tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185235194974452892026-02-25T03:15:51.442-05:00Welcome to my home. It's not much, but I was raised by frugal parents who taught me to read and think and live by traditional means. Here is the non-medical perspective of a small town respiratory therapist. My goal here is to create an arena for intelligent political, historical & philosophical discussion.Rick Freahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.comBlogger734125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518523519497445289.post-54492549226029794332014-04-22T15:43:00.000-04:002014-04-22T15:43:00.636-04:00

Federalism: Dividing power of government between the federal government and the states. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution gives states the right to make laws regarding anything not mentioned in the Constitution. The founding fathers believed this was essential to preserve the individual rights of the states and to prevent the federal government from treading on state rights. This was

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Assault Weapon: To conservatives: There's no such thing. It's just a creation. It's nothing more than a name that Democrats and people on the left created to gin up anti-gun sentiment among people. But there really is no official classification of "assault weapon." It doesn't exist. What gun isn't an assault weapon? To liberals: A psychological creation to make people think guns are bad so

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Low information voters: Independence; people who have no clue who the president is and have an urge to vote because they "need to do their part." They generally vote for the most popular person, and generally have no idea why. They do not follow politics. According to the New York Times in naming Obama the 2012 Man of the Year, "He won because he got the low information voters to vote for

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Success: Liberals define success by how many people are on the government dole. Conservatives define success my how many people don't rely on the government.

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So we have previously disproved that high taxes and unions do not improve income gaps, as the three states with the highest taxes, and forced unionization, were the three states listed here: Arizona New Mexico California (top marginal tax is 13%)\ Interestingly enough, another means liberals use to try to decrease the income gap, to create fairness between the rich and poor, is amnesty. &nbsp

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Narcissist politician: An inordinate fascination with one's self; excessive self love; selfcenteredness; smugness; a politician who knows he right; It's basically the arrogant, all knowing, never wrong politician who finds that it's best to force his views on us whether we like it or not. It's for our own good

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Obama has said that raising taxes on the rich would decrease income inequality, or reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.  But, as we proved yesterday, this is not true.  So they also say that unions can improve the income gap.  Is this true. Let us look at the facts. A state by state comparison did nothing to improve the income gap either.  The following states are

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Obama continues to argue that we need to create more fairness between the rich and the poor.  He said it's "unfair" that the rich make so much money while the poor are poor.  He says in order to resolve this problem he must raise taxes on the rich. However, there is evidence that raising taxes actually makes the income gap between the rich and poor even worse.  Consider a report

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According to the Christian Science Monitor: The president (or his administration) has ignored the Constitution, doing all the following with his pen and paper: Unilaterally changed elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (seven times they made changes to this act without the support of Congress) Declared an anti-gay-rights law unconstitutional Lifted the threat of deportation for an entire

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A coworker of mine told me I was doom and gloom for saying that Obama has no respect for the U.S. Constitution.  My response was: "So when did defending the Constitution become doom and gloom?"  I was irritated because Obama said if Congress does not act, he will use his pen and paper to get what he wants anyway.  In other words, he was willing to ignore the Constitution,

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Obama said raising the minimum raise would improve the economy, but he failed to tell people that only 1% of the workforce receives the minimum wage.  That would hardly have a positive effect on the economy. Add into that that for every dollar the minimum wage goes up, the value of the dollar goes down the same. For instance, while $1 might buy a loaf of bread today, once companies raise

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Add caption It turns out that 2014 is the coldest winter in recorded history in the United States. Where I live in Michigan the most snow we have ever gotten was 106 inches, and we are already there.  If you listen to the weather channel the cause of this bad winter is global warming.  They say it's the polar vortex? The polar vortex is this thing environmentalists made up to prove

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A poll recently confirmed that Facebook makes people feel worse about themselves.  I think it's because people are on Facebook to gloat about their kids getting all A's, or getting a new house, or a new car, or a new TV. I see this every single day on Facebook. So you go on Facebook with the intent of showing off yourself and your kids, and you see all this. You see other people doing

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So I'm having a respectful discussion with my cool bros.  I basically defended the Constitution and some of my bros agree with me and others disagree. Either way, we have fun with this and none of us gets upset and calls the other liars and that sort of stuff.  We walk away happy, and hug and kiss and stuff like that.  Well, not really, but you know what I mean. The

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Obama made like the economy was doing so well because of his policies. If this were the case, then why are 50 million people on food stamps? Why are twenty million more people on food stamps than when you were inaugurated. Why, if the economy is growing so rapidly and if job creation is so momentous, do we need emergency unemployment extensions? Why are 92 million Americans on the

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Executive orders: Conservative: A power the president has to take care of emergencies during times when Congress is not in session.  Liberals: Powers given to the president so, if he doesn't like something, can just "fix" it. But there is no such power granted to the president by the Constitution, and executive orders are not a way for the president to get around the Constitution.

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The left convinces people to vote for them by catering to your feelings.  It sounds good to take from the rich and give to the needy.  It feels good to give stuff to people.  It feels good save the animals by telling people not to eat meat.  People feel like their doing something good.  They also useguilt.  They guilt you into accepting their way of

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Gay Marriage: All people are born with natural rights. One natural right is the right to choose who we spend our time with. One natural right is the right to choose who we marry. It is not a natural right to tell other people who they can and cannot marry.  You don't have to agree with a person's lifestyle, yet you have no right to force other people to live the way the majority does.&

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Mainstream Media:  Conservative: Satellites for the Democratic National Committee. If you go home at the end of the day after having been out of touch, you'll turn on your TV and you'll find out what a bunch of mean-spirited extremist enemies Obama has, and they all happen to be Republicans and they all happen to have talk shows. Every day, all you get is a never-ending effort to

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Does Obama think he's a Dictator? It appears that is the case with his latest declaration to democrats in Congress that "I will act with or without Congress."  He said if Congress is deadlocked on key issues, he will use his made up executive authority to ignore the constitution and get his way regardless. That, my friends, is what dictators do. Obama used to be a constitutional lawyer

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Civil rights act: An act that would not have become law were it not for Republicans in the Senate. A greater percentage of Republicans in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats. J. William Fulbright -- a senator from Arkansas -- was a segregationist. He was opposed to the Civil Rights Act. Algore Sr. and most of the southern Democrats were righteously indignant and opposed

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Here is an article that was published in 2013 that has some people mad. An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an

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Being right:  Conservative: In conformity with fact. It's being honest and telling the truth about economics truths.  Liberal: Being right is politically incorrect. You cannot speak the truth about taxes, socialism, liberalism, progressivism. You cannot call us out on the facts, because the facts are the antithesis of liberalism. You cannot say that high taxes result in less

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Obama revolution: Attempt by Obama to fundamentally transform America. It is moving forward from conservatism to liberalism. It's moving forward from capitalism to socialism. It's taking money from those who have and giving it to those who have not.  It's stealing from those who succeed and giving it to those who have not succeeded.

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Fair share:  It's a catch phrase liberals use when someone is doing something they don't think is right.  For example, if you make too much money and don't pay enough taxes, you can't pay your "fair share."  It does not refer to the poor not paying taxes.  If you said, "The poor aren't paying taxes, that's not fair.  The poor aren't paying their fair share," that is not

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