The White House Tuesday evening disclosed that almost three weeks ago the Obama administration granted ethics wavers for two additional officials who had previously worked as lobbyists. On February 20 the administration signed waivers for Jocelyn Frye, former general counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families, and Cecilia Muñoz, the former senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, allowing them to work on issues for which they lobbied.

These two are in addition to deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn, a former Raytheon lobbyist whose waiver was granted two days after President Obama announced on January 21 what he heralded as the most sweeping ethics rules in American history — ones that would "close the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government freely."

The Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel requires that lobbyists who become members of Obama administration will not be able to work on matters they lobbied on for two years, or in the agencies they lobbied during the previous two years. Out of approximately 800 executive branch appointments, three waivers have been granted, the Obama administration said.

Not all of the former lobbyists entering the administration have required the formal waivers; the White House has also required incoming administration officials who worked as lobbyists to write letters of recusal, indicating issues that they will stay away from dealing with because of their previous jobs. But those letters of recusal have not yet been disclosed.

Frye's waiver, signed by Norm Eisen, the special counsel to the President and designate agency ethics official, states that it's "in the public interest to grant the waiver because Ms. Fry's expertise in the areas in which she acted as a registered lobbyist is essential to her service to the Office of the First Lady." Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of the First Lady, has "a particular focus on women, families and on engagement with the greater D.C. community," the White House says. Having directed the National Partnership’s Workplace Fairness Program in her previous job, she focused on "employment and gender discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women."

Muñoz's waiver was granted also in the public interest "because Ms. Munoz's knowledge and expertise are vital to the functioning of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs," Eisen wrote. As director of intergovernmental affairs in the Executive Office of the President, Muñoz is chief liaison to the Latino community, in addition to coordinating with state and local governments. signed by Norm Eisen, the special counsel to the President and designate agency ethics official, states that it's "in the public interest to grant the waiver because Ms. Fry's expertise in the areas in which she acted as a registered lobbyist is essential to her service to the Office of the First Lady."

"We took the rare step of granting the waivers to Ms. Frye and Ms. Muñoz because of the importance of their respective positions and because of each woman’s unequalled qualifications for her job," Eisen said. "Each is a leading substantive expert on the relevant issue areas and each also has long-standing relationships with constituencies important to their respective offices."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/obama-white-hou.html

"Cecilia Muñoz, the former senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza"

From Michelle Malkin's blog, May 6, 2008:

10. La Raza supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.

9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.

8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.

7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the “Aztlan Academy” in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn.

6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as “a radical racist group…[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”

5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border.

4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this:

“US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the
4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this:

“US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.

La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.”

3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves–in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.

1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of “The Race,” for God’s sake.

Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is “La raza unida nunca sera vencida.”

“A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.”
Still waiting for liberals to condemn Obama for this action. Whats more, still waiting on them to do something about it.

***drumming fingers***

***crickets***

The poor,middle class and homeless should have equal care as those that can afford to self pay.The eldery and sick shouldn't be dumped in a nursing home and left to die.
The government pays for once and a while care for home health care,but not full time.They don't pay for ast living centers.They pay for nursing homes, because that is the cheapest .,000-,000 a month avg.

The NAFTA Superhighway

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst103006.htm

By now many Texans have heard about the proposed “NAFTA Superhighway,” which is also referred to as the trans-Texas corridor. What you may not know is the extent to which plans for such a superhighway are moving forward without congressional oversight or media attention.

This superhighway would connect Mexico, the United States, and Canada, cutting a wide swath through the middle of Texas and up through Kansas City. Offshoots would connect the main artery to the west coast, Florida, and northeast. Proponents envision a ten-lane colossus the width of several football fields, with freight and rail lines, fiber-optic cable lines, and oil and natural gas pipelines running alongside.

This will require coordinated federal and state eminent domain actions on an unprecedented scale, as literally millions of people and businesses could be displaced. The loss of whole communities is almost certain, as planners cannot wind the highway around every quaint town, historic building, or senior citizen apartment for thousands of miles.

Governor Perry is a supporter of the superhighway project, and Congress has provided small amounts of money to study the proposal. Since this money was just one item in an enormous transportation appropriations bill, however, most members of Congress were not aware of it.

The proposed highway is part of a broader plan advanced by a quasi-government organization called the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” or SPP.

The SPP was first launched in 2005 by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco.

The SPP was not created by a treaty between the nations involved, nor was Congress involved in any way. Instead, the SPP is an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments. One principal player is a Spanish construction company, which plans to build the highway and operate it as a toll road. But don’t be fooled: the superhighway proposal is not the result of free market demand, but rather an extension of government-managed trade schemes like NAFTA that benefit politically-connected interests.

Lou Dobbs covers The NAFTA Superhighway

After my husband died several months ago I have been struggling to keep up the payments on this house. I don't want to live here anymore anyway, so am going to stop the payments. I am eligible for HUD low-income housing for seniors, but there are long waiting lists. I have no place to go. What will GMAC do to me and when? MO laws would apply. I can't afford an attorney for advice. What I have read about deed in lieu and short sale are very scary. My credit is excellent right now, but it won't be shortly and then renting will be difficult if they check my credit. At my age I don't care about my credit anymore, I just want a decent place to rent and I don't want to have to pay the mortgage company any deficit. Can anyone offer sound advice as to what I should do?

Universal health care is all the rage on the Left. John Edwards and Barack Obama have unveiled plans for government medicine. Since 1993, Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton has been this idea’s poster girl. And why not? As this cause’s advocates insist, every American has a right to medical treatment.

“I want to set a goal of universal, quality, affordable healthcare for every single man, woman, and child,” Hillary Clinton said July 3 in Iowa. As Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.) has explained, “I’m committed to universal healthcare coverage because, in America, healthcare is not a privilege, it’s a right.”

But why stop there?

Rather than target public assistance to the needy, Uncle Sam should do more. Lots more.

In 2003, for example, the then-GOP Congress and the Republican White House enacted Medicare drug benefits for all seniors, including multi-millionaires. Similarly, Washington should shower tax dollars on national challenges, like a plane spraying fire retardant on a blazing forest.

So, after 231 years of rugged individualism, the time is now, as Eva Peron sings in Evita, for “a government able to give us the things we deserve.”

Washington owes America the Omnibus Universality Act of 2007. This comprehensive reform would offer citizens a cornucopia exploding with delights:

Universal food. Every American has a right to food. Without it, you starve. We cannot let the savage free market control something as life-or-death as starvation prevention.

Government Food Stamps already help poor people buy groceries. That does not go far enough. Low-income Americans still must choose from among Safeway, A&P, Whole Foods, and more. Having picked a store, more choices await: Meat or fish? Fresh peas or frozen? Coffee or tea? If tea, hot or iced?

How dare we force the poor, or anyone else, to make so many decisions?

The new Federal Food Board’s menus will be balanced, tasty, low-calorie, protein-rich, transfat-poor, free-range, and free of charge. Once the FFB controls those competing grocery stores, it will be a snap to assure that every FFB Calorie Maintenance Center provides just enough of these foodstuffs. To guarantee that Americans don’t eat too much, or too little, Universal Food Stamps will be mailed to every home with that month’s ration schedule. Cuba has perfected this system. It could be imported quickly and easily, without wasting precious time on new FFB feasibility studies or detailed guidelines.

Universal housing. Every American has a right to housing. Without it, you freeze, especially in iceboxes like Chicago. That’s where Cabrini Green once stood. The government began blowing up much of that massive housing project in 1995. Nevertheless, its blueprints must exist somewhere. Washington should follow them to construct millions of similar units. Every American will receive free housing. Imagine the joy when we all share a single landlord.

Universal transportation. Every American has a right to transportation. Without it, you’re stranded. Every city without a subway system should get one. Existing subways should expand and offer even more stops. As for long distances, let high-speed trains crisscross the country. And why not use abandoned Air Force B-52s to fly people from coast to coast? Of course, everyone rides for free.

Universal clothes. Every American has a right to clothes. Without them, you’re naked.

Once the new Federal Style Council nationalizes the Gap, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret, and more, every American will have the free clothing needed to stay warm and dry, according to FSC standards. Every American will get new, uniform garments for work or play, specially crafted to eliminate design disparities and spare certain people the discomfort of looking unfashionable. Those navy-blue and bamboo-green outfits that took Peking by storm in the 1960s would make excellent patterns for such simple, easily maintained, ready-to-wear attire.

Universal shoes. Every American has a right to shoes. Without them, you’re barefoot. And that’s no way to walk around this Great Society. The same principles apply as with Universal Clothes, but with respect to your feet.

Yes, these are big changes. But the American people will understand them — and they will like them — thanks to a series of instructional motion pictures that will make all of this perfectly clear. And the ideal film company already exists to produce them:

Universal Studios.

my grandma lives an hour away she use to live near but my aunt moved her over there. my aunt takes all her monthly money….she ALSO gets free money for ''supposedly'' taking care of her…she had a woman and child living at my grandmas house and paying my aunt…taking advantage of my grandma…..and my grandma even lives in senior citizen apartments…how can i report my aunt and have my grandma have a good worker ,,,,she also did this to my other grandma and now shes dead..my grandma sometimes doesnt even have food to eat…or electricity thanks to her taking alllll her check..i live in la.california and my grandma lives in montclair california

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Please help me i dont want to go to jail…im 18 ….pray for uss im so broken?
i wenrt to go visit my grandma but didnt get to see her because my aunt was taking her to get a loan for herself ….in the afternoon i receive a call from an officer that im a suspect for elder abuse and also my mom…we're INOCENT..i swear to my precious LORD JESUS CHRIST WE ARE…my grandma isnt all that there she takes zoloft,prozac…use to choke me when i was 10..threw me out of her house when i ahd a broken leg,falsely accused my step dad touching my sister, called cps on us many times and now this…she stated that she hides from us because we want her money but thats not true..she calls me..she wanted un to sleep over her house…my aunt who is also her caregiver takes all her money to the point she has no food no light late rent ..etc…my aunt is lgally maried to a guy for money , she has been arrested for crossing children over the border for money,stolen my moms money….my grandma and aunt are falsely accusing me and my mother ..we dont know what to do …the officer wants us to turn in a statement ..whatever that is or turn our selfs in…but how can that beee we've never done anything wrong…we need help..my mom is a single parent of 4 girls she works most of the time from7 am to 1am i take take care of my little sisters …we only have eachother..we dont have any other family members as you can see my aunt and grandma are crazy….my grandma always covers up for my aunt, but my aunts the one taking all her money ..we live inLA and they live in Ontario…please help i dont want to go to jail..i dont want anything to happen to my sisters..we only have eachother…please
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yess i know its a bad situation but the reason my mother,sisters and i stick around is because of ''family love''….the thing that doesnt worry me so much is that we're innocent…but what does is that cops dont care, sometimes theyre just sooo mean and unfair…and we dont have money for this problem..my mom can barely pay the 900 rent…and with this economy..oh lorrdd
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my mom spoke with the cop whos on this case…she said she was going to turn it into the district attorneys office….all this makes me feel so weak and helpless…i cant believe my grandma would do such a thing…she wasnt even mad on the day she did this…we just recieved a call out of no where that we're suspects.
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my grandma lives an hour away she use to live near but my aunt moved her over there. my aunt takes all her monthly money….she ALSO gets free money for ''supposedly'' taking care of her…she had a woman and child living at my grandmas house and paying my aunt…taking advantage of my grandma…..and my grandma even lives in senior citizen apartments…how can i report my aunt and have my grandma have a good worker ,,,,she also did this to my other grandma and now shes dead..my grandma sometimes doesnt even have food to eat…or electricity thanks to her taking alllll her check..i live in la.california and my grandma lives in montclair california.

It is pain in the ass for me and my Chinese hudsband and young Ashly to live in a public housing apartment in Hong Kong. Our plan is to retire in Phillipine where the living standard is much lower than Hong Kong. MY hudsband doesn't speak English or Phillipino language. I speak three different languages. My hudsband will probably get a culture shock when we both retire in my native country. THe Hong Kong public sector has squeezed a lot of Hong Kong dollars by land sales, property transactions and rental incomes, income taxes and business taxes, gambling and stamp taxes from the stock markets. All Hong Kong civil servants are overpaid and collect the fat cat pension. THe Hong Kong civil servant pension should have adjusted to have the upper limit. They should provide pension fund for the getting larger senior citizens community. Say, five thousands for those ages reached 60 and have resided Hong Kong for at least ten years. This will certainly become a public demand in Hong Kong now.

She is 87 senile doubly incontinent and cannot feed herself, she is having care visitors 4 x daily in her own home. But social services wish to remove her to a care home to be assessed for 4 weeks, then move her yet again into a permanent home. She is quite happy in her bed at home and I have stated my wish for my mother to die at home rather than face a lot of upheaval.

My grandma lives in a senior citizen apartment complex. Her next door neighbor, a 70-80 year old man commited suicide. He shot himself
New tenents have just moved in.

I have 2 questions:

1) Is the apartment owner obligated to tell the new tenents that someone has died in the apartment, or that someone has commited suicide?

2) My grandma is friends with the manager, she told my grandma that there was a lot of blood everywhere. Well the apartments didnt have the carpet changed. The only shampooed them and they only painted over the walls, they didnt wash them. Is this right?

As for me, if i moved in to a new place and found all this info out i would want to be transfered to a new unit.

i know when you are buying a house they are required to disclose this information, is it the same with an apartment?

My parents live in north Atlanta, GA area. They are both 90 and my dad esp. has difficulty getting around. Does anyone know of a medical service in this area that can draw blood at home for diabetic and Coumadin monitoring? Also a responsible and reliable service for home care? Thanks so much!
I live in Michigan!

Specifically, I am referring to a HUD facility which houses over 100 senior citizens.
I have heard that some states prohibit smoking withing 30 feet of all building entrances. In this case, it is a HUD residential building that is frequently visited by family and friends, as well as delivery and maintenance people.

looking for immediate housing for my aging mother

I live in a great area and would love to start a business of some kind but now sure what. I'm looking for suggestions.
Low start up cost would be best for my situation at the moment.

how do you apply for senior citizen apartment in New York help.. i know the government helps pay the rent…can any one help and tell me how to go about this(its for my grandpa)??

When George W. Bush visited the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma Station Headquarters in Arizona Monday — for the second time in a year — his message on illegal immigration sounded a bit tougher than in the past. “Illegal immigration is a serious problem — you know it better than anybody,” he told a group of border agents. “It puts pressure on the public schools and the hospitals, not only here in our border states, but states around the country. It drains the state and local budgets…Incarceration of criminals who are here illegally strains the Arizona budget. But there’s a lot of other ways it strains the local and state budgets. It brings crime to our communities.”

The president touted his get-tough-on-the-border policies, enacted under pressure from the then-Republican Congress, and singled out Operation Jump Start, under which National Guard troops assist border agents. But he also stressed the need for “comprehensive” reform, and when he did his message sounded like the George W. Bush of old. “Past efforts at reform failed to address the underlying economic reasons behind illegal immigration,” the president said. “People are coming here to put food on the table, and they’re doing jobs Americans are not doing.”

With those words, the president was revisiting the great question in the debate over illegal immigration: Is the presence of illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, a boon to the U.S. economy, or a drag? It’s a question that has long divided Bush supporters; the Wall Street Journal editorial page tells us that a lenient immigration policy is absolutely vital for American prosperity, while enforcement-first advocates tell us a strict policy is the only thing that will ensure continued economic health.

Both have plenty of statistics to cite to make their case. But now a scholar at the Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector, has found a new and revealing way to get at the answer.

Rector has just published a study, “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer,” that is ostensibly not about immigration at all. He takes the most detailed look yet at the economics of the 17.7 million American households made up of people without a high-school degree. With numbers from the Census Bureau, the Congressional Research Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other government agencies, Rector found what they make, what they spend, and how much they receive in government services.

The reason Rector chose to look at low-skilled workers is that it is estimated that nearly two-thirds of illegal immigrants fall into that category. (By way of comparison, slightly less than ten percent of native-born Americans are in that group.) By focusing on those workers, Rector was able to make use of information on them that is more detailed and precise than information on immigrants as a whole. And any conclusions he reached would be applicable to a large majority of illegal immigrants who are already in this country as well as those who would come here under various immigration reform proposals.

Rector began by calculating the dollar value of the benefits those low-skill workers receive from the government. There are direct benefits, like Medicare and Social Security, and means-tested benefits, like food, housing and medical benefits specifically for low-income people. Then there is public education, along with population-based services like police and fire protection, parks, and roads. (Those services benefit everyone, and their cost usually increases as the population increases.) After that, there is interest on the public debts, a burden spread throughout all income groups, and the cost of what Rector calls “pure public goods” — national defense, scientific research, and a few other areas — which benefit everyone but do not necessarily rise in cost as the population rises.

Rector found that in 2004, the most recent year for which figures are available, low-skill households received an average of ,138 per household — the great majority in the form of means-tested aid and direct benefits. (Rector excluded from that figure the cost of public goods and interest; with those included, he says, each low-skill household receives an average of ,084.) Against that, Rector found that low-skill households paid an average of ,689 in taxes. (The biggest chunk of that was the Social Security tax — ,509 — followed by state and local taxes, consumption taxes, property taxes, and federal income taxes, but Rector counted everything, including highway levies and lottery purchases.) In the final calculation, he found, the average low-skill household received ,449 more in benefits than it paid in taxes — the ,138 in benefits, excluding public goods, minus the ,689 in taxes.

Taking that ,449, and multiplying it by the 17.7 million low-skill households, Rector found that the total deficit for such households was 7 billion in 2004. “Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least .9 trillion,” Rector writes. “This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services.”

From a purely money perspective, it’s a powerful argument. At a cost of ,449 per household per year — well, multiply that by an adult lifespan of 50 years and you have an average lifetime cost to the taxpayer of .1 million per unskilled worker. Increase that population with a wave of unskilled immigrants, and you’re talking a lot of money.

There’s probably room for argument on Rector’s exact numbers. Jeffrey Passell, a senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, questions whether some of Rector’s cost estimates might be too high. For example, the arrival of new illegal immigrations will likely not raise the cost of defending the country, he says, so perhaps future immigrants will not be quite as expensive as Rector claims. (Rector tried to address that issue by excluding the cost of pure public goods in the ,449 figure.) Still, Passell does not question the basic premise of Rector’s report. “One of the purposes of our government is to provide support for people on the low end,” says Passell. “Of course there is a bit more spending on households on the lower end than on the high end, and of course the low-income households don’t pay as much as the high-income households. That’s not surprising.”

The bigger argument over Rector’s approach is whether illegal immigrants bring economic benefits that outweigh their undisputed costs. Tamar Jacoby, an advocate of comprehensive reform who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, points to a study done recently of immigrants in North Carolina which estimated that in the past ten years Hispanic immigrants had cost the state million in benefits while being responsible for more than billion in economic growth. “Yes, the individual might cost more in services,” says Jacoby, “but they are growing the pie so significantly that that cost pales in comparison.”

Not so, says Rector. “The problem is, the growth to the pie that they make, they eat,” he explains. The economic growth reflected in the numbers, he says, is what the immigrant workers are making. “To the extent that they make the pie grow any bit more than what they take out of the pie in wages, it is very subtle, and it would be a tiny fraction of the gross domestic product growth,” Rector says.

And that means something for the immigration debate, and for George W. Bush’s proposals. “Every one of these [reform] bills envisions bringing in millions and millions of additional low-skill immigrants with the right to access welfare and become citizens,” says Rector. “Within ten years, you would have four million of these individuals, each of whom can bring family. You’d be looking at a cost of billion per year.” Perhaps Congress and the president will decide to do that. But if Robert Rector is correct, no one should underestimate the cost.

I just got this little 2 1/2 year old girl and I am feeding 1/2 cup of Purina dog food twice a day. I am a senior citizen living in an apartment. I walk her twice a day so would say her exercise is moderate.

Does this sound like a reasonable diet for her?

I am searching for communities where many baby boomers are moving into in Florida

Just curious, What kinds of plans do you have when your parents get old and can no longer take care of themselves? do you plan on putting them in a nursing home or keeping them in your own home, or providing care so they can stay in their own home, other plans, or no plans.

would you look for a mate, move in with a male, move in with a female, move in with family, find another person and the both of you look for an apartment together, move into someone's place or have them move into yours, move into a seniors home, look for HUD housing, or other alternative? Which would your best choice be and why.

A commercial out of St Louis advertises a retirement community. Why do they call it a campus it is just a place of senior citizen apartments and homes?

"House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise income taxes not only on those in the highest income brackets, but raises the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% as well. Estates would again be taxed at 55%. The child tax credit would drop from 00 to 0. Senior citizens relying on investment income would be hurt by increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. It's not just that the Democrats want to raises taxes on the rich. They want to raises taxes on everybody.

The problem is, policing the world is expensive, and if elected officials insist upon continuing to fund our current foreign policy, the money has to come from somewhere. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost us over trillion. The Democrats' budget gives the President all the funding he needs for his foreign policy, so one wonders how serious they ever were about ending the war. While Democrats propose to tax and spend, many Republicans aim to borrow and spend, which hurts the taxpayer just as much in the long run.

Supporting a welfare state is expensive as well. Over half of our budget goes to mandatory entitlements. The total cost of government now eats up over half of our national income, as calculated by Americans for Tax Reform, and government is growing at an unprecedented rate. Our current financial situation is completely untenable, and the worst part is, as government is becoming more and more voracious, the economy is shrinking.

The bottom line is that Washington has a serious spending addiction. While both parties debate how to raise the revenue, both parties seem happy to spend over trillion of your money in various ways. While some in Washington criticize the war in Iraq, very few are criticizing the interventionist mindset that got us into the war in the first place. Many so-called "Iraq War critics," criticize this administration rather than truly opposing the decades old policies that led to war. They claim they will eventually get the troops out of Iraq, but the danger is that they simply plan to move them around to other countries, not bring them home. The American people want peace. Minding our own business is the best way to achieve it. Not only is it also a whole lot cheaper, but free trade and friendship with other countries benefits all involved.

This spending spree is exactly the wrong policy for an economy on the brink of recession. History has shown that all empires eventually crumble under a worthless currency and with an exhausted military. Since too many of our nation's leaders haven't taken the time to learn from history, we are seeing mistakes repeated through recently enacted policies such as the new House budget.
–Congressman Ron Paul, March 16, 2008

What do you think? It doesn't sound like just the rich are being taxed, to me.
Vet, notice where the taxes originate.

How to get licensed, how to start, restrictions, grants available, etc…..I love the elderly and have seen too many go to nursing homes that does not have to be there..Txs

I am a senior citizen on SS disability.