By Anthony J Tarquinto
Soon, President Obama and Congress will agree to terms on raising the statutory debt limit, or the "debt ceiling." What will not be mentioned in the negotiations, however, is that the United States of America is bankrupt....
...In May 2012, the national debt started growing faster than GDP, which means we are borrowing at a faster rate than we produce....
...Our
debt crisis is borne out of two fundamental factors: 1) the United
States is the only nation on Earth that can borrow in its own currency,
and 2) America's central bank (the Federal Reserve) basically sets
interest rates on its own debt. This distorts fiscal reality by giving
Congress the perception that it can keep borrowing endlessly, and
funding its own deficits with more borrowed money....
...The
notion that the United States of America "always pays its bills on
time" is the biggest economic lie in modern history. When a Treasury
bond matures, the government sells another to pay it off. This is what
"monetizing debt" means. It's like a retail consumer using a MasterCard to pay the Visa bill. Buyers of U.S. Treasuries are essentially funding a Ponzi scheme. Printing money to pay off debt is not paying off anything.
By Charles E Moore
...Every
time an entrepreneur accepts a directive from the government that will
harm his chance of earning a profit; every time a roadblock is put up
and the entrepreneur finds a way
to adapt and keep moving on; every time a conservative curses the policy
of the liberal but still keeps running his business and paying taxes...
he confirms the liberal policy as a logical reality.
Why wouldn't liberals
keep pushing their agenda? Why wouldn't they believe their policies
could work? We make their irrational ideas work for them. We prove them
right. Every time we open our doors in the morning and go to work on the
day's business, no matter what the obstacle... we make their policies
rational.
Every day
I press on with my small business and eight employees. If my cash flow
shrinks... I work harder. If regulations make my job more difficult... I
work longer hours. No liberal policy is rational. No liberal
proposition ever makes logical sense. Yet we press on despite smaller
margins, higher regulations, higher taxes, and further vilification by
the American Left.
You see, liberals
are not guilty for destroying this country. I am guilty for accepting
their agenda and pushing forward even in the face of more people that
choose to produce nothing... yet consume everything....
...Why
would they change their thinking? We have never given them reason to.
Why would they accept that they are wrong? We prove them right. They
have built the perfect trap. They allowed us to gain wealth by our
production. More importantly, they allowed our families, the ones we
love, to get used to the comfort of our wealth. I could not imagine
telling my daughter that she can no longer go to dance school because
daddy quit his business to prove a point. Though, in the beginning, this
is exactly what we should have done. Instead of capitulating to the
whims of governing bodies, we should have resisted as a unified front.
Government relies 100 percent on the success of business to survive. The
inverse is not true. It was our ball, our playground, but we tried to
play nice with a vampire... in the end, our lifeblood is/was drained.
Once we were used to the spoils of success, the trap was sprung. They
started taking it away, our reward for hard work and self-sacrifice,
little by little, making it harder to keep up our standards. But yet we
continue running.
This
is why, as I initially stated, I accept the blame for the downfall of
America. I am the American Entrepreneur, the guilty one. I make the
left... right.
The Way Out: What Boehner Should Ask For
Republicans have the chance to put entitlement reform on the debt-ceiling-negotiations table.
By Charles Krauthammer
....What, then, to ask for? Paul Ryan, as usual, points the way with a
suggestion that would turn the partial and imperfect success of the last
debt-ceiling fight — the automatic spending cuts (“sequester”) that
seriously reduced discretionary spending — into the larger success of
curbing entitlements, which is where the real money is.
After all,
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs (plus
interest payments) already claim more than half the federal budget. And
they are poised to explode, eating up (estimates the Congressional
Budget Office) 97 percent of revenues within 25 years.
Raising
(and indexing) the retirement age while changing the inflation measure
for entitlements would alone be major achievements. Democrats could be
offered relief on the sequester — which everyone agrees needs
restructuring anyway, since it cuts agency budgets indiscriminately,
often illogically, by formula.
It’s win-win. A serious attack on
the deficit — good. Refiguring sequestration to restore some defense
spending and some logic to discretionary spending — also good. Forcing
the president off Mount Olympus — priceless.
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are the forces pulling nations apart? Ethnicity, culture, history and
language – but now also economics. And separatist and secessionist
movements are cropping up here in the United States.
While many red state Americans are moving away from blue state
America, seeking kindred souls among whom to live, those who love where
they live but not those who rule them are seeking to secede
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/is-red-state-america-seceding/#gIdcHpkBPdmsWlMR.99
By Patrick Buchanan
....What are the forces
pulling nations apart? Ethnicity, culture, history and language – but now also
economics. And separatist and secessionist movements are cropping up here in
the United States.
While many red state
Americans are moving away from blue state America, seeking kindred souls
among whom to live, those who love where they live but not those who rule them
are seeking to secede
By Doug Mainwairing
Now we see, perhaps, then-Candidate Obama's intent re-emerging -- not
through the creation of a voluntary service program, but through the
co-opting of various government agencies to suppress those whom this
administration perceives as enemies.
Evidence is not lacking:
- The IRS has been used to target Tea Party groups and has leaked private information about other conservative organizations, such as the National Organization for Marriage.
-The EPA has been heaping monstrous regulations upon the U.S. coal industry in order to, essentially, kill it.
- When Tea Partiers organized a small protest/press conference in front of the IRS in Washington, D.C. last May, Homeland Security vehicles
outnumbered the Tea Partier attendees. Homeland Security's
overbearing, disproportionate presence was intimidating, as intended.
-In
recent weeks, U.S. Park Service employees have been deployed to treat
their fellow Americans with contempt and disdain. Uniformed Park
Service guards have intimidated and bullied senior citizens
at Yellowstone Park, ostensibly holding them hostage until they could
be escorted off National Park property. A tour guide described the
actions of the Park Service employees as "Gestapo tactics."
Embattled IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram made 155 visits to the White
House to meet with a top Obama White House official with whom she
exchanged confidential taxpayer information over email.
Of Ingram’s 165 White House meetings with White House staff, a
staggering 155 of them were hosted by deputy assistant to the president
for health policy Jeanne Lambrew, according to a June Watchdog.Org analysis of White House visitor records.
This is also one of many cases in which the shutdown has been cited as a
reason to disappear information that is potentially embarrassing to the
administration. The Bureau of Labor Statistics quickly
deep-sixed its September unemployment statistics as other employment proxies indicated the work situation has worsened once again. The Department of Agriculture has buried its September food stamps statistics which are also expected to show increased poverty, dependency and economic regression under Obama.
The White House insists that the health-care law has not affected hiring. That's not what the numbers show.
By Andrew Puzder
There are times when the Obama administration makes statements so
disconnected from economic reality that you wonder if any White House
official has talked with anyone in business. A case in point: the
administration's mantra that ObamaCare's definition of full-time
employment as 30 or more hours per week had no effect on employers'
hiring practices.
We heard it Monday night on "The Daily Show" when Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told Jon Stewart:
"At least the economists, not anecdotal folks, but economists, say
there is absolutely no evidence that part-time work is going up. In
fact, it's going down." We've been hearing that sort of thing for
months—in July, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
told reporters that data failed to support "the proposition that
businesses are not hiring full-time employees because of the Affordable
Care Act." The president himself added to the wonder on Sept. 26,
stating that "there's no widespread evidence" that ObamaCare is hurting
jobs.
The logic for businesses is simple. If you have three employees working
40 hours per week they will produce 120 labor hours. Five employees
working 24 hours per week also produce 120 labor hours. Employers must
offer the three full-time employees health insurance or pay a penalty.
They have no such obligation to the five part-time employees, making
part-time employment less costly. Make something more expensive and
employers will use less of it; make something less expensive and they
will use more of it.
By Michelle Malkin
One reader asked me to share his story. Like me and 22 million other
citizens in the private individual market for health insurance, he
recently received his You Can't Keep It cancellation notice. Here's what
happened when he went online to find alternatives.
By John Nolte
Contrary to what the media are telling you, the shutdown is not
helping ObamaCare. Again and again, conservatives have been taunted by
the media with the cry of, "If you hadn't shut down the government, we'd
be covering the ObamaCare launch debacle."
Huh?
The media are covering the ObamaCare launch debacle, and the
coverage is the Obama administration's worst nightmare because the
shutdown has made it impossible for the White House to come up with a
plan that would instruct the media in how to mitigate the damage.
You see, if there was no shutdown, the media coverage of the launch
would not be anywhere as negative for the White House as it is now, and
here is why…
By David Limbaugh
...So, let's review. The polls are not only slanted and limited to a fixed
snapshot in time but also being followed by real events that will, in
all likelihood, change people's perceptions against Democrats. The
people are watching as Obama's promises of disaster are not
materializing, and he is showing himself to be arbitrary, capricious,
mean-spirited and petty in his selective closings and openings of
government services and highhanded in refusing to negotiate. His boasts
about Obamacare are all being revealed as dishonest and deceitful, and
Obamacare -- the main point of contention in all of this -- is proving
itself a monumental nightmare way beyond what could be called a glitch
or a computer issue. A default, though it would be bad, is very unlikely
to occur as a result of our failure to increase the debt limit.
On top of this, Republicans have an entire year before the 2014
elections to make their case that Obamacare was worth fighting over and
that they are trying to bring the nation back to fiscal responsibility.
They will be able to point to the problems with Obamacare, the
president's petulant behavior, his overall irresponsibility and his
intransigence on fiscal matters.
PK'SNOTE: What our "clearinghouse" should be for candidates is whether they are progressives or not. Progressives come in both Democrat/Liberal and Republican flavors. Progressives believe big government and control are the answers.
Speaking at the Values Voter Summit, Levin warns that simply electing
more Republicans to a corrupt, federal system– unmoored from the
Constitution– will not significantly alter the country’s ideological
trajectory.
After all, what laws were repealed– what programs were scaled back–
during 6 years of uncontested Republican rule from 2000-2006?
This fall, thanks to a combination of the Common Core State Standards Initiative and new teacher
evaluations, some four- and five-year-old students in New York City are
being forced to fill in bubbles on multiple-choice, standardized tests.
The kids are doing their level best on the tests, which cover topics
such as numbers, shapes and order. However, it’s going about as well as
you’d expect, reports the New York Daily News....
...“They don’t know letters, and you have answers that say A, B, C or D and
you’re asking them to bubble in,” the Bronx teacher told the Daily News. “They break down; they cry.”
By Kyle Olson
...One of the books recommended in the third-grade teaching guide is “Si Se Puede/Yes We Can!”
Zaner-Bloser includes this book – with its very familiar title – in its “Rights and Responsibilities” unit.
Most Americans would probably expect a unit about citizen “rights and
responsibilities” to be firmly rooted in the Constitutional principle
of individual rights – as described by the Bill of Rights – and checks
on the power of government.
But that’s not the goal of the “Si Se Puede” book and lesson plans.
According to the Zaner-Bloser guide, the “central question” for
students to grapple with is, “How can we work together as a community to
stand up for our rights?”
You can already see where this is going.
“Si Se Puede” tells the story of a 1985 SEIU-led janitors strike in Los Angeles.
The acronym SEIU refers to the Service Employees International Union,
one of the largest and most radical far-left labor unions in the
country.
So that’s the kind of “community” Zaner-Bloser authors are referring to.
In the teachers’ guide, the authors say the janitors went on strike
“for more money because their wages [were] too low to be fair.”
Keep in mind, this unit is geared for 8- and 9-year-olds who have no
understanding of how the labor market works, let alone any knowledge of
the economic principle of supply and demand.
And yet they’re being told that the janitors weren’t making a “fair” wage.
That’s not all they’re being taught. In the guide, teachers are told
to introduce students to the vocabulary word of the week – “protest.”
The book instructs the teacher to “remind students that a protest is
an event in which people publicly show their strong disapproval of
something. Discuss protest throughout the week. Challenge students to
use the word while speaking and writing.”...
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