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From our friends at WeGetIt.org…
Just in time for Independence Day, a 1428-page bill passed by the House of Representatives last week on a close (219-212) vote will, if it becomes law, in effect be the largest tax increase in American history.
Although it doesn’t directly tax most citizens, its effect, according to economic analysis by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, will be to increase the average household’s direct energy costs by about $1,200 and other costs by about $3,400 per year for a combined $4,600 per year; reduce gross domestic product by about $9.4 trillion in the years 2012-2035; lower employment by almost 2 million jobs in its first year, reaching nearly 2.5 million in 2035; raise the national debt by about $115,000 per family of four over the same period; and raise all other prices by increasing the cost of the energy used to produce goods and services.
The main rationale for the bill is supposed to be reducing future global warming, but its likely impact by mid-century is only about 0.09 degree F reduction–an amount too small to detect and of no consequence to human or other ecological welfare. Supporters also argued that the bill would create jobs, but the employment loss is net–despite whatever “green jobs” are created, overall employment will be about 1.1 million less in the average year than it would have been without the bill.
Supporters cited a Congressional Budget Office report saying the bill would cost the average family only about $175 per year, not $4,600, but the Heritage Foundation points out that, among other flaws, the CBO report’s numbers are inconsistent, grossly underestimating costs and excluding the $9.4 trillion damage to the economy completely. Results similar to the Heritage Foundation’s were reached by the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where a vote is anticipated this fall. Despite strong support from the House Democratic leadership, the bill was barely passed after weeks of back-room dealing and days of last-minute amendments, culminating in a 300-page amendment being added at 3:00 a.m. on the day of the vote. Supporters are likely to have even more difficulty getting it through the Senate, in part because of strong opposition in the farming community.
According to environmental economist Kenneth W. Chilton, “efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions necessarily result in higher energy costs that impact ‘the least among us’ most harshly. The Biblical command to care for the poor and deal with them justly should give us pause as we consider policies with almost no benefit and great cost to the least of these.”
ANNOUNCEMENT: The new petition to “Stop Cap, Tax & Trade” has just been posted online - sign it here and send it to all your friends!
Infowars.com has a great dissection of Socialized and Rationed Health Care under Obama:
In October 1939, Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler issued an order, written in his own hand, ordering the extermination of those who were considered “unworthy of life.” The order, entitled “The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life,” stated that patients “considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, be accorded a mercy death.”
Hitler’s murder spree started with the mentally ill, the terminally ill, invalids, and the disabled, and eventually spread to millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirables”—worked to death or exterminated in concentration camps.
This monstrous program was initially sold as an economic measure: “The economic burden represented by people suffering from hereditary diseases is a danger for the State and society,” Nazi Dr. Gerhard Wagner said at the Nazi party congress in 1934. The Nazis required all state institutions to report on patients who were chronically ill, and used those reports as the basis to decide which patients should be killed.
Today, the Obama Administration is beginning to descend down that same road, promising to make the “tough choices” to cut entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security to save money—at precisely the time in which an increasing number of Americans are forced to depend on them as the economy slides deeper into Depression. Obama is willing to spend trillions of dollars to bail out the financial markets, and pay for it by slashing programs which keep ordinary Americans alive.
Think we’re exaggerating? Take the case of a paper entitled “What Are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?” It sounds like something that might have been written by Jeremy Bentham, or Aldous Huxley, or maybe Nazi doctor Karl Brandt, but it was actually co-authored in 1998 by “bio-ethicist” Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a leading advisor to Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag, and a member of the 15-person Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, the group which has been designated to prepare the list of which medical procedures will henceforth be permitted, and which will not.
“The Hitler program has been revived by the Obama Administration,” warned Lyndon LaRouche. “This is straight Nazi stuff.”
From American Vision…
Sociologist William Brustein went to Berlin a few years ago to tour the city. As his bus tour passed the bunker where Hitler spent his last days, the guide told how Hitler had seized power and fooled the German people. He assured the tour that “It would never happen again.”
Brustein knew the guide was wrong. His many years of study had convinced him that “It could happen again.” Brustein knew he would need empirical data to prove that the elements that brought Hitler to power lie just below the surface of all societies.
After pouring through countless numbers of records which had been seized by the U.S. Army from the Gestapo in 1945, Brustein developed “a theory that the German people were not fully informed about the Nazis’ anti-semitic plans or their designs on world conquest. They were only doing what came naturally when they bought the party’s program.”
The Germans, like the majority of today’s Americans, “were motivated by ordinary and logical factors: their own material interests.”
Read the rest of the article: http://www.americanvision.org/article/it-cant-happen-here/
CBS News - hardly an outlet of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” - has the explosive allegations that the Obama administration directed aides to suppress information critical of the authenticity of global warming theories, just as the Obama Administration is trying to shove through a big-government, socialistic “Cap & Trade” legislation that would lead to massive government expansion and higher taxes: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/26/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5117890.shtml
NEWS RELEASE from our Friends, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms…
BELLEVUE, WA – Failing to get traction for his anti-gun agenda in Congress, Barack Obama is trying instead to stack the federal courts with liberal anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“President Obama’s gun prohibitionist agenda has fallen on deaf ears on Capitol Hill,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “His administration’s attempt to revive the ban on semiautomatic sporting rifles by exploiting the Mexican drug war was a bust. He had to sign legislation allowing guns for personal protection in national parks, even after his Justice Department refused to defend the Interior Department against a lawsuit that prevented an earlier firearms rule from taking effect.
“But now he is picking judicial nominees that will almost certainly legislate from the bench,” he continued. “Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has already ruled that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. We’ve learned that Sotomayor’s nomination is supported by ACORN, the publicly-funded anti-gun group that supported a Jersey City gun control ordinance that was struck down by the court.
“Obama’s nomination of David Hamilton to a position on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is equally troubling,” Gottlieb added, “because Hamilton reportedly is a former ACORN fundraiser. Even the president once worked with the anti-gun rights ACORN as a leadership trainer.
“Seventy years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to stack the Supreme Court to push his social agenda, and he failed,” Gottlieb recalled. “President Obama tried to use his cabinet to rally support for a gun ban renewal and he failed, so now he’s planning to stack the courts with anti-gun ACORN nominees.
“America has had enough Left-wing judicial activism from the federal bench,” he concluded. “In Judge Sotomayor’s own words, ‘I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstances. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.’ That includes honoring the Second Amendment. It does not include manipulating the courts to accomplish from the bench what cannot be achieved through Congress.”
These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns
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An 80-year-old Catholic Priest arrested at Notre Dame - a Catholic campus - for defending life! WHAT HAS THIS COUNTRY COME TO? This video is 8 minutes long but please take the time to view the whole thing. It’s important.
At every level of government, our rights as citizens and parents are ignored and usurped by power-hungry politicians. Our news media, universities, and entertainers actively wage war against God’s Word and those who live by it. And our children are confronted daily by the lies of evolution and the horrific realities of its “survival of the fittest” ideology.
In an effort to provide encouragement, hope, and practical instruction to Christian families, Vision Forum has released five new DVDs. These timely presentations will equip your family to understand our culture’s most critical battles and biblically fight for the rights granted to us by God, rights recognized and preserved for us by our Founding Fathers.
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• You May Not Take Our Guns (DVD)
• The Devolution of Law (DVD)
• Top Ten Questions About Genesis and Creation (DVD)
• The State of Parental Rights in America (DVD)
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“Say thanks this Mother’s Day with a gift that honors her courage by making a donation to Planned Parenthood in her name.” Say what???!!!
Were you as shocked as I was when you read that statement? Believe it or not, famous children’s author Judy Blume suggests sending a donation to the the nation’s largest abortion business in honor of mothers. Talk about an oxymoron!
As one of the most banned children’s authors in the United States, Blume is no stranger to controversy, but I find it impossible to understand how anyone can equate Planned Parenthood - and the cowardly murder of helpless little babes in the womb - with motherhood!
If you want to honor mothers on Mother’s Day, may I suggest sending a donation to your local Crisis Pregnancy Center to help an unwed mother who, despite her own difficult personal circumstances, has the courage to stand up against those who would recommend abortion as an easy way out and chooses to let her child live.
Contact Judy Blume with your complaints about her support for Planned Parenthood at Judy Blume, c/o Tashmoo Productions, 1841 Broadway,Suite 711A, New York, N.Y. 10023. You can also email Judy at JudyB@judyblume.com and leave a message on her public guestbook by going here.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” ~Isaiah 5:20
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ”
Generation Joshua is an exciting way for youth ages 11-19 to study civics and impact our nation.
Equipping teens to become leaders in politics, society, and citizenship.
