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Breakfast Keynote: Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
Strategy Session 1: Reaching More Students with Vouchers and Tax-credit Scholarships
Whether you are an advocate of education vouchers for all or believe special scholarships should be reserved for students in failing schools, the debate on school choice is one that matters. States across the country are enacting new reforms and expanding those that already exist to ensure vouchers and tax-credit scholarships reach the kids who need them the most. Join these state lawmakers as they discuss strategies to keep up with the growing demand from families for quality school choice options.
Moderator: John Kirtley, Chairman of Step Up for Students and vice chairman of the Alliance for School Choice and the American Federation for Children
Panelists: Conrad Appel, Louisiana State Senator Algie Howell, Virginia State Delegate Jason Nelson, Oklahoma State Representative Bill O’Brien, New Hampshire State Representative
Strategy Session 2: Implementing Bold Teacher-Effectiveness Reform
Over the past few years, states across the country have passed reforms linking student-learning data to teacher evaluations. Now, leaders have entered the critical phase of putting the reforms into practice at the local level. Learn how these education chiefs are developing assessments and evaluation systems in their respective states to measure hard-to-test areas and elevate educators’ professional development.
Moderator: Hanna Skandera, New Mexico Secretary-Designate of Public Education and Vice-Chair of Chiefs for Change
Panelists: Kevin Huffman, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Jill Hawley, Colorado Associate Commissioner for Achievement and Strategy Dr. Diane Ullman, Chief Talent Officer for the Connecticut State Department of Education
Strategy Session 3: Accountability-Based Flexibility for School Districts
Across the nation, crisis situations are giving birth to new, student-centered learning models. In the midst of challenging economic times and a national focus on improving the quality of education, a new kind of school district is emerging — one with both autonomy and performance-based accountability. Learn how some of our nation’s most troubled school districts are challenging a conventional structure to change the futures of their students, schools and cities.
Moderator: Dr. Paul Hill, Founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education
Panelists: David Harris, Founder and CEO of The Mind Trust John White, Louisiana Superintendent of Education Tyrone Winfrey, Chief of Staff of the Michigan Education Achievement Authority
Strategy Session 4: How to Prepare for Common Core Assessments
The state-led transition to Common Core State Standards will change the expectation of what students need to be learning and is aligned with what they’ll need for success after high school in our changing world. The pressure is on for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to deliver new online assessments and for schools to build the technology infrastructure they’ll need to use those assessments. The Common Core transition brings individual opportunities for states but also challenges. Meanwhile, many state leaders are preparing parents, teachers and communities for the initial results which will likely follow new standards and assessments. Join this panel to discuss specific strategies states and districts can take to ensure everyone and everything is prepared to transition to these new assessments.
Moderator: Governor Bob Wise, President of Alliance for Excellent Education
Panelists: Dr. Tony Bennett, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction and Chairman of Chiefs for Change Steve Bowen, Maine Commissioner of Education Laura McGiffert Slover, Senior Vice President of Achieve Dr. Joe Willhoft, Executive Director of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
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Strategy Session 5: Transforming Colleges of Education
Nine out of every ten teachers graduate from traditional teacher prep programs at colleges of education. Should these colleges be held accountable for the caliber of students they admit into their programs and the teachers they send into the classroom? Don’t miss this discussion on what can be done to ensure new teachers entering the profession are fully equipped to help each of their students succeed.
Moderator: Kate Walsh, President of the National Council on Teacher Quality
Panelists: Dr. John Chubb, CEO of Education Sector and member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education Paul Pastorek, former Louisiana Superintendent of Education
Strategy Session 6: Charter Schools: Accountability and Funding
With over 40 states now authorizing charter schools, the potential for innovation continues to grow. Each state serves as a testing site for diverse approaches to approving, funding and maintaining the accountability of these unique public schools. Learn the best policies states are using to shape high-quality charter schools across the nation.
Moderator: Jeanne Allen, President of the Center for Education Reform
Panelists: Todd Huston, Indiana State Representative Peggy Lehner, Ohio State Senator Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools James H. Shelton III, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education
Strategy Session 7: Thinking Outside the School-Zone Box
From coast to coast, states are proving there is more than one way to provide families with school choice options. Many are developing new strategies to empower parents with the ability to choose the public school that is best for their child. Listen to these battle-proven leaders share lessons learned and strategies to expand public school choice programs and remove barriers limiting students’ education options.
Moderator: Mike Petrilli, Executive Vice President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Panelists: Matthew Barnes, Executive Director of Families Empowered John Huppenthal, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Luther Olsen, Wisconsin State Senator
Strategy Session 8: College & Career Readiness
State leaders are facing a desperate call to action: just one-third of America’s high school students graduate with the knowledge and skills they’ll need to succeed in college. This tragic reality calls for rigorous standards and innovative policies, ones that incentivize acceleration and launch students into college or gainful employment. It’s time to give students the opportunity to advance to college or careers as soon as they are ready, even if that’s earlier that the traditional K-12 calendar allows. Get the details on what methods states are using to prepare our youngest generation to thrive in today’s competitive global economy.
Moderator: Laysha Ward, President of Community Relations and the Target Foundation
Panelists: David Abbott, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel at the Rhode Island Department of Education Russell Armstrong, Education and Workforce Policy Advisor to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Joe Pickens, President of St. Johns River State College Kelli Stargel, Florida State Senator
Strategy Session 9: Developing and Retaining Teachers We Can’t Afford to Lose
A teacher’s influence — good or bad — can have life-long effects on the students in his or her classroom. Hear new research on the teacher-retention crisis, and join the ensuing discussion on what can be done to develop and retain the high-quality educators our states need to reverse student decline and elevate the status of the teaching profession.
Moderator: Dr. Stefanie Sanford, Director of Policy & Advocacy, United States Program, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Panelists: Tim Daly, President of the New Teacher Project Christopher Cerf, New Jersey Commissioner of Education Gary Holder-Winfield, Connecticut State Representative
Strategy Session 10: The Florida Formula for Student Achievement
More than a dozen years ago, Florida embarked on a path to reverse a generation of decline in its public schools by forcing the system to focus on the student instead of the adult. Since then, Florida’s formula of high expectations for students, accountability for schools, choices for families and rewards for progress has yielded incredible gains in student learning. In the eight-year period prior to the reforms, graduation rates had declined by nearly seven percent, but since the reforms were put in place, graduation rates have increased by 20 percent. Education in the Sunshine State is now a model for the nation, inspiring leaders to strategically and boldly transform public education. Learn how Florida’s formula can transform student achievement for any state.
Moderator: Julia Johnson, President of Net Communications and former member of Florida’s Board of Education
Panelists: Dr. Christy Hovanetz, Senior Policy Fellow at the Foundation for Excellence in Education Dr. Matthew Ladner, Senior Advisor on Policy and Research to the Foundation for Excellence in Education
Strategy Session 11: Transforming Education for the Digital Age
Last year, Digital Learning Now! released “The Roadmap for Reform: Digital Learning,” a guide providing governors, lawmakers and policymakers with the nuts-and-bolts policies to transition to student-centered education. Now, states are changing the face of education by introducing blended learning models that combine the best of face-to-face instruction with the best of online learning. Hear state and school leaders share what they are doing — and what is yet to be done — to harness the power of technology and provide students with rigorous, high-quality, customized education.
Moderator: John Bailey, Executive Director of Digital Learning Now!
Panelists: Dr. Janet Barresi, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Mark Edwards, Superintendent of Mooresville Graded School District Pam Myhra, Minnesota State Representative Governor Bev Perdue, North Carolina Chip Rogers, Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate
General Session: Common Core State Standards
Moderator: Governor Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida from 1999-2007 and Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education
Panelists: David Coleman, President and CEO of the College Board Bob Corcoran, President and Chairman of the GE Foundation Dr. William Schmidt, University Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, Minnesota State Representative
Lunch Keynote: Mitch Daniels, Indiana Governor
Saving The American Dream — Heritage Foundation — Videos
How to Simplify Taxes and Grow our Economy — Saving the American Dream
Further Reforms to Modernize Social Security — Saving the American Dream
Real Insurance: Security When You Most Need It — Saving the American Dream
Opening up Health Care Options for All Americans — Saving the American Dream
Limiting Government …and Cutting What It Can’t Do Well — Saving the American Dream
Saving the American Dream: The Fiscal Cliff and Beyond
By Alison Acosta Fraser, William W. Beach and Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D. December 11, 2012
Abstract: Unless Congress and the President act promptly and wisely, sequestration under the Budget Control Act (BCA) will undermine military readiness, and the nearly $500 billion tax increase starting on January 1, 2013, will greatly harm an already weak economy. However, this fiscal cliff can be avoided. The key to avoiding this and future fiscal calamities is reform of the mandatory spending programs, from welfare to Social Security, that currently drive federal deficits. The Heritage Foundation’s Saving the American Dream plan would rein in spending immediately, restructure the major entitlement programs to bring entitlement spending under control over the long term, and strengthen the core foundations of these programs.
Since the Heritage Foundation’s Saving the American Dream plan[1] was first published in April 2011, there has been almost no substantive progress on spending control. The only plausible exception was the flawed Budget Control Act (BCA), a product of a contentious debt limit debate. The complete failure of the resultant bipartisan “supercommittee” to reach agreement was a sad reflection on a Congress that is divided and unwilling to pass the legislation necessary to rein in spending.
As a result, the nation is facing the looming sequester, which will further undermine the defense budget, jeopardizing one of the federal government’s core constitutional responsibilities. Yet it would leave entitlement programs virtually untouched, even though they are the largest driver of spending today and in the future. Meanwhile, the prospect of a huge tax increase in January has had a deleterious effect on the economy for many months, although the effect is only a small portion of the harm the economy will incur if the tax increase ultimately takes effect. America seriously needs a true way forward.
The Heritage plan reflects the need to rein in spending immediately and to rethink major programs. Spending on the open-ended Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid entitlements must be brought under control, and the core foundations of these programs should be strengthened.
The following principles guide the policy solutions in Saving the American Dream:
- Total spending must be brought under control to balance the budget without raising taxes, ultimately holding revenues at their historical share of gross domestic product (GDP).
- Entitlement programs should, unlike today, actually guarantee seniors economic security in retirement and be recast as real and sustainable insurance programs focused on those who truly need them.
- Other spending must be curbed, and the federal government must be restricted to its proper functions.
- Defense, as a core constitutional function of the federal government, should be fully funded and efficiently delivered.
- The tax system should be structurally reformed to foster growth by eliminating tax distortions of private economic decisions, especially decisions on savings and investment, and to make the system simpler and more transparent.
Priorities for Congress and the President
Fiscal year (FY) 2012 closed on September 30 with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating spending of $3.5 trillion and a deficit of $1.1 trillion.[2] Debt held by the public was $11.3 trillion (73 percent of GDP). According to the CBO, debt will explode to 199 percent of GDP by 2037, driven by growth in spending that will reach 36 percent of GDP.[3]
The main drivers of spending and debt increases are incontrovertibly the major entitlement programs: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. However, the slow economy with its high unemployment rate, which remains stuck at around 8 percent, also adds to deficits and debt through two channels: mandatory spending for those workers who are most affected by the slow economy (e.g., unemployment compensation) and below-average tax revenues.
It is clear that the top priorities for Congress and the President should be controlling spending, especially entitlement reform, and setting an economic growth agenda through tax reform. After averting the fiscal cliff, Congress and the President should immediately turn their attention to these pressing issues.
As noted, entitlements are the fastest-growing programs. Even if all other spending was eliminated, these programs would still cause large and unsustainable deficits in the future. Their growth is automatic, with autopilot spending increases built in and no serious budgetary constraints. The top priority must be to restructure entitlements and put a brake on their spending levels while strengthening and preserving them for future generations.
A number of robust proposals for health care reforms already exist, both in Congress and in the policy community.[4] Congress and the President should take advantage of this policy momentum and focus on reforming Medicaid and especially Medicare. However, changes in Social Security should follow quickly, and the rules that govern these programs in general should be more consistent. For example, increases in the normal eligibility age should proceed simultaneously for both Social Security and Medicare.
Specific steps for Congress and the President include the following:
- The President should submit a budget by the 2013 tax deadline deadline that outlines strong, sweeping changes in entitlement programs that will reduce spending over the 10-year budget window and significantly improve the long-term trajectory of these programs.
- The President’s budget should lay out specific goals for a pro-growth, revenue-neutral tax reform plan.
- Congress and the President should include reforms in entitlement programs and further reductions in other spending areas, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), in exchange for any increases in the debt limit. These should reflect lessons learned from the 2011 Budget Control Act, such as avoiding high-stakes mechanisms like sequestration that are designed to fail.
- Congress should pass a joint budget resolution by the April 15, 2013, deadline that includes reconciliation instructions for entitlement and tax reform.
- The budget resolution should also require reforms of other spending programs to bring spending below the BCA levels for 2014 and beyond.
Health Care
If only one issue is thoroughly addressed in 2013, it should be the federal role in health care, the biggest driver of spending. The flawed Obamacare law only adds to the problem. Instead of expanding the government’s role, health care should follow a true patient-centered, market-based model, including reforms in Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax treatment of health insurance.
Medicare. Medicare’s finances must be brought under control. As a first step, the age of eligibility should be raised gradually from 65 to 68 and then indexed to life expectancy. Premiums for Parts B and D should also gradually increase, thus expanding the current policy for Medicare of adjusting the level of taxpayer subsidies to income, with the most affluent seniors receiving much smaller (or in some cases no) taxpayer subsidies for their health coverage. These steps, among others,[5] should occur immediately because they are easily achieved and less controversial and should be part of new debt-limit legislation.
Within five years of these initial changes, patients should also be transitioned to a defined-contribution or premium-support model that would be adjusted for income. Expanding competition in Medicare would restrain federal spending, slow health care costs, and promote greater innovation in the delivery of care.[6]
Medicaid. Federal spending on Medicaid should be put on a budget subject to regular congressional review to bring greater fiscal certainty and stability to the process. Federal Medicaid spending would follow antipoverty spending caps by reverting to the 2007 spending levels when the economy approaches full employment (e.g., the unemployment rate dips below 6 percent) and be adjusted for medical inflation thereafter.
In lieu of traditional Medicaid, able-bodied individuals and families should receive direct federal assistance in the form of tax credits or direct assistance to enable them to buy private insurance coverage of their choice. For the disabled and frail elderly, Medicaid would remain a joint federal–state safety net program, but states would have additional flexibility to adopt more patient-centered models.
Reform of the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance. As a part of tax reform (see below), the employee tax break for employer-sponsored coverage would be converted to a non-refundable tax credit that individuals and families could use to purchase the health plan of their choice.
These larger reforms are best achieved through normal legislative order. This could include the legitimate use of reconciliation as part of a comprehensive budget plan. In any case, Congress should pass a concurrent budget resolution for FY 2014.
Social Security
Social Security needs to be reformed. It is running permanent cash-flow deficits and has severe programmatic flaws.[7]
First, Social Security’s eligibility age should gradually be increased in tandem with Medicare’s eligibility age. For both, this change is straightforward and could be included in an initial, small reform package. Next, Social Security should return to its original purpose of guaranteeing that all Americans are protected from poverty in retirement. As part of this insurance protection, benefits would evolve to an understandable, predictable flat benefit that is well above the poverty level. With Social Security functioning as an insurance program, moderate-income retirees would receive a smaller check, while affluent seniors would receive no check unless their financial circumstances change.
To encourage people to stay in the workforce longer, those who work beyond full retirement age would receive a higher level of after-tax income until they do retire.
Tax reform would support Social Security reforms by significantly increasing personal savings that seniors can take into retirement, and there would be no limit on the amount of these tax-deferred savings. Thus, more retirement income would be possible than under the current system. Social Security would become a safety valve against economic reversals and a floor for income after the statutory retirement age.
Other Spending
Defense cuts are already reducing military readiness, thus endangering the security of the United States. The defense portion of the BCA cuts is dangerously flawed and must be reversed. In Saving the American Dream, the sequester for defense spending (including the 2013 cuts) is eliminated, and the higher spending is more than offset with reforms in other spending and entitlements. Defense spending is brought slowly up to and held at 4 percent of GDP. Non-defense discretionary spending is set for 2013 at the BCA sequester level and then reduced to 2 percent of GDP, after which it is indexed to inflation.
Spending in 2014 and beyond should include reforms in long-standing but growing and expensive programs such as farm subsidies and transportation. A program of privatization, including federal asset sales, could begin as early as 2015. Anti-poverty spending should be rolled back and capped when the economy approaches full employment and then consolidated into fewer programs that reflect strong incentives for work and marriage.
Revenue
Tax Reform. The economy remains plagued by the uncertainty of expiring tax policy and an unwieldy and inefficient tax code. Beyond preventing Taxmageddon by extending all current tax policy and delaying the Obamacare tax increases before January 1, 2013, Congress should pass broad substantive tax reform consistent with the New Flat Tax in Saving the American Dream. Tax reform should focus on promoting economic growth by reducing both tax rates and tax distortions while maintaining revenue and distributional neutrality. It should also simplify the tax system and improve its transparency so that taxpayers can better understand the influence of tax policy as well as the true cost of government.[8]
The broad direction for tax reform already in play, especially the bipartisan push for lower corporate income tax rates, is fully consistent with the New Flat Tax. Congress will likely find the goal of lower corporate tax rates quickly running up against the consequent need to lower tax rates for non-corporate businesses. This occurs naturally under the New Flat Tax, which taxes all businesses at a single rate on their domestic net cash flow at the entity level. Likewise, the growing support for a territorial tax system—under which U.S. businesses are taxed solely on their domestic income—is also fully consistent with the New Flat Tax, which levies tax solely on domestic income.
Under the New Flat Tax, the individual income tax and the payroll tax are rolled into one system with the same tax rate that is imposed on business income. Nearly all other federal levies are repealed, leaving a simple system for both individuals and businesses. Under the New Flat Tax as it applies to individuals, only income used for consumption is taxed, thus eliminating the existing tax bias against saving. In addition, all distorting credits, exemptions, and deductions are eliminated, leaving only two credits and three deductions.
The first credit is the above-mentioned tax credit for health insurance. This tax credit is less distortive of economic decisions than current law is, but it remains a clear subsidy for the purchase of health insurance. It is necessary because the current-law tax bias favoring health insurance is so powerful and so entrenched that simply eliminating the tax advantage is impracticable.
The second credit carried over from current law is the earned income credit (EIC). The EIC needs reform in its own right, but it is also the largest income-support component of the overall federal anti-poverty program and one of its most effective elements. Changes in the EIC should then be considered part of the proposed budget for anti-poverty programs.
The three deductions are as follows:
- The deduction for charitable expense, which is retained because this tax system taxes the individual on what he or she spends. Charitable contributions benefit the receiving organization and thus should be deductible for the recipient.
- A deduction for higher education, which recognizes that education expenses are a form of saving and investing simultaneously, which in every other instance is excluded from tax under the New Flat Tax.
- An optional home mortgage deduction with the proviso that if the homeowner chooses a mortgage with deductible interest, then the lender must, as under current law, continue to pay tax on interest income earned. Alternatively, the home owner may choose to forgo the deduction, in which case the lender earns tax-free interest income and can thus charge a lower mortgage interest rate.
The New Flat Tax, the tax reform plan, is implemented effective January 1, 2014.
Addressing the Fiscal Cliff
Table 1 addresses each element of the fiscal cliff and the proposed steps that Congress should take on each of them.
—Alison Acosta Fraser is Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, William W. Beach is Director of the Center for Data Analysis and Lazof Family Fellow in Economics, and Stuart M. Butler, PhD, is Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation.
The editors are grateful to the team leaders who worked with policy experts throughout The Heritage Foundation to develop this report: J. D. Foster, Ph.D., Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy; Rea S. Hederman, Jr., Assistant Director and Research Fellow in the Center for Data Analysis; David C. John, Senior Research Fellow in Retirement Security and Financial Institutions; Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in the Center for Policy Innovation; Nina Owcharenko, Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies; and Drew Gonshorowski, Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis.
This plan was developed as part of the Solutions Initiative and funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. The Peterson Foundation convened organizations with a variety of perspectives to develop plans addressing our nation’s fiscal challenges. The American Action Forum, Bipartisan Policy Center, Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Institute, and The Heritage Foundation, each received grants. All organizations had discretion and independence to develop their own goals and propose comprehensive solutions. The Peterson Foundation’s involvement with this project does not represent endorsement of any plan.
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DemocracyNow.org – Former House majority leader Dick Armey attempted a coup within his own Tea Party-linked nonprofit FreedomWorks earlier this year. When that failed, he took an $8 million payout from a millionaire Republican donor to leave. The incident highlighted what is believed to be growing turmoil inside the Tea Party movement after it rose to prominence ahead of the 2010 election. We’re joined by Politico reporter Ken Vogel. “[Armey] did in fact take a hit when he decided to go all in with FreedomWorks and refashion himself as the Tea Party leader,” Vogel says. “There has always been this tug of war in the Tea Party between national groups that have deep-pocketed contributors and benefactors and the actual grassroots.”
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“…Dick Armey left the deep-pocketed tea party group he helped build over a clash with a top lieutenant who Armey and others in the organization believed was using the group’s resources to pad his pockets, POLITICO has learned.
Armey received an $8 million buyout to step down as chairman of FreedomWorks at the end of last month, but the dispute between him and the group’s president, Matt Kibbe, is still straining the organization.
And the turmoil could have far-reaching implications, since FreedomWorks has been among the leading Washington, D.C., groups pressuring Republicans to take a more conservative tact on the fiscal cliff negotiations and other fiscal matters.
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The tensions at FreedomWorks, brewing for months, boiled over this summer when Armey balked at a deal that Kibbe struck with HarperCollins to write a book called “Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America,” which was released in June.
Armey was concerned that Kibbe structured the deal to personally profit from the book despite relying on FreedomWorks staff and resources to research, help write and promote it — an arrangement he and others at the group believed could jeopardize its tax-exempt status. (In 2010, Kibbe and Armey co-authored a book through HarperCollins, “Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto,” that was written with significant help from FreedomWorks staff and all proceeds had gone to the organization.)
So Armey declined to sign a memorandum presented to him in his capacity as a member of the board of trustees stating that the book was written without significant FreedomWorks resources and clearing the way for Kibbe to personally own the rights to the book and any royalties from it, multiple sources familiar with the arrangement told POLITICO.
Asked about his refusal to sign the memorandum, Armey, a former House Republican leader, said, “What bothered me most about that was that he was asking me to lie, and it was a lie that I thought brought the organization in harm’s way.”
After Armey’s concerns came to the attention of the organization’s board at a late August meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Kibbe and the group’s executive vice president, Adam Brandon, were placed on administrative leave in early September and had their cell phones taken away.
Brandon said the board was made aware of the book project months earlier, and Kibbe maintains that the leave didn’t stem from questions about the book deal.
Rather, he said “there was a dispute” with Armey over “competing visions for what FreedomWorks should become and ultimately, the board decided that we fit the vision of the organization.” …”
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“…On Oct 11, 2012 Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (WI) will meet in a debate that will seek to either re-ignite support for the re-election of President Obama, or solidify the lead and likelihood of a win by Mitt Romney. That’s what both political parties are stating about their respective candidates, but a far more realistic view is that while it may be quite entertaining and informative, it has little direct impact on the election if history holds true.
Presidential elections are won and lost by the head of the ticket in most cases. The average American can’t remember what VP Al Gore or Dick Cheney said in a debate, or if President Ford had a Vice President at all (a bit of a trick question there). While the results of Biden vs. Ryan may blip the election polls, that will be eclipsed by any result from the 2nd Presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. …”
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“I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic baby boomer. It was a time when Americans were returning from war and eager to work. To be an American was to assume that all things were possible. When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn’t whether we’d get there, it was only when we’d get there.
The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on OUR souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.
God bless Neil Armstrong.
Tonight that American flag is still there on the moon. And I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.”
“It’s the genius of the American free enterprise system – to harness the extraordinary creativity and talent and industry of the American people with a system that is dedicated to creating tomorrow’s prosperity rather than trying to redistribute today’s.
That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last four years and say with satisfaction: “you are better off today than you were four years ago.”
Except Jimmy Carter. And except this president.”
“Now is the time to restore the Promise of America. Many Americans have given up on this president but they haven’t ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves. Not on each other. And not on America.
What is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. It doesn’t take a special government commission to tell us what America needs.
What America needs is jobs.
Lots of jobs.”
“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
And unlike the President, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. It has 5 steps.
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
And fifth, we will champion SMALL businesses, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Today, women are more likely than men to start a business. They need a president who respects and understands what they do.
And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.
As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion.”
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise…is to help you and your family.”
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Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s Vice President candidate, attacked President Barack Obama’s record of 43 months of unemployment rates exceeding 8 percent with over 23 million Americans seeking a full-time job, Obamacare and adding over $5 trillion to the national debt, in his acceptance speech before the GOP National Convention in Tampa, Florida, late Wednesday evening, Aug. 29.
Ryan broadened and pressed his attack on the Obama record on job creation and Obamacare. Ryan said, “Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care. Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.”
Ryan body slammed Obama for raiding Medicare funding to pay for Obamacare.
Ryan said, “And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn’t have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billion more. So, they just took it all from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama.”
Ryan nailed Obama by pointing out that “back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt “unpatriotic”.” Ryan said, “Yet by his own decisions, President Obama had added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments in Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.”
Ryan finished off Obama’s debt record with these words:
Ryan nailed Obama’s record. On election day in November, the American people will answer both Ryan’s and Reagan’s question.
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Why does Paul Ryan scare the president so much? Because Obama has broken his promises, and it’s clear that the GOP ticket’s path to prosperity is our only hope.
I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the apotheosis of Barack Obama. You would not be human if you failed to acknowledge this as a cause for great rejoicing.”
Despite having been—full disclosure—an adviser to John McCain, I acknowledged his opponent’s remarkable qualities: his soaring oratory, his cool, hard-to-ruffle temperament, and his near faultless campaign organization.
Yet the question confronting the country nearly four years later is not who was the better candidate four years ago. It is whether the winner has delivered on his promises. And the sad truth is that he has not.
In his inaugural address, Obama promised “not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.” He promised to “build the roads and bridges, the electric grids, and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.” He promised to “restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” And he promised to “transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.” Unfortunately the president’s scorecard on every single one of those bold pledges is pitiful.
In an unguarded moment earlier this year, the president commented that the private sector of the economy was “doing fine.” Certainly, the stock market is well up (by 74 percent) relative to the close on Inauguration Day 2009. But the total number of private-sector jobs is still 4.3 million below the January 2008 peak. Meanwhile, since 2008, a staggering 3.6 million Americans have been added to Social Security’s disability insurance program. This is one of many ways unemployment is being concealed.
In his fiscal year 2010 budget—the first he presented—the president envisaged growth of 3.2 percent in 2010, 4.0 percent in 2011, 4.6 percent in 2012. The actual numbers were 2.4 percent in 2010 and 1.8 percent in 2011; few forecasters now expect it to be much above 2.3 percent this year.
Unemployment was supposed to be 6 percent by now. It has averaged 8.2 percent this year so far. Meanwhile real median annual household income has dropped more than 5 percent since June 2009. Nearly 110 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011, mostly Medicaid or food stamps.
Welcome to Obama’s America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return—almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit. We are becoming the 50–50 nation—half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits.
And all this despite a far bigger hike in the federal debt than we were promised. According to the 2010 budget, the debt in public hands was supposed to fall in relation to GDP from 67 percent in 2010 to less than 66 percent this year. If only. By the end of this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), it will reach 70 percent of GDP. These figures significantly understate the debt problem, however. The ratio that matters is debt to revenue. That number has leapt upward from 165 percent in 2008 to 262 percent this year, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund. Among developed economies, only Ireland and Spain have seen a bigger deterioration.
Not only did the initial fiscal stimulus fade after the sugar rush of 2009, but the president has done absolutely nothing to close the long-term gap between spending and revenue.
His much-vaunted health-care reform will not prevent spending on health programs growing from more than 5 percent of GDP today to almost 10 percent in 2037. Add the projected increase in the costs of Social Security and you are looking at a total bill of 16 percent of GDP 25 years from now. That is only slightly less than the average cost of all federal programs and activities, apart from net interest payments, over the past 40 years. Under this president’s policies, the debt is on course to approach 200 percent of GDP in 2037—a mountain of debt that is bound to reduce growth even further.
And even that figure understates the real debt burden. The most recent estimate for the difference between the net present value of federal government liabilities and the net present value of future federal revenues—what economist Larry Kotlikoff calls the true “fiscal gap”—is $222 trillion.
The president’s supporters will, of course, say that the poor performance of the economy can’t be blamed on him. They would rather finger his predecessor, or the economists he picked to advise him, or Wall Street, or Europe—anyone but the man in the White House.
There’s some truth in this. It was pretty hard to foresee what was going to happen to the economy in the years after 2008. Yet surely we can legitimately blame the president for the political mistakes of the past four years. After all, it’s the president’s job to run the executive branch effectively—to lead the nation. And here is where his failure has been greatest.
On paper it looked like an economics dream team: Larry Summers, Christina Romer, and Austan Goolsbee, not to mention Peter Orszag, Tim Geithner, and Paul Volcker. The inside story, however, is that the president was wholly unable to manage the mighty brains—and egos—he had assembled to advise him.
According to Ron Suskind’s book Confidence Men, Summers told Orszag over dinner in May 2009: “You know, Peter, we’re really home alone … I mean it. We’re home alone. There’s no adult in charge. Clinton would never have made these mistakes [of indecisiveness on key economic issues].” On issue after issue, according to Suskind, Summers overruled the president. “You can’t just march in and make that argument and then have him make a decision,” Summers told Orszag, “because he doesn’t know what he’s deciding.” (I have heard similar things said off the record by key participants in the president’s interminable “seminar” on Afghanistan policy.)
This problem extended beyond the White House. After the imperial presidency of the Bush era, there was something more like parliamentary government in the first two years of Obama’s administration. The president proposed; Congress disposed. It was Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts who wrote the stimulus bill and made sure it was stuffed full of political pork. And it was the Democrats in Congress—led by Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank—who devised the 2,319-page Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank, for short), a near-perfect example of excessive complexity in regulation. The act requires that regulators create 243 rules, conduct 67 studies, and issue 22 periodic reports. It eliminates one regulator and creates two new ones.
It is five years since the financial crisis began, but the central problems—excessive financial concentration and excessive financial leverage—have not been addressed.
Today a mere 10 too-big-to-fail financial institutions are responsible for three quarters of total financial assets under management in the United States. Yet the country’s largest banks are at least $50 billion short of meeting new capital requirements under the new “Basel III” accords governing bank capital adequacy.
And then there was health care. No one seriously doubts that the U.S. system needed to be reformed. But the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 did nothing to address the core defects of the system: the long-run explosion of Medicare costs as the baby boomers retire, the “fee for service” model that drives health-care inflation, the link from employment to insurance that explains why so many Americans lack coverage, and the excessive costs of the liability insurance that our doctors need to protect them from our lawyers.
Ironically, the core Obamacare concept of the “individual mandate” (requiring all Americans to buy insurance or face a fine) was something the president himself had opposed when vying with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. A much more accurate term would be “Pelosicare,” since it was she who really forced the bill through Congress.
Pelosicare was not only a political disaster. Polls consistently showed that only a minority of the public liked the ACA, and it was the main reason why Republicans regained control of the House in 2010. It was also another fiscal snafu. The president pledged that health-care reform would not add a cent to the deficit. But the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation now estimate that the insurance-coverage provisions of the ACA will have a net cost of close to $1.2 trillion over the 2012–22 period.
The president just kept ducking the fiscal issue. Having set up a bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, headed by retired Wyoming Republican senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles, Obama effectively sidelined its recommendations of approximately $3 trillion in cuts and $1 trillion in added revenues over the coming decade. As a result there was no “grand bargain” with the House Republicans—which means that, barring some miracle, the country will hit a fiscal cliff on Jan. 1 as the Bush tax cuts expire and the first of $1.2 trillion of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are imposed. The CBO estimates the net effect could be a 4 percent reduction in output.
The failures of leadership on economic and fiscal policy over the past four years have had geopolitical consequences. The World Bank expects the U.S. to grow by just 2 percent in 2012. China will grow four times faster than that; India three times faster. By 2017, the International Monetary Fund predicts, the GDP of China will overtake that of the United States.
Meanwhile, the fiscal train wreck has already initiated a process of steep cuts in the defense budget, at a time when it is very far from clear that the world has become a safer place—least of all in the Middle East.
For me the president’s greatest failure has been not to think through the implications of these challenges to American power. Far from developing a coherent strategy, he believed—perhaps encouraged by the premature award of the Nobel Peace Prize—that all he needed to do was to make touchy-feely speeches around the world explaining to foreigners that he was not George W. Bush.
In Tokyo in November 2009, the president gave his boilerplate hug-a-foreigner speech: “In an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another … The United States does not seek to contain China … On the contrary, the rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations.” Yet by fall 2011, this approach had been jettisoned in favor of a “pivot” back to the Pacific, including risible deployments of troops to Australia and Singapore. From the vantage point of Beijing, neither approach had credibility.
His Cairo speech of June 4, 2009, was an especially clumsy bid to ingratiate himself on what proved to be the eve of a regional revolution. “I’m also proud to carry with me,” he told Egyptians, “a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: Assalamu alaikum … I’ve come here … to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based … upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.”
Believing it was his role to repudiate neoconservatism, Obama completely missed the revolutionary wave of Middle Eastern democracy—precisely the wave the neocons had hoped to trigger with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. When revolution broke out—first in Iran, then in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria—the president faced stark alternatives. He could try to catch the wave by lending his support to the youthful revolutionaries and trying to ride it in a direction advantageous to American interests. Or he could do nothing and let the forces of reaction prevail.
In the case of Iran he did nothing, and the thugs of the Islamic Republic ruthlessly crushed the demonstrations. Ditto Syria. In Libya he was cajoled into intervening. In Egypt he tried to have it both ways, exhorting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave, then drawing back and recommending an “orderly transition.” The result was a foreign-policy debacle. Not only were Egypt’s elites appalled by what seemed to them a betrayal, but the victors—the Muslim Brotherhood—had nothing to be grateful for. America’s closest Middle Eastern allies—Israel and the Saudis—looked on in amazement.
“This is what happens when you get caught by surprise,” an anonymous American official told The New York Times in February 2011. “We’ve had endless strategy sessions for the past two years on Mideast peace, on containing Iran. And how many of them factored in the possibility that Egypt moves from stability to turmoil? None.”
Remarkably the president polls relatively strongly on national security. Yet the public mistakes his administration’s astonishingly uninhibited use of political assassination for a coherent strategy. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, the civilian proportion of drone casualties was 16 percent last year. Ask yourself how the liberal media would have behaved if George W. Bush had used drones this way. Yet somehow it is only ever Republican secretaries of state who are accused of committing “war crimes.”
The real crime is that the assassination program destroys potentially crucial intelligence (as well as antagonizing locals) every time a drone strikes. It symbolizes the administration’s decision to abandon counterinsurgency in favor of a narrow counterterrorism. What that means in practice is the abandonment not only of Iraq but soon of Afghanistan too. Understandably, the men and women who have served there wonder what exactly their sacrifice was for, if any notion that we are nation building has been quietly dumped. Only when both countries sink back into civil war will we realize the real price of Obama’s foreign policy.
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America under this president is a superpower in retreat, if not retirement. Small wonder 46 percent of Americans—and 63 percent of Chinese—believe that China already has replaced the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower or eventually will.
It is a sign of just how completely Barack Obama has “lost his narrative” since getting elected that the best case he has yet made for reelection is that Mitt Romney should not be president. In his notorious “you didn’t build that” speech, Obama listed what he considers the greatest achievements of big government: the Internet, the GI Bill, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Dam, the Apollo moon landing, and even (bizarrely) the creation of the middle class. Sadly, he couldn’t mention anything comparable that his administration has achieved.
Now Obama is going head-to-head with his nemesis: a politician who believes more in content than in form, more in reform than in rhetoric. In the past days much has been written about Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate. I know, like, and admire Paul Ryan. For me, the point about him is simple. He is one of only a handful of politicians in Washington who is truly sincere about addressing this country’s fiscal crisis.
Over the past few years Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” has evolved, but the essential points are clear: replace Medicare with a voucher program for those now under 55 (not current or imminent recipients), turn Medicaid and food stamps into block grants for the states, and—crucially—simplify the tax code and lower tax rates to try to inject some supply-side life back into the U.S. private sector. Ryan is not preaching austerity. He is preaching growth. And though Reagan-era veterans like David Stockman may have their doubts, they underestimate Ryan’s mastery of this subject. There is literally no one in Washington who understands the challenges of fiscal reform better.
Just as importantly, Ryan has learned that politics is the art of the possible. There are parts of his plan that he is understandably soft-pedaling right now—notably the new source of federal revenue referred to in his 2010 “Roadmap for America’s Future” as a “business consumption tax.” Stockman needs to remind himself that the real “fairy-tale budget plans” have been the ones produced by the White House since 2009.
I first met Paul Ryan in April 2010. I had been invited to a dinner in Washington where the U.S. fiscal crisis was going to be the topic of discussion. So crucial did this subject seem to me that I expected the dinner to happen in one of the city’s biggest hotel ballrooms. It was actually held in the host’s home. Three congressmen showed up—a sign of how successful the president’s fiscal version of “don’t ask, don’t tell” (about the debt) had been. Ryan blew me away. I have wanted to see him in the White House ever since.
It remains to be seen if the American public is ready to embrace the radical overhaul of the nation’s finances that Ryan proposes. The public mood is deeply ambivalent. The president’s approval rating is down to 49 percent. The Gallup Economic Confidence Index is at minus 28 (down from minus 13 in May). But Obama is still narrowly ahead of Romney in the polls as far as the popular vote is concerned (50.8 to 48.2) and comfortably ahead in the Electoral College. The pollsters say that Paul Ryan’s nomination is not a game changer; indeed, he is a high-risk choice for Romney because so many people feel nervous about the reforms Ryan proposes.
But one thing is clear. Ryan psychs Obama out. This has been apparent ever since the White House went on the offensive against Ryan in the spring of last year. And the reason he psychs him out is that, unlike Obama, Ryan has a plan—as opposed to a narrative—for this country.
Mitt Romney is not the best candidate for the presidency I can imagine. But he was clearly the best of the Republican contenders for the nomination. He brings to the presidency precisely the kind of experience—both in the business world and in executive office—that Barack Obama manifestly lacked four years ago. (If only Obama had worked at Bain Capital for a few years, instead of as a community organizer in Chicago, he might understand exactly why the private sector is not “doing fine” right now.) And by picking Ryan as his running mate, Romney has given the first real sign that—unlike Obama—he is a courageous leader who will not duck the challenges America faces.
The voters now face a stark choice. They can let Barack Obama’s rambling, solipsistic narrative continue until they find themselves living in some American version of Europe, with low growth, high unemployment, even higher debt—and real geopolitical decline.
Or they can opt for real change: the kind of change that will end four years of economic underperformance, stop the terrifying accumulation of debt, and reestablish a secure fiscal foundation for American national security.
I’ve said it before: it’s a choice between les États Unis and the Republic of the Battle Hymn.
I was a good loser four years ago. But this year, fired up by the rise of Ryan, I want badly to win.
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Table 1.1.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product
[Percent] Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
Last Revised on: April 27, 2012 – Next Release Date May 31, 2012
| Line | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |||||||
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| I | II | III | IV | I | II | III | IV | I | ||
| 1 | Gross domestic product | 3.9 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 2.2 |
| 2 | Personal consumption expenditures | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.9 |
| 3 | Goods | 6.4 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 8.3 | 4.7 | -1.6 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 6.2 |
| 4 | Durable goods | 9.9 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 17.2 | 11.7 | -5.3 | 5.7 | 16.1 | 15.3 |
| 5 | Nondurable goods | 4.8 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.2 | -0.5 | 0.8 | 2.1 |
| 6 | Services | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 1.2 |
| 7 | Gross private domestic investment | 31.5 | 26.4 | 9.2 | -7.1 | 3.8 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 22.1 | 6.0 |
| 8 | Fixed investment | 1.2 | 19.5 | 2.3 | 7.5 | 1.2 | 9.2 | 13.0 | 6.3 | 1.4 |
| 9 | Nonresidential | 6.0 | 18.6 | 11.3 | 8.7 | 2.1 | 10.3 | 15.7 | 5.2 | -2.1 |
| 10 | Structures | -24.7 | 7.5 | 4.2 | 10.5 | -14.3 | 22.6 | 14.4 | -0.9 | -12.0 |
| 11 | Equipment and software | 21.7 | 23.2 | 14.1 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 6.2 | 16.2 | 7.5 | 1.7 |
| 12 | Residential | -15.3 | 22.8 | -27.7 | 2.5 | -2.4 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 11.6 | 19.1 |
| 13 | Change in private inventories | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Net exports of goods and services | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Exports | 7.2 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 5.4 |
| 16 | Goods | 12.1 | 11.8 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 2.5 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 17 | Services | -2.7 | 6.1 | 12.6 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 8.6 |
| 18 | Imports | 12.5 | 21.6 | 12.3 | -2.3 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 19 | Goods | 14.4 | 26.0 | 12.4 | -0.5 | 9.5 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.0 |
| 20 | Services | 4.6 | 3.3 | 11.6 | -10.4 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 11.0 |
| 21 | Government consumption expenditures and gross investment | -1.2 | 3.7 | 1.0 | -2.8 | -5.9 | -0.9 | -0.1 | -4.2 | -3.0 |
| 22 | Federal | 2.8 | 8.8 | 3.2 | -3.0 | -9.4 | 1.9 | 2.1 | -6.9 | -5.6 |
| 23 | National defense | 0.5 | 6.0 | 5.7 | -5.9 | -12.6 | 7.0 | 5.0 | -12.1 | -8.1 |
| 24 | Nondefense | 7.8 | 14.7 | -1.8 | 3.1 | -2.7 | -7.6 | -3.8 | 4.5 | -0.6 |
| 25 | State and local | -3.9 | 0.4 | -0.5 | -2.7 | -3.4 | -2.8 | -1.6 | -2.2 | -1.2 |
| Addendum: | 26Gross domestic product, current dollars5.55.43.94.23.14.04.43.83.8 | |||||||||
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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 (that
is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2011, real GDP increased 3.0 percent.
The Bureau emphasized that the first-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source
data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 3). The
"second" estimate for the first quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on May 31, 2012.
The increase in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, private inventory investment, and residential fixed
investment that were partly offset by negative contributions from federal government spending,
nonresidential fixed investment, and state and local government spending. Imports, which are a
subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The deceleration in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in private
inventory investment and a downturn in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by
accelerations in PCE and in exports.
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BOX.
Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts
The annual revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs), covering the first
quarter of 2009 through the first quarter of 2012, will be released along with the "advance" estimate of
GDP for the second quarter of 2012 on July 27, 2012. The August Survey of Current Business will
contain an article that describes the annual revision in detail.
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FOOTNOTE. Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified. Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Percent
changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. "Real" estimates are in chained (2005)
dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.
This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights related to this release.
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Motor vehicle output added 1.12 percentage points to the first-quarter change in real GDP after
adding 0.47 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change. Final sales of computers added 0.05
percentage point to the first-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.12 percentage point to the fourth-
quarter change.
The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 2.4 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.1 percent in the fourth.
Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 2.2 percent in
the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.2 percent in the fourth.
Real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.9 percent in the first quarter, compared with
an increase of 2.1 percent in the fourth. Durable goods increased 15.3 percent, compared with an
increase of 16.1 percent. Nondurable goods increased 2.1 percent, compared with an increase of 0.8
percent. Services increased 1.2 percent, compared with an increase of 0.4 percent.
Real nonresidential fixed investment decreased 2.1 percent in the first quarter, in contrast to an
increase of 5.2 percent in the fourth. Nonresidential structures decreased 12.0 percent, compared with a
decrease of 0.9 percent. Equipment and software increased 1.7 percent, compared with an increase of
7.5 percent. Real residential fixed investment increased 19.1 percent, compared with an increase of 11.6
percent.
Real exports of goods and services increased 5.4 percent in the first quarter, compared with an
increase of 2.7 percent in the fourth. Real imports of goods and services increased 4.3 percent,
compared with an increase of 3.7 percent.
Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 5.6 percent
in the first quarter, compared with a decrease of 6.9 percent in the fourth. National defense decreased
8.1 percent, compared with a decrease of 12.1 percent. Nondefense decreased 0.6 percent, in contrast to
an increase of 4.5 percent. Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 1.2 percent, compared with a decrease of 2.2 percent.
The change in real private inventories added 0.59 percentage point to the first-quarter change in
real GDP after adding 1.81 percentage points to the fourth-quarter change. Private businesses increased
inventories $69.5 billion in the first quarter, following an increase of $52.2 billion in the fourth quarter
and a decrease of $2.0 billion in the third.
Real final sales of domestic product -- GDP less change in private inventories -- increased 1.6
percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.1 percent in the fourth.
Gross domestic purchases
Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- increased 2.1 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 3.1 percent in the
fourth.
Disposition of personal income
Current-dollar personal income increased $119.6 billion (3.7 percent) in the first quarter,
compared with an increase of $105.3 billion (3.3 percent) in the fourth.
Personal current taxes increased $38.6 billion in the first quarter, compared with an increase of
$21.1 billion in the fourth.
Disposable personal income increased $81.0 billion (2.8 percent) in the first quarter, compared
with an increase of $84.2 billion (2.9 percent) in the fourth. Real disposable personal income increased
0.4 percent, compared with an increase of 1.7 percent.
Personal outlays increased $145.9 billion (5.3 percent) in the first quarter, compared with an
increase of $86.4 billion (3.1 percent) in the fourth. Personal saving -- disposable personal income less
personal outlays -- was $466.0 billion in the first quarter, compared with $530.8 billion in the fourth.
The personal saving rate -- saving as a percentage of disposable personal income -- was 3.9 percent in
the first quarter, compared with 4.5 percent in the fourth. For a comparison of personal saving in BEA’s
national income and product accounts with personal saving in the Federal Reserve Board’s flow of funds
accounts and data on changes in net worth, go to www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/Nipa-Frb.asp.
Current-dollar GDP
Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the nation's output of goods and services -- increased
3.8 percent, or $142.4 billion, in the first quarter to a level of $15,461.8 billion. In the fourth quarter,
current-dollar GDP also increased 3.8 percent, or $143.3 billion.
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Slowing Growth Stirs Recovery Fears
Weaker Business Investment Weighs on Economy in First Quarter Despite Brisk Consumer Spending
BY BEN CASSELMAN
“…The economy lost steam in the first quarter, as onetime engines of growth sputtered and robust consumer spending was unable to propel the recovery on its own.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, grew at an annualized rate of 2.2% in the first quarter, down from 3% at the end of 2011, the Commerce Department said Friday. The deceleration reflected sharp cutbacks in government spending and weaker business investment and came despite an unusually warm winter, which many economists said likely provided a mild economic boost.
The report did reveal a few areas of strength. Consumer spending, by far the biggest piece of the economy, accelerated in the first quarter, and the moribund housing sector also showed signs of improvement. Overall economic growth, though modest, was far stronger than at the start of last year, when the U.S. teetered on the brink of recession.
The glum economic news had a muted impact on financial markets, in part because many investors see a weakening economy as increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve to step in with a new round of stimulus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average nosed up 23.69 points to 13228.31. There was a note of caution in the bond market, where surging demand for the perceived safety of Treasurys sent 10-year bond yields to their lowest level in two months.
Recent data have suggested that the once-strong factory sector is weakening and that job growth, which picked up early this year, has begun to slow. Outside factors—from high oil prices to Europe’s continued financial turmoil—could be a further drag on growth in coming months. The weak start to the year gives the economy little momentum to help carry it past such challenges. …”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304811304577369640809969900.html
Economy slowed to 2.2% growth rate in Q1
By Tim Mullaney, USA TODAY
“…The economy grew at a 2.2% annual rate in the first quarter, the government said today, as a pickup in consumer spending was partly offset by shrinking government spending and sluggish private investment.
Growth missed the 2.5% median forecast of 50 economists surveyed by USA TODAY. Yet economists focused on the 2.9% jump in consumer spending, saying it showed the economy is strong enough to support more hiring. Half the increase in gross domestic product came from auto sales and manufacturing, as sales reached a 15-million-unit per year pace in February.
“It was less than I expected, by more than a little, but when you look at it, the weakness was mostly in government spending,” said Joel Naroff, president of the consulting firm Naroff Economic Advisors. “If the consumer keeps increasing spending by nearly 3%, business confidence will rise and so will investment.”
The biggest chunk of the slowdown came from slower building of inventories by private companies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Government spending also fell 3%, including an 8.1% drop in defense spending.
Growth in business investment also fell, with the biggest cuts coming in spending for new buildings. Investment in equipment and software, which is critical to productivity-enhancing innovation, rose 1.7%, weakest pace since mid-2009
If government spending had been unchanged in the quarter, the economy would have grown at a 2.8% rate, Naroff said.
The economy’s overall pace was slower than the 3% GDP growth in the fourth quarter last year, when businesses rebuilt inventories after a mid-year slump. Final demand, a measure of how much consumers, governments and businesses spent on everything but building inventories, rose 1.6% – topping the fourth-quarter pace by half a percentage point. …”
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S-1 Fy 2013 Path to Prosperity
http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/summary_tables.pdf
Fiscal Year 2013 Historical Tables Budget of the U.S. Government
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/hist.pdf
The Path to Prosperity Budget: Your Country. Your Future. Your Choice.
Democratic Party Budget Proposals
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S-1 FY2013 President’s Budget (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
| 2012 | 3,796 | 2,469 | -1,327 | 11,578 |
| 2013 | 3,803 | 2,902 | -901 | 12,637 |
| 2014 | 3,883 | 3,215 | -668 | 13,445 |
| 2015 | 4,060 | 3,450 | -610 | 14,198 |
| 2016 | 4,329 | 3,680 | -649 | 14,980 |
| 2017 | 4,532 | 3,919 | -612 | 15,713 |
| 2018 | 4,728 | 4,153 | -575 | 16,404 |
| 2019 | 5,004 | 4,379 | -626 | 17,137 |
| 2020 | 5,262 | 4,604 | -658 | 17,897 |
| 2021 | 5,537 | 4,857 | -681 | 18,678 |
| 2022 | 5,820 | 5,151 | -704 | 19,486 |
| 2012-2022 | 46,995 | 40,274 | -6,664 | |
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/tables.pdf
Republican Party Budget Proposals
|
S-1 FY2013 Path to Prosperity (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
| 2012 | 3,624 | 2,440 | -1,180 | 11,355 |
| 2013 | 3,530 | 2,734 | -797 | 12,261 |
| 2014 | 3,476 | 2,980 | -496 | 12,861 |
| 2015 | 3,536 | 3,232 | -304 | 13,260 |
| 2016 | 3,690 | 3,449 | -241 | 13,597 |
| 2017 | 3,824 | 3,642 | -182 | 13,874 |
| 2018 | 3,977 | 3,811 | -166 | 14,126 |
| 2019 | 4,199 | 3,986 | -213 | 14,417 |
| 2020 | 4,409 | 4,184 | -225 | 14,717 |
| 2021 | 4,605 | 4,388 | -217 | 15,005 |
| 2022 | 4,888 | 4,601 | -287 | 15,364 |
| 2013-2021 | 40,135 | 37,008 | -3,127 | |
http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/summary_tables.pdf
Tea Party Budget Proposals
| S-1 FY2013 Tea Party’s Balanced/Surplus Budget(Nominal Dollars in Billions) | ||||
| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Surpluses | Debt Held By Public |
| 2013 | 2,300 | 2,300 | 0 | 11,300 |
| 2014 | 2,400 | 2,400 | 0 | 11,300 |
| 2015 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 0 | 11,300 |
| 2016 | 2,600 | 2,600 | 0 | 11,300 |
| 2017 | 2,700 | 2,700 | 0 | 11,300 |
| 2018 | 2,800 | 2,900 | 100 | 11,200 |
| 2019 | 2,900 | 3,100 | 200 | 11,000 |
| 2020 | 3,000 | 3,300 | 300 | 10,700 |
| 2021 | 3,100 | 3,500 | 400 | 10,300 |
| 2022 | 3,200 | 3,700 | 500 | 9,800 |
| 2013-2022 | 27,500 | 29,000 | 1,500 | n.a. |
Tea Party Budget Based Upon:
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By Mayo Clinic staff
“…Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several types of personality disorders. Personality disorders are conditions in which people have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, limiting their ability to function in relationships and in other areas of their life, such as work or school.
Narcissistic personality disorder treatment is centered around psychotherapy. …”
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
“…What Are the Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
In many cases, people with narcissistic personality disorder:
- Are self-centered and boastful
- Seek constant attention and admiration
- Consider themselves better than others
- Exaggerate their talents and achievements
- Believe that they are entitled to special treatment
- Are easily hurt but may not show it
- Set unrealistic goals
- May take advantage of others to achieve their goals
Other common traits of narcissistic personality disorder include the following:
- Preoccupation with fantasies that focus on unlimited success, power, intelligence, beauty, or love
- Belief that he or she is “special” and unique, and can only be understood by other special people
- Expectation that others will automatically go along with what he or she wants
- Inability to recognize or identify with the feelings, needs, and viewpoints of others
- Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her
- Hypersensitivity to insults (real or imagined), criticism, or defeat, possibly reacting with rage, shame and humiliation
- Arrogant behavior and/or attitude …”
National Debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush
By Mark Knoller
“…(CBS News) The National Debt has now increased more during President Obama’s three years and two months in office than it did during 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency.
The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.
The latest posting from the Bureau of Public Debt at the Treasury Department shows the National Debt now stands at $15.566 trillion. It was $10.626 trillion on President Bush’s last day in office, which coincided with President Obama’s first day.
The National Debt also now exceeds 100% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, the total value of goods and services.
Mr. Obama has been quick to blame his predecessor for the soaring Debt, saying Mr. Bush paid for two wars and a Medicare prescription drug program with borrowed funds.
The federal budget sent to Congress last month by Mr. Obama, projects the National Debt will continue to rise as far as the eye can see. The budget shows the Debt hitting $16.3 trillion in 2012, $17.5 trillion in 2013 and $25.9 trillion in 2022.
Federal budget records show the National Debt once topped 121% of GDP at the end of World War II. The Debt that year, 1946, was, by today’s standards, a mere $270 billion dollars. …”
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TABLE 1. SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS AND THE DEFICIT/SURPLUS BY MONTH OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (IN MILLIONS)
ACCOUNTING DATE: 02/12
PERIOD RECEIPTS OUTLAYS DEFICIT/SURPLUS (-)
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PRIOR YEAR
OCTOBER 145,951 286,384 140,432
NOVEMBER 148,970 299,364 150,394
DECEMBER 236,875 315,009 78,134
JANUARY 226,550 276,346 49,796
FEBRUARY 110,656 333,163 222,507
MARCH 150,894 339,048 188,154
APRIL 289,543 329,929 40,387
MAY 174,936 232,577 57,641
JUNE 249,658 292,738 43,080
JULY 159,063 288,439 129,376
AUGUST 169,246 303,388 134,143
SEPTEMBER 240,153 302,911 62,758
YEAR-TO-DATE 2,302,495 3,599,297 1,296,803
CURRENT YEAR
OCTOBER 163,072 261,539 98,466
NOVEMBER 152,402 289,704 137,302
DECEMBER 239,963 325,930 85,967
JANUARY 234,319 261,731 27,412
FEBRUARY 103,413 335,096 231,683
YEAR-TO-DATE 893,169 1,473,999 580,830
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TABLE 2. BUDGET AND OFF-BUDGET RESULTS AND FINANCING (IN MILLIONS)
ACCOUNTING DATE: 02/12
CURRENT ACTUAL BUDGET EST.
CLASSIFICATION MONTH FY TO DATE FULL FY
+ _________________________________________________________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________
TOTAL ON-BUDGET AND OFF-BUDGET RESULTS:
TOTAL RECEIPTS 103,413 893,169 2,468,599
ON-BUDGET RECEIPTS 57,954 672,851 1,896,459
OFF-BUDGET RECEIPTS 45,459 220,318 572,140
;CTOTAL OUTLAYS 335,096 1,473,999 3,795,547
ON-BUDGET OUTLAYS 281,062 1,280,643 3,290,381
OFF-BUDGET OUTLAYS 54,034 193,357 505,166
;CTOTAL SURPLUS (+) OR DEFICIT (-) -231,683 -580,830 -1,326,948
ON-BUDGET SURPLUS (+) OR DEFICIT (-) -223,108 -607,791 -1,393,922
OFF-BUDGET SURPLUS (+) OR DEFICIT (-) -8,575 26,962 66,974
;CTOTAL ON-BUDGET AND OFF-BUDGET FINANCING 231,683 580,830 1,326,948
MEANS OF FINANCING:
BORROWING FROM THE PUBLIC 150,351 601,040 1,449,877
REDUCTION OF OPERATING CASH, INCREASE (-) 96,053 -4,453 -1,910
BY OTHER MEANS -14,722 -15,758 -121,018
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http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0212.txt
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“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. …”
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
~The Constitution of the United States, Amendment One
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
~The Constitution of the United States, Amendment Two
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.”
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“…People have been beatened down so long they feel so betrayed by their government. So it’s not surprising that they get bitter and cling to their guns and religion or antipathy towards people who are not like them as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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“…not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology. …”
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“…James Williams of Matagorda County, Texas recounts a touching true story. Living in a still prejudiced Texas In 1972, his wife had a complication with her pregnancy. No doctors would care for her or deliver their bi-racial child. In fact one of the hospital nurses called the police on James.
Dr. Ron Paul was notified and took her in, delivering their stillborn baby. Because of the compassion of Dr. Ron Paul, the Williams’ never received a hospital bill for the delivery.
Ron Paul views every human being as a unique individual, afforded the rights endowed by our creator and codified in the Bill of Rights. …”
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“In an interview Monday evening in Rome with Catholic News Service, Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan discusses why the U.S. bishops oppose the revised contraceptive mandate announced by President Obama three days earlier. Major excerpts here.”
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“Jesus’ commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Santorum questions Obama’s Christian values
By Steve Peoples Associated Press
“…Lashing out on two fronts, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, “ground zero” in the 2012 nomination fight.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative views, said Obama’s agenda is based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.” He later suggested that the president practices a different kind of Christianity.
“In the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity,” he said. “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”
The Obama campaign said the comments represent “the latest low in a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, and searing pessimism and negativity.” …”
“…In Ohio, a Super Tuesday prize, he shifted decidedly to offense before friendly crowds. Trailing Romney in money and campaign resources, Santorum is depending on the tea party movement and religious groups to deliver a victory March 6 in the Midwestern contest.
More delegates will be awarded in Ohio than in any other state except Georgia in the opening months of the Republican campaign. Ohio and Georgia are two of the 10 contests scheduled for March 6, a benchmark for the primary campaign that often decides who can continue to the next level.
Santorum has surged in recent opinion polls after capturing Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri on Feb. 7. Several polls have shown him ahead in Romney’s native state of Michigan, where primary voters cast ballots a week from Tuesday. …”
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120219/POLITICS01/202190310/1022/rss10
Santorum says Obama agenda not “based on Bible”
“…A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” in the debate about climate change.
Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology,” Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.
When asked about the statement at a news conference later, Santorum said, “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”
But Santorum did not back down from the assertion that Obama’s values run against those of Christianity.
“He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,” Santorum told reporters.
A social conservative, Santorum is increasingly seen as a champion for evangelical Christians in fights with Democrats over contraception and gay marriage. …”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-usa-campaign-santorum-idUSTRE81H0M220120218
Rick Santorum tries to show he can win in November
By Dan Balz, Published: February 18
“…Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has won four states and risen suddenly to challenge Mitt Romney as the leader in the national polls. Now he faces a new hurdle: defining himself positively before others rush to disqualify him.
Santorum presents himself as a committed and consistent conservative with blue-collar roots — just the kind of candidate Republicans need to energize the party’s base and reach out to Reagan Democrats in a campaign against President Obama that could be decided in the nation’s industrial heartland.
Obama advisers and other Democrats see a Santorum whose record, writings and statements, particularly on social issues, will be used to portray him as far too conservative for many voters. His record, they say, could make Santorum anathema to suburban swing voters, especially women. That view is shared by some Republicans and independent analysts.
“They [Democrats] would brutalize him on social and cultural issues and present him as so far out of the mainstream as to be radical,” said G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College and a leading pollster in Pennsylvania. “The analogy would be Barry Goldwater” — the 1964 GOP nominee who suffered a landslide defeat.
Santorum’s advisers recognize that he has entered a new phase in his campaign, and they see the obstacles ahead. They argue that a full and fair reading of his record reveals a more attractive profile of the former senator. But they acknowledge it is up to Santorum and his campaign to explain that record and allay concerns about his ability to run competitively in November.
“There will be people — Romney and the Democrats — who will try to distort these things,” said John Brabender, Santorum’s longtime political adviser. “It’s the responsibility of our campaign to show what the senator’s record really is. We are confident that once that happens, people will understand that the senator is extremely reasonable.”
The first tests will come over the next 10 days, as Santorum attempts to leverage his new prominence against Romney in primaries in Arizona and especially Michigan, and then on Super Tuesday, March 6. …”
Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk: The Latest Obamacare Overreach – 2/13/2012
Ron Paul: Many religious conservatives understandably are upset with the latest Obamacare mandate, which will require religious employers (including Catholic employers) to provide birth control to workers receiving healthcare benefits. This mandate includes certain birth control devices that are considered abortifacients, like IUDs and the “morning after” pill.
Of course Catholic teachings forbid the use of any sort of contraceptive devices, so this rule is anathema to the religious beliefs of Catholic employers. Religious freedom always has been considered sacrosanct in this country. However, our federal bureaucracy increasingly forces Americans to subsidize behaviors they find personally abhorrent, either through agency mandates or direct transfer payments funded by tax dollars.
Proponents of this mandate do not understand the gravity of forcing employers to subsidize activities that deeply conflict with their religious convictions. Proponents also do not understand that a refusal to subsidize those activities does not mean the employer is “denying access” to healthcare. If employers don’t provide free food to employees, do we accuse them of starving their workers?
In truth this mandate has nothing to do with healthcare, and everything to do with the abortion industry and a hatred for traditional religious values. Obamacare apologists cannot abide any religious philosophy that promotes large, two parent, nuclear, heterosexual families and frowns on divorce and abortion. Because the political class hates these values, it feels compelled to impose—by force of law—its preferred vision of society: single parents are noble; birth control should be encouraged at an early age; and abortion must be upheld as an absolute moral right.
So the political class simply tells the American people and American industry what values must prevail, and what costs much be borne to implement those values. This time, however, the political class has been shocked by the uproar to the new mandate that it did not anticipate or understand.
But Catholic hospitals face the existential choice of obeying their conscience and engaging in civil disobedience, or closing their doors because government claims the power to force them to violate the teachings of their faith. This terrible imposition has resonated with many Americans, and now the Obama administration finds itself having to defend the terrible cultural baggage of the anti-religious left.
Of course many Catholic leaders originally supported Obamacare because they naively believe against all evidence that benign angels in government will improve medical care for the poor. And many religious leaders support federal welfare programs generally without understanding that recipients of those dollars can use them for abortions, contraceptives, or any number of activities that conflict deeply with religious teachings. This is why private charity is so vitally important and morally superior to a government-run medical system.
The First Amendment guarantee of religious liberty is intended to ensure that Americans never have to put the demands of the federal government ahead of the their own conscience or religious beliefs. This new policy turns that guarantee on its head. The benefits or drawbacks of birth control are not the issue. The issue is whether government may force private employers and private citizens to violate their moral codes simply by operating their businesses or paying their taxes.”
Ron Paul Says Santorum Can’t Beat Obama
Ron Paul says social issues are a ‘losing position’ for the GOP
“…Ron Paul said he doesn’t think that Rick Santorum can defeat President Obama in a general election. “I don’t see how that’s possible,” he said on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.
Paul also jabbed at Santorum for his aim “to control peoples’ lives” and what he framed as Santorum’s hypocrisy on the birth control issue.
Santorum admitted in a 2006 interview on Fox News that he supported Title X, a government program that provides funds for family planning services, including access to contraceptives. Santorum said he voted for it during his time as Pennsylvania Senator, and though he believes in access to contraceptives, he personally feels they’re harmful to women and that abstinence education is a “healthier” option.
“I don’t see how anybody can get away with that inconsistency—pretending he’s a conservative,” Paul said in reference to Santorum’s vote.
Paul dismissed the recent debate over contraception entirely, saying that while the other candidates discuss birth control, he’s concerned with “the undermining of our civil liberties, the constant wars going on” and the debt.
Paul said the focus on social issues is a fundamental problem and an unwise fight for the GOP.
“I think it’s a losing position,” he said. “I talk about it because I have a precise understanding of how these problems are to be solved,” on a state-specific level, he said. …”
Background Articles and Videos
Black liberation theology
“…Black liberation theology, is a relatively new theological perspective found in some Christian churches in the United States. It is an instance of the liberation theology which originated from Catholic Theologians in the 1950′s. Liberation theology observes that Jesus Christ was a religious leader seeking greater justice for the oppressed and occupied people of Israel and views his teachings as both an inspiration and a model for others to seek freedom from injustice. The influenced of liberation theology resulted in a more socially conscious Catholic Church during the 1962 Vatican II conference and was central to Latin American peasant and grass-roots movements throughout the 60s 70′s and 80′s.
Black liberation theology seeks to liberate people of color from multiple forms of political, social, economic, and religious subjugation and views Christian theology as a theology of liberation — “a rational study of the being of God in the world in light of the existential situation of an oppressed community, relating the forces of liberation to the essence of the Gospel, which is Jesus Christ,” writes James Hal Cone.
Development
Modern American origins of contemporary black liberation theology can be traced to July 31, 1966, when an ad hoc group of 51 black pastors, calling themselves the National Committee of Negro Churchmen (NCNC), bought a full page ad in the New York Times to publish their “Black Power Statement,” which proposed a more aggressive approach to combating racism using the Bible for inspiration.[1]
In the minds of many African-Americans, Christianity was long associated with slavery and segregation.[2] The Southern Baptist Convention had supported slavery and slaveholders, and it was not until June 20, 1995 that the formal Declaration of Repentance was adopted. This resolution declared that they “unwaveringly denounce racism, in all its forms, as deplorable sin” and “lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest.” The convention offered an apology to all African-Americans for “condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime” and repentance for “racism of which we have been guilty, whether consciously or unconsciously.[3][4] Christianity was long associated with racism. Therefore, there must then be a dialogue regarding the implications of racism in today’s society and to what extent historical factors affect the plight of the black community. Cone argues that, “About thirty years ago it was acceptable to lynch a black man by hanging him from a tree; but today whites destroy him by crowding him into a ghetto and letting filth and despair put the final touches on death.”
Black theology deals primarily with the African-American community, to make Christianity real for blacks. It explains Christianity as a matter of liberation here and now, rather than in an afterlife. The goal of black theology is not for special treatment. Instead, “All Black theologians are asking for is for freedom and justice. No more, and no less. In asking for this, the Black theologians, turn to scripture as the sanction for their demand. The Psalmist writes for instance, ‘If God is going to see righteousness established in the land, he himself must be particularly active as ‘the helper of the fatherless’ [5] to ‘deliver the needy when he crieth; and the poor that hath no helper.’[6]“[7]
James Cone and Black Liberation Theology
James Cone first addressed this theology after Malcolm X’s proclamation in the 1950s against Christianity being taught as “a white man’s religion”.[8] According to Black religion expert Jonathan Walton:
“James Cone believed that the New Testament revealed Jesus as one who identified with those suffering under oppression, the socially marginalized and the cultural outcasts. And since the socially constructed categories of race in America (i.e., whiteness and blackness) had come to culturally signify dominance (whiteness) and oppression (blackness), from a theological perspective, Cone argued that Jesus reveals himself as black in order to disrupt and dismantle white oppression.”[9]
Black liberation theology contends that dominant cultures have corrupted Christianity, and the result is a mainstream faith-based empire that serves its own interests, not God’s. Black liberation theology asks whose side should God be on – the side of the oppressed or the side of the oppressors. If God values justice over victimization, then God desires that all oppressed people should be liberated. According to Cone, if God is not just, if God does not desire justice, then God needs to be done away with. Liberation from a false god who privileges whites, and the realization of an alternative and true God who desires the empowerment of the oppressed through self-definition, self-affirmation, and self-determination is the core of black liberation theology.[10]
On God and Jesus Christ
Cone based much of his liberationist theology on God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt in the Book of Exodus. He compared the United States to Egypt, predicting that oppressed people will soon be led to a promised land. For Cone, the theme of Yahweh’s concern was for “the lack of social, economic, and political justice for those who are poor and unwanted in society.”[11] Cone also says that the same God is working for the oppressed blacks of the 20th century, and that “God is helping oppressed blacks and has identified with them, God Himself is spoken of as ‘Black’.” [12]
Cone saw Christ from the aspect of oppression and liberation. Cone uses the Gospel of Luke to illustrate this point: “the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the good news preached to them.[13]” “‘In Christ,’ Cone argues, ‘God enters human affairs and takes sides with the oppressed. Their suffering becomes his; their despair, divine despair.’”[14] Cone also argues that, “We cannot solve ethical questions of the twentieth century by looking at what Jesus did in the first. Our choices are not the same as his. Being Christians does not mean following ‘in his steps.’” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 139] [3]
Cone’s view is that Jesus was black, which he felt was a very important view of black people to see. “It’s very important because you’ve got a lot of white images of Christ. In reality, Christ was not white, not European. That’s important to the psychic and to the spiritual consciousness of black people who live in a ghetto and in a white society in which their lord and savior looks just like people who victimize them. God is whatever color God needs to be in order to let people know they’re not nobodies, they’re somebodies.” [15]
Stylistic differences in the Black religious community
Because of the differences in thought between the black and white community, most black religious leaders attempt to make their services more accessible to other African-Americans, who must identify with the faith in order to accept it. Another notable difference is Cone’s suggestion as to what must occur if there is not reconciliation among the white community. He states, “Whether the American system is beyond redemption we will have to wait and see. But we can be certain that black patience has run out, and unless white America responds positively to the theory and activity of Black Power, then a bloody, protracted civil war is inevitable.” [Black Theology and Black Power, Page 143] [10]
Black Liberation Theology is considered by some to be a form of racism, as some followers associate liberation with retribution and anger. For this to be considered a true Christian Faith, followers should embrace the liberation in concert with acceptance and fogiveness, just as Christ forgave his oppressors.
Criticisms
Anthony Bradley of the Christian Post interprets that the language of “economic parity” and references to “mal-distribution” as nothing more than channeling the views of Karl Marx. He believes James Cone and Cornel West have worked to incorporate Marxist thought into the black church, forming an ethical framework predicated on a system of oppressor class versus a victim much like Marxism.[16]
Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago is the church most frequently cited by press accounts, and by Cone as the best example of a church formally founded on the vision of Black liberation theology.[17] The 2008 Jeremiah Wright controversy, over differing interpretations of some of his sermons and statements, caused then-Senator Barack Obama to distance himself from his former pastor.[18][19]
Stanley Kurtz of the National Review wrote about the perceived differences with ‘conventional American Christianity’. He quoted black-liberation theologian Dr. Obery M. Hendricks Jr.: “According to Hendricks, ‘many good church-going folk have been deluded into behaving like modern-day Pharisees and Sadducees when they think they’re really being good Christians.’ Unwittingly, Hendricks says, these apparent Christians have actually become ‘like the false prophets of Ba’al.’” Kurtz also quotes the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “How do I tell my children about the African Jesus who is not the guy they see in the picture of the blond-haired, blue-eyed guy in their Bible or the figment of white supremacists [sic] imagination that they see in Mel Gibson’s movies?”[20]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_liberation_theology
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“…Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a Lebanese American essayist whose work focuses on problems of randomness and probability.[3] His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.[4]
He is a bestselling author,[5][6][7] and has been a professor at several universities, currently at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Oxford University.[8][9] He has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance,[10]a hedge fund manager,[11][12][13] a Wall Street trader,[14][15][16] and is currently a scientific adviser at Universa Investments and the International Monetary Fund.[17][18]
He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about financial crises, subsequently making a fortune out of the late-2000s financial crisis.[19][20] He advocates what he calls a “black swan robust” society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.[11] He favors “stochastic tinkering” as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means experimentation and fact-collecting instead of top-down directed research.[21]
Family background and education
Taleb was born in Amioun, Lebanon, a son of Dr. Najib Taleb, an oncologist and researcher in anthropology, and his wife Minerva Ghosn. His parents were Greek Orthodox Lebanese with French citizenship, and he attended a French school there, the Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais.[2][22] His family saw its political prominence and wealth reduced by the Lebanese Civil War, which began in 1975. During the war, Taleb studied for several years in the basement of his family’s home.[23]
Both sides of his family were politically prominent in the Lebanese Greek Orthodox community. On his mother’s side, his grandfather, Fouad Nicolas Ghosn, and his great-grandfather, Nicolas Ghosn, were both deputy prime ministers. His paternal grandfather was a supreme court judge; his great-great-great-great grandfather, Ibrahim Taleb, was a governor of the Ottoman semi-autonomous Mount Lebanon Governorate in 1861. The Taleb family Palazo, built in 1860 by Florentine architects for his great-great-great-great grandfather, still stands in Amioun.[24]
Taleb received his bachelor and master in science degrees from the University of Paris.[25] He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Management Science (his thesis was on the mathematics of derivatives pricing) from the University of Paris (Dauphine)[26] under the direction of Hélyette Geman.[27]
A polyglot, Taleb has a literary fluency in English, French, and classical Arabic; a conversational fluency in Italian and Spanish; and can read classical texts in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, and ancient Hebrew, as well as the Canaanite script.[28][29]
Finance career
Taleb considers himself less a businessman than an epistemologist of randomness, and says that he used trading to attain independence and freedom from authority.[30] As a trader, his strategy has been to safeguard investors against crises while reaping rewards from rare events, and thus his trading career has included several jackpots followed by lengthy dry spells.[2] Taleb was a pioneer of tail risk hedging (now sometimes called “black swan protection”),[31] whereby investors are insured against extreme market moves. He says that reaping dividends the way he has means dwelling in the land of “Mediocristan” instead of “Extremistan”, the latter being an environment where huge things (black swans) can happen to you, whereas Mediocristan is the land of dentists who earn an above average income but with less extreme variations.[32]
He has held the following positions: managing director and proprietary trader at UBS; worldwide chief proprietary arbitrage derivatives trader for currencies, commodities and non-dollar fixed income at CS First Boston; chief currency derivatives trader for Banque Indosuez; managing director and worldwide head of financial option arbitrage at CIBC Wood Gundy; derivatives arbitrage trader at Bankers Trust, proprietary trader at BNP Paribas, as well as independent option market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and founder of Empirica Capital, after which Taleb retired from trading and became a full-time author and scholar in 2004.[33] Taleb is currently Principal/Senior Scientific Adviser at Universa Investments in Santa Monica, California, a tail protection firm owned and managed by former Empirica partner Mark Spitznagel.
Taleb reportedly became financially independent after the crash of 1987[15] and made a multi-million dollar fortune during the financial crisis that began in 2007, a development which he attributed to the mismatch between statistical distributions used in finance and reality.[34] Universa is a fund which is based on the “black swan” idea and to which Taleb is a principal adviser. Separate funds belonging to Universa made returns of 65% to 115% in October 2008.[20][35] In the wake of the economic crisis that started in 2008, Taleb has become an activist for a “black swan robust society” [36][37] and as of July 2011, Taleb is working with the International Monetary Fund on identifying and mitigating tail risks in financial markets.[17]
Academic career
Taleb became a full time researcher in 2004, as a university professor. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University,[38] Associate Member at the Institut Jean Nicod of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris[39] and Distinguished Research Scholar, Said Business School, Oxford University.[9] He was Visiting Professor at London Business School and the Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of New York University, and affiliated faculty member at the Wharton Business School Financial Institutions Center. He jointly teaches regular courses with Paul Wilmott and occasionally on the Certificate in Quantitative Finance. In 2008–2009, he ranked fifth in terms of the number of downloaded papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).[40]
Writing career
Taleb’s first non-technical book, Fooled by Randomness, about the underestimation of the role of randomness in life, was published in 2001.
His second non-technical book, The Black Swan, about unpredictable events, was published in 2007, selling as of February 2011, close to 3 million copies. It spent 36 weeks in hardcover on the [41] New York Times Bestseller list list; 17 as hardcover and 19 weeks[42] as paperback. [2] and was translated into 31 languages.[2] The Black Swan has been credited with predicting the banking and economic crisis of 2008.[4]
Taleb’s non-technical writing style mixes a narrative style (often semi-autobiographical) and short philosophical tales together with historical and scientific commentary. The sales of Taleb’s first two books garnered an advance of $4 million for a follow-up book[2] on anti-fragility.
A book of aphorisms, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, was released in December 2010.
In 2007, in The Black Swan, Taleb warned about the coming crisis:[43]
Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse. Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one fails, they all fall. The increased concentration among banks seems to have the effect of making financial crisis less likely, but when they happen they are more global in scale and hit us very hard. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur …. I shiver at the thought. The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deem these events “unlikely”.
Among the people Taleb’s writing has influenced is writer Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker. Gladwell wrote, “We associate the willingness to risk great failure – and the ability to climb back from catastrophe – with courage. But in this we are wrong. That is the lesson of Nassim Taleb.”[44][45]
Philosophical theories
His book The Bed of Procrustes summarizes the central problem: “we humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas”. Taleb disagrees with Platonic (i.e., theoretical) approaches to reality to the extent that they lead people to have the wrong map of reality rather than no map at all.[16] He opposes most economic and grand social science theorizing, which in his view suffer acutely from the problem of overuse of Plato’s Theory of Forms.
Relatedly, he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge. He argues that knowledge and technology are usually generated by what he calls “stochastic tinkering” rather than by top-down directed research.[21][46][47][48]
He calls for cancellation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating.[49][50] He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion and believes that price formation obeys an organic process.[51] Together with Espen Gaarder Haug, Taleb asserts that option pricing is determined in a “heuristic way” by operators, not by a model, and that models are “lecturing birds on how to fly”.[51] Pablo Triana has explored this topic with reference to Haug and Taleb,[52][53] and says that perhaps Taleb is correct to urge that banks be treated as utilities forbidden to take potentially lethal risks, while hedge funds and other unregulated entities should be able to do what they want.[54]
Taleb’s writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the “structured randomness” in quantum physics where probabilities are remarkably computable and games of chance like casinos where probabilities are artificially built.[32] Taleb calls this the “Ludic fallacy“. His argument centers on the idea that predictive models are based on Plato’s Theory of Forms, gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take some key ideas into account, such as: the impossibility of possessing all relevant information, that small unknown variations in the data can have a huge impact, and flawed theories/models that are based on empirical data and that fail to consider events that have not taken place but could have taken place. Discussing the Ludic fallacy in The Black Swan, he writes, “The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy. In the same way, beaming light on the unseen is costly in both computational and mental effort.”
In the second edition of The Black Swan, he posited that the foundations of quantitative economics are faulty and highly self-referential. He states that statistics is fundamentally incomplete as a field as it cannot predict the risk of rare events, a problem that is acute in proportion to the rarity of these events. With the mathematician Raphael Douady, he called the problem statistical undecidability (Douady and Taleb, 2010).
Taleb sees his main challenge as mapping his ideas of “robustification” and “anti-fragility“, that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the “fourth quadrant”. One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the ‘barbell’ strategy which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one’s personal life. These are deemed more robust to estimation errors. For instance, he suggests that investing money in ‘medium risk’ investments is pointless because risk is difficult if not impossible to compute. His preferred strategy is to be both hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive at the same time. For example, an investor might put 80 to 90% of their money in extremely safe instruments, such as treasury bills, with the remainder going into highly risky and diversified speculative bets. An alternative suggestion is to engage in highly speculative bets that are insured against losses of more than a specified amount. He asserts that by adopting these strategies a portfolio can be “robust”, that is, gain a positive exposure to black swan events while limiting losses suffered by such random events.[55] Taleb also applies a similar barbell-style approach to health and exercise. Instead of doing steady and moderate exercise daily, he suggests that it is better to do a low-effort exercise such as walking slowly most of the time, while occasionally expending extreme effort. He avers that the human body evolved to live in a random environment, with various unexpected but intense efforts and much rest.[56]
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In a 2008 article in The Times, the journalist Bryan Appleyard described Taleb as “now the hottest thinker in the world”.[14] The Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman proposed the inclusion of Taleb’s name among the world’s top intellectuals, saying “Taleb has changed the way many people think about uncertainty, particularly in the financial markets. His book, The Black Swan, is an original and audacious analysis of the ways in which humans try to make sense of unexpected events.”[57] Taleb was treated as a “rock star” at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos in 2009; at that event he had harsh words for bankers.[clarification needed][58][59]
Taleb contends that statisticians can be pseudoscientists when it comes to risks of rare events and risks of blowups, and mask their incompetence with complicated equations. This stance has attracted criticism: the American Statistical Association devoted the August 2007 issue of The American Statistician to The Black Swan. The magazine offered a mixture of praise and criticism for Taleb’s main points, with a focus on Taleb’s writing style and his representation of the statistical literature. Robert Lund, a mathematics professor at Clemson University, writes that in Black Swan, Taleb is “reckless at times and subject to grandiose overstatements; the professional statistician will find the book ubiquitously naive.”[60]
Aaron Brown, a finance professor at Yeshiva University, said that “the book reads as if Taleb has never heard of nonparametric methods, data analysis, visualization tools or robust estimation.”[61] Nonetheless, he calls the book “essential reading” and urges statisticians to overlook the insults to get the “important philosophic and mathematical truths.” Taleb replied in the second edition of The Black Swan that “One of the most common (but useless) comments I hear is that some solutions can come from ‘robust statistics.’ I wonder how using these techniques can create information where there is none”.[62] While praising the book, Westfall and Hilbe in 2007 complained that Taleb’s criticism is “often unfounded and sometimes outrageous.”[63] Taleb’s contentious style, they say, “describes writers and professionals as knaves or fools, mostly fools. His writing is full of irrelevances, asides and colloquialisms, reading like the conversation of a raconteur rather than a tightly argued thesis.”[63] Taleb felt that academics showed “bad faith” by criticizing a literary book that claimed to be a literary book and by ignoring the empirical evidence provided in his appendix and more technical works.[64]
The late Berkeley statistician David Freedman said that efforts by statisticians to refute Taleb’s stance have been unconvincing.[65] Taleb wrote in the second edition of The Black Swan that he had a session in 2008 with statisticians in which the hostility changed:
I found out that telling researchers “This is where your methods work very well” is vastly better than telling them “This is what you guys don’t know.” So when I presented to what was until then the most hostile crowd in the world, members of the American Statistical Association, a map of the four quadrants, and told them: your knowledge works beautifully in these three quadrants, but beware of the fourth one, as this is where the Black Swans breed, I received instant approval, support, offers of permanent friendship, refreshments (Diet Coke), invitations to come present at their sessions, even hugs(…) They tried to convince me that statisticians were not responsible for these aberrations, which come from people in the social sciences who apply statistical methods without understanding them.
Taleb and Nobel laureate Myron Scholes have traded personal attacks, particularly after Taleb’s paper with Espen Haug on why nobody used the Black-Scholes-Merton formula. Taleb said that Scholes was responsible for the financial crises of 2008, and suggested that “this guy should be in a retirement home doing Sudoku. His funds have blown up twice. He shouldn’t be allowed in Washington to lecture anyone on risk.”[37] Scholes retorted that Taleb simply “popularises ideas and is making money selling books”. Scholes claimed that Taleb does not cite previous literature, and for this reason Taleb is not taken seriously in academia.[66] Taleb and Haug (2010) listed hundreds of research documents showing the Black-Scholes formula was not Scholes’ at all and argued that the economics establishment ignored the literature by practitioners and mathematicians (such as Ed Thorp), who had developed a more sophisticated version of the formula.
Citing his academic works on the same topics covered in The Black Swan, Taleb said that “Academics should comment on data there, not make technical comments on a literary book”.[64] He has said that no direct published criticism has been directed at his ideas, but rather at his person and style. He wrote, “you never win an argument until they attack your person.”[64] In an interview on Charlie Rose, Taleb said that he was pleased that none of the criticism he received for The Black Swan had any substance, as it was either unintelligent, ad hominem, or style over substance, which convinced him to “go for the jugular” with a huge financial bet on the breakdown of statistical methods in finance.[67]
Taleb’s aggressive attitude against the finance industry has led to personal attacks, including a smear campaign and death threats from former employees of Lehman Brothers.[68]
Personal life
Though a non-smoker, Taleb suffered from throat cancer in the mid-1990s, which he overcame.[69] According to his official bio, he has dual residence in New York and Amioun, Lebanon.[70] He has stated that his major hobby is “teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: ‘I don’t know …’”[71] Some reporters have commented that information about his personal life is difficult to extract, though Taleb appears to enjoy being in the limelight.[72] Others find him more talkative: Malcolm Gladwell, in What the Dog Saw, wrote: “We would have lunches that would last for hours. The delight I took in his company was offset only by the dread I felt at the prospect of transcribing all those hours of tapes.”[73] When asked about his opinion on the Republican primaries of the 2012 presidential elections on his official Facebook page, Taleb said “[t]he only person I trust is Ron Paul.” [74] …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
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Weighing the benefits and costs of bacterial meningitis vaccination
Credit: Texas Pediatric Society
In May, Texas became the first state in the nation to pass a law, officially known as the Jamie Schanbaum and Nicolis Williams Act, requiring every college student under the age of 30 transferring or entering a Texas college after January 1, 2012 to be vaccinated for bacterial Meningitis.
The vaccine is in short supply and can cost students anywhere from $10 to $165. The leading vaccine manufacturers Sanofi Pasteur and Norvatis sell the Meningococcal Conjugate (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) vaccine in a five pack 1-dose vial with a per dose wholesale CDC cost of $82.16 and a retail private sector cost of $106.49, according to the online CDC Vaccine Price List dated November 2, 2011.
Individuals may qualify for a taxpayer paid government subsidy for low income or uninsured individuals at their local county health department immunization clinic. Dallas County Health and Human Services Department charges $10 and has requested 50,000 doses, according to the department’s director, Zachary Thompson. Currently it has none available at the $10 price. However, individuals willing to pay the unsubsidized regular price of $150 can get vaccinated.
Students can exercise their consumer sovereignty and opt out of the vaccination program for reasons of conscience. If you choose to opt out, under the provisions of the original Jamie Schanbaum Act you must sign “…an affidavit stating the student declines the vaccination for bacterial meningitis for reasons of conscience, including religious belief.”
Keep in mind that individuals between the ages of 16 and 21 have the second highest incidence of meningococcal disease after infants according to the CDC. There are approximately 1,000 invasive meningococcal disease cases annually in the U.S. with 20 percent occurring in adolescents and young adults ages 14–24. Fatalities are between 10 to 14 percent of the cases with 11 to 19 percent of the survivors suffering deafness, neurologic deficit, or limb loss, according to the CDC.
However, the CDC also points out that meningococcal disease is not a common disease. This is indicated by the rate of meningococcal disease per 100,000 by age shown in the chart below:
Credit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC recommended in 2005 that all individuals ages 11-12 receive meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) with a booster shot in five years. MCV4 offers a high level of immunity against four bacteria serogroups A, C, Y and W-135 but does not protect against bacteria serogroup B, which is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in the U.S.
A student between the ages of 18 and 24 has less than a 1 per 100,000 projected rate of catching meningococcal disease. The CDC estimated that an American has a 1 in 88,000 chance of being killed by a terrorist. Before students make a decision to get vaccinated or opt out, students should have a better appreciation and understanding of meningitis.
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Meningitis is an inflammation of the thin outer protective lining of the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges caused by an infection. The meninges are a three layer system of membranes consisting of the dura mater, arachnoid and pia mater mater (see above picture) that protects and cushions the brain and spinal cord. The infection can be caused by a virus, bacteria or rarely a fungus.
By far the most common form of meningitis is caused by viruses and is much less debilitating than bacterial meningitis. There are many viruses that cause the disease but approximately half of the viral cases in the United States are due to common intestinal viruses, or enteroviruses. The viruses are in droplets of respiratory secretion from the mouth and nose or shed in the feces. Viruses are usually transmitted by coughing or sneezing, kissing, hand-to-mouth contact or through poor hygiene. The vast majority of people exposed to viruses that cause meningitis have no or mild symptoms and fully recover without complications.
While there is no immunization available against viral meningitis, it can be prevented by washing your hands regularly, carefully washing and preparing food and eating food by their “sell by” or “eat by dates.”
In the United States the leading cause of meningococcal disease in older children and young adults of college age is the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, also referred to as meningococcus. Invasive meningococcal disease occurs in three primary forms: meningitis (50 percent of cases), blood infection (30 percent) and pneumonia (10 percent) with other forms accounting for the remaining (10 percent) of the cases, according to the (CDC).
Thirteen serogroups of N. meningitidis have been identified and described of which six (A, B, C, X, Y, and W135) are responsible for meningococcal disease with greater than 99 percent of meningococcal infections caused by serogroups A, B, C, 29E, or W-135. A serogroup is defined as “a group of bacteria containing a common antigen, sometimes including more than one serotype, species, or genus” by Mosby’s Medical Dictionary. An antigen is defined “as any substance capable of inducing a specific immune response and of reacting with the products of that response’ by Mosby’s Medical Dictionary. Antigens are substances including bacteria, toxins or implanted cells from organs that when they enter the body stimulate the production of antibodies. Antibodies are part of the immune system and are proteins generally found in the blood that detect and destroy invaders, like bacteria and viruses.
Since World War II, serogroups B and C are the chief cause of meningococcal meningitis in the U.S. Prior to the war, serogroup A was the chief cause of the disease. For the Americas and Europe, serogroup B is the predominant cause of the disease followed by serogroup C.
Historically and globally the main cause of epidemic meningococcal disease is serogroup A, which predominates in Africa and Asia. The sub-Saharan Africa meningitis belt extends from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east. The meningitis belt has by far the highest rate of meningococcal meningitis with serogroup A accounting for an estimated 80-85 percent of all cases with epidemics occurring at 7 to 14 year intervals, according to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO).
The N. meningitides bacterium may enter the body through the nose or mouth. The bacteria are in droplets of respiratory or throat secretions that are transmitted from person to person when a person kisses someone or coughs and sneezes on someone. The sharing of anything that someone has put in or near their mouth such as a drinking glass or eating utensils are activities to be avoided. Kissing, smoking, being exposed to smoke and being in crowded rooms such as bars and college dormitories are possible activities that could spread the N. meningitides bacteria.
One form of meningococcal disease is meningococcal meningitis, a serious bacterial infection that has the potential to kill a healthy person within one day of the first appearance of the disease’s symptoms. The disease can start with extreme fatigue and an abrupt high fever, headache, painful stiff neck, nausea and vomiting. Other symptoms include irritability, confusion, inability to look at bright lights, rash, convulsion and unconsciousness. In babies the arching of the back and high pitch screaming are symptoms as well.
Meningococcal meningitis can be easily misdiagnosed as the flu. Therefore individuals with any of the above symptoms that occur suddenly and severely should seek medical attention immediately at your hospital’s emergency room. The disease progresses very rapidly and if not treated early with penicillin or antibiotics can result in death or permanent disabilities including brain damage, hearing loss, seizures or limb amputation. If left untreated Meningococcal meningitis is fatal in 50 percent of all case, according to the WHO. Even in cases where the disease is diagnosed early and treatment started, 5 to 10 percent of the patients die within 24 to 48 hours from onset of the symptoms.
Meningococcal meningitis is a rare disease with about 1,400 to 3,000 Americans coming down with the disease annually including 100 to 125 cases on college campuses. However, it can be a fatal bacterial infection with about 150 to 300 deaths per year including about 5 to 15 students on college campuses, according to the American College Health Association. College students living in dormitories are more likely to catch meningococcal disease than the general college population because of crowded conditions and sharing of personal items such as drinking glasses and eating utensils.
In the U.S. for the period 2005 through 2010 there were about 1,000 reported cases annually caused by serogroups B, C and Y, according to the CDC. For developing countries and the Meningitis Belt of sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of the disease is much greater and caused by serogroups A, X and W135.
There are currently three vaccines available for the serogroup A, C, Y and W135. There are no FDA approved vaccines for serogroups B and X. However, the Swiss drug company Novaritis has developed a new vaccine called Bexsero® that would cover five strains including serogroup B.
A second form of Meningococcal disease is meningococcal septicemia (“blood poisoning”), a form of sepsis, which is less common but often more severe and fatal than meningococcal meningitis. The meningococcus bacteria multiply uncontrollably in the bloodstream and release toxins into the blood that break down the walls of the blood vessels. This allows blood to leak into the skin causing a characteristic hemorrhagic rash. This rash can occur anywhere on the body and if left untreated will grow and multiple in other areas of the body. The rashes resemble fresh bruises under the skin and will not blanch or turn white if pressed.
Severe sepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition if not treated with antibiotics and intravenous fluids. Antibiotics are drugs that destroy or weaken bacteria and are used to treat various types of bacterial infections.
You are free to choose. Which will it be, the blue pill or the red pill, meningitis vaccination or opt out?
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Mandatory Meningitis Vaccine in Texas!
The State of Texas is now mandating that all students receive meningitis vaccine within 5 years of starting college. There are many problems with this policiy and its effectiveness is highly questionable, as you will see.
If you are living in Texas, maybe you can do the same to your government and prevent this vaccine from being mandatory. news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoDnwJjGw6Y
law:http://www.reslife.txstate.edu/new-students/Bacterial-Meningitis-Vaccination-
Requirement.html stats: http://www.meningitis.org/disease-info/types-causes/trends
different vaccines: http://www.novaccine.com/specific-vaccines/vaccine.asp?v_id=49
Meningitis B most common strain: http://ehealthmd.com/library/meningitis/mg_causes.html
aluminum hydroxide and Alzheimer’s http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19740540
concerns about vaccine: http://www.novaccine.com/vaccine-ineffectiveness/index.asp?sv_id=49 http://vran.org/health-risks/brain-and-neurological-injuries/
Meningitis
Meningitis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 3,000 cases of meningococcal disease occur each year in the United States. Many of those cases are found in adolescents and young adults, particularly those in the college setting. In this video, you can learn about the risk from icyous medical editor, Dr. Mona Khanna.
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Meningitis
“…Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges.[1] The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs.[2] Meningitis can be life-threatening because of the inflammation’s proximity to the brain and spinal cord; therefore the condition is classified as a medical emergency.[1][3]
The most common symptoms of meningitis are headache and neck stiffness associated with fever, confusion or altered consciousness, vomiting, and an inability to tolerate light (photophobia) or loud noises (phonophobia). Sometimes, especially in small children, only nonspecific symptoms may be present, such as irritability and drowsiness. If a rash is present, it may indicate a particular cause of meningitis; for instance, meningitis caused by meningococcal bacteria may be accompanied by a characteristic rash.[1][4]
A lumbar puncture may be used to diagnose or exclude meningitis. This involves inserting a needle into the spinal canal to extract a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the fluid that envelops the brain and spinal cord. The CSF is then examined in a medical laboratory.[3] The usual treatment for meningitis is the prompt application of antibiotics and sometimes antiviral drugs. In some situations, corticosteroid drugs can also be used to prevent complications from overactive inflammation.[3][4] Meningitis can lead to serious long-term consequences such as deafness, epilepsy, hydrocephalus and cognitive deficits, especially if not treated quickly.[1][4] Some forms of meningitis (such as those associated with meningococci, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococci or mumps virus infections) may be prevented by immunization.[1]
Clinical features
Neck stiffness, Texas Meningitis Epidemic of 1911–12.
In adults, a severe headache is the most common symptom of meningitis – occurring in almost 90% of cases of bacterial meningitis, followed by nuchal rigidity (inability to flex the neck forward passively due to increased neck muscle tone and stiffness).[5] The classic triad of diagnostic signs consists of nuchal rigidity, sudden high fever, and altered mental status; however, all three features are present in only 44–46% of all cases of bacterial meningitis.[5][6] If none of the three signs is present, meningitis is extremely unlikely.[6] Other signs commonly associated with meningitis include photophobia (intolerance to bright light) and phonophobia (intolerance to loud noises). Small children often do not exhibit the aforementioned symptoms, and may only be irritable and look unwell.[1] In infants up to 6 months of age, bulging of the fontanelle (the soft spot on top of a baby’s head) may be present. Other features that might distinguish meningitis from less severe illnesses in young children are leg pain, cold extremities, and an abnormal skin color.[7]
Nuchal rigidity occurs in 70% of adult cases of bacterial meningitis.[6] Other signs of meningism include the presence of positive Kernig’s sign or Brudzinski’s sign. Kernig’s sign is assessed with the patient lying supine, with the hip and knee flexed to 90 degrees. In a patient with a positive Kernig’s sign, pain limits passive extension of the knee. A positive Brudzinski’s sign occurs when flexion of the neck causes involuntary flexion of the knee and hip. Although Kernig’s and Brudzinski’s signs are both commonly used to screen for meningitis, the sensitivity of these tests is limited.[6][8] They do, however, have very good specificity for meningitis: the signs rarely occur in other diseases.[6] Another test, known as the “jolt accentuation maneuver” helps determine whether meningitis is present in patients reporting fever and headache. The patient is told to rapidly rotate his or her head horizontally; if this does not make the headache worse, meningitis is unlikely.[6]
Meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (known as “meningococcal meningitis”) can be differentiated from meningitis with other causes by a rapidly spreading petechial rash which may precede other symptoms.[7] The rash consists of numerous small, irregular purple or red spots (“petechiae”) on the trunk, lower extremities, mucous membranes, conjuctiva, and (occasionally) the palms of the hands or soles of the feet. The rash is typically non-blanching: the redness does not disappear when pressed with a finger or a glass tumbler. Although this rash is not necessarily present in meningococcal meningitis, it is relatively specific for the disease; it does, however, occasionally occur in meningitis due to other bacteria.[1] Other clues as to the nature of the cause of meningitis may be the skin signs of hand, foot and mouth disease and genital herpes, both of which are associated with various forms of viral meningitis.[9]
Early complications
A severe case of meningococcal meningitis in which the petechial rash progressed to gangrene and required amputation of all limbs. The patient, Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, survived the disease and became a poster child for a meningitis vaccination campaign in New Zealand.
People with meningitis may develop additional problems in the early stages of their illness. These may require specific treatment, and sometimes indicate severe illness or worse prognosis. The infection may trigger sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response syndrome of falling blood pressure, fast heart rate, high or abnormally low temperature and rapid breathing. Very low blood pressure may occur early, especially but not exclusively in meningococcal illness; this may lead to insufficient blood supply to other organs.[1] Disseminated intravascular coagulation, the excessive activation of blood clotting, may cause both the obstruction of blood flow to organs and a paradoxical increase of bleeding risk. In meningococcal disease, gangrene of limbs can occur.[1] Severe meningococcal and pneumococcal infections may result in hemorrhaging of the adrenal glands, leading to Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, which is often lethal.[10]
The brain tissue may swell, with increasing pressure inside the skull and a risk of swollen brain tissue causing herniation. This may be noticed by a decreasing level of consciousness, loss of the pupillary light reflex, and abnormal posturing.[4] Inflammation of the brain tissue may also obstruct the normal flow of CSF around the brain (hydrocephalus).[4] Seizures may occur for various reasons; in children, seizures are common in the early stages of meningitis (30% of cases) and do not necessarily indicate an underlying cause.[3] Seizures may result from increased pressure and from areas of inflammation in the brain tissue.[4] Focal seizures (seizures that involve one limb or part of the body), persistent seizures, late-onset seizures and those that are difficult to control with medication are indicators of a poorer long-term outcome.[1]
The inflammation of the meninges may lead to abnormalities of the cranial nerves, a group of nerves arising from the brain stem that supply the head and neck area and control eye movement, facial muscles and hearing, among other functions.[1][6] Visual symptoms and hearing loss may persist after an episode of meningitis (see below).[1] Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) or its blood vessels (cerebral vasculitis), as well as the formation of blood clots in the veins (cerebral venous thrombosis), may all lead to weakness, loss of sensation, or abnormal movement or function of the part of the body supplied by the affected area in the brain.[1][4]
Causes
Meningitis is usually caused by infection from viruses or microorganisms. Most cases are due to infection with viruses,[6] with bacteria, fungi, and parasites being the next most common causes.[2] It may also result from various non-infectious causes.[2] …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis
Meningococcal disease
“…Meningococcal disease describes infections caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (also termed meningococcus). It carries a high mortality rate if untreated. While best known as a cause of meningitis, widespread blood infection (sepsis) is more damaging and dangerous. Meningitis and Meningococcemia are major causes of illness, death, and disability in both developed and under developed countries worldwide.
The disease’s host/pathogen interaction is not fully understood. The pathogen originates harmlessly in a large number of the general population, but thereafter can invade the blood stream and the brain, causing serious illness. Over the past few years, experts have made an intensive effort to understand specific aspects of meningococcal biology and host interactions, however the development of improved treatments and effective vaccines will depend on novel efforts by workers in many different fields.[1]
The incidence of endemic meningococcal disease during the last 13 years ranges from 1 to 5 per 100,000 in developed countries, and from 10 to 25 per 100,000 in developing countries. During epidemics the incidence of meningococcal disease approaches 100 per 100,000. There are approximately 2,600 cases of bacterial meningitis per year in the United States, and on average 333,000 cases in developing countries. The case fatality rate ranges between 10 and 20 per cent.[2]
While Meningococcal disease is not as contagious as the common cold (which is spread through casual contact), it can be transmitted through saliva and occasionally through close, prolonged general contact with an infected person. …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningococcal_disease
Menveo
Novartis Says Menveo Met Phase III Trial Enpoints
Dr, Colin Marchant
FDA approves the Novartis quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Menveo®, for use in children from 2 years of age
Expanded age indication of Menveo offers new option to help protect young children from 2 to 10 years of age against potentially devastating meningococcal disease1
Novartis to resubmit Menveo infant indication within a few months
Basel, January 31, 2010
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Novartis announced today that it received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of Menveo® (Meningococcal [Groups A, C, Y and W-135] Oligosaccharide Diphtheria CRM197 Conjugate Vaccine) for active immunization to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y and W-135 in individuals 2 to 10 years of age1. Menveo received initial FDA approval in 2010 for use in adolescents and adults from 11 to 55 years of age1.
The FDA approval of Menveo for use in children 2 to 10 years of age is based on Phase III trial data involving 5,297 participants in that age group. In the pivotal trial, the safety and immunogenicity of Menveo against each of the four serogroups were compared with those of the other currently US-licensed ACW-135Y meningococcal conjugate vaccine
1. Novartis also agreed to conduct three post marketing studies.
Separately, Novartis received a Refuse To File (RTF) letter from the FDA regarding the Company’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for the use of Menveo in infants from 2 to 12 months. The sBLA had been submitted to the FDA in November 2010. Novartis plans to resubmit a sBLA in 2011 for the expanded use of Menveo in infants and toddlers from 2 months to 2 years old. …”
About Menveo
As of January 2011, Menveo is registered in more than 40 countries for active immunization to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by
Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, W-135 and Y in people from 11 years of age. Menveo has been administered to more than 18,500 participants in clinical trials across all age groups worldwide, and studies are ongoing in infants, toddlers, adolescents and adults2. Menveo received initial FDA licensure in May 2010 for use in adolescents and adults (11 to 55 years of age)1. Pivotal phase III data presented in October 2010 at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) showed that Menveo induced immune responses in a high percentage of infants against four important meningococcal disease-causing serogroups (A, C, Y and W-135)2.
http://www.novartisvaccines.com/newsroom/media-releases/2011/418761_Menveo.pdf
Novartis submits Bexsero®, a multi-component meningococcal B vaccine, for regulatory review in Europe
Bexsero is the first vaccine with the potential to offer broad coverage against a large number of circulating, deadly disease-causing MenB strains1,2
Data from more than 7,500 subjects support use of the vaccine in infants from two months of age and older, adolescents, and adults3,4,5
Basel, December 23, 2010 –
Novartis announced today that it has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Bexsero® (Multi-Component Meningococcal B Vaccine; formerly known as 4CMenB). Upon approval, Bexsero will be the first broad-coverage vaccine licensed for use against disease caused by meningococcal serogroup B bacteria (MenB) in all European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries1, 2. Submission is supported by comprehensive clinical and epidemiological data which characterize the safety and immunogenicity profile, and the predicted coverage of Bexsero3, 4, 5.
“The Bexsero submission in the EU is an important milestone toward achieving the world’s first broad-coverage MenB vaccine through our unique multi-component approach
1, 2,” said Andrin Oswald, Head of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Division. “Meningococcal disease is sudden and aggressive, leaving little time for treatment6, 7. Proactive vaccination of individuals has been shown to offer the best protection against fatal infectious diseases. Novartis is committed to providing vaccines to protect people of all ages, including infants, and against all causes, of meningococcal disease.”
http://www.novartisvaccines.com/newsroom/media-releases/2010/411340_Bexsero_MenB.pdf
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‘Joint Statement of Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, and Jacob Lew, Director of the Office of Management And Budget, on Budget Results for Fiscal Year 2011
10/14/2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jacob Lew today released details of the final fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget results. Although lower than expected last February, the FY 2011 deficit remained elevated at $1.299 trillion, which is essentially flat in nominal terms relative to last year’s deficit. In making the announcement, Geithner and Lew underscored the Administration’s commitment to enacting deficit reduction that puts Federal finances back on a sustainable path while providing near-term support for jobs and economic growth.
In August, President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). The BCA achieves a significant down payment on deficit reduction by cutting discretionary Government spending by nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years. It also charges a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in savings.
In September, President Obama put forward his Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction. The plan includes and fully pays for the American Jobs Act – which delivers tax relief for businesses and working families; provides tax credits for the hiring of veterans and the long-term unemployed; makes investments toward rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure; and includes other key measures to help put more Americans back to work. Additionally, combined with the nearly $1 trillion in discretionary spending cuts included in the BCA, the President’s plan will achieve more than $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years.
“Congress has an opportunity now to pass reforms to reduce future deficits and strengthen economic growth,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. “I urge Congress to act on the President’s proposals.”
“This report confirms that we cannot waste any time in jumpstarting economic growth and job creation to lay the foundation for a stronger economy and lower future deficits. Last month, the President delivered a plan to Congress to do just that. It lives up to the simple idea that, as a Nation, we can live within our means while still making the investments we need to prosper – from a jobs bill that is needed right now to long-term investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure. It follows a balanced approach: asking everyone to do their part, so no one has to bear all of the burden. And it says that everyone – including millionaires and billionaires – should pay their fair share. We urge Congress to act now in passing measures that would get our economy back on a sustainable path,” OMB Director Jacob Lew stated.
Summary of Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Results
Although lower than the estimate in the President’s FY 2012 Budget last February, the FY 2011 deficit remained elevated as a result of the continued effects of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, which have put a persistent strain on Federal revenues and outlays. The economy has begun to recover with the aid of efforts including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), financial market interventions, and further fiscal support enacted last December. The recession, however, was deeper than originally reported, and the return to economic growth has been further slowed by strong headwinds this year in the form of higher energy prices, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and a broader global economic slowdown.
Year-end data from the September 2011 Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government show that the deficit for FY 2011 was $1.299 trillion. As a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit was 8.7 percent of GDP, down from 9.0 percent of GDP in FY 2010. In nominal terms, the FY 2011 deficit was essentially flat – a $4 billion or 0.3 percent increase – relative to last year’s deficit.
The FY 2011 deficit was $347 billion or 21 percent less than the estimate in the President’s Budget, and $17 billion or 1.3 percent less than estimated in the Mid-Session Review (MSR) of the Budget.
Table 1. Total Receipts, Outlays, and Deficit (in billions of dollars)
| Receipts | Outlays | Deficit | |
| FY 2010 Actual | 2,162 | 3,456 | -1,294 |
| Percentage of GDP | 15.1% | 24.1% | 9.0% |
| FY 2011 Estimates: | |||
| 2012 Budget | 2,174 | 3,819 | -1,645 |
| 2012 Mid-Session Review | 2,314 | 3,630 | -1,316 |
| FY 2011 Actual | 2,302 | 3,601 | -1,299 |
| Percentage of GDP | 15.4% | 24.1% | 8.7% |
The slight uptick in the nominal deficit from last year was due to higher outlays that were nearly offset by higher receipts. Government receipts totaled $2.302 trillion in FY 2011. Receipts were $141 billion higher than in FY 2010, an increase of 6.5 percent. Even with the extension of tax provisions in the December 2010 Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act, FY 2011 collections were significantly higher for individual income tax receipts. Collections also increased for excise tax receipts, customs duties and deposits of earnings from the Federal Reserve. These increases were offset somewhat by decreases in social insurance and retirement receipts (reflecting the payroll tax relief enacted in December), corporation income tax receipts, and estate and gift tax receipts. As a percentage of GDP, receipts equaled 15.4 percent, slightly higher than the 15.1 percent of GDP last year.
Outlays for FY 2011 were $145 billion above those in FY 2010, an increase of 4.2 percent. As a percentage of GDP, total outlays were 24.1 percent, unchanged from the prior year. Outlays for annually appropriated programs as a whole changed very little from the prior year because they were operating under a series of continuing resolutions culminating in the passage of the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act in April. Higher spending for interest on the public debt, Medicare, and Social Security accounted for $110 billion of the $145 billion increase in outlays relative to FY 2010. Notably, spending for unemployment benefits decreased by $30 billion from FY 2010. Outlays were $218 billion less than estimated in the President’s FY 2012 Budget.
The Federal Government primarily finances deficits by borrowing from the public. Borrowing from the public is also affected by other factors, such as changes in the Treasury operating cash balance. The U.S. Government holds significant financial assets, which must be offset against debt held by the public and other financial liabilities to achieve a more complete understanding of the Government’s financial condition. Federal borrowing from the public, net of financial assets, increased by $1.299 trillion during FY 2011 to $9.302 trillion, or 62.2 percent of GDP. (This measure of net borrowing, as reported in the Monthly Treasury Statement, excludes the Federal Government’s holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stock. If those stock holdings were included, net borrowing as a percentage of GDP would be smaller by roughly one percentage point.)
Fiscal Year 2011 Receipts
Total receipts for FY 2011 were $2.302 trillion, $12 billion lower than the MSR estimate of $2.314 trillion. This net decrease in receipts was attributable in large part to lower-than-estimated collections of corporation income taxes and miscellaneous receipts, which were only partially offset by higher-than-estimated collections of individual income taxes, social insurance and retirement receipts, and excise taxes.
Table 2 displays actual receipts and estimates from the Budget and the MSR by source.
Individual income taxes were $1,091 billion, $2 billion higher than the MSR estimate. Lower-than-expected refunds increased individual income tax collections by $5 billion relative to the MSR. This increase was partially offset by lower-than-estimated withholding and lower-than-estimated nonwithheld payments of individual income tax liability, which were both $1 billion below the MSR estimate.
Corporation income taxes were $181 billion, $13 billion lower than the MSR estimate. This decrease reflected lower-than-expected payments of 2011 corporation income tax liability, attributable in large part to slower economic growth relative to what was assumed for the MSR. Delays in certain filing and payment deadlines granted by the Internal Revenue Service in response to recent natural disasters may have also contributed to the shortfall in this source of receipts.
Social insurance and retirement receipts were $819 billion, $3 billion higher than the MSR estimate. Higher-than-estimated collections of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes increased this source of receipts by $2 billion relative to the MSR. Higher-than-expected unemployment insurance receipts, attributable to higher-than-estimated deposits by States to the unemployment insurance trust fund to replenish depleted balances, increased this source of receipts by an additional $2 billion relative to the MSR estimate.
Excise taxes were $72 billion, $2 billion higher than the MSR estimate of $70 billion. This increase was attributable to higher-than-expected demand for taxed goods.Estate and gift taxes were $7 billion, the same as the MSR estimate.
Customs duties were $30 billion, the same as the MSR estimate.
Miscellaneous receipts were $102 billion, $6 billion lower than the MSR estimate. Lower-than-expected deposits of earnings by the Federal Reserve System, attributable in large part to lower-than-expected returns on the Federal Reserve’s investment portfolio, accounted for $4 billion of the decrease in miscellaneous receipts relative to the MSR estimate.
Fiscal Year 2011 Outlays
Total outlays were $3.601 trillion for FY 2011, $29 billion below the MSR estimate.
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1328.aspx
MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
OF THE UNITED STATES
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
TABLE I -- SUMMARY OF TREASURY SECURITIES OUTSTANDING, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
(Millions of dollars)
Amount Outstanding
Title Debt Held Intragovernmental Totals
By the Public Holdings
Marketable:
Bills....................................... 1,475,557 1,948 1,477,505
Notes....................................... 6,406,983 5,510 6,412,493
Bonds....................................... 1,016,407 4,006 1,020,413
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities..... 705,352 340 705,693
Federal Financing Bank 1 ................. 0 8,441 8,441
Total Marketable a........................... 9,604,300 20,246 2 9,624,546
Nonmarketable:
Domestic Series............................. 29,995 0 29,995
Foreign Series.............................. 2,986 0 2,986
State and Local Government Series........... 151,831 0 151,831
United States Savings Securities............ 185,187 0 185,187
Government Account Series................... 151,346 4,642,570 4,793,916
Hope Bonds 19............................... 0 493 493
Other....................................... 1,386 0 1,386
Total Nonmarketable b........................ 522,731 4,643,063 5,165,795
Total Public Debt Outstanding ................ 10,127,031 4,663,309 14,790,340 TABLE II -- STATUTORY DEBT LIMIT, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
(Millions of dollars)
Amount Outstanding
Title Debt Held Intragovernmental Totals
By the Public 17, 2Holdings
Debt Subject to Limit: 17, 20
Total Public Debt Outstanding............... 10,127,031 4,663,309 14,790,340
Less Debt Not Subject to Limit:
Other Debt ............................... 487 0 487
Unamortized Discount 3................... 19,429 14,948 34,376
Federal Financing Bank 1 ............ 0 8,441 8,441
Hope Bonds 19............................. 0 493 493
Plus Other Debt Subject to Limit:
Guaranteed Debt of Government Agencies 4 10 0 10
Total Public Debt Subject to Limit ......... 10,107,126 4,639,427 14,746,553
Statutory Debt Limit 5..................................................................... 15,194,000
Balance of Statutory Debt Limit............................................................. 447,447
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY
THE BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
www.TreasuryDirect.gov
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June 22, 2011 03:21 PM PDT
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Segment 0: Jon Huntsman Launches 2012 Candidacy for President At Liberty Park–Should Become A Democrat Like John V. Lindsay And Run Against President Obama in 2012!–Videos
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Segment 1: Republican Candidates For President Romney, Cain, and Johnson Refuse To Sign Pro-Life Citizen’s Pledge–While Sarah Palin’s Trig’s Creator E-Mail Moves Millions–Videos
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Segment 2: Rick Perry/Sarah Palin Republican Establishment Candidate Ticket vs. Ron Paul/Michele Bachmann Republican Constitutional Candidate Ticket for the 2012 Presidential Race–Videos
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Segment 3: The Next President Of The United States Tells Truth To Power At Republican Leadership Conference–Great Speech!
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Segment 4: Bloomberg Poll Bad News For Obama–Only 30% Certain They Will Vote For Obama in 2012!–66% Think Country On The Wrong Track!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 32
June 15, 2011 03:10 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 32, June 15, 2011
Segment 0: Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition–MOMMA–You Need MOMMA To Win A Presidential Race!–Videos
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Segment 1: Republican Presidential Debate In New Hampshire June 13, 2011–American People The Winner–Obama The Loser–Videos
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Segment 2: The Political Issues of 2012 Elections: #1–Unemployment–Jobs, #2–Government Spending–Balanced Budgets, #3-Tax Reform–The FairTax, #4-Inflation–End The Fed, #5-Wars–Bring The Troops Home–Videos
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Segment 3: Pronk Presidential Prediction–The Winner Is?–The American People!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 31
June 08, 2011 03:17 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 31: June 8, 2011
Segment 0: ENTJ–Know Thyself–This above all: to thine own self be true–Videos
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Segment 1: A Breach of Public Trust–Hound Dogs–Clinton, Weiner, and Obama–Notorious Habitual Liars–Wake Up–Start A Revolution–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 2: June 2011–Unemployment Situation Worsens–9.1% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) with 13,900,000 Unemployed and 15.8% Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) With 24,283,000 Americans Looking For Full Time Jobs!–Great Obama Depression (GOD)!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 30
June 02, 2011 01:26 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show, June 2, 2011
Segment 0: The Facebook Effect–Videos
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Segment 2: Paul Allen–Idea Man: A Memoir By The Cofounder of Microsoft–Videos
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Segment 3: Last Dance For Love–Congress Blocks Debt Limit Hike–For Now–Who Is The Political Class Fooling–Bring The Troops and Jobs Home and Send The Bureaucrats and Big Spenders Home–Save Medicare and Social Security–Hot Stuff–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 29
May 26, 2011 01:12 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 29, May 26, 2011
Segment 1: Herman Cain–The Tea Party Movement Candidate–Running On Cutting Spending, Opposing Higher Debt Ceiling, Enforcing Immigration Laws, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Nominating Pro Life Judges, And Passing The FairTax–Common Sense Solutions!–Videos
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Segment 2: Taxman Obama’s Hidden Tax Increase On The Rich That Results In Fewer Jobs And Lower Economic Growth vs. Ryan’s Long and Winding Road To Economic Stagnation vs. Senators Lee, DeMint and Paul’s Stairway To Peace and Prosperity With A Balanced Budget!–Videos
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Segment 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress–A Lesson In Leadership–Videos
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Segment 4: Memo To Washington Republican Party Establishment–You Are Not Listening To The American People–Read Our Lips–”Cut Spending and Balance The Budget Starting With Fiscal Year 2012″–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 28
May 18, 2011 04:26 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 28, May 18, 2011
Segment 1: Segment 1: Newt Gingrich Running For President As A Big Government Interventionist Republican Progressive aka Green “Compassionate” Conservative?–Favors Individual Health Care Mandates While Attacking Paul Ryan As A Right Wing Radical Social Engineer For Proposing A Premium Support or $15,000 Voucher System To Save Medicare From Bankruptcy!–Videos
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Segment 2: Leave It To Beaver–Newt Gingrich–The Beaver Puppet of The Republican Washington D.C. Establishment Political Class With It Social Engineered Warfare and Welfare Economy with A $3,500 Billion Unbalanced Budget For Fiscal Year 2012 with Nearly $1,000 Billion In Deficit Spending!–Videos
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Segment 3: Ron Paul Running For President Of The United States in 2012–It Is Official–The Third Time Is The Charm!–Videos
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Segment 4: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
Pronk Pops Show 27
May 11, 2011 10:13 AM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 27, May 10, 2011
Segment 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) Increased To 9.0% With 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed and Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) Increased To 15.9% With 24.4 Million Americans Seeking Full Time Job–Economy Adds 244,000 Jobs But Initial Unemployment Claims Hit Eight Month High of 474,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: OMI-Obama Misery Index–U.S. Misery Index Is Rising As Both The Unemployment Rate and Inflation Rate Increase!–Videos
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Segment 3: Segment 3: Speaker Boehner’s Address to the Economic Club of New York on Jobs, Debt, Gas Prices–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 26
Pronk Pops Show 26, May 5, 2011
Segment 1: How Did Bin Laden Bankrupt America?–Was Osama Bin Landen Executed For Bankrupting America?–Yes, President Obama Wants The Credit For Bankrupting America!–Videos
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Segment 2:Segment 2: President Obama Is The Reason Your Gasoline Prices Are Going Up!–American People Favor Drilling For Oil and Gas!–Drill Baby Drill–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 25
April 27, 2011 11:28 AM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 25, April 26, 2011
Segment 0: Eva Cassidy–A Singer’s Singer
Segment 1: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 3: President Obama Is The Reason Your Gasoline Prices Are Going Up!–American People Favor Drilling For Oil and Gas!–Drill Baby Drill–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 24
Pronk Pops Show 24: April 19, 2011
Segment 0: S&P Rating Outlook Changed From “Stable” To “Negative” For U.S. Treasury Debt–Videos
Segment 1: Who is John Galt? Who is Ayn Rand–Videos
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Segment 2: President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Speech Of April 13, 2011–Eat The Rich And Killing The American Dream Class Warfare–Cuts National Security Spending and Raise Taxes On The Rich–Produces Massive Deficits, National Debt, and Higher Unemployment For 12 More Years–Progressive Radical Socialist Economic Stagflation–Videos
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Segment 3: The FairTax (National Consumption Sales Tax) vs. The Flat Tax (One Rate Federal Income Tax)–Who Pays The Most Federal Individual Income Tax? Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 23
Pronk Pops Show 23: April 12, 2011
Segment 0: Sidney Lumet–Rest In Peace–Videos
Segment 1: Tea Party Movement Demands Passage of Balanced Budget Amendment and The FairTax As The Price For Raising The National Statutory Debt Limit of $ 14,294,000,000 One Last Time By $1,000,000,000,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: The FairTax (National Consumption Sales Tax) vs. The Flat Tax (One Rate Federal Income Tax)–Who Pays The Most Federal Individual Income Tax? Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 22 (Part 2)
Pronk Pops Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 22 (Part 1)
Pronk Pops: Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 0: Glenn Beck Ending His Show At Fox News
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 21
Pronk Pops Show 21, March 29, 2010
Segment 1: The Truth And Consequences About Undeclared Wars–Real Strange Bedfellows–Obama Allies U.S. with Libyan Rebels Including Islamic Jihadists, Moslem Brotherhood, and Al-Qaeda!–Give Peace A Chance–AC-130 Gunship–A-10 Warthogs–F-15E Strike Eagles and Special Operation Smash Squads
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Pronk Pops Show 20
Pronk Pops Show 20: March 22, 2011
Segment 1:F-15 Crashes In Libya
Segment 2
ne Unconstitutional and Undeclared War Too Many: The Great Pretender, Peace Candidate And Noble Peace Prize Winner, President Barack Obama Undeclared War On Libya’s Muammar Ghaddafi In Defense Of Libyian Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Rebels Linked To al-Qaeda and The BP Libyian Oil Deal Linked To Obama Campaign Contributions–A Political Payoff!–Obama Has To Go In 2012–Videos
Segment 3:Earthquake Damages Japanese Nuclear Plant At Fukushima Daiichi, Four Explosions and Four Nuclear Reactors Flooded With Seawater To Contain Release Of Radioactive Material and Plant Released Radioactive Materials To Stop Pressure Buildup–Partial Meltdown Of Nuclear Core Feared–Radioactive Material Escaping From Plant–Over 250,000 Ordered Evacuated From 20 Kilometer (12.4 Miles) Radius From Plant–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 19
Pronk Pops Show 19: March 8, 2011
Segment 1: The Washington Political Elites of Both Parties Are Not Serious About Balancing The Federal Budget And Funding Entitlement Liabilities–Send In The Clowns–Don’t Bother There Here–Videos
Segment 2, Gallup–U.S. Unemployment Hits 10.3% In February 2011 Vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) U.S. Unemployment Rate Declined By .1% To 8.9% in February 2011 With Job Creation of 192,000 In February 2011–Over 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed More Than Worse Month of Great Depression!
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Pronk Pops Show 18: March 3, 2011
Segment 1: Remembering The Brooklyn Dodgers and Duke Snider
Segment 2: The National Debt Will Hit $20,000,000,000,000 By 2020!
Segment 3 Public Sector Unions vs. The America People: Replacing The American Dream With The Socialist Union Nightmare
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Pronk Pop Show 17
Pronk Pops Show 17: February 22, 2011
Black History Month–Progressives–Eugenics–Black Population Control–Abortion–Black Genocide–Planned Parenthood–Barack Obama
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Pronk Pops Show 16
Pronk Pops Show 16: February 15, 2011
Conservative Political Action Conference 2011
President Obama’s Saint Valentine’s Massacre of The American People–Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Buster–Spending $3,729 Billion–Taxes $2,627 Billion–Deficit $1,101 Billion–Dead On Arrival–DOA– 3 Million Tea Party Patriots To March On Washington D.C. On Friday, April 15, 2011 In Protest!
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Pronk Pops Show 15: Hour 3
Pronk Pops Show 15:February 8,2011, Hour 3
Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Obama’s Unbelievable Unemployment Numbers
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Pronk Pops Show 15: February 8, 2011 Hour 2
Rolling Power Outages in Texas
Obama Care Declared Unconstitutional and Void By Federal Judge
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Pronk Pops Show 15: February 8,2011, Hour 1
Super Storm and Super Bowl In Dallas, Texas
Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emission and Global Warming–Science vs. Politics
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Pronk Pops Show 14
Pronk Pops Show 14: January 27, 2011
The Big Lie and Free Speech
President Obama’s State of the Union Campaign Speech
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Pronk Pops Show 13
Pronk Pops Show 13: December 9, 2010
Latest News Update on WikiLeaks
Federal Reserve Unconventional Monetary Policy
President Obama and Republicans Agree To Two Year Tax Rate Extension and
One Year Unemployment Benefit Extension–More Deficit Spending and Debt!
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Pronk Pops Show 12: December 8, 2010
News Update On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
The Chairman of The Federal Reserve and Quantitative Easing 2
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Pronk Pops Show 11: December 3, 2010
News and Commentary On November 2010 Unemployment Rate and Level Statistics
WikiLeaks
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Pronk Pops Show 10
Pronk Pops Show 10: December 1, 2010
Update on new TSA Airport Screening Procedures
Portland, Oregon Terrorist Bomber Arrested by F.B.I.
WikiLeaks Posts Department of State Cables
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Pronk Pops Show 9
Pronk Pops Show 9: November 19, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Responds To Critics of Monetary Policy
Transportation Security Administration or TSA New Screening Procedures:
Full Body Scanners and Extended Pat-Downs
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Pronk Pops Commentary 1
Pronk Pops Commentary 1: November 11, 2010
Stop Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing or Money Printing
Pronk Pops Show 8
Pronk Pops Show 8: November 10, 2010
Tea Party Major Issues: Jobs, Spending, Deficits, Debt, Taxes, Health Care and Illegal Immigration
Tea Party Stars: Senators: Rand Paul and Marco Rubio
Republican Tea Party Test: Cutting Federal Spending By Over $1,000 Billion To Balance The Budget For Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, and 2013.
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Pronk Pops Show 7
Pronk Pops Show 7: November 9, 2010
Unemployment News
Tea Party Effect On 2010 Elections
Key Issues: Federal Budget Deficits and National Debt
Cutting Federal Government Spending and Balancing The Federal Budget
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Pronk Pops Show 6
Pronk Pops Show 6: November 3, 2010
Winning Elections With MOMMA (Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition) and The Tea Party Movement Effect
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Pronk Pops Show 5
Pronk Pops Show 5: October 27, 2010
Democratic Party’s National Attack Ad Campaign on Candidates and the Flat Tax
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Pronk Pops Show 4: October 20, 2010
Money, Quantitative Easing and Inflation in the United States Economy
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Pronk Pops Show 3: October 14, 2010
Unemployment and inflation in the United States economy
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The 10:10 carbon emission ad campaign on climate change
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replacing Vice President Joseph Biden on the 2010 Democratic Party ticket
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Pronk Pops Show 1: September 29, 2010
University of Texas at Austin shooting/suicide
The Tea Party Movement in the United States
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My choice for president is Ron Paul. Why? The American people are asking three important questions of all the candidates. Can I trust this candidate? Was the candidate right on the economic issues in the past? Does the candidate know what needs to be done to get America growing and working again? For Paul the American people find the answers to these questions to be yes.
I greatly respect the character, honesty and integrity of Paul. As an economist and former financial advisor, I am equally impressed that Paul not only predicted the recent financial crisis, he understood its’ causes. In an article entitled Predictions, dated April 26, 2002, Paul said, “In the next decade the American people will become poorer and less free, while they become more dependent on the government for economic security.” He knows what needs to be done to lead the U.S. economy back to high rates of economic growth and employment–reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
Source: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011, Historical Table 1.2
In just three years, President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party-controlled House and Senate ran up massive budgetary deficits and debt totaling more than $4 trillion. The United States is broke. The American people are searching for a fiscally responsible president that will balance the government’s budget and establish the necessary economic conditions for the creation of more than 30 million full-time jobs.
Federal government spending outlays are largely for warfare and welfare entitlements. This spending encourages businesses and individuals to become dependent upon the government for contracts and handouts. From less than 3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product prior to 1930, federal government spending outlays have increased in percentage terms by more than eight-fold to more than 24 percent of GDP.
On Oct.17 in Las Vegas, the day before the Republican debates, presidential candidate Ron Paul unveiled his economic “Plan to Restore America” to peace and prosperity by limiting the size and scope of the federal government. Paul would stop foreign wars and bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, eliminate all foreign aid, reduce the federal government’s budget by $1 trillion in the first year, abolish all corporate subsidies, reduce the federal labor force by 10 percent and permanently close the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Interior, and Housing and Urban Development. For most of the remaining departments, their budget outlays would be frozen. The federal budget would be balanced in three years in fiscal year 2015.
Paul would also shut down the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), currently part of the Department of Homeland Security, both of which were created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The airlines would have the responsibility for security and screening passengers that are boarding their aircraft.
In the tax policy area, Paul would extend the Bush tax rate cuts, eliminate estate taxes, allow U.S.companies operating abroad to repatriate their capital without additional taxation and reduce the highest corporate tax rate in the world from 35 percent to a more competitive 15 percent. Paul wants to reform the existing income tax code by going to a much simpler and fairer tax system. He would eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
In the past, Paul has indicated his support for the FairTax. This tax reform proposal would eliminate the IRS and replace all federal income taxes including the corporate, personal, payroll (Social Security and Medicare), capital gains, alternative minimum, gift and estate taxes with one broad-based national retail sales consumption tax on the sale of all new goods and services. The FairTax has a progressive tax refund feature called a prebate. Every month, each American citizen including children would receive from the federal government a prebate to pay for the upcoming month’s sales tax on life’s necessities such as food and clothing.
If the personal income tax is eliminated, how does Paul’s plan pay for the federal government? A 15 percent corporate income tax and payroll taxes would simply not bring in enough revenues to pay for an even down-sized federal government.
Recently, Paul indicated that he is against Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax reform plan, particularly the proposed new national sales tax. Under Cain’s plan, the existing income and payroll taxes would be eliminated and replaced with a flat 9 percent business income tax, a flat 9 percent personal income tax, and a 9 percent national sales tax. Cain argues that his proposal is a bridge to the eventual passage of the FairTax.
Is Paul still in favor of the FairTax? If the answer is no, then how would Paul’s plan pay for government spending or outlays exceeding corporate income and payroll tax revenue or receipts? Paul’s plan does not answer this question. I hope Paul again reiterates his support of the FairTax. Paul could come out with a modified FairTax proposal, call it FairTax Less, where the actual FairTax tax rate declines each year as government becomes smaller and the budget is balanced.
Those already receiving Social Security, Medicare and veteran entitlements or approaching qualification for these programs will not be affected.The plan honors the promises the federal government has made to seniors and veterans. However, Paul provides those younger than 25 with the option to leave these programs. This is a very popular option with the young, as well as many Americans that would also like this option.
Paul calls for a full audit of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. central bank. However, his proposal does not call for ending the Fed. The proposal does support legislation that would permit competing currencies to stabilize inflation and strengthen the purchasing power of the dollar.
Like most of the other Republican candidates for president, Paul would immediately repeal both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obama Care, and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which would add several more regulatory agencies and hundreds of regulatory rules.
Small and medium-size businesses and community banks have pointed to these two new laws as creating massive business uncertainty and higher business costs that will be paid for by the consumer. Businesses are not growing and creating enough jobs each month to reduce the unemployment rate below 9 percent. Today, more than 25 million Americans are searching for a full-time job.
Paul would also repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed in 2002. The law is considered by many as a very costly intrusion into corporate management. Sarbanes-Oxley has not prevented fraud but has dramatically reduced the number of new public companies created and putU.S.companies at a competitive cost disadvantage with foreign companies.
The Plan to Restore America does differentiate Paul from the other Republican presidential candidates for having a very specific plan to cut government spending and balance the budget. The Republican Party establishment candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, will be hard pressed to come up with a comparable plan.
Instead, they and their cheerleaders in the party establishment and media will first ignore the economic plan, and then attack it. Yet, the fiscal year 2012 Republican House Budget has an estimated deficit of about $1 trillion and will not balance until the late 2030s. Both the Republican Party and Obama’s Democratic Party proposed budgets for fiscal year 2012 which are fiscally irresponsible, with estimated deficits of $1 trillion to $1.2 trillion.
The Tea Party will cheer Paul’s plan and most likely vote for him. Many Democrats, Republicans and independents who are searching for a job and a fiscally responsible president will vote for him. Paul now needs to break into the national polls with the same impressive numbers he has received in many straw polls he has won across the nation. Once this happens, he will be the front-runner.
Paul has money, organization, message, momentum, and ambition or MOMMA. The only open question is, does he have enough of each to win the nomination. I think he does. By mid-March the only candidates in serious contention for the presidential nomination will be the Republican establishment candidate, Mitt Romney and the Republican constitutional candidate, Ron Paul.
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Ron Paul won’t seek re election for Congress–Why? Can You Say–President Ron Paul–Vote For A Committed and Principled Constitutionalist–The Peace and Prosperity Candidate For President–Ron Paul–Videos
Ron Paul On The National Debt Ceiling, Government Deficit Spending and The Federal Reserve–Videos
Ron Paul 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner?–Videos
Money The Milk Of Politics–Romney Leads Republican Field Followed By Paul, Pawlenty, Huntsman and Bachmannn–Cash May Be King–Americans Want A Principled Peace and Prosperity President–Ron Paul–Right On The Issues–Right For America!–Videos
Ron Paul In Depth Interview–Videos
Neo-Conned!–Congressman Ron Paul–Videos
The Next President Of The United States Tells Truth To Power At Republican Leadership Conference–Great Speech!
Neoconservatives–Not New and Not Conservative–American Empire Interventionists
Is Ron Paul An Isolationist?–No–He Is For Free Trade and A Nonterventionist Foreign Policy–Are The NeoCons Warmongers?–Yes–Aggressive Interventionist Foreign Policy–Empire or Nation Building!–Videos
Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann at University of Minnesota–Videos
The Tea Party’s Dream Ticket For 2012–Ron Paul/Michele Bachmann–Campaign For Liberty–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 40
Pronk Pops Show, August 10, 2011
Segment 0: The Warfare and Welfare Economy Worsens With 30 Americans Killed and Over 45 Million Americans On Food Stamps–American People Want A Peace and Prosperity Economy–A Paycheck Not Food Stamps–Stop Out Of Control Spending On Government Interventions Abroad and At Home–Videos
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Segment 1: More GORE–Great Obama Recession Economy–Government Treasury Securities Downgraded From AAA to AA+ With A Negative Outlook By Standard & Poor’s Rating Agency–Too Little Too Late–The Austrian School of Economics Was Right!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 39
Pronk Pops Show 39, August 3, 2011
Segement 0: Will Tea Party Caucus Vote As A Block Against Democratic and Republican Establishment Compromise Bill On Raising National Debt Ceiling By $900 Billion, Adding Over $7,000 Billion To National Debt In The Next Ten Years Plus A Huge Tax Hike in 2013?–The American People Would Like To Know!–Videos
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Segment 1: The Second Obama Recession Starts Or The Great Obama Depression Continues–The Growth Rate of Gross Domestic Product Declines For Four Consecutive Quarters–The Economy Has Peaked And Entered A Period Of Stagflation–Rising Prices, Unemployment And Obama Misery Index!–Ron Paul To The Rescue?–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 38
Pronk Pops Show 38, July 27, 2011
Segment 0: Tea Party Democrats, Republicans, and Independents Betrayed–Tell The Democratic and Republican Establishments To Balance The Budget and Cut The Debt Ceiling–Just Say No To Obama, Reid, Boehner and Ryan Unbalanced Budgets–Videos
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Segment 1: It’s Time For A Permanent, Prevasive and Predictable Stimulus Package–The FairTax–Launching A Peace and Prosperity Economy–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 37
Pronk Pops Show 37, July 21, 2011, Part 1
Segment 0: President Obama Lies and Scares People On Social Security–Stop Spending and Balance The Budget!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 37, July 20, 2011: Segment 1: The American People’s Solution To Economic Stagnation: Increase National Debt Ceiling By $2,000 Billion To $16,300 Billion In Exchange For Passage of A Balanced Budget Amendment And The FairTax Bills And Repealing The Income Tax 16th Amendment To U.S. Constitution–A Balanced, Fair And Transparent Approach To Creating Jobs and Growing A Peace and Prosperity Economy–Videos
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Part 2 Segments 2, 3 and 4 will be broadcast next Wednesday, July 27, 2011 from 3-5pm and posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011
Pronk Pops Show 36
Pronk Pops Show 36, July 13, 2011
Segment 0: Lipstick On A Pig–Great Obama Depression– Deeper and Longer–Official U-3 Unemployment Rate Hits 9.2% In June 2011 With 14 Million Unemployed and Total Unemployment Rate U-6 Hits 16.2% With Over 24.8 Million Americans Seeking Full Time Job–Obama Is Not Working–2012–End An Error!–Fire Obama–Videos
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Segment 1: Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner–Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led To Economic Armageddon–Videos
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Segment 2: Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, Marc Farber and Ron Paul On The National Debt Ceiling and Balancing The Budget–Videos
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Segment 3: Obama’s Gungate: Operation Fast and Furious–Arming Mexican Drug Cartels and Criminals–Killing American and Mexican Citizens–A Pretext For The Ultimate Aim of Disarming The American People and Repealing the Second Amendment–Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, BATFE, ICE and DEA Coverup and Stonewalling–Call For Special Prosecutor–President Obama and Attorney General Holder Should Be Impeached For Obstruction of Justice–Videos–Updated
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Segment 4: Ron Paul won’t seek re election for Congress–Why? Can You Say–President Ron Paul–Vote For A Committed and Principled Constitutionalist–The Peace and Prosperity Candidate For President–Ron Paul–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 35
Pronk Pops Show 35, July 6, 2015
Segment 0: The Meaning of Independence Day–Videos
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Segment 1: The Legal Standard In A Murder Case: Prove It Beyond A Reasonable Doubt–Suspicion And Opinion Is Not Enough–Casey Anthony Murder Case–Not Guilty–Videos
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Segment 2: George Bureau of Investigations Finds Atlanta School Teachers and Principals Cheating Scandal:Raised Students Scores On Tests –Government Corrupt Schools–
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Segment 3: Obama’s Marxist Class Warfare On Millionaires and Billionaires–Tax The Job Creators–President’s Unbalanced Budget Would Result In A Big $1,100 Billion Deficit In Fiscal Year 2012–This Is Obama’s So-Called Balanced Approach–Obama Is Not Working–Fire Obama Right Now!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 34
Pronk Pops Show 34, June 29, 2011
Segment 0: Sexist Elitist Chris Wallace Asks Michele Backmann Are You A Flake?–Chris, Are You A Wimp?–Videos
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Segment 1: Is Ron Paul An Isolationist–No–He Is For Free Trade and A Nonterventionist Foreign Policy–Are The NeoCons Warmongers–Yes–Aggressive Interventionist Foreign Policy–Empire or Nation Building!–Videos
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Segment 2: Cut, Cap, And Balance Pledge–The Washington D.C. Howdy Doody Debt Ceiling Show–”Say Kids What Time Is It?”–Howdy Doody Time–Fiscal Year 2020 Balanced Budget Time–Not Serious–Send In The Clowns–There Already There!– Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 33
Pronk Pops Show 33, June 22, 2011
Segment 0: Jon Huntsman Launches 2012 Candidacy for President At Liberty Park–Should Become A Democrat Like John V. Lindsay And Run Against President Obama in 2012!–Videos
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Segment 1: Republican Candidates For President Romney, Cain, and Johnson Refuse To Sign Pro-Life Citizen’s Pledge–While Sarah Palin’s Trig’s Creator E-Mail Moves Millions–Videos
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Segment 2: Rick Perry/Sarah Palin Republican Establishment Candidate Ticket vs. Ron Paul/Michele Bachmann Republican Constitutional Candidate Ticket for the 2012 Presidential Race–Videos
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Segment 3: The Next President Of The United States Tells Truth To Power At Republican Leadership Conference–Great Speech!
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Segment 4: Bloomberg Poll Bad News For Obama–Only 30% Certain They Will Vote For Obama in 2012!–66% Think Country On The Wrong Track!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 32
Pronk Pops Show 32, June 15, 2011
Segment 0: Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition–MOMMA–You Need MOMMA To Win A Presidential Race!–Videos
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Segment 1: Republican Presidential Debate In New Hampshire June 13, 2011–American People The Winner–Obama The Loser–Videos
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Segment 2: The Political Issues of 2012 Elections: #1–Unemployment–Jobs, #2–Government Spending–Balanced Budgets, #3-Tax Reform–The FairTax, #4-Inflation–End The Fed, #5-Wars–Bring The Troops Home–Videos
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Segment 3: Pronk Presidential Prediction–The Winner Is?–The American People!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 31
Pronk Pops Show 31: June 8, 2011
Segment 0: ENTJ–Know Thyself–This above all: to thine own self be true–Videos
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Segment 1: A Breach of Public Trust–Hound Dogs–Clinton, Weiner, and Obama–Notorious Habitual Liars–Wake Up–Start A Revolution–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 2: June 2011–Unemployment Situation Worsens–9.1% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) with 13,900,000 Unemployed and 15.8% Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) With 24,283,000 Americans Looking For Full Time Jobs!–Great Obama Depression (GOD)!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 30
Pronk Pops Show, June 2, 2011
Segment 0: The Facebook Effect–Videos
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Segment 2: Paul Allen–Idea Man: A Memoir By The Cofounder of Microsoft–Videos
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Segment 3: Last Dance For Love–Congress Blocks Debt Limit Hike–For Now–Who Is The Political Class Fooling–Bring The Troops and Jobs Home and Send The Bureaucrats and Big Spenders Home–Save Medicare and Social Security–Hot Stuff–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 29
Pronk Pops Show 29, May 26, 2011
Segment 1: Herman Cain–The Tea Party Movement Candidate–Running On Cutting Spending, Opposing Higher Debt Ceiling, Enforcing Immigration Laws, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Nominating Pro Life Judges, And Passing The FairTax–Common Sense Solutions!–Videos
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Segment 2: Taxman Obama’s Hidden Tax Increase On The Rich That Results In Fewer Jobs And Lower Economic Growth vs. Ryan’s Long and Winding Road To Economic Stagnation vs. Senators Lee, DeMint and Paul’s Stairway To Peace and Prosperity With A Balanced Budget!–Videos
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Segment 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress–A Lesson In Leadership–Videos
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Segment 4: Memo To Washington Republican Party Establishment–You Are Not Listening To The American People–Read Our Lips–”Cut Spending and Balance The Budget Starting With Fiscal Year 2012″–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 28
May 18, 2011 04:26 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 28, May 18, 2011
Segment 1: Segment 1: Newt Gingrich Running For President As A Big Government Interventionist Republican Progressive aka Green “Compassionate” Conservative?–Favors Individual Health Care Mandates While Attacking Paul Ryan As A Right Wing Radical Social Engineer For Proposing A Premium Support or $15,000 Voucher System To Save Medicare From Bankruptcy!–Videos
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Segment 2: Leave It To Beaver–Newt Gingrich–The Beaver Puppet of The Republican Washington D.C. Establishment Political Class With It Social Engineered Warfare and Welfare Economy with A $3,500 Billion Unbalanced Budget For Fiscal Year 2012 with Nearly $1,000 Billion In Deficit Spending!–Videos
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Segment 3: Ron Paul Running For President Of The United States in 2012–It Is Official–The Third Time Is The Charm!–Videos
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Segment 4: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
Pronk Pops Show 27
May 11, 2011 10:13 AM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 27, May 10, 2011
Segment 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) Increased To 9.0% With 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed and Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) Increased To 15.9% With 24.4 Million Americans Seeking Full Time Job–Economy Adds 244,000 Jobs But Initial Unemployment Claims Hit Eight Month High of 474,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: OMI-Obama Misery Index–U.S. Misery Index Is Rising As Both The Unemployment Rate and Inflation Rate Increase!–Videos
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Segment 3: Segment 3: Speaker Boehner’s Address to the Economic Club of New York on Jobs, Debt, Gas Prices–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 26
April 27, 2011 11:28 AM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 25, April 26, 2011
Segment 0: Eva Cassidy–A Singer’s Singer
Segment 1: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 3: President Obama Is The Reason Your Gasoline Prices Are Going Up!–American People Favor Drilling For Oil and Gas!–Drill Baby Drill–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 24
Pronk Pops Show 24: April 19, 2011
Segment 0: S&P Rating Outlook Changed From “Stable” To “Negative” For U.S. Treasury Debt–Videos
Segment 1: Who is John Galt? Who is Ayn Rand–Videos
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Segment 2: President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Speech Of April 13, 2011–Eat The Rich And Killing The American Dream Class Warfare–Cuts National Security Spending and Raise Taxes On The Rich–Produces Massive Deficits, National Debt, and Higher Unemployment For 12 More Years–Progressive Radical Socialist Economic Stagflation–Videos
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Segment 3: The FairTax (National Consumption Sales Tax) vs. The Flat Tax (One Rate Federal Income Tax)–Who Pays The Most Federal Individual Income Tax? Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 23
Pronk Pops Show 23: April 12, 2011
Segment 0: Sidney Lumet–Rest In Peace–Videos
Segment 1: Tea Party Movement Demands Passage of Balanced Budget Amendment and The FairTax As The Price For Raising The National Statutory Debt Limit of $ 14,294,000,000 One Last Time By $1,000,000,000,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: The FairTax (National Consumption Sales Tax) vs. The Flat Tax (One Rate Federal Income Tax)–Who Pays The Most Federal Individual Income Tax? Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 22 (Part 2)
Pronk Pops Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 22 (Part 1)
Pronk Pops: Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 0: Glenn Beck Ending His Show At Fox News
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 21
Pronk Pops Show 21, March 29, 2010
Segment 1: The Truth And Consequences About Undeclared Wars–Real Strange Bedfellows–Obama Allies U.S. with Libyan Rebels Including Islamic Jihadists, Moslem Brotherhood, and Al-Qaeda!–Give Peace A Chance–AC-130 Gunship–A-10 Warthogs–F-15E Strike Eagles and Special Operation Smash Squads
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Pronk Pops Show 20
Pronk Pops Show 20: March 22, 2011
Segment 1:F-15 Crashes In Libya
Segment 2ne Unconstitutional and Undeclared War Too Many: The Great Pretender, Peace Candidate And Noble Peace Prize Winner, President Barack Obama Undeclared War On Libya’s Muammar Ghaddafi In Defense Of Libyian Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Rebels Linked To al-Qaeda and The BP Libyian Oil Deal Linked To Obama Campaign Contributions–A Political Payoff!–Obama Has To Go In 2012–Videos
Segment 3:Earthquake Damages Japanese Nuclear Plant At Fukushima Daiichi, Four Explosions and Four Nuclear Reactors Flooded With Seawater To Contain Release Of Radioactive Material and Plant Released Radioactive Materials To Stop Pressure Buildup–Partial Meltdown Of Nuclear Core Feared–Radioactive Material Escaping From Plant–Over 250,000 Ordered Evacuated From 20 Kilometer (12.4 Miles) Radius From Plant–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 19
Pronk Pops Show 19: March 8, 2011
Segment 1: The Washington Political Elites of Both Parties Are Not Serious About Balancing The Federal Budget And Funding Entitlement Liabilities–Send In The Clowns–Don’t Bother There Here–Videos
Segment 2, Gallup–U.S. Unemployment Hits 10.3% In February 2011 Vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) U.S. Unemployment Rate Declined By .1% To 8.9% in February 2011 With Job Creation of 192,000 In February 2011–Over 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed More Than Worse Month of Great Depression!
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Pronk Pops Show 18
Pronk Pops Show 18: March 3, 2011
Segment 1: Remembering The Brooklyn Dodgers and Duke Snider
Segment 2: The National Debt Will Hit $20,000,000,000,000 By 2020!
Segment 3 Public Sector Unions vs. The America People: Replacing The American Dream With The Socialist Union Nightmare
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Pronk Pop Show 17
Pronk Pops Show 17: February 22, 2011
Black History Month–Progressives–Eugenics–Black Population Control–Abortion–Black Genocide–Planned Parenthood–Barack Obama
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Pronk Pops Show 16
Pronk Pops Show 16: February 15, 2011
Conservative Political Action Conference 2011
President Obama’s Saint Valentine’s Massacre of The American People–Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Buster–Spending $3,729 Billion–Taxes $2,627 Billion–Deficit $1,101 Billion–Dead On Arrival–DOA– 3 Million Tea Party Patriots To March On Washington D.C. On Friday, April 15, 2011 In Protest!
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Pronk Pops Show 15: Hour 3
Pronk Pops Show 15:February 8,2011, Hour 3
Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Obama’s Unbelievable Unemployment Numbers
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Pronk Pops Show 15: Hour 2
Pronk Pops Show 15: February 8, 2011 Hour 2
Rolling Power Outages in Texas
Obama Care Declared Unconstitutional and Void By Federal Judge
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Pronk Pops Show 15: Hour 1
Pronk Pops Show 15: February 8,2011, Hour 1
Super Storm and Super Bowl In Dallas, Texas
Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emission and Global Warming–Science vs. Politics
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Pronk Pops Show 14
Pronk Pops Show 14: January 27, 2011
The Big Lie and Free Speech
President Obama’s State of the Union Campaign Speech
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Pronk Pops Show 13
Pronk Pops Show 13: December 9, 2010
Latest News Update on WikiLeaks
Federal Reserve Unconventional Monetary Policy
President Obama and Republicans Agree To Two Year Tax Rate Extension and
One Year Unemployment Benefit Extension–More Deficit Spending and Debt!
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Pronk Pops Show 12
Pronk Pops Show 12: December 8, 2010
News Update On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
The Chairman of The Federal Reserve and Quantitative Easing 2
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Pronk Pops Show 11
Pronk Pops Show 11: December 3, 2010
News and Commentary On November 2010 Unemployment Rate and Level Statistics
WikiLeaks
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Pronk Pops Show 10
Pronk Pops Show 10: December 1, 2010
Update on new TSA Airport Screening Procedures
Portland, Oregon Terrorist Bomber Arrested by F.B.I.
WikiLeaks Posts Department of State Cables
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Pronk Pops Show 9
Pronk Pops Show 9: November 19, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Responds To Critics of Monetary Policy
Transportation Security Administration or TSA New Screening Procedures:
Full Body Scanners and Extended Pat-Downs
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Pronk Pops Commentary 1
Pronk Pops Commentary 1: November 11, 2010
Stop Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing or Money Printing
Pronk Pops Show 8
Pronk Pops Show 8: November 10, 2010
Tea Party Major Issues: Jobs, Spending, Deficits, Debt, Taxes, Health Care and Illegal Immigration
Tea Party Stars: Senators: Rand Paul and Marco Rubio
Republican Tea Party Test: Cutting Federal Spending By Over $1,000 Billion To Balance The Budget For Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, and 2013.
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Pronk Pops Show 7
Pronk Pops Show 7: November 9, 2010
Unemployment News
Tea Party Effect On 2010 Elections
Key Issues: Federal Budget Deficits and National Debt
Cutting Federal Government Spending and Balancing The Federal Budget
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Pronk Pops Show 6
Pronk Pops Show 6: November 3, 2010
Winning Elections With MOMMA (Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition) and The Tea Party Movement Effect
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Pronk Pops Show 5
Pronk Pops Show 5: October 27, 2010
Democratic Party’s National Attack Ad Campaign on Candidates and the Flat Tax
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Pronk Pops Show 4
Pronk Pops Show 4: October 20, 2010
Money, Quantitative Easing and Inflation in the United States Economy
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Pronk Pops Show 3
Pronk Pops Show 3: October 14, 2010
Unemployment and inflation in the United States economy
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Pronk Pops Show 2
Pronk Pops Show 2: October 13, 2010
The 10:10 carbon emission ad campaign on climate change
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replacing Vice President Joseph Biden on the 2010 Democratic Party ticket
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Pronk Pops Show 1
Pronk Pops Show 1: September 29, 2010
University of Texas at Austin shooting/suicide
The Tea Party Movement in the United States
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Pronk Plan for A Peace and Prosperity Economy–Videos
“…It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, “in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.” If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them….”
~Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 21, The Federalist Papers
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
~Barry Goldwater
The FairTax: It’s Time
Lugar Cosponsors the FairTax
Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 4 of 4)
Ron Paul July 19th – If the debt is the problem, how do you solve it with more debt?
Ron Paul We Didnt Permit The Bankruptcies FOUR YEARS AGO Problems Got Worse! Debt Exploded
Ron Paul & The Gold Standard
Milton Friedman on The Gold Standard
“If we cannot persuade the public that it is desirable to do these things, we have no right to impose them even if we had the power to do it.”
~ Milton Friedman
The Pronk Plan for A Peace and Prosperity Economy
1. Federal Tax Reform and End The Internal Revenue Service: The FairTax should replace all Federal taxes and the Internal Revenue Service should be ended with all Internal Revenue records destroyed. A bureau of FairTax Revenues (FTR) would be established in the Department of the Treasury to both send monthly prebates to each American citizen and collect FairTax revenues from retailers and the states.
2. Government Spending: surplus budgets to pay down the National Debt by restricting fiscal year spending outlays to 80% of previous year’s FairTax revenue collections with the remaining 20% of revenue collection to pay down the national debt.
3. Size and scope of the government: At least ten Federal Departments, many Federal agencies and hundreds of Federal programs should be closed down permanently. The number of Federal government employees and contract personnel and consultants needs to be cut by at least 50%.
4. National Defense: Budget 5% of our nation’s gross domestic product for national defense, intelligence gathering, securing our borders and homeland security.
5. Foreign Affairs: End US involvement with the United Nations and bring all the troops home from abroad including from the countries of Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and Qatar.
6. Social Security and Medicare: Transform them from a government controlled and operated system to an individual controlled and owned investment system where benefits are based upon payments into a person’s account and investment performance. All persons over the age of forty-five would have the option to remain under the existing Social Security and Medicare programs or go into the new individual controlled and owned system. All persons under age forty-five would establish, control and own their individual disability, life and health insurance and retirement savings accounts with a maximum contributions of twenty-five percent (25%) of their income per year. All persons over the age of sixty-five would continue to receive Social Security and Medicare Benefits under the existing system.
7. Immigration: immigration law enforcement, illegal alien removal and deportation, and controlled and limited legal immigration. The number of legal immigrants each year would range from a minimum of 200,000 persons when the official unemployment rate exceeds eight percent (8%) to a maximum of 500,000 persons per year when the official unemployment rate is less than two percent (2%). All new citizens must speak, read and write English before becoming a United States citizen.
8. Promote competition in education: provide all parents with school vouchers that enable them to choose the school their children attend including home schooling and online schooling.
9. Health Care Reform: affordable, portable, individual, tax favored, and competitive health insurance plans and expanded health savings accounts.
10. End the Federal Reserve System and fiat paper money and institute a new gold backed currency standard. Let money interest rates be determined in the market place and not controlled and fixed by the Federal Reserve System.
11. End all Federal subsidies to businesses no matter what form the subsidies take.
12. Eliminate Federal Government regulations that put U.S. businesses at a competitive disadvantage.
13. Energy Independence: repeal all laws and regulations that are impeding the growth and expansion of US energy production including oil and gas exploration and refining and nuclear electrical power generation plant construction and operation.
14. Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America: appoint judges and public servants that will uphold their oaths.
The above Fourteen Issue Positions should receive the support of the vast majority of the American people including Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians and others.
However, both the Democratic and Republican Party establishments would not support these Fourteen Issue Positions in their entirety.
The Tea Party movement must transform itself into a viable political party that is fundamentally different from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
The ruling political class and elites in Washington, D.C. are responsible for the economic, political and military mess the United States and the American people currently finds themselves.
The warfare and welfare economy of ever-expanding centralized collectivist government must be transformed into a peace and prosperity economy with a limited and constrained Constitutional republic.
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Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM EDT
“…Since the final show has finally come, let’s look at the truth. To be thorough, we’ll examine every conceivable way that you could measure ratings success. Whenever possible, I’ll use January 2011/1st quarter numbers, because they offer the least favorable comparisons for us. This is insanely lengthy, but I figured I’d do it once and get it over with.
1–Beck vs previous show airing on network in time slot
Glenn has increased the ratings of the 5pm time slot at Fox by 131% compared to the programming airing before his start. In case you don’t know how to read percentages, that’s doubling the ratings, plus another 31%.
2–Beck vs Lead-in on network
How did Glenn do in comparison to his lead in hour? He increased the ratings by about 95%.
3–Beck vs competition in time slot
This one is so easy that it’s probably not worth spending too much time on. We’ll use the quarterly ratings.
FOXN Beck 462
CNN Situation Room 210
(These numbers are in the thousands, and are the ‘demo’ ratings most utilized by advertisers. Basically it’s just adults between the ages of 25-54.)
Note: it appears that the ratings I’m using include Situation Room’s 6pm hour which slightly increased the average. This was also a very good quarter for CNN with events like Egypt and the Tsunami where they excel.
That being said—even using their inflated numbers, Glenn Beck beats its closest competition by 120%.
Remember, when Glenn took over the 5pm slot, both MSNBC and CNN were very close to winning that time slot, particularly through the election. In fact, in January ’09 on the days before Glenn took over, CNN actually tied Fox. Ummm…that didn’t happen afterwards.
**It should be noted here, that with the possible exception of legendary hit programs like American Idol, no show on television is judged by any standard other than #1, 2, or 3 on this list.
4–Beck vs Everyone else at 5pm combined
FOXN Beck 462
CNN Situation Room 210
MSNBC Hardball 168
HLN Showbiz 78
Note: Along with the note above on Situation Room, these numbers include Hardball’s 7pm rerun, which raised its average significantly. Still, Glenn Beck defeated all other cable news shows combined at 5pm, even in a supposedly terrible quarter.
As a TV executive I was speaking with recently told me: “Glenn Beck is the highest rated regularly scheduled show in the history of cable news at 5pm.”
5–Beck vs Everyone else at every other network regardless of time
This measure puts Glenn against all of the prime time programming of all of the competing networks, even though his show does not air in prime time (it’s 2pm on the west coast remember).
There’s a measure in TV ratings called the HUT level (households using television). To boil it down, for every million households with a TV, about 400,000 are watching something during our time slot. During prime time that number is more like 640,000, in other words 60% more available households watching television. That makes it a lot harder to get an audience at 5pm than in prime time.
Regardless, Glenn Beck on Fox News still trounced everybody.
FOXN Beck 462
CNN Cooper 318
CNN Morgan 302
MSNBC Maddow 295
Despite the fact that 5pm has far fewer available people to watch TV, Glenn still beat every single show on every competing network by a minimum of 45%.
6—Beck vs Everyone else on Fox News regardless of time
This matches Glenn up against the entire lineup of Fox News Channel, regardless of time. Again, even though there are larger available audiences in prime time, Glenn performed very well. Throughout our run at FNC, and possibly since the beginning of time, Bill O’Reilly basically slaughtered everyone in the ratings. After that, Glenn, Brett Baier, Shep, Hannity and Greta bounced back-and-forth between 2nd and 6th. That quarter Glenn finished 4th.
7–Glenn Beck vs Glenn Beck
When you have a show this successful, the only way to argue its failure is to compare it to itself. So, the media took the peak of our ratings, usually January of 2010, and compared it against everything else. In April 2010, our ratings were supposedly collapsing as compared to January 2010. In November 2010, they were supposedly collapsing as compared to January 2010. Then, they were supposedly collapsing in January 2011 as compared to January 2010. Then, the quarter including January 2011 supposedly collapsed as compared to the quarter including January 2010.
Yup, the first quarter of 2010 was a great quarter in the ratings. Health care was at its fever pitch, and Scott Brown was on the scene to (almost) save the day. That’s why January of 2011 was a down month for basically every single cable news show in comparison (there might be an exception or two among shows that no one watches.) We also aired our highest rated episode of our entire time on television during January 2010.
So, left-leaning blogs and media reported that our ratings had dropped by 46%. But, knowing the how the news cycle works (they don’t schedule news events annually so that news channels can fairly compare ratings) does that number actually mean anything?
The first question you must ask to find out, which a few did, was how did other shows on Fox News do? Well, every one of them was down. Bret Baier and Shep Smith dropped by percentages in the mid-20’s, O’Reilly dropped by 30%, Hannity 38%, and Greta 47%. Does that mean these shows suddenly started sucking? No. It was all about the news cycle. …”
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Glenn Beck Averages 2.175 Million in Final Show – Cable News Ratings for Thursday, June 30, 2011
“…Glenn Beck averaged 2.175 million viewers (542,000 adults 25-54) in his final episode. While up from recent history, far off his highs when he cleared 3 million viewers. Still, Beck was second on Fox News to only The O’Reilly Factor for the night (2.54 million viewers, 559,000 A25-54). …”
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Pronk Pops Show 32, June 15, 2011
Segment 0: Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition–MOMMA–You Need MOMMA To Win A Presidential Race!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 31: June 8, 2011
Segment 0: ENTJ–Know Thyself–This above all: to thine own self be true–Videos
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Segment 1: A Breach of Public Trust–Hound Dogs–Clinton, Weiner, and Obama–Notorious Habitual Liars–Wake Up–Start A Revolution–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 2: June 2011–Unemployment Situation Worsens–9.1% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) with 13,900,000 Unemployed and 15.8% Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) With 24,283,000 Americans Looking For Full Time Jobs!–Great Obama Depression (GOD)!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show, June 2, 2011
Segment 0: The Facebook Effect–Videos
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Segment 2: Paul Allen–Idea Man: A Memoir By The Cofounder of Microsoft–Videos
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Segment 3: Last Dance For Love–Congress Blocks Debt Limit Hike–For Now–Who Is The Political Class Fooling–Bring The Troops and Jobs Home and Send The Bureaucrats and Big Spenders Home–Save Medicare and Social Security–Hot Stuff–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 29, May 26, 2011
Segment 1: Herman Cain–The Tea Party Movement Candidate–Running On Cutting Spending, Opposing Higher Debt Ceiling, Enforcing Immigration Laws, Defunding Planned Parenthood, Nominating Pro Life Judges, And Passing The FairTax–Common Sense Solutions!–Videos
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Segment 2: Taxman Obama’s Hidden Tax Increase On The Rich That Results In Fewer Jobs And Lower Economic Growth vs. Ryan’s Long and Winding Road To Economic Stagnation vs. Senators Lee, DeMint and Paul’s Stairway To Peace and Prosperity With A Balanced Budget!–Videos
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Segment 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress–A Lesson In Leadership–Videos
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Segment 4: Memo To Washington Republican Party Establishment–You Are Not Listening To The American People–Read Our Lips–”Cut Spending and Balance The Budget Starting With Fiscal Year 2012″–Videos
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May 18, 2011 04:26 PM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 28, May 18, 2011
Segment 1: Segment 1: Newt Gingrich Running For President As A Big Government Interventionist Republican Progressive aka Green “Compassionate” Conservative?–Favors Individual Health Care Mandates While Attacking Paul Ryan As A Right Wing Radical Social Engineer For Proposing A Premium Support or $15,000 Voucher System To Save Medicare From Bankruptcy!–Videos
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Segment 2: Leave It To Beaver–Newt Gingrich–The Beaver Puppet of The Republican Washington D.C. Establishment Political Class With It Social Engineered Warfare and Welfare Economy with A $3,500 Billion Unbalanced Budget For Fiscal Year 2012 with Nearly $1,000 Billion In Deficit Spending!–Videos
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Segment 3: Ron Paul Running For President Of The United States in 2012–It Is Official–The Third Time Is The Charm!–Videos
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Segment 4: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
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May 11, 2011 10:13 AM PDT
Pronk Pops Show 27, May 10, 2011
Segment 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) Increased To 9.0% With 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed and Total Unemployment Rate (U-6) Increased To 15.9% With 24.4 Million Americans Seeking Full Time Job–Economy Adds 244,000 Jobs But Initial Unemployment Claims Hit Eight Month High of 474,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: OMI-Obama Misery Index–U.S. Misery Index Is Rising As Both The Unemployment Rate and Inflation Rate Increase!–Videos
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Segment 3: Segment 3: Speaker Boehner’s Address to the Economic Club of New York on Jobs, Debt, Gas Prices–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 26
April 27, 2011 11:28 AM PDT
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Segment 0: Eva Cassidy–A Singer’s Singer
Segment 1: Ron Paul Is Running For President of The United States In 2012!–The Third Time Is The Charm–A Man Of Integrity–A Candidate For Peace and Prosperity–Neither A Big Government Warfare Republican Nor A Massive Government Welfare Democrat–A Man Of And For The American People–A Tea Party Patriot–Ron Paul–Videos
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Segment 3: President Obama Is The Reason Your Gasoline Prices Are Going Up!–American People Favor Drilling For Oil and Gas!–Drill Baby Drill–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 24
Pronk Pops Show 24: April 19, 2011
Segment 0: S&P Rating Outlook Changed From “Stable” To “Negative” For U.S. Treasury Debt–Videos
Segment 1: Who is John Galt? Who is Ayn Rand–Videos
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Segment 2: President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Speech Of April 13, 2011–Eat The Rich And Killing The American Dream Class Warfare–Cuts National Security Spending and Raise Taxes On The Rich–Produces Massive Deficits, National Debt, and Higher Unemployment For 12 More Years–Progressive Radical Socialist Economic Stagflation–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 23: April 12, 2011
Segment 0: Sidney Lumet–Rest In Peace–Videos
Segment 1: Tea Party Movement Demands Passage of Balanced Budget Amendment and The FairTax As The Price For Raising The National Statutory Debt Limit of $ 14,294,000,000 One Last Time By $1,000,000,000,000!–Videos
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Segment 2: The FairTax (National Consumption Sales Tax) vs. The Flat Tax (One Rate Federal Income Tax)–Who Pays The Most Federal Individual Income Tax? Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 22 (Part 2)
Pronk Pops Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops: Show 22, April 7, 2011
Segment 0: Glenn Beck Ending His Show At Fox News
Segment 1: 3,500,000 Million Americans Unemployed in March 2011 Still Exceeds Great Depression High of 13,000,000 In March 1933–The Obama Depressions Continues–Bureau of Labor Statistics: 8.8% Official Unemployment Rate (U-3) vs. Gallup Unemployment Rate of 10.0%–Nonfarm Payroll Increased By 216,000–The Government Makes The Depression Worse!–Videos
Segment 2: Obama’s Anti-American, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Growth, Anti-Jobs, and Anti-Security Energy Policy–Videos
Segment 3: Republican Establishment Will Propose A Ten Year $6,200 Billion Cut In Spending Over Ten Years–The Problem Is It Does Not Balance The Budget For Another Five Years At The Earliest–Tea Party Movement Demands Balanced Budgets Starting In 2012 For The Next Ten Years!–A Jet Plane To Prosperity Not A Path To Prosperity–Videos
Segment 4: Just One More Thing Congressman Ryan: When Does The Republican’s Path To Prosperity Balance The Budget?–The Twelth of Never!–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 21
Pronk Pops Show 21, March 29, 2010
Segment 1: The Truth And Consequences About Undeclared Wars–Real Strange Bedfellows–Obama Allies U.S. with Libyan Rebels Including Islamic Jihadists, Moslem Brotherhood, and Al-Qaeda!–Give Peace A Chance–AC-130 Gunship–A-10 Warthogs–F-15E Strike Eagles and Special Operation Smash Squads
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Pronk Pops Show 20: March 22, 2011
Segment 1:F-15 Crashes In Libya
Segment 2ne Unconstitutional and Undeclared War Too Many: The Great Pretender, Peace Candidate And Noble Peace Prize Winner, President Barack Obama Undeclared War On Libya’s Muammar Ghaddafi In Defense Of Libyian Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Rebels Linked To al-Qaeda and The BP Libyian Oil Deal Linked To Obama Campaign Contributions–A Political Payoff!–Obama Has To Go In 2012–Videos
Segment 3:Earthquake Damages Japanese Nuclear Plant At Fukushima Daiichi, Four Explosions and Four Nuclear Reactors Flooded With Seawater To Contain Release Of Radioactive Material and Plant Released Radioactive Materials To Stop Pressure Buildup–Partial Meltdown Of Nuclear Core Feared–Radioactive Material Escaping From Plant–Over 250,000 Ordered Evacuated From 20 Kilometer (12.4 Miles) Radius From Plant–Videos
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Pronk Pops Show 19: March 8, 2011
Segment 1: The Washington Political Elites of Both Parties Are Not Serious About Balancing The Federal Budget And Funding Entitlement Liabilities–Send In The Clowns–Don’t Bother There Here–Videos
Segment 2, Gallup–U.S. Unemployment Hits 10.3% In February 2011 Vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) U.S. Unemployment Rate Declined By .1% To 8.9% in February 2011 With Job Creation of 192,000 In February 2011–Over 13.7 Million Americans Unemployed More Than Worse Month of Great Depression!
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Pronk Pops Show 18: March 3, 2011
Segment 1: Remembering The Brooklyn Dodgers and Duke Snider
Segment 2: The National Debt Will Hit $20,000,000,000,000 By 2020!
Segment 3 Public Sector Unions vs. The America People: Replacing The American Dream With The Socialist Union Nightmare
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Pronk Pops Show 17: February 22, 2011
Black History Month–Progressives–Eugenics–Black Population Control–Abortion–Black Genocide–Planned Parenthood–Barack Obama
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Pronk Pops Show 16
Pronk Pops Show 16: February 15, 2011
Conservative Political Action Conference 2011
President Obama’s Saint Valentine’s Massacre of The American People–Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Buster–Spending $3,729 Billion–Taxes $2,627 Billion–Deficit $1,101 Billion–Dead On Arrival–DOA– 3 Million Tea Party Patriots To March On Washington D.C. On Friday, April 15, 2011 In Protest!
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Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Obama’s Unbelievable Unemployment Numbers
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Rolling Power Outages in Texas
Obama Care Declared Unconstitutional and Void By Federal Judge
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Super Storm and Super Bowl In Dallas, Texas
Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Emission and Global Warming–Science vs. Politics
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Pronk Pops Show 14: January 27, 2011
The Big Lie and Free Speech
President Obama’s State of the Union Campaign Speech
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Pronk Pops Show 13: December 9, 2010
Latest News Update on WikiLeaks
Federal Reserve Unconventional Monetary Policy
President Obama and Republicans Agree To Two Year Tax Rate Extension and
One Year Unemployment Benefit Extension–More Deficit Spending and Debt!
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Pronk Pops Show 12: December 8, 2010
News Update On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
The Chairman of The Federal Reserve and Quantitative Easing 2
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Pronk Pops Show 11: December 3, 2010
News and Commentary On November 2010 Unemployment Rate and Level Statistics
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Pronk Pops Show 10: December 1, 2010
Update on new TSA Airport Screening Procedures
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Pronk Pops Show 9: November 19, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Responds To Critics of Monetary Policy
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Tea Party Major Issues: Jobs, Spending, Deficits, Debt, Taxes, Health Care and Illegal Immigration
Tea Party Stars: Senators: Rand Paul and Marco Rubio
Republican Tea Party Test: Cutting Federal Spending By Over $1,000 Billion To Balance The Budget For Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, and 2013.
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Pronk Pops Show 7: November 9, 2010
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Pronk Pops Show 6: November 3, 2010
Winning Elections With MOMMA (Money, Organization, Message, Momentum, Ambition) and The Tea Party Movement Effect
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replacing Vice President Joseph Biden on the 2010 Democratic Party ticket
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