Federal Governments Regulatory Overreach Smothering Economy

Last year, President Obama promised Americans a recovery summer. This year, he's given us a regulatory summer. He's thrown a giant wet blanket on economic recovery and has given Americans a summer of more burdens, more costs and more rules.

BARRASSO: Regulatory overreach smothering economy - Washington Times

The EPA recently issued 946 pages of new rules to deal with .05% of the problem

Mr. Soon, a natural scientist at Harvard, is an expert on mercury and public health
issues. Mr. Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive
Tomorrow (CFACT).

ARTICLE: http://www.power4georgians.com/docs/WSJ%20Mercury%20Editorial.pdf

70% of Americans say: America is on the wrong track

Since President Obama assumed office in January 2009, confidence in the nation’s current course has ranged from a low of 22% to a high of 35% measured in early April 2009.

Seventy percent (70%) of voters now say the country is heading down the wrong track. Since January 2009, pessimism about the country's direction has ranged from 57% to 72%.

Most Republicans (88%) and voters not affiliated with either major political party (74%) believe the United States is heading down the wrong track. Among Democrats, 36% say the country is heading in the right direction, while 49% say it's heading down the wrong track.

Entire story & thank you @bconsdr8 (on Twitter) for this link: http://ht.ly/4GnUc

Constitution be damned. Senators vote to supersede the 10th amendment by Expanding the EPA

http://ht.ly/1Xl91 How they voted (so we can hold them accountable)Yea vote would not have expanded the EPA's power - see chart below, example #1
http://ht.ly/1WnGt Why it was a horrible Idea.
http://ht.ly/1WnGs What to expect from it.

Political Parallel in Song

This sounds exactly like the man holding the land's highest office
The song http://blip.fm/~r6gwk goes like this:

"I'm nobody's friend I'm a walking Disaster, I'm a Demolition Man."

Obama has planned to steal 13 Million acres and confiscate PRIVATE LAND

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/18/obama-eyeing-millions-wild-acres-national-monuments/

Montana Rep Denny Rehberg Moves Against "Brazen Land Grab"
News 13 Montana
by Steve Fetveit (3/9/10)

Congressman Denny Rehberg says he’s uncovered a plan by the Obama administration to carve out 13 million acres of western land for federal conservation projects. Rehberg points to a leaked document identifying possible land acquisitions from New Mexico to Alaska’s North Slope. The document is seven pages of an internal draft marked "not for release" that was handed over to members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Western Caucus.To review the leaked Internal Draft pages for yourself, click here: http://ow.ly/d/3IK

Two areas noted are located in eastern Montana, including “small number of large ranch holdings” along the upper Wild and Scenic Missouri River and “unplowed areas of grasslands” near the Montana-Canadian border. Rehberg says it amounts to millions of acres in Montana.

The congressman criticized the Obama administration on the U.S. House floor, calling the plan outlined in the draft document “a land grab so brazen it’s difficult to believe."

Rehberg said, "Some of that land belongs to private citizens who have no idea that the federal government is planning to kick them off their ranches. If the government can do this to them, what can it do to you?”

Rehberg says requests for a copy of the full text of the internal draft have gone unanswered. The Newschannel made similar requests which have also been unanswered.

Tuesday, Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar was on capitol hill for a Senate committee hearing When he came face to face with Montana Senator Jon Tester. The senator Jon Salazar directly about the internal draft and if the Department of Interior had any intent to purchase land in Montana.

Salazar responded by saying he was “not aware of any plan.”

Rehberg says he's not buying Salazar's answer. He's introduced legislation that would block the use of the Antiquities Act to take lands in Montana without congressional oversight. It's a maneuver that's already in effect for the State of Wyoming.

Following Salazar’s Senate appearance, Rehberg renewed his call for congressional involvement in federal land dealings. “When it comes to executive action,” said Rehberg, “we’ve already seen this administration shoot first and ask questions later, and now that the sights are on millions of acres in Montana, the responsible action is to reassert congressional oversight, just like Wyoming has already done.”

Across the country, citizens are tiring of the failed policies bankrupting America

How many of these billboards were up when Bush held office?

Read the article!

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/14/new-billboards-in-mn-ask-had-enough-hope-and-change/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Another honorable mention in Utah

10 inconvenient truths that could dog the president's Health Care Bill

The Washington Examiner gets the truth out, BUT why AFTER the damage is DONE?

Link to the article http://twurl.nl/u363ho

1. The cost of coverage will rise for the middle class.

According to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a health care scholar at the free-market American Enterprise Institute, the new bill will actually make it more costly for middle class families to buy health insurance by forcing those who shop on the individual market to buy generous, but expensive plans mandated under the new law. Middle class families earning $88,000 or more a year won't qualify for health care subsidies. A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.

2. Health insurance premiums will go up for nearly half of Americans.

Health care premiums for those in the individual insurance market will rise 10 percent to 13 percent by 2016 under the plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While the cost of premiums will be subsidized with taxpayer dollars for 57 percent of those enrolled in the new government-run insurance exchanges, the 43 percent of enrollees who do not qualify for assistance will have to pay higher costs.

3. Health reform is unlikely to create new jobs.

The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, says that the health care reform bill will create "between 2.5 million to 4 million additional jobs over the next 10 years." But the fiscally conservative Beacon Hill Institute, part of Boston's Suffolk University, conducted its own analysis and found that in response to higher taxes and mandates on companies to provide insurance, "firms would be induced to fire or lay off workers" to the tune of 120,000 to 700,000 employees by 2019. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, found that the new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year.

4. Federal funding may cover abortion.

Obama agreed on Sunday to sign an executive order to reaffirm the Senate bill's "consistency with long-standing restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion." But pro-life groups say the executive order does not carry the force of a law and will do nothing to curb the provision in the bill they believe will allow taxpayer dollars to cover the procedure. "The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says," the National Right to Life Committee said.

5. Four million people will lose their employer-based plans.

The new health care law will impose a list of benefits each health care plan will have to offer if they are to remain in business. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates that about 4 million people would lose their employer-based plan and be forced to buy plans on the new government exchanges.

6. Medicare will cut services along with costs.

The bill makes $528 billion in cuts to Medicare, including a $136 billion reduction for Medicare Advantage. The Medicare Advantage cuts will force 4.8 million seniors off the popular plan by 2019. An additional $23 billion in cuts to Medicare will come from a panel charged with slashing Medicare spending.

7. The bill will not pay for itself.

The CBO found that the bill would reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years, but the savings was achieved by leaving out a $208 billion provision lawmakers will have to enact later to ensure doctors are adequately paid for treating Medicare patients. When the "doc fix" is included in the bill, it runs $59 billion in the red over the next decade. And former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said that "if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games" the 10-year deficit would exceed $560 billion.

8. Higher Medicaid costs will gradually shift to the states.

The health care reform bill expands Medicaid to all non-elderly individuals up to 133 percent of the poverty line. The federal government would foot the bill for this expansion, but only until 2016. Beginning in 2017, states would gradually begin paying a portion of it. By 2020, states would cover 10 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion.

9. Doctor shortages could lead to rationing.

A survey conducted by the Medicus Firm, a medical recruitment company, found that 46 percent of physicians said they would quit or retire if the Democratic health care reform bill becomes law. The survey noted that "even if a much smaller percentage such as ten, 15, or 20 percent are pushed out of practice over several years at a time when the field needs to expand by over 20 percent, this would be severely detrimental to the quality of the health care system."

10. The bill raises taxes for many individuals and businesses.

The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on insurance plans costing $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. It also raises revenue by increasing the Medicare payroll tax for those earning more than $200,000, plus a new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income for these earners. The bill also imposes new taxes on drug makers, medical device manufacturers and health insurers that are likely to be passed on to consumers.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Ten-inconvenient-questions-about-Obamacare-88853462.html#ixzz0j17vXCze

The Democrats and Progressives want THIS for YOUR America & they're SUCCEEDING

How does it sound to you?

CATERPILLAR reports OBAMACARE will COST them $100 MILLION in it's very FIRST YEAR

Obama and his cronies harbor chastisement and disdain for capitalism.

There is no connection between what is being purposed and it's effect on business, this is largely because the administration has NO business experience.

"Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the company's health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone."

Click the link for the complete article:
http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/03/caterpillar-health-care-bill-would-cost-it-100m.html

How the GOP can take back Congress in 2010

Mike Pence making sense.

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