Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times - Day 1

Here are my notes from Day 1 of Glenn Beck's 5 part series he is having this week on Fox News. Please record this and watch it if you can! It's very thought provoking & crosses party lines.

A breakdown of the US debt:

$38,000 per citizen in federal debt
$191,000 per citizen in unfunded liabilities (medicaid/medicare...add government healthcare to that if it passes...)

This is PER CITIZEN!! Is there any way to tax & spend our way out of this?

Why would anyone want to add more to this debt?

According to the white house estimate last Friday, our national debt went from $7 trillion to $9 trillion. It was only 6 months ago that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the debt would rise to $10 trillion. They were immediately badmouthed by the Obama administration who said those numbers were ridiculous...6 months later, it's not so ridiculous anymore. How could the administration be this wrong in 6 months and no one in the media is questioning it?

What is this administration's motivation for spending us to death?

Here's what Charles Payne had to say: (CEO of Wall Street Strategies, an independent stock market research firm)

• We can get out of this debt if it doesn't increase and we raise the tax rate to 80% all around
• There is another $12 trillion in the US government bailout debts
• $306 trillion is the interest alone that will be owed by us on our debts
• $39 trillion is the YEAR TO DATE amount of Medicare FRAUD! Just 9 months!!
• $644 trillion in currency and credit derivatives (the amount of our debt with the risk factored in)
• Why is the administration raising our debt levels so quickly? To push out corporate power (including other branches of government) in order to grow the executive branch of government.
• Is there any way to realistically pay it off? If there is, we CANNOT diminish the power of free markets or corporate America (which is exactly what this administration is doing).
• The Obama administration knows that as long as the people are afraid, they will allow anything to pass through.
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Why the rush to pass all of these huge bills? It is clearly a strategy from the 60's radicals, Cloward & Piven and their article Strategy to End Poverty. Here it is in a nutshell:

• They believed that there was a wide gap between the entitlements that poor people qualified for and those that they actually collected. If everyone were to be on welfare, it would wipe out poverty all together. Their goal was to educate the masses through the media and community organizations (did someone say ACRORN?) so that masses of people would quickly realize that they are eligible for these entitlements which would create a "crisis", forcing the government to act quickly creating a new program for direct income distribution, Marxism.
• This process is meant to overwhelm the system! According to Cloward & Piven, this will collapse the current system putting a new one in it's place.

Some thoughts & questions from Pat Caddell (liberal democrat pollster):

• Where do these thousands of pages come from in just 6 months??? (stimulus, cap & trade, health care reform...)
• Who's running the show? Who's really in control? Eric Holder (Attorney General) just negated President Obama's decision to "move on" from the CIA interrogation policies and said "we will not move on". Who really is in charge here?
• Until everything makes sense DO NOT allow them to pass anything.

Czars - 3 dozen have been put into position to advise our president. They don't go through a confirmation process, they aren't elected, they don't go through a vetting process, and they answer to no one...yet they are in the top positions of advising our president.

Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones, some notes about Jones:

• noted as showing up at Yale law school wearing combat boots & carrying a black panther backpack. Quoted as saying of those years "If I'd been in another country, I probably would have joined some underground guerrilla sect but as it was, I went to an Ivy league law school".
• was arrested in 1993 during the Rodney King trials & said of his time in jail "I met all these young radical people of color. I mean really radical. Communists & anarchists. And it was like this is what I need to be a part of. By that August, I was a communist".
• Jones spent the next 10 years as a radical creating STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) which held study groups in Marxist & Lenin teachings.
• Quote from a STORM pamphlet: "All of storms members developed a basic understanding of & commitment to revolutionary Marxist policies w/ a particular emphasis on the historical experiences of 3rd world communist movements".
• Storm's early work included "mobilizing young people of color into militant direct action & combining it with more deeply rooted organizing in our communities."
• In 1995 Jones spun off the Bay Area Police Watch which became the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Baker worked closely with communist members for years including Stanley Levison, a leader of the Communist Party USA.
• In 1999 Jones was arrested again while protesting the World Trade Organization - STORM desolved 3 years later.
• Jones has since denounced his black nationalism to focus on environmentalist issues & plans to stop "eco-apartheid" by training convicts.
• Why/how has this radical communist made it so high in the Obama administration? There's no way he would have passed any confirmation or vetting process!
  
• A bay area newspaper said that Jones is still a revolutionary, just a more powerful one.
• He was quoted in That's The Joint! The hip-hop studies reader "We need to be about the whup-ass. Somebody's F-ing up somewhere. They have names & job descriptions. You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy, because if you do it on his terms, the outcome is already known.
  
• The green jobs initiative was passed under the Bush administration but not funded until Obama's stimulus package, which allotted $100 billion to them.
  
• Jones is a Board Member of the Apollo Alliance which brings organized labor (unions), radicals like Jones, and "greenies" together to create a more powerful force.
  
• Harry Reid was quoted as saying in regards to the stimulus bill "The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in this". (remember, Jones "green jobs" were awarded $100 billion in this package...written by his organization).
• Apollo also proposed the funding of $11 billion in stimulus funds going to the smart grid.
• Acorn is eligible to receive $4.1 billion of stimulus money (WHY?????)
• Van Jones wrote a book called Hoopties 4 Hybrids. Sound familiar? Cash for clunkers was his idea! Who are these people with so much control? Why do they have it?
• When asked about Jones' radical past, the White House did not answer that question, giving a general statement about his work ethic.

That's it for day one! It really gets my mind racing as to who exactly is in power here. What is the hidden agenda? Why are they in such a rush to nationalize, raise the debt, crush the economy? What is their ultimate goal? How do we stop them? I've always known politics had dirty aspects but it's looking like it's just all dirty. The more I learn, the more frustrated I get. I wish I could just ignore it all but if I don't do my best to help change the system, I fear for the country my children will live in. I fear that the freedoms we have today will be something they reminisce about to their grand children.

At the end of the night, I pray. I pray and ask God to bring me peace and knowledge that as long as He is my ultimate leader, I need not worry. My surroundings and my country may change drastically but with God as my family's foundation, I know we are ultimately safe.

That doesn't mean I'll let my country fall apart without a fight!

Good night!

-b