Thousands Of Protesters Show Their Ignorance

Today is May Day, that revered Pagan/Communist holiday that has now become the annual occasion where the illegal immigration lobby gets as many supporters together as they can, and proceeds to embarrass them all in the streets of cities throughout America.

Today, tens of thousands of protesters marched across America.  The entire protest, of course, is a huge lie.  These groups haven't given an honest protest since their first, when they marched in the streets carrying Mexican flags and declaring that they were on a crusade to take back the Southwestern United States for Mexico.  When they realized the legal citizens of America got more than a little pissed off when they did that, they changed their tune.

Now, the protesters carry American flags - in fact, there are so many American flags at these protests that I suspect the organizers are still purposely handing out American flags to people so the crowd will look patriotic, cutting down on bad press.

Of course, the thing that makes this year's May Day protests particularly voluminous is the recent passage of Arizona's immigration bill.  The basic summary of the bill is this: The Arizona legislature decided that it had given the federal government long enough to get their act together and protect the state's citizens by securing the southern border.  Since the federal government obviously wasn't going to act, it was time for the state to take matters into their own hands.

Under this bill, if a law enforcement officer comes across someone during the course of his (or her) duties who he suspects is in the United States illegally, he can check that person's immigration status.  If the person is in the US illegally, they are to be handed over to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Border Patrol.  Illegal immigrants currently serving out prison sentences are to be handed over to ICE or the Border Patrol as soon as they finish their sentence. 

Critics of the bill call it "racist," "anti-immigrant," and have drawn comparisons to Nazi Germany, with officers demanding "show me your papers."  The truth, however, is that all of these arguments are false.  Mexicans aren't the only ones coming across the Southern border illegally, and even if they were, it wouldn't be racist to enforce our laws.  The bill also isn't anti-immigrant.  People are still allowed and encouraged to immigrate legally.

The "show me your papers" argument is also a non-sequitur.  It is true that immigrants and US citizens may be forced to "show their papers," should they commit a crime and the police suspect that they are in the country illegally, but the bill states that "their immigration status shall be verified with the federal government."  We're not talking about deporting someone just because he left his drivers license at home or didn't have a copy of his birth certificate in his shirt pocket.

The truth is that Arizona has long had serious problems with criminals crossing their Southern border illegally, causing problems in their state.  Drug smugglers bring hundreds of pounds of marijuana across the border each month.  Human smugglers and coyotes bring people across, sometimes the hard-working people looking for a better life that the news media loves to tout, but oftentimes for more nefarious purposes.

These are the people Arizona's immigration bill is aimed at, because these are the people causing problems for the state.  Recently, Phoenix was nicknamed "kidnapping capital of the US," largely due to drug and gang-related kidnappings.

Recently, an Arizona rancher was murdered on his own land.  It is suspected that the perpetrator was an illegal alien drug smuggler or coyote.  The sad thing about that case is that the murdered rancher routinely helped illegal aliens who were in trouble and in need of medical attention.  In fact, he had radioed in to his ranch that he was on his way to help someone in trouble before he was found dead.

But instead of paying attention to the important issues facing the state of Arizona and looking at the true reasons this bill was signed into law, the protesters would rather dredge up the same old, tired lies. 

Of course, for many of the groups behind the protests, it isn't about finding solutions for America's immigration problems.  La Raza (translated as "The Race") is a racist organization that wants to take back the Southwest for Mexico.  The Aztlan movement has the same goal.  Many of the groups, such as La Raza and MEChA also have ties to communist organizations - which is one of the reasons they have chosen to protest on May Day, aka "International Workers Day."

When watching the news and listening to the debate, don't believe everything you hear.  The news media has been strangely silent on the problems that have been plaguing Arizona (and also southern Texas), but the instant the protests started, they were there with cameras and correspondents.  Make sure you know the truth about the Arizona law, and let others know, as well, as the debate over this bill could very well shape the upcoming debate over federal immigration policy.

Read Obama's Lips: No New Taxes

On April 15, tax day, thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest wasteful government spending and high taxes.

President Obama's response to the event was to say that he's cut taxes..."You would think they'd be saying thank you"

Why should we?  Yes, Obama has cut some taxes, but he's raised others.  And if Obama truly was a tax-cutter, then maybe the press would actually call him on all of his Bush-blaming.

Then, mere days after his snide remark, the news comes out the president is considering a Value Added Tax.  Now, there are few ways that Obama could damage our economy more than through a VAT, which would raise prices for consumer products across the board. 

Obama's spending has already been so bad that the Democrats have decided to wait until after the November elections to vote on the budget.  As idiotic as his policies are, the President isn't stupid.  He knows that he'll have to raise taxes in order to pay for all of the entitlements & bailouts that have embodied his agenda.

The question is, why does Barack Obama seem to assume that the people of America are all stupid?  We know what tax cuts are.  We know what fiscal conservatism is.  We know that Barack Obama isn't moving our nation toward either one.

The Left has made a game out of minimizing and slandering the Tea Party movement, but they do so at their own risk.  The voters can see who is right and who is lying, and right now, the President and the Democrats are lying almost with their every breath.

This November's elections should be very interesting, indeed.

Is There Anyone Obama Won't Bribe?

President Obama met with union leaders on Friday, where he agreed to exempt them from the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-value insurance plans.

Of course, the first question should be how, exactly, the Cadillac tax makes any sense at all.  If the entire purpose of health care reform is to make sure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance, how does it make sense to tax people and employers who have high-quality insurance plans?  One of my favorite quotes comes from Winston Churchill, when he said, "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."


If the goal of health care reform were simply to ensure that all Americans can be insured, there would be no reason to tax "Cadillac" insurance plans - the people with high-value insurance plans are insured, so leave them alone!  The government, however, doesn't seem to know the meaning of the phrase "leave them alone."  The government meddles, and because they can't leave well enough alone (and the government can't afford to cover all Americans), they have to tax whatever they can.


What the Cadillac tax means over the long run is that people with high-value health insurance will no longer have high-value health insurance.  The 40% excise tax will make high-value health insurance unaffordable, forcing people and companies to settle for health insurance that offers less coverage.


Now bring in the unions, who negotiated high-value health insurance for the workers they represent.  The unions have to cover pensions for their members, and they have to cover their health plans.  With the 40% tax in Obamacare, the labor unions won't be able to afford those insurance plans - but they're written into the union contracts.  They would either have to renegotiate the contracts so union members get lower-grade health insurance, or the unions would simply go bankrupt.


Enter the Obama political machine.


The Democrats depend on labor unions to maintain their power base.  Millions of dollars pour in from labor unions into liberal politicians' campaign coffers every election cycle...so of course Obama isn't going to let his union friends down.  Instead of making the law apply uniformly, the health care bill (if passed) will exempt labor unions from the Cadillac tax.


This is bulls**t.  Obama pledged openness and honesty, but all we get are backroom deals, bribes, and kickbacks to Democrat political allies.  He promised bipartisanship, but all we get is hard-core liberal socialism.  And they're going to keep pushing and pushing right up until the voters take away their power - and it's possible that even that won't stop them.

The Most Un-Stimulating Stimulus Ever

Where are the jobs?  When President Obama pushed through his massive pork bill disguised as an economic stimulus package, his administration projected that the stimulus would hold unemployment below 9%.

Well, the unemployment rate is still 10%.  It was reported as great news when a 0.2% drop was registered in November...but now that the December jobless numbers are out, the rate has not changed.

This is very significant, due to the fact that usually, people who have a hard time finding jobs the rest of the year can at least find temporary seasonal employment during the month of December.  But Obama's stimulus package hasn't stimulated anything other than US government debt.

When will Obama declare his stimulus plan a failure?  Where is the exit strategy?  We've already seen the scam behind the Obama administration's "jobs saved and created" claims, with saved and created jobs being attributed money spent in nonexistent Congressional districts.  Now it's coming out that stimulus money is being sent to zip codes that don't exist!  The whole thing sounds like some kind of bizarre government-run money laundering scam...and the sad thing is, that's probably exactly what it is.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is not going to help the US economy recover.  If it were, it would have by now.  The jobs that it has created are temporary (all of those "shovel-ready" projects won't keep people employed over the long term).  The whole thing is a sham - an attempt by the Democrats to make themselves look good.  In fact, they haven't even spent all of the money yet.  They're holding a bunch of the money in reserve, so they can start spending closer to the mid-term elections in an attempt to make themselves look good.

There's Nothing To See Here...

C-SPAN-gate continues...

The CEO of C-SPAN has now stated that the White House has only allowed a single hour of coverage for their portion of the health care takeover...and that was an event in the East Room that didn't contain a whole lot of substance.

The problem is that even if the White House and congressional leadership agreed to one hour per day of C-SPAN coverage, taxpayers could only rest assured that the Obama administration and congressional leadership weren't selling out our freedoms and bribing congressmen for votes...for that one hour.  Seeing as how Obama and congressional leaders have decided to bypass the traditional committee hearings to reconcile the House and Senate bills in favor of private closed-door meetings, it is abundantly clear that the American people have much to fear from the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership.

As I stated yesterday, the Democrats know beyond the shadow of a doubt that if they were to truly  make this process transparent, it would destroy their party.  If the American people were able to see what they were doing, no American capable of thought would vote for a Democrat ever again.

Hopefully enough people will wake up and smell the BS that the Democrats are flinging that we can throw the bums out in November.

They're All Liars

It is now officially on the record: when the Democrats took power, they did so based on lies.  When Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House, she promised that hers would be the most open, transparent Congress in history.  When President Obama was campaigning, he promised that the process to push through health care reform would be carried live on C-SPAN. 

As it turns out, they were both lying.

The head of C-SPAN sent an open letter to congressional leaders yesterday urging them to open up the health care negotiations and let the C-SPAN cameras televise the proceedings.  Obama promised as much during his campaign...but when Nancy Pelosi was asked about the letter, she lied, saying "There has never been a more open process for any legislation."  Her evidence: the town hall meetings that took place in August...the very town hall meetings where thousands upon thousands of Americans showed up to voice opposition to the health care take-over.  In fact, Pelosi was a driving force behind the liberals trying to minimize the people's voice at the town hall meetings, calling those in opposition frightening and implying that they were some kind of neo-Nazis.  And that was right before they called Congress back into session and put an end to the town halls because the liberals were getting too much bad press.

Pelosi knows that no matter what she or President Obama may have promised, the Democrat Party cannot afford to open up the health care negotiations.  The only way the health care bill passed in the Senate was through Democrat bribes (Ben Nelson) and hijacking the legislative process to shut down debate.  If they were truly being open and honest, the response from the people would be so deafening and undeniable that no Congressman who wished to stay in office would vote for the bill.  Pelosi knows that.  Harry Reid knows that.  Obama knows that.  And all of them are willing to push the bill in through the shadows and under the radar because all they truly care about is getting as much of their progressive agenda pushed through before the midterm elections.