16 Reasons Why The United States Can No Longer Afford To Be The Police Of The World

Did you know that the United States military is now bombing 6 different countries? U.S. aircraft are conducting air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and now Somalia. There is a U.S. military base in over half of the countries on the planet and U.S. military spending is over 7 times larger than the military spending of any other nation on earth. Yes, the United States will always need a strong military. But with our national debt exploding at an exponential rate, can the United States really afford to continue to be the police of the world?

#1 Prior to the beginning of the "War on Terror" our national debt was under 6 trillion dollars. Today, it has more than doubled and currently sits at a whopping 14.3 trillion dollars.
#2 Today, the U.S. military is in nearly 130 different nations and it has a total of about 700 military bases around the globe. It costs approximately 100 billion dollars each year to maintain these military bases.
#3 U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.
#4 The United States already accounts for 46.5% of all military spending on the planet. China is next with only 6.6%.
#5 If Bill Gates gave every penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days.
#6 When you throw in all "off budget" items and other categories of "defense spending" not covered in the Pentagon budget you get a grand total of somewhere between $1.01 and $1.35 trillion spent on national defense in 2010.
#7 The U.S. government borrows an average of about 168 million more dollars every single hour.
#8 The Pentagon currently gobbles up 56 percent of all discretionary spending by the federal government.
#9 Between 2007 and 2010, U.S. GDP grew by only 4.26%, but the U.S. national debt soared by 61% during that same time period.
#10 The cost for the first week of airstrikes on Libya was 600 million dollars. Keep in mind that the leader of the opposition in Libya has admitted that his forces contain large numbers of the same "al-Qaeda fighters" that were shooting at American troops in Iraq. So we are going broke and we are helping al-Qaeda take power in Libya at the same time.
#11 The total price tag for each F-22 fighter jet is approximately $350 million.
#12 Over the past decade, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers well over a trillion dollars.
#13 If you went out today and started spending one dollar every single second, it would take you over 31,000 years to spend one trillion dollars.
#14 Since 2001, the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan breaks down to well over $3,600 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
#15 Just one day of the war in Afghanistan costs more money than it took to build the entire Pentagon.
#16 The United States government is now responsible for more than a third of all the government debt in the entire world.

The U.S. national debt is escalating out of control and all of these wars are not helping one bit.
Occupying and bombing all of these nations is not even making us safer. In fact, it is creating more enemies than it is destroying.
In addition, our military is now spread so incredibly thin that there are real questions about our ability to respond if a major threat did actually arise.
If you support our troops, then you should want the U.S. government to stop trying to police the world. We are getting a lot of young men and women hurt and killed and we are accomplishing a whole lot of nothing.

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Why Every American Should Receive an ObamaCare Waiver

Washington, Jun 28 -

Since its passage last year, over 1,300 ObamaCare waivers have been rewarded exempting nearly 3.1 million Americans out of the monstrous health care overhaul. With several hundred more waivers pending, the Obama Administration has decided it will no longer accept waiver applications after September 22 of this year. These waivers are extremely telling; if ObamaCare was truly the reform our healthcare system needs, why is the Administration allowing so many to opt out of the program?

It comes as no surprise that hundreds of companies are applying for waivers from ObamaCare. Business owners across the country continue to voice concern over how to implement the new ObamaCare rules without paying fines, laying off workers or even going bankrupt. As the book Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America points out, “ObamaCare will lead to slower wage growth, fewer job opportunities, and more businesses going under.”

Yet, the waiver-granting process became increasingly questionable as companies applied for exemptions. It seemed that ObamaCare regulators were passing out waivers mostly to friends of the Administration. For instance, of the 204 waivers granted by the Administration in April, nearly twenty percent went to some of the finest restaurants and businesses within House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s district. Even more jaw-dropping, of those 3.1 million individuals exempted from ObamaCare through waivers, over half – 1.55 million – are union members.

President Obama’s health care reform grows the size of government and increases its impact on our lives. According to Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America, ObamaCare sets in motion a massive federal bureaucracy with at least 159 new federal agencies, creates more than $500 billion in new taxes and will take $575 billion away from Medicare. In my view, it is time that every American, regardless of their relationship with the Administration, receives a permanent waiver from ObamaCare. I remain committed to working towards the complete repeal of this legislation.

http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=249219

George Soros television coming to a city near you

Under the terms of the FCC order approving Comcast’s takeover of NBCU, at least half of NBC’s 10 O&Os have to find a nonprofit news center with which to work within the next year.

The order cites the KNSD-VoiceOfSanDiego.org alliance as the model for what it would like to see in other NBC markets.

Proponents of the growing nonprofit news movement are hoping that NBC’s FCC-mandated efforts will bear fruit and encourage other commercial TV stations to seek out nonprofit partners.

There’s just one problem with this: Voice of San Diego is a member of INN (Investigative News Network) which is funded by the Open Society Institute, the URL of which is “www.soros.org.” Yes, these “non-profit” journalism centers are funded by George Soros.

Excerpt from:

http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/02/03/fcc-orders-nbc-newsrooms-to-partner-with-soros-funded-non-profits/

Senator Rand Paul: State of the Union Response

Obama Approves Expansion of War with CIA's Drone Program in Pakistan

The Predators and Reapers are operated by a squadron of pilots in Nevada and are equipped to drop Hellfire missiles and JDAM bombs, respectively.

The PREDATOR is an unmanned drone, originally designed for surveillance. It was later modified and armed with Hellfire missiles.

Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV).

Since Obama has taken office he has authorized over 15 drone strikes in Pakistan.

July 24, 2009 - Obama signed Iraq and Afghanistan War Supplemental Appropriations amounting to $106 billion.
October 28, 2009 - Obama signed the $680 billion 2010 National Defense Authorization Act which includes another $130 billion to fund what his administration now calls overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Of course Obama's spending spree is welcomed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. They are the defense contractor that manufactures the Predator, and its more heavily armed version, the Reaper. War profiteers are going to welcome Obama's business, as each Predator costs $40 million.

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With the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and the escalation of drone warfare in Pakistan, is it possible to destroy our economy any faster, than with the horrible foreign and economic policies we've seen from Barack Hussein Obama? Sure it is. Obama and Congress recently approved a $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan in a bid to strengthen the civilian government there. When will the spending STOP?

African Americans march in D.C. against Barack Hussein Obama

Hundreds of African Americans marched on the White House today to protest the policies of President Barack Obama, demanding he rescind the Patriot Act and that he bring U.S. troops home immediately.

The protesters gathered for the first anti-war demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his inauguration in January, and voiced their dissatisfaction of the president's agenda for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world. Truth is, by bringing home our military troops from the 130 countries they are occupying, we could save $1 trillion a year. A wise man once said:

• "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Omali Yeshitela, who arranged the protest, said:

• "He is a tool of our imperialist enemies and we demand our freedom. And we demand that Obama withdraw all the troops from Afghanistan right now."

"We're not satisfied with him." said New York city councilman from the 42nd district, Charles Barron.

Protesters also called for Obama to order troops out of Iraq, Palestine, and the Middle East! Several demonstrators held up placards bearing messages such as "U.S. out of Afghanistan" and "Stop U.S. war against Iraq".

"Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts."

- - Ron Paul

The Gold Rush Begins

Gold hit a new all time high today of $1,044 per ounce and it looks like this break out above $1,000 could be permanent. While this may be a new all time high in nominal terms, adjusted for inflation gold's high in 1980 of $850 equates to $2,300 per ounce in today's dollars. We believe the inflationary crisis we are rapidly approaching will be much worse than the inflation of the 1970's. Therefore, $2,300 per ounce gold could be here sooner than anybody thinks is possible.

There are news reports today that Saudi states are meeting with countries like China and Japan in order to end dollar-based oil transactions and begin transacting oil using a new basket of currencies. It is the U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency and the fact that foreign nations are forced to trade oil and other commodities in U.S. dollars, that has kept the U.S. economy propped up until now.

Up until today, foreign countries have been forced to hold huge U.S. dollar reserves which has allowed the U.S. to sell an increasing supply of U.S. Treasuries and thereby export its inflation to the rest of the world. Soon, foreign countries will no longer have a reason to hold U.S. dollars and there will be no interest in buying our debt. Almost all of the U.S. government's deficit spending will have to be paid for by outright money printing by the Federal Reserve.

Report continues at:

http://www.inflation.us/goldcouldriseto5400.html

Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Brian Baird [D, WA-3], in Clark County Washington - August 18, 2009

"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill."

— Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913

Barack Obama supports bill that gives immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the Bush Administration spy on Americans

The measure, H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, condones the actions of telecommunications companies that cooperated with illegal warrantless surveillance after 9/11 by virtually assuring the dismissal of the dozens of lawsuits pending against them. And it invites future abuses by failing to give the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court the authority to protect law-abiding Americans from being spied on by their government.

Congress has now made it far too easy for spy agencies to vacuum up data from private phone calls and e-mails without meaningful oversight by an independent court. The bill fails at the most fundamental level to restore the independent judicial check on executive power that the Bush administration has done so much to undermine.

• Barack Obama voted in favor of this bill that gives immunity to telecoms that have aided illegal government surveillance in the past.
• Barack Obama voted in favor of this new law that gives the government the power to conduct dragnet surveillance that has no connection to terrorism or criminal activity of any kind.
• Barack Obama voted in favor of this law that is fundamentally inconsistent with the Constitution and with the most basic values of the Republic we live in.

"The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever."

- - Daniel Webster