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May God bless our great Nation.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Insanity!
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes."
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The Future Co$t$.
The Conservative View
'The Future Costs.'
by Russell Turner
A couple of nights ago I watched the History Channel documentary about World War 2. Most of the people today do not appreciate the sacrifice that our parents and grandparents made to protect this nation and our way of life. Our way of life was paid for with the blood of that generation. With hard work and good fiscal policies the United States became the dominate power on the earth militarily and economically.
It is sad that today many Americans do not understand the meaning of sacrifice and the duty that we adults of today have for future generations. We Americans had better start to wake up and see that our stature as a nation is shifting away from us because of our poor, or lack of, spending discipline.
We're in hock as a nation like never before. Neither the current administration nor Congress has any viable plan to change that fact. And both the actual and hidden costs of our debt are rising every day. Our public debt can boggle the mind, currently it is over 12 trillion dollars. In 2009 alone we have added an additional 1.4 trillion debt. Even with the cheap interest rates we have now, the interest on the debt is 202 billion dollars. If that 202 billion was divided up to the entire population of the United States, every man, woman and child would receive a check of $656.00.
While there are some people who are obsessed with the health care legislation, they need to realize that if we don’t get a handle on our spending problem all of the taxes we pay will go just to pay the interest on the debt. In a very short period of time we can forget about defense, health care, Social Security or anything else. We will experience the biggest shift of the balance of power that the world has ever seen.
Today we have an unhealthy reliance upon the nation of China; already they are the largest owner of U.S. debt. If the Chinese ceased to buy any more of our debt it would send our economy into a tailspin. We won the cold war with the former Soviet Union, but I have found that the bigger enemy can be the country that controls the purse strings.
If we don’t learn some spending discipline the legacy that we leave future generations will be a nation that has lost its world influence not because of losses on the battlefield but because of poor finances.
Russell Turner is from Stillwell area and writes a weekly column for several area newspapers.
'The Future Costs.'
by Russell Turner
A couple of nights ago I watched the History Channel documentary about World War 2. Most of the people today do not appreciate the sacrifice that our parents and grandparents made to protect this nation and our way of life. Our way of life was paid for with the blood of that generation. With hard work and good fiscal policies the United States became the dominate power on the earth militarily and economically.
It is sad that today many Americans do not understand the meaning of sacrifice and the duty that we adults of today have for future generations. We Americans had better start to wake up and see that our stature as a nation is shifting away from us because of our poor, or lack of, spending discipline.
We're in hock as a nation like never before. Neither the current administration nor Congress has any viable plan to change that fact. And both the actual and hidden costs of our debt are rising every day. Our public debt can boggle the mind, currently it is over 12 trillion dollars. In 2009 alone we have added an additional 1.4 trillion debt. Even with the cheap interest rates we have now, the interest on the debt is 202 billion dollars. If that 202 billion was divided up to the entire population of the United States, every man, woman and child would receive a check of $656.00.
While there are some people who are obsessed with the health care legislation, they need to realize that if we don’t get a handle on our spending problem all of the taxes we pay will go just to pay the interest on the debt. In a very short period of time we can forget about defense, health care, Social Security or anything else. We will experience the biggest shift of the balance of power that the world has ever seen.
Today we have an unhealthy reliance upon the nation of China; already they are the largest owner of U.S. debt. If the Chinese ceased to buy any more of our debt it would send our economy into a tailspin. We won the cold war with the former Soviet Union, but I have found that the bigger enemy can be the country that controls the purse strings.
If we don’t learn some spending discipline the legacy that we leave future generations will be a nation that has lost its world influence not because of losses on the battlefield but because of poor finances.
Russell Turner is from Stillwell area and writes a weekly column for several area newspapers.
Monday, November 2, 2009
GOP must find NEW Faces!
Below is a very important post by veteran newsman Mike McCarville via his news blog http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/
Mike says what has needed to be said for some time.....time to quit recycling candidates at ALL levels and look for (must find) NEW faces capable of bringing all the attributes of the once great GOP BACK to the table and the voters! Especially for the highest office in our land!
Time For A New Face: The list of those Republicans now considered possible candidates for president in 2012 is depressing. While Sarah Palin was once a fresh face (just a year ago), she now is the face we see almost every day and the bloom is off. The tawdry, sophomoric actions of the father of her daughter's child is unseemly and, as unfair as it is, diminishes her as well.
Forget John McCain.
Newt Gingrich has too many scars.
Mike Huckabee is yesterday (God love him).
Mitt Romney can't win.
Barack Obama will be a formidable foe in 2012; the mainstream media will ensure that.
The challenge facing the GOP is monumental; finding a fresh face to meet the challenge will be a grueling, laborious process, but it's the only way the GOP stands a chance three years hence.
Mike says what has needed to be said for some time.....time to quit recycling candidates at ALL levels and look for (must find) NEW faces capable of bringing all the attributes of the once great GOP BACK to the table and the voters! Especially for the highest office in our land!
Time For A New Face: The list of those Republicans now considered possible candidates for president in 2012 is depressing. While Sarah Palin was once a fresh face (just a year ago), she now is the face we see almost every day and the bloom is off. The tawdry, sophomoric actions of the father of her daughter's child is unseemly and, as unfair as it is, diminishes her as well.
Forget John McCain.
Newt Gingrich has too many scars.
Mike Huckabee is yesterday (God love him).
Mitt Romney can't win.
Barack Obama will be a formidable foe in 2012; the mainstream media will ensure that.
The challenge facing the GOP is monumental; finding a fresh face to meet the challenge will be a grueling, laborious process, but it's the only way the GOP stands a chance three years hence.
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