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		<title>The Coming Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate will rise a little more before it begins falling in the middle of 2010, but before it gets below 8 again the inflation Obama has caused with his spending printing and monetisation of our debt, will cause a complete economic depression. The dollar will collapse, there will be poverty, hunger and homelessness [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">The unemployment rate will rise a little more before it begins falling in the middle of 2010, but before it gets below 8 again </span></span>the inflation Obama has caused with his spending printing and monetisation of our debt, will cause a complete economic depression. The dollar will collapse, there will be poverty, hunger and homelessness worse than the great depression. America, that is socialism at work.</p>
<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content"></span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Aware Americans must wake sleeping ones up, be gentle but firm, let your friends and family know so they can prepare for the collapse. T</span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">he inflation is unavoidable at this point it will happen, we have doubled the money supply and monetised our debt. We do have a chance </span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">if we can clear the corrupt parties out of D.C. in 2010 we can shorten the impact of the inflation if we slash government spending and corruption. America might survive a </span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Marxist </span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Progressive Congress and President Obama.</span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content"></span></span></p>
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		<title>Gay Marriage, let the People decide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks California&#8217;s Supreme court upheld proposition 8, and New Hampshire via their Governor&#8217;s  signature made gay marriage the law, becoming the sixth state to do so. This is the way these things are supposed to be done, if the U.S. Constitution is silent on an issue that means the states decide.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the past few weeks California&#8217;s Supreme court upheld proposition 8, and New Hampshire via their Governor&#8217;s  signature made gay marriage the law, becoming the sixth state to do so. This is the way these things are supposed to be done, if the U.S. Constitution is silent on an issue that means the states decide.</p>
<p>Personally, I would rather the government stayed out of the marriage business all together. Unless children are involved, the state should be silent. The government has a substantial interest in children who will be the next generation as well as an obligation to protect minors who are not in a position to protect themselves. The government has an interest in encouraging parents to stay together for stability and when necessary decide custody issues in the child&#8217;s best interest. Where two consenting adults  are involved they can presumably protect their own rights and should do so. In a contract detailing what they each expect from the relationship, what happens upon dissolution and who pays the court costs if necessary. If you want to go to your religious organization and have some sort of ceremony, call yourself married, fine with me. Just don&#8217;t involve my tax dollars unless children are involved.</p>
<p>Gay marriage, polygamy, regular old fashioned traditional, whatever relationship makes you happy is fine with me. Its your Life you should have the Liberty  to pursue your Happiness, unless your happiness requires everyone else to except it. If a temple or church is forced to perform a ceremony against their teachings then it interferes with their rights. Teaching the Politically Correct view of gay marriage interferes with parents rights to raise their own children, and instil the values they believe are important. Have whatever relationship makes you happy but don&#8217;t demand that everyone else approve of it.</p>
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		<title>Give him a chance.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone keeps saying Give Obama a chance, its only his first 100 days. I don&#8217;t recall anyone on the left saying give Bush a chance. I do remember the comments about Bush, before September 11th, calling him Cheney&#8217;s puppet, saying he is an idiot. Networks had shows that ridiculed him, like comedy centrals show named [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone keeps saying Give Obama a chance, its only his first 100 days. I don&#8217;t recall anyone on the left saying give Bush a chance. I do remember the comments about Bush, before September 11th, calling him Cheney&#8217;s puppet, saying he is an idiot. Networks had shows that ridiculed him, like comedy centrals show named &#8220;that&#8217;s my Bush&#8221; with a Bush look a like playing a moron and V.P. Cheney running the country. The viciousness of the left did not start after the Iraq war or Katrina it  started when Bush was sworn in and built itself up to the level we saw in the 08&#8242; election.</p>
<p>So why should those who are opposed to Obama&#8217;s proposed polices and Marxist philosophy give him a chance. Most of those on the right  who urge restraint and bipartisanship, say we shouldn&#8217;t sink to their level, two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right, its not the honourable thing to do. If we are  going to be using clinches how about fight fire with fire. If you oppose his policies don&#8217;t be afraid to stand up for your ideals. Should we sink to the level of the left-wing haters no. Should we sit silently while he installs a socialist economic system and fascist central government not a  chance.</p>
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		<title>Orenthal James &#8220;O. J.&#8221; Simpson, Justice or Vengeance? Yes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orenthal James &#8220;O. J.&#8221; Simpson, Justice or Vengeance? Yes.
Like the majority of people in the U.S. I believe O.J. should have been convicted of double homicide, I believe the evidence showed his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The question is, was his conviction and the sentence of 33 years  based solely on the charges of kidnapping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Orenthal James &#8220;O. J.&#8221; Simpson, Justice or Vengeance? Yes.<br />
Like the majority of people in the U.S. I believe O.J. should have been convicted of double homicide, I believe the evidence showed his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>
<p>The question is, was his conviction and the sentence of 33 years  based solely on the charges of kidnapping and robbery, not based on the thought that &#8220;he got away with murder.&#8221;  If he were just somebody off the street with no fame and public history, he certainly would have been arrested had he done what O.J. did in that hotel room in Vegas.</p>
<p>The question is would he have been charged with the kidnapping, or some lesser crime. I believe that the charges would have be somewhat reduced, that the D.A. would not have let everyone else off in exchange for testimony. They had the tapes, as the judge said his own words on those recordings were enough to convict him. They did not need the accomplice testimony they could have prosecuted the lot of them for Kidnapping and robbery. I think they would have given all of the defendants reasonable plea bargains and moved on. Anyone convicted of what O.J. Was convicted of, would have gotten a similar sentence, but I doubt any Joe Citizen, found doing what O.J. did would have been charged in the same way.</p>
<p>The District attorney was not going to let an infamous double murderer get away with anything in his jurisdiction.  So this was both Justice and Vengeance.</p>
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		<title>A look under the Obama bus.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans have an innate fear of the unknown, when Obama started winning primary contests, I admit I was a little afraid of him he was an unknown and I was ignorant, without the facts.
We also have an innate curiosity, so I began to research Obama, to turn my ignorance into knowledge.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humans have an innate fear of the unknown, when Obama started winning primary contests, I admit I was a little afraid of him he was an unknown and I was ignorant, without the facts.</p>
<p>We also have an innate curiosity, so I began to research Obama, to turn my ignorance into knowledge.</p>
<p>I looked into his past, to his supporters the ones who helped him get elected to office, his friends those he chose to associate with the ones he called mentor.</p>
<p>Every time I looked into one of these people behind Obama another name popped up, so I researched them as well, the more I learned the more my natural human natured fear of the unknown turned to terror.</p>
<p>I have become terrified of Barrack Obama not out of ignorance but knowledge. I can now say Ignorance is bliss; the fear of the unknown has been replace by the terror of the reality, of The Obama.</p>
<p>I am going to touch on some of these associations.</p>
<p>Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn Tony Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, Rashid Khalidi, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger.</p>
<p>Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s High school mentor one of his father figures, Obama in his book refers to him as “frank” a poet.</p>
<p>Also a Stalin supporter and, Member of the Moscow-controlled, Communist Party of America,</p>
<p>Here’s one of frank’s poems<br />
Titled “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army”<br />
Show the marveling multitudes<br />
Americans, British, all your allied brothers<br />
How strong you are<br />
How great you are<br />
How your young tree of new unity<br />
Planted twenty-five years ago<br />
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!</p>
<p>House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations.</p>
<p>Obama admits attending &#8220;socialist conferences&#8221; and coming into contact with Marxist literature.</p>
<p>Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, in a letter<br />
to People&#8217;s Weekly World, official newspaper of the Communist Party wrote,</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface”</p>
<p>Then there are Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn founders of the Weather Underground a 60’s group linked by the FBI to North Vietnam, Castro’s Cuba and the KGB.<br />
&#8220;Their founding document calls for the &#8220;the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ayers held Obama’s first campaign fundraiser at his house,<br />
Visiting Ayers is a right of passage in left wing Chicago circles.</p>
<p>They served on several boards together including the Woods Foundation.<br />
In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform the Chicago public schools.</p>
<p>One of the architects of the Challenge was Ayers who selected Barack Obama as, the first Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.</p>
<p>Dorn Praised Charles Manson saying &#8220;Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!&#8221;</p>
<p>Ayers, was responsible for blowing up bombs at the Pentagon, Capital building and Police Stations. Ayers said in 2001 &#8220;I don’t regret setting bombs I feel we didn’t do enough.&#8221;</p>
<p>About Ayers Obama stated they live in the same neighborhood, their kids attend the same school. Ayers kids are grown, one is an adviser to Hugo Chaves.</p>
<p>Then there is Syrian borne Tony Rezko, now a convicted felon, who made his money in partnerships with Nation of Islam founder Elija Mohamed.</p>
<p>Obama Provided Political Favors To Tony Rezko, Including Writing Letters On His Behalf:<br />
As A State Senator, Obama Wrote Letters To City And State Officials Supporting Tony Rezko’s Successful Bid To Get More Than $14 Million From Taxpayers To Build Apartments For Senior Citizens.</p>
<p>After his conviction Obama stated this in not the Tony Rezco I have known for twenty years</p>
<p>And One of Rezco’s partners an Iraqi born British billionaire businessman, and former Baath party member. And implicated in the Oil for food scandal.</p>
<p>British media reports indicate he sold naval ships to Hussein’s government in the 1980s. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were among the guests at a party in Auchi&#8217;s honor that took place at Rezko&#8217;s residence in 2004</p>
<p>&#8220;Sen. Obama does not recall meeting Nadhmi Auchi at any time or on any occasion, and this includes any event that may have been held for Mr. Auchi.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then there is,<br />
Obama’s friend Rashid Khalidi, who In 2000 held a fundraiser for Obama, he was director of W.A.F.A. in the seventies, a Palestinian news agency serving Yasser Arafat and the PLO and is now a professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. In 2001, the Woods Fund, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, which Khalidi&#8217;s wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant of  $35,000 a year later.</p>
<p>Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence and admires those who carry it out. He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives . . . in defense of the cause of Palestine”<br />
He rejects any two-state solution, he is for a one-state solution Palestine and like Hamas wants the Jews driven into the sea.</p>
<p>About Khalidi Obama says he knows him, their kids attend the same school. Again Khalidi’s children are much older than the 7 and 9-year-old daughters of Obama.</p>
<p>I’m sure you have already heard of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, and their good friend Louis Farrakhan.<br />
About Write Obama stated this in not the Jeremiah Wright I have known.</p>
<p>Barrack Obama warned that we would try and scare you, he knew we would not overlook his ties to terrorists and radical Marxists. Are you scared if him? I am terrified!</p>
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		<title>Did the &#8220;Obama Magical Mystery World Tour,&#8221; help or hurt him?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the well choreographed stops and excellent speeches, some mistakes were maid. In Iraq Senator Obama gave a speech in front of some soldiers standing at attention, but there was little interaction with the troops.
Then there was the presumptuous attitude of Senator Obama and his staff who constantly had to be reminded Obama was not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite the well choreographed stops and excellent speeches, some mistakes were maid. In Iraq Senator Obama gave a speech in front of some soldiers standing at attention, but there was little interaction with the troops.</p>
<p>Then there was the presumptuous attitude of Senator Obama and his staff who constantly had to be reminded Obama was not the president of the United States, merely a candidate. While in Jordan he had a press conference from the top of a mountain. While in Germany he gave a speech in front of the victory column in front of thousands of cheering Germans. In Germany he had plenty of time to speak to non-voters and found time for shopping and working out at his hotel spa, but canceled a trip to visit wounded troops.  The Pentagon told him he could not bring his media entourage<span><em> </em></span>inside the hospital and as the policy states a senator can visit wounded troops any time but can only bring one staff member. Then there were the various excuses made for the cancellation.</p>
<p>Now several weeks after Obama is still tied with McCain, the small poll bump is gone and Obama is still thought of as the least experienced candidate to ever run on a major party ticket.</p>
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		<title>Democrats, Social Security and Our Health Care System.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats always point to Social Security as a great accomplishment, but it is always on the verge of total collapse. Every couple of years congress is forced to &#8220;fix it&#8221; by adding more tax money, decreasing benefits or raising the age of eligibility for benefits or some combination.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democrats always point to Social Security as a great accomplishment, but it is always on the verge of total collapse. Every couple of years congress is forced to &#8220;fix it&#8221; by adding more tax money, decreasing benefits or raising the age of eligibility for benefits or some combination.</p>
<p>The problem is, when the program was started the average lifespan of an American Citizen was around 65 years, and the age you needed to reach to collect  Social Security was around 65 years. Meaning the &#8220;average person&#8221; would not live to collect Social Security, the average citizen was expected to work all his life pay into the system, then around the age of 65 they die. At the time Social Security was enacted there were around 20 to 25 people paying into the system for every 1 collecting benefits from it. Since the average lifespan was 65, even those who lived to collect Social Security would not be collecting it for long.</p>
<p>Enter modern Health Care,  the main reason for the average lifespan increasing from 65 sixty years ago to about 77 today, is the tremendous increase in our medical knowledge and technology. We can detect and cure things today that would have been a death sentence just twenty years ago.</p>
<p>That means that the &#8220;average person&#8221; now is expected to collect Social Security benefits for about 12 years, that is about 12 years longer than the average person was expected to collect benefits when the program was invented. Now 2 to 5 workers are paying into the system for every 1 person collecting benefits and the average person is collecting for 12 more years than the initial program expected.</p>
<p>As one of the major causes of increased lifespan democrats must look at our Health Care system  as a direct threat to their great program of Social Security.</p>
<p>Enter the &#8220;New&#8221; Democratic party, every single Democrat who ran for president  this election cycle has run with a plan for government run &#8220;Universal&#8221; Health Care. Their plan must be to take over Health Care system and destroy it, in order to decrease the average lifespan and therefore make Social Security solvent again.</p>
<p>The truth is every government that has Socialized Medicine does and must ration that medicine.  In essence the government decides who gets the heart bypass procedure and who does no, who gets the new cancer drug and who does not. The way they do it is to put everyone on a waiting list for care and if the list is two years long and they happen to die before their number is called well that is just too bad.</p>
<p>The reason Health Care is expensive is the same reason behind the price of everything, supply and demand. If there were more doctors it would be easier to get an appointment, more competition between the doctors for patients would lower prices. Look at the price of plastic surgery, more doctors going into that field over the last twenty years has lowered the cost. It takes a large commitment in both time and money to become a doctor.</p>
<p>In addition to the years of education, it also takes a person who is very intelligent, with a specific aptitude, personality type and disposition, to become a doctor. Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor, therefore there is a limited amount people who can even become one, how many of them would choose that career path for a civil servants salary. It takes allot of hard work and sacrifice to become a doctor and part of the motivation to go threw all of that is the large amount of money a doctor can make and the lifestyle doctors can have.  There will never be enough doctors to go around, limited supply and high demand increases the price.</p>
<p>With socialized medicine the government makes the choice who gets it. Who will they chose to get the open slot for the expensive heart surgery, the forty year old worker with a minor heart defect who still has 15 years of work life left or the sixty five year old who is retired not paying taxes and plans to collect Social Security for the next 15 years.</p>
<p>What if the the retired 65 year old guy has been a smoker with a poor diet, at one point will the government say he is to blame for his own health problems and deny him coverage. At one point does the government ban tobacco, alcohol, cheese burgers and fries, since they are paying the bills for the health effects. Don&#8217;t get me wrong I don&#8217;t smoke and I think its stupid to do so but that&#8217;s &#8220;freedom.&#8221; Freedom means being able to make bad choices as well as good ones.</p>
<p>Back to Social Security, do I really think the Democrats want to take over the Health Care system to destroy it, so that people won&#8217;t live as long and therefore save Social Security, no of course not. They are not bad, evil people they are just misguided, they want to do good they want to help people but they won&#8217;t realize the unintended consequences of their action until its too late.</p>
<p>The truth is most of the innovation in medical care over the last 100 years has come out of the U.S.A.. Lifespan will probably still increases under a &#8220;Universal&#8221; Health Care plan but  that rate of increase will most likely be slowed because of it.  An unintended consequence of their plan is that the innovation that our current system has produced for a hundred years will stagnate, as more people with the aptitude to become doctors and medical researchers decide to forgo the rigors of a medical education and choose a more lucrative return on their education investment. Since the Government will pay the bills they will decide what a doctor can make, and as the only major employer of doctors in the U.S. there will be limited or no competition, no reason to pay higher salary. In countries that now have Socialized medicine programs doctors don&#8217;t make much more than the average Civil Servant.</p>
<p align="left">The problem with these Socialized programs is once enacted they are almost impossible to get rid of. We are currently stuck with a budget where %65 of federal spending is locked up in entitlement programs, promises the government made but cannot keep without taking more and more from us the tax payers. If those who are collecting Social Security now had been allowed to invest their money in the stock market they would have had a much greater return on investment. According to the CATO Institute:</p>
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<p align="center">&#8220;A person retiring at age 65 will only benefit more from Social Security relative to a private investment in the S&amp;P 500 if he is a low earner and lives to be at least 96 years old. For those retiring at age 70, the only individuals that benefit more from Social Security are low earners who live to be at least 94 years old and average earners who live to be at least 108 years old.&#8221;</p>
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<p align="left">The &#8220;average&#8221; income earner will have to live to 108!!!! to do better &#8220;investing&#8221; in Social Security over a private investment. With this level of efficiency do we really want government bureaucrats controlling our entire Health Care system.</p>
<p align="left">The additional intended consequence of the Social Security system for Democrats is in votes, every election cycle they claim that the other side will cut their benefits,  this scares many seniors into voting for them. They vote out of fear, since Social Security is their sole source of income in many cases they become beholden to the government and that gives the government more control over their lives.</p>
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		<title>The Scott McClellan Book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book by former press secretary Scott McClellan is causing quite a stir and I have not read the book I have only read articles however there is noting in those articles other than the hindsight opinions of a guy trying to sell a book.
http://www.billmaher.com/?page_id=107
Impeachment is not a matter of public opinion polls.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The book by former press secretary Scott McClellan is causing quite a stir and I have not read the book I have only read articles however there is noting in those articles other than the hindsight opinions of a guy trying to sell a book.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.billmaher.com/?page_id=107" title="Transcript of  Maher's Show">http://www.billmaher.com/?page_id=107</a></p>
<p>Impeachment is not a matter of public opinion polls.</p>
<h3 align="center">Article. II. - The Executive Branch</h3>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Section 4 - Disqualification </strong></p>
<p align="center">The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States,</p>
<p align="center">shall be removed from Office on <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#IMPEACH">Impeachment</a> for, and Conviction of, <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#TREASON">Treason</a>, Bribery,</p>
<p align="center">or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.</p>
<p>Lying and misleading are not in there. There is no law against lying to the public. Clinton lied under oath to Congress and wasn&#8217;t even removed from office. If you remove every politition who lied to the public it would leave us without anyone in office.</p>
<p>In his book McClellan said the real reason for the war was not WMD&#8217;s but a reshaping of the middle east by introducing Democracy, Freedom and rule of law. No kidding I have known that from the beginning, I was for it then, I am still for it now. Look back into history at FDR and JFK or more recently Regan and Clinton they told &#8220;lies&#8221; to further goals that they as president believed were in the best interest of the nation.</p>
<p>The public thinks they have the right to know all of the who what where when and whys of the inter-workings of their government but thats not possible without telling the whole planet our friends and enemies alike. That is why representative government is the best, we elect the person who will get all of the &#8220;need to know&#8221; information and he or she decides how to act on it and if we like them we can re-elect them for an additional term but either way we get a new head of government every eight years at the most.</p>
<p>So if you are in the 49% who wanted to get a new president in 04, exercise your 1st amendment rights all you want, but other than that, just grin and bear it, as those of us who were in the 51% in 04 did when we got another four more years of Clinton in 96.</p>
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		<title>Guilt by association Barack and Jerimaiah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guilt by association Barack and Jeremiah.
In the United States of America we have the freedom to associate with whoever we choose.
Some people think that means we cant judge people based on their associations, that may be true in a court of law. In the court of public opinion we the people have the freedom to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guilt by association Barack and Jeremiah.</p>
<p>In the United States of America we have the freedom to associate with whoever we choose.</p>
<p>Some people think that means we cant judge people based on their associations, that may be true in a court of law. In the court of public opinion we the people have the freedom to think, to examine and to make judgments based on what ever We think is relevant. We are the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our personal opinion.</p>
<p>Barack Obama knows this and has been preparing for it, he began distancing himself from his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright  since he began running for president. The truth is these politicians are so polished and scripted that we don&#8217;t know what they really believe. Did Obama join the church twenty years ago just as a base for political support as his book suggests was a partial reason for his choice. Does Obama agree with everything Wright ever said, doubtful, but we don&#8217;t really know what is truly in the mind of any politician.</p>
<p>One good way to figure out what a person really believes is to look at what he teaches his children. In general people teach their children what they want them to believe morals, values and religion. If a person takes their child to a Christian church every weekend throughout their childhood the will probably grow up to believe in Jesus. The chances are good that the parent either believes in Jesus or if not wants the child to believe.</p>
<p>What really happens in church every week, does the parent take the child to the church and each read the Bible to their own child and tell them about Jesus. Of course not, what generally happens is the parent sits next to their child continuously trying to get them to pay attention. Pay attention to who, the person in the front the preacher, priest, rabbi and to be P.C. the Imam.</p>
<p>Is the fact that Obamas children attend church every Sunday a good indication that Obama wants his children to believe in Jesus. That doesn&#8217;t mean that Obama does or doesn&#8217;t believe in Jesus himself, but its pretty good proof that Obama at the very least doesn&#8217;t mind his children believing in Jesus.</p>
<p>Who is the teacher Obama chose for his children, the reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama himself had attended Wright&#8217;s for almost ten years before his first child was born. He had to know about Wrights philosophy.  Wright had a ten year interview for the job of religious  instructor for Obama&#8217;s children&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Again does Obama&#8217;s church attendance mean he believes in Jesus, no, but he wants his children to. Obama chose or at least doesn&#8217;t object to the reverend Wright teaching his daughters how to pray. One of the prayers Wright taught his whole congregation was &#8220;G-d dam America.&#8221; Does Obama believe the U.S. government &#8220;created AIDS to kill people of color,&#8221; who knows, but he wants his children to believe it. Does Obama believe Louis Farrakhan<strong> </strong>is a great man, don&#8217;t know, but his children&#8217;s religious teacher does. Does he go to his children after church and try to explain to a nine year old to believe in the Jesus part but not the U.S.A. is evil  part.</p>
<p>In public school they teach math, and they can prove that one plus two equals three. Wright&#8217;s church, all churches, temples and to be PC Mossks, to a child is a school where there is no proof, they are taught to have faith.</p>
<p>Guilt by association, in the court of public opinion we are free to do so. Does Obama agree with or believe in anything Jeremiah Wright says, I don&#8217;t know. What I do know is he doesn&#8217;t mind if his children do.</p>
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		<title>Bob Barr &#8220;Explores&#8221; a Libertarian presidential campaign.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Barr &#8220;Explores&#8221; a Libertarian presidential campaign.
Robert L. Barr has entered the 08 Presidential on the libertarian party ticket, and CNN is giving his campaign some great free publicity. He hasn&#8217;t actually announced a run yet, he announced an exploratory committee.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bob Barr &#8220;Explores&#8221; a Libertarian presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Robert L. Barr has entered the 08 Presidential on the libertarian party ticket, and CNN is giving his campaign some great free publicity. He hasn&#8217;t actually announced a run yet, he announced an exploratory committee.</p>
<p>With the polls running so close between McCain and either one from the Democrat party the major media will be pushing this story hard. This is just what the democrat party needs someone to fight McCain while Hill and Barry battle it out on the democrat side.</p>
<p>To have any effect Barr would need the opponents in the general to be Clinton and McCain. Barr had his fifteen  minutes of national spotlight in the first Clinton impeachment trial. Barr being in a race with B.J. Clinton&#8217;s wife would create media &#8220;Drama&#8221; the major media will have to cover it and Bar would end up with five to fifteen percent of the vote. The result would be a Clinton victory. The forty percent who are just voting to vote against Hill will split their vote between the two whose only qualification in their mind is that they are not Hill.</p>
<p>Without the &#8220;Drama&#8221; a general between McCain and Obama with Barr as the libertarian, the libertarian  will have the the same impact on the presidential race as the last ten races, none. Without the media covering Barr for the &#8220;Drama&#8221; and the nostalgic feelings the media has for the Lewinsky days, or a running mate with a billion dollars to blanket the media with ad buys, Barr will have no impact.</p>
<p>I do look forward to hearing what Barr has to say about foreign policy, does he mirror Ron Paul. Will Paul, who said he would not run as anything other than republican this election, support the republican ticket or the libertarian. Paul was one of the previous libertarian candidates who had no impact on the election. Will the Paul heads support Barr, would it even matter, Paul raised a lot of money but had minimal impact at the polls. Paul&#8217;s campaign was hurt in part by some of the nuts who supported him, Obama is feeling that type of heat now.</p>
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