"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
"Former President George H.W. Bush has been moved out of the intensive care unit and into a regular patient room at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
"President Bush's condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital to continue his recovery. The Bushes thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes," a family spokesman said Saturday.
"The president is alert, and as always, in good spirits," Jim McGrath said on Friday. He was reportedly singing with the medical staff.
He said physicians are "cautiously optimistic that the current course of treatment will be effective."
The 88-year-old has been hospitalized since Nov. 23. He was moved into intensive care on Sunday for treatment of a fever following a bronchitis-related cough."
On Sunday, I found that picture from years ago when I met Pres Bush. It happened when Pres Bush visited Dallas to greet some of his supporters. I had worked with other Hispanics in Texas during the '88 election.
My recollection is that Pres Bush was very nice, a real gentleman. We joked about Cuba and he told me about his son in Florida. (He was talking about Jeb, or the future governor of Florida)
Very nice moment. Of course, the best news is that Pres Bush is improving and may go home soon.
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Pres BO, and many in the media, are avoiding the reality of January 1st. The fact is that taxes are going up and it has nothing to do with "the fiscal cliff". It has everything to do with Obama-Care, the single most irresponsible & expensive piece of legislation in US history.
"Obamacare contains twenty new or higher taxes. Five of the taxes hit for the first time on January 1. In total, Americans face a net $1 trillion tax hike for the years 2013-2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office."
We will soon see:
1) "Medical Device Tax: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. Obamacare imposes a new 2.3 percent excise tax on gross sales – even if the company does not earn a profit in a given year. In addition to killing small business jobs and impacting research and development budgets, this will increase the cost of your health care – making everything from pacemakers to artificial hips more expensive."
2) "The 30-35 million Americans who use a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) at work to pay for their family’s basic medical needs will face a new government cap of $2500. This will squeeze $13 billion of tax money from Americans over the next ten years. (Currently, the accounts are unlimited under federal law, though employers are allowed to set a cap.)"
3) "The Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income: This is a new, 3.8 percentage point surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single)."
And there are others.
Of course, the Obama "spin" is that the rich will pay more, or their "fair share". In fact, the rich won't pay more. They will invest less, hire fewer people and move their dollars to tax shelters overseas.
Again, don't blame me because I voted for Romney. Blame that "low information voter" who voted for Obama because he is "hip" or "cool".
Check out our chat with Dr Ileana Johnson Paugh on Friday:
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The most interesting part of the article naming President Obama was a paragraph in the 2nd page:
"Few
experts predicted two years ago that Obama would be busy writing his
second Inaugural Address. Pre-election polling showed depressed
enthusiasm among young people and Latinos, for example, amid soaring
interest among white evangelicals and the elderly. But the poll
questions did not account for Obama's secret weapon: the people who
don't much care for politics. A sizable chunk of the President's most
ardent backers don't admire either party yet think Obama is somehow
above it all, immune to all the horse trading and favor mongering that
politics entails. These voters aren't political in the cable-TV sense of
the word. But in 2012, they stuck by Obama. In the last month of the
Obama campaign's voter registration, 70% of those signed up were women,
minorities or people under 30."
By the way, put me down as one of those who logically looked at voter registration among Hispanics and predicted a low turnout.
Also,
put me down as someone who predicted a 51-48% Romney victory. I just
made the logical conclusion that the voters would reject a man who has
been such a lousy executive, from bringing people together to
forcing Senate Democrats to pass a budget to getting his own party to
send him an immigration reform bill.
Yes,
I was wrong or just too logical. President Obama had a dismal record
but that does not matter anymore that "low information voters" get their
impressions on "The view", MTV and Letterman.
Yes,
President Obama was reelected by people who do not follow politics or
care much about it. He was reelected because the campaign was able to
connect with voters who don't have a clue, not even a clue of what
President Obama stands for.
For
example, the TIME article pointed out that Obama got 71% of the
Hispanic vote. At the same time, President Obama never sent Congress a
proposal or ever address the nation on TV as President Bush did.
The direct consequence of having "low information voters" decide the election is evident in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations.
We
see a president who feels immune from accountability. He knows that
the media will cover for him and the "low information voters" will stand
by their man.
We can only hope that the "low information voters" go back to sleep or stay home the next time around.
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