Monday, November 23, 2009

Principled Politics – 11/23/09

Sen. Landrieu's vote cost $300M. I guess that means the 269 votes needed to pass ObamaCare in Congress will cost $81B!

Obamacare: Big State Tax Hikes – By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann at TownHall.com - Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their health care proposals, the Obama administration and its congressional allies hit on a great new idea: Make the states raise their taxes to fund the program, instead. [Once again, BHO & Congress pass the buck!]

Sodom in the nation's capital – By Star Parker at TownHall.com
…more important to DC's left wing city council, is advancing moral relativism and the indulgences it feeds.

Will the American People Rebel? [Yes!]
By Brian Darling at HumanEvents.com   [Why?} - Expensive and Controversial ReidCare, the KSM trial, and TARP!

Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government 
  [Even the NYT recognizes the problems!]  
  With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher…
  In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest here…

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, 'just men who will rule in the fear of God.' The preservation of [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this Duty; if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws."  Noah Webster

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