Previous Obama supporter switches

President Obama is losing support each day, as former Democrats and supporters look for an alternative for President in 2012.    Here is the latest former Congressman (D-Alabama) to switch parties and become a Republican.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/30/former_dem_rep_artur_davis_explains_why_he_is_becoming_a_republican.html

Former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis once supported candidate Obama, but he explains that what he voted for in 2008, isn't what America has seen in Obama's 1st term in office.    Now he's a Republican looking at the better alternative, the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

(c) 2012, Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org

MainStreamMedia gets one Right!

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  

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

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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74109_Page2.html#ixzz1pTnvuOln

The Heritage Foundation has an excellent link, with the US government revenues and spending graphically portrayed in easy to understand charts:

            http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook

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

            http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/income-tax-receipts

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

What can we do?   Tell Congress to stop the US government overspending.   Back the Paul Ryan budget bills and policy changes.   Vote for fiscal conservatives, who have voting records that actually show “stop the brutal spending” votes.   President Obama’s budget numbers show the US debt as a percentage of GDP rising from 40.3% to to 87.4% from 2008 to 2020.   Sit back and go with the “wasteful spending money” flow, and we’ll watch our beloved America go broke.  Or stand up, and vote the "over spenders" out of office.    Here’s the whole set of charts:

            http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/contents

© 2012, Jasper Welch, Four Corners Media, www.jasperwelch.org 

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  

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  

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