We Can’t Wait

Tea Party Patriots response to the State of the Union Speech on Tuesday.

Agree, we can’t wait

Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record

Consistently green,  just check out how he recycles.

Understanding the Federal Debt Numbers

DEBT LIMIT – A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY.

Understanding the federal debt problem made easy by http://www.debtlimitusa.org/

The Speech

Pretty good summary that even J. Wellington ”I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” Wimpy could agree:

 The Speech by Yuval Levin at National Review Online

Spend $450 billion dollars now, it will create jobs, and I’ll tell you how I’m going to pay for it a week from Monday. If you disagree, you want to expose kids to mercury.

Freedom to Assault?

Click here to read the article at the Toronto Sun.  Looks like there is a follow-up article from David Menzies about why charges are not being filed.  When you read the comments, it seems to be a lively topic on the radio.

The Arizona Project Documentary

During July, 2011, a small group of people from North Carolina Tea Party groups traveled to Arizona to make a film about the illegal alien problem on our border with Mexico. Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County lead them on their investigation and showed them the territory.

The film crew was sponsored and led by Tea Party Patriots, Mark Hager of the Yadkin Valley Tea Party,Renee Griffith and Mike Prince, also coordinators went on this trip, and funded by donations from Tea Party Patriots and local Tea Party groups across North Carolina ― including and especially Moore Tea Citizens. Thanks go to everyone who donated to the project.

The goal of the Arizona Project is to show that the truth is the exact opposite of the Obama Administration’s very false claims that “the border has never been safer than it is now.” The group was escorted by Sheriff’s Department Deputies as they interviewed and filmed American citizens who live and work near the border. The group went out at night to patrol the isolated areas used by the smugglers and illegals to sneak into this country. They collected factual information and documentary footage to demonstrate the nature and extent of the border problems in Arizona. This film will show you real information about the violence on the border.

What will be paid?

Ask the President: What are you going to do with $181 Billion Dollars if you’re not paying bills?

President Obama keeps telling us what might not be paid if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.

That’s the wrong answer to a question that America isn’t even asking.
In this new iCaucus Video, we call on the President to answer the real question:

“Mr. President, if the debt ceiling isn’t raised and you’re not planning on paying our debt obligations, or social security, or medicaid, or our military personnel…even though you will have more than enough money to do so…then what’s more important and what will you be paying instead with the $180 billion that the government will keep collecting every month?”

Cut, Cap, Balance

Senator Lee introduces the “Cut, Cap & Balance Act” (July 7, 2011)

Senators Lee, Vitter, and Paul explain what revenue increases are acceptable

Senator Lee explains why future Congress cannot be bound by today’s Congress…unless we have the balanced budget amendment

click here for 1-page summary

click here for Text of the bill

click here for Republican Study Committee’s CCB proposal and background

Action we can all take:
1. Go here to read about Cut/Cap/Balance and sign the pledge
http://www.cutcapandbalanceact.com/
2. Then contact our Representatives and Senators
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
3. Make sure to call Mitch McConnell’s too. His package is unacceptable.
Say NO to giving the President a blank check for political expediency. 202-224-2541
4. And call Harry Reid and demand that he bring it to the Senate floor.

No Debt Increase #5: Jobs and the Economy

From the TEA Party Patriots:

SIGN OUR PETITION TO TELL CONGRESS NOT TO INCREASE THE DEBT LIMIT!

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REASON #5

Overspending results in a rising national debt, which hinders jobs and the economy.

Unemployment recently rose again to 9.1%, leaving 13.9 million Americans out of work. The President would like Americans to believe that blowing through almost one trillion dollars in “stimulus” has increased our economic growth and put people back to work. Well, even the “intellectual authorities” at Harvard and Stanford are saying that the pork-laden stimulus bill did nothing for the economy or for jobs.

President Obama is just acting out his part as a left-wing ideologue, where he wildly overspends so that he creates an almost existential debt crisis, leading to class warfare rhetoric and a call to hike taxes. Every rational and reasonable person (as well as those who know the tiniest bit about basic economics) understands that we absolutely cannot raise taxes to pay off the credit card debt that has been racked up by power-hungry politicians. And what is the real reason behind all of that overspending? Bigger, more intrusive government (see Obamacare). When government is too big, it spends too much; when government is too big, its debt grows too large; when government is too big, the economy falters and Americans can’t get back to work.

• Once the size of government, and its spending, increases, economic growth falls.
• Government spending failed to create economic growth when tried in the 1930′s, ’60′s and ’70′s.
• Every dollar spent by the federal government is money taken from the private sector.
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut the US growth forecast and warned of a looming debt crisis. With little growth, unemployment will remain high.
• Since February 2009 there are2.3 million fewer people employed while government spending has increased by 19% since 2008. Raising the debt ceiling means increased spending which means less jobs. Period.

Politicians talk a good game about caring for “the middle class” or “the poor” or  “the children,” or whatever other part they can cut off of the American body, to pit us against each other. Don’t let them do it. We are all Americans and we ALL benefit from a strong, prosperous economy. The politicians are the ones strangling the life out of the economy! If they really cared about the people who make up all of those groups, they would get out of the way and allow Americans to create jobs for other Americans. But that can only happen when we shrink government and cut spending – and that will only happen when we refuse to raise the debt ceiling. 

This is the final email in the series of reasons not to increase the debt limit. The problem, while difficult for the Washington elite, is really quite simple. We MUST stop the spending and we MUST stop it now! Click below to navigate to our Action Center where you can call your Members of Congress and let your voice be heard on the ceiling. The clock is ticking and Washington elites will soon be done with their posturing and come out from the back room with a charade of a deal that makes it look like both sides fought for the right thing. The RIGHT thing is to stop spending money that we are borrowing from our children and grandchildren. 

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Reason #1: We Must Prioritize Our Spending 

Reason #2: If They Raise It, They Will Spend It 

Reason #3: We’ve Been Warned

Reason #4: We Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel on Spending 

Enough is enough. 

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No Debt Increase #4: We Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel

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 REASON #4

We don’t have to reinvent the wheel on spending.

Some Americans are old enough to remember a time when the federal government was smaller, leaner, and more manageable. Some Americans remember when most of the decisions were made closer to home, either by the individual himself, his family, the local community, or the state. Amazingly, even some younger Americans can recall a more limited government because we used to have one – even in the last fifteen years! This isn’t rocket science. It’s not like we are asking our elected officials to come up with some totally new and untested budget. We know, for a fact, that the federal government has functioned perfectly fine with a smaller budget and less spending. There are old budgets we can revert back to as well as other actions that would allow us to pay our obligations without raising the debt ceiling or raising taxes.

• It would take about $750 billion in spending cuts by the end of this fiscal year (ending September 30) to get us back to 2003 spending levels, which would allow us to avoid default and pay for the rest of government, all without raising the debt ceiling or increasing taxes.
• The Federal Government holds more than $1 trillion in highly liquid assets that should be sold to the private sector, and doing this now would allow the cuts to be phased in more slowly.
• If we even rolled spending back to the Clinton-era budget we could make our obligations without raising the debt ceiling or increasing taxes.
• America’s politicians have a spending problem NOT a revenue problem.  There is no reason to raise taxes or the debt ceiling except to grow government.

How can we actually make cuts of this size? Here are just a few examples:

• Downsizing Government by the Cato Institute – a department-by-department guide to downsizing the federal government.
• Strong America Now - a plan that will save $500 billion a year and balance the budget by 2017 with no new taxes, reducing the debt along the way.
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) report – found hundreds of duplicated programs and agencies that could be consolidated, saving taxpayers at least $100 to $200 billion. (Though probably more as we know that when businesses are forced to deal with multiple agencies for the same issue, it costs them a lot of money. Actual report here.)

When the politicians try to scream and throw temper tantrums about how spending cuts will damage the economy and throw Grandma to the wolves, just remember that we’ve always spent less than we spend today, and Grandma was just fine. The question is, would you rather have America be $14.3 trillion in debt or $16.3 trillion in debt. That’s the choice they are offering, but don’t be fooled. We know there is another choice, and it’s called CUT SPENDING and DON’T RAISE THE DEBT CEILING.

Reason #1: We Must Prioritize Our Spending 

Reason #2: If They Raise It, They Will Spend It 

Reason #3: We’ve Been Warned

Enough is enough.

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