Defeat Cap and Trade? Yes We Can!

Like I was sayin… if you don’t act now, you are gonna be stuck with this thing.  The house passed the Waxman Markey bill that is intended to fight global warming by doubling your electricity bill and forcing you into ity bitty cars.  As bad as this bill is, it is even worse as its purpose is to protect us from the global warming hoax.

Here is a great post that gives information on how you can help stop this bill from passing the senate.  Please take the time to contact your senator and tell them that you are against this bill.

Cap and Tax Bill Nears Vote

Like I was sayin… Hold on you your wallets.  The house is moving toward passing the Waxman Markey bill to combat the global warming hoax.  You can read all about the latest on the bill here.

Some of the more vexing issues are that we are going to have a massive tax increase to fight a make believe crisis.  Energy prices are expected to almost double.  Gas will go up at least 77 cents a gallon according to some estimates.  Waxman just added another 300 pages to the bill prior to the vote and there are placeholders for more legislation.  This means that anybody who votes for it is voting for a bill that is missing language that will be inserted after the bill passes.  I didn’t even know this was legal.

This story has links to a list of congressmen that are on the fence.  You need to call them to put a stop to this.

Bush Deficit Continues to Grow

Like I was sayin… blame that other guy.

Six months into the Obama administration and Democrats continue to push the deficit on Bush.  A great post over at Conservative Patriot HQ puts some of the facts out there.

Recently, Steny Hoyer told a group of UVA grads how Bush handed Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit.  However, the chart in the article shows otherwise.

Since Obama has taken office, the deficit has quadrupled to over $1.85 trillion according to the CBO.

The other point is that the democrats have been in charge of congress since 2006.  It is congress that sets the spending limits and the budget.

It will be interesting to see who they blame for the deficit next year.

Obama Breaks Another Campaign Promise

Like I was sayin… I hope you all really didn’t believe what I was sayin…

The Obama administration is pulling back on another campaign promise.  During the campaign, Obama promised to post bills on-line for 5 days before signing them.

However, just like many other promises he made during the campaign, he is pulling back from this one.

Shortly after swearing in, the administration started talking about posting non-emergency bills for 5 days.  Now they are talking about posting before they pass congress.  This is somewhat a hollow gesture as you can go to the congress web sites now and see the bills.

There is a good post and link about this over on the Conservative Patriot HQ.

Once again, hope and change are falling very short of the mark.

Global Warming and Truth in Advertising

As congress moves closer to drafting and passing a cap and trade bill, Americans need to understand that they are the victims of a giant hoax.

There is a great post over at the Conservative Patriot HQ discussing this topic.  Our media and government seem to want to ignore that fact that man made global warming claims are dubious at best.  Most of the studies ignore evidence to the contrary or skip the peer review process all together.

Soon, Americans will be burdened with a massive energy tax that will cripple our economy.  The question is, are we going to let this happen?

Glenn Beck: Open Letter to the Government

Like I was sayin… WOW.

I was blown away today by the letter that Glenn Beck read on his TV show.  A viewer sent it in and it was amazing.  It summed up many of the things that I am most of the people I know are thinking and feeling.

You can find a link to it here.

Among other things, the letter covers topics such as:

1. Illegal Immigration
2. TARP
3. Czars
4. Cap and Trade
5. Universal Healthcare
6. Growing government control
7. ACORN
8. Redistribution of Wealth
9. Charitable Contributions
10. Corporate Bailouts
11. Transparency and Accountability
12. Unprecedented Quick Spending

The author goes on to sum up her feelings quite well. 

This is something you must check out.  Also, Glenn Beck as a link to a petition that you can add your name to the letter before he sends it on.

More Bad News from the Most Ethical Congress Ever

Like I was sayin… if this is the most ethical congress ever, we are in trouble.

Not long ago, Nancy Pelosi promised the most ethical congress every.  Before and since then, there have been all sorts of issues some ignored by the MSM like this story commenting on Chris Dodd’s ethical lapses.

Interestingly enough, I haven’t heard much about this.  As the referenced post indicated, when Sen. Ted Stephens got some construction work for favors and didn’t disclose it, the story was front page news.

Thankfully, we all have blogs that we can follow to keep up with stuff like this.

Political Stories You Might have Missed – Week ending 6/12

Like I was sayin… you have to pay attention.  Conservative Patriot HQ has a weekly list of political stories that you might have missed and need to be aware of.  You can find them here.

This weeks column talks about more hate from Paul Krugman, Taxing your cell phone, the stimulus promise busted, more on the Pay Czar, and Miranda rights for terrorists.

Stimulus Not Putting a Halt to Unemployment

Like I was sayin… maybe they should have read the bill first.

Over at Conservative Patriot HQ, there is a post detailing the massive fraud that was perpetrated on the American people in the form of the Stimulus bill. 

We were told that if we didn’t pass the bill “right now” we were headed for certain economic disaster.  However, the facts show that unemployment is now worse that what the administration predicted if we did nothing.  Perhaps we would have been better off if somebody would have read the bill….

Be sure to check out the chart that says it all…

Obama’s plan to regulate paychecks

Like I was say… you make too much!

No long ago in a speech, the president said that executives that receive bonuses in this economy is in bad taste and as president, he won’t stand for it.  Now, it seems reasonable to agree that executives and employees that work for companies that would have gone out of business except for large cash infusions from the tax payers should not receive bonuses.  However, back when I saw this I noticed that between the lines Obama wasn’t attacking those companies, but all companies.

Today I was reading an article that indicated that Obama was going to introduce a new plan that would call for increased oversight of executive pay at all financial companies and not just those that received taxpayer help.

The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a plan to overhaul financial regulation, the New York Times reported.

The story mentions that the administration is currently debating how broadly they can regulate the pay of private companies.  Another worrisome fact is that they will not achieve this through legislation, but rather through regulation.

The changes could go into effect through regulations, not legislation, depending on the result of discussions on the issue.

The article goes on to report more troubling information:

The regulations would reportedly cover all financial establishments, not just those receiving federal bailout aid and would likely work to ensure executive pay was in line with the financial interest of the company.

So now, the administration that is running trillion dollar deficits, is filled with people that can’t figure out their tax forms, and is still “working” on a plan to rescue banks is going to be deciding how to best pay executives as private companies to ensure the companies are well run.

Regan said it best when he said something along the lines of “government isn’t the solution to our problems, it isthe problem”.  Now they are finding new and creative ways to be a bigger problem.  Our income tax system started as a way to limit the wealth of a few extremely wealthy individuals and then trickled down to the rest of us to the point that the government believes that it can take over 1/3 of our incomes.  I imagine that it will only be a few more years when depending upon what you do for a living, anything over what the government things is good for the company will be taxed at 90% or more.