Economics is so simple I don’t get why these guys don’t get it. Thanks Eric!

2010 Fed Budget $3.5 Trillion; estimated revenue $2.2 Trillion; likely revenue <$2.0 Trillion…SHORTFALL $1.5 Trillion http://bit.ly/aQHiJY

Entitlements are killing us.

Our Demand

We, the American People
American Patriots All
Allegiance To Our Flag, in Accordance With Our Constitution,
For Love Of Our Country, One Nation Under God
are being portrayed as right-wing extremists,
a lunatic fringe element, and astroturf
we are everyday Americans
We, are the American People

In regards to this administration’s lobbyist-generated
back-room, closed-door, Healthcare Reform Bill,
to say Americans are ANGRY is the
“understatement of the year”

Enough already

Stop the insanity

Keep your politics out of our Healthcare

Healthcare reform done right utilizes the K.I.S.S. philosophy
and first focuses on four primary cost factors
Fraud, Tort, Billing, and Drug Prices

Healthcare fraud is said to cost taxpayers
hundreds of billions of dollars a year
With an intelligent database
there would not be this cost
Only idiots would add trillions of dollars
to a healthcare system that is leaking money like a sieve
without fixing the system first

Tort Insurance is quoted as between 4-6%
of the overall Healthcare cost
an estimated 120 Billion Dollars per year
Seems quite logical that to reduce costs
to take lawyers out of our healthcare

Billing hassle is quoted as 8%
of the overall Healthcare cost
With an intelligent database
there would not be this cost

Drug Price Reform
Americans demand the right
to obtain our prescription drugs
from the least expensive legitimate
pharmaceutical source on the planet
this is not subject to discussion

E-Verifying recipients for unemployment benefits
will save substantial amounts of money

and E-Verifying Driver’s License recipients
will help secure our country

and E-Verifying all workers will generate 8.3 million jobs
currently held by known illegals

all recipients, of any entitlement
federal, or state
must be E-Verified to eliminate most fraud
and preferably Bio-ID’d to eliminate all fraud

Need we remind Congress, and this administration
that Entitlements cost taxpayers 50% of our Federal Budget

Fraud in Entitlements alone
costs Americans more, each year, than both wars
and arguably, fraud costs Americans, more, in a single year
than both wars, in total, over the last ten years

FIX THE FRAUD FIRST before doing anything else
and we’ll save 1 Trillion Dollars a year
actually even more

in the meantime we will solicit
the input of all healthcare workers,
caring doctors, nurses, technicians,
and maintenance workers, et al
so they can tell us how to improve healthcare
and reduce the cost
in these very trying times
that are very likely to last for far longer
than any of us want them to.
they will help save healthcare for us

Do not disregard, We, the American People
by continuing to act, deaf, dumb, and blind
to the overwhelming consensus
of the very people you profess to represent

First Fix Fraud, Tort, Billing, and Drug Prices
process the ideas of the healthcare people
and we can have a one page bill
for We, the American People
sometime after we back away from the abyss
and are back on our feet again.
to say now is not the time
is another of those
“understatements of the year”

Terrorists should always be
the responsibility of our Military and our CIA
Keep Gitmo open
it’s the perfect out of the way place
to keep terrorists, who would do harm to our citizens,
imprisoned by our military

and last, but not at all least

FREE OUR NAVY SEALS

punishing our Seals for punching a known terrorist
isn’t any consolation for the deaths of innocent Americans
and it doesn’t at all present the image of who we Americans are
Americans stand riveted behind our Military and our Intelligence Community
they must be encouraged to keep us safe
not deterred for petty offenses in the exercising of their duties
Heaven forbid if we, Americans, ever got our hands on terrorists
there would be no need for a trial

A Contract Of, For, and With, Americans
Patriots, it is our duty to educate all Americans

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Our Southwest Border

In the last 22 years, since the 1986, Reagan, one-time amnesty, to a thought to be 1.3 million illegals, that turned out to be 3.5 million (and still counting) over 27 million illegals have been apprehended, as they crossed the border into our United States.

UNITED STATES BORDER APPREHENSIONS (Source DHS/CBP)
1987–1,190,488——1995–1,394,554——2003—-931,557
1988–1,008,145——1996–1,649,986——2004–1,160,395
1989—-954,243——1997–1,412,953——2005–1,189,075
1990–1,169,939——1998–1,555,776——2006–1,089,902
1991–1,197,875——1999–1,579,010——2007—-876,704
1992–1,258,482——2000–1,676,438——2008—-723,825
1993–1,327,259——2001–1,266,213——2009—-556,041
1994–1,094,717——2002—-955,310——2010—-beg. 10/01/09

UNFORTUNATELY, less than half of illegals are apprehended at the border. Before the recent addition (over the last two years) of 10,000 Border Patrol agents, and 322 miles of fence, and 304 miles of vehicle barriers, only 32 miles double-layered, it was estimated, by the border patrol agents, that less than 1, out of 7, illegals, were apprehended at the border. Some border patrol agents said less than 1, out of 10.

Now, border patrol agents, collectively, could approximate what percentage of illegals they catch. They said they catch more than half of the ones they know about. How many don’t they know about.

According to the U.S. Immigration Service another 6 million illegals in our country are visa overstays.

Anchor babies are now being born at a rate of 400,000 per year http://bit.ly/7vCkH6

In recent years, due mostly to the failing economy, but aided by the fence, the number of apprehensions has been decreasing.

Southwest Border Patrol Sector Apprehensions (Source DHS/CBP)

In Order From the Highest Sector in Apprehensions to the Lowest
Fiscal Year————-2005———2006———2007——-2008——–2009
Tucson ————–439,053——-392,074—– 378,239—- 317,696—- 241,673
San Diego———–126,879——-142,104—– 152,460—- 162,390—- 118,721
Rio Grande Valley– 134,136——-110,528—— 73,430—– 75,473—- 60,989
Laredo —————-75,268——–74,840—— 56,714——43,658——-40,569
El Centro————–55,725———61,465—— 55,883—– 40,961—— 33,521
El Paso—————122,624——–122,256—— 75,464—– 30,312—– 14,999
Del Rio —————-68,547———42,636—— 22,920—– 20,761—– 17,082
Yuma————– –138,492——–118,549—— 37,992—— 8,363—– 6,951
Marfa ——————10,532———-7,520——- 5,536——- 5,391——- 6,360
Apprehensions—-1,171,386——1,071,972—–858,638—-705,005—–540,865

Operation Streamline – a program that brings low-level criminal charges against some of the illegal immigrants caught crossing parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border, part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters. A new 700 miles of double-layered fencing won approval on a 283-138 vote , Voting YES were 219 Republicans and 64 Democrats. Voting NO were 131 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 1 independent.

9/20/06 The Senate voted to move forward on the Secure Fence Act of 2006 on Wednesday. It is a House passed measure that would authorize the construction of 700 miles of fencing along the U.S. Mexico border.Vote Counts: YEAs 94, NAYs 0, Not Voting 6

The Pedestrian Fence (P.F.) and Vehicle Barrier (V.B.) miles, shown below, are current as of 11/01/2009 (Source DHS/CBP)
Apprehensions—-2005—-2009–BORDER -P.F.–V.B.-REDUCTION
Yuma——————-138,492——6,951——118—–62.8—43.6——95%
El Paso—————– 122,624—-14,999——210—–63.7–101.2——88%
Del Rio ——————-68,547—-17,082——268——3.4—–0.0——75%
Rio Grande Valley —-134,136—–60,989——316—–45.3—–0.0——55%
Laredo ——————-75,268—–40,569——171——1.2—–0.2——46%
Tucson —————–439,053—-241,673——262—–71.3–138.9—–45%
El Centro—————–55,725—–33,521— —-71—–44.0—-14.2—–40%
Marfa ———————10,532——6,360——510——-4.6—–0.0—–40%
San Diego—————126,879—118,721——-66——46.2—–0.4——6%
Apprehensions——-1,171,386—540,865—-1992—342.4–298.5—–54%
OPERATION STREAMLINE

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All I know is that at my government office, we’re converting 72 positions – just in my section – from government contractor to government civil service. Sometimes there are fewer positions available than contractors so some are losing their jobs.

on Youtube. It is a better response than the Repub response. It takes one issue and explains it totally.
You have a lot of abilities Erick.Conservatives need to be seen speaking these points. Right now the News channels are featuring M’Cain, a disaster for conservatives. I guess we aresupposed to run him again in 2012…So he is the spokesman.
Also it sure shows that the Wash D.C. elites have never had a business
or worked in one. These proposals by Obama are silliness to someone with a business.
Absolutely.No.Clue.

It’s official.

After last night it is now clear we are being led by a committed ideologue. His agenda is not the health or welfare of his citizens, their businesses, or their futures. His agenda is HIS agenda. From the head tilt and far away gaze, to his demand that all things STILL bend to his will, we are seeing a modern incarnation of Mussolini. He just dismissed the will of the people as though it were a gnat buzzing about his royal head.

Here is the rub- what happens when the immovable object meets the irresistible force. His core supporters are probably less than twenty percent of the population- welfare recipients, race supporters, far left ideologues like himself, corrupt government officials and their support network and certain corporations which intend to ride the high speed Obama rail to European statism. The rest of the people are going to be split along two lines. Those who will go along because they fear the loss of security, jobs, financial security or healthcare. (For example, FOX just had a guy on who is out of a job and on COBRA. He laments that soon he will not be able to afford the fees as they continue to triple and wishes Obama success in his efforts so the man can be taken care of. He never lamented that it was Government’s fault his COBRA costs so much in the first place. This man has been turned, turned by fear, turned by dismay, his will is broken and his is now willing to believe whatever history the government feeds him as truth. This is how it is done people.)

On the other hand, there will be a certain group of Americans who will refuse to submit willingly- those who know the truth, those who speak the truth. Obama must somehow deal with them, with us, in a manner that will neuter them until he can either turn or eliminate them. He cannot survive with a vibrant element inside the country criticizing his decisions. No tyrant can.

For those of you out there with friends who say “How bad can he be?” or “We are just misreading his intentions.” I hope now we are past the “ah golly” stage of dealing with this man who I believe truly thinks he is the chosen one. Before I figured he was just sold on himself. Not anymore. He has left himself little wiggle room between what he wants and what we will not give him. So his only option left is to take it.

So the question is still this- What happens when the irresistible force meets the immovable object?

Mao knew, as did Mussolini, Stalin and all that came before them.

Welcome to the war.

remains a massive transfer of wealth, from those at all affluent to the poor, and to the illegal immigrants.

that is why I continue to insist that we begin addressing/attacking the fraud in the over 2,000 entitlements, grants, and subsidies.,

it will begin to focus American’s attention on the massive amounts of money that are being transferred into the entitlement community through every means that Obama, and his comrades, have been able to find, or create..

entitlements are the soft undefended underbelly of the monster we are attempting to slay.

it is the way and the light

besides, who can successfully argue against wanting to first fix the fraud and save 100′s of billions of dollars.

http://bit.ly/5Y15h8

Just in the past week or two there was a conflict-of-interest report — I think on Fox, might’ve been a segment of Glenn Beck’s show (sorry, I ran out of ginko biloba); anyway, the wife of a window mfg top dog is an Administration insider – Biden lauded the company’s windows as “the best in the industry” (raising howls, factual challenges and disputes from the company’s competitors). In short, this is another load of crap from a very deceptive, self-serving, one-hand-washing-another corruptocrat. Ptooie!

Maybe that should read, “and other re-education workers”.

Maybe that should read, “and other re-education workers”.

educated, and intelligent people, while we are the morons.

But they ACTUALLY believe that you can tax and spend your way into prosperity. Now think for a second just what sort of idiocy it takes to believe that.

What do you expect, Obama himself has no relevant experience in economy fixing, and none of his advisors have real world experience either. We have a group of arrogant academics running the country. I wish for once we’d elect someone with some know-how, but then again we never get what we deserve, only what we ask for…. sigh.

Main Entry: Marx·ism
Pronunciation: \?märk-?si-z?m\
Function: noun
Date: 1887
: the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; especially : a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society
— Marx·ist \-sist\ noun or adjective

Obama = Marxism

This is why this administration must be stopped at every level.
it stopped being funny after last night. This man is a manical Marxist.

you would know the inside story of the vaunted window manufacturer. The wife of the largest stockholder and president of the company is an Obama appointee in charge of handing out subsidies to companies in the business of manufacturing energy saving home improvements. His company (the name escapes me) was awarded a $500,000 grant. And for this we get TWO jobs. Woo Hoo!

Erick, excellent job as always sir. As others have stated above, you explained thoroughly a part of the speech. It makes sense to do the opposite of what this man is saying in his speeches. He says one thing but then does another (or dithers). He then blames others for things not getting done (ie appointments) to score cheap political points. Wasn’t his entire speech a collection of gathering cheap political points? Also, when he reads letters at night from ‘ordinary Americans’ does he need TOTUS? If he needs it for speaking to an elementary class, then certainly he needs is everywhere else he goes.

The entire speech was about him, his wife, a mention of Jill Biden and a jab at Republicans/conservative policies every chance he could. I remember when a president would have a guest sitting next to the first lady and that person would be mentioned and the room would stand and cheer for that person. Not a word was said to thank officers Munley and Todd for their heroics in taking down the Fort Hood shooter.

Also, I thought the money which the banks have paid back wasn’t supposed to be used as a slush fund. I thought it was meant to go and help pay off the deficit.

Thanks again Erick!

This is somewhat of a dilatory proclamation given Mr. Obama and the Democrats have largely been fighting this war for the last three years- most notably since last January.

In the space of that time they have wasted almost a trillion dollars on what amounts to a government jobs program. This masquerade was said a necessary stopgap to keep unemployment at 8%. As we now are approaching 10%, with real unemployment being much higher we should see this as the first shot in a war against our populace.

In the next battle, Democrats launch a volley against small business an every American that uses energy. In passing “Cap and Trade” they guaranteed that every business and consumer of energy would face a cost increase.

In the following battle, Democrats and Mr. Obama attempted a government takeover of the heath care industry. Consequentially, that industry is one of the largest, healthy (so to speak) parts of our economy and has been bludgeoned by the cancer in Congress.

Next, Mr. Obama granted our sacred Constitutional rights to terrorists that either have killed American civilians or soldiers or expressly raised arms as enemy combatants. After 50 minutes of questioning, Mr. Obama had a man who was not an American citizen, that tried to blow up 300 men, women and children on a plane de facto citizenship by reading his Miranda rights.

I would say the “Obama Doctrine”, which is primarily to grow government at the expense of our private society, is firmly established and essentially a declaration of war against every American suffering under his occupation.

Much has been said about the ability of the President to inspire people iwth his speechmaking. I was shocked when there was a bump in the Obama approval ratings after his speech on healthcare in September 09. He did not acknowledge all the town halls and the passions of those opposed.

It was along the lines of I am going to do what I want to do. From what I have read so was this speech. It will be interesting to see how the people will react. Any updates from Obamagirl since the speech?

of dollars given to the banks to save them and the economy from catastrophic failure were all phony-baloney fake/created-out-of-thin-air dollars anyway, the return of those billions to the treasury can’t in any way help to pay off the deficit! The best thing for the strength of the dollar would be for the treasury to take all the returned billions and burn them. At least then we could get the heat value out of them.

None of them have any business experience. They’re ALL politicians or ex lobbyists!!! Barry hasn’t even run a snow cone stand, so how does HE know what will work for business and what doesn’t!?!?! On;y what guys like Rahm “Rambo” “Dead Fish” Emanuel, David Axelrod, Andy Stern, etc. tells him!! What a joke!!!

How do you shift the blame when you had a super majority for one year? And now he says he needs help from across the aisle. Suck it up champ.

Incompetence and lying at its worst.

Note: Democrats are all about class warfare. In this scheme of things there are Big Business and the poor and middle class.

so the question is- Is he saying that black is bad? Matthews is a race hustler, no doubt he wants to keep the races divided, but, I see his remark as an insult to blacks.

The Lesson of an Affirmative Action President

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_lesson_of_an_affirmative_a.html

When you say, “when the independent voters consider the other points herein, Barack Obama will see his poll numbers fall even further”, you are assuming a high level of intelligent consideration of language on the part of independent voters.

I would argue that, if independent voters applied reasoning like this to political speeches, we would not have a President Obama in the first place.

And for all those who keep expressing amazement at the complete inability to grasp economic fundamentals by the Administration, you seem to be overlooking the possibility that they know exactly how economics function, and that perhaps their goals are not precisely what they say they are on television…

There is a mountain of research that conclusively demonstrates Barack Obama is a Marxist Communist, who’s been surrounded for most of his adult life and formative teen years by Communists, Marxists, Socialists and Maoists. See the facts for yourself here: http://commieblaster.com/obama/

As a Marxist, Obama’s goal is to destroy American Capitalism and America as we know it. So you better understand his plan now: http://commieblaster.com

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is owned by the spouse of the Energy Czar.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/35047/

war on Capitalism, It is a war on middle class America, and their values,
by this POTUS and his minions and czars, look at their character.
What really worry’s me, is the adulation evoked in many of his supporters, very similar to the crowds, I saw in news films, when I was growing up,in the 40′s, showing the lengths, people will go to, following the cult of personality.
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One Old Dog

Please, Erick? 2012?

That O guy has loudly been proclaiming a physical war against The Great Satan and the only people who don’t understand that it is a war are the ones who are unwilling to deal with that reality. Our O guy has loudly been proclaiming war against capitalism since long before he became a US Senator and the only people who don’t understand that are the ones who are unwilling to deal with that reality.

As Americans we need to start dealing with both realities and stopping their plans before they stop us.

It’s clear that President Obama wants to be FDR. He wants the government to produce the jobs and pick the winners- like that window outfit in Philly.

Obama even went after the Supreme Court. No doubt he would love to do a little FDR court packing. If he continues down this path he may find his party losing 80 seats in the House, as FDR did in the late 30s.

As a small businessman, tax credits don’t excite me and I don’t need a handout or even a hand-up. Cut the payroll taxes and taxes in general. I am sick of giving up half of what we produce. If it doesn’t change, we are going to be in for high employment for a long, long time – just like under FDR.

with his stupid policies. Like how about getting serious about nuclear power plants instead of high speed rail?? Wouldn’t this benefit more people?? and sure, he’s gonna drill. BWAHAHA!!

He gets away with mouthing these words with a large audience when you know he or his compadres will defeat them immediately by just the threat of taxing them to death.

Like yeah he’s for small business. Who would hire when cap and trade and tax increases and who knows about the price of energy coming up?

I liked Sarah Palin saying if he was going to do all of these great ideas why hasn’t he been doing them? Three more years seems like a lifetime. Sigh.

with his stupid policies. Like how about getting serious about nuclear power plants instead of high speed rail?? Wouldn’t this benefit more people?? and sure, he’s gonna drill. BWAHAHA!!

He gets away with mouthing these words with a large audience when you know he or his compadres will defeat them immediately by just the threat of taxing them to death.

Like yeah he’s for small business. Who would hire when cap and trade and tax increases and who knows about the price of energy coming up?

I liked Sarah Palin saying if he was going to do all of these great ideas why hasn’t he been doing them? Three more years seems like a lifetime. Sigh.

“That the President of the United States would say such a thing and think it a good, responsible idea suggests the man is truly ignorant of or an enemy of the free market.”

And to think otherwise is an insult to every entrepreneur who is creating energy source alternatives and energy efficiency technologies. Not the government. The government is providing incentives in form of tax credits to these types of companies and manufacturers as well as to home owners and building owners – the play is saving energy and saving money. It’s not simple, but it is a simple concept because everybody wins. I think they should be doing more – energy standards, saving standards, aren’t necessarily high enough. But age old industries lobby every day to keep standards down so they don’t have to invest millions into remanufacturing. I come from a company that has been putting its neck out on the line, raising money from private investors, poured it into R&D, poured it into reopening bankrupt and closed factories – and we have never taken a single dime from the government – to simply make better products that save more money and energy – products that make sense. I’m VERY thankful to the entrepreneurs who take the risk and have the drive to reinvent – whether the iPad or the next generation of windows or LED lighting. The government better create an environment in which these entrepreneurs can thrive…. and may the best products win. That’s all we should care about. Some interesting opinions you have – but I don’t give the government credit, or blame, for many of the jobs and innovations that are leading and are thriving – and they have to.