The National Patriot Primer

We The People Versus Obama, by Craig Andersen on May 2, 2012, commentary via the National Patriot. Read the full article here. I am including a short primer below, which should serve to entice people to go to the National Patriot site and read Andersen's full work.

Anderson starts by linking Obama's slogan "Forward" to Communist and Socialists movements/publications of the same name (Forward) from many other countries, saying "(Forward)..it stands for the same thing regardless of the language......

Avante!, organ of the Portuguese Communist Party

Avanti!, organ of the Italian Socialist Party Eteenpäin,

Finnish-language newspaper in the United States Új Előre (‘New Forward’),

a Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States Voorwaarts!,

organ of the Communist Youth Movement (Netherlands)

Andersen moves on to succinctly sum up Obama's makeup. We don’t know who he really is but we DO know WHAT he really is.
We don’t know where he came from but we DO know where he’s leading us.
We don’t know what he wrote in his college thesis but we DO know what he writes in his Executive Orders.
We don’t know who paid for his college education but we DO know he wants US to pay more.

We know he cares more for Hamas and the Palestinian Authority than he care for Israel.
We know that he wanted a dictator out of Egypt so he could be replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood.
He has his own law enforcement arm which supplied weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
He swore to uphold and defend our Constitution and both he and the head of his law enforcement arm have subverted it.
We know he stands FOR illegal immigration and AGAINST individual states that want to enforce federal immigration law.
We know he takes credit for what others have done and assesses blame to others for what he has done. We know the Social Security number associated with him came from a state in which he never lived and belonged to someone else.
We know he attended a church for 20 years where the preacher, a close family friend and his spiritual adviser spoke of “God DAMN America” and he claimed to have no idea of Rev. Wright’s ideology.
We know he wants class warfare and stands with the occupy fringe.
We know he’s a race baiter. We know he traveled the world apologizing for American exceptionalism.
We know he bowed down to foreign leaders.

Illinois Failing - Pensions Have To Change

There are several clear examples of states that are/were failing financially due to many factors: the recession beginning several years ago, gold plated state governmental retirement benefits (think Greece like) and union control of many aspects of state governmental labor institutions. Also impacting, of course, is the regulatory nation that the Obama Administration has forced down the states' throats, with is killing small businesses. It is no accident that the states finding solutions to their big deficits and debt are lead by Republicans (Wisconsin and Ohio) and the states that are most at risk of bankruptcy are controlled by Democrats and their union puppet masters (California and Michigan). However, there is a glint of hope. Many State Democrat legislators and Governors are seeing the truth, that they cannot sustain big government programs and massive union over the top pensions and benefits. This is also happening in the Federal Government with a few Democrat Senators and Congressmen now saying Obamacare was a mistake. Hey, welcome to reality!

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is one of these Democrats who are seeing the light. Whether or not they are coming to terms because of their political viability being threatened or because they can actually see the bleak future of spending money they don't have is besides the point, at least the conversations are taking place and solutions being explored.

According to Reuters, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a series of proposals to help save the state's floundering pension systems. For years Illinois' pension program has been in crisis and has continued to be short of billions of dollars worth of funds. The governor's proposals would slash costs associated with the programs while making several major changes in the requirements:

* The state pension systems is approximately $85 billion short of the money needed to fully fund it, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
* Roughly 90 percent of current state retirees receive some state assistance or subsidies for health care and Illinois is expecting to spend $950 million on retiree health care for the next fiscal year.
* Gov. Quinn said regarding his suggestion pension program changes, "I didn't create the problem. But I'm here to solve it. I know that I was put on earth to get this done," the Chicago Tribune reported.
* The governor is proposing the state raise the retirement age from 60 to 67 for full benefits, according to the University of Illinois at Springfield.
* If the suggested changes take place, employee contributions would increase 3 percent, but while participating in the plan is voluntary for state employees, those who do not participate will forfeit their retirement health care coverage.
* The governor is also proposing to reduce the cost-of-living increase in retirement pensions to the lesser of 3 percent or half of what the consumer price index is at. The Huffington Post reported that overall, the planned reforms, which would be slowly phased in over several years, would save the state $65 billion to $85 billion by 2045.
* Pensions are expected to cost the state about $5.2 billion, or 15 percent of general of general revenue spending, in the upcoming fiscal year.
* Even Cook County 's pension funds are struggling to stay afloat and they are expected to be fully tapped out in 26 years without changes.
* Pensions in the public sector would be limited to only state employees, a move that comes after a Chicago Tribune investigation revealed individuals employed by unions and groups, have been able to collect state retirement pensions. So there it is, controlled by self serving Dems for decades, Illinois is now at a Greece like point where major changes are necessary in order to have the system.

Volts and Hybrids and Failures, Oh My

There have recently been Obama Adminstration people and supporters in the print and air media recently trying to stem the tide of bad publicity on the Chevy Volt, in light of Obama talking this car up like it's the solution to our energy crisis, and also in light of the facts as to what an albatross this car is and the giant failure of this Adminstration to develop this country's virtually unlimited energy resources.

One of the things these Obama pundits have stated over and over is that recently Hybrids are being bought in record numbers. While this is technically true, the consumers aren't buying the Volt, even with the Federal Government handout,...err,..bribe,...... err,....$7,500 tax credit....They are largely buying Japanese hybrid models.

Obama has alot of credibility riding on the sucess of the Volt since all his other green energy programs have become debacles,..sometimes looking like a scam, and sometimes people close to the Adminstration profiting.

Again, while hybrids are being bought in record numbers, when those numbers are small to begin with, that is not such a feat. And again, the ones being bought are not Volts but Toyota's, Honda's and Nissan's.....and this is given the fact that the premium you pay on these Japanese hybrids won't be made up until after some 11 years of projected gas savings.

One reason these hybrids are selling better than before is that gas prices are more than double what they were when Obama took over 3 years ago. Not counting the 30-40% increase across the board for food products,.....I am spending $175 to $200 more per month just on fuel.

How about you? Going to buy a Volt or other hybrid anytime soon? Are you better off now than you were 3 years ago?