HOPE AND CHANGE TODAY!

HOPE AND CHANGE!

EVERYONE: PLEASE READ, COPY AND SHARE THIS. TODAY'S THE DAY WE MAKE A CHANGE...A REAL CHANGE!!!  (Posted by a friend on facebook.)

Quit trashing President Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”.
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

How is this hope and change working out for you?

Lesser of Two Evils

Praying for our nation, our election and our God to forgive our land. I can't tell you how many times in the last months my heart is gripped to pray for our nation. God has my attention - does He have yours? How can we (the church) really believe that God is OK with what we are doing as a nation? He rebuked Israel, His beloved, many times for having a heart that was far from him and we think, we in America, won't face the consequences of our luke-warmness? Church - WAKE UP! We can't have evil AND good. We can't be for things that God is against and expect God to bless us. We can't sit by and DO nothing! Remember the parable of the three servants? (Matthew 25:14-30). God rebuked the servant who DID NOTHING! God is a REWARDER of those that DILIGENTLY seek Him, not who casually talk about Him or have bumper-sticker on their car or a cross on their neck!

I am PRAYING for the Christians in this country to WAKE-UP, stop drinking the "kool-aid" and listening to the voice of deception (it is in the church you know) and VOTE for things that God DOES care about...like protecting LIFE, defending MARRIAGE, LOVING ISRAEL! These things DO matter. Remember the scripture in Matthew 6:33 " But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" - (by-the-way, these are written in RED) as Jesus was saying what matters in the KINGDOM not the ECONOMY! "Politically correct" will burn up in the presence of the fiery red, piercing eyes of Jesus when He comes back as KING!

I am SO into the love of God, but God is also a God of justice and this nation will be found wanting if we continue on this course of destruction, thumbing our nose at God and doing our own thing, seeking our own pleasure, and living life our own way. God made a way of escape for even one BEFORE He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, that is my hope, He will make a way of escape for me and my family too (I am even asking for my friends, my church, my neighborhood and my nation but they must humble themselves and bow their knees to the King of King and the Lord of Lords!) Father God, SAVE US from ourselves!

So for those of you who get the question from friends and family about the struggle of voting "the lesser of two evils" or possibly you are struggling yourself, I wanted to share this piece by David Barton that he published today. Put's the matter into a very concise package. ENJOY!

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Are we really dealing with a lesser of two evils this election?
by David Barton/WallBuilders on Friday, November 2, 2012 at 9:34am ·

I keep having people tell me that in this election, the only choice we have is to vote for the lesser of two evils. So, let me see if I have this right:

One is pro-abortion, one is pro-life; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is pro-gay-marriage, one is pro-traditional marriage; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is pro-Muslim, one is pro-Israel; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for increasing debt, one is for reducing debt; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is against increased energy exploration, one is for it; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for violating the rights of religious conscience, the other for preserving it intact; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for dramatically cutting the size of the military, the other for strengthening it; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is against parental empowerment and school choice, the other is for it; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for appointing judicial activists to the Supreme Court, the other for original intent constitutionalists; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for the government takeover of private businesses, the other for entrepreneurship and free enterprise and private ownership; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is for an expanded role for the United Nations in American affairs, the other for a reduced role; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

One is against American Exceptionalism and wants to be like Europe, the other promotes American Exceptionalism and America as a unique, special, blessed nation; so, both positions are evil, but one is lesser so?

I'm not sure that I get the lesser of two evils thing, unless folks are deliberately excluding all of these (and many other) serious issues and just looking at the ones they want to pick and choose. The fantasy of two evils are our only choice can be sustained only if one denies the above issues.

David Barton

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For more information of this issue, please see:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/beware-the-lesser-of-two-evils-trap/

One TRILLION Dollars

If you listen to any news station, radio, television, anything news, you would have had to heard about our national debt and how we need to stop it, yada-yada.  I think all of us are a bit tired of hearing it and we really begin to turn a deaf ear to the matter.  One reason I think we do this is because we really have a hard time, as humans, understanding things we can't see.  We just don't have the ability to "picture" some things in our mind...we need to see them.  Now granted, there are a few people (usually of the engineering type) who have this uncanny ability to see figures in picture form, but most of us do not.  I for one, am one of those.  Those who do not.  So I saw this interesting pictorial and had to share it.  It really helped me to understand how much money a Trillion Dollars is.

We hear our legislators throwing around figures here and there regarding the "stimulus package" and "bailouts" and I think we are missing the urgency of the matter.  Take a minute with me and lets "look" at the information.

So most of us have, at least seen a $100 dollar bill.  To own one and carry it in your wallet is a treat.  We feel "rich" to have one in our possession, right?  We also are a bit careful about what we will cash it in for.  We think twice when we have such a nice piece of  cash in our pocket that is so significant. 

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So, with this as our standard, we will begin. A packet of one hundred $100 bills ($10,000) is less than 1/2" thick and could easily fit in your pocket.  Most of us have never carried this much cash and those of us who have only have done so to carry to go and purchase something like a car or home.

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The next amount we will look at is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000).  This amount is a bit larger to carry but it still could easily fit into a paper grocery bag.  I think most of us have only seen this much money when we have watched the Armored trucks going in and out of stores or banks.  Possibly in a Hollywood movie.  To get a grasp on this amount, see the graphic below.

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Now, our next figure is a bit bigger.  We are going to look at what a $100 million dollars (1,000 $1,000's) looks like.  This image is a bit more impressive and as you can see, it fits nicely on a standard wooden pallet.

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So as these figures are growing, so is our image.  Next, we have $1 BILLION Dollars.  A billion dollars (1 million $1,000's) is ... are you ready?  Yes, these are all on pallets!

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Ok, so now that you are beginning to see the size of these numbers.  We will put the number of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS into our scale.  This is a number that is so large it is followed by 12 zeros.  It is a million $1 million's or a 1,000 $billions.  Does your head hurt yet?  Let's look at it...are you ready?



It is a bit surprising....


Remember to see the man on the left corner for size comparison....

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Notice these pallets are DOUBLE-stacked - 50 across by 100 back!  So the next time you hear someone tossing around numbers like a "trillion dollars" you will have a great image of what that looks like.

So, now that you have these basic figures burned into your memory, let's apply them to something real, like our National Dept!  You thought we were done with the last image?  Not exactly.  As of March 2009 the National Dept was $11 TRILLION dollars.  Now this is almost two years ago but the image I have found was from this date.  Currently, (as of December 31, 2010) the national dept was $14.03 trillion....so add another 3 Trillion to the image below and you will see our National Dept as represented in $100 dollar bills:

 Don't forget to see the man in the left corner for size comparison!  Scared yet?  We NEED to STOP the spending in our government!

Images from: Pagetuter.com

Step by Step Calculatons: Pagetutor Calculations

Wikipedia:  National Dept

Worldometers on World Statistics

Interesting web-site I ran across called Worldometers.

What is Worldometers?  It is a world statistics page that is updated in real time.  There are many categories that they have posted here that are real-time stats that are continuously running.

Things like world population, birth, deaths,  current average temperature, google searches and then on to things like health care, education, cars being produced, cell phones sold and on and on.

Crazy all that is being counted in our world because of computers.  Interesting days we live in.  All that we know and are is being tracked, followed, calculated, watched, studied and list goes on and on.

Bush Tax Cuts Should Be Extended

If people are not awake yet, they need to be.  This current administration is heading down cascading track and this train is picking up speed.  The Obama administration had all these great "ideas" but they were just that, ideas.  The arrogance of young leadership runs things that way.  They "think" rather than study or get input from proven and trusted sources.

For me the mid-term elections can't get here fast enough and I pray that Americans vote these allies of this administration out-of-office.

An official of the ex-Bank of England warns that if the Bush Tax Cuts are not extended, America could see another depression.  He states that the weak economy begs for tax cuts.  The working class need all the help they can get right now.  They need jobs, not government take-overs.  Banks aren't lending and firms need incentives to hire and things seems to grinding to a halt.

10,000 Pennies and Political Math

I have received a few clips of this guys (10000 Pennies) emails and I have just loved them.  He makes economics simple to understand and puts it into practical terms for even the simplest of children to understand.  Rather than given each link it's own post, I combined them all in one place here for you.

He takes very complicated mathematical information and breaks it down into numbers that you and I can understand.  I know you will learn from these demonstrations and I encourage you to get your kiddos to watch too.  This is their future that they are inheriting and I think they will be concerned when they watch this!

Federal Budget Freeze:  What does the Federal Budget freeze look like?  Obama Budget Freezes Much Domestic Spending.  January 30, 2010

Congressional Budget Office (CBO): "as it is written": CBO Predicts Health Reform Deficit Happiness?  Maybe Not!  December 22, 2009

Federal Budget - Discretionary and Mandatory:  How to balance the Obama Budget.  Discretionary spending is the only spending that congress can change.  Mandatory spending is set in stone and can only be changed by changing the programs it funds.  Some of these programs are: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and payments on the National Debt.  September 10, 2009

Tale of Two States and their Health care:  Obama Health Reform and Wait Times Visualization (in Lego!).  July 03, 2009

Michael Steal: (head of RNC) invites 10,000 Pennies to Washington DC.  10,000 Pennies said yes. June 11, 2009

The Obama Stimulus:* Predictions vs. Reality - Obama Touts Job Creation from Stimulus Plan.  We have lost 1 Million jobs with the stimulus than we would have lost if we had done nothing at all!  June 07, 2009

Obama's $17 Billion Budget Cuts:* in Context.  May 13, 2009

The National Debt Road Trip:  The Great Road Trip, 1900-2016 -- Madison Square Garden to California.  May 2009

Obama Budget Cuts Visualization: Obama to order $100 Million in Budget Cuts.  April 24, 2009

So, after listening to these EASY to understand videos...are you AWAKE yet?  Vote CONSERVATIVE on November 2, 2010!  Enough of the spending!


Political Math: - Political Information Visualization and Other Math-y Things

Repeal ObamaCare

Here is a link that I encourage ALL of you to sign-up on to be counted as a voice asking for the Repeal of ObamaCare.  The idea is to present to the new Congress that will take their offices in January of 2011 (we elect them THIS November - VOTE CONSERVATIVE!) a list that will have over 1 million signatures DEMANDING that the new Congress take immediate action on this unconstitutional Health Care Reform Act signed by President Obama.

Here is what will be submitted to the new congress IF you sign up at the link above:

I, the undersigned citizen of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to protect the following rights and stop any legislation that would jeopardize them:

* Freedom: The right to choose the the best medical care available, including physician and insurance, for my family.
* Options: The right to get the treatment my condition requires, as soon as it is needed, without bureaucratic red tape or denial of service.
* Transferability: The right to take my health insurance with me if I have to change jobs.
* Equitable: The right to the same tax breaks available to employees should I choose to purchase my own health insurance; and assurance that only those who truly need government assistance get it.
* Accountability: The right to assurances that fraud, waste, and abuse will not be tolerated.

Please take a moment and add your name to the list!

How BIG is BILLION?

As our national debt is raising at an ALARMING rate, I thought this little bit of information that I received in an email may make it easier for you to understand the REAL issues and help you make sense of it all.  Here you go:

So, the next time you hear a politician use the word 'BILLION' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.

Bush, McCain Warning Dems

The Bush Administration warned in April of 2001, in 2003, the fall of '03 to list a few and Senator McCain repeatedly warned Democrats of the financial and housing crisis meltdown regarding Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac that was looming.  This was long before what has thus became the 2008 financial crisis.  Warnings go back even earlier too, back to the Clinton and Carter White Houses.

Too many people in Congress, like Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts, thought people who were concerned were hyping it up and bloating the issue.  Well, now we know that Barney was wrong, again!

Obama Budget Cuts - Visualization

I think this guy is onto something.  If you have a problem with BIG numbers (which most of us do) this should help you understand just how much money is being discussed in the Obama Budget Cuts.