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Free Healthcare! Who’s happy now?  The Democrats and the mainstream American media. Washington, Jefferson, Madison. Obama, Pelosi, Reid. Lord, please save us now.  We apparently can’t do it ourselves. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Famericanplatform.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D859'; addthis_title = 'Lord%2C+ain%26%238217%3Bt+nothin%26%238217%3B+gonna+save+us+now'; addthis_pub = '';

Does America really need the 111 new federal bureaucracies created under the latest plan to “reform” health care?  If you believe that these government entities, created behind closed doors by Harry Reid and Co. contrary to their promise to not act behind closed doors, will benefit the country I defy you to explain how. All these [...]

From an October 14th 2009 presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN on the consequences of passing the United Nations Climate Change Treaty.  This treaty is to be considered in Copenhagen in December, 2009.  This is about our sovereignty, and it doesn’t seem far fetched.  See what you think. addthis_url [...]

The other day The Congressional Budget Office said, “Our estimates of deficits under the President’s budget exceed those anticipated by the Administration by $2.3 trillion over the 2010-2019 period”. Oddly and sadly, somehow one can almost say to oneself, “2.3 isn’t too big of a difference, and not bad for a long range prediction.”  And I’ll [...]

Both President Obama and Michael Steele agree that the Republicans have no credibility when it comes to matters economic. I’d agree with that.  But conservatives have no such credibility issues.  Unfortunately, the terms Republican and Conservative are often used interchangeably, much like the terms Illegal Immigrant and Immigrant. But there are significant and defining differences [...]

President Obama refers often to “the failed policies of the past” without being specific. One assumes by context that he is speaking of tax cuts, which the progressives always generalize as “tax cuts for the rich”, which sounds ominous, unfair, and elitist. Damn those rich people! But this ignores the low unemployment and general [...]

Our economic outlook is grim and getting grimmer.  No matter what form the final so-called stimulus plan takes it will not convince the world’s investment money that the United States is a good place to invest long term.  Our budget deficit is disgusting and about to get downright revolting, and our national debt is off [...]