Sunday, September 2, 2012

OBAMA A LEFTIST? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!


I am still trying to understand by what policies the writers of so many articles picture Obama is a Leftist/Liberal? He is not. Jesus was a Progressive, Liberal, Socialist, but Obama, like Bush, Ryan and Romney, are the opposite. And despite the strange idea that Obama's healthcare plan is Leftist, it virtually identical to Romney's Health care program, which he created installed in Massachusetts in which Romney cooperated entirely with the Democratic majority in both houses. 

Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002 but did not seek re-election in 2006. During his term he presided over the elimination of a projected $3 billion deficit by reducing state funding for higher education, cutting state aid to cities and towns, raising various fees, and removing corporate tax loopholes; Massachusetts also benefitted from unanticipated federal grants and unexpected revenue from a previously enacted capital gains tax increase.

Romney supported raising various fees by more than $300 million, including those for driver's licenses, marriage licenses, and gun licenses. He increased a special gasoline retailer fee by two cents per gallon, generating about $60 million per year in additional revenue.  (Opponents said the reliance on fees sometimes imposed a hardship on those who could least afford them.)  Romney also closed tax loopholes, in the interests of both better fairness and revenue increases, that brought in another $181 million from businesses over the next two years and over $300 million for his term. He did so in the face of conservative and corporate Critics say he considered them tax increases.

The state legislature, with the governor's support, also cut spending by $1.6 billion, including $700 million in reductions in state aid to cities and towns.

The cuts also included a $140 million reduction in state funding for higher education, which led state-run colleges and universities to increase tuition by 63 percent over four years. Romney sought additional cuts in his last year as governor by vetoing nearly 250 items in the state budget, but all were overridden by the heavily Democratic legislature. The cuts in state spending put added pressure on localities to reduce services or raise property taxes, and the share of town and city revenues coming from property taxes rose from 49 to 53 percent. The combined state and local tax burden in Massachusetts increased during Romney's governorship but remained below the national average. 

On April 12, 2006, the governor signed the resulting Massachusetts health reform law, commonly called "Romneycare", which requires nearly all Massachusetts residents to buy health insurance coverage or face escalating tax penalties, such as the loss of their personal income tax exemption.

The bill also establishes means-tested state subsidies for people who do not have adequate employer insurance and whose income is below a threshold, with funds that were previously used to compensate for the health costs of the uninsured. He vetoed eight sections of the health care legislation, including a controversial $295-per-employee assessment on businesses that do not offer health insurance and provisions guaranteeing dental benefits to Medicaid recipients. The legislature overrode all eight vetoes, but the governor's office said the differences were not essential. The law was the first of its kind in the nation and became the signature achievement of Romney's term in office.

Obama is the spitting philosophical image of Bush, Romney and Ryan. Who in their right minds is going to vote for a liar like Ryan? Obama a few years ago supported Ryan's plans to gut Medicare and Social Security, both of them wanted to send everyone over age 62 to an early grave and bankruptcy. Obama and Romney are supported by the same people: The Rothschilds, Soros, Rockefellers, Bilderbergs, Club of Rome, Tri-Lateral Commission, so how is he any different from the Republicans? He is not. He is, however, as great a liar as Ryan and about much of the same stuff.

Obama has done things no liberal has ever done, in attackimg attacking all of the things put into place by FDR. 

It is literally impossible for anyone to be a Tea Party supporter and claim to be a Christian-Impossible, because Jesus was a Progressive, Liberal, Socialist. In every single case of his interaction with greedy people who were rich Jesus refused to offer forgiveness. In every action he forgave fleshly "sinners", prostitutes, and in many cases befriended and liked them. In fact, in the case of the Samaritan Woman at Jacob's Well, he told her that he new she was living with a fellow to which she was not married and had been marred five times. He did not dwell on her sins of the flesh, he changed the subject and she was astonished at his ideas and brought the whole town to follow Jesus. She thus was a valuable disciple.

Jesus' only act of Violence against humans was against The wealthy bankers/money exchange rate manipulators on the portico of the Temple of Jerusalem.

Obama has done everything either Romney and Bush did, but, in fact some of Romeny's actions could be considered Progressive, while few to none of Obama's could earn that title.

Obama tried to cut Medicare and Social Security as did Paul Ryan and he even complemented Ryan's plan to dismantle the middle and upper middle classes. He seems dedicated to He like Ryan and Bush are secret society members of the depopulation organizations-the same ones that are the enemies of the Left.

Obama is as much or more of a war monger than Bush. Obama has schemed to create in stable nations Terrorism, just as did Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq. How is he any different than the Republicans? In fact, he only ran for the democrats because the bigots on the right refused to support him, but his managers knew that blacks and Liberals would if he pretended to be both. Obama also seems to have a hatred of Christians. I believe him to be an atheist. Men who were deserted by their fathers often hate God and those who are faithful to a Father figure such as our God. It would also appear that some segment of the new women's movement which supports Obama, hates Catholics, just as did Hitler.

I repeat again,  It Is Impossible To Say One Is A Follower Of Jesus And is A Conservative, Tea Party Member, Fascist Or A Nazi. Jesus Hated Greed, Especially The Avarice Of The Rich. That Includes Popes, Priests, Bishops And Ministers Who Attack The Sins Of The Flesh With Wrath, Which Jesus Did Not, And Take The Money Of The Rich And Tell Them They Are Only Making A Living and must support their families ,allowing them to think whatever they do is fine, as long as they financially support their families and the church. Hypocrisy!
PS: I AM not voting for either Obama or Romney. 

If you dispute the above, write your own blog with a matching number of evidential support. Here we show more than 400 references which support our position from the article in Wikapedia.

The material below and that about the career of Romney is primarily from an article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney


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Further reading
  • Foster, Craig (2008). A Different God?: Mitt Romney, the Religious Right, and the Mormon Question. Draper, Utah: Greg Kofford Books. ISBN 978-1-58958-117-3.
  • Hines, Phillip (2012). Mitt Romney in His Own Words. New York:

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