2012 - Math: Understanding Gov't Arithmetic

Apply this to our national & unfunded debts! -- rfh

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debt - Jubilee: (video 27m29s, RT.com, Fr.2Dec11)

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New jobs numbers are out but don't be fooled by the drop in unemployment to 8.6 percent.  More than half of that is people leaving the labor force entirely.  Discouraged workers.  People who have given up looking.  This is the U3 number.  Still, unemployment has not  been this high for this long since monthly unemployment records began in 1948.      Meanwhile, the MF Global plot thickens.  Now that the firm has collapsed regulators are considering new rules restricting the use of customer money for brokerages.  Now, the regulator, the commodities futures trading commission (CFTC( wanted to finish the new rules earlier this year but was delayed.  Why?  Heavy lobbying from MF Global chief executive Jon Corzine!      So, with all of the problems in the world today, how do people begin to think about, let alone implement solutions that can improve their lives and those of others in society?   Economists like Steve Keen support debt jubilees, others like Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul support sound money as the solution, but what about something more radical?  What about getting grid of money, profit and competition all together?      Well, Peter Joseph, author of the Zeitgeist series, believes that society can evolve to do just that.  He joins us during the show to talk about the role of debt, the monetary system, and social norms that encourage what he views as inefficient and destructive behavior that does more harm for society than good.

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o'bamanomics - Debt Ceiling: Don't Raise it!

I disagree with the premise below that the national debt ceiling must be raised.  To raise the debt ceiling would be no different than my going to my credit card companies asking them to raise my debt limit while I continue to pay no more than the minumum monthy payment which as you know is not actually paying off my actual debt  ...I'm simply paying against the interest and barely reducing the principle.  To simply revert back to spending/debt levels of 2008 or any recent year is foolish.  President Calvin Coolidge was correct in his cutting the federal budget ...across the board and by a large percentage.  He increased the tax base and brought the "Roaring Twenties" to America.  For the government to attach retirement accounts like 401K's and IRA accounts is simpy a way to grab steal your monies ...It is not the answer.  Government must live frugally just like us ordinary folks.  I was in the federal government during two "government shutdowns."  Government generally ran more efficiently.  If the government doesn't "bite the bullet", and soon, our economy could suddenly collapse!  It is a truism to say "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."  Anything paid from the government is money taken out of some individual or company pocket  ...yours or mine! -- rfh

From: Socialism Alerts Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 Subject: DEBT CEILING SHOWDOWN IS IMMINENT

The results of the November 2nd election are monumental. Included was a clearly spoken "mandate" from the voters to SPEND LESS AND KEEP US OUT OF DEBT!


No matter what it takes---Spending must be cut! The message to Congress from the electorate was crystal clear: "Live within YOUR means. WE, the taxpayers, have to."  This nation is now in a real crisis due to free-spending politicians who apparently thought, for the past two years, that a "debt ceiling" was something they were supposed to hit every two years.  Please read every word of this email to understand the enormous economic peril we are facing. 


Thank you for your passion for this great country,
, Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, AmeriPAC -- www.Ameripac.org

Hello My Fellow American,

The 112th Congress is now in session.  During the Election of 2010, scores of Republicans campaigned on the promise that if they restored Congress to the GOP, they would put an end to the free-spending ways of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.   Now that they have taken control of the U.S. House of Representative, the economic discipline they promised is coming---just in time.  The debt ceiling of the United States is being quickly approached. The current national debt limit is $14.3 TRILLION!  The federal government is expected to hit that debt ceiling in the next three weeks.

Before that time, the government must DO SOMETHING!  The bottom line question for Congress:  Will you raise the debt ceiling?

Mr. Obama and Democrats say RAISE IT.  Conservatives say HOLD IT OR LOWER IT, BASED ON CUTTING SPENDING.

Shortly, every Member of U.S. Congress will have to make this all-important decision.

That's where you come in. AmeriPAC will be using all media outlets at its disposal to promote fiscal austerity with just a little bit of leverage.  Logic tells us two things.  First, even if we cut spending to the bone, the debt ceiling is going to have to be raised.  Thus, our choice is limited to how do we slow the growth of our debt?  The more we slow the debt growth, the longer reprieve the taxpayers have. How do you slow the growth of debt? Get rid of wasteful spending. How do we do that? First, Congress must repeal ObamaCare and eliminate that spending albatross.  The GOP leadership needs to bargain with the moderates on the left.  Repeal Obamacare. Cut discretionary spending to the 2008 levels.  It's called a "quid pro quo."  It's the language of bargaining on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave.  But, to make this bargaining acceptable to the Members of the House of Representatives, we need the angry voices of a quarter million taxpayers reminding Congress who votes Congressmen out of office when they get angry.  Are you angry enough to fax every Member of Congress?  The re-empowered Republicans are making it clear they will DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to get the spending cuts and policy rollbacks they want.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a frequent bridge-builder with Democrats, said he would NOT vote to increase the government debt ceiling unless Congress cuts discretionary spending to 2008 levels and agrees on major cuts. The government is expected to reach the current debt limit next month.   In reference to the cuts, I agree with Senator Graham. Cuts must come first! Failure to raise the debt limit would force the U.S. Treasury to be in a very drastic situation.

There's U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina. He wants to hold the Democrat's feet to the fire on debt issues. And so do I!

Some members from the Tea Party often sound as if they would not vote to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances.  That could make it extremely difficult for others to back away from the brink at the last moment.

I submit to you:
NO raise in debt ceiling until budget busting OBAMACARE is repealed!
NO raise in debt ceiling unless the U.S. Congress cuts discretionary spending to 2008 levels.
Or best case scenario---BOTH OF THE ABOVE!

Quite frankly, I am concerned about my children and my grandchildren. They are the ones who will receive the brunt of this fiscal irresponsibility!

The bottom line: We must get our national debt under control.   The longer we wait: the harder it is for our generation.  Please urge every Member of Congress to stand up and speak out for CUTTING SPENDING!  Top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee warned this past Sunday on ABC that a Congressional failure to raise the nation's debt ceiling early this year would be "catastrophic."  He said: "The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.  I mean, that would be a worse financial economic crisis than anything we saw in 2008."  But Senator Jim DeMint and other conservatives are undaunted by this challenge.

The reason why the United States is in this position is because President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have been spending the nation into OBLIVION!   The destruction of America has already started.  And you and I must stop this fast-moving locomotive train!  Clearly, fiscal responsibility says we must have a temporary raise in he debt ceiling.  Fiscal sanity says that raising the debt ceiling without major spending cuts borders not only on insanity, but national suicide.

The solution is somewhat "simple"---but hard:

• Reduce spending
• Repeal Obamacare
• Implement a salary freeze on federal employees
• Cut back on foreign aid (especially to those who hate us)
• Stop all the bailout monies
• Rescind already approved appropriations designated as a bailout and money going to those who hate us, or who have pledged to destroy us
• Release funds set aside for supposed financial regulatory reform
• Decrease funding of the United Nations

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) asserts: "I think America expects us to fight more spending, more debt."  He goes on to suggest that "... we should resist [raising the debt ceiling.]  We need to have a showdown, at this point, that we are not going to increase our debt ceiling anymore.  We are going to cut things necessary to stay within the current levels---which is over $14 trillion.  So this needs to be a big showdown." U.S. Senator Jim DeMint: is ready for a major fight over debt ceiling.

Demint has drawn a line in the sand.  Many conservatives have.  This is the question Congress will have to answer very soon.   If they come up with the wrong answer, the consequences could be devastating for the United States.  Raise the debt ceiling?  Lower the debt ceiling?  What is the right decision? Politico reports: "The vote (on the debt ceiling)... is a prime example of where rhetoric might meet reality for newly elected House Republicans.  Refusing to increase the country's borrowing capability was a major theme during the 2010 election season, as conservative Republicans promoted their deficit-hawk views by vowing to oppose measures that would allow the Treasury to borrow beyond the $14.3 trillion ceiling Congress set last year." And, there's the reality.  Do we simply forget the political rhetoric, and simply raise the debt ceiling every year to cover each new round of earmarks?  Or, do we admit that we have finally overspent the nation's ability to pay for its own largess?  That means, hard choices must be made.  We need to open the pork barrel piggy banks that have drained the U.S. taxpayer, and tell the free wheelers in Washington, DC---"no more!"  We need to tell Washington to return America to its pre-2008 spending levels.  That's the price for a new temporary debt ceiling.  We need to tell the politicians America can't afford a nationalized healthcare system that will cost more than 10 times more than they claim it will cost in the first ten years.  Restore sanity to America's finances---repeal Obamacare and you can have the debt ceiling temporally raised.  A very serious discussion and debate must happen NOW about the control of spending, as it relates to the debt ceiling. Thank you, in advance, for your support. Sincerely, Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, AmeriPAC -- www.Ameripac.org  Please make checks payable to AmeriPAC: American Political Action Committee (AmeriPAC), PO Box 1682, Dept Code 5309, Bellevue, WA 98009-1682 -- Paid for by AmeriPAC, a federally-authorized and qualified multicandidate political action committee. Contributions to AmeriPAC will be used in connection with federal elections. Maximum contribution per individual per calendar year is $5,000. Contributions from foreign nationals and corporations are prohibited. Contributions are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

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o'scamcare - Inconvenient Truths: 10 Facts about American Health Care

reposted from http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 (National Center for Policy Analysis, NCPA)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 by Scott Atlas

Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Much of the public assumes their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. However, before turning to government as the solution, some unheralded facts about America's health care system should be considered.

Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.[2] Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.

Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.[3] Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.[4] Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:

Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).

Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent). Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor."[5]

Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long - sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.[6] All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada.[7] In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.[8]

Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding."[9]

Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the "health care system," more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).[10]

Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade.[11] [See the table.] The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.[12]

Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.[13] The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other single developed country.[14] Since the mid-1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined.[15] In only five of the past 34 years did a scientist living in America not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.[16] [See the table.]

Conclusion. Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.

[The writer,] Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center . A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times.

[1] Concord Working Group, "Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study,.S. abe at responsible for theountries, in s chnologies, " Lancet Oncology, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2008, pages 730 - 756; Arduino Verdecchia et al., "Recent Cancer Survival in Europe: A 2000-02 Period Analysis of EUROCARE-4 Data," Lancet Oncology, Vol. 8, No. 9, September 2007, pages 784 - 796.

[2] U.S. Cancer Statistics, National Program of Cancer Registries, U.S. Centers for Disease Control; Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada; also see June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 13429, September 2007. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w13429.

[3] Oliver Schoffski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), "Diffusion of Medicines in Europe," European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, 2002. Available at http://www.amchampc.org/showFile.asp?FID=126. See also Michael Tanner, "The Grass is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems around the World," Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 613, March 18, 2008. Available at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9272.

[4] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[5] Ibid.

[6] Nadeem Esmail, Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn, (17th edition) Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada," Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin 2007, Studies in Health Care Policy, August 2008; Nadeem Esmail and Dominika Wrona "Medical Technology in Canada," Fraser Institute, August 21, 2008 ; Sharon Willcox et al., "Measuring and Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies," Health Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4, July/August 2007, pages 1,078-87; June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."; M.V. Williams et al., "Radiotherapy Dose Fractionation, Access and Waiting Times in the Countries of the U.K.. in 2005," Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology, Vol. 19, No. 5, June 2007, pages 273-286.

[7] Nadeem Esmail and Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn 17th Edition: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada 2007."

[8] "Hospital Waiting Times and List Statistics," Department of Health, England. Available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/index.htm?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=186979&Rendition=Web.

[9] Cathy Schoen et al., "Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007," Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, Vol. 26, No. 6, October 31, 2007, pages w717-w734. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/6/w717.

[10] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[11] Victor R. Fuchs and Harold C. Sox Jr., "Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of 30 Medical Innovations," Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 5, September /October 2001, pages 30-42. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/20/5/30.pdf.

[12] OECD Health Data 2008, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Available at http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_34631_12968734_1_1_1_37407,00.html.

[13] "The U.S. Health Care System as an Engine of Innovation," Economic Report of the President (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2004), 108th Congress, 2nd Session H. Doc. 108-145, February 2004, Chapter 10, pages 190-193, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/2004_erp.pdf; Tyler Cowen, New York Times, Oct. 5, 2006; Tom Coburn, Joseph Antos and Grace-Marie Turner, "Competition: A Prescription for Health Care Transformation," Heritage Foundation, Lecture No. 1030, April 2007; Thomas Boehm, "How can we explain the American dominance in biomedical research and development?" Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2005, pages 158-66, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2002. Available at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/erp/page/8649/download/47455/8649_ERP.pdf .

[14] Nicholas D. Kristof, "Franklin Delano Obama," New York Times, February 28, 2009. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/opinion/01Kristof.html.

[15] The Nobel Prize Internet Archive. Available at http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/medicine.html.

[16] "The U.S. Health Care System as an Engine of Innovation," 2004 Economic Report of the President.

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$12,000,000,000,000.00 in Debt - Help America get Deficit Free (Remember in '10)

 From: ConservativeActionAlerts Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

U.S. ECONOMIC STATE OF EMERGENCY NATIONAL DEBT HITS 12 TRILLION DOLLARS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY Dear Fellow Patriot, We've all heard about the Federal debt being an immoral burden for our children and grandchildren.  But the day of reckoning with our national debt is now here impacting us! Forget the grandkids, our economy is at grave risk of collapse right now! Federal deficits are projected to top $1 trillion every year for the next decade. We've doubled our debt to foreign countries in just the last four years. Our debt to China rose by almost 40% last year alone! In 2008, the interest on the national debt was $451 billion. Think of this. We could send 123,000 kids to college, or double the U.S. Border Patrol, or immunize every two-year old in America, with just one-day's interest on the national debt!   We now face economic collapse. The dollar is in near free-fall.  Foreign countries are balking at lending the U.S. more money, instead turning to gold for their currency reserves.  And that $9 trillion in new debt borrowing that's planned for the next decade, it won't happen. There's just not $9 trillion to borrow anywhere in the world. Congress will vote in December to extend America's indebtedness above $12,100,000,000,000, necessitated because our national debt grew last year by more than $1,400,000,000,000 and will grow this year by $1,400,000,000,000.  According to the Obama White House estimates, the national debt will continue to grow by more than $1 trillion for the next nine years.  Except it won't…because it can't.  Remember there just isn't $9 trillion to borrow. The dollar is in free-fall.  The Ponzi scheme Congress calls Social Security is about to collapse.  Foreigners are beginning to balk at loaning the US government more money. That grave economic turmoil our debt and deficit will cause in the future, it's now here. Lets put the 12 trillion dollar US DEBT into perspective:  What is 12 trillion dollars in terms of time and space? If you spent $1 per minute it would take 22,816,000 years  to spend 12 trillion.  Which would mean you would need to have started spending at the beginning of the Neogene Period or 20 million years before the Ice Age. If you had 12 trillion frequent flyer miles, you could travel first-class, round-trip to the SUN and back 67,500 times. Beyond threatening our economic security, our national debt is imperiling our national independence. We now owe foreign entities $3.448 Trillion - 28.2% more than just 12 months ago! Three of the five largest holders of US debt should cause you sleepless nights. We owe China the most, $797 billion  -- 38.9% more than we did just 12 months ago. We owe Oil Exporting Countries $189.2 billion – 11.5% more than just 12 months ago. We owe Caribbean Banking Centers (thought to hold billions in narco-terrorist money) $180.2 billion – 35.5% more than just 12 months ago. Japan and the United Kingdom round out the top five foreign debt holders, with our debt to the UK increasing an astonishing 173% in just the last 12 months.  Can we really expect China to increase its lending to the US by nearly 40% next year, and each of the next nine years? Even if it wanted to, the UK doesn't have the cash to increase its lending to the US by another 173% next year. Any one of these debt holders could put the US economy in collapse overnight by selling or even just threatening to sell off their US debt holdings.  We owe them...they own us!  Clearly, our national independence is in grave risk. The Federal government also owes Social Security and Medicare $4.5 Trillion.  With the economic downturn, Social Security doled out more money than it took from employees' paychecks for the first time this year.  By 2016 - just seven years from now - according to the Social Security Trustees report, Social Security will move from surplus to permanent deficit as the baby boomers retire. That "lock-box" presidential candidates like to talk about has never existed.  The Social Security ponzi scheme makes Bernie Madoff look like a wayward kid shoplifting a pack of gum. If we do not balance the budget by the time Social Security moves to permanent deficit in 2016, we almost assuredly will not without a cataclysmic economic crisis. Had enough GLOOM & DOOM? What's the solution? A balanced budget constitutional amendment. History has shown Congress simply won't act responsibly unless the voters force them to balance the budget. With great voter pressure, Congress came within 1 Senate vote of passage of the balanced budget amendment in 1996 – and the Congress passed balanced budgets each of the next four years. When support for the balanced budget amendment waned, Congress spent like crazy. A balanced budget amendment is the only cure to a Congress unwilling to control spending. In fact, Germany passed the BBA just last year.  That's why we launch this week DeficitFree.com – a national push for a Balanced Budget Amendment by July 4, 2013, and a balanced Federal budget by July 4, 2016. These would be the two best birthday gifts we could give our country! Our first and immediate goal is to bring together 5 Million Balanced Budget Amendment supporters by July 4, 2010, with a minimum of 5,000 from each Congressional district. You can join the movement at www.DeficitFree.com. This non-partisan movement is being launched by some of America's most successful grassroots activists – not Washington DC politicians. We need 5 million voters to work together to ensure the Balanced Budget Amendment becomes the most prominent issue in the 2010 Congressional races and in the 2012 Presidential contest. If we don't, it won't be our grandkids who will suffer the economic collapse of our country and our loss of national independence. It will be us! Defend America, Tim Mooney, http://www.DeficitFree.com  P.S.  The Social Security Trustees predict Social Security will move from surplus to permanent deficit by 2016 – just seven years from now. If we haven't balanced the budget by then, we likely won't without a cataclysmic economic collapse. That's why we need a Balanced Budget Amendment passed now!  Please sign the DeficitFree.com petition now!  http://deficitfree.com/petitions/petition-for-a-balanced-budget-amendment/ Deficit Free - 406 First Street SE, Third Floor, Washington DC 20003 Conservative Action Alerts, 1725B Oregon Pike Suite #106 - Lancaster, PA 17601 US Also, watch the videos in the blog below at http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2009/09/national-debt-how-come-how-much-who-do.html

o'bamanation - For Those of You Who Need A Picture

From: hh Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

photos source: Papa Mike's blog  at http://www.papamiket.com/?p=23872

For Those Who Need A Picture

 

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you’ve had 234 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 - you’ve had 74 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you’ve had 71 years to get it right; it’s broke.

The “War on Poverty” started in 1964 - you’ve had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they’re both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you’ve had 39 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the “Stimulus”, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009…. none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record:

“Cash for Clunkers” was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress’ generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,

Are you crazy?

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o'cap & tax - Obama Raises Taxes On All Americans?

From: CDFE Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 

The Carbon Lie Is Being Used To Raise Everyone's Taxes

To give cover for the Obama "Energy Tax", a White House Global Warming Report and the EPA are Hiding New Research on Global Cooling and Are Still Blaming Carbon Dioxide for Global Warming.

WITHOUT CARBON DIOXIDE TO BLAME THE GOVERNMENT TAX INCREASE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS ON ALL AMERICANS FLIPPING ON A LIGHT SWITCH IS NOT NEEDED AND EVEN THE EPA KNOWS THE REPORT IS A LIE.

Turning on the Light = Cap and Trade = $3,200/year Tax Increase

Has OBAMA broken his pledge when he said "...No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase... NOT ANY OF YOUR TAXES."

The Obama administration's global warming report contains no new research and is scaring the public with misinformation using the grimmest, most urgent language on global warming ever to come out of any White House. Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours - blaming carbon for global warming's alleged serious effects and lying to the country to collect the "Energy Tax" passed by the House before going on vacation.

But was the report complete? Did it have all the relevant data? NO!  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! We have launched plans for a multi-million dollar TV and online media campaign to reach millions before the Senate Votes to raise taxes with the new "Energy Tax" on all Americans but we need your financial help.

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) a non-profit 501(c)(3) non-partisan education and research organization is promoting the creation and distribution of Our Media Campaign "The Great Carbon Energy Tax". This free enterprise project is focused on getting all the Tax and Energy information to Americans that the Government and lobbyists seek to hide and ignore.

Getting to the Truth About Global Warming

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin that questioned the science behind global warming.

The report details how regulating gases like carbon dioxide WILL NOT reduce global warming. Carlin's report states that the information the EPA is using is out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

Inhofe said "He (Carlin) came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

CARBON FACT: CO2 DOES NOT Cause Global Warming!

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Data:  The Truth For seven and a half years, is that global temperatures have been falling rapidly. The UN IPCC's predicted warming path (pink region) bears no relation to the global cooling data that the IPCC has observed in the 21st century to date. Source: SPPI global temperature index.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Is Food For Plants not "Air Pollutant"

CO2 is not an "air pollutant," but rather food for plants and marine life. And its atmospheric levels are controlled by temperature and other biological/chemical variables -- not the other way around (Just as: Lung Cancer does not cause smoking). But most of all, a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist. 

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Global Warming?

The graphs below show the effect of spending billions of dollars on the Waxman/Markey bill will have on Global Temperature and Sea Levels.

Waxman/Markey Climate Bill Will Scarcely Affect Temperatures

Temperature change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut temperatures by 0.2-0.02 F by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Sea Levels?

The Waxman/Markey Climate Bill will scarcely affect sea level

Sea-level change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut sea-level by less than half an in by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Help Get All The Relevant Data to Taxpayers?  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! 

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QUESTION 1:  Did you know that the Obama government owns 72.5% of GM and the bondholders just 10% and that cost of the government takeover socializing GM is at least $70 billion?

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QUESTION 12:  Did you know that Obama Heath Care adds $1 trillion to the national debt and Obama will create $600 Billion in new taxes on Medicare $344 Billion, soda $112 Billion, alcohol $61 Billon and employer-provided health care $200 Billion?

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U.S. National Debt - Now over $119+ Trillion Dollars! (this email uses javascript)

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Am I "Don Quixote, 'tilting at windmills' or "Chicken Little" 'after an acorn fell on his head'?"- rfh

"The Sky Is Falling, better known as Chicken Licken, Henny Penny or Chicken Little is an old fable about a chicken (or a hare in early versions) who believes the sky is falling. The phrase, "The sky is falling," has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent."  -- Wikipedia

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(8Aug09)  Rumor: cost estimates for o'care are $1.6T to $2,400,000,000,000.00 ..above the monies below. That's 2 point four trillion!)
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Federal obligations exceed world GDP!	Is the US Gov't Bankrupt?	Unfunded a myth?
Deficit: $	running totals source: http://www.usdebtclock.org/	Unfunded Liabilities: $

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Call, fax, email Senators before next Tuesday, October 13, 2009 re 'health bill'

 

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and http://harrolds.blogspot.com

The 1st version of the health bill may be voted on this coming Tuesday.  Please, take time to contact your Senators and give them your opinion before then..Call, fax, and email them.  Information on ways to contact them is below.

Individuals & business owners can be fined for not having insurance, taxes will climb, alternative taxes are in the works, e.g. VAT, doesn't add cross-state lines purchasing of insurance, doesn't eliminate mandates, does cut Medicare, will ration care, will raise costs to all incomes, excempts Congress, doesn't prohibit abortion, guts Medicare Advantage, will cover illegal aliens (under equal protection), adds millions to medical roles without additional doctors, reduces payments to doctors, and will, ultimately, become mandatory then like Medicare now if you want to retain private coverage insurers won't reduce your payments but they'll not have to pay upwards of 80% making the government your 'prime' carrier, and o'robin hood's socialist scheme will ballon the deficit and overall national debt (which now is around $107 Trillion, exceeding the total GDP of the entire world!) -- rfh

Excerpts from http://www.nrlc.org/HealthCareRationing/SenFinCommBill.html :

"The Senate Finance Committee is expected to take a final vote to report out its bill on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is at work supervising negotiations to combine it with the bill reported out of the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee last July .

The Senate Finance Committee bill contains important elements that would greatly impact the ability of patients to receive unrationed medical care. And there are other places in the bill where the Secretary of Health and Human Services is given discretion to regulate the treatment that healthcare providers can give to their patients.

The bill does contain language to prevent the use of comparative effectiveness analysis in a manner that would discriminatorily deny treatment because of age, disability, or terminal illness^[1]; however, this provision would not affect the financial incentive to ration care as described below. The bill's funding partially comes from by a means that would keep up with what Americans spend on health care; however, half of the funding comes from cuts in Medicare spending^[2] that would result in rationing life-saving treatment for senior citizens.

One particularly dangerous provision penalizes doctors based on how much medical treatment they direct for senior citizens on Medicare. It establishes that for at least five years, beginning in 2014, Medicare physicians who authorize treatments for their patients that wind up in the top 10% of per capita cost for a year will lose 5% of their total Medicare reimbursements for that year. ^[3]"

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