It is not often that the Main Stream Media (MSM) gets a story right. Don Lemon, a Cable News Network (CNN) reporter on Monday April 23rd delivered an excellent "No Talking Points" monolog.
Watch it here:http://mrctv.org/videos/has-cnns-don-lemon-turned-obama
In the story on CNN, normally a cable news network that acts as a spokesperson(s) network for President Obama, Mr. Lemon actually pulls together the "name & blame" approach taken by the White House and lays the issue on the line (to the President). Essentially, quit blaming the former President (Bush) for issues that have occurred on your watch, Mr. President (Obama). What a novel concept: accountability!
(c) 2012, Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org
Monday, April 23, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Senate Democrats AWOL on Budget
US Senate Democrats, who serve (skip) on the Senate Budget committee, have coordinated with the Democrat leader Harry Ried (D-Nevada) to take NO action on a budget mark-up for the last 3 years. No action, no budget no show. This image from Hot Air http://hotair.com and C-SPAN clip say it all.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/19/picture-of-the-day-democrats-not-at-work
US Senator Sessions (R-Alabama) indicates that he'd actually mark up a budget and get it passed, if the voters give the Republicans the opportunity to do their job.
(c) Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/19/picture-of-the-day-democrats-not-at-work
US Senator Sessions (R-Alabama) indicates that he'd actually mark up a budget and get it passed, if the voters give the Republicans the opportunity to do their job.
(c) Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Spending Money Because It's OPM
Spending Money
Because It’s OPM
“I remember when
liberals were liberal with their own money” is a quote attributed to Will Rogers. Modern day “spend & tax”
liberals, such as President Obama are spending the US taxpayers money without
restraint because it is “Other Peoples Money”. We’ll tax other people (especially the
rich), because a) they have too much money (class warfare), b) we as liberals
(in government) know how to spend it better than you, c) if we don’t have it in
the US Treasury now, we’ll just borrow more for taxpayers to pay back later. Former US Senator Bill
Armstrong (R-Colorado) stated the appetite for US government spending by
Congress this way, “Congress is spending money like a drunken sailor, the
trouble is, a sailor is spending his own money!”
Even the moderate to
liberal Politico is noting the long term and large spending patterns by the
Obama Administration. The federal debt held by the public
would still nearly double again from $10.1 trillion at the end of 2011 to $18.8
trillion at the end of 2022. For the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30, CBO
is now projecting a shortfall of $1.3 trillion. In fiscal 2013, the deficit
will still hover near the $1 trillion mark — about $977 billion. And while it
will fall to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2017, it then begins to grow again to 3
percent of GDP by 2022.
The Heritage
Foundation has an excellent link, with the US government revenues and spending
graphically portrayed in easy to understand charts:
Under the Obama
Administration, Federal spending per household jumped from $25,000 per year
(per household) to $30,000 per year. It had moderated under a GOP House of Representatives
(where the spending bills originate) to $29,401 per household (per year).
The
30-year average tax burden (Federal tax rate) from 1981 to 2010 has been about
18%. The highest
average rate was 20% (in year 2000), just prior to President Bush being
elected. The projection for the
next decade is for average Federal income tax rates to rise from the historical
average of 18% to nearly 25%, if Federal spending and taxation are not
constrained by Congress and the elected President.
Presently,
the lower (bottom half) of US taxpayers only pay 2.7% of the total income taxes
collected by Uncle Sam. Whereas
the top 5% of income earner (US taxpayers earning over $159,000 per year) are
paying nearly 60% of the income taxes collected. The top 1% of income producers (those who create jobs,
wealth and economic activity for our country as a whole) are paying 40% of the
income taxes collected.
So
let’s tax the rich, as per the “class warfare” manta of President Obama! Not so fast. Our history in modern America
would suggest the contrary:
“The
most dramatic decline in the top individual income tax rate, from 70 percent to
28 percent, occurred during the Reagan Administration, during which tax
receipts remained relatively constant as a share of the economy.” Heritage Foundation
And what will be
the result of this overspending, over the next 10 years? The Heritage Foundation projects
that our US Federal deficit (if spending is unchecked) will reach 100% of our
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2022.
Then it is “Hello Greece, or Portugal or Italy”! http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/national-debt-skyrocket
© 2012, Jasper
Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Victor Davis Hansen on 2012 Election
In a recent Pajamas Media TV interview of Victor Davis Hansen by Roger Simon, the well know conservative writer, scholar and historian gives his opinion of President Obama and the likely debates surrounding the 2012 Presidential race.
For the full interview, go to Pajamas TV
http://pjmedia.com/blog/pjtv-victor-davis-hanson-on-2012-and-the-state-of-conservatism
For the rest of the conservative web site http://pjmedia.com
For the full interview, go to Pajamas TV
http://pjmedia.com/blog/pjtv-victor-davis-hanson-on-2012-and-the-state-of-conservatism
For the rest of the conservative web site http://pjmedia.com
Monday, August 15, 2011
Rick Perry Enters the Presidential Race
It's official: Rick Perry, the Republican Governor of Texas has entered the 2012 Presidential race. Over the weekend, from a starting point in South Carolina, the popular Texas governor burst upon the national stage. Following his announcement, Governor Perry traveled to New Hampshire and then to Iowa to meet voters in the heartland.
Here is his interview with Fox News http://www.therightscoop.com/perry-i-hope-im-obamas-worst-nightmare
With President Obama's poll numbers sliding below the 40% level, and (according to Rassmussen Reports) his negative spread is -22. So with the Republican field flexing it's muscle, and the loyal opposition (the GOP is surging) taking on the Main Stream Media (MSM) and the Democrat in the White House, Governor Perry's entrance into the competitive field make it that much more interesting.
For more on Rassmussen Reports: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Take some time to check out each GOP candidate for President. And contrast their message for American with the worn out liberal approach being taken by President Obama. Too bad we can't move the general election up to November 2011!
(c) Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media www.jasperwelch.org
Here is his interview with Fox News http://www.therightscoop.com/perry-i-hope-im-obamas-worst-nightmare
With President Obama's poll numbers sliding below the 40% level, and (according to Rassmussen Reports) his negative spread is -22. So with the Republican field flexing it's muscle, and the loyal opposition (the GOP is surging) taking on the Main Stream Media (MSM) and the Democrat in the White House, Governor Perry's entrance into the competitive field make it that much more interesting.
For more on Rassmussen Reports: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Take some time to check out each GOP candidate for President. And contrast their message for American with the worn out liberal approach being taken by President Obama. Too bad we can't move the general election up to November 2011!
(c) Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media www.jasperwelch.org
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Senator Rubio plan talk about the Budget
Plain talk from US Senator Rubio (R-Florida), from the floor of the US Senate on July 30, 2011:
And here’s the way I would describe it the United States of America more or less -- these are rough numbers but they’re accurate – spends about $300 billion a month. It has $180 billion a month that comes to the federal government through taxes and other sources of revenue and that means that in order to meet its bills at the end of every month it needs to borrow $120 billion.
“Now, for much of the history of this country, there have been increases in the debt limit and the ability to borrow money. But what has happened over the last few years is that it's no longer a routine vote because the people who give us our credit rating are saying too much of the money that you spend every month is borrowed and we want you to show us how over the next ten years you are going to borrow less as a percentage of what you spend.
“And so that's why, for years, where the debt limit was routine vote, it no longer can be. It’s not something that was made up in some conservative think tank. But the reality that we cannot continue to borrow 40% to 41% of every penny that the government spends has brought us to this point.
“So you would think that seeing that, our government and our leaders here in both parties would react to that immediately and work on it.
“And I've heard lot of talk today about delaying tactics and delaying votes. I would argue to you that this issue has been delayed at least for the last two and a half years.
“In the two years before I even came here, this chamber neither proposed nor passed a budget. It is a startling figure that for the last two years this government has operated without a budget. So think about that. Two years have gone by without a budget. The first two years that the President was the president, no budgets.
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
And here’s the way I would describe it the United States of America more or less -- these are rough numbers but they’re accurate – spends about $300 billion a month. It has $180 billion a month that comes to the federal government through taxes and other sources of revenue and that means that in order to meet its bills at the end of every month it needs to borrow $120 billion.
“Now, for much of the history of this country, there have been increases in the debt limit and the ability to borrow money. But what has happened over the last few years is that it's no longer a routine vote because the people who give us our credit rating are saying too much of the money that you spend every month is borrowed and we want you to show us how over the next ten years you are going to borrow less as a percentage of what you spend.
“And so that's why, for years, where the debt limit was routine vote, it no longer can be. It’s not something that was made up in some conservative think tank. But the reality that we cannot continue to borrow 40% to 41% of every penny that the government spends has brought us to this point.
“So you would think that seeing that, our government and our leaders here in both parties would react to that immediately and work on it.
“And I've heard lot of talk today about delaying tactics and delaying votes. I would argue to you that this issue has been delayed at least for the last two and a half years.
“In the two years before I even came here, this chamber neither proposed nor passed a budget. It is a startling figure that for the last two years this government has operated without a budget. So think about that. Two years have gone by without a budget. The first two years that the President was the president, no budgets.
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
Democrats Delay, GOP Moves Forward
From US Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) in the National Review online edition:
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid chose tonight to delay, and not vote on his plan to raise the debt ceiling. Republicans requested over and over, on the Senate floor, to vote on the Reid plan tonight. The Congress needs to move past the Reid plan, which cannot pass the Senate, and cannot pass the House of Representatives. The Reid plan, full of gimmicks and budgetary tricks, hands the president another credit card to max out through his reelection — the biggest credit card in history.
The plan Republicans support avoids default, cuts spending, caps future spending, and balances the budget. This approach is supported by 60 percent of Americans. With the Democrats’ latest delay on a real solution to our nation’s fiscal problems, they bring us closer to default. We have just four days left.
America needs a credible plan for cutting spending. Instead of plans, they ask Americans to tweet #compromise while putting out slogans such as the “Boehner Drop.” This is not governing, this is politics as usual, and the American taxpayer foots the bill.
Without a serious effort to cut debt and prevent default, President Obama will be presiding over the first-ever downgrade of our nation’s creditworthiness. This will raise interest rates, a “debt tax,” on all Americans, which may cost by some estimates $100 billion a year. An anxious market has already lost over 530 points this week.
While Republicans offer solutions week after week, it’s the default Democrats who say no time and time again. Democrats were the only ones talking about a government shutdown during the debate over funding the government just a few short months ago. Now they are repeating that same playbook of scare tactics and electoral politics, with much higher stakes: our nation’s economy, an economy that we found out on Friday is not growing nearly fast enough to reduce unemployment. Democrats, if serious about avoiding a rating downgrade, will quickly move past the Reid plan. And the Congress should move forward with a plan that strengthens our financial future.
For more from the National Review online: http://www.nationalreview.com
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid chose tonight to delay, and not vote on his plan to raise the debt ceiling. Republicans requested over and over, on the Senate floor, to vote on the Reid plan tonight. The Congress needs to move past the Reid plan, which cannot pass the Senate, and cannot pass the House of Representatives. The Reid plan, full of gimmicks and budgetary tricks, hands the president another credit card to max out through his reelection — the biggest credit card in history.
The plan Republicans support avoids default, cuts spending, caps future spending, and balances the budget. This approach is supported by 60 percent of Americans. With the Democrats’ latest delay on a real solution to our nation’s fiscal problems, they bring us closer to default. We have just four days left.
America needs a credible plan for cutting spending. Instead of plans, they ask Americans to tweet #compromise while putting out slogans such as the “Boehner Drop.” This is not governing, this is politics as usual, and the American taxpayer foots the bill.
Without a serious effort to cut debt and prevent default, President Obama will be presiding over the first-ever downgrade of our nation’s creditworthiness. This will raise interest rates, a “debt tax,” on all Americans, which may cost by some estimates $100 billion a year. An anxious market has already lost over 530 points this week.
While Republicans offer solutions week after week, it’s the default Democrats who say no time and time again. Democrats were the only ones talking about a government shutdown during the debate over funding the government just a few short months ago. Now they are repeating that same playbook of scare tactics and electoral politics, with much higher stakes: our nation’s economy, an economy that we found out on Friday is not growing nearly fast enough to reduce unemployment. Democrats, if serious about avoiding a rating downgrade, will quickly move past the Reid plan. And the Congress should move forward with a plan that strengthens our financial future.
For more from the National Review online: http://www.nationalreview.com
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