From the diaries. America is addicted to chocolate. Foreign chocolate. A majority of us consume chocolate each day. Although the U.S. produces only 6% of the world’s cocoa, we consume more than 20%. The threat is obvious. It’s time for government to step in and promote alternatives. Any day, President Obama will be barnstorming the country to tell us, “If we really want chocolate security | Read More »
President Barack Obama lets people break laws that he doesn’t like. The latest example is his backdoor amnesty for thousands of illegal immigrants, as a still-fuzzy but insidious picture is emerging of wholesale dismissals of deportation cases. Obama shows a pattern of refusing to enforce laws (or refusing to permit states like Arizona to enforce them). When he dislikes our laws, Obama forces change by | Read More »
If President Obama is so tough on Wall Street, why is Goldman Sachs supporting his financial regulation bill? The CEO of Goldman Sachs spilled the beans at a Senate hearing, telling them, “The biggest beneficiary of reform is Wall Street itself.” Financiers know that the bill guarantees them future bailouts. Obama pretends otherwise by using a nonsense definition of bailouts. He considers it okay to send billions to pay off | Read More »
From The Foundry: Congress wants America to believe its new promises to control spending even as it reneges on its old promises and spends more than ever. The “new” promise within health care reform bills is to reduce Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet simultaneously, Congress is reversing 1997 legislation that claimed it would reduce Medicare spending. The latest example of hypocrisy | Read More »
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill would create a health czar with the equivalent of super-powers–supported by a super-size bureaucracy. Under the 1,990-page $1.1-trillion+plus legislation, a presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies must operate. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to this super-czar. In other words, this health czar will control both the government plan | Read More »
America’s annual deficit just came in at $1.4-trillion and national debt continues to climb. If we continue to spend and ask the Federal Reserve to print more paper money to cover the debt, we could be on the Road to Zimbabwe. Last year, Zimbabwe was printing currency with face value of $100-trillion thanks to government-created inflation. That’s $100,000,000,000,000.00. More details here.
From the diaries by Erick. My full article is here at The Heritage Foundation’s blog. A major new report confirms the worst fears of many: Health care reform will raise the costs for most Americans—by about 18% on average. That is on top of existing and expected inflation of health coverage. This exposes President Obama’s fictitious claim that people will save money under his proposal. Only those | Read More »
California craziness continues! Their environmental agency plans to ban black cars, claiming that drivers use air conditioners too much when dark-painted cars heat up from the sun. Get the details and further links here from The Heritage Foundation. Regulating the color of cars—or anything else—is the mark of an overly-intrusive government and a lessening of our freedoms. Teabags are quickly becoming the symbol of too | Read More »
Hold onto your thermostat as well as your wallet! Annual utility bills may rise $1,800 under President Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan. That wipes out his pledge of a $800 a year tax cut for 95% of Americans. The White House admits low-balling the cost in Obama’s official budget, which claimed that his plan would add $646 billion to energy costs over 8 | Read More »
President Obama’s policy will be quiet amnesty toward illegal aliens working in America. Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano says enforcement will be aimed at those who “exploit” illegal workers, rather than at those who simply “employ” them. This means that so long as illegal aliens are paid “good” wages the companies get a free pass. And of course the illegal aliens do also. This twists our | Read More »
“Seinfeld” had characters that included a high-talker and a low-talker, but the U.S. Congress had them beat with a bevy of fast-talkers today It was obvious to everyone watching CSPAN that the Representatives were talking much faster than normal. They were talking so fast that their tongues often got tangled! It’s because the bloated stimulus bill is being rushed through so quickly, with only one | Read More »
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan is to borrow $888-billion and spend it, as though that would fix anything. But who would loan us the money? Answer: nobody. As California has learned, there’s a limit to how much a spendthrift government can borrow. We’re already in hock to the Chinese for $681-billion, after our government borrowed an extra $227-billion from them in the last year. The official U.S. Treasury | Read More »
Please forward this to your friends who care. Merry Christmas! Santa Evacuated from North Pole! Read full details at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84508 Here are excerpts: Evacuation operations continue at the North Pole, as Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, their reindeer and an estimated 5,000 elves are being relocated due to global warming to a secure but undisclosed location. * * * * * “The only way to | Read More »
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