Obama's Priorities Are Out of Whack

This past week President Obama has attempted to pull the wool over our eyes...again...twice.
First, the president said he would give back a portion of his salary in the name of sequestration. Joke: It amounts to $20,000. Right after that announcement, the president jumped on his $180,000 and hour super toy, Air Force One, to head across country for a fundraiser with billionaires.

Second, his budget, late in coming, suggests making some adjustment to medicare and social security in an attempt

House Speaker Boehner            President Obama
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placate Republicans who want entitlement cuts with no tax increases. Read More: Boehner: Obama Budget Falls Short

The president is running around the country these days touting gun control and again, as always, in campaign mode, per the earlier mentioned fundraisers. He is concentrating more on the mid-term elections and gaining control of the House than the serious plights of the country. Spending is still out of control, we are on the brink of war with North Korea, millions of people are on food stamps and at the poverty level, and as 
Tyler Durden reports in ZeroHedge.com,  "Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer even looking for work. This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% - the lowest since 1979! But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is "improving."

And so it goes! 
Have a great weekend.


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Gun Control Argument - Ugh! Getting Tiresome

As with most things in Washington that drag on and on, the gun control argument is wearing thin. This will go the same way as abortion - there will never be a consensus of opinion. Those for gun control will always be for gun control. Those opposed to gun control will always be opposed to it. Like abortion, there will never be a solution. At the moment, abortion is legal, so is gun ownership.

Since the Newtown, Ct. shootings in December, 2012 the cries have gone out for gun control. The lines have been drawn in Congress, and, surprisingly, not necessarily along party lines. Generally you find liberal Democrats pushing for gun control and the GOP citing 2nd Amendment rights. On this issue there are Democrats who represent traditional

"gun States" such as the Dakotas and  Wyoming and other great plain States, and others where hunting is a big sport which is virtually every State in the Union. Many politicians don't want to raise the ire of their constituents on the issue, especially if they are up for re-election in 2014.

Even Harry Reid, Senate majority leader, has backed down on bringing a vote on an assault weapons ban to the floor. And President Obama, not getting the cooperation from his own party on the issue, is flying around the country on his $180,000 per hour toy, Air Force One, trying to get State legislatures to bite the bullet (no pun intended) and pass a gun bill.

But, alas, while the cry is to take away every citizen's gun(s), there is a Georgia town that is requiring you own one! Really? Read More: One Town Says Get A Gun

What a novel idea....owning a gun to protect yourself and your family and reducing crime in the process. A dumb criminals less likely to commit a crime against a person if he has to wonder if his victim is packin' a gun. Well, the dumb ones might not.



                                               




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