Who is Mitt Romney?
He is a Mormon, a religion that
teaches its members to be
clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and
honest.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
The Corner - for Saturday October 20: Who is Mitt Romney?; Misc.
Attacks on Capitalism fall flat; Defending Candy; Welfare jumps 36% in 4 years; Death of 4 Americans "not optimal"; Green energy failures; A list of Obama accomplishments
I apologize for the length of my recent posts. This is such an important time that I have decided to bring to you my own columns, but add at the end the headlines of the day. It's just too important not to~
Attacks on Capitalism fall flat:
Recent attacks by President Obama on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital reflect his disdain for capitalism as well as his celebration of government control – and his belief that he knows what we need or want better than we do. As he said, “I won”. How do hundreds of venture capitalism companies compare to President Obama’s venture investments in green energy companies and company bailouts using taxpayer dollars?
Recent attacks by President Obama on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital reflect his disdain for capitalism as well as his celebration of government control – and his belief that he knows what we need or want better than we do. As he said, “I won”. How do hundreds of venture capitalism companies compare to President Obama’s venture investments in green energy companies and company bailouts using taxpayer dollars?
The essence of Bain Capital and other
similar firms is that of taking a reasonable risk in hopes of being rewarded. Lanny Davis, Clinton Administration insider, recently
described the process well, saying, “Private equity firms often invest in
distressed companies by putting in cash and cutting expenses in order to save a
company that is already close to bankruptcy. Sometimes the investment works and
the company and jobs are saved. And sometimes, to save the company, jobs need
to be cut or wages and benefits reduced.”
Employees and owners alike will be rewarded if jobs can be retained by delivering
products which consumers want to buy.
Bain and others use money invested only by private citizens. Bain Capital has a success rate of 80% on
their turn-around companies. Just a few
of Bain’s great successes include Staples and Sports Authority, producing many
thousands of jobs.
This President believes that government is
the job provider, not the free market. His
administration will therefore decide for Americans how their taxpayer dollars
will be invested, without our input or approval, and 70% of his loans were delivered
to the companies of his major donors. The record is one of abject failure. Curious readers can do an Internet search on
Solyndra, Beacon Power, Ener1, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, Eastern Energy,
Nevada Geothermal, or some others of the 11 companies which CBS News declared
have “either already failed, or are on the verge of failing, taking with them
more than $6.5 billion in taxpayer money.”
Let’s consider our “investment” in
GM. He touts the fact that the company
still exists. He neglects the fact that
Preferred Bond Holders were sold out, many auto dealerships were told to close,
38% of the company is now owned by unions, and GM does not have to pay taxes
for 10 years. Salaries continued to be
raised and bonuses are handed out in spite of the fact that Americans are still
owed $24 billion. AIG, General Motors and Chrysler still collectively owe us
nearly $90 billion.
Some
well-know Democrats have been appalled at these attacks on Capitalism, as well
as the President’s statement that we should not have a venture capitalist for
President. Obama is himself a venture
capitalist. But he puts our money at
risk instead of his own. As Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick declared, “Bain is a perfectly fine company.” Newark Mayor and upcoming Democrat Cory
Booker said, “I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other
people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of
Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow
businesses.” It was said afterwords by the Obama Administration that Booker is
“dead to us”. Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell said of the ads
attacking Bain, “I think they’re very disappointing.” President Bill Clinton said, “Or you can go
into a company, have cutbacks, try to make it more productive with the purpose
of saving it. When you try, like anything else you try, you don't always
succeed. I don't think that we ought to get into the position where we say this
is bad work. This is good work. His
record there was sterling.”
Voting in November will either save our
system of Constitutional law, capitalism and free enterprise, or it will
provide another four years with this ever more divisive and dictatorial President. He thinks his job is to provide ever more
government oversight, jobs and benefits, and to provide amnesty for illegals
against the vote of Congress, as he did just last week. He thinks his word alone should be law. Obama’s campaign motto is “Forward”, the same
as the old Nazi marching tune.
I prefer to go “Onward” with that which made America the hope of the world.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is your laugh for the day" an internal memo at CNN defends Candy Crowley's giving Obama more than 9% more time than Romney by explaining that Obama talks slower. You
can't make this stuff up!
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Following is the transcript of Mitt Romney's clever and hard-hitting remarks at the Alfred W. Smith dinner last night. You would enjoy reading it.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/politics/2012/10/transcript_mitt_romney_at_the_alfred_w_smith_dinner.html
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Welfare spending jumps 32% in four year
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Vice President Joe Biden asked supporters Thursday at a Nevada campaign event, “How many of you know someone who served in Iraq or Iran?”
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Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday he would likely donate his salary to charity if elected president, a financial freedom he described as a byproduct of a successful business career.
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President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failure
So far, 36 companies that have received federal support from taxpayers have either gone bankrupt or are laying off workers and are heading for bankruptcy.
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
- Evergreen Solar ($24 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($69 million)*
- AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy ($17.1 million)
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.5 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
- Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
- EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
- Amonix ($5.9 million)
- National Renewable Energy Lab ($200 million)
- Fisker Automotive ($528 million)
- Abound Solar ($374 million)*
- A123 Systems ($279 million)*
- Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($6 million)
- Johnson Controls ($299 million)
- Schneider Electric ($86 million)
- Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
- ECOtality ($126.2 million)
- Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
- Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
- Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
- Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
- Range Fuels ($80 million)*
- Thompson River Power ($6.4 million)*
- Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
- LSP Energy ($2.1 billion)*
- UniSolar ($100 million)*
- Azure Dynamics ($120 million)*
- GreenVolts ($500,000)
- Vestas ($50 million)
- LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($150 million)
- Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
- Navistar ($10 million)
- Satcon ($3 million)*
The problem begins with the issue of government picking winners and losers in the first place http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
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Obama describes deaths of 4 Americans in Libya as 'not optimal'
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Below is a popular email going around. It has some truths, some exaggerations, and some falsehoods. I have commented on many items on the list.
Comments on Obama's accomplishments email:
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?2429648-Quit-trashing-Obama-s-accomplishments-An-impressive-list-of-accomplishments
Quit
trashing President Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any
other President before him. He has an impressive list of
accomplishments:
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. Truth or Fiction says at the time one had the code of the state from which a number is requested, but there is no proof Obama actually went to Connecticut to get his number - and why would he?
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States - make that two credit ratings cuts.
First President to violate the War Powers Act. . Actually, that was Bill Clinton when he bombed Kosovo.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico . And then he has the gall to say during the debate that oil drilling is at an all time high during his administration, even though that is on private lands, not national land. So drilling is up in spite of him. Enormous losses of taxpayer money have come at Obama's "investments" in the failing green energy companies owned by his donors.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. This pertains to buying health insurance for Obamacare.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs. Okay, they say it was only $5 Billion dollars. But he did admit that they were not even close to being shovel ready.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. His GM take-over, the giving of 38% of GM to unions, his closing Republican-owned car dealerships, and his deal to keep GM from paying taxes for 10 years, in spite of their doing about 70% of their auto construction in China, is now under consideration by a judge to have the whole thing litigated due to the fact that GM hid details from him. According to the GAO, GM still owes Americans about $24 billion, declaring this on the very day that Obama said we got every cent back. It's just another Obama lie.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. This was not an Executive Order, but a declaration by the President which will allow up to 1.5 million illegals to be given a work permit and to stay in the US without concern.This, in spite of the fact that he had his first two years in office with a Democrat House and Senate, yet failed to even bring up a bill on immigration. Congress failed to pass a law, so Obama just usurped their authority and wrote a new regulation.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions. Only felons will be deported - and, as he said this week, the gang-bangers.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. As Obama said: I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company’s recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party. [that would be his government]
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. He then put in his place Obama's "Car Czar" Steve Rattner, who had no experience at all in the automobile industry.
First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space. It is said that is was President Nixon who did this. However, it was Obama who told NASA that one of their primary responsibilities is to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as part of the administration’s efforts to make the space agency a tool of international diplomacy.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. Not really true, and Senator Obama did say that we are no longer solely a Christian nation. But he lied about why Abraham Lincoln had a Quran in the White House. He did not have the first Iftar dinner (which Obama holds in the White House each year); he studied the Quran in order to better understand his enemy.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. Probably the first President to send a form letter to the parents of a soldier killed in the line of duty - four months after the death.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. He has done a lot of that, such as in not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, and his DOJ only prosecuting white-on-black crimes. He did this just after refusing to veto the bill, and just after he signed the bill into law.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases. This relates to companies who needed to raise their rates due to Obamacare.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. Boeing was sued because they were set to open a non-union plant.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN). He sued AZ without even reading their law.
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. As he said, people can open and run coal plants, but they will go out of business because of his green energy regulations. And electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket, he said. And the high price of gas is just terrific, but he is sorry the price went up so fast.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal)., saying "They can open a new coal mine, but they will go bankrupt because of his new regulations.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records. We are talking about his college transcripts which could show that he was a foreign student, and his Passport used to travel to Pakistan back in his college days at a time when Americans were forbidden to go there. Just what was listed as his citizenship? His medical records may reveal something about his checkered past as a dope smoking student and well as his colorful days in Chicago.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. Well, he did get elected by a media who never vetted his past.
First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer. This happened at the same time that he told people not to go to Vegas during the Recession, and while he said that he does think that after a certain amount, someone has made enough money.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. This dog often travels on a separate plane for vacations, at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran; first to tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”. Not true.
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. Again, not true.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states
( Mexico vs Arizona ). He actually joined Mexico in suing the state of Arizona over their enforcement of America's immigration laws. First President to open an office which will aid illegals in being here.
First President to work with a foreign nation, Mexico, to get more of their citizens signed up to get American Food Stamps.
First
President to be photographed with his feet up on all our White House
furniture, in a total show of disrespect for the people's house.First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space. It is said that is was President Nixon who did this. However, it was Obama who told NASA that one of their primary responsibilities is to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as part of the administration’s efforts to make the space agency a tool of international diplomacy.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. Not really true, and Senator Obama did say that we are no longer solely a Christian nation. But he lied about why Abraham Lincoln had a Quran in the White House. He did not have the first Iftar dinner (which Obama holds in the White House each year); he studied the Quran in order to better understand his enemy.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. Probably the first President to send a form letter to the parents of a soldier killed in the line of duty - four months after the death.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. He has done a lot of that, such as in not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, and his DOJ only prosecuting white-on-black crimes. He did this just after refusing to veto the bill, and just after he signed the bill into law.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases. This relates to companies who needed to raise their rates due to Obamacare.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. Boeing was sued because they were set to open a non-union plant.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN). He sued AZ without even reading their law.
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. As he said, people can open and run coal plants, but they will go out of business because of his green energy regulations. And electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket, he said. And the high price of gas is just terrific, but he is sorry the price went up so fast.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal)., saying "They can open a new coal mine, but they will go bankrupt because of his new regulations.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records. We are talking about his college transcripts which could show that he was a foreign student, and his Passport used to travel to Pakistan back in his college days at a time when Americans were forbidden to go there. Just what was listed as his citizenship? His medical records may reveal something about his checkered past as a dope smoking student and well as his colorful days in Chicago.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. Well, he did get elected by a media who never vetted his past.
First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer. This happened at the same time that he told people not to go to Vegas during the Recession, and while he said that he does think that after a certain amount, someone has made enough money.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. This dog often travels on a separate plane for vacations, at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran; first to tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”. Not true.
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. Again, not true.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states
( Mexico vs Arizona ). He actually joined Mexico in suing the state of Arizona over their enforcement of America's immigration laws. First President to open an office which will aid illegals in being here.
First President to work with a foreign nation, Mexico, to get more of their citizens signed up to get American Food Stamps.
How is this hope and change working out for you?
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Debate talking points; Our Department of Justice; An open letter to the President
1) Obama can talk all about equal pay for women, but Mitt Romney should have pointed out that in the White House and his Administration, women are paid 18% less in salary than are women. Obama's staffers have called the White House a "boys club", and hostile to women. On the question of our government funding Planned Parenthood, Obama said that PP provides mammograms, which it most certainly does not. Since Obama signed an Executive Order mandating that government will not pay for abortions, how can he defend the millions of abortions paid for at PP? President Obama signed an executive order #13535 ensuring that existing limits on the federal funding of abortion remain in place under the new health care reform law. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-acts-consistency-with-longst
2) Barack Obama should have been confronted with the fact that he has rewritten the laws of Congress by regulating that only felons would be deported - a dereliction of his Oath of Office to uphold the law, not to make them. He once commented that Justice John Roberts "has been a little bit too willing and eager to give an administration, whether it's mine or George Bush's, more power than I think the Constitution originally intended." I assume that he is now happy that is the case.
3) Illegals coming into America is down in his administration not because his administration is increasing their efforts, but because his economy is so bad that even illegals are having trouble finding jobs and are therefore returning to Mexico.
4) The price of gas is up in Obama's administration partially because Obama has reduced drilling on federal land by 40% - not because the economy is doing so well. Romney should have mentioned that Obama had said several years ago that he likes gasoline to be at a high price (for in results in fewer people buying it), but that he "would have preferred a more gradual adjustment". As for coal production, Obama had this to say a few years ago: 'So, if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it’ll bankrupt them.'
5) Candy Crowley, who interrupted Romney to say that yes, Obama did say in the Rose Garden that terror was the cause of the Benghazi attack, said herself on CNN that it took Obama 17 days to admit that the video was not the cause of the terrorist attack on our Embassy on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. Romney could have asked him, since all our embassies are supposed to be defended, just how many of those invading terrorist were killed. I wanted Romney to confront the President by asking him why after all this time he has still not given a Press Conference to inform us of what happened and what he will do about it, to calm us and assure us that it will happen no more - and to take questions.
6) Crowley let Obama out and out lie about Romney's beliefs on Arizona and immigration - no interruption there. Obama said that Romney likes the fact that the law allows police to profile, to pull people over just because they look foreign. The law explicitly states that profiling is NOT allowed, but that I.D. is allowed to be asked for if someone is pulled over for an infraction of the law, just as you and I would be asked for I.D. Instead, this Administration has a hotline to help illegals aliens escape our laws.
7) While arguing about Obama's bailout of GM, I wish Romney had mentioned that we Americans are still owed 26 million dollars while GM will pay no taxes for 10 years. He should have mentioned that as part of Obama's bankruptcy proceeding for GM, unions got 38% of the stock for only a 15% cost, while preferred bond holders got pennies on the dollar. Non-union members lost their pensions, but the union members did not. Mostly republican car dealers were forced to close their dealerships. So what is this, Obama, about how Romney wanted a structured reorganization, and not one structured by the President?
I look forward to the Monday debate on foreign policy, as Obama truly is at a disadvantage here because the world does NOT love us again as he said they would. In fact, the entire Middle East is rife with demonstrations against America, culminating in the act of war in Benghazi....And we all know that for 17 days he DID blame the video.
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Barack Obama’s chosen leader of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder, has consistently made news since Barack Obama became President.
One of the first things Eric Holder did was to drop the charges which had been made against the New Black Panthers. During the 2008 election they had intimidated, on video, those at polling places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, displaying billy clubs at the polling place. Saying that these actions were not nearly as bad as those against blacks back in the earlier days in our history, a decision was made by Holder to only prosecute white-on-black crimes, just to make it fair. A Federal Judge recently declared that political appointees of Barack Obama did indeed interfere with the Black Panther prosecution. He continues to systematically turn a blind eye to black-on-white crimes.
With not one enemy combatant caught on a battlefield in American history ever tried in a civilian court, Eric Holder argued for having Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the terrorists allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks against America, tried in New York City as a civilian, even though he said he personally decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.
Eric Holder sued to force Arizona to stop following the Federal guidelines on immigration. When the Supreme Court verified Arizona’s right to check the identification of those who have committed a crime, President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security quickly said they would suspend existing agreements with the Arizona police, telling the Feds to decline doing their jobs unless a felony has been committed. Thus the President is failing to uphold America laws he swore to uphold.
The Department of Justice sued Florida for removing its voter lists of as many as 182,000 dead and illegal voters. State officials sought access to a federal immigration database but that request has been turned down by the Department of Homeland Security. A federal judge consequently ruled to allow the info and the purge of non-Americans.
The Department is now investigating whether Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law is discriminatory. The Justice Department requested data on the state’s registered voters in an effort to analyze whether those who lack the proper identification are disproportionately minorities. Is it our fault that minorities less frequently seek to be registered voters? Perhaps Democrats time should be spending time to help them register instead of attempting to allow possibly fraudulent votes to be cast.
The DOJ is now suing the state of Ohio over their law restoring the 2008 rights for the military to have three extra days to cast their early votes. Our military is frequently kept from having their votes counted. The federal court ruled that in 2008 Virginia had violated federal law by waiting until the day prior to the election to have their military absentee ballots mailed out, for instance.
We have learned from the GSA that Eric Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers for the recent financial meltdown is likely a result of cronyism inside the Department of Justice and political donations made to Obama’s campaign.
Perhaps worst of all is Fast and Furious, the program which resulted in Eric Holder receiving a Contempt of Congress citation along with possible criminal and civil charges, some calling for his resignation. As the L.A. Times described, ‘it allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so the arms could be traced to the higher echelons of Mexican drug cartels.” Many think the program was run with the purpose of providing another argument for government gun control. Many of those weapons have been used to commit crimes, including the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Congress has to this day not received requested documents after 1 ½ years of asking. As President Obama famously said, “the only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.” Indeed.
Mister Holder, our complaints against how you run the Department of Justice really don’t have anything to do with the fact that “you know, you and Obama are both African-American”, as you claim. It has to do with the Rule of Law and the Constitution.
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God, Not Government, Helped Me Succeed, Mr. President
July
20, 2012
Here's
my open letter To Barack Hussein
Obama:
Mr.
Obama,
You
recently made a statement to the effect that, ”If you have a business
you didn't build it, you had help," implying that the federal
government helped build our businesses by virtue of paving roads and
building bridges and keeping the nation safe from foreign
invasion.
First
of all, Mr. Obama, if I'm going to take advice about business it will
not be from somebody who has had absolutely no business experience
like yourself.
Secondly, Mr. Obama, I vehemently disagree with your
premise.
Where
was your government when I spent as much as 16 weeks away from my wife
and infant son to get a business
started?
Where
were you on those cold winter nights when my old bus broke down in the
middle of nowhere and we had to scramble to make the next show, nobody
from the government came along to give us a
ride?
Where
was your government when I had to borrow money from a bank to make my
payroll?
Where
was your government while I was digging out of a two million dollar
debt, playing every smoky beer joint I could to keep from losing
everything I owned?
Mr.
Obama, I want to make you aware of a fact. It is the federal
government's responsibility to build roads and bridges and keep the
nation safe. That's what the federal government is supposed to do, not
create an entitlement society that is totally unsustainable and pile
up debt that we can't pay.
And
who do you think paid for those roads and bridges in the first place,
and have been doing it for 200 years before you were even
born?
The
citizens of this nation do not need to pay more taxes, the federal
government needs to stop spending money it doesn't have and has to
borrow. Because the truth of the matter is that no matter how much
taxes the government collects, things are only going to get worse
because you'll only spend it and demand even
more.
Mr.
Obama you have divided this nation by making the have-nots believe
that anybody who has been successful has done so at their expense,
that anything they've accumulated has been stolen, not earned. That
hard work and risk had nothing to do with their success, because
they’ve just been lucky and should give a big part of what they earn
to the government to pass on to those who don't even try to be
successful.
Look
at what’s going on with the African-Americans who put their hopes and
complete confidence in you and voted overwhelmingly for you. The
unemployment rate is 14% and the unemployment among young African
Americans is something like 40%
Is
that what hope and change is all
about?
Look
at what's happening in your hometown of Chicago where the murder rate
is through the roof.
Do you
think your baseless rhetoric about the unfairness of the successful in
America is going to help soothe the
situation?
Have
you ever considered reaching out to them, instead of fanning the
flames?
Mr.
Obama I don't think you like America very much. I think you'd like to
redesign it from the ground up, to turn it into a lazy, unproductive,
secular, socialist society.
Well,
that just wont flush in a lot of ways, the most prominent being that
when all the productive people have given up and stopped trying, when
all the investors stop investing, when 80% of the population is living
on government hand outs, your government is going to run out of money
and this nation will sink into chaos.
But
Mr. Obama, I’m beginning to think that's what you
want.
My
help cometh from the Lord who made Heaven and Earth - not the
government who made debt and class
envy.
What
do you think?
Pray
for our troops, and for our country.
God
Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Barack Obama’s Executive Orders and Departmental Regulations, without the consent of Congress – III
Some of Obama’s orders and regulations deal with the issue of immigration in America:
1) After Congress defeated his Amnesty
bill, President Obama told a group of Hispanics that he’d “like to make this
happen all on my own”, and “how we enforce those laws is also important”.
2) His Department of Homeland Security
then decreed that it will focus only on felons who have illegally entered our
country, giving a type of “amnesty” to all others. The Department is now suing the states of Arizona and Alabama
for enforcing immigration laws.
3)
The next stop on
the road to amnesty has been declared – a new toll-free hotline to help illegal
aliens in custody. It will assure they
are “made aware of their rights”, help them get released from custody, and file
civil rights complaints against ICE agents.
Our Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a newly named post of
"public advocate" for illegal aliens. Illegals who broke our laws by
sneaking into our country are now protected from our government - by our
government.
4) Deputy U.S. Attorney General James
Cole says Obama has decided to “pull back all training materials used for law
enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all
references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.” http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/21/obama-administration-pulls-references-to-islam-from-terror-training-materials-official-says/
5) President Obama recently declared that the
laws he vowed to uphold when he took his Oath of Office are now his to change
by the stroke of a pen. The latest is
his edict to pay no attention to our Immigration Laws, thereby putting up to
1.5 million young illegal aliens into the same job market as those true
Americans whose unemployment rates are now up to 25%. Meeting broad parameters, those Hispanics
will not be deported and will instead be given work permits, even though they
or their parents broke the law to sneak into our country in the first place. In the past immigration law presumed that
immigrants seeking American citizenship would be
self-sufficient, not dependent on government programs to live their lives. Our State Department does not now allow
welfare programs to be considered, refusing to notice all but two of 80 different
programs. They are prevented from
considering that the applicant will probably need to receive WIC payments, food
stamps, and Medicaid for example.
Orders and regulations on other subjects:
Orders and regulations on other subjects:
6) President Obama violated the War
Powers act by entering a war in Libya
without an Act of Congress. Recently we have learned that we have U.S. military forces on the border of Syria, again without consulting Congress.
7) This President decided that one law of the land,
the Defense of Marriage Act, is in his view unconstitutional. President Obama has therefore declared that
the law will no longer be defended by government in the courts of America. Before you cheer this action, consider what
you would think if a future President decides he believes the Civil Rights Act,
or Roe vs Wade, is unconstitutional - and then fails to defend it.
8) Re-named ACORN entities were funded with at
least $730,000 last year in spite of powerful evidence of corruption and in
spite of actively being defunded by our Congress.
9) DOJ
refuses to say they will never criminalize speech against any religion.
10) Our President is now working on an Executive Order which will allow him the ability to totally control the internet, as when things don’t go his way and he wants to shut it down, perhaps. Presidential powers over the Internet and telecommunications were laid out in a U.S. Senate bill in 2009, which proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. But that legislation was not included in the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 earlier this year. http://www.cnbc.com/id/48151460/Obama_s_Internet_Order_Power_Grab_or_Simple_Update
11) On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order...) This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.
10) Our President is now working on an Executive Order which will allow him the ability to totally control the internet, as when things don’t go his way and he wants to shut it down, perhaps. Presidential powers over the Internet and telecommunications were laid out in a U.S. Senate bill in 2009, which proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. But that legislation was not included in the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 earlier this year. http://www.cnbc.com/id/48151460/Obama_s_Internet_Order_Power_Grab_or_Simple_Update
11) On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order...) This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything.
12) His Justice Department halted the
prosecution of the New Black Panthers of Philadelphia for their video-taped
intimidation of white voters in the 2008 elections. The stated intention of the Civil Rights
Division is to not prosecute black-on-white crimes.
13) Our President recently launched
“Attack Watch” on his website, a new vehicle to have citizens report to him
those fellow citizens who say mean things about him. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/obama-attack-watch-website-to-help-supporters-fight-back/
14) On May 2, 2012 came an
Executive Order which will have the US bow to international
regulations, providing, according to Business Week “a framework to organize
scattered efforts to promote international regulatory cooperation. Many worry that this is just one more step
toward President Obama’s desire for global governance. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/inforeg/eo_13609/eo13609_05012012.pdf
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The lying NYT, again; Obama's Executive Orders, rules and regulations
The lying NYTimes: For those who watched or listened to the debate, remember Ryan saying this as he closed?
That’s nowhere in the New York Times transcript. It’s been cut out.
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Barack
Obama’s Executive Orders and Departmental Regulations, without the consent of
Congress – Part I
[For new readers who do might doubt my words, I am adding links to some of the hardest to believe actions. I always encourage you to do your own searches for the truth.]
The choice is clear: a stagnant economy that promotes more government dependency, or a dynamic, growing economy that promotes opportunity and jobs. Mitt Romney and I will not duck the tough issues.Fine so far, right? But then Ryan continued, “And we will not blame others for the next four years.”
That’s nowhere in the New York Times transcript. It’s been cut out.
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[For new readers who do might doubt my words, I am adding links to some of the hardest to believe actions. I always encourage you to do your own searches for the truth.]
In addition to Executive Orders, an Administration has many ways to
change the laws through rules and regulations simply written into existing
law. Most Executive Orders throughout
our history simply clarify laws already passed.
Only this Administration frequently rewrites laws and their
entire intents. Following are just some of the
changes I have chronicled in eight columns on bypassing Congress. They are in no particular order.
Quite a few of Barack Obama’s changes relate to the EPA, our American
land and seas, and our rights to our privately owned property.
At a time when we've learned that the world has stopped getting warmer for almost 16 years, this Administration has bought into the global warming hysteria, using taxpayer dollars to prevent the normal, cyclical changes in temperatures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz29H384hSu
At a time when we've learned that the world has stopped getting warmer for almost 16 years, this Administration has bought into the global warming hysteria, using taxpayer dollars to prevent the normal, cyclical changes in temperatures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz29H384hSu
1) After Congress failed to pass a Cap and Trade law, Obama gave to the EPA
the power to rule our country with expensive regulations. National Economic Research Associates (NERA)
used Federal Government data to discover that proposed EPA regulations would
cost America
over 1.2 million jobs by 2020.
2) It is Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) goal to “change how it makes decisions and analyzes
problems to give it more power to regulate businesses, communities and
ecosystems in the name of the UN agenda of sustainable development.” http://www.epa.gov/environmentalinnovation/pdf/rpt2admin.pdf. The Republican National Committee has
constructed a Resolution Exposing United Nations Agenda 21, for they have never
ratified the treaty. The UN Agenda 21
has stealthily become part of local community and state laws by using the
friendly-sounding words sustainability and wildlands.
3) The Wildlands Project is being implemented wherever
it is allowed. The UN project, part of the UN Biodiversity Treaty which was never
ratified by the U.S. Senate, calls for approximately 50 percent of the United
States to be set aside as "wildlands", where no human can
enter. Much has been accomplished over the past 10 years toward that goal,
and the pace is stepping up. Watch for it in your town. http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/06/climate-change-wildlife-and-wildlands-a-toolkit-for-the-educator-in-you/
4)
Obama’s Executive Order #13514, titled “Federal
Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance”, closely follows
the Kyoto Treaty which failed to be ratified by Congress. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-signs-an-Executive-Order-Focused-on-Federal-Leadership-in-Environmental-Energy-and-Economic-Performance/
5)
The UN’s Agenda 21 of 1992 is crucial to
achieving a “sustainable world” – “to create more sustainability and green
energy.” Obama’s Department of Commerce declared that the agency could
implement 67% of their mandates without the vote of Congress. Government would then control and facilitate
rural economic development.
6)
President
Obama’s Executive Order 13547 Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and
the Great Lakes further extends federal power, embraces global governance,
diminishes the rights and privileges of individuals and brings the United
States into compliance with UN Agenda 21, Chapter 17.6 which
says: Each coastal State should consider establishing, or where necessary
strengthening, appropriate coordinating mechanisms for integrated management
and sustainable development of coastal and marine areas. …
7) The Obama administration has set up
a new National Ocean Council to convince the Senate to ratify the treaty Convention on the Law of the Sea. Rejected by Ronald Reagan in 1982, and by our
Senate in 2000 and 2004, the treaty is once again being promoted. If passed the
treaty would give the UN the power to regulate activities within our
territorial boundaries and to levy taxes via royalties and application fees of
$250,000, without providing one bit of new benefits to the United States. The UN’s agenda is taking American's money
away from them to support the rest of the world.
8)
The Presidential Climate Action Project last year released
an extensive list of recommendations for the White House in a 75-page paper
entitled, “Building the Obama Administration’s Climate Legacy.” http://www.climateactionproject.com/docs/PCAP_Report_2011.pdf
9) The Interior Department listed new
rules which would now ban gun owners from using some public lands for target
practice. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/16/obama-pushing-shooters-off-public-lands
10) President has declared that America would
follow, even without allowing Congress to vote, a European Union Code of
Conduct for outer space. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/opinion/hands-off-the-heavens.html?_r=0
11)
The EPA is working to use the Clean Water Act to control American land
alongside ditches, gullies and other spots by claiming they are now part of
“navigable waterways”. http://times247.com/articles/obama-epa-power-grab-causes-bipartisan-backlash
12)
The EPA is enforcing higher MPG on cars, thereby causing new cars to
cost even more.
13) After
declaring a moratorium on offshore drilling, President Obama was declared to be
in contempt of court for not allowing drilling permits, causing the loss of
hundreds of thousands of jobs. To this day he stalls those permits. Only because drilling has gone up on private lands can he say that during his Administration we are drilling more than when he took office.
14)
Six House Democrats, led by
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits
Board", with no Congressional approval of nominees to control gas profits,
with no guideline on what will be determined to be “reasonable”. They state the “windfall profit tax” could be
as much as 100% on the sale of oil and gas profits. Read this one again! “Reasonable Profits” could be the next
Presidential mantra – like “fair share”, and “fair shot”. If you think this is a good thing, just
ponder what you will think when it is your industry’s profits they come after
next. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/205085-dems-propose-reasonable-profits-board-to-regulate-oil-company-profits
15) The latest example is the Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578040873921142716.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
15) The latest example is the Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578040873921142716.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
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