America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians → @Youtube

via @OBAMA_GAMES and gizgreen

Thanks to all the people who do get it, you are out there, keep spreading accurate information as most of us can agree we are not being shown the truth.

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1. I did not create this video, buckrush wanted everyone to spread this video, buckrush's account has been closed since.

2. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of legislating poor policies that negatively affect us for generations to come. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Post Office are not doing well, they are on the verge of bankruptcy.

3. Anyone who is in the health care field understands why this reform is not going to do anything but grow the government and raise the cost of health care. Anyone who is not, thinks they know best.

4. Big government is not the solution as it
is unsustainable. Government needs to be run like a business not a service, they need a reduction in force. Any company designed like our federal government would be long gone by now unless, of course, they had unlimited access to the taxpayer's wallet.

5. Contrary to all who think that being "unenrolled" somehow prevents me from voting any way I would like, again, in my state I can.

6. Most of the absolute anger, death threats and name calling has come from the left, real grown up guys.

7. This experience has woken me up to the sad fact of how Obama got in office, you believe what you want and reject anything that paints your "man" in a negative light. As if "well, where were you when Bush was in office?" is a valid argument. Wake up!

8. Many of the Tea party goers I met were unhappy with the over-reaching hand of the government, regardless of political affiliation.

9. If you voted for Hope and/or Change, you should just stick to American Idol. There is a reason they call it "Chicago Politics."


10. They want us to be divided, as long as we are they will remain in power to do as they wish with our lives, our money and our freedom.

11. The fact that some members of Congress are breaking laws that would end us up in prison, should have you motivated to demand they step down, but you probably don't even know who Charlie Rangel is.

The Hoover Democrats of 2011 via @michaelpleahy

By: Michael Patrick Leahy August 06, 2011

Michael Patrick Leahy

At the height of the Depression in June, 1932, Republican President Herbert Hoover decided it was finally time to pay for the additional $1 billion of spending he had persuaded Congress to authorize earlier in the year.  The economy was in a downward spiral, having shrunk 20% annually since the Crash of 1929. Unemployment was nearing 20%.

The fiscal year was just coming to an end, and it wasn’t a pretty site. Revenues had plummetted to $1.9 billion, as expenditures jumped to $4.6 billion. The resulting $2.7 billion deficit was the highest in the history of peace time America.

Hoover’s solution for the slide in revenue was to increase income taxes across the board, but especially for the “wealthy.” He persuaded Congress to pass the Revenue Act of 1932 just as the new fiscal year began, and he sat back, waiting for the extra revenues to start rolling in.

Why wouldn’t they?

After all, tax rates for those earning more than $1 million a year increased from 25% to 63%.  At every level, the tax code was made “fairer” and more progressive.  Estate taxes were doubled, and corporate taxes were also increased.

But a funny thing happened.

Total revenue didn’t increase a penny. The next fiscal year was a mirror of the previous pre-tax increase fiscal year–revenues remained stagnant at $1.9 billion, expenditures were kept at $4.6 billion, and an additional $2.7 billion was added to the deficit.

Barack Obama’s insistence that we increase taxes now on “the wealthy” because “it’s only fair” echoes the rhetoric Hoover used to secure Congressional passage of his ill advised and ineffective tax increase.

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