From Pres Obama's mouth

"If you will work harder this time than you did last time, change will come. If you keep on believing, we'll finish what we started in 2008. Change will come." I personally do not like his change and I hope that people will realize that working harder for him will only bring more pain. His change so far has not produce anything but rising costs of gas and food, a unpopular obamacare where nearly every state is trying to be exempt from it, riots in the streets because Obama touts class warfare and big Unions, bankrupt Green Energy companies and no new lasting jobs. I will work hard, but not for Obama!

Cartoons

This cartoon hit home the fact that liberals and conservatives will never be able to come together because they see the world so differently. It is very depressing to think that any amount of education will not change peoples views of how to deal with the problems of the economy.This next cartoon shows how ridiculous the subsidies on the green jobs has become. When will people see that green jobs have never been cost effective. When the idea about green jobs came about during the Carter years, there were studies done that showed they were not cost efficient. So when the government stepped in to help out it made it look like green jobs were going to be the future. But if you really start looking around, you will find abandoned wind farms and solar farms from years ago because the government money ran out. Then you fast forward to today and you hear about Solyndra and other green job companies that have gone bankrupt after using millions of tax dollars to help jump start them.

My thoughts on the extension of the Payroll Tax

My letter to Representative Jim Matheson - who is a democrat

The extension of the Payroll tax cut is more of a problem then a help. The payroll tax money goes into the Social Security fund. Right?! So we have been putting less money into the Social Security fund all these months with this payroll tax cut and now we want to extend it and also cut what the employer is taxed?! That sounds so dumb. The democrats are hurting the seniors. Can't you all think of something different to help create jobs? You are robbing Peter (Seniors - less money into the security fund) to pay Paul (working person who can't buy much from the payroll tax cut anyway). Let us get back to paying our payroll tax, like we used to so it can go back into the Social Security fund and instead work on getting government regulations repealed (like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank bill-if you haven't noticed yet, they have raised fees and premiums) and create a flat tax OR a consumption tax so that everyone, and I mean everyone, will contribute to this great nation. That should start creating new jobs because the employers will know what the rules of the game are (Don't we all need to live by rules?) and create jobs so that it bring more money into the economy. What is so wrong with this idea? I just don't understand why democrats won't do these things? Why do you have to create such uncertainty? And by the way, we all knew that the super committee was going to fail! So lets get to the hard stuff (reform Social Security since we are ruining it even faster with the payroll tax cut, and reform the tax system to an easier one, reform Medicare and Medicade, too much regulation again) and make the hard changes. None of this "Oh.. let's extend the payroll tax cut" That is so lame!

Arab Spring is really Anit-Christian Spring

Article for Newsmax:

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich contends that the “grotesque failure” of President Barack Obama’s Mideast policies has propelled an “anti-Christian spring.”

The number of Christians in Iraq plunged from 1.2 million to 500,000 since the American invasion in 2003, and Christianity is under siege throughout the region, Gingrich told an audience in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Saturday.

“This is why the current strategy in the Middle East is such a total grotesque failure,” the National Journal quotes Gingrich as telling a crowd of about 200. “People say, ‘Oh, isn’t this great, we’re having an Arab Spring.’ Well, I don’t know, I think we may in fact be having an anti-Christian spring. I think people should take this pretty soberly.”

Gingrich was referring to the wave of uprisings that have upset longtime autocratic regimes in the Middle East.

Ironically, the plight of Christians in the Middle East is likely to worsen as the Arab Spring removes dictators who shielded Christian communities. The parties that are gaining power in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and other countries tend to be offshoots of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

As president, Gingrich said, “I would actively try to defend religious liberty across the planet, including in Egypt and Iraq.”

That vow comes amid increasing instances of violence targeting Christians, including the Oct. 8 killing of more than two dozen mostly Coptic Christian demonstrators in Egypt and the potential execution of a Christian pastor in Iran for refusing to renounce his faith and embrace Islam. In the Egyptian slaughter, the New-York based Human Rights Watch alleged a military cover-up and demanded an independent investigation. And the death sentence for Yosef Nadarkhani has prompted an international outcry, as Newsmax has reported.

"The only hope for justice for the victims is an independent, civilian-led investigation that the army fully cooperates with and cannot control and that leads to the prosecution of those responsible," Human Rights Watch said.

Indeed, the flight of Christians from Egypt mirrors the Iraqi exodus Gingrich mentioned, as Newsmax reported last week.

Egypt is home to about 8 million Coptic Christians, but at least 95,000 of them have fled since March, and the number could balloon to 250,000 by the end of this year, according to the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights.

"At the present rate, the Middle East's 12 million Christians will likely drop to 6 million in the year 2020. With time, Christians will effectively disappear from the region as a cultural and political force," according to Daniel Pipes, a leading scholar of the Middle East.

In Libya, transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil laid out a vision a week ago for the country now that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed. Islamic Shariah will be the "basic source" of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified, he said.

“We are an Islamic state,” he declared to a cheering crowd in Benghazi Sunday.

Christian Syrians have clung to the government of President Bashar Assad, despite his regime’s own atrocities and his threats against the West. They fear what might happen if Assad fell, having seen what has happened in neighboring countries. Indeed many Christians who have fled sectarian strife in countries such as Iraq have ended up in Syria.

Words from Pat Buchanan

I agree with what Pat Buchanan said “The faith we had – Christianity – provided our moral code, our moral consensus and the moral community that we all share, the ideas of right and wrong, what should be done and what should not be done. When you disagree on fundamentals like that, it leads, frankly, to what we call culture wars, clashes over abortion, over gay rights, should there be prayer in the public schools? Should they celebrate Easter and Christmas. The wars continue endlessly and that is one of the things tearing the country apart.”

Winners and Losers

Chris Chocola from Club for Growth said, "I agree with Biden: Solyndra is a great example of the what the Recovery Act was all about - When government picks winners and losers, they almost always loose."

Biden: It's Time to Blame Obama, Not Bush, for Economy

I could not believe this when I read this from Newsmax:

Vice President Joe Biden acknowledges that it’s time to hold the Obama administration’s feet to the fire for the sorry state of the U.S. economy instead of continuing to blame President George W. Bush.

“Right now, understandably — totally legitimate — this is a referendum on Obama and Biden and the nature of the state of the economy,” Biden said during an interview with South Florida public radio station WLRN this afternoon.

Biden made the startling comment during an interview in which his main goal was to pitch for support of President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act.

The vice president dismissed polls in which people continue to blame the Bush administration for the economy.

“Even though 50-some percent of the American people think that the economy tanked because of the last administration, that’s not relevant,” Biden said. “What’s relevant is we’re in charge. And right now we are the ones in charge and it’s gotten better, but it hasn’t gotten good enough.”

“I don’t blame them for being mad. We’re in charge,” Biden acknowledged.