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The bill currently in front of the House of Representatives must be stopped. It is a massive tax increase – the burden of which will be placed on every American.

The goal of this bill isn’t to improve our country’s ecology, but rather to dramatically increase the income of the Federal Government in a sly, back-door way. Even Greenpeace says this bill is no good – what more proof do you need?!

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS NOW!

Call the House’s phone switchboard at (202) 224-3121. If the line is busy, keep trying, but also give your Congressional Representative’s local office a call (find the right number here). Tell them you want them to vote NO against this horrendous piece of legislation. Tell them you will actively campaign against them if they vote yes or present.

Reasons to Deny Cap and Trade

• Increases the cost of products manufactured here, in the United States. Are corporations going to accept less profit? No! They’ll move the jobs outside the country (thanks Democrats for pushing more jobs to India!).
• Any additional expenses brought on by this new tax will be passed directly onto you – the American consumer. We’ll all be paying more to our Government (and what do we get back?).
• This bill gives the already powerful EPA even further reaching authority – who will stop these eager government bureaucrats from sticking their noses into everything?
• This bill disproportionately affects lower class Americans – who really stands for this group (hint: not Liberals)?

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Earlier this week President Obama released a list containing 121 proposed programs he would like to cut which he claims will save taxpayers approximately $17 billion. He continually referred to these program terminations as “cuts”. This couldn’t be much further from the truth.

A “cut” would be a decrease in overall spending. A prime example would be Obama’s $100 million cut several weeks back (even though it was minuscule relative to his proposed budget). With his new $17 billion he is not reducing spending, just transferring it to other programs he wants to fund. This doesn’t save the taxpayers a single penny.

Let’s talk numbers:

$17 billion (that’s a whole lot o’ moola) is about 0.050% of Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget. In other words, it is about the same as cutting (not really, though…just transferring) $250 from the budget of a family earning $50,000 a year. The $100 million he actually cut is a teeny tiny 0.003% of the budget ($1.50 to that same middle class family)…yikes.

The people over at the Heritage Foundation made a great illustration demonstrating Obama’s horrible money management. I highly suggest taking a stroll over to their site.

Now is the time to stand up and voice your concerns. Let them know you want real fiscal responsibility, not illusions. Call your Senators, call your Representatives. It’s quick and painless. Send an email. DO SOMETHING!

Glenn Beck’s visual representation of the insane amount of money our government has been creating since the mid-1970’s. Spread it around – everyone needs to see what has happened in just the last month.

Received this short story in an email the other day (from my mother, no less) and thought it was pretty good. People get so caught up in making unearned money that they lose sight of the truth. Remember – the only way to true wealth is honesty and hard work.

Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.”

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

President Barack Obama has began breaking his campaign promises almost immediately and continues to do so today.

During Barack Obama’s campaign he promised a 5 day waiting period after Congress approves a law before signing or vetoing it. This so-called “sunlight before signing” period was to ensure the citizens had plenty of time to review the legislation and provide their input to the White House.

Obama’s own campaign website stated “Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

Promise: Broken

Congress sent the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to President Obama about a week ago, and less than three hours later it was signed into law. If I do my math correctly (and by that I mean use my calculator properly) he missed his 5 day promise by about 117 hours. Oops.

Heck, he passed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act only two days after receiving it. And that was in his first week as President.

Obama promised all these wonderful changes to be made if he were elected. He promised to include the citizens, to attempt to truly be a leader of the people. Many on the Right saw this as posturing for votes, but obviously many believed him. Unfortunately, he has already starting proving his inability to keep a simple promise from disrupting his liberal agenda.

This is a man who will stop at nothing to have his way. How about Bipartisanship? Nope – no need for that in the White House of the 44th President. Take a look at the current Economic Stimulus Package. The only bipartisanship in the package right now is the 7 House Democrats who voted alongside Republicans against the bill. When confronted with this fact the administration ignored it and spouted some completely inane numbers stating “3.5 million jobs that we look forward to saving or creating.”

Hey Obama! How about listening to the people and providing us with a response?! No? Oh well, you’ll be out in 4 years anyway.

America was founded on the ideal that the individual is free to make their own life. Our thoughts are our own. Yet today we are experiencing more and more the thought that people shouldn’t have responsibility over their own lives. Everywhere I look the government is helping (read: interfering) in citizens’ lives through financial assistance, special regulations, and unfair taxing.

The Constitution of this nation states we are all born equal; does that mean we remain equal? Does not the person who works hard and improves himself deserve more than the one who sits idly on the couch? We all deserve equal opportunities – what we do with those opportunities is what defines us. The man who works hard pays taxes (a lot of taxes if he is very successful). Those taxes are then used to pay for welfare services to support the lazy dolt sitting at home. Does this seem even remotely fair?

Yes, sometimes people need help. There are unforeseen circumstances and I feel it is acceptable for our nation to help people get back on their feet. Our current programs, however, do not accomplish this. They are designed to keep people dependent on government aide. Why get a job, work hard, and earn your living when you can stay home and receive a check?

The large our welfare programs grow the closer to abyss of self-destruction we get. Former countries who tried the “everyone is equal” path have failed (see Soviet Union). This type of governance will always lead to the death of innovation, the growth of corruption, and “special privileges” for the ruling elite. Socialism’s goal (not stated, and not understood by its supporters) is the murder of thought.

Each and every one of us is free to become the greatest our own abilities allow us. The most moral thing you can do is to care for your own being; do what you have always dreamed of, educate and grow, create great things! Be successful! Never let someone tell you it is your responsibility to protect the non-producers of this world.

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