Obama's efforts to end coal mining jobs and use oppressive EPA regulation to "crucify" oil and coal companies have been effective on coal companies. Coal mining companies are starting to go out of business and coal-fired energy generation plants are starting to turn off. Obama and his minions have said we will be having to pay more for all energy as if that was a good thing. The price of gas at the pump has doubled since Obama took office but the worst hasn't come yet -- they want American consumers to pay European prices, double again. Why are they doing this? That's easy, to artificially manipulate the energy market to force it to change to green technology which is much more expensive than fossil fuels and in reality not ready for prime time anyway. Anyone with half a brain can see what this insanity is doing to the economy. Well fellow voters, Obama's chickens are coming home to roost in West Virginia.
Obama has gotten the surprise of his life and it's all his fault. In case you didn't know, West Virginia is coal country and Obama shenanigans have had a devastating effect on their economy. Obama doesn't care about the economy because he's still blaming Bush and of course now Congress. That tune has gotten so far off key that people with tin ears are cringing. The proof is inmate #11593-051 who got himself on the ballot for the Democrat's Presidential primary. Joke candidates aren't all that uncommon. In fact Obama is an uncontested candidate. West Virginians have had enough of Obama. Killing coal also kills a lot of jobs. Obama won the primary with only 58% of Democrat voters. The other 42% were cast for the prison inmate. Texas prison inmate, Keith Judd, incarcerated for 17 years for extortion in a federal prison, won 42% of Democrat primary voters in West Virginia's Presidential primary against Barack Obama, the incumbent President. The news is even worse when you consider inmate #11593-051 won 10 counties. 42% of Democrats in West Virginia sent a strong message to Obama -- we don't want you.
Obama flip flopped so fast I'm surprised there wasn't a sonic boom. Would you believe "clean coal" popped up on Obama's website which now says "President Obama has set a 10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology." As we should all know by now Obama rarely delivers on promises.
While Obama has been crucifying coal, his hated free market has been working on clean coal solutions without the help of billions of our tax dollars. Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. expects to commission a 1/10th scale pilot plant by mid-year. This patented technology pre-processes coal to remove impurities which pollute our air. I can't speak to how much a plant costs to build or how much this process adds to the cost of coal and to the energy coal fired plants produce. I will say that clean coal makes more sense than crucifying coal out of use without anything to replace it as a fuel for electricity generation.
Investigative reporters at station WTHR (Channel 13) in Indiana have uncovered an enraging case of stupidity, incompetence, lethargy and corruption in our esteemed federal government. No it's not the GSA frolicking in Las Vegas. No it's not the blind, deaf and dumb overseers of banking regulations that missed the housing market collapse. No it's not the USDA redistribution of wealth to black farmers and Native American Indians. No, it's not the devious cooperation with the United Nations to spread Socialism through resource planning at the local levels using the UN Agenda 21 program... It's the IRS, feared and ruthless collector of taxes. I guess that's true if you are not a favored class by the administration. But it's not true for illegal immigrants of Mexican heritage.
As in the words of one illegal immigrant interviewed by the investigators, provided they hid his identity, "who will take care of the children of Mexico if you eliminate this program?" The IRS has known about this problem for years. They know the problem has increased exponentially. It now costs us $4,000,000,000 per year.
The problem is described by a tax accountant who reported it to the IRS and since they were unwilling to do anything to stop it, he reported it to the investigative team.
Illegal Immigrants who do not have a phony social security number can get an ITIN (Individual Tax Identification Number). With either of these they can then claim tax credits through the Additional Child Tax Credit program. There are now 2,000,000 illegal immigrants taking advantage of this program.
The only thing is... The claims are phony and they are ripping off the taxpayers. The tax consultant has processed thousands of returns where individuals are claiming numerous children with multiple people using the same address. The problem is most of the children are nieces and nephews living in Mexico. The tax consultant shared the evidence with blacked out identities on the return copies and the investigative reporters went to a few of the addresses and saw the lack of children and interviewed the claimants with their identities hidden.
The investigators learned the Inspector General for the IRS, Russell George, knows about the fraud and had notified the IRS. It appears the IRS does nothing about it because once the money (tens of thousands to individuals) is sent and spent, there is virtually no way to get it back. Now does this sound like the same people who ruthlessly pursue an ordinary person for failure to properly pay all taxes?
Call it what you want... incompetence, lethargic laziness, favoritism for a growing voter class... Whatever... The public should be outraged and should be calling for heads to roll. But I can't really hear a sound. We get what we vote for and institutionalize what we tolerate. I can't figure the public out...
Based on his 2 books Barack Obama is either a Marxist or a Socialist. He denies being a Socialist, so I guess that means he is a Marxist. Maybe we can figure it out if we look at his actions while President of the United States.
He has in fact fundamentally changed the United States as he promised. We now have the biggest Federal Government in our history with all its implications of obvious cost, countless news media stories on its inefficiency and incompetence, corruption, failure and demonstrably dumb purpose. Yes, the Federal Government is necessary and does good and important things but that doesn't mean one cannot be critical of the myriad bad things about it and criticize them for the purpose of changing the government into something that is substantially trimmed of its excesses and bad characteristics.
We now have half the people not paying federal taxes and an atmosphere of distaste to jealousy to hatred of those who do pay taxes by those who do not. While these feelings have a lot of their roots in the bailouts of Wall Street and the grotesque compensation paid to the staffs of the banking institutions, the President has managed to paint all those who have been successful as worthy of this antipathy by those who have not experienced such success.
Of course the poor receive a lot of focus and their numbers are enormous, but one of the things we do here in the United States is to make definitions of things that suit our political purpose. So for example you are poor even though many have televisions, cable TV, air conditioning, personal computers and cell phones. These people are poor in relation to the well to do but not poor relative to the poor of other nations where being poor means you ultimately starve to death.
We have other definitions like unemployment which gives the impression that it measures the number of people not employed. Any casual reading of the news reveals that to be false, but convenient if you are trying to look good as a President creating jobs. A more meaningful measure would be the employment statistics.
There are about 243 million people in the non-farm non-institutionalized civilian population used for unemployment statistics. Of these, 154 million are the available labor force. 18,238,000 are unemployed and 7,900,000 are working part time but want to work full time. So the statistics should really be 154,000,000-26,000,000 full time employed or 128,000,000. Thus the employment rate is 83.1%. This implies an unemployment/underemployment rate of 16.9%. A strictly unemployment rate leaving out the underemployed is 11.8%. In either case it is not the phony 8.1% spun by the government and repeated as propaganda by the media.
Another definition is inflation which gives the impression that the cost of living is hardly increasing when every consumer in the nation knows that it is escalating at an alarming pace. This is because the government does not include energy and food in its calculations as these are pesky volatile numbers. A more honest inflation number is derived from their Historical Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers which shows a dramatically higher inflation number.
Americans are developing if not already there, a healthy distrust of what they are told by the government and the media, because they deserve it. The government produces propaganda and the media spews it out like a national sales force. This distrust would not be there if the media did its job and held the government accountable. But they don't unless they dislike the administration and then they perform yellow journalism in the hopes of ending its reign. Thanks to the internet, we now can have lots of sources of information and all we have to learn is how to identify the wheat from the chaff. That's a challenge, but it's a challenge we should be willing to accept. If we don't we remain naive, uninformed and not therefore much different from stupid.
The impending election is not about women's issues, or so-called "fair taxation", or student loans. It is all about bringing us up from the despair that Obama and his government has laid upon our land. More frightening than the millions out of work is the number who have simply given up looking for work. Lack of opportunity means having to settle for poverty. Kids, whose parents scrimped and saved to send them to college and even borrowed money to make it happen are finding a promise broken at the end of the ordeal -- fully half of them won't find work when they graduate.
Obama keeps telling us about the "green economy" and "green jobs", but the pricey green technology is beyond the means of a nation struggling to keep gas in the tank.
Former Shell CEO John Hofmeister has stated that we can become energy self-sufficient in ten years and create seven million new jobs in the process. Why wouldn't we want to do that? Instead, Obama holds his breath and insists on electric cars and windmills and keeping energy development slowed. Why wouldn't we want the freedom to tell the sheiks what they can do with their oil? Why would any responsible government not jump all over this opportunity?
We are a self-reliant, inventive, and industrious people. It is past time that we threw off the wet blanket of the nanny state and government control. Will more people get rich? You bet. Will fewer people be poor? Of course. We do not need to be told what to do. Indeed, being told what to do pisses a lot of us off.
We all have the chance in November to once again declare our independence. We need less government -- a lot less government. Failure to do so will bankrupt the America our children and grandchildren will inherit, both financially and morally. The issues are not at all based on our sex, color, income, or religion. It is a simple issue of human values and freedoms. Obama represents divisiveness, oppression, and financial ruin. This may be the last chance to turn the ship before it hits the rocks. Don't sit idly by and watch. Get involved, and, for pete's sake, vote.
The Obama campaign has a new campaign slogan: Forward. Really? Forward to where? To deeper economic despair with higher debt, bigger deficits and higher unemployment? To more of the nanny state where Obamacare takes a bad medical system and makes it worse? To finding new ways to divide America by class and race? Those all look like things I'd rather see in a rear-view mirror.
Let's not confuse progress -- going forward -- with a program designed to transform the US to European socialism.
Obama didn't make a "Gutsy Call" to get Bin Laden. This lying sack was all CYA. He passed the buck to Admiral McRaven in a written memorandum that put the Admiral under the bus if anything went wrong. This "Gutsy Call" was made by Admiral McRaven -- by the military. The way Obama tells it you'd think he led the Seal Team in person. Talk about bravery -- it was the Seal Team that put themselves in harms way to take out Bin Laden. There was no bravery in Obama's mealy mouthed buck passing written CYA. The memo gave all "timing, operational decision making and control" to Admiral McRaven. It further says Obama's approval has been made based solely on the "risk profile presented to the President." Translation, if things go bad it's all on Admiral McRaven. The memo was unclear if the mission was to kill or capture.
Obama made the right call to give the green light to the mission. But in typical Obama form he left himself open to claim full credit for it and blameless if things didn't go well. A real leader never takes credit for success, he praises the people that actually did it. A real leader never praises themselves. Obama on the other hand, steals the spotlight and even disgustingly uses the death of Bin Laden for a campaign advertisement.
Obama says Romney wouldn't have been brave enough to authorize the raid -- pure BS. Unlike Obama, Romney is a true leader with a record of making the hard decisions in business. Romney's record backs my assertion that he would have authorized McRaven man to man and stand ready to take responsibility for failure. For success he'd be full of praise for the team that deserved the credit without revealing their identity to protect them and their families from terrorist retribution. Like the never served pretender in a bar that brags about their non-existent Seal exploits, Obama chooses to bathe himself with the glory of Seal Team 6. Shame on Obama for endangering their lives and the lives of their families.
Leaders of Palestinians along with leaders in other Muslim countries of the Middle East region teach their children hatred for Israelis as a part of their education and upbringing. As a result, there is little hope that they will ever live in peace with the Israelis. So far, history has proven this point.
But what about African-American leaders in this country? What do they teach their children? The most visible ones are Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Reverend Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Hashim Nzinga, Michelle Williams and other leaders of the New Black Panther Party.
Reverend Wright retired recently from his megachurch in Chicago Illinois where he preached anti-American, anti-white sermons to his parishioners, telling them they are victims of white oppression.
Reverend Sharpton, leader of the National Action Network (NAN), sometimes referred to as a racial arsonist, or a black issue opportunist, typically preaches non-violence. But in his ranting about the Trayvon Martin case he admonished his followers that they may have to take it to the next level. Sharpton called for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions,
Jesse Jackson. Leader of the rainbow PUSH Coalition, and another racial issue opportunist declared that Trayvon Martin was murdered and martyred. Jackson makes a klot of assertions, easily countered, without a shred of evidence or rational contextual logic. Jackson has said that there is a mistaken assumption in some corners of America that all racial problems went away with the election of President Obama. "There was this feeling that we were kind of beyond racism," he said. "That's not true. His victory has triggered tremendous backlash." He called the Trayvon Martin incident a moment. "How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change?" Jackson asked. "If it's a moment, we go home. If it's a movement, we go to war."
Repeating the victimhood talking points taught to most young African-Americans by these leaders, He added: "Blacks are under attack." African American families are facing record home foreclosures and unemployment. Their children are burdened with student loan debt. States, particularly conservative ones, are passing voter laws that leaders know will disenfranchise blacks and other minorities. Meanwhile, the nation's prisons are brimming with black faces, he said, and their numbers that suggest that the legal system is quicker to send blacks to prison than whites.
With his mother from St. Kitts and his father from Jamaica, Minister Louis Farrakhan has drawn packed audiences and overflow crowds in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Port John's, Antigua. He has packed tens of thousands into various stadiums including the United Center for Nation of Islam in Chicago. He has more than 50,000 followers and is currently packing audiences in Colleges and Universities in his tour of the United States, firing up black activism on campus and creating additional adherents. The Nation of Islam as its name suggests does not consider itself subject to the United States, but rather a nation within a nation. A substantial recruiting effort since its inception in 1930, the Nation of Islam has amongst its adherents, many ex-convicts.
Minister Louis Farrakhan is a fiery speaker who preaches victimhood to his African-American audiences. He preaches racial oppression by whites and has even warned that some white person will assassinate President Barack Obama. He has promised his god will wipe this country from the face of the earth. He has warned against inter-racial marriage saying, "White folks don't produce black children -- except [if] it's a white woman with a black man or a black man with a white woman and that's the end of your race. So you're dying a natural death these days. And without an AK47 'cause the brother ain't shooting no blanks." He has said "You are at the mercy now of the former slave masters and their children." With regard to the Trayvon Martin incident Farrakhan said: Soon and very soon, there will be retaliation".
It is well known that the New Black Panthers, lead by Hashim Nzinga, offered a reward for Dead or Alive capture of George Zimmerman. That is why he and his family are in hiding. While thousands of black adults and children are regularly killed, mostly by black killers, the Trayvon Martin incident has galvanized these leaders and their rhetoric has had a devastating impact. Multiple random beatings of white people by black people have cropped up all over the country. Twitters by black people on the subject show a violent rage within the black community against white people. White people in part have responded with promises of violent resistance to black violence.
Barack Obama's tactics of divide and conquer have created an atmosphere of animosity that is exacerbating racial tensions. It is getting so bad, I am convinced that no matter what happens in November African-Americans will react with violence, either in victory or with the anger of victims. When I see the protest by Latinos and hear about their hatred for Americans who "stole their land" and I see the Occupy Wall Street combo of malcontents and union activists working in concert with international groups including those who hate America, I am convinced I need to prepare for the worst. As I look at the fiscal crisis facing this country and the idiots in Washington DC who created it and are doing nothing about it, I layer the likely outcome on top of the seething potential of civil unrest in our divided nation and I can't see a positive outcome. We are spending 43% of our outlays every day using borrowed money from foreign countries or funny money created by the Federal Reserve, giving away billions to foreign countries to ineffectively buy their superficial loyalty, and transferring hundreds of billions to foreign countries importing their oil while suppressing our own development of one fourth of the world's oil reserves. Other countries including the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries are bypassing the international US dollar, heretofore the worlds reserve currency and thereby reducing the demand for the US Dollar as the medium of exchange causing the value of the dollar to slowly collapse. At some point if this doesn't stop there will be widespread loss of confidence in the dollar and a rush to get rid of them by foreign creditors and it will be like a run on a bank. Then the US will go the way of Argentina, once the second largest economy in the world behind the US and now a banana republic.
President Doofus is busy spending our money running around to colleges telling students that he's fighting to keep the interest rates on college loans low (around 3.4%). The federal government took over college loans on his watch. Here's the facts. The education department reports that the default rate on college loans is about 8.8% If you have really, really good credit, a bank will make you an unsecured loan for a little over 9% -- and, they expect the default rate on those loans to be miniscule. So, even if the college loan rate is raised to 6.8%, it would be bad business from a banking perspective to make such loans given the high default rate.
Let's add to that situation the fact that Obama's real graduation gift to college graduates is that more than 40% of them won't find a job that requires a college degree. Go check it out. You'd be surprised at how many shoe salespeople at Macy's have a college degree. So, maybe we should restrict these subsidized college loans to those students enrolled in curricula with high probability of employment.
The old model of going to college and getting a good job only works if the federal government isn't rapidly pushing American industry down the crapper. We are now at a point where businesses do not create enough new jobs each year to consume the graduating class. And, those college grads who go into retail sales, for example, take jobs from those who did not go to college. Of course, we have entitlement programs for those who can't find work (or won't look). But, we are rapidly running out of money to pay for them. Not even taxing the rich will pay this tab. The only way out is to grow the economy and not with government jobs. Obama doesn't have a clue how to do this. "Green jobs" and government stimulus is not the answer. Obama has put our national economy on the rocks and we need a new hand at the helm.
Don't be confused or misled by phony issues and distractions like contraception or student loan rates or how much Warren Buffet pays in taxes. If the problems with the economy and personal freedom are not resolved, none of those will matter. Keep your eye on the prize and work for Obama's early retirement.
I think it's a combination of cable news and e-mail. Everyone seems to need something to get excited about. I get dozens of e-mails each week that tell me that Senator So-and-So, Democrat from Somewhere I Don't Live, has introduced some sort of bill that will tax something everyone does with catastrophic effects on the general population. And, that I should alert everyone I know, including my representatives in Congress. I must have gotten twenty such messages concerning proposal by two Democrat senators to impose a 1% bank transaction tax. All of these have one thing in common -- they ain't gonna happen. They probably won't even get out of committee in the Senate and surely won't get to the floor of the House. Just because some politician has a bad idea doesn't mean that it should ruin my day. I'd never have a good day if that were the case. For the most part, every idea by every Democrat politician is a bad idea.
The other day I got an "Oh my God" e-mail about the great conspiracy represented by the Federal Government's decision not to send out social security checks in favor of direct deposit or debit card distribution. Over thirty years ago my employer stopped giving out paychecks and only did direct deposit. It didn't seem conspiratorial then and it doesn't now.
Just this morning Chuck Schumer held a hearing in Washington to discuss legislation to counteract laws like the Arizona immigration law. It was all over the news. He swaggered in and hollered and waved his arms like he always does. His proposal won't even get to the Senate floor and surely not to the House floor. But, it was all over cable news. Didn't ruin my day -- I had a good laugh. It was just another example of old Chuck's personal motto:
Maybe we just don't feel right unless there is something to get the blood moving. Maybe we should watch less cable news.
Democrat Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate budget committee, had the gall to pronounce before the "markup session" committee meeting that no budget would go forward for a vote. So there he sat with all 11 Republican committee members and empty chairs where the Democrat members were supposed to be sitting. Republicans were there to do their part -- the Democrats didn't even bother to come. Once again an April 15th passes without the required by law budget. It's clear that having no budget is the Democrat's plan even after over 1,086 days without on. They aren't serving the American people but we can fix that in November.
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the 4th straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.
Our Community Organizer turned President has relied on his only demonstrated skill, assigning group labels and pitting the assigned groups against each other. Positioning himself as a modern day Robin Hood, he promises to take from the rich and give to the poor.
Harkening back to the days of the French Revolution his cries evoke "off with their heads" as he portrays oil companies as getting special deals at taxpayers expense and filthy rich people like Warren Buffet who don't pay what his secretary pays in taxes. Of course that is total BS, since his secretary makes a few hundred thousand per year some of which is taxed as payroll income and Warren takes no salary making his money on investments taxed at Capital Gains rates.
Obama likes to set up a straw man argument that is patently false and then rail against it in a way that many can relate to. If the straw man argument had any basis in fact we could join him. Obama is a charlatan and he is counting on the stupidity of the public to buy his snake oil. It will be up to Mitt Romney to take him on and expose him to the uninformed.
Herein lies the concern... Obama's policies and behavior, including his tendency to wax dictatorially as he does end runs around Congress and tries to nullify the Supreme Court, are a treasure trove of issues against which to run. His championing of women's reproductive rights against Catholic doctrine is classic of the Socialist/Communist need to neuter any church because the church teaches you to look to God as your savior and Obama and the Progressives want you to look to the state as the savior. This makes them enemies. So he tries to split women while harming the church, as any good Community Organizer would.
So far, Romney has relied on his resume far too heavily and not nearly enough on where he wants to take this country and therefore why we should follow him. He has criticized Obama for some policies and behavior but he is not hitting any home runs.
The Republican establishment beat out the Tea Party on this nominee. Let's hope he is not another John McCain.
Obama's solution to the debt crisis is a bit of class warfare called the Buffet Rule. This rule hits those making more than $1 million a year with a higher tax rate to ensure they pay their "fair share" -- a higher tax rate than middle class families. White House press release said, "The president believes in standing up for the middle class and making our tax system fairer, where everyone plays by the same set of rules, in order to ensure the economic security of the middle class."
Wow we're all saved from crushing debt by making the evil rich pay their fair share. Just the message Obama needs to secure his re-election. One small problem, taxes aren't the problem -- spending is the problem. This tax increase is like peeing in the ocean and expecting it to turn yellow -- not going to happen. Spending is so out of control that this additional revenue, although felt by the taxed, doesn't even make a noticeable dent in the deficit spending. According to a recent analysis by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, the Buffett Rule would raise a mere $47 billion over ten years. The Buffett Rule only covers about .5% of Obama's new deficit spending. Soaking the rich cannot get deficits down, only spending reductions can do that. This isn't a solution, it's a campaign sound bite -- a con to take the blame for deficit spending off of Obama and put it squarely on the rich. This is just another Obama lie. The miniscule deficit reduction clearly proves that the problem isn't the "evil rich." Lets put the debt and deficit in perspective by examining how it has grown over time from Ronald Reagan to Obama.
| President | Years | Deficit $ trillion | $/yr billion | Debt $ trillion |
| Ronald Reagan |
8 | $2.53 | $316 | $4.82 |
| G H W Bush |
4 | $1.72 | $430 | $6.54 |
| Bill Clinton |
8 | $0.84 | $105 | $7.38 |
| G W Bush |
8 | $3.79 | $474 | $11.17 |
| Obama | 3+2mo | $4.40 | $1,390 | $15.57 |
| Obama (projected) |
8 | $9.10 | $1,138 | $20.39 |
As insane as Obama's deficit spending is, his proposed budgets have been even worse. He has totally ignored the report from his own Simpson-Bowles deficit commission in early 2011 and instead proposed $1.5 trillion in deficit spending. In May 2011 the Senate voted 0-97 -- unanimously voting against the budget including his own Democrats. We're well past 1,000 days without a Senate passed budget. Obama's 2012 budget was also unanimously defeated in the House 414-0. If we had Parliamentary form of government that would be called a "vote of no confidence" and Obama would be gone. Clearly Obama has provided no leadership in solving our spending problems. Since the Republicans took control of the House they have passed budgets for 2011 and 2012. Those budgets would have put us on the path to fixing our debt and spending problem but were panned by Obama and ignored by the Democrat controlled Senate.
The numbers speak for themselves. The debt has grown across all the administrations. The king of deficit spending is clearly Obama. He blames Bush for the deficit spending but for Obama's first 3 years he has grown the rate of G W Bush's deficit spending by 293%. Obama's 2 term projected deficit spending dose slightly decline but still is 240% of Bush's actual. By raping the Defense budget while growing entitlement spending for Obamacare the deficit rate trends down slightly in Obama's 2 term projections. Still there is nothing but red ink as far as the eye can see at a level higher than for any previous President. Reducing the deficit doesn't solve the real problem -- rapidly growing debt. The deficit must be eliminated before the debt can be paid down. That can't happen without a budget and clearly won't until Obama is gone and Republicans take control of the Senate. The following video takes the inconceivably huge numbers and expresses them in terms more easy to relate to.
The UN Agenda for the 21st century was launched in 1992 for the stated purpose of achieving global sustainable development. Like a lot of high minded political programs it states noble sounding themes but in fact in it is corrupted in its implementation as it has been modified to a program designed to spread European style Socialist goals throughout the world including here in the United States.
Although Congress refused to ratify this program, agreed to by George H W Bush at the summit in Rio known as the UN Conference on Environment and Development, subsequent Presidents have implemented UN Agenda 21 through Executive Orders establishing and empowering the President's Council on Sustainable Development which in turn promotes regional planning commissions to implement Agenda 21 issues.
The noble sounding elements of Agenda 21 include atmospheric protection, combating pollution, protecting fragile environments, conserving biological diversity, combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health.
In fact, however, in order to accomplish these goals it promotes reducing private property ownership, limiting single family homes, reducing private car ownership, and reducing privately owned farms. It seeks to cram people into "livable" areas and institute population control. To reduce poverty it seeks social justice through global redistribution of wealth.
Through the UN's International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, the UN seeks to implement this agenda directly with local governments. They have succeeded by signing agreements with over 600 towns, cities and counties currently using resource management plans prescribed in UN Agenda 21 including housing, land use and transportation goals.
We did not see the crash of 2008 coming because we were not informed. Let that be a lesson and get informed on UN Agenda 21. Some learning resources are:
This UN program "is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment." It was adopted at the UN's Earth Summit from June 3-14, 1992
When it comes to plenty of sun there's few places in the US with more than California. Surely Obama's much touted solar energy is going to be a stunning success on the west coast. To bad things just aren't that simple -- shades of Solyndra and others on Obama's list of selected winner green companies. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and California Gov. Jerry Brown showed up for the photo ops last June when Solar Trust broke ground for the 1,000-megawatt California project. It was touted as the world's largest solar power plant. A keystone of the Obama administration's efforts to promote solar energy. California had already mandated alternative energy goals for electric utilities. How that would be paid for I doubt California bureaucrats have any idea. Obama has already told everybody we would be paying much higher rates for all energy.
The Energy Department offered a loan guarantee with conditions to be met within a deadline. The deadline passed and without the loan Solar Trust of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The filing listed assets between $1 million and $10 million, and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million. A combination of poor business planning and under capitalization -- they didn't stand a chance. They were so busy drooling over Obama's money tree they probably got caught in the joy of spending others people's money. To bad they didn't understand the difference between feeding at the government trough and running a business. A photo op with Obama dose not a success make.
I have just one question for the Obama Administration. With solar and wind just not happening, how will we be replacing the power generated by all the coal fired plants the EPA is driving out of business with needlessly oppressive regulation? Please God, Romney in 2012 before it's to late.
After reading the headlines about the US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales who shot up Afghanistan civilians, I couldn't help noticing an irony. There is all this clamor to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind his having suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Yet this Major Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood while screaming Allah Akbar, still hasn't stood trial, and they are still debating whether he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive: slay as many infidels as possible. So we have a guy in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately.
But this Muslim psychiatrist who was stateside in a nice safe office all day murders 13, wounds 29 of our own guys, and they try to argue the poor lad suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from listening to real soldiers who had actual battle experience. Two and a half years later, they still haven't tried the murderous bastard.
All the usual race baiters are getting into the act over the Trayvon Martin shooting. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson never miss an opportunity to self promote. The Black Panthers are organizing a lynch mob. New tidbits of information keep popping up that out of context favor guilt or innocence. I'm willing to wait for an investigation to be completed before I espouse an opinion on Zimmerman's guilt. I can't however stand by when the MSM plays with the truth. Excellent example of that slight of hand is the way the Today Show edited Zimmerman's 911 call. Fox News and media watchdog site NewsBusters caught them with their pants down. We see a lot of cherry picking what to report to support a liberal agenda but this goes far beyond that and is so blatant that even NBC is investigating the editorial process of it's own show.
The Today Show reported in the 911 call, Zimmerman said, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." That surely sounds like prejudice and racial profiling but, that's not how the conversation with the 911 operator went. The actual conversation went as follows with the part the Today Show omitted in italics:
There's a very different set of conclusions when you hear the conversation without the deleted words. This isn't mere distortion, it's fabrication -- virtually a lie. An attempt to make Zimmerman look like racist and certainly guilty. Some of the media characterized Zimmerman as "White" and when caught on that they changed it to "White Hispanic." Talk about racism. Liberals should take a long look at themselves before branding others as racist.
The proof that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's team is stunning in its simplicity and undeniable technical accuracy. That the news media refused to present it and all have pooh poohed it based on hearsay, Arpaio's team actually did the work necessary to find out if it's real.
I went to presentation on Saturday March 30th and anyone who has ever used Adobe Photoshop or Elements had no trouble understanding the proof of the forgery of the birth certificate.
The White House made the birth certificate available in an electronic file on its web site. In order to create that image there were only four possibilities:
The first two were shot down when the researchers found they could use Adobe Photoshop and reveal the birth certificate was made up of 9 layers. They found the color of the paper to be one layer and the official stamps were on other layers. Because the stamps were on other layers, they could move them around freely. This can't happen with photographed whole images or images resulting from scanning as the scanning makes everything the same layer. A process called optimization could create layers of a canned or photographed image, but the layers are numerous and non-discrete in what they contain (i.e. all the color on one layer or the stamp images on separate layers).
Scanning the original birth certificate with OCR software could produce discrete elements but it also produces other effects not found in the White House provided file. With OCR software you get font identification, you can search for words and you can edit words. None of these characteristics were present in the file.
But if you were to produce a phony birth certificate using sections from a birth certificate for another person or persons, you would get exactly what the research hers found – a carefully constructed image with multiple discrete layers constructing the final image.
That the media, including supposed "No Spin Zone" Bill O'Reilly ignored this indisputable evidence and like the sheep in Animal Farm, used ridicule of the messenger and the message as the means of refuting what is so obvious if examined evidence.
This presentation was essentially a re-run of Arpaio's original press conference. It was presented to the Church on the Green in Sun City West and the church which has capacity seating for 1000 was filled to overflowing with countless people turned away. This issue is not going away, merely suppressed...
I'm a highly skilled user of Photoshop and GIMP. In my opinion, there is no logical reason for the particular combination of image layers in Obama's birth certificate other than it was a forgery.
There's something very wrong going on in the country and it has seriously negative implications for civil unrest across the nation. We appear to be headed towards mob rule and the media seems to love it. The first indication is the idea of being global in protest movements. Civil unrest is much worse in other countries than here in the USA. We don't need to import the violence and destruction from Greece or Spain or wherever. I realize we have had civil unrest in this country on a number of occasions but it has not had the scope that the trend seems to indicate at this time and it is the scope that the internationalization of our civil protests that troubles me.
The Left has joined forces with other countries including the Middle East to share goals and strategies and tactics. Unions are a prime example of this and they don't try to hide it. Occupy Wall Street is another. Minister Louis Farrakhan who leads the Nation of Islam is a fiery leader who threatens civil violence. He has met with Ahmadinejad and who knows who else. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are forever there trying extortion or rabble rousing. There are less obvious groups especially amongst people of Mexican heritage who will gather in large groups to assert a cause. Flash Mobs and Flash Robs are growing in frequency and destruction. Drug Cartels have established themselves in all our major cities and gangs abound, some of them extremely violent such as MS13.
Why our government appears helpless in the face of such threats is mystifying since they appear to be willing to kill everyone when it is white offenders, such as Waco.
The trouble with these threats and the lack of counter moves by the government is that people adopt the attitude that if the government won't do anything about it, we will...
Under the Obama regime, this problem has increased significantly. The polarization of the country is not just political and it is due to the failure of government to address the trend towards mob violence which appears to be barreling out of control.
It doesn't matter if we are Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Church of God, Pentecostal; Jewish or whatever. As a Judeo-Christian, it is time we stood united and took a stand before all of us are doomed. Look at the video below, and try to understand it applies to all of us. Not just Catholics.
The Catholic Church is a major roadblock in Obama's quest to bring complete Socialism to the US of A. This video explains why Obama and his minions must "divide and conquer" the Catholic Church. If you are Catholic, you need to watch it. This was recorded in 2009, long before Obama's attack on the Catholic Church.
If not Catholic, you should see it anyway. Our churches need to stand united! Religion stands in the way of Socialism, so lets all stand together, united!
Have you ever wondered, as I do, if Obama ever does anything for the benefit of the American people? Well now we have our answer. Obama has sold out our national security to the Russians. He was caught over an open microphone asking Russian President Medvedev basically to back off this year until he's reelected when he'll let them have it their way. Translation, do me a favor and there'll be no missile defense in Europe. Obama is willing to trade America's and the world's security to help him get re-elected. Talk about the dirty back room deal of all dirty deals. There's perhaps a bigger message here. If reelected he won't have to worry about what he does -- God help America. There is now no doubt that Obama is so self centered he makes all decisions to benefit himself and not the American people he's sworn to serve and protect. Any President who will trade the security of America for reelection isn't fit to hold the office. We shouldn't wait for November to throw this treasonous bum out -- let's impeach Comrade Obama now.
You'd think by now Oblabla would have learned to be careful about live microphones. At least this time his stupidity in this regard serves a useful purpose for the American people. The American people that Obama always puts last after his cronies, big buck bundlers and of course himself. How can Obama lead the free world when he always capitulates to our enemies, disses our allies and subordinates America with apologies and bows to Muslim Royalty. Thanks to Obama the world has wondered if they could trust our word -- now they know they can't.
With the supreme Court hearing the insurance mandate question and the Obama 2012 campaign already in full swing, I can assure you the above bullet items won't be what Obama and Democrats will be spinning in defense of Obamacare. I've read the four page sales pitch and plan that's being distributed to the party faithful Advocacy Groups. It's panic time for Obama because the millions of taxpayer money they've spent marketing Obamacare hasn't been able to put lipstick on this pig. The unions will descend on Washington in droves to create extensive AstroTurf. Acorn under new names, to hide the guilty, will be everywhere -- you didn't think they were going away did you? There will be a highly coordinated effort to preserve this unconstitutional affront to the American people called Obamacare.
On March 16 to the 18th, Progressives held a forum called the Left Forum 2012, at Pace University in New York City where Occupy Wall Street was born as an idea. With themes "Occupy the System" and "Confronting Global Capitalism" this forum reveals the Socialist/Communist bent of the Progressives who dominate the Democratic Party.
This is the fourth year it is being held and last year they had 3500 attendees, 1000 speakers and 400 panels. I wish I could copy their documents but they have prevented that. I encourage you to go to this web site and download their program guide. Citing Socialist and Communists as well as civil libertarians, trade unionists, black and Latino freedom fighters, environmentalists, anarchists, feminists, anti-war activists, students and people struggling against unemployment, foreclosures, inadequate housing and deteriorating schools, the forum leaders claim to have established an international coalition.
They thanked the staff and administration of Pace University without whose help they could not have pulled off this forum.
All this is in addition to the many movements like MoveOn.org, the Tides Foundation and the myriad other George Soros funded organizations. The left is very well funded and have an enormous number of people organized to achieve their goals. The right is puny in comparison and unless that changes, America will be permanently changed.
In 2008 Obama said Bush was unpatriotic and irresponsible for raising the National Debt $4.899 trillion 8 years. Obama also said he would cut deficit spending in half. Instead, Obama has doubled down for $4.939 trillion of new Debt, exceeding the amount of Bush's 8 year Debt in a little over 3 years. What does that make Obama? Based on Obama's own words he's over twice as irresponsible and unpatriotic as his predecessor. When it comes to indebtedness, Obama makes Bush look like a piker. The National Debt now exceeds 100% of the nation's total value of goods and services, GDP. A major red flag under any measure.
If this was your family's financial situation there'd be some serious discussion in your household over making a budget with all the fat cut out. Getting your finances under control would be your priority. The Democrat controlled Senate hasn't passed a budget in well over 1,000 days. When the Republicans gained control of the House in 2010 they passed a budget and sent it to the Senate where it was tabled. The Senate just isn't serious about cutting spending. The House's budget made serious cuts and program reforms as does the one the House is working on now.
Obama sent a new federal budget to Congress last month. The budget projects the National Debt will continue to rise as far as the eye can see. Debt keeps growing to $16.3 trillion in 2012, $17.5 trillion in 2013 and $25.9 trillion in 2022. That would increase the Debt by 87%, $9.34 trillion, during what he hopes are his two terms. How could he provide that budget with a strait face? You can't spend yourself out of debt with borrowed money.
The solution is obvious. Obama must go and the conservatives need to get control of the Senate so that our government can act responsibly. Government's belt must be tightened, insane spending must stop and government must get out of the way so business can fix the economy.
In Obama's weekly address to the nation he tried to redirect consumers' anger with his administration to anger with Congress for allowing companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to receive $4 billion from the federal government every year. "Your member of Congress should be fighting for you. Not for big financial firms. Not for big oil companies," Obama said. "In the next few weeks, I expect Congress to vote on ending these subsidies," he continued. "And when they do, we're going to put every single Member of Congress on record: They can either stand up for oil companies, or they can stand up for the American people."
According to the CBO there were $2.5 billion in government subsidies for all fossil fuels in 2011. How pray tell does that grow to $4 billion after deleting subsidies for non-oil fossil fuel. Even kids that can't make change at a register would know that math doesn't compute. Given that the current problem is gas prices at the pump, how can reducing oil company profits lower the price of gas anyway? Obama's flim flam is best compared to the pickpocket who bumps into you to distract you from realizing your wallet has just been lifted. By trying to make a point with lies, Obama is once again insulting the American voter. When you can't find even a half truth to spin with you're in big trouble. Sorry Obama we're just not that stupid.
If Obama really wanted to lower the price of gas there are steps he can take. For example, rather than having over a 100 different gasoline blends depending on location and season, go back to a single blend. That would definitely lower cost of production and storage while fixing the supply problems created by all these blends. As far as Iran is concerned, our vulnerability to Middle East supply has been exasperated by not allowing drilling on federal controlled land like Alaska's Anwar. The Department of Energy was founded with the singular mission of minimizing our dependance on foreign oil imports. Why have they been allowed to fail miserably while yearly growing their budget? Obama has stated that our oil production is up but that's in spit of Obama not because of him. Oil drilling is down in all federally controlled oil reserves thanks to his stated desire to raise the cost of fossil fuel to make alternative fuel more attractive. The oil production increase is all on private or state land which Obama couldn't control.
When anyone thinks about St. Patrick's Day they'll think Irish, wearing green and drinking green beer. When I grew up in New York we even painted the white center street lines along the St. Patrick's Day parade route green. The Yiddish Sons of Erin in New York celebrated with green matzo ball soup. It was said that on St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish. Rather than just a celebration for the Irish, St. Patrick's Day reflects the America of immigrant assimilation that existed before the progressive's multiculturalism divided us into hyphenated groups. We were the great melting pot and people came here to become American. They didn't leave their culture behind but their national allegiance was now to America. Wearing a green shirt or perhaps a four leaf clover pin isn't reserved for those with Irish ancestry. No one asks to see your Irish passport before you're served a green beer and singing "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" without an Irish brogue won't connect your noggin with the wrong end of a shillelagh. In America we are one with all the cultures that make up our varied yet still united citizenry. We are free to experience any culture without having to pledge allegiance to it.
In California we also recognize Cinco De Mayo, 5th of May, as a day of Mexican celebration. It's origin was in 1862 when an outnumbered Mexican army defeated their French occupiers in the Battle of Puebla. The holiday crossed over to the US in the 1950's and 60's but didn't gain popularity until the 80's when beer marketers capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it. Funny how beer keeps popping up. In California, what makes this day very different from St. Patrick's Day is the focus on Mexican nationalism. The Mexican flag is everywhere from adorning the hoods of cars to being used as a cape. The Mexican flag screams we are really Mexican. The flag is a national symbol, not an ethnic one. Clearly California has some Spanish roots from the missions built by Spanish missionaries when they were trying to convert indigenous Indian populations to Christianity. California is none the less part of the US, not Mexico. City names such as Los Angeles and San Francisco reflect that Spanish influence.
One need only examine Cinco de Mayo to relate to the damage that multiculturalism has done to Europe with it's ethnic enclaves and booming Muslim populations. A self isolated immigrant Muslim population that virtually live under Sharia Law instead of the laws of the countries of their residence. Their allegiance is to Islam alone. For Hispanics who believe that California and other parts of the United States rightfully belongs to Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is a rallying point. With millions of Mexican illegal aliens in the US that number could be very large. Cinco de Mayo is hardly a celebration in unity with Americans the way St. Patrick's Day is.
Pride in ethnic origin or religious affiliation isn't anti-American. However, self imposed ethnic segregation goes against everything that has made the American melting pot so successful -- America's national unity. I take joy in my Irish background and great pride in my Greek ancestry but I'm an American, first and foremost. The United States is my fatherland.
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