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By Mark Steyn
Actually, it’s more accurate to call them two groups of spenders. On the one side are Obama and the Democrats, who in a negotiation supposedly intended to reduce American indebtedness are (surprise!) proposing massive increasing in spending (an extra $33 billion for Pell Grants, for example). The Democrat position is: You guys always complain that we spend spend spend like there’s (what’s the phrase again?) no tomorrow, so be grateful that we’re now proposing to spend spend spend spend like there’s no this evening.

On the other side are the Republicans, who are the closest anybody gets to representing, albeit somewhat tentatively and less than fullthroatedly, the actual borrowers – that’s to say, you and your children and grandchildren. But in essence the spenders are negotiating among themselves how much debt they’re going to burden you with. It’s like you and your missus announcing you’ve set your new credit limit at $1.3 million, and then telling the bank to send demands for repayment to Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s kindergartner next door.
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READER COMMENT:
Let every SS recipient make the following calculation: 1) get from the SSA the complete list of your annual contributions; 2) add your company’s SS payments made in your name (that is by how much your salary was reduced); 3) add income tax you paid in your personal SS contribution; 4) sum up the 3 amounts and invest the sum in the 5% tax-free municipal or state bonds; 5) repeat this process for all your working years until retirement. You will then have the real value of your payments. Compare now this capital to your miserable monthly SS payment. In my case the value after 33 years of work of this personal fund was $1,800,000, earning tax-free return of $90,000/year, or $7,500/month, without touching the capital which I could have left to my inheritors. Compare that amount with my actual payment of $1,400/month. The difference illustrates the amounts stollen from me by this gigantic, criminal Ponzi scheme.
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mugwumps
If the idiot defaults, impeach him. Duh! It won’t go anywhere but what the hey. Defaulting is a failure to abide by his office. Not paying lawful debts is the same as stealing. It’s criminal. I’ve been reading about the budget, and it seems that the fat is causing the problem. Cut out the fat and start with the Congress.
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KE GA
The reason that a citizen may need armour piercing rounds (or standard capacity magazines, or automatic weapons for that matter) lies clearly in the true intent of the Second Amendment (as stated in the Federalist Papers and other contemporary writings of influential Founders): though we pray it’s not true, the greatest enemy of the Republic, and thus of our Liberty, may be the guys in the body armour with full military gear paid for by the tax payers.

The petty criminals present a random threat to our lives and property, but a tyrannical state represents a uniform threat to everything we are.

I am reminded of a popular cartoon of the “assualt weapons” ban era, in which a buffoonish Redcoat is reaching for the musket held by a Minuteman while saying, “What possible use could a mere farmer have for a military-style assualt rifle?” I’m still not sure what being a “sportsman” has to do with this issue.

One of my favorite quotes is often attributed to Patrick Henry (I’m not sure of the true attribution): “An honest man who is mistaken, when confronted by the truth, either ceases to be mistaken or ceases to be honest.” We should all constantly seek to focus our beliefs with truth. All to often, people merely believe what they want to believe, rather than investing the time and effort to seek the truth!
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mugwumps
The Second Amendment is very specific. What part of infringement don’t you understand? When the first infringement occured was the time to take up arms. How many people have been jailed for standing up for their rights and you did nothing but talk. Talk is less than cheap. The pen is nothing unless you’re writing to idiots. You only have those rights you’re willing to defend. I know of a couple of guys who were unlawfully imprisoned, even under the unconstitutional law. When the BATF talked tough the vaunted “Patriot Movement” melted away. They’ve already won. Maybe they won’t get your gun, but they’ll get your grandson’s by infringement over the years. My grandfather never thought today would happen. And you think talking will stop tomorrow. Good luck.
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By Matt Towery
There is another hidden reason why most Americans are willing to endure the pain of bumping up against our nation’s debt ceiling. They see their own financial circumstances as being so bad that they don’t see a downside to drastic action to stem federal spending — especially if standing firm, at least for a while, will make those who profited from prior costly bailouts and stimulus efforts now have to share in the financial pain being felt by so many Americans.
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By Tony Blankley
If the federal government really went after all those billionaires the Democrats snarl about and confiscated all the property of the country’s 400 billionaires (down to their last set of cuff links and children’s baseball mitts) it would yield only $1.3 trillion — about five months of federal spending.

This pantomime deficit-reduction process is evidence that those in charge have lost their mental grip on the true dimensions of the fiscal crisis. Once they have lost their mental grip, their economic grip — and then their political grip — also will soon slip away, followed, perhaps, by a restoration of liberty.
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By Charles Heller
It’s time to disarm its agents, and decertify BATFE as a law enforcement agency.

Let’s transform them back into the stamp clerks (suitable for affixing labels on wine and whiskey bottles) that they once were. Then the only harm they can inflict on the body politic would be paper cuts.

To be sure, there are some decent and moral people who work there. Or did, like ATF Senior Special Agent Mr. John Dodson, who was recently fired for telling the truth to Congress about the misdeeds of BATFE in recent testimony.

An ATF response memo to Dodson, about his complaint to superiors before he went public, stated, ”If you don’t think this is fun, you’re in the wrong line of work. Maybe the Maricopa County Jail is hiring detention officers, and you can get paid $30,000 to serve lunch to inmates.”

Meanwhile, this same superior in BATFE was approving the funneling of guns to known cold blooded murderers south of the border. Ironically, when everything shakes down, this particular superior might, himself, be getting served just such a lunch!

Do the folks running BATFE think it’s an just a glitch in an academic exercise when Mexican citizens get murdered by guns BATFE willfully allowed to reach crazed killers? Apparently, these same BATFE drones took it a little more seriously when American law enforcement agents began to fall as a result of the ludicrous and immoral “Gun Runner” policy.

On December 10, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down at the U.S. Border, in a shootout. Two of the guns found at that murder scene were found to be from Operation Fast and Furious.
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By Jack Kelly
The governor intentionally caused the shutdown, because “if it were broad-based and painful enough,” Minnesotans could be persuaded to support his big spending ways, said Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten.

Gov. Dayton — with the assistance of biased reporting, chiefly from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — blames the shutdown on Republicans. Things aren’t working out as he planned.

Hardest hit have been members of public employee unions. But “many of us not dependent on the government have found the shutdown a minor inconvenience at worst,” said Minnesota blogger Scott Johnson (Power Line).
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