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Sequestration: Entitlements vs. National Security

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Much has been mentioned in the last 18 months regarding the far and wide devastation of Sequestration that was the brain child of Barack Obama and Jack Lew in the White House. To further the support for the government cuts, this mission was meant to hurt as it was brought to Harry Reid to gain support and support Reid gave. This answers the question on why the Senate would not take up law and measures passed but the House as Harry Reid is ‘all-in’ with the White House, leaving the people’s work and voices both on the floor and silent.

A Super Committee was created to work through the process to avoid Sequestration where again the measure failed. The White House and the lobby groups have been on a loud and vocal quest to blame Republicans and the House of Representatives for what looms as Sequestration takes affect on March 1, 2013. The House has worked diligently to pass laws that stop the devastating cuts most especially those to defense while none of the measure by the House have been provided attention or vote by the Senate.

Lets take a look at what Sequester impacts on both sides. This is not a complete list and the depth of the cuts are not explained as that can be determined by a review of the associated links provided.

What gets cut:
TSA
FDA food inspectors
Head-Start
Defense
Parks Service
National Guard
Border Patrol
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Secret Service
FEMA
Air Federal Marshalls
FAA
Special Education Teachers
Center for Disease Control
NASA
Security and Exchange Commission
Foreign aid with particular emphasis on Israel and Mexico (130 countries affected)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (nuclear weapons)
What is exempt

Social Security
Railroad employees retirement
Veteran’s Administration benefits
Unemployment
Tribal and Indian Trust Accounts
Child nutrition
Children’s Heath Insurance
Pell Grants
Medicaid
SNAP, food stamps
Highway Safety Grants
Motor Carrier Safety Operations
Federal pay
Child Support Enforcement
FDIC
Farm Credits
Tennessee Valley Authority
In a snapshot assessment of what stays and what goes, it is clear that programs related to National Security and Foreign Affairs are getting the wave off in Sequester while domestic programs geared to funding the indigent remain. In short, the dangerous world will be even more dangerous and education and healthcare remains protected. We have yet to understand the large numbers of those that will be unemployed and what our enemies will take advantage of regarding our homeland.

Analysis: Impact of sequestration on non-defense discretionary spending

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42050.pdf

Day After Debate Quarterbacking

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The CNN poll after the debate of 67% Romney and 23% Obama revealed a pick 6 for Romney.

See for yourself

Romney took the defensive position of a free safety and scored a pick 6 play for the entire 90 minutes of play. Barack Obama never had his eye on the ball in Denver, so what was the distraction? Some say that Obama never brought his “A” game, but I would argue he in fact did. The President has been on the field for four years but he has been looking to the stadium lights and neons for his whole term.

So, let us take a closer look at the playbook that the President has and for sure blew his play call and assignment.

1. Eric Holder is likely to step down as Attorney General at the Department of Justice due in part to the international incident born out of his team at the DoJ and ATF over Fast and Furious as revealed by Univision.

2. Hillary Clinton has quite possibly told her head coach, that is she not responsible for the ‘block in the back’ event that took place in Benghazi where we lost control over sovereign territory and four Americans were murdered.

3. The increasing threat of Iran to the entire Middle East as a total since the ‘take a knee’ option has failed as Obama’s foreign policy sanction agenda.

4. The embarrassment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on worldwide television had to draw a cartoon of a Wiley Coyote bomb to explain at the kindergarten level the terms of a red zone of our only solid ally in the Middle East.

5. Could it be Janet Napolitano is under coaching scrutiny and has been placed under the bench and behind the Gatorade cooler due to the DHS/Fusion Center scandal and she herself may turn in her shoulder pads and jersey?

6. The promise of play action where the purchase of the Illinois prison to house the enemy combatants from Guantanamo and those 50 from Afghanistan that we refuse to turnover to Karzai be a new locker room?

7. We cannot forget the White House mandate to the Labor Department to force the violation of the WARN Act, which is law with government contractors.

8. And is there likely a military mutiny occurring in Afghanistan over the green on blue attacks murdering our treasured soldiers? General Allen has been relieved of his command telling us that the play to run a flea flicker and escalate an early exit strategy than advertised as 2014 may have been announced over the PA system.

9. There has been radio silence with the booth over the fact that foreign hackers from the team Iran that hacked into the White House most sensitive system of nuclear codes and the punt team has been sent in.

In the end, Barack Obama sat on the sidelines as usual hoping that the coaching team of Jarrett and Axelrod would call a Hail Mary play would save his game. Team Obama is in financial trouble and all the top plays and coaching staff are idle to penalty flags all over the field. Romney is headed to the Super Bowl for 2012.

Whats it All About…..Algae?

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It is staggering to hear citizens say that Newt is un-electable when he is a man that is truly reaching out to Americans with logic and a personal touch. It was too gratifying about 2 hours ago, when I got an email from Newt’s campaign asking me to join a conference call to talk about oil.

Say what you will about capitalism, but it is part of the greatest ‘experiment’ objective of the founding of America, that cannot be denied. America has great people that are insightful, creative and inspiring and yes that includes those before us like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller of Standard oil, add in Ford with his Edsel and Model T, engineers and chemists. Newt knows his history and the rest of us need to take notice that since the release of Microsoft Office software, nothing BIG in America has been developed of which we can be proud unless you add Apple. The sad notion is that Steve Jobs while innovative, his products were made where? China.

Newt just recently said, ” I dont care who you are, I care about who you want to be.” That phrase needs to go far and wide, as we have a squatter in chief in the Oval Office that has never spoken to the fire in our collective bellies that has been kidnapped since obama took over the White House.

Oil is a pivot point in our economic engine and yes, wars are fought over this resource, but that is due to crappy foreign policy. How many know that even Richard Nixon spoke to getting off of foreign oil that has made the Saudis so rich, they actually paid the expenses of the United States military in the first Gulf War? Obama does not care that billions/trillions of our currency goes offshore to pay OPEC nations including that little sick creep in Venezuela, money that never comes back into our system for the sake of our domestic economic engine.

Newt deserves a major high five, as here is a man that is reaching out personally and daily to re-kindle that slow burning ember in our bellies of America. He earnestly desires to make America great, with our own resources, our own citizens, our own money, our own skills, and our own imaginations. Who can dispute that?

Romney was a business man using other people’s money including that of governement and today Mittens is using big bucks to tell people vote for him with only platitudes for his platform. Yup, people are too lazy, apathetic and stupid to research and hear Romney’s words to know the difference. Newt gives tangible names, conditions and solid mission objectives and sadly it is over the head of voters to keep up. C’mon America…….you’re virtually admitting your individual ignorance. VOTE NEWT, not algae.

Hope and Change is Despair and Reverse

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Hope and Change

 

Hope and change was promised, pledged and assured for months
as Obama gained the questionable votes to take the seat in the Oval Office and
the Oath of Office of President, the leader of the free world. Thirty four
months hence, hope is despair and the change put America in high speed reverse.

America has owned the lead position in the war on terror, as
9-11 was the defining moment that would dramatically alter the entire landscape
and lives of our nation.  Collectively,
there was a fearful expectation of what our homeland was facing, yet in the ten
years since, ‘nothing’ which is an all encompassing word has been beneficial or
positive. Today, the war on terror has expanded to areas of operation across
the globe as cells, lone wolves, money, weapons, resolutions, agreements and
intelligence has criss-crossed the world. The Rules of Engagement have been
amended. The Enter and Exit Strategies are written in pencil, if at all and it
is suggested that years from today, this will look exactly the same or worse than
yesterday.

The war doctrine for the United States has had robust
interference with NATO, the United Nations and the International Criminal
Court. All AO’s have no concise, comprehensive or assertive strategic or
diplomatic posture. Lives, weapons and money are spent and direction is
fleeting.

At home, we have endured another fear and that is economic
terrorism and lawfare. Obamacare is but one piece of legislation that has moved
our outlook on hope to despair. The healthcare legislation has grown government
bureaucracy with the worst of it still yet ahead of us. Fannie and Freedie, QE1,
2 and 3 have multiplied the fear factor and fractured the very foundation of
the American economic base. Lawfare, the process by which countless government
agencies and the Department of Justice have removed our confidence in what is sacrosanct
in America, the Rule of Law, the Constitution. Daily, we are witness to secrets
that are being  revealed, nefarious  domestic policies and missions, broken laws, lies, noncompliance with trade  agreements, ignored statutes and a breached legal system , where Judges render  decisions by the hour that the case has ‘no legal standing’. Our vote at the  polls has been corrupted; our tax dollars are seized and spent without our
knowledge or approval. Our land is being ravaged for the sake for a bio-fuel
agenda and to protect a fish or lizard, leaving farms without water and thus
fail, all at the hands of corrupt Judges, leading the charge. Sharia law has
been applied in courtrooms across the nation while international law has been
used with the encouragement and approval from our Department of Justice.

Barack Obama has not changed as pledged, which is to say
improved education, foreign policy, government spending, reduced taxes, grown
exports, closed and protected our borders. His administration has not improved
the value of our currency, laid a pathway to energy independence, or restored
the ability to be the self reliance as an individual or nation. Instead, we
have been forced to learn about Saul Alinsky, Cloward Piven, the Muslim
Brotherhood, Maurice Strong, George Soros, Cass Sunstein, Valerie Jarrett, Eric
Holder, ACORN, SEIU, CAIR, the Tides Foundation, the Ella Baker Center, the
Ford Foundation, Susan Rice and Ban Ki Moon. It is impossible to offer a
comprehensive list here which should also include more terror cell networks
names, the deeper history and voting records and behind the curtain deals of
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the loyalty of the Geithner family to China, the
Clinton connections to global initiatives, the Millennium Challenge, Fast and
Furious, Operation Castaway and the Merida Initiative. We have come to know
that we have CIA and Special Forces are in Columbia, Mexico and Sudan. It has
been revealed we have missing weapons of a nasty nature, names are added daily
to the terror list and the lion share of the TARP money was a gift to foreign
banks.  We still watch the Arab Spring  events daily, we have staged demonstrations against Wall Street in cities  across our country, we have Senators calling for runs on Bank of America and  SWAT has been engaged to collect a past due debt on a college loan.

You are invited to join this editorial and make additions
that are most focused in your sights in the comments section.  Without writing one thousand pages or more,  this process is fluid and cannot begin to include all that was to be hoped for  and changed.

In a small effort to  conclude with another side of hope and change, we have seen the birth of the  Tea Party, FreedomWorks, grassroots survival groups, Patriot associations, a
growth in conservative blogs and websites, Veteran support groups and Memorial
funds.  This proves we can be self  reliant and possess the common sense that is so absent in DC politics. We have  come to appreciate the Founders and their legacy documents. It is our duty to  redress our grievances on a national stage that is if we can find a court and
Judge that will GIVE us standing.

If our heads are down, we can’t see where we are going.

 

Four Corners of the Document, The Constitution

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Federal government + Legislation = Politics
Politics + Lobbyists = Federal government
Executive Orders + Department mandates = Federal government
Back room deals + Hidden earmarks = Legislation
Get the point? What is missing from the equations? The Rule of law, the people’s representation, the Constitution, is missing.
Hour by hour we are spoon fed news from inside the beltway. News items cover local, state, Federal and international events, conflicts and decisions. As it relates to the United States, how much of what our government works at daily is actually constitutional?
The use of the word ‘politics’ is ubiquitous. The core of all the banter as it relates to local, state, Federal and international events should include compliance with the Rule of Law. The people have the right to question with authority and boldness, the power is in our hearts, minds, hands and feet. But is it? Do we know it? Do we use it? Was it legal for President Clinton to bail out the Mexican Peso? NO Is it legal to tax labor? NO Is it legal to interfere in foreign sovereignty? NO Is it legal to force a person to buy a service or product? NO
Most disturbing and often not noticed is how the United States is prosecuting the War on Terror. The WoT is a cancer and the fatal cells have found another host, the United States. Our very liberties, provided to us in the Bill of Rights are under attack and the Patriot Act is the laboratory. America is under siege by virtue of an established police state. America has its War on Terror within our homeland and it violates the Rule of Law.
We cannot give an accurate count of the cases that have been presented in a courtroom setting where the Judge’s decision was returned by all that included the words “you have no standing’. Legal cases have been debated in local courtrooms and all the way to the Supreme Court over religion, speech and the right to assemble. Stop now and read the last ten words of Amendment One. It reads, “And to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
This is where we are commonly told we have no standing. Yet, these ten words are the core of our representative republic and they define our duty. Presently, no Judge in any court across the land has taken a case, providing a decision in favor of the people to aid us in our duty of redress.
The Call to Action here is to write a letter to any Judge at any level and write to legislators at all levels with demands that they respect the Rule of law, demand they comply with the Rights of the people, and demand they obey the Four Corners of the Document, the United States Constitution.
Let us no longer confuse politics with the Rule of Law. Let us no accept deals, payoffs, mandates and interference with the Rule of Law.
We must reassume control and understand the real equation.
The Rule of Law + the Bill of Rights = People