We The People of Mid-Michigan

On Christmas eve, when most Americans’ minds were on other things, the Treasure Dept. announced that it was removing the $400 billion cap from what the administration believes will be necessary to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac solvent.  This action confirms that the decade-long congressional failure to more closely regulate these two government-sponsored enterprises (GSE’s) will rank for U. S. taxpayers as one of the worst policy disasters in our history.

Fannie and Freddie’s congressional sponsors – some of whom are now leading the administrations’s efforts to “reform” the financial system – have a lot to answer for.  Rep. Barney Frank, chmn. Of the House Financial Services Committee, sponsored legislation, adopted in 2008 that establishes a new regulatory structure for the GSE’s.  But by then it was too late.  The GSE’s had begun buying risky loans in 1993 to meet the “affordable housing” requirements established under Congressional direction by the (Clinton) Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

FACTOID #21

Making Schools Safe for Exploitation

Scant attention has been paid to the problems associated with Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools Czar. Jennings is the guy who gave advice to a fifteen-year-old high school student about how to protect himself when he was having sex with an adult man. Mr. Jennings was told that the boy met the man in a bus-station restroom, and it seems that the best he could do was to tell the boy, "I hope you knew to use a condom."

This is the same guy who has expressed admiration for Harry Hay, a notorious and extremely prominent supporter of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Jennings is quoted as saying, "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay." In case you aren't familiar with NAMBLA, they are a group of adult men who have developed an organization dedicated to seducing young boys to have sex with grown men. The stated goal on their website is "to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships by building understanding and support for such relationships and educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love." The term they use for their disgusting behavior is "intergenerational sex."

FACTOID #20

Despite a massive budget deficit, House Democrats pressed ahead Thursday with a huge spending measure combining major spending boosts for domestic agencies and foreign aid with more than 5,000 back-home (pork) projects sought by lawmakers.

The 1,088-page, $1.1 trillion measure would provide $447 billion in operating budgets for 10 Cabinet departments, with increases averaging almost 10 percent. There would be more than $600 billion in payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

Approval of the House-Senate compromise bill would send it to the Senate before it could go to President Barack Obama.

The generosity comes on top of an infusion of cash to domestic agencies in February's economic stimulus bill and a $410 billion measure in March that also bestowed budget increases well above inflation.

"There is no question that the era of big government has returned to Washington, D.C.," said Rep. Jerry Lewis of California, top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. "This package of spending bills ... simply spends too much money and makes a mockery of our legislative process.”

We are sure that most of you are following the action on the current health care legislation in the Senate. You have been relentless in your support of our efforts to kill this bill! We are making a difference. But please do not get lax, do not become complacent. The big announcement of "no public option" could very well be one more ploy by the liberals running the Senate to keep this thing alive and get the votes they need to pass this debacle. They will then change what needs to be changed to fit what they would like to see in this bill.

We the People of Mid-Michigan are asking you today to make one more phone call, send one more email, and write and deliver one more fax. Along with your personal objections, you may want to mention the following in your phone call or email/fax:

*cuts to Medicare or veteran's benefits
*coverage of illegal immigrants
*mandated participation/coverage
*lack of tort reform
*NO federal funding of abortion