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culture, debt, decay, defecit, Democrat Party, FDR, Harry Reid, Obama
24 Monday Sep 2012
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culture, debt, decay, defecit, Democrat Party, FDR, Harry Reid, Obama
18 Tuesday Sep 2012
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in“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
31 Friday Aug 2012
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coal, debt, defecit, education, election, energy, energy independence, hope and change, Mitt Romney, Obama, Obamacare, President, teachers union, unions
Over the last four years under President Obama we have experienced the worst economic times since the days of Jimmy Carter. Obama has added more to our national debt than all previous presidents combined. To make matters worse the President has apologized repeatedly for the US and has lowered our stature in the world, reducing us to followers. He has failed to deliver on his lofty promise of hope and change.
Mitt Romney may be our only hope. This country cannot afford another four years of Obama’s “divide and conquer” administration. Mitt, in his nomination acceptance speech, talked about America’s greatness, he talked of optimism and that fact that we were always a unified country. He outlined what his top five priorities will be if elected:
Mitt Romney knows what it takes to turn failing companies into successful companies. His plan is simple yet right on point. Each priority is in sharp contrast to Obama’s ideas. It is about time that we have as a top national goal to be energy independent. Obama has worked against this, shutting down oil rigs, piling on regulations on the coal and gas industries and stopping the Canadian pipeline project. Obama wants to protect the teachers union so giving parents a choice of where there children go to school is not in his plans. Similarly his obsession with unions has prevented him from pursuing trade deals. And Obama has shown his ignorance of economics by calling for tax increases on the job creators. The choice in this election could not be any clearer.
22 Wednesday Aug 2012
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debt, deficit, education, election, jobs, Mitt Romney, Obama, Obamacare, paul ryan, Romney, supreme court
Here are the five top reasons to vote for the GOP nominees.
1. Jobs. Romney-Ryan (RR) know how to create real jobs, not government make-work pork spending re-packaged as stimulus spending.
2. Obamacare. Romney-Ryan know how devastating Obamacare is and will be on our economy. The GOP must have majorities in both the House and Senate to pull off a repeal.
3. The debt & deficit. Romney-Ryan are serious about eliminating the deficit and paying down our debt. Obama and the Democrat party have no interest in this.
4. Supreme Court. There may be as many as three retirements over the next Presidential term. Mitt Romney will appoint conservatives to the Court, Obama will appoint people who do not believe in our Constitution.
5. Education. Mitt Romney has a plan to reform education. The unions and the government have destroyed our primary education system.
09 Tuesday Aug 2011
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balanced budget amendment, budget, debt, energy, Geitner, Obama, reform, regulations, S&P, tax reform, tea party
Despite President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner’s state of denial, Standard and Poors gave our country a much needed wake-up call with their recent downgrade. The left are out with their scripted talking points calling the downgrade a “tea party downgrade”. In reality the much maligned tea party has been trying to put us on the right path but the Democrats were not interested. Obama even called for a “clean” bill to increase the debt ceiling just months ago. That probably would have resulted in downgrades from all of the major rating agencies.
The lame debt ceiling bill that was passed does not “cut” a dime in current spending. What it does is reduce a small amount of growth in future budgets over a 10 year period. The dirty little secret is that our future budgets have about a nine percent (9%) increase per year built in. If you were maxed out on your credit limit and were spending twice as much as you earn, what would you do? Would you spend only 5% more on your next vacation than you spent this year rather than 9% more? The answer is common sense but politicians are not being honest about spending. They choose to demagogue rather than seek solutions. To make matters worse the mainstream media help with the deceit with their complacency.
In addition to a debt crisis our economy is in a recession. Unemployment is over 9% and there is nothing happening to change this. Businesses are not going to expand and hire as long as there is an administration that is hostile to growth. What we need is a comprehensive plan that helps restore our economy to what it once was and structurally reforms our government’s spending. This necessarily means that entitlements need to be addressed. Here is a framework called REFORM to accomplish this:
Reform the budgeting process.
Evaluate need of all agencies. Appoint a task force of business and efficiency experts to evaluate all government agencies and recommend elimination of agencies and consolidations. Their task would be to reduce discretionary spending from current levels by 33%. No politicians or former politicians would be appointed to the task force. Congress would have to vote on the recommendations without amendments.
Formulate an energy policy to make us energy independent
Encourage new nuclear plants. Streamline the permit process.
Overhaul the tax system
Reduce the Regulatory burden that stifle growth. There has been a proliferation of regulations since Obama got in office. The overreach of our government bureaucracies has gotten out of hand over the last several decades. This causes uncertainty and outsourcing of jobs to more business friendly governments.
Mandatory balanced budgets – Pass a balance budget amendment that requires spending cuts to balance the budget. No automatic tax increases.
This may seem like an impossible task but the liberal experiment that we have experienced for 50 years has broken the bank. Even European countries have realized it. It may be too late for some of them. We still have some time but cannot afford to stay on Obama’s agenda. The power to do this is in the voters hands. We need to throw out the Democrats and Republicans who do not embrace these ideals. Reject promises of pork spending in your district. Reject excuses and the blaming of others. Vote for candidates who will pledge to carry out these REFORMS and hold them accountable. We have seen in the tea party candidates that swept into office that this is possible. We should demand it.
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