We will continue to (merely) support the efforts to protect the Libyan people.
But we will not be in the lead.
(And, no, he didn't.)
v.
A real president, Ronald Reagan:
(In responding to Libya's direct attacks against Americans,) I said we would act with others if possible, and alone if necessary, to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere.
In weeks, not days, we begin impeachment proceedings against Mr. Criminality Organizer unless he quits unlawfully bombing innocent Libyan civilians and illegally stealing their oil:
50 USC 1544(b) Within sixty calendar days after [Øblood4oil's March 21st report to Congress — i.e., May 19]... the President [or pResident, or Golfer/Vacationer/Fundraiser-in-Chief] shall terminate any use of United States Armed Forces with respect to which such report was submitted (or required to be submitted), unless the Congress (1) has declared war or has enacted a specific authorization for such use of United States Armed Forces [or] (2) has extended by law such sixty-day period....
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, at any time that United States Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.
Secretary Sebelius has already denied 79 requests for waivers from the limited benefit restrictions. Worse, she has arbitrarily decided not to allow individuals to apply for limited benefit and MLR (Medical Loss Ratio edicts that insurance companies spend at least 80-85% of premiums on medical claims) waivers.
Therefore, folks that bought mini-meds in the individual market have suddenly found their plans illegal and those with consumer-driven plans may soon suffer the same fate, with no recourse available.
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overnment is instituted among individuals to secure each individual's unalienable rights. However, human life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, etc. are not things enjoyed in a collective. For example:
Equal protection of the laws must mean individuals are protected first and foremost. But if politically favored organizations are eligible for administrative waivers while individuals are not, especially when both are subject to suffer similarly adverse effects without such waivers, there is no equal protection.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has arbitrarily given waivers to 1,169 businesses and five entire states from harmful provisions of ObamaCare. Despite union workers only making up 11.9% of the workforce, 45.55% of waiver beneficiaries are unionized!
While powerful liberal unions are now reaping the benefits of their tens of millions of dollars in support for President Obama's campaign, the rest of America is left fully complying with the destructive ObamaCare law, leading millions to ask:
[...for liberals' "alternative energy sources" wet dreams to come true. –LR]
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e need to heavily raise your taxes and spend even more money that our country doesn't have "invest" in the development of Lollipop-fed Unicorn Flatulence® as a "clean, renewable energy source." If we do, in fiveten twenty or so years yes we can™ significantly reduce our dependency on "fossil" fuels and build a green "economy" that runs totally off LUF®.
But there are challenges.
Let me be clear.™ First, we have or yes we can™ make plenty of lollipops. That is not a problem. Neither is the amount of flatulence that is going to be produced once we start feeding those lollipops to unicorns.
The main hurdle, of course, that our country faces is the extreme Republican extremist leadership who want to extremely cut such raising of your taxes and spending of even more money that our country doesn't have "investment" in clean, renewable sources of LUF® "energy." So if it weren't for their extremeness, we would all have an abundant supply of LUF®by now in fiveten twenty or so years.
As they were told over five years ago, any new drilling will take at least five years to make any impact on the market. How long do we have to keep pointing out this clear fact before they finally Get It®?
Although yes others can™ in places like Brazil; and we'll tell them, "We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers." Now that's"Winnin' Teh Future"WTF!
No. Clearly the only real solution to our Energy Crisis®, viz.—
U.S. Energy prices have risen to more than 6 percent of consumer spending — which may be a historic "tipping point." Our food prices, meanwhile, have had their steepest increase in a generation, to about 6.5 percent of spending. That's a double whammy consumers haven't suffered since Jimmy Carter's infamous "stagflation," a painful mix of weak economic growth, high unemployment, and rising inflation in the late 1970's.
is the clean, renewable flatulence we'll get soon in fiveten twenty or so years from feeding lollipops to unicorns.
Meanwhile we just have to keep heavily raising your taxes and spending even more money that our country doesn't have subsidizing the use of corn as an "alternative energy source" rather than a food source.
(All right. Enough about this energy stuff. Let's get back to bombing Libyan civilians and stealing their oil. Should be declaring Mission Accomplished® in "days, not weeks"fiveten twenty or so years.)
As millions of Americans rush to meet the deadline for filing their income taxes, it should be remembered that there are elected officials within the federal government who believe it is their job to redistribute our nation's wealth. After countless hard-earned taxpayer dollars were wasted on a host of failed economic programs and pork projects, for example, President Obama still has the audacity to come back and demand our nation's producers pay even more in taxes to feed the beast that is the federal government. He does this rather than get truly into the spirit of cutting reckless spending and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse within our government.
While President Obama and his allies want the middle-class and especially those they consider to be wealthy to dig ever deeper to subsidize the Obama agenda, they appear adamant that the government should not share in the same sacrifice. Even though it would seem that the President's big-spending policies of the past two years did nothing but extend America'sComrade ZerØ's Great Recession, they want hard-working Americans to pay more. Even though this agenda exploded the federal deficit to the point it now necessitates that Congress consider raising the debt ceiling to borrow perhaps trillions more — something Obama was opposed to as senator — liberals seem absolutely unwilling to embrace a policy of austerity.
In calling for higher taxes and not bringing fairness to the tax code, President Obama is doing little more than punishing the nation's producers for their success.
That's because only Biggest.Gøvernment.Ever. fat cats like His ZerØness should ever be successful or have any power. They can't if they're required to actually sacrifice anything.
Besides, what gives any of us the right to "unfairly" get more than According To His Need™? or pay less than According To His Ability™?
Just let them always decide for you what your need and ability may be andbequiet! They think feel that you — never they — are to blame, anyway, and "don't want you to do a lot of talking." Certainly not raise untoward questions like where specifically in our constitution does the Øfascist Regime find the authority to take over our livelihoods and our lives? I mean, "Are you serious?"
So what that, even if His $orØ$nesstaxes takes every "millionaire and billionaire" for all they're worth, it still wouldn't cover just the increase of debt Comrade ZerØ imposed on all of us. That just means Herr Øfascist will have to take from them all more than what they're worth!
Øfascist was against all presidential signing statements before he was all for them.
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our years ago His Lieness "promised"—
While it is legitimate for a president to issue a signing statement to clarify his understanding of ambiguous provisions of statutes and to explain his view of how he intends to faithfully execute the law, it is a clearabuseofpower to use such statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability.I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.
One rider [to the "congressional instructions as enacted into law"] — Section 2262 — de-funds certain White House adviser positions — or "czars." The president in his signing statement declares that he will not abide by it.
As this extreme "hockey stick" graph clearly shows, no one else can possibly match the extremism of Demøcrook extremists(birm):
That's some "Change." Yes we can ask, "Why hasn't all their extreme spending lowered our prices or unemployment rates?" Yes we can even say, in terms of our future, "This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians" or "they're now here to kill women" and to wage "actually a war on women" as well as men and the children.
irst, there would be no change in the retirement program for anyone born in or before 1955. For everyone else, the following changes apply:
Full retirement age (FRA) is redefined as the earliest age at which an unreduced partial retirement benefit is payable. The basic benefit, or "primary insurance amount" (PIA), is fully payable at age 70.
For persons born in or after 1956 but not after 1960, retirement benefits would be 75% of full benefits at age 65, 80% at age 66, 85% at age 67, 90% at age 68, 95% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. Persons within this birth-year range would also have the option, before they retire, of investing a maximum of 5% of their payroll-tax or self-employment-tax contributions in any securities and other instruments which maintain a sufficiently high financial rating, as determined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Each seller of any such instrument would charge a regulated administrative fee, which includes a premium payment to an Investment Deposit Insurance Corporation to cover any loss of the actual total principal invested greater than that premium.
However, if a person opts to invest any portion of his contributions during a calendar year, the amount of his credited earnings for that year would be proportionately less than his actual earnings, and may reduce the amount of his full basic benefit.
The entire proceeds of each person's investments (total principal plus any gains) would be available to him when he attains age 65, or to his estate if he dies earlier.
This same availability rule also applies to all persons born after 1960.
For persons born in or after 1961 but not after 1965, retirement benefits would be 50% of full benefits at age 65, 60% at age 66, 70% at age 67, 80% at age 68, 90% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. They would also have the option, before they retire, of investing a maximum of 10% of their contributions in the above described instruments.
For persons born in or after 1966 but not after 1970, the benefits would be 25% at age 65, 40% at age 66, 55% at age 67, 70% at age 68, 85% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. They would also have the option of investing a maximum of 15% of their contributions.
In the following birth-year range, full retirement age is 66.
For persons born in or after 1971 but not after 1975, benefits would be 20% at age 66, 40% at age 67, 60% at age 68, 80% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. They would also have the option of investing a maximum of 20% of their contributions.
In the following two ranges, FRA is 67.
For persons born in or after 1976 but not after 1980, benefits would be 25% at age 67, 50% at age 68, 75% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. They would also have the option of investing a maximum of 25% of their contributions.
For persons born in or after 1981 but not after 1985, benefits would be 10% at age 67, 40% at age 68, 70% at age 69, and 100% at age 70 or older. They would also have the option of investing a maximum of 30% of their contributions.
The table below shows respective benefits and maximum investment percentages for all birth-year ranges.
Birth-year range
Percentage of PIA at age–
Max. percentage of contributions that may be invested
65
66
67
68
69
70
1956-1960
75
80
85
90
95
100
5
1961-1965
50
60
70
80
90
100
10
1966-1970
25
40
55
70
85
100
15
1971-1975
--
20
40
60
80
100
20
1976-1980
--
--
25
50
75
100
25
1981-1985
--
--
10
40
70
100
30
1986-1990
--
--
--
30
65
100
35
1991-1995
--
--
--
20
60
100
40
1996-2000
--
--
--
10
55
100
45
2001-2005
--
--
--
--
50
100
50
2006-2010
--
--
--
--
45
100
55
2011-2015
--
--
--
--
40
100
60
2016-2020
--
--
--
--
35
100
65
2021-2025
--
--
--
--
30
100
70
2026-2030
--
--
--
--
25
100
75
2031-2035
--
--
--
--
20
100
80
2036-2040
--
--
--
--
15
100
85
2041-2045
--
--
--
--
10
100
90
2046-2050
--
--
--
--
5
100
95
2051-
--
--
--
--
--
100
100
Second, early retirement age would remain 62 for every person regardless his birth year. Full retirement benefits are still reduced 5/9 of 1 percent a month for the first 36 months immediately preceding full retirement age, and 5/12 of 1 percent a month for any additional months. Investment proceeds, however, do not become available before age 65.
Third, for insured workers who postpone their retirement beyond FRA, benefits are increased for each month of nonpayment beyond that FRA up to age 75. This increase, or "delayed retirement credit," is potentially available for any or all months following attainment of FRA. The total credit possible per year for delayed retirement credits is 8 percent.
Fourth, there is no increase in the payroll tax or self-employment tax.
Finally, fundamentally transforming the Social Security program so it becomes increasingly less a single payer of retirement benefits and more a government option would put it on much sounder financial footing, especially when those born in the later ranges reach retirement age.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.
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ho said that?
An evil tea-b****r Republican? One who is "playing chicken with the debt ceiling"? Who doesn't care about causing "a worse financial economic crisis" until it's "even Armageddon-like"? But who just wants to treat the debt ceiling as "a game" and "something to toy with"?
No.
That verdict convicting "leadership failure" was clearly pronounced by none other than the Biggest. Hypocrite. Ever.™ The øn(c)e who now wants to pass the buck, shift the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren, and support an effort he said not too long ago he intended to oppose.
The øn(c)e who was against raising the debt ceiling before he "regrets" not being for it.
hat can be more extreme than proclaiming that, without government handouts, citizens of the United States of America will die? That depriving them of those handouts is the same as murdering them?
God help us. Because, if this is true, it should be clear that, no, we cannot help ourselves.
We would cease being citizens of our once free and independent states. But become subjects and wards of some others's supreme megastate.
When the great patriot Patrick Henry rose before the people's convention in Virginia, 236 years ago, he asked his fellow revolutionaries, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" To Heaven he proclaimed, "Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" In response the representatives of the people of Virginia authorized troops to fight for and win back all the people's God-given liberties.
Today, a retrogressive faction of so-called representatives of the people are proclaiming to us, in our own Congress, that they know, with complete certainty, what course we all must and will take: large-scale government in order to avert large-scale death. That to have a dear life and sweet peace, the change we need — our only hope — is collectively wearing the thickest chains of permanent and universal slavery to an omniscient government. A government headed, of course, by them.
Nothing could be more extreme.
It is nothing short of a measure to completely destroy all our God-given freedoms in order to infinitely increase their power over each and every one of us. Because, they keep proclaiming, they know better than we do what is best for us and what most promotes our "common good."
Since we now and always will have such extreme would-be tyrants raising themselves and their egomaniacal schemes up like weeds among us, the revolutionary war started by Patrick Henry and his fellow freedom fighters can never end. Except in defeat.
That is because the price of possessing all the individual rights we enjoy is forever fighting for their survival.
The price of losing those rights is death of the United States of America as we know it.
You didn't propose it. Your teleprompter never prompted you to ask for it. Besides, given the $1.3 Trillion deficit in the Vote-"Present"™ "budget" that yes, you did conceive and create, it's really nothing to brag about.
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f it's clear your family's going to wind up $1,354 short of paying the bills this year, what are you going to do?
Well, if you're Øbawhore, you accept Little Johnny's offer to "sacrifice" that new $38 Mafia 2 II Xbox 360 game he was planning to get.*
Now you have to borrow only$1,316 to "pay" those bills.
Just don't be surprised when, after telling your neighbors why you're shooting off all the credit-card-bought fireworks in your front yard, each and every one of them — without exception — says, "Big freakin' deal."
Really, Øbawhore. Do you think feel we're all as extremely retarded brain-dead as you?
* Little Patty's, of course, screaming he's trying to "kill" her because he had dared offer to "sacrifice," also, the couch change — all 36 cents of it!
Teh Øn(c)e says, "Then buy a new car!" Because, you know, new cars are actually a lot cheaper now than the gas you're going to have to put in them.
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o, what if the people can't afford new cars? Hmm?
Instead of hearing the Moron-in-Chief Øbamarieantoinette and his AP(ropagandists) blurt and promptly edit out, "Let them drive limousines!" or upscale $41,000+ Volts, you might want to think about a trade-in—
On November 6, 2012—
Of the occupantvacationer at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yes, you can make that trade-in inside your very own local voting booth.
Obama's limo gets eight miles to the gallon. His fleet of security vehicles, Suburbans, they're not gonna switch out. It's a classic illustration here of how statists live and work, and you don't get to play in their league. So you just gotta go trade in your car. You gotta go get a subcompact. You gotta go out and get another car if you want to spend less on gasoline. We're not gonna drill. We're not gonna increase our own supply of oil.
No, we're gonna hold out for a worthless so-called green energy solution that does not exist and won't exist for decades — and don't doubt me. He's not gonna try to lower prices, he's not gonna try to lower taxes, he is not gonna lower the corporate tax rate, he's not gonna take any action that will make the cost of living less because he doesn't want to. What we need to do is trade in Obama!
The worst part of this whole debate is the ObamarxAdministration'sRegime's decision to hold military pay hostage to the budget debate. For the last few decades, government shutdowns have been guided by an OMB directive issued during the Reagan Administration. Under this directive, military personnel would continue to receive the paychecks while politicians argued about the budget. The Clinton Administration, during the last government shutdown, kept the paychecks flowing.
The Obama AdministrationNational Socialist Dictatorship has overturned the old OMB directive and has decided to suspend military paychecks if there is a government shutdown. No reason to do it ... but they have decided to. Reprehensible.
ehead Those Who Insult Islam." The official motto of the Religion of "Peace." If by "peace," you mean viscously slaughter everyone who disagrees with you until there's no on left on the planet who is able or willing to disagree with you. In which sense, there finally is peace — for you, that is.
Cowardly muslim terrorists(birm) targeting and butchering innocent, unarmed civilians.
Nor is the fact that liberals are placing all the blame for that butchering — all committed in the name of liberals' Most Favored Religion™ — on someone other than any of the actual butchers.
An attention-craving preacher burns a Qur'an Book of Hate™. Followers of this Book of Hate go out and cold-bloodedly murder anyone they can get their hands knuckle-dragged claws on. Attention-craving preacher's point ably, amply, and incontrovertibly proved: islam is not, by any rational standard, a "religion of peace." Liberals crawling out from under their respective rocks to defend such "religion" against "intolerance," "violent rhetoric," and "phobia" is an ironic bonus.
Except there are better ways to insult a "religion" so thoroughly deserving of every insult that everyone who is willing and able to see it for the murderously dangerous cult and worldwide, malignant cancer it futilely pretends it isn't, and to heap on it all the insults it has earned and should entirely receive, can imagine.
The next time murderous muslims(birm), in the name of their "religion" primitive moongod prejudices and deadly intolerance, attack and kill another large group of innocent people, we "insult" their "religion" by doing a bit of landscaping. In Mecca. A hundred megatons of it, to be precise.
With that "religion" dead and all its former followers either scattered or beaten, islam will, for once in its overly long, misery-spreading existence, truly be the vehicle — after it's totally burned out and hydraulically crushed, of course — upon which the world achieves a real and lasting peace.
