Voters are Ready to Provide the Solution to Government Waste

When I read this paragraph from Scott Rasmussen about his new book The People's Money, I starting chuckling and decided that he may have the answer to the budget crises if it makes members of Congress mad from across the political spectrum.  He may just be on the right track:

By finding budget solutions with public support, the book includes proposals that are sure to offend every faction of the Political Class… and every Member of Congress This is part of a pattern that has been repeated many times in American history with the public a few decades ahead of the politicians and the politicians struggling to defend the status quo. 

Would bet there is one Senator who will be glad to read his ideas -- Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) who is one of the few voices in Congress who is willing to take on the special interest groups to cut the budget.  His yearly report is something that should be required reading by every member of Congress as it details the wasteful spending that continues every year.   Wastebook 2011 is no different with examples waste by members of Congress.

Will be interesting to read Rasmussen's new book to see what can be done to stop the huge amount of tax dollars wasted by Congress on various projects that in many cases are part of bringing home the bacon by members of the House and Senate to their district/state.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Voters Are Ready to Provide the Solution In THE PEOPLE’S MONEY , pollster Scott Rasmussen, who charted the rise of the Tea Party in 2010, shows that government spending has gone up every single year since 1954 despite persistent voter demand for spending cuts.  Politicians blame voters for the problem and claim that there is no public support for specific spending cuts. Rasmussen shows that claim to be a lie. The People’s Money  is a call to arms for the people to be heard, an ultimatum for a grossly out-of-touch American political system. Drawing on revelatory budgetary documents and enlightening public opinion polls, Rasmussen lays out a step-by-step budgetary plan with voter support that will reduce spending, cut trillions from the national debt, and eliminate $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare.  It's Rasmussen's job to call on the American people for their opinions. In The People’s Money , Rasmussen asserts that “America’s Political Class wants to govern like its 1775, a time when kings were kings and consent of the governed didn’t matter.” His numbers show that the federal government today does not have the consent of the governed. “Given a choice between serving the voters and bailing out their friends, America’s politicians had little hesitation. They didn’t even try to convince voters that the scheme made sense," Rasmussen points out. "With the bailouts, the Political Class declared war on the very idea of self-governance and moved into open rebellion against the nation.” Based on this understanding, Rasmussen provides clear-headed, heavily researched and data-driven ways to cut trillions from the national deficit with a focus on the three categories that make up the bulk of federal spending (national security, Social Security, and Medicare). By finding budget solutions with public support, the book includes proposals that are sure to offend every faction of the Political Class… and every Member of Congress This is part of a pattern that has been repeated many times in American history with the public a few decades ahead of the politicians and the politicians struggling to defend the status quo. To solve the budget crisis, Rasmussen says, “The United States once again needs a ‘new birth of freedom’ so ‘that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.’ Our challenge today is to make those timeless ideals work for the twenty-first century.”  THE PEOPLE’S MONEYHow Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the Federal DebtBy Scott RasmussenPub date: January 31, 2012ISBN: 9781451666106Price: $26.00 • Hardcover • Threshold Editions Source:  Rasmussen Reports Examples of wasteful spending highlighted in Dr. Coburn's “Wastebook 2011” include:  $75,000 to promote awareness about the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees & poinsettias.  $15.3 million for one of the infamous Bridges to Nowhere in Alaska.  $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.  $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.  $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.  $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.  $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.  $35 million allocated for political party conventions in 2012.  $765,828 to subsidize “pancakes for yuppies” in the nation’s capital.  $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking. Read the full report: here After reading the highlights from Dr. Coburn on Government Waste in 2011, it makes the idea of this book by Rasmussen even more appealing.  After reading the Rasmussen book, The People's Money, I will be posting on here my comments about his book.  After you have read the book, iff anyone else would like to write a review about this book, please send me an email at truesoft.474@gmail.com -- would love to publish your comments.

Decision Points by President George W. Bush

There have been many biographies written by people who served in office and the members of their staffs but by all accounts the book that President George W. Bush wrote Decision Points is one that all of us who lived through his Presidency and 9/11 will find interesting. It is not a biography about every detail of his life but the Decisions he made along the way and especially in the eight years he served as President.

Heard President Bush on the radio on the way to my daughter's in Colorado and was reminded once again of the class of Pres Bush and his wife, Laura, in the White House. So glad he has taken the high road since leaving office and not being snarky about the current Administration. Shows the type of person he is and why this Country misses his sense of humor and ability to deal with big decisions without getting nasty. Candidates in the future need to look at how President Bush handled himself with humility, humor, and honesty.

This Nation can Thank God that President Bush was in office when 9/11 hit and made the decisive decisions necessary to protect this Country. We felt a lot safer with him in office then we do today.

During the eight years of President and Mrs. Bush, we never had to wonder if the White House Christmas decorations were going to be traditional or if the birth of Christ was going to be celebrated -- we knew that they were all about Christmas traditions and the reason for the season -- birth of the Christ child.  Makes you nostalgic for those days! 

Recommended Books for Learning More about Islam

We received this email from Human Events Book Service just a short time ago which fits in perfectly with our last two posts on Islam and the Muslims wanting to build a gigantic mosque at Ground Zero while wanting to be governed by Sharia Law not American Civil Law. You can also purchase these books at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.

There is no substitute for knowledge that you get from doing research on a subject such as Islam, the religion of Muslim countries. If you want to learn more about Islam, these books will give you an insight to why so many of us are upset they are building this huge mosque near Ground Zero along with other mosque around the Country:

1. The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America
by Andrew C. McCarthy

"Read this book and you'll understand what we're up against and why we have to stop it." -- MARK R. LEVIN

As the Obama administration wavers on the pending trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co- conspirators, a former top federal terrorism prosecutor has issued a stern warning for Americans: "The real threat to the U.S. is not terrorism, but the sophisticated force of Islamism collaborating with the American Left." In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, highly-decorated retired Justice Department official Andrew C. McCarthy depicts and analyzes how the global Islamist movement's jihad involves far more than just terrorist attacks and why Islamists have found an ideal partner in the American Left and President Barack Obama.

2. Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs
by Robert Spencer

There hasn't been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, and Al-Qaeda is on the run in Iraq -- and yet the terrorist threat is far from over. In fact, it's more severe than ever: in our country Islamic jihad groups and their allies are concentrating not solely on terror attacks (although another one of those could come any moment), but on stealthy efforts to introduce Islamic law into this country, step-by-step and bit-by-bit -- until finally America is transformed into an Islamic state. While the stealth jihadists may never attain this goal, they are already eroding our freedoms as they demand ever more accommodation of Islamic principles and practices -- and politically correct public officials are only too happy to oblige. Now, in Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, jihad expert Robert Spencer unveils the full scope of the stealth jihad plan, and explains how the stealth jihadists are operating and the victories they've already achieved.

3. The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran
by Robert Spencer

If we don't know the Koran, we can't defeat the jihadists: Osama bin Laden, the masterminds of 9/11 and those who have perpetrated the over 13,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11 repeatedly point to it as their inspiration and authority, explaining that they're committing acts of terrorism and hate because of it. Yet the Koran is not an easy read -- it has been called "wrist-slittingly boring," as well as confusing, contradictory, and muddled. But Robert Spencer reads the Koran so that you don't have to! Now, in The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran, Spencer, the bestselling author and Islam expert, shows exactly what's in the Koran, and why every military and intelligence official -- and every American -- should be concerned about this revered and reviled holy book. This witty and breezily written guide to the Koran explains who those who have vowed to destroy us think they are, what they think they're doing, and what they hope to accomplish.

4. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Islam (and the Crusades)
by Robert Spencer

Exclusive hardcover edition -- not available in stores! (soft cover version is still available)

When PC propagandists assure us that jihadist terror doesn't reflect "true," "peaceful" Islam, they're not only wrong, they're dangerous -- because they lull America and the West into letting their guard down against their mortal enemy. And not only do self-appointed "experts" lie elaborately and persistently about Islam -- they have also replaced the truth about Christian Europe and the Crusades with an all-pervasive historical fantasy that is designed to make you ashamed of your own culture and heritage -- and thus less determined to defend it. But now there's a remedy: in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Islam (and the Crusades), Robert Spencer reveals all the disturbing facts about Islam and its murderous hostility to the West that other books ignore, soft-pedal -- or simply lie about.

5. Nomad: From Islam to America:
A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali first captured the world's attention with Infidel, her bestselling memoir of her childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia, and of her escape to Holland en route to a forced marriage in Canada. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells the story of her subsequent search for a new life in America as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. But Nomad is a memoir with a mission: to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies.

6. The Life and Religion of Mohammed
by J.L. Menezes

Fr. J.L. Menezes knew Islam up close: as a priest in India, he devoted his priestly life to introducing that nation's tens of millions of Muslims to Christianity. With this life of Mohammed, he left us the record of his appeals: a frank, honest, and exhaustively researched exploration of the life of the "prophet" of Islam, the development and contents of the Koran, and an introduction to various Muslim sects. Working from the earliest Islamic sources, Fr. Menezes provides a complete account of Mohammed's life, from his days as a simple merchant to his triumphs as a leader of armies and revered prophet. Menezes delved so deeply into his subject that he was even able to describe Mohammed's physical appearance. He explains why Mohammed couldn't possibly be a true prophet, and reveals the true sources of his "revelations." Fr. Menezes could be writing about today's Muslim terrorists when he explains that "Mohammed posed as the apostle of God, the seal of the prophets; as the destroyer of idolatry; as preacher of one true God, and the reformer of morals: while his life is marked by innumerable marriages; and great licentiousness, deeds of rapine, warfare, conquests, unmerciful butcheries, all the time invoking God's holy name to sanction his evil deeds, ordering prayers and alms deeds and at the same time propagating Islam everywhere by fire and sword."