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JOE THE PLUMBER FINDS OUT OBAMA’S 3 BIG LIES

Posted by straight shooter on October 23, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

If you believe the media, Joe is a sinister, McCain-supporting Republican of the Reagan type – he is a true threat to the “Anointed One” – Barack Obama – and his chances of becoming president of the United States. “Joe the plumber” has a secret plan to destroy Barack Obama.

This sounds almost like a make-believe story, but it’s true. The media has been seeking to decapitate Joe the plumber.

Why? Because he’s an ordinary American who has a dream of business success for himself and his family.

Joe realized that Barack Obama, if elected, plans to punish him with brutal taxes.

Just by coincidence – and I know Chris Matthews and Katie Couric will never believe it was simply a coincidence – Joe met Barack Obama as Obama passed through his Ohio neighborhood. When Joe challenged Obama with a tough question – something the press has not done during the past two years – the Anointed One wilted.

How dare Joe want to make and keep his own money? The nerve of this man to want to be a success in a small business! As Obama put it, shouldn’t Joe want to help him “spread the wealth around?” so those who didn’t work hard could be supplemented by those who did.

With that one remark, Obama’s disguise as a moderate liberal crumbled … the socialist mentoring was out!

Here are just three of Obama’s biggest lies:

Obama Lie No. 1 — I will tax just the rich.

There is no such thing as a tax on just the rich. Taxes on wealthy people affect everyone. Remember, Obama defines anyone making over $90,000 a year as “rich.”

Joe the plumber discovered that Obama thinks Joe’s rich too. Under Obama, he won’t be able to hire new employees and grow his business. Joe’s not alone. Obama says he’ll strip away the FICA cap at $90,000 for every worker. That means every dollar you earn over that amount, you’ll pay 7% on it!

Obama Lie No. 2 — I want to give a tax cut to the middle class.

Baloney! Obama says he will let the Bush tax cuts expire. That’s an automatic 5% (maximum) tax increase on almost all taxpayers. Then make middle class folks pay capital gains taxes. Obama has said he wants to almost double them from a low of 15% to almost 30%.

Next he wants to hike the dividend tax, and he also has promised taxes on gas and energy. Isn’t that going to be nice to have more taxes on you heating, electrical, and vehicle energies.

Obama also wants to dramatically increase the estate tax, which had almost disappeared. So much for the idea of sharing your wealth with your kids in the future. If you save for them he will tax you again on your savings.

Obama Lie No. 3 — I want to make America more secure.

Another outright lie that I cannot believe Americans could be gullible enough to believe.

In an age when crazies like Iran’s Ahmadinejad are building ballistic missiles and promise to “destroy” the United States and Israel, Obama has promised to gut the missile defense program created by President Reagan. “I will cut investments in missile defense systems,” Obama said.

He has promised to cut “tens of billions” of dollars from the Defense Department. In an effort to make us more “secure.” Obama plans to disarm us! In the age of 9/11 can we afford such a radical Leftist in the White House? We can’t.

Tell The Truth About Obama

Obama is not just a danger to our economy, with his plans to raise taxes and spend $800 billion in new programs. He is a radical out to reshape America beyond recognition.

He is so radical he even backs driver’s licenses for illegal aliens – even though such a move would help future terrorists move freely in the United States. Even Hillary Clinton opposed his radical plan. But Obama not only touted such a plan running for president, he pushed for giving illegals driver’s licenses as a state senator in Illinois.

He is also the most pro-abortion candidate in the history of the country. In 2001, as a state legislator in Illinois, he opposed a bill to protect live-born children – children actually born alive! He was the only Illinois senator to speak out against the bill.

He opposes gun rights. He has long history of trying to deny ordinary citizens access to guns. The NRA has made this very plain. The NRA rated him an “F” on gun positions and says he is one of the most dangerous anti-gun politicians in the nation.

Never forget that Obama is a Harvard-educated elitist. To him, we Americans are simply “bitter” and he has mocked us saying “[they] cling to their guns and their religion.”

Expose The Truth About Obama

We must expose Obama for the dangerous radical he is. Even though most of the mainstream media except FOX will not inquire into Obama’s past or provide the information that America needs to be informed in their voting, there are many places on the interest to gain that information.

Once you get that information … TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT IT!

OBAMA LACKS A MORAL COMPASS

Posted by straight shooter on October 23, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

With the election days away, one thing has become clear: Barack Obama real colors go beyond  the most liberal presidential candidate in recent memory to a socialist who lacks a moral compass.  That’s what happens when you are mentored by socialists, Marxists, communists, and racists.

How else does one explain his sitting in the pews of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church as Wright spews forth hateful fabrications about America, whites, and Israel? How else explains his being “friendly” with admitted domestic terrorist William Ayers, who told the New York Times he does not rule out engaging in bombings again?

In a chilling video on YouTube, Larry Grathwohl, a former member of the Weather Underground which Ayers helped found, says the organization planned to take over the U.S. government and give parts of the country to Russia, Cuba, North Vietnam, and China. The plans included “re-educating” Americans as Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries.

In the video, Grathwohl says he asked 25 leaders of the Weather Underground who were discussing the plans, “Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t re-educate, that are die-hard capitalists?” The reply, says Grathwohl, was that they would “have to be eliminated.” When he pursued the question further, they estimated that “they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people.”

As repugnant as Obama’s relationship with Ayers is, the fact that for two decades Obama attended a church where paranoid hatred of America was preached on a regular basis is more telling. The senator counted as his minister, friend, and advisor a man who says that America created the AIDS virus to kill blacks, puts blacks in prison rather than killing them off, and deserved to be attacked on 9/11 because of its racism.

Obama said he would not have belonged to the church if he had regularly heard Wright’s hate-filled statements … yet he did. Because he knew Wright, Obama disinvited Wright from giving an invocation on his presidency announcement, because his sermons can get “kind of rough.” Why did Obama not resign from the church then?

Last December, Wright gave an award to Louis Farrakhan for lifetime achievement. Why did Obama not resign then?

The truth is that Obama joined the church and adopted Wright as his friend and mentor because he feels an affinity for Wright’s radical views. Why else would he expose his kids to Wright’s “God d— America” tirades? Michelle Obama’s comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she feels proud of America, highlights the fact that she has the same blame-America-first mentality Wright promotes.

As with his minister, Obama repudiated Ayers only when press disclosures became too embarrassing.

As Max Noel, a former FBI agent who worked the Weather Underground case stated, “They [the Weather Underground] were a violent, violent, anti-government, domestic terrorist organization. Obama has not only associated with those people, he continued associating with racist people like his minister Jeremiah Wright over a period of 20 years. I don’t think that’s by happenstance. It’s just amazing to me. The American people are being led by the nose by people who say this isn’t important.”

In fact, Oliver “Buck” Revell, a former associate deputy director of the FBI who at one time oversaw the applicant and hiring process at the bureau, said the FBI would not hire an individual like Obama because of this background. “One of the principal purposes of the background investigation is to determine who an applicant associated with and the degree of association with any questionable associates,” Revell says. “Obama would certainly not have been hired on my watch.”

The Obama campaign has refused to say when Obama became aware of Ayers’ terrorist background. When Obama began going to Columbia University in 1981, both Ayers and his future wife Bernardine Dohrn, an FBI most wanted fugitive, were frequently in the news. Ayers’ violent past was well known in Chicago, where he was quoted regularly and described as a former radical and former fugitive. Then Ayers orchestrated an event at his home that launched Obama’s political career. Obama continued to serve on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with Ayers for more than a year after Ayers expressed regret in the New York Times for not bombing more people.

Last April, Obama defended his relationship with Ayers. Obama said in a Democratic debate that he is also friendly with Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), whom he described as favoring the death penalty for those who carry out abortions – two totally different situations. Radical as Coburn’s position may be, he was proposing legislation to be passed by Congress. That is quite different from Ayers’s admission that he bombed innocent people in violation of criminal law and that he wished he had set off more bombs.

Instead of finding ways to excuse them, Obama should have been denouncing both Wright and Ayers. Instead of voting “present” 130 times in the Illinois Senate, he should have been doing his job and taking a stand instead of seeing doing everything he could to keep his “options open!”

GLSEN FOUNDER PART OF OBAMA’S TEAM

Posted by straight shooter on October 22, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

The founder of a group that’s been accused of promoting teen-adult homosexual relationships is the Obama campaign’s fundraising co-chair for the “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender” (LGBT) community.

Kevin Jennings is the outgoing head of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a group known for its efforts to establish so-called “Gay-Straight Alliance” clubs in public schools across the country. The longtime homosexual activist is also playing a prominent role in Barack Obama’s White House bid.

Linda Harvey, president of Mission America, says many parents would be frightened to know that one of Senator Obama’s top homosexual fundraisers founded a group, namely GLSEN, which has recommended books that condone sex between men and teenage boys.

“GLSEN believes that there should be homosexual clubs in K-12 schools, that children can self-determine their own sexuality at the grade-school level, that evidently it’s fine for children to read and be exposed to many, many child corruption elements of sexuality, including the possibility of having sex with an adult,” Harvey explains.

Jennings’ position in the Obama campaign shows the senator supports teaching kids “the tactics of revolution.”

Obama’s public statements also show his support beyond a shadow of a doubt!

HEY JOE ! IF YOU QUESTION ME YOU WILL BE PUNISHED !

Posted by straight shooter on October 20, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

Last Wednesday night’s debate introduced America to “Joe the Plumber.” While Joe is an actual person who is working hard to make ends meet, he represents more than just being a plumber. “Joe” represents a fundamental difference between what we believe conservatives and socialists want for our country.

When Joe asked Barack Obama about how he was going to have his taxes raised under Obama’s Tax Plan, Senator Obama responded: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Do you see Obama spreading his wealth around?

After asking this simple question that challenged Obama suddenly everything about him was being checked out by behind the scenes “officials” and of course the Obama Media Team, most of the public media that are in Obama’s pocket.

I think Joe responded for all of us when he said: “It’s not right for someone to decide you made too much – that you’ve done too good and now we’re going to take some of it back.” This is your punishment for working harder than someone else … take your money and give it to those who don’t work or don’t work as hard as you.

Simply put, Barack Obama believes Americans should pay more taxes to pay for more liberal programs – which are for the most part socialism. Obama believes we should take more money from hard working Americans to pay for programs supported by the socialist left wing of his party.

It’s outrageous, and no wonder Joe said that Obama’s Tax Plan “infuriates me.” We should all be infuriated!

If Democrats win this election socialist will have control of the White House, the Senate and the House. You see Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and most other Democrats are not just liberals they have moved to the far left into socialists.

Be assured that if this happens, they will take more of our hard earned money and “spread the wealth around” as Barack Obama told Joe the Plumber. Remember their mindset is redistribute the wealth … let big brother spend your hard earned money, trust them to do that better than you can.

Election Day is fast approaching – don’t let this happen. Voting Republican is not perfect but it is a whole lot safer than voting Socialist.

OBAMA THE TORJAN HORSE

Posted by straight shooter on October 20, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

Democrats assume Republicans are raising Obama’s many questionable relationships in a desperation effort to salvage the election. You might think this is splitting hairs, but I believe the reason is that these relationships scare the daylights out of us.

Conservatives were very much opposed to Bill Clinton for myriad reasons, but with decades in elective office in Arkansas, at least he wasn’t a stealth candidate. Though rumors and mysteries abounded, Clinton was hardly a blank slate who emerged out of nowhere.

Obama is different. He burst onto the political scene and has risen with such alacrity that even many of his supporters don’t have a clue what he’s about or where he would take America.

It’s no wonder the conspiracy types are whispering that he’s the Manchurian candidate. It’s not as if he’s embracing his past; he’s concealing it, and for good reason. People have a right to know just how radical this man is because America’s destiny is in the balance.

In the past I have been confident that no matter which party is in power, it can only do so much damage in four years because of the ingenious safeguards our Constitution contains to preserve the essential structure of government that maximizes individual liberty. But I admit I’m more concerned today.

We need to remember that the Constitution is only as reliable as the moral fiber of the people from which it derives its power and their commitment to good (and limited) government. That’s why John Adams famously said: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

I’m not just worried that Obama will appoint leftist activist judges who will continue to rewrite the Constitution. It’s that he wants to socialize health care, initiate a massive transfer of wealth via the Global Poverty Act and would intervene in foreign conflicts solely for humanitarian reasons when our national interests are not at stake. He obviously regards the tax code as a license to punish wealth and equalize incomes in the name of “fairness” rather than a means to raise revenue for essential government services.

Then there’s the pervasive climate of financial fear today and the potential usurpation of power by the next president. We’ve seen oil prices rise to panic levels. But oil concerns have been dwarfed by the global financial crisis, which has led Congress to delegate nearly carte blanche authority to the executive branch to navigate through it. The character and ideology of the person who occupies the Oval Office have never been more important.

As if all this weren’t enough to culminate in a perfect storm for the next president to transform our system fundamentally, there’s also an alarming atmosphere among many Obama supporters. They follow him in a cult-like trance, having no clue what he stands for or what policies and changes he will implement once in office.

Disturbingly, Obama’s candidacy is inspiring certain youths to perform paramilitary drills in his honor, public officials to threaten criminal prosecution of those who criticize him, and attorneys purporting to be working for his campaign systematically to intimidate local election officials. With this mentality, is there any doubt the Obamaites would try to shut down conservative talk radio with the “Fairness Doctrine”?

Then there’s the corrupt ACORN (under investigation in at least 10 states for possible voter fraud), which is terrorizing the electoral process with such a widespread assault that it truly threatens the integrity of this election. Where does Obama fit into all of this? Was he a key lawyer for ACORN, as alleged? What about his alliances with anti-American leftist radicals?

I disagree with those who have said the most important issue concerning the Obama-Ayers connection is Obama’s “judgment.” The crucial question is whether Obama is of like mind with such radicals. He has spent much time with a number of radicals.

National Review Online’s Andy McCarthy reports that when Ayers “was given the opportunity of a lifetime, a $150 million fund to be doled out as seed money for the kind of programs he thought would advance the cause, the guy brought in to run it was Barack Obama – with whom he worked closely on ‘change’ in the schools for five years.”

And how about Obama’s membership in the New Party, a radical leftist organization established in 1992 to push the United States into socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left, as reported by the American Thinker? Is it not imperative we learn the extent of this relationship and why Obama is trying to cover it up?

Does anyone doubt that if any Republican presidential candidate had a small fraction of the questionable alliances Obama has, he already would have been hounded into withdrawing from the race? Why are so many afraid of this man? Why does he hide his activities and affiliations during his collegiate years?

Someone used similar political tactics in 1933 against the Jews in Germany to establish his dictatorship. Too many questions about Obama’s background remain to be answered and the American people, should they vote him into office, will lose liberties, ideals and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.

This election is about placing the most qualified person in the Presidency; without transparency and willful disclosure, how can we trust Obama to make decisions for us and our country?

OBAMA . . . SOCIALIST – PLAIN AND SIMPLE !

Posted by straight shooter on October 20, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

“Spread the wealth around.” – Obama to Joe the Plumber

In certain unscripted moments, Barack Obama has given us a glimpse of his socialist slant, but I wonder what percentage would vote for him if they truly understood the extent of his radicalism.

Yet the financial crisis has created a climate of fear and uncertainty and unleashed an unprecedented tolerance for large-scale government intervention, which is playing perfectly into Obama’s hands. People are blaming this largely Democratic-spawned mess on Republicans because Bush is still president. They only see the figurehead of a president to hang the blame on as opposed to a Democrat controlled Congress and Senate that are highly responsible for this situation.

Maybe I’m being too much of an alarmist, but I’m worried for the first time in my life that the election of a presidential candidate could lead to a fundamental change in our system of government. Just listen to the comments of post-debate focus group members expressing a knowing willingness to accept Obama’s socialism, such is their angst at the subprime mortgage mess.

Already some 38% of Americans do not pay income taxes, and Barack Obama wants to increase that percentage dramatically. How ironic that he and other Democrats pretend to be targeting their message to “working-class” people when many of the constituents voting for them aren’t working. How the upper-middle class and wealthy are demonized as not earning an honest living.

Do you suppose it has registered with Obama voters that Obama is deliberately turning the American dream on its head? Could it be any clearer that his message to the middle class is: Don’t aspire to achievement, success and wealth because a) it is immoral to have more than others, b) the government will take your wealth away from you and give it to others, and c) why bother to bust your rear end to make more when you can vote yourselves money from the public trough?

Obama let slip his socialist mind to Joe the plumber when he denied he wanted to punish wealth and insisted he just wanted to “spread the wealth around.” Joe was justifiably repulsed by Obama’s cavalier attitude toward the American dream.

Democratic commentator Bob Beckel was dismissive of the significance of Obama’s outright nod to socialism, saying we’ve had a progressive tax system since the income tax was initiated. But what Beckel did not explain is that at least in those days, the stated purpose of the income tax system was to fund government services, not to redistribute wealth.

It’s one thing to say that higher income earners should pay a higher percentage for government services. But Obama makes no pretense of stopping there. He told Joe that he wants to use the tax code to confiscate money from higher income earners and give it to others. But he hasn’t been so open about that in the presentation of his fraudulent tax plan.

When Obama says he will cut income taxes for 95% of Americans, he is dissembling. If 38% are already not paying, his tax credits to them amount to transfer payments from higher income earners, which are actually spending increases, not tax cuts, as The Wall Street Journal editors have noted.

Socialists and liberals, such as Obama, might deny human nature, but they can’t change it. Human nature happens to dictate that people will not produce as much when you confiscate more of what they produce and give it to others. The working middle class, especially Christians and conservatives, are some of the most generous people in the world, but we’re talking about voluntary charitable contributions, not unconstitutionally coerced redistributions.

How many times must history repeat itself before we learn that socialism and communism cannot work. Liberals love to mock the trickledown theory, but they simply cannot refute the truism that people produce less when they aren’t allowed to keep as much of what they produce. When do-gooder social planners try to control how much we keep, they guarantee that everyone gets less in the end because they shrink the GDP pie.

We know from the writings of William Bradford that the Pilgrims learned this lesson the hard way when they tried a communal system of sharing, thinking it “would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.” Instead, “This community … was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.” Men refused to “work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense; … this was thought injustice.”

Socialism and communism have failed everywhere they have been tried in the world, yet die-hard socialists, such as Barak Obama and William Ayers, still insist on cramming them down our throats in the name of “fairness.”

Unreconstructed radicals always say that true socialism hasn’t been given a real chance. Well, if Obama is elected, look out, we will get that chance. Remember, if Obama wins he has total control of America with all those socialist and pork barrel bills stacked up and waiting for him from the Democrat controlled Congress and Senate!

The wolf will be in the henhouse!

IS IT A CRASH OR ARE WE JUST REWARDING BAD BEHAVIOR … GREED !

Posted by straight shooter on September 20, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

A trillion dollars in loans! Why is the taxpayers’ money even being utilized? Let the sorry lot borrow from someone else. For the most part mismanagement has been the order of the day. These corporations have looked out for themselves, with greedy salaries and greedy boards. Now the time, they knew was inevitable, has come.

Then we have the left seizing on the crisis telling us we are witnessing the failure of market economics … a failure of conservatism. This is nonsense! What we are witnessing is the collapse of the philosophical “Greed Is Good!” brand of capitalism … capitalism without morals. What we are witnessing is what happens to a prodigal nation that ignores history, and forgets and abandons the philosophy and principles that made it great.

A true conservative cherishes forethought and believes in fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets, and a self-reliant republic. He believes in saving for retirement and a rainy day, in deferred gratification, in not buying on credit what you cannot afford, and in living within your means. Something most of America is NOT doing! Then, we lend money to people who should not be approved because they can’t cover it.

For years, we Americans have spent more than we earned. We save nothing. Credit card debt, consumer debt, auto debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt – all are at record levels. And with pensions and savings being wiped out, much of that debt will never be repaid.

Our standard of living is inevitably going to fall. Foreigners will not forever buy our bonds or lend us more money if they rightly fear that they will be paid back, if at all, in cheaper dollars.

We are going to have to learn to live again without our means … the party’s over!

Up through World War II, we followed the idea that America must remain economically independent of the world in order to remain politically independent. But this left-leaning generation decided that we must march bravely forward into a socialistic Global Economy, where we all depend on one another. American companies morphed into “global companies” and moved plants and factories to Mexico, Asia, China and India, and we began buying more cheaply from abroad what we used to make at home: shoes, clothes, bikes, cars, radios, TVs, planes, computers.

As the trade deficits began inescapably to rise to 6% of GDP, we began vast borrowing from abroad to continue buying from abroad.

At home, propelled by tax cuts, war in Iraq and an explosion in social spending, surpluses vanished and deficits reappeared and began to rise. The dollar began to sink, and gold began to soar.

Yet, still, the promises of the politicians come. Barack Obama will give us national health insurance and tax cuts for all but that 2% of the nation that already carries 50% of the federal income tax load.

Then, John McCain is going to cut taxes, expand the military, move NATO into Georgia and Ukraine, confront Russia and force Iran to stop enriching uranium.

Who are we kidding? What we are witnessing today is how empires end. We are unable to defend our borders, protect our currency, or balance our budget. We are witnessing today nothing less than a Katrina-like failure of government, of our political class, and of democracy itself, casting a cloud over the viability and longevity of the system.

Who is managing the crisis? Not our elected leaders! The Democrats talk about all they are doing … they have the majorities in both the house and the senate … but they have done nothing! Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid say it’s not their fault – then whose it? They keep saying it is all the Republicans’ fault but they are the ones in power.

There is no consistency in who gets bailed out and who doesn’t. Hank Paulson of Goldman Sachs and Ben Bernanke of the Fed chose to bail out Bear Sterns but let Lehman go under. They decided to nationalize Fannie and Freddie at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of billions, putting the U.S. government behind $5 trillion in mortgages. (Many of those mortgages should never have been assigned.) Then they decided to assist AIG with $85 billion rather than see the insurance giant sink beneath the waves, who by the way has a trillion dollars in assets … so sell some assets and pay for it yourselves!

Now we have an unelected financial elite entrusted with the assignment of getting America out of a disaster into which an unelected financial elite plunged the nation. Now we watch the consequences of these foxes that have already raided the henhouse, while we reward them for bad behavior.

What the Greatest Generation handed down to us – the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved – will never be the same because of greed … capitalism without morals. But we can’t expect morals when we deny God’s instructions on how to live!

You don’t realize how much he is missed until you read and remember some of the stuff he said … and stood for!

‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Politics is not a bad profession.  If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under >- Ronald Reagan

A WRITE IN CANDIDATE

Posted by straight shooter on September 15, 2008 under Immigration, Patriotism, Political, Social Concerns

I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE

HERE IS MY PLATFORM:

(1) Press 1 for English is immediately banned.  English is the official language; speak it or wait at the border until you can.

(2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country’s attitude. NO imports, no exports.  We will use the Wal-Mart‘s policy, ‘If we ain’t got it, you don’t need it.’

(3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.

(4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border for a six month tour.  They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.

(5) Social security will immediately return to its original state.  If you didn’t put nuttin in, you ain’t gettin nuttin out.  The president nor any other politician will not be able to touch it.

(6) Welfare – Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.

(7) Professional Athletes – Steroids – The FIRST time you check positive you’re banned for life.

(8) Crime – We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you steal, you lose your right hand.  There is no more life sentences.  If convicted, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun, knife, strangulation, etc.

(9) One export will be allowed: Wheat.  The world needs to eat.  A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.

(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes.  When disasters occur around the world, we’ll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it’s a worthy cause.

(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.

(12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.

Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes but a vote for me will get you better than what you have, and better than what you’re gonna get.

Thanks for listening, and remember to write in my name on the ballot in November.

God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill Cosby!!!!!!!!

CATCHING WILD PIGS !

Posted by straight shooter on September 15, 2008 under Political, Social Concerns

There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.  One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter.  The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back.  He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.  He asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.  The young man said this was no joke.

“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground.  The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn.  When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.  When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.  They get used to that and start to eat again.  You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.  The pigs that are used to the free corn start to come through the gate to eat, and then you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.  They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.  Soon they go back to eating the free corn.  They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America.  The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc, etc, etc. … while we continue to lose our freedoms – just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!  Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

So, if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.  If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

In this ‘very important’ election year, listen closely to what the candidates are promising you – just maybe, you will be able to tell who is about to slam the gate on America.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.” – Thomas Jefferson