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The MOST Depressing Fact For The Future of The USA

If you are worried about the future of the USA you will not like this information.  Not one bit.

What it the info?

That after three years of seeing what Obama stands for and what he has done to this country he is still in a virtual dead heat tie with any generic Republican who would oppose him.  Obama could very well be re-elected, even with all the evidence of the damage he has done.

Real Clear Politics has an excellent page on this:  President Obama Vs. Republican Candidate
This fact, more than anything else, spells doom for this country.

OMG! The Ignorance Never Stops With Obama

He actually said the following:

"However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline," he said, "they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance."

So, thousand upon thousands of high paying, private sector jobs are insignificant compared to unemployment payments and a couple hundred bucks a year in extra payroll tax money you get to keep.

That is so utterly ridiculous it boggles the mind.  How did the press not call him on tha.....oh, never mind.

The Staggering Stupidity That Is Obama

So, Obama is going to officially kill the Keystone Pipeline project.  Wonderful.  Now all that oil that we can use will go to China.

There is absolutely NO excuse not to allow this project to go full steam ahead.  NONE!

This Obama continues to destroy this country at a pace that is amazing.

Canadian Oil Probably Will Go To China

Obama, and the rest of his administration, has absolutely no intention of doing anything to increase our ability to obtain local oil or gas.  He has stalled the Keystone Pipeline that would bring a LOT(!) of oil to the USA from Canada. 

Well, Canada knows this.  Read and weep:

Canada: Harper Looks to Asian Countries To Sell Natural Resources Bounty

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper will travel to China next month to discuss selling Canada's bounty to the rapidly growing nation.

The preferred initial plan was to build the $7 billion Keystone pipeline to deliver Alberta's oilsands crude to refineries in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico."

In a sane world, the USA would have leaped on this oil and done everything to get it to our refining plants.  But we no longer live in a sane world. 

So, next time you see the price of gas go up at the pump, thank Obama and his fellow idiots.  I'm sure the Chinese will be thanking Obama for his actions.

 

Freedom Is Not Winning

I have been reading the blogs, the WSJ, etc., and I believe freedom, the ability to live your own life without unnecessary interference, is losing ground in a big way.

Freedom/liberty has already been severely beaten over the past 100 years, with most of the damage happening since the 60's.  If freedom were a person she would be lying in the ICU with all sorts of tubes and stuff attached to her.

(Yeah, I know, two days from Christmas, but what the Hell.)

Where are we losing our freedom?

1.  The Department of Justice - Eric Holder should be behind bars.  Instead he is overseeing a DOJ that is beyond corrupt and criminal.  The rule of law is now irrelevant.  We have the rule of men - NOT a good thing.  No freedom there.

2.  Obama - Obama's hatred for the US Constitution, as well as anything remotely considered "American", is evident by every one of his actions.  Nope, no freedom there.

3.  Congress - Democrats are mostly to blame with their never-ending assault on individual freedom.  They simply despise the thought of people living their own lives without government involvement.  The Republicans are almost as bad, as shown by their actions when they had control of both houses of Congress.  Taxes and spending go only one way - UP!  No freedom coming from this place.

4.  Voters - About 53% of voters were stupid enough to elect Obama in the first place.  'nuff said.

5.  Moochers/Looters/Government Employees - These people feed of the government, which, in turn, feeds of the productive part of society.  They will never vote to cut their benefits or income.  This is the greatest danger to domestic freedom, in my opinion.

6.  Islam - This is a worldwide problem, and we are not winning.  As Winston Churchill said, "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

Absolutely no freedom in Islam.  I am continuously amazed how the leftists make excuses for the degenerate cult of Islam.  Freedom and Islam are totally and eternally incompatible.

That's enough for now.  I could go on and on, but I am getting bored.  You get the point, I hope.

Always keep fighting for freedom, but recognize that we are NOT winning at the moment.

 

Anybody But Obama

After seeing the damage Obama and his appointees have done and are doing to the USA I have come to the point where I will vote for anyone the Republicans put up against Obama.  Do I like any of the current republican candidates?  No!  My choice was Sarah Palin, but she ain't running.  Herman Cain was next, but he got "lynched".

I dislike Romney, I don't trust Gingrich, and can't quite get to liking Perry.  The others are irrelevent.

In any event, it doesn't matter who the republicans put up against Obama.  I will have to vote for that person.  Like I said, Obama and his cronies have done too much damage.  Another four years would be fatal to my country.

A third party run will give Obama another four years.  Not an option for me.

Damn.

Seeing More & More Of The Obama 2012 Bumber Stickers

I mentioned it in a post a few months ago.  I'm seeing more and more of those Obama 2012 bumper stickers, usually placed right next o their Obama 2008 sticker.  I guess they are still extra proud of their 2008 vote.

These people may be the nicest people in the world, but they are my enemy.  They voted to put this absolute disaster of a president into the White House.  He is, in my opinion the most anti-American, destructive President we have ever had.  Even worse than Jimmy Carter.

His actions and words are available for all to see, and have been for three years.  There can be no starry-eyed "optimism" with Obama now.  His philosophy is in the open.  And, yet, even now, the same voters that put him in place in 2008 are doubling down and will do vote for him again in 2012.

To the Obama 2012 people.  You are not my countrymen, we have NOTHING in common, our world views cannot coexist.  If you should win again in 2012 and get the House back it will mean the end of the USA in any meaningful form.

I hope you lose BIG.

The Lines Are Set - Moochers/Looters Vs. Producers

Well, Obama's speech has laid out the choice in his latest speech.  It will be the looters, moochers, and criminal government against the producers and individualists.  There is no middle ground.

Obama said capitalism does not work, individualism does not work.  These are the two cornerstones of our successful history.  And Obama hates them.  He likes "spreading the wealth", "fair share".  What he means is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need", which is the famous saying by Karl Marx.

His speech is incredibly disgusting.  While pretending to praise certain aspects of the USA the message he preaches is one of massive government and deep socialism.

Well, at least it is out in the open for anyone to see, if they open their eyes.

This election will be the pivot point.  Obama and the liberals' direction is to collectivism.  The other direction is to freedom/individualism.  No middle ground in this election, and no excuses for voting for Obama this time.

Choose wisely. 

 

Race Based Admissions

I'll keep this short.  Saw this headline:

U.S. Urges Creativity by Colleges to Gain Diversity

"The Obama administration on Friday urged colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses, throwing out a Bush-era interpretation of recent Supreme Court rulings that limited affirmative action in admissions."

We already know Obama and his czars completely disregard the Constitution, so this is not a surprise. 

This is despicable.  "Diversity" doesn't "help" anyone.  (I have really come to hate that word - diversity.)  This policy just leads to unqualified people getting into colleges they cannot finish and qualified people who have worked their butts off being denied admission because they are the wrong color.  That is real racism.

What would help everyone is the total disregard of color in admission policies and looking at the person and their test scores, extra-curricular activities, and desire and ABILITY to learn proven over their lifetime to that point.  Then when you saw someone on campus you would know they deserved to be there.

More Screw U.S. Citzens Abroad

Saw this article over at American Thinker entitled "FATCA: A Ticking Time Bomb for the Economy".

It is a disgusting attempt by the US Government to grab and tax every conceivable source of money that Americans may have, anywhere in the world, regardless of the reasons or consequences.

Read this:

FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) is the brood of FBAR (Foreign Bank Account Report).  FBAR requires that U.S. persons divulge foreign accounts to the Treasury Department, but few knew about or ever complied with it.  To stanch the bleeding of U.S. capital into secret bank jurisdictions like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, Congress introduced FATCA into law as part of the HIRE Act.  FATCA requires that foreign financial institutions (FFIs) reveal the accounts of U.S. persons to the IRS.  The FFIs will then have to collect tax withholdings for the IRS from these clients.  If by January 1, 2014 the FFI is unwilling to reveal its U.S. clients' accounts, the IRS will impose a punitive 30% withholding on all payments to the FFIs, on dividends, interest, and gross sales of stocks, bonds, and financial derivatives.

Let's suppose that a foreign investor trades stocks on a U.S. exchange, but his broker is FATCA non-compliant.  One day he buys 10,000 shares of XYZ at $25 per share, and the next day, he takes advantage of a nice uptick of $1.00 in XYZ and sells at $26 per share.  He makes a tidy profit of $10,000.  But because his broker is non-compliant, the IRS now withholds 30% -- not of the profit, but of the gross proceeds of the sale!  So the client now receives the sum of $260,000 minus 30%.  The foreign investor is unhappy because his $250,000 investment has become $182,000.  If he wants his money back, he must file a U.S. tax return.

No investor would accept such conditions.  Hence, an FFI must either comply with the invasive regulations of FATCA or simply abandon the U.S. markets.

US expatriates are the hardest hit by this monstrosity.  It is already hard for a US citizen abroad to do banking and comply with US tax laws.  With this law it will be impossible.  Many US citizens will renounce their citizenship, which is already happening in record numbers. 

The utter stupidity of our government is really beyond belief.  It is nothing more than a criminal enterprise at this point.