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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701033)	2/26/2013 8:02:43 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1576160

yes.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701033)	2/26/2013 11:44:48 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

Each day, I try to ask myself what people are thinking. Each day people like you, remind me that people aren’t thinking they are just Little girls and little old ladies are being molested at Denver International Air Port. The Right to Bear Arms does not mean you have the right to carry arms (look up the definition for bear). The new curriculum includes teaching little boys how to have fun masturbating. Journalism, once the guardians of free speech has become a shill for PC. The biggest perpetrator of BS being the TV, constantly telling females they aren’t good enough. We still have detentions without charge, and an enormous prison population including a growing number of elderly and youth under 18. We accept overstepping by government authorities in discrimination issues. It is very easy to get people to agree there is oppression and tyranny in other cultures but almost impossible to get them to recognize its presence in their own lives, or that the overseeing authority at home as flawed. It isn’t even necessary to oppress the willing, the true believers, or the submitters. Those who acquiesce to an authoritarian regime are comforted by the status quo, where-as, those who march against it are harassed, abused, beaten, tortured and killed. While the followers refuse to believe that any harm is being done. Those who are comfortable in their bonds are rewarded for giving up freedoms and obeying the prevailing authority, so why challenge it… most of you left or right don’t, you just bow to different masters.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701033)	2/26/2013 11:49:04 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released today. Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, “confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill,” and “dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false.” President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future,” Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.” The new report exposes the “lack of honesty” surrounding such claims, Sessions argued. “This is how a country goes broke,” he said.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (701033)	2/26/2013 11:50:54 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576160

Obama’s Paycheck Exempted from ‘Sequester’ President Barack Obama won’t have to worry about his paycheck if the spending sequestration included in the Budget Control Act that he signed into law in 2011 begins taking effect this Friday. A report published last month by the Congressional Research Service--“Budget Sequestration and Selected Program Exemptions and Special Rules"--identifies certain programs that are exempt from sequestration and lays out special rules that govern the sequestration of others. Section 255 of the Budget Control Act includes “Compensation for the President” as one of those exemptions (Page 19). “Most exempt programs are mandatory, and include Social Security and Medicaid; refundable tax credits to individuals; and low-income programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Supplemental Security Income,” the report states. “Some discretionary programs also are exempt, notably all programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs,” it said. “Also, subject to notification of Congress by the president, military personnel accounts may either be exempt or reduced by a lower percentage,” the report states. (The report states in a footnote that the White House notified Congress last year of President Obama's intention to exempt military personnel accounts from sequestration.) Pensions for former presidents are also exempt, according to the report. The report states that “the effect of sequestration on any given program is subject to the interpretation of the law’s provisions by the Office of Management and Budget”--which is part of the Executive branch. Article 2, Section 1, Clause 7 of the Constitution says that the president's compensation shall not be increased or decreased during the time for which he is elected. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected," says the Constitution, "and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."