Budget expands government as economy contracts
Campaign For Liberty
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Last week the House passed another budget that increases federal power, raises taxes, and increases the national debt. I voted against it, and was pleased to see that not a single Republican representative voted for it. Legislators often see bipartisanship as constructive, but I disagree especially where the destruction of our economy or our liberty is concerned. There has been too much bipartisan consensus on expanding government far beyond the bounds of the Constitution which we all swore to defend and uphold. Because of this, I have never been able to vote for a budget. However, it was good to see Republicans come together on this important vote, even if their alternative budget was almost as bad...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=43
CEO pay: The outrage continues
Our Future
by Sam Pizzigati
04/06/09
Despite the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, top corporate executives are still taking home staggeringly more than their counterparts a generation ago. Millions of Americans last year lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security. American CEOs last year lost some pocket change — and some of them didn’t even lose that. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported this past Friday, pay for typical big-time U.S. CEOs dropped a mere 3.4 percent, to a $7.6 million median. Two days later, the New York Times pronounced a 9.4 percent CEO pay falloff last year. But the Times put median CEO pay at $8.4 million, a higher total. The Journal figures cover the first 200 U.S. corporations with over $5 billion in revenue to file executive pay figures for 2008. The Times tally spotlights 200 CEOs at companies that last year took in at least $6.3 billion in revenue...
http://tinyurl.com/c688of
Welcome to the new class warfare
Fox News Forum
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
04/07/09
We are in the midst of a new class warfare and our constitutional rights are eroding before our very eyes. The government has an ideological predilection toward egalitarianism — or forced equality. … The Constitution, which guarantees freedom of contract and denies the power of the government to take life, liberty, or property without due process (suing for it), is an obstacle for the government. Freedom is an obstacle for all governments. Thus, the administration will trample whatever constitutionally-guaranteed liberties it can get away with in order to acquire the power to re-order our lives so as to bring about its egalitarian vision for America. Unfortunately, we will all suffer before the government realizes that our financial prosperity has come from private, uninhibited initiative, not from Soviet-style central planning...
http://tinyurl.com/c34wrr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=expanding+government
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sam+Pizzigati
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Napolitano
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
Last week the House passed another budget that increases federal power, raises taxes, and increases the national debt. I voted against it, and was pleased to see that not a single Republican representative voted for it. Legislators often see bipartisanship as constructive, but I disagree especially where the destruction of our economy or our liberty is concerned. There has been too much bipartisan consensus on expanding government far beyond the bounds of the Constitution which we all swore to defend and uphold. Because of this, I have never been able to vote for a budget. However, it was good to see Republicans come together on this important vote, even if their alternative budget was almost as bad...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=43
CEO pay: The outrage continues
Our Future
by Sam Pizzigati
04/06/09
Despite the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, top corporate executives are still taking home staggeringly more than their counterparts a generation ago. Millions of Americans last year lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security. American CEOs last year lost some pocket change — and some of them didn’t even lose that. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported this past Friday, pay for typical big-time U.S. CEOs dropped a mere 3.4 percent, to a $7.6 million median. Two days later, the New York Times pronounced a 9.4 percent CEO pay falloff last year. But the Times put median CEO pay at $8.4 million, a higher total. The Journal figures cover the first 200 U.S. corporations with over $5 billion in revenue to file executive pay figures for 2008. The Times tally spotlights 200 CEOs at companies that last year took in at least $6.3 billion in revenue...
http://tinyurl.com/c688of
Welcome to the new class warfare
Fox News Forum
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
04/07/09
We are in the midst of a new class warfare and our constitutional rights are eroding before our very eyes. The government has an ideological predilection toward egalitarianism — or forced equality. … The Constitution, which guarantees freedom of contract and denies the power of the government to take life, liberty, or property without due process (suing for it), is an obstacle for the government. Freedom is an obstacle for all governments. Thus, the administration will trample whatever constitutionally-guaranteed liberties it can get away with in order to acquire the power to re-order our lives so as to bring about its egalitarian vision for America. Unfortunately, we will all suffer before the government realizes that our financial prosperity has come from private, uninhibited initiative, not from Soviet-style central planning...
http://tinyurl.com/c34wrr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+debt
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=expanding+government
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Great+Depression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sam+Pizzigati
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+Napolitano
rudkla - 8. Apr, 11:07
