" THE SYNTHESIS " 12-08-2011 SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AMERICA’S PRESIDENT IN THE AFTERMATH OF DNC CORRUPTION AND TO REPAIR THE CRACKS OBAMA HAS CAUSED TO OUR NATION’S FOUNDATION... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oIzctEYX0inZ3THn15_8OQyZ-7pWQ5Zk_I6sbTAeIE0/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
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Peace and prosperity are not inconsistent with Common Sense Conservative principles, integrity, and transparency.
jjauthor Janie Johnson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. —Thomas Jefferson
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@TeamRickPerry @GovernorPerry let me go tell old TBone Taylor Ron Paul ain't posting stuff to expose NWO creepies
Statement by @GovernorPerry on today’s news regarding the Federal Reserve’s undisclosed bank loans bit.ly/u0jFK9
@joegallant THE MAN WHO AUTHORED FINANCIAL REFORM BILL WALKS OFF THE JOB IN HYPOCRISY, REFUSING TO LAY CONSEQUENCES ON FANNIE AND FREDDIE !!
@joegallant you know black people can all sue Frank, take everything he's got, except for leaving him nearly destitute for what he did #lies
@joegallant he has declined it enough, via Fannie and Freddie, pumped that ass for all he's going to get, resigns to avoid class action suit
Having decided he can do nothing else to hasten the decline of the US, Barney Frank announces his retirement #tcot #teaparty #ocra
@BarackObama hey dumbass.... over here: 3 PART CONVERSATION ON RACE, the Native Americans you LOVE to pretend don't exist asshole #Cherokee
@foxnation @BarackObama just like Chuck Todd got caught red-handed washing Obama's tights and fluffing Chu for Solyndra, lick your lips Todd
BIAS: Wash Post Journalist Caught Briefing Senate Democrat Staffers bit.ly/v0qDbl
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Aja Brooks
Sitting down to work at the desk and Obama is still President.... #headdesk Wake up next year and Rick Perry is President #smiles
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Perry's corrupt. Wake up. Friend Amy Charron and you'll find out how.
November 27 at 6:44am · Like
Aja Brooks People say because he spoke at a Bilderberg conference that he is NWO. The way I see it, these rich bastards wanted to know how Perry was so successful, so they hired him to tell them about his success. I don't know who Amy Charron is, but you can give her my email address. I may interview her, if I find that she has any credibility - teapartychief@gmail.com
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TBone Taylor Perry is a NWO puppet, so to inform you of this. Heck you even said it yourself in your last comment but yet you condone making deals with the devil?November 27 at 8:28am · Like
Aja Brooks I want you to prove it. I took him to task on twitter, and thoroughly embarrassed him. I have not voted yet TBone... have you ????
November 27 at 9:28am · Like
Aja Brooks I want to hear from you: give me the links you have read that substantiate Press work, that shows other people have investigated Perry for the NWO thing, and I will happily put it in the newsletter.
November 27 at 9:31am · Like
TBone Taylor give me the proof he isnt. he attended the Bilderberg group did he not? Enough said. He was once a Dem, a global warming fanatic, an Al Gore solider was he not? Have I voted? why yes in the straw poll thus far and i have ade me choice and i will stand firm on my convictions. I do however respect others to vote for their choice.November 27 at 9:37am · Like
Aja Brooks No, he was a speaker at one conference. Even the links I found have not proven anything, except a few questionable donations, nothing that link him substantially to Big Pharma and super food conspiracies. No, the Al Gore thing was for lack of better party nominee, before Gore got really nuts..... it was after that when Gore got on the global warming kick because he didn't get voted as President, he lobbied for global warming like a cult for a Nobel Prize, and his research still neglected the basic tenets of chemistry regarding kinetic energy and overpopulation, which are the causes, and global warming just a factor in the whole schematic. Straw poll, small poll.... no one has voted in the primary is what I meant, but respect the fact that I think Ron Paul, while smart philosophically is just like the common loon on his worst day. While I can appreciate you supporting him for civil liberties, I disagree with you that he has the best foreign policy stance, or that he is even the best nominee for President.
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@GovernorPerry I have reported the complaint of Ms. Charron, and I will follow up with you
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@GovernorPerry You will resolve this complaint by Ms. Charron, or I will report it appropriately.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry the child may be drugged or abused/she does have the far away look in her eyes and definitely not happy pic.twitter.com/xV1NauJ
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry unless the child was roaming naked in the grandparents' yard and Grandma Liar whapped a wasp, this is not that whatsoever.
27 Nov
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@GovernorPerry 'wasp bite' looks oddly like belt whelp to me, which is improper punishment for a child her age or a nail mark from wriggling
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry Charron evidence from abuse of her daughter being marked/complaining the stepdad hits her in the head pic.twitter.com/Bvfk9Ks
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry you know that Charron can sue the state of Texas for violating Habeas corpus and CPS has to prove and pay up for arrest move.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry I question the integrity of Judge Pat Sheldon being able to rule on all the evidence available to him, including the Rx drugs
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry you/Charron last Nov. 2010, do you want to tell me why CPS is a Nazi regime parading as a govt. entity? pic.twitter.com/TZYsJqc
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry CPS alleges that Charron threatened you, and that you required extra security. Who the hell are those people???
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry only CPS and the mother said Charron needed Haldrol and CPS Doc. Coordinator said no, she did not need that.
27 Nov
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@GovernorPerry the root cause of biploar disorder, is dopamine deficiency, the same caused by PTSD, easily remedied by $5 Spirulina Wal-mart
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry Charron alleges she has no history of violent behavior: 50% misdiagnoses on psychiatric issues, because they treat symptoms
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry CPS told her rights terminated for she would not take Haldrol/she had deadly reaction to-CPS not doctors pic.twitter.com/imd1Wxg
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry a lie detector test administered to the doctor who overprescribed would determine that/if if fact he overprescribed #Charron
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry this woman Charron alleges that her stepdad is perverted and violent: he may have abused her and her daughter #investigate
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry court records indicate Charron found competent and cleared of neglect but CPS did not release custody pic.twitter.com/YIjNcLH
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry for nurse to call Charron's mother, not emergency contact, is a breach of Patient Confidentiality&slander to allege insanity
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry I was told recently by a woman that her daughter had a mysterious rash on her neck, that may be something new that's viral.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry I would also audit CPS: if they lack that much training or can not present evidence of child harm, cut their funding now.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry you should look into this, you are still Governor, and though she may not have filed a complaint, I am complaining to you now
27 Nov
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
@GovernorPerry Did Amy Charron ever file a complaint with the Governor's Office in Texas about her committal/malpractice with doctors???
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry she was not permitted to show her home or testify in her defense of the environment that she provided for her child #Charron
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry she also alleges that 2-8-11 that Wells Fargo did an illegal foreclosure on her home, youtube.com/watch?v=WrDcUY…
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry a urine screen Charron took had heavy metals, arsenic, mercury and aluminum, which could have been fillers in Rx drugs.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry When Charron discovered BOXES of Zyprexa wherein, she was being poisoned, she took her child and left.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry this is a matter of Ethics, that Ron Paul could have a field day with you upon as a doctor. Are these 2 doctors disbarred?
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry only someone using large quantities of meth by injection, may require Halddrol injection w/o any meth pic.twitter.com/nvZsxLr
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry after her stepdad and Dr. Rosendberg nearly poisoned her to death, they wrote Rx for Haldrol injection, to order committal.
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry Amy Charron alleges that she thought she was dying, between her stepdad and Rosenberg, she took enough meds for an elephant!!
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry now you have an issue: a 2nd doctor was also sequestered to add Zyprexa on top of the other Rx's pic.twitter.com/SuEjAKT
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40mil Illegals living high on the hog coutesy of BHO & sending 67 Bil American Tax Dollars back to their country annually. And we are broke.
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@GovernorPerry list of the meds. she alleges the stepdad wrote in her name, for her/he should have no medical license pic.twitter.com/0nln3PB
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry would you care to explain that you can disprove that she wasn't overprescribed-even given an antibiotic used to kill anthrax?
27 Nov
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@GovernorPerry She alleges in her Youtube doc. that her stepfather drugged her, as an Oral Surgeon, he wrote many Rx's pic.twitter.com/iFFOJZR
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@GovernorPerry do you want to talk about it? facebook.com/amyandmarkelch… She's blaming you, as Governor, for an order her parents got to commit her
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@GovernorPerry this lady Amy Charron, sounds like she's definitely from Hollywood, CA is sending her drones to my Facebook to dis you.
27 Nov
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ON OBAMA IMPEACHMENT PROGRESS:
TEA PARTY CHIEF PETITIONS FBI TO CHARGE OBAMA WITH MISAPPROPRIATION OVER VIOLATING ETHICS STANDARDS OF FUNDRAISING IN OFFICE OVER REZKO SENTENCING: @FBIPressOffice $ won't save Obama violating ethics to fundraise-we have Rezko sentenced-CHARGE misappropriation #NOW pic.twitter.com/DeWnNiV
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Aja Brooks THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DICTATOR: Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama announced that the current Administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. However, unless Congress repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, it remains federal law, enforceable by the courts.
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Aja Brooks Oh and Karzai 'pardons' rape victim if she goes through with marrying her rapist, whose child she had in prison, being charged with 'crime out of wedlock' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/hamid-karzai-afghanistan_n_1123656.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl15%7Csec1_lnk1%7C117100
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative. Karzai's office said in a statement that the woman and her attacker have agreed to marry.VIDEO: #Schweizer: Congressional Insider Trading Ban Now Has 127 Sponsors: goo.gl/gl21X #STOCKAct #TTAO #TCOT #Congress #Insider.@SpeakerBoehner presses @whitehouse to approve Keystone Pipeline wapo.st/v37SMr #4jobs via @washingtonpostRetweeted by 2011teaparty
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Tune into PBS Nightly Business Report at 5:30p.m.CT/6:30ET to hear me talk about #MFGlobal, Corzine, and regulations.pic.twitter.com/dB5wJ7aORetweeted by cholorecords
SO MUCH FOR GREEN JOBS.....
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Virginia Man Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Conceal Pakistan Government Funding for His U.S. Lobbying Efforts: ...1.usa.gov/t56jON #FBIRetweeted by 2011teapartyFormer Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Corruption in Office: — Chicago 1.usa.gov/vpLiqs #FBINobody Comes Out Looking Good in Solyndra Mess: bit.ly/vVTMB2Sen. Bob Corker: Reforming Fannie and Freddie long overdue fb.me/197YdqfEHRetweeted by 2011teaparty- DEMOCRATS CAN NOT OVERCOME UNEMPLOYMENT STAYING AT 9%, WITH SOME STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA AND HARD HIT GEORGIA COUNTIES HAVING MARKED DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT, SOME AS HIGH AS 15%,
- AND DEMOCRATS CAN NOT JUSTIFY THEIR “CONTINUING RESOLUTION” WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUDGET WHILE PREACHING PEACE WITH NO PLANS ON HOW TO GEAR TO A PEACE-TIME ECONOMY, LOBBYING CHASE FOR 100,000 JOBS FOR THE 1.5 MILLION JOBLESS VETERANS TO BE INJECTED BACK INTO THE WORK FORCE OVER THE NEXT YEAR:
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Obama "Recovery": unemployment rate "falls"--because work force shrinks.http://t.co/IA9H1hn
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@RexandCarolyn @SoupCanKiller @vannschaffner @republicansNJ @michaelemlong @RightWingNews $2.5 TRILLION REVENUE REVIEW:http://t.co/7kexotu
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wow twitter froze on that one <crickets>
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8.6% a temporary holiday swing-we still have double digit unemployment in GA counties and California and longstanding unemployment/poverty
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TEA PARTY CHIEF OVERJOYED AT THE RESIGNATION OF BARNEY FRANK:
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, SARKOZY, GIVES A WAVE OF THE HAND OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TOWARD OBAMA... WHICH WE WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH FRANCE UNTIL THIS ENDORSEMENT, FEELING ALMOST AS BETRAYED AS WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT A NUKE WAS SOLD TO SADDAM THAT HAD MADE IN FRANCE SCRATCHED OFF THE SIDE OF IT, THAT SADDAM FINANCED FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN, PRIOR TO 9/11:
7 December 2011
RIA-Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20111206/169397626.html
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A World Without the Euro
Filed under: economy,EU,politics — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: Angela Merkel, Euro, European Central Bank, European Union, Eurozone, Nicolas Sarkozy
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The EU summit scheduled for 9 December will be judgment day for the Euro Zone. Dark clouds are gathering over united Europe. After their bilateral meeting, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy called for “structural changes” in the Euro Zone and a new treaty… the contents of which remain a mystery. A little earlier Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti acknowledged that his country would follow in the wake of Greece without a package of anti-crisis measures. Meanwhile, experts are debating what the world will look like after the Euro.H-Hour for the Euro
The Euro Zone’s debt problems have become a Gordian knot that EU officials are unable to disentangle. EU leaders prefer simply to cut it. Apparently, at the 9 December summit in Brussels, they’ll agree that the majority of EU members would switch back to their national currencies before the New Year. Only Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands will keep the Euro for a transitional period that will tentatively last for three years. The timing of this fateful decision was well thought out… economic and political life in Europe slows to a crawl around Christmas and the New Year. This lull’s the best time for switching back to old currencies and fixing their exchange rates. Panic wasn’t avoided… the leaks after the Merkel-Sarkozy meeting on 5 December caused explosions on stock and currency markets. If the panic continues, the Old World’s economy will grind to a halt.
The Euro We Lost
To stop the Euro’s slump and the dollar’s growth, trade on currency markets is being suspended and the main exchanges in America, Europe, and Asia are being shut down. The holders of Euros and Euro-denominated securities are doing all they can to get rid of their dangerous assets. The rates of national currencies and the future of the Euro in the countries that will keep it remain unknown. The panic may result in a run on banks in the Euro Zone, causing the baking system to collapse. According to leaks in the Western media, Euro Zone authorities are prepared to freeze all accounts until January 2012.Experts are all but convinced that Christmas in Europe will be marked by massive riots and protests. However, this isn’t the only problem, or even the main one. Some companies have signed deals in Euros and it is unclear what they should do now, especially if these deals are slated for next year. Many experts are surprised that EU officials are in such a rush. Converting deals to national currencies will require a great deal of time and money. Nevertheless, there’s no money, and it’ll take several years to fix currency rates. The economy simply won’t function throughout this period unless a reliable currency appears. The only candidate is the US Dollar. Only the US Federal Reserve will be able to stop this emerging economic collapse by selling huge amounts of dollars.The Euro That Wasn’t Needed
What was described above is not reality, but one of the possible scenarios. This dystopian vision was meant to show how seriously sick Europe is. At the same time, this scenario may still come to pass. Neither officials nor experts are unanimous on what to do with the knot of European problems. Should they disentangle or cut it? Which is the lesser disaster… abolishing the Euro or keeping it? Some experts believe that the losses from abolishing the Euro will be modest, all the more so since the introduction of the common currency hasn’t been very beneficial for the Euro Zone economies.Igor Nikolayev, FBK strategic analysis director, said, “Our analysis of macroeconomic indicators shows that the introduction of the euro hasn’t produced any gains. No tangible increase or decrease in the GDP or industrial production has been registered. What is there to regret then?” Some economists think that the introduction of the euro couldn’t have produced any gains because its main economic goal was to redistribute financial flows in favour of French and German banks and enhance the market positions of German exporters. Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements (IGSO), explained, “Europe’s deindustrialisation took place not under Chinese pressure, but due to the concentration of almost all industrial production in Germany. Less effective industrial zones proved unable not only to compete with it, but even to modernise themselves for future competition”. He believed that a systemic economic overhaul requires domestic currency and monetary systems and room for flexibility in how countries manage their budgets. Having a common currency makes this impossible.The Euro that was Imposed on Some Countries
Peripheral EU countries like Greece have found themselves in a trap. An expensive currency (the Euro) is making it hard for them to compete with the developing economies of China and India. Nor can they compete with Germany because of the gap in industrial potential. Kagarlitsky’s convinced that a “smooth transition” from the Euro to national currencies would benefit all problematic Euro Zone countries. Abolishing the Euro would cause difficulties in the financial systems of Germany and France and slow down their economic growth, but revive other economies that have no opportunities to grow inside the Euro Zone. However, all experts polled by RIA-Novosti agree that a “smooth transition” is absolutely impossible.First, the countries concerned would have to destroy the economic contacts they amassed over the past 15 years… numerous Euro-denominated debt obligations, shares of European companies, and contracts. Yuri Danilov, director of the Stock Market Development Centre, believed, “The European countries will be simply unable to deal with the Euro-denominated arrangements they have made over almost 15 years”. Abolishing the common currency may aggravate Euro Zone debts. Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Centre of Post-Industrial Studies, explained, “The collapse of the Euro would cause extreme mistrust in all European currencies and make it much more difficult to sell any debt securities. European companies would find it harder to borrow money”. Mistrust of sovereign European currencies would paralyse the economies of the countries concerned or compel them to look for a currency replacement, for instance, the US Dollar. Nikolayev from FBK thought that the global economy’s teetering on the brink of crisis and that abolishing the Euro would inevitably push the world into a new abyss.The Euro that’s still Needed
Danilov attributes talk of the Euro’s early death to the imprecise interpretation of the term “the disintegration of the Euro Zone”. He explained, “The EU interprets ‘the disintegration of the Euro Zone’ as the withdrawal of one, two, or, at worst, four countries. These scenarios don’t involve the Euro’s disappearance as currency”. If the Euro Zone splits and the currencies of its “outcasts” are inevitably devalued, their industries may receive certain competitive advantages. At the same time, their budget problems would worsen and the threat of social and political destabilisation will become more pronounced. The Euro will shoot up, which, Inozemtsev maintained, would reduce the competitiveness of the countries operating with it.Many experts maintain that the Euro Zone countries can avoid economic disaster only through collective action. Inozemtsev offered the following way out, “The only solution is for the European Central Bank to purchase securities from Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal, which must be cleared in the next three years. This would cost 1.2 to 1.3 trillion Euros (50 to 54.2 trillion Roubles. 1.6 to 1.75 trillion USD. 1.03 to 1.11 trillion UK Pounds). If the ECB prints banknotes to redeem these securities, all the problems of European banks would be resolved and the mechanism of inflation put into action”. Inflation’s inevitable… it would stir up the European economy and devalue debt securities to the point that governments will find it very easy to pay them off at their nominal cost in about a decade. However, experts acknowledged that if the economic problems of the south go unresolved, the crisis is bound to make another round…7 December 2011
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RIA-Novosti
HOW OBAMA COMMITTED VOTER FRAUD, OTHER THAN BY LACK OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE WHICH HE COULD NOT PRODUCE BY SUBPOENA ON 8-8-11:
The prospect that an estimated 150 signatures may have been forged on petitions has raised the question of whether President Obama actually reached the legitimate number of signatures needed to be placed on the ballot in Indiana. Under state law, presidential candidates need to file 500 signatures from each of the state's nine congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704. The certified signatures were never challenged.
They probably all came from Lake County! Lots of dirty union 'goons' in Lake County...right next to dirty Chicago!
GO GET EM!
IMPEACHMENT, THE 'ORIGINAL' KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR THE USE OF A FAKE SS#...IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME AND NOW IS THE TIME!
STATES PRESSING THE BIRTH ISSUE FOR 2012 AND BEYOND; GOD BLESS THEM!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
IS SHERIFF ARPAIO (AZ) FINALLY GETTING TO THE TRUTH…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oLIUT16ko0
Social Security Number Significance
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.h...
Holder raises the threshold for black voter intimidation of whites....http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/holde...
Civil Rights Division Attorney Talks: Time to Remove Holder from Office
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/civil...
....and the LEFT complains about the "poll tax" from a century ago!
($26 FOR A BIRTH CERTIFICATE THAT REP. BARBARA LEE CALLS A POLL TAX FOR THE NEW VOTER ID REGISTRATION LAWS THAT WOULD’VE PREVENTED THE 2008 FRAUD THAT COUNTED VOTES FROM DEAD PEOPLE AND MICKEY MOUSE VOTING FOR OBAMA...)
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Rep. Lee: dead&mickey mouse voted 4Obama
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Aja Brooks How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008, wherein the corrupt DNC made a mockery of 'democracy'.9 hours ago · Like
Democrats: 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee I am not upset that HHS decided NOT to sell Plan B: it's very dangerous to self-induce egg expulsion from the body. #relieved49 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee there are many things considered emmenagogues, which can act as abortifacients, if you have studied such.48 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee I watched you on CSPAN today: Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S46 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008 pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S45 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S wherein the corrupt DNC made a mockery of 'democracy'.45 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee are you racist?? I mean really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!!45 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete8 hours ago · Like
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@BarackObama Rep. Lee must be racist: really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!!@NancyPelosi Rep. Lee must be racist: really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!!
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@BarackObama How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S@NancyPelosi How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S@BarackObama HELLO?! Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3Spic.twitter.com/6DCrvZS@NancyPelosi HELLO?! Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3Spic.twitter.com/ipTetCh@NancyPelosi there are many things considered emmenagogues, which can act as abortifacients, if you have studied such.
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@NancyPelosi I am not upset that HHS decided NOT to sell Plan B: it's very dangerous to self-induce egg expulsion from the body. #relieved
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@NancyPelosi facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008
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@NancyPelosi refreshing to see you've released the monkeys and how we have racist blacks&Rep. Lee protest voter ID lawspic.twitter.com/OuvmU0N
No Representation without Taxation - Occupy the Media, etc,http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/no_represe...
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Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence' | Fox News foxnews.com/politics/2011/… via@foxnewspoliticsThis declaration by Obama is a slap in the face to Fort Hood victims. America has no Commander in Chief! The proof: tinyurl.com/6qhy4qxRetweeted by 2011teapartyHouse of Representatives - POLITICS
Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence'
Published December 07, 2011
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Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
- April 9, 2010: FILE - This file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows U.S. Major Nidal Hasan at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. Hasan was charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage.
Thirteen people were killed and dozens more wounded at Fort Hood in 2009, and the number of alleged plots targeting the military has grown significantly since then. Lawmakers said there have been 33 plots against the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, and 70 percent of those threats have been since mid-2009. Major Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, who is being held for the attacks, allegedly was inspired by radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in late September. The two men exchanged as many as 20 emails, according to U.S. officials, and Awlaki declared Hasan a hero.
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the military has become a "direct target of violent Islamist extremism" within the United States.
"The stark reality is that the American service member is increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting," Lieberman told Fox News before the start of Wednesday's hearing.
In June, two men allegedly plotted to attack a Seattle, Wash., military installation using guns and grenades. In July, Army Pvt. Naser Abdo was accused of planning a second attack on Fort Hood. And in November, New York police arrested Jose Pimentel, who alleged sought to kill service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both Pimentel and Abdo also allegedly drew inspiration from al-Awlaki and the online jihadist magazine Inspire, which includes a spread on how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
Rep. Peter King of New York, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said military service members are "symbols of America's power, symbols of America's might."
"And if they (military personnel) can be killed, then that is a great propaganda victory for al Qaeda," King told Fox News.
King said there is also evidence that extremists have joined the services.
"There is a serious threat within the military from people who have enlisted who are radical jihadists," King said. "The Defense Department is very concerned about them. They feel they're a threat to the military both for what they can do within the military itself and also because of the weapons skills they acquire while they're in the military."
The witnesses testifying before the joint session include Paul N. Stockton, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense; Jim Stuteville, U.S. Army senior adviser for counterintelligence operations and liaison to the FBI; Lt. Col. Reid L. Sawyer, director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and Darius Long, whose son, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, was shot and killed at an Arkansas military recruitment center in 2009.
A second private was also injured in the Arkansas attack. Both victims had just finished basic training and had not been deployed. They were outside the Arkansas recruitment center when the shooter opened fire from a passing truck. The shooter, Carlos Bledsoe, pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this year.
In a letter to the court, Bledsoe said he carried out the attack on behalf of al Qaeda in Yemen -- the group that was behind the last two major plots targeting the U.S. airline industry.
"My faith in government is diminished. It invents euphemisms ... Little Rock is a drive by and Fort Hood is just workplace violence. The truth is denied," Long testified.
King said the web is the driver of the new digital jihad.
"It enables people -- rather than having to travel to Afghanistan to learn about jihad or to be trained, they can do it right over the Internet," he said. "And this is a growing role."
And while Awlaki and his colleague Samir Khan, who was behind the magazine Inspire, were killed in a CIA-led operation in September, King warned against overconfidence that al Qaeda in Yemen was done.
"This is a definite short-term victory for us. There's no doubt they are going to regroup, that there will be others who will be providing Internet data, inspiration to jihadists in this country, instructions on how to make bombs," he said.
While King was heavily criticized, in some quarters, for launching his hearings 10 months ago on homegrown terrorism, the congressman said the joint session shows the threat is legitimate, and recognized as such by other members of Congress.
"To me it's a validation of what I've been trying to do all year," King emphasized. "There's a definite threat from Islamic radicalization in various parts of our society, including within the military, and we can't allow political correctness to keep us from exposing this threat for what it is."
Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.
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FILE THIS UNDER “I LIKE RON PAUL, I JUST DON’T THINK HE IS EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES LIKE THIS... THE INTERNAL ONES AND THE DIPLOMACY REQUIRED IN DEALING WITH THOSE NOT DOMESTIC”
Aja Brooks
Ron Paul needs to tell his followers, I must decrease while Jesus must increase.
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TBone Taylor really? Another unfair accusation. C'mon Aja Brooksyou know you dont know what or how people worship nor should you judge.
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Aja Brooks Really? I am not to judge those who are outside the church, but many Christians profess to follow Paul, when they should be following Jesus.7 minutes ago · Like
Aja Brooks Another thing: for you to toss out the Matt. 7:1 is taking out of context the entire Bible. Do you neglect the other verses that discuss Christian accountability? Such as: New Living Translation (©2007) 1 Cor. 5:12It isn't my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. Mark 4:11 He told them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables1 Corinthians 5:3 Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.1 Corinthians 6:1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints?TBone Taylor if you're going to try and quote Scripture to me like the devil tried to quote it to Jesus when he tempted him, at least get the verse and the context correct.2 seconds ago · Like
OH AND DON’T FORGET THAT DISSOLVING THE FED DOESN’T RESOLVE OUR CREDIT RATING:
RepPaulRyan Paul Ryan
It’s not news that Washington’s budget process is broken. But the House Budget Cmte is doing something to fix it: ow.ly/7REHh.@RepRibble and I have an op-ed in@WaukeshaFreeman on what we’re doing to fix Washington’s broken budget process:ow.ly/7REu4
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief
SO I SUPPOSE BELOW ARE THE DETAILED REASONS AS TO WHY PAUL RYAN HONORED THE GROVER NORQUIST PLEDGE AND VOTED AGAINST THE CURRENT BBA LANGUAGE THE OTHER DAY...
Budget Process Reform
Repairing Washington’s Broken Budget ProcessA Comprehensive Approach to Strengthen Spending Controls, Enhance Accountability, and Increase Transparency in the Federal Budget Process- The federal budget process is broken; Washington stumbles from budget crisis to budget crisis, with little to no oversight of how government spends hardworking taxpayers’ money.
- The incentives currently favor those who seek to increase government spending, and the result is a crushing burden of debt that is hurting economic growth today and threatening economic prosperity tomorrow.
- The legislative action items detailed in this report would help lawmakers confront this crisis by:
- Creating new tools to cut wasteful spending while strengthening caps on borrowing and spending;
- Enhancing oversight while curbing practices that assume automatic spending increases; and
- Increasing transparency by forcing government to account more fully for all taxpayer liabilities.
- Spending Control
- 1. The Legally Binding Budget Act
- Gives the budget the force of law by converting it from a concurrent to a joint resolution, which requires the President’s signature. Upon a presidential veto, the joint resolution automatically reverts to a concurrent resolution.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee
- 2. The Spending Control Act
- Establishes binding limitations on federal spending and deficits – all enforced by a sequester of no more than 4 percent of programs – within each category if the program is growing faster than inflation.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. John Campbell of California
- 3. The Expedited Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act
- Provides for the expedited consideration by Congress of specific requests by the President to reduce discretionary spending in appropriations legislation.
- Legislative text proposed by Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
- Enhanced Oversight
- 4. The Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act
- Establishes a biennial budgeting cycle where Congress adopts a budget resolution in the first session of Congress (i.e., odd-numbered years) and considers authorization legislation in the second session, providing greater opportunities for review of government spending.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin
- 5. The Baseline Reform Act
- Reforms the budget “baseline” to remove automatic inflation increases in discretionary accounts, and to require a comparison to the previous year’s spending levels.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Rob Woodall of Georgia
- 6. The Government Shutdown Prevention Act
- If Congress fails to enact appropriations bills by the beginning of the fiscal year (Oct. 1), provides automatic authority to fund programs at a slightly reduced rate from the previous year’s level.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma
- 7. The Review Every Dollar Act
- Requires periodic sunset reviews and reauthorization of all federal programs to ensure the programs perform an appropriate role, and are operating effectively.
- Requires all transfers from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund to be offset or counted as new spending.
- Removes all direct spending provisions from Pell Grants and moves all funding to the discretionary spending category.
- Requires any new rule or regulation promulgated by the administration that includes new spending to be explicitly funded by Congress before such regulations take effect.
- Provides a mechanism through which Members can devote savings from spending bills to deficit reduction.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah
- Full Transparency
- 8. The Balancing our Obligations for the Long Term Act
- Caps total spending over the long term to reduce the burden of government to no more than 20 percent of the economy by gradually reducing spending.
- Requires Congress to review long-term budget trends every five years and provides a fast-track legislative process to put federal spending on a sustainable path.
- Authorizes reconciliation of long-term savings (beyond the current limit of the budget resolution’s typical 10-year window, up to 75 years) in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Requires CBO long-term estimates beyond the 10-year window. - Requires the President’s budget to extend beyond the 10-year window.
- Strengthens the statutory requirement directing the President to submit legislation to save Medicare if the general fund subsidy to the program exceeds 45 percent of the program’s costs.
- Requires GAO and OMB to report annually on the federal government’s unfunded obligations.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina
- 9. The Budget and Accounting Transparency Act
- Reforms the Credit Reform Act to incorporate Fair Value accounting principles.
- Recognizes the budgetary impact of the GSEs by formally bringing the entities on-budget.
- Brings the Postal Service on-budget.
- Requires a CBO & OMB study on offsetting receipts/collections/revenues.
- Requires all federal agencies make public the budgetary justification materials prepared in support of their requests for taxpayer dollars.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey
- 10. The Pro-Growth Budgeting Act
- Requires CBO to provide an assessment of the macroeconomic impact of major legislation.
- Legislative text proposed by Rep. Tom Price of Georgia
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE REVIEW - OBAMA WASTE TRACKER TAB https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq5m9QEGEZpOdDE0R0o1YmFJRDdyVkFIcVE0dkthUXc&hl=en_US#gid=0
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE REVIEW: http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
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Gaddafi money Obama intercepted, Solyndra, Fannie&Freddie, and MF Global his waste tab $442,764,300,000 http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO AL QAEDA. NORTH KOREA IS DEVELOPING IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
ANOTHER NO-NO 
HEALTH CARE REFORM RESIGNATION AND ENTITLEMENT REFORM APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2012, effective 1/1/12:
Regarding the current reconciliation H.R. 4872, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U318AW5XYBjzgEhPvvcW59RUHdSehnOVdGiquZyxj6Q/edit?hl=en_US current health care reform could not be passed as reconciled, nor upheld, or implemented as written, and was declared dead legislation: http://chiefbrooks.blogspot.com/
When using the budgetary process of reconciliation, as President, one must have a Senate approved budget. The Senate has been controlled by Democrats since 2006, the debt ceiling has been raised twice since then, and no reconciliation tool can be used when the federal government is operating on a continuing resolution, for the Democrats’ failure to approve a budget for three years.
H.R. 4872 is dead legislation, because there is no money to enact the funded provisions in a $15 trillion dollar deficit, and for the fact that it is outside the scope of constitutional government, in first providing for the common defense.
Colin Powell argued fiercely yesterday that the Tea Party was to blame; however, the Tea Party has found enough cuts and compromised twice, (not whatsoever, as he alleges), to find cuts to continue funding the government and put defense first in priority for operations through 12-16-11.
H.R. 4872, in its summation and appropriation, did not provide anyone with health insurance; it sequestered funding for unconstitutional use of taxpayer dollars: expansion of prisons/use of psychotropic drugs and mandating tax dollars be used to mass-fund abortions.
As anyone knows: spending money on abortions and psychotropic drugs tries to fix societal problems without the proper glue: therefore, there is no money to spend on reducing premiums and managing health care costs through: wellness exams, preventative cancer screenings, and structured surgery cost differential.
Both of these provisions, abortions and prison expansions/psychotropics are misappropriation: citing the 10th Amendment, the Georgia Patients’ Bill of Rights, the Commerce Clause, and moral objections to legislating morality. There is not only an effective moral argument against implementing the legislation, but a glaring lack of finance.
The power of rightful citizenship is to wield the power of the pen, rather than the sword, for the general good of all and is something President Obama does not possess:he has exploited our legal system, has no authentic record of Hawaiian birth, as he eludes being charged with Social Security fraud and election fraud for dead people and Mickey Mouse voting for him in 2008.
While impeachment drags on, all of Obama’s felonious actions negate anything he has signed into law during this term, for committing perjury: violating Oath of Office, taking in fraudulent campaign donations through convicted Chief Fundraiser Tony Rezko, (who was just sentenced to 10 years in prison), and these donations add up to too many felonies that I have not the time to mention here and various crimes against the public that have warranted the usage of such words as treason and treachery.
H.R. 4872 does not do what it was designed to do, which is, control population growth ethically and responsibly: those who are innocent children conceived face a federally-funded fully-revolving door of the carcass harvesting machine, being sold for scrap parts and stem cell research, now proven ineffective by means of adult stem cells regenerating the heart of the original genetic donor.Like marrow, stem cells only prove compatible for organ regeneration, so abortion and stem cell research do not require massive government funding, nor do we need to imitate the abortion policies of China, when this science is proven to be limited to those endeavors.
Unethical legislation should not be funded in favor of offering government funded sterilization after the third child, as an option, instead of abortion, which desecrates a woman’s temple!
In conjunction with responsible population control and finance, states were initiated through local courts to uphold these measures of entitlement reform, rather than absorb federal misappropriation:
The State Welfare and Child Support Enforcement Comprehensive Reform Act of 2011-2012
We also ask that every local state department audit their records of distribution of federal funds through food stamp allotments, welfare, and health care.
Taxpayers do not have to fund human farms: in which a mother is being used as a breeder for gang activity. These are known as “den mothers”, a transient residence for a man who has a child or children with the mother, as he floats from woman to woman. A den mother creates a haven or houses gang members, as the mother of a gang leader’s children, or she changes gangs and permits a rival gang to live in her home. This creates a very hostile and routinely upsetting environment for children to live in on a daily basis: children are starved, beaten, and neglected for the financial supremacy goal the gang tries to achieve.
A recent welfare fraud case involved a woman who had four different names for kids, but claimed 11 on her IRS forms and various local offices to suck tons of money from the system http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/l/judith_leekin/index.html
Given the need to curtail gang activity, and men who propagate children for this purpose who leave the mothers to care for the children solely and stick society with their tab, it is necessary that state DFACS and IRS agents coordinate their investigations for tax fraud. Any family over the 3-child-claim rule should be flagged and monitored for extra scrutiny if they are receiving aid of any kind!!!
Resultant to these inquiries and investigations, states may enact a cut off: to prevent misappropriation and abuse of taxpayers dollars, by refusing to fund aid to families not adhering to the 3-child rule; those who are contributing to broken homes, adoption mills, and pedophile farming and grooming.
States will be assisting the IRS with reports of suspected fraud, and neglect or abuse of children to DFACS, for the violation of policies involved with distributing state aid. Agencies who do not comply will be reported to the appropriate federal authority, and that local office’s funding will be reduced or eliminated.
Taxpayers don’t pay for your computer, transportation, and telephone for you to sit at a desk and ignore the tasks at hand in their communities!!!
Remember: what DFACS and IRS fails to catch then becomes collateral damage on our courts and taxpayer dollars!! The system must function lawfully and ethically, or its various departments are subject to budget cuts and disbanding, like any organization.
Jimmy Norman
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- Aja Brooks THANKS, I will compare it and contrast it in the next newsletter to the other report card we already graded nominees on:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kzUO3DImTWtyUCY8_ij0uZfyzd676hy2ZjUyhlcWnIo/edit?hl=en_US
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A Constitutional Report Card for the CBS\National Journal Republican Party Presidential Debate 11/12/2011
by Douglas W. Phillips, Esq., November 28, 2011
Articles in this series:
* A downloadable PDF of this report card is available here
(full report is also below).
BACKGROUND: On November 12, 2011, the eight leading Republican candidates took the stage in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for a Republican primary debate focusing on foreign policy and national security, and the overall role of the President. The purpose of this document is to provide a report card that will help Christian families evaluate the statements made by the candidates during that debate from a constitutional perspective. This report card is limited in its scope in that it only addresses issues specifically on the table during the November 12 debate. The scores are based on the actual statements made by the candidates during that debate. Candidates’ comments are taken at face value and evaluated without regard to their past statements or policy records, unless the candidates or those posing the questions specifically addressed the past statements and previous policy record of the candidate. Nothing in this report card should be construed as advocacy for a specific presidential candidate.
This report card is intended to score each of the eight candidates, on the basis of their own answers, on whether or not their proposals, as stated, are in keeping with their potential duty to uphold and defend the United States Constitution.
*Each candidate is scored on the basis of his or her answers in this debate alone. To score an (A) the candidates only need to provide an answer that will not in some way violate the United States Constitution.
I. Nuclear Arms
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.
Question #1: This week, a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency provided additional credible evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. If you were president right now, what would you do specifically that this administration is not doing to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that it was important for Americans to know that the people of Iran are not the enemy, but the regime in Iran is the enemy. He said that he was opposed to the use of military force in Iran, but he would approach the issues in two ways. First he would support the opposition in Iran and second he would place economic pressure on Iran by striving for energy independence. This would also include calling on America’s allies to place economic sanctions on Iran. He also said that he would deploy America’s ballistic missile defense capable warships to that part of the world.Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: It is uncertain what type of intervention Mr. Cain would employ to support the opposition party in Iran. If the support came in the form of arm sales, sharing intelligence data, or a declaration of support in the international community, the activity could be constitutional. However, if the support came in the way of monetary aid, supplying military provisions, or troop deployment, the activity would be unconstitutional.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Governor Romney criticized President Barrack Obama for understanding the threat posed by Iran and doing nothing to prevent that threat. He said that the President should have publically supported the opposition when they took to the street. Second, the President should have placed crippling sanctions on Iran. Finally, Mr. Romney said the President should have made a credible threat of military action if they did not stand down on their nuclear program. Mr. Romney warned that if President Obama were elected to another term Iran will have nuclear weapons, but if he (Mr. Romney) were elected president, Iran would not have nuclear weapons.
Mr. Romney said that he would accomplish this by placing crippling sanctions on Iran, he would work with the opposition to encourage a regime change, and, if all else fails, he would take military action to prevent Iran from achieving its nuclear goals. He said that a Nuclear Iran is simply unacceptable. “I will make sure that the sanctions; diplomatic pressure, economic pressure, and support of insurgents within the country help them become dissuaded to get away from their nuclear ambition. And finally... have military presence there.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The political and economic sanctions that Mr. Romney has mentioned are a constitutional exercise of the executive power. However, the former Governor fails to make a case for why the United States may engage in a preemptive war when the United States has not been harmed, and why the United States can justify allowing friends develop nuclear weapons, and forbidding enemies to develop them. Moreover, the President does not have the Constitutional authority to declare war.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich also criticized President Obama and said that both Mr. Cain and former Governor Romney’s answers were superior to the policy of President Obama. He said his approach would be to take out Iran’s scientists and break up their system all in a way that would be both covert and deniable. Secondly, he would coordinate with the Israelis to place pressure on Iran. Third, he said that he would use Cold War tactics like those used against the former Soviet Union, engaging in all means possible short of war to bring the regime down. Finally, Mr. Gingrich said if all else failed he would “take whatever steps necessary to break [Iran’s] capacity to have nuclear weapons.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The means that Mr. Gingrich is advocating is unconstitutional and immoral. He advocates an interventionist approach based on assassinations, espionage, and lies. This is a foreign policy of murder and deceit. The United States has the capacity to keep Americans safe without engaging in such interventions.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul pointed out that the Commander in Chief is not vested with the authority to engage in or declare wars. The President of the United Sates is required to get a declaration of war from Congress. He pointed to the war with Iraq as an example, in which America engaged in an undeclared war in the basis of a suspicion that proved to be unfounded. After 10 years of death and destruction America is 4 trillion dollars in debt. He said if you decide it is necessary to go to war, the president must go to Congress, determine if America’s national security is threatened, get a declaration for war, fight it, win it, and get it over with.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Ron Paul explains the constitutional position that the Congress is the only body vested with the authority to declare war and that wars must be based on a threat to national security, and not a form of foreign aid and nation building.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that one of the points that had not been raised was the fact that America has the ability to sanction the Iranian Central Bank immediately, which would shut down the nation’s economy. He said the American people needed to stand up and force the President to make that stand immediately.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Economic sanctions are a constitutional means of exercising foreign policy, but this also would require an act of Congress.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he had been working on Iran for a long time. He said that Iran is the biggest issue with national security that will confront the United States in the next year. He said that he had proposed giving money to the rebel forces in Iran in 2004 to support a pro-democracy movement and to place tough sanctions. He explained that despite opposition by President Bush the legislation was passed, but has since been defunded by Presidents Bush and Obama. He said that providing support for the pro-democracy movement was not enough. Mr. Santorum suggested that the Untied States should work with Israel to take out the nuclear capability of Iran through military force.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Funding political movements in foreign nations are not only unconstitutional forms of forging aid, they are acts of aggression, which provide foreign nations with the justification to retaliate with force against the United States. Moreover, the support of a pro-democracy movement does not even reflect the constitutional ideals since the United States Constitution guarantees a republican form of government, and not a democratic one.
Question #8: If you eliminate the Department of Energy, what do you do with the nuclear weapons?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said there were plenty of departments within the government that could assume oversight of nuclear energy.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The fact that America does have numerous bureaucracies into whom the nuclear programs could be placed is in itself a problem. The Constitution calls for small, localized government, and the federal government has not been granted the authority to regulate energy throughout the states. There are other nuclear programs, such as those centered on defense that are legitimate functions of the federal government.
Question #17: U.S. forces are coming under attack daily now from the enemy crossing over the border from Pakistan. As president, as commander in chief, would you order U.S. forces into Pakistan to clear out those safe havens of the enemy?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that this would be a decision he would have to make with the commanders on the ground, intelligence sources, and after having discussions with the officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that for the Afghan President to say that they would side with Pakistan when American soldiers are dying over there for them was a real problem. He said it was important to tread lightly because Pakistan was one of nine nations that have nuclear weapons.
Mr. Cain criticized President Obama for committing to a troop surge, but then pulling them back prematurely. He said that victory was not clearly defined.
Constitutional Grade: C
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that Americans needed to understand that Pakistan is not a country like other countries. He said that it was close to being a failed state. He said that the nation had four centers of power that were to be found in the intelligence agencies, the military, the political leaders, and the fundamentalists. He said to commit troops to Pakistan in this type of environment would be highly incendiary. He alleged that the Pakistani government now is comfortable using our drones to pursue the biggest threats.
Moreover, Mr. Romney said he agreed with Mr. Perry that all foreign aid needed to start at zero. He said that with the various power bases, Pakistan needs to understand that they must allow the United States to go after terrorist networks, or go after them themselves to insure they will not destabilize Afghanistan.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: A decentralized or even a destabilized government does not provide the United States with adequate grounds to interfere with a foreign government. Moreover, collecting taxes from Americans and providing foreign aid is unconstitutional.
Question #18: “National Journal” and “The Atlantic” magazine reported that, for various reasons, some related to paranoia in Pakistan about what the United States might do, they are moving operational nuclear weapons in that country, unguarded, in trucks. If you were commander in chief, and intelligence came to you that one of those nuclear weapons was lost or possibly in the hands of terrorists, how would you respond?
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he would respond by working with the Pakistani government and hope that the military, and not the radical faction, were in control. He would work with the military and the secret service to help them recover those weapons. He said that he would possibly use human and non-human intelligence, and Special Forces to recover the nuclear weapon. He said that he would need more specific information to answer the question with more detail. One thing he wanted to make clear: he would not act without working with the Pakistanis in the region.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This is not a situation that requires or permits the United States to interfere.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich pointed out that one of the problems is that the United States does not have reliable or independent intelligence in places like Pakistan. America is forced to rely on their allies and friends in the region, who may or may not actually be friends. “We had better overhaul everything from rules of engagement to how we run the intelligence community, because we are in a very dangerous world.”
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Intelligence is not in and of itself unconstitutional if connected to a military, non-policing purpose. Moreover, the world has always been dangerous, but the United States has never been better equipped to protect itself from foreign attacks.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that General Gianni was running Pakistan, not the president of that nation. He said that he would call in a SEAL team to take charge and find the nuclear weapon. We would have no choice, Mr. Huntsman asserted.
Constitutional Grade: F
II. Foreign War
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A war or conflict occurring without an act from Congress is unconstitutional. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.
Question #2: What’s your appraisal of the combat situation on the ground in Afghanistan today and what would you change?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry asserted that the mission in Afghanistan must be completed, but to provide timetables for withdraw is inappropriate, irresponsible, and threatens the lives of our military personnel. He said that he had been in contact with the commanders in the field in Afghanistan and he believed that progress was being made there. Mr. Perry said the primary challenge was training up the Afghan security forces to a level that they can protect the citizenry and keep the terrorist from using Afghanistan and Pakistan as a staging point for their activities.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The war in Afghanistan is an unconstitutional war since it constitutes an undeclared act of war.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he would view a victory in Afghanistan to be accomplished if the Taliban has been disabled and they no longer pose a security threat to the United States.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Santorum asserts is not a reasonably objective one since the tragedy of 9/11 proved that anyone with the ability to fly an airplane could pose a security threat to the United States. By this standard, a declaration of war could be made against any nation, or in this case against any group of individuals on the basis of affiliation. Ironically enough this was the same type of standard that Rome used from time to time to justify the persecution of Christians.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann said that the 30,000-troop surge was a success, but criticized President Obama for hesitating and for sending only 30,000 troops instead of 40,000. She said the decision to withdraw troops by September 2012 was a fatal decision. She said that it would be more difficult to get our allies to work with us.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks:
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman suggested that the spikes in casualties in Afghanistan were caused by a lack of security in certain parts of the country. He said that he believed that America had achieved its objective and that it was time to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. He pointed out that in 2004 Afghanistan had free elections. Since that time Al Qaeda has been dismantled, the Taliban has been uprooted and Osama Bin Laden has been killed. He said the future of the nation was not in Afghanistan or Iraq. The former Governor said that Americans must face the new challenges in economics and education that will play out in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Huntsman said that he would leave a number of troops behind for nation building purposes. Enhanced Special Forces would remain in Afghanistan for the purpose of gathering intelligence and providing rapid response. He also said that he would commit to training an Afghan national army. “We are fighting an asymmetric threat, a counterterror threat. Not only there, but in Waziristan and every other corner of the world. And we need to prepare for that as a reality of our 21st Century foreign policy.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While he is committed to withdrawing troops, Mr. Huntsman is committed to leaving a contingent behind for nation building purposes. This is an unconstitutional use of the American military.
Question #3: Do you support a smaller footprint in Afghanistan? And secondarily, is it time or would it ever be time for the United States to negotiate with the Taliban?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that Afghanistan may decide how they will approach the terrorism, but it is America’s policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Mr. Romney said the most important thing was to secure the victory of our soldiers. He pointed out that commanders in Afghanistan are saying that they may see the justification of withdrawing 30,000 to 40,000 troops during the next year. He suggested that President Obama had set the goal of withdrawing the troops by September in anticipation of the next election. He criticized the President for making the decision to pull troops out in the middle of the fighting season. The former governor said that a December withdraw with a 2014 timetable is the right decision. He said that a small contingent of support forces would remain in Afghanistan.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would continue the war in Afghanistan and leave soldiers behind for nation building purposes. There is no constitutional justification for these kinds of activities.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich answered that he would not negotiate with terrorists. He continued by saying that the issue was deeper than anyone understood. The reason why the Taliban survive is because they have found sanctuary in Pakistan. He suggests that the Taliban would never be defeated as long as they can hide. Mr. Gingrich suggested the problem would persist unless we also expand the war into Pakistan and Iran.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only would Mr. Gingrich continue an unconstitutional war, he would expand the war efforts into two new fronts.
Question #4: In your judgment, is Pakistan a friend or foe?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain said that it was unclear at this point whether Pakistan is a friend or foe. He pointed out that there are many questions that need to be answered and America’s relationship with Pakistan needs to be re-evaluated. Mr. Cain said that, as president he would want to know what kind of commitments Pakistan is wiling to make to assure the United States of America that they are friendly. Specifically, he would want to see troop commitments from the Pakistani government, and if they are willing to come to a regional agreement with the United States.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This plan of action is predicated on the validity of nation building. If Pakistan desired to remain neutral and refused to commit troops or enter an agreement with the United States regarding the governing of their own region, it would be viewed as a threat. The United States cannot require another nation to commit troops to accomplish their own conquest of the region; nor may the United States require that Pakistan agree with the plans that the United State has for their own region. The Constitution does not allow for American Imperialism.
III. Foreign Aid
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the President is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. Power over the federal budget, expenditures, and debts are vested solely in the Congress of the United States. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations with social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.
Question #5: What is the proper role of the United States through foreign aid and other interventions?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said that the government was not in control of Pakistan, but that the military was in control. He said that the consideration of Pakistan is part of a deeper issue of foreign aid. He said that Pakistan was sending a clear message that they did not want our foreign aid, because they are not being honest with the United States and our soldiers’ lives are at risk as a result. He said that, as president, he would send a clear message to every other nation by starting at zero dollars in foreign aid. “Then we’ll have a conversation in this country about whether or not a penny of our taxpayer dollars needs to go into those countries.... and it’s time for us as a country to say no to foreign aid to countries that don’t support the United States of America.”
When later asked if his “zero aid” policy would include Israel, the Governor answer that it would. Every nation would start at zero. He said that because Israel is an ally his guess would be that we would fund them at a substantial level. He said that the same approach might be useful to determine the budget for federal agencies.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann disagreed with Governor Perry pointing out that Pakistan has a nuclear weapon and that terrorists are closer to that nuclear bomb than they are in any other nation. While she would reduce the amount of foreign aid given to many nations, she would not pull the foreign aid from Pakistan. She said that the next president needs to understand the intricacies involved with the Middle East. She warned that there are indicators that Iran and Pakistan appear to be staging a nuclear war with Israel. She concluded by criticizing President Obama for showing his support for Occupy Wall Street, but he has yet to show his support for Israel.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system, nor does the Constitution allow the United States to commit American troops solely on the behalf of foreign nations such as Israel.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
The former Speaker said that what Governor Perry had said made a lot of sense. He said that before handing over billions of dollars automatically, Congress would start by starting at zero and then asking for an explanation concerning why the nation should receive any aid. He pointed to the fact that Pakistan had harbored Osama Bin Laden for at least six years and said this is a good indication that they should not receive any foreign aid.
When asked about how he would approach Egypt, Mr. Gingrich said that eliminating foreign aid for Egypt was a possibility. He said that the degree to which the Arab Spring has become anti-Christian bothers him a great deal. “I would certainly have the State Department intervening on behalf of the Coptic Christians, who are being persecuted under the new system, having their churches burned, having people killed. And I’d be pretty insistent that we are not going to be supportive of a regime, which is explicitly hostile to religions other than Islam.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich provides a vivid example of the problem with the current foreign aid policy. Billions of dollars are spent in an unconstitutional manner to support nations who show animosity to the United States and persecute Coptic Christians.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that Pakistan must be a friend of the United States because they are a nuclear power. He expressed concern that if the wrong people gained control of the country, the situation in Pakistan could become like the situation in Iran. He suggested that America must engage Pakistan as a friend and work through the current difficulties. The moderator pressed Mr. Santorum pointing out that only a few weeks ago a Pakistani backed terrorist network, the Hikani Network, laid siege to the NATO headquarters and the U.S. embassy in Kabul for 20 hours.
Mr. Santorum answered that a lot of Pakistanis and most of the government don’t back the Hikani Network. He said that the United States needed to continue to send monetary aid to Pakistan. He pointed out that the aid relationship also came with military aid. Aid relationship created jobs because the money is spent in the United States for military hardware, and builds a dependency on American weapon systems.
Constitutional Grade: F
Question #6: In your judgment, do you believe Governor Romney has the ability to think outside the box and change United States’ national security or foreign policy perspectives?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich said that he did not desire to comment on that. He said that while the candidates may make such comments on radio shows, at the debate they are all talking to the American people about why each of them is more fit for the presidency than Barack Obama. He said that Mitt Romney would be a vast improvement on the Obama administration. When asked by the moderator how he would think outside the box, Mr. Gingrich answered that he would use Cold War strategies against North Korea and Iran. He said he would also adopt a strong policy toward the United Nations. He said that he would explicitly repudiate Agenda 21. In addition, he said that he would apply Lean Six Sigma to the Pentagon to liberate money and rebuild the nation. He criticized the President for shrinking the size of the Navy to the point it is incapable of doing its job globally.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Again Mr. Gingrich calls for covert Cold War strategies that involve murder, espionage, and deceit.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said his foreign policy was pretty straightforward. He said he would be guided by the conviction that this century must be an American century in which America has the strongest values, the strongest economy, and the strongest military. “An American century means the century where America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world.”
He criticized President Obama for thinking that America is just another nation and failing to recognize that America is an exceptional nation. He contrasted himself with the President and said that if he were president he would conduct foreign policy through strength and would do everything with the intent of making America stronger. He said that he would use whatever means necessary within the law to protect American citizens and their rights.
Constitutional Grade: B
IV. Interventionism
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.
Questions#13: Would you describe what you think is happening in the Arab Spring? How, as president, can you make it work for the United States and not against us?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain criticized the Obama administration for mishandling the revolutions in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen. He warned that the United States’ relationship with Egypt might not survive. He explained that when President Obama backed the opposition it turned out that the opposition was more of the Muslim Brotherhood, which could now gain a majority in the government. He also criticized President Obama for saying that the president of Yemen had to go when he was one of our allies who helped the United State to fight al-Qaeda. “This president has been on the wrong side in nearly every situation in the Arab world, which has basically done nothing except to put that entire thing at risk.”
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Cain’s criticism is warranted, but his answer is still predicated on the assumption that the United States should take sides in these issues.
Question #14: At least 3,500 civilians have been slaughtered in Syria. Today, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria. If the opposition requested military assistance, covert smuggling, or a no-fly zone, would you authorize either or both?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich commended the Arab League for suspending Syria. He also criticized President Obama for turning against President Mubarak who had been a faithful ally for years. This only signals to the world that the United States cannot be trusted to back our allies. He criticized the State Department for being soft on Assad, an ally of Iran. He said that if he were president he would actively take the steps necessary to end his regime, most of which would be covert. He said that a no-fly zone would not be necessary.
Constitutional Grade: F
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul disagreed with Mr. Cain and Mr. Gingrich and said that intervention would be a big mistake. The United States should allow the Syrians to deal with their own country.
When pressed by the moderator about the 3,500 dead in Syria, Mr. Paul responded that the Soviets and Chinese had killed hundreds of millions in the last century, but the United States did not feel morally compelled to try to end it. He said the situation was a tragedy, but an American intervention that props up another dictator causes trouble for America. He said that America does not need to lose any more troops; it is a very costly bad idea.
Constitutional Grade: A
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that it was time for the Assad dictatorship to end. He said he supported using covert operations such as those suggested by Mr. Gingrich. He said that he disagreed with Ron Paul because Syria was the only Arab ally of Iran and was arming Hezbollah. This provides significant access for Iran. Because of the aspirations of Iran, Mr. Romney argued, it was important to intervene and support a regime change. In the process these activities would be helpful to our allies like Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Constitutional Grade: F
V. Military Policy
The Constitution of the United States grants both the president and Congress the joint authority to engage in foreign policy. However, the president is not authorized to enforce treaties without the ratification of Congress. Moreover, Congress has exclusive authority to tax international trade. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs
Question #7: Would you listen to your generals for their advice before making decisions as Commander in Chief? How will you know when you should overrule your generals?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that it was important that you surround yourself with the right people. He said that you would know you are making the right decision when you have considered all the facts and the alternatives. He said that because he will have multiple people offering different recommendations, it would provide a greater opportunity to make the right decisions. He said that while he will listen to his generals, it would be up to the Commander in Chief to make the decisions.
Constitutional Grade: A
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said he would enter the presidency with a very clear agenda. He said that he would gather people together who share his point of view. He said that while he was in the Senate he did not hire people who did not share his point of view. He said that he was who the American people were electing, someone who is crystal clear and does not mince words. He said that he would then follow through.
When the Moderator asked about what his agenda would entail, Mr. Santorum answered that the number one issue would be to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He said that he would also accomplish this through covert activity. “There have been scientists turning up dead in Russia and in Iran. There have been computer viruses. There have been problems at their facility. I hope that the United States has been involved with that.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only are these activities unconstitutional they are also criminal.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that he has been Commander in the state of Texas for 10 years. He said if there was someone who had experience making decisions, it was he. He said that he had handled natural disasters, deployed troops to combat zones, and dealt with generals. He said that he would surround himself with individuals at the highest levels at the Department of Defense, both on the military side and on the civilian side. He said that from day one Americans would know that they are secure and this would include along the southern border of Mexico.
Constitutional Grade: B
Question #12: Almost half of the federal budget goes to military-related expenditures. Should we increase spending, especially in a debt crisis?
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann explained that military expenditures could be reduced especially in the area of how the military finances procurements. Weapons manufacturers are rewarded based on the length of time it takes to produce weapons. She said that American needed to move toward a fixed cost system. She also said that Tricare also needed to be reformed. The Congresswoman said that she did not want to cut benefits for the military, but that it needed to be modernized. She said that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid also needed to be modernized. She said that Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security would collapse under the weight of Obamacare. Mrs. Bachman said if she were elected president she would repeal Obamacare.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While military spending should be cut, Mrs. Bachmann suggests that unconstitutional programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should be saved.
VI. Torture
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The torturing of suspects is a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution since the suspects are held and forced to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime without due process. Torture is also a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution since it constitutes both a cruel and an unusual punishment. The bill of rights governs all United States courts both foreign and domestic. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.
Question #9: What is your stance on torture?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that in keeping with the procedure of the military, he did not agree with torture, period. However, he said that he would leave it up to military leaders to determine what is torture and what is not torture. Mr. Cain said that he believed that waterboarding was an enhanced interrogation technique and that he would reinstate a policy that permits waterboarding.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: It is interesting to point out that earlier Mr. Cain had said that while he would listen to the advice of his generals, he would be making all of the decisions. However, when it comes to an issue like torture, he said he would allow the military leaders to decide. Waterboarding is an obstruction to constitutional standards of justice. The purpose for which the Constitution forbids coerced confessions is because coerced confessions are unreliable, and are a violation of life and liberty.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann said that she would also be willing to use waterboarding, saying that she believed it was very effective in gaining information. She criticized President Obama for allowing the A.C.L.U. to run the C.I.A., and alleged that today when a terrorist is interdicted there was no jail for them. “We have nowhere to take them. We have no C.I.A. interrogations anymore. It is as though we have decided we want to lose in the War on Terror under President Obama. That’s not my strategy. My strategy will be that the United States will be victorious in the War on Terror.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mrs. Bachmann’s allegations against President Obama are false. The number of “secret” military prisons has actually increased under President Obama. New prisons have opened in Afghanistan, Somalia, and on the island of Diego Garcia located in the Indian Ocean. The C.I.A. is permitted to carry out interrogations at these facilities.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul pointed out that torture is illegal under the laws of the United States, is illegal by international law, and is immoral. He said that waterboarding is torture and is very impractical as a means of gathering reliable evidence. He asked why anyone would accept the position that it was right to torture 100 people because you know one of them may have information. “I think it’s uncivilized practice, and has no practical advantages, and is really un-American to accept a principal that we will torture people that we capture.”
Constitutional Grade: A
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that America has a “name brand” in the world and has values. He pointed out that he had lived overseas four different times and has done business overseas. He warned that America diminished its standing in the world when it failed to protect those values of liberty, democracy, human rights, and open markets, when we torture. He said that he believed waterboarding is torture and that we should not do it. “We dilute ourselves down like a whole lot of other countries. And we lose that ability to project values that a lot of people in corners of this world are still relying on the United States to stand up for them.”
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman holds to a constitutional standard on the issue of torture, but appeals to the importance of taking the moral high ground as America engages in unconstitutional nation building around the world. Moreover, democracy was criticized and rejected as a form of government by the framers of the Constitution. The Constitution calls for and insures a republican form of government.
VII. Assassination
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Moreover, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to confront the witnesses against him, have an opportunity to obtain witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The assassination of suspects in the United States is a violation of due process. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.
Moreover, as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.
Question #10: President Obama recently ordered the death of an American citizen who was suspected of terrorist activity overseas. Is it appropriate for the American president, on the president’s say-so alone, to order the death of an American citizen suspected of terrorism?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that he absolutely agrees with the ordered deaths of American citizens who align themselves with groups who declare war on the United States. If an American takes up arms during a war against the United States he is fair game.
Constitutional Grade: F
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich was carful to point out that the death warrant was not signed against a mere suspect, but an individual who had been found guilty of actively seeking the death of Americans. When the moderator pointed out that the individual had not been found guilty by a court of law, Mr. Gingrich retorted that he was found guilt by a panel that considered the matter and reported back to the President. Gingrich and the moderator disagreed that the individual was tried under the rule of law.
Mr. Gingrich said that if persons engage in war against the United States they are enemy combatants. They do not have civil liberties and cannot go to court. Mr. Gingrich suggested that there were two levels of justice; civil and criminal defense are at one level, while acts of war are on another level. “It is an act of war and should be dealt with as an act of war and the correct thing in an act of war is to kill people who are trying to kill you.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for the idea that there are two “levels” of justice. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution only suspends the requirement for an indictment by a grand jury in military cases, but does not suspend the right to due process in a court of law. There is a real danger to notions such as those offered here by Mr. Gingrich, if due process can be suspended for those deemed to be enemies of the state then the same argument can, and has, been used to justify assassinations of American citizens in the United States without due process of law.
VIII. Trade War with China
The Constitution of the United States grants both the president and Congress the joint authority to engage in foreign policy. However, the president is not authorized to enforce treaties without the ratification of Congress. Moreover, Congress has exclusive authority to tax international trade. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A war or conflict occurring without an act from Congress is unconstitutional. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.
Question #11: According to U.S. officials, China is using cyber-attacks to steal billions of dollars of intellectual property that is critical to this nation’s economic success. Are we, sir, engaged in financial warfare with China?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said there were some people who are saying that the next century will be a Chinese century. He pointed out that there were similar statements made about Russia during the Reagan presidency. He said that China, like Russia, would end up on the ash heap of history if they did not change their virtues and build honesty.
Mr. Perry said the issue with cyber security will be one of the great issues of the next president and that he would call the private sector to work along with the government to pull all resources to fight cyber terror.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Cyber attacks from the Chinese government pose a serious threat to America’s economy and national security. This is a serious issue because China’s cyber attacks have risen to a level that constitutes a foreign act of aggression against the United States that could lead to a justifiable war.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney answered that China had an interest in trade and wants to relocate 20 million people each year from farms to cities. He pointed out that they want to have success in the global markets and they need access to our markets. He said he would condition China’s access to our markets on their ability to play by the rules. “They can’t hack into our computer systems and steal from our government. They can’t steal from corporations. They can’t take patents and designs, intellectual property, and duplicate them, counterfeit them and sell them around the world.”
He said he would also hold them accountable for manipulating their currency. He criticized President Barack Obama for being soft on China and allowing them to be dishonest while expanding on their ability to steal information from our computer systems, our intellectual property, and from our military.
When asked by the moderator what he would do to make China do these things, he said he would identify them as a currency manipulator and bring an action against them before the World Trade Organization. He said such an action would allow the United States to selectively apply tariffs in areas we believe they are stealing form us. To those who are afraid this will start a trade war, Mr. Romney, pointed out that we are already in a trade war and American jobs are suffering as a result.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The Congress of the United States does not need to receive permission from the World Trade Organization to levy tariffs on China.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman suggested that things look different when you are on the ground in China. Mr. Huntsman disagreed with Mr. Romney that taking China to the W.T.O. for currency manipulation was a good idea. He said that a trade war with China would only hurt small business, exporters, and agriculture producers here in the United States. He said that America should instead reach out to its allies and constituencies within China, young people. He said there are 500 million Internet users in China and over 80 million bloggers who are bringing about change that will eventually take China down.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: It is unclear how Huntsman intends to reach out to young people, and seems to tend toward interventionism to “take China down”. China’s plundering of military secrets and the theft and counterfeiting of intellectual property are certainly grounds for a declaration of war. It is not clear whether or not this sort of subversive intervention is constitutional, but Mr. Huntsman’s resolve is very weak with regard to China.
IX. Due Process
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Moreover, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to confront the witnesses against him, have an opportunity to obtain witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.
Question #15: Within days of taking office, President Obama, by executive order, stopped the CIA from using classified enhanced interrogation techniques that are not waterboarding. There’s a presumption that every person at Gitmo, under the Obama administration, should go into civilian court, not military commission. And the Obama administration recently said that any future captors in the War on Terror would not go to Gitmo. Would you continue these policies? Why?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain said that he would reverse all three policies. He would keep Guantanamo Bay open. He said that he would allow for the military to use enhanced interrogation techniques. “They are terrorists. Pampering terrorists isn’t something that we ought to do.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Guantanamo Bay is a facility where the United States government is engaged in illegal and unconstitutional detainment of individuals who have not been convicted of any crime. The individuals held there might be criminals, but they may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property until they have been proven guilty in a court of law.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said he agreed with Mr. Cain. He said it was essential to leave Guantanamo Bay open. He said that the United State needed to use all of its enhanced interrogation techniques. He said these methods had been proven to work and were crucial to the War on Terror. Moreover, he said using civilian courts is the worst idea he had ever heard because civilian courts are for those protected by the Constitution. He said enemy combatants are not protected by the Constitution. Mr. Santorum argued that the constitutional protections, and those contained in the Geneva Convention, only apply to American citizens and our allies, and not to foreign enemies.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for Mr. Santorum’s argument. The principles of the Constitution are intended to prevent the United States from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process. The United States by its very nature is bound to the ideals and convictions of the Constitution. There is no branch or activity of government that is above and beyond the limitations of the Constitution. Therefore the right to due process is to be applied as a matter of national and constitutional conviction, and not at the discretion of government. Moreover, if the Geneva Convention did not apply to how a nation treated an enemy, then the entire treaty would be striped of any meaning.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul said the situation was a mess because America has adopted a bad foreign policy. He criticized the government of the United States for pretending to be at war when no war has been declared; nevertheless, we have gone to war against a tactic (terrorism) and there are supposedly no limits to it. He said that as a result we have created monstrosities in which our government does things outside of the law and engages in things like allowing the president to decide who is assassinated. He pointed out that it is not just foreign threats but also that three American citizens have been assassinated. He said this was lawless and that American citizens should fear that someday we will be subject to those same courts. Mr. Paul warned that if we do not work within the context of the law it would turn out bad for everyone. “Now we can be assassinated by somebody that we don’t even like to run our medical care, and giving this power to the president to be the prosecutor, the executor, the judge and the jury. We better look at that carefully before you automatically endorse something like that.”
Constitutional Grade: A
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry criticized Congressman Paul by arguing that our military personnel are confronted with an enemy that will use any means to kill them. If America cannot use any technique necessary to extract information to save the lives of those fighting in the military, it is a travesty. He said that while he did not support the use of torture, he did support the use of “enhanced interrogations.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Perry applies is a utilitarian standard and is not a constitutional standard. This answer reflects a government that is ruled by emergency and not by the rule of law.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann also criticized Congressman Paul by alleging that he opposed the order to kill Osama Bin Laden. She argued that the execution of Awlaki’s sixteen-year-old son was justified, because Awlaki was also killed.
Constitutional Grade: F
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul responded by pointing out that Mrs. Bachmann was wrong because he has voted in favor of the authority to go after Osama Bin Laden. He said he was upset that it had taken so long, because the American military had been diverted. He pointed out that going after Osama Bin Laden is a much different issue than the issue of assassinating American citizens.
Moreover, Mr. Paul reminded the panel that, “over 300 individuals were tried in civilian courts here and were charged with terrorism here. Most of them are in jail. I don’t think we should give up so easily on our rule of law.”
Constitutional Grade: A
X. Economic Policy
The Constitution of the United States places the power over the federal budget for expenditures and debts solely on the Congress of the United States. The president has no legislative power and is bound to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. However, the president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. Congress has a limited number of powers, under Article 1, Section 8 that residually effect industry and national economy. First, Congress has the power over the federal purse through the taxing and spending clause. Second, Congress is granted the power to regulate interstate commerce between the states. Under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the commerce power was unconstitutionally expanded to include intrastate commerce also, along with virtually any activity commercial or non-commercial that could be shown to remotely effect commerce. This unconstitutional expansion of power has been used by Congress to regulate areas previously unreachable by the federal power under the Constitution. The Constitution provides no authority to provide for social welfare or to spend money for an unconstitutional purpose.
Question #16: Federal spending and debt are not only our greatest economic problems; they’re our largest national security problem. Yet the President and the Congress continue to spend and borrow at record levels. Just adjusting the spending on existing federal programs will not solve the problem. What federal functions will you eliminate or return to the states in order to balance our budget?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney pointed out that the current administration was spending about 25% of the economy at the federal level. Mr. Romney proposed that he would bring the cap down to 20% in his first term in office. He said that this would require eliminating a lot of programs that we like, but simply cannot afford. He said that he would begin by eliminating Obamacare, a savings of $95 billion. He said that he would also cut the Endowment for the Humanities, the Endowment for the Arts, and Public Broadcasting. He said these programs were not essential and we could no longer borrow money from China to pay for them.
Moreover, Mr. Romney said that he would return Medicaid over to the states and allow the states to govern it, a savings of $100 billion each year. Finally, he said he would attempt to make the government more productive by cutting personnel by 10%, and link the pay of government employees to the pay of those in the private sector.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would make cuts to several unconstitutional programs, but would continue unconstitutional programs such as Medicare. Moreover, 20 percent of the GDP is much more than what is required in a constitutional government.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that our most significant national security threat is the national debt. He pointed out that the national debt is at 70 of America’s GDP and was moving up, while Japan’s debt is at 100 percent of their GDP, Greece’s debt is at 170 percent of their GDP, and Italy’s debt is at 120 percent. He suggested that the solution to America’s debt problem was the Ryan Plan. Mr. Huntsman said that he would send Medicaid back to the states. He said he would move education closer to the states. He also said that some economic development functions should also be moved closer to the states.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Ryan Plan reflects Marxist notions of class warfare and the redistribution of wealth. Moreover, Mr. Huntsman suggests the unconstitutional continuance of unconstitutional programs such as Medicaid.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich said that he believed that there were four interlocking national security problems; (1) The debt and deficit; (2) Energy; (3) Manufacturing; and (4) Science and Technology. He said that there should be an education program for those who were on unemployment so that no one receives money for doing nothing. He alleged that it would save money and enhance human capital. He suggested opening up offshore drilling so that gas prices can come down. In addition, the Charleston Port could be modernized with the royalties and create more jobs.
He pointed out that he had balanced the budget four consecutive years while he was in office. He said he would bring unemployment down to four percent.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich suggests that the problems that exist should be fixed by adding more government bureaucracy to the problem. To unemployment he wants to begin an education program. This is a classic example of attempting to fix an unconstitutional problem, by adding another unconstitutional problem.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann pointed out that the government added $203 billion in debt in the month of October, but the last time the Republicans controlled the budget the government added $160 billion that year. She sad that she would make cuts by taking a look at “The Great Society” introduced by Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Great Society has pushed us into a modern welfare state. She pointed out that China was growing and that they did not have food stamps or social security. The Chinese do not have to pay FDC. She would repeal The Great Society legislation.
Constitutional Grade: A
Question #19: There is a crisis in Europe over debt, particularly in Italy and in Greece. And there is the threat of contagion onto Wall Street and U.S. banks. How do you prevent the Euro crisis from becoming a problem in the United States?
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that in Europe there were two problems. First, Europe is our second largest export market second only to Canada. He said that if the economic crisis spreads in Europe, they will buy less and Americans will lose jobs unless we find other markets. Second, the crisis will spread through the banking system to the point where it will hit us in the United States. When banks are too big to fail in this country, there will be trouble.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman does not answer the questions, but instead elaborated on the emergency. The worst policies in government are enacted during these types of emergencies. The Constitution was intended to safe guard against the types of crisis America is experiencing and to get the nation through hard times.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that the French and Germans have the means to deal with the debt crisis in the Eurozone. He said that the Euro was established to compete with the American dollar, but now they are in trouble because of overspending.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Mr. Perry relates a constitutional position. The Constitution does not allow the United State to intervene in the European debt crisis.
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TEA PARTY REPORT CARD
FOR NOMINEES AND PRIMARY VOTERS:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ryHPAxovXjoqIWqldKd2-siz-vUrLYY4BQ7P0I003R4/edit?hl=en_US
When you are picking a nominee in primary voting, it is not a popularity contest.
Nominees are rigorously scrutinized during the selection process for their integrity and adherence to Conservative values and principles.
The nominees will be graded on a point system:
A = 5pts. highest, all A’s = 30pts.
B = 4pts. all B’s = 24 pts.
C = 3pts. all C’s = 18 pts.
D = 2pts. all D’s = 12 pts.
F = 0
on the 6 following areas... then an overall grade
Presentation/Debate Performance, Foreign Policy, Tax Policy, Job Creation/Monetary Policy, Individual Platform/Stance, Integrity, Overall Grade
So far we have these 2012 ballot issues, of voter importance:
A) economy B) health care/future C) security
Legend:
RED - GOP policy PURPLE - Tea Party policy BLUE - Democrat/Stupidcrat/Kleptocrat policy
ORANGE - LIBERTARIAN LOCO
RED AND BLACK - OLD HAT GOP
_A__The Perry Platform: 
http://www.rickperry.org/uproot-and-overhaul-washington-html/
A) negating federal regulations/reduction of government to create jobs
B) reform Social Security, return Medicaid reform to states, defunding Obamacare
C) accountable border control policy where the federal government does its job
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - has great ideas, but won only 1 debate title
_B__Foreign Policy - needs comprehensive immigration reform/legalization initiatives
_A__Tax Policy - 20-20-0 -- simplified returns http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/sample-tax-return.pdf
_A__JobCreation/Monetary Policy - 10th Amendment/reducing size of govt./fiscal Conservative
http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/Cut-Balance-and-Grow-Summary.pdf
_A__Integrity - has the Conservative Record not Rhetoric; he stands by his word
_AAA/B/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___27_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO TAKE A CLEAR POSITION OVER OTHER NOMINEES THAT HE CAN BE FIRM, DIPLOMATIC, AND NOT LOSE HIS RELIGION WHEN IT COMES TO IRAN
2) FISCAL POLICY - PERRY MUST SHOW HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION ENDORSEMENT SHOWS THAT OBAMA IS NWO, AND THAT BILDERBERG RICH PEOPLE JUST WANTED TO USE HIS TEXAS MODEL IDEAS: CREATING WEALTH AND JOBS WERE THERE WAS NONE, AS THEY DRIED UP IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - PROVE HIS RECORD AND TAX POLICY IS WHAT CREATED JOBS IN TEXAS, AND THAT THE RON PAUL PLAN IS TOO DRASTIC AND LACKS GOVERNMENT REVENUE TO RETURN OUR CREDIT RATING
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY’S DRAFTING LEGISLATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT IS NOT AMNESTY, THAT SECURES THE BORDER PEACEFULLY, WITH MODERN DRUG CONTROL POLICIES AND GUIDELINES RECOGNIZED BY CANADA AND MEXICO
5) HEALTH POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO ONE-UP BACHMANN, WHO HAS POLITICIZED THE REPEAL MEASURES FOR HER CAMPAIGN BY SUPPORTING REPEAL LEGISLATION, USING EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REPEAL H.R. 4872, AND BY BUDGETARY MEANS SHOWING THAT THIS CAN NOT BE RECONCILED UNDER BUDGETARY LAW BY CURRENT ANNUAL REVENUE OF $2.5 TRILLION, AND ANNIHILATE OBAMA ON HIS MISAPPROPRIATION OF TAX DOLLARS CITING THIS
0 Income Tax 0 Wars 0 Federal Reserve
_C__The Paul Platform:http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
A) government must return to the four umbrellas of original design
B) government must get out of health care; that is left up to the individual and funding to the states
C) immediate troop withdrawal/funding for all conflict goes through Congress, no a bilateral Executive-Military decision
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - interviews are better than debates
_F__Foreign Policy - sticking our head in the sand until American regains greatness/Anwar issue
_F__Tax Policy - the 0-0-0 plan is a catchy disease for anarchy - no INCOME taxes, death taxes
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - the idea of Auditing as opposed to ending the Federal Reserve http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/end-the-fed/
_B__Integrity - has great ideas on health care reform, possesses work ethic & accomplishments
_BB/CC/FF___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___14_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - RON PAUL WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE THE TEA PARTY AND THE REST OF AMERICA THAT HIS FOREIGN POLICY ISN’T JUST TO STICK ONE’S HEAD IN THE SAND LIKE AN OSTRICH
2) FISCAL POLICY - RON PAUL MUST BE MORE CLEAR ON THE GOVERNMENT’S ROLE AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION, THE LIMITATION OF IT IN REGARDS TO BUSINESS, HEALTH CARE, AND ENDLESS WAR, WITHOUT DEVIATING INTO PHILOSOPHY ABOUT IT
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RON PAUL MUST EXPLAIN HOW HIS DESIRE TO AUDIT THE FED IS NOT A RETURN TO MONARCHY OR A DEVOLVING INTO ANARCHY, WITH COMMON SENSE EXPLANATIONS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - RON PAUL MUST SLAM OBAMA FOR NOT HONORING HIS PROMISE ON LEGALIZATION LEGISLATION, CONTINUING TO VIOLATE CIVIL LIBERTIES, OVERPOPULATE JAILS AND SUCKING TAXPAYER DOLLARS, AND THEN ADOPT REFORMS
5) HEALTH POLICY - IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE AS A DOCTOR TO ACTUALLY UNDERTAKE HEALTH REFORM MEASURES THAT ARE CONSTITUTIONAL AND COST EFFECTIVE, IT IS RON PAUL, AND HE SHOULD TRUMP OBAMA EASILY BY FOCUSING ON HOW OBAMA MISAPPROPRIATED TAX DOLLARS THAT NEVER CREATED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE OR REFORMS
_C__The Bachmann Platform:http://www.michelebachmann.com/
A) wants a Balanced Budget Amendment to remove uncertainty, (vote is scheduled on that for the end of this year)
B) repeal Obamacare as it has destroyed jobs and created uncertainty about taxation
C) eradicate the Obama ideology that makes us vulnerable to attack
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - gets animated, needs to be succinct and confident
_B__Foreign Policy - good solid foreign policy that needs fine tuning
_D__Tax Policy - Bachmann has been criticized for using food stamps/writeoffs loophole Queen
_D__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - agrees that government is the problem, but it’s more rhetoric than a plan of action http://www.michelebachmann.com/issues/americanjobsrightnow/
_C__Integrity - says she wrote the repeal bill for Obamacare, when I composed the bill, not her:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je
_CCC/DD/B__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___17_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - THE TEA PARTY AND THE GOP ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE BACHMANN TAKE A POSITION ON FOREIGN POLICY THAT IS NOT PURELY IDEOLOGICAL OR PANDERING FOR VOTES
2) FISCAL POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO US IN HUMAN TERMS HOW REPATRIATION WORKS AND WHY THAT FIXES OUR BUDGET PROBLEMS
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - BACHMMAN MUST EXPLAIN WHY CUTTING TAXES IS THE ANSWER, WHEN WE HAVE A SERIOUS BASE-BUDGETING ISSUE AND LACK OF REVENUE, THAT CUTTING TAXES SOLVES OUR JOBS CRISES; DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE DEFICIT OBAMA CAUSED AND HIS POLICIES. SHE MUST TRUMP OBAMA’S LACK OF FISCAL SANITY AND 200+ REGULATIONS/OBUMMERCARE 4872 THAT KILLED 25-30 MILLION JOBS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW ENFORCING CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE COST EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COSTS $10,000 A HEAD FOR A ONE-WAY DEPORTATION AND MANY RETURN. BOTTOM LINE: WE MAKE IT TOO EASY TO STAY WITHOUT LEVYING FINES OR ENFORCING EMPLOYMENT LAWS AT STATE LEVEL. LIKE HER OTHER IDEAS, SHE HAS TROUBLE GETTING THEM ACROSS SUCCINCTLY AND IN A WAY WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND.
5) HEALTH POLICY - BACHMANN MUST PROPOSE HER OWN LEGISLATION, SINCE SHE HAS NOT BROUGHT MY REPEAL BILL TO THE FLOOR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je8I
INTRODUCED AUGUST 2010, ABOUT HOW SHE WOULD GO ABOUT PURSUING HEALTH CARE REFORMS THAT ARE SO COSTLY NOW/IF SHE AGREES WITH HSA’S AND MONTORING COSTS THROUGH YEARLY TAX REPORTS OR TAX ID#’S.
_B__The Santorum Platform: http://www.ricksantorum.com/
A) sees job creation as an integral societal problem
B) repeal Obamacare
C) feels that Obama’s corruption has eroded the social and moral fabric of America, which must be replaced with different leadership
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - in the race since the beginning/performed well
_C__Foreign Policy - he would continue miring us in conflict without wise counsel
_B__Tax Policy - defends taxpayers - http://www.ricksantorum.com/defender-taxpayer
_A__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - supports the BBA
_A__Integrity - this man walks out his values, doesn’t use Conservative as an adjective
_BBB/AA/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___25_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - IF THERE IS ONE POSITION THAT IS RICK SANTORUM’S STRONG SUIT OVER RON PAUL, IT IS HIS LEVEL-HEADEDNESS ON FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY ISSUES. IF I WERE RICK SANTORUM, I WOULD GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH RON PAUL AND SHOW EVERYONE HOW FLABBERGASTED HE CAN GET.
2) FISCAL POLICY - RICK SANTORUM WILL HAVE TO MATCH HIS INTEGRITY UP TO THE CURRENT PROBLEMS, AND HOW HIS LEADERSHIP WILL GLUE THE DAMAGE DONE BY CORRUPTION, AND HE MUST SUPPORT FIXING THE PROBLEMS HIGHLIGHTED BY TEA PARTY INQUIRIES INTO THE BUDGET BY PUTTING IT ON HIS PERSONAL ‘TO DO’ LIST.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST MATCH HIS DESIRE TO TITHE WITH RESPECT TO TAXPAYERS’ CONCERNS ABOUT ETHICAL GOVERNMENT IN ADDRESSING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE AS HIS TOP PRIORITIES
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE IT IS TEMPTING TO ENFORCE CURRENT LAWS, RICK SANTORUM MUST CONSIDER COST EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION THAT ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION AND DRUG POLICY COHESIVELY, AS THE REASON IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE THUS FAR, AND SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY IN THOSE ENDEAVORS TO DRAFT LEGISLATION
5) HEALTH POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST EMBRACE THE HOLISTIC MODEL OF HEALTH CARE, TRUMP OBAMA ON THIS, CALL OBAMA OUT FOR NEGLECTING HIS SPIRITUAL LIFE/ FALLING PREY TO TRIBAL IDOL WORSHIP AND HOW OBAMA HAS NEGLECTED THE PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS PROGRAM THAT MOTIVATED CHILDREN BY EXAMPLE.
_B__The Palin Platform: ***WRITE-IN CANDIDATE
A) sees job creation through reduction of government spending and paying down the deficit/restoring America’s credit rating and integrity financially
B) strike through Obamacare funding - declare it null and void, according to court rulings, and work on substantive health reform
C) taking back our country, through grassroots initiatives will secure our country without bell and whistles of massive federal funding of security initiatives
_F__Presentation/Debate Performance - she backed away from the race/write-in candidate
_C__Foreign Policy - overcharged emotionally
_B__Tax Policy - Alaska record
_B__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Alaska record
_B__Integrity - doesn’t mince words/won’t lie to you
_BBBB/C/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19____
***********DO NOT VOTE BELOW THIS LINE*********************
_C__The Newt Platform: Newt is Old Hat GOP 
http://www.newt.org/meet-newt
A) systematic Reagan-style job creation plan
B) systematic repeal and reform of health care
C) will be more actively engaged with military expenses
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - while Newt has good presence/candid, his platform has not been conveyed
_B__Foreign Policy - solid but too quick to get angry or act on his own
_A__Tax Policy - stick with the current code or opt for the 15% flat tax http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
_C_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Reagan monetary policy to fix inflation/doesn’t address damage done
_F__Integrity - multiple marriages, shuffles money, does what’s politically convenient to make $ took close to $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in consulting fees http://bit.ly/s28lPB
__CC/F/A/BB__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WITH AS WELL AS WE KNOW NEWT GINGRICH, WE KNOW HIS ABILITY TO PISS PEOPLE OFF AND PEE ON HORNETS’ NESTS. GIVEN THE CURRENT CLIMATE, WE DON’T WANT A THREE-PEAT BUSH... WE SEE THIS AS A WEAKNESS, HIS MOUTH.
2) FISCAL POLICY - WE FIND THAT GINGRICH STARTING OUT $1.5 MILLION IN THE HOLE, TAKING LOBBYING HANDOUTS FROM FANNIE, CLIMATE CULTS, OBUMMERCARE PILOT HOSPITAL, WHILE WANTING TO PENALIZE MARIJUANA MORE IS SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL AND DOWNRIGHT “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”. WE WORRY THAT HE IS NOT THE RIGHT ONE TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY OUT OF THE OBAMA CULTURE OF CORRUPTION BY THIS POOR EXAMPLE.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE IT IS TRUE NEWT GINGRICH HAD A GOOD RECORD ON JOB CREATION AND BALANCING THE BUDGET, WE ARE SURE THAT HIS IDEAS DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH ALONE, CONSIDERING THE LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT, 25-30 MILLION OUT OF WORK AND WITH THIS SEVERE OF A DEFICIT. HIS POLICY MUST GO AS FAR OR FURTHER THAN THE REAGAN 4 STEP PLAN AS OUTLINED BY NORQUIST IN “AMERICA’S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB” BY PETER FERRARA.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHEN NEWT’S LAISSEZ-FAIRE IMMIGRATION POLICIES COST GEORGIA $20 MILLION IN IMMIGRATION FEES AND 2-3% TAX REVENUE OVER 10YRS., WE DO NOT FEEL HE IS THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD THE CHARGE OF REFORM, AS THE OLD HAT POLICY IS TO KEEP THE LAWS STRICT ENOUGH TO PROFIT OFF OF MANDATORY MINIMUMS AND UNETHICAL INFORMANTS, AS LONG AS IT IS POLITICALLY CONVENIENT.
5) HEALTH POLICY - NEWT IS NOT THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD ON THIS ISSUE, AND RON PAUL SHOULD CRUSH NEWT ON IT. NEWT HAS TAKEN HANDOUTS FOR A HOSPITAL PILOTING OBUMMCARE SOFTWARE IN A HOSPITAL, AND NEWT WAS A BIG PROPONENT ORIGINALLY OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. HE JUST CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH REFORM SOLUTIONS.
_c__The Obamoney Platform: http://www.mittromney.com/
A) doesn’t see job creation except as a tax-related issue/out-of-touch
B) *offers Obamacare waivers, which doesn’t go far enough in defunding unconstitutional and corrupt legislation originally designed to function as a funnel program for Thomson prison
C) relies on military rather than militia for advice for the future of national security
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - you don’t grad shoulders in a debate/talks in 3rd person
_C__Foreign Policy - Lincolnish style http://www.mittromney.com/issues/foreign-policy
_C__Tax Policy - TAX REFORM/CAN HE DO IT??
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - great ideas, not detailed enough http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2011/09/believe-america-day-one-job-one
_F_Integrity - “I’m a Mormon” advertising campaign, like Newt with a Mormon twist
_CCCCC/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___15_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MEANS WELL, THE ONLY THING GOING FOR HIM IS THAT HE’S MODERATE, AND HE DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE A HEART ATTACK OR IRRITABLE BOWEL, LIKE BACHMANN DOES ON FOREIGN POLICY.
2) FISCAL POLICY - OBAMONEY HAS GREAT IDEAS, BUT NOT ENOUGH DETAIL OR FOLLOW-THRU ON HOW TO ARRIVE TO THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE 59 PT. PLAN HE TOUTS IN DEBATES.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WEAK ON TAX REFORM, AND I THINK IT’S PERSONAL
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MAY BE WILLING TO EMBRACE THE TEA PARTY DRAFT ON COMPREHENSIVE REFORMS, HE HAS NO CLEAR POSITION OTHER THAN ENFORCING EXISTING LAWS.
5) HEALTH POLICY - FLIP FLOPPING ON ROMNEYCARE, WHEN IT BANKRUPTED MA IS A REALLY HARD SELL TO THE TEA PARTY THAT YOU WILL, IN FACT, ERADICATE OBUMMERCARE/4872.
__D__The Huntsman Platform:http://www.jon2012.com/
A) thinks Obama’s policies have killed jobs - yet has no clear strategy
B) has a different idea than Obamacare on health care reform, but it’s not Obamacare
C) doesn’t hold a staunch debate posture on security, just feels it is an arm of government instead of an integral part
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - Huntsman placates/brown noser
_F__Foreign Policy - made his living being Ambassador to China http://www.jon2012.com/index.php/issues/national-security
_D_Tax Policy - 4pt. Reform Policy, less talking more doing, doesn’t show action
_D_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - thinks reform creates jobs
_D__Integrity - tries to sell the white peoples’ dream, through Mormonism
_DDDD/F/C___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___11_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERHAPS THE WEAKEST STANCE, BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY RESENTS OBAMA BEING HIS FORMER BOSS, VIEWS HIM AS A SUCK UP TO OBAMA, AND TO THE CHINESE
2) FISCAL POLICY - ANYTHING HUNTSMAN SAYS ABOUT MONEY, ALL WE CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE, HOW HE FEELS THIS WILL MAGICALLY RESOLVE ITSELF WITH THE CHINESE, WHILE UNFAIR TRADE AGREEMENTS AND OTHER FACTORS LIKE UNIONS HAVE DESTROYED AMERICAN JOBS, SENDING THEM STRAIGHT TO CHINA.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE WE THINK HUNTSMAN HAS GOOD INTENTIONS, HE HAS NOT MADE THIS COME THROUGH OR CONNECTED WITH THIS IN DEBATE ANSWERS.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WE HONESTLY THINK THAT HUNTSMAN COULD CARE LESS ABOUT IMMIGRATION OR DRUG POLICY REFORM OR THAT HE SEES IT AS A PRESSING ISSUE
5) HEALTH POLICY - IT IS HARD TO STOMACH SOMEONE WHO MADE THEIR LIVING OFF OF WORKING UNDER OBAMA NOW UNDERTAKING THE TASKS OF UNDOING EVERYTHING THEY WATCHED OBAMA DO, WITHOUT PUBLICLY TRYING TO STOP HIM, UNTIL AFTER THE DAMAGE OF OBUMMERCARE/4872 CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL JOB LOSS... ESPECIALLY WHEN IT SEEMS HE COULD’VE DONE MORE THAN TO USE IT TO CAMPAIGN OFF OF...
Obamoney and Huntsman can’t win the GOP nomination: their platforms reflect the same ideas and approaches of Moderate Democrats. I would comment further on the Democrats’ platforms, but I have seen no debate or appeals to the public. It is as if they have already lost the 2012 election and have no fresh ideas on how to fix our nation’s problems.
Democrats have resigned to spin the wheels of Obama’s bus in the rut of economic hell. Obama doesn’t even have a platform!!
His “economic plan” is a dirty trick bag of stimulus.
Though not as large as the super bank bailouts, where the bank has held onto $1 trillion of taxpayer money without loaning or fixing their “MORTGAGE-CRISES-BANKER-SPURNED GAMBLING ADDICTION”, they have arrested Geithner and Bernanke’s ability to do anything to thwart a second market collapse. This is good for the stock market, but bad for Main Street. Not that anyone wanted the Geithner-Bernanke New World Order style banking system, when global markets have weighed heavily on top of our $14.5 trillion dollar growing deficit.
The Obama-Biden debt financing to China can’t continue; as China will not allow us to do so, as their market is strained by our lack of recovery.
The only thing Obama proposes is a cosmetic approach before the 2012 election:
MINI STIMULUS #1,#2,#3
#1 UNFUNDED unemployment checks/unemployment insurance extensions
#2 UNFUNDED infrastructure, which should be left up to states applying for grants
#3 UNFUNDED tax cuts for businesses to create jobs
= $1.5 trillion of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING interest included
WITH SUCKER BONUS - some people will be eligible to temporarily receive Social Security that are capable of working at least a part-time jobAll the while Obama is facing impeachment over his lack of citizenry on 9-14 with the Hawaii Department of Health summoned to court to answer to the court as to why they could not produce ANY birth certificate on 8-8, when it took three years to get a court ordered subpoena in response to numerous lawsuits filed and corresponding FBI investigations, regarding pending corruption and and criminal fraud charges.
I have heard Harry Reid speak twice on CSPAN since the “DEBT CEILING DEBACLE”, and he blames the Republicans and the Tea Party for what he calls “NO IDEAS” presented by his party: he cites “their obstructionism” and “they’re holding the American economy hostage”, and these are the only things that they can contribute on their part.
Yeah, I guess when Democrats only present more spending as “the Holy Grail” to job growth and economic restoration when there is no gold to back it, Democrats really only do the best job projecting the problems that they created onto the other parties by further obstructing and holding the economy hostage to their fiscal insanity.
I have not seen any different ideas Democrats have other than UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. When you don’t have the money, and spend it anyway, it is called STEALING. This is why I will refer to Democrats as Kleptocrats and Stupidcrats from now until 2012.
The leadership of the Democratic Party displays no palatable nominees for the Presidency with UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS THEIR PLATFORM.
Their party has catered to 20% of voter base and alienated the majority of taxpayers, 65% of the emerging majority is attuned with the GOP and Tea Party.
Why taxpayers feel that the Democrats’ approach has not worked:
nearly half of the voter base that is not Republican or Tea Party have not paid in taxes regularly for the past 15-20 yrs., and
Obama’s “CONSTITUENTS” have increasingly demanded more w/o paying taxes:
1) food stamps
2) Medicaid/Medicare
3) cell phones
4) housing loans based on racial privilege without income or intelligence quotient
5) education funding, rather than earned scholarships for talent or scholastic achievement
When $.42 of the dollar goes to defense, you can’t have $.50 leveraged in public debt in the form of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Obama borrowed nearly $9 trillion against gold to fund his 2010 budget and the 2011 budget that he never wrote, by expanding UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING in the form of social programs and unemployment without job creation or revenue from cuts or reforms.
Obama has levied the debt of 20% of constituents on the back of 65% of taxpayers, to the point taxpayers are losing jobs from economic slowdown and causing those who would not be on food stamps to join the roll, adding to the burden.
Instead of attacking poverty, as was his pledge state-by-state, he has IMPOVERISHED the entire nation, trying to spend his way out of poverty, rather than working America out of it by jobs, revenues, and cuts.
America could never afford or wanted Obama’s agenda in 2008; Obama lied about it all, and his supporters see now that they were duped as well. We now see if for what it really is: a grand scheme of theft, LIKE GRAND THEFT LOTTO: where you pay in a little and cash in on the money you never had to earn or have to pay back.
Yesterday, 11/18/11 the BBA failed to pass with a ⅔ Majority. Congress has only agreed to enough cuts and budgeting to operate until 12/16/11.
WE HAVE HAD NO BUDGET AGREED TO IN 3 YEARS, AND SINCE 2006, AND RAISING THE DEBT CEILING TWICE, WE HAVE ACCRUED $10 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT, AT A RATE OF $1.7+ TRILLION IN INTEREST ON THE DEFICIT, AT A RATE THAT EXPANDS EVERY 5-6 MONTHS, WE PAY THAT AMOUNT OF INTEREST $1.7 TRILLION.
WE ALSO HIT $15 TRILLION THE OTHER DAY, AND WE CAN’T WAIT UNTIL WE GET THE NEXT PRESIDENT TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS!!!!
BOTTOM LINE, IT IS PISS POOR LEADERSHIP !!!
THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL; CONGRESS SHOULD BE JAILED FOR FRAUD AND MISAPPROPRIATION FOR UNETHICAL CONDUCT FOR FAILING TO HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE OATH OF OFFICE FOR 2008 ELECTION FRAUD AND GROSS MISAPPROPRIATION BY IMPEACHMENT, CRIMINAL TRIAL, AND IMPOSITION OF FINES.
(SO IF I HAD TO PICK WHO’S TURKEY THIS YEAR, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE OBAMONEY!! GOBBLE GOBBLE, AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN PURE MEDIA HYPE... “ELECT ME.... IT WILL COME.” I FEEL LIKE I’M IN A FIELD OF DREAMS MOVIE, BUT FOR POLITICAL CANDIDATES!! HA! YEAH RIGHT~~~!)
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It Can and Is Happening Here
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 AT 6:08PM
Less than two months ago I was the guest on a radio program out of Fairbanks Alaska called Patriot's Lament (click here to view the video). Two of the hosts were David Giessel and Joshua Bennett.
David and I had become good friends ever since we met at the recent Casey summit. Being a young anarcho-capitalist, we had him on Anarchast (click here to view). Living in Alaska, they had been very curious about my libertarian hideaway in southern Mexico (AcaCondos) and David had made plans to visit this December.
That was, until, the FBI with 30 strong wearing body armor and bearing machine guns raided Joshua's house a few days ago.
The following is Joshua's account of what happened the morning of December 6th under his blog post entitled, "It Won't Happen In America, Yeah Well It Just Did":
This morning while I was working on a bid for a job, my phone quit working. I tried it a few more times and then thought about it for a minute and then asked my wife, is your phone working?
It wasn't.
So I sat and waited.
Then they came.
I watched them scatter.
My wife came running down the stairs yelling, "Josh, there are a bunch of men surrounding our house and they have guns!!"
I have 8 children, all of them watching the scene unfold before their eyes. Dozens of agents wearing body armor and carrying machine guns, swarm around our house.
I think over my options, (there is only one, they kill kids) and I walk to the door, and yell loud enough for the thugs outside and my family inside to hear, "It's the FBI , don't be scared, just be quiet and sit down!" I open the door and am looking at Michael Anderson's wife. They have her in front of them, between us, and she is crying.
"How can I help you?"
"Mr. Bennett, we are here for Michael Anderson!"
"Do you have a warrant?"
They walk right in. My mind is screaming to demand to see the warrant, when I am told, "Mr. Bennett, we don't want any trouble, and I don't want to frighten your children." He's a little late for that. He ignores my request about the warrant, and proceeds to find and arrest Michael Anderson. I stand in my living room and watch the agents running around here to there. I look at one who is holding his rifle next to a car. He looks at me for a second, then moves behind the car and continues to watch. I look at my 6-year-old twin girls; they are scared to death. I hold my hands out far from my sides for "them" to see.
Michael is brought upstairs, his 4-year-old son is screaming at the agents, "Don't take my dad, don't take my dad!" I ask what he is being charged with, and am told he is being held as a witness. "You guys arrest your witnesses now?" I ask about the warrant again. But it's done. They go out the door. They put Mike in the car, and spend a few more minutes running around the house for some reason, guns in the open.
Now they are gone.
One of the twins asks me, "Poppa, why did they come here with guns?" I say they were scared.
"Why poppa? Why are they scared of us, we don't hurt people, and we wouldn't hurt them".
I tell her they just wanted to come and get Mike, and it's ok because now they are gone. She says," I know why they came and took Mr. Anderson, Poppa, because they know he didn't do anything wrong, and they don't want him to tell other people".
HA! Out of the mouths of babes. She is right, one agent could have come and actually served the warrant, and produced the same outcome. That must not be enough fun for them. I talked to my older sons...were they afraid? Yes. One said," Dad, there were guys running all over with guns, how could we not be?" I told them it's ok. I was too.
I hope they enjoyed terrorizing my family.
Thugs.
Criminals in costumes.
So, Joshua's house got raided by 30 well armed FBI thugs looking for Joshua's friend, Michael Anderson. There was no arrest warrant for Michael and he currently sits in jail charged with nothing as the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner explains. Anderson had previously been held for 8 months just for being mentioned in a conversation with some other men supposedly wanted for planning to kill Alaska State Troopers or court officials and was released until he was once again kidnapped on December 6th.
While we know nothing of Michael Anderson's involvement in any activities, having Joshua's house raided, terrifying his entire family, sadly, does not surprise us.
The police and all the endless government agencies in the US have all become increasingly militarized. The US Department of Education bought a number of shotguns earlier this year, leaving one news agency to question why the DoE needs shotguns. That question was soon answered when a similar home raid was conducted by a DoE SWAT team in California looking for a woman who was behind on her student loans.
Many are awakening to the fact that there will be no political solution for the sad state of affairs in the US. Voting is just the slave's suggestion box and many are finally realizing that it does not matter for which of the two political parties in the US you vote. They both do nothing but increase the size of government and its control over your life. As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
Josh concluded his blog entry by stating, " I seriously think if I hear another person tell me "it can't happen here," I may sock him in the nose." Events like this are happening every single day in the US. No-knock raids are now just a part of everyday life in the Communo-Fascist Police State of America.
Josh wrote to us, "The more people that see we are already in 1930s Germany the better. Folks have got to wake up. Its time to get out while there is still time."
This is something we state very regularly here at TDV. And it is sad that yet another of our friends have become a victim to something that many sheeple still say "can't happen here". Not only can it, but it is "happening here".
Do you have to wait until it happens to you before you believe it?
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SEPARATING PRESS FROM CAMPAIGN TRENDS, AND WHAT ARE THE REAL ISSUES AND
WHAT THEY AREN’T, WITH IN-DEPTH FACEBOOK DISCUSSIONS....
WHY HERMAN CAIN IS REALLY A REPUBLICANIZED OBAMA.......
Brooke Lynn Fergus
After Watching and Listening to this Video ... PLEASE SHARE WITH US, IF YOU FEEL HE IS LYING or TELLING THE TRUTH ... Blessings, ~ Brooke Lynn Fergus :)
Herman Cain says he will not be bowed after accusations that he had a 13-year extramarital affair, saying his character is being attacked because people want to bring him down.Like · · Unfollow Post · Share · 21 hours ago near Frisco, TX
Michael Anthony O'Beirne She is the liar! Just saw a post saying she was in a lesbain relatioship during the time she says this occured. She is a lying dyke, stupid libtard bitch................Thnkthinkthink Tank I think he'd do just fine as the President.Thnkthinkthink Tank And he has Integrity, something the left doesn't understand.Jane Giavelli Lauhon I think both sides are throwing him under the bus. I believe him.Brooke Lynn Fergus I believe some of it IS coming from 'our' side ... Romney has fingerprints all over it, IMO.Roxanne Chew I don't really care if he had an affair with her, that is up to his wife to care. However, I do not believe there was an affair. She was paid to lie just like the other whores.Robert Whitley I believe Herman Cain is TELLING THE TRUTH. Someone with a lot of money is paying the ho to tell these lies about him. I am including Herman Cain and his wife and family in my prayers. As information - George Soros is the 17th richest person in the United States and spent millions of dollars getting Barack Hussein Obama elected President in the 2008 Presidential election.Brooke Lynn Fergus Its on CNN right now, Charlie Ward ...20 hours ago · Like
Nash Montana The woman is lying. She's a lying biotch.Karen Johnson Gray I agree, it is all set up and money is rolling. It could very well be the Obama admin due to the fact a black man could beat him! It is hard to fix a race between two black men. It would really look fixed if Obama won again.Nash Montana It's all about race. Everything always goes back to the lowest common denominator. Really not brain surgery.Robert Whitley They are trying to keep us from picking our Republican nominee for President. The "Establishment" does NOT want Herman Cain to be the Republican nominee - - It is just that simple.Karen Johnson Gray I hope Newt lets it slide off his back, how many marriages you have does not make any difference in being a president, look at the background of mr Oabama and the gays, did that hurt him?Karen Johnson Gray Brooke I sent you a friend request I hope you friend me, I admire you and your postings.Robert Whitley Somehow ... we have to be able to convince those who are defecting from support for Herman Cain that the actions taken by "the radical left" is WHAT THEY DO! They attempted to keep Clarence Thomas off of the the Supreme Court by telling lies about him, and they are doing the same thing to Herman Cain. IT IS WHAT THEY (the radical left) DO!Susan Regdos Robert so very TRUE !Robert Whitley That is exactly right, Charlie. And by the way, thanks for accepting me as a Facebook friend. You and I think alike and definitely should be, and are, friends.Robert Whitley Yeah. I gotta go too... need some sleep... and same here-->every time they attack Herman Cain it makes me mad as hell.
Skip Childress I think he is telling the truth !!Robert Whitley I do too, Skip. I do too.Karen Johnson Gray You can't look people in the eye and lie like he did, he never faltered with looking straight at the camera. To me he is telling the truth. and the fact that he is trying to protect his family is great!Dianne Alford Shaw It's over for Cain.. Moving on.Brooke Lynn Fergus They ran him off the side of the road, Dianne Alford Shaw ...WHO'S NEXT that they will BUMP OFF the road?Brooke Lynn Fergus ... I say NEWT will be under attack and soon.Dianne Alford Shaw I'm afraid he did it to himself.19 hours ago · Like
Dianne Alford Shaw He's been around the block a few times..... he knows what to do.19 hours ago · Like
Karen Johnson Gray Newt can handle it, he has a backbone! You can tell he pulls no punches.Brooke Lynn Fergus One thing on Newt, he had his ex wife served Divorce Papers when she was in the hospital ... I just don't like kicking a person when they are down... kinda shows me his 'internal' self.Robert Whitley No No No. That story was made up. Newt's daughter has written about that and she says it is NOT true.Brooke Lynn Fergus "Newt Gingrich has been dogged by a single devastating anecdote from his past, one that has been repeated in the national press hundreds of times and that has arguably come to define his political persona. After being elected to Congress in 1978 on a family values platform, the story goes, he visited his wife Jackie, who was in the hospital recovering from an operation for uterine cancer, and demanded that she discuss terms of their divorce."Robert Whitley A guy last name Osborne wrote that. It was a lie.19 hours ago · LikeRobert Whitley I forgot his first name.19 hours ago · LikeBrooke Lynn Fergus I want to believe it to be a lie ... I truly do ...Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens She actually asked him for a divorce. Don't buy into the lies.Brooke Lynn Fergus I'll look it up ... I JUST PRAY THAT ROMNEY DOES NOT GET THE NOMINATION...Robert Whitley Now I've got to remember Newt's daughter's name. It was her mother dying of cancer... Newt had ALREADY served divorce papers. Then out of concern for his wife's well-being he visited her in the hospital. He did NOT have the papers served on her after it was discovered she had cancer... it was before.Brooke Lynn Fergus Unfortunately, I feel Cain's Train is gone... and Im sad to be honest.19 hours ago · LikeDianne Alford Shaw Would enjoy seeing Gingrich debate Obama..... love his offering to let Obama use a teleprompter..... what a hoot!Brooke Lynn Fergus Newt/Cain was a ticket I was looking to buy.Brooke Lynn Fergus OH, Dianne, you got that right ... NEWT WILL RIP HIM A NEW ONE!Dianne Alford Shaw anyone but OblahBlah!
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Dianne Alford Shaw Sorry about Cain.... but, he just wasn't up for prime-time.Brooke Lynn Fergus Im still here ... Darn computer is playing SIT and SPIN ... Argh!19 hours ago · Like
Robert Whitley Okay... Newt Gingrich and then Jackie Battley Gingrich's daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital say, and that Newt Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce. See Newt's biography on wikipedia, and I have seen this account elsewhere as well.Brooke Lynn Fergus I nominate Robert Whitley, to go and DEFEND NEWT on this ... cause the MSM will have a field day, running with Half Truths...Robert Whitley The guy named Osborne wrote a "twisted" story in which the facts just did not get told correctly.Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/correcting-the-record-newt-gingrich-didnt-divorce-his-first-wife-while-she-had-cancer/Brooke Lynn Fergus OKAY... THIS WILL BE WHAT OBAMA WILL DO, WHEN NEWT GOES AFTER HIM ... THIS IS A RIOT! ... O Just Can't Take It! A good laugh is always a neccesity! ... Barack Obama Gets Mad At Reporters and Knocks Over Podium LOLBrooke Lynn Fergus He has just a bit of a TEMPER TANTRUM ... what an OIDIOT!Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens I understand that after Netanyahu schooled him he ran around the WH screaming "WTF was that?". He's a real national treasure. LOLBrooke Lynn Fergus THEY BROKE THE MOLD WITH THIS ONE ... AND SOME OF THAT 'MOLD' IS HANGING AROUND MOOOOOCHIE STILL. ;)Brooke Lynn Fergus ... any news on the Cain Train issue today? Ive been doing a bit of Christmas stuff, cleaning house etc!5 hours ago · LikeClayton Douglas One thing i do know, 99.9% of all politicians lie...Does Cain fall in the 1 % category?3 hours ago · LikeRoxanne Chew Nothin New, I think he will announce something by Monday. he said in an interview he was going to talk things over with his family over the weekend. I know it looks bad but Im thinking he could possibly be in that 1% category! He is just not your business as usual Guy!Clayton Douglas I hate the Liberal media more than Politicians! They are the ones who helped Hitler, and they are the ones who support the Imposter! Hello........When the Communist party in this country ends up endorsing Obumu, does a red flag go up in anyone's mind???
What Herman Cain is guilty of: New Living Translation (©2007) II Timothy 3:6They are the kind who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. A lie detector would've cleared this up long ago, and I don't believe that he's 100% truthful on his marriage or 9-9-9; he should go on Dr. Phil and clear his name. I don't trust a man whose plan is 9-9-9=27% tax gimmick to pay for Obama's misappropriation. I also don't trust a person who openly lied to the Press about the allegations and what 9-9-9 really is:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150426688928670&set=a.79091778669.74391.773523669&type=1&theater
says it all about Herman Cain's lack of integrityBy: Aja Brooksabout an hour ago · Like · 
Brooke Lynn Fergus GOT IT ... THANKS Charlie Ward!43 minutes ago · Like
Greg Rodgers He just said he hasn't done "SOME" of the things he's been accused of!!!Greg Rodgers His eyes keep shifting...I think he's lying...just my opinion
Jack Ranck hey mouth off at me, and it shows how much of an idiot you are: I never gave Bill 'Slick Willy' a pass.... the Presidency was forever tarnished after he did that and for you to say that to me, you have lived under a rock for 2 years. I have written the repeal bill for HR 4872, and as Tea Party Chief, I have written over 40 documents, and I just finished analyzing the annual budget. http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/docs/
LEGISLATION DISCUSSION GROUP33 minutes ago · Like
Not really I used a calculator and researched it from Cain's site itself: it is 27% flat tax for all because, it kills smalls businesses. There is no deductions or charitable donations, so you can't write off a portion of your taxes as tithes, or 10%. Corporations pay 35% so this is a big break for them, they get the profit back that they've lost, even though they got out of payroll taxes, and Obama did that to bribe corporations for lobbying money and votes. Cain is doing the same thing Obama is doing, and worse, he is using 9-9-9 to pay for Obama's misappropriation, instead of addressing and fixing the current budget problems:http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/233345506730785/
LEGISLATION DISCUSSION GROUP33 minutes ago · Like · 
Aja Brooks We would be paying 27% to government and 10% to God, and if you do a basic application of this income to someone who makes $80-$1,000 a month as an individual, they will be left with $50-$100 in their pocket after tithe, taxes, and bills. Hardly what I would call 9-9-9 as fair, flat, or value added, but totally fooked up.32 minutes ago · Like
I do think Herman Cain is lying: he has destroyed himself by his lack of integrity and he is a Republicanized Obama according to his own policies. This is where he lied to the Press on CSPAN about the payout for sexual harassment,http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150426688928670&set=a.79091778669.74391.773523669&type=1&theaterand he is a victim of his own vanity. The book he wrote is like a memoir as if he was already Pres. and no one has even voted in the primaries yet.
TO CONTINUE READING THE TEA PARTY DELIBERATIONS FOR NOMINATION, GO HERE:
Aja Brooks THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A DICTATOR: Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama announced that the current Administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. However, unless Congress repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, it remains federal law, enforceable by the courts.
Like · · Share · December 2 at 10:19amAja Brooks Oh and Karzai 'pardons' rape victim if she goes through with marrying her rapist, whose child she had in prison, being charged with 'crime out of wedlock' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/hamid-karzai-afghanistan_n_1123656.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl15%7Csec1_lnk1%7C117100
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative. Karzai's office said in a statement that the woman and her attacker have agreed to marry.
VIDEO: #Schweizer: Congressional Insider Trading Ban Now Has 127 Sponsors: goo.gl/gl21X #STOCKAct #TTAO #TCOT #Congress #Insider
.@SpeakerBoehner presses @whitehouse to approve Keystone Pipeline wapo.st/v37SMr #4jobs via @washingtonpost
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SenPatRoberts Pat Roberts Tune into PBS Nightly Business Report at 5:30p.m.CT/6:30ET to hear me talk about #MFGlobal, Corzine, and regulations.pic.twitter.com/dB5wJ7aO
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SO MUCH FOR GREEN JOBS.....FBIPressOffice FBI PressOffice Virginia Man Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Conceal Pakistan Government Funding for His U.S. Lobbying Efforts: ...1.usa.gov/t56jON #FBI
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Former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Corruption in Office: — Chicago 1.usa.gov/vpLiqs #FBI
Nobody Comes Out Looking Good in Solyndra Mess: bit.ly/vVTMB2
Sen. Bob Corker: Reforming Fannie and Freddie long overdue fb.me/197YdqfEH
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- DEMOCRATS CAN NOT OVERCOME UNEMPLOYMENT STAYING AT 9%, WITH SOME STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA AND HARD HIT GEORGIA COUNTIES HAVING MARKED DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT, SOME AS HIGH AS 15%,
- AND DEMOCRATS CAN NOT JUSTIFY THEIR “CONTINUING RESOLUTION” WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUDGET WHILE PREACHING PEACE WITH NO PLANS ON HOW TO GEAR TO A PEACE-TIME ECONOMY, LOBBYING CHASE FOR 100,000 JOBS FOR THE 1.5 MILLION JOBLESS VETERANS TO BE INJECTED BACK INTO THE WORK FORCE OVER THE NEXT YEAR:
Aja Brooks
FreedomWorks
Obama "Recovery": unemployment rate "falls"--because work force shrinks.http://t.co/IA9H1hn
Like · · @2011teaparty on Twitter · December 2 at 11:41am viaTwitterAja Brooks
@RexandCarolyn @SoupCanKiller @vannschaffner @republicansNJ @michaelemlong @RightWingNews $2.5 TRILLION REVENUE REVIEW:http://t.co/7kexotu
Like · · @2011teaparty on Twitter · December 2 at 10:54am viaTwitterAja Brooks
wow twitter froze on that one <crickets>
Like · · @2011teaparty on Twitter · December 2 at 10:42am viaTwitterAja Brooks
8.6% a temporary holiday swing-we still have double digit unemployment in GA counties and California and longstanding unemployment/poverty
Like · · @2011teaparty on Twitter · December 2 at 10:31am viaTwitterTEA PARTY CHIEF OVERJOYED AT THE RESIGNATION OF BARNEY FRANK:
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, SARKOZY, GIVES A WAVE OF THE HAND OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TOWARD OBAMA... WHICH WE WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH FRANCE UNTIL THIS ENDORSEMENT, FEELING ALMOST AS BETRAYED AS WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT A NUKE WAS SOLD TO SADDAM THAT HAD MADE IN FRANCE SCRATCHED OFF THE SIDE OF IT, THAT SADDAM FINANCED FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN, PRIOR TO 9/11:
7 December 2011
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http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20111206/169397626.html
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A World Without the Euro
Filed under: economy,EU,politics — 01varvara @ 00.00Tags: Angela Merkel, Euro, European Central Bank, European Union, Eurozone, Nicolas Sarkozy
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The EU summit scheduled for 9 December will be judgment day for the Euro Zone. Dark clouds are gathering over united Europe. After their bilateral meeting, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy called for “structural changes” in the Euro Zone and a new treaty… the contents of which remain a mystery. A little earlier Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti acknowledged that his country would follow in the wake of Greece without a package of anti-crisis measures. Meanwhile, experts are debating what the world will look like after the Euro.
H-Hour for the Euro
The Euro Zone’s debt problems have become a Gordian knot that EU officials are unable to disentangle. EU leaders prefer simply to cut it. Apparently, at the 9 December summit in Brussels, they’ll agree that the majority of EU members would switch back to their national currencies before the New Year. Only Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands will keep the Euro for a transitional period that will tentatively last for three years. The timing of this fateful decision was well thought out… economic and political life in Europe slows to a crawl around Christmas and the New Year. This lull’s the best time for switching back to old currencies and fixing their exchange rates. Panic wasn’t avoided… the leaks after the Merkel-Sarkozy meeting on 5 December caused explosions on stock and currency markets. If the panic continues, the Old World’s economy will grind to a halt.
The Euro We Lost
To stop the Euro’s slump and the dollar’s growth, trade on currency markets is being suspended and the main exchanges in America, Europe, and Asia are being shut down. The holders of Euros and Euro-denominated securities are doing all they can to get rid of their dangerous assets. The rates of national currencies and the future of the Euro in the countries that will keep it remain unknown. The panic may result in a run on banks in the Euro Zone, causing the baking system to collapse. According to leaks in the Western media, Euro Zone authorities are prepared to freeze all accounts until January 2012.
Experts are all but convinced that Christmas in Europe will be marked by massive riots and protests. However, this isn’t the only problem, or even the main one. Some companies have signed deals in Euros and it is unclear what they should do now, especially if these deals are slated for next year. Many experts are surprised that EU officials are in such a rush. Converting deals to national currencies will require a great deal of time and money. Nevertheless, there’s no money, and it’ll take several years to fix currency rates. The economy simply won’t function throughout this period unless a reliable currency appears. The only candidate is the US Dollar. Only the US Federal Reserve will be able to stop this emerging economic collapse by selling huge amounts of dollars.
The Euro That Wasn’t Needed
What was described above is not reality, but one of the possible scenarios. This dystopian vision was meant to show how seriously sick Europe is. At the same time, this scenario may still come to pass. Neither officials nor experts are unanimous on what to do with the knot of European problems. Should they disentangle or cut it? Which is the lesser disaster… abolishing the Euro or keeping it? Some experts believe that the losses from abolishing the Euro will be modest, all the more so since the introduction of the common currency hasn’t been very beneficial for the Euro Zone economies.
Igor Nikolayev, FBK strategic analysis director, said, “Our analysis of macroeconomic indicators shows that the introduction of the euro hasn’t produced any gains. No tangible increase or decrease in the GDP or industrial production has been registered. What is there to regret then?” Some economists think that the introduction of the euro couldn’t have produced any gains because its main economic goal was to redistribute financial flows in favour of French and German banks and enhance the market positions of German exporters. Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements (IGSO), explained, “Europe’s deindustrialisation took place not under Chinese pressure, but due to the concentration of almost all industrial production in Germany. Less effective industrial zones proved unable not only to compete with it, but even to modernise themselves for future competition”. He believed that a systemic economic overhaul requires domestic currency and monetary systems and room for flexibility in how countries manage their budgets. Having a common currency makes this impossible.
The Euro that was Imposed on Some Countries
Peripheral EU countries like Greece have found themselves in a trap. An expensive currency (the Euro) is making it hard for them to compete with the developing economies of China and India. Nor can they compete with Germany because of the gap in industrial potential. Kagarlitsky’s convinced that a “smooth transition” from the Euro to national currencies would benefit all problematic Euro Zone countries. Abolishing the Euro would cause difficulties in the financial systems of Germany and France and slow down their economic growth, but revive other economies that have no opportunities to grow inside the Euro Zone. However, all experts polled by RIA-Novosti agree that a “smooth transition” is absolutely impossible.
First, the countries concerned would have to destroy the economic contacts they amassed over the past 15 years… numerous Euro-denominated debt obligations, shares of European companies, and contracts. Yuri Danilov, director of the Stock Market Development Centre, believed, “The European countries will be simply unable to deal with the Euro-denominated arrangements they have made over almost 15 years”. Abolishing the common currency may aggravate Euro Zone debts. Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Centre of Post-Industrial Studies, explained, “The collapse of the Euro would cause extreme mistrust in all European currencies and make it much more difficult to sell any debt securities. European companies would find it harder to borrow money”. Mistrust of sovereign European currencies would paralyse the economies of the countries concerned or compel them to look for a currency replacement, for instance, the US Dollar. Nikolayev from FBK thought that the global economy’s teetering on the brink of crisis and that abolishing the Euro would inevitably push the world into a new abyss.
The Euro that’s still Needed
Danilov attributes talk of the Euro’s early death to the imprecise interpretation of the term “the disintegration of the Euro Zone”. He explained, “The EU interprets ‘the disintegration of the Euro Zone’ as the withdrawal of one, two, or, at worst, four countries. These scenarios don’t involve the Euro’s disappearance as currency”. If the Euro Zone splits and the currencies of its “outcasts” are inevitably devalued, their industries may receive certain competitive advantages. At the same time, their budget problems would worsen and the threat of social and political destabilisation will become more pronounced. The Euro will shoot up, which, Inozemtsev maintained, would reduce the competitiveness of the countries operating with it.
Many experts maintain that the Euro Zone countries can avoid economic disaster only through collective action. Inozemtsev offered the following way out, “The only solution is for the European Central Bank to purchase securities from Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal, which must be cleared in the next three years. This would cost 1.2 to 1.3 trillion Euros (50 to 54.2 trillion Roubles. 1.6 to 1.75 trillion USD. 1.03 to 1.11 trillion UK Pounds). If the ECB prints banknotes to redeem these securities, all the problems of European banks would be resolved and the mechanism of inflation put into action”. Inflation’s inevitable… it would stir up the European economy and devalue debt securities to the point that governments will find it very easy to pay them off at their nominal cost in about a decade. However, experts acknowledged that if the economic problems of the south go unresolved, the crisis is bound to make another round…
7 December 2011
Vlad Grinkevich
RIA-Novosti
HOW OBAMA COMMITTED VOTER FRAUD, OTHER THAN BY LACK OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE WHICH HE COULD NOT PRODUCE BY SUBPOENA ON 8-8-11:
The prospect that an estimated 150 signatures may have been forged on petitions has raised the question of whether President Obama actually reached the legitimate number of signatures needed to be placed on the ballot in Indiana. Under state law, presidential candidates need to file 500 signatures from each of the state's nine congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704. The certified signatures were never challenged.They probably all came from Lake County! Lots of dirty union 'goons' in Lake County...right next to dirty Chicago!
GO GET EM!
IMPEACHMENT, THE 'ORIGINAL' KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR THE USE OF A FAKE SS#...IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME AND NOW IS THE TIME!
STATES PRESSING THE BIRTH ISSUE FOR 2012 AND BEYOND; GOD BLESS THEM!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
IS SHERIFF ARPAIO (AZ) FINALLY GETTING TO THE TRUTH…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oLIUT16ko0
Social Security Number Significance
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.h...
Holder raises the threshold for black voter intimidation of whites....http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/holde...
Civil Rights Division Attorney Talks: Time to Remove Holder from Office
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/civil...
....and the LEFT complains about the "poll tax" from a century ago!
($26 FOR A BIRTH CERTIFICATE THAT REP. BARBARA LEE CALLS A POLL TAX FOR THE NEW VOTER ID REGISTRATION LAWS THAT WOULD’VE PREVENTED THE 2008 FRAUD THAT COUNTED VOTES FROM DEAD PEOPLE AND MICKEY MOUSE VOTING FOR OBAMA...)
| * Aja Brooks Rep. Lee: dead&mickey mouse voted 4Obama — with Ryan Strang Smalley,Autumn Sullivan, Cholorecords Aja, Jeremiah Tant, Michael Hargis, Jeremiah Behr, Scott Owen, Vincent Larry Nelms, Brian S. Lindsey, Jonathan Mullins,Sharon Vega, Allison Brooks, Nathan Wilson, Jacob-delgodis Sims, David Beverage, Anthony Cox, Neal Mccorkle and Grant Rowe. Like · · Unfollow Post · Share · Edit · 11 hours ago Ashford Schwall likes this. 7 sharesAja Brooks How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008, wherein the corrupt DNC made a mockery of 'democracy'. 9 hours ago · Like Democrats: 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee I am not upset that HHS decided NOT to sell Plan B: it's very dangerous to self-induce egg expulsion from the body. #relieved 49 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee there are many things considered emmenagogues, which can act as abortifacients, if you have studied such. 48 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee I watched you on CSPAN today: Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S 46 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008 pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S 45 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S wherein the corrupt DNC made a mockery of 'democracy'. 45 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete 2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @RepBarbaraLee are you racist?? I mean really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!! 45 minutes ago Unfavorite Reply Delete 8 hours ago · Like |
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@BarackObama Rep. Lee must be racist: really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!!
@NancyPelosi Rep. Lee must be racist: really, the ballots in other elections were paper feed errors, not blatant egregious fraud of OBAMA!!
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @BarackObama How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S
@NancyPelosi How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3S
@BarackObama HELLO?! Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3Spic.twitter.com/6DCrvZS
@NancyPelosi HELLO?! Rep. Lee, dead&mickey mouse voted for Obama yet you oppose voter ID laws?! pic.twitter.com/7aVqe3Spic.twitter.com/ipTetCh
@NancyPelosi there are many things considered emmenagogues, which can act as abortifacients, if you have studied such.
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @NancyPelosi I am not upset that HHS decided NOT to sell Plan B: it's very dangerous to self-induce egg expulsion from the body. #relieved
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief 
@NancyPelosi facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… How convenient Congress' memory, when John McCain was cheated out of a fair election in 2008
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief @NancyPelosi refreshing to see you've released the monkeys and how we have racist blacks&Rep. Lee protest voter ID lawspic.twitter.com/OuvmU0N
No Representation without Taxation - Occupy the Media, etc,http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/no_represe...
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence' | Fox News foxnews.com/politics/2011/… via@foxnewspolitics
This declaration by Obama is a slap in the face to Fort Hood victims. America has no Commander in Chief! The proof: tinyurl.com/6qhy4qx
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House of Representatives - POLITICS
Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre 'Workplace Violence'
Published December 07, 2011| FoxNews.com
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
- April 9, 2010: FILE - This file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows U.S. Major Nidal Hasan at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. Hasan was charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage.
Thirteen people were killed and dozens more wounded at Fort Hood in 2009, and the number of alleged plots targeting the military has grown significantly since then. Lawmakers said there have been 33 plots against the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, and 70 percent of those threats have been since mid-2009. Major Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, who is being held for the attacks, allegedly was inspired by radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in late September. The two men exchanged as many as 20 emails, according to U.S. officials, and Awlaki declared Hasan a hero.
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, said the military has become a "direct target of violent Islamist extremism" within the United States.
"The stark reality is that the American service member is increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in a traditional war setting," Lieberman told Fox News before the start of Wednesday's hearing.
In June, two men allegedly plotted to attack a Seattle, Wash., military installation using guns and grenades. In July, Army Pvt. Naser Abdo was accused of planning a second attack on Fort Hood. And in November, New York police arrested Jose Pimentel, who alleged sought to kill service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both Pimentel and Abdo also allegedly drew inspiration from al-Awlaki and the online jihadist magazine Inspire, which includes a spread on how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
Rep. Peter King of New York, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said military service members are "symbols of America's power, symbols of America's might."
"And if they (military personnel) can be killed, then that is a great propaganda victory for al Qaeda," King told Fox News.
King said there is also evidence that extremists have joined the services.
"There is a serious threat within the military from people who have enlisted who are radical jihadists," King said. "The Defense Department is very concerned about them. They feel they're a threat to the military both for what they can do within the military itself and also because of the weapons skills they acquire while they're in the military."
The witnesses testifying before the joint session include Paul N. Stockton, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense; Jim Stuteville, U.S. Army senior adviser for counterintelligence operations and liaison to the FBI; Lt. Col. Reid L. Sawyer, director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and Darius Long, whose son, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, was shot and killed at an Arkansas military recruitment center in 2009.
A second private was also injured in the Arkansas attack. Both victims had just finished basic training and had not been deployed. They were outside the Arkansas recruitment center when the shooter opened fire from a passing truck. The shooter, Carlos Bledsoe, pleaded guilty to the crime earlier this year.
In a letter to the court, Bledsoe said he carried out the attack on behalf of al Qaeda in Yemen -- the group that was behind the last two major plots targeting the U.S. airline industry.
"My faith in government is diminished. It invents euphemisms ... Little Rock is a drive by and Fort Hood is just workplace violence. The truth is denied," Long testified.
King said the web is the driver of the new digital jihad.
"It enables people -- rather than having to travel to Afghanistan to learn about jihad or to be trained, they can do it right over the Internet," he said. "And this is a growing role."
And while Awlaki and his colleague Samir Khan, who was behind the magazine Inspire, were killed in a CIA-led operation in September, King warned against overconfidence that al Qaeda in Yemen was done.
"This is a definite short-term victory for us. There's no doubt they are going to regroup, that there will be others who will be providing Internet data, inspiration to jihadists in this country, instructions on how to make bombs," he said.
While King was heavily criticized, in some quarters, for launching his hearings 10 months ago on homegrown terrorism, the congressman said the joint session shows the threat is legitimate, and recognized as such by other members of Congress.
"To me it's a validation of what I've been trying to do all year," King emphasized. "There's a definite threat from Islamic radicalization in various parts of our society, including within the military, and we can't allow political correctness to keep us from exposing this threat for what it is."
Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/#ixzz1fujTD5r5
FILE THIS UNDER “I LIKE RON PAUL, I JUST DON’T THINK HE IS EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES LIKE THIS... THE INTERNAL ONES AND THE DIPLOMACY REQUIRED IN DEALING WITH THOSE NOT DOMESTIC”
Aja Brooks
Ron Paul needs to tell his followers, I must decrease while Jesus must increase.
Like · · @2011teaparty on Twitter · November 27 at 6:40am viaTwitterTBone Taylor really? Another unfair accusation. C'mon Aja Brooksyou know you dont know what or how people worship nor should you judge.
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Aja Brooks Really? I am not to judge those who are outside the church, but many Christians profess to follow Paul, when they should be following Jesus.
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Aja Brooks Another thing: for you to toss out the Matt. 7:1 is taking out of context the entire Bible. Do you neglect the other verses that discuss Christian accountability? Such as: New Living Translation (©2007) 1 Cor. 5:12
It isn't my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. Mark 4:11 He told them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables
1 Corinthians 5:3 Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
1 Corinthians 6:1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints?TBone Taylor if you're going to try and quote Scripture to me like the devil tried to quote it to Jesus when he tempted him, at least get the verse and the context correct.
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OH AND DON’T FORGET THAT DISSOLVING THE FED DOESN’T RESOLVE OUR CREDIT RATING:
RepPaulRyan Paul Ryan It’s not news that Washington’s budget process is broken. But the House Budget Cmte is doing something to fix it: ow.ly/7REHh
.@RepRibble and I have an op-ed in@WaukeshaFreeman on what we’re doing to fix Washington’s broken budget process:ow.ly/7REu4
2011teaparty Tea Party Chief SO I SUPPOSE BELOW ARE THE DETAILED REASONS AS TO WHY PAUL RYAN HONORED THE GROVER NORQUIST PLEDGE AND VOTED AGAINST THE CURRENT BBA LANGUAGE THE OTHER DAY...
Budget Process Reform
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TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE REVIEW - OBAMA WASTE TRACKER TAB https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq5m9QEGEZpOdDE0R0o1YmFJRDdyVkFIcVE0dkthUXc&hl=en_US#gid=0
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE REVIEW: http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
VIEW PHOTOS http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150424684198670.376520.773523669&type=3
Gaddafi money Obama intercepted, Solyndra, Fannie&Freddie, and MF Global his waste tab $442,764,300,000 http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO AL QAEDA. NORTH KOREA IS DEVELOPING IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. ANOTHER NO-NO
HEALTH CARE REFORM RESIGNATION AND ENTITLEMENT REFORM APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2012, effective 1/1/12:
Regarding the current reconciliation H.R. 4872, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U318AW5XYBjzgEhPvvcW59RUHdSehnOVdGiquZyxj6Q/edit?hl=en_US current health care reform could not be passed as reconciled, nor upheld, or implemented as written, and was declared dead legislation: http://chiefbrooks.blogspot.com/
When using the budgetary process of reconciliation, as President, one must have a Senate approved budget. The Senate has been controlled by Democrats since 2006, the debt ceiling has been raised twice since then, and no reconciliation tool can be used when the federal government is operating on a continuing resolution, for the Democrats’ failure to approve a budget for three years.
H.R. 4872 is dead legislation, because there is no money to enact the funded provisions in a $15 trillion dollar deficit, and for the fact that it is outside the scope of constitutional government, in first providing for the common defense.
Colin Powell argued fiercely yesterday that the Tea Party was to blame; however, the Tea Party has found enough cuts and compromised twice, (not whatsoever, as he alleges), to find cuts to continue funding the government and put defense first in priority for operations through 12-16-11.
H.R. 4872, in its summation and appropriation, did not provide anyone with health insurance; it sequestered funding for unconstitutional use of taxpayer dollars: expansion of prisons/use of psychotropic drugs and mandating tax dollars be used to mass-fund abortions.
As anyone knows: spending money on abortions and psychotropic drugs tries to fix societal problems without the proper glue: therefore, there is no money to spend on reducing premiums and managing health care costs through: wellness exams, preventative cancer screenings, and structured surgery cost differential.
Both of these provisions, abortions and prison expansions/psychotropics are misappropriation: citing the 10th Amendment, the Georgia Patients’ Bill of Rights, the Commerce Clause, and moral objections to legislating morality. There is not only an effective moral argument against implementing the legislation, but a glaring lack of finance.
The power of rightful citizenship is to wield the power of the pen, rather than the sword, for the general good of all and is something President Obama does not possess:
he has exploited our legal system, has no authentic record of Hawaiian birth, as he eludes being charged with Social Security fraud and election fraud for dead people and Mickey Mouse voting for him in 2008.
While impeachment drags on, all of Obama’s felonious actions negate anything he has signed into law during this term, for committing perjury: violating Oath of Office, taking in fraudulent campaign donations through convicted Chief Fundraiser Tony Rezko, (who was just sentenced to 10 years in prison), and these donations add up to too many felonies that I have not the time to mention here and various crimes against the public that have warranted the usage of such words as treason and treachery.
H.R. 4872 does not do what it was designed to do, which is, control population growth ethically and responsibly: those who are innocent children conceived face a federally-funded fully-revolving door of the carcass harvesting machine, being sold for scrap parts and stem cell research, now proven ineffective by means of adult stem cells regenerating the heart of the original genetic donor.
Like marrow, stem cells only prove compatible for organ regeneration, so abortion and stem cell research do not require massive government funding, nor do we need to imitate the abortion policies of China, when this science is proven to be limited to those endeavors.
Unethical legislation should not be funded in favor of offering government funded sterilization after the third child, as an option, instead of abortion, which desecrates a woman’s temple!
In conjunction with responsible population control and finance, states were initiated through local courts to uphold these measures of entitlement reform, rather than absorb federal misappropriation:
The State Welfare and Child Support Enforcement Comprehensive Reform Act of 2011-2012
We also ask that every local state department audit their records of distribution of federal funds through food stamp allotments, welfare, and health care.
Taxpayers do not have to fund human farms: in which a mother is being used as a breeder for gang activity. These are known as “den mothers”, a transient residence for a man who has a child or children with the mother, as he floats from woman to woman. A den mother creates a haven or houses gang members, as the mother of a gang leader’s children, or she changes gangs and permits a rival gang to live in her home. This creates a very hostile and routinely upsetting environment for children to live in on a daily basis: children are starved, beaten, and neglected for the financial supremacy goal the gang tries to achieve.
A recent welfare fraud case involved a woman who had four different names for kids, but claimed 11 on her IRS forms and various local offices to suck tons of money from the system http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/l/judith_leekin/index.html
Given the need to curtail gang activity, and men who propagate children for this purpose who leave the mothers to care for the children solely and stick society with their tab, it is necessary that state DFACS and IRS agents coordinate their investigations for tax fraud. Any family over the 3-child-claim rule should be flagged and monitored for extra scrutiny if they are receiving aid of any kind!!!
Resultant to these inquiries and investigations, states may enact a cut off: to prevent misappropriation and abuse of taxpayers dollars, by refusing to fund aid to families not adhering to the 3-child rule; those who are contributing to broken homes, adoption mills, and pedophile farming and grooming.
States will be assisting the IRS with reports of suspected fraud, and neglect or abuse of children to DFACS, for the violation of policies involved with distributing state aid. Agencies who do not comply will be reported to the appropriate federal authority, and that local office’s funding will be reduced or eliminated.
Taxpayers don’t pay for your computer, transportation, and telephone for you to sit at a desk and ignore the tasks at hand in their communities!!!
Remember: what DFACS and IRS fails to catch then becomes collateral damage on our courts and taxpayer dollars!! The system must function lawfully and ethically, or its various departments are subject to budget cuts and disbanding, like any organization.
Jimmy Norman
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A Constitutional Report Card for the CBS\National Journal Republican Party Presidential Debate 11/12
Vision Forum Ministries is dedicated to the restoration of Christian family culture.
Like · · Unfollow Post · Share · 2 minutes ago- Aja Brooks THANKS, I will compare it and contrast it in the next newsletter to the other report card we already graded nominees on:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kzUO3DImTWtyUCY8_ij0uZfyzd676hy2ZjUyhlcWnIo/edit?hl=en_US
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A Constitutional Report Card for the CBS\National Journal Republican Party Presidential Debate 11/12/2011
by Douglas W. Phillips, Esq., November 28, 2011Articles in this series:
| * | A downloadable PDF of this report card is available here (full report is also below). |
BACKGROUND: On November 12, 2011, the eight leading Republican candidates took the stage in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for a Republican primary debate focusing on foreign policy and national security, and the overall role of the President. The purpose of this document is to provide a report card that will help Christian families evaluate the statements made by the candidates during that debate from a constitutional perspective. This report card is limited in its scope in that it only addresses issues specifically on the table during the November 12 debate. The scores are based on the actual statements made by the candidates during that debate. Candidates’ comments are taken at face value and evaluated without regard to their past statements or policy records, unless the candidates or those posing the questions specifically addressed the past statements and previous policy record of the candidate. Nothing in this report card should be construed as advocacy for a specific presidential candidate.
This report card is intended to score each of the eight candidates, on the basis of their own answers, on whether or not their proposals, as stated, are in keeping with their potential duty to uphold and defend the United States Constitution.
*Each candidate is scored on the basis of his or her answers in this debate alone. To score an (A) the candidates only need to provide an answer that will not in some way violate the United States Constitution.
I. Nuclear Arms
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.Question #1: This week, a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency provided additional credible evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. If you were president right now, what would you do specifically that this administration is not doing to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that it was important for Americans to know that the people of Iran are not the enemy, but the regime in Iran is the enemy. He said that he was opposed to the use of military force in Iran, but he would approach the issues in two ways. First he would support the opposition in Iran and second he would place economic pressure on Iran by striving for energy independence. This would also include calling on America’s allies to place economic sanctions on Iran. He also said that he would deploy America’s ballistic missile defense capable warships to that part of the world.
Constitutional Grade: CRemarks: It is uncertain what type of intervention Mr. Cain would employ to support the opposition party in Iran. If the support came in the form of arm sales, sharing intelligence data, or a declaration of support in the international community, the activity could be constitutional. However, if the support came in the way of monetary aid, supplying military provisions, or troop deployment, the activity would be unconstitutional.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Governor Romney criticized President Barrack Obama for understanding the threat posed by Iran and doing nothing to prevent that threat. He said that the President should have publically supported the opposition when they took to the street. Second, the President should have placed crippling sanctions on Iran. Finally, Mr. Romney said the President should have made a credible threat of military action if they did not stand down on their nuclear program. Mr. Romney warned that if President Obama were elected to another term Iran will have nuclear weapons, but if he (Mr. Romney) were elected president, Iran would not have nuclear weapons.Mr. Romney said that he would accomplish this by placing crippling sanctions on Iran, he would work with the opposition to encourage a regime change, and, if all else fails, he would take military action to prevent Iran from achieving its nuclear goals. He said that a Nuclear Iran is simply unacceptable. “I will make sure that the sanctions; diplomatic pressure, economic pressure, and support of insurgents within the country help them become dissuaded to get away from their nuclear ambition. And finally... have military presence there.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The political and economic sanctions that Mr. Romney has mentioned are a constitutional exercise of the executive power. However, the former Governor fails to make a case for why the United States may engage in a preemptive war when the United States has not been harmed, and why the United States can justify allowing friends develop nuclear weapons, and forbidding enemies to develop them. Moreover, the President does not have the Constitutional authority to declare war.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich also criticized President Obama and said that both Mr. Cain and former Governor Romney’s answers were superior to the policy of President Obama. He said his approach would be to take out Iran’s scientists and break up their system all in a way that would be both covert and deniable. Secondly, he would coordinate with the Israelis to place pressure on Iran. Third, he said that he would use Cold War tactics like those used against the former Soviet Union, engaging in all means possible short of war to bring the regime down. Finally, Mr. Gingrich said if all else failed he would “take whatever steps necessary to break [Iran’s] capacity to have nuclear weapons.”Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The means that Mr. Gingrich is advocating is unconstitutional and immoral. He advocates an interventionist approach based on assassinations, espionage, and lies. This is a foreign policy of murder and deceit. The United States has the capacity to keep Americans safe without engaging in such interventions.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul pointed out that the Commander in Chief is not vested with the authority to engage in or declare wars. The President of the United Sates is required to get a declaration of war from Congress. He pointed to the war with Iraq as an example, in which America engaged in an undeclared war in the basis of a suspicion that proved to be unfounded. After 10 years of death and destruction America is 4 trillion dollars in debt. He said if you decide it is necessary to go to war, the president must go to Congress, determine if America’s national security is threatened, get a declaration for war, fight it, win it, and get it over with.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Ron Paul explains the constitutional position that the Congress is the only body vested with the authority to declare war and that wars must be based on a threat to national security, and not a form of foreign aid and nation building.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Economic sanctions are a constitutional means of exercising foreign policy, but this also would require an act of Congress.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Funding political movements in foreign nations are not only unconstitutional forms of forging aid, they are acts of aggression, which provide foreign nations with the justification to retaliate with force against the United States. Moreover, the support of a pro-democracy movement does not even reflect the constitutional ideals since the United States Constitution guarantees a republican form of government, and not a democratic one.
Question #8: If you eliminate the Department of Energy, what do you do with the nuclear weapons?
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The fact that America does have numerous bureaucracies into whom the nuclear programs could be placed is in itself a problem. The Constitution calls for small, localized government, and the federal government has not been granted the authority to regulate energy throughout the states. There are other nuclear programs, such as those centered on defense that are legitimate functions of the federal government.
Question #17: U.S. forces are coming under attack daily now from the enemy crossing over the border from Pakistan. As president, as commander in chief, would you order U.S. forces into Pakistan to clear out those safe havens of the enemy?
Mr. Cain criticized President Obama for committing to a troop surge, but then pulling them back prematurely. He said that victory was not clearly defined.
Constitutional Grade: C
Moreover, Mr. Romney said he agreed with Mr. Perry that all foreign aid needed to start at zero. He said that with the various power bases, Pakistan needs to understand that they must allow the United States to go after terrorist networks, or go after them themselves to insure they will not destabilize Afghanistan.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: A decentralized or even a destabilized government does not provide the United States with adequate grounds to interfere with a foreign government. Moreover, collecting taxes from Americans and providing foreign aid is unconstitutional.
Question #18: “National Journal” and “The Atlantic” magazine reported that, for various reasons, some related to paranoia in Pakistan about what the United States might do, they are moving operational nuclear weapons in that country, unguarded, in trucks. If you were commander in chief, and intelligence came to you that one of those nuclear weapons was lost or possibly in the hands of terrorists, how would you respond?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This is not a situation that requires or permits the United States to interfere.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Intelligence is not in and of itself unconstitutional if connected to a military, non-policing purpose. Moreover, the world has always been dangerous, but the United States has never been better equipped to protect itself from foreign attacks.
Constitutional Grade: F
Question #2: What’s your appraisal of the combat situation on the ground in Afghanistan today and what would you change?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The war in Afghanistan is an unconstitutional war since it constitutes an undeclared act of war.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Santorum asserts is not a reasonably objective one since the tragedy of 9/11 proved that anyone with the ability to fly an airplane could pose a security threat to the United States. By this standard, a declaration of war could be made against any nation, or in this case against any group of individuals on the basis of affiliation. Ironically enough this was the same type of standard that Rome used from time to time to justify the persecution of Christians.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks:
Mr. Huntsman said that he would leave a number of troops behind for nation building purposes. Enhanced Special Forces would remain in Afghanistan for the purpose of gathering intelligence and providing rapid response. He also said that he would commit to training an Afghan national army. “We are fighting an asymmetric threat, a counterterror threat. Not only there, but in Waziristan and every other corner of the world. And we need to prepare for that as a reality of our 21st Century foreign policy.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While he is committed to withdrawing troops, Mr. Huntsman is committed to leaving a contingent behind for nation building purposes. This is an unconstitutional use of the American military.
Question #3: Do you support a smaller footprint in Afghanistan? And secondarily, is it time or would it ever be time for the United States to negotiate with the Taliban?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would continue the war in Afghanistan and leave soldiers behind for nation building purposes. There is no constitutional justification for these kinds of activities.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only would Mr. Gingrich continue an unconstitutional war, he would expand the war efforts into two new fronts.
Question #4: In your judgment, is Pakistan a friend or foe?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This plan of action is predicated on the validity of nation building. If Pakistan desired to remain neutral and refused to commit troops or enter an agreement with the United States regarding the governing of their own region, it would be viewed as a threat. The United States cannot require another nation to commit troops to accomplish their own conquest of the region; nor may the United States require that Pakistan agree with the plans that the United State has for their own region. The Constitution does not allow for American Imperialism.
Question #5: What is the proper role of the United States through foreign aid and other interventions?
When later asked if his “zero aid” policy would include Israel, the Governor answer that it would. Every nation would start at zero. He said that because Israel is an ally his guess would be that we would fund them at a substantial level. He said that the same approach might be useful to determine the budget for federal agencies.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system, nor does the Constitution allow the United States to commit American troops solely on the behalf of foreign nations such as Israel.
When asked about how he would approach Egypt, Mr. Gingrich said that eliminating foreign aid for Egypt was a possibility. He said that the degree to which the Arab Spring has become anti-Christian bothers him a great deal. “I would certainly have the State Department intervening on behalf of the Coptic Christians, who are being persecuted under the new system, having their churches burned, having people killed. And I’d be pretty insistent that we are not going to be supportive of a regime, which is explicitly hostile to religions other than Islam.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich provides a vivid example of the problem with the current foreign aid policy. Billions of dollars are spent in an unconstitutional manner to support nations who show animosity to the United States and persecute Coptic Christians.
Mr. Santorum answered that a lot of Pakistanis and most of the government don’t back the Hikani Network. He said that the United States needed to continue to send monetary aid to Pakistan. He pointed out that the aid relationship also came with military aid. Aid relationship created jobs because the money is spent in the United States for military hardware, and builds a dependency on American weapon systems.
Constitutional Grade: F
Question #6: In your judgment, do you believe Governor Romney has the ability to think outside the box and change United States’ national security or foreign policy perspectives?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Again Mr. Gingrich calls for covert Cold War strategies that involve murder, espionage, and deceit.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Ron Paul explains the constitutional position that the Congress is the only body vested with the authority to declare war and that wars must be based on a threat to national security, and not a form of foreign aid and nation building.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that one of the points that had not been raised was the fact that America has the ability to sanction the Iranian Central Bank immediately, which would shut down the nation’s economy. He said the American people needed to stand up and force the President to make that stand immediately.Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Economic sanctions are a constitutional means of exercising foreign policy, but this also would require an act of Congress.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he had been working on Iran for a long time. He said that Iran is the biggest issue with national security that will confront the United States in the next year. He said that he had proposed giving money to the rebel forces in Iran in 2004 to support a pro-democracy movement and to place tough sanctions. He explained that despite opposition by President Bush the legislation was passed, but has since been defunded by Presidents Bush and Obama. He said that providing support for the pro-democracy movement was not enough. Mr. Santorum suggested that the Untied States should work with Israel to take out the nuclear capability of Iran through military force.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Funding political movements in foreign nations are not only unconstitutional forms of forging aid, they are acts of aggression, which provide foreign nations with the justification to retaliate with force against the United States. Moreover, the support of a pro-democracy movement does not even reflect the constitutional ideals since the United States Constitution guarantees a republican form of government, and not a democratic one.
Question #8: If you eliminate the Department of Energy, what do you do with the nuclear weapons?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said there were plenty of departments within the government that could assume oversight of nuclear energy.Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The fact that America does have numerous bureaucracies into whom the nuclear programs could be placed is in itself a problem. The Constitution calls for small, localized government, and the federal government has not been granted the authority to regulate energy throughout the states. There are other nuclear programs, such as those centered on defense that are legitimate functions of the federal government.
Question #17: U.S. forces are coming under attack daily now from the enemy crossing over the border from Pakistan. As president, as commander in chief, would you order U.S. forces into Pakistan to clear out those safe havens of the enemy?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that this would be a decision he would have to make with the commanders on the ground, intelligence sources, and after having discussions with the officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said that for the Afghan President to say that they would side with Pakistan when American soldiers are dying over there for them was a real problem. He said it was important to tread lightly because Pakistan was one of nine nations that have nuclear weapons.Mr. Cain criticized President Obama for committing to a troop surge, but then pulling them back prematurely. He said that victory was not clearly defined.
Constitutional Grade: C
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that Americans needed to understand that Pakistan is not a country like other countries. He said that it was close to being a failed state. He said that the nation had four centers of power that were to be found in the intelligence agencies, the military, the political leaders, and the fundamentalists. He said to commit troops to Pakistan in this type of environment would be highly incendiary. He alleged that the Pakistani government now is comfortable using our drones to pursue the biggest threats.Moreover, Mr. Romney said he agreed with Mr. Perry that all foreign aid needed to start at zero. He said that with the various power bases, Pakistan needs to understand that they must allow the United States to go after terrorist networks, or go after them themselves to insure they will not destabilize Afghanistan.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: A decentralized or even a destabilized government does not provide the United States with adequate grounds to interfere with a foreign government. Moreover, collecting taxes from Americans and providing foreign aid is unconstitutional.
Question #18: “National Journal” and “The Atlantic” magazine reported that, for various reasons, some related to paranoia in Pakistan about what the United States might do, they are moving operational nuclear weapons in that country, unguarded, in trucks. If you were commander in chief, and intelligence came to you that one of those nuclear weapons was lost or possibly in the hands of terrorists, how would you respond?
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he would respond by working with the Pakistani government and hope that the military, and not the radical faction, were in control. He would work with the military and the secret service to help them recover those weapons. He said that he would possibly use human and non-human intelligence, and Special Forces to recover the nuclear weapon. He said that he would need more specific information to answer the question with more detail. One thing he wanted to make clear: he would not act without working with the Pakistanis in the region.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This is not a situation that requires or permits the United States to interfere.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich pointed out that one of the problems is that the United States does not have reliable or independent intelligence in places like Pakistan. America is forced to rely on their allies and friends in the region, who may or may not actually be friends. “We had better overhaul everything from rules of engagement to how we run the intelligence community, because we are in a very dangerous world.”Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Intelligence is not in and of itself unconstitutional if connected to a military, non-policing purpose. Moreover, the world has always been dangerous, but the United States has never been better equipped to protect itself from foreign attacks.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that General Gianni was running Pakistan, not the president of that nation. He said that he would call in a SEAL team to take charge and find the nuclear weapon. We would have no choice, Mr. Huntsman asserted.Constitutional Grade: F
II. Foreign War
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A war or conflict occurring without an act from Congress is unconstitutional. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.Question #2: What’s your appraisal of the combat situation on the ground in Afghanistan today and what would you change?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry asserted that the mission in Afghanistan must be completed, but to provide timetables for withdraw is inappropriate, irresponsible, and threatens the lives of our military personnel. He said that he had been in contact with the commanders in the field in Afghanistan and he believed that progress was being made there. Mr. Perry said the primary challenge was training up the Afghan security forces to a level that they can protect the citizenry and keep the terrorist from using Afghanistan and Pakistan as a staging point for their activities.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The war in Afghanistan is an unconstitutional war since it constitutes an undeclared act of war.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that he would view a victory in Afghanistan to be accomplished if the Taliban has been disabled and they no longer pose a security threat to the United States.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Santorum asserts is not a reasonably objective one since the tragedy of 9/11 proved that anyone with the ability to fly an airplane could pose a security threat to the United States. By this standard, a declaration of war could be made against any nation, or in this case against any group of individuals on the basis of affiliation. Ironically enough this was the same type of standard that Rome used from time to time to justify the persecution of Christians.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann said that the 30,000-troop surge was a success, but criticized President Obama for hesitating and for sending only 30,000 troops instead of 40,000. She said the decision to withdraw troops by September 2012 was a fatal decision. She said that it would be more difficult to get our allies to work with us.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks:
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman suggested that the spikes in casualties in Afghanistan were caused by a lack of security in certain parts of the country. He said that he believed that America had achieved its objective and that it was time to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. He pointed out that in 2004 Afghanistan had free elections. Since that time Al Qaeda has been dismantled, the Taliban has been uprooted and Osama Bin Laden has been killed. He said the future of the nation was not in Afghanistan or Iraq. The former Governor said that Americans must face the new challenges in economics and education that will play out in the Asia-Pacific region.Mr. Huntsman said that he would leave a number of troops behind for nation building purposes. Enhanced Special Forces would remain in Afghanistan for the purpose of gathering intelligence and providing rapid response. He also said that he would commit to training an Afghan national army. “We are fighting an asymmetric threat, a counterterror threat. Not only there, but in Waziristan and every other corner of the world. And we need to prepare for that as a reality of our 21st Century foreign policy.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While he is committed to withdrawing troops, Mr. Huntsman is committed to leaving a contingent behind for nation building purposes. This is an unconstitutional use of the American military.
Question #3: Do you support a smaller footprint in Afghanistan? And secondarily, is it time or would it ever be time for the United States to negotiate with the Taliban?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that Afghanistan may decide how they will approach the terrorism, but it is America’s policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Mr. Romney said the most important thing was to secure the victory of our soldiers. He pointed out that commanders in Afghanistan are saying that they may see the justification of withdrawing 30,000 to 40,000 troops during the next year. He suggested that President Obama had set the goal of withdrawing the troops by September in anticipation of the next election. He criticized the President for making the decision to pull troops out in the middle of the fighting season. The former governor said that a December withdraw with a 2014 timetable is the right decision. He said that a small contingent of support forces would remain in Afghanistan.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would continue the war in Afghanistan and leave soldiers behind for nation building purposes. There is no constitutional justification for these kinds of activities.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich answered that he would not negotiate with terrorists. He continued by saying that the issue was deeper than anyone understood. The reason why the Taliban survive is because they have found sanctuary in Pakistan. He suggests that the Taliban would never be defeated as long as they can hide. Mr. Gingrich suggested the problem would persist unless we also expand the war into Pakistan and Iran.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only would Mr. Gingrich continue an unconstitutional war, he would expand the war efforts into two new fronts.
Question #4: In your judgment, is Pakistan a friend or foe?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain said that it was unclear at this point whether Pakistan is a friend or foe. He pointed out that there are many questions that need to be answered and America’s relationship with Pakistan needs to be re-evaluated. Mr. Cain said that, as president he would want to know what kind of commitments Pakistan is wiling to make to assure the United States of America that they are friendly. Specifically, he would want to see troop commitments from the Pakistani government, and if they are willing to come to a regional agreement with the United States.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: This plan of action is predicated on the validity of nation building. If Pakistan desired to remain neutral and refused to commit troops or enter an agreement with the United States regarding the governing of their own region, it would be viewed as a threat. The United States cannot require another nation to commit troops to accomplish their own conquest of the region; nor may the United States require that Pakistan agree with the plans that the United State has for their own region. The Constitution does not allow for American Imperialism.
III. Foreign Aid
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the President is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. Power over the federal budget, expenditures, and debts are vested solely in the Congress of the United States. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations with social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.Question #5: What is the proper role of the United States through foreign aid and other interventions?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said that the government was not in control of Pakistan, but that the military was in control. He said that the consideration of Pakistan is part of a deeper issue of foreign aid. He said that Pakistan was sending a clear message that they did not want our foreign aid, because they are not being honest with the United States and our soldiers’ lives are at risk as a result. He said that, as president, he would send a clear message to every other nation by starting at zero dollars in foreign aid. “Then we’ll have a conversation in this country about whether or not a penny of our taxpayer dollars needs to go into those countries.... and it’s time for us as a country to say no to foreign aid to countries that don’t support the United States of America.”When later asked if his “zero aid” policy would include Israel, the Governor answer that it would. Every nation would start at zero. He said that because Israel is an ally his guess would be that we would fund them at a substantial level. He said that the same approach might be useful to determine the budget for federal agencies.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann disagreed with Governor Perry pointing out that Pakistan has a nuclear weapon and that terrorists are closer to that nuclear bomb than they are in any other nation. While she would reduce the amount of foreign aid given to many nations, she would not pull the foreign aid from Pakistan. She said that the next president needs to understand the intricacies involved with the Middle East. She warned that there are indicators that Iran and Pakistan appear to be staging a nuclear war with Israel. She concluded by criticizing President Obama for showing his support for Occupy Wall Street, but he has yet to show his support for Israel.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Constitution does not allow for taxes to be raised creating an international welfare system, nor does the Constitution allow the United States to commit American troops solely on the behalf of foreign nations such as Israel.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
The former Speaker said that what Governor Perry had said made a lot of sense. He said that before handing over billions of dollars automatically, Congress would start by starting at zero and then asking for an explanation concerning why the nation should receive any aid. He pointed to the fact that Pakistan had harbored Osama Bin Laden for at least six years and said this is a good indication that they should not receive any foreign aid.When asked about how he would approach Egypt, Mr. Gingrich said that eliminating foreign aid for Egypt was a possibility. He said that the degree to which the Arab Spring has become anti-Christian bothers him a great deal. “I would certainly have the State Department intervening on behalf of the Coptic Christians, who are being persecuted under the new system, having their churches burned, having people killed. And I’d be pretty insistent that we are not going to be supportive of a regime, which is explicitly hostile to religions other than Islam.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich provides a vivid example of the problem with the current foreign aid policy. Billions of dollars are spent in an unconstitutional manner to support nations who show animosity to the United States and persecute Coptic Christians.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said that Pakistan must be a friend of the United States because they are a nuclear power. He expressed concern that if the wrong people gained control of the country, the situation in Pakistan could become like the situation in Iran. He suggested that America must engage Pakistan as a friend and work through the current difficulties. The moderator pressed Mr. Santorum pointing out that only a few weeks ago a Pakistani backed terrorist network, the Hikani Network, laid siege to the NATO headquarters and the U.S. embassy in Kabul for 20 hours.Mr. Santorum answered that a lot of Pakistanis and most of the government don’t back the Hikani Network. He said that the United States needed to continue to send monetary aid to Pakistan. He pointed out that the aid relationship also came with military aid. Aid relationship created jobs because the money is spent in the United States for military hardware, and builds a dependency on American weapon systems.
Constitutional Grade: F
Question #6: In your judgment, do you believe Governor Romney has the ability to think outside the box and change United States’ national security or foreign policy perspectives?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich said that he did not desire to comment on that. He said that while the candidates may make such comments on radio shows, at the debate they are all talking to the American people about why each of them is more fit for the presidency than Barack Obama. He said that Mitt Romney would be a vast improvement on the Obama administration. When asked by the moderator how he would think outside the box, Mr. Gingrich answered that he would use Cold War strategies against North Korea and Iran. He said he would also adopt a strong policy toward the United Nations. He said that he would explicitly repudiate Agenda 21. In addition, he said that he would apply Lean Six Sigma to the Pentagon to liberate money and rebuild the nation. He criticized the President for shrinking the size of the Navy to the point it is incapable of doing its job globally.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Again Mr. Gingrich calls for covert Cold War strategies that involve murder, espionage, and deceit.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said his foreign policy was pretty straightforward. He said he would be guided by the conviction that this century must be an American century in which America has the strongest values, the strongest economy, and the strongest military. “An American century means the century where America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world.”
He criticized President Obama for thinking that America is just another nation and failing to recognize that America is an exceptional nation. He contrasted himself with the President and said that if he were president he would conduct foreign policy through strength and would do everything with the intent of making America stronger. He said that he would use whatever means necessary within the law to protect American citizens and their rights.
Constitutional Grade: B
Questions#13: Would you describe what you think is happening in the Arab Spring? How, as president, can you make it work for the United States and not against us?
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Cain’s criticism is warranted, but his answer is still predicated on the assumption that the United States should take sides in these issues.
Question #14: At least 3,500 civilians have been slaughtered in Syria. Today, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria. If the opposition requested military assistance, covert smuggling, or a no-fly zone, would you authorize either or both?
Constitutional Grade: F
When pressed by the moderator about the 3,500 dead in Syria, Mr. Paul responded that the Soviets and Chinese had killed hundreds of millions in the last century, but the United States did not feel morally compelled to try to end it. He said the situation was a tragedy, but an American intervention that props up another dictator causes trouble for America. He said that America does not need to lose any more troops; it is a very costly bad idea.
Constitutional Grade: A
Constitutional Grade: F
Question #7: Would you listen to your generals for their advice before making decisions as Commander in Chief? How will you know when you should overrule your generals?
Constitutional Grade: A
When the Moderator asked about what his agenda would entail, Mr. Santorum answered that the number one issue would be to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He said that he would also accomplish this through covert activity. “There have been scientists turning up dead in Russia and in Iran. There have been computer viruses. There have been problems at their facility. I hope that the United States has been involved with that.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only are these activities unconstitutional they are also criminal.
Constitutional Grade: B
Question #12: Almost half of the federal budget goes to military-related expenditures. Should we increase spending, especially in a debt crisis?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While military spending should be cut, Mrs. Bachmann suggests that unconstitutional programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should be saved.
Question #9: What is your stance on torture?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: It is interesting to point out that earlier Mr. Cain had said that while he would listen to the advice of his generals, he would be making all of the decisions. However, when it comes to an issue like torture, he said he would allow the military leaders to decide. Waterboarding is an obstruction to constitutional standards of justice. The purpose for which the Constitution forbids coerced confessions is because coerced confessions are unreliable, and are a violation of life and liberty.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mrs. Bachmann’s allegations against President Obama are false. The number of “secret” military prisons has actually increased under President Obama. New prisons have opened in Afghanistan, Somalia, and on the island of Diego Garcia located in the Indian Ocean. The C.I.A. is permitted to carry out interrogations at these facilities.
Constitutional Grade: A
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman holds to a constitutional standard on the issue of torture, but appeals to the importance of taking the moral high ground as America engages in unconstitutional nation building around the world. Moreover, democracy was criticized and rejected as a form of government by the framers of the Constitution. The Constitution calls for and insures a republican form of government.
Moreover, as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.
Question #10: President Obama recently ordered the death of an American citizen who was suspected of terrorist activity overseas. Is it appropriate for the American president, on the president’s say-so alone, to order the death of an American citizen suspected of terrorism?
Constitutional Grade: F
Mr. Gingrich said that if persons engage in war against the United States they are enemy combatants. They do not have civil liberties and cannot go to court. Mr. Gingrich suggested that there were two levels of justice; civil and criminal defense are at one level, while acts of war are on another level. “It is an act of war and should be dealt with as an act of war and the correct thing in an act of war is to kill people who are trying to kill you.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for the idea that there are two “levels” of justice. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution only suspends the requirement for an indictment by a grand jury in military cases, but does not suspend the right to due process in a court of law. There is a real danger to notions such as those offered here by Mr. Gingrich, if due process can be suspended for those deemed to be enemies of the state then the same argument can, and has, been used to justify assassinations of American citizens in the United States without due process of law.
Question #11: According to U.S. officials, China is using cyber-attacks to steal billions of dollars of intellectual property that is critical to this nation’s economic success. Are we, sir, engaged in financial warfare with China?
Mr. Perry said the issue with cyber security will be one of the great issues of the next president and that he would call the private sector to work along with the government to pull all resources to fight cyber terror.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Cyber attacks from the Chinese government pose a serious threat to America’s economy and national security. This is a serious issue because China’s cyber attacks have risen to a level that constitutes a foreign act of aggression against the United States that could lead to a justifiable war.
He said he would also hold them accountable for manipulating their currency. He criticized President Barack Obama for being soft on China and allowing them to be dishonest while expanding on their ability to steal information from our computer systems, our intellectual property, and from our military.
When asked by the moderator what he would do to make China do these things, he said he would identify them as a currency manipulator and bring an action against them before the World Trade Organization. He said such an action would allow the United States to selectively apply tariffs in areas we believe they are stealing form us. To those who are afraid this will start a trade war, Mr. Romney, pointed out that we are already in a trade war and American jobs are suffering as a result.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The Congress of the United States does not need to receive permission from the World Trade Organization to levy tariffs on China.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: It is unclear how Huntsman intends to reach out to young people, and seems to tend toward interventionism to “take China down”. China’s plundering of military secrets and the theft and counterfeiting of intellectual property are certainly grounds for a declaration of war. It is not clear whether or not this sort of subversive intervention is constitutional, but Mr. Huntsman’s resolve is very weak with regard to China.
Question #15: Within days of taking office, President Obama, by executive order, stopped the CIA from using classified enhanced interrogation techniques that are not waterboarding. There’s a presumption that every person at Gitmo, under the Obama administration, should go into civilian court, not military commission. And the Obama administration recently said that any future captors in the War on Terror would not go to Gitmo. Would you continue these policies? Why?
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Guantanamo Bay is a facility where the United States government is engaged in illegal and unconstitutional detainment of individuals who have not been convicted of any crime. The individuals held there might be criminals, but they may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property until they have been proven guilty in a court of law.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for Mr. Santorum’s argument. The principles of the Constitution are intended to prevent the United States from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process. The United States by its very nature is bound to the ideals and convictions of the Constitution. There is no branch or activity of government that is above and beyond the limitations of the Constitution. Therefore the right to due process is to be applied as a matter of national and constitutional conviction, and not at the discretion of government. Moreover, if the Geneva Convention did not apply to how a nation treated an enemy, then the entire treaty would be striped of any meaning.
Constitutional Grade: A
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Perry applies is a utilitarian standard and is not a constitutional standard. This answer reflects a government that is ruled by emergency and not by the rule of law.
Constitutional Grade: F
Moreover, Mr. Paul reminded the panel that, “over 300 individuals were tried in civilian courts here and were charged with terrorism here. Most of them are in jail. I don’t think we should give up so easily on our rule of law.”
Constitutional Grade: A
Question #16: Federal spending and debt are not only our greatest economic problems; they’re our largest national security problem. Yet the President and the Congress continue to spend and borrow at record levels. Just adjusting the spending on existing federal programs will not solve the problem. What federal functions will you eliminate or return to the states in order to balance our budget?
Moreover, Mr. Romney said that he would return Medicaid over to the states and allow the states to govern it, a savings of $100 billion each year. Finally, he said he would attempt to make the government more productive by cutting personnel by 10%, and link the pay of government employees to the pay of those in the private sector.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would make cuts to several unconstitutional programs, but would continue unconstitutional programs such as Medicare. Moreover, 20 percent of the GDP is much more than what is required in a constitutional government.
TEA PARTY REPORT CARD
FOR NOMINEES AND PRIMARY VOTERS:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ryHPAxovXjoqIWqldKd2-siz-vUrLYY4BQ7P0I003R4/edit?hl=en_US
When you are picking a nominee in primary voting, it is not a popularity contest.
Nominees are rigorously scrutinized during the selection process for their integrity and adherence to Conservative values and principles.
The nominees will be graded on a point system:
A = 5pts. highest, all A’s = 30pts.
B = 4pts. all B’s = 24 pts.
C = 3pts. all C’s = 18 pts.
D = 2pts. all D’s = 12 pts.
F = 0
on the 6 following areas... then an overall grade
Presentation/Debate Performance, Foreign Policy, Tax Policy, Job Creation/Monetary Policy, Individual Platform/Stance, Integrity, Overall Grade
So far we have these 2012 ballot issues, of voter importance:
A) economy B) health care/future C) security
Legend:
RED - GOP policy PURPLE - Tea Party policy BLUE - Democrat/Stupidcrat/Kleptocrat policy
ORANGE - LIBERTARIAN LOCO
RED AND BLACK - OLD HAT GOP
_A__The Perry Platform:
http://www.rickperry.org/uproot-and-overhaul-washington-html/
A) negating federal regulations/reduction of government to create jobs
B) reform Social Security, return Medicaid reform to states, defunding Obamacare
C) accountable border control policy where the federal government does its job
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - has great ideas, but won only 1 debate title
_B__Foreign Policy - needs comprehensive immigration reform/legalization initiatives
_A__Tax Policy - 20-20-0 -- simplified returns http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/sample-tax-return.pdf
_A__JobCreation/Monetary Policy - 10th Amendment/reducing size of govt./fiscal Conservative
http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/Cut-Balance-and-Grow-Summary.pdf
_A__Integrity - has the Conservative Record not Rhetoric; he stands by his word
_AAA/B/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___27_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO TAKE A CLEAR POSITION OVER OTHER NOMINEES THAT HE CAN BE FIRM, DIPLOMATIC, AND NOT LOSE HIS RELIGION WHEN IT COMES TO IRAN
2) FISCAL POLICY - PERRY MUST SHOW HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION ENDORSEMENT SHOWS THAT OBAMA IS NWO, AND THAT BILDERBERG RICH PEOPLE JUST WANTED TO USE HIS TEXAS MODEL IDEAS: CREATING WEALTH AND JOBS WERE THERE WAS NONE, AS THEY DRIED UP IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - PROVE HIS RECORD AND TAX POLICY IS WHAT CREATED JOBS IN TEXAS, AND THAT THE RON PAUL PLAN IS TOO DRASTIC AND LACKS GOVERNMENT REVENUE TO RETURN OUR CREDIT RATING
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY’S DRAFTING LEGISLATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT IS NOT AMNESTY, THAT SECURES THE BORDER PEACEFULLY, WITH MODERN DRUG CONTROL POLICIES AND GUIDELINES RECOGNIZED BY CANADA AND MEXICO
5) HEALTH POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO ONE-UP BACHMANN, WHO HAS POLITICIZED THE REPEAL MEASURES FOR HER CAMPAIGN BY SUPPORTING REPEAL LEGISLATION, USING EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REPEAL H.R. 4872, AND BY BUDGETARY MEANS SHOWING THAT THIS CAN NOT BE RECONCILED UNDER BUDGETARY LAW BY CURRENT ANNUAL REVENUE OF $2.5 TRILLION, AND ANNIHILATE OBAMA ON HIS MISAPPROPRIATION OF TAX DOLLARS CITING THIS
0 Income Tax 0 Wars 0 Federal Reserve
_C__The Paul Platform:http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
A) government must return to the four umbrellas of original design
B) government must get out of health care; that is left up to the individual and funding to the states
C) immediate troop withdrawal/funding for all conflict goes through Congress, no a bilateral Executive-Military decision
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - interviews are better than debates
_F__Foreign Policy - sticking our head in the sand until American regains greatness/Anwar issue
_F__Tax Policy - the 0-0-0 plan is a catchy disease for anarchy - no INCOME taxes, death taxes
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - the idea of Auditing as opposed to ending the Federal Reserve http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/end-the-fed/
_B__Integrity - has great ideas on health care reform, possesses work ethic & accomplishments
_BB/CC/FF___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___14_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - RON PAUL WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE THE TEA PARTY AND THE REST OF AMERICA THAT HIS FOREIGN POLICY ISN’T JUST TO STICK ONE’S HEAD IN THE SAND LIKE AN OSTRICH
2) FISCAL POLICY - RON PAUL MUST BE MORE CLEAR ON THE GOVERNMENT’S ROLE AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION, THE LIMITATION OF IT IN REGARDS TO BUSINESS, HEALTH CARE, AND ENDLESS WAR, WITHOUT DEVIATING INTO PHILOSOPHY ABOUT IT
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RON PAUL MUST EXPLAIN HOW HIS DESIRE TO AUDIT THE FED IS NOT A RETURN TO MONARCHY OR A DEVOLVING INTO ANARCHY, WITH COMMON SENSE EXPLANATIONS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - RON PAUL MUST SLAM OBAMA FOR NOT HONORING HIS PROMISE ON LEGALIZATION LEGISLATION, CONTINUING TO VIOLATE CIVIL LIBERTIES, OVERPOPULATE JAILS AND SUCKING TAXPAYER DOLLARS, AND THEN ADOPT REFORMS
5) HEALTH POLICY - IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE AS A DOCTOR TO ACTUALLY UNDERTAKE HEALTH REFORM MEASURES THAT ARE CONSTITUTIONAL AND COST EFFECTIVE, IT IS RON PAUL, AND HE SHOULD TRUMP OBAMA EASILY BY FOCUSING ON HOW OBAMA MISAPPROPRIATED TAX DOLLARS THAT NEVER CREATED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE OR REFORMS
_C__The Bachmann Platform:http://www.michelebachmann.com/
A) wants a Balanced Budget Amendment to remove uncertainty, (vote is scheduled on that for the end of this year)
B) repeal Obamacare as it has destroyed jobs and created uncertainty about taxation
C) eradicate the Obama ideology that makes us vulnerable to attack
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - gets animated, needs to be succinct and confident
_B__Foreign Policy - good solid foreign policy that needs fine tuning
_D__Tax Policy - Bachmann has been criticized for using food stamps/writeoffs loophole Queen
_D__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - agrees that government is the problem, but it’s more rhetoric than a plan of action http://www.michelebachmann.com/issues/americanjobsrightnow/
_C__Integrity - says she wrote the repeal bill for Obamacare, when I composed the bill, not her:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je
_CCC/DD/B__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___17_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - THE TEA PARTY AND THE GOP ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE BACHMANN TAKE A POSITION ON FOREIGN POLICY THAT IS NOT PURELY IDEOLOGICAL OR PANDERING FOR VOTES
2) FISCAL POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO US IN HUMAN TERMS HOW REPATRIATION WORKS AND WHY THAT FIXES OUR BUDGET PROBLEMS
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - BACHMMAN MUST EXPLAIN WHY CUTTING TAXES IS THE ANSWER, WHEN WE HAVE A SERIOUS BASE-BUDGETING ISSUE AND LACK OF REVENUE, THAT CUTTING TAXES SOLVES OUR JOBS CRISES; DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE DEFICIT OBAMA CAUSED AND HIS POLICIES. SHE MUST TRUMP OBAMA’S LACK OF FISCAL SANITY AND 200+ REGULATIONS/OBUMMERCARE 4872 THAT KILLED 25-30 MILLION JOBS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW ENFORCING CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE COST EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COSTS $10,000 A HEAD FOR A ONE-WAY DEPORTATION AND MANY RETURN. BOTTOM LINE: WE MAKE IT TOO EASY TO STAY WITHOUT LEVYING FINES OR ENFORCING EMPLOYMENT LAWS AT STATE LEVEL. LIKE HER OTHER IDEAS, SHE HAS TROUBLE GETTING THEM ACROSS SUCCINCTLY AND IN A WAY WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND.
5) HEALTH POLICY - BACHMANN MUST PROPOSE HER OWN LEGISLATION, SINCE SHE HAS NOT BROUGHT MY REPEAL BILL TO THE FLOOR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je8I
INTRODUCED AUGUST 2010, ABOUT HOW SHE WOULD GO ABOUT PURSUING HEALTH CARE REFORMS THAT ARE SO COSTLY NOW/IF SHE AGREES WITH HSA’S AND MONTORING COSTS THROUGH YEARLY TAX REPORTS OR TAX ID#’S.
_B__The Santorum Platform: http://www.ricksantorum.com/
A) sees job creation as an integral societal problem
B) repeal Obamacare
C) feels that Obama’s corruption has eroded the social and moral fabric of America, which must be replaced with different leadership
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - in the race since the beginning/performed well
_C__Foreign Policy - he would continue miring us in conflict without wise counsel
_B__Tax Policy - defends taxpayers - http://www.ricksantorum.com/defender-taxpayer
_A__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - supports the BBA
_A__Integrity - this man walks out his values, doesn’t use Conservative as an adjective
_BBB/AA/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___25_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - IF THERE IS ONE POSITION THAT IS RICK SANTORUM’S STRONG SUIT OVER RON PAUL, IT IS HIS LEVEL-HEADEDNESS ON FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY ISSUES. IF I WERE RICK SANTORUM, I WOULD GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH RON PAUL AND SHOW EVERYONE HOW FLABBERGASTED HE CAN GET.
2) FISCAL POLICY - RICK SANTORUM WILL HAVE TO MATCH HIS INTEGRITY UP TO THE CURRENT PROBLEMS, AND HOW HIS LEADERSHIP WILL GLUE THE DAMAGE DONE BY CORRUPTION, AND HE MUST SUPPORT FIXING THE PROBLEMS HIGHLIGHTED BY TEA PARTY INQUIRIES INTO THE BUDGET BY PUTTING IT ON HIS PERSONAL ‘TO DO’ LIST.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST MATCH HIS DESIRE TO TITHE WITH RESPECT TO TAXPAYERS’ CONCERNS ABOUT ETHICAL GOVERNMENT IN ADDRESSING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE AS HIS TOP PRIORITIES
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE IT IS TEMPTING TO ENFORCE CURRENT LAWS, RICK SANTORUM MUST CONSIDER COST EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION THAT ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION AND DRUG POLICY COHESIVELY, AS THE REASON IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE THUS FAR, AND SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY IN THOSE ENDEAVORS TO DRAFT LEGISLATION
5) HEALTH POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST EMBRACE THE HOLISTIC MODEL OF HEALTH CARE, TRUMP OBAMA ON THIS, CALL OBAMA OUT FOR NEGLECTING HIS SPIRITUAL LIFE/ FALLING PREY TO TRIBAL IDOL WORSHIP AND HOW OBAMA HAS NEGLECTED THE PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS PROGRAM THAT MOTIVATED CHILDREN BY EXAMPLE.
_B__The Palin Platform: ***WRITE-IN CANDIDATE
A) sees job creation through reduction of government spending and paying down the deficit/restoring America’s credit rating and integrity financially
B) strike through Obamacare funding - declare it null and void, according to court rulings, and work on substantive health reform
C) taking back our country, through grassroots initiatives will secure our country without bell and whistles of massive federal funding of security initiatives
_F__Presentation/Debate Performance - she backed away from the race/write-in candidate
_C__Foreign Policy - overcharged emotionally
_B__Tax Policy - Alaska record
_B__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Alaska record
_B__Integrity - doesn’t mince words/won’t lie to you
_BBBB/C/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19____
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He criticized President Obama for thinking that America is just another nation and failing to recognize that America is an exceptional nation. He contrasted himself with the President and said that if he were president he would conduct foreign policy through strength and would do everything with the intent of making America stronger. He said that he would use whatever means necessary within the law to protect American citizens and their rights.
Constitutional Grade: B
IV. Interventionism
The Constitution of the United States grants both the executive branch and Congress the power to engage in foreign policy. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.Questions#13: Would you describe what you think is happening in the Arab Spring? How, as president, can you make it work for the United States and not against us?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain criticized the Obama administration for mishandling the revolutions in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen. He warned that the United States’ relationship with Egypt might not survive. He explained that when President Obama backed the opposition it turned out that the opposition was more of the Muslim Brotherhood, which could now gain a majority in the government. He also criticized President Obama for saying that the president of Yemen had to go when he was one of our allies who helped the United State to fight al-Qaeda. “This president has been on the wrong side in nearly every situation in the Arab world, which has basically done nothing except to put that entire thing at risk.”Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Cain’s criticism is warranted, but his answer is still predicated on the assumption that the United States should take sides in these issues.
Question #14: At least 3,500 civilians have been slaughtered in Syria. Today, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria. If the opposition requested military assistance, covert smuggling, or a no-fly zone, would you authorize either or both?
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich commended the Arab League for suspending Syria. He also criticized President Obama for turning against President Mubarak who had been a faithful ally for years. This only signals to the world that the United States cannot be trusted to back our allies. He criticized the State Department for being soft on Assad, an ally of Iran. He said that if he were president he would actively take the steps necessary to end his regime, most of which would be covert. He said that a no-fly zone would not be necessary.Constitutional Grade: F
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul disagreed with Mr. Cain and Mr. Gingrich and said that intervention would be a big mistake. The United States should allow the Syrians to deal with their own country.When pressed by the moderator about the 3,500 dead in Syria, Mr. Paul responded that the Soviets and Chinese had killed hundreds of millions in the last century, but the United States did not feel morally compelled to try to end it. He said the situation was a tragedy, but an American intervention that props up another dictator causes trouble for America. He said that America does not need to lose any more troops; it is a very costly bad idea.
Constitutional Grade: A
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that it was time for the Assad dictatorship to end. He said he supported using covert operations such as those suggested by Mr. Gingrich. He said that he disagreed with Ron Paul because Syria was the only Arab ally of Iran and was arming Hezbollah. This provides significant access for Iran. Because of the aspirations of Iran, Mr. Romney argued, it was important to intervene and support a regime change. In the process these activities would be helpful to our allies like Saudi Arabia and Turkey.Constitutional Grade: F
V. Military Policy
The Constitution of the United States grants both the president and Congress the joint authority to engage in foreign policy. However, the president is not authorized to enforce treaties without the ratification of Congress. Moreover, Congress has exclusive authority to tax international trade. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairsQuestion #7: Would you listen to your generals for their advice before making decisions as Commander in Chief? How will you know when you should overrule your generals?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that it was important that you surround yourself with the right people. He said that you would know you are making the right decision when you have considered all the facts and the alternatives. He said that because he will have multiple people offering different recommendations, it would provide a greater opportunity to make the right decisions. He said that while he will listen to his generals, it would be up to the Commander in Chief to make the decisions.Constitutional Grade: A
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said he would enter the presidency with a very clear agenda. He said that he would gather people together who share his point of view. He said that while he was in the Senate he did not hire people who did not share his point of view. He said that he was who the American people were electing, someone who is crystal clear and does not mince words. He said that he would then follow through.When the Moderator asked about what his agenda would entail, Mr. Santorum answered that the number one issue would be to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He said that he would also accomplish this through covert activity. “There have been scientists turning up dead in Russia and in Iran. There have been computer viruses. There have been problems at their facility. I hope that the United States has been involved with that.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Not only are these activities unconstitutional they are also criminal.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that he has been Commander in the state of Texas for 10 years. He said if there was someone who had experience making decisions, it was he. He said that he had handled natural disasters, deployed troops to combat zones, and dealt with generals. He said that he would surround himself with individuals at the highest levels at the Department of Defense, both on the military side and on the civilian side. He said that from day one Americans would know that they are secure and this would include along the southern border of Mexico.Constitutional Grade: B
Question #12: Almost half of the federal budget goes to military-related expenditures. Should we increase spending, especially in a debt crisis?
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann explained that military expenditures could be reduced especially in the area of how the military finances procurements. Weapons manufacturers are rewarded based on the length of time it takes to produce weapons. She said that American needed to move toward a fixed cost system. She also said that Tricare also needed to be reformed. The Congresswoman said that she did not want to cut benefits for the military, but that it needed to be modernized. She said that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid also needed to be modernized. She said that Tricare, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security would collapse under the weight of Obamacare. Mrs. Bachman said if she were elected president she would repeal Obamacare.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: While military spending should be cut, Mrs. Bachmann suggests that unconstitutional programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should be saved.
VI. Torture
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The torturing of suspects is a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution since the suspects are held and forced to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime without due process. Torture is also a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution since it constitutes both a cruel and an unusual punishment. The bill of rights governs all United States courts both foreign and domestic. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.Question #9: What is your stance on torture?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain answered that in keeping with the procedure of the military, he did not agree with torture, period. However, he said that he would leave it up to military leaders to determine what is torture and what is not torture. Mr. Cain said that he believed that waterboarding was an enhanced interrogation technique and that he would reinstate a policy that permits waterboarding.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: It is interesting to point out that earlier Mr. Cain had said that while he would listen to the advice of his generals, he would be making all of the decisions. However, when it comes to an issue like torture, he said he would allow the military leaders to decide. Waterboarding is an obstruction to constitutional standards of justice. The purpose for which the Constitution forbids coerced confessions is because coerced confessions are unreliable, and are a violation of life and liberty.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann said that she would also be willing to use waterboarding, saying that she believed it was very effective in gaining information. She criticized President Obama for allowing the A.C.L.U. to run the C.I.A., and alleged that today when a terrorist is interdicted there was no jail for them. “We have nowhere to take them. We have no C.I.A. interrogations anymore. It is as though we have decided we want to lose in the War on Terror under President Obama. That’s not my strategy. My strategy will be that the United States will be victorious in the War on Terror.”Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mrs. Bachmann’s allegations against President Obama are false. The number of “secret” military prisons has actually increased under President Obama. New prisons have opened in Afghanistan, Somalia, and on the island of Diego Garcia located in the Indian Ocean. The C.I.A. is permitted to carry out interrogations at these facilities.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul pointed out that torture is illegal under the laws of the United States, is illegal by international law, and is immoral. He said that waterboarding is torture and is very impractical as a means of gathering reliable evidence. He asked why anyone would accept the position that it was right to torture 100 people because you know one of them may have information. “I think it’s uncivilized practice, and has no practical advantages, and is really un-American to accept a principal that we will torture people that we capture.”Constitutional Grade: A
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that America has a “name brand” in the world and has values. He pointed out that he had lived overseas four different times and has done business overseas. He warned that America diminished its standing in the world when it failed to protect those values of liberty, democracy, human rights, and open markets, when we torture. He said that he believed waterboarding is torture and that we should not do it. “We dilute ourselves down like a whole lot of other countries. And we lose that ability to project values that a lot of people in corners of this world are still relying on the United States to stand up for them.”Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman holds to a constitutional standard on the issue of torture, but appeals to the importance of taking the moral high ground as America engages in unconstitutional nation building around the world. Moreover, democracy was criticized and rejected as a form of government by the framers of the Constitution. The Constitution calls for and insures a republican form of government.
VII. Assassination
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Moreover, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to confront the witnesses against him, have an opportunity to obtain witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The assassination of suspects in the United States is a violation of due process. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.Moreover, as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign conflict. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A military intervention is only warranted when the United States is in imminent danger of harm caused by a domestic insurrection or foreign invasion. This standard requires that the United States actually suffer harm, or be in a position in which such harm is apparent and imminent. Military interventions against potential dangers are acts of aggression and are unconstitutional.
Question #10: President Obama recently ordered the death of an American citizen who was suspected of terrorist activity overseas. Is it appropriate for the American president, on the president’s say-so alone, to order the death of an American citizen suspected of terrorism?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney said that he absolutely agrees with the ordered deaths of American citizens who align themselves with groups who declare war on the United States. If an American takes up arms during a war against the United States he is fair game.Constitutional Grade: F
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich was carful to point out that the death warrant was not signed against a mere suspect, but an individual who had been found guilty of actively seeking the death of Americans. When the moderator pointed out that the individual had not been found guilty by a court of law, Mr. Gingrich retorted that he was found guilt by a panel that considered the matter and reported back to the President. Gingrich and the moderator disagreed that the individual was tried under the rule of law.Mr. Gingrich said that if persons engage in war against the United States they are enemy combatants. They do not have civil liberties and cannot go to court. Mr. Gingrich suggested that there were two levels of justice; civil and criminal defense are at one level, while acts of war are on another level. “It is an act of war and should be dealt with as an act of war and the correct thing in an act of war is to kill people who are trying to kill you.”
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for the idea that there are two “levels” of justice. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution only suspends the requirement for an indictment by a grand jury in military cases, but does not suspend the right to due process in a court of law. There is a real danger to notions such as those offered here by Mr. Gingrich, if due process can be suspended for those deemed to be enemies of the state then the same argument can, and has, been used to justify assassinations of American citizens in the United States without due process of law.
VIII. Trade War with China
The Constitution of the United States grants both the president and Congress the joint authority to engage in foreign policy. However, the president is not authorized to enforce treaties without the ratification of Congress. Moreover, Congress has exclusive authority to tax international trade. The power to declare war is reserved solely to Congress. While the president is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, he does not have the authority to declare war or to engage in international conflicts without a declaration of war issued by Congress. Congress may raise and support armies, but no appropriation for that purpose shall be for a term longer than two years. According to Article 1, Section 8, Congress also has the sole power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia....” A war or conflict occurring without an act from Congress is unconstitutional. The Constitution provides no authority to provide foreign nations social welfare. The principles outlined in the Constitution favor a non-interventionist approach to foreign affairs.Question #11: According to U.S. officials, China is using cyber-attacks to steal billions of dollars of intellectual property that is critical to this nation’s economic success. Are we, sir, engaged in financial warfare with China?
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry said there were some people who are saying that the next century will be a Chinese century. He pointed out that there were similar statements made about Russia during the Reagan presidency. He said that China, like Russia, would end up on the ash heap of history if they did not change their virtues and build honesty.Mr. Perry said the issue with cyber security will be one of the great issues of the next president and that he would call the private sector to work along with the government to pull all resources to fight cyber terror.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Cyber attacks from the Chinese government pose a serious threat to America’s economy and national security. This is a serious issue because China’s cyber attacks have risen to a level that constitutes a foreign act of aggression against the United States that could lead to a justifiable war.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney answered that China had an interest in trade and wants to relocate 20 million people each year from farms to cities. He pointed out that they want to have success in the global markets and they need access to our markets. He said he would condition China’s access to our markets on their ability to play by the rules. “They can’t hack into our computer systems and steal from our government. They can’t steal from corporations. They can’t take patents and designs, intellectual property, and duplicate them, counterfeit them and sell them around the world.”He said he would also hold them accountable for manipulating their currency. He criticized President Barack Obama for being soft on China and allowing them to be dishonest while expanding on their ability to steal information from our computer systems, our intellectual property, and from our military.
When asked by the moderator what he would do to make China do these things, he said he would identify them as a currency manipulator and bring an action against them before the World Trade Organization. He said such an action would allow the United States to selectively apply tariffs in areas we believe they are stealing form us. To those who are afraid this will start a trade war, Mr. Romney, pointed out that we are already in a trade war and American jobs are suffering as a result.
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: The Congress of the United States does not need to receive permission from the World Trade Organization to levy tariffs on China.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman suggested that things look different when you are on the ground in China. Mr. Huntsman disagreed with Mr. Romney that taking China to the W.T.O. for currency manipulation was a good idea. He said that a trade war with China would only hurt small business, exporters, and agriculture producers here in the United States. He said that America should instead reach out to its allies and constituencies within China, young people. He said there are 500 million Internet users in China and over 80 million bloggers who are bringing about change that will eventually take China down.Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: It is unclear how Huntsman intends to reach out to young people, and seems to tend toward interventionism to “take China down”. China’s plundering of military secrets and the theft and counterfeiting of intellectual property are certainly grounds for a declaration of war. It is not clear whether or not this sort of subversive intervention is constitutional, but Mr. Huntsman’s resolve is very weak with regard to China.
IX. Due Process
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Moreover, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to confront the witnesses against him, have an opportunity to obtain witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. The Eighth Amendment provides that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The only right that is waved for a military tribunal in times of war is the right to an indictment by a grand jury.Question #15: Within days of taking office, President Obama, by executive order, stopped the CIA from using classified enhanced interrogation techniques that are not waterboarding. There’s a presumption that every person at Gitmo, under the Obama administration, should go into civilian court, not military commission. And the Obama administration recently said that any future captors in the War on Terror would not go to Gitmo. Would you continue these policies? Why?
Businessman and Columnist Herman Cain:
Mr. Cain said that he would reverse all three policies. He would keep Guantanamo Bay open. He said that he would allow for the military to use enhanced interrogation techniques. “They are terrorists. Pampering terrorists isn’t something that we ought to do.”Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Guantanamo Bay is a facility where the United States government is engaged in illegal and unconstitutional detainment of individuals who have not been convicted of any crime. The individuals held there might be criminals, but they may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property until they have been proven guilty in a court of law.
Former Senator Rick Santorum:
Mr. Santorum said he agreed with Mr. Cain. He said it was essential to leave Guantanamo Bay open. He said that the United State needed to use all of its enhanced interrogation techniques. He said these methods had been proven to work and were crucial to the War on Terror. Moreover, he said using civilian courts is the worst idea he had ever heard because civilian courts are for those protected by the Constitution. He said enemy combatants are not protected by the Constitution. Mr. Santorum argued that the constitutional protections, and those contained in the Geneva Convention, only apply to American citizens and our allies, and not to foreign enemies.Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: There is no constitutional justification for Mr. Santorum’s argument. The principles of the Constitution are intended to prevent the United States from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process. The United States by its very nature is bound to the ideals and convictions of the Constitution. There is no branch or activity of government that is above and beyond the limitations of the Constitution. Therefore the right to due process is to be applied as a matter of national and constitutional conviction, and not at the discretion of government. Moreover, if the Geneva Convention did not apply to how a nation treated an enemy, then the entire treaty would be striped of any meaning.
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul said the situation was a mess because America has adopted a bad foreign policy. He criticized the government of the United States for pretending to be at war when no war has been declared; nevertheless, we have gone to war against a tactic (terrorism) and there are supposedly no limits to it. He said that as a result we have created monstrosities in which our government does things outside of the law and engages in things like allowing the president to decide who is assassinated. He pointed out that it is not just foreign threats but also that three American citizens have been assassinated. He said this was lawless and that American citizens should fear that someday we will be subject to those same courts. Mr. Paul warned that if we do not work within the context of the law it would turn out bad for everyone. “Now we can be assassinated by somebody that we don’t even like to run our medical care, and giving this power to the president to be the prosecutor, the executor, the judge and the jury. We better look at that carefully before you automatically endorse something like that.”Constitutional Grade: A
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry criticized Congressman Paul by arguing that our military personnel are confronted with an enemy that will use any means to kill them. If America cannot use any technique necessary to extract information to save the lives of those fighting in the military, it is a travesty. He said that while he did not support the use of torture, he did support the use of “enhanced interrogations.”Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The standard that Mr. Perry applies is a utilitarian standard and is not a constitutional standard. This answer reflects a government that is ruled by emergency and not by the rule of law.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann also criticized Congressman Paul by alleging that he opposed the order to kill Osama Bin Laden. She argued that the execution of Awlaki’s sixteen-year-old son was justified, because Awlaki was also killed.Constitutional Grade: F
Texas Representative Ron Paul:
Congressman Paul responded by pointing out that Mrs. Bachmann was wrong because he has voted in favor of the authority to go after Osama Bin Laden. He said he was upset that it had taken so long, because the American military had been diverted. He pointed out that going after Osama Bin Laden is a much different issue than the issue of assassinating American citizens.Moreover, Mr. Paul reminded the panel that, “over 300 individuals were tried in civilian courts here and were charged with terrorism here. Most of them are in jail. I don’t think we should give up so easily on our rule of law.”
Constitutional Grade: A
X. Economic Policy
The Constitution of the United States places the power over the federal budget for expenditures and debts solely on the Congress of the United States. The president has no legislative power and is bound to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. However, the president also has what is sometimes referred to as the power of persuasion found under Article 2, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. He may recommend that Congress consider certain measures that he judges to be necessary and expedient. In extraordinary circumstances, he may convene Congress for a special session. Congress has a limited number of powers, under Article 1, Section 8 that residually effect industry and national economy. First, Congress has the power over the federal purse through the taxing and spending clause. Second, Congress is granted the power to regulate interstate commerce between the states. Under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the commerce power was unconstitutionally expanded to include intrastate commerce also, along with virtually any activity commercial or non-commercial that could be shown to remotely effect commerce. This unconstitutional expansion of power has been used by Congress to regulate areas previously unreachable by the federal power under the Constitution. The Constitution provides no authority to provide for social welfare or to spend money for an unconstitutional purpose.Question #16: Federal spending and debt are not only our greatest economic problems; they’re our largest national security problem. Yet the President and the Congress continue to spend and borrow at record levels. Just adjusting the spending on existing federal programs will not solve the problem. What federal functions will you eliminate or return to the states in order to balance our budget?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney:
Mr. Romney pointed out that the current administration was spending about 25% of the economy at the federal level. Mr. Romney proposed that he would bring the cap down to 20% in his first term in office. He said that this would require eliminating a lot of programs that we like, but simply cannot afford. He said that he would begin by eliminating Obamacare, a savings of $95 billion. He said that he would also cut the Endowment for the Humanities, the Endowment for the Arts, and Public Broadcasting. He said these programs were not essential and we could no longer borrow money from China to pay for them.Moreover, Mr. Romney said that he would return Medicaid over to the states and allow the states to govern it, a savings of $100 billion each year. Finally, he said he would attempt to make the government more productive by cutting personnel by 10%, and link the pay of government employees to the pay of those in the private sector.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Romney would make cuts to several unconstitutional programs, but would continue unconstitutional programs such as Medicare. Moreover, 20 percent of the GDP is much more than what is required in a constitutional government.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that our most significant national security threat is the national debt. He pointed out that the national debt is at 70 of America’s GDP and was moving up, while Japan’s debt is at 100 percent of their GDP, Greece’s debt is at 170 percent of their GDP, and Italy’s debt is at 120 percent. He suggested that the solution to America’s debt problem was the Ryan Plan. Mr. Huntsman said that he would send Medicaid back to the states. He said he would move education closer to the states. He also said that some economic development functions should also be moved closer to the states.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Ryan Plan reflects Marxist notions of class warfare and the redistribution of wealth. Moreover, Mr. Huntsman suggests the unconstitutional continuance of unconstitutional programs such as Medicaid.
He pointed out that he had balanced the budget four consecutive years while he was in office. He said he would bring unemployment down to four percent.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich suggests that the problems that exist should be fixed by adding more government bureaucracy to the problem. To unemployment he wants to begin an education program. This is a classic example of attempting to fix an unconstitutional problem, by adding another unconstitutional problem.
Constitutional Grade: A
Question #19: There is a crisis in Europe over debt, particularly in Italy and in Greece. And there is the threat of contagion onto Wall Street and U.S. banks. How do you prevent the Euro crisis from becoming a problem in the United States?
Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman does not answer the questions, but instead elaborated on the emergency. The worst policies in government are enacted during these types of emergencies. The Constitution was intended to safe guard against the types of crisis America is experiencing and to get the nation through hard times.
Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Mr. Perry relates a constitutional position. The Constitution does not allow the United State to intervene in the European debt crisis.
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Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: The Ryan Plan reflects Marxist notions of class warfare and the redistribution of wealth. Moreover, Mr. Huntsman suggests the unconstitutional continuance of unconstitutional programs such as Medicaid.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich:
Mr. Gingrich said that he believed that there were four interlocking national security problems; (1) The debt and deficit; (2) Energy; (3) Manufacturing; and (4) Science and Technology. He said that there should be an education program for those who were on unemployment so that no one receives money for doing nothing. He alleged that it would save money and enhance human capital. He suggested opening up offshore drilling so that gas prices can come down. In addition, the Charleston Port could be modernized with the royalties and create more jobs.He pointed out that he had balanced the budget four consecutive years while he was in office. He said he would bring unemployment down to four percent.
Constitutional Grade: F
Remarks: Mr. Gingrich suggests that the problems that exist should be fixed by adding more government bureaucracy to the problem. To unemployment he wants to begin an education program. This is a classic example of attempting to fix an unconstitutional problem, by adding another unconstitutional problem.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:
Mrs. Bachmann pointed out that the government added $203 billion in debt in the month of October, but the last time the Republicans controlled the budget the government added $160 billion that year. She sad that she would make cuts by taking a look at “The Great Society” introduced by Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Great Society has pushed us into a modern welfare state. She pointed out that China was growing and that they did not have food stamps or social security. The Chinese do not have to pay FDC. She would repeal The Great Society legislation.Constitutional Grade: A
Question #19: There is a crisis in Europe over debt, particularly in Italy and in Greece. And there is the threat of contagion onto Wall Street and U.S. banks. How do you prevent the Euro crisis from becoming a problem in the United States?
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman:
Mr. Huntsman said that in Europe there were two problems. First, Europe is our second largest export market second only to Canada. He said that if the economic crisis spreads in Europe, they will buy less and Americans will lose jobs unless we find other markets. Second, the crisis will spread through the banking system to the point where it will hit us in the United States. When banks are too big to fail in this country, there will be trouble.Constitutional Grade: C
Remarks: Mr. Huntsman does not answer the questions, but instead elaborated on the emergency. The worst policies in government are enacted during these types of emergencies. The Constitution was intended to safe guard against the types of crisis America is experiencing and to get the nation through hard times.
Texas Governor Rick Perry:
Mr. Perry pointed out that the French and Germans have the means to deal with the debt crisis in the Eurozone. He said that the Euro was established to compete with the American dollar, but now they are in trouble because of overspending.Constitutional Grade: A
Remarks: Mr. Perry relates a constitutional position. The Constitution does not allow the United State to intervene in the European debt crisis.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ryHPAxovXjoqIWqldKd2-siz-vUrLYY4BQ7P0I003R4/edit?hl=en_US
When you are picking a nominee in primary voting, it is not a popularity contest.
Nominees are rigorously scrutinized during the selection process for their integrity and adherence to Conservative values and principles.
The nominees will be graded on a point system:
A = 5pts. highest, all A’s = 30pts.
B = 4pts. all B’s = 24 pts.
C = 3pts. all C’s = 18 pts.
D = 2pts. all D’s = 12 pts.
F = 0
on the 6 following areas... then an overall grade
Presentation/Debate Performance, Foreign Policy, Tax Policy, Job Creation/Monetary Policy, Individual Platform/Stance, Integrity, Overall Grade
So far we have these 2012 ballot issues, of voter importance:
A) economy B) health care/future C) security
Legend:
RED - GOP policy PURPLE - Tea Party policy BLUE - Democrat/Stupidcrat/Kleptocrat policy
ORANGE - LIBERTARIAN LOCO
RED AND BLACK - OLD HAT GOP
_A__The Perry Platform:
http://www.rickperry.org/uproot-and-overhaul-washington-html/
A) negating federal regulations/reduction of government to create jobs
B) reform Social Security, return Medicaid reform to states, defunding Obamacare
C) accountable border control policy where the federal government does its job
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - has great ideas, but won only 1 debate title
_B__Foreign Policy - needs comprehensive immigration reform/legalization initiatives
_A__Tax Policy - 20-20-0 -- simplified returns http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/sample-tax-return.pdf
_A__JobCreation/Monetary Policy - 10th Amendment/reducing size of govt./fiscal Conservative
http://www.rickperry.org/content/uploads/2011/10/Cut-Balance-and-Grow-Summary.pdf
_A__Integrity - has the Conservative Record not Rhetoric; he stands by his word
_AAA/B/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___27_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO TAKE A CLEAR POSITION OVER OTHER NOMINEES THAT HE CAN BE FIRM, DIPLOMATIC, AND NOT LOSE HIS RELIGION WHEN IT COMES TO IRAN
2) FISCAL POLICY - PERRY MUST SHOW HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION ENDORSEMENT SHOWS THAT OBAMA IS NWO, AND THAT BILDERBERG RICH PEOPLE JUST WANTED TO USE HIS TEXAS MODEL IDEAS: CREATING WEALTH AND JOBS WERE THERE WAS NONE, AS THEY DRIED UP IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - PROVE HIS RECORD AND TAX POLICY IS WHAT CREATED JOBS IN TEXAS, AND THAT THE RON PAUL PLAN IS TOO DRASTIC AND LACKS GOVERNMENT REVENUE TO RETURN OUR CREDIT RATING
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY’S DRAFTING LEGISLATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT IS NOT AMNESTY, THAT SECURES THE BORDER PEACEFULLY, WITH MODERN DRUG CONTROL POLICIES AND GUIDELINES RECOGNIZED BY CANADA AND MEXICO
5) HEALTH POLICY - PERRY WILL HAVE TO ONE-UP BACHMANN, WHO HAS POLITICIZED THE REPEAL MEASURES FOR HER CAMPAIGN BY SUPPORTING REPEAL LEGISLATION, USING EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REPEAL H.R. 4872, AND BY BUDGETARY MEANS SHOWING THAT THIS CAN NOT BE RECONCILED UNDER BUDGETARY LAW BY CURRENT ANNUAL REVENUE OF $2.5 TRILLION, AND ANNIHILATE OBAMA ON HIS MISAPPROPRIATION OF TAX DOLLARS CITING THIS
0 Income Tax 0 Wars 0 Federal Reserve_C__The Paul Platform:http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
A) government must return to the four umbrellas of original design
B) government must get out of health care; that is left up to the individual and funding to the states
C) immediate troop withdrawal/funding for all conflict goes through Congress, no a bilateral Executive-Military decision
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - interviews are better than debates
_F__Foreign Policy - sticking our head in the sand until American regains greatness/Anwar issue
_F__Tax Policy - the 0-0-0 plan is a catchy disease for anarchy - no INCOME taxes, death taxes
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - the idea of Auditing as opposed to ending the Federal Reserve http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/end-the-fed/
_B__Integrity - has great ideas on health care reform, possesses work ethic & accomplishments
_BB/CC/FF___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___14_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - RON PAUL WILL HAVE TO CONVINCE THE TEA PARTY AND THE REST OF AMERICA THAT HIS FOREIGN POLICY ISN’T JUST TO STICK ONE’S HEAD IN THE SAND LIKE AN OSTRICH
2) FISCAL POLICY - RON PAUL MUST BE MORE CLEAR ON THE GOVERNMENT’S ROLE AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION, THE LIMITATION OF IT IN REGARDS TO BUSINESS, HEALTH CARE, AND ENDLESS WAR, WITHOUT DEVIATING INTO PHILOSOPHY ABOUT IT
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RON PAUL MUST EXPLAIN HOW HIS DESIRE TO AUDIT THE FED IS NOT A RETURN TO MONARCHY OR A DEVOLVING INTO ANARCHY, WITH COMMON SENSE EXPLANATIONS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - RON PAUL MUST SLAM OBAMA FOR NOT HONORING HIS PROMISE ON LEGALIZATION LEGISLATION, CONTINUING TO VIOLATE CIVIL LIBERTIES, OVERPOPULATE JAILS AND SUCKING TAXPAYER DOLLARS, AND THEN ADOPT REFORMS
5) HEALTH POLICY - IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE AS A DOCTOR TO ACTUALLY UNDERTAKE HEALTH REFORM MEASURES THAT ARE CONSTITUTIONAL AND COST EFFECTIVE, IT IS RON PAUL, AND HE SHOULD TRUMP OBAMA EASILY BY FOCUSING ON HOW OBAMA MISAPPROPRIATED TAX DOLLARS THAT NEVER CREATED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE OR REFORMS
_C__The Bachmann Platform:http://www.michelebachmann.com/
A) wants a Balanced Budget Amendment to remove uncertainty, (vote is scheduled on that for the end of this year)
B) repeal Obamacare as it has destroyed jobs and created uncertainty about taxation
C) eradicate the Obama ideology that makes us vulnerable to attack
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - gets animated, needs to be succinct and confident
_B__Foreign Policy - good solid foreign policy that needs fine tuning
_D__Tax Policy - Bachmann has been criticized for using food stamps/writeoffs loophole Queen
_D__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - agrees that government is the problem, but it’s more rhetoric than a plan of action http://www.michelebachmann.com/issues/americanjobsrightnow/
_C__Integrity - says she wrote the repeal bill for Obamacare, when I composed the bill, not her:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je
_CCC/DD/B__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___17_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - THE TEA PARTY AND THE GOP ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE BACHMANN TAKE A POSITION ON FOREIGN POLICY THAT IS NOT PURELY IDEOLOGICAL OR PANDERING FOR VOTES
2) FISCAL POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO US IN HUMAN TERMS HOW REPATRIATION WORKS AND WHY THAT FIXES OUR BUDGET PROBLEMS
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - BACHMMAN MUST EXPLAIN WHY CUTTING TAXES IS THE ANSWER, WHEN WE HAVE A SERIOUS BASE-BUDGETING ISSUE AND LACK OF REVENUE, THAT CUTTING TAXES SOLVES OUR JOBS CRISES; DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE DEFICIT OBAMA CAUSED AND HIS POLICIES. SHE MUST TRUMP OBAMA’S LACK OF FISCAL SANITY AND 200+ REGULATIONS/OBUMMERCARE 4872 THAT KILLED 25-30 MILLION JOBS
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - BACHMANN IS GOING TO HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW ENFORCING CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE COST EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COSTS $10,000 A HEAD FOR A ONE-WAY DEPORTATION AND MANY RETURN. BOTTOM LINE: WE MAKE IT TOO EASY TO STAY WITHOUT LEVYING FINES OR ENFORCING EMPLOYMENT LAWS AT STATE LEVEL. LIKE HER OTHER IDEAS, SHE HAS TROUBLE GETTING THEM ACROSS SUCCINCTLY AND IN A WAY WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND.
5) HEALTH POLICY - BACHMANN MUST PROPOSE HER OWN LEGISLATION, SINCE SHE HAS NOT BROUGHT MY REPEAL BILL TO THE FLOOR https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je8I
INTRODUCED AUGUST 2010, ABOUT HOW SHE WOULD GO ABOUT PURSUING HEALTH CARE REFORMS THAT ARE SO COSTLY NOW/IF SHE AGREES WITH HSA’S AND MONTORING COSTS THROUGH YEARLY TAX REPORTS OR TAX ID#’S.
_B__The Santorum Platform: http://www.ricksantorum.com/
A) sees job creation as an integral societal problem
B) repeal Obamacare
C) feels that Obama’s corruption has eroded the social and moral fabric of America, which must be replaced with different leadership
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - in the race since the beginning/performed well
_C__Foreign Policy - he would continue miring us in conflict without wise counsel
_B__Tax Policy - defends taxpayers - http://www.ricksantorum.com/defender-taxpayer
_A__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - supports the BBA
_A__Integrity - this man walks out his values, doesn’t use Conservative as an adjective
_BBB/AA/C__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___25_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - IF THERE IS ONE POSITION THAT IS RICK SANTORUM’S STRONG SUIT OVER RON PAUL, IT IS HIS LEVEL-HEADEDNESS ON FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY ISSUES. IF I WERE RICK SANTORUM, I WOULD GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH RON PAUL AND SHOW EVERYONE HOW FLABBERGASTED HE CAN GET.
2) FISCAL POLICY - RICK SANTORUM WILL HAVE TO MATCH HIS INTEGRITY UP TO THE CURRENT PROBLEMS, AND HOW HIS LEADERSHIP WILL GLUE THE DAMAGE DONE BY CORRUPTION, AND HE MUST SUPPORT FIXING THE PROBLEMS HIGHLIGHTED BY TEA PARTY INQUIRIES INTO THE BUDGET BY PUTTING IT ON HIS PERSONAL ‘TO DO’ LIST.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST MATCH HIS DESIRE TO TITHE WITH RESPECT TO TAXPAYERS’ CONCERNS ABOUT ETHICAL GOVERNMENT IN ADDRESSING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE AS HIS TOP PRIORITIES
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE IT IS TEMPTING TO ENFORCE CURRENT LAWS, RICK SANTORUM MUST CONSIDER COST EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION THAT ADDRESSES IMMIGRATION AND DRUG POLICY COHESIVELY, AS THE REASON IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE THUS FAR, AND SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY IN THOSE ENDEAVORS TO DRAFT LEGISLATION
5) HEALTH POLICY - RICK SANTORUM MUST EMBRACE THE HOLISTIC MODEL OF HEALTH CARE, TRUMP OBAMA ON THIS, CALL OBAMA OUT FOR NEGLECTING HIS SPIRITUAL LIFE/ FALLING PREY TO TRIBAL IDOL WORSHIP AND HOW OBAMA HAS NEGLECTED THE PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS PROGRAM THAT MOTIVATED CHILDREN BY EXAMPLE.
_B__The Palin Platform: ***WRITE-IN CANDIDATE
A) sees job creation through reduction of government spending and paying down the deficit/restoring America’s credit rating and integrity financially
B) strike through Obamacare funding - declare it null and void, according to court rulings, and work on substantive health reform
C) taking back our country, through grassroots initiatives will secure our country without bell and whistles of massive federal funding of security initiatives
_F__Presentation/Debate Performance - she backed away from the race/write-in candidate
_C__Foreign Policy - overcharged emotionally
_B__Tax Policy - Alaska record
_B__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Alaska record
_B__Integrity - doesn’t mince words/won’t lie to you
_BBBB/C/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19____
***********DO NOT VOTE BELOW THIS LINE*********************
_C__The Newt Platform: Newt is Old Hat GOP
http://www.newt.org/meet-newt
A) systematic Reagan-style job creation plan
B) systematic repeal and reform of health care
C) will be more actively engaged with military expenses
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - while Newt has good presence/candid, his platform has not been conveyed
_B__Foreign Policy - solid but too quick to get angry or act on his own
_A__Tax Policy - stick with the current code or opt for the 15% flat tax http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
_C_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Reagan monetary policy to fix inflation/doesn’t address damage done
_F__Integrity - multiple marriages, shuffles money, does what’s politically convenient to make $ took close to $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in consulting fees http://bit.ly/s28lPB
__CC/F/A/BB__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WITH AS WELL AS WE KNOW NEWT GINGRICH, WE KNOW HIS ABILITY TO PISS PEOPLE OFF AND PEE ON HORNETS’ NESTS. GIVEN THE CURRENT CLIMATE, WE DON’T WANT A THREE-PEAT BUSH... WE SEE THIS AS A WEAKNESS, HIS MOUTH.
2) FISCAL POLICY - WE FIND THAT GINGRICH STARTING OUT $1.5 MILLION IN THE HOLE, TAKING LOBBYING HANDOUTS FROM FANNIE, CLIMATE CULTS, OBUMMERCARE PILOT HOSPITAL, WHILE WANTING TO PENALIZE MARIJUANA MORE IS SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL AND DOWNRIGHT “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”. WE WORRY THAT HE IS NOT THE RIGHT ONE TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY OUT OF THE OBAMA CULTURE OF CORRUPTION BY THIS POOR EXAMPLE.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE IT IS TRUE NEWT GINGRICH HAD A GOOD RECORD ON JOB CREATION AND BALANCING THE BUDGET, WE ARE SURE THAT HIS IDEAS DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH ALONE, CONSIDERING THE LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT, 25-30 MILLION OUT OF WORK AND WITH THIS SEVERE OF A DEFICIT. HIS POLICY MUST GO AS FAR OR FURTHER THAN THE REAGAN 4 STEP PLAN AS OUTLINED BY NORQUIST IN “AMERICA’S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB” BY PETER FERRARA.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHEN NEWT’S LAISSEZ-FAIRE IMMIGRATION POLICIES COST GEORGIA $20 MILLION IN IMMIGRATION FEES AND 2-3% TAX REVENUE OVER 10YRS., WE DO NOT FEEL HE IS THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD THE CHARGE OF REFORM, AS THE OLD HAT POLICY IS TO KEEP THE LAWS STRICT ENOUGH TO PROFIT OFF OF MANDATORY MINIMUMS AND UNETHICAL INFORMANTS, AS LONG AS IT IS POLITICALLY CONVENIENT.
5) HEALTH POLICY - NEWT IS NOT THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD ON THIS ISSUE, AND RON PAUL SHOULD CRUSH NEWT ON IT. NEWT HAS TAKEN HANDOUTS FOR A HOSPITAL PILOTING OBUMMCARE SOFTWARE IN A HOSPITAL, AND NEWT WAS A BIG PROPONENT ORIGINALLY OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. HE JUST CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH REFORM SOLUTIONS.
_c__The Obamoney Platform: http://www.mittromney.com/
A) doesn’t see job creation except as a tax-related issue/out-of-touch
B) *offers Obamacare waivers, which doesn’t go far enough in defunding unconstitutional and corrupt legislation originally designed to function as a funnel program for Thomson prison
C) relies on military rather than militia for advice for the future of national security
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - you don’t grad shoulders in a debate/talks in 3rd person
_C__Foreign Policy - Lincolnish style http://www.mittromney.com/issues/foreign-policy
_C__Tax Policy - TAX REFORM/CAN HE DO IT??
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - great ideas, not detailed enough http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2011/09/believe-america-day-one-job-one
_F_Integrity - “I’m a Mormon” advertising campaign, like Newt with a Mormon twist
_CCCCC/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___15_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MEANS WELL, THE ONLY THING GOING FOR HIM IS THAT HE’S MODERATE, AND HE DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE A HEART ATTACK OR IRRITABLE BOWEL, LIKE BACHMANN DOES ON FOREIGN POLICY.
2) FISCAL POLICY - OBAMONEY HAS GREAT IDEAS, BUT NOT ENOUGH DETAIL OR FOLLOW-THRU ON HOW TO ARRIVE TO THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE 59 PT. PLAN HE TOUTS IN DEBATES.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WEAK ON TAX REFORM, AND I THINK IT’S PERSONAL
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MAY BE WILLING TO EMBRACE THE TEA PARTY DRAFT ON COMPREHENSIVE REFORMS, HE HAS NO CLEAR POSITION OTHER THAN ENFORCING EXISTING LAWS.
5) HEALTH POLICY - FLIP FLOPPING ON ROMNEYCARE, WHEN IT BANKRUPTED MA IS A REALLY HARD SELL TO THE TEA PARTY THAT YOU WILL, IN FACT, ERADICATE OBUMMERCARE/4872.
__D__The Huntsman Platform:http://www.jon2012.com/
A) thinks Obama’s policies have killed jobs - yet has no clear strategy
B) has a different idea than Obamacare on health care reform, but it’s not Obamacare
C) doesn’t hold a staunch debate posture on security, just feels it is an arm of government instead of an integral part
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - Huntsman placates/brown noser
_F__Foreign Policy - made his living being Ambassador to China http://www.jon2012.com/index.php/issues/national-security
_D_Tax Policy - 4pt. Reform Policy, less talking more doing, doesn’t show action
_D_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - thinks reform creates jobs
_D__Integrity - tries to sell the white peoples’ dream, through Mormonism
_DDDD/F/C___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___11_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERHAPS THE WEAKEST STANCE, BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY RESENTS OBAMA BEING HIS FORMER BOSS, VIEWS HIM AS A SUCK UP TO OBAMA, AND TO THE CHINESE
2) FISCAL POLICY - ANYTHING HUNTSMAN SAYS ABOUT MONEY, ALL WE CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE, HOW HE FEELS THIS WILL MAGICALLY RESOLVE ITSELF WITH THE CHINESE, WHILE UNFAIR TRADE AGREEMENTS AND OTHER FACTORS LIKE UNIONS HAVE DESTROYED AMERICAN JOBS, SENDING THEM STRAIGHT TO CHINA.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE WE THINK HUNTSMAN HAS GOOD INTENTIONS, HE HAS NOT MADE THIS COME THROUGH OR CONNECTED WITH THIS IN DEBATE ANSWERS.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WE HONESTLY THINK THAT HUNTSMAN COULD CARE LESS ABOUT IMMIGRATION OR DRUG POLICY REFORM OR THAT HE SEES IT AS A PRESSING ISSUE
5) HEALTH POLICY - IT IS HARD TO STOMACH SOMEONE WHO MADE THEIR LIVING OFF OF WORKING UNDER OBAMA NOW UNDERTAKING THE TASKS OF UNDOING EVERYTHING THEY WATCHED OBAMA DO, WITHOUT PUBLICLY TRYING TO STOP HIM, UNTIL AFTER THE DAMAGE OF OBUMMERCARE/4872 CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL JOB LOSS... ESPECIALLY WHEN IT SEEMS HE COULD’VE DONE MORE THAN TO USE IT TO CAMPAIGN OFF OF...
Obamoney and Huntsman can’t win the GOP nomination: their platforms reflect the same ideas and approaches of Moderate Democrats. I would comment further on the Democrats’ platforms, but I have seen no debate or appeals to the public. It is as if they have already lost the 2012 election and have no fresh ideas on how to fix our nation’s problems.
Democrats have resigned to spin the wheels of Obama’s bus in the rut of economic hell. Obama doesn’t even have a platform!!
His “economic plan” is a dirty trick bag of stimulus.
Though not as large as the super bank bailouts, where the bank has held onto $1 trillion of taxpayer money without loaning or fixing their “MORTGAGE-CRISES-BANKER-SPURNED GAMBLING ADDICTION”, they have arrested Geithner and Bernanke’s ability to do anything to thwart a second market collapse. This is good for the stock market, but bad for Main Street. Not that anyone wanted the Geithner-Bernanke New World Order style banking system, when global markets have weighed heavily on top of our $14.5 trillion dollar growing deficit.
The Obama-Biden debt financing to China can’t continue; as China will not allow us to do so, as their market is strained by our lack of recovery.
The only thing Obama proposes is a cosmetic approach before the 2012 election:
MINI STIMULUS #1,#2,#3
#1 UNFUNDED unemployment checks/unemployment insurance extensions
#2 UNFUNDED infrastructure, which should be left up to states applying for grants
#3 UNFUNDED tax cuts for businesses to create jobs
= $1.5 trillion of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING interest included
WITH SUCKER BONUS - some people will be eligible to temporarily receive Social Security that are capable of working at least a part-time job
http://www.newt.org/meet-newt
A) systematic Reagan-style job creation plan
B) systematic repeal and reform of health care
C) will be more actively engaged with military expenses
_B__Presentation/Debate Performance - while Newt has good presence/candid, his platform has not been conveyed
_B__Foreign Policy - solid but too quick to get angry or act on his own
_A__Tax Policy - stick with the current code or opt for the 15% flat tax http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
_C_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - Reagan monetary policy to fix inflation/doesn’t address damage done
_F__Integrity - multiple marriages, shuffles money, does what’s politically convenient to make $ took close to $2 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in consulting fees http://bit.ly/s28lPB
__CC/F/A/BB__TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___19_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WITH AS WELL AS WE KNOW NEWT GINGRICH, WE KNOW HIS ABILITY TO PISS PEOPLE OFF AND PEE ON HORNETS’ NESTS. GIVEN THE CURRENT CLIMATE, WE DON’T WANT A THREE-PEAT BUSH... WE SEE THIS AS A WEAKNESS, HIS MOUTH.
2) FISCAL POLICY - WE FIND THAT GINGRICH STARTING OUT $1.5 MILLION IN THE HOLE, TAKING LOBBYING HANDOUTS FROM FANNIE, CLIMATE CULTS, OBUMMERCARE PILOT HOSPITAL, WHILE WANTING TO PENALIZE MARIJUANA MORE IS SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL AND DOWNRIGHT “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”. WE WORRY THAT HE IS NOT THE RIGHT ONE TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY OUT OF THE OBAMA CULTURE OF CORRUPTION BY THIS POOR EXAMPLE.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE IT IS TRUE NEWT GINGRICH HAD A GOOD RECORD ON JOB CREATION AND BALANCING THE BUDGET, WE ARE SURE THAT HIS IDEAS DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH ALONE, CONSIDERING THE LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT, 25-30 MILLION OUT OF WORK AND WITH THIS SEVERE OF A DEFICIT. HIS POLICY MUST GO AS FAR OR FURTHER THAN THE REAGAN 4 STEP PLAN AS OUTLINED BY NORQUIST IN “AMERICA’S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB” BY PETER FERRARA.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHEN NEWT’S LAISSEZ-FAIRE IMMIGRATION POLICIES COST GEORGIA $20 MILLION IN IMMIGRATION FEES AND 2-3% TAX REVENUE OVER 10YRS., WE DO NOT FEEL HE IS THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD THE CHARGE OF REFORM, AS THE OLD HAT POLICY IS TO KEEP THE LAWS STRICT ENOUGH TO PROFIT OFF OF MANDATORY MINIMUMS AND UNETHICAL INFORMANTS, AS LONG AS IT IS POLITICALLY CONVENIENT.
5) HEALTH POLICY - NEWT IS NOT THE BEST PERSON TO LEAD ON THIS ISSUE, AND RON PAUL SHOULD CRUSH NEWT ON IT. NEWT HAS TAKEN HANDOUTS FOR A HOSPITAL PILOTING OBUMMCARE SOFTWARE IN A HOSPITAL, AND NEWT WAS A BIG PROPONENT ORIGINALLY OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE. HE JUST CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH REFORM SOLUTIONS.
_c__The Obamoney Platform: http://www.mittromney.com/
A) doesn’t see job creation except as a tax-related issue/out-of-touch
B) *offers Obamacare waivers, which doesn’t go far enough in defunding unconstitutional and corrupt legislation originally designed to function as a funnel program for Thomson prison
C) relies on military rather than militia for advice for the future of national security
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - you don’t grad shoulders in a debate/talks in 3rd person
_C__Foreign Policy - Lincolnish style http://www.mittromney.com/issues/foreign-policy
_C__Tax Policy - TAX REFORM/CAN HE DO IT??
_C__Job Creation/Monetary Policy - great ideas, not detailed enough http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2011/09/believe-america-day-one-job-one
_F_Integrity - “I’m a Mormon” advertising campaign, like Newt with a Mormon twist
_CCCCC/F___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___15_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MEANS WELL, THE ONLY THING GOING FOR HIM IS THAT HE’S MODERATE, AND HE DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE A HEART ATTACK OR IRRITABLE BOWEL, LIKE BACHMANN DOES ON FOREIGN POLICY.
2) FISCAL POLICY - OBAMONEY HAS GREAT IDEAS, BUT NOT ENOUGH DETAIL OR FOLLOW-THRU ON HOW TO ARRIVE TO THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE 59 PT. PLAN HE TOUTS IN DEBATES.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WEAK ON TAX REFORM, AND I THINK IT’S PERSONAL
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WHILE OBAMONEY MAY BE WILLING TO EMBRACE THE TEA PARTY DRAFT ON COMPREHENSIVE REFORMS, HE HAS NO CLEAR POSITION OTHER THAN ENFORCING EXISTING LAWS.
5) HEALTH POLICY - FLIP FLOPPING ON ROMNEYCARE, WHEN IT BANKRUPTED MA IS A REALLY HARD SELL TO THE TEA PARTY THAT YOU WILL, IN FACT, ERADICATE OBUMMERCARE/4872.
__D__The Huntsman Platform:http://www.jon2012.com/
A) thinks Obama’s policies have killed jobs - yet has no clear strategy
B) has a different idea than Obamacare on health care reform, but it’s not Obamacare
C) doesn’t hold a staunch debate posture on security, just feels it is an arm of government instead of an integral part
_C__Presentation/Debate Performance - Huntsman placates/brown noser
_F__Foreign Policy - made his living being Ambassador to China http://www.jon2012.com/index.php/issues/national-security
_D_Tax Policy - 4pt. Reform Policy, less talking more doing, doesn’t show action
_D_Job Creation/Monetary Policy - thinks reform creates jobs
_D__Integrity - tries to sell the white peoples’ dream, through Mormonism
_DDDD/F/C___TOTAL VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY GRADE/BY POINT SYSTEM ___11_____
SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION:
1) FOREIGN POLICY - PERHAPS THE WEAKEST STANCE, BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY RESENTS OBAMA BEING HIS FORMER BOSS, VIEWS HIM AS A SUCK UP TO OBAMA, AND TO THE CHINESE
2) FISCAL POLICY - ANYTHING HUNTSMAN SAYS ABOUT MONEY, ALL WE CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE, HOW HE FEELS THIS WILL MAGICALLY RESOLVE ITSELF WITH THE CHINESE, WHILE UNFAIR TRADE AGREEMENTS AND OTHER FACTORS LIKE UNIONS HAVE DESTROYED AMERICAN JOBS, SENDING THEM STRAIGHT TO CHINA.
3) MONETARY/TAX POLICY - WHILE WE THINK HUNTSMAN HAS GOOD INTENTIONS, HE HAS NOT MADE THIS COME THROUGH OR CONNECTED WITH THIS IN DEBATE ANSWERS.
4) IMMIGRATION/DRUG POLICY - WE HONESTLY THINK THAT HUNTSMAN COULD CARE LESS ABOUT IMMIGRATION OR DRUG POLICY REFORM OR THAT HE SEES IT AS A PRESSING ISSUE
5) HEALTH POLICY - IT IS HARD TO STOMACH SOMEONE WHO MADE THEIR LIVING OFF OF WORKING UNDER OBAMA NOW UNDERTAKING THE TASKS OF UNDOING EVERYTHING THEY WATCHED OBAMA DO, WITHOUT PUBLICLY TRYING TO STOP HIM, UNTIL AFTER THE DAMAGE OF OBUMMERCARE/4872 CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL JOB LOSS... ESPECIALLY WHEN IT SEEMS HE COULD’VE DONE MORE THAN TO USE IT TO CAMPAIGN OFF OF...
Obamoney and Huntsman can’t win the GOP nomination: their platforms reflect the same ideas and approaches of Moderate Democrats. I would comment further on the Democrats’ platforms, but I have seen no debate or appeals to the public. It is as if they have already lost the 2012 election and have no fresh ideas on how to fix our nation’s problems.
Democrats have resigned to spin the wheels of Obama’s bus in the rut of economic hell. Obama doesn’t even have a platform!!
His “economic plan” is a dirty trick bag of stimulus.
Though not as large as the super bank bailouts, where the bank has held onto $1 trillion of taxpayer money without loaning or fixing their “MORTGAGE-CRISES-BANKER-SPURNED GAMBLING ADDICTION”, they have arrested Geithner and Bernanke’s ability to do anything to thwart a second market collapse. This is good for the stock market, but bad for Main Street. Not that anyone wanted the Geithner-Bernanke New World Order style banking system, when global markets have weighed heavily on top of our $14.5 trillion dollar growing deficit.
The Obama-Biden debt financing to China can’t continue; as China will not allow us to do so, as their market is strained by our lack of recovery.
The only thing Obama proposes is a cosmetic approach before the 2012 election:
MINI STIMULUS #1,#2,#3
#1 UNFUNDED unemployment checks/unemployment insurance extensions
#2 UNFUNDED infrastructure, which should be left up to states applying for grants
#3 UNFUNDED tax cuts for businesses to create jobs
= $1.5 trillion of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING interest included
WITH SUCKER BONUS - some people will be eligible to temporarily receive Social Security that are capable of working at least a part-time job
All the while Obama is facing impeachment over his lack of citizenry on 9-14 with the Hawaii Department of Health summoned to court to answer to the court as to why they could not produce ANY birth certificate on 8-8, when it took three years to get a court ordered subpoena in response to numerous lawsuits filed and corresponding FBI investigations, regarding pending corruption and and criminal fraud charges.
I have heard Harry Reid speak twice on CSPAN since the “DEBT CEILING DEBACLE”, and he blames the Republicans and the Tea Party for what he calls “NO IDEAS” presented by his party: he cites “their obstructionism” and “they’re holding the American economy hostage”, and these are the only things that they can contribute on their part.
Yeah, I guess when Democrats only present more spending as “the Holy Grail” to job growth and economic restoration when there is no gold to back it, Democrats really only do the best job projecting the problems that they created onto the other parties by further obstructing and holding the economy hostage to their fiscal insanity.
I have not seen any different ideas Democrats have other than UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. When you don’t have the money, and spend it anyway, it is called STEALING. This is why I will refer to Democrats as Kleptocrats and Stupidcrats from now until 2012.
The leadership of the Democratic Party displays no palatable nominees for the Presidency with UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS THEIR PLATFORM.
Their party has catered to 20% of voter base and alienated the majority of taxpayers, 65% of the emerging majority is attuned with the GOP and Tea Party.
Why taxpayers feel that the Democrats’ approach has not worked:
nearly half of the voter base that is not Republican or Tea Party have not paid in taxes regularly for the past 15-20 yrs., and
Obama’s “CONSTITUENTS” have increasingly demanded more w/o paying taxes:
1) food stamps
2) Medicaid/Medicare
3) cell phones
4) housing loans based on racial privilege without income or intelligence quotient
5) education funding, rather than earned scholarships for talent or scholastic achievement
When $.42 of the dollar goes to defense, you can’t have $.50 leveraged in public debt in the form of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Obama borrowed nearly $9 trillion against gold to fund his 2010 budget and the 2011 budget that he never wrote, by expanding UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING in the form of social programs and unemployment without job creation or revenue from cuts or reforms.
Obama has levied the debt of 20% of constituents on the back of 65% of taxpayers, to the point taxpayers are losing jobs from economic slowdown and causing those who would not be on food stamps to join the roll, adding to the burden.
Instead of attacking poverty, as was his pledge state-by-state, he has IMPOVERISHED the entire nation, trying to spend his way out of poverty, rather than working America out of it by jobs, revenues, and cuts.
America could never afford or wanted Obama’s agenda in 2008; Obama lied about it all, and his supporters see now that they were duped as well. We now see if for what it really is: a grand scheme of theft, LIKE GRAND THEFT LOTTO: where you pay in a little and cash in on the money you never had to earn or have to pay back.
Yesterday, 11/18/11 the BBA failed to pass with a ⅔ Majority. Congress has only agreed to enough cuts and budgeting to operate until 12/16/11.
WE HAVE HAD NO BUDGET AGREED TO IN 3 YEARS, AND SINCE 2006, AND RAISING THE DEBT CEILING TWICE, WE HAVE ACCRUED $10 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT, AT A RATE OF $1.7+ TRILLION IN INTEREST ON THE DEFICIT, AT A RATE THAT EXPANDS EVERY 5-6 MONTHS, WE PAY THAT AMOUNT OF INTEREST $1.7 TRILLION.
WE ALSO HIT $15 TRILLION THE OTHER DAY, AND WE CAN’T WAIT UNTIL WE GET THE NEXT PRESIDENT TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS!!!!
BOTTOM LINE, IT IS PISS POOR LEADERSHIP !!!
THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL; CONGRESS SHOULD BE JAILED FOR FRAUD AND MISAPPROPRIATION FOR UNETHICAL CONDUCT FOR FAILING TO HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE OATH OF OFFICE FOR 2008 ELECTION FRAUD AND GROSS MISAPPROPRIATION BY IMPEACHMENT, CRIMINAL TRIAL, AND IMPOSITION OF FINES.
I have heard Harry Reid speak twice on CSPAN since the “DEBT CEILING DEBACLE”, and he blames the Republicans and the Tea Party for what he calls “NO IDEAS” presented by his party: he cites “their obstructionism” and “they’re holding the American economy hostage”, and these are the only things that they can contribute on their part.
Yeah, I guess when Democrats only present more spending as “the Holy Grail” to job growth and economic restoration when there is no gold to back it, Democrats really only do the best job projecting the problems that they created onto the other parties by further obstructing and holding the economy hostage to their fiscal insanity.
I have not seen any different ideas Democrats have other than UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING. When you don’t have the money, and spend it anyway, it is called STEALING. This is why I will refer to Democrats as Kleptocrats and Stupidcrats from now until 2012.
The leadership of the Democratic Party displays no palatable nominees for the Presidency with UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS THEIR PLATFORM.
Their party has catered to 20% of voter base and alienated the majority of taxpayers, 65% of the emerging majority is attuned with the GOP and Tea Party.
Why taxpayers feel that the Democrats’ approach has not worked:
nearly half of the voter base that is not Republican or Tea Party have not paid in taxes regularly for the past 15-20 yrs., and
Obama’s “CONSTITUENTS” have increasingly demanded more w/o paying taxes:
1) food stamps
2) Medicaid/Medicare
3) cell phones
4) housing loans based on racial privilege without income or intelligence quotient
5) education funding, rather than earned scholarships for talent or scholastic achievement
When $.42 of the dollar goes to defense, you can’t have $.50 leveraged in public debt in the form of UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Obama borrowed nearly $9 trillion against gold to fund his 2010 budget and the 2011 budget that he never wrote, by expanding UNFUNDED GOVERNMENT SPENDING in the form of social programs and unemployment without job creation or revenue from cuts or reforms.
Obama has levied the debt of 20% of constituents on the back of 65% of taxpayers, to the point taxpayers are losing jobs from economic slowdown and causing those who would not be on food stamps to join the roll, adding to the burden.
Instead of attacking poverty, as was his pledge state-by-state, he has IMPOVERISHED the entire nation, trying to spend his way out of poverty, rather than working America out of it by jobs, revenues, and cuts.
America could never afford or wanted Obama’s agenda in 2008; Obama lied about it all, and his supporters see now that they were duped as well. We now see if for what it really is: a grand scheme of theft, LIKE GRAND THEFT LOTTO: where you pay in a little and cash in on the money you never had to earn or have to pay back.
Yesterday, 11/18/11 the BBA failed to pass with a ⅔ Majority. Congress has only agreed to enough cuts and budgeting to operate until 12/16/11.
WE HAVE HAD NO BUDGET AGREED TO IN 3 YEARS, AND SINCE 2006, AND RAISING THE DEBT CEILING TWICE, WE HAVE ACCRUED $10 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT, AT A RATE OF $1.7+ TRILLION IN INTEREST ON THE DEFICIT, AT A RATE THAT EXPANDS EVERY 5-6 MONTHS, WE PAY THAT AMOUNT OF INTEREST $1.7 TRILLION.
WE ALSO HIT $15 TRILLION THE OTHER DAY, AND WE CAN’T WAIT UNTIL WE GET THE NEXT PRESIDENT TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS!!!!
BOTTOM LINE, IT IS PISS POOR LEADERSHIP !!!
THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL; CONGRESS SHOULD BE JAILED FOR FRAUD AND MISAPPROPRIATION FOR UNETHICAL CONDUCT FOR FAILING TO HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE TO THE OATH OF OFFICE FOR 2008 ELECTION FRAUD AND GROSS MISAPPROPRIATION BY IMPEACHMENT, CRIMINAL TRIAL, AND IMPOSITION OF FINES.
(SO IF I HAD TO PICK WHO’S TURKEY THIS YEAR, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE OBAMONEY!! GOBBLE GOBBLE, AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN PURE MEDIA HYPE... “ELECT ME.... IT WILL COME.” I FEEL LIKE I’M IN A FIELD OF DREAMS MOVIE, BUT FOR POLITICAL CANDIDATES!! HA! YEAH RIGHT~~~!)
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It Can and Is Happening Here
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 AT 6:08PM
Less than two months ago I was the guest on a radio program out of Fairbanks Alaska called Patriot's Lament (click here to view the video). Two of the hosts were David Giessel and Joshua Bennett.
David and I had become good friends ever since we met at the recent Casey summit. Being a young anarcho-capitalist, we had him on Anarchast (click here to view). Living in Alaska, they had been very curious about my libertarian hideaway in southern Mexico (AcaCondos) and David had made plans to visit this December.
That was, until, the FBI with 30 strong wearing body armor and bearing machine guns raided Joshua's house a few days ago.
The following is Joshua's account of what happened the morning of December 6th under his blog post entitled, "It Won't Happen In America, Yeah Well It Just Did":
This morning while I was working on a bid for a job, my phone quit working. I tried it a few more times and then thought about it for a minute and then asked my wife, is your phone working?
It wasn't.
So I sat and waited.
Then they came.
I watched them scatter.
My wife came running down the stairs yelling, "Josh, there are a bunch of men surrounding our house and they have guns!!"
I have 8 children, all of them watching the scene unfold before their eyes. Dozens of agents wearing body armor and carrying machine guns, swarm around our house.
I think over my options, (there is only one, they kill kids) and I walk to the door, and yell loud enough for the thugs outside and my family inside to hear, "It's the FBI , don't be scared, just be quiet and sit down!" I open the door and am looking at Michael Anderson's wife. They have her in front of them, between us, and she is crying.
"How can I help you?"
"Mr. Bennett, we are here for Michael Anderson!"
"Do you have a warrant?"
They walk right in. My mind is screaming to demand to see the warrant, when I am told, "Mr. Bennett, we don't want any trouble, and I don't want to frighten your children." He's a little late for that. He ignores my request about the warrant, and proceeds to find and arrest Michael Anderson. I stand in my living room and watch the agents running around here to there. I look at one who is holding his rifle next to a car. He looks at me for a second, then moves behind the car and continues to watch. I look at my 6-year-old twin girls; they are scared to death. I hold my hands out far from my sides for "them" to see.
Michael is brought upstairs, his 4-year-old son is screaming at the agents, "Don't take my dad, don't take my dad!" I ask what he is being charged with, and am told he is being held as a witness. "You guys arrest your witnesses now?" I ask about the warrant again. But it's done. They go out the door. They put Mike in the car, and spend a few more minutes running around the house for some reason, guns in the open.
Now they are gone.
One of the twins asks me, "Poppa, why did they come here with guns?" I say they were scared.
"Why poppa? Why are they scared of us, we don't hurt people, and we wouldn't hurt them".
I tell her they just wanted to come and get Mike, and it's ok because now they are gone. She says," I know why they came and took Mr. Anderson, Poppa, because they know he didn't do anything wrong, and they don't want him to tell other people".
HA! Out of the mouths of babes. She is right, one agent could have come and actually served the warrant, and produced the same outcome. That must not be enough fun for them. I talked to my older sons...were they afraid? Yes. One said," Dad, there were guys running all over with guns, how could we not be?" I told them it's ok. I was too.
I hope they enjoyed terrorizing my family.
Thugs.
Criminals in costumes.
So, Joshua's house got raided by 30 well armed FBI thugs looking for Joshua's friend, Michael Anderson. There was no arrest warrant for Michael and he currently sits in jail charged with nothing as the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner explains. Anderson had previously been held for 8 months just for being mentioned in a conversation with some other men supposedly wanted for planning to kill Alaska State Troopers or court officials and was released until he was once again kidnapped on December 6th.
While we know nothing of Michael Anderson's involvement in any activities, having Joshua's house raided, terrifying his entire family, sadly, does not surprise us.
The police and all the endless government agencies in the US have all become increasingly militarized. The US Department of Education bought a number of shotguns earlier this year, leaving one news agency to question why the DoE needs shotguns. That question was soon answered when a similar home raid was conducted by a DoE SWAT team in California looking for a woman who was behind on her student loans.
Many are awakening to the fact that there will be no political solution for the sad state of affairs in the US. Voting is just the slave's suggestion box and many are finally realizing that it does not matter for which of the two political parties in the US you vote. They both do nothing but increase the size of government and its control over your life. As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
Josh concluded his blog entry by stating, " I seriously think if I hear another person tell me "it can't happen here," I may sock him in the nose." Events like this are happening every single day in the US. No-knock raids are now just a part of everyday life in the Communo-Fascist Police State of America.
Josh wrote to us, "The more people that see we are already in 1930s Germany the better. Folks have got to wake up. Its time to get out while there is still time."
This is something we state very regularly here at TDV. And it is sad that yet another of our friends have become a victim to something that many sheeple still say "can't happen here". Not only can it, but it is "happening here".
Do you have to wait until it happens to you before you believe it?
The Dollar Vigilante features information and products on how to expatriate yourself and your assets from your home country. From foreign passports in the Dominican Republic or Paraguay, to interviews and links to books by leading experts on expatriation such as Mark Nestmann's "The Lifeboat Strategy" book, or Terry Coxon's "Unleash Your IRA" and tons of useful info and information to surviving the collapsing western financial system and attacks on your wealth and your self from your own government as it collapses. Subscribe to The Dollar Vigilante today.
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It Can and Is Happening Here
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011 AT 6:08PMLess than two months ago I was the guest on a radio program out of Fairbanks Alaska called Patriot's Lament (click here to view the video). Two of the hosts were David Giessel and Joshua Bennett.
David and I had become good friends ever since we met at the recent Casey summit. Being a young anarcho-capitalist, we had him on Anarchast (click here to view). Living in Alaska, they had been very curious about my libertarian hideaway in southern Mexico (AcaCondos) and David had made plans to visit this December.
That was, until, the FBI with 30 strong wearing body armor and bearing machine guns raided Joshua's house a few days ago.
The following is Joshua's account of what happened the morning of December 6th under his blog post entitled, "It Won't Happen In America, Yeah Well It Just Did":
This morning while I was working on a bid for a job, my phone quit working. I tried it a few more times and then thought about it for a minute and then asked my wife, is your phone working?
It wasn't.
So I sat and waited.
Then they came.
I watched them scatter.
My wife came running down the stairs yelling, "Josh, there are a bunch of men surrounding our house and they have guns!!"
I have 8 children, all of them watching the scene unfold before their eyes. Dozens of agents wearing body armor and carrying machine guns, swarm around our house.
I think over my options, (there is only one, they kill kids) and I walk to the door, and yell loud enough for the thugs outside and my family inside to hear, "It's the FBI , don't be scared, just be quiet and sit down!" I open the door and am looking at Michael Anderson's wife. They have her in front of them, between us, and she is crying.
"How can I help you?"
"Mr. Bennett, we are here for Michael Anderson!"
"Do you have a warrant?"
They walk right in. My mind is screaming to demand to see the warrant, when I am told, "Mr. Bennett, we don't want any trouble, and I don't want to frighten your children." He's a little late for that. He ignores my request about the warrant, and proceeds to find and arrest Michael Anderson. I stand in my living room and watch the agents running around here to there. I look at one who is holding his rifle next to a car. He looks at me for a second, then moves behind the car and continues to watch. I look at my 6-year-old twin girls; they are scared to death. I hold my hands out far from my sides for "them" to see.
Michael is brought upstairs, his 4-year-old son is screaming at the agents, "Don't take my dad, don't take my dad!" I ask what he is being charged with, and am told he is being held as a witness. "You guys arrest your witnesses now?" I ask about the warrant again. But it's done. They go out the door. They put Mike in the car, and spend a few more minutes running around the house for some reason, guns in the open.
Now they are gone.
One of the twins asks me, "Poppa, why did they come here with guns?" I say they were scared.
"Why poppa? Why are they scared of us, we don't hurt people, and we wouldn't hurt them".
I tell her they just wanted to come and get Mike, and it's ok because now they are gone. She says," I know why they came and took Mr. Anderson, Poppa, because they know he didn't do anything wrong, and they don't want him to tell other people".
HA! Out of the mouths of babes. She is right, one agent could have come and actually served the warrant, and produced the same outcome. That must not be enough fun for them. I talked to my older sons...were they afraid? Yes. One said," Dad, there were guys running all over with guns, how could we not be?" I told them it's ok. I was too.
I hope they enjoyed terrorizing my family.
Thugs.
Criminals in costumes.
So, Joshua's house got raided by 30 well armed FBI thugs looking for Joshua's friend, Michael Anderson. There was no arrest warrant for Michael and he currently sits in jail charged with nothing as the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner explains. Anderson had previously been held for 8 months just for being mentioned in a conversation with some other men supposedly wanted for planning to kill Alaska State Troopers or court officials and was released until he was once again kidnapped on December 6th.
While we know nothing of Michael Anderson's involvement in any activities, having Joshua's house raided, terrifying his entire family, sadly, does not surprise us.
The police and all the endless government agencies in the US have all become increasingly militarized. The US Department of Education bought a number of shotguns earlier this year, leaving one news agency to question why the DoE needs shotguns. That question was soon answered when a similar home raid was conducted by a DoE SWAT team in California looking for a woman who was behind on her student loans.
Many are awakening to the fact that there will be no political solution for the sad state of affairs in the US. Voting is just the slave's suggestion box and many are finally realizing that it does not matter for which of the two political parties in the US you vote. They both do nothing but increase the size of government and its control over your life. As Gary Lloyd said, "When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence."
Josh concluded his blog entry by stating, " I seriously think if I hear another person tell me "it can't happen here," I may sock him in the nose." Events like this are happening every single day in the US. No-knock raids are now just a part of everyday life in the Communo-Fascist Police State of America.
Josh wrote to us, "The more people that see we are already in 1930s Germany the better. Folks have got to wake up. Its time to get out while there is still time."
This is something we state very regularly here at TDV. And it is sad that yet another of our friends have become a victim to something that many sheeple still say "can't happen here". Not only can it, but it is "happening here".
Do you have to wait until it happens to you before you believe it?
The Dollar Vigilante features information and products on how to expatriate yourself and your assets from your home country. From foreign passports in the Dominican Republic or Paraguay, to interviews and links to books by leading experts on expatriation such as Mark Nestmann's "The Lifeboat Strategy" book, or Terry Coxon's "Unleash Your IRA" and tons of useful info and information to surviving the collapsing western financial system and attacks on your wealth and your self from your own government as it collapses. Subscribe to The Dollar Vigilante today.
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Brooke Lynn Fergus
After Watching and Listening to this Video ... PLEASE SHARE WITH US, IF YOU FEEL HE IS LYING or TELLING THE TRUTH ... Blessings, ~ Brooke Lynn Fergus :)
Herman Cain says he will not be bowed after accusations that he had a 13-year extramarital affair, saying his character is being attacked because people want to bring him down.
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Michael Anthony O'Beirne She is the liar! Just saw a post saying she was in a lesbain relatioship during the time she says this occured. She is a lying dyke, stupid libtard bitch................
Thnkthinkthink Tank I think he'd do just fine as the President.
Thnkthinkthink Tank And he has Integrity, something the left doesn't understand.
Jane Giavelli Lauhon I think both sides are throwing him under the bus. I believe him.
Brooke Lynn Fergus I believe some of it IS coming from 'our' side ... Romney has fingerprints all over it, IMO.
Roxanne Chew I don't really care if he had an affair with her, that is up to his wife to care. However, I do not believe there was an affair. She was paid to lie just like the other whores.
Robert Whitley I believe Herman Cain is TELLING THE TRUTH. Someone with a lot of money is paying the ho to tell these lies about him. I am including Herman Cain and his wife and family in my prayers. As information - George Soros is the 17th richest person in the United States and spent millions of dollars getting Barack Hussein Obama elected President in the 2008 Presidential election.
Brooke Lynn Fergus Its on CNN right now, Charlie Ward ...
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Nash Montana The woman is lying. She's a lying biotch.
Karen Johnson Gray I agree, it is all set up and money is rolling. It could very well be the Obama admin due to the fact a black man could beat him! It is hard to fix a race between two black men. It would really look fixed if Obama won again.
Nash Montana It's all about race. Everything always goes back to the lowest common denominator. Really not brain surgery.
Robert Whitley They are trying to keep us from picking our Republican nominee for President. The "Establishment" does NOT want Herman Cain to be the Republican nominee - - It is just that simple.
Karen Johnson Gray I hope Newt lets it slide off his back, how many marriages you have does not make any difference in being a president, look at the background of mr Oabama and the gays, did that hurt him?
Karen Johnson Gray Brooke I sent you a friend request I hope you friend me, I admire you and your postings.
Robert Whitley Somehow ... we have to be able to convince those who are defecting from support for Herman Cain that the actions taken by "the radical left" is WHAT THEY DO! They attempted to keep Clarence Thomas off of the the Supreme Court by telling lies about him, and they are doing the same thing to Herman Cain. IT IS WHAT THEY (the radical left) DO!
Susan Regdos Robert so very TRUE !
Robert Whitley That is exactly right, Charlie. And by the way, thanks for accepting me as a Facebook friend. You and I think alike and definitely should be, and are, friends.
Robert Whitley Yeah. I gotta go too... need some sleep... and same here-->every time they attack Herman Cain it makes me mad as hell.
Skip Childress I think he is telling the truth !!
Robert Whitley I do too, Skip. I do too.
Karen Johnson Gray You can't look people in the eye and lie like he did, he never faltered with looking straight at the camera. To me he is telling the truth. and the fact that he is trying to protect his family is great!
Dianne Alford Shaw It's over for Cain.. Moving on.
Brooke Lynn Fergus They ran him off the side of the road, Dianne Alford Shaw ...WHO'S NEXT that they will BUMP OFF the road?
Brooke Lynn Fergus ... I say NEWT will be under attack and soon.
Dianne Alford Shaw I'm afraid he did it to himself.
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Dianne Alford Shaw He's been around the block a few times..... he knows what to do.
19 hours ago · Like
Karen Johnson Gray Newt can handle it, he has a backbone! You can tell he pulls no punches.
Brooke Lynn Fergus One thing on Newt, he had his ex wife served Divorce Papers when she was in the hospital ... I just don't like kicking a person when they are down... kinda shows me his 'internal' self.
Robert Whitley No No No. That story was made up. Newt's daughter has written about that and she says it is NOT true.
Brooke Lynn Fergus "Newt Gingrich has been dogged by a single devastating anecdote from his past, one that has been repeated in the national press hundreds of times and that has arguably come to define his political persona. After being elected to Congress in 1978 on a family values platform, the story goes, he visited his wife Jackie, who was in the hospital recovering from an operation for uterine cancer, and demanded that she discuss terms of their divorce."
Robert Whitley A guy last name Osborne wrote that. It was a lie.
19 hours ago · Like
Robert Whitley I forgot his first name.
19 hours ago · Like
Brooke Lynn Fergus I want to believe it to be a lie ... I truly do ...
Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens She actually asked him for a divorce. Don't buy into the lies.
Brooke Lynn Fergus I'll look it up ... I JUST PRAY THAT ROMNEY DOES NOT GET THE NOMINATION...
Robert Whitley Now I've got to remember Newt's daughter's name. It was her mother dying of cancer... Newt had ALREADY served divorce papers. Then out of concern for his wife's well-being he visited her in the hospital. He did NOT have the papers served on her after it was discovered she had cancer... it was before.
Brooke Lynn Fergus Unfortunately, I feel Cain's Train is gone... and Im sad to be honest.
19 hours ago · Like
Dianne Alford Shaw Would enjoy seeing Gingrich debate Obama..... love his offering to let Obama use a teleprompter..... what a hoot!
Brooke Lynn Fergus Newt/Cain was a ticket I was looking to buy.
Brooke Lynn Fergus OH, Dianne, you got that right ... NEWT WILL RIP HIM A NEW ONE!
Dianne Alford Shaw anyone but OblahBlah!19 hours ago · Like ·
3Dianne Alford Shaw Sorry about Cain.... but, he just wasn't up for prime-time.
Brooke Lynn Fergus Im still here ... Darn computer is playing SIT and SPIN ... Argh!
19 hours ago · Like
Robert Whitley Okay... Newt Gingrich and then Jackie Battley Gingrich's daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, said it was her mother who requested the divorce, that it happened prior to the hospital say, and that Newt Gingrich's visit was for the purpose of bringing the couple's children to see their mother, not to discuss the divorce. See Newt's biography on wikipedia, and I have seen this account elsewhere as well.
Brooke Lynn Fergus I nominate Robert Whitley, to go and DEFEND NEWT on this ... cause the MSM will have a field day, running with Half Truths...
Robert Whitley The guy named Osborne wrote a "twisted" story in which the facts just did not get told correctly.
Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/correcting-the-record-newt-gingrich-didnt-divorce-his-first-wife-while-she-had-cancer/
Brooke Lynn Fergus OKAY... THIS WILL BE WHAT OBAMA WILL DO, WHEN NEWT GOES AFTER HIM ... THIS IS A RIOT! ... O Just Can't Take It! A good laugh is always a neccesity! ...
Barack Obama Gets Mad At Reporters and Knocks Over Podium LOL
Brooke Lynn Fergus He has just a bit of a TEMPER TANTRUM ... what an OIDIOT!
Colleen Kirkpatrick Stevens I understand that after Netanyahu schooled him he ran around the WH screaming "WTF was that?". He's a real national treasure. LOL
Brooke Lynn Fergus THEY BROKE THE MOLD WITH THIS ONE ... AND SOME OF THAT 'MOLD' IS HANGING AROUND MOOOOOCHIE STILL. ;)
Brooke Lynn Fergus ... any news on the Cain Train issue today? Ive been doing a bit of Christmas stuff, cleaning house etc!
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Clayton Douglas One thing i do know, 99.9% of all politicians lie...Does Cain fall in the 1 % category?
3 hours ago · Like
Roxanne Chew Nothin New, I think he will announce something by Monday. he said in an interview he was going to talk things over with his family over the weekend. I know it looks bad but Im thinking he could possibly be in that 1% category! He is just not your business as usual Guy!
Clayton Douglas I hate the Liberal media more than Politicians! They are the ones who helped Hitler, and they are the ones who support the Imposter! Hello........When the Communist party in this country ends up endorsing Obumu, does a red flag go up in anyone's mind???
What Herman Cain is guilty of: New Living Translation (©2007) II Timothy 3:6
They are the kind who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. A lie detector would've cleared this up long ago, and I don't believe that he's 100% truthful on his marriage or 9-9-9; he should go on Dr. Phil and clear his name. I don't trust a man whose plan is 9-9-9=27% tax gimmick to pay for Obama's misappropriation. I also don't trust a person who openly lied to the Press about the allegations and what 9-9-9 really is:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150426688928670&set=a.79091778669.74391.773523669&type=1&theater
says it all about Herman Cain's lack of integrity
By: Aja Brooks
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Brooke Lynn Fergus GOT IT ... THANKS Charlie Ward!
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Greg Rodgers He just said he hasn't done "SOME" of the things he's been accused of!!!
Greg Rodgers His eyes keep shifting...I think he's lying...just my opinion
Jack Ranck hey mouth off at me, and it shows how much of an idiot you are: I never gave Bill 'Slick Willy' a pass.... the Presidency was forever tarnished after he did that and for you to say that to me, you have lived under a rock for 2 years. I have written the repeal bill for HR 4872, and as Tea Party Chief, I have written over 40 documents, and I just finished analyzing the annual budget. http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/docs/
LEGISLATION DISCUSSION GROUP
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Not really I used a calculator and researched it from Cain's site itself: it is 27% flat tax for all because, it kills smalls businesses. There is no deductions or charitable donations, so you can't write off a portion of your taxes as tithes, or 10%. Corporations pay 35% so this is a big break for them, they get the profit back that they've lost, even though they got out of payroll taxes, and Obama did that to bribe corporations for lobbying money and votes. Cain is doing the same thing Obama is doing, and worse, he is using 9-9-9 to pay for Obama's misappropriation, instead of addressing and fixing the current budget problems:http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/233345506730785/
LEGISLATION DISCUSSION GROUP
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Aja Brooks We would be paying 27% to government and 10% to God, and if you do a basic application of this income to someone who makes $80-$1,000 a month as an individual, they will be left with $50-$100 in their pocket after tithe, taxes, and bills. Hardly what I would call 9-9-9 as fair, flat, or value added, but totally fooked up.
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I do think Herman Cain is lying: he has destroyed himself by his lack of integrity and he is a Republicanized Obama according to his own policies. This is where he lied to the Press on CSPAN about the payout for sexual harassment,http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150426688928670&set=a.79091778669.74391.773523669&type=1&theaterand he is a victim of his own vanity. The book he wrote is like a memoir as if he was already Pres. and no one has even voted in the primaries yet.
TO CONTINUE READING THE TEA PARTY DELIBERATIONS FOR NOMINATION, GO HERE:
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