Viral Video: Reagan Schools Obama on Economics

H/T Conservative Hideout 2.0 

MIni Eagle Freedom Links -- 9-6-11

I am going to be doing a series of Mini Eagle Freedom Links for at least this week because I am busier now due to increased hours at work.

Conservative Hideout 2.0 - Despotism vs. Democracy 

Sentry Journal - Friday Ramblings: Squabbling over the scraps 

The Conservative Lady - Hoffa wishes Tea Party a Happy Labor Day 

Robbing America - The Destruction of Money 

Political Realities - Mr. President, Detroit Is Your Example of Economic Success? Seriously? 

Atlas Shrugs - Muslim Consultants Lied to Park Service About Flight 911 Islamic Crescent Memorial 

The Camp of the Saints - Look Out, She's Coming Down Fast 

Maggie's Notebook - Muslims Against Crusades Celebrating September 11, 2001 

Theblogprof - Video of Michele Bachmann to CBS News: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Say I Believe in God' 

American Perspective - Is It Racist To Post Runaway Slave Movie Trailer? 

A Conservative Teacher - Gibson's Guitar Company Harassed By Obama Officials for Something or Other

Bluegrass Pundit - Obama's Middle East 'Peace Partner' Makes Video Honoring Terrorists

Don't Tread On Us - The American Dream

Left Coast Rebel - Obama's Vitriol and The Era of Antipathy 

Let The Truth Be Known - Funtime Videos Presents Sometimes No Words are Needed

Zilla Of The Resistance - Not Safe To Pray in Church, Not Safe To Pray at Home - No Refuge From the Jihad

Catholic Lane - School Choice Gains Traction 

The American Catholic - God Bless The USA!

Conservatives On Fire - Game Over! Time To Forgive And Forget 

Townhall.com - Obama's Solyndra-Gate Won't Go Away

Hot Air - Of family decline and the importance of traditions 

Obama Cartoons - From "Larry, The Cable Guy" 

American Thinker - The New Libyan Regime Protecting The Lockerbie Bomber 

Government Waste: Unwanted Coins Costing Taxpayers' Money

This is one example of waste that can be cut from the budget.  In 2005 Congress ordered the Mint to make Presidential dollar coins and they've been made ever since. While most of these coins are sitting on shelves these coins just keep coming and coming so much so that a new building is being built in order to house all these coins.  This is utterly absurd folks. This is government waste at its worst.

Ron Paul Confronts Ben Bernanke: Is Gold Money?

I Found this on WhatisGold.net: 

Gold is Money

Gold has always been accepted around the world as a means of exchange and a store of value - the mark of good money. Gold is money because it is uniquely suited for being our money, not because it's shiny and fancy looking, but because it is actually the most practical choice. What makes Gold the good money? Gold is money because gold is durable. Other choices from the past like wheat, hemp, fish, cows, or even people, cannot endure the test of time - only gold can. Gold is money because Gold is divisible and consistent. Pure gold is worth exactly the same amount per unit regardless of how it is divided; it is all just gold. Making change for a cow is far too messy, cumbersome and subjective. If you take a pretty, shiny, 1 ounce coin and chop it in half with a hatchet, you have two half ounce pieces of gold. Melt it down and pour it into 10 1/10 ounces and all 10 pieces together will equal the value of the original one ounce gold piece. Gold is money because gold is portable. One ounce of gold has almost always had the same 'purchasing power' throughout history.

It is said that in Rome, one ounce of gold would buy a nice toga, a belt and a pair of shoes. Today, an ounce of gold is worth about $1400 so this is relatively accurate. One ounce of gold won't buy you the best suit on the market, but that tiny little one ounce coin packs a purchasing power punch; $1400 in the palm of your hand. A hand bag filled with gold coins, about the same weight as Paris Hilton's dog (say three pounds), would be worth around $70000! Gold is well-suited for travelling or moving abroad because people around the world accept it. And, lastly and perhaps most misunderstood, gold is money because it has intrinsic value, it is extra ordinarily useful in ways that nothing else on earth or the known universe is useful.

Gold, in the form of gold nanoparticles, is used in extremely high technology like space travel and cutting edge cancer treatments. Gold is both the most ductile (one ounce can be pulled into an extremely thin wire 35 miles long!) and most malleable (can be pounded into an extremely thin wafer, so thin that light passes through it - 1 5/1000000 of an inch thin!) element in the known universe. Gold is the second best conductor of heat and electricity next to silver. Paired with gold's rarity, gold's amazing properties make it extremely valuable as money and to the progress of science and technology and ultimately mankind. For now, you can easily make an Investment in Gold, Trade Gold Online, and Save your Wealth in Gold. Just hurry and buy gold now because, as the prices rise, it won't always be this easy! Gold is money, gold is the world’s true money.


"The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice." ~ Henry Hazlitt

Obamacare - You Support We Reward

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said "we have to to pass the bill in order to find out what's in the bill"?
Within those 2000 pages consists of a number of goodies rewarding subsidiaries (such as unions with $2 billion) which own the Democrats.  The House Energy and Commerce Committee has discovered that the health care law has allowed the government to pay out $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health care costs for early retirees.  O where O where has the money gone?  Let's take a look at exactly which pockets the Liberals have lined with Obamacare money.

From The Washington Examiner:


"According to the new report, the biggest single recipient of an early-retiree bailout is the United Auto Workers, which has so far received $206,798,086.  Other big recipients include AT&T, which received $140,022,949, and Verizon, which received $91,702,538.  General Electric, in the news recently for not paying any U.S. taxes last year, received $36,607,818.  General Motors, recipient of a massive government bailout, received $19,002,669.


"The program also paid large sums of money to state governments.  The Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio received $70,557,764; the Teacher Retirement System of Texas received $68,074,118; the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, received $57,834,267; the Georgia Department of Community Health received $57,936,127; and the state of New York received $47,869,044.  Other states received lesser but still substantial sums.


"But payments to individual states were dwarfed by the payout to the auto workers union, which received more than the states of New York, California, and Texas combined.  Other unions also received government funds, including the United Food and Commercial Workers, the United Mine Workers, and the Teamsters."


Hold on a minute....  I thought that the purpose of this law was that it would lower health care costs, and not to simply dole out money to only those who supported the bill, which is now law.  And these Leftist "spread the wealthers"  -  who are so generous with NOT their own money but thieving other peoples' money - really expected us to believe their load of malarcky when they claimed that this law was non-partisan and would benefit all the people.   Do I see pigs flying?    It certainly seems like this law is only targeted at helping certain groups in our society (anyone who supported the passage of Obamacare) and not the whole of society, and sure as heck not the common good.  Oh... That claim was the Democrats using smoke and mirrors, by any means necessary, telling distortions and lies just to get the bill passed. These Democrats are throwing the taxpayers' money down the toilet.  I thought this POS law was supposed to be about health care.  No, it's all about paying off the Leftist ideological extremists who backed this government piece of garbage which is filled with mountains of red tape.  This was all about power and control.  The Democrats couldn't give a rats a$$ about health care.  Think about it, these sadistic immoral twisted loons think killing an unborn child is health care. They think funding Planned Parenthood is considered essential to running our government.  These libtards whine about values supposedly being thrust upon them when the fact is they shove their evil immorality down our throats when they force Americans to fund the murder of innocents.  Do these people have a consience?  These people live on their selfish egos and are ghouls who prey upon the weak and most vulnerable in our society.  They make the claim that Republicans and conservatives are all about money when in fact they choose that the weak and vulnerable in our society are not worthy of living because of the money it would cost to take care of them.  Congress needs to stop throwing the taxpayers' money down the toilet.  How would these Green weenies and red rhinos like it if the taxpayers said enough is enough and there was a tax revolt?

A Proposal to Eliminate Waste in Our Government

I just received this in an email from my dad, and I thought everyone would enjoy this poem as well. I absolutely love it!!

A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION
"The Proposal"

When a company falls on

difficult times, one of the

thingsthat seems to happen

is they reduce their staff and

workers. The remaining

workers must find ways to

continue to do a good

job or risk that their job

would be eliminated as

well. Wall street, and

the media normally

congratulate the CEO

for making this type of

"tough decision", and

his board of directors

gives him a big

bonus. Our government

should not be immune

from similar risks.

Therefore:

Reduce the House of

Representatives from the

current 435 members to

218 members.

Reduce

Senate (members

from 100 to 50 one per

State).

Then, reduce their staff

by 25%.

Accomplish this over the

next 8 years (two steps/two elections),

and of course this would

require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary

Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for

elimination of base

pay for congress. (267 members

X $165,200 pay/member/ yr.)

$97,175,000 for

elimination of their staff.

(estimate $1.3 Million

in staff per

each member of the House,

and $3 Million

in staff per each send a

member of the Senate every year)

$240,294 for the

reduction in remaining

staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction

in pork barrel ear-marks

each year. (those

members whose jobs are

gone. Current estimates

for total government

pork earmarks are

at $15 Billion/yr).

The remaining

representatives would

need to work smarter

and

improve efficiencies.

It might even be in

their best interests

to work together

for the good of our country!

We may also expect

that smaller committees

might lead to

a more efficient

resolution of issues

as well.

It might even

be easier to

keep track of what

your representative is doing.

Congress has more

tools available to do

their jobs than it had

back in 1911 when the

current number of

representatives was

established. (telephone,

computers, cell phones

to name a few)

Note: Congress did not

hesitate to head home

when it was a holiday,

when the nation needed

a real fix to the

economic problems.

Also, we had 3 senators

that were not doing their

jobs for the 18+

months (on

the campaign trail) and

still they all

have accepted full pay.

These facts alone

support a reduction

in senators & congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$ 44,108,400 reduction

of congress members.

$282,100, 000 for

elimination of the

reduced house member

staff.

$150,000,000 for

elimination of reduced

senate member staff.

$59,675,000 for 25%

reduction of staff for

remaining house

members.

$37,500,000 for 25%

reduction of staff for

remaining senate

members.

$7,500,000,000 reduction

in pork added to bills by

the reduction of

congress members.

$8,073,383,400 per year

estimated total savings.

(That's 8-BILLION

just to start!)

Big business does

these types of cuts

all the time.

If Congresspersons were

required to serve 20, 25

or 30 years (like

everyone else) in order

to collect retirement

benefits, tax payers

could save a

bundle. Now they get

full retirement after

serving only ONE term.

Instead Of TARP And Stimulus: What If The U.S. Had Paid Off Its Debt To China?

As a conservative, I am appalled at the way that our government has chosen to waste citizens tax dollars to bail out the car companies and the banks. I was also against the stimulus package passed by Congress in February. I believe that the government should not interfere in the free market. If a company makes bad decisions then that company should have to live with the consequences. Why should our tax dollars be used to help out a company that made bad decisions? If I made a bad decision and found myself in debt, would the government bail me out? I highly doubt it. Nor do I think that the government should. The stimulus money was meant to stimulate the economy and increase the number of jobs in the U.S. Most of the money in the stimulus package went to special interest groups and their projects and the money did not go toward shovel ready jobs. Some states didn’t even know how they were going to use their portion of stimulus dollars. The American people were told that shovel ready jobs were waiting to be completed and that the money was needed to hire workers, but that wasn't true. Are there more projects being completed in your area? I don’t see any big increases, if at all, with regard to shovel ready jobs in the Pittsburgh area.

In searching on the internet I found out on Wikianswers.com that as of April 6, 2008 the United States owes China $492 billion. Then, by coincidence today Stuart Varney from the Fox Business Network stated that China owns $763 billion of U.S. Treasury debt. That means that the United States owes at least that amount of money to China. The U.S. government has spent $787 billion on the Stimulus Bill and about $700 billion was on TARP. What if the U.S. had used the money we spent on both TARP and the Stimulus Bill and paid off our debt to China? Would that have been a good idea? Then the U.S. would not be beholden to China. Would that allow the U.S. to have more opportunities in the trading market? If the United States had paid off its debt to China then the U.S. could have started producing more made in the U.S.A. goods and exporting them. I believe that this could have created new jobs. I think that the U.S. should still trade with China but it seems to me that now the U.S. is mainly buying and importing cheap goods from China. It seems like the United States is not exporting nearly as many products as it was 40 or 50 years ago. Do you think that China would stop trading with the U.S. if we paid our debt to them? Would paying off the debt to China hurt the U.S. economy? I think it would benefit the U.S. if the United States paid off the debt that we owe China.