Informed Citizen

Breaking News from the WSJ!

2009-07-21T03:53:00.001-07:00

By CONOR DOUGHERTY

Census Bureau data released Monday show the extent to which strong minority-voter turnout in the 2008 election helped President Barack Obama win over swing states and make inroads into Republican strongholds.

Hope, Change and Avoiding Reality

2009-07-21T03:40:00.001-07:00

President Obama on Monday extended by six months a task force charged with determining how terrorism suspects should be interrogated, held in custody or handed over to other countries, putting in jeopardy his promise to close the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January.

The move came on the same day the president pushed back the release of a congressionally mandated report on the nation's economic conditions, and the White House began to extend a self-imposed deadline for overhauling the nation's health care system.

Liberals Hate Reality!

2009-07-20T04:24:00.001-07:00

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.

The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama's budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.

The release of the update - usually scheduled for mid-July - has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.

The administration is pressing for votes before then on its $1 trillion health care initiative, which lawmakers are arguing over how to finance.

Weakness Never Wins

2009-04-14T07:08:00.000-07:00

As the President travels the world, apologizing and groveling, he is showing how weak he is. Get ready for more of this:

N. Korea Says It Will Boycott Nuclear Talks, Restart Weapons Plant
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 14, 2009; 9:56 AM

"We have no choice but to further strengthen our nuclear deterrent to cope with additional military threats by hostile forces," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement released by its state news agency.

Constitution 101

2009-04-14T07:05:00.000-07:00

I love Texas. Now I love Texas even more!

Click to read:

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Jolly Good Old Chap!

2009-03-26T16:23:00.000-07:00

That's What I'm talking about.

President Obama, are you listening.

Ditto to you too!

Recklessness

2009-03-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a great article from the Detroit News. The opening line alone is prize worthy.

"The miraculous marketing machine that carried a junior senator into the White House is now at work trying to convince Americans that writing fat checks from an empty Treasury represents a giant step toward fiscal responsibility."

Rock on Nolan!

From George to George

2009-03-06T07:53:00.000-08:00

When get got the American Idol president, we also got a economic madman who will alter the way this country uses its Federal Government. All it cost you was your income, your children's and grandchilderen's income and your freedom. Good job.

Click below to read some of the insanity in the Obama budget.

Mr. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined.

That is What We have Been Trying to Say!!

2009-03-03T06:54:00.001-08:00

It's funny to me that this is now a story. To me, this should have been self evident from the beginning. Better late than never, I guess. Please read it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies, consumers and communities may grow so addicted to government financial help that cutting them off could trigger another recession soon after the current one ends.

In other new from Reuters: Scientists believe the sun may be hot!!

Budget Day!

2009-02-26T13:50:00.000-08:00

So much news today.

1.75 TRILLION budget deficit! I know that number doesn't make sense in the real world, but trust me, it is absurd. Click here to read about it.

Obama is crazy!!

My head has been spinning since Tuesday night when Obama the Great Laid out his ambitious plans as president.

To summarize: "The Federal Government can and should run pretty much every aspect of your life. The Federal Government should take as much money as they see fit from anyone they want to. Your Independence no longer exists. You are now part of the Great Dependence."

I literally can't even type because I have so many thoughts going one at one time.

This country is going to implode!

Here is a great article about Obama creating world wide panic.

I Still Heart Huckabee!

2009-02-25T20:52:00.000-08:00

The People Rise Up!

2009-02-19T10:26:00.000-08:00

Look out Washington! We are watching and we wont be passive forever!

Great video from the trading floor in Chicago.

"Pork-ulus"

2009-02-13T16:59:00.000-08:00

NO ONE EVEN READ THE BILL THAT THEY VOTED FOR!

Please remember that we get to choose who works in Washington. Shame on the Democrats for injustice that they have served the American people.

I love techology

2009-02-11T18:22:00.001-08:00

We Live in an age where our voice can be heard.

god complex

2009-02-10T12:35:00.000-08:00

They really think they can do whatever they want...

* * * What are they doing with health care?! * * *

2009-02-10T11:11:00.001-08:00

Deep in the stimulus package are new provisions for health care.

From Bloomberg.com

...But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective...

A must read article!

Ask your Dr. before taking...

2009-02-06T21:00:00.000-08:00

From Reason.com

Wasted!

2009-02-06T20:11:00.000-08:00

Hope, change and the largest single spending bill ever.

The Senate looks to spend something in the neighborhood of $800 billion. I hate big numbers because they don't mean much to people. If gave away $1,000,000 every day, it would take almost 2,200 years to spend $800 billion.

The BIGGEST question is: Will this spending help?

President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

What is a Trillion?

2009-02-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

Q: If you were to spend $1,000,000 every day, how many years would it take to spend a trillion dollars?

A: About 2,700 years! One million dollars a day for one million days.

That is what congress wants to spend with one spending package.

Don't you wish you could print your own money too.

Who do you think will have to pay that back?

Here's another way to look at it.

"A million seconds is about 11½ days. A billion seconds is about 32 years, and a trillion seconds is 32,000 years," Paulos said. "People tend to lump them together, perhaps because they rhyme, but if you think of it in terms of a jail sentence, do you want to go to jail for 11½ days or 32 years or maybe 32,000 years? So, they're vastly different, and people generally don't really have a real visceral grasp of the differences among them."

US Population is just over 300 Million

2009-02-04T08:08:00.000-08:00

Nancy says that every month that they don't have their 'stimulus package', 500 million Americans will loose their jobs...try to do the math....I don't think it works...

We Win! ...for now

2009-02-04T07:26:00.000-08:00

The Senate lacks the vote to pass the 'stimulus package.'

The Democrats have now admitted that (surprise!) the 'stimulus package' might have a few items in it that don't directly stimulate the economy.

"Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide an immediate boost to the economy."

TAKE NOTE: The Democrats were trying to use an economic crisis to spend more of YOUR money on their pet projects and special interests.

I don't know about you, but I have my own projects and interests to take care of. Maybe they should let us keep more of our money to spend and stimulate the economy rather than sending it through the Federal bureaucracy.

HR1 - Lies and Waste!

2009-01-30T15:27:00.000-08:00

The 'economic stimulus' plan 0f 2009 passed the house on Wednesday. Here is the link to the final vote on passage.

Note that no Republicans voted for the Federal Government to spend $800,000,000,000 that they don't have.

Note that 11 Democrats agreed with all of the Republicans that Washington doesn't need to waste another $800,000,000,000.

Yeas = no bi-partisan support

Nays = bi-partisan support

Congressman Shuler is a Democrat from North Carolina's 11th district. He says it so well...

"...In my opinion, the legislation before the House today contained too much

additional spending in areas that will not offer immediate economic stimulus. As our

nation faces an historic budget deficit and a national debt approaching $11 trillion, I

cannot in good conscience borrow and spend $825 billion, further burdening future

generations of Americans.”

Thank you Congressman Shuler.

Now it's time to let your Senators know that you would rather have a tax cut rather than the Government waste your money!

Nancy Doesn't Want Babies

2009-01-26T07:34:00.000-08:00

There has been little doubt how the Left in America sees children. Here it is in her own words. The most powerful woman in American politics sees these miricles from God as financial burdens.

Click for story.

The Debate is Not Over.

2009-01-23T06:53:00.000-08:00

A great way to 'win' an argument is to attack your opponent's character and declare that the debate is over for good. Sprinkle in some 'guilt by association' and you can shut down almost anyone.

"What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government." President Barack Obama - Inaugural Address - January 20, 2009

The debate, as to proper roll of the Federal Government in our lives and in our economy, is not over.