Everyone needs to read this short letter!

A Letter from Hobby Lobby Stores CEO
By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn't much bigger than most people's living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God's word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation's largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.

We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that's what we've tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God's grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak economy, we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.

But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines.

Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It's not right. I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it's the same for everybody. But that's not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for reasons of religious belief.

So, Hobby Lobby  and my family  are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don't like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.

My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that's a choice no American and no American business should have to make.
The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but will not except Christian organizations including the Catholic church.

Since you will not see this covered in any of the liberal media, pass this on to all your contacts.
Sincerely,
David Green, CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

So... I could comment for hours, perhaps all day long, non stop about this letter, but I won't. 

(I added the boldness and underlines in places)

Post your comments and let's see what you have to say about this!

The 2012 National Debt Road Trip

I sure hope we change soon!

Elect Obama and America will suffer another down grade!

News flash…Elect Obama and America will suffer another down grade!

By Christopher Goins, CNS News

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that Congress does not need an official federal budget because it can just adopt appropriations bills and authorization policies as needed to keep operating. What??? And you elect these fools? He is saying flat out that they have an unlimited check book. He is saying they can spend whatever they want, on anything they want, at any time they want. A budget is not needed at all!
At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, “Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, Republicans were trying to hit Senate Democrats for 1,000 days without passing a budget, and then you talk about this milestone today, 400 days without a jobs bill in the Republican House. But then on Friday [Democratic Senator Harry] Reid said that he didn’t think they needed to bring a budget to the floor this year [and that] the Budget Control Act can serve as a guideline.” And they just re-elected Harry! Nope, no worries because if we hit the debt ceiling, we will just raise that too

Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? This is an honest question because I am sure he has no idea! The budget does one thing and really only one thing: It sets the parameters of spending and discretionary caps. Other than that, the Appropriations committee are not bound by the Budget committee’s priorities.” So there it is again, a budget is not worth the paper it is written on because we will just spend money (that we don't have and must borrow from China) anyway!

He continued: “The fact is, you don’t need a budget. We can adopt appropriations bills. We can adopt authorization policies without a budget. Good News!!! America…we don’t need a budget! I wonder if those European nations that are about to collapse would agree? We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending. Ha ha… I can’t stand it…let me pick myself up from the floor… we don’t need a budget because we “have an agreed-upon cap on spending” and…he left out…we can raise that anytime we get close to it. Cool huh!

Perhaps he should read just a small part of an article that I included below;

By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge

Will A be the new AA+? Perhaps, if the S&P follows through with its latest threat. Bloomberg reports that, "the U.S., lacking a plan to contain $1 trillion deficits, faces the prospect of another rating cut in six to 24 months depending on the outcome of November elections, according to John Chambers of Standard & Poor’s. They are saying that if Obama is re-elected…say good bye to the possibility of any fiscal responsibility. America has had an AA+ rating with a negative outlook since Aug. 5 when the New York-based unit of McGraw-Hill Cos. stripped the nation of its AAA ranking for the first time, citing the government’s failure to agree on a path to reduce deficits. Path? Hmmm I think that Harry Reid should … take heed!  The U.S. has a one-in-three chance of another downgrade, Chamber said today during an S&P sponsored Webcast. “What the U.S. needs is not so much a short-term fiscal tightening, but it has to have a credible medium-term fiscal plan,” Well there it is, everyone but the liberals in congress say we need a budget. One that will stop the out of control spending, indeed, roll it back and set a rock solid program of deficit reduction! said Chambers, managing director of sovereign ratings.

You better get out and vote. You better get out and vote against spending while you still have a country to cast a vote in!

Obamas list of accomplishments

Who said he hasn't done anything?

Obama has an impressive list of accomplishments!

·      First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

·      First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

·      First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

·      First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

·      First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

·      First President to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

·      First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

·      First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

·      First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.(General Moters) 

·      First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. .

·      First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

·      First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

·      First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

·      First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

·      First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

·      First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

·      First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

·      First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

·      First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

·      First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

·      First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. .

·      First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.

·      First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

·      First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

·      First President to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.

·      First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

·      First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

·      First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

·      First President to repeat "The Holy Qur’an tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth."

·      First President to take a 17 day vacation.

So how is this hope and change working out for you? 

How did Obama do it Video

Illegal Obama "Propped Up" By Congress! If you never watch another video, watch this one, this proves the Democrats(And some Republicans) know Obama is not an American and is serving illegally and unconstitutionally and the efforts they made are recorded in the Congressional Record, attempting to change the Constitution so he could serve legally.

EVERYONE who cares about and loves this Constitutional Republic absolutely MUST watch and forward this video!!!!!! This one must go viral.   I won't be surprised when the people of this country begin calling for an Impeachment. This guy and his cronies have been intentionally deceiving the American public and his friends in Congress have been propping him up.. Where are our elected representatives?

                                                 How to destroy America in 4 years

Facts about Obama and Health Care

     A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very 
interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International 
Health Organization. 
  
            Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years 
after diagnosis: 
  
             U.S.                    65% 
  
             England              46% 
  
             Canada               42% 
  
  
            Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received 
treatment within six months: 
  
             U.S.                     93% 
  
             England              15% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it 
within six months: 
  
             U.S.                     90% 
  
             England              15% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within 
one month: 
  
             U.S.                     77% 
  
             England              40% 
  
             Canada               43% 
  
  
            Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million 
people: 
  
             U.S.                     71 
  
             England             14 
  
             Canada              18 
  
  
            Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are 
in "excellent health": 
  
             U.S.                    12% 
  
             England               2% 
  
             Canada               6% 
  
  
            And now for the last statistic: 
  
  
            National Health Insurance? 
  
             U.S.                     NO 
  
             England            YES 
  
             Canada             YES 
  
            Check this last set of statistics!! 
  
            The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked 
in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. 
You know what the private business sector is a real-life business, not a 
government job.  Here are the percentages. 
  
  
            T. Roosevelt.................... 38% 
  
            Taft.................................. 40% 
  
             Wilson ........................... 52% 
  
            Harding........................... 49% 
  
            Coolidge......................... 48% 
  
            Hoover............................ 42% 
  
            F. Roosevelt................... 50% 
  
            Truman........................... 50% 
  
            Eisenhower................ .... 57% 
  
            Kennedy......................... 30% 
  
            Johnson.......................... 47% 
  
            Nixon.............................. 53% 
  
            Ford................................ 42% 
  
            Carter............................. 32% 
  
            Reagan........................... 56% 
  
            GH Bush......................... 51% 
  
             Clinton .......................... 39% 
  
            GW Bush........................ 55% 
  
            Obama..................... 8% 
  
  
            This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: 
only 8% of them have ever worked in private business! 
  
            That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the 
last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big 
corporations how to run their business? 
  
            How can the president of a major nation and society, the one 
with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk 
about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has 
never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff 
and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, 
government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should 
have been in an employment line. 
  
Send your friends to this Blog because you'll  NEVER see these facts in the main 
stream media.

Obamas Civil War

What a way to start the week…

Idiots, we have idiots in the media, in the government at all levels and within our own families!

How does this happen? How can a healthy mind be so corrupted with insane, failed and morally bankrupted ideas? The answer escapes me but the result is Liberalism. Not the standard/traditional liberalism but the modern version. This modern view is one that is more in line with the other (ism) and that is socialism. The definition of socialism is any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or Governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. Is this not what the Occupy Wall Street protestors want? The same think that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barack Obama and the total leadership of the Democrat party profess? They want the government to have ownership of everything of value in America and then distribute it back to the citizens based on need and not on deed! They call this fair and it is the center piece of Obamas War on America as seen with his (and the democrat leaders) full support of the OWS mob. Make no mistake about it, Obama started this insane violence with his class warfare (rich don’t pay their fair share) rhetoric. Obama, Pelosi, Reed and the other crones, are leading this Nation to the brink of a new civil war. One that pits the doers against the do not’s, the tax payers against the tax takers. A system where the Liberals are promoting riots and wide spread lawlessness against those who work hard to support their family and elevate their life style through responsible living and family discipline…by those who believe an equal lifestyle is owned them through no efforts of their own other than to claim the currant system is unequal and unfair. What is unfair is that to many parents and schools are now promoting this prevision of America. They are punishing achievers by not recognizing their efforts because doing so may offend some underachiever. I DON’T CARE! This country was not founded on, or built on the backs of the weak, undisciplined or lazy! To have empathy for your fellow mans condition is admiral but to promote that condition by condoning and rewarding laziness is despicable!

Look at the news today, the video and the Mad Americans comments.

SANTA CRUZ - County officials this week released a list of 93 complaints of disruptive and illegal behavior near the county's main offices and courthouse, adjacent to the Occupy Santa Cruz camp.
Officials  have documented drug and alcohol use, public urination and defecation, littering, bathing in county restrooms, fights and more. Two pieces of artwork on display at the county building were vandalized. The Sheriff’s office discovered of an estimated 200 pounds of human feces near the county Veterans Memorial Building. Who defends this type of protest? Is this how you identify with the 1^st amendment? The protests should have all be stopped at the point they broke any law and that goes for the permits for such a protest. The Tea Party had to get the same required permits, they had to have porta pottys, trash cans and leave the area in the same or better condition than they found it. They did so! but not the low life scum that Liberalism/Obama has produced.

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left ".
                                             Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

The video below is a great exhibition of the difference between Liberals and Conservatives.

The news lady is in tears because Newt wants the protestors to get cleaned up and get a job. Her male counterparts support her position and rail against the mean conservative. Listen to their comments that support the protestors and never denounce or criticize anyone of this mobs law breaking actions. Instead, they are portrayed as the persecuted, protectors of civility, defenders of the poor and  deserving of some, some, some what?

I still find it amazing that people with such views exist and terrified when I confront myself with the fact that they breed!

Great explanation of the differences below;

With the Tea Party, the issues were clear. Government was too big, taxed too much and needed to rein in its out-of-control spending. Its message was a clarion call for limited government coupled with fiscal responsibility. At rallies that had the flavor of church picnics, people gathered to address their concerns, bagged their trash and returned to their jobs and homes to continue to lobby their government through constitutional channels. No such clarity can be found in the encampments that mark the Occupy Wall Street rallies, which occupy little of Wall Street but litter cities across America, creating dangerous environments and showcases of human degradation.

The protesters rail against the structures of government and business while demanding that those same institutions guarantee cradle-to-grave services, funded by people other than themselves. The same flavor of these demands can be found in Greece and Italy, where people rally for the continuation of benefits that no one can afford, to be paid for by others. It is the same demand for financial "fairness" that was propagated by Karl Marx.

Few protesters seem to be aware that as citizens of the United States, they've already experienced an unfair financial advantage. According to World Bank figures, the poorest 10 percent of Americans have more income than nearly 4 billion other inhabitants of the planet. Put another way, Americans are relatively rich compared to most of their global counterparts.

Barack Obama's crusade against REAL Americans;

Several weeks after he announced his bid for the presidency in 2007, Obama ordered a mostly black crowd in Selma, Ala., to "get off the couch" because "we have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed." Obama, you and your kind put those people on the couch. They are now very comfortable on that couch and will fight anyone who trys to make them leave the government couch.

"Take off your bedroom slippers," Obama shouted. "Put on your marching shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country!" I see now! Do not take off your slippers and go to work…O-no! Take them off and support Obamas re-election! I am very sorry because as an American I want to and feel a duty to support my president but there is no way I can support this man Obama. He is the most divisive and destructive man to ever hold that office. Should he and others like him be re elected…I fear for our future!

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Occupy wall street protesters and YOU!

Ralph (below in the video) has been living at Occupy Wall Street and requested to be interviewed. Ralph added to the above statement "You understand? I don't give a f**k... I hope 9/11 happens again, right now." He is hoping that thousands of people, family’s, Moms and Dads that are working hard and supporting their families, die that day and the next and the next until what he believe as evil people are all gone. Those working people are not killing anyone or calling for the murder of anyone. This Ralph guy is just worked up with the class warfare hate speech from Obama and his supporters.  He then cheerfully ended the conversation with "God bless you." Can you understand the mentality of people like Ralph? They are all over! They have no moral code of honor. They have no ability to reason with an issue or situation. They think themselves as very enlightened and intelligent people (the fact is very much the opposite) and what is very concerning… is that some will vote but all of them breed!

A pair of Southland street cart vendors who were forced to shut down their businesses after “Occupy” protesters vandalized their carts are hoping to get some help from local residents.

The coffee and hot dog carts were located in Civic Center Plaza, the same location as the Occupy San Diego protesters.

Coffee cart owner Linda Jenson and hot dog cart operators Letty and Pete Soto said they initially provided free food and drink to demonstrators, but when they stopped, the protesters became violent. There is no clearer example of the entitlement mentality at work. The protestors were given free stuff, free food, out of the goodness and compassion of those food venders hearts and yet when they had to end the freebies, their willing recipients became violent. They were not upset when they had to pay for the food. They became violent because someone was no longer giving away free stuff. Kind of like the government programs that are not needed. We pay are way but when the government steps in with a well intentioned “help” program, we become addicted to it. Addicted to the government give away just as a druggy is addicted to the needle. The reaction from taking away the drugs is the same as taking away the government program. Neither is needed and yet the users will become very violent, should either program be threaten with cancelation.

And according to one city councilman, bodily fluids were used in the attacks. Is this the way to say thanks to folks who were give you free food?

“Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it,” said Councilman Carl DeMaio. I wonder, if those venders had it to do over again, do you think they would ever given away their product? I think the tax payers are the same way. We have given and tried everything to be compassionate to others and yet get repaid by being craped on by those we try to help and worse, they now want to kill us.

Video below is how you can get free food, free day care, free house and the explanation as to “why would anyone want to work in America?”

Now, after you pay the video, remember what happened to the venders that gave away free stuff.

You think about it and have a nice day,

MA