POST-OBAMANOMICS: DEMOCRAT RUN STATES ARE GOING BROKE

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POST-OBAMANOMICS: STATES ARE GOING BROKE

Stephen Moore warns GOP legislators against hiking taxes to bridge the gap

Governors and state legislators say they are running out of money again, and many are demanding tax hikes to close budget gaps.

More than half the states are facing big deficits this year, and they are mostly blue states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New York and Oregon. Wait. These are states with high taxes and some of the deepest pools of red ink. There’s got to be a message here.

But some red states have money woes, too. The biggest fight is in Kansas, where the Republican-dominated Legislature recently passed a massive income tax hike that would raise taxes on every small business in the state and every wage earner with income above $15,000. Fortunately, Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed the GOP tax hike, but it will be back in some form.

So what is the source of the budget crises from coast to coast? First, on the revenue side, tax receipts are down because states are front-line victims of the slow-growth era of the Obama years. When the U.S. economy sputters at only 1.6 percent as it did in 2016, state and local tax revenues barely trickle in. 

So much for the liberal spin that President Obama left behind a healthy economy.

Revenues have plummeted in oil-producing states such as Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Wyoming. Liberals are pushing big tax increases in each of those states, which not so long ago gorged on new spending during the years of high prices. North Dakota had one year in which the budget rose more than 50 percent.

The best thing Washington could do to help states would be to pass the Trump tax cuts so we get faster economic growth. Nothing heals state budgets more quickly than a dose of prosperity.

The major reason states are in financial trouble is the eight-year state spending binge that almost no one is reporting on. Chris Edwards, a fiscal analyst at the Cato Institute, has run the numbers. He reports that “state general fund spending has soared 32 percent since 2010.” The National Association of State Budget Officers predicts a 4.3 percent hike in fiscal 2017 budgets – twice the inflation rate.

One reason state budgets have spun out of control is Obamacare. Some 20 million Americans have been added to state Medicaid rolls. For now, the feds pay most of the costs. But if patients were still to be on Medicaid in several years, the costs would be shifted to the states. 

All the more reason to repeal Obamacare as rapidly as possible before the Medicaid caseloads grow by millions more.

It’s worth noting that many of the blue states that signed up for the Obamacare Medicaid expansions now face the biggest deficits.

Would tax hikes solve the problem? The answer can be found in Connecticut and Illinois. These two states passed multi-billion-dollar income tax hikes on “the rich.” 

Both have seen their economies get crushed by the out-migration of tax filers to avoid the tax hikes. 

Today their deficits are still gigantic. Connecticut faces a deficit of nearly a half-billion dollars, and Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy is calling for his third mega tax increase to stop the red ink. 

Illinois has at least $6 billion in unpaid bills after its biggest tax increase in history.

Spending discipline and pro-growth tax reforms are the best formula for reviving state budgets. If Republicans, who control 69 of the 99 state legislative chambers, think they can tax their way back to prosperity, don’t be surprised if they’re back in the minority after 2018.

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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIMITING SEX TO MARRIAGE TO BE JUDGED BY COURT

'Religious freedom against equality rights'

Published: 8 mins ago

(THE COLLEGE FIX) — According to Canadian Lawyer magazine, Trinity Western University’s proposed law school was given preliminary approval to open more than three years ago.

Then the overwhelmingly secular nation’s lawyers noticed that the Christian university required students to abstain from sex outside of traditional marriage, and years of litigation followed.

Now the entire matter could be ended by the Supreme Court of Canada, which agreed to hear two appeals from Ontario and British Columbia that “pit religious freedom against equality rights,” The Globe and Mail reports:

Trinity Western’s “community covenant” or code of conduct requires students to abstain, among other things, from obscene language, harassment, lying, stealing, pornography, drunkenness and sexual intimacy “that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.”

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BUSH AS WILLFULLY IGNORANT OF ISLAM AS OBAMA

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IMMIGRATION WATCHDOG: BUSH ECHOING OBAMA ON RADICAL ISLAM

America's 9/11 president 'still misunderstands what the struggle is'

Greg Corombos

Former President George W. Bush indicated he considers President Trump’s recent executive order a “Muslim ban” and opposes efforts to infringe upon anyone’s freedom to worship, an analysis that one immigration experts suggests is evidence Bush doesn’t know what’s in the policy and is continuing with his narrative that anyone killing in the name of Islam cannot be a Muslim.

Bush appeared on NBC’s “Today” show to promote his new book, “Portraits of Courage,” but he soon found himself immersed in a conversation about the president, the media and Trump’s temporary pause on immigration from seven nations suffering from the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.

“Today” host Matt Lauer began the discussion of the executive order by quoting Bush’s positive portrayal of Islam following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on America.

“That’s very different talk than what we’re hearing today about a Muslim ban,” Lauer said. “Do you think the president’s position on this has been well thought out?”

“It’s important for all of us to recognize one of our great strengths is for people to worship the way they want to or not worship at all,” Bush responded. “A bedrock of our freedom is the right to worship freely.”

Bush later said he supported an “immigration policy that is welcoming and upholds the law.”

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Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director Mark Krikorian told WND and Radio America that Bush’s focus on the freedom to worship suggests he’s not all that familiar with Trump’s executive order.

“He still misunderstands what the struggle is; and specifically about the travel ban, he didn’t push back against Lauer’s comment that this was a Muslim ban,” Krikorian said. “How can it be a Muslim ban if it only covers 10 or 12 percent of the world’s Muslims? He hasn’t been keeping up with the news, and he really shouldn’t be commenting on it if he hasn’t.”

Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Mark Krikorian:

But Bush wasn’t done.

“I understood right off the bat, Matt, that this was an ideological conflict, and people who murder the innocent are not religious people. They want to advance an ideology,” Bush said.

Krikorian said Bush sees the threat in much the same way former President Obama does.

“Even President Obama made these points about how if you’re a terrorist killing innocent people, you’re not religious. 

Well, that’s completely misunderstanding what it means. Who are we to say that a terrorist acting in the name of Islam doesn’t understand what Islam is?” asked Krikorian.

“Former President Bush would have been correct in saying that sort of violent perspective on Islam is not the only way to see it, that there are many Muslims who reject it. But he steps over the line, and Obama did this, too, when he said that other perspectives of Islam that see it legitimately as killing infidels are not really Islam.”

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Krikorian is also keeping a close eye out for Trump’s revised executive order banning travel from the seven nations with significant terrorism problems. He expects the new order to carve out exceptions for anyone holding green cards.

He said the massive fight over the order is largely a distraction from the real fight over which branch of government gets to establish immigration policy.

“It’s only 90 days for seven countries. What this is really about is whether the elected representatives of the people or the judges get to decide who moves to the United States,” said Krikorian, who added that the statutory power clearly gives authority to Congress, which allows the president to ban any alien or class of alien he wants.

He said the left wants that power to be in the hands of judges.

“This is something that the anti-borders people, whether on the right or on the left, have been pushing for for years, where every single visa decision – everything – would be decided by judges ultimately. That’s not what the law says,” Krikorian said.

“The courts suspending that old executive order were acting lawlessly. It was literally an illegal act by those judges.”

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My comments: Encouraging Muslim Immigration to America is a Death Wish for America. The Koran calls for the KILLING of All Infidels and every Muslim believes the Koran. 

WND EXCLUSIVE

U.S. PASTORS' PUSH FOR REFUGEES CALLED 'HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY'

Resettlement agencies not so compassionate, says author

Paul Bremmer

Good Christians must welcome into their country anyone fleeing persecution and violence, even if they come from terror-producing countries.

That was the sentiment expressed by more than 500 evangelical pastors and ministry leaders from across the U.S. in an open letter to President Trump and Vice President Pence earlier this month.

But the letter was the “height of absurdity,” according to WND writer and editor Leo Hohmann, who has extensively researched and reported on the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

“What they’re saying is that, in order to be compassionate and to be Christian, we must permanently resettle tens of thousands of Muslim refugees from the Third World into over 300 U.S. cities and towns,” Hohmann told host Jan Markell on Saturday’s episode of “Understanding the Times Radio.” 

“That’s a straw man argument, and I’ll tell you why: We could be doing more for these people by reaching out to them where they are than by bringing a few of them here.”

Hohmann pointed to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies that estimated it costs 12 times as much to resettle one Middle Eastern refugee in the U.S. as it does to care for one refugee in a neighboring Middle Eastern country. He noted the Syrian civil war has displaced about 5 million people, but the United Nations has only marked 350,000 of them (7 percent) to be resettled in Western democracies.

Therefore, bringing roughly 40,000 Middle Eastern refugees to the U.S. every year is not the most compassionate way to help them.

“I’m not saying we shouldn’t be compassionate,” Hohmann said. “My argument is permanently resettling these people in Western societies where they don’t fit and don’t want to assimilate is not the answer.”

The pastors’ letter came in response to Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. The letter was coordinated by World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization that is one of nine voluntary agencies authorized by the State Department to resettle refugees in America. In fact, Hohmann said six of the nine resettlement agencies are affiliated with religious denominations; however, he warned their motives are not entirely benign.

“These organizations present themselves as strictly humanitarian in nature – charitable, humanitarian, nonprofit, do-gooding operations,” he said. “What’s not to like about that? Well, when they come into your community and start explaining why accepting refugees is going to be such a good thing and good for your community, and when they’re quoted in the local newspapers, it’s never pointed out that these are the exact same organizations that are profiting from the resettlement of refugees.”

Hohmann, author of “Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and the Resettlement Jihad,” explained the resettlement agencies get paid more than $2,000 for each refugee they resettle in the United States. The federal government also pays these agencies to collect travel loans from the refugees, and what’s more, the agencies receive federal grants to offer services to the refugees once they arrive in the United States.

America is headed down a suicidal path – but it’s a subtle invasion, and not many Americans understand the full extent of the problem. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann’s brand new book “Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad,” available now in hard copy or ebook at the WND Superstore.

Not only do the resettlement agencies have a financial incentive to resettle as many refugees as possible, but they are not even allowed to share the gospel with the refugees they bring in. Hohmann said they must sign a contract agreeing not to proselytize.

“This just sort of adds, in my opinion, to the lack of assimilation that the Muslim refugees in particular are failing to accomplish,” he said. “They’re living in enclaves in places like Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio, and Seattle and Atlanta and San Diego, and they’re not getting out and assimilating with the rest of our country and being exposed to anything but their own narrow Islamic culture.”

When co-host Eric Barger asked Hohmann if he could think of any instance in history when Muslim immigrants truly assimilated in mass into a Western setting, Hohmann replied he could think of none.

He noted Muslims have failed to assimilate into Sweden, turning the once-peaceful Scandinavian country into a crime-riddled state. Furthermore, he pointed out Germany has actually tried to get its native population to conform to the sensibilities of the Muslims who have migrated there.

“Women are being told to cover up when they go out in public, because you’ll just be stimulating some of the demons within the migrants that have flooded into that country,” he mused.

Hohmann said so many European countries are rolling over for Islam because Christianity is not nearly as strong as it once was on the continent.

“The Christian church in Europe, post-World War II, became very lukewarm, to say the least, to the point where Europe basically became a post-Christian society, and that just opened the door for Islam,” he said.

Hohmann explained the lax immigration policies many European countries adopted made it easy for Muslims to rush in and fill the gaps, not only in the economy, but also in native populations that had embraced abortion, rejected marriage and failed to reproduce.

“In an environment like that, that does not desire to sustain itself or defend its culture, it’s perfect for Islam to rush in and fill that vacuum, and that is what I see happening in America now,” he warned.

“Fewer people, according to Pew Research and other major polls, believe in God in America than ever before. Still much stronger than Europe, our faith, culture, but it is flipping and it is flipping fast.”

Hohmann blames Islam’s advance partly on a “lack of truth” coming from Christian pastors in America.

“As you know, we’ve had an awakening of the global Islamic movement since 9/11 and even before that – some people believe it started with the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and it’s just been picking up steam ever since then,” he said.

“Yet you have the Christian church in these Western democracies in Europe and America not teaching their flock about what is Islam. What does it believe? Who do they believe that Jesus is? Did he die on a cross? Is he the Son of God?”

Hohmann believes churches hold the key to stopping the “stealth invasion” of Islam that he wrote about.

“The solution, Jan, as you know as well as I do, is a strong Christianity,” Hohmann told Markell. “If we have strong churches and a strong Christianity, that is the best antidote to a rising Islam in any culture. 

Islam looks for weak Christianity, and it rushes in to fill the void.”

America is headed down a suicidal path – but it’s a subtle invasion, and not many Americans understand the full extent of the problem. Get all the details in Leo Hohmann’s brand new book “Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad,” available now in hard copy or ebook at the WND Superstore.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/u-s-pastors-push-for-refugees-called-height-of-absurdity/#qboFvEFEGDY8dKjc.99

My comments: The American Church's FAILURE to speak out agaist the False Religion of Islam, that is having such a Dramatic Negative Effect on this Nation, is an Abandonment of Faith in Christ Jesus--It is sharing in the Wicked Work of Islam. (2 John 8-11) 

WND EXCLUSIVE

AMERICANS RALLY WITH ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT FOR TRUMP

Patriotic crowds respond to president's call for gatherings in U.S. cities

Americans across the country are rallying in nearly 60 U.S. cities this week in support of President Trump and his efforts to “Make America Great Again.”

Some cities held rallies Monday, the eighth anniversary of the first protest of the tea-party movement in 2009. A larger round of at least 53 rallies is scheduled for Saturday, March 4. (A list of rallies, locations and times is included at the end of this report.)

According to Main Street Patriots, the rallies are intended to “reinforce and support the current policies being put in place that will help Make America Great Again!”

On Saturday, President Trump called for Americans to show their support by holding rallies. He tweeted: “Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!”

In Atlanta, a crowd of more than 250 people showed their support for Trump.

Vivian Phillips, a 60-year-old retired teacher, drove at least seven hours from West Virginia to attend the Atlanta rally. Phillips’ sign read “Adorable deplorable from West Virginia.”

“I just think we need to support our president,” Phillips said, Reuters reported.

Edward Ethridge, an Atlanta business owner, said, “Give Trump a chance.”

The Atlanta crowd chanted, “Four more years!”

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State Sen. Josh McKoon, a Columbus Republican, said: “These folks think they know what’s best for us. They think they’re the masters of the universe. But in America, the people still get a say. The revolution, the earthquake on Nov. 8 is just the first step.”

Just outside New Orleans, about 100 people – most of whom dressed in red, white and blue – gathered at a pavilion in Mandeville, Louisiana. Ralliers carried signs that read “We Love Trump” and “Support Our President.”

The following are photos of Monday’s rally outside the state capitol building in Denver:

Feb. 27, 2017, Spirit of America rally in Denver, Colorado (Photo: Twitter)

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WND EXCLUSIVE

SHARIAHVILLE USA DECLARES SCHOOLS 'SAFE HAVENS' AGAINST TRUMP POLICIES

'Home away from home for their children'

Leo Hohmann

Just a few weeks after an Atlanta-area school superintendent issued a statement warning school employees not to say anything about immigrants that might be deemed discriminatory, a Detroit-area school system has branded itself a “safe haven” for refugees and immigrants.

Hamtramck Public Schools will provide “community resources” and “access to legal services” for any families negatively impacted by President Trump’s policies, according to a statement published in a Detroit newspaper.

“All Hamtramck schools are safe havens with a commitment to help all immigrant families connect with the needed resources to avoid deportation,” Superintendent Thomas Niczay told the Detroit News.

Hamtramck passed a resolution with the “safe haven” designation in January, before Trump even took office.

“As a board and a school district, we thought ahead and wanted to have a resolution in place to make our community know that whatever happens after January, Hamtramck Public Schools will be home away from home for their children,” Hamtramck school board secretary Salah Hadwan, whose family emigrated from Yemen, told the News.

Hamtramck achieved notoriety in November 2015 when it elected the nation’s first Muslim-majority city council, after which it took on the name of “Shariahville” among some Michiganians who saw the town as an example of what they didn’t want their cities to become.

Hamtramck also became one of the first cities to allow a mosque to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers in 2004, leading many ethnic Polish residents to move out of the city and head for the suburbs.

Proud of diversity

In Atlanta, it was DeKalb County Superintendent Stephen Green who issued a statement Jan. 31, a few days after President Trump announced a temporary travel ban on citizens from seven terror-prone countries, saying speech deemed by the school board to be discriminatory against immigrants, legal or illegal, would not be tolerated “on or off district property.” He declared DeKalb schools “safe places” for the districts diverse student body, made up of students from 180 countries, and parroted Hillary Clinton’s talking points that “diversity is our strength.”

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WND reported that two teachers were forced to resign for comments made in a DeKalb classroom after Trump was elected on Nov. 8. A school nurse was also placed under investigation and later forced to resign for comments about immigration she posted on Facebook.

Yet, when WND reported on Green’s statement and the forced resignations, he claimed the report was “false” and that the employees all left voluntarily. He said WND’s “false report” led to scores of death threats from WND readers, the ABC affiliate WSB-TV reported.

However, even the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the teachers “resigned in lieu of termination” for comments they made in school about illegal immigrants and “tying it into Donald Trump’s presidential election.”

Hamtramck School District, like DeKalb in Georgia, prides itself on its extreme diversity.

Ten of the 28 girls in a fifth-grade class at Hamtramck’s Dickenson East Elementary wear the hijab. Immigrant children make up 45 percent of Hamtramck’s overall student body.

The Detroit News reports:

“Many at Dickinson East come from Yemen, which is among seven mostly Muslim nations that President Donald Trump has targeted in his travel ban, blocked by the courts but being retooled by the White House. That’s caused concern from parents who are dealing with deportation fears.”

The Detroit News article fails to point out that Trump’s “ban” is only for 90 days for visa travel and 120 days for refugees.

“Hamtramck officials are attempting to quell those concerns by designating district schools as ‘safe havens,’ providing students and their families with community resources and access to legal services organizations,” the newspaper reports.

Dick Manasseri, spokesman for Secure Michigan, a group that educates the public on Shariah law, said the Detroit News article represents the “leftist propaganda machine at its finest.

“You will not find an unbiased story in the Michigan media market,” said Manaserri.

He said Michigan residents need to push back by creating their own brand for:

• “safe havens for the taxpayers”
• “safe havens for the women and children living near Shariahvilles” (like Sterling Heights and Warren)
• “safe havens for the lovers of the Constitution”
• “safe havens for Trump’s supporters”

Manasseri and others note there is no such outrage from the establishment media or on U.S. college campuses about the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East.

Both the EU and the U.S. have declared the situation in Iraq and Syria as a “genocide” against the Christian and Yazidi religious minorities, but the U.S. media have been largely silent, focusing instead on a 90-day travel ban on seven nations, calling it a “Muslim ban,” even though it only affects 10 to 12 percent of the world’s Muslim population.

“Christians don’t count in the hierarchy of value for activist leftists,” said Clare Lopez, vice president of research and analysis for the Washington-based Center for Security Policy. “Only those who are non-Judeo-Christian do, no matter the crime, the issue or the situation. Wholesale slaughter of Middle East Christians in the Nineveh Plains, for example, simply doesn’t matter to such as these.”

Islamic “safe havens,” in reality, are zones in the U.S. where the sovereignty of constitutional, state and local culture has been ceded, at least in part, to Shariah, said Lopez.

“What this actually means is that the Muslim women and girls who live there or go to school there are not protected from the Quranic obligation that men beat their wives, that parents face no Shariah consequences for their girls undergoing female genital mutilation, or be forced into underage, forced marriages, possibly to an older polygamous man,” Lopez told WND.

“I wonder how many in Hamtramck even know that the Quran says Muslim females should cover up to avoid being ‘molested’ – that means, to avoid being raped by Muslim men, who recognize the head scarf as a visual signal that this female belongs to a man and is not available for rape – as it might be inferred those are who do not wear a hijab.” (See Quran 33:59.)

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My comments: Unless the Islamization of America is Stopped, America will go the way of Europe and become and Islamic Hell Hole. There is such American and Christian Ignorance about Islam that it is Appalling.