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The United States Senate has not passed a budget since April 29, 2009.

Perhaps there is a connection between a Budget and just passing continuing spending resolutions....yea, perhaps. 

read more:  http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/daniel-anderson/who-really-increased-the-debt?source=facebook

Obama’s Model of National Healthcare is Failing in the UK

http://tinyurl.com/88x9x2y

Democrats have been pushing for national health care long before Obama took office.  Clinton tried to push a package through congress when she, err I mean he, was president, but it failed to pass through congress.
In 2007, liberal whacko film maker, Michael Moore released his cult documentary Sicko, in which he clearly advocated that the United Kingdom’s National Health Service was the best example of socialized medicine in the world and that the US needed to follow suit.
Obama wasted no time in pushing for a nationalized health program along with the aid of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  They threw out so many facts, figures and examples that they had no clue what they were saying or even what was in the Affordable Care Act.  Remember Nancy Pelosi famous statement, “We have to pass this thing so we can find out what’s in it.”
They constantly used the British National Health Service and Canada’s programs as the model examples we needed to follow.  Obama seemed to be on the verge of becoming a British citizen because of how he promoted their ways and their health system and told us that we need to follow their example.
The United Kingdom has been waking up to the realization that national health care just does not work.  Over the past couple of years, they have seen the financial burden of providing health care to a grateful nation.  They have been forced to reduce coverage and care on many of the less serious afflictions.
In the latest news, British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that they are looking in the possibility of outsourcing some of the NHS coverage to private health care providers.  They watched the Greek government financially meltdown which was partially due to all of the entitlements that went to the people and the British leaders are wanting to avoid a similar disaster.
The British have been down the street of national health care, didn’t like what they saw and are now looking at making a U-turn.  In the meantime, the Obama administration is completely blind to the model they followed and instead of slowing down to avoid the same dangers; they are rapidly picking up speed.  And from what most experts can see, the end of the road is nothing but complete disaster and destruction.
Yes Mr. President, perhaps we should look more closely to the model health care program you so vehemently held up as your shining example.  It hasn’t worked for them and it’s not working for us.

Read more: Obama’s Model of National Healthcare is Failing in the UK http://godfatherpolitics.com/3757/obamas-model-of-national-healthcare-is-failing-in-the-uk/#ixzz1ms1HA5dn


further evidence on the facts of this article found here from Barclay's Bank U.K.: http://www.business.barclays.co.uk/BBB/A/Content/Files/Healthcare_Outlook_Q4.pdf

The Financial System and Crony Capitalism January 20, 2012

 http://billmoyers.com/episode/crony-capitalism/

You must watch this. Disturbing is just the tip of the iceberg with how upsetting it is. Bill Moyers and former White House budget director David Stockman on how politics and high finance have turned our economy into a members-only private club. Dodd-Frank is a failure, the problem continues. This is NOT free market capitalism!!! This is so frightening.

Defense Spending Is a Shovel Ready Investment

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/01/12/defense_spending_is_a_shovel_ready_investment/page/full/


President Obama just ordered massive cutbacks in defense spending, eventually to total some $500 billion. There is plenty of fat in a Pentagon budget that grew after 9/11, but such slashing goes way too far.
Fairly or not, the cuts will only cement a now familiar stereotype of Obama's desire to retrench on the world scene. They follow symbolic apologies for purported past American sins, bowing to foreign royals, and outreach to the likes of Iran and Syria. Abroad, such perceptions can matter as much as reality, as our rivals begin hoping that Obama is as dubious about America's historically exceptional world role as are they.
In contrast, a robust military keeps the peace by deterring aggressors through the appearance of overwhelming force. We often forget that the appearance of strength in peace is almost as important as the reality of strength in war. When wars end, we scale back (think 1919 or 1946) -- only to kick ourselves once tensions arise again out of nowhere, and we must scramble to catch up and rearm for an unimagined World War II or Cold War.

America's armed forces spend about 80 percent of their budgets not on bullets and bombs but on training and compensating soldiers. Often, they do a far better job shaping the minds and character of our youth than do our colleges. Somehow the military can take an 18-year old and teach him to park a $100 million fighter across a carrier deck, but our colleges cannot ensure that his civilian counterpart will show up regularly for classes. Young men and women leave the service debt-free and with skills. Too many of our college students pile up debt and become increasingly angry that by their mid-20s they still have received neither competitive skills nor real education.

The reason why our deficit is more than $1 trillion is not just that we have multimillion-dollar jet fighters or tens of thousands of Marines. Defense outlay currently represents only about 20 percent of federal budget expenditures and is below 5 percent of our gross national product. Those percentages are roughly average costs for recent years -- despite an ongoing deployment in Afghanistan. In contrast, over the last three years we have borrowed a record near-$5 trillion for vast unfunded entitlements -- from a spiraling Social Security and Medicare to expanding the food stamp program to include one-seventh of America. Yet many Americans would probably prefer a new frigate manned by highly trained youth to discourage our enemies, rather than another Solyndra-like investment or a near-$1 trillion stimulus aimed at creating "shovel-ready" jobs.
Unfortunately, defense cuts do not occur in isolation. They feed a syndrome best typified by an insolvent and largely defenseless socialist Europe. The more that prosperous societies cut their defenses to expand social programs, the more the resulting dependency leads to even less defense and ever more benefits. Once the state promises to take care of the citizen, the citizen believes that more subsidies are still never enough. And once voters believe that defense spending is an impediment to greater entitlements, the fewer impediments they will pay for. The net result is something like the squabbling, soon-to-collapse European Union: trillions in unfunded entitlement liabilities, and unable to defend itself.
Many of the new cuts are aimed at the traditional ground forces, given that we are in a high-tech age of missiles, sophisticated drones and counterinsurgency missions. But the nature of war is neither static nor predictable. After World War II, Harry Truman wanted to do away with the Marines -- and then was glad he had not when they largely saved the reputation of the U.S. military during the unforeseen disaster in Korea in December 1950. After the Gulf War of 1990-91, we cut back on our ground forces, only to build them back up so that the Marines could deal with enemies in awful places like Anbar Province in Iraq.
The decline of civilizations of the past -- fourth-century-B.C. Athens, fifth-century-A.D. Rome, 15th-century Byzantium, or 1930s Western Europe -- was not caused by their spending too much money on defense or not spending enough on public entitlements. Rather, their expanding governments redistributed more borrowed money, while a dependent citizenry wanted even fewer soldiers to guarantee ever more handouts.
History's bleak lesson is that those societies with self-reliant citizens who protect themselves and their interests prosper; those who grow dependent cut back their defenses -- and waste away.

Twas the night before Christmas 2011 Poem

Twas the month before Christmas, when all through our land,

Not a Christian was praying nor taking a stand.

The progressives had hidden the reason for Christmas

Political correctness, multicultural sickness.

About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.

It might hurt people's feelings, best to concentrate on Bling

December 25th is just a 'Holiday.'

Forget your cultural roots these modern progressives say.

When out at the mall there arose such a clatter

Pepper spray you neighbor, need the sale item so no matter

CD’s from Lady Gaga and Miley, an X BOX, an I-Pod

Something was changing, besmirching the word of GOD!

Retailers promote Ramadan and Kwanzaa

In hopes to sell books by Al Franken & Jane Fonda.

WalMart will close not at all in your town

selling cheap Chinese goods with a false price roll down

At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears

You won't hear the word Christmas; it just disappears

Political correctness and Multiculturalism matter

more than the success of Jude-Christian culture they now shred and tatter

Now Feinstein, Forget Einstein, Now Pelosi, Much Sharpton,

On Alinsky , on Reid, organizer Obama and Clinton!

At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter

Pass this Bill now, to see if the changes matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith

Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace

The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded

The reason for the season, thru apathy went unguarded.

So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'

Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.

Choose your words carefully, choose what you say

Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday!

Hope & Change.

Change is the way of the world. Change can be a source of hope, or of despair. What is not good may be made better, or Vice versa.  Change is usually a source of anxiety, for what we love today may be gone tomorrow! We study history to remember the past so that we may preserve all that is good. We maintain our values in our collective memory so that what we cherish may flourish yet again and again to future generations. What to change, what to preserve? What to let go of and what to hold on to—these are matters requiring pragmatism, serious knowledge, a pure heart and motivations coupled with  great judgment. Hope is not a policy! Change (Policy) can be for better or worse, as we are certainly seeing now. May GOD Bless the United States of America!