RePO Team … Should Scare You!
A great article. Get the rest of it at http://www.humanevents.com/
The Reid-Pelosi-Obama (RePO) Team Vs. The Rest of America
Updated 10/15/2008 ET
Then the housing bailout added $300 billion.
The Paulson bailout cost us another $700 billion.
Now Washington Democrats – already counting on complete, filibuster-proof control of the nation’s purse-strings come November – are talking about spending another $300 billion on a “stimulus package.”
That comes to a grand total of $1.45 trillion the taxpayers are being asked to provide for Washington’s ideas on how to save the economy.
But here’s the thing: Has anyone ever asked the people who are footing the bill – the taxpayers – how we’d like this money spent?
How would you spend $1.45 trillion to make America better? Today I’m going to give you an opportunity to tell America how you’d spend this money.
But first some news, with Halloween just around the corner, that should scare us all. MORE …
OUTRAGE – ous!
This letter has been making the rounds on the internet for weeks now. It was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills, California. Any comments? I’ll begin. I think Alisa speaks for many of us. She speaks for me.
On July 31, 2008, the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “Where’s The Outrage?’
Really? I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening – for who am I?
Soros
I’m not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement.
I’m not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.
Barbra
Al Gore
I am not a filmmaker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.
The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don’t know how to reach those who feel similarly, in order to effect change.
Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what’s ‘fair’.
Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn’t these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?
When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we couldn’t afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.
I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler’s Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English, now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants, and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.
I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally; That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school; that every time I go to the ATM, I see “do you want to continue in English or Spanish?”; that every time I call the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear “press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish.” WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.
I am outraged at our country’s weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson’s Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson’s plant in Tennessee. Tennessee, last I checked, is still part of the United States. If Muslim’s want to live and work here they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.
In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of “The Jewel of Medina,” by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed’s wife, A’isha, due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of why at other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country.
Ahmadinejad - The Dictator of Iran
I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran ’s nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews – one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?
As if the battle for good and evil isn’t enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the ‘recycle police’ in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment – I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit.
But when and where does the lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong; good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.
So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don’t even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.
Alisa Wilson, Ph.D.
Beverly Hills, California
Does Canada “Work”?
From the git-go, this is not an article critical of Canada, the nation. Canada geographically occupies most of North America – from sea (Atlantic Ocean) to shining sea (Pacific Ocean) to frozen sea (Arctic Ocean). It’s huge! The only other nation that shares a border with Canada is the USA.
Explored and then conquered by France and then Great Britain, Canada became a “federal dominion” in 1867. It is now a federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, and its government is best described as “a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth as its head of state.”
Why bring up Canada?
Because one day soon, the USA may look very much like her – minus the Queen. Much of what Canada is and does WORKS. No doubt about it. It’s a wealthy nation. It has low unemployment. Its socialist leanings are similar to or the same as Great Britain’s. Canada works … for Canadians.
Generally speaking, the things Canadians enjoy we Americans enjoy. Ask Canadians if they are free and they’ll tell you, “Yep.”
But Canada isn’t America. (You Canadians … don’t take this wrong …) Canada is not as great, prosperous, generous, strong, or entrepreneurial. No one would consider Canada the “leader of the free world” or the biggest bull in the financial china shop. One reason is Canada’s population is about 32 million, give or take. That’s only 1/10th of the population of the USA. So … Canada is bigger geographically, and much smaller when it comes to population. With all the natural resources within its borders, Canada has a lot going for it … but it isn’t America.
Personally and practically, I don’t want to pay the taxes Canadians do. And I don’t want to buy into their medical program. Canada WORKS … but not for me. I love to visit Canada, but I don’t want to live there.
With all that up front – in my opinion America is headed … NOT TOWARD THE CANADIAN SOCIALIST MODEL – the model that works up there, but toward a much more dangerous model of socialism. We’re heading toward a more controlling/dictatorial form of government, where a very few will control the lives of multitudes. The USA is headed backwards … toward 1984. Big Brother. A propaganda machine run by an elite media.
Oh, brother.
Think about it. Any comments?
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