He'd [Obama] get the money by lowering the limit on tax deductions for high earners and by trimming some Medicare spending."

I'd have to wonder if Obama is still listening to one of the left's leaders on Socialized Medicine, former Clinton Labor Sec. Robert Reich. From a lecture in Sept. 07:

Now on a few domestic issues. On health care. Look, we are the only health care system in the world  that is designed to avoid sick people. And that's true, and what I'm going to do is I am going to try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people, but that means you .. particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people. - you're going to have to pay more. 

Thank you. And by the way, we're going to have to, if you are very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life, to keep you, maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die.

It's a new world out there folks. (;~/ gary

"And it raises taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for..."

I cannot believe they actually are saying this to the American people with no fear of reprisal.  While taxing the wealthy seems somehow socially fair and well-intentioned, (Who doesn't love Robin Hood, taking money from the corrupt rich and giving it to the totally deserving poor.), it is going to set a terrible, terrible precedent.  If you are a regular here on NB and of the Conservative/Common Sense persuasion, you know this already.

My interest is in how the American populace, in general, will react to this.  Will the people scream NO, or will they applaud this first step towards Socialism?  How will the MSM spin this, or do they even need to?  Will the working middle class realize that they will be next, after the government has drained the wealthy?  Interesting.

It is the ignorant, (meant in the truest sense of the word), masses that interest me these days, and how we can get the truth to them before it's too late.

Long live the Republic!  Conservatives unite!

My first comment on here and I'm speechless due to my anger over this insanity!

I'll be attending the Tea Party Protest at Bowditch Park in Fort Myers Beach at 11:00 AM tomorrow.  I can't sit here with my butt up my %*$.

I hope those of you who are anywhere near a Tea Party Protest will go, be loud and be heard!

Waincroft

Round up the RINOs

I have ever seen anything come from a gathering of folks carrying signs other than a union contract being renewed or Al Sharpton getting Imus fired. Nothing will happen until ALL of us small and large business owners just STOP. Stop the making of goods, shipping of goods, the paying of employees, the paying of taxes, the buying of trucks and cars,  the buying of new equipment, the buying of replacement parts for the equipment, buying cleaning and office supplies, buying lunches at the local eateries, the buying of toys we use in the little time we are not working...etc... you get the idea.

I and my brothers own 3 small businesses that will fall into this "rich" category. It is just not worth killing ourselves for what will be left over after government confiscation (taxes). The idiot(s) running this country are not in it for the money that they can spread around. They are in it for nothing more than control over people. With less intrusion from the government there is such oppurtunity out there to build and expand and HIRE people. But what incentive is there? Why should anyone want to work harder to give larger sums away and more important give up control of your life and liberty? I will not. 

There are only two things that will stop what is taking place now. A complete shut down as described above. Also known as Atlas Shrugging. The other is more likely and scary and that is rebellion. I am up for either. I will NOT allow the people who have died for this country going all the way back to our founders, pioneers and military to have died in vain.

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would
not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and
enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is,
in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is
possible."  Henry Thoreau

That is not that bad a trip.  Instead of the Alley all the way, try coming through Immokalee up, I think, Route 27.  My kids live in Lighthouse Point and Coral Springs so I get over there frequently and that is the route I use.  Cuts out the congestion in Naples and South Fort Myers.

My liberal bosses have set me up for an 11 am phone interview for PR. Gees!  I'll try to make the tail end.

Round up the RINOs

So why aren't lefties on here screaming about Obama taking Medicare benefits away from little old ladies? When Republicans do it they want elderly people to starve. When Democrats do it they are being fiscally responsible.

Once again proving that without double standards they have no standards at all. 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823