Here is the link for today’s video of Rick Santelli on CNBC.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853
Watch the whole video. This is exactly how the responsible people of this country feel! Well…….at least this one!
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Rick Santelli tells it how it is!!
Posted by Richard on February 19th, 2009
Is everything Broken in the U.S.?
Posted by Richard on February 13th, 2009I want to know what everyone thinks? Is everything broken in this country?
Please use the comment section to answer the question in your own words!
GM, Chrysler May Get Bankruptcy to Protect U.S. Loans
Posted by Richard on February 9th, 2009Will they vote “NO” (update)
Posted by Richard on February 5th, 2009Tonight we wait anxiously to see if the Senate will vote yes or no for the “Stimulus” package. All we can do is wait now. We could know as early as tonight!!Â
(Update) They did not get to the vote. There are still outstanding amendments that need to be voted on before they get the final vote for the “Stimulus” plan. They will resume tomorrow morning!
That’s not all that’s in the “Stimulus”
Posted by Richard on February 4th, 2009Just when you thought you got all of the items in the stimulus that should not be there, you find some more. (more…)
Economic Stimulus, Religious Organizations and Broader Implications
Posted by Nicholas on February 4th, 2009It has been circulating around the internet for the last couple of days that the stimulus bill, among other things, has provisions in it that would forbid money to be used for renovations of buildings and structures that organizations of any sort of religious activity going on in them.
Both versions of the bill, the House version (H.R. 1) that passed on Jan. 28 by a 244-188 margin, without a single Republican vote, and the Senate version (S. 336), which will probably be voted on in the next few days – include language that would “prohibit†modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities:
- used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or
- in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission
Such language is regrettable and could leave some institutions of higher learning susceptible to a legal action by organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) according to a spokesman from South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s office. . . .
The bill includes $20 billion for school “modernization, renovation or repair of facilities†– with $14 billion for elementary and secondary schools and $6 billion for higher education, which includes the secular string attached.
From Redstate and the Culture and Media Insitute.
Essentially what this means is that if you have a mueseum dedicated to mobsters it would be easier to get funding from this stimulus than say, a school cafeteria where the boy scouts meet or a religous school.
While this is ridicoulous on the surface (people are as employed fixing up the roof of a church as they are a bus terminal) people on the left will cry ‘Seperation of Church and State’, something I maintain is a red herring.
Those on the left do not like religion, its that simple. Religion exists outside the state, above the state and the individual and reminds people that their rights come from somewhere not of this world and also reminds them that they can rely on something besides the state for support and comfort even if all of their other safety nets fail them. People of faith tend to help themselves more and rely on the government less and this is something that is athama to the understanding of those on the left. The left’s ideology only seems to work when everyone bows down to the almighty altar of the government.
This policy, and those like it, are designed to make it harder for religious organizations to operate and easier for organizations like the ACLU to put restrictions on organized religion (which, by the way is what the 1st Amendment is really supposed to stop). Think about it this way. A school takes money under this law to fix a roof in their cafeteria and it is perfectly legal because they have never hosted a religious activity or club, but do occasionally rent it out to other organizations for a small fee. Years later a church needs space to hold service and approaches the school, the school would have no choice but to turn them away or face a law suit.
This is the way of things.
Another one Bites the Dust!!
Posted by Richard on February 3rd, 2009Another Obama cabinet or sub-cabinet has left the building! Seems as though there are a lot of bad apples in Obama’s Circle! (more…)
Ethics be gone!!
Posted by Richard on February 3rd, 2009Obama promised a different kind of Washington under his guard. Was he lying? (more…)
Contact Your Florida Senators and Just Say NO!
Posted by Richard on February 2nd, 2009E-mail them and tell them no to the “Stimulus”, that is not really a stimulus package. Below are the links to send an e-mail to your Florida State Senator.
Senator Mel Martinez : http://martinez.senate.gov/public/?p=EmailSenatorMartinez
Senator Bill Nelson: http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Do Not buy from Citgo!!
Posted by Richard on February 1st, 2009Venezuela has made it clear that they do not like the U.S.. So why do we buy their oil refined into gas at Citgo gas location? Citgo is a Venezuelan owned oil company not a U.S. owned company. (more…)