Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says Herman Cain: When President Obama took office in January 2009, the national debt was $9.5 trillion, which is nearly $32,000 for every man, woman and child living in this country. The national debt as of this writing is nearly $14 trillion, which is $45,000 for every man, woman and child living in this country. [...]

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From Gallup: Gallup’s Job Creation Index for April reveals significantly more hiring within the federal government than in the private sector. One day we will all work for the government … and this country will die. federal government, private sectorSpread The Word:

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From The Hill: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama. “Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy simply could not sustain all the new taxes, regulations and mandates [...]

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Says CNBC: Ten months into President Obama‘s first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found. Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn’t matter, the AP analysis showed: [...]

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The amount of currency currently in circulation has doubled over the last year. To put it another way, there are twice as many $20 bills in the US today as there were last year. But since the value of all those $20 bills has not doubled, the fact that there are twice the number of [...]

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From CNN: For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don’t see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll. According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the [...]

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From Fox5 Atlanta: GRIFFIN, Ga. (MyFOX ATLANTA) – A former bank manager said Thursday that a life or death decision got him fired. The manager said he pulled a gun on a bank robber and fired shots at him, forcing the robber to flee. Police credited the manager’s actions to the arrest of the suspect [...]

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Said Bruce at No Looking Backwards: We were told the stimulus package would prevent unemployment from hitting eight percent. It didn’t. We were told our newly-elected president would put an end to wasteful pork-barrel spending. He hasn’t. We were told we would not see an increase in “any” of our taxes from this new administration. [...]

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From Capital News 9: Albany [New York] Common Council members say they’ll figure out a plan to make sure non-unionized city employees get raises. Mayor Jerry Jennings has proposed eliminating raises and several other cuts in his 2009 budget proposal which calls for less spending with a property tax increase of nearly five percent. Councilman [...]

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John McCain is not going to raise taxes on middle class families. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the only candidates in this race that plan to raise taxes. Barack Obama’s Plan Continues The Push Toward Government-Run Healthcare: The Obama plan will create a brand new government-run health plan at the cost of $243 billion [...]

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Hat tip to David Codrea at The War on Guns: The Heartland Institute put out an interesting article about how people are fleeing more repressive states. The Heartland Institute’s mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in [...]

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From The Aspen Times: Have you reviewed the statistics concerning the behavior of the illegal aliens who are here already? It might give you a good idea of about who you are planning to let in. Specifically, have you read the crime statistics: the number of felons per 1,000 illegal aliens; the number of pedophiles, [...]

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From The Aspen Times: First of all, according to U.S .Border Control (www.usbc.org), which has done exhaustive research, it’s 20 million illegal aliens, not 12 million. And, it appears that this bill would allow these 20 million to bring in their immediate family members – parents, children, brothers and sisters, and, of course, a spouse. [...]

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And here we watch the last remnants of Conservatism whither and die from within the Republican Party.

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Well, they DO stimulate the economy in these ways: Immigration from 1925-1965 averaged 178,000 per year. As of 2003, we’re taking in approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants & up to 700,000 illegal aliens annually. In 2004, the Border Patrol estimates that 3 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. Currently, we have 294 million people, but [...]

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