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Allen
West’s Gentlemanly Behavior
By Star Parker
7/25/2011
Florida
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman
Schultz (D-FL), also Democratic National Committee chair, suggested
that the
nasty email she got from Congressman Allen West (R-FL), responding to
her
attack on him in the House, resulted from him being “under pressure.”
Of
course, Allen West is under
pressure.
As
is every freedom loving American,
as we watch our great country sink.
In
two and a half years, a left wing
Democrat president along with a left wing Democrat congress, controlled
by the
likes of Ms Wasserman Schultz, have changed this country so
fundamentally it is
not clear at all to what extent we can recover.
In
just two and half years, they’ve
increased federal spending a trillion dollars. It took George W. Bush,
the
largest spender since President Johnson, eight years to accomplish this.
The
national debt stood at $10.6
trillion when Barack Obama became president. Now, two and a half years
later,
it’s at $14.3 trillion. A forty percent increase.
Obamacare
has nationalized one sixth
of the economy. The Dodd-Frank financial services law brings
unprecedented
government control over our banking and financial services sector.
The
bailout of General Motors changed
the American auto industry forever, opening the door to corporations
becoming a
subsidiary of the US government.
Now
in that spirit, the Obama
administration is trying to prevent Boeing from relocating plane
production
from the state of Washington, where unions are crippling its business,
to South
Carolina, a right to work state.
The
Congressional Budget Office now
projects that debt will equal 100% of our GDP in ten years.
Even
if Republicans succeed in
extracting several trillion dollars in spending cuts from our president
in
exchange for raising the debt limit, this barely dents the massive new
debt
build-up.
Republicans,
like Allen West, who were
elected in the 2010 electoral backlash, are trying to do something to
save our
future. One is the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill that the House just
passed, which
was the focus of Wasserman Schultz’s attack on West.
Wasserman
Schultz got on West for
supporting this bill, calling this a platform for cutting Medicare for
the
seniors in his district.
Let’s
get things straight.
The
threat to seniors is Obamacare.
It
cuts $500 billion out of Medicare
to pay for its new socialized medicine regime.
Here’s
the Kaiser Family Foundation
and the Washington Post on this:
“Medicare’s
chief actuary, Rick Foster,
estimated that the law (Obamacare) could reduce projected Medicare
spending by
more than $575 billion over 10 years.”
And
contrary to the grand lie under
which Obamacare was sold, that it will save money and cut the deficit,
CBO now
projects that health care spending under this regime will double by
2035.
Every
senior in the nation should be
trembling about what Wasserman Schultz has helped make law of this land.
What
should we expect? We have turned
our lives, health, and pocketbooks over to the same humble geniuses who
told us
that $850 billion in stimulus spending would create 4 million jobs and
prevent
unemployment from going over 8 percent.
Today
one and half million fewer
Americans are working than when Barack Obama became president and
unemployment
stands at 9.2 percent.
West
explained the vitriol of the left
toward him, one of two black Republicans in the House, as stemming from
his
“being the guy that got off their 21st century plantation.”
It’s
more. They are also obsessed with
getting the whole nation on it. And Ms Wasserman Schultz and her left
wing
friends in government are succeeding.
Of
course Allen West feels pressure.
Every American who cares about their job, their future, and their
children’s
future is stressed out.
Given
the damage inflicted by
Wasserman Schultz and her party to our nation, Allen West has been
quite the
gentleman.
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