After reading this article, I have to wonder how we have gotten as far as we have in this country given the total ignorance of many so called 'friends of the earth' type of organizations dedicated to improving living conditions around the world.
I am at a lose as to what motivates these organizations - is just power to control other peoples lives? - is it a deep seated hate for anything that doesn't conform to their agenda? - is it a territorial thing with the Europeans against any other country that might have a better or newer idea? - or is just plain greed on the part of these so called 'humanitarian groups' that are willing to see, or not see, Africa slowly starve to death while boasting of their successes in the manipulation of Africa government officials to follow their lead.
This is crazy stuff - it is very similar to global warming - many of the same groups that sit in the pew of Rev. Al on global warming are the same ones that demand Africa wither away in cloud of dust. That thousands starve to death every year is not important - what is important is that the agenda of these organizations is implemented - nothing else matters. Period! Is there no common sense left or moral responsibility?
da - Common sense or morals have nothing to do with it, it's about control of peoples lives, i.e. global warming.
Let's keep an eye on this while keeping the faith, the battle is joined!
THE FIGHT TO FEED AFRICA
By ROBERT PAARLBERG April 6, 2008
Why are so many Africans desperately poor? The answer lies in the kind of work they do - more than 60 percent plant agricultural crops and graze animals - and in the fact that their farming lacks the productivity provided by modern science. But the other, more tragic, answer is that Western charities are helping to keep them that way.
Most small farmers in Africa do not plant any scientifically improved seeds, do not use chemical fertilizers, do not have access to veterinary medicine, do not have any electrical power and do not have any irrigation. Lacking any of these improvements, their labor in farming (and 80 percent of which comes from women and children) earns them only about $1 a day. One-third are malnourished.
On a per capita basis, Africa's farms today are producing 19 percent less than they did in 1970. These condition persist throughout nearly all of sub-Saharan Africa - even in countries that produce food crops more than cash crops; even in countries enjoying internal peace; even in countries with elected governments and low inflationl even in countries with low rates of HIV; even in countries with adequate access to international markets; even in countries receiving generous foreign aid.
Yet African nations do little to modernize. Although a majority of all African citizens still depend on agriculture for income, governments in Africa typically devote less than 5 percent of their national budget to the agricultural sector, and many spend less than this.
Since 1991 in Uganda, where two-thirds of all citizens are farmers, agriculture has not received more than 3 percent of the budget in any year, and in some years the share has been below 2 percent.*It is Western donors who romanticize traditional farms and demonize genetically-modified crops that encourage this behavior.
African governments are heavily dependent on foreign aid, and since the early 1980s the donor community has cut its assistance for agriculture modernization dramatically. The US Agency for International Development has cut the agricultural share of its aid programs from 25 percent of the total in 1980 down to just 1 percent today. US bilateral assistance to agricultural science in Africa has actually fallen by 75 percent since the 1980s. World Bank lending for agriculture has dropped from 30 percent of all Bank lending in 1978 down to just 8 percent of lending today.
It was largely because the international donors abandoned the goal of agricultural modernization that African governments did the same. Prosperous countries in Europe and North America have cut back on bringing modern agricultural science to Africa for curiously myopic reasons. Having noticed that their own farmers at home are highly productive and don't need more agricultural science, they conclude that farmers in Africa should not need any more, either. Beyond this, some influential elites in prosperous countries are actively hostile to agricultural science.
Having used modern science to become productive, prosperous and well fed themselves, they have begun to fantasize about returning to an earlier model of farming - one based on farms that are all small, local, highly diversified and dependent exclusively on the use of pre-modern organic fertilizers (such as composted animal manure) without any inorganic nitrogen. They also want "heirloom" crop varieties rather than scientifically improved crops, and, of course, no genetically-engineered seeds.
What groups such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace fail to realize is that the impoverished farming seen throughout Africa today is little more than an extreme version of their pre-modern fantasy. Prosperous countries don't actually adopt this kind of farming at home (less than 1 percent of U.S. cropland is currently being farmed organically, and in Europe only 4 percent), but that doesn't stop organic farming activists from trying to sell the vision to governments and farmers in Africa.
Organic farming activists actually see Africa's low use of chemical fertilizers (one reason for low crop yields, which are one-third the Asian average) as an advantage, since they can be more easily certified as organic. Non-productive and poor, but certified organic.*Now European activists in particular are telling African governments they should stay away from approving any genetically-engineered crops, known as GMOs. These crops were first introduced in the mid 1990s and are being grown successfully (and so far without any documented mishap) in 23 countries around the world, including a number of developing countries such as China, India, Philippines, Argentina and Brazil.
They are popular with farmers because they help reduce the costs of weed and insect control, and Europe's own scientific authorities have found no new risk to human health or the environment from any of the dozens of different GMO crops approved by regulators so far (a finding endorsed by the Royal Society in London, the British Medical Association, the French Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Medicine, the German Academies of Science and Humanities, and the Research Directorate of the European Union).
Yet when European activists speak to Africans about GMOs, they conceal these benign official assessments and traffic instead in fear. In 2002, an official delegation from Zambia visited the UK to get advice on whether or not to accept GMO corn from the United States as food aid during a drought emergency. This was the same corn Americans had been eating since 1996, but the Zambians were told by Greenpeace that if GMOs were let into their country, organic produce sales to Europe would collapse; an organization named Genetic Food Alert warned of the "unknown and unassessed implications" of eating GM foods; and a group named Farming and Livestock Concern warned the Zambians that GM corn could form a retrovirus similar to HIV.
These erroneous assertions frightened the Zambians into banning GMOs completely. As Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa explained at the time, "Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison." A group of mostly European NGOs, this time led by Friends of the Earth, then continued the disinformation campaign against GMOs at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. They coached their African partners into signing an open letter warning that GMOs might cause allergies, chronic toxic effects and cancers. At this same meeting in 2002, two Dutch organizations, HIVOS and NOVIB, joined with partner groups from Belgium, Germany and the UK to pay for a so-called "small farmers march" on Johannesburg that ended with a predictable pronouncement that Africans "say NO to genetically modified foods.
"The local African organizer of this effort, who was not a farmer himself, later explained that he was opposed to GMO foods because he had been told they would change the genetic composition of the human body. An African minister at this meeting asked US AID Administrator Andrew Natsios "if it was true" that GMO crops contained pig genes.
These fear campaigns, mounted by European activists and paid for with European money, were unfortunately effective in Africa. As of 2008, only one country on the continent - South Africa - has made it legal for farmers to plant any genetically-engineered crops at all. South Africa was able to avoid the damage only because it had a science-based regulatory system for GMO safety in place several years before activists from Europe began campaigning against the technology.*
Why are governments in Africa, with their citizenship of mostly poor and non-productive farmers, adopting an urbanized European perspective toward this new technology? Africa follows Europe in this case, rather than the United States, because of a trio of continuing post-colonial relationships. Africa's farm exports to Europe are six times as large as exports to the Untied States, so it is European consumer tastes and European regulatory systems that Africans feel they must mimic. Africa also gets three times as much foreign assistance from Europe compared to the United States, so when European donors counsel against GMO crops, African governments must listen.
Europe also contributes three times as much to the Trust Fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as the United States, so when the United Nations Environment Programme uses GEF money to show Africans how to regulate GMOs, they favor the stifling European approach.
The richest of tastes are being imposed on the poorest of people. Fortunately some independent-minded Americans and Africans are looking for ways to break out of this pattern. Since 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been braving criticism from anti-science NGOs to provide private-grant funding for a new initiative called an Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, chaired by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. This project will use conventional scientific plant breeding techniques to bring improved seed varieties to African farmers.
When this project was announced, an NGO from Europe named GRAIN tried to argue that improvements in crop genetics in Africa would only lead to greater poverty, and an NGO from the United States named Food First criticized the project as "naive" for its assumption that African farmers needed more science-based productivity.Yet this year the Gates Foundation has gone ahead with another research project in Africa, to develop improved varieties of drought-tolerant crops, using not just traditional breeding techniques but genetic engineering as well.
Crops better able to tolerate drought are precisely what poor farmers in Africa need to work their way out of poverty, so it is reassuring to see at least some private philanthropic donors keeping Africa's need for more and better farm science utmost in mind.
Robert Paarlberg is a professor of political science at Wellesley College and author of "Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa" (Harvard University Press)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
A Story of Love and Commitment - A Boy and His Dog
Monday, April 21, 2008
Europe in the Grip of Muslin Terrorist
I wonder how long it will be before we decide America is not bullet proof. This little article is right to the point.
So many people today have lost sight of what we have and how we got it. Proof of this is the reaction that millions have to the rhetoric of Barack Obama. He say nothing at all and when he is pin down, like he was in the last debate, it became clear he doesn't know what is happening in this country or the world at large.
He has made it clear he does not like America and he is not a Christian. He wants to change the Constitution of this country to reflect his socialist views of taking from the productive and give to the unproductive that support his agenda. He wants to enslave the population to a totalitarian government.
Ha! How silly - that can't happen here you say - guess again - we are in the process right now. How did Obama and Hillary get as far as they have without the support of millions of people that believe we would be better off as socialists?
Are they that stupid or just uneducated and naive - or maybe just to lazy and prosperous to care about their immediate future. The sun is out today and my world is good - I can't be bothered by tomorrows problems - that is someone else's problem to fix. Barack says he will change America and fix all of her wrongs. That's good enough for me. You really don't believe that - Right?
Get real people, open your eyes and hears - but keep the faith, the battle is joined!
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez(*)
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.
In Auschwitz we burned a culture; thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back: These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a: Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
2.. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
12. In 2002 the Unite d States fought a war in Afghanistan against: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages of 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other du nder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'
Come on people wake up!!! Our Country and our troops need our support.
So many people today have lost sight of what we have and how we got it. Proof of this is the reaction that millions have to the rhetoric of Barack Obama. He say nothing at all and when he is pin down, like he was in the last debate, it became clear he doesn't know what is happening in this country or the world at large.
He has made it clear he does not like America and he is not a Christian. He wants to change the Constitution of this country to reflect his socialist views of taking from the productive and give to the unproductive that support his agenda. He wants to enslave the population to a totalitarian government.
Ha! How silly - that can't happen here you say - guess again - we are in the process right now. How did Obama and Hillary get as far as they have without the support of millions of people that believe we would be better off as socialists?
Are they that stupid or just uneducated and naive - or maybe just to lazy and prosperous to care about their immediate future. The sun is out today and my world is good - I can't be bothered by tomorrows problems - that is someone else's problem to fix. Barack says he will change America and fix all of her wrongs. That's good enough for me. You really don't believe that - Right?
Get real people, open your eyes and hears - but keep the faith, the battle is joined!
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez(*)
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz . We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.
In Auschwitz we burned a culture; thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back: These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a: Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
2.. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
12. In 2002 the Unite d States fought a war in Afghanistan against: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages of 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other du nder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'
Come on people wake up!!! Our Country and our troops need our support.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Thank God for America
After this winter in Wisconsin, the worst in memory and one of the worst in the history of this state for snow and cold, I am ready for the warm and sunny weather - This morning I am particularly happy as the sun was coming up all seemed to predict a beautiful day ahead.
I can't help but to thank God for having the privilege to live in this country and have the opportunity to do anything I want to do to better myself or just enjoy the day.
Take a break from the push, kick back for a little bit and recognize all that you have to be thankful for.
Relish the opportunity and keep the faith.
I can't help but to thank God for having the privilege to live in this country and have the opportunity to do anything I want to do to better myself or just enjoy the day.
Take a break from the push, kick back for a little bit and recognize all that you have to be thankful for.
Relish the opportunity and keep the faith.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Unions Hope to Grab Back Power in November
This November will be one of the most important election in this nations history - 2004 was big as well given the threat by the liberals, The New Socialist Progressive Party, NSPP, to withdraw the troops from Iraq within 6 months after the election, if they win the election that is.
They want to surrender freedom to the terrorists like the liberal Democrats did in Vietnam by cutting off funds to the South Vietnamese army, and as a result, 2.8 million people were slaughtered. Thank you Democrats. The same thing would happen in Iraq, but hey, who cares, why should we care who lives of dies - we're NSPP Democrats after all.
Now the threat for early with drawl is still there but also the threat to keep our boarders open to anyone, a disastrous national health care plan, potential destruction of trade agreements, tax increases and most destructive of all, an energy plan that will bring America to her knees. No more oil and no nukes. It's that carbon thing remember, the scam. The fraud.
As if this wasn't enough to wreck your day, the unions in this country are also ready to step back into the lime light as well if the NSPP are successful in November. Clinton and Obama have promised the world to get the union vote.
This article will explain in detail how potentially disastrous this grab for power by union bosses will be on our freedoms to chose where, when and how we work. Make no mistake, this is just another NSPP finger of the hand tightening around our collective necks to chock off freedom and Democracy in the American work place and every where else.
In the end it will chock off our will to work and be prosperous. There will be on reason to be optimistic about the future because we won't have one. It will just be, " shut up and do what you are told".
Watch, listen, think and decide, then keep the faith, the battle is joined!
The Union Agenda
April 4, 2008 WSJ
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama visited the House of Labor this week, and Labor can't wait to invite one back. Which one? Who cares. To read the press coverage, unions are as split as the rest of the country over a Democratic nominee. The giant AFL-CIO has yet to endorse, its member unions hopelessly divided. Locals fight it out state-to-state, squaring off into their candidates' corners.
The upcoming Pennsylvania primary has devolved into a slugfest over a huge union vote, one reason why both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama planned their weeks around speeches to an AFL-CIO convention in Philly.
Republicans are gleeful about these divides, but the guys grinning widest are union bosses. They understood long ago what even today the GOP and the business community have yet to grasp.
This election is their best shot in a half-century of making over Washington. Not everyone is thrilled with a Clinton or an Obama, but this matters little next to the big prize. As Gerald McEntee, the savvy head of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, succinctly put it, Big Labor is looking for a "trifecta" – the Oval Office, the House and a filibuster-proof Senate. And after that, the biggest rewrite of labor law in modern America.
"This is an all-in bet for them in 2008," says Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, a group that fights down in the trenches against coercive union power. "As market cycles go, they're in their peak, we're in our trough, and they're looking for a clear two-year run" in an all-Democrat Washington.
How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider history. George W. Bush has been eight years of anticorruption probes and more union financial disclosure. Bill Clinton's tenure was defined by an antiunion GOP majority, with Nafta as a bitter pill. George H.W. Bush codified the Beck decision, allowing workers to withhold political dues. Ronald Reagan broke the air traffic controllers union. Even Jimmy Carter was tightfisted with gifts.
The unions' last political heyday arguably ended with the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959, which regulated internal union affairs. How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider the desperation. A global economy has meant higher-paying, more flexible jobs, and a U.S. workforce that sees little value in unions. Union membership has been in a free-fall for years, with private-sector membership now at just 7.4% of the labor force.
Fights over how to stop this bleeding have fractured the movement. Labor leaders worry that if they don't reverse the trend soon, they'll be out of a job. This is their shot. Unions are confident the House will be Democratic and pliant. By holding off on big endorsements, they've forced both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama to pander to their demands, creating some of the most pro-union presidential candidates in recent history.
In the Senate, labor bosses see a chance to add three to seven seats, enough, when combined with wobbly Republicans, to do away with filibusters. They're already out spending in New Hampshire, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, Alaska and Maine. How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider the money and manpower so far. The AFL-CIO has approved a record political budget of $53 million to help fund 200,000 union workers on the street. Its affiliated national and international unions have pledged another $200 million.
The National Education Association will throw $40 million to $50 million at races. The Service Employees International Union has marked off $100 million for politics, and intends to pay 2,000 union members the equivalent of their salaries to work on Democratic campaigns. Add in union money for federal or state political action committees, for 527s, and for local and state races, and some astute members of the business community – those who have seen this coming "tsunami" (as one puts it) – estimate union political spending may top /$1 billion/ in 2008.
How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider what it will get if that money pays off. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have already pledged a rewrite of Nafta and an end to more trade deals. Both promise to throw government money at new union-only jobs, to boost unemployment insurance, to penalize companies that hire overseas, and to take a run at "universal" health care.To this, unions will add passage of "card check," which would outlaw secret ballots in union organizing elections. Alongside will be legislation to make union officials the exclusive bargaining agents of most police, fire and rescue personnel.
Then there's the biggie – so big that most officials don't talk about it publicly. Tucked into the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act is a provision called 14(b), which allows for "right to work" states. Big Labor last took a run at deleting this section, and forcing more unionization, in the Johnson administration. With a filibuster-proof Senate, they'd have a far better shot.
Unions want a Department of Labor that will sit on corruption cases, water down financial disclosure rules, and turn a blind eye to the use of pension funds to influence boardroom decisions.
The National Labor Relations Board has three vacancies, which Senate Democrats will refuse to fill this year. Big Labor's own slate would include people favorable to proposals to allow "mini-unions" within corporate workplaces, or to rework job definitions to bring more positions under the union umbrella.The biggest obstacle to all this would normally be the business community.
But with Democrats strongly positioned to win, companies are reluctant to upset the political masters. The corporate world's list of political problems has also grown so large – trade, paid leave, healthcare, environmental issues – that it has barely been able to focus on the union threat.
To the extent companies have stepped up, it's been on single issues, like card check. And therein lies the unions' biggest risk: overreach. Good as the overall political environment is, most Americans don't agree with specific union proposals. A recent poll released by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which is fighting against card check, found that two-thirds of voters in key Senate election states oppose getting rid of secret union ballots.
The tactic of pro-union Democrats in the past has been to avoid talking specifics. If Republicans want a shot at winning some political races, they'll need to. Painting the picture of a union-dominated America might help focus minds.
They want to surrender freedom to the terrorists like the liberal Democrats did in Vietnam by cutting off funds to the South Vietnamese army, and as a result, 2.8 million people were slaughtered. Thank you Democrats. The same thing would happen in Iraq, but hey, who cares, why should we care who lives of dies - we're NSPP Democrats after all.
Now the threat for early with drawl is still there but also the threat to keep our boarders open to anyone, a disastrous national health care plan, potential destruction of trade agreements, tax increases and most destructive of all, an energy plan that will bring America to her knees. No more oil and no nukes. It's that carbon thing remember, the scam. The fraud.
As if this wasn't enough to wreck your day, the unions in this country are also ready to step back into the lime light as well if the NSPP are successful in November. Clinton and Obama have promised the world to get the union vote.
This article will explain in detail how potentially disastrous this grab for power by union bosses will be on our freedoms to chose where, when and how we work. Make no mistake, this is just another NSPP finger of the hand tightening around our collective necks to chock off freedom and Democracy in the American work place and every where else.
In the end it will chock off our will to work and be prosperous. There will be on reason to be optimistic about the future because we won't have one. It will just be, " shut up and do what you are told".
Watch, listen, think and decide, then keep the faith, the battle is joined!
The Union Agenda
April 4, 2008 WSJ
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama visited the House of Labor this week, and Labor can't wait to invite one back. Which one? Who cares. To read the press coverage, unions are as split as the rest of the country over a Democratic nominee. The giant AFL-CIO has yet to endorse, its member unions hopelessly divided. Locals fight it out state-to-state, squaring off into their candidates' corners.
The upcoming Pennsylvania primary has devolved into a slugfest over a huge union vote, one reason why both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama planned their weeks around speeches to an AFL-CIO convention in Philly.
Republicans are gleeful about these divides, but the guys grinning widest are union bosses. They understood long ago what even today the GOP and the business community have yet to grasp.
This election is their best shot in a half-century of making over Washington. Not everyone is thrilled with a Clinton or an Obama, but this matters little next to the big prize. As Gerald McEntee, the savvy head of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, succinctly put it, Big Labor is looking for a "trifecta" – the Oval Office, the House and a filibuster-proof Senate. And after that, the biggest rewrite of labor law in modern America.
"This is an all-in bet for them in 2008," says Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, a group that fights down in the trenches against coercive union power. "As market cycles go, they're in their peak, we're in our trough, and they're looking for a clear two-year run" in an all-Democrat Washington.
How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider history. George W. Bush has been eight years of anticorruption probes and more union financial disclosure. Bill Clinton's tenure was defined by an antiunion GOP majority, with Nafta as a bitter pill. George H.W. Bush codified the Beck decision, allowing workers to withhold political dues. Ronald Reagan broke the air traffic controllers union. Even Jimmy Carter was tightfisted with gifts.
The unions' last political heyday arguably ended with the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959, which regulated internal union affairs. How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider the desperation. A global economy has meant higher-paying, more flexible jobs, and a U.S. workforce that sees little value in unions. Union membership has been in a free-fall for years, with private-sector membership now at just 7.4% of the labor force.
Fights over how to stop this bleeding have fractured the movement. Labor leaders worry that if they don't reverse the trend soon, they'll be out of a job. This is their shot. Unions are confident the House will be Democratic and pliant. By holding off on big endorsements, they've forced both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama to pander to their demands, creating some of the most pro-union presidential candidates in recent history.
In the Senate, labor bosses see a chance to add three to seven seats, enough, when combined with wobbly Republicans, to do away with filibusters. They're already out spending in New Hampshire, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, Alaska and Maine. How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider the money and manpower so far. The AFL-CIO has approved a record political budget of $53 million to help fund 200,000 union workers on the street. Its affiliated national and international unions have pledged another $200 million.
The National Education Association will throw $40 million to $50 million at races. The Service Employees International Union has marked off $100 million for politics, and intends to pay 2,000 union members the equivalent of their salaries to work on Democratic campaigns. Add in union money for federal or state political action committees, for 527s, and for local and state races, and some astute members of the business community – those who have seen this coming "tsunami" (as one puts it) – estimate union political spending may top /$1 billion/ in 2008.
How bad does Big Labor want this? Consider what it will get if that money pays off. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have already pledged a rewrite of Nafta and an end to more trade deals. Both promise to throw government money at new union-only jobs, to boost unemployment insurance, to penalize companies that hire overseas, and to take a run at "universal" health care.To this, unions will add passage of "card check," which would outlaw secret ballots in union organizing elections. Alongside will be legislation to make union officials the exclusive bargaining agents of most police, fire and rescue personnel.
Then there's the biggie – so big that most officials don't talk about it publicly. Tucked into the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act is a provision called 14(b), which allows for "right to work" states. Big Labor last took a run at deleting this section, and forcing more unionization, in the Johnson administration. With a filibuster-proof Senate, they'd have a far better shot.
Unions want a Department of Labor that will sit on corruption cases, water down financial disclosure rules, and turn a blind eye to the use of pension funds to influence boardroom decisions.
The National Labor Relations Board has three vacancies, which Senate Democrats will refuse to fill this year. Big Labor's own slate would include people favorable to proposals to allow "mini-unions" within corporate workplaces, or to rework job definitions to bring more positions under the union umbrella.The biggest obstacle to all this would normally be the business community.
But with Democrats strongly positioned to win, companies are reluctant to upset the political masters. The corporate world's list of political problems has also grown so large – trade, paid leave, healthcare, environmental issues – that it has barely been able to focus on the union threat.
To the extent companies have stepped up, it's been on single issues, like card check. And therein lies the unions' biggest risk: overreach. Good as the overall political environment is, most Americans don't agree with specific union proposals. A recent poll released by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which is fighting against card check, found that two-thirds of voters in key Senate election states oppose getting rid of secret union ballots.
The tactic of pro-union Democrats in the past has been to avoid talking specifics. If Republicans want a shot at winning some political races, they'll need to. Painting the picture of a union-dominated America might help focus minds.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
No Energy Policy Means Higher Food Prices
Higher food prices that we are all seeing today is a direct result of not having a comprehensive energy policy - the cost of everything is directly related to the cost of energy. Is it any wonder we are paying more for everything when the demand is going up for energy in this country by 8% a year but supply is growing at less then 3%.
Worse, now the courts have put a hold on many coal fired electrical plants waiting to see what impact they will have on environment. And don't forget, no new oil wells anywhere in this country or off our shores, and, oh my God, no nuke plants. hmmmm - what's left for us to power our trucks to deliver the food to our stores? Heat our homes? Fuel for the farmers tractors?
I wonder why the price of food is going up and up? hmmmm again!
With the demand for ethanol to power our cars being mandated by the uninformed in our government driving up the price of corn, is it any wonder our budgets are being stretched by the increased price of food as well as fuel.
The media is full of stories of third world countries rioting over the cost to feed themselves as the these poorer countries rely mostly on gain products as their major food stuff. Critical in this aspect is Mexico. Watch what happens when push comes to shove at the border as people flee north to find something to eat. I've posted on this subject several times in the past.
We have a great country here but we must use common sense to make it work to every one's advantage. Allowing a few environmental terrorist organizations to dictate what or how we live our lives is not my idea of freedom to chose. And the fact that so many people have bought into this scam of global warming, carbon credits is very puzzling given they are effected like the rest of us by bad policy.
Now is the time to stand tall, back straight and head to the wind - call your representatives and tell them we need more energy of all kinds right now - not when the country in in the dumper.
Keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Higher Food Prices May Be Here to Stay*
By PATRICK BARTA April 14, 2008 WSJ
For all the economists and consumers who hope high food prices are temporary, here's one reason why they probably won't be: Farm costs are skyrocketing, making permanently higher prices essential for farmers to keep expanding production. Inflation is biting farmers world-wide.
In New Zealand, farm wages are up as much as 20% this year, and the average price of a dairy cow has jumped to more than $1,900 -- almost double last year's average of about $1,000. In Thailand and Indonesia, farmers are complaining about sharp increases in the price of fertilizer and diesel fuel.
In the American Midwest, land prices have jumped, along with the cost of energy and chemicals. The price of diammonium phosphate, a common fertilizer, is about $1,200 a ton in the U.S., up from about $450 a ton a year ago."Diesel, fertilizer, insecticide, grass-killing chemicals, they're all going up -- just like a shadow," says Samear Ruengrit, a 57-year-old farmer who grows rice about 45 minutes north of Bangkok. His average costs are now about 50% higher than last season, he says.
Farming costs are climbing for several reasons. Higher fuel prices make it more expensive to run tractors and other equipment, while pricier natural gas -- needed to make some fertilizers -- has also played a role. Equipment prices are rising because of strong demand for farm machinery in China and other developing countries, along with rising costs for raw materials like steel.
Wages are up in some parts of the world because many farms are expanding to meet higher demand, putting pressure on labor supplies, especially in countries like Australia where many workers are already occupied in commodity-based trades like mining. Cost pressures have intensified over the past six months.
Many farm suppliers and equipment dealers held back on price increases in 2006 and 2007, despite their own higher energy and labor costs. Now, after a year or more of strong markets for corn and other crops, those suppliers are deciding farmers can afford to pay more -- and they are passing costs along.
Many farmers were able to postpone cost increases through hedging or by buying fertilizer, chemicals and other supplies in bulk in 2006 or 2007, when they were cheaper. Now those strategies are hitting their limit as the stockpiles run down. The higher costs are transforming the economics of agriculture. Since some of the heftier outlays -- like those for fuel -- are expected to persist, farmers will need to command higher prices for their crops than they did a few years ago to maintain their profit margins.
For consumers, all this means continuing pain from high-food costs, at least for the foreseeable future. Rice prices have more than doubled since the beginning of 2008, causing some farmers to hoard their crops in hopes of further windfalls, pushing prices even higher. Food-inflation protests have rippled across the developing world, including Haiti, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan.
A similar cost spiral has played out in other commodities markets, notably those for minerals. Rising costs "are sweeping across the commodities complex, and agriculture can't escape it," says Michael Lewis, global head of commodities research at Deutsche Bank in London. The upshot, he says, is "a complete structural shift" in agricultural prices to a new, higher level. None of this means food prices can't fall somewhat from current levels -- indeed, many economists believe they will, as the world economy slows and new farms come into production. If the U.S. slides into a deep economic malaise that triggers a world-wide recession, prices of most commodities probably would fall.
Even so, economists say the magnitude of the recent cost increases suggests it will be hard for farm prices to return to their lower levels of the late 1990s and early 2000s, amid a financial crisis in Asia and a recession in the U.S. Indeed, consider what happened in the mid-1980s, when crop prices collapsed following a sharp run-up in the 1970s. Corn fell to less than $1.60 a bushel in 1986 from a high of more than $3 a bushel a few years earlier. But within about two years, corn and wheat prices rebounded. Corn settled above $2.25 a bushel for much of the next decade, well above its price of less than $1.25 before the 1970s farm boom began -- the same kind of long-term upward shift in prices many economists expect today.
The problem for many farmers back then was that costs also stayed high, eating into profit margins and forcing many out of business.That merely underscores how dangerous high costs can be for farmers. Added costs often take a while to materialize during the early years of a farm boom, allowing growers to cash in on big profits during the early stages -- much as they have over the past two years. But they also tend to stick around for a long time, even after some of the forces that drove crop prices higher have faded. That exposes farmers to significant risks as farm booms mature.
Farmers are "terrified" of high costs if crop prices ease back, says Michael Swanson, an agricultural economist at Wells Fargo & Co. in Minneapolis. Such fears could make them reluctant to expand production as much as they might do otherwise. That would mean more constraints on food supplies -- and even higher prices.
Worse, now the courts have put a hold on many coal fired electrical plants waiting to see what impact they will have on environment. And don't forget, no new oil wells anywhere in this country or off our shores, and, oh my God, no nuke plants. hmmmm - what's left for us to power our trucks to deliver the food to our stores? Heat our homes? Fuel for the farmers tractors?
I wonder why the price of food is going up and up? hmmmm again!
With the demand for ethanol to power our cars being mandated by the uninformed in our government driving up the price of corn, is it any wonder our budgets are being stretched by the increased price of food as well as fuel.
The media is full of stories of third world countries rioting over the cost to feed themselves as the these poorer countries rely mostly on gain products as their major food stuff. Critical in this aspect is Mexico. Watch what happens when push comes to shove at the border as people flee north to find something to eat. I've posted on this subject several times in the past.
We have a great country here but we must use common sense to make it work to every one's advantage. Allowing a few environmental terrorist organizations to dictate what or how we live our lives is not my idea of freedom to chose. And the fact that so many people have bought into this scam of global warming, carbon credits is very puzzling given they are effected like the rest of us by bad policy.
Now is the time to stand tall, back straight and head to the wind - call your representatives and tell them we need more energy of all kinds right now - not when the country in in the dumper.
Keep the faith, the battle is joined!
Higher Food Prices May Be Here to Stay*
By PATRICK BARTA April 14, 2008 WSJ
For all the economists and consumers who hope high food prices are temporary, here's one reason why they probably won't be: Farm costs are skyrocketing, making permanently higher prices essential for farmers to keep expanding production. Inflation is biting farmers world-wide.
In New Zealand, farm wages are up as much as 20% this year, and the average price of a dairy cow has jumped to more than $1,900 -- almost double last year's average of about $1,000. In Thailand and Indonesia, farmers are complaining about sharp increases in the price of fertilizer and diesel fuel.
In the American Midwest, land prices have jumped, along with the cost of energy and chemicals. The price of diammonium phosphate, a common fertilizer, is about $1,200 a ton in the U.S., up from about $450 a ton a year ago."Diesel, fertilizer, insecticide, grass-killing chemicals, they're all going up -- just like a shadow," says Samear Ruengrit, a 57-year-old farmer who grows rice about 45 minutes north of Bangkok. His average costs are now about 50% higher than last season, he says.
Farming costs are climbing for several reasons. Higher fuel prices make it more expensive to run tractors and other equipment, while pricier natural gas -- needed to make some fertilizers -- has also played a role. Equipment prices are rising because of strong demand for farm machinery in China and other developing countries, along with rising costs for raw materials like steel.
Wages are up in some parts of the world because many farms are expanding to meet higher demand, putting pressure on labor supplies, especially in countries like Australia where many workers are already occupied in commodity-based trades like mining. Cost pressures have intensified over the past six months.
Many farm suppliers and equipment dealers held back on price increases in 2006 and 2007, despite their own higher energy and labor costs. Now, after a year or more of strong markets for corn and other crops, those suppliers are deciding farmers can afford to pay more -- and they are passing costs along.
Many farmers were able to postpone cost increases through hedging or by buying fertilizer, chemicals and other supplies in bulk in 2006 or 2007, when they were cheaper. Now those strategies are hitting their limit as the stockpiles run down. The higher costs are transforming the economics of agriculture. Since some of the heftier outlays -- like those for fuel -- are expected to persist, farmers will need to command higher prices for their crops than they did a few years ago to maintain their profit margins.
For consumers, all this means continuing pain from high-food costs, at least for the foreseeable future. Rice prices have more than doubled since the beginning of 2008, causing some farmers to hoard their crops in hopes of further windfalls, pushing prices even higher. Food-inflation protests have rippled across the developing world, including Haiti, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan.
A similar cost spiral has played out in other commodities markets, notably those for minerals. Rising costs "are sweeping across the commodities complex, and agriculture can't escape it," says Michael Lewis, global head of commodities research at Deutsche Bank in London. The upshot, he says, is "a complete structural shift" in agricultural prices to a new, higher level. None of this means food prices can't fall somewhat from current levels -- indeed, many economists believe they will, as the world economy slows and new farms come into production. If the U.S. slides into a deep economic malaise that triggers a world-wide recession, prices of most commodities probably would fall.
Even so, economists say the magnitude of the recent cost increases suggests it will be hard for farm prices to return to their lower levels of the late 1990s and early 2000s, amid a financial crisis in Asia and a recession in the U.S. Indeed, consider what happened in the mid-1980s, when crop prices collapsed following a sharp run-up in the 1970s. Corn fell to less than $1.60 a bushel in 1986 from a high of more than $3 a bushel a few years earlier. But within about two years, corn and wheat prices rebounded. Corn settled above $2.25 a bushel for much of the next decade, well above its price of less than $1.25 before the 1970s farm boom began -- the same kind of long-term upward shift in prices many economists expect today.
The problem for many farmers back then was that costs also stayed high, eating into profit margins and forcing many out of business.That merely underscores how dangerous high costs can be for farmers. Added costs often take a while to materialize during the early years of a farm boom, allowing growers to cash in on big profits during the early stages -- much as they have over the past two years. But they also tend to stick around for a long time, even after some of the forces that drove crop prices higher have faded. That exposes farmers to significant risks as farm booms mature.
Farmers are "terrified" of high costs if crop prices ease back, says Michael Swanson, an agricultural economist at Wells Fargo & Co. in Minneapolis. Such fears could make them reluctant to expand production as much as they might do otherwise. That would mean more constraints on food supplies -- and even higher prices.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Do We Have a Future with Democrats in Control
Just what we are looking for this year is "change" right? Get rid of the good and bring in the bad - more government control means less freedom over our personal lives. You will nothing to say about immigration, health care taxes or elected leaders. All decisions will be made for you. The agenda of the New Socialist Progressive Party, the liberal Democrats.
Socialist have a habit of taking the lions share of your labors for the good of the masses. Translated - you have to work harder for less as there are many that don't want to work as hard as you or not at all. It's only fair this way and it's for the betterment of the state.
The real question that I feel is at the root of the discussion is do we care if we lose our freedom? Maybe freedom isn't all that important to many of us that live lives strictly dedicated to reaching for the brass ring in our own simplistic small world. If so, one should look up to see who is controlling the brass ring. Maybe if you don't do what you are told they will put that brass ring out of your reach. But don't feel bad as you will come to realize, the state knows far better what's good for you than you do.
Something to think about while you ponder the election in November. keep the faith, the battle is joined!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? MORE SOCIALISM IN OUR LIVES?
Do we want more liberal control?
Part 1:
Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:
*A little over one year ago:
*1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
*Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
*1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
*America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!*
Remember it's Congress that makes law, taxes and spends, not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
*Quote of the Day........"*My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
Part 2:
*Taxes*...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho w/151.html http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho%20w/151.html
*Taxes under Clinton 1999
**Taxes under Bush 2008
*Single making 30K - tax $8,400
**Single making 30K - tax $4,500
*Single making 50K - tax $14,000
**Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Married making 125K – tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.
If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
PART 3:
*You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?*Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.Verify at http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the USVerify at: http://transcri/ pts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
*The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
**Are we THAT stupid?*
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.Tell all of your friends, and if you know any, the Democrats that will listen!
Socialist have a habit of taking the lions share of your labors for the good of the masses. Translated - you have to work harder for less as there are many that don't want to work as hard as you or not at all. It's only fair this way and it's for the betterment of the state.
The real question that I feel is at the root of the discussion is do we care if we lose our freedom? Maybe freedom isn't all that important to many of us that live lives strictly dedicated to reaching for the brass ring in our own simplistic small world. If so, one should look up to see who is controlling the brass ring. Maybe if you don't do what you are told they will put that brass ring out of your reach. But don't feel bad as you will come to realize, the state knows far better what's good for you than you do.
Something to think about while you ponder the election in November. keep the faith, the battle is joined!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? MORE SOCIALISM IN OUR LIVES?
Do we want more liberal control?
Part 1:
Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following:
*A little over one year ago:
*1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
*Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
*1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
*America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!*
Remember it's Congress that makes law, taxes and spends, not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.
*Quote of the Day........"*My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
Part 2:
*Taxes*...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho w/151.html http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/sho%20w/151.html
*Taxes under Clinton 1999
**Taxes under Bush 2008
*Single making 30K - tax $8,400
**Single making 30K - tax $4,500
*Single making 50K - tax $14,000
**Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Married making 125K – tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates.It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever.
If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
PART 3:
*You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?*Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.Verify at http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the USVerify at: http://transcri/ pts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
*The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
**Are we THAT stupid?*
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.Tell all of your friends, and if you know any, the Democrats that will listen!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Jimmy Carter Kissin' Cousin to Palestinian Terrorist
I just can't find the right words to describe Jimmy Carter any more - I have used Democrat, liberal, socialists, neo-communist and socialist progressive but they don't seem to fit the man like they used to. But now he has transcended such lame descriptions with his most resent foray into foreign policy.
His complete absence of any protocol sends the State Department into tailspins, even though most of the State Department employees are socialist progressives left over from the Clinton nightmare. That in itself tells a story.
Never the less he forges forward looking for some other aspiring tyrant to kiss up to hopping to find the next world mass killer that might be willing to visit him in Plains, GA. What a thrill that would be.
Keep the faith, please, the battle is joined!
Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat's Tomb
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:07 PMBy: Julie Stahl
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday.
"He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," Carter's trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn't make any comments there, he said.
Dubbed the "godfather of terrorism," Arafat was linked to the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973 -- one of many terror acts laid at his feet. (See earlier story) Twenty years later, Arafat became the first PLO leader to sign a peace agreement with an Israeli Prime Minister -- Yitzhak Rabin -- in 1993. He was considered Israel's peace partner (although many Israelis never believed it) until the beginning of the violent Palestinian uprising in September 2000.
Arafat managed the terror war against Israel until his death in 2004.
U.S. officials have emphasized that Carter is visiting the Middle East as a private citizen and not as a representative of the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government refused Carter's request to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza. The former U.S. leader has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas's top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria on Friday. Most visiting American dignitaries -- including President Bush -- have avoided Arafat's tomb.
Michaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem that handles Palestinian affairs, told Cybercast News Service that no active U.S. Executive Branch member had ever laid a wreath on Arafat's grave.
Carter first met Arafat in 1990, when Arafat was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. According to a New York Times report, Carter praised Arafat as a peacemaker. Years later, Carter led an international team in observing the first Palestinian Authority elections that gave Arafat the presidency. (Carter also observed the 2006 elections that brought Hamas an overwhelming parliamentary majority.)
Arafat was the most frequent visitor to President Bill Clinton's White House. President Bush also dealt with Arafat at the beginning of his presidency, but after the Palestinian leader lied to Bush in early 2002 about a huge shipment of Iranian weapons bound for the P.A., he was shunned until his death in November 2004.
On Tuesday, Carter also had lunch with a dozen or so Palestinian civil society leaders and had what was described as a "wonderful round table" discussion with Palestinian youths that he and his wife enjoyed immensely, said Jasculca.
As President Carter travels around the Middle East he is "eager to hear viewpoints" about peace and the peace process. "Instead of talking, he's doing a lot of listening," said Jasculca.
© 2008 CNSNews.com. All Rights Reserved.
His complete absence of any protocol sends the State Department into tailspins, even though most of the State Department employees are socialist progressives left over from the Clinton nightmare. That in itself tells a story.
Never the less he forges forward looking for some other aspiring tyrant to kiss up to hopping to find the next world mass killer that might be willing to visit him in Plains, GA. What a thrill that would be.
Keep the faith, please, the battle is joined!
Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat's Tomb
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:07 PMBy: Julie Stahl
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday.
"He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," Carter's trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn't make any comments there, he said.
Dubbed the "godfather of terrorism," Arafat was linked to the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973 -- one of many terror acts laid at his feet. (See earlier story) Twenty years later, Arafat became the first PLO leader to sign a peace agreement with an Israeli Prime Minister -- Yitzhak Rabin -- in 1993. He was considered Israel's peace partner (although many Israelis never believed it) until the beginning of the violent Palestinian uprising in September 2000.
Arafat managed the terror war against Israel until his death in 2004.
U.S. officials have emphasized that Carter is visiting the Middle East as a private citizen and not as a representative of the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government refused Carter's request to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza. The former U.S. leader has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas's top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria on Friday. Most visiting American dignitaries -- including President Bush -- have avoided Arafat's tomb.
Michaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem that handles Palestinian affairs, told Cybercast News Service that no active U.S. Executive Branch member had ever laid a wreath on Arafat's grave.
Carter first met Arafat in 1990, when Arafat was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. According to a New York Times report, Carter praised Arafat as a peacemaker. Years later, Carter led an international team in observing the first Palestinian Authority elections that gave Arafat the presidency. (Carter also observed the 2006 elections that brought Hamas an overwhelming parliamentary majority.)
Arafat was the most frequent visitor to President Bill Clinton's White House. President Bush also dealt with Arafat at the beginning of his presidency, but after the Palestinian leader lied to Bush in early 2002 about a huge shipment of Iranian weapons bound for the P.A., he was shunned until his death in November 2004.
On Tuesday, Carter also had lunch with a dozen or so Palestinian civil society leaders and had what was described as a "wonderful round table" discussion with Palestinian youths that he and his wife enjoyed immensely, said Jasculca.
As President Carter travels around the Middle East he is "eager to hear viewpoints" about peace and the peace process. "Instead of talking, he's doing a lot of listening," said Jasculca.
© 2008 CNSNews.com. All Rights Reserved.
Neighborhood Assistance Corp of America : Urban Terrorists
Yet and still more terror lurking in our neighborhoods coming from socialist thugs demanding control of our lives.
I believe this is just one of the reasons for the housing market slow down - this and the federal government demanding that banks give loans to individuals that everyone knows can't afford to buy a tent more or less a two hundred thousand dollar house.
Taken all together, the attacks on America seem to be coming from several direction at once. Attacks on our military, our foreign and domestic policy, our financial institutions, our main stream religion, Christianity and worst of all, the very fabric of who we are, the American ideal of Freedom and Democracy for every individual.
The New Socialist Progressives do not want America to continue as a free state for people to seek out what ever dream they want - they want to change who and what you are to fit their agenda of power and control. Make no mistake - you are under attack.
Keep up your guard, use common sense to make decisions by keeping the faith, knowing the battle is joined!
BAILOUT BULLIES
By MICHELLE MALKIN April 2, 2008 --
LAST week, a mob of screeching protesters invaded the Bear Stearns headquarters in Manhattan demanding more aid for homeowners. As you know, I oppose federal bailouts of every make and model - and that includes both the Bear Stearns deal and the bipartisan stimulus-palooza in Washington. But the bank-bashers who held their demonstration in New York City against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan are totally unhinged. And out of control.
Here is the face of the entitlement culture gone mad: "We will go to their neighborhood, we will educate their children on what their parents do. They should be ashamed," said Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) founder Bruce Marks in a nasty warning issued to employees of both banks. This isn't an idle threat. Bruce Marks is no harmless lone nut. He has a record of showing up at children's schools and bullying them because of their parents' employment. All in the name of "social justice," of course, and securing loans for every last bad risk on the face of the planet. He's so proud of his behavior, he calls himself a "bank terrorist.
"Has he earned scorn and condemnation? Of course not. As a reward for his tactics, The Boston Globe named him "Bostonian of the Year" in 2007. The paper praised his "sensible innovation." It fawned over his "curious blend of in-your-face activism, customer-focused service, Machiavellian angling and social-justice passion."
As The Globe reported in its cover feature on Marks, there's no line of decency this housing shakedown artist won't cross. Welcome to the subprime politics of personal destruction: "Marks and his yellow-T-shirted followers have swarmed shareholders' meetings with enough force to shut them down. They have picketed outside the schools attended by the children of bank CEOs, pressing the youngsters in signs and chants to answer for the actions of their daddies." And they even once distributed scandal sheets to every house in one CEO's neighborhood, detailing the affair he was allegedly having with a subordinate.
In time, that CEO, like most of the others that NACA targeted, sat down with Marks and signed a deal."To those who found his tactics an outrageous invasion of bank executives' personal lives, Marks refused to acknowledge any line between home and work. 'What you do is who you are,' he says. 'It's all personal.'
"My leftist opponents have labeled me a "stalker" for publicizing the public contact information of anti-war activists who ran military recruiters off their college campus - and for researching, documenting and challenging the assets of a two-property, three-car-owning Democratic poster family held up as unassailable arguments for massive government health-insurance expansions.
Meanwhile, housing-entitlement bully Bruce Marks gets citizen-of-the-year accolades while rolling in housing-hustle dough. It's all about the money for Marks' group, which browbeats banks and lenders into billion-dollar deals to allow its activists to arrange mortgages for their high-risk constituents. NACA - with dozens of offices across the country - has a no-down-payment, no-closing-costs, low-interest-rate policy for low-income minority borrowers and takes a hefty fee for each transaction.
NACA loan applicants are then required to attend workshops glorifying the group's protest thuggery. Those whose loans are approved must then pledge to assist the group in five "actions" (like the one at Bear Stearns' headquarters) per year. When they're not clamoring for more homeowner funds and federal Community Reinvestment Act money, they're bombarding the feds with regulatory complaints to halt any planned bank mergers or expansions.Those radical actions have yielded a windfall as fearful corporations fork over money to preempt Marks' extortionist mau-mau-ing.
In 2003, Citigroup coughed up $3 billion in mortgage loans to NACA through 2013. Bank of America, which first partnered with (succumbed to) NACA in 1995, handed over $6 billion through 2015.
Let me repeat the threat he issued at the Bear Stearns protest last week: "We will go to their neighborhood, we will educate their children on what their parents do. They should be ashamed." If any prominent liberals have criticized Marks' tactics, I haven't heard them. Have you?
Lesson learned: Screaming "racist" pays.
I believe this is just one of the reasons for the housing market slow down - this and the federal government demanding that banks give loans to individuals that everyone knows can't afford to buy a tent more or less a two hundred thousand dollar house.
Taken all together, the attacks on America seem to be coming from several direction at once. Attacks on our military, our foreign and domestic policy, our financial institutions, our main stream religion, Christianity and worst of all, the very fabric of who we are, the American ideal of Freedom and Democracy for every individual.
The New Socialist Progressives do not want America to continue as a free state for people to seek out what ever dream they want - they want to change who and what you are to fit their agenda of power and control. Make no mistake - you are under attack.
Keep up your guard, use common sense to make decisions by keeping the faith, knowing the battle is joined!
BAILOUT BULLIES
By MICHELLE MALKIN April 2, 2008 --
LAST week, a mob of screeching protesters invaded the Bear Stearns headquarters in Manhattan demanding more aid for homeowners. As you know, I oppose federal bailouts of every make and model - and that includes both the Bear Stearns deal and the bipartisan stimulus-palooza in Washington. But the bank-bashers who held their demonstration in New York City against Bear Stearns and JPMorgan are totally unhinged. And out of control.
Here is the face of the entitlement culture gone mad: "We will go to their neighborhood, we will educate their children on what their parents do. They should be ashamed," said Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) founder Bruce Marks in a nasty warning issued to employees of both banks. This isn't an idle threat. Bruce Marks is no harmless lone nut. He has a record of showing up at children's schools and bullying them because of their parents' employment. All in the name of "social justice," of course, and securing loans for every last bad risk on the face of the planet. He's so proud of his behavior, he calls himself a "bank terrorist.
"Has he earned scorn and condemnation? Of course not. As a reward for his tactics, The Boston Globe named him "Bostonian of the Year" in 2007. The paper praised his "sensible innovation." It fawned over his "curious blend of in-your-face activism, customer-focused service, Machiavellian angling and social-justice passion."
As The Globe reported in its cover feature on Marks, there's no line of decency this housing shakedown artist won't cross. Welcome to the subprime politics of personal destruction: "Marks and his yellow-T-shirted followers have swarmed shareholders' meetings with enough force to shut them down. They have picketed outside the schools attended by the children of bank CEOs, pressing the youngsters in signs and chants to answer for the actions of their daddies." And they even once distributed scandal sheets to every house in one CEO's neighborhood, detailing the affair he was allegedly having with a subordinate.
In time, that CEO, like most of the others that NACA targeted, sat down with Marks and signed a deal."To those who found his tactics an outrageous invasion of bank executives' personal lives, Marks refused to acknowledge any line between home and work. 'What you do is who you are,' he says. 'It's all personal.'
"My leftist opponents have labeled me a "stalker" for publicizing the public contact information of anti-war activists who ran military recruiters off their college campus - and for researching, documenting and challenging the assets of a two-property, three-car-owning Democratic poster family held up as unassailable arguments for massive government health-insurance expansions.
Meanwhile, housing-entitlement bully Bruce Marks gets citizen-of-the-year accolades while rolling in housing-hustle dough. It's all about the money for Marks' group, which browbeats banks and lenders into billion-dollar deals to allow its activists to arrange mortgages for their high-risk constituents. NACA - with dozens of offices across the country - has a no-down-payment, no-closing-costs, low-interest-rate policy for low-income minority borrowers and takes a hefty fee for each transaction.
NACA loan applicants are then required to attend workshops glorifying the group's protest thuggery. Those whose loans are approved must then pledge to assist the group in five "actions" (like the one at Bear Stearns' headquarters) per year. When they're not clamoring for more homeowner funds and federal Community Reinvestment Act money, they're bombarding the feds with regulatory complaints to halt any planned bank mergers or expansions.Those radical actions have yielded a windfall as fearful corporations fork over money to preempt Marks' extortionist mau-mau-ing.
In 2003, Citigroup coughed up $3 billion in mortgage loans to NACA through 2013. Bank of America, which first partnered with (succumbed to) NACA in 1995, handed over $6 billion through 2015.
Let me repeat the threat he issued at the Bear Stearns protest last week: "We will go to their neighborhood, we will educate their children on what their parents do. They should be ashamed." If any prominent liberals have criticized Marks' tactics, I haven't heard them. Have you?
Lesson learned: Screaming "racist" pays.
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Lawyer's Party : The Liberal Deomcrats
Did you ever think that the most despised group of professionals in the world are lawyers and, just by chance, the majority of the liberal Democrat Party, i.e. The New Socialist Progressive Party, NSPP, is made up of lawyers - does this answer a lot of questions?
There are more jokes about lawyers than any other group of professionals that I know and they are all depicted as underhanded, totally unscrupulous and completely without any moral fiber. They will take your last dime in fees even if it means you will become destitute. After all it's not about you, it's about them.
Does this sound like the Democrats of today, the NSPP? - it should as most of them are lawyers. If the NSPP gets control on the government in November, tin cups and pencils will be a scare commodity.
Keep the faith - the battle is joined.
The Lawyers' Party
By Bruce Walker (The American Thinker)
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The Democratic Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.
The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And so we have seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming. Some Americans become 'adverse parties' of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class action suit. We are citizens of a republic which promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.
When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America.
Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. I just hope it's not too late!.
There are more jokes about lawyers than any other group of professionals that I know and they are all depicted as underhanded, totally unscrupulous and completely without any moral fiber. They will take your last dime in fees even if it means you will become destitute. After all it's not about you, it's about them.
Does this sound like the Democrats of today, the NSPP? - it should as most of them are lawyers. If the NSPP gets control on the government in November, tin cups and pencils will be a scare commodity.
Keep the faith - the battle is joined.
The Lawyers' Party
By Bruce Walker (The American Thinker)
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.
The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. The Democratic Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.
The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And so we have seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming. Some Americans become 'adverse parties' of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class action suit. We are citizens of a republic which promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.
When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America.
Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.
Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. I just hope it's not too late!.
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