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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Grinding America Down

Americans will work until April 21st to pay taxes before they can work for their family. Maryland taxpayers have to work an extra week until April 28 , 7th worst in the country., Connecticut and New Jersey are tied for first and worst place.

According to CBS News, roughly half of U.S. families don't have a single dime set aside for retirement. While millions of Americans put part of their income into an employer-sponsored 401(k), IRA or other retirement account, millions more find it hard or impossible to save because of their precarious situations — unemployment, stagnant income, impossible health costs or other factors’

Washington Times reports that Billionaire George Soros hopes the U.S. goes to pot and is using his money to drive it there. Soros has spent t least $80 million on the legalization effort since 1994. The late chairman of Progressive Insurance, an unabashed pot smoker himself has put more than $40 million into the effort to influence local debates..

Brendan Eich, co-founder and newly minted CEO of Mozilla Corporation was forced out because it was found that he made a $1,000 donation in support of California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot proposition defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. We should all be shocked at the intolerance and Gestapo techniques that pressured him to step down. The implications are very frightening. The political thought police are now capable of intimidating people and businesses from donating or becoming publicly involved with causes that are not deemed politically correct. A high profile executive is an easy target. But don't be fooled. If you and I don't push back against this radical intolerance, they'll continue their attacks on many things we hold dear. The implications of stifling free speech and dissent should concern us all.

.American Overlook: The Muslim Brotherhood is launching their own political party in hopes of electing a significant amount of Muslims to Congress during the 2016 elections. The U.S. Council of Muslim Organization maintains a membership of Islamic groups, many of which are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and have admitted its goal is to elects Islamists to Washington and “institutionalize policies” that are favorable to Shariah law. The USCMO’s aim is all the more disturbing since the U.S.’s Muslim Brotherhood chapter recently announced that it hopes to initiate a “civilization jihad” against America and “destroy [the country] from within.”

America’s Royal Family -Obama's Honolulu, Africa Flights Cost Taxpayers Nearly $16 Million. Officials are declining to tell taxpayers how much Michelle’s junket will cost, of course. On the flimsiest of grounds, it is being termed official business: While the cost of the China trip is still a state secret Newsmax reported the cost of her 5-star, 3,400-square-foot presidential suite at $8,400 per night!

News Max reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield has data that shows 15 to 20 percent of Americans that are signed up for Obamacare have not paid their premiums, making the actual number of sign-ups closer to 6 million. Those who have not paid, are not actually covered under any insurance plan.

When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s. We already pay far more than our fair share. Let’s put that money to protecting benefits promised to our military!

America to be the world’s soup kitchen? Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Sunday that many who illegally come to the United States do so out of an "act of love" for their families and should be treated differently than people who illegally cross U.S. borders or overstay visas. someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families -- the dad who loved their children -- was worried that theirchildren didn’t have food on the table. And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love.

WHAT IS HE THINKING? WE CAN NOT OPEN OUR BORDERS TO THE MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE HELD DOWN BY THE OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS THAT KEEP THEM IN POVERTY.

Our shrinking workforce employs fewer people than any time in the past 30 years. Millions of young people are afraid they will never have a career. Obamacare has been disastrous to our national economy. And while incomes in the rest of the country have been stagnant, in Washington DC income has gone up about $10,000 in the last five years.

Ellen Sauerbrey

1 comment:

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