Common Folk Using Common Sense

Since all you filthy rich have more money than should be allowed, the Associated Press reminds us: This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents. That includes $76,000 for a 16th century mosque in [...]

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Via USA Today: Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. “If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we’re not coming,” said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. Wow, the news coming from our [...]

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Says American Thinker: So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures. * Obama‘s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more. * Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of [...]

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I will support just about any candidate that supports the FairTax … that’s how much I believe in this. The current maze of taxes keep free people in slavery. You may think the current progressive income tax is a heavy burden on you and your family, but do you have any concept of the dozens [...]

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The Contract From America: 1. Identify constitutionality of every new law: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. 2. Reject emissions trading: Stop the “cap and trade” administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions [...]

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Via UK Telegraph: The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States [...]

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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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Says Thomas Sowell: Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time — and with the same disastrous [...]

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This chart shows Obamacare‘s bewildering complexity. This is why I laugh when I see someone with an “Obama 2008” bumper sticker, because no sane person would wish this on themselves, their children, or their country. From the Joint Economic Committe: “For Americans, as well as Congressional Democrats who didn’t bother to read the bill, this [...]

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Without our current income tax, the average citizens could pay for health care, buy a home, send children to college, give to charities, invest in a business, and finance personal loans, all part of the historical concept of “The American Dream”. With our current income tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, sales tax, extra taxes [...]

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From Derek Thompson, staff editor at TheAtlantic.com: The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years. There are many economic analyses that show if you pay people not to [...]

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Says USA Today: The pediatrician and Harvard University professor President Obama appointed Wednesday to run Medicare and Medicaid will play a central role in implementing the nation’s new health care law, predecessors and outside experts said. Donald Berwick, who Obama named to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, drew praise from top medical [...]

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Via USAToday: Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high [...]

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By Arthur C. Brooks at The Washington Post: America faces a new culture war. This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country’s future. In one, America will [...]

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