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Michelle contradicts Obama nativity story
In little noticed remarks, Michelle Obama stated at a public event that her husband’s mother, Ann Dunham, was “very young and very single” when she gave birth to the future U.S. president. Her comments further undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth. To read more about this … Find out the latest right now at WND.com: |
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I listened and watched David’s half hour live presentation verses this 6 minute video. My conclusion is that every Iowa citizen must take the time to digest and understand that already the magnitude of Iowa’s spending will soon hit each Iowan harder and then harder yet. Delay has already made the spending problem huge. More delay will multiply the magnitude of each Iowan’s financial hit which you will understand if you dig a bit further then the video below can take you in just 6 minutes.
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ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS FOR IOWANS
IMMIGRATION: The primary responsibility of the government is to the citizen.
Eliminate chain migration which gives control of immigration policy to aliens and foreign governments (1)
Secure our borders and discourage all those who violate them, alien and citizen, by enforcing immigration laws
End multiculturalism and bilingualism in public institutions, promote assimilation and unity of citizenship, allegiance to American culture, and English as the official language. (1)
EDUCATION:
Decisions on the education of our children must be as decentralized as possible.
Eliminate the federal Department of Education, since education should primarily be a local and state function. (1)
Eliminate tenure for government schoolteachers and college professors making them accountable for the quality of the education they provide. (1)
School vouchers for parents who choose to send their children to alternate schools.
ENERGY:
The government must allow and encourage the exploration of all forms of energy, to include nuclear, fossil fuels and alternative energy sources.
We must limit our dependence on foreign energy by utilizing domestic resources.
RIGHT TO LIFE:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…” (3)
TAXES:
The Constitution of the United States Article I Section 8 lays out very clearly the power of the government to lay and collect taxes.
Eliminate the progressive tax because its purpose is the re-distribution of wealth and not to fund the constitutionally legitimate functions of government (1)
All residents of the country must pay taxes so they will have a stake in limiting its abuse (1)
Eliminate automatic withholding to bring full disclosure of the amount the government is confiscating from its citizens (1)
Eliminate the Death Tax, Corporate Income Tax (double taxation)
All federal income tax increases must require a supermajority vote of three fifths of the congress (1)
Limit federal spending to less than 20 percent of GDP. (1)
SIZE AND ROLE OF GOVERNMENT:
The primary purpose of Government is to do those things which the individual cannot do for themselves. We believe in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution as written, “The powers not delegated to the United Stated by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. Therefore we believe that the States maintain more power to govern than the Federal government and that the Federal government should govern only those things which are stated in the Constitution. We believe that any government which cannot be held accountable to the governed is tyranny and that our Founders set in place checks and balances in an attempt to prevent this tyranny.
JOBS:
It is not the responsibility, nor is it possible for the government to “create” jobs. However, it is possible for the government to affect the jobs of American citizens through over-regulation and over-taxing, which stifle entrepreneurs. The free market solutions that have driven the most prosperous periods of the American economy are the only solutions which cannot only bring our economy out of weak times but take us into the 21st Century from a position of strength.
The government must create tax incentives for those businesses which hire American citizens
Must limit regulation related to employer/employee relationships.
There must be a presumption against any new regulation.
AGRICULTURE & INTERNATIONAL TRADE:
Ensure all foreign policy decisions are made for the purpose of preserving and improving American society and the standard of living of American citizens
Reject all treaties, trade agreements, entanglements, institutions or enterprises that have as their purpose the supplantation of America’s best interest to an amorphous “global” interest (1)
Ensure that the American farmer is allowed the opportunity to succeed without excessive intrusion by government, activists, and environmental groups.
Tax incentives should be given to producers that keep money in the “family farm”
All foreign aid should have American agricultural products (ie; grain, livestock, machinery, etc.) as a pre-requisite to obtaining such assistance. (4)
ENVIRONMENT:
The “environment” has been hijacked and used by the left to implement more restrictions on the American people and industry. As Iowans, we, more than most understand our relationship with our environment and work hard to preserve our natural resources. The Federal government was not given the power and does not have the power to create or enforce any regulations based on the “environment”.
Eliminate the special tax-exempt status of environmental groups, since they are not nonpartisan charitable foundations (1)
Eliminate statutory authority granting environmental groups to bring lawsuits on behalf of the public (1)
Fight any effort to use environmental regulations to set industrial policy (cap and trade) (1)
RETIREMENT INVESTMENT:
We believe in the character and the ingenuity of the American people. We also believe in the idea of personal responsibility. It has never been in the power or in the best interest of the citizen to turn over his or her future to a government body for management and distribution.
Social Security must be phased out and the citizen should be given the opportunity to invest their own money in the way that they see fit.
Tax incentives for investment must be implemented to allow the American citizen to invest without fear of government intrusion.
The responsibility for one’s future does not lie with the government or other citizens, but in the individual.
Credit given to:
1. Mark Levin, Author of Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto
2. The United States Constitution
3. The Declaration Of Independence
4. Steve Rathje
Robin Hood Rx Robs Small Business
by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Monday, July 27, 2009
Many town meetings I’ve held this year have turned into standing-room-only sessions. Such active citizen participation would make the Founders proud of America’s 233-year-old revolutionary “experiment.” That is, the government works for the people; the people don’t work for the government.
Thanks to Iowa’s presidential precinct caucuses every four years, Iowans are well known for being active participants in representative government. For 28 years in a row, I’ve met with Iowans in each of Iowa’s 99 counties at least once every year to find out face-to-face what’s on the minds of people.
I appreciate when people take the time out of their busy schedules to attend and participate. This year, large turnouts are driven by anxiety about the economic downturn, disaster assistance, unemployment, health care reform and, especially the federal bailouts for the banking and automobile industries that have put taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars.
From one side of the state to the other, Iowans at my town meetings, ask: “When is enough, enough?”
This summer, Congress is hammering out ideas to overhaul the U.S. health care system. The White House and Congress from the outset identified two overriding targets for reform: to curb the spiraling costs of health care (which today absorbs roughly one out of every six dollars spent in the United States) and to expand access to health care insurance for the 47 million uninsured Americans.
Regrettably, it seems the big spenders in Washington want to abandon the first goal entirely. They are focusing on sweeping changes to the U.S. health care system that substantially grows the federal role in the delivery of medicine in America. A partisan band of lawmakers in Congress seems comparable to the medieval looters of Sherwood Forrest. Health bills being pushed by the majority party in the House of Representatives would enact a stiff surtax on small businesses and other higher-income taxpayers, and would also impose a penalty on small businesses that do not provide health insurance coverage to their employees.
So many Iowans have expressed their anxiety about losing their jobs and getting the economy back on the right track. If Congress steamrolls a partisan Robin Hood plan that finances a government take-over of the U.S. health care system on the backs of small business, I’m afraid the economy may never fully recover. Small businesses are the job-creating engine in America, accounting for 70 percent of new private sector jobs. Slapping a surtax of up to 5.4 percent on those earning $280,000 or more a year will not encourage small business owners to create jobs, retain their current employees, and invest in their businesses.
The White House and Congressional Democrats already have crowed their intent to raise marginal tax rates to 36 and 39.6 percent on the top two brackets. They also proposed raising the tax rates on capital gains and dividends to 20 percent and jack up the estate tax as high as 45 percent. The merry band of big spenders would add the Robin Hood surtax on top of those tax hikes to finance the government’s gradual control of U.S. medicine. The marginal federal tax rate proposed by House Democrats goes up as high as 48 percent, and that doesn’t even include state income taxes. In Iowa, the highest state tax rate is nine percent. Therefore, under the House Democrats proposal, Iowans would face a marginal tax rate as high as 57 percent.
As my constituents ask: “When is enough, enough?”
The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office splashed cold water on the proposals being advanced, saying “the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs” and does not make fundamental changes to curb medical spending in the future.
Taxpayers can only hope the leadership in Congress and the White House will listen to a nonpartisan voice of reason and put fact before fiction.
As the ranking member of the Finance Committee, I have been working in good faith to broker a bipartisan solution that protects taxpayers, reins in runaway health spending, ties quality outcomes to reimbursements and expands affordable access to health insurance. The U.S. health care system already is riding an unsustainable spending curve that would consume an insatiable share of the federal budget.
But the White House and Democrat-led Congress would have us believe a Robin Hood Rx would remedy the situation. It’s more like a prescription for economic disaster.
Robin Hood has been known through the ages for “stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.” Folklore is good fiction. But fiction can’t disguise the facts. And the facts show the Democratic proposals would send health care spending sky-high and saddle small business with excessive tax increases. Not even Robin Hood can hoodwink those facts.
Monday, July 27, 2009
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