WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS GET PROMOTIONS AND RAISES

Gawker.com – 11/12/2010 – White House Staffers Got a Bigger Raise than You did Last Year

http://m.gawker.com/5687778/white-house-staffers-got-a-bigger-raise-than-you-did-last-year

White House’s Top 20 Raises (2009 – 2010)

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White House’s Top 20 Raises (2010 – 2011)

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“(W)ith respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age.” — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1789)

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WHAT'S THE TRUTH ABOUT POVERTY IN AMERICA?

The Heritage Foundation discusses this topic with charts:
Percentage of All U.S. Households which have Various Amenities
Percentage of Poor U.S. Households which have Various Amenities

http://www.askheritage.org/whats-the-truth-about-poverty-in-america/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-07-22&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

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UNCLE SAM, SUGAR DADDY

Michael A. Walsh – New York Post

MUST READING TO UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE – THE GOVERNMENT TAKES SO IT CAN GIVE AWAY

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/uncle_sam_sugar_daddy_b5PtLOJxAhWJuG66PQxZlN#ixzz1SZk2OnfA

. . . just ask yourself this simple question: When did it become the primary function of the federal government to send millions of Americans checks?  Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and debt interest consume -- at the moment -- nearly half of our $3.8 trillion budget.

The debt-ceiling cage match is the culmination of the Democrats' 75-year-long fight to establish a voting bloc of dependents under the false flags of "compassion" and "social justice." It's sapped our strength, created a welfare mentality and, if unchecked, will reduce us to a nation of aging, resentful beggars with eyes cast permanently toward Washington.

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TEN WAYS PROGRESSIVE POLICIES HARM SOCIETY’S MORAL CHARACTER

Dennis Prager – Townhall – 7/19/2011

http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/07/19/ten_ways_progressive_policies_harm_societys_moral_character/page/full/

Thoughtful comments about big government, welfare state, entitlements, corruption, family life and grown-up responsibilities, military preparedness, and class warfare / envy.  None of this matters to progressives. Against all this destructiveness, they will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal welfare state, but by citing the terms "social justice" and "compassion," and by labeling their opponents "selfish" and worse.

If you want to feel good, liberalism is awesome. If you want to do good, it is largely awful.

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ADULT STEM CELL RESEARCH FACTS

There is hope through the research of ADULT STEM CELLS

http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.org/

Discover, learn, share -- Hope, Therapies, Treatments

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EDUCATION MADE SIMPLE -- HERITAGE

http://www.askheritage.org/video-education-spending-are-we-getting-what-we-pay-for/?utm_source=AH_Weekly&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2011-07-15&utm_campaign=2011_Brand

Heritage has a quick three-minute video describing increaded funding for soccer as an analogy for increased funding for education. 

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NULLIFICATION -- STATES CAN RESIST FEDERAL LAW

Personal Liberty Digest -- 7/15/2011
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WANTS US OR NOT

States may resist federal law deemed to be uncondtitution which results in some Federal law being rendered, in practice, null and voir or unenforceable.

http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/liberty/whether-the-government-wants-us-to-or-not/?eiid=&rmid=2011_07_15a_PLA_%5bP11732274%5d&rrid=387142498

What we have here, then, is a blueprint. When enough people say no to unConstitutional “laws,” regulations and mandates… and enough States pass laws to back up those people, there’s not much the Federal government can do, but slowly and consistently back off. There are no tanks rolling into Los Angeles to shut down the dispensaries. This is far from perfect, but it can work, and it is working right now.

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SHATTERING THE SOCIAL SECURITY MYTH

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44843

 

Human Events -- 7/14/2011

But last Tuesday, President Obama said, “I cannot guarantee that [Social Security] checks go out on August 3^rd if we haven’t resolved this issue.  Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do this.”

 

READER COMMENT:  Let every SS recipient make the following calculation: 1) get from the SSA the complete list of your annual contributions; 2) add your company's SS payments made in your name (that is by how much your salary was reduced); 3) add income tax you paid in your personal SS contribution; 4) sum up the 3 amounts and invest the sum in the 5% tax-free municipal or state bonds; 5) repeat this process for all your working years until retirement. You will then have the real value of your payments. Compare now this capital to your miserable monthly SS payment. In my case the value after 33 years of work of this personal fund was $1,800,000, earning tax-free return of $90,000/year, or $7,500/month, without touching the capital which I could have left to my inheritors. Compare that amount with my actual payment of $1,400/month. The difference illustrates the amounts stollen from me by this gigantic, criminal Ponzi scheme.

 

Scroll down a bit to see Obama’s Lie:  June Revenues ($248 billion) and June Expenditures ($213 Billion)

http://www.freedomandeconomics.com/

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UNITED STATES COUNTIES -- MOVING IN AND MOVING OUT

2010 Census Map—Glide your curser over the map to view every county in the US.

Compare 2000 populations to 2010 populations in each county and zip code. 

View what populations move in and what populations move out.

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

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LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT AMERICA'S HERITAGE

Links to Educattional Sites
"Charters of Freedom" -- Founding Fathers and Documents
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html


Founding Fathers Quotes
http://www.marksquotes.com/Founding-Fathers/


Everything You Wanted to Know About The American Flag
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/ourflag/titlepage.htm 


Flag Rules and Regulations
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html


Patriot Melodies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html

10 Things You Might Not Know About America's Independence
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/04/10-things-might-not-know-about-our-independence/


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'STIMULUS' COST $278,000 PER JOB

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html


The Weekly Standard -- 7/3/2011


The 'stimulus' is now causing the economy to shed jobs instead of create jobs.

Unemployment Rate -- 2001 -- 2011
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Renewing America's Promise -- Barack Obama's Message -- 2/26/2009
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/fy10-newera.pdf

U.S. Debt Clock
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY WITH THE 4TH OF JULY DECLARATION

http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2011/07/02/do_this_for_10_minutes_on_the_fourth_of_july/page/full/

Dennis Pragger -- 7/2/2011
Four years ago, I wrote a column titled "America Needs a July Fourth Seder." In it, I explained that "national memory dies without national ritual. And without a national memory, a nation dies." Many readers and listeners to my radio show responded by creating their own rituals to make the day far more meaningful than watching fireworks and eating hot dogs.


I now present a simple 10-minute ceremony that every American can easily use on July Fourth. It is a product of the Internet-based Prager University that I founded nearly two years ago. We call it the Fourth of July Declaration, and here it is. (A paginated and printed version can be downloaded at the website www.prageruniversity.com).


It begins with a note to the individual leading the ritual, the "host."


http://www.prageruniversity.com/4th-of-july-declaration.html


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THE CONSTITUTION MATTERS

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270584/constitution-matters-thomas-sowell

Thomas Sowell -- 6/28/2011
From the irrelevant to the erroneous is a short step for Mr. Stengel. He says, “If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it certainly doesn’t say so.”  Apparently Mr. Stengel has not read the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Go to the Library of Congress and educate yourself n the Declaration of Independence

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DeclarInd.html

"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among the Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitute of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are,  and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent State may of right do.-- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

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