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Centralizing Power Is Really Expensive WEDNESDAY CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 CENTRALIZING POWER IS report is also clear that entitlements -- Social Security, REALLY EXPENSIVE Medicare, Medicaid and now ObamaCare -- are to The Foundation blame for the continued growth in spending. ... The "[W]hen all government ... shall be drawn to CBO adds that 'unless the laws governing those Washington as the center of all power, it will render programs are changed, debt will rise sharply relative powerless the checks provided of one government on to GDP after 2023.' So what is Obama doing in the another." --Thomas Jefferson face of this still-looming crisis? Instead of confronting spending and entitlements, he's focused on Editorial Exegesis meaningless side issues like gun control and scoring "The latest Congressional short-term political points against Republicans. Given Budget Office calls the the scale of the nation's fiscal crisis, this is hardly the lie on President Obama's leadership we need right now. But unless something claim that the nation's changes, it's the leadership we're stuck with for the debt crisis can be solved next four years." --Investor's Business Daily with just a few trims to spending and a bit more The Gipper taxes on the rich. Obama "The price for this freedom at times has been high, but lately has acted as though we have never been unwilling to pay that price. ... It is most of the work has time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to already been done to get limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some the debt problem under would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable control. ... But the latest decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us CBO report shows that the country is far from out of no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will the woods. In fact, despite the supposed budget cuts fall on us if we do nothing." --Ronald Reagan and the $620 billion in tax hikes Obama brags about, deficits start climbing every year after 2015, reaching Today marks President Ronald Wilson Reagan's back up to $978 billion by 2023. Debt, too, starts 102nd birthday, or as he would have phrased it, the expanding again as a share of GDP, climbing to 77% 63rd anniversary of his 39th birthday. The observance by 2023, with no end in sight. Even that grim outlook of this occasion provides a vital bond with our is unrealistic. The CBO's forecast assumes, for national heritage of Liberty and those who have example, that Congress will let scheduled huge cuts in devoted their lives and fortunes to advance it. Don't Medicare payments to doctors go through, even miss our remembrance. though they haven't done so for years. It assumes ObamaCare's costs don't explode, despite increasing Upright "The income tax was considered ... one of the most evidence to the contrary. And it assumes there's no notable achievements of the Democratic Party. ... recession anytime in the next decade and that interest Following the 16th Amendment, the Revenue Act of rates remain reasonably low. The CBO also makes it 1913 was passed and signed into law on Oct. 3, 1913. abundantly clear that the cause of this crisis is out-of- And so, the income tax was made a permanent part of control spending, not insufficient tax revenues. ... The American culture. In 1913, the highest income earners 1 THE PATRIOT POST WWW.PATRIOTPOST.US WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 tax rate was 7 percent. That is dramatically different effective deportation policies that punish law-breakers from today's highest earners, especially after the latest and do right by law-abiders." --columnist Michelle increase in income taxes. As of Jan. 2013, the top Malkin income rate is 39.6 percent, after the recent spike in income taxes at the beginning of 2013. This is a 465 "There's an old saying amongst First Amendment percent increase from the original 1913 level of 7 lawyers that the proper cure for bad speech is better percent. Even with this huge increase, the Democrats speech, and that Paul Harvey [Super Bowl] ad was, and media alike continue to call for raising taxes -- without doubt, better speech [than Beyoncé's halftime specifically on those who make more then $250,000 a show]. To be clear, I'm not opposed to some good, year." --Media Research Center's Liz Thatcher old-fashioned cultural hand-wringing when the occasion demands it. Indeed, it's important to call out "The key to the progressive 'ratchet,' as it is often, the wrong, but calling out the wrong without correctly, called, is that no step forward may ever be providing a compelling right will ultimately get us retraced. ... The key to the success of Western nowhere." --National Review's David French socialism's 'progress' is not the periodic lurches toward the abyss. It is the art of effective stalling. All Insight of today's political and moral outrages will be "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his rationalized with a shrug tomorrow: 'What difference - head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of - at this point -- does it make?'" --columnist Daren Rights." --American author H. L. Mencken Jonescu (1880-1956) "This White House has already shown a propensity "To do evil a human being must first of all believe toward ruling by executive fiat -- whether by that what he's doing is good." --Russian novelist and executive action that effectively enacts rejected Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) legislation, by refusing to enforce existing law, or by crafting rules for legislation to grant vast new powers The Right ... to Keep and Bear Arms Barack "Skeeter" Obama and his NeoCom cadres to bureaucrats. Once it has de-legitimized the aren't letting up on their anti-gun agenda. We can't let opposition, the White House can claim it is left with down our guard, either. no choice but to accelerate and expand its use of executive power. What else can they do, the president Please take a moment and join the 37,000 of your and his operatives will argue, when faced with the fellow Patriots who have pledged to support and insanity of the Republicans?" --White House Dossier's defend our Constitution, including the Second Keith Koffler Amendment. Share it with your family, friends and colleagues via social media and email, as well. "Not one of the past federal amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. Instead, the Sign the 2A pledge! number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger Demo-gogues because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and Feelings: "[I]f there's even one thing we can do to this number was multiplied by an unknown number of keep our children and our community safe -- there's children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired just one step we can take to prevent more families automatic U.S. citizenship. ... You want from feeling what they feel after they've lost a loved 'comprehensive immigration reform'? Start with one -- we've got an obligation to take that step." -- reliable adjudications, fully cleared backlogs, Barack Obama, still stumping for gun control on consistent interior enforcement, working background nothing but emotion checks for the existing caseload, and efficient and 2 THE PATRIOT POST WWW.PATRIOTPOST.US WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Gun grabbers: "I'm sorry it's taken two years for us to Playing make believe: "[Senate Minority Leader convene this hearing, that it took Newtown, Mitch McConnell] continues badmouthing the Connecticut, to finally bring us to our senses and to recovery. We are in a recovery. ... Growth went down open this national conversation [on gun control]." -- in the fourth quarter because of reduced government Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) spending. The economy was rejecting the austerity and brinkmanship." --Senate Majority Leader Harry "Where are we going with [the Second Amendment]? Reid (D-NV) I mean, do individuals get to own nuclear weapons? Do they get to own submarines, with this notion that they have a right to bear arms? No." --Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) Reminders: "I think it's important to remind everybody that, what I've said previously, I am not a king, I am head of the executive branch of government. I am required to follow the law, and that is what we've done. But what I have also said is let's make sure we apply law in a way that takes into account." --Barack Obama, who all too often behaves as a king Raise taxes: "There is no doubt we need additional revenue, coupled with smart spending reductions in Dezinformatsia order to bring down our deficit. And we can do it in a Department of Corrections: "An earlier version of this gradual way so it doesn't have a huge impact." -- article misstated the type of weapon that President Barack Obama (Translation: So you don't notice quite Obama fired in a photo released Saturday by the as much.) White House. It was a shotgun, not a rifle." --The New York Times (See Barack "Skeeter" Obama on Coming to terms: "I hope no one uses the term 'illegal the range.) immigrants' here today. Our citizens are -- the people in this country are not illegal, they are out of status, Is this a fashion show? "Obama is outdoors amid they are new Americans that are immigrants, and I grass and trees with a rifle cocked in his left shoulder, think that we can forge a path to citizenship that will his left index finger on the trigger and smoke coming be able to pass muster." --Rep.
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