DID YOU SEE THE NORM COLEMAN ELECTION COMMERICAL ON KSTP WHERE A LITTLE GIRL ( ABOUT 8 YRS OLD ) IS TELLING AL FRANKEN HE KNEW HE DIDN’T PAY HIS TAXES…AND NEXT TIME TELL THEM THE DOGS ATE IT… IN A VERY MUG WAY?
I REALLY FIND THIS AD DEPICIABLE… NO CHILD SHOULD TALK TO AN ADULT IN SUCH A MANNER… THANK GOD IT WASN’T MY KID FOR THEY WOULD HAVE GOT A SMACK TO THE MOUTH.. NORM COLEMAN SAYS HE APPROVES THIS MESSAGE AT THE END OF THE AD….. I CAN’T SAY THAT IT SAYS MUCH FOR HIM…IT IS IN POOR TASTE MR. COLEMAN..IF YOU APPROVE OF A CHILD TALKING TO AN ADULT IN THIS MANNER, I DON’T WANT YOU IN OFFICE…
WE CAN BLAME OUR GOVERNMENT ON HOW OUR KIDS ARE ACTING THESE DAYS…IT IS NOT THE PARENTS FAULT…
CALL NORM’S CAMPAIGNE OFFICE AND LET THEM KNOW YOU DISAGREE WITH THIS AD: AND THEN CALL KSTP AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU THINK THEY HAD A POOR TASTE IN ALLOWING THIS AD TO BE AIRED…………THANK YOU
GET THE LOBBIEST OUT OF POLITICS AND WASHINGTON DC….. CALL YOUR SENTATORS AND CONGRESSMEN AND LET THEM KNOW YOU WANT THIS DONE…
TELL THEM YOU WANT THEM TO PASS A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO LOBBY WASHINGTON AND POLITICAL PEOPLE… TO ME THE LAW SHOULD BE: TREASON AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE..
AND IF FOUND GUILTY OF THIS, THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE DEATH…
HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT MC CAIN OR OBAMA IS REALLY OUT TO STAND UP FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ?? 1) HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ABLE TO SIT DOWN WITH EITHER ONE OF THEM AND HAVE THEM LISTEN TO YOUR WORRIES AND OPINIONS ? 2) HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO CALL THEM AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT YOUR WORRIES AND OPINIONS ? 3) IF YOU WERE TO WRITE THEM A LETTER TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOUR WORRIES AND OPINIONS ARE, DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THEY WILL BE THE ONES READING IT ?
WELL WAKE UP AMERICANS BECAUSE NEITHER OF THEM WOULD EVER SEE YOUR LETTER AT ALL…SIT DOWN AND TALK TO YOU: NEVER UNLESS YOU HAVE A $1000.00 FOR A PLATE DINNER…TALK TO YOU ON THE PHONE: NEVER…
ASK YOUR SELF THIS: IF THEY ARE REALLY THERE TO SERVE YOU …THEN WHY DON’T WE HAVE A RIGHT TO SPEAK WITH THEM ?? YOU ARE THEIR BOSS BUT THEY SNUB YOU…SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE IF YOU ASK ME…
TOWN HALL MEETINGS: YOU MIGHT HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE HERE TO SPEAK TO THEM OR GET A QUESTION OF YOURS IN…….BUT, THEY CAMPAIGNES …WHAT QUESTIONS AHEAD OF TIME AND THEY PICK OUT THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY WANT THEIR MAN TO ANSWER…..AGAIN…WHO’S CHOICE ?? IF YOU ARE OR WILL BE THEIR BOSS ??
IF AMERICAN’S DON’T START STANDING UP TO ALL THESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND LET THEM KNOW JUST HOW SICK AND TIRED WE ARE OF THEIR CRAP AND THEM TRYING TO BLOW SMOKE UP OUR ASSES…HERE IS A LIST OF MY COMPLAINTS OF GOVERNMENT:
1) HIGH GAS PRICES…GOVERNMENT HAVING THEIR HANDS IN THE OIL COMPANIES POCKETS….WE GO BROKE WHILE POLITICIANS AND OIL COMPANIES GET RICHER………………..
2) USING OUR MONEY TO BALE OUT FANNY MAE AND FREDDY MAC…ARE THEY BALING YOU OUT FROM LOSING YOUR HOME ??
3) DOES YOUR VOTE REALLY COUNT IN THE ELECTORIAL COLLEGE VOTING PROCESS: NO, IT DOESN’T… IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOUR STATE VOTES….
4) WHY ISN’T IT ALLOWED TO HAVE AN INDEPENDANT CANIDATE RUN FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE SEAT ?? ……THE REPUBLICIANS AND DEMOCRATS HAVE IT SO WE CAN NOT HAVE OUR MAN RUNNING………..JUST HOW FAIR IS THAT??
5) COMPANIES GETTING TAX BREAKS TO SEND THINGS OVERSEAS TO BE MADE…… WHAT IS IT DOING FOR US ?? LOSE OF JOBS…TAINTED TOYS, FULL OF LEAD FOR OUR CHILDREN…TAINTED TOOTH PASTE (WITH CHEMICAL FROM ANTIFREEZE) FOR OUR FAMILIES……………………………WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS IS LEADING US ??………EITHER JAPAN OR CHINA WILL OWN THIS COUNTRY IN LESS THAN 50 MORE YEARS, BELIEVE ME..
6) FLAG EDICATE HAS GONE TO HELL IN THIS COUNTRY…….NO FLAG SHOULD BE OUT TO BE RAINED OR SNOWED UPON…NO FLAG SHOULD BE FLYING WHEN TORN…NO FLAG SHOULD BE BURNT IN PROTEST (ONLY WHEN IT NEEDS TO BE DISPOSED OF)……..NO FLAG SHOULD BE RAISED HIGHER THAN THE AMERICAN FLAG…..WHEN ORDERED TO BE AT HALF MAST.. ALL FLAGS SHOULD BE LOWERED TO HALF MAST ( I SAW FLAGS AT FULL MAST ON FEDERAL AND STATE BUILDING WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT REAGAN DIED AND THE GOVERNMENT HAD ORDERED THEM TO HALF MAST)……WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO SAY FOR OUR PEOPLE ??
7) DEFICITE OF 293 TRILLION DOLLARS……BUT WE KEEP ON SUPPORTING OUR GOVERNMENT TO SEND FINANCIAL AID TO OTHER COUNTRIES… ALL I CAN SAY IS GOOD JOB AMERICANS….WE HAVE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE STREETS (KIDS, VETS), PEOPLE GOING HUNGRY RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, PEOPLE WHO ARE DIEING FOR THEY HAVE NO MEDICAL HELP, PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOMES LEFT AND RIGHT, PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS LEFT AND RIGHT, GAS AND FOOD AT AN ALL TIME HIGH..JUST ABOUT
NO ONE ALONE CAN GET THINGS BACK ON TRACK IN THIS COUNTRY..IT WILL TAKE ALL OF US TO STAND UP AND DEMAND WE BE HEARD (AND THAT WE AREN’T GOING TO PAY TO TALK TO OUR LEADERS).. WE NEED TO TELL THEM THEY ARE ON NOTICE (JUST LIKE YOUR BOSS WOULD TELL YOU IF THINGS WEREN’T GETTING DONE)…WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO IMPEACH ANY SEATED POLITICIAN IN THIS COUNTRY…AND I THINK IT IS TIME WE ALL REMIND THEM OF IT…AND LET THEM KNOW WE WILL HOLD THEM TOO IT…CAN’T DO YOUR JOB AND SERVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIGHT, LIKE IN THE OATH STATES, THEN YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE THERE VERY LONG…
PLEASE IF I WAS ABLE TO REACH YOU IN ANY WAY …PLEASE COMMENT…MAYBE TOGETHER WE CAN START REFORMING THIS COUNTY AND IT’S GOVERNMENT…THANK YOU…
I SAW ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA THIS MORNING A PIECE ABOUT IF YOU ASK THE PRESIDENTAL CANIDATES ONE QUESTION…WHAT WOULD THAT QUESTION BE: HERE ARE A FEW OF THE QUESTIONS THAT AMERICANS WOULD LIKE TO ASK:
1) ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP YOUR PROMISES?
2) WHY AREN’T WE HEARING ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE DOING, SPECIFICS??
MY QUESTION TO THEM WOULD BE MORE LIKE: HOW CAN YOU JUSTICIFY SPENDING $33,000 IN THE MONTH OF JULY FOR YOUR CAMPAIGNE; WHEN WE HAVE HOMELESS PEOPLE LIVING IN THIS COUNTY, PEOPLE GOING HUNGRY IN THIS COUNTRY, PEOPLE DIEING FOR LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THE COUNTRY DEFICIT IS OVER $273 TRILLION DOLLARS???
AS AMERICANS, DO YOU THINK THESE CANIDATES SHOULD BE SPENDING THIS KIND OF MONEY TO RUN THEIR CAMPAIGNES ON?? IF YOU ASK ME, IF YOU CAN’T RUN ON YOUR NAME AND RECORD ALONE, THEN YOU AREN’T WORTH A WHOLE LOT….IT DOESN’T TAKE THAT KIND OF FOOLISH SPENDING TO GET ELECTED…THE GOD ALMIGHTY DOLLAR IS GOING TO RUIN THIS COUNTRY…IF IT HASN’T DONE SO ALREADY..
MAYBE SOME ONE WILL GET A CHUCKLE OUT OF THESE: I AM SO TIRED OF OUR ELECTED OFFICALS IN WASHINTON DOING AS THEY SEE FIT…..HOPEFULLY SOME OF THEM MAY SEE THESE AND REALIZE JUST HOW BAD IT REALLY IS…..”BUT I DOUBT IT” !!!!!!!!
I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I am an Independant who listens to both sides, before I make up my mind. I am listening to CNN this morning and from what is being discussed is the BAIL OUT PROPOSAL that our Government wants to “SAVE OUR ECONOMY” so they say.
I agree with some of what Senator Chris Dodd (D) of Connecticut is saying. That this “Proposal” needs to have some other means of “Protection” in it…Like forcing the CEO’S (RICH THEIVES) of the companies getting the federal bail out $$$$ take a wealthy cut in their salaries….for one. Allowing the Banckruptcy Court Judge’s to rewrite the terms of a loan for any american who is or may be forced into foreclosure due to the corrupted practices of these companies. So, they will be able to keep their homes at a price they can afford.
But, our Government and most of the Republicans electees in Washington does not want to have a change their “Proposal” in anyway. And let me clear you up on this one: John Mc Cain isn’t one of these Republicans that I am talking about here…For Mc Cain has said, “that he doesn’t believe that our government shouldn’t be getting into the “BAILOUT BUSINESS”.
The reason that I agree with Sen. Dodd is this: If the Ceo’s of these companies don’t be forced into salary cuts, and have mandated ways placed upon them in which they conduct their business…This bailout will be “WORTHLESS”. It will only clear up their debts, to allow them to go out and do it all over again. “GREED” is what got us into this mess and to allow it to continue, IS DISASTER.
And why not, allow Bankruptcy Court Judges the authority to rewrite loans for the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, so they can keep their homes..for christ sakes, they still will need to pay for it…In this Proposal that our Government is trying to pass as is: Allows the CEO’S to collect revenue instead of paying anything… This looks wrong to me.
It is my 0pinion that the Republicans who want this Proposal to go thru fast as is: Are worried about one thing…Their Elected Seat. For all that I heard from them is…This that it is real close to the election day…something needs to be done fast.
Feel free to leave comments: Opinions of all kinds are WELCOMED.
THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE BLOG THAT WAS POSTED DAYS BACK…THAT SARAH PALIN SHOT AND KILLED BULLWINKLE AND BAMBI IS NEXT…
THE POSTER READS: WANTED: FOR STEPPING INTO PALIN’S BULLET….BULLWINKLE…FREE MEAT REWARD…………
YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE STEPPED INTO THE PATH OF SARAH PALIN’S BULLET…SHE IS A MARKSMAN
I have been saying in alot of my blogs that the United States would be owned by Japan or China in less that 50 years from now….Well check this site out::
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1843168,00.html?cnn=yes
May-be it won’t be Japan or China but someone else…one thing is for sure..it won’t be the United States of America. It is a shame the American have sit by and kept electing assholes to our government seats…and refused to hold them accountable..
WAKE UP ALL YOU FOLKS AND SMELL THE ROSES…IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FOR THIS COUNTRY??? LETS FIGHT AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK AND FIRE EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON DC AND START OVER….FOR CHRIST SAKE MICKY MOUSE OR DAFFY DUCK COULD DO BETTER THAN WHO IS THERE NOW.
I urge everyone to start sending nasty grams to all of Washington DC elected officals and letting them know, WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THEM DOING WHAT THEY WANT AND NOT WHAT, WE THE PEOPLE WANT. Let them know that you don’t want this $700 billion bailout proposal passed in any way, shape, or manner.
Also let them know that if they vote for it…against what the people want…WE WILL NOT VOTE THEM IN AGAIN.
PLEASE AMERICAN’S STEP UP TO THE PLATE HERE AND STICK UP FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR COUNTRY.
I urge all of you, who didn’t want this bill passed…to find out who your elected officals are in the Federal Government, who voted to pass this bill against our wishes.
For a Senator in your area, check this web link out to see how he or she voted http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00213
You can check on your Congressman to see how he or she voted on bill at this web link
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml
I URGE YOU TO VOTE ALL THE CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR’S OUT OF OFFICE..ALL OF THE HOUSE MEMBERS ARE UP FOR RE-ELECTION IN NOVEMBER…FOR THEY ARE WORKING FOR THE THEIVES IN WASHINGTON AND NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO PUT THEM THERE..
I am urging all of you to vote Rep. Jim Ramstad, Betty Mc Collum, John Kline, Keith Ellison, and Jim Oberstar out of Office come November. They all voted “YES” to pass the $700 billion Bailout Bill.
Jim Ramstad changed his vote from “NO” the first time it was in the house for vote. But, seeing the mental health parity was legislated into it (meaning an earmark) he then changed his vote from no to yes…Of course he long championed this meatal health parity. He is a disgrace to all the Americans who live in Minnesota. He works for personal growth, self worth, and all the liars and theives in Washington DC.
The other four mentioned aren’t much better. It is time we the american people take charge of this country again and one way we can do that is VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT OF OFFICE.
Another way for us to do that is hold the elected officals accountable for their actions. Call, write, e-mail their offices everyday if you have to…let them know we aren’t standing for it anymore. Rep. Jim Oberstar’s Office in Washington DC hung up on me today for I told them to let him know i was out to get the people of this state to vote him out come November. I was asked if I wanted to know why he voted yes to this bill? I told them no I didn’t want to know his reason for I already know it…..He stood up with all the crooks, liars, and theives instead of standing up to the people who put him there. And they hung up on me.
My hat goes off to Michele Bachmann, Collin Peterson, and Tim Walz for their votes ( no’s) to this bill for they heard and did what the americans of this state wanted them to do. What they were put in office for, stand up for the people and not Washington Cronies.
Both our Senators voted yes as well….time for them to go to. Just think, If we all vote them out…do you think the new ones and the ones still there won’t be a little less apt to go for what Washington wants and will start paying attention to what we the people are saying.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…VOTE THEM ALL OUT OF OFFICE IN NOVEMBER…STAND UP AND LET THE ELECTED OFFICALS KNOW THEY ARE WORKING FOR US AND NOT OUR GOVERNMENT OR THEIR CRONIES. GET GUTS…TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK…
Wahington DC has gotten way out of hand and the corruption there is outrageous. It is my opinion that this crisis that the Federal Government is calling an economy crisis on Wall Street is indeed somewhat of a crisis…But, I beleive that they aren’t telling the whole truth here….Does this “surprise” anyone?? I beleive that the elected officals and lobbiest in Washington DC over the years has “RAPED” Wall Street, just as bad as the CEO’S of these companies and financial insitutions…”RAPED” by skimming contributions off of Wall Street. There are most certainly crooks on Wall Street and our Government is right there with them. I beleive this is an attempt to cover up the biggest scandal in our Country’s History..
It is my opinion that the Government could run smoothly and meet the needs of all duties. But, the only way for this to happen is:
1) We need to do away with the Parties (Republicans and Democrats): This is just a war waiting to rise up (just like in Iraq—the 3 different sectors–3 different ways of life). And all want control. That is why the parties lie about the other one, lie about what they want, and steal/rape/or ect. to do it. “GOT TO GO”
2) We need to get read of the ELECTORIAL VOTING SYSTEM: Go back to one vote for one person. The only fair way!!! As citizens with the right to vote we need to keep moving from state to state to beable to vote for our choice.. Sound stupid you say: Look at it this way, I you live in Massachusett and you are a republican and that is a VERY DEMOCRATIC STATE, do you think your vote will count?? And each year the colors of states switch around …so just keep on moving so your vote counts!!! Another good reason to do away with the parties.
3) Change the laws so no one over the age of 68 can take be seated in any SEAT in the Fereal Government.
4) Change the laws so that no one can be seated for more than 8 years in any Federal Seat of Government. This will have its advantages, like keeping them alittle more honest for they won’t be there for years and years (to owe and owe everyone for their votes/contributions) Washington DC will run smoother for they won’t be there long enough to beable to learn the tricks of the trade, as we see now.
5) Pass a law so for “SINGLE LINE VETO’S”, where the President can and will be forced to cut any earmarks (“PORK”) from any bill going through. Can’t tell you how much that alone will save this country.. If any elected offical needs something for his or her state, has a pet project…let them draw up a bill and let it go before the 2 houses of Government. Everyone is pointing fingers in Washington for all the “EXTRA SWEETENINGS” (earmarks), so I have heard it called, to this $700 billion bailout bill. No one will own up to it but when the Senate wrote in their pet projects, then we will change our votes and you will get it. Sounds like BLACKMAIL to me.
I was sent this as a comment. I will stand up with them and I am urging all fellow americans to do the same. Here it is:
I took the pledge – Have you?
Well the congress has done it.
As of the morning of te bail out vote in the House of Representatives, polls showed that the American people were 74% against any bail out for the Wall Street fat cats. We wanted a fix from the bottom up and not from the top down. Fix ‘Main Street’ not Wall Street we told them. They didn’t do it.
However they did agree with the bloated $700 billion the Senate passed for their greedy Wall Street friends with another $150 Billion of Pork. So now our children are on the hook for at least $850 billion and no one can tell us if it will work or will be the last.
Meanwhile, ‘We The People’ continue to lose our jobs and homes.
Our elected representatives have chosen to ignore us, ‘We The People’ whom they swore to represent.
They think we are stupid. They think we don’t have the guts to clean house. They think ‘they know better’ than we on ‘Main Street’ do.
So…
I have taken the Pledge:
I, (LILLIAN JOHNSON), will NOT vote for any incumbent in the upcoming election regardless of party or who the opposition may be. I intend to do my part in ‘throwing the bums out’ in Washington that continue spending my money on those that have wrecked our economy rather than the people who sent them there. This is my solemn pledge.
Mail this to your Representative and Senators, to all your friends and all news media, both local and national. Email this to all the talking heads on the cable outlets, Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and with every blog and talk show host you know of.
Urge everyone you meet to take the Pledge.
This the only way we, the American People, will ever take back our own government.
They keep telling us that the only power we have is the vote. So… For once let’s use it!!!!!
Believe me… if we turn them all out THERE WILL BE CHANGE!!!!
Do we have the guts? Do you???
If not, then you don’t have any right to complain if they continue to screw us over.
If you agree and want to do it, just copy it, paste it in an e-mail, change my name to yours, send it to everyone, and then post it on your blog site……………..THANKS
I am furrious with everything in general: Let me see if I can explain some of them.
1)Our Government: Our government does exactly as they want to…Not what we, the people want.
A) Like passing the $700 Billion Bailout Bill
B) Like blackmailing the Senate…if you want the Congress to pass this bill for you then you will have to put in all or most of what we want to see on it (our pet projects…earmarks).
C) It is my strong opinion that this isn’t a Bailout Bill at all…It is a payoff for all of the Billions that our Elected officals have raped from these insitutions and companies in Contributions and gifts.
2)Our Voting System: It Is So Unconsitutional.
A) The Consitution of the United States gave everyone the right to vote for their Leaders(President, Vice President, Senate, Congress, ect.).
1)And again this comes from #1 above: Our Government, without asking the people who it is suppose to serve, decided to pass into law the electoral college voting system. So, they could have more leverage and power.
2)Our votes don’t count…I know, they tell us they do. But, wake up and smell the coffee folks!!! example how our votes does not count: Say you live in New Hampshire. You are a democrat. So, you vote for your man, Obama. I am republican and I vote for my man, Mc Cain. (Lets say there is 100,000 people in this state) 500,001 people vote for Mc Cain…and 499,099 vote for Obama. Mc Cain wins and the republicans…right? So Mc Cain gets 4 votes from this State towards the the 200+ he needs to win the President Election. And now lets say you live in California and I live in Florida. Your man wins in California and My man wins in Florida. If it goes like this your man wins no matter that my man won in two states. So, see………our votes “DO NOT COUNT”. (and I am not from anyone of these states I mentioned nor am I a republican or democrat)
3)Illegal Immigrants: Most of us Americans are feed up with this. Sick and tired of pushing #1 for english. Sick and tired of them milking our welfare system. Sick and tired of them whining about the laws and traditions of our country. They must all go….Or learn how to read and speak our language. Learn our traditions and know our laws. Become a legal citizen..Stop all this catering to illegal citizens.
There is alot more but can’t go into them all at present..but did hit on the major ones: I am writing to everyone of my senators and congressmans to let them know just how sick and tired the American People are getting. I am also letting them know that we, the American People are not taking this and laying down while they do it. We are going to rise to the occassion and start fighting back …where we count. And below is a copy of an e-mail that I just sent today to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
Dear Speaker of the House,
I am outright furrious with the decisions you all have made on Capitol Hill in the last week. Like so many other American’s, I didn’t want this Bailout Bill passed.
You Politicans in Congress might have held the Senate in a strong hold to get them to put all these extra sweetenings (earmarks) in this bill for you. And you all did so knowing the American People did not want this passed.
Well as a result of this action in Congress and within our Government, we the people of this country are going to fight back. Politicians in Congress are all up for Re-election in November and there is alot of people out there, including myself, who are trying to make sure most of you there don’t get voted in again. I hope the figure comes out to be all of you…
Alot of Americans are waiting until after this so called Presidental Elections to take place and then we are going to start raising issues and laws (we want) with our government…below are some of what these issues and laws we want to see: 1)The president can only serve 8 years at the most. So, we want no one in any Federal Seat for more than 8 years. 2)Retire at the age of 68. 3)Pass a law where it will be illegal to lobby in Washington…bring them up on Treason (going against the people). 4)Do away with the two parties that has ruled us. 5)Doing away with the electoral vote so our votes will count. 6)Giving the president guidelines on how and will use single line veto privileges.
Does this sound like we, the american people want change in our government or are we going to just sit back and take it laying down like we have in the past to you???
If this touches your frustrations like it does mine please write, call, or e-mail everyone you can to get this out to all of those ELECTED OFFICALS… ANY COMMENTS YOU HAVE ARE WELCOMED…..THANKS
Please click on this link, it will blow your socks off. It will blow your mind. It will make you mad as hell. It is time we, All American’s stand up before it is too late.. And it isn’tall that far off…I mean if we have to take it to our streets …do it.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
If this blows you mind..like it did me : please cut, copy, and paste on everyone blog that you know. We need to get this messagae out there. THANKS
Our Government ceases to amase us. Bailout Plan or Pay Off Plan?? Of course I didn’t beleive it was a Bailout for Wall Street…more of a pay off… Today’s headline on CNN’s web site might indicate that I was right.
After receiving Federal Bailout Money from the Government AIG spent $440,000 on a posh retreat in California for it ecetutives, spa’s and golf courses, of course. While we the American Taxpayers are footing their bill and resorts…our reward is going broke, hungry, cold, losing our homes… My question to all of you out there…When are we finally going to say enough is enough and start fighting back??
Read this one for you self….here is the link to CNN’s web site:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html
Look at this CNN’s web site link that I have provided you with here… Then ask yourself these questions.
1) Is this a Bailout/Rescue Bill or a Pay Out??
2) Is this the way it was designed to work?? While the American’s Taxpayers foot the bills??
3) Why wasn’t you or I asked to go on this vacation?? We paid for it.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html
I posted a blog this morning about how AGI used $440,000 of the money received from the US GOVERNMENT to bail them out of trouble to send their eceutives to a retreat in California. You can check this out yourself for I posted a CNN web link to the story.
I just got off CNN’s web site more pissed off now than I was then. This Government and the Feds are out of control. We the american people need to do something here. Check this latest one out with AIG…even more money needed from us after we just paid for their vacation?????
http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/08/news/companies/aig/index.htm?cnn=yes
I am very disgusted this morning about alot of things. Our government, the economy, the high prices for everything, and most of all…we the people of this country.
I read day after day just about everyone bitching about the economy and our government. And it makes me sick, for no one wants to stand up to government and these elected officals we put there. No one to try and reform the government which is out of control and crooked.
I have to choose every month which bills I will pay and which ones I will not just so we can have food in the house. My husband and I don’t go out to eat, christ we don’t go out anywheres unless we have too. Can’t afford to. We have state helped insurance but we still have a $3 copay and we don’t qualify for food stamps. But yet they don’t count the fact that we pay $80 a month for car insurance which they force us to have. They don’t count if someone is paying child support. They only use about one-third of what your rent and utilities really are to determine elibility for this program.
But my government can pay out $85 Billion to AIG, a week later they are footing the bill at St. Regis Retreat in California for about 100 of their top selling agents…$443,000+. Then within a week have the nerve to ask for another $37.8 Billions and gets it. Do your math==about $4430 per person. My family could live on that for over 2 months, and that is paying all my bills and still have food in the house. AIG paid one of their eceutives $1 Million a month. Christ, we could live off one month of his earning for the rest of my life and I am hoping for another 40 years at least.
Our government is spending money as it was garbage. Just throwing it away. This reminds me of an old old movie…Mr. 880. Does anyone remember this one?? It is about an old man who lives on a fixed income. He somehow gets ahold of a printing press and he starts counterfeiting $1 bills enable to live. Of course the government sends a man right to the area of the counterfeit bills to find out where and who they are coming from. They finally arresst him, finds him guily, sentences him to prision. But, Our Government is doing the same thing and it is prefectly legal. Does something seem wrong here??
Our elected officals all have Health Insurance for the American Taxpayers pays for it. They receive a very nice income and they get perdimes. Money for food, shelter, and transportation while away. You would think this would be enough. But it isn’t, they are as Greedy as the Eceutives on Wall Street are. And just as crooked. They sell us out to lobbiest..and as far as I am concerned …this is nothing more than bribery. No one holds their congressman/woman or senators accountable for their representation any more. I had one person who is running for office within our government tell me that the people who you serve, expects you to bring home the bacon from Washington to you home state. I see something wrong here. Does anyone else?? It is a wonder why we have some much pork and earmarks added to the bills passed in Washington now…seeing this is why we elect them. I don’t know about you, but I know I don’t vote for someone to go to Washington to rob them blind…do you???
Can anyone please explain some things to me…I guess…I am dumb here. Who votes for some one to bring home the pork?? Why do we vote for lairs?? Both Obama and Mc Cain has lied like hell to us..Neither one is worth my vote. I am voting for Mighty Mouse…here to safe the day. How can anyone choose a party to belong to?? Republicans blames the democrats for everything and vise versa goes for the democrats. Both parties have had their share of scandals and lies. And the CROOKS!! And why does anyone vote for your vote don’t count anyway??? Does anyone out there know the answer to this one…for I don’t..What would happen if no one voted come November??
I will do some more adding to this late but ..need to think alittle more here.
I just stumbled upon this while on CNN’s web site. This is a letter to The Speaker of the House from about 50 economist stating it isn’t a good idea to rush any sort of bills thru without further looking at it….It is interesting!!! Link is provided:
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/mortgage_protest.htm
I received this in an e-mail this afternoon. All I can say right now it was from a person who is running for congress in November. I surely hope they win… They sound like a person who is in touch with reality. I hope you enjoy reading it.
I am pleased, I have now gotten permission to use the person’s name who wrote this e-mail…his name is, KEVIN MASRUD..HE IS RUNNING FOR THE 2ND DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL SEAT HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. Please Vote for him, he is a write in canidate on the ballot…He is definetly for the People.
We Americans are a unique people in the history of the world. Our Founding
Fathers conceived of a nation based on Liberty, where the we could be
citizens, not subjects.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence, in rebelling against the
King of Great Britain said the following: “And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred
Honor.”
Apparently, our current Congress feels that the almighty dollar is more
precious than Liberty, and our 401ks more sacred than our honor. By
sacrificing our liberty to make an attempt at patching together the housing
bubble, our current leaders have put a dollar amount on Liberty.
Congress tells us that by using the power of government to make our markets
less free, they can protect our wealth. What they fail to realize is that it
is Liberty, not government intervention which allowed us to become the
greatest nation on earth. It is Liberty, not a 401k, which makes us rich.
Call me crazy, but for myself, I would rather be penniless and free than
subject to a nanny state that’s always trying to take care of me.
In Liberty,
This doen’t look or sound very good for Obama. May-be he doesn’t think he can win come November?? I heard one of the News reporter say today that Obama is staying real “COOL” demeanor and that should work in his favor. Is he staying “COOL”, or is it because he felt he had a trick up his sleeve with this one?? Well the news is out…check this CNN web link out and see the story for yourself…
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html?iref=newssearch
It should be very interesting now … when they find out what is going on here and who is behind it. Don’t forget now, that Obama is the one who is out there wanting people to vote early…why is this I wonder?
Here are a few more links to check out that is linking Obama to ACORN::
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=#more
PLEASE DO SO.. If you have them now…try to find another insurance company. I know this is easier said than done. But, we as americans need to stand up and say we have had enough. They got $85 Billion to bail them out. A week later they paid the tab at the St. Regis Retreat in California for about 100 of their top selling agents in the tune of $443.000. Not even a week later they we asking for another $37.8 Billion to keep them afloat. And sure enough, they got it too. Then last night I heard on CNN that AIG told the press that they had cancelled another vacation for their employees seeing the people are upset. Ya bettcha…I am.
It is companies like this and their crooked ways of doing their business that keep our medical bills so high…They need to be knocked down to reality…and forced out.
I am happy to let you folks now there is a canidate running for the Congress seat in your district that will work for you…And not for the good of Government. I am 56 years old and I have never been excited about any canidate running for a political office. For it was my belief, all politicans are nothing but liars, crooks, and theives. But, Kevin Masrud, has really changed my mind about that.
He has taken the time to answer some of my questions and has given me his personal opinions on them. Christ, Sen. Coleman and Congressman Keith Ellison answered my letter too but never touched the questions I asked them. That sure didn’t come as a shock though…for I didn’t really expect them too. To tell you the truth, I didn’t expect Kevin Masrud to either…But guess what…I was shocked..for he did.
He has a real insight into the US Consitution, the history of this country, the good for this country, and his willingness to really listen to the people of this country. Especially the People in the 2ND District of Minneapolis…
Here is his schedule: I urge everyone in the 2ND District to get out there and meet Kevin Masrud…I bet you will be empressed..go and see for yourself.
Here is Kevin’s web site link: http://www.kevinmasrudforcongress.blogspot.com/
I know some will care for this article and some will be offended by it. But I was going down the list of some of the blogs out there this morning and I felt I need to write this and leave my opinion on some things going on in the campaigns out there on both sides: Republican’s and Democrat’s.
I am not voting for either one. I do not belong to a party. I am 56 years old and has never voted for several reasons. I see some good points and some good ideas from both parties. I also see and hear them lieing through their teeth. If a canidate lies on his campaign trail…he will lie to us Americans from the Oval Office as well. Can anyone out there please explain to me why we American’s vote the lieing SOB’s, into office knowing this??
Just because you belong to a Party, doesn’t give you the right to lie, bash, or degrade someone in the other party. For your Party will and has done the same thing too. This is so hypocritical. Now you folks know why I don’t belong to a Party. Unlike John Mc Cain, I speak ”STRAIGHT TALK” and mean it!!!
I hear all the rumors out there about all four canidates…To tell you the truth, I find it very sickening. I don’t listen to rumors, but I do go with my gut feeling and my 5th sense to lead me. And I don’t like where it leads me with either Presidental Canidates. For some reason I get very bad vibes from Obama. For a person to go to the same church for 20 years and listen to Pastor Jeremiah Wright preach the things he was preaching…as Obama did. I feel he agreed with what was being preached or he would have gotten up and left..or just never went back to that church again. Or at least that is what I would have done for I don’t agree with what he was preaching. And I am a christian. I don’t feel comfortable knowing about his ties to radicals either. I know he says he doesn’t, but listening and going to a church when some one is preaching it…I gut feeling is…he does have them ties to Aire and ACORN. As for John Mc Cain…My gut feeling tells me he is too hot headed, can’t take a defeat in a campaign, a debate, on capitol hill, war, ect. Don’t get me wrong here…I don’t intend to say I want to pull out of this war by surrendering…beacause I don’t. I have two children (a daughter and a son in the US Navy) in the military at present. I support our Troops and I don’t want any of those young men and young women that has sacrificed their lives there to have died for nothing. What I am trying to say is…Maverick, yes. But is too hot headed and this will lead to some quick and not so rash judgements calls we can’t afford in the Oval Office as well.
I have wrote to John Mc Cain through his Campaign Web Site…no responce to any of my questions or comments though. I had to join…Obama’s Campaign Web Site in order to e-mail him with my questions and comments though. I got no responce from him either as far as my questions and comments goes . So, they both fail on that too.. But, at least I will give Mc Cain a little more here on this issue than I will Obama. And I will tell you why. I did’t have to join anything to get into Mc Cains Web Site like I did Obama’s. I got no responce from Mc Cain’s at all…Everyday for the past several months since I left that one e-mail on Obama’s Web Site, My e-mail mailbox has at least 4 e-mails a day from Obama’s Web Site. Some asking for donations, some telling where he is going to be, some asking for your help with his campaign….I don’t care..I shouldn’t be subjected to all of this…I was forced into signing up, so I could post a comment with some questions that I had for him as he is running for the Presidental Seat.
Can anyone out there explain to me, Why we (americans) need to sign up for a campaign just so we can ask a question of any canidate running for public office (say nothing about running for the highest seat in this land)??? Why do we need to pay to ask them a question??? But, what most of you don’t know is….they are taken advantage of you. And you just sit back and take it. Why, because you choose a party…to vote for …not a person who maybe just as equal to your Party’s Man.
The difference between most of you and me….Is I don’t vote..for I see no canidate out there that #1 is honest to us. I just don’t bitch about the other Party’s man…I bitch about the lies, underhand and depicable tatics, using me to gain their self accomplishment, and self worth. Like I said…I straight talk. I don’t use the waiting moderation on my site for everyone and anyone is WELCOMED to leave a comment on this.
I have been reading alot of the blogs out there and ….I got a headache…and a pain in my ass. Listening to all the lies, bashings, degrading people, goverment gone wild…So, we all need this one. I got this in an e-mail…but, I needed to post it so everyone could understand politics and get a “LAUGH “ and we can use that:
This about sums it
up…
Whether Democrat or Republican, I think you’ll get a KICK out of this!!!
A little boy goes to his Dad and asks, “What is Politics?
Dad says,”Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am head of the family, so call me the PRESIDENT. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we will call her the GOVERNMENT. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the PEOPLE. The nanny, we will consider her the WORKING CLASS. And your baby brother, we will call him the FUTURE. Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night the little boy hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds his that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.
So the little boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeps in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of POLITICS now.” The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think POLITICS is all about.”
The little boy replies, “The PRESIDENT is screwing the WORKING CLASS while the GOVERNMENT is sound to asleep. The PEOPLE are being ignored and the FUTURE is in deep shit!!!!
HOW MANY OF YOU FOLKS OUT THERE BEEN ASKED TO PARTICAPATE IN A POLL SURVEY?? I ASK THIS FOR, I HAVE NEVER BEEN APPROACHED TO. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE…. I AM REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE HOW MANY HAVE AND HOW MANY HAVE NOT. THANKS
I have read some articles in the past you days that has really stuck in my claw. I don’t know if the allegations out there circling the web is true or not about Obama not being a US Citizen. I did post what I did find out to be true. It is indeed, FACT, these allegations have been filed in a Court.
I found on the Chicago Tribune Newspapers web site an article that the Court did Order Obama to turn over his Birth Certificate and a few more documents over a week ago. But, this is only blogged there..how much FACT, not really sure. I have tried to find in on the Web to see if it is FACT or FICTION, with no success. So, I am trying to find out…I sent an e-mail to CNN this morning asking them to check on this story and to let us out here know the real Facts on this whole story.
But, then we have people posting that John Mc Cain was a spy for the Viet-Cong…I will give them one ounce of credit for saying right off in this article that it isn’t true..but they wanted people to feel the same way they do…when it comes to making up stories about there man. One comment I got was..get a life and relax..it is a humorous article. I guess, I am too old to see the HUMOR in this article.
Can anyone out there, please explain to me….Why are we trying to find Humor in this ELECTION next month? I always thought that, electing a person to the Highest Seat within our Government was a serious process. Am I really getting that OLD, that I am out of touch??
John Mc Cain fought and suffered alot for this Country, as a POW of war, just as did alot of other Americans did. Alot of them lost their lives for christ sake….Where is the HUMOR, in this, I ask. Again I will ask, Am I really getting that Old not to see the Humor in this??
I will let you judge for your self on this article posted, here is the link to it: http://southerngent.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/mccain-was-a-spy-for-the-vietcong/ , Please leave me a comment on my site here and let me know…if I am really that old and out of touch with things.
It is my opinion, that I am not so old yet that I have lost the reality of things…lost my touch (so to speak). I am interested in the allegations about Obama. I am interesed in the Election coming us in November. I am interested in our economy, government, health care, rising inflations on everything, ect. But, not interested in Hogwash articles or comments that are out there like the one I just gave you the link to. Especially when they have an inkling to send a message that men who fought, was tortured, and died serving this county were lieing in bed with the enemy…for a way to show there man, Obama, is being picked on. I just may have found abit of Humor for this piece…and that is, as Daffy Duck would say…IT IS DIPICTABLE!!!!
I am not interested in lies from the campaign trail either. If they will lie to us here…they will lie to us from the Oval Office. Has anyone out there given this any real thought? Our votes shouldn’t go to: a Democrat for we are a Democrat; a Republican for we are a Republican; the one who can lies the most; the one who says he is going to do the most; the one who can raise the most; and ect. It is to the one who is best qualified: like his voting record; like what they tried to pass even though it might have failed; the one who is not promsing us he is going to fix out our problems; someone who might have really layed their lives on the line to protect us; someone with experience and integratey; and the one dearest to my heart…HONEST.
So, if I am so old that I am really out of touch…please forgive me and lets go on as usual….Former Bill Clinton’s scandals linked to Monica and his impeachment: Former Richard Nixon’s scandal linked to Watergate and his near impeachment: Presidents Bush’s lies for getting us into an uneccessary war, lieing to everyone about the economy, lieing to us how he was gone to make better education for our children (no child left behind…which is a real laugh), lies on how everyone would have medical insurance (which after 8 years we don’t), and I can go on but I think you might see where I am going with this.
So, I guess I will sign off on this now and let you be the judge on all that I had to say….Again I will hope you leave a comment on your opinions of both articles mentioned here. I do have an open mind for debate…And the last debate here is, “AM I REALLY THAT OLD TO BE OUT OF TOUCH OR ARE YOU REALLY IMMATURE TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY HERE???
Dear Americans,
Here we go, out of Michelle Obama’s mouth… http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks-on-a-direct-telephone-to-api/
Every American better look at that one more than once. Michelle Obama calling the American White Voters…”white raciest”. I am not a raciest person, I have worked for blacks, I have had a black babysitter for my children (which I have to say was the best babysitter that I ever had), I was in Panama City, Florida when the Martin Lee Anderson incident (a 14 yr old black boy who died at a Boot Camp there…I stuck up for the kid..), my son had a wonderful black teacher in Florida, Mrs. Williams.
But, what I have learned living in big cities, every time you see or hear of a black person getting into trouble or is hiding something…”THE RACE CARD COMES OUT”. I assume that the Obama’s are getting scared now about the Lawsuit filed by Philip J Berg,esq. They apparently wanted to keep this Hushed Hushed and the media news stations have. But, they can’t stop us bloggers from getting the story out. We are doing a good job of it…apparenty.
I am calling every “White Raciest” American out there in Michelle Obama’s eyes, that is, to e-mail your news media (Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, ect) and ask them to find the facts and fictions in all of this out here on the web about the lawsuit filed against Obama and the DNC by Philip J Berg,esq. Don’t forget to give them this link too and don’t forget to tell them that Michelle Obama opened up this can of worms and we want to know…..Thanks
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/shocking-development-mrs-obama-decides-enough-is-enough-my-husband-was-born-in-hawaii-and-adopted-by-his-step-father-does-that-make-him-unpatriotic-she-asks-on-a-direct-telephone-to-api/
I have been doing alot of thinking with so many things going on in our lives at the present time. Like the rising cost of food, clothes, utilities, gas for our cars, health insurance, rising costs of health /dental care and prescriptions, people losing their homes, the sad shape of our economy, the presidental elections which has been so dirty and full of lies, our kids aren’t getting a descent education, the wars in Iraq and Afghanstan………I guess it is a wonder we all aren’t on anti-depression meds.
I was born in the early 50’s.. I can go back to about 1957 or 1958…our way of life was full of values, morals, neighborly, law abiden citizens. Kids didn’t talk back to Parents like they do today. Kids didn’t disrupt classrooms, disrespect teachers, didn’t disrespect authority, didn’t disrespect the laws…What happened here??
My father was killed when I was 6, my mom had 3 kids and no money..she didn’t work. We were from the poverty level in our society…I can remember all of our neighbors bringing food, clothes, toys, books, bedding, and yes even money donations to help my mom out. No one asked them..they just did it to help. And the funniest thing about that is..no one was helping to see what they could get later. Christ today if someone lends you a dime…they want $5.00 back or you owe them big time.
As for school back then…we got a descent education. The teachers were qualified and dedicated to their jobs. Their was standard on which you were to follow: like how to conduct yourself in classrooms, hallways, and grounds of the school. There were rules for us at home, we were taught to have morals and values: Like to respect authority and the laws, how to conduct yourself in public and at home, like how not to be so premissive(sexually), like how to be more concerned about others than yourself, and the list could go on and on here believe me. Again, I will ask, what happened here??
I can remember when I was 14 years old, I got my first job at the local A&W. I made $.65 an hour and tips. I probably worked 15 to 20 hours a week. I made about $13.00 for 20 hours and I brought home about $10.00 a week in tips, If I were that lucky. I saved enough over the summer to buy my school clothes and supplies for school that fall. I spent something like $30.00. But that summer the carnival came to our city…for once, I had some money to go. I did take $10.00 to go with…but, I didn’t feel right to go in front of my brother and sister, when my mom didn’t have any money so they could go…so, I made sure they both had $8.00 on them so they could go too. I ask, how many kids out there today would do that?? I know there is a few but the ones who wouldn’t do that far out numbers the ones who would.
We were taught to respect authority and laws..and we had consequences, if we broke any of these. I got my ass blistered more than once, like any other kid. I was no angel. But, I learnt those values and morals…the hard way. Not only at school but at home as well. We then learnt what Responsibilty was. The choice of our actions and conduct.
In school, we were taught the American History, we were taught how to take care of and respect for our Country’s Flag, we were taught english and english only, we were taught math and how to manage money, we were taught science and how to take care of our enviroment, we were taught about our govenment and how to hold electees accountable for their actions while in service to this country, we were taught about the US Consitution and the Bill of Rights (set down for us by our fore fathers who wanted to protect our Liberty), and this list could go on and on as well. Again, I ask, what happened??
There were drugs, acohol, and teenage pregnancies in my generation too. But not on the scale that it is today. If teenagers were caught with drugs and booze the authorities (Police and Courts dealt with us..no slaps on the hands either), and then our parents dealt with us. Believe me, I would much rather have dealt with the authorities….than my Mom. And I knew that from an early age, so I didn’t do anything out of line where I would have to deal with the Authorities. We were taught at home about morals…like having sex before you were married, taught about our sexual differences between male and female, we were taught about teenage pregnancies and what it would do to our lives if we got pregnant, ect. Again, I ask (that strange question), what happened?? How did this Country and the American’s get into such a MESS??
Well let’s discuss some of the reasons to How and Why we got into such a MESS here in this Country, from my opinions.
In the early 70’s the economy started running wild. Government was spending money like it was water. Moms now started to work out, for just Dad’s paycheck wasn’t running the household anymore. Kids were being left alone to care for themselves an hour or so every night after they got out of school until their parents got home from work. Well the Government, liked the fact, that moms were now forced to work out, one more income that they could tax. MORE MONEY IN THE GOVERNMENT THEY COULD SPEND. And nobody paid any attention to it…no one even gave it any fore thought (what and how may it effect us in the future) for it was a given that it had to be done in order for the family to survive.
Then with two people working in the family they had enough to live on with some left over (which they didn’t have before mom went to work). So what did they do with this so called extra money?? Bought the new home they wanted, like the neighbor or their sibbling just did. Bought the kids things like video games, to keep the occupied for hours for two reasons now. One being guilty to have left them alone after school for an hour or so with not much to do and the second reason is: mom and dad are tired from working all day and don’t want to be over burdened with kids who aren’t listening to them and minding them. Parents were too tired to deal with Parenting their kids like when I was a child. The next thing we know the neighbor just went and bought a new car. Well Honey, I know we really can’t afford it, but…our car isn’t all that great and maybe we should purchase a new one too. This started the “KEEP UP WITH THE JONES” life style we all know about.
Our government just loved that style of living. For not only did they have one more income coming into the household they could tax…they now had American’s who picked up on this new style of living…(living beyond their means), this stimulated the economy of this Country. So, now our government, had another good source of income they could spend (every thing we bought had all kind of taxes on it). This was and is a government that thought it was…suriving.
As a few years passed, kids are starting to really get out of control at home, school, and with authorities. Parents are even more wound and keyed up from being tired of working all week long and trying to keep the mounting bills paid (from this new life style), and the kids no out of control from it all. So, some…not all, were drinking more, some just started beating on their kids from lack of their control of their frustrations of this new life style they were living in. And the local agencies, the state, and our government came up with “CHILD ABUSE”. They couldn’t stop it with these few doing it so, they all came up with laws to protect all kids from being abused. That lead to us, as Parents, to be stripped of the right to raise our Children to be raised as we see fit. By that I mean, we couldn’t bring them up with the values, morals, respect, responsibility, and such as we had been brought up by. They took away our right to “SPANKING” the children if they did not live up to the values we were trying to instill in them. Well, the kids just loved that idea, let me tell ya.
If we had of looked at some of the things going on at that time…insight to the future here: We would have seen: Government, building Greed and Power over us. For now they started coming into our lives and tell us how we can raise our children. The more money they could collect…the more they could spend. Parents: Had somewhat became “GREEDY” too. The more they had, the more their neighbors had, the more they needed. While not realizing it at the time they were doomed to be in big financial trouble. Also, stripped of their parental rights now more overhelmed with kids who are now telling the parents…”I will call the police on you..for you can’t make me do that if I don’t to”. Christ the kids ended up with POWER then. So, this all has been FESTORING for years now, due to these circumstances, that no one put any “INSIGHT” into at the time of the change. Well, that festoring over the years…has now come to a head and has erupted. What can we do about it now, you ask??
Well, that takes alot of thought and hard work. We all know the Bad Shape Our Economy is in. We all know the Bad Shape Our Government is in. We all know how Bad Wall Street is in. We all know just how Bad Shape we are in. We all know just how Bad of Shape Our Kids are in. And lets not forget just how Bad of Shape Our States and Cities are in (the ones we live in).
We can make this all work again. But it will take someone who can rein in All uneccessary Spending in Government (no more spending money as though it was water). And if you looked at your water bill lately, you will see even that isn’t all that cheap. Cut all Federal and State Programs that are duplicates of one another. Get the Immigration Department up and running again…for they haven’t done their job in years now. Round up all illegal citizens in this Country and deport them. This will save alot of money right here alone in several ways. Like no more supporting them financially, health/dental services, having to pay for justice services and paying for them being jailed for they broke our laws here, having all Cities, States, and the Federal Government print one version of all documents and papers we need (tax forms, applications for food stamps, health insurance, ect.) in one language, English only. No more ones in Spanish ect. Hell that would save us alot more too.
Cut all predeims from State and Federal Government employees. They get a good salary by serving this Country. They don’t need prediems: money to eat, bunk, ect. on while they are away from home on business. If you only knew the half of the abuse here within this, you probably would scream or pull your hair out. The booze, whores, ect. We do take good care of these guys when they are away from home, don’t we??
Put a FREEZE, on all Government spending…just those, departments, like the Immigrating up and running again…ones that will save us money on in the long run.
Sell off all the homes that the government owns..on former Military Bases that they have shut down. Has anyone ever thought of how many homes are on these vacant bases that are doing nothing but rottening away!!! I guess if Gov. Palin can sell the State of Alaska’s Jet…Our Government can sell off the homes and land of these old shut down Military Bases too for a Profit.
Let’s put vote in the single line veto priviledge for our President, of course with the strict definition on how to and when to use it. Cut out all of this Pork/Earmark Spending that our elected Officals in Washington DC has raped us on for years and years now. This money could be put to better use than a “OVER HEAD PROJECTOR”, HOW TO STORE PEANUTS, TO START BUSINESS’ UP FOR THEIR FRIENDS, ECT. Like better SCHOOLS, BETTER EDUCATION, BETTER HEALTH ISURANCES OR SERVICES, ECT.
When Greed is at the fore front, it encourages…CRIME. Ask yourself this, what did Gram and Granpa mean when they used this line, “Money is the root of all evil”?? Can you see the picture now…did I make sense with that comparison to you?? Government on every level is full of crime today from all the Greedy SOB’S. Some years back you probably remember hearing or reading about how a lot of Senators overdrew their Federal Bank Accounts, which WE provide for them. An honest act, I ask?? President Nixon and his legacy scandal..WATERGATE. He chose to resign his Presidency just before they started Impeachment Process on him. President Reagan and his legacy scandal..Iran Contra Arms Sale. Anyone remember Mary Jo who drown at the hands of a Drunk Ted Kennedy?? How about this one, Former Bill Clinton’s lieing to a Federal Grand Jury and to the American People in the Monica Scandal?? Remember, I did not have sex with that woman…I sure do!! He was Impeached. And lets not forget Clinton’s White Water Scandal as well. Do you know how many elected officals have used or tried marjana?? This is against the law the last time I knew. How many of them are Alcoholics?? How many them can you name, that have tied themselves to corrupted and or dishonest people?? How many of them can you name, who has openedly lied to your face?? Like George Bush Sr, read my lips..no new taxes. Like Clinton, I did not have sex with that woman. I think I have made my point here, so lets move on.
Here we are, its almost November, where we will elect another Person to the Highest Seat of our Government, The Presidency. It is my opinion, this has been the DIRTIEST, LIEING, SMEARING election campaigns in my life time. It makes me almost embarassed, to say that I live in the United States of America.
Take a good look at our two canidates…What a choice we have?? I really liked the sounds of Mc Cain when the Primaries started. Straight talking Maverick, who was going to clean up the spending in Washington DC. Put an end to earmarks/pork spending. I liked the sounds of that so I was going to vote for Mc Cain. Also he said that our government should not be in the bailout business…which, I aslo liked. Well unfortunately, I was lied to. When our economy is in a desire financal crisis, what does he do?? Goes to Washington DC and votes for a bill to do the exactly what he said our government shouldn’t be doing. Also knowing it was full of earmarks/pork. All I can say is, What away to go there …straight talker.
Now Obama, the CHANGE our Country needs. He has tied himself to ACORN, BILL AYERS, and a few more undisirable people. I can’t honestly say that I think this is CHANGE. It is my opinion that this is, “POLITICS AS USUAL”. One could argue or debate that he gives us, another 8 years of George Bush Policies. All that I heard from his mouth last night was tax increases so he could spend even more. Come on People, see the light of day here…the government wants to own your SOUL. They have already raped you for years and you are still going to Vote for one who wants to still do it to you?? Don’t make sense to me!!
I heard Obama last night in the debate say something that pissed me off. That is why I am writing this today. And that was, when talking about education he said, Parents will need to take more responsibilities in turning the tv off, putting the video games away, and making sure our kids get their education. Maybe all those allergations circulating the web right now about him being born in Kenya…I think, he may have been living there these past years, with a statement like that one last night. For, if he lived here in America..he would know our parental rights were stripped from us. Our Government allows our kids to do as they please or it is Child Abuse. Is he going to give us back our rights to parent?? He didn’t say he was. Just another way of our Government passing the blame, pointing fingers. Like everyone is in Washington DC these past few weeks with this Wall Street and Financial crisis. All pointing fingers…but no one taking any or even a part in it.
Our kids are allowed to take their cell phones to school these days and use them when they are in the hallways and on their breaks. If the school system can’t give them a better education for they can’t stop these kids with cell phones, kids who disrupts classrooms, disrespects the authority there and such…Just what make him think it is Our Fault?? And thinks we are going to have more responsibilities in it as well??
There is one more issue that I would like to touch on today. And that is money spent on these two presidental canidates campaigns. Like I said earlier, It is the dirtiest, smearing, lieing campaigns in my life time. I have no idea and I was trying to find it out there on the web but, I am not all that good of a computer whiz, so I didn’t find what I was looking for. If there is someone out there, that is more a whiz on the computer than I am that would see if they could find this information for me, I really would appreciate it. And that is exactly or real close to the actual amount of money that Obama has spent on this campaign?? I know it is a quite huge chunck of change. I would like to know the ratio of what he has spent on his campaign to the National Deficit is?? (5%, 10%, 20% or what).. Lets say it is at 10%(but honestly I think it is even more than this,but) of the national deficit. Wouldn’t it have been better spent, on the deficit of this Country, or towards better education, or health/dental insurance or services, or towards weaning us off foreign oil, ect??? Rather than on a campaign which is the FILTHIEST in our Country’s History???
Representive Keith Ellison’s Office in Washington DC told me today that, all that money used in his Campaign is donations. I said, I know that but contributions are used here too…am I right there? She said yes. Then I said, lets don’t forget Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae’s contribution to Obama. Government money!!! I also told her, that if they can raise that much money for a filthy campaign as we have seen, then why can’t they raise through donations enough money to help run this country on and stop raping us poor taxpayers. Believe me, she had no answer for that one and she was pissed. Oh well, It is was a good question to ask though??
Check these notions out: We can charge $1500.00 a plate to hold a dinner one night a week for people who want the chance to sit down with the President and get our points on some issues with him. We can can give him or anyone a bonus incentive to turn anyone in for trying to throw pork in a bill…then the president will discharge them from their seats. (these are all…LOL’S of course).
So, if anyone agrees with me out there on this please leave a comment. If you don’t agree, please still leave a comment and let me know your point of veiws. I am open minded. But, please think real hard to the lies, smear, the dirty campaign by both canidates…before voting next month. This is very serious times…and a very serious VOTE. I encourage you all to look up both canidates voting records…see what they did vote on and what they voted no on. And another thing to look at that is just a serious as the issues they voted on is: How many times they were even there to vote on something. This is only doing a half ass job, when they are even going in to vote alot of the time. Look at the facts that we know to be true from the media and well known sources about who and how they have tied themselves too. My question for all of you is, just how much more crime, dishonest, greedy suckers do you want to vote into office?? How many more Presidental Scandals do you want within our Government to tear this Beautiful Nation down to the level of the Esquire Newpaper…trash level???
And this is too all the scariest voters out there (the one just turning voting age that has been raised that you can say and do as you please …generation). Please stop the disrespect, outrageous name calling of canidates and their spouses, and other not so well liked shit that you are writing in your blogs. Like Cindy Mc Cain is Trash. Michelle is unpatrotic. And there is worse…like 4 boys wearing a shirt saying…Sarah Palin is a CU_T. These are very serious problems we are facing here and it is no joke that is serious to vote for the right man here. But, these kind of blogs are not showing anyone, anything but, you are very immature, one who knows no respect, and one who is irresponsibe. Do yourself a big favor, take and read this so 40 years down the road you are trying to teach someone it needs to change now…things can’t go on like they are for all of us to survive and have a descend life. Grow Up!!!
P.S. I don’t know yet who I will vote for next month…I am weighing their lies, their voting records, on how much more they want to spend and take from us. I just might do as I said before and do a write
in: Mighty Mouse and why you might ask?? for at least he did what he said: HERE TO SAVE THE DAY!!!
By Campbell Brown
CNN
Editor’s note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN’s “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this commentary during the “Cutting through the Bull” segment of Thursday night’s broadcast.
CNN’s Campbell Brown says the candidates should spend their campaign money helping the homeless.
NEW YORK (CNN) — In the middle of an economic crisis, with a lot of Americans worried to death about how they are going to pay their bills, our two presidential candidates are about to spend an astonishing amount of money kicking the “you know what” out of each other on national television.
This year they are breaking all records in terms of the amount of money spent and the number of negative ads.
A study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison says the campaigns will spend a combined $30 million a week on ads between now and Election Day, the vast majority negative. Watch CNN’s Campbell Brown make her case »
According to Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, negative ads are having almost no impact this election cycle. The journal’s headline: Ready, Aim, Backfire: Nasty Political Ads Fall Flat.
iReport.com: What do you think about the battle of plungers over Joe the Plumber?
Why? According to one quote, “Arguing about personal associations pales in comparison to the current grim economic news.”
Still between now and Election Day, Obama and McCain are going to spend a combined $30 million a week.
So I’m going to throw a crazy idea on the table that I don’t think is that crazy. There is a food bank in Provo, Utah, that feeds the homeless. Joalaina Redbird takes her three small children there. They have all three meals there every day.
They became homeless two months ago when her husband lost his construction job. This food bank is running low on supplies; they have issued an emergency call for help. Because of our economic crisis, donations are way down and the number of people they are feeding is way up.
I told support her on this….does anyone else???
This story is being repeated all over the country. The Northlands Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter in Grand Forks, North Dakota, is bursting at the seams every night with record numbers of homeless showing up needing a place to sleep, again, a result of our economic troubles. And guess what — these charities are out of money. No one is giving in these tough times.
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So, Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain, how about instead of spending that $30 million a week kicking the “you know what” out of each other between now and Election Day, you pool your money and you give it to that food bank in Provo, Utah, so Joalaina Redbird’s kids can get three square meals a day until her husband finds another job?
Give the money to that homeless shelter in Grand Forks or any of the hundreds of charities around this country that are trying to help desperate people get through these difficult times.
If you really care about hurting Americans, put your money where your mouth is and spare us three more weeks of negative ads.
I do have my doubts on this. And let’s get one thing straight right off the bat, It has nothing to do with the color of his skin. I usually have a good 6th sense, and something, I am not sure what it is, really bothers me about him. All I can say is…time will tell.
I really don’t think he is the man for the job, but then Mc Cain didn’t really fit the job either. I did vote, so I do have a right to speak my opinion. I wrote in Mighty Mouse for my choice on the President slot on the ballot.
I am not and will not, be a supporter of Obama. I just don’t like him, I think he has a very smug and arrogrant way about the way he carries himself, and there is more to the man than we know about. Time will tell…that is something we all can TRUST!!!
I guess, now that he is ELECTED as the Next President of this country, we will see if all of you that voted for him, still care for him in a year from now. Or at the end of his term in 4 years from now. It will be interesting.
Another thing that will be just as interesting will be: Lets see how he does on keeping his campagin promises like: CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING, LIKE CLAMPING DOWN ON WALL STREET, LIKE AFFORABLE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ALL AMERICANS, And pulls our troops out of Iraq (which will be a slap in the face to every militay person and a disgrace to AMERICA), ECT. Pardon me for saying this, But it seems like the same old promises that Former President Bill Clinton, President Bush and a few others said, too. And still none of it is FACT.. I am I almost positive that you won’t see it in four years from now either.
I am asking every American, no matter who you supported and who you didn’t, if things within our Government still stays on the SAME OLD PATH that it has been on for years and years now…..Please join the fight in four years….to take this country back. Demand that our Government be REFORMED.
Demand that we have someone with intelligents, honest, sincere, and willing to listen to its people they are representing to chose our leader from.
Demand that the electorial voting system goes back to the majority vote…..so our votes, then will… really count. And if you listened closely to Obama, he about as much told you this…that your votes don’t really count. Remember Obama saying this, we are not red states or blue states…this is the United States. Well red states are the Republican states and the blue states are the Democratic states….if they are all the United States then why did he try so hard to win over Pennsylviania, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, ect. The Red States. I will tell you why….the majority of that states votes, whether or not, Republicans or Democrats…will count. Not your vote.
Demand that there is an age limit on all our electees, in all city, state, and federal levels.
Demand we get the illegal immigrants out of this country and get them back to their own country….let their own country support them and take care of them. And get our Boarders surrounded to not allow them or anyone else back in illegally.
I am really going to start fighting for these issues that I just raised and lets see just how much and how well Obama is really listening to us and is there for us. Like he says he is and will do. So, I will congradulate all you Obama supporter out there on your victory but, I still am afraid…it just might come back to bite you on your ass. Time will tell, won’t it???
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I heard on ABC’s News this morning about AIG’s at it again, after twice of receiving Federal Money to bailout their company from going under… they are still holding meetings at Posh Resorts. One in California and now one in Arizona just a few days ago. They even went so far to try to hide this one from us. They didn’t say on the news just to how much this meeting cost but the one in California cost over $440,000.
I am asking everyone of you to write and call your Senators and Congressmans to request that we want them to get AIG to refund all monies they have received from our govenment for bailout immediately and that the Ceo’s are brought up on Federal Fraud Charges.
This is very irratating to me for several reasons but this one in particular….All the major news channels and even some of our own elected officals in our Government had the nerve to say, the American Taxpayers were the problem that started the fall of our economy and Wall Street. That we lived beyond our means. Well if this company (AIG) didn’t live beyond their means they too wouldn’t have needed money to get bailed out from going under. But, even after receiving money to get bailed out they are continuing to live beyond their means. And will continue if we don’t stand up and fight against it. And believe me this in important to do so.
ABC reported that AIG said that this resort in Arizona was paid for by other companies contributions. Well, if other companies can help them to pay for these Posh Resorts….then let these other companies bail them out of trouble not us the American Taxpayers. From listening to all the New Channels, I was led to believe that almost every Company in the United States was on the verge of Financial Meltdown….apparently we were lied too, AGAIN.
I have said this all along, right from the beginning of the first talk about our government wanting monies to bailout these financial insitutions was wrong. It wasn’t or isn’t needed….we have one hell of a national deficit now in this country due to our Government wanting to bailout Wall Street….they are all crooks and they are still doing it…on our money.
So, please please write and call everyone (Senators, Congressmans, President, Poleski, Treasury, Reed), who you can think of and demand the return of all money that AIG received from the Federal Government has given them since September of this year. And that their CEO’S are brought up on Federal Fraud Charges.
Here is the web link to the story on this at ABC’S GOOD MORNING AMERICA, who reported this this story on AIG this morning: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6223972&page=1
Below is a copy of the e-mail that I sent to my Senator (Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota) this morning just before writing this post. I wouldn’t ask all of you to do something that I, myself wouldn’t do.
ABC News is reporting again this morning of yet another Posh Meeting of AIG’s executives at a resort in Arizona. This is the second Posh Meeting of this company that I know of after receiving Federal Bailout Money (twice they have received funds).
I and alot of other American People didn’t not want this Bailout Package passed in the first place. And this is a good example as to why….crooks are recieving it (even within our own government).
You voted Yes to pass this Bailout Bill, even against the wishes of the people in this State that you are supposed to support, Not do as you please.
Now do your Job, and hear us and support us. We are asking you to make sure that all monies received by AIG from the Federal Government be refunded immediately back to the people of this country. Make sure that these CEO’S of this company are brought up on Federal Fraud Charges.
ABC reported AIG, said this last meeting of their executives at this posh retreat in Arizona was paid by…other companies contributions and not bailout money. Well, if they can raise that kind of money in contributions for retreats such as the one in California and Arizona…then let them raise the money to keep their company afloat. It is time these excutives realize they have priorities as we the american people do within our bugets. If you remember all these Major News Channels and even some of our Federal Government Personal said that we the American People are the blame for this crisis within Wall Street for living beyond our means. And I will agree with this to a small portion….but if these excutives can do it and get away with it …..then we as taxpayers can do exactly the same thing….why to hell not. What we do is on alot smaller scale compared to them. But one thing I want to point out is, we are buying homes and cars that are needed to live, and they are living high off the hog with gyms, alcohol, dinners, and ect. They could get exercise from a walk or bike ride, don’t need a gym. They could eat at Mac Donald’s and not go overboard at a lucious restraurant. And believe me coffee is a whole lot better for your health than alcohol.
Now the People who you are there to support and take their voices to Washington want you to get off your ass and listen and support us. Get our money back from this company immediately and bring them up on Federal Fraud Charges. Let them go on their own to sink or swim. Thank you.
PLEASE ALL DO CONTACT EVERYONE IN YOUR DISTRICT………AND GOVERMENT………THANK YOU ALL
This morning ABC reported that Future President Obama has gone against one of his Campaign Promises. He said in this Campaign that there was “NO” room for “LOBBIEST” in his President Cabinet. Guess what all you lovers, he has now said it is ok. I can’t wait to see just how many more promises he will break in his Presidency before you folks start waking up and seeing ….HELL, HE ISN’T FOR CHANGE…IT IS POLITICS AS USUAL.
It makes me laugh for so many of you out there are so high on Obama….that most of you have wrote and said that he is not lieing and he wouldn’t lie to us. Well, one lie is already done…Do you think there will be anymore??? There will be alot more, believe me. Get used to it!!!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/17/campbell.brown.lobbyists/index.html
Here is a link to the New York Times, an article that explains the dealings of our Government. Not our government doing the work, but it is the Washington Lobbiest. They pull more weight in our Government than we the people do. What a sad fact, that is.
AIG has now gotten its second chunk of the bailout money. It also received a good sizable chuck of money from the Fed’s. While this is going on they continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for Posh Meeting at very ritzy Retreats. Every American should be in an uproar about this. But, what are most of us doing…sitting back and complainning about it and waiting for your neighbors to do the fighting for you. Get off your asses, get on the phones and call your Congressman and Senators. Call the US Treasury and leave your comments. Call Nancy Polesi’s Office and let her know what you think about it and what you think should be done. Call Senator’s Harry Reed’s Office, Call Senator Barney Frank’s Office, Call Senator Chris Dodd’s Office. Then e-mail and e-mail……….lets all get on this band wagon and let Our Government know exactly what and how we feel about them playing their games. Tell them the days for them playing their way is coming to a cease for we the American People aren’t taking it anymore.
I have said right from the beginning of the talks about the Government proposal to bailout companies was wrong. They should have let these businesses fail. The only reason they were failing is due to dirty and crooked business practices. Yeah, we all would have suffered abit…but nothing like what you are going to see in the near future. China, Japan, or another foreign country will take the United States over.
It is my opinion that our Government felt this bailout plan was needed to cover their asses. For if all these Big Financial Insitutions like Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae, especially….fell…there would have been an big investigation in Washington, DC. In this investigation they would have had to answers questions like these>>>>Who was supposed to be watching the practices of these companies?? Why, were so many elected officals receiving big contributions from companies on the verge of collaspe?? These contributions were made to the officals to keep their backs turned the other way while these companies raped the taxpayers. Yes…”BRIBES”.
Now that I have stated my opinion….What is yours? Please do leave your comments.
Senator Barney Frank of Massachusetts is at it again. He is in the process of drawing up another Bailout Package for the house and senate to pass, in the tune of $75 Billion to be spent on helping the trouble car makers out.
I can’t believe with all the e-mails and calls they have received from Americans showing their disapproval on the first bailout plan they would have the nerve to try for another one. This is not the Republicans or President Bush doing this….it is the Democrats.
Here is the phone number to Senator Barney Frank’s Office in Washington DC and I urge everyone to call his office and let them know just how pissed off you are about this decission they are making again. 202-225-5931 And here is the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi’s phone number in Washington DC call her office as well. 202-225-0100. Flood their offices with calls of disapproval tomorrow.
I AM REPOSTING THIS BOYCOTT MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE TO BOYCOTT AIG AND ALL OF ITS AFFILIATE COMPANIES… STAND UP TO THEM AND LET THEM KNOW……THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO RAPE OUR ELECTED OFFICALS IN WASHINGTON DC AND SQUANDER MONEY OUT OF THEM BUT THEY AREN’T FOOLING US AND WE ARE NOT TAKEN IT. BRING THIS COMPANY DOWN. BEFORE IT DOES US AND IT IS RUNNING ON A FAST PACE OF DOING JUST THAT.
We are in the worse times of our lives with the economy the way it is and is going. All the Federal Dollars going in the wrong places isn’t going to do a thing for the economy or us. Our government don’t have the slightest as what to do. It needs to crash…it is a cycle of history repeating itself.
The morgage crisis is at an all time high with foreclosure. Over 84,000 have lost their homes. Where are the people living now?? Does anyone care?? The list of apartments to rent is very scarce in my area anyhow.
The unemployment rate is at an all time high in years. What and how are these people going to do as far as paying for housing, car payments, car/health insurance payments, food, ect?? Does anyone care??
Our Government spending money as though it was water…just turn on the tap!!! Turning on the water tap isn’t free either. Trying to save companies and insitutions that are failing because no one is responsible for their spending habits anymore. Let me give you a few web links to check out, these will be some of the foolish spending by ceo’s and others that are contributing to the problems out there that our government wants to fix. First, let me post all the ear marks that were in the $700 Billion Bailout Package that was Passed by Our Government:
« A Lesson On Economics, Inflation, and Fiat Money from DuckTalesOh, $700 Billion Was Not Enough…
Posted by Brett Bittner on October 3, 2008
So, much to my chagrin the House of Representatives voted to pass the bailout bill today, after it was made into a mashup of the proposed bailout, the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, and the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008. In addition to the EIEA to woo Democrats, and the TEAMTRA to woo Republicans, many specifically targeted pork projects were added to entice lawmakers to vote for it. The sections and their “enticements” are listed below:
Sec. 101. Extension of alternative minimum tax relief for nonrefundable personal credits.
Sec. 102. Extension of increased alternative minimum tax exemption amount.
Sec. 103. Increase of AMT refundable credit amount for individuals with longterm unused
credits for prior year minimum tax liability, etc.
Sec. 201. Deduction for State and local sales taxes.
Sec. 202. Deduction of qualified tuition and related expenses.
Sec. 203. Deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers.
Sec. 204. Additional standard deduction for real property taxes for nonitemizers.
Sec. 205. Tax-free distributions from individual retirement plans for charitable purposes.
Sec. 206. Treatment of certain dividends of regulated investment companies.
Sec. 207. Stock in RIC for purposes of determining estates of nonresidents not citizens.
Sec. 208. Qualified investment entities.
Sec. 301. Extension and modification of research credit.
Sec. 302. New markets tax credit.
Sec. 303. Subpart F exception for active financing income.
Sec. 304. Extension of look-thru rule for related controlled foreign corporations.
Sec. 305. Extension of 15-year straight-line cost recovery for qualified leasehold improvements and qualified restaurant improvements; 15-year straight-line cost recovery for certain improvements to retail space.
Sec. 306. Modification of tax treatment of certain payments to controlling exempt organizations.
Sec. 307. Basis adjustment to stock of S corporations making charitable contributions of property.
Sec. 308. Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Sec. 309. Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa.
Sec. 310. Extension of mine rescue team training credit.
Sec. 311. Extension of election to expense advanced mine safety equipment.
Sec. 312. Deduction allowable with respect to income attributable to domestic production activities in Puerto Rico.
Sec. 313. Qualified zone academy bonds.
Sec. 314. Indian employment credit.
Sec. 315. Accelerated depreciation for business property on Indian reservations.
Sec. 316. Railroad track maintenance.
Sec. 317. Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility.
Sec. 318. Expensing of environmental remediation costs.
Sec. 319. Extension of work opportunity tax credit for Hurricane Katrina employees.
Sec. 320. Extension of increased rehabilitation credit for structures in the Gulf Opportunity Zone.
Sec. 321. Enhanced deduction for qualified computer contributions.
Sec. 322. Tax incentives for investment in the District of Columbia.
Sec. 323. Enhanced charitable deductions for contributions of food inventory.
Sec. 324. Extension of enhanced charitable deduction for contributions of book inventory.
Sec. 325. Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products; wool research fund; wool duty refunds.
Sec. 401. Permanent authority for undercover operations.
Sec. 402. Permanent authority for disclosure of information relating to terrorist activities.
Sec. 501. $8,500 income threshold used to calculate refundable portion of child tax credit.
Sec. 502. Provisions related to film and television productions.
Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children.
Sec. 504. Income averaging for amounts received in connection with the Exxon Valdez litigation.
Sec. 505. Certain farming business machinery and equipment treated as 5-year property.
Sec. 506. Modification of penalty on understatement of taxpayer’s liability by tax return preparer.
Sec. 512. Mental health parity.
Sec. 601. Secure rural schools and community self-determination program.
Sec. 602. Transfer to abandoned mine reclamation fund.
Sec. 702. Temporary tax relief for areas damaged by 2008 Midwestern severe storms, tornados, and flooding.
Sec. 703. Reporting requirements relating to disaster relief contributions.
Sec. 704. Temporary tax-exempt bond financing and low-income housing tax relief for areas damaged by Hurricane Ike.
Sec. 706. Losses attributable to federally declared disasters.
Sec. 707. Expensing of Qualified Disaster Expenses.
Sec. 708. Net operating losses attributable to federally declared disasters.
Sec. 709. Waiver of certain mortgage revenue bond requirements following federally declared disasters. Sec. 710. Special depreciation allowance for qualified disaster property.
Sec. 711. Increased expensing for qualified disaster assistance property.
Sec. 712. Coordination with Heartland disaster relief.
Sec. 801. Nonqualified deferred compensation from certain tax indifferent parties.
Wow! That was all that was needed to make a horrible bill attractive enough for passage. Clearly, we, the taxpayers who will be footing the bill for this debacle, were not persuasive enough to convince our legislators that this was a bad idea.
If all that pork was not enough to enrage you, CNET News is reporting that the bill grants permanent privacy invasion by the IRS to conduct undercover operations where they run businesses to ensnare individuals by posing as accountants to ask questions like “I am not 100% sure this deduction is legal, but it will save you a couple grand. Do you want to take it anyway?” Not only does this give the IRS the ability for entrapment, it also allows the IRS to give information from individual tax returns to whatever federal law enforcement agency requests it as part of their investigation of suspected terrorist activity. This information can then be shared with local and state authorities at the discretion of the federal agency. They can share “a taxpayer’s identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer’s return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return.”
Not only is the government spending nearly a trillion dollars that will be printed with no backing, but the IRS now has permanent authority to entrap citizens into tax fraud.
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11662
http://www.abc15.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=d84dfd07-dd97-49f7-af14-3714d80b9107
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html
Here are a few of my ideas:
Housing for people in crisis: Our Federal Government owns so many empty houses that are just sitting going to waste. What is this NUT talking about, you might be asking yourself?? I am talking about all the houses on empty Military Bases….that our government closed down. They could sell these houses off to people who needs homes and are willing to fix them up, for little to nothing. It would serve them in two ways….helping the American People in need and give some revenue back to the government.
Reform Government: Terms limits need to be placed on all government seats…not just the Presidential seat. Any one arrested and convicted of any criminal offense, no matter how big or how small the offense is…should not be allowed a seat within our government. (HELL…THERE GOES 2/3 RDS OF THEM ALL READY).
We need to go back to the majority voting system where everyones vote will count. Not everyones vote counts in the Electorial College. The Electorial College keeps us the Red and Blue States like Obama said we shouldn’t be…We should be the United States.
Has anyone taken the time to think about this: If our elected officials can raise money in the tune of millions and millions to run a campaign on, like they did. I am not only talking about the Presidental Canidates…I am talking about all of the races (senate, governor, congress). Then why can’t they raise money to fix these failing companies on if that is what they want to do?? My belief is that this is one of the reasons for the failing companies…too many big contributions to these canidates. Christ we all could have had health insurance with all the monies wasted in their campaigns…the national deficit wouldn’t be so high either.
Does anyone know what our National Deficit is at the momment?? Does anyone know just how much it is going up every day since September 28, 2008???? Well let me provide you with this web link to the answer of those questions for the ones who don’t know: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Why isn’t anyone talking about Impeachment of our government officials…on all levels…for they have broken the trust of their offices and the US Consititution??? I am a low class american with a GED for education but I know They are Impeachable for what they are doing.
Please fell free to leave your comments or anything else you can add to this article…
It’s a Party!
Because of the recession and all the bad things that happen with USA economy, the one dollar bill had to be redesigned. The Federal Reserve came up with a new design for the $1 bill that depicts the economical situation better.
SAYS ALOT………..DOESN’T IT???
They is a writing of someone else in our blog world…it inspired me to write this blog. But, you need to read his piece first: mcauleysworld said 22 hours ago:
Just this past summer the UAW in Michigan went on strike, closing 6 different “Old Industry” auto plants, stalling the economy and putting thousands of workers not employed in the UAW plants “out on the street”. The non UAW workers could not collect “strike pay” along with unemployment benefits. Mind you, the UAW called this strike just this past summer, just weeks before the bailout buzz started .
The “all in” labor cost for a UAW member (Salary, benefits and pension costs) before the strike was $75 an hour – not counting overtime. The strike cost the “Old Three” almost $25 Billion in lost income. Now they want a $75 Billion bailout. In 2007 the median US income (half the people are above / half are below) was $50,233. http://www.ask.com/barq=average+income+in+the+us&page=1&qsrc=2417&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.census.gov%2Fhhes%2Fwww%2Fincome%2Fincome.html , at page 13 of the PDF
The median income in Michigan was $49,699. http://www.ask.com/bar?q=average+income+in+the+us&page=1&qsrc=2417&ab=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.census.gov%2Fhhes%2Fwww%2Fincome%2Fincome.html -
(This site lists all 50 States – State by State if you want to see where your state falls)
At $75 per hour “all in” costs and assuming a 2080 hr year (no overtime – just 52 weeks at 40 hours per week) the annual cost for a UAW member is $156,000. No wonder they don’t blink when they ask the Government for a $75 Billion bailout, an amount equal to $375,000 for every direct employee of the “Old Auto Industry”. Comments?
If we allow the car industry to collaspe…It is true many of us will be out of work…but alot of us have all ready lost our jobs. And yes it will be harder of times for us…I live on a fixed income of $2100.00 a month and there is 3 in my family. But, I am willing to take this step to help each and everyone of us americans to get this country back on the right track.
If we allow the auto industry collaspe then we have done away with the UAW. One of the most greedy and wasteful union their is. The UAW also has their hands in the pockets of our government. Another auto industry will arise…but then we will have a better chance for this because we can put a NO UNION clause in there starting up… It will save us alot in the long run for our national deficit wouldn’t go over the cliff more than it already has… And this will lead to not so many high corrupted cronies with their hands in our elected officials pockets…..they the (UAW) will no longer beable to have an strong arm hold on our government officials.
Our Government is trying to save one of the biggest Unions (UAW) and not the auto industry…. Consider this, No one has mentioned this at all: The big three auto makers could file for Chapter 11….they would stay in business…regroup…and come out of this fairly well.
Our government needs the UAW… The American People do not !!!!
The former chief risk officer at the Investment Bank, Bear Stearns, Cos., which nearly collasped last March is now the senior official of the Federal Reserves division that supervises the US Banks.
What is next??? The chickens turning over their golden eggs to our government officials!!!
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/04/news/economy/BearStearns_exec_fed.ap/index.htm
Keep the pressure on your congressman/woman and our government to go after AIG and press fraud charges against them… We have been doing a great job in this….we have AIG running scared. And they should be…….really scared. Also boycott and AIG Company…
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/07/news/companies/aig_loan.ap/index.htm
US GOVERNMENT RAFFLE TICKET
FOR FAILING COMPANIES ONLY
I am asking everyone of you to e-mail or call your congressman/woman, your Senator, and Speaker of the House’s Office (Nancy Pelosi) tomorrow or within the next day or two. I just read the article and I am totally furrious……
I want you to demand from these offices I asked you to get ahold of……..just where in the US Consititution does it state that our government has a right to pass this $700 Billion Bailout Bill and just how can they turn around after it was passed to use it as they see fit????
This is illegal………..Everyone please demand the answers to these questions and then go to a copy of the US Consititution and see if you can find it anywheres……here is a web link to go to the US Consititution…
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
For once get up off your butts and do something to save us and your country….Call and demand it.
Please watch this video…see what Ben Stein really knows about where we stand on our economy crisis…. “NOTHING”. He doesn’t have a clue, but our government is taken his advise in what to do to fix the economy. Don’t know about all of you, but Ben Stein should shut his mouth until he knows what he is doing.
This is the person our government should be listening to not Rep. Barney Franks, Nancy Pelosi, or Ben Stein. He is absolutely right.
Just how important was it to get the $700 Billion Bailout Plan rushed through the house, senate, and to the president’s office for signing?? If you remember this bill was rushed and passed for it was so despartely needed for the sake of our economy.
If this is so, then why did Henry Paulson tell the house yesterday, that he wasn’t going to ask congress for the other $350 Billion for another 2 months?? Going to wait for president elect Obama to take office. I guess it really isn’t all that despartely needed now… wouldn’t you say??
Again, this only adds to my reservations on the whole bailout plan being a scam invented by our government and its officials. The truth will come out…and I am almost willing to bet that this will end up beinging the BIGGEST SCANDALS OF OUR GOVERNMENT’S HISTORY.
USE THIS LINK AND SEE JUST HOW BAD OFF THEY REALLY ARE…….THEY DIDN’T COME TO TOWN IN THEIR FUEL EFFIENCY CARS THEY MAKE……………..BUT THE MOST FUEL GUZZLING…WAY!!!!!!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6285739&page=1
MY OPINION ON THIS ONE IS: GO TO HELL BIG THREE…….SELL THEM FOR THE MONEY FROM THEM WILL SAVE YOUR COMPANIES….WALK A HELL OF ALOT CHEAPER……
AMERICAN’S YOU ALL NEED TO WAKE UP AND NOT LISTEN TO OUR GOVERNMENT…THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS COMING…….NOTHING LIKE WE HAVE EVER SEEN…
The auto makers are going to sell their jets and the CEO’S are going to a $1.00 a year salary. My question is, Who and hell are they trying to kid??? If they sold the jets…they wouldn’t need the money. One jet alone is worth about $36,000,000. And a $1.00 a year salary……..how much in bonuses and benefits though??? They must think the American Taxpayers are as stupid as our government is!!!! Well, at least I know I am not!!!! How about you???
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/02/news/companies/automakers_plans/index.htm?postversion=2008120210
1) VOTE EVERY POLITICAN OUT OF OFFICE WHO IS UP FOR RE-ELECTION.
2) DO AWAY WITH THE ELECTORIAL COLLEGE VOTING SYSTEM…MAKE ALL OF OUR VOTES COUNT…(LIKE OBAMA SAID…WE ARE THE UNITED STATES NOT THE RED AND BLUE STATES).
3) PUT TERM LIMITS ON ALL SEATS OF OUR GOVERNMENT…NO MORE GOOD OLE BOYS CLUB IN WASHINGTON.
4) VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT LIE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, FOR IF THEY LIE THEN … THEY WILL LIE IN OFFICE TOO!!!
5) DEMAND EVERY POLITICAL SEAT WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENT (INCLUDING OBAMA) TAKE A 50% PAY CUT…. TO HELP BRING DOWN THE NATIONAL DEFICIT.
6) ALL CZARS AND PAGES IN WASHINGTON FIRED… TO HELP BRING DOWN THE NATIONAL DEFICIT.
7) NO BILLS PASSED WITHOUT POSTING THEM ON LINE FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE THEY CAN VOTE ON THEM.
NO SPENDING ANYTHING OR LOANS TO ANY COUNTRY WITHOUT A VOTE (AGAIN NEEDS TO BE POSTED ON LINE FOR ONE WEEK BEFORE THAT VOTE).
Here is a web link so you can go to the story…interesting for Obama is in it up to his neck…no way out. Of course alot of other Democrats as well. Haven’t you wondered why Obama is not commenting at all on wheter to defund ACORN, wheter or not they should be investigated, ect ??? No, words at all from the commander and cheif on this one. WHY???
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/28/acorns-man-in-the-white-house
Our government is in “Bed”…with our enemies. Giving 98 million dollars to Kim Jong-il of North Korea to give up nuclear weapons. (Don’t know about you but I feel this is a real dangerous thing to do …for they will then have the money to continue making nuclear weapons and possibly using them on us one day……..VERY SCAREY!!!).
This buget to fund these Enemy Countries…is in the tune of $206,500,000. While we the taxpayers and Citizens of this Country is being taxed to death and our Country Broke. This could have paid for the Health Care Reform if they really wanted to do something….but they plan is to Bankrupt our Country and Us …..then we will be looking to the Government for our every needs in life. This is a Dictorship….and we are headed there past unless we stand up and fight back now. Not tomorrow….Today!!! Call your Senators and Congressman/woman and give them a piece of you mind on this. I have listed the receipetences of this Money below and I have provided the web-link to the complete article ……Really a “MUST READ AND TAKE ACTION”.
Much of the foreign aid budget is spent on military, disaster and humanitarian assistance. But some of the spending for 2010 will be heading to countries where dictators rule:
Foreign aid checks are rarely ever written directly to a government. Funding is generally provided to companies and non-governmental organizations that operate in other countries, which the U.S. government says helps advance human rights and the rule of law abroad. Some organizations keep close ties to their host government, and others work in spite of them.
The question is, do any of the programs work?
In Colombia, where the U.S. spent $38 million to improve human rights in 2008, State Department auditors concluded five of six program areas failed.
We have been told by certain news media that the elected politicans do not read the bills that they vote on. It makes one wonder if they do or not ….or is it just the media putting a spin on it??
Fox News showed a video of Sen. Burris, which Burris is saying he don’t read the 1000 page bills.
I now know that he isn’t the only one who doesn’t read things before passing or signing them: And here is another one saying it: Rep. Barney Frank:
Frank said his “biggest error was to sign a letter to the Congressional Research Service which I had not thoroughly read and which does not accurately represent my own position in all aspects.”
So, we now know it isn’t the media putting a spin on it…They are reporting the news accurate and informing the American’s who voted them into office of their practices and dealings when it comes to serving the people of their States.
ACORN has announced who they hired to Investigate themselves, Scott Harshburger out of the firm: Proskauer Rose LLP out of Massachusetts.
Which I find rathering amusing… The State of Massachusetts is a highly democratic state. One who makes laws quickly, to suit the democratic party. Then just alittle over a year later go back and repeal this “Law” to benefit their party. Yes, I am talking about the replacement for Sen. Kennedy’s seat.
Luther Scott Harshburger is a former Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts and a Democratic Politican. Does this shock anyone out there?? For it doesn’t me!!! This law firm has 99 attorneys and just how funny is it, that they end up with the former AG of Massachusetts. This smells really “FISHY” to me….anyone else??
Has Scott Harshburger been choosen to keep the White House (and government employees) names out of this scandal with ACORN?? Has he been choosen to side with all the democrat’s to get their funding back?? Has he been choosen to side with ACORN (who criminally help democrats get elected)?? Did ACORN, help in his campaigns for political seats?? Does make one wonder if the “FOX IS IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE” doesn’t it??
This I just copied off the Fox News website…I am outraged by it. And alot of people are saying Glenn Beck is a Nut Job…then why is he trying so hard to tell us this…he is right…look at what our government and Obama is doing now: No more freedom of speech, if you oppose them!!!
Here is this article:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (AP).
U.S. health officials launched the probe after the Louisville-based company mailed a letter to patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans — private options that replace standard Medicare — warning that President Obama’s health overhaul could eliminate important benefits of the program.
Humana said in its letter that if Medicare Advantage funding gets cut, “millions of seniors and disabled individuals … could lose many of the important benefits and services that make Medicare Advantage health plans so valuable.”
Republican Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell blasted the investigation of Humana on Wednesday, calling it a “federal gag order” that seeks to silence a health provider that disagrees with the administration. McConnell said he’s called for a complete legal justification of the probe.
“This is so clearly an outrage,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “For explaining to seniors how legislation might affect them, the federal government has now issued a gag order on that company, and any other company that communicates with clients on the issue, telling them to shut up — or else.
“This is precisely the kind of thing Americans are worried about with the administration’s health care plan. They’re worried that government agencies which were created to enforce violations even-handedly will instead be used against those who voice a different point of view,” he said.
The investigation was first suggested by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, whose committee has jurisdiction over Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — which officiates over the Medicare program for seniors and Medicare Advantage options — ordered a “cease and desist” order on all of Humana’s health care mailings until the investigation is concluded.
Baucus has called the Humana letter a “scare tactic” meant to distort the current reforms under consideration. The CMS alleges that Humana’s letter may have violated federal regulations, but the information distributed by the health provider was supported by the nonpartisan, independent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office.
Obama has insisted that despite planned cuts to Medicare providers, seniors would not see their benefits reduced under a health care overhaul. But CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf contradicted that Tuesday under questioning by Finance Committee Republicans, saying seniors in the private Medicare Advantage plans could see reduced benefits under Baucus’ legislation. Proposed changes “would reduce the extra benefits that would be made available to beneficiaries through Medicare Advantage plans,” Elmendorf said.
A Republican aide told FOXNews.com that the investigation is a clear breach of First Amendment rights and said the Republican leader is asking the CMS to provide legal justification for its investigation. The aide said CMS’s investigation follows a pattern of intimidation put forth by the administration for any kind of dissent in the health care debate.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee lashed out at McConnell’s charges Wednesday, saying, “If there was ever any doubt who Republicans are looking out for in the health care debate, Mitch McConnell has offered conclusive proof: the insurance companies.
“Republicans jeopardize their own credibility when they choose to defend big insurance companies trying to make false claims about senior citizens,” the DSCC said in a press release.
Nine months into Obama’s administration, no administrator of the CMS has been named — leading some Republicans to question whether the White House had a direct hand in silencing Humana.
While the administration referred all questions about the investigation to CMS, White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said the confirmation of a CMS administrator “is a priority for the administration.” CMS did not immediately answer requests for comment.
House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., has called on CMS to provide additional information on the so-called gag order, including the person or persons who authorized the agency to issue it.
“I have never seen anything like this and I question if politics was the deciding factor,” Camp said in a press release. ”Given that the administration has failed for more than eight months to nominate a director for CMS, I wonder if undue political pressure may have been applied on the CMS staff.
“It is Congress’ responsibility to find out the facts and protect the interests of the American people. We need to know who contacted CMS, when they did it and what was said,” he said.
FOX News’ Chad Pergram and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
This is what you need to do below:
Now call your senators and congressman and let them know there is something definitely something wrong in Washington DC …there is a Marxist Regime taking it over…It is there job to find out what it is and who it is (we know it is Obama and his czars and the democratic party) and stand up to the plate and blow the whistle on it…..I just got off the phone with mine before sitting down and writing this.
Please help us from a Marxist Regime take over of our Government. And this is a true and very scarey. You took an Oath of Office to uphold and defend the US Constitution…….this you are not doing. Whether it is you just don’t see it or you are scared of them too………..
You need to step up to the Plate, let this corruption be known. Glenn Beck of Fox News has on his web site a link to go to and it is all done in secrecy (and you know how that works) to help refound this Country and Government. Or send it to him without your name, mail it from another state than where you are, send an email from an email site that you just set up and delete after you send it to him….there are ways to do it.
The American people will look up to you in the highest of regrads and will stand behind you. This he isn’t just saying…WE WILL !!!
But, everyone has had a male member of their family (dad, brother, uncle, grandfather) fight for our Country and protect the US Constitution. Some (many) gave the most sacrifice of all…THEIR LIVES. And yes, I even expect that one of you had someone in your families that fought for this or even gave their lives for it……Don’t “Spit” on them now because you are scared of them, or just don’t know what to do about it, or you can’t be concerned enough about it to look in to it. Give your scarifice…step up to the plate and let it be known. PLEASE HELP US !!!
THIS IS YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS UGLY TAKE OVER IN WASHINGTON… TAKE IT !!!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH !!!
FOR SOME REASON THE VIDEO DIDN’T WANT TO UPLOAD SO I HAVE PROVIDED THE WEB LINK TO IT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgqyQm0Kzo
After reviewing this video and really giving it some serious though as to what he is saying. If you don’t quite believe what he is saying…look up the definition of Black Liberation Theology…the church Obama belonged to for 20 years that he was forced to leave due to the controveries that surround his campaign. He would never got into office at all if he continued to attend this church.
Do your own home work…look up ACORN, SEIU, TIDES FOUNDATION, WEATHERMAN UNDERGROUND ORIGINATION……LOOK HOW ALL THE CEO’S AND BOARDMAN ARE INTERTWINED……
LOOK AND CHECK OUT HIS CZARS….HOW THEY PRAISE OUR ENEMIES, HOW THEY PRAISE COMMUNISIUM, SOCIALIST………FOR GOD SAKES’ AMERICANS….HE IS HITTING THE NAIL ON THE HEAD…………THEY ARE TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY…………….TRAMPLING ON OUR FLAG THAT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN HAS FOUGHT FOR AND DIED FOR……..TRAMPLING ALL OVER OUR CONSTITUTION……..
PLEASE STAND UP AND CALL ..CALL..CALL..CALL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN EVERYDAY …….3 TIMES A DAY AND TELL THEM TO START COMING STRAIGHT AND CLEAN UP THIS MESS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
PLEASE READ THE OTHER ARTICLE THAT I POSTED THIS MORNING ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT IN “BED” WITH OUR ENEMIES………..IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND…OR AT LEAST IT SHOULD!!!
This was taken from the ABC’S web-site: These are the reasons that I have a hard time believing him on this:
1) He isn’t following this story on ACORN closely?? Don’t forget he worked for ACORN. He defended ACORN in a court issue. He got alot of help from ACORN in his presidental campaign. He also said, he would be calling on ACORN to help shape his agenda.
2) He didn’t know that ACORN…was even recieving alot of Federal Money?? What does our President know?? Lies to our faces??
3) Look at how he side steps George’s last question….In my opinion, there are five big issues out there that is facing our country and enocomy:
1) Health Care Reform
2) War in Iraq and Afghanstan
3) Missle Sheild
4) ACORN ( businesses practice, corruption, and their involvement within our Government)
5) Cap and Trade
Here’s our FULL exchange:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, if — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
Rep. Betty McCollum from the 4th district and Rep. Keith Ellison from the 5th district here in Minnesota, both voted within Congress to support the corrupted organization ACORN. They were two of the Democrats who voted Nay to halt Federal Dollars going to ACORN. Apparently ACORN, contributed to their campaigns or got them a few of those fraudulent voter registration cards. I live in the 5th district here and I will support a anti-campaign against Rep. Keith Ellison getting re-elected in 2010. This is a message for you Keith: Start writing a resume for come November 2010 …you are going to be needing it.
We want to clean up the corruption in Washington DC and the Representatives who are apart of it and the ones who constantly goes against their constiutes. Bye Bye Mr. Ellison. And hopefully the Minnesotan’s who live in the 4th district will do the same a I…….and make sure Rep. Betty McCollum is out in 2010….too !!!
I was currious who the 75 Represenatives were, who voted to support ACORN. I went to print this list out and I got alot more information about ACORN, SEIU, and the Democrats than ever expected. 62 pages of very, very interesting stuff. ………I suggest you go to this web link here . Like I said very interesting reading but make sure you have paper enough to print for it is 62 pages long. Full of CORRUPTION!!!
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/voter_fraud_democrat_tool/
Seven Senators voted NO (All Democrats)
Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)The
UPDATE: Here are the 75 corrupt congressmen who voted to preserve ACORN’s stream of funding. (all Democrats)
The biggest surprises on the list: Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and the two Democrats from West Virginia, Alan Mollohan and Nick Rahall.
Notable for not voting: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a staunch defender of ACORN.
ACORN’s defenders:
Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc.
Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Robert Brady D-Pa.
Corrine Brown, D-Fla.
G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.
Mike Capuano, D-Mass.
Andre Carson, D-Ind.
Betty Castor, D-Fla.
Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
James Clyburn, D-S.C.
Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.
Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
Danny Davis, D-Ill.
Diane DeGette, D-Colo.
Bill Delahunt, D-Mass.
Mike Doyle, D-Pa.
Donna Edwards, D-Md.
Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
Chakka Fattah, D-Pa.
Bob Filner, D-Calif.
Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio
Al Green, D-Tex.
Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y.
Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii
Rush Holt, D-N.J.
Mike Honda, D-Calif.
Jesse Jackson, Jr. D-Ill.
Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Tex.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich.
Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
Rick Larsen, D-Wash.
Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
John Lewis, D-Ga.
Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.
Markey, D-Mass.
Betty McCollum, D-Minn.
McDermott, D-Wash.
McGovern, D-Mass.
Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.
Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va.
Gwen Moore, D-Wisc.
Jim Moran, D-Va.
Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
Richard Neal, D-Mass.
John Olver, D-Mass.
Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
Bill Pascrell, D-N.J.
Donald Payne, D-N.J.
Jared Polis, D-Colo.
David Price, D-N.C.
Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.
Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.
Bobby Rush, D-Ill.
Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.
Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
David Scott D-Ga.
Bobby Scott, D-Va.
Jose Serrano, D-N.Y.
Brad Sherman, D-Calif.
Albio Sires, D-N.J.
Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.
Pete Stark, D-Calif.
Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.
Niki Tsongas, D-Mass.
Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.
Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Diane Watson, D-Calif.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Robert Wexler, D-Fla.
Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550941,00.html
Demand Washington DC to do their own investigation of ACORN…including their dealings within our government and the officals there…right to the top of the list .
ACORN has a history of when the going gets rough…turn some of their employees in to authorities…and let them take the rap. Mean while it looks good that they are doing this for it keeps or takes the heat of them. After all, They can’t afford to run this business without government money. They can’t do business if their tax license number is taken away from them . So, see how they work…….the poor class people they are they to help (the ones they trained for these jobs) are the ones who takes the fall in their path of crime.
Here is the web link to go and see for your self how ACORN works, this is the Florida arrests of 11 ACORN workers who ….were truned in by no other than ACORN. We need to stop this corrupted organization and anyone in Washington DC covering for them.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5ZxJgjHzO_C-1f0H0FHImQwjR2gD9AJTJ1G0
This I just found out here on the Internet that I didn’t know about any of this at the time I posted this but, I have edited it with the New story of ACORN’S corrpution!!!
The Factor” and the Glenn Beck program traced millions in ACORN donations and grants to an abandoned funeral home in New Orleans. Based on information we provided to Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, a state investigation is now underway.
On Tuesday afternoon the House has decided to discipline Rep. Joe Wilson for, “YOU LIE”, outburst last Wednesday night…during Obama’s Speech to Congress. They are bringing a “Resolution of disapproval” action against him, which is a lesser punishment than apparently what they could bring.
This is what Kristie Greco, a spokeswoman for the House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) had to say:
“We’re not the British parliament for a reason,” said Kristie Greco, spokeswoman for House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C.,.”Ignoring the issue sets a precedent for bad behavior.”
I do believe that Rep. Wilson did make that remark out of frustration, but I also believe it probablywouldhave been better if he had waited to the end of things and commented it on the News channels and not during the speech, but he did apology to the White House (Obama) that evening.
My outrage in all of this is: If Rep. Wilson is going to be disciplined, even after an apology, for the precedent of bad bahavior………then why not our President..for doing just that..lieing to the faces of every American watching it ..say nothing about lieing to all of them within that (SCARCED) House of theirs??? Let’s set the “Precedent of Bad Behavior” all away around or across the board!!!
President Obama called Kanye West (who I don’t care for either) a JACK-ASS Monday in an off the record comment during an interview with CNBC, and ABC news anchor. Here it is:
Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won.
Would anybody agree with me on this: Is this Bad Behavior, coming out of Washinton DC, too?? Especially the mouth….of our highest seat within our government???
If you agree with me on this then I have a favor to ask of you. Call or e-mail your Representives and Senators and tell them you want the President of the United States censured as well, for speaking out badly against the taxpyers of this country, Kanye West and the Police in Cambridge, Ma.. And against Pelosi, Reid, and others for calling us Un-americans, Nazi’s, ect.
Seven Senators voted against this and here are their names and States where they are from:
1)BURRIS DEMOCRAT ILLINOIS 2) CASEY DEMOCRAT PENNSYLVANIA
3)DURBIN DEMOCRAT ILLINOIS 4) LEAHY DEMOCRAT VERMONT
5)GILLIBRAND DEMOCRAT NEW YORK 6) SANDERS INDEPENDENT VERMONT
7)WHITEHOUSE DEMOCRAT RHODE ISLAND
And I would like this time to say Thank you, to all that voted for it. Especially the 48 Democratic Senators. There were a few names on this list that really shocked me though: Dodds, Shumer, Specter, Reid, Boxer, Kerry, and a few others.
The seven listed at the top that voted against it ….. I would only hope their constitutes vote them out of office. For wanting to allow ACORN to keep on recieving Federal Money (taxpayer’s money) knowing that they are corrupt and has been for years now. All I want to say to this list of seven Senators is: It takes a crook to stand by one.
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545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
There are no insoluble government problems. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices.
1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope they do something about it.
2. You can agree to vote against everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to run for office yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.
YOU DECIDE, BUT AT LEAST SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, MAYBE SOMEONE IN THERE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
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Vice President Joe Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that he was “embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love.”
Observers said the behavior is probably indicative of the vitriolic sentiments found during town hall meetings.
“I think a lot of those Republican members went home to their district and were met with very angry reaction from their constituents.
After reading this comment that Biden told to Good Morning America Thursday coming from the remark by Rep. Joe Wilson…YOU LIE…at Obama’s address to congress Wednesday night.
No, you are so wrong Mr. Biden…my representive heard nothing but praise. And I will stand behind Rep. Wilson, for someone had the GUTS and the BACKBONE to stand up to all the lies coming out of this Administration and tell you face to face, you are lairs.
And if I was you, Mr. Biden, I would be highly embarrassed to be apart of this Administration. With the corruption and lies coming out of it. And here is the most recent lie coming out of the White House…….now tell me , this is not a lie !!!
(The White House on Friday claimed it was unaware of the planned rally.
“I don’t know who the group is,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters with a shrug.
But a House leadership aide warned fellow Democrats that up to 2 million demonstrators could turn out.
“It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Doug Thornell, an aide to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., wrote in a memo obtained by FOXNews.com.)
For it was all over the internet here and on most TV news channel for weeks and weeks now. Plus someone, gave the OK for Homeland Security to help with the crowd control. Homeland Security is one of your babies…isn’t it???
And while I am at it here, the Congress You Love…well I suggest that you start saying your Good Byes ……for most of them , if not all of them will be gone on Judgement Day…Election Day 2010.
After reading Alexrod’s statement today, I urge every American…who wanted to be at the 9-12 March in Washington DC yesterday (who couldn’t be there for one reason or another), Call your Representives in Congress, call your Senators, and call the White House and let them know that that crowd there yesteday did reprent you….too. It is the Majority of Americans who are saying this , NOT THE MINORITY!!! THANK YOU.
The White House has a message to the tens of thousands of protesters who railed against big government during a rally in Washington Saturday: You’re wrong.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the protesters, part of the “tea party” movement, do not represent the views of the broader public when it comes to health care reform.
“I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”
Axelrod said that President Obama has made clear he wants to “build on the system that we have,” dismissing concerns that the president is proposing a large-scale government intervention and claiming broad support for the president’s plan.
The rally, and others like it, have been billed as “tea parties,” part of a movement that takes its cue from the Boston Tea Party and other imagery from the days of the founding fathers. On Saturday, men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of “judgment day” — Election Day 2010.
FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, had organized several groups from across the country for the Saturday event, dubbed a “March on Washington.”
Some demonstrators specifically protested government spending and health care reform plans.
“I’m Not Your ATM,” one sign said. Another slogan was, “Obamacare makes me sick.”
Some signs, reflecting the growing intensity of the health care debate, depicted Obama with the mustache of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Many made reference to Obama as a socialist or communist, and another imposed his face on that of the villainous Joker from “Batman.”
Axelrod suggested Sunday that the more over-the-top demonstrations were representative of a minority view — the kind exhibited at some town hall meetings over the summer.
“I don’t believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully, that were constructive, people voicing their points of view,” Axelrod said. “You know, one of the great things about our country is people can express themselves even if they’re not representative of the majority.”
I just found this clipping that I copied from FOX News web site….It will show you that this Government lies like hell.
1)The White House on Friday claimed it was unaware of the planned rally.
2)”I don’t know who the group is,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters with a shrug.
3)But a House leadership aide warned fellow Democrats that up to 2 million demonstrators could turn out.
4)”It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Doug Thornell, an aide to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., wrote in a memo obtained by FOXNews.com.
We all know this first sentence is an out right LIE, for we have had it all over TV, Newspapers (including the Washington Post), all over our Blogs…….Come on, just how fucking dumb do they think we are??
We also know that White House Spokesman, Robert Gibbs lies like hell too!!!
Sentence 3 put alittle more truth on things .
Sentence 4 proves they are nothing but lairs…….and how dare them to call for yet another apology from Rep. Joe Wilson’s remark. At least someone had the nerve to say it.
All of us American’s should demand that all of Congress, the Senate, and the White House apologize to us for their lies. It would be the right thing for them to do but we all know they don’t know how to do things …the RIGHT way.
All I can say to President Obama is: CHICKEN!!! You really should have been in Washington DC today…..Maybe seeing all of those “UN-AMERICAN’S” there to protest you and your style of Government in person…rather on TV that couldn’t show all of them at one time…You might get our Point!!!
President Obama was talking to a crowd of about 15,000 at the Target Center Here in Minneapolis today. Telling this crowd, “THEY CAN’T STOP US”, oh yes …yes …yes WE CAN…AND WE WILL.
President Obama told this crowd that: One half of all people under the age of 65 will lose their health care insurance over the next ten years. Great SCARE tactic, Mr. Obama. Do it your way or no way………you are right about one thing……IT WILL BE NO WAY!!! Unless you want a Revolution on your hands. That will really look good in the US History Books in years to come….wouldn’t it??
About time some one gets smart………within our government!! If you haven’t voted in the poll that Fox has on its web site….Please do! It is a poll…should the justice department investigate ACORN? I bet you don’t know the results of it??
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/10/decide-acorn-justice-investigate/
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS COUNTRY.
See for yourself: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549241,00.html
This is right in the Washington, DC office. Right under the noses of our government officals. Yet, with all the controverses over ACORN and their fradulent business practices … our government is still funding them with taxpayer money.
It is time for every American to call their Representives in Washington, DC and tell them this:
You want a federal investigation done on ACORN. We as taxpayers want all funds alocated to them to halt immediately. And we want Obama’s ties with ACORN investigated, we want his birth certificate investigated as well as his radical ties. It is time we know the truth about Mr. Obama.
It is really hard for me to believe that the President of the United States is so god damn dumb, that he doesn’t know anything of what is going on within ACORN, that he doesn’t know the corruption and radical behavior of his appointees… I am not so stupid that I can not see all the ties within all of these unfortune misinterpertations…so President Obama tells us.
Like Michelle Obama (Our First Lady) statement of, “for the first time in my life..I AM PROUD OF MY COUNTRY”. After dealings with Berdardine Dorhn, William Ayers, ACORN, 20 years of sitting in a church with Rev. Wrights sermons of DAM AMERICA………I can see what her statement was for and it wasn’t taken out of text like all of us have been told.
The Radio Czar, Mark Lloyd is not on this list. He was appointed in July ‘09.
August 21, 2009 – 5:26 ET
As of July 20, 2009:
• The Brainroom counts 32 czars in the Obama administration, based on media reports from reputable sources that have identified the official in question as a czar.
• In addition, President Obama has said that he will create the position of cyber czar, and there have been media reports that there could be a health insurance czar and a copyright czar. When and if those positions are filled, that would bring the total to 35.
• Since czar isn’t an official job title, the number is somewhat in the eye of the beholder.
NOTE: positions that also existed under previous administrations are indicated with an *.
1. Afghanistan Czar – Richard Holbrooke
Title: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Appointed: January 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: State
• Will work with CENTCOM head Gen. David Petraeus to integrate U.S. civilian and military efforts in the region.
• 45 years of experience have made him a fixture of the Democrats’ foreign policy establishment.
• Was U.S. ambassador to U.N., 1999-2001
• Brokered the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia
• Also served as Assistant secretary of state, East Asia and the Pacific (1976 to 1980); worked in foreign service (1962 to 1976)
• From 1972 through 1976, was the editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
2. AIDS Czar * – Jeffrey Crowley
Title: Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
Salary: $102,000
Reports to: President Obama (as part of the Executive Office of the President’s Domestic Policy Council)
Appointed: February 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Health and Human Services
• Coordinates HIV/AIDS policy domestically and internationally.
• Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and a Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
• Was Deputy Executive Director for Programs at the National Association of People with AIDS
• Has Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
3. Auto Recovery Czar – Ed Montgomery
Title: Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Larry Summers, the president’s top economic adviser, and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
Appointed: March 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Labor
• Will work to leverage government resources to support the workers, communities and regions that rely on the American auto industry.
• Was Deputy Secretary and Chief Economist at the Labor Department (1997 to 1998)
• Is Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland (2003 to present)
• Has PhD in economics from Harvard
• In 2008, made $1,200 in political donations, all of which went to Obama’s presidential campaign.
• Wife is the granddaughter of a General Motors worker from Portland, Mich.
• Drives a 2000 Lincoln
4. Border Czar * – Alan Bersin
Title: Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
Appointed: April 2009
Agencies that might have handled similar issues: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• Will coordinate all of the department’s border security and law-enforcement efforts.
• Essentially had the same job under President Clinton; served as Attorney General Janet Reno’s special representative on border issues, a job that he held while retaining the position of U.S. attorney for San Diego.
• This time, boss will be Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who will expect him to handle illegal immigration and drug violence issues along the Mexican-American border
• Previous experience: Chairman of the San Diego Regional Airport Authority (2006 to 2009); Secretary of Education for California (2005 to 2006); Superintendent of San Diego Public Schools (1998 to 2005); U.S. Attorney for San Diego (1993 to 1998)
• Graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School
• Talking about border security shortly before he was named Clinton border czar in 1995, said he wanted to focus on suspected smugglers of both drugs and people and was not interested in prosecuting “economic migrants.”
• Often tied to the 1994 border policy called “Operation Gatekeeper.” The policy shifted the U.S. focus from the arresting of immigrants who actually crossed the border to an increased border presence designed to stop border crossing in the first place. When Bersin left the position in 1998, border arrests were on pace for an 18-year low of just more than 200,000. Latino groups complained that Operation Gatekeeper was immoral, saying the program monitored the border near San Diego but simply forced illegal immigrants to other, more dangerous areas.
• Has given more than $50,000 to political campaigns since 1999, almost all of it to Democrats.
5. California Water Czar – David J. Hayes
Title: Deputy Interior Secretary
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Appointed: June 2009
Confirmed by Senate (as Deputy Interior Security): May 20, 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Interior
• Charged with coordinating federal agencies to ease California’s water shortage
• Graduate of Stanford Law School; clerked for U.S. District Court for the D.C., has been a partner at two big D.C. law firms
• Was deputy interior secretary under Bruce Babbitt during Clinton administration
• From 1993 to 1995, was chairman of the board at the Environmental Law Institute, a non-profit research center.
• As a lobbyist, represented the Southern California Metropolitan Water District in 2001
• In August 2008, wrote a policy report while working at the Progressive Policy Institute accusing the Bush administration of leaving a “damaging legacy” in their natural resource management policies
• Donated $2,300 to Clinton during 2008 campaign; after she withdrew, donated $2,300 to Obama
6. Car Czar – Ron Bloom
NOTE: on July 13, 2009, Bloom took over as head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, replacing Steven Rattner
Title: Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council head Larry Summers
Appointed: July 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury
• A leader of the White House task force overseeing auto company bailouts; worked on restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler LLC.
• Was special assistant to president of the United Steelworkers union from 1996-Feb 2009
• Has negotiated restructuring deals for more than 50 companies, getting major concessions from unions and companies.
• Was raised in New York in a pro-union family, which included a schoolteacher mother and unionized relatives.
• After working for the Service Employees International Union, got an MBA from Harvard University because he thought unions lacked business smarts, he said in a 1996 interview in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• From 1985 to 1990, he worked as an investment banker with Lazard Freres & Co., which specializes in mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring, before co-founding the investment-banking firm Keilin and Bloom.
7. Central Region Czar – Dennis Ross
Title: Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region (encompasses the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia)
Salary: unknown
Reports to: National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones
Appointed: June 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: State
• Spent 12 years in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations trying to create a permanent agreement between the governments of Israel and the Palestinian territories
• In 1981, was named to President Ronald Reagan’s national security staff as the director of Near East and South Asian Affairs.
• Was director of the State Department’s Policy Planning office during President George H. W. Bush’s term.
• 1993: appointed to the position of Middle East coordinator, making him the top negotiator for peace between Israel and Palestinian territories
• After he left government in 2000, headed up Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a hawkish think tank with a pro-Israeli bent
8. Climate Czar – Todd Stern
Title: Special Envoy for Climate Change
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Appointed: January 2009
Agency or department that might have handled similar issues: Environmental Protection Agency; State
• Responsible for developing international approaches to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
• Served in the Clinton White House from 1993 to 1999; Was Head of the Initiative on Global Climate Change (1997 to 1999) and Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury (1999 to 2001)
• As a top aide to President Clinton, helped negotiate the Kyoto and Buenos Aires climate pacts, both of which fell apart partially because of a lack of U.S. support during Bush administration.
• After Bush was elected to office, went to the Wilmer Hale law firm, where he is a partner in the regulatory and government affairs division.
• Was most recently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on climate change and environmental issues.
• Has written extensively on climate change, and has called on the American government and the international community to take a series of steps to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
• Supports a national cap-and-trade system that would limit carbon emissions and reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil
• Has law degree from Harvard
9. Domestic Violence Czar – Lynn Rosenthal
Title: White House adviser on Violence Against Women
Salary: unknown
Reports to: President Obama and Vice President Biden
Appointed: June 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Health and Human Services
• Will advise the President and Vice President on domestic violence and sexual assault issues.
• 2000-2006: served as the Executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence
• Was an advocate for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2000 and 2005 and has assisted states and local communities with implementation of this federal legislation
• Was director of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence
10. Drug Czar * – Gil Kerlikowske
Title: Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Salary: unknown
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: March 2009
Confirmed by Senate: May 7, 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Justice
• Directs drug-control policy in the U.S.; is expected to shift drug policy to intervention, treatment and a reduction of problem drug use.
• Was police chief for the city of Seattle from 2000-2009
• Was Deputy Director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (1998 to 2000); Police Chief for the city of Buffalo (1994 to 1998); Police chief of Fort Pierce, Fla. (N/A to 1994)
• A strong gun-control advocate, urged both the Washington legislature and the U.S. Congress to pass an assault-weapons ban and has worked to close the loophole that doesn’t require background checks at gun shows
• 2003: admitted that busting people for personal marijuana possession was not a top priority of the Seattle police department.
• As Seattle police chief, assigned an officer full-time to the drug court, which commuted sentences of drug users who complete medical treatment in lieu of going to jail.
11. Economic Czar * – Paul Volcker
Title: Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Salary: Volcker reportedly isn’t paid for his advice.
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: January 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury
• Charged with offering independent, nonpartisan information, analysis, and advice to the President as he formulates and implements his plans for economic recovery.
• Some reports say he’s been marginalized by Larry Summers.
• Former Federal Reserve chairman (1979-1987)
• Was Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs, Department of the Treasury (1969 to 1974); Deputy Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs, Department of the Treasury (1963 to 1965)
• Gave Obama campaign $2,300 in 2008.
12. Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner
Title: Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Salary: $172,200
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: January 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: EPA
• Coordinates energy and climate policy, emphasizing regulation and conservation.
• Was Environmental Protection Agency administrator in the Clinton administration (1993-2000)
• Was Florida Secretary of the Environment (1991 to 1993)
• Founded and continues to serve as a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that concentrates on emerging markets.
• Worked on the Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies
• Described Bush administration as the “worst environmental administration ever”
• While orchestrating private discussions between the White House and auto industry officials on vehicle fuel efficiency standards, kept the talks as quiet as possible. Mary Nichols, the head of the California Air Resources Board, said, “We put nothing in writing, ever.”
• 2003: A federal judge held the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for destroying computer files during the Clinton administration that had been sought by a conservative legal foundation. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered the EPA to pay the Landmark Legal Foundation’s legal fees and costs because the agency disobeyed his order to preserve the electronic records of Browner, the former EPA chief.
13. Faith-Based Czar * – Joshua DuBois
Title: Director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Salary: $98,000
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: February 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Health and Human Services
• Acts as a liaison between faith and secular community groups and the White House, often partnering with them to tackle social issues. Helps these groups apply for federal grants available to them.
• Is 26 years old
• Has master’s in public affairs from Princeton University; served as associate pastor
• Worked for Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) as an intern and then as a fellow for Rep. Charles B. Rangel (DN. Y.).
• Hired as a legislative correspondent in Obama’s Senate office in May 2005
• In 2008, at the age of 25, was appointed director of religious affairs for the Obama campaign.
14. Government Performance Czar – Jeffrey Zients
Title: Chief Performance Officer
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orzag
Appointed: April 2009
Confirmed by the Senate (as deputy director for management for the OMB): June 19, 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: OMB
• Charged with cutting costs and finding best practices throughout government.
• Has never worked in government before
• Was a chief executive and former management consultant
• Was founder of Portfolio Logic (2004 to present); Partner of the Washington Baseball Club (2004 to 2006); CEO of the Advisory Board (1998 to 2004)
• Has donated just over $90,000 to political campaigns since 1999, almost all of which went to Democratic candidates
15. Great Lakes Czar – Cameron Davis
Title: Special advisor to the U.S. EPA overseeing its Great Lakes restoration plan
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson
Appointed: June 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: Environmental Protection Agency
• Oversees the administration’s initiative to restore the Great Lakes’ environment.
• President of the Chicago-based environmentalist group Alliance for the Great Lakes
• Was a litigating attorney and served as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School.
• Served with the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi, Kenya, where he worked on the Montreal Protocol to protect the Earth’s ozone layer, and U.S. EPA’s Office of Regional Counsel in Chicago.
16. Green Jobs Czar – Van Jones
Title: Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Head of Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley
Appointed: March 2009
Agency or department that might have handled similar issues: Environmental Protection Agency; Labor
• Will focus on environmentally-friendly employment within the administration and boost support for the idea nationwide
• Rose from near obscurity in the Oakland, Calif., grassroots organizing scene to the leader of a national movement to spur the green economy.
• Founded Green For All, an organization focused on creating green jobs in impoverished areas
• Also co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch, a group devoted to “protect[ing] the community from police misconduct”
• Published New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, in October 2008
• Started career as a prison-reform advocate in Oakland, Calif., lobbying for reform of the juvenile justice system and youth-violence prevention programs
• Has law degree from Yale
• 2007: worked on the Green Jobs Act with then-Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), who co-sponsored the bill in the House
• 1993: was arrested at the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of cops in the Rodney King beating. “I was arrested simply for being a police observer,” says Jones, who had just graduated from Yale Law School and was working with the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
• 1999: was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
• Excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.” In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades. In 1996, Jones decided to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement.
17. Guantanamo Closure Czar – Daniel Fried
Title: Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Appointed: March 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Justice; State
• Works to get help of foreign governments in moving toward closure of Guantanamo Bay, in fulfillment of Obama’s promise to close the prison within a year of taking office.
• Was Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, State Department (2005 to 2009); Director for European and Eurasian Affairs, State Department (2001 to 2005); U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1997 to 2001)
18. Health Czar * – Nancy-Ann DeParle
Title: Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform
Salary: $158,500
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: March 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Coordinates the development of the Administration’s healthcare policy agenda.
• Experience: Managing Director, CCMP Capital (since 2001); Adjunct professor (focusing on healthcare policy), Wharton School of Business (since 2001); Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (since 2001); Fellow, Harvard Institue of Politics (2000 to 2001); Director, Healthcare Financing Administration (1997 to 2000)
• Has law degree from Harvard
• Served as the OMB’s representative on health-care reform during Bill Clinton’s first term
• As head of the HHS Health Care Financing Administration under Clinton, ran the largest health insurance provider in America, overseeing $600 billion in payments annually to 74 million recipients of Medicare and Medicaid
• 2001: left government to take a year-long fellowship at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, where she was part of Harvard’s Health Care Policy Forum and led a weekly study group on reforming Medicare.
• During Bush administration, sat on the boards of many health companies, from medical treatment producers to hospital systems
• In September 2008, donated $2,300 each to Clinton and Barack Obama.
19. Information Czar – Vivek Kundra
Title: Federal Chief Information Officer
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag
Appointed: March 2009
Agencies that might have handled similar issues: other federal agency CIOs
• Basically in charge of overseeing other federal agency CIOs and for setting technology policy across the government.
• Head of a federal technology budget that amounts to $71 billion annually
• Operation is housed in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and will likely have authority to question how money in departmental technology budgets is used
• Formerly head of the District of Columbia’s technology operations
• Shortly after he joined the OMB, federal authorities raided his old District government office. They arrested two technology office managers and a subcontractor, charging them with a bribery scheme that allegedly defrauded the city out of at least $500,000. Kundra was not a suspect in the case, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
• Has a masters from Maryland in information technology.
• Experience: Washington, D.C. Chief Technology Officer (2007 to 2009); State of Virginia’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade (2006 to 2007); CEO of computer security firm Creostar
20. Intelligence Czar * – Dennis Blair
Title: Director of National Intelligence
Salary: $197,700
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: January 2009
Confirmed by Senate: January 28, 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: CIA
• Nation’s top intelligence official.
• Retired four-star admiral.
• Graduate of the United States Naval Academy, 1968; sixth-generation naval officer
• Lacks professional roots in the world of intelligence
• Held a number of prestigious Washington posts, including the Pentagon’s top liaison to the CIA and director of the Joint Staff.
• Ran the non-profit Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), which focuses primarily on issues related to national security, and does a lot of work for the Defense Department. Left IDA under a cloud of controversy in mid-2006.
21. Mideast Peace Czar – George Mitchell
Title: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Appointed: January 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: State
• Works to maintain the shaky peace between Israel and Hamas after recent hostilities
• Senate majority leader from 1989 to 1994
• Was special envoy to Northern Ireland during the Clinton administration and lead investigator into steroid use in Major League Baseball.
• 2000: led a fact-finding committee to study violence in the Middle East; 2001’s Mitchell Report formed the basis for the road map for Middle East peace
22. Pay Czar – Kenneth R. Feinberg
Title: Special Master on executive pay
Salary: reportedly receiving no compensation for his work.
Reports to: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Appointed: June 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury
• Named to examine compensation practices at companies that have been bailed out more than once by the federal government
• Oversaw the payouts to the families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
• Was the chief administrator to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, which commemorates the students who died in the April 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech
• Founder and managing partner of Feinberg Rozen LLP (1992 to present), law firm specializing in mediation
• Was Chief of staff for Sen. Edward Kennedy (1978 to 1980)
• While working with the Feinberg Group, donated over $150,000, nearly all of which has gone to Democratic candidates and political action committees. In 2007, donated $2,300 to 2008 presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani (R).
23. Regulatory Czar – Cass R. Sunstein *
Title: Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Office of Management and Budget head Peter Orszag
Appointed: January 2009
Nomination was sent to Senate on April 20, 2009 – no action yet taken
Agency that might have handled similar issues: OMB
• Will be responsible for reviewing draft regulations and assessing their costs and benefits
• Is a Harvard Law School professor; prior to that, was a professor at the Univ. of Chicago Law School (1981-2008)
• Academic specialties: constitutional law, administrative law, and regulatory policy
• Obama: “Cass is not only a valued advisor, he is a dear friend”
• Known for advancing a field called “law and behavioral economics” that seeks to shape law and policy around the way research shows people actually behave; though embraced by conservatives, critics say it fails to account for the sometimes less-than-rational aspects of human behavior.
• In his 2002 book, Republic.com, discussed the drawbacks of limitless choices on the Internet that allow people to seek out only like-minded people and opinions that merely fortify their own views; he talked about the idea of the government requiring sites to link to opposing views. He later came to realize it was a “bad idea.”
• In his 2004 book, Animal Rights, suggested that animals ought to be able to bring suit, with private citizens acting as their representatives, to ensure that animals are not treated in a way that violates current law.
• In a 2007 speech at Harvard he called for banning hunting in the U.S.
• The American Conservative Union started a website, Stop Sunstein, in an effort to keep him out of the White House.
24. Science Czar – John Holdren
Title: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
Salary: unknown
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: December 2008
Confirmed by Senate: March 19, 2009
Agency or department that might have handled similar issues: Energy
• Top adviser to Obama on science and technology, issues that are increasingly relevant to other issues such as homeland security, energy and environmentalism
• Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (1996-2009); Harvard University Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy (1996-2009); University of California, Berkeley Professor of Energy and Resources Emeritus (1996 to present)
• Studied aerospace engineering and plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — where he earned his BS and MS — and Stanford University, where he received his doctorate in 1970
• Is an outspoken advocate of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes the United States should sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
• In a 2008 New York Times op-ed, Holdren called climate change skeptics “dangerous” members of a “denier fringe.”
• In 1971, co-authored a paper in Global Ecology suggesting “some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century.”
• Some conservative media outlets have called attention to a book Holdren co-authored in 1977 titled Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment. The book reportedly includes this statement: “population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution.” Holdren’s office says he “does not now and never has been an advocate of compulsory abortions or other repressive measures to limit fertility.”
25. Stimulus Accountability Czar – Earl Devaney
Title: Chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Vice President Biden
Appointed: February 2009
Agency that might have handled similar issues: OMB
• Leads oversight board that monitors money spent by the stimulus package
• Experience: Inspector General at the Interior Department (1999 to present); Director of criminal enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency (1991 to 1999); Special Agent at the Secret Service (1970 to 1991)
• During his tenure at Interior, uncovered the shady dealings of disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an investigation that eventually led to Abramoff’s imprisonment and the resignation of Interior’s no. 2, J. Steven Griles, for lying under oath about his own role in the scandal.
• On July 8, 2009, the U.S. General Services Administration issued a press release announcing an $18 million contract for a new recovery.gov web site, which quoted Devaney as saying, “We are pleased that another major milestone has been achieved.”
26. Sudan Czar – J. Scott Gration
Title: Special Envoy to Sudan
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Appointed: March 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: State
• Will coordinate U.S. role in the aftermath of the genocide in Darfur
• Experience: Supreme Allied Command, NATO (2004 to 2005); Air Force assistant deputy undersecretary for international affairs (2003 to 2004)
• Commanded all air operations during the Iraq war in 2003
• 2006: left Air Force position to join Obama’s staff after traveling to Africa with the then-Senator from Illinois, even though he was a Republican
• Has won a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, a Defense Superior Service Medal and 16 other awards
• Is a fluent Swahili speaker who grew up in the Congo
• Has called on the Obama administration to incentivize participation by the Sudanese government in peace talks by lifting sanctions, a position that is controversial. Also worked to position himself as the principal negotiator between the Sudanese government and its adversaries in Darfur, and is planning an international conference for September 2009
• Has M.A. in security studies from Georgetown
27. TARP Czar – Herb Allison
Title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Appointed: June 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Treasury
• Leads the government’s $700 billion financial rescue program in the office of financial stability
• Veteran Wall Street banker and interim head of the mortgage-finance company Fannie Mae
• Worked at Merrill Lynch for 28 years, reaching position of president and COO
• Was CEO of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (2002 to 2008); CEO of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning (2000 to 2002)
• Has undergraduate degree from Yale and MBA from Stanford
• 2000: was John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign finance chairman
• In 2008, donated $2,300 to Obama’s presidential campaign
28. Technology Czar – Aneesh Chopra
Title: Chief Technology Officer
Salary: unknown
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: April 2009
Confirmed by Senate: May 21, 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Commerce
• Will lead in the effort to eliminate wasteful government programs
• Will probably work to increase broadband access nationwide and computerize medical records
• Was Virginia’s secretary of technology (2005-2009)
• Has degree in public health from Johns Hopkins, Master’s from Harvard in public policy
• Worked at Morgan Stanley as investment banker; also worked at Advisory Board, a health-care research and consultancy firm
• Has donated more than $24,000 since 1997 to various campaigns. With the exception of a $1,000 donation to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) in 2004, all of Chopra’s contributions have gone to Democrats. From 2007 to 2008, Chopra donated $2,750 to Obama’s presidential campaign.
29. Terrorism Czar – John Brennan
Title: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Salary: $172,200
Reports to: National Security Adviser James L. Jones
Appointed: January 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Homeland Security
• Under Obama’s plan the homeland security adviser’s office would be eliminated, and the National Security Council would take over those duties. Brennan would be responsible for guarding against natural disasters and terrorism.
• Has called for increased integration between the Departments of Commerce, State and Defense
• Graduated from Fordham University in 1977 after a year of intensive Arabic and Middle Eastern studies in Cairo. Earned his J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin before joining the CIA as an intelligence director in 1980.
• Is a CIA veteran and fluent Arabic speaker
• Was CIA deputy executive director (2001 to 2003) and National Counter-Terrorism Center, Chair (2004 to 2005)
• Worked at Analysis Corp, (2005 to 2008);
• Staunch supporter of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Program; defended the use of extraordinary rendition, saying it is “an absolutely vital tool.”
30. Urban Affairs Czar – Adolfo Carrion Jr.
Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs
Salary: $158,500
Reports to: President Obama
Appointed: February 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Housing and Urban Development
• Job entails coordinating transportation and housing initiatives, as well as serving as a conduit for federal aid to economically hard-hit cities.
• Has undergraduate degree in world religions from Kings College; became an associate pastor at a Bronx church; earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College
• Was Bronx Borough President (2001-2009); President of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (since 2007); City Council member (1998 to 2000)
• Many reporters say he has higher ambitions and will probably run for New York City mayor in the next ten years.
• Was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf. He focused particularly on states with large Hispanic populations.
• The NY Daily News reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx.
31. Weapons Czar – Ashton Carter
Title: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Appointed: April 2009
Confirmed by Senate: April 23, 2009
Department that might have handled similar issues: Defense
• Will coordinate the Pentagon’s acquisitions, technology and logistics for weapons.
• Will oversee a weapons-buying system that Obama has placed at the top of his list of federal programs he wants to fix and will be asked to quickly weigh in on difficult decisions concerning at least 10 major defense programs, while also instantly dissecting the procurement system’s ailments so he can advise the administration on its Pentagon acquisition reform agenda
• Is a physicist and Harvard academic whose only previous Pentagon stint was in a mid-level policy post from 1993 until 1996 under the Clinton administration
• Graduated from Yale summa cum laude; studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and earned a doctorate in theoretical physics.
• Chair of Harvard’s International Relations, Science & Security Area International Security Program within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993 to 1996); Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School (early 1990s)
• Has donated primarily to Democratic politicians since 2000. He donated $6,900 to then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in 2007 and 2008. He gave the same amount to then Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during that same span.
32. WMD Policy Czar – Gary Samore
Title: White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control
Salary: unknown
Reports to: National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones
Appointed: January 2009
Department or agency that might have handled similar issues: NSC; Defense; State
• Will coordinate issues related to weapons of mass destruction across the government. His portfolio includes proliferation, nuclear and conventional arms control, threat reduction, and terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.
• Position sits within the National Security Council.
• Is a veteran arms control negotiator.
• B.A. in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his PhD in government from Harvard University in 1984.
• After brief stints with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the RAND Corporation, joined the State Department during the Reagan administration in 1987. Held several positions there, including director of the Office of Regional Non-proliferation Affairs; special assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for Non-proliferation and Nuclear Energy Policy; and deputy to Ambassador-at-Large for Korean Affairs Robert Gallucci. Helped to negotiate the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Framework Treaty
• Joined the Clinton administration’s National Security Council in 1995 as an adviser on nonproliferation. Coordinated U.S. policy on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
• Was Director, Council on Foreign Relations (2006 to 2009); Vice President for Global Security and Sustainability, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2005); Researcher, International Institute of Strategic Studies (2001 to 2005)
If congress and government can’t pass the health care reform bill, for American’s are up it arms about it…then they will try to pass the bill with what they call the “TRIGGER”….yup that is right. Can’t do it to your face so they will try shoving it up your ass. Bend over Americans they want to take your temperture.
I am afraid if they take mine and alot of other americans they will be so surprised to find out it is t the point of BOILING. We are telling them No Health Care Reform Bill in any way…fix the problems with the exisiting one. Fix their incompentencies and waste in it and it would save this country alot of money.
Washington just don’t get it……..No more bills being passed that needs millions, billions, and trillions of dollars for it. We are BROKE.
Government is talking about raising the National Debt Limit again by the end of this year. Say “NO” to it. Let your Senator’s and Congressmen/women know it. They say the government needs to….let them “FIRE” all of Obama’s Czars. He has added 21 more czars to his office and this government more than any other President in History. Just the Salaries of 7 czars totals a grand sum of $1,077,100.00 a year. So, knowing this, one can average it to be…roughly over the tune of $5,385,500.00 a year more on government spending than ever before. If they can afford to appoint all of them let them pay for it and not us. Government needs to know that ‘WE THE PEOPLE” aren’t taking this anymore. Cut your waste, stop the pork in bills, cut the size of your government (so the left hand knows what the right hand is “DOING”), and start saving for you are not going to get anymore without the biggest fight you have ever seen. Stand up People…we have it going now and we need to keep it going!!!
The left hand of government doesn’t knows what the right hand is doing…and they haven’t for so long…….the time has come, that they need to be shown it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/06/health.care/index.html
CNN has it : http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/06/obama.adviser.resigns/index.html
GOOD JOB EVERYONE!!!!
A must read for every American. Thomas Jefferson talks about a Nations Debt and the National Debt Limits. I found it by mistake but really enjoyed it. Especially the first paragraph:
“Loading up the nation with debt and leaving it for the following generations to pay is morally erresponisble. Excessive debt is a means which governments oppress the people and waste their substance. No nation has a right to contract debt for periods longer than the majority contracting it can expect to live.”
There are many questions out there about the place where Obama was born. The first web-link here will take you to the copy of Obama’s Birth Certificate which someone posted on the internet for him. It is supposed to be the Orignal one. But it appears to be fake to me and I will tell you why I feel that way. Don’t forget that this piece of paper is supposed to be 48 years old. It doesn’t have any tears, fold marks, bends, or tattered edges…It appears to be very crisp as a new piece of paper is. It doesn’t have info on it like: Live birth or stillborn, Mutiple or single birth, an attending phycian, Weight, ect. Also this isn’t a legal document with the File Number blocked out…….It is supposed to be public knowledge. One other big thing missing on this birth certificate on line is a State Seal to valudate it. How odd is this??
This web link is to a copy of a fake Kenya’s birth certificate for Obama: Which looks more real than the one they posted on line for the same reasons that I outlined above.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18018714/Fake-Obama-Kenya-birth-certificate
So, see there are legitimate questions out here about his place of birth…
This is only parts of President Obama’s Acceptance Speech:
Apparently he has forgotten alot of what he said that night. And I wanted to refresh everyone on it.
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to – it belongs to you. This is the same government calling the American people natzi’s, un american, angry mobs, ect.
Q: Who, was that victory for??
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington – it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory. Who paid for his campaign?? In his own words, we the taxpayers did.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. Is he listening to us, seeing we do disagree or is he trying to shut us up by the FCC Czar and many more Czars?? Is he being honest with us or just side stepping the truth??
Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers – in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people. This financial crisis that we are has taught us one thing: Government sure and hell don’t worry about the taxpayers of this country…for they are still pending money as though it is water. They have raised the National Debt Limit twice, if not three times, since Obama has been in Office and plans to raise it again before the end of this year!!!! Apparently hasn’t taught them anything.
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time – to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth – that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Is this, where he is trying to tell us that he plans to rule or dictate to us??? Makes one question it, HUH???
I do have the whole acceptance speech that Obama gave that night and I will post it, If anyone wants to read the whole thing. Just ask by leaving it in an comment here and I will do it.
Obama can’t brainwash us Adults, so he is taking a new approach…….our Children. Government took Prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance out of our schools. And now replacing them with Obama’s style of Politics. How funny is this?? It is very sickening to me!!!
This President is very arrogant and feels the need to push himself on the American People and now our Children. He could save us millions of dollars, if only he spent more time in the Oval Office instead of on TV ( in our livingrooms and schools ).
During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
• Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
• Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
• Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
I have something really troubling me about President Obama, and I just can’t put my fingers on it as to what it is.
We first heard about Rev. Wright and his radical preachings. Obama belonged to that church for 20 years. Why?? From what I heard of Rev. Wright saying …I would have gotten up and walked out in the middle of the sermon, for no way would I sit there and listen to what this man was saying for anyone.
Then we heard about Bill Ayres….(one who belonged to the Weathermen (a radical group in the 60’s). Then we heard of Acorn, and all there mysterious dealings. Then it was Obama’s birth, whether or not he is a naturalized citizen. Then it was this Professor in Cambridge, Mass. who is a friend of Obama’s, who also have radical ties. Now most of all the Czar’s that Obama has appointed, have radical ties. Why?? Why is it, this President is associated with so many people with Radical ties and belief’s??
Take his Birth Certificate for example. Did he ever give Congress or the Senate a copy of it?? No, he posted one on the internet. One that looks to me as to being so fake that it isn’t funny. How one might ask? Well, alot of information that is on a Birth Certificate isn’t there. Like…time of birth, whether child was female or male, whether it was a live birth, missing the attending physican name, and ect. Another thing it isn’t a legal document in any way with the File Number Blacked Out. Why is it blacked out?? Public Record!!! So, President Obama …what are you trying to hide??
This man, Obama ….. is hiding something. I just have a gut feeling there is more to this man than he wants anyone to know. Not exactly what one would say about the President of the United States of America. One other thing this morning that I just thought of that bothered me…Why did it take the news media to force Obama to wear an american flag lapel pin??
Am I the only ameican, who sees any of this and wonders about it?? Please share your thoughts with me on it.
Here is a web link to an article posted in the Washington Post August 9th: Nice reading………..If you don’t care about this Country at all (Like our elected politicans do).
Here is a web link to the National Debt Clock: Every American (men, women, kids, and babies) if had to pay their share of the National Debt today it would be $38,239 which is now over $6,000 just from September of last year. Please check it out on the same day every month and just watch it sky rocket every month. Can you really afford this??
I have been reading alot of the blogs out there and ….I got a headache…and a pain in my ass. Listening to all the lies, bashings, degrading people, goverment gone wild…So, we all need this one. I got this in an e-mail…but, I needed to post it so everyone could understand politics and get a “LAUGH “ and we can use that:
This about sums it
up…
Whether Democrat or Republican, I think you’ll get a KICK out of this!!!
A little boy goes to his Dad and asks, “What is Politics?
Dad says,”Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am head of the family, so call me the PRESIDENT. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we will call her the GOVERNMENT. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the PEOPLE. The nanny, we will consider her the WORKING CLASS. And your baby brother, we will call him the FUTURE. Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night the little boy hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds his that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.
So the little boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeps in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of POLITICS now.” The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think POLITICS is all about.”
The little boy replies, “The PRESIDENT is screwing the WORKING CLASS while the GOVERNMENT is sound to asleep. The PEOPLE are being ignored and the FUTURE is in deep shit!!!!
Here is a web link to an article posted in the Washington Post August 9th: Nice reading………..If you don’t care about this Country at all (Like our elected politicans do).
Here is a web link to the National Debt Clock: Every American (men, women, kids, and babies) if had to pay their share of the National Debt today it would be $38,239 which is now over $6,000 just from September of last year. Please check it out on the same day every month and just watch it sky rocket every month. Can you really afford this??
Here is the Oath for all of Congress Members have to take:
The current oath was enacted in 1884:
The public swearing-in ceremony consists of Representatives raising their right hands and repeating the oath of office. This ceremony is led by the Speaker of the House, and no religious texts are used. Some members of Congress later hold separate private ceremonies for photo ops.
And here is the web link to it to check it out yourself:
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/a/oaths_of_office_4.htm
Now why aren’t they following the Constitution of the United States??? Instead of treadding all over it?? Time to put a clear The House of Congress seeing they want to tread all over the very thing they took an Oath to uphold and protect. I say elect a whole new Congress in November 2010. And the ones who are present members that have plans to run for another seat within our Governmment (like Barney Frank may try to run for Ed Kennedy’s Senate seat in 2010) make sure they never see another Government Seat again ….even within state and local city government.
Let’s show them we can do our homework to by letting them know , we know they are treadding all over the Constitution. And keep informing everyone who will listen ….the facts. Like the Oaths they take, the Constitution, and ect.
Time has now come for you (eleceted officials) to understand that you were voted in to represent the people, who voted your ass into office. Apparently alot of you have forgotten that.
You all took an “OATH”, to uphold the United States Constitution. And for years now…you all have been treading all over it. The American taypayers and citizens of this Country are highly pissed over it and we are not being organized by the GOP or anyone else. We are standing together as one, to tell you to back off the unconstitutional ways of doing business there in Washington, DC. Because these so called Evil Mongerings, Ugly Mobs, Unamericans, and such is only going to grow more and take this Country back.
Our government is stripping away our rights more and more everyday. The Rights, Freedom, and Liberty will not be taken away from us and I assure you of that. It is time for you folks to know that our voices will be heard all over this Country.
You folks didn’t listen to well when we said no to the bailouts, nor to the stimulus’s, and such. Nor are you listening to us when we say, NO national run health care in this Country. Christ you can’t run the Programs that you have now right. There is more waste and un-efficiency in them …one would think they are being run by pre-schoolers.
Last night I was watching TV and a news clipping of President Obama saying that he needs to cut down on the Defense spending, for this Country is in debt and we need to cut down on spending. But, another news clipping behind that one …President Obama was telling the American people that the Stimulus ment spending. No shit, Mr. President….this is exactly what I meant when I said …one would think it is being run by pre-schoolers. For what do you think spending another trillion on health care is going to do?? I know, it is going to cut the deficit, right?? Rather doubt that one!!
Warren Buffet, one of President Obama’s top contributors has said, you need to stop this spending spree that you are on, stop printing moneies this country don’t have….or we will end up as a Bananna Republic. Christ, I said that a year ago. Open your eyes Government…take a real hard look at things beyond the nose on your faces…….the realstic facts are there. Not this fairy tale story that you have pictured or told… is there anymore.
All seats are up for re-election in the House of Congress in November of 2010. If you continue to do business on the path of distruction that you are on now, I suggest to each and everyone of you to start writing those resumes for you will need them come November of 2010. Because each and everyone of you can be replaced. And I can’t promise anyone of you that won’t happen if you do change your practices. We are going to be very smart, when it comes to that election. For we are going to dissect every canidate…the first time one lie is told he/she is out. The first time he/she shows they will work against the American People, they are out. Getting the point!!! And there are 34 seats up for re-election in the Senate. Same things go for your seats Senators.
I would like to ask Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodds one question: Do you really believe that you will remain in those seats that you sit in now come November 2010? Do you really believe that you will ever hold another seat of any kind within the United States Government again?? Not if I, and alot of other taxpaying Americans have our way.
One of President Obama’s large contributors sent him a message and that message was stop your spending spree before you break the US Dollar.
http://hannity.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/19/buffetts-spending-warning/
Here is a web link to the US Constitution so you can refresh yourself with it.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.preamble.html
Read the Preamble, Article 3 section 4: The US shall guarantee every state in this Union a REPUBLICAN form of Government……..(not a socialist)
ARTICLE 6 Every one in office is bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution.
Bill of Rights:
amendent 1: freedom of speech, assemble, petition the government for a redress grievances.
amendents 4: right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects….(privacy)
The time has come for every american to inform themselves on every thing going on within this government and the elected officials. Obama is trying to push socialism on us. Here is the definitation of socialism: 1.a. a social system in which the producers posses both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods. b. the theory or practice of those who support such a social system. 2. In Marxist-Leninist theory, the building of material base for communism under the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Now here is the definitation of a republic government as stated in the US Constitutions gives us: 1.a. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. b. A nation having such a political order. 2.a. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. b. A nation having such a political order. 3. A specific republican government of a nation. 4. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field.
The definitation of Liberty: Which the US Constitution gives you as well.
1.a. The condition of being free of restrictions or control. b) The right to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one’s own choosing. c) The condition of being free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor. 2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control. 3. A right to engage in certain actions without control or interference (the liberities protected by the Bill of Rights. 4. Often liberties. a)A breach or overstepping of propriety or caocial convention. b) A statement, attittude, or action not warranted by conditions or actualities: a historical novel that takes liberties with chronology. c) An unwarranted risk; chance: took foolish liberties on the ski slopes. 5. A period, usually short, during which a sailor is authorized to go ashore.
Amendent 14 to the US Constitution: Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, the subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the states wherein they riside. No state shall make or enforce any laws which abridge the priviledges or immunites of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property: without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.
So, see fellow Americans your United States Constituion is under attack by the United States Government…especially everyone within the present government. Your Rights and your Liberty is under attack as well. Time to get United here and take this government back to who it is for: We the American People.
Hannity of Fox TV just reported that since Obama has said that AARP is with him on this Health Care Reform Bill has cost AARP 60,000 members since July. Good job senior citizens.
While the peasants of France were starving, Marie Antoinette was rumored to have said, “Let them eat cake”.
With record high unemployment, deficits, failing businesses, bailout, stimulus’, and Congress going wild, ect.
Here is your way to let Congress and your representive there know your thoughts on how things are going within your Government…Real cheap too…less than $15.00.
The nice thing about it, would be that everyone do it on the same day and flood the House on Capitol Hill with it. It would be worth the Media getting ahold of it …and believe me they would. Lets flood the House with a cake with your personal message on it all on the same day. Let them eat cake !!! For years and years to come. And believe me it will make the National News.
Here is a web link to it: http://letthemeatcake.us/
If anyone is interested in doing this, please let me know and maybe we can organize it for a date to do it……..Sounds like a fun way to get your thoughts and ideas heard.
We as Americans, especially the ones who are feed up with everything going on these days within our Government and it’s Officials , need to start looking at things on a higher scale of integrity.
When we vote for a person who has lied to us on the campaign trail, will lie to you once in office as well.
1) George Bush senior= Read my lips, no new taxes.
2) President Clinton= I did not have sex with that woman.
3) Senate McCain= I don’t think the government should get into the bail out business and then turned around and voted for it.
And there are so many many more of these but the newest one is John Edwards. Had an affair with a woman and got her pregnant. Lied about the affair to his wife and kids, turned his back on the woman and his child to the public light….. All I can say here is, what real nice trustworthy man?
So far I really have been keeping a close watch on our officials and their statements. I have been keeping a close eye on new canidates popping up to run in 2010. Where there will be 36 Senate seats up for grabs and all seats within the House up for grabs. We need to vote for some one who has integrity and will listen to the people who he works for, YOU.
You know another thing you should be watching for in these new canidates is: Who is backing them and who is making contributions to their campains. If it is high money contributions then you know they need to do favors for someone and it is not you he/she will be looking out for. If it is someone who is in office now backing them again you should take the red flag that is being waved and heed to it.
Voting is a very serious and even a dangerous thing at times. That is why our country is in the shape it’s in. We need to take the time and energy it might take to look at these canidates, listen to them closely, and research what they are saying to find out whether or not it is a fact or a lie. And if asked a question and they don’t know the answer…they should say, “I don’t know the answer to that right off the top of my head but I will find it and let you know”. And then them to that. Not everyone is an Einstein and will know the answer right off. If the are honest and sincere, they will find the answer and get back to you on it. If they don’t get back to you, then heed that red flag as well.
If a canidate stands before you, and promises you he is going to do this if elected, heed that red flag as well. No one can promise you anything for several difference reasons. Congress and the Senate might not be with him/her on it. May not be here tomorrow, God might have other plans for this person…we just don’t know. But, I do know a promise can’t always be forefilled.
Lets look at the Electorial College here too, not everyone’s vote counts. It was drafted and passed within our government not for your benefit but for the Parties Benefit. In other words, government’s benefit. Don’t forget the red states and the blue states? Just like Obama’s red pills and blue pills trying to get his health care reform bill passed. Government is supposed to be with the people not against us. Please everyone read the US Constitution, look at all the ammendments that have been passed on it to give the government more power to power themselves over the people, like taken away the majority vote and replacing it with the electorial college. In doing these ammendments you are losing your say to what government is doing.
So, please americans…lets do this election in 2010 right….lets vote for people with integrity , someone who will be there for us !!!
With not too many things to laugh about in today’s world, I just came across this and died laughing.
I would love to send one with this on it:
You folks haven’t and don’t want to listen to us, so now get your resumes ready 2010 is just around the corner.
This is a quote by Obama, someone posted on their site that made me furrious.
In the end, this isn’t about politics. This is about people’s lives and livelihoods. This is about people’s businesses. This is about America’s future, and whether we will be able to look back years from now and say that this was the moment whe n we made the changes we needed, and gave our children a better life. I believe we can, and I believe we will.”
This is indeed about Politics….This is about our lives and liveihoods, our businesses, and the Future of America. And we do need to look out for our children and grandchildren lives to make sure that there is an America to give to them.
For years and years now we have been telling our Government to stop the excess spending spree they have been on. Stimulus’, Bailout’s, Pork (earmarks that have been added to bills they passed because they wanted their little pet projects). Did they ever listen?? Quiet frankly, NO!!! Our business are now owned by our Government…Ford, Chrystler, General Motors, AIG, and so many more. Now they are on the path to take over our Radio Stations…..So, honey …your buisness is NEXT.
With this excess over years and years our national debt is so way out of sight. This county is BROKE !!! Japan, United Kingdom, and China are about to cut our lending off because they know we are spending money like water here in this country. We all know that we can’t keep robbing Peter to pay Paul. If we allow them to refuse them to listen to us when we say no more spending then there may not be an America to give to our kids and grandkids !!! Stand up and let them know…no more spending on anything or start writing resumes for they will need them a year from this November (everyone within the House is up for re election in 2010) (34 seats in the Senate).
Our livlihoods…yes…we aren’t going to pay for abortions. We are not going to stand for health care rationing. We are not going to pay for euthanasia. We are not going to be told anymore that they are spending more for we have been taxed to death. They are trying to strip our Constitutional Rights from us…And if this isn’t true, then why have they called us ugly mobs, nazi’s, unamerican’s, and evil mongering’s??? We have the right to assemble at these town hall meetings and the White House in the Constitution. We have the right to Freedom of Speech. I think the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosli should go back and read the US Constitution that she took an OATH TO UPHOLD !!! This President is trying to shut the talk radio shows up by forcing them to pay 100% of their total opperating cost for the year for their licenses. Where is theirs or our right to Freedom of Speech??? Do you know that Obama is also thinking about appointing a CYBER-SPACE CZAR??? This is so he can get into your computers and gather facts about you and your family?? This is also UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!! The Constitution gives you the right to privacy and security in your homes!!! This is probably how american’s all over the country that is getting e-mailing from the White House on the Health Care Reform that didn’t ask for it. Where is the Government getting all these e-mail addresses from??? He or she is all ready on the job???
And if this isn’t about POLITICS….What and hell is it…I ask??? His sweet talking means nothing…that is all it is. His mouth has been pretty Nasty on a few occassions: Like with the Cambridge, Ma Police officer when he arrested the Proffessor. Like saying that some TV journalist is causing a RUCKUS over this health care thing. In my book, these are pretty UNPROFESSIONAL of him to state.
One last thing here is a quote that I would like to post: Patick Henry said, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”. And this quote is where I am standing.
 Dear Friend,
Armey’s Axiom says that a little man can whip a big man every time if he’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’. That’s why I believe that grassroots Americans still can defeat the biggest threats to our freedoms now moving through Washington, D.C. But now is no time to be subtle, or to be timid. Late last week, the U.S. House left the confines of the Beltway for its month-long August Recess. Next week the Senate will follow suit. Congress is closing up shop for the summer. Think of this as “half-time” in this year’s fight against the Obama agenda and the good news for freedom-loving limited government advocates is that the momentum is on our side. Right now liberals are literally scrambling. Moderate Democrats in the Senate as well as members of the House Blue Dog Caucus have been brought to the White House on an almost daily basis to take their licks for not rubber stamping the Obama wish-list. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seem out of touch with the Democrat rank-and-file as they present their aggressive timelines for passing controversial reforms only to be stymied by members of their own caucus time and time again. Unable to muster the necessary votes on health care, both the House and Senate have delayed floor votes until after their August vacation. To top it all off, Obama’s approval rating has just slipped to below 50% for the first time. That’s a long way from our New Year’s hangover that saw a newly strengthened and emboldened liberal Congress and radical left-wing president crowing about their ambitious plans to grow government. True, Obama did pass the disastrous stimulus bill, driving deficits to record highs. But the fact remains: Obama’s machine has been shocked by effective opposition from conservative activists. Beginning with the Tea Party demonstrations in the spring and translating into massive grassroots outcries in the “cap and tax” and government takeover of health care policy battles, hard working volunteers like you took to the streets. As a result, these two key goals of Obama’s socialist dream are now heavily bogged down despite early claims that both would be passed before August. Card check, the union power grab that liberals expected to pass by now, and another crown jewel in the Obama agenda, isn’t even on the schedule any more. For the liberal left, August will be a time for regrouping and strategizing on how best to jump-start their big government agenda. To counter their efforts, FreedomWorks will be activating grassroots networks all over the country and mobilizing activists to attend literally hundreds of legislator town hall meetings and listening sessions. In addition, our volunteers will be setting up district office visits, staging protests, and hosting letter-writing parties to reinforce pressure against their socialist schemes. At the top of the to-do list for Pelosi, Reid, and company when they return in September: the government-run health care and cap and trade legislation they originally thought they could do before summer’s end. That makes the stakes for FreedomWorks’ 9-12 Taxpayer March on Washington that much higher. To date, thousands have registered and to my knowledge, there has never before been a conservative, limited government gathering of this magnitude in Washington, D.C. Here is the breakdown of events: Thursday, September 10, will be a day of grassroots training, issue education, and lobbying on key issues like health care and cap and trade. Friday, September 11, will continue training and lobbying in the afternoon, and we will host a reception for our best activists that night. Saturday, September 12, is the big march down Pennsylvania Avenue culminating with the rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol. I would love to be there to see the look in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s eyes when she steps out onto the balcony of her office on the West Side of the Capitol. As the saying goes: “Priceless.” I hope I can count on you to be here in Washington, D.C., for the 9-12 Taxpayer March, but today I also ask you to commit to recruit others to take part in this historic event. If you could bring five or even ten additional people from your community who also understand how important it is to stop Obama and the left’s socialist agenda, it will help us reach our goal of flooding the Capitol lawn with freedom-loving activists from all over the country. In addition, if you would consider a generous contribution of whatever you can afford, it will help us to cover basic costs for the event including a stage, sound, and other fundamental logistical concerns as well as travel scholarships for those who can not afford the trip on their own. We plan on this being a bare-bones event and don’t feel like a lot of fan-fare is necessary – our message stands on its own. But there are still basic costs that we need help to cover and anything you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Lastly, forward this email around to anyone that you think needs to hear about the 9-12 Taxpayer March on Washington and encourage them to get actively involved. Make sure they know that we are making a difference. We are making great gains in our efforts to beat back the left, but now it’s make or break time. Thank you again for everything you’ve done. Keep up the pressure on members of Congress over the August Recess against government-run health care and the cap and trade energy tax, and I look forward to seeing you here in Washington, D.C. in September when these battles heat up once again. Sincerely, Matt Kibbe P.S. Please consider contributing to our 9-12 Taxpayer March on Washington to help make this historic event a success and send a clear message to Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others on the left that the era of big government is coming to an end. For a donation of $100.00 or more you will receive a commemorative March on Washington t-shirt signed by Chairman Dick Armey.
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President Obama is more on an agenda than helping this Country get back on track. He is appointing CZARS in every aspect of our government on which it runs. He has appointed Mark Lloyd, a RADIO CZAR, he has appointed a CYBER- SPACE CZAR, and there is many more of them (31). He doesn’t need a vote from the Senate or the Congress to appoint these CZARS……or who they are.
If Mark Lloyd and Obama have their way, they will do away with all radio stations that have talk shows that speak out against his agenda’s!!!!! Does something smell Fishy, here??? And this cyber-space czar will be digging into your computers to see if you agree or disagree with him. This is digging into your homes and privacy. Again, Fishy???
Where is our FREEDOM OF SPEECH??? Where is our right to Privacy??? These are every AMERICANS rights to, as stated in Our Constitution. They are being stripped from us ONE BY ONE !!!! We need to pull together and stop this shit before we have No Rights at All !!!!
Americans are being called, UN AMERICANS, for speaking out against this government at town hall meeting all over this Country. They also have been called: Nazi’s, Ugly Mobs, Evil Mongerings by this government. Does this sound funny to you .. seeing this government is supposed to be for the people, of the people, and by the people…as the Constitution is written???
He has put this Country so far in DEBT that it isn’t funny. He as well as the other members of this government, are still spending money like wildfire. Some of our lenders, such as Japan, China, and the United Kingdom are now thinking about cutting the USA off…the same way you would get cut off if you go over your limit on your credit cards. Where does this leave this Country????
I really have had no trust in our government for a very long time. But now it is even more…….I am afraid for all of us…where are we going to be in 2012??? What shape will we be in??? What shape is this country going to be in??? What will we be facing, dictatorship…communist…or in the hands of the Talban??? I am sorry but Obama has a hidden agenda for us and we better fight back hard and fast!!!!
Please really think about this and start paying attention closely to what your Congressmen and Senators are doing!!! Let them know what your opinions are on everything this government is doing. If they go against you…then please vote them out and get someone in there that will represent you!!! Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia has stated that…all these Obama Czars are dangerous….for they give Obama too much power. And this is a man who has been in Washington the longest. This should tell you perk up and get on the band wagon………fight back hard and fast.
Here is a web link to the article on what Senator Byrd says: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/02/25/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4828759.shtml
Here is a web link to radio czar: who he is and what is on their agenda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7a8SQ2d_fg&feature=autoshare_twitter
I am mad, furrious, disgussed, and outraged when it comes to our present government officials. They were elected to represent us in the government. But they are not doing this. They are going along with what ever government wants even if they know we are against it. Where is our Constitutional Rights to have “Representation”????
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi called us, “ UNAMERICANS” for standing up to them in Town Hall Meetings in this Country. My question is don’t we have freedom of speech in the Constitution??? Don’t we have the right to assemeble in the Constitutioin??? Apparently the Speaker is Unamerican for she apparently don’t read the Constitution. Which I find amazing, seeing she took an Oath to uphold it!!!
President Obama and some of his staff has stated that, we are ugly mobs. Mobs??? No one did any damage, nor assaulted anyone. Only shouted and screamed at the Politicans. Has anyone seen the videos tapes of Acorn gatherings…….But, they aren’t mobs in the eyes of our government. Christ our government pays Acorn money to assemble and protest. Even knowing that Acorn has more fraud within the companies of Acorn. All I can say to this is…….Pass HR3200 and you will see the MOBS!!!! For we will take it to the street of this country and start more shit than they have ever seen!!! They will see a Tea Party on every street threw out this country like Boston did.
I don’t classify myself as republican or democrat. I am an american. I was going to vote for McCain in November for the other canidate lied about a few things. Then McCain lied to us. I out right refuse to vote a lair into office. I then voted for Mighty Mouse…….he never lied to me. We need to listen to them carefully and don’t vote them in if they are lieing to us. Make sure who ever you vote in is working for you and will listen to you.
Our Government indicted, convicted, and jailed Dr. Kevorkian of second degree homicide for assisting elderly in suicide. These elderly people were dieing of terminal illnesses. They were in pain and our government wanted them to live that way no matter how they felt or wanted.
Now, Our Government, is trying to pass the Health Care Reform Bill which one of the advisors to President Obama on this bill is all for rationing health care. The very young and the elderly are at risk of dieing to little or no health care. Ages of 15 to 40 are the ones who would get the best health care.
This bothers me alot. Our Government Officials and President Obama is not God. They haven’t the right to tell me or you who can receive medical treatment and who can’t. Or how much medical treatment we can get…no matter what our age is.
They imprisioned Dr. Kevorkian for six years for assisting in suicides of terminally ill people…who wanted to die. But, now they want the right to ration your health care. Possibily ending mine or your life due to lack of the best medical treatment or none at all. If there was a shortage of flu vaccine the very young and the elderly would be at the tail end and if there wasn’t enough for them…….Oh Well!!!! If they died from the flu for they were refused the vaccine……Wouldn’t that be worse than what Dr. Kevorkian did??? These would be people dieing who didn’t want to die, young kids and babies who had no say, ect. Our Government should be imprisioned for just the thought of playing God with our lives….
I have posted two links for you to check out. One is Dr. Kevorkian’s and the other one is what Dr. Emmanuel thinks about socialized medicine and rationing health care.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf
We need to stand up as one in this country and stop all the Bullshit our Government is doing. Not one Program that our Government has started is ran right. All are in a mess…. SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, FOOD STAMPS, VA BENEFITS, ECT. I agree we need to do something about the cost of medical care in this country. But, If our government officials would do their jobs right and stop the waste and fraud in these programs mentioned above that cost would add up to one good sizeable chuck. And if they stopped all the nonsense “PORK” (ear marks that are added to bills for their own little pet projects) would save a hell of alot too!!!!! Let their little pet projects be paid out of their pockets and not ours!!!!!!!
Please call your Senators and Congressmen now before they go back to Washington next month and tell them…….Vote ”NO” on the Health Care Reform Bill. And you will be watching to see how they vote and if they vote for it….they better start writing resumes for they will need them for when it is election time you will do everything within your powers to see that they are ‘VOTED OUT OF OFFICE”. I have already called mine to let them know this morning to let them know this in no uncertain terms.
This is a web site that you may want to check out if you have a hard time beleiving in this post. This euthanasia was offered to an Oregon woman dieing of cancer who was refuse medications to prolong her life….The State of Oregon is the ones who offered her that.
The difference between this lady and Dr. Kevorkian’s patients is that this lady wanted to live and his didn’t want to.
I really hope this country survives, but I have my doubts. I am not, nor will be a supporter of Obama. And lets get one thing clear right now…IT IS NOT BECAUSE THE MAN IS BLACK. He has a SMUG ARROGRANT PERSONALITY. In my opinion, he has alot of skeltons in his closet and they will come out eventually. I have all the time in the world to wait for them to come out.
But, seeing he was elected as President of this Country, by so many of you young people. Lets see just how well he can do for you, the broken economy of this country, pulling our troops out of Iraq in shame, where he cuts the government spending if at all, lets see if we all get afforadle health care insurance, how many americans still get their homes foreclosed on, ect.
Lets all watch together and see if he, KEEPS HIS CAMPAGIN PROMISES NOW??? TRULY, I don’t think you or I will see any of these happening.
July 26, 2009
Well it hasn’t even been a year since I first plubished this. And so far my predictions are true. “Change–Yes We Can”, was his motto for his campaign. Change no, politics and govenment as usual, Yes!!!
His poll ratings are falling after than we can post them here. Health care for all of us…well he is trying too….but only for the poorest americans who can’t afford it on their own…But it is a health care reform that will put alot of your mothers and fathers six feet under the ground quicker than they will get there now. Within the rationed health care system that he wants to pass.
There are more radical friends showing up everyday in his life…it is not just Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. This alone bothers me about this man.
He seems to have a racial bone that he needs to make some justice for. This bothers me too.
He is on TV (in our livingrooms) almost everyday. He is in commericals on TV. I think the man has one of the biggest ego problems brewing inside him. I can remember back as far as President Eizenhower and not one has been on TV nearly 10% in their whole term in office(years) as Obama has in 7 months.
I will repost this again with an update in January 2010…
Here is a link to go to the Health Care Reform Bill (H.R.3200)… I am urging Americans to read it in it’s entirety. God knows, our elected officials (senators and congressmen) don’t read the whole thing…only to make sure their “PORK PROJECTS” are in it.
Most of us Americans now know we need to stand up to our Government…but don’t know where to start. Well, here it is: Read this entire bill and then test your elected officials on it. If they fail the test on it…then they failed you, the one who voted them in to serve you. If they fail…vote them out of Office next elections. Plain and Simple.
