Who Voted to Raise Your Taxes?

SL Editor on Jun 27th 2009  Print This Post Print This Post

The Waxman-Markey or The Pelosi Energy Bill or H.R. 2454 or The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Passed In The House yesterday 219-212. The House-passed bill requires that large U.S. companies, including utilities, oil refiners, manufacturers and others, reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases associated with global warming by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, from 2005 levels. They would do so by phasing in the use of cleaner alternative energy than high-polluting oil and coal.

The Obama regime, fronted by state media, postulates that this will help the United States “do our part” to cut global warming. I imagine that the Creator of earth laughing at the self-righteous smugness of these people.

Not sure who the liberals hire as scientists, hopefull it’s not Al Gore, but the American people need to do their own research and find out the facts for themselves. You won’t get the truth out of NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN or MSNBC. Check out Gracie’s factoid on the junk science of greenhouse gases.

The Pelosi Energy Bill is a tax people. It exposes yet another contridiction of Obama. In a speech on September 12, 2008 in Dover, New Hampshire, Obama said,

I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Pelosi’s twin in the Senate, the Liberal Senator Harry Reid, is now responsible for guiding an Obama tax through his chamber. Between now and October, Americans who have been taxed enough must call, write, email, or fax your senator frequently and often and let them know how you feel. After all, they work for you.

You can download a sortable list of your elected officials (courtesy of GovTrack) who voted to tax your energy usage. We’ve excerpted our regional list and we’ve also added their re-election dates. If they aren’t doing what you elected them to do – fire them.

STATE DIST. VOTE NAME Party Job Review
Date
IN 1 Nay Visclosky, Peter D 2-Nov-10
IN 2 Nay Donnelly, Joe D 2-Nov-10
IN 3 Nay Souder, Mark R 2-Nov-10
IN 4 Nay Buyer, Stephen R 2-Nov-10
IN 5 Nay Burton, Dan R 2-Nov-10
IN 6 Nay Pence, Mike R 2-Nov-10
IN 7 Aye Carson, André D 2-Nov-10
IN 8 Nay Ellsworth, Brad D 2-Nov-10
IN 9 Aye Hill, Baron D 2-Nov-10
KY 1 Nay Whitfield, Edward R 2-Nov-10
KY 2 Nay Guthrie, Brett R 2-Nov-10
KY 3 Aye Yarmuth, John D 2-Nov-10
KY 4 Nay Davis, Geoff R 2-Nov-10
KY 5 Nay Rogers, Harold R 2-Nov-10
KY 6 Aye Chandler, Ben D 2-Nov-10
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Journalism School Curriculum

SL Editor on Jun 9th 2009  Print This Post Print This Post

Yesterday I heard snippets of rhetoric from the White House regarding Obama’s latest self-proclaimed success (thanks to his stimulus package): that he “saved or created” some 150,000 jobs and plans to “save or create” some additional 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days.

I’ve quoted the term “save or create” for one reason only. It is an unmeasurable quantity when you think about it. And, in thinking further – if they taught economics in Journalism School… shouldn’t the media catch this as well?

One could use the term “created” when speaking about jobs, as long as you could tie it to new payroll additions. That, of course, would be backed up by hard data.

“Saved” jobs – what measure is used? There is none.  Other agencies in the Obama regime – Labor Department, Treasury Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics – use objectivity not fantasy when speaking about jobs data.

What are the facts that the mainstream media seems to ignore? (Maybe, it is because of the lack of economic education in journalism school curriculum.) Is this a success indicator of Obama’s stimulus plan? Keep in mind that Obama and the liberals in Congress promised you that this package would keep unemployment below 8%.

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics reports unemployment rate is 9.4%
  • BLS data indicate that the average unemployment rate for 2008 was  5.8% (The average unemployment rate under the Bush presidency (2001-2008 was 5.3%)
  • The US has lost an estimated 1.6 Million jobs since the Obama stimulus took effect

With concrete facts available, why is the mainstream media fawning all over Obama when he says he “saved or created 150,000 jobs?” That doesn’t even scratch the surface of reality.

When will the press wake up and stop misleading America?

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American capitalism gone with a whimper

SL Editor on Jun 1st 2009  Print This Post Print This Post

Or so states the Russian newspaper, Pravda.  The article begins like this:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

It’s amazing to read this from a Russian newspaper! Are we Americans truly that blind? Take a moment to read the article. We’ve pulled out some key points below.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Since the ’60’s, the liberals have been diluting our educational system. Perhaps the slow and deliberate destruction of America has been planned for some time.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will.

Is this a harbinger of things to come? It is unfathomable to think that our founding father’s had this type of government in mind.

Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Hello… is anyone out there?

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