Congressman Kagen looking for more PAC money

Congressman Kagen must be feeling the heat.  First there was the Somerville fundraiser.  Then there was word of the big fundraiser planned for Milwaukee on April 8.  Now it appears Steve is angling for more PAC money according to his Facebook fan page.

Congressman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s PAC, The Democrats Win Seats PAC (DWSPAC) has decided to contribute to NINE DEMOCRATS who they would like to help keep in Congress. They will contribute $5,000 to the candidates who receives the most contributions and votes. Please take a moment vote for me!

Hmm, who do you think Congressman Kagen is going to listen to if he wins re-election?  Probably going to continue NOT listening to “We the people.”

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Cutting benefits

Folks like Pelosi puppet Congressman Steve Kagen keep saying there’s misinformation about the healthcare reform bill and that Americans will like it.

So Congressman does that include liking to have your benefits cut or costs increased?

Remember the part in the ObamaCare pitch when they said if you like your current healthcare, it won’t change?

Turns out it might.

Companies are already announcing that their healthcare premium costs are going through the roof.  Some are responding by firing people.  Some are cutting benefits.  And some are presumably eating it.

But costs they are a-rising.

A few examples from the WSJ:
– Caterpillar said it would cost the company at least $100 million more in the first year alone.
– Medical device maker Medtronic warned that new taxes on its products could force it to lay off a thousand workers.
– Verizon announced to employees that it will likely have to cut healthcare benefits to offset the new costs.

So, people who like your employer-provided health insurance, get ready to pay more or get less. (Source: Yahoo Finance)

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Will rise to 90% of GDP

Gotta love that hope and change President Obama promised us.  Seems his 2011 budget will cause this country’s level of debt to rise to 90% of GDP.

President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation’s economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday.

In its 2011 budget, which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Feb. 1, the administration projected a 10-year deficit total of $8.53 trillion. After looking it over, CBO said in its final analysis, released Thursday, that the president’s budget would generate a combined $9.75 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

“An additional $1.2 trillion in debt dumped on [GDP] to our children makes a huge difference,” said Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “That represents an additional debt of $10,000 per household above and beyond the federal debt they are already carrying.”

The federal public debt, which was $6.3 trillion ($56,000 per household) when Mr. Obama entered office amid an economic crisis, totals $8.2 trillion ($72,000 per household) today, and it’s headed toward $20.3 trillion (more than $170,000 per household) in 2020, according to CBO’s deficit estimates.

That figure would equal 90 percent of the estimated gross domestic product in 2020, up from 40 percent at the end of fiscal 2008. By comparison, America‘s debt-to-GDP ratio peaked at 109 percent at the end of World War II, while the ratio for economically troubled Greece hit 115 percent last year. (Source: The Washington Times)

Can anyone say imminent bankruptcy is on the horizon unless the brakes are put on this spending spree?

What type of spin will we here from President Obama, Queen Nancy and her puppets (ie Steve Kagen) regarding this analysis in the weeks ahead?

Great material here for candidates.

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Knowing Christ and His power

Great post for Holy Week by Jim Pierce.

I do have certainty and not because of my own ability to reason. Instead it is because God sent His Son to die on a cross and rise from the dead, thereby conquering sin and death—indeed, He was punished, crucified, died and rose from the grave for my sins—around this time of the year some two thousand years ago. That historical fact is the center of all biblical truth. If Christ has not risen from the dead, then the center piece of Christian doctrine, justification by faith alone, is a sham as well as all other Christian teachings (1 Cor. 15:14).

If we are wrong about about the person and work of Jesus Christ, we would then be hopelessly trying to save ourselves by our own works as the pagans do. We would be lost in despair and in ourselves, always looking inward for that “magic moment” of relief from the accusations of the law written on our hearts.

I know the truth because of what Christ did for me and continues to do for us all through His Word and Sacraments. If coming to the knowledge of the truth in Christ had been left up to my rational scrambling and seeking, to my works at finding the truth, I would have never known it. Yes, I would have been “…always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).

Go to the source and read the rest of this great witness of faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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