Come join fellow Americans in support of all those victims on 911.

Join the protest against building a masque near Ground Zero.

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Perhaps they have had a hard time expressing their feelings about the Obama administration?

Let’s not forget  some highlights from the distant past. I think the author did a great job in portraying our feelings.

April 29, 2010

A Stranger in Our Midst

By Robert Weissberg, Professor of Political Science – Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana

As the Obama administration enters its second year, I — and undoubtedly millions of others — have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease. Defining this discomfort is tricky. I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term “being opposed” lacks an emotional punch. Nor do terms like “worried” or “anxious” apply. I was more worried about America’s future during the Johnson or Carter years, so it’s not that dictionary, either. Nor, for that matter, is this about backroom odious deal-making and pork, which are endemic in American politics.

After auditioning countless political terms, I finally realized that the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition. It is as if the United States has been occupied by a foreign power, and this transcends policy objections. It is not about Obama’s birthplace. It is not about race, either; millions of white Americans have had black mayors and black governors, and this unease about out-of-synch values never surfaced.

The term I settled on is “alien rule” — based on outsider values, regardless of policy benefits — that generates agitation. This is what bloody anti-colonial strife was all about. No doubt, millions of Indians and Africans probably grasped that expelling the British guaranteed economic ruin and even worse governance, but at least the mess would be their mess. Just travel to Afghanistan and witness American military commanders’ efforts to enlist tribal elders with promises of roads, clean water, dental clinics, and all else that America can freely provide. Many of these elders probably privately prefer abject poverty to foreign occupation since it would be their poverty, run by their people, according to their sensibilities.

This disquiet was a slow realization. Awareness began with Obama’s odd pre-presidency associations, decades of being oblivious to Rev. Wright’s anti-American ranting, his enduring friendship with the terrorist guy-in-the-neighborhood Bill Ayers, and the Saul Alinsky-flavored anti-capitalist community activism. Further add a hazy personal background — an Indonesian childhood, shifting official names, and a paperless-trail climb through elite educational institutions.

None of this disqualified Obama from the presidency; rather, this background just doesn’t fit with the conventional political résumé. It is just the “outsider” quality that alarms. For all the yammering about George W. Bush’s privileged background, his made-in-the-USA persona was absolutely indisputable. John McCain might be embarrassed about his Naval Academy class rank and iffy combat performance, but there was never any doubt of his authenticity. Countless conservatives despised Bill Clinton, but nobody ever, ever doubted his good-old-boy American bonafides.

The suspicion that Obama is an outsider, a figure who really doesn’t “get” America, grew clearer from his initial appointments. What “native” would appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school safety? Or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a “green jobs czar”? How about an Attorney General who began by accusing Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race? And who can forget Obama’s weird defense of his pal Louis Henry Gates from “racist” Cambridge, Massachusetts cops? If the American Revolution had never occurred and the Queen had appointed Obama Royal Governor (after his distinguished service in Kenya), a trusted locally attuned aide would have first whispered in his ear, “Mr. Governor General, here in America, we do not automatically assume that the police were at fault,” and the day would have been saved.

And then there’s the “we are sorry, we’ll never be arrogant again” rhetoric seemingly designed for a future President of the World election campaign. What made Obama’s Cairo utterances so distressing was how they grated on American cultural sensibilities. And he just doesn’t notice, perhaps akin to never hearing Rev. Wright anti-American diatribes. An American president does not pander to third-world audiences by lying about the Muslim contribution to America. Imagine Ronald Reagan, or any past American president, trying to win friends by apologizing. This appeal contravenes our national character and far exceeds a momentary embarrassment about garbled syntax or poor delivery. Then there’s Obama’s bizarre, totally unnecessary deep bowing to foreign potentates. Americans look foreign leaders squarely in the eye and firmly shake hands; we don’t bow.

But far worse is Obama’s tone-deafness about American government. How can any ordinary American, even a traditional liberal, believe that jamming through unpopular, debt-expanding legislation that consumes one-sixth of our GDP, sometimes with sly side-payments and with a thin majority, will eventually be judged legitimate? This is third-world, maximum-leader-style politics. That the legislation was barely understood even by its defenders and vehemently championed by a representative of that typical American city, San Francisco, only exacerbates the strangeness. And now President Obama sides with illegal aliens over the State of Arizona, which seeks to enforce the federal immigration law to protect American citizens from marauding drug gangs and other miscreants streaming in across the Mexican border.

Reciprocal public disengagement from President Obama is strongly suggested by recent poll data on public trust in government. According to a recent Pew report, only 22% of those asked trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest figures in half a century. And while pro-government support has been slipping for decades, the Obama presidency has sharply exacerbated this drop. To be sure, many factors (in particular the economic downturn) contribute to this decline, but remember that Obama was recently elected by an often wildly enthusiastic popular majority. The collapse of trust undoubtedly transcends policy quibbles or a sluggish economy — it is far more consistent with a deeper alienation.

Perhaps the clearest evidence for this “foreigner in our midst” mentality is the name given our resistance — tea parties, an image that instantly invokes the American struggle against George III, a clueless foreign ruler from central casting. This history-laden label was hardly predetermined, but it instantly stuck (as did the election of Sen. Scott Brown as “the shot heard around the world” and tea partiers dressing up in colonial-era costumes). Perhaps subconsciously, Obama does remind Americans of when the U.S. was really occupied by a foreign power.

A Declaration of Independence passage may still resonate: “HE [George III] has erected a Multitude of new Offices [Czars], and sent hither Swarms of Officers [recently hired IRS agents] to harass our People, and eat out their substance.”

The threat of a regulatory stranglehold over dietary supplements has intensified.

Earlier this year, Sen. John McCain introduced a bill that would have given the FDA draconian new powers. A citizen’s revolt ensued that caused that bill to be sidelined. We are being watchful that Sen. McCain does not try to slip some of his oppressive original proposals into another Senate bill.

The urgent issue we face today is language Rep. Henry Waxman snuck into the already passed Wall Street Reform Bill (H.R. 4173) that he hopes to get into the Senate bill. This language would give unelected FTC bureaucrats arbitrary authority to impose crippling requirements that will drive up the costs of supplements or remove them from the market entirely.

It is imperative that consumers e-mail their Senators to keep this language out of the Senate version of the Wall Street Reform Bill and out of any later version voted on by the House and Senate. ( Click here to e-mail your Senator right now.)

What Is Really Going On Here

Pharmaceutical companies recognize that their greatest competitive threat comes from low-cost dietary supplements that are virtually free of side effects. The most efficient way to destroy this competition is to have Congress enact legislation that will enable federal agencies to eradicate consumer access to dietary supplements.

To give you an idea of how much money is involved, just look at the cost of prescription drug fish oil sold under the trade name Lovaza®. A 30-day supply of Lovaza® sells for around $195.00. Consumers can obtain the same quantity of EPA/DHA fish oil for under $32.00 as a dietary supplement.

With the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Act and Health Care Reform Act, the federal government (that means you) pays outrageously inflated prices for fish oil prescriptions and other drugs.

The pharmaceutical industry heavily lobbied Congress to obligate Medicare to shell out full retail price for prescription drugs. In the case of prescription fish oil, taxpayers pay 500% more than what consumers pay for the same amount of fish oil as a dietary supplement.

Pharmaceutical companies now want to erect so many new restrictions over dietary supplements that consumers (and taxpayers) will be forced to pay outlandish prescription drug prices for fish oil and other low-cost nutrients.

As most of you know, taxes will soon be raised and new government debt created to fund these lavish subsidies to drug companies. It is this kind of institutional corruption that bankrupts governments around the world. We fear that citizen apathy may enable this corrupt legislation to be enacted into law, which will hasten Medicare’s date with insolvency, while saddling consumers with higher dietary supplement prices, if the supplements are available at all.

If this legislation is passed, our fear is that many supplements will disappear or that Americans will be unable to afford their supplements and will succumb to a host of deficiency-related diseases.

Please click here to e-mail your Senator to demand that Rep. Waxman’s drug company favoring language not be added to the Senate version of the so-called Wall Street Reform Act and not be included in any later House/Senate version of the bill.

Andrew Breitbart tells it like it is. We all are disgusted with the mainstream media. This includes the attacks on Bush and the love affair with Obama. We the people see it so clearly. Currently media reporting is transforming; time will show how interesting the next few years will be. Obama’s attack on Fox and his suggestions to turn off our televisions just show what we are dealing with. We the people just are not going to take it. The elections to come will show this, no matter how hard they try to steal the votes. I vote for Breitbart for the man of the year.

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=3076

Just keep them talking and doing what they do best. Without their help we might not be in the position we are in now.

#9 – Across the board tax cuts for all Americans.  61% of All Americans believe tax cuts help the economy.  59% of all Americans believe tax breaks help create jobs (more jobs are created by the use of tax breaks,than in use of tax increases).  46% of all Americans believe in tax cuts for all Americans.

#8-Obama ceases and desists in bad mouthing and putting down businesses in his speeches, interviews, and stops using business as a bogey man and scape goat, and stops using business as his excuse to misdirecting the American population, and as his administration’s excuse for its failures and short comings.

#7- Immediate tax break, coupled with favoritism  and cooperation to all corporations and all small business. Obama must use his  speeches and advertisement campaigns to create a government  now friendly to business  and no longer anti business; a government that is  encouraging to business and thereby creating this  business friendly atmosphere throughout the country in order to attract, create and encourage the development of private sector jobs.  FDR’s mistakes in the 1930’s was to increase tax on business and high earners; this resulted in a cut in spending and crushed new job creation, and forced a great depression that was longer and more severe through his costly mistake.

#6- Immediate cut in inheritance tax. Cut and eliminate all entitlement programs. Cut back and eliminate unions and end Obama’s support for unions; a totally unethical practice of government. The top 10 states that have big unions are all in big fiscal trouble with huge deficits huge unbalanced budgets and exorbitant tax’s. Just look at NY, NJ, VT,  ME, CA. Cut back on huge government and recreate and nuture small government.

#5- Immediately recind and return of all TARP and all unspent stimulus funds back to the government to bring down this unrealistic, unsustainable and crushing debt the Obama government has plunged our country and our children into this abyss.

#4-Obama ceases and desists from his continuing use of class warfare, in all speeches and all policies. Obama”s freeze on stimulus and non defense spending should start now; at once, not one year from now as he proposes. (Just to give Americans a head fake and misdirect  the voters.) Activate immediate term limits on all elected officials.

#3- Government moratorium on expansion of  government jobs. Federal government created jobs cost  the country $120,000 per job which are paid through tax increases and  tax revenues. Private sector creation of jobs cost the corporation $45,000 per job and cost the US taxpayer $0 in tax revenue.

#2- Repeal all health care iniatives and reforms, throw out all  this regressive legislation and attemped  Obama government take over of 1/6 of Americas GDP. Return all business taken over by Big Obama. Return all banks; Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, GMAC. Return all insurance companies, AIG. Return all automobile companies, General Motors.

#2a-Immediately rescind all favored tax breaks for oil and gas companies and open up an abundance of territories including Anwar for oil and gas explorations.

#1- Return to our  ideals: THAT THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA IS BUSINESS

The time spent in watching Michael Johns and Kellen Guida explain the Tea Party movement and American history is well worth it, better than the time you spent listening to Obama last night. Not only do they explain the Tea Party movement but they teach Katie Couric what America is all about. I have to thank Katie Couric for starting to do her job. She was pretty objective. Perhaps our protesting with “Operation, Can You Hear Us” in front of her office actually helped? More likely it was Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts. After 47 years it’s time to change senators. Better yet, perhaps after one term. Wake up Katie Couric. Did you understand what Michael Johns was talking about? Wake up America.

I didn’t really think there was a point to go to Holt’s Town Hall Meeting last night. After all, I’ve communicated to him, or tried to anyway, many times, telling him my views on the current issues; on the economy, healthcare, cap and trade, just to name a few. He always wrote back and updated me with his voting record. It was always opposite of how I wanted him to vote.  After awhile I feel he just does what he wants to do anyway, what’s the point in meeting him? In the past I have traveled far and made efforts to join fellow Americans in expressing our opposition to Obama and Washington policies. At this point I feel my energy will focus on trying to get my voice heard by helping the best candidates I can find and voting on Election Day. But Marlboro was too close to me not to attend.

Rush Holt was exactly how I anticipated. He’ll tell you that he wants to hear from his constituents, but he has no desire in really listening to us. He treated the audience as if we were in third grade. Holt talked on and on not answering the questions and not even trying to hear his constituents. At first, he didn’t even allow any followup questions. Even children know when their questions are not answered and when they are lied to. So it goes without saying that as adults we know when we are disrespected.

My husband wanted to ask about the fact that more New Jerseyians are moving out of New Jersey than into New Jersey and what plans does he have to remedy this problem. Also, given the current climate of dissatisfaction with our elected officials, would he suggest legislature for term limits. His questions were not chosen to be answered. I’m sure I’ll be getting correspondence from him and I’m sure he won’t have an answer for it.

Often people ask why their representatives would keep spending money America does not have. They ask why they voted for cap and trade and the healthcare bill. Representative Rush Holt always has a spin on these answers making it look like what he voted for will work and has worked for us Americans.

Instead of asking our elected officials why they keep spending money and why they keep passing these bills, WHY DON’T WE JUST TELL THEM.

They have an agenda and it’s called government control. They know best how to spend our money. Even if we get to the point when even a smaller minority of us are still working, we will be supporting everyone who doesn’t work all under the disguise of “fairness”.  Conveniently, at the same time, our elected officials will be voted back in term after term because most citizens will depend on the government and they need to keep their representative in office who makes it possible for them to survive.

It was nice to meet neighbors that have similar views as I do and I look forward to joining you all in supporting Mike Halfacre.

So finally on their 17th birthday I gave in and we walked into the Motor Vehicle Agency with all the necessary documents to get a drivers permit. Suddenly they were interested in driving; they were unbelievably excited. After getting past the receptionist, we had the luck to be assisted by a Motor Vehicle Agency employee with a personality. I was shocked. But we answered her small talk questions about the boys and driving etc. (when you have twins this happens sometimes) and finally she handed us the two permits. I saw her ability to furnish us with two permits was a little bit of an effort because, perhaps, it required some extra thought processing. Plus the conversational skills must have overloaded her ability to concentrate for those few minutes. Bottom line, she never told us that what she handed us really wasn’t a permit. We found out later we needed to go to another Motor Vehicle Agency to complete the permit and then be able to practice driving before setting up a road test. Without knowing this, we walked out of the office and practiced driving for 6 months. We also had driving instructors during this time who also never told the boys about the permits or the road tests.

Six months later I went to make a drivers test appointment. I couldn’t do it online for some reason. Finally, I spoke to someone and they told me to go into the office. I went back to the same miserable office. The receptionist knew as much as I did. She thought it was the same numbers that I thought are necessary to make the appointment. She was angry that I told her that I tried that and it didn’t work. She sent me to the line I went to before, six months before. I waited my turn.

This lady behind the counter gave me a look. I can’t really describe this look. It wasn’t exactly hateful. It was the ugliest expression I ever saw. Probably a combination of anger and disgust. This was before I even spoke to her. I was just waiting on line! She was the supervisor. She didn’t understand my situation. She only knew what she does, nothing more. I needed to go to another office. You see, there was this other stamp that had to be on the other side of this paper, so even if we did everything we were supposed to do, there was nothing nobody could do to help us. There’s more to this story. There’s more employees and supervisors I had the opportunity to deal with in person, on the phone, and in letters. Including my son’s beautiful letters to Rush Holt and others. But even before all that, immediately, I needed to answer my children’s questions about government agencies, state governments, and governments in general and how they are run and their employees.

The employees of the Motor Vehicle Agency only know their own little, horrible job, not the big picture, not helping the customer, the agency, the taxpayer who pays their salary.

Yeah, there was another step that we left out and I didn’t carefully check, anticipating them screwing me up because, really, I, in affect left the responsibility to my children. In the 17 years olds’ defense and in my defense; no, Motor Vehicle does not tell you this in their documentation. You need  a magnifying glass to find this out. I’m sure this is not the best way to teach children about responsibility and the government’s inability to run anything or the fact that government is not equipped or should not be responsible for its citizens.

The same week that my children were about to have a breakdown over this ordeal we needed to go to three different doctors for three different injuries on three different body parts. This is what happens when your children play sports. It took a little maneuvering with school schedules and team practices and the fact that they don’t have licenses to drive themselves there. Additionally, it was tricky, but doable, to schedule because Orthopedic doctors specialize in specific body parts. Now one boy is in physical therapy and might need surgery in the future. The other is sitting on the sport’s team bench waiting for his next doctor’s appointment and his injury to get better.

Injuries are hard to endure, especially when it’s your children’s injuries. Can you imagine when the government has control over that part of our life too?