CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERTS 08/21/2013

“Don’t Fund Obamacare” Obama’s “selective enforcement” of Obamacare not only proves the law to be an unworkable failure, but also proves him to be a liar. In 2009, Obama said his government-run healthcare scheme would “place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses,” because “nobody should go broke just because they got sick.” Despite Obama’s sales-pitch, the New York Times reports that these out-of-pocket costs are, in fact, not capped. Read More

33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Economy Has Tanked Since Obama Became President Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an “economic recovery”, but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely shredded. Read More

Do We Need a Second Party? When we hear political commentary today, we frequently hear the word “bipartisan” used in a positive sense. For example, “the bill received bipartisan support”; or “the issue was studied by a bipartisan commission”. Webster defines bipartisan as “cooperation and agreement between two major political parties”. This got me to thinking. Read More

When Welfare Pays Better than Work The federal government funds 126 separate programs targeted towards low-income people, 72 of which provide either cash or in-kind benefits to individuals. (The rest fund community-wide programs for low-income neighborhoods, with no direct benefits to individuals.) State and local governments operate more welfare programs.Of course, no individual or family gets benefits from all 72 programs, but many do get aid from a number of them at any point in time. Read More

North Carolina Shows the Way for Honest Elections North Carolina is showing the way for conservatives to rise above their post-2012 depression and regain the political initiative. Governor Pat McCrory just signed a law requiring voters to show a valid photo ID for voting, prohibiting same-day registration, and reducing the number of days for early voting from 17 to 10. Read More

Europe and America are suffering from the tyranny of green energy policies President Obama and the hard left ideologues, who guide his energy policies, don’t seem to be paying attention to European economies staggering under the weight of years of “green.” Read More