Freedom-Fighters Forum

By Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

(…it was so nice of him to give us this great quote for posterity!)

SO, USE IT!!!

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this: January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:

The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION! (more…)

This is a great analogy.

For those of you with septic tanks it hits home.
Democrats don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING.
Republicans don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING.
Liberals don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING.
Neocons don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING.

Allow me to explain. Let’s say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood. Your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do? Raise the ceilings or pump out the poop?

Your choice is coming next November. Don’t miss the opportunity.

By a retired minister

I liked the old paths, when
Moms were at home…
Dads were at work…
Brothers went into the army…
And sisters got
married BEFORE having children!!!
Crime did not pay; Hard work did;
And people knew the difference…

Moms could cook;
Dads would work;
Children would behave…
Husbands were loving;
Wives were supportive;
And children were polite…
Women wore (more…)

By Tim Nerenz, Ph.D.

“Moment Of Clarity” is a weekly commentary by Libertarian writer and speaker Tim Nerenz, Ph.D. Visit Tim’s website www.timnerenz.com to find your moment.

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

We used to make things here in Wisconsin.

We made machine tools in Milwaukee, cars in Kenosha and ships in Sheboygan. We mined iron in the north and lead in the south. We made cheese, we made brats, we made beer, and we even made napkins to clean up what we spilled. And we made money.

The original war on poverty was a private, mercenary affair. Men like Harnishfeger, Allis, Chalmers, Kohler, Kearney, Trecker, Modine, Case, Mead, Falk, Allen, Bradley, Cutler, Hammer, Bucyrus, Harley, Davidson, Pabst, and Miller lifted millions up from subsistence living to middle class comfort. They did it – not “Fighting Bob” La Follette or any of the politicians who came along later to take the credit and rake a piece of the action through the steepest progressive scheme in the nation.

Those old geezers with the beards cured poverty by (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

During the American Revolution there were approximately three million citizens in the thirteen colonies. Of these about one million were Americans seeking independence, about one million were Tories loyal to the Crown, and the remaining one million were “fence-sitters” waiting to see which way to jump or they just did not care about Liberty and Freedom one way or the other.

I am grateful to our Founding Fathers and their American compatriots who labored and fought so diligently to win our independence and secure our unalienable rights from our Creator to Life, Liberty, and Property. I am grateful to the American patriots who fought to preserve the Union while we were in the crucible of Civil War. I am also grateful for all Americans who have striven throughout our history to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Those who maintained a deep and abiding faith in our Constitutional Republic, our founding documents and the desire that their posterity would have a better America than they had received from their forefathers. For a greater truth has never been spoken than this, “To maintain the American way of life and pass it intact to succeeding generations is the responsibility of every true American.”

Why is it that our Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so fearlessly and determinedly American and We the People of today are not? There must be some cause, some good reason, why the Founding Fathers and their compatriots were so eager for Liberty then, and now We the People are eager for the servitude of the Welfare Socialist State?

Why are there so many divided Americans in our nation today? Why have they forgotten the essence of the expression on the Great Seal of the United States – E pluribus unum [Out of many, one]? What has happened to the once “great melting pot” that forged a great nation out of self-reliance, self-determination and the universal opportunity to try, to strive, to succeed or to fail? Why has America become the “great sectional plate” divided by class and ethnicity? Could it be that Americans have forgotten what it means to be an American? (more…)

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY

Some belated parental advice to protesters.

Marybeth Hicks
Columnist
The Washington Times
Oct 18, 2011

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”

As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” — now known as “OWS” — whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.”

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.

Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will: (more…)

Barack Obama and the Infantilization of America.

By JAMES TARANTO

Here’s ABC News, reporting on the speech the president gave in Fog City: “At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.”

Oh no! Horror of horrors! Obama is the only thing standing between us and having to rely on ourselves! And do you know what they call people who rely on themselves?

Adults.

On October 18, 2011 I posted the following article on Military Healthcare entitled Honoring Those Who Served.

http://www.freedom-fightersforum.org/will%e2%80%99s-opines/forum-2011/honoring-those-who-served/

David Alexander of Reuters had this to say:

U.S. military retirees fret about healthcare feesBy David Alexander

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/02/us-usa-defense-healthcare-idUSTRE7A10K120111102?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=76

FORT WORTH, Texas | Wed Nov 2, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – When Wayne Johnson flew missions in Vietnam in the 1960s, one of the allures of a military career was the pledge that those who risked their lives for the United States would be repaid with healthcare in old age.

Now, as the 65-year-old retired Air Force major nears an age when he may need to bank on that promise, support is building in Washington for changes that could make it more costly for military retirees and their dependents to receive healthcare. It is a move Johnson finds worrying. (more…)

The link below confirms this email:

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

You may know, Cruz Construction started a division in North Dakota just 6 months ago. They sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) we had here in Alaska to North Dakota and several drivers. They just bought two new Kenworth’s to add to that fleet; one being a Tri Drive tractor and a new 65 ton lowboy to go with it. They also bought two new cranes (one crawler & one rubber tired) for that division. Dave Cruz said they have moved more rigs in the last 6 months in ND than Cruz Construction moved in Alaska in the last 6 years. Williston is like a gold rush town; they moved one of our 40 man camps down there since there are no rooms available. Unemployment in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4 percent last I checked. See anything in the national news about how the oil industry is fueling North Dakota’s economy?

About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, “I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?” Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, “more than all (more…)