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Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.
Members of Congress "receive full pay retirement after serving one term."
Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs."
State employees will have to pay 100 percent of their pensions and health insurance after 2012.
Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."
Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget.
Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans.
Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.
The cap-and-trade bill before Congress "prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator."
"Pres. Obama's finance team is recommending a . . . 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."
"Many of the companies bankrolling the ad campaign against Amendment 4 are recipients of a congressional bailout, in the form of humongous tax refunds earlier this year."
Says Texas voters are being asked to act this November on a proposed constitutional amendment affecting property taxes.
Peter DeFazio "will sneak in a 1 percent tax on all banking transactions."
After Hurricane Katrina, "Dallas and San Antonio took in 5,000 to 10,000 refugees each, but (Bill) White brought in 250,000 and put them up in his 'buddies' empty apartment buildings and let the federal government pay their rents for over two years. They did not return to New Orleans, most of them are on welfare."
Under the new health care law, "all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax"
When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen.
A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.
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