God Save America

(Alexandria, VA) — The Democratic Party's "New Direction for America" might attempt to steer government toward a sounder financial footing, but its course leads to $79.1 billion in new annual federal spending, according to a line-by-line analysis by the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF). Among the findings:

• Health care represented the largest spending category at $28.8 billion, or 36 percent of the total agenda. Within this category, Democrats proposed to "fix the Medicare prescription drug program," which would cost $29.5 billion annually. The plan did call for spending cuts amounting to just over $1 billion, in order to "end wasteful giveaways to drug companies."
• Veterans care was high on the list as well, at $19.8 billion. The initiative to launch a "G.I. Bill of Rights for the 21st Century" would provide increased pay, health care, and other benefits for veterans and their families. This program would increase outlays by $99 billion over 5 years, and would be offset by increasing the top income tax rate.
• Education spending, at $16.2 billion, represented approximately 20 percent of the total net agenda. The Democratic plan called for increasing the maximum individual Pell Grant to $5,100 ($4.0 billion in total annual spending), recruit science and math teachers ($3.7 billion yearly), and reduce college loan interest rates ($7.4 billion annually), among other items.
• Yet another proposal called for an "AmeriSave" account system that would establish a dollar-for-dollar federal match for the first $1,000 contributed to a personal retirement plan. This initiative would cost taxpayers roughly $7.5 billion each year.

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by Sher Zieve

It’s difficult to believe that the American Left could hunker down even further, under the saturated-with-innocent-blood covers, with terrorists who have unequivocally announced their intentions to destroy us. But, it has. Recently, The Factor’s Bill O’Reilly asked leftist celebs Rosie O’Donnell and David Letterman if they wanted the United States of America to win the war against terrorists. Neither would answer. In fact, when O’Reilly commented to Letterman that it was an easy question requiring a simple yes or no answer, instead of answering Letterman said that he was "being thoughtful".

Thoughtful? Letterman has to "think" about whether or not he wants the US or the Islamic terrorists to win? These Islamists regularly and with impunity blow up infrastructures in the UK, Indonesia, Spain and myriad other countries (including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US) and behead people on videotape. And this leftist representative of the New York and Hollywood Industrial Entertainment Complex has to think about whether or not he wants the US or the terrorists to win?

This attitude is both reprehensible and appalling. It is also the attitude voiced by the many (including George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Barbra Streisand and multiple others) elitist leftist celebrities who have become extremely wealthy due to the ideologies and opportunities within the USA. Opportunities that, should the terrorist entities take over or destroy the country, would be lost to all of us. But, the socialist Democrat "principles" allow for only the haves and the have-nots —"the rich get richer and the poor get poorer". One only need look to France’s form of government for proof.

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