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When it comes to taxes, more Americans than ever say, 'Pay up'
Daschle's, Geithner's, and Killefer's tax missteps come at time when 89 percent of Americans say it's unacceptable to fudge. The tax woes of three of President Obama’s top-level appointees come at a touchy time.Amid deep economic troubles and taxpayer-funded bailouts and stimulus packages, many Americans are supersensitive to double standards between political and business elites and “the rest of us.”
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Last October, while campaigning in Toledo, Barack Obama called for "a new ethic of responsibility." The nation's economic troubles, he said, occurred partly because "everyone was living beyond their means," including politicians who "spent money they didn't have." In his inaugural address last month, Obama regretted "our collective failure to make hard choices" and heralded "a new era of responsibility."
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The public discourse style of Barack Obama underwent an abrupt shift when hope and change gave way to threat and forewarning. Early on during the campaign, audiences at Obama's primary post-election rallies cried and swooned during his speeches (snip) Obama the President has morphed into something different. Obama the Scolder.
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President Obama used the announcement of restrictions on executive compensation for banks receiving federal aid to remind Congress and the American public who won the election and to push for passage of his recovery plan.
In a reprisal of one of the main themes of his fall campaign, Obama answered critics of his proposed stimulus package -- saying it was not just a plan for short-term spending- and used strong language to urge Congress to "act without delay" in passing the plan.
[I.e., they're using the cover of 'crisis' to sneak through their special-interests paybacks. The more time the public has to learn of this bill, the less it likes it (the numbers are plunging daily) - hence the push to 'act now right now' {sounds just like global warming, doesn't it?}]
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ATLANTA - Americans voice growing concern over the cost of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plans and assail as a weakness the disagreement in Washington over how to spend the money. Two opinion polls show support dwindling. In a Rasmussen Reports survey, 37 percent of Americans backed the legislation in Congress, down from 45 percent two weeks ago, while 43 percent opposed it.
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[Heard on the nightly news last night that support slipped another 3% yesterday, down to 34%]
[Exhibit 'A']
If enacted, the Senate stimulus bill would fund over $100 billion in new government construction projects with the goal of providing additional jobs to unemployed Americans. The House-passed stimulus bill [due only to citizen activism] contains explicit language to bar employment of illegal immigrants in these construction projects.
If the Senate version of the bill becomes law, a great number of the workers employed in government construction programs will, in fact, be illegal immigrants.
[If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again]
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Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that the president’s economic stimulus bill is unacceptable to Senate Republicans. ''’No bill’ is better than this bill,'' McCain told CNSNews.com just outside the Senate chamber. (Snip) ''We think payroll tax cuts, according to economists, are the most important way to go.''
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PARIS - The French government will scrap a costly local business tax in 2010 and is ready to consider cutting income tax in an effort to temper the impact of the economic crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday.
[Great: we're forced to look to France for sanity. I guess the laws of economics just work differently over here?]
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We are going in exactly the wrong direction. We ought to be standing on the principles that made this country great. There ought to be a review of every program in the Federal Government that is not effective, that is not efficient, that is wasteful or fraudulent, and we ought to get rid of it right now. We ought to say, Gone, to be able to pay for a real stimulus plan that might, in fact, have some impact.
I would be remiss if I didn't remind everybody that next week we are going to hear from the Obama administration wanting another $500 billion. Outside of this, they are going to want another $500 billion to handle the banking system. Still not fixing the real disease—the pneumonia—we are going to treat the fever or treat the cough, but we are not going to treat the real disease. Until we treat the real disease, this is pure waste. It is worse than pure waste. It is morally reprehensible, because it steals the future of the next two generations. [in future liberties as well as dollars]
I am going to wind up here and finish, but I wanted to spend some time to make sure the American people know what is in this bill. I think once they know what is in this bill, they are going to reject it out of hand. Let me read for my colleagues some of the things that are in this bill...
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WASHINGTON -- The recent debate over the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus plan and revelations of tax problems by three Obama administration appointees have voters angrily jamming phone lines on Capitol Hill to air their frustrations to their elected representatives. (Snip) Capitol operators tell CNN Radio that phone lines have been jammed for the past two weeks, sometimes prompting busy signals.
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Reply 1 - Posted by: hopster, 2/5/2009 4:52:55 AM
Too bad the idiots in Congress don't get it. I paid my mortgage, I pay my taxes. I don't want a bailout, I just want them to keep their hands off of my pocketbook.
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Landslide election wins for Iraq PM
Baghdad - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won landslide victories over Shi'ite rivals in provincial elections, reflecting a seismic shift in the political landscape, preliminary results issued Thursday showed. Results showed big wins for the prime minister's State of Law coalition in the capital Baghdad and the second largest city Basra (Snip) Maliki's allies also scored smaller but substantial victories in eight of nine other Shi'ite provinces in the south.
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It appears from press reports that the generals responsible for Iraq - David Petreaus and Ray Odierno, along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Robert Gates - are lining up in opposition to the president's planned 16 month withdrawal timetable.
CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21.Petraeus was visibly unhappy when he left the Oval Office, according to one of the sources. A White House staffer present at the meeting was quoted by the source as saying, "Petraeus made the mistake [?] of thinking he was still dealing with George Bush instead of with Barack Obama."
Americans fed up with the unbridled endless federal assault on private earnings, assets and rights, and looking for what they can do to put a stop to the rush of socialist tyranny being fast-tracked through the leftist congress, or signed into law by Obamessiah executive order, should take a close look at what the New Hampshire legislature has already done!
Four New Hampshire legislators introduced HCR-6 to re-invoke states rights enumerated in Jefferson’s and Madison’s Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. [2] The resolution is a clear shot across the bow of the New Leftist Administration in Washington DC, which is rushing to expand federal control over every aspect of American life, industry and enterprise.
HCR-6 borrows much of its text from Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions, but adds more specific warnings concerning several real affronts to state and individual rights currently under attack by the new Washington elite. [snip]That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government of United States of America by the Constitution for the United States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America. Acts which would cause such a nullification include, but are not limited to:
I. Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the United States of America without the consent of the legislature of that State.
II. Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
III. Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
IV. Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.
V. Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.
VI. Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition; and
That should any such act of Congress become law or Executive Order or Judicial Order be put into force, all powers previously delegated to the United States of America by the Constitution for the United States shall revert to the several States individually.
The first ten amendments of our constitution, our Bill or Rights, establish very limited powers for the federal government. Amendment IX states that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Amendment X says it all – “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
[If only we were still a nation of law]
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Congressional leaders recently unveiled a draft of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Widely touted as an economic stimulus package, the $825 billion draft legislation includes as much as $142 billion for education -- roughly twice the annual budget of the entire Department of Education. Should it pass, this legislation will dramatically increase the role of the federal government in education, says Dan Lips, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow with the Goldwater Institute.
The plan would spread the funding among early education, K-12 and higher education programs, and in order to access the funding states will have to comply with a host of new regulations. Setting aside the fact that increasing federal spending on education will not improve the economy, and that a federal bailout for state governments is irresponsible, there are a few more reasons that this plan is bad for states:
The liberals are at it again. In a new bill introduced the first day of present session of Congress, and with zero coverage from the MSM.
H.R. 45 (Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009) targets all gun owners in the U.S.A.
It requires, within the first two years, that all new guns be registered. The bill goes retroactive after two years.
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"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."-- Thomas Jefferson
"To disarm the people is the most effective way to enslave them."-- George Mason
With nearly 1.5 million people in the mid-west without power during a cold snap, what other possible reason is there that this new "competent" administration and FEMA would be failing so spectacularly in helping in this natural disaster?
It's got to be that Obama hates white people and wants them to die.
Of course, I am just aping what lefty blogs were saying about Bush less than 24 hours after Katrina's hurricane winds stopped blowing. But AP is reporting that Midwest disaster relief people are none too pleased with our new president's FEMA.
In Kentucky's Grayson County, there are 25 National Guardsmen there to help - but no chain saws to cut away fallen limbs and trees. EM Director Randell Smith is quoted as saying,"We've got people out in some areas we haven't even visited yet, ... We don't even know that they're alive."
Smith is also quoted as saying that FEMA is a "no show."
What's that? Here we are 2 weeks after the storm ended and still no FEMA? I demand a Congressional investigation. And let's get all the anchors and media people down here pronto. People's lives are at stake. For all we know, there are babies being eaten and people jumping off their roofs committing suicide because FEMA is nowhere to be found.
And where is our president? Shouldn't he be visiting these ravaged areas?
Isn't it interesting that now that we have a Democrat as president that all of a sudden, disaster relief is a state and local matter and the federal government should stand aside and allow them to do their jobs?
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The most recent such box office failure of a leftwing film is "Che" which so far has grossed a grand total of only a million bucks. Perhaps the producers knew in advance that this flick would be a bomb which is why it is already available on Pay-Per-View. Remember Oliver Stone's "W?" If you have forgotten it even existed, that is because it died a quick death at the box office immediately upon release last October.
Both of these movies suffered exactly the same fate as all the other leftwing movies produced in the past few years by Hollywood. "Redacted?" DEAD. "Rendition?" DEAD."Syriana?" DEAD. "Stop Loss?" DEAD. And on and on and on it goes. So do you think Hollywood has finally learned its lesson? According to Variety, the answer is no:Warner Bros. has set Aaron Sorkin to write "The Challenge," a courtroom drama about the effort by Swift and Georgetown U. law professor Neal Katyal to ensure a fair trial for Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, who'd been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years.
It sounds like the perfect formula for box office failure. And yet Hollywood will probably not learn the lesson even after "The Challenge" flops bigtime as it inevitably will.
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Back in 2004, a smart, good-looking moderate Republican Hispanic ran for Congress. At the time Victor Elizalde was just under 40 years old and working as an executive at a big-time Hollywood studio. As an ethnic minority, a family man and a rare open conservative in an industry dominated by liberals, Mr. Elizalde represented hope and change for the Republican Party.
Yet because he was running for Henry A. Waxman´s 'safe seat', Mr. Elizalde got no support from the Republican Party . In fact, no one in the party´s leadership took notice of him. As a result Mr. Waxman trounced Mr. Elizalde with 71 percent of the vote.
Mr. Elizalde has since moved on with his life and is no longer pursuing a political career. Mr. Waxman has run virtually uncontested for 35 years now. And he causes nothing but problems for Republicans. To hear him speak, you´d think the Grand Old Party is the No. 1 scourge in the world. Yet Republicans are nice to him and do nothing to hold him accountable for his miserable failure as Hollywood's key congressional representative in Washington. [I.e., testiclevoiditus - snip]
During Mr. Waxman's 35-year tenure, Hollywood has not just shipped countless jobs overseas, it has become the ultimate outsourced industry. Films are invariably financed by foreign countries: Russians, Saudis, French and Germans, to name but a few guilty parties, now dictate the content of what many consider the DNA of American culture.
Where was Henry?
Ever wonder why the white American businessmen are always the bad guys and radical Islamists almost never are? More money is now made from foreign than domestic box office.
As a result, Hollywood now crafts its moral, ethical and political messages to assuage external sensibilities... [snip]
Hopefully, new Republican Party chairman Michael S. Steele, who promised in his acceptance speech last week to take the Republican message places it hasn't been taken previously, will see that in Mr. Waxman - a liberal Democrat who has done nothing to save jobs in his district - the Republicans have a fantastic poster child for the empty rhetoric of the modern Left.
[but before you can win an argument you must engage in it]
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