Huckabee's Numbers

Gov. Huckabee has won poll after poll recently and now with yesterday's poll he really stands out. Palin's numbers are really falling. It could be that some are gravitating to him. I don' know the reason he is pulling ahead. Even some liberal press are beginning to say you can't beat these poll numbers. Huckabee has built a pretty strong coalition under him through HuchPac. "Huck" as some people call him, including myself, is a pretty smart man and he learned a lot of hard lessonss from 2008. #1 Get a lot of money #2 Don't lose your base. With HuckPac this group of people are passionately behind him. It has been interesting watching him this past year building on this foundation that now goes from coast to coast. One thing about his following they are faithful to their man. How can I know I have become one of them.
Last year at the end of November I met him at a book signing and then read his book. Many of the younger years of marriage in the book were very similar to ours. We both, couples, almost starved to death trying to get though Biblle College. I read many of the passages to my husband and we laughed. It brought back some hard but wonderful years. And Huck did pastor before becoming a Governor.
At times I find him almost too honest but I like that and something we desperately need to bring back to the presidency. He is  his own man and does take a stand similar to Bush and I liked that very much in Bush.
I am hoping to see him run but first and foremost I want him and his wife to know they are doing what God wants.

Obamas New Tactics

Merry Christmas and a hopefully better new year for all of us. I truly mean that, I have never seen people so discouraged and tired of the economy. You do really wonder how much can the people take. Another 430,000 laid off last week and it seems like there is nothing to stop it. I still wonder were are the hope messages that he talked about during his election? Could he not deliver some messages of hope and things are really going to change. I mean that seriously this is when we need those kind of messages from a leader. That is what Roosevelt did during hard times. He got on the air and encouraged the people.
As you can see they are now putting things in the heath care bill by regulation including the death panels. This is stirring up the whole controversy again. How much should the Drs. control our deaths. Of course we need their wisdom and advice. But after we hear the choices they really are our choices of how to we want to die. We don't need the Drs. after that decision except to prescribe medicine to help with pain and other needs, but after that they really should get out of the picture. We do not need the government to make any decisions for us. We do not need a panel that makes these decisions for us. All Americans should rise up against this!
This is the new Obama administration. Use any means to get things through including regulation. Such as using the EPA to get some climate change rules through making the EPA make the rules. It's coming and it is going to be frustrating for us.

December 18th-my Brothers Birthday

Today is a special day for me, my little brother came into the world. It is hard to believe he came into the world and now is gone. It is even harder to believe one year and three months later my husband passed. I thought I would never get over losing my little brother. I think a sibling is hard because you played with them and all those memories come back. I especially remember that Dad drove all of us to the hospital. They took my mother in and left me in the car. I was 41/2 years old. It was scary waiting in the car by myself. Those days were different and the children did not go into the maternity section. We pulled up to St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver. Soon my father came out and told me soon we would have a baby. I waited a long time this time. Finally he came out and told me I had a little brother and we drove home. I remember going back to the hospital and getting Mom and the baby. The baby cried a lot and I wasn't as important. At least that is how I felt. Once Randy started walking he followed me everywhere and did so the rest of his young life. I couldn't go anywhere without him coming along. We were very close. We did everything young kids could do. My parents were pretty free on letting us go. We probably did things most other kids never did. Once we got to bicycles we rode everywhere.  We lived up in the mountains for a while. Dad was going to build a house up coal creek canyon. He drove 23 miles every day to Sunstrand. Sunstrand was part of the first rocket program and it was secret. Finally one day Dad took us to his work and we saw the space capsule. I am not sure which project he worked on but it was not the first or second capsule that went up. We had two acres of land and believe it or not Dad paid $1,000 dollars for each lot. There was a huge pile of rocks on the back of the land and you could look down in the canyon and see the train from Denver to California come  through. Last summer I went and looked at the land. I wanted to go up to their door and ask them if I could go and stand on those rocks once more. Dad built a huge swing from a fir tree. We stood on the rock and swung and could go way out. Parents today would have a fit if they saw that. We also sat in the truck bed and traveled up and down the canyon. The land was very near where my grandfather had his first fur farm. He raised foxes for coats during the war and the government bought the fur from him. I often think that is why Dad bought the land there. We had to catch the school bus at Wonderveiw and go 26 miles to school in Central City. If you have ever been there you know there  are hairpin curves going down to Pinecliff. It is hard to believe our parents let us ride this older bus to school. Randy and I would find different ways to walk  home. It was easier to cut through the yards and go almost straight up the mountain. There was one lady who didn't like us and would yell to get off her land. We called her the witch. All these memories come back and some day I will share them with you. We had an unusual childhood. But I learned a lot through it. Mom and Dad moved 26 times in their marriage. Randy I miss you and hope you think of me down here. I wish you were here so I could call you on the phone and share these old times together. Happy Birthday. Marna

Social Security Will Be Cut 33%-President Obama

The President announced at the beginning of this week payroll taxes for social security will be cut 6.2 to 4.2 percent. The President says not to worry because it is temporary for just one year. And it will not lose any money because it will be replaced by the federal government. The feds have no money so this will have to be borrowed. It will cost us $112 billion in general revenue funds. The reason, to stimulate the economy. If a person makes $50,000 they will receive $1,000. If they make over $100,000 they will receive $2,000.
Questioning the impact to the economy, Rep. Dan Lipinsky {my representative} said "The average person isn't even going to notice the 2 percent decrease in his payroll check. It is not like we are handing people payroll checks for $500 or $1,000 and saying 'spend it '. This is going to be a trickle of money into each persons wallet; and I don't think they are going to rush out to the stores and start spending."
Next year when it comes to restoring the cut some will say payroll tax will increase 50%. Any politician who refuses to extend the tax looks like he is taking from the middle class.Washington Post poll says 57% of American people oppose the Social Security tax cut. So what happens when it comes to next year? The fear is that it will not be increased back to 6.2 %. Congress is playing a dangerous game. The tax cuts are in a package of bills and most members will vote for it as the extension of unemployment benefits are in the package. We need for Congress to leave Social Security alone as this could destabilize Social Security. Social Security is at risk

Omnibus Legislation-1,924 Pages Is Too Large To Read Before Christmas

This legislation has 6,488 earmarks totaling 8.3 billion. Dems are embracing the bill as they feel in the 112th congress Republicans will put a stop to their spending. Harry Reid, unsurprisingly supports the bill which totals 1.1 trillion and calls it "a very good piece of legislation."
Dems obviously did not get the message on Nov. 2nd and few have or will have read the bill before Christmas.There are actually 12 bills rolled into one. This gives the legislators very little time to go through and cut unnecessary funding.
The bill also has $1,000,000 to fund the health care bill, which many now consider unconstitutional after Mondays ruling and making many lawmakers very angry.
If Republicans block the bill they will be accused of trying to stop the funding to the federal government.
Senator DeMint is calling for a reading of the bill to try a filibuster before passage.
This bill costs more than the tax rate extension.
Here are some examples in the bill
$500,00 for Blue Fin Tuna tagging and research in Calif.
A tie-$300,000 for the Iowa Orchestra and $106,000 for the Utah Symphony
$235,000 for noxious weed management
$522,000 for cranberry and blueberry disease and breeding
$849,000 Swine waste management in North Carolina
$413,000 Peanut research in Alabama
Move Nevada to the "Pacific Coast States"  letting Harry direct funds to his state.Which part of Nevada borders the Pacific Ocean?"
It also includes FDA Food Safety Bill. 1.4 billion for the federal government to control our diets. Feds who know little about forming guidelines on temperature, what soil we use, how much water to use and what kind of animals to put on  our land.

We'll Give You The Waiver Since You Donated To Our Party

The formula is simple-Vote for Obama and you will get a waiver from the health care law. Now 222 companies are exempted for one year to be part of the for this to work everyone must belong club. At least that was the message given as to how the health care law would work that no one be excluded.
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said   "more than a million Americans wake up and go to work everyday thinking they have health insurance. But they don't."
There are also several unions who have received government approval for exemptions.
Now a full investigation into the Health Care Law needs to be done before any other factors are implemented. Also hearings will be likely in the House next year because Republicans want to know why Democrats pushed so hard for health reform, and then issue several hundred waivers from the law.