Senate Advances Anti-American Patent Reform Bill While Dems Only Want To Cut $10.5 Billion In Spending

America For Sale

Today in Washington, D.C. - March t, 2011:
After several internal meetings, the Senate will begin work at 4:30 PM. They will then begin a meaningless hour of debate on three district judge nominees and will then vote on them. The Sneate has been like one big "rubber stamp" on Obama's nominees. Then the Senate will vote on cloture on S. 23, the patent reform bill which could be one of the most dangerous bills to US Inventors and the future growth of new production in the United States. And without our present patent protection, the US will be doomed to a European style tread mill.

Some are calling S.23 the Death to Innovation Bill! Americans are responsible for roughly 90% of new inventions? While overregulation and taxation harm America’s ability to compete with other countries to attract and keep businesses that create jobs, our greatest stock in trade is the American spirit that fosters innovation, and the world’s strongest patent system to protect inventors’ rights. A recent New York Times article, identified that “This bill would be death to innovation in America,” and we must stop it from passing!

Eagle Forum sums it up the situation: "This so-called “Patent Reform Act of 2011” will destroy our patent system by setting up a system that disadvantages small inventors in favor of large corporations, makes it easier to infringe patents, easier to challenge patent rights in administrative proceedings and in the courts, and makes it more expensive for inventors to defend their patents. All this is being done in an effort to “harmonize” with the rest of the world. Why on earth would we want to harmonize with countries that don’t protect intellectual property rights? Other countries should be harmonizing with us to improve their systems.

Killing innovation in America would not only kill jobs and economic growth, it would cut off the world’s largest supply of new ideas and inventions. Where would we be without American inventions from light bulbs to dialysis machines? Innovation vastly improves, and can even save our lives. We must fight to protect it!"

It is expected that the final vote on teh bill will be tomorrow unless Sen. Reid pushed for the vote on this "anti-American excellence" Bill tonight. Call your Senator Capital Switchboard 202-224-3121

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has also said he would like to set up competing cloture votes on Fiscal 2011 appropriations plans. The House Republican plan, H.R. 1, would cut $61 billion from the budget, while the Senate Democrats’ plan, the Inouye substitute amendment, would cut only $6 billion. The votes could be scheduled Tuesday or Wednesday.

On Friday, Senate Democrats released their spending proposal for the rest of the current fiscal year, offering only $6.5 billion in cuts from the current unsustainable spending levels. Combined with the $4 billion in cuts President Obama signed into law last week, that means Democrats are apparently offering only $10.5 billion in total cuts. The New York Times on Friday deemed it “a figure far short of the Republican goal of cutting agency budgets by $61 billion.” Politico noted, “[E]ven with the added cuts the administration and congressional Democrats are still about $51 billion short of the reductions approved by the House for the remainder of the fiscal year.” And CBS News’ Chip Reid wrote: “[T]he real numbers are Democrats: $10.5 billion; Republicans: $61.5 billion. So Democrats are meeting them one-sixth of the way.”

Yesterday, Fox News’ Chris Wallace irritated Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin by asking about this gap: “Then you’re saying $10.5 billion in domestic, non-defense discretionary spending, that’s it?” Durbin replied, “I think we’ve pushed this to the limit.” The Washington Post summarized, “Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) suggested on a ‘Fox News Sunday’ appearance that Democrats were unwilling to go any further than what they have offered. He said the Democratic proposal on discretionary spending cuts has been pushed ‘to the limit.’”

Was Durbin really suggesting that Democrats simply cannot find more than $10.5 billion to cut in a year the country is forecast to face a more than $1.5 trillion deficit? To be clear, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will spend $1,500,000,000,000 more than it takes in and Senate Democrats are apparently suggesting that the “limit” of what they’re interested in cutting is $10,500,000,000.

According to The Washington Post, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told CBS’ Bob Schieffer that House Republicans’ $61 billion in cuts is “an ideological, extremist, reckless statement.”  This is the same senator who served as an officer in Vietnam endangering his men, wrote up his own citations for decorations, returned to the US, joined anti-war protesters, called his comrades murders, faked trowing his ribbons away (which were another person's)  and later runs for Senate while living on his wife's fortune.  The truth is that Sen. John Kerry's statements are "ideological, extremist, reckless statements” and normally 180 degrees form the truth.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also didn’t find that argument very persuasive. He was on CBS’ Face the Nation, and said, “[W]hat’s reckless, Bob, is the $1.6 trillion deficit we’re running this year. What’s reckless is the $3 trillion we’ve added to our national debt. Our national debt is now the size of our economy. We begin to look a lot like Greece.  Look -- and this doesn’t even deal with our long-term unfunded liabilities in Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid. Add up to over $50 trillion of promises we’ve made to future generations that we cannot meet. Look, this is the time to get serious. The administration with regard to this year’s negotiation that we’re talking about, that Senator Kerry called reckless, has only come about one-sixth of the way to where House Republicans are and where I . . . and hopefully all Senate Republicans are. Look, this is a good place to start. But it’s just a pebble in the ocean to what we need to do.”

It is very apparent that the Democrats and their supporters [George Soros and other anti-American look a likes and groups like "public funded" unions, corporations and organizations] are dead set on wrecking both the economic engine of America and are willing to enslave future generations to other nations via our debt. Has anyone noted the irrational arrogant way democrats are answering questions? You can almost hear then shouting "let them eat cake" as America's wealth in innovative opportunities and our access to our own natural resources are traded away for the sake of globalism. America is more than a "sick puppy"; it is being poisoned daily by the progressive liberal agenda to such a degree that even good Americans who are so abused that they are siding with their abusers. America is For Sale - but Not to Americans.

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