The numbers for the Obama administration budget are mind numbing.
So let’s take 8 zeros away and put the budget in our vernacular.

2012 would equate roughly to:
INCOME: $24,000 annual – paying $3000 for yearly interest on debt

SPENDING: $35,000 annually

DEBT: $150,000

With the Obama budget in ten years

INTEREST DUE: Will triple i.e. $10,000 annually on the debt

DEFICIT: $8, OOO annually (THE OBAMA ASSUMPTION INCOME WILL DOUBLE IN 10 YEARS) I hope my income will double in ten years –CAN YOU SPELL INFLATION???

2021 DEBT: $250,000

Bottom Line: How does debt affect me?

Your dollars are worth less today than 4 years ago and will worth much less in ten years

Gasoline has nearly doubled in four years

Our exchange rate with other countries has fallen more than 30% in four years

Food prices up from 5 to 20% in four years

The Federal Reserve continues to print money just to pay our debt eroding your $’s more

• 37 weeks until the Nov 6, 2012 General Election

• 14 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012

• 4 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012

President Obama wins the Punter In Chief Award, as he kicks the can down the road …AGAIN.

Once again he submits a budget that spends too much and ignores our impending financial crisis.

Facts

The Obama Administration Budget Proposal:

• Increase current fiscal year budget deficit by $200 billion

• Spend $45 trillion in the next ten years
• Add $13 trillion to our $15 trillion current debt
• Claim a $4 trillion 10 year reduction by projecting a spending amount of $45 trillion vs $49 trillion
• The so called $4 trillion reduction comes from

o Claiming 1 trillion saving from last year’s debt deal
o Claiming 1 trillion saving by not fighting a war that the Dept of Defense never requested
o Claiming 1.5 trillion income from new taxes
o Which leaves an average of so called spending cut of $50 billion a year from $4,000 billion a year annual budget

To add insult to injury no mention or plan to ensure Social Security and Medicare solvency

Bottom line each newborn’s tax burden will be an additional $80,000 a year

38 weeks until the November 6, 2012 General Election
15 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012
5 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012
3 weeks to County Caucus —March 3, 2012

President Obama wins the The Sleight of Hand Award, AGAIN
He consistently touts the administration’s falling unemployment numbers
REGARDLESS OF THE FACTS
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics non-farm employment
    • In 2009 133.5 million Americans were working
    • Today in 2012, 132.4 million Americans working
    • 1.1 million fewer workers since his inauguration, which does not account for population growth

Even more troubling is the percentage of Americans working
    • In 2000 67.3% of adults worked
    • Today 63.7 %
    • And over half of all Americans are receiving some form of government payment

39 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 General Election
16 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012
6 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012
4 weeks to County Caucus —Mar 3, 2012

President Obama wins the Deficit King Award

With next year deficit scheduled to go over one trillion dollar, AGAIN

He has amassed the four highest deficits since World War II

It is no wonder we are in this state when President Obama constantly uses administrative policies and regulations versus legislative politics to spend, spend, spend.

Consider these three examples:

• 225,000 clean energy jobs created/saved – cost $355,000 per job as reported by the President’s Council of Economic advisors

• $500 million green job training program at the Dept of Labor which has trained 53,000 but only 8,035 found jobs and only 1,033 are still working – cost $484,000 per job as reported by the Wall Street Journal

• $38.6 Billion in loan guarantees with $17.2 billion spent created 3,545 jobs – cost $4,800,000 per job as reported by the Washington Post

40 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 General Election
17 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012
7 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012
5 weeks to County Caucus —Mar 3, 2012

As President Reagan used to say, ‘Well there he goes again”
Tuesday’s State of the Union was another long and tedious speech on the need for more taxes and spending by definition a screed.
Even the left leaning AP (Associated Press) noted below:
WASHINGTON — It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry subsidies — something he could not get through a Democratic Congress…. And there was more recycling, in an even more forbidding climate than when the ideas were new: He pushed for an immigration overhaul that he couldn’t get past Democrats, permanent college tuition tax credits that he asked for a year ago, and familiar discouragements for companies that move overseas.
A look at Obama’s rhetoric Tuesday night and how it fits with the facts and political circumstances:
OBAMA: “Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program.”
THE FACTS: That’s only half true. About half of the more than 30 million uninsured Americans expected to gain coverage through the health care law will be enrolled in a government program. Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people, will be expanded starting in 2014 to cover childless adults living near the poverty line.
The other half will be enrolled in private health plans through new state-based insurance markets. But many of them will be receiving federal subsidies to make their premiums more affordable. And that’s a government program, too.
Starting in 2014 most Americans will be required to carry health coverage, either through an employer, by buying their own plan, or through a government program.

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OBAMA, asking Congress to pay for construction projects: “Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home.”
THE FACTS: The idea of taking war “savings” to pay for other programs is budgetary sleight of hand. For one thing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been largely financed through borrowing, so stopping the wars doesn’t create a pool of ready cash, just less debt. And the savings appear to be based at least in part on inflated war spending estimates for future years.

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OBAMA: “Through the power of our diplomacy a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program now stands as one.”
THE FACTS: The world is still divided over how to deal with Iran’s disputed nuclear program, and even over whether the nuclear program is a problem at all.
It is true that the U.S., Europe and other nations have agreed to apply the strictest economic sanctions yet on Iran later this year. But the global sanctions net has holes, because some of Iran’s large oil trading partners won’t go along. China, a major purchaser of Iran’s crude, isn’t part of the new sanctions and, together with Russia, stopped the United Nations from applying similarly tough penalties.

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OBAMA: “The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home.”
THE FACTS: Obama is more sanguine about progress in Afghanistan than his own intelligence apparatus. The latest National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan warns that the Taliban will grow stronger, using fledgling talks with the U.S. to gain credibility and stall until U.S. troops leave, while continuing to fight for more territory. The classified assessment, described to The Associated Press by officials who have seen it, says the Afghan government hasn’t been able to establish credibility with its people, and predicts the Taliban and warlords will largely control the countryside.

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OBAMA: “On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world’s number one automaker. Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories.”
THE FACTS: He left out some key details. The bailout of General Motors and Chrysler began under Republican President George W. Bush. Obama picked up the ball, earmarked more money, and finished the job. But Ford never asked for a federal bailout and never got one.

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OBAMA: “Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households.”
THE FACTS: It’s true that a minority of millionaires pay a lower tax rate than some lower-income people. On average, though, wealthy people pay taxes at a much higher rate than middle-income taxpayers.
Obama’s claim comes from a Congressional Research Service report that compared federal taxes paid by people making less than $100,000 with those paid by people making more than $1 million. About 10 percent of families with incomes under $100,000 paid more than 26.5 percent in federal income, payroll and corporate taxes. And about a quarter of millionaire taxpayers paid a rate lower than that.

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OBAMA: “We can’t bring back every job that’s left our shores…. Tonight, my message to business leaders is simple: Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed.”
FACT CHECK: Many of the jobs U.S. companies have created overseas won’t return because they were never in the United States in the first place.
As Obama said in his speech, U.S. workers have become more productive and labor costs have fallen.
But there are powerful forces pushing the other way: Many of the overseas jobs in U.S. companies weren’t transferred from the U.S. They were created in fast-growing markets in Latin America, Asia and elsewhere to serve customers in those markets. Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index now earn more than half of their revenue from overseas…

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OBAMA: “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned doesn’t know what they’re talking about … That’s not how people feel from Tokyo to Berlin; from Cape Town to Rio; where opinions of America are higher than they’ve been in years.”
THE FACTS: Obama left out Arab and Muslim nations, where popular opinion of the U.S. appears to have gone downhill or remained unchanged after the spring 2011 reformist uprisings in the Middle East. A Pew Research Center survey in May found that in predominantly Muslim countries such as Turkey, Jordan and Pakistan, views of the U.S. were worse than a year earlier. In Pakistan, a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid that went unmentioned in Obama’s speech, just 11 percent of respondents said they held a positive view of the United States.
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Associated Press writers Tom Raum, Anne Gearan, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Martin Crutsinger, Jim Drinkard, Dina Cappiello, Erica Werner, Andrew Taylor, Christopher S. Rugaber and Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.

41 weeks until the Nov 6, 2012 General Election
18 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012
8 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012
6 weeks to County Caucus —Mar 3, 2012
3 weeks to Lincoln Day—Feb 11, 2012

By not permitting the Keystone XL Pipeline, President Obama puts his campaign ahead of the health and wealth of America.

42 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 General Election

As noted from a Heritage Foundation Member Briefing– Over the last several months President Obama has been feeling the heat from radical environmentalists and Hollywood’s celebrity base to block the construction of the pipe line. As Heritage Foundation’s Mike Brownfield explains, the administration’s retreat on this issue shows “politics is more important than achieving true energy independence for the United States.”

Relevant Points
• State department has been studying this pipe line for three years.
• There are currently 25,000 miles of pipeline already in Nebraska.
• There are no tax payer funds to build this $7 billion pipeline.
• Pipeline would generate $5.2 billion in property tax revenue for MT, SD, OK, NE and TX
• Construction by most estimates create over 20,000 jobs and 100,000 ancillary jobs
• This administration has already squandered and lost over $6 billion of your tax money in failed alternative energy plants.

What has been the secret of the American Economy was its ability to let private business deal with private land owners without government interference as they complied with relevant regulations.

The reasons most developing countries languish in poverty are barriers of entry into the market place i.e. not months to start up but multiple years of bureaucratic roadblocks.

It is no wonder this administration is presiding over anemic growth.

• 43 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 General Election
• 20 weeks to the State Convention—May 30, 2012
• 10 weeks to the County Convention—Mar 24, 2012
• 7 weeks to the County Caucus —Mar 3, 2012
• 4 weeks until Lincoln Day—Feb 11, 2012

We are now in the final countdown to the time where we can take back Olympia and Washington DC.
We all need to ask ourselves, ”How can I help make Republican victories possible?”
A good start would be making a commitment to support and attend Lincoln Day, Caucus, and County & State Conventions.
We will win by working together, helping our candidates, identifying like-minded voters and getting out the vot

44 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 general election
We all need spread the word in earnest that it’s time for a new president.

If one needs any facts just look what happened this week

Four recess appointments when the Congress was not in recess.

This represents a total disregard for the Constitution, separation of powers, and the Justice Department ruling during the Clinton Administration that ruled recess appointments could only be made after the Senate has been recessed for 3 days.

In fact the Dodd Frank legislation that that President Obama signed, specifically states the director of the new Consumer Protection Agency must be confirmed by the Senate.

One would expect this type of governance from a banana republic dictator who when they do not get their way will run rough shod over the law.

Happy New Year

45 weeks to the Nov 6, 2012 general election

I hope you all are enjoying this special season of giving and joy, and looking forward to a great New Year.
2012 can be our year as we move our state and country back on the right course.
We will win by working together, helping our candidates, identifying like-minded voters and getting out the vote.

Hope to see you all at our Lincoln Day Lunch – 11 Feb – Key Note speaker Rob McKenna

Happy New Year!