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The Law is the Law

THE LAW IS THE LAW

So " if " the US government determines that it is against the !

law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then,

so be it.

And " if " that same government decides that the

"Ten Commandments"

are not to be used in or on a

government installation, then,

so be it.

I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a

law abiding US citizen.

I say, "so be it," because I would like to think that

smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions.

I would like to think that those people have the

American public's best interests at heart.

BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?

Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings , I don't believe the Government and its

employees should participate in the

Easter and Christmas

celebrations which honor the God

that our government

is eliminating from many facets of American life.

I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Eas ter. After all, it's just another day.

I'd like the " US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as

well as Sundays." After all, it's just another day.

I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives

to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all it's just another day.

I'm thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would

work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other

day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."

In fact....

I think that our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God...) because, after all, our government says that

it should be just another day....

What do you all think????

If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected

officials will stop giving in to the "minority opinions"

and begin, once again, to represent the "majority"

of ALL of the American people.

SO BE IT...........

Please Dear Lord,

Give us the help needed to keep you in our country!

'Amen' and 'Amen'

Touche!

These are definitely things I never thought about but

from now on, I will be sure to question those in

government who support these changes.

At the top, it says "I hope this makes its way around

the USA several times over!!!!!"

Let's see that it does.

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Who's the Great Communicator?

Historically, Ronald Regan was the Great Communicator for good reason.  In spite of yellow journalism’s constant barrage to limit his effectiveness, he was able to get his message directly to the people.

In Obama's case has 24/7 help from the same side stream media.

The result:

Obama is not the great communicator, he is the Great Prevaricator

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We Need to Get This Straight

We need to get this straight.
It is a lie that Democrats/RHINOs no matter how much they are given it's never enough.
 
The correct statement is no matter how much they steal, it's never enough.
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Business Sense applied to Washinton DC

The Proposal

When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.

Our government should not be immune from similar risks.

Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State). Also reduce remaining staff by 25%.

Accomplish this over the next 8 years. (two steps / two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X $165,200 pay / member / yr.)

$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people's staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year)

$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion / yr)

The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country?

We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.

Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)

Note:

Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months (on the campaign trail) and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.

$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.

$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.

$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.

$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of con gress members.

$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)

Big business does these types of cuts all the time.

If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits there is no telling how much we would save. Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.

IF you are happy how the Congress spends our taxes, then just ignor this message. IF you are NOT at all happy, then I assume you know what to do.

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Village Idiot

But don't forget, folks: Somewhere in Texas a village has been reunited with its idiot,

Well, I can't wait until the village of Chicago is reunited with their idiot.

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Eric Holder/Washington DC residents/Constitution

So Holder is shopping for a lawyer who will support his giving Washingto DC residents representation in Congress?
 
Apparently he can't read and comprehend our Constiution's plain English about DC's proper place in politics.
Holder: What part of protect and defend the Constitution don't you understand? Until we see his college transcript, we can only assume he was barely a "C" student and a social promotion known otherwise as an affirmative action graduate.
 
Washington DC residents want representation either move or split DC between Virginia and Maryland.  What are we waiting for?
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Pirates of Somalia

Pirates of Somalia have nothing over the Pirates in Washington.
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Muslims in recent history

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Pause a moment, reflect back.

These events are actual events from history..

They really happened!!!

Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists.

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists.

8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists.

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by-- you guessed it-- Muslim male extremists.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people... Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

According to The Book of Revelations:

The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything.

And Now:

For the award winning Act of Stupidity Of all times the People of America want to elect, to the most Powerful position on the face of the Planet -- The Presidency of the United states of America ... A Male of Muslim descent who is the most extremely liberal Senator in Congress (in other words an extremest) and in his 40s.

Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason ???

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Put Congress into Social Security with the rest of us Peasants

SOCIAL SECURITY for Politicians

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators, Congressmen and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan .

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.

Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..

This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA....ZILCH....

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;

"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into,-every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer)-we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bill Bradley's benefits!

 Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to:

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us then sit back.....and watch how fast they would fix it.

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Obama isn't Robin Hood

Obama and company are protraying themselves as being Robin Hood, take from the rich and give to the poor. In actuality, per legend Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the tax paying, working poor.

On the contrary, Obama and company are Robbing Hood, they are stealing from the tax paying rich and middle class and giving it to the non-tax paying, idle poor.

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Change due to Politicians

.Change NO, Restore YES

Change ... Change Change!!!!!!!!!!

Not long ago I read a joke ... It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.

Funny?

Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny.

That got me to thinking ... They all promise change. How about if they run on a promise of restoration rather than change. A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable. Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.

We used to have a strong dollar ... Politicians changed that.

Life used to be sacred ... Politicians changed that.

Marriage used to be sacred ... Politicians are changing that.

We used to be respected around the world ... Politicians changed that.

We used to have a strong manufacturing economy ... Politicians changed that.

We used to have lower tax structures ... Politicians changed that.

We used to enjoy more freedoms ... Politicians changed that.

We used to be a large exporter of American made goods ... Politicians changed that.

We used to be an openly Christian nation ... Politicians changed that.

We used to teach patriotism in schools ... Politicians changed that.

We used to educate children in schools ... Politicians changed that.

We used to enjoy freedom of speech ... Politicians changed that.

We used to enforce LEGAL citizenship ... Politicians changed that.

We used to have affordable food & gas prices ... Politicians changed that, too. ... and one could go on and on with this list.

What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to change that as well if you will elect them.

When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say, enough is enough?

The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed, as it is now.

When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will America realize ... Politicians are what is wrong with America ?

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Latest on Drilling Off the Coast

The senate today sent a bill to Bush to sign that releases drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific but excludes the Gulf.  OK, that's getting closer until you read on and find out that it will be THREE YEARS (2011) before leases are made available.
 
Can you say, "incompetent federal government" boys and girls.  This isn't a new process, fire the whole lot. 
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Side Stream Media and Climate Change

It's no wonder the side stream media don’t take issue with climate change, who ever heard of a journalism major taking a science of any kind, they don’t mental capacity to understand and digest it.
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To Democrats and RINO's

To all my Democrat friends who think the president runs the country, and all bad thing about Obama are propaganda, who thinks McCain is just a puppet for Bush, who think changing the president will bring gas back to 2 dollars, and all of us will return to the middle class and that 2007 never happened. mull this over. L

 

three parts: 

 

Part 1

In just one year.  Remember the election in 2006? 
 Thought you might like to read the following: 
 A little over one year ago: 
 
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high; 
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; 
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%. 
 
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen: 
 
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon; 
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase); 
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses); 
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; 
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure. 
 
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! 
 
Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.  

He has to work with what's handed to him.  

 

Part 2:

 

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. 
 
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999                        Taxes under Bush 2008 
Single making 30K - tax $8,400        
     Single making 30K - tax $4,500 
Single making 50K - tax $14,000           Single making 50K - tax $12,500 
Single making 75K - tax $23,250           Single making 75K - tax $18,750 
Married making 60K - tax $16,800         Married making 60K- tax $9,000 
Married making 75K - tax $21,000         Married making 75K - tax $18,750 
Married making 125K - tax $38,750        Married making 125K - tax $31,250

Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.


 

PART 3:

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? 


Read this:
Boy am I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. 


I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I 
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts
.

1.      $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.     
 

Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77 


 

2.      $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 


 

3.      $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 

4.     $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
 


 

 5.      $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the

 American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
 


 

6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
 


 

7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
 


 

 8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers. 
 

Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 


 

9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens. 
 

Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 


 

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
 


 

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and mariju ana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht 


 

12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at:  http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
 


 

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
 


 

14.  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'
Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
 


 

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR

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Two America's?

The only two America's are the real one and the one between John Edwards ears

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