Daily Rant – November 6, 2009
November 6, 2009
Conservatism IS America – OPINION
It is my belief that conservatism is America. With conservatism we get choices. Everyone does not have to fit into a one-size-fits-all mold, forced to do it one way. This is liberalism. So why would conservatism not be the first natural choice when freedom is a founding principle of this country?
In my heart, I believe it is why we are seeing a grassroots uprising. Instinctively Americans know the true spirit of America is freedom. People are slowly waking up to the fact that congress and the president are not listening to us, and really don’t care what we want or think. In other words, they are the ruling elite, not our elected representatives who work for us!
But how did we get lulled into this situation in the first place? By incrementally moving the goal posts in the name of protecting or helping us, liberals have successfully implemented policies slowly over time. But what is happening right now is a huge power grab that has not been disguised, and thus, is causing all this outrage from the population. Perhaps liberals have inadvertently done us a favor by over reaching.
I have been reading a lot of books on the creeping socialism that has invaded our country over the years. For example, the Robert Kiyosaki book, Conspiracies of the Rich talks about the erosion of our US dollar when Nixon took us off the gold standard. This simple act made ours a fiat currency that is only worth something as long as everyone believes it is so. It also allows government to print or borrow as much money as they need at will. This eventually has to have a devastating effect on the economy.
Kiyosaki also explains the dumbing down of the educational system which happened in 1903 when the General Education Board was founded by the Rockefeller family. The elite rich decided what curriculum would be taught in the schools which met their needs but not necessarily the needs of the student. After years of being “dumbed down” in public schools, only those who continue to seek knowledge outside the system are truly educated. We know that is a small percentage of the population.
Day after day our leaders are faced with legislative choices, and slowly but surely they incrementally give away our freedom in the name of “doing good things for us”. The problem is, there are unintended consequences. Every action has a reaction, not necessarily for the best.
So how can we turn it around and what is missing? After all, it took an extraordinary group of gentlemen to start this country in the first place. It was such a unique concept that I am sure people at the time were expecting it to fail. Before that only monarchies had ruled the world, one after another, rising and falling until the United States came along.
For over 200 years our country has risen to a level that was only dreamed of by the ancient rulers. We have the ability to drive down paved roads at high speeds, fly across county in a matter of hours, and these are available to every single person who can afford a car or can purchase an airline ticket, not just the ruling class. Why? Mostly thanks to capitalism and the ability of every single person to pursue an individual dream. I am not talking about greed, but the freedom of choices that come from our economic system.
What I believe we need are two things. First, we need strong leaders who will speak up for what it right in spite of what the liberal media or groups like ACORN believe. The louder they squeal, the stronger they should become. If groups are asking for perks that will bankrupt the country in the long run, then let them eat cake. These leaders will also need to be able to articulate conservatism and teach people why it is the right choice. Second, we the people need to learn to sell conservatism. This used to be a free country and can be once more if we all continue to take a stand.
Our country is at a crossroads. Will we bend and accept some form of liberalism in order to get along and appease the opponents of freedom? Or will we stand and fight for conservatism? Which do you choose?
- FedUpEditor
Did You Know? Report: U.S. Tops in Energy Resources
November 4, 2009
From Jane Van Ryan at API - Did you know that the United States has largest energy resources on Earth? You might be surprised to learn that a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report found just that.
The United States with its 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number 2 Russia with 1,248 billion BOE, and number 3 Saudi Arabia with 543 billion BOE.
Read the entire article here.
Scozzafava Drops Out – Some of the Votes go to Hoffman!
October 31, 2009
From the Hoffman Campaign – NY-23
Campaign Alert – 32 days until Election Day! Donate Now
Our Republican opponent, Dede Scozzafava, today suspended her campaign and told her supporters they are free to support anyone they would like. We would like to acknowledge the class and dignity with which Mrs. Scozzafava conducted her campaign and thank her for her continued service to our great state. She deserves our respect and appreciation.
And now the race for the 23rd congressional district truly becomes a two way race between a Nancy Pelosi democrat and a principled Conservative Republican. We cannot take victory for granted under any circumstance. Pelosi and comrades are poised to spend a fortune to win this seat. They are even airlifting in Joe Biden on Monday. We must continue to fight as if life as we know it depends on it, because it does!
Updates:
- Country Superstar John Rich will give be in WATERTOWN, MONDAY, to play at a Get-Out-The-Vote Rally for Congressional Candidate DOUG HOFFMAN. Concert will start at 6:30 pm at the Jefferson County Agricultural Society Exhibition Hall, 615 W. T. Fields Drive, Watertown, NY 13601.
- Governor George Pataki was in the district and spent today campaigning with Doug.
- How NY-23 became a dead heat – Times Union
- Breaking: Scozzafava drops out of NY-23 race
- Dede releases supporters and county chairs to support who they choose!
- NY23: Dems Bringing in Big Money Against Hoffman — spectator.org
- Hoffman avoiding unions – Watertown Daily Times
- SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN – Watertown Daily Times
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What do toys from China have to do with oil imported from the Middle East?
October 31, 2009
From CEA – It’s been estimated that as much as one quarter of carbon dioxide emissions in China results from the production of goods that are exported, largely to the United States and Europe. It’s part of a phenomenon known as carbon leakage, in which reduced emissions in one country result in higher emissions elsewhere, and quite possibly a net increase in worldwide emissions.
It goes something like this: Country A passes legislation reducing emissions (good), but does so in a way that fails to contemplate the global impact of its move (not so good). As a result of the tighter standards in Country A, the cost of manufacturing goods and services there goes up, resulting in increased demand for those same products out of countries B, C and D, where production costs are comparatively low and emissions standards are slim to nonexistent. Country A loses more of its manufacturing base, and jobs along with it, without ever really achieving its main objective of cleaning up the planet. Its emissions legislation has only served to encourage increased output from some of the places with the lowest environmental standards.
The problem of carbon leakage is often cited as an unintended consequence of carbon offsets. But it also relates to the issue of low carbon fuel standards in the U.S. As CEA recently noted, policies designed to favor production of light crude oils, which in general require less energy to produce than their heavier counterparts, could easily create the unintended consequence of increasing the country’s need for foreign oil.
Now, in one sense, all foreign oil is created equal, at least when you’re measuring the amount the U.S. imports from all over the world. But just for a moment put oil from Canada in a category of its own: yes, it’s foreign oil, but it is at least a nearby and stable source that can help support jobs on pipelines and in refineries near the U.S./Canadian border.
A newspaper in South Dakota recently complained the passage of a low carbon fuel standard could kill a new oil refinery project that had been expected to create more than 1,000 jobs, by cutting off supply of heavy crude oil from Canada. This is not oil that could be easily replaced by a U.S. source: Under a low carbon fuel standard, a refinery in Middle America with a healthy supply of oil in its own backyard might have to tap supplies in the Middle East, where the crude is, as they say, sweet.
“Do a little digging,” the story says, “and you quickly find out that the low carbon fuel standard isn’t at all interested in making the fuel in your car today better, cleaner or more affordable. It’s only interested in making those fuels scarcer, more expensive and less available.”
Daily Rant – October 28, 2009
October 28, 2009
Remember the old good news, bad news jokes? The government thinks we are stupid. Look at all the inconsistencies in the way they have approached problems and you will see they have no intention of solving any of our problems. Here are some examples.
Good News: We are going to have a national health care program that will be FREE to everyone! Everyone will be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions, and it will be efficient.
Bad News: We can’t get enough H1N1 Flu vaccine which is such a small portion of what they are promising to do for us!
Good News: There are news reports that people are actually very happy about being unemployed. With the numbers up around 10%, there are numerous stories in the press about how this is actually good for the US because people are spending time with their families and planting their own food, eating healthier, etc.
Bad News: Remember when Bush was in office and slightly over 5% was TERRIBLE? No, there is no media bias.
Good News: Obama was touting the new smart electric meters which will do things like force thermostats to be set to conserve electricity or run dishwashers in the middle of the night while people are sleeping.
Bad News: Why are they pushing everyone into electric cars if there is going to be an electricity shortage?
Good News: Government does not want to do anything about illegal immigration even though we need tax revenue.
Bad News: If we gave the work to documented workers and legal US citizens, we could collect taxes from them and lower unemployment at the same time.
Good News: There is going to be an opt out in the public health care plan.
Bad News: Oh, you can opt out of receiving benefits, but you can not opt out of the taxation of the program!
Good News: Our current government is going to draw down troops in Iraq so they can fight a legitimate war in Afghanistan.
Bad News: Not so fast, Obama. Don’t rush into anything.
Bottom line? This administration is incompetent! Let’s make sure there is a turnover in the next election starting with the special elections in November!
- FedUpEditor
Doug Hoffman is Leading in the Polls!
October 27, 2009
We’re winning! Last week we sent you an URGENT message about the special election in the New York 23rd congressional district. We asked for urgent donations from you and fellow patriots to help support Patriot Doug Hoffman.And you answered the call with flying colors! We began running key radio ads supporting Doug Hoffman, and they’ve made a huge impact by educating the voters about who’s running . . . And the results are nothing less than amazing . . .
Coming from behind, Doug Hoffman now leads the race by 8%!!!
Pro-amnesty liberals Dede Scozzafava and Bill Owens are tanking in the polls . . . and we have you to thank for it!
HELP CARRY DOUG HOFFMAN TO THE FINISH LINE!
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Hoffman is a true patriot pledging to fight the deluge of hand-outs for illegal aliens coming down from the Obama White House and serial amnesty peddlers Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid……but his liberal opponents, Democrat Bill Owens and super-liberal pro-amnesty Republican Dede Scozzafava, are guaranteed to support whatever Pelosi puts in front of them. And the odd twist in this race is that Scozzafava, the Republican, is more liberal than the Democrat!
This race is CRITICAL because it sets the tone for and sends a message to Washington that we’re coming with our barrels loaded in 2010…aiming to take back our country from the leftists who’ve tried to destroy it!If you haven’t yet heard the Minuteman PAC radio ad, click the link above and listen. In fact, forward it to your friends and family . . . because every bit of support for Doug Hoffman is critical.
For the Republic,
Minuteman PAC’s latest polling of definite voters is showing Hoffman’s lead even greater with a 38% – 26% – 16% spread! Folks, in electoral politics, that’s a landslide!!!
And that’s because the Minuteman PAC radio ad – which you helped us run – is showing the voters that neither the Democrat nor the Republican candidate is acceptable…in fact they’re both deplorable on the issues.
What’s more, Scozzafava was rated even more liberal than her Democrat colleagues in the state senate.
This race could go any way at the last minute, so we’ve got to do everything in our power to EXPAND HOFFMAN’S LEAD . . . and the only way to do that is to
With additional donations from loyal patriots like you, we’ll be able to continue running these ads:
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Health Care and Cap & Trade both require the Read the Bills Act
October 26, 2009
The healthcare bill and the cap and trade bill both threaten to completely remake two of the largest sectors of our economy. The President and Congressional leaders tell us these massive makeovers are so urgent that these bills must be passed soon — so soon that they can’t allow time to read them, even for 72 hours. But notice . . .
- They’re taking months to work out the gruesome details
- Most health care reforms won’t begin until 2013
- The effects of the cap&trade bill won’t be seen for decades
- After spending months on both of these bills, secret provisions will still be added at the last minute
In short, Congress is taking a long time to reach the point where they’ll rush these bills to a final vote, but then it will take years or decades for these bills to really take effect.
This is a contradiction. DownsizeDC.org’s Read the Bills Act would resolve the contradiction by compelling Congress to be deliberate.
Please send Congress a letter telling them they need to pass DownsizeDC.org’s Read the Bills Act.
You can use my letter as a model for your own, or simply past it into your personal comments . . .
Congress is taking months to craft legislation on health care and cap and trade. These bills will then have delayed implementations, or delayed effects. But despite these facts I know that you’ll rush them to a vote at the last minute, without taking the time to read them, understand them, or debate them. This is a contradiction.
I also know that many secret and probably unrelated provisions will be added to them at the last minute. This has happened so often in the past that I know you’ll do it again with the health care and cap & trade bills. This is irresponsible.
Neither I nor you will really know what you’ve passed for days or weeks after the final vote. This is intolerable.
It’s obvious to me that Congress cannot be trusted to behave responsibly, or even to follow it’s own rules. That’s why we need a law to make you behave. Please introduce and pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Read the Bills Act.”
END LETTER TO CONGRESS
You can send your letter to Congress here.
Please also add your website or blog to the Read the Bills Act Coalition. It’s quick and easy, and will build public awareness about the Read the Bills Act. In return, your site will be listed on our blog and be listed in a Downsizer-Dispatch. You can join at the DownsizeDC.org website.
Today we welcome 3 new members to the Coalition:
Finally, over the past three weeks the House passed 33 bills totaling 1,779 pages, and the Senate passed 18 bills totaling 1,728 pages. You can see the list of bills in the blog version of this Dispatch:
http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/health-care-and-cap-amp-trade-both-require-the-read-the-bills-act
James Wilson
Assistant Communications Director
DownsizeDC.org
Lord Monckton – OUR NEW HERO!
October 25, 2009
Lord Monckton on Global Warming Hoax
October 25, 2009
Two ways of reducing the massive trade deficit
October 23, 2009
Consumer Energy Alliance - If you want to make a dent in the U.S. trade deficit, the multi-billion dollar amount by which imports exceed exports, you could contract the whole national economy: Recessions, for all the pain they cause, can help bring trade deficits in balance by reducing the amount of foreign goods purchased.
Or, you could make a concerted effort to reduce oil imports, a major component of the trade deficit in good times and bad. The U.S. trade deficit, now more than $30 billion, is not necessarily the biggest problem associated with our dependence on foreign oil. Nor is it the first thing that strapped consumers think of when they think about all the ways this prolonged economic downturn has hurt their own finances. But on a macro level, the gaping trade deficit is one more way that those massive volumes of imports hurt our economy.
The country recently got a glimpse of how reducing one single component of the trade deficit – oil – could make a huge difference in the overall total. The Commerce Department reported an unexpected $3.5 billion decline in the trade deficit in August, reflecting … drum roll … a big drop in demand for foreign oil.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that demand didn’t drop because of a more robust domestic energy supply, but only because, after 21 months of recession, consumer confidence and overall spending power has been battered. People are buying less and traveling less and businesses have less freight to ship.
Shortly after the trade deficit posted such a large drop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 10,000, crude oil prices moved above $75 a barrel and nationwide unemployment moved within spitting distance of 10%: A mixed bag of economic indicators, to say the least.
The recession is clearly not over for many Americans, but as more and more signs of a nascent recovery start to emerge, the country finds itself back at the same crossroad it has visited so many times in the past, with yet another opportunity to make meaningful changes in broad energy policy. It shouldn’t have to take the worst economic downturn since the great recession to achieve a big drop in oil imports. Hopefully next time, it won’t.
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