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Go to Scott Walker’s website to learn more about the recall    http://www.scottwalker.org/

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OBAMA WAS REPEATEDLY WARNED TO FIX OUR MASSIVE DEFICITS OR FACE A CREDIT DOWNGRADE BUT HE KEPT THE SPENDING BINGE GOING

In 2009, Moody’s Warned The U.S. Could Lose Its Triple-A Rating If The Deficit Was Not Controlled. ”Under the most pessimistic scenario put forward by Moody’s, the U.S. would lose its top rating in 2013 if economic growth proves anemic, interest rates rise and the government fails to dent the deficit or recover most of its assistance to the financial sector.” (Joanna Slater, “Moody’s Puts U.S., U.K. on Chopping Block,” The Wall Street Journal,12/8/09)

In 2010, Moody’s Again Warned That A Failure To Bring Down The Deficit Could Result In The Loss Of Our AAA Rating. ”Moody’s Investors Service warned on Wednesday that the triple-A rating of U.S. treasury bonds could be in peril unless the federal budget deficit is reduced or the economy grows more vigorously than expected.” (Jake Tapper, “Geithner: U.S. Will Not Lose AAA Bond Rating,”ABC News’ “Political Punch”, 2/7/10)

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An indicator of just how seriously the federal government’s financial situation has deteriorated (combined of course with the establishment press’s clear desire to emphasize “news” which might assist Dear Leader’s reelection effort) is that the dismal 2012 report released by the Social Security system’s trustees on April 23 received little attention. Viewed through that perverse prism, cash deficits which “will average about $66 billion between 2012 and 2018 before rising steeply,” even before considering the $110 billion or so taken from “general (non-existent) revenues” during 2011 and 2012 to make up for the payroll tax cut, pale in comparison to the importance of higher priorities — like working up a 5,400-word report riddled with errors and distortions on what Mitt Romney was doing when he was a teenager.

The sad, under-reported truth is that three years into an alleged “recovery,” the long-term outlook for Social Security continues to crumble at an accelerating rate.

It’s a crackup which was decades in the making. That’s because the government has scandalously used Social Security’s annual surpluses to fund the rest of its operations since President Lyndon Johnson began “including Social Security and all other trust funds in a ‘unified budget’” in the 1960s. Social Security’s so-called “Trust Funds” consist of nothing more than stacks of IOUs from the rest of a dangerously indebted government.

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By John Fund

Houston — The 2012 elections will feature many close races, likely including the presidential contest. That makes concern about voter fraud and ballot integrity all the more meaningful, and a conference held here last weekend by the watchdog group True the Vote made clear just how high the stakes are.

“Unfortunately, the United States has a long history of voter fraud that has been documented by historians and journalists,” Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in 2008, upholding a strict Indiana voter-ID law designed to combat fraud. Justice Stevens, who personally encountered voter fraud while serving on various reform commissions in his native Chicago, spoke for a six-member majority. In a decision two years earlier clearing the way for an Arizona ID law, the Court had declared in a unanimous opinion that “confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes is essential to the functioning of our participatory democracy. Voter fraud drives honest citizens out of the democratic process and breeds distrust of our government. Voters who fear their legitimate votes will be outweighed by fraudulent ones will feel disenfranchised.”

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By GARY FINEOUT
ASSOCIATED PRESS

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are now saying that nearly 200,000 registered voters may not be U.S. citizens.

Earlier in the week, state election officials announced they had identified more than 2,600 people who are in Florida legally but ineligible to vote.

The Department of State is asking county election officials to verify the information. Election supervisors are contacting voters and if someone is not a citizen, their name will be dropped from the voter rolls.

But an initial list drawn up by the state – and not widely released – shows that a comparison of voter lists and driver’s license information turned up a list of nearly 182,000 people who may not be U.S. citizens.

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A Tale of Two Infographics.

Yes, apparently the Obama administration’s “All of the Above” approach to energy is in need of an asterisk: *except coal.

But green energy is the future right? And the future is now! I mean how much does coal even constitute as a portion of energy consumption in America?

This much.

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Tom Barrett may hope the third time is the charm. Barrett has already failed in two races for Wisconsin governor. Now he’ll face the same GOP candidate he faced in 2010, current Gov. Scott Walker.

Who is Barrett?

Barrett’s a Democrat naturally tied to big labor. When Barrett served in the U.S. House, one scathing editorial said he was in the “back pocket of local labor unions” and that his “credibility as an economist” was “dead.” The writer also said, “You have shown the world that there are U.S. politicians who know little of the free market system or how jobs are created.” The remarks were published in 1993 in The Milwaukee Sentinel.

A cursory stroll through Barrett’s service as congressman turns up standard Democrat lines about taxing the wealthy—the “fair share” meme that organizations of parents and teachers often use in public schools to collect money for extra programs.  Not much changes in political ideology.

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