Glenn Beck Says

84% of Americans don't like the way things are looking. But what's even more disturbing is the fact that 67% of the political class (that's your politicians) think everything is going just fine. How can the politicians be THIS clueless? 

Black Political Activist Herman Cain

Black political activists who also call themselves members of the Tea Party movement on Wednesday rebuked charges of racism running rampant in the group.

At a news conference in Washington, the black members asserted that the Tea Party is not at all racist and that the accusations come from outsiders trying to discredit and sabotage the movement.

"The injection of race has come from those who want to destroy us," said Selena Owens, an regular speaker with the Tea Party Express, one of the many libertarian, anti-tax groups in the movement that organized the news conference.

Herman Cain, a radio talk show host, said the accusations are "hurled at us to divide us and to deflect attention away from the failed policies of this congress and this president."

Kevin Jackson, author of "The Big Black Lie" added, "There are two kinds of people I have never seen at a Tea Party: a racist and anyone who owns a yacht. And if they do own a yacht, they pay their taxes."

By Jake Gibson

Published August 04, 2010
FoxNews.com

Way to go Judge Hudson!

The state of Virginia can continue its lawsuit to stop the nation’s new health care law from taking effect, a federal judge ruled Monday.

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson said he is allowing the suit against the U.S. government to proceed, saying no court has ever ruled on whether it’s constitutional to require Americans to purchase a product.
“While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen’s decision not to participate in interstate commerce,” Hudson wrote in a 32-page decision.
“Given the presence of some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side’s position, this court cannot conclude at this stage that the complaint fails to state a cause of action,” he wrote.
The decision is a small step, but in no way a minor matter to opponents of the health care bill rejected by all congressional Republicans but signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.

Left Side View

Myth: Social Security is going broke.

Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.¹ After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.² Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.

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Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.

Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.³ What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.⁴But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.

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Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.

Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.⁵ Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.⁶ But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.

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Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs

Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.⁷ The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.

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Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit

Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.¹

The picture above shows how crazy it has become in America and why so many Americans are mad about the government not enforcing the immigration laws! For one thing what other country in the world allows illegals to come into their country and protest against that country's immigration laws? None! Most would probably throw them into jail right away for being there illegally in the first place! If you think American people and their laws are so bad, why did you leave your own country and come here in the first place? But then again what other government would sue its own people over trying to keep out the illegals?

Clinton Appointee Judge Susan Bolton

PHOENIX – A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona's immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police and thousands of activists that had been building for months.
Coming just hours before the law was to take effect, the ruling isn't the end.
It sets up a lengthy legal battle that could end up before the Supreme Court — ensuring that a law that reignited the immigration debate, inspired similar measures nationwide, created fodder for political campaigns and raised tensions with Mexico will stay in the spotlight.
Protesters who gathered at the state Capitol and outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City cheered when they heard the news. The governor, the law's authors and anti-illegal immigration groups vowed to fight on. "I knew the judge would say that part of the law was just not right," said Gisela Diaz, 50, from Mexico City, who came to Arizona on a since-expired tourist visa in 1989 and who waited with her family early Wednesday at the Mexican Consulate to get advice about the law.
"It's the part we were worried about. This is a big relief for us," she said. About 100 protesters in Mexico City who had gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy broke into cheers when they learned of Bolton's ruling. They had been monitoring the news on a laptop computer.
"Migrants, hang on, the people are rising up!" they chanted.
Mexico's Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinoza called the ruling "a first step in the right direction" and said staff at the five Mexican consulates in Arizona will work extra hours in coming weeks to educate migrants about the law. Unsurprisingly the U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is a Clinton appointee. Does federal law trump state law, when the Federal government will not enforce the law? Judge Bolton’s decision is an important victory for the Obama administration in the face of a rising tide of concern among several states that the federal government is not effectively enforcing immigration law or effectively protecting US borders.

Left Side view of Social Security. (usadailynews.freshcontentengine.com)

ZOMBIE SOCIAL SECURITY LIE: THE SYSTEM IS GOING “BANKRUPT”
Posted on July 25, 2010, 3:06 pm


Panic! Lose your minds! And above all …. Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Because the entire Social Security system is about to crash and go belly up!

Except that it’s not.

Here’s our expert, Nancy Altman, in her sensational debunking book from 2005, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision To Bush’s Gamble, discussing the 1980 panic over the future of the program and the use of the “bankruptcy” scare, the same zombie scare that’s rearing its head again today:

Bankruptcy is a meaningless concept when applied to the federal government as a whole or any of its programs. As long as the federal government has, under the Constitution, “Power To Lay and collect Taxes” and the authority to issue and sell Treasury bonds, it and its programs will not go bankrupt. It is instructive to note that the reference to potential bankruptcy would be impossible to claim if Congress simply reinstated the authorization, present in the law from 1943 to 1950, to pay any shortfall in Social Security out of general revenue.

Out of all federal programs, Social Security was being singled out for alarmist claims about bankruptcy because it operated under the conservative principles of a balanced budget and long-range projections. No one ever pointed out that if deficit spending were the definition of bankruptcy in a federal program, then the entire federal government―other than Social Security―had been bankrupt for 20 years. During the prior two decades [to 1980], the government had run deficits every year with the exception of 1969.

Ask yourself this: Why this one program? Why, decade after decade, have conservatives fanned the flame of paranoia about this specific program when every other federal program, and the government itself, operates at a deficit? Why is the healthiest program on the privatization block? Who wins and who loses if wealth is transferred from this public insurance program into private hands?

It would be irresponsible not to speculate, wouldn’t it?

As you mull over that mutil-billion dollar question, just keep in mind the simple phrase: Social Security cannot go “bankrupt.”

This has been the third in a series of attempts to slay Zombie Social Security lies with the help of Altman’s book. Altman was Alan Greenspan’s assistant in 1983 when he chaired the panel on fine tuning the program, and her book has helped debunk two other zombie lies in the past couple of weeks: increased life span is dooming the program, and decreased worker-to-beneficiary ratio is killing the program.

Another great resource for any and all information about the health of Social Security can be found at Angry Bear, where Bruce Webb’s series has become a go-to resource on the attempts–and the zombie lies–to scare the bejesus out of Americans and get them to turn their wonderful safety net program over to private profiteers. (We’ve also been lucky enough to have Webb posting here and sharing his expertise.)

Dems, Repubs, all the same!

I must apologize as my Blog has been mostly one sided because I have heavily favored the Republicans over the Democrats in most of my postings! But I've tried to picked only the lessor of two evils because it seems to me that everyone we vote for does OK until they get to Washington. It's kind of like the old saying "when in Rome do as the Romans do" and that seems to be the case with all these politicians. I guess when they start running around with a bunch of thieving, selfish idiots, they soon end up thinking of nothing else but their own financial gain & how best to screw the voter. Another old saying is if you lie with the dogs, you end up with the fleas.