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"Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973 ... A LOWER PAY INCREASE THAN WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"
Members of Congress passed a pay raise for themselves of $10,000 over two years even as they voted not to raise Social Security benefits for 2010 and 2011.
The Democrats' health care bills would provide "free health care for illegal immigrants."
The House health care bill provides for "free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession."
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."
A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
Obama "closed offshore tax safe havens."
Obama has "visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office."
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.
A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.
An Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus."
The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees "holiday trees."
"For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)."
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."
"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."
"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."
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