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Segment 3: Obama’s Marxist Class Warfare On Millionaires and Billionaires–Tax The Job Creators–President’s Unbalanced Budget Would Result In A Big $1,100 Billion Deficit In Fiscal Year 2012–This Is Obama’s So-Called Balanced Approach–Obama Is Not Working–Fire Obama Right Now!–Videos
President Obama News Conference
Corporate Jet Subsidies: Welfare Only a Republican Could Love
President Obama on Deficit Reduction
Sen. Rand Paul Speaks Out Against Pres. Obama on the National Debt Ceiling – 6/30/11
Senator Rubio Talks Budget & Debt On Senate Floor
Underwhelming Spending Cuts from Congress and Obama
Red Ink
Despite our nation’s staggering $14.4 trillion debt, there many Members of the U.S. House and Senate who want to raise our nation’s debt limit without making permanent reforms in our fiscal policies.
We believe that this is a fiscally irresponsible position that would place America on the Road to Ruin. At the same time, we believe that the current debate over raising the debt limit provides a historic opportunity to focus public attention, and then public policy, on a path to a balanced budget and paying down our debt.
We believe that the “Cut, Cap, Balance” plan for substantial spending cuts in FY 2012, a statutory spending cap, and Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution is the minimum necessary precondition to raising the debt limit. The ultimate goal is to get us back to a point where increases in the debt limit are no longer necessary.
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Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge [FOX: 6-22-2011]
Senator Pat Toomey Explains That Failing To Raise Debt Limit Doesn’t Cause Default
Jim DeMint Balanced Budget Amendment and Republican Presidential Candidate’s
CNN: DeMint Discusses Cut, Cap & Balance Pledge
Brit Humes Commentary – Understanding Debt Crisis [FOX 6-28-2011]
Ron Paul on Bloomberg 6/3/11
Howdy Doody Show Opening Sequence and Theme
Buffalo Bob: Say kids, what time is it?
Kids: It’s Howdy Doody Time!
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Bob Smith and Howdy do
Say Howdy Do to you.
Let’s give a rousing cheer,
Cause Howdy Doody’s here,
It’s time to start the show,
So kids let’s go!
U.S. National Debt Clock
Paul Ryan As Howdy Doody
John Boehner as Buffalo Bob with Howdy Doody
Barack Obama As Phineas T. Bluster Marionette
Joe Biden As Clarabell
Judy Collins Send in the Clowns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
| Summary of Outlays, Revenues (Receipts), Deficits, Surpluses Fiscal Years 1980-2010(Nominal Dollars in Millions) | |||
| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues (Receipts) | Deficits (-), Surpluses |
| 1980 | 590,941 | 517,112 | -73,830 |
| 1981 | 678,241 | 599,272 | -78,968 |
| 1982 | 745,743 | 617,766 | –127,977 |
| 1983 | 808,364 | 600,562 | -207,802 |
| 1984 | 851,805 | 666,488 | -185,367 |
| 1985 | 946,344 | 734,037 | -212,308 |
| 1986 | 990,382 | 769,155 | -221,277 |
| 1987 | 1,004,017 | 854,288 | -149,730 |
| 1988 | 1,064,417 | 854,288 | -155,178 |
| 1989 | 1,143,744 | 991,105 | -152,639 |
| 1990 | 1,252,994 | 1,031,958 | -221,036 |
| 1991 | 1,324,226 | 1,054,988 | -269,238 |
| 1992 | 1,381,529 | 1,091,208 | -290,321 |
| 1993 | 1,409,386 | 1,154,335 | -255,051 |
| 1994 | 1,461,753 | 1,258,566 | –203,186 |
| 1995 | 1,515,742 | 1,351,790 | -163,392 |
| 1996 | 1,560,484 | 1,453,053 | -107,431 |
| 1997 | 1,601,116 | 1,579,232 | -21,884 |
| 1998 | 1,652,458 | 1,721,728 | 69,270 |
| 1999 | 1,701,842 | 1,827,452 | 125,610 |
| 2000 | 1,788,950 | 2,025,191 | 236,241 |
| 2001 | 1,862,846 | 1,991,082 | 128,236 |
| 2002 | 2,010,894 | 1,853,136 | –157,758 |
| 2003 | 2,159,899 | 1,782,314 | -377,585 |
| 2004 | 2,292,841 | 1,880,114 | -412,727 |
| 2005 | 2,471,957 | 2,153,611 | -318,346 |
| 2006 | 2,655,050 | 2,406,869 | -248,181 |
| 2007 | 2,728,686 | 2,567,985 | -160,701 |
| 2008 | 2,982,544 | 2,523,991 | -458,553 |
| 2009 | 3,517,677 | 2,104,989 | -1,412,688 |
| 2010 | 3,456,213 | 2,162,724 | -1,293,489 |
Monthly Treasury Statement
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE
STAR - TREASURY FINANCIAL DATABASE
TABLE 1. SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS AND THE DEFICIT/SURPLUS BY MONTH OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (IN MILLIONS)
ACCOUNTING DATE: 05/11
PERIOD RECEIPTS OUTLAYS DEFICIT/SURPLUS (-)
+ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________
PRIOR YEAR
OCTOBER 135,293 311,656 176,363
NOVEMBER 133,563 253,850 120,287
DECEMBER 218,919 310,329 91,410
JANUARY 205,239 247,873 42,634
FEBRUARY 107,520 328,429 220,909
MARCH 153,358 218,745 65,387
APRIL 245,260 327,950 82,689
MAY 146,794 282,721 135,927
JUNE 251,048 319,470 68,422
JULY 155,546 320,588 165,043
AUGUST 163,998 254,524 90,526
SEPTEMBER 245,207 279,813 34,607
YEAR-TO-DATE 2,161,746 3,455,949 1,294,204
CURRENT YEAR
OCTOBER 145,951 286,384 140,432
NOVEMBER 148,970 299,364 150,394
DECEMBER 236,875 315,009 78,134
JANUARY 226,550 276,346 49,796
FEBRUARY 110,656 333,163 222,507
MARCH 150,894 339,047 188,153
APRIL 289,543 329,929 40,387
MAY 174,911 232,551 57,641
YEAR-TO-DATE 1,484,350 2,411,794 927,444
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0511.txt
Obama Spending
Boehner on Hannity Talks Jobs, Debt Limit, & Balanced Budget Amendment
The US economy is failing and a recovery seems uncertain
Cut, Cap, Balance: Sen Jim DeMint (R-SC)
ECONOMY: Blackburn On Cut Cap Balance
Don’t Be a Chicken
Super MariObama
Chairman Jordan: Cut, Cap, & Balance – That’s the Bottom Line
President restarts debt ceiling talks
Tom and the Judge talk Debt Limit
Obama, Dems Negotiation Failure On Spending Cuts
Amid ‘Serious Negotiations’ on Debt, Can Obama and GOP Find Common Ground?
Start Listening to Senator Paul:
3/09/11: Sen. Rand Paul on balancing the budget
03/17/11: Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Five-Year Balanced Budget Plan
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S-1 FY2012 Senator Rand Paul (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | DeficitsSurplus | Debt Held By Public |
| 2011 | 3,708 | 2,228 | -1,480 | 10,430 |
| 2012 | 3,100 | 2,547 | -553 | 11,051 |
| 2013 | 3,152 | 2,755 | -397 | 11,532 |
| 2014 | 3,227 | 3,088 | -139 | 11,748 |
| 2015 | 3,360 | 3,244 | -116 | 11,942 |
| 2016 | 3,430 | 3,349 | 19 | 11,997 |
| 2012-2016 | 16,269 | 15,083 | -1,188 | n.a. |
http://campaignforliberty.com/materials/RandBudget.pdf
4/14/11: Sen. Rand Paul Speaks Out Against the Continuing Resolution
Senator Lee explains the enforceability of a balanced budget amendment
Senator Pat Toomey Explains That Failing To Raise Debt Limit Doesn’t Cause Default
Neither the Republican Party nor Democratic Party Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposals are the road to peace and prosperity but a Tea Party budget with balanced budgets most definitely is:
Which Budgets Are Balanced And Living Within The Means of The American People?
4/5/11 Republican Leadership Press Conference
Republican Party Budget Proposals
|
S-1 FY2012 Chairman’s Markup (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
| 2011 | 3,618 | 2,230 | -1,388 | 10,351 |
| 2012 | 3,529 | 2,533 | -995 | 11,418 |
| 2013 | 3,559 | 2,860 | -699 | 12,217 |
| 2014 | 3,586 | 3,094 | -492 | 12,801 |
| 2015 | 3,671 | 3,237 | -434 | 13,326 |
| 2016 | 3,858 | 3,377 | -481 | 13,886 |
| 2017 | 3,998 | 3,589 | -408 | 14,363 |
| 2018 | 4,123 | 3,745 | -379 | 14,800 |
| 2019 | 4,352 | 3,939 | -414 | 15,254 |
| 2020 | 4,544 | 4,142 | -402 | 15,681 |
| 2021 | 4,739 | 4,354 | -385 | 16,071 |
| 2012-2021 | 39,958 | 34,870 | -5,088 | n.a. |
http://budget.house.gov/UploadedFiles/PathToProsperityFY2012.pdf
Sen. Toomey Unveils his FY 2012 Budget
Senator Pat Toomey Talks with Michael Medved about his Budget
| S-1 FY2012 Senator Pat Toomey(Nominal Dollars in Billions) | ||||
| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | DeficitsSurplus | Debt Held By Public |
| 2011 | 3,625 | 2,230 | -1,351 | 10,351 |
| 2012 | 3,477 | 2,538 | -919 | 11,418 |
| 2013 | 3,485 | 2,964 | -521 | 12,217 |
| 2014 | 3,509 | 3,216 | -291 | 12,801 |
| 2015 | 3,623 | 3,391 | -233 | 13,326 |
| 2016 | 3,765 | 3,524 | -241 | 13,886 |
| 2017 | 3,853 | 3,736 | -117 | 14,363 |
| 2018 | 3,955 | 3,916 | -39 | 14,800 |
| 2019 | 4,140 | 4,108 | -32 | 15,254 |
| 2020 | 4,302 | 4,325 | 23 | 15,681 |
| 2021 | 4,493 | 4,566 | 73 | 16,071 |
| 2012-2021 | 38,602 | 36,304 | -2298 | n.a. |
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55116239/Restoring-Balance-Final
Democratic Party Budget Proposals
|
S-1 FY2012 President’s Budget (Nominal Dollars in Billions) |
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| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Deficits | Debt Held By Public |
| 2011 | 3,819 | 2,174 | -1,645 | 10,856 |
| 2012 | 3,729 | 2,627 | -1,101 | 11,881 |
| 2013 | 3,771 | 3,003 | -768 | 12,784 |
| 2014 | 3,977 | 3,333 | -646 | 13,562 |
| 2015 | 4,190 | 3,583 | -607 | 14,301 |
| 2016 | 4,468 | 3,819 | -649 | 15,064 |
| 2017 | 4,669 | 4,042 | -627 | 15,795 |
| 2018 | 4,876 | 4,257 | -619 | 16,513 |
| 2019 | 5,154 | 4,473 | -681 | 17,284 |
| 2020 | 5,442 | 4,686 | -735 | 18,103 |
| 2021 | 5,697 | 4,923 | -774 | 18,967 |
| 2012-2021 | 45,952 | 38,747 | -7,205 | n.a. |
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/tables.pdf
Tea Party Budget Proposals
| S-1 FY2012 Tea Party’s Balanced/Surplus Budget(Nominal Dollars in Billions) | ||||
| Fiscal Year | Outlays | Revenues | Surpluses | Debt Held By Public |
| 2012 | 2,500 | 2,500 | 0 | 10,900 |
| 2013 | 2,800 | 2,800 | 0 | 10,900 |
| 2014 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 0 | 10,900 |
| 2015 | 3,200 | 3,200 | 0 | 10,900 |
| 2016 | 3,300 | 3,300 | 0 | 10,900 |
| 2017 | 3,400 | 3,500 | 100 | 10,800 |
| 2018 | 3,500 | 3,700 | 200 | 10,600 |
| 2019 | 3,600 | 3,900 | 300 | 10,300 |
| 2020 | 3,700 | 4,000 | 300 | 10,000 |
| 2021 | 3,800 | 4,300 | 500 | 9,500 |
| 2012-2021 | 32,800 | 34,200 | 1,400 | n.a. |
Please sign the cut, cap and balance pledge by clicking on the link below.
http://cutcapbalancepledge.com/
This should put some pressure on your Senators and Representatives of both political parties that still believe that massive annual deficits of over $1000 billion can continue for years if not decades into the future.
The U. S. economy has two years or less to increase the growth rate from 1.9 to over 4.0% and reduce the official unemployment rate from 9.2 % to under 7%.
If the total U.S. Government Federal Government outlays are not significantly reduced and brought into balanced with tax revenues by 2013, the U.S. economy will enter another recession and the official unemployment rate or U-3 will exceed 10% with over 15 million unemployed Americans and with over 30 million Americans seeking full-time employment.
The total outlays (spending) and revenues (taxes) must be equal for the Fiscal Year 2014 U.S Federal Government budget and subsequent fiscal years; At most outlays or spending should be less than or equal to 18% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
This is the only way to increase the U.S.’s economic growth rate of Gross Domestic Product to over a 5% and reduce unemployment rate to under 5%.
If this is not done the U.S. economy will first go into another recession followed by a long period of stagflation with little recovery in terms of jobs.
If your representatives refuse to sign the pledge, do not vote for them in the next election.
If your representatives votes for an increase in the national debt ceiling without the terms of the pledge being honored or met, do not vote for them in the next election.
Force the President of the United States to balance the budget in Fiscal Year 2012 by insisting the national debt ceiling not be increased.
Remember that the estimated deficit for Fiscal Year 2011 is $1,650 billion dollars. This is about equal to the total U.S. Federal Government budget in Fiscal Year 1998 when the budget was in surplus!
Through the end of June 2011 the actual deficit for Fiscal Year 2011 exceeds over $1,000 billion with three more months to go.
In other words tax revenues are estimated to be about $2,200 billion with outlays or spending to be over $3,800 billion.
The time has come for your Senators and Representatives to show some spine and fiscal discipline.
If they do not, find someone who will and vote for them in the next election!
Remember the Alamo
Background Articles and Videos
Grant Says New Regulations `Asphyxiating’ U.S. Banks
James Grant and James Turk discuss gold, the Fed and the fiscal situation of the USA
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 1/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 2/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 3/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 4/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 5/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 6/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 7/8
Ron Paul’s Committee Hearing 3-17-11 Part 8/8
Bernanke Says Recovery to Pick Up in Coming Quarters
Fed Cuts US Growth Outlook
The Deficit Is Worse Than We Think
Normal interest rates would raise debt-service costs by $4.9 trillion over 10 years, dwarfing the savings from any currently contemplated budget deal.
By LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY
“…Washington is struggling to make a deal that will couple an increase in the debt ceiling with a long-term reduction in spending. There is no reason for the players to make their task seem even more Herculean than it already is. But we should be prepared for upward revisions in official deficit projections in the years ahead—even if a deal is struck. There are at least three major reasons for concern.
First, a normalization of interest rates would upend any budgetary deal if and when one should occur. At present, the average cost of Treasury borrowing is 2.5%. The average over the last two decades was 5.7%. Should we ramp up to the higher number, annual interest expenses would be roughly $420 billion higher in 2014 and $700 billion higher in 2020.
The 10-year rise in interest expense would be $4.9 trillion higher under “normalized” rates than under the current cost of borrowing. Compare that to the $2 trillion estimate of what the current talks about long-term deficit reduction may produce, and it becomes obvious that the gains from the current deficit-reduction efforts could be wiped out by normalization in the bond market. …”
“…The second reason for concern is that official growth forecasts are much higher than what the academic consensus believes we should expect after a financial crisis. That consensus holds that economies tend to return to trend growth of about 2.5%, without ever recapturing what was lost in the downturn.
But the president’s budget of February 2011 projects economic growth of 4% in 2012, 4.5% in 2013, and 4.2% in 2014. That budget also estimates that the 10-year budget cost of missing the growth estimate by just one point for one year is $750 billion. So, if we just grow at trend those three years, we will miss the president’s forecast by a cumulative 5.2 percentage points and—using the numbers provided in his budget—incur additional debt of $4 trillion. That is the equivalent of all of the 10-year savings in Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget, passed by the House in April, or in the Bowles-Simpson budget plan.
Third, it is increasingly clear that the long-run cost estimates of ObamaCare were well short of the mark because of the incentive that employers will have under that plan to end private coverage and put employees on the public system. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has already issued 1,400 waivers from the act’s regulations for employers as large as McDonald’s to stop them from dumping their employees’ coverage. …”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304657804576401883172498352.html
Michele Bachmann says Obama using “scare tactics” on debt ceiling
“…White House hopeful Michele Bachmann on Tuesday accused President Obama of using scare tactics to convince Congress to raise the statutory limit on how much money the United States can borrow to keep the government running.
“I think these are scare tactics by the Obama administration,” the Minnesota Republican Representative said in an interview on CBS’ “The Early Show,” referring to assertions that financial markets would be face turmoil if Congress does not raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by August 2.
“Until I see a legitimate, serious reduction in spending, I can’t give my vote” to raise the debt ceiling, Bachmann said, adding “we will be right back at it again a year and a half from now in a worse position than we are today.”
Bachmann noted that the debt ceiling would have to be increased by about $2.4 trillion to last through the end of next year.
She backed a controversial proposal from Sen. Pat Toomey, (R-Pa.) to give bondholders, including China, first dibs on the payments from the U.S. Treasury.
“The interest on the debt can easily be paid for and that would mean that we wouldn’t default,” she said. …”
“…Toomey’s proposal is popular among the conservative Tea Party wing of the Republican party, but has not been endorsed by the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.
The Obama administration has warned against Toomey’s proposal, as has Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Earlier this month, Bernanke, who served as a top White House adviser to President George W. Bush before becoming Fed chief, said such a prioritization move would cause unnecessary concerns in the financial markets and would only buy a short amount of time.
“While debt-related payments might be met in this scenario, the fact that many other government payments would be delayed could still create serious concerns about the safety of Treasury securities among financial market participants,” Bernanke said in a speech earlier this month. …”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20074952-503544.html
Howdy Doody – 1949 – (1/3)
Howdy Doody – 1949 – (2/3)
Howdy Doody – 1949 – (3/3)
Howdy Doody
“…Howdy Doody is an American children’s television program (with circus and frontier/Western themes) that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir[1] and telecast on NBC in the United States from 1947 until 1960. It was a pioneer in children’s television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. It was also a pioneer in early color production as NBC (at the time owned by TV maker RCA) used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.
Howdy Doody himself is a freckle-faced boy marionette with 48 freckles, one for each state of the union (up until January 3, 1959), and was originally voiced by Buffalo Bob Smith.[2] The Howdy Doody show’s various marionettes were created and built by puppeteers Velma Wayne Dawson, Scott Brinker (the show’s prop man) and Rufus Rose throughout the show’s run.[3] The redheaded Howdy marionette on the original show was operated with 11 strings: two heads, one mouth, one eye, two shoulders, one back, two hands and two knees. Three strings were added when the show returned—two elbows and one nose.
The original Howdy Doody marionette now resides at the Detroit Institute of Arts. There were duplicate Howdy Doody puppets, designed to be used expressly for off-the-air purposes (lighting rehearsals, personal appearances, etc.), although surviving kinescope recordings clearly show that these duplicate puppets were indeed used on the air occasionally. Double Doody was the Howdy stand-in puppet; now on permanent display at the Smithsonian.[4] Photo Doody, is the near-stringless marionette that was used in personal appearances, photos, parades, and the famed NBC test pattern. He was sold by Leland’s Sports Auction House in 1997 for more than $113,000 to a private art collector, TJ Fisher.[5] Other puppet characters included Heidi Doody (Howdy’s sister), Mayor Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Inspector John J. Fadoozle (“America’s number 1 private eye”), Sandra the Witch, Princess Summerfall Winterspring, Capt. Windy Scuttlebut and the curious Flub-a-Dub (a combination of eight animals: a duck’s bill, a cat’s whiskers, a spaniel’s ears, a giraffe’s neck, a dachshund’s body, a seal’s flippers, a pig’s tail and an elephant’s memory). The show is also known for its animals like Hyde and Zeke the bears, Mambo the Elephant, Tizzy the dinosaur, Paddle the Gnu, and Tommy Turtle. Howdy Doody dolls were also sold commercially, as well as marionettes of Howdy Doody and Flub-a-dub.
In addition to the original vintage puppets, puppetmaker Alan Semok (at the request of Bob Smith in the early 1990s) created several exact replicas of Howdy, including (thanks to improved materials and new moulding techniques) a more exact marionette replica than had been produced in the past, as well as a new Photo Doody which Smith used in personal appearances until the time of his death. One of Semok’s marionette duplicates appears on a 2005 cover of TV Guide magazine as part of a series recreating classic covers from the magazine’s history. The cover featured Howdy with Conan O’Brien dressed as Buffalo Bob Smith. Another of the Semok duplicates resides in the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, the private museum owned by renowned illusionist David Copperfield.
Bob Smith (November 27, 1917 – July 30, 1998), the show’s host, was dubbed “Buffalo Bob” early in the show’s run. Smith wore cowboy garb, and the name of the puppet “star” was derived from the Western United States greeting “howdy do”, a commonplace corruption of “How do you do?” (The straightforward use of that expression was also in the theme song’s lyrics.) Smith, who had gotten his start as a singing radio personality in Buffalo, New York, used music frequently in the program. Cast members Lew Anderson and Robert “Nick” Nicholson were both experienced jazz musicians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody
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