Diane Sawyer reporting on U.S. bridge projects going to the Chinese… NOT Americans.
The bridges are right here in the U.S. and yet Obama has approved for Chinese contractors to come in and do the work. What about jobs for Americans??? Watch this video. It doesn’t take long to view.
This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow….AND it comes from ABC NEWS…no Snopes or Wikileaks on this one!! U.S. Bridges and Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms Shocking to say the least!
This video is a jaw-dropper that will make you sick. (It was also shocking that ABC was actually reporting this story.) The lead-in with Obama promising jobs in the U.S. by improving our infrastructure is so typical of all his promises! Our tax dollars are at work – for CHINA!!!
I pray all the unemployed see this and cast their votes accordingly in 2012! Click here: U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms | Video – ABC News
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, Democrats, Obama Stuff, US Politics, Who Is Obama?
See who they are and realize what they want to do:
Ultra liberal anti-gun former Governor Of New Mexico. Pro-Abortion and pro- drug legalization. Wants to dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Radical anti-business black activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. University of Maryland Business School Dean; teaches that US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Radical Homosexual. Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
The former failed superintendent of San Diego. Ultra-Liberal friend of Hillary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegals without interference from the Federal government.
Senior Fellow of radical environmentalist group “Progress Policy”. No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Auto Union worker. Anti- business & anti- nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Union-owned. How did this happen?
Believes US policy is the cause of war in the Middle East. Obama apologist to the world. Anti-gun and completely Pro-Abortion.
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti-male feminist. Supports male castration – imagine?
Devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, former Chief of Police in liberal Seattle WA. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs.
Former head of the Federal Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama-appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti-business “Progressive Policy” organization,
Political Radical. Former head of the EPA – known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Political Black activist. Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti-gun ownership lobbyist. WHAT DOES A FAITH-BASED CZAR DO ? ? ?
Chicago radical anti-business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for “Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink.” No experience or training in water management whatsoever. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)
(since resigned). Black activist with strong anti-white views. Member of American Communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party. Said George Bush caused the 9-11 attacks and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes.
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the Global War on Terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong proponent of Healthcare Rationing (i.e. “Death Panels”). She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (????)
Anti-business former White House Chief of Staff. Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord; pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.
Retired US Navy. Stopped US guided missile program he described as “provocative”. Chair of ultra-Liberal “Council on Foreign Relations” which blames American organizations for regional wars.
Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into “2 or 3 ” smaller more manageable plots”. (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual “special rights” advocate
Chief of Staff to Ted Kennedy. Lawyer who got rich off the 9-11 victims payoffs (horribly true).
Liberal activist judge who believes free speech needs to be limited for the “common good”; essentially against the 1st Amendment. Has ruled against personal freedoms many times on private gun ownership and right to free speech cases. This guy has to be run out of Washington ! ! !
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club anti-business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo . Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Fannie Mae CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military!
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti-doctor activist. \ Supports Obama Healthcare Rationing (i.e. Death Panels) and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Government Healthcare plan.
Puerto Rico-born Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America. Millionaire “slum lord” of Bronx, NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from “sweetheart” deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and healthcare.
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America. No Other “policy”.
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other “policy”
These are the people who are helping President Obama ruin…run…our country from the White House. With elections coming, this is just a little refresher – your tax dollars pay these dangerous leftists! There are a few more now not included here.
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012
So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.
On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-”Toddlers and Tiaras”-style meltdown with Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer after landing in Phoenix for a post-State of the Union dog-and-pony show. As Brewer told pool reporters on the scene, Obama took umbrage at Brewer’s recent memoir. She minced no words on the cover: “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border.”
And she minced no words describing her impressions of Obama as they sparred over her state’s tough immigration enforcement law, which is now the subject of a Justice Department witch-hunt. Brewer called Obama “patronizing” and “condescending.” I’d say she was excruciatingly polite.
According to Brewer, “He was a little disturbed about my book. … I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read (an) excerpt.” In the shadow of Air Force One, Obama complained that Brewer hadn’t “treated him cordially” and then stalked off while she was responding mid-sentence.
Photogs captured the fracas on film. The civility police gasped at Brewer’s “disrespectful” finger-pointing. On cue, one progressive commentator insinuated the gesture was a “racist” jab tantamount to lynching.
The president was singing a more laid-back tune last summer. As debate on Capitol Hill over the debt ceiling and spending sizzled, Obama bragged to reporters: “I’m not trying to poke at you guys. … I generally don’t watch what is said about me on cable. I generally don’t read what’s said about me even in The Hill (newspaper), so part of this job is having a thick skin and understanding that a lot of this stuff is not personal.”
Uh-huh. At least two other Republican governors — Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — have recounted similar presidential snit fits on the tarmac. He sulked over a letter Jindal wrote to the administration about food stamps for Gulf oil spill victims; he bolted after a half-minute meeting with Perry at an Austin airport over border security issues.
You know those “petty grievances” of “Washington politics” that Obama has long condemned? Now it can be told: He knows whereof he squawks.
As New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,” reveals, the president and his inner circle spent even more time carping about conservative influence on public opinion. “He wanted the media to be more of a referee; to put unfair Republican charges to rest,” Kantor discovered. “He could brush off the wildest, most baseless attacks themselves, he told (senior adviser and Chicago pal) Valerie Jarrett, along with (campaign finance bundler and treasurer) Marty Nesbitt and (bundler and finance mogul) John Rogers, at lunch in the little dining room next to the Oval Office.”
But what “galled him,” the book observed, “was when they gained mainstream credibility despite distortions of truth.”
Kantor then dutifully served as a pro-Obama referee:
“Rogers had just noticed a new book by the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called ‘Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies.’ Among many other allegations, Malkin wrote that Michelle Obama — the president’s ‘bitter half’ — was secretly running the country in Lady Macbeth-like fashion. Malkin even took a hatchet to long-dead Fraser Robinson (Mrs. Obama’s father), arguing with no evidence that his job at a water plant made him part of the ‘Chicago political corruptocracy.’ The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and stayed there for weeks.”
The facts? It was a former alderman in Chicago, Leon Depres, who provided evidence that Robinson’s job in the city water department was a reward for loyalty to the Daley political faction.
It was Washington Post writer Liza Mundy who reported that the department was “a renowned repository of patronage jobs.”
It’s the Illinois press that has long documented Mrs. Obama’s ties to the Chicago machine. It’s Kantor herself who spotlighted the first lady’s internecine warfare with her husband’s Cabinet. And from her meddling in everything from the AmeriCorps inspector general firing case to her aggressive, Big Labor-backed push for a publicly subsidized food police corps, Michelle Obama has been openly expanding her East Wing fiefdom in Marie Antoinette-like fashion.
How long before we see a FLOTUS tarmac tantrum? We did get two divas for the price of one. As longtime observers of the royal Obamas have long observed: Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants’ problem has never been the color of their skin. It’s the thinness.
Apparently it takes a Canadian to realize how bad our situation is. The video is about 12 minutes long, but very worthy of viewing. This is one situation that, if not reversed, will cost us dearly in the future.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/01/video-canadian-talk-show-host-destroys-obama-over-keystone-decision.html
By Joe Davidson, Published: January 11
While Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about pink slips and the joys of firing people, many agencies in the Obama administration are quietly paying employees to leave their jobs.
Buyouts and early retirement programs are the scalpel Uncle Sam uses before he has to turn to the hatchet of layoffs.
“I don’t think it is any secret that going forward the federal government will be on a strict diet and will require some belt tightening,” said John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Federal-employee belts are the ones likely to get a lot of that tightening because the salary lines of agency budgets consume a lot of money.
OPM uses two tools to help agencies reduce their staffing levels without resorting to pink slips and firings. One is the Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments (VSIP) program, which is government-speak for buyouts. Employees can get up to $25,000 to quit. The other is the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA), which allows workers to get annuities years earlier than usual.
These programs give agency officials “the flexibility to respond to the budget situation,” Berry said, allowing them to create a “glide path” to workforce reduction rather than the crash that layoffs would be.
But if the two V’s don’t get the job done, he added, “agencies do have the tool box, which we all know goes in the direction of reduction in force” or RIFs, which means pink slips.
“Our hope is through creative use of VERA and VSIP authority and workforce strategic planning that agencies will be able to respond to the . . . ’12 and 2013 budget years without having to move into more drastic approaches like reductions in force,” he said, adding: “There may be cases where people, they’ve done all they can do with VERA and VSIP and will have to look at other options.”
OPM has a strike team to provide quick responses to agency requests for buyouts and early retirements. “We’ve approved quite a few of them, and we’ve managed a pretty good turnaround time on almost all of those,” he said. “We know, done well, this is the best way to respond to this and allow you to design your workforce to address your budget.”
Despite the increased budget pressures, he doesn’t expect the number of buyout and early retirement requests from agencies to be dramatically higher this year than last.
“It’s not a cliff,” he said.
Jack Lew, the Office of Management and Budget director, whom President Obama has named to be his chief of staff, understands how important career employees are and knows “that jarring impacts can really upset the system,” Berry added. “He recognizes we’ve got to have a tighter, leaner government, but we can do that responsibly without creating chaos.”
In fiscal 2010, OPM gave 14 departments permission to offer buyouts: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury, Transportation and Veterans Affairs.
The same agencies were allowed to offer early retirement, except for Defense and Health and Human Services.
The next year, a dozen departments, including several of the same ones, got the okay for buyouts from OPM: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury and Veterans Affairs.
For fiscal 2011, all of those departments, except the Pentagon, were granted early retirement authority, and Homeland Security was added to that list.
OPM does not have the number of employees who potentially could get a buyout or an early retirement offer from their agencies.
Despite the early outs, the overall number of federal workers may not decline, at least not by much.
The White House budget plan for this fiscal year projected an increase in federal employment to 2,116,000, from an estimated 2,101,000 in fiscal 2011, not including the Postal Service. But those projections were made before the budget battles between Democrats and Republicans and the threat of automatic spending cuts to reduce the deficit.
“That being the case, I think the 2012 estimate is probably a bit high,” said John Palguta, a senior vice president of the Partnership for Public Service, a think tank that focuses on federal workplace issues. (The Partnership has a content sharing relationship with The Washington Post.) “My prediction is that the size of the federal workforce . . . at the end of FY 2011 will be the high water mark. I think we’ll see a small dip in FY 2012 and a bigger dip in FY 2013.”
Closing note: According to White House data, the number of federal employees in 2011 was less than in 1985, under former president Ronald Reagan, whom Republicans consider to be the godfather of small government, despite a national population that is about 30 percent larger now.
The Picture below is truly worth a thousand words…………….
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of high school, and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He had received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1959. In 1968, he earned his doctorate degree in economics from the University of Chicago . Dr. Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for “think tanks” such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.
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The following is written by Dr. Sowell, and I quote:
“The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.
“It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.
“It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals: defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been shredded and, with them, every person’s guaranteed liberties.
“It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.
“It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign entities.
“Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of.
“The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation of America .
“Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”"
Thomas Sowell
Filed under: Conservative Perspective, Obama Stuff, The Left, US Economics
November 29, 20111
ICYMI: Cato Institute, FOX News Analyst Highlights Government Gone Wild Video
Tallahassee—Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato Institute weighed in today on Government Gone Wild’s most recent video, calling it one of the best videos on bureaucratic spending—in fact, second only to his own video.
“This is the second-best video I’ve ever seen on the bloated and overpaid government workforce,” notes Mitchell, a Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, Washington’s premier free-market think tank. “I especially like how he understands that the problem is the size of government and I also admire his recognition that Republicans often are just as bad as Democrats.”
Florida-based Government Gone Wild, a non-partisan movement aimed at educating citizens about the national debt and out-of-control government spending, produced the video, entitled “Special Interests…Exposed!” Government Gone Wild has exploded onto the grassroots Conservative scene, garnering millions of hits online and a recent feature on the Drudge Report.
“This video highlights an alarming trend: the era of enormous government and entrenched government workers,” explained Blaise Ingoglia, founder of Government Gone Wild. “The numbers speak for themselves, and here is a perfect example: As Americans have struggled to pay the bills under the current recession, the Transportation Department has gone from one employee making over $170,000 a yearto 1,690 employees making that amount. Why do we need that many astronomical bureaucratic salaries?”
Other highlights of the video include:
· The Department of Defense had 1,868employees making over $150,000 a yearwhen the recession started. Today, that number is 10,100 employees.
· Since this recession started, the number of federal employees making more than $100,000 a year has doubled…in less than two years.
· The average total compensation for a private sector employee in 2009 was $61,000.00, compared with $123,000.00 for a federal employee.
· With approximately 21,300,000 government employees in this country, that means that about 16% of this nation’s voting electorate works for government.
“If you count spouses or other family members, that means at least32%of the voting electorate will be likely to come out and vote against candidates who propose cutting government spending,” concluded Ingoglia. “That is a big block of people—and the hidden danger of big government.”
Sincerely,
Blaise Ingoglia, Founder
Government Gone Wild!
Did you notice who Obama threatened when he wasn’t getting his way on raising the debt ceiling?
He threatened to not pay: Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees.
Now…Let this sink in really well -
He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens.
He did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates.
He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired .
He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife’s frivolous gallivanting around the country and the world.
He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff.
He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients.
He did not threaten the food stamp programs.
He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid.
He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base of voters.
The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode!
* Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and lies?
* His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our votes can stop him.
* Do not forget about his tactics when it’s election time. Vote Obama out of the Presidency in 2012.
* LET’S MAKE 2012 – THE END OF AN ERROR!
Democracy… is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty … is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Benjamin Franklin
AMERICA…HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.
PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS.
Filed under: Christian Perspective, Conservative Perspective, Obama Stuff, The Islamic Conspiracy, US Politics
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
The Washington Times
President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.
He is slowly – piece by painful piece – erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there – yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela ‘s leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above – one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the country. It’s time for him to go.
He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. His health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was – and remains – opposed by a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson – taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund to buy swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional: The federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power.
Yet Obamacare’s most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of religious citizens. Traditionalists – evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox Jews – have been made complicit in an abomination that goes against their deepest religious values. As the law is implemented (as in Pennsylvania ) the consequences of the abortion provisions will become increasingly apparent. The result will be a cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become deeply alienated from society; among many, a secession of the heart is taking place.
I would add that, he has also granted hundreds of waivers to groups, organizations and companies that supported his canidacy, who claimed hardship if not excluded from Obamacare. dwr
Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case in point. BP clearly is responsible for the spill and its massive economic and environmental damage to the Gulf. There is a legal process for claims to be adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or Russia ‘s Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into setting up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company are to be raided to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed arbitrarily in compensation to oil-spill victims – much of it to Democratic constituents. This is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism.
Mr. Obama’s multicultural socialism seeks to eradicate traditional America . He has created a command-and-control health care system. He has essentially nationalized the big banks, the financial sector, the automakers and the student loan industry. He next wants to pass “cap-and-trade,” which would bring industry and manufacturing under the heel of big government. The state is intervening in every aspect of American life – beyond its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr. Obama, the Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper.
To provide the shock troops for his socialist takeover, Mr. Obama calls for “comprehensive immigration reform” – granting amnesty to 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. This would forge a permanent Democratic electoral majority. It would sound the death knell for our national sovereignty. Amnesty rewards lawlessness and criminal behavior; it signifies the surrender of our porous southern border to a massive illegal invasion. It means the death of American nationhood. We will no longer be a country, but the colony of a global socialist empire.
Rather than defending our homeland, Mr. Obama’s Justice Department has sued Arizona for its immigration law. He is siding with criminals against his fellow Americans. His actions desecrate his constitutional oath to protect U.S. citizens from enemies foreign and domestic. He is thus encouraging more illegal immigration as Washington refuses to protect our borders. Mr. Obama’s decision on this case is treasonous.
As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party. This was done even though their menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in military garb brandishing clubs and threatening whites at a polling site. A Justice Department lawyer intimately involved in the case, J. Christian Adams, resigned in protest. Mr. Adams says that under Mr. Obama, there is a new policy: Cases involving black defendants and white victims – no matter how much they cry for justice – are not to be prosecuted. This is more than institutionalized racism. It is an abrogation of civil rights laws. The Justice Department’s behavior is illegal. It poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our electoral process.
The gun running of “fast and furious” and continueing attempt to cover up, pass the blame and hide from the responsibility by Obama and Holder is indicitave of Obama’s ignoring the Constitution and his lawlessness. It was undoubtedly an effort to create a public outcry for more gun control. In my opinion, his plan also was to cause chaos for the Mexican citizens by letting the guns go into the drug cartels’ hands and terrorize the Mexican citizens. Forcing them to flee north across the border. Which would create a need for a refugee program for the fleeing Mexicans. Hence, an urgent need for amnesty for the sudden influx of illegal immigrants. dwr.
Corruption in the administration is rampant. Washington no longer has a government; rather, it has a gangster regime. The Chicago way has become the Washington way. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a political hit man.. He is an amoral, ruthless operator. It was Mr. Emanuel who reached out to Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat, offering a high-ranking job in the hopes of persuading Mr. Sestak to pull out of the primary against Sen. Arlen Specter. It was Mr. Emanuel who offered another government position to Andrew Romanoff to do the same in the Colorado Democratic Senate primary. And it was Mr. Emanuel – as the trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has revealed – who acted as the go-between to try to have Valerie Jarrett parachuted into Mr. Obama’s former Senate seat. The only question was: What did Mr. Blagojevich want in exchange?
This is not simply sleazy Chicago machine politics. It is the systematic breaking of the law – bribery, attempt to interfere (and manipulate) elections using taxpayer-funded jobs, influence peddling and abuse of power.
The common misperception on the right is that Mr. Obama is another Jimmy Carter: an incompetent liberal whose presidency is being reduced to rubble under the onslaught of repeated failures. The very opposite, however, is true. He is the most consequential president in our lifetime, transforming America into something our Founding Fathers would find not only unrecognizable, but repugnant. Like all radical revolutionaries, he is consumed by the pursuit of power – attaining it, wielding it and maximizing it. Mr.. Obama’s fledgling thug state must be stopped.
It is more crucial now than ever that the leadership in the House instigate a committee to investigate every aspect of Obama’s administration, his cabinet and his czars. He will stop at nothing, we the people should stop at nothing and turn over every stone Obama has placed to bury our Constitution. dwr.
If Republicans win back Congress in November, they should – and likely will – launch formal investigations into this criminal, scandal-ridden administration. Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has promised as much. Mr. Obama has betrayed the American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the host of “The Kuhner Show” on WTNT 570-AM (www.talk570.com <<http://www.talk570.com/) from 5 to 7 p.m.
SOURCE: KUHNER: President’s socialist takeover must be stopped – Washington Times
By Europe Union Times
Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government.
Sparking the concern of Russian diplomats over the growing totalitarian bent of the Obama government is the planned reintroduction of what these reports call one of the most draconian laws ever introduced in a free society that is titled “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”.
First introduced in the US Congress in 2007 by Democratic Representative Jane Harmon, this new law passed the US House of Representatives by a secretive voice vote, but failed to pass the US Senate, after which it was believed dead until this past week when it was embraced by Obama who became the first American President to name his own citizens as a threat to his Nations security.
In what is called the National Security Strategy document, that is required of US Presidents by their Congress, that embraces the dictatorial ideals of the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”, Obama has ordered his Federal police and intelligence forces to begin targeting Americans opposed to him and his radical socialist polices. Obama’s top counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, in speaking to reporters about this new “strategy” says it makes the problem of home-grown terrorists a top priority because an increasing number of individuals in the US have become “captivated by extremist ideology or causes.”
The Times of London is further reporting that Obama’s new National Security Strategy “officially” ends America’s “War on Terror” in what they call “a sweeping repudiation of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive military strikes.” And as Obama begins re-focusing his forces from fighting America’s foreign enemies, to those opposed to him in his own country, it is important to remember the warning about this new law given by the former CIA official, Philip Giraldi, who had previously warned of the Bush-Cheney plan to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, and who said: “The mainstream media has made no effort to inform the public of the impending Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.
The Act, which was sponsored by Congresswoman Jane Harman of California, was passed in the House by an overwhelming 405 to 6 vote on October 24th and is now awaiting approval by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is headed by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Harman’s bill contends that the United States will soon have to deal with home grown terrorists and that something must be done to anticipate and neutralize the problem. The act deals with the issue through the creation of a congressional commission that will be empowered to hold hearings, conduct investigations, and designate various groups as “homegrown terrorists.”
The commission will be tasked to propose new legislation that will enable the government to take punitive action against both the groups and the individuals who are affiliated with them. Like Joe McCarthy and HUAC in the past, the commission will travel around the United States and hold hearings to find the terrorists and root them out. Unlike inquiries in the past where the activity was carried out collectively, the act establishing the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Commission will empower all the members on the commission to arrange hearings, obtain testimony, and even to administer oaths to witnesses, meaning that multiple hearings could be running simultaneously in various parts of the country.
The ten commission members will be selected for their “expertise,” though most will be appointed by Congress itself and will reflect the usual political interests. They will be paid for their duties at the senior executive pay scale level and will have staffs and consultants to assist them. Harman’s bill does not spell out terrorist behavior and leaves it up to the Commission itself to identify what is terrorism and what isn’t. Language inserted in the act does partially define “homegrown terrorism” as “planning” or “threatening” to use force to promote a political objective, meaning that just thinking about doing something could be enough to merit the terrorist label.
The act also describes “violent radicalization” as the promotion of an “extremist belief system” without attempting to define “extremist.” As an example of those American’s Obama will be targeting, Giraldi further writes that The Simon Wiesenthal Center, in testifying before the US Congress in support of this new law, swore that an organization called “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth” was an example of a homegrown terrorist organization, leading one Russian diplomat in this report to state: “If 1,200 of America’s top architectural and engineering professionals are deemed terrorists simply because they question their governments propaganda than truly no one is safe in the United States anymore”.
As another example of how dictatorial the Obama regime has become, and as the Gulf of Mexico oil debacle has now become the worst ecological disaster our World has ever seen, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, this past week slammed American reporters for “asking too many questions about BP”. Leading one to ask that if Obama’s regime can’t be asked about this disaster, what can they be asked about?
The answer is apparently none, as Obama himself, just this past week, in announcing his signing of a new law called the Press Freedom Act refused to answer any reporters’ questions and abruptly left them standing in stupefaction over the irony, an ordeal that shows how far America has fallen. Another irony apparently lost upon the American people is that their President Obama, who has been dubbed “The Great Communicator”, now holds the dubious distinction of having held fewer press conferences than any American President in modern history. And if yesterday’s press conference, his first in nearly a year, was any example one can see why as incredulous press corps was left astounded that Obama had no knowledge of the firing/resignation of one of his top officials.
In all of these events one fact, beyond all others, stands out….in what was once called “The Land of the Free, And the Home of the Brave”…..the United States today has become “The Land Of Slave, And the Home of the Coward”….and these Americans have only themselves to blame.
More than a year ago, I wrote an article on the same subject and unfortunately it is time to write another one. The next Presidential election is a little over a year away and the Republicans have been holding their debates to determine who will represent it in the next election. Initially, Governor Romney was the leader for months, and then Governor Perry entered and he became the leader. The straw poll in Iowa had Michelle Bachman leading, and then the straw poll in Florida had Herman Cain a huge winner. New Jersey Governor Christie was encouraged to enter the race. There does not seem to be a lack of personnel who desire to become our next President, while who is leading depends on the day.
The poll numbers for our current President Obama continue to fall, and there is some discontent from his own party. Unlike the discontent from the right because of the growth of government and the endless spending, the left is upset because the President has not moved far enough to the left. Unions are angry because he has not implemented “card check” that would give union implementation a great advantage. Environmentalists are upset because he has not been able to pass “cap and trade”. Other groups are upset because he has not ended the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and started one in Libya.
The next election will determine if we continue along the current road of spending and government growth or do we change direction and return to the role of limited government and individual empowerment. If our founding fathers were present there would be no surprise which direction they would choose. Remember, they added the first ten amendments to restrict the government. The Bill of Rights restricted the government not individuals. They knew that as government grew, individual rights restricted.
Trust is something that must be earned and it must be earned on a daily basis. Think about the many individuals that you have been associated with over the years. I can think of some that I would not trust as far as I could throw them and then there are others that I bet my life on. Combat separates the men from the boys. Trust is key. Each time that I get together with some of my comrades from combat, we tell war stories about both hairy and funny events. We talk about all sorts of things, but mostly about friends and what they meant to us.
When I look at at some of the news reports about politicians or businessmen doing stupid and illegal things, I just wonder who were their heroes and models. Does money mean that much? Obviously, it does. This next election is critical. It will determine which direction we will go as a country. Will it be with continued reckless spending and growth of government or will it be the opposite. The final contenders from each political party will give us a chance to determine WHO DO YOU TRUST. Before you cast your vote make sure that your choice is one that you trust.
Colonel Don Myers
USMC (ret.)
“It is not fair that Warren Buffet gets to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary” is the class warfare battle cry these days. To the uninformed, which liberals routinely prey on, this sounds like a good idea but we must remind them that Obama is not comparing apples to apples. His secretary is most likely in the 28% income tax bracket while Buffett himself is taxed at the 15% capital gains tax rate. Investment in the private sector creates jobs and these investors need a financial incentive to risk their capital.
So the headline now becomes “Warren Buffet wants Congress to raise taxes on the rich”. Of course he does…the higher the tax rates go the more money he makes! His company, Berkshire Hathaway, sells tax insurance planning products to the rich. And…he has already made his fortune! What more would a super wealthy, billionaire investor like Warren Buffet want than for the Federal government to make it harder for others to catch up to him. Any new legislation written by Congress regarding the raising of the capital gains rate would most likely grandfather in those investments already made and tax any new investment at the new, higher rate. If not, then there would be a massive sell-off on Wall Street to beat the new tax and some of that money will leave our shores and goes to places like India.
For more proof that Buffett is only out for his own wallet look no further than the fight over the estate tax. Most conservatives, like me, are against this tax because, in my opinion, it is unethical and immoral for the government to confiscate someones wealth simply because he or she has stopped breathing. Now if you think that a multi-billionaire investor like Warren Buffet would be staunchly against this tax…you would be wrong! The death tax is so lucrative for him that his companies actually spend millions lobbying Congress to vote against repealing it because they sell a form of life insurance to the rich to cover the amount of “death” taxes that would be imposed. Buffett also owns NetJets which leases private jets to the rich and large corporations. Did you know that he against Obama’s plan to eliminate the private jet tax break? Hmmmmm….
Obama and big government are actually helping the rich and super-rich retain and acquire more wealth. They have been doing this since the beginning of time and now one of the richest men in the world has a willing partner…our own President!
Blaise Ingoglia, Founder, Government Gone Wild!
Make no mistake about it, we are a center-right country and the people of this nation are (finally) waking up and rejecting big government. A Gallup Poll has 42% of people self identifying as conservatives, 35% as moderate and 20% as liberals. This administration has been unapologetic in governing from this minority 20%and the liberal media has been more than happy to be an accomplice to it.
Maybe we shouldn’t be criticizing Obama for it. Maybe we should consider thanking him for it. Why? Well, just imagine if John McCain had won the election. This country would be chugging along like it always had, heading for bankruptcy. We would still be adding more crushing debt because of their inability to balance a budget. We would still be adding onerous regulations that are crippling business and hindering the recovery of our stagnant economy. McCain would have aided in the destruction of our republic at a much slower pace and the electorate would have hardly noticed it.
With an overt “in you face” style of governing this administration has exposed their preference for socialism but, thankfully, were premature in doing so. With control of both chambers of Congress including, at one time, a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, the White House overtly pushed their leftist agenda without even giving us time to read the bills and having to “pass the bill to find out what’s in it”.
Obama has, at lightning speed, pushed us to the cliffs edge…but he at least gave us time to realize that we had not gone over it yet. McCain would have gradually marched us towards the precipice. If Obama would have been elected President after McCain he would have sent our children’s and grandchildren’s future into the big government abyss.
It will take years, as well as a strong will and an informed electorate, to undo the damage to this republic by this administration and the one before it. We still have time to pull back and reverse course but we must start now.
We should not be hypocrites. If Obama is voted out of office next November because of rampant, unsustainable spending we need to hold the next President to the same standard. We have no choice but to do so. The days of lying down to party leadership are over, unless, your party leadership is serious about balancing the Federal budget, tax and entitlement reform.
The bottom line is this…the progressive and socialist movement in this country got impatient and showed their cards prematurely. If they had waited a little longer it would have been “game over” and in a strange way, because of a now awakened nation, Barack Obama may be the savior of our republic.
Blaise Ingoglia, Founder — Government Gone Wild
