Quote of the Election

A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders!

Robert Rector on Welfare Reform

"The Obama administration is waiving the federal requirement that ensures a portion of able-bodied TANF recipients must engage in work activities. It is replacing that requirement with a standard that shows that the pre-reform welfare program was successful and the post-reform program a failure. If that is not gutting welfare reform, it is difficult to imagine what would be."

Rector helped write the 1996 welfare law: "Working closely with members of Congress, I helped draft the work requirements in the 1996 law, and I raised the alarm on July 12, when the Obama administration issued a bureaucratic order allowing states to waive those requirements.

Bill Clinton vetoed the legislation twice before signing it the third time. He happily takes credit for the budget surpluses which began in 1998 and continued through FY 2001.

Thoughts From Neal Boortz

It is not wrong to distrust government. It is not wrong to fear government. In certain cases it is not even wrong to despise government for government is inherently evil. Yes, a necessary evil, but dangerous nonetheless, somewhat like a drug. Just as a drug that in the proper dosage can save your life, an overdose of government can be fatal.

Under our government's definition of "poor" you can have a $5 million net worth, a $300,000 home and a new $90,000 Mercedes, all completely paid for. You can also have a maid, cook, and valet, and a million dollars in your checking account, and you can still be officially defined by our government as "living in poverty."

To determine whether or not some poor soul is "living in poverty," the government measures one thing -- just one thing. Income. It doesn't matter one bit how much you have, how much you own, how many cars you drive or how big they are, whether or not your pool is heated, whether you winter in Aspen and spend the summers in the Bahamas, or how much is in your savings account.. It only matters how much income you claim in that particular year. This means that if you take a one-year leave of absence from your high-paying job and decide to live off the money in your savings and checking accounts while you write the next great American novel, the government says you are living in poverty."

How to React to PPACA

Lincoln said: we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The Obama Administration has chosen to pick and choose which laws to enforce - immigration and DOMA for example. States now need to follow their example - especially if the Federal law is an unfunded mandate.

Pigford vs. Glickman - Redistributing Wealth

"In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997." The case was entitled "Pigford vs. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims, but then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to "Pigford". The amount was a staggering ... $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs - 400 black farmers had now swollen, in a class action suit, to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America. There was only one teensy problem: the United States of America doesn't have 86,000 black farmers!

According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697.

How are Shirley Sherrod - who's family received $13 million - and Senator Barack Obama involved?

Thinking is permitted at all times! Where in the Constitution can an Executive Department of the government operate as a bank (other than the Federal Reserve created in 1913)? So the Department of Agriculture starts lending money and, the American taxpayers lose $1.25 billion in a civil suit!

Medicare is Broke! Annual Report says

Leaving Medicare and the PPACA unchanged requires either dramatic tax hikes or harsh cuts–immediately. “The 2012 report states that bringing Medicare Part A into actuarial balance would require an immediate 47 percent increase in the payroll tax or a 26 percent cut in Part A benefits,”

Smith LTE on Incumbents

Steve R. Smith, Grovetown
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

The Columbia County Tea Party is disgusted and fed up with
the entire Congress and our president, and will vote against
all incumbents running for Congress and the president, and
you should also. Here’s why:

Congress has created a $15 trillion debt for which you and
I have to pay $400 billion in interest each year. That is
more than $1 billion every day of the year – not just the
days we work, but on our days of rest, too!

How did Congress run up such a huge debt? By spending more
money than is collected in federal taxes for years and years,
as urged and approved by the sitting presidents. How many
years do you think Congress has overspent with the blessing
of the sitting presidents?

You can see by looking at the official financial records of
the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Public
Debt on the national debt. It rose steadily from more than
$276.3 billion on June 30, 1958, to more than $15.4 trillion
as of Feb. 16. To see the Bureau of the Public Debt’s full,
official reports, go to

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm

Can you find honest, sensible reasons for our past
Congresses (Republican- and Democrat-controlled) and many
presidents (Republican and Democrat) to have spent that much
money over and beyond federal taxes paid – all federal taxes,
not just federal income tax – every year since 1958? I can’t.

How about reasons that justify paying more than $1 billion in
interest a day, much of it to foreign governments who hold U.S.
Treasury notes? Couldn’t that billion a day be better used to
help us here at home?

That’s why we have lost faith in our current incumbent members
of Congress and our president – because they are doing
absolutely nothing to reduce the national debt and, in fact,
voted to raise the debt by more than $1 trillion last August,
and now this month are voting to raise it an additional $1
trillion.

The incumbents obviously have no intention of ever reducing
the national debt. Therefore, if you want the national debt
to be reduced, you are going to have to vote out the
incumbents to get new members into Congress and the presidency
who have the desire, drive and will to get the federal budget
under control and start paying down the national debt.

If you enjoy paying more than $1 billion a day in interest –
much of which is going straight into the pocket of the Chinese
government – and wish to continue doing so the rest of your
life, then by all means, keep voting for incumbents in Congress,
and you will get your wish.