o'Facts - Chart: Economy Not Working. "2012 game, set, match!"

Updated Mo.17Sep12 at: The Obama Economy Isn't Working 9_17.pdf (314.9 KBs, Adobe .pdf format)

Print A Copy: http://www.republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=6e8a1c51-a3c1-4786-9dfd-42729f634533 

17Sep12 printable chart source: http://republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=6e8a1c51-a3c1-4786-9dfd-42729f634533

SOURCE: http://www.republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/our-view?ID=e33a7a58-66d2-4491-91f6-aae703cdb370

Permalink: http://www.republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2012/9/he-s-made-it-worse

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Prior Chart Source, 10Sep12: http://www.republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=cbe34899-bf00-4f3d-b643-d09bd767a942

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link source: "The Blaze" , The Blaze TV - (GBTV.com), Tu.18Sep12 'The Glenn Beck Program' archive

2012-2016: SCOTUS - Get ready to Gasp!

From: dbh/ferg Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Subject:  Get ready to Gasp!

IF THIS DOESN'T SCARE YOU! NOT MUCH WILL!

If Mitt wins the nomination, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy.  For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you to keep four things in mind:

1. Justice Scalia just turned 78
2. Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year
3. Justice Breyer will be 76 in August
4. Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago.
        In addition, Justice Ginsburg has Pancreatic Cancer.  Justice Stephens has already said he would retire and is just waiting for Obama to be reelected.  The next president could appoint as many as 4 new Justices over next 8 years.  This election is about more than ObamaCare Tax.
     We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one new member of the Supreme Court, in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.
     If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something funky. 
     So for anybody who is thinking of not voting because your favorite didn't get nominated, or writing in a candidate who can't win, imagine this:

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ERIC HOLDER
After you have stopped gasping, kindly send this forward to your list of concerned citizens.

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o'who? - They Want What? [redux]

     Consider that 'fear driven' o'desparate's DOJ lawyers are trying to block 2 days of Military voting in November in Ohio is typical baseless "Big Lie" propaganda.  "Dingey Harry" Reid's slanderous statements about Romney's personal income exposes the shallowness of the leftist Democrat party and its quisling fellow traveling '4th Estate.'  Both should themselves be vetting what is in the White House ...not targeting the American.  Reid's 'throwing stones in a glass house' is a losing proposition and "the loser" (regardless of Nov. 6th's outcome) is hardly one who should be calling the kettle black. -- rfh

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From: thy Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Subject: Say What??????????

...and they want 12 years of Romney's tax returns???? THIS should be on billboards all over our nation!

 

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o'humor - o'toons: Forward March "Obama & Communism"

source: http://media.patriotpost.us/humor/2012/05-08.html

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o'nocchio - The Mess that Obama inherited EXPLAINED!!!!

`Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately: `he's perfectly idiotic!' 

...Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

o'campaigner-in-chief - "To lie is to hold something which one knows is not the whole truth to be the whole truth, intentionally.  In some situations, including perjury and some fraud, lying may be punishable by law."

o'lying by omission - "Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception.  Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions.  When the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly but does not tell that a fault was reported at the last service, the seller lies by omission."

source, Wikipedia: Ways to Lie - In the story of Pinocchio, his nose grows longer when he tells a lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie

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From: thy Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 Subject: The "Mess" that Obama inherited EXPLAINED!!!!

In the story of Pinocchio, his nose
 grows longer when he tells a lie.

The "Mess" that Obama inherited and how
     This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
    Don't just skim over this, it's not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!!
     The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd, 2009, it was actually January 3rd, 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
     The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
     For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.
     At the time:
     The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
     The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%.  The Unemployment rate was 4.6%.
     George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH.  

    Remember the day...
     January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
     The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?  BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
     Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
     Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
     And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?  OBAMA.

Q - And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
A - OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush...
     REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007. ...THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
     Budgets do not come from the White House.  They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
     Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
     In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
     For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office.  At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
     And where was Barack Obama during this time?  He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
     If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.  That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.  After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
     If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.  In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
     There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!  I am forwarding it now and then again right before the next election in November.

Pinocchio image, source: Wikipedia

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o'Ticking Tax Time Bomb: Facts "worst recovery since the great depression" (video 6m1s)

video source: http://youtu.be/pxaXZ4-9xx0

Published on Youtube Apr 16, 2012 by ngingrich: http://www.newt.org

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o'prevaricator - Obama’s legacy will be his continuing lies…

Obama’s legacy will be his continuing lies…

article source: http://conservativecritic.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/obamas-legacy-will-be-his-lies/

author: conservativecritic.  reposted from: Conservative Critic's Blog, July 20, 2011

     Since he began campaigning for president, Barack Obama has claimed that because his mother had a pre-existing condition, she died of cancer without health insurance coverage.  As it turns out, that was a pure invention to win support for passage of his healthcare legislation.  So too was Obama’s claim that he watched at his mother’s side as she suffered the disease without being insured.

     “I remember just being heartbroken,” he said in a 2007 campaign appearance, “seeing her struggle.”
     According to correspondence unearthed by Janny Scott, a New York Times writer and author of the book “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” Ann Dunham’s cancer treatments were fully covered by her employer’s insurance policy.  She was turned down for disability insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
     Moreover, Obama had not seen his mother for months when she died in a Honolulu hospital in 1995, according to Scott’s book and to friends interviewed by The Washington Post.  Her son was in Chicago, planning a run for an Illinois state Senate seat.  He did not go to see his mother until a day after she died on Nov. 7, 1995.
     A White House spokesman did not dispute Scott’s account.  He said that Obama’s mother still had several hundred dollars a month in medical expenses that were not covered, as if any health insurance policy would pay 100 percent of medical bills.
     He added that Obama “has told this story based on his recollection of

The future president with his mother, Ann Dunham (AP photo)

events that took place more than 15 years ago.”
     That excuse is as credible as Obama’s claim that he had no idea his minister and self-described mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., was an anti-white anti-America, anti-Israel hatemonger.
     As noted in  ”Obama Distorted Rev. Wright’s Background,” Obama went on to make up stories about how deprived and discriminated against Wright was while growing up in Philadelphia.
     In fact, Wright grew up in a comfortable middle class family in a racially mixed neighborhood.  He attended Central High, an elite school that admits only the most qualified students from all over the city.  But the press bought every word of Obama’s Wright mythology.
     What kind of a person would make up stories about his mother in order to score political points?  The same person who would tell the American people that he wants to cut spending when he has presided over an increase in the federal debt from 53 percent of GDP in 2009 to 72 percent this year.
     In February, that same person presented Congress with a budget that increases federal debt by $10 trillion over the next decade.  In April, that person rejected Republican efforts to raise the debt ceiling in return for spending cuts.  Now Obama is claiming he wants spending cuts, but he will not specify which ones beyond a pathetic $2 billion.
     The disparity between Obama’s words and his actions goes back to the healthcare bill.  He claimed no one would lose their existing coverage.  It turns out that was more hocus-pocus.  A McKinsey & Co. survey found that nearly a third of private-sector employers say they will discontinue covering their employees with health insurance because of the rising cost imposed by Obama’s healthcare legislation.
     One reason for the increased cost is the requirement that health insurers cover everyone regardless of whether they have a pre-existing condition.  That is like allowing drivers to go without car insurance and then letting them sign up for it to pay for an accident that has already occurred.  The rest of the country foots the bill.
     In addressing the nation’s scary increased debt, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has accused Obama of engaging in smoke and mirrors.  Dealing with Obama is like negotiating with Jell-O, House Speaker John Boehner has said.
     Looking at Obama’s fabrications about his mother’s illness, we can see why.

     Finally, whether you want to categorize it as an outright lie or simply scare tactics, in early July, CBC News Anchor Scott Pelley asked Obama whether he can “…tell the folks at home that, no matter what happens, the Social Security checks are gonna go out on August 3?”.
     Obama replied that whether it was Social Security checks, veterans’ checks, or disability checks, “…I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3 if we haven’t resolved this (debt) issue, because there(may) simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”
     Either Obama is an accomplished liar or he simply does not understand cash flow in the US Government – the federal government takes in roughly $180 billion every month.  (It also borrows $135 billion a month.)  Social Security payments are about $60 billion per month, payments to all military personnel (vets and otherwise) are about $12 billion and payments to disabled veterans are about $6 billion.  That totals about $78 billion.
     For Obama to say that “…there may simply not be the money in the coffers” to pay for these items is patently false.  One might even call it “…engaging in scare tactics”..
     Clearly Obama does not know the first thing about the most important part of the economics of the Government he is responsible for running, or he is simply lying again to the American people – hoping that no one does the math…Pathetic indeed.

The caption speaks for itself...

     P.S. They are not reserving any space at Mt. Rushmore for  Obama’s likeness…however, they have thought about a one trillion dollar bill with his picture on it…

One Trillion Dollar bill - o'bamanopoly money

related:
Obama continues to mock people and ideologies – is this any way to treat his countrymen? »

http://conservativecritic.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/obama-continues-to-mock-people-and-ideologies-is-this-any-way-to-treat-his-countrymen/

What a TRILLION dollars looks like… »

http://conservativecritic.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/what-a-trillion-dollars-looks-like/

Obama posts at Conservative Critic » 

http://conservativecritic.wordpress.com/?s=obama&x=7&y=13

phony money: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2010/06/ophony-money-1-trillion-dollar-bill.html

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"The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System" (Ann Coulter, We.10Aug11)

"Coming to America." -- rfh

From: kd Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 Subject: The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System

article source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45446

The Sun Never Sets On The British Welfare System

  By Ann Coulter, Human Events, We.10Aug11

     Those of you following the barbaric rioting in Britain will not have failed to notice that a sizable proportion of the thugs are white, something not often seen in this country.
     Not only that, but in a triumph of feminism, a lot of them are girls.  Even the "disabled" (according to the British benefits system) seem to have miraculously overcome their infirmities to dash out and steal a few TVs.
     Congratulations, Britain!  You've barbarized your citizenry, without regard to race, gender or physical handicap!
     With a welfare system far more advanced than the United States, the British have achieved the remarkable result of turning entire communities of ancestral British people into tattooed, drunken brutes.
     I guess we now have the proof of what conservatives have been saying since forever: Looting is a result of liberal welfare policies.  And Britain is in the end stages of the welfare state.
     In 2008, a 9-year-old British girl, Shannon Matthews, disappeared on her way home from a school trip.  The media leapt on the case -- only to discover that Shannon was one of seven children her mother, Karen, had produced with five different men.
     The first of these serial sperm-donors explained: "Karen just goes from one bloke to the next, uses them to have a kid, grabs all the child benefits and moves on."
     Poor little Shannon eventually turned up at the home of one of her many step-uncles -- whose ex-wife, by the way, was the mother of six children with three different fathers.
     (Is Father's Day celebrated in England? If so, how?)
     The Daily Mail (London) traced the family's proud Anglo ancestry of stable families back hundreds of years.  The Nazi war machine couldn't break the British, but the modern welfare state has.
     A year earlier, in 2007, another product of the new order, Fiona MacKeown, took seven of her eight children (by five different fathers) and her then-boyfriend, on a drug-fueled, six-month vacation to the Indian island of Goa.  The trip was paid for -- like everything else in her life -- with government benefits.
     (When was the last time you had a free, six-month vacation?  I'm drawing a blank, too.)
     While in Goa, Fiona took her entourage on a side-trip, leaving her 15-year-old daughter, Scarlett Keeling, in the capable hands of a 25-year-old local whom Scarlett had begun sleeping with, perhaps hoping to get a head-start on her own government benefits.  A few weeks later, Scarlett turned up dead, full of drugs, raped and murdered.
     Scarlett's estranged stepfather later drank himself to death, while her brother Silas announced on his social networking page: "My name is Si, n I spend most my life either out wit mates get drunk or at partys, playing rugby or going to da beach (pretty s**t really)."
          It's a wonder that someone like Silas, who has never worked, and belongs to a family in which no one has ever worked, can afford a cellphone for social networking.  No, actually, it's not.
     Britain has a far more redistributive welfare system than France, which is why France's crime problem is mostly a matter of Muslim immigrants, not French nationals.  Meanwhile, England's welfare state is fast returning the native population to its violent 18th-century highwaymen roots.
     Needless to say, Britain leads Europe in the proportion of single mothers and, as a consequence, also leads or co-leads the European Union in violent crime, alcohol and drug abuse, obesity and sexually transmitted diseases.
     But liberal elites here and in Britain will blame anything but the welfare state they adore.  They drone on about the strict British class system or the lack of jobs or the nation's history of racism.
     None of that explains the sad lives of young Shannon Matthews and Scarlett Keeling, with their long English ancestry and perfect Anglo features.
     Democrats would be delighted if violent mobs like those in Britain arose here -- perhaps in Wisconsin!  That would allow them to introduce yet more government programs staffed by unionized public employees, as happened after the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1960s race riots, following the recommendations of the Kerner Commission.
     MSNBC might even do the unthinkable and offer Al Sharpton his own TV show.  (Excuse me -- someone's trying to get my attention ... WHAT?)
     Inciting violent mobs is the essence of the left's agenda: Promote class warfare, illegitimate children and an utterly debased citizenry.
     Like the British riot girls interviewed by the BBC, the Democrats tell us "all of this happened because of the rich people."
     We're beginning to see the final result of that idea in Britain.  The welfare state creates a society of beasts.  Meanwhile, nonjudgmental elites don't dare condemn the animals their programs have created.
     Rioters in England are burning century-old family businesses to the ground, stealing from injured children lying on the sidewalks and forcing Britons to strip to their underwear on the street.
     I keep reading that it's because they don't have jobs -- which they're obviously anxious to hold.  Or someone called them a "kaffir."  Or their social services have been reduced.  Or their Blackberries made them do it.  Or they disapprove of a referee's call in a Manchester United​ game.
     A few well-placed rifle rounds, and the rioting would end in an instant.  A more sustained attack on the rampaging mob might save England from itself, finally removing shaved-head, drunken parasites from the benefits rolls that Britain can't find the will to abolish on moral or utilitarian grounds.  We can be sure there's no danger of killing off the next Winston Churchill​ or Edmund Burke​ in these crowds.
     But like Louis XVI, British authorities are paralyzed by their indifference to their own civilization.  A half-century of berating themselves for the crime of being British has left them morally defenseless.  They see nothing about England worth saving, certainly not worth fighting for -- which is fortunate since most of their cops don't have guns.
     This is how civilizations die. It can happen overnight, as it did in Revolutionary France​.  If Britain of 1939 were composed of the current British population, the entirety of Europe would today be doing the "Heil Hitler" salute and singing the "Horst Wessel Song."

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Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Slander, Treason, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Godless, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America, and the forthcoming Demonic: How The Liberal Mob Is Endangering America.  You can also follow Ann Coulter and Human Events on FACEBOOK. Click Here to Become a Fan: http://www.facebook.com/humaneventsmedia

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o'amnesty - o'pander's Illegal Immigrants' healthcare

Left-wingnuts often make the claim that o'scamcare doesn't "mandate" that illegal aliens are to receive medical care ... typical '1984 Orwellian' "Newspeak." -- rfh

From: Minuteman PAC  Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 Subject: Stop ObamaCare for Illegal Immigrants

Joe Wilson was right... ObamaCare DOES cover illegal immigrants!      Earlier this week, we let you know about the $8.5 million in ObamaCare funding directed by the Department of Health and Human Services solely to provide free or reduced healthcare to migrant workers and their families - in other words, illegal immigrants!      Remember all the flak Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina took from the Obama-loving leftwing media back in September 2009 when he yelled "You lie!" when Obama promised the nation that ObamaCare would not cover illegal immigrants?      Now, we have our answer.  Wilson was right and Obama continues to be a liar...

     Sadly, providing illegal immigrants with free healthcare subsidized using YOUR tax dollars is nothing new.
     In 2007, we learned about Mexico's Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) program that directs MEXICAN citizens who illegally live in the U.S. to use taxpayer funded clinics in a dozen cities which have Mexican consulates.
     In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
     The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants hailing from Mexico and living in the area benefited from the referral program.

     To really rub salt in the wound, the whole referral operation promises to assess "consulate clients" (illegal immigrants) for eligibility to government-funded (that's U.S.-funded) health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage.
     That must be nice.
     One of the most memorable quotes during the process of passing ObamaCare was Nancy Pelosi's "We need to pass Obamacare so that the public can find out what's in it."  One of the more memorable results of ObamaCare thus far was all of the friends and loyal lobbyists in the Obama Club who have received ObamaCare waivers.
     Now, with healthcare funding and services for illegal immigrants and cuts for the care of U.S. Citizens, we have one more reason to add to our laundry list for defeating Barack Obama in 2012.
     Thanks to Americans like you, who care about the safety and future of our country, there is mounting pressure to stop Obama from transforming America into a socialist state jam-packed with illegal immigrants benefiting from our tax dollars.  But it will take the lead of an emboldened House and Senate to turn up the pressure.  THEY MUST HEAR LOUDLY FROM PATRIOTS LIKE YOU!      Our mission is clear: Help elect candidates who carry out their constitutional duty to defend our borders and oust those who do not.
      Everyday Washington tells us we can no longer afford to care for our own citizens in need, so why are we caring for Mexico's?
For America, Minuteman PAC

          P.S.  As you well know, Minuteman PAC is an independent Political Action Committee of the Minuteman civilian border security movement, supported by many volunteers of the nation's oldest, largest and most-effective citizen's border vigilance group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.  ... If you can afford it, please generously give a contribution of $20, $30, $50, $100 or more to Minuteman PAC to get this word out to your fellow Americans!  We will need funds above and beyond $250,000 to help make our case on radio, TV, in newspapers and on the Internet to in order to secure our border with Mexico, crush Obama's plans to grant mass-Amnesty, and nix ObamaCare for illegal immigrants.

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Prepare - "The Natives Are Restless" (under-reported news)

"It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are "civil rights," government handouts are "entitlements," and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are "compassionate," while hard-working, ambitious people are "greedy," punishment of crime is "oppression," and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an "Uncle Tom."

     -- J. Tucker Alford Source: Heroics, Letter to The American Spectator, P. 72, February, 1996.
        http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J..Tucker.Alford.Quote.D203

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From: Lee Bellinger Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 Subject: I'm ratcheting up to help you get ready for anything...

Recent Events Have Sharply Refocused My Attention
Urgent Dispatch from Lee Bellinger

     This time it's personal. Let me explain what recently transpired just steps from my own front door... why this incident has raised my level of concern about your personal security as well as my own... and how this and similar events have led me to today's SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
     I am blessed to live in the beautiful southern city of Charlotte, North Carolina.  Life is good here.  The weather is temperate, and the city has just the right balance of cosmopolitan flair and true southern charm.
     But what happened here in the Queen City just weeks ago, on an early summer weekend, came at me like a cold slap in the face.
     Charlotte police in riot gear had to quell a disturbance of hundreds of violent party crashers – leaving some 70 arrested and one dead.  Our fair city awoke the next morning to entire blocks roped off by yellow police-line tape as detectives worked to determine who spoiled our downtown family-friendly event and turned it into a crime scene of mayhem and death.
     "Chronic unemployment is spilling over into civil unrest..."
     But I don't need to see the police blotter to understand the forces at work here.  Chronic unemployment is spilling over into civil unrest, as idled workers team with those who are simply too lazy to work and act out in rage and anger against those they perceive as privileged.
     As this latest incident of social unraveling played out right here at my own doorstep, I found my attention very sharply refocused.  When it happens in your own town, you realize that yes, the you-know-what has officially hit the fan!  The need for preparedness – for having a personal "Plan B" is now a matter of urgency.
     Eerily similar scenes of rioting and violence occurred throughout the Eastern Seaboard that same weekend, from Long Beach, NY to Nashville, TN.  It's a warning sign of pent-up rage as a disturbing sense of entitlement and permanently high unemployment sinks in. Consider:

• In South Beach, Miami, permanent residents who dared to object to widespread vandalism and violence from the annual "Urban Weekend" crowd are being vilified as racists, not victims.
• In Myrtle Beach, another absolutely charming town here in the Carolinas, the annual Black Bike Week gathering led to 8 hours of violence, including multiple robberies and stabbings.  Objections by locals who had the courage to complain about bloodshed in their streets have not only fallen on deaf ears, but have been dismissed as bigotry.
• In Nashville, special police units had to break up violent, unruly crowds who had taken over a local water park, Wave Country.

How many times have we all tuned into a news report covering the latest disaster or brutal crime spree only to hear victims, neighbors, and bystanders say:

• "I never imagined it could happen here."
• "I thought these things only happened to someone else."
• "Who dreamed this could happen in my own back yard?"

     You know, I've been observing and writing about news and current events in this country for a quarter of a century now.  And, as deadly serious as things have become in our beloved nation in just the last two or three years, I like to think that I've just about seen and heard it all – that nothing is going to actually rattle me.  Then BOOM – it happened virtually in front of my very own doorstop.

"Greater self-reliance and being ready for anything is a new skill set that smart Americans must tackle and master."

Such disturbances by themselves mean little – until you actually do the work to connect the dots. Which is probably why the stodgy national media largely ignored these "local" news stories.  Yet for those of us with our eyes open, there are ample warnings out there that America's social fabric is coming undone.  Greater self-reliance and being ready for anything is a new skill set that smart Americans must tackle and master.

The Age of Preparedness is at Hand

     In the wake of the recent street riot here in Charlotte, I've already redoubled my own personal preparedness efforts.  I'll tell you more about my own personal preparations in an upcoming issue.  And because I don't want to keep you waiting for your first "official" issue of my Ready-for-Anything Report, let me spell out some simple steps you can and must begin to take now to protect your interests and those of your family:

Stash some cash: Keep at least $1,000 in small denominations around the house or other secure location.  Small bills are preferable.

Stash some silver: I strongly recommend you obtain a stash of one-ounce silver rounds or pre-1965 dimes, quarters, or half dollars from a reputable bullion dealer.  Our sister company, Independent Living Bullion (1-800-800-1865), has great products and very competitive prices.  If you don't want to obtain them from my in-house service, that's okay by me!  Any reputable bullion dealer who does not try to upsell you on overpriced "collectibles" is fine.  What matters is that you take action, not from whom you buy them.

Stash some food: I recently produced a FREE report on how Independent Living subscribers can SAVE UP TO 40% on their food bills!  If you are not following these simple steps, you are not only leaving big money on the table, you are leaving yourself at the mercy of the vulnerable food supply chain which stocks your local grocery store.  You can access this great free report right here.

Install an alarm system in your home: Home break-ins and home invasions are on the rise.  An alarm system will encourage thieves to look elsewhere for their next score.

"What you don't want to have to do is fight crowds to get to your pharmacy, or get groceries, or get water."

Get a gun for home defense: I realize that not everyone is comfortable with a gun in the house.  My suggestion is to get this essential component of home defense anyway.  The National Rifle Association offers great safety courses for beginners.  And if your state has a concealed carry law, get a permit.  Pepper spray isn't a bad idea to have in a home, car, and purse.

Load up on ammunition: The Obama Administration has taken steps to limit the public's access to ammunition.  There have been shortages as more and more people are stocking up.  I suggest you even consider obtaining an ammo reload kit.

Establish an emergency escape plan: Don't wait for an actual emergency before you work out the details of leaving your home in a hurry.  Make a checklist of travel essentials, place them in a duffel bag, and place it in a closet for immediate departure.  This can also save your life if you decide to stay home and ride it all out.  What you don't want to have to do is fight crowds to get to your pharmacy, or get groceries, or get water.  Establish an emergency meeting place for your family to regroup, and put the written plan as well as the routes in the glove box of every family car.

The Bottom Line: I Will Help You Get Ready for Anything

Personal preparedness is the wave of the future.  Being ready for anything liberates you from the herd.  You will not only sleep better at night, you will in fact be safer.

"Being ready for anything liberates you from the herd."

Yours in Savvy Preparedness, Lee Bellinger, Publisher: Independent Living and Money, Metals, and Mining 

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bcc'd  red diaper babies, fellow travelers, & RINOs

o'welfare - Where Oh Where to put o'who?'s picture?

 From: bb Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 Subject:  Where Oh Where---to put obama's picture?

George  Washington, our nation's first President and leader of the  American Revolution!

Abe Lincoln, honorable leader who  pulled our nation through its darkest time!

Alexander Hamilton, founding  father, first Secretary of the Treasury and leader of the Constitutional  Convention! 

Andrew  Jackson, "Old Hickory " fought the British in New  Orleans.

Ulysses Grant, Union army general,  led the North through the Civil  War!

Ben  Franklin, genius inventor, political theorist and leading author of the  Constitution.

Finally, we have someone to put on the food  stamp!

Obama's policies have put more people on welfare than any  president before him, so this placement is most appropriate.  Unlike the  Nobel Peace Prize, for which he did nothing, this is an "honor" he richly  deserves.

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o'redistribute - Poverty in America

From: baja Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 Subject: Poverty in America

Study: Americans "in Poverty" Are Seldom Poor

     Most of the Americans the federal government defines as "in poverty" are "not poor in any ordinary sense of the term," according to a new study - especially when compared to the poor in less developed countries.

     "To the average American, the word "poverty" implies significant material deprivation, an inability to provide a family with adequate nutritious food, reasonable shelter, and clothing," the study from The Heritage Foundation states.

     "The actual living conditions of America's poor are far different from these images."

     The Census Bureau reports that there are 43 million Americans living in poverty.  To help them, taxpayers spend some $900 billion a year in federal and state dollars - over $20,000 for each person deemed poor - through more than 70 means-tested programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care and more.

     But according to the government's own survey data, in the past decade the average household defined as poor by the government lived in a house or apartment with air conditioning and cable TV, The Heritage Foundation study found.

     The household had a car - one-third had two or more cars -  two color televisions, a DVD player, and a microwave.

     "The home of the average poor family was in good repair and not overcrowded," the study observes.

     "In fact, the typical poor American had more living space than the average European - average, not poor.

     "When asked, most poor families stated they had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs."

      Study authors Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield cite U.S. Department of Energy data showing that in 2005, the most recent year on record:

• 62 percent of poor American households had a clothes washer in the home, and 53.2 percent had a clothes dryer.

• 65.1 percent had more than one TV.

• 54.5 percent had a cellular phone.

• 38.2 percent had a personal computer.

• 36.6 percent had an answering machine.

• 29.3 percent had a video game system.

• 25 percent had a dishwasher.

• 5.2 percent had a photocopier - and .6 percent even had a Jacuzzi.

     The study also found that 5.9 percent of households "sometimes" did not have enough food, and just 1.5 percent "often" did not have enough.

"Some poor Americans do experience significant hardships, including temporary food shortages or inadequate housing, but these individuals are a minority within the overall poverty population," the study authors concluded.

     "Poverty remains an issue of serious social concern, but accurate information about that problem is essential in crafting wise public policy. Exaggeration and misinformation about poverty obscure the nature, extent, and causes of real material deprivation, thereby hampering the development of well-targeted, effective programs to reduce the problem."

     Former Congressman Ernest Istook, now a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, echoed that sentiment in a recent Newsmax blog: "By defining poverty so broadly, we drain resources that instead could be focused on those who truly are in dire straits.   And we spend billions that could be cut from the budget instead."

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