Open letter to Obama

Open Letter to President Obama

This arrived in my email today, I know who wrote it, they call themselves “The Evil One,” but they’ve asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, so I present this rant on their behalf.

From “We, the People of the United States of America”
President Obama,

We, the people of the United States of America, have come to the conclusion that there are a number of things you need to know. As we doubt your sycoph… sorry, advisers will say this, the task falls to us, “we, the people”, or at least that portion of us who have both the ability and the desire to think for ourselves.

We, Mr President, have been left no option but to conclude that you are sorely bereft of clue, and we wish to apply a few, in the faint hope that one or two might stick rather than sliding off that Teflon suit you maintain.

To begin with, Mr President, we don’t hate you because you’re black. Many of us don’t hate you at all: those who do would hate you if you were Sarah Palin’s brother.

Some of us even pity you. Instead of learning early that actions have consequences, well meaning people went easy on you, protecting you from the consequences of your actions until recently – and learning this when you’re fifty years old and president of the most powerful nation in the world is not a good thing.

Those of us who voted for you did so because they were sick of the massive Bush deficits (which you exceeded within months of taking office), the secrecy (which you have increased), the mega-bills larded with earmarks (which you have also increased). Remember those, Mr Pres? You campaigned against them and promised to stop them. We didn’t expect you to actually do that, but we did expect a gesture in that direction.

The rest of us hoped we were wrong about you, hoped that you would rise to the demands of the presidency. Instead we watched as you dragged the presidency down to the level of bickering toddlers. “Because I won”, Mr President. Those are the words of a three year old.

Here are some of the most important things we think you need to know:

It is not all about you.

It is not all about your race.

No economy ever ran without people making things other people wanted and needed. The USA needs to go back to making things or it will collapse.

No-one and nothing can spend more than they earn forever. Sooner or later people stop wanting to lend you money.

Never give the keys to anyone unless you trust them absolutely. You have given the keys to this nation to – among others – Saudi Arabia (our avowed enemies), and China (at best a rival). None of the recipients are worthy of absolute trust.

It is not wrong or shameful to place the well-being of your nation above the well-being of any other nation.

The US is not responsible for the evils other nations have chosen to inflict on their part of the world. This nation may well have made mistakes in our foreign policy and international relationships, but we are not and can not be responsible for the simple fact that a culture with no concept of individual autonomy is incapable of a meaningful relationship with a Western culture. The Western nations built their mental framework over several hundred painful and strife-filled years: many other cultures have mental frameworks that are simply not compatible with ours.

The above is no-one’s fault. It is tragic and often horrific, but no-one is to blame. Scientists are only jsut beginning to understand how culture affects mental frameworks. We can’t expect our ancestors to have magically intuited these things.

Welfare and affirmative action are traps. They tell the recipients that they are getting special treatment because they can’t compete on equal terms. After a while, the recipients come to believe they really are inadequate and that they genuinely need what should be a temporary safety net for all but the truly unfortunate few.

There is no such thing as “fair”. Children of ten complain that certain things aren’t “fair”, but the truth is that life isn’t fair and there is no way it can be made fair. If you take away all the artificial impediments, some people will work hard, using everything they can to build a fortune. Others will not want to work so hard: they won’t do as well. Some will be plain unlucky – they’ll work, but circumstances will defeat them. Still others will be fortune’s favored, and every chance will fall their way. And some won’t have the ability to succeed no matter how hard they try.

To take the wealth of the successful and give it to the less successful in order to make the outcomes “fairer” is viciously unfair to those who have worked for their success, and worse, it sends the message that it is better not to try, because that way you can’t fail, and you’ll get rewarded anyway. Too much of that, and no-one will do anything at all.
We understand that these points run counter to your whole life experience, Mr President. You have the singular misfortune of having lived in a bubble where results were totally disconnected from actions and have compounded this by surrounding yourself with others who suffer the same problem.

We challenge you to consider our points and prove that you are a worthy leader, not merely a weathervane forever pointing at perceived public opinion.

We know that you can’t perform miracles. We know the economy here and elsewhere is so bad that no matter what you do it will cause immense suffering, and most of that suffering will, as it always does, fall on those least able to bear it.

We understand these are difficult times requiring difficult choices.

All we require of you, Mr President, is that you be a man instead of a spoiled child, and face the problems squarely instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your perceived misfortune.

We will be watching.

Sincerely,

We, the People of the United States of America.

Gov. Walker is a winner

Well, well well.........


Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with the collective bargaining for teacher's unions?
The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result.
Why?
It seems that the insurance company that provided all the "so-called" benefits to the teachers, was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since they were guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers and the State had to pay for it, and not the teachers, they were increasing the annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state.
Then the insurance company was donating millions and millions of dollars to their favorite democrat politicians, who, when got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the unions outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company was a "pass through" for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the democrat politicians.
Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away. Now that the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bid, lo and behold they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc., etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political ambitions.
Go to this link and read the full article....very interesting

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district

5 Best Sentences you'll ever read

1. YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE THE POOR INTO PROSPERITY BY LEGISLATING THE

WEALTHY OUT OF PROSPERITY.



2. WHAT ONE PERSON RECEIVES WITHOUT WORKING FOR, ANOTHER PERSON MUST WORK

FOR WITHOUT RECEIVING.



3. THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT GIVE TO ANYBODY ANYTHING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES

NOT FIRST TAKE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE.



4. YOU CANNOT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT!



5. WHEN HALF OF THE PEOPLE GET THE IDEA THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WORK

BECAUSE THE OTHER HALF IS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THEM, AND WHEN THE OTHER

HALF GETS THE IDEA THAT IT DOES NO GOOD TO WORK BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE IS

GOING TO GET WHAT THEY WORK FOR, THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF ANY

NATION.

Current Communist Goals

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

The genius of Christina KBo

Much has been said recently about the virtue of compromise. We can scarcely turn on the tv or radio, or click on a hyperlink without a chorus of pundits, lawmakers, and advisors of all stripes touting its glory. But the truth is, the pursuit of "compro...mise-at-all-cost" is just being a stooge. Consider: A man goes to see doctor for a check-up... (My apologies to all the good docs out there, but I wanted to use an analogy the President would be sure to understand.) Doc: "Oooo - that looks like a nasty thorn in your foot. We'll have to take both legs at the hip." Man: "WHAT? That seems like a lot. Let's talk about this." Doc: "Okay - but if we don't decide what to do within ten - no, five - no, three; THREE minutes, we'll have to take the right arm above the elbow." Man: "Just wait a minute - hold on. The thorn is in the right big toe. Why don't you just take it out? Or at most, just take that toe??" Doc: "Oh. Well, that just isn't enough. You have to meet me halfway, at least! (sigh.) I'll tell you what. If we get into surgery right now, we'll agree to just take the two legs. At the hip." Man: "But that's where you started! Besides, my arm is fine - it doesn't have anything to do with the big toe with the thorn in it!" Doc: "It's complicated. You wouldn't understand. Stop wasting time. Here - sign this release form." Man: "But, there's nothing wrong with the other leg. Why are you saying - " Doc: "You're obstructing! Stop obstructing, start compromising, and sign the form. Don't worry about reading it. That's thorn's not getting any better, you know." Man: "Okay, okay. I'll tell you what. You can take the one leg, below the knee." Doc: "You don't even understand the gift you're getting. You realize that you will get a super-sweet prosthetic, right?" Man: "Sorry, I didn't realize. But still, just the one leg, below the knee." Doc: "Alright. But this isn't over." The man wakes up to find one leg gone - above the knee... but what’s worse, a hot, throbbing big toe where the thorn still sits; but now it's infected. This? THIS... is not "compromise." It's slow-motion suicide. Yet this is precisely the scenario We the People deal with time and again: One side offers an idea that is off-the-rails, super-ridiculous (I’m looking at you, big spenders *cough*Bush*Obama*cough*), and the other side is bludgeoned with calls to “compromise.” The problem is, compromising from “super-ridiculous” not only lends credence to imbecility, it often produces a result that is in-and-of itself, “ridiculous” - and that is considered a victory! Let’s take a quick look at the April 15th Continuing Resolution as an example. Republicans declared they wanted to cut $100 billion dollars of spending. Democrats quickly responded by saying they want to add “only” about $100 billion dollars of spending (the compromise being the status quo). The $100 billion in cuts were suddenly compromised to $60 billion; with a partial government shutdown taken off the table. A short time later, $60 billion settled at $38 billion. Using what can only be described as “new math,” Democrats announced they agreed to $78 billion in cuts. Republicans quickly adopted the talking point - maybe they thought it made them look more successful. Then, the truth came out that the cuts actually amount to $352 million. To put this in perspective, we are set to post over $1 trillion in new debt this year; making the compromise a whopping .035% cut in spending - or about three one-hundredths of one penny for every dollar of new debt. This amount is more commonly known as “zero.” Absurd compromises are not the only examples of ridiculous. To wit: · Congress has not passed a budget in more than two years - RIDICULOUS! · Congress passed an2300+ page Health Care Reform Bill that increases government spending by unknown amounts (est. $893 billion annually*) - RIDICULOUS · Congress passed ANOTHER 2300+ page Financial Reform Bill, piling on even more government spending (est. economic impact unknown) - RIDICULOUS! · By the end of 2011, the United States of America will owe $15.6 trillion* of debt - RIDICULOUS! · Each year, for the foreseeable future, government spending levels will add on an additional $1-1.5 trillion* of new debt - RIDICULOUS! · Since 1996, the debt has grown over $10 trillion; half of that since 2008* - RIDICULOUS! Source: US Treasury / * CBO estimates Recently, Moody’s analyst Steven Hess floated a clever little suggestion. Complaining about “periodic uncertainty” in the bond markets, he helpfully offered that the Debt Limit should be raised automatically or even removed altogether. “We would reduce our assessment of event risk if the government changed its framework for managing government debt to lessen or eliminate that uncertainty.” Well jeepers, Mr. Hess - we can’t eliminate the debt limit, but in the spirit of compromise, we’ll just raise it again. See how that works? Ridiculous ideas deserve ridicule, not consideration; and certainly not the dignity of compromise. Look: We are tired of the ridiculousness. We are sick of the theater. We are insulted by the dishonest manipulation of the numbers. We are exasperated by the phony deadlines. But perhaps more than anything, we are disappointed and saddened. Disappointed by the men and women we elected, and had such high hopes for; and saddened by their display of such a shockingly pedestrian understanding of us, our expectations, and our level of concern and comprehension of the fiscal mess we are in right now. And for the President - or any elected official - to deride us because we see through their bluster to the truth and dare to call them on it is nothing short of offensive. After all, we are the ones footing the bill. If our elected officials are unwilling or unable to do the job we elected them to do, it’s time for them to step aside and go home. I’ll put my hand up to volunteer to go to D.C. and we can work this out without all the puffing and posturing. I’ve got a deal memo ready to go. Who’s with me?See More

Aug 3 Social Security Checks

In a U.S. House committee investigative session it was discovered and proclaimed that the U. S. Treasury will have sufficient funds, with $Billions to spare, to pay the interest on our national debt (no default), all Social Security and Veterans benefits for the month of August 2011. Following the public threat by Barack Obama last week to stop Social Security payments for the month of August, the head of the Social Security Administration was questioned as to how these benefits would not be paid. During that questioning, the committee found that the Social Security Department does not have the authority to issue checks. The Social Security checks are issued by the Treasury Department headed by Timothy Geithner. Even Geithner does not have the authority to NOT issue Social Security payments unless he is directed by President Obama to not issue the checks. BARACK OBAMA, AND OBAMA ALONE, WILL BE RESPONSIBLE IF SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS ARE NOT ISSUED STARTING ON AUGUST 3, 2011. Let us remind ourselves that not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income right off the top before any other taxes. Just because the Federal Government took the money from it's lock box account and wasted it on other things, doesn't make your benifits some kind of charity or handout. IT IS YOUR MONEY. Who on earth does this man think he is that he can, for political gain, threaten those millions of older Americans who have worked all their lives and paid into a program in order to have an income in their retirement years with, in many cases, their only means of support? Barack Obama can blame everything he wants to (and does) on others, but make no mistake about it, if Social Security payments are not received in August, if Veterans benifits arent received, if debt interest isn't paid it is because Barack Obama, and him alone chose not to pay you. Every senior citizen, and indeed, every American should work to remove this man from the White House in 2012 before he destroys this nation.

Research from Karen Kirk

The Congressional Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act of 2008 indicates that the yearly operating expense of the White House was $12,814,000. Or, about $35,106 a day. These expenses include: “maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official entertainment expenses of the President…”
If only the answer were that simple to procure. The real answer is exceedingly complicated. In addition to the annual congressional budget for the operation of the White House, there are over 22 other budget accounts, in 13 different departments, that pay the expenses and salaries of the White House staff. Defining what constitutes “The White House” is also difficult. In his book, To Serve the President, Bradley H. Patterson argues that there are 23 separate accounts that make up the costs of the White House. Some of these accounts include the President’s Salary, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Security Council, the Department of State, and so on. As Patterson notes, finding the real cost of the White House is almost impossible. The funding for these various White House functions are buried within numerous appropriation bills, some of which are classified.However, Patterson provides a ball park figure by tallying the following expenses.

Compensation of the president (including an expense allowance of $50,000): $ 450,000
The Executive Residence operating expenses: $12,814,000
The Executive Residence—repair and restoration: $1,600,000
The vice president’s downtown office: $15,511,9603
Residence of the vice president—operating expenses: $320,000
The White House Office (including the Homeland Security Council): $53,656,000
Office of Policy Development (the Domestic Policy Council and the National Economic Council): $3,482,000
National Security Council: $30,300,820
One-eighth of the Office of Administration, for direct services to the president pursuant to Section 3(a) of Executive Order 12028: $11,468,125
The president’s unanticipated needs: $1,000,000
White House Center Service Delivery Team (in the GSA budget): $26,000,000
U.S. Postal Service, White House branch: $726,000
National Archives professional archival support of the White House: $1,000,000
Value of gifts supplied by the Department of State for presentation to foreign leaders at White House official entertainment functions: $50,000
White House Communications Agency (in the budget of the Defense Information Systems Agency): $173,900,000
Air Force One (in U.S. Air Force budget) (classified) (Estimated cost: $200,000,000)
Helicopter squadron HMX-One (in the Marine Corps budget; this is the fiscal year 2008 appropriation segment of a fifteen year-long procurement of twenty-eight new helicopters): $271,000,000
Camp David (in the Navy/Seabees budget): $7,900,0005
Salary costs for 2,300 employees in above units 15, 16, 17, and 18 (all in the budget of the Department of Defense): $151,800,000
U.S. Secret Service (in the budget of the Department of Homeland Security) (21-26)
Protection of persons and facilities: $689,535,000
For protective intelligence activities: $57,704,000
For handling “special security events,” such as the 2009 Inaugural: $1,000,000
For screening of White House mail: $16,201,000
Operations of the James J. Rowley Training Center: $51,954,000
Improvements at the James J. Rowley Training Center: $3,725,000
Commission on White House Fellowships (in the budget of the Office of Personnel Management): $850,000
National Park Service White House Liaison Office, including the White House Visitor Center (in the budget of the National Park Service): $8,700,000
Cost of detailees who work more than six months in a calendar year: $227,349
Aprx Cost of All White House Elements: $1.6 Billion