You Wanted Change. You Now Have It! But At What Cost?


List of Republican Budget Cuts (sent by Joyce Griffith)
February 7, 2012, 9:27 am
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

Notice Social Security and the Military budget is NOT on this list.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy — $445 million annual savings.
* Save America ‘s Treasures Program — $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland — $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation — $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts — $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities — $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program — $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies — $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicative education programs — H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency — $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy — $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding — $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy — $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund — $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid — $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half — $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% — $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service — $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program — $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program — $125 million annual savings.
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization — $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment — $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit — $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts — $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants — $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning — $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission — $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration — $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act — $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy — $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership — $200 million annual savings.
* Energy Star Program — $52 million annual savings.
* Economic Assistance to Egypt — $250 million annually.
* U.S. Agency for International Development — $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia — $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority — $150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund — $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition — $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act — More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget — $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees — $1 billion total savings. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees — $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of — $15 billion total savings.
* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies — $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN’T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program — $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program — $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program — $56.2 million annual savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs — $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program — $27 million savings.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?

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OBAMA’S CZARS (sent by Cheryl Robinson)
February 4, 2012, 12:11 am
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, Democrats, Obama Stuff, US Politics, Who Is Obama?
There are very few of us who know just what all of Obama’s Czars do, as they quietly go about their “work” in the nation’s capital. This listing of their names and job descriptions should be educational to all Americans, no matter what your political leaning. If you resent the existence of these extra-governmental “officials”, with their very generous salaries funded by, you guessed it, you, the taxpayer, then get angry with the one who put these characters on the payroll.

See who they are and realize what they want to do:

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Richard Holbrooke – Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti-gun former Governor Of New Mexico. Pro-Abortion and pro- drug legalization. Wants to dissolve the 2nd Amendment
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Ed Montgomery – Auto recovery Czar
Radical anti-business black activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. University of Maryland Business School Dean; teaches that US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
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Jeffrey Crowley – AIDS Czar
Radical Homosexual. Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
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Alan Bersin – Border Czar
The former failed superintendent of San Diego. Ultra-Liberal friend of Hillary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegals without interference from the Federal government.
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David J. Hayes – California Water Czar
Senior Fellow of radical environmentalist group “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
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Ron Bloom – Car Czar
Auto Union worker. Anti- business & anti- nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Union-owned. How did this happen?
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Dennis Ross – Central Region Czar
Believes US policy is the cause of war in the Middle East. Obama apologist to the world. Anti-gun and completely Pro-Abortion.
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Lynn Rosenthal – Domestic Violence Czar
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti-male feminist. Supports male castration – imagine?
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Gil Kerlikowske – Drug Czar
Devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, former Chief of Police in liberal Seattle WA. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs.
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Paul Volcker – Economic Czar
Former head of the Federal Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama-appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti-business “Progressive Policy” organization,
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Carol Browner – Energy and Environment Czar
Political Radical. Former head of the EPA – known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
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Joshua DuBois – Faith-Based Czar
Political Black activist. Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti-gun ownership lobbyist. WHAT DOES A FAITH-BASED CZAR DO ? ? ?
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Cameron Davis – Great Lakes Czar
Chicago radical anti-business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management whatsoever. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)
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Van Jones – Green Jobs Czar
(since resigned). Black activist with strong anti-white views. Member of American Communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party. Said George Bush caused the 9-11 attacks and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes.
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Daniel Fried – Guantanamo Closure Czar
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the Global War on Terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
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Nancy-Ann DeParle – Health Czar
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong proponent of Healthcare Rationing (i.e. “Death Panels”). She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
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Vivek Kundra – Information Czar
Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (????)
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Todd Stern – International Climate Czar
Anti-business former White House Chief of Staff. Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord; pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.
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Dennis Blair – Intelligence Czar
Retired US Navy. Stopped US guided missile program he described as “provocative”. Chair of ultra-Liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars.
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George Mitchell – Mideast Peace Czar
Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 ” smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual “special rights” advocate
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Kenneth Feinberg – Pay Czar
Chief of Staff to Ted Kennedy. Lawyer who got rich off the 9-11 victims payoffs (horribly true).
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Cass Sunstein – Regulatory Czar
Liberal activist judge who believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”; essentially against the 1st Amendment. Has ruled against personal freedoms many times on private gun ownership and right to free speech cases. This guy has to be run out of Washington ! ! !
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John Holdren – Science Czar
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club anti-business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
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Earl Devaney – Stimulus Accountability Czar
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
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J. Scott Gration – Sudan Czar
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo . Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
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Herb Allison – TARP Czar
Fannie Mae CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
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John Brennan – Terrorism Czar
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military!
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Aneesh Chopra – Technology Czar
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti-doctor activist. \ Supports Obama Healthcare Rationing (i.e. Death Panels) and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Government Healthcare plan.
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Adolfo Carrion Jr. – Urban Affairs Czar
Puerto Rico-born Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America. Millionaire “slum lord” of Bronx, NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and healthcare.
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Ashton Carter – Weapons Czar
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America. No Other “policy”.
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Gary Samore – WMD Policy Czar
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”

These are the people who are helping President Obama ruin…run…our country from the White House. With elections coming, this is just a little refresher – your tax dollars pay these dangerous leftists! There are a few more now not included here.

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Gimme Generation (sent by Alyce Getz)
January 28, 2012, 5:18 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, The Left, US Economics, US Politics

Economics prof learns about how the youth now feel…  S C A R Y !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=VxHfYNTrnic

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Obama’s Hypocrisy on Oil (sent by Bob Hankins)
January 23, 2012, 12:48 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, Obama Stuff, US Politics

Apparently it takes a Canadian to realize how bad our situation is. The video is about 12 minutes long, but very worthy of viewing. This is one situation that, if not reversed, will cost us dearly in the future.

http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/01/video-canadian-talk-show-host-destroys-obama-over-keystone-decision.html

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Ron Paul is the most dangerous man in the Republican party (sent by Polly Campbell)
January 13, 2012, 9:34 am
Filed under: US Politics

By , Published: January 11

In the wake of his second-place showing in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, Texas Rep. Ron Paul declared: “We are dangerous to the status quo of this country”.

He’s right. And that could be a very bad thing for a Republican party hoping to take back the White House this November.

A look at exit polling from New Hampshire suggests that Paul has a significant — and steady — following that exists almost entirely apart from the Republican party and is, in many ways, based on a disgust with the GOP.

Two numbers from the exit polls jump out.

1) Almost seven in ten people who voted for Paul on Tuesday in New Hampshire said they would be “dissatisfied” if former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was the Republican nominee.

2) Fully 78 percent of Paul’s New Hampshire support came from those who are dissatisfied or angry with the Obama administration — not surprising given the low regard in which the current president is held by Republicans. But, consider this: 77 percent of Paul’s Granite State supporters in 2008 were similarly upset with the Bush administration. In fact, half of all Paul’s votes four years ago came from voters downright “angry” with Republican president.

Combine those two data points with the fact that Paul’s vote total more than tripled between 2008 (18,308 votes) and 2012 (56,000 votes and counting) and it’s clear that the Texas Republican’s support is not only primed and ready to follow him wherever he leads but it is also growing.

That double-barreled dose of reality leads naturally to a discussion of a possible third party bid in 2012 by Paul. He’s been asked any number of times about it and always demurs, insisting that it’s nothing he’s planning on doing. (In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Greta van Susteren Monday, Paul said: “That thought doesn’t cross my mind. I’m not thinking in those terms.”)

We believe him. But, circumstances change.

Imagine this scenario: Between now and Super Tuesday — March 6 — Romney wins enough primaries that he becomes the de facto nominee. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and the rest of the field bows to the inevitable and gets out. Paul, on the other hand, stays in the race — continuing to accrue delegates and strengthen his negotiating position for a larger voice in the party (if that’s what he wants).

The Republican party will then be faced with a choice. Do they bow to Paul’s demands — a speaking slot at the convention or perhaps more? — or do they simply ignore him in hopes he goes away.

If the party takes the latter course, Paul may well adjust his thinking on a third party bid. (Remember, he has already done it once: he ran as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee in 1988.)

And, some of his rhetoric on Tuesday night certainly suggested that Paul viewed his candidacy as the leading edge of a much larger movement. “I think the intellectual revolution that’s going on now to restore liberty in this country is well on its way, and there’s no way they’re going to stop the momentum that we have started,” he said.

Should Paul decide that his cause is best championed via a third party bid for president, the impact would be disastrous for Republicans next fall.

How disastrous? Take a look at the Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted in mid-December. In it, President Obama and Romney are tied at 47 percent in a traditional two-way race. Add Paul in as a third party candidate and Obama takes 42 percent, Romney 32 percent and Paul 21 percent. That’s a pretty stark difference in potential outcomes.

There is one x-factor that may lead Paul to accept a negotiated detente with the GOP rather than go to all-out war as a third party candidate. And that x factor’s name is Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican senator and son of Ron Paul.

It’s no secret that Rand, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, has national ambitions. (There was even some talk he might run instead of his dad in this election.)

A Ron Paul third party bid in 2012 would almost certainly tank Rand’s chances of being taken seriously as a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2016 or 2020 (or maybe ever). The Paul forces know that and it may ultimately be a major reason why Ron Paul decides that a deal with the establishment is the more prudent course of action.

Make no mistake: What Ron Paul decides to do over the next few months will be watched with a mixture of fascination and trepidation by the political world. And that makes him the most dangerous man in (and to) the Republican party.

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Federal agencies tighten belts with buyouts, early retirements (sent by Polly Campbell)
January 13, 2012, 9:28 am
Filed under: Obama Stuff, US Economics, US Politics

By , Published: January 11

While Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about pink slips and the joys of firing people, many agencies in the Obama administration are quietly paying employees to leave their jobs.

Buyouts and early retirement programs are the scalpel Uncle Sam uses before he has to turn to the hatchet of layoffs.

“I don’t think it is any secret that going forward the federal government will be on a strict diet and will require some belt tightening,” said John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management.

Federal-employee belts are the ones likely to get a lot of that tightening because the salary lines of agency budgets consume a lot of money.

OPM uses two tools to help agencies reduce their staffing levels without resorting to pink slips and firings. One is the Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments (VSIP) program, which is government-speak for buyouts. Employees can get up to $25,000 to quit. The other is the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA), which allows workers to get annuities years earlier than usual.

These programs give agency officials “the flexibility to respond to the budget situation,” Berry said, allowing them to create a “glide path” to workforce reduction rather than the crash that layoffs would be.

But if the two V’s don’t get the job done, he added, “agencies do have the tool box, which we all know goes in the direction of reduction in force” or RIFs, which means pink slips.

“Our hope is through creative use of VERA and VSIP authority and workforce strategic planning that agencies will be able to respond to the . . . ’12 and 2013 budget years without having to move into more drastic approaches like reductions in force,” he said, adding: “There may be cases where people, they’ve done all they can do with VERA and VSIP and will have to look at other options.”

OPM has a strike team to provide quick responses to agency requests for buyouts and early retirements. “We’ve approved quite a few of them, and we’ve managed a pretty good turnaround time on almost all of those,” he said. “We know, done well, this is the best way to respond to this and allow you to design your workforce to address your budget.”

Despite the increased budget pressures, he doesn’t expect the number of buyout and early retirement requests from agencies to be dramatically higher this year than last.

“It’s not a cliff,” he said.

Jack Lew, the Office of Management and Budget director, whom President Obama has named to be his chief of staff, understands how important career employees are and knows “that jarring impacts can really upset the system,” Berry added. “He recognizes we’ve got to have a tighter, leaner government, but we can do that responsibly without creating chaos.”

In fiscal 2010, OPM gave 14 departments permission to offer buyouts: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury, Transportation and Veterans Affairs.

The same agencies were allowed to offer early retirement, except for Defense and Health and Human Services.

The next year, a dozen departments, including several of the same ones, got the okay for buyouts from OPM: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.

For fiscal 2011, all of those departments, except the Pentagon, were granted early retirement authority, and Homeland Security was added to that list.

OPM does not have the number of employees who potentially could get a buyout or an early retirement offer from their agencies.

Despite the early outs, the overall number of federal workers may not decline, at least not by much.

The White House budget plan for this fiscal year projected an increase in federal employment to 2,116,000, from an estimated 2,101,000 in fiscal 2011, not including the Postal Service. But those projections were made before the budget battles between Democrats and Republicans and the threat of automatic spending cuts to reduce the deficit.

“That being the case, I think the 2012 estimate is probably a bit high,” said John Palguta, a senior vice president of the Partnership for Public Service, a think tank that focuses on federal workplace issues. (The Partnership has a content sharing relationship with The Washington Post.) “My prediction is that the size of the federal workforce . . . at the end of FY 2011 will be the high water mark. I think we’ll see a small dip in FY 2012 and a bigger dip in FY 2013.”

Closing note: According to White House data, the number of federal employees in 2011 was less than in 1985, under former president Ronald Reagan, whom Republicans consider to be the godfather of small government, despite a national population that is about 30 percent larger now.

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Obama, Tebow, and America’s Hunger for Heroes (sent by Morgan Lloyd)
January 11, 2012, 5:35 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

Read this comparison of Obama and Tebow…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/obama_tebow_and_americas_hunger_for_heroes.html

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Gun Control: Is It American? (sent by Glenrose Dameron)
January 11, 2012, 10:23 am
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

This is an educational slide show… please watch and absorb…

Firearms

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The Tragedy Of The Republican Primary
January 9, 2012, 1:43 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

Over the last few months I, like many of you, have been watching and analyzing the Presidential debates featuring the Republican candidates. At first, in early September, they started off great with people actually talking about “reforming” the political machine we call Congress. In my opinion the reason was the presence of a true outsider in Herman Cain. The former pizza CEO was rising in the polls on a platform of reforming the current tax code with his 9-9-9 plan. Say what you will about the plan but the fact of the matter is Herman Cain changed the dynamic of the Republican primary. Everyone was talking about it even chanted “nine, nine, nine” in large town halls and venues across America. Its popularity forced politicians to start talking about it. This was more than enough proof that the people of this nation wanted a change. It even forced Rick Perry to come out and introduce his tax plan which included a flat tax.

The current tax system creates special interests. It is convoluted and archaic. IRS employees don’t even understand it. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2008 the Internal Revenue Service employees were wrong about tax law about 10% of the time! How would you like to be one of the “beneficiaries” of this advice? I can hear it now…”but…but…an IRS employee said I could” as the clicking of handcuffs can be heard.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS and taxes in general, is a favorite target for buying influence with political contributions. In 2008 alone the dollar amount of political contributions given to Congressional members of this committee eclipsed a staggering $55 million dollars. This alone is ammunition enough for the idea of tax reform.

Politicians use the current tax code to foster crony capitalism and engineer the voting electorate under the guise of helping the “poor” by the addition of “refundable” tax credits. The same refundable tax credits that brought about RAL’s (Refund Anticipation Loans) that prey on the low and middle class with egregious fees and interest rates. The same credits that now have 47% of Americans paying no federal income taxes and allow 30% to make money under the current system.

Since Herman Cain left the contest we have veered away from talking about tax reform. They are back to platitudes and talking points.  Career politicians don’t bring it up any more because they don’t have to. There is nobody left in the race who is pushing this issue…and that is now the tragedy of the Republican primary.

Blaise Ingoglia, Founder Government Gone Wild!

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Who Are the Poor in America?
January 5, 2012, 11:23 am
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

The Census Bureau recently reported that 48% of our population is either poor or low income.  I do not believe it.  The Census Bureau has added commuting, medical, and other living costs to estimate those who are poor or low income.  Why were these elements added at this time, who determines them, and for what reason?  If any organization can determine what numbers will be used in determining an outcome, then the door is wide open for anything.  This seems to be another example of this administration trying to convince us that we not the greatest country in history.  Unfortunately there are enough people who are willing to go along with this farce.  The Great Society was implemented by President Johnson in the 60′s and since then trillions of dollars has been transferred from producers to non-producers.  Now we are told that 48% of us are poor!

Think about it, does anyone really believe that almost half of our population is poor?  Again, it goes to the definition of what is poor.  What our government describes as poor is generally in the middle class in most countries.  If almost half of the population is poor, then why are so many people trying to come to this country?  It seems that the government has established a dollar value for determining who is poor.  That is not valid because the cost of living varies depending on where one lives.  The cost of living in San Francisco, Boston, or New York are much higher than areas in the south.  When I was on active duty, living costs in Newport, Rhode Island and Washington D.C. were much higher than Jacksonville North Carolina, but I received the same pay.   My family merely adjusted to how we spent our money.

When the government describes the poor, it seems to think that they are a constant group of people.  That is not true.  Most of the people in the lowest 20% (quintile) do not remain there.  In fact a sizeable percentage move into the highest 20% over a period of time.  That is the greatness of our economic system and our country.  Most of us started at the bottom of the economic ladder and over years of hard work and dedication we moved up.  That is life.  There is no way that nearly half of our population is poor.  It is obvious that the government’s definition of poor is wrong.

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Is It Time for a Third Party Candidate?
December 13, 2011, 12:23 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

Is It Time For A Third Party?

There is a lot of talk and speculation these days about political hopefuls running as a third party candidate in state and local elections. Heck, even Ron Paul and Donald Trump are floating the idea. Let me say this as strongly as I can…this is a BAD IDEA!  

Many are not happy with either political party as evidenced by an increase in “independents” or “NPA’s” (No Party Affliliation) over the last 10 years. In a closed primary state when an NPA enters the voting booth and asks the question “These are my choices? Who put these people on the ballot?” The answer is: YOU DID…by not being registered with a political party and helping to choose that party’s candidate!

People’s first inclination when they get frustrated with partisan politics is to respond by dropping their party affiliation. This is absolutely the worst action you could take. Many view this as a form of silent boycott. It is only natural to feel this way but one must know that when doing this you are actually giving more power to the party insiders. Less voters in the primaries mean the remaining voters ballots count more!

Like it or not the lowest common denominator in politics in two parties.  One party does not work because their would be no possible way to alert the electorate of a candidates governing philosophy (why do you think many school board elections are non-partisan? Hint: so you are not aware who the big government liberals running are and thereby make union ads more effective). A third party wont work because most likely the candidate will pull votes from one party. According to Gallup 20% of people self identify as being “liberal” while 32% are “moderate” and 42% as “conservative”. A third party candidate will pull votes away from the center-right 74% and the inevitable result will be a liberal one party rule and even bigger government!  

Dangling the idea of a third party run makes the left salivate. Abandoning your party affiliation, even if you think they abandoned you, makes party establishment candidates drool. The answer to this problem is not to run away from the parties but to embrace the one that best represents your core ideology and switch back and work to make it stronger. By doing so you will dilute the influence of the party insiders.

There is not much time left to do this. You still have the chance to vote in the 2012 Republican Presidential primary. Contact your local elections office and drop your non-affiliated status.

Pick a party. Get involved! Don’t sit on the sidelines and let other people choose the candidates!

Blaise Ingoglia, Founder

Government Gone Wild

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An Interview with Thomas Sowell (sent by Janet Jappe)
November 29, 2011, 8:42 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics
Below is a link of an interview that Peter Robinson conducted with Thomas Sowell. It begins with an interview by Wm F Buckley.  It is about 45 minutes in length, but worth every minute.  It should be required viewing for every American!  Watch it… and learn.

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Stupidity On Parade (From “Government Gone Wild”)
October 26, 2011, 10:47 am
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, US Politics

It never ceases to amaze me when some people show their stupidity.  The latest example is the demonstrators at Wall Street and other locations throughout the country.  Have you listened to what some of them are saying and the signs that are presented?  Do they have any idea about how an economy works?  Obviously, they don’t.

If results were all equal while dedication and hard work made no difference, then why would some individuals work harder than others?  The pilgrims tried this and starved.  When they initially landed here, everything was co-owned and the products of labor was equally divided.  It made no difference how much individuals contributed, the results were divided equally.  Only when individuals were provided the opportunity to reap the benefits of their labor did the pilgrims succeed and grow.  That was the first example of the failure of socialism.

The latest demonstrations are being embraced by the left as an example of the true feelings on the population.  In many cases, they are being portrayed as the Tea Party of the left.  If I recall, the Tea Party held demonstrations on weekends when working people could assemble and not lose time from their jobs.  They had a specific message about limited government, lower taxes, and fewer regulations.  When the demonstrations were over, they policed up the area.  The current demonstrations much like other demonstrations from the left leave the areas in total disarray and require taxpayers to fund the bill to clean them up.  There are messages, but they are confusing since just about every leftist group participates.

In Greece, the demonstrators are up in arms about the government trying to bring unaffordable benefits under some type of control.  Could that be in our future?  Unfortunately, I think that it could happen unless we start to control our own spending.  Most people realize that one cannot spend more money than one earns.  Going into debt for a home is understandable as long as the debt is manageable.  Our parents and grandparents did that, but they also made sure that the debt was something that they could afford on a monthly basis.

We are almost at the point where more people receive benefits from the government than those who contribute to the government through taxes.  Our founding fathers cautioned about this and predicted that chaos would ensue if non producers could demand money from producers through the ballot.  We see this in parts of Europe and if nothing is done to stop it, we will see this in the USA.

Col. Don Myers

USMC (ret.)

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Perspective….. (sent by Betsy Woodruff)

perspective…..

All you Need to Know about Government Bureaucracy:

** Pythagorean Theorem:……………………….24 words.
** Lord’s prayer:…………………………………..66 words.
** Archimedes’ Principle:……………………….67 words.
** 10 Commandments:…………………………179 words.
** Gettysburg address:…………………………286 words.
** Declaration of Independence:…………..1,300 words.
** US Constitution with all 27 Amendments:……..7,818 words.
** US Government regulations on sale of cabbage:…….26,911 words.

SORT OF PUTS THINGS INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE, DOESN’T IT?

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Soros Link to Uganda (sent by Morgan Lloyd)
October 17, 2011, 1:35 pm
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, The Left, US Politics

Soros is a traitor and should be tried as such!

Look at this!  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=356321

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