This is what you Paid for Three Years ago!

This is what you the tax payer paid for three years ago, can you guess what Obama Government has brought it up to by now? Don't even try! According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, government accounts for about 8% of jobs in the United States. Here's the breakdown using numbers easily accessible on the BLS website (all numbers from 2006 or 2007):

1,774,000 Federal government civilian employees, excluding Post Office
615,000 Post Office
1,172,913 Military enlisted
230,577 Military Officers
2,424,000 State government (excluding education and hospitals)
5,594,000 Local government (excluding education and hospitals)
That's a total of 11,810,490 government jobs.
The total number of jobs in the U.S. in 2006 was 150,600,000, so government employment makes up 7.84% of all jobs.
In 2007, the U.S. population (according to the Census Bureau) was 301,621,157, so about 4% of Americans are employed by the government.

Rules or No Rules?

On a major website the feature story starts out, Hispanics are leaving Arizona in droves because of new law! For one thing it's not a new law, it's just a watered down version of a Federal Law that has been on the books forever! The only thing is the Federal Government will not enforce it.
So the state of Arizona is trying to enforce their version of it! If we are going to survive as a nation there has to be a rule of law. These days all of this stupid crap is happening because it seems no one has to pay for their actions. Most normal people understand from childhood that if you do something your not suppose to do there will be a price to pay. So if you are in my country illegally then I say leave and go back to where you come from, then break all the laws you want to. But your not going to break them in my country!

The Thrill is Gone!

Here's a hardy White House perennial: An audience member struggling to stay awake during a presidential speech.

The listener in this case sang in the choir for Kalamazoo Central High School in Michigan, giving him a prime seat Monday night behind President Obama -- for better or for worse.

Obama delivered the school's commencement address, but apparently didn't inspire all his students (though we're willing to bet this has happened to every president).

And let's the give the young man a break. He just graduated from high school, and he has to sit through a speech from a politician.

He's got things to do!!

Including sleep, it would seem.

(Posted by David

America land of the free for everyone except Americans?

What New Yorkers can expect from the proposed 15-story Ground Zero mosque
Posted: 02 Jun 2010 09:38 AM PDT
Stella Paul has an article at the American Thinker today that provides New Yorkers a taste of what they can expect if the proposed mega-mosque is actually built at Ground Zero. She says if they want to know what life will be like after the mosque is built and operational, they only need to take a gander at the impact that the Islamic Society of Boston “Cultural Center” is having on Boston’s non-Muslim citizens. It’s not good:

All signs point to a repeat of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center debacle, in which Mayor Thomas Menino practically gave away city-owned land worth $2 million to the Islamic Society of Boston, whose founder Abdurrahman Alamoudi currently sweats out a 23-year prison term for terrorist crimes. Mayor Menino donated the public’s land for the construction of the ISB mosque — excuse me, “Cultural Center” — with the standard pleas for diversity, healing, peace, and frolicking unicorns. Of course, he didn’t bother to investigate the peaceful healing record of the Middle Eastern men he was donating to: ISB Trustee Yusuf Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who’s been banned from the U.S. and dubbed “the theologian of terror” by the ADL; ISB Trust President Osama Kandil, director of an Islamic charity designated as terrorist by the U.S. government; and ISB Trustee Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. But the mayor’s speeches sure sounded pretty, and that’s what counts.

When the Boston Herald and local Fox Network affiliate began exposing the ISB’s nasty connections, the ISB responded with the typical relish of democracy’s free speech hurly-burly we’ve come to expect from these types: They sued every single one of their public critics, including a refugee Muslim scholar who had translated some of their anti-Semitic, anti-American literature to enlighten the citizenry. Their brass-knuckles intimidation worked beautifully: the media went silent on reporting anything negative about the ISB, while the private citizens they sued were ordered by lawyers to keep daintily quiet. The ISB bigwigs sashayed to their opening ceremony in June 2009, where they were by top politicians, Harvard scholars, and Christian and Jewish clergy.

So how’s that new mosque working out for the Boston taxpayers who donated the valuable land? Well, there’s hardly a dull moment around this hardworking bunch. One month after the mosque’s opening, one of its biggest donors, Oussama Ziade, was indicted for taking cash from al-Qaeda’s top fundraiser, Yassin Qadi. The son of the Islamic Center’s vice president was arrested in October forplotting to murdershoppers in New England malls. And the Boston-based “Grey Lady of Al Qaeda,” Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted of trying to murder FBI agents in Afghanistan, enjoys the warm support of Imam Farooq, a leader in the local Muslim American Society (MAS), which controls the ISB Cultural Center.

And these folks who built and run the Boston mosque portrayed themselves as moderate Muslims who only wanted to help heal the rift between the faiths, a claim that only supports the argument that there are no moderate Muslims.

What’s even more sickening is that Democratic politicians are more than thrilled to promise the world to these Muslims in exchange for votes:

But for politicians who want to grovel before perpetually aggrieved Muslim groups, the ISB Cultural Center is a godsend: a conveniently located mega-mosque packed with thousands of worshipers they can simultaneously appease. And thus it came to pass that on one glorious May morning in 2010, Governor Deval Patrick was graciously granted an audience before 1,100 worshipers in a collective snit over the recent arrest of two Massachusetts Muslims linked to the Times Square bombing. They demanded their rights! They demanded the governor’s “Recognition of our presence, our pain and our power.”

Administering a high-stakes pop quiz to Governor Patrick, they insisted on an instant yes-or-no commitment on seven massive policy shifts. Would the governor grant them special privileges in the workplace, financial sector, schools, and with the police? Governor Patrick, who, like Barack Obama, is an African-American Harvard Law grad whose campaign was managed by David Axelrod, instantly capitulated on everything. Yeah. Sure. Shrug. Whatever.

Sadly, the Ground Zero mosque planners know how foolish, gullible, and easily led liberals are. All the mosque planners had to do was utter politically correct, multi-culti, can’t-we-all-just-get-along pap about healing rifts and bridging divides, and the folks serving on Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 swallowed their propaganda hook, line, and sinker, just as the folks north of Boston did. As a result, a 15-story monument to Islam’s domination of Lower Manhattan soon will be built at Ground Zero.

Borders

I'm sure that I'm not the only one asking that if the Obama Government can't secure the border between America & Mexico, how the hell are they going to keep us safe from the terrorist that want to kill and harm us? I don't know what the coyotes get paid for bring in illegals, but I'm sure they would bring in anyone if the money was right!

Arizona's GOP Governor Jan Brewer a True American

Below are the words to the song sung by the Arizona Singing Puppets. The Democrats should learn it!


"Reading is really super swell.

Reading's great so let's all shout out loud.

Reading helps you know what you're talkin' 'bout."

Democrats showing real Class!

RPT Update 05/21/10


Busting the Obamabots
This week, the Democrats have treated the nation - and especially the border states - to an appalling spectacle. During a state visit by the President of Mexico, the Democrats gave him a standing ovation when he spoke before a joint session of Congress and slammed Arizona's security law. On top of that, President Obama's hand-picked head of Immigration & Customs Enforcement, John Morton, said that the federal government might not process illegal aliens picked up in Arizona. This statement is in direct conflict with his organization's stated federal mission of enforcing the law. Morton's statement reflects his boss' attitude toward the rule of law, and it's appalling. A president who actually wanted to unite the nation would fire Morton immediately and replace him with someone who cares more about national security than politics. But that's not what this president is up to, behind the scenes.

Here in Texas, the Austin city council voted to boycott Arizona (but not California, which has had a similar security law on the books for years, and not the federal government, which has had a similar law in place since 1940). But that silly boycott apparently isn't popular - letters to the Austin American-Statesman's editors from citizens are running strongly against the boycott. So President Obama's political action army, Organizing for America, is trying manufacture fake support for the boycott. They've been caught red-handed trying to create an impression of support in Austin, and they're probably trying the same shady tricks elsewhere.
Organizing for America works for the Democratic National Committee, and ultimately for the President of the United States. Their divisive astroturf war against national security is probably being waged on his orders, and it's a disgrace.

Arizona utilities board commissioner responds to boycott!

Arizona utilities board commissioner responds to the Los Angeles City Council boycott
Posted: 18 May 2010 03:55 PM PDT
When a California municipality is dependent on a neighboring state to provide its citizens a good chunk of its electricity, it’s best for that municipality to not piss off that neighboring state. Case in point: Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott the State of Arizona because of its new immigration law. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa fully supported that boycott. However, Los Angeles gets 25% of it energy from Arizona utility companies, something Mayor Villaraigosa seems to have forgotten. Gary Pierce, one of Arizona’s elected utilities commissioners, was more than happy to remind the mayor of that fact in a letter he sent him and copied to Hot Air. Here’s only a portion:

I received your message; please receive mine. As a state-wide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona’s electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the “resources and ties” we share with the City of Los Angeles. In fact, approximately twenty-five percent of the electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power plants in Arizona.

If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation. I am confident that Arizona’s utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands. If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona’s economy.

Nice job, Mr. Pierce.

I have a feeling the citizens of Los Angeles won’t be quite as committed to the cause of punishing Arizona as the mayor and city council are, especially since it will be the citizens who will be living with the blackouts, and just as the heat of summer is ramping up. If Mr. Villaraigosa had considered the consequences of trashing the hand that feeds his city’s air conditioners and lights before publicly supporting the boycott of Arizona (especially since Arizona’s new law reads very similarly to California’s), he wouldn’t be in the awkward position of trying to find a way to extricate himself and his city from this difficult situation.