CZARS
There are very few of us who know just what all of Obama's Czars do, as they quietly go about their "work" in the nation's capital. This listing of their names and job descriptions should be educational to all Americans, no matter what your political leaning. If you resent the existence of these extra-governmental "officials", with their very generous salaries funded by, you guessed it, you the taxpayer, then get angry with the one who put these characters on the payroll.
See who they are and realize what they want to do:
Richard Holbrooke - Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti-gun former Governor Of New Mexico. Pro-Abortion and pro- drug legalization. Wants to dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery - Auto recovery Czar
Radical anti-business black activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks.University of Maryland Business School Dean; teaches that US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley - AIDS Czar
Radical Homosexual. Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin - Border Czar
The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra-Liberal friend of Hillary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno - to keep borders open to illegals without interference from the Federal government.
David J. Hayes - California Water Czar
Senior Fellow of radical environmentalist group "Progress Policy". No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom - Car Czar
Auto Union worker. Anti- business & anti- nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Union-owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross - Central Region Czar
Believes US policy is the cause of war in the Middle East . Obama apologist to the world. Anti-gun and completely Pro-Abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal - Domestic Violence Czar
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti-male feminist. Supports male castration - imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske - Drug Czar
Devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, former Chief of Police in liberalSeattle WA. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs.
Paul Volcker - Economic Czar
Former head of the Federal Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama-appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti-business "Progressive Policy" organization,
Carol Browner - Energy and Environment Czar
Political Radical. Former head of the EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois - Faith-Based Czar
Political Black activist. Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti-gun ownership lobbyist. WHAT THE HELL DOES A FAITH BASED CZAR DO ? ? ?
Cameron Davis - Great Lakes Czar
Chicago radical anti-business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for "Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink." No experience or training in water management whatsoever. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)
Van Jones - Green Jobs Czar
(since resigned). Black activist with strong anti-white views. Member of American Communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party. Said George Bush caused the 9-11 attacks and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes.
Daniel Fried - Guantanamo Closure Czar
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the Global War on Terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Nancy-Ann DeParle - Health Czar
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong proponent of Healthcare Rationing (i.e. "Death Panels"). She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Vivek Kundra - Information Czar
Born in New Delhi , India . Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (HELLO?)
Todd Stern - International Climate Czar
Anti-business former White House Chief of Staff. Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord; pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- USbusiness prosperity.
Dennis Blair - Intelligence Czar
Retired US Navy. Stopped US guided missile program he described as "provocative". Chair of ultra-Liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.
George Mitchell - Mideast Peace Czar
Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into "2 or 3 " smaller more manageable plots". (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate
Kenneth Feinberg - Pay Czar
Chief of Staff to Ted Kennedy. Lawyer who got rich off the 9-11 victims payoffs (horribly true).
Cass Sunstein - Regulatory Czar
Liberal activist judge who believes free speech needs to be limited for the "common good"; essentially against the 1st Amendment. Has ruled against personal freedoms many times on private gun ownership and right to free speech cases. This guy has to be run out of Washington ! ! !
John Holdren - Science Czar
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club anti-business activist. Claims USbusiness has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Earl Devaney - Stimulus Accountability Czar
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
J. Scott Gration - Sudan Czar
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo . Believes US does little to help Third Worldcountries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Herb Allison - TARP Czar
Fannie Mae CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
John Brennan - Terrorism Czar
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders toMexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military A TOTAL MORON!!!!!
Aneesh Chopra - Technology Czar
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti-doctor activist. Supports Obama Healthcare Rationing (i.e. Death Panels) and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Government Healthcare plan.
Adolfo Carrion Jr. - Urban Affairs Czar
Puerto Rico-born Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of Bronx , NY . Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and healthcare.
Ashton Carter - Weapons Czar
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America . No Other "policy".
Gary Samore - WMD Policy Czar
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy"
These are the people who are helping President Obama RUIN I mean run our country from the White House. With elections coming this is just a little refresher - your tax dollars pay these dangerous leftists! There are a few more now not included here. Please EDUCATE your family, friends and neighbors about these "Czars"
If you haven't heard the infamous story of what Willard Mitt Romney did to his dog Seamus, you should. Romney "explained" it to Chris Wallace on Fox News.
Now that you've been thoroughly disgusted, concerned dogs and their humans can join the Dogs Against Romney superpac(k). (They even allow cats and other pets). http://www.dogsagainstromney.com/ A few words from the pack leader:
Hi, I'm Rusty. Welcome to my pack! Will you help me stop mean Mitt Romney from ever being president? He is mean to dogs. He scares us. Please read my blog, and go "like" my facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/DogsAgainstRomney That is where the action is! Together, we will poop on Mitt's manicured mansion lawn. - Rusty
Meet some of their members:
"I was so sad to hear how meanie Mitt treated his poor dog Seamus. My owner would never put me on top of the car. My owner loves me. She is not like Mitt Romney. She made me this sweater." - Cocoa
"Hi. I am Max. I like to play and chase balls. But I am sad. Why was Iowa thinking about making Mitt Romney be president when he is mean to dogs? Dogs love people." Bye, - Max
"Hi. I am Spike. My owner and I are very mad at Mitt Romney. He was not nice to his dog. He should not be president of the U.S." - Spike
It seems that recently, a group of atheists took out some ads on municipal buses and billboards in Ft. Worth and elsewhere with the following :
"Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."
Not surprisingly, there were reactions: vandalism to the billboards and posters, an attempted bus boycott, the demand for the city to ban all religious ads, threats, etc.
The question in the ad above IS provocative: it made me wonder:
Must a religion always be defined as REQUIRING a God? I am not an atheist (some folks don't know the diff between agnosticism and atheism), BUT I consider atheism a fervent BELIEF SYSTEM. Some atheists can be as evangelical as any believer. Personally, I'm a semi-secular, culturally and politically progressive not terribly observant Jewish agnostic with occasional loosely formed Deist, pantheist, and/or Wiccan inclinations. My beliefs are fluid and changeable, and I'm not married to them. They float in and out of me like birds flying through an open window. Even if I were looking for another religion to join, I hardly know which I would choose. Maybe Unitarian Universalism (which is actually a fellowship); they don't have evangelizers knocking at your door.
Religions are social constructs of shared (but originally private) beliefs. I think beliefs don't become religions until they are institutionalized. I'm not all that happy with most of these available institutions, since they tend to corral people into groupthink, which can stifle the reaching inward/outward for new epiphanies. And there's that middleman (the priest, the Pope, the Rebbe, the Imam) who advises, endorses, interprets, condemns, instructs. They stand between you and the direct experience of [God? the cosmos? nature? the planet? human potential?]. But I'm happy to pray to Big Mom on Mondays, worship a tree on Tuesdays, and look for the best in people on Wednesdays. Don't ask me about the weekend.
Nonetheless, I think that any of the above-mentioned belief systems, including atheism, should be protected under the First Amendment like any typical religion. And as long as they don't bother me, I won't bother them. Then again, being wished "Merry Christmas" for the whole month of December somehow does bother me somewhat every year. I usually say something like, well, I'm Jewish, but thank you for your good wishes, even though that only scratches the complexity, and doesn't feel wholly true.
But anyway, it's always fun to turn the answers inside out and re-examine the questions. If I were to choose a God worthy of worship, it would be a God of questions, a Great Maker of jigsaw puzzles and infinitely mirrored disco balls, a God who loves a good mystery, a God who is willing to be surprised about what's coming next, a God whose first and most beloved child was IMPERFECTION ...
Anyway, there IS order in the universe (except for my hair); we can celebrate that in only 6 short months, it will be summer! Best wishes to all, religion or no religion too, a Happy Merry Blessed SolstiYule-Chrisnukwanzukah, and for all you Seinfeld fans, Happy Festivus!
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man
is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read
the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors
to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see
what it costs when it's free!
P.J. O'Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much
money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
politics won't take an interest in you!
Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature
is in session.
Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
Help End Corporate Personhood: in Northampton TONIGHT!
A CAMPAIGN TO OVERTURN CORPORATE PERSONHOOD AND RECLAIM OUR DEMOCRACY
- Wednesday, December 14, 2011
- 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
- First Churches, Lyman Hall, Northampton
Speaker: John Bonifaz
Co-founder and director of Free Speech for People, a national campaign to enact a 28th Amendment to the Constitution that makes clear that corporations are not people with constitutional rights.
Bonifaz will discuss the People's Rights Amendment to end corporate personhood, recently introduced by Rep. James McGovern and inspired by Bonifaz. [James McGovern may be our new representative in Congress, due to re-districting]. He will go on to discuss the national conversation that Occupy Wall Street has created about the threat unchecked corporate power poses to our democracy.
There will a brief contextual overview of several related groups across the country and the strategies they are using to challenge corporate personhood.
Sponsors
Northampton Ad Hoc Committee on Democracy and Shays 2: Western Mass Committee on Corporations and Democracy. For further information, contact Daniel McLeod at danielwmcleod@hotmail.com.
BIG NEWS: Last Thursday, Martha Coakley, the Attorney General of Massachusetts, became the first state A.G. in the country to join the call for a Constitutional Amendment. This sets a huge precedent, not just in Massachusetts but for other states to follow as well. Attorney General Coakley endorsed our resolution now pending in the Massachusetts legislature.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. As Thom Hartmann says: Get out there - get active - Tag, you're IT!
Elizabeth Warren talks with Lawrence O'Donnell about the MA. Senate campaign, and why her candidacy is resonating with voters. Worth a look, and pass it on:
OCCUPY PERSONHOOD PIONEER VALLEY is a newly formed group working to eliminate corporate dominance of politics, and the harmful effects of the legal fiction of the corporate person. We believe that the rights & privileges of personhood belong to human beings alone, not corporations, and that the influence of money in political discourse is strangling our democracy.
The first meeting of Occupy Personhood Pioneer Valley took place in early November. We began to brainstorm ideas for possible actions in concert with the upcoming 2nd anniversary (January 21) of the Supreme Court's terrible, unprecedented decision in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission, which made the purchase of elections by corporations ever more possible.
To read more: http://en.wikipedia...._Election_Commission
Please join us as we meet again this Thursday, December 1st, 7 - 9 pm at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst. The address is 70 Boltwood Walk, between Rao's Coffee and Amherst Chinese, next to the parking garage. We'll be meeting in the lower level Glass Room.
We will continue to brainstorm possible actions and activities, and welcome your ideas. Under discussion:
* Campaign in a number of towns in the Pioneer Valley to pass resolutions to eliminate corporate personhood and corporate dominance of politics.
* Conduct a media event at Bank of America or other corporate location (Coca-Cola, others) announcing a declaration that puts corporations on notice that they are not persons and that we intend to abolish this mistaken notion.
* Develop memes in the Pioneer Valley that we can export to the rest of the country. eg. making complex political ideas clear, even “sexy”, and/or produce YouTube videos or a YouTube channel.
* Work on the concept of baking OccuPIES.
* Organize a big event (e.g. teach-in) with speakers who might share their understanding/ expertise in the growing corporatism, the effect of money in politics, democratic struggle & movements, history, etc.
What are YOUR ideas? Your participation and involvement is needed to help determine what we actually DO here in the Valley! Please join us Thursday evening at the Bangs Center.
I will 'typo' check more when I post, but glad the ideas got through. I am hoping we may be thankful this holiday that more awaken to the truth of our nation's situation and, in many ways, the possible simple solutions. (like having those people and businesses with means paying more of the share of the costs). I hope more of the 99 ,or whatever, percent will pressure their representatives and the media to take heed.
Most have likely seen it, since it went viral, but for anyone who missed or, or who hasn't read it again today and wants to read it EVERYDAY:
“This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem,” he said to about 200 people packed in the Senate Budget Committee room.
“But the reality is that the deficit was caused by two wars — unpaid for. It was caused by huge tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country. It was caused by a recession as result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street. And if those are the causes of the deficit, I will be damned if we’re going to balance the budget on backs of the elderly, the sick, the children, and the poor. That’s wrong.”
Whenever that particular person posts his/her Islamophobic, racist, homophobic, xenophobic Beckophiliac rantings, I sigh deeply, and realize once again that said person never expresses original thought, but only copyies/parrots statements readily found on the 'net, and promulgated on Fox Noise. Said person seems deeply under the influence of the radical right's propaganda machine, which deludes tens of millions of working class Americans about who has their true interests at heart.
But when he/she spews waves of vomitatious misinformation, lies, and outright slander designed to promote fear and division (see "Snopes.com" about the author of that latest screed), I just have to hold my head, exhausted. What do you do when someone demonstrates over and over again that he/she is unwilling to broaden their cusiosity to ever include the fact-based real world?
Nonetheless, I thank you for taking up the cause; others who are reading these political comments deserve the chance to have a reality-based real conversation about issues.
And, anyone who seriously thinks that Obama is a Marxist needs to read about Marxism or socialism. There is nothing about Obama's values and beliefs that would have anyone even modestly literate in politics conclude that he is anything but a centrist and incrementalist, and somewhat corporate-friendly to boot.
Oh, I only WISH Obama were just a teensy, tiny bit socialist! Because with the current GOP, we're approaching the cancerous stage of capitalism, the Ayn Rand insane psychopathic narcissistic gestalt of capitalism, where the moneyed and powerful metastasize like cancer to take over and finally kill the host (the host being the rest of America, and American democracy).
This is just such bull , name calling and scare tactic.. ). Calling Obama Marxist as well as Muslim is too rile up anti socialist, anti communist and anti- Muslim /Arab FEARS, not rational thought Obama has been a Democrat whose actions have been closer towards being in line with Republican agendas. He (and his administaration) had conceded and conceded and been very supportive of Wall Street and big business. (yes read AIG and Goldman Sachs) . This is not socialism. Not supportiong the continuation of tax roll backs would have helped diminish the deficit and pay for social programs we all desparately need. and jobs creation. We needed a real work program, yes funded with real dollars (from a fair taxation. Talk about reckless- who but the Republicans and demcorats bought by corporate interests and the rich would roll back taxes on those who CAN afford it, and sequeze the, yes 99% that rely on social/government programs to just have a chance. Those who cannot afford homes ,and whose jobs are being cut, or income so reduced that they cannot pay for their own basic services--- health care, schools or goods that would indeed support a capitalist society and its infrastucture that should be maintained as a society, poooling resources. Profits and money have not trickeled down (Since Reagan) but poured UP. If you want to talk of entitlements - look at much of the military ( and special contractor) spending and funding of corprorations without much oversight or regualtion. (the companies that often were bailed-out or receiving tax breaks realized billions in profits, that certainly did not get more fairly divided among their average employees (or union workes if any). Look at the corporate bailouts and Bonuses for CEOS etc who virtually destroyed our financaial system by being reckless and greedy. The wealthy having doubled assets while the majority's real income and living standard has fallen steeply. As to the media, mostly of the mainstream , including NBC, CBS has stayed away from the real facts around this situation for the many decades it has been building. Even folks like Buffet are calling for reform. As to free health care--- mandated health care is not free, and may cost many small businesses and individuals a significant portion of income (if they even realize any net income). while health care is not an issue for the wealthy or congress people. Again if the public had the same plan as their representatives--that could be considered much fairer. (plus their pensions!?) I don't necessarily believe in bigger government, and SURELY do not believe government should be mainly in service of corporations and special interest groups. It was supposed to maintain and support a society - an American society as a whole- as inclusive. What happened to America as a place of 'freedom' eauality' and justice. We are certainly seeing less of equality and justice and less freedom, in terms of where the real power lies. Luckily we can still speak out- as are the many affiliiated with Occupy Wall Street and union efforts---to actually preserve Human rights and better working conditions, which are being eroded by the actions of and legislation of 'BIG" Republicans (and some Dems) supported by BIG money and interests to USE government for the benefit of a wealthy minority.
Money has also not trickled down into charities by many of the wealthy or corporations who maintained high profits-- Where is the HEART in our society? Some foundations and individuals have contributed = yes...But wouldn't it be better if more individual people actually had the means to support their own local communities and favorite charities because their own basic needs are met? Instead those decisions are in the hands of an elite to decide what cause is worthy. And now we see a growing need of development professionals to try to convice those with power and means to contribute to their fellow people and public institutions (like UMASS) to support the young, and old, in healthcare, research, environment and education which has been less supported proportiionately and sufficiently by our general public policy- via government.
For real-- are you saying the workers that provided the labor that enabled business to profit, or the consumers who buy the goods that enable business to profit are not 'worthy' Who are you really? That the employees of state instutions like UMASS don't deserve reasonable compensation for their dedication and services? Health care workers? A move to a platform which put society (social needs) over indiviuals maintaing luxuries- and a move back to real democracy- would be a wonderful thing. Why so aftraid? Countries with a model closer to that seem to fair well. Those who are more totalitarian- serving limited power groups, be it capitalist or communist may land up doing well as a country -coporate entity ( like China now) but people suffer.
Please- - if captialism is failing- it is by it's own unwieldy methods.
By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010
Barack Hussien Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.
To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing.
He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure,
economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and
our country from within.
Barack Hussien Obama was my college classmate
( Columbia University , class of '83).
He is a devout Muslim, do not be fooled.
Look at his Czars...anti-business..anti- american.
Barack Hussien Obama is
following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University ..
They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system
with government spending and entitlement demands.
Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming.
Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn
the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority
that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted
on to always vote for bigger government.
Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
Universal health care . The health care bill had very little to do with health
care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and
health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions).
Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans
will add trillions to the national debt.
What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government .
Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill
in the middle of a depression?
Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with
health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming.
It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control
of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors.
Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns
NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants.
They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to
Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.
The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,
bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state?
Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government
entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?
Certainly not American taxpayers.
But this has been Barack Hussien Obama's plan all along.
His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants.
Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America .
But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted
on to support big government.
Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children,
food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and
eventually Social Security .
Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.
It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could
keep paying union dues.
It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out
(after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).
All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their
bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America .
The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means.
Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job
creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers,
redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did
nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).
Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by
my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussien Obama
using the Cloward and Piven Plan ..
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
THOMAS JEFFERSON
At 5, began studying under his cousins tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America " and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello .
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence .
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive
the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
I really appreciate the good and true things Laurie said about Van Jones. He's the kind of progressive activist we need - to help prod our Democratic leaders to a tipping point of real change, realizing that it's not nearly enough to be to the left of that wild herd of rogue elephants on the Hill, who are stampeding over most of us.
The right wingers (both the tea-smokers and the bajillionaires) are now SO far to the extreme right that they'd laugh Ronald Reagan out of the room - their so-called hero, REAGAN! After all, Reagan was a tax-raising, deficit-raising, pro-arms control, big-government spender. Check out his record: http://thinkprogress...8/reagan-centennial/
Anyone who is STILL looking to Glenn Beck for either factual information or reflective discernment needs to remember that even right-wing propaganda machine FOX "News" took him off the air. He is in a class all his own for fear-mongering, outright lying, race-baiting, anti-Semitism, end-of-the-world doom-slinging, and possibly faking all his positions for fame and profit: http://www.thedailyb...a-clown-excerpt.html
Van Jones is a wonderful advocate who gives voice to the voiceless. His service to his country is remarkable; many have benefited from his wisdom, heart, compassion, and activism. I only regret that the Obama administration did not stand up for Jones the way Jones stands up for other. Shame on those who tried to smear this man's name!
Laurie
p.s. Since when is communism against the law? People are free to believe what they want in this country, Catholicism, communism, and odd "ism" they want!
Gather to MOVE YOUR MONEY / SPEAK OUT against Wall St. abuses
Join the MOVE your MONEY action:
Let's reclaim our power from the Big Banks.
After bailouts and free passes from the government, big Wall Street banks are suddenly being held accountable by the American people. Thousands of bank customers have pledged to move their money out of the big banks and into the small banks and credit unions that are actually investing in our communities.
Now on Saturday November 5, at hundreds of actions around the country, we'll shine a light on the damage the big banks are still doing to our economy, our communities, and our neighbors from coast to coast, and encourage the big banks' customers to move their money too.
This Saturday in Amherst we tell the big banks—and our government—no more free passes for damaging our economy. On Saturday, we Make Wall Street Pay.
Downtown Amherst, 1 South Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002
Saturday, November 5th, 10am to noon.
In Amherst, Saturday, Nov 5th, 10 - 12 noon, there will be an informational picket and speakers outside of Bank of America. At 11 a.m., there will be a press conference of those community members who will be taking their money out of the Bank of America as part of a a nationwide Move the Money action.
This action is being put on by a coalition called the American Dream that includes MoveOn, labor unions, student, environmental, civil rights and other national groups. It is also supported by Bold Progressives, Democracy Now, truth-out, think-progress, Robert Reich, Arianna Huffington, Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream, & our next Senator, Elizabeth Warren, to name a few.There will be thousands of other like actions over the country Saturday. Bring your support, and Bank of America credit cards and/or account information to move your money to locally owned banks of your choice.
VAN JONES IS A SELF PROCLAIMED COMMUNIST , THANKS TO GLENN BECK HE WAS OUSTED FROM THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE STAFF BECAUSE HE WAS EXPOSED AS BEING A COMMUNIST.
There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job.
What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country. Of course, as your employer, I am forbidden to tell you whom to vote for - it is against the law to discriminate based on political affiliation, Race, creed, religion, etc.
Please vote who you think will serve your Interests the best. However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help you decide what is in your best interest. First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that for every business owner there is a back story.
This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by what you see and hear Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You've seen my big home at last year’s Christmas party. I'm sure all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life. However, what you don't see is the back story.
I started this company 12 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300 square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living space was converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.
My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I spent went back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a defective transmission. I didn't have time to date. Often times, I stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and partying. In fact, I was married to my business -- hard work, discipline, and sacrifice.
Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes. Instead of hitting the Nordstrom's for the latest hot fashion item, I was trolling through the Goodwill store extracting any clothing item that didn't look like it was birthed in the 70's.
My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had.
So, while you physically arrive at the office at 9 am, mentally check in at about noon, and then leave at 5 pm, I don't. There is no "off" button For me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, ****, and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is attached to me like a 1 day old baby.
You, of course, only see the fruits of that garden -- the nice house, the Mercedes, the vacations... You never realize the back story and the sacrifices I've made. Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who didn't.
The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed a decade of my life for. Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I've paid is steep And not without wounds. Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why:
I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don't pay enough. I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes. Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes. Taxes on taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of my time. On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US Treasury for $288,000 for quarterly taxes. You know what my "stimulus" check was? Zero. Nada. Zilch.
The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000 people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single mother sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check?
Obviously, government feels the latter is the economic stimulus of this country. The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? That's nuts. Who wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree which is why your job is in jeopardy. Here is what many of you don't understand ... to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly government mandated to me that I didn't need to pay taxes, guess what? Instead of depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.
When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don't defibrillate and shock his thumb thinking that will bring him back to life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it. However, the power brokers in Washington prefer to cater to the unproductive segment of America rather than to the essential driver of the American economic engine.
Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change you can keep. So where am I going with all this? It's quite simple. If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be swift and simple. I fire you. I fire your co-workers. You can then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and your child's future. Frankly, it isn't my problem anymore. Then, I will close this company down, move to another country, and retire.
You see, I'm done. I'm done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed, and with it, will be my citizenship.
While tax cuts to 95% of America sounds great on paper, don't forget the back story: If there is no job, there is no income to tax. A tax cut on zero dollars is zero. So, when you make decision to vote, ask yourself, who understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn't? Whose policies will endanger your job? Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable of saving your job. While the media wants to tell you "It's the economy Stupid" I'm telling you it isn't.
If you lose your job, it won't be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the Constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me in South Caribbean sitting on a beach, retired, and with no employees to worry about.
Signed, Your boss,
Michael A. Crowley, PE
Crowley, Crisp & Associates, Inc.
Professional Engineers
1906 South Main Street, Suite 122
Wake Forest, NC 27587
Phone: 919.562.8860 x22
Fax: 919.562.8872
If you have just a few minutes at work, watch the intro to this very important talk by Van Jones.
Later, if you have an hour, Van Jones gives his powerful and inspirational keynote speech at the 2011 "Take Back the American Dream" conference in Washington D.C. Both problems and solutions are presented. Recorded by Free Speech TV October 4, 2011.
I went to the Big E yesterday and was really shocked to see that an ELEPHANT was being used to give rides! I cannot believe that in this day and age, in Massachusetts, a member of an endangered species which is known to have great self-awareness, intellingence and need for social bonds, is being forced to walk around in a small lot in the hot sun and kept in a trailer truck! There was also a "petting zoo" which I did not enter.
If you are as distressed about this as I am, I urge you to contact the Big E and let them know. Their email address is: exponews@TheBigE.com
From Talking Points Memo:
Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren will officially launch her campaign for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts on Wednesday, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a source close to Warren told TPM on Tuesday.
“The pressures on middle class families are worse than ever, but it is the big corporations that get their way in Washington,” Warren said in a statement. “I want to change that. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.”
ACT BLUE's first endorsement for 2012 is for Elizabeth Warren for the MA Senate.
"No one in the country is a fiercer, and more successful, advocate for stopping Wall Street, big corporations and big banks from ripping off the American people. We've been encouraging Professor Warren to enter the race since February. Now it's time to make sure she wins."