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Trump Administration Accomplishments

January 20, 2021 Kevin Bush Leave a comment

Unprecedented Economic Boom

Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.

America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.
Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.
Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.

Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.

The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs.

Rebuilding and investing in rural America.

Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture.
Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America.

Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lockdowns.

An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior.
During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.
Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020.
Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration.
Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
Small business confidence hit a new high.
Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
Home prices hit an all-time record high.
The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.

Tax Relief for the Middle Class

Passed $3.2 trillion in historic tax relief and reformed the tax code.

Signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – the largest tax reform package in history.
More than 6 million American workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to the tax cuts.
A typical family of four earning $75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing their tax bill in half.
Doubled the standard deduction – making the first $24,000 earned by a married couple completely tax-free.
Doubled the child tax credit.
Virtually eliminated the unfair Estate Tax, or Death Tax.
Cut the business tax rate from 35 percent – the highest in the developed world – all the way down to 21 percent.
Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
Businesses can now deduct 100 percent of the cost of their capital investments in the year the investment is made.
Since the passage of tax cuts, the share of total wealth held by the bottom half of households has increased, while the share held by the top 1 percent has decreased.
Over 400 companies have announced bonuses, wage increases, new hires, or new investments in the United States.
Over $1.5 trillion was repatriated into the United States from overseas.
Lower investment cost and higher capital returns led to faster growth in the middle class, real wages, and international competitiveness.

Jobs and investments are pouring into Opportunity Zones.

Created nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones where capital gains on long-term investments are taxed at zero.
Opportunity Zone designations have increased property values within them by 1.1 percent, creating an estimated $11 billion in wealth for the nearly half of Opportunity Zone residents who own their own home.
Opportunity Zones have attracted $75 billion in funds and driven $52 billion of new investment in economically distressed communities, creating at least 500,000 new jobs.
Approximately 1 million Americans will be lifted from poverty as a result of these new investments.
Private equity investments into businesses in Opportunity Zones were nearly 30 percent higher than investments into businesses in similar areas that were not designated Opportunity Zones.

Massive Deregulation

Ended the regulatory assault on American Businesses and Workers.

Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
Provided the average American household an extra $3,100 every year.
Reduced the direct cost of regulatory compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an additional $50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous administration added over 16,000 pages.
Established the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the state, local, and tribal levels.
Signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
Signed two executive orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small businesses from administrative abuse.
Modernized the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
Reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less.
Helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
Established the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing costs.
Removed regulations that threatened the development of a strong and stable internet.
Eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects.
Published a whole-of-government strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in automated vehicle technology.
Streamlined energy efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.
Removed unnecessary regulations that restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
Modernized the Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the lead to develop new technologies.
Took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.

Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory overreach.

Rescinded the previous administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which would have abolished zoning for single-family housing to build low-income, federally subsidized apartments.
Issued a final rule on the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
Eliminated the Waters of the United States Rule and replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and property owners.
Repealed the previous administration’s costly fuel economy regulations by finalizing the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more affordable, and lower the price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.

Americans now have more money in their pockets.

Deregulation had an especially beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher share of their incomes for overregulation.
Cut red tape in the healthcare industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
Deregulatory efforts yielded savings to the medical community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work through 2021.
Removed government barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
Once fully in effect, 20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Trump Administration are expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
Signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that will result in a $40 billion increase in annual real incomes.

Fair and Reciprocal Trade

Secured historic trade deals to defend American workers.

Immediately withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and replaced it with the brand new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The USMCA contains powerful new protections for American manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers, dairy producers, and workers.
The USMCA is expected to generate over $68 billion in economic activity and potentially create over 550,000 new jobs over ten years.
Signed an executive order making it government policy to Buy American and Hire American, and took action to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas.
Negotiated with Japan to slash tariffs and open its market to $7 billion in American agricultural products and ended its ban on potatoes and lamb.
Over 90 percent of American agricultural exports to Japan now receive preferential treatment, and most are duty-free.
Negotiated another deal with Japan to boost $40 billion worth of digital trade.
Renegotiated the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, doubling the cap on imports of American vehicles and extending the American light truck tariff.
Reached a written, fully-enforceable Phase One trade agreement with China on confronting pirated and counterfeit goods, and the protection of American ideas, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks.
China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of United States exports and opened market access for over 4,000 American facilities to exports while all tariffs remained in effect.
Achieved a mutual agreement with the European Union (EU) that addresses unfair trade practices and increases duty-free exports by 180 percent to $420 million.
Secured a pledge from the EU to eliminate tariffs on American lobster – the first United States-European Union negotiated tariff reduction in over 20 years.
Scored a historic victory by overhauling the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were undermining American workers and interests.
Engaged extensively with trade partners like the EU and Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Issued a first-ever comprehensive report on the WTO Appellate Body’s failures to comply with WTO rules and interpret WTO agreements as written.
Blocked nominees to the WTO’s Appellate Body until WTO Members recognize and address longstanding issues with Appellate Body activism.
Submitted 5 papers to the WTO Committee on Agriculture to improve Members’ understanding of how trade policies are implemented, highlight areas for improved transparency, and encourage members to maintain up-to-date notifications on market access and domestic support.

Took strong actions to confront unfair trade practices and put America First.

Imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs and stop China’s abuses under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Directed an all-of-government effort to halt and punish efforts by the Communist Party of China to steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual property.
Imposed tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support our national security.
Approved tariffs on $1.8 billion in imports of washing machines and $8.5 billion in imports of solar panels.
Blocked illegal timber imports from Peru.
Took action against France for its digital services tax that unfairly targets American technology companies.
Launched investigations into digital services taxes that have been proposed or adopted by 10 other countries.

Historic support for American farmers.

Successfully negotiated more than 50 agreements with countries around the world to increase foreign market access and boost exports of American agriculture products, supporting more than 1 million American jobs.
Authorized $28 billion in aid for farmers who have been subjected to unfair trade practices – fully funded by the tariffs paid by China.
China lifted its ban on poultry, opened its market to beef, and agreed to purchase at least $80 billion of American agricultural products in the next two years.
The European Union agreed to increase beef imports by 180 percent and opened up its market to more imports of soybeans.
South Korea lifted its ban on American poultry and eggs, and agreed to provide market access for record exports of American rice.
Argentina lifted its ban on American pork.
Brazil agreed to increase wheat imports by $180 million a year and raised its quotas for purchases of United States ethanol.
Guatemala and Tunisia opened up their markets to American eggs.
Won tariff exemptions in Ecuador for wheat and soybeans.
Suspended $817 million in trade preferences for Thailand under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program due to its failure to adequately provide reasonable market access for American pork products.
The amount of food stamps redeemed at farmers markets increased from $1.4 million in May 2020 to $1.75 million in September 2020 – a 50 percent increase over last year.
Rapidly deployed the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provided $30 billion in support to farmers and ranchers facing decreased prices and market disruption when COVID-19 impacted the food supply chain.
Authorized more than $6 billion for the Farmers to Families Food Box program, which delivered over 128 million boxes of locally sourced, produce, meat, and dairy products to charity and faith-based organizations nationwide.
Delegated authorities via the Defense Production Act to protect breaks in the American food supply chain as a result of COVID-19.

American Energy Independence

Unleashed America’s oil and natural gas potential.

For the first time in nearly 70 years, the United States has become a net energy exporter.
The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and in 2017.
The United States has been a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years and has an export capacity of nearly 10 billion cubic feet per day.
Withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.
Canceled the previous administration’s Clean Power Plan, and replaced it with the new Affordable Clean Energy rule.
Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
Opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
Repealed the last administration’s Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium, which prohibited coal leasing on Federal lands.
Reformed permitting rules to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.
Fixed the New Source Review permitting program, which punished companies for upgrading or repairing coal power plants.
Fixed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) steam electric and coal ash rules.
The average American family saved $2,500 a year in lower electric bills and lower prices at the gas pump.
Signed legislation repealing the harmful Stream Protection Rule.
Reduced the time to approve drilling permits on public lands by half, increasing permit applications to drill on public lands by 300 percent.
Expedited approval of the NuStar’s New Burgos pipeline to export American gasoline to Mexico.
Streamlined Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal permitting and allowed long-term LNG export authorizations to be extended through 2050.
The United States is now among the top three LNG exporters in the world.
Increased LNG exports five-fold since January 2017, reaching an all-time high in January 2020.
LNG exports are expected to reduce the American trade deficit by over $10 billion.
Granted more than 20 new long-term approvals for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries.
The development of natural gas and LNG infrastructure in the United States is providing tens of thousands of jobs, and has led to the investment of tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure.
There are now 6 LNG export facilities operating in the United States, with 2 additional export projects under construction.
The amount of nuclear energy production in 2019 was the highest on record, through a combination of increased capacity from power plant upgrades and shorter refueling and maintenance cycles.
Prevented Russian energy coercion across Europe through various lines of effort, including the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation, civil nuclear deals with Romania and Poland, and opposition to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Issued the Presidential Permit for the A2A railroad between Canada and Alaska, providing energy resources to emerging markets.

Increased access to our country’s abundant natural resources in order to achieve energy independence.

Renewable energy production and consumption both reached record highs in 2019.
Enacted policies that helped double the amount of electricity generated by solar and helped increase the amount of wind generation by 32 percent from 2016 through 2019.
Accelerated construction of energy infrastructure to ensure American energy producers can deliver their products to the market.
Cut red tape holding back the construction of new energy infrastructure.
Authorized ethanol producers to sell E15 year-round and allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be distributed from existing pumps at filling stations.
Ensured greater transparency and certainty in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
Negotiated leasing capacity in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Australia, providing American taxpayers a return on this infrastructure investment.
Signed an executive order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
Reformed Section 401 of the Clean Water Act regulation to allow for the curation of interstate infrastructure.
Resolved the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil crisis during COVID-19 by getting OPEC, Russia, and others to cut nearly 10 million barrels of production a day, stabilizing world oil prices.
Directed the Department of Energy to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mitigate market volatility caused by COVID-19.

Investing in America’s Workers and Families

Affordable and high-quality Child Care for American workers and their families.

Doubled the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child and expanded the eligibility for receiving the credit.
Nearly 40 million families benefitted from the child tax credit (CTC), receiving an average benefit of $2,200 – totaling credits of approximately $88 billion.
Signed the largest-ever increase in Child Care and Development Block Grants – expanding access to quality, affordable child care for more than 800,000 low-income families.
Secured an additional $3.5 billion in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help families and first responders with child care needs.
Created the first-ever paid family leave tax credit for employees earning $72,000 or less.
Signed into law 12-weeks of paid parental leave for Federal workers.
Signed into law a provision that enables new parents to withdraw up to $5,000 from their retirement accounts without penalty when they give birth to or adopt a child.

Advanced apprenticeship career pathways to good-paying jobs.

Expanded apprenticeships to more than 850,000 and established the new Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs in new and emerging fields.
Established the National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.
Over 460 companies have signed the Pledge to America’s Workers, committing to provide more than 16 million job and training opportunities.
Signed an executive order that directs the Federal government to replace outdated degree-based hiring with skills-based hiring.

Advanced women’s economic empowerment.

Included women’s empowerment for the first time in the President’s 2017 National Security Strategy.
Signed into law key pieces of legislation, including the Women, Peace, and Security Act and the Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
Launched the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative – the first-ever whole-of-government approach to women’s economic empowerment that has reached 24 million women worldwide.
Established an innovative new W-GDP Fund at USAID.
Launched the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) with 13 other nations.
Announced a $50 million donation on behalf of the United States to We-Fi providing more capital to women-owned businesses around the world.
Released the first-ever Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security, which focused on increasing women’s participation to prevent and resolve conflicts.
Launched the W-GDP 2x Global Women’s Initiative with the Development Finance Corporation, which has mobilized more than $3 billion in private sector investments over three years.

Ensured American leadership in technology and innovation.

First administration to name artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and 5G communications as national research and development priorities.
Launched the American Broadband Initiative to promote the rapid deployment of broadband internet across rural America.
Made 100 megahertz of crucial mid-band spectrum available for commercial operations, a key factor to driving widespread 5G access across rural America.
Launched the American AI Initiative to ensure American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), and established the National AI Initiative Office at the White House.
Established the first-ever principles for Federal agency adoption of AI to improve services for the American people.
Signed the National Quantum Initiative Act establishing the National Quantum Coordination Office at the White House to drive breakthroughs in quantum information science.
Signed the Secure 5G and Beyond Act to ensure America leads the world in 5G.
Launched a groundbreaking program to test safe and innovative commercial drone operations nationwide.
Issued new rulemaking to accelerate the return of American civil supersonic aviation.
Committed to doubling investments in AI and quantum information science (QIS) research and development.
Announced the establishment of $1 billion AI and quantum research institutes across America.
Established the largest dual-use 5G test sites in the world to advance 5G commercial and military innovation.
Signed landmark Prague Principles with America’s allies to advance the deployment of secure 5G telecommunications networks.
Signed first-ever bilateral AI cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.
Built collation among allies to ban Chinese Telecom Company Huawei from their 5G infrastructure.

Preserved American jobs for American workers and rejected the importation of cheap foreign labor.

Pressured the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reverse their decision to lay off over 200 American workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
Removed the TVA Chairman of the Board and a TVA Board Member.

Life-Saving Response to the China Virus

Restricted travel to the United States from infected regions of the world.

Suspended all travel from China, saving thousands of lives.
Required all American citizens returning home from designated outbreak countries to return through designated airports with enhanced screening measures, and to undergo a self-quarantine.
Announced further travel restrictions on Iran, the Schengen Area of Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Brazil.
Issued travel advisory warnings recommending that American citizens avoid all international travel.
Reached bilateral agreements with Mexico and Canada to suspend non-essential travel and expeditiously return illegal aliens.
Repatriated over 100,000 American citizens stranded abroad on more than 1,140 flights from 136 countries and territories.
Safely transported, evacuated, treated, and returned home trapped passengers on cruise ships.
Took action to authorize visa sanctions on foreign governments who impede our efforts to protect American citizens by refusing or unreasonably delaying the return of their own citizens, subjects, or residents from the United States.

Acted early to combat the China Virus in the United States.

Established the White House Coronavirus Task Force, with leading experts on infectious diseases, to manage the Administration’s efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and to keep workplaces safe.
Pledged in the State of the Union address to “take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from the Virus,” while the Democrats’ response made not a single mention of COVID-19 or even the threat of China.
Declared COVID-19 a National Emergency under the Stafford Act.
Established the 24/7 FEMA National Response Coordination Center.
Released guidance recommending containment measures critical to slowing the spread of the Virus, decompressing peak burden on hospitals and infrastructure, and diminishing health impacts.
Implemented strong community mitigation strategies to sharply reduce the number of lives lost in the United States down from experts’ projection of up to 2.2 million deaths in the United States without mitigation.
Halted American funding to the World Health Organization to counter its egregious bias towards China that jeopardized the safety of Americans.
Announced plans for withdrawal from the World Health Organization and redirected contribution funds to help meet global public health needs.
Called on the United Nations to hold China accountable for their handling of the virus, including refusing to be transparent and failing to contain the virus before it spread.

Re-purposed domestic manufacturing facilities to ensure frontline workers had critical supplies.

Distributed billions of pieces of Personal Protective Equipment, including gloves, masks, gowns, and face shields.
Invoked the Defense Production Act over 100 times to accelerate the development and manufacturing of essential material in the USA.
Made historic investments of more than $3 billion into the industrial base.
Contracted with companies such as Ford, General Motors, Philips, and General Electric to produce ventilators.
Contracted with Honeywell, 3M, O&M Halyard, Moldex, and Lydall to increase our Nation’s production of N-95 masks.
The Army Corps of Engineers built 11,000 beds, distributed 10,000 ventilators, and surged personnel to hospitals.
Converted the Javits Center in New York into a 3,000-bed hospital, and opened medical facilities in Seattle and New Orleans.
Dispatched the USNS Comfort to New York City, and the USNS Mercy to Los Angeles.
Deployed thousands of FEMA employees, National Guard members, and military forces to help in the response.
Provided support to states facing new emergences of the virus, including surging testing sites, deploying medical personnel, and advising on mitigation strategies.
Announced Federal support to governors for use of the National Guard with 100 percent cost-share.
Established the Supply Chain Task Force as a “control tower” to strategically allocate high-demand medical supplies and PPE to areas of greatest need.
Requested critical data elements from states about the status of hospital capacity, ventilators, and PPE.
Executed nearly 250 flights through Project Air Bridge to transport hundreds of millions of surgical masks, N95 respirators, gloves, and gowns from around the world to hospitals and facilities throughout the United States.
Signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure that Americans have a reliable supply of products like beef, pork, and poultry.
Stabilized the food supply chain restoring the Nation’s protein processing capacity through a collaborative approach with Federal, state, and local officials and industry partners.
The continued movement of food and other critical items of daily life distributed to stores and to American homes went unaffected.

Replenished the depleted Strategic National Stockpile.

Increased the number of ventilators nearly ten-fold to more than 153,000.
Despite the grim projections from the media and governors, no American who has needed a ventilator has been denied a ventilator.
Increased the number of N95 masks fourteen-fold to more than 176 million.
Issued an executive order ensuring critical medical supplies are produced in the United States.

Created the largest, most advanced, and most innovative testing system in the world.

Built the world’s leading testing system from scratch, conducting over 200 million tests – more than all of the European Union combined.
Engaged more than 400 test developers to increase testing capacity from less than 100 tests per day to more than 2 million tests per day.
Slashed red tape and approved Emergency Use Authorizations for more than 300 different tests, including 235 molecular tests, 63 antibody tests, and 11 antigen tests.
Delivered state-of-the-art testing devices and millions of tests to every certified nursing home in the country.
Announced more flexibility to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans to waive cost-sharing for tests.
Over 2,000 retail pharmacy stores, including CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens, are providing testing using new regulatory and reimbursement options.
Deployed tens of millions of tests to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribes, disaster relief operations, Home Health/Hospice organizations, and the Veterans Health Administration.
Began shipping 150 million BinaxNOW rapid tests to states, long-term care facilities, the IHS, HBCUs, and other key partners.

Pioneered groundbreaking treatments and therapies that reduced the mortality rate by 85 percent, saving over 2 million lives.

The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates in the entire world.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program to expedite the regulatory review process for therapeutics in clinical trials, accelerate the development and publication of industry guidance on developing treatments, and utilize regulatory flexibility to help facilitate the scaling-up of manufacturing capacity.
More than 370 therapies are in clinical trials and another 560 are in the planning stages.
Announced $450 million in available funds to support the manufacturing of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail.
Shipped tens of thousands of doses of the Regeneron drug.
Authorized an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma.
Treated around 100,000 patients with convalescent plasma, which may reduce mortality by 50 percent.
Provided $48 million to fund the Mayo Clinic study that tested the efficacy of convalescent plasma for patients with COVID-19.
Made an agreement to support the large-scale manufacturing of AstraZeneca’s cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies.
Approved Remdesivir as the first COVID-19 treatment, which could reduce hospitalization time by nearly a third.
Secured more than 90 percent of the world’s supply of Remdesivir, enough to treat over 850,000 high-risk patients.
Granted an EUA to Eli Lilly for its anti-body treatments.
Finalized an agreement with Eli Lilly to purchase the first doses of the company’s investigational antibody therapeutic.
Provided up to $270 million to the American Red Cross and America’s Blood Centers to support the collection of up to 360,000 units of plasma.
Launched a nationwide campaign to ask patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma.
Announced Phase 3 clinical trials for varying types of blood thinners to treat adults diagnosed with COVID-19.
Issued an EUA for the monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab.
FDA issued an EUA for casirivimab and imdevimab to be administered together.
Launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium with private sector and academic leaders unleashing America’s supercomputers to accelerate coronavirus research.

Brought the full power of American medicine and government to produce a safe and effective vaccine in record time.

Launched Operation Warp Speed to initiate an unprecedented drive to develop and make available an effective vaccine by January 2021.
Pfizer and Moderna developed two vaccines in just nine months, five times faster than the fastest prior vaccine development in American history.
Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines are approximately 95 effective – far exceeding all expectations.
AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson also both have promising candidates in the final stage of clinical trials.
The vaccines will be administered within 24 hours of FDA-approval.
Made millions of vaccine doses available before the end of 2020, with hundreds of millions more to quickly follow.
FedEx and UPS will ship doses from warehouses directly to local pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare providers.
Finalized a partnership with CVS and Walgreens to deliver vaccines directly to residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities as soon as a state requests it, at no cost to America’s seniors.
Signed an executive order to ensure that the United States government prioritizes getting the vaccine to American citizens before sending it to other nations.
Provided approximately $13 billion to accelerate vaccine development and to manufacture all of the top candidates in advance.
Provided critical investments of $4.1 billion to Moderna to support the development, manufacturing, and distribution of their vaccines.
Moderna announced its vaccine is 95 percent effective and is pending FDA approval.
Provided Pfizer up to $1.95 billion to support the mass-manufacturing and nationwide distribution of their vaccine candidate.
Pfizer announced its vaccine is 95 percent effective and is pending FDA approval.
Provided approximately $1 billion to support the manufacturing and distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate.
Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate reached the final stage of clinical trials.
Made up to $1.2 billion available to support AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate.
AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate reached the final stage of clinical trials.
Made an agreement to support the large-scale manufacturing of Novavax’s vaccine candidate with 100 million doses expected.
Partnered with Sanofi and GSK to support large-scale manufacturing of a COVID-19 investigational vaccine.
Awarded $200 million in funding to support vaccine preparedness and plans for the immediate distribution and administration of vaccines.
Provided $31 million to Cytvia for vaccine-related consumable products.
Under the PREP Act, issued guidance authorizing qualified pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines.
Announced that McKesson Corporation will produce store, and distribute vaccine ancillary supply kits on behalf of the Strategic National Stockpile to help healthcare workers who will administer vaccines.
Announced partnership with large-chain, independent, and regional pharmacies to deliver vaccines.

Prioritized resources for the most vulnerable Americans, including nursing home residents.

Quickly established guidelines for nursing homes and expanded telehealth opportunities to protect vulnerable seniors.
Increased surveillance, oversight, and transparency of all 15,417 Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes by requiring them to report cases of COVID-19 to all residents, their families, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Required that all nursing homes test staff regularly.
Launched an unprecedented national nursing home training curriculum to equip nursing home staff with the knowledge they need to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Delivered $81 million for increased inspections and funded 35,000 members of the Nation Guard to deliver critical supplies to every Medicare-certified nursing homes.
Deployed Federal Task Force Strike Teams to provide onsite technical assistance and education to nursing homes experiencing outbreaks.
Distributed tens of billions of dollars in Provider Relief Funds to protect nursing homes, long-term care facilities, safety-net hospitals, rural hospitals, and communities hardest hit by the virus.
Released 1.5 million N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile for distribution to over 3,000 nursing home facilities.
Directed the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council to refocus on underserved communities impacted by the coronavirus.
Required that testing results reported include data on race, gender, ethnicity, and ZIP code, to ensure that resources were directed to communities disproportionately harmed by the virus.
Ensured testing was offered at 95 percent of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which serve over 29 million patients in 12,000 communities across the Nation.
Invested an unprecedented $8 billion in tribal communities.
Maintained safe access for Veterans to VA healthcare throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic and supported non-VA hospital systems and private and state-run nursing homes with VA clinical teams.
Signed legislation ensuring no reduction of VA education benefits under the GI Bill for online distance learning.

Supported Americans as they safely return to school and work.

Issued the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, a detailed blueprint to help governors as they began reopening the country. Focused on protecting the most vulnerable and mitigating the risk of any resurgence, while restarting the economy and allowing Americans to safely return to their jobs.
Helped Americans return to work by providing extensive guidance on workplace-safety measures to protect against COVID-19, and investigating over 10,000 coronavirus-related complaints and referrals.
Provided over $31 billion to support elementary and secondary schools.
Distributed 125 million face masks to school districts.
Provided comprehensive guidelines to schools on how to protect and identify high-risk individuals, prevent the spread of COVID-19, and conduct safe in-person teaching.
Brought back the safe return of college athletics, including Big Ten and Pac-12 football.

Rescued the American economy with nearly $3.4 trillion in relief, the largest financial aid package in history.

Secured an initial $8.3 billion Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Act, supporting the development of treatments and vaccines, and to procure critical medical supplies and equipment.
Signed the $100 billion Families First Coronavirus Relief Act, guaranteeing free coronavirus testing, emergency paid sick leave and family leave, Medicaid funding, and food assistance.
Signed the $2.3 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, providing unprecedented and immediate relief to American families, workers, and businesses.
Signed additional legislation providing nearly $900 billion in support for coronavirus emergency response and relief, including critically needed funds to continue the Paycheck Protection Program.
Signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act, adding an additional $310 billion to replenish the program.
Delivered approximately 160 million relief payments to hardworking Americans.
Through the Paycheck Protection Program, approved over $525 billion in forgivable loans to more than 5.2 million small businesses, supporting more than 51 million American jobs.
The Treasury Department approved the establishment of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility to provide liquidity to the financial system.
The Treasury Department, working with the Federal Reserve, was able to leverage approximately $4 trillion in emergency lending facilities.
Signed an executive order extending expanded unemployment benefits.
Signed an executive order to temporarily suspend student loan payments, evictions, and collection of payroll taxes.
Small Business Administration expanded access to emergency economic assistance for small businesses, faith-based, and religious entities.
Protected jobs for American workers impacted by COVID-19 by temporarily suspending several job-related nonimmigrant visas, including H-1B’s, H-2B’s without a nexus to the food-supply chain, certain H-4’s, as well as L’s and certain J’s.

Great Healthcare for Americans

Empowered American patients by greatly expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability.

Eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate – a financial relief to low and middle-income households that made up nearly 80 percent of the families who paid the penalty for not wanting to purchase health insurance.
Increased choice for consumers by promoting competition in the individual health insurance market leading to lower premiums for three years in a row.
Under the Trump Administration, more than 90 percent of the counties have multiple options on the individual insurance market to choose from.
Offered Association Health Plans, which allow employers to pool together and offer more affordable, quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30 percent lower cost.
Increased availability of short-term, limited-duration health plans, which can cost up to 60 percent less than traditional plans, giving Americans more flexibility to choose plans that suit their needs.
Expanded Health Reimbursement Arrangements, allowing millions of Americans to be able to shop for a plan of their choice on the individual market, and then have their employer cover the cost.
Added 2,100 new Medicare Advantage plan options since 2017, a 76 percent increase.
Lowered Medicare Advantage premiums by 34 percent nationwide to the lowest level in 14 years. Medicare health plan premium savings for beneficiaries have totaled $nearly 1.5 billion since 2017.
Improved access to tax-free health savings accounts for individuals with chronic conditions.
Eliminated costly Obamacare taxes, including the health insurance tax, the medical device tax, and the “Cadillac tax.”
Worked with states to create more flexibility and relief from oppressive Obamacare regulations, including reinsurance waivers to help lower premiums.
Released legislative principles to end surprise medical billing.
Finalized requirements for unprecedented price transparency from hospitals and insurance companies so patients know what the cost is before they receive care.
Took action to require that hospitals make the prices they negotiate with insurers publicly available and easily accessible online.
Improved patients access to their health data by penalizing hospitals and causing clinicians to lose their incentive payments if they do not comply.
Expanded access to telehealth, especially in rural and underserved communities.
Increased Medicare payments to rural hospitals to stem a decade of rising closures and deliver enhanced access to care in rural areas.

Issued unprecedented reforms that dramatically lowered the price of prescription drugs.

Lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years.
Launched an initiative to stop global freeloading in the drug market.
Finalized a rule to allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
Finalized the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same discounts to the United States as they do to other nations, resulting in an estimated $85 billion in savings over seven years and $30 billion in out-of-pocket costs alone.
Proposed a rule requiring federally funded health centers to pass drug company discounts on insulin and Epi-Pens directly to patients.
Ended the gag clauses that prevented pharmacists from informing patients about the best prices for the medications they need.
Ended the costly kickbacks to middlemen and ensured that patients directly benefit from available discounts at the pharmacy counter, saving Americans up to 30 percent on brand name pharmaceuticals.
Enhanced Part D plans to provide many seniors with Medicare access to a broad set of insulins at a maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply of each type of insulin.
Reduced Medicare Part D prescription drug premiums, saving beneficiaries nearly $2 billion in premium costs since 2017.
Ended the Unapproved Drugs Initiative, which provided market exclusivity to generic drugs.

Promoted research and innovation in healthcare to ensure that American patients have access to the best treatment in the world.

Signed first-ever executive order to affirm that it is the official policy of the United States Government to protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
Passed Right To Try to give terminally ill patients access to lifesaving cures.
Signed an executive order to fight kidney disease with more transplants and better treatment.
Signed into law a $1 billion increase in funding for critical Alzheimer’s research.
Accelerated medical breakthroughs in genetic treatments for Sickle Cell disease.
Finalized the interoperability rules that will give American patients access to their electronic health records on their phones.
Initiated an effort to provide $500 million over the next decade to improve pediatric cancer research.
Launched a campaign to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America in the next decade.
Started a program to provide the HIV prevention drug PrEP to uninsured patients for free.
Signed an executive order and awarded new development contracts to modernize the influenza vaccine.

Protected our Nation’s seniors by safeguarding and strengthening Medicare.

Updated the way Medicare pays for innovative medical products to ensure beneficiaries have access to the latest innovation and treatment.
Reduced improper payments for Medicare an estimated $15 billion since 2016 protecting taxpayer dollars and leading to less fraud, waste, and abuse.
Took rapid action to combat antimicrobial resistance and secure access to life-saving new antibiotic drugs for American seniors, by removing several financial disincentives and setting policies to reduce inappropriate use.
Launched new online tools, including eMedicare, Blue Button 2.0, and Care Compare, to help seniors see what is covered, compare costs, streamline data, and compare tools available on Medicare.gov.
Provided new Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, including modifications to help keep seniors safe in their homes, respite care for caregivers, non-opioid pain management alternatives like therapeutic massages, transportation, and more in-home support services and assistance.
Protected Medicare beneficiaries by removing Social Security numbers from all Medicare cards, a project completed ahead of schedule.
Unleashed unprecedented transparency in Medicare and Medicaid data to spur research and innovation.

Remaking the Federal Judiciary

Appointed a historic number of Federal judges who will interpret the Constitution as written.

Nominated and confirmed over 230 Federal judges.
Confirmed 54 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, making up nearly a third of the entire appellate bench.
Filled all Court of Appeals vacancies for the first time in four decades.
Flipped the Second, Third, and Eleventh Circuits from Democrat-appointed majorities to Republican-appointed majorities. And dramatically reshaped the long-liberal Ninth Circuit.

Appointed three Supreme Court justices, expanding its conservative-appointed majority to 6-3.

Appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Achieving a Secure Border

Secured the Southern Border of the United States.

Built over 400 miles of the world’s most robust and advanced border wall.
Illegal crossings have plummeted over 87 percent where the wall has been constructed.
Deployed nearly 5,000 troops to the Southern border. In addition, Mexico deployed tens of thousands of their own soldiers and national guardsmen to secure their side of the US-Mexico border.
Ended the dangerous practice of Catch-and-Release, which means that instead of aliens getting released into the United States pending future hearings never to be seen again, they are detained pending removal, and then ultimately returned to their home countries.
Entered into three historic asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala to stop asylum fraud and resettle illegal migrants in third-party nations pending their asylum applications.
Entered into a historic partnership with Mexico, referred to as the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” to safely return asylum-seekers to Mexico while awaiting hearings in the United States.

Fully enforced the immigration laws of the United States.

Signed an executive order to strip discretionary Federal grant funding from deadly sanctuary cities.
Fully enforced and implemented statutorily authorized “expedited removal” of illegal aliens.
The Department of Justice prosecuted a record-breaking number of immigration-related crimes.
Used Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to reduce the number of aliens coming from countries whose governments refuse to accept their nationals who were ordered removed from the United States.

Ended asylum fraud, shut down human smuggling traffickers, and solved the humanitarian crisis across the Western Hemisphere.

Suspended, via regulation, asylum for aliens who had skipped previous countries where they were eligible for asylum but opted to “forum shop” and continue to the United States.
Safeguarded migrant families, and protected migrant safety, by promulgating new regulations under the Flores Settlement Agreement.
Proposed regulations to end the practice of giving free work permits to illegal aliens lodging meritless asylum claims.
Issued “internal relocation” guidance.
Cross-trained United States Border Patrol agents to conduct credible fear screenings alongside USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) adjudication personnel to reduce massive backlogs.
Streamlined and expedited the asylum hearing process through both the Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR) and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP).
Launched the Family Fraud Initiative to identify hundreds of individuals who were fraudulently presenting themselves as family units at the border, oftentimes with trafficking children, in order to ensure child welfare.
Improved screening in countries with high overstay rates and reduced visa overstay rates in many of these countries.
Removed bureaucratic constraints on United States consular officers that reduced their ability to appropriately vet visa applicants.
Worked with Mexico and other regional partners to dismantle the human smuggling networks in our hemisphere that profit from human misery and fuel the border crisis by exploiting vulnerable populations.

Secured our Nation’s immigration system against criminals and terrorists.

Instituted national security travel bans to keep out terrorists, jihadists, and violent extremists, and implemented a uniform security and information-sharing baseline all nations must meet in order for their nationals to be able to travel to, and emigrate to, the United States.
Suspended refugee resettlement from the world’s most dangerous and terror-afflicted regions.
Rebalanced refugee assistance to focus on overseas resettlement and burden-sharing.
85 percent reduction in refugee resettlement.
Overhauled badly-broken refugee security screening process.
Required the Department of State to consult with states and localities as part of the Federal government’s refugee resettlement process.
Issued strict sanctions on countries that have failed to take back their own nationals.
Established the National Vetting Center, which is the most advanced and comprehensive visa screening system anywhere in the world.

Protected American workers and taxpayers.

Issued a comprehensive “public charge” regulation to ensure newcomers to the United States are financially self-sufficient and not reliant on welfare.
Created an enforcement mechanism for sponsor repayment and deeming, to ensure that people who are presenting themselves as sponsors are actually responsible for sponsor obligations.
Issued regulations to combat the horrendous practice of “birth tourism.”
Issued a rule with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make illegal aliens ineligible for public housing.
Issued directives requiring Federal agencies to hire United States workers first and prioritizing the hiring of United States workers wherever possible.
Suspended the entry of low-wage workers that threaten American jobs.
Finalized new H-1B regulations to permanently end the displacement of United States workers and modify the administrative tools that are required for H-1B visa issuance.
Defended United States sovereignty by withdrawing from the United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration.
Suspended Employment Authorization Documents for aliens who arrive illegally between ports of entry and are ordered removed from the United States.
Restored integrity to the use of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by strictly adhering to the statutory conditions required for TPS.

Restoring American Leadership Abroad

Restored America’s leadership in the world and successfully negotiated to ensure our allies pay their fair share for our military protection.

Secured a $400 billion increase in defense spending from NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies by 2024, and the number of members meeting their minimum obligations more than doubled.
Credited by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for strengthening NATO.
Worked to reform and streamline the United Nations (UN) and reduced spending by $1.3 billion.
Allies, including Japan and the Republic of Korea, committed to increase burden-sharing.
Protected our Second Amendment rights by announcing the United States will never ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty.
Returned 56 hostages and detainees from more than 24 countries.
Worked to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific region, promoting new investments and expanding American partnerships.

Advanced peace through strength.

Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Nuclear Deal and imposed crippling sanctions on the Iranian Regime.
Conducted vigorous enforcement on all sanctions to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero and deny the regime its principal source of revenue.
First president to meet with a leader of North Korea and the first sitting president to cross the demilitarized zone into North Korea.
Maintained a maximum pressure campaign and enforced tough sanctions on North Korea while negotiating de-nuclearization, the release of American hostages, and the return of the remains of American heroes.
Brokered economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, bolstering peace in the Balkans.
Signed the Honk Kong Autonomy Act and ended the United States’ preferential treatment with Hong Kong to hold China accountable for its infringement on the autonomy of Hong Kong.
Led allied efforts to defeat the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to control the international telecommunications system.

Renewed our cherished friendship and alliance with Israel and took historic action to promote peace in the Middle East.

Recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel and quickly moved the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and declared that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not inconsistent with international law.
Removed the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council due to the group’s blatant anti-Israel bias.
Brokered historic peace agreements between Israel and Arab-Muslim countries, including the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Sudan.
In addition, the United States negotiated a normalization agreement between Israel and Morocco, and recognized Moroccan Sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara, a position with long standing bipartisan support.
Brokered a deal for Kosovo to normalize ties and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Announced that Serbia would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
First American president to address an assembly of leaders from more than 50 Muslim nations, and reach an agreement to fight terrorism in all its forms.
Established the Etidal Center to combat terrorism in the Middle East in conjunction with the Saudi Arabian Government.
Announced the Vision for Peace Political Plan – a two-state solution that resolves the risks of Palestinian statehood to Israel’s security, and the first time Israel has agreed to a map and a Palestinian state.
Released an economic plan to empower the Palestinian people and enhance Palestinian governance through historic private investment.

Stood up against Communism and Socialism in the Western Hemisphere.

Reversed the previous Administration’s disastrous Cuba policy, canceling the sellout deal with the Communist Castro dictatorship.
Pledged not to lift sanctions until all political prisoners are freed; freedoms of assembly and expression are respected; all political parties are legalized; and free elections are scheduled.
Enacted a new policy aimed at preventing American dollars from funding the Cuban regime, including stricter travel restrictions and restrictions on the importation of Cuban alcohol and tobacco.
Implemented a cap on remittances to Cuba.
Enabled Americans to file lawsuits against persons and entities that traffic in property confiscated by the Cuban regime.
First world leader to recognize Juan Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela and led a diplomatic coalition against the Socialist Dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
Blocked all property of the Venezuelan Government in the jurisdiction of the United States.
Cut off the financial resources of the Maduro regime and sanctioned key sectors of the Venezuelan economy exploited by the regime.
Brought criminal charges against Nicolas Maduro for his narco-terrorism.
Imposed stiff sanctions on the Ortega regime in Nicaragua.
Joined together with Mexico and Canada in a successful bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with 60 matches to be held in the United States.
Won bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Colossal Rebuilding of the Military

Rebuilt the military and created the Sixth Branch, the United States Space Force.

Completely rebuilt the United States military with over $2.2 trillion in defense spending, including $738 billion for 2020.
Secured three pay raises for our service members and their families, including the largest raise in a decade.
Established the Space Force, the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.
Modernized and recapitalized our nuclear forces and missile defenses to ensure they continue to serve as a strong deterrent.
Upgraded our cyber defenses by elevating the Cyber Command into a major warfighting command and by reducing burdensome procedural restrictions on cyber operations.
Vetoed the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act, which failed to protect our national security, disrespected the history of our veterans and military, and contradicted our efforts to put America first.

Defeated terrorists, held leaders accountable for malign actions, and bolstered peace around the world.

Defeated 100 percent of ISIS’ territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
Freed nearly 8 million civilians from ISIS’ bloodthirsty control, and liberated Mosul, Raqqa, and the final ISIS foothold of Baghuz.
Killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.
Created the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) in partnership between the United States and its Gulf partners to combat extremist ideology and threats, and target terrorist financial networks, including over 60 terrorist individuals and entities spanning the globe.
Twice took decisive military action against the Assad regime in Syria for the barbaric use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians, including a successful 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles strike.
Authorized sanctions against bad actors tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
Negotiated an extended ceasefire with Turkey in northeast Syria.

Addressed gaps in American’s defense-industrial base, providing much-needed updates to improve the safety of our country.

Protected America’s defense-industrial base, directing the first whole-of-government assessment of our manufacturing and defense supply chains since the 1950s.
Took decisive steps to secure our information and communications technology and services supply chain, including unsafe mobile applications.
Completed several multi-year nuclear material removal campaigns, securing over 1,000 kilograms of highly enriched uranium and significantly reducing global nuclear threats.
Signed an executive order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
Established a whole-of-government strategy addressing the threat posed by China’s malign efforts targeting the United States taxpayer-funded research and development ecosystem.
Advanced missile defense capabilities and regional alliances.
Bolstered the ability of our allies and partners to defend themselves through the sale of aid and military equipment.
Signed the largest arms deal ever, worth nearly $110 billion, with Saudi Arabia.

Serving and Protecting Our Veterans

Reformed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to improve care, choice, and employee accountability.

Signed and implemented the VA Mission Act, which made permanent Veterans CHOICE, revolutionized the VA community care system, and delivered quality care closer to home for Veterans.
The number of Veterans who say they trust VA services has increased 19 percent to a record 91 percent, an all-time high.
Offered same-day emergency mental health care at every VA medical facility, and secured $9.5 billion for mental health services in 2020.
Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017, which ensured that veterans could continue to see the doctor of their choice and wouldn’t have to wait for care.
During the Trump Administration, millions of veterans have been able to choose a private doctor in their communities.
Expanded Veterans’ ability to access telehealth services, including through the “Anywhere to Anywhere” VA healthcare initiative leading to a 1000 percent increase in usage during COVID-19.
Signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act and removed thousands of VA workers who failed to give our Vets the care they have so richly deserve.
Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 and improved the efficiency of the VA, setting record numbers of appeals decisions.
Modernized medical records to begin a seamless transition from the Department of Defense to the VA.
Launched a new tool that provides Veterans with online access to average wait times and quality-of-care data.
The promised White House VA Hotline has fielded hundreds of thousands of calls.
Formed the PREVENTS Task Force to fight the tragedy of Veteran suicide.

Decreased veteran homelessness, improved education benefits, and achieved record-low veteran unemployment.

Signed and implemented the Forever GI Bill, allowing Veterans to use their benefits to get an education at any point in their lives.
Eliminated every penny of Federal student loan debt owed by American veterans who are completely and permanently disabled.
Compared to 2009, 49 percent fewer veterans experienced homelessness nationwide during 2019.
Signed and implemented the HAVEN Act to ensure that Veterans who’ve declared bankruptcy don’t lose their disability payments.
Helped hundreds of thousands of military service members make the transition from the military to the civilian workforce, and developed programs to support the employment of military spouses.
Placed nearly 40,000 homeless veterans into employment through the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program.
Placed over 600,000 veterans into employment through American Job Center services.
Enrolled over 500,000 transitioning service members in over 20,000 Department of Labor employment workshops.
Signed an executive order to help Veterans transition seamlessly into the United States Merchant Marine.

Making Communities Safer

Signed into law landmark criminal justice reform.

Signed the bipartisan First Step Act into law, the first landmark criminal justice reform legislation ever passed to reduce recidivism and help former inmates successfully rejoin society.
Promoted second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
Launched a new “Ready to Work” initiative to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
Awarded $2.2 million to states to expand the use of fidelity bonds, which underwrite companies that hire former prisoners.
Reversed decades-old ban on Second Chance Pell programs to provide postsecondary education to individuals who are incarcerated expand their skills and better succeed in the workforce upon re-entry.
Awarded over $333 million in Department of Labor grants to nonprofits and local and state governments for reentry projects focused on career development services for justice-involved youth and adults who were formerly incarcerated.

Unprecedented support for law-enforcement.

In 2019, violent crime fell for the third consecutive year.
Since 2016, the violent crime rate has declined over 5 percent and the murder rate has decreased by over 7 percent.
Launched Operation Legend to combat a surge of violent crime in cities, resulting in more than 5,500 arrests.
Deployed the National Guard and Federal law enforcement to Kenosha to stop violence and restore public safety.
Provided $1 million to Kenosha law enforcement, nearly $4 million to support small businesses in Kenosha, and provided over $41 million to support law enforcement to the state of Wisconsin.
Deployed Federal agents to save the courthouse in Portland from rioters.
Signed an executive order outlining ten-year prison sentences for destroying Federal property and monuments.
Directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute Federal offenses related to ongoing violence.
DOJ provided nearly $400 million for new law enforcement hiring.
Endorsed by the 355,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Revitalized Project Safe Neighborhoods, which brings together Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials to develop solutions to violent crime.
Improved first-responder communications by deploying the FirstNet National Public Safety Broadband Network, which serves more than 12,000 public safety agencies across the Nation.
Established a new commission to evaluate best practices for recruiting, training, and supporting law enforcement officers.
Signed the Safe Policing for Safe Communities executive order to incentive local police department reforms in line with law and order.
Made hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of surplus military equipment available to local law enforcement.
Signed an executive order to help prevent violence against law enforcement officers.
Secured permanent funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund for first responders.

Implemented strong measures to stem hate crimes, gun violence, and human trafficking.

Signed an executive order making clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism.
Launched a centralized website to educate the public about hate crimes and encourage reporting.
Signed the Fix NICS Act to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
Signed the STOP School Violence Act and created a Commission on School Safety to examine ways to make our schools safer.
Launched the Foster Youth to Independence initiative to prevent and end homelessness among young adults under the age of 25 who are in, or have recently left, the foster care system.
Signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which tightened criteria for whether countries are meeting standards for eliminating trafficking.
Established a task force to help combat the tragedy of missing or murdered Native American women and girls.
Prioritized fighting for the voiceless and ending the scourge of human trafficking across the Nation, through a whole of government back by legislation, executive action, and engagement with key industries.
Created the first-ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.

Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty

Steadfastly supported the sanctity of every human life and worked tirelessly to prevent government funding of abortion.

Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring that taxpayer money is not used to fund abortion globally.
Issued a rule preventing Title X taxpayer funding from subsiding the abortion industry.
Supported legislation to end late-term abortions.
Cut all funding to the United Nations population fund due to the fund’s support for coercive abortion and forced sterilization.
Signed legislation overturning the previous administration’s regulation that prohibited states from defunding abortion facilities as part of their family planning programs.
Fully enforced the requirement that taxpayer dollars do not support abortion coverage in Obamacare exchange plans.
Stopped the Federal funding of fetal tissue research.
Worked to protect healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights – ensuring that no medical professional is forced to participate in an abortion in violation of their beliefs.
Issued an executive order reinforcing requirement that all hospitals in the United States provide medical treatment or an emergency transfer for infants who are in need of emergency medical care—regardless of prematurity or disability.
Led a coalition of countries to sign the Geneva Consensus Declaration, declaring that there is no international right to abortion and committing to protecting women’s health.
First president in history to attend the March for Life.

Stood up for religious liberty in the United States and around the world.

Protected the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, teachers, and groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor.
First president to convene a meeting at the United Nations to end religious persecution.
Established the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
Stopped the Johnson Amendment from interfering with pastors’ right to speak their minds.
Reversed the previous administration’s policy that prevented the government from providing disaster relief to religious organizations.
Protected faith-based adoption and foster care providers, ensuring they can continue to serve their communities while following the teachings of their faith.
Reduced burdensome barriers to ensure Native Americans are free to keep spiritually and culturally significant eagle feathers found on their tribal lands.
Took action to ensure Federal employees can take paid time off work to observe religious holy days.
Signed legislation to assist religious and ethnic groups targeted by ISIS for mass murder and genocide in Syria and Iraq.
Directed American assistance toward persecuted communities, including through faith-based programs.
Launched the International Religious Freedom Alliance – the first-ever alliance devoted to confronting religious persecution around the world.
Appointed a Special Envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
Imposed restrictions on certain Chinese officials, internal security units, and companies for their complicity in the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Issued an executive order to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.

Safeguarding the Environment

Took strong action to protect the environment and ensure clean air and clean water.

Took action to protect vulnerable Americans from being exposed to lead and copper in drinking water and finalized a rule protecting children from lead-based paint hazards.
Invested over $38 billion in clean water infrastructure.
In 2019, America achieved the largest decline in carbon emissions of any country on earth. Since withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has reduced carbon emissions more than any nation.
American levels of particulate matter – one of the main measures of air pollution – are approximately five times lower than the global average.
Between 2017 and 2019, the air became 7 percent cleaner – indicated by a steep drop in the combined emissions of criteria pollutants.
Led the world in greenhouse gas emissions reductions, having cut energy-related CO2 emissions by 12 percent from 2005 to 2018 while the rest of the world increased emissions by 24 percent.
In FY 2019 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned up more major pollution sites than any year in nearly two decades.
The EPA delivered $300 million in Brownfields grants directly to communities most in need including investment in 118 Opportunity Zones.
Placed a moratorium on offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.
Restored public access to Federal land at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Recovered more endangered or threatened species than any other administration in its first term.

Secured agreements and signed legislation to protect the environment and preserve our Nation’s abundant national resources.

The USMCA guarantees the strongest environmental protections of any trade agreement in history.
Signed the Save Our Seas Act to protect our environment from foreign nations that litter our oceans with debris and developed the first-ever Federal strategic plan to address marine litter.
Signed the Great American Outdoors Act, securing the single largest investment in America’s National Parks and public lands in history.
Signed the largest public lands legislation in a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness.
Signed a historic executive order promoting much more active forest management to prevent catastrophic wildfires.
Opened and expanded access to over 4 million acres of public lands for hunting and fishing.
Joined the One Trillion Trees Initiative to plant, conserve, and restore trees in America and around the world.
Delivered infrastructure upgrades and investments for numerous projects, including over half a billion dollars to fix the Herbert Hoover Dike and expanding funding for Everglades restoration by 55 percent.

Expanding Educational Opportunity

Fought tirelessly to give every American access to the best possible education.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expanded School Choice, allowing parents to use up to $10,000 from a 529 education savings account to cover K-12 tuition costs at the public, private, or religious school of their choice.
Launched a new pro-American lesson plan for students called the 1776 Commission to promote patriotic education.
Prohibited the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Federal government.
Established the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live.
Called on Congress to pass the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act to expand education options for 1 million students of all economic backgrounds.
Signed legislation reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.
Issued updated guidance making clear that the First Amendment right to Free Exercise of Religion does not end at the door to a public school.

Took action to promote technical education.

Signed into law the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, which provides over 13 million students with high-quality vocational education and extends more than $1.3 billion each year to states for critical workforce development programs.
Signed the INSPIRE Act which encouraged NASA to have more women and girls participate in STEM and seek careers in aerospace.
Allocated no less than $200 million each year in grants to prioritize women and minorities in STEM and computer science education.

Drastically reformed and modernized our educational system to restore local control and promote fairness.

Restored state and local control of education by faithfully implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Signed an executive order that ensures public universities protect First Amendment rights or they will risk losing funding, addresses student debt by requiring colleges to share a portion of the financial risk, and increases transparency by requiring universities to disclose information about the value of potential educational programs.
Issued a rule strengthening Title IX protections for survivors of sexual misconduct in schools, and that – for the first time in history – codifies that sexual harassment is prohibited under Title IX.
Negotiated historic bipartisan agreement on new higher education rules to increase innovation and lower costs by reforming accreditation, state authorization, distance education, competency-based education, credit hour, religious liberty, and TEACH Grants.

Prioritized support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Moved the Federal Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative back to the White House.
Signed into law the FUTURE Act, making permanent $255 million in annual funding for HBCUs and increasing funding for the Federal Pell Grant program.
Signed legislation that included more than $100 million for scholarships, research, and centers of excellence at HBCU land-grant institutions.
Fully forgave $322 million in disaster loans to four HBCUs in 2018, so they could fully focus on educating their students.
Enabled faith-based HBCUs to enjoy equal access to Federal support.

Combatting the Opioid Crisis

Brought unprecedented attention and support to combat the opioid crisis.

Declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency.
Secured a record $6 billion in new funding to combat the opioid epidemic.
Signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest-ever legislative effort to address a drug crisis in our Nation’s history.
Launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand in order to confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a record $9 billion in grants to expand access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services to States and local communities.
Passed the CRIB Act, allowing Medicaid to help mothers and their babies who are born physically dependent on opioids by covering their care in residential pediatric recovery facilities.
Distributed $1 billion in grants for addiction prevention and treatment.
Announced a Safer Prescriber Plan that seeks to decrease the amount of opioids prescriptions filled in America by one third within three years.
Reduced the total amount of opioids prescriptions filled in America.
Expanded access to medication-assisted treatment and life-saving Naloxone.
Launched FindTreatment.gov, a tool to find help for substance abuse.
Drug overdose deaths fell nationwide in 2018 for the first time in nearly three decades.
Launched the Drug-Impaired Driving Initiative to work with local law enforcement and the driving public at large to increase awareness.
Launched a nationwide public ad campaign on youth opioid abuse that reached 58 percent of young adults in America.
Since 2016, there has been a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of Americans receiving medication-assisted treatment.
Approved 29 state Medicaid demonstrations to improve access to opioid use disorder treatment, including new flexibility to cover inpatient and residential treatment.
Approved nearly $200 million in grants to address the opioid crisis in severely affected communities and to reintegrate workers in recovery back into the workforce.

Took action to seize illegal drugs and punish those preying on innocent Americans.

In FY 2019, ICE HSI seized 12,466 pounds of opioids including 3,688 pounds of fentanyl, an increase of 35 percent from FY 2018.
Seized tens of thousands of kilograms of heroin and thousands of kilograms of fentanyl since 2017.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted more fentanyl traffickers than ever before, dismantled 3,000 drug trafficking organizations, and seized enough fentanyl to kill 105,000 Americans.
DOJ charged more than 65 defendants collectively responsible for distributing over 45 million opioid pills.
Brought kingpin designations against traffickers operating in China, India, Mexico, and more who have played a role in the epidemic in America.
Indicted major Chinese drug traffickers for distributing fentanyl in the U.S for the first time ever, and convinced China to enact strict regulations to control the production and sale of fentanyl.

*** This text is archived from the official White House website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

Uncategorized

Socialism – Communism – Fascism – NAZIsm <- Variant forms of the same government system

March 15, 2011 Kevin Bush 2 comments

Over the last few years, I’ve heard liberals compare Conservatives and Republicans to Fascists and Hitler. I’ve seen the argument that Fascism is the extreme right-wing, while Socialism or Communism is the extreme left-wing. While this had been said, I’ve never seen one liberal/progressive actually define the system of government for which they decided that Conservatives began to. Well… I’ve had enough, so I’m going to help them out a little bit.

While debating, I’ve had to define these systems of government to liberals, because they clearly do not know what they are. So, for those who know me (or those who don’t), I’ve taken the liberty to list these governments below, along with their definitions:

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Socialism (so·cial·ism) –noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital,… land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

Communism (com·mu·nism) –noun
1. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
2. (often initial capital letter) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.
3. (initial capital letter) the principles and practices of the Communist party.

Fascism (fas·cism) –noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3. (initial capital letter) a fascist movement, especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.

Nazism (Na·zism) –noun
– the principles or methods of the Nazis.

NAZI (Na·zi) –noun
1. a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.

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My argument has been that the four systems above are relative to each other. They all share similarities, and certain systems lead to the more extreme of the other, such as Socialism leading to Communism, or Socialism leading to Fascism/Naziism.

The liberal argument has historically been that since NAZIs were big Nationalists, and apparently since Conservatives have love for America (their nation), then clearly there’s a direct correlation between the two schools of thought.

Let’s define Nationalism:

Nationalism (na·tion·al·ism) –noun
1. national spirit or aspirations.
2. devotion and loyalty to one’s own nation; patriotism.
3. excessive patriotism; chauvinism.
4. the desire for national advancement or independence.
5. the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one’s own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.
6. an idiom or trait peculiar to a nation.
7. a movement, as in the arts, based upon the folk idioms, history, aspirations, etc., of a nation.

I would ask… what’s so wrong with that? I personally think that America is the last best hope for this world. We offer the greatest opportunity to any citizen or legal immigrant who would choose to take advantage of such opportunities. We have succeeded, tremendously, where others have faltered, and we’ve proven to be the most prosperous society this world has ever seen. Our GDP, in comparison to the 2nd best GDP in the world, should be testament to that. The inventions, innovations and accomplishments that this free country, which utilizes a free-market, capitalistic system should warrant praises from any other country. In addition to this, we also have one of the greatest militaries the world has ever seen. While extremely powerful, also good-natured and voluntary.

Clearly, Liberals are referencing definition #5 and possibly #3… I can only assume that they’re suggesting that Conservatives yearn for a yesteryear, where everyone was the same: same skin color, same religion, same ethnicity, same political ideals, same freedoms, etc.

Unfortunately for Liberals, that time and place has never existed, and even if it had, they couldn’t be more wrong.

As far as Nationalism goes, in regards to NAZIism and their claim of the “extreme right,” they’ll have to demonstrate how anyone on the far right has ever instituted or fought for Nationalist policies, such as Hitler’s. No one on the right has ever setup/used internment camps… that would be their Liberal heroes Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, during WWI & WWII. Wilson arrested & imprisoned Irish & German Americans, as well as many from Eastern Europe. FDR arrested and imprisoned Japanese, Italian and German Americans.

Woodrow Wilson segregated the army and believed in and actively supported eugenics. Margaret Sanger, another liberal hero, also partook in actively supporting eugenics, by starting Planned Parenthood, in order to downsize the African American population.

Sound familiar? Hitler was big on Nationalism, as well… and the master German race.

Another argument I’ve seen of late, is that Scott Walker is just like Hitler, because he wants to “break the Unions.” Funny thing is, Hitler was a big union guy. He was very much in favor of unions and thought quite highly of them… So again, these clueless mocking birds are dead wrong. Liberals seem to be selective, when it comes to what they take/learn from history. http://tinyurl.com/6fuy637 (To get you started, should you want to research this issue, yourself.)

I assume this is the fault of their professors at whatever University they might be (or had been) attending. They do have a liberal/progressive agenda in brainwashing their students with propaganda.

Conservatives, historically, have been for the limiting of government and its’ power. Smaller government ALWAYS leads to greater freedom, and this has been our argument for ages. When you look at the above definitions for government systems, what do they suggest? Bigger, overbearing, overreaching, and much more powerful government… Leaving what? Less powerful, less free citizens/slaves.

Liberals fight for more government regulations, oversight, security, restrictions, control, social welfare, handouts, bans, etc. What does this lead to? More expansive government… Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Totalitarianism, etc. Far from the Republic for which we stand and Capitalism – both freedom enhancing systems and two things that Conservatives fight for.

Liberals tend to argue that Conservatives are against individual freedom, in reference to what people do with their body… aka Conservatives are typically pro-life. Well, under the “Life, liberty & pursuit of happiness” precedent, stated in the Declaration of Independence, no… we do not believe that it’s ok to snuff out the life of a baby in or out of the womb. Some believe in certain circumstances, but Liberals always fail to see where abortion originated. The propaganda surrounding this area and the misinformation about the history of the subject has confounded the ability for liberals to think objectively and deduce opinions, based on real facts. Margaret Sanger – Planned Parenthood – Eugenics – African Americans – Abortion -> done and done. Look it up.

Another argument from the liberals, is that under regulation in the free market system has lead to the economic collapse of 2008. Then they go on to make fun of Bush, call him a Fascist, call me a Fascist and then say that Government regulations are needed to fix the problem. What? Fascism = bad to them, right? But they want Government control of private industry to prevent bad things from happening, right? So what’s Fascism again? Interesting argument…

Obviously, they’re wrong. Had they done the research, they’d know what caused the meltdown of 2008. What brought this failing economy was a failure of government oversight, via regulations on the mortgage market in the form of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, passed under Carter. That is to say, regulations lit the fuse to the dynamite 30yrs in the future. This Act was later fueled by Clinton by pressuring Fannie Mae to ease credit to aid mortgage lending, in 1999 (http://tinyurl.com/3jdn9e). This forced mortgage lending to those who couldn’t afford it, in what we now term as sub-prime loans.

It wasn’t Bush’s fault that the mortgage giants pushed these loans, but rather Clinton and the progressive Democrats in leadership positions. GW Bush actually tried to regulate Fannie & Freddie during his term, several times, to no avail (http://tinyurl.com/6lp5qu (2003) – http://tinyurl.com/5gvopc (2005)). Barney Frank continued to make claims that everything was fine and Fannie/Freddie were profitable corporations.

I’m not Bush’s biggest fan (I disliked many things he did, while liking many others), but it’s completely unfair to pin the collapse squarely on his shoulders, because in realityville, he had nothing to do with it. What he did do, however, was pass TARP… which, to me, was a huge mistake… but others would claim that our economy (along with the world’s) would have completely collapsed, beyond repair. Who knows… I’m not sure what I believe about that, but what I do know, is that overspending is not an option to take lightly. We’re in the position we’re in, right now, because of that lack of fiscal responsibility.

That’s another argument for another day, though. For this one, know that Socialism, Communism, Fascism and NAZIism all fall on the same side of the spectrum… the LEFT.

…And you can take that to the bank.

Journal

Debt reaches record high of $13,868,461,000,000.00

December 23, 2010 Kevin Bush One comment

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Figures-on-government-apf-3395477854.html?x=0&.v=2

Reagan added ~$1,859,575,960,187.32 (in 8yrs – under Dem. Congress)
Bush 1 added ~$1,554,057,922,952.06 (in 4yrs – under Dem. Congress)
Clinton added ~$1,395,974,529,060.68 (in 8yrs – under Rep. Congress)
Bush 2 added ~$4,217,261,484,712.43 (in 8yrs – ~$2,125,246,249,523.44 under Rep. Congress – ~$2,092,015,235,188.99 under Dem. Congress)
Obama added ~$3,536,898,133,979.30 (in 2yrs – under Dem. Congress)

Source: US Department of the Treasury

The national debt has consistently increased since 1958. Prior to that, the debt fluctuated, but no one had truly worked to decrease the debt since Calvin Coolidge in the mid-late 20s.

The reason why tax cuts alone will not decrease the debt, is because there’s excessive government spending and expansion.

Cut taxes and you stimulate economic growth in the free enterprise system that is capitalism. More business equates to more revenue to the government from taxes – less business results in less revenue. It’s simple economics.

People are in business to make money, not lose it. Companies who overextend themselves will eventually go out of business, thus, they look for the best possible circumstance to conduct business. Business owners think in terms of being cost-effective. If moving elsewhere to avoid high taxes means they can stay in business, then that’s what they’ll do. If that happens, government in that district loses money – be it a city, state or nation. This should be common sense to most people.

Carter expanded government tremendously. This lead to higher taxes, which lead to economic collapse. Reagan pulled us out of that collapse at a much faster rate than Obama is right now. Reagan lowered taxes and realized that government was the problem – Obama added more regulations, more expansive government, and more taxes to come, due to new legislation and overspending, and is under the assumption that government is the solution. One method is working – the other isn’t.

Reagan’s method will bring us out of this recession – but we need to stop spending and decrease government, as well. That’s the only thing that will lower the debt. Right now, our social welfare programming is bleeding us dry.

What’s the answer? Cutting popular government programming? As a matter of fact, yes. Cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, as well as the Department of Education, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve, federal funding to public radio/television and there are many others… The Department of Defense? Well, it could do with some shaving down… and we could certainly change course in several mission areas, but as of now, in the heated world that we live in, I wouldn’t cut.

The voters want low taxes… not higher spending – The government can’t help but spend, so they print & borrow. Despite what anyone in the Treasury might say… brace for inflation.

Quick Hits

Unemployment on the Rise!

October 7, 2010 Kevin Bush Leave a comment

According to Gallup, the actual percentage of Americans collecting unemployment is at 10.1%, not 9.7%…

This means we’re .7% away from the peak level of unemployment in 1982, during the 80s recession oh behalf of Carter. Reagan was able to keep us from going into a depression, by instituting conservative measures to effect the economy positively. One of the effects was keeping unemployment in the 9-10% range from lasting longer than 1.5 years.

We’ve been holding an above 9% unemployment rate since May 2009, so it’s already been 1yr 4m. The Fed plans to throw more money into the system, creating inflation, the Bush Tax Cuts are being allowed to expire, resulting in one of the largest tax increases this country has ever seen, and the full effects of Obamacare haven’t set in yet, and won’t until about 2012. These policies… associated with an increasing debt & deficit, are going to keep these unemployment rates high… if not the highest since the Great Depression.

Scary times…

Quick Hits

The Federal Reserve and its’ Damaging Monatary Policies

October 7, 2010 Kevin Bush 2 comments

It’s hard to take arguments about the Federal Reserve being “necessary” in order to tackle monetary policy… otherwise, the people and otherwise free market wouldn’t be able to handle such difficult tasks as unemployment, inflation, etc, seriously.

It’s a wonder we were able to take care of business prior to 1913, for nearly 137 years. Now, for 97 years, we’ve been under the impression that the Federal Reserve is the be all/end all answer to all things economical. It’s funny that in the same year of the Federal Reserve Act, we were also slapped with the 16th Amendment, making income taxes permanent.

I would argue that both of these events were the first steps of the
progressive movement in government, taking control of the Free Market and keeping a steady income via taxes coming into the Treasury, in order to feed the troughs of pork bill spending and an increasing Congressional salary.

Funny that the Great Depression occurred after the formation of the Federal Reserve, when it was created to prevent such travesties. Even more interesting, is that we’ve had 19 recessions since the formation of the Fed out of 47 since 1797. So, 40% of our recessions (which includes the Depression of 1920-21, Great Depression of 1929-42, and current “Great Recession” of 2007-2010) have occurred, despite the Federal Reserve’s existence.

Now they want to shovel more money into the fire, in order to level things out… which will cause inflation… which will result in a less powerful USD and a decline in purchasing power, which will make things more difficult for Americans who are already underemployed, living on food stamps and looking toward an astronomical increase in taxes. Meanwhile, those people with jobs will continue to see prices for their everyday items rise, while their paycheck stays the same.

Can you see the trend, here? If their intent was to create another Great Depression… they’re off to a great start.

Sounds like a plan… thank you Obama, Congress & Fed.

Quick Hits

What is the Tea Party? A little clarification

September 27, 2010 Kevin Bush Leave a comment

Many people, especially liberals and those who are comfortable in watching the mainstream/biased news media, have no idea what the Tea Party is about, why it started up and who it’s comprised of, in addition to what it represents.

Instead of attending a Tea Party rally or having a conversation with a Tea Party Patriot, these uninformed citizens will parrot everything they’ve been told to think about the Tea Partiers (known as Teabaggers by the mainstream media & liberal elites), despite everything they hear being extremely biased, hateful and based purely on opinion of an idea that’s been implanted in their mind, since they’ve had no physical experience with the movement. Without questioning, they call us racists, bigots, stupid, ignorant, extremists, terrorists, astroturf, and bible-bangers, just to name a few.

I’ve been involved with the Tea Party movement for my own reasons since the beginning. I didn’t attend a rally until the first Tax Day on April 15, 2009, but I considered myself a Tea Partier and Tea Party Patriot as soon as the idea was realized nearing the end of February of that year.

As a Conservative, I had become fed up with government legislation as usual. I was watching our leaders throw our taxpayer money down the drain on frivolous things and my train of thought wasn’t being represented by the representatives that we voted into office. It was time to step up or shut up. I, along with millions of others, chose to step up… and we’re still standing to this day.

In the beginning…

Before the Tea Party, fiscally conservative Americans were getting upset with the spending spree that Government has been on since 2008 with taxpayer money. It was only around the end of 2008 where people started to wake up, as spending had been out of control for a while before then, but nothing like this – and the costs were not adding up simply due to the war.

People were getting fed up with the following:

A. Expanding, Big Government

the first stimulus package (which was passed by GW Bush and a liberal Congress had a large negative outcry and was ignored – cost: $168B)
TARP (which was passed by GW Bush and a liberal Congress – this had an enormous outcry, much like the Stimulus Bill that passed earlier in the year, and again the people, were not listened to – cost: $700B)
the Auto Bailout (passed by Obama and a liberal Congress – again, met with enormous outcry, like the previous bills before it… and ignored – cost: $81.8B
Homeowner Assistance Plan (again, met with opposition and ignored – cost: $275B)
Total costs, before the formation of the Tea Party: $1.224 Trillion ($1,224,800,000,000.00)

C. People were not being listened to by the government and mass media was misrepresenting the information that the people were receiving. If you tried to contact your representative in the Senate or House, you couldn’t get through, you’d receive a voice-mail message, or you’d talk to their assistant who would “take a message.”

The mainstream media ignored the dissent of the people and refused to question the administration about any of the ridiculous spending taking place.

D. The mainstream media was also not fully vetting Barack Obama as a viable candidate for the most powerful office in the world, as President of the United States. If not for conservative entertainment talk shows (on television & radio), we still wouldn’t know who he is. Even to this day, the mainstream media refuses to treat him like any other President… and they refuse to offer any tough questions during interviews or report facts to the citizens of this country. They haven’t been doing their job and they’ve shown obvious bias since 2007, prior to the 2008 elections.

The Tea Party started as a result of all of this, but not until Rick Santelli of CNBC actually ranted on live television about the astronomical spending of the Obama Administration, calling for a Tea Party. He was mocked by his colleagues and the liberal mainstream media, but his words were heard by the American populace, thanks to conservative radio/television and Fox News, who all reported on this.

About one week later in late February, Tea Party protests broke out across America on several different dates.

The first nationally organized party was April 15, tax day, 2009.

Looking at the above, it can easily be assessed as to why there’s been this uprising of American taxpayers. They’ve been taxed without representation for quite a long time, now, with no end in sight, their (our) voices unheard. The original Boston Tea Party was derived from the same reasoning. The colonists were not represented in government/legislation, but England continued to tax them, despite their numerous outcries prior to the movement which eventually lead to the Revolutionary War.

Constitution-Bound: One Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

While the spending was running rampant, the debt was increasing to astronomical numbers that we couldn’t even conceive of ever paying back. Even though Obama promised to lower the federal budget and eliminate a deficit, the deficit continues to grow into even bigger numbers than we’d ever have thought possible. The deficit in 2008 under Bush was $700B, in 2009 under Obama it was $1.4T and in 2010, so far, it’s $1.3T. The government continues to borrow money from our political enemies (China), giving them more political power and creating a worthless USD. This borrowing and spending, and the addition of taxes is going to enslave generations of Americans to come for the foreseeable future, unless something is done here and now. President Bush was responsible for adding $2.5T to the national debt. Obama is expected to add $4.9T by 2016, just by the bills he’s passed thus far. This doesn’t include any spending down the pike that may or may not be coming.

It wasn’t until this had been talked about, that Americans had seriously started looking back to the Founders for help and guidance. People started reading and asking questions about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. We started holding politicians accountable for their actions, by holding them to new and Constitutionally Conservative standards.

When we had a political foothold on the Hill (really only a few months after its’ beginnings), the Tea Party movement, that was built from fiscal conservatism and responsibility, began to call out the corruption in government, the lies and backdoor deals of politicians, the pork bills that were piggy-backing on bills that legislators weren’t reading, etc. It was then that we added social conservatism to our movement. Overtaxing and overspending is something to get angry about, but what fuels this in legislation? An ideology. Like certain news organizations and talk show hosts had warned, prior to the 2008 election, the people holding office were overwhelming Socialist in ideology… Obama and his friends were Marxists and they had/have a plan to “fundamentally change America” (his own words).

This isn’t the America we grew up with… the preceding generations didn’t grow up with a laissez faire attitude, they didn’t expect the government to take care of their every need and didn’t expect anything for nothing. They believed in working hard, doing your best, God and thanking God for what you have, America and the beacon of light it was for freedom, and they had strong, conservative family values. This current administration, unlike the previous, is trying to undermine these conservative values. They truly are fundamentally changing America and the American dream. They’re taking over/nationalizing/socializing private industries, left and right, continuing to spend our children and grandchildren into debt & slavery, taking God out of politics and public life, belittling American citizens, undermining the Constitution, replacing it with case law, ignoring the needs of States and acknowledging State’s Rights, they’re no longer defending the borders and preventing illegal immigration, they’re depleting our national security and defenses, and they’re throwing our international allies under the bus. Americans have had enough…

So while the Tea Party is comprised of people of all colors, ethnicities, religions and political affiliations, it’s truly a Conservative movement… because we want the government to be accountable. We want the Constitution to matter, the Declaration of Independence to matter… and we want all people, in government and out, to be held responsible for their actions, equally. We want everyone to be treated equally, but not provided for equally. We all believe in working for what we have, making our own way, smaller and less-instrusive government… we believe in charity for our fellow man, not regulated by our government, but regulated by ourselves. We believe in John Adam’s Capitalism/Free Market values, which allowed this country to become the most prosperous in the world, to have ever existed. We believe in God, for without which, we have no inalienable rights provided to us by a higher power – thus making Government the highest form of power that we answer to.

Tea Party Patriots believe in so many of the same things, but joined for so many different reasons, it’s difficult to define the term. That’s why I could write this post forever… Not everything that I stand for, is everything that someone else stands for. There are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Christians, Muslims, Jews, white people, black people, etc. in this movement. We’re all different, but we are united. We’re unhyphenated Americans who are Constitutionally-bound. We want to be heard, we want Representation, we want our liberties and smaller government, we want corruption the Hell out of OUR government and we certainly damn well better get the TRUTH.

Journal

A Letter to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer

July 9, 2010 Kevin Bush 3 comments

Today, after donating to the Arizona Governor’s Legal Defense Fund to fight the Federal Government’s attack on common sense and Constitutional law, I felt it necessary to send some words of support and encouragement to Governor Jan Brewer. In a time where Federal Government is doing anything it can to bypass the Constitution in order to gain votes and ram its’ policies down our throats, it’s very rare to find someone in the public eye (especially a state government official) who has the courage to stand up to such a politically corrupt and powerful regime, like the Obama administration… which has no problem throwing money around.

To Governor Brewers actions, I had this to say:

Topic: Thank You For Standing Firm

Good afternoon Governor Brewer,

I just wanted to stop in via E-Mail to thank you for the wonderful work you’re doing for your state of Arizona, as well as the nation, as a whole. The United States has needed someone of strength and perseverance for the past several years (possibly decades) to stand up for the American people’s unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… all of which are threatened under the laissez faire approach of the Federal Government to enforce immigration policies/laws, especially under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

It’s absolutely atrocious, how the Constitution has been ignored, neglected, misinterpreted and misconstrued by educators, lawyers, judges and government officials. I know that with people like you and finally, the rebirth of a self-educated America (thanks in part to those in Conservative talk radio and those on the Fox News Network), we can take this country back in the direction it should be headed – back to our founding principles and values, passed on to us through our Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and basic Judeo-Christian morals/ethics.

Thank God for you, Governor Brewer. The American people are behind you and will stand side-by-side with you to fight for our rights and our Republic. This nation is built on laws and we, all of us, must abide by them. Illegal immigrants (aliens) are just that… illegal.

Thank you so much for your time and God bless,

Kevin Bush

kevin@polidiotic.com

609-892-7551

PS – I certainly do hope to visit AZ as soon as my wife and I have the opportunity. =]

PPS – As an aside, please search MSNBC’s website to find the current poll about the new AZ law. After about 3 million votes, 96% of those who voted stand with you. Of course, there isn’t a way of preventing someone from voting more than once… but 3 million votes is quite a lot. At least 60-70% of America is with you… and I would guess many more percentage points than that.

To participate and view that MSNBC poll, visit this link: http://world-news.newsvine.com/_question/2010/05/12/4274124-do-you-support-arizonas-tough-new-law-on-illegal-immigration.

I encourage anyone who reads this and that has been paying attention to the ongoing corruption in the Federal Government over the last two years to lend a helping hand to Governor Brewer. She needs our help. Alone, she has a great voice, but together, we form a very loud and powerful civil army. We need to fight amnesty and we need to fight for and protect our unalienable (defined by the Declaration of Independence) and Constitutional rights. Donate as much money as you can possibly afford. I’m sure any amount is a lot, especially in this time of recession and high rate of unemployment, but winning this battle will set a new standard in this nation. Illegal immigration will finally be dealt with, more states will rise to the occasion to protect their own borders with similar laws (just as they are now), and those states with sanctuary policies will be dealt with.

If you can’t send money, at least send some words of encouragement and support. You can do so here.

God bless Governor Brewer, the people of Arizona and the United States!

Journal

The 6th Amendment and riots? Again?

July 9, 2010 Kevin Bush Leave a comment

How many times are we going to see this from black communities? Why is it that anytime there’s a criminal case that ends in a resolution that they find “unfair,” they have to riot and destroy their community? It’s absurd… and their community leaders should speak up and denounce this ridiculous activity.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66763A20100709

Meanwhile, Holder and crew are reviewing the case to see whether or not it merits federal prosecution? What happened to “…the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed…”? Oh, right… this current administration doesn’t believe in the Constitution. Just strike the 6th Amendment out of the book, along with the 1st and 2nd. They’re no longer valid.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Feast_bay&id=7545102

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Just the Facts Ma’am…

April 26, 2010 Kevin Bush Leave a comment

The following may be unsuitable for the rational… It may even frighten those who live in reality… and I cannot be held accountable for any resulting hemorrhages or seizures you might experience… For you are about to enter: THE CONSPIRACY ZONE!!! DUN-DUN-DUNNNN

The Conspiracy Zone is like no other place in the Universe… because it exists outside of reality, rational thinking and reason. Waterfalls flow up, wood is made out of cloned red cats, with laser eyes, and cheese is made out of milk. =/ Prepare yourself for an adventure unlike any other, because this ride is wild… this is one rollercoaster of an emotion tube, just ready to rupture. And yes, “emotion tubes” exist in THE CONSPIRACY ZONE!!!

Read on, fair thinker, and witness the winding road from Fox News to Global Warming to Suadi Kings to 9/11, to Pearl Harbor and beyond!
(This conversation is taken from Facebook…)

Bishop R Taylor: Fox news!!! This is a slap in the face to all who support this hypocrite! Carbon is not a pollutant! Fox is owned by this scum sucking moron! This pisses me off in a big way! I have never read the huffington post before. Fox is going green??? It makes sense with the names of the people like Neil Cavuto in green and som…e of the Fox new sysmbols are now green! So many people trust Fox news and this is a kick in the face! How can anyone trust Fox News? News Corp Aims To Go Carbon Neutral While Fox News Promotes Climate Change As A Hoax www.huffingtonpost.com – Special From Mother Jones By Kate Sheppard
(Vedamony Titus, Maureen Coddington, Ernest Dobbs and 3 others like this.)

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Rupert Murdoch thinks in dollar signs $$$$$$$, that’s the bottom line. Don’t be too quick to throw the baby out with the bath water and trash Fox News because Murdoch was “somehow coaxed/influenced/persuaded” to take global warming somewhat serious. All the guy cares about is RATINGS and $$$$$$$$. Murdoch does not speak for Greta Van Susteren, Sean Hannity, Neal Cavuto, O’Reilly or any of the rest of the newscasters and show hosts. SMELLS to me like Murdoch got bought off.

Rick Morgan: you cannot trust anyone blindly !

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Oh, and by the way, Murdoch going green DOES NOT make me MISTRUST Fox News in the least. They’re still the most reliable source of news on the air!

Troy Sutton: If in fact the elitist was to make the planet Carbon Neutral, they would have to destroy the whole thing. Scientist have long know that almost everthing on, in the planet is carbon based… So the world is going to destroy itself… LOL Leave the Climate alone, it have always self corrected… That’s what it does… You can change it, you can only make it worse. Think about it it was created from God( (formed for the PC crowd) and evolved into it’s current state fropm a molten ball, with out the help of man for millions of years. Now if man who thinks he better than God messes with it the way they have for the past 200 years man will upset the ballence God (Giai) has set into place… The Climate Change elite don’t even trust their own god avatar.

TJoseph Yoakum: Trust only God.

Save Our Constitution: Satan works in partial truths. Fox is merely the deception arm of the same world elitists. You cannot believe anything they say without vetting it out yourself. If you are not willing to research and verify all that the main scream media feeds you, you should find another hobby instead of watching the boob tube trash or listening to radio commentary and news!!!!

Louise Loftis: What part of “FAIR AND BALANCED” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND????????

Save Our Constitution: LOTFALMAO – “fair and balanced” – hohohohoho. What a joke. And that joke is on the boobs who suck it all in!!! HAHAHAHA. I needed a good laugh this morning – thanks.

Louise Loftis: I am truly beginning to think you are working against the Contitution… FOX IS FAIR AND BALANCED…THEY ARE NOT THE LIB MEDIA, THEY SHOW BOTH SIDES…IF THEY WERE SO BAD THEY WOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE LIKE GLENN BECK ON THERE. YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS LAUGHABLE. I CAN TAKE WHAT THEY SAY WITH A GRAIN…I CAN LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES WITHOUT BEING “TAKEN IN” YOU ARE VERY CRITICAL AND WRONG TO JUDGE THEM ON THE THINGS YOU DON’T AGREE WITH…TAKE THE GOOD FROM IT…GO WITH THAT…IF YOU ARE SO SMART IN WORLD AFFAIRS YOU CAN EASILY DISAGREE, BUT DON’T DISCREDIT THEM.

Randy Breece: bravo louise!

Bishop R Taylor: Louise you must rely on FOX for everything?Fox news is not the constitution! If you support the consitution you would realize that a news media is not your friend. Fox is nothing. so if you take your own advice and stop thinking of a News media as the constitution and in your opinion working against the constitution? I am a Patriot and I support and defend the constitution from all enemies and operation mockingbird that CNN. MSNBC, and of course FOX news participates. This is nothing new! FOX news is not the truth! Why did they not ask how and where did the H1N1 come from? This is one story that no one covered? I put the truth up on my wall! If you want to live in FOXland and believe they are the absolute truth then do it? My Patriotism is not in question! I am not going thru life with Fox news blinders on! Glenn Beck is a very good advocate for Liberty. Hannity is OK. It is all spin and should be looked at and investigated not simply take for fact! Glenn Beck even tells you to question with boldness! You defending Fox news does not make you a patriot! It makes you a follower and not a doer. I investigate and use my brain and follow up and do my best to give the facts.
Our problem is we believe everything that a news media tells us?

Kevin Bush: Fox News is always under attack… it’s getting tiring.
FOX has already gone green – they were reporting that during 24 last year, if anyone remembers. It made me sick and Glenn Beck actually spoke about it, gagging as he did.
Because Murdoch feels that “going green” is in the best interest (which is just ridiculous, if you ask me) of his corporation, it has nothing to do with the messages from the various hosts, such as O’Reilly, Hannity or Beck. I also love the argument where people claim that those three are acting on behalf of the Saudis… *blegh*

Save Our Constitution: Sorry, I didn’t mean to tweak your nose – I automatically assumed that anyone with access to the net has researched this and vetted out those liers. Silly me.
Your reference to our constitution is a bit frightening. Our founding fathers were very critical about who they trusted and what that trust meant to future generations.
There is an abundance of info that you can view by merely googling a word or phrase. Of course, you will need to decide for yourself what you ultimately believe. But, its all there and it’s YOUR choice. As for me, I will put my faith only in GOD. All others need to prove without a shadow of a doubt before I even begin to trust.

Bishop R Taylor: I think that Fox is the best we got! I also know we can do better! Glenn Beck is a nice guy! I agree with Beck on most issues and I have put up over 10 websites and also understand the CFR is responsible for disecting the news and sending it out over the AP where all media gets its news!
It is our duty too question all! It is not an option to support and defend FOX news??? It is like using your brain is a crime?
Listen is the owner goes green then remember that green is the new RED! We do not need green energy! It is garbage!
The screwball enviromentalist are scum! I do not support it!
It is a global tax paid to a world government! When did news become entertainment?

Bishop R Taylor: Fair and balanced? So what! If they only report what the Council on foreign relations allows them? I cannot believe the zeal for FOX? Maybe is you had that zeal for your Liberty then the country would be in better shape?

Randy Breece: i think we all can do better at being zealous for liberty but remember it is not good to have zeal without knowledge nor be hasty and miss the way!

Louise Loftis: My Faith is in God, that is a definate…and I pray each day for wisdom. I do keep up with the internet and all the so called truths out there. Deciding who to believe and who to take with a grain of salt. You are not 100% right and thinking you are must put you in some kind of elite status. I am a normal citizen who cares about defending the constitution and getting my country back to what it was when founded.
“A REPUBLIC” I don’t pretend to be someone I am not. I can only go on what God gives me, which is good instincts..You can dig and dig and find bad in everyone and everything. Start looking at the Good…don’t hate people…Love people> God works in mysterious ways as he is working in my life. I have said all I want to say on all of this. I stand by my rights as an American to feel as I do without you calling me stupid etc. I have done the work that you think is a requirement..But I do it with DISEARNMENT & for the love of Jesus. He will guide me when I am right an when I am wrong.

Louise Loftis: And thank you Randy, seems I am truly outnumber in here.
Save Our Constitution: Remember also that the AP is owned by Reuters of London, which is owned by the Bank of London, which in turn is owned by the Rothschilds. Rochefeller and his ilk on Wall Street are quite “friendly” with them. For the last 100 years there has been NO separation in ideologies or intent, or even any competition between these two groups of thieves and murderers. They all gladly funded Margaret Sanger with her programs of depopulation through abortion, contraception, sterilization, etc. all over the world. They really consider it “their” world, and we are unfortunately trespassing. Africa is now a “ghost” continent since their involvement there, and Bill Gates and his kind has taken up the charge since Sanger died.
Murdock is mostly interested in money, but he belongs to the same secret clubs with the rest of those elitists, so he will accept their agendas because it suits his purpose. Beck, Bill O’, Hannity, etc. are being paid a VERY handsome sum for their “loyalty”. The level of deception goes SO deep that it is impractical and foolish to put your trust in any human being or human endeavor. All of this info is readily available to anyone interested. However, I suspect most folks would rather not upset their comfortably secure little world. I say: Good luck and God Bless!!!

Kevin Bush: Bishop, I think questioning everything is great and necessary… but we should support that media which is most honest and least biased, so that others might follow suit. Show support with your $ and your attention, just like you would any other consumer product. That’s what’s great about capitalism – the people can change the environment through their support, by producing a competitive market.
I hate the idea of going green as much as the next guy, and I think it’s a travesty, but that’s their decision… just like the many liberal idiots that I know, who bought hybrid cars, smart cars & wish for solar/wind power. Good God, it makes me insane…
Can you imagine what the people at FOX think about this, though? Especially Hannity & Beck, who know this is a farce… and they’ll have to deal with “green” lighting, etc. Like working in any building or working for any company, the employee/renter doesn’t have a say in the matter and just have to deal with it.
I don’t know how we’d boycott this green move, without boycotting Fox News altogether… but I’d send letters, I suppose, of discontent. Maybe they’ll listen. Send them to HQ & Murdoch, not the front men. I’ll continue, however, to support the reporters/journalists/hosts on FOX News, because whether they’re working in a green environment or not, the message is still 99% more factual/honest than that of the competition.

Louise Loftis: Well said Kevin.

Save Our Constitution: If you really want to help your country, turn off all network news – including Fox and only watch local news. There are plenty of internet sites that post the important issues also. Don’t continue to support the international thieves – they own the networks and are the ones who are destroying our country through deception. We’re losing our freedoms on a daily basis through the apathy of our citizens and trust in politicians and celebrities. They are only human and therefore fallen. When a politician errors – through greed or ignorance, we pay for it. The same goes for celebrities. They are not as informed as they would like you to believe. It’s a game of deception much like directors and actors in a movie. The more folks they can convince, the more it benefits them both in status with their owners (the elitists) and in $$.
And if you really want to learn what is happening in the world today, read everything you can on our nation’s history and all that others have written about historical events and people. Remember, human nature never changes – it’s been the same since Adam. Because of free will, every human is capable of evil and errors. I don’t trust Fox because it is owned by an elitist NWO member, because it’s a world corporation and because they have lied and erred on TOOOO many occasions for it to be coincidence.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: LMAO@Save Our Constitution – I see… you don’t trust Fox News… but you do trust GOOGLE!!! ROTFLMAO!!! THANKS FOR THE BELLY LAUGH!! THAT’S THE FUNNIEST THING I’VE HEARD ALL DAY!!! (A little hint for ya fella: Research WHO’S pulling GOOGLE’S STRINGS!) duh!

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Kudos to Louise and Kevin!!!

Save Our Constitution: What???? You folks are putting me on, right. You’re can’t be this uninformed. Here’s a News flash: Google is merely a SEARCH ENGINE – not a vetting site. If you don’t like Google, use another engine….. God help us!!! How do you vote…. eeny, meeny, miney, moe??? Or do you simply ask Beck how to vote??
If we are to have any hope for this nation we will need to “get some learin'” – know what I mean? Read, read, read – and pray for WISDOM!!!!!!!!!! Lord have mercy.

Kerman Carr: I am curious to know if those of you who support Fox News, think that 9/11 was an inside job?

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Kerman: I was leary about it being an inside job at first blush when the conspiracy theories began coming out. But more and more, as I’ve read articles and watched very convincing videos (NYC Firemen speaking out) I have been awakened to the very real possibility that 9/11 was far more than just a “foreign terrorist attack”. In particular, the IMPLOSION of Tower No. 7 – indeed “A Smoking Gun”. I am continuing to follow information as it is released. Mind boggling and deep disturbing.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Wake up and smell the coffee S.O.C; Google TRACKS AND RECORDS everything you search! (They’re in BIG BROTHER’S hip pocked in that respect.) The ONLY SECURE “search engine” is SMARTPAGE, which is the ONLY way I do any web surfing! Not Bling, Not Google… smartpage.com/eng
Check it out!

Kimberly Ann Baehr: PS) S.O.C. – sorry, forgot to add READ READ READ! LOL

Louise Loftis: NO to SOC on turning off Fox. NO to 9/ll conspiracy that the building was imploded…poopyrock crap…Do you even know how many lifes would have been lost in the process of getting the building ready for such an event, it takes hours of Openly planting the TNT explosives or whatever else the use…days getting it right…openly seen explosives coming in and out of a building up elevators…I could go on all day with this one..crap talk…..you are out of your minds…talk to the experts about implosion and how it works…you with all the knowledge. As far as my Country…no I do not believe that they knowingly let that happen…maybe some idiots that had connection let it happen, while we slept or President at that time not keeping a tight rein on things..This is not my expertise I admit…but Common Sense Rules here.

Kerman Carr: Kimberly – thanks for your response. I just went to smartpage and it went to AT&T’s website. Did I miss something?

Save Our Constitution: Touche, Kim, but the issue was being informed. So, you are paying attention? That’s good. Just do yourself a favor and relegate Beck and Co. to the trash bin and get your learnin’ from other than MSM sources – they mush of your brain like Mad Cows disease.
AHHH, the smell of coffee!! Thanks, think I’ll get some right now.

Kim Kreider Muhlenfeld: Careful on what you read on the Ultra Liberal Huffington post, Liberals will do anything, and I mean anything to discredit a conservative. So consider the source before you take a stand.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: My smartpage search engine does not go to AT&T. Don’t know what else to tell you, but their home page (where the download is) has a video telling you all about thier PRIVACY assurance… unique to any and all search engines out there today. If you googled “smartpage”… well maybe that’s the problem? Google doesn’t want to lose it’s customers! Try again… http://www.smartpage.com/eng/

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Louise – you sound a lot like me before I watched a video of a Press Conference of the NYC Firefighters’ organization to seek the truth about 9/11. You are absolutely correct – a building cannot IMPLODE on it’s own – and building No. 7 was never hit by a plane or fall debris from the twin towers, yet there is actual footage of it IMPLODING – just the way a building implodes when a demolition crew brings down a building. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I couldn’t have believed it. I’ll get you the name of the NYC Firefighter’s org and the addy of thier press conference video. It is extremely disturbing and eye opening. Do I want to believe our own government was complicit? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! But I have researched and seen very convincing evidence. Have you done any research?

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Kerman… just try putting in http:www.smartpage.com (leave off the /eng/ … see if that works for you.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: http://www.smartpage.com (sorry, I left out the 2 back slashes)

Save Our Constitution: Louise & Kerman, for me the jury is still out an any and all terrorist attacks. There is WAAAY too much evidence of complicity by certain elements of our gov. to make a rational decision one way or the other. Additionally, with the MSM owned by the corporate elitists, and as time progresses, the evidence piles up on the side of complicity.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: I agree with you Kim Kreider Muhlenfeld – the Huffington Post is the last place to go for trustworthy information!

Save Our Constitution: Hey KIm, have you seen this vid??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpLNlSKugHw
Food for thought.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Good for you S.O.C.! I’m enjoying my cup o’ joe right now, too! 🙂 BTW – I never listen to the LAME STREAM MEDIA.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: S.O.C. – haven’t seen that exact video – but I already posted some time ago the fact that Facebook was in the “monitoring” business. I posted to warn FB users. You can find it on one of my older posts.

Kevin Bush: *slams head into wall*
What in the world does watching Fox News (which I do) have anything to do with being a 9/11 Truther (of which I’m not)?
It’s so freaking absurd to think 9/11 was an inside job for more reasons than Louise gave… Take physics into account, for one, and go read: Physics for Future Presidents. The first chapter outlines the physics that occurred with the planes hitting the Twin Towers and the after events.
Ok, now that we’re up to speed on the physics, let’s talk about the continuous terrorist threats and attempts we’ve seen before and after 9/11. Then let’s take a look at a group of people, who we’re fighting right now, who will intentionally strap bombs to women and children and send them after civilians and soldiers, so long as it suits their purpose. Then, maybe we can look at the video tapes of Osama bin Laden, where he mentions his terrorist threats, warnings & admission. He’s been a terrorist for far longer than 9/11/01, and he’s been on the FBI Most Wanted List for almost as long.
How can anyone, in good conscience, believe that this was an inside job? If it is, what’s the motivation? Who was the scheming grand master? I’m curious to see who’s behind all of this.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: LOL@ Kevin – stop slamming your head into the wall, lol. Gimme a few to locate the NYC Firefighters Press Conference video… and I’ll post it. Then you can watch and make up your own mind. This is all coming from a BIG TIME SKEPTIC OF A 9/11 CONSPIRACY. And you got me on WHO would be behind such a scheme… lots and lots of unanswered and unresearched questions. Back when I get the pertinent links.

Kerman Carr: WOW! This is soooo scary!!! I just clicked on your link and I got this:
Invalid URL
The requested URL “/”, is invalid.
Reference #9.84a31645.1272306239.3b0eda8
Someone please tell me that this happened to you too!

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Kevin and Louise… here’s a place for you to begin if you so desire… http://firefightersfor911truth.org – still looking for their Press Conference video link.

Ryan Sieben: trust only god lol, what has god told you that you can trust?
cause he has sure never said anything to me lol

Kimberly Ann Baehr: In case the link doesn’t work… I just posted it to the main FB News Feed.

Save Our Constitution: Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were created by the c-i-a back in the late ’70’s when they needed to stir up trouble with the Soviets. It worked, so when they needed another “operative” in the mid-east, they used him – and his name after he died – to accomplish their latest endeavor. He was on their payroll until he died. The deception is SO deep. Lets hope the sheeple wake up soon.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: The NYC Firefighters organization’s PRESS CONFERENCE, that is.

Save Our Constitution: Ryan, He speaks to all of us if we are “inclined” to listen.

Kimberly Ann Baehr: Okay – found it! Here’s the YouTube link: The title of the video is “FireFighters for 911 Truth.org – Finally”. Listen and decide for yourselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGB2YoGV-I

Kimberly Ann Baehr: To Ryan: how do you expect God to speak to you? When was the last time you cracked open a Bible and read what He has to say? That’s the only means whereby God can speak to the hearts of men via the Holy Spirit.

Kerman Carr: Kimberly and everyone – you may want to check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y59d83WwNXI
There is a 6 part series from Alex Jones actually picking that video segment apart and analyzing it, which is pretty good depending on how you feel about Alex Jones. That is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEo6knbYLc&feature=related Check out all 6 vids to get to that part. It’s all pretty
By the way, I am neither here nor there. I don’t even have cable and just found out who Glen Beck was a few months ago, but I think these videos are very revealing. So, I guess that kinda makes me there. Anyway, enjoy!

Louise Loftis: Already been there Kim…you made me look, as at least you were polite about it..I Believe those Firefighters, but how was it possible..It had to take years to make this come together like it did…Where was Clinton in all t his?????

Kevin Bush: Oh my dear God in Heaven, why have you forsaken me with endless drivel about the same old things that make absolutely no sense and contain ridiculous testimonies of those who are not trained or educated in the matters of which we speak?!$!?$!!?
Ok, sorry about that… *ahem*
So now Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were created by the United States… Ahha…
I’ll concede you one point: We armed Afghanistan to fend off invasion from the Soviet Union, because we wanted to aid in protecting further countries from having to undergo tyrannical communism, which was the scurvy of the Western World.
What the Americans didn’t know at the time, was that Al Qaeda was committing atrocious terrorist attacks on Soviet soil for years. Since the Soviets were sheathed by their iron curtain, the Western World didn’t have the knowledge they do know, which was that they were defending their borders… not that that makes them the good guys, by any means. What it looked like, to us, was that the Soviets were attempting an invasion. So, what did we do? Sent Afghanistan weapons to protect themselves.
Point conceded…
However, we did not “create” Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or any other radical Islam group. They and the other radical Islam terrorist factions have been around since the 80s, but radical Islam has been in existence for ages. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Palestine, etc… have tormented their own people and their neighbors and have attempted to invade European & Christian cultures/nations for decades, if not the last century or two… if we want to go way back. Hell, even the Founding Fathers noted the Muslim terrorists in their writings.
Wait… that must mean they’ve been in on this since the beginning. Yep, you’re right. TJ set us up 200yrs ago. Then, about 170yrs later, the CIA used Bin Laden in their grand schemes to create videos 20+ years in advance (no wonder the videos look so fuzzy), to tell of the coming disasters… but make it seem like they’re GOING to happen or have Bin Laden just stake claims… because he’s going to be dead anyway… people will just blame him, etc, and we’ll just act like he’s living in caves somewhere and we can’t find him. Done and done. Then we can wreak havoc on the world… gaining nothing in return. Sounds like a plan worthy of the great Roman Empire… speaking of which, didn’t the Founding Fathers study Cicero? This just gets deeper and deeper…

Save Our Constitution: Louise: Bush and Clinton were mere figureheads. The powers that have been behind our presidents for at least the last 1/2 century (I’m not old enough to go back any further) are the real criminals. They don’t just own our politicians, they own us. Reagan may have been patriotic initially, but he was shot at early on. IMHO, he capitulated to their control after that very serious threat. The evidence is in his fiscal irresponsibility when he TRIPLED our debt in 8 years!!! We have not had a “real” president since Ike & JFK – and we saw what happened to him.

Save Our Constitution: Kevin: you’re right on the Verge of believing all of this insanity aren’t you? All you’ll need is just a little more info – keep digging, you’re almost there.

Save Our Constitution: Kim: that’s an awesome vid of the NYC firefighter. Thanks, I’m sharing.

Kevin Bush: Woops, I mentioned “Al Qaeda” was committing atrocious attacks, etc… but I meant “Afghanistan.” Al Qaeda didn’t come until later.

Kevin Bush: lol SoC, you’ll never get me, unless you can prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that what you’re claiming is 100% true. =]

Save Our Constitution: Kevin, no one had to prove anything to me – I came to my own conclusions after ~ 2 years of research. However, my journey really began about 20 years ago when I got involved with the pro-life movement and started to read about it’s beginnings. At that time I also was also getting deeper into my faith with a lot of Biblical reading and other faith info. I was teaching the faith to adolescents and it mandated much preparation.
I have never voted anyway but Republican. I viewed the Democrats as the party of Satan (which they are), but I now see that there is no redemption in the Republican camp either.
What I learned from my faith journey dovetailed perfectly with the political happenings. If you are open to God, He will grant you the Wisdom that no amount of education can give you. The best advice I can give you is to read and ask and then decide for yourself. Remember: None are as blind as those who WILL NOT see. In other words, you need to WANT to learn before you can sufficiently grow.
Peace and Blessings.

Kevin Bush: SoC, there’s no proof… You’re only going on what ifs, suppositions, assumptions and leads that lead nowhere, hearsay and unconfirmed “facts.”
conspiracy theory (noun):
1. a theory that explains an event as being the result of a plot by a covert group or organization; a belief that a particular unexplained event was caused by such a group.
2. the idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

Kerman Carr: SOC – Well said.
Kevin – while I can understand that you would like additional proof, can you accept the fact that what was officially reported is a lie from our government?

Kevin Bush: Anything can be a lie, Kerman.. we’re being lied to daily by this current administration.

Save Our Constitution: Kevin, did you watch the video that Kim just posted.

If you did, you should have some questions like anyone would have right? I mean, that speaker knows a good deal about fire investigation, wouldn’t you say? So, why was it not done according to the code????? Bush, Giuliani, Clinton, the f-b-i, the c-i-a, the n-s-a: who will give us some reasonable answers – not the standard rhetorical b/s that the lying media pushes?

Kerman Carr: Thanks SOC, that was my next question. I also want to add that usually people lie because they want to cover up something. This should raise an eyebrow, if it doesn’t then I guess you’re just not a very curious person. No problem.

Chrystal Alspach: YEAH AND I WATCH O’REILY ALL THE TIME SUPPORTING SHITTING ALL OVER OUR CONSTITUTION!!THEY ARE SCUM !!

Kimberly Ann Baehr: ATTN: Kerman Carr: I made a TYPO when I gave you the link to the PRIVACY SECURE “search engine” I use instead of Google. The correct name of the search engine is START PAGE… NOT… SMART PAGE!!! (sigh, ugh)
Here is the correct link to download the search engine:
http://www.startpage.com/eng/
Sorry for the confusion… time to give the old fingers a rest for today! LOL

Kevin Bush: Kerman, I’m a very curious person by nature. In fact, I enjoy a little detective work… hell, I studied to become an Anthropologist, despite my not being one, professionally. ;P
I’m not irrational, however, which leads me to use reason, common-sense and available information and facts.
You ask me to watch your propaganda & truther videos, but you won’t read the chapter of the book that I mentioned? Why? I watched your video… and I saw nothing very revealing. Did you watch the planes fly into the WTC? Did you see the explosions? Did you see how the towers collapsed? These things are all very telling…
Knowing what happened, seeing the explosion and the way the buildings fell would… should tell you HOW the buildings fell. I’m sorry… have you ever seen a passenger plane fly into a skyscraper before? Have you ever seen a building that tall, fall without being prepped? Have you ever seen two fall, simultaneously… after TWO passenger planes exploded next to each other? Do you know how much fuel these planes require to fly? Do you realize how big they were? Is it really THAT surprising that an adjacent building might fall, because… oh, I don’t know… the other flaming buildings (the tallest buildings in the city) sitting next to it just fell, uncontrollably? The heat… the explosions… the vibrations/earth shaking plummet of both buildings,containing massive amounts of concrete, steel, etc. falling to the ground?
Why is THAT so difficult to believe… but this conspiracy that the government was behind it and they’re out to get you, etc… is so believable? Ridiculous…

Maureen Coddington: Kevin, do you believe that Roosevelt knew ahead of time that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked? Why were all of the carriers out to sea when it happened?

Kerman Carr: Kimberly – THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! That was driving me nuts! I finally got the yellow pages, but they’re soooo AT&T and I know they are sell outs. Thanks again.

Save Our Constitution: IT took 7 hours for blg. 7 to fall, and as the fireman said, the fires there were NOT of any consequence – certainly not large enough to cause it to collapse. In fact, there were people working in there right up until the time it was “pulled” as the policeman on the scene said: “They’re gonna pull it, get out of here”. Please watch the raw videos of that day, including the BBC video where the reporters announced blg. 7’s collapse 20 minutes before it did!!!! In addition, files from the big California energy corruption case were “lost” in blg. 7’s collapse!!!
And as for the tower 1&2, a jet fuel fire cannot melt steel – that’s a fact!!! The temperature can’t get high enough – and that’s with pure jet fuel. That fire was tainted with other combustibles that lowered it’s temp.
I don’t know what the real truth is. I only know that what the MSM and our gov. has given us is pure B/S. How can anyone with a reasoning mind not question this B/S???

Save Our Constitution: Maureen, I had a friend that was a sailor with the Pacific fleet during Pearl Harbor. He told me that story in 1967. He was there on one of those ships that were diverted to a small Island and told to wait further orders. It was Dec. 6th!!! They heard planes overhead but could not identify them.

Kevin Bush: Maureen, I’ve read the same things you have… Is there undeniable evidence supporting either view? No. Do I know if we received transmissions from Japanese ships, etc. Not sure… it’s possible. And not all carriers/battleships were out to sea… as is obvious from historical photos of sunk & damaged ships. Many, I’m certain, were out to sea, because that’s what carriers do… to be active, is to train.
SoC… read… the… physics… book… please. =] You ask for a well-rounded outlook on things, then read it.

Kerman Carr: Kevin – How do you know I won’t read the chapter? I never said that. I don’t even know what book you’re talking about. Care to re-post it? Perhaps I missed it.
I would love to hear your explanation about the Pentagon attack. How did such a giant plane do so little damage, leaving little trace of evidence?
Have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yx9NRX37SM&feature=related

Maureen Coddington: Kevin, Where does it say that you have to have “undeniable evidence” to make something true? The carriers were sent out to sea, or out of Pearl Harbor the day before. The Japanese spies reported them in the Harbor, which they were at the time, and then were sent out. The Japanese planes were already ordered to attack when the ships were confirmed in the harbor. Enough ships were left in the harbor to not arouse suspician that the Americans had broken the Japanese secret code. Will this ever be proved?Pprobably not. Radar had just been put into use and was untested at the time, which is why Hickam Field saw the blips on the radar screen and assumed they were returning American planes.

Save Our Constitution: Kevin, thank you for the book link. I read it and realized I’ve read before, but thanks anyway. It is as it states a very easily understood text because it is aimed at non-engineers – you know, folks like truthers who are generally dumb – right? However, I just happen to be an engineer, so it comes across as pedestrian to me, but I read it anyway.
The authors present a very compelling argument, but with a great deal of speculation. For instance: They assume the fire was hot enough to weaken the steel beams ro the point of collapse. That is speculation because they did not know the actual temp. and most likely did not attempt to duplicate that fire.
As the fireman in the video that Kimberly linked states: Without a proper and valid investigation according to the demands of the national fire code, no one can say for certain what actually brought down those 2 towers. Period!!!!! As for tower 7: It is without a ounce of doubt, th SMOKING GUN of the entire fiasco. Your gov. has been selling you b*llsh*t under the name of security for longer than I’ve been on this earth (I’m 67). I lost a very close friend in ‘Nam because of a lie (the bay of Ton-kin incident), and my brother was shot up jumping out of airplanes over Europe during a war that did NOT need to happen. Every war this nation has been involved in has been CONTRIVED – and by the SAME perpetrators – can you beat that!!! You really need to read historical events from the mouths of those who lived them, not the drivel fed in schools. Have a nice day, I’m done here.

Maureen Coddington: 6 Dec. – at 9:30 P.M FDR read the first 13 parts of the decoded Japanese diplomatic declaration of war and said “This means war.” What kind of President would do nothing? When he returned to his 34 dinner guests he said, “The war starts tomorrow.”
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html

Kevin Bush: SoC, don’t put words in my mouth… I never said that truthers were generally dumb, that’s you. I’m trying to have a decent discussion, based on common sense, reason and things I’ve read. I mentioned the book, because it has a direct correlation to what we’re talking about… and is a scientific book about physics. I didn’t link it, btw… so hopefully you’re looking at the correct one. There are two books of the same name. One’s a text book for college kids.
Regardless, I didn’t know you were an engineer… kind of interesting that you mention that now. Ok, so the evidence of the explosion/fire being forceful enough and hot enough to create the kind of chaos that occurred is speculative. And your conspiracy theory isn’t speculative?
Yeah… get information from people in the field right? So, basically like you? That’s great… we can all educate our children so that we’re all conspiracy theorists. Enjoy your life, friend… Keep being paranoid, because you know… they’re all going to get you in the end. ;]
Kerman, I’ve seen that video… I’ll let Maddox take this:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons
Maureen =/ Do you see where you’re getting your information? From a site called “Whatreallyhappened.com” Doesn’t that just scream conspiracy theory to you? And what’s with the geocities.com link? Is that an archived page, saved by WRH? Ridiculous… balderdash… ludicrous…
See that Maddox site? It’s ridiculous, right? So ridiculous that it makes complete sense, kinda’ like all of this truther 9/11, pearl harbor crap.
Now here’s a conspiracy theory i can wrap my head around. ;]

I rest my case.

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Lou Dobbs Takes the Giant Leap… To Freedom

November 18, 2009 Kevin Bush One comment

Is it any wonder why so many great and talented commentators/journalists leave the MSM for Fox News or other, more independent ventures?

Neil Cavuto (CNBC), Brenda Buttner (CNBC), Chris Wallace (ABC), Greta Van Susteren (CNN), Brit Hume (ABC) Chris Plante (CNN), Glenn Beck (CNN), John Stossel (ABC) and now… Lou Dobbs …(CNN)?

Funny how the majority of these people congregate toward a more objective news source, like Fox News, or other avenues, where the truth won’t be stifled. It’s also funny that most of these people were celebrated in the MSM for their editorial expertise or objective, world-class journalistic skills prior to joining FOX or taking to talk radio. All of a sudden, they’re not a reputable/reliable source of intel, because they tell you things you don’t want to hear… the truth.

Lou Dobbs, now that you’ve left CNN… welcome to freedom! I hope your voice rings louder and clearer than ever.

To see interviews regarding his leaving CNN or read/hear his point of view on politics, please visit him here: http://www.loudobbs.com

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