New Word Speak from The Administration

Remember the new words from the Obama Administration?

Instead of                         We now have
War                                 Man Made disasters
Increased spending                 Investments

The phrase  ‘Individual Mandate” is unpopular so now the Administration is now using the term “Individual Responsibility” in place of the mandate term.

Why? Could it be he is trying to hide behind Conservative Principles of individual responsibility?

Maybe they missed their calling and need to move from Pennsylvania Avenue to Madison Avenue and open up a repackaging Advertizing  Agency.

You Decide!!!

Modern Day Version of the Ant and the Grasshopper

This was shared with me by Jaan White. It was written by Erika Nolan and Jeff Opdyke and is worth reading

A conversation we had here in Uruguay – after the bottle of Scotch – recalls a modern version of a childhood fable…

• The ant busts his butt all summer to prepare for winter … grasshopper is a screw-off who prepares not one bit. In the end, the ant survives winter’s grip, the grasshopper perishes. Moral: Be responsible for yourself.
  But there’s a modern version these days we’d like to share – though we’ve taken the liberty of tweaking the plot and the moral to fit a more-Sovereign message…
  There once was an ant who worked hard in the withering heat and rain of a steamy summer, building his house and laying in supplies for the approaching winter. A passing grasshopper thought the ant a fool. Why waste a good summer toiling when there is much time to laugh and dance and play? Come winter, the ant was snug in the house he built, and well-fed on the food he worked so hard to find and store. The starving, shivering grasshopper was none too pleased with this blatant unfairness and called a press conference to demand, “Why should this ant be warm and well-fed while I stand before you famished and cold?”
  CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC showed video of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with its well-stocked pantry. America was stunned by the sharp contrast. “How can this be,” left-leaning commentators opined, “that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while the wealthy ant drowns in abundance?”
  Occupy the Anthill staged a demonstration in front of the ant’s house, where news stations filmed union activists, rabble-rousers and those marginally attached to the economy singing, “We shall overcome.” The Rev. Jeremiah Wright led the useful idiots in prayer for the grasshopper’s wellbeing while condemning the ant’s parsimonious attitude toward the suffering of his fellow countryman.
  President Obama blamed a system that fosters such disparities among its citizens and announced the creation of a new government agency to ensure that such injustices never again soil America. Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid savaged the ant for “getting rich off the back of the hard-working, underprivileged classes.” Both called for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share, giving government the means to spread the wealth so that grasshoppers across America can live a dignified life. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission drafted the Fairness and Income Leveling Act, the FAIL Act, and made it retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant was fined for having failed to hire a proportionate number of green bugs to build his house and gather his stores for winter.
  Having no means to pay the excessive taxes and retroactive fines, the ant lost his home to government confiscation. The grasshopper, meanwhile, was given access to free housing and food subsidized by the onerous taxes and fines imposed on the ant.
  With nothing left to gain, the grasshopper returned to his sluggard ways. He spent the following summer dancing, laughing and playing … and died from starvation that following winter. The media, off wronging the next right, never noticed.
  With nothing left to lose, the ant returned to doing what he always did – busting his butt to prepare for tomorrow. He built his house anew and restocked his pantry. Only he did it overseas, where government doesn’t confiscate wealth to pay the freight of lazy grasshoppers.

• The moral: Perceptions of rich and poor rarely take effort into account. And if the government continues to build up grasshoppers by taking down the industrious ants, a plague of grasshoppers will overrun America.

Until next week,
Erika Nolan and Jeff Opdyke Delray Beach, FL and Baton Rouge, LA February 5, 2011 sovereigndigest@gmail.com

Federal Flip Flops or Mixed Messages?

This Administration claims it is there to support the Middle Class and Poor and wants to stop giving breaks to the rich. Yet it is doing the following:

1. The Federal government is giving a $10,000 tax credit to a person who buys the$46,000 + Chevy Volt. You remember the electric car that nobody wants and requires $5,000 to replace the batteries when they go. What they are not telling you is the few people buying the car have an average annual income of $170,000.  So the middle class is subsidizing the Rich to buy the car

2. We have given a Finnish company billions of dollars to develop an energy efficient car that, by the way, is being built in Finland. No jobs here for that money. However the car has a selling price of almost $100,000. Again the Middle Class paying for the cost to develop a car only the Rich can afford.

Mixed signal? Flip flop on Direction? Or simply anything that will support this Administrations “Green Energy Policy” no matter what the cost or who pays for it?

You Decide!!!

Time for a change!!!

Whitney Houston and Flying the Flag at Half Mast

Just heard NJ and other places going to fly their flags at half mast in honor of Whitney Houston.  What happened to Ms Houston was a tragedy that a talented person unfortunately did to themself. Flying the flag at half mast is normally reserved for heroes military or civilian or people who have dedicated their lives to the service of people. They include some political leaders, presidents etc. What happened to people like Ms Houston, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson were individual tragedies but self-inflicted.  While we all mourn the loss of talented people, it is my opinion this does not warrant flying the flags at half mast

General Motors Repays The American Taxpayer?

As you are all well  aware, Taxpayer funds were used to bail out General Motors. In fact taxpayers still own about 20+% of the company.

Yet in a time of economic stress and millions out of work, General Motors repays the American taxpayer by closing a $3 billion a year multi-year deal with a company in Aegis Company in the United Kingdom to do their advertising.

Previously, they were receiving $500 million annually to handle advertizing in Europe. The additional $2.5 billion annually will require them to handle world-wide advertising for GM.

Obviously there were no American advertising companies capable of handling this task. Maybe someone should invite GM and Administration leaders to Madison Avenue where they might find companies that specialize in Advertising. Think what $3 billion annually would do in job creation.

Hows that for job creation and appreciation to the taxpayers??

The election of 2012 fast approaches!!!!

The Leftist War Against Catholics and Other Religions

As we start to put together incidents on a national basis, it becomes more and more obvious that the Left has organized a coordinated attack against religion. They will respond everything they are doing is to guarantee freedom of speech and religion. As with our President, it is not in what they say the truth is in their actions.

Examples include:

• The Occupy Providence RI movement recently crashed a Pro Life rally in Rhode Island and threw condoms at a group of catholic girls, shouted down a Priest trying to do a closing prayer, and caused a pro-life speaker to stop his presentation before he was half way done.
• The Occupy DC movement interrupted a March For Life Youth Rally and later interrupted a ‘Prayer for the Unborn” service held in front of the Supreme Court
• Vanderbilt University has decided to enforce their interpretation of their  non discrimination policy in all student groups. they are requiring all religious student organizations to all atheists to join, run for President of the religious group and lead prayers.
• The Obama Administration has just notified any religious group that runs a hospital that have until August 2013 to comply with the mandate requiring any employee of their hospitals, schools and charities to be provided with free contraceptive coverage as part of their health plan. This action is required regardless of their religious beliefs on contraceptives.
• Keep in mind this not only covers the pill or condom, it requires paying for the “morning after” pill.  Catholics consider this a form of abortion. Catholic Bishops report Jewish, Mormon and Protestant groups are joining them to fight this ruling.
• Another example occurred at the Catholic University in DC. An attorney activist has sued calling it discrimination against Muslims that all the Catholic University rooms have crosses in them. Keep in mind no Muslim student asked for the suit, this is a leftist activist who is demonstrating his anti religious belief.

What can the religious groups do? They have 3 choices

• Comply and violate their their religious beliefs and vows
• Drop health care for all their employees
• Close down

None of these are great choices for the community and the poor they have dedicated their lives to support

A leftist coordinated movement that is anti religious?

You Decide!!!

The 2012 election is fast approaching!!!

Hidden Tax OnThe Middle Class Hidden In The Social Security/ Unemployment Extension Bill

No one to this point is making a big deal over a tax put into the Unemployment/ Social Security Extension Bill.  What is currently being proposed is really a major tax on any middle class person buying or refinancing a home/condo starting in 2012.

According to the bill, there will be a surcharge ( tax) put on any loans for the purpose of refinancing or purchasing.  The example offered is on a $200,000 loan. The mortgage payment would go up $17.00 a month.   The rate increases the more you borrow.

So as I understand, a middle class person/couple who saved to purchase a home may not qualify for the loan based on the increased mortgage payments. Why should they pay more to fund government’s insatiable appetite for money and spending.

When does government realize it is not a revenue problem but a spending one.

2012 elections are fast approaching!!!