Iran – Drone – Obama – War Plans?

Secretary of Defense preparing to brief the President on Iran Drone Crisis via Flickr

The Pentagon confirmed today that the drone the Iranian government is the missing US drone.  They also confirmed that there were three covert plans to retrieve or destroy the drone.

According to Fox News, Pentagon sources confirmed that Obama rejected all three plans “because he did not want to do anything that could be perceived as an act of war”.

Strange logic when you consider his willingness to remove a sitting Head of State (Gadhafi) without Constitutional authority or Congressional approval/oversight and using drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen without those governments’ sanction. So when he knows that the other side won’t strike back or has limited ability he is the school yard bully, but when faced with an adversary with the ability to bloody his nose, literally and politically he does what most far left politicians do, he sticks his head in the sand and ignores the situation.

The implications resulting from lack of action are serious. Leadership from the Commander In Chief includes the willingness to use the military to protect vital American interests. Preventing Iran from turning over some of the most advanced technology in our military arsenal to China or Russia is of vital American interest, more so than removing a dictator whose only crime was refusing to let Sharia Law rule his nation and wouldn’t sell us his oil.

Watch your local and national news tonight on the broadcast networks and see how in-depth they go with this story.

If you are not getting fair and honest (neutral) journalism, demand it!

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Payroll Tax Holiday- The Secret Tax on Social Security

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What you aren’t being informed about the payroll tax holiday (temporary) President Obama signed into law last December (2010) is how it raids the trust fund of Social Security.  Social Security is the corner-stone of Democratic politics.  The proverbial third rail that no one dare touch.

The law reduced workers‘ Social Security taxes by 2%. Workers normally pay 6.2% on earnings, the new legislation made it 4.2%.  At the time the White House used an example of a single mother of two with $16,900 in earnings. She saved $28 a month under the Tax Holiday or $338 per year.  Now the White House uses the hypothetical employee earning $50,000 a year to scare the public into thinking the average taxpayer will pay $1000 a year more in taxes.  Deceptive?

Here is the true deception; according to Senator Jerry Moran (KS) who sits on the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee, that 2% in savings is actually hurting the Social Security Trust Fund by reducing the payments into it by $120 billion dollars (White House numbers).  So can they have it both ways?

Funding Social Security now to make sure its there in the future when lower-income workers may really need it or rob Social Security now to pay all workers now for votes in the next election. Isn’t vote-buying illegal?

No compromise, no tax holiday. Where is real tax and entitlement reform and where are the adults we elected to do the right thing, make the tough decisions to get the country back on track?  Ask your local news media why they haven’t covered the secret about the Tax Holiday that President Obama is so adamant about getting passed now.