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JOBS/Economy:

The UNEMPLOYMENT RATE is
MUCH WORSE Than It Looks
(Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report, 08/20/10)
"We are at least 2.5 million jobs short of getting back to an unemployment rate of under 8 percent... As for consumer confidence, the Conference Board survey shows an average of a full 20 points below the average lows of previous recessions... there are at least 14.5 million Americans still searching for work: 1.4 million of them have been jobless for more than 99 weeks, and 6.6 million have been jobless for over 27 weeks... only 58.4% [of Americans] have jobs..." Read this and learn the FACTS ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT AMERICA HAS NOT BEEN TOLD.

U.S. States Lead the World in High Corporate Taxes... THAT MEANS U.S. EMPLOYERS CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE
(Scott A. Hodge, Tax Foundation, Fiscal Fact #119, 03/18/08)
"24 U.S. states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than top-ranked Japan... 32 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than third-ranked Germany... 46 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fourth-ranked Canada... All 50 states have a combined corporate tax rate higher than fifth-ranked France..." QUESTION: HOW CAN AMERICAN COMPANIES COMPETE...?

Deficit Projected To Swell Beyond Earlier Estimates -
The nonpartisan CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE EXPECTS TRILLIONS MORE IN GOVERNMENT BORROWING
(Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, 3/21/09)
"In the first independent analysis of Obama's budget proposal, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that Obama's policies would cause government spending to swell above historic levels..." This is the money our children and our grandchildren must repay through radical service reductions and dramatic tax hikes... unless we RETURN TO FREE MARKET PRINCIPLES.

Fannie and Freddie AMNESIA - DON'T FORGET THE FACTS!
(Peter J. Wallison, Wallstreet Journal, 4/20/10)
Wallison reminds that in 2005, Republicans TRIED to levy tough reform and regulatory laws on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but could not get Democrats to do it - and then the Dems came out LYING and blamed the Republicans after everyone had forgotten...

The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
(Simeon Djankov, Tim Ganser, Caralee McLiesh, Rita Ramalho, Andrei Shleifer, The NATIONAL BUREAU of ECONOMIC RESEARCH, NBER Working Paper No. 13756, 01/2008)
"We present new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004... our estimates of the effective corporate tax rate have a large adverse impact on aggregate investment, FDI, and entrepreneurial activity..." (emphasis added) (This research also published again as: Simeon Djankov & Tim Ganser & Caralee McLiesh & Rita Ramalho & Andrei Shleifer, 2010. "The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 2(3), pages 31-64, July.) In other words, it is LITERALLY textbook economics 101 that high taxes harm investment and business AND THUS JOBS!

National Debt Hits Record $11 Trillion - FASTEST JUMP IN U.S. HISTORY!
Not a record to be proud of...
(Mark Knoller, CBS News, 3/17/09)

Stimulus Money Goes OVERSEAS
(Meridith Shiner, Politico, 3/3/10)
Wondering why the Stimulus wasn't very stimulating? Much of it went TO CHINA...

Guess Who's Paying For The Greece Bailout? That's Right - WE ARE!
(Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 5/3/10)

After the IMF Bails Out Europe, the US to Bail Out the IMF...?!
(Joseph Lazzaro, Daily Finance, 4/30/10)

LOSING Our Rights:

Exclusive: How the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Will Destroy Family Sanctity
(Aaron Young, FSM, 05/0310)
"The CRC’s devastating impact on American children and their families can be seen easily in the text of the treaty and its application in both foreign states and in recent U.S. court decisions... The CRC is in no way a harmless treaty; it is an instrument used by transnationalists for widespread social change, beginning right here in our own country..."

Judge Cites Homeschoolers
for Violating U.N. Mandate
(Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily, 09/04/10)
Botswana: The Home School Legal Defense Association, having long-fought for parents' rights to educate their own children in Germany, Sweden and the United States are taking on officialdom in Botswana after POLICE GRILLED HOMESCHOOLERS, CONFISCATED THEIR TEACHING MATERIALS AND ORDERED THEM TO APPEAR IN COURT... "...judge is using the [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the CRC] to impose his subjective view regarding education and to substitute his opinion as to what is in the 'best interests' of these children over the views of the parents..."

Evidence Paints Picture of Racism and Miscarriage of Justice in the Dept. of Justice
(Bob Ellis, Dakota Voice, 07/10/10)
Ellis has compiled a page of videos SHOWING the initial voter intimidation, admission to the crime by the New Black Panther Party, Malik Shabazz, the complete interview with Dept. of Justice whistle-blower, J. Christian Adams and more... ALL OF IT so that you can decide for yourself if we have a problem here... It's a well buried story so don't miss it!

U.S. Reverses Stance on Treaty Regulating Arms Trade
(Arshad Mohammed, Reuters, 10/14/09)
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 the United States reversed policy and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales... "...proposed treaty is opposed by conservative U.S. think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, which said last month that it would not restrict the access of "dictators and terrorists" to arms but would be used to reduce the ability of democracies such as Israel to defend their people...The U.S. lobbying group the National Rifle Association has also opposed the treaty."

Sharia can never happen here? WRONG! It IS Happening Here!
(Gadi Adelman, ENERPUB Energy Publisher, 08/04/10
Article details examples of SHARIA LAW BEING ENFORCED OR FOLLOWED BY U.S. JUDGES as well as CITING ABC News FOR AIRING FALSE TESTIMONY BY ABC News PANEL "EXPERTS."

Health Care:

Obama Health Care ONLY LOOKS WORSE UPON FURTHER REVIEW: Obama said he wouldn't hurt grandma and then he turned right around and he DID hurt grandma!)
(Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg, 8/01/10)
"Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates... To pay for this expansion, the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls... For all this supposed reform, you, the American taxpayer, can expect a bill to the tune of $569 billion."

Knowing Facts From Fables In Life And Death - The TRUTH About Single Payer Health Care
(Thomas Sowell, Investors.com, 8/23/2010)
"We hear a lot about how wonderful it is that the Canadians or the British or the Swedes get free medical treatment because the government runs the system. But we don't hear much about the quality of that medical care... We don't hear about more than 4,000 expectant mothers who gave birth inside a hospital, but not in the maternity ward, in Britain in just one year. They had their babies in hallways, bathrooms and even elevators..."

Did you ever notice that when you put the words "THE," and "IRS" together it spells "THEIRS?" Just saying...

The United States has the second highest corporate taxes in the world. This effectively handicaps our own American companies who compete in our markets paying higher taxes than their foreign competitors. Then in foreign markets, American companies are typically hit with far higher tariffs than we charge their foreign competitors here. Get that? Our government kicks our companies in the teeth literally both coming and going. Then liberal Democrats claim that capitalism has failed because of greed - yeah it did, GOVERNMENT GREED! Does that make sense to you - that we should tax into oblivion the very companies we need jobs from and force them to compete on a completely crooked, prejudiced playing field?

Meanwhile, Americans suffer from high unemployment and the central government's failed attempts at socioeconomic engineering promises unheard of inflation hikes, a dramatic fall-off of the dollar, a debt that's $13 TRILLION for our kids to pay in their taxes, and they have already caused the housing loan bust and the need to bail out the automotive industry and still want MORE.

It's time to end such practices - experiments in Marxist governing philosophies - really no more than Congressional armchair quarterbacking of the business world. It's time to end it once and for all. Here's how...

...And WHO agrees with Wes...?

"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute." (Thomas Paine)

"Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." (John F. Kennedy)

"The politicians say we can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians." (Steve Forbes)

"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States." (The Declaration of Independence, 1776 (full text here)

...And WHO agrees with Wes...?

"My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget." (Thomas Jefferson)

"It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, ‘We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.’ This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a small group of intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." (Ronald Reagan)

...And WHO Agrees With Wes...?

"Iraqi terrorists have been captured coming into the United States from Mexico." (Report – Iraqi Terrorists Caught Along Mexico Border, National Terror Alert, August 24, 2007)

“We found illegals from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen in custody.” (Justin Farmer, Action News 2, Atlanta, (video here)

"Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor." (Elton Gallegly)

"By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of US currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families." (Spencer Thomas Bachus III)

"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law." (Richard Lamm)

It is a right for citizens to keep and bear arms, not a privilege and it was acknowledged in law for the specific purpose of arming the people against their own government's potential tyranny. That right must never be surrendered or abridged. The United States government has NO AUTHORITY to enter into any form of international small arms treaties or agreements that would in any way have impact on an American citizen's right to own and carry a gun, because OUR RIGHTS do not belong to the US government in order for them to bargain with. Yet, that is exactly what they are trying to do right now, contemplating treaties that surrender citizen's rights...

...And WHO Agrees With Wes...?

First, the FACTS and STATISTICS agree with Wes, so please spend some time with them before you disagree too ardently. Here, Gun Facts Version 5.1, the definitive guide through the gun debate topic-by-topic, argument-by-argument.(big .pdf file)

Second, the UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT agrees with Wes in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ADRIAN M. FENTY, MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, v. DICK ANTHONY HELLER, February 11, 2008.

Logic agrees with Wes: "Gun Control is the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." (Anonymous)

And the Founding Fathers agree with Wes...

"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334, [C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950])

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244)

"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..." (Alexander Hamilton speaking of standing armies in Federalist 29.)

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." (Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87)

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights, Walter Bennett, ed., Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, at 21,22,124 (Univ. of Alabama Press,1975)

"The great object is that every man be armed" and "everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution. Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, taken in shorthand by David Robertson of Petersburg, at 271, 275 2d ed. Richmond, 1805. Also 3 Elliot, Debates at 386)

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good" (George Washington)

"In or out of politics I will continue to promote efforts that support the repeal of any infringement, weakening or elimination of our 2nd Amendment. As an elected official I will steadfastly refuse to confirm any nominee to the US Supreme Court who has an activist agenda and who desires to promote an extreme viewpoint by "legislating" from the bench. The focus of this position is to ensure that gun laws which are challenged on the basis of their Constitutionality will be fairly adjudicated according to the written word of the Constitution upon reaching the highest court. You can't just attack the symptoms, you have to go after the sickness, which in this case is a Supreme Court riddled with activists bent on changing how our Constitution is interpreted."

Thomas Jefferson
April 13, 1743 to July 4, 1826, third President of the United States (1801–1809), primary author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and one of our most influential Founding Fathers, known specifically for his promotion of the ideals of REPUBLICANISM as the American method of avoiding the pitfall of the typical tyranny of men in power.