Government in Exile

Is American Culture Dying?

"Ernie" has some thoughts of the demise of American culture.

Obama made it very clear in his 2008 campaign that he was going to fundamentally transform America.  He didn't say how, or what he was going to transform it to, but after 5 years of this disastrous administration we have a pretty clear idea. 

 

     As much as he'd like to take full responsibility for what's befallen us as a country and a people, this ideology really started long before his regime took office.  You can go all he way back to that Woodrow Wilson, the nation's first "progressive" statists who preached the growth and power of the government.  But wait, let's not forget Teddy Roosevelt.  For all his admirable qualities, he was the first conservationist president who took millions of acres out of the private sector and gave it to the government to "preserve the natural environment".  

 

     Back to the "how" part of the transformation, that too was designed and implemented back in the FDR days.  It began with the work projects designed to defeat the Great Depression.  What it really did was transfer personal responsibility to various government welfare programs.  Though the media gave him full credit for ending the depression, it was the second world war that put America back on a path for economic growth, primarily by creating a massive industrial revolution.  

 

     It was FDR's charisma that began transforming the media from journalism to the propaganda wing of the democrat party.  That situation has grown out of control and probably irreversible.  In addition the "progressives" gained control of the educational system and eventually the entertainment industry.  The influence of these 3 entities to implement Obama's ideology is insurmountable.

 

     Most recently beginning with Clinton and exploding under the Obama regime, the fuel that runs the "transformation" engine is in these new phrases....Political Correctness (PC) and diversity.  As with integration, affirmative action, Head Start, quotas and numerous other welfare programs, the lower classes (primarily blacks) were going to be freed from their slavery mentality and lifted up to become part of the great American culture.  Such things as learning about personal responsibility, love for country, work ethic, career opportunities, unity with other ethic groups, Christian values, etc.  You know, the culture that made Americans proud and productive for 150 years.  Has it worked?  Absolutely not.  School integration didn't lift the black culture up, it brought their inner city culture into public schools and helped destroy the best educational system in the world.  But we cater to this backsliding into the abyss in the name of diversity and PC.  As a result the number of blacks feeding at the government trough has skyrocketed, new welfare programs keep on coming, and America is on the verge of bankruptcy.

 

    But this destruction of the proud American culture doesn't stop there.  Look at the worlds of music and sports.  Music is nothing more than drug enhanced screaming, and sports arenas have become the Roman coliseums of the new century.  Sportsmanship has been replaced with endzone dances, chest pounding, trash talking, tattoos, body piercing, in-your-face boasting, and other inner city inventions. 

 

     Add to this the influx of hispanics flooding across the border.  Again in the names of PC and diversity, we have to let them bring their cultures with them, and sacrifice our American culture and traditions to accommodate theirs.  Heaven help us as the Islamic influence continues to grow and begins crowding out Christianity, Judaism and American traditions.  Come to think of it, it's already happening.  Are you ready for Shariah law?  You wouldn't want to offend the people who are trying to destroy us, now would you?

 

    Abandoning the tradition of the proud American culturalism that built this country into the worlds most powerful, wealthiest, freest, most compassionate (internationally & domestically) and innovative nation in the history of mankind, we are dooming the country to failure.  Just like Greece, Spain, Italy, and most of the other Euro Zone, only worse.  When the giant falls, the noise is much louder, the destruction more devastating.   

 

     Would the last person left alive please turn out the lights?     

Are Physicians Turning Away Patients Because of ObamaCare?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on ObamaCare.

An article by the Washington Post today reported that many cancer physicians were turning away Medicare patients because of the sequestration cuts.  Naturally the Post..being a propoganda rag for the WH... slanted the article by claiming the cuts were due to the republicans refusing to negotiate with lib/dems to stop the sequester from going into effect.  The subtle accusation being that republicans would rather let our seniors die than "reach across the aisle" to negotiate with the all-caring, all-compassionate libs who just want to save the lives of our precious senior citizens.  The truth appears to be that libs would rather let our seniors die than stop ObamaCare from robbing the Medicare system.  After all, most of the elderly vote republican.

  

It's obvious the far left is going to blame the sequester and the republicans for all economic suffering in the country from ending WH tours to reducing the number of border patrol agents on our Mexican border.  I guess if N.Korea throws a missle at us it will be the fault of the GOP's sequestration.   Their comrades in the media will be only too willing to "spread the word".

The Post article failed to mention that ObamaCare robbed $716B from Medicare in order to fund ObamaCare.  That $716B is a whole lot bigger number than the 2% budget cuts that "could" be assessed by the sequester against MediCare.  Please note that the sequester says the cuts "could be"...not "would be"...cut.  That insinuates that the cuts are not mandatory.  They further failed to mention that the 2% cuts were not cuts from the Medicare budget, but rather cuts from the projected 6% rate of growth of the budget.  It didn't mention anything about the WH budget for 2013 already 2 months late, with no anticipated submission date in sight.  But what the heck, he hasn't submitted and passed a budget in 5 years.  How you supposed to do that and campaign at the same time?  Not to mention those golf outings and luxury vacations that have to be fit into his schedule.

It's obvious that truthfulness has taken a leave of absence from the Obama administration and the media.  The media is not as guilty of blatant lying as Obama, but rather lean more towards the side of "lying by omission".  In other words, don't print or broadcast anything that would hinder Obama's ideological agenda of destroying America as planned and taught by Cloward and Piven at Columbia U.  (Obama was one of their most attentive students).  They outlined a plan for destroying our economy by overloading the entitlement system via welfare, nationalized health care, strangling the private sector, and other assorted gov't expenditures.   If  the media feels forced to at least mention such WH indiscretions you'll find them on page 46 or in a once only 30-second clip on the news.  Forget MSNBC reporting any such thing, Matthews is still giddy over the tingling in his leg.

Have the Republicans Given Up on the Budget?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on the RHINO Republicans

     Well, the "doormat Republicans" are at it again.  Boehner and the gang came out today and agreed with Obama that the debt crisis was not yet an immediate crisis.  This follows last week's declaration that they don't have to sacrifice the budget in order to save ObamaCare.   If our financial situation isn't an "immediate" crisis, what the heck would does an immediate crisis look like?  As if that weren't enough, he also confided that while he and Obama had differences, their relationship was based on trust.  Are you kidding me?  He trusts a president who lies through his teeth with virtually every public utterance he makes?  This is the guy (Boehner) we want leading the republican party? 

 

     Boehner says he doesn't want a budget with increased taxes, but is willing to cut loopholes in order to balance the budget.  Does that include marriage benefits?  Contribution deductions?  Deductions for interest on home purchases?  And on and on?  Who knows?  He wasn't clear on those issues.  He thinks (and GOP leadership thinks) that if they just say the words "no tax increases" often enough that they can fool people into thinking they're really standing up to the wannabe dictator, Barry Obama.  It sure worked for Bush-1.

 

     The sequester was yet another moment of brilliance for Boehner and the wet noodle crowd.  He said on Hannity (and other places) that he supported a continuing resolution in order to keep the government funded.  Scuse me, but I thought funding this insatiable, oversized, largely worthless government was the problem.  The continuing resolution simply means providing temporary funding of gov't agencies if a formal resolution hasn't been passed.  Of course Obama was out there scaring the beejeebers out of people in an effort to make them believe that the GOP was going to shut down the government.  I'm sure the low-information voters bought it.  No more SS, fed salaries, MediCare, money for the military, etc., and all because of conservatives.  (The TEA Party people to be exact).   Gingrich and other conservatives proved that not passing a continuing resolution might shut down the gov't for a few days, but it also led to a congressional resolution to balance the budget.  (For which Clinton took all the accolades). 

 

     Can you believe that last week I received yet another request to donate to the RNC so they could support these doormat republicans in the next election?  The same group who couldn't figure out how to defeat the worst president in the history of the nation?  Now they're going to figure out how to save the House?  And they have the nerve to ask me if I've abandoned the republican party? Naturally I again had to return their request form (void of any contribution) with another scathing memo as to why I'm no longer supporting RINOs or any organization that defends and supports them.   They abandoned me, I didn't abandon them. 

 

 

Is the Republican Party Dying?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on the Republican party.

 Accounts of the pending death of the Republican party may not be far from wrong.  It must be comforting to libs knowing all they have to do is stand by and watch as the GOP goes about destroying itself...and without any help from them.

     Rand Paul took a stand regarding Brennan and the use of drones inside the US with a 9-hour filibuster.  It was courageous and necessary, especially after the appointments of Kerry and Hagel.   ( A known liar and a closet anti-semite).  Ironically, the dems didn't have much to say about Paul's action, seeming content to let the progressive republican RINOs attempt to discredit and even destroy him politically.  The first to jump on him was McCain, a 2-time loser for the White House, and someone whose usefulness to the conservative movement is zilch.  When Paul responded, McCain jumped on him again claiming Paul was going against the GOP and trying to appeal to young pro-liberalism college students in their dorms.  These are the same critics who complain that the GOP has lost the youth vote.  Which is it, John?  Is appealing to college students good or bad?

     The next notable critic was Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard.  His comments must have made Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan turn over in their graves.  Anyway, thanks Bill and John for giving the dems plenty of soundbytes to use in the 2014 election.  You may not realize it yet, but Obama's going to come out all guns blazing the win back the House.  God forbid that he and his Marxist pals ever get control of the House, the Senate, the Judiciary and the executive branches. Can you imagine?  Who would be left to stop him from totally destroying the constitution, the economy, the conservatives, the military, and most likely the 22nd amendment?  Please don't tell me our saviors will be McConnell, Boehner, Kristol, McCain and the rest of the progressive republicans.  Or as I like to refer to them...the doormat wing of the Democrat party.

 

     Just because the GOP is devouring itself, don't think that the dems will just fall over laughing and not do anything to help out.  The trashing of Paul, Lee, Cruz and all other TEA Party types is just beginning.  When the libs are so good at destroying their political enemies, can you possibly believe they won't get Hollywood, the state run media and the Oprah Winfrey types geared up for an onslaught against GOP opponents in 2014?  They were all too busy singing the praises of that great statesman, humanitarian multibillionaire, Hugo Chavez. 

 

     Let us not forget, in this next election the prize is the House, not the White House.  The few conservatives left breathing need to stand up and be counted.  The future of the country is at stake.

Do the Democrats Understand the Economic Crisis?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on Steny-Hoyer.

 Another incredible, costly and unnecessary undertaking by the Obama regime.  This one coming from Steny Hoyer and Barbara Lee, 2 democrat-socialists who can't seem to grasp the seriousness of our economic crisis.  Not to mention their oblivious disregard for facts that are right before their eyes.  No telling how many billions of dollars we're talking about here, but what's a few billions among Obama low information supporters?

     This is a program introduced by Rep. Hoyer, and Rep. Barbara Lee will chair the worthless undertaking.  In recent remarks she complained that we spend millions sending military people to war colleges and to all kinds of specialized training for the purpose of making war.  Strategies are developed and implemented by all branches of the military, and are of very little practical use.  Her logic?  Why not develop a task force to attack poverty and violence?  That would be money much better spent.  Since these two are not atuned enough to understand what's going on in the country, I thought I owed it to them to offer some helpful enlightment. 

     First let's look at the task force "mission statement" designed to help the poor. 

 

1.    New opportuities for the most vulnerable.   Anybody got any idea what that means?  Yeah, more taxes.

2.    Access to affordable education.  Ever hear of quotas, affirmative action Pell Grants, etc?  

3.    Succeeding in the job market.  How about first getting an education, then a job, then some initiative and then just a dash of dependability?  Wouldn't that help achieve success in the job market?. 

4.    Attain home ownership.  Ever hear of the fed-enforced mortgage bubble that almost wrecked Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, banks and home lending agencies?   Apparently not,but then that was all George Bush's fault, right?

5.    Coordinate federal/state/local taxpayer funded anti-poverty program.  What?  Anybody think the feds can actually coordinate anything other than smear campaigns against the hapless republicans?

6.    Ensure stronger oversight of anti-poverty programs by the feds.  (See #5).

7.    Remove barriers preventing the poor from reaching the middle class.  (See #3).

 

     There is no way a reasonable, intelligent manager-type could take this list and do anything with it but laugh.  This is all more liberal democrat BS that will create a new over-staffed department spending millions/billions of dollars with no results to show for it.  More good intentions with disastrous results.

     As for Ms. Lee's criticism of the military planning and strategizing, I've got a suggestion for the low-information Representative.  Instead of ending military preparedness, why not send our law enforcement personnel to these same "war colleges" so they can use military expertise in cleaning out the heavily armed gangs, drug dealers, and other vermin from our inner cities?.  How about forcing men to pay child support for the herds of children they produce?  How about teaching something in schools beside socialism, black history, the joys of homosexuality, Debby has 2 mommies, and other far left BS?  How about forcing the entertainment industry (movies, TV, music, video games) to clean up their act and quit force-feeding filth and violence on our kids?  How about shutting down our borders and making it mandatory for all legal immigrants learn English?

     And just a thought, but  why not deport every illegal back to Mexico who's found out for whatever reason?  If we get all, or most all of the illegals out of the country, seal the borders, stop paying minorities not to work....I think all those jobs going to latinos would quickly be grabbed up by minorities.  Hunger has a way of doing that.

     And last but not least, let's conside outsourcing our prisons.  Build them in Mexico, Brazil, Africa or wherever.  After all, the cost to build would be much cheaper; the cost of employees would be far less; the cost to maintain them would be less;  and surely foreign countries couldn't do any worse managing a government agency than we do:  And best of all, when the prisoners have served their time they would be released back into their homelands that they love so much.  

Obama's Budget Apocalypse

"Ernie" has some thoughts on Obama's brinkmanship.

Obama is still raving about how the GOP (primarily the TEA Party members) is going to force the government to make drastic budget cuts in the military, Medicare and Social Security. (Never mind the fact the he and his dem menions are the ones who forced the sequestration on us as a kick-the-can-down-the-road move last summer).   According to the emir this will cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their jobs, and deprive health care to the children and the elderly.  (Neither of which votes dem, by the way).  Obviously he's suggesting that the GOP would be responsible for any deaths that might occur.  And why is the GOP doing this?  According to Obama it's to "take care" of their rich 1%'ers at the expense of the middle class.  Ah yes, there goes that class warfare again.  He's so good at it.

   Being a novice at setting federal departmental budgets, I'll make an attempt to suggest other ways to reduce the out-of-control spending by liberals in DC.  (And these don't even include the billions that're wasted or stolen every year).  Consider the following:

1.  He has 57 Czars with a total annual budget in excess of $40.7 billion.  That includes:

     a.   Salaries for Czars of $8.1 B.

     b.   Staff salaries of $18.9 B.

     c.   Office space of $4.8 B. 

     d.   Travel in excess of $40.7 B.

     Now the big question.  Does anybody have any idea what these people do, why they're doing it, and what purpose it serves?

2.  The EPA has 73.4 thousand employees with an annual budget of $9 B (2011).  But the real expense is what they've done to American industry with new regulations, laws, executive orders and other job killing, economy busting "Cap & Trade" objectives.  As the coal industry, the Keystone Pipeline, offshore oil drilling, domestic oil drilling, natural gas development and other carbon based energy sources what the Obama regime has done to them. 

3.   The DOEd has about 5k employees with an annual budget of $12B.   What does this department do other than spend tax payer money to implement "diversity" programs (i.e., promoting homosexuality, same sex marriage, abortions, evil white people, open borders, poor enslaved blacks, etc) at the expense of massive failings internationally regarding stupid things like science, math, engineering, American histlory, economics and other nonessentials in a country where the gov't will provide everything for us.

4.   Last but not least, the worthless DOEnergy.  Remember this department was originally formed to make us independent of foreign energy sources.  This waste of taxpayer money has over 16k federal employees with an annual budget of $30B.  (Also see #2).

Obama has figured out how to bypass congress by the use of Czars, regulations, executive orders and recess appointments.  (The latter includes most of his Czars).    Last question.  What does it take to impeach someone for (a) total incompetence and/or (b) an agenda aimed at destroying the USA?

Women in Combat: Felony Stupid

By Matt Barber   The term “moronic” is defined as “notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.” It is frequently used as an insult. The Obama administration is moronic. This is not an insult. President Obama’s latest “notably stupid” stoke of America’s calculated slow burn is the decision to lift the ban on women in direct combat. Along with the move a few years back to turn the Officers’ Club into the Blue Oyster Bar, this most recent social experiment with national security represents one small step for the “progressive” agenda and one giant prance toward the pansification of the greatest military in world history. It’s a jaw-dropping “lack in good judgment.” In 1991 the late Gen. Robert H. Barrow, former commandant of the Marine Corps, gave compelling testimony on the subject before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee. He stated, “If you want to make a combat unit ineffective, assign some women to it. … In three wars – World War II, Korea and Vietnam – I found no place for women to be down in the ground combat element,” he concluded. In a recent column headlined “Women in Ground Combat,” Bing West, former Marine officer and assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, notes that, during his testimony, Gen. Barrow “cited the 1950 fighting retreat from the Chosin Reservoir in temperatures of minus 20 degrees, with one Marine division pitted against eight Chinese divisions. Had women comprised 15 percent of his division, Barrow concluded, the Marines would have lost the battle. ‘The very nature of women disqualifies them from doing it (killing so brutally),’ Barrow said. ‘Women give life, sustain life, nurture life; they don’t take it.’” Evidently, Gen. Barrow never met one of today’s abortion-worshiping feminist “Flukes” of nature. Still, they only kill innocent children who can’t fight back. In short, Gen. Barrow observed that opening the front lines to, um, “infantrywomen” would not only cost precious American lives, it would ultimately “destroy the Marine Corps.” Now, I know, who the heck do Barrow and West think they are, right? Did they ever bravely serve God and country as a glorified teacher’s assistant at Harvard Law? I think not. Did they ever do “a little blow,” march with the Black Panthers, “organize their communities” into welfare-dependent hellholes, or drink lattes with “Marxist professors and the structural feminists”? No. Sheesh. Even so, despite an obvious lack of credibility on combat readiness and a meager century or so in combined service, I think we should at least humor them a bit. “To Barrow, a warrior admired by three generations of grunts,” wrote West, “ground combat meant killing under the harshest of circumstances. Barrow opposed the incorporation of women into infantry units characterized by primal instincts: sleeping, defecating, eating, and smelling like wolf packs while hunting down and slaughtering male soldiers.” That’s the problem with political correctness – with liberalism in general. It raises a pseudo-utopian barrier to reality. Often times that barrier is deadly. This is what happens when a gaggle of left-wing civilian politicians who don’t know which end of the gun goes “bang!” are placed in charge of national security. These yahoos couldn’t bust a grape with a sledge hammer, let alone lift a sledge hammer. This is what happens when we allow “progressives” to deconstruct our culture by imposing, through public policy, the fantastical delusion of a “genderless society.” I fully support women learning self-defense and packing heat for protection. I’ve known a number of gals so tough that, for his own safety, a fellow would be better served to break it off via text message should the relationship go south. Still, as a former professional boxer and police officer, and having served 12 years in the armed services myself, I can say this without equivocation: While there may be the extremely rare anecdotal exception, in direct one-on-one military combat, the toughest, baddest, meanest chick out there is going to get stomped by the weakest infantryman. This is life and death stuff. Women are no more made for the front lines than men are made for childbearing. Don’t get me wrong – I love women. I’m married to a woman and am on the hook for two future weddings of future women who, admittedly, have me hopelessly wrapped around pink-polished little fingers. Even so, if I’m on the front lines and Ahmed, Abdul and Hakeem come charging with fixed bayonets, I danged sure want Billy Bob, not Barbara, in my foxhole. This doesn’t even scratch the surface. What of the sensitive dynamics of sex and jealousy? How about the reality that, despite feminist protestations to the contrary, chivalry is not dead? Men are naturally wired to protect the weaker sex, even if it runs counter to combat mission. Honorable men will drop everything to protect a woman, even if it means dying in the process. If the presence of women is not a factor, than neither is sex, jealousy or chivalry (putting aside the whole “gays in the military” debacle). More importantly, if women remain shielded from direct combat, lives are saved and battles are won. Add women, and you add weakness. Both lives and battles are lost. It’s felony stupid. Am I suggesting that the sitting president of the United States is stupid? Not exactly – not in terms of overall intelligence. But, as Momma Gump always said: “Stupid is as stupid does.” I’m sure that Mr. Obama has an average or slightly above average IQ. Still, objectively, measurably – as a point of fact supported by the overwhelming weight of the evidence – this man stupidly, perhaps even seditiously, insists upon circumventing Congress to shovel executive order after executive order atop the Mount St. Helens of dictatorial dung heaps. Eventually it has to blow. The question is no longer whether Barack Obama is weakening every noble aspect of American life, including our military. The question now becomes whether the rest of us will be able to put the pieces back together once this radical lefty is finally back in Hawaii for good – Mai Tai in one hand and leather-bound copy of the Communist Manifesto in the other. The question is whether America will survive Barack Obama.

Bloody Hands: The Southern Poverty Law Center

By Matt Barber   Long before homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) with the intent to commit mass murder, I warned from the rooftops that the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center’s anti-Christian “hate group” propaganda might spur such bloodshed. With a column headlined,“Liberal violence rising,” I wrote, “The SPLC’s dangerous and irresponsible (‘hate group’) disinformation campaign can embolden and give license to like-minded, though less stable, left-wing extremists, creating a climate of true hate. Such a climate is ripe for violence.” Tragically, my deepest fears were realized. Then, in August, days after Corkins was heroically disarmed by FRC employ Leo Johnson, whom Corkins shot in the arm, I penned another column titled “Fanning the flames of left-wing violence.” I plead with the SPLC to end its “dishonest and reprehensible” strategy of “juxtaposing FRC and other Christian organizations with violent extremist groups” in a transparent effort to marginalize them. “I appeal to your sense of goodwill. This is not a game. Lives are at stake,” I implored. “I know you have good employees (I’ve met some) who believe they’re doing the right thing; so, please, validate that belief. It’s time to remove your metaphorical ‘hate group’ Star of David from mainstream Christian organizations before another of your ideological allies spills blood.” I no longer believe the SPLC has a sense of goodwill. In fact, based on FBI evidence and the group’s own actions (and inaction), I and many others are left with no other inference but this: The SPLC – a left-wing extremist fundraising behemoth – may be intentionally inciting anti-Christian violence. Just days ago, Corkins pled guilty to a number of charges, including domestic terrorism. FBI evidence revealed that he was both motivated by and utilized the SPLC’s “anti-gay hate map” to target and locate his intended Christian mass murder victims. Further evidence reveals that the “hate map” – more accurately labeled “hit map” – even provided the exact location of FRC and other Christian groups found on Corkins’ hit-list with little red dots to helpfully pinpoint their precise locations. Corkins told the FBI after the shooting that he intended to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches (which he brought with him) in victims’ faces.” Prosecutors said that he planned to leave FRC after the attack and go to another conservative group to continue his reign of terror. A handwritten list of three other groups was found with his belongings while an investigation of Corkins’ computer revealed that he identified his targets on the SPLC website. The other groups were also maliciously listed by the SPLC as “hate groups.” Motive to kill? Fomented. Who to kill? Provided. Where to kill? Pinpointed, with easy access to driving directions. The only thing the SPLC did not do was purchase Corkins’ gun and drive him to the crime scene. Here’s why, to my own aghast bewilderment, I’m left with little choice but to believe the SPLC may be intentionally inciting anti-Christian violence. As noted by the FRC, “Even after an attempted mass murder of the FRC staff, the ‘hate map’ is still prominently featured on the SPLC website today – which shocks most conservative pundits.” “Shocks” is an understatement. “When Congresswoman Giffords and several others were shot in Arizona by Jared Loughner, the left went into overdrive blaming Sarah Palin for a map that had a list of political targets on it. After the fact, we learned that Loughner was apolitical and he clearly had not used Sarah Palin’s map of political targets. That did not stop the left from blaming the right,” noted RedState’s Erick Erickson. “By the way, Palin took down her target map after the controversy. The Southern Poverty Law Center? Crickets …” What other explanation is there? I understand that it’s difficult to admit you’re wrong, especially when the scheme seemed so delicious at the time. But once FBI evidence conclusively proves that you were, to a large degree, responsible for inciting an act of domestic terrorism, most reasonable people would take a deep breath, take a step back, admit fault and hobble forward in an effort to rehabilitate a reputation in ruin. Is the SPLC a left-wing extremist group? Absolutely. Are they anti-Christian? Without a doubt. But few would have believed, until now, that they might intentionally, with malice aforethought, seek to incite anti-Christian bloodshed. Scandalously, the Obama administration continues to maintain deep ties with this radical organization. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has a long history of maliciously slandering pro-family groups with language and labels that incite hatred and undermine civil discourse,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “In the issues of family and marriage, Christians are literally in the crosshairs of radical homosexual activists, and the SPLC is fueling the hatred and providing the targets. The SPLC should be held accountable for its reckless acts. Even more disturbing than the SPLC’s irresponsible behavior is the fact that the Obama administration is in bed with this group,” said Staver. “It is ironic that Christians who believe in natural marriage have been isolated by radical homosexual activists and demonized as ‘homophobes’ and ‘haters,’” he concluded. Weeks before Corkins pleaded guilty of terrorism and assault with intent to kill, a study from the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point entitled “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far Right” said the “violent far right” exhibits an intense fear or dislike of foreign people, “including people with alternative sexual preferences.” The SPLC’s warped view of reality has been adopted by the Obama administration. “What the SPLC and other homosexual activists are doing is intentional and dangerous,” said Staver. “It is time to end the dangerous rhetoric and resume a civil discourse on the subject of natural marriage and morality.” Indeed if, God forbid, this SPLC “hate group” propaganda leads to another act of left-wing terrorism like that at FRC, this dangerous group should be held legally – perhaps even criminally liable. In the meantime, to the media, I say this: If you dare, even for a moment, give any credence whatsoever to this deadly SPLC “hate group” nonsense, you too will have blood on your hands. SPLC, you’re no longer fooling anyone. Stop fooling yourselves.

How Bad is the Economy?

"Peter" has some thoughts on the new economic report.

Please tell me why I should slog through its 74 pages.

 

CBO Issues Stunning Report on Economy | Economic Report | Fox Nation

 

CBO | The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023

 

People who have read it and reported on the radio today (Rush Limbaugh, Tom Sullivan, etc. ) said that this report wants us to accept the following:

If the Republicans get their way and manage to reduce expenditures, then

* the recession will last longer or we will slide back into the Obama depression

* the deficit will go UP

* the national debt will go UP

 

So, if you spend LESS, you sink DEEPER in debt..... 

And we are not talking about any real CUTS in spending, just a reduction in the RATE of INCREASE in spending....

 

Skimming through the actual CBO report I saw the following: They say the national debt risks rising as high as 77% of GDP. EXCUUUUUSE ME?

 

The debt is ALREADY more than 100% of GDP -- we have a national debt of over 16 trillion, and a GDP of about 15 trillion. What kind of math do you use when 16/15 = 0.77?

 

So please tell me why I should read all 74 pages....

 

The source of this IDIOCY is the way they add up the GDP. Guess what? They count the government's expenditures as a positive contribution to the GDP, as if the government actually produced something of value. They do NOT count the taxes that the government sucks out of the economy as a negative contribution to the GDP. So OF COURSE it looks like SPENDING looks good, the more the merrier...And this IDIOCY comes from supposedly learned and respectable economists?

 

I feel so sorry for my kids and grandkids because THEY will have to live their lives suffering the consequences of the IDIOTS we have elected to office and theMORONS they brought along with them as "experts."

 

Reevaluating America

There is so much political information circulating on the Internet, some true, some not.  This email by and unknown author should make all step back and take stock of this country and our attitudes. 1)   Only in America could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes – be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all. 2)  Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black 3)  Only in America could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes. 4)  Only in America can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash. 5)  Only in America would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens. 6)  Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists." 7)  Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. 8)  Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company(Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes(Nike). 9)  Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money. 10)  Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event. 11)  Only in America can a man with no background, no qualifications and no experience ... and a complete failure at his job ... be reelected.