Obama Gives Save Award

Obama was on the bully pulpit again yesterday attacking his predecessor for poor fiscal management and telling us that he is saving the US and the world. He had nothing but praise for the senate in their fleecing of America state by state with bribes for socialized health-care for all. His words are almost laughable if he were not the president of the US.

He also was promoting his SAVE program and the award of the first winner. Below is the text from the portion of his self congratulatory talk on health care yesterday related to the program. Note they had 38,000 ideas submitted from Government employees and they voted on them and narrowed it down to 4 and finally this one great idea.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE:

The winning idea:

Nancy Fichtner from Colorado thinks that veterans leaving VA hospitals should be able to take the medicine they've been using home with them instead of it being thrown away when they're discharged.
As is the case in most hospitals all across the country, medicine that is used in the hospital is not given to patients to be brought home; instead, it is thrown out. "Currently the inpatient medications such as ointments, inhalers, eye drops, and other bulk items are being disposed of upon patient discharge." Nancy proposes ending this waste and finding a way to allow this medicine to be used by those who need it.
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs

What a genius idea, I am sure glad this was voted on among 38,000 ideas and deemed the best and that the President of the United States was able to give the award. Glad we were able to fly her and her family across the country for the presentation. This was an award that shows the lack of empowerment in our federal government. This idea should never have had to go beyond the shift supervisor on the floor of the hospital but instead had to be submitted, reviewed at probably every level of the VA then voted on and then given an award at the white house. And these are the people who have come up with the idea to save our entire health care system. Should make you feel better after you read the transcript or perhaps even watch the whole video of his praise for the fleecing of the taxpayers by the the Senate.

Entire transcript in case you can't get enough:
Time Transcript of speach

Link to White House Video

Otherwise here is the portion related to this earth shattering idea:

" Now, embracing this kind of responsibility in Washington is what also brings us here today. I am pleased to be joined this morning by my Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ric Shinseki; my budget director, Peter Orszag; and our special guest, last but not least, the winner of the first annual SAVE Award -- and that's Nancy Fichtner of Loma, Colorado.

Having met with Nancy a few minutes ago, I can tell you Nancy means business. She is a single working mom; she's a clerk with the VA; she's an artist; she's an outdoorswoman; and she is an avid hunter. In fact, somewhere in the western United States, there is an elk that is breathing a sigh of relief because Nancy is here instead of where she would have been: hunting with her kids. (Laughter.) And I believe her children are here -- where's Nancy's kids? There they are right there. It's great to see you guys. Nancy's daughter -- she skins and guts her elk, so don't mess with her either. (Laughter.)

We're all here for a simple reason. At a time when we face not only a fiscal crisis, but also a host of difficult challenges as a nation, business as usual in Washington just won't cut it. We need a government that's more efficient, that's more effective, and far more fiscally responsible.

When my administration walked through the door, the country faced a growing economic downturn as well as a deepening fiscal hole. Washington had passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy and an expensive new entitlement program without paying for any of it. Health care costs continued to rise, year after year. And little effort was made to cut wasteful spending. As a result, over the previous eight years, the national debt doubled -- doubled. In January, the deficit stood at $1.3 trillion. And we had to make the difficult decision to add to the deficit in the short term to prevent the potential collapse of our economy."

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"Finally, I've issued a challenge to every man and woman who works for the federal government: If you see a way that government could do its job better, or do the same job for less money, I want to know about it. That's why we started the SAVE Award, to draw on those who know government best to improve how government works. We asked federal employees to submit reform proposals based on their experiences. And in a testament to the seriousness with which these folks are taking their jobs, we received more than 38,000 proposals in just three weeks.

From these submissions, four finalists were selected and put to an online vote. Nancy is here because she won. Her idea stems from her experience at the VA Medical Center where she works. She noticed that whenever patients left the hospital, leftover medications like eye drops or inhalers were just thrown away. And often, veterans would have to go right back to the pharmacy to refill what was discarded. So the VA is paying twice -- it's waste, plain and simple. And thanks to Nancy -- and to Secretary Shinseki and the folks at Veterans Affairs -- we're putting a stop to it. The change is already underway.

Of course, Nancy's proposal was just one of many great ideas that came to us. We've already begun to implement a host of suggestions made through the SAVE contest. And while promoting electronic paystubs or scheduling Social Security appointments online or re-purposing unused government supplies may not be the most glamorous reforms in history, when taken together, these small changes can add up; they add up to a transformation of how government works.

And that's why we're going to turn the SAVE Award into an annual event. That's why we're holding a forum at the White House next month to seek more ideas from the private sector, specifically about how we can better use technology to reform our government for the 21st century.

After years of irresponsibility, we are once again taking responsibility for every dollar we spend, the same way families do. It's true that what I've described today will not be enough to get us out of our fiscal mess by itself. We face a deficit that will take some tough decisions in the next year's budget and in years to come to get under control. But these changes will save the American people billions of dollars. And they'll help to put in place a government that's more efficient and effective, that wastes less money on no-bid contracts, that's cutting bureaucracy and harnessing technology, that's more fiscally responsible, and that better serve the American taxpayer. That's the government we need. That's the government I intend to implement. That's the kind of government that the American people deserve. And that's the kind of government that people like Nancy are helping to build each and every day.

So, Nancy, congratulations. We're proud of you. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're very proud of your mom. (Laughter.) That's great."



Now don't you feel better about our federal government getting spending under control.

Is this the Change that was expected

Constitutional Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


The terrible thing we have now is a President and regulatory czar who
believe we need to have a second bill of rights stating what the
government must do for you and enforcing redistributive change.
Notice how proud Obama was of giving the Indians 3.4 billion recently.
He is the CEO of a company who just settled a 3.4 billion claim and
he brags about it. Obama said during a 2001 radio interview

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights
movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it
succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed
people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be
able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for
it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues
of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as
political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical
as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that
radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were
placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its
been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that
generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says
what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government
can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State
government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of
the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because
the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a
tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and
activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual
coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive
change. In some ways we still suffer from that."


And then Obama and Sunstein as well as I am sure most of the cabinet
and czars support FDR's massive expansion of the obligations of
government through a second bill of rights. Sunstein even wrote a
book called The Second Bill of Rights: FDR'S Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need It More than Ever. Here is what that means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States
President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address
on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize,
and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not
argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that
the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by
federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the
"political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of
happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of
rights" which would guarantee:

A job with a living wage
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
A home
Medical care
Education
Recreation

Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American
security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far
these and similar rights had been carried into practice.

So you see the problem is not that our existing Bill of Rights was not
clear it is that we have a power structure in Washington who wants to
entirely redefine the role of government and idolizes socialist
agendas. They want to use politcal power and community organizing to
bring about the change that the Courts and Constitution have not been
able to achieve nor were they ever intended to achieve.

Chavez and Clinton in Copenhagen

It is very disturbing to me that Hugo Chavez can receive some of the most applause for attacking capitalism and the free markets. It tells you the political ideology of those who are attending that conference. Sure hope our President doesn't follow suit as he has been known to do both here and abroad relative to the evils of capitalism and the need for government regulation, ownership and control. Hillary pledged 100 billion per year to third world nations by 2020 yesterday financed by cap and trade in the US. At least I guess you have to say they are consistent. Redistribute the wealth in our own country and then turn around and use the environmental movement to redistribute the national wealth to poor nations and wa la, we have a socialist world where we are all equal.

Hugo Chavez remarks

Hillary pledge

7 stories Obama does not want told

Which means the media will probably never tell them. But, let's just say someone lost that chill up the leg, or didn't think the President and the first lady looked so gosh darned stunning. What would be the stories Obama doesn't want out for public consumption? The Politico has an article out that covers just that - including one thing about Obama's apparent lack of emotion that has bothered Glenn for some time now. ( Transcript, Insider Audio)

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: 7 stories Obama does not want told

Glenn Beck - Interviews - Glenn Beck: Luttrell's take

Just listened to the audio of this interview twice and I know the transcript is not nearly as informative or interesting but the information is still there. This is a Navy Seal talking and that is about as front line and informed as you can get.

Glenn Beck - Interviews - Glenn Beck: Luttrell's take

PASSWORD

OK. I THINK I GET IT

Let me see if I understand all this....

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE TURKEY BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IN PRISON!

IF YOU CROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU ARE HELD FOR RANSOM.

BUT, IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET:

A DRIVERS LICENSE

A SOCIAL SECURITY CARD

WELFARE

FOOD STAMPS

AND, FREE HEALTH CARE?

Oh well sure. That makes perfect sense.

Merry Christmas Poem

T'was the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.

See the PC Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.

It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say
December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.
Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit
Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!

CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod
Something was changing, something quite odd!
Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa
In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.

As Targets were hanging their trees upside down
At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.
At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears
You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.

Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty
Are words that were used to intimidate me.
Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen
On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!

At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter
To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith

Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace.

The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded
The reason for the season, stopped before it started.
So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'
Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.

Choose your words carefully, choose what you say
Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS,
Not Happy Holiday!






Join together and wish everyone you meet during the holidays a MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Obama political cartoons

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Obama video on Islam Views

This is an excellent video showing our Presidents views on Islam, his faith and perspectives.

Organizing for America wants money to attack Palin

More attacks on free speech if it doesn't support or agree with Obama. For the most part the media, led by Newsweek the past week has done all they can to make her look incompetent and unworthy but as usual they want to completely silence anyone who may support her. I signed up for the Organizing for America newsletters back when I still thought that Obama really wanted grass roots bipartisan support and before I realized he was completely controlled by the SEIU and marxist and socialist ideologies.

Brady -- Right now, Sarah Palin is on a highly publicized, nationwide book tour, attacking President Obama and his plan for health reform at every turn. It's dangerous. Remember, this is the person who coined the term "Death Panels" -- and opened the flood gates for months of false attacks by special interests and partisan extremists. Whatever lie comes next will be widely covered by the media, then constantly echoed by right-wing attack groups and others who are trying to defeat reform. As we approach the final sprint on health reform, we can't afford more deception and delay. We need to be ready for anything -- and have the resources to respond with ads, events, and calls to Congress when the attacks come. So we're setting a big goal: $500,000 in the next week to help push back against Sarah Palin and her allies. Please chip in $5 to help reach our goal. Earlier this month, Palin publicly said that she hopes health reform will be "dead on arrival." And since then, she's been working fiercely toward that goal. On Tuesday, Palin went on Rush Limbaugh's radio show where she outrageously -- and falsely -- suggested that Americans could "face jail time as punishment" if they don't buy insurance. Palin has many more interviews scheduled on Hannity and other conservative shows in the next few weeks, with more platforms to go after the President. As soon as she does, the rest of our opponents will likely parrot those attacks. We need to be prepared. And we're counting on you help. Can you chip in $5? https://donate.barackobama.com/SarahPalin Thanks, Mitch Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America

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THE LAW IS THE LAW!

THE LAW IS THE LAW! I really love this one. This is one of the better e-mails I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the USA several times over!!!!! So Be It! THE LAW IS THE LAW So "if" the US government determines that it is against the law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then, so be it. And "if" that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it. I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen. I say, "so be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions. I would like to think that those people have the American public's best interests at heart. BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE? Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe the Government and its employees should participate in the Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life. I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it's just another day. I'd like the "US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as well as Sundays." After all, it's just another day. I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all it's just another day. I'm thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct." In fact....> I think that our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God...) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day.... > What do you all think???? If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the "minority opinions" and begin, once again, to represent the "majority" of ALL of the American people. SO BE IT........... Please Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country! 'Amen' and 'Amen' Touche! These are definitely things I never thought about but from now on, I will be sure to question those in government who support these changes. At the top, it says "I hope this makes its way around the> USA several times over!!!!!" Let's see that it does.