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Palin to tea party rally:
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Think! don't birds of a feather flock together, don't they?

'Go for it,' Obama tells GOP on health repeal

President Barack Obama mocked Republicans' campaign to try to repeal his new health care law, saying Thursday they should "Go for it" and see how well they fare with voters.

"Be my guest," Obama said in prepared remarks for the first of many appearances around the country to sell the overhaul to voters before the fall congressional elections. "I welcome that fight. Because I don't believe the American people are going to put the insurance industry back in the driver's seat."

Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let's see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away.

Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar said it would cost the company at least $100 million more in the first year alone. Medical device maker Medtronic warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers. Now Verizon joins the roll of businesses staring at adverse consequences.



 

 HAS THE TIDE FINALLY TURNED AND WILL A
"LONG OVERDUE REVOLUTION FINALLY BEGIN?"

Cigarettes To Be Banned From Postal Shipping

Slapping a "Sin Tax"  $1.00 plus per pack isn't enough now  the states want to single out cigarettes but no other products that operate on interstate shipping rules. 

Their excuse for the bill is that it will stop illegal smuggling by terrorists as a way to fund their operations. What maniacal bushtit is that. 

Dear Black Hawk Customers,

Attn: Black Hawk Call Center,

Email: callcenter@blackhawkcigarettes.com,

 On March 17, 2010, S. 1147, The PACT Act, the bill designed by the Congress to prevent tobacco companies from sending low cost cigarettes through the mail, passed. Now that it has been passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives all the bill needs is a signature by President Obama before it becomes law.

We urge all of our customers to contact President Obama today and ask him to veto the bill. Not only will this bill be an excessive hardship on people with fixed incomes, it will also devaste Native American communities nationwide. Many of these Native American communities are in remote locations. Without the ability to get their products to market via the United States Post Office, they will have no oppurtunity to earn an income. Does the government really want to return to the days of massive Native American poverty?

Please call and write President Obama today. Please forward this email to everyone you know and ask them to call too.

Let the President know that you are against this bill and all other bills that encrouch on the freedom and liberties of Americans.

You can call or write to the President at:

Phone Numbers:

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

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If ever there was a time to revolt ... "It's now."
This government stinks to high heaven.

That's what our founding fathers recommend when all else fails.
We no longer have a government. We now have a mob of
indictable, murderous, career criminals. Can the Tea Party prevail?

Will the assassins be eliminated?

"America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is becoming  improbable -- and perhaps impossible if America continues on her current course. We seem to be on a path to national suicide.

The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to our survival as one nation and nothing sane is being done to address that problem.

 If you look at what our president and Congress continue in 2010, add "national suicide" via apathy as our ultimate destination. Most Americans resemble sheep following the one before them down a chute into the killing zone. Too few takes action or trie to escape until they see the sledge hammer dropping toward their head. By then, it's too late.

There is no forum whatsoever to ask the hard questions, and demand factual truthful answers. In the past, we relied upon the media to ask the hard questions and uncover the coverups. Not any more...it has become  part of the government, and you will never see any such thing again.

Is there a bright spot on the horizon?

Perhaps it wont take too long for the message from Massachusetts to sink in, that voters across the board deem Obama a dud and creature of the Chicago mob mentality.

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The Destruction of America's Founding Ideals

0f the elite of the NWO have accomplished what they have been working on for decades ... destruction of a middle class. It is estimated that by the year 2050 the white population of the USA will become a minority ... ranging below 50% and that will mark the end of a social group that built the country and worked so hard  pursuing the American Dream. Now! before it's too late, there may be enough of us left to understand the severity of what is going on and muster an effort to destroy the enemy that has created this scenario.  To put it bluntly it requires an all out revolution that will eliminate the traitors that had a hand it fostering, knowingly becoming stooges for the controlling elite. Our country was founded by the daring of a group of men  when they effectively told the king of an empire ... "Go To Hell." That time has come again. We must wake Up!!! Time is of the essence. The younger bamboozled need to be educated.

Does He Lie?

By Charles Krauthammer

You lie?

No.

Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge.

Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care -- of Obama's relationship with truth.

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits -- either now or in the future," he solemnly pledged. "I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future. Period."


Wonderful. The president seems serious, veto-ready, determined to hold the line. Until, notes Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, you get to Obama's very next sentence: "And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."

This apparent strengthening of the pledge brilliantly and deceptively undermines it. What Obama suggests is that his plan will require mandatory spending cuts if the current rosy projections prove false. But there's absolutely nothing automatic about such cuts. Every Congress is sovereign. Nothing enacted today will force a future Congress or a future president to make any cuts in any spending, mandatory or not.



Just look at the supposedly automatic Medicare cuts contained in the Sustainable Growth Rate formula enacted to constrain out-of-control Medicare spending. Every year since 2003, Congress has waived the cuts.

Mankiw puts the Obama bait-and-switch in plain language. "Translation: I promise to fix the problem. And if I do not fix the problem now, I will fix it later, or some future president will, after I am long gone. I promise he will. Absolutely, positively, I am committed to that future president fixing the problem. You can count on it. Would I lie to you?"


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And then there's the famous contretemps about health insurance for illegal immigrants. Obama said they would not be insured. Well, all four committee-passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrants to take part in the proposed Health Insurance Exchange.

But more important, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing. If they were, we'd have no illegal immigrants because, as I understand it, it's illegal to enter the United States illegally. We have laws against burglary, too. But we also provide for cops and jails on the assumption that most burglars don't voluntarily turn themselves in.

When Republicans proposed requiring proof of citizenship, the Democrats twice voted that down in committee. Indeed, after Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" shout-out, the Senate Finance Committee revisited the language of its bill to prevent illegal immigrants from getting any federal benefits. Why would the Finance Committee fix a nonexistent problem?


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Obama said he would largely solve the insoluble cost problem of Obamacare by eliminating "hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud" from Medicare.

That's not a lie. That's not even deception. That's just an insult to our intelligence. Waste, fraud and abuse -- Meg Greenfield once called this phrase "the dread big three" -- as the all-purpose piggy bank for budget savings has been a joke since Jimmy Carter first used it in 1977.

Moreover, if half a trillion is waiting to be squeezed painlessly out of Medicare, why wait for health-care reform? If, as Obama repeatedly insists, Medicare overspending is breaking the budget, why hasn't he gotten started on the painless billions in "waste and fraud" savings?

Obama doesn't lie. He merely elides, gliding from one dubious assertion to another. This has been the story throughout his whole health-care crusade. Its original premise was that our current financial crisis was rooted in neglect of three things -- energy, education and health care. That transparent attempt to exploit Emanuel's Law -- a crisis is a terrible thing to waste -- failed for health care because no one is stupid enough to believe that the 2008 financial collapse was caused by a lack of universal health care.

So on to the next gambit: selling health-care reform as a cure for the deficit. When that was exploded by the Congressional Budget Office's demonstration of staggering Obamacare deficits, Obama tried a new tack: selling his plan as revenue-neutral insurance reform -- until the revenue neutrality is exposed as phony future cuts and chimerical waste and fraud.

Obama doesn't lie. He implies, he misdirects, he misleads -- so fluidly and incessantly that he risks transmuting eloquence into mere slickness.

Slickness wasn't fatal to "Slick Willie" Clinton because he possessed a winning, nearly irresistible charm. Obama's persona is more cool, distant, imperial. The charming scoundrel can get away with endless deception; the righteous redeemer cannot.

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of
Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies

The era of hope and change is dead... and it only took The Obama team six months in office to kill it.

Never has an administration taken office with more inflated expectations of turning Washington around. Never have a media-anointed American Idol and his entourage disintegrate so fast, so hard, so disgracefully.

The American people are now faced with the awesome, monumental task of picking up the pieces and reconstructing the damage done to our constitutional society. A society that had a future they believed in and were working hard to promote it.

 The Bamboozled Generation

Are you being stimulated into poverty?

Today's generation has been so well inundated with lies from an out of control government that they can no longer tell which is up or which is down.

They no longer have the slightest idea of what it was to be a middle class family. They are far removed from the truth that not too long ago their parents lived in a more gentile time, a time when dad worked, mom took care of the home and children, there was job security, some money in the bank and the future for their children was to live in a world that was even better than theirs.

Well, such aspirations just never materialized.

Helplessly and more to the point hopelessly that generation that lived in the golden age of America are morning the morass their children have been forced into.

The family of the past has become a fairy tale and treated just that way.

A couple today that insists on calling themselves middle class because they too have a house, two cars and children on there way to college have been led to believe they are doing just fine.

What that couple has been bamboozled into accepting is that both husband and wife must work to support what they claim is a middle class status.

They have been bamboozled into accepting that it's OK for their children to grow up without the proper supervision of either parent, its OK to be hopelessly ensnarled in credit card debt, it's OK to live from paycheck to paycheck, it's OK to live under the constant job insecurity, it's OK etc. etc.

Here is a perfect example of what a secure job and the money earned was like in your parents time.

A middle class single earner family with an income of $150.00 a week lived in a fair sized home ( over 2,000 sq. feet ) That cost under $10,000 with a mortgage of $90.00 or less. That included interest, amortization, taxes and insurance. Percentage wise ( the proper way to evaluate then and today ) that consumed approximately 15% of income.

Today the average couple is struggling with mortgages that are consuming 50% or more of their income.

The above example can be extended to the cost of feeding a family, medical expenses, transportation, college costs, taxes and every other aspect of family life.

So why hasn't this bamboozled generation fought back and taken this entrapment seriously?

It's the fairy tale syndrome. They just can't comprehend what was and what has been denied to them.

They have been brainwashed so thoroughly that it may bee too late for them to think on their own and wake up from the snake pit they have been programmed into.

Job opportunities have diminished because corporate has been helped by government to move factories overseas, corporate has been helped by government to outsource every conceivable job overseas, government has turned a blind eye to the huge growing illegal population that has depressed the hourly wage and opportunity of even the minimum wage market.

This socioeconomic redevelopment of Americas workforce has for all practicable circumstances eliminated the truly middle class and taken away the ladder for upward development of the lower class.

I urge this generation to wake up and smell the "bullshit" join together and overthrow the mob in Washington that has taken the dreams of your parents the dreams they had for your future and relegated them to the trash can.

A revolution is not only needed but it is your duty.

God bless America and may it return to what the founding fathers meant it to be, limited government and certainly limited corporate power.

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They are not acknowledging the negative impact illegal aliens  have on the economy.

They are not truthful about the devastation occurring to the middle class.

They are porously creating a two tier environment, the haves and have not.

The boarders are wide open and will remain that way, it suits their purpose.

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"Barry had three novels and one book of short stories published in Canada from 1971-75. He moved to Israel, got an MA at Hebrew University and started army service. In 1982 he fought in the Lebanon War. After that Barry pursued a writing career with vigor and published pieces in well over 500 publications, including The Atlantic, National Review, Hollywood Reporter, New York Newsday, etc. In 1992, his career took a sharp unexpected turn. Barry's book, The Fall of Israel, was published in Britain by Canongate Publishers. It was a stinging expose of Israeli political corruption.

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Once There Was A Middle Class
"It Has Been Destroyed"

 The 1960s were the decade in which my parents grew up. Their parents were the so-called Greatest Generation and I, for one, actually think that moniker is appropriate, considering that their childhood was the Great Depression and their early adulthood was fighting World War II, a set of experiences almost beyond my grasp. My parents (and with some good probability, yours) grew up in the era of the rise of the military-industrial complex, in which people could reasonably expect to get a solid paying job and stay there throughout their lives.
This meant several things:

One, American education was the envy of the world. You simply couldn’t get a better education than the one provided by an American institution. Colleges were yet to be overcrowded as even then only a small minority went to college, so if you were to get post-secondary education in the United States, you were set.

Two, real worker compensation was never higher. In terms of the actual value of a dollar at the time, the average American worker had it made in the 1960s and 1970s. No matter what you did in life, you could fall back on a factory job that would pay you a strong enough wage that you could make it, no matter what.

Three, although the Soviet menace was real, it was distant. Although the Cold War was terrifying in its own way, it never ascended into a fighting war and there was never any sort of direct attack on American soil. The Vietnam War was ongoing, but it was literally on the other side of the globe, abstracting in a way the bitter horrors of war and death.

Four, the art of marketing and consumerism was in a nascent stage. Look at the sophistication of advertising in the 1960s and compare it to now. There were some baby steps, clearly, but the psychological edge of today’s marketing utterly blows away what you would find in those days.

Five, the price of homes in real dollars was extremely low compared to today. The price of a home since 1960 has gone up at a rate much faster than inflation, a bull run that is perhaps finally being slowed or reversed after many years of incredible growth. Thus, someone who bought a home in 1960 stumbled into a killer investment.

Six, employers took long-term care of their employees. If a person worked in a factory for thirty years, the company would guarantee them a pension that would safely enable them to live out the end of their days in a comfortable fashion. If you took care of the company, it took care of you.

Under these assumptions, my parents could buy a home (rather cheap) when they were younger than I am right now merely on the wages earned with just one of them working a seasonal factory job (which paid quite well). Because of this factory job, they now receive a very nice pension after having never put anything into their own retirement plan.

Does this sound like your economic reality? It certainly sounds nothing like mine. My reality is more like this:

It involves employment that treats me more as an independent contractor instead of a real team member, which means I have to save for my own retirement rather than plan on a pension.

It involves homes that are amazingly expensive, even in the relatively cheap area where I live.

It involves no “fall back” plan in the form of abundant factory work that anyone can do. The fall-back jobs that I know of make minimum wage, which is far less than a true living wage in the United States.

My parents regularly offer “advice” on how I should manage my finances based on these assumptions that their childhoods and early adult lives showed them, pointers such as you should buy a house as soon as you’re married and you’re young - you should be buying fun stuff - go ahead and get that monster plasma television. Their hearts are undoubtedly in the right place, and they are speaking things they believe to be true, but they aren’t true for me - if I took their advice, I would be in the poor house.

So what’s my solution? If you are given advice by your parents - or by anyone at all (including me) - consider the assumptions they’re coming from. Are they valid for you? Even if they are, ask yourself does this advice really make sense for me? Don’t just blindly follow any advice.

 Oh for the good old days!!!

The following were some comments made in the year 1957

(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a
dime just to mail a letter?"

(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"

(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"

(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone With The Wind", it seems every new movie has either hell or damn in it."

(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President."


(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work just to make ends meet."

(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

(14) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

(15) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."

(16) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

(17) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

(18) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

(19) "And now the interruption of the good part, whatever the movies, as the lights go on, and everybody (including little kids) are going and coming from the refreshment stand and the restrooms!"

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