What in the world is going on in the United States today? The US Congress and the President are embarking on a path leading the U.S.A. into a Nanny state.
The FDA is going to pull acetaminophen (Tylenol and Excedrin) off of the shelves everywhere there isn’t a pharmacy? The drugs that could be pulled off shelves are combination medications which combine acetaminophen with other ingredients that treat cough and runny nose. Talk about Big Brother. This is much in line with banning certain cooking oils or outlawing goose liver pate. Sure, there seems to be a link with liver failure but the upside benefits appear to out way the risk.
White House announces new lighting standards. Well, what are they? I spent several minutes trying to find a link that actually told us what the ‘new’ standards are going to be but was unsuccessful in my search. Another $200b line item to make sure I use energy-efficient light bulbs? Or another $180b to ‘educate’ me on how cheap, fluorescent light bulbs are incompatible with ‘green’ (not cheap, mind you) energy? Whatever the standards are, you can be sure it will come with an increase in taxes somewhere, somehow.
President Obama is giving the ‘evil eye’ to all who don’t see his progressive/radical views as the only way. This guy is showing so much disrespect to other (formerly friendly) world leaders who don’t seem to believe everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth. That look should be reserved to children who misbehave and is oh, so unbecoming of the POTUS.
The cap and tax bill is forced through the House by using coercive techniques by Obama and Pelosi. Talk about how to misuse your power. Mz. Pelosi can teach power politics to Hitler and Stalin. Compared to her, Mussolini was a rank amateur and Tojo would be lucky to have been her personal cook. I can only hope that the good citizens of California will get their heads out of the sand look at what their leftist representatives are doing to the rest of the country. This cap and tax bill is over 1,200 pages and NOT A SINGLE representative has read the entire thing. In fact, the Democratic leadership added a 300 page “manager’s amendment” at 3 a.m. the morning of the vote. Did the representatives who voted ‘Yea’ on this read the amendment? Of course not! They were ‘whipped’ into line in order to pass this atrocity. And, for the love of God, can someone tell me why nine Republicans voted for this? This bill WILL NOT create jobs. It is solely a method to destroy our economy in order for the statist/radicals/leftist/socialists to create their false Utopia.
Global Climate Change (formerly known as Global Warming) can have no detractors in the Government. Even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suppresses reports written by the EPA that take a contrary position with the POTUS and leftist/progressives/eco-terrorists. As an example of the ridiculous statements being made, remember on June 25th when the POTUS said the cap and tax bill will result in the earth being four or five degrees cooler? How arrogant and pompous! Just another example of GCC proponents not relying on real facts.
We have to pay for these changes. I don’t remember who said this, maybe it was my mother. Anyway, how do we pay for all of these useless and harmful changes? Taxes. Tax alcohol, water, electricity, CO2 emissions, farm products, and everything else you buy. Tax services like doctor visits, cable TV, cell phone usage, Internet access, valet parking, and whatever else you pay for. Then, they don’t have enough so some are talking of adding a Value Added Tax (V.A.T) to everything. That, my friends, is an ADDITIONAL tax that is added to each step of a manufactured good. There would be a tax on nails, a tax on nailing the wood together, a tax on painting the nail, and of course, a tax on the sale of the house. Incredible.
We are rapidly becoming a socialist state at a time when European countries are seeing a glimmer of hope as they swing back from their socialist experiments. Taxes in Hungary are being cut as they are in Germany. So why do our elected representatives want to continue this trip to the left? Because they don’t care about us.
We are rapidly approaching the point in our history when we must decide to either live under an oppressive and non-responsive Government or take some action to stop this insanity.
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