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Rep. Dave Obey has included about $150 million in the budget to help encourage states to innovate with health planning and high-risk pools.
Jay Premack

The House version, approved by the panel Tuesday, adds about $2.3 billion to the president’s request for the department and calls for a greater effort to deport illegal immigrants who are subsequently convicted of significant drug offenses and violent crimes. Byrd goes further, adding $2.46 billion to the president’s request, including $241 million more for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with a heavy emphasis, again, on deporting major criminals.

Veterans’ medical care is a second major priority, and the House committee Tuesday approved a $93.68 billion budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is better than $6 billion over this year’s budget and includes a $3.27 billion increase to the president’s request for medical services.

Mindful of the rapid increase in spending, the committee also includes beefed-up funding for the VA’s inspector general to monitor the funds. But the tone of the Tuesday markup was best captured in an amendment by California Rep. Jerry Lewis, the ranking Republican, who added millions more still to help veterans pay higher gas prices when driving to VA clinics or hospitals for treatment.

Increased public investments in science are an important part of two bills before the panel Wednesday. This follows Pelosi’s intervention on behalf of some of the same agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, as part of recent negotiations over a wartime spending bill due to clear Congress this week.

The House’s draft 2009 bill adds $50 million for science within Bush’s new NSF budget; the National Institutes of Health is promised a $1.15 billion increase over the president’s budget in a giant bill Thursday adding as much as $11 billion to program funding for labor, health and education programs.

Looking past November, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) has included about $150 million within the Health and Human Services budget to help encourage states to innovate with health planning and high-risk pools — “to build into the system the capacity for universal health care,” Obey said.

In many cases, much of the money being added by Democrats will go to forestall proposed cuts by the White House, and one casualty in the process is that time is lost, when the Appropriations committees once were able to exercise more scrutiny over the performance of some programs.

This year’s bills are not without cuts. The House committee trimmed $53 million, for example, from the Coast Guard’s request for its fourth National Security Cutter, because of questions about its design. Obey has proposed to make deep cuts from a Reading First program backed by the White House, after critical studies of its efficacy.

But privately, committee clerks, who play a major role in writing the bills, admit that so much energy goes into the partisan wrangling with the White House that a precious focus is lost.

“When you are fighting to salvage something, it obviously makes it harder for you to devote resources,” Obey said. “If you have a basic consensus about what government should do and shouldn’t do in these areas, then you have more time to work out what the hell changes you need to make something more effective.”

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“When you are fighting to salvage something, it obviously makes it harder for you to devote resources,” Obey said. “If you have a basic consensus about what government should do and shouldn’t do in these areas, then you have more time to work out what the hell changes you need to make something more effective.”

It's so hard when some people don't conform, isn't it?

Does it even occur to Obey that the opposition may be reflecting what their constituency would like to see?

The US Congress is not fixing anything. It is all showboating versus solving any real issues in the United States. There is no doubt in my mind that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are as unethical and corrupt as any member of the GOP. Really fix social security, really fix medicare, really bring the military industriual complex back under control. Bring the legions home. It is not the privates the seamen or the airmen. It is the Generals and Admirals who view themselves as George C Scott playing Pattion. It is the generals who have to buy $2,000,000 worth of flowers to spruce up the front gate and the HQ building at a military post. It is the general who has the taxpayer pay for a $700,000 dog kennel for his pets. It is the general who rents a $ 5,000 a day 15 X 20 foot TV to play videos of himself at a football field to show what a hero he has been in the Iraq war It is the members of congress who fly on corporate jets to military bases to rig cost plus fixed fee contracts for their lobbyist friends. You know who you are. There are the retired military officers who are working for military contractors in positions where they can strong arm government employees involved in government contracting into doing illegal activities. It is the political appointees who terminate career government employees who refuse to participate in fraudlent payments to contractors. There is the medicare systemt that is the elderly are forced into that leaves them bankrupt if they develop any serious illness. It is the same safety net healthcare system that is used to provide free healthcare services for illegal immagrents at the expense of the elderly. It is the social securiy fund thst is bankrupt because the trust fund was spent on the Iraq war, along with the civil service retirement and military retirement funds. To solve this misappropriation of the trust funds the retires have been derauded of real cost of living increases in favor of cherry picked cost of living increases that are meaningless. Thank you GOP and Bill Clinton. Thank you US Congress for the mortgage meltdown. I am sure the 100 or so members of the US congress who have persoanlly benefitted with special loans could care less if millions of US Homeowners have lost there homes month after month for the past year and no one did a thing. Thank you GOP and George W Bush for remving most of the checks and balances put in place by Franklin Roosevelt that protected most of the US population from excess lending fees and outright bank fraud Nothing is really getting done and nothing has been fixed, just showboating by political hacks and crooks. They all need to be shown the door and kicked to the curb. If you were really paying attention you wouold know they involve themselves in things everyday that are meaningless just to look like they are actually doing something for their overinflated pay checks

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Imagine the ignorant fast-talking and opinionated schoolyard bullies and jerks many of us encountered back in grade school. Now, they’re all grown up. That pretty much describes the bulk of political parasites that have infested the Republican Party over the last 20-plus years. The rhetoric and integrity of this once Grand Old Party has become deeply infected by some of the most morally bankrupt political and intellectual hacks in history.

Growing up as a fourth generation Republican, albeit of the progressive wing, I witnessed a gradual infestation of elitist money-obsessed socially retarded sycophants possessing the most putrid ideas about patriotism, reverence, governance and global citizenship. A disdain for intellect, insight and integrity was their moral compass. Only blind loyalty, winning and staying on message mattered. It was the political equivalent of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” and the false wisdom of their message was irrelevant.

It has been especially painful as an African American, born and raised in Harlem, who was particularly proud of my knowledge about the origins, core beliefs and early history of Republican political philosophy. Logically and politically, the clarity of present day reality soon fast-tracked me to becoming an ex-Republican. Historically, the GOP went from the respected brand of being “radical Republicans” to what many us now jokingly refer to as “neo-con knuckleheads.”

A 19th century political movement that was born from America’s constitutional beliefs of human equality, equitable justice and effective democracy inspired slaves, former slaves, slavery abolitionists and congressional representatives alike. This movement spawned such true believers as American greats Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, Hiram Revels and its first Republican U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Fast-forward to the late 20th into 21st century and Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and John McCain are the twisted leftovers of a previously respectable GOP legacy.

During my own campaign as a struggling District of Columbia Republican mayoral candidate in 2006, it became creepily clear this was a political party that in no way remained true to any of the traditions, beliefs and standards several generations of African American Republicans had instilled in me. They were now practicing political and intellectual lobotomy. A strange form of nausea affected me, as I talked more with key officials in the Republican National Committee and the D.C. Republican Committee about African American candidates and our perspective on diverse issues. Metaphorically, the GOP was no longer the father or mother I knew.

Surely, the neo-Republican nightmare of the last 20-plus years has destroyed the original legacy of a political party that early in its development was on the cutting edge of progressive ideas, genuine patriotism, diplomatic integrity and credible stewardship of the public trust. More than that, it has deeply corrupted the integrity of our nation. The consequences of this corruption may result in the natural death of a political party that infected itself. It has also lobotomized many once credible American journalists and commentators into media morons.

However, there is genuine evidence that diverse Americans want to end this destructive parasitic relationship. If there is any possibility that a President Barack Obama can fully wake us from this long national nightmare affirmed by the second President Bush, and covertly revered by Senator McCain, America might have another chance to become a stronger, wiser and more united nation. This is my solemn expectation as a been-there-done-that former Republican slave, who is now an emancipated and clear-minded confirmed Independent.

God is Good. He put the Bit About Utah Open Borders King Chris Cannon..GOING DOWN..in the Politico today!!!!

JUBILATION DAY....THANK YOU GOD....MAGNIFICANT DAY...THANK YOU UTAH...I KNEW YOU WOULD DO RIGHT..WE ALMOST TOOK HIM DOWN LAST YEAR...MORE AND MORE OPEN BORDERS POLITICALS ARE BITING THE DUST..MORE .JUBILiATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..BOXER IN CALIFORNIA HAS NEGATIVE RATINGS HIGHER THAN HER POSITIVE RATINGS...KERRY IS MA IS IN DEEP DOO DOO WITH HIS APPROVAL RATINGS...HARRY REID MIGHT GET TAKEN OUT...

So...This grim, depressing Morning, I am researching the Poltical and Immigration Lawyer H1b selling of good American Jobs...a depressing job indeed...and Immigration Lawyer Firm after Immigration Lawyer Firm..is estatic that DEMOCRAT H1B VISA PEDDLAR ROBERT WEXLER OF FLORIDA HAS COME THROUGH FOR MEXICO....CHINA...AND INDIA. NOT TO MENTION THE BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES AND HOSPITALS WHO TIRE OF PAYING AMERICAN NURSES A LIVING WAGE.

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF AMERICAN NURSES....THERE IS A SHORTAGE OFHealth Billionaires who wish to Pay American Nurses a Living Wage. (And the Free Traders...Alan Greenspan..Pal of Wexler's?...advocated flooding the USA Job Market with cheap Medical personnel in March..2007.."Greenspan's Fix On Ineqality: Free Trade for Doctors and Lawyers" (US News and World Report)..Report on the Snowe WH Inequality Commission..THEY ARE HERE...IN WEXLER'S BILL)

GREENSPAN IS QUOTED AS SAYING " We can flood the USA Market with cheap medical personnel...just like we flooded the market with Cheap foreign cars and bring wages down. If 'we" (Who is we? Ask Wexler?) can drive the wages of physicans down $100,000 each..we (again..We?) will make more than "we" made on NAFTA."

co-sponsors are hopping aboard according to the Immigration Lawyer's blog....So Far...Putnam of Florida..Rep. (Leadership role in Rep. Party) Bipartisan Sell Out!

Immigration Lawyer Blog...

. The passage of H.R. 5924 would be one small step in the right direction to help alleviate the shortage. There are many other shortage areas that also need addressing, such as public school teachers, especially math, science, and special education, farm workers, and high technology professionals. (Wexler and his gang of USA Job Sellers...MEAN YOU BABE. They just haven't got there YET.)

Helping companies add foreign workers to fill shortage occupations is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job as an immigration attorney. Even if H.R. 5924 is not passed, I look forward to helping nurses, physical therapists, and other workers find a way to process their green card application

The Democrats smell your blood........................run out and vote for all of them Bush is worse than bad..and I NEVER VOTED FOR HIM AND I TELL THE TRUTH...but Democrats are FAR WORSE. Not McCain..He is a DEMOCRAT. Bush will be gone. Surely...we can do something. Can you imagine a President we LIKE and RESPECT? Do you even remember such a Thing? And Pro American too. That is a Have to Have Quality..NOT to be confused with WAR MONGER...or Mexican Employee..PRO USA..

The Politico ..in it's "Speak to Power" has a long editorial praising Wexler's American Nurse Curse Unemployment Bill at Living wages.....and they love it. So Do the Big Hospital Fellows..a lovely bunch. And the Big Health Organizations..HMO's ...whom you know to be fine people...only concerned with Quality care...

THE NEWS....THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS LINKED TO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM THE USA DEPT. OF LABOR IS NOW PROBING.

YES..."The Nation's largest Immigration Law Firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high paying positions to immigrants. (YOU DON'T THINK!!!)"

The unprecendented labor department inquiry center4s on Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy...a New York firm at the forefront of a poltical effort to ease hiring of skillled foreign workers. (working with Wexler..Putnam..Senseenbreen..?YOU BET THEY ARE...READ THE IMMIGRATION BLOGS) THE FIRM ALSO REPRESENTS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ON IMMIGRATION ISSUES. THIS IS THE GO TO FIRM...THE AP USES FOP ANSWERS ON IMMIGRATION. FOR THREE YEARS...WE HAVE HAD A NON STOP PRO ILLEGAL ALIEN...ANTI-AMERICAN FRENZY OF STORIES FROM THE AP....AND THIS IS THEIR LAW FIRM.

Fragomen's prestigious client roster includes General Electric-- IBM CORP...Cisco--- Intel Corp. and of course...You know the Bank that Banked the Unbanked..The Bank of America--which YOU ARE BAILING OUT IN CONGRESS --today---WITH THE HUGE BUILDER'S AND BANKING MORTGAGE BAIL OUT BILL THE 'POPULIST DEMOCRATS' PUSH. The National Home Builder's Association..which is the FATHER and MOTHER of Illegal Immigration..has a full page ad in Yesterday"s USA TODAY newspaper..Thanking the Senate and House. for using your money to bail them out. If George Bush vetoes this Bill from Illegal Alien Heaven.......he did at least one good thing for you. AND NO Black citizens are NOT getting foreclosed...the forclosure rate in Atlanta is 6%...In California...29%....In Florida 27% , Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada...the Undocumented getting loans...this is a PAY OFF to the HISPANIC CAUCUS.........and Florida, for the second time in two years leads the nation in Mortgage Fraud...maybe Wexler could work on that?????????)I am not in the least surprised.

What did Frogroman do? They told "Clients" to contact a Frogroman Attorney before hiring "apparently qualified" USA Workers.and then they quickly unqualified them...and aother Foreign client got another good job..and another poltican got thrity pieces of sliver.................................?????????And their are THOUSANDS OF IMMIGRATION LAW FIRMS OUT THERE SELLING AMERICAN JOBS...IMMIGRATION LAWYERS LIKE ZOE LOFTGREEN CHAIR THE DEMOCRAT IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE........AND ABOUT 99.9 5 ARE DEMOCRATS.POPULIST ...MY EYE AND BILL CLINTON TOO. THE DADDY OF USA JOB SELLING. YEAH,,BUSH IS GOOD AT IT TOO..BUT THE DEMOCRATS AND CLINTON STARTED THE FEEDING FRENZY.

After reading about our polticians...their connections with people who sell jobs Americans desperately need...don't you want to just take a bath? Then call NUMBERS USA. I have never advised that before. But...Times are desperate. They are Non Profit. They are Straight. Their money gets Auditied and they come out well. And they are American. Pro USA Workers. It is still not a crime to be Pro USA Workers...Looked down on by the Elites...but not a crime yet. The Battle lines are being drawn. And they are Not Democrat or Republican. They are American. Independent.

But there is strong pressure from Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) to test the waters with the Homeland Security bill, which has now cleared both committees.

The House version, approved by the panel Tuesday, adds about $2.3 billion to the president’s request for the department and calls for a greater effort to deport illegal immigrants who are subsequently convicted of significant drug offenses and violent crimes. Byrd goes further, adding $2.46 billion to the president’s request, including $241 million more for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with a heavy emphasis, again, on deporting major criminals

The Hispanic Caucus...The Big Business Groups..The Open Borders Groups..The Immigration lawyers...GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO SLIME THIS GOOD FRIEND TO AMERICAN WORKERS.

Don't buy it. Sen. Robert Byrd had Been with American Workers on The American People ON EVERY H1B GIVE AWAY..VOTING NO! AND EVERY AMNESTY PLAN..VOTING NO!

The six Democrats who have Stood by the American Workers..The American People...the USA as a Soverign Nation..who have fought stupid Give Away Free Trade Deals...which are anything but Free To Us..are

Sen. Byron Dorgan

Sen. Robert Byrd.

Sen. Rockefeller

Sen. Claire McClaskil

Sen. Mark Pryor..(mostly)

Sen. Stebenow ( she was up for re-election..still..she stood with us)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

They are all USA. And they are the ONLY Democrats who represented YOU and YOUR JOB.

Obey...pictured here...Yesterday...Chaired a Mark Up Session of the House Approriations Comm. Which gutted any money for US Police to be trained by ICE to enforce Immigration Law. EVERY single Democrat on the Committee voted with OBEY..Every Single Republican voted against OBey and For Police Protection for USA citizens from Illegal Aliens. Obey can't stop the WAR..but he can show LOVE to illegal aliens.

AND the Democrats are wild to end IMMIGRATION RAIDS OF ALL SORTS. Right now they work to do that...so Populist...Yes...for Mexico...not the USA.

But there is strong pressure from Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) to test the waters with the Homeland Security bill, which has now cleared both committees.

The House version, approved by the panel Tuesday, adds about $2.3 billion to the president’s request for the department and calls for a greater effort to deport illegal immigrants who are subsequently convicted of significant drug offenses and violent crimes. Byrd goes further, adding $2.46 billion to the president’s request, including $241 million more for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with a heavy emphasis, again, on deporting major criminals

Rep Dave Obey. Chair of the House. Appro. Committee

Sen. Byrd is very ill. He has been in the Hospital. I don't think he is part of this...He is a Good American..loyal to American Workers...I think his name is being used by OBey and ilk to mask what they are really doing to Illegal Alien Enforememt. They are GUTTING IT.

Because that Program was Working way too well. Some Potential Illegal Aliens got scared off...called their Relatives in LaLa Land..the Hispanic Caucus put pressure on Obey and the Democrats...whom they own........and THE ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS IS DONE. OVER. DEAD

Example...sounds good? "adds about $2.3 billion to the president’s request for the department and calls for a greater effort to deport illegal immigrants who are subsequently convicted of significant drug offenses and violent crimes."

BUT the USA POLICE has to CATCH the Illegal in the ACT...has to SEE the Violence happen..otherwise....they USA police cannot stop..cannot question any illegal alien as to Citzenship status.............The USA Police can enforce our laws on us...BUT NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS. They are now in a "PROTECTED CATEGORY." And you bet you can go to jail if you mess with them..ditto for the Police.

TODAY...or SOON...the Democrats will MOVE TO END ICE RAIDS. And Politico and other MSM will cover their Anti-American behinds as usual.

For the First Time in my Life.. i advise you to at least go to the NumbersUSA website and check it out. If you like having a job that is................................Make Up your OWN MIND.

From CrazyTown..Democratic Controlled Chicago..Where OBAMA has moved the DNC....From the Chicago Sun Times:

State government's pandering to immigrants could be dangerous

June 25, 2008

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Downstate levees aren't the only endangered holdbacks Illinoisans are dealing with these days.

Throughout the state, from every border, we're threatened by illegal activity to which our governor and state Legislature have strategically opened the floodgates. As a result, they've taken the pressure off neighbors as Illinois absorbs the heartland's influx of illegal immigrants.

First, Illinois has the highest state-set minimum wage in the Midwest. That means we attract more low-income wage earners than neighboring states with lower standards.Second, we offer in-state tuition benefits for the children of those who have entered our country illegally. Third, we provide state-funded health care for any child, with no proof of residency or citizenship for themselves or their caretakers.

And Chicago police are forbidden to ask suspected lawbreakers their immigration status, providing sanctuary and special rights for those who have sought immigrant refuge in Illinois. ( What Obey and the Democrats in the HOUSE did YESTERDAY to all of the USA...if the entire House upholds it..that is Democrat controlled..Do you doubt)

Consistently thumbing our legislative nose at federal immigration policy and extending government subsidies to noncitizens, Illinois has become a Midwestern promised land for those in America illegally.

It's such a land of milk and honey that not only are Illinois taxpayers drowning in unprecedented debt and increasing financial burdens,............................

In the meantime, congressional efforts have been unsuccessful in mandating the E-Verify system nationwide, and a San Francisco federal court blocked federal administrative rules from requiring E-Verify's use.

Frustrated with one dead end after another, President Bush signed an executive order two weeks ago requiring all federal contractors to run an E-Verify check before hiring.Immigrants-rights groups opposed Bush's order, saying the system is vulnerable to those who illegally used real identity documents belonging to others. Without new funding and staff, the groups say, the Social Security Administration could be overwhelmed by federal contractors' inquiries.

That's a reason to ignore federal law and show preferential treatment to illegal workers?

So Illinois remains in the middle of a heated immigration policy dispute. As the governor sets into motion more outreach to immigration-rights groups, new coalitions to protect immigrants are forming as strange political bedfellows emerge among Catholic citizen groups, service worker unions, restaurant owners, farmers and chamber of commerce groups.

And just last week.........................Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago), met with Republican presidential hopeful John McCain during a private meeting with Chicago-area Hispanics. Though he served alongside then-state Sen. Barack Obama, Sandoval isn't so impressed with Obama that he's not willing to talk to the Republican co-author of the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform. McCain's federal proposal would have enhanced border enforcement, set up an electronic employment verification system and offered amnesty for those in the United States illegally. ( The Manchurian Candidate? Benedict Arnold was a War Hero.....)

As Americans grow used to exorbitant gas prices and tire of the Iraqi war discussion, the growing immigration crisis could emerge as the 2008 political season's most threatening and potentially damaging problem"

Hold on to your wallets, this is only the beginning. These fools, Rep and Dem alike just can't control the spending. It makes me sick, they just don't get.

This summer is the PT Barnum summer for the dems/far left. It will be the "see how many suckers we can fool and get some money from them."

We can also call this the Pander Express. Let the illeglas know that we will block any effort to keep them and their future votes from coming across our borders. We will also block any type of ID to vote and will use the canard that the poor can't afford to get their picture taken, even the ones with 50 inch flat screen TVs.

WE will deluge you with flowery, say nothing speeches and mind-numbed robots repeating our mantras. You will be over whelmed and you too will shut off your brain and let us take care of you.

WHY WAIT FOR TERRORIST TO BLOW UP OIL INSTALLATIONS BEFORE WE ACT? ------- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia::: Saudi officials say authorities have arrested hundreds of suspected al Qaida linked militants this year. -----Some of those arrested are suspected of plotting attacks against the kingdom?s oil and economic installations.----- Are we waiting for oil to reach $300 a barrel and gasoline $10 a gallon before we take definitive action to improve our oil and energy supplies? ----- Facts about U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Resources Closed To Development: ----- 38 Billion Barrels of U.S. Oil Resources Inaccessible BECAUSE OF LAWS.----- 1 Trillion Barrels of U.S. Oil Shale Illegal to Develop BECAUSE OF LAWS. AN ECONOMIC DISASTER IS JUST A COUPLE OF BOMBS AWAY.

We are in serious trouble when the majority of american's have become the HAVE NOTS and buy into the GOVERNMENT solution to their problems. There is a reason RICH people are RICH. Could it be they have taken a capital risk? Aren't these the same people who employ you? What would happen if your business's taxes, (PAYROLL, Mandated Health CARE ect.) were raised? You being the business owner would follow rule number 1, pay yourself first. Then you would layoff the least productive of your team and you know every team has them. You then would make the remaining employees pick up the slack. Or you would find someone willing to do more for less, ( OUTSOURCING ANYONE? ) Our tax burden right now on business is the highest in the industrialized world. Is it any wonder companies do business elsewhere because that's where they can make a profit. When taxes are cut, revenue increases to the treasury, how is that so difficult to grasp. Spending is the problem, I'm sorry but this BIG GOVERNMENT, change my lifestyle is starting to wear me out already. Mr. Obama, Mr. McCain, let's give the power back to the people who make this country great, its certainly not you inside the beltway types. Thanks for letting me rant this morning.

Could it be they have taken a capital risk? Aren't these the same people who employ you? What would happen if your business's taxes,

The philiosphy of the left is class envy. Let the folks sit on their butts, and whine that they should be given a part of the wealth of those who don't. They feel entitled to the money that others have worked for. They love the government, though it produces nothing but more goverment, but they love it because they can use it to streal money from those who do work and produce and give it to those who don't. The lazy, greedy far-left.

Could it be they have taken a capital risk? Aren't these the same people who employ you? What would happen if your business's taxes,

The philiosphy of the left is class envy. Let the folks sit on their butts, and whine that they should be given a part of the wealth of those who don't. They feel entitled to the money that others have worked for. They love the government, though it produces nothing but more goverment, but they love it because they can use it to streal money from those who do work and produce and give it to those who don't. The lazy, greedy far-left.

Mamie, On the other hand, it clears the way for risk takers to get ahead in the world of economic freedom. There is a reason its not crowded at the top of the mountain. It takes hard work and dedication to be successful in this country. In some ways that bodes well for the dreamer of big ideas. Class envy for those of us who think is a losing argument, why wouldn't you emulate the successful rather than be bitter at that person? Oh well, I guess to many like the Obama message and expect something for nothing. I predict we will fall hard if it comes to be. McCain is not much better, if at all. Pray for us all!