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The right to privacy brings on a new meaning in the post 9-11 times that we live in now.   A little over a year ago the Obama administration put its rubber stamp of approval to have full body x-rays installed in some of the larger airports.

There are about 41 of these scanners in airports today at a cost of $170,000 each.  They work and act like Superman’s X-Ray vision from the comics some of us use to read when we were kids.  ACLU legislative counsel Timothy D. Sparapani had said “these machines are capable of projecting a high-resolution image of a passenger’s naked body” as reported by Keith Morelli TBO.com

 These machines are now in more then 41 airports nationwide and some believe it to be an invasion of our rights to privacy.  The privacy of a person and their possessions, fall under the unreasonable searches of the 4^th Amendment.  As of right now these scanners are not mandatory but just give it some time.  Once in the airports, you’ll start to see them used at concerts and sporting events.

 As I understand it, in my home town of Tampa, Fl. they installed these x-ray devises that undress air-travelers and takes a snap shot photo image of you buck naked and sends it to some Joe Police officer in another room.  The TSA also said they the faces are blurred out.  What they aren’t saying is that with front and back pictures anyone knowing computers can take a normal phone and take a picture of your front and back scan and render it through a computer and make a computer generated model of your body. Not that hard people.

  TIA has 4 scanners and they could have them setup a scanner for just men monitored by men officers and a scanner for women monitored by women officers.  However, this isn’t the case. Because the faces are blurred the TSA didn’t think that was necessary.  Ok, let me take it a step further what about kids.  Could we charge a crime of child porn on the TSA if they take a naked photo of a child?

 Let’s ask the 12 year old daughter of a Baltimore family how they feel about their daughter being exposed naked to some man in a private office just last week.  Don’t forget her face was blurred like that really means a whole of a lot. 

 The little girl (name of course not mentioned) was traveling with an adult friend of the family and not her parents.  The mother Michelle Nemphos says “In essence they conducted a strip search on a 12-year-old girl without her parents to advocate for her”

  Koshetz in a statement with the St. Petersburg Times said that officers don’t have time to ask everyone’s permission on the way through.  The question is, does a 12-year-old little girl have the ability to give consent to have unknown people look at her naked body? I say no, the child can not with out the parents approval.

 Just because it’s an officer looking at a 12 year old girl naked picture and not a creepy guy in some basement, it still doesn’t change the fact that someone is viewing naked kids. 

 Are we really any safer with these scanners?  As I understand it, liquid and powder doesn’t even show up on these scanners.  Plus, if a terrorist knew there were scanners wouldn’t he/she fly out of a smaller airport that doesn’t have these scanners.  Perhaps terrorist will start taking the train or even a bus to get around.  In the past two years how many suspected terrorist have been caught using these scanners?  I have yet to hear of one, have you? 

-JimJones (Don’t drink the governments Kool-aid!)

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Here is an interesting immigration website to go along with my last blog.  This site is looking for feedback from U.S. citizens to see if they would be interested in doing a job that an illegal would do.

 http://www.takeourjobs.org/

 This has been a debate in Washington, as some law makers believe American’s would not do the jobs that the illegal immigrant are currently doing.  I believe those in DC with this view are pandering to the Spanish voters.  This holds true for both parties.  The Democrats look at the ever growing Spanish population and they see votes and money for their campaigns.  The Republicans help the employers keep the cheap labor and end up getting kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions from the profits that the employers were allowed to earn.  It’s always about money and votes.  This sad thing is,  the American work force is losing out in this debate.

 I think most of these jobs would be done by American citizens but the illegal’s are at an advantage.  The employers that hire the illegal workers do not have to pay taxes, healthcare, vacation or sick time, pension retirement plans and are normally paid well below the minimum wage.

 The Democrats recently increased minimum wage, which was raised to $7.25.  In some states the minimum wage is a bit higher do to state regulations.  In states like Oregon that has $8.40 or Illinois $8.25 minimum wage where’s the benefit to the American worker?

 With unemployment numbers higher then they have been in over 25 years we should have started to see signs of the illegal workers heading home due to the quickly declining job market.  However, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Why?  If you owned a company and knew that the Obama administration wouldn’t attack your business if you were hiring illegal immigrants, would you hire an American citizen for over $8.00 an hour, or an illegal for maybe as little as $2.50 an hour? 

 How can American citizens compete for these jobs?  The answer is they don’t.  Not because they don’t want the jobs but that they can’t qualify for them.  Yes, that’s right, I said qualify.  The American workforce doesn’t qualify because they have legal status and in short they cost about 10 times more then an illegal.

 So as our lawmakers collect money and votes, we the people are losing our jobs because our federal government won’t protect us citizens.  Protect us not just from physical harm like what has happened countless times in Arizona but also economic harm. 

-JimJones (Don’t drink the governments kool-aid)

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The Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recently drew a line across the sands of the 48^th state and told Obama that something needs to be done with the illegal’s going across her states border.  She expected the Federal government to do their most primary function, which is to protect its citizens.  However, we all know this didn’t happen.

 Obama, Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security and former Arizona governor, and Eric Holder the Attorney General and head of the DOJ all turned a blind eye to Governor Brewer’s request for help with the border.  Obama first went out and talked about racial issues that could come from what was a bill at the time.  Following in lockstep Napolitano and Holder both went out with the same message.  However, when confronted by the Senate both Napolitano and Holder both had not much to say and even admitted that they had not read the bill.  This is a perfect example of how our Government is misleading us and yet there was no backlash from the media.  Why?

 The way I see it Holder and Napolitano should be put over the media racks for speaking out against the great state of Arizona and misleading the U.S. public in thinking this was a racial bill.  The fact is that this bill really doesn’t allow Arizona police to do much more then what the Federal Law already allows them to already do. 

 As I understand, states such as Rhode Island and California already have laws on the books that mirror the Arizona laws intent. As of this week, nine other states have stepped forward in support of the state and the people of Arizona.  They are Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia.  Let me say that Tennessee has not publically come out but from my experience in talking to the people in the Nashville area there is a big support for Arizona.  I for one support Arizona as they have to do what Obama won’t.

 So we now find ourselves in July and Obama promised Gov. Brewer 1200 troops to help support the border, which was a far cry to what Gov. Brewer was asking for.  This reminds me when General McCrystal asked for troops in Afghanistan and received a little more then half of his request.  Not only was Arizona shorted but out of the 1200 troops only less then 500 of them are going to even end up in Arizona. 

 With in a week or so after Obama’s commitment the extra help a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the federal government via Eric Holder against the state of Arizona.  The lawsuit wasn’t against racial issues.  The federal government is claiming that Arizona was over stepping its powers as a state and encroaching in federal immigration laws.  Holder said on TV this week that they will wait until the Law becomes active to see if they wish to sue over racial issues.  So instead of Obama actually getting off the golf course and flying down to Arizona to see the problem for himself he has decided to once again go against the American Peoples wishes and sue the state.

 Someone this week brought up the fact that there are many so called sanctuary cities that provide safe haven for illegals.  Is this not breaking federal laws?  The White House response as I understand it is that Arizona is doing something about the illegal’s and the sanctuary cites are doing nothing so to do nothing about your states illegal immigration issue is fine but to try and do something is wrong. 

What is so wrong with protecting your citizens?  Under article four of the U.S. Constitution a state can protect itself and encroach on federal immigration laws if the state was being invaded.  Since there are around 1.4 million illegal’s going across the border just in Arizona, I believe this could be considered an invasion. Let me put my spin on it and give you how Arizona might solve this border issue.  I believe they should call for all Arizona military reserve personal currently stationed in Afghanistan and bring them back to stop this invasion. 

 We let over a million people each year into this country via legal immigration but yet 12 to 20 million are free to jump a fence pay no fines, pay no taxes but yet use our schools and healthcare on our dime.  This madness all starts and ends on the border.  Regan tried amnesty but never got the border closed before he left office and a few short years later Obama wants to do the same thing Regan did.  History repeating itself ??

-JimJones

Don’t drink the governments Kool-aid

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Guess what everyone, we have a new Czar.  The new guy, Donald Berwick was added by President Obama in the cover of a weekend holiday.  What’s the old saying, when the cats away the mice will play?  Well that’s exactly what happened over the July 4th /Independence day weekend. Obama waited for the Senate to leave on a long weekend and put Mr. Berwick in place as the new leader of Healthcare.

 To be fair to Obama, this practice has been done by both parties so the Senate can’t VET the Presidents candidate.  However, this guy is being put into a position that controls 1/5^th of our economy.  He might be one of the most powerful people in the Obama administration controlling billions of your dollars and he wasn’t even questioned by the Senate.

 Berwick for what I have seen, which includes the video below is a pro-British Healthcare system advocate and is against free market principles.  Hell, for what I have heard from working with people out of the UK, they don’t even like their health care.  He also believes health care is a human right. He also believes in redistribution of wealth.  Quick, someone call Joe the Plumber!!

 Your President is now showing his true colors.  It’s not black or white but its socialism and wealth redistribution verses capitalism and free market principles. 

 The video is Donald Berwick, talking about the British health care system in a 2008 speech in the UK.  You make your own thoughts and let me know!

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What is up with the DOJ/Department of Justice?  You might remember back during the election the report of two men that was later to be reported affiliated with the New Black Panther Party had been standing out front of a voting place with a club, which intimidated some voters as shown in the video below.

 Days ago, the DOJ dropped its charges against the two men that intimidated voters and broke the Voters Rights Act.  Why?  Not only was their eye reports of the event but there was multiple videos taken that clearly showed the one man with a club in his hands.  With video, this should have been an open and closed case that even a first year attorney could handle.

 The Bush administration was the first to bring the case against the two Black Panther Members claiming they violated the Voters Rights Act.  Once Obama got in office his administration picked up the case and won by default as the two men failed to show up in court.  Then something changed.  The Obama administration out of the blue changed direction and moved to dismiss the case only a few weeks after the Black Panthers members had agreed to not carry “deadly Weapons” near a polling place until 2012.

 With this deal in place, are you going to feel safer when you head to vote this November?

 Was Justice served or is there a double standard between black and white with this President and his administration? 

 Mr. Bartle Bull a Democrat and the campaign manager to Robert F Kennedy was at the poll as a watcher in Philadelphia 2008 and said “I find it deeply offensive,” Bull said. “I know people who died over these issues, like Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. If we can’t defend their legacy, it’s shameful to us and this administration.” 

 The Civil rights Commission had Bull testify and the commissioner as per the reports also wanted to hear from Christopher Coates, which was the former Chief of the Justice Department voting section but the commission has claimed the DOJ is blocking Coates from testifying. 

 J. Christian Adams resigned from the DOJ last month as he called as a protest to how this administration has handled the case.  During an interview with Megan Kelly of Fox News, Adams said the administration abandoned an open-and-shut case of voter intimidation and that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez gave false testimony before the commission in May.

 ”I don’t think the department or the fine people who work there are corrupt, but in this particular instance, to abandon law-abiding citizens and abet wrongdoers constitutes corruption,” Adams told Fox News. 

 The response of the DOJ was “It is not uncommon for attorneys with the department to have good faith disagreements about the appropriate course of action in a particular case, although it is regrettable when a former department attorney distorts the facts and makes baseless allegations to promote his or her agenda,” the statement said.”

 The DOJ says Adams distorted facts but didn’t mention what facts.  As I said it once I’ll say it again, they had freaking video of the act. It should be a no brainer so why were the charges dropped?  Was it a way to pay the Black Panthers Party for their votes or support during the election.  After all, Obama did list the New Black Panthers Party on his campaign website before the media discovered it and it was removed due to media pressures.

Adams I believe said it all when he said “these guys now think it’s safe for them to bully voters and citizens. And that’s why the Department of Justice must stand up.”

-JimJones-
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The New unemployment numbers came in lower, not higher then expected.  Unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent, which is the lowest since July 2009. 

 So why did it drop when the following has happened?

-Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, which is the most since October.

-There are about 650,000 people that gave up looking for a job last month.

-About 225,000 temporary census workers jobs ended.

-Jobless claims, where someone is filing for unemployment benefits have gone up and have been around 500,000 each and every week.

 In my opinion, the key to this temporary drop is that 650,000 people gave up looking for a new job.  Once they stop looking they are then removed from the total unemployment number.  You may have heard unemployment is 9.5 but the real unemployment is about 17%.  The 17% is including the millions of Americans that have been looking for jobs and just gave up or took part time positions to pay the mortgage and put food on the table.

 With all that said, I believe that we are on the edge of a double dip recession.  You might think that I’m being some what of an alarmist but I was after all totally correct when I said in 2007 that we are headed for a depression.  Let me add, all my friends and work mates made fun of this statement for weeks and months.  Who’s laughing now!

 The reason I’m going against the economist like I did once before is simple.  This recession is like a duck on the pond.  The duck is floating a long all peaceful heading towards recovery but the reality is that under the surface of the water that ducks feet are moving a mile a minute.

 Unemployment with this drop to 9.5 on the surface seems like we are in recovery like the White House keeps telling us.  However, the facts are more people are filing for unemployment then jobs are being created.  More people are not finding jobs and giving up their search then the number of people finding jobs. 

 Recently, the Commerce Department said that factory orders fell by 1.4 percent in May, which was the first decline after nine months of gains and was the biggest drop since March 2009.  The Homebuyers tax credit expired in April and in May home sales plunged and at the same time construction spending fell as well.  The DOW opened this morning around 9,700, which is scary to see it dip under 10,000 again. 

 Obama just spoke this morning about recovery.  He said “We’re not headed there fast enough for a lot of Americans,” Obama said. “We’re not headed there fast enough for me, either.”    

 Where in these numbers show a hint of recovery?  Call me an alarmist, call me a fear monger, but I believe what I see and it’s not recovery. Protect your assets as the sky might be falling once again.

 Have a great 4^th of July!!

 -JimJones-
 Don’t drink the government Kool-Aid!

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As we are now over 70 days since the oil spill started, news report was just broadcasted that a Taiwan skimmer ship called the “A Whale” is heading towards the gulf.  This ship is a bit over 3 football fields long and 10 stories high.  It is said to be able to collect 500,000 barrels a day through 12 vents.  The oil is separated from the water then transferred to another vessel. The water is then channeled back in the gulf.  This is all great news BUT there are government road blocks in the way.

 As this ship is making its way to the Gulf, it doesn’t have a contract with BP to clean up the oil.  Why the hell not?  The Coast Guard said that the Taiwan skimmer had passed the preliminary review and is looking into it further.  The EPA as I understand it has requested further study of this ship for environmental impact.  For what I have read they are saying there are small traces of oil making it through the ships system. 

 So let me get this correct.  We are a few months in with tens of millions of gallons of oil spilling into the gulf and there’s a ship available that can cleanup 500,000 barrels of oil a day.  However, this ship doesn’t filter 100% and returns small traces of oil back to the Gulf.  Isn’t this a good thing?  Isn’t a large body of oil more damaging to the wetlands and our beaches then a smaller amount?  Even if it only filtered half the oil but still was able to capture 500,000 barrels a day, I believe this is a no brainer.

  Where in the hell, where is the common sense? We could have had the A Whale cleaning he mess up WEEKS ago. Yet, another road block from the Federal Government has stopped this skimmer and many others from helping due to Obama’s hard line stance of not wanting to lift the Jones Act of 1920.  The Joes Act limits the activities of foreign-flagged ships in U.S. waters.  So as this giant skimmer is heading towards the Gulf it still needs a waiver from the Jones Act before it can do anything. 

 In 1993 Saudi Arabia used giant tankers to suck up over 700-Million gallons of its coast. Yet as reported by Huffingtonpost.com, Coast Guard Thad Allen just a few weeks ago claimed no such ship was available.  I recently read on PRWeb that alternative energy company Renergie Inc. submitted unsolicited proposals to Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), Bobby Jindal – Governor of Louisiana, and the Coast Guard to clean up the oil with 3 Panamax class tankers.  These tankers can collect not only the surface oil but the oil under the surface in what they call the oil plumes. The Coast Guard said they aren’t interested in hiring contractors now.  Are they holding out for the union works to handle everything?  Really?

 I for one find this unacceptable that all hands are (not) on deck. The White House, to use the coined phrase “don’t let a good crisis go to waste” has already showed its focus during the last Presidential Address a few weeks ago when one third of Obama’s speech was about clean energy.  What I heard was Cap and Tax but that’s just me.   

 So Mr. “YES WE CAN” is actually yelling NO WE WON’T, as the resources are there, the will of the people living on the gulf is there, but the government help is no where to be found.  

-JimJones-
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ADP Jobs report for June employment of (Private Sector) jobs not counting all the gov jobs being created has fallen as analyst expected 61,000 and only got 13,000. The biggest Surprise was small business 50 employees or less lost 1,000 jobs last month.

 So after being in office for 18 months this is all Obama has to show for his work, 13,000 jobs and not one in small business, which represents 70% of all jobs in America. 

 Obama:

“The plan will mean 2.5 million more jobs” by 2011, Obama said. His Web site clarified that the plan would “save or create” that many jobs. (WHAT PLAN?)

 ”These aren’t just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis,” he said. “These are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long.” (WHAT STEPS THAT ACTUALLY WORKED?)

 ”We must do more to put people back to work and get our economy moving again,” he said. More than a million jobs have been lost this year, he said, and “if we don’t act swiftly and boldly, most experts now believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year.” (IT IS NEXT YEAR NOW)

 ”We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges; modernizing schools that are failing our children; (ALL LABOR UNION GOV RELATED JOBS, WHERE IS THE PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS?)

 ”But what is not negotiable is the need for immediate action,” he said. “Right now, there are millions of mothers and fathers who are lying awake at night wondering if next week’s paycheck will cover next month’s bills. (WHAT PAY CHECK MOMMY AND DADDY LOST THEIR JOBS AND THEIR HOME NOW THEY ARE LYING AWAKE IN THEIR NEW HOME, THEIR CAR!)

 ”There are Americans showing up to work in the morning, only to have cleared out their desks by the afternoon. Retirees are watching their life savings disappear, and students are seeing their college dreams deferred. These Americans need help, and they need it now.” (SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?  Giving a $3,000 tax credit for new hires doesn’t even cover the cost of on-boarding a new employee!)

 ”That is the chance our new beginning now offers us, and that is the challenge we must rise to in the days to come,” Obama said. “It is time to act” (THE TIME TO ACT WAS 18 MONTHS AGO!)

 This is a major issue as things are NOT getting better.  We are still in a downwards spiral towards a double-dip recession.  Since I (yours truly) was slammed back in 2007 for saying we are heading towards a depression with this DEM Congress.  Yes, I said DEM Congress.  With the majority of the house and Senate controlled by the Democrats Bush was a “Lame Duck” President.  Since, with the majority what has this Congress or President Obama done to create Private Sector Jobs?

 Well, they spent $878 Billion not including interest on projects like saving the Marsh Mouse in San Francisco in the amount of $25Million of (your) money.  How many jobs did that create? Ah wait, it saved jobs right?  Can anyone prove this statement?  Not to my knowledge.

 Obama had a job summit back in December (11 months after taking office) which some said, better late then ever.  Obama gathered 130 academics (that most have no clue how to actually run a business outside a text book), journalists (his friends at the time that would take great pictures), Politian’s from the DEM party (most of which (never) ran a business), Labor Union Boss’, and Big Business executives.  Not one representing the small business owner, which represents 70% of our countries jobs.  This summit was a dog and pony show at best.  Obama’s ratings were sagging and he had to show he was working on it.  After only a few weeks he dropped everything to get behind the healthcare bill, which “we the people” didn’t want.

 WE NEED JOBS!!!

-JimJones

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This past Thursday the U.S. Senate passed a $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill.  This bill includes $477 billon for operating budgets for several cabinet departments and other agencies, taken from the (record setting) $3.36 trillion dollar budget Obama passed early this year.  For those of you that were yelling about Bush and his spending, why aren’t you yelling now?  Obama’s federal budget is two times more then what Bush had. He’s spending at a rate 3x faster then Bush. 

As Obama has reminded us a few times that we are in the biggest recession since the great depression.  I’m sure you all know this line, right?  While we are in this recession, and make no bones about it, we are still in the recession; our government is running up the government debt limit to the max. 

This spending bill of course came with tons and tons of pork.  I thought Obama was going to get a handle on the pork spending and “change the way Washington runs” with “transparency” and “CSPAN meetings”. This bill has 5,000+ earmarks or pork/pet spending projects built in to this bill, which equals to $3.9 billon dollars.

A few examples:
-$2.7M to University of Nebraska for Surgical Operations in space.
-$200k for a Public Market
-$30k for the Woodstock film festival youth initiative
-$200k for a new visitor center in a Texas town with a population of about 8,000

You can find a better list of the spending of your money at HERE.

Not all of the pork is from spending Democrats. FoxNews.com reports that “Republicans, though, have hardly shied away from the earmarks. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is pushing $200,000 for the Washington National Opera. Sen. Judd Gregg, a fiscal hawk, is behind a $1 million earmark for renovation at the Portsmouth Music Hall.”

With Congress trying to expand the debt ceiling without cutting any federal spending one can only wonder how long until the U.S. credit becomes damaged.  We are spending Billions, even Trillions like it’s Monopoly money.  Right now we are writing checks for $1 billion dollars a week just for interest. Please note, this has nothing to do with healthcare cost going up. It’s an out of control spending that is an issue.  Remember, the law makers report to us so call someone, write someone, and be heard.

-JimJones
www.borderlineIQ.com

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I heard a few weeks ago that Tim Geithner was requesting to increase the U.S. debt ceiling.  However, this report was on the back page of the paper I was reading and I never did see it reported on TV media.  Well, that report was in fact very much spot on and I would love to give credit to the writer or newspaper, but can’t recall where I saw the report.

This morning, FOX News reported that Congress is looking to raise the debt ceiling by $1.8 Trillion dollars.  Note, I also watched NBC Morning Joe and didn’t see a word of this come up.  If I missed the report Joe I’m sorry, if you didn’t report on it like I believe you didn’t, then you should be ashamed that a non-media source (per the White House) like Fox can get a real headline before you.  We all know tiger cheated, now move on already.

The facts:
-Current debt ceiling $12.1T
-Current U.S. debt $12.09T
-2009 deficit $1.4T, which is how much the U.S. is in the Red for this year under Obama.
-Possible debt ceiling increased by $1.8T via new China Visa card.
-Target number of new ceiling is $14T

Nancy Pelosi said to some reporters yesterday that they are planning to tie this increase to the Defense Appropriation Measure.  I thought this kind of politics was part of Obama’s change?  They’re going to tie this to the Defense Appropriation so that they (Democrats) can point fingers at all the Republicans that vote against it by say that they don’t support the troops, OR they get the Republicans to vote for this to support the troops and they (Democrats) can then say that ‘both’ parties agreed to raise the debt ceiling.  Very tricky Pelosi!

When Pelosi was running for Congress she had mentioned about draining the swamps.  The problem is she drained the swamps and found all her snake like friends just waiting to spend, spend, and spend on the new China Visa card Obama was just qualified for.

Setting up the Republicans like this with a doubled edge sword is just stepping down to the same if not lower level then Bush.  We taxpayers; Democrats, Republicans and everyone in between are fed up with this type of political crap.  I understand that you are trying to position yourself for the 2010 elections, but if this is how the Democrats are going to play ball, then I say vote every person out of office that votes for this bill.  It’s not that I don’t want to support our troops; it’s just the fact that we voters want transparency.  Some of you might call it change.  Regardless of what you call it, in 2010 elections will come with some big changes, which starts with us casting votes against you.  So watch your words Congress as we are all watching!

The GOP responded to the report with a letter to Pelosi saying: Let us be very clear house Republican members of the Appropriations Committee will not support passage of the Defense Appropriation measure if it is used as a vehicle to raise the debt limit.

-JimJones
www.borderlineIQ.com

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