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    May 8th, 2012

    Obama By The Numbers


    $45.4 Trillion:  

    Total Federal Spending Proposed By Obama’s FY2013 Budget Through 2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)

    $25. 9 Trillion:  

    Projected Federal Debt In 2022 Due To Obama’s Binge Spending. (OMB, 2/13/12)

    $15.6 Trillion:  

    Current National Debt ($ 15,671,202,480,642.98 ). (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $10.3 Trillion:  

    Amount Obama’s FY2012 Budget Would Add To The Debt Through FY2022. (OMB, 2/13/12)

    $6.4 Trillion:  

    Cumulative Deficits Over FY2013-2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)

    $5.0 Trillion:  

    Added To The National Debt Since Obama Took Office, More Than Any Other President In History. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $4.8 Trillion:  

    Total Interest Payments On The National Debt Due To Obama’s Proposed Budget, FY2013-2022. (CBO, 3/16/12)

    $2.6 Trillion:  

    True Cost Of ObamaCare Once Fully Implemented. (Office Of The Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, Report, 1/6/11)

    $1.9 Trillion:  

    Higher Taxes In Obama’s Budget. (OMB, 2/13/12)

    $1.75 Trillion:  

    Annual Cost Of Federal Regulations. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

    $1.416 Trillion:  

    Federal Budget Deficit For FY2009 – Highest In U.S. History.(CBO, 10/7/10)

    $1.298 Trillion:  

    Federal Budget Deficit For FY2011 – Second Highest In U.S. History. (CBO, 10/7/11)

    $1.294 Trillion:  

    Federal Budget Deficit For FY2010 – Third Highest In U.S. History. (CBO, 10/7/10)

    $1.253 Trillion:  

    Projected Federal Budget Deficit For FY2012. (CBO, 3/16/12)

    $1.18 Trillion:  

    Total Cost Of Obama’s First Stimulus With Interest. (CBO, 1/31/12, CBO, 1/27/09)

    $1.18 Trillion:  

    American Debt Held By China. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $831 Billion:  

    Price Tag Of Obama’s First Failed Stimulus. (CBO, 1/31/12)

    $721 Billion:  

    Deficits Incurred During The First Seven Months Of FY2012.(CBO, 5/7/12)

    $575 Billion:  

    Amount Of Medicare Cuts In ObamaCare. (CMS Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster, Memo, 4/22/10)

    $491.7 Billion:  

    Amount Of Taxes In ObamaCare. (Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 3/18/10; Joint Committee On Taxation, 3/2/10)

    $447 Billion:  

    Price Tag Of Obama’s Second Stimulus. (The White House, 9/8/11)

    $347.1 Billion:  

    Debt Service Costs For Borrowing To Pay For Obama’s First Stimulus. (CBO, 1/27/09)

    $231 Billion:  

    Burden Of New Regulations Imposed In 2011. (American Action Network, 1/2/12)

    $175 Billion:  

    Increased Spending In Obama’s Second Stimulus. (CBO, 10/5/11)

    $150 Billion:  

    Taxpayer Funds For Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac. (Reuters, 3/25/12)

    $24 Billion:  

    Stimulus Funds Sent To Tax Cheats. (Government Accountability Office, April 2011)

    $21.7 Billion:  

    Amount Government Expects To Lose On Bailouts Of Auto Industry. ( U.S. Treasury Department , 4/10/12)

    $1.3 Billion:  

    Amount Taxpayers Will Not Recover From Bailout Of Chrysler.(FactCheck.org, 6/6/11)

    $535 Million:  

    Stimulus Loan To The Failed Solar Company Solyndra. (The Oakland Tribune, 11/4/10)

    133 Million:  

    Annual Paperwork Burden Hours Imposed By Regulators In 2011. (American Action Network, 1/2/12)

    $106.3 Million:  

    Obama Campaign Cash Raised By Bundlers. (Federal Election Commission, FEC.gov, Accessed 5/7/12; “Obama For America And Obama Victory Fund 2012 Volunteer Fundraisers,”BarackObama.com, Accessed 5/7/12)

    97.3 Million:  

    Number Of Americans That Qualify As Low-Income. ( The Associated Press , 12/15/11)

    88.4 Million:  

    Americans Not In The Labor Force, An All-Time High. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    49.1 Million:  

    Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (Supplemental Poverty Measure). (US Census Bureau, 11/7/11)

    46.3 Million:  

    Number Of Americans Receiving Food Stamps In February 2012. (Department Of Agriculture, Accessed 5/7/12)

    46.2 Million:  

    Record Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (Official Measure). (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)

    22.7 Million:  

    Americans Unemployed, Underemployed Or Marginally Attached To The Labor Force. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $18 Million:  

    Cost Of The Stimulus Website Recovery.org. (ABC News’ “The Note,” 7/8/09)

    12.5 Million:  

    Unemployed Americans. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    7.9 Million:  

    Americans Working Part-Time For Economic Reasons. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    6.3 Million:  

    Number Of Americans That Fell Into Poverty Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Census Bureau, 9/13/11)

    5.6 Million:  

    Number Of Mortgages Either 30 Days Delinquent Or In Foreclosure. (Lender Processing Services, 4/24/12)

    5.1 Million:  

    Americans Unemployed 27 Weeks Or Longer. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    4 Million:  

    Workers Granted Waivers So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plan. (HHS.gov, Accessed 5/7/12)

    3.7 Million:  

    Americans Unemployed 52 Weeks Or Longer. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    2.3 Million:  

    Foreclosure Starts During 2011. ( Lender Processing Services , 1/20/12)

    1.59 Million:  

    Personal Bankruptcies In 2010. ( United States Courts , 2/15/11)

    $1.5 Million:  

    Stimulus Funds Sent To Indonesia To Discourage Air Pollution In Jakarta. (The Daily Caller, 7/7/11)

    1.47 Million:  

    Personal Bankruptcies In 2009. ( United States Courts , 2/15/11)

    1.35 Million:  

    Personal Bankruptcies In 2011. (Los Angeles Times , 1/5/12)

    1,000,000:  

    Construction Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    968,000:  

    Discouraged Workers That Have Given Up Looking For Work.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    605,000:  

    Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    572,000:  

    Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    567,000:  

    Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office That Were Filled By Women. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    342,000:  

    Number Of Americans That Dropped Out Of The Labor Force In April. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    89,000:  

    The Number Of Stimulus Checks Sent To Dead Or Incarcerated People. ( The Wall Street Journal , 10/7/10)

    81,405:  

    Record Number Of Pages Added To The Federal Register In 2010. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)

    58,400:  

    Number Of Heavy And Civil Engineering Construction Jobs Lost Since The Stimulus Was Passed. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $50,758:  

    Your Share Of The National Debt. (U.S. Treasury DepartmentAccessed 5/7/12; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 5/7/12)

    45,696:  

    Pages Of New Rules Added To The Federal Register During Obama’s First Two Years In Office. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)

    $25,000:  

    Average Student Loan Debt Burden. ( The Associated Press , 4/3/12)

    23,000:  

    The Number Of Jobs Obama Knew His Drilling Moratorium Would Kill. ( The Wall Street Journal , 8/21/10)

    $16,388:  

    Increase In Your Share Of The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Treasury Department Accessed 5/7/12; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 5/7/12)

    $15,500:  

    Annual Cost Per Household From Federal Regulations. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

    $11,300:  

    Negative Effect Of Debt On Gross National Product Per Person In 2035. (CBO, 6/22/11)

    $10,585:  

    Cost Per Employee That Federal Regulations Place On Small Businesses. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

    10,000:  

    Jobs Lost In The Wind Energy Industry Since Obama Took Office. (Reuters, 4/13/12)

    $4,300:  

    Decline In Median Household Income Since Obama Took Office. ( Bloomberg , 4/30/12)

    3,700:  

    Number Of Tax Delinquents Who Received Stimulus Funds.(Government Accountability Office, April 2011)

    2060:  

    Year Federal Spending Will Reach 50 Percent Of GDP. (CBO, 6/22/11)

    2037:  

    Year That Federal Debt Will Reach 200 Percent Of GDP. (CBO, 6/22/11)

    2033:  

    Year That The Social Security Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted.(The Trustees Of Social Security & Medicare, 4/23/12)

    2022:  

    Year That The CBO Predicts Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (CBO, 4/10/12)

    2016:  

    Year That The Social Security Disability Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (The Trustees Of Social Security & Medicare, 4/23/12)

    1,722:  

    Number Of Waivers Granted To Unions And Businesses So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plans.(HHS.gov, Accessed 5/7/12)

    1,603:  

    Number Of Regulations That Would Impact Small Businesses Proposed By Obama Administration In First Two Years In Office. ( Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)

    1,106:  

    Days Since Harry Reid’s Senate Has Passed A Budget Resolution. (S. Con. Res. 13, Roll Call 173 ; 4/29/09)

    408:  

    Number Of Regulations Proposed By Obama During First Two Years That Have An Economic Impact Of Over $100 Million. (Competitive Enterprise Institute , 2011)

    113:  

    Number Of Current Or Former Registered Lobbyists Who Have Gone Through The Obama Administration’s Revolving Door.(Center For Responsive Politics,Opensecrets.org, Accessed 5/7/12)

    106.2%

    Federal Debt As A Share Of GDP At The End Of 2013. (CBO, 2/13/12)

    92:  

    Number Of Bank Failures In 2011. (FDIC, Accessed 2/3/12)

    80%:  

    Small Businesses That Could Be Forced To Change Health Care Plans As A Result Of ObamaCare. (NFIB, 7/11)

    79%:  

    Stimulus Funds For Wind, Solar And Geothermal Energy Projects That Went To Foreign Firms. ( Investigating Reporting Workshop/ABC’s World News Tonight/Watchdog Institute , 2/8/10)

    76%:  

    Americans Who Say The Economy Is Still In A Recession. ( The Washington Post, 4/11/12)

    72.5%:  

    Federal Debt Held By The Public As Share Of GDP By End Of The Year. (CBO, 1/31/12)

    63.6%:  

    Labor Force Participation Rate, The Lowest Level Since 1981.(Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    63%:  

    Americans Who Say Higher Gas Prices Have Had A “Great Deal” Or “Quite A Bit” Of Impact On Them And Their Families .( NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll , 1000 A, MoE 3.1%, 4/13-17/12)

    62%:  

    Share Of Americans Who Own Homes, Lowest Level Since 2001. ( Gallup , 4/26/12)

    62%:  

    Voters Who Think The Federal Debt Will Increase As A Result Of Obama’s Fiscal Policies. (Pulse Opinion Research, 1,000LV, MoE 3 %, 3/15/12)

    56%:  

    Americans Who Disapprove Of Obama’s Handling Of The Economy. ( Quinnipiac University Poll , 2577 RV, MoE 1.9%, 4/11-17/12)

    48.5%:  

    Households That Receive Some Form Of Government Assistance. ( The Wall Street Journal , 10/5/11)

    47.5%

    Increase In Total National Debt Under Obama. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 5/7/12)

    39.1:  

    Number Of Weeks That It Takes To Find A Job. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

    39:  

    Record Number Of Straight Months With Unemployment Rate Above 8 Percent. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 5/7/12)

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    May 6th, 2012

    RNC Facebook App Hopes To Engage Voters

    Jennifer Moire on May 1, 2012 4:33 PM

    The Republican National Committee released a new Facebook application today that it hopes will engage and mobilize voters on behalf of GOP candidates during the 2012 elections.

    The app, called the GOP Social Victory Center, allows voters to perform a range of activities in their local communities — volunteering, making calls to competitive battleground states, accessing RNC news, and finding and creating local events — all through the Facebook platform.

    President Barack Obama‘s 2008 campaign for president was considered revolutionary in how it mobilized volunteers online. The movement has transitioned fully to Facebook and social media in 2012. By many accounts, Republicans are gaining ground and are highly competitive in leveraging the digital media space in 2012.

    In a news release, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus touted the SVC Facebook app, saying:

    We are revolutionizing the way activists and volunteers participate in Republican campaigns. We’re breaking down geographic borders and connecting users to a nationwide grassroots network and a wealth of political resources.

    RNC Political Director Rick Wiley added the following statement:

    The SVC, which leverages technology from Facebook and Eventbrite, will give Republicans a distinct advantage in this campaign. (The app) opens the door to new volunteer opportunities and discussions to grassroots supporters who would otherwise not have had the opportunity to participate.

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    May 5th, 2012

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    April 26th, 2012

    Stealing Elections
    How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
    by John Fund

    The United States has “the modern world’s sloppiest election systems” befitting an emerging nation, not the world’s leading democracy.

    How we see voting:  “Democrats gravitate to the view tha

    Casting more than one ballot
    Voting if not a US citizen
    Vote theft – having votes stolen or tampered with
    Voter impersonation – a person claims to be someone else casting a vote, i.e., a      deceased person
    Manipulation of electronic voting machines

    Since when does the US need upwards of 10,000 “lawyers” on the ground on at election time in case the results are within the “margin of litigation”.  The National Voter Registration Act was the first piece of legislation signed by Clinton, how much of this intimidation, voter fraud, cleaning of voter rolls and invalid registrations has been cleaned up since 1993…… almost 20 years.  Mexico’s elections are far more secure than ours.  To rent a DVD there is more documentation required than to cast a vote in one half of the states.  Eighty percent of Americans agree, including three quarters of Democrats agree, that some form of identification should be shown before being allowed to vote. 

    t the most important value is empowering people to exercise their democratic rights, and they worry about people being denied that right”.   “Republicans tend to pay more attention to the rule of law and he standards and procedures that govern elections”.

    Types of voter fraud:

    Absentee voting, should the process continue?  How should it be monitored?  Does this open up to voter fraud?  Should you have to show proof as to why the need to vote absentee?  Early voting?  Does this practice open the doors for voter fraud?  Oregon all votes are done by mail. 

    Apparently all of the hoopla over the battle for Photo ID’s being required to vote would discourage minority, poor and elderly voters in Indiana was just the opposite as record numbers turned out to vote.  The Supreme Court on April 28, 2008, upheld the constitutionality of Indiana’s photo ID law and the fact that one of the Courts leading liberal justices voted in favor of voter ID was a red letter day for ballot integrity.

    How rampant is the case of a homeowner in Florida, claiming the Homestead exemption and registered to vote in FL and then also has a home in another state, i.e., Indiana and voting in IN? Not only is this voter a fraud, but also tax fraud as in the case of Mrs. Buis-Ewing, who later voted in Indiana, which requires a voter ID and she showed her FL driver’s license.

    The Florida recount in 2000 is the gold standard for botched elections, but in fact that every single recount  of the votes in Florida determined that George W. Bush had won the state’s twenty-five electoral votes and therefore the presidency.  The liberals spread myths until they are accepted as truth, as in Michael Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

    Florida’s Secretary of State does not have the power to remove voters, i.e. felons and deceased people, from the rolls.  In Florida’s decentralized election system, that is the responsibility of elected country supervisors of elections.  The list serves as a tool for them to use and verify their own records.

    In the state of Wisconsin during the Kerry election campaign “felony crimes were committed”, but no prosecutor chose to pursue them.  The investigators did not agree with this decision, but the lack of confidence in the Election Commission’s records.”In other words, once again a local election system is shown to be so flawed it’s hard to prove where the fraud begins and the incompetence ends.”

    The solution most often proposed to end the fraud and irregularities at the poles is for all voters to show a photo ID, but this is the most bitterly fought reform.  Legislatures in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona and Kansas passed the photo ID law, but their Democratic governors vetoed the law. 

    Absentee votes are the greatest source of potential fraud.  The ballot should be placed in the envelope in the presence of a witness whose name and phone number should be on the envelope.  Only the voter should be eligible to request the ballot and only they should be able to turn in the ballot, not a third party to ensure no alterations are made.  A national death registry should be set up with states having access, to be able to purge their voter records.  Bipartisan representation should be comprised at the local election boards by citizen appointees.  All voting equipment and the manufacturer should be investigated, poll workers should be utilized, audits conducted on the tabulating systems, and rules to identify what constitutes a vote and a timetable and  procedures for contesting an election.  The ballots of our troops should be ensured that they are counted and the criteria are no more stringent than those of regular ballots and they receive them in a timely manner.

    “The integrity of the ballot box is just as important to the credibility of elections as access to it.”  How many of our elections are decided by fraud on both sides? “Are voters supposed to trust an election merely because it can’t “”clearly”" be shown to have been hopelessly tainted?”  “True reform needs to increase the perceived importance and relevance of voting, not diminish it.” (statement by a Liberal Melody Rose, Oregon State U)

    Wikipedia Definition of Provisional Ballot  – HAVA stipulates that 100% of the country must use provisional ballots

    A provisional ballot is used to record a vote when there are questions in regards to a given voter’s eligibility. A provisional ballot would be cast when:

    • The voter refuses to show a photo ID (in regions that require one)
    • The voter’s name does not appear on the electoral roll for the given precinct.
    • The voter’s registration contains inaccurate or out-dated information such as the wrong address or a misspelled name.
    • The voter’s ballot has already been recorded

    Whether a provisional ballot is counted is contingent upon the verification of that voter’s eligibility. Many voters do not realize that the provisional ballot is not counted until 7–10 days after election so their vote does not affect the calling of the states to different candidates.

    A guarantee that a voter could cast a provisional ballot if he or she believes that they are entitled to vote was one of the guarantees of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

     

    Maria Kernan

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    March 31st, 2012

    RNC CoChair Sharon Day
    Debunks Obama with the Facts

    Click here to read FFRW article.

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    March 31st, 2012

    National Federation of Republican Women Decries 
    Latest Chapter in Mythical ‘Republican War on Women’ Saga

    Democrats Use Historic, Bi-Partisan Violence Against Women Act for Cheap Political Gain

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Rae Lynne Chornenky, President of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW), issued the following statement regarding the Democrat-manufactured controversy surrounding the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

    “Here we go again,” Chornenky said. “Democrats are using the historic Violence Against Women Act to write the next chapter in their mythical ‘Republican War on Women’ saga. Although there are distinct policy differences between Republicans and Democrats on the details of the reauthorization process, both parties agree that the law is important and should be reauthorized. But Democrats have chosen to play the monumentally offensive ‘Republicans hate women’ card. As a Republican woman who represents thousands of strong Republican women across the country, I find this political tactic to be dishonest and desperate. Stop insulting the women of America with this inanity!”

    Founded in 1938, the NFRW has thousands of active members in local clubs across the nation and in several U.S. territories, making it one of the largest women’s political organizations in the country. The grassroots organization works to promote the principles and objectives of the Republican Party, elect Republican candidates, inform the public through political education and activity, and increase the effectiveness of women in the cause of good government.

    For more information about the NFRW, visit www.nfrw.org.

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    March 29th, 2012

    Speakers are:  Bob Chilmonik, Jeanne Dozier(incumbent)and Paul Schafer in District 2.

    Les Cochran and Cathleen Morgan in District 3.

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    March 26th, 2012

    Rare is the occasion when the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather to hear three days of arguments, and rarer still is when it is for a case like Obamacare — one that cuts to the core of the Constitution and whose outcome could fundamentally alter the role of the federal government and its power over the people. But today the Court will do just that when it open its doors and begins weighing the arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s seminal health care law.

    Were the American people to vote on the issue, they would fall decidedly against Obamacare, as recent polls have shown. But for the Court, the decision is not as cut and dried as an up or down vote, but one that involves the interplay of a series of issues raised by those who are challenging Obamacare — more than half the States of the Union and a collection of interested organizations and private parties — and those brought by the Obama Administration, which is defending the law. And they come to the Supreme Court after conflicting appellate court rulings which have left undecided the question of whether Obamacare is permissible under the Constitution.

    The central issue before the Court is whether Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause to impose the individual mandate on the American people, forcing them to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. If the Court holds that Congress was outside the bounds of its authority, it can strike down the individual mandate, leaving the justices to then decide whether all or part of Obamacare should fall along with it.

    If the Court upholds the mandate, America will be in the same position it finds itself today — facing a law that vests untold power and resources in the hands of the federal government, that transfers health care decision making from individuals to unelected bureaucrats, and that increases costs while decreasing access. In short, America’s health care crisis will get worse, not better, and future generations will be left paying the tab. What’s more, if the Court allows the individual mandate to stand, it will unhook Congress from its Constitutional leash, empowering it to regulate commerce and individual behavior in new ways never before imaginable.

    There are other issues, too, besides the individual mandate. Even before the Court reaches that subject, it must broach the issue of the Anti-Injunction Act, a 145-year-old federal tax law which could bar the Court from even hearing a challenge to the individual mandate. Under that law, one cannot sue over a tax until they have paid it. If the penalty for violating Obamacare’s individual mandate is considered a tax under that law, then the challenge could be brought at this time since the penalty has not yet taken effect. Obamacare’s challengers and even the Obama Administration agree that the Anti-Injunction Act shouldn’t prevent the Court from hearing the case, but the issue will still be heard, and some think that the Court could rely on the Act as a way of avoiding having to answer the question of whether the mandate is constitutional.

    If the Court finds the Anti-Injunction Act doesn’t apply, it will move on to the individual mandate. Its decision on that issue brings with it a whole other set of problems — namely, if the Court finds that the mandate is unconstitutional, it must next decide the issue of severability — whether Obamacare will operate as Congress intended if it is stripped of the mandate, or whether all or parts of the law must be struck down with the mandate. If the Court finds that the mandate is severable, the Court can strike it down and leave it up to Congress to clean up what’s left, or, as the Obama administration has recommended, it can strike down the mandate and related provisions of the law that depend on it. Finally, if the justices find that the mandate is not severable, then it will throw out all of Obamacare, and it will again be up to Congress to enact real market-based health care reforms that bring down costs while increasing access to care.

    There is another issue, too, tied to Obamacare, and that has to do with Congress’s decision to impose new requirements on states forcing them to expand the Medicaid program and abide by the federal government’s conditions, leaving them to shoulder much of the costs while operating Medicaid according to Washington’s whims. If the states don’t comply, they could lose all Medicaid funding, putting them in an untenable position in which both their autonomy and their sovereignty collapse under Obamacare’s weight. It is up to the Court to decide whether Congress overstepped its bounds.

    America waits for the Supreme Court to weigh the facts and the law, to consider the precedents and the policy, and to issue a decision that will have implications far into the future. Will Congress be limited by the Constitution, or will its authority expand beyond the limits that the Founders intended? Will Americans’ liberties stand? Will Obamacare fall? No matter the outcome of the Court’s ruling in June, Congress can and should act now to repeal Obamacare and rid the land of this intolerable act.

    Article from the Morning Bell, Heritage Foundation.

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    March 21st, 2012

    Speakers are FL Rep Gary Aubuchon, Byron Donalds and Brian Owens candidates for US Congress District 14.

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    March 21st, 2012

    Speakers are Dane Eagle and Chris Berardi candidates for Fl House of Representatives.

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