" THE SYNTHESIS " 7-24-2011 MEDIA SELLOUTS AND DEFAULT: CONSIDER THE TEA PARTY AS ANTISEPTIC
TO AN INFECTED WOUND OF 2008 UNETHICAL ELECTION POLICIES, LYING MEDIA, AND PARTY POLITICS!
 ********by: AJA BROOKS, OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM VOLUNTEER FOR THE BLACK RIBBON OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MEDIA BIAS AND FORMER 2009-2010 GA LOBBYIST FOR “LIFE AND LIBERTY”, NOW EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE 2011 TEA PARTY. |
"In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." --John Adams, Inaugural Address, 1797
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
US editor (1880 - 1956)
THIS WEEK WE PAY TRIBUTE TO H.L. MENCKEN:
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.[1] Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prosestylists of the first half of the 20th century. Many of his books are still in print.
Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial. In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. During the World Wars, he was sympathetic to the Germans, and was very distrustful of British "propaganda."[2]
A frank admirer of Nietzsche, he was not a proponent of representative democracy,[3] which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken wrote many articles about the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, temperance and uplifters. He was particularly critical ofanti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, Christian fundamentalism, creationism, organized religion, the existence of God, and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. He was a keen cheer-leader of scientific progress but very skeptical of economic theories.
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Early life
Mencken was the son of August Mencken, Sr., a cigar factory owner of German extraction. When Henry was three, his family moved into a new home at 1524 Hollins Street,[4] in the Union Square neighborhood of Baltimore. Apart from five years of married life, Mencken was to live in that house for the rest of his days.In his best-selling memoir Happy Days he described his childhood in Baltimore as "placid, secure, uneventful and happy."[5]
When he was nine years old, he read Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which he later described as "the most stupendous event in my life."[6] He determined to become a writer himself. He read prodigiously. In one winter while in high school he read Thackery and "then proceeded backward to Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Johnson and the other magnificos of the eighteenth century." He read the entire canon of Shakespeare, and became ardent fans of Kipling and Thomas Huxley.[7]
After graduating (with honors) from high school at the age of 16, he worked for three years in his father's cigar factory. He disliked this work, especially the selling part, and resolved to leave, with or without his father's blessing. In early 1898 he took a class in writing at one of the country's first correspondence schools (the Cosmopolitan University).[8] This was to be all of Mencken's formal education in journalism, or indeed in any other subject. On his father's death few days after Christmas in the same year, the business reverted to his uncle, and Mencken was free to pursue his career in journalism. He applied in February 1899 to the Baltimore Morning Herald' newspaper, and was hired as a part-timer there, but still kept his position at the factory for a few months. In June he was hired on as a full-time reporter, and his new career was well underway.
[edit]Career
After six years at the Herald Mencken moved to The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for Charles H. Grasty. He continued to contribute to the Sun full time until 1948, when he ceased to write.Mencken began writing the editorials and opinion pieces that made his name. On the side, he wrote short stories, a novel, and even poetry – which he later reviled. In 1908, he became a literary critic for the magazine The Smart Set, and in 1924, he and George Jean Nathan founded and edited The American Mercury, published by Alfred A. Knopf. It soon developed a national circulation and became highly influential on college campuses across America. In 1933, Mencken resigned as editor.
[edit]Personal life
In 1930, Mencken married Sara Haardt, a professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore and an author who was 18 years his junior. Haardt had led efforts in Alabama to ratify the 19th Amendment.[9] The two had met in 1923 after Mencken delivered a lecture at Goucher; a seven-year courtship ensued. The marriage made national headlines, and many were surprised that Mencken, who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes, had gone to the altar. "The Holy Spirit informed and inspired me," Mencken said. "Like all other infidels, I am superstitious and always follow hunches: this one seemed to be a superb one."[10] Even more startling, he was marrying an Alabama native despite his having written scathing essays about the American South. Haardt was in poor health from tuberculosis[11] throughout their marriage and died in 1935 of meningitis, leaving Mencken grief-stricken. He had always supported her writing, and after her death had a collection of her short stories published under the title Southern Album.
During the Great Depression, Mencken did not support the New Deal. This cost him popularity, as did his strong reservations regarding the United States' participation inWorld War II, and his overt contempt for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ceased writing for the Baltimore Sun for several years, focusing on his memoirs and other projects as editor, while serving as an advisor for the paper that had been his home for nearly his entire career. In 1948, he briefly returned to the political scene, covering the presidential election in which President Harry S. Truman faced Republican Thomas Dewey and Henry A. Wallace of the Progressive Party. His later work consisted of humorous, anecdotal, and nostalgic essays, first published in The New Yorker, then collected in the books Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days.
On November 23, 1948, Mencken suffered a stroke that left him aware and fully conscious but nearly unable to read or write, and to speak only with some difficulty. After his stroke, Mencken enjoyed listening to European classical music and, after some recovery of his ability to speak, talking with friends, but he sometimes referred to himself in the past tense as if already dead. Preoccupied as he was with his legacy, he organized his papers, letters, newspaper clippings and columns, even grade school report cards. These materials were made available to scholars in stages, in 1971, 1981 and 1991, and include hundreds of thousands of letters sent and received – the only omissions were strictly personal letters received from women.
Mencken died in his sleep on January 29, 1956.[12] He was interred in Baltimore's Loudon Park Cemetery.[13] During his Smart Set days Mencken wrote a joking epitaph for himself:
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.[14]
Although this quote is not on his tombstone,[15] it is widely reported on the Internet as being inscribed on a plaque in the lobby of the Baltimore Sun.[16][17][18][19][20]
[edit]The man of ideas
In his capacity as editor and "man of ideas," Mencken became close friends with the leading literary figures of his time, including Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Hergesheimer, Anita Loos, Ben Hecht, Sinclair Lewis, James Branch Cabell and Alfred Knopf, as well as a mentor to several young reporters, including Alistair Cooke. He also championed artists whose works he considered worthy. For example, he asserted that books such as Caught Short! A Saga of Wailing Wall Street (1929), by Eddie Cantor (ghost written by David Freedman) did more to pull America out of the Great Depression than all government measures combined. He also mentored John Fante.Mencken also published many works under various pseudonyms. These included, among others, Owen Hatteras , John H. Brownell, William Drayham, W. L. D. Bell, and Charles Angofff.[21] He was a ghost writer for a physician, Dr. Leonard K. Hirshberg, and wrote a series of articles, and most of the text for a book (in 1910), about the care of babies.
Mencken frankly admired Friedrich Nietzsche – he was the first writer to provide a scholarly analysis in English of Nietzsche's writings and philosophy – and Joseph Conrad. His humor and satire owe much toAmbrose Bierce and Mark Twain. He did much to defend Theodore Dreiser, despite freely admitting his faults, including stating forthrightly that Dreiser often wrote badly and was a gullible man. Mencken also expressed his appreciation for William Graham Sumner in a 1941 collection of Sumner's essays, and regretted never having known Sumner personally.
Mencken recommended for publication the first novel by Ayn Rand, We the Living, calling it "a really excellent piece of work." Shortly after, Rand addressed him in correspondence as "the greatest representative of a philosophy" to which she wanted to dedicate her life, "individualism," and, later, listed him as her favorite columnist.[22]
Mencken is fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind as the cynical sarcastic atheist E. K. Hornbeck (right), seen here as played byGene Kelly in the Hollywood film version. On the left is Henry Drummond, based onClarence Darrow and portrayed by Spencer Tracy.
For Mencken, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the finest work of American literature. Much of that book relates how gullible and ignorant country "boobs" (as Mencken referred to them) are swindled by confidence men like the (deliberately) pathetic "Duke" and "Dauphin" roustabouts with whom Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River. These scam-artists swindle by posing as enlightened speakers on temperance (to obtain the funds to get roaring drunk), as pious "saved" men seeking funds for far off evangelistic missions (to pirates on the high seas, no less), and as learned doctors of phrenology (who can barely spell). Mencken read the novel as a story of America's hilarious dark side, a place where democracy, as defined by Mencken, is "...the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."WHILE THE JOURNALISTS OF OLD DID NOT HESITATE TO SPEAK OUT OR HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THE POWERS OF THE PAST, JOURNALISM HAS TAKEN A TURN FOR THE TAWDRY AND UNIMAGINABLE DEPTHS OF BASENESS:
Police face new claims in News of the World scandal
By Danny Kemp (AFP) – 5 hours ago
LONDON — British police faced new allegations on Sunday that officers leaked details about terror attack victims and a murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler to journalists at felled News of the World tabloid.
The claims deepen the scandal surrounding phone-hacking at the paper, which has shaken Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, claimed the jobs of two of Britain's top police officers and dragged in Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Observer reported that survivors of the July 7, 2005 London bombings had asked lawyers to probe their belief that the capital's Metropolitan Police had sold or passed on a confidential contact list of victims.
Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors Foundation Coalition, said journalists from the paper approached survivors with false stories about how they got their details.
"Scotland Yard had the full list of survivor contact details. I am pretty sure that is how the News of the World got my home address," she told the Observer.
Four suicide bombers blew themselves up on three underground trains and a bus in the worst terror attacks on British soil, killing 52 people.
Separately the BBC reported that police had removed an officer from the inquiry into the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002 after information was allegedly leaked to the News of the World (NotW).
Police in Surrey, a county southwest of London, confirmed that a detective constable was accused by a colleague of inappropriately disclosing information about the case to a "retired police officer friend."
The officer "received words of advice and was removed permanently from the inquiry," the force said in a statement. It did not mention the NotW.
The tabloid has already been accused of hacking Dowler's voicemails and those of families of 7/7 victims, but this is the first time police have directly been linked to the paper's activities on the two events.
Murdoch has now closed the NotW and personally apologised to Dowler's parents.
Revelations that police employed a former NotW executive who has since been arrested over hacking claimed the jobs of Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and the force's anti-terror boss John Yates a week ago.
Scotland Yard was heavily criticised for botching an initial investigation, which resulted in the jailing of the paper's former royal editor and a private investigator in 2007 but concluded he was was a "rogue reporter."
When the force bowed to pressure and reopened the probe in January it emerged that nearly 4,000 people may have had their phones hacked.
Other British papers were dragged into the row this weekend when former journalists at the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror -- Murdoch's main British tabloid rivals -- reportedly said phone-hacking was rife at their papers too.
But the main effects have been on Murdoch's US-based News Corporation.
In a further blow Business Secretary Vince Cable said on Sunday there were "big questions" over whether the mogul was fit to control a British broadcaster.
"We have learned from the past that having media moguls dominating the British media is deeply unhelpful, not simply in terms of plurality but because of the wider impact on the political world," he said.
News Corp. was forced by the scandal to scrap its bid for full control of pay-TV giant BSkyB earlier this month.
Cable was stripped of responsibility for deciding the fate of the BSkyB deal last year after a newspaper secretly recorded him saying he was at "war" with Murdoch.
Murdoch's son James meanwhile faces calls for a police probe into evidence he gave to lawmakers last week saying he did not know hacking was more widespread.
Meanwhile Cameron has also come under pressure due to his decision to employ Andy Coulson, another former editor of the tabloid, as his media chief.
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THE JOURNALIST WHO CAME FORWARD WAS KILLED LAST WEEK WHO EXPOSED THE “NEWS OF THE WORLD” FOR ITS INVASION OF PRIVACY AND CLEAR LACK OF BOUNDARIES OF THE PRESS WHEN IT COMES TO MAINTAINING INTEGRITY IN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING.
At Last, Obama’s Ready to Borrow More Money from China
by BILL HENNESSY on JULY 22, 2011 · LEAVE A COMMENT
The headline on July 15 was knee-slapping funny:
Really? The man who dug a deeper debt hole in two years than anyone else did in 8—or 15—is willing to borrow more?
For those who believe Obama’s some sort of deficit hawk, let’s take a quick stroll down memory.
1. Obama wanted to increase the debt limit by $2.5 trillion in April, and he want no conditions on that increase. In April 2011, Barack Obama opposed any measures to reduce federal spending.
2. Obama refused to produce a plan. Period. He has no plan for reducing debt. He has no plan for eliminating deficits. He has no plan for creating jobs or helping smallbusiness. He has no plan for anything but golf and party.
3. Obama says 80 percent of Americans demand a tax increase, though he is incapable of citing any source for that number. In other words, he made it up.
Of course Obama’s ready to move on borrowing more money. Borrowing is his only plan. His credit card is maxed out, and he wants the limit raised.
Only, this time, there are men and women in Congress who more beholden to the Millennial generation than to Boomers. Like a good banker, this Congress wants the borrower to produce a debt reduction plan before lending another penny.
I’m glad Obama’s finally ready to move on something besides a tee box. But I won’t be completely satisfied until he moves out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tagged with: borrowing • debt • Debt Ceiling • national debt • obama
CONGRESS HAS HAD THE TEA PARTY DEFICIT REDUCTION STRATEGY SINCE 4/20/2011:
THE TEA PARTY PROPOSES BARE-BONES SKELETON BUDGET STRATEGY AND CUTS TO THE FOLLOWING 12 AGENCIES/PROGRAMS TO RECTIFY THE DEFICIT
THE TEA PARTY PROPOSES BARE-BONES SKELETON BUDGET STRATEGY AND CUTS TO THE FOLLOWING 12 AGENCIES/PROGRAMS TO RECTIFY THE DEFICIT:
- DFACS - state should be in total control under the Governor/Feds should have no control or appropriated funding for this entity, no borrowing from the federal government to keep this running
- the state needs to trade the cost of immigration enforcement for DFACS, meaning federal appropriations are to be used to enforce immigration laws only, not fund DFACS.
- Clayton County DFACS should be audited for their reluctance or unwillingness to adhere to 30 day inquiry/complaint resolution within 60 days.
- Spalding County DFACS should have funding cut for refusal to investigate and cooperate with other agencies.
(this is like the difference between civil and military matters, and the funding should be viewed as such that which takes precedence.)
2. SNAP - is an intrusion into state finance with a federally funded food subsidy
- too easily received food stamps/not readily taken away
- food stamps are being traded for drugs
- food stamps are being sold for cash
- DFACS is not assisting or abiding by laws and reporting and wasting our tax dollars, won't accept related emails regarding cases or individuals who receive child support.
3. PUBLIC BROADCASTING - NPR, PBS, etc.
- the federal government needs to get out of the media business!
- the federal government needs to govern and enforce laws, not indoctrinate, proselytize or garner political messages with tax dollars.
4. HOUSING ASSISTANCE and related reform:
- eradicate NACA and other groups that have a vested interest in the housing market that are receiving tax dollars to operate.
- FHA loans to resolve solvency issues, if you are current on your taxes.
- Prevent IRS fraud in the vulnerable mortgage market.
- FHA loan standards are stringent, other mortgage companies need to convert to these standards or be fined immediately.
- Go after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, fine them, and get the revenue back in the system for the damage done to taxpayers.
5. UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS:
- no unemployment unless you are current on your federal taxes
- no unemployment if you're on probation
- no unemployment if you are a single person with no dependents
- make shorter periods of 3 months of aid, remove federal appropriations for unemployement, (Nancy Pelosi has passed this out like candy and indebted state governments) remove the federal appropriation for this.
- disband Department of Labor in each state, the government needs to get out of employment services, concentrate on: governing, legislation, tax revenue, and ethical managment.
6. DMV, POST OFFICE, and other services:
- layoffs, cut hours to Mon.-Thurs. 9AM-3PM.
- IRS audit of these agencies to determine if they are operating efficiently.
7. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
- shut Congress down until September
- use this to to audit other agencies and submit finding for further analyses and cuts
- review sunset laws
- all Congress and Obama Admin. receive minimum wage until the deficit is corrected, per year; they get to serve the people not Lord over them!
8. PLANNED PARENTHOOD
- Defund Planned Parenthood federal appropriation
- the government needs to be out of the egg harvesting business, and the scientific manipulation of fetuses.
- the government is not a lobbying mechanism for this, unless it is committee-approved earmarked spending
- women's health issues should be state-to-state cost, not receive federal funds, health insurance should be the same way, not another federally-funded government appropriated program
- full repeal and nullification of H.R. 4872
- County health departments should be state-run, not receive federal funding
- take big Pharma out by reducing government contracts, the government is not a pill mill lobbying business!
- Big Pharma does not run our country, our health, our citizens do!
9. FDA, Inspectors, and streamlining government agencies
- realign these agencies to work more cohesively with the FBI
- consider them under the umbrella of homeland security
- give agencies data based community access to information
10. Congress
- term limits
- review pension plans
- election practices - reform Obama fraud, fine DNC, Clinton, and the like
- impeachment proceedings
- no deals on spending cuts, no going back on minimum wage pay consequence until the deficit is resolved in conjunction with reforming Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and related fraud issues.
- 6 month lay off should give Congress plenty of time to hammer out the problems they've created
11. WIC
- a mother produces milk, it is not the government's responsibility to feed your child bread, milk, cheese, eggs, and formula.
- it is not the taxpayers' job or the government's job to provide you with formula so that you can work or that you can use the money to spend on drugs to avoid breastfeeding.
- WIC should be a state-run program, not receiving any welfare or federal dollars.
12. LAW ENFORCEMENT
- reduce routine patrol officers to walking the beat, as they need the exercise, and we can't afford their health problems associated with obesity and poor habits.
- routine patrol officers must maintain health and standards that they enforce upon the community or face discipline, up to and including termination, being a cop doesn't mean you waste gas, going around harassing people, and stuffing your face with our tax dollars: you're a contracted employee, and you will be relieved of your duty.
- police officers can afford their own vests/should be appropriated under state equipment costs and avoid accepting grants if all possible.
- in conjunction with judicial reform through next January, officers can't play the system and work the streets and the jail, double-dipping and being corrupt: you face termination.
- release mandatory minimum sentenced offenders into the work force, increase sentencing fines imposition, if fines are not paid or if you can't cooperate with your probation officer and agreed sentencing terms, you will be resentenced to work release until those fines are paid!
Stephen Aaron Aja, i'm going to make some waves and say that i am unsure if i agree 100% on the congressional bullets.
April 18 at 10:13pm · Like
Aja Brooks hey this is a template, so that doesn't mean that this won't be modified these are goals, and what we need to do between now and September, and have Obama impeached by then
April 18 at 10:20pm · Like
Stephen Aaron As weird as this sounds, we don't need to impeach Obama, just let his first term expire and make sure we get someone good in there, like Herman Cain. Secondly, how much of a term limit are we talking? I'm thinking 30 years is a good number for a limit for a congressman
April 18 at 10:22pm · Like
Aja Brooks I'm sorry Mr. Aaron, the bastardo is rich enough to retire now, he defrauded John McCain and all of us of a fair election. We should've had Colin Powell. Now if you'll excuse me, I think you're more suited to join a GOP suck@ss group instead of the Tea Party. Sorry, I've got to boot you, you seem nice but very misguided, and we can't have people like you speaking for us or representing us.
April 18 at 10:24pm · Like
Aja Brooks I want a button on Facebook that permits you to block someone, and when you hit other, you can put: wasting my time, money, and patience!!
April 18 at 10:27pm · Like
Albert R. Pryor
EVERYONE HAS HIS/HER OWN OPINION WE MUST RESPECT THAT,EVEN IF YOU DISAGREE.
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Aja Brooks I beg your pardon? Which opinion? I think we're all in agreement something needs to be done about the...See More
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Stephen Aaron April 18 at 10:51pm Report
Ms. Brooks,
I fail to see why i was removed and blocked on your other profile. I did nothing offensive or derogatory, I represent no one in my speech but myself. What was the reasoning behind this? Before you block me entirely at least satisfy my curiosity as to what I have done wrong against you
Allison Brooks April 19 at 11:24pm
Surely, your stance on corruption and how deeply this has impacted us with him wasting $9 trillion, is derogatory in my book. Secondly term limits proposed are being discussed at 4-6yrs. While I think that is too short, they want these gaps in order to prevent the type of robbery Obama has exacted upon us.
(Mr. Aaron's remarks)
As weird as this sounds, we don't need to impeach Obama, just let his first term expire and make sure we get someone good in there, like Herman Cain. Secondly, how much of a term limit are we talking? I'm thinking 30 years is a good number for a limit for a congressman
April 19 at 11:25pm · Like
Stephen Aaron April 19 at 11:31pm Report
I agree he is corrupted, but if we impeach him it only makes us look bad. Do I like Obama and what he has done to this country any more than you? Hell no! We still have to consider the future though in our actions. What I fear is if we impeach Obama that we empower Joe Biden, and the other Democratic officials that are ranked below him. We cannot throw a coup d'etat and not expect his supporters to be outraged. Ms. Brooks I am not trying to be unreasonable, nor am I agreeing in ay way with Obama or corruption, but there are certain big picture things that must be taken into account when we act. If we had a more moderate person in the Vice-President's office I would be riding the impeachment train all the way to the Supreme Court and the House of Representatives. Do you see where I am coming from or am I as clear as mud?
Allison Brooks April 19 at 11:36pm
How does it make us look bad to uphold the standards of law we create?! You make no sense to me, nor do I not see this in any way other than to nullify unconstitutional legislation that has exacted debts on 46 state budgets that have forced them to cut funding for this with autism and special needs. I've been following these budget problems, because it happened in a state where my great Aunt's daughter could be affected. Obama may have pulled the wool over some people's eyes, not mine! This isn't a coup: he is a President, not a king, something he misinterprets because he is a non-citizen because that is how Kenya's Constitution is set up, like a presidential monarchy. No I don't get your position, Biden is a goof, and the Supreme Court has viewed Obama's citizenship from the Coast Province on 1-7-2011 and have yet to rule. Formal impeachment papers were filed last week or so. You're either for the rule of law and what is good for the people, or you are merely a political nincompoop like the rest, who resorts to talking points and political puffiness.
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Allison Brooks Stephen Aaron April 19 at 11:49pm Report
WOW! I don't know whether to be offended or what lol i'm only 20 Ms. Brooks, and the new Chair of my College Republican Chapter, I pray never to be a lobbyist.
Allison Brooks April 19 at 11:55pm
rofl you shouldn't they are rapacious creatures lol
April 19 at 11:55pm · Like
THE GANG OF SIX THEN ANALYZED THESE PROPOSED CUTS AND CAME UP WITH A WAY TO CUT $4.3 TRILLION TO ESCAPE THE VACUUM OF DEFAULT, AFTER 5,000 VOTED IN A POLL ON FACEBOOK TO OFFER UP WHAT THEY WOULDN’T MIND HAVING CUT FROM FEDERAL SPENDING:
What of these 12 agencies would you cut from and why?
368 votes
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Actual Congressional Pay
Any agency that's unconstitutional
CONGRESSIONAL EMPLOYEES
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
ALL OF THE ABOVE
PUBLIC BROADCASTING
Homeland Security
IRS
Department of Education
UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS
BIA is an obscure agency undermining immigration law
All foreign aid, except to Israel
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Carl Swensson · Answered IRS and 9 others
I would also push for the abolishment of the FED with Constitutional comodity based money replacing it. An end to the Statist takeover, utilization of our 10th Amendment rights, and educating the masses on Jury nulification. Just to name a few...
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Barbara Wilkinson · Answered ALL OF THE ABOVE
Total waste of money.
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Aja Brooks · Answered ALL OF THE ABOVE
Do you think Sue Everhart is worthy of being re-elected GA GOP Chairperson?http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_109683548236&view=permalink&id=10150191913508237
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Aja Brooks · Answered ALL OF THE ABOVE
I want to thank everyone who has voted, within 5hrs. over 2,000 voted in this poll, because people like you care to do something about the deficit. Please like us on Facebook, so you can refer back to this page for deficit reduction. From your feedback, we established a 12 point deficit reduction strategy, please check it out here:http://www.facebook.com/notes/aja-brooks/the-tea-party-proposes-bare-bones-skeleton-budget-strategy-and-cuts-to-the-follo/10150175476096225
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Anthony Murray · Answered ALL OF THE ABOVE
Get rid of any and all agencies that are not Constitutionally mandated.
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Aja Brooks so tell me which ones are by what articles of the Constitution? :D
April 18 at 2:34pm · Like
Anthony Murray None of the ones listed above are Contitutionally mandated, therefore, they all should go. The Federal Employees is the only tricky one, but I am going on the assumption of the items such as FBI/other alphabet agencies.
Jane Truthseeker Pierce · Answered All foreign Aid and 6 others
I checked 7, but realistically, Id say all of them could be cut to varying degrees. Id have to know more about the programs.
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Aja Brooks the best way is to research the ones right where you live and report fraud, or post on here why they need to be cut
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Joseph O'Leary · Answered Any agency that's unconstitutional and 3 others
Because there is simply no excuse - they aren't helping our government and we are going completely broke; we simply cannot afford to pay for everyone and anyone in the world...
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Michael Rupe true
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Aja Brooks · Answered ALL OF THE ABOVEPenny voted routine patrol (I had a typo and had to redo that option), but I think we can cut each of these costs/entities now through September and dramatically cut the deficit while adhering to the PATH TO PROSPERITY budget plans.
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There are 16 agencies that we can cut funding from in order to pay off the deficit.... which four agencies would you like to see make the most cuts because of misuse?
| Food Stamp Fraud |  * | |
| Social Security Fraud |  * | |
| MEDICARE/MEDICAID FRAUD | ||
| Defund Planned Parenthood Tax-Corruption |  *    | |
| Other agency not listed/sunset law violator |  * |
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Joseph O'Leary · Answered Defund Planned Parenthood Tax-CorruptionWhy no "all the above" button?
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Stephen Aaron · Answered Other agency not listed/sunset law violator
cut them all. Social Programs always bring down governments.
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Boehner Says Debt Deal ‘Not Close’
By Mike Dorning and Heidi Przybyla - Jul 22, 2011 12:50 PM MTHouse Speaker John Boehner said he and the White House are “not close to an agreement” on raising the U.S. debt ceiling following a meeting with House Republicans in which Boehner’s mood was described as gloomy.
“The speaker was the most sort of melancholy I’ve seen him,” said Ohio Representative Steve LaTourette, a long-time Boehner ally. “He wanted to, I think, report to the conference that substantial progress was being made, we’re moving in the right direction, and he couldn’t give that report.”
President Barack Obama and Boehner face strife within their ranks and dwindling time to avert a U.S. default as they press for a broad agreement to boost the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit. The two leaders have discussed cutting spending by trillions of dollars and overhauling the tax code.
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Chambliss on Cut Cap and Balance, Gang of 6
The Martha Zoller Show
Jul 20 2011
Sen. Chambliss joined Martha Zoller Wednesday morning to discuss his support for Cut, Cap and Balance as a solution for the debt ceiling debate, as well as his Gang of Six plan which would address the long-term, 14.5 trillion dollar debt.Listen at: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16124934
Rough Transcript:
Martha: We’re here today with Senator Saxby Chambliss. He is one of the co-sponsors of Cut, Cap and Balance in the Senate but he is also one of the members of the Gang of Six. Senator Chambliss, thank you so much for being with me here today.
Saxby: Always good to be here with you, Martha.
Martha: Are you on the speakerphone?
Saxby: I am. Do I need to pick up?
Martha: That’d be great. Thank you so much. Listen, tell me a little bit first of all about the Gang of Six and what it’s gonna do overall.
Saxby: Well, Martha, this group has been meeting and negotiating as three Democrats and three Republicans for about seven months over the issue of the long-term debt. That’s always been our focus-the 14.5 trillion dollars that all your listeners know our country owes. If we don’t face it then it’s gonna cause serious problems for the country plus we just don’t need to leave it to our children and grandchildren to pay that back. That’s what this group has been focused on and we don’t have the luxury in the Senate of being in control like our House friends are. They can very well pass anything they want to. We have to come up with proposals that will garner 60 votes and that means you have to have Democrats and Republicans working together. The proposal we’ve come up with is a balanced proposal between serious reduction in discretionary spending. We impose spending caps for the first four years that saves us about $500 billion immediately. We reform entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare. Medicaid will be addressed also and achieve savings. Most significantly, we reform and save those programs without seeing the cost of those programs increase in a dramatic way. And then we got to figure out a way to energize the economy and we do this through making significant reforms to the tax code by eliminating expenditures and tax credits, lowering tax rates to historic lows both personal and corporate-wise. We eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax. What we’re proposing will broaden the base of taxpayers by letting corporations invest capital in Georgia and in the country to create the jobs that people are looking for and that’s the way you expand the tax base and increase revenue without increasing taxes. That’s kind of a quick thumbnail sketch of what we propose. Is it gonna be a part of the mix for the debt ceiling debate? We’ve never focused on that and I would not like to see the plan put in place as a part of the debt ceiling if we do it as we propose it because it’s a two-step proposal. We get about a $500 billion down payment plus some among other things, and I don’t want to give 500 hundred thousand bucks to get the debt ceiling raised and then all the other measures that are in the second bill that’s part of our proposal never come to fruition. It’s difficult in my opinion to say we’re gonna be in the mix for the debt ceiling but if they want to take part or all of our proposal to ensure the passage of important provisions and obviously I’ll be excited about that.
Martha: And I know what the critics are saying, and you know they’re out there, that this is just a framework –there aren’t enough details.
Saxby: Well that’s always the case with a very complex piece of legislation. We did let out more detail yesterday. And we’re in the process of drafting the legislation now and it’ll have to get scored by the CBO. It’s actually gonna score as a tax cut with the tax provisions and the elimination of the AMT. They’re gonna be people who are critical of it in any number of areas but interestingly enough Moveon.org criticized us too so it’s coming from the right and the left.
Martha: You’ve addressed a couple of times the other issue about revenue and about taxes. What’s you’re saying is it gets rid of loopholes , that it’s getting rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax, and it’s gonna lower corporate taxes and that you’re gonna lower individual taxpayer taxes across the board.
Saxby: Right now we’ve got six individual brackets at the personal level. We’re gonna lower that to three brackets. The highest rate now is 35 percent the lowest rate is 15 percent and under our proposal the lowest rate will be 8 percent, the highest bracket will be 29 percent maximum, hopefully it will be lower than that and we do that by elimination of expenditures and tax credits. We know all of them are not gonna be eliminated. Home mortgage interest deduction, charitable deduction, certain corporate deductions, you should not eliminate totally, you should modify them and by doing that it gives us the opportunity just like Ronald Reagan did of lowering tax rates and increasing the base out there by energizing the economy and that’s the way you increase revenue. We don’t need to increase revenue by raising taxes.
Martha: Do you see this fitting into, obviously what you see is a separate bill about the debt limit, is that what you’re saying?
Saxby: Yeah that’s the way we’ve always looked at it. If nothing else, I hope that what we’ve accomplished is showing that Republicans and Democrats can work together on this fiscal issue and there is common ground out there and maybe we can show some momentum to move forward on the debt ceiling which needs to be addressed now. Our bill to be fully implemented would need an additional six months for committees to come back and take some action and report back to Congress. And so that’s why I say I think we’re gonna be in the debate from the standpoint that we’re working on a common issue of debt and deficit. As far as the debt ceiling, it’s gonna be very difficult to incorporate our bill into the mix
Martha: Senator Chambliss, I know how hard it’s been and I know you’ve taken a lot of slings and arrows. Now who replaced Senator Coburn in this group?
Saxby: Senator Coburn rejoined us. And there’s been, I know the President said yesterday, that know we’re up to seven. I’m not sure where he got the seven from, but in any event, we’ve had a number of senators who’ve endorsed the plan and I suspect that’s where the seventh came from. What has been rewarding Martha is, you know this is a tough, tough issue but it’s one that we’ve got to address and and some hard and difficult decision are gonna have to be made. Yesterday we had over 50 senators at our briefing early yesterday morning. The reaction we got from Republicans and from Democrats, liberals and conservatives was extremely positive.
Martha: Well if you have 50 senators and the six of you all, that’s 56 senators, you only need four more.
Saxby: But I won’t say every one of them is going to vote for it because there’s a lot of them that like the proposal and dislike it. If I could write this by myself, I couldn’t write it. Paul Ryan had the luxury of being able write a budget like he wanted because they control the House. We don’t control the Senate.
Martha: And Senator Chambliss, I appreciate you giving us the time this morning. We’re up against a hard break but we appreciate you very much. Thank you so much and we’ll talk more about this.
Saxby: OK, I will look forward to staying in touch Martha. In the mean time, we will be debating Cut, Cap and Balance and I will be really looking forward to this debate.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: AJA BROOKS <teapartychief@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Responding to your message
To: saxby_chambliss@chambliss.senate.gov, Eric.Cantor@mail.house.gov
Cc: "WSB-TV Talk2Us (CTV-Atlanta)" <talk2us@wsbtv.com>, nathan <nathan@nathandeal.org>
To Saxby Chambliss:
I heard you on Hannity and feel that you were unduly criticized by Erickson. We have enough media garbage to go around then to have people who supposedly support conservative politics spin the facts to less astute voters. Palin and I both railed Erickson for him flying off the handle about you, and I intend to deal with Debbie Wasserman Schultz in much the same way; if not more so, for assailing West's office and for her use of intimidation of discouraging Tea Party protests with her own protests specifically designed to discourage freedom of speech and perpetuate the Obama agenda.
She is all mouth, and unfortunately since she is not censured, her gums flap as flagrantly as Rangel's once did. It is one thing to be political and hold a position, yet quite another to lie or to make money off of lies through media or politics. That is why I offer my Tea Party Lobby timely weekly newsletters and do not charge for the redistribution of media, as I am graciously humbled that writers permit me to use them as long as I give them and their media companies their due credit and don't change the material, only offering my analyses.
I will be doing a feature on the Gang of Six,
to cut through this media frenzy and Obama-mechanized hype that has seemed to follow this fruitless Administration.
The Senate has under a week to give me a response to a House Ethics committee complaint against Obama, and they have had their hands tied with the debt ceiling issue.
I think it is atrocious that the media continues to blame Republicans and Tea Party as being the only groups to compose solutions when Democrats have refused to work with any of us by an appalling measure of demanding we spend more, when Democrats have had no 2011 budget in over 800 days, and that Obama's 2012 budget wants to waste more taxpayer dollars with no accountability so that the Senate rejected it 0-97. Additionally, with Pelosi refusing to set the example and bankrupting her state to the tune of $9.6 billion, this is even more of a reason to fully repeal and defund Obamacare/H.R. 4872 and to retire her out, or recall her as soon as possible. We can not and will not justify unethical conduct and criminality by usage of taxpayer funds.
This stress is wearing on our Governor as well, who is dealing with the APS cheating scandal and also dealing with GA GOP corruption regarding Newt Gingrich's campaign. The Tea Party will not tolerate it, no matter if it originates from Democrats or Republicans. Both parties are setting the stage for the rise of the Independent Party, and instead of being scared of it, we should embrace something other than just politics as usual and corruption du jour.
As always, you have my support, not just on the Gang of Six initiatives but as a Senator. I want to praise you all for your work in getting HR 2560 to the floor, even though all the Democrats (except for 5 of them) voted against it, and that 9 Republicans betrayed the will of the American people regarding this crisis. I could not believe Giffords pulled an Obama and voted present, saying that she has no clear position on who or what is right. It is equally scary and disappointing that Bachmann also voted against the measure, as she is more worried about the fact that she won't have any money left for the Presidency than to support the true conservative principle of the Balanced Budget Amendment. Her words are very hollow on her promise to repeal Obamacare, when we have had repeal legislation since last year that she could've introduced at any time on our behalf: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US
I am thoroughly disgusted that Democrats think this is about Obama and the Democratic Party, even after the 2010 election replaced 59 seats in the House, and there will be hell to pay for all of the stress and burdens they have imposed upon tax payers come 2012, or sooner, God willing!
Keep up the good work,
Ms. Aja Brooks
GA Tea Party Chief
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:23 PM, <saxby_chambliss@chambliss.senate.gov> wrote:
Dear Ms. Brooks:
I appreciate your thoughts and comments in the past regarding our nation's budget crisis. I wanted to reconnect with you on the situation, and summarize some solutions I have been working on. As always, I welcome your thoughts on this most important issue.
Our country is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. In 2010, our government spent at a rate of 25% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and took in revenues of 14.5% of GDP. Each number is, respectively, an historic high and low. This resulted in a $1.5 trillion deficit in 2010. This is obviously unsustainable. In addition, we have a $14.3 trillion debt that must be repaid. It is fundamentally unfair to require future generations to pay our bills when we have not found the will to do so.
The danger of the crisis is substantial and imminent, and you and I and future generations will pay a very high price if we continue to ignore the difficult decisions required to fix this grave threat to our country's financial stability and national security. No less an authority than Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified that the greatest challenges to our nation's defense are our deficit and debt.
With these facts in mind and the realization that Congress cannot kick this problem down the road, several months ago I joined a bipartisan group of senators to identify the difficult issues and make the necessary decisions that would address the twin challenges of our deficit and debt.
Among other provisions, the proposal reduces the debt by $3.7 trillion over the next ten years; in the near term, stabilizes our publicly-held debt by 2014; and imposes tough and honest budget enforcement. We achieve these objectives through reducing discretionary spending, reforming entitlement programs, simplifying the individual and corporate tax code, and lowering tax rates.
In terms of tax reform, for example, we eliminate the alternative minimum tax. We broaden the revenue base significantly, lower all individual and corporate tax rates, and make our tax code more competitive for U.S. businesses here and abroad. This is a proven path to prosperity that President Reagan implemented in the mid-1980s.
As my voting record demonstrates, I don't believe raising taxes is the answer. The current tax code has become burdensome and complex and filled with provisions that only benefit a limited portion of Americans at the expense of higher rates for all Americans. As we go forward, my pledge remains to protect taxpayers and not special interests.
In sum, the solution must be based on both spending reduction and economic growth. Americans have demanded that leaders make the necessary changes to our fiscal policies to put our great nation on a track to sustained economic growth and real job creation. These choices may not be ones we would like to make, but ones we must make — now.
If you would like to receive timely email alerts regarding the latest congressional actions and my weekly e-newsletter, please sign up via my website at: www.chambliss.senate.gov. Please let me know whenever I may be of assistance.
"THE RESTORE AMERICA ACT OF 2012" also known as the '2011-2012 6pt. Tea Party Deficit Reduction Strategy':
In an effort to reduce consumer anxiety, create investments, and harness sustainable job growth, the Tea Party is very concerned with the inerrant ways of the Obama Administration: the blatant refusal to reduce spending, the trepidation and timidity to engage Congress to commit to cutting or repealing his 2010 budget whatsoever (in order to rectify the $9 trillion he's added to the $14 trillion dollar deficit in less than three short years), the balking on debt-ceiling negotiations and bumping our head, that seems a drop in the bucket to the economic disaster looming 8-2-2011. On 8-2-2011, Obama's worst nightmare comes true: since Obama has not agreed to proposed barebones Tea Party cuts and budget restriction, nor any cuts suggested by Republicans or concessions pitched to him by Democrats, Obama has abandoned the very principles he had as a Senator on the debt ceiling in 2006 and failed to adhere to any scrupulous means of finance since that time to attain the current Office by fraud regarding non-citizen status and dishonorable fundraising with Rezko.
Essentially, this is an emergency financial plan to subvert the negative impact of feigned recovery and the Obama Administration's catastrophe to deal with the deficit, the raising of the debt ceiling, and causative default on countries who in good faith have loaned us money. We agreed to Paul Ryan's "PATH TO PROSPERITY" for the 2012 budget, but we are still jeopardized even more than this Spring, of near government shutdown, because we did not agree to a six month lay off of Congress. We have financed the government another 3-4 months, but on 8-2-2011, we will have no ability to borrow money and interest will gobble us up! The bond market of buying and selling debt to fund the government will be like a well gone dry, and not only will we bankrupt with no government services, we will owe various countries a total of $14 trillion dollars.
This places us vulnerable to invasion, war, and at the very least with strained and acrimonious political ties lacking diplomacy and global peace as primary goals. With that said we have: debated, discussed, and delayed agreeing to do anything on the federal level as a matter of politics. We must act locally to curtail the damage this brings to our own state budgets, to withstand the destruction from this foreboding federal tsunami.
I am petitioning the Governors of every state in support of this Act, to pass this Act in their own state by signing a copy and sending it to Congress to avoid financial apocalypse. This will give the state the power to retain their appropriations and not be forced to absorb or recognize the federal deficits created and levied against state budgets. The primary recipients will be those state Governors who saw the futility and federal overreaching of H.R. 4872, all state Governors who supported the lawsuit and repeal process that has led to H.R. 4872 being removed from public viewer listings for online government sites.
The passage of H.R. 4872 did: not reconcile the portion of debt created by health care services, did not substantively implement reform, and no one received health insurance to cover the uninsured in their state, yet it levied state deficits and caused states to arbitrarily breach the law in not carrying a deficit. No one received federal health insurance funding to cover the uninsured in their state, because there is no money to appropriate for any measure of H.R. 4872 with Congress possessing Obama's budgetary debt of $9 trillion and a tattered Congressional purse that can't retain any taxpayer funds for any programs or expenditures owing a $14 trillion dollar deficit.
Therefore, let us implement the following:
1) Repeal all funding for H.R. 4872 and suspend any resultant action upon state budget costs.
-this saves most states $10 billion over 10yrs., keeping states acting lawfully bound to balance their budgets and not carrying a deficit to appease arbitrary and unconstitutional enforcement of H.R. 4872
-this prevents budget shortfalls of $500 billion to the Congressional purse
over 10yrs., preventing another unfunded program defined as auto-pilot mandatory spending
2) Impeach Obama
-repeal all of his 2010 budget items, as it will have to be axed to the stump to avoid default on 8-2-2011
-adhere to the barebones budget cuts
-pass the balanced budget amendment
-this tackles the immediate threat of the $1.7 trillion dollar deficit vacuum which prevents inability to borrow created by Obama's 2010 budget and interest thereof with Medicare Part D, as we are on borrowed money and time.
-addresses the lies told to the American public about the failure of the stimulus, that we are indeed in the double dip recession, and that recovery did not take hold.
-prevents total economic collapse orchestrated and engineered by Obamanomics and uses instead the conservative finance and balanced budget approach to fix problems without appealing to greedy financial institutions who robbed American taxpayers for their profit and personal enrichment
3) Reform Social Security
(56% of the entire budget comes from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, 2/3 when you count interest on programs that should not have been relegated to auto-pilot mandatory spending after the Clinton administration's annually triggered cuts)
-define Social Security as liability spending
-attack waste, fraud, and abuse
-dispense social security by a specified rate, a percentage of standard of living vs. pension; if you get a pension, you're restricted to a percentage of social security at a fixed rate, to which we can apply or transfer the rest to cover your Medicare costs to ease end-of-life planning
-reduce anxiety of MEDI-SCARE tactics and political ploys to elders in ending death panels or similar discussion
-restore integrity by honoring notch victims' request for payouts borrowed from them, below $60,000, by agreeing to lump sum installments until those large amounts are paid out to those individuals or lien process incurs
4) Pension Reform (138% of debt is local)
-no federal dollars can be used by means of "creative finance" to pay for state pensions; it is forbidden by this Act, as if it were a constitutional amendment on spending policies
-restore 10th amendment sovereignty to states to act independently of the federal government, as in; if state governments can't carry a deficit, the federal government can not dictate which funds or programs the state is required to fund or they can't fund their state budgets with federal dollars.
-reduce reliance on the federal government, the federal government is to invistage, govern, and hold states accountable, but it is not to finance, or dictate by appropriation
-restrict federal spending to rate of household income from 242% to 29%, relegating mandatory Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to discretionary spending
5) Medicare/Medicaid Reform
-state management of MEDICAID/CHIP COSTS (or related programs like Peachcare), not federal government
-appropriate for optional program for the uninsured
-MEDICARE PART D - cut most of the program by investigating waste, fraud, and abuse
6) FOOD STAMPS/TANF - change it from federal to state appropriation based on population
-reform mandatory spending to discretionary, in that appropriation is based on population and a fixed allotment of $100 per person allotment per month, use the overage too balance state deficits
-outlaw auto-pilot government spending, otherwise the government is financing, banking, and profiting off of tax dollars, not governing and appropriating.
-no blank checks written for pensions, health care, Social Security, or food. If you want these programs, you budget for it, and you pay for it, not finance it! This reduces interest rates on the deficit and gets spending of any kind put it check.
-earmarks are to be given to states for programs, not pet programs or special interest projects -- the Governor of each state will reward these appropriately and accordingly in their respective state
GOALS:
-REDUCE short term deficits and interest created by the Obama Administration, that spent $9 trillion in less than 3yrs.
-REDUCE the effect of compound interest that hastens total economic collapse from the debt supercycle; rising interest rates that gobble up available tax dollars, of which we have none after spending 40% of every tax dollar on defense, the other 60% spent on the deficit created by Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
-RECLASSIFY these programs as discretionary not mandatory auto-pilot spending
-REVERT interest from these programs to pre-2010 levels from the deficit of $14 trillion, as the interest on $14 trillion quadruples in 10yrs.
-THWART total economic collapse that could happen as soon as 8-2-2011 or effectual within 7yrs. of entering this debt supercycle from the Obama Administration's $1.7 trillion dollar vacuum, from failing to cut his 2010 budget and Medicare Part D immediately.
As undersigned,
GA Tea Party Chief
Aja Brooks
“86 OBAMA MATCH-UPS”
FROM MAY 14TH EDITION:
GOP INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Donald Trump - Pres. John Kerry - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Blanche Lincoln - VP
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Ron Paul - Pres. Kent Conrad - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP Sarah Palin - VP Joe Manchin - VP
Paul Ryan - Pres. Marco Rubio - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP Sarah Palin - VP Kent Conrad - VP
Marco Rubio - Pres. John Boehner - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Mark Pryor - VP
JULY 14TH “86 OBAMA MATCH-UPS”:
WE NEED TO FIRE GEITHNER AND MAKE PAUL RYAN TREASURER.
SARAH WOULD BE BEST SUITED TO BE PAIRED UP WITH NEWT GRINGRICH. THIS MEANS THAT BACHMANN AND SANTORUM SHOULD RUN INDEPENDENT TICKET TOGETHER.
GOP INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Donald Trump - Pres. John Kerry - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP-TREASURER Herman Cain - Pres. Blanche Lincoln - VP
Sarah Palin - VP Sarah Palin -VP
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Rick Santorum -Pres. Kent Conrad - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP Joe Manchin - VP
Marco Rubio - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP *Michelle Bachmann
is the wild card matchup
Paul Ryan - Pres. Marco Rubio - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - Pres. Sarah Palin - VP Kent Conrad - VP
Tim Pawlenty - VP
John Boehner - Pres. Ron Paul - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Mark Pryor - VP
Rick Perry - VP John Boehner - VP
JULY 17TH “86 OBAMA MATCH-UPS”:
WE NEED TO FIRE GEITHNER AND MAKE PAUL RYAN TREASURER.
SARAH WOULD BE BEST SUITED TO BE PAIRED UP WITH NEWT GRINGRICH. THIS MEANS THAT BACHMANN AND SANTORUM SHOULD RUN INDEPENDENT TICKET TOGETHER.
GOP INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Donald Trump - Pres. John Kerry - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP-TREASURER Herman Cain - Pres. Blanche Lincoln - VP
Sarah Palin - VP Sarah Palin -VP
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Rick Santorum -Pres. Kent Conrad - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP Joe Manchin - VP
Marco Rubio - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - VP *Michelle Bachmann
is the wild card matchup
Paul Ryan - Pres. Marco Rubio - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Michelle Bachmann - Pres. Sarah Palin - VP Kent Conrad - VP
Tim Pawlenty - VP
John Boehner - Pres. Ron Paul - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Mark Pryor - VP
Rick Perry - VP John Boehner - VP
JULY 17TH “86 OBAMA MATCH-UPS”:
BACHMANN IS OUT !!!!
(FORGET HER MIGRAINES, SHE’S GIVING ME A MIGRAINE!!)
SUBSEQUENT TO MICHELE BACHMANN SIGNING THE CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE PLEDGE, SHE RENEGES AND VOTES AGAINST HR 2560, THUS KNOCKING HER OUT AS THE INDEPENDENT WILD CARD AND RUNNING FOR GOP NOMINEE CONTENTION !!
Thursday at 7:32am
Remember, Ben Nelson provided the final and deciding vote Democrats needed to pass Obamacare.
THESE ARE THE SENATE MEMBERS WHO DESPITE THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS POLLED, A HOUSE MAJORITY WHO VOTED FOR REPEAL, AND TWO PEOPLE NOT VOTING, ALL SENATE DEMOCRATS AREN'T REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, TO REPEAL H.R. 4872, WHO HAVE NOW BEEN BLACKLISTED:
(ALL THAT VOTED AGAINST CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE WERE DEMOCRATS, EXCEPT FOR 5 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SUPPORT US, AND 9 REPUBLICANS BETRAYED US, REFUSING TO STOP OBAMA AND THE SENATE FROM WASTING MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS)
(FORGET HER MIGRAINES, SHE’S GIVING ME A MIGRAINE!!)
SUBSEQUENT TO MICHELE BACHMANN SIGNING THE CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE PLEDGE, SHE RENEGES AND VOTES AGAINST HR 2560, THUS KNOCKING HER OUT AS THE INDEPENDENT WILD CARD AND RUNNING FOR GOP NOMINEE CONTENTION !!
Thursday at 7:32am
Aja Brooks Why did you not vote for cut, cap, and balance? You really let us down -- just how do you suppose to call yourself Tea Party when you're really a Republican? You're masquerading in a Tea Party hat as a costume for political support. You must make cuts and get them on paper, that was the whole point of the pledge you signed. I can no longer support your nomination.
Aja Brooks Repugnant and cowardly that you would capitalize your campaign and go against your own word.
Thursday at 7:49am
Robert Jensen But, why did you vote against Cut, Cap, and Balance? You just dropped a few notches on my vote list.
Jeff Smulyan Aja & Robert: You shouldn't vote for her because she's not the brightest bulb in the room...and she's a racist.
Thursday at 7:57am
Thursday at 8:05am
Mike Ward @Aja: Just like I told you. She's a HYPOCRITE!!!!
Thursday at 8:30am
Mike Ward @ Robert J: Yes, like I said she's a HYPOXRITE!!!!
Thursday at 8:31am
KERRY HAD THE BEST POSITION AGAINST OBAMA’S LACK OF FOREIGN POLICY, BUT HE VOTED FOR OBAMACARE/H.R. 4872, HE IS STRUCK FROM THE LIST, UDALL AND CONRAD DID TOO, SO THE 5 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SUPPORT THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT WILL BE ADDED AS POTENTIAL NOMINEES.
(ALL THAT VOTED AGAINST CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE WERE DEMOCRATS, EXCEPT FOR 5 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SUPPORT US, AND 9 REPUBLICANS BETRAYED US, REFUSING TO STOP OBAMA AND THE SENATE FROM WASTING MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS)
WHILE IT IS INTERESTING, I MUST FORMALLY WITHDRAW MY SUPPORT FOR BACHMANN; A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT IMPLIES THE REPEAL OF OBAMACARE, AND SHE VOTED AGAINST A BALANCED BUDGET.
GOP INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Donald Trump - Pres. John Kerry - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP-TREASURER Herman Cain - Pres. Dan Boren - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP Sarah Palin -VP Blanche Lincoln - VP
Jim Cooper - Pres.
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Rick Santorum -Pres. Kent Conrad - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP Joe Manchin - VP
Marco Rubio - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP *Michelle Bachmann Jim Matheson - Pres.
is the wild card matchup Mike McIntyre - VP
Paul Ryan - Pres. Marco Rubio - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Saxby Chambliss - Pres. Sarah Palin - VP Kent Conrad - VP
Tim Pawlenty - VP
John Boehner - Pres. Ron Paul - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Heath Schuler - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Mark Pryor - VP
Rick Perry - VP John Boehner - VP
(ALL THAT VOTED AGAINST CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE WERE DEMOCRATS, EXCEPT FOR 5 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SUPPORT US, AND 9 REPUBLICANS BETRAYED US, REFUSING TO STOP OBAMA AND THE SENATE FROM WASTING MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS)
WHILE IT IS INTERESTING, I MUST FORMALLY WITHDRAW MY SUPPORT FOR BACHMANN; A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT IMPLIES THE REPEAL OF OBAMACARE, AND SHE VOTED AGAINST A BALANCED BUDGET.
GOP INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Donald Trump - Pres. John Kerry - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP-TREASURER Herman Cain - Pres. Dan Boren - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP Sarah Palin -VP Blanche Lincoln - VP
Jim Cooper - Pres.
Newt Gingrich - Pres. Rick Santorum -Pres. Kent Conrad - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP Joe Manchin - VP
Marco Rubio - Pres.
Sarah Palin - VP *Michelle Bachmann Jim Matheson - Pres.
is the wild card matchup Mike McIntyre - VP
Paul Ryan - Pres. Marco Rubio - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Saxby Chambliss - Pres. Sarah Palin - VP Kent Conrad - VP
Tim Pawlenty - VP
John Boehner - Pres. Ron Paul - Pres. Mark Udall - Pres.
Heath Schuler - Pres.
Paul Ryan - VP Sarah Palin - VP Mark Pryor - VP
Rick Perry - VP John Boehner - VP
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS PULLED AN OBAMA, AND SHE VOTED PRESENT, AND THAT MEANS THAT SHE DOES NOT HOLD A POSITION ON THE DEFICIT AND WAS ONLY VOTE BARTERING AND DID NOT WANT TO STICK UP FOR YOU AS A TAXPAYER:
SHE AND 7 OTHERS DID THAT TO TRY TO PREVENT PASSAGE OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.
2012 OUST LIST/BLACKLISTED POLITICIANS:
- BEN NELSON - (D) NEBRASKA
Remember, Ben Nelson provided the final and deciding vote Democrats needed to pass Obamacare.
In exchange for his vote, Nelson took $45 million in taxpayer-funded Medicare subsidies – the "Cornhusker Kickback" – embarrassing every hard working man and woman in Nebraska.
Americans simply can't afford for Ben Nelson to be re-elected.
That's why I'm reaching out to you today. In order to take back this seat next year, we need the early support of conservatives around the country.
As the state Attorney General since 2003, I made sure Nebraska was one of the first states to join the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Obama's – and Ben Nelson's – health care law.
I firmly believe Obamacare tramples on individual liberty, is unconstitutional, and unfairly burdens states with a massive new entitlement program.
While serving as Attorney General, I helped create a self-funding Medicaid Fraud Unit, which has recovered more than $33 million for state taxpayers. Throughout my career, I have worked to reduce the size and reach of the Federal government. I'll do the same in the United States Senate.
2. RAHN MAYO - (D-91) GEORGIA
- poorly represents my district's values of Constitutionally-limited government and fiscal responsibility
- idolizes Obama, thinks himself as Obama on state level
- participated in racially-tinged arguments on Facebook, teaming up with Ralph Long, lobbying solely for what only their choice black constituents want, those who pay to keep them up/not what the majority of Georgia taxpayers have asked and required of them
- honestly one of the most racist mixed people I've ever met! I say this as being a mix of Native American and 3 European lineages myself: he's Obama's right-hand stooge in the South.
3. RALPH LONG - (D-61) GEORGIA
- poorly represents my district's values of Constitutionally-limited government and fiscal responsibility
- while he doesn't idolize Obama, he will call you 'unpatriotic' if your opinion disagrees with his opinion or Obama's
- participated in racially-tinged arguments on Facebook, teaming up with Rahn Mayo, lobbying solely for what only their choice black constituents want, those who pay to keep them up/not what the majority of Georgia taxpayers have asked and required of them
- while I believe Ralph Long's intentions is to aspire to be like MLK JR, or Mandella, and he handles debate better than the giggling and Ebonics-speaking Mayo, Long is being judged by the company that he keeps: Rahn Mayo is his cohort, along with several other black legislators, as in: "if you aren't black, they're on the attack, from their blackberries that is..."
4. ALISHA MORGAN - (D-39) GEORGIA
- doesn't embody the kind of communication skills that we as taxpayers demand and expect from those who ride on our tax dollars... she asked to be removed from SYNTHESIS discussion, so it is quite clear that she doesn't want to hear what the majority has to say
- she doesn't seem pro-Obama, but more akin to black church mafia
- while I don't believe that she intends to come across this way, she aligns herself with the same legislators who accommodate black bias, lobbying solely for what only their choice black constituents want, those who pay to keep them up/not what the majority of Georgia taxpayers have asked and required of them
5. HUGH FLOYD - (D-99) GEORGIA
- poorly represents my district's values of Constitutionally-limited government and fiscal responsibility
- this guy acts like he's a rock star: he'll reject your email, ignore your documents, and tell you that you're not 'his' constituent, though you're paying for him to ignore your pleas
- to boot: this guy is a Methodist, not just lackluster for Jesus, but wants everyone to know that his methodology and contrived way of neglecting you in his district goes further than just ego/it's a religious prerogative for him.
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the message is that while you may have escaped the first round of Tea Party cuts, you won't make it past 2012. I deleted 25 email addresses, struck them from the Assembly roll today for email contacts, and only one member went onto to run for Congress! Not only that, but Tea Party platform succeeding in regaining House leadership, to repeal H.R. 4872, and we will now defund in the Senate. Please contact me with your state's blacklist.
THESE ARE THE SENATE MEMBERS WHO DESPITE THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS POLLED, A HOUSE MAJORITY WHO VOTED FOR REPEAL, AND TWO PEOPLE NOT VOTING, ALL SENATE DEMOCRATS AREN'T REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, TO REPEAL H.R. 4872, WHO HAVE NOW BEEN BLACKLISTED:
NAYs ---51
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 2
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Warner (D-VA)
We will now move to defunding H.R. 4872 through Senate Committees, as the mandate is unconstitutional. We don't have to pay for legislation, just because they say so.
6. CLAIRE MCCASKILL:
White there were no indications of illegality or ethics violations in terms of the flights and McCaskill has said she'd repay more than $88,000 to the U.S. Treasury, a realization of how toxic the story is in the current political climate.
But on Monday the story got even more poisonous for her political future. Politico reported that she and her husband failed to pay $287,273 in personal property taxes on the airplane.
(ALL THAT VOTED AGAINST CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE WERE DEMOCRATS, EXCEPT FOR 5 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SUPPORT US, AND 9 REPUBLICANS BETRAYED US, REFUSING TO STOP OBAMA AND THE SENATE FROM WASTING MORE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS)
WHILE IT IS INTERESTING, I MUST FORMALLY WITHDRAW MY SUPPORT FOR BACHMANN; A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT IMPLIES THE REPEAL OF OBAMACARE, AND SHE VOTED AGAINST A BALANCED BUDGET.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS PULLED AN OBAMA, AND SHE VOTED PRESENT, AND THAT MEANS THAT SHE DOES NOT HOLD A POSITION ON THE DEFICIT AND WAS ONLY VOTE BARTERING AND DID NOT WANT TO STICK UP FOR YOU AS A TAXPAYER:
SHE AND 7 OTHERS DID THAT TO TRY TO PREVENT PASSAGE OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.
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Ackerman
Altmire
Andrews
Baca
Bachmann
Baldwin
Barrow
Bass (CA)
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Boswell
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Canseco
Capps
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Chandler
Chu
Cicilline
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Critz
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Donnelly (IN)
Doyle
Edwards
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanabusa
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hochul
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kildee
Kind
Kissell
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paul
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Richmond
Rohrabacher
Ross (AR)
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stark
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
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Blumenauer
Capuano
Castor (FL)
Ellison
Engel
Giffords
Hinchey
Young (AK)
Gerry Emery January 31 at 3:37pm Reply • Report
I'm asking each recipient to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on your address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011.
THIS IS HOW TO FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below..
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman will collect a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time!
THIS IS HOW TO FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
February 1 at 1:47am · Like
EVEN DEMOCRATS KNOW OBAMA IS KILLING OUR ECONOMY !!!!
The 70-Million-Check Constituency
O.k., this is not good news...yet it is as REAL as all the GOOD was. And Conservatives face Reality...and with Constitutional Principles build up the good and correct the bad...and this IS bad.
July 21, 2011
Obama and the left have a massive constituency of tens of millions who do not comprehend the true meaning of money, only caring that the government check is in the mail.
In an interview with CBS anchor Scott Pelley last week, President Obama was asked if he could guarantee that Social Security checks would go out in August if House Republicans refused to raise the national debt ceiling.
Obama replied, "Well, this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans' checks; these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out... I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd, if we haven't resolved this issue."
Seventy million government checks! In a population of 309 million, almost 23% of the population is receiving some kind of check from the federal government.
I have bad news for conservatives who think Obama is leading the nation down the path to socialism: the barn door is open and the cows are long gone. Obama is not leading the nation to socialism; we are a socialist nation and have been for some time. Conservatives who think Obama is a Marxist and an anti-capitalist radical are surely correct, but what is also surely correct is that he represents an actual constituency of tens of millions who care about nothing other than the fact that the government check is in the mail. This is a serious problem for conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers seeking to cut the federal budget and restore fiscal sanity.
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LINK TO FULL ARTICLE:
www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_70_million_check_constituency.html
WHY IF DEMOCRATS KNOW THIS DID THEY VOTE TO TABLE CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE, WHEN FAILING TO PASS IT MAKES US DEFAULT AUTOMATICALLY?
July 19, 2011
One Obama Presser, 36 Obama Lies and Deceptions
By Charlie P Brannan
Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.
Deception 1. "make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."
There is zero risk of a default to the creditors of US debt. The federal government takes in about $170 billion each month in revenues, but pays less than $29 billion each month in interest on the debt. The Bipartisan Policy Center has laid out a plan where the Treasury could pay: all debt interest, all Social Security obligations, all Medicare and Medicaid obligations, all Defense contractor bills, all Veterans payments, all active duty troops; and still have almost $7 billion left over every month for other items.
Obama is using pure political scare tactics to deceive uneducated voters into supporting his position. There is no risk to "the full faith and credit of the United States" unless Treasury chooses to default. Not raising the debt limit will cause a limited government shutdown, not a default, as Obama insinuates.
Deception 2. "I think we should not even be this close to a deadline on this issue; this should have been taken care of earlier."
The Obama administration created the present crisis with the introduction of his 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011. Obama's budget had a $1.1 Trillion deficit and was defeated by a vote of 97 to 0 in the United States Senate. Obama's own failure to submit a budget which could gain even a single vote directly caused the entire crisis.
Deception 3. "These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills."
There is plenty of government revenue to cover the obligations the US government has taken on in the past. The entire issue is the obligations the US government will take on in the future. Republicans in Congress want to reduce those obligations -- they want to stop running up the credit card -- and Obama is saying "No, continue to spend."
Deception 4. "We could end up with a situation, for example, where interest rates rise for everybody all throughout the country, effectively a tax increase on everybody."
Obama is painting a fundamentally dishonest scenario. His strategy to continue debt spending will saddle future generations of Americans with more and more debt which will eventually result in higher taxes in the future. He is advocating increased borrowing which in reality is "a tax increase on everybody."
People globally invest in US debt because the United States of America is by far the strongest most vibrant and innovative economy on earth. The world economy is suffering and the result is demand for US debt, not a reluctance to lend. As long as Treasury chooses not to default on the US debt there will be little or no rise in interest rate. If anything, refusing to raise the limit debt would demonstrate to the world that we as a nation are finally serious about managing government spending and from a long term macroeconomic perspective the USA will be a much stronger nation.
Deception 5. "businesses that are trying to make payroll, all of them could end up being impacted as a consequence of a default."
Obama is arguing that a default will cause increased interest rates, which will have "adverse consequences." Putting aside the fact that failing to increase the debt limit will not result in a default unless Obama chooses to default, even a default and the increased interest rates will have little if any effect on most "businesses that are trying to make payroll." Unlike the US government, the vast majority of businesses do not borrow money to pay their employees. Even if interest rates did rise, payroll payments for most businesses would stay the same.
Lie 6. "We have a chance to stabilize America's finances for a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years, if we're willing to seize the moment."
At present the national debt amounts to US$14.12 Trillion: 100% of the US GDP. Deficit spending in 2011 will exceed $1.48 Trillion; over ten years spending at that rate would amount to $14.8 Trillion, doubling the US debt.
Obama's budget proposal would reduce deficit spending to $1.1 Trillion per year through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. Fourteen years at this rate would still double our national debt with $15.4 Trillion of new deficit spending.
Either scenario will put the USA in the same scenario Greece is in today. Obama is lying when he insinuates he has made an effort to stabilize America's financial future.
Lie 7. "let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction."
The notion of getting "a down payment on deficit reduction" is a lie. What is a "down payment"? It is an initial payment which by definition must be followed by more payments. If Obama wants to get a "down payment on deficit reduction" then he must plan for follow on payments. Normally, when you make a down payment, if you are unable to make the follow on payments you lose your down payment! Obama's attempt to change a single reduction into a "down payment" is a lie. Language only a lawyer could twist.
Deception 8. (continued from Lie 7) "And that we can actually accomplish without huge changes in revenue or significant changes in entitlements,"
Except that according to his own deficit commission (Bowles-Simpson) significant changes in both revenue and entitlements are required in order to reduce the deficit. Obama's insinuation that continued deficit reduction because a down payment implies future payments) can happen without "significant changes in entitlements" is another deception: his own experts are telling him otherwise.
Deception 9. (continued from Deception 8) "but we could still send a signal that we are serious about this problem."
The "down payment" Obama talks about in Lie 7 is a $2 Trillion reduction in deficit spending over ten years. He is proposal will still double the national debt in less than 15 years putting us where Greece is today. In no way could this single reduction demonstrate that the US government is serious about this problem.
Deception 10. "And I think it's important for everybody to understand that all of us believe that we need to get to a point where eventually we can balance the budget."
Nobody who has the audacity to submit a budget with $1.1 Trillion in deficit spending can be trusted when they say they "eventually" want to balance the budget.
Deception 11. "We don't need a constitutional amendment to do that; what we need to do is to do our jobs."
Obama submitted the 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011 with a $1.1 Trillion deficit, $3.73 Trillion in spending and revenues of $2.63 Trillion. George W Bush's 2008 budget had a $240 Billion deficit on $2.8 Trillion in spending. Spending increases account for 75% of the increase in Obama's 2012 deficit. Clearly Obama finds it impossible to do his job.
Deception 12. "And we have to do it the same way a family would do it. A family, if they get over-extended and their credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills. What they do is they say, how do we start cutting our monthly costs? We keep on making payments, but we start cutting out the things that aren't necessary."
Actually, Mr. President, those drastic measures you just outlined are exactly what families do. They keep making payments, but they don't "start cutting our monthly costs", they don't "start cutting out the things that are necessary", they immediately curtail spending so they won't have to continue borrowing money because they have used up their entire credit limit. What world do you live in?
Deception 13. (continued from Deception 12) "And we do it in a way that maintains our credit rating. We do it in a way that's responsible"
Another Obama deception. He is implying that Republicans want to damage the USA credit rating. As we demonstrated in Deception 1, there is no danger to the USA credit rating if Congress refuses to increase the debt limit: the Treasury will be forced to make tough choices to pay what he is able and a limited government shutdown will ensue.
Deception 14. "I think that American consumers and American businesses would benefit from a continuation of that tax cut next year."
Obama is advocating the increase of taxes for "the rich" and in the same speech advocating extending subsidies to the unemployed. What happened to a "balanced approach"? How does he plan to pay for these subsidies if not with deficit spending? This statement reveals Obama's hypocritical ethos. He knows that tax cuts for the rich create jobs for the middle class. He knows that extended welfare subsidies foster sloth. But Obama is not about doing what is best for America, Obama is all about taking from the rich and giving to the poor and using federal dollars to bribe his constituents to make sure he is elected again in 2012.
Lie 15. "... we can, as I said before, fix this thing probably for a decade or more"
Obama restates Lie 6. in a different light, implying that Congress will not have to increase the debt limit again "for a decade or more." People who didn't listen carefully will think 'Obama's plan will solve this debt limit problem for ten years!'. In reality the present proposed $2.4 Trillion debt limit increase will only last until 2013, conveniently after the 2012 election. Its all politics.
Lie 16. "I think this notion that things got ugly is just not true."
When the President of the United States verbally threatens a member of Congress saying "Eric, don't call my bluff. I'm going to the American people on this," and then schedule a press conference specifically "to take it to the American people", that is ugly, by definition.
Deception 17. "Bowles-Simpson ... was originally bipartisan legislation that some of the Republican supporters of decided to vote against when I said I supported it"
Notwithstanding what Obama may or may not have said, in reality Obama never supported the Bowles-Simpson budget, in whole or in part. Obama's 2012 Budget with a $1.1 Trillion deficit included none of the spending reductions from Bowles-Simpson commission. Here Obama is trying to deceive the American public into believing he supported Bowles-Simpson when his actions tell otherwise.
Lie 18. "a lot of the components of Bowles-Simpson we are willing to embrace -- for example, the domestic spending cuts that they recommend we've basically taken."
Obama's 2012 Budget proposal with a $1.1 Trillion deficit is evidence of this lie.
Lie 19. "... you have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts."
From a July 7-10 Gallup poll. 69% of the people support spending cuts together with new taxes:
Only/Mostly with spending cuts: 20%
Mostly with spending cuts: 30%
Equal with spending cuts and taxes: 32%
Mostly with tax increases: 7%
Only with tax increases: 4%
Undecided: 7%
The more subtle part of this deception is what Obama fails to mention regarding the same Gallup poll. The American public by a margin of nearly 2:1 do not want to increase the debt limit. Perhaps this is because most Americans don't believe Congress will lower the deficit enough to make a difference.
Deception 20. "It turns out that our problem is we cut taxes without paying for them over the last decade"
Obama implies that the deficits we have now have been going on for the last ten years, insinuating it is an ongoing problem from the Bush administration. The reality is that deficit spending in Obama's first three years in office is more than double the entire deficit spending of the George W Bush administration. Deficits for the last ten years:
2011 $1,500 Billion
2010 $1,300 Billion
2009 $1,400 Billion
2008 $240 Billion
2007 $161 Billion
2006 $248 Billion
2005 $319 Billion
2004 $412 Billion
2003 $374 Billion
2002 $159 Billion
US budget deficits ballooned when Obama took office. Increased spending accounts for 3/4 of the new deficit spending; reduced tax revenue accounts for 1/4. More fundamentally instead of restoring investor confidence Obama's deficit spending, a key component in Obama's failed economic policy, has resulted in a double dip recession and stagnant growth with no end in sight.
Deception 21. "what's required is that we roll back those tax cuts ... clean up our tax code ... cut programs that we don't need, and we invest in those things that are going to help us grow. And every commission that's been out there has said the same thing and basically taken the same approach, within the margin of error."
Bowles-Simpson, a commission which Obama organized outlined far more reaching cuts in entitlements (above and beyond cutting "programs that we don't need") which Obama ignores, again deceiving the American public.
Lie 22. "And they don't require "job-killing tax cuts.""
Study upon study have shown that in the short term tax cuts increase jobs for the middle class.
Deception 23. "They require us to make some modest adjustments to get our house in order, and we should do it now."
The bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission organized by Obama suggested much more drastic measures are required to resolve the present government budget woes. Not "some modest". Obama ignores his own research and deceives America.
Deception 24. "let's at least avert Armageddon."
Another typical liberal Obama lie / scare tactic. As explained in Deception 1 there is zero risk of Armageddon or default in debt payments by the US government unless Obama chooses to default. There will be a government shutdown, but a default will only occur if Obama intentionally decides to default.
Deception 25. "I'd like to solve that second problem."
Maybe he would like to quit smoking as well but he won't. Obama was given the opportunity to solve the second problem when he submitted his budget to Congress. He ignored almost all of the recommendations from his own deficit commission. Even with increased tax revenues the deficit in his budget remained at $1.1 Trillion.
Deception 26. "... a balanced approach that includes some revenue is the right thing to do. The majority of Republican voters say that approach is the right thing to do."
Obama ignores the polling data he is citing. Only 11% of Republicans support a debt increase; 60% are against. Obama is deceiving the public when he implies that Republicans support his "balanced approach" to increase the debt limit. In fact Americans as a whole are against increasing the debt limit by nearly a 2 to 1 margin.
There is support for a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, but twice before during the Regan and Bush Sr. administrations Democrats offered conservatives the same deal except that the spending cuts never came. Obama says he is willing to accept $3 Trillion in cuts for $1 Trillion in taxes, but is he willing to accept $8.25 Trillion in cuts for $2.75 Trillion in new taxes? This is where Congress should call Obama's bluff.
Deception 27. "The question is going to be whether at any given moment we're willing to set politics aside, at least briefly, in order to get something done."
Obama misleadingly implies that he is above the fray while the other side is playing politics. In reality both sides are playing politics. In fact his entire press conference is just another example of his playing politics by "going to the American people on this." Except that it is not 2008 any longer. People already realize that when it comes to playing politics Obama is just as guilty as the next politician.
Deception 28. "I've got an infrastructure bank bill that would start putting construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges."
This statement belies Obama's ability to compromise. Just how does he expect to pay for these infrastructure bills if not with more deficit spending? This statement summarizes the distrust conservatives have for everything Obama says and does.
Deception 29. "I've got three trade deals ... being held up because some folks don't want to provide trade adjustment assistance to people ... displaced as a consequence of trade."
Again, how does Obama plan to pay for this trade adjustment assistance if not with deficit spending? Another example of Obama's bad faith in the ongoing negotiations. In this press conference he admitted that as soon as the debt limit is increased he will find at least three new ways to increase spending. This is why Republicans are reluctant to increase tax revenue: because they know the more they feed the beast the more Obama will think of new ways to spend money.
Lie 30. "I'm going to keep on trying"
This implies that Obama started trying. Deception 2 established clearly that Obama has not been trying. If anything he has been trying to cause this crisis to win political points with his constituents.
Deception 31. "American people are going to say ... if a party or a politician is constantly taking the position 'my way or the highway,' constantly being locked into ideologically rigid positions, that we're going to remember at the polls."
Classic Obama obfuscation. Is he genuinely trying to tell the voting public to throw him out in 2012? Obama began saying my way or the highway on January 24, 2009 when he reminded the Republicans after four days in office: "I won." Last week he stormed out of a meeting with Rep. Eric Cantor in the middle of negotiations when he didn't get his way. His entire press conference was his attempt to go "to the American people on this."
Deception 32. "... what the American people are paying attention to is who seems to be trying to get something done, and who seems to be just posturing and trying to score political points. And I think it's going to be in the interests of everybody who wants to continue to serve in this town to make sure that they are on the right side of that impression."
Obama is again using deception by raising an issue to imply that he above "just posturing and trying to score political points." Except the entire press conference is nothing more than political posturing by Obama! He is doing exactly what he is criticizing others of doing! A case of projection. Obama has no plan and has not submitted any revised budget since February 14. To Obama it is not important whether he is on the right side as long as he is "on the right side of that impression."
Deception 33. "I said the American people do not want to see a bunch of posturing; they don't want to hear a bunch of sound bites. What they want is for us to solve problems, and we all have to remember that. That's why we were sent here."
This statement by itself is nothing more than a sound bite. Until July Obama did almost nothing personally to try and resolve the debt limit problem. Republicans have said over and over again: "He has no plan!" But he has a silver tongue and the skill to effortlessly shift blame on to others.
Deception 34. "... we know how we can create a package that solves the deficits and debt for a significant period of time."
In Lie 6 and Lie 15 Obama previously talked about stabilizing finances for "a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years." Now Obama mentions "a significant period of time." Nothing Obama has discussed with any Republican went offered a resolution which would raise the debt limit and lower spending beyond 2014. His definition of "a significant period of time" in context with language implying a solution lasting over a decade is patently dishonest.
Lie 35. "... if you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit ... because if the only thing we're talking about over the next year, two years, five years, is debt and deficits, then it's very hard to start talking about how do we make investments in community colleges ... how do we actually rebuild $2 trillion worth of crumbling infrastructure."
This statement exemplifies the chasm between Obama and conservatives. The Tea Party does not want to increase the debt limit because they do not trust the government to control spending. Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29 all mentioned new spending initiatives Obama has with plans ready to launch. And yet he has no revised budget plan? Everything he has said about cutting the deficit and controlling spending is a lie.
Deception 36. "It would be very helpful for us to be able to say to the American people, our fiscal house is in order. And so now the question is what should we be doing to win the future and make ourselves more competitive and create more jobs, and what aspects of what government is doing are a waste and we should eliminate."
Which is a great sound bite and a wonderful note to end the bully pulpit press conference on except that Obama just finished saying he has plans to spend over a trillion dollars to finance Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29. Moreover Obama made plans for more deficit spending while the fiscal house was not in order. Obama has no plan specifically outlining how to put the fiscal house in order. Pure (misleading smoke and mirror) politics.
These deceptions, lies and misleading statements define why Obama cannot be trusted to tell the truth. They also define why Congress must vote against raising the debt limit.
The 70-Million-Check Constituency- Posted by Admin II-Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer on July 21, 2011 at 10:51pm in Patriot Action Alerts
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O.k., this is not good news...yet it is as REAL as all the GOOD was. And Conservatives face Reality...and with Constitutional Principles build up the good and correct the bad...and this IS bad.
July 21, 2011
The 70-Million-Check Constituency
By Michael FilozofObama and the left have a massive constituency of tens of millions who do not comprehend the true meaning of money, only caring that the government check is in the mail.
In an interview with CBS anchor Scott Pelley last week, President Obama was asked if he could guarantee that Social Security checks would go out in August if House Republicans refused to raise the national debt ceiling.
Obama replied, "Well, this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans' checks; these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out... I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd, if we haven't resolved this issue."
Seventy million government checks! In a population of 309 million, almost 23% of the population is receiving some kind of check from the federal government.
I have bad news for conservatives who think Obama is leading the nation down the path to socialism: the barn door is open and the cows are long gone. Obama is not leading the nation to socialism; we are a socialist nation and have been for some time. Conservatives who think Obama is a Marxist and an anti-capitalist radical are surely correct, but what is also surely correct is that he represents an actual constituency of tens of millions who care about nothing other than the fact that the government check is in the mail. This is a serious problem for conservative Republicans and Tea Partiers seeking to cut the federal budget and restore fiscal sanity.
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WHY IF DEMOCRATS KNOW THIS DID THEY VOTE TO TABLE CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE, WHEN FAILING TO PASS IT MAKES US DEFAULT AUTOMATICALLY?
July 19, 2011
One Obama Presser, 36 Obama Lies and Deceptions
By Charlie P Brannan
Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.
Deception 1. "make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."
There is zero risk of a default to the creditors of US debt. The federal government takes in about $170 billion each month in revenues, but pays less than $29 billion each month in interest on the debt. The Bipartisan Policy Center has laid out a plan where the Treasury could pay: all debt interest, all Social Security obligations, all Medicare and Medicaid obligations, all Defense contractor bills, all Veterans payments, all active duty troops; and still have almost $7 billion left over every month for other items.
Obama is using pure political scare tactics to deceive uneducated voters into supporting his position. There is no risk to "the full faith and credit of the United States" unless Treasury chooses to default. Not raising the debt limit will cause a limited government shutdown, not a default, as Obama insinuates.
Deception 2. "I think we should not even be this close to a deadline on this issue; this should have been taken care of earlier."
The Obama administration created the present crisis with the introduction of his 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011. Obama's budget had a $1.1 Trillion deficit and was defeated by a vote of 97 to 0 in the United States Senate. Obama's own failure to submit a budget which could gain even a single vote directly caused the entire crisis.
Deception 3. "These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills."
There is plenty of government revenue to cover the obligations the US government has taken on in the past. The entire issue is the obligations the US government will take on in the future. Republicans in Congress want to reduce those obligations -- they want to stop running up the credit card -- and Obama is saying "No, continue to spend."
Deception 4. "We could end up with a situation, for example, where interest rates rise for everybody all throughout the country, effectively a tax increase on everybody."
Obama is painting a fundamentally dishonest scenario. His strategy to continue debt spending will saddle future generations of Americans with more and more debt which will eventually result in higher taxes in the future. He is advocating increased borrowing which in reality is "a tax increase on everybody."
People globally invest in US debt because the United States of America is by far the strongest most vibrant and innovative economy on earth. The world economy is suffering and the result is demand for US debt, not a reluctance to lend. As long as Treasury chooses not to default on the US debt there will be little or no rise in interest rate. If anything, refusing to raise the limit debt would demonstrate to the world that we as a nation are finally serious about managing government spending and from a long term macroeconomic perspective the USA will be a much stronger nation.
Deception 5. "businesses that are trying to make payroll, all of them could end up being impacted as a consequence of a default."
Obama is arguing that a default will cause increased interest rates, which will have "adverse consequences." Putting aside the fact that failing to increase the debt limit will not result in a default unless Obama chooses to default, even a default and the increased interest rates will have little if any effect on most "businesses that are trying to make payroll." Unlike the US government, the vast majority of businesses do not borrow money to pay their employees. Even if interest rates did rise, payroll payments for most businesses would stay the same.
Lie 6. "We have a chance to stabilize America's finances for a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years, if we're willing to seize the moment."
At present the national debt amounts to US$14.12 Trillion: 100% of the US GDP. Deficit spending in 2011 will exceed $1.48 Trillion; over ten years spending at that rate would amount to $14.8 Trillion, doubling the US debt.
Obama's budget proposal would reduce deficit spending to $1.1 Trillion per year through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. Fourteen years at this rate would still double our national debt with $15.4 Trillion of new deficit spending.
Either scenario will put the USA in the same scenario Greece is in today. Obama is lying when he insinuates he has made an effort to stabilize America's financial future.
Lie 7. "let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction."
The notion of getting "a down payment on deficit reduction" is a lie. What is a "down payment"? It is an initial payment which by definition must be followed by more payments. If Obama wants to get a "down payment on deficit reduction" then he must plan for follow on payments. Normally, when you make a down payment, if you are unable to make the follow on payments you lose your down payment! Obama's attempt to change a single reduction into a "down payment" is a lie. Language only a lawyer could twist.
Deception 8. (continued from Lie 7) "And that we can actually accomplish without huge changes in revenue or significant changes in entitlements,"
Except that according to his own deficit commission (Bowles-Simpson) significant changes in both revenue and entitlements are required in order to reduce the deficit. Obama's insinuation that continued deficit reduction because a down payment implies future payments) can happen without "significant changes in entitlements" is another deception: his own experts are telling him otherwise.
Deception 9. (continued from Deception 8) "but we could still send a signal that we are serious about this problem."
The "down payment" Obama talks about in Lie 7 is a $2 Trillion reduction in deficit spending over ten years. He is proposal will still double the national debt in less than 15 years putting us where Greece is today. In no way could this single reduction demonstrate that the US government is serious about this problem.
Deception 10. "And I think it's important for everybody to understand that all of us believe that we need to get to a point where eventually we can balance the budget."
Nobody who has the audacity to submit a budget with $1.1 Trillion in deficit spending can be trusted when they say they "eventually" want to balance the budget.
Deception 11. "We don't need a constitutional amendment to do that; what we need to do is to do our jobs."
Obama submitted the 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011 with a $1.1 Trillion deficit, $3.73 Trillion in spending and revenues of $2.63 Trillion. George W Bush's 2008 budget had a $240 Billion deficit on $2.8 Trillion in spending. Spending increases account for 75% of the increase in Obama's 2012 deficit. Clearly Obama finds it impossible to do his job.
Deception 12. "And we have to do it the same way a family would do it. A family, if they get over-extended and their credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills. What they do is they say, how do we start cutting our monthly costs? We keep on making payments, but we start cutting out the things that aren't necessary."
Actually, Mr. President, those drastic measures you just outlined are exactly what families do. They keep making payments, but they don't "start cutting our monthly costs", they don't "start cutting out the things that are necessary", they immediately curtail spending so they won't have to continue borrowing money because they have used up their entire credit limit. What world do you live in?
Deception 13. (continued from Deception 12) "And we do it in a way that maintains our credit rating. We do it in a way that's responsible"
Another Obama deception. He is implying that Republicans want to damage the USA credit rating. As we demonstrated in Deception 1, there is no danger to the USA credit rating if Congress refuses to increase the debt limit: the Treasury will be forced to make tough choices to pay what he is able and a limited government shutdown will ensue.
Deception 14. "I think that American consumers and American businesses would benefit from a continuation of that tax cut next year."
Obama is advocating the increase of taxes for "the rich" and in the same speech advocating extending subsidies to the unemployed. What happened to a "balanced approach"? How does he plan to pay for these subsidies if not with deficit spending? This statement reveals Obama's hypocritical ethos. He knows that tax cuts for the rich create jobs for the middle class. He knows that extended welfare subsidies foster sloth. But Obama is not about doing what is best for America, Obama is all about taking from the rich and giving to the poor and using federal dollars to bribe his constituents to make sure he is elected again in 2012.
Lie 15. "... we can, as I said before, fix this thing probably for a decade or more"
Obama restates Lie 6. in a different light, implying that Congress will not have to increase the debt limit again "for a decade or more." People who didn't listen carefully will think 'Obama's plan will solve this debt limit problem for ten years!'. In reality the present proposed $2.4 Trillion debt limit increase will only last until 2013, conveniently after the 2012 election. Its all politics.
Lie 16. "I think this notion that things got ugly is just not true."
When the President of the United States verbally threatens a member of Congress saying "Eric, don't call my bluff. I'm going to the American people on this," and then schedule a press conference specifically "to take it to the American people", that is ugly, by definition.
Deception 17. "Bowles-Simpson ... was originally bipartisan legislation that some of the Republican supporters of decided to vote against when I said I supported it"
Notwithstanding what Obama may or may not have said, in reality Obama never supported the Bowles-Simpson budget, in whole or in part. Obama's 2012 Budget with a $1.1 Trillion deficit included none of the spending reductions from Bowles-Simpson commission. Here Obama is trying to deceive the American public into believing he supported Bowles-Simpson when his actions tell otherwise.
Lie 18. "a lot of the components of Bowles-Simpson we are willing to embrace -- for example, the domestic spending cuts that they recommend we've basically taken."
Obama's 2012 Budget proposal with a $1.1 Trillion deficit is evidence of this lie.
Lie 19. "... you have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts."
From a July 7-10 Gallup poll. 69% of the people support spending cuts together with new taxes:
Only/Mostly with spending cuts: 20%
Mostly with spending cuts: 30%
Equal with spending cuts and taxes: 32%
Mostly with tax increases: 7%
Only with tax increases: 4%
Undecided: 7%
The more subtle part of this deception is what Obama fails to mention regarding the same Gallup poll. The American public by a margin of nearly 2:1 do not want to increase the debt limit. Perhaps this is because most Americans don't believe Congress will lower the deficit enough to make a difference.
Deception 20. "It turns out that our problem is we cut taxes without paying for them over the last decade"
Obama implies that the deficits we have now have been going on for the last ten years, insinuating it is an ongoing problem from the Bush administration. The reality is that deficit spending in Obama's first three years in office is more than double the entire deficit spending of the George W Bush administration. Deficits for the last ten years:
2011 $1,500 Billion
2010 $1,300 Billion
2009 $1,400 Billion
2008 $240 Billion
2007 $161 Billion
2006 $248 Billion
2005 $319 Billion
2004 $412 Billion
2003 $374 Billion
2002 $159 Billion
US budget deficits ballooned when Obama took office. Increased spending accounts for 3/4 of the new deficit spending; reduced tax revenue accounts for 1/4. More fundamentally instead of restoring investor confidence Obama's deficit spending, a key component in Obama's failed economic policy, has resulted in a double dip recession and stagnant growth with no end in sight.
Deception 21. "what's required is that we roll back those tax cuts ... clean up our tax code ... cut programs that we don't need, and we invest in those things that are going to help us grow. And every commission that's been out there has said the same thing and basically taken the same approach, within the margin of error."
Bowles-Simpson, a commission which Obama organized outlined far more reaching cuts in entitlements (above and beyond cutting "programs that we don't need") which Obama ignores, again deceiving the American public.
Lie 22. "And they don't require "job-killing tax cuts.""
Study upon study have shown that in the short term tax cuts increase jobs for the middle class.
Deception 23. "They require us to make some modest adjustments to get our house in order, and we should do it now."
The bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission organized by Obama suggested much more drastic measures are required to resolve the present government budget woes. Not "some modest". Obama ignores his own research and deceives America.
Deception 24. "let's at least avert Armageddon."
Another typical liberal Obama lie / scare tactic. As explained in Deception 1 there is zero risk of Armageddon or default in debt payments by the US government unless Obama chooses to default. There will be a government shutdown, but a default will only occur if Obama intentionally decides to default.
Deception 25. "I'd like to solve that second problem."
Maybe he would like to quit smoking as well but he won't. Obama was given the opportunity to solve the second problem when he submitted his budget to Congress. He ignored almost all of the recommendations from his own deficit commission. Even with increased tax revenues the deficit in his budget remained at $1.1 Trillion.
Deception 26. "... a balanced approach that includes some revenue is the right thing to do. The majority of Republican voters say that approach is the right thing to do."
Obama ignores the polling data he is citing. Only 11% of Republicans support a debt increase; 60% are against. Obama is deceiving the public when he implies that Republicans support his "balanced approach" to increase the debt limit. In fact Americans as a whole are against increasing the debt limit by nearly a 2 to 1 margin.
There is support for a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, but twice before during the Regan and Bush Sr. administrations Democrats offered conservatives the same deal except that the spending cuts never came. Obama says he is willing to accept $3 Trillion in cuts for $1 Trillion in taxes, but is he willing to accept $8.25 Trillion in cuts for $2.75 Trillion in new taxes? This is where Congress should call Obama's bluff.
Deception 27. "The question is going to be whether at any given moment we're willing to set politics aside, at least briefly, in order to get something done."
Obama misleadingly implies that he is above the fray while the other side is playing politics. In reality both sides are playing politics. In fact his entire press conference is just another example of his playing politics by "going to the American people on this." Except that it is not 2008 any longer. People already realize that when it comes to playing politics Obama is just as guilty as the next politician.
Deception 28. "I've got an infrastructure bank bill that would start putting construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges."
This statement belies Obama's ability to compromise. Just how does he expect to pay for these infrastructure bills if not with more deficit spending? This statement summarizes the distrust conservatives have for everything Obama says and does.
Deception 29. "I've got three trade deals ... being held up because some folks don't want to provide trade adjustment assistance to people ... displaced as a consequence of trade."
Again, how does Obama plan to pay for this trade adjustment assistance if not with deficit spending? Another example of Obama's bad faith in the ongoing negotiations. In this press conference he admitted that as soon as the debt limit is increased he will find at least three new ways to increase spending. This is why Republicans are reluctant to increase tax revenue: because they know the more they feed the beast the more Obama will think of new ways to spend money.
Lie 30. "I'm going to keep on trying"
This implies that Obama started trying. Deception 2 established clearly that Obama has not been trying. If anything he has been trying to cause this crisis to win political points with his constituents.
Deception 31. "American people are going to say ... if a party or a politician is constantly taking the position 'my way or the highway,' constantly being locked into ideologically rigid positions, that we're going to remember at the polls."
Classic Obama obfuscation. Is he genuinely trying to tell the voting public to throw him out in 2012? Obama began saying my way or the highway on January 24, 2009 when he reminded the Republicans after four days in office: "I won." Last week he stormed out of a meeting with Rep. Eric Cantor in the middle of negotiations when he didn't get his way. His entire press conference was his attempt to go "to the American people on this."
Deception 32. "... what the American people are paying attention to is who seems to be trying to get something done, and who seems to be just posturing and trying to score political points. And I think it's going to be in the interests of everybody who wants to continue to serve in this town to make sure that they are on the right side of that impression."
Obama is again using deception by raising an issue to imply that he above "just posturing and trying to score political points." Except the entire press conference is nothing more than political posturing by Obama! He is doing exactly what he is criticizing others of doing! A case of projection. Obama has no plan and has not submitted any revised budget since February 14. To Obama it is not important whether he is on the right side as long as he is "on the right side of that impression."
Deception 33. "I said the American people do not want to see a bunch of posturing; they don't want to hear a bunch of sound bites. What they want is for us to solve problems, and we all have to remember that. That's why we were sent here."
This statement by itself is nothing more than a sound bite. Until July Obama did almost nothing personally to try and resolve the debt limit problem. Republicans have said over and over again: "He has no plan!" But he has a silver tongue and the skill to effortlessly shift blame on to others.
Deception 34. "... we know how we can create a package that solves the deficits and debt for a significant period of time."
In Lie 6 and Lie 15 Obama previously talked about stabilizing finances for "a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years." Now Obama mentions "a significant period of time." Nothing Obama has discussed with any Republican went offered a resolution which would raise the debt limit and lower spending beyond 2014. His definition of "a significant period of time" in context with language implying a solution lasting over a decade is patently dishonest.
Lie 35. "... if you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit ... because if the only thing we're talking about over the next year, two years, five years, is debt and deficits, then it's very hard to start talking about how do we make investments in community colleges ... how do we actually rebuild $2 trillion worth of crumbling infrastructure."
This statement exemplifies the chasm between Obama and conservatives. The Tea Party does not want to increase the debt limit because they do not trust the government to control spending. Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29 all mentioned new spending initiatives Obama has with plans ready to launch. And yet he has no revised budget plan? Everything he has said about cutting the deficit and controlling spending is a lie.
Deception 36. "It would be very helpful for us to be able to say to the American people, our fiscal house is in order. And so now the question is what should we be doing to win the future and make ourselves more competitive and create more jobs, and what aspects of what government is doing are a waste and we should eliminate."
Which is a great sound bite and a wonderful note to end the bully pulpit press conference on except that Obama just finished saying he has plans to spend over a trillion dollars to finance Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29. Moreover Obama made plans for more deficit spending while the fiscal house was not in order. Obama has no plan specifically outlining how to put the fiscal house in order. Pure (misleading smoke and mirror) politics.
These deceptions, lies and misleading statements define why Obama cannot be trusted to tell the truth. They also define why Congress must vote against raising the debt limit.
TO READ THE REST OF THE BLOG: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUo3Pn-S2dkyyDMDmH0M4C5yBNegmyfwXMOcJikBxk0/edit?hl=en_US
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