Obama Just Doesn't Get It---No More Taxes!

President Obama insists on new sources of revenue--another phrase for TAXES.

Speaker Boehner, and Republicans, say no.  Absolutely no taxes.  As Boehner says, "The president is emphatic that taxes have to be raised. As a former small businessman, I know tax increases destroy jobs."

Obama blames Republicans on this impasses, but offers no concrete plan of his own.  Instead, Reid kept the Cut, Cap and Balance Act off the floor of the Senate and didn't allow any discussion or vote on it.

Obama blames Republicans on the looming default, when the government will not default.  There's enough money to pay our debts.

Obama blames Republcans for the possibility of senior citizens not getting their Social Security checks, when it will be his decision whether or not those checks will be mailed.

Obama blames Republicans for the possible lowering of our credit rating, when the problem is not the possibility of default (see above) but the out-of-control spending under his governorship.

CALL your senators and representative, and everyone else you can think of.  This is a representative democracy!

Stop the RINO's!

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Call your Senators and Representative.  (Use the "Vote" button to find the number.)

Tell your Senators you are FOR the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act (which was passed yesterday in the House) and against McConnell's plan and the Gang-of-Six plan.

Thank your Representative if they voted for the Cut, Cap and Balance Act.  If they didn't, tell them about your displeasure.  (Find out here how everyone voted.)

Call Senator McConnell's office and tell him his plan is absolutely the wrong one for America.
Phone: (502) 582-6304 (Kentucky office) or (202) 224-2541 (D.C. office)

Call Senators Chambliss (phone 202-224-3521), Crapo (phone 202-224-6142 for the D.C. office or 208- 334-1776 for Idaho office), and Coburn (phone 202-224-5754 in D.C. or 918-581-7651 for the Tulsa office) and tell them the same thing.  State your support for Cut, Cap and Balance.

Now, Who Are the Other Nefarious RINO's? Or, Who are the Gang of Six?

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What about the plan by the Gang of Six?

First of all, who are they?  Senators, including
***Republican RINO's Tom Coburn (Oklahoma), Saxby Chambliss (Georgia), and Mike Crapo (Idaho).
***Democrats Warner (Virginia), Durbin (Illinois), and Conrad (North Dakota)

Basically, the plan is ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in NEW REVENUES (read Tax Increases)

plus some as-yet-unidentified spending cuts and spending caps.

Good deal, huh?

Ditch Mitch! As Well as Other Nefarious RINO's

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Senator Mitch McConnell, along with Senator Harry Reid, have proposed a plan that Moody's (which assesses debt ratings) would not approve.

This plan, which Heritage calls the "Just-Borrow-More" plan, simply allows the President (who, IMHO, doesn't have the Constitutional mandate to borrow money--that's one of the functions of the Legislature or Congress) to borrow money as he wishes.

This plan would require a 2/3 majority of Congress to STOP the Presidential borrowing. 

Thus, the end result of McConnell's plan is to raise the debt ceiling.  Period.  Without any cuts in spending.

Moody's has said that the U.S. credit rating will suffer if
1) The federal government defaults on its payments; and
2) The federal government doesn't stop spending so wildly.

McConnell's plan does NOTHING to stop spending.

Thus his plan will lead to a downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, which will lead to higher interest rates, which will further increase the U.S. debt and depress the economy.....

and so on and so on and so on......

New Campaign: DITCH MITCH!

Senator Mitch McConnell is apparently pushing his idea (basically, to allow the President, by law, to have control of raising the debt limit) to Democrats as well as other not-so-conservative Senators.

RINO's!!!! One and all who go for this.

Thus the new campaign:
Ditch Mitch!

Social Security Games

President Obama has warned threatened that there won't be enough money to pay Social Security checks if Republicans don't agree to new taxes AND continued spending.

Which is patently false.

Moreover, it is the Executive Branch (Obama) who makes the decision whether or not to pay out Social Security checks.  Let's say this one more time:  If folks don't get Social Security checks in August, it's Obama's decision.

Oh, and by the way, I thought all the money was socked away somewhere, ready and waiting to be paid out to Social Security recipients?



Political Chicken

President Obama has threatened to withhold Social Security checks if he doesn't get the Debt Ceiling raised AND new Tax Increases (on top of all the tax increases that begin next year under Obamacare.)
And to withhold Medicare & Medicaid checks as well as those to our Armed Forces.

It seems that Obama doesn't really care much about We, the People, since it is a fact that the federal government has enough money at present (without an increase in the Debt Ceiling!!!) to pay interest on government loans, Social Security, Medicare and Defense costs.

Remember that President Obama earlier to consider a bill (proposed by Republicans) ensuring that the armed forces would continue to be paid even if the federal government shut down?

In fact, Obama promised to veto this bill.

Unemployment Up--But That's OK--We don't Understand those Numbers Anyway!

 

Unemployment rose to 9.2%.

Not only that, but the number of jobs was decreased by 25,000 for April and 217,000 in May.  So those months were worse off, job-wise, than previously thought.

Manufacturing added only 6,000 jobs; professional and business service jobs rose by 12,000 jobs; education and medical jobs added no jobs.  Construction jobs and financial service jobs fell.

According to President Obama, We, the People, aren't able to understand these numbers and shouldn't worry about them anyway.

It's the job of the professional politicians according to Obama,  "Well, let me distinguish between professional politicians and the public at large.  The public is not paying close attention to the ins and outs of how a Treasury option goes.  They shouldn’t."

So, folks, don't worry.  Your professional politicians (something our founding fathers were totally against!!) are taking care of things!

A True Fourth of July Story

A few weeks ago, Dearest Husband was flying back to Dallas.  As he was getting his ticket, he observed an older gentleman insisting that a young Marine take his 1st-class ticket and busily making arrangements to trade seats with the Marine.

When DH got on the plane, he found himself sitting next to this gentleman in the back of the plane.  As they began to talk, my DH commented on the older gentleman's kindness and generosity in trading his first-class seat for the Marine's coach accomodation.

"You know why I did that?" the older man asked.  "I love this country."

He went on to explain that during World War II, his parents, living in war-ravaged Europe, subsisted on rations provided by the U.S. Army.  His father would point out the empty ration boxes and tell him, "You should love America.  They kept us alive.  If America hadn't helped us, you wouldn't be alive today."

The gentleman never forgot his father's words.  Later in life, he immigrated to America, became a prosperous business man, and has been active in American life and politics.

Why?  "Because I love this country."

Happy Birthday, America!