Make the call--stop the spending while we can

[tommyg]

Last night, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid $410 billion Omnibus to fund non-defense government spending through September was pulled off the Senate floor. This wasteful monstrosity did not have the 60 votes required for passage.

It appears at least 41 Senators object to the massive increase in spending -- 8% over last year's budget – and the larding in of 8,500 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion.

A senior Senate aide told me this morning that many Senators do not want a repeat of the Stimulus battle where their offices were literally shut down with telephone calls and their email was swamped with messages going after the wasteful spending.

You see, they’re talking about Americans like you.

When you fight, the politicians get awfully nervous – even on a bill the President, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid assumed was an easy victory.

While Americans are losing jobs and seeing life savings evaporate this Obama/Pelosi/Reid $410 billion Omnibus funds earmarks like:

$2.1 million for a Center for Grape Research in NY
$1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa
$951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas (I'm not making this up)
$2 million for "the promotion of astronomy" in Hawaii
$200,000 for a tattoo removal program
President Obama, after campaigning on a pledge to veto earmarks, now says $7.7 billion for 8,500 earmarks is ok with him. Sadly, the President cares more about letting his friends in Congress stuff pet projects into an already massive spending bill than keeping his promise to protect the American people from earmarks abuse and waste.

Call your two Senators today and tell them to vote NO on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid $410 billion Omnibus that increases spending by another 8% and funds 8,500 pork barrel earmarks at a time when hundreds-of-thousands of Americans are losing their jobs. The number at the Senate switchboard is 202-224-3121.

The vote will probably happen Monday so please act fast.

But as bad as this Omnibus is with all its earmarks, there is a far more important battle coming that you and I must gear up for now.

It’s going to be over the Obama budget for 2009/2010. In a nutshell the Obama budget

Spends more than any budget in American history and admits to a $1.75 trillion deficit.
Creates a "Cap and Trade" system that is an ENERGY TAX on Americans. The Obama budget admits this tax will be at least $645 billion in the first 8 years alone. Prices will go up on gasoline for cars, energy to heat and cool your home. Prices will increase on just about every good you buy -- from food to consumer goods because of the higher energy costs to grow the food and make the goods.
Combined with the Stimulus, the Obama budget brings back the old social welfare system that trapped so many Americans in despair while wasting billions.
There’s so much more but to see the worst aspects of the Obama budget go to our Americans for Prosperity website by clicking here.

I’m asking you to educate yourself and friends on this Obama budget.

It’s going to take an all out effort by us to protect our nation’s future and our economic freedoms by defeating or changing this Obama budget.

In coming days I’ll have more details about the battle ahead and specific ways that you can make a difference.

But for now, call your Senator on this $410 billion Omnibus boondoggle

And, recruit friends and family to join the NoStimulus.com website by signing the petition there. It’s the best way to make sure they join the fight for freedom!

Much lies ahead, you and I need to make sure we keep turning up the heat.

[beaglechase]

450billion interest on the debt we now have, yearly 50 billion will be added due to the stimulus plan, and if they continue to borrow, soon foreign coutries will refuse to lend... democrats like to tax and spend, the latest president started the strategy of borrow and spend. and it must stop....

[tommyg]

450billion interest on the debt we now have, yearly 50 billion will be added due to the stimulus plan, and if they continue to borrow, soon foreign coutries will refuse to lend... democrats like to tax and spend, the latest president started the strategy of borrow and spend. and it must stop....

For once we agree beaglechase,worst thing is Republicans are doing it also. If we don't stop it now Big Government and Socialism will be our future.

[bluegrass]

democrats like to tax and spend, the latest president started the strategy of borrow and spend. and it must stop....




Dude, you REALLY ARE a split personality...you need professional help for that.




Tony

[Rabbithoundjb]

Beaglechase I hate to hurt you feelings but Bush was not the first president to borrow. The federal debt was 5.6 trillion when Clinton left office, Bush did add 5.7 more to that.

[beaglechase]

Beaglechase I hate to hurt you feelings but Bush was not the first president to borrow. The federal debt was 5.6 trillion when Clinton left office, Bush did add 5.7 more to that.

thats right rabbithoundjb, doesn't that bother you....?

[beaglechase]

democrats like to tax and spend, the latest president started the strategy of borrow and spend. and it must stop....




Dude, you REALLY ARE a split personality...you need professional help for that.




Tony

thats funny blue grass, thats what I was thinking of you. you just spout off, about the gop rethoric, when are you gonna wise up, you don't believe in welfare, and you don't believe in healthcare for all americans, you don't want the infastructure, rebuilt, you don't want alternative energy research, just what do you believe, all high and mighty...

[bluegrass]

democrats like to tax and spend, the latest president started the strategy of borrow and spend. and it must stop....




Dude, you REALLY ARE a split personality...you need professional help for that.




Tony

thats funny blue grass, thats what I was thinking of you. you just spout off, about the gop rethoric, when are you gonna wise up, you don't believe in welfare, and you don't believe in healthcare for all americans, you don't want the infastructure, rebuilt, you don't want alternative energy research, just what do you believe, all high and mighty...

Ok mental midget, I'll tell you what I believe in...it has nothing to do with being high and mighty either..btw, you DO need that professional help I mentioned, with all your contradictory postings and flip flopping.


You say I don't believe in welfare....AGREED, I dont.

You say I dont believe in healthcare for all americans...WRONG, I just dont belive its a RIGHT and I also dont belive that I should have to pay for YOUR healthcare...thats what Obambi wants though.

You say I dont want the infrastructure rebuilt...Actually its not a bad thing, but its NOT ECONOMIC STIMULUS...all economists except the ones on the Obama payroll have already said so...you are too ignorant to understand however.

You say I dont want alternative energy research...I defy you to point out ANY post where I came out against alternative energy...I would LOVE to see nuclear energy used here as its used in other parts of the world...you environmentalist nutbags wont let new nuclear plants be built though...I belive that wind and solar are a total waste of time and a crock of crap. I also want the earth drilled and EVERY LAST DROP OF OIL SUCKED OUT OF IT. Why?? Because right now its the best energy source we have and, NEWSFLASH: THE EARTH DOESNT NEED IT!!! I dont belive in global warming, thats another liberal sacrament, much the way abortion is. If you dont "believe in" global warming you are now labeled a denier. Thats too cute, since thats also what those who say the holocaust never happened are called. Equating global warming to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews is an atrocity in and of itself.

As for what I do believe in, again if you had any sense at all you could probably figure that one out. I belive in personal responsibility, I belive in smaller, limited government. I believe in a free market society, not a socialist one. I believe in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, baptism by immersion, shed blood necessary for the remission of sins, Heaven, Hell, lower taxes, guns and ammo for all....good enough for you midget???



Tony

[bluegrass]

Funny how I havent gotten a response on this one yet...LOL




Tony

[Pine Mt Beagles]

You say I believe in welfare....AGREED, I dont.
I THINK THAT ABOUT SAY'S IT ALL,THE REST WAS JUST MISDIRECTION.

[bluegrass]

Misdirection??? You think I was lying about what I believe in???




Tony