National day of Prayer by Pres Obama

I turned on the TV this morning for my usual exercise routine (I watch the news while exercising) and there was Obama talking at the National day of Prayer breakfast. I decided to listen. The more I listened the more I realized that he was using the Bible, specifically Jesus' sayings, to justify his political issues of raising taxes. I had just listened to Ronald Reagan talking about his faith in God several days earlier and I was moved that he believed that there was a God. Obama never once expressed his feelings about God and I was definately not moved. Obama wants us to have faith in ourselves and rely each other. The one scripture that came to my mind was "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm," Are we not supposed to have faith in Jesus? Not once did he say to pray to God or rely on Jesus. Obama was using scriptures to make us feel guilty to pay taxes because "We are our brothers keeper and we need to rely on each other to help one another." It is interesting to also note that he lumped Islam and Jews along with all the Bible verses of Jesus. The thing is - Nether of them have those scriptures so why should they listen to what Jesus says. It sounds like he is only trying to make us Christains feel guiltly because he knows we love Jesus and would follow him. Jesus did say to beware of Wolves in Sheeps clothing.

As I was reading what others said here are some great writings other people said:

"Earth to Obama: Jesus came to change the hearts of individuals, NOT FORM A GOVERNMENT. Paying taxes IS NOT THE SAME as charity!" by Th3oph1lus

LibertyGoddess wrote:

"1. Jesus only asked for 10% in tithing to care for the poor. Obama, you are already taking around 30% and most of that is not going to the poor, but to those who are refusing to care for themselves.

2. Obama you are not asking for more money for the poor, you are asking for more money to waste on projects that are not constitutional and trying to transform this country...

3. Jesus did not put the government in charge of caring for the poor. You are not only doing it wrong, you are not effective. More money has been spent on welfare than ever in history, and we have more broken families, more immorality, more moochers, and more godless people than ever. Do not invoke the Lord’s name again in your speeches, it is sacrilegious."

John Stossel's State of the Union

This is part of a great article written by John Stossel

"Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised "a blueprint for an economy."...Politicians like Obama believe they are the best judges of how we should conduct our lives. Of course a word like "blueprint" would occur to the president. He, like most who want his job, aspires to be the architect of a new society. But we who love our lives and our freedom say: No, thanks. We need no social architect. We need liberty under law. That's it. ...Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek taught, the only "purpose" of law is to enable us all to pursue our individual purposes in peace. If Obama really wanted, as he says, a society in which "everybody gets a fair shot," he would work to shrink government so that the sphere of freedom could expand. Instead, he expands government and raises taxes on wealthier people, as though giving politicians more money were a way to make society better.

What should Obama have said in his speech? Here's what I wish he'd said:

Our debt has passed $15 trillion. ...But if we make reasonable cuts to what government spends, our economy can grow us out of our debt. Cutting doesn't just make economic sense, it is also the moral thing to do. Government is best which governs least.

We'll start by closing the Department of Education, which saves $100 billion a year. It's insane to take money from states only to launder it through Washington and then return it to states.

Next, we'll close the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That saves $41 billion. We had plenty of housing in America before a department was created.

Then we eliminate the Commerce Department: $9 billion. A government that can't count votes accurately should not try to negotiate trade. We will eliminate all corporate welfare and all subsidies. That means agriculture subsidies, green energy subsidies, ethanol subsidies and so on. None of it is needed.

I propose selling Amtrak. Why is government in the transportation business? Let private companies compete to run the trains.

...Still, all these cuts combined will only dent our deficit. We must cut Medicare, Social Security and the military.

I know. Medicare and Social Security are popular. But they are unsustainable. The only way to cut costs and still have medical innovation is to free the market. So I propose that we repeal Obamacare immediately. My proposal was a mistake. We should repeal all government interference in the medical and insurance industries, including licensing. It all impedes competition.

We must shrink the military's mission to true national defense. That means pulling our troops out of Germany, Japan, Italy and dozens of other countries. America cannot and should not try to police the world.

Those cuts will put America on the road to solvency. But that's not enough. We also need economic growth.

Our growth has stalled because millions of pages of regulations make businesses too fearful to invest. Entrepreneurs don't know what the rules -- or taxes -- will be tomorrow.

All destructive laws must go. I endorse the Stossel Rule: For every new law passed, we must repeal two old ones.

OK, Obama will never say that.

But I can dream, can't I?

John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. He's the author of "Give Me a Break" and of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity."

Mitch Daniels GOP Response

Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, gave the GOP reponse to the State of the Union. When he first started talking I thought Oh dear - he's talking like a moderate. But then he got into his talk and he has some great things to say. My favorite is - "We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves." Another great thing he said was "Out here in Indiana, when a businessperson asks me what he can do for our state, I say 'First, make money. Be successful. If you make a profit, you'll have something left to hire someone else, and some to donate to the good causes we love.' "

State of the Union Address

I have a hard time listening to Obama speak and I could not watch the whole the State of the Union speech. I only saw the last part. But I did listen to some of the pudits afterwards and to Mitch Daniels GOP Response. One of the Fox news guys told us that he sat with with Speaker John Boehner during lunch. The news guys asked him how was it working with Obama. The speaker said that Obama was a likeable guy but Obama has not spoken to him for over a month. He also said that Obama has not done anything in the way of policy making since last August. He said that is not a governing president. All he wants to do this year is pass the payroll tax extension. I could not believe what I had heard. I feel very violated because I sincerely believe that Obama and his family are just lording it up at the White House and spending all of our hard earned tax money on frivolous time wasters. Now all he wants to do is raise 1 billion dollars for his campaign so that he can beat the republican candidate. So he is going around everywhere and doing expensive fund raisers ($35,000 a plate) and bashing the republicans and creating a divide in the already divided country. I heard on the radio that if it weren't because of who he was (black person) the Occupy Wallstreet would be at the doorstep, because of how bad the economy is. This photo just shows how he is always lording it over on us even when he speaks. You can bet that he is saying "I" (He says I way too many times) I pray that he is not elected and that people will wake up to the fact that he is not good for America.

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!