The following comes from David Barton at Wallbuilders. It puts the federal budget into numbers that are much easier to comprehend for those of us who don’t deal in millions, billions and trillions!
If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in debt on their credit card. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. That is a cut of $3000 per year. They are still going to overspend their income by $14,000 each year. So in another 10 years they will owe about ½ million dollars on their credit card.
These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we canunderstand.
The USA Has NO BUDGET since OBAMA has Become President!!!
The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so federal spending needs to be broken into simple terms to be understood.
Let’s put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:
U.S.income: $2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)
It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to. Therefore, let’s remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family.
Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
Amount of new debt added to their high-interest credit card: $16,500
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Because the Jones’ realized they’re in trouble, they decided to become responsible and cut their spending. After a lot of posturing and wrangling, they agreed to cut a whopping $385 from their budget.
Either way we’re in a heap ‘o big trouble in America and our elected representatives — OUR EMPLOYEES — are committing malfeasance on a daily basis and we the people seem to be powerless to stop it. Well, we’re not!
Did you know that children who attend American Independence Day celebrations are more likely to vote Republican (gasp!) when they grow up?
Don’t tell the Obama regime, otherwise they might concoct a scheme to ban the celebration altogether.
Oops! Too late: the media arm of the Obama regime has already posted the story.
It’s true. Well, almost… Not really. ABC News admits that even the study’s co-author, David Yanagizawa-Drott of Harvard University can’t match up the thesis with the facts. Not to worry folks; like the Christmas stories that proclaim Jesus wasn’t really born on Dec. 25th or that what he said and did can’t be authenticated, this is just another attempt by the anti-American media to belittle you for waving your American flags and celebrating the moral convictions of those who risked life and livelihoods to declare themselves and others free and independent from the tyranny of King George by signing the Declaration of Independence.
According to the story’s author:
One thing not addressed in the report is that nearly every kid in America attends Fourth of July celebrations, but the Republican Party is a minority party.
Minority party? So what’s the problem? If most kids grow up to be Democrats who cares?
Let’s apply a little Philosophy 101 here… If there are fewer registered Republicans in America then certainly the premise must be that there are more registered Democrats.
US voter registration in 2004.
The 2004 census statistics even bear this out. So, if nearly ever kid in America attends an Independence Day celebration in the United States as declared in the story, simply philosophy would suggest that celebrating Independence Day would make one more likely to be Democrat than Republican, even though ABC News declared the exact opposite?
Halfway through the story ABC News printed this joke: “Calls to Democratic officials were not returned because they had left their offices early to celebrate the Fourth of July.”
Really? How did the author of the story know they were out celebrating Independence Day? Come on now: George Stephanoloulos works for ABC News and is one of the Democrat Party’s biggest apologists around! Isn’t he one of the author’s colleagues? Even if he was reluctant to make up a quote I’m sure he could find someone out there to make up some lies about Republicans and Independence Day.
Of course that isn’t why they printed the paragraph. For Liberals, the time off for patriotic or religious holidays has nothing to do with celebrating the memory of the holiday. You don’t believe for a moment that Liberals actually go out and celebrate Independence Day, Christmas, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving or Easter for the rememberances that they are? That’s not the purpose of a holiday for these folks. The purpose of a national holiday for these people is just another paid vacation on the taxpayer’s dime.
As an aside, I thought that children weren’t affected by the things they watched, did or played? We’re always told that the violent video games kids play are perfectly harmless, that they don’t lead kids to violent tendencies, or that the music they listen to doesn’t encourage them to act out in ways that are counter to the morals of a good and just society.
So what’s the worry Mr. and Ms. Liberal? These kids at the Independence Day ceremonies will likely continue the practice of drinking the kool aid you serve up to their older brothers and sisters in college and continue to vote with the premise that government is good, politicians are the only people in America who have your best interests at heart and that freedom and liberty are the archaic, evil and racist outcomes of a bunch of hooligans who dared to break away from the theocratic and despotic regime of King George.
The following is a copy of the e-mail I was encouraged to send to House Speaker John Boehner.
I am completely disgusted with the GOP and its policy of giving into the Democrats every time they whimper, whine or threaten.
While the enemy does always get a vote in war, the objective is to always work to veto that vote by utterly annihilating the enemy! To be perfectly clear, the Democrats and anyone else who stands in the way of freedom, liberty and doing what’s best for the United States of America is an enemy, even if they call themselves Republican!
America has an avowed policy against negotiating with terrorists, particularly when those terrorists are holding hostages. Or at least that’s what we’re told.
It certainly makes sense politically and militarily. If your enemy knows that all he needs to do is take something of value that you possess, then wait until you give in to his demands, the enemy has won without firing a shot; He owns you.
Why then do the Republicans continue to “reach across the aisle” and negotiate with Democrats while the American public is being held hostage to high unemployment, high gas prices and high taxes? What is it about the mainstream media that makes the Republicans like Charlie Brown agreeing to let Lucy hold the football?
For the last several days Rush Limbaugh has been talking about how the GOP gave into the Democrats on a new continuing resolution, rather than live up to their promise to the American voters to cut $100 billion from the federal budget and further control government spending. Limbaugh, however, has been arguing that the mess America is in hasn’t happened overnight and won’t be cured by a single victory by the Republicans.
Whatever! That’s not the point.
The point, and I’ve been waiting for Rush to articulate this, is that the American taxpayer is being held hostage by Democrats, the media and their shared policies. These terrorists learned back in 1995 that their most successful weapon isn’t one that blows things up or tears flesh, but a boogeyman called “government shutdown.” You could hear it in House Speaker John Boehner’s voice when he promised that he would not shut down the government because the GOP and Democrats could not agree on a new continuing resolution to fund the government for another week or so.
Never mind the fact that when the Democrats controlled all three branches of the government that they never put forth an annual budget for the country; never mind the fact that Americans in large numbers told the Democrats last November to pound sand, never mind the fact that Obama promised to halve the national deficit within his first term, but has instead increased it more in two years than the total deficit amassed in the previous 200-plus years of American history!
This government shutdown boogeyman really has two faces. The other face is the one the GOP wants to believe will smile favorably upon them if they just say the right things. It’s sort of like Charlie Brown agreeing for the umpteenth time to let Lucy hold the football while he tries to kick it. Lucy will never let Charlie Brown kick the football and the media will never truthfully report that Democrat policies are the very reason why America’s actually unemployment is well over 10% and that Obama’s policies are why gasoline prices have surpassed $4 and are likely on their way to $6 by the end of the year.
Like the foreign terrorists who hold American citizens hostage, the media and the Democrats hold the American taxpayer hostage via our elected representatives, who we believed when they said prior to the November 2010 election would seriously cut federal government spending and the overall size of government. When the GOP leadership agreed the other day to avoid a government shutdown by cutting a paltry $38 billion from government spending, some of which had already been agreed to in previous negotiations, it was sort of like the American family deciding that while their expenses are way out of line with their income and the credit cards are all maxed out, to skip Starbucks once a week when the real solution to their overspending will require much more drastic cuts and a serious attitude adjustment.
Shortly after Obama was inaugurated the state media in the United States picked up and ran with Rush Limbaugh’s hopes that Obama would fail in what he wanted to do to the United States. I say “to” and not “for” because Obama himself actually used that verbiage in his defense of why he believes the US “Constitution is a charter of negative liberties” in that it “says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you.”
Two years later we can see where Rush’s hopes, along with the hopes and desires of most of America were dashed by passage of Obama Care and several other egregious acts foisted upon the people by a Congress bent on its will and not the public’s. It certainly can be said that Obama succeeded in his first two years; the argument isn’t that, but what was at the root of his actions. Was Obama simply a tool for Liberals who’ve wanted for decades to nationalize health care in America, or is he worse, someone with truly despotic ideas and goals for America based on what we already know about him through his speeches and writings?
For more than two decades Rush has succeeded in airing the opinions of people who previously had no voice in media and government in America. Yet I’m here today to suggest that Rush has also failed.
While Rush suggests that he’s not going away until everyone in America agrees with him that liberalism is a fatal disease, it’s been the actions of Liberals such as Obama and Nancy Pelosi and their former majority in the House of Representatives, not Limbaugh’s articulate arguments, that have apparently affected positive change in America. Limbaugh almost admitted such in his radio program, but in a subtle way.
Rush recently argued that Americans aren’t buying Liberal arguments anymore because we can’t afford it, particularly when we make less than half, on average, than public sector union members for doing similar jobs. And it’s “We the People” who are paying for these public sector jobs! It’s our money coming out of our paychecks through increased taxes that is going to grease the pockets of these union members and their fat cat bosses. Meanwhile, Obama lectures us from the teleprompter that “We the People” must sacrifice at a time of economic stress in America, yet government and the public sector unions that own them refuse to sacrifice.
So in that sense it seems that for all the articulate arguments of Limbaugh to paint Liberalism as pure evil and detrimental to human liberty and freedom, it’s been the force feeding of Liberalism over the past two years by Obama and his despots, and not Limbaugh’s words over the past two decades, that have succeeded in showing Americans just how Liberalism’s true goal is not to usher in a utopian environment where nobody suffers, but an authoritarian type of regime where EVERYONE but government suffers.
Then again, maybe Rush is right. As he like’s to say: “Don’t doubt me.”
How is it that “We the People” are smarter than our elected officials when it comes to Constitutional matters? Yet, we’re told we’re too stupid to participate in self government!
There is a God and He has a sense of humor. How else do you describe gifts like this?
According to a story on the website examiner.com, Mary Francis Berry, the Clinton-appointed chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, admitted that Democrats regularly lie about Republicans and conservative causes by falsely claiming that they are racists, bigots, and homophobes in an attempt to discredit their causes. The saddest and most telling part of this is the implied admission that liberal Democrats (but I repeat myself) cannot articulate why their causes are good. They can only resort to name-calling.
Here’s what she told the Politico: “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidate’s distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.”
A response to the statement by Berry, runs on Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment website.
This just points to what many of us have known for a long time. Democrats lie because they have no other recourse. Unfortunately, they have willing accomplices masquerading as journalists who will gladly parrot these lies. What’s sad is that in an age where we’re supposed to be intelligent and informed, they cannot articulate their viewpoint with words and cogent arguments. They’re like the schoolyard bully called on his attacks by a larger group. Rather than fight back, he can only respond by name-calling and using infantile words at best.
It’s time to call these bullies on their attacks and show them just how irrelevant and insignificant to our success they truly are.
Articles like this seem to be growing in popularity as the partisan political operatives masquerading as journalists try to convince us that the days of the Tea Party are over. This might be true for those who tried to co-opt the Tea Party for their Republican election gain, but not for those of us who still hold the core conservative beliefs that started this movement in the first place.
But, like a gift from God, other reports point to a concerted effort by opponents of liberty and freedom to paint Tea Party participants in a negative light. Words like “racist” are peppered in a recipe that attempts to color every-day people as bitter clingers holding fast to their fringe conspiracy theories. The only thing they don’t regularly talk about is how many people are wearing tinfoil hats.
An opinion piece on the website examiner.com uses the case-in-point example of California’s gubernatorial race between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman where the differences between the two are arguably only visible in their gender. In the process of trying to defend their thesis that millions of hard-working Americans are stupid, the opinion piece suggests that Tea Party folks and those supporting a third candidate for California governor are not only wasting their time, but are not being good Americans by supporting the GOP, which has become nothing more than the new Liberal-Lite party. It tastes great and is less filling, but it’s just as deadly to our Constitutional Republic.
We all know what happened years ago when Conservatives and Libertarians got behind Ross Perot in the national presidential election. We wound up with a liberal named Bill Clinton instead of re-electing George (“read my lips”) Bush. While I’m not supporting going back to that failed example by endorsing the move to get behind Chelene Nightingale as a third party candidate for governor in California, I would like to see the philosophical and practical conservatives supporting her truly infiltrate the GOP and permanently purge the RINO’s from the GOP and give those of us tired of holding our noses every election a true choice when we go to the voting booth.
Where’s the national outrage against the Black Panther Party’s racist tomes and its call to kill white people? Where’s the national leadership from our President, who’s very ascendency to the nation’s top office was supposed to forever close the racial divide in America? Why aren’t more people outraged at this kind of incitement of violence and call for civil war? And what about the action of the federal Department of Justice to drop charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation during the election that seated Obama to the White House? That case was apparently open-and-shut until Attorney General Eric Holder apparently ordered his deputies to drop all charges.
Ironic isn’t it… Obama living in a house named for a skin color that the Black Panthers want to obliterate from our streets. But I digress.
Meanwhile, if you listen closely to the Obama Administration you’d think that white folks in Arizona are standing on the street corners of Phoenix and elsewhere in Arizona, dressed in white sheets and burning crosses while calling for the death of all Mexicans. How else can you explain Obama’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and the idiotic calls by some states and local jurisdictions to boycott Arizona over its passage of a law that merely mirrors federal law? Why are the media playing this up as racist, yet they ignore King Samir Shabazz, the Philadephia Black Panther leader, as he openly calls for the assassination of people simply because of their skin color. Wasn’t the election of Obama supposed to eliminate the racial divide in America? Seems to me that it’s done nothing but create an ever larger chasm with those who share his skin color and political views spurring all of this division. I’d like to hear from the nation’s two biggest race pimps — the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton — on this one.
Why is it racist for law enforcement officers in Arizona to ask people caught in the commission of another crime for proof of their immigration status, but it’s not racist for a black man to yell racial epithets and call for the murder of all white people?
Is this the civil war that Barack Hussein Obama has been planning? Is this the division he seeks while hiding behind a cloak of secret service protection?
Why aren’t the Black Panthers angry at Obama? After all, he picked a “cracker” as his vice president and just nominated another “cracker” to serve on the Supreme Court. If Obama was being true to the “home boys” who helped cinch his election he would not have named a “cracker” to be his chief of staff, or a white woman (gasp!) to be Secretary of State. After all, naming a woman to any position of authority ought to fly against the Muslim traditions that he bows to.
I had a question posed to me the other day that got me to thinking. I’ll expand the question somewhat to fill in some of the thoughts that ran through my mind as my friend and I talked about this.
Where are all the loud and avowed Conservative artists and how do we support them? The question really comes from a lament by a friend of mine that people might not be supporting Conservative artists as they do those who seem to loudly proclaim their Liberal ideals.
Take some of the more popular musical artists over the past 20-30 years. I’m sure some of us have been to concerts where at some point the great music stops and the tirades start regarding the latest political issue of the day. Sting did this in the late 80’s at a concert I was at. I wanted to yell, “shut up and sing!” I wasn’t there to hear his rant on why he thought Conservatives are simply the doormen at the Gates of Hell, I was there to hear him sing.
So maybe I shouldn’t have been there, but I liked his music, so I went.
I think this helps illuminate the main question: Where are the Conservative artists out there and what can we do to support them? After all, they seem to speak for many more Americans than do the Liberal artists who’s cause du jour has nothing to do with making America a better place to live and work. Just look at the rise of conservatism on social media, the Internet and through large events such as the Tea Party movement. There’s a groundswell of conservatism going on out there that can’t be ignored.
I came across one such artist recently who, in my own opinion, seems to have captured the sense of the rising anger in America: a righteous indignation over the principles and morals of a depraved Liberal society that believes people who work hard for what they have ought to be stripped of what they’ve earned so those who’ve sat on the proverbial couch and ate from the Liberal tray of chips can have more chips because somehow it’s not right to require them to work for a living so they can buy their own food, health care, houses and other things.
A visit to http://www.joedanmedia.com/ doesn’t take one long to discover that the Liberal mindset is one worthy of scorn, ridicule and contempt, if not simply an ideal who’s only worth is to spur laughter. It’s this mindset that has helped plunge the American economy into a massive recession. Certainly the similar Liberal policies that have plagued Europe for decades is the reason why the economy of Greece collapsed recently, and will likely be the cause of America’s ultimate collapse in the very near future if we can’t wrestle away the control of Congress from those who’s spending-spree attitude is nothing short of evil.
Many of these short video spots — the shortest is a 39-second spot that decries the desire of Liberals to confer US citizenship rights to terrorists captured on the battlefield, rather than dish out the appropriate punishment via our military — call attention to the utter degradation of America under Liberal rule. The site’s owner, Joe Dan Gorman, simply uses the statements of and facts surrounding those Liberal politicians who’s sole purpose is to remake America into their own fiefdom where the controlling authority is not democratic but authoritarian.
Such video messages can be very powerful if done right. Consider the “Daisy Girl” television ad, which ran one time on Sept. 7, 1964 during the NBC Movie. The advertisement was very likely the reason why Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater lost in a 44-state landslide to incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson. It certainly helped cement the Liberal mindset that Goldwater was an extremist who would destroy America, when a careful study of his ideas suggests that had he succeeded, the Vietnam War might not have drug on for another decade like it did.
While it’s easy to agree with television producer and former Nixon campaign consultant Roger Ailes when he said: “Television is no gimmick, and nobody will ever be elected to major office again without presenting themselves well on it,” I find myself somewhat agreeing, if somewhat nostalgically, with Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, who in 1956, said: “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
Nevertheless, mass media being what it is, especially today, means that candidates will continue to be defined by sound bytes and notable video spots, whether on television in the form of slick commercials, or on the Internet via YouTube or some other yet-to-be-invented medium. Personally, I think the Internet is the future of political advertising and marketing.
That’s why I like what I see coming out of the Conservative movement in America, and why I think that these talented media artists need to be supported, financially and otherwise, for their efforts. Folks with a flair for media or the ingenuity to capitalize on social media and other forms of Internet media are taking advantage of the Internet in ways that will forever change the political marketing landscape in America. I just wish I had a great idea for how to create the business model that turns this passion into profit. I’m hopeful that this change will be good as the stranglehold that the mainstream television networks have had on American politics for decades is forever broken, dismantled and defunded.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Charles Finney
"[T]he time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it - and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they [Christians] take [in politics]."
[Charles G. Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1868), Lecture XV, pp. 281-282.]
