Archive for March, 2011


But I Am Entitled

Filed under: Current Events, Eagle Views, Random Ramblings by Allen Scott — 7 Comments
March 31, 2011
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Give Me and then give me some more. That is not what made America great and anyone with half a mind can see entitlements are destroying the very financial strength of this country. We need to cut federal entitlement programs and we need to cut them now.
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See How They Run

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March 29, 2011

If you can’t get your way take your ball and bat and go home. Apparently democrat lawmakers have never outgrown their childhood tendency to throw a temper tantrum. First it was Wisconsin now Indiana, I wonder if we can get the dems on capital hill to take an extended leave of absense?

Now that is one government I would love to see shut down for months. What say you?

But since Dems are such great actors I award them this week’s DoDo Bird Award. They earned it. Maybe one day the Dems will become a distinct breed like the DoDo bird. One can hope.

Eagle out!

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Statehouse walkouts are not without precedent.  In fact, they are a reasonably common occurrence.  But they are largely symbolic gestures — an attempt to demonstrate the minority’s outraged disapproval of the majority’s agenda.  Seldom do they go on for days, and until now, never have they been legitimate attempts to undermine the entire democratic process by grinding the operation of government to a halt.
For those who may be unaware, Indiana Statehouse Democrats staged a walkout a month ago to deny the large Republican majority the ability to enact legislation opposed by public and private union bosses — specifically right-to-work and public education reform laws.  The Democrat caucus fled across state lines to Illinois (where else?), and have been holed up in a hotel demanding concession after concession to earn their return.  But even after capitulating to their juvenile fit and pulling the right-to-work law off the table, Republican leaders have been unsuccessful in luring the Democrats back to work.
There’s a phrase for what is occurring in Indiana; it’s called the “tyranny of the minority.”  In Federalist #10, James Madison warned against the tyranny of the majority by proposing that a republican form of representative democracy would best protect the rights of the minority.  What he apparently didn’t count on was that in an effort to appease their union masters, the minority would one day use those protections to obliterate the democratic process.  And that is precisely what is unfolding.

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Famine’s Acomin’

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March 29, 2011

Amos 8:11-14

(11) "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign LORD, "when I will send a famine through the land? not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. (12) Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the LORD , but they will not find it. (13) "In that day "the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst. (14) They who swear by the shame of Samaria , or say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives’ they will fall, never to rise again." New International Version

The first victims of this famine are the young. They are more susceptible because their parents failed to provide a solid foundation of truth . The young only know what the older generation has taught them. With anything remotely Christian being banished from public schools and colleges and ridiculed in the media, and with churches increasingly neglecting the Word of God , the youth are being supplied with a very weak or non-existent diet of truth. David C. Grabbe

It is very important that our youth learn truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help us God. They need to have a moral center, a sense of right and wrong. Unfortunately our culture has abandoned the Gospel of truth found in the word of God and replaced it with a subjective truth, one that is based on one’s own viewpoint of is right or wrong.

We are loosing an entire generation because of this lack of an absolute truth. Intead they are being taught that everyone’s opinion is valid (unless that opinion happens to be biblically based), and that the only modern sin is to judge. All of this because God’s words are not being heard, and something else has taken their place.

Amos 8:14 describes those who are so spiritually sick from malnourishment, that they will "fall and never rise again."

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How Much Are We Spending on Welfare?

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March 26, 2011
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Which American politician said the following? “The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.” Had to be a mean-spirited Tea Party conservative, right? Wrong. President Franklin Roosevelt included these words in his 1935 State of the Union Address.

Twenty-nine years later, the American welfare state was still relatively small, consuming only 1.2 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). The American family was also still intact, with 93 percent of children born into stable families. But then President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty happened. Forty-five years and $16 trillion later, thanks to big government, poverty is winning. Thanks to over $900 billion a year (over 5 percent of GDP) of spending on over 70 means-tested welfare programs spread over 13 government agencies, more than 40 million Americans currently receive food stamps, poverty is higher today than it was in the 1970s, and 40 percent of all children are born outside of marriage.

But didn’t we already “end welfare as we know it” in the ’90s? No. As successful as the 1996 welfare reform law was (and it did decrease welfare roles and child poverty rates), it reformed only one of the more than 70 federal anti-poverty programs. Worse, President Obama’s failed economic stimulus bill completely gutted the 1996 welfare reforms. If conservatives are serious about reducing federal spending in a way that protects families and encourages self-reliance, it is high time they turned their attention back to welfare reform. A common-sense approach to reform would include:
  • Account for welfare spending. Congress should require the President’s annual budget to detail current and future aggregate federal means-tested welfare spending. The budget should also provide estimates of state contributions to federal welfare programs.
  • Get costs under control. The next step in welfare reform is to control the explosive growth in spending. Once the current recession ends (when unemployment reaches 6.5 percent), aggregate welfare funding should be capped at pre-recession (FY 2007) levels plus inflation. This could save Congress $1.4 trillion over the next 10 years.
  • Promote work, not government dependence. Building on the successful 1996 model, welfare reform today must continue to promote personal responsibility by encouraging work. For example, food stamps, one of the largest means-tested programs, should be restructured to require recipients to work or prepare for work to be eligible to receive benefits.

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Operation ObamaCare

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March 26, 2011

Having some fun with ObamaCare. Really though ObamaCare is not a game.

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Uncle Sam is afflicted with Obamacare and needs surgery! Step into the operating room by choosing the right answers to help him.

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