Views on the News
July
24, 2010
Views
on the News*
The Republicans
are already dancing on the Democrat’s political grave, salivating about
November, but don't underestimate Barack Obama. Consider
what he has already achieved: ObamaCare alone makes
his Presidency historic irrevocably changing one-sixth of the economy, put the
country inexorably on the road to national health care, and begun one of the
most massive wealth redistributions in U.S. history. Second, there is major financial reform that gives
the government unprecedented power in the financial marketplace and will create
at least 243 new regulations that will affect not only the big banks but just
about everyone. Third is the near $1
trillion stimulus, the largest spending bill in U.S. history, not even counting
nationalizing the student loan program, regulating carbon emissions by
Environmental Protection Agency fiat, and still-fitful attempts to pass
cap-and-trade through Congress. Bottom line is that Obama's most far-reaching
accomplishment is his structural alteration of the U.S. budget. The stimulus, the vast expansion of domestic
spending, the creation of ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see are not
easily reversed. These are not mere
temporary countercyclical measures. They
are structural deficits because the real money is in entitlements, most
specifically Medicare and Medicaid. ObamaCare freezes these out as a source of debt reduction
because ObamaCare's $500 billion in Medicare cuts and
$600 billion in tax increases are siphoned away for a new entitlement, and no
longer available for deficit reduction. There
just isn't enough to cut elsewhere to prevent national insolvency. That will require massive tax increases, most
likely a European-style value-added tax.
So Act One is over.
The “stimulus,” ObamaCare, financial reform have
exhausted his first-term mandate. It
will bear no more heavy lifting, since the Democrats will pay the price for
ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses. The rest of the first term will be spent
consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act
Two. The next burst of
ideological energy, massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing
higher education and "comprehensive"
immigration reform (i.e., amnesty), will
require a second mandate, meaning reelection in 2012. Obama is down, but not
out and the real prize for him is 2012 so Republicans should underestimate him
at their own peril.
(“Obama’s Next Act” by Charles
Krauthammer dated July 16, 2010 published by The Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/15/AR2010071504593.html?sub=AR
At its core, fascism is really just a system where
government, through agreements with the private sector, controls virtually all
property and income indirectly and Obama has embraced this template. In fascism prosperity and economic growth become the domain of government. The philosophical aim
is to eliminate recessions by eliminating robust growth, the underlying
philosophy being that if there is no boom, there will be no bust. The problem with the system is obvious:
property-owning democracy must take a back seat to the interests of the
state. By blurring the distinction between the private sector and the
public sector, individual liberty can often be conditioned on complicity with
state aims, as manifested in the private sector sphere. Money talks, and when the state controls the
powers of production directly or indirectly, it controls the livelihood of
millions. Fascism is correctly
associated with tyranny since nations that employ the tenets of fascism almost
always transition from a republican or parliamentary form of government to some
sort of personality cult usually centered on an economic
"savior." Fascism
requires extensive state control, and if this control is not centralized in a
singular personality, the results will be muddied and plagued with excessive
overlap. All of Obama's actions have highly fascist overtones. Obama succeeded in passing a financial
overhaul bill granting him the authority to seize healthy firms if he deemed
them to be at risk, outside of normal bankruptcy procedures which exist
expressly for that purpose. For an economic "savior" to be truly successful, the banks must be under his or
her total control. Now the banks answer directly to the White House, and
can be shut down under any pretense. The financial service reform is just
another industry to feel the government takeover as America is being remade in
an antiquated fascist image.
(“American Jeopardy: What is
Fascism?” by John Griffing dated July 17, 2010
published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/american_jeopardy_what_is_fasc.html
)
President Obama
signed into law a mammoth financial bill, the third time in less than two years
that he and his party have succeeded in pushing through a gigantic, complex
piece of legislation that the people did not want and consequently his
popularity has steadily eroded. First came
the stimulus bill, his initial response to the economic tsunami that started in
2007 and had engulfed the nation by the time he took office. Then health care, an ambitious attempt to
establish affordable, accessible medical services for all Americans. And now, so that Americans "will never again be asked to foot the bill
for Wall Street's mistakes," he has orchestrated the biggest financial
overhaul of this country since the Great Depression. Democrats look at this record as a down
payment on a pure socialist state that the left has been yearning for since the
'30s. Republicans look at this
legislative record as a terrible threat to every aspect of American well-being. We already have results from some of these
programs or others just like the ones passed, so let’s look at the results so
far:
o The stimulus was supposed
turn the economy around, limit unemployment to 8%, and prevent a deepening
recession, but it has accomplished nothing of the sort. The economy is
effectively frozen, with business mesmerized by Obama's increasingly frenetic
antics. Unemployment is officially above 10%, and in truth much higher. In the
rest of the world, a large number of countries that attempted no such thing as
a stimulus, including Canada, much of Latin America, and much of Southern Asia,
are now back on their feet.
o ObamaCare is unraveling before our
eyes. The CBO has recalculated the business case and found that ObamaCare will cost more than promised, and more people than
expected will be forced to change to ObamaCare. The sneak appointment of David Berwick was
purposeful since Obama wants a duplicate of the U.K. National Health Service
(NHS), the sole British feature that he admires. According to studies by
British health care specialists, the NHS kills up to 95,000 patients a year
through incompetence, mistakes, and accidents. Since the NHS was established in
1948, hospital beds have dropped from over 800,000 to 160,000, while the number
of bureaucrats has expanded to nine for each patient. So how will we be
impacted: the number of accidental deaths will rise to the vicinity of 450,000
and the number of hospital beds will drop dramatically.
o The 2,600-pages of the
financial reform bill was incomprehensible and few in
Congress read it prior to voting for it. The Dodd-Frank bill is likely to carry
on in crippling the economy where the stimulus left off, with its five hundred
new regulations and complex bureaucracy extending down to small businesses and
individual consumers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski reminds us of
President Carter by characterizing the country as being again in a "malaise." The biggest problem
with Obama’s message is that although he passed a number of massive bills to
address “problems,” the solutions created
do not address the problems and in fact make the situations worse, and voters
will likely not forget!
(“Approval deficit: It’s ironic
that the more good bills Obama signs into law, the lower his job ratings sink”
dated July 21, 2010 published by Houston Chronicle at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7118884.html
“Failure is success for Obama fans”
by Noemie Emery dated July 21, 2010 published by The
Washington Examiner at http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Failure-is-success-for-Obama-fans-1002105-98873164.html
“Obama’s Failing Presidency”
by J.R. Dunn dated July 22, 2010 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/obamas_failing_presidency.html
)
Washington under President Barack Obama is not just broken - it’s broke,
and drastic measures are needed to avoid financial bankruptcy. When Obama entered office, he inherited a
budget deficit that reflected the toxic combination of recession, bailouts and
runaway entitlement programs. Rather
than getting the government’s finances under control, Obama and his allies in
Congress poured gasoline on the fire with trillion-dollar boondoggles. To put the recent spending binge in context,
consider this: At the end of 2008, just before Obama took office, the federal
debt was about 40% of our nation’s total economy. Now, according to a recent Congressional
Budget Office report, the debt will explode to 62% of our economy by the end of
this year. If we consider off-budget
liabilities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, underfunded entitlement promises
and the budget effects embedded in the Democrats’ new health care bill, the
fiscal picture gets even worse. Obama has lost the confidence
of much of the business community, whose worries over taxes, the dramatically
increased costs of new regulation, and a general perception that the
administration is hostile toward them and may take yet harsher steps, are
holding back investment and growth. The
unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation
as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money. When the
housing and credit bubbles burst in 2007 and 2008, the unemployment rate soared
to double digits and caused a cascade of shock throughout the credit markets
and the banking system. Washington's
ability to initiate a resurgence is now limited by the
long-term dangers of our deficits and our debts. In a bizarre development, the
Democratic-controlled House has taken a pass on enacting a budget this year. Not having a budget does not stop Democrats
from spending even more money they don’t have on extending unemployment
benefits to the tune of $34 Billion. Republicans have presented their own
budget plan that includes big cuts in government spending over the next decade
and a balanced budget by 2019. Washington Democrats will assert you can’t solve the problem by simply
cutting spending, protecting crucial priorities and balancing the budget
without raising taxes, but Republican Governors have proven that it can and
should be done!
(“Time for Obama to Make
Sacrifices” by Tim Pawlenty dated July 14, 2010
published by Politico at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39674.html
“GOP Proposes Brave Budget” by
Stephen Moore dated July 17, 2010 published by The Wall Street Journal at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704913304575371402695945326.html?KEYWORDS=gop+proposes+brave+new+budget
“Obama’s Anti-Business Policies
Are Our Economic Katrina” by Mortimer B. Zuckerman dated July 16, 2010
published by US News & World Report at http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/07/16/obamas-anti-business-policies-are-our-economic-katrina.html
)
The White House now claims that its various stimulus and bailout
efforts have "saved or created"
2.5 million to 3.6 million job, but they must have been created not in the
United States, but in Fantasyland. You
were told that the stimulus was justified because it would jump-start the
economy, setting in motion a recovery that would increase output by more than
its increased deficit cost. Now you are
skeptical that there has been any recovery, and think that you have been misled
by the President and the economic experts.
The claims made by the
administration's top economists are ludicrous, because the U.S. economy has
struggled for more than a year and a half under Obamanomics
and is no better for it. If the administration wants
to take credit for “jobs created or saved,”
they should also accept responsibility for “jobs
destroyed or prevented.” The ugly truth is, U.S. businesses have shed 3.1 million jobs
since Obama took over according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not some make believe White House number. A
President's most valuable asset, with voters, Congress, allies and enemies is
credibility, but Obama has sacrificed his with extreme exaggeration and
hyperbole. It isn't hard to understand why a new CBS News poll shows just
13% of Americans believe that Obama's plans have helped the economy, because people
aren't fooled by the clouds of rhetoric emanating from the mouths of Democratic
politicians. Studies show that a dollar
given to the government actually reduces GDP, due to the waste, inefficiency
and dead-weight tax loss of removing money from productive uses in the private
sector. Despite close to $3 trillion in
"stimulus," bailout spending and Fed money-creation over the last
two years, the economy is still stumbling along and not creating enough jobs. The
“stimulus” bill has assumed certain
mystic powers in administration discourse, but revoking the laws of arithmetic
shouldn't be one of them. We're still 7.5 million jobs below the level of December 2007,
the month we entered recession. Chamber of
Commerce CEO Tom Donohue warned of the "cumulative job-killing impact of over-regulation," saying that
government involvement in the economy "is
so overwhelming and beyond anything we have ever seen, that we risk moving this
country away from a government of the people to a government of the regulators." Democrat policies have damaged this
economy almost beyond repair, and it's time Congress and the White House start
listening to the real job creators, and fire the
failed economic theorists who have misled us and made a mess of our once great
economy.
(“Jobbing America” dated July
14, 2010 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/540392/201007141854/Jobbing-America.aspx
“Please, No More Government
Spending!” by Vernon L. Smith dated July 19, 2010 published by The Daily
Beast at http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-19/please-no-more-government-spending/
“Obama’s Economic Fish Stories”
by Michael J. Boskin dated July 21, 2010 published by
The Wall street Journal at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575378751776758256.html
)
It is obvious
that the Democrats learned nothing from the Great Recession since they are
actively pushing to reinvigorate the root cause legislation that caused the
housing bubble. The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank
financial regulation bill should not be called "financial reform," but should be called what for what it is:
pages and pages of massively costly, counter-productive and possibly
unconstitutional mandates on nearly every type of business except for those
government-sponsored enterprises at the root of the crisis. Contrary
to Barack Obama’s rhetoric about protecting consumers, his new financial reform
law represents a dangerous big government power grab that willfully ignores the
true roots of the recent financial crisis. It
is also the latest example of America’s “march to Marxism,” the not-so-gradual
implementation of a command economic system in which the free market is taxed
and regulated into oblivion while new and expanded government bureaucracies
wield unprecedented power. One thing it
will leave totally untouched is the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac, which new research by Congress's Financial Crisis Inquiry
Commission and other bodies show was even more of a prime factor in the
subprime boom than originally assumed. The
taxpayer tab for bailing out government-owned mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac continued to soar. That bailout will now cost taxpayers at least
$400 billion, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office,
although a deteriorating housing market could push the total above $1 trillion. Early
on changes that the Clinton administration made to the Community Reinvestment
Act (CRA) bent underwriting rules, paving the way for the easy-credit housing
boom and bust, but now come Congressional hearings to expand the CRA. In 1995, Clinton mandated banks adopt "flexible" underwriting practices to
boost minority homeownership. This
triggered an explosion in subprime and other risky mortgages that left
communities of color worse off than ever.
The financial services reform bill tasks the four existing regulatory
agencies (FDIC, Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency and Office of
Thrift Supervision) to maintain authority to evaluate banks under the CRA. The problem is, CRA loans aren't sound: they
have high default rates and underperform traditional loans, as the Fed's own
studies show. CRA loans are part of the
reason minorities are facing "new challenges," including bad credit,
foreclosures and renewed neighborhood blight and crime. They should never have been put in loans they
couldn't repay. Extending credit based
primarily on skin color rather than on an individual's ability to repay is a
recipe for the kind of financial disaster we're still experiencing, not to
mention racism of a different kind. Rather than wait for Congress's own Financial Crisis Inquiry
Commission to issue its report in December to examine the role of the GSEs and
other causes, Congress passed a bill that will not prevent future bubbles and
imposes untold costs that will put the country in danger of slipping back into
a recession.
(“Son of CRA: The Scandal lives On”
dated July 20, 2010 published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/540982/201007201844/Son-Of-CRA-The-Scandal-Lives-On.aspx
“Obama’s Latest Monstrosity”
by John Berlau dated July 21, 2010 published by The American
Spectator at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/21/obamas-latest-monstrosity
“Financial reform and America’s
March to Marxism” by Howard Rich dated July 22, 2010 published by Town Hall
at http://townhall.com/columnists/HowardRich/2010/07/22/%E2%80%9Cfinancial_reform%E2%80%9D_and_america%E2%80%99s_march_to_marxism
)
It is apparent that the Obama administration in Washington is
doing their best not to let the oil spill crisis in the Gulf "go to waste." Either the American Power Act will be explicitly
taken up or another clean energy bill will be proffered to which the key
provisions of the American Power Act will be attached. The problem is that there is no real link
between cap-and-trade regulations and the crisis in the Gulf. Climate change is real, and
has been since the dawn of time, but there is no consensus and no evidence that
carbon dioxide is the primary factor in global warming and cooling, or that
humans are causing a climate disaster. Assertions,
assumptions and computer models are not evidence, and cannot justify what the
Democrats are pushing. Even
if cap-and-trade legislation were passed, we will still need to drill for oil
and natural gas. Environmental
euphemisms aside, however, the legislation is really about imposing national “low carbon fuel standards” (LCFS) and
forcing dramatic reductions in the use of oil, natural gas and especially coal.
It would expand on existing laws,
regulations and decrees, like the Environmental Protection Agency’s ruling that
carbon dioxide somehow “endangers human
health and welfare.” The
looming tax increases and other policy mistakes the administration has already
made have set the economy up for a major economic downturn in 2011.
Piling cap-and-trade regulations on top of all of this will only make a
terrible economic situation even worse. The reason that Obama is so enamored with this bill is obvious. Given the President’s inability to cut
spending in any meaningful way, his only hope of restoring some sanity to the federal budget is a massive tax. Energy taxes have the potential to raise
enough revenue to stem (not eliminate) the river of red
ink pouring through the streets of Washington.
Unfortunately though restricting, taxing, regulating and penalizing the
hydrocarbon fuels that provide 85% of America’s energy would severely hobble
our free enterprise system and impact jobs, families, living standards, and
basic rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Linking cap-and-trade regulations to the
current environmental crisis in the Gulf is a Saul Alinsky
bait and switch technique to expand control in the energy industry by
implementing an unpopular energy tax and restricting energy usage.
(“Gulf Oil Spill ‘Crisis’ May
Revive Growth-Killing Cap-And-Trade Bill” by Arthur Laffer,
Wayne Winegarden and Colin Hanna dated July 16, 2010
published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/540628/201007161823/Gulf-Oil-Spill-Crisis-May-Revive-Growth-Killing-Cap-And-Trade-Bill.aspx
“It’s Really About Controlling Our
Lives” by Paul Driessen dated July 17, 2010
published by Investor’s Business Daily at http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2010/07/17/its_really_about_controlling_our_lives
“Disappearing Cap and Trade”
by Rich Trzupek dated July 22, 2010 published by
Front Page Magazine at http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/22/disappearing-cap-and-trade/
)
Instead of marking a new beginning in race relations, Obama’s
Presidency has given new life to the old politics of racial grievance. Little
did America know that Barack Obama reputation as a racial healer was a creation
of the media, since he really was the candidate of racist demagogues and provocateurs. In just
18 months of the Obama administration, racial discord is growing and relations
seem to have been set back a generation. Black voters are galvanizing behind Obama at a
time of rapidly falling support, while white independents, in contrast, are
leaving Obama in droves. It started early
with the Boston incident involving Henry Louis Gates giving a clear indication
of how he would inflame the populace with racist rhetoric. Back in July 2009, in a prime-time press
conference, Obama smeared and libeled a good, decent (white) police officer
with a spurious charge of racism. In
fact, the professor was the racist and the hater and the police officer was
just doing his job. Obama’s ignorance didn’t stop him from making his explosive
charges, which led to a firestorm of criticism that lasted for months. Liberals have thrust race into the forefront
of most of the top political and social controversies. They’ve alleged racism without sufficient
knowledge of the facts and sometimes in spite of the clear facts. Two
former U.S. Department of Justice
attorneys have corroborated key elements of the
explosive allegations by a third former attorney that the Voting
Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division is refusing to enforce the law
against black defendants. Most recently the NAACP adopted a resolution condemning the
allegedly “racist elements” of the
Tea Party, despite no evidence of racist signs at Tea Party rallies and no
evidence of the alleged hurling of racist epithets at black legislators at an
event in Washington, D.C. Left wing politicians and media personalities
equate any opposition to Obama and his agenda as racism. The Left has been over-playing its race card,
and its race-baiting is becoming increasingly self-defeating, as so many
spurious accusations of racism mean real incidents of racism are trivialized. The more the President
appeals to his base in racial terms, the more his appointees identify
themselves as members of a particular tribe, and the more political issues are
framed by racial divisions, so all
the more such racial obsession creates a backlash among the
racially diverse American people. America
has largely moved beyond race. Tragically,
our President and a host of his supportive special interests have not. It is dismaying and
dumb to see a sitting President whose rhetoric reflected racial progress to let
his Attorney General and his supporters play the race card in his bid to keep
control of Congress.
(“Liberals Still Acting Stupidly
on Race” by Gary Bauer dated July 18, 2010 published by Human Events at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38094
“More evidence of Justice racism” by Brian Fitzpatrick dated July 17, 2010
published by World Net daily at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=180129
“R.I.P. Post-Racial Politics”
by Dick Morris dated July 19, 2010 published by Front Page Magazine at http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/19/r-i-p-post-racial-politics/
“A War Amongst Ourselves”
by Pamela Geller dated July 19, 2010 published by American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/a_war_amongst_ourselves.html
“The New Racial Mess” by Victor David Hanson dated July 22, 2010 published by National
Review Online at http://article.nationalreview.com/438474/the-new-racial-mess/victor-davis-hanson
)
Latino voters,
the fastest-growing group of swing voters in the country, are a key
constituency both for Democrats and the Obama administration. Latino
voters are increasingly disillusioned by President Barack Obama's failure to
deliver on comprehensive immigration reform even as Arizona and other states
take matters into their own hands. Nine more states (Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia, as well as the
Northern Mariana Islands) are planning to join Arizona in federal court to
enforce immigration laws and protect the borders. That could help spell doom for the
Democrats in the upcoming midterms and in 2012.
The Obama administration has a solution that appeases Latino voters but
is more politically feasible than an overarching reform bill and still provides
real relief to at least a segment of the undocumented population. The Development, Relief, and Education for
Alien Minors (DREAM) Act would grant as many as 2.1 million undocumented young
people legal status if they arrived in the United States before they turned 16,
have lived here for five years, and enroll in college or enlist in the military. Obama’s focus on the
DREAM Act is only a ploy to temporarily buy Latino votes, since this bill really
does nothing to advance his comprehensive immigration reform agenda.
(“Nine States Join Brief Backing
Arizona’s Immigration Law” by David Runk dated
July 15, 2010 published by Cybercast News Service at http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69471
“A Piece of the Dream” by
Renee Feltz dated July 19, 2010 published by The
American Prospect at http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_piece_of_the_dream
)
The GOP must overcome
its own history by delivering a humble, limited agenda that helps rebuild the
American people's confidence in the Republican's ability to govern. When
the GOP takes the House back, it will be because of the American people's deep
dissatisfaction with the Democrat Party, not their love for the Republican
Party. Republican candidates should
acknowledge policy errors made during the Bush years. Here are seven doable agenda items that can
help re-establish credibility:
1. Kill earmarks: Earmarks don't make up a
large percentage of the budget, but they have become a tremendous corrupting
influence on Congress.
2. Read the bills: Congress should have to wait
one day for every 20 pages of a bill before it’s voted upon.
3. Kill the funding for ObamaCare:
To fully repeal ObamaCare, the GOP needs to control
the House, have 60 votes in the Senate, and control the Presidency which is not
going to be the case until 2013. Defunding
ObamaCare isn't as good as repealing it, but it can
stop the bill in its tracks until the GOP has the votes to repeal it.
4. Security first border
proposal: Pass
a tough new immigration law that finishes building the fence, adds more border
patrol agents, beefs up interior enforcement, severely penalizes businesses
that knowingly hire illegals, ends catch and release
programs for people of all nationalities, and does a better job of tracking
people who come into America on VISAS.
5. Investigate, investigate, investigate:
When the GOP takes over the House, it will get subpoena power and it can start
to get the sort of answers the public has been waiting for in the Sestak/Romanoff bribery case, the dropped Black Panther
prosecutions, and the partisan corruption of the census -- among other issues.
6. Get the government out of
private industry:
The GOP must develop and implement an exit strategy to move the government out
of private industry as quickly as possible: the banks, the car companies, and
student loan industry by 2012.
7. Pay for all new spending: The GOP must enforce that any
NEW spending, including "emergency
spending," has to be paid for by cutting spending from other places in
the budget to restore its reputation for responsible governance and fiscal
discipline.
Trust must be earned
and the GOP must endeavor to instill confidence by quick actions demonstrating
the commitment to rebuilding their tarnished reputation.
(“A Seven Item Tea Party Agenda
for a GOP House” by John Hawkins dated July 20, 2010 published by Town Hall
at http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/07/20/a_seven_item_tea_party_agenda_for_a_gop_house
)
*
There is so much published each week that unless you search for it, you will
miss important breaking news. I try to
package the best of this information into my “Views on the News” each Saturday morning. Updates have been made this week to the
following issue sections:
· Politics at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/intro/politics.php
· Education at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/education.php
· Environment at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/environment.php
· Immigration at http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/dp/immigration.php
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY