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90 Reasons to vote with less than 90 days to go (and counting) Reply

Constitution, Election 2012, Environmental, Freedom, Leadership, White House • Tags: , , , , , , ,

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I read this morning that some liberal bloggers have started a new web site to try and motivate the Obama base.

The top reasons to vote for him so far are his stances on LGBT rights, Health Care “reform”(?) and battling the most conservative candidate the Republicans have ever fielded – Mitt Romney. I nearly choked on my coffee on the last one. Frankly, I like Mitt and I think adding Paul Ryan to his ticket is a deal winner for the right. But I would not want to say he is the most conservative Presidential candidate EVER (if you know what I mean).

This inspired me to want to create a list of reasons why you may not actually want to vote for Obama.

In case you have been teetering on the edge of which way to go, here are some things to think about. The Details are not provided in full for each idea but you can probably Google them and fill in the blanks. If I have forgotten any of the reasons that are personal to you, please feel free to add them to the comments.

Here’s a bunch of reasons not to vote for Barrack Hussein Obama

  • Nobel Peace prize for voting “present” then failing to close Gitmo, change the way we fight terrorism or admit that maybe some people still want to destroy America
  • Price of Gas – Taxes, misuse of road tax funds, crippling the gas industry with overregulation and the EPA’s draconian methodology
  • Punishing the oil industry by making them pay a penalty on a type of fuel that doesn’t exist, can’t be produced, and will probably be added to the inventory
  • Jobs (over 42 months above 8%) The real number is much higher since so many have simply fallen by the wayside or are underemployed out of desperation
  • Bridges N Roads and the stimulus – payoffs to government workers and agencies; but only to selected states that happen to be colored blue on the big map
  • Keystone Pipeline – preventing the use of domestic and Canadian oil in order to keep the shortages real to support a failed “green” policy. Cost: Jobs, further dependence on foreign oil, delayed economic recovery
  • Dead Voters: preventing states from cleaning up what is obviously a fractured voting roll that supports democrats. Prosecuting states that try to clean up the mess by requiring a picture ID that is readily available to every citizen and most illegals
  • Fast n Furious, the DEA lack of accountability for a dead American and so many Mexicans they can’t even be counted
  • Saving the Car industry (?) while killing dealerships that were owned by Conservatives
  • Oil leak drama in the Gulf – using hype and fear instead of understanding the true nature of the event which allowed the manipulation of off shore drilling, a life long goal of progressives and anti-Americans everywhere
  • Windmills that don’t work since there is no concentrated plan to get the energy into the grid in a meaningful way
  • Cap n trade – pushing a phony green plan that benefits people like Al Gore who set up a false company to benefit from selling “credits” in a market that doesn’t even exist
  • TARP – yes, Bush started it, but the handing out of taxpayer dollars to cronies as payback for their support in the 2008 election should be a criminal offense of the highest order. Prosecuting it though would require an actual Justice Department and a Congress with a spine
  • START treaty and LOST treaty – a complete surrender of American sovereignty at a time when we need protection the most. The mere fact that we were at one point discussing a UN control of guns should be reason alone to shut this administration down
  • The Betrayal of our Allies in Poland and Israel
  • Health care – Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi passing a bill that no one had read, no one understood, and adds trillions to the public debt at a time when we are sinking
  • Card check – shoving unions down people’s throats despite their illegal violation of people’s rights under the Constitution
  • Arizona and Texas border – abandoned the citizens of those states in the face of unbridled gun running, drug trafficking, and invasion of illegals.
  • Global warming hoax continuation and propagation – spending needed American funds on a hoax of global proportions
  • NASA – the destruction of an American icon and surrender of our space initiative at exactly the same time as the Chinese are ramping theirs up. Will we look up someday and see the circling Chinese weapons platforms over our skies because we were too naïve to have a plan?
  • ACORN under its previous or current names, this race based organization was and is a way to support the community organizer in chief in his destruction of the American suburbs
  • SOROS – George Soros is an American and Jew hating billionaire that singlehandedly wants to destroy the American way of life only to add to his profits … the only small satisfaction one can hold is that he will stand naked before God and have to answer for his part in the Holocaust
  • Electric cars that no one wants to buy and have to be subsidized by the America Taxpayer at an egregious cost.
  • Propping up some home owners and abandoning others while allowing Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to escape from any culpability for their role in destroying the American homeownership dream
  • Supreme court appointments – appointing two of the most biased jurists in American history and being in a position to do more damage in the next four years
  • Destruction of the Military – taking a pass on fixing sequestration, shrinking the fleet, Don’t ask, Don’t tell, I could go on for weeks
  • Foreign policy that supports the rise of Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists. Sitting idly by while the Iranian freedom movement tried to fight the reelection of a Jew hating monster, leading from behind through the entire Arab spring, doing nothing while Syria burns from within… Cowardice in the face of the enemy
  • Education Department growth out of control and financial payoffs to the NEA for the electoral support. The sooner both are gone, the sooner we can recapture the position of educational superiority in the world again.
  • EPA – for its blatant destruction of the coal industry and power plants, gasoline and nuclear energy organizations, and anything else that doesn’t involve the use of pixy dust as a sole source of power
  • Solyndra and all of the other companies that took your tax dollars for a pipe dream and then went belly up
  • MF Global – the rape of Americas financial system by democratic hacks and NO PROSECUTION of the guilty bastards
  • Eric Holder – a man who blatantly bases all of his decisions on race rather than justice
  • Black Panthers no accountability because of political appointees, no prosecution, no assurance it won’t happen again
  • IRS – uncontrolled growth to support obamacare
  • Welfare – no more work requirements despite the illegality of the way Obama did it
  • Murder Rate Chicago is leading the way… four more years is plenty of time to spread this to the rest of the country
  • Entitlements
  • Cash for Clunkers
  • "You didn’t build that"
  • The Police acted "STUPIDLY" (the beer summit)
  • Open mic #1 "I have to deal with (Netanyahu) every day " (to Nicolaus Sarkosi)
  • Open mic #2: to Putin "After I’m elected I’ll have a lot more flexibility"

Finally: He Told us he should not be reelected if he couldn’t get the job done.

I take the man at his word (well maybe only this one time…)

Any other reasons I may have forgotten?

Mister Mac

 

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As previously predicted, Congress and the Administration are making something they describe as “Hard Choices” in regards to containing spending. There is just one problem with those hard choices: the people who cause this mess are bearing the least of the cost. That’s right, the elected officials that pushed us into the sub-prime mess, the banks, the speculators, the insurance companies all got bailed out or blessed off.

Barney Frank

The administration hands out money to its friends in the “New Energy” companies to pay off old campaign debts only to watch it frittered away by people even more incompetent than they are. There is plenty of money for  electric cars nobody wants and we won’t utilize the available oil from our neighbor to satisfy a couple of whacko environmental groups.

The administrations family flies all over the globe in a recession eating lobster while our men and women in the field eat MREs. Congress has access to the finest medical care in the world. Last week when I was at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, I saw hundreds of people waiting in line just to get looked at. Then they had more lines to stand in. And don’t even get me started about how long the officials knew about Walter Reed.

 

The Hard choices they always talk about always seem to hit the men and women (and their families) who have sacrificed the most.

 

wounded warriors

From the Military Officers Association of America:

White House to Retirees: Cough Up $13 Billion

White House to Retirees: Cough Up $13 Billion The White House released details of its personnel and healthcare budget proposals on Monday, and they confirmed pretty much what MOAA had predicted.

All told, the TRICARE fee proposals envision shifting about $13 billion in health costs from the Pentagon to retirees over the next 5 years.

The changes would phase in significant fee hikes for nearly every segment of the military population, including retirees of all ages, drilling Guard and Reserve members, and currently serving family members.

TRICARE Prime annual enrollment fees for retired families (currently $520) would rise as high as $820 starting October 1, 2012, and rise to as much as $2,048 within five years, with fees based on military retired pay amount.

TRICARE Standard beneficiaries would start paying a $140 annual family enrollment fee and a slightly increased deductible ($320) starting Oct 1, with the enrollment fee and deductible rising to $250 and $580, respectively within 5 years. These would be flat fees for all Standard beneficiaries.

Retirees and family members age 65 and older would start paying an annual TRICARE For Life (TFL) enrollment fee of up to $135 per person starting this Oct. 1. This fee also would be graduated based on retired pay amount, and would rise to as much as $475 per year within 5 years.

Pharmacy copays for retail and mail-order brand-name medications would more than double (from $12 to $26) starting Oct 1. Copays for non-formulary medications that currently cost $25 would also more than double, to $51, and availability would be mostly restricted to the mail-order venue, with only limited retail access. The brand-name and non-formulary copays would rise to $34 and $66, respectively, within 5 years.

See the attached chart for proposed retired pay eligibility thresholds and year-by-year fee changes.

Under the proposal, medical (chapter 61) retirees and survivors of members who died on active duty would be exempt from these increases. When MOAA asked about other survivors, we were told they would be subject to the new fee scales. The question remains unanswered whether they would all be in the lowest tier, or whether Survivor Benefit Plan annuities might be counted in the same way as retired pay.

Also as expected, the Administration proposes a special commission responsible for recommending changes in the military retirement system for future entrants. The budget envisions that, once submitted to Congress, the proposals would have to be given a "yes or no" vote, as is done with BRAC legislation, with little debate and no opportunity for amendments.

MOAA understands that there will always be new reviews of retirement and other compensation programs, but objects strongly to subverting the normal congressional vetting process for the military retirement system that is so essential to long-term retention and readiness.

Finally, the Administration put additional details on its military pay raise proposal. It envisions no change for FY2013, when the law calls for a 1.7% pay raise to keep pace with private sector pay growth. The budget also calls for a comparability-based raise for FY2014.

But after that, it envisions abandoning the comparability standard, limiting military raises to 0.5% for FY15, 1% for FY16 and 1.5% for FY17.

MOAA believes strongly that maintaining the tie to private sector pay growth is essential. Hard experience shows that, when previous Administrations and Congresses abandoned that link for budgetary purposes, retention and readiness eventually suffered.

"These proposals are a result of last August’s Budget Control Act," said Joint Staff Director VADM William Gortney (USN) at a briefing for association leaders.

According to DoD officials, the Budget Control Act created a requirement to cut the defense budget by $259 billion over 5 years and $487 billion over 10 years – a requirement MOAA understands all too well.

We also understand that the DoD budget must play a role in solving our nation’s debt crisis. But what we take issue with is the Pentagon’s first reaction, especially in the healthcare arena, to pass the buck to beneficiaries rather than fulfilling their own responsibilities for efficient management of military healthcare.

We have a tough fight ahead of us, but our battle now is for the hearts and minds of Congress.

Please use MOAA’s Web site to urge your legislators to oppose disproportional health fee increases for military beneficiaries.”

I suppose I suspected that there would have to be some cuts. Lobster is pretty expensive these days. But I never expected to see the politically correct benchwarmers in the Pentagon cave so easily to the congress and administration that has found so many other wasteful ways to spend our money.

Throw them all out. As a friend of mine said, forget about saying “Thank you for your service” next time you see me.

Your actions speak louder than words.

Mister Mac