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 »
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 »
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 »
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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