PRESIDENTS DON’T CUT OR RAISE TAXES. THEY SIGN BILLS SENT TO THEM BY CONGRESS

You think the economy is bad now?  Make no mistake:  It can get worse with an Obama presidency and Democrat congress.

In brief, the main problem we face today is not economic, but political.  Sound economists are in substantial agreement concerning what out to be done.  Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment…More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else–or from themselves.  Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.  And inflation, in the end, misdirects and disorganizes production.–Henry Hazlitt

(Click article link below for more details:)

Stocks Pay Price of Coming Tax Increases

The following is a small excerpt from the article:

Presidents don’t cut taxes or raise taxes. They sign the bills sent to them by Congress.

Pelosi and Reid both voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. We know where they stand. Every Democrat in the House and Senate has voted repeatedly for higher taxes since that party became the majority in January 2007, and House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel has unveiled his “mother of all tax hikes” to increase taxes by $38 billion over 10 years.

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The Obama tax plan will reduce the value of the stock market and your 401(k) by 6%. The House Democrat plan will drop the market by 16%. Remember, Obama cannot impose his tax plan — he has to sign what Congress sends him, so Congress’ tax plans are more important than Obama’s campaign speeches.

If Republicans won the House and Senate and McCain’s tax plans were enacted, the market and your 401(k) would increase by 46%. And if you pass the McCain plan and add ATR’s abolition of the capital gains and dividends tax, the market and your 401(k) would increase by 58%.

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OBAMA SPREADING POVERTY AND MORE POWER TO WASHINGTON

Defining Problems With Socialism For The Post-Cold War Generation

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(The following are excerpts from the article:)

Many economists would equate what Obama has in mind with socialism. Among them is the late F.A. Hayek, a one-time socialist, who wrote a book on the dangers of socialism titled “The Road to Serfdom.” When it debuted in the final days of WWII, socialism unambiguously meant the state control of the means of production and central economic planning.

But decades later, in a new preface, the Nobel Prize winner wrote that “socialism has come to mean chiefly the extensive redistribution of incomes through taxation and the institutions of the welfare state.” Yes, that’s Obama’s economic plan.

He concluded that even this softer socialism means reduced economic liberties, opportunities and living standards for all.

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Still, Obama insists that spreading the wealth is “good for everybody.” But as the rich shelter capital or reduce their work to avoid higher taxes, all Obama will end up “spreading” is poverty and all he’d redistribute is more power to Washington.

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So to get from theory to practice, force must be used. Wealth must be taken by the state — and not by a faceless bureaucratic machine, but rather by flawed humans with their own selfish ambitions and ulterior motives. They decide who gets what, taking cuts for themselves and their cronies in the process.

Think ex-Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and ACORN.

Socialism is centralized power. That’s why socialist movements, which often begin as cults of personality, usually end in fascism. Witness Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism — and, yes, Nazism, which, as Hayek noted, stands for “National Socialism.”

PELOSI DECEIT to save Dem Seats / OBAMA /Freddie Fannie

THINK AGAIN BEFORE BLAMING BUSINESS CAPITALISM, OR REPUBLICANS FOR THE FIASCO THAT CAUSED THE BAILOUT.

FREDDIE MAC AND FANNIE MAE WERE GOVERNMENT IMPOSED PROGRAMS ON BUSINESSES. IF BUSINESSES REFUSED BORROWERS, THE BUSINESSES COULD HAVE BEEN SUED FOR REFUSING MORTGAGE SEEKERS.

THIS VIDEO WILL GIVE YOU SOME UNDERSTANDING AND MAKE YOU WONDER WHY THOSE DEMOCRATS REFUSED TO ACT TO REFORM BEFORE THIS CRISIS EVER CAME ABOUT WHEN JOHN MCCAIN (AS DOCUMENTED) AND OTHER REPUBLICANS, ETC…CALLED ON THEM TO REFORM FREDDIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.

Nancy Pelosi is speaking out both sides of her mouth.  Democrats didn’t need any votes from the Republicans if they REALLY thought the bail out was the best thing to do for the American people.  Nancy Pelosi was more interested in SAVING the political positions of Democrat seats!  Republicans didn’t want the vote without better reform, but Democrats, if you remember…were READY and claimed to have closed the deal BEFORE McCain ever went to Washington.  The problem then? Republicans didn’t like the socialist deal the Democrats put forth.  So the Republicans set to work to get rid of Democrat inclusions like ACORN and other unecessary provisions.  Republicans tried to get those things out and put forth other ideas, including the idea of insurance, to protect main street.

Dear Mr. Obama: Who are you?

Video From: weneedmccain

MUST SEE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-K7JwwV0U

Obama Flops at Least 7 times at First Debate

The Man Who Never Was

Barack “The Silencer” Obama’s Gangland Assault on Free Speech

Show Me the Money

Media Covering for Obama

Obama vs. McCain – A Clear Choice

Is Capitalism on the Ropes?

SARAH PALIN INTERVIEW on Today’s Show…

MCCAIN PALIN VOTERS DON’T EAT YOUR OWN

… SARAH PALIN INTERVIEW:

SARAH PALIN ON TODAY’S SHOW

SAY IT AIN’T SO JOE!

SAY IT AIN’T SO JOE!

Biden has the experience all right.  His experience has taught him, apparently, that he can get away with a lie without worrying.  After all, the Mainstream Media has got his back, and probably won’t check his facts, nor will they scrutinize his version of history (can anyone say Katie Couric?) …When were TV’s available, Joe?  Who was president at the time of the 1929 stock market crash, Joe?…And you said it with such CONVICTION!  Either Katie Couric didn’t know the facts when she interviewed you recently, or she let these facts slide.  My bet is that she didn’t know her facts because otherwise she could have helped you in the same way George S. helped Obama in a recent interview regarding Obama’s gaffe about his Muslim (yeah, that’s right,Christian) religion.

Stay tuned for the test.  It’s time for the Mainstream Media to strikeout the truth in their report coverage of the VP debate.  Their coverage of the campaign is a test.  It’s only a daily test.  If it were really truthful, you would not have been instructed to turn on your radios or go to the blogs…bleeeeeeeeeeeeeep.  –Lucid Penny

Biden Tells 14 Lies During VP Debate

Obama and Friends History of Radicalism

Obama and Friends…History of Radicalism

YOU’RE SMART: CONNECT THE DOTS.

(watch all 3 videos)

video one:

Video two:

Video three:

Here’s another video as a bonus:   Charting the Course of Obama Flip-flops

If you liked that video, try this:  Why We Taxpayers Get the Shaft

CAN’T HAPPEN HERE?  TELL THAT TO THE RUSSIANS, GERMANS, CHINESE, N. KOREANS, VIETNAMESE, CUBANS, CAMBODIANS

SAY IT AIN’T SO MR. O! TERRORISTS & FOREIGN VOTERS FUND OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN

Terrorist and foreign votes to be counted in America’s election?  Say it ain’t so Mr. O!

WOW!  THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.  MUST READ:

RNC Filing FEC Complaint Over Obama’s Excessive, Secret, and Foreign Campaign Cash [Update: $34 Million In Particularly Filthy Lucre]

OBAMA FALLS FROM TREE: CHANGE HITS MAINSTREET

OBAMA ALERT…FANNIE MAE FREDDIE MAC ALERT…ACORN ALERT…DEMOCRATIC PARTY ALERT

PASS THIS AROUND…EVERY VOTER SHOULD KNOW

AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO “TRUST” THE DEMOCRATS AND OBAMA ON THE ECONOMY?  NOT!

Planting Seeds of Disaster
ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party.

HERE’S AN EXCERPT:

Up to now, conventional wisdom on the financial meltdown has relegated ACORN and the CRA to bit parts. The real problem, we’ve been told, lay with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, however, ACORN is at the base of the whole mess. ACORN used CRA and Democratic sympathizers to entangle Fannie and Freddie and the entire financial system in a disastrous disregard of the most basic financial standards. And Barack Obama cut his teeth as an organizer and politician backing up ACORN’s economic madness every step of the way.

The above article is a follow up to this one:  Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Here’s an eye opener:  Because of Obama?  Because of Obama?  Can anyone say…Hitler?  Heil Obama!

HERE’S SOME MORE CHANGE!

NOT SO FAST, OBAMA…NOTHING TO DO WITH ACORN?

NOT SO FAST, OBAMA…NOTHING TO DO WITH ACORN?  Does this mean ACORN GETS THROWN UNDER THE BUS, TOO?  Pretty soon, there won’t be anyone left from your past to vouch for you because it seems that everyone you’ve ever dealt with who was once associated with you in some way or another on your climb to get to where you are is no longer relevant to you or what you stand for (Wright, Ayers, Acorn, etc.), so you say.

Be careful.  It appears to many of us as if all of these people have only served as rungs in your ladder to success.  The fact that they don’t seem to be too concerned or outraged about your willingness to continue to “associate” with them now that you are running for president leaves one to think that maybe they were part of the plan to get you where you are today and were clued in on it from the beginning.  But hey, who one associates with isn’t important.  Right?

Here’s an audio with Corsi (author of Obama Nation):   Corsi Interview (author of Obama Nation)

Wow!  HERE’S A YOUNG MAN WHO WON’T BE USED AS JUST ANOTHER RUNG ON THE DEMOCRAT’S AND OBAMA’S LADDER TO SUCCESS.  Keep an eye on this guy.  He’s got REAL POTENTIAL and an authentic message that smacks of REALITY.

WAIT…”O” HAS MORE GHOSTS? SAY IT AIN’T SO “O”!

Worse than Ayers, worse than Rezko, worse than Wright, worse than ACORN?  How much more information do we need before we realize that our Democratic candidate is mired in mud?  Where is the MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHEN YOU NEED THEM?  Oh, that’s right.  I forgot.  They’re in the movie theatre watching “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.”  click on link to read:  HYMAN: Obama’s Kenya ghosts

After reading the above article watch the following video.  I have placed a small excerpt of the article below the video to give you an idea of the content of the article.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/

BARACK OBAMA AND RAILA ODINGA

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama’s six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. “The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials,” Mr. Obama announced.

“Kenyans are now yearning for change,” he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama’s remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans – he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama’s August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama’s father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, “Barack Obama’s father is my maternal uncle.”

President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.

Mr. Obama’s judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.

Mark Hyman is an award-winning news commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.

Can’t Happen Here?  Tell that to the Russians, Germans, Chinese, N. Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Cambodians

Can’t Happen Here? Tell that to the Russians, Germans, Chinese, N. Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Cambodians

TIME TO USE THE “C” WORD

America is DIFFERENT?  How so?

Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried. We have nearly 100 years and 100 million corpses as proof.

communism has always resulted in economic deprivation – if not outright starvation – on a widespread scale…and this becomes a larger and larger segment of the population as time goes on – must be silenced, because they cannot be “converted.”  When that is not enough (and it is never enough), they are jailed, sent to forced labor camps, starved, shot, flayed, buried alive, tortured, dismembered and killed in whatever novel and despicable ways the communists can come up with to silence dissent and usher in utopia.

These practices are not the exception.  They are the rule. In the pantheon of the Unholy Church of Communism, the patron saints are Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot.  Millions of people have suffered and died at the hands of these butchers – initially hailed as redeemers, visionaries, and liberators but who turned out to be nothing more than elitist bastards cloaked in the guise of “social equality” who thought they knew what was best for everyone else.

Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried. We have nearly 100 years and 100 million corpses as proof.

And we are being lured into the same noose that has ensnared so many millions of hapless souls, despite reams of pages of history.  We express horror at the Hitler Youth in little matching uniforms singing “Hitler will save us, Hitler is our Lord,” but then we smile and laugh as we see grade schoolers in matching blue t-shirts singing, “Obama’s gonna save us.”  We are outraged by the army of children in Sudan, but think nothing of American black boys in camouflage pumping their fists and chanting propaganda from Obama’s campaign.  We are repulsed by some dictators’ claims that they are gods, but shrug it off as insignificant when Louis Farrakhan – a vicious anti-semite, among other reprehensible things – says “the Messiah is speaking” in a speech referring to Obama.

Still don’t think it can happen here?  Well, you’re in good company.  Neither did the Russians.  Or the Germans.  Or the Chinese.  Or the North Koreans.  Or the Vietnamese.  Or the Cubans.  Or the Cambodians.

THE WHOLE ARTICLE IS A “MUST READ” AND THE LINKS WITHIN THE ARTICLE ARE NOTEWORTHY.

INVESTERS FLEE FROM ‘CHANGE’ OBAMA HYPES

INVESTERS FLEE FROM ‘CHANGE’ OBAMA HYPES

Obama argues disingenuously that his tax increases would only affect higher-income workers and “corporate fat cats.” But it is precisely these top marginal tax rates that control incentives for savings, investment, entrepreneurship, business expansion, jobs and economic growth. While he wants to tax the rich, the burden will fall on the poor and the middle class.

In their new book, “The End of Prosperity,” Art Laffer, Steve Moore and Peter Tanous argue that the threat of this tax tsunami is already destabilizing our financial markets and causing capital flight from America.

THE REAL OBAMA

2001 OBAMA RADIO INTERVIEW

By John McCain

link: What We’re Fighting For: Protectionism and tax hikes are wrong for the economy.

The following are excerpts from the article:

Senator Obama wants to raise taxes and restrict trade. The last time America did that in a bad economy it led to the Great Depression.

We need to grow our small businesses, not tax them. I will fight the Democrats’ plans to redistribute the fruit of America’s labor and turn our economy into a full-fledged disaster. I will cut taxes on families, seniors, savers and businesses. We need to double the child deduction, cut the capital gains tax, and keep jobs in America with a lower business tax.

While most Americans are rightly concerned with the economic crisis, a world of pressing national security challenges also awaits the next president.

The Detroit News Endorses McCain’s Résumé Over Obama’s in Uncertain Times

Link to article: McCain Best Choice for Uncertain Times

The following is an excerpt from the article:

Though economic concerns are understandably dominating the nation’s attention, it can’t be forgotten that the world remains a very dangerous place. Within the next year, the new president will have to make difficult decisions about how to answer Iran’s push toward nuclear capability. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez continues to agitate in South America, Vladimir Putin appears determined to remove Russia from the league of democratic nations and North Korea is ever volatile.

The next president will be charged with stabilizing Iraq so American troops can leave that country in good conscience. He will also have to find an answer for Afghanistan that doesn’t bog down America in another long conflict or provoke Pakistan, a tenuous and nuclear armed ally.

McCain may lack the inspirational qualities of his opponent, but if this were a blind audition judged solely on the resumes of the two candidates, he would win decisively.

John McCain has what it takes to lead America in these very uncertain times.

TITO THE BUILDER AND AVERAGE JANE SPEAK UP FOR THE REST OF US

Tito the builder and the average Jane at his side dare to confront the media with passion about the unjustified treatment Joe the plumber received after Obama’s campaign visited Joe’s neighborhood (see video).  These two citizens who spoke up in defense of Joe the plumber are authentic and intuitive.  They understand what it means for the citizens of this country when an average Joe gets excoriated by the press or the Obama campaign–just because he dared to raise a question. Talk about silencing dissent!

Is it any wonder The Fairness Doctrine is being considered by the Democrats?  They want everything filtered through them so they can control everything we see and hear.  According to their sense of fairness, Tito the builder, the average Jane and Joe may need to be silenced.

Make no mistake. There is nothing FAIR about THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE legislation that is being considered by the Democrats because they will choose for us what is “fair” or “not fair”–whose opinions should be heard and whose opinions should not be heard.

Thank you Megyn of Foxnews for allowing Tito’s opinions to be heard.

FREE SPEECH “SMACK DOWN” NOT ABOVE OBAMA PAY GRADE

OMG!  Apparently, the smack down of free speech is not above Obama’s pay grade…

Obama Threatens Stations that Play “Ayers” Ad, Calls for Boycott

Many of us have been taught since we were little children that we should choose our friends wisely because we would be judged by our associations.  As adults, we tell our own children the same thing.  Make no mistake: Obama is judged by the company he keeps, just as the rest of us are also judged.  Is this REALLY such a surprise?  Did he REALLY think no one would question the associations he has made, or was it just that he THOUGHT we could be duped?

Alas…he has seen we cannot be duped, so he attempts to smack down the free speech that could shed “light” on his character?  The fact that he wants to silence his critics for the associations he freely chose leads one to believe that perhaps there is indeed more to his story and character than he would like us to think.  Otherwise…why not let others speak freely without threat of punishment?  Will the REAL Obama please stand up?

Obama is planning to run a 30 minute infomercial (paid by his campaign).  One wonders if he would cry foul if every station chose not to run his infomercial?  His actions lead one to believe that He thinks that HIS voice is the ONLY voice that matters–that only he has the qualifications to make judgments.–Lucid Penny

This AD seems to have struck a nerve:  One wonders why.

Hillary Backers: “I TOLD YOU SO.” (Obama Fraud)

Hillary Backers Decry Massive Obama Vote Fraud

With accusations of voter registration fraud swirling as early voting begins in many states, some Hillary Clinton supporters are saying: “I told you so.”

Obama’s surprisingly strong win in Iowa, which defied all the polls, propelled his upstart candidacy to front-runner status. But Lynette Long, a Hillary supporter from Bethesda, Md., who has a long and respected academic career, believes Obama’s victory in Iowa and in 12 other caucus states was no miracle. “It was fraud,” she told Newsmax.

He’s Ba-ack!…Amerikka’s Favorite Racist, Anti-Semitic Pastor G-D Wright

He’s Ba-ack!… AmeriKKKa’s Favorite Racist, Anti-Semitic Pastor G-D Wright

since the mainstream media never did look into the disgusting racist newsletters printed weekly at the church, here again are a few of those racist hate-filled articles:

** Obama’s Church Newsletter Published Hamas Manifesto
** After 8 Months… Obama Finally Apologizes For Hamas Article
** Obama’s Church: Israel Planned Ethnic Bomb To Kill Blacks & Arabs
** Obama’s Pastor Wright: “Italians Look Down Their Garlic Noses…”
** Obama’s Mentor Wright Slams Nation’s “Fondling Fathers”
** Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Thomas Jefferson Was a Rapist, Too!
** More “White Hate” Discovered in Obama’s Church Newsletters
** Obama & Farrakhan Shared the Cover of Wright’s Trumpet Mag
** Obama’s Church Posts Vile Poem on 9-11 Anniversary

The Audacity of Socialism

Investor’s Business Daily

Barack Obama has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim?

In this series, we examine Senator Obama’s past, his voting record and the people who’ve served as his advisers and mentors over the years. We’ll show how the facts of Obama’s actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.

Obama and Frank: A Farewell to Arms

Obama and Frank:  A Farewell to Arms

In a video presentation to the far-left group Caucus for Priorities, Obama revealed just where Frank’s 25% cut might come from. “I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems,” he said. “I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems. I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.”

So forget about national missile defense or responding to a realistic assessment of our enemies’ intentions and capabilities.