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BLOG ARCHIVES for the MONTH: "July 2009"
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 22, 2009
On July 20th, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) speaks out against President Obama’s empty rhetoric on health care reform. This video is from the SenJimDeMint YouTube channel.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 22, 2009
Recently, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Jim Demint (R-SC) speaks up in defense of tea parties and freedom. This video is from the Socratis2 YouTube channel.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 22, 2009
At an elite fundraiser in San Francisco on April 6, 2008, candidate Barack Obama described everyday Americans “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” At a town hall on health reform held in Northern Virginia July 1, 2009, President Obama further stated that Americans need to “stop clinging” to our failed health system. Maybe … he should stop clinging to socialism!!! This video is from the JohnVS3 YouTube channel.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 21, 2009
Today, a key House committee indefinitely postponed voting on health care reform legislation after Democratic leaders were unable to line up enough votes from moderate members of their own party. The House Energy and Commerce Committee canceled the session as it faced serious concerns about the legislation from fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, who hold a large number of seats on the panel. The Energy and Commerce Committee is the only House panel with jurisdiction over health care that has not completed writing its version of the reform bill. References:
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 21, 2009
The bailouts could cost $80,000 for every American citizen. Neil Barofsky, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), delivered his report today to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The total price tag for federal support stemming from the financial crisis could reach $23.7 trillion in the long run, the government’s top bailout watchdog says in a new report to Congress. The $23.7 trillion figure is admittedly a high-ball number and reflects the total potential gross exposure, but Barofsky in his prepared testimony notes that the TARP — which started as a $700 billion bailout — has expanded well beyond that. “TARP has evolved into a program of unprecedented scope, scale and complexity. Moreover, TARP does not function in a vacuum but is rather part of the broader government efforts to stabilize the financial system,” the report says. “The total potential federal government support could reach up to $23.7 trillion,” the report estimates, factoring in commitments from “dozens of programs” implemented throughout the federal government since 2007. References:
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 21, 2009
The Obama administration is delaying release of a congressionally mandated report on the nation’s economic conditions, spawning speculation that it is trying to tamp down bad economic news to avoid further complicating the already fraught legislative debate over health care reform. The report, which is normally published by late July, is being delayed by several weeks, the administration acknowledged on Monday. Officials said the hold-up is not unusual in presidential transition years, noting that Presidents George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton each published their initial budget updates weeks late. “Because of the unique circumstances of a transition year, we — like President George W. Bush in 2001 — are releasing the mid-session review a few weeks later than as is usual in non-transition years,” Kenneth S. Baer, communications director for the Office of Management and Budget, said Monday. Asked about the speculation that the delay is linked to the ongoing health care debate, Baer responded: “I don’t deal in speculation. What I know is that in transition years past both the full budgets and Mid-Session Reviews have come out later than in non-transition years and this year will be no different.” “The last time the president made grand promises and demanded passage of a bill before it could be reviewed, we ended up with the colossal stimulus failure and unemployment near 10 percent,” said Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC). “Now the president wants Americans to trust him again, but he can’t back up the utopian promises he’s making about a government takeover of health care. He insists his health care plan won’t add to our nation’s deficit despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office saying exactly the opposite. And today we learn that the president is refusing to release a critical report on the state of our economy, which contains facts essential to this debate. What is he hiding?” References:
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 21, 2009
President Obama sharply criticized Republicans on Tuesday for following a “familiar script” to “block healthcare reform.” The president, seeking to prod the Democratic-controlled Congress to show significant progress on healthcare reform before the August recess, directed blame at the GOP for the stalled legislation. Obama blasted the “familiar script” of Republicans who “have openly declared their intention to block healthcare reform.” Republicans have lambasted Democrats’ efforts to pass healthcare reform, but they have noted that with comfortable majorities in both chambers and control of the White House, Democrats have the ability to pass their legislation. The problem for Democratic leaders is that centrist Democrats have balked at what has been proposed, threatening to reject the bills if they are brought to the House and Senate floors. In remarks delivered at the White House Rose Garden before he was scheduled to meet with Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Obama said, “I look forward to meeting with several members of the Congress who are working to pass health insurance reform that will bring down long-term costs, expand coverage and provide more choice.” Earlier in the day, the Energy and Commerce Committee postponed a scheduled markup until Wednesday. That move, coupled with comments from Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Tuesday, has triggered widespread speculation on Capitol Hill that the House may not vote on healthcare reform before the August recess. References: &nbps;
by rayharvey on July 21, 2009
Only Barack evidently doesn’t know it. Quoting his own words:
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 20, 2009
The chairman of the Republican party is accusing President Barack Obama of conducting “risky experimentation” with his health care proposals, saying they will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage. Michael Steele, in remarks prepared for delivery at the National Press Club, also said the president, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and key congressional committee chairmen are part of a “cabal” that wants to implement government-run health care. “Obama-Pelosi want to start building a colossal, closed health care system where Washington decides. Republicans want and support an open health care system where patients and doctors make the decisions,” Steele said in excerpts of his speech made available in advance.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 19, 2009
What budget cuts? A Georgia college rewards illegal aliens with free ESL classes. Not only does giving free classes to aliens who illegally immigrate here pose hardships on strapped budgets, but it, in fact, violates federal code. This video is from the daatdis YouTube channel.
by rayharvey on July 19, 2009
On July 2nd, 2009, the Labor Department released statistics which showed that the United States unemployment rate had soared to a new high of 9.5 percent. On July 5th, 2009, Joe Biden said that Obama and his administration had “misread how bad the economy was.” Days later, when asked about this, Obama said it wasn’t a misreading but “a lack of information” from the early weeks of his presidency. He is wrong. It was no misread. It was sheer unadulterated ignorance. On July 7th, 2009, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Cincinnati to a crowd of protesters, implored the patience of that angry crowd: “Remember,” Biden said, “we’re only 140 days into this deal. It’s supposed to take 18 months.”
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 19, 2009
In a town hall listening tour on health care, voters express their utter disapproval of Representative Mike Castle’s (R-DE) vote for Cap and Trade (on June 26th). It get interesting about 1:30 into the meeting and continues throughout. One attendee states, “I hope that this vote you made is a vote to put you out of office.” This video is from the WilliamDawesinDE YouTube channel.
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by LukeAmerica2020 on July 19, 2009
 Most of us just don’t have the time to give even a cursory perusal to the abundance of conservative commentary and news, so we help you with the quest. Each Sunday we highlight issues and headlines from the week, commented by established political pundits. These include articulate and compelling commentary from Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Devvy Kidd, Dick Morris, Michelle Malkin, and Thomas Sowell. We include others from time to time, but these six are rather prolific. These are their opinions on today’s hot topics; what’s yours?
by DavidO on July 19, 2009
What government first seeks to control, it taxes. South Carolinians worked 94 days to meet their tax burden. If we use a five-day workweek, South Carolinians worked 18 weeks 4 days to pay for taxes. And this is down slightly because of the stimulus checks. In a 52-week year, you spent 36%, over a third, of your time working to pay for taxes. If we consider paying for the deficit (not the national debt) of nearly $1,500,000,000,000.00 – one TRILLION, five hundred BILLION dollars - the days worked would rise to 140 days, or 28 weeks, and 54% of your labor. Americans understand the need for taxes. Reasonable people know services provided by government must be paid for. The majority of Americans, but not all, have a deeply ingrained sense of fairness. They are willing to do their fair share and resist when they feel their sense of fairness has been violated. We are witnessing such resistance today. Feelings of helplessness and frustration are stirring in this country. Americans are feeling most of their elected officials are not looking out for them. Congresses approval rating is according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll, 6/12-6/15/09 is at 29%. If 71% of Americans either disapprove (57%) or are unsure (14%), why have we not changed the politicians there? What many people do not realize is taxation and the use of force to collect taxes are among the tools politicians use to coerce us into behaviors they favor. Consider: Government wants us to drive less, or buy the cars they think we should be driving. Solution: Raise gasoline taxes. There is talk gas will go to at least $5.00 per gallon and the $5.00 level will be maintained by taxes, regardless of the actual cost of gasoline. Consider: Government wants us go into their health insurance plan. Solution: Tax the health benefits you may be getting from an employer. This is being considered as part of health care reform.
by c.rice on July 19, 2009
To most Americans our “war on terrorism’ begin September 11, 2001; but, the radical Muslims have been fighting America for many years. When President Jimmy Carter started a campaign against Shah Mohammad Reza, who had implemeted laws similar to a democratic society and helped Ayatollah Khomeini come to power in 1979, America betrayed an ally. Khomeini quickly implemented a strict interpretation of Sharia Law. The new laws denied their citizens their basic rights. He rallied radical Muslims to stand up against the “corrupt West” and coined the phrase “America, the Great Satan”.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 19, 2009
For several weeks, President Obama has stressed that the House and Senate finish their health care bills by the August recess. But… In his most recent remarks, President Obama has stopped mentioning what had been his mantra — that the House and Senate finish their health care bills by the August recess — and switched to a less specific call to fast action. The increased flexibility follows resistance by key senators in both parties to what they have called an “artificial deadline.”
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 18, 2009
In an address to the Council on Foreign Relations on July 15th, 2009, Hillary Clinton said the following: “Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.” This video is from the USCollapse YouTube channel.
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by DavidO on July 18, 2009
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by LukeAmerica2020 on July 18, 2009
Recorded on 16 July 2009, Pastor James David Manning proposes a healthcare plan alternative. This video is from the ATLAHWorldwide YouTube channel.
by LukeAmerica2020 on July 18, 2009
According to POLITICO, the American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s support in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s chairman flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay. For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors. (Note that Mr. Keene writes a weekly column that appears in The Hill.)” The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx , which was provided to POLITICO. The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.
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In February of 2009, Barack Obama and his administration told us that the $787 billion Recovery Plan had to be rushed through Congress so that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent.
