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Heads Up American Citizens–Illegal Aliens Marching for Amnesty For Illegals in Washington D.C. on Sunday, March 21, 2010–We The People Tea Party Counter March Planned–Be There with American Flags Flying!

Raymond — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:04:39 +0000

Dan Stein March 2010

For the talk and television hosts and their staffs who read this, please get the word out now.

The American people must stop the progressive radical socialist agenda of amenisty for illegal aliens.

The Federal government should be removing illegal aliens from the workplace that are employed here illegally.

Illegal aliens should be deported to their country of origin.

Instead the progressive radical socialist of both the Democratic and Republican Parties want to require all Americans to have a national ID card and amnesty for illegal aliens.

The American people want limited and controlled legal immigration.

The American people want illegal immigration to be stopped and the illegal aliens sent home.

The American people want the professional politicians to enforce the immigration laws and honor their oaths of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The American people will march on Washington D.C. this Sunday so they we do not get a repeat of what happened several years ago:

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Restore Faith, Hope and Charity and The American Dream By Stopping The Progressive Radical Socialist Spending, Taxes, Debts–Obama Care, Cap and Tax, Amenisty for Illegal Aliens!

Raymond — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:18:42 +0000

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

~Thoams Paine

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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

~Benjamin Franklin

Progressive Radical Socialist Takeover Of America–Obama Repeating The New Deal Depression–The American People’s 9/12 Project Response

Raymond — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:37:34 +0000

Progressive Radical Socialist Takeover Of America–Obama Repeating The New Deal Depression

Glenn Beck Show – Thursday March 11, 2010 – Part 1

Glenn Beck Show – Thursday March 11, 2010 – Part 2

Glenn Beck Show – Thursday March 11, 2010 – Part 3

Glenn Beck Show – Thursday March 11, 2010 – Part 4

Glenn Beck Show – Thursday March 11, 2010 – Part 5

The American People’s 9/12 Project Response

Glenn Beck Show – Friday March 12, 2010 – Part 1 of 5

Glenn Beck Show – Friday March 12, 2010 – Part 2 of 5

Glenn Beck Show – Friday March 12, 2010 – Part 3 of 5

Glenn Beck Show – Friday March 12, 2010 – Part 4 of 5

Glenn Beck Show – Friday March 12, 2010 – Part 5 of 5

American People Should Force Federal Government To Sell Off The Land Its Owns To Payoff National Debt!

Raymond — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:01:05 +0000

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen – This Land is Your Land

This Land Is Your Land

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.

I’ve roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

Glenn Beck – Our Own Government Is Stopping Our Independence

Glenn Beck on selling the government finite resources

Utah to U.S.: Give Us Back Our Land

Federal Lands and Indian Reservations

“…Go to map listto view and print Federal Lands and Indian Reservations maps The Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land – almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States. Federally-owned and managed public lands include National Parks, National Forests, and National Wildlife Refuges. These are lands that are held for all Americans. The Federal agencies responsible for managing America’s natural resources must meet both the public desire to protect them and the public expectation of economic growth based on them. Within the Federal Government, a number of agencies contribute to the management of natural resources associated with public lands. All of these Federal agencies are partners in the production of nationalatlas.gov.

In the United States there are only two kinds of reserved lands that are well-known: military and Indian. An Indian Reservation is land reserved for a tribe when it relinquished its other land areas to the United States through treaties. More recently, Congressional acts, Executive Orders, and administrative acts have created Reservations. There are approximately 275 Indian land areas in the United States administered as Indian Reservations (reservations, pueblos, rancherias, communities, etc.). The largest is the Navajo Reservation of some 16 million acres of land in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the smaller Reservations are less than 1,000 acres with the smallest less than 100 acres. On each Reservation, the local governing authority is the tribal government. Military reservations are managed by the Department of Defense. Examples include army posts, marine bases, naval stations, and air force bases.

These maps were designed for use on the World Wide Web or for generating high quality color prints. Each map shows the Federal Lands and Indian Reservations overlaid on top of State boundaries, selected streams and waterbodies, and major cities for easy reference. In addition, there is a map showing Federal Lands and Indian Reservations for the entire United States.

The maps are available in the following formats. …”

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/fedlands.html#list

woody guthrie-this land

Fasting–Videos

Raymond — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:46:44 +0000

The Skinny On Fasting

Rupert Sheldrake: On Fasting

40 Days of Fasting

Father Greg Friedman – Lent Is a Catholic Thing

Benedict XVI: Fasting is spiritual armor

Lent: a time of silence

Fasting During Lent Is A Gesture Of Empathy, Says Pope

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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
BENEDICT XVI
FOR LENT 2009

“He fasted for forty days and forty nights,
and afterwards he was hungry” (Mt 4,1-2)

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

At the beginning of Lent, which constitutes an itinerary of more intense spiritual training, the Liturgy sets before us again three penitential practices that are very dear to the biblical and Christian tradition – prayer, almsgiving, fasting – to prepare us to better celebrate Easter and thus experience God’s power that, as we shall hear in the Paschal Vigil, “dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy, casts out hatred, brings us peace and humbles earthly pride” (Paschal Præconium). For this year’s Lenten Message, I wish to focus my reflections especially on the value and meaning of fasting. Indeed, Lent recalls the forty days of our Lord’s fasting in the desert, which He undertook before entering into His public ministry. We read in the Gospel: “Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry” (Mt 4,1-2). Like Moses, who fasted before receiving the tablets of the Law (cf. Ex 34,28) and Elijah’s fast before meeting the Lord on Mount Horeb (cf. 1 Kings 19,8), Jesus, too, through prayer and fasting, prepared Himself for the mission that lay before Him, marked at the start by a serious battle with the tempter.

We might wonder what value and meaning there is for us Christians in depriving ourselves of something that in itself is good and useful for our bodily sustenance. The Sacred Scriptures and the entire Christian tradition teach that fasting is a great help to avoid sin and all that leads to it. For this reason, the history of salvation is replete with occasions that invite fasting. In the very first pages of Sacred Scripture, the Lord commands man to abstain from partaking of the prohibited fruit: “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Gn 2, 16-17). Commenting on the divine injunction, Saint Basil observes that “fasting was ordained in Paradise,” and “the first commandment in this sense was delivered to Adam.” He thus concludes: “ ‘You shall not eat’ is a law of fasting and abstinence” (cf. Sermo de jejunio: PG 31, 163, 98). Since all of us are weighed down by sin and its consequences, fasting is proposed to us as an instrument to restore friendship with God. Such was the case with Ezra, who, in preparation for the journey from exile back to the Promised Land, calls upon the assembled people to fast so that “we might humble ourselves before our God” (8,21). The Almighty heard their prayer and assured them of His favor and protection. In the same way, the people of Nineveh, responding to Jonah’s call to repentance, proclaimed a fast, as a sign of their sincerity, saying: “Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?” (3,9). In this instance, too, God saw their works and spared them.

In the New Testament, Jesus brings to light the profound motive for fasting, condemning the attitude of the Pharisees, who scrupulously observed the prescriptions of the law, but whose hearts were far from God. True fasting, as the divine Master repeats elsewhere, is rather to do the will of the Heavenly Father, who “sees in secret, and will reward you” (Mt 6,18). He Himself sets the example, answering Satan, at the end of the forty days spent in the desert that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Mt 4,4). The true fast is thus directed to eating the “true food,” which is to do the Father’s will (cf. Jn 4,34). If, therefore, Adam disobeyed the Lord’s command “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,” the believer, through fasting, intends to submit himself humbly to God, trusting in His goodness and mercy.

The practice of fasting is very present in the first Christian community (cf. Acts 13,3; 14,22; 27,21; 2 Cor 6,5). The Church Fathers, too, speak of the force of fasting to bridle sin, especially the lusts of the “old Adam,” and open in the heart of the believer a path to God. Moreover, fasting is a practice that is encountered frequently and recommended by the saints of every age. Saint Peter Chrysologus writes: “Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy; if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of others. If you do not close your ear to others, you open God’s ear to yourself” (Sermo 43: PL 52, 320. 322).

In our own day, fasting seems to have lost something of its spiritual meaning, and has taken on, in a culture characterized by the search for material well-being, a therapeutic value for the care of one’s body. Fasting certainly bring benefits to physical well-being, but for believers, it is, in the first place, a “therapy” to heal all that prevents them from conformity to the will of God. In the Apostolic Constitution Pænitemini of 1966, the Servant of God Paul VI saw the need to present fasting within the call of every Christian to “no longer live for himself, but for Him who loves him and gave himself for him … he will also have to live for his brethren“ (cf. Ch. I). Lent could be a propitious time to present again the norms contained in the Apostolic Constitution, so that the authentic and perennial significance of this long held practice may be rediscovered, and thus assist us to mortify our egoism and open our heart to love of God and neighbor, the first and greatest Commandment of the new Law and compendium of the entire Gospel (cf. Mt 22, 34-40).

The faithful practice of fasting contributes, moreover, to conferring unity to the whole person, body and soul, helping to avoid sin and grow in intimacy with the Lord. Saint Augustine, who knew all too well his own negative impulses, defining them as “twisted and tangled knottiness” (Confessions, II, 10.18), writes: “I will certainly impose privation, but it is so that he will forgive me, to be pleasing in his eyes, that I may enjoy his delightfulness” (Sermo 400, 3, 3: PL 40, 708). Denying material food, which nourishes our body, nurtures an interior disposition to listen to Christ and be fed by His saving word. Through fasting and praying, we allow Him to come and satisfy the deepest hunger that we experience in the depths of our being: the hunger and thirst for God.

At the same time, fasting is an aid to open our eyes to the situation in which so many of our brothers and sisters live. In his First Letter, Saint John admonishes: “If anyone has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, yet shuts up his bowels of compassion from him – how does the love of God abide in him?” (3,17). Voluntary fasting enables us to grow in the spirit of the Good Samaritan, who bends low and goes to the help of his suffering brother (cf. Encyclical Deus caritas est, 15). By freely embracing an act of self-denial for the sake of another, we make a statement that our brother or sister in need is not a stranger. It is precisely to keep alive this welcoming and attentive attitude towards our brothers and sisters that I encourage the parishes and every other community to intensify in Lent the custom of private and communal fasts, joined to the reading of the Word of God, prayer and almsgiving. From the beginning, this has been the hallmark of the Christian community, in which special collections were taken up (cf. 2 Cor 8-9; Rm 15, 25-27), the faithful being invited to give to the poor what had been set aside from their fast (Didascalia Ap., V, 20,18). This practice needs to be rediscovered and encouraged again in our day, especially during the liturgical season of Lent.

From what I have said thus far, it seems abundantly clear that fasting represents an important ascetical practice, a spiritual arm to do battle against every possible disordered attachment to ourselves. Freely chosen detachment from the pleasure of food and other material goods helps the disciple of Christ to control the appetites of nature, weakened by original sin, whose negative effects impact the entire human person. Quite opportunely, an ancient hymn of the Lenten liturgy exhorts: “Utamur ergo parcius, / verbis cibis et potibus, / somno, iocis et arctius / perstemus in custodia – Let us use sparingly words, food and drink, sleep and amusements. May we be more alert in the custody of our senses.”

Dear brothers and sisters, it is good to see how the ultimate goal of fasting is to help each one of us, as the Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote, to make the complete gift of self to God (cf. Encyclical Veritatis splendor, 21). May every family and Christian community use well this time of Lent, therefore, in order to cast aside all that distracts the spirit and grow in whatever nourishes the soul, moving it to love of God and neighbor. I am thinking especially of a greater commitment to prayer, lectio divina, recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and active participation in the Eucharist, especially the Holy Sunday Mass. With this interior disposition, let us enter the penitential spirit of Lent. May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Causa nostrae laetitiae, accompany and support us in the effort to free our heart from slavery to sin, making it evermore a “living tabernacle of God.” With these wishes, while assuring every believer and ecclesial community of my prayer for a fruitful Lenten journey, I cordially impart to all of you my Apostolic Blessing.

From the Vatican, 11 December 2008.

BENEDICTUS PP. XVI

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/lent/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20081211_lent-2009_en.html

Lent

“…Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Conventionally, it is described as being forty days long, though different denominations calculate the forty days differently. The forty days represent the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by Satan.^[1]

This practice was virtually universal in Christendom until the Protestant Reformation.^[2] Some Protestant churches do not observe Lent, but most, such as Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Episcopalians, do.

Lent was also traditionally the term used to describe the period leading up to Christmas before the term Advent was officially recognized. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

Ash Wednesday: Pope dedicates audience to Lent

Obama’s Obessions: Arrogant Apologist, Incompetent Ideologue, Lying Liberal, Narcisstic Nut, Petulant President–All Of The Above + Progressive Radical Socialist

Raymond — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:24:53 +0000

Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn’t Reduce Spending

Senators Coburn And Kyl On ObamaCare

White House Health Care Summit: Boehner v. Obama on abortion

Political Theater or Progress?

GOP: Dems Want to Ram Through Health Care Bill

Sarah Palin On Hannity About Health Care Summit

Bill O’Reilly – Health Care Summit Part 1/2

Bill O’Reilly – Health Care Summit Part 2/2

Anybody who watched the health care summit meeting last week could not help but be struck by the difference between the President and the Democrats and the Republicans at the meeting.

The Progressive Radical Socialists of the Democratic Party led by President Obama told tear-jerking tale after tale of Americans not getting the health care they needed. No mention was made of the fact the Federal Government, who currently funds or provides health care for over sixty percent of all health care including Medicare, Medicaid, the Armed Forces and Native American Indians currently does not pay its share of the medical bills and provides mediocre to poor health care at best. The cost of the health care not paid for by the Federal Government is shifted to those with private health care insurance. When you take into account this cost shifting, Government mandated coverages and the cost of defensive medicine due to high damage awards in medical malpractice law suits, the result is the ever increasing annual health insurance premiums.

Do not blame the health insurance companies, the real blame is the Federal and State Governments and the trial lawyers who are the number one campaign contributors to the Progressive Radical Socialist Democratic Party. The Progressive Radical Socialists really do not give a damn about your health or health care insurance plan.

Also the fact that Medicare is running huge deficits already that are about to get even bigger as the baby boomer generation becomes eligible starting 2011. The United States is going broke and President Obama’s health care plan would make it worse. This is imprudent and irresponsible. This is not leadership but the actions of an economy wrecker and job destroyer that is following his Cloward Piven strategy of the Progressive Radical Socialists.

The Republicans presented fact after fact that the Progressive Radical Progressives, especially President Obama, did not want to hear. President Obama’s body language revealed that he was about to explode, how dare they mention these the facts to the incompetent ideologue, lying liberal, and narcisstic nut. President Obama won the election. Yes we know, too bad he does not how to lead and build a consensus.

The fact that over 2 out of 3 Americans do not want the Progressive Radical Socialist health care plan is one fact of life the tone deaf Democrats do not want to hear or even recognize. Any political party that continually defies the will of the American people is committing political suicide.

Among Christians, if not politicians, suicide is a mortal sin.

Life is a precious gift from God.

Life is a daily struggle.

Life is unfair.

Where there is life, there is hope.

The American people do not want President Obama’s and the Progressive Radical Socialist Democratic Party’s Health Care Plan.

The American people hope President Obama’s Health Care Plan is defeated, if not now, then in November.

One very inconvenient truth that both the Democrats and Republicans did not mention at their meeting on health care was the impact and cost of providing health care for over thirty million illegal aliens living and working in the United States of America. Nearly every month one or more county hospitals are closing their doors because they can no longer afford providing medical care to these millions of illegal aliens.

With more than thirty million Americans seeking full-time employment, more than twice the number than during the worse month of the Great Depression, the American people want the illegal aliens to just go home or face deportation. The American people want and need jobs. Many of these jobs are now being performed by illegal aliens.

Every day Americans are seeing jobs they used to be employed at being done by illegal aliens. This is a political scandal that both political parties are responsible for. Both political parties are directly responsible for the open borders policies that resulted in this problem. The Repubicians wanted the campaign contributions from the businesses that benefited from the cheap labor of illegal aliens. The Democrats wanted the illegal alien votes once amnesty was granted to them under comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.

The forgotten man and woman was the American people. The low skilled American worker of all races and creeds was thrown out of a job so the progressive radical socialist could achieve their political goals. The result is the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression for the young, for blacks, for hispanics, and for the unskilled entry level worker.

The political elites of both political parties said the hell with the American people. They wanted to maintain their power and political offices. There will be a day of reckoning for the politicians of both parties, mainly progressives, that did this to the American people.

The American people chose liberty and life.

The Progressive Radical Socialist chose tyranny and death–political suicide.

May they rest in peace.

Please do not disturb.

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Paul Ryan Offers Amendment to Strike Government-Run Health Care Plan

Health Care Reform

41% Favor Obama’s Health Care Plan, 56% Oppose

“…Voters still strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats and think Congress should focus instead on smaller bills that address problems individually rather than a comprehensive plan.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 41% of voters favor the proposed health care plan, while 56% oppose it. Those figures include 45% who strongly oppose the plan and just 23% who strongly favor it.

Support for and opposition to the plan are at the same levels they’ve been at since just after Thanksgiving.

Democrats continue to strongly support the health care plan much while it is opposed by Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party. Seventy percent (70%) of the Political Class strongly favor the plan, while 57% of Mainstream voters strongly oppose it.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of all voters say a better strategy to reform the health care system would be to pass smaller bills that address problems individually. Twenty-seven percent (27%) still think passing a comprehensive bill that covers all aspects of the health care system is a better idea. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided. …”

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform

47% Oppose Public Option Health Plan; 58% Oppose If Workers Forced To Change Coverage

“…Democrats continue to be strong supporters of a public option, while Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party oppose it.

If the creation of that public option encourages companies to drop private insurance coverage for their workers as many critics contend it will, opposition among all voters jumps to 58%. Support drops to 28%. These findings are unchanged from October.

That’s explained in part by the finding that 59% of voters believe it is more important to guarantee that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage than to give consumers the choice of a public option. Thirty percent (30%) think the choice of a government-run health insurance program is more important. These findings have changed very little in surveys stretching back for months.

(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it’s in the news, it’s in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.

Voters are only slightly less concerned about what might happen if workers are forced to change their health insurance coverage. Thirty-one percent (31%) say it would be good for employees if their company dropped the insurance coverage it provides and they were enrolled instead in a government-sponsored health insurance plan. Forty-five percent (45%) disagree and say it would be bad for the employees to be forced into a government plan. Nearly one-in-four voters (24%) aren’t sure.

Forty-one percent (41%) of voters favor the overall health care plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats, but 56% oppose it. Support for and opposition to the plan are at the same levels they’ve been at since just after Thanksgiving.

Earlier this month, just after the president called for today’s summit meeting, 61% of voters said Congress should scrap the proposed health care plan and start all over again. …”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/healthcareoption20100226;_ylt=A0LEapfta4lLFkkBoxvvj9AF;_ylu=X3oDMTM1Z2QxOWVzBGFzc2V0A3Jhc211c3Nlbi8yMDEwMDIyNi9oZWFsdGhjYXJlb3B0aW9uMjAxMDAyMjYEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDNDdvcHBvc2VwdWJs

The president’s performance at the summit

Neil Braithwaite

“…The so-called bipartisan health care summit should leave no doubt that President Obama is not concerned with any input from Republicans. What the President is concerned with is moving health care legislation ahead any way he can.

While the President and Democrats parroted White House talking points and told numerous personal and anecdotal health care stories, Republicans presented substantive policy ideas, quoted relative facts and figures, and addressed procedural concerns.

Every substantive point made by Republican’s was followed by a direct rebuttal from the President, usually accompanied by a warning or scolding.

The President’s rebuttals were always prefaced with, “You make a good point,” followed by specific talking points reiterating why any Republican “good points” would never be considered in any final health care bill.

President Obama made sure every Republican in the room understood that the “election was over,” that he was President, that he could talk as much as he liked, and that the use of any facts and props by Republicans was way out of line. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/the_presidents_performance_at.html

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 1 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 2 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 3 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 4 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 5 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 6 of 7

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White House Health Care Summit Part II

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Government Bureaucracy: Organizational Chart of The House Democrats’ Health Plan

Dr. Robert W. Christensen–Videos

John Stossel–Sick In America–Videos

Congressman Paul Ryan–Townhall Meeting–Health Care Reform and The Patients Choice Act–Videos

The Small Business and Self-Employed Perspective on Health Care Reform

Immigration

American Citizens Want Jobs and Criminal Alien Removal, Not Criminal Alien Census and Health Care!

Broom Budget Busting Bums: Replace The Entire Congress–Tea Party Express and Patriots–United We Stand!

Discover The Left’s Organized Crime Network–Crime Pays–Organized Crimes Pays More–Apply for Census Taker Jobs!

US Immigration Videos

Borderline Chaos: Immigration Out of Control–Videos

The Hyphenated American and The Hyphen

The Signed “Stimulus Package” Did Not Include Funding for E-Verify and Border Fence Construction–Less Jobs And Security for American Citizens

President Obama Delays E-Verify–Shame On You Mr. President!

The Issue of The United States 2008 Presidential Election–Criminal Alien Removal (CAR) and A Border Security Fence (BSF)

The Cost of Comprehensive Immigration Reform–McCain and Obama Are Hopeless–It is the Economy Stupid!

Appeasers and Oath Breakers All: Bush, Clinton, Bush, McCain, Clinton, Obama…Who is next?

Why immigration will be the number 1 political issue in the 2008 Presidential Election! — Gum Balls

Presidential Candidates on Illegal Immigration, Criminal Alien Removal and Social Service Benefits

John McCain’s Position on Illegal Immigration and Criminal Alien Removal?

Alan Keyes on Immigration

Collectivism: Socialism, Communism, Progressivism and Fascism

The Battle For The World Economy–Videos

Walter Block–Videos

Thomas DiLorenzo–The Economic Model of the Fascist State–Videos

G. William Domhoff: Who Runs America–Videos

Jonah Goldberg–Liberal Fascism–Videos

Paul Edward Gottfried–Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Welfare State–Videos

G. Edward Griffin- On Individualism vs. Collectivism–Videos

Mark Levin–Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto–Videos

George Gerald Reisman–Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian–Videos

Today’s Progressives–Obama’s Radical Socialist Democratic Party

The Racist Test for Judge Sonya Sotomayor and President Obama–Racism Unmasked!

Calling and Raising The Stakes for Race Card Players–Obama and Sotomayor

George Soros: Government Interventionist and Global Socialist–Obama’s Puppeter Master–Videos

George Soros: Barack Obama’s Money Man and Agenda Puppeter

The Cloward-Piven Strategy Of The Progressive Radical Socialists: Wrecking The U.S. Economy By Massive Government Dependence, Spending, Deficits, Debts, Taxes And Regulations!

President Barack Obama’s Role Model–President Franklin D. Roosevelt–The Worse President For The U.S. and World Economies and The American People–With The Same Results–High Unemployment Rates–Over 25 Million American Citizens Seeking Full Time Jobs Today–Worse Than The Over 13 Million Seeking Jobs During The Worse of The Great Depression!

Progressives

Progressive Radical Socialist Health Care Plan Written In Prison By Convicted Felon Richard Creamer!

Obamanomics–New Deal Progressive Radical Socialist Interventionism

Eugenics, Planned Parenthood, Population Control, and Designer Babies–Videos

The Great Depression and the Current Recession–Robert Higgs–Videos

The Obama Depression: Lessons Learned–Deja Vu!

Lord Christopher Monckton–Climate Change–Treaty–Videos

Progressive Radical Socialist Canned Criticism of American People: Danger, Profits, and Wrong Thinking

The Battle For The World Economy–Videos

Broom Budget Busting Bums: Replace The Entire Congress–Tea Party Express and Patriots–United We Stand!

Obama’s Civilian National Security Force–Youth Corp Wave–Friendly Fascism Faces–Cons–Crooks–Communists–Communities–Corps!

Obama’s Hidden Agenda and Covert Cadre of Marxists, Communists, Progressives, Radicals, Socialists–Far Left Democrats Destroying Capitalism and The American Republic

Yuri Bezmenov On KGB Soviet Propaganda and Subversion–Videos

The Bloody History of Communism–Videos

Obama Youth–Civilian National Security Force–National Socialism–Hitler Youth–Brownshirts– Redux?–Collectivism!

American Progressive Liberal Fascism–The Wave of The Future Or Back To Past Mistakes?

Today’s Progressives–Obama’s Radical Socialist Democratic Party

President Obama–Killer of The American Dream and Market Capitalism–Stop The Radical Socialists Before They Kill You!

The Progressive Radical Socialist Family Tree–ACORN & AmeriCorps–Time To Chop It Down

It Is Official–America On The Obama Road To Fascism–Thomas Sowell!

President Obama and His Keynesian Spending Cult of The Fascist Democrat Radicals–FDRs

Economists

The Battle For The World Economy–Videos

Frederic Bastiat–The Law–Videos

Walter Block–Videos

Walter Block–Introduction To Libertarianism–Videos

Yaron Brook–Videos

Thomas DiLorenzo–The Economic Model of the Fascist State–Videos

Paul Edward Gottfried–Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Welfare State–Videos

David Gordon–Five Best Books on the Current Crisis–Video

David Gordon–The Confused Literature of Globalization–Videos

Friedrich Hayek–Videos

Henry Hazlitt–Economics In One Lesson–Videos

The Great Depression and the Current Recession–Robert Higgs–Videos

Jörg Guido Hülsmann–The Ethics of Money Production–Videos

Jörg Guido Hülsmann–The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises–Videos

Milton Friedman–Videos

Milton Friedman on Education–Videos

Milton Friedman–Debate In Iceland–Videos

Milton Friedman–Free To Choose–On Donahue –Videos

Israel Kirzner–On Entrepreneurship–Vidoes

Liberal Fascism–Jonah Goldberg–Videos

Ludwig von Mises–Videos

Robert P. Murphy–Videos

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and The Ideas of Ayn Rand

George Gerald Reisman–Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian–Videos

Murray Rothbard–Videos

Murray Rothbard–Libertarianism–Video

Rothbard On Keynes–Videos

Murray Rothbard– What Has Government Done to Our Money?–Videos

Peter Schiff–Videos

Schiff, Forbers and Bloomberg Nail The Financial Crisis and Recession–Mistakes Were Made–Greed, Arrogance, Stupidity–Three Chinese Curses!

Larry Sechrest–The Anticapitalists: Barbarians at the Gate–Videos

L. William Seidman on The Economic Crisis: Causes and Cures–Videos

Amity Shlaes–Videos

Julian Simon–Videos

Julian Simon–The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment–Videos

Thomas Sowell and Conflict of Visions–Videos

Thomas Sowell On The Housing Boom and Bust–Videos

Peter Thiel–Videos

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.–Videos

Thomas E. Woods–The Economic Crisis and The Federal Reserve–Videos

Tom Woods–Lectures On Liberty–Videos

Tom Woods–Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money–Videos

Tom Wright On The FairTax–Videos

Banking Cartel’s Public Relations Campaign Continues:Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke On The Record

Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Address At CPAC 2010–Conservative Political Action Conference–Vidoes

Raymond — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:13:18 +0000

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 1

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 2

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 3

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 4

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 5

Glenn Beck CPAC 2010 6

Ronald Reagan TV Ad: “Its morning in america again”

Inflation–Surprise–Surprise–It’s Back–An Inflationary Depression Arrives–The Obama Depression!

Raymond — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:42:45 +0000

U.S. Debt Clock

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

http://www.federalbudget.com/

M3, longer term chart

http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html

Fed Raises Discount Rate – Peter Schiff – 02-18-2010

Meyer Expects Fed to Raise Funds Rate in Middle of 2011

McCullough Sees Compression in Treasury Yield Curve

Dollar Spikes, Euro Sinks Amid Fed’s Discount-Rate Move

The Discount Rate

Ron Paul v Ben Bernanke (1.29.2010)

Glenn Beck- February 18, 2010 (Part 3/4)

Glenn Beck- February 18, 2010 (Part 4/4)

Glenn Beck 20091209 Part 4/4

Inflation Nation The Movie Part 1/3 – Dollar Collapse Ft. Peter Schiff Ron Paul Faber Rogers.

Inflation Nation The Movie Part 2/3 – Dollar Collapse Ft. Peter Schiff Ron Paul Faber Rogers.

Inflation Nation The Movie Part 3/3 – Dollar Collapse Ft. Peter Schiff Ron Paul Faber Rogers.

The Federal Reserve explained.

RBS’s Tucci Discusses Fed Exit Strategy, Bank Industry: Video

Background Articles and Videos

Ron Paul’s State of the Republic Speech (1 of 3)

Ron Paul’s State of the Republic Speech (2 of 3)

Ron Paul’s State of the Republic Speech (3 of 3)

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX – JANUARY 2010

“…On a seasonally adjusted basis, the January Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)

rose 0.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the index

increased 2.6 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The seasonally adjusted increase in the all items index was due to a rise in the energy index. An increase

in the gasoline index was the main factor, and the indexes for fuel oil and natural gas rose as well,

though the electricity index declined.

The index for all items less food and energy fell 0.1 percent in January. This decline was largely the

result of decreases in the indexes for shelter, new vehicles, and airline fares. In contrast, the medical care

index posted its largest increase since January 2008, and the index for used cars and trucks increased

significantly for the sixth month in a row.

The food index increased in January, with the food at home component posting its largest increase since

September 2008. Sharp increases in the indexes for dairy and related products and for fruits and

vegetables accounted for most of the increase. …”

“…Food

The food index rose 0.2 percent in January. The food at home index increased 0.4 percent, with four of

percent in January, but still has declined over the past 12 months. The index for fruits and vegetables

increased 1.3 percent due to a 2.8 percent increase in the index for fresh fruits. The index for meats,

poultry, fish, and eggs rose 0.4 percent and the index for nonalcoholic beverages advanced 0.2 percent.

The indexes for cereals and bakery products declined in January, falling 0.5 percent, and the index for

other food at home declined 0.3 percent. The index for food away from home increased 0.1 percent in

January. Over the last 12 months, the food index has declined 0.4 percent with the food at home index

down 2.0 percent and the index for food away from home up 1.6 percent.

Energy

The energy index rose 2.8 percent in January, its ninth consecutive increase. The index for energy

commodities increased 4.9 percent, with the gasoline index rising 4.4 percent. The index for household

energy rose 0.5 percent in January. The fuel oil index increased 6.1 percent and the index for natural gas

rose 3.5 percent, while the electricity index declined 1.1 percent. Over the past 12 months, the energy

index has risen 19.1 percent, with the gasoline index up 51.3 percent but the index for household energy

down 3.5 percent.

All itmes less food d and energy

The index for all items less food and energy declined 0.1 percent in January after rising 0.1 percent in

December. The shelter index declined 0.5 percent. The index for lodging away from home fell 2.1

percent, while the rent index was unchanged and the index for owners’ equivalent rent declined 0.1

percent. The index for new vehicles fell 0.5 percent, its second consecutive decline, and the index for

airline fares turned down in January, falling 2.5 percent after increasing in each of the past six months.

The indexes for household furnishings and operations, for apparel, and for recreation all decreased 0.1

percent in January. In contrast, the medical care index rose 0.5 percent. The index for medical care

commodities rose 0.7 percent and the medical care services index advanced 0.5 percent. Also increasing

was the index for used cars and trucks, which rose 1.5 percent in January and has increased 12.9 percent

over the past six months. The index for all items less food and energy has risen 1.6 percent over the past

12 months.

Not seasonally adjusted CPI measures

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 2.6 percent over the last 12

months to an index level of 216.687 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index increased 0.3 percent prior

to seasonal adjustment.

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 3.3 percent

over the last 12 months to an index level of 212.568 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index increased

0.4 percent prior to seasonal adjustment. …”

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

Current Consumer Price Index

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Ave
2009	211.143	212.193	212.709	213.240	213.856	215.693	215.351	215.834	215.969	216.177	216.330	215.949	NA
2008	211.080	211.693	213.528	214.823	216.632	218.815	219.964	219.086	218.783	216.573	212.425	210.228	215.303
2007	202.416	203.499	205.352	206.686	207.949	208.352	208.299	207.917	208.490	208.936	210.177	210.036	207.342
2006	198.3	198.7	199.8	201.5	202.5	202.9	203.5	203.9	202.9	201.8	201.5	201.8	201.6
2005	190.7	191.8	193.3	194.6	194.4	194.5	195.4	196.4	198.8	199.2	197.6	196.8	195.3
2004	185.2	186.2	187.4	188.0	189.1	189.7	189.4	189.5	189.9	190.9	191.0	190.3	188.9
2003	181.7	183.1	184.2	183.8	183.5	183.7	183.9	184.6	185.2	185.0	184.5	184.3	183.96
2002	177.1	177.8	178.8	179.8	179.8	179.9	180.1	180.7	181.0	181.3	181.3	180.9	179.88
2001	175.1	175.8	176.2	176.9	177.7	178.0	177.5	177.5	178.3	177.7	177.4	176.7	177.07
2000	168.8	169.8	171.2	171.3	171.5	172.4	172.8	172.8	173.7	174.0	174.1	174.0	172.2
Get more Historical Data from InflationData.com

Consumer Price Index- All Urban Consumers- Not Seasonally Adjusted – (CPI-U) – Base Period : 1982-84=100
Note: NA means data has not been released yet. Effective January 2007 the BLS began Publishing the CPI to 3 decimal places.
However, InflationData.com is still the only place to get Inflation Rates calculated to 2 decimal places.http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Consumer_Price_Index/CurrentCPI.asp

Producer Price Index News Release text



Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-10-0206 8:30 a.m. (EST), Thursday, February 18, 2010 Technical information: (202) 691-7705 * ppi-info@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/ppi Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov PRODUCER PRICE INDEXES - JANUARY 2010 The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 1.4 percent in January, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This increase followed a 0.4-percent advance in December and a 1.5-percent rise in November. In January, at the earlier stages of processing, prices received by manufacturers of intermediate goods climbed 1.7 percent, and the crude goods index jumped 9.6 percent. On an unadjusted basis, prices for finished goods moved up 4.6 percent for the 12 months ended January 2010, their third consecutive 12-month increase. (See table A.)

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm



Exploding Inflation & Higher Interest Rates Coming



“…It’s been forecast by everyone but those beating the Obama Democratic drums. Even today, many pundits were saying that inflation wasn’t going to be much of a concern but then Thursday afternoon, Ben Bernanke & Boys raised the Discount Rate from .50% to .75%! This is the opening salvo of interest rates that might have to reach DOUBLE DIGITS to contain the massive printing of money that’s been going on.

The Federal Reserve decided Thursday to boost the rate banks pay for emergency loans. The action is part of a broader move to pull back the extraordinary aid it provided to fight the worst financial and economic crisis since the 1930s. The move won’t directly affect borrowing costs for millions of Americans. But with the worst of the financial crisis over, it brings the Fed’s main crisis lending program closer to normal.

The Fed decided to bump up the so-called “discount” lending rate by one-quarter point to 0.75 percent. The increase takes effect Friday.

The central bank said the action should not be viewed as a signal that it will soon boost interest rates for consumers and businesses. Want to bet? Record-low borrowing costs near zero are still needed to foster the recovery, it said. The Fed repeated its pledge to keep interest rates at “exceptionally low” levels for an “extended period.” But with unemployment still near double digits, and demand for loans remains weak, many ordinary Americans and small businesses have found it difficult to borrow. …”

http://www.articlesbase.com/economics-articles/exploding-inflation-amp-higher-interest-rates-coming-1876816.html



Glenn Beck- February 18, 2010 (Part 1/4)



Glenn Beck- February 18, 2010 (Part 2/4)



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Amity Shlaes–Videos

Julian Simon–Videos

Thomas Sowell and Conflict of Visions–Videos

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Peter Thiel–Videos

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.–Videos

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Taxing the Middle Class is NOT the Solution…

President Obama’s number one priority after the defense of the country should be how the government can assist private enterprise or businesses to create wealth, income and jobs for the thirty million American citizens seeking full time employment.

Instead, President Obama failed to lead.

He first focused his attention on a so-called stimulus spending bill which in reality was a political payoff bill loaded with programs, projects and grants for those who supported the progressive radical socialist Democratic Party agenda.

Then the President focused on Health Insurance Reform that the majority of Americans opposed when they learned what was in the proposed bills–forcing Americans to purchase a Government qualified and mandated health insurance plan.

As a result instead of the unemployment rate remaining under 8% with the stimulus package as forecasted, the official unemployment rate rose to over 10% and has only slightly declined to 9.7%.

Most economist expect the official unemployment rate to remain in double digits until 2011 at the earliest. This means that a minimum of fifteen million people are looking for a full time job. Unfortunately, the official U-3 measure of the unemployment rate significantly understates the real unemployment rate and number of unemployed, which is over 17% and represents over 26 million Americans seeking a full time job.

Many Americans are working part-time while they try to find a full-time 40 hours per week job. There are now over 30 million Americans that are seeking full time employment.

A reality check is the number of Americans receiving food stamps or more accurately enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, which will soon exceed 40 million Americans. Forty million Americans on food stamps again understates the number of people needing such assistance. Both state and Federal governments have made it more difficult to enroll in SNAP. There is at least another 10 to 15 million that would qualify but have given up on food stamps or a SNAP card once that see all the paperwork involved.

While the unemployed and their children go hungry waiting for the approval of their SNAP card to purchase food, President Obama proclaims the success of his stimulus spending package.

Give me a break.

Suggest President Obama take his stimulus packages, cap and trade energy taxes, and health care tax proposals and dump them.

The American people want good paying jobs so they can feed, clothe, and shelter their families.

The American people do not want higher taxes that impact business owners resulting in fewer jobs and more job layoffs.

The American people do not want to depend on the Federal Government for food stamps or a SNAP card to pay for food.

The American people will vote out of office the progressive radical socialists of both political parties come November.

Shape up Mr. President, otherwise the American people will ship you and your cronies out of office.

Senator and Doctor Tom Coburn is one of the few Senators that the American people respect and trust.

Unfortunatley for every Senator Coburn in the Senate there are three Democrats and Republican progressive radical socialists that oppose Senator Coburn.

This is a very typical news story from the progressive radical socialist point of view about Senator Coburn:

New Senate Ends Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn’s Obstructionism

It’s time to find more men and woman for the Congress, Senate, and White House with the courage and integrity of a Senator Coburn.

The Tea Party movement needs to find and support more Senator Coburns to run for elective office at the local, city, state and Federal levels.

Join the Second American Revolution.

Background Articles and Videos

Dan Mitchell discusses the effectiveness of the stimulus

United States of Amercia Government

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml

http://www.federalbudget.com/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3015540/US-Budget-Deficit-or-Surplus-1960present

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans

$1.4 Trillion in Red Ink Means Less to Spend On Obama’s Ambitious Jobs, Stimulus Policies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101602388.html

http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/obama-tripled-the-national-deficit-his-first-year-in-office.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125119686015756517.html

Stop Spending Our Future – The Crisis

How Many Americans Are On Food Stamps?

40th Anniversary of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service

New Federal Food Stamp Program SNAP Helping Arizona Families through Arizona Food Banks

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Studies

SNAP Participation Rates (State)

Reaching Those In Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2007 – November 2009

http://www.fns.usda.gov/ORA/menu/Published/SNAP/SNAPPartState.htm

Reaching Those in Need:

STATE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION RATES IN 2007

“…The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—formerly the Food Stamp Program—is a central component of American policy to alleviate hunger and poverty. The program’s main purpose is “to permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet…by increasing their purchasing power” (Food and Nutrition Act of 2008). SNAP is the largest of the domestic food and nutrition assistance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. During fiscal year 2009, the program served 33 million people in an average month at a total annual cost of over $50 billion in benefits.

The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 calls for policymakers to assess the effects of programs, and one important measure of a program’s performance is its ability to reach its target population. The national SNAP participation rate—the percentage of eligible people in the United States who actually participate in the program—has been a standard for assessing performance for about 25 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget request for fiscal year 2010 includes a performance target to reach 68 percent of the eligible population in that year.

SNAP provides an important support for the “working poor”—people who are eligible for SNAP benefits and live in households in which someone earns income from a job. Twenty-eight million people received benefits in an average month in 2008. Eleven million—40 percent—lived in households that had income from earnings, up from 30 percent of all participants in 1996, the year in which more emphasis was placed on work for public assistance recipients through the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

Recent studies have examined national participation rates as well as participation rates for socioeconomic and demographic subgroups (Leftin and Wolkwitz 2009), and State rates for all eligible people and for the working poor (Cunnyngham, Castner, and Schirm 2008). This document presents estimates of SNAP participation rates for all eligible people and for the working poor by States for fiscal year 2007. These estimates can be used to assess recent program performance and focus efforts to improve performance. ..”

http://www.fns.usda.gov/ORA/menu/Published/SNAP/FILES/Participation/Reaching2007.pdf

SNAP

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/rules/Legislation/about.htm

US food stamps set ever-higher record-32.8 million

STATE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION RATES IN 2007

http://www.fns.usda.gov/ORA/menu/Published/SNAP/FILES/Participation/Reaching2007.pdf

US food stamps set ever-higher record-32.8 million

Reuters, Friday February 5 2010

“… A record 38.2 million Americans were enrolled in the food stamp program at latest count, up 246,000 from the previous month and the latest in record-high monthly tallies that began in December 2008.

Food stamps are the primary federal anti-hunger program, helping poor people buy groceries. The Agriculture Department updated enrollment data on Friday with a preliminary figure for November.

USDA estimates up to $58 billion will be spent on food stamps this fiscal year, which ends Sept 30, with average enrollment of 40.5 million people. Food stamps were renamed the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program in 2008.

Participation has surged since the financial-market turmoil of late 2008 and has set records each month since December 2008, when it reached 31.78 million. Enrollment is highest during times of economic distress. …”

(Reporting by Charles Abbott; Editing by David Gregorio)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8933161

A Record Number Of Americans Turn To Food Stamps As America Is Gripped By Economic Despair

“…Would you ever accept government welfare? Would you look down on someone who does? Well, if you would look down on a fellow American who receives food stamps then get ready to look down on a massive sea of people. The truth is that over 37 million Americans now receive food stamps, and the program is expanding at a pace of about 20,000 people a day. As hordes of Americans have been forced out of their jobs and their homes, millions are finding that the only way they can make it is to accept food stamps. For many it is a tremendously humbling moment to turn to the government for help, and for so many millions to be dependent on the food stamps program is yet another indication of how deep the economic despair in America has gotten.

Most of the time you won’t even notice them being used at the checkout counters. Today food stamps take the form of inconspicuous plastic cards and they can be used to purchase a wide variety of food items. A record 37.2 million people, which is approximately one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, and that number is growing rapidly.

In particular, children are being enrolled in this program in staggering numbers.

One out of every four children in America now gets assistance from food stamps each month. In fact, it is projected that half of all U.S. kids will be on food stamps at some point in their lives. …”

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/a-record-number-of-americans-turn-to-food-stamps-as-america-is-gripped-by-economic-despair



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10 Federal Government Departments,

Several Agencies and 1,000++ of Programs Now!

1. Department of Agriculture

2. Department of Commerce

3. Department of Education

4. Department of Energy

5. Department of Health and Human Resources

6. Department of Housing and Urban Development

7. Department of Interior

8. Department of Labor

9. Department of Transportation

10. Department of Veterans Affairs

11. Environmental Protection Agency

12. Other Independent Agencies

13. International Assistance Programs

If

We The People

Do Not Do This Now

You Can Forgot About

Receiving Your

Social Security and Medicare Benefits!

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A flat income tax would be an improvement over the existing Federal Income and Payroll Taxes.

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Let the American people decide when they will either pay their taxes on their consumption of new goods and services or not pay taxes, save their money and invest it for future consumption.

No more filing of tax returns and IRS invasion of your privacy.

No longer will individuals spend many hours filling out tax returns or paying others to perform this service.

April 15 will just be another day of the week.

All future Federal budgets should be limited to 80% of the prior year’s FairTax collections.

All future Federal budgets should be in “surplus”–no more deficits or a rising National Debt.

The remaining 20% of the FairTax national sales consumption tax would go towards paying off the National Debt and getting both Social Security and Medicare on a sound acturial foundation.

Their are nearly thirty million Americans seeking a full time job.

The American family is hurting.

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It’s time to protect the American family from unemployment.

It’s time to send the illegal aliens home.

It’s time to bring the troops home.

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World Economic Forum

“…The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Geneva-based non-profit foundation best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, including health and the environment. Beside meetings, the WEF produces a series of research reports and engages its members in sector specific initiatives.^[1] WEF also organizes the “Annual Meeting of the New Champions” in China and a series of regional meetings throughout the year. In 2008 those regional meetings included meetings on Europe and Central Asia, East Asia, the Russia CEO Roundtable, Africa, the Middle East, and the World Economic Forum on Latin America. In 2008 it launched the “Summit on the Global Agenda” in Dubai.

The WEF was founded in 1971 by Klaus Martin Schwab, a German-born business professor at the University of Geneva.^[2] Originally named the European Management Forum, it changed its name to the World Economic Forum in 1987 and sought to broaden its vision further to include providing a platform for resolving international conflicts.

In the summer of 1971 Schwab invited 444 executives from Western European firms to the first European Management Symposium held in the Davos Congress Centre under the patronage of the European Commission and European industrial associations, where Schwab sought to introduce European firms to US management practices. He then founded the WEF as a non-profit organization based in Geneva and drew European business leaders to Davos for their annual meetings each January.^[3]

Schwab developed the “stakeholder” management approach which based corporate success on managers taking account of all interests: not merely shareholders, clients and customers, but employees and the communities within which the firm is situated, including governments.^[4] Events in 1973 including the collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate mechanism and the Arab-Israeli War saw the annual meeting expand its focus from management to economic and social issues, and political leaders were invited for the first time to Davos in January 1974.^[5]

As the years went by, political leaders began to use Davos as a neutral platform to resolve their differences. The Davos Declaration was signed in 1988 by Greece and Turkey, helping them turn back from the brink of war. In 1992 South African President F. W. de Klerk met with Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi at the Annual Meeting, their first joint appearance outside South Africa. At the 1994 Annual Meeting, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached a draft agreement on Gaza and Jericho.^[6] In 2008 Bill Gates gave a keynote speech on Creative Capitalism, a form of capitalism that works both to generate profits and solve the world’s inequities, using market forces to better address the needs of the poor.^[7]^[8] …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum

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Raymond — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:37:45 +0000

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Background Articles and Videos

Useful Idiots

“…In political jargon, the term useful idiot was used to describe Soviet sympathizers in Western countries and the attitude of the Soviet government towards them. The implication was that though the person in question naïvely thought themselves an ally of the Soviets or other Communists, they were actually held in contempt by them, and were being cynically used.

The term is now used more broadly to describe someone who is perceived to be manipulated by a political movement, terrorist group, hostile government, or business, whether or not the group is Communist in nature.

Lenin

The term is commonly attributed to Lenin, sometimes in the form “useful idiots of the West”, to describe those Western reporters and travelers who would endorse the Soviet Union and its policies in the West. In fact, the earliest known usage is in a 1948 New York Times article on Italian politics. In 1987, Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, said “We have not been able to identify this phrase [useful idiots of the West] among [Lenin's] published works.”^[1] ^[2].

Modern usage

In the United States, the term is used as a pejorative to describe a naive person manipulated to produce propaganda for a malign cause.

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term “useful idiot” has also been used by some commentators to describe individuals they believe to be too ’soft’ against Islamism and terrorism. For example, Anthony Browne wrote in the United Kingdom newspaper, The Times:^[3]

“

Elements within the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support. In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union — useful idiots.

”

Similarly, Bruce Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno wrote:^[4]

“

Lenin called them “useful idiots,” those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.

…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

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Don’t Panic! The PIGS threaten Europe!

EUROPEAN PIGS

PIGS (economics)

“…PIGS is a ethnic slur^[1] ^[2] ^[1], routinely used by the British and North American economic press to refer to Mediterranean countries. It is purported to be an acronym representing four countries of southern Europe: Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Sometimes, Ireland is listed in addition to or in lieu of Italy.

Several news and economic organisations have denounced or banned the term.^[3]

The acronym was first used in 2008 by some British and North American journalists to refer to the Eurozone countries with lagging economic performance in the preceding few years.^[4]^[5] They were perceived as lacking fiscal discipline and often ran large current account deficits, leading to concerns about the stability of the euro currency.^[6] Additionally, they tend to suffer from high unemployment.^[7]

Shortly after being coined, an additional “I” was sometimes added to create the acronym “PIIGS”, with the additional letter referring to Ireland.^[8] ^[9]^[10] Some Italian banks (such as Unicredit) have suggested that Italy be replaced with Ireland in the original four letter acronym, and American commentator Pat Buchanan did so in a February 2010 column.^[11] According to Eric Nielsen, chief European economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in London, “Italy is in a more comfortable position than the other Southern European countries because of a stronger balance sheet.”^{[12] …”}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)

Total National Debt
Fiscal Years 1900 to 2014
Year	GDP-US $ billion	Gross Public Debt-total pct GDP
1900	20.6	10.37
1901	22.3	9.61
1902	24.1	17.70
1903	25.9	17.20
1904	25.7	18.18
1905	28.8	16.85
1906	31	16.43
1907	33.9	15.94
1908	30.1	19.20
1909	32.2	18.67
1910	33.4	18.74
1911	34.3	19.31
1912	37.4	18.70
1913	39.1	18.75
1914	36.5	21.23
1915	38.7	21.61
1916	49.6	19.00
1917	59.7	20.25
1918	75.8	28.47
1919	78.3	44.77
1920	88.4	38.86
1921	73.6	45.10
1922	73.4	45.06
1923	85.4	38.96
1924	86.9	38.03
1925	90.6	36.71
1926	96.9	34.48
1927	95.5	34.97
1928	97.4	34.15
1929	103.6	32.25
1930	91.2	36.76
1931	76.5	45.81
1932	58.7	65.91
1933	56.4	73.77
1934	66	69.67
1935	73.3	65.35
1936	83.8	63.55
1937	91.9	60.81
1938	86.1	65.74
1939	92.2	65.40
1940	101.4	62.38
1941	126.7	54.28
1942	161.9	56.68
1943	198.6	78.10
1944	219.8	99.40
1945	223.1	123.46
1946	222.3	128.40
1947	244.2	112.87
1948	269.1	100.69
1949	267.3	102.56
1950	293.8	95.80
1951	339.3	83.21
1952	358.3	80.72
1953	379.3	79.05
1954	380.4	81.54
1955	414.8	76.82
1956	437.4	73.53
1957	461.1	70.17
1958	467.2	71.60
1959	506.6	68.85
1960	526.4	67.68
1961	544.7	66.82
1962	585.6	64.72
1963	617.7	63.29
1964	663.6	60.87
1965	719.1	57.96
1966	787.7	54.20
1967	832.6	52.83
1968	909.8	51.52
1969	984.4	49.50
1970	1038.3	49.55
1971	1126.8	49.44
1972	1237.9	48.57
1973	1382.7	46.73
1974	1499.5	45.42
1975	1637.7	45.99
1976	1825.3	47.19
1977	2030.9	47.16
1978	2294.7	45.87
1979	2562.2	44.12
1980	2789.5	44.59
1981	3128.4	43.53
1982	3253.2	47.52
1983	3534.6	51.81
1984	3933.2	52.81
1985	4220.3	56.68
1986	4462.8	62.39
1987	4739.5	64.75
1988	5100.4	65.83
1989	5484.4	66.67
1990	5803.1	70.54
1991	5992.1	76.46
1992	6337.7	79.53
1993	6667.4	81.38
1994	7085.2	81.40
1995	7397.7	80.89
1996	7816.9	80.32
1997	8332.4	79.62
1998	8679.66	78.46
1999	9201.14	76.35
2000	9951.5	71.61
2001	10286.2	71.57
2002	10398.4	74.69
2003	11142.1	77.15
2004	11607	80.39
2005	12638.4	79.27
2006	13090.8	81.80
2007	14077.6	81.10
2008	14441.4	87.52
2009	14237.2	103.86
2010	14623.9	116.14
2011	15299	121.96
2012	16203.3	124.67
2013	17182.2	126.34
2014	18192.6	127.62

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1900_2014&units=p&chart=H0-total&title=Total%20National%20Debt

Hearing on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt: Orszag’s Testimony

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – The US Economic Outlook

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Global Economic Outlook

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Global Industry Outlook: Finance, Services and Media

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Global Industry Outlook: Heavy Industries

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Global Energy Outlook

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Global Industry Outlook: Health, Consumers, Tech and Travel

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Rethinking Market Capitalism

Davos Annual Meeting 2010 – Redesigning Financial Regulation

Davos Open Forum 2010 – After the Financial Crisis: Consequences and Lessons Learned

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http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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Raymond — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:37:19 +0000

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I was listening to Rush when he was talking about President Obama’s proposed meeting with both the Republicans and Democrats about their ideas for health care reform.

Given the way both President Obama and the progressive radical socialist Democrats froze out all Republican ideas when they were drafting their health care bills, I would tell the President to first show the American people online your proposed health care plan and bill .

Only then should the Republicans even consider having a meeting on health care reform that is televised with President Obama.

Rush suggested that instead of a meeting, lets have a debate similiar to those on Bill Buckley’s Firing Line with a moderator and three people for each side of an issue. For example one of the most famous debates on Firing Line was on the Panama Canal treaty where then Governor Ronald Reagan and Bill Buckley were on opposing sides of the issue.

William F Buckley Jr Panama Closing Speech

While I am a regular listener of both Rush and Mark, I would have a Republican Senator instead of Mark Levin.

My suggestion is Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma replace Mark Levin as part of the Republian A team.

The Republican A Team

Rush Limbaugh On the Record – Part 5 of 8 – First Night

John Barrasso and Tom Coburn Discuss Health Savings Accounts and Small Group Health Plans

Paul Ryan explains problems with public plan

A confident and competent leader would accept the challenge.

An arrogant and mendacious reader would reject the challenge.

Mr. President, put up or shut up.

Mr. President–Put Up or Shut Up–Put Online Your Health Care Plan and Bill For the American People To Review–Otherwise–No Meeting

Can you say wipeout!

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Background Articles and Videos

Firing Line- William Buckley Jr. and Malcolm Muggeridge

Rush Limbaugh’s Letter to President Obama

Rush Limbaugh

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/the_limbaugh_library.guest.html

Tom Coburn

BAILOUT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

Tom Coburn

“…Tom A. Coburn, M.D. was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 2, 2004. Dr. Coburn and his wife, Carolyn, a former Miss Oklahoma, were married in 1968 and have three children and five grandchildren. They are members of Muskogee’s New Community Church.

Dr. Coburn’s priorities in the Senate include reducing wasteful spending, protecting your liberty, balancing the budget, improving health care access and affordability, protecting the sanctity of all human life – including the unborn – and representing traditional, Oklahoma values. As a citizen legislator, Dr. Coburn has pledged to serve no more than two terms in the Senate and to continue to care for patients. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Intelligence Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

As a senator, Dr. Coburn has offered more amendments than any of his colleagues. He has offered amendments to eliminate funding for the “Bridge to Nowhere,” the “Woodstock Museum” in New York and countless other special interests earmarks sponsored by members of both parties. Dr. Coburn has also worked to make government more accountable and transparent. In 2006, he teamed up with then-Senator Barack Obama to create http://www.usaspending.gov/, an online database of all federal spending. Click here to view many more of his accomplishments in the Senate.

Prior to his election to the Senate, Dr. Coburn represented Oklahoma’s Second Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 1995 through 2001. He was first elected in 1994, then re-elected in 1996 and 1998, becoming the first Republican to hold the seat for consecutive terms. Dr. Coburn retired from Congress in 2001, fulfilling his pledge to serve no more than three terms in the House.

In 1970, Dr. Coburn graduated with an accounting degree from Oklahoma State University. One of the Top Ten seniors in the School of Business, Dr. Coburn served as president of the College of Business Student Council.
From 1970 to 1978, Dr. Coburn served as manufacturing manager at the Ophthalmic Division of Coburn Optical Industries in Colonial Heights, Virginia. Under his leadership, the Virginia division of Coburn Optical grew from 13 employees to more than 350 and captured 35 percent of the U.S. market.

After the family business was sold, Dr. Coburn changed the course of his life by returning to school to become a physician. Again he emerged as a leader, becoming president of his class at the University of Oklahoma Medical School where he graduated in 1983. He then did his internship in general surgery at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City and family practice residency at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith.

Dr. Coburn returned to Muskogee where he specializes in family medicine, obstetrics and the treatment of allergies. Dr. Coburn has personally delivered more than 4,000 babies.

Dr. Coburn also is a two-time cancer survivor.”

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorCoburn.Biography

UPFRONT with Mike Gousha, Feb. 7, 2010 – Rep. Paul Ryan Wants Govenment To Start Working

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJENz4VpBmw

Paul Ryan

“…As a fifth-generation Janesville native, Paul Ryan is committed to carrying forth Wisconsin’s proud tradition of hard-working, reform-minded leadership to Congress. Since first elected in 1998, Paul has fought with integrity and passion on behalf of those he serves in Wisconsin’s First Congressional District. Serving as Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, Paul is a leading voice for fiscal discipline and accountability in the federal government. He is also a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, where he has focused his efforts on making health care more affordable and more accessible, reducing the complexity and burdens of our federal tax code, and strengthening American jobs and competitiveness. He has recently introduced “A Roadmap for America’s Future,” a comprehensive proposal that tackles the interrelated crises in health care, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, our outdated tax code, and our exploding debt. Prior to his election to Congress, Paul worked at Ryan Inc., Central – a construction firm that was founded by Ryan’s great-grandfather in 1884. Paul also gained experience in public service, serving as an aide, economic advisor, and speechwriter for various public officials in our nation’s capital. Paul currently resides blocks from his childhood home in Janesville, his church – St. John Vianney’s Parish, and his alma mater – Joseph A. Craig High School. He also earned a degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio. Paul and his wife Janna are the proud parents of three children – Liza, Charlie and Sam. The youngest of four children, Paul is the son of Paul Sr. (deceased) and Betty Ryan.”

http://www.ryanforcongress.com/Biography.aspx

“…Fox News has obtained a letter penned by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) addressed to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

In the letter, they question the president’s true commitment to Bipartisanship and implore the White House to conduct all talks in public. In addition, they also ask the president to take the reconciliation process off the table.

Here is the letter:

February 8, 2010
The Honorable Rahm Emanuel
Chief of Staff
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. Emanuel:

We welcome President Obama’s announcement of forthcoming bipartisan health care talks. In fact, you may remember that last May, Republicans asked President Obama to hold bipartisan discussions on health care in an attempt to find common ground on health care, but he declined and instead chose to work with only Democrats. Since then, the President has given dozens of speeches on health care reform, operating under the premise that the more the American people learn about his plan, the more they will come to like it. Just the opposite has occurred: a majority of Americans oppose the House and Senate health care bills and want them scrapped so we can start over with a step-by-step approach focused on lowering costs for families and small businesses.

Just as important, scrapping the House and Senate health care bills would help end the uncertainty they are creating for workers and businesses and thus strengthen our shared commitment to focusing on creating jobs. Assuming the President is sincere about moving forward on health care in a bipartisan way, does that mean he will agree to start over so that we can develop a bill that is truly worthy of the support and confidence of the American people?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today that the President is “absolutely not” resetting the legislative process for health care. If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate.Assuming the President is sincere about moving forward in a bipartisan way, does that mean he has taken off the table the idea of relying solely on Democratic votes and jamming through health care reform by way of reconciliation? As the President has noted recently, Democrats continue to hold large majorities in the House and Senate, which means they can attempt to pass a health care bill at any time through the reconciliation process.

Eliminating the possibility of reconciliation would represent an important show of good faith to Republicans and the American people.If the President intends to present any kind of legislative proposal at this discussion, will he make it available to members of Congress and the American people at least 72 hours beforehand? Our ability to move forward in a bipartisan way through this discussion rests on openness and transparency. Will the President include in this discussion congressional Democrats who have opposed the House and Senate health care bills? This bipartisan discussion should reflect the bipartisan opposition to both the House bill and the kickbacks and sweetheart deals in the Senate bill.Will the President be inviting officials and lawmakers from the states to participate in this discussion?

As you may know, legislation has been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures, similar to the proposal just passed by the Democratic-controlled Virginia State Senate, providing that no individual may be compelled to purchase health insurance. Additionally, governors of both parties have raised concerns about the additional costs that will be passed along to states under both the House and Senate bills. The President has also mentioned his commitment to have “experts” participate in health care discussions. Will the Feb. 25 discussion involve such “experts?” Will those experts include the actuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), who have determined that the both the House and Senate health care bill raise costs – just the opposite of their intended effect – and jeopardize seniors’ access to high-quality care by imposing massive Medicare cuts? Will those experts include the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which has stated that the GOP alternative would reduce premiums by up to 10 percent? Also, will Republicans be permitted to invite health care experts to participate?

Finally, as you know, this is the first televised White House health care meeting involving the President since last March. Many health care meetings of the closed-door variety have been held at the White House since then, including one where a sweetheart deal was worked out with union leaders. Will the special interest groups that the Obama Administration has cut deals with be included in this televised discussion?Of course, Americans have been dismayed by the fact that the President has broken his own pledge to hold televised health care talks. We can only hope this televised discussion is the beginning, not the end, of attempting to correct that mistake. Will the President require that any and all future health care discussions, including those held on Capitol Hill, meet this common-sense standard of transparency and openness?Your answers to these critical questions will help determine whether this will be a truly open, bipartisan discussion or merely an intramural exercise before Democrats attempt to jam through a job-killing health care bill that the American people can’t afford and don’t support. ‘Bipartisanship’ is not writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling them and demanding Republican support. Bipartisan ends require bipartisan means.

These questions are also designed to try and make sense of the widening gap between the President’s rhetoric on bipartisanship and the reality. We cannot help but notice that each of the President’s recent bipartisan overtures has been coupled with harsh, misleading partisan attacks. For instance, the President decries Republican ‘obstruction’ when it was Republicans who first proposed bipartisan health care talks last May. The President says Republicans are ‘sitting on the sidelines’ just days after holding up our health care alternative and reading from it word for word. The President has every right to use his bully pulpit as he sees fit, but this is the kind of credibility gap that has the American people so fed up with business as usual in Washington.We look forward to receiving your answers and continuing to discuss ways we can move forward in a bipartisan manner to address the challenges facing the American people.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report. …”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/08/congressional-letter-questions-obamas-commitment-bipartisanship/%20/