HOW MUCH OBAMACARE COSTS THE AVERAGE FAMILY
Published on October 19, 2009
Whether or not you now have health insurance, Obama's healthcare bill will cost you dearly. If you don't have insurance, you will be required to buy it. The legislation specifies how much you will have to pay for the coverage before any subsidy kicks in. All during the campaign, Obama kept speaking about affordable coverage. Now it appears that his definition of "affordable" might be a bit elastic.
* If your household income is $66,000 a year, slightly above the national average, Obama's healthcare bill will require you to spend 12 percent of your income -- about $8,000 a year or almost $700 a month -- to buy health insurance before you get any federal subsidy.
* Even those making less will have to reach deep into their meager resources to satisfy Obama's statutory requirement. Families scraping by on only $44,000 a year will have to pay 7 percent of their income (about $3,000) on insurance.
* Even those making just $33,000 will have to ante up 4.5 percent of their income (about $1500) for health insurance.
* The required payments reach so far down the scale that those who are living at the federal poverty level of $22,000 will have to shell out 2 percent of their totally inadequate incomes ($440) for insurance. That Obama is charging premiums to those living at or on the border of poverty is absolutely incredible! And this from a candidate who pledged that he would not tax the middle class! If you have insurance, you will get hit by his proposed 40 percent tax on insurance premiums.
* When the tax -- and the legislation -- takes effect in 2013, all families making about $120,000 or more in combined household income (14 percent of all families or one in seven) will have to pay the tax.
* By the next year, 2014, the tax will hit every family making more than $100,000 (about 18 percent of all families or one in six)
* By 2019, 10 years hence, the tax will reach down to effect every family making more than $75,000 a year (31 percent of families or one in three).
The tax will take 40 percent of all premiums above $21,000.
So if you don't have insurance, you will be socked with a mandate to buy coverage and pay a hefty proportion of your income to do it and if you have insurance, you will be hit with an excise tax on the coverage.
(In theory, it is the insurance companies that have to pay the tax, but the Senate Finance Committee "assumes" that they will pass the tax along to their policyholders.)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Anita Dunn.....She better be DONE!!!!
I am sickened and appauled that the White House communications director respects, admires and most frequently refers to Mao as an inspirational philosopher....a man who is responsible for mass murdering in excess of 60 million men women and children. Had students turning on their fellow students and watched as their friends were taken behind schools by the thousands and were executed. Had children turning in their parents and had them watch those executions.....this woman is an abomination!!!
Maybe next week she can give an inspirational speech on how great Hitler was to some elementary school kids. she is a disgrace and if Obama doesn't have her removed, he is just as guilty of being a sick individual.
Maybe next week she can give an inspirational speech on how great Hitler was to some elementary school kids. she is a disgrace and if Obama doesn't have her removed, he is just as guilty of being a sick individual.
Unreal...they claim everyone needs to tighten THEIR belts!!
July 7, 2009
Dr. Paul L. Williams
"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, " Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
How things have changed! I then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to> the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the> First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Total: $1,591,200
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652
Yeh, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry America!
SICKENING.........ISN'T IT
Dr. Paul L. Williams
"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, " Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
How things have changed! I then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to> the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the> First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Total: $1,591,200
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652
Yeh, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry America!
SICKENING.........ISN'T IT
Sunday, October 11, 2009
good bye braylan
So long crybaby. Hopefully having the whiner braylan gone will let them focus on being better. Go browns!!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
unreal
It's is my opinion this administration has lost it's mind. It's way. It's values. It's oath to uphold our constituion and protect American lives. I am at a loss for such blatant power grabbing. It's utterly appauling.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
hole in one!!
I got my first hole in one ever. Hole no. 6 at Washington park. Used a 7 iron on a 110 yard hole. One bounce and in. We were stunned. Once in a lifetime for hack golfers like me. Here is a pic of the hole. Thanks to Jim Kukral and Will kessler for being my witnesses.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Our 2nd Amendment - As OUR FOREFATHERS saw it!
If our completely moronic commander in chief thinks that we will sit by as he erodes the constitution and plans to put a crimp in the Second Amendment....he can think again. Our forefathers from 250 years ago saw this Marxist piece of garbage coming and made it clear, the the Constitution is not up for debate!
OBAMA....THIS QUOTE LEADS TO ALL THE REST...AND ITS DIRECTED AT YOU!!! NOTICE HOW OUR FOREFATHER ACTUALLY LOOKED OUT FOR THE COMMON MAN!!
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens .... from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
"Anyone who would trade their freedom for safety deserves neither freedom or safety."
-Ben Franklin
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-Patrick Henry
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual; as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
- Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp
SPREAD THE WEALTH OBAMA? YOU FREAKING TRAITOR! JEFFERSON SAW YOU COMING!!!
"Our democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The Government that governs best ... governs least."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
- Calvin Coolidge
From a man he chooses to spit in the face of while stating lies about the same man:
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-Winston Churchill
OUR FIRST PRESIDENT WAS TALKING TO YOU DEMOCRATS HERE!!! READ CLOSE MORONS!!!
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizens firearms are indelibly related."
- George Washington
"The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms .... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson
WOW OBAMA, EVEN A GUY FROM A THOUSAND YEARS AGO GOT IT....WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE SURRENDER MONKEY??
"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
- Aristotle
"No free man shall be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson
"You don't die for your country, you make the other bastard die for his."
- Gen. George S. Patton
WE THE PEOPLE, should be the first thing this tool of a president hears in his head before he inserts his usual foot in the mouth. I suspect he has no clue what this country means to its people who died for it...he has no courage to even go there as he would be the first to defect if given the chance. Impeach Obama is the only thing to do....he is giving away interrogation secrets, apologizing to the scum of the world on behalf of americans, and is basically a liar in sheeps clothing....I will not be happy until this treacherous, easily THE worst president ever only after 100 days, is finally impeached....and it will happen, he is that bad.
OBAMA....THIS QUOTE LEADS TO ALL THE REST...AND ITS DIRECTED AT YOU!!! NOTICE HOW OUR FOREFATHER ACTUALLY LOOKED OUT FOR THE COMMON MAN!!
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens .... from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
"Anyone who would trade their freedom for safety deserves neither freedom or safety."
-Ben Franklin
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
-Patrick Henry
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual; as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
- Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp
SPREAD THE WEALTH OBAMA? YOU FREAKING TRAITOR! JEFFERSON SAW YOU COMING!!!
"Our democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The Government that governs best ... governs least."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
- Calvin Coolidge
From a man he chooses to spit in the face of while stating lies about the same man:
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-Winston Churchill
OUR FIRST PRESIDENT WAS TALKING TO YOU DEMOCRATS HERE!!! READ CLOSE MORONS!!!
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and citizens firearms are indelibly related."
- George Washington
"The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms .... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson
WOW OBAMA, EVEN A GUY FROM A THOUSAND YEARS AGO GOT IT....WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE SURRENDER MONKEY??
"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
- Aristotle
"No free man shall be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson
"You don't die for your country, you make the other bastard die for his."
- Gen. George S. Patton
WE THE PEOPLE, should be the first thing this tool of a president hears in his head before he inserts his usual foot in the mouth. I suspect he has no clue what this country means to its people who died for it...he has no courage to even go there as he would be the first to defect if given the chance. Impeach Obama is the only thing to do....he is giving away interrogation secrets, apologizing to the scum of the world on behalf of americans, and is basically a liar in sheeps clothing....I will not be happy until this treacherous, easily THE worst president ever only after 100 days, is finally impeached....and it will happen, he is that bad.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
A Terrorist Speaks UP! Obama, where are you??
If this doesn't set you liberals straight nothing will. I am so tired of people thinking like Obama...."they are just misunderstood, or that talking will open up dialogue to fix things" When will YOU ALL get it, they could CARE LESS about american lives...they live to see us die....no hip, cool, smooth talking politicain like Obama will make that change! Obama has no clue that he needs to clean house in the middle East...GWB, knew....they must be killed. PERIOD.
read the translations as this piece of garbage encourages the death of a half million americans. He said it would be followed by "Cries of Joy!" May this guy find Allah by way of an american bullet!!! Cries of Joy will not matter....
Friday, March 20, 2009
The Obama Deception!
This 2 hour video is available for purchase, view it here for free. This is a hard hitting look at the hypocracy!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, and Obama are insane!
AIG is a scapegoat!!! the questioning on capital hill of the brave man, Ed Liddy are embarassing, pathetic, and reminescent of McCarthyism...they are on a witch hunt to distract the nation from the real problem at hand...the problem named Obama!
They want to bicker over 165 Million dollars in bonuses, that were already in the contract the government signed (YES AGREED TO) with AIG, when they expect the American public to swallow 650 million for HDTV converter boxes for the poor, 300 million for birth control programs for the poor, 200 Million for this, jhalf a billion for that....BILLIONS for foodstamps, welfare, minority subsidies, "urban canals" - uh, wtf is that?....insulating ghetto homes, and on and on and on...
I keep hearing this liar Obama, blaming George Bush for being handed a 2.8 Trillion dollar deficit...even though the numbers came out this week that Obama's current deficit is now totaling 11 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!!!! Digest that for a moment Liberals...THIS is now YOUR mess, pointing the finger at George Bush will no longer work. This is Obama's big show now....driving this nation to its knees. I am embarrassed for this administration, its like a bad sweater...unraveling at every tug!!!
OH by the way...how much does it cost the taxpayers to fly Obama and his security team to the Leno show. Before you answer, keep in mind they also fly out his entire motorcade of vehicles....about 10 in all...you don't think he has the bullet proof limo and suburbans just waiting for him in any state do you??? they fly those vehicles to LA as well....and then close bridges, involve police, close streets, detour traffic...all with OUR money....why the hell is he jet-setting to a late night talk show when his administration is crumbling from within? All these plans that needed to be enacted NOW or we will die......what happened....nothing has been implemented from the stimulus to the TARP to the new 3 Trillion dollar budget...yet we are all still here today...interesting!!! GITMO needed to be closed day one or else....now its still open and the sky didn't fall. BHO is a liar in every sense of the word...he's not a president, he's a glorified community organizer/cheerleader that actually can't get his organizing accomplished because its so damn ridiculous.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Rainbow Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...
Author Unknown
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...
Author Unknown
A Dog's Plea
Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for
no heart in all the world is more grateful
for kindness than the loving heart of me.
Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn.
Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.
Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth.
Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.
Feed me clean food that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side, and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.
And, my friend, when I am very old, and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun. Please see that my trusting life is taken gently. I shall leave this earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands.
Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn.
Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.
Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth.
Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.
Feed me clean food that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side, and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.
And, my friend, when I am very old, and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun. Please see that my trusting life is taken gently. I shall leave this earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands.
New Denny's Breakfast Special!!
The new breakfast special at DENNY'S:
"THE OCTUPLET"
• 8 CAGE-FREE EGGS, ANY STYLE
• NO SAUSAGE
&
THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU PAYS FOR IT.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Some have said she looks like Angelina Jolie????? What!
If anything, she looks like an uglier Janine Garafolo!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Look Close. Funny Observation
Even HIGH SCHOOL kids get it...sort of. LOL
EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE
Tim Hacker
A Dobson High School Advanced Placement government class with strong opinions about Barack Obama watched the president's speech Wednesday on a small, grainy TV in the corner of their classroom.
Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing at some of Obama's words. Other students listened, occasion ally glancing up to watch, while texting on their cell phones, reading a book or finishing school work.
The gymnasium's events were shown simultaneously in rooms throughout the Mesa school, and teachers were given discretion on whether to show the speech, the students said. The students in the class were hopeful things will work out but questioned whether Obama's plan would actually work to dig the country out of its economic woes. They also expected a longer speech.
Senior Syna Daudfar took some notes during the speech and was among the most vocally opposed to Obama's words.
At one point, when he talked about the costs of his stimulus plan, senior Maaike Albach and Daudfar looked at each other and said, "uh-oh."
"Overall I think it's a good idea, but he's not addressing the issues of the economic crisis," said Daudfar, a John McCain supporter who added he leans more toward being a moderate conservative. "The spending bill he just passed is just progressing the Democratic agenda rather than addressing the economic issues in the country."
Daudfar thinks Obama's plan is backward and deals with the "less important stuff" first. "Bailing out businesses" and "providing better regulatory systems for giving out money to businesses" should have been first, he said.
"If businesses can't afford to hire people, then people won't be able to work and pay off their mortgages," he said. "It's kind of like putting money into20a funnel." Albach, who is also a Republican, said Obama's plan sounds good but questioned how Obama can want to rely on "people's responsibility" when that is "what got us in this economic crisis in the first place."
"This puts us more into debt," said Albach, 18. "It's a horrible situation we're in."
Senior Brandon Miller wore a shirt with the words, "Hitler gave great speeches, too" above a picture of Obama.
Miller said he had been an Obama supporter "because of his speeches," but after debating the issues in this class and looking more into Obama's policies, his vote was swayed toward McCain.
He showed a video on his camera he had just taken of the president's minutelong motorcade and talked about what a "great experience" it was to watch it. Miller had also spent a couple of hours in front of the school, hanging out and watching the protesters.
"Even though I don't support him, I think it's cool he's here," said Miller, 18. "I just don't believe all the things he's telling us. His goal is just too big and broad."
Miller wanted to hear more about the costs and guidelines the stimulus bill entails.
Senior Katelyn Meyer, who also leans more toward being a Republican, said Obama's plan sounds good, "but it's easier said than done."
"I like the refinancing part, and I like the part about mortgages, but I'm afraid we're going to put the money in but won't s ee any effect," said Meyer, 18, who still thought it was "cool" to say the president was at her school, even though she didn't get to see him live.
The students also questioned why Obama chose their school for his speech since he wasn't talking about education and wondered how much money the district spent on beautifying the campus while district positions and services are being cut.
District officials noted this week that the landscaping project completed over the weekend at Dobson was already in the works and was just expedited by the president's visit. Funding came from voter-approved bonds.
New sod was laid in front of the school Tuesday, and Daudfar said, "The joke at the school is they're going to take it away when he (Obama) leaves."
AP government teacher Jeff Sherrer said his students "feel very strongly about the issues, maybe more than the general population." He thought at least one of his students was outside protesting, and he had planned to take his students outside as a class project to show them what was going on but didn't get the chance.
"These kinds of kids really get into it," Sherrer said. "During the election we had lots of debates on the issues."
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Obama Warned!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5733499.ece
Read the article online or here is the copy below:
RONALD REAGAN started it, Bill Clinton finished it and last week Barack Obama was accused of engineering its destruction. One of the few undisputed triumphs of American government of the past 20 years – the sweeping welfare reform programme that sent millions of dole claimants back to work – has been plunged into jeopardy by billions of dollars in state handouts included in the president’s controversial economic stimulus package.
As Obama celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday with a return to his Chicago home for a private weekend with family and friends, his success in piloting a $785 billion (£546 billion) stimulus package through Congress was being overshadowed by warnings that an unprecedented increase in welfare spending would undermine two decades of bipartisan attempts to reduce dependency on government handouts.
Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history.
Douglas Besharov, author of a big study on welfare reform, said the stimulus bill passed by Congress and the Senate in separate votes on Friday would “unravel” most of the 1996 reforms that led to a 65% reduction in welfare caseloads and prompted the British and several other governments to consider similar measures.
Though some researchers have questioned the true impact of Clinton’s “workfare” reforms, they were wildly popular with millions of US taxpayers tired of subsidising what many saw as a generation of slackers.
Despite dire warnings that reduced benefits for single mothers and deadlines on entitlement would create a social calamity – one liberal senator warned at the time that children would be “sleeping on grates” – the 1996 reforms cut welfare rolls from more than 5m families in 1995 to below 2m a decade later without a discernible increase in hardship.
In the American political lexicon, welfare has since become a dirty word – often referred to as the W word – and nothing arouses US tabloid ire more than the hint that taxpayers’ money is being wasted.
When it emerged that Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets born in Los Angeles last month, was a “single mom” with six children already and was relying on welfare assistance, she was transformed overnight from fertility goddess to the target of death threats.
Obama argued last week that his bill was essential for reviving the US economy and protecting victims of the credit crunch. Yet his Republican rivals have seized on the billions lavished on new welfare spending to stir the conservative faithful from their postelection misery and reunite the opposition.
“If you like government dependence, you will love the plan they are jamming through Congress,” declared Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Rector, a senior scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, argued that Obama’s spending proposals in effect encouraged individual states to add more families to their welfare rolls; the more Americans sign on to the dole, the more state budgets will benefit from US Treasury payouts.
“They have completely overturned the fiscal and policy foundations of welfare reform,” Rector complained.
Supporters of the bill argue that the current crisis is so grave that intellectual quibbling about the nature of welfare has to take second place to the upheaval transforming millions of American lives.
“How can you tell someone who has lost his income to look for another job if there aren't any more jobs?” asked one Obama backer.
While some scholars are beginning to suspect that Clinton’s welfare reforms were fatally flawed – or at least viable only during an economic boom – Republicans are not alone in fearing that Obama’s hastily concocted package is the first step towards the creation of a quasi-socialist welfare state.
Even Mickey Kaus, a prominent liberal blogger, has denounced what he describes as the “get more people on welfare” provisions of Obama’s bill. Writing at Slate, the political website, Kaus said: “Lack of jobs isn’t a reason to loosen work requirements . . . Have the Dems never heard of ‘workfare’?
“Give recipients useful community service work, and if they do the work, then they get the [welfare] cash.”
Returning to Chicago for the first time since his inauguration last month, there were other pressing matters on Obama’s mind – not to mention the minds of millions of Americans still enthralled by his every move. Where would he take his wife Michelle for a romantic Valentine’s dinner? How much time would he spend in the gym? Would he fit in a game of basketball?
Opinion polls last week showed that for all his administration’s errors in his first three weeks in office, the new president has lost little of his personal appeal. He continues to enjoy an average 64% approval rating.
Yet after another fracas over the withdrawal of the Republican senator Judd Gregg as Obama’s choice for commerce secretary – the second time a nominee has given up the post – Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was obliged to insist that it was not “amateur hour” at the White House.
Obama also stumbled over a curious claim that his stimulus plan would enable Caterpillar, one of America’s leading manufacturers of heavy earth-moving equipment, to start rehiring workers. He was promptly contradicted by the company’s chief executive, who said he had no such intention and was planning more lay-offs.
The dangers are beginning to pile up for the novice president and his struggling economic crew. Tim Geithner, his treasury secretary, tripped up with opaque attempts to explain how the administration would fix the banking crisis, while from every corner of the country there were alarming indications that increased government intervention in the lives of ordinary Americans could prove an invitation to waste.
In Wisconsin, the state that forged a pioneering path in welfare reforms in the 1990s, residents were astonished by a newspaper investigation that disclosed that a $340m (£236m) programme offering taxpayer-financed child care to low-income working parents was riddled with fraud and expensive loopholes.
In one case, a family of four sisters who had 17 children between them put all of them together, took it in turns to babysit them and over the past three years claimed $540,000 (£374,000) in perfectly legal state childcare subsidies.
Examples like that fuel American suspicion that so-called “big government” invariably turns out to be inefficient, expensive and easily exploitable. And there has been no bigger government action in the US than the stimulus package presented by Obama.
Few dispute the need for some kind of stimulus, but has Obama got the details right? The Republicans do not think so and, led by Gregg, they are already shunning the president’s bipartisan overtures.
Perhaps more worrying for the president is that some of his natural liberal supporters are not feeling all that confident either. In a telling commentary last week, Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel prize-winning economist, declared that Obama’s stimulus victory “feels more than a bit like defeat”.
Krugman added: “I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach – a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years.”
As Obama celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday with a return to his Chicago home for a private weekend with family and friends, his success in piloting a $785 billion (£546 billion) stimulus package through Congress was being overshadowed by warnings that an unprecedented increase in welfare spending would undermine two decades of bipartisan attempts to reduce dependency on government handouts.
Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton's 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history.
Douglas Besharov, author of a big study on welfare reform, said the stimulus bill passed by Congress and the Senate in separate votes on Friday would “unravel” most of the 1996 reforms that led to a 65% reduction in welfare caseloads and prompted the British and several other governments to consider similar measures.
Though some researchers have questioned the true impact of Clinton’s “workfare” reforms, they were wildly popular with millions of US taxpayers tired of subsidising what many saw as a generation of slackers.
Despite dire warnings that reduced benefits for single mothers and deadlines on entitlement would create a social calamity – one liberal senator warned at the time that children would be “sleeping on grates” – the 1996 reforms cut welfare rolls from more than 5m families in 1995 to below 2m a decade later without a discernible increase in hardship.
In the American political lexicon, welfare has since become a dirty word – often referred to as the W word – and nothing arouses US tabloid ire more than the hint that taxpayers’ money is being wasted.
When it emerged that Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets born in Los Angeles last month, was a “single mom” with six children already and was relying on welfare assistance, she was transformed overnight from fertility goddess to the target of death threats.
Obama argued last week that his bill was essential for reviving the US economy and protecting victims of the credit crunch. Yet his Republican rivals have seized on the billions lavished on new welfare spending to stir the conservative faithful from their postelection misery and reunite the opposition.
“If you like government dependence, you will love the plan they are jamming through Congress,” declared Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Rector, a senior scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, argued that Obama’s spending proposals in effect encouraged individual states to add more families to their welfare rolls; the more Americans sign on to the dole, the more state budgets will benefit from US Treasury payouts.
“They have completely overturned the fiscal and policy foundations of welfare reform,” Rector complained.
Supporters of the bill argue that the current crisis is so grave that intellectual quibbling about the nature of welfare has to take second place to the upheaval transforming millions of American lives.
“How can you tell someone who has lost his income to look for another job if there aren't any more jobs?” asked one Obama backer.
While some scholars are beginning to suspect that Clinton’s welfare reforms were fatally flawed – or at least viable only during an economic boom – Republicans are not alone in fearing that Obama’s hastily concocted package is the first step towards the creation of a quasi-socialist welfare state.
Even Mickey Kaus, a prominent liberal blogger, has denounced what he describes as the “get more people on welfare” provisions of Obama’s bill. Writing at Slate, the political website, Kaus said: “Lack of jobs isn’t a reason to loosen work requirements . . . Have the Dems never heard of ‘workfare’?
“Give recipients useful community service work, and if they do the work, then they get the [welfare] cash.”
Returning to Chicago for the first time since his inauguration last month, there were other pressing matters on Obama’s mind – not to mention the minds of millions of Americans still enthralled by his every move. Where would he take his wife Michelle for a romantic Valentine’s dinner? How much time would he spend in the gym? Would he fit in a game of basketball?
Opinion polls last week showed that for all his administration’s errors in his first three weeks in office, the new president has lost little of his personal appeal. He continues to enjoy an average 64% approval rating.
Yet after another fracas over the withdrawal of the Republican senator Judd Gregg as Obama’s choice for commerce secretary – the second time a nominee has given up the post – Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was obliged to insist that it was not “amateur hour” at the White House.
Obama also stumbled over a curious claim that his stimulus plan would enable Caterpillar, one of America’s leading manufacturers of heavy earth-moving equipment, to start rehiring workers. He was promptly contradicted by the company’s chief executive, who said he had no such intention and was planning more lay-offs.
The dangers are beginning to pile up for the novice president and his struggling economic crew. Tim Geithner, his treasury secretary, tripped up with opaque attempts to explain how the administration would fix the banking crisis, while from every corner of the country there were alarming indications that increased government intervention in the lives of ordinary Americans could prove an invitation to waste.
In Wisconsin, the state that forged a pioneering path in welfare reforms in the 1990s, residents were astonished by a newspaper investigation that disclosed that a $340m (£236m) programme offering taxpayer-financed child care to low-income working parents was riddled with fraud and expensive loopholes.
In one case, a family of four sisters who had 17 children between them put all of them together, took it in turns to babysit them and over the past three years claimed $540,000 (£374,000) in perfectly legal state childcare subsidies.
Examples like that fuel American suspicion that so-called “big government” invariably turns out to be inefficient, expensive and easily exploitable. And there has been no bigger government action in the US than the stimulus package presented by Obama.
Few dispute the need for some kind of stimulus, but has Obama got the details right? The Republicans do not think so and, led by Gregg, they are already shunning the president’s bipartisan overtures.
Perhaps more worrying for the president is that some of his natural liberal supporters are not feeling all that confident either. In a telling commentary last week, Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel prize-winning economist, declared that Obama’s stimulus victory “feels more than a bit like defeat”.
Krugman added: “I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach – a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years.”
I didn't sign up for this...
Posted at Whitehouse.gov…. By executive order, president Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
Yes, avowed suicide bombers being paid to come to the USA.
Here are Barack Obama's most recent actions.
1. His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
2. His first one on one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
3. He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
4. He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
5. He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and 9/11.
6. And now we learn that he is allowing Palestinian refuges to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
See the money....read about it. WOW, we are in trouble
Right from the Washington Post. Click the image to see it full size...notice, that Obama calls his 'AID" to the poor as payout even though they are technically WELFARE. Its wellfare giving tax credit in the form of $100 million dollars to PEOPLE WHO DONT EVEN PAY TAXES!! ITS DOCUMENTED THAT THEY DON'T...BUT NO, GIVE EM MONEY YOU TOOL!!! Help the poor non-paying illegals, minorities, and downtrodden with MY MONEY!! No thanks you Socialist!
See How your Democrats Work!!!
This is what bi-partisan means when you shut them out of closed doors. Everyone in the Senate and in Congress are CROOKS!!! This cannot be tolerated.
MY Stimulus Plan
Congress approve the 1 Trillion so I am using that as my basis:
300 Million Americans in this country currently. Including every last man woman and child. Pay each and every American $200 thousand dollars. That comes to $600 billion dollars. It LEAVES the congress $400 BILLION dollars to spend on their pork.
Stipulations written into the payout to americans since even the poorest of the poor with a family of 4 would receive $800K!!!
Stipulations:
for the wealthy first: 1. If you earn a combined income of $250K or more, you must either invest 50% into IRAs, the markets, stocks or in business investment. second $100K must be used to payoff personal debt, i.e credit cards, home loan, equity lines, etc. 2. Children of wealthy families under the age of 18: Their respective $200K each must be invested in their higher education through savings accounts, CDs, college funds, or the like. At 18, if they do not go to college, those funds are released to them for their own investments, startup business capital or home buying. 3. Children of wealthy families earning more than $250K that are OVER 18 but still reside with parents, must follow the same investment rules.
for middle class: 1. $200K to each member of the family. $200K for parents can be used at their discretion as long as they prove they earn less than the wealthy teir. Tax benefits for investing the money in the markets, IRAs, paying off home loans and the like. 2. Children under 18 of middle class: their $200K must also be setup for higher education. College funds, savings, etc. Tax incentives attached to those investments to urge their followthrough.
The Poor: 1. All funds used as needed with the understanding that they cannot ride a debt balance. Funds remaining after buying a house/apt, paying off loans, credit cards, utilities, etc must be paid immediately. Once in the black, they can learn how to invest, save and continue cash flow. Tax benefits for using the money for higher education, seeking emplyment, home loan payoffs, or new home purchases. 2. Children of poor under 18: Their $200K must also be saved, earmarked, invested for schooling. $200K could provide education for every kid right through their college.
So...this leaves Uncle Sam with nearly $400Billion in spending as they wish....the federal welfare programs, the commissions, the building renovations etc. Heck, this amount of money doesn't even include the $780 Billion from the TARP fund. The financial sector got their handout and still have the second half waiting.
I know there could be many more stringent guidlines as to what to do with the money given out, but this little ditty puts a sobering spin on how much money Obama is going to spend on "programs" that don't stimulate a thing. wouldn't it be nice to open up the mail and see a check for $800K for you, your wife and two kids. BUT KNOW THIS....OF EVERY DOLLAR OBAMA HAS PROPOSED TO SPEND, ONLY 12 CENTS GOES TO STIMULATING THE ECONOMY AND KICKS IN GROWTH. 88 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR GOES TO GOVT PROGRAMS, GOVT RENOVATION AND WELFARE! 12 CENTS IS FOR AMERICA....88 CENTS IS FOR BIG GOVERNMENT!!
I would wager a bottom dollar that 95% of all americans receiving this kind of "stimulus" would invest, pay off ALL debt, get their kids college paid for TODAY, buy new cars, and start new business....I know I would. I would invest my kids portions wisely, turning each of their $200K into $400K within the next 15 years....so doable if you do some homework. My house would be clear and free...so I would definitely entertain buying a second home for future retirement, vacation or whatever. My credit cards would be at zero. Banks would have all that credit back, interest rates wouls stabilize with the influx of home loans being paid off, and housing would boom.
I would get rid of my old car, and buy two new ones for the family...with better emmissions and mpg. I would upgrade and improve my home, thus improving the quality of my neighborhood, increasing home values.
When my kids are of age, the NEW influx of money for college payments, tuition, housings would kick in and restimulate AGAIN in 15 years, all the while, that money helping the economy while it earned interest and sat in these financial institutions.
If my kids end up not going to college, they now have funds to buy a home, a car, invest on their own in the markets, start a busines or whatever...but it goes back into the american economy...that is if capitalism prevails and socialism dies like we hope.
Anyhow, I know there are lots of pitfalls and caveats to just giving out money, but I think every American would love a crack at thier own destiny rather than trusting Uncle Sam to spend their tax dollars....remember $1400 toilet seats and hammers from the pre-Reagan years? You really think that Obama's financiers are going to save you money on the things they build, the welfare programs they offer or the contractors they hire to build THEIR government buildings that take years and years to finish over the private sector contractors....I think not.
Sure it may be a sillly stimulus plan, but it puts a great perspective on just how much they want to spend on their watch. I truly don't believe the slated and signed off plan of giving america an additional $13 dollars a week in their paychecks will do diddly squat!!! and that's only for the poor worker...I am considered wealthy (not by a long shot technically) and I will be paying out for those workers extra $13/week....my pay will not increase...and neither will yours if you are middle class.
Think about it....just simple math. Of course I jest...I don't think we should be paid....this country was founded on the back of hard working americans. But, when you do some silly math with the amount of money Obama and his tools want to spend (yes spend its not stimulus) it really is an eye opener in dollar amounts.
Stipulations written into the payout to americans since even the poorest of the poor with a family of 4 would receive $800K!!!
Stipulations:
for the wealthy first: 1. If you earn a combined income of $250K or more, you must either invest 50% into IRAs, the markets, stocks or in business investment. second $100K must be used to payoff personal debt, i.e credit cards, home loan, equity lines, etc. 2. Children of wealthy families under the age of 18: Their respective $200K each must be invested in their higher education through savings accounts, CDs, college funds, or the like. At 18, if they do not go to college, those funds are released to them for their own investments, startup business capital or home buying. 3. Children of wealthy families earning more than $250K that are OVER 18 but still reside with parents, must follow the same investment rules.
for middle class: 1. $200K to each member of the family. $200K for parents can be used at their discretion as long as they prove they earn less than the wealthy teir. Tax benefits for investing the money in the markets, IRAs, paying off home loans and the like. 2. Children under 18 of middle class: their $200K must also be setup for higher education. College funds, savings, etc. Tax incentives attached to those investments to urge their followthrough.
The Poor: 1. All funds used as needed with the understanding that they cannot ride a debt balance. Funds remaining after buying a house/apt, paying off loans, credit cards, utilities, etc must be paid immediately. Once in the black, they can learn how to invest, save and continue cash flow. Tax benefits for using the money for higher education, seeking emplyment, home loan payoffs, or new home purchases. 2. Children of poor under 18: Their $200K must also be saved, earmarked, invested for schooling. $200K could provide education for every kid right through their college.
So...this leaves Uncle Sam with nearly $400Billion in spending as they wish....the federal welfare programs, the commissions, the building renovations etc. Heck, this amount of money doesn't even include the $780 Billion from the TARP fund. The financial sector got their handout and still have the second half waiting.
I know there could be many more stringent guidlines as to what to do with the money given out, but this little ditty puts a sobering spin on how much money Obama is going to spend on "programs" that don't stimulate a thing. wouldn't it be nice to open up the mail and see a check for $800K for you, your wife and two kids. BUT KNOW THIS....OF EVERY DOLLAR OBAMA HAS PROPOSED TO SPEND, ONLY 12 CENTS GOES TO STIMULATING THE ECONOMY AND KICKS IN GROWTH. 88 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR GOES TO GOVT PROGRAMS, GOVT RENOVATION AND WELFARE! 12 CENTS IS FOR AMERICA....88 CENTS IS FOR BIG GOVERNMENT!!
I would wager a bottom dollar that 95% of all americans receiving this kind of "stimulus" would invest, pay off ALL debt, get their kids college paid for TODAY, buy new cars, and start new business....I know I would. I would invest my kids portions wisely, turning each of their $200K into $400K within the next 15 years....so doable if you do some homework. My house would be clear and free...so I would definitely entertain buying a second home for future retirement, vacation or whatever. My credit cards would be at zero. Banks would have all that credit back, interest rates wouls stabilize with the influx of home loans being paid off, and housing would boom.
I would get rid of my old car, and buy two new ones for the family...with better emmissions and mpg. I would upgrade and improve my home, thus improving the quality of my neighborhood, increasing home values.
When my kids are of age, the NEW influx of money for college payments, tuition, housings would kick in and restimulate AGAIN in 15 years, all the while, that money helping the economy while it earned interest and sat in these financial institutions.
If my kids end up not going to college, they now have funds to buy a home, a car, invest on their own in the markets, start a busines or whatever...but it goes back into the american economy...that is if capitalism prevails and socialism dies like we hope.
Anyhow, I know there are lots of pitfalls and caveats to just giving out money, but I think every American would love a crack at thier own destiny rather than trusting Uncle Sam to spend their tax dollars....remember $1400 toilet seats and hammers from the pre-Reagan years? You really think that Obama's financiers are going to save you money on the things they build, the welfare programs they offer or the contractors they hire to build THEIR government buildings that take years and years to finish over the private sector contractors....I think not.
Sure it may be a sillly stimulus plan, but it puts a great perspective on just how much they want to spend on their watch. I truly don't believe the slated and signed off plan of giving america an additional $13 dollars a week in their paychecks will do diddly squat!!! and that's only for the poor worker...I am considered wealthy (not by a long shot technically) and I will be paying out for those workers extra $13/week....my pay will not increase...and neither will yours if you are middle class.
Think about it....just simple math. Of course I jest...I don't think we should be paid....this country was founded on the back of hard working americans. But, when you do some silly math with the amount of money Obama and his tools want to spend (yes spend its not stimulus) it really is an eye opener in dollar amounts.
How many more SKELETONS??????
THIS is the daughter of Obama's new CIA Director.
Linda Panetta the daughter of Leon Panetta, who was recently named by Barack Hussein Obama to be the new CIA director. More information on Linda Panetta is available via Google.
Linda is a supporter of all the anti-American regimes in this hemisphere. Here she is with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, two sworn enemies of the United States.
She is a radical anti-American activist who wants to close the School of the Americas, considers that American soldiers criminals, and is against any aid to the government of Colombia, our main ally in the region.
Visit some of her websites:
http://www.soawne.org
http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id&&ItemidV
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
TGIF
It's Friday and we learned today yet another Obama pick has some tax skeletons in the closet. Secretary of Labor nominee's husband has had tax liens on his business since 1993....one would think she might ask if his business was in order before she accepted....in light of the other three tax tools nominated. Ha....
My friend Jim and I were having lunch today and we were laughing saying, "can you imagine what Obama says each time this crap comes out?" He must be saying to his wife late at night, "Good God (or maybe Alah ;) ) these people are KILLING me!!"
We also learned today that every amendment that has been offered to help with the Porkapalooza spending package has been shot down without review. From amendments that say we can stimulate the economy for less than $500 billion to halting spending and money being paid back as soon as the economy shows signs of recovery to balancing the budget within 5 years of the recovery...every time, shot down with not even a blink....why you ask, because Palosi says, "we won the election, we write the entire thing and get what we've wanted for the last 40 years". She is SATAN....and is actually scarier looking.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Please Watch. Inspirational is an understatement!!
Simply amazing, and utterly inspiring. Please take time to watch this.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Economy. A time line a Democrat would not want you to see.
Is Barney Frank for real? I cannot believe anyone would give this guy a thing, let alone a job at a car wash. Follow closely what he says in reference to what the Federal Government's role is should Fannie Mae or Freddie Mack get in trouble....its priceless!!
Monday, February 2, 2009
World's "Greatest" Olympian? What a Dope!
So low and behold, at least he may have a few endorsements left....Phelps Wheaties might become a collectors box. LOL
Cool Experiment! Read on....
Only great minds can read this...according to Cambridge University.
This is weird, but interesting!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
If you could read that like I could without any hesitation, apparently we have the brain power of only 1 out of 2 people. maybe the other half isn't part dyslexic like I tend to be. LOL.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Swift Justice. Good for this guy!!!
Swift Justice
Posted to Craig's List Personals:
To the Guy Who Mugged Me Downtown (Downtown, Savannah )
Reply to: pers-982078099@ craigslist. org
I was the white guy with the black Burrberry jacket that you demanded I hand over shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I hope you somehow come across this message. I'd like to apologize.
I didn't expect you to crap your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket. Truth is, I was wearing the jacket for a reason that evening, and it wasn't that cold outside. You see, my girlfriend had just bought me that Kimber 1911.45 ACP pistol for Christmas, and we had just picked up a shoulder holster for it that evening. Beautiful pistol, eh? It's a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head, isn't it?
I know it probably wasn't a great deal of fun walking back to wherever you'd come from with that brown sludge flopping about in your pants. I'm sure it was even worse since you also ended up leaving your shoes, cellphone, and wallet with me. I couldn't have you calling up any of your buddies to come help you try to mug us again. I took the liberty of calling your mother, or "Momma" as you had her listed in your cell, and explaining to her your situation. I also bought myself some gas on your card. I gave your shoes to one of the homeless guys over by Vinnie Van Go Go's, along with all of the cash in your wallet, then I threw the wallet itself in a dumpster.
I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cell. They'll be on your bill in case you'd like to know which ones. Alltel recently shut down the line, and I've only had the phone for a little over a day now, so I don't know what's going on with that. I hope they haven't permanently cut off your service. I was about to make some threatening phone calls to the DA's office with it. Oh well.
So, about your pants. I know that I was a little rough on you when you did this whole attempted mugging thing, so I'd like to make it up to you. I'm sure you've already washed your pants, so I'd like to help you out. I 'd like to reimburse you for the detergent you used on the pants. What brand did you use, and was it liquid or powder? I'd also like to apologize for not killing you and instead making you walk back home humiliated. I'm hoping that you'll reconsider your choice of path in life. Next time you might not be so lucky. If you read this message, email me and we'll do lunch and laundry. Peace!
- Alex
WOW! Predator X "Makes Trex look like a puppydog"
This is too cool. Researchers have unearthed a new species of dinosaur that is 5X the size of Tyrannosaurus Rex!! They say, "This will make the Trex look like a puppy dog". Just as a reference, the skull is approximately 2 times as large as any trex skull found....I for one, will be checking out this show going to air in spring of this year....check out this teaser. Cool!
I'm Confused
I'M CONFUSED!
How can 2 million Americans get in and out of
Washington DC in sub zero temps in 1 day when 200,000
couldn’t get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four
days notice?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Palosi Wants your retirement taxed to give to "the poor"
Windfall Tax on Retirement Income
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............
Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.
Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unempl oyed Minorities!
This woman is frightening.
She quotes...'We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?),in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.' (Read that quote again and again and let it sink in. 'Lower yo ur retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.
Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house!
Monday, January 26, 2009
America. Pay Attention!!!!
America, you better pay close attention. Either stand up for our rights or be poised to be seen like these people on TV:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Law of the Garbage Truck - Read!!
Law of the Garbage Truck
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a car pulled out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
Have a blessed, garbage-free day!
But know....there is a TIME and PLACE to definitely 'Take Out The Trash'... ;)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
iPhones iBlogger sweet!
Testing out my iBlogger app on my iPhone. This is too cool. Thoughts and photos posted to your blogs any time anywhere with this phone from the future. All hail iPhones!!
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