Schakowsky, Democrat, Illinois on getting rid of private health care. At least she is honest about socialism:
I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) to a group of government-run health care supporters, April 18, 2009
Finally some honesty from Democrat Rep. John Dingell:
Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax — and it’s a great big one, Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) said Friday, April 24, 2009, 11:41am ET
Actually, a ton of people realized that it was a BIG TAX. At least 48% of the country knows it which is why we’ve been calling it “Cap and Tax” all along.
Some of the signs from the tea parties across the United States earlier today:
Spread my Work Ethic, not my wealth!
Change…giving freeloaders some of what YOU have worked hard for!
Help me Obama, They want me to work and stuff!
Cut taxes, not deals
What part of “limited powers” do you not understand?
It’s my birthday, and all Obama got me was more debt!
It’s my birthday, and all Obama got me was more taxes!
Why make a corrupt government even BIGGER?
Why should I pay for your bad decisions?
Party like its 1773
Obamanomics – Trickle up poverty
Term Limits for Congress!
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
No tax cuts for non-taxpayers!
Cut taxes, NOT more deal$
Freedom Works! Continue reading Tea Party Slogans
Is this America — when you do what your government asks you to do and then retroactively you also have additional conditions? If we were not forced to take the TARP money, we would have been able to raise private capital at that time [and not need to cut the dividend.] It is absolutely asinine that somebody would announce we’re going to do stress tests for banks and we’ll give you the answer in 12 weeks.
— Wells Fargo Chairman Richard Kovacevich, March 16, 2009
Welcome to the new America where the Constitution is ignored. Which of the first Ten Amendments hasn’t been gutted or ignored? Only the 3rd. Talk about a disgrace.
Gotta love this:
Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States,” Hugo Chavez, dictator of Venezula. March 6, 2009
Since the White House seems to be in need of economic advice, here are a few suggestions that would help to turn things around quickly. Items #1 and #2 would not cost anything.
1. Eliminate Mark to Market – for people holding until the asset matures, mark to market is crazy.
2. Reinstate the uptick rule in order to restore some balance to the market.
3. Instead of spending more than $1.2 trillion on questionable projects, much of which won’t be spent for years, stop collecting income taxes for 2009. Federal Revenue in 2007 was approximately $2.5 trillion with individual income taxes making up a bit over 40% of that. So, drop the stimulus and put the money right back in everyone’s pocket this week. Save $200 billion, and let the citizens of the company keep their own money.
4. Talk about some of the positives: lower fuel costs, productivity and the like.
The American Diabetes Association called me today, “not to ask for money.” In the course of the conversation, the lady from the American Diabetes Association said that Obama’s tax increase is “only going to be about 5%. It’s not that much.”
My mother died of pancreatic cancer and I generally do support charities that deal with diseases of the pancreas (including being on the founding board of PanCan), but since the American Diabetes Association thinks that it is “not that much” they’ll be the ones who realize that the “not that much” comes out of their budget. But since it is “not that much” the American Diabetes Association won’t miss it.
When a charity calls today, this is what I am going to say when they ask for money:
Oh, didn’t you know that we have a new President in Washington? I suggest that now that he has declared that he is the best person to decide who “needs” the money more that you and I call the White House and see if you can beg from them. His tax increases are taking my charitable donations. The choice is simple: vote freedom or statism/socialism.
Now, I’ll still be donating, but it will be to charities that (a) support freedom, and (b) don’t sit at the trough of the federal government claiming handouts from the rest of us at the point of a gun.
While obvious for some time, the Politico (Politico) today confirms that President Obama is targeting Rush Limbaugh.
What Obama fails to realize is that this means that Rush begins to set the agenda for the Democrats and in that case they are going to have a tough time of it. Rush has three hours per day on the air to respond so anyone willing to listen to him will hear the truth instead of the Obama and mainstream media’s spin. While good for Rush, letting him set the agenda will be bad for the President.
It should also be noted that:
“Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran’s nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary” – March 2, 2009, 4:16pm, en.rian.ru
We should remember this day when Europe, the United States or elsewhere is hit by a missile that could have been stopped by an anti-missle shield. Never in the course of history has a madman (or madwoman) been stopped by appeasement and backing down from self-defense.
Let us hope we do not come to rue this day any time soon.
“it would be charitable to say he doubled down on what he said in January in wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country.” – Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary for President Barack Hussein Obama on Rush Limbaugh, March 2, 2009
Not that Rush Limbaugh needs defending, but Robert Gibbs either purposefully ignores what Rush says, has hearing and reading problems, or is just plain dense. Anyone who opposes socialism/statism/collectivism should hope that the policies that President Obama proposes fail. “Success” in this case means LESS FREEDOM and more control of your lives from Washington. NO ONE hopes that the country fails economically, anyone who treasures freedom hopes that anti-liberty policies fail. Gibbs, it is easy to attack a straw man argument, the Presidency deserves real responses, not copouts.
“I can only imagine what might have been said a few years ago if somebody might have said that on the other side relating to what was going on in this country or our endeavors overseas.” – Gibbs
And it appears his memory is failing too.