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Here is your answer - I am sorry if it offends some:

II Chron 7:14 "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."

When the Constitutional convention nearly fell apart and our nation nearly was not formed Benjamin Franklin stood up and gave this speech - and remember that Franklin was not a particularly religious man. Note that several delegates had already left the convention and all was considered loss:

Mr. President:

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other - our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding.

We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.

In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding?

In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection. - Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciousy answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor.

To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - That God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages.

And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

I therefore beg leave to move - that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service."


When our founding fathers humbled themselves and prayed - somehow the delegates came together and our nation was born. Our nation was founded on prayer to the living God of the Bible and it must be sustained by prayer.

Here is the link that provides the full story: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=89741834565

Some of you will think that a belief in God is pure superstition not supported by Science - Benjamin Franklin, one of the foremost scientists of his time, held that belief for much of his life and yet he made this speech. Franklin struggled to believe in God most of his life until our nation's survival hung in the balance. Then, even the proud scientist and philosopher stood up and told everyone in the Constitutional Convention that "Unless the Lord buildeth a house, they that labor, labor in vain." We must pray for our nation.
 
God is not going to help you with the massive debt the US has ... maybe that is part of the problem? Praying for an answer is getting your country deeper in trouble.

all you need to do is slash the budget and use the surplus to pay off the debt.

A balance budget is the first thing any sane government must deliver to retain credibility ... without it your credibility is shot.

How many past US governments balanced their budget?

Was there one since the late 70's ??

 


I think that everyone who is not a Democrat (and even a few Democrats 🙂 )understands that the budget must be cut. You state the obvious. We all understand that the budget must be balanced - but it is a very complex problem.

To answer your question, Calvin Coolidge not only balanced the Federal budgets during his tenure but also ran a surplus. It is possible to do. He was in in the 70s but that is irrelevant. We need to understand that a balanced budget is not only possible, it has been done.

I doubt that praying for our nation will the country "deeper in trouble." At worst if God does not exist it will waste a little time. At best, if he does exist we have wisely asked the most powerful being in the universe for his help. Did you read Franklin's speech?
 
For the Boeing story, i agree with bot Boeing and the Union.

Boeing needs to expand, but needs to respect the workers. It seemed as though Boeing wanted to go to a non union state to get cheap labor. C'mon, that is suspicious.

Unions need their employees to have benefits. However, they do no longer work with finding a middle ground for both worker and company...as they were intended to do so.

The second story: I am not a fan of Benny.
 



It isn't a complex problem.

Here is a better speech ...

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquillising drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick-sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvellous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King


And here is an equally good speech from America's greatest President:


We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man's recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.
This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.
So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space.
William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.
In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where five F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.
Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were made in the United States of America and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union.
The Mariner spacecraft now on its way to Venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40-yard lines.
Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. Tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs.
We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public.
To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move ahead.
The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.
And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your city of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this center in this city.
To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year's space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold.
I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. [laughter]
However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the Sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.
And I am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the United States of America.
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.

JFK
 


Well I think that we have certainly raised the level of this discussion. We are now quoting some of the greatest leaders in history 🙂.

In all fairness Reynod, I think that Martin Luther King would have said that resolving discrimination is a complex issue, JFK did say in his speech that conquering space is a complex issue and dealing with a $1.5 trillion budget is a complex issue. But I think your point is that it can be done, which is a good point. Remember I said that same thing when I cited Calvin Coolidge's successful federal budgets. I agree with you that it can be done.
 
Indeed, reynod. I am a Democrat- a bit more "liberal" than most, but I do see that the budget needs to be cut in some form or another. However, there are issues with that. For example, if you were to look at my state of Illinois, the government is in the hole and then some. The governor (a dem) is trying to bring the debt down to a reasonable level through cuts (as well as a recently passed two point income tax increase), but that isn't working because once he proposes cutting something, people have a stroke. A Republican would most likely do the same, but cherry picking at varying agencies isn't the answer at either the state or federal levels.

In my opinion there are two options: increase taxes or start cutting entire agencies and merging their duties with another or both. In the meantime though, the governor wants to borrow more money, which isn't popular, but due to a lack of any other feasible options that would make it passed the legislature, it's the only option.
 
Another way to mix things up and perhaps provide for more compromise would be to enact term limits for Congress, just like most executive branch elected positions. Instead of these old bags who have been in Congress for decades, limit the Senate to two six year terms and for the House, either a six term limit or lower. Of course, that would require a constitutional amendment and I'm quite certain that like most people, a member of Congress would not give up their power that easily.
 


It is interesting that people (mostly Democrats) consider that tax increases or revenue enhancements, the euphemism that Obama is prone to use, as a viable option to get government out of debt. But consider this, if we were to confiscate ALL, 100%, of every billionaire's and millionaire's personal income for a year, it would not equal one trillion dollars (this does not include corporate income). Yet we are now on course because of Obama and the Democrat controlled congress (before the last election) to spend nearly 1.6 trillion in one year.

It is also true that if we consider all of the taxes that we pay the average American spends over 50% of their income on taxes. It is stunning how much money we are spending on government and it is stifling our economy. While it is true that many Americans pay little or no personal income tax, this is because they are too poor - again a stunning statement. I think the figure is that over 40% of Americans pay no income tax - but this is not a good thing. They are paying no income tax because they are broke and in many cases jobless.

Please don't take this as criticism towards you - I respect that you step into this discussion admitting that you are a liberal Democrat. It is understandable that many people like Obama, he is very affable. I think he would be a great guy to play basketball with and then go get a beer. He is very likable, but he also is incredibly inexperienced and incompetent. You see it is the Democrat's very foundation that makes their economic model unfeasible. They want government to be the dominant force in the economy and the nation - and as I have mentioned in this thread, the government does nothing well. Therefore they innately are trying to drive our nation towards inefficiency and waste which permeate everything that the government does.

While it is true that we cannot tax our way out of this deficit, cuts alone also will not suffice - although they are a major component. Ronald Regan, who has been maligned in this thread, had the key - we must grow our way out of debt. To do this we must boost the engine of our economy - small business. To do that, we must reduce government regulation and taxation.

Take one real life example in Arizona (my state). Any construction project that disturbs more than 1/10th of an acre requires a dust permit. These dust permits can cost several thousand dollars for a project of any size. Then, Arizona has three separate teams that it sends to patrol the "dust" and if they find one single violation, the fine is $10,000. Construction companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on projects to "control dust." Unfortunately, some people in Arizona's government have found a cash cow in issuing fines to those who violate dust standards. Remember this is Arizona and dust is EVERYWHERE. This government regulation is a fools errand that is dragging down construction in a state where construction is one of the main engines driving the economy. Having over 20 years of experience in construction experience I can honestly say these regulations are silly and they accomplish very little in particulate control.

The engine that powers our economy is small business and it is taxed and regulated to death. I know I own a small business.

So then we must in my opinion:

1. Create an environment where small business can flourish with as little government interference and taxation as possible. Yes we do need some government regulation but it should be surgical and small. We must grow our economy to grow out of debt. This has always been true.

2. We must significantly cut the size of government. Do you know that we don't even know what the actual federal budget is? We must estimate it because it is so large and so complicated it cannot be tracked in real time

3. We must privatize the things that are practical to privatize in government. We have done this very successfully in Arizona with several government services and it does work very well. Private companies that are wasteful and inefficient go out of business - government agencies that fail simply ask for more money.

Items number 2 and 3 are diametrically opposed to the Democrat's agenda and platform and really they are suspicious of Item 1 because they have a huge distrust of private businesses. Business is inherently evil and government is inherently good to them. I believe that these three items show us the way to prosperity.
 
I see that the government cannot handle things like Health Care real well.

I am all for a limited government,( AS WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS HAVE WANTED). I would like to see better, not more, regulations...starting with the Airline Industry. Allow entrepreneurs start small regional airlines and compete with big fleets like United, Delta and American.

Regulations is good. It prevents guys like Madoff form screwing people.
 


I think that Palin would be in favor of your tax break proposal 🙂.
 
Which one is for hope and change or what's left of it? That guy is gonna have a hard time blaming $5's a galllon is everyone's fault but his and the economy has nothing to do with the current status of hope and change. Should be a mildy discussed, somewhat important campaign debate discussion topic and a hurdle to overcome where one's poor judgement and lack of rectitude will be called into question. Isn't Trump for raising taxes on the Dems? I mean they want taxes raised so much, go ahead and raise theirs. Kerry is too ugly, even for a democrat and not robot-like enough.
 
Change and Hope what's left of it.

President Obama said Thursday that green energy will be worth the expense. People can't believe their utility bills lately. With the price of water and power it's more cost-effective to go to Wal-Mart and buy a replacement shirt for a dollar than it is to do laundry.

Jimmy Carter flew to Cuba Monday to obtain the release of a U.S. contractor jailed for setting up an illegal website. You can't make it up. We now live in a world where Lindsay Lohan's sober, the French are winning a war and Jimmy Carter's getting hostages released.

Senate Democrats urged Moammar Khadaffi to step down from power Sunday and leave the country. He's had hair implants, he gets botox injections and he keeps a string of mistresses on the side. You'd think Congress would spare him out of professional courtesy.


The White House shrugged off a Time poll Friday saying one-fourth of Americans believe Barack Obama's a Muslim. It's a real concern. Most Americans feel the only thing he can do to alter their perception is to change his name back to Cassius Clay.

President Obama flew up to Seattle from Los Angeles Tuesday where he addressed a fundraiser. He was true to form. The president was in town to raise money for a statue of the Apple iPhone on a site just two blocks from Microsoft's headquarters.

 
"Senate Democrats urged Moammar Khadaffi to step down from power Sunday and leave the country. He's had hair implants, he gets botox injections and he keeps a string of mistresses on the side. You'd think Congress would spare him out of professional courtesy"
Sounds like hes readying himself for flight to Hollowood
 
In case we missed it, those thatd love to run this country, where many of their ideals are coming to fruition in the white House:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/03/white-sox-manager-venezuelan-native-ozzie-guillen-calls-sean-penn-a-stupid-leftist-clown/
And, people wonder about Reaganomics, and still cant figure out their government hasnt slowed their spending, yet its incoming revenues have dropped hugely, due to the economy, or, supply side
 
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