Speaker Pelosi asked fellow Democrats to fall on the sword, take one for the team or vote against their values to force a 2,700-page health care legislation bill onto the American citizens that simply doesn’t believe a faltering economy can handle another trillion-dollar entitlement program.
President Obama claimed he heard the voters in his State of the Union speech in January. He promised his administration would pivot to jobs and the economy. In fact, not only has the President failed to live up to his speech, but also his administration plans to focus on the health care topic for the next two to three months.
The recent economic indicators show the country in fact is headed for a double-dip recession. The housing market posted lower than expected sales, the recent positive bounce in unemployment didn’t last, more jobs have disappeared and consumer-spending confidence has dipped again.
Skyrocketing deficits and continued government spending increases have voters on edge. Most understand that they have to live within a budget and cut back when they do not have the money.
The credit card era is over and it’s time to pay the piper. If America doesn’t want to falter to China than it’s time to start thinking about the hard decisions that need to be made in Washington D.C. and belt up for a bumpy ride.
The changes Americans need to make are not easy and there will be a lot of painful cuts that need to be made to ensure our world dominance, but most are ready. If that means pensions need to be trimmed, federal employees salaries need to be more in line with the national average or Social Security needs to be - so be it.
America’s children and grandchildren shouldn’t be saddled with years of reckless spending in the form of unsustainable deficits.
This isn’t the time to trade in values or simply take one for the team, it’s time is for Ms. Pelosi to step aside and let true leaders take the podium and keep the country from the cliff that is on the fast-approaching horizon.
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Toyota cars and President Obama do have one thing in common and that is they both would do anything to make themselves look good but both lack the dedication and abilities to make good their promises.
This creature makes me sick.....
The American public has been misled by GOP mischaracterization of Reconciliation by Democrats. Michael Steele called it "a parliamentary trick", Senator Alexander called it "gross abuse of the system...controversial and unprecedented".
Not so says new Report from CENTER ON BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIES "Some critics have charged that using Reconciliation to enact major change in policy, such as health reform, would be unprecedented and would represent a gross misuse of the process. A review of the past use of Reconciliation demonstrates, however, that this charge is incorrect”
Report shows ONLY ABUSE & UNPRECEDENTED USE OF RECONCILIATION WAS BY GOP to"RAM THROUGH" BUSH 2001 & 2003 TAX CUTS:
"Prior to 2001, every major reconciliation package enacted into law reduced the federal deficit. But the standard was tossed aside in 2001. In both 2001 and 2003, the reconciliation process was used to pass costly tax cuts that were not paid for and that have substantially increased deficits &
I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, for the healthcare bill or against it, this sort of thing should scare you. The Congress is supposed to be working *for* the American voters; Pelosi's directive flies directly in the face of the founders, goes against everything the Constitution and the United States stands for.
The weird thing is, that nut Glenn Beck has been ranting lately that the Progressives' plan is to undo the Constitution, take the power away from the voters and put an educated elite in charge of the country, because the rest of us are too stupid to govern ourselves. When Pelosi says things like this, it's no wonder Beck's got a following - she's proving him right.
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