U.S. Success In Syria: DARING RAID IN SYRIA AGAINST ISIS

U.S. SUPPORTS DARING RAID IN SYRIA AGAINST ISIS

You likely do not know this or have read about it. However, for days on end when an ops mission resulted in one killed military person it was in the news for a month.

Here is some real news that demonstrates the blatant bias of the MSM!

The U.S.-led coalition flew a contingent of Syrian opposition forces behind enemy lines in a daring raid to cut off the Islamic State’s remaining supply line to the militants’ de facto capital of Raqqa, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The operation was backed by some of the most extensive coalition support yet for the U.S.-backed local forces battling the Islamic State in Syria.

The coalition flew the forces into position and provided fire support from Apache attack helicopters and Marine Corps artillery, said Col. Joe Scrocca, a U.S. military spokesman. Special Forces troops are providing advice and support to the local Syrian forces.

Globalism vs. Nationalism: The Ideological Struggle of the 21st Century

Globalism vs. Nationalism: The Ideological Struggle of the 21st Century

Much of today’s politics does not surround Socialism, Communism Marxism or Democracy; it is about Globalism versus Nationalism. One could say the displacement of a nation's sovereignty by a Global Power Center.

For much of the 20th century, ideological discussions and debates have centered on liberal versus conservative, left versus right.  No longer.  The ideological divide of the 21st century is emerging as globalism versus nationalism.  Since the end of World War II, global integration and technological progress have fueled a new world order centered on free trade, open borders and interdependent economies.  Goods, capital and people should be able to move freely across borders, which is actually the meaning of globalization.  But Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal argues that globalism is a “mindset that globalization is natural and good, that global governance should expand as national sovereignty contracts.”  The new nationalist surge has startled and shocked the advocates of globalism. Brexit is a sound example. And to the shock of many, the leadership of Russia by Putin.

Real world of Obamacare: It carries on and then collapses under its own weight.

Real world of Obamacare: It carries on and then collapses under its own weight.

People hated Obamacare for its high handedness, incompetence and cost. At the same time, it's crafters took great care to create new beneficiaries and new expectations. Which makes repeal very complicated.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that, under Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, 24 million will lose insurance within 10 years, 14 million after the first year.

Granted, the number is highly suspect. CBO projects 18 million covered by the Obamacare exchanges in 2018. But the number today is about 10 million. That means the CBO estimate of those losing coverage is already about 8 million too high.

Obamacare is in trouble and that is far from a myth.  If people know that they can sign up for insurance after they get sick, the very idea of insurance is undermined. People won’t sign up when healthy and the insurance companies will go broke.

So, what do you do? Requiring people buy a service/product is not Constitutional. Levying a tax (according to SCOTUS) is okay. The purists who insist upon entirely escaping the heavy hand of government are dreaming. The best you can hope for is to make it less intrusive and more rational, as in the Ryan plan’s block-granting Medicaid.

Sixty-year-olds use six times as much health care as 20-year-olds, yet Obamacare decreed, entirely arbitrarily, that the former could be charged insurance premiums no more than three times that of the latter. The GOP bill changes the ratio from 3-to-1 to 5-to-1.

Premiums that better reflecting risk constitute a major restoration of rationality. Under Obamacare, the young were unwilling to be swindled and refused to sign up. Without their support, the whole system is thus headed into a death spiral of looming insolvency. We will be there soon! Let the Democrats filibuster the GOP Bill to death – and take the blame when repeal-and-replace fails, Obamacare carries on and then collapses under its own weight. The backlash will be enormous! 

Someone once said: What goes around comes around

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my son's life.'

'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked.

'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.

'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.' And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill ... His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

History Lesson on Your Social Security

History Lesson on Your Social Security

Just in case some young people (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to

check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be

Completely voluntary, No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay

1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,

Now 7.65% on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year, No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the

general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and, Under Johnson the money was moved to

The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never

be taxed as income. Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE: 

A: That's right!

Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! 

The Government has no money, so how does it operate?

The Government has no money, so how does it operate?

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Where does the government get the money it spends?

• ·        Almost half of all federal revenue 47 % comes from individual income taxes. 
• ·        Another 33 % of revenue comes from payroll taxes, which are assessed on the wage or salary paychecks of almost all workers
• ·        Corporate income tax is 11% and the other 9% are other sources of tax revenue include excise taxes, the estate tax, and other taxes and fees.

Where does the taxpayer’s money go?

• ·        The government spends about $3.7 trillion, over $3.2 trillion was financed by federal revenues. The remaining amount ($438 billion) was financed by borrowing. 
• ·        $888 billion or 24% is paid out through Social Security benefits to 2.3 million spouses and children of retired workers, 6.1 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers, and 10.8 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents; a total of 19.2 million people.
• ·        Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace subsidies — together accounted for 25 %, or $938 billion.
• ·        Defense and international security assistance (includes the cost of supporting operations in Afghanistan and other related activities, described as Overseas Contingency Operations): Another 16 percent of the budget, or $602 billion
• ·        Safety net programs: About 10 percent of the federal budget in 2015, or $362 billion
• ·        The federal government must make regular interest payments on the money it borrowed to finance past deficits— these interest payments claimed $223 billion, or about 6 percent of the  Budget.
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