Common Sense Goverment

This was written by a 21 yr  old female who gets it.  It's her future
she's  worried about and this is how she feels about the social  welfare big
government state that she's being forced to  live in!  These solutions are
just common sense in  her opinion.

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald,  Waco , TX , Nov 18, 2011

PUT  ME IN CHARGE . . .

Put  me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star  cards; no cash
for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money  for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
blocks of cheese  and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you  want
steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put  me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get  women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal  legations. Then, we'll test
recipients for drugs,  alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or  use
drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a  job.

Put me in charge of government housing.   Ever live in a military barracks?

You will maintain  our property in a clean and good state of repair.
Your  home" will be subject to inspections anytime and  possessions will be
inventoried.  If you want a  plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
own  place.

In addition, you will either present a check  stub from a job each week
or you will report to a  "government" job.  It may be cleaning the  roadways
of trash, painting and repairing public  housing, whatever we find for you.  We
will sell  your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting  stereo
and speakers and put that money toward the  "common good.."

Before you write that I've violated  someone's rights, realize that all  of
the above  is voluntary.  If you want our money, accept our  rules.  Before you
say that this would be  "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider
that  it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money  for doing
absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered  self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other  people's mistakes we should at
least attempt to make  them learn from their bad choices.  The current  system
rewards them for continuing to make bad  choices.

AND While you are on Gov't subsistence,  you no longer can VOTE!  Yes,
that is  correct.  For you to vote would be a conflict of  interest.  You will
voluntarily remove yourself  from voting while you are receiving a Gov't
welfare  check.  If you want to vote, then get a  job.

Obama Attacks American Farm Families

Farm kids band from working

 The Obama department of labor is attacking the core of America, farm families!

AAmerica was built by farmers and their families. Farming/ranching skills and passions are still passed down to the younger generation. Farm kids are raised with a respect for animals that develops by farming/ranching cores they are required to do. They witness birth, they see death and understand that at times, life is not fair. They see crops come up from their care and labor. They also know  heartache, as they watch the destruction of a rain or hail storm just before harvest. They delight in seeing the new born calves, sheep or baby pigs running and playing together. They remember those cold days drying off a baby and making sure it has a start in life. They also remember the sun coming up only to reveal their pet cow having it’s baby eaten by a coyote as it was born or a pack of town dogs ripping the belles out of the sheep flock. They understand life and death. They understand life is not fair but with hard work, life has many rewards. Farm kids have a real understanding of the commitment it takes to produce a health living thing. A quality that should be held in the highest regard and promoted in a civil society. 

 All families should work together as a team and farm/ranch families do just this on a daily bases. Ranch kids help each day with the care of crops and animals. They understand that those living things depend on them, depend on those kids to perform their job duties. Farm kids feed and water livestock each day before school. They clean pens, they shovel crap and mud, they work in snow, freezing cold and scorching heat. They do this because it is their way of life, how they contribute. to the family and how they earn respect as an individual. Farm kids work alongside their mother and father in the fields and orchards from a very young age. They drive tractors when they can just hold down a clutch (yes, not very many automatic transmissions on farm equipment). They spend their summers working, shoveling, picking, hoeing weeds, driving, riding, branding and doctoring. They also find time to jump in the stream, river or irrigation ditch to cool off,swim and play a game of tag with other farm kids. Those children have grown to be some of the greatest leaders in our nation! A heritage and way of life we most protect!

Sadly, this life style is in stark contrast to the Obama family, currently occupying the white house.

But why are federal agencies, led by President Obama appointees, intent on taking steps that will undermine and ultimately destroy our nation's agricultural heartland, our families?

It's no secret that liberals hold fatty, high-carbohydrate dairy and corn products directly responsible for our nation's obesity rates (funny, don’t see over weight farm kids).  They blame farting cows for a depleted ozone layer and consider ranching as a form of animal abuse. PETA, the American Humane Society and other animal rights organization demonize our rural lifestyle as an uncaring barbaric form of environmental exploitation. The urban schools teach and promote this same misconception to the gullible “city dwellers”.  Yet the government's attack on farm/ranch families by effectively banning farm kids from working on their own farms goes beyond outrageous. The intent can only be viewed as a full frontal attack on America.

Under new standards being advocated by the Obama Labor Department, youths under the age of eighteen would be prohibited from working in hay lofts, giving shots, caring for baby animals, and being in the vicinity of animals whose behavior may be "unpredictable."  So, the federal government under the direction of Obama would destroy one of Americas greatest treasures, the farm/ranch family.

Ask yourself, why?

Does Obama think that the mother and father of those farm/ranch kids are incapable of caring for and protecting their own children? Does the government think it has the right to interfere in a family’s lifestyle? Is there a hidden place in the constitution that gives the government such a power?

Lose our farm families and where would your food come from? 
Where would urban people go to get food? Do they understand that food is raised/produced, and does not magically appear on the super market shelves?

Or, does the government want to totally control the food production and distribution? Thank about that one!

For me, I remember the old Hank Jr song, “a country boy can survive”

City Dwellers, beware of what you vote for in 2012!

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1,000 days of Obama

Just the facts baby, just the facts!

DEBT: Total Public Debt Outstanding has increased by $4.2 trillion [source: Treasury Dept] Hey, hey…pretty good spending habit! Wonder what we got for our tax dollars?

MORE DEBT:  America accumulated as much debt over the past 1,000 days as it had in the country’s first 79,135 days (July 4, 1776 through March 3, 1993) [source: Treasury Dept] Hey, hey…This must be a record that Obama is proud of!

DEBT PER DAY: America’s debt has increased by about an average of $4.2 billion per day [source: Treasury Dept] Dang, that is just hard for a simple minded person like me to comprehend…All I do know is, that is a pretty big increase, what did we get for our tax dollars?

INTEREST ON U.S. DEBT: $1.2 trillion has been spent servicing U.S. debt—that by itself would be the world’s 15th largest economy [source: Treasury Dept] Hey, hey…is this money well spent??? Most going to China who we also run a trade deficit with! Man, they must love the good old USA tax payers

JOBS: 2.22 million jobs lost [source: BLS] How did this happen? What about all the money we spent? What about cash for clunkers and the stimulus deal? What happened? Didn’t it work???

POVERTY:  Nearly 3 million more Americans in poverty—poverty rate has gone from 13.2% to 15.1% [source: Census] Wholly cow! In the last 1,000 days under the all caring, all powerful Obama who had total control over both houses of congress for 2 years, what happened? What the heck is he doing?

FOOD STAMPS: 12 million more Americans living off of food stamps [source: Dept of Agriculture // Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] Wholly, wholly cow! 12 million MORE! Not counting the people that were already on food stamps! Is this how the Obama government helps the citizens of the USA, take away jobs and give you food stamps instead?

GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Spent more than $9.6 trillion – 60% more than the federal government has taken in [source: OMB and CBO] What, I don’t understand…how can anyone spend 60% more that you earn? Is this how the smartest man in America, how his, how Obama math works???

MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Under Obama, the govt has spent an average of $6.6 million every minute and $111,111 every second [source: OMB and CBO] Unbelievable

CHINA: Owns $1.17 trillion of our debt (as of July) – a 58% increase from January 2009 [source: Treasury Dept]

They must dearly love Obama…58% increase!!!

GOVERNMENT JOBS: Excluding the U.S. Post Office, Federal Government has added 140,000 jobs [source: BLS] Is this where he says they saved or created jobs??? Hate to tell the smartest president ever…this is just is counterproductive! It will most likely lead to more waste and government regulations.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has averaged 9.4% under Obama [source: BLS] WHAT, Obama said by spending all that money on the stimulus, that unemployment would not go over 8% and it was below 8% when he made his statement...was he wrong…or LIEING!

MORE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has been at or above 9% for 840 of the 1000 days [source: BLS] What, how could that be, he had total control and passed whatever he wanted for the 1^st two years unrestricted

UNDEREMPLOYED: Nearly 5 million more Americans are underemployed [source: BLS] That means you have to add those to the unemployment, plus, add the people who quit looking and those that where self employed and not eligible for unemployment benefits…what is the REAL numbers under Obama?

REGULATIONS – NEW RULES: 7,076 new final regulatory rules issued [source: Federal Register] 1,000 day and &,076 new regulations…7 new regulations per day! I knew those new government workers would do something…Huge spending debt, no new non-government jobs but time to make and implement 7,076 new regulations and rules…Kinda shows where the focus is huh?

REGULATIONS – FEDERAL REGISTER: 45,696 pages of new regulatory rules were added to the Federal Register
[source: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register, various years] Why not??? What else are these new government employees suppose to do all day…the have to think of ways to justify their jobs!

AVERAGE WEEKS UNEMPLOYED: Unemployed out of work for an average of 40.5 weeks – that’s more than double since Jan 2009 [source: BLS] Hmmm, Mr Obama is doing a bang up job with spending our money on this recession…sure am glad to hear that everyone is doing much better finding those jobs. O-ya…forgot, they don’t need jobs because their benefits were extended! You are welcome Mr. and Mrs. Happily Unemployed

JOB APPROVAL RATING: Dropped nearly 30 percentage points [source: Gallup Tracking] Well, there is some good news. People are at least looking at what Obama has actually done and not at just the feel good promises he made. And no, you are not a racist for believing that Obama sucks as President. Facts are Facts!

SPEECHES AND PUBLIC REMARKS: Roughly 806 speeches/public remarks made – once every 1.24 days [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/] Well, give him his due, Obama sure can talk. I personally am starting to believe he just likes to hear himself speak…maybe, maybe his speeches convince him that he is doing a good job, who knows what is going through his mind?

SPEECHES --- JOBS: Has said the word “jobs” 4,718 times in 591 speeches [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/] Well wholly cow, guess it didn’t just pop up lately, even if he would like to blame this job issue on all the new Tea Party Republicans that were elected. You would think after talking about it that much, he would have taken charge a long time ago and done something intelligent about the situation

SPEECHES -- ECONOMY: Has said the word “economy” 4,541 times in 605 speeches [source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/obama-speeches/] There you are! He is to busy talking about the issues to do anything about them!

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE: Has decreased by 168,000 [source: BLS] OK, getting depressed…

MANUFACTURING: 818,000 manufacturing jobs lost --- a -6.5% drop since Jan. 2009 [source: BLS] More depressed…

BANK FAILURES: 371 Banks have failed [source: FDIC] Where is Obama? What is he doing???

STATES: 37 States have higher unemployment rates [source: BLS] Dang, maybe he has just stuck his head in the sand?

GOLF: 82 rounds of golf --- average of one round every 12 days [source: Mark Knoller, CBS –Fox News Tracking] Hey, hey…found him! I was close!!! I am sure he was in the sand pit on many of those 82 rounds of golf

REPOSSESSIONS: More than 2.4 million homes have been repossessed for failure to pay their mortgage [source: RealtyTrac] Depressed again

BANKRUPTCIES: Some 4 million total (business and non-business) bankruptcies [source: American Bankruptcy Institute] Where does all that money go? If banks are failing and home owners are failing…where is the money going???

GAS PRICES: Up more than 80% and has been over $3/gallon every day in 2011 [source: AAA/OPIS] O-my word…80%??? Well…he sure enough got what he wanted when he said the price of fuel needed to go up so as to promote electric cars that he wants you to drive. Guess some of that money is headed overseas to guys with towels on their heads

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Almost $380 billion spent by federal government on unemployment benefits [source: Treasury Dept and CBO] Hey, found some of that money!

ECONOMIC TEAM: 7 key members of Obama’s Economic team have resigned [Summers, Romer, Bernstein, Orszag, Goolsbee Volker and Rouse] [source: News Reports/Tracking] Yep, and he has the lowest number of business people in any administration…yet, he is focus on the economy and jobs…

HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS: Health insurance premiums (family coverage) up 9% this year and 12.7% from 2009 [source: Kaiser Family Foundation] O-thanks…thanks for ramming Obama care down our throats. Obama even found away to get around the Scott Brown election to do that…hmmm, he is smart at doing one thing, can’t deny that!

MEDIAN INCOME: Real median household income in the U.S. in 2010 was $49,445, a -2.3% decline from 2009 [source: Census Dept] So tell me Obama supporters, how is that hope and change working out for you? Cain looking better all the time this next go around???

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Spent more than $26 billion on the EPA – FY2011’s spending will be about 40% more than FY2009 [source: Treasury and OMB] Dang, found even more money now! With this, food stamps, the unemployment benefits, gas prices and the interest on the debt Obama has rung up…yep, found lots of it!

“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s gonna be a one-term proposition.”  Know who said this? Hint, some narcissistic President that has forgot his own statement (or it was just one more lie) and is running for re-election in 2012!

For me, I will vote for a yellow dog before I would give this hack one more day in office.

What will you do?

Obama, the liberals main man!

DeMint: Obama Administration the 'Most Anti-American' in My Lifetime

"We saw within a few days that this President was going to be heavy-handed, he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies, and it just went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank," DeMint said. "It has been the most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration in my lifetime. Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington, creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies. This president is doing something that's so far out of the realm of anything Republicans ever did wrong, it's hard to even imagine."

Goverment spending cuts

Government spending cuts and the reason why, very simple!


"The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Spencer Roane, 1821

The foresight of the founding fathers is astounding. So why does the left not get it and instead uses mindless verbal attacks (lies) like staving old people and killing women?  

And, if you believe the liberal response to responsible government spending, what does that make you?

Trial date is set for Obama

Federal Judge Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!

The expedited trial has been set for Jan. 26, 2010!

Many concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack Obama to determine his eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief. About 150 people showed up, almost all in support of the lawsuit to demand that Obama release his birth certificate and other records that he has hidden from the American people..

Judge David Carter refused to hear Obama's request for dismissal. He indicated there was almost no chance that this case would be dismissed. Obama is arguing this lawsuit was filed in the wrong court if you can believe that. Obama would prefer a "kangaroo court" instead of a Federal court! Assuming Judge Carter denies Obama's motion for dismissal, he will likely then order expedited discovery which will force Obama to release his birth certificate in a timely manner (if he has one). The judge, WHO IS A FORMER U.S. MARINE, repeated several times that this is A VERY SERIOUS CASE which must be resolved quickly so that the troops know that their Commander in Chief is eligible to hold that position and issue lawful orders to our military in this time of war. He basically said OBAMA MUST PROVE HIS ELIGIBILITY to the court! He said Americans deserve to know the truth about their President!

The two U.S. Attorneys representing Barack Obama tried everything they could to sway the judge that this case was frivolous, but Carter would have none of it and cut them off several times. Obama's attorneys left the courtroom after about the 90 minute hearing looking defeated and nervous.

Great day in America for the U.S. Constitution! The truth about Barack Obama's eligibility will be known fairly soon - Judge Carter practically guaranteed it!

Proof that global warming is a political hack job!

The CRU has been a major source of data on global temperatures, relied on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now we findout that 61 megabytes of e-mails suggest that CRU scientists have been lying to the public.
"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
"Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re AR4?"
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can't."
"I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU temperature station data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!"

From the Atlantic's Megan McArdle. "The CRU's main computer model may be, to put it bluntly, complete rubbish."

Australian geologist Ian Plimer, tells it like it is; The e-mails "show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination."
Global warming alarmist George Monbiot of the Guardian concedes that the e-mails "could scarcely be more damaging," adding, "I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them." He has called for the resignation of the CRU director.

You remember the phrase: garbage in, garbage out?

The Copenhagen climate summit was convened to get the leaders of nations to commit to sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions — and thus sharp reductions in almost all energy usage, at huge economic cost.

Will your President bow down and give away your freedoms and rights to a bunch of no a count liars?

To continue… the consensus was based in large part on CRU data that was, to take the charitable explanation, "complete rubbish" or, to take the more dire view, the product of deliberate fraud.
Quite possibly the CRU e-mailers were sincere in their belief that they were saving the planet. Like Al Gore, they wanted to convince the world's elites that the time for argument is over, the scientific consensus is clear and those who disagree can be dismissed as cranks (and should be disqualified from receiving research grants).

Predictions like Al Gores, impose enormous costs on the American and world economies, but is this not the agenda of Obama also?

Why is Barack Obama going to Copenhagen? This whole thing seems to be a waste of time and energy. China and India are not going to choke off their dazzling economic growth to please Western global warming alarmists, and If Obama agrees to any concessions that impair or limit the USA, he needs thrown out of office by his ear!

EPA to tax cows

In a move that could have far-reaching impacts on businesses down to the grower level, EPA last week announced that greenhouse-gas emissions would be regulated under the Clean Air Act. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said that these gases endanger public health and welfare of future generations.
The finding will be followed by a 60-day comment period, after which EPA could begin drawing up regulations. It is believed those regulations would focus first on automobile emissions, but eventually could target power plants, factories, and other businesses.
Agribusiness could be affected by the new regulations. In November, the Florida Farm Bureau issued an Action Alert on how this move might impact some in agriculture. Once an endangerment finding is made, Title V of the Clean Air Act requires that any entity with the potential to emit more than 100 tons per year of a regulated pollutant must obtain a permit in order to continue to operate.
For previously regulated pollutants, a threshold of 100-tons meant that only the largest of emitters were required to be permitted. For greenhouse gases, the situation is much different. Not only would power plants and factories, but also many office and apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, large churches and even large homes would be regulated. According to the alert, literally hundreds of thousands of entities could be required to obtain permits.
The vast majority of livestock operations would easily meet the 100 ton threshold and fall under regulation. In fact, USDA has stated that any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, or 50 beef cattle would have to obtain permits. According to USDA statistics, this would cover about 99% of dairy production and more than 90% of beef production in the U.S.
As the proposal stood in November, the permit fees would equate to a "tax" of $175 per dairy cow and $87.50 per beef cow.
President Obama has stated that he would rather Congress take on the issue and pass cap and trade legislation, which would cap the levels of pollution an entity could emit. If the business exceeds the cap, it would in effect have to pay a tax for the right to pollute.
Regardless if Congress passes cap and trade, Friday’s EPA finding could likely have the same effect as regulations are put into place over the next few years.