Some interesting facts to chew on (Undecided Voters):

In just one year or so….

Remember the election in 2006?


Thought you might like to read the following:


A little over one year ago…….
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

My favorite quote of the Messiah..."My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999:
Single making under 30k-$8400
Single making under 50k-$14,000
Single making under 75k-$23,250
Married making under 60k-$16,800
Married making under 75k-$21,000
Married making under 125k-$38,750

Taxes under Bush 2008:
Single making under 30k-$4,500
Single making under 50k-$12,500
Single making under 75k-$18,500
Married making under 60k-$9,000
Married making under 75k-$18,750
Married making under 125k-$31,250

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. Why do the people that fall into these categories that support Obama want this to happen so much?
This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
Read this:Boy am I confused.
We been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. This seems ridiculous when you look at everything else.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs, Such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school Education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &Social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at:http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ."
Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

THE TOTAL COST IS A WHOPPING $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR

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We need to take our country back and preserve what we have fought for.

We ain't perfect but we sure are something special!

Our ancestors fought wars over the same things most people are asking the federal government to do. The American Revolution was fought over taxation that pales in comparison. What do you suppose Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Ben Franklin would think about the democratic republic they help to create.

I vote that we bring Tho. Jefferson back to set Washington DC straight.

Our southern ancestors were not so far removed from their fathers and grandfathers of the Revolution, to allow the growth of the federal government defile their rights. The Civil War may be disputed over many causes and all of them have relevance, but the growth of the federal government and diminished state and individual rights were at the base of it all.

I can not believe, myself, how the government has grown in my short life. I am now watching as people give up their rights and freedoms, in order to get something from someone else. The redistribution of wealth in this country is on a roll and may grow even more depending on one day in November. This is going to change the face of the free market economy forever. People who are wealthy will adjust and will have no taxable income. The will not invest in new business. They will not create new jobs. They will not create new products for the economy. They will close small businesses and people will loose jobs. The common man who strives for something and wants to create and achieve will finally give up on a dream of owning his own business. He will do this not from lack of desire, but from lack of reward. Why would a man or woman give up time with their family and time for themselves to create something, just to have the government take most of their reward away and give it to someone else.

Who do theses people, who want, think the taxation on the rich falls on. Sen Obama answered this question during a debate. He believes anyone who makes $250,000.00 per year is rich. Does this seem that he is catering to a segment of the population? Can anyone guess what an average small business owner might make per year? My guess would be around $250,000.00.

The truth of the matter is that about 50% of Americans pay no income tax in effect. Many Americans actually come out ahead on income taxation.

This leads me back to the Fair Tax plan, as most things economic usually do. If one wants to talk about economic stimulus, this would be a good place to start. This may not be a perfect plan, but it is dang sure better than the one we've got.

Please go to http://www.fairtax.org/ and read and do the fair tax calculator to see what it means to you. The plan allows taxpayers to keep their income and decide how much they spend and how much they want to save. Imagine bringing home what you actually make each pay period. You could actually get more, because your employer might pay you what they are actually spending on you each pay period.



G S Barnett
concerned citizen

Issues of the Presidental election.

I would encourage all to look at each candidates' voting record and make comparisons. You can look at the issues that concern you specific and compare how they voted.

Click on the link and educate yourself.

http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm

One can get info on many offices at this site.

Current candidates:

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (DE) http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53279&type=category&category=37&go.x=18&go.y=13

Senator John Sidney McCain III (AZ) http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270

Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (IL) http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490

You may want to make some comparisons to these other politicians

A few of the most liberal senators:

Senator Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53305

The presidential candidate who had a better plan for America. Why has he not used this plan as a Senator?
Senator John Forbes Kerry (MA) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53306

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=55463
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Conservative politicians:

One of my friends and my Congressional Rep.
Representative John J. Duncan Jr. (TN) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=27069

Senator Lamar Alexander (TN) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=15691

Senator Thad Cochran (MS) http://votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53312

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Those who vote must educate themselves on the issues and the candidates. There should be no confusion in regard to a "right to vote" for the president. The constitution does not allow a right to vote in the Presidential election. Culture has made this a popularity vote.

There is an incorrect assumption among many that there is a constitutional right to vote for President, when that just doesn't exist.

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The article below was written by Jesse Jackson Jr.

There is a hint of the left in this article. The founding fathers knew what they were doing when the great articles were written. It works and it should not be changed to accomadate political parties.

"The vote" is a human right. It is seen as an American right. In a democracy there is nothing more fundamental than having the right to vote.

And yet the right to vote is not a fundamental right in our Constitution. Some liberals argue that the fundamental right to vote for every American citizen is implied in the Constitution, based on Supreme Court precedent. Yet when I ask them about the denial of voting representation in Congress to District of Columbia citizens, or about the denial of ex-felons' voting rights in most states, many liberals concede that the current structure of our Constitution limits the ability of the courts and Congress to adequately address important voting-rights issues.
It is amazing to me that many Democrats failed to grasp the most fundamental finding in Bush v. Gore: "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States."
Our voting system's foundation is built on the sand of states' rights and local control. We have fifty states, 3,141 counties and 7,800 different local election jurisdictions. All separate and unequal.
In four states, if you're an ex-felon you're barred from voting for life. There are 5 million Americans (including 1.8 million African-Americans, mostly in Southern states--where 55 percent of African- Americans live) who have paid their debt to society but are prohibited from voting. At the same time, in Maine and Vermont you can vote even if you're in jail.
We need to build our voting system on a rock--the rock of adding a Voting Rights Amendment to the US Constitution. The amendment I have proposed in each of the last several Congresses (HJR 28) would provide the American people with a citizenship right to vote. It would also give Congress the authority to craft a unitary voting system for federal, state and local elections--one that guarantees all votes will be counted in a complete, fair, free and efficient manner.
Democrats have been made so defensive by right-wing Republicans' constant stream of absurd amendments--anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-flag "desecration"--that we've developed a negative rationale and posture about the Constitution: It's fine just the way it is. But fights over "rights" and constitutional amendments are where elections are being won and lost. And when Democrats don't fight for common laws, defending human rights, we're just reaffirming states' rights and local control, both of which are inherently separate and unequal.
Building a more perfect union by turning human rights into American rights--that's what Democrats should be fighting for. Let's wage this fight one issue at a time, rolling out a sort of second Bill of Rights. After the Voting Rights Amendment, we might add public education and equal-quality healthcare to every American's citizenship rights. An equal rights for women amendment. An affordable-housing amendment. A clean, safe and sustainable environment amendment. A fair taxes amendment. A full-employment amendment. An amendment for direct election of the American President and Vice President.
Fighting for human and constitutional rights is a theme, and a strategy, that could keep Democrats together for the next fifty years, election after election. It's time to begin a lofty fight to add the right to vote to the Constitution--and paint a truer picture of most Republicans as undemocratic. It's time to stand up and insure every American's right to vote to have that vote fully protected and to have it fairly counted.

Each citizen has the "right" to vote, but it should only be done by individuals who have taken time to educate themselves on issues and candidates.

The Bill of Rights

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.— Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.— Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election . . . shall not be denied or abridged . . . by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.— Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964)

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of age.— Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971)

Article II of the US Constitution:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector....The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States."We currently have the Electoral College, described in detail in Article II, Section I, and further elaborated in Amendment XII. Each state gets to decide how to chose its electors. It just so happens that so far, every state has held a popular election to determine its electors. When you vote for president, you are not actually voting for that candidate, rather you are voting for your electors, who will then cast their votes on your behalf. The XV, XIX, and XXVI amendments don't guarantee anyone the right to actually vote for president. They merely state that states cannot deny anyone over the age of 18 the right to vote based on race or gender.

Note also that the Poll Tax amendment (XXIV) states: The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Note that even here, it specifies voting for electors for President and VP, not actually direct votes.

Current Political Atmosphere

I am disappointed in the current situation in the race for the presidency. It appears that the whole race issue is straining much of the nation. I have had many discussions with friend in regard to the current issues at hand. The problem is that they are on sided. I have had no contact with anyone of another race.
I have disappointment in regards to the possible failure of the fair tax reform.

I do believe that the movement has been brought further into the spotlight.

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Duncan Hunter endorses Huckabee

WASHINGTON (CNN) — California Rep. Duncan Hunter, a former presidential candidate, announced Wednesday he is endorsing Mike Huckabee's White House bid.
“I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Hunter said in a statement. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America’s industrial base.
"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement," he added. "Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well."