As a Veteran, this is tantamount to treason.

After three years of Obama...

Here's your change!

	January 2009	TODAY	% chg	Source
Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.	$1.83	$3.44	84%	1
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)	$43..48	$99..02	127.7%	2
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)	$38..74	$91..38	135.9%	2
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL	$3.56	$6.33	78.1%	2
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL	$9.66	$13..75	42.3%	2
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob	$13..37	$35..39	164.7%	2
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall	7.6%	9.4%	23.7%	3
Unemployment rate, blacks	12.6%	15.8%	25.4%	3
Number of unemployed	11,616,000	14,485,000	24.7%	3
Number of fed. Employees	2,779,000	2,840,000	2.2%	3
Real median household income	$50,112	$49,777	-0.7%	4
Number of food stamp recipients	31,983,716	43,200,878	35.1%	5
Number of unemployment benefit recipients	7,526,598	9,193,838	22.2%	6
Number of long-term unemployed	2,600,000	6,400,000	146.2%	3
Poverty rate, individuals	13.2%	14.3%	8.3%	4
People in poverty in U.S.	39,800,000	43,600,000	9.5%	4
U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings	5	9	n/a	10
Present Situation Index	29.9	23.5	-21.4%	11
Failed banks	140	164	17.1%	12
U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate	89.76	82.03	-8.6%	2
U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions	1,575.1	1,865.7	18.4%	13
U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions	8,310.9	8,852.3	6.5%	13
National debt, in trillions	$10..627	$14..052	32.2%	14

Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. 
Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane. 
27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH!

Sources: 
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; 
(7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; 
(13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

Increasing Fraud in Disability Insurance

Rick’s Commentary

Lately, we hear on the nightly news, how many Americans are added on disability, i.e., workman’s compensation, social security, and private insurance also. I worked for twenty-two years with a state department of labor, in some states, referred to as department of human resources. I saw firsthand workers who were injured or disabled on the job. I saw many others who were injured while on vacation or at home, and others who claimed injuries that were not there.The government is encouraging our work force to become dependent upon the politicians by applying for welfare, disability compensation, food-stamps, college grants for single women, for minorities, etc.

Daily, I see commercials on TV from Law firms that deal only, or mainly with disability claims. This causes me to see RED. They are able, with apparently the cooperation of the Social Security Administration, to ‘win’ cases for their clients, who were previously turned down by the agency.

A major problem, as I remember it, was that many workers, aided by their lawyers and even the Social Security Agency, only wanted to work in their trained occupation, but their disability prevented them from doing so. However, most of them could have worked–and should–be willing to change occupations, and training programs were available to train them. I remember one insurance company, Travelers, that encouraged those on their disability insurance, to take other work they were able to perform. This company was diligent in ferreting out those who were fraudulently on disability insurance today, who do not want to work if they can stay at home and receive an income without working.

The Americans With Disabilities Act, passed with bipartisan support in 1990 at the urging of then-President George H.W. Bush, enshrines the notion that every American can and should hold a job regardless of physical or mental limitations.Under the ADA, employers who refuse to hire or promote the disabled may be liable for money damages in federal court.Social Security Disability Insurance, however, pays people who can show that they are too mentally or physically impaired to remain in the labor force. In short, for many workers, SSDI creates a quasi-right not to work. Social Security Disability Insurance’s incentive not to work. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-social-security-disability-insurances-incentive-not-to-work/2012/07/30/gJQA8UvHLX_story.html.

Many employers do not want to hire those on disability compensation due to being burned by previous men and women they have hired who were on disability.The real downside of the many who are fraudulently on disability insurance discourage workers who are genuinely disabled from applying, and when they do, are turned down many times, due to suspicious Social Security agents reviewing their applications. They in turn, must apply to lawyers in an attempt to overturn the Social Security decision.

Those who truly are disabled and can not work due to a disability, are the real victims of this fraud, along with tax payers who are supporting the system.

Armed Response in a Cafe Works: Why Doesn't Media Cover This?

Did Chief Justice Roberts just hand a Mickey Finn to Obama and the Democrats on the commerce clause?

Commentary, by Rick Did Chief Justice John Roberts hand the most important victory to the right?

It is what Roberts has been pursuing ever since he signed up with the Federalist Society. In 2005, Sen. Barack Obama spoke in opposition to Roberts' nomination, saying he did not trust his political philosophy on tough questions such as "whether the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to speak on those issues of broad national concern that may be only tangentially related to what is easily defined as interstate commerce." Today, Roberts did what Obama predicted he would do. Source: SLATE.

I believe Roberts’s decision will throw roadblocks in Obama’s efforts to fully implement the ‘Affordable Health Care Act.’ I also believe he knew exactly what he was doing. In the future, it will be much more difficult for congress to pass any legislation which tends to ‘force’ its citizenry to either ‘do’ or ‘not do’ anything they do not want to do, under the umbrella that it is ‘principally under the commerce clause.’ It will also make it possible for congress, especially the right, to repeal or weaken existing laws, activist judge’s decisions, and executive orders passed under the ‘commerce clause’ reasoning. I expect the conservatives to now actively seek these laws and to repeal or gut them. In addition, now until election day, the Republicans have more taxes to blame Obama for, as Roberts has declared that the ‘penalty’ for not buying health care, has now turned into another ‘tax,’ i.e., the Midas touch in reverse for Obama’s re-election. Think about it. Robert’s decisions make a lot of sense.

Critical Second Amendment Ruling: Federal Court Defends Man’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms

A Court Decision in the right direction:

Saturday, June 23, 2012 The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled today that it is unconstitutional for Chicago to treat people with non-violent misdemeanor convictions the same as convicted felons. The NRA-supported case, Gowder v. Chicago, involves plaintiff Shawn Gowder, who was convicted as a first-time offender for mere possession of a firearm in violation of Illinois law in 1995. His misdemeanor record did not block him from getting a state Firearm Owner’s Identification card, so he could still legally possess a gun in Illinois. Nonetheless, when Mr. Gowder, who lives in a high crime area of Chicago, began the process to legally acquire a handgun to keep in his home for self-defense (a process required following the McDonald decision), the Chicago police denied his application. Mr. Gowder sued the city, maintaining that Chicago’s law banning non-violent misdemeanants from possessing guns in their homes for self-defense is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Second Amendment. Read entire article in NRA-ILA.

It would seem some of the courts are seeing the handwriting on the wall: that Americans overwhelmingly support the Second Amendment.

The Pope’s Message the Media Ignored

By George Rasley | 6/4/12

Today’s liberal establishment is totally mystified by the growing mountain of evidence that the values-free society they have struggled so mightily to create is an abject failure.

Pope Benedict XVIThe notion that, “Family life is no longer about playing the social role of father or husband or wife, it’s more about individual satisfaction and self-development,” as sociologist Andrew Cherlin said to The New York Times -- is accepted wisdom among urban liberal elites.

Naturally, their response to arguments to the contrary is to ignore evidence or arguments that contradict that worldview.

So it should come as no surprise that when Pope Benedict XVI argued against acceptance of this secular gospel in the Homily he delivered before a million worshipers during Mass at the 7th World Meeting of Families at Bresso Park in Milan, Italy it was quietly, but firmly ignored by the major media outlets. More from Conservative HQ.

Just like the leftist media has ignored anything else they do not like, as they did yesterday's election to replace Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker's defeat of the union expensive attempt to cast him from his office.

However, the Pope’s message that, “the family, based on marriage between man and woman… is the first and irreplaceable school of social virtues” gives way too much authority to traditional social values to be given a place in the establishment media’s carefully controlled public square. Op Cit.