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To: PROLIFE who wrote (57333)	10/18/2012 1:58:16 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

I was wondering. Is current politics like ancient Jewish war: Masada? Have we gotten to the point that the minions are to the fortifications and about to knock down the wall?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (57333)	10/18/2012 3:00:01 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 71588

Good point.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (57333)	10/21/2012 12:52:34 AM
From: greatplains_guy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71588

The President's Policies Aren't Working Obama's ignorance: No idea how the economy works October 18. 2012 1:05AM If the last four years were not convincing enough, President Obama proved during Tuesday night’s debate that he has no clue how the economy works. His stated economic proposals are nothing but reheated talking points from 2008, and they are as unrealistic now as they were then. Despite his falsely professed faith in markets, the President shows by his actions and policy proposals that he really believes the only way economies thrive is when they are directed by government policy-makers and bureaucrats who are empowered to choose the “correct” economic outcomes. For example, the first questioner Tuesday night asked how the candidates would assure that he has a job after he graduates college in 2014. Obama’s telling answer was that he would punish companies that offshore, further subsidize college loans, invest “in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars,” raise taxes on the rich, and increase spending on roads, bridges and schools. He has actually accomplished all of those things except raising taxes on the rich. What are the results? The slowest economic recovery in U.S. history. When Mitt Romney explained how bankruptcy works, Obama demonstrated his stunning ignorance by saying Romney wanted GM to go bankrupt “without providing them any way to stay open.” Actually, allowing companies to stay open is what Chapter 11 bankruptcy (which both GM and Chrysler filed, and which Romney advocated) does. A President who thinks that only government subsidies can keep struggling companies open is a President who will squander taxpayer money on needless corporate bailouts, as Obama has. On taxes, Obama demonstrated total ignorance of the historical fact that lowering rates across the board can stimulate economic growth. He asserted that by keeping capital gains and other rates low, “we’re not going to get money that way.” In fact, it would mean more government revenue. A President so completely ignorant about basic economics produces what we have seen during Obama’s tenure: an economy prevented by government policy from realizing its full potential. Romney’s smarter policies would unleash the economic potential that has been suppressed by Obama’s suffocating practices. unionleader.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (57333)	10/23/2012 9:54:17 AM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Mr. President, why won’t you help us avert national bankruptcy? By: David Limbaugh 10/23/2012 05:57 AM President Obama, I’d like to follow up on my most recent column and ask you a few more questions, please. I am assuming you don’t dispute that our nation faces a very serious financial problem, with unfunded liabilities in excess of $100 trillion. I use the word “assuming” because I don’t remember you ever spending much time talking about this problem, which is odd because the very subject haunts so many Americans and makes them fearful for the future of this country. Yet if you do recognize that these liabilities threaten our nation’s solvency, how is it conceivable that you’ve not made the problem one of your foremost priorities? Yes, you established a bipartisan deficit commission, but you refused to meet with it and you ignored its findings, so that doesn’t get you off the hook. When Rep. Paul Ryan presented his “Path to Prosperity” and the Republican Congress passed a budget largely along the lines Ryan proposed, you publicly ridiculed Ryan, and your Democratic-controlled Senate summarily rejected the bill. When Ryan questioned your treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, about entitlements and our national debt, Geithner claimed that the administration stabilized the deficit and debt issues over the next 10 years but admitted that you have no plans for attacking the long-term problem. But what Geithner refers to as stabilization actually amounts to adding approximately $1 trillion per year to our national debt over the next decade, which, incidentally, makes your statement that you would not add a dime to the national debt just outright bizarre — and disturbing. More troubling, though, than the $10 trillion your budget admits you’d add to the debt over the next 10 years is Geithner’s brazen confession that you have no plan to tackle the explosion of our unfunded liabilities. When Ryan pressed Geithner on that point, Geithner merely responded that he and you didn’t like Ryan’s plan, because it wouldn’t adequately protect seniors and middle-income earners. But as you know, Mr. President, that is also blatantly false. Ryan’s plan carves out special protection for those groups. You must know, unless you are as negligent about informing yourself on Republican ideas you oppose as you are regarding national security matters, that Ryan’s plan would preserve Medicare benefits exactly as they are for those who are now at least 55 years of age. But you keep saying otherwise. It’s not your dissembling that is most troubling, as bad as it is. It’s that you haven’t bothered to come up with any plan of your own to restructure entitlements. None — not even fragments of a plan. Even when Ryan pressed him, all Geithner could say was that he doesn’t like Ryan’s plan. Ryan said, “Fine. Then present one of your own.” Had more people been watching that disgraceful exchange, you might have plummeted in the polls far sooner. So where does that leave us? You must acknowledge we face a catastrophic financial calamity if we don’t address entitlements and our ongoing yearly federal spending, yet you’ve contributed nothing to this discussion. You’ve not only failed to show leadership but also obstructed those who are trying, in earnest, to save this nation from national bankruptcy. Indeed, when you appeared on David Letterman’s show, you betrayed a shocking ignorance about the national debt. When Lettermen asked whether it is $10 trillion (it is $16 trillion), you brushed him off, saying you didn’t know the precise figure. I’ll say you don’t. Not even a clue — because you obviously don’t care. Instead, you said that we face a long-term problem but that “we don’t have to worry about it short term.” How can you be so casual about this when experts have warned that we could go the way of Greece within two or three years unless we get the problem under control? How can you be so dismissive when our nation’s credit rating, under your watch, has been downgraded already? We face an existential threat to our nation, and you not only have insisted on ignoring it and blocking solutions to it but also aren’t even addressing it in your presidential campaign — and the media are letting you get away with it. I believe that you are acting more like Mr. Magoo than you are the president of the United States, because your whole purpose for being in office, apart from ego gratification, is to fundamentally transform America. You know you cannot achieve that aspiration unless you keep spending money recklessly regardless of how much more you add to the debt. Others have gone so far as to argue that your goal is precisely to destroy the nation financially. Whether or not that is your goal, there is no longer any way people can call those making the claim unreasonable. For regardless of your intent, you are bankrupting us and have no intention of reversing yourself. humanevents.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (57333)	2/12/2013 1:08:43 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

Democrat National Committee chairwoman Wasserman Schultz caught in deception with reporters February 10, 2013 \| 8:00 pm Susan Ferrechio Democrat National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz attempted a bit of deception Monday in an effort to criticize GOP rising star Marco Rubio ahead of his State of the Union rebuttal Tuesday night. But on this occasion, the press wasn't falling for it. In a conference call Monday, Wasserman Schultz enlisted the help of Annette Capella, described by party officials as a "Medicare recipient from Florida," to warn of the "extreme budget priorities," they believe Rubio is likely to outline in his televised response to President Obama's address. Capella gave a lengthy and unflattering statement about Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida and Tea Party favorite. She admitted he is an attractive politician but one who would make life more difficult for seniors by supporting a plan to alter Medicare by reducing benefits. It turns out, however, that Capella is hardly your standard Medicare-dependent Floridian. She's the Democrat Party's state committeewoman for St. Johns County. The truth was uncovered when the call was opened up to questions. The first query came from a Palm Beach Post reporter, who asked Wasserman Schultz if Capella was the same person listed as the head of the St. Johns Democrat Party. Wasserman Schultz paused for a moment but then said she would let Capella answer the question. Capella corrected the reporter, saying she'd stepped down from that role and is now represents the county as the party's state committeewoman for St. Johns, located in northeastern Florida. sferrechio@washingtonexaminer.com washingtonexaminer.com