"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."(Thomas Jefferson)

IF you think this NATION isn't being ripped at its core, you better wake up or dig for facts to support your view that we are OK.

Our President has a 1950's 3rd World view of us as the Oppressor and all these other nations are the victims and we OWE them, in his own words in his book. Since his election, this President and the Democratic lead Congress and Senate, have rammed down our throats more debt than ALL THE PRESIDENTS before him added together. THIS IS NOT BUSHS' FAULT! Democrat, has been the majority vote up to the end of 2010.

Look at the postings in the Social Media realm, we used to be a bunch of friends that hung out, posted social stuff, had similar views and thoughts. We never rallied or "spoke out" much, we may have wrote letters to the editor or spoke out in our familiar groups, not much more.

What changed, was the newly elected Executive Branch 2008. No we didn't vote for what is there, but that isn't to say we wouldn't stand back to "see what they would do" see what all this touted "Hope and Change" was all about, who knows maybe it would be better. What has transpired since the election in November of 2008, Inauguration on January 20, 2009 is appalling. It doesn't matter how you "feel" about it, the facts speak for themselves.
Is this Hope and Change?
An Inauguration Ball that cost US/the taxpayer millions
Bowing deeper to all other countries, than as equals
Apologizing to other countries for our actions, sueing states within our own boundaries, turning them into the UN for "Human Rights Violations"! These other countries ask us for assistance, then stab us in the back
Shoving "Health Care Reform" down our throats when "we the people" said no
Appointing Czars, judges or officials without the nomination or vetting process
Hindering any ability to repair one of this countries WORST environmental disasters by the government's red tape
Proposing Cap and Trade, when "we the people" say no, attempting to push it through prior to the November 2010 Elections
A National Tax that is being pushed through as we write this today
No honest questioning of candidates when in front of the nomination committee, which isnt often, as they are implemented as CZARS and given more rights that nominated officials and have more power than the President.
Bribery
Lies
STOMPING on our Rights and attempting to remove our FREEDOMS at every opportunity
This is only a bit of what is out there, look the facts up yourself. Don't believe everything you are told by the media outlets. Have you read this Arizona Law? We have and there is nothing in there that is different than the Federal Law.

Have you read any of the bill on Health Care? We have read some and WE ARE ALL HOSED! There is Rationing of care, death panel and jail and/or penalties if you don't comply.

Some bullet points:
The employer mandate tax, this one is on page 348 and this is also like the other one awaiting the CPO score on this. If an employer does not offer health care coverage and at least one employee, qualifies for a health tax credit the employer must pay an additional nondeductible tax of $750 for all full-time employees. If the employee requires a waiting period to enroll there is a $400 tax per employee, $600 if the period is 60 days.
Then the Corporate 1099 miscellaneous information reporting this is going to require businesses to send a 1099 MISC information tax forms to corporations currently limited to individuals, a huge compliance burden for small employers.
Then the elimination of the tax deduction for employer provided retirement prescription drug coverage in coordination with Medicare part D.
It is going to raise the medical itemized deductions from 7.5 percent to 10 percent of AGI (adjusted Gross Income). So most cannot deduct medical costs now.
There is the hike in Medicare payroll tax, current law changes are first - current and new rate of the first 200,000 you currently pay on your wages for your employees, the employer pays 1.45, the employee pays 1.5. The self-employment net income is 2.9 percent tax. Now, the new rate is 1.45 percent for employee and 1.95 for the employer and self employed. The .5 percent new rate addition is not deductible by the way for the self-employment so if you are self-employed you can't.

The individual mandate tax for anyone not buying the government approved health insurance, must pay an income surtax according to the following schedule. If you are single you will pay an extra $95, on top of the monthly cost which is more than your paying now. Then next year you will pay an extra $350 and then an increase to an extra $750. If you decide not to buy qualifying health insurance you will pay an extra $2,250 and risk jail time for not complying. On page 12,997, section 9003 there is the medicine cabinet tax. You are no longer allowed to use health savings accounts, you are no longer allowed to use flexible spending accounts or health reimbursement on pretax dollars to purchase nonprescription over-the-counter medicines except for insulin.
A hike in Medicare payroll tax, current law changes first and new rate the employee pays 1.5.

Of course Union, State or Federal plans are exempt, Many States are now exempt, go figure. So the average person is going to be paying a penalty for our health insurance.
Do you have available your portion of a trillion dollars to pay up?

UPDates on Healthcare Reform bill:

http://www.obamacarewatch.org/

Benjamin Franklin's, Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, portion of ITEM IX
In laying these Taxes, never regard the heavy burthens those remote People already undergo, in defending their own Frontiers, supporting their own provincial Governments, making new Roads, building Bridges, Churches and other public Edifices, which in old Countries have been done to your Hands by your Ancestors, but which occasion constant Calls and Demands on the Purses of a new People.

http://www.honeyshack.net/Franklin_Empires%20Fall.htm

US Debt clock - http://usdebtclock.org/

Bagdad - 92% voter turn out, in a country where you LITERALLY risk life and limb to vote, yet here in the USA, our turn out is considered good if 40% vote. HOW DISGUSTING IS THAT? We are free to voice ourselves and WE DON'T!

World Clock:

http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks/worldclock/

Life Cycle of Civilizations and Facts:

http://www.honeyshack.net/honeyfacts.htm or http://www.honeyshack.net/politics.htm

Democratic Party History:
You can have a differing opinion as long as you have gotten facts, DO NOT base your arguments on emotion, smears and lies. Remember you point a finger and three are pointing back to you. http://www.honeyshack.net/history%20of%20democratic%20party.htm

TeaParty History:

You can have a differing opinion as long as you have gotten facts, DO NOT base your arguments on emotion, smears and lies. Remember you point a finger and three are pointing back to you. http://www.honeyshack.net/TeaParties%20History.htm

Part 1

In just two years, Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;

2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;

3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;

2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);

5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;

6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

2008 Quote of the Day........'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.' -- Barack Obama

Part 2:

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above, think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both said they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above, that didnt happen thankfully.

This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

PART 3:

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at:

http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are causedby the illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.

Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in The United States.'

Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Why are we THAT stupid?

Difference between a Democrat and a Republican:

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and an occasional chat with various professors, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes the next day because she's too hung over.'
Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea. That would not be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.'

I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, in my case, I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes going to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check, because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their butt - doing drugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money each state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? Guess we could title that program, 'Urine or You're Out'.

Maybe we are all wrong and should vote Democrat!

We Should vote Democrat because English has no place being the official language in America.

We Should vote Democrat because I'd rather pay $4 for a gallon of gas than allow drilling for oil off the coasts or in America.

We Should vote Democrat because oil companies' 5% profit on a gallon of gas are obscene, but government taxes of 18% on the same gallon of gas are just fine.

We Should vote Democrat because I think the government will do a better job of spending my money than I could.

We Should vote Democrat because when we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, I know the Islamic terrorists will stop trying to kill us because they'll think we're a good and decent country.

We Should vote Democrat because I believe people who can't tell us if it will rain in two or three days, can now tell us the polar ice caps will disappear in ten years if I don't start riding a bicycle, build a windmill or inflate my tires to proper levels.

We Should vote Democrat because it's alright to kill millions of babies as long as we keep violent, convicted murderers on death row alive.

We Should vote Democrat because I believe businesses in America should not be allowed to make profits. Businesses should just break even and give the rest to the government so politicians and bureaucrats can redistribute the money the way they think it should be redistributed.

We Should vote Democrat because I believe guns, and not the people misusing them, are the cause of crimes and killings.

We Should vote Democrat because when someone with a weapon threatens my family or me, I know the government can respond faster through a call to 911 than I can with a gun in my hand.

We Should vote Democrat because I believe three or four elitist liberals should rewrite the Constitution every few months to suit some fringe element that could never get their agenda past voters.

We Should vote Democrat because illegal aliens are not criminals, are not sucking up resources through government aid, hospital services, education, or social services, but are just people trying to make a better life by coming to America illegally. We can't blame them for that, can we?

We Should vote Democrat because now I can now marry whatever I want, so I've decided to marry my horse.

Makes you wonder why anyone would ever vote Republican, doesn't it? Personally I want a DIVORCE

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.

We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.