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We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Foreign Oil
Under the Obama blueprint for reorganizing the United States, gasoline in the U.S. will shortly be $5.00 a gallon. Know what that means to the average America household: An additional $1,000.00 that you won’t have to spend for food or medicines. Gas prices are the highest on record (that means ever) for the month of February and prices will continue to rise until we show OPEC, the Middle East dictators, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and the disgusting, unprincipled oil speculators that the U.S. is going to produce our its oil. Don’t say we didn’t warn you, we did. Reprinted below is the lead article by Walter Theadore from our February 2 issue #143.
The 2012 Programs the Feds Are Unofficially Funding –You’ve Never Heard of Most of ‘em!
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report on all unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations for fiscal year 2012. The report has been sent to both the House and the Senate. If some of these don’t shake you up, you have way to much money and don’t mind seeing your tax dollars wasted.
News and Views in 60 Seconds
News and Views is a new column containing an assortment of interesting political and financial information, opinions, candidate reviews, scheduled events, meetings and press releases that we hope will interest you.
Why It’s So Tough to Create Jobs
As the media have amply reported, there is a broad consensus that the current job environment in the U.S. economy is the worst since the 1930s. Let’s explore the state of the job market now and one of the most unique features, the lack of job creation on a scale sufficient to reduce unemployment.
China Gets Jump on U.S. for Brazil’s Oil
How impressive is Barack Obama as a leader. Is he respected by other world leaders? Far from it. Less than a month after President Obama visited Brazil in March to make a pitch for oil, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was off toBeijing to sign oil contracts with two huge state-owned Chinese companies.
Medicare Part B: What You Permit, You Promote
To all of you out there who think Barack Obama is really a nice guy and believe that Obamacare really, really won’t adversely affect you, think again. Send this to all the seniors you know – and their families, too – so they will understand who is throwing them under the bus.
More Bad News for BO – Your Recovery is Worse Than Bush’s Recession
New evidence suggests there’s a reason why this economic “recovery” hasn’t felt much like a recovery. Figures from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, compiled by Sentier Research, show that the “recovery” has actually been harder on most Americans than the recession from which they’ have allegedly been recovering.
Obama, Dems Don’t Want US to Be Energy Independent
Not many people noticed during the run up to the Iowa caucuses and last year’s payroll tax fight that a far more important, and potentially game-changing resolution passed the Senate at the end of 2011. It was the authorization for the $3 billion Keystone XL pipeline connecting us to Canada’s booming oil shale production. The Senate has given Barack Obama sixty days to either sign or not sign as “not in the national interest.”
Virginia AG Gets Involved in GOP Primary Ballot Controversy
After learning that his candidate’s name would be omitted from the Virginia primary ballot, the campaign director for former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich compared the “unexpected setback” to Pearl Harbor. Political insiders speculate the move was the work of Republicans who want Mitt Romney to have a clear field for the GOP presidential nomination. The state’s decision is considered a blow to the candidacy of conservative Newt Gingrich.
What Makes the Tea Party an Important Vehicle for Government Reform? Public Participation
Rockford resident Michael Kleen is a local author, proprietor of Black Oak Media and candidate for the Winnebago County Board District 8 seat. Mr. Kleen makes a valid argument for finding alternative means for finding tax revenues other than increasing the tax burden on Illinois residents. We wish him well in his campaign for county board.
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