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Re: I am sorry, Ashley, Love, Grandpa ~ We definitely got CHANGE didn't we?
8/21/2009 8:30:10 AM

This is the best read of all and this guy
knows what he is talking about, Just

look it over and learn or delete.

Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is

an M.D. and he is paralyzed from the neck

down. Be forewarned on what is

happening. A friend went to hear Charles
Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others

in closed room. What he says here, is NOT

2nd-hand, but 1st. You would do well to

read and pass this along to EVERYBODY

that loves his country. This is VERY serious

for the direction of our country. The

ramifications are staggering for us and our

children

Last Monday was a profound evening,

hearing Dr. Charles Krauthammer speak to
the Center for the American Experiment.  

He is brilliant intellectual, seasoned and

articulate. He is forthright and careful in his

analysis, and never resorts to emotions or

personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger

nor an extremist in his comments and

views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has
a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent

contributor to Fox News and writes weekly

for the Washington Post. The entire room

was held spellbound during his talk. I have

shared this with many of you and several

have asked me to summarize his comments,

as we are living in uncharted waters
economically and internationally.

Even 2 Democrats at my table agreed with

everything he said!  If you feel like forwarding

this to those who are open minded and have

not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.  

 

Summary of his comments:

1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming

individual. He is not to be underestimated. He

is a cool customer who doesn't show his

emotions. It's very hard to know what's behind

the mask. Taking down the Clinton dynasty from

a political neophyte was an amazing

accomplishment. The Clintons still do not

understand what hit them. Obama was in the

perfect place at the perfect time.

2. Obama has political skills comparable to

Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making

you think he's on your side, agreeing with your

position, while doing the opposite. Pay no

attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what

he DOES!

3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He

did not come to Washington to make something

out of himself, but rather to change everything,

including dismantling capitalism. He can't be

straightforward on his ambitions, as the public

would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and

wants to level the playing field with income

redistribution and punishment to the achievers

of society. He would like to model the USA to

Great Britain or Canada .

4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY,

PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND NATIONAL HEALTH

CARE by the Federal government. He doesn't

care  about the auto or financial services

industries, but got them as an early bonus. The

cap and trade will add costs to everything and

stifle growth.. Paying for FREE college education

is his goal.  Most scary is his healthcare program,

because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000

people to a Medicare-type single-payer system,

the costs will go through the roof. The only way

to control costs is with massive RATIONING of

services, like in Canada . God forbid.

5. He has surrounded himself with mostly

far-left academic types. No one around him has

ever even run a candy store. But they are going

to try and run the auto, financial, banking and

other industries. This obviously can't work in the

long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he's a

far-left secular progressive bent on nothing

short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will

govern from the hard left.  Again, watch what he

does, not what he says.

6. Obama doesn't really see himself as President

of the United States , but more as a ruler over the

world. He sees himself above it all, trying to
orchestrate and coordinate various countries

and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in

all cultures.  His apology tour in Germany and

England was a prime example of how he sees

America , as an imperialist nation that has been

arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that

has at times made errors. This is the first

President ever who has chastised our allies

and appeased our enemies!

7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes

that the bill (and pain) will not come due until

after he is re-elected in 2012. He would like to

blame all problems on Bush from the past,

and hopefully his successor in the future. He

has a huge ego, and Mr. Krauthammer believes

he is a narcissist.

8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while,

but will emerge strong. We're pining for another

Reagan, but there will never be another like him.
Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty

and  Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech

in February) are the future of the party. Newt
Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin

is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be

seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to

be a serious candidate in the future. We need to

return to the party of lower taxes, smaller

government, personal responsibility,
strong national defense, and state's rights.

9. The current level of spending is irresponsible

and outrageous. We are spending trillions that

we don't have. This could lead to hyper-inflation,
depression or worse.  No country has ever

spent themselves into prosperity. The media is

giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because

they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will

come due and people will realize the huge bail

outs didn't work, nor will the stimulus package.
These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama's

allies, unions and the Congress to placate the

left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-September

when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic

swept in, we had an unpopular President, and

the war was grinding on indefinitely without a

clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the
mantra of change caused people to act

emotionally. Any Democrat would have won
this election; it was surprising it was as close

as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over

10%, Republicans will be swept back into

power. If it's under 8%, the Democrats continue

to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight.

It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets

you really thinking about what's happening in

Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing

revolution going on, according to Krauthammer,

and he encourages us to keep the faith and join

the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but

we're right on most issues and can reclaim our

country, before it's far too late.

Do yourself a long term favor, send this to all

who will listen to an intelligent assessment of

the big picture. All our futures and children's
futures depend on our good understanding

of what is really going on in DC!!!!   And our

action pursuant to that understanding! !!   It

really IS up to each of us to take individual

action!!!   Start with educating your friends

and neighbors!!!

May Wisdom and the knowledge you gained go with you,



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Re: I am sorry, Ashley, Love, Grandpa ~ We definitely got CHANGE didn't we?
8/21/2009 8:42:53 AM

As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the
Harvard  professor who got arrested by Cambridge
Police a few  weeks or so ago.

Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the
large Washington newspapers.He now writes a
column which  can be googled  ~ "Fred on
Everything."

Fred published a weekly online column in
which he got to say the things his editors would
never, ever have let him write in the paper. His
stuff is iconoclastic and various  articles have
probably offended everyone, regardless of
political  orientation.  So, with the warning that
"This is definitely not politically  correct," here
comes Fred.....

The following is an essay regarding the failings
of a system and a culture. Please note that he
elegantly describes the mood of many Americans
and he does so without  prejudice.


Slavery Reparations  ...........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
the chairman of Afro-American Studies at
Harvard, is demanding that whites pay
reparations to blacks.  It's because of slavery,
see. He is  joined in this endeavor by a gaggle
of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send
me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, "Let me get  this straight, Hank. 
I'm slow. Be patient.

You want free money because of  slavery, right? 
I don't blame you." I'd like free money too. Tell
you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million
dollars for every slave I own,  and another million
for every year you were a slave. Fair enough? But
tell  me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? 
In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest
dozen. And how long were you a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for
something that I didn't do and didn't happen to
you. That  makes sense. Like lug nuts on a
birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for
things you didn't do and never happened to me. 
I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and
thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll  bet you've never
done it to anyone.  I want reparations.  Kind of
silly, isn't  it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations,
that's a street that runs in two directions. You
want money from me for what some other whites
did to some other blacks in another  century?

How about you guys paying whites reparations
for current expenses caused by blacks? Not
long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles,
a city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank. 
Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. 
Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for
you. You can send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA  because you didn't
like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. 
Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial.
But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers,
or burn down a city.

Over the years blacks have  burned a lot of American
cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add
in the fantastic cost over the years of  welfare in all
its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people
had to make, for cells and jails and security systems
in department stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country
because of crime committed by blacks. Toss in 
the cultural cost of lowering standards in
everything for the benefit of blacks.  See what I
mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me,
"Fred, blacks can't get anywhere in a modern
country without education. We know that. We
need better schools, smarter teachers, harder
courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger
words. Can you help us?"

I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh!  Not just yes, but
hell yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these
folks some real schools and get them into the
economic main-stream.' I'd say It partly because it
would be the right thing to do, and partly because
I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just
love for blacks to study and learn to compete and
stop burning places. But is it going to happen? You
may not believe it, but I, and  most whites, don't like
seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they
are.

I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those
places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good
kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers  who barely
speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what
am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some  point, people have to do things
for  themselves, or they don't get done. Maybe it's
time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank. I think
blacks are too accustomed to getting anything  they
want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the street,
implicitly threaten to loot and  burn, holler about
slavery, and sadly the Great White Cash Spigot turns
on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most
recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement
has become a shakedown game. Few people still feel
responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks. 

Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone
knows the score. Which scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward
looting and burning. (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think
about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and
wearier of it. Not good, Hank.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical
convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I 
write, you demand reparations for slavery. Blacks in
Oklahoma (I think it  was) want money for some
ancient race riot.

Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence. 
Blacks
in New York hint broadly at burning and looting
over a trial, yet more demand the elimination of the
Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity
apparatus, which means blacks want to sue Silicon
Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers. 
That's a lot of demanding for one month,Hank.

What happens if whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up
there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about
what swine and bandits whites are. I guess it's lots
of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't
you think you might do blacks more good if you
told them to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon
Gulch, the best approach might be to find some really
smart black guys, and get them to study digital design ~ not Black Studies (as you teach).

That's how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do
professors of Afro-American Studies spend in the
projects, encouraging poor black kids to study real-
life sho-nuf subjects?
~~~

Pass this one across America!!!

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Re: I am sorry, Ashley, Love, Grandpa ~ We definitely got CHANGE didn't we?
8/21/2009 11:25:33 AM

Bush Quietly Saved a Million African Lives

Dr. Paul Kengor

Grove City College


August 21, 2009

What if a president, on his own initiative, under no demands from staff or from supporters or opponents, set out to spend an unprecedented amount of money on AIDS in Africa, literally billions of dollars, at a time when the nation could not afford it, citing his faith as a primary motivation and, ultimately, saved more than a million lives?

Wouldn't the story be front-page news, especially in top, liberal newspapers? Wouldn't it lead on CNN, MSNBC, and the "CBS Evening News?" Might statues be erected to the man in the nation's more "progressive" cities?

What if the president was George W. Bush?

I pose these uncomfortable questions for two reasons: 1) President Bush did precisely that regarding the African AIDS tragedy; and 2) a study claims that Bush's remarkable action has indeed saved many precious lives.

And as someone who has closely followed Bush's humanitarian gesture from the outset, I'm not surprised that the former president continues to not receive the accolades he deserves—including even from conservative supporters—for this generous act.

Bush himself realizes the lack of gratitude and media attention. I personally witnessed it recently, on June 17, when I was in attendance for one of Bush's first post-presidential speeches, in Erie, Pa. There, too, he mentioned the AIDS initiative—even adding that one of his daughters is in Africa today, working on the epidemic—and, there again, it received no press coverage whatsoever.

It all began in January 2003, during the State of the Union. In a completely unexpected announcement, Bush asked Congress for $15 billion for AIDS in Africa—drugs, treatment and prevention.

America soon learned this was not the typical State of the Union throwaway line: To show his seriousness, Bush followed on April 29 with a press conference in the East Room, where he exhorted Congress to "act quickly" on his "emergency plan."

Accompanied by the secretary of state, he prodded America's wealthy allies to join this "urgent work," this "great effort." He explained that AIDS was a "dignity of life" issue and "tragedy" that was the "responsibility of every nation." This was a "moral imperative," with time "not on our side."

Bush then shocked the press by pointing to an unusual personal motivation, citing the parable of the Good Samaritan: "[T]his cause is rooted in the simplest of moral duties," he told journalists. "When we see this kind of preventable suffering … we must act. When we see the wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not, America will not, pass to the other side of the road."

With amazing quickness, just four weeks later, Bush inked a $15-billion plan and challenged Europe to match the U.S. commitment without delay.

How did the plan work? In April, a major study was released by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. According to the study, the first to evaluate the outcomes of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Bush initiative has cut the death toll from HIV/AIDS by more than 10 percent in targeted African countries from 2003 to 2007.

Bush Quietly Saved a Million African Lives...Continued from page 1

Dr. Paul Kengor

Grove City College

"It has averted deaths—a lot of deaths," said Dr. Eran Bendavid, one of the researchers. "It is working. It's reducing the death toll from HIV. People who are not dying may be able to work and support their families and their local economy." Co-researcher, Dr. Peter Piot, says PEPFAR "is changing the course of the AIDS epidemic."

The study—still having received virtually no press attention several months after its release—estimates that the Bush relief plan has saved more than 1 million African lives.

Those are the facts. What about opinion, particularly public opinion?

That brings me back to my initial point. If a Democratic Party president had done this, he would be feted as both a national hero and international hero on his way to a ceremony with the Nobel Committee. George W. Bush, however, is getting very little credit—or, at least, no fanfare.

Again, I'm not surprised. I first wrote about the Bush AIDS initiative in a 2004 book, followed by several articles, including an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, plus many discussions on radio and television talk shows.

I was struck by two reactions, from the left and the right:

From the left, I got incensed e-mails from Bush-hating elements refusing to concede that Bush did what he did. They said the craziest things, insisting not a dime had been spent and that the program effectively did not even exist. They could not find it within their power to grant that Bush could do something so kind, which they should naturally embrace. I've been most disappointed by my fellow Christians in the "social justice" wing—Catholics and Protestants alike—who have been deafeningly silent on a campaign that ought to serve as a poster child for precisely what they advocate.

To be fair, some have stepped up to thank Bush, including no less than Bill Clinton, as well as musician-activist Bob Geldof. But they are the exception. (In a piece for Time, Geldof wrote about the moment he personally asked Bush about the lack of awareness of the AIDS initiative: "Why doesn't America know about this?" Bush answered: "I tried to tell them. But the press weren't much interested.")

From the right, I still get angry e-mails explaining that what Bush did for Africans is not a "core function" of government, certainly not enumerated anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. Fiscal conservatives asserted that America could not afford this huge expenditure at a time of post-9/11 recession, burgeoning budget deficits, on the heels of a massive operation in Afghanistan, and as military spending was about to go through the roof as U.S. troops headed for Baghdad.

Technically, or perhaps fiscally, much of this is true.

Yet, to be sure, George W. Bush understood the financial cost—and said so explicitly. Nonetheless, he judged that only America could carry out this "act of compassion" at that critical juncture. He also judged, apparently, that only he, as a Western leader, had the will to do this.

So, he did it. He absorbed the cost to try to save lives.

Well, we now know that the policy has worked—just as, yes, we know it contributed to a record deficit. Still, it is rare when history can so directly, indisputably credit a president for a specific, undeniable policy achievement—a genuinely generous one that clearly emerged from his personal doing, from his heart. Millions of lives have been spared or bettered due to President Bush's intervention.

But while the policy helped, it never did anything to help George W. Bush's terrible disapproval rating—and still will not, given its lack of attention.

Well, George W. Bush, the much-ridiculed man of faith—ridiculed often because of his faith—always said he never expected rewards in this lifetime. Here's one that apparently will need to wait.

Editor's note: This article first appeared at NCRegister.com.
*First published on Crosswalk.com August 21, 2009.


Paul Kengor is author of
God and George W. Bush (HarperCollins, 2004) and professor of political science and director of the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.


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9/4/2009 3:56:16 PM

Anyone see a pattern here?
 
 
Government efficiency
 
The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775 -
they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke,
and even though heavily subsidized, it can't
compete with private sector FedEx and UPS
services.
 
Social Security was established in 1935 - they've
had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
 
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've
had 71 years to get it right; it is broke. Freddie
Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39
years to get it right; it is broke. Together Fannie
and Freddie have now led the entire world into
the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
 
The War on Poverty was started in 1964 - they've
had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our hard
earned money is confiscated each year and
transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
 
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 -
they've had 44 years to get it right; they are both
broke; and now our government dares to mention
them as models for all US health care.
 
AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39
years to get it right; last year they bailed it out as
it continues to run at a loss!
 
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the
massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill
of 2009; it  shows NO sign of working; it's been
used to increase the size of governments across
America, and raise government salaries while the
rest of us suffer from economic hardships. It has
yet to create a single new private sector job.
 
Our national debt projections (approaching $10
trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
 
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and
went broke in 2009 - - after 80% of the cars
purchased turned out to be produced by foreign
companies, and dealers nationwide are buried
under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a
government that is not yet paying them what
was promised.
 
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record
that proves that each and every  "service" shoved
down our throats by an over-reaching
government turns into disaster, how could any
informed American trust our government to run
or even set policies for America's health care
system - -  17% of our economy?
 
Maybe each of us has a personal responsibility
to let others in on this brilliant record before 2010,
and then help remove from office those who are
voting to destroy capitalism and destroy our
grandchildren's future.
 
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they
can prevent the government from wasting the
labours of the people under the pretence of taking
care of them."
 -- Thomas Jefferson
 

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