1096 ...................Days since the Senate majority last passed a budget
$10.4 trillion ......Total federal spending since a budget was last adopted
$4.5 trillion ........New gross debt accumulated over that time
$15,000 ..............Additional debt per person over that time
$39,000 ..............Additional debt per family over that time
$626 billion ........Net interest payments on the debt since last adopted budget
1 ..........................Budget mark-ups scheduled and canceled by Dems
0 ..........................Number of Dem Senators who voted for any budget last 2 yrs.
0 ..........................Number of votes in support of Obama’s budgets last 2 yrs.
511 ......................Number of combined votes against
51 ........................Number of votes need to pass a budget in the Senate
0 ..........................Number of Dem budget plans brought to the Senate floor, 2010
0 ..........................Number brought to the floor in 2011
0 ..........................Number brought to the floor in 2012
$17 trillion ..........Unfunded cost of Obamacare
$100 trillion ........Total unfunded obligations of the federal government
2024 .....................Projected year that Medicare will go bankrupt
2033 .....................Projected year that Social Security will go bankrupt
8.2 ........................Percent of workforce currently unemployed
38 .........................Months that unemployment has been above 8 percent
22,774,000 ...........Total number of workers unemployed and underemployed
In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama claims that he worried after 9/11 that his name, so similar to that of Osama bin Laden, might harm his political career.
But Obama was not always so worried about misspellings and radical resemblances. He may even have cultivated them as he cast himself as Chicago’s radical champion.
In 1998, a small Chicago theater company staged a play titled The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, dedicated to the life and politics of the radical community organizer whose methods Obama had practiced and taught on Chicago’s South Side.
Obama was not only in the audience, but also took the stage after one performance, participating in a panel discussion that was advertised in the poster for the play.
As promised by Andrew Brietbart at CPAC. Described as “a story that should swing the first hammer against the glass wall the mainstream media has built around Barack Obama.”
The Energy Department isn’t working to lower gasoline prices directly, Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker scolded him for his now-infamous 2008 comment that gas prices in the U.S. should be as high as in Europe.
Of course Obama is blaming Republicans for higher gas prices? High gas prices are part of Obama’s plan. Wake up America.
I thought Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy to make America energy independant. Apparently that was not the purpouse or we would have been energy independant long ago. What do we have to show for this 100 Billion dollar a year beureacracy?
Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.
So far the only thing he has improved in two and a half years is his golf game. Hows that Hope and Change working out for you, America? If Barack Obama thinks he has five and a half years left he is delusional. Do you remember Jimmy Carter?
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
The undersigned groups would like your company to publicly oppose Governor Walker’s efforts to virtually eliminate collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin. While we appreciate that you may need some time to consider this request, we ask for your response by March 17. In the event that you do not respond to this request by that date, we will assume that you stand with Governor Walker and against the teachers, nurses, police officers, fire fighters, and other dedicated public employees who serve our communities.
In the event that you cannot support this effort to save collective bargaining, please be advised that the undersigned will publicly and formally boycott the goods and services provided by your company.
In the event you would like to discuss this matter further, please contact the executive Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, Jim Palmer, at 608.273.3840.
Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
James L. Palmer, Executive Director
Wisconsin Professional Police Association
Mahlon Mitchell,President
Professional Fire Fighters
Jim Conway, President
International Association of Fire Fighters Local 311
John Matthews, Executive Director
Madison Teachers, Inc.
Keith Patt, Executive Director
Green Bay Education Association
Bob Richardson, President
Dane County Deputy Sheriffs Association
Dan Frei, President
Madison Professional Police Officers Association
So whats next? Someone breaks into your factory, business, home and the Police don’t respond. Maybe there’s a fire and the Fire trucks don’t roll.
Nothing like being threatened by the head of the Wisconsin Professional Police union to add extra value to the intimidation factor.
When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’
Vice President Joesph Biden
Note: The stock market crashed in 1929. FDR was elected in 1932. And televisions were still in the laboratory. A heartbeat away, think about that….
The desire to “spreading the wealth” and for government to plan and regulate people’s lives is as old as the utopian fantasy in Plato’s Republic. The Pilgrim Fathers tried and soon realized its bankruptcy and failure as a way for men to live together in society.
They, instead, accepted man as he is: hardworking, productive, and innovative when allowed the liberty to follow his own interests in improving his own circumstances and that of his family. And even more, out of his industry result the quantities of useful goods that enable men to trade to their mutual benefit.
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism. At a time of economic uncertainty, it is worthwhile recalling this beginning of the American experiment and experience with freedom.
Dear Mr. Buffett, If you are so interested in paying ‘a Lot’ more please go ahead and write a big check to the Unites States Treasury. I’m sure some bureaucrats will find a way to spend all you can give.
Here’s an idea for you, have all American’s pay the same percentage of their income. Thus eliminating the “social engineering” imposed on us by the tax code.
The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
