Posted on 03/01/2013 12:24:37 PM PST by Nachum
Pres. Barack Obama asks reporters for help solving the countries problems during his news conference on the Sequester (March 1, 2013).
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Revenues were ceded as a resolution at each of the last half dozen “crises”. Now it’s time to cede some spending.
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If you have seen the following post today, just ignore here."Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
The principles and ideas underlying America's Constitutional limits on grants of power to elected officials led to individual freedom, opportunity, creativity, wealth creation, and a refuge for oppressed persons from all over the world.
The "liberal" movement which began in the late 1800's, now self-described as the "progressive" movement has brought America's citizens and their economy to this point.
So-called "progressives," in their arrogant and overwhelming desire for accumulation of power for themselves, readily acknowledge the taxing power as a useful tool for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.
On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains opportunity and motivation toward productivity, wealth creation, and saving.
Democrats, under Obama, now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.
Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Here what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's "progressive" Democrats.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
I'm guessing...ice cream.
I have some suggestions!!
National endowment for the arts 2012 $ 146,000,000
obama’s vacations (average per year) $ 5,000,000
Public broadcasting $ 445,000,000
foreign aid (reduce by 50% from $53.3B) $26,650,000,000
NEA (why are we funding a union??) $ 155,000,000
DOD education $15.2B (use local schools)$10,000,000,000
DOD Alternative energy programs $ 700,000,000 (these are duplicate programs with the DOE)
Congress’ benefits package $ 4,600,000,000
State Dept. (reduce by 25% from $11.2B) $ 2,800,000,000
EPA (reduce by 50% from $8.4B) $ 4,200,000,000
BLM Oregon and Cali land grants $ 112,000,000
End the War on Drugs (federal $ only) $ 15,000,000,000 (another $26B lost annually at the state level)
Cut out post office Saturday deliveries $ 2,000,000,000
Privatize AMTRAK $ 1,500,000,000
Wasteful Washington printing $ 93,000,000
Eliminate Obama Phones $ 2,200,000,000
Wasteful DOD research projects with a certainty of failure $10,000,000,000 a YEAR.
Look at that! A housewife saved the federal gov’t $80.6 billion in two hours this morning! (I did find another $4B, but that was little stuff.)
And that’s without doing anything really drastic.
Spending only was the original deal that he struck with Congress on that. Of course, the lapdog press and probably both too slow and too totally in the bag for him to point that out in reply.
I have a lot of cost cutting suggestions.
First, eliminate SSI. It’s a great scam.
“Get out of my country.”
> Maybe I should ask the kids what we should have for dinner.
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> I’m guessing...ice cream.
Make it “Shave Ice” and Obama the Marxist child will be at your house for dinner.
ask reporters , so you don’t need that over paid and useless WH staff + Czars .well firing them could save billions
I’d also eliminate funds for groups like LaRaza and Acorn.
you have my vote if you ever run :) Good job, now if we could only get those in DC to do it
Easy, you Mr. President, your Vice President, House Minority leader Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid simply need to resign.
Most of the press earned White House ‘butt kisser’ badges when he was elected the first time. Obama’s asking because he wants to isolate Woodward...
Liberaltarian hippie! </sarcasm>
RETIRE AND MOVE TO IRAN TO BE WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
Tort reform. Add another 55 billion to the pot. Also lower doctors rates and insurance premiums.
We are now up to 135 billion.
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