Obama: Corruption, Deception, Dishonesty, Deceit and Promises Broken

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Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages
Published: Tuesday, 8 Mar 2011 | 3:59 PM ET Text Size By: John Melloy
Executive Producer, Fast Money


Twitter LinkedInMore Share Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement.

 

Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data.

“The U.S. economy has become alarmingly dependent on government stimulus,” said Madeline Schnapp, director of Macroeconomic Research at TrimTabs, in a note to clients. “Consumption supported by wages and salaries is a much stronger foundation for economic growth than consumption based on social welfare benefits.”

The economist gives the country two stark choices. In order to get welfare back to its pre-recession ratio of 26 percent of pay, “either wages and salaries would have to increase $2.3 trillion, or 35 percent, to $8.8 trillion, or social welfare benefits would have to decline $500 billion, or 23 percent, to $1.7 trillion,” she said.

Last month, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a $61 billion federal spending cut, but Senate Democratic leaders and the White House made it clear that had no chance of becoming law. Short-term resolutions passed have averted a government shutdown that could have occurred this month, as Vice President Biden leads negotiations with Republican leaders on some sort of long-term compromise.

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“You’ve got to cut back government spending and the Republicans will run on this platform leading up to next year’s election,” said Joe Terranova, Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners and a “Fast Money” trader.

 

Terranova noted some sort of opt out for social security or even raising the retirement age.

But the country may not be ready for these tough choices, even though economists like Schnapp say something will have to be done to avoid a significant economic crisis.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last week showed that  less than a quarter of Americans supported making cuts to Social Security or Medicare in order to reign in the mounting budget deficit.

Those poll numbers may be skewed by a demographic shift the likes of which the nation has never seen. Only this year has the first round of baby boomers begun collecting Medicare benefits—and here comes 78 million more.

Social welfare benefits have increased by $514 billion over the last two years, according to TrimTabs figures, in part because of measures implemented to fight the financial crisis. Government spending normally takes on a larger part of the spending pie during economic calamities but how can the country change this make-up with the root of the crisis (housing) still on shaky ground, benchmark interest rates already cut to zero, and a demographic shift that calls for an increase in subsidies?

At the very least, we can take solace in the fact that we’re not quite at the state welfare levels of Europe. In the U.K., social welfare benefits make up 44 percent of wages and salaries, according to TrimTabs’ Schnapp.

“No matter how bad the situation is in the US, we stand far better on these issues (debt, demographics, entrepreneurship) than other countries,” said Steve Cortes of Veracruz Research. “On a relative basis, America remains the world leader and, as such, will also remain the world's reserve currency.”

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This has to be some sort of youtube posting meltdown hahaha

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And yet you won't be able dispute one of them.

Hope and change you schmuck.

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The real death panel & the Cloward-Piven devastation awaiting you in Obamacare
Renew America ^ | March 8, 2011 | Arlen Williams andTallulah Starr


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Much has been made of whether or not Obamacare influences physicians to provide end of life counseling to elderly or very sick patients. Although that does not fit her description, the news media seems obsessed with tying that to Sarah Palin's allusion of a "death panel" being a part of the plan. Why?

Apparently, because that diverts attention from the actual death panel — one that really will decide whether you get life saving treatment, or whether you are budgeted (and snuffed) out.

It is called the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research and it includes fifteen members, appointed by Barack Obama immediately after the pseudo-stimulus act of early 2009. It is a governing bureaucratic council, or in the Russian language, a "soviet." (Obama may be familiar with that linguistic fact, since his parents, according to the official story, met in a Russian language class, in 1960. Let that sink in, if you had not known it.)

It is not my practice to present a video while reiterating it in print. Please listen well. It lasts only six minutes. Dr. David Janda, before the last election:

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Video posted 10/19/2010, "Dr. David Janda explains rationing and why Dr. Rob Steele must defeat Dingell"

Per the title of this video: alas, in southeast Michigan's heavily unionized Congressional District 15, Dr. Rob Steele, a cardiologist, was defeated by the incumbent Democrat, John Dingell. That seat has been held by a socialized medicine backing Dingell since 1933. Gotta love those unions and their campaign donations, extorted by mandatory union dues.

Michigan's David Janda was introduced to us in August, 2009, by Nan Matthis of the blog, American Daughter. It was my privilege to be one of the very first to interview him on the subject of Obamacare, as well as to publish an initial Janda article about it: "Dr. David Janda on "The Awakening" — The Best Obamacare Expose.'" In each, his conclusion properly depicted the mandates under which we have just begun to suffer, as fascism.

But rest assured, Obamacare will not stop there. On the same evening as the Janda interview (apologies, if you listen; it was at one of my more sleep-deprived sessions, though the conversation was very stimulating, to say the least) we interviewed Pamela Key, of Naked Emperor News. We also presented her now famous video of Obama and his congressional comrades, Reps. Barney Frank and Jan Schakowsky, describing the intended end result, the "single payer system," otherwise known as "universal healthcare." Or, Vladdy Lenin called it "the keystone of the arch of socialism."

That video rests at the bottom of this article of the time, which also provides a tour of her most salient exposés of America's neo-Marxist, putative president: "Pam Key of Naked Emperor News, Video Freedom Fighter — Interview Archived from Monday Night's 'Awakening.'"

Yes, Obamacare is intended, in true, Cloward-Piven fashion, to be a very burdensome precursor to thoroughly socialized health "care," as we are transitioned from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. James Simpson explained this in the same August 2009, in his "Manufactured Healthcare Crisis." That was confirmed by Obama himself, just a few days ago, as he offered states the "flexibility" of seeking shelter in "single-payer." (Link)

This is a week in which we must once again focus upon healthcare and what sins pass for the same. That is especially true, since Rep's Steve King and Michele Bachmann are bringing out the subterfuge and effectively the legislative fraud of Obama-Pelosi-Reid's extra $105,464,000,000, "Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What's in it" Mandate. (Link, Link) Oh, shucks here is a video on that, too.

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Video posted 3/3/2011, "Exposing $105 Billion Already Dedicated to ObamaCare"

And last, but not least...

As if that were not reason enough this week, to demand reform in Congress' months delayed, manufactured crisis, Pelosi-hangover budget, there is also the opportunity to free our wallets and consciences from the taxpayer-funded abuse of women, teenage children, and babies — and the "eugenic" racism — of Planned Parenthood. (Do click this link, if no other.)

If these atrocities are what government will give us, then please, God, shut it down.

And reader, please call your U.S. Representative and both Senators about all of this. Today.

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And yet you won't be able dispute one of them.

Hope and change you schmuck.

What would be the purpose to dispute it anyway?  You're never going to change your viewpoint or even seek out an alternative.  It would be a waste of my time, if you can not see the light, you are worse off for it, not I. 

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What would be the purpose to dispute it anyway?  You're never going to change your viewpoint or even seek out an alternative.  It would be a waste of my time, if you can not see the light, you are worse off for it, not I. 

Ha ha ha ha - see the light?   In what?    Obama is a fucking piece of trash trying to collapse the nation.   How about yo try to make me see the light on the dirty obamacare deals he made which I pointed out?     

BTW - I post at other sites and use this thread as a reference point for other sseeking info on what this asshole you shill for is doing.  The formatting here works well.   

 

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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

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HOMELAND INSECURITY
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
White House official praises Muslim Brotherhood leader
Deputy NSC chief begs for 'cooperation' at mosque in Virginia

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WASHINGTON – While visiting a mosque in the Washington area last week, a senior White House security official lavished praise on a Muslim cleric who happens to be a top leader of the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America, FBI investigators point out.

Imam Magid and Denis McDonough
 

"They are so ignorant," said one FBI veteran regarding the White House. "This is unbelievable bullsh--."

White House sources explain that deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough was unaware of the cleric's radical ties, and added that the presidential assistant attended the outreach event as a show of support for the Muslim community ahead of Thursday's congressional hearings on Muslim radicalization. Led by New York Republican Rep. Peter King, the planned hearings have already generated charges of "bigotry" from Muslim activists.

During his speech at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va., McDonough singled out the mosque's imam, Mohammed Magid, for praise.

"Thank you, Imam Magid, for your very kind introduction. I know that President Obama was very grateful that you led the prayer at last summer¹s Iftar dinner at the White House," he said. "Thank you, also, for being one of our nation's leading voices for the values that make America so strong, especially religious freedom and tolerance."

However, Sudanese-born Magid (aka Hagmagid Ali) is also president of the Islamic Society of North America – a terror-supporting organization and known front group for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood's operations in America.

The Justice Department recently implicated the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, in a criminal conspiracy to fund Palestinian terrorists. U.S. prosecutors, in fact, designated ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. They also identified ISNA as a U.S. front group for Hamas and its parent the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a post-trial opinion, the federal judge ruled the government provided "ample evidence" to support ISNA's involvement in the foundation's conspiracy to underwrite terrorism, and he refused ISNA's petition to remove its name from the list of co-conspirators.

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Magid's father, a Cairo-educated, Muslim Brotherhood scholar, has served as Grand Mufti of Sudan, an al-Qaida hotspot.

Speaking at the ADAMS Center, one of the largest Islamic centers in the Washington area, McDonough said, "This is a typically American place."

In fact, FBI investigators say the mosque is a Muslim Brotherhood-controlled property. It has been cited for distributing hate literature and oppressing women. The leadership pens female members in a separate area of the worship hall and has them cover their heads with scarves.

Last decade, ADAMS was singled out by the Freedom House as one of the top distributors of Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma.

The mosque's board of directors includes key Muslim Brotherhood figures in America. "I'm sure McDonough doesn't know that the chairman of the board at ADAMS is Ahmed Totonji, one of the original Brothers in the U.S.," said the FBI official in Washington.

According to the book, "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington," federal investigators have uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks endorsed to ADAMS by Brotherhood leaders and entities whose offices were raided after 9/11.

The book quotes a longtime ADAMS Center member who said that all Muslims are united in a kind of blood pact under the "ummah," the worldwide Muslim brotherhood.

"If you hurt one Muslim anywhere in the world," the man said, "it's like hurting all Muslims." And the Brothers will respond in kind, even if that means self-immolation on the streets of America.

"Muslims are not afraid to die, you know," he added, according to "Infiltration." "We are not afraid to die."

Asked his opinion of Osama bin Laden, he replied: "We do respect him."

Why? Because he stands against "injustice and oppression," explained the man, who works for a Beltway contractor. And even though he's rich, bin Laden shuns palaces and walks the true walk of Islam, he added – unlike the Saudi monarchs, whom he referred to as "hypocrites."

In closing his speech, McDonough encouraged the mosque and its leaders to continue "their efforts to strengthen cooperation between Muslim communities and law enforcement."

White House sources point out that Magid and ADAMS have also been recognized by the FBI and Homeland Security as outreach partners.

FBI sources say the partnership was originally established by the head of the FBI's Washington field office, Joseph Persichini, whom they say was trying to impress judges in a "community policing" awards contest.

In his application for the 2009 IACP Community Policing Awards competition – a copy of which was obtained by WND – Persichini cites imam Majid as a "key community partner," who "represented the voice of moderate Muslims."

Later that year, Persichini took early retirement from the FBI after the Justice Department's inspector general caught him cheating on an important bureau test.

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Obama Security Adviser Comforts Muslims With Terrorist Ties
Judicial Watch ^ | March 8, 2011



To reassure Muslims ahead of this week’s congressional hearings on radicalization, President Obama sent his Deputy National Security Adviser to schmooze an extremist group (Islamic Society of North America or ISNA) that raises money for Hamas.


A few years ago a special Judicial Watch report on Muslim charities exposed ISNA’s terrorist connections and aggressive campaigns to place radical leaders in mosques throughout the U.S. ISNA pushes the Saudi-Wahhabi form of Islam, which teaches that all non-Muslims are enemies and heathens. In 2008 the Justice Department named ISNA an unindicted co-conspirator in a Texas case involving a similar group (Holy Land Foundation) convicted of funneling millions to Hamas.


This week the president’s Deputy National Security Advisor, Denis McDonough, assured members and supporters of the group that Muslims have an ally in the U.S. government, and specifically, the Obama Administration. The heartwarming speech was delivered at an ISNA affiliate in the Washington D.C. area, best known by its rather ingenious acronym; the Adams Center, which stands for All Dulles Area Muslim Society.


Not surprisingly, the barrage of mainstream media reports on the Obama Administration’s latest Muslim outreach effort omitted the ties between the AdamsCenter and a renowned group of Islamic extremists that support terrorism. Only a conservative publication made the connection and published a story on its web site shortly after McDonough’s heavily-promoted meeting.


His Adams Center speech is posted in its entirety on the White House web site but here are a few highlights: "The bottom line is this-when it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution." Predicted applause ensued and McDonough continued. A pair of pompons would have suited him well.


He went on to say: "We have a choice. We can choose to send a message to certain Americans that they are somehow ‘less American' because of their faith or how they look; that we see their entire community as a potential threat ... And if we make that choice, we risk feeding the very feelings of disenchantment that may push some members of that community to violent extremism. Or, we can make another choice. We can send the message that we're all Americans."


His mission was to comfort Muslims before a congressional hearing to address “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response.” Scheduled for Thursday before the House Committee on Homeland Security, the hearing has outraged Islamic leaders who assert it’s a modern-day form of McCarthyism designed to spark fear against Muslims.


Read Judicial Watch’s coverage of the Obama Administration’s ongoing Muslim outreach efforts by clickinghere, here and here.

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U.S. To Give Arab-Based Renewable Energy Agency $5 Mil
Judicial Watch ^ | March 7, 2011 | Judicial Watch



As if wasting exorbitant amounts of money to support the corrupt United Nations wasn’t bad enough, President Obama has joined a new Arab-based “international organization” dedicated to promoting renewable energy worldwide.

That means U.S. taxpayers will supply a big chunk of the group’s funding in addition to the billions of dollars that already go to the U.N. each year for programs that, incidentally, already address renewable energy. As the largest contributors to the U.N., American taxpayers forked over $6.3 billion last year and billions more will be allocated this fiscal year, despite promises from some lawmakers to slash the cash flow to the scandal-plagued world body.

With the U.S. national debt topping $14 trillion the last thing the country needs is a costly membership to yet another world agency promoting a leftist agenda.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will get a chunk of change from Uncle Sam—around $5 million—to promote renewable energy technologies that meet the challenges of sustained economic growth, energy security and climate change. At least that’s how the State Department explains it. The Obama Administration is especially excited that IRENA is the “first truly international organization based in an Arab country.” With its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, the group claims that it will act as the “global voice for renewable energies” by facilitating access to all relevant renewable energy information, economic data and “renewable resource potential data.” So far 65 countries have officially joined IRENA, which also has offices in Austria and Germany.


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EPA Seeking Comments on Considering Environmental Justice during the Rulemaking Process
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EPA is releasing an interim guide on incorporating environmental justice into the Agency’s process for developing rules and regulations. The Interim Guidance on Considering Environmental Justice During the Development of an Action is a step-by-step guide that helps EPA staff ask questions and evaluate environmental justice considerations at key points in the rulemaking process. It helps EPA staff determine whether actions raise possible environmental justice concerns and encourages public participation in the rulemaking process.

The Guide is part of EPA’s efforts to advance environmental justice and to protect the health and safety of the historically underrepresented in the environmental decision-making process—minority, low-income, and indigenous populations, and tribes—who are often most at risk from environmental hazards.

EPA is looking for feedback and input on how to best implement and improve the Guide and on ways EPA can further advance efforts toward environmental justice. Comments can be submitted through this link, http://www.epa.gov/compliance/ej/resources/policy/ej-rulemaking.html, with the comment period open through April 8, 2011.

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Obama's Green-Jobs Fantasies
Townhall.com ^ | March 9, 2011 | John Stossell



Anyone who understands basic economics already knows that President Obama's $2.3 billion green-jobs initiative was snake oil. Now, thanks to Kenneth P. Green, we have statistics as well as theory to prove it.

In a new article, "The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience," the environmental scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute writes, "Green programs in Spain destroyed 2.2 jobs for every green job created, while the capital needed for one green job in Italy could create almost five jobs in the general economy."

Ironically, Obama boasts his initiative "will help close the clean-energy gap between America and other nations." But Green says, "(C)ountries are cutting these programs because they realize they aren't sustainable and they are obscenely expensive."

Obama claims that if we "invest" more, "the transition to clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create millions of jobs -- but only if we accelerate that transition."

What could make more sense? A little push from the smart politicians and -- voila! -- we can have an abundance of new good-paying jobs and a cleaner, sustainable environment. It's the ultimate twofer.

Except it's an illusion, as economic logic demonstrates.

"It is well understood, among economists, that governments do not 'create' jobs," Green writes. "The willingness of entrepreneurs to invest their capital, paired with consumer demand for goods and services, does that. All the government can do is subsidize some industries while jacking up costs for others. In the green case, it is destroying jobs in the conventional energy sector -- and most likely in other industrial sectors -- through taxes and subsidies to new green companies that will use taxpayer dollars to undercut the competition. The subsidized jobs 'created' are, by definition, less efficient uses of capital than market-created jobs."

Green is using good, solid economic thinking. Many years ago, Henry Hazlitt wrote in his bestseller, "Economics in One Lesson," "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."

In judging any government initiative, such as Obama's green-jobs plan, you can't look just at the credit side of ledger because the government is unable to give without first taking away.

Worse than that: Inevitably, more is taken away -- destroyed -- than is given because the government substitutes force and taxation for consent and free exchange. Instead of a process driven by consumer preferences, we get one imposed by politicians' grand social designs. It's what F.A. Hayek called "the fatal conceit."

So we shouldn't be surprised that green-jobs programs make energy more expensive. "(F)orcing green energy on the market (is) much, much more expensive," Green said. "Using Spain as a model, when you do the math, you realize that creating 3 million new green jobs could cost $2.25 trillion."

Of course, many people who push "green jobs" want the price of energy to rise so we'll use less. If the environmental lobby wants Americans to be poorer, it ought to come clean about that.

The advocates of such programs don't just misunderstand economics. They have lapsed into a pre-economic mentality. Rulers once believed they could do whatever they wanted, subject only to the physical laws of nature. If things didn't work out as planned, it was because the people had failed to cooperate. But as economist Ludwig von Mises wrote, once economics emerged as an intellectual discipline, "it was learned that in the social realm too there is something operative which power and force are unable to alter and to which they must adjust themselves if they hope to achieve success ... ."

That "something" is inescapable economic forces like the law of supply and demand.

Green is right when he says, "Central planners in the United States trying to promote green industry will fare no better (than Europe) at creating jobs or stimulating the economy."

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Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million
Washington Times ^ | February 2, 2010 | Stephen Dinan



The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.

The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force.

Most of the increases are on the civilian side, which will grow by 153,000 workers, to 1.43 million people, in fiscal 2010.

The expansion could provide more ammunition to those arguing that the government is trying to do too much under President Obama.

“I’m shocked that the ‘tea party’ hasn’t focused on it yet

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Including both the civilian and defense sectors, the federal government will employ 2.15 million people in 2010 and 2.11 million in 2011, excluding Postal Service workers.


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BILL GROSS: There's "No Way Out" Of The Debt Trap
Business Insider ^ | 03/09/2011 | Stacey Curtin

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Debt, debt and more mounting debt is plaguing countries around the globe.

In this U.S., states across the country face a collective $125 billion shortfall for fiscal 2012, while Congress is facing a budget gap nearly 10 times that size.

PIMCO founder and co-CIO Bill Gross has previously said that if the United States were a corporation, no one in their right mind would lend us money. For the last decade, we’ve been “relying on the kindness of strangers” to help cover our debts, he tells Aaron in the accompanying clip.

By “strangers” he is referring to our foreign counterparts, like China for example. Basically, for years Americans have spent their hard-earned dollars on less-expensive Chinese made goods. With great gratitude, China turned around and used all those dollars to buy up U.S. Treasuries and other dollar-denominated assets.

But now after years of reckless spending, America’s debt level is nearing a breaking point and can no longer rely on foreign capital as a last resort. “When a country reaches a certain debt level, confidence in that country’s ability to repay that debt becomes jeopardized,” says Gross, citing the work of Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart in This Time Is Different.

The Way Forward...And Your Pocket Book

The budget crisis situation unfolding at the state and federal government level does not bode well for working men and women in this country. There are really only two choices, says Gross. And, neither favors your pocketbook:

Option #1 – Keep spending and do nothing

Option #2 – Balance our budgets by cutting entitlements

House Republicans ran and won on a platform to cut $100 billion from the budget this year and last month managed to pass legislation that would strip $61 billion in spending.


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March 09, 2011
Inside the Obama Administration
Ed Lasky


Barack Obama's executive ineptitude is on display at the highesty level of government. While he has been repeatedly meeting with union leaders over the last two years and playing golf, he has not been so attentive to his cabinet members, and all is not peaceful. The Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to work his magic close to home.

According to an article in New York magazine by veteran journalist John Heilemann, Obama has not yet conferred with some six Cabinet members since becoming President.  He certainly has been busy appointing czars and czarinas, however, and advisers such as Elizabeth Warren who is the de facto head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Apparently, cabinet members are not feeling the love and are in a rebellious mood. There have recurring reports over the last few years that Barack Obama relies on a small, hard-core group of advisers to make and enact policy. He does not like "new people."   

Anne E. Kornblut of the Washington Post reports that the White House is in repair mode-trying to tamper the anger:

News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.


During the first two years of President Obama's term, the administration fully embraced just a few of his superstar picks -- people such as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Education Secretary Arne Duncan. But many more agency chiefs conducted their business in relative anonymity, sometimes after running afoul of White House officials.


Both sides were deeply disgruntled. Agency heads privately complained that the White House was a "fortress" that was unwilling to accept input and that micromanaged their departments. Senior administration advisers rolled their eyes in staff meetings at the mention of certain Cabinet members, participants said.


Obama himself said his advisers were relying on him too frequently as a messenger, rather than letting his appointees carry important themes to the country, senior administration officials said. And the president felt isolated. "One of the first things he said to me was, 'I want to see these people more often,' " Daley said in an interview.


Apparently, Obama picks favorites.


The top tier is prized, with Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner in good stead. So, too, is Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., even after some early angst over his decision to hold a controversial terrorism trial in New York. They head the traditional "big four," the original departments created by George Washington, with the heftiest portfolios. Additionally, aides said, Obama cherishes Duncan, who is a basketball buddy and a charismatic advocate.


Everyone else has had problems, to widely varying degrees


Seemingly,  the laying of hands did not extend to most of the Cabinet. There were internal battles among Cabinet members as well, but there is no denying that the White House dropped the ball in managing the officials chosen to lead the nation.


Also, not meeting with at least 6 cabinet members since assuming office is insulting, especially given the time spent on the golf links, at East Room musical soirees, vacations, and pick-up basketball games with NBA superstars.


Perhaps it is time for another beer summit, featuring the beer that the Obamas have found time to brew themselves at the White House, another historic first.

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Obama/Holder DoJ Attacks New York Firefighters
By Quin Hillyer on 3.7.11 @ 10:16PM


This should be a huge scandal. Even a decade past 9/11, few groups in the country enjoy the respect that the Fire Department of New York does. See what the Obama DoJ is doing to the FDNY, even AFTER Ricci v. DeStefano should have put this sort of thing off-limits. Heavily edited, this still gives the flavor of it:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s obsession with racial grievance-mongering could get Americans burnt to a crisp in their own homes. That's because his Justice Department is trying to force the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) to hire flunkies who got 70 percent wrong on a basic, fire-related multiple-choice, open-book test. The exam was used to screen applicants to the fire academy. More than 90 percent of black and Hispanic test-takers passed, which isn't enough for liberals addicted to affirmative action.... On Feb. 28, Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, submitted a proposed order for damages for rejected applicants who scored 25 or higher on the 85-question exams. New York's taxpayers would be forced to pay compensation to the flunkies to make up for years of seniority supposedly lost when the city chose not to hire them. Minority rejects also would receive seniority over firemen who had been working all the while.

Here's a good quote that sums it up nicely: "[This order] would serve well as comic relief if the stakes weren't so high, and is a good example to support the contention that the Plaintiffs are apparently not concerned with the safety of NYC residents, visitors or firefighters," wrote deputy fire chief Paul Mannix, president of Merit Matters, an advocacy group opposed to weakening entrance exams.

The earlier news on this was almost as disturbing:

The lead Justice Department attorney in the FDNY case is Loretta King, who ordered the dismissal of most voter-intimidation charges against Black Panthers in Philadelphia and who is hip-deep in other race-based legal controversies. On Sept. 30, she wrote a memo to Judge Garaufis pitching four proposals to require "representative" or "proportional" quotas. Ms. King glosses over the professional challenges of firefighting to focus on whether minorities feel "stigmatized" or if black firefighters could further their "sense of fairness in their place of employment" if surrounded by more workers of their own race. Firemen should be hired for ability, not racial bean-counting. The judge's fiat, wrote Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather MacDonald in the City Journal, "was not just groundless, it was recklessly inflammatory." The heroic FDNY doesn't deserve to have its operations so inflamed.

Fire departments are there for our safety. A job at a fire department is a responsibility for brave and noble people, not a right for slackers. This abomination by the DoJ and Judge Garaufis must be stopped.



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[Soul Crusher]

March 10, 2011
Thanks for Small Favors, President Obama
By Jeffrey Folks


On Feb. 28, just after Interior Secretary Salazar declared that he was not satisfied with Gulf drilling safety standards, President Obama's drilling czar, Michael Bromwich, announced that a permit had been approved to resume deep-water drilling 70 miles off the Louisiana coast. Not a new permit, mind you, but one for a project that had already begun drilling before the Deepwater Horizon accident in April 2010. In the months ahead, Bromwich hinted, there might be more approvals, even approval for a new deep-water well. Maybe so, maybe not.


That's the way it works with crony socialism. Just to show how business-friendly he can be, Obama agrees to the resumption of drilling on one deep-water well. That well, operated by Noble Energy, was approved after Noble signed up capping equipment produced by Helix Well Containment Group that met the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement's new standards.


If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement ("BOEMRE") seems like a mouthful, it's the same agency that used to be known as the Minerals Management Service ("MMS"). In line with its expanded appellation and newly appointed director -- a veteran of the Clinton Justice Department -- the agency has taken on a much more aggressive role in regulating offshore drilling, so much so that practically no drilling has taken place.


This is the way bureaucracy operates under crony socialism. Permits trickle out at a pace decided by a bureaucrat who has spent his entire career in government at the direction of a President who has never worked outside government (inside government either, many would say). Once government controls the means of production and decides how much production and on what terms, the private sector has in effect been nationalized. Having been stifled by this kind of regulation, businesses have to decide whether to limp along in the manner of state-regulated utilities or pack up and leave. In the energy sector, a lot of companies have been leaving. Deep-water rigs have departed for Africa and Latin America, and new exploration and production is relocating abroad.


Lest anyone think that Obama has suddenly become energy friendly, let's review what else he has done in the last few months. Along with his refusal to approve any new deep-water wells, there's the small matter of increased taxes. At a time when the price of oil has exceeded $100 a barrel, the President's FY2012 budget includes a reduction of $44 billion in funds to promote energy independence. The proposed budget would entirely eliminate the current Oil and Gas Research and Development Program while significantly increasing funds for alternative fuels that meet less than 1% of our nation's energy needs.


Those cuts for fossil fuels compare with a 38.5% increase in education spending. Maybe that's because oil-field workers aren't big contributors to the Democratic Party the way teachers' unions are. But piling new taxes on oil companies while boosting teachers' salaries is not going to make America energy independent. You won't get very far pumping a lesson on Women's History Month into your tank.


Meanwhile, in yet another power grab, Obama's EPA wants to slap costly new regulation on refineries and other industrial boilers. Its initial job-killing plan was estimated to cost American workers $3.9 billion annually. EPA Director Lisa Jackson seemed surprised at the level of opposition but subsequently offered a new plan estimated by the EPA to be 46% less expensive.


Amazingly, Jackson claimed that the new plan, at about half the cost, would accomplish essentially the same environmental goals as the first one. That being the case, why wasn't the less costly plan offered to begin with? Since it seems to pull these plans out of thin air whenever it is politically expedient to do so, maybe the EPA can come up with a third plan that is less costly still.


In fact, Jackson's giveback is typical for this administration. What the Obama EPA seeks is not a reasonable level of regulation -- that is to say, minimal regulation necessary for public welfare -- but regulation so far-reaching that private businesses operate at the behest of bureaucrats. Having mugged American business and threatened to strip them of every dime of profit, the agency now decides to make nice and allow some American corporations to subsist within a system of state corporatism.


But not those that produce or burn fossil fuels. The revised regulations on industrial boilers carved out an exemption for schools, hospitals, and some small businesses but did nothing to ease the burden on larger companies. Why is it that teachers, once again, are suddenly exempt from the burden of regulation while energy companies are not? Teachers are being rewarded for being good little Obama comrades, while those connected with fossil fuels are blacklisted. Maybe it's because energy companies actually produce something of value and have the ability to create private sector jobs independent of government. Evidently no one in the Obama administration wants to see those kinds of companies prosper.  


Underlying Obama's energy policy is the goal of de facto nationalization of all major sectors of the economy. Drilling in the Gulf may be allowed to resume, although gradually, but Obama has not backed down on his socialist agenda. His latest budget doubles down on subsidies for green vehicles and alternative fuels. He continues to rally support for alternative fuel mandates, a backdoor means toward carbon emissions control. And Obama's friends at the Environmental Resources Defense Council are promoting CAFE standards of 60 mpg by 2025, a goal that would run the American auto industry into the ground a second time and bankrupt consumers as well. The only thing that has changed is that, with gas prices climbing over $4 a gallon, Obama needs cover through the 2012 election for an energy policy that is not working.


I suspect that more deep-water approvals are forthcoming, but not many and slowly. Even as a bipartisan resolution has been introduced in the House calling for faster permitting, there is no leadership on this issue from the White House. Or rather, there is leadership in the wrong direction. Obama managed to shut down deep-water permitting in the Gulf for an unprecedented ten months, then act like Santa Claus when he re-authorized a permit that had already been granted. What happens when he actually approves a permit for new drilling? He'll make it sound like we're on the way to $2 gas when, under his plan, we're on the way to no gas at all.


A lot of voters are unhappy because they know that Obama-style socialism is not working. They know that fewer Americans are working, prices are going up, and government debt is out of control. That's why they voted Democrats out of office in record numbers last November. Obama is attempting to placate the public by acting like he has learned his lesson and is willing to compromise. But approval for resumption of one deep-water well, or of a few wells in the coming months, is not compromise. It's a cynical ploy designed to deflect attention from the continuing takeover of the energy sector.


Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and article on American culture.

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[Soul Crusher]

March 10, 2011
Obama Calling Tea Party Racist Reveals A Far More Disturbing Reality
By Lloyd Marcus


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Please consider the validity of what I am about to say rather than having a knee jerk reaction dismissing it as being "over the top."   Folks, we have an irresponsible egocentric evil man occupying the Oval Office.


The Democrats and the liberal mainstream media sold the American people on Obama, "the man."  Despite Obama's zero experience at running anything, they said a leader with his spirit and heart was "what we have been waiting for".


Fearful of criticizing our first black president, politicians politely say, "President Obama's policies have been unfruitful," while ignoring the huge elephant in America's living room.


The elephant of which I speak and America's major problem is "Obama, the man"; socialist, divisive and evil.


My dad says a snake can stay under water a very long time just like a fish. But eventually, it must come up for air. Why? Because, it is not a fish. It is a snake. Obama continues to come up for air revealing his true self.


President Obama said the Tea Party is racist. The liberal media, NAACP and Democrats have been relentlessly promoting this same baseless allegation. When final confirmation comes down from the highest office in the land, the Oval Office, that the Tea Party is racist; the allegation becomes "official" in the minds of millions. President Obama is slandering millions of decent hard working Americans who simply disagree with his progressive/socialist agenda.


Think of the repercussions. Obama's indictment of the Tea Party will birth tremendous racial discord across America in schools, churches, and civic life.  Obama's proclamation will cause Americans to double down on their already extreme caution when criticizing our black president.  Sadly, I suspect such intimidation is a part of Obama's plan; anything to empower his mission to "fundamentally transform America."


Make no mistake about it, Obama and company have successfully intimidated many white Americans into not dissing the black president in public.


I stopped in a fast food restaurant for a burger. Around fifteen white seniors were having lunch. I overheard them ranting about Obama's overreaches and socialist policies. Upon seeing me, a black man, they became silent. I was tempted to say, "Please continue, I hold-heartedly agree with you!" Too bad they did not notice my Tea Party Express t-shirt.


Barack Hussein Obama received more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history. So Obama alleging millions of Tea Party patriots are simply upset because America elected a black president is disingenuous, absurd and manipulative.


Obama is exploiting his race and sacrificing national race relations solely to implement his progressive/socialist agenda. Callously and strategically, the President of the United States is pitting millions of black and white Americans against each other. Lord help us, that is pure evil.


Quoting deceased make-up legend, Mary Kay, "Leadership spreads from the top down."


A fine black young adult whom I have known for years has always appeared to be racially color blind.  He idolizes Obama.  Suddenly, I have noticed this kid beginning to view everything through a racial lens. His latest absurd statement, "Friends" is a racist TV show because there are no black cast members."


While I admit this example is anecdotal, I suspect Obama's divisiveness is inspiring millions of Americans to choose sides along racial lines.


Before knowing the facts, Obama immediately assumed the white police officer was guilty of racial profiling in the Professor Gates case.  This suggests Obama has racial emotional baggage.  Such a luxury cannot be afforded the president of "all Americans."


Obama is not who most Americans thought he was and is exactly who the liberal mainstream media hoped he would be: their Great Black Hope for implementing their progressive/socialist agenda.


They will do whatever it takes to protect Obama; ignoring his character flaws, lawlessness, deceptions and lies. If Obama says two plus two equals five, the liberal media will defend it as being the "New Math."  We cannot trust the liberal media to tell us the truth regarding Obama.


Obama's inauguration brought tears to the eyes of millions of Americans. Blacks are only 12% of our nation's population, which means it took many million white votes to put Obama in the Oval Office. Thus, most of the American tears of joy were white.


President Obama is fully aware of this truth.


Obama willfully dividing Americans by exploiting his race for political gain is a despicable betrayal of the whites who elected him. But even more disturbing, it reveals the true character of the man running our country. America deserves much, much better.


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