Bringing The White House To You

It would not be reasonable to expect everyone is actually going to go the the White House website and spend hours surfing around to find out what the new administration's plans are. So, I have taken the liberty of gathering up a few points for you. Bear in mind, the following are quoted directly from the White House website. As one popular cable station says, "We report - you decide".

"Senator Obama also laid down principles for how to discuss faith in a pluralistic society, including the need for religious people to translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate."

[MY RESPONSE] His solution - destroy individual religions in favor of a "one-size-fits-all" faith. Shut down public discussion of anything specific to a religion. Stop freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. And not to mention - what happened to separation of church and state? He now wants the government to determine how we can and cannot "discuss faith in public". A clear violation of the 1st Amendment. If your religion has a belief that is not "universal", such as sodomy being a sin, or opposing birth control, or even a belief in Jesus etc., you would not be able to discuss that in public.

Create Secure Borders: Protect the integrity of our borders. Support additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.

[MY RESPONSE] I hate to mention this, but Bush tried this. The Democrats fought him every inch of the way. Then defunded it. And the people who voted for Obama wanted open borders. There is a word for people like that - SUCKERS!

Improve Our Immigration System: Fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.

[MY RESPONSE] This was McCain's idea. It failed with both the people, the Republicans AND the Democrats. We have a high unemployment rate for Americans. Americans cannot find work to support their families. Obama's plan is to bring in more immigrants, to increase unemployment even further. Great plan!

Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally: Remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

[MY RESPONSE] Gee, Bush was doing that and the Democrats & the media screamed bloody murder! Every time the INS raided a business and arrested illegals, the liberals went into a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy!

Bring People Out of the Shadows: Support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

[MY RESPONSE] This was McCain's immigration plan. The folks who voted against McCain did not like McCain's plan, and Hispanics voted against McCain. But I guess now that it is Obama's plan, it is suddenly better.

Work with Mexico: Promote economic development in Mexico to decrease illegal immigration.

[MY RESPONSE] Great! We have high unemployment here in the US, and a recession. And he wants to build Mexico's economy. Not to mention, no country has the right to interfere in the affairs of a sovereign nation. He was not elected President of North America.

Fight Workplace Discrimination: President Obama supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

[MY RESPONSE] Right or wrong, for many, the gay issue is a religious issue - many religions believe sodomy a sin, and also believe if you do not fight sin, you are just as guilty as the sinner. To require a person to hire a gay person even if it interferes with his religious beliefs is a violation of the 1st Amendment, and the separation of church and state. Not to mention, if you force someone to hire a gay, that gay person will spend his employment in misery, because you cannot legislate people to like the person, or accept them.

Oppose a Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: President Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006 which would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman

[MY RESPONSE] Many moderates and religious blacks voted for Obama thinking he was against gay marriage. Again there is a word for those people - SUCKERS!

Expand Service-Learning in Our Nation's Schools: Set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year.

[MY RESPONSE] Sounds good, but in reality it is not a good thing. Many students in rural areas spend 7 hours/day in school, and three hours on the bus each day. A whopping 10 hour day for rural kids. And those kids generally have 1-3 hours of homework each day. So, we are up to a 12 hour day, on average, for kids. Now, in those same rural areas, most of those kids, by necessity, have farm chores - usually at least 1-2 hours each day. You now have young children putting in a 14 hour day, every day, 5 days a week. And Obama wants to add another hour each week. Oh - and many HS kids hold down a part-time job, to earn money for college. So how, pray tell, does this benefit our kids? Imagine if you had to put in an 80 hour week like rural kids, and Obama decides you now have to put in another hour, without pay?

Expand Hate Crimes Statutes

[MY RESPONSE] This is incredibly dangerous. According to some of the details, this "expansion" would make it illegal to be anti anything. To carry a sign saying "NO TO GAY MARRIAGE" would be a hate crime. In short, you could go to prison for exercising your freedom of speech, or even practicing your religion. In a sane world, a "hate crime" would be limited to any CRIME that is committed out of HATE, such as beating someone up for being gay, or vandalizing a church. There must first be a CRIME before it can be classed as a HATE crime. Under Obama's plan, you need not commit a crime in order for it to become one. The hate, itself, is the crime. Talk about thought police! As Americans, we have the right to hate whomever we choose. It is not a crime unless you ACT on that hate in a way that constitutes an existing crime, such as assault or vandalism.

America has always been staunchly against regimes like those in China where people are imprisoned for disagreeing with someone. Under Obama's plan, that is a very real threat right here in America. Some liberal cities already have such laws (Philadelphia, for one). In one instance, an 80 year old lady was charged with a hate crime simply because she carried a sign in protest of something. She broke no other laws - no vandalism, no assault. Just exercised her freedom to express her own opinion. When that becomes a crime, America will have died.

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