So my wife and I are expecting a new addition to our family this summer! We are very excited. We decided to sign up for Healthy Families which is a state run program offered to provide health care to unborn children through the pregnancy and through their first birthday. What's ironic is not my stance on government provided health care and us taking advantage of this program. It's not ironic because We PAY our taxes. We are AMERICAN citizens, so we are intitled to use the programs that we have been funding for many years now. Infact, we actually still choose to pay for this program out of pocket. The irony is that the only way that we qualify for this is because the State of California recognizes the unborn child as an additional family member from the point of conception. This is the same state that will let women execute these unborn children with my tax dollars. The same state that will use live fetus' for stem cell research. Ok, maybe it's not so much ironic as it is hypocrytical.
Here's a website that goes through the history of the Abortion Laws in the State of California. My favorite is the one from July 8th, 1994 that states "Governor signs Budget Act with full funding for abortion services and no restrictive budget language.".
http://www.ppacca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuJYJeO4F&b=139490
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Lyndon Baines Obama
by Patrick J. Buchanan
03/10/2009
It was the winter of conservative discontent.
Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936.
Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 Senate seats to Republicans' 32, and 33 governors to the GOP's 17.
Democratic registration was twice that of the GOP. The liberal press was gleefully writing the obituary of "The Party That Lost Its Head."
Decades might pass, it was said, before the GOP recovered from its fatal embrace of right-wing radicalism and foolish rejection of the leadership of Govs. Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton.
Wrote Robert Donovan in the opening lines of his book, "The Future of the Republican Party":
"The devastating defeat of Barry Goldwater at the hands of voters in all sections of the country but the Deep South has damaged, weakened and tarnished the party. For years to come ... the two-party system will be crippled."
Donovan and all the rest were wrong. The GOP came roaring back in 1966 to capture 47 House seats and eight new governorships. In 1968, Nixon led the party out of the wilderness and into a White House it would hold for 20 of the next 24 years.
Full of hubris in 1965, Lyndon Johnson had seized his moment. He had launched a Great Society that would outdo his beloved patron FDR. He would dispatch 500,000 troops to Vietnam to "bring the coonskin home on the wall" and create a "Great Society on the Mekong." Those were heady days of "guns-and-butter."
By 1968, LBJ's coalition was shredded. Gov. George Wallace had torn away the populist right. Sens. Gene McCarthy, George McGovern and Robert Kennedy had rallied the antiwar left against him. LBJ and Hubert Humphrey were left to preside over a shrinking center.
Why did LBJ fail? He overloaded the circuits. He tried to do it all. He misread a national desire for continuity after Kennedy's death as a mandate for a lunge to the left and a great leap forward with the largest expansion of government since the New Deal.
By 1968, racial riots had torn apart almost every great city. The most prestigious campuses had been rocked by student violence. Thousands of antiwar demonstrators had taken to the streets. And 100 to 200 body bags were coming home from Vietnam every week.
By the winter of 1968, Lyndon Johnson was a broken president.
History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965.
He has ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, as the situation deteriorates and the NATO allies pull out. He has no exit strategy. He has read a repudiation of George Bush as a mandate for a government seizure of wealth and power that exceeds anything attempted in the Great Society.
Fully half of the $3.55 trillion in spending Obama will preside over this year will not be covered by tax revenue but by red ink. The money will have to be borrowed from abroad or printed by the Fed.
Not only is Barack running a deficit four times as large as Bush's largest, he has called for $1 trillion in new taxes on America's most successful, who have already seen their savings and pensions ravaged.
He wants a cap-and-trade system to deal with a global-warming or climate-change crisis many scientists believe is a hoax. He is going to provide health care for all, including immigrants, millions of whom arrive uninsured every year.
He is going to plunge scores of billions more into education, though education has eaten up the wealth of an empire, as SAT scores sink further and further below the apogee of 1964, before LBJ and the feds barged in. He is going to ask Congress for authority to spend another $750 billion rescuing the banks.
He is going to find the cure for cancer. He is going to ensure every kid gets a college education. He is going to drop half of all wage-earners off the tax rolls, while the top 2 percent, who already pay 40 percent of all income taxes, are forced to cough up more.
Obama is misreading the election returns. When America voted to cancel the White House lease of Mr. Bush, it did not vote Barack Obama a blank check.
By misinterpreting his mandate, Obama has accomplished something John McCain could not -- unite the Republican Party and instill in it a new esprit de corps. For the Obama budget is an insult to the core belief of the party -- that free people, not coercive government, should shape the character of society.
By daring Republicans to fight on the issue of a $1.75 trillion deficit, Obama has liberated the GOP from any obligation to him. He has come out of the closet as a radical liberal spoiling for a fight over an agenda of radical change.
Sooner than any might have thought, we have clarity.
by Patrick J. Buchanan
03/10/2009
It was the winter of conservative discontent.
Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in 1936.
Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 Senate seats to Republicans' 32, and 33 governors to the GOP's 17.
Democratic registration was twice that of the GOP. The liberal press was gleefully writing the obituary of "The Party That Lost Its Head."
Decades might pass, it was said, before the GOP recovered from its fatal embrace of right-wing radicalism and foolish rejection of the leadership of Govs. Nelson Rockefeller and William Scranton.
Wrote Robert Donovan in the opening lines of his book, "The Future of the Republican Party":
"The devastating defeat of Barry Goldwater at the hands of voters in all sections of the country but the Deep South has damaged, weakened and tarnished the party. For years to come ... the two-party system will be crippled."
Donovan and all the rest were wrong. The GOP came roaring back in 1966 to capture 47 House seats and eight new governorships. In 1968, Nixon led the party out of the wilderness and into a White House it would hold for 20 of the next 24 years.
Full of hubris in 1965, Lyndon Johnson had seized his moment. He had launched a Great Society that would outdo his beloved patron FDR. He would dispatch 500,000 troops to Vietnam to "bring the coonskin home on the wall" and create a "Great Society on the Mekong." Those were heady days of "guns-and-butter."
By 1968, LBJ's coalition was shredded. Gov. George Wallace had torn away the populist right. Sens. Gene McCarthy, George McGovern and Robert Kennedy had rallied the antiwar left against him. LBJ and Hubert Humphrey were left to preside over a shrinking center.
Why did LBJ fail? He overloaded the circuits. He tried to do it all. He misread a national desire for continuity after Kennedy's death as a mandate for a lunge to the left and a great leap forward with the largest expansion of government since the New Deal.
By 1968, racial riots had torn apart almost every great city. The most prestigious campuses had been rocked by student violence. Thousands of antiwar demonstrators had taken to the streets. And 100 to 200 body bags were coming home from Vietnam every week.
By the winter of 1968, Lyndon Johnson was a broken president.
History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965.
He has ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, as the situation deteriorates and the NATO allies pull out. He has no exit strategy. He has read a repudiation of George Bush as a mandate for a government seizure of wealth and power that exceeds anything attempted in the Great Society.
Fully half of the $3.55 trillion in spending Obama will preside over this year will not be covered by tax revenue but by red ink. The money will have to be borrowed from abroad or printed by the Fed.
Not only is Barack running a deficit four times as large as Bush's largest, he has called for $1 trillion in new taxes on America's most successful, who have already seen their savings and pensions ravaged.
He wants a cap-and-trade system to deal with a global-warming or climate-change crisis many scientists believe is a hoax. He is going to provide health care for all, including immigrants, millions of whom arrive uninsured every year.
He is going to plunge scores of billions more into education, though education has eaten up the wealth of an empire, as SAT scores sink further and further below the apogee of 1964, before LBJ and the feds barged in. He is going to ask Congress for authority to spend another $750 billion rescuing the banks.
He is going to find the cure for cancer. He is going to ensure every kid gets a college education. He is going to drop half of all wage-earners off the tax rolls, while the top 2 percent, who already pay 40 percent of all income taxes, are forced to cough up more.
Obama is misreading the election returns. When America voted to cancel the White House lease of Mr. Bush, it did not vote Barack Obama a blank check.
By misinterpreting his mandate, Obama has accomplished something John McCain could not -- unite the Republican Party and instill in it a new esprit de corps. For the Obama budget is an insult to the core belief of the party -- that free people, not coercive government, should shape the character of society.
By daring Republicans to fight on the issue of a $1.75 trillion deficit, Obama has liberated the GOP from any obligation to him. He has come out of the closet as a radical liberal spoiling for a fight over an agenda of radical change.
Sooner than any might have thought, we have clarity.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Fiscal Responsibility
Obama hosting a "Fiscal Responsibility" summit is like me hosting a basketball camp. It's like Hillary Clinton giving marital advice. Like Timothy Geitner giving tax advice. Like Nancy Pelosi teaching about abstinence. Like Barney Frank telling the truth. Like Al Gore's Global Warming craze. Like Michael Moore giving advice about dieting. Like Bill Ayers teaching a class on patriotism.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Now is the Time...
If you pray, then pray hard. If you hope, then hope with everything that you have. Only a Divine Intervention will prevent this bill from killing America. Only this will stop America from being crippled. Our young and naive government has just committed all of us to poverty, and we need to pray and hope every day that something Extraordinary steps in and prevents us from tanking. Our government has already screwed us, and it's the same bunch that has been screwing us into this position. We can't count on them. We haven't been able to count on them for the last two Congressional Terms, and now a 3rd. They've put us in this spot, and now they've nailed us to it. Hold on because it's going to get a lot worse.
I'm not ready to start impeaching anyone yet, but it's been a pretty piss poor showing for the first month from this new bunch of hoodlams. Not all are new. Pelosi is still ruining peoples lives and is still in favor of the most grotesque form of murdering babies. Harry Reid is still using our money to better himself: Amtrak from LA to Las Vegas is built in to the stimulus package. Anyone know what state Reid is from? Barney Frank still making financial decisions in Congress. And why not, he's easily the one whom should be held most accountable for this debacle that we're in. All I can say is that I don't wish this at all, but the only thing that's going to get us out of this is another World War, or a brand new governement.
Why is that 49% of Americans in 1937 feard FDR? Because he hoarded power in a dictator like manner extremely fast. It was because his policies were always about his power, not the betterment of the country. In one month we have seen an expansion of government that would make FDR blush.
We have seen the census be brought into the White House and put into the hands of one of the most blantantly evil, mean spirited, and vindictive politicians in American history in Rahm Emanuel(Nancy Pelosi and her plastic face aren't too far behind either)! Anyone know the significance of this? The cencus has been protected from political influence since it's inception. Not even the Secretary of Commerce can touch the census. This entity has been placed with the responsibility of taking unbiased and accurate demographics. What happens is that when the census is taken, if certain criteria have changed then there is a re-distributing of government funding and political county lines. Why would the Junior Senator make this one of his first moves? Why would he do this at 11:00pm under the cover of night? Why do you thinkg Judd Gregg declined the position to be the Secretary of Commerce? Because it's completely corrupt...and Senator Gregg pays his taxes so he's automatically not qualified to work for the Bama administration.
We are in a worse spot then we were before January 20th. We don't need a "shot in the arm"(Sen. Reid -D). What we need is fiscal responsibility. We need leaders who pay taxes. We need leaders who say that they want complete transparency to remove those who have stolen from and cheated the American People. In economics, Fiscal policy refers to government attempts to influence the direction of the economy through changes in government taxes, or through some spending (fiscal allowances). It is the use of government spending and revenue collection to influence the economy. It is not about making new money or borrowing more than we owe.
We have now set the tone to hand over complete control to our government. The very same government that put us in this situation. That is why I say pray and hope with all that you are, because it's going to be a rough one.
I'm not ready to start impeaching anyone yet, but it's been a pretty piss poor showing for the first month from this new bunch of hoodlams. Not all are new. Pelosi is still ruining peoples lives and is still in favor of the most grotesque form of murdering babies. Harry Reid is still using our money to better himself: Amtrak from LA to Las Vegas is built in to the stimulus package. Anyone know what state Reid is from? Barney Frank still making financial decisions in Congress. And why not, he's easily the one whom should be held most accountable for this debacle that we're in. All I can say is that I don't wish this at all, but the only thing that's going to get us out of this is another World War, or a brand new governement.
Why is that 49% of Americans in 1937 feard FDR? Because he hoarded power in a dictator like manner extremely fast. It was because his policies were always about his power, not the betterment of the country. In one month we have seen an expansion of government that would make FDR blush.
We have seen the census be brought into the White House and put into the hands of one of the most blantantly evil, mean spirited, and vindictive politicians in American history in Rahm Emanuel(Nancy Pelosi and her plastic face aren't too far behind either)! Anyone know the significance of this? The cencus has been protected from political influence since it's inception. Not even the Secretary of Commerce can touch the census. This entity has been placed with the responsibility of taking unbiased and accurate demographics. What happens is that when the census is taken, if certain criteria have changed then there is a re-distributing of government funding and political county lines. Why would the Junior Senator make this one of his first moves? Why would he do this at 11:00pm under the cover of night? Why do you thinkg Judd Gregg declined the position to be the Secretary of Commerce? Because it's completely corrupt...and Senator Gregg pays his taxes so he's automatically not qualified to work for the Bama administration.
We are in a worse spot then we were before January 20th. We don't need a "shot in the arm"(Sen. Reid -D). What we need is fiscal responsibility. We need leaders who pay taxes. We need leaders who say that they want complete transparency to remove those who have stolen from and cheated the American People. In economics, Fiscal policy refers to government attempts to influence the direction of the economy through changes in government taxes, or through some spending (fiscal allowances). It is the use of government spending and revenue collection to influence the economy. It is not about making new money or borrowing more than we owe.
We have now set the tone to hand over complete control to our government. The very same government that put us in this situation. That is why I say pray and hope with all that you are, because it's going to be a rough one.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Stop the Stimulus!
Right Your Senators and Stop the Stimulus!
This is just an abuse of the American people's money! This is exactly the kind of rediculous spending that put us in this predicament. This will only spin us into a depression. I know that the left has a love affair with Barack, and I see right through what this stimulus is. It is designed to keep the man in office. That is why there is NO, I mean ZERO, upfront spending. It has been designed by the left for the spending to begin in year FOUR! Anyone else see a problem with this type of "immediate action"? That's because it's not immediate. It has been made very obvious in the first 3 weeks that this man has either a very naive approach to government spending and regulation or that he is who the Right thought he was. He is going to run our good country into the ground. We will be no better than the Marxist/Communist Regimes of the world. Barack will run this country much like Fidel Castro.
We don't need the fatty unneccessary spending. I shouldn't be paying for STD prevention! It's not my job to teach America's youth about the dangers of unprotected sex. It's not my job to pay for the children of people who penetrate our borders and society illegally. It's not my job to help spine-less weaklings quit smoking! It's not my job to financially help those who "CHOOSE" not to help themselves. It is my job to pray for all of these people. So I will continue to pray for them. We need to help those who actually need help. Why are we punishing Americans? This is awful. We need to restructure this to benefit those who are, and will be, able to provide jobs. What this country needs is the ability to be able to create more jobs in the PRIVATE sector, not the Government Sector. We have seen what happens when people like Barney Frank and Nancey Pelosi when they have control in this country. We are in the situation that we are in because of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Please stop the stimulus!
This is just an abuse of the American people's money! This is exactly the kind of rediculous spending that put us in this predicament. This will only spin us into a depression. I know that the left has a love affair with Barack, and I see right through what this stimulus is. It is designed to keep the man in office. That is why there is NO, I mean ZERO, upfront spending. It has been designed by the left for the spending to begin in year FOUR! Anyone else see a problem with this type of "immediate action"? That's because it's not immediate. It has been made very obvious in the first 3 weeks that this man has either a very naive approach to government spending and regulation or that he is who the Right thought he was. He is going to run our good country into the ground. We will be no better than the Marxist/Communist Regimes of the world. Barack will run this country much like Fidel Castro.
We don't need the fatty unneccessary spending. I shouldn't be paying for STD prevention! It's not my job to teach America's youth about the dangers of unprotected sex. It's not my job to pay for the children of people who penetrate our borders and society illegally. It's not my job to help spine-less weaklings quit smoking! It's not my job to financially help those who "CHOOSE" not to help themselves. It is my job to pray for all of these people. So I will continue to pray for them. We need to help those who actually need help. Why are we punishing Americans? This is awful. We need to restructure this to benefit those who are, and will be, able to provide jobs. What this country needs is the ability to be able to create more jobs in the PRIVATE sector, not the Government Sector. We have seen what happens when people like Barney Frank and Nancey Pelosi when they have control in this country. We are in the situation that we are in because of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Please stop the stimulus!
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