http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/13/buffalo.billboard/index.html

Thanks for coming to New York Mr. President. It’s nice to see you are taking a moment to recognize the massive unemployment that grips our country. Of course you’ll then head to Manhattan for a massive fundraiser with Wall Street. So they’re great to bash and paint as the big bad wolf and also great to take their money… in buckets. All you Obama voters, please tell me, where is your great agent of change? Where is Mr. Transparent? Where is the man who said he would not be like the other Washington types? Where is he? Please tell me because I’m quite interested in this great man you all touted as our future leader. I found Waldo, but I can’t seem to find your man.

It seems again that we have so much to learn from the great minds of the past. So perfectly applied to the recent happenings in Greece, so clearly can we see the path the President and the left are dragging us down.

Riots in Greece! Why? Just ask old Eddie. Having looked to the government for bread, they are now rioting when a little is taken away. Considering the magnitude of the situation in Greece, very little has been cut from the budgets those folks are rioting over, nevertheless, having conformed to the ways of a socialized welfare state, they are dependant on it, so when a little is taken, it feels like a lot.

Why is it so hard for this President and the left to understand that what brought Greece to its knees is what is to come of America if we continue implementing these destructive social, economic, and national security policies? Trick question. They do understand, and they have been working tirelessly to make sure that America’s demise is imminent.

The IMF, European Union and the European central bank have approved a bailout loan of about $130 billion euros over three years. But the best part is, the Greek government MUST remove the state from sectors including HEALTH CARE, TRANSPORTATION, and ENERGY!

Whooooaaaa! You mean to tell me that government run sectors such as these helped to trash the Greek economy almost to the brink of default? What does Obama have to say about this? Other than that he’s “very concerned about Greece.” I’m sure he is just overly excited watching the potential outcome of his hard work here.

Folks, when you look at Greece you should be thinking one thing. NOVEMBER! If you haven’t realized it already, than the situation in Greece should be a giant wake up call. November is crucial. But we cannot just go to the ballots and vote for candidates just for the ( R ) next to their name. We must demand conservative candidates with records that show they stand on by their conservative principles. There can be NO compromise on this, for conservatism is the only antidote for the liberal virus that threatens the very existence of America as we know it.

And if you think for one second that I’m being over dramatic, just look again at Greece.

Look again at what the future holds for us lest we gain control of our destiny from those who seek to destroy it.

Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill’s critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was heretofore unthinkable, dumping the health care coverage they provide to their workers in exchange for paying penalty fees to the government. That would dismantle the employer-based system that has reigned since World War II. It would also seem to contradict President Obama’s statements that Americans who like their current plans could keep them. And as we’ll see, it would hugely magnify the projected costs for the bill, which controls deficits only by assuming that America’s employers would remain the backbone of the nation’s health care system. Hence, health-care reform risks becoming a victim of unintended consequences. Amazingly, the corporate documents that prove this point became public because of a different set of unintended consequences: they told a story far different than the one the politicians who demanded them expected.
In the days after President Obama signed the bill on March 24, a number of companies announced big write downs due to some fiscal changes it ushered in. The legislation eliminated a company’s right to deduct the federal retiree drug-benefit subsidy from their corporate taxes. That reduced projected revenue. As a result, AT&T (T, Fortune 500) and Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) took well-publicized charges of around $1 billion.

The announcements greatly annoyed Representative Henry Waxman, who accused the companies of using the big numbers to exaggerate health care reform’s burden on employers. Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, demanded that they turn over their confidential memos, and summoned their top executives for hearings.

But Waxman didn’t simply request documents related to the write down issue. He wanted every document the companies created that discussed what the bill would do to their most uncontrollable expense: healthcare costs.

The request yielded 1,100 pages of documents from four major employers: AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar and Deere (DE, Fortune 500). No sooner did the Democrats on the Energy Committee read them than they abruptly cancelled the hearings. On April 14, the Committee’s majority staff issued a memo stating that the write downs were “proper and in accordance with SEC rules.” The committee also stated that the memos took a generally sunny view of the new legislation. The documents, said the Democrats’ memo, show that “the overall impact of health reform on large employers could be beneficial.”

Nowhere in the five-page report did the majority staff mention that not one, but all four companies, were weighing the costs and benefits of dropping their coverage.
AT&T produced a PowerPoint slide entitled “Medical Cost Versus No Coverage Penalty.” A document prepared for Verizon by consulting firm Hewitt Resources stated, “Even though the proposed assessments [on companies that do not provide health care] are material, they are modest when compared to the average cost of health care,” and that to avoid costs and regulations, “employers may consider exiting the health care market and send employees to the Exchanges.” (Under the new bill, employees who lose their coverage will purchase health care through state-run exchanges.)

Kenneth Huhn, vice president of labor relations at Deere, said in an internal email that his company should look at the alternatives to providing health benefits, which “would amount to denying coverage and just paying the penalty,” and that he felt he already had the ability to make this change under his company’s labor agreement. Caterpillar felt it would have to give “serious consideration” to the penalty option.

It’s these analyses — which show it’s a lot cheaper to “pay” than to “play” — that threaten to overthrow the traditional architecture of health care.

The cost side

Indeed, companies are far more likely to cease providing coverage if they predict the bill will lift rather than flatten the cost curve. Deere, for example said, “We do expect double digit health care increases as most Americans will now have insurance and providers try to absorb the 15% uninsured into a practice.”

Both Caterpillar (CAT, Fortune 500) and Verizon believe the requirement to allow dependents to remain on their parents’ policies until age 26 will prove costly. Caterpillar puts the added expense at $20 million a year.” (read the rest at http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/news/companies/dropping_benefits.fortune/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=C2)

Bottom line- as I predicted from the beginning of this fool’s errand, the costs in the end will out-vastly weigh the benefits. And as this article shows, Democrats have manipulated the process from the beginning. The mid-term elections can not come soon enough!!! We need to change the balance in that house and fire Pinky Pelosi!

But let not these politically correct, civil rights, human rights snakes that hide behind these causes to further their agenda and secure power for them fool you. And the President himself is leading this pack of rejects and rabble-rousers against the Arizona Governor for doing nothing short of enforcing the current Federal immigration laws.
The Governor said “the people of Arizona are tired of waiting for the Federal Government to act.” And they damn well should be. The states’ border is overrun with criminal activity that includes violating the United States of America’s Federal immigration laws, illegal human trafficking/smuggling and drug smuggling, all resulting in violent crimes against the legal citizens of the state regardless of where they are from.

So the Governor steps up, and stands up for ALL the American citizens in her state that suffer economic threatening and life threatening crimes! What the hell is wrong with that? Well, Obama and the rest of the power hungry libs are going to “monitor” the situation to make sure there are no human/civil rights violations. Can you imagine how far this country has come, when the Federal government and President himself threaten states for passing laws that enforce existing federal law? This is a travesty. What is it that is more important to Barack Obama and the Democrats? The safety and rights of the law abiding American citizen, or securing future votes by advocating, facilitating, and in my opinion encouraging illegal immigration? Make no mistake folks, this outrage by the President and the left is a dog and pony show aimed at securing votes.

Protestors were in Tucson, Az. shouting “immigrants are people too.” This law is not aimed at immigrants folks, it is aimed at illegal immigrants and securing the safety of Americans PERIOD, Legal immigrants as well. There is a great distinction to be made.

Being pro-law is not being anti-immigrants. It is pro-legal immigrants, pro-life, and pro-America. This President has yet again has offered a glimpse into just how anti-American and anti-constitution he is. But is it really anything new folks?

Ahmadinejad basically said to Obama what all of us on/in the right have said from the beginning, that he’s inexperienced. In a speech today the Iranian President said,

“American materialist politicians, whenever they are beaten by logic, immediately resort to their weapons like cowboys.”

Whoa, slow down, Obama? A cowboy? I’ll disagree with Adolf Jr. on this one. Obama is no cowboy, in fact he’s the direct opposite of that, he’s more like the guy the hero cowboy runs out of town, saving the townspeople from continually getting screwed by the cunning fork tongue snake in the grass.

Ahmadinejad went on to mock Obama saying, “Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer. Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience.” CLASSIC! Now, don’t get me wrong, the last thing I want to do is agree with lunatic hell bent on destruction. But…. You have to admit, the guy hit the nail right on the head! He is a newcomer, and not just to the world stage, but the national stage. He came in with zero experience, and hasn’t learned from any one of his many failures so far.

So Obama is cutting and limiting our nuclear defense in a diplomatic move that is sure to increase threats in the future. Promising only conventional warfare in retaliation to attacks, Obama is inviting disaster. I’m going to as a serious question, and yes, it’s rhetorical. Why does Barack Obama want American soldiers to die? One of the loudest mouths in Washington opposing the war in Iraq, he does not see the trouble with conventional warfare against an unconventional enemy? This is where I disagreed with George W. Bush in Afghanistan. I think we should have gone in, kicked ass, and got out.
Even better, I was a huge supporter of using tactical nukes. I know there are many, many people on both sides that do and will disagree with me. But one tactical nuke in Afghanistan, and we would have had Osama, and Al-Qaeda would’ve been outcast by supporting regimes in fear of a tactical nuke fired upon their own countries.

But here we have him folks, the left’s “Diplomatic leader.” The one who would use diplomacy to raise the worlds opinion of us once again.

Diplomacy for dummies folks, while we fear more attacks he is disarming our greatest advantage over any enemy that wishes to harm us.

But the really funny thing is, that no one country likes us more now than they did when Bush was in office, But you can bet your bottom dollar (If you still have one) they certainly don’t fear us as much as they did when the original “Cowboy” was in office.