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ECONOMY:

Finally somebody is asking if our economic collapse was engineered. This stuff isn't rocket science. When you bury yourself in debt, your economy collapses. When you continually hold interest rates unnaturally low, you create a a shortage of savings just like when you hold gas prices artificially low, you create a shortage of gasoline. A shortage of savings is the same thing as an abundance of debt.

Obama's policies trigger flight from commodities including precious metals. Obama could mess up a train wreck.

TAX AND SPEND:

Government's uncontrollable appetite for spending. The curve on this graph ought to make every American shake in his or her boots.

Public employee unions are killing California.

"As the governor noted during his $83 billion budget roll-out, over the past decade pension costs for public employees increased 2,000%. State revenues increased only 24% over the same period. A Schwarzenegger adviser wrote in the San Jose Mercury News in the past few days that, "This year alone, $3 billion was diverted to pension costs from other programs." There are now more than 15,000 government retirees statewide who receive pensions that exceed $100,000 a year, according to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility."

What an unholy alliance. Government gave the unions the power of coercion, and the unions are using it against their patron government to the detriment of us all. They'll kill the rest of the country next.

EDUCATION:

Obama trying to nationalize education standards. Just like Bush on steroids.

HEALTH CARE:

Reid and Pelosi quietly pushing ahead on Son of Obamacare. This is like a horror movie where you think the monster is dead, and it gets up at the end and kills again. Now is not the time to get overconfident about the end of Obamacare. All Reid has to do is turn one Republican, and Scott Brown wants to be involved. Olympia Snowe is the great compromiser of our liberties. Beware Son of Obamacare.

"So, leaders are considering making limited changes that can be passed using a budget process called reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes in the Senate."

The other day Democrats said they wouldn't use the nuclear option. Never believe what these freaks of lying say. Reid's strategy is the nuclear option. He doesn't need any Republicans. He just needs 51 Democrats.

Reason says if Republicans compromise on health care oppression, they will help create the death spiral of private insurance, which has been the Democrat plan all along.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Hamas accepts Israel's right to exist. In retaliation, Israel declares it will keep parts of West Bank forever. You got to be kidding me. It's about time it was honest about that. Israel isn't holding that land for security purposes. It's holding it to colonize. But that announcement is going to blow up in the faces of Israelis - literally.

POLITICS:

Jonah Goldberg is right about the differing character of libertarians and that they don't vote for a block, by their nature, libertarians are independent, not collectivists, but we've never had a major party candidate in the general election who was a libertarian. I still think a hardcore libertarian would win a landslide because he or she would attract all the different flavors of libertarians. Unfortunately the primary process of both parties is dominated by the political establishment which profits from big government and makes it impossible for a libertarian candidate to get nominated.

Big government Republicans say Brown's victory supports their big government beliefs even though Brown won because of Tea Partiers. They know better. They're just lying to gain power for themselves like every other professional politician.

Because Wall Street is in bed with Democrats, Obama's regulations will be written by Wall Street lobbyists to favor Wall Street.

"For his presidential campaign in which Wall Street regulation was a mantra, Obama's top source of funds was investment bank giant Goldman Sachs, whose employees, partners, and executives gave him $995,000 -- that's the most any politician has raised from any one company in a single election since the age of "soft money" ended."

This is a big, political scam. Obama is in bed with Wall Street. Reid is in bed with Wall Street. Frank is in bed with Wall Street. Bernanke is in bed with Wall Street. Geithner is in bed with Wall Street. His Treasury Department is loaded with ex-Goldman executives. This is the argument Republicans have to make when fighting this bill. Of course Bush was in bed with Wall Street too, so they don't have a lot of credibility on the subject.

"The "securities and investment" industry has favored Democrats by more than a two-to-one margin so far this cycle. The top eight recipients of Wall Street PAC money this election are all Democrats."

But that gives them credibility if they'll just make the case. This article has a lot of good info.

Michelle Malkin hits it right on the head - the big-government Republicans like Scott Brown and John McCain are the ones benefiting from the Tea Party movement. They've hijacked this movement, and because the Tea Partiers won't vote out their big-government Republican incumbents, they're going to gain power and continue to screw up America very much like Democrats the same as they did since 2000. I would love to see John McCain defeated in the Republican primary.

Democrats scapegoating Bernanke over unpopular bailouts.

Scott Brown figured out how to use the internet to his advantage. We can't have that. Obama must seize control of the internet!

For decades Congress has demonized corporations for funding political campaigns. This letter from CEOs to Congress asking politicians to stop calling them and asking for donations shows who's really at fault here. Naturally, it's the people with all the power. The CEO get the request for money and they understand full well if they don't pay up, Congress is going to hurt them. It's extortion. The professional politicians only have on thing of value - our money and our power. The only way they can advance their careers is to sell our money and power to the highest bidder. So they extort money from corporations. Taking corporate money out of elections won't change anything but make unions more powerful because the aristocrats will continue to sell our money and our power to highest bidder to advance their careers. But calling for funding elections by taking money from people by force shows CEOs tend to be enemies of freedom.

Now that Democrats are in the majority, they want to restrict the use of the filibuster. This is bad timing. They won't be in power long. A better way to deal with this is to amend the Constitution to require 60 percent in both chambers to pass anything.

Harry Reid is so out of touch, he's going to invite kiss-of-death Obama to campaign for him.

The Tea Party movement has been hijacked body and soul by the Republican establishment.

"The convention is being held at a fancy resort, features $550 ticket prices, a steak and lobster dinner and a guest speaker with a $100,000 speaking fee. It’s sponsored by a for-profit company with a mysterious wealthy benefactor, and its organizers, who have been accused of secrecy and corruption, have threatened lawsuits against dissenters and clamped down on news coverage.

Sounds like just the kind of thing that tea party activists, whose populist outrage is directed at the Washington and Wall Street establishments, would be up in arms over.

Except it’s a tea party convention."

I saw that coming the first time I asked if Tea Party members were going to run primary challenges to their Republican incumbents, and every one said no. Everybody wants the other guy to change, but they don't want to change anything themselves.

Scott Brown will be more qualified to be president in 2012 than Obama was in 2008, if by qualified you mean was immersed longer in political corruption.

MISC:

Haiti death toll tops 150,000. Government oppression and corruption trapped the Haitians in poverty, leaving them unable to survive this earthquake.

Map re-envisions the US with the 50 state boundaries redrawn to equalize representation for senators. As you might imagine, many large metropolitan areas become states unto themselves. This would be fantastic for the rest of the people because in so many states, a giant liberal city or two sucks all the wealth from the rest of the citizens. This might be indicative of how states may break apart during the coming collapse to put an end to liberals in giant cities looting everybody else.