Monday, October 08, 2012

Dutch diplomats help firms prepare for eventual Greek eurozone exit

Monday 08 October 2012
The Netherlands has begun secretly preparing Dutch firms for an eventual Greek exit from the eurozone, the Volkskrant reports on Monday.
The paper says diplomats in Athens have been making an inventory of the risks, planning emergency measures and have even held a secret meeting with companies.
The paper says the measures are sensitive because the Dutch government publicly states Greece must remain in the eurozone and because speculation about Greece's withdrawal could hurt the Greek economy even more.

Closed doors
‘We kept this behind closed doors deliberately. We do not want to awaken any sleeping giants,’ one diplomat told the paper.
The meeting with Dutch companies was held in June and companies used to it exchange information about their preparations for a Greek exit. For example, some firms have made their financial systems ready to deal with a new currency.
However, fears that Greece may leave the eurozone have been dampened in recent months, the paper points out.
The foreign affairs ministry refused to comment on the claims because of 'security concerns', the Volkskrant said.

Are companies right to get ready for a Greek exit? Have you say using the comment box below.

Friday, January 20, 2012

the language requirement should apply to everyone

Claiming welfare? By 2013 you must speak Dutch, says VVD

Thursday 19 January 2012
People claiming basic welfare payments (bijstand) will be required by law to speak Dutch or face losing their benefits from next year, if legislation from the VVD Liberal party becomes law.
MP Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, who is behind the initiative, hopes the bill will be passed by both houses of parliament this year. The idea was first mooted in 2010 and the proposal is currently being amended in line with recommendations from the Council of State advisory body.
The initiative is supported by the Christian Democrats and anti-Islam PVV. The three parties have a very slim majority in parliament. Liberal democratic party D66 is also inclined to support the measure 'if properly worked out', MP Fatma Koser Kaya told website nu.nl.
Integration test
Van Nieuwenhuizen said the language requirement should apply to everyone, regardless of origin. The level of Dutch would be in line with that required to pass the integration test, she told the website.
'But if people don't cooperate, after six months they can lose 20% of their benefits and after that 40%. Eventually the benefit can be stopped altogether,' she said.
Labour, the Socialists and left-wing greens GroenLinks say the measure is unnecessary because claimants already have to prove they are doing all they can to find a job.
This means they already need to learn the language and can lose benefits if they refuse to take classes.
Pensioners
It is not clear if the measure would also apply to poor pensioners who claim bijstand because their pensions are too small. Some 90% of the 38,000 pensioners who claim welfare are immigrants who do not meet the 50-year residency rule.
MPs are due to debate the number of immigrants claiming welfare benefits with junior social affairs minister Paul de Krom later on Thursday.

I dont support Romney, Good article about taxes

posted on January 18, 2012 by The Godfather

What Romney Should Say About His Taxes

The media and, unfortunately, some Republicans are making an issue out of the tax rate that Mitt Romney pays. First, we should be thankful that many people get to pay just 15 percent on their income. This means that the money is not going to the government to be wasted and used to buy power that in the end makes our world less free.
Second, do we really believe that if people like Mitt Romney pay more taxes that somehow that money will trickle down to us? It ain’t going to happen. If the government took every dime of his income, it wouldn’t fund the government for an hour.
Third, he’s following the law. Romney’s not doing anything illegal. No congressman should object to Romney’s “just 15 percent” tax rate since Congress established and passed the law. If any candidate proposed that Romney is not paying his “fair share,” then he is no better than Obama and the Democrats.
It’s sad that someone like Rick Perry used the South Carolina debate “to demand that Romney disclose his tax returns so voters can decide whether ‘we’ve got a flawed candidate or not.’” Flawed in what way? Because he makes a lot of money or because he cheats on his taxes? Must we hear class warfare rhetoric from conservatives, too?
Fourth, it’s time to go to a straight consumption tax. This would eliminate the IRS, rid us of spending hours and days preparing tax forms, and keep the government out of our lives. We would only pay taxes when we buy something. This would mean that foreign visitors to the United States would be contributing to our tax base every time they purchased something.
I noticed in a long USA Today article that the number “15 percent” is used over and over again. I want to know how much money Romney actually paid in taxes. The article doesn’t say. I wonder why.
Let’s assume that Romney had an income of around $30 million dollars taxed at 15 percent. This means that he paid $4.5 million in taxes. This is criminal. No one should have to pay that much in taxes. What is the moral justification for taking nearly $5 million dollars from someone? Because he can afford it, and so many people make less? Romney should say the following to any reporter who brings up the 15 percent tax rate: “I paid $4.5 million in taxes in 2010. How much did you pay? How many jobs have you created?” He should keep pressing until he gets an answer.The article leads with this statement using a large bold-faced font:

Tax law experts say half of his 2010 income [was] taxed far below [the] rate that many Americans paid.

Why didn’t the article state that nearly 50 percent of Americans don’t pay any federal income tax? Nothing . . . nada . . . zilch.
I don’t care how much money someone makes, as long as he got it honestly. People who make money contribute to the economy. Liberals believe the economy is like a pie with only so many pieces. If one person has a big piece, this must mean that another person is left with a smaller piece. This is nonsense economics. If you want to see its results, go to Cuba or North Korea. Free market economics is not a zero-sum game.
People like Romney who have money to lose invest in companies that did not exist 10, 20, or 30 years ago, companies that were only ideas on paper. These once non-existent companies now employ millions of people and make our lives easier and more enjoyable.
Envy is a destroyer. As a nation, we must flee from it before it destroys this nation.

an innocent person who is not free to make choices for themselves.

posted on January 19, 2012 by da Tagliare

If Obama Loses in 2012, US Will Have Free and Slave States, Says Top Abortion Provider

Merle Hoffman is president and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the largest women’s health and abortion clinics in the United States. She has been actively involved in women’s health issues since 1971 and now serves as publisher and editor-in-chief of On The Issues Magazine.
Next to the members of the US Supreme Court that ruled in favor of abortion in the Roe v Wade case, probably no other person in the United States has been involved with the premeditated murder of more unborn children than Hoffman has.
On Tuesday, Hoffman appeared at The National Press Club where she told everyone that if any of the Republican candidates get elected and repeal Roe v Wade, that the country will end up with free states that provide abortion and slave states that do not.
Hoffman uses a statistic stating that 73% of women having abortions are doing so for economic reasons. She makes it sound like this is a fair representation of the general public, but is it? What she doesn’t say is how many of the women seeking abortions are married verses unmarried. How many of them are in their teens and are getting abortions without parental knowledge or permission? What percentages of abortions were for women who are drug addicts, alcoholics or prostitutes?
She speaks of the formation of an underground railway to help pregnant women travel from slave states to free states so they can murder their unborn child. She purposely uses an analogy of slavery in pre-Civil War America in order to invoke a reaction to all of the Republican Candidates.If Hoffman was sincere about equating abortion with slavery, she should realize that what she and other pro-abortion advocates are doing to unborn children is no different than what slave owners did to their slaves. The very thought of that should help blacks especially to understand the injustice and inhumanity of abortion.
In both slavery and abortion, you have an innocent person who is not free to make choices for themselves. They are treated as nothing more than another’s possession, to be used and disposed of as the owner wants. Both of them are cruel and inhumane and both are wrong!
Thousands of Americans died in the effort to outlaw slavery and give an oppressed people their freedom. One hundred and fifty years later, blacks still talk about slavery and the oppression that some find themselves still experiencing. They talk about how precious the freedom from slavery and oppression is.
Slave owners use to say that they have a right to their slave’s body and the slaves have no rights. Today, liberals say that women have the right to their body and the unborn has no rights.
What’s the difference? There is none. Both are morally wrong! One was stopped. When will we put a stop to the other?

Thursday, January 19, 2012

“I’m Standing With Sheriff Joe

Grassfire Nation Update

According to a just released Fox News report, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “Toughest Sheriff” is living up to his billing by digging in his heals and fighting back against the U.S. Department of Justice ...

Sheriff Joe, the report indicates, has “filed an appeal to a federal ruling that his office profiles Latinos and bases immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints.”

You may also recall from our earlier updates, that Arpaio has repeatedly asked the DOJ for clarification into the charges against he and his staff -- clarification that the DOJ has yet to provide.

Arpaio has also been very outspoken in accusing the DOJ of a politically motivated assault against his department because the Obama administration is courting the Latino vote. Arpaio alleges his commitment to law enforcement is getting in their way of getting votes.

Even worse, the DOJ has stripped Arpaio’s officers of their Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) credentials -- further eroding law enforcement capabilities and putting millions of American citizens at risk!

Although no surprise, the fact that the Obama administration and the DOJ would put Americans at risk for the purpose of appealing to Latino voters is utterly offensive.

Willem, this isn’t an Arizona problem.

This is an America problem!

+ + “I’m Standing With Sheriff Joe!”

Americans from coast-to-coast and everywhere in between should be outraged by this administration’s behavior and actions towards Sheriff Arpaio and his dedicated team of law enforcement officials.

Let’s starve the Democrats’ bread basket

Fellow Conservative,

Big Labor’s top target in 2012 isn’t Mitt Romney, it’s Governor Scott Walker.

A coalition of powerful unions has invested tens of millions behind a total war campaign to recall conservative Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. This week, these unions submitted an astounding 1 million recall signatures, making the recall this May official.

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The good news – we’ve been waiting.

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For government labor unions, this election is do or die. Gov. Walker’s historic legislation ending collective bargaining will cause a massive exodus of union members and their money.

This is why unions all over America are pouring tens of millions into Wisconsin in advance of the recall election this June.

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To Victory in Wisconsin,

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Treasurer, Wisconsin Recall Action Fund

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The statement Holder used is the type of racial rhetoric

posted on January 18, 2012 by da Tagliare

US Attorney General Says Black People Less Capable to Get Photo ID

Monday for Martin Luther King Jr Day, US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke with NAACP leaders on the steps of the statehouse in South Carolina. Holder took the opportunity to tell the audience that he intends to fight against any and all attempts by states to pass laws requiring some form of photo ID.
South Carolina is one of those states in the voter ID fray and Holder told residents,

“After a thorough and fair review, we concluded that the state had failed to meet its burden of proving that the voting change would not have a racially discriminatory affect.”

How is this a racial issue? Is the Attorney General of the United States saying that blacks, Hispanics or American Indians are less capable of obtaining a photo ID than are whites?
In earlier reports, Holder seemed to indicate that the voter ID laws discriminate against poor people. If that is so are there no poor whites in South Carolina or any other state?
The statement Holder used is the type of racial rhetoric that helps to fuel the racial issues still raging through American society.
What would have happened if a white official made the same type of statement? In all likelihood, that white official would be publically chastised for making such a racist comment. If a white official said the same thing, I would not be surprised to see Holder and his Department of Justice going after them for racial profiling.Take the case of what Holder is doing to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The DOJ has filed racial profiling charges against Arpaio for his efforts to fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking in his Arizona county. The vast majority of illegals and drug runners are Hispanic, so yes, he and his department have to focus their attention more on that ethnic group than any other. What’s the difference between racial profiling and efficient police work?
But Holder turns around and using the same racial profiling tactic as Arpaio uses for his law enforcement activities, trys to justify his personal fight to block voter ID laws. The hypocrisy of the actions screams injustice in both instances.
If that poor black or Hispanic person needed to buy any over the counter allergy medication that contains pseudoephedrine, they would have to show a driver’s license or some form of ID in order to purchase it. If they have a car, they have to have a state driver’s license AND proof of insurance. If they are that poor and need to receive state or government aid, they have to have some form of ID in order to request and receive that aid. Some form of ID, often a photo ID is required for anyone to fly on a commercial airline, to open a bank account, buy a house, cash a check and the list goes on and on and on.
If Mr Holder does not believe that any of these other ID requirements are racially discriminatory, then on what grounds does he believe requiring a photo ID to vote is a form of racial discrimination?
My question to Eric Holder would be, ‘what makes a poor black or Hispanic person less capable of obtaining a photo ID than a poor white person or a poor Asian person?
Clearly this cannot be the real reason that Holder and the DOJ are fighting against voter ID laws. In light of the revelation of what happened with dead people voting in the New Hampshire primary, the only possible explanation for Holder’s opposition to voter ID has to involve the possibility of widespread voter fraud in the November election. If the Democrats can’t win back the House and keep the Senate and presidency through legal voting methods, that only leaves them desperate measures which could very well include voter fraud.
Could there be any other reason for his Hypocritic actions?

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

S 1698, the “Enemy Expatriation Act,”

Senate Bill Authorizes Feds To Revoke Citizenship Of Americans

January 16, 2012 By Doug Book

A bill has been introduced in the United States Senate which will authorize the federal government to revoke the citizenship, creating practical expatriates, of American citizens.
Introduced by Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman and Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, S 1698, the “Enemy Expatriation Act,” is a simple, 2 page document which offers apparently innocent amendments and additions to existing federal legislation. (1)
That legislation, known as Title 8, “…outlines the role of aliens and nationality in the U.S. Code.” And it is just one small piece of this massive and complex law which the Enemy Expatriation Act seeks to modify, that being Section 349, the means by which “a person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality…,” that is, his citizenship.

Though there is currently little contained in Section 349 which would alarm any American citizen, one phrase added to the legislation by the “Enemy Expatriation Act” would change everything. For it states that anyone voluntarily “engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States” will lose his “nationality.” And nationality means citizenship! (1)
To be sure, most of us would be in favor of revoking American citizenship if it has been improperly, perhaps surreptitiously attained by Muslim terrorists who have entered the United States only to commit acts of violence and murder.
But it’s necessary to remember who we are dealing with in Washington, DC. To Janet Napolitano and her Department of Homeland Security, it is Libertarians, soldiers returning from combat, gun owners, militia members, devout believers in the Constitution and those who loudly mistrust and criticize the federal government who are the true threats of “engaging in hostilities against the United States.” Perhaps not coincidentally it is also members of these groups who are the most vocal critics of the Obama Administration!
And as the Obama Regime considers each of these individuals a potential domestic terrorist, how long will it be until a member of one of these “highly suspect” groups is conveniently accused of “materially supporting hostilities against the United States?”
Much of this language should sound quite familiar, for it is taken directly from the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. There was great concern surrounding the authority given the President by this law to imprison American citizens without trial or charge if he should consider them enemies who present a danger to the United States and its people. And, just as the President is granted that authority by the NDAA, should the Enemy Expatriation Act pass both the House and Senate, he will ALSO have the authority to revoke their citizenship. (3)
Isn’t it odd that, no so long ago, the left was adamant about GRANTING to Muslim terrorists in Guantanamo the rights of American citizens—rights to a lawyer, Miranda rights of silence, and the right to a speedy trial before a jury! Yet with the signing into law of senate bill 1698, those same rights, indeed American citizenship itself, could be revoked from any one of “We the people!”
The election is only months away. Regardless who wins it, the “legal” destruction of our natural rights as citizens of the United States by Barack Hussein Obama or any other president must NOT be permitted

Monday, January 16, 2012

Reid’s policies will cripple the economy

posted on January 16, 2012 by The Godfather

Harry Reid: “Drop Dead” (Metaphorically Speaking)

The majority of voters in Nevada are stupid, stupid for re-electing Harry Reid for another Senate term of six long years. And their stupidity is affecting all of us. First, I can’t listen to the man. He is so condescending. He sounds like he just recovered from a coma. Second, he says stupid things, like this one: “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today.” Reid said this in response to what he considered to be a better-than-expected unemployment report showing the economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February 2010, compared to 651,000 in the same month the prior year.
His most recent stupid statement was about how millionaires don’t create jobs:

Many of our job creators are like unicorns, they’re impossible to find and don’t exist. That’s because only a tiny fraction of people making more than a million dollars, probably less than one percent, are actually small business owners and only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction is a traditional job creator.

Now Sen. Reid wants Republicans to drop the Tea Party because he believes those associated with the grass roots movement are standing in the way of legislation to create jobs. In his best post-coma voice, Reid said the following:

“I would hope that they understand that everything doesn’t have to be a fight. Legislation is an art of working together, building consensus, compromise. And I hope that the Tea Party doesn’t have the influence in this next year that they had in the previous year.”

Of course he hopes the Tea Party loses its influence, because if it does, the Houses of Representatives will go back to the Democrats and the Senate will remain in Democrat hands.The Tea Party is trying to save America from the extremism of the Democrat Party and the RINOs that support big government with continued larger budget deficits that they believe “stimulate the economy.”
Reid’s policies will cripple the economy. Of course, that’s what he and his fellow-Democrats want. They need a perpetual dependent class to keep them in office. By taxing the most prosperous wealth creators — who are a voting minority — and redistributing their largesse to liberal voting blocks, power is maintain.
The promise of redistributed wealth never reaches the people it’s promised to. Again, this is planned. “Keep them politically hungry” without actually feeding them.
Reid is also pushing for control of the Internet (SOPA) masquerading as a copyright protection bill. If people posting news on blogs and websites that criticize people like Reid are accused of using copyrighted material – whether it’s true or not – they can be shut down. How does this benefit Reid and the Democrats? It re-empowers the Mainstream media — CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC — that are exclusively Liberal. Who’s going to attack Liberal websites with charges of plagiarism? Let’s say a conservative does. Will the Justice Department do anything about it? To ask the question is to answer it.
While’ we’re stuck with Harry Reid for awhile, we can mute his influence by voting for Conservative Republicans in 2012. We may not like the Republican nominee for President, but it shouldn’t stop us from going to the polls and making changes to Congress. It won’t matter who the President is if the Senate is taken over by conservatives. “With 10 Republican seats up for a vote and 23 Democratic seats to be defended, Democrats have a difficult task trying to keep the Senate in Republican hands.”
It will be worth flipping the Senate just so I don’t have to listen to Harry Reid’s post-coma voice anymore.

The most terifying words in the English language

I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help T-Shirt

President Reagan understood more than anyone in politics that big government is the problem, not the solution.

America has always thrived in a free market with low taxes. President Reagan also restored patriotism and gave Americans pride and hope for the future.

Dont' let your religious rights be taken away.

posted on January 14, 2012 by Giacomo

Courts Say Christian Church Not Allowed to Practice Christianity

Should a Christian church be allowed to practice its faith in all of its activities?
Not according to a New Jersey judge.
In 2007, a lesbian couple, Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster asked Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for permission to hold their civil union at the picturesque seaside facility. Ocean Grove, who is associated with the United Methodist Church, declined the request because of their belief in what the Bible says against homosexuality.
Their facility is located on the Atlantic coast and has an open air pavilion where they held various functions and activities, many of which are done as a religious outreach.
The couple filed a discrimination complaint against Ocean Grove. The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights joined in on the complaint filed by the lesbian couple.
Jim Campbell, a litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, argued on behalf of Ocean Grove,

“The government should not be able to force a private Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs. Religious groups have the right to use their private property in a way that is consistent with their beliefs. That right, protected by both the New Jersey and U.S. constitutions, obviously trumps any law enacted by the state’s legislature.
“Through these events, the association connects with people who might not attend its worship services and encourages them to attend those services in the future. For example, the association begins its Saturday-night family entertainment events with a brief prayer and typically a quick promotion of its upcoming religious services and events. These are just some of the diverse ways that the association strives, in all its programs, to reach the entire community with the love and Gospel message of Jesus Christ.”

Administrative law judge Solomon Metzger disagreed with Alliance Defense Fund and ruled that Ocean Grove in fact had violated the civil rights of the lesbian couple. In his decision, he wrote,

“The respondent violated the [Law Against Discrimination] when it refused to conduct a civil-union ceremony for Ms. Bernstein and Ms. Paster. Respondent opposes same-sex unions as a matter of religious belief, and in 2007 found itself on the wrong side of recent changes in the law…
“As a religious organization that deems same-gender unions sinful, respondent is loath to be associated with such ceremonies and maintains that compelling this through the LAD violates its right of expressive association, free speech and free exercise of religion.
“That it had never before declined a wedding, other than for scheduling conflicts, only means that it had never before been asked to permit a same-gender service.”

Not only did Metzger rule against Ocean Grove, but the association also lost part of the tax exempt status for that part of the property where the open air pavilion is located. Fortunately, they were able to re-file for tax exempt status for the section of land under a different application and it was granted.
Time and again we are seeing how the judicial system is denying the constitutional rights of Christians and giving favored rights to minority groups like homosexuals and Muslims as in the case of the Oklahoma state constitutional amendment being blocked because of one Muslim leader.
Unless we get real Christians in positions of leadership in our nation and they appoint judges who will rule on the constitution and not their own personal agendas, it won’t be long before Christians have no rights and we’ll be the outlawed religion here in what once was a Christian nation.

, a war for world domination

No, We Can't: Radical Islam, Militant Secularism and the Myth of Coexistence

The world is shifting. It is dissatisfied, baffled and craving transformation.
Religious tolerance is prized more than truth. From clever slogans to celebrity endorsements, we are bombarded with seemingly peaceful messages of coexistence.

But beneath the bumper stickers and T-shirts is buried this truth: Coexistence is a myth. Instead, a war for world domination is raging--between radical Islam, secularism and Judeo-Christianity.

What does it mean for you and why should you care?
From years of global outreach, Robert Stearns predicts a coming perilous culture clash. With clarity and astonishing depth, he shows you

the power of radical Islam to reshape Western culture
why Judeo-Christianity is losing strength
what believers can and must do
and more…

this idiot is out of control.

Written on January 14, 2012 by V2A

Obama says US needs a new government

President Barack Obama’s request for authority to streamline U.S. executive agencies was greeted with skepticism from congressional Republicans while Democrats questioned elements of his reorganization plan.
The president said yesterday he wants to be able to undertake any consolidation that would save money and shrink government, subject to a “fast-track” vote of approval or disapproval by Congress in 90 days.
He said his first action would be replacing the Commerce Department with a yet unnamed agency that folds in the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., the Trade and Development Agency and the Small Business Administration.
“The government we have is not the government that we need,” Obama said yesterday at the White House. “Our economy has fundamentally changed — as has the world — but our government, our agencies, have not.”

What he really wants is to get rid of the Constitution. BV

I AGREE ONE HUNDRED %

Subject: Fw: Fw: I think she is PISSED
Just another friendly reminder to all. The big ship America is sinking.

Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming , Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls
senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ...

I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

"Hey, Alan, let's get a few things straight..

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3 My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked

away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes,

thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would

have made Bernie Madoff proud..

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football

away from millions of American Seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for

full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and

now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money

from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and

now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent

bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you

ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to

pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on your incompetence.

Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic

50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing

in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted

yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcases who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, If you like the way things are in America delete this.

If you agree with what a fellow Montana citizen Patty Myers says, PASS IT ON!!!!

This war against LIBERTY is not over.

Home / Constitution / Mark Levin: ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’

Written on January 16, 2012 by V2A

Mark Levin: ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’

In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.”
The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given rights, and individual liberty that inspired the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
“Utopianism is not new,” Levin writes in “Ameritopia.” “It has been repackaged countless times—since Plato and before. It is as old as tyranny itself. In democracies, its practitioners legislate without end. In America, law is piled upon law in contravention and contradiction of the governing law—the Constitution.”
Levin’s verdict: Barack Obama and modern American liberals are firmly in the Utopian camp—pursuing a vision fundamentally at odds with limited government and human freedom.

Friday, January 06, 2012

I have an obligation as president

Written on January 5, 2012 by V2A

Barack Obama: Dictator-in-Chief

President Obama said the following in making his so-called recess appointments and bypassing Congress, “When Congress refuses to act — and as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk — then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.” These are the words of a dictator. Dictators always promise that what they’re doing is for the people. Have you ever heard a dictator saying that what he was doing was going to destroy the nation, hurt the people, and lead the nation to ruin? I don’t think so. But the history books are filled with stories of dictators doing these very things.
Isabel Paterson writes in her book The God of the Machine, “Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” Thomas Sowell described this motivation as the “Vision of the Anointed”:

Although Adam Smith regarded the intentions of businessmen as selfish and anti-social, he saw the systematic consequences of their competition as being far more beneficial to society than well-intentioned government regulation. . . . The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from “society,” rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society.”

Thursday, January 05, 2012

IF THIS PASSES, THERE COULD BE WAR

This country is headed for Dictatorship.

Subject: Gun control

Oh, he might try this kind of dirty, narcissistic trick, but if he does he is as dumb as a post. This is exactly why we, the people, have to keep our eye on the law instead of cockamamie legal theories: The Supreme Court has already ruled that treaties are not superior to the Constitution of the United States and cannot work to deprive Americans of their fundamental rights. Any law passed by Congress (and treaty ratifications are laws passed by Congress) not pursuant to the Constitution of the United States are null and void from the moment of their inception and carry no weight or force of law, and do not exist just as though they had never been passed. Marbury v. Madison (and others, see http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/art2frag18_user.html ).

If Obama tries this, it will be time to fight a defensive battle until it becomes clear he is not backing off, and then it will be time to fight an offensive war. What a delicious end it will be to an absolute despot....

Isn’t it interesting. All we have to do is take our eyes off of what this joker in OUR White House is doing…and he manages to either pass or bill or have someone else do his dirty work for him.

While you were watching the oil spill, the New York failed terrorist bombing and other critical crises, Hillary Clinton signed the small arms treaty with the UN.

OBAMA FINDS LEGAL WAY AROUND THE 2ND AMENDMENT AND USES IT.


             IF THIS PASSES, THERE COULD BE WAR

On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States

On Wednesday the Obama administration took its first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States . The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments. These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nations and individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms. The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened.

Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment. This has happened in other countries, past and present!

THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR A FALSE WARNING.

As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control. Read the Article U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better. View The Full Article Here

Click on the link below for further acknowledgement…..

http://www.reuters.com/articl/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

Please forward this message to others who may be concerned about the direction in which our country is headed. This is a very serious matter! Silence will lead us to Totalitarian Dictatorship!!!

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A. Gaines, American Citizens United

The would be king strikes again. Get him OUT!!!!

Obama defies Congress with ‘recess’ picks

Nominations could provoke constitutional fight

By Stephen Dinan and Susan Crabtree

The Washington Times

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

** FILE ** President Obama introduces former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as his nominee as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on July 18, 2011 at the White House. (Associated Press)

Pushing the limits of his recess appointment powers, President Obama on Wednesday bypassed the Senate to install three members of the National Labor Relations Board and a director for the controversial new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - moves Republicans said amounted to unconstitutional power grabs.
Mr. Obama said the appointments, which he previewed during a campaign-style speech in Ohio, were necessary because Senate Republicans have blocked him at every turn. But in making the move, he rejected three precedents, including two in which he played a part, that would have blocked the appointments.
“I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer,” Mr. Obama said in Shaker Heights, drawing applause from his audience. “When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”
Mr. Obama tapped former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the consumer protection agency and named three others - two Democrats and one Republican - to the labor board. Those nominations had all been stymied by congressional Republicans, who said Mr. Obama was accruing too much power to himself through those two agencies.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session, albeit a pro forma one without any business transacted.
Senators from both parties - including Democrats in 2007 and 2008, when Mr. Obama was in the Senate - have said it takes a recess of at least three days before the president can use his appointment powers.
Mr. Obama’s move threatens to ignite an all-out legislative war with Congress, and Republicans reacted with strikingly sharp language.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the move “arrogantly circumvented the American people.”
“Breaking from this precedent lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress‘ role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch,” he said.
Supporters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have said the lack of a top executive has blocked the fledgling agency from taking on a number of tasks in its mandate to police the financial sector and protect consumers from fraud.
Consumer groups and labor union advocates cheered Mr. Obama’s moves.
Senate Republicans don’t object to Mr. Cordray, but argue the bureau needs an overhaul before it should be allowed to operate. They say it leaves the agency, whose budget is not approved by Congress, with too much power concentrated in the hands of its director.
Senate Republicans last month filibustered Mr. Cordray’s nomination, leaving him seven shy of the 60 votes needed to get a final confirmation vote.
Democrats and Republicans have increasingly turned to filibusters to block a president’s nominees when they are in the majority, making recess appointments an attractive option.
President George W. Bush used them to circumvent Democrats who filibustered judicial nominations and his pick of John R. Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Kennesaw Georgia – where gun ownership is mandatory

Written on January 4, 2012 by The Godfather

New York City Denies Second Amendment Rights

I live just a few miles from the most pro-gun city in the United States – Kennesaw Georgia – where gun ownership is mandatory. It’s not the “Wild West” like some people predicted when it passed a mandatory gun ownership law. “The city of Kennesaw was selected by Family Circle magazine as one of the nation’s ‘10 best towns for families.’ The award was aimed at identifying the best communities nationally that combine big-city opportunities with suburban charm, a blend of affordable housing, good jobs, top-rated public schools, wide-open spaces, and less stress.”[1]
In 1982 the city passed the following ordinance [Sec 34-21] which was a response to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill.

(a) In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.

(b) Exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who suffer a physical or mental disability which would prohibit them from using such a firearm. Further exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who are paupers or who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine, or persons convicted of a felony.

The city’s website states that Kennesaw “has the lowest crime rate in Cobb County,” one of the most populace counties in Georgia. In fact, from 1982 through 2009, Kennesaw had been nearly murder free with one murder occurring in 2007.

There were three murders in 2010 committed by the same man in what is described as a “school safety zone,” an area extending 1,000 feet from any school, including adult colleges and technical schools. This means that even though Kennesaw has the most liberal gun laws in the United States, employees at the facility where the murders were committed could not have a gun on the premises. Of course, criminals don’t care about laws; that’s why they’re criminals. Ed Stone of Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner makes these important points:“Unfortunately experience with actual ‘school safety zones’ in Georgia has proven that the ‘school safety zone’ law approach does not stop violent armed crime, as it disarms only the potential victims of an attack. Criminals seeking to rob, rape, and murder ignore the ‘school safety zone’ as merely one more law they are breaking.”

Now we come to New York City. In the past few months, a number of gun incidents have spilled over to the national press. In September 2011 Ryan Jerome, a former Marine Corps gunner, walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he could check his gun.
He had a valid concealed carry permit from his home state of Indiana. He also had the rights given to him under the Second Amendment. No matter, the security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail. “The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.”
He brought the gun for protection since he was traveling with $15,000 worth of jewelry that he planned to sell. Certainly a rational decision, given the crime rate in New York City and stories like the U.S. Marine veteran who was shot three times when a Craigslist transaction went bad.
In December of 2011, Tennessee nurse Meredith Graves noticed a “no guns” sign at the World Trade Center site in New York City and asked where she could leave her weapon. Like Jerome, she was arrested and faces similar charges. Mayor Bloomberg claims that she was in possession of cocaine. It seems that what the police found was BC Powder, an over-the-counter pain reliever that is sold exclusively in the South.
“Also in December 2011, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler was arrested after attempting to check a pistol — for which he has a California concealed carry permit — at a New York airport.”
Gun deaths have declined in New York City, while killings involving knives have increased 50 percent. The issue isn’t guns or knives but people who use guns and knives. In a 25 year period, New York City has had more than 15,000 murders – 2245 in 1990 alone – while Kennesaw, Georgia, had 1.
Notes:

Family Circle, August 2007