Texas has a vibrant, built for business state….California is going broke….what’s the difference. This from Forbes

D.C. insiders feel that Obama will be reelected in 2012…only 26% of the public thinks so!

This women is so disconnected from reality…maybe reading the first story about California going broke.  Pelosi says the GOP targeted her because she brings the resources.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois (your going to be suprised here) has a plan to reduce the defecit by $427 billion in 2015…take more of your money!

Obama Senior aides told him not to sign ObamaCare…he did anyhow.

A Toy store removes a pig from a playset because it offended Muslim and Jewish parents…if it offends you don’t buy it…sheesh!!!

A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying President Obama.  Not sure what he’s doing but it appears that he’s pleading for help.

75% of Americans say that they’re not better off…highest percentage since the mid 1970′s

Struggling mom sells Obama letter to pay for house.

As unemployment benefits are set to end Unemployment Offices to add armed guards.

Spending by Americans slowed in September and incomes fell for the first time in more than a year.

With a Democrat Congress in power, 37% of Americans feel congress did less than what is accomplished in a typical session.

HEALTHCARE

Boeing sent letters to it’s 90,000 non-union workers telling them that they would have to pay significantly more for their health care plan next year.  Boeing cited changes in the new healthcare law.  What is interesting in the story is it’s effect on NON-UNION workers.  This extra charge does not affect non-union workers in their South Carolina facility.

DEBT/ECONOMY
The national debt is up $3 TRILLION on Obamas watch. Not up to $3 trillion but has increased by more than $3 trillion dollars.

By the numbers….each American owes $43,000.00

Foreign investors are buying up US debt.  China remains the biggest holder of the US Treasury debt.  It’s holdings total $868.4 billion.

The US Dollar fell for a fifth week against the Euro, dropped to a 15 year low against the Yen and fell to parity with the Australian and Canadian dollar.

Unemployment at 10.0% in mid October…expected to rise when government announces numbers in November

China has overtaken Japan as the #2 economy in the world.  Not bad, like to see country’s succeed but did you know that China favors the Euro over the U.S Dollar.

NEW JOBLESS CLAIMS RISE TO 500,000…Highest level in 9 months

Obama now blames poor job numbers on Congress…wait don’t the democrats control congress

This is not good news for our economy .. U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005.

Banks to benefit most from White House effort to fight foreclosures…

Obama supports the right for a mosque at ground zero….

Nancy Pelosi has called for an investigation of anyone protesting the building of the mosque at Ground Zero.

The conflict between Obamas America and Arizona is escalating.  The US Attorney General (Eric Holder) may sue Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Last US combat troops leave Iraq…Obama plans to double the number of private security guards

Seems like we use to hear from this democratic administration how many jobs we added or saved – JUNE UNEMPLOYMENT 9.5%…125,000 jobs lost.

This is just unbelievable…with thinking likes this in leadership positions in Washington it’s no wonder we’re in the situation that we’re in.  PELOSI – Unemployment checks are the fastest way to create jobs.

President Obama calls Arizona Immigration law unenforceable.

A federal judge allows Mexico to have a voice in the court case against U.S.Immigration law…..really!

President Obama has sought to remake America into a social democracy - seems like he’s doing well so far.

Federal program designed to pay the heating and cooling bills for impoverished families wasted more than $100 million

Why do we even allow them to stay on U.S. soil – UN Committee calls for dumping the US dollar

Just for the humor – vintage ads…some of these are really funny…what were they thinking.

And finally, the puppies!!!

The legislation also enacts a dramatic and unprecedented diminution in the individual liberty of citizens. It does so by mandating that all Americans buy a government-approved health care plan while redistributing wealth on a massive scale by promising annual federal insurance subsidies to all Americans who earn less than 400 percent of the poverty level, which is currently $88,200 for a family of four.

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I’m 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.  

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.  

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.”  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.  

I’m tired of being told how bad  America  is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities  America  offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States  will have the economy of  Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of  China , the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of  Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela .

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.  

I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.  

I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln  wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.  

I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.  

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let  Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in  America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in  Saudi Arabia  to teach love and tolerance.  

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a  three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.  

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.  

I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next?  Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”?  And, no,  I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military…. Those are the citizens we need.  

I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.  

I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in  Illinois , where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet.  

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.  

Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.  

I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.  

Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.  

Robert  A. Hall is a Marine  Vietnam  veteran who served five terms in the  Massachusetts   State  Senate.  

He wonders why he just can’t land that high paying job.

Top lawmaker wants to add a mileage based tax to increase tax revenues.  When are we going to stand up against these politicians and say enough is enough.

President Obama marks his 100th day in office.

• The U.S economy shrank at a worse than expected rate of 6.1 percent in the first quarter.
• The un-employment rate reaches 8.5 percent
• Economy gripped tight in recession’s talons

President Barack Obama asked congressional leaders for an additional $1.5 billion dollars on Tuesday to enhance the U.S. response to the swine flu outbreak.  Remember folks, this is on top of all of the other money that’s been requested that the government doesn’t have.  The only way to get it is to increase your taxes or print more money.  Neither option is what you want.

Although President Obama said there isn’t anything to worry about, obviosuly not wanting to panic the populace, VP Biden says if a family member asked him about traveling, he’d advise staying away from public transportation to avoid swine flu.

Nancy Pelosi says “Today, for the first time in many, many years, we have a president’s budget … that is a statement of our national values“…just what are the national values she’s referring to.

Congressmen Murtha’s nephew got millions in no bid contracts.  I’m sure there will Halliburton type outrage soon.

Political comedians have settled for “hero worship” of President Obama.

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