Like it matters

Use of Free Car Lands Tom Daschle in Tax Trouble
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/us/politics/31daschle.html?hp



How many other appointee's had problems with taxes and other issues and guess what, they are in the cabinet. Can anyone say Timothy Geitner?

MAY GOD SAVE AMERICA

Messiah can't take the heat

Are you with Obama or Rush?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18194.html

This bill is not a jobs bill, this bill is nothing but pork. We are going to be spending millions on universal health care preparation. Do we really want that??? I pray not. There is millions for changing light bulbs in public buildings, now is that job creating or just paying someone who is already doing that job. You can look at previous posts to see where much of this money is going. It is not job creation, it is raping of the American worker. We need to stop this madness.

May God Save America.

A HUGE THANK YOU

HILL REPUBLICAN: STIMULUS GIVES CASH TO ILLEGALS
This is change we can believe in!!!!


A big thank-you to all the Republicans who voted against this bill and a few Democrates.

Let us please keep this socialism from happening here in our great country.

MAY GOD SAVE AMERICA



You people in California need to vote this women out when she comes up for re-election.

Pelosi dismisses need for bipartisanship
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-very-happy-with-stimulus-vote-2009-01-29.html

Larry Flint may have got his stimulus

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL

Wed Jan 28 2009 09:58:30 ET

Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the "job stimulus" -- but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases!

The House Democrats' bill includes $335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In the past, the CDC has used STD education funding for programs that many Members of Congress find objectionable and arguably unrelated to a mission of economic stimulus [such as funding events called 'Booty Call' and 'Great Sex' put on by an organization that received $698,000 in government funds.] "Whether this funding has merit is not the question; the point is it has no business in an economic plan supposedly focused on job creation," says a stimulated Hill source.

.pdf file of bill

If you want to know what you are paying to stimulate our ecomony click on the link and you will find the bill.

Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth
http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/bg2208.cfm

MAY GOD SAVE AMERICA

Stimulus package articles

Obama presses his case on stimulus
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/27/america/obama.4-417200.php

read thru, this is an important quote from the article "The Democrat bill won't stimulate anything but more government and more debt,"


Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Stimulus
http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090127165919.aspx

Republicans Object to Stimulus Dollars for ACORN

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/republican-leaders-raise-concerns-acorn-stimulus-dollars/

Read these articles and decide if this is really stimulus or just government involvement where it does not belong.

May God save America. Please pray for our country.
Dot

Contraception to control costs

Lets use contraception to reduce costs and burdens on our economy. Who next? The elderly as they could be considered a burden.


PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.
The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Developing...

Is this stimulus?

This package looks to me like government waste of our tax money, where is the stimulus to the private sector and can the government really create private sector jobs? I say the only way for the government to create private sector jobs is to get out of the way and let us have our money to do what we want to do with it. I can spend my money better than they can. How is killing babies stimulating the the economy? How are new computers stimulating the economy? ( A one time purchase does not a job create.) Tax and spend, sounds like change to me.

Package questioned - stimulus or wasteful?
Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Sunday, January 25, 2009
(01-25) 18:26 PST Washington --

Is $200 million to rehabilitate the National Mall a crucial way to stimulate the U.S. economy? How about $276 million to fix the computer systems at the State Department? And what about $650 million to repair dilapidated Forest Service facilities?

As Congress rushes toward what leaders of both parties predict will be a speedy passage of an $825 billion economic stimulus package, critics from GOP lawmakers to government watchdog groups are questioning whether key parts of the bill will spur economic growth or whether they're wasteful pork.

House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana, pointed to a $50 million outlay for the National Endowment for the Arts - an agency that conservatives have long criticized - to help arts groups hit by a drop-off in philanthropy.
"This is stimulus?" Pence asked.

President Obama, responding to the concerns, is making an aggressive sales pitch for the package. In his first presidential radio address Saturday, he said it would accomplish big things: renovate 10,000 public schools, build 3,000 miles of new electric grid, computerize all Americans' health records in five years, weatherize 2.5 million homes, provide Pell Grants to 7 million college students, and protect the health insurance of 8 million Americans who risk losing coverage during the downturn.

Top administration officials also warn that without the plan, the unemployment rate could hit double digits and the economy could sink deeper into recession.

"It is worse, quite frankly, than everyone thought it was, and it is getting worse every day," Vice President Joe Biden said on CBS' "Face the Nation" today.

All sides agree the plan carries a hefty price tag: It will be paid for with borrowed funds and could swell an already mammoth $1.2 trillion deficit forecast for this year to more than $2 trillion.

Obama had hoped to pick up bipartisan support for the plan, but Republicans have grown increasingly critical of the size of the package. GOP leaders also argue that some of the provisions seem more aimed at achieving liberal policy goals rather than reviving the economy.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized a part of the bill's $87 billion package to help states with Medicaid costs that would allow states to expand their family planning services. Leaving a White House meeting with Obama on Friday, Boehner said, "How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appearing on ABC's "This Week" today, defended the spending. "The family-planning services reduce cost," she said. "The states are in terrible fiscal budget crisis now, and part of it, what we do for children's health, education, and some of those elements, are to help the states meet their financial needs."

When Obama announced this month that there would be no earmarks in the bill, it sharply curtailed the ability of lawmakers to steer money for pet projects in their districts. But critics say the move won't remove politics from the process - it simply shifts the power to bureaucrats at state and federal agencies, who will distribute billions for roads, schools and other projects.

"In the past, in the appropriations bills we could see a list of the projects. They were right there printed in the bill," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group. "Now it's going to be a lot more difficult to see where the money is spent. You will have to contact each agency and each program manager to find out where the money is going."

Obama and Democratic leaders are hoping to allay those concerns by creating a Web site - www.recovery.gov - where the public can track how the money is being spent.

Some of the biggest winners in the package are federal agencies, which would see a huge infusion of money. The Social Security Administration would get $400 million to replace its 30-year old computer system. The Agricultural Research Service would receive $209 million for deferred maintenance at its facilities. The General Services Administration would get $600 million to replace its older fleet of vehicles with new alternative-fuel cars and trucks.

Democrats say their goal is to create jobs by speeding up work on federal and state projects that would otherwise have waited years for funding.

"The whole idea here is there are lots of projects that have been in the pipeline, on the planning boards, and we're saying, let's get it now," Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said last week.
The Democratic plan took a hit when the Congressional Budget Office estimated that only 7 percent of infrastructure money would make its way into the economy by the end of the year, and only 38 percent would be spent by the end of the 2010 fiscal year. Obama's new White House budget director, Peter Orszag, disputed the findings, saying 75 percent of the money would be spent by fiscal 2010.

Other parts of the package, including the tax cuts and the direct aid to states, would be injected more quickly into the economy. The bill would offer a payroll tax cut of $500 to individuals who earn less than $75,000 a year, and a $1,000 credit to married couples who earn less than $150,000 a year.

Democrats defended their proposal by citing an analysis by economist Mark Zandi of Moody's, who concluded that the plan would create or save 4 million jobs and keep the unemployment rate 2 percentage points lower than it would be without the package.

The House, with its sizable Democratic majority, is expected to easily pass the bill on Wednesday. In the Senate, Democrats are confident they can pick up the one or two Republican votes needed to reach a 60-vote majority.

But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the GOP presidential nominee last year who has pledged to work with Obama, said Sunday he won't be among the Republicans supporting the package.
"As it stands now, I would not" vote for the bill, McCain told Fox News today, explaining that he'd like to see more tax cuts and GOP input into the bill.

E-mail Zachary Coile at zcoile@sfchronicle.com.

Something to Ponder

I heard during the week there are now 14 American people for one government employee. How long until we are assigned a personal government employee to accompany us through out our lives. Just think not only will we have a social security number but we will also have our own personal government employee. Just ponder on this.

May God Save America.

Wait a minute

I thought conservatives were the racists.

Some interesting reads:

One last chance to save mankind

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to-save-mankind.html?full=true&print=true

PREZ ZINGS GOP FOE IN A $TIMULATING TALK

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232009/news/politics/prez_zings_gop_foe_in_a_timulating_talk_151572.htm

Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh if You Want to Get Things Done

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/23/obama-quit-listening-rush-limbaugh-want-things/

This was taken from Glen Beck. I can hardly believe what the government gets away with. Come on people let's start waking up to this nonsense before it is to late.

Obama's new stimulus package, $600 million to address -- and I'm quoting -- to address shortages and prepare our country for universal healthcare. This goes back to what I told you before: They are going to take this country by dribs and drabs.(http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/20573/) 600 million to prepare our country for universal healthcare.

Now tell me how this is a stimulus package?? Isn't this socialization? Does socialism stimulate anything but more taxes on those few of us working?

Thank-you 52% of Americans

The Obama presidency: Here comes socialism

By Dick Morris

Posted: 01/20/09 06:12 PM [ET]

2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives. Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Obama. Simply put, we enter his administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire America. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

Obama will accomplish his agenda of “reform” under the rubric of “recovery.” Using the electoral mandate bestowed on a Democratic Congress by restless voters and the economic power given his administration by terrified Americans, he will change our country fundamentally in the name of lifting the depression. His stimulus packages won’t do much to shorten the downturn — although they will make it less painful — but they will do a great deal to change our nation.
In implementing his agenda, Barack Obama will emulate the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Not the liberal mythology of the New Deal, but the actuality of what it accomplished.) When FDR took office, he was enormously successful in averting a total collapse of the banking system and the economy. But his New Deal measures only succeeded in lowering the unemployment rate from 23 percent in 1933, when he took office, to 13 percent in the summer of 1937. It never went lower. And his policies of over-regulation generated such business uncertainty that they triggered a second-term recession. Unemployment in 1938 rose to 17 percent and, in 1940, on the verge of the war-driven recovery, stood at 15 percent. (These data and the real story of Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s missteps, uncolored by ideology, are available in The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes, copyright 2007.)

But in the name of a largely unsuccessful effort to end the Depression, Roosevelt passed crucial and permanent reforms that have dominated our lives ever since, including Social Security, the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, unionization under the Wagner Act, the federal minimum wage and a host of other fundamental changes.

Obama’s record will be similar, although less wise and more destructive. He will begin by passing every program for which liberals have lusted for decades, from alternative-energy sources to school renovations, infrastructure repairs and technology enhancements. These are all good programs, but they normally would be stretched out for years. But freed of any constraint on the deficit — indeed, empowered by a mandate to raise it as high as possible — Obama will do them all rather quickly.

But it is not his spending that will transform our political system, it is his tax and welfare policies. In the name of short-term stimulus, he will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, will now grow to a clear majority of the American population.

Will he raise taxes? Why should he? With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.
In the name of stabilizing the banking system, Obama will nationalize it. Using Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to write generous checks to needy financial institutions, his administration will demand preferred stock in exchange. Preferred stock gets dividends before common stockholders do. With the massive debt these companies will owe to the government, they will only be able to afford dividends for preferred stockholders — the government, not private investors. So who will buy common stock? And the government will demand that its bills be paid before any profits that might materialize are reinvested in the financial institution, so how will the value of the stocks ever grow? Devoid of private investors, these institutions will fall ever more under government control.

Obama will begin the process by limiting executive compensation. Then he will urge restructuring and lowering of home mortgages in danger of default (as the feds have already done with Citibank).

Then will come guidance on the loans to make and government instructions on the types of enterprises to favor. God grant that some Blagojevich type is not in charge of the program, using his power to line his pockets. The United States will find itself with an economic system comparable to that of Japan, where the all-powerful bureaucracy at MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) manages the economy, often making mistakes like giving mainframe computers priority over the development of laptops.

But it is the healthcare system that will experience the most dramatic and traumatic of changes. The current debate between erecting a Medicare-like governmental single payer or channeling coverage through private insurance misses the essential point. Without a lot more doctors, nurses, clinics, equipment and hospital beds, health resources will be strained to the breaking point. The people and equipment that now serve 250 million Americans and largely neglect all but the emergency needs of the other 50 million will now have to serve everyone. And, as government imposes ever more Draconian price controls and income limits on doctors, the supply of practitioners and equipment will decline as the demand escalates. Price increases will be out of the question, so the government will impose healthcare rationing, denying the older and sicker among us the care they need and even barring them from paying for it themselves. (Rationing based on income and price will be seen as immoral.)

And Obama will move to change permanently the partisan balance in America. He will move quickly to legalize all those who have been in America for five years, albeit illegally, and to smooth their paths to citizenship and voting. He will weaken border controls in an attempt to hike the Latino vote as high as he can in order to make red states like Texas into blue states like California. By the time he is finished, Latinos and African-Americans will cast a combined 30 percent of the vote. If they go by top-heavy margins for the Democrats, as they did in 2008, it will assure Democratic domination (until they move up the economic ladder and become good Republicans).

And he will enact the check-off card system for determining labor union representation, repealing the secret ballot in union elections. The result will be to raise the proportion of the labor force in unions up to the high teens from the current level of about 12 percent.
Finally, he will use the expansive powers of the Federal Communications Commission to impose “local” control and ownership of radio stations and to impose the “fairness doctrine” on talk radio. The effect will be to drive talk radio to the Internet, fundamentally change its economics, and retard its growth for years hence.

But none of these changes will cure the depression. It will end when the private sector works through the high debt levels that triggered the collapse in the first place. And, then, the large stimulus package deficits will likely lead to rapid inflation, probably necessitating a second recession to cure it.

So Obama’s name will be mud by 2012 and probably by 2010 as well. And the Republican Party will make big gains and regain much of its lost power.

But it will be too late to reverse the socialism of much of the economy, the demographic change in the electorate, the rationing of healthcare by the government, the surge of unionization and the crippling of talk radio.

Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Outrage. To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com. To order a signed copy of their new best-selling book, Fleeced, go to dickmorris.com.

Another memorable moment in American history

A proud day in America

It is really sad that this is the way the out going President was treated by some of the liberals in America. This man may not have been your choice and he might not have done everything your way but please remember he did lead our country in a very different and difficult time in American history. He did keep us safe from another terrorist attack for the duration of his presidency. I can only pray Mr. Obama can do the same for our great country.

May God save American.

Double Delight completed

Here is a picture of my completed Double Delight. I must say I like this quilt. I do understand why Bonnie choose the pink, the red is rather bold, but with red in my brown fabric I figured I needed to go with the red.

I stared another quilt this week-end and have just borders to put on. It will be a twin size. It measures approximately 64x80 with out the borders. I am planning on 4 inch borders before sewing so that will be 71x87 after the borders.

We were supposed to go over to Otis' house today to watch football, but we are having a terrible wind storm this week-end and I did not feel like going to far from home. We started out this morning, there were many traffic lights out and tree limbs blown on the streets and we decided home was probably the best place to stay. I completed sewing the binding down and worked on the other top.

I made a horrible dinner, split pea soup that just didn't work out right this time and horrible biscuits that didn't rise. I told hubby I am glad we have been married for so many years and this wasn't a dinner to impress or I would be very lonely tonight.

Have a good evening.

May God save America

Dot

Charity

I want to relay a story that I heard today from a very reputable source. During the Christmas Holidays Clackamas County Social Services were given donations from a very prominate law firm in the area. These items were to distributed to the children in the welfare and foster care system, the items were from upscale department stores and toys that were on the dream list of all the children in America. Now, here is where the story gets intertesting, the social workers at Clackamas County shopped, yes that is what I said, shopped with these items. What do I mean by shopped, well---- here is how it works, the items come in, the employees decided what they want, they pay whatever they feel is appropriate for the item, and then they go out and purchase what they think the children in the system need and deserve. This means they purchase cheaper items and items of lesser quality. The statement made by one of the employee's was "It's okay to do this, the children in the system could not possibly appreciate these expensive items, and we just purchase what they can appreciate." Now is that what you have in mind when you donate to a government agency? Do you purchase these items for government employees to shop with then purchase other items for children on the system. I know for myself whenever I give to charity I expect it to go to the recipents (children in the system in this case). I don't purchase nice items of clothing or toys for the children of govenment employees. I also know they are not paying retail for these items when they take them, they are paying what they figure is fair and equatable.

I know now I will reconsider how I give to charity. I will give out right to needy families, that way I will know the items are where I expect them to go. Please consider this and know it probably goes on in many other government agencies in this country.

Loaded

Double Delight is loaded and I have started the quilting. I love the fabric I used for the borders but I don't like it for borders.

I used this same fabric on Tobacco Road, it just doesn't seem to do well with borders. It stretches and I have to be real careful. I know I am going to have puckers on the borders because of this but this quilt will be residing in my home and I can live with it. Who knows, over time I will probably not even notice the puckers. Warm is warm and that is what I expect this quilt to do, keep me warm.

Good night to all and may God save America.

Construction begins

I finally am at the point where I started the construction of Double Delight. I am liking what I see so far. I really don't want to buy anymore fabric so I am using what I have. I think all these prints are going to work together well. I have my borders already planned. You will have to wait to see the fabrics I am using. I will let you know they are fabrics already in the quilt.

Here is a picture of the pink/purple quilt. It certainly is girly. I can't say I particularly like it, I only hope the person I made it for does. I have named the quilt but it shall remain undisclosed or dare I say "sealed" from the public. I know I have told one person who reads this blog and I also know she will get the gist of my statement.

Enjoy your week.

May God Save America and Capitalism Rocks.

Dot

All trimmed

I have all my square in square blocks trimmed and now I am ready to complete block A. As you can see in the picture I couldn't wait to start sewing the blocks so I sewed until I had all my trimmed squares used and then I had to trim the rest so now I can complete this block and move on to block B. I am really excited to complete this quilt. I have seen the finished results and it is fantastic. Bonnie is a genius at putting together great quilt patterns. You can get the pattern for this quilt top and many others at her site, Quiltville.

On to finishing my chores for the day and sewing for the remainder. Enjoy your week-end.

May God Save American

Capitalism Rocks

Dot

Block A

This is my block A of the mystery quilt.

May God Save America
Capitalism Rocks

Dot

Ready for three

I have completed steps one and two on Bonnie's mystery quilt. These two steps are time consuming and as you can see I have some trimming to do. I plan to take it to work with me tomorrow and trim during my down time. I think I have an extended lunch tomorrow and can trim in the lunch room during that time. The reson for the thread spool, this is the first one used so far this year.

This is a picture of the extreme global warming we are experiencing here this year. We hardly see snow and this winter season we are seeing quite a bit of it. I don't think it will last until the morning and I don't think this is the end of it for the winter either. I will enjoy whatever we get and keep waiting for that global warming to rear its ugly head.

Good evening to all. May God save America!

Capitalism Rocks.

Dot

I already blew it!

First and foremost USC won!!!!!!!! They now have three consecutive Rose Bowl wins. I am very happy. Maybe next year we will see them in the Rose Bowl for the National Championship game. FIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My resolution was to be no fabric purchases, well you can see how well I did. I went to Jo Ann's with my favorite daughter on New Years Day and purchased some of this fabric(I have to let you know I only paid 2.50 and 1.50 per yard)

I went back today and purchased more. Today I paid 1.50 and 1.00 per yard. I love these sales, I purchase large amounts for the backs of quilts.

I do plan to get back on my no purchase band wagon. I hope it works.

I have started Bonnie's mystery quilt. I will post pictures when I am further along. I have just cut the pieces for the first step and am starting the sewing.

Good day to all.

May God save America and capitalism rocks.

Dot