Sep 6, 2008 | 12:16 AM
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News
What is it called when a few people force their will on a country? When They decide what should and should not be done? When they decide what is best for everyone? When they ignore the will of the people and instead do what they want despite the end results because it is what they want? What do you call it? After you answer these questions then ask yourself who is doing this and where.
I can tell you one place but you wont like the answer, I sure don't.
Sep 5, 2008 | 11:23 PM
Category:
Political
Watching the news over the last few months I notice the effect of high gas prices are going to cause alot of road problems we all may not like. If the revenue from gas taxes are use to repair roads, to buy salt and to pay road crews and the states can not do all this now because people like Pelosi, Reid, Obama and other go greenies will not allow us to drill and get these prices down then how will we get to work this winter if it really snows?
Effect of driving less due to high price is less revenue, less money for the needs or our states, less people working, more lost income and on and on. Does anyone see what is going on? We are , as a nation, going deeper into debt buying 800+ billion dollars in oil that we could be drilling here for and creating jobs, while at the same time lowering the price of gas. Yet instead we are spending money our country does not have to buy from countries like Russia and building their ecconomy along with China's while ours crumbles.
Every action has a reaction, every cause an effect. The actions of congress by blocking the vote on drilling so our ecconomy keeps it's down hill spiral is shown in the effect or job loses due to high fuel cost, construction has slowed due to the prices of building materials, you can not build for the same amount as you could so you have to charge more but the houses are the same size and their value has dropped, so the people do not buy the houses, so the workers have little or no work and the crews are cut.
The stores are begining to lose sales because the jobs are dwindleing and soon will be cutting back on hours and employees. The action, or lack of one, is what is creating the reaction of people cutting back to survive, the cause is high gas, the effect is our ecconomy tanking. This will be even more apparent when winter hits and we run out of salt because due to less driving we have less revenue which means less salt, less road repairs and less money to pay for workers much less over time.
When will the people we pay to look out for our intrest see this? When will they stop playing this stupid game and think with their brains and not with their childish I'm right your wrong attitude. Do the democrats really think that we as a nation are full of people who will not begin to reason this out? Soon the states will have to add a tax some place to make up revenue to do what has to be done in order for those of us with a job can go to work to earn the money to pay the taxes to go to work and still pay the do nothing congress to get paid and go on vacation and peddle their stupid books.
When will we as a nation not realize that government land is the land of the people and we are the people and not Congress. With a little luck most of us will wake up and vote these morons out. We have to take a stand for our rights and not for what they say are our rights. We have the right to be heard, otherwise we are living under the rule of government without a say. That is not U.S. but U.S.S.R. where the government tells us what is best. A taste of communism.
Do you now see why communism does not work for a country? The government does not always know what is best for the rest.
God bless and good nite.
Sep 5, 2008 | 7:20 PM
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News
Some of you remember mouse,

Now we have Mickey,

Not sure what breed or should I say what mix he is but he is a hand full,

Mouse seems to have to work harder to be the top dog,

Sharing is totaly out of the picture even if Mouse has to sit on it, hug it and bite it, he is not going to share it. Actually they are playing tug of war and so far mouse was on top of it amd Mickey was trying to get the stuffy.
Any clues as to what our pup might be a mix of? He has short legs for his body size, soft fur like plush velvet, and a squeeky bark. His hair is growing in longer and his feet are growing faster than he is. I do not think he is a miniture collie and shih tzu as the owner claimed. I just do not see it do you?
He loves to chew on everything and he has a habit of dragging my hubbies clothes into the livingroom along with everyone of his shoes. I'm not sure why he does this but he does. He loves socks to the point that he bit my hubbies toes tring to get his socks while they were still on. Now sharp puppy teeth are not funny when they are determined to get an object and that object is over flesh. Boy did my hubby yell and just for the record Mickey can our run the old guy.
Lesson learned, do not take your shoes off and leave your socks on. This little guy hardly sleeps unless he is worn out by Mouse so I bribe mouse with treats to play with the puppy, he now thinks if he plays for hours and wears the little guy out he gets a bacon treat so at night he goes all out to wear the pup out.
My mind is now wondered back and so has my hubbies, he told me today he was taking mouse for a walk in the woods and then he was goig to teach Mickey how to play chicken on the HYW. I stopped him and told him Mickey is too little to know that socks on feet can't be bitten. The little guy will learn.
So for now Mickey will live to see another day. God bless and nite all.
Sep 2, 2008 | 1:28 AM
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News
There are about 300 million people in the United States. At say $40 a month for medical care for everyone, which is cheap, times 12 comes to $480 a year per person times 300 million cames to 144,000 trillion dollars and then you add college funding to it and you tell the American people that 5% of the country will be paying for it so you divide this total by about 85 million because you have to discount children and you have 1,694 billion per person. Now that is just that 5%, and it does not take into account the college funds, the cost of running the government, nor does it include social security. While this 5% is paying all these taxes we have 95% getting a tax break. Do we have that many multi billionairs in the country? Because there would have to be to do this. does anyone out there have a calculator besides me? There just is no way we can do what Obama is promising without alot of people ending up homeless. Why do you think the richer people like Madona and others live in other countries and not here? Because if you keep your citizenship you do not pay the other countries taxes and you do not pay here, unless they own property or return more than 37 days a year.
So just how will the money be raised? Count out a bunch of the actors, actresses and singers backing Obama as they are moving to Italy, France, and England. So we are left. I can not see how this will work. That same 5% supports most of the government now and we want to add that much more onto them? This sounds good but when you actually do the math it becomes unreal. the figures become so far out there I loose sight of reality. The actual cost for all that Obama promises to "give" the people is so far out of the realms of reality it bogles the mind. So can anyone tell me just how that 5% is going to do it? And the oil industry? Even adding them in it is more than any profits they make so windfall would mean all of their profits, all of the incomes of all 85 million of the 5%, and we would still need money.
Aug 31, 2008 | 9:52 AM
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News
I remember reading history and learning about how we first started industry and then thought how hard it must of been back then. No electric, no phones, no cars, no T.V., (this one with todays bias media I think maybe one we could have lived without), no cable, no ice, no way to store foods that needed a freezer. No sewing machines, no computers, and the list never ends.
I remembered listening to the radio and the first day my uncles brought and hooked up our first T.V. what a thrill it was. I remember the first time I went to a school with more than one big class and bathrooms inside with running water. I went to a one room school with an outhouse. Not fun at all. I remember sitting in our living room and watching the first man walk on the moon.
I think I have seen so many first times I can't remember them all. I think that I am so much luckier than the children of today. No matter what they come up with my generation was there and done that in a smaller way. From the wierd hair cuts to the low rider jeans. They were hip huggers in my day. We even had the funny colored hair.
Now we have the first black candidate for president and a woman running for VP on the other ticket. The geration from the 1920's till now have seen so many new and wonderous things come into the world that I guess we are harder to supprise than the younger one are. We have seen thing come into being that was considered science fiction when we were kids. We now know that what you think will never be a reality is more likely just the future.
Vinal albums are now CDs, reel to reels are now DVs, cameras can be downloaded to a computer and you can print instan pictures you can change to please yourself, from pictures someone else developed. Things are changing and while we may not think about it from day to day, but in reality I think some of the old is the better ways.
I think playing outside was much better than video games, and make believe was far better than something some one else came up with. I think reading was better than watching T.V. but most of all I think being a family and doing things togaether was much better than todays faimly with every one every where.
What are the memories you find the best, mine are vacations with my faimly where we sat at a picnic bench and ate bologna sandwiches and were awed by the places we'd see. Back then it was a marvle to see the mountains and streams and rivers and town. Now we can see them on T.V. or the computer without leaving home. I was being with my mom, dad and siblings and having them all to myself. Playing house by drawing our house in the dirt and getting upset when others walked threw the walls and not my doors. Sliding down a graveled hill on the hood of an old car and just having fun coming up with new games and thoughts.
Aug 30, 2008 | 10:23 PM
Category:
Political
Now we all know that Biden has claimed his wife, Neilia and infant daughter were killed by a drunk driver while out Christmas shopping. The truth is far from the sympathy votes this man wants to gain using the memory of his deceased wife and child. the truth is the driver of the truck was not drunk, the brakes were good and it was a tragic accedent that sometimes happens.
http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/12-07bidencrash.a
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This tells what happened and that no charges were brought against the man driving. Luckily the poor fellow has gone to meet his maker after suffering from knowing he had killed two humans even if it was an accedent. The man did not have to listen to his name be slandered by Biden. The sad thing is his daughters did. They had to listen to Biden lie about their father and it make national news and NOT one form of media has stressed that Biden lied about these girls father.
Now we all know if McCain had said something so outragous the media would of had a field day, just as they are over Palin as his VP pick. Now I ask you which of the two VP picks is the worse? One who would use his infants death and that of his wife to further his career or the woman who is governer of Alaska and trying to run an honest campaign? A man whose son is a lobbiest and who has helped his son and his intrest or the woman who wants to end lobbiest and pork barrels? Personally when Biden lied about the tragidy that happened so many years ago in order to gain votes my stumic turned.
Aug 28, 2008 | 9:13 PM
Category:
News
If you never go to any other site you should really go to this one. Then you need to ask yourselfs why the Democrats do not want us to drill here and drill now for our own oil.
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/bakken-oil
-formation/578
By Keith Kohl
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
"This thing is absolutely huge!"
That's what I was told after asking about the Bakken formation. And trust me, the oil boom in North Dakota is far from over.
On April 10, 2008, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released their field report about the Bakken. The formation stretches across North Dakota, Montana and Saskatchewan. The report estimates that 3.65 billion barrels of oil can be recovered from the Bakken formation.
According to the USGS, "This is the largest oil accumulation in the lower 48 states. It is also the largest continuous type of oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS."
Put it this way: The last time the USGS released an assessment was in 1995 and announced that only 151 million barrels of oil can be recovered.
In other words, the latest assessment is 25 times greater than previous estimates!
Let's break down the April 10th report for a second.
Based on the report, the Bakken holds between 3 billion and 4.3 billion barrels of "undiscovered, technically recoverable" oil. To put that into perspective, that's less than half of the amount of recoverable oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserves (ANWR) in Alaska. Naturally, the Bakken is in a much better location. Drilling is only one obstacle. Just imagine the amount of infrastructure (pipelines, etc) needed to exploit the ANWR oil reserves.
Remember, the USGS was only counting on "undiscovered, technically recoverable" reserves. That doesn't include the oil reserves already found by companies. That's also assuming that oil companies don't improve their drilling technology. Once producers begin drilling, they'll continually improve their extraction techniques. After all, technological advancements like horizontal drilling are one of the reasons this resource is accessible.
The USGS report also failed to factor in the record oil prices. Ever since oil broke the $100 a barrel mark, we've repeatedly seen it hit new highs. Recently, prices came just eight cents from breaking $120 a barrel.
So why should we care about how high oil goes this summer?
For starters, the more expensive oil is, the more money producers can invest. It was only a few years ago that oil cost about $20 a barrel. And if things keep going the way they have been, we could be seeing $140 a barrel in 2008.
Okay, perhaps it's difficult to imagine $140 a barrel peaking this summer, but don't forget where oil prices were a year ago. When oil cost a mere $63 a barrel, how skeptical were you that prices would reach $100 a barrel?
Be honest.
Personally, I can't even picture oil under $100 a barrel, especially after its price jump this past winter.
Investing in the Bakken Formation
Let's get back to the Bakken.
It doesn't matter if oil prices experience a slight pullback, however unlikely. But if the North Dakota and USGS reports proved anything, it's that we can expect a huge amount of investment.
Believe me, this play isn't going to fade out. Lynn Helms, the director of North Dakota's department of mineral resources, put it best, "It's going to be slow, sustained oil production that can last a century or more."
Go to the site and read then google it for you self and see just how much oil we actually have outside of ANWR. Also there are a few more sites to cross check with.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911>
http://geology.com/usgs/bakken-formation-oil.shtml<
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http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-new
s2.13s.html
Now ask yourselfs why Pelosi and the others don't want us to drill here knowing this same informaton. Why they are bent on buying from other countries? Why they want us to invest in solar panels and wind machines? Better yet ask Al Gore, he's already making millions off the go green and buy from my investments.
Aug 27, 2008 | 8:41 PM
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News
As some of you know I own a pound puppy named Mouse. Well he is hyper active and both my husband and I thought he needed a play mate as Mouse just could not get the squirrels to cooperate. Out of pity for our pup we lost our minds and got a new puppy just 5 and 1/2 wks old. Not sure what breed he is but he is cute and a royal pain. I forgot all the work it takes to house break a puppy as most of our dogs were older and house broken when we got them or it was at least 20 years ago when we last had a puppy.
We now own Mickey. Mickey makes strange noises that resemble something a duck might make if caught by a fox and seems to think it is a bark. He makes this sound then he crickles his brow as if wanting to know who did it. He chews on everything from metal to our shoes, which I never had to deal with but do know some puppies do this. He constantly wants food and he gets rid of it just as often if you know what I mean. So we now have a puppy that eats, poops, and chews on everything.
Now none of this would be too bad except he wears out Mouse and Mouse has taken to hiding from the puppy. So the playmate for our pound puppy is too active for him. They do play and they are really roudy and they seem to like each other but now I have two hyper active dogs with one more so than the other and both are smart. So when Mouse hides We are stuck intertaining his playmate and the puppy wears us both out. Now we all have to take naps just to survive the new guy.
I would not have taken on a puppy if it hadn't been for the fact that he was on death row and now I wonder where my mind was. For the few minutes it took for puppy breath, which smells like skunk, and sad brown eyes, with a funny bark and a wigglely body hadn't gotten to my soft side. I just wonder now which of all of us will survive puppyhood. Mickey, Mouse or us? Getting up twice a nite to walk him is exsausting and it would be nice if my shoes were not chewed on and he didn't like pulling my hair.
I am quickly forgetting how it felt to get coffee without a puppy chewing my anckles as I try to walk and my toes when I sit. I am wondering if I will ever get to sleep past 5 a.m. and not have to get up at 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. to take him out. I want my king size bed to myself and not have two dogs vying for the best place closet to me to the point I can't move. After all it is a huge bed with plenty of room only with a dog at the back of my knees and one at my gut I can't hardly move because of my mutts.
I do have to admit when Mickey has to go at night he grabs a chunk of my hair and pulls till it hurts and if that doesn't work he just bites my ear and I get up and out we go so that part is easy for him but kinda hard on me. I do own a shampooer so I can keep the oopsies cleaned up. But I do want to make it clear at some point I lost my mind to think I would want a puppy. Now I have one and if I make it past his six month b-day then we all will have made it. Just say a prayer because like it or not the puppy will stay because I do not believe in dumping a small pain on some one else. I made the choise while out of my mind but now that I have Mickey has a permanent home. I will post pics of Mickey and Mouse together as soon as I get some.
Take care and God Bless.
Aug 25, 2008 | 9:17 PM
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News
It never ends.
By Bill Sammon
Racial infighting among Democrats, which marred the presidential primaries, has flared up again at the party’s convention in Denver, where a black Hillary Clinton delegate is accusing a black Barack Obama delegate of calling her an “Uncle Tom.”
Delmarie Cobb of Chicago told FOX News Monday that Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, whom Obama called his “political godfather,” hurled the racially charged insult against her late Saturday for speaking out in support of Clinton. Although Democrats at the convention are trying to project an image of unity, there is lingering bitterness between the Clinton and Obama camps, in part because each side accused the other of playing the race card during the primaries.
On Monday, Illinois’ National Organization for Women President Bonnie Grabenhofer reportedly called on Jones to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for using the racial slur.
“That was a pretty horrible comment,” Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, told The Sun-Times.
Cobb said Jones called her “Uncle Tom” in front of a group of Chicago aldermen in a hotel lobby after the two began a playful conversation that turned edgy as Cobb accused Jones of gloating over Obama’s victory. Jones then insinuated that Clintons played “gutter politics,” according to Cobb, who ended the conversation by announcing it was “time for me to go.”
“I walked away and said good night and walked over across the hall to the elevators,” she recalled. “And he shouted across the lobby, ‘Uncle Tom!’
“And I came back over and said, ‘Excuse me, what did you just say?’ And he grabbed me by my arms and started laughing. And I said, ‘No, no. What did you just say?’ And he didn’t repeat it. And I said, ‘Did you call me an Uncle Tom?’ And then I came back with a barrage of things that I won’t repeat publicly.”
The epithet comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 19th century anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and typically it is construed as an insult meaning a black person who acts passively or submissively toward whites.
Initially, Jones denied calling Cobb an “Uncle Tom” and refused to elaborate. However, he is now telling reporters that he called her a “doubting Thomas” and that Cobb must have misheard the remark.
“She was spouting things about Barack,” Jones said. “What I said was, ‘Come on board, he’s a nice, clean cut guy and everything.’ I said, ‘We’ve got to stop all this. We’ve got too many doubting Thomases and we’ve got to get together.’
“And she was walking away and therefore she heard the last part of the word; she didn’t hear the whole part,” Jones added. “I cannot apologize for one misinterpreting what I said.”
Cobb questioned why the “doubting Thomas” explanation never came up when she first confronted Jones and he refused to repeat his remark.
“If he had said ‘doubting Thomas,’ he should have said it right then and there, said, ‘No, I did not say Uncle Tom, I said doubting Thomas.’ And it would have been over with,” Cobb said.
The Chicago Sun-Times quoted several aldermen who witnessed the exchange and confirmed that Jones called Cobb an “Uncle Tom.”
“I am firm in my convictions,” Cobb told FOX News. “Supporting Hillary Clinton is not a litmus test for being black.”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/25/chicago-cli
nton-supporter-obama-mentor-called-me-uncle-tom/
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Aug 25, 2008 | 12:53 PM
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When I vote my vote says I want a person who I believe I can place some if not all my trust in. One who has not lied about the issues I expect my President, Senator or Represenative to have. I want honest answer to where they stand on issues as I can look up their voting history unless they are new.
So I have decided Obama is out. He has voted no on issues I feel are against America's best intrest yet said he was for them, I looked it up and posted it, he has friends that are terrorist, as in Ayers and I looked that up, radical anti-America and whites as with his last minister Rev. Wright, and his some of his backers as with the Moveon.org, and his consistan lies as with his party crossing more when he does least. Then we come to the choices he made with Russia and Georgia, three tries before he came to the right one.
I also can not vote for a man who refuses to admit when he is wrong and some one else is right as with the Surge in Iraq. It tells alot about a man who can not say,"I was wrong", when he is wrong at a time when he needs to be right will he keep going the wrong path or say he made a mistake and reverse his path. I find myself wondering just when does he tell the truth and when is he lying?
I find it hard to except his wanting us to find McCain out of touch because he owns property and has money while stating how wise and experianced his good friend Kennedy is who is richer and there fore more out of touch and his friend Kerry who is married to the woman who owns Heinz and is richer than McCain. Then we have Al Gore who is making millions off his go green and global warming theory, which is bunk as the Ice Bergs are expanding not shrinking and the earth go threw cycles of warmth then cold, but Al is not above using it to become wealthy. So more democrats are rich than republicans so they have to be more out of touch.
I find a man who needs his granny and wife to advise him on issues concerning the running of our country as wierd, I would think he would use people who have been there and done that first. His choice of VP is just as far left as he is and is old school and votes for more taxes and bigger spending and uses more pork than Obama at a time our nation is deeply in debt.
But most of all I find it offensive that he stands idally by while congress is on vacation and not doing their jobs in hopes he and more dems are elected so they can spend more on pork and goverment waste. I find it a slap in the face that the majority wants to drill for our own oil and the democrats are blocking it while our government spend 800+ billion buying it out of our country and jobs we need here are going to those same countries which most of them hate us.
Out of the three candidates left I still have to decide on one. But I find that my vote, which is just one of millions is one that will not go to a man who can not admit when he is wrong, lies, and his choices are so wrong in friends and on issues. This same man who wants a civil army to control Americans has made me sure he is not who I want as a President. And I looked it up.
Aug 24, 2008 | 1:08 PM
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News
Just how well did he know Ayers? Maybe you should read the whole story to realize you can not trust anything that comes out of his mouth.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/bill_baracks
_excellent_adventu.html
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama's sole claim to executive experience
Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators -- participants and grantees of the CAC -- were reported by outside monitors to be often "ebullient" about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.
Obama and his campaign long have gone out of their way to downplay, in fact distort, the long and evidently deep relationship between Ayers and Obama. In the Philadelphia Democratic debate last April, George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his relationship with Ayers, and the candidate responded:
"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
"And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George. [....]
"So this kind of game, in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, is somehow -- somehow their ideas could be attributed to me -- I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."
Almost two months earlier, the "neighbor" talking point campaign manager David Axelrod introduced the notion that Obama and Ayers were mostly just neighbors, telling The Politico's Ben Smith,
"Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school," he said. "They're certainly friendly, they know each other, as anyone whose kids go to school together."
Ayers and his wife are in their sixties, while the Obamas are in their mid-forties. Ayers' children are all adults, while Obama's children are currently 10 and 7. Axelrod's prevarication is telling, bespeaking confidence that nobody in the media will bother to dispute an obvious falsehood.
"Flimsy" turns out to be a completely misleading word when it comes to characterizing the Obama-Ayers relationship.
Aug 22, 2008 | 8:02 PM
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News
I was opened minded about Obama until he started the dening every fact that came out about him and then was proven as truth. He even denied that by calling it a smear campaign. When he does it or his backers it is just politics. He blames McCain for bills he voted yes on and McCain voted no on in the hope no one will notice. Well I looked up both their votes.
Now he really torked me off by sending me an e-mail about McCain and his wifes houses. I don't care if the McCain's own a house in every state and country in the world. It is their right to spend their money on what they want. Is he jealous that McCain's wife has money and his does not?
Every man and woman out there has the right to spend their money on what they want. If you can buy it do so. At least McCain is spending money and helping the ecconomy with his spending. But the point is McCain's property does not have a thing to do with his qualifications to be president. So bug off Obama.
Aug 22, 2008 | 7:36 PM
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CAGW Names Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid
Porkers of the Month
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) its August Porkers of the Month for leading a do-nothing Congress into a five week vacation.
Congress left for its traditional August recess after accomplishing nothing. Of the 106 bills enacted since January, 94, or 89 percent were to name government buildings or lands, extend or make technical corrections to existing laws, or passed either by unanimous consent or with less than 10 dissenting votes. The accomplishments included “Frank Sinatra Day,” National Plumbing Industry Week,” and “National Day of the Cowboy.”
The deadline for passing the 12 annual appropriations bills has been deliberately ignored. Only one of the bills has passed the House, and only four others have been approved by the House Appropriations Committee. In the Senate, nine have been approved by the Appropriations Committee but none have reached the floor. There are two reasons for this failure to act. First, the Speaker and Majority Leader appear to be waiting for the presidential election to decide what to do with these bills, hoping that the winner in November would favor higher spending and more earmarks.
Second, the moratorium on offshore drilling expires on September 30, and it is usually renewed through the appropriations process. However, both Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are opposed to lifting the moratorium. Rather than allowing a vote, they shut down Congress. House Republicans took to the darkened House floor, demanding that Congress go back into session and hold an up-or-down vote to lift the drilling ban.
The Speaker’s first response was to continue her taxpayer-financed vacation to promote her new book. She has since indicated some willingness to consider a vote, but only tied to a larger (and costly) energy package. Majority Leader Reid’s response has been to threaten to shut down the government by refusing to allow any appropriations bills to reach the Senate floor, including a continuing resolution that would allow agencies to operate at the fiscal year 2008 spending levels.
For leaving town after Congress has spent nearly all of its time on frivolous legislation, failing to address critical issues, and threatening a government shutdown, CAGW names Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid its August 2008 Porkers of the Month.
Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers.
Aug 21, 2008 | 6:11 PM
Category:
Political
I love how Politicians say they want to give the people of our country this and that free. Well seeing as not a one of them plans to pay out of pocket for one single thing they are promising someone else will be paying it. So I think we need to look at who is paying what.
First we look at who does not get their taxes all back and some who pay even more than what is deducted, mind you if you get your federal taxes back plus some you are excluded because taxes actually pay for everything on this list. The higher incomes and businesses foot the bill for the list below and more.
1. Federal Pell Grant for lower incomes to go to college
2. All politicians paychecks
3. Welfare Checks
4. Food Stamps
5. Medicade
6. Military Paychecks
7. All utilities for govenment buildings
8. Government Parks
9. Aid to foriegn countries
10. Aid to our states during a disaster
11. Medicade
12. 300+ billion on illegals
13. 800+ billion to buy foriegn oil
14. 17.5 billion on pork
15. Low income housing
16. Retirement for all government officals
17. Insurance for all government officals
18. Business meals for govenment officials
20. F.B.I.
21. CIA
22. All business trips for government officials
23. Gas for all government vehicals
24. Vacation pay for all Politians
25. Veteran Benifits
And the list goes on and on. All these things and more a small group of Americans pay for and now some of us feel no shame in asking them to pay out even more. When did we, as a nation, begin the taxation without representation? We fought the British to become free of unfair taxes yet we want to do the same thing to our own people.
These added taxes, some politicians want the higher income and businesses to pay, are for things some of us feel we are owed. When did anyone owe something to some one for nothing? Will you give 36.5% to 39.5% of your income to federal taxes, then your state taxes, then your soical security and medicare taxes? It comes to half or better of your income every paycheck. Will you give half of what you earn so some one else can have?
If you are willing to give up half your pay then so you can but it will be your choice not some one else forcing you to give to charities you do not want to give to. Why not drill here and save that 800 billion, stop supporting illegals save that 300+ billion, stop the pork and save that 17.5 billion and use it to fund some of these programs. Why not pay for their own gas, meals, and medical like the rest of us do?
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Aug 19, 2008 | 9:04 PM
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My daughter called me today, her husband is serious about leaving the U.S. if Obama wins the election. He wants to move to another country as most of the people he works for are doing just that. Seems they are buying homes over seas because they, like him, feel they did not go to college and pay for a higher education just to have our government take half of what they earn. The truth is they will. 36% to 39.5% in fed taxes added to social security, med, and state taxes adds up to half of what they earn and in some cases more.
The thing with charity, and that is what it is when a person pays for benifits for others, is that it should be given because you want to not because the government says you have to. If you want to give to the food bank that is your choice and not the governments, just as any other charity. All those freebies Obama has promised are just charities and should not be manditory for some to pay for while others do not. Why should one group pay for the health insurance and food and housing of most of the families in the U.S. plus the illegals?
$300 billion to illegals, paid for by businesses and higher incomes, $800 billion for oil fom forign companies, paid for by the same people, $17.5 billion in pork, paid for by the same people, every pay check of ever political job and their retirements, health insurances, body gaurds and even the military, paid for by the same groups. Middle and lower incomes get their fed taxes back so it is these two groups paying the way now and what are they getting for their money? More taxes for more benifits for more people they do not want to support.
Has anyone thought about the group of people now paying for welfare checks, foodstamps, low income housing, medicade, and every other government funded thing may feel when they hear how their expected to pay for more? If you get your taxes back at the end of the year you are not footing these bills it is the very people whose taxes will be going up who do.
Now I never fit in that income where I did not get my taxes or most of them back so I can not whine but when I watched my daughter write a check for $14,000.00 over what the government already took out I finally saw just what is going on. That check you get for each child at the end of the year over what you paid in, they helped send you, and you want to steal more from them, when is enough enough? Better yet when did any one owe you for work you did not do and they did? How did you earn their money? By voting for some one who makes it sound good. Charity is charity and ever person out there who wants to have the higher incomes pay for them without earning it is taking charity and it isn't the government giving it to you it is my daughter and others like her.
It is people not the government, people who want to work a farm so their husband works over seas to earn enough to keep their land. It is the men and women who got that education to get a job that would pay well. It is the businesses, small and large. They pay for the government to rip them off. It is these people who pay for the government and all its' benifits to the poor and aid to other countries. It is their hard work and incomes that keeps this country going now so instead of thinking up ways to take more maybe it is time to stop tring to take more and be grateful for what they already do before too many of them get up and move to another country that will.