California Budget Conference Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evans’ (D-Santa Rosa)
California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red.
Once the US’s richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country.-- Matthew Garrahan (see story)
Why are California and the United States on the brink of fiscal ruin? I believe it’s because of thinking like that of Democrats who are in control of the California’s State Assembly and Democrats who are in control of the Congress of the United States of America..
Listen to California Budget Conference Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evans’ (D-Santa Rosa) reasoning why she believes that her state is in the financial mess that it is in. (see video 1:38mins)
Well, there is this mantra out there - "live within our means" - and while that sounds really nice . . . and it sounds really responsible, it's meaningless.
Our means are completely within our control . . . We have just given away huge corporate subsidies in February; we have given away other tax reductions over many, many years; we've created tax loopholes; in good times, we routinely give away taxes, and then in lean times we never replace those tax deductions or close those loopholes. . . . So "live within our means" doesn't mean anything.
The fact is, we have a state with a population that have [sic] needs that we have a moral obligation to provide.--Noreen Evans
On Wednesday California will issue IOU’s because Democrats have rusted out the once Golden state. Likewise, Barack Obama has already admitted that the United States is out of money. Washington Democrats like their California Democrat compatriots show their fiscal irresponsibility by piling on millions upon millions of dollars of more taxes via their proposed Clean Air Global Warming legislation that president Obama is touting.
They also propose to add millions upon millions of dollars of Health Care legislation. No money and yet the Federal government continues to spend. That’s exactly how California got into its mess.
And here’s another mantra for Ms. Evans, As goes California so goes the rest of the Nation!
Here’s an idea why doesn’t California and the United States at least try living within their means, sure we’d have to remove Democrats and Republicans who think like Noreen Evans. And we’d have to rid ourselves of Democrats who voted on multi-million dollar Global Warming legislation and Carbon dioxide reduction when there is no scientific proof that CO2 causes Global Warming. And there is no proof that the earth is warming. For that matter there is no scientific proof that CO2 is a pollutant yet Democrats want to place draconian taxes on you in the name the of up threat of anthropogenic Global warming
There’s been an awful lot of apologizing for the United States of America here lately. (see videos)
2:16mins copulation of Obama Apologies
2:10mins coverage of Obama Apologies
And in that same spirit America would like to do some apologizing of her own.
First as the model for Democracy in the world we would like to apologize for the corrupt banana republic like 2008 Presidential elections that allowed a U.S. Constitutionally ineligible person to run and subsequently win the presidency of the United States of America. Barack Hussein Obama has run for and won the Presidency of the United States of American while at the same time spending over 1million dollars, to this day, fighting court challenges concerning his eligibility to run for and become president. These challenges started well before he received the Democrat’s nomination in the Democrat primary.
So second we apologize for the inept American Judiciary that failed to defend the constitution against this fraudulent claim to the presidency even though it is every sworn judge and justice duty to protect and defend the constitution!
We also apologize to the world for the ACORN voter fraud by which Barack Obama won the 2008 U.S. election. We apologize to the world for the Illegal Alien voting which occurred in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections because Democrats perceive illegal votes as advantageous for them. It was this voting that corrupted the U.S. elections.
U. S. elections used to be the world’s primary example of democratically held elections. But because Democrats prefer not to have eligible Americans only elections, they refused to have voter eligibility verification, verification that any third world nation would have (even Iran had voter eligibility verification)the United States is no longer a world example of fair and free elections and we apologize that we have sunk so low.
We also apologize for allowing the illegal international internet money that supported and funded Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign for the presidency. Obama raised more money than ever in the history of American presidential campaigning. Allowing outside influence and meddling in an U.S. election is not the way that a free open Democratic Constitutional Republic conducts elections. We apologize to the world for allowing Barack Obama to unfairly receive illegal internet money and not being better Stewards of our own system which made his election possible!
We especially owe Iran an apology because although there was no proof that where was any voter fraud in your Iranian election, the people of Iran were brave and free enough to take exception at their elections. In contrast, there was plenty of evidence that there was voter fraud and corrupt in the United States’ election but the lemmings of America who are supposed to the freest people in the world accepted the fraudulent results of their election without a single sign of disapproval unlike the brave Iranian protestors under a Dictatorial Theocratic Totalitarian regime. Sorry Iran please accept our apologies for Obama’s hypocritical chiding of your election results and process.
Then we would like to apologize to all of our allies that Barack Hussein Obama has dissed. Our apologies to the Queen of England for the classless gift of that Ipod complete with the “eyes round back in the head” Obama speeches on it. And our apologies for the DVD Movies to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a thoughtless gift no doubt by the leader of the free world. We apologize.
We apologize to all the free people of the world for Obama’s Cairo Egypt speech where he basically condoned Islamic inspired actions that terrorizes the world and threatens the very existence of America’s ally Israel. We apologize Israel.
We apologize to the American workers who voted for Obama to fix the economy only to find that everything that he has done while in office has further exacerbated the worsening of the American economy.
We apologize to the American tax payer who under the Obama administration was fleeced out of $787billion dollars in a phony stimulus roost that was really intended to extend Democrat control over the United States.
We apologize to the American people who have just been put under threat by Obama and the Democrat Controlled House of Representatives with the help of 8 so-called Republicans for the Clean Air Act, Climate change legislation that has the potential to place a needless onerous tax burdens on an already out of work or underemployed American worker by taxing carbon dioxide in the name of Global warming.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and there is no Global warming. In fact there haven’t been any signs or scientific proof of the earth warming since 1998, however, there is considerable scientific proof that the earth is actually cooling. There is also proof that Clean Air legislation is a scam to tax Americans billions upon billions of dollars further damaging the U.S. economy. We apologize to every underemployed and unemployed American.
Dear America and World we apologize for Barack Hussein Obama’s dismantling America's free markets, for his taxing the higher-earning middle class into despondency, for his government takeover of the Banking and Auto industries, for his spending and taxing the nation into bankruptcy, for his attempts to imposing socialistic government-run health care, for his proposal to grant amnesty to multiplied millions of illegal aliens, for his seriously weakening our military and the encouraging of our enemies, for his conspiring with fellow Democrats to enacting crippling and fraudulent "global warming" laws, for his promoting abortion and same-sex "marriage" into permanent legitimacy, and for his conspiring with fellow Democrats in attempts in throttling religious speech with phony "hate crimes" legislation.
We just thought while the U.S. Congress is apologizing for slavery of the past we should at least apologize for the slavery that the Socialist regime of Barack Obama and Democrats has introduced in America’s present in the name of Hope and Change.
We apologize for Barack Hussein Obama America and World. Sorry!
It seems as though President Obama is whistling a very different tune from "Candidate" Obama.
Don't you recall that he criticized then President Bush about keeping detainees at Guantanimo, without trial?
It seems now that he feels that "certain" detainees should remain confined "indefinitely" According to the AP, which is usually solidly in his corner, he is even seeking new legislation from Congress, in order to continue doing that.
Don't you feel almost as though the next words out of his mouth will be, "We won't be closing Gitmo, anytime soon"?
My oh my......... funny what a sense of true responsibility can do for your outlook. I guess that he finally found out that there's a big difference between talking a good game and actually playing it.
All that criticism about him being too soft on terror, and likely to cause another attack on the US, might finally be, "coming home to roost" like so many of our chickens!
Obama, Waxman and Pelosi will Betray America with Phony Climate tax bill
Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history. Even Democrats can't repeal that reality.—The Wall Street Journal
Today Democrats are about to vote for the greatest tax increase in American history in a bill called the Clean Energy and Security Act. Oh they will call it Cap and Trade and they will tell Americans that it’s for the reduction of green house gases but let me assure you that there is only one reason that Democrats are hotly pursuing this cause, MONEY. Your money, you remember the Obama telling Steve Scully of C-Span that America is out of money? (previous post) (see 3:08sec video forgive poor quality)
Well Democrat law makers have found a new revenue stream and you’re it. Oh you’re not new but they’ve found a new way to tax you. They tell you a lie and they tax you on the lie that they’ve told you. That’s right Global warming is a fraud (see article)
CO2 is not a "pollutant." The best evidence we have from climate science shows that any warming from the emission of greenhouse gases is insignificant — contrary to claims by the UN-IPCC. See the NIPCC report, Nature Not Human Activity Rules the Climate, at www.sepp.org.
• The climate has not been warming since 1998 — in spite of steadily rising CO2 levels. But even if it were warming, reputable economists have shown that it would yield overall benefits. For details, see the NIPCC report.
• Finally, the level of CO2 is now largely controlled by emissions from China . But even if all nations were to cut emissions according to the Kyoto Protocol, CO2 levels would continue to rise, albeit at a slightly slower rate.(previous post) and (related article)
And then there is the hit to Gross Domestic Product that is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less.
That right you heard me Democrats are going to vote today to raise your taxes right square in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the great depression and that according to Barack Obama! These higher taxes will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment. Some companies will instead move their operations overseas, with the same result. (Wait a minute, wasn't Obama supposed to create more jobs lower unemployment and keep jobs in America?)
When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, or the Clean Energy and Security Act, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill's restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035.
The bottom line is in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the great depression Democrats are posed to pass the biggest tax in American history on Americans that are the least able to pay it.
This is an irresponsible act that will cause irreparable harm to the American economy. However in the event that we all lose our homes and have to sleep in the streets at least we'll have clean air to breathe! (Along with a tax bill that we'll be unable to pay!)
Oh that's right this bill will do next to nothing to clean the air. I guess we're screwed by this Congress and President no matter what they do!
"California used to lead the nation in education. Honestly, I think California has lost its way, and I think the long-term consequences of that are very troubling."-- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan
[T]he state will run out of cash by July 28 unless its budget is balanced in the next eight days.—George Skelton reported on June 22, 2009
I was educated in California and sometime within that process the Values Clarification dilemma called “the Lifeboat exercise” was taught in a class that I took.
As I remember it the class was broken up into small groups and given the following scenario; we were asked to imagine that a ship has sunk and a lifeboat had been put out from it. Each of us was just one of the members on that boat yet the lifeboat is overcrowded and in danger of being swamped unless the load is lightened.
We were given a description of other passengers in the boat, maybe a doctor, an elderly couple, a mother and child, an athlete, an entertainer, a businessman and so on like that. From this list we were asked to decide whom to throw overboard.
And as a finally caveat we were told there were no right or wrong answers.
Little did the purveyors of that little exercise realizes that one day their little exercise would have real world application for California and possible the entire United States of America. What I mean by that is the California ship of state is sinking because of years of overspending and mismanagement by the Democrat controlled California state legislature and such mismanagement put Californians into a literal financial overcrowded lifeboat. (see story)
For decades the California legislature has been controlled by Democrats and they have enacted legislation and spending which has filled the California lifeboat with special interest spending namely; spending on illegal alien education, illegal alien medical services and illegal alien welfare, spending to promote the radical environmental agenda of the green movement, spending to promote unions and spending that promotes partisan Democrat Liberal ideology in the state of California in general.
It is the same kind of out of control spending that Democrats took National with the Democrat controlled U.S. Congress’ $787billion dollar pork barrel spending that was lipsticked up as a Recovery and Stimulus package, which by the way, is not working and which president Obama signed into law in February.
If Liberalism is the Titanic then California is an overcrowded lifeboat put out in a red sea of deficit spending by the Liberal agenda of California Democrats and in this overcrowded lifeboat there are agenda items and spending that the Liberal controlled legislature refuses to throw overboard instead they seek to increase taxes on Californians who are already the highest taxed people in the Nation.
In addition, the political leadership in California has so encumbered it’s schools with so much of the special interest agenda that it has virtually trashed a once leading national education model, a one time envy of the entire nation, and made it rank at or near the bottom nationally in academic performance, student-teacher ratios in middle and high school, access to guidance counselors and the percentage of seniors who go directly to four-year colleges, according to a February report by UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access this all according to AP reporter TERENCE CHEA (see source)
The bottom line is, the California values clarification agenda created a void in the moral ethics of thousands of California students. Many of those children who are now adults like I am now, were convinced that there is no right or wrong in many respects or that there is at least a moral relativity between all ideas and beliefs meaning that all things are equal. Such conditioning would make it difficult to decide between cutting state services off from non-citizens illegally living in the United States since according to “values clarification training” there is no difference between a non-citizen and a citizen.
The California legislature has only until the end of this month before the whole lifeboat of California sinks into the murky depths of insolvency under the weight of it’s own mismanagement and uncontrolled spending which supported the Liberal agenda. It is under these pressures that California Legislators are having such a hard time deciding between which of their programs to cut.
As all this plays out, everybody -- the politicians, the two pollsters -- agree that the voters' overarching message was anti-Sacramento disgust: "Do your job, do it right and do it now."—George Skelton
Legislators and Governor Schwarzenegger have tried to deceive Californians into paying more taxes in a cleverly constructed special election so that they might continue down the red sea of deficit spending but the people of California were not fooled and demanded that their legislators start making decisions as to which special interest projects and programs should be thrown overboard.
There is little hope that the “Values Clarification” generations will make the right choices. In fact it is looking much like they would rather see the whole state fail rather than make the right cuts, cuts to their ideological sacred cows.
In the class exercise which I participated in we students made choices on who to throw overboard based on the values that we brought to the exercise.
The problem now is that after decades of erasing traditional American values by “Values Clarification” curriculum we are left with a California State legislature, many of them, have been educated in the California system and trained under “Values Clarification,” and as a result they have brought an entire state to the brink of fiscal collapse rather than making rational and ethnically legal policies that would have protected Californians.
Rather the special interest have run this state into the fatal iceberg of fiscal ruin while the Values Clarified California State Legislature can’t decided between saving citizens of the United States of America or saving Non-citizens who claim squatter-rights on California to these State Legislators who see squatter-rights equal to Constitutional rights due to their moral relativistic and values clarification training received from the California School System.
And now the ruinous circle is complete! Or will be June 30, 2009 when the entire State becomes insolvent.
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."--Abraham Lincoln
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. Today is the second straight day the President’s rating has been below zero(source)
In spite of the Pro-Obama media’s 24/7 propaganda blitz, all positive Obama all of the time, there is developing a disconnect with the image that Obama image machine is trying to project and what the public is actually seeing in reality concerning the Obama federal budget, the weaken Obama economy and the Obama Democrat $787billion dollar stimulus bill passed by Democrats and Obama.
It would appear that Obama is now being judged on his actual words and deeds. rather than his lofty promises and utopian socialist goals.(see story)
For instance Obama promised in February 2009 when the Stimulus package was hurriedly passed by the Democrats that the $787billion dollar stimulus package would save and create 3.5 million jobs. He also promised that unemployment would not rise above 8% The reality is since the stimulus bill was signed into law by Obama upwards of 2.9million jobs have been lost from this economy and unemployment is at 9.6% and rising thus causing Obama to announce a speed up stimulus payout and reduce his original job creating estimate from 3.5million jobs to 600,000 jobs. (see source)
So let’s summarize, Obama originally promises in February 2009 to create 3.5million jobs if his stimulus package is hurriedly passed. After the Democrat stimulus was passed 2.9 million jobs were lost from the economy, so Obama recalibrates his promise to create 3.5million jobs down to creating 600,000 jobs by the end of this summer Got it?
Paul Gigot and a WSJ Editorial Report panel discuss the Obama numbers and these numbers are a hurricane Rita and Katrina disaster! (see 6:37 video)
These numbers are so bad that people are beginning to notice. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll reported for Monday June 22 a thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove polling for the first time in his presidency giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1, indicating that Independents and Republicans who supported and voted for Obama may be having heartburn for their November 2008 choice for president.
Now normally one would not expect the sycophants of the Democrat party to acknowledge that there is something dreadfully wrong with the direction that Obama and Democrats are taking this country but I came across this Sherman Frederick article published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that is a must read. Frederick is a Democrat who in his words “dumped” the Democrats at a time when it’s all good for Obama and his posses following is Frederick in his own words why he left the Democrats (see below)
I was on political easy street as a Democrat. President Obama, the party head, is a political rock star in America and a near-god in Amsterdam and Cairo.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is portrayed as grown too big to fail, and he's convinced everyone who's anyone in my home city of Las Vegas to join him on the Obama freight train to socialism. Next stop: Rationed health care, union card check and $10-a-gallon gasoline. All aboard!
Democrats own Washington, D.C., as well as the Nevada Legislature.
Meanwhile, Nevada's Republican "Luv Guv," Jim Gibbons, couldn't be on a more prolonged hard-luck streak. He's in the divorce from hell with the first lady, who for a time holed herself up in the Governor's Mansion; his staff regularly jumps ship; and rumor has it that the governor's dog has obtained a restraining order.
And, lest we forget, Nevada's most popular Republican, Sen. John Ensign, shook the party faithful by admitting to a nine-month roll in the hay with the wife of his good friend.
Nope, I don't think I could have picked a worse time to go Republican. However, because KXNT-AM radio's Alan Stock revealed my party switch last week, I feel the need to explain.
First, I'm not trying to time anything. Enough was enough. Could stand no more. So, when it came time to renew my driver's license on June 9, I also gave the Democratic Party the pink slip.
I pushed the DMV clerk the paperwork. She shoved it back and said I didn't have to fill out that form if my address remained the same.
"No, I want to change party affiliation." "Oh," she said. "Had enough of the president, have we?" "Up to here. I quit."
Republicans offer our only hope in slowing the Obama "change" juggernaut before the America of unbridled optimism and opportunity goes the way of the buffalo. I don't want my great-grandchildren growing up in cradle-to-grave government care, where only the privileged few may afford a car, or own a home, or get non-rationed health care.
The only institution positioned to stop the progression of the Obama welfare state is the Republican Party, coupled with independent-minded Americans like me. Second, the popular myth that the Democratic Party is the party of tolerance and big-tent ideas is spectacularly false.
A fiscal conservative such as myself is treated by Obamaniacs like a ringing cell phone in church. "Shhhh!" they say. The only debate among Democrats is how fast and how deeply to run up the national debt. Any Democrat who questions deficit spending or a limit to federal power is simply not invited to the party.
And finally, I have reservations about abortion. Now, I know that there are many Democrats who call themselves "pro life."
But being a "pro life" Democrat doesn't mean you're "anti-abortion." It means that you are "abortion tolerant." The rationalization goes like this: "Abortion is the law of the land. Abortion is wrong. But abortion must be supported and expanded."
It's hardly an intellectually honest position, but all "pro life" Democratic office holders must toe that line. The moral dilemma is further compounded by the Democratic Party ethic that taxpayer money must be used to fund abortion, here and abroad.
For those reasons and many more, I switched. Democrats are probably happy as hell to see me go. And for all I know, Republicans may be equally unhappy to see me coming. But at least as a Republican, I'm respectfully part of the discussion.
Sherman Frederick (sfrederick@reviewjournal.com) is publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and president of Stephens Media.
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Obama please take a word of wisdom from one of your idols, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time!”
When your birth certificate finally comes to light we are going to need a strong Republican reformer to go in and cleanout all of your illegitimate policies, every one of them; appointments and programs alike. The Democrats will be the most hated Party in American history. As well the name Obama will be a blithe on American politics.
Why, because Americans hate to be fraudulently taken by deceit by any man or Party as Abraham Lincoln alluded to!
The following video log shows how Obama used and plans to use community organizing to change America while answering the question why IG Gerald Walpin was fired.
Here are the uncontested undisputed facts regarding the scandal of President Obama’s firing of inspector general of the AmeriCorps program, Gerald Walpin: Walpin, doing his duty as AmeriCorps IG filed investigative findings accusing prominent Obama supporter Kevin Johnson Mayor of Sacramento California and former NBA star of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Johnson subsequently worked out a deal with the Sacramento U.S. Attorney to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money, that’s half of the $800,000 original grant in question, without admitting to any wrong doing. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG.
Here are some additional facts regarding this potential political corruption disaster for the Obama administration: The IG can not be fired by the president, on one day’s notice and without formal justification, by law. This law was cosponsored by Barack Obama himself when he was a Senator!
Inspectors General are part of every federal department. They are given the responsibility of independently investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and corruption in the government, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House.
Last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which added new protections for IGs, including a measure requiring the president to give Congress 30 days prior notice before dismissing an IG.
The president must also give Congress an explanation of why the action is needed. Then Sen. Barack Obama was one of the co-sponsors of the Act.—Byron York (see source)
Now just what is AmeriCorps?
AmeriCorps provides opportunities for 75,000 Americans to give back in an intensive way to their communities and country each year. It consists of three main programs: AmeriCorps State and National, whose members serve with more than 2,900 national and local nonprofit and community groups; AmeriCorps VISTA, through which members serve full time fighting poverty; and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps), a team-based residential program for young adults 18-24 who carry out projects in public safety, the environment, youth development, and disaster relief and preparedness.
What Do AmeriCorps Members Do?
AmeriCorps members do a wide range of things: They recruit, train, and supervise community volunteers, tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, help communities respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining, among many other activities. (see source)
Now let’s tie this Obama corruption scandal all together. Do you remember candidate Barack Obama calling for a civilian security organization that is as well funded and as powerful as the United States military? (see 21sec. video)
Do you recall the billions of dollars earmarked for hidden community organizing projects in the $787 to $825billion dollar stimulus package?
The latest economic stimulus bill promises to do just that by providing a huge bailout --up to $5.2 billion in taxpayer funds -- for some of the same liberal groups that helped get Barack Obama elected.
The three relevant fiscal provisions are buried deep in the $825 billion monstrosity known as the proposed "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."
Title XII of the spending legislation backed by the Democratic congressional leadership and the Obama administration would dole out $1 billion in old-fashioned slush funds for the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program. Local politicians love CDBG because it is flexible.
The program gives them wide latitude when spending grant money and allows local leaders to use federal dollars on local projects that they wouldn't dream of spending their own local tax dollars on.
ACORN loves CDBG because it is adept at lobbying for CDBG funds. – Matthew Vadum, American Spectator (see source)
A Community group such as AmeriCorps would most likely be funded by the Community Development Block Grants that Democrats have tucked away and hidden in the stimulus package inside the Economy Recovery Plan thereby providing quasi-political arms of the Democrats Party with tax payer funding. All of this is to do partisan Democrat work while using taxpayer money. It was this type of grant money that IG Walpin found AmeriCorps misusing.
You see it is through community organizations like AmeriCorps and ACORN that Obama intends to extend and cement his regain over the American people. And as you will see he called for so-called community organizing groups to continue their work even after his election. (see 1:46min video)
You see it just wouldn't do for AmeriCorps to be connected with the taint of misappropriating taxpayer money via the stimulus package granting. If the American people ever connected the dots realizing that taxpayer money, money that was supposed to be used to stimulate the economy was going instead to create unfair partisan political advantage for the Democrats they might not hold such a favorable opinion of the president and his Party. A President and a Party that would spending tax payer money under illegal and false pretenses.
Yet that is exactly what Barack Obama and Democrats are doing. Obama is combining social technology to grassroots organizing to create civilian security forces via AmeriCorps and ACORN just as well funded and just as powerful as the military. Following are examples of the brainwashed young people in Barack Obama's Army. (see 3:19mins. video)
Obama is also employing his community organizing methods to win the Health Care reform debate. Here is an recent example of Obama attempting to employ his community organizing abilities for Health Care reform from Air Force One (Listen 3:15min audio)
The economy is failing largely because Democrats did not use the moneys that they required of the tax payers to fix the economy. Instead they are using tax payer money to inappropriately fight partisan wars against their political opposition.
This is an affront to all that is politically decent and would not be happening save for Democrats in control of our government.
Finally for your consideration the following video shows the same pattern that Obama is repeatedly using to ensconce himself into power. A method that uses pliable gullible young people in large numbers who are organized to carry the Obama partisan message no matter what the facts are on the ground. (see 11:56min video)
With all of the community organizing fire power that the Obama administration has under it’s control it is simply astounding that Obama must risk the appearance of apparent lawlessness by inappropriately firing the Investigative General of AmeriCorps against all positive principles of good government in order to prevent the American people from seeing how their tax money, which was supposed to be used for economic stimulus, is actually being used. And believe me it’s not to create jobs. Although one could argue that it is being used to save a job, only one job Obama’s in 2012!
Finally the firing of Gerald Walpin should be a wake up for all but the most ardent Obama sycophants. Obama’s overreaction exposed the soft underbelly of corruption in this Obama administration.
Obama corruption so defined as using tax payer moneys to pay so-called volunteers to do the work of keeping Obama in office.
In totality the AmeriCorps scandal is about using taxpayers own money against them and illegally firing any whistleblower who attempts to alert the public of such crimes. Even if it is the expressed job of the so-called whistleblower to do so.
James Pethokoukis’ “Why Obama’s big economic gamble is failing,” is an acknowledgement of what we already knew but wouldn’t hear from the Democrats who control the White House, the Congress and the Media. (see story)
According to Pethokoukis Obama could have demanded and got a stimulus plan that would have attempted to reverse or significantly dampen America’s terrible economic downturn instead Obama put his Party and his Politics first and signed a $787billion dollar Democrat spending spree that Joe Biden is now acknowledging was wrong. Biden now admits that Democrats got it all wrong. (see previous post)
What this economy needs are the jobs that corporate America has been outsourcing for decades. Corporations have been outsourcing American jobs to avoid paying middle class wages and benefits. No matter what tricks Obama and Democrats do with our tax dollars via “Demulus,” Democrat pork barrel spending dressed up as economic stimulus, spending it will not help solve the fundamental causes for this crisis.
Removing these jobs gutted the economic infrastructure of the United States economy. Without these jobs no matter how the government spends money and no matter how Wall Street fares Americans can not spend the money that is needed to get this economy going.
No matter what Obama promises no created government job can replace private sector jobs or stimulate the economy.
The quickest and most effective approach would have been a big cut in payroll taxes. For $800 billion, combined Social Security and Medicare taxes could have been slashed by 6 percentage points, or 40 percent. That would have put $1,500 in worker paychecks and, according to one credible study, increased employment by 4 million jobs in 2009.—James Pethokoukis
Pethokoukis like everyone else who discusses this subject believes that cutting taxes will solve the crisis in America but cutting taxes is not the answer for the millions of Americans who lost good paying jobs that were outsourced to save corporations from paying middle class American wages.
What has happened to the American worker is directly related to the American economy so Corporate greed once again is responsible for the economic misfortune of America.
Obama chose to listen to Rahm “Never let a crisis go to waste” Emanuel and put forward an $800 billion plan that advanced his healthcare, energy and education policy goals — but pretty much neglected the economy in 2009. Team Obama had to fully understand this.
Indeed, a study from the Congressional Budget Office study — when led by current Obama budget chief Peter Orszag — concluded that an Obama-like economic stimulus package would be “totally impractical.”—James Pethokoukis
Barack Obama put forward a totally impractical stimulus package according to Peter Orszag Obama’s own budget chief. However, regardless of that fact no stimulus package will be able to replace the billions of dollars of jobs that have been out sourced to low paying foreign country to save corporations billions of dollars of salaries and compensations while leaving the U.S. economy in a total shambles.
Instead of Obama telling Americans the truth about our situation he, Rahm Emanuel and Democrats used this economic crisis to further dismantle the U.S. failing economy and insert Democrat policies and programs that would guide America down the road to socialism.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that by outsourcing middleclass jobs for over 10 years and in-sourcing Illegal Alien workers, U.S. corporations have destroyed the economic ecosystem of America, it is akin to breaking the food chain in the ecosystem and the higher animal life forms begin to be affected because the food that animals down the food chain is missing, starving the mid chain Animals because the food that they depend upon was taken out of the system. This is what Corporations have done to the entire economic system in America.
Though Corporations’ original goal was more profit by cheaper labor their insatiable appetite for Global economic greed has in fact caused the economic crisis that we face today. Corporations are at fault for everything that is wrong with America today!—Alaphiah (see previous post)
Finally it is not tax cuts, or government created jobs, or government bailouts, or any of the fraudulent fixes that have been trotted out by Obama as answers to take this country out of the economic cataclysm which we face. The only thing that will save America is jobs, lots and lots of good paying middle class jobs that were gutted out of our economy in order to maximize corporate profits.
For decades our government allowed corporations to dismantle the most vibrant economy in the world in order to save these corporations the cost of paying Americans middle class wages. And as a final insult to our intelligence now that the economy is in total collapse, due to corporate and government actions, the America people were forced to pay trillions of dollars in taxes to replace the money corporations siphoned out of this country in the first place. It is that lack of money due to the lack of jobs that has caused the failing of the American economy.
Obama’s economic stimulus package was a fraud on it’s face and it was never intended to stimulate the economy only real jobs will do that, it was meant to use the economic crisis to put in place Democrat social policies and programs that they had been wishing for, for years. But you bought Obama’s empty promises and his phony stimulus package because he is well spoken.
Next he’ll be selling swamp land in Florida otherwise known as Comprehensive Health Care.
California Budget Conference Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evans’ (D-Santa Rosa)
California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red.
Once the US’s richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country.-- Matthew Garrahan (see story)
Why are California and the United States on the brink of fiscal ruin? I believe it’s because of thinking like that of Democrats who are in control of the California’s State Assembly and Democrats who are in control of the Congress of the United States of America..
Listen to California Budget Conference Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evans’ (D-Santa Rosa) reasoning why she believes that her state is in the financial mess that it is in. (see video 1:38mins)
On Wednesday California will issue IOU’s because Democrats have rusted out the once Golden state. Likewise, Barack Obama has already admitted that the United States is out of money yet in California like fiscal responsibility Democrats have piled on millions upon millions of more taxes via their proposed Clean Air Global Warming legislation that president Obama is touting.
They also propose to add millions upon millions of dollars of Health Care legislation. No money and yet the Federal government continues to spend. That’s exactly how California got into its mess.
And here’s another mantra for Ms. Evans, As goes California so goes the rest of the Nation!
Here’s an idea why doesn’t California and the United States at least try living within their means, sure we’d have to remove Democrats and Republicans who think like Noreen Evans. And we’d have to rid ourselves of Democrats who voted on multi-million dollar Global Warming legislation and Carbon dioxide reduction when there is no scientific proof that CO2 causes Global Warming. And there is no proof that the earth is warming. For that matter, there is no scientific proof that CO2 is a pollutant yet Democrats want to place draconian taxes on you in the name of the made-up threat of anthropogenic Global warming
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press—1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (source)
Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent at the same time that it enhances the power of the state and the privileged interests that the state protects.
And nothing characterizes corporate media today more than its disdain toward the fragile nature of modern life and its indifference toward the complex social debate required of a free and self-governing people.—Bill Moyers
The Press the 4th Estate of American government, as provided by the United States Constitution is to be a free, an unbiased and an independent reporter on government.
The Founders thought this necessary in order to prevent government from gaining usurious power over the people by way of deception, propaganda or information blackout.
Therefore Americans should never see headlines like this one:
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE(see source)
And just as the three branches of government were meant to be checks and balances upon one another, the press is supposed to be a check and balance on the government.
Yet the American press has forgotten its purpose. The Pro Obama press unashamedly boasts that its job is to make Barack Hussein Obama succeed ergo MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (see 1min video)
Unbelievable! And it’s the same all over. Every U.S. media outlet is Pro Obama all the time. Evan Thomas if Newsweek thinks that Obama is God! (see 41sec video)
NBC’s Brian Williams unbelievably bowed the King Abdullah bow to Obama. This is an unacceptable gesture for President or journalist. (see 15sec. video)
One news network out of all of the other news networks in America fails to sell out its soul and constitutional purpose to pay homage to our Lord God Obama (per Newsweek’s Evan Thomas) they do this by attempting to report unbiasly on the Obama administration. For doing their job they get called out (unnamed) by Obama as if they are doing something wrong. (see 1:58min video)
No, unnamed News network whoever you are, you are not wrong you are doing exactly what the founding fathers envisioned for the press. All the other genuflecting, bowing, brown nosing so called media broadcasting from the White House to promote the government’s agenda are in the wrong.
The American media is not supposed to be sycophants of the government they are supposed to be unbiased and objective observers of truth. However ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN and even FOX news have all been corrupted by a need to be political correct rather than Constitutionally correct.
Pravda in Russian means truth, an Oxymoron because the Russian newspaper was the opposite of truth it was a government propaganda rag. Who would have dreamed that the American media in its entirety would today be reporting “Pravda” to the American people concerning the Obama administration.
In the words of Bill Moyers; “Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent at the same time that it enhances the power of the state and the privileged interests that the state protects.”
That is exactly why there must always be separation of News media and State, that is exactly why ABC news should not be biasly supporting the President's Health care plan and that is why ABC news should not be broadcasting from the White House!
"It's not your fault that it was misunderstood, it's my fault that it was misunderstood."—Dave Letterman
Thanks Dave for assuring us that the questionable joke that you told was not the hearers fault. And thanks for admitting that the fault was all your own!
Don Imus formerly of MSNBC Imus in the Morning, could tell Dave Letterman a thing or two about calling women Hos. Imus lost his job when he called Black women on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “Nappyheaded Hos.”
Dave Letterman opting not be as crass as Imus (but just barely) didn’t use the “H” word but used instead words to create the imagery of an eighteen year old out of wedlock mother “doing” a promiscuous professional athlete during seventh inning stretch in the middle of the ball stadium in front of God and everybody in order to suggest to all of our minds that Gov. Sarah Palin’s eighteen year old Daughter, Bristol is a Ho. (see story)
Now because such talk about Conservatives is typically permitted among Liberals Letterman enjoyed days of ridiculing the Palins for taking offence at his “joke,” but as sentiment began to change and people reflected on the absolute crassness and pathetic attempt to get a cheap laugh at a young woman’s expense Letterman offered up an apology (no less forced by sponsors of his show disapproval of Letterman’s remarks).
Oh did I say apology? Well that’s actually debatable if you examine what Letterman said. The Media is calling it Letterman’s second apology whereas I never heard the first! What I heard (even this “second” apology) was an accusology! That’s an accusal plus an apology.
According to Letterman we were all too stupid to understand the joke. In fact he’s been doing classless jokes like this for 30 years so what’s the problem?
Anyways for those of you who were confused he wasn’t joking about a baseball player raping a fourteen year old he was joking about a baseball player having sex with an eighteen year old “straightheaded Conservative Ho!” Get it! Isn’t that just knee slapping hilarious!
But Letterman assures us all that it wasn’t our fault that we misunderstood which of the Palin children his joke was aimed at, oh no! And for all of us who did misunderstand; his sponsors, Sarah and Todd, the Palin Children, and those of us in the public, Letterman apologized for our misunderstanding of who he intended for us to laugh at because it just wouldn’t be right to call a fourteen year old a Ho like her sister.
That was clearly the wrong Palin “straightheaded Conservative Ho” and David assures us that his aim will be much, much better next time he attempts to shoot down a Conservative. Dave said, "I'm sorry about it, and I'll try to do better in the future."
Yeah I’m sure you will Mr. Letterman, I’m sure you will…
Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed
No one realized how bad the economy was. The projections, in fact, turned out to be worse. But we took the mainstream model as to what we thought — and everyone else thought — the unemployment rate would be—VP Joe Biden
No that’s absolutely not true Mr. Vice President everybody didn’t guess wrong. I wasn’t wrong Mr. Vice President and neither where all Conservatives who opposed the Demulus Stimulus package and said that spending the 787billion dollars on Democrat pet projects would not stimulate the economy nor would it protect or create private sector jobs.
Congressman Dave Camp ranking Republican on the Ways and Means committee asked about job creation January 2009 following is the sorry answer he received then.(see 50sec. video)
Republicans warned of the failure of the Democrat stimulus package all along the way!
"The Democrat bill won't stimulate anything but more government and more debt," Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, chairman of the Republican conference, said Tuesday.
"The slow and wasteful spending in the House Democrat bill is a disservice to millions of Americans who want to see this Congress take immediate action to get this economy moving again." (see source)
Do you remember what we got for our efforts? We got smart mouth from your boss, from little Chucky Schumer, from the Pro Obama media and from the whole of the Democrat Party (see videos below!)
First your Boss!
And then Chucky…
I’m going to do a press secretary Robert Gibbs imitation and tell you what VP Biden actually meant to say. What Biden actually meant to say is everybody who is a Democrat guessed wrong about the economy.
What Biden also meant to say is Democrats thought that they could do business as usual and add their little Chucky Schumer porky amendments to their stimulus package, a package by the way, that was not stimulus at all and was not geared to produce or protect one single private sector job in the U.S. economy. But it is much more fun listening to Joe Biden double talk about the lack of jobs and the lack of stimulus! (see 5:56mins video)
We told you so before you passed the 787Billions dollars, we did not guess wrong and we were not listened to! The failure of the economy and job lost is entirely the Democrats failure for making this a political situation by expanding government and funding pork projects disguised as stimulus rather than attempting to bring real situations to the problem by working to end excessive spending and government programs.
Your boss promised that passing the 787billion would stimulate the economy it didn’t and as you now admit you Democrats were all wrong, every Democrat and Liberal in Washington D.C. and every Liberal in Media who supported the porkulus, Demulus stimulus package.
Just as I as said we told you so! Oh and here’s further proof:
Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supporters celebrate in Tehran Supporters of Iran 's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad react during a rally in Tehran , Iran on June 14, 2009. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)
On June 12 the Iranian government declared that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a landslide presidential victory: 63 per cent versus 33 per cent for Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main rival.
Defying an interior ministry ban, more than 100,000 protestors took to the streets of Tehran on Monday, shouting "God is great" and carrying pictures of [Mir Hossein] Mousavi, who joined the crowds. – Simon Bradley, swissinfo.ch and agencies
It is commonly accepted knowledge that the 2009 U.S. Presidential elections were replete with voter fraud on a national scale, á la ACORN, illegal voters (no voter I.D.), voter intimidation (the New Black Panther Party in voter polls armed with weapons), and unfair extension of poll hours in some communities and not in others.
Yet not one Republican took to the streets in protest, not one Republican raised the issue of a tainted election and not one Republican demanded that the Supreme Court of the United States of America (our equivalent to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the powerful Guardian Council) examine the known multiple fraudulent acts that took place in America’s 2009 elections.
Yet here’s a Country, Iran, which is not a Democratic society, not a Constitutional Republic, Iran is a Theocratic government ruled by a Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a figurehead President. A Country that no matter who the president is the real power is with the Supreme Leader the Ayatollah, this Theocratic government apparently could be moved to call for an investigation into possible voter fraud when the United States of American which is supposed to be the world’s example in democracy had a fraudulent election and did nothing about it. (see story)
Not only did the United States hold a fraudulent 2009 election we also managed to elect a constitutional ineligible person to be president.
The United States has a fraudulently elected non-constitutional Usurper as a president, one Barack Hussein Obama, and the western media has the unmitigated gull to call the Iran elections tainted what irony.
More than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied a ban to cheer their pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran on Monday (Keystone)
100,000 Iranian protesters defied a ban from an totalitarian Theocratic Government and they protested the outcome of their presidential election. In contrast, not one Republican Politician in a free and open Democratic Constitutional Republic was brave enough to ask for a birth certificate or an investigation into ACORN voter fraud in the 2009 president election of Barack Obama.
In this instance one would think that Iran is the free country and America is the totalitarian regime. At the very least it would seem that Iran is more Democratic than America!
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes a victory sign with an ink-stained finger as he holds up his identity cards at a Tehran polling station, 12 June 2009
"Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways" –Barack Hussein Obama (see source)
"This is a great victory at a time and condition when the entire material, political and propaganda facilities outside Iran and sometimes inside Iran were totally mobilized against the people and leveled the heaviest pressure and psychological warfare organized against the people of Iran,"—President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (see source)
Barack Hussein Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have a lot in common. They are both excellent speakers,they both hate Bush and they both won questionable elections by wide margins. Obama with the help of ACORN and Ahmadinejad with the help of his Theocratic government.
Like Obama Ahmadinejad is claiming that his election was fair and free (see 1:06mins video)
Impressed by his own oratory skills Obama jumped at the chance to take premature credit for an upset victory by Ahmadinejad’s opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi, however playing both sides as he always does, Obama did leave room for an Ahmadinejad victory. (see :59mins video)
Barack Hussein Obama thought that his speech in Cairo Egypt would be enough to change the world or at least change the outcome of the Iranian elections so Obama announced before the election results that it was his speech that is making the difference in the Iranian elections no matter what the outcome when it appeared that Mr. Mousavi would win.
Obama could have a point; President Ahmadinejab seems to think that the current controversy that is occurring within his country and without is the product of Obama’s, the Western culture and the Western media’s mending in Iran’s affairs
"The danger I think is when the United States or any country thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture,"—Barack Hussein Obama (see source)
That could be true because Mr. Obama stated that the United States is in no position to impose its values on any country. Yet apparently he gave the Cairo speech with the expressed intentions to affect the Muslim world in general and the Iranian elections in particular. Then just before the elections results Obama announced that he believed that his Cairo Egypt speech could have made a difference in the Iranian elections no matter what the outcome would be.
Nevertheless the Western press certainly has its nerve attempting to call the Iranian elections tainted when the biggest staged corrupted election in United States history was conducted by Barack Obama, Democrats and their ACORN affiliates to which the Western press said nary a word.
Democrats have thrown U.S. elections into turmoil since 2000 and now it seems that they have spread their political discontent world-wide even to affect the Iranian elections with chaos and turmoil to run out into the very streets of Iran. Or as Mr. Obama is terming the Iranian street riots these days, a robust debate!
Forget the fact that Obama's "stimulus plan" isn't working, forget that he has us on the road to bankruptsy, forget that he still blames President Bush for "the mess we inherited". Obama is a FRAUD! This entire financial crisis is happening on HIS watch. He can't blame the former president anymore.
This president has no idea whatsoever, of how to save our economy and our country. He and his entire administration is completely inept, and is in just five months, deeply involved in more fraud, corruption, graft and payola, than the Bush administration had been accused of in all of it's eight years in office. Remember... it was the Social Democrats who promised to clean up DC, be the most transparent administration ever, and be bipartisan in all it's proceedings. I don't know about you, but I have seen NONE OF THAT!
The biggest hoax by far is his proposed "Universal Health Coverage" plan. No bigger fraud has ever been proposed to the American public, and if we don't stop it before it becomes law, ........... quite honestly, we deserve what we get.
This plan would go in direct competition with the some thirteen hundred medical insurance companies in the country. It would be dictating and undercutting their payments, virtually guaranteeing that they would one-by-one, be driven out of the insurance field. Leaving the government to do what they are least capable of..... running our health insurance. I mean, we can all see what a marvelous job they have done with social security, medicare, medicaid, the mortgage industry, the banks and now the auto industry.
People........ use your heads. Protest this fiasco that will be our final undoing.
Another very good reason to prevent this horror from happening, aside from the fact that our health care will deteriorate to that of a third world country, is the employment situation. Just think of the millions who have already lost their jobs..... on OBAMA'S watch, not Bush's. ADD to that, the millions who will be unemployed after the government forces all those insurance companies out of business. Conservatively, we are talking about thirteen hundred companies....... with say, average employment of 600 people per company. I make that about 780,000 MORE unemployed.
Can someone explain to me, how someone who accepted the presidency, UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, is going to "create or save 250,000 jobs" in his first term, when he is knocking people out of work left and right. By my calculations......... and I am no mathematician...... we will surpass the 11% unemployment mark, by the end of 2010.
Thank you President Obama....... do this, and you guarantee that the Republicans will retake BOTH houses of Congress in 2010, and regain the White House in '12.
President Obama's order to his Cabinet secretaries today to spend that stimulus money faster was an acknowledgement of reality. The stimulus is not working.—Brit Hume
The economy is in trouble and Barack Obama is panicked and scrambling to look in control. Why? Because he doesn’t have President Bush around to blame, silly! In addition to that, what’s ailing our economy today is all the result of a Democrat controlled Congress and a Democrat President. That’s why today he ordered that the stimulus moneys to be spent faster.
It’s been reported by Americans for Tax Reform that thus far 43.7 Billion dollars of the Democrat passed $787 billion stimulus has been spent and 1.5 to 2million jobs have been lost since the Feb. 17, 2009 signing of the “stimulus” bill. If this continues it is reported that the whole $787 stimulus plan could be in jeopardy. Brit Hume explains. (see story)(see video)
All who opposed the Democrat pork spending last year and early this year, warned the Democrat that using tax payers money to fund their special pork barrel projects in the middle of a recession was the wrong thing to do but Democrats did it anyways. Democrats loaded up Obama Economic Recovery bill like a Christmas Tree full of money for projects back at their home states. You recall what the Democrats earmarked for the stimulus plan don’t you?
Here allow me refresh your memory:
• The plan has more than $3 billion in “neighborhood stabilization” and Community Development Block Grant funding, much of which may go to benefit ACORN, a low-income housing and voter registration “community” organization that is under federal investigation for its suspicious voter registration practices. • $1.3 billion to bailout AMTRAK, the perennial money-loser railroad. • $1 billion for educational programs, including courses on sexually transmitted diseases. • $30 million for restoration of wetlands to be spent in the San Francisco Bay Area – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district. The money will go in part to protect the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse. • $200 million for a low-pollution, coal-fired power plant in President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. • $45 million for ATV four-wheeler trails, and government office renovations, according to RNC Chairman Michael Steele. • $200 million to provide computers to community colleges. • $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts. • Over $650 million in coupons to help consumers buy digital TV converter-box coupons. • A reported $300 million for hybrid vehicles and electric-powered cars. According to the Washington Times, this item will include buying golf carts for federal workers. (previous post)
You remember Obama arrogantly defending this kind of pork barrel spending suggesting that spend tax payers money in this way was the point, In other words this kind of Democrat special project spending and growing government would stimulate the economy. Boy was he ever wrong. (see video)
Also the point is, very large portions of the stimulus moneys is scheduled on the back end of the stimulus recovery bill so that it can be spent during election years. Of course Mr. Obama and members of his Party are planning to use that money to con you into reelecting them in 2010 and 2012 very clever, yes?
Finally Democrat and Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Max Baucus alerts us that every time Mr. Obama or one of his proxies, like tax cheat and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, open one of their mouths to claim jobs saved or jobs created they will be engaging in a bald face lie because there is no earthly discernable way to determine a job saved or lost. Following is Senator Baucus statement to Timothy Geithner on the made up farce of jobs saved or jobs lost:
You created a situation where you cannot be wrong," said the Montana Democrat. "If the economy loses two million jobs over the next few years, you can say yes, but it would've lost 5.5 million jobs. If we create a million jobs, you can say, well, it would have lost 2.5 million jobs. You've given yourself complete leverage where you cannot be wrong, because you can take any scenario and make yourself look correct."
Now, something's wrong when the president invokes a formula that makes it impossible for him to be wrong and it goes largely unchallenged. It's true that almost any government spending will create some jobs and save others. But as Milton Friedman once pointed out, that doesn't tell you much: The government, after all, can create jobs by hiring people to dig holes and fill them in.
If the "saved or created" formula looks brilliant, it's only because Mr. Obama and his team are not being called on their claims.—Democrat Senator Max Baucus (see source)
2 million jobs lost in six months. Unemployment up 9.4% when Obama promised that passing the 787Billion dollar stimulus package would keep unemployment at 8% and below, and spending tax payers money on frivolous pork barrel spending all are signs that we are in economic trouble exacerbated by the failed fiscal policies of Barack Obama and a Democrat controlled Congress.
Mr. Obama’s promise to spend the money faster is not going to fix what wrong with our economy America.
It’s the JOBS stupid! But not government temporary low paying jobs that your administration is going to make. No Mr. Obama , what this economy needs are the middle class jobs that the Congress of the United States of America has been allowing Corporations to outsource to India and China for decades for cheater labor while they were shutting down American manufacturing.
If the American people don’t have good paying jobs, then no amount of bailout, no trillion dollar stimulus package and no promised phony government fix is going to work.
And this time there is no one to blame but a Democrat!
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad Islamic convert and Jihadist
Pointing to increases in defense spending, efforts to get out of Iraq and revamp the strategy for Afghanistan, and a broad campaign to repair the U.S. reputation abroad, retired Marine Gen. James Jones [and Obama's national security adviser] said the nation is safer today than it has been.-- LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Writer (source)
"Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad -- a 24-year-old Little Rock resident formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe -- faces a first-degree murder charge and 15 counts of engaging in a terrorist act..."-- CNN's Mike Phelan, Mike Mount and Terry Frieden
Boy is Gen. James Jones wrong! For eight years George W. Bush and Dick Cheney succesfully kept America safe from terrorist attacks on the homeland, yet under the Obama administration there has been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil that you probably didn’t hear anything about. On June 1, 2009 U.S. Army Pvt. William Long, 24, was gunned down in front of his recruiting office in Little Rock Arkansas by a self proclaimed Muslim Jihadist. But the Pro-Obama media reported very little on it if they reported anything at all.
Whether the media neglected to report this act of Jihad because it precluded and would have sullied Obama’s Cairo Egypt Muslim goodwill speech or they were too occupied reporting on the killing of the abortion doctor somehow this story slipped between the cracks and some of you may be hearing about this for the first time. (see story)
There was no acknowledgement from the president regarding the young murdered soldier as he did for the abortion Doctor. There was no 24/7 media coverage questioning why no terrorist attacks occurred after 9/11 on Bush’s watch, in spite, of the boast of the Obama national security adviser (who claimed America is safer today then under the Bush administration) America has been hit by terrorism on our own soil and on Obama’s watch. In addition, we now know that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad had ties to extremist Muslims here in the United States (see story)
But you say why make such a big deal out of an isolated incident? I assure you that I am not. You wouldn’t know it because the media refuses to report anything that would show the Obama administration doing worst than its predecessor but it is!
That’s right, America has had not one but two terrorist attacks on our soil since the 100 plus days of the Obama administration and I’m betting that you haven’t heard of either one!
June 1, 2009 a mere three days before the president’s message of peace to the Muslim world a converted Muslim committed Jihad in an American street, as the president delivered that speech June 4th he knew that a young soldier had been murdered by a Muslim in the streets of Arkansas just three days before yet Obama kissed up to Islam and sang its praises like he was singing an early morning azaan.
A Pakistani Taliban militant leader has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. immigration center in New York state in which 13 people were killed, Reuters reported.-- The Associated Press (see story)
But as I said June 1st was not an isolated incident. Yet another terrorist attack happened in the state of New York.
On April 3, 2009 Islamic Jihadists massacred 13 people at a U.S. immigration center in New York state. Is there any wonder why the people of New York were stricken with fear when Air Force One buzzed Lower Manhattan for a photo opt on April 27th without any prior warning? They had just faced a Islamic massacred just 24 days earlier.
The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for this act of terrorism indicating that this act was in retaliation for an alleged American drone strike in northwestern Pakistan that killed 13 people .—Fox News & Associated Press
Two, count them two terrorist attacks on American soil since Obama has been President. Yet the most disturbing thing about them is that the media would have reported these attacks unremittingly if these terrorist attacks would have happen while Bush was president but because they happen on Obama’s watch you didn’t know anything about them.
To which, there are several things that we can conclude; the Pro-Obama media cannot be trust to objectively report the news, we are not safer under the Obama administration contrary to what Gen. James Jones thinks and last, neither one of these attacks on Americans were an isolated incident.
Unfortunately, severer attacks against Americans on American soil lay ahead for us under the Obama administration chiefly because of Obama’s non-response to these two incidents. Islamic radicals see non-response as weakness. But the second reason that stronger attack are inevitable is because of Obama’s failed policy of Islamic terrorist appeasement.
