would be much worse if the Socialist controlled Congress had not enacted these monstrosities that have done nothing to create jobs. The Vice President must be smoking medical marijuana and/or he must have done drugs during the 60's so his brain is dull because he is clearly delusional, lying, or just trying to spin the message in an election year. Obviously, this will not work.

25,000,000 Americans are either unemployed, under employed working part time, or they have just stop looking for work altogether because they can't find jobs. 3 million jobs have been lost since Obama's SwindleUS Plan was enacted into law. 300,000 houses a month are going into foreclosure. Gross Domestic Product fell to 1.6% for the second quarter of 2010. 3% GDP growth is needed just to keep up with the 100,000 kids coming out of school each month who need jobs, let alone put a dent in unemployment. Bankruptcies are happening all over the US as more and more small businesses close their doors. This is the reality of Obama's failed economic plan.

So now President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress want to raise taxes and raise the cost of energy, which will raise the cost of all goods and services. That is about the dumbest move possible during a recession and it could lead to another Great Depression let alone double dip recession. Of course, many Socialists are proposing more stimulus deficit spending to grow the government even bigger. Are they insane, or just stupid?

Or, is their real goal to cause the complete economic collapse of the United States to precipitate a crisis to grow the government even bigger. As Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, is reported to have said, "we should never let a good crisis go to waste". What Emmanuel is talking is about is using a crisis to expand government and gain more control over our lives and even deaths. We all have to stand up and JUST SAY HELL NO when we go to the polls in November.

Socialist President Obama doesn't have a clue how to create jobs. That should be obvious by now. This young, inexperienced President is not qualified to run a corner grocery store, let alone the United States of America. As a Socialist, Obama has not learned the lessons of history, or Economics 101 as he attempts to use tax and deficit spending Keynesian economics to grow the government as his remedy to restore our economy and create jobs. It has never worked in history and why anyone one would believe it will work now is a real mystery.

But, it is not really about economics. Obama's goal is to redistribute income and transform our nation into a Socialist country. Obama wants more people dependent on government like drug addicts are dependent on drugs. When the President talks about transforming America, this is what he really means. Obama assumes those dependent on government will vote for Socialists so this is really just a means of staying in power. Obama could care less if all of this results in a lower standard of living for all Americans, which will be the end result of his Socialist Schemes.

Socialist President Obama is out to destroy the American dream and replace it with George Orwell's 1984, where Big Brother controls our lives. We can't let that happen. To stop Obama and end his Socialist Schemes, we must sweep these Socialists out of office in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must sweep these Socialists out of office in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Glenn Beck - Restoring Honor in America

Glenn Beck asked Americans to join him at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28, 2010 under the banner "Restoring Honor" in America and they came from all over the nation by the thousands. In fact, Americans of all races and ages came by the hundreds of thousands to honor the Special Operations Warriors Foundation, a group dedicated to our brave soldiers. The speeches during this event were inspiring including the speech made by Dr. Aveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Coincidentally, August 28th is the 47th anniversary of the day Dr. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech that meant so much to so many people. Glenn Beck celebrated that anniversary better than might have otherwise been the case at the same spot where the speech was given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial recognizing that we all should be "judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin".

Across town, others like Reverend Al Sharpton and those who live off the poverty and misery of the poor were also holding an event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Of course, their event was not particularly well attended probably because their left wing story of government dependence is old and tired and has been a road to no where for the poor in America. In spite of trillions of dollars being spent on public education and other social welfare programs since the beginning of Socialist President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in 1965, many of the poor in America still have not learned to read. And, the drop out rate in the inner city is very high. There are many more African Americans in prison than in college. Clearly, while government dependence has been great for those who feed off it to get rich, nothing much has changed in the inner city except the demise of the African American family as most children are born to unwed mothers. It is truly a tragedy.

As a former history and government teacher, I appreciate and enjoy the history lessons Glenn Beck teaches every week on his Fox News show. Most of Beck's lessons are news to many Americans because left wing teachers and professors in public schools and universities teach Socialist ideology that often ignores the brilliance of our Founding Fathers, perhaps because they were all White Men and devout Christians. And, while people of all faiths and all races have made America what it is today, the fact is that our Founding Fathers were White and Christian. It is what it is.

Most important, the Declaration and Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and the US Constitution, written by James Madison, our third and fourth Presidents were incredible documents that should be taught in detail, if nothing else is taught in school. But that often does not happen because left wing Socialists ignore the Constitution and find every way around it through Presidential Executive Order, Acts of Congress and Judicial decisions. We have to stop all of this and get back to the basics to restore our nation.

Socialists simply deny the truth. They worship at the feet of Socialist President Franklin Roosevelt teaching that Roosevelt saved our country and capitalism. The fact is that Roosevelt's Socialist New Deal economics prolonged the Great Depression, which lasted 11 years until the beginning of World War II. Socialist President Obama is using the Roosevelt playbook of bigger government, higher taxes, more regulation and deficit government spending to the same effect. Our economy is a mess as it was during the New Deal. We have high unemployment and record foreclosures and bankruptcies. The standard of living, under Obama, is falling in the United States. Why is that Socialists never learn the lessons of history even when faced with real numbers that tell the story. As they say, cards talk and numbers don't lie; but unfortunately Socialists like Obama, Reid and Pelosi do lie.

Watch Glenn Beck every day to get your history lesson to learn the truth. And, recognize that we must sweep these dishonest Socialists out of office in 2010 and 2012 to take back our country. The only way to do that is to elect Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore honor, economic growth and job creation in America.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012, who have read and support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media and public school teachers and professors, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 to honor the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and provide opportunities for all Americans. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Obama - Socialist Job Killer

President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress are job killers. The recent report that growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2010 was actually just 1.6% rather than the 2.4% that was originally forecasted is an indication that Obama's economic policy has failed. The trend is all going in the wrong direction since first quarter GDP growth was at 3.7%. Economist are now forecasting the GDP growth will be just 1.7% in the third quarter, 2010.

This is particularly important because the US needs GDP growth of at least 3% just to keep up with population growth. In essence, we need to grow 100,000 jobs a month just to keep up with the kids coming out of school. In order to make a dent in the real unemployment rate of 15% or more, it would take sustained GDP growth of 5%, or more, for the next several years.

That is not going to happen because Socialist President Obama is destroying jobs in America by implementing all his Socialist Schemes. Higher taxes, health care and energy costs and more regulations on business are all job killers. This is just common sense. And, this is precisely Obama's economic policy. In fact, if Obama purposely wanted to destroy our economy and maybe he does, he is certainly doing a great job of it.

Unionization, crazy environmental laws and increased regulation, all supported by the Socialists, have driven manufacturing jobs out of the United States. The final nail on the coffin will be passage of Obama's CAP & TAX legislation and/or defacto enactment by Executive Order and implementation by the Environmental Protection Agency. CAP & TAX will significantly raise energy cost and not only destroy what is left of manufacturing in the United States, it will destroy our economy and result in a lower standard of living for our people. We must all stand up and SAY HELL NO in November when we go to the polls!

Obama's HealthScare Plan, the take over of 1/6 of the US economy by big Brother Obama, not only will destroy health care in the US, it will result in even more jobs being shipped overseas to avoid the high cost. Again, this is just common sense. When combined with crazy employment practice laws and frivolous lawsuits, supported by these Socialists that want to turn the US into into a European style socialist country, where companies simply do not hire because they can't fire non performing employees, or implement a lay off when needed. These are all job killer laws and the reason companies are not hiring in the US today. American business is anticipating Obama's next Socialist Scheme, which is causing CEO's to hold back on new investment. Without new investment, there is no job creation. Well dah!

We have to sweep these Socialist Job Killers out of office in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore prosperity, economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 that support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 to create jobs in America. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Obama's HealthScare Plan - A National Disaster

As a business owner, I recently sat through a presentation concerning the implications of Socialist President Obama's HealthScare Plan on our company. First, we are anticipating a 20 - 40% increase in our insurance premiums in 2011 as a result of all the mandates in this new law. This is unsustainable in the current economic environment. We cannot pass this cost increase on to our clients. The end result is that we will have to cut benefits and raise the percentage our employees must pay of the insurance premium. The alternative would be laying off employees, or moving more jobs overseas to avoid ObamaCare altogether. These are the options we will consider in the next few months related to 2011.

The real national disaster comes in 2012 - 2014 when all the requirements of Obama's HealthScare Plan really kick in. Based on the information we received, it is anticipated that the insurance premium for an employee and family will jump to more than $21,000 by 2014. No small business can absorb that expense. What will probably occur is that we will determine what we can afford and all other costs will be passed on to our employees. This means that an employee with family may be paying $12,000 or more for health insurance by 2014 at a time when wages are stagnant.

Ironically, many employees will have to choose between buying medical insurance, or paying their mortgages and or food for their families because this burden will not be feasible for many families. Instead, they will opt to go without medical insurance by paying the minimal penalty required by the federal government. So to provide medical insurance for the 30 million uninsured and potentially 12 million illegal aliens, that have no medical insurance, many who have insurance now may end up with none. What is wrong with this picture? The reality is that Obama's HealthScare Plan is really about redistribution of income, growing goverment and losing our freedoms. HealthScare has nothing to do with cost control or real health care reform.

In addition, in the next few years, companies will be required to track total family income, in order to withhold certain taxes due under Obama's HealthScare Plan, which is an incredible invasion of privacy. I would assume companies will have to require copies of tax returns to verify this information. As a result of the bureaucratic administrative burden that companies will incur if they do provide medical insurance for their employees, many companies will just just opt out entirely by paying a fine to the government because it is much less expensive than providing employer sponsored medical insurance.

If that happens, the employee will have to go to state insurance exchanges to buy their own medical insurance presumably with no employer contribution with after tax money. Lower income employees, Obama's PEEP's, will receive a government subsidy; but the average two income earner family will not qualify for a subsidy. So again, families will face annual medical insurance premiums of $10,000 - $25,000 depending on the level of coverage they choose. Again, many families will go without medical insurance and just pay the fine because they will not be able to afford these insurance premiums.

Socialist President Obama's HealthScare Plan is a National Disaster that must be REPEALED. We all have to stand up and just say HELL NO in November when we go to the polls. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation in the United States.

Most important, we must sweep these Socialists out of office by electing Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by making Obama a one term President. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the good of our children and grandchildren.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Socialist Thinking - Bad For America

President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress are elites completely out of touch with the American people. For the most part, these Socialists have never worked for a living in the real world. They certainly have never managed businesses, or made payroll. Many of the Socialists in government either came from academia and/or they are professional politicians who do elected office for a living. If these Socialists did not come from wealthy families and/or marry well, they have often used elected office and years of tenure as a result of no term limits to get rich through corruption.

Socialist Thinking is so bad for America that it must be stopped. Socialists believe that our money is their money to be used by them, through redistribution of income, for the collective good of society because we are too stupid to make our own economic decisions. Socialists like Obama now define the "rich" as families and small businesses earning over $250,000 a year, which may seem like a lot of money in Appalachia; but it is just a ho hum living, after paying 50% in taxes, in many big cities.

So, Socialists think it is perfectly OK for them to confiscate 50% or more of our money in various local, state and federal taxes because "we don't need our money" to support our families. And, the fact that the top 10% of income earners pay 90% of the taxes in the US is just not progressive enough for Socialists. They want us to pay even more to "pay our fair share" even though the bottom 50%, their PEEPS, pay no income taxes at all. What is wrong with this picture. Socialists, that never learned the lessons of history, apparently do not realize that the American people fought a revolution to end out of control, grievous taxation.

Socialists believe they must control both our lives and our deaths because they are much smarter than the rest of us and therefore we can't do it for ourselves. While that may be true for their PEEP's, ObamaCare is a prime example. Obama's HealthScare Plan is actually a Socialist Scheme to control our lives, redistribute income to their PEEP's and grow government. HealthScare has absolutely nothing to do with health care reform. It is a dangerous Socialist Scheme and power grab; nothing more that must be stopped by repeal.

In addition, Socialists believe that "rich" people don't spend money to stimulate the economy because they have more than they need for the necessities of life and that they save the rest as though the money, if there is excess, goes into a tomato can in the backyard. Instead, Socialists often say that "rich" people invest their money, rather than spend it to grow the economy, as though this is evil and not necessary to free market capitalism and job creation in the United States. Since Socialists apparently never studied Economics 101, they do not understand that investment is needed to create private sector jobs. Without surplus cash going into investments, there can be no new private sector job creation. If Socialists raise taxes, which is their plan, the so called "rich", anyone earning over $250,000, will have little or nothing to invest in our economy, so hence there will be no job creation. Well dah!!

Socialists support regulation of American private sector business. They don't understand that undue regulation raises cost that is ultimately passed on to the consumer. And, in the extreme, regulations gone wild just pushes more jobs overseas as American companies vote with the feet and move jobs to other countries. This has been the case related to manufacturing jobs in the US for years. Regulation, unionization and unreasonable environmental restrictions have resulted in many manufacturing jobs going overseas. Those jobs are now in China and other countries and they are never coming back. Obama's high cost HealthScare Plan will now push more knowledge jobs to India to avoid ObamaCare. Socialists just do not see the cause and effect relationship and unintended consequences of the their Socialist Schemes and actions. And then, they wonder why the jobs are gone and unemployment is so high. Again, well dah!!

Socialist believe that Americans use too much energy, which they contend is causing global warming even though the science on the topic is not conclusive. As such, in order to stop Americans from using more energy, Socialists want to make it more expensive by CAP & TAX legislation. The only problem with that crazy logic is that if and when energy becomes more expensive, as a result of their Socialist Schemes, it will cause the cost of all goods and services to rise so ultimately consumers will buy fewer things, which will lead to job losses and a lower standard of living for all Americans. This Socialist thinking is insane and driven by environmental wackos, who if not stopped, will destroy our economy. It is already happening.

We must sweep these Socialists out of office because their thinking is so bad and even dangerous for America. The lessons of history tell us that the end result of all their Socialist Schemes is high unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, a lower standard of living for our people and a loss of our freedoms. We can't let this happen. Instead, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 that support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country by sweeping these Socialists, with all their bad thinking, out of office. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

US Housing Market Collapsing - Heads Need To Roll

Sales of existing homes in the US fell in the month of July to the lowest level in 15 years by 27% to less than 4 million sales. Sales of new homes fell by more than 12%, the lowest level since 1963. Sales among homes priced from $100,000 - $250,000, which represent starter homes for many, fell by an astonishing 47%. And, in some regions of the country the numbers were even worse than the national average as the Midwest experienced a 35% drop and the Northeast a 30% drop in Sales. The housing market is collapsing in spite of the lowest mortgage rates in years. This is all happening because real unemployment is above 15% when all are counted. This means that more than 20 million Americans are either unemployed, under employed working part time who want full time work, or who have just given up looking for work. Many of these Americans are losing their homes to foreclosures, which is driving down home values and destroying the housing market.

Republicans are now calling for Socialist President Obama to FIRE his economic team. Personally, I believe that Obama should be fired sooner than later; but we will have to wait until 2012 to make that happen. Some of Obama's team, like Christina Romer, who promised us unemployment capped at 8% if the SwindleUS Plan was enacted are already leaving in the face of failure. It is now time for the Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, as well as, the head of the National Council of Economic Advisors, Larry Sommers, both of whom were integral to enacting Obama's trillion dollar, deficit spending, SwindleUS Plan to be FIRED.

President Obama and his team have failed miserably. Unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies have risen dramatically since Obama was elected. Three million jobs have been lost since Obama's failed SwindleUS Plan was enacted into law. Geithner and Sommers heads need to roll to reflect this disasterous economic policy and the pain and suffering they have caused the American people. Geithner and Sommers have to go and NOW! And then, we must deal with Obama in 2012 by making him a one term President just like Jimmy Carter to end this nightmare.

We must take back our country by sweeping all these Socialists out of office and electing Conservatives that support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Obama & The Sanctity of Life

Socialist President Obama has a complete disregard for the sanctity of life. One of the very first things he did within days of coming into office was to issue an executive order that allowed for the funding of abortions in foreign aide that had been banned under Republican Presidents. Of course, this should be no surprise because Obama supports unrestricted abortion. While Obama was a State Senator in Chicago, he even voted to deny medical care provided by a doctor, who was not the abortionist, to babies born live from botched abortions. This is horrendous.

And then, there are the death panels in Obama's HealthScare Plan that are real that will deny medical services to ration health care to senior citizens deemed to old, or feeble to receive them. One day, if HealthScare is not repealed that will be You and Me. Now, the Obama Administration has attempted to use an administrative order to expand stem cell research that would allow for the destruction of viable embryos.

Since this is a violation of federal law, US District Judge Royce Lambreth thankfully stopped this destruction of embryos (human life) from happening. However, you can bet that Obama will find a way around this court order; just wait and see. Most important, none of this is necessary. Research has proven that stem cell research is best done using adult stem cells, that doesn't require the murder of a human being, so the destruction of embryos is just not required any more.

President Obama does not have any religious core belief system and as such the sanctity of life is not an issue for him, or for most Socialists. In a Socialist world, we all exist to pay taxes to support all of their Socialist Schemes and government employees. Of course, this has all back fired related to Social Security and the federal budget. There have been about 20 million abortions since Roe V. Wade became the law of the land in the early 70's. Had those babies survived instead of been murdered, they would be paying into the Social Security system today to support Baby Boomers, that are just now beginning to retire. In fact, aside from the immorality of abortion, Social Security is insolvent today because there are too few workers paying into the systsem to support too many retirees. Again, this is 5th grade math and it does not require a computer to figure this out. This has been an unintended consequence of unrestricted abortion.

A society that does not value life is destined to corrode from within because life is the foundation of any value system necessary to common decency and civility. No matter what they say, actions speak louder than words as President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress have proven over and again that they do not value life, which is part of the culture war going on in the United States.

This is just one more reason we must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must sweep these Socialists out of office by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Peloisi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren, both born and unborn.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Private Pensions - The Next Big Bail Out

While it is well known that state and federal governments have promised public union employees pensions that are unsustainable and under funded by billions of dollars, there is another fiscal catastrophe in the making that is just as bad. Many estimate that private pensions, often negotiated in collective bargaining agreements for union employees in various industries, are also under funded by as much as $165 Billion. Of course, this should be none of our business as tax payers, except that now the Socialists that control Congress are planning a bail out for their union supporters that work for private companies. Socialist Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is sponsoring his "Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010. Casey claims this pension protection will only cost a mere $10 Billion; but critics claim this legislation, if enacted, will expose the tax payer to the full $165 Billion of unfunded liability to pay these private pensions. We The People must stand up and JUST SAY HELL NO.

Senator Casey wants to transfer this private employer liability to the Federal government Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, funded like an insurance plan, that usually steps in to guarantee pensions in the event a company that promised them files bankruptcy. Of course, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has its own $21 Billion deficit. This agency is technically bankrupt like so many other government agencies. Taking on this liability means that the federal government would have to borrow this money in more deficit spending to cover these private pensions. This is crazy!!

The question is why should the taxpayer be on the hook for private pensions at all. Most Americans do not have private pension plans. Years ago, most companies switched to 401K contribution plans, which are less costly for companies than the old style pension plans. And or, many Americans just have Social Security to rely on in retirement plus any savings, or investments they may have made during their working life. So now the Socialists that control Congress want Americans, who have no pension plans, to pay higher taxes to bail out private companies and their union employees. What is wrong with this picture? This is another example of redistribution of income that is nothing more than stealing from the American people. This has got to stop.

We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must sweep these Socialists out of office in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

The Telling Tale - Business Closings & Foreclosures

During this election cycle, President Obama and the Socialist Members of Congress, running for re-election are playing the "blame Bush" and "it would have been worse game" had they not enacted Obama's SwindleUS Plan. Oh really? They talk in terms of "saved jobs" even though three million jobs have been lost since the deficit spending, trillion dollar SwindleUS Plan became law. Maybe some public employee union jobs have been saved; but for every one of those saved jobs, one or two have been lost in the private sector so there has been no new net job creation since Obama was elected. In fact, these Socialists have made matters worse as they did during the Great Depression under Roosevelt's failed New Deal.

Currently, there are more than 25 million Americans either unemployed, under employed working part time, or who have just given up looking for work. There are almost 5 million Americans collecting unemployment weekly payments. That number would be higher; but many have been out of work for more than 99 weeks, almost two years and their benefits have expired. 300,000 homes a month are going into foreclosure.

And, here is the telling tale that really demonstrates the failure of Obama's economic policies. As of the fourth quarter of 2009, 6.6 million private sector jobs were created. That sounds really good except that in the same period 6.8 million jobs were eliminated and thousands of businesses closed their doors. While it is true that 180,000 new businesses opened in the fourth quarter of 2009; the fact is 240,000 businesses closed in the first quarter of 2010. You don't have to be a mathematical genius to see that these numbers are going in the wrong direction. The US is losing more jobs than are being created and more businesses are closing than are opening.

All of this is leading to foreclosures as people either lose their jobs, or realize that they are so upside down (owing much more than the value of their homes) that it makes more sense to walk away from their homes than to stay and make payments. This is causing a vicious circle as foreclosures in a neighborhood drive values down even further, which then causes even more foreclosures.

President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress just don't get any of this because they don't live in the real world. They think they can borrow from the Chinese and deficit spend their way out of this mess; but that is only making matters worse. These Socialists actually think that raising taxes and placing more onerous regulations on business will somehow cause the private sector to boom. What are these Socialists smoking? The private sector is holding on to cash rather than make investments and create jobs in the United States because of Obama's Socialists Schemes. If any thing more jobs are going overseas to avoid the higher medical premiums that are the result of Obama's costly HealthScare Plan.

And then, while the Senate has yet to act, Socialists in the House of Representatives have already enacted Obama's CAP & TAX Plan that will raise the cost of energy and therefore production in the United States. Obama plans to use the Environmental Protection Agency to implement CAP & TAX, with or without Congressional approval. CAP & TAX is hanging over the US economy like an anvil ready to drop, which is the reason why the private sector is not making investments that would create jobs in the US. Finally, if the Bush Tax Cuts are allowed to expire at the end of 2010, which will otherwise occur, if the Congress does not act and soon, small businesses, the majority of which are S corporations, along with anyone who owns stock or other investments will experience a huge tax increase. Those who own public and private corporations are not hiring because they anticipate all of the higher cost coming from Obama's Socialist Schemes, which are job killers.

We have got to take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and jobs.

Most important, we must sweep these Socialists out of office and elect Conservatives, who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Jobless Claims Up - Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned

While Socialist President Obama is vacationing on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, new jobless claims for unemployment benefits spiked up again for the third straight week. New Application for benefits last week rose by 12,000 to 500,000 for the first time since last November. Currently, there are 4.48 million Americans collecting unemployment benefits, since real unemployment across the country is well above 15% when all are counted.

President and Mrs. Obama, who just came back from a luxurious vacation in Spain (that probably cost tax payers millions of dollars to support her entourage) are like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned. While all Presidents deserve vacation time, one would think that given the hard times in the US that President and Mrs. Obama would choose to spend some time with the American people in a national park, or maybe in the country at Camp David to save a few bucks instead of picking the spots where the the rich and famous spend their summers. Oh well, I guess this is "the change we can believe in" that Obama promised us during the last election.

In any case, President Obama told us that if his deficit spending, trillion dollar, SwindleUS Plan was enacted into law that unemployment would cap at 8%. Then Obama told us that if his HealthScare Plan was enacted into law that the cost of medical insurance would go down. Real unemployment is now above 15%, with 20 million Americans unemployed, under employed working part time who want full time work, or who have just given up looking for work. And, businesses are now meeting with their insurance brokers to find out that medical insurance premiums are going up in 2011 by 10 - 40% because of Obama Care. It seems that President Obama was wrong on all counts, wasn't he? Obama is either incompetent, or just a liar; not sure which is worse.

Obama's tax and deficit spend economic policies are destroying the economy. There is at least a 50/50 chance that we will see a double dip recession and/or depression in some states like Nevada, California and Michigan. And, the private sector is going to hunker down if the Bush Tax Cuts are allowed to expire at the end of 2010 as will occur if Congress does not act and soon. This tax increase combined with the rising cost of medical insurance will be a major job killer. If Obama and the Socialists that control Congress are allowed to move forward with their Socialist Schemes like CAP & TAX that will raise the cost of energy for all and lower our standard of living, there will be little job creation, if any at all.

In order to stop these job losses, we must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, real energy independence and health care reform, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform in 2010 and 2012 supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by sweeping these Socialists out of office. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Jobs, Energy Independence & National Security

The most recent jobs report came out and we just had the highest number of claims for unemployment benefits in 9 months at 500,000 Americans requesting benefits. The recession is getting worse not better because Obama's economic policies are failing. Rather than enact Socialist President Obama's CAP & TAX legislation that would raise the cost of energy for all Americans, push more jobs overseas, and result in a lower standard of living for our people, it is time that we get serious about developing real energy independence to create jobs in America.

This is a NATIONAL SECURITY issue because we cannot be dependent on nation's that hate the United States. In addition, producing our own energy is critical to job creation in our country. Energy related jobs are high paying and they cannot be outsourced to other countries. This means pushing the Environmental Wackos aside and rejecting Socialist schemes, designed to tax carbon based energy sources making them prohibitively expensive to make wind and solar economically feasible, which is just not the case today without major government subsidies. This Socialist scheme is just plain crazy and destructive.

Instead, we need a common sense 50 year energy plan and NOW, which recognizes that we must develop all energy sources that are plentiful in the United States, including nuclear, clean coal, natural gas and oil shale. And YES, we must drill for oil where it exists. I know, I know, we just had a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is being used as an excuse not to drill. However, there has been drilling in the Gulf for more than 50 years with no incident. The lesson to be learned from the Gulf spill is better contingency planning in case of accident, not less drilling.

All current, economically feasible, energy sources can be exploited in environmentally safe ways; however, all must recognize that protecting our National Security often requires risks. We should do everything we can to mitigate those risks; but at the end of the day, energy is the key to National Security, our standard of living, economic growth and super power status. We need a bridge to future technologies that may be 50 years away and that bridge can only be current energy sources that are economically feasible today.

President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress are in bed with the Environmental Wackos, making it impossible for them to act responsibly related to energy development. In order to once again create jobs and grow our economy, rather than making energy more expensive, which will occur if CAP & TAX is enacted into law, we need to make energy more plentiful to drive down the cost to the consumer. The only way to do that is to speed up development of all energy sources, while at the same time government tax incentives are provided to develop wind, solar and bio fuels for the future. The fact is that we have to do it all to insure our National and Economic Security.

France derives most if its energy from nuclear power. For the most part, they do not have a spent nuclear fuels storage problem because they re-process 96% of spent nuclear fuels and sell them. China, now the second largest economy in the world, set to become the largest economy in the world within 12 years, if the US does not begin heading in the right direction, is developing all energy sources to support their economy. The United States must do the same if we are to remain a super power with a high standard of living for our people. This is about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS and common sense!!

Since the Socialists in Washington refuse to make the United States truly energy independent, we must sweep them out of office in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, REAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE and health care reform, a strong national defense, that includes securing our border and fighting Terrorism, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation in our country.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Unemployment & Foreclosures

There are roughly 30 million Americans who are either unemployed, under employed, working part time who want full time work, or who have just given up looking for jobs. That is roughly 20% of the work force in the United States. Even though unemployment benefits have been extended by Congress until the November elections, (gosh what a coincidence) millions will soon run out of weekly unemployment payments. Even so, the typical $300 - $400 a week in unemployment monies is not enough to live on anyway. And, studies show that prolonging unemployment benefits just prolongs unemployment as people do not take jobs they believe are beneath them until their benefits run out.

In any case, there is a direct correlation between real unemployment and the foreclosure rate in the nation. Currently, about 300,000 homes per month are going into foreclosure with no end in sight. Ultimately, the owner of most of these homes as they go into default is the infamous, now government owned, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which is experiencing billions in losses at taxpayer expense. And, any attempt by the Federal government to prevent foreclosures, through loan restructuring, has been futile. While 400,000 loans have been restructured in an attempt to prevent foreclosure, for the most part foreclosure has been forestalled, not prevented as many of those homeowners end up in default anyway.

This vicious circle ties to unemployment, which results in foreclosures, which results in lower property values causing more homeowners to be upside down on their mortgages, which results in more foreclosures. It is estimated that there is an 8 year supply of foreclosed homes held by banks. As such, the housing market is likely to be a mess for years unless we get our economy headed in the right direction.

And, this is a double whammy. Many Baby Boomers used their homes as cash machines by taking out home equity lines of credit to pay for cars, trips, college for their kids, etc. They bet on forever home value appreciation and they lost. As a result, as Baby Boomers face retirement, when they should have had their homes paid off, they instead not only have mortgages on these homes, they are upside down owing more than the value of the home. Many Baby Boomers may walk away and allow foreclosure as the only option, unless they plan to work for years, because their retirement savings and or Social Security at retirement will not allow them to meet their current financial obligations.

The only way out of this spiralling mess is to grow our economy so that we experience job creation, which will bring an end to all these foreclosures and this vicious cycle. Unfortunately, President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress never learned the lessons of Economics 101 and we see the end result, don't we? Clearly, Obama's Trillion dollar deficit spending SwindleUS Plan that was supposed to cap unemployment at 8% has been a dismal failure. 3 million jobs have been lost since SwindleUS I was enacted into law.

While Obama may have saved some public sector jobs, it has all been at the expense of the private sector so we have experienced NO new net job creation. And, every time the Socialists enact, or propose some new Socialist Scheme like HealthScare that is raising the cost of insurance premiums, CAP & TAX that will raise the cost of energy and be a job killer and or allowing the Bush Tax Cuts to expire at the end of 2010, the private sector just hunkers down, rather than making new investments that would create jobs.

President Obama and the Socialists that control Congress, their environmental wacko friends and their union supporters are destroying our economy and it will eventually lead to the financial collapse of the United States as a result of the trillions in deficit spending if it is not stopped and soon. THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. As we face the elections in 2010 and 2012, we must sweep these Socialists out of office by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits to help end the corruption in Washington, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform in 2010 and 2o12 supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to restore economic growth and job creation and to stop the foreclosures.

We have to sweep these Socialists, who resemble the Keystone Cops in a silent movie, out of office by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Nevada Facing a Depression Not a Recession

Nevada was once a nationally recognized state leading the nation in job creation, economic growth and prosperity. That was then and this is now. Today, Nevada has the highest foreclosure and bankruptcy rates in the nation and real unemployment of 18% or more. The situation is dire as Nevada is facing an economic Depression, not a Recession. The boom has turned into a real bust and it is getting worse not better.

The Obama/Reid/Pelosi SwindleUS Plan has done nothing to make things better in Nevada, which is symptomatic of the entire nation. Though Obama's Trillion Dollars in deficit spending may have saved some public sector jobs, it has been at the expense of the private sector, so there are has been no new net job creation as a result of Obama's Socialist economic policy. In fact, since Obama's SwindleUS Plan was enacted into law, 3 million jobs have been lost and Nevada soared to the highest unemployment rate in the country. Of course, it did not help when Obama told businesses not to come to Nevada for conventions and tourists to save their money and stay home, as well.

In addition and because of Nevada's high foreclosure rate, residential property values have fallen by 40 - 50%. Most homeowners are under water meaning that their homes are valued at less than their mortgage amounts. As such, most home sales are either short sales, approved by the bank holding the mortgage, or foreclosures as homeowners just give the keys to the bank and walk away. The problem is most acute in Las Vegas; but Reno as well, Nevada's other population center, is also in big trouble. Many in Nevada have lost everything either related to their homes, or their businesses that are bankrupt. It is very sad indeed and could have been prevented.

Nevada has lived off gambling revenues as its main source of income and property and sales taxes for years. There is no personal, estate or corporate income tax in Nevada, which has always contributed to the state's growth in the past. Since tourism and convention business are way down, gambling revenues are way off. And, residential property values have fallen so much, that property taxes have automatically adjusted downward causing a $3 Billion state budget deficit. Of course, the Socialists in Nevada, as in the United States Congress, want to raise taxes, which would be the nails in Nevada's coffin.

Most important, politicians of both political parties have done little to diversify Nevada's economy and in fact Socialist Senator Dirty Harry Reid, running for re-election to his fifth term, single handedly stopped the development and start up of Yucca Mountain, after the federal government invested $13 Billion in that facility. Yucca was to become the nation's nuclear waste repository, 100 miles from Las Vegas, out in the desert. Thank for nothing Dirty Harry!!

Had Yucca Mountain opened a few years ago, it would have created thousands of jobs and even more if Yucca had been turned into a nuclear reprocessing plant as occurs in countries like France where 96% of nuclear spent fuels are reprocessed for additional use making the waste problem minimal. Nevada desperately needs Yucca Mountain and a nuclear industry to help diversify the state's economy now more than ever. Yucca, like many other energy related initiatives, has been stopped by Socialists and environmental wackos, which is destroying the US economy.

Socialist Senator Dirty Harry Reid has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in pork barrel spending to Nevada; yet the state has the highest unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates in the country proving that government spending is not the answer. Nevada's future, and the only way to achieve economic growth and prosperity again, is by growing the private sector, which is the case all over the nation. Obama, Reid, Pelosi and all of their Socialists supporters need to get out of the way. These Socialists are the problem not the solution. It should be obvious to any thinking American, not on the dole, that we need to throw these Socialists out of office to achieve job creation, economic growth and prosperity in our nation once again.

It is very sad to see what is happening in Nevada and some other states facing a Depression, not a Recession, which is another reason we must elect Conservatives in 2010 and 2012 who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits to help end the corruption in Washington, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to create jobs and restore economic growth and prosperity.

Most important, we must sweep Socialists like Senator Dirty Harry Reid and Congresswoman Dina Titus, both from Nevada and many others, out of office by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Titus, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 to restore economic growth in states like Nevada and across the nation. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Socialism - The Road To Communism

It is no coincidence that the old Soviet Union was referred to as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR) Or, that Germany when governed by Adolf Hitler was ruled by the National Socialist Party (Nazi's). In both cases, dictators professed to be practicing Socialism for the good of the people. Obviously, this did not work out to well, did it? In fact, the NAZI regime was ended by catastrophic war and the Soviet Union suffered economic collapse not military defeat.

Further, European democracies after World War II have utilized a Socialist model to create cradle to grave societies. The end result has been high unemployment and a lower standard of living for most Europeans. And, now some European countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland face bankruptcy because their welfare systems are unsustainable.

Socialism if left unchecked is the road to Communism as is happening in Venezuela as Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's elected President is acting more and more like a dictator expropriating companies and assets and muzzling the free press. We have seen this story many times in history and it always has a disastrous end result as is the case in Cuba and was the case in Eastern Europe. And even in Communist China, the government is rich but 500 million people still live below the poverty line.

The United States has experienced Creep toward Socialism for the last 100 years beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency and certainly going through all the Socialist Presidents; Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy, Clinton and now Obama. Of course, it is a toss up as to whether President Franklin Roosevelt, or President Obama is the most radical Socialist of the bunch.

What we have seen is incremental Socialism for years as the federal government assisted by left wing judges has grown dramatically so much so that literally every facet of our life includes federal involvement of one type or another. We are living with Big Brother and his name is Obama. Once President Wilson pushed through the federal income tax in 1913 in order to redistribute income, we have seen a steady expansion of federal control. And, let's face it, when someone must pay 60% or more of income to various levels of government, how is this different that a Communist system where presumably the government owns all wealth.

President Obama and the Socialists who control Congress support even bigger government and confiscation of personal assets to fund all their Socialist Schemes and as a means of redistributing wealth to all their PEEP's, many of whom pay no taxes at all. These Socialist hate free market capitalism and instead advocate a Command economy the same as occurred in the Soviet Union under Communism before its collapse. Socialist Obama Big Brother believes that Americans are too stupid to make decisions for themselves so instead government must tell us what to do, how to spend our money, what to eat and how to live and eventually die.

Socialism is the road to Communism, which is another good reason why we must stop the Creep by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits to help end the corruption in Washington, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to achieve economic growth and job creation. Obviously, the Obama/Reid/Pelosi SwindleUS Plan, predicated on Socialist Schemes, has been a complete failure like all Socialist Schemes in world history.

We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country to stop the Socialist Creep and road to Communism. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and standard of living and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Social Security - A Giant Ponzi Scheme

Social Security was enacted into law 75 years ago in 1935 by Socialist President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of his failed New Deal policies. At that time, life expectancy was only about 62 years old so from an actuarial standpoint, most people were supposed to die rather than collect Social Security. Well surprise, well surprise! Free market capitalism produced the finest health care system in world history and when combined with Medicare, which was enacted in the sixties as part of Socialist President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, people just did not die soon enough.

And, unfortunately, from an actuarial standpoint, things have gotten worse. Not only have people lived longer than they were supposed to, Socialist politicians over the years have expanded the application of Social Security benefits to include the disabled and minors of deceased parents and even kids under the age of 18 if a parent is receiving Social Security. And then, they added one more twist so that if a spouse dies, the remaining Spouse receives the higher of the two monthly payments. In many ways, Social Security has become a welfare scheme rather than a pension system, since those who reach age 65 and continue to work, may never see any return on their contributions, particularly if and when means testing is enacted, which is certain.

A few years ago, the federal government added a little asterisk next to the amount on the annual report each person is supposed to receive at retirement. If you look down on the form, in very small print, it basically says that the amount indicated is not guaranteed and that Congress can change the law at any time to deny benefits. It further says that based on current contributions that there may only be enough to pay 75% of benefits in the future. Social Security has become the largest Ponzi scheme ever conceived.

The World War II generation, the parents of Baby Boomers, did very well related to their return on investment. They paid in very little and since their average life expectancy was longer, they not only got back what they paid in, they got much more back than they ever paid in. Of course, this was only possible because Baby Boomers, paid and paid and paid to support their parents and we are still paying.

And now, the money is not there to pay Baby Boomer's benefits because beginning in 1965, our illustrious elected representatives of both political parties raided the Social Security Trust fund and spent it on various wars, pork barrel spending and new entitlement programs to get re-elected. The Social Security Administration is sitting on a bunch of IOU's, at a time when the Federal government is bankrupt and already $13 Trillion in debt, on the books and probably another $100 Trillion, or more off the books that will be needed to fund Social Security, Medicare and outrageous government pensions.

If something does not change and quick, Social Security's combined retirement and disability trust funds are expected to run out of money in 2037. And at that time, the Social Security Administration will collect just enough in contributions to cover 75% of promised benefits. The good news is that under Obama's HealthScare Plan, once the Death Panels are put in place, people will die quicker than would otherwise occur. And, like it not, at some point, there will be means testing for Baby Boomers, many of whom paid in the maximum; but will never see any benefits at all. The retirement age will have to be raised for those currently under 55 years old. And, no doubt, unless stopped from doing so, the Socialists who control Congress will raise the actual Social Security tax to require higher contributions each month.

If this Ponzi scheme were happening in business as occurred with Bernie Madoff, all of these elected officials going back years that have created the Social Security mess would be in JAIL, not in Congress, or the White House. Of course, that will not happen. The best we can do is throw the bums out of office. And, going forward because the federal government has proven over and over again that they cannot be trusted with our money, at least 50% of Social Security contributions should be privatized for people under 50 years old. In the end, even if Social Security becomes insolvent, younger people would at least have half their money instead of none at all.

We have to bring real change to America by electing Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balance budget, term limits to help end the corruption in Washington, a real solution for Social Security not more government theft, a strong national defense, including securing our border and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and family values. This is the platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to achieve economic growth and job creation.

The Social Security debacle proves that we must take back our county in 2010 and 2012 by electing Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do it to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

President Obama & Religion

Socialist President Obama is having a hard time related to religion in America. The President recently hosted a dinner at the White House to celebrate Ramadan, the Moslem holiday. That would be fine; however this same President cancelled the Day of Prayer earlier in the year, which is a Judeo Christian tradition and has been in place since the days of Lincoln. Obama claimed he did not want to offend anyone by sanctioning an official Day of Prayer. Just who was he going to offend?

A short time thereafter, however, there were 50,000 Moslems in Washington celebrating their Day of Prayer. Good for them because praying to God is never a bad thing unless one is praying with evil intentions. What gives with this President? If nothing else, Obama is politically pretty stupid. I for one do not believe that the Obama's are Christians. I know, I know, the Obama's attended a liberation theology Christian Church in Chicago run by the Reverend Wright who is clearly a racist. Obama claims he never heard Wright's sermons, when sitting in the pew, when Wright repeatedly demonized Whites and Jews for years. I guess Obama was day dreaming about becoming President some day rather than listening to those racist sermons. What other excuse could there be?

The reality is that Obama used the Reverend Wright to enhance his Christian and African American credentials in Chicago to get elected to office. Once that was achieved, during the Presidential campaign, when Wright became an embarrassment, Obama threw Wright under the bus. Once elected, since moving to Washington, the Obama's have not joined a Christian church, which may be the case because they are not Christian. Obama has spent considerable time and effort placating Moslems and little or no time practicing his "Christian faith". Why is that?

And then just recently, Socialist President Obama came out in support of building a Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center very near ground zero in New York City where more than 3000 people were murdered at the hands of Islamic fanatics on 9/11. According to a CNN Poll, 70% of Americans are opposed to the building of that Mosque so near ground zero, which all see as hallowed ground. Personally, I would be OK with building the Mosque because religious freedom is fundamental to our First Amendment rights, except for one fact. The Imam in charge of that project refuses to condemn Terrorists like HAMAS that is attacking Israel. Further, the reality is that if just one family who lost relatives on 9/11 is against building that Mosque, then it should not be built. It is just that simple.

Originally, this same Imam named the complex Cordoba House in honor of the Moslem conquest of Christian Spain in the 8th century. The Iman had to back off from that name because of the symbolism that it represented. Moslems controlled Spain for 700 years thereafter until King Ferdinand and Isabella pushed them back to Africa in 1492 to unite Spain under Christian rule. And, the complex is supposed to cost $100 million. Given the Imam's ties to Terrorists, we have a right to know where that money is coming from where ever this Mosque is built.

Nevertheless, if those Moslems in charge of building that Mosque were doing it in the name of reconciliation, which must include condemning those who perpetrated 9/11 and Terrorist Groups around the world, it could be a very nice religious gesture. But that is not the case. And, what is even worse is that the US State Department is actually paying this very same Iman, who refuses to condemn Terrorism, to act as an Ambassador representing the United States to Moslem countries. What is President Obama thinking, or not thinking as the case may be. Putting this particular Imam on the US payroll is disgraceful and a slap in the face of the American people.

It does not matter where President Obama was born, Obama is not an American and he is certainly not a Christian. The fact is that President Obama is a Socialist, which is incompatible with Christianity. As such, we have to take back our country in 2010 and 2012 by sweeping these Socialists out of office, including Obama. We need to elect a President who shares the Judeo-Christian values (not to be confused with faith) of the American people and that is not Barack Obama, or his wife who vacationed in Spain while 30 million Americans are out of work. What the heck was Michelle Obama thinking as she strolled the Spanish Rivera in Marbella? Michelle is another Marie Antionette, completely out of touch, when she said "let them eat cake" when speaking of the French citizenry. It cost Marie her head. If this insensitivity keeps up, Michelle Obama will assist in making her husband a one term President. That would be OK with me and millions of other Americans.

We must elect Conservatives who support free market capitalism, limited government, lower taxes and less regulation, a balanced budget, term limits, a strong national defense, including securing our border and recognizing and fighting Terrorism, real energy independence and health care reform, the right to bear arms, the sanctity of life and Judeo-Christian family values. This is the winning platform supported by the majority of the American people and the only way to achieve economic growth and job creation.

Most important, we must elect Conservatives who support the Constitution, as written by our Founding Fathers, not as contrived by the left wing media, Socialists Obama, Reid, Pelosi, former Presidents, Congresses, or the Courts. We must take back our country in 2010 and 2012. We can do it. We must do if to preserve our freedoms, our nation and way of life and for the sake of our children and grandchildren.