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A Battle is Raging for the Soul of America
President Obama was in Miami yesterday talking about the need for infrastructure improvements at the Port of Miami. It’s the same song that he’s been singing since he was elected president in 2008.
According to the BBC,
Mr Obama outlined his plans at Port Miami, which is undergoing a $2bn (£1.3bn) upgrade and tunnel project.
Among his proposals was $4bn in new infrastructure loans and grants.
He also repeated a call for a $10bn “infrastructure bank” to attract investment for projects that will have the greatest impact on the economy.
The Obama administration is proposing tax breaks for foreign pension funds that invest in US infrastructure, and bonds designed to attract investors in larger projects.
“There are few more important things we can do to create jobs right now and strengthen our economy over the long haul than rebuilding the infrastructure that powers our businesses and our economy,” Mr Obama said in Miami.
‘Work to be done’
The upgrades at Port Miami – including a tunnel under the bay designed to link a highway with the port – are being funded by taxpayers as well as private investors.
Mr Obama noted that the involvement of several jurisdictions, as well as private companies whose payments were tied to performance, meant “construction workers are on the job digging this tunnel, doing great jobs, getting good pay”.
“What are we waiting for?” Mr Obama said, turning his attention to the wider US. “There’s work to be done, there are workers who are ready to do it.”
I don’t have a problem with seeking private funding for infrastructure projects. In fact, I think it’s a good idea, one that governments at the state and local levels should pursue independently of the president. But what about the roughly $2 trillion that our nation borrowed and wasted on so-called “infrastructure projects” between 2008 and 2012 that ended up being funneled into the coffers of unions and other groups that supported candidate Obama in 2008?
President Obama needs to give us an accounting. He needs to tell us plainly what he has accomplished with the money that he has already spent before he lends his and our support to more boondoggles. Will he? At this juncture, probably not, but we should demand one anyway.
The point is that I’m very skeptical. Obama is a good talker, but judging by the evidence, any resources that he helps to raise now will be used in the same nefarious manner as those raised during his first term. That frightens me because we can’t afford to take on more debt to fund Obama supporters who I fear threaten the survival of this nation.
As I said, raising private funds for infrastructure projects is a good idea, but Obama should limit his involvement to clearing hurdles that stand in the way of progress. Instead, through the EPA and other government agencies, he is building obstacles. That’s why I believe the president is just talking.
Enough is enough. It’s time for leaders in Congress to tell the president what they expect from him and then hold him accountable for producing results. If he fails to comply, they should use their power of the purse to insist that he toe the line. Truth is, with Democrats in control of the Senate, that’s not likely to happen, but if they lose control in 2014, it’s a very real possibility.
A battle is raging for the soul of America. It’s time for right-minded Americans to do their job and throw Democrats out of the Senate. If they don’t, we will get more of the same until 2016 or longer. Under President Obama and his lackeys in the Senate, the likelihood of turning this nation around before it’s too late is not good so time is of the essence.
This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in American Thinker.
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Daniel 4: 19-22
“Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, ‘Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.’ Belteshazzar replied, ‘My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you and its interpretation to your adversaries! The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged—it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your dominion to the end of the earth.’”
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Yahweh Said He is Our Only Savior
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Hosea 4: 6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Report: Gas from Tamar field to come online Sunday
Expert: Utilize new-found gas, don’t export it
Turkey may be export outlet for Israel’s natural gas
Syrian opposition: Iranian arms on way to Assad
Report: Abbas pardons jailed Palestinian journalist
Steinitz: Turkey apology important for int’l affairs
Hamas PM: Obama trip confirms bias toward Israel
Searching the speeches for an Obama doctrine
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British Peer Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Remarks
Priestly Blessing at Kotel: Photos
Reaching Out to the ‘Hidden Jews’ of South Italy
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Flashback: When even liberals backed ‘traditional marriage’
UK PM attacked over Christian ‘support’
Israel’s Jewish Population Passes 6 Million
Iran said advancing ‘at murderous pace,’ could have bomb by July
Syrian rebels claim they injured Iranian officers
IDF video shows terrorists caught in the act
7-year-old is the youngest Syrian rebel fighter
UN Asks Syria for “Unfettered Access” to Investigate Chemical Weapons Use
Israel Sends More Medics to Border with Syria
Iraq Feels Ripples from War in Syria
Internet cable-cutters caught by Egypt signal new terror threat
Turkey’s President: Diplomatic Pressure, Not Syria and Iran, Forced Apology from Israel
The final days of the UN’s Golan peacekeepers?
ADL Slams Muslim Group for “Malicious and False” Ads in NY Train Stations
Low Cost European Airline Increases Flights to Israel Due to Surge in Popularity
Palestinians Still Owe Israel Electric Corp. NIS 730 Million
Britons in Gaza Aid Convoy Kidnapped in Libya
North Korea says enters “state of war” against South
North Korea plan to attack US mainland revealed in photographs
N Korea in ‘state of war’ with South
Putin flexes Russian military muscle in naval exercise
Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion
Psychiatric Meds: Prescription for Murder?
ACLJ Obtains Fifth Injunction Against HHS Mandate
The EPA’s ‘Make Sure Nothing Gets Done Unless We Like It’ Mandate
Student loan crisis getting worse
New Obama regs for gasoline will add up to 9 cents a gallon
Virginia Governor Says No to Federal Interference in School System
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Barry Rubin: Jordan’s King Warns Obama; America Backs Muslim Brotherhood Agent as Syria’s Next Ruler—It really isn’t hard to understand what is happening in the Middle East if you gather the facts.
Stephen M. Walt: Our myopic approach to Iran— When historians of American foreign policy look back a few decades from now, they will shake their heads in wonder at the incompetence of the U.S. effort to deal with Iran. They will be baffled that the United States spent years trying to convince Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program by making repeated threats of war, passing Congressional resolutions demanding regime change, waging a covert action campaign against the clerical regime, and imposing ever harsher economic sanctions. They will spend a lot of time exploring why U.S. leaders mindlessly stuck to this approach and never noticed that it wasn’t working at all. Even as the sanctions bit harder, Iran kept moving closer to a nuclear “break-out” capability. Indeed, some analysts now believe it already has one.
Clare Lopez: Players Begin Savage Moves for Post-Assad Power Grab—The forces that will savage one another to succeed Bashar al-Assad in Damascus are beginning to make moves that are calculated to improve their position in the immediate post-Assad period.
Winston Pickett: Talking About Antisemitism—I have a confession: I am obsessed with antisemitism. Try as I might, I can’t get away from it.
Yoav Karny: Turkish-Israeli Rapprochement—Six years after storming out of a debate with President Shimon Peres at Davos, three years after divorcing Israel to the acclaim of the Arab world, two months after excoriating Zionism as a crime against humanity, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is not a friend, not an ally, and not a polite neighbor. At best, he is a temporary partner for temporary deals. Erdogan hates Israel, is hostile to its very existence, and longs to do something to speed up the end of that existence.
Washington Post Editorial: Israel and Turkey Let Bygones Be Bygones— THE DARKENING situation in the Middle East has produced a silver lining. With Syria’s civil war intensifying and Iran showing no sign of slowing its nuclear program, Israel and Turkey have patched a nearly three-year-old rift. In a March 22 phone call stage-managed by President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the deaths of nine Turks in a 2010 Israeli raid on a ferry attempting to breach the sea blockade of the Gaza Strip. That should open the way for Israel and Turkey to begin sharing intelligence and strategies for managing the common threat they face from Syria — and to increase the pressure on Tehran.
Mike Konrad: Brutal Realism About the Middle East—Israel may deserve criticism — as does every nation and ethnic group — but most of that attacks occurring now are anti-Semitism masquerading as criticism.
Douglas Murray: Muslim “Secret” Courageously Outed—The British Muslim writer Mehdi Hasan recently described anti-Semitism among his Muslim peers in Britain: “It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn’t just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it’s routine and commonplace.” He goes on to explain what a large number of the British Muslims with whom he speaks believe: that Princess Diana was murdered because she was going to have a Muslim baby, that 9/11 was not perpetrated by Muslims, and that the Holocaust of European Jews never happened.
Jerold S. Auerbach: Parsing Obama’s Speech—Anyone inclined to fantasize about prospects for an Israeli- Palestinian agreement because President Obama inspired students with his Jerusalem speech might take a deep breath and remember recent history. Especially once popular Israeli journalist and TV commentator Ehud Ya’ari enthusiastically declared that Obama was “a new Clinton.”
Dr. Charles Jacobs: Arabs Have Black Slaves Today— Israel Apartheid Week has come and gone this year on many American campuses. It was, of course, a hoax: However much one says that Arabs in Israel suffer, and whoever is to blame for that alleged suffering, there is no apartheid in Israel. Meanwhile, however, in Sudan and Mauritania, racist Arab societies enslave blacks. Today. Most of the slaves are African Muslims. Yet there is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses. Why not?
Clifford D. May: Some Arab Leaders Have Taken Risks for Peace – and Paid with Their Lives—Meeting with King Abdullah II in Jordan last Friday, President Obama was gracious enough to mention the monarch’s great-grandfather, King Abdullah I, assassinated in 1951, who “gave his life in the name of peace.” To Western ears, that sounded like a tribute. To Arab and Muslim ears, it may have sounded like a warning.
Michael Curtis: Justice and the Islamist Terrorist: The Burlesque in Britain—Thanks to the European Union, a nefarious terrorist is all but guaranteed never to face justice.
Shira Rubin: Palestinians Realize Downsides of Foreign Aid Boom—Palestinians are among the largest per capita consumers of foreign aid worldwide. While desperately needed, the billions of dollars flooding in from overseas since 1994 have also caused economic productivity to plummet by flooding Palestinian markets with imported goods. A recent World Bank report asserts that foreign aid has caused long-term damage to the Palestinian economy.
Tovah Lazaroff: IDF Views Escalation of Palestinian Violence in West Bank—The escalation of Palestinian violence in the West Bank has not yet turned into a third intifada, the IDF’s Judea Brigade commander Col. Avi Bluth said Thursday. “Are we in a period of escalation? The answer is yes. Are we on the way to a third intifada? As an army we are prepared for it, but it is my personal assessment that we are not.”
Clayton E. Cramer: Do Background Checks for Gun Purchases Actually Work?—With so much case study available, you would think advocates could show us more convincing evidence. Before we go down the road to requiring all private sales of firearms to go through a background check — either imposed nationally or at the state level — I would like to see some persuasive evidence that such laws actually reduce murder rates.
William A. Levinson: Michael Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns Caught Lying to the Public—This scandal can turn the enemy’s $12-million ethical lapse into a far more costly public relations catastrophe, but only if it circulates widely via the internet and other media.
Rick Moran: Rumors of the Death of Anti-Gay Marriage Movement Greatly Exaggerated—Gay-marriage advocates have been laying it on thick these last few days, building what appears to be an unstoppable momentum that will contribute to the inevitable: legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. It’s only unstoppable in their imagination, and if they don’t start taking a longer view of things, they are apt to be royally disappointed.
Todd Starnes: Lawmakers: Anti-Bullying Conference Bullies Conservatives, Christians—A group of nearly two dozen Republican lawmakers is threatening to pull state funding from an Iowa community college unless they defund an anti-bullying program that the lawmakers say bullies Christians and conservatives.
Bridget Johnson: Administration Suddenly on Alert About ‘Bellicose’ North Korea— Through President Obama’s first term, the administration stubbornly resisted repeated calls from Congress to put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s Breakthrough in Jerusalem— Exposing settlements as a mere excuse for the Palestinian refusal to negotiate – that was the news, widely overlooked, coming out of Obama’s trip. It was a breakthrough. When an American president so sympathetic to the Palestinian cause tells Abbas to stop obstructing peace with that phony settlement excuse, something important has happened.
Silvio Canto, Jr.: Obama’s nightmare of a second term— There is a lot of talk these days about “same sex marriage,” “gun control,” “voter ID,” et al. We are not hearing a lot about jobs, GDP growth or any of those complicated foreign policy problems that could just overwhelm President Obama’s time in the next couple of years. Call me cynical but I think that President Obama is engaging in a bit of distraction or keeping his base happy with a lot of the stuff that they want to hear.
James Lewis: Dangerous Times: America will Survive Obama—Obama thinks he can tame the United States and remake it according to some nightmare image residing somewhere in the back regions of his cerebellum. But history says otherwise.
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
