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Newsmax Report on cost of government
Last year Americans Worked Till Aug. 12 to Pay for Government"Cost of Government Day" fell on Aug. 12 this year, meaning the average American worked until that date to pay for government spending and regulations.Each year, Americans for Tax Reform publishes its Cost of Government Day (COGD) report, and this year the organization calculated that Americans on average worked 224 days to pay for local, state, and federal government spending and regulations.
This year marks the third straight year that COGD has come in August. Prior to the Obama administration, the latest it had ever fallen was July 21.
"Americans have lost 29 days of the calendar year thanks to Obama's overspending and regulatory zeal," the report states.
The average American worked 103 days this year to pay for the cost of federal spending, and 44 days to pay off state and local government spending.
In addition, Americans worked 77 days to pay for total federal, state, and local regulations.
The report also measures varying government burdens in each state to determine its COGD. As in past years, taxpayers in Connecticut must work the most days to pay for government spending and regulation, 253, and the COGD there is Sept. 10. In New Jersey, taxpayers must work 249 days, and in New York, 242 days.
Taxpayers in Mississippi labored "only" until July 19 to pay off their burden of government, a total of 200 days, while taxpayers in Tennessee worked 201 days, and in South Carolina, 204 days.
This year's overall COGD "comes only two days earlier than last year's revised date of Aug. 14," according to a statement from Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and Mattie Corrao, executive director of the Center for Fiscal Accountability.
"This small step towards an earlier Cost of Government Day is likely temporary. The coming implementation of regulatory behemoths that will also cause federal spending to skyrocket augurs a dismal future for taxpayers.
"The implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul, coupled with adjudication of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, portend far later COGDs in the future."
However, on a more hopeful note, the authors add: "The discussion of the government's overspending problem has shifted from billions to trillions — a significant step toward coming to terms with the country's fiscal recklessness."
MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE
Look carefully at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate. For those
of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but
important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream
News:
"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the
present Monthly Fee of
$96.40, rising to:
$104.20 in 2012
$120.20 in 2013
And
$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation,
of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but
important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream
News:
"The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the
present Monthly Fee of
$96.40, rising to:
$104.20 in 2012
$120.20 in 2013
And
$247.00 in 2014."
These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation,
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Indian Belief by Rumer Godden
There
is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a
mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of
the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it
aired, we are not complete."
--
Rumer Godden
NDAA and SOPA 2 more ways we lose our FREEDOM
The two most important issues in America right now are the NDAA (just signed by Obama) and SOPA
(Stop Online Piracy Act, a way for the government to take down any
websites it does not like). The battle rages on over SOPA, and if SOPA
passes, it will mean the end of NaturalNews and all "alternative" news websites.
Just so you know, we are all fighting for our basic liberties here.
Obama has betrayed the nation, but he is also awakening the nation to
the simple truth that Big Government is the enemy of freedom. If we do
not correct these injustices, soon the internet will be "cleansed" of
all "non-compliant" websites like NaturalNews, and your Republic will be
lost forever.
Welcome to 2012, huh? What a way for Obama to usher it in: You are all now enemies of the state!
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Dear NaturalNews readers,
While America was out partying last
night, drinking it up and celebrating the end of 2011, Obama quietly
signed the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, which nullifies the Bill of Rights
and declares America to be a "battleground" in which all American
citizens can be arrested, imprisoned, tortured and even killed with no due process.
You don't even have to be charged with a crime. Now, thanks to Obama, the military can simply "disappear" you.
"President Obama's action today is a
blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president
who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
With this signing, Obama has cemented his position as the most traitorous U.S. President in history, not merely violating his promise to close Guantanamo Bay and end the military's secret prisons, but actually expanding the power of those secret prisons over ALL Americans!
It is time to impeach this President
and all those who voted for this freedom-crushing legislation. Read my
urgent story today on the NDAA and the nullification of the Bill of
Rights:
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With your help, NaturalNews achieved significant health freedom victories in 2011. Here's a compilation of what we were able to achieve in just one year thanks to the First Amendment (which is now under assault by SOPA, of course):
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Feds' War on Religion by Chuck Norris
Feds' War on Religion
By Chuck Norris | December 27, 2011 | 22:04
Last week, I documented more than a dozen ways in which, in just the
past six months, the Obama administration is trampling on the religious
liberties of America's finest military service members. (If you haven't
read Part 1, you can find it here.)
I am very disappointed by the dissolution of religious liberties in the
U.S. military. Times have sadly and radically changed since my father
served in World War II, since I served four years in the Air Force and
since my two brothers, Wieland and Aaron, served in the Army in Vietnam.
(My brother Wieland paid the ultimate price there in the line of duty.)
I thank God that I served in the Air Force during a time in which moral
absolutes and a deep reverence for God pervaded culture, especially the
military. No service member was ashamed or afraid to express his faith
in God or his Christian beliefs. In fact, the very thought that service
members would somehow have to protect or defend their Christian faith
would have seemed ludicrous.
Remember that it was only a few short decades ago when a commander in
chief spoke passionately about his Christian faith. President Ronald
Reagan said this before the lighting of the national Christmas tree Dec.
16, 1982: "In this holiday season, we celebrate the birthday of one
who, for almost 2,000 years, has been a greater influence on humankind
than all the rulers, all the scholars, all the armies and all the navies
that ever marched or sailed, all put together. ... It's also a holy
day, the birthday of the Prince of Peace, a day when 'God so loved the
world' that he sent us his only begotten son to assure forgiveness of
our sins."
The First Amendment secures our total religious rights and liberties:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The American Civil Liberties
Union and like-minded groups, such as the Freedom From Religion
Foundation, are not preserving First Amendment rights; they are
perverting the meaning of the establishment clause (which was to prevent
the creation of a national church like the Church of England) and
denying the free exercise clause (which preserves our right to worship
as we want, privately and publicly). Both clauses were intended to
safeguard religious liberty, not to circumscribe the practicing of
religion. The Framers were seeking to guarantee a freedom of religion, not a freedom from it.
I respect all religions but adhere to one. I believe what Benjamin Rush
-- a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the
presidential administrations of Adams, Jefferson and Madison -- wrote:
"Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of
the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had
rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mohammed inculcated upon our
youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious
principles. But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that
of the New Testament."
And in so doing, I believe in the collection of beliefs stated almost
poetically in the Apostles' Creed: "I believe in God the Father
Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son,
our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin
Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was
buried; he descended to the grave. The third day, he rose again from the
dead; he ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty, from where he will come to judge the quick and the
dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy Christian church; the
fellowship of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the
body; and eternal life. Amen."
Any questions?
No Christmas hesitations here. My family celebrates Christ in
Christmas; that 2,000 years ago, God sent a savior, named Jesus, born to
die for the sins of mankind; that whoever believes in him will have
eternal life, which I chose to do decades ago at a Billy Graham crusade
in Los Angeles.
Friends, now is not the time in the history of our republic to be
sheepish about our patriotism or religious convictions, as so many of
our leaders are. Now is the time to demonstrate with boldness in what
and whom we believe. That is the type of leader and president that we
need in America's future.
We need more God-fearing men and women like those portrayed in
"Courageous," the inspiring film about everyday heroes that also was
expanded into a best-selling novel by my friend and prolific author
Randy Alcorn (http://www.epm.org). In the novel, one character speaks
for many of us and challenges the rest: "But there are some men who,
regardless of the mistakes we've made in the past, regardless of what
our fathers did not do for us, will give the strength of our arms and
the rest of our days to loving God with all that we are and to teaching
our children to do the same. And whenever possible, to love and mentor
others who have no father in their lives but who desperately need help
and direction. We are inviting any man whose heart is willing and
courageous to join us."
Whatever your religious persuasion, don't be ashamed of it. And don't
hesitate to let others know where you stand, respectfully speaking.
Freedom of speech and religious liberty are your First Amendment rights.
This is America. And that's one of the things that still make us a
great nation. In God we trust.
(As a way to promote patriotism, courage and the continued support
for our troops, my wife, Gena, and I are inviting everyone to join us
Jan. 7 for the premiere of the documentary "Answering the Call," about
my trips to Iraq during the war to encourage the troops. You can get
tickets via http://www.KickStartKids.org. We hope to see you there!)
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