Does anyone remember what was going on 5, 6 and even 7 years ago with gas prices? We were at $3.50 plus a gallon and the media was blistering the administration for causing the issue. Today, we are being told that gas prices are supposed to go up and that it is because the economy is getting better. Are you kidding me? Gas prices are going up because we are to stupid to be straight with each other. We, the American people think our enemies will continue to sell us cheap gas… we, the American people that believe our leaders when they say; “Not developing our own energy is for the good of our nation”.  Think of this; our nation, The USA has a population of 330 million men, women and children.  China has a population of 1.6 billion.  Who uses more energy? Who will always use more energy?  Who will, one day fight to get that energy?  Yes, we are stupid.  You got it… I just called American’s stupid. That is the only thing it can be because we believe the stupid crap we are being told.

So whom is at fault here? We can blame the media… I like to do that.  We can blame the president… I really like to do that… But, at some point we all need to stop blaming someone else for our trials and tribulations and start blaming the real culprit for our woes. So, let’s make a pact… Right here, right now… Everyone stand up, put your hand over your heart and say…

“Today I start blaming the person responsible for this mess. I will no longer lay blame for my lot in life. Today I make a conscious decision to make a change in my personal character and take charge of my future. Today I say that it is my fault for the current state of my country and that no matter what I am told by the media or the current political administration, the fault is 100% mine.”

Sound a bit extreme? Absolutely! But 100% true. We, us, individually have let our country get to the state it is in by becoming a nation of “It is all about me”. The “I wants” have translated into; “Rites”. I want a house.  Translates; I want the government to approve me for a loan on a home that I can’t afford and when I can’t make the payments, just take it back… without consequences… just take it back. Then… what do we hear?  The American dream of home ownership is a “Rite”.  How about this one; I want to marry a man. So what that I am a man, that is what I want to do… the next thing you hear… Gay marriage is a “Rite”.  Or this one; I didn’t mean to get pregnant. I want an abortion… Next thing you hear… Abortion is a “Rite”. Finally, but by far not the last, I deserve to be in the USA.  I have been here for 4 years…illegally, but I have been here for four years and that means I belong here.  What do we hear?  Those poor people from that country deserve to have a better shot in life… They have a “Rite” to come into our country illegally and we must pay for them to stay here.  I want… I want… I want… Well, we got it. Literally, 1.5% of the population is driving our country into Bankruptcy because all the “I want’s” add up to 14% of the vote and that seems to be enough for a politician to hang his re-election on, passing laws… RULES… that don’t apply to 86% of the general population.

Well, we got it.  The banks are absorbing massive losses because people just decided one day to walk away from their obligations.  Gay marriage is being forced down our throats… on a side note, has anyone seen that new commercial from KY?  The one that has two women on the bed discussing orgasms?  I did, last week I was watching a movie with my 13 year old son.  Does anyone remember when we were 13.  We dreaded the “talk” about sex from our parents.  Forget that today… not these days. Our kids know more about sex than we ever did at their age, but, now our kids have legitimist questions like; daddy, why are those two girls talking about orgasm… and what is orgasm.  Ok, back on track… Now we parents do not have the “rite” to know when our 12 year old girls are getting abortions… so they have a rite but we do not… hmmm… and immigration… well nuff said.

I really can’t blame us, the American people.  The current generation of parents have been groomed to be this way. It is all they know.  Unfortunately it degenerated down from their parent’s belief of “I want my children to have a better life than the one I grew up with” and has become, “my children deserve everything”… Like stepping stones… Hmmm…  Has anyone ever thought why great civilizations only seem to last 300-400 years?  Well folks… how old are we, but that is a completely different article for later.

What is the fix?  Here comes the hard truth.  We need to take individual responsibility for our actions and then vote our conscious.  We need to collectively let our “politicians in charge” know where we stand.  We are a country of free people for now.  We still have the “Rites” of free people.  But, at some point, in the very near future, we will no longer have those rites and will be forced into a way of life that our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren will be indebted to.  We are the first generation where our children will be worse off than we are… is that what we have worked for?  Stand by… more to come.

Does this sound a little pessimistic?  Maybe, but with everything that is going on in the world today, it is not as far-fetched as you might believe.

Thanksgiving is an American Holiday that celebrates our founding / finding of this great continent and the thanks and praise to Native American’s and to God.  While it was centered around a great feast, the premise for the celebration was of two people’s coming together in peace and harmony to give thanks to their respective God for good tidings.  That became the tradition we recognize as Thanksgiving.   Now, true historians may disagree as to my knowledge of this American tradition, but, without spending 15 days researching other peoples thoughts, this is my rendition of “what history in a public school system” taught me.

Today, Thanksgiving has degenerated into “The Day Before Black Friday”.  While we still gather around the table and give thanks, everyone is consumed with talk of the sales going on and what special deal they are going to stand in line for… Marketing has taken us to the dark-side, and we can’t wait to get the latest and greatest gadget.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I still love the holidays, but every year, the holidays start earlier and the traditions and values of what they mean get pushed further and further from the front of our brains.  Did anyone notice that we almost forgot Halloween this year?  The Christmas trees started in Home Depot, Lowes and Sears on the 19th of October…  Black Friday has turned into “Black Early Bird Thursday”.  Gorge yourself and hit the stores!

Getting away from the commercial aspect of what is driving American’s this Thanksgiving; I want to delve into the politics of our “Tradition” this year.  Yep, I said it… politics.  Yes, politics has crept into our day of thanks.  Why? because it scores points, or so our politicians think.  Class warfare is the name of the game today and pushing us apart, separating us from each other is the end goal.  To get us to covet what belongs to someone else.  Hum… isn’t there something somewhere that says that is bad or something?  Oh yea, now I remember… the Ten Commandments”.  We now get hit over the head hourly with news reports of how the 99%’ers are out in force blocking shoppers and generally smelling up the whole delightful day, but, have the right to do so.  Nice… but we do not have the right to keep them off taxpayer property.  See, we too have rights.  We pay our taxes, do the 99%ers?  We pay for the parks they demolish.  We pay the overtime the police must endure to control them.  We pay our insurance policies to cover our personal home and properties, and you ask what personal insurance has to do with this?  If these 99%ers smash a window, roll a car, vandalize a building;  all that property is insured by the same insurance companies we use.  If the insurance company takes a loss, who pays?  Ever notice how your rates are always going up?  So yes, insurance is part of this too.  And what do the media report?  I am going to let you answer that yourself.  How does our President react? He praises them.  Again I say, NICE…  1% of this nation wants to destroy our nation… I am not sure why yet, but they do and the way they are going about it seems to be escalating.  The fabric of our society is being ripped to shreds by a few useful idiots, (Most of these protestors are spoiled rich kids that have a warped sense of what “life” is all about and think that “being born with a silver spoon in their mouth”, “entitles” them to what others have without the sacrifice of what the others did to get what they have.), so yes, useful idiots, and the media and the administration report this as a “Good Thing”.

So how does that translate into the “last Thanksgiving”?  What if, in 2012, riots break out into the street… Police are overwhelmed and the National Guard is called in… What if, after the National Guard is called, the whole thing degenerates into really bad rioting, shootings happen… basically another “Kent State”, only on a more widespread scale… ever consider martial law?  What if… see, that is not such a far stretch.  It does not take much for that to happen… Remember, the “99%ers” are the media’s darling and they get the coverage… they are the “disenfranchised”… well, after our government declares martial law… real simple to say that the elections need to be put off for a while until things calm down…  What… no elections in America?  Really, not so far-fetched…

Look and Egypt… Yep, we will have elections, just not right now…

Really?  Not so far-fetched, look at our government… we haven’t passed a budget in two years… Really?  Not so far-fetched… Our government just “took control” of all media outlets for a “test”… Really?  Not so far-fetched… Russia is now “reinitiating” ballistic missile targeting”… Really?  Not so far-fetched… our currency is on the brink of being devalued…   I’ll stop there for a moment… Go back to the last statement… Devalue our currency.  What does that do?  Ever think you would pay $9.00 for a gallon of milk or $12.00 for a loaf of bread?  Do you think we wouldn’t have more rioting in the streets if that happened?  If our currency is devalued, most of us cannot fathom the depth of what that really means.  Interest rates go to 20%, banks fail… Our beloved government would have to step in and “Take Control” for our own good… to “save the country”.

It only takes one of the many things I mentioned or of ones I haven’t, to happen to set the wheels of “change” in motion.  If we are under martial law, we no longer have our country, our government does…  if we do not have our country, taken by the government without an actual civil war, the next Thanksgiving could just as easily be called off.  It would no longer be an accepted “transcript of history”… Remember, history is written by the winners, not the losers… if all that above happens, we, the American People lose and with the media on the governments side, all we would hear is what they say is acceptable… yep… I am out there… Really?  Not so far-fetched.

Anyone remember the movie “Good Morning Viet Nam”… the sceen where the news twins are x’ing out and circling what Robin Williams can or can’t say?  think that is really so out there?

Or… how about this… The media reports that New Zealand is
about to pass a bill that makes it illegal for private citizens to produce
their own food… But it is good for the population because as we all know, the
government can make sure that the food being produced for consumption is
“safe”.  We, the USA just had our president signed off on a bill that “manages the risks” of specialty organic crops while regulating more and more of our regular crops… wheat, corn… etc…  Really? Not so far-fetched.  WHAT?  Telling our farmers what they can and cannot grow…

I could go on forever…  Let me wrap it up for today and let you enjoy the rest of your turkey day…

We really are closer than we think to losing this great county.  I used to think it was just the administration… I don’t know now…  There are things lining up that make absolutely no sense as to why… except to see the end-game.  The destruction of the USA.  Scary scary stuff…   let me know your thoughts…

On October 14th, our wonderful transparent government used our tax dollars to file an appeal against the judge’s ruling to release Whitehouse Visitor’s Logs.  Nice… use our money to keep us from seeing who our President is meeting with.  What is next with these guys.

First of all, the freedom of information act is there to guarantee “transparency” of government acts.  Well, acts not considered “Vital to National Security”.  Is that what we now have?  A Whitehouse administration that is so guarded that visitors to the President are all considered “Vital to National Security”?

This started back in October 2009… Talk about a waste of Tax Dollars.

Here are the running articles from Politico.

October 30, 2009

Some White House visitor data to emerge today

The White House is releasing some data on White House visitors today, open government czar Beth Noveck said during a discussion on open government this afternoon at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The White House announced last month that it would release visitor information on a quarterly basis, with the first installment likely in December. However, it also agreed to release some data on visit from earlier in the year, in response to requests from news organizations and watchdog groups. That appears to be what will emerge today.

“The decision: do we put the White House WAVES records up online is not an instant decision. It involves a lot of people discussion about what the consequences are, some of them unintended, of being transparent.…It just takes longer to noodle through all of the possible consequences,” Noveck said.

In a statement in September, the White House said it would release data on nearly all visits made after September 15, but would respond to “reasonable, narrow, and specific” requests for information on visits before that date.

Noveck said the push for greater transparency will affect whom White House officials choose to meet. “It will have a very real impact in ways that haven’t been seen before,” she said, with some officials likely to conduct broader outreach as a result. “You might not be as conscious of that if you didn’t have a transparency mechanism hanging over you.”

However, Noveck, a lawyer who works out of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, acknowledged that the drive for transparency sometimes ruffles feathers.

“Someone joked around and said, ‘We should just have webcams on all of us all the time,’” she said.

Her speech at Amherst was carried live.

November 25, 2009

Scowcroft, Solomont on new W.H. visitor list

The White House has just released an updated list of visitors to the Executive Mansion and other parts of the complex. Officials have promised that by the end of the year they will release the names of virtually all visitors on a rolling basis. For now, visits are being disclosed in response to requests naming specific individuals.

Notable in the new batch:

Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in to see current National Security Adviser Jim Jones on March 4 and June 1.

And the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Alan Solomont, in to see first lady’s chief of staff, Jackie Norris, on June 9. Interesting because the very next day, President Barack Obama fired CNCS Inspector General Gerald Walpin. The records show Solomont had also been in to see Obama senior adviser Pete Rouse on May 20. However, a recent congressional report says that the meeting was actually, or additionally, with White House Counsel Greg Craig.

The firing caused a stir, since Walpin claimed he was removed to cover for one of Obama’s political allies, something the White House denies.

It had been announced back on June 4 that Norris was leaving the White House to work at CNCS. White House officials have said they do not believe the first lady played a role in Walpin’s removal.

October 14, 2011

Obama administration appeals ruling on White House visitor logs

The Obama administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that Secret Service records of visitors to the White House complex are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Justice Department filed a formal notice of appeal Friday afternoon regarding U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell’s August ruling rejecting arguments that the so-called WAVES records belong to the White House even though they are maintained and used by the Secret Service.

The decision to appeal the ruling to the D.C. Circuit would appear to be in tension with Obama’s repeated pledges to operate the most transparent administration in history. The White House announced in Sept. 2009 that it was voluntarily releasing the names of most White House visitors from Sept. 15 forward. However, the conservative group Judicial Watch sought information on visits before that date.

The position taken by the Obama Justice Department, namely that White House visitor records are presidential records and not agency records, is essentially the same one that the department took under President George W. Bush.

Howell did not rule that every White House visit had to be disclosed. However, she concluded that all the data had to be made public unless the government asserted a specific exemption from FOIA, such as provisions protecting national security and privacy.

There was no immediate comment on the appeal from the White House or the Justice Department.

Posted by Josh Gerstein 05:31 PM

So this ongoing battle will continue in the background.  Yep, I said background.  Have you even heard of this issue in the main stream media.  They just keep driving forward.  I wonder when it will dawn on the American people that our constitution and way of life are just about coming to the end of their existance?  I think very soon, we will all wake up one morning and our world as we know it will be in the past.  Not even in the history books, just the past.  To quote William Learned Marcy “To the Victor Go the Spoils”.  What that means to us today is; whoever wins this epoch battle, will write and teach their version of what our great United States was for the past 235 years amd the losers will be well… not there to write their version.

Now this is interesting. Occupy Wall Street… A “Movement” that is gaining interest. Over the past three weeks, the group whose motto reads:

A leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in commonis that We Are The 99% that
will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the
revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

How great is that… an organization that bases their existence on Arab Spring.  A movement that caused the removal of a “relatively docile” Arab regime.  A regime that, while it ruled with a heavy hand and freedom was not their highest priority, did, bring a semblance of order in a very unstable region of our world.  Arab Spring, a phenomenal gathering that when it was all said and done, the ones that began the “revolution” were either killed or jailed and the vacuum left behind was filled with the Muslim Brotherhood, where Sharia Law is now the lay of the land and the rights of the people have been  completely removed.

How GREAT IS THAT… And, now we have Occupy Wall Street with the same
goal.

Lets look at the “Motto”.  A leaderless resistance… hmmm… view the short clip below…

Back to the “Motto”; “A leaderless resistance… you think?  Or maybe an organization that is being funded by socialists and communists that hope and pray for the collapse of the
American System.

Next phrase… “We are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the  greed and corruption of the 1%”;  Really?  Unfortunately, as with  all radicle groups, they flaunt incorrect percentages to draw in the unknowing… the useful idiots… about 20% of the population… mostly between the ages of 23  and 30.   In today’s society, that group  is the “all about me” generation.  A  group that has literally had the best experience growing up of any generation  prior to them…  “All about me” is just that…  I made a bad decision, why should I be held responsible? I spent money I didn’t  have… why should I have to pay it back?  I bought a car/house I couldn’t afford… Why can’t I keep it and the bank
just eat the money I still owe… sound familiar?

It seems it is never the fault of the individual, but the evil company that forced them into contracts… made them sign their name… didn’t explain  good enough…

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!

This whole movement is getting the useful idiots to believe the  above statements are the way of the world.  99%?  If that is the case, they shouldn’t  need SEIU to add to their numbers.  99%?  Should be what… hmmm… 180 Million working adults… Holy CRAP… we should have 172 Million people marching  in the streets…

I have a different theory.  If we look at what the goal is, to disrupt and collapse the system… useful idiots  would not be able to make that happen, so who is behind this… Remember the  video above?  While not useful… he could  be considered an idiot… or psychopath… with the goal to destroy the USA…  Imagine if anyone in the conservative mindset  were to ever openly call for the fall of the USA…Talk about the fervor… and… talk
about the fodder for the left.  We can barely  find this on YouTube, let alone anywhere in the media or a statement out of the  Whitehouse denouncing this… Nope… not a word.

Let me in on some of your thoughts… Am I the only one here that  believes this could be really bad?

Thank god we have the Constitution.  If it were not for our constitution, this guy would not have the rights he does to threaten others.  If it were not for our constitution and our 1st amendment rights, this guy would have been killed or jailed as a wanna-be.  He multiple times backs off and hides behind spin.  It is completely unbelievable that the kid shooting the video did not call the cops and have the guy detained for making threats against him… although, my guess would be if he had made that call, he would have been the one detained.  Take a quick view of this “exercising freedom of speech”.

The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech.  It has been twisted to believe that you can say anything, to include the threatening of life… or at least, that is where our friend from the Black Panthers thinks he is getting his rights.  The problem with this guy, is that he would never give credit to the constitution, our founding fathers, and the amendments attached to the constitution for giving him his rights.

Just a thought, have this guy (the Black Panthers guy, not the student), go to Iran or Egypt and see how far he would get.

Unfortunately, we (American’s), must take the good with the bad… We must be bigger than the .01% of the population that would have our great country destroyed and put into 3rd world status… We must be bigger than those by simply exposing this when ever we can… They are coming out of the shadows, while still hiding behind our constitution, to let us know how much they really hate.  We really need to be bigger than those… Yes, it really is less than 1% of the population that hates us so much.  I know, it sometimes seems much larger.  When you spread hate, you get the media’s help.  Remember that great statement from Herbert Marshall McLuhan, “If it bleeds, it leads“.  Report the bad and get ratings… What if, what if, really, if we started listening to the “good” news.  There is mass good news that never gets the time of day… vs being forced to listen to the “bad”, the crap.  Political correctness; hate speech; hidden agendas; the re-wording of actual statements.  Here today, thrown out tomorrow, but it was put out for anyone to read… Always front page, always headlined…  Have you ever seen this in a headline?  “Student raises hopes of Americans by passing out free Constitutions… Providing those in the toughest of times a belief that we will come through this together… Have you ever seen that?  Nope… Why can’t we be true to ourselves.  Let the people that cram this crap on us know we are tired of it and to stop it… just be real and truthful…  Nah… to easy… wouldn’t get the ratings…  I could go on… seemingly forever…

While digging around, we ran into this little gem.  I have been wondering about some of these old clips.  The fantastic thing about today is our ability to get information.  The sad thing about today is that once the day ends, is seems so does the issue at hand.  Things somehow just seem to fall off the planet if they aren’t what we are “supposed to hear”.  Take two minutes and see if you remember any of this…

Now that brought back some memories.    Keep watching…  We will have some more new gems coming your way soon.

On a different note, let’s take a look at someone we all grew up knowing.   The integrety, honesty and worth of this gentleman will stand out as long as our constitution stands…

George Washington’s
Farewell Address

To the People of the United States

Published in The Independent Chronicle — September 26, 1796

Abstract – Read the Full Text Version of Washington’s Farewell Address

Washington’s Farewell Address to the Nation appears in its entirety in this issue of the Independent Chronicle. Although it is by all accounts the most famous and best-known of Washington’s speeches, it was never actually delivered orally by Washington. By his own arrangement it first appeared in a newspaper at Philadelphia. It was published seven days later in The Independent Chronicle.

The Chronicle, published in Boston by Thomas Adams and Isaac Larkin, was the leading New England voice of the Republican party. Its pages contained a number of outspoken contributors who could be counted on to regularly issue vigorous assaults on the Federalists. In Boston since 1776 the newspaper carved out a distinguished journalistic career for one hundred years.

Washington’s Farewell Address was similar to one he had prepared at the end of his first term, when he had considered retiring from office. Toward the close of his first term in 1792 James Madison prepared notes to be used by Washington in formulating a valedictory speech. Madison submitted a draft but it was set aside when Washington abandoned his plans for retirement.

In May 1796 he took Madison’s notes and wrote a first draft for the new address. Washington showed his manuscript to Alexander Hamilton and asked him to revise it. For the next four months various drafts were sent back and forth between Washington and Hamilton. Finally, Hamilton read his version of the address to John Jay for criticism, discussing the work paragraph by paragraph. The result, rewritten again by Washington in a final version, and admittedly a collaborative effort, nonetheless embodies the thoughts, ideas and principles of the retiring president.

Describing the farewell address in his book on the life of Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge wrote “…no man ever left a nobler political testament.”

In his Address Washington announces his planned withdrawal from politics “after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its (America’s) service.” He then sets forth his reasons against running for a third term. As if to bolster his argument, he states: “While choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.”

In his address Washington:

• Extolls the benefits of the federal government. “The unity of government…is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence…of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.”
• Warns against the party system. “It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration….agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one….against another….it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption…thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
• Stresses the importance of religion and morality. “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?”
• On stable public credit. “…cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible…avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt….it is essential that you…bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not…inconvenient and unpleasant…”
• Warns against permanent foreign alliances. “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…”
• On an over-powerful military establishment. “…avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.”

In saying farewell to the new nation he helped create Washington pointed out that “…….the name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism…”

To the great soldier, statesman and leader of his country…no tribute could be more fitting.

Article from: Archiving Early America

Read the Full Text Version of Washington’s Farewell Address

Now we can really see transparency.  Our leader, President Barack Obama of the USA is now and has been proposing class warfare with the American public.  Our citizens are being led to believe that the American Dream should be discounted and that anyone that has that dream and made it a reality is now the enemy of the USA.  Where did we turn wrong.  When I was a child, the elusive “American Dream” was kept alive by my father who was forever telling me that I lived in the best country in the world and that if I wanted to, I could do anything I wanted.  That all it took was hard work, truth and integrety.  Now, this generation is saying, “what is yours is mine, and if you don’t like it, tough!, we’ll take it anyway”.  All this is being done with the support of our great friends in the media.

From the LA Times -

Obama’s plan to slash $3 trillion from deficit

Aides say the proposal would do so mainly by winding down wars, raising
taxes on the wealthy, closing tax loopholes and cutting the cost of
Medicare.

President Obama, speaking in Virginia recently, will unveil his deficit reduction package Monday. (Kevin Lamarque, Reuters / September 19, 2011)

By Peter Nicholas,
Washington Bureau

September 19, 2011

Reporting from Washington—

President Obama will announce a plan to slash more than $3 trillion from the nation’s deficit over the next decade by winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, raising taxes on wealthier Americans, closing tax loopholes and cutting the cost of Medicare and other government health programs, senior White House officials said.

Obama also will warn congressional Republicans during a Rose Garden speech Monday that if they pass legislation that cuts programs for poor and elderly Americans without asking profitable corporations
and others to sacrifice, he will veto the measure.”In his remarks, the president will make clear he’s not going to support any plan that asks everything of some Americans and nothing of others,” said a senior White House aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so he could describe the plan to reporters Sunday.

Obama will present his recommendations to a congressional “super committee”  considering a deficit reduction package of its own. The 12-member committee, an outgrowth of the debt ceiling negotiations over the summer, is charged with hammering out a bill that will go to Congress for an up-or-down vote this year. The committee must complete its work by Nov. 23.

Obama hopes his proposal will form the basis of a deficit reduction package that Congress ultimately approves. Failing that, it would give him an issue to use in the 2012 campaign.

His plan for lopping $3 trillion from the deficit is on top of the approximately $1 trillion in spending cuts that he signed into law in August, after reaching a deal with Republican congressional leaders to lift the nation’s debt ceiling and avert a potential default. Obama pledged to unveil the plan this month, when he called for a $447-billion jobs  bill as he addressed a joint session of Congress.

Breaking down the numbers Sunday night, White House advisors said they would reach the deficit target by:

• Raising $1.5 trillion by a tax code overhaul. About $800 billion of that would come from the expiration of the George  W. Bush-era tax cuts for upper-income Americans — families who earn more than $250,000 a year and individuals who earn more than $200,000. The other $700 billion would consist of revenue increases achieved by closing loopholes,
limiting deductions for high earners and ending tax breaks for oil and gas companies. As part of any changes to tax law, the White House wants lawmakers to follow a principle it calls the “Buffett rule”: No one earning more than $1  million a year should be taxed at a lower rate than middle-income households.

• Saving $1 trillion by wrapping up the Iraq and Afghan wars. Obama’s aim is to steadily withdraw U.S. forces from afghanistan and transfer combat responsibilities to the Afghans by 2014.

• Cutting $580 billion from various federal programs, including the major healthcare entitlement  programs Medicare and Medicaid.

The Buffett rule — named for Obama supporter Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who complains that his effective tax rate is less than the rate his secretary pays — drew heated comments on the Sunday talk shows, along with GOP vows to oppose it on grounds that it would hurt economic growth.

“Class warfare … may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics,” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We don’t need a system that seeks to prey on people’s fear, envy and anxiety. We need a system that creates jobs and innovation and removes  these barriers for entrepreneurs to go out and rehire people.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the proposal a political move that would do little to reduce the deficit.

“The truth of the matter is, if you raise taxes on billionaires and millionaires it adds a de minimis amount of money to the Treasury to pay off the debt,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He too accused Obama of waging class warfare.

But Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, said Republicans risked the public’s wrath if they opposed raising taxes on people like Buffett.

“I wonder if [House Speaker] John Boehner knows what it sounds like when he continues to say the position of the Republican Party in America is that you can’t impose one more penny in taxes on the wealthiest people,” Durbin told CNN. “I wonder if he understands how that sounds in Ohio to working families who are struggling paycheck to paycheck.”

Another lightning rod for criticism in Obama’s plan is the provision on Medicare and Medicaid. Administration officials said it included $240 billion in savings from Medicare and $72 billion from Medicaid and other health programs. Although the proposal does not call for immediate benefit cuts, officials indicated that after 2017, some Medicare beneficiaries would be asked to pay more.

Obama has previously shown interest in means-testing — asking high-income seniors to pay more for their medical care.

The White House plan rules out lifting the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67, as some Republicans have suggested. Other savings would come from what one senior White House official called “overpayments,” signaling that the administration wants to ask medical providers and drug makers to help reduce costs.

When discussing jobs here in America, it used to be, during the 1990′s and through 2007 that compaines were hiring and our unemployment was a little over 4.5%.  Our friends in the media hammered the administration for a 4.5% unemployment never mentioning that in translation it ment that 4 and a half people per 100 were out of work.  Even discounting the underemployeed and the disenchanted, we were only at a true number of 8%.  That was a nationwide number that did not reduce the number of jobs available…

Not quite the same with today’s administration. What was never supposed to go over
8%, (8 people out of 100) being out of work is now 9.7%; The Bureau of Labor Statistics. No, I do not believe the 9.7% to be a real number. Our “Super Transparent Administration”, hired a “Jobs Czar”; Jeff Immelt. He did not need Congressional Approval, and has complete control over the numbers. Mr. Immelt (GE CEO), has conveniently reduced the number of jobs available here in the US and decided not to count the underemployed or disenchanted (those that have completely stopped looking and fallen off the unemployment rolls). If we were to put those numbers back into the equation, our actual unemployment would be 16.6%… 1 in 6 American’s out of work or underemployed.

Not what you hear on TV… Nope… Here is an intersting article from “Whiteout Press.com”

Below is from the Christian Science Monitor

For the past three years, the media has portrayed the republican / right of center in this country the group that makes incendiary comments that could cause riots in our street.  What continues to amaze me is the ”media” has to make up stories on the Tea Party and can completely miss all of the messages being embodied by the good card carrying democrats / left of center folks; whom by the way have a bit of a larger microphone than the standard run of the mill “Tea Party” member.  Now that we are coming into an election period, possibly the most important election year in the history of the United States, we seem to be missing the daily “messages” of our prominent microphone baring speakers.

Does anyone remember the “Bush Years”?  While I was not a personal fan of TARP that President Bush signed, the media was all over it as being the worst thing that could ever be done… Also, if anyone cares to remember, after 911, the patriot act was signed and portrayed as evil by our outspoken microphone carrying media establishment, but it is absolutely fine that the FCC is looking to monitor the Web and shut down any site that is
considered “incendiary”.  If given that opportunity, is there anyone out there that believes this lowly little blog site would remain open for reading?  Or that the Black Panthers site wouldn’t?

Below are a couple of good ole’ fashioned media spokesmen from the “Tea Party” making the incendiary comments we have all heard about…

REMEMBER… THESE ARE TRUE TEA PARTY MEMBERS! or… well… maybe not… but they are from the CENTER RIGHT anyway… right? or… well… maybe not so much either.

This was so important, they had to remove the video!

Posted on September 5, 2011

Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: “Take These Son Of Bitches Out”

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa said to a heavily union crowd.

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.

Obama addressed the crowd shortly after Hoffa.

Now, our favorite… well… you be the judge.

And of course, we can’t forget Sen. Reid… (Wish we could)

Politics Harry Reid Calls GOP Sen. Coburn a ‘Dictator’

GOP Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.)