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The Patriot Post Chronicle 2-6-2013
From The Federalist Patriot
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Centralizing Power Is Really Expensive
February 6, 2013
The Foundation
"When all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson
Editorial Exegesis
"The latest Congressional Budget Office calls the lie on President Obama's claim that the nation's debt crisis can be solved with just a few trims to spending and a bit more taxes on the rich. Obama lately has acted as though most of the work has already been done to get the debt problem under control. ... But the latest CBO report shows that the country is far from out of the woods. In fact, despite the supposed budget cuts and the $620 billion in tax hikes Obama brags about, deficits start climbing every year after 2015, reaching back up to $978 billion by 2023. Debt, too, starts expanding again as a share of GDP, climbing to 77% by 2023, with no end in sight. Even that grim outlook is unrealistic. The CBO's forecast assumes, for example, that Congress will let scheduled huge cuts in Medicare payments to doctors go through, even though they haven't done so for years. It assumes ObamaCare's costs don't explode, despite increasing evidence to the contrary. And it assumes there's no recession anytime in the next decade and that interest rates remain reasonably low. The CBO also makes it abundantly clear that the cause of this crisis is out-of-control spending, not insufficient tax revenues. ... The report is also clear that entitlements -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and now ObamaCare -- are to blame for the continued growth in spending. ... The CBO adds that 'unless the laws governing those programs are changed, debt will rise sharply relative to GDP after 2023.' So what is Obama doing in the face of this still-looming crisis? Instead of confronting spending and entitlements, he's focused on meaningless side issues like gun control and scoring short-term political points against Republicans. Given the scale of the nation's fiscal crisis, this is hardly the leadership we need right now. But unless something changes, it's the leadership we're stuck with for the next four years." --Investor's Business Daily1
The Gipper
"The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. ... It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing." --Ronald Reagan2
Today marks President Ronald Wilson Reagan's 102nd birthday, or as he would have phrased it, the 63rd anniversary of his 39th birthday. The observance of this occasion provides a vital bond with our national heritage of Liberty and those who have devoted their lives and fortunes to advance it. Don't miss our remembrance3.
Upright
"The income tax was considered ... one of the most notable achievements of the Democratic Party. ... Following the 16th Amendment, the Revenue Act of 1913 was passed and signed into law on Oct. 3, 1913. And so, the income tax was made a permanent part of American culture. In 1913, the highest income earners tax rate was 7 percent. That is dramatically different from today's highest earners, especially after the latest increase in income taxes. As of Jan. 2013, the top income rate is 39.6 percent, after the recent spike in income taxes at the beginning of 2013. This is a 465 percent increase from the original 1913 level of 7 percent. Even with this huge increase, the Democrats and media alike continue to call for raising taxes -- specifically on those who make more then $250,000 a year." --Media Research Center's Liz Thatcher
"The key to the progressive 'ratchet,' as it is often, correctly, called, is that no step forward may ever be retraced. ... The key to the success of Western socialism's 'progress' is not the periodic lurches toward the abyss. It is the art of effective stalling. All of today's political and moral outrages will be rationalized with a shrug tomorrow: 'What difference -- at this point -- does it make?'" --columnist Daren Jonescu
"This White House has already shown a propensity toward ruling by executive fiat -- whether by executive action that effectively enacts rejected legislation, by refusing to enforce existing law, or by crafting rules for legislation to grant vast new powers to bureaucrats. Once it has de-legitimized the opposition, the White House can claim it is left with no choice but to accelerate and expand its use of executive power. What else can they do, the president and his operatives will argue, when faced with the insanity of the Republicans?" --White House Dossier's Keith Koffler
"Not one of the past federal amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. Instead, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship. ... You want 'comprehensive immigration reform'? Start with reliable adjudications, fully cleared backlogs, consistent interior enforcement, working background checks for the existing caseload, and efficient and effective deportation policies that punish law-breakers and do right by law-abiders." --columnist Michelle Malkin
"There's an old saying amongst First Amendment lawyers that the proper cure for bad speech is better speech, and that Paul Harvey [Super Bowl] ad was, without doubt, better speech [than Beyoncé's halftime show]. To be clear, I'm not opposed to some good, old-fashioned cultural hand-wringing when the occasion demands it. Indeed, it's important to call out the wrong, but calling out the wrong without providing a compelling right will ultimately get us nowhere." --National Review's David French
Insight
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights." --American author H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good." --Russian novelist and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008 )
The Right ... to Keep and Bear Arms
Barack "Skeeter" Obama4 and his NeoCom cadres5 aren't letting up on their anti-gun agenda. We can't let down our guard, either.
Please take a moment and join the 37,000 of your fellow Patriots who have pledged6 to support and defend our Constitution, including the Second Amendment. Share it with your family, friends and colleagues via social media and email, as well.
Sign the 2A pledge!6
Demo-gogues
Feelings: "If there's even one thing we can do to keep our children and our community safe -- there's just one step we can take to prevent more families from feeling what they feel after they've lost a loved one -- we've got an obligation to take that step." --Barack Obama, still stumping for gun control on nothing but emotion7
Gun grabbers: "I'm sorry it's taken two years for us to convene this hearing, that it took Newtown, Connecticut, to finally bring us to our senses and to open this national conversation [on gun control]." --Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
"Where are we going with [the Second Amendment]? I mean, do individuals get to own nuclear weapons? Do they get to own submarines, with this notion that they have a right to bear arms? No." --Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Reminders: "I think it's important to remind everybody that, what I've said previously, I am not a king, I am head of the executive branch of government. I am required to follow the law, and that is what we've done. But what I have also said is let's make sure we apply law in a way that takes into account." --Barack Obama, who all too often behaves as a king
Raise taxes: "There is no doubt we need additional revenue, coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit. And we can do it in a gradual way so it doesn't have a huge impact." --Barack Obama (Translation: So you don't notice quite as much.) |
