First, I must say that I am a public sector employee. I am not a union member and have managed to avoid being in unions my entire career. Second, our founding fathers considered public employees should be the best and brightest the country had to offer. They [founders] would certainly frown on public sector unions and all the problems they bring - inefficiencies, artificially inflated wages and, more importantly, the usurption of the power of the elected and appointed officials who represent the citizens - ALL the citizens - not just the few public SERVANTS. What happened to the calliing to public service that was answered by the best and brightest of our citizens? Answer: unions and lack of understanding on the part of citizens of...

An age old tactic - oversaturate people with images and words then those images and words become "acceptable" to the masses. Why don't Christians use that tactic? Anyway, no matter how much you portray homosexuals as "good" in the media it will never be good.

This is what happens when we have "career" politicians. They become short-sighted, smug and arrogant. Now we have a double-front threat: corrupt politicians and a dangerous world waiting to punce on a weakened America. People! Think in longer terms. There are consequences to all actions (or lack of action). Don't react. Think, pray, then act.

Pledge is a good word but covenant would have been better. Covenants are more serious and sacred than pledges. Covenants have dire consequences when broken (see ancient Israel) while pledges have relatively inconsequential consequences when broken (see Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, et al)

Rather than try to find the snitch website I'll go ahead and state for the record that I am opposed to Obamacare. Now, I find it very offensive that government officials are spying on it citizens. Does anyone remeber the McCarthy-era stuff? You know, trumped up communism charges? Now real evidence in a majority of cases and lives ruined? Who was President? Oh yeah, Truman - a Democrat and a "progressive"! Seems very similar to today doesn't it?

Interesting that we have a President who campained for "Change" and in fact brings us change - a decidedly anti-American, anti-Christian change - but change none-the-less.