Rick Santorum's Voting Record

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As you decide which candidate is worthy of your vote in the primary, Liberty Counsel Action encourages you to review the positions of all of the candidates on controversial issues. Here is Rick Santorum's voting record on some key issues. Each vote linked to senate.gov roll call record.

NEA

Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Defense and Foreign Policy

Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program

Nominations

Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge

Labor

Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.

Guns

Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.

Reform

Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.

Immigration

Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.

Taxes

Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare

Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.

Waste

Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.

Spending and Entitlements

Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.

Health Care

Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.

Education

Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.

Energy

Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.

The Use Of Capital

Newg Gingrich supports a "free and open" economy!

Just one of First Lady Michelle Obama's many vacations!

The USA are in a deep recession/depression; however, President Obasma and his wife seem to have unlimited taxpayers' money.

Dave Starr 10:08am Feb 28 Dave Starr From a Panama City, Florida newspaper last Sunday. Thanks Jerry

From a Panama City, Florida newspaper last Sunday.

Thanks Jerry

Liberals?

From: Jim VonSchounmacher

7:20am Feb 27

Liberal's minds are like concrete...  Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

The Case for Newt Gingrich

I am so concerned that General Election 2012 “may be America’s last chance” to save our nation and return to Constitutional freedoms based on Judeo-Christian values.

It is disturbing that so many have gotten away from the values that America was founded on and has made our people and our nation leader of the entire world.

As you have heard before, those who “vote for their government handout living” are almost equal in number to those who “work for a living and pay federal taxes”. 

America has reached a time when the “lazy and greedy” are demanding more from the “working people” who are responsible for a free and open capitalistic economy. 

As I related to President Reagan on one occasion and numerous times with the late Sen. Jesse Helms, it is imperative in assisting the “needy” of those who cannot help themselves.

For these reasons, it is important for all to choose a strong candidate as Newt Gingrich offers.

I am so concerned that General Election 2012 “may be America’s last chance” to save our nation and return to Constitutional freedoms based on Judeo-Christian values.

It is disturbing that so many have gotten away from the values that America was founded on and has made our people and our nation leader of the entire world.

As you have heard before, those who “vote for their government handout living” are almost equal in number to those who “work for a living and pay federal taxes”. 

America has reached a time when the “lazy and greedy” are demanding more from the “working people” who are responsible for a free and open capitalistic economy. 

As I related to President Reagan on one occasion and numerous times with the late Sen. Jesse Helms, it is imperative in assisting the “needy” of those who cannot help themselves.

For these reasons, it is important for all to choose a strong candidate as Newt Gingrich offers. - Oscar Y. Harward

 

  

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/28/the-case-for-newt-gingrich/ 

By Peter Ferrara on 12.28.11 @ 6:08AM

How easily his great and solid conservative achievements are forgotten.

He led us to victory before. Spectacular, historic victory. The strategy and content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives, which had been held by the Republicans for only two out of the previous 62 years. Even the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s failed to achieve that.

Then, for all the caterwauling we have heard about how he handled the budget battles with Clinton, he led the House Republicans in 1996 to their first re-election as a majority since 1928, almost 70 years.

Moreover, once in power, Gingrich delivered on his promises, and maintained a solid conservative record. He carried out the Contract with America in full, holding a vote on every item as promised, most of which did pass (which was not promised). His record was unswervingly pro-life, pro-gun and Second Amendment, and anti-tax. Indeed, he worked closely with the conservative activist groups on every one of these issues.

Gingrich's Balanced Budget: Succeeding Where Bush Failed  
Contrary to the untouched by reality liberal/left talking points about how the 1993 Clinton tax increases led to balanced budgets, when the Gingrich majority took power in 1995, it was greeted by the 1996 Clinton budget still projecting $200 billion annual budget deficits as far as the eye could see, totaling $2.7 trillion over 10 years, confirmed by CBO. The House passed a budget bill providing for $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and that was almost 20 years ago when $1 trillion was still real money.

In the government shutdown budget battles with Clinton, Gingrich won the substance, as Gingrich demonstrated the only way to balance the budget, with Reagan's supply-side economics. That involved both cutting taxes, to get the economy booming, and cutting spending, resulting in the longest period of federalsurpluses since the 1920s.

This is what the official government records show. You can dig deep into the records at omb.gov yourself. Total federal discretionary spending, as well as the subcategory of non-defense discretionary spending, declined from 1995 to 1996 in actual nominal dollars. In constant dollars, adjusted for inflation, the decline was 5.4 percent. By 2000, total federal discretionary spending was still about the same as it was in 1995 in constant dollars. As a percent of GDP, federal discretionary spending was slashed by 17.5 percent in just four years, from 1995 to 1999.

Total federal spending relative to GDP declined from 1995 to 2000 by an astounding 12.5 percent, a reduction in the federal government relative to the economy of about one-eighth in just five short years. This was accomplished not just by reducing discretionary spending, but through fundamental structural reforms of some programs, such as the old AFDC entitlement program. The Gingrich Congress succeeded in block granting that program back to the states, after two vetoes from Clinton. After 10 years, the taxpayers saved 50 percent on the costs of that program, while the poor formerly on the program gained by going to work, with poverty among them plummeting. That is a model for future entitlement reform.

As a result, the $200 billion annual federal deficits, which had prevailed for over 15 years, were transformed into record-breaking surpluses by 1998, peaking at $236 billion by 2000. Over four years, the national debt held by the public was reduced by a record $560 billion in surpluses. When Gingrich left office, instead of CBO projections of $2.7 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years, CBO projected surpluses of $2.3 trillion over the next 10 years. That is a positive turnaround in the budget of $5 trillion. This is exactly what we need today.

These spending cuts were accomplished not with a deal with the Democrats to raise taxes, but with pro-growth cuts in tax rates. Gingrich led enactment of a capital gains tax rate cut of nearly 30 percent in 1997, from 28 percent down to 20 percent, which was the largest capital gains cut in American history. 

Despite that cut, actual capital gains revenues soared $84 billion higher for 1997 to 2000 than projected before the rate cut. The Republican Congress also expanded IRAs, and adopted other tax cuts on capital.

Contrast that with the disastrous 1990 Bush/Darman/Sununu budget deal, trading permanent tax increases for supposed future spending cuts. The economy dropped into recession almost from the moment the deal was announced, with GDP declining 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 1990. That briefly ended the 92 straight months of economic growth of the Reagan recovery, almost 60 percent longer than any other peacetime expansion in U.S. history.

As a result, federal tax revenues declined rather than increased, despite the tax hikes engineered by Bush budget director Richard Darman, intellectually dominated by the Washington Post and New York Times. Federal revenues had been running 18 to 18.4 percent of GDP before the budget deal, but they declined to 17.5 to 17.7 percent during 1991 to 1992.Pulitzer prize winning columnist Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal reported in January 1993, in a column entitled "Oops, Weren't We Going to Reduce the Deficit?" that the rich paid $6.5 billion less in taxes in 1991, after the tax rate hike, than they did in 1990 before rates went up.
While the Joint Tax Committee had estimated the 10 percent luxury tax on boats, airplanes, cars, jewelry and furs would raise $6 billion in 1991, the actual revenue increase was $53,000. The lost revenue from laid off workers previously building luxury boats and planes was far greater. In the first two years of the luxury tax, 9,400 non-rich boat makers lost their jobs.

At the same time, federal spending rose rather than fell, climbing from 21.2 percent of GDP in 1989 to 22.3 percent in 1991 and 22.1 percent in 1992. In 1991 and 1992 federal domestic spending exploded by 20 percent. "Notwithstanding all the budgeters' talk of pain," wrote Howard Gleckman of Business Week after the budget deal was consummated, "spending at home is in for a windfall." Everything from Head Start to NASA to Medicaid to highway spending enjoyed beefy budget increases in this new austere budget environment.

The deficit consequently soared from $152 billion in 1989, to $221 billion in 1990, $269 billion in 1991, and $290 billion in 1992, when the voters rightly booted Bush out for violating the no new taxes pledge that got him elected. As a Cato Institute report concluded: "The 1990 budget deal was not the deal of the century, but the crime of the century. It hurt the economy, reduced revenues, increased spending, and failed its ultimate test: it didn't reduce the budget deficit." But to this day, Washington budget experts want another grand bipartisan budget deal just like what happened in 1990.

Ironically, Gingrich is being savaged by the Bush crowd now for his role in leading House Republicans in 1990 to reject the Bush budget deal. Bush White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, Sr. is bitterly attacking Gingrich as unstable for opposing the Bush budget deal circus. Former President Bush has endorsed Romney because he is not "a bomb-thrower," in Bush's words, a reference to Gingrich's refusal to lead House Republicans off the cliff with him.
 
Gingrich's rebellion against Bush's 1990 betrayal of Reaganomics was his finest hour. That leadership is what led to the House Republican takeover in 1994. If conservatives and supply-siders do not rally around Gingrich now, and allow the Bush crowd to win with Romney, Reaganism will have been routed out of the Republican Party. Undoubtedly, John Sununu will pick Romney's budget director (remember his pick of Supreme Court Justice David Souter over the conservative alternative that would have given conservatives a firm majority on the Court). The first thing Romney will do if elected is exactly the reprise of the 1990 tax increase budget deal for which the Washington establishment that will run a Romney Administration is always pining. That will require another round of Democrats in the White House before conservatives can even get a chance at winning again, which America cannot survive at this point.

Gingrich's Platform

Besides Gingrich's proven record of conservative leadership, he is running this year on the most visionary free market platform of any candidate ever.

It is all in writing at Newt.org. Gingrich is campaigning on the ultimate, supply-side, pro-growth, Jobs and Economic Recovery plan of cutting taxes and spending to balance the budget, just as he did in the 1990s. He is proposing the 15 percent optional flat tax plan of Steve Forbes and Steve Moore. He proposes corporate tax reform, closing loopholes in return for lowering the rate to 12.5 percent as Ireland did in 1988 to such great success.

He would eliminate the capital gains tax, the death tax, and the alternative minimum tax. He would allow immediate expensing for capital investment, like the deductions for all other business expenses, instead of dragging those deductions out over many years through arbitrary depreciation schedules.

These tax reforms are explicitly not designed to be revenue neutral. They are designed to be growth maximizing, resulting in the most jobs and the most rapidly rising wages and incomes. The professional score of these reforms will be released this week, showing how the budget can be balanced with economic growth and spending cuts. Those would involve returning most budget line items to pre-Obama levels, and then freezing them there until budget balance. It would also involve abolishing all corporate bailouts and corporate welfare, and terminating, breaking up, or privatizing stale, outdated programs, like NPR, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AMTRAK, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It would include as well the most sweeping, long-term entitlement reforms ever proposed, which are also spelled out in comprehensive detail in writing at Newt.org. He would adopt and then expand an individual choice for personal savings, investment and insurance accounts for younger workers that would be expanded over time to finance all of the benefits financed by the payroll tax, as in Chile, ultimately displacing the payroll tax entirely. Gingrich would bring Jose Piñera from Chile to campaign for this idea across America, but especially among Hispanics, with the grassroots campaign targeted at younger workers and minorities that George W. Bush should have followed through with, but never did. Such personal accounts involve the biggest reduction in government spending in world history, as all that spending now financed by the personal accounts would ultimately be shifted to the private sector.

Gingrich also proposes to expand his enormously successful 1996 AFDC welfare reforms to the nearly 200 remaining federal means-tested welfare programs, sending all federal welfare back to the states. The projected federal and state spending on these programs over the next 10 years is $10 trillion. Based on the experience with the 1996 reforms, that spending can ultimately be cut in half or more through these reforms.
Gingrich would further slash taxes, spending and regulatory costs by trillions by repealing and replacing Obamacare with Patient Power. Those reforms would provide a health care safety net that would ensure access to essential health care for the uninsured at just a fraction of current costs, with no individual mandate and no employer mandate. You can just ask John Goodman at NCPA about that, who is personally advising Gingrich on health policy. I myself have been an unpaid close personal advisor to Gingrich for years.

Taken together, these entitlement reforms would over the long run cut federal spending in half from what it would be otherwise, completely solving America's entitlement and fiscal crisis. That estimate reflects my life's work on entitlement reform and budget policy at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, NCPA, and now the Heartland Institute. The full discussion can be found in my book published last June by HarperCollins,America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb.

Union County, NC’s “illegal and unauthorized expansion” of NC General Statues must be stopped

If a farmer goes into the local Union County, NC Government Center and asked (y)our UC government employee(s) how to purchase a parking space on his/her own farm, it would be the “civil and legal responsibility” for the government employee(s) to tell the farmer(s) that they have no jurisdiction to sell parking spaces under NC General Statues “Agricultural law”.

In Union County, NC government, this is a scenario of an “expanded and illegal jurisdiction” within our UC government and what overburdened some UC farmers. It is clear under NC General Statutes that local governments have “no jurisdiction” relating to farms. Without any additional “expanded and legal jurisdiction”, UC government department employee(s) sold permits to farmers “without any legal authority” under law. Based on these transactions, government officials now declare that these “unauthorized sell and purchase of permits” governs in the future under their power; not law. This government determination has no basis on any NC General Statute support(s).

UC government intervention on farmers may be “illegal and unauthorized”, itself, under NC General Statutes, our US Constitution, and/or US Code. Protecting farmers’ rights based on law(s) are mandatory to continue our “food chain”.

UC government’s employee(s) “legal and appropriate decision” should have been for government employees to tell the farmer(s) was that he/she/they did not need a permit as clearly defined by NC General Statutes.

This government employee(s) cancerous act grows deeper. Based on that “expanded and illegal transaction”, Union County, NC government has decided that these rules, “not laws”, and all similar instances are sheltered under their jurisdiction. There is “no law” in NC General Statues “Agricultural law”, or anywhere else, to defend Union County, NC’s governments “expanded and illegal” actions. UC government’s decision supersedes NC General Statues, our US Constitution, and/or US Code. It appears Union County Government is merely just making their own rules, not laws, as and when they choose.

This “Editorial” is a follow-up to a previous “Editorial” dated December 22, 2011, “What NC General Statute(s) “empowers” Union County to “supersede” NCGS Agricultural legislation?. This and the aforementioned “Editorial” was submitted via E-mail to each UC Commissioner as well as to associates in the Medias.

U.S. Sen. Steve Symms (R-ID) once said, "Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation." Sen. Symms words certainly apply to UC government’s “illegal and unauthorized expansion” of NC General Statues, our US Constitution, and/or US Code.

Has this “illegal and unauthorized expansion” of UC government overreached a point as to when UC government may decide to shut down row crop farmers, cattle farmers, chicken farmers and/or turkey farmers in UC by additional “expanded and illegal” activities that supersede the current NC General Statues, our US Constitution, and/or US Code? All of our farmers must be protected under the law(s).

Union County citizens may have reached a point where and when “we, the citizens, must request” the US Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and/or other investigative federal authorities to scrutinize these associated staff and  employee(s) actions based on “illegal and unauthorized expansions” in NC General Statues, our US Constitution, and/or US Code.

“All government authorities” who, as participants, are found to be guilty of exaggerating any “expanded and illegal jurisdiction” within our UC government and beyond the law should be fired and/or imprisoned. Our farmers’ personal civil rights must not be violated by any “out-of-control” Union County, NC government.

The NC Bar and/or the American Bar Association must examine the “potential faulty legal counsel” of these “illegal and unauthorized expansions” in Union County, NC. The question remains as to why UC government lawyers choose to “violate and supersede” NC General Statue, our US Constitution, and/or US Code on some farmers? Even a lawyer or a group of lawyers are not allowed to just “make up” a law!

An old West Virginia Hillbilly says, “You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.” This issue must not die. Major corrections on these issues are imminent. It is “past time” for Union County government officials to clear the water.

Part of the U.S. Junior Chamber (Jaycee) Creed: “…That government should be of laws rather than of men;…” 

Some Union County, NC government officials seem to practice that government is administered on individuals, rather than based on the law(s). This “expanded and illegal jurisdiction”  practice must be corrected immediately.

Oscar Y. Harward

oharward@carolina.rr.com

Gas prices – who to blame?

By Gary Varvel - February 23, 2012

 

Newt Gingrich & Allen West in 2012

Americans "Best" win!  Americans will win in 2012!

Something you should know: Oil!!

Does President Obama and many Capitol Hill Democrats receive money or other “gifts” from oil-rich radical Islamic Muslin nations?

Is President Obama and many Capitol Hill Democrats practicing worldwide redistribution? 

Pay, tell me why President Obama and many Capitol Hill Democrats continue to punish American consumers with $4.00/gal. to $5.00/gal. gasoline and fuel oil? - Oscar Y. Harward

 

http://copperraildepot.com/ANWR/ANWR.htm

This is the best presentation on ANWR I have seen. I would like to add a little more information. A new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles From the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. Second the wildlife loves The pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter. Maybe another question should be asked. FIRST do you know what ANWR is? ANWR Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now, a comparison And some perspective? NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS? (it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain") THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR And they are right these ARE Photographs of ANWR ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE? WELL THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH Do you remember the map? The map showed that the proposed Drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain Do those photographs look like a Coastal plain to you? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE.  THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL! THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER: AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER Here are a couple of screen-shots from Google-Earth: As you can see, the area where they are talking about drilling is a barren wasteland. Oh? And they say that they are concerned about the effect on the local wildlife ? Here is a photo (shot during the summer) of the "depleted wildlife" situation created by drilling around Prudhoe Bay. Don't you think that the caribou really hate that drilling? Here is that same spot during the winter: Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay * *The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. Domestic oil production NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE POLITICIANS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR? REMEMBER WHEN AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO $5.00 A GALLON? WELL AL GORE AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL! NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN LYING, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

How Entitlement America is strangling the rest of America

Do you question President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats policies of “Tax and spend”? 

Does this chart “prove” that President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats “support” those who “Vote for a living” over those who “Work for a living”? - Oscar Y. Harward

http://www.therightscoop.com/how-entitlement-america-is-strangling-the-rest-of-america/

Posted by The Right Scoop on February 17th, 2012 in Politics |

 

This is stunning. Zero Hedge has an article today showcasing research from Wyatt Emerich of The Cleveland Current. He shows how a single parent making minimum wage, with a family of 3 children, has more disposable income that someone making $60k/year. Just look at this chart:


And this is in Mississippi, not California. Who knows how much more they are getting there.
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For another reality check, we look at a chart that PowerLine picked up from the Republican Study Committee on the decline in jobs. Here is how they describe it (click graph to enlarge):

It depicts the percentage of Americans in the labor force from January 2005 (commonly known as the “good old days” through January 2012. The decline in the number of working Americans is staggering. And note that Barack Obama became president in January 2009, about 3/4 of the way through the gray “recession,” and just before the “stimulus” that is marked with a red dot. What has happened since Obama took office is that the jobs situation has steadily deteriorated:

This is why we are headed for a debt crisis. No jobs and we’re subsidizing everything under the sun.
We have to change Washington.

Newt Gingrich: Obama's Attorney Filed Lawsuit Over 8 Migratory Birds to Stop Oil Development

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats choose 8 migratory birds over American gas and oil development and our national economy.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

            

“I am the Lord your God...." Ex 20:2-17

DID YOU KNOW?
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

 DID YOU KNOW?
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
 

DID YOU KNOW?
James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

DID YOU KNOW? 
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
 
DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW?
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law....an oligarchy....the rule of few over many.

DID YOU KNOW?
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

“You shall have no other gods before Me.

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.... “Honor your father and your mother... “You shall not murder. “You shall not commit adultery. “You shall not steal. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. “You shall not covet... anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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Paradigm Shift: Total transformation

"...the high priest asked them, saying, "Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine...."

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said:

“We ought to obey God rather than men."