Environmentalism as a Religion

Thomas Jefferson

Here is just some of what Thomas Jefferson had to say about our country and about government:

-When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

-It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

-I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

-My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

-No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

-The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

-The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

-To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

-I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Glenn Beck- A Look Behind the Curtain

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Welfare Reform?

John Kerry

If Charles Schumer didn't scare you enough, here is John Kerry one upping him

Charles Schumer- Amercians don't care about Pork

Here is the genius from New York telling the Senate that Americans don't care about any pork that might be in the stimulus bill. So, tell me this. Do you care?

Milton Friedman

Here is the late Milton Friedman giving Phil Donahue a little schooling on capitalism This was from the '80s but the words are never more needed than today

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The Democrats- By the Numbers

$34,000: the amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.

$75,000: the amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Costa Rican rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish.

$93,000: the amount of petty cash each Congressional representative voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.

$133,900: the amount Fannie Mae "invested" in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also "invested" over $105,000 in then-Senator Barack Obama.

$140,000: the amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle (D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.

$356,000: the approximate amount of income and deductions that Daschle (D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.

$800,000: the amount of "sweetheart" mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation's largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following "a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards to sell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them."

$1,000,000: the estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.

$12,000,000: the amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank's ex-directors.

$23,500,000: The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan (D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of "tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners."

$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son's lobbying efforts. Craig Obey is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus" package.

$3,700,000,000: ($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms ."

$4,190,000,000: ($4.19 billion) the amount of money in the so-called "Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter registration ACORN group under the auspices of "Community Stabilization Activities". ACORN is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio.

$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion): the approximate amount of annual United States exports endangered by the "Stimulus" package, which provides a "Buy American" stricture. According to international trade experts, a "US-EU trade war looms", which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.

It's not just a culture of corruption. It's a culture of corruption and stupidity. And, unlike Republicans, Democrats appear to be above the law. All of the aforementioned clowns are still in office, ruling like the royalty they've become.

Stimulus or Pork?

The guys over at NRO have a great article up about where our tax dollars are being spent. The stimulus package was supposed to stimulate the economy, hence the name. But now it is just one HUGE money grab by Senators and Congressmen for pet projects and will do nothing but hurt us in the end. Here is just a sample of what our money is being use for:


$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including
$1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau


So I ask you, what in there is actually going to stimulate the economy?

Nancy Pelosi Does it Again!

Here she is again, showing exactly what is the TOP of the democrat party intelligentsia





500,000,000 American's will lose their jobs? I thought the entire population of the USA was in the 300,000,000 range? Will the media report this gaffe like they did our former President's?

The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

Here is a great article written by the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, and where man-made global warming hysteria began.

The main question he asks and then answers is this: How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?

The Secret Cost of the Stimulus Bill

This is from Michael Franc at NRO-


There is a secret program lurking within the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Debt bill. You won’t find it listed in the table of contents, or anywhere else for that matter. Yet it will cost taxpayers an additional $347.1 billion over the next decade.



It starts out at the relatively modest level of $700 million in 2009, but rises inexorably thereafter—to $4.1 billion in 2010, $11.1 billion in 2011, $22.0 billion in 2012, $31.9 billion in 2013, $37.5 billion in 2014, $42.1 billion in 2015, until it reaches $53.6 billion in 2019.



We’re talking about the interest charges that will be required to finance the $825 billion cost of the debt bill. We learned this today in a letter that Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf sent to the senior Republican on the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.



Here is the relevant part:

Under CBO’s current economic assumptions and assuming that none of the direct budgetary effects of H.R. 1 are offset by future legislation, CBO estimates that the government’s interest costs would increase by $0.7 billion in fiscal year 2009 and by a total of $347 billion over the 2009-2019 period.

So when you hear politicians talk about the $825 billion ten-year cost of this legislation, keep in mind that it masks these unavoidable interest costs, bringing the total ten-year cost to at least $1,172,000,000,000.00.



The debt that gives rise to $53.6 billion in interest costs in 2019 alone, moreover, will not magically disappear in 2020 or beyond. Thus, the real cost of the debt bill will grow and compound over the years so long as that debt remains unpaid

Stimulus-Good for Government, Bad for the Economy

Contraceptives to Help the Economy?

Here is Nancy Pelosi, one of the leaders of the Democrat party, somehow states that the hundreds of millions of dollars that are going to be paid through Obama's stimulus plan will help stimulate (no pun intended) the economy. This is a person who runs the show in DC and people wonder why I don't trust government.

Transparency?

Spending the Debt

The Congressional Budget Office announced last week that the federal deficit for 2009 would be $1.2 trillion-as a share of the economy, the largest since World War II. Responding to that staggering sum, President-elect Barack Obama warned that without decisive action, "trillion-dollar deficits will be a reality for years to come."How much is $1.2 trillion? To put the deficit in perspective, we thought of a few unrealities that carry a similar price tag: * For the sake of our children: 4.8 billion Nintendo Wiis.* What really does the body good: 300 billion gallons of milk.* Love thy neighbor: everything produced in Canada in one year.* Monopolize: purchase Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Microsoft and Wal-Mart.* IS our children learning?: fund the entire education system, Kindergarten through college, for one year.* Second time's a charm: pay for the entire War in Iraq twice over.* At the pump: free gasoline for all Americans for the next five years.* At the box office: one free movie ticket for every American, every single day.* I.O.U.'s: pay back all the money we owe to China and Japan.* Reverse the Ponzi: compensate all of Bernard Madoff's defrauded investors with a 2000% rate of return.A recent article in The Christian Science Monitor provides some additional spending scenarios. For example, according to CSM: "If the sum were calculated as a traditional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, Uncle Sam would have to write a monthly check for $6.7 billion. That would be enough to pay the mortgage on about 10 percent of the nation's homes each month."PGPF's Manager of Research & Analysis Matthew Helm told CSM that "another way to view the $1.2 trillion deficit is in terms of citizens and households. It works out to $4,000 per citizen, or $10,000 per household.

"For more information: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9958/01-08-Outlook_Testimony.pdfhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/economy/08deficit.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=deficit&st=csehttp://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/01/14/what-does-a-12-trillion-budget-deficit-look-like/

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