Obama's Senate Record

So what has Obama done in office since he became a U.S. Senator?

Only 2 major bills he has sponsored have actually become bills.

1) S. 2125, A bill to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2) S. 3757, A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the "Katherine Dunham Post Office Building."

Thank goodness he is working so hard for us! I don't know what I would do if the DR of Congo wasn't helped or the post office wasn't renamed. We'd really be screwed then.

Again I must ask...what has Obama done for us? How does his record show that he will make any beneficial change to the US?

More food for thought: 120 of Obama's 129 sponsored bills haven't made it past the committee level.

Not that I expected to see a large portion of them make it past the committee level, but come on. That's pretty awful.



His numbers are clearly worse than Hillary's too as this chart shows. Interesting, no?

Obama the Fascist?

So a couple weeks ago Biden told an audience in the economically distressed battleground state of Ohio that the Democratic presidential candidate's public works projects would create 2 million jobs nationwide, including 76,000 new jobs for the middle class in Ohio.

Take a look at the Weimar Republic in pre-Nazi Germany, then peruse through fascist Italy, then to the fascist ideas used in the U.S. under FDR and his New Deal. As John T. Rourke explains, fascism is an "authoritarian political philosophy" that "reject[s] individual rights in favor of a 'corporatist' view that view people are 'workers' in the state" and "demand[s] that economic activity support the corporatist state."

Authoritarian political philosophy- check.

Government obtains control- 401k, welfare state, redistribution of wealth, etc.

Rejecting individual rights if favor of a corporatist view that people are workers in the state- check.

Michelle told us all that "Barack Obama will require you to work.” He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation…Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

Funny, all of our rights would be lost if we go along with that theory.

Demanding economic activity support the corporatist state- check.

The first thing I mentioned spoke of public works projects to provide work for 2 million people, much like FDR did. Is that not economic activity that supports the corporatist state?

Look at Mussolini's Italy or Hitler's Germany, then look at how much FDR adored their states and how much they revered FDR for his success with fascism in the U.S. Then look at what Obama is proposing with his redistributing wealth and public works projects.... and tell me how it is NOT marxist socialism and fascism?

Although I have not fully developed this idea, I think my point is still established. If time permits I will try to examine this issue further.

Obama...not for US!

1) Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can't vote in the battleground state.

Wow... they're such honest people!

2) While in law school, Obama told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”

I wonder why that might be? I guess he doesn't really have everyone's best interest at heart now does he?

3) Obama and the Annenberg Challenge.

In 2001, when Obama was a part-time director of The Woods Fund of Chicago, it gave $75,000 to ACORN, the voter registration group now under investigation for voter fraud in 12 states.

The Woods Fund also gave $6,000 to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ, which Obama attended. The reason for the donation to the church is unclear -- it is simply listed as "for special purposes" in the group's IRS tax form.

It gave a further $60,000 to the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University, which was founded and run by Bernardine Dohrn, the wife of domestic terrorist William Ayers and, with her husband, a former member of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground.

Other controversial donations that year included $50,000 to the Small Schools Network -- which was founded by Ayers and run by Michael Klonsky, a friend of Ayers' and the former chairman of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), an offshoot of the 1960s radical group Students for a Democratic Society -- and $40,000 to the Arab American Action Network, which critics have accused of being anti-Semitic.

When Obama co-chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which calls itself "a public-private partnership improving education for 1.5 million urban and rural public school students," it gave to some of the same groups -- partnering with ACORN to manage funding for schools and giving over $1 million to the Small Schools Network.

According to Biden, however, Obama has NO association with ACORN. Maybe not like he used to, but clearly there are ties there. After all, Obama sued Citibank under the Community Reinvestment Act to force them to make the subprime loans that got us into all this mess. This goes all the way back to 1994. No ties to ACORN, eh?

4) The Obama campaign is accepting untraceable donations. These come from prepaid credit cards. This way we have NO way of knowing where all this money is coming from. That sort of sounds like how in Ohio they are allowing people to list park benches as their residence in order to vote. The question isn't if fraud is occurring, but more importantly, HOW MUCH fraud is actually occuring under these extremely big veils?

5) Cambell Brown actually called out Obama the other day for breaking his promise on campaign finance. Funny how very few other media outlets mentioned this relatively important fact about the pathetic campaign Obama is running.

You can see her calling him out here.

Just a few of the many awful problems concerning Obama.

Obama Reinstituting the Welfare State!

So in case you missed it, Obama has devised his new tax rebate plan which is essentially welfare. How did I get there? Here goes. Obama keeps claiming that 95% of Americans will get a tax rebate under his plan (although experts say it is roughly about 81%, not the 95 Obama keeps touting). What about the 45+ million taxpayers who paid nothing in 2006 after credits and deductions? This is roughly 1/3 of all taxpayers. According to how the plan is laid out, these people will be included in this rebate. Following this along, roughly 36 million of these "non" taxpayers would get money... not money back but get "free" money.

He proposes to give $500 per worker or $1000 for working couples. Let's split that down the middle and go with $750 for our estimation. 36 million x $750= 270,000,000,000 or $270 billion for people who are really paying nothing into the system. They get all of their tax money back plus $500 or $1000... $270 billion in welfare every year. Where are we getting this money from? Unbelievable!

This ultimately means that 43% of wage earners will pay NO taxes. The top 1% of wage earners pay 39% of all taxes. I guess that wasn't enough. This is what Friedman and Marx meant when they talked about redistributing the wealth. Michelle Obama informed us that "someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." Or when he told Joe the plumber that "when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody." This people, is Marxist ideology. It is what we now call socialism.

We already have income redistribution in the U.S. by which the people making the most money pay more taxes percentage-wise than those making less money. This money is then used to fund welfare programs to assist others.

Obama is radicalizing the nation one step at a time. Wake up and see what he is doing. It will hurt ALL of us.

Obama's Health Care Plan

Okay, let's get down to it. Obama has been touting his health care plan for a while now. The gist of it is:

"to expand government provided health care and create a form of “managed competition” originally developed by Alain Einthoven. Obama supports expanding SCHIP and Medicaid eligibility. Although Obama does not support a health insurance mandate for adults, he does support a mandate for children and young adults (any one 25 or under). Obama’s goal to increase health care access, he would support a “pay-or-play” mandate. All but the smallest employers would be required to provide health insurance; those who didn’t would be compelled to pay into a national fund covering these uninsured workers. The mandate would likely require a minimum benefits package. Overall, Obama is pushing towards more government provided health care and more regulation" (1).

What does this mean? Government will take the reins of health care. If you are 25 you MUST have health care or else you will be fined, which by the way, is completely unconstitutional. When did we lose our constitutional right to be left alone- as long as we are not causing harm to ourselves or others?

All medium-large businesses would be REQUIRED to provide health insurance OR pay into a fund to cover uninsured workers. Either way, these businesses will have to now divest profits into health care. One wonders then, what will happen to workers? If companies HAVE to spend more money on health care, less money MUST be spent elsewhere. This leaves 2 legitimate choices for companies: cut worker pay OR fire employees in order to compensate for the increased expenditure. Unemployment then goes up, leaving these newly unemployed people without insurance, right? So tell me how is this a good thing?

Also, quality control would be a big part of his plan. He wants to make sure we all receive quality health care. The government and health care companies would have to hire people to ensure everything is going well. Who pays for them? That's right, we do. Also, government is getting bigger- more employees will be needed for this.... ah the expansion of government bureaucracy!

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I don't want government spending my money. They are easily the worst spenders in our nation, and I don't want them to control more things than is truly necessary... and health care is definitely not necessary.

(1) Healthcare Economist http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/08/18/obama-vs-mccain-health-care-policies/

It's been awhile...

So my dear friends, it's been quite awhile since I've posted so here goes. A few things that are worth a brief mention and included in my Top 10:

1) Be careful speeders, cops are now giving out radar guns to citizens to catch you speeding, they then turn over the results to the cops and the cops send you a warning letter...it's here in Illinois too- Naperville to be more specific

2) Global warming apparently causes wildfires, at least according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” he told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package." Are you kidding me? What a joke!

3) Mayor Daley wants cameras installed on street cleaners to crack down on the whole parking ticket issue. I'm sure that's all they want the cameras for. The city of Philadelphia is getting 250 new cameras at a cost of $10 million. All the major cities are getting more and more cameras. Big brother anyone?

4) California Representative Pete Stark over a week ago came out in disgust with President Bush saying "You don't have money to fund the war or children," accusing Republicans. "But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement." I'm not a fan of Bush, but I don't think anyone gets off on our soldiers getting killed. Believe it or not, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually rebuked Stark. Holy cow. I'm surprised, but hey, I guess some things are off limits for even the liberals.

5) Photos of troops overseas are gone from Paso post office, inspiring outrage. That's right, one person complained that these pictures were pro-war and the post office took them down. Come on people, we HAVE to support our troops! They're out there for us.

6) The amount of sexual misconduct in public schools across the nation is absolutely horrific and unacceptable. What are we to do with our children if we can't safely send them to school? School is supposed to be a sanctuary for students, not a place of abuse. How disgusting a place this world has turned into. As a side note, what on earth are we thinking contemplating giving birth control pills to middle school children? They're not even legally allowed to have sex, so why should schools be providing birth control to them? And to add insult to injury, parental notification would not be necessary! I'm so disgusted.

7) Naked chocolate Jesus is up again in New York. "A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be displayed in New York starting in late October." It was originally taken down seven months ago in protest, but has now been given the green light. It's anatomically correct and is shown for all to see, but this time it not in public view. It has now been put in an art gallery. Still, how disgusting a person Cosimo Cavallaro must be to do this.

8) "Bush's job approval rating fell to 24 percent from last month's record low for a Zogby poll of 29 percent. A paltry 11 percent gave Congress a positive grade, tying last month's record low." Haha. So it's NOT just Bush. Congress has an even lower approval rating. They're all awful. They're all a bunch of crooks.

9) "In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization released a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says." Is anyone really surprised by this information? I know I'm not. We're always lied to, so what's new?

10) "US Budget Deficit Falls to $162.8 Billion in 2007, Lowest Level in 5 Years". Okay, so we know Bush is an idiot, but at least he knows economics. We have to give him that. With all of this warring, we are still decreasing our budget deficit.

More of regular blogging soon to come. Hope you all enjoy!

Oak Lawn Travesty

So it's recently been brought to my attention that the school district in Oak Lawn has done away with celebrating holidays at school. I find this perplexing if not disturbing. While it is true that schools have an "all or nothing" policy meaning that they have to represent all faiths or none at all, there is more to this story than meets the eye. Here is some food for thought:

You can view the U.S. in two different paradigms:

1) Muslims consider the U.S. a horribly flawed Christian nation. Notice I said they think we are a Christian nation. If this is the case, then there should be no issue with religion because Christianity is the religion of the U.S.

2) The more likely rationale- We are a constitutional republic, following, in part, democratic themes. We are NOT theocratic and therefore freely accept all religions. That does not mean, however, that we cave in to any and all religious threats…at least we shouldn’t. Our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and we have made laws and regulations accordingly.

Let’s play out paradigm #2 here. Our laws are based on our general Judeo-Christian beliefs. If our roots came from Islam, perhaps polygamy would be commonplace. Perhaps women might be forced to wear the hijab? Wait a tick… we DON’T force religious ideals on people. We have something called freedom. Freedom to choose the religion we want to follow, freedom to say what we want (within reason), freedom to dress how we want, etc. Anyone ever wonder what Muslim schools in the U.S. teach? Well the Washington Post informs us that:

“Islamic schools in Virginia, for example, have maps of the Middle East in their classrooms that are missing Israel. On one map, Israel was blackened out and replaced with "Palestine." An 11th grade textbook teaches that one sign of the Day of Judgment will be that Muslims will fight and kill Jews, who will hide behind trees that say, "Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come here and kill him”.

It’s not just the Jews they’re after, but keep in mind, their “Students are taught, for example that the Day of Judgment won't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross, and converts everyone to Islam. The private schools are legally allowed to teach whatever they want as long as they meet state requirements.”

Granted these are private schools and have different rules governing them. Still, HOW can they get away with this? How many more laws must be modified until our own laws (that are already being used against us) push us out of our country?

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

Elizabeth Zahdan, the initial protester to school functions claims that "I only wanted them modified to represent everyone.” What we must understand is quite simple. It is two-fold, but not complicated in the least. First, the parties in the classroom are an American tradition, NOT religious holiday celebrations. Second, Halloween is NOT a religious holiday at all. If anything, Halloween is an anti-religious holiday. I personally disagree with Halloween and all it stands for, but I recall sitting through many years of Halloween parties and never once felt uncomfortable or unfairly treated. I dealt with it because it’s what American schools do. Our Christmas parties, do they represent one denomination of Christianity specifically? Of course not. Our concept of Christmas is so skewed, and our schools definitely do not teach about Christmas. Should we get rid of our Thanksgiving parties too? Maybe they promote too much Christianity for others to swallow? GET REAL!

In fact, I find it religiously offensive with the new names given to the parties- “fall festival” and “winter festival”. Those are too closely related to pagan holidays and we shouldn’t spread our religious views now should we?

I BET YOU DIDN’T READ THIS:

Last month, school administrators agreed to change the lunch menu to exclude items containing pork in order to accommodate Muslim students. Why do Muslim students get special treatment? When I fast for 48 days for Easter, I am not to consume meat or dairy. Shouldn’t the school refrain from serving any foods with meat or dairy while I’m fasting? I mean, come on, it’s only fair.

Another thought, too, while I’m at it. Muslim students are given time during lunch to say their prayers. Funny, I don’t remember getting that time to say my prayers.

So, what should you do? Pass this along to as many people as you can. Maybe, just maybe, someone within the Ridgeland School District can read this and use it as information to give to an administrator or someone else in authority.