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   •   Is Obama’s core beliefs marxist, socialist, or liberal-fascist?
   •   Why the notion of rich people paying their “fair share” of taxes belongs in a society of cannibals
   •   Why the productive rich (who don’t take government subsidies) are America’s heroes, not villains
   •   Why Obama’s dreams of a socialist America are evil and delusional
   •   How is the middle class hurt by the massive increase in government programs and spending?
   •   How will Obamacare destroy our health-care system and threaten people’s lives?
    •    Why will the exploding Federal deficit (now $15 trillion) turn American into a third-class socialist hellhole, like England and other Western European countries, with 25% or higher unemployment rates?    
   •  Why Obama’s ‘environmental’ policies are evil and a smoke screen for his attempts to destroy the energy industries and our free-market economy?
    •  How sharply increased taxes and regulations hurt small businesses (the job creators), stop others from starting businesses, destroy existing jobs, destroying future jobs – hurts the middle class.  
   •  Why we need to phase out and eventually scrap all entitlement progams, including Social Security and Medicare, instead of tinkering with these programs that will bankrupt us.
    •   Why so-called ‘entitlement’ programs and subsidies are economic poison that harm far more people than they are designed to help.
    •   Why we must keep reminding American people and businesses that entitlement programs are based on two false and destructive notions, that:          
         1 -- Govt has the right to force us to be our brother’s keepers ---  that if any people or group is having economic problems in life, that the rest of us are morally and financially responsible for fixing those problems, or giving these people handouts or subsidies to fix the problem.
          2 – Special-interest groups have a RIGHT to government ‘entitlements,’ handouts, or subsidies that are paid for by someone else’s taxes.
         Unless we reject these notions, we will NEVER get rid of the entitlement programs that are bankrupting us --- will will only tinker with the programs. The programs will get worse and worse, eventually bankrupting us, even with the Republicans in power.
         Example:  If we think health care is a RIGHT, then we will NEVER even consider phasing out Medicare or Medicaid. If we think that children have a RIGHT to an education, we will never even consider scraping the public schools and turning education over to parents and the free market.
        Have to show Americans how alleged “RIGHT” to health care, education, old-age payments, etc always requires govt programs to ‘guarantee’ such rights. Once govt guarantees such ‘rights, then we get a disaster with unintended consequences that ends up hurting far more people than the entitlement program was designed to help: Examples:  
        “Right” to education required setting up the public schools, which has been a disaster for our kid’s education and future.
        “Right” to Healthcare --- rationale for the Obamacare monstrosity. Rationale for creating Medicare and Medicaid that are bankrupting us, and will force deadly socialized medicine down our throats.
        “Right” to a House --- caused the sub-prime mortgage fiasco and financial meltdown, recession and millions of Americans unemployment.
         Congress created Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and pressured banks to lower their lending standards and interest rates so millions of people who could NOT afford homes, bought them. Then the Feds guaranteed these bank loans. So, the banks went along with the pressure to give out loans to anyone who could fog up a mirror. Reality finally set in with the housing market crash when house prices started dropping, millions of Americans losing their jobs, and millions of foreclosures.
        Trying to use government to “guarantee” such “rights” only ends up hurting far more people than these programs were designed to help – such economic “rights” are simply organized, legalized theft on a grand scale requiring “redistribution” of income  --- theft. Radical-left Democrats see government’s role as a fence for stolen property --- taxes taken from working people to give to special interests who lobby for handouts or subsidies.
         Socialist Bank manger analogy --- manager who “redistributes” big depositors income to smaller depositors --- would be sent to a mental institution or thrown in jail.
    •   Why we need to scrap the progressive income tax  and most Federal Regulatory agencies?  —     
Scrap the Dept of Education, FDA, Dept of Environmental Protections, Dept of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce Dept, Dept of the Interior, etc. --- could save $800 billion a year.
   •    Why do we must end ALL govt guarantees, bailouts, or subsidies for any company, bank, etc?  
   •    Why do we need to remove all restrictions on drilling for oil and gas in this country?
    •    Why do we should sell all Federal lands except a few of the primary national parks? Sell the land to the highest bidder. Federal government owns about 650 million acres of land. Sell or lease all this land to oil companies, developers, etc. –  this will bring hundreds of billions of dollars in tax and royalty revenue.
    •   Why we should convert EVERY public school in this country to a charter school –- doing this could cut  the school taxes we pay for education by 30% because Charter schools spend on average 30% less per pupil than public schools. After five years, phase out all govt funding for education – make complete free-market ed system.
     •   Why we need a law or Constitutional Amendment that allows majority of states to nullify unconstitutional laws, even if the Supreme Court allows the law --- have the states as the bulwark against the Supreme Court overreach.

     What led you to write the book?
       I love this country. I love the principals of individual rights and liberty it was founded on. I love the opportunities it gives to anyone to achieve their dreams. Under the radical-left Obama agenda, I fear that America is turning into a Socialist hell-hole, and I don’t want to see that happen.
      Fear that American’s are losing their most basic liberties — Patriot Act, TSA, National Defense Authorization Act 2012.
     If you think that we are living in a safer world and that things are moving faster and faster with changes in laws and technology, then you may be surprised to find out that that is not the case. A new bill that is being pushed through the U.S. Senate, if passed, would allow the U.S. military to arrest American citizens and hold them indefinitely without trial. This proposed law, S.1867, is called the National Defense Authorization Act 2012.The law will allow the military to arrest anyone for no reason at anytime.new law(?) Now allows military to arrest without warrant, evidence, right to attorney as “terrorist”
    Fear that American’s standard of living will now be going backwards – poorer, worse medical care, shorter lives, more unemployment, etc. American’s children and grandchildren will have poorer, harder lives than their parents living today.
    Personal note – I’m in my 60’s. Under Obamacare, I could easily be denied care under their Death Panels/rationing

   Do you see the recently passed Obamacare bill as an example of the problem?
      •    Yes. A massive assault on our basic liberties, and another massive govt welfare and regulation programs (2500 page bill) that will increase our taxes, cost of living, freedom, limit our choices on health care, throw businesses into bankrupsy and destroy jobs, etc. Another blatant example of violating basic liberties --- forcing American to buy healthcare – is a precedent – belongs in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy or Communist Cuba, not America. If they can force Americans to buy anything the government wants us to buy --- only “approved” houses, clothes, baby toys, food – where’s the limit? These are fascist-type laws that ram government ‘services’ down our throats – so a total violation of our right to life, liberty, property.
     •   Many new taxes or ‘fee’ increases from this Obamacare – pg. 46
     •   Death panels/rationing.  Doctors quitting so you can’t find a doctor or specialist, or you have to wait months to see the doctor. Older people dying on these death list because of rationing. England, Cuba, etc example. – Dr. Donald Berwick, Obama’s head of CMS, has already said he is in favor of health-care rationing, death panels, socialized medicine.
     •   Massive new regulations on insurance companies. New insurance mandates can literally destroy the private insurance companies – increased taxes and insurance mandates on companies will drive up their costs and/or drive them out of business – so middle class then forced to use a government-controlled plan, a “One-payer” system, socialized medicine like in UK. Massachusetts example of what happened. Sharply higher costs, insurance premiums, big companies stopped writing policies in the state, etc.
    •   Costs for the program will explode just like Medicare costs exploded --- by definition, you cannot trust any cost estimate of any government agency. That will result in ever higher taxes, deficits, inflation.
            Soc. Sec – cost about $10 million a year in 1938. Roosevelt made an estimate that Soc. Sec. (passed in 1935) would end up costing about $550 million. 2010 cost $677 billion (@1000% increase since 1933)
           Medicare --- cost $500 million in 1963. Now costs  $453 billion (@900% increase)
          Total Federal budget $2.35 trillions for 2010
          Obamacare – 2010 original estimate --- $938 billion between 2010 and 2019 (if 1000% increase --- $938 trillion!) --- have unlimited medical demand that no one pays for personally – unlimited demand, limited supply. Real cost between 2014 and 2024 will be closer to $2.3 trillion (when payments start)
       •  With costs exploding, the govt will then have to cut back and ration health care even more. Will have to steal money from other programs like Social Security to fund the exploding deficits --- reduce Soc. Sec benefits, increase retirement age, no inflation rider, etc.

      Do you think the 2010 Congressional election results are an example of the middle class trying to send a message to cut government?
     The only thing I can thank Obama for is that he has become our political Pearl Harbor. Obama’s radical-left agenda has so frightened and pissed off millions of Americans, that Americans’ passion for liberty came back with a roar in the 2010 elections. Obama reminds me the Pearl Harbor attack and the movie, Tora Tora Tora. In the film, after the attack, admiral Yamamoto said about the American people, “I’m afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant”. That is the American people right now – an aroused giant who is now seeing their fundamental liberties, jobs, and futures threatened by the radical-left Obama administration. The spontaneous rise of the Tea Parties across the country and the massive election of conservative Republicans to the House proves that hardworking, middle-class Americans want to rein in our out-of-control government and stop the radical-left agenda that would turn America into a Socialist hell-hole.

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        About the Author             

Joel Turtel, author of The Welfare State: No Mercy For The Middle Class, holds a degree in Psychology and Architecture. He was also a successful small-business owner in New York City for 15 years. For the last twenty years he has done extensive research as a policy analyst, studying the alarming state of America’s political drift towards radical socialism, and the disastrous effects of these changes on our lives and our childrens’ futures.

Mr. Turtel has written two books, published over fifty articles, and has been interviewed in both print and
broadcast media on the subject. He has written The Welfare State: No Mercy For The Middle Class, and Public Schools, Public Menace. The author has also been interviewed on many of top talk-radio shows.