Free Democracy: Mr. Romney's Missing Details

freedemocracy.blogspot.com12/6/11

Here's a reminder: It would cut food stamps by $127 billion, which would remove millions of people from the rolls during a downturn and cut the benefits of those who remain. Nearly two-thirds of Mr. Ryan's cuts affect low-income programs like Pell grants, housing subsidies and Medicaid. That's never mentioned by Mr. Romney, who instead talks about big cuts to tiny programs that are wildly unpopular with the party base, like the national endowments, family planning …

Feds Raid Million Dollar Home of Welfare Recipient in Washington …

conservativebyte.com12/5/11

I was in line behind a family that probably was living like the one in the article as they paid for almost $400 worth of food with food stamps. They had some … This is why Medicare and Medicaid is in deep $hit. People abusing …

The following advice appeared in the Waco Tribune Herald on Nov 18, 2010

*I’d be happy to give a link to the article but only subscribers to the newspaper can view it.

It appeared under letters to the editor, and was written by a twenty one year old female.

It’s her future shes worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that shes being forced to live in!

Fixing Social Security; Put me in charge of welfare, Medicare and housing grants!

The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those Who vote for a living!

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

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

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

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

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

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

AND While you are on Govt subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Govt welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

BTW – I personally think that the author of the book, "How To Get Food Stamps, Welfare And Other Benefits", should be put in stocks and pelted with fruit and vegetables by all those that work for a living!

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More Than 80 Reasons to Elect a New President Worthy of a Great Nation: Not the Abomination of an Obama Nation

With very rare exceptions, everything on this site was written by me; but this one was too good not to promote.

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(Based on an Idea and Initiative, and Built off a List, Launched by KRLA Radio Talk Show Host and Constitutional Law Professor Hugh Hewitt)

1. Obamacare – Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national bourse, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.  Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out.  Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.

2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus.  $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes.  $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry "smartphones."  $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to "shovel-ready jobs" — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.

3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment – His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).

4. Gas prices – Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil.  (See also #82.)

5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.

6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall.  His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.

7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions,  imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with "Cash for Clunkers," only to find that American tax dollars were  used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.

8. Dodd-Frank.  

9. Unremitting hostility to Israel.  Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.

10. Failure to support Iran‘s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.

11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.

12. The Libyan Fiasco.  Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress.  No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi.  Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval.  Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no "hostilities" in Libya. 

13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster – refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.

14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.

15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA

16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous "cap-and-trade" plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.

17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.

18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.

19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.

20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable "czars" who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.

21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Unionaddress, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.

22.  Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.

23.  Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!

24.  Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.

25. Marriage Act.  Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.  

26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.

27.  Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like "typical white people."

28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor.  Literally.

29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs.  The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.

30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies.  Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.

31. Standing with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.

32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.

33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.

34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Having Frank Wisner despatched as his emissary, and then rejecting Wizner’s advice.

35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.

36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing "net neutrality" without Congressional authorization.

37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish

38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that "Gitmo" will remain open.

39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.

40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the "underwear bomber" in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted "the system worked."

41. Student loans.  Government takeover of the student loan program

42. Border security. Cancellation of the "virtual border fence" project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.

43. The "Beer Summit." In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.

44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules.  Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.

45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.

46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.

47. Downplaying American exceptionalism.  Apology tours. 

48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding

49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.

50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.

51. Associating with the murky.  Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.

52.  Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the "courage to speak truth to Power" — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is "Power"; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.

53.  ACORN. 

54.  SEIU.  Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.

55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s "57 states," has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce "corpsman," moronically said that Austrians speak "Austrian," referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.

56.  Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others.  The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.  

57.  Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.

58.  The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his "class wars," that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.

59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.

60.  Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with "alligators and moats" — when all they want is secure borders.

61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.

62.  Wasting billions on corrupt "Palestine" agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.

63. Radical judicial appointments.  Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.

64.  Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district.  Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.

65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions.  Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing  Government policies.

66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.

67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting "Common," a "poet" with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House

68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.

69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.

70.  Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.

71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." 

72.  A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade "Joe the Plumber" that it is a beneficial national economic goal to "redistribute the wealth."

73.  Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.

74.  Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.

75.  Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.

76.  Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.

77.  Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.

78.  Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.

79.   The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.

80.  Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.

81.  NLRB.  Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.

82.  Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of "green jobs."

83.  "Operation Fast and Furious" debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.

84.  Lying, lying, and more lying to voters.  Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments.  Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even  when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.

85.  Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.

If there’s anything that you believe should be added to the list, then please post a response.

And please post why you think any sane person would vote to have Obama reelected.

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Prison Planet.com » Rick Perry Would Back Israeli Attack On Iran

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29 Responses to “Rick Perry Would Back Israeli Attack On Iran”. Quantummonkeybutt says: November 4, 2011 at 10:24 am. Nobel Peace Prize Winning Barack Obama (a.k.a. 'Baraq 'u Vama'): “War!!!” Perry: “War!!!” …

In Rick Perry's Speeches, a Growing Anti-Washington Theme …

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As the Cain controversy explodes, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is sticking to economic themes.

The somewhat obvious answer is, most likely, "Yes" to both questions.

But Why?

Dan Henninger categorically says what he thinks the U.S. can learn from Texas

The Texas Economy Is Huge

Rick Perry says that Texas is the most successful state in America and he’s right because Texas’ economic output even exceeds Mexico’s and Australia’s and is close to that of India’s.

Rick Perry has been governor of Texas for nearly eleven years, but does the logic of politics lead us to conclude that the governor of the nation’s most successful state is, ipso facto, the best man to be president of the economically gasping United States?

Texas, unlike California, isn’t America’s most beautiful state, and through October this year parts of Texas had 90 days of 100+ temperatures, yet companies and people keep moving into the high heat of Texas.

From Dan Henniger’s Wonderland

In a preview of his "Wonderland" column, Dan Henninger discusses what he thinks the U.S. can learn from Texas.

In 1990, one of the world’s biggest companies, Exxon Mobil, left New York City for Dallas. Exxon’s former CEO, Lee Raymond, says the move in part was indeed about costs and New York State’s notoriously overbearing tax authority. But it was also about working amid a culture of competence.

"It’s just the attitude in Texas of getting things done and doing them well".

This is about something beyond low taxes and no unions:

"In Texas the people tend to be farmers or individual businessmen, and they have this attitude".

"We have to make do with what we have and work together to get things done and survive".

"It’s can-do and that attitude permeates everything there".

Alan Boeckmann, until recently CEO of Fluor Corp., which is an engineering and construction firm, says:

"Regulatory and legal hassles pushed Fluor out of California. Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley. California had its own version. There were constant class-action suits over Fluor’s benefits. It could have been settled, but not in California. That’s how the game is played there".

And when word of the 2006 move got out.

"California made no attempt to keep us. In Texas, things started to happen quickly, without us initiating them. The Irving Chamber of Commerce did orientation sessions for employees and spouses, even helping with new-house searches, and a street was renamed a street ‘Fluor Drive’, which in California or the Northeast would be laughable".

Smaller Fish Too

Ed Trevis, who is a smaller fish, is also happy.

Ed is a California-educated Brazilian immigrant and tech entrepreneur who operated in Silicon Valley for 25 years and moved Corvalent Corp. to Austin for similar reasons.

He had to hire a firm just to do California’s compliance.

"In California you are always doing something wrong".

"What I found in Texas is that from the standpoint of running a business, cost of living, education, the labor pool, quality of life, it just blew other states out of the water. I heard this constantly. People enjoy being in business in Texas".

More Points Of View

Technology consultant Bob Barker says while taking a visitor around the nearby hills,

"Austin may have more Ph.Ds driving taxis than any city in the country".

Austin’s famed population of big and small technology companies has suffered layoffs.

But Barker says:

"No one wants to leave. They stay, plugging into Austin’s numerous business-support networks. In Austin you discover a primary reason beneath Texas’ success. It’s about competition plus collaboration. It seems everyone in Texas high-tech knows everyone, and if they can help each other, they will".

David Booth, who moved Dimensional Fund Advisors’s headquarters to Austin from Santa Monica in 2008, puts Rick Perry’s role in perspective:

"He understands his job isn’t to get in the middle of everything".

Fluor’s Alan Boeckmann seconded that, and Mr. Booth and others said this is also true of the Texas lieutenant governor, its attorney general and the comptroller.

"They are very supportive of business",

says Lee Raymond,

"In the sense of moving things along. If there is a rock in the road, they want to know what they can do to move it out of the way".

Mr. Booth says:

"This isn’t merely the ‘pro-business’ bias of a Rick Perry or any other governor. Texas’ pro-business bias goes back about 175 years and never died. It’s just that they believe in the whole Horatio Alger myth down here. It’s hard to understand if you haven’t lived here".

Texas Or California?

Obama chose the California model and not the Texas one and look where America’s at!

The Texas mentality would be the same with or without Perry but he gave it free rein rather than bridling it, and it worked.

So This much Should Be Obvious

Texas, not California had better be the American future.

And somewhere inside of him, Rick Perry of Texas understands this distinction.

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Herman Cain's 999 Plan Draws Praise, Skepticism – Finance – CBN …

Cain's 999 plan is part of what's propelled him to the front of the GOP field. Although the plan is resonating with voters, it's drawing criticism from economists.

Publish Date: 10/15/2011 2:00

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Why I Support Herman Cain For President – Forbes

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Why I Support Herman Cain For President Forbes The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. I have decided to support Herman Cain for president of the United States, and have joined his team of economic advisors. Central to my support are Cain's pro-growth … Cain's 999 Plan A Payoff For Koch SupportLez Get Real Interview with Presidential Candidate Herman CainRealClearPolitics Cain's 9-9-9 Plan: A Step In The Right DirectionNeon Tommy Patch.com -Daily Beast -OpEdNews all 5,377 news articles »

Herman Cain Wants To Kill Our Tax Code!

Herman Caine is the only GOP presidential candidate that wants to do it, and he’s rising super fast in the opinion polls!

The 999 Plan Isn’t Perfect

But like they say,

"Good should never be the enemy of the perfect" – Voltaire

and Rep. Paul Ryan just gave the plan a thumbs-up!

Art Laffer agrees and says,

"It would be far, far better than the current system".

*Arthur Betz Laffer is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–1989).

And Chris Chocola, the president of the free-market Club for Growth, calls it,

"A truly revolutionary tax reform that would amount to a massive job-creating tax cut on investments, savings and income".

What Is Caine’s 999 Plan?

A 9% income-tax rate.

A 9% value-added net sales tax rate on business.

And a 9% national sales tax overall.

The sales tax part has come under attack from both sides of the political spectrum with many conservatives worrying that it will start at 9% and gradually get raised, whilst a good number of Liberals oppose it because they say its regressivity will hurt middle- and low-income people.

* A regressive tax imposes a greater burden, relative to resources, on the poor than on the rich because there is an inverse relationship between the tax rate and the taxpayer’s ability to pay as measured by assets, consumption, or income.

Cain’s Rebuttal Of Sales Tax Criticism

Everybody below the poverty line will be exempt from the sales-tax and the sales of existing goods will be exempt.

The sales tax will pick up revenue and help to lower the rate for everybody, especially the middle class.

And Caine’s economic adviser, Rich Lowrie says that.

"The sales tax is a replacement tax, not an add-on tax like you’d find at the state level. This is a key point. All we are doing is pulling out taxes that are invisible. We’re cutting the rates. We’re putting them back in at lower rates".

Lowrie is referring to the payroll tax, which in the Cain plan will go from 15% to 9% which constitutes a net tax cut and a good deal more transparency regarding costs and prices that are embedded in the current code.

"The 9-9-9 plan will add $2 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product, create 6 million jobs, increase business investment by a third and lift wages by 10%. And if you fold all that growth together, federal revenues go up by 15%", said Lowrie,

Would It Work?

Such a gigantic drop in marginal tax rates for individuals, 35 to 9%, or to 18% including the sales tax, and for businesses also from 35 to 9% would supply an incredibly strong economy-wide growth incentive, and if you’re looking for proof, then you need go no further than the Harding-Coolidge-Mellon tax cuts of the 1920s, the John F. Kennedy tax cuts of the 1960s and the Ronald Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s.

Remember, too, that the Cain tax plan would eliminate the double-tax on saving and investment by removing capital gains, estates and dividends from the tax code.

Given the current economic malaise, which in large part can be traced to the weakened balance sheets and net worths of families suffering from the multi-year slump in stock prices and home values, increasing returns to saving and investment through a much lower marginal tax rate should boost asset values, and might be just what the doctor ordered.

As for businesses, not only would they get a globally super-competitive 9% tax rate, but they’d receive 100% expenses for new purchases of capital equipment.

Gary and Aldona Robbins who once worked at the treasury priced out the Cain plan on a static basis and discovered it to be revenue neutral.

And the models suggests a $26 trillion tax base yielding $2.3 trillion in revenue for a 9.1% overall rate.

No Federal Or State Tax But Just A Sales Tax

I’ve personally yet to have anybody to explain to me why simply having a sales tax instead of ALL the other taxes wouldn’t be fairer.

The rich would spend more than the poor and therefore pay more tax, and what could be simpler than that?!

Tax preparers understandably hate the idea of course because simply having just a sales tax would put around 100,000 out of work.

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Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? | The Daily Capitalist

dailycapitalist.com11/30/11

Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? By Jeff Harding, on November 29th, 2011. S&P issued new ratings for the world's 37 largest banks. Was your bank upgraded or downgraded? As a public service, I have included the entire list. Standard …

S&P: No U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade Despite Supercommittee Fail

www.huffingtonpost.com11/22/11

WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it will not downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating because a Congressional committee failed to come up with a plan to trim deficits by at least $1.2 trillion …

As you most likely already know, the U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first time by S&P, which slammed the nation’s political process and said lawmakers failed to cut spending enough to reduce record deficits.

If you already know the bad news, but don’t know exactly the reasons for the downgrading then maybe watch the vid!

Aug 5, 2011 David Beers, the London-based managing director of sovereign credit ratings at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

It’s a pity that David Beers stammers and says so many “ahs”, but it’s perhaps understandable because he’d never been in such a hot-seat before.

Just imagine the heat that he’s getting!

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Does Obama fear Romney more than he fears Perry? – The Week

theweek.com9/1/11

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has Republicans excited, but some strategists say former frontrunner Mitt Romney is the GOPer who Obama is really worried about.

RealClearPolitics – The Brutal Campaign Ahead

www.realclearpolitics.com11/2/11

President Obama's re-election campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean, and loathing of whomever the Republican nominee turns out to be. Of course the Obama …

Or Who Does Obama Fear The Most?

He fears that Rick Perry will declare himself a presidential candidate.

Why Does He Fear Him?

Because Obama has no defense against him!

Take for example the constant White House rant that President George W. Bush handed him a catastropic economic situation.

Well Rick Perry inherited the governorship of Texas from Bush, but we’ve never heard Perry complain that the state would be doing so much better if it hadn’t been for the policies of his predecessor.

Rick Perry took the ball from Bush and scored an economic touchdown for Texas whilst Obama took the ball from Bush and fumbled it, repeatedly, giving the other team a chance to score a touchdown.

How The Economy Changed Under Obama’s Leadership

Energy: Gasoline was $1.67 a gallon and now it’s around $3.79.

Food: Average cost of a gallon of milk was about $2.65 and now it’s about $3.50 today.

Housing: The median cost of a home was $229,600 and today it’s around $217,900.

Budget deficit: The US was $438 billion short of balancing the federal budget in 2008 and now it’s closer to $1.4 trillion this year which is nearly four times higher.

U.S. debt: The total federal debt was $10.7 trillion then and now it’s $14.5 trillion, which is nearly 50% higher.

Unemployment: 7.3% of Americans were unemployed, and 9.1% are unemployed today.

Not Everyone Has Become Worse Off Though!

Federal employment has grown by 98,000 employees since the start of the recession and according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis:

"Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation".

How Has Texas Fared Under Rick Perry?

A recent state-by-state comparison study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation found that Texas had a state tax burden of 8.4%, compared to a U.S. average of 9.7%.

The Texas gross state product grew 94.5% over 10 years, vs. 66.3% for the rest of the country.

From January 2000 to June 2010, Texas had a net increase of nearly 1.1 million jobs—more than any other state by far.

In fact, Texas’ out-sized gains eclipsed the total of the next five job-creating states put together; Florida, Arizona, Virginia, Utah and Washington.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Texas created 129,000 new jobs in a 2009 Obama a recession year and that was more than half of all the jobs created in the country.

The Brookings Institution published a study earlier this year looking at job growth in major cities and Texas had five of the top 10 cities, with Austin leading the country in job growth.

So What’s A Guy (Obama) To Do?

Not being able to defend his own economic record, or attack Perry’s, Obama would attempt to paint Perry in a negative light but that would be far from easy.

Perry served three terms in the Texas House as a Democrat, and supported Al Gore’s 1988 presidential bid.

Because Perry is from Texas, Obama would accuse him of being in bed with the oil and gas industry, but Perry just signed a law requiring gas drillers to publicize the chemicals they use in "fracking" to extract the gas.

Obama would also accuse Perry of being out of touch with most Americans, but Texas led all other states with a net in-migration of 500,000 people from 2004 to 2008.

People are voting with their feet and moving to Texas!

Obama would certainly try to accuse Perry of being a swaggering George Bush clone, but Perry and Bush have always be adversarial, and Perry’s conservative record in Texas, especially on holding the line on spending, would demonstrate clear distinctions.

Another Obama Problem – Federalism

Obama has tried as much as possible to transform our federalist system of government, by transferring power and decisions from states to Washington and giving thousands of unelected bureaucrats the power to make decisions for us, controlling some of the most important, not to mention personal, aspects of our lives.

Perry, by contrast, has been a vocal leader for restoring the role of the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which asserts that those powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.

Obama’s Terrible Record

President Obama has a worse than terrible economic record and the White House and Democrats know it and will be hard to defend against any GOP candidate.

But against Perry, it would be a duck shoot, with Obama being the duck.

You might want to check out another Rick Perry article article that has ongoing talk-backs.

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Community Organizer Obama on Republican Economic Theory: “It …

www.thegatewaypundit.com12/7/11

President Obama, in one of his most expansive speeches to date, declared on Tuesday that supply-side economics is a failure and called “gaping inequality” across the country a moral shortcoming that is distorting American …

Obama says economic 'inequality' hurts everyone – CNN Political …

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com12/6/11

(CNN) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that economic inequality in America is at "a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression" and "hurts us all.

Here are four recent headlines.

“U.S. Manufacturing Growth Slows Substantially!”.

“Housing Imperils Recovery!”.

“Private Sector Added Few Jobs in May!”.

“Moody’s!”.

And they are all very bad news for Obama’s reelection chances in 2012 !

Obama Now Owns The Economy

Jimmy Carter owned the 1980 election-year economy and George H.W. Bush owned the 1992 election-year economy and both were one-term presidents.

Barack Obama however, has seemingly taken ownership of the 2011 economy, a full year and half before he has to face the voters which is great news for the GOP!

Obama’s self-confidence is famously limitless, but is almost certainly founded on vanity and not on facts.

During his hyper-partisan deficit speech at George Washington University in April, Obama raised major expectations of economic seriousness and then somewhat unexpectedly, dropped them over a cliff.

The day before that speech, most of Washington expected Obama to make a major policy statement about the big deficit-reduction debate that was then unfolding, but the president sadly contributed nothing.

Instead he ridiculed and derided the Republican leadership seated before him and with that speech, Mr. Obama effectively kicked off his 2012 presidential campaign, and in so doing politicized the economy.

Whether you agree or disagree with it, Paul Ryan’s budget which was released just one week earlier, was all about policy, and the Republicans were actually offering to take part-ownership of the economy by spending the year in dense discussions about the deficit and spending.

Bad Timing For Obama

Obama’s timing was not good to say the least because Americans are starting to panic about the economy, the persistently high unemployment and persistently weak growth.

Private forecasters have reduced their estimates for economic growth the rest of the year well below the 3%-plus the Federal Reserve predicted in April and the Fed’s 2012 growth forecast runs as high as 4.2% meaning that they must be using high-powered binoculars or telescopes.

The Failed Stimulus Package

The policy most explicitly intended to reboot the economy was 2009′s $814 billion stimulus, plus successive budgets that raised federal spending to 25% of a $14 trillion economy.

But in this year’s first quarter, the economy grew at only1.8% !

And What’s Worse

The housing sector, which is a monumental and intractable mess is choking the economy; and how did the White House respond?

The president allowed (or told) his “adviser” Elizabeth Warren of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to involve banks and mortgage servicers in negotiations over a complex regulatory scheme whose goal is literally, “to fix their business model”.

And Worse

The White House now says the free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea will be delayed absent payouts of more money for “trade adjustment assistance”, which means that unless the Republicans can force a change, that the last two years of uncertainty for trade commitments, will be extended

Is It Fair To Blame Obama?

Yes it is!

Because the US president made conscious policy choices during a deep recession to vastly reorder vast swaths of American industry and economic growth, like a long gray day, sits still below 3% !!!

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'Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?' – New America …

newamericatoday.com12/27/11

He will try to win re-election while likely saddled with a higher unemployment rate than any other president seeking a second term in 76 years. Mr. Obama undoubtedly would prefer to forgo that distinction, but there is no escaping the harsh economic backdrop that will mark the campaign of 2012. The economic malaise sets the stage for a presidential contest that analysts in … Tags: 2012,; Democrats,; GOP nomination,; President Barack Obama,; unemployment rate …

It's the Math, Stupid!: Seven Devastating Facts About 2012 – Big …

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Mathematical facts two and three—11% real unemployment and 20% male unemployment rate—focus the nation on the priorities of spurring economic growth, eliminating Obamacare, and adapting to the realities of the digital economy. ….. Screw this whole mess. Screw the Democrats. Screw the Republicans. Get some people in office who understand that financing our way through life can only end in either collapse, tyranny or revolution – and possibly all three. …

You Can’t Polish A Turd!

Obama tried to put a positive spin on the latest unemployment figures but the figures were dismal and voters will base their upcoming voting decisions on their feelings about job security or lack of it.

Yes, there was an increase of 83,000 private-sector jobs, and the unemployment rate did seemingly drop to 9.5% from 9.7%.

But what was not made clear is that the country needs to create about 150,000 private-sector jobs a month just to keep up with population growth, and the 33,000 created in May and 83,000 in June fell far short of that figure.

And what’s perhaps even worse is the that unemployment rate dropped simply because about 650,000 people who had been in the job market stopped looking for work last month, apparently due to poor prospects which is pretty horrific to say the least.

Voters’ Perceptions Are Why The Dems Are Done For

A Quinnipiac University national poll released May 26, shows that 74% of voters thought the U.S. was still in a recession, compared with 71% who felt that way in May of 2008.

Come November, the question that voters will answer is whether or not the Dems $787 billion economic stimulus program worked, and according to a just released CBS/New York Times poll only 6% of Americans believe the $787 billion package created jobs.

Six percent is a horrendous figure, and on top of that voters will ask themselves if the increased regulations and the higher costs of doing businesses that are now necessary to pay for services such as the health care overhaul are helping or hindering unemployment.

At the time of writing, elections are just four months away which means there are only three more unemployment reports left, because the October report comes out three days after the November election.

The reports will not show any major changes and they are just as likely to show a worsening trend as an improving one, meaning that the Dems will most likely lose control of the House and possibly the Senate too.

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“The Bank Bailouts Have Created More Risk in The System”.

Neil Barofsky, who is the special inspector general for  TARP (The Troubled Asset Relief Program)  states quite clearly in a quarterly report that was released to Congress last Sunday, January 31, 2010 that the problems that led to the last financial crisis have not yet been addressed, and in some cases have actually grown worse.
“Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car”.

And referring to the “Too big to fail approach” he added, “The government’s bailout of financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” has created a risk that the United States could face a worse fiscal meltdown in the future, and the $700 billion financial bailout has encouraged more risk-taking because bank executives, who are still receiving massive bonuses, figure the government will come to the rescue the next time they steer their ships nearly aground”.

The report warns that these supports mean the government has done more than simply support the mortgage market, and in many ways has become the mortgage market, with the taxpayer shouldering the risk that had once been borne by the private investor.

“The government has stepped in where the private players have gone away and if we take government resources and replace that market without addressing the serious underlying concerns, there really is a risk of artificially pushing up home prices in the coming years”.

The report also revealed that, while the Obama administration pledged to spend $75 billion to prevent foreclosures, that only a tiny fraction of it amounting to just over $15 million has been spent so far and figures indicate that under the Making Home Affordable program, only about 66,500 borrowers, or only 7% of those who signed up had completed the process as of December.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said, “The market mentality now seems fixed that the U.S. government will continue to step in and bail out giant financial institutions. The IG’s findings confirm my decision to oppose releasing $350 billion in TARP funds last year and my recent vote to terminate the program altogether”.

And Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee added, “The SIGTARP’s report is just another reminder of how Congress and the administration have ignored the role that politics and government played in causing the housing crisis and the economic collapse while pursuing other regulatory reforms will not fix the underlying problem”.

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Those Not Looking For Work Are Being Excluded From The Reports

Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been hovering around 10%, whilst the unofficial rate has been over 17% at times.

The difference between the official and unofficial rates is that only people actively looking for work are now considered “unemployed”.

If a person gets laid off or fired and spends his or her days looking for work, then he or she counts as part of the labor force, even if they’re not earning a paycheck, but if they get discouraged and give up, then they’re don’t count!

In November, the labor force shrank by 134,000 people.

In October the decline was 73,000 people.

Analysts had predicted that December layoffs would number around 8,000 but the actual number of layoffs was 85,000 which is ten times higher, and if you include those that weren’t counted because they were no longer looking for work then at least 661,000 people dropped out of the labor force!

The Labor Force Participation Rate

The percentage of Americans 16 years or older who are either employed or looking for a job in December was 64.6%, which is the lowest level since 1985, which also indicates that the economy is in far worse shape than the headline numbers indicate.

The participation rate fell steadily all last year, with the biggest monthly drop occurring in December, meaning that if the same proportion of people were in the labor force today as a year ago, an additional 2.8 million people would officially be unemployed.

If And When The Economy Improves

Hopefully the economy will soon start to improve, but when it does, the people that gave up looking for work will start looking for jobs again and because of the official way of counting the unemployment rate, the unemployment figure will continue to rise, when in fact more people will be finding jobs.

So what’s interesting is that right now the public are being conned into believing that the unemployment rate is much lower than it really is, but when the economy does improve then it will look like it’s getting worse.

Unless of course the government switches to using the presently unofficial way of counting the unemployed!

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