AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA - By Lou Pritchett

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

By Lou Pritchett



Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

Sunday Funnies

Palin's America ~ A Beautiful Video Presentation

Palin's America, a beautiful multimedia presentation.

http://ow.ly/niwQ

Obamacare advidsor Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's ETHICAL(?) approach to Health Care Rationing

Is this an ETHICAL approach?
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South Dakota U.S. Senator John Thune writes Government Ownership Exit Plan Act (S.1242)

South Dakota Senator John Thune has authored Senate bill S.1242 in an effort to keep government ownership from expanding and threatening business, the free market and Capitalism.
http://ow.ly/nhk3

The federal government currently holds various ownership stakes in over 500 private companies.
If we do not act now, government ownership of these private entities could persist for decades. If we want to once again promote free market principles and the private ownership of business, it is time to act.
http://ow.ly/nhmF

A picture is worth a THOUSAND words

The Congressional Budget office says the U.S. debt outlook worsening. Ahh, what do they know? http://ow.ly/ltOo

Federal Reserve official says the real US unemployment rate at 16% http://ow.ly/ltN0

Multiple notable articles from Bconsdr8 - on Twitter

One word sums up this administration: AVARICE An excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain

Obama Fails To Fill 40% of Top Department of Defense Appointments http://ow.ly/JyGL

BRAZIL is handed $2 BILLION of OUR taxes http://ow.ly/JytI

U.S. can’t Afford Obama, is this a BARGIN? 17 getmo detainees transferred COST: $200 Million http://ow.ly/li0k

An insatiable desire for power. Obama gives FIRST NATIONAL OCEAN POLICY http://ow.ly/li1m & Internet access tax? http://ow.ly/lghC

Big Jumps in Taxes Loom in 10 States http://ow.ly/li2j & The Coming Obama Tax Explosion http://ow.ly/fR7D

These are the people Obama gleans knowledge from (is she the next Obama Czar?) http://ow.ly/kZgr

New Bank Failures / Bernake claims we're near 'Recovery'

All 106 bank failures detailed on this bank failure map:
http://ow.ly/l7Zw

NEW YORK (TheStreet) --
New bank failures last week included two in Georgia and one each in Texas and Alabama, bringing the total number of banks and savings and loans shut down by regulators this year to 81.

Georgia continues to lead all states with 23 bank or thrift failures during 2008 and 2009, followed by Illinois with 14 failures, California with 13, Florida with eight and Nevada with five failures.

The Office of Thrift Supervision took over ebank of Atlanta and appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC then sold the thrift's deposits and sole office to Stearns Bank NA.

Georgia regulators shut down First Coweta Bank of Newnan. The FDIC was appointed receiver and sold the failed bank's retail deposits and branches to United Bank of Zebulon, Ga.

The Alabama State Banking Department closed CapitalSouth Bank of Birmingham and appointed the FDIC receiver. The FDIC sold all of CapitalSouth's retail deposits and branches to Iberiabank of Lafayette, La. Iberiabank is the main subsidiary of Iberiabank(IBKC Quote).

The Office of Thrift Supervision closed Guaranty Bank of Austin, Texas, the main subsidiary of Guaranty Financial Group (GFG Quote). In a deal that was leaked Thursday, the FDIC sold all retail deposits and branches of Guaranty Bank to BBVA Compass of Birmingham, Ala., the main U.S. subsidiary of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (BB Quote).

Guaranty Bank had $13 billion in total assets when it failed, and it was a particularly expensive failure, with the FDIC estimating that the cost to its insurance fund from the thrift's failure would be $3 billion. In comparison, Colonial Bank, which failed the previous week, had $25 billion in total assets and the cost of its failure to the FDIC was $2.8 billion.

First Coweta and CapitalSouth were included in TheStreet.com's preliminary list of 104 undercapitalized banks and thrifts, based on preliminary second-quarter data. Guaranty Bank and ebank were not included in the preliminary second-quarter list, since data for most thrifts was unavailable when the report was published on Aug. 6.

Of the 89 institutions on a previous list published TheStreet.com in late May, 35 have failed.

Large bank holding companies that have acquired failed institutions during 2008 and 2009 include JPMorgan Chase (JPM Quote), which acquired Washington Mutual, the largest-ever bank or thrift to fail in the U.S.; SunTrust Banks (STI Quote); Regions Financial (RF Quote); Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB Quote); U.S. Bancorp (USB Quote); Zions Bancorp (ZION Quote); PNC Financial (PNC Quote); and BB&T(BBT Quote).

Genome breakthrough allows man to create life and choose gender / good or bad?

Life to order: Researchers already regularly engineer life forms by adding or deleting genes.
Full Article
http://ow.ly/kXlb

U.S. clinic offers British parents opportunity to choose the sex of their child
Full Article
http://ow.ly/kWSa

Missing the Facts on Townhall Concerns

* Taxpayer-funded benefits for Illegal immigrants

* Government Takeover of Health Care Systems

* Funding Abortion with Taxpayer dollars

Organizing for America and liberal community organizers are actively being cheered on by President Obama's supporters http://ow.ly/kRRR

Missing the Facts on Townhall Concerns » The Foundry

Be sure to listen to Congressman Mike Rogers statement http://ow.ly/kShi

Rebound? Foreclosures rise as jobs and income drop. Is Media LYING?

Can we believe the mainstream media (it appears not). See link:

What rebound? Foreclosures rise as jobs and income drop

AMERICA'S 'LEFT' IS UNITED AGAINST CONSERVATIVES

http://ow.ly/kM85

* listen & respond *

The status quo will watch America dissolve under their beliefs and organization. Stand firm and take action today.

Why Jimmah is smiling? ...

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Should Government determine you and your families Health-Care needs?

Government determining you and your families needs?

This proposal eliminates entire industries, strips freedom, removes choice and transfers the power of providing life AND death to Government.

Specifics on this terrible Government Takeover attempt of Health-Care

CLICK THIS LINK TO REFERENCE PAGES MENTIONED BELOW! http://ow.ly/juhn

USE THIS LINK TO SEND A CUSTOMIZED EMAIL, click on: 'TAKE ACTION' http://ow.ly/jvjb


• Government access to individual's finances & a national health care ID card (p.58).

• Government use of ACORN & AmeriCorps, to register individuals for the govt health care plan (p. 95).

• No company or business can sue the federal government for price fixing (p. 124).

• Any nonresident alien is exempt from the individual taxes and fines which are required of every legal, U.S. citizens (p. 170).

• Government will restrict the enrollment of special needs people (p. 354).

• Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation-that is, end-of-life counseling on "the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration" and other end of life treatments. (Section 1233).

• "Advance Care Planning Consultation" may include a government order for end of life plans (p. 429).

• Government Marriage & Family therapy sessions (p. 489).

• Government will design and implement the Home Visitation Program for families with young children and families expecting children, parenting counseling is included (p. 838-845).

• Government-established National Medical Device Registry (p. 1001).

* H.R. 3200 would allow bureaucrats to make personal medical decisions for patients.

* H.R. 3200 does not require Members of Congress to get their health insurance through the proposed government-run plan.

* H.R. 3200 forces Americans to "hurry up and wait," the rationing mechanism when average waiting time for a medical treatment exceeds the average wait times in private plans.

* H.R. 3200 provides no effective means of preventing taxpayer-funded health benefits from going to illegal immigrants.

* H.R. 3200 does not guarantee that workers who like their current health plan can keep it.

* H.R. 3200 does not prevent seniors from being stripped of their health care choices through the Medicare Advantage program.

* H.R. 3200 does not guarantee that Americans can continue to enroll in private individual market health plans.

* H.R. 3200 does not waive the employer mandate if it will cause layoffs, worker salary cuts, or reductions in hiring.

* H.R. 3200 would allow community groups, such as ACORN and AmeriCorps, to register individuals for the government health care plan (p. 95).

* H.R. 3200 exempts nonresident aliens from the individual taxes, insurance purchasing mandates, and fines which are required of every legal, U.S. citizens (p. 170).

* H.R. 3200 will restrict the enrollment of special needs people (p. 354).

* H.R. 3200 mandates Advance Care Planning Consultation-that is, end-of-life counseling on "the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration" and other end of life treatments. (Section 1233). which may include a government order for end of life plans (p. 429).

* H.R. 3200 provides for government Marriage & Family therapy sessions (p. 489).

* H.R. 3200 allows government to design and implement the Home Visitation Program for families with young children and families expecting children, parenting counseling is included (p. 838-845).

* H.R. 3200 authorizes a government-established National Medical Device Registry (p. 1001).

* H.R. 3200 also provides for the following seriously disturbing items:
allows government real-time access to individual's finances and a national health care ID card (p.58).

* Since no company or business can sue the federal government for price fixing, there will be no judicial review against a government monopoly of the health care industry (p. 124).

Palin Calls Obamacare Evil

Palin calls Obamacare evil (OneNewsNow.com)

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Another Democrat walks out on their constituents at a Town Hall

Another Democrat walks out on their constituents at a Town Hall

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'Manufactured' vs 'Real' Anger

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Five Questions for Health Care Townhalls

This country deserves a respectful, honest debate about health care. And the hundreds of townhalls Members of Congress will be hosting across the country this August are just the place for that conversation to happen. Here are just five questions Americans should be pressing their elected leaders on over the coming month:

1) Can you promise me that I will not lose my current plan and doctor?
President Obama says it is “not legitimate” to claim the “public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system.” But Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman have all admitted that the public option will inevitably lead to government-run health care. The independent and non-partisan Lewin Group estimates that about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance if Obamacare became law.

2) Can you promise that you and your family will enroll in the public plan? Members of Congress and their families currently receive health care through the popular, and completely public-option-free, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) which allows members of Congress to choose between 283 private health insurance plans. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment that would require all members of Congress and their staffs to enroll in the newly-created public health insurance plan. His amendment passed by just one vote in the Senate Health Committee. In the House, Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) offered a similar amendment and all 21 Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee voted it down. If the public plan is so great, then Members of Congress should be willing to forfeit their private coverage and join the millions of Americans who would be moved into the public plan.

3) Can you promise that Obamacare will not lead to higher deficits in the long term? President Obama said that he would not support health care legislation that would add to the national deficit. But Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf has stated that the House health care legislation would “generate substantial increases in federal budget deficits during the decade beyond the current 10-year budget window.” To help Obama keep his promise, Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-OH) offered an amendment that would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit an annual report to the President and Congress, comparing the expected revenue and spending under the bill’s provisions for the upcoming 10-year period. In the event that projected spending under the bill outpaced revenue, the Secretary would have to reduce spending so that it would not exceed revenue. Democrats defeated Tiberi’s amendment.

4) Can you promise that government bureaucrats will not ration health care for patients on the public plan? President Obama promised on July 22 that health care reform would keep the government out of health care decisions, but both the House and Senate bills call for an increased role of comparative effectiveness research (CER). More information on health care effectiveness is good, as long as doctors and patients are the ones empowered to use that information. Conservatives in both the House and Senate offered amendments prohibiting the use of CER by government to mandate, deny, or ration care. These anti-rationing amendments were defeated in both the House and Senate.

5) Can you promise me that my tax dollars will not fund abortions? The House bill, as currently drafted, allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to outline the minimum benefits that must be included in any health plan. There is no specific provision in the bill that would require insurance coverage of abortion. However, since the decisions over benefits are left to the Secretary of HHS, with recommendations from a newly created Health Care Benefits Advisory Committee, there is nothing to prevent the current or future Secretary from including abortion coverage in Americans’ health insurance. Conservatives in both the House and Senate offered amendments that would prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. The taxpayer funded abortion bans were defeated in both the House and Senate.