USBC: Politics

The REAL State of the Union :-(

TWO YEARS AGO VS. TODAY Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Sources: (1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation’s history.  Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking,
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Donald Trump for President?

Now I remember why I stopped going to CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference).  Before Reagan, the Republican Party was not very conservative.  It had become the party that catered to Big Business; multinational conglomerates; and Wall Street. What conservative roots it had were long gone.  However, during the late 70s  and the early 80s, conservative activists attacked the Republican establishment, and dumped those “limousine liberals” and “corporate socialists” who had run the party into the ground.  The “New Right,”  a coalition of libertarians, conservatives and an emerging religious right, fielded hundreds of candidates and elected real conservatives that, for the first time in 40 years,
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BRITISH PM DECLARES MULTICULTURALISM A FAILURE!!

British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a speech attended by world leaders, on Saturday criticized his country’s longstanding policy of multiculturalism, saying it was an outright failure and partly to blame for fostering Islamist extremism. He said the U.K. needs a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to extremism. “If we are to defeat this threat, I believe it’s time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past,” he told the international conference in Munich. “Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the
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How the DREAM Act Passed in the House

Yes, the DREAM Act passed in the House of Representatives.  And, like many of the worst bills past by the Congress, such as Bill Clinton’s Motor-Voter bill, the vote was very close.   And the closer the vote, the more valuable a representative’s vote becomes.  And that is when you separate the heroes from the slime. This vote was 216-198.  A difference of 18 votes.  It’s a shame that 11 Republicans didn’t show up to vote.  That would have dropped the margin to seven votes or eight votes to defeat the bill.  And it’s a shame that another eight Republicans decided to vote for
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DREAM Act is Amnesty in Disguise

Senator Harry Reid has decided to try to pass an amnesty in the closing minutes of this Congress.  He will get the votes he needs from the radical Left and from those lame-duck Senators who were ousted by their constituents a few weeks ago. A few years ago, when the Kennedy-McCain amnesty was about to pass, U.S. Border Control’s internet activists deluged Sen. McConnell’s phones, faxes and emails at every one of his state offices, his Senate office and his Minority Leader’s office, urging him to put a hold on the vote … and with literally just seconds before all debate on
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