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Barack Obama declared that "generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless … when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal … when we ended a war, and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth." It truly would take a Messiah to fulfil such soaring promises. God teaches "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom." (proverbs 11:2) Remember the Titanic? The great quote was: "Even God can't sink this ship."

73% Agree That Washington Is “Broken” Friday, February 19, 2010 Seventy-three percent (73%) of U.S. voters agree with Vice President Joseph Biden that “Washington right now is broken.” A new Rasmussen Reports (a trustworty poll) national telephone survey finds that just 15% disagree with the vice president’s analysis of the political situation in the nation’s capital. Twelve percent (12%) more are not sure. Yet while 87% of Mainstream voters say Washington is broken, 73% of the Political Class disagree. However, 75% of all voters now say they are angry at the government’s current policies, up four points from late November and up nine points since September. Sixty percent (60%) think neither Republican political leaders nor Democratic political leaders have a good understanding of what is needed today. Sixty-three percent (63%) believe, generally speaking, that it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were defeated this November. Their confidence in their own congressman also continues to fall. That’s because voters are less tolerant of congressional gridlock. Fifty-seven percent (57%) now see passing good legislation as a more important role for Congress than preventing bad legislation from becoming law. Thirty-seven percent (37%) believe preventing bad laws from being enacted is more important. But this marks a nine-point shift in favor of good legislation from a survey in early November when voters were nearly tied on the question.

Over 46,000 people answered that particular poll. You know, mostly liberals who are the only ones who can stomach MSNBC.

What's wrong with information? Oh I get it, the information doesn't agree with you.

Source: MSNBC

I know this is a long read, But it's worth it. Don't forget to read part 2 and 3. It's a great article that gives the reasons for our dissatisfaction with the President.

Is Obama Failing? (Part 1) by David Boaz David Boaz is executive vice-president of the Cato Institute. Added to cato.org on February 2, 2010 This article appeared in the Economist on February 2, 2010. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is David Boaz's But part of President Obama's problem may be that he tried to fulfil too many of them, with no sense of the limits of the state's efficacy or the public's tolerance for expanded government. The claims of some of his advocates in 2008 that no one could spend 12 years at the University of Chicago without absorbing some sense of the benefits of markets, the limits of government and the hard lessons of the 20th century now seem as off-base as Ben Stein's buy recommendation on Merrill Lynch in late 2007. On 20 January 2009, the day of Obama's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote, "The federal government itself is a far more potent instrument, in its breadth and depth of command over national life, than it has ever been before." President Obama has never quite thanked President Bush for the new powers he inherited, but he has certainly used them. Bush raised the federal budget by more than $1.5 trillion. He bequeathed to Obama a FY2009 deficit of about $1.3 trillion, which Obama proceeded to increase with his "stimulus" bill, an earmark-heavy omnibus appropriations bill, Cash for Clunkers and more. But more than spending, he seemed bent on using a crisis atmosphere ("You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Rahm Emanuel) to amass more money and power in Washington. He proposed to bring the key health-care and energy industries under the direction of the federal government. He sought to tell financial companies how they could invest and what they could pay. I don't think he really wanted to nationalise the automobile companies; it's just that, as Uncle Duke said of the pension fund, the automobile industry was just sitting there. So he snatched it up, and he and Congress started imposing political rules: build "clean cars" rather than cars that consumers want to buy, don't build them in China, don't buy palladium from the cheapest overseas sources, use unionised trucking companies, keep inefficient dealerships open — and make enough profits to pay the taxpayers back. His Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would use previously unknown powers to regulate greenhouse gases. His Labor Department plans to push through 90 rules and regulations in 2010 that would strengthen unions and add costs to employers. He sought to give more regulatory powers to the Federal Reserve, as a reward for causing the bubble and financial collapse. He has proposed various schemes to encourage more lending to homebuyers with insufficient credit, which were just those that combined with easy money to create the housing collapse in the first place. His top advisers "flipped through the tax code, looking for ideas" on taxes to raise, reported the Wall Street Journal. In many ways, of course, Obama has just doubled down on George W. Bush's policies of bailouts, takeovers, expanded Fed powers and nationalisations. Some of the opposition to him reflects the public's sense that we've been piling up spending and debt for over a year now, so he is being punished for his predecessor's mistakes. But Bush or Obama, these policies take us in the wrong direction. After a crisis brought on by cheap money and distortionary subsidies, he is doing more of the same. In a recession he is adding debt, taxes and regulation to the burdens already felt by business. The policies themselves are bad enough. The lobbying frenzy created by all this money on the table is not healthy for our politics. And the uncertainty created by this ambitious and protean agenda retards recovery. From last January ("growing anxiety on Wall Street about what the government would do next", New York Times) to this month ("The people that have money are sitting in kind of a cocoon — they're not making decisions because they're concerned about what's coming down in terms of taxation and vindictiveness against the wealthy," Denver Post), we see employers and investors worrying about what Washington might do next. And now the voters are turning against this sweeping agenda that seeks to make America a European welfare state. Obama came into office on a wave of good feeling, with 69% expressing approval and only 12% expressing disapproval. Now his ratings are below 50%. Obama's approval rating fell 21 points during his first year in office, the largest first-year decline for any president since Gallup began tracking presidential approval ratings in the 1930s. Approval by independent voters has fallen from 62% to 45%. And even young people are leaving: The Politico/Insider Advantage poll showed Scott Brown leading among voters under 30 by 61% against 30%. In contrast, the 2008 exit poll showed 18-29-year-olds in Massachusetts voting for Obama 78-20. Worse, the voters aren't just grumbling. They have switched parties in New Jersey, Virginia and even deep-blue Massachusetts. Congressional Democrats are scurrying for the exits, and even Vice-President Biden's son has decided to take a pass on the 2010 Senate race. Worse yet for Obama, voters are not just reacting to the continuing economic weakness or engaging in fickle channel-changing. They are increasingly opposed to his plans to "remake this great nation". The longer Congress debates the health-care bill, the less voters like it. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll 53% said they disapprove of the federal government's expanded role in the efforts to fix the nation's economy, 60% disapprove of the government's financial help to banks and other lending institutions and 65% disapprove of the government's ownership stake in General Motors. It is not just specific policies. The director of Pew Research says that "anti-government sentiment, which had been building for years, was heightened by the financial bailout and stimulus program". In a January Washington Post-ABC News poll, Americans said they prefer "smaller government and fewer services" to "larger government with more services" by 58% to 38%. Since Obama won the Democratic nomination in June 2008, the margin of support for smaller government has increased in Post-ABC polls from five points to 20 points. Gallup data show that 57% of Americans say the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to businesses and individuals, the highest number since October 1994. When your policies aren't working, the voters have noticed and your transformative ideological agenda is moving broad public opinion in the other direction, it's safe to say you're failing.

Barack Obama declared that "generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless … when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal … when we ended a war, and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth." It truly would take a Messiah to fulfil such soaring promises. God teaches "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom." (proverbs 11:2) Remember the Titanic? The great quote was: "Even God can't sink this ship."

February 19, 2010 CBS Poll Confirms: Obama Is Total Failure Posted by Van Helsing at February 19, 2010 7:17 AM A good, solid B+? That's not what his subjects say. The libs at CBS News gave the public a chance to grade the community activist they helped install in office. The results should reassure Jimmy Carter that he won't be known as our worst president for much longer. A plurality is giving The Anointed One an F in every single category: The Economy F: 70.22% Foreign Policy F: 61.66% Health Care F: 81.49% Afghanistan F: 31.32% Iraq F: 35.72% Threat of Terrorism F: 65.35% Energy and the Environment F: 59.00% Social Issues F: 57.46% Bipartisanship F: 80.65% Obama's Overall Job as President F: 63.22% Did I mention that the poll is at CBS News? It looks like even liberals are figuring out that Obama's election was a catastrophe. Maybe Affirmative Action shouldn't be applied to picking presidents after all. The majority of the people are NOT in agreement with Obama and what he stands for.

In our country, the government plan would not be making any profits, and therefore would be the lowest and best ins. for anyone. Because at first fewer would be on it, it would cover your needs and be a great price, and even free for some. But, over time, many companies will choose to put their employees on it because it will be less costly for them. Every time one company switches to the gov. plan, the less people there are on private plans, and therefore, they will have to raise their premiums even more to cover their losses. Eventually, the cost of private ins will cause everyone to turn to the gov. run plan. Now the gov. run plan has everyone on it and there is no more private ins. companies out there. How is that getting a choice? Now that the gov. has everyone on their plan and the nation is socialized medically, they will be the ones controlling your medical decisions instead. What's the difference who makes those decisions? The private ins. companies or the government? The difference is that with the government being your only option, there is no discussion or other place to turn.

What about them? All I can say is Obama could see that that doesn't work. Giving people money does NOT stimulate anything. Someone has to pay that money back. Bob, If you click on the 'quote' button in that persons box, you will get their quote along with the space for you to type in your response.

Me too hummingbird! Neener,neener. But according to some, that's all you have to do. The scrippture does say that faith without deeds is dead. So, one can say that from this you must have some kind of fruit from your profession of faith besides just saying "I believe." For even Satan believes in God and we all know where he spends his eternity. I believe that Jesus was saying that if you have faith in God and believe that he exists, it will be impossible for you to just sit there and do nothing with what you believe. You will pray for others, you will give of your time to teach others about what you know, you will give generously to spread the good news, you might give to those who are in need of anything, you will love others as yourself, you will read your bible and get to know God, and on and on our deeds will go. But, our 'deeds' , or actions and things that we do, will not 'save' us. It's our faith in Jesus that does that.

I understand the reason they give, but I just can't see the reason behind it. Anyone, and that includes any Catholic priest, who has read the bible, knows that all people have been given free access to God through what Jesus did for them and does not need to speak to God through anyone else, like a priest. We can go to him, through Jesus, and in His name, and ask him anything our hearts desire, even forgiveness. As for the crawling on the knees or saying 100 Hail Marys, Jesus already paid the penalty for our sins. We don't need to pay penance. When we do that, it's like telling God that his Son's sacrifice on the cross wasn't good enough or sufficient enough for us, and it was.

I believe that there will be many people from all kinds of different christian 'denominations' iin Heaven. Baptists, methodists, catholics, presberterians, etc. This is true because their are many from each of these denominations who have put their faith in Jesus to bring them there. I also KNOW that your deeds (good or bad) and how you lived your life does NOT determine your destination at death. This has already been decided by God. He says that those who put their faith in him to SAVE them will go to Heaven, and those who don't will go to Hell. Some can't fathom this. How could a person who does so much wrong in his life go to Heaven and someone who did so much good go to Hell? Satan has reallly confused people with getting them to believe it's about being good or being bad in life. Truth is, a very bad person who truly repents and is sorrowful for all he has done in his life will receive God's forgiveness and acceptance into his family. He will end up in Heaven. And, someone who has done so many wonderful things for others in their life, yet has never acknowledged God or felt the need to repent for anything he has done will not know God and will end up in Hell. It's hard to fatham if you don't understand what is required of a person in order to enter into Heaven. Many denominations get it wrong. MANY, MANY people feel that "how" they live or "what" they do for others is their guarantee of Heaven. This is just not true. Did you ever see some Catholics, in all sincerity, crawl on their knees for miles, in an act of repentance, to be accepted by God, or say 100 Hail Marys to be forgiven. They just don't understand. It isn't needed. Jesus did it all for us, all we need to do is accept it from him.

No, they're only an embarrassment to Dems, cause they can't seem to get what they want. I emphasize they, cause they don't represent what America wants. Boo hoo for them.:cursing:

You need to shop around. Like I said, It is one small thing that can be done to curb the expense among many other things. How about tort reform after that?

In this post, Bob said the average New Yorker. Each person could save $300. a year. That's almost the cost of this years tax credit per working person. What are they waiting for? Pass a bill allowing it!

Employers are the ones who will purchase the best deals for their employees across state lines. Not everyone has 'family' policies. There are many individual policies. Even if it doesn't save as much as I estimated with that math problem it will save something, and isn't that what we are looking for? A break in health care premiums for the people? Oh yeah, it wasn't that. It was government having the control. I forgot.:cursing: This is not the "whole" answer to HC reform, but it is something, so why not put it into legislation and pass it? Then work on anything else that can be done to help the cost of insurance for the people. I'll tell you why. Because that's not the liberals true or primary agenda. Obama's agenda is insuring those without insurance, you know, the 30 million he estimates. It's his plan to insure those people with a plan to bill the rest of the people for it. Oh yeah, I forgot again:rolleyes:. It's going to SAVE us money.:crying:

301,139,947 (Americans) X .05 = $15,056,997.40 saved every year. That's nothing to sneeze at! Let's start there!

(From everystudent.com) So, Why Doesn't God Answer Everyone's Prayers? It may be because they don't have a relationship with God. They may know that God exists, and they might even worship God from time to time. But those who never seem to have their prayers answered probably don't have a relationship with him. Further, they have never received from God complete forgiveness for their sin. What does that have to do with it you ask? Here is an explanation. "Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear." It's pretty natural to feel that separation from God. When people begin to ask God for something, what usually takes place? They begin with, "God, I really need your help with this problem..." And then there's a pause, followed by a restart... "I realize that I'm not a perfect person, that I actually have no right to ask you for this..." There's an awareness of personal sin and failure. And the person knows that it's not just them; that God is aware of it too. There's a feeling of, "Who am I kidding?" What they may not know is how they can receive God's forgiveness for all their sin. They might not know that they can come into a relationship with God so that God will hear them. This is the foundation for God answering your prayer. You must first begin a relationship with God. Imagine some guy named Mike decides to ask the president of Princeton University (whom Mike doesn't even know) to co-sign a car loan for him. Mike would have zero chance of that happening. (We're assuming that the president of Princeton is not an idiot.) However, if that same president's daughter asked her dad to co-sign a car loan for her, it would be no problem. Relationship matters. With God, when the person is actually a child of God, when the person belongs to God, he knows them and hears their prayers. Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me...my sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand." When it comes to God then, do you really know him and does he know you? Do you have a relationship with him that warrants God answering your prayers? Or is God pretty distant, pretty much just a concept in your life?

What are you talking about?

Do you ever consider God's calling to his children to "go and tell others about Him"?

Debbie, I can see that you might be confused as to which way to turn, due to the many different denominations of Christianity you have been exposed to. My advise to you would be to pick up the bible and start over. Pray and ask God to reveal Himself to you personally. The things that happen in life are God's will, (in a sense), because if he doesn't intervene somehow, he has allowed them. But, he can, and does intervene when His children pray and ask Him to. This is the 'power' that God has given Christians that He speaks about in the bible. "The prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective." James 5:16 (Christians are considered 'righteous' before God because Jesus made us so. Not that we are not sinners, but that we are cleansed from our sins) Therefore, our prayers are 'powerful' and 'effective'. They DO something. They move God to intervene in the everyday experiences of life on this earth. So, when Hummingbird prayed the other day, God heard and He moved. I believe that. :eek: