Fox news has an interesting, albeit, appalling story on the White House and it’s continuing threats to anyone or anything who dares stand in the way of their “progress”.

Now, apparently, the White House (a.k.a. Godfather Central) is threatening Congress that unless they pass Cap and Trade, that they’ll have to unleash the EPA via their “Environmental Czar”, Lisa Jackson, on the economy, which could be “bad for business”.

So, instead of broken knee-caps and noses, it’s broken businesses and loss of jobs, etc.  It’s so nice that the Obama administration isn’t shy about making threats to get what they want.  I am sincerely hoping that someone in Congress will call attention to this.  Obama and his thugs would love nothing more than to circumvent the legislative and judicial branches entirely and have supreme power.  Can’t anyone in Congress see this before it’s too late???

Ok, I don’t write many diaries because I’m not very good at it and, frankly, don’t have a lot of extra time on my hands, but recently I feel compelled to express some things that have been too outrageous not to comment on.

First of all, in light of all the comments from Van Jones, Robert Reich, Anita Dunn(H/T Moe Lane*), Kevin Jennings, John Holdren, and Obama himself (among many others), along with the push for socialized medicine, one would have to be practically blind NOT to see the direction in which Obama is herding us.  Yes, it’s a scary thought, but but also an extremely absurd one if you know the America I know.

See, apparently, Obama has been living in his elite world of pansy-tailed, yellow-bellied, power hungry, delusional, lobster and filet mignon- eating morons for so long, he has forgotten that there are people in this country who are actually DO have principles and are willing to fight for them.  If he (not likely considering how much time he spends admiring himself) IS aware that we exist, he seems to believe that we can be steamrolled and bullied into submission.  Not likely.

There was a recent Gallup poll conducted that stated that more people in Alabama identified themselves as conservative than in any other state.  I happen to live in Alabama.  I know this to be true.  I was born and raised in south Georgia and the same used to hold true there as well.  We’re the “bitter God and gun clingers” Obama was referring to on the campaign trail.   Well, we do happen to like our second amendment rights down here and yes, most of us love God.  Last time I checked, it was a free country and we were allowed to do so.  Both of my grandfathers and my husband fought for our freedom and we darn well plan on remaining free.  However, it’s important to note that while there are definitely more conservatives in the south, there are patriotic Americans all over this nation who would gladly give their lives to defend the country they love–many of them already in the military.

I’ve never in my life been a conspiracy theorist or even a political guru, but what I DO know is that one cannot ignore the fact that something is brewing in our government that is inherently anti-American.  We all know that the government doesn’t like to let a crisis “go to waste“, so what will be our next crisis and what will they try to push through that they didn’t think they could before? (Rhetorical)

One of my favorite songs is “Don’t Tread on Me” by Metallica.  It is dedicated to the Gadsden flag.  For those of you who aren’t familar with the song, read the lyrics–there has never been a more perfect song for the tea party movement, IMHO.  It also embodies perfectly the attitude that I and my fellow patriotic Americans feel toward an oppressive, underhanded, manipulative, deceitful, totalitarian government.  It won’t happen.  Ever.  Not in America.  Got it?

So, to recap–I love my country and I know that there are millions of other Americans who feel the same way I do about her and are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure freedom and liberty for us and our children.  Anyone who believes otherwise should REALLY take a closer look around.  Better yet, pay a visit to Alabama.  We’d be happy to show ya what a TRUE American thinks and talks like (and it ain’t like Obama or his czars).

*I’ve never cited anyone’s diary entry before, so I hope I did this right.  If not, please forgive.  I’m new to this.

It’s fun……and informative!

http://reportcard.cnn.com/

It’s a constant battle; the fight for our freedom–the fight to keep America, well…America.  It seems like everyday I turn on the news with one eye closed hoping to avert my eyes from seeing our great Constitution get urinated on, once again, by some know-it-all expert/politician/”scientist” dirtball.  It’s very hard to see our valuable freedoms and liberties being ever so slowly, canivingly erased.  When will people finally get that fire in their belly?  When will we see the passion that blazed among our founding fathers?

First there was TARP, then “Stimulus”, then class warfare, or as Obama likes to call it, “redistribution”.  Moving on to Cap and Trade, National Healthcare, and now………………The 2010 Census.  This concept has given most conservatives chill bumps ever since we realized that Obama and his facist regime would be the ones in control of it.

Author and Ph.D. Paul L. Williams wrote an article for the Canada Free Press that caught my attention.  The entire article is worth reading ( http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12383), but one very interesting, albeit, concerning part of the article is the list of “partners” that Obama administration has chosen to help with the census:

• ACORN
• 100 Black Men of America
• African American Women‚Äôs House of Imagene (sic) Shelter
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• Arab American Institute
• Asian American Federation
• Asian American Justice Center
• Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
• Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage
• Boat People SOS
• Hispanic Alliance for Prosperity Institute
• Hispanic Federation
• Fundacion Azteca
• Latino Justice PDLDEF
• Mas New Mexico
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Minority Access
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health
• National Alliance of Black School Educators
• National American Indian Housing Council
• NAACP National Voter Fund
• NAACP (National Association of Colored People)
• National Association for Black Social Workers
• National Association of Colored Women‚Äôs Clubs
• National association of Hispanic Federal Executives
• National Association of Hispanic Publications
• National Association of Latino Elected Officials
• National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women‚Äôs Clubs
• National Black Chamber of Commerce
• National Black Child Development Institute
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Black Leadership Forum
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• National Congress of Black Women
• National Federation of Filipino American Associations
• National Hispanic Leadership Institute
• National Hispanic Business Information Clearinghouse
• National Latino Research Center
• National Minority AIDS Council
• National Puerto Rican Coalition
• National Puerto Rican Day Parade
• Rainbow Push Coalition
• U.S. Hispanic
  Chamber of Commerce
• Voto Latino

Does anyone else smell a a rat?  Opossum maybe?  This is outrageous!  I sincerely hope that the American people aren’t just going to let this by without a fight.  If Obama has his way, the Congress will be Democratic 15:1.  The article goes on to state that “The One” has hired some famous statistical sampler to “help” with the census.  This is also troubling.  All of this together proves what we had suspected from the beginning–he’s going to cook the census numbers to keep his statist agenda full steam ahead to Commie Road.  I’m sure there are several other implications of this that I’m not even seeing right now (or maybe I do see it, but my subconscious is blocking it to protect me).

My ultimate question, the one burning in my brain……What will be the last straw?  What will be the defining moment for the American people to wake up and scream, “WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!”?  Will the country be too far gone to change anything before people realize what has happened?  I don’t know how much longer I can sit by and watch as everything our brave men and women have fought for over the past 200+ years goes right down the toilet.  I have children to think about.  I don’t want them growing up in a country where they can’t even decide for themselves what career they’ll choose or what they can or can’t eat for breakfast!  This is pure insanity and I just can’t take anymore.  Hey America–get passionate, get involved!  The future of our great country depends on it.

Obama’s $163,000 Tax Bomb

Families well below the president’s ‘no-tax’ threshold will get a six-figure bill.

By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN

The House and Senate are preparing to pass President Barack Obama’s radical budget blueprint, with only minor modifications, by using (abusing would be more accurate) the budget “reconciliation” process. This process circumvents the Senate’s normal rules requiring 60 votes to prevent a filibuster. Reconciliation was created by Congress in the mid-1970s to enforce deficit reduction, the opposite of what the president and his party are aiming for.

AP

The immense increase in nondefense spending and taxes, and the tripling of the national debt in Mr. Obama’s budget, have been the subject of considerable scrutiny since it was announced. Mr. Obama and his economic officials respond, not without justification, that he inherited an enormous economic and financial crisis and a large deficit. All presidents present the best possible case for their budgets, but a mind-numbing array of numbers offers innumerable opportunities to conjure up misleading comparisons.

Mr. Obama’s characterizations of his budget unfortunately fall into this pattern. He claims to reduce the deficit by half, to shave $2 trillion off the debt (the cumulative deficit over his 10-year budget horizon), and not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. While in a Clintonian sense correct (depends on what the definition of “is” is), it is far more accurate to describe Mr. Obama’s budget as almost tripling the deficit. It adds $6.5 trillion to the national debt, and leaves future U.S. taxpayers (many of whom will make far less than $250,000) with the tab. And all this before dealing with the looming Medicare and Social Security cost explosion.

Some have laid the total estimated deficits and debt projections (as more realistically tallied by the Congressional Budget Office) on Mr. Obama’s doorstep. But on this score the president is correct. He cannot rightly be blamed for what he inherited. A more accurate comparison calculates what he has already added and proposes to add by his policies, compared to a “do-nothing” baseline (see nearby chart).

The CBO baseline cumulative deficit for the Obama 2010-2019 budget is $9.3 trillion. How much additional deficit and debt does Mr. Obama add relative to a do-nothing budget with none of his programs? Mr. Obama’s “debt difference” is $4.829 trillion — i.e., his tax and spending proposals add $4.829 trillion to the CBO do-nothing baseline deficit. The Obama budget also adds $177 billion to the fiscal year 2009 budget. To this must be added the $195 billion of 2009 legislated add-ons (e.g., the stimulus bill) since Mr. Obama’s election that were already incorporated in the CBO baseline and the corresponding $1.267 trillion in add-ons for 2010-2019. This brings Mr. Obama’s total additional debt to $6.5 trillion, not his claimed $2 trillion reduction. That was mostly a phantom cut from an imagined 10-year continuation of peak Iraq war spending.

The claim to reduce the deficit by half compares this year’s immense (mostly inherited) deficit to the projected fiscal year 2013 deficit, the last of his current term. While it is technically correct that the deficit would be less than half this year’s engorged level, a do-nothing budget would reduce it by 84%. Compared to do-nothing, Mr. Obama’s deficit is more than two and a half times larger in fiscal year 2013. Just his addition to the budget deficit, $459 billion, is bigger than any deficit in the nation’s history. And the 2013 deficit is supposed to be after several years of economic recovery, funds are being returned from the financial bailouts, and we are out of Iraq.

Finally, what of the claim not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $250,000 a year? Even ignoring his large energy taxes, Mr. Obama must reconcile his arithmetic. Every dollar of debt he runs up means that future taxes must be $1 higher in present-value terms. Mr. Obama is going to leave a discounted present-value legacy of $6.5 trillion of additional future taxes, unless he dramatically cuts spending. (With interest the future tax hikes would be much larger later on.) Call it a stealth tax increase or ticking tax time-bomb.

What does $6.5 trillion of additional debt imply for the typical family? If spread evenly over all those paying income taxes (which under Mr. Obama’s plan would shrink to a little over 50% of the population), every income-tax paying family would get a tax bill for $163,000. (In 10 years, interest would bring the total to well over a quarter million dollars, if paid all at once. If paid annually over the succeeding 10 years, the tax hike every year would average almost $34,000.) That’s in addition to his explicit tax hikes. While the future tax time-bomb is pushed beyond Mr. Obama’s budget horizon, and future presidents and Congresses will decide how it will be paid, it is likely to be paid by future income tax hikes as these are general fund deficits.

We can get a rough idea of who is likely to pay them by distributing this $6.5 trillion of future taxes according to the most recent distribution of income-tax burdens. We know the top 1% or 5% of income-taxpayers pay vastly disproportionate shares of taxes, and much larger shares than their shares of income. But it also turns out that Mr. Obama’s massive additional debt implies a tax hike, if paid today, of well over $100,000 for people with incomes of $150,000, far below Mr. Obama’s tax-hike cut-off of $250,000. (With interest, the tax hike would rise to more than $162,000 in 10 years, and over $20,000 a year if paid annually the following 10 years). In other words, a middle-aged two-career couple in New York or California could get a future tax bill as big as their mortgage.

While Mr. Obama’s higher tax rates are economically harmful, some of his tax policies deserve wide support, e.g., permanently indexing the alternative minimum tax. Ditto some of the spending increases, including the extension of unemployment benefits, given the severe recession.

Neither a large deficit in a recession nor a small increase from the current modest level in the debt to GDP ratio is worrisome. And at a 50% debt-to-GDP ratio, with nominal GDP growing 4% (the CBO out-year forecast), deficits of 2% of GDP would not be increasing the debt burden relative to income.

But what is not just worrisome but dangerous are the growing trillion dollar deficits in the latter years of the Obama budget. These deficits are so large for a prosperous nation in peacetime — three times safe levels — that they would cause the debt burden to soar toward banana republic levels. That’s a recipe for a permanent drag on growth and serious pressure on the Federal Reserve to inflate, not the new era of rising prosperity that Mr. Obama and his advisers foresee.

Mr. Boskin is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush.