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POPSOne of The Biggest Bait-And-Switch Acts in History I'm thinking it's time to pronounce Obama and his agenda precisely what they are - socialist and looking to bring down the last great remaining free capitalist system in the world so as to bring it in line with too much else of a statist world. What else can one call it with any degree of honesty? Certainly liberal no longer serves. The Left abandoned classic liberalism a decade ago. And the New Left has only gotten worse. It's time to draw the battle lines more clearly, start speaking of what freedom, capitalism, individualism and self-determinism actually are and explain to people how they won't be much of anything in some new Obama-designed state. It's time to forget about compromise and begin rejecting Obama and his grand plans completely as he and they deserve for being un-American in the most important meanings of the word. Obama sold his healthcare proposal as a way to reduce costs and help the economy. But, Pawlenty says,
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POPSWhere's GOP Health Plan? They Don't Have One Republicans "are afraid to put anything on the table," he said, "because the American people would see it doesn't address the problem." Van Hollen predicted the Republicans will fail if they think they "can beat something with nothing."
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POPSADHD This Week How Do I Know If I Have Adhd? What Test Should I Take? Well, there are a lot of wacky 10 ways to know if you have ADHD type quizzes on the internet. And if you have the time, there are a couple of world recognised.
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POPSWho Said It Could Be Worse? They Were Right! He admitted in effect that the budget he submitted in January, which called for a deficit of $15.8 billion and which he termed at the tune "prudent and responsible," had become obsolete in only seven weeks. But the troubles had been building up for more than a decade, said Carter, and they could be traced largely to "our failure in Government, as individuals and as a society to live within our means." Glossing over his own record of rapidly rising spending and huge deficits, both of which contradicted his firm campaign pledges of 1976 , he proclaimed his born-again fiscal faith: "The Federal Government must stop spending money we do not have and borrowing to make up the difference." Only four hours later, Carter returned to the theme at a press conference in the East Room. "The Federal Government simply must accept discipline on itself as an example for others to follow," he said.
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POPSObama Deficit Soars Beyond Estimates
more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. The new Congressional Budget Office figures offered a far more dire outlook for Obama's budget than the new administration predicted just last month — a deficit $2.3 trillion worse. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable. By CBO's calculation, Obama's budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year of red ink over 2010-2019. But Obama insisted on Friday that his agenda is still on track. "What we will not cut are investments that will lead to real growth and prosperity over the long term," Obama said. "That's why our budget makes a historic commitment to comprehensive health care reform. That's why it enhances America's competitiveness by reducing our dependence on foreign oil and building a clean energy economy." Obama's $3.6 trillion budget for the 2010 fiscal year beginning Oct.1 [/quote
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POPSJapan's exports halved in January We are all cringing in fear - now is the time to open our arms. There is building, latent demand. Real, needed demand for goods and services. But everyone is waiting, fearful of making a move. The worst is behinds us, there is more bad news for sure, and it will seem downright frightening at some points, but the worst is behind us. Let us hope that our period of muddeling through will be short.
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POPS Barney Frank, Meet Robert Heinlein ~ Andy McCarthy . . . . A perfect democracy, a "warm body" democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction.... nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.
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POPSLeft-Wing And A Prayer ~ Mark Steyn deficit fear has to take a second seat. I do think this is a time for a kind of very important dose of Keynesianism. I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money. Look, it's not difficult. Barack the Spreader wants to spread Joe the Plumber's wealth around. In fact, every American does that for himself every day of the week, every time he swings by Joe the Butcher, Joe the Baker, Joe the Candlestick Maker, Jolene the Waitress, Jolene the New York Gubernatorial Prostitute, whatever. The question is whether 300 million Americans spreading their wealth around can do it more effectively than Barack and Barney taking it unto themselves to spread it around. I don't find that hard to answer. If you disagree - if you believe in socialist redistribution from the dynamic sector of the economy to the sclerotic, incompetent and corrupt . . .
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POPSHe can't be that liberal. Can he? I think at this point, there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat. I do think this is a time for a kind of very important dose of Keynesianism. I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.
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POPSLots of Rich People to Tax
I love the idea that the government has to "recover some of this money". The idea that all money belongs to the government and they might give some away but will take it all back is at the heart of our problems with big government. My money, that I worked for and sweated for and already have half taken away in taxes of one sort or another - that is my money not the governments. And any suggestion that I am keeping too much of my work efforts is not only obscene, but disingenuous. Add it up - what do you pay every year in social security taxes and medicare taxes and federal income taxes and state income taxes and local income taxes and state sales taxes and county sales taxes and local sales taxes and property taxes and to get a license plate for your car and the taxes on any property you sell and the taxes on your phone line and the taxes on your cell phone and the taxes on your water bill and taxes on your electricity bill and your garbage bill and .... And then we are tol
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POPSSYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008 "Works in the exhibition explore the trajectory of unruly visions from the desire to transcend the corporal to the construction of synthetic worlds, from telematic dreaming to transgenic hybrids, challenging the very notion of what we know as reality and what is perceived as being human."
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