Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution

Krugman- “a combination of death panels and sales taxes. “

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“Some years down the pike, we’re going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It’s going to be that we’re actually going to take Medicare under control, and we’re going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT.”  Democrat Paul Krugman, November 14, 2010 on ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour

Krugman admits that Sarah Palin was right.  The only way to save money with a monopolistic Federal government approach is through rationing care with no escape valve.

Update with video link here, Krugman makes the statement starting at about 1:17:

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution

Social Security is bankrupt and is a Ponzi scheme-Perry

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“I want people to be afraid not to talk about that Social Security is bankrupt and is a Ponzi scheme and if you’ve got a young 20-something-year-old, they know for a fact that they’re not ever going to see that,.  So let’s fix it.” Texas Gov. Rick Perry, November 9, 2010

It is great to see someone talking about the true nature of Social Security. When you have been forced to contribute around 15% of your income* for your entire life to a scam where you have no property rights to the benefits, and politicians in Washington keep selling Social Security as a good thing, you should be expecting to get nothing or living in poverty if you have not planned for your own retirement.

The  Social Security “Trust Fund” is a farce.  It is like you handing me $20 to my right hand.  Then I take the twenty dollars and put it in my left hand and give the right hand an IOU while my left hand spends the money on dinner and a movie.  All that is left is an IOU.  There is no trust fund.  Anyone who says there is a Social Security Trust Fund is either gravely misinformed or purposefully trying to mislead.

It is not “Social Security” it is “Social Insecurity.”  We will not see a dime, or if we do, the value of what we will see will have been eaten by inflation.

* 15% of your income because you are really paying both the employee and employer side of the taxes through lower wages.  It is a political slight of hand to ensure that people are unaware of the true taxes going to pay for Social Insecurity.

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Doing the Right Thing, elections, First Amendment, Freedom

Only a fool cooperates with his own destroyers.

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“Simply saying ‘no,’ as we’ve had this past Congress … won’t bring jobs back.” Senator Harry Reid, November 3, 2010

Senator Reid, only a fool cooperates with his own destroyers. A pro-freedom agenda based on saying “NO” to a statist, anti-freedom, anti-Constitution, socialist agenda is what the election was about.  Politicians who care more about their own power than freedom, should be an endangered species with no 1973 Endangered Species Act to protect them.  When the choice is freedom v.s. control, compromising your freedom away slowly is no more sane than doing it all at once. Being statist democrat-lite will not only be bad for the Republicans, but for the Republic.

Would you compromise with a robber who wants to rob you?  Of course not.  Likewise, the host can not compromise with the parasites feeding off of her.

Saying “NO” to more big government, debt increasing policies is the way to create jobs because government does not create jobs, people do.

big government, Obama-Biden

Obama “I Won”

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“I won.” President Obama January 23, 2009 to Senator Jon Kyle

“they gotta sit in back.” President Obama, October 25, 2010 regarding Republicans

November 3, 2010, President Obama called for bipartisan efforts.  House Republicans need to say to the President, “We won.”  What goes around comes around.  Unless the President begins to support freedom, instead of statism and parasites, bipartisanship should be forbidden.

Constitution, elections, First Amendment, Freedom

What Conservatives want to conserve is freedom

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What Conservatives want to conserve is freedom.  Conservatives want to conserve the liberties spelled out in the Constitution.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Anyone who disagrees with that tenet is no conservative. Compromising freedom away through “bipartisanship” is nothing more than selling freedom down the river slowly versus all at once.  The history of the world is tyranny and oppression.  The United States was founded on the principle of limited government to prevent tyranny and oppression.

Each perversion of the Constitution takes the United States closer to tyranny and oppression.  A situation where one group believes it is right to take from another at the point of a gun.  A situation where elites rule every part of our lives from Washington.

One of the true freedom-loving conservatives was Senator Goldwater:

You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. – Goldwater

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. – Goldwater

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.  – Goldwater

Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, First Amendment, Freedom, Obama-Biden

Biden – Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

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“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.” Vice President Biden, October 26, 2010

The delusional Vice President stated that every great idea in more than 200 ideas has required “government vision”.  In other words without “government vision” there would be no cars, light bulbs,

Let’s look at some facts:

1. Theory of Relativity
2. Airplanes
3. Semiconductor
4. Standardized parts
5. Mass production
6. Just in the last 20 years: iPods, Google, eBay, Amazon.com, cell phones.  Every Internet website.
7. Light bulb,
8. Phonograph
9. Penicillin
10. Automobile
11. Telegraph/Telephone
12. Pharmaceuticals
13. FedEx
14. Passenger air travel
15. Movie/TV Industry
16. Steel
17. Agriculture
18. Mining
19. Shipping
20. Banking

Some of the “great ideas” of government include:

1. Socialism
2. Facsism
3. Communism
4. NAZI Socialism
5. Mao and Chinese Communism
6. USSR

Those five alone caused hundreds of millions of deaths.

7. Trillions of dollars in debt in the United States alone.
8. Inflation in the 1970s U.S., Germany in the 1930s etc.
9. Segregation couldn’t have occurred without the force of government

Some that did have government intervention, but in all likelihood crowded out some private initiative:
1. Nuclear weapons
2. Nuclear power
3. Space flight – USSR and the U.S.’s NASA
4. Interstate highway system
5. ARPAnet, which when the government got out of the way because the commercial internet. And which was developed with private ideas.

Other’s that also believed in the unlimited power and unlimited benefits of all controlling government were Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, King George III, Robespierre, Castro, Chavez. The ones that believed in liberty and freedom were Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln.

I know which side I want to be on. The side of freedom, not the side of tyrants.

Sam Adams:
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Abuse of Power, big government, First Amendment, Obama-Biden, personal responsibility

Obama – We’re gonna punish our enemies

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“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.” President Obama, October 26, 2010, Univision radio.

Ignoring again the poor English, a President who refers to American citizens who disagree with him as “enemies” is disgraceful.  The great divider at work again.  I wonder where Marco Rubio fits in that statement.

Abuse of Power, big government, First Amendment, Obama-Biden, personal responsibility

Obama-“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

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“We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” – President Obama, October 25, 2010

One of the most outrageous comments ever from a President of the United States – even ignoring his poor grammar and poor command of the English language.  One thought that Rosa Parks and many others fought against this ignorant mentality.  Much of the American public understands that socialism, communism or fascism are incompatible with liberty and freedom and consequently are against all three – or any variation of them.  Unfortunately there are a large percentage of people who want to be parasites on the backs of the rest of us.

YouTube video of the statement.

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