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Daniel Eubank
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2010 - 09:11am PT
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Anyone who believes the current deficit is anything but a spending problem is not rooted in reality. Under Obama and his cohort Democrats, the annual deficit has tripled - from $500 billion under Bush to $1.5 trillion under Obama. Bush's highest deficits not coincidentally occurred with a Democrat Congress.
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Daniel Eubank
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Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2010 - 08:29am PT
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The Democrats say YES WE CAN !!!
YES WE CAN - Appoint a known tax cheat to head the I.R.S.
YES WE CAN - Create largest tax increase in U.S. history
YES WE CAN - Create more new taxes
YES WE CAN - Create the largest federal deficit ever
YES WE CAN - Create the largest public debt ever
YES WE CAN - Be the only administration to not publish a budget
YES WE CAN - Preside over the largest number of home foreclosures ever
YES WE CAN - Appoint avowed Communists as White House czars
YES WE CAN - Blame everything that goes wrong on Bush
YES WE CAN - Apologize for America to tyrant leaders
YES WE CAN - Treat illegal aliens as political voting pawns to gin up votes
YES WE CAN - Claim that jobs have been "created or saved" (government jobs)
YES WE CAN - Sue a state for defending itself from foreign invaders
YES WE CAN - Defend illegal aliens against the Constitution of the U.S.
YES WE CAN - Invite the head of a foreign country to attack a U.S. state and applaud him
YES WE CAN - Create more wasteful spending than ever
YES WE CAN – Accept millions from unions and repay them with taxpayer funds (Stimulus)
YES WE CAN - Bankrupt the U.S.A.
YES WE CAN - Bow to world leaders
YES WE CAN - Increase government corruption
YES WE CAN - Increase the size of government 25%
YES WE CAN - Paralyze the private sector with fear of increased taxes and health care costs
YES WE CAN - Fail to recognize the scope of the environmental disaster in the Gulf
YES WE CAN - Yell racism when Arizona’s Governor enforces immigration laws
YES WE CAN - Send out the NAACP to call opponents racists
YES WE CAN - Convert unemployment to a long term welfare benefit
YES WE CAN - Say the individual mandate is both a tax and not a tax
YES WE CAN - Break the promise to close Guantanamo Bay
YES WE CAN - Create bipartisanship by dividing America
YES WE CAN - Expand welfare and government dependency
YES WE CAN - Claim transparency is corrupt dealing behind closed doors
YES WE CAN - Borrow and Spend more than ever in U.S. history
YES WE CAN - Mortgage America's future to Communist China
YES WE CAN - Prosecute Al Qaeda in New York City criminal courts
YES WE CAN - Refuse to name our enemy in the war on terror
YES WE CAN - Appoint a cabinet that has virtually no private sector experience
YES WE CAN - Nominate a Supreme Court justice that perjured herself in Senate hearings
YES WE CAN - Create millions of new "Green Jobs" (government jobs)
YES WE CAN - Ruin American health care
YES WE CAN - Increase America's energy costs
YES WE CAN - Fund ACORN to break election laws
YES WE CAN - Say we're not socialists while taking control of more and more industries via extortion
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Daniel Eubank
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Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2010 - 10:55am PT
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/borderpatrol.asp
LETTER FROM A RETIRED BORDER PATROL AGENT
This letter sent to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist from a retired
border patrol agent, and it has more common sense than all the bull
being spewed from the Senate, with the exception of a few sensible
representatives.
Dear Senator Frist:
There is a huge amount of propaganda and myths circulating about
illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan
and Honduran aliens.
#1. Illegal aliens generally do NOT want US citizenship.
Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be
a US citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens
of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the
United States such as employment, medical care, instate tuition,
government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring.
Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at
home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class
Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence
without paying the price.
#2. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens
are doing jobs that Americans can't take and still support their
families. Illegal aliens take low wage jobs, live dozens in a single
residence home, share expenses and send money to their home country.
There are no jobs that Americans won't do for a decent wage.
#3. Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home.
They are NOT homeless and they are NOT Americans. Some left jobs in
their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as
evidenced by the more than 20 billion dollars sent out of the country
each year by illegal aliens. These illegal aliens knowingly and
willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore
assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their
alien children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their
children.
#4. Illegal aliens are NOT critical to the economy. Illegal
aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce
wages and benefits for lawful US residents.
#5. This is NOT an immigrant nation. There are 280 million
native born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and
founded by immigrants (legal immigrants), it is also true that there is
not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one
time or another.
#6. The United States is welcoming to legal immigrants. Illegal
aliens are not immigrants by definition. The US accepts more lawful
immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.
#7. There is no such thing as the "Hispanic vote." Hispanics
are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are
Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, Communists, Marxists and
Independents. The so-called "Hispanic vote" is a myth. Pandering to
illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.
#8. Mexico is NOT a friend of the United States. Since 1848
Mexicans have resented the United States. During World War I Mexico
allowed German Spies to operate freely in Mexico to spy on the US.
During World War II Mexico allowed the Axis powers to spy on the US from
Mexico. During the Cold War Mexico allowed spies hostile to the US to
operate freely. The attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 was cheered and
applauded all across Mexico. Today Mexican school children are taught
that the US stole California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. If you
don't believe it, check out some Mexican textbooks written for their
school children.
#9. Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better
life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of
those live on less than one dollar a day. If wanting a better life is a
valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let's allow
those one billion to come to America and we'll turn the USA into a Third
World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native born
Americans who want a better life. I'll bet Bill Gates and Donald Trump
want a better life. When will the USA lifeboat be full? Since when is
wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation?
#10. There is a labor shortage in this country. This is a lie.
There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American
housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who
would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.
#11. It is racist to want secure borders. What is racist about
wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not
wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set
aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal
residents? What is it about race that entitles people to violate our
laws, steal identities, and take the American Dream without paying the
price? For about four decades American politicians have refused to
secure our borders and look after the welfare of middle class Americans.
These politicians have been of both parties. A huge debt to American
society has resulted. This debt will be satisfied and the interest will
be high. There have already been riots in the streets by illegal
aliens and their supporters. There will be more. You, as a politician,
have a choice to offend the illegal aliens who have stolen into this
country and demanded the rights afforded to US citizens or to offend
those of us who are stakeholders in this country. The interest will be
steep either way. There will be civil unrest. There will be a reckoning.
Do you have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will you
bow to the wants and needs of those who don't even have the right to
remain here? There will be a reckoning.
It will come in November of this year. We will not allow
America to be stolen by third world agitators and thieves.
David J. Stoddard
US Border Patrol (RET)
Hereford, Arizona
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gonzo chemist
climber
Crane Jackson's Fountain St. Theater
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Our two-party system is a bowl of sh#t looking at itself in the mirror.
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howlostami
Trad climber
Southern Tier, NY
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F*ck man, I didn't want to get dragged into this sh*t, it just gets me down.
Let's get this straight... You are pissed about the democrats overseeing the biggest tax increase in history, right? This is the discontinuation of the bush tax cuts...
Those tax cuts were bad policy, plain and simple.
Bush had already squandered the BUDGET SURPLUS passed to him by the democrats. The government was IN THE RED.
He then passed these cuts WITH NO EQUIVALENT SPENDING DECREASE.
He actually INCREASED SPENDING.
BUSH drove the deficit up, and added trillions to the national debt, all the while not delivering on the republican promise of a better economy when taxes were cut.
THESE TAX CUTS WERE BAD POLICY AND IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE. Let them lapse and take a good first step towards balancing the budget.
TAXES ARE STILL LOWER THAN THEY WERE UNDER REGAN.
The age of austerity will soon be upon us all thanks to both parties, and you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who is blameless.
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Bertrand
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California
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bump for balance
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Daniel Eubank
Sport climber
Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2010 - 11:26am PT
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Word of the Day: Dhimmitude
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.
Obama Care is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States . Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking" and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I John Smith, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, such as real estate, cattle, cars, account receivables, etc, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance at our expense. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. Period. This is Dhimmitude.
Dhimmitude serves two purposes: it enriches the Muslim masters AND serves to drive conversions to Islam. In this case, the incentive to convert to Islam will be taken up by those in the inner-cities as well as the godless Generation X, Y and Z types who have no moral anchor or belief in God! If you don't believe in Christ to begin with, it is no problem whatsoever to sell Him for 30 pieces of silver. "Sure, I'll be a Muslim if it means free health insurance and no taxes. Where do I sign, brother?"
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Daniel Eubank
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Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2010 - 01:53pm PT
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Dr. F = Flaming Idiot
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Daniel Eubank
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Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2010 - 07:55am PT
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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Daniel Eubank
Sport climber
Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2010 - 08:48am PT
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More on the Sherrod story...
The tables turn quickly sometimes......
Andrew Breitbart is a media genius?
He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart’s handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal.
It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” website which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.
But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media. I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.
Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman”.
April 23 2010 - http://deltafarmpress.com/legislative/pigford-glickman-update-0423/
CASE: http://lw.bna.com/lw/19981020/971978.htm
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.” The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.
But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”. The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.
There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.
Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html
Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.
Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.
But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.
As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost. Oink!
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Daniel Eubank
Sport climber
Woodbridge, VA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2010 - 01:28pm PT
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nature
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Whereverland....
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Aug 24, 2010 - 03:58pm PT
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the problem lies with American voters, who aren't smart enough to know what's good for them.
pretty much proven by two Dubya Em Dee terms (though he didn't actually win either one of them).
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Aug 24, 2010 - 04:00pm PT
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Becuase they seem to follow what ever the repugs demand...
spineless...
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