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POPSDEAR CONGRESS: YOU WORK FOR US! f you stick to these guiding lights, you can't go wrong. Mr. President and members of Congress, I've kept it simple for you: BALANCE, CUT, SAVE. That's what should guide you in your decisions in the week's ahead. My family can't afford the decisions you are making on my behalf so I am signing this petition to remind you of what is important: My Family, My Country And My Freedom. Thank you and God Bless America
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POPSHow Dare They Call It Socialism! We spend more than double than the entire rest of the world, taxpayer dollars given to a government entity "for the health and "safety" of all citizens." "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." — James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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POPSPork-Barrel Orgy at Home, Obama Hammers Defense Waste
Speaking to an audience of military veterans, President Barack Obama called for cutting wasteful defense spending and for reforming the way defense industry does business. “Every dollar wasted in our defense budget is a dollar we can’t spend to care for our troops or protect America or prepare for the future,” he said Monday. Obama really let if fly when he talked about the need to reform the “defense establishment,” calling wasteful defense spending an “affront” to the American people and the troops. Using a similar approach the administration has used in its arguments to pass health care reform, Obama singled out “special interests, contractors, and entrenched lobbyists” who oppose changes to the status quo. “They’re putting up a fight. But make no mistake, so are we.” He vowed to cut any weapons program that doesn’t support the troops in the field or underperforms. http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/08/17/obama-hammers-defense-establishment/
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POPSObama Cuts Military Spending while Domestic Spending Once again "Barry" signs legislation designed to make us less safe citing "wasteful spending". Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black? This logic coming from the President who is singlehandedly bankrupting our nation. Why doesn't he and the rest of those capital hill socialists cut some of the PORK out of their recent PORKULUS bill? And while they are about BUDGET cuts why not SCRAPE the recent 900+ page cap and trade bill they are trying to push on American business. This would be laughable if it were not so serious.
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POPSKeep Obama's Military Budgets Clean! The President and the Secretary of Defense are calling to cut wasteful weapons and invest in things that make us truly strong. But some of your colleagues want to add over $2 billion in funding to the President's supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan. The extra money is to be used for things we don't need - like C-17 cargo planes Secretary of Defense Gates specifically asked to CUT from the budget. As your constituent, I ask you to oppose any add-ons that increase the cost of President Obama’s Iraq/Afghan funding bill, and keep future military funding bills clear of pork-barrel spending. We’ve got a chance to change America’s priorities, let's use it.
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POPS Fiscal Discipline What's a few trillion among friends when you can save five hundred thousand a year on logos? In his weekly address, the president vows to eliminate 'dozens of government programs' and says he'll ask Cabinet secretaries to slash department budgets as part of an efficiency campaign. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-budget19-2009apr19,0,7647171.story
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POPSGov. Hand-outs Bankrupting Arizona Another example of what happens when too many people look to government for give me's. They come to the state house with the hands out and not with their sleeves rolled up. Instead of offering to work to produce wealth they are asking that it be redistributed. This sounds much like GM to me. Workers come to management and say give me. Management gives in and gives until they can not give anymore. With the government passing laws that does not promote fiscal responsibility it only compounds the problem. But sooner or later it comes time to pay the piper. Watch out folks this same crisis is spreading across this land at an alarming rate. There is a wild fire burning out of control. A fire extinguisher is not going to stop this inferno.
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POPSIs A Trillion-Dollar Tax Increase A "Spending Cut Or Saving"? Instead, the figure represents Obama's total efforts at deficit reduction, including tax hikes (of more than $1 trillion) on families making over $250,000 a year. It also includes hundreds of billions of dollars 'saved' by not continuing to spend $170 billion a year in Iraq." Only a big-government man would think of calling a trillion-dollar tax increase a spending cut or "saving." And from the perspective of the federal government, a trillion dollars taxed is a trillion dollars saved from the greed of the taxpayers who produced the wealth and might well want to spend or invest it in nongovernmental activities. Obama's secretary of energy, Steven Chu, said last year that the price of electricity in America is "anomalously low." You see how much smarter that Nobel Prize winner is than you? You probably thought you already were spending enough on electricity and fuel.
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POPSHow The Trojan Horse Bill Set To Be Passed, Could Kill You organization. It is to cut health care costs by preventing Americans from getting treatments that the government decides don't meet their standards for cost effectiveness. In his 2008 book on health care, he explained that such a council would, "lower overall spending by determining which medicines, treatments and procedures are most effective-and identifying those that do not justify their high price tags." Once a panel of government experts decides what is and what is not cost-effective by their definition, the government will stop paying for treatments, medicines, therapies or devices that fall into the latter category. Initially, this will limit access to very expensive treatments for federal employees, veterans, the elderly, members of the military and their dependents and others who rely on the feds to pay for their health care.
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POPSObama Promotes Savings-News Quotes Rate Hikes.
I'm searching for the right word to describe this creation of policies and ideas for Barack Obama. If you read his words in this clip, he says cut waste, the first example being the wasteful spending such as federal crop subsidies for millionaire farmers. That's sort of hard to complain about. Obama's next examples are: the elimination of excessive subsidies ("corporate welfare,") to HMO - Health Maintenance Organization, i.e. medical insurance companies. #2) and eliminating bad practices, i.e. "not using the governments purchasing power to drive down the cost of prescription drugs" Note: The government fell victim to HMO lobbying that refused to allow the government to negotiate for better prices on prescription drugs: No discounts for buying in bulk, etc. -- a clear financial scam. So these are 2 more good things to cut corruption and waste. YET > this article had a sense of doom and gloom about raising medical insurance rates!? Raising rates was not in th
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POPSDon't Underestimate Governor Palin President George W. Bush called the pick “exciting” and said Palin “is a proven reformer who is a wise steward of taxpayer dollars and champion for accountability in government.” Considered a rising political star by state Republican leaders, she was appointed in 2003 to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a significant body in the energy-rich state. While on the commission, Palin led an ethics investigation of another member, state Republican Chairman Randy Ruedrich, who was accused of conflicts of interest involving oil companies.
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POPSThe Budget According to McCain
* McCain seems to say that he can save $100 billion by cutting out earmarks. But budget experts say that cutting earmarks would actually save very little. And questioned more closely, McCain's campaign now says that his planned savings have nothing to do with eliminating earmarks. * With earmarks out as a potential source of savings, McCain hasn't said what he'd cut out of the discretionary budget to get to $100 billion. He's even indicated that defense spending might increase. If defense spending is off the table, saving $100 billion would require 18.5 percent across-the-board cuts in every other discretionary program, including things like elementary and secondary education, veterans' health benefits and highway construction. The alternative would be severe cuts in a few programs, as yet unnamed. * McCain says that "just in the last few years" the government has puffed up "by 40 percent, by trillions." Actually, it has taken federal spending a decade to grow 40 pe
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POPSWhatever Tax You Pass, "You Will Have Nothing But My Profound Thanks" This video is exclusively available as a service from the Arkansas Journal, Arkansas's #1 Conservative Blog. Here's a little tidbit of info you should consider. For FY03 (2003) Arkansas state budget, expenditures were $12,943,812,838. That's nearly $13 BILLION, with a B! Huckabee was only trying to raise $100,000,000 for his spending need, meaning that he only had to cut .77 % of the state budget to meet that need. I've also seen that Huckabee supporters are claiming that Arkansas wanted him to increase taxes. That's simply not true. It highlights the fact that he LIED about the '99 tax increase that he's claiming that 80% of the people of Arkansas voted for. We didn' t vote on a tax. We voted on a BOND ISSUE. Huckabee signed the tax into law himself, which he has repeatedly lied about. Arkansas Journal Arkansas's Conservative Blog http://arkjournal.com/2007/10/exclusive-video-huckabee-whatever-tax.html
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POPSWhat Exactly Is Wasteful Spending? I think it would be overcharging the army 6 billion a year for services that made Halliburton rich such as food, laundry, and meals they never served to the troops. Or maybe the bill the republicans voted down for stiffer penalties on contractors who overbill. Or maybe the 1.7 they spent for a new amphibious vehicle that broke down an average of every 4 hours, leaked and veered off course. And for that, the contractor, General Dynamics, received 80 million in bonuses. Instead I believe McCain would like to cut "wasteful" spending on such programs as Medicare and Medicaid, SCHIP, oppose any increase in minimum wage, and cut programs that work such as head start or LIHEAP. Who is being asked to sacrifice? It sure the hell isn't those getting rich off this unjust war.
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POPSWhy Government Will Always Grow Larger Because the plebs have found out (yet again) that they can vote themselves bread and circuses. We are back to the point in America where over half of the population gets their money from government in one way or another--working for local, state, federal government; working for a company that supplies government with products or services; gets welfare (and that includes Medicare and Social Security). Why will Social Security never be reformed? Because its just too much money for old people who vote. Right up until we go broke paying for it.
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POPSRudy's Twelve Commandments. God had ten and we can not keep those perhaps Rudy can keep his twelve commandments. I have to admit it is far more refreshing to hear someone actually putting forth a plan to do SOMETHING rather than just harping on all that is wrong with Washington. Politicians is what is wrong with Washington perhaps it is time we elect a common JOE to the office of President someone who actually knows what it is like to try to live with all these lawmakers' laws. Just my two cents worth.
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