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POPSCash for Clubbers The government has gone mad - OR - they are right on course (not golf course) to bankrupt us ASAP.
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POPSHumor in the Asylum Pavlina R. Tcherneva: Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Direct Job Creation - Lessons from Argentina If the U.S. government creates a permanent, voluntary public employment program that offers a living-wage job to anyone willing and able to work in a public service project, unemployment will be addressed directly. The wolves are hungry and Obama may be on the menu....
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POPSSeven Big Lies about the Stimulus Click on link to view the seven lies. Only truthful thing of note is that the WH invited recipients of stimulus to exaggerate the number of jobs created/saved. As Gomer would say, surprise, surprise, surprise! This administration is based on lies.
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POPSResponding to modern Marxism Every single Democrat in the current majority, including Barack Obama, swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Yet, they absolutely ignore the limitation of power set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. None of the 17 powers enumerated there authorizes the current health-care bills or the cap-and-trade bill, or the bailout, or the stimulus package – all recently passed by the House of Representatives. When asked by a reporter to identify the constitutional authority for the current health-care bills, Sen. Patrick Leahy said: "We have plenty of authority, why would you say we don't have authority?" Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reply to the same question was: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Obviously, neither one is "preserving, protecting or defending" the Constitution when they ignore its limitation of congressional power.
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POPSMost Americans expect higher taxes More than one-third of all surveyed say they expect their taxes to be "a lot higher'' despite the president's assertion that 95 percent of all Americans are getting tax relief under his economic stimulus program and health-care plans for the future. "Most Americans remain skeptical that the administration can pay for healthcare reform and its other programs without raising their taxes,'' Gallup's Jeffrey Jones reports today. Higher taxes are on the way. You can not pay for all the projects Obama is trying to implement without incurring massive debt. Simply printing more ‘useless’ money is not the answer, that will only result in the devaluation of the dollar until it becomes worthless. However do not hold your breath expecting old honest Abe (Obama) to tell you the truth - why would he start now.
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POPSHappy Cost of Government Day As a result, taxpayers have to work 224 days out of the year just to meet the cost imposed by all levels of government. As in previous years, this year’s report seeks to shed light on the burden government imposes on taxpayers. A new feature of the report is a series of case studies taking a closer look at some of the more recent spending initiatives and other proposals that are currently threatening taxpayers. For a broader perspective, for the first time, we have included several narratives authored by lawmakers and think tank representatives analyzing the cost of government at the state level. The recent federal spending spree paints a bleak picture for taxpayers. It started with the passage of the financial market bailout and continued with the “stimulus,” the $410 billion earmark-stuffed “omnibus,” the $3.55 trillion budget, and more bailouts leading to current threats of a national energy tax and a government takeover of health care.
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POPSCongressional Democrats do talk & spend period It would take almost $16,000 more from every household in America to balance the budget just this year. To grab this money from top income-bracket earners, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we’d have to hike their tax rates to between 80% and 90%. The CBO noted earlier this year in its budget report that “ igh tax rates would slow the growth of the economy, making the spending burden harder to bear.” Like kids, Congress can break anything if they mess with it long enough.
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POPSStimulus has reversed Global Warming Why stop with the economy? Why not use lies to reverse global warming, poverty or a cure for Aids? My comment is as believable as her's and just as impossible to prove.
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POPSObama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up I will absolutely guarantee that taxes will go up, does anyone actually think Obama and Congress will stop spending? ...yes a runaway deficit they keep pushing beyond the stratosphere and can not get away with blaming on Bush...
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POPSKnow-Nothing-in-Chief A good example of Obama's economic shallowness is his unrelenting defense of the $787 billion "stimulus." Enacted in February, it has had minimal impact on the economy. Yet Obama has no second thoughts. He says he wouldn't change a thing about the stimulus. It has "already saved jobs and created new ones," he said at the press conference, neglecting to note that 2 million jobs--a net 2 million--have been lost since it was passed.
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POPSThe criminal case against ACORN The report expresses concern that ACORN would channel $8.5 billion in economic stimulus funds through a criminal corporate structure designed to mask the distribution of public money to partisan activities, including voter fraud to advance the campaigns of radical Democratic politicians.
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POPSSave E-Verify! A YES vote is against E-Verify, a NO vote is supporting E-Verify. I scanned through the votes and noted the following; 0 Dems voted Yea 7 Dems voted Nay All Reps voted Nay Who believes in our sovereignty and who does not? The answer is plainly shown here.
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POPSThe Balloon Deflates
But did it? Maybe we're now experiencing a liberal interlude, not a liberal inflection point. After all, only six months into the new administration, even a talented hot air blower like President Obama, assisted by friendly gusts of wind from the media, is having trouble keeping the liberal blimp afloat. The stimulus hasn't worked. Cap-and-trade and health care reform are in trouble. The can't-we-all-get-along foreign policy isn't leading to a more peaceful world. And the administration seems to have no idea what to do about Guantánamo. Congressional Democrats are nervous. Even Obama's media base is concerned. At the end of last week, three leading Obamaphiles offered their lamentations. "The fact is, Obama may be blowing a major opportunity for reform," worried Joe Klein. "There's now a real risk that President Obama will find himself caught in a political-economic trap," warned Paul Krugman. "Failure. Overwhelming, amazing failure," was David Brooks's take on the administration
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POPSThe bankrupt party of porkulus Team Obama flack Robert Gibbs says the president isn’t “ruling anything out, but at the same time he’s not ruling anything in.” Despite the inconvenient fact that less than 10 percent of the initial stimulus has been spent (or misspent), congressional Democrats remain “open” to the idea of digging a deeper fiscal hole for your children and grandchildren. Porkulus One was a massive payoff to special interests and political constituencies (and dead people!) disguised as a job generator.
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POPSUnderstanding the Age of Obama 3. The Private Sector. Nationalizing much of the auto and financial industries, while regulating executive compensation, is an indication of our new government's repeatedly stated reluctance to interfere in the private sector. 4. Race and Gender. Not what is said but who says it and about whom reveals racism and sexism. For example, an Hispanic female judge isn't being offensive if she states that Latinas are inherently better judges than white males. 5. Random violence. Some assassinations represent larger American pathologies, but others do not. When a crazed lone gunman murders someone outside the Holocaust Museum or shoots an abortion doctor, we should worry about growing right-wing and Christian extremism. But when an African-American Muslim convert brags about his murder of a military recruitment officer or an Islamic group plots to kill Jews and blow up a military jet, these are largely isolated incidents without larger relevance.
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POPSObama Wants Congress To Give Him Money Without Plans Cap and trade and the total re-engineering of the nation’s energy system to remove coal and oil? We don’t know the total plan or much of the costs either. The $787 billion stimulus was passed without a single lawmaker admitted he or she had read the request. So why bother with writing down the tricky deatails of government spending? Heath care? The current Obama Administration request is for spending The details of reform? Yet to be worked out. Education? We don’t have a plan but we want the government to send everyone to college. What will that cost and what will that mean? We aren’t sure. This wouldn’t seem so starkly stupid if we had the money to spend. But this is borrowing huge sums from China and saddling out grandchildren with the debt: while we work out how the money will be spent, exactly. Donna Smith of Reuters wrote, “Obama wants an overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. health care industry passed by the end of the year.” She also wrote, “Obama has n
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POPSA CRISIS OBAMA WON’T WASTE Now comes Geithner’s plea for extra regulatory powers and Obama’s concession to global economic regulation at the G-20 summit. Both moves are game-changers for any major American business. Geithner wants the power to take over any business — presumably in any field — whose failure would imperil the national economy. Today it’s banks, brokerage houses, car companies and insurance firms. Tomorrow? Who knows? And Obama agreed to agree on international “high standards” for the regulation of all “systemically important” companies to be promulgated by the new global Financial Stability Board (FSB). The United States, occupying one of 20 chairs on the FSB board (21 if we count the EU), will come to a consensus with other central bankers from the G-20 nations on what these regulations should say. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve and the other regulatory arms of the U.S. government will impose them on our economy.
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POPSEU presidency: US economic plans 'a way to hell' To encourage banks to lend again, the government will also pump $1 trillion into the financial system by buying up treasury bonds and mortgage securities in an effort to clear some of the "toxic assets" — devalued and untradeable assets — from banks' balance sheets. Topolanek bluntly said that "the United States did not take the right path.".
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POPSBailout fatigue The cumulative deficit during the same years would amount to $9.3 trillion, or $2.3 trillion more than the White House estimates. That should scare everyone, however we already know just how carefree the far left are, nothing frightens them except water boarding.
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POPSThe Geithner Asset Play Now all Mr. Geithner has to do is find private investors willing to "partner" with the feds (Congress!) to bid for those rotten assets Good Luck on that one!
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POPSOak Ridge lab receives $71M from stimulus plan "This modernization effort will help keep ORNL as one of our nation's premier laboratories," said U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn. It also will mean about 170 construction jobs. 170 jobs part time jobs divided by 71.2 million - does this sound like a good deal?
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POPSPalin Says No Thanks to Some Stimulus Money I can't attest to every fund that's being offered the state in the stimulus package will be used to create jobs and stimulate the economy, so I'm requesting only those things that I know will. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN MANDATED BY CONGRESS - IF the stimulus plan was designed to stimulate (which is was not) include the language and regulations to prevent abusive use of the funds. Kudos to Palin - an honest politican (I know - it makes you far left kooks puke - good!)
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POPSSenate budget writer counting on $14.2 billion in stimulus I'm sure the biggest majority of the stimulus robbery funds will be utilized by states to shore up their deficits rather than it being used to stimulate the economy or create jobs. It will only secure government jobs already taken by crooked politicians
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POPSCongress owes more than blatant hypocrisy Frank, Dodd, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer could not be more sanctimonious in blaming the Bush administration for lack of regulations. Starting with the Community Redevelopment Act during the Carter administration, Democrats have chipped away at every regulation standing in the way of giving mortgages to people who could never afford to repay them. It turns out that these worthless mortgages are the root cause of our economic problems.
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POPSJump-start U.S. growth through immigration If Congress had not imposed a tight lid on green cards, according to Ms. Holen, America in 2008 might have had up to 300,000 more highly educated engineers and graduate students performing path breaking research. They would have added about $23 billion to GDP, and the federal government would have gained about $5 billion more in tax revenues. This lady has to be the most ignorant person on earth! Again, let's not waste a totally good crisis......
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POPSExperts: Financial crisis threatens US security House panel members also were concerned about how the government is devoting money to handle the crisis. President Barack Obama has proposed a 4 percent increase in defense spending to $534 billion during the next fiscal year. But with a $787 billion stimulus package, and billions being poured into propping up banks and other companies, many defense analysts believe that Pentagon budgets, one of the largest shares of government spending, are likely targets for cuts. That could include big programs like the Army's plans to modernize its forces, led by Boeing Co., and programs by Lockheed Martin Corp. to build new advanced fighter jets. Dov Zakheim, a Defense Department comptroller during the most recent Bush administration, said cuts in defense spending could create the perception of American weakness.
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POPSMARXISM COMES TO AMERICA PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSIPS In a communist/socialist country there is no such thing as private enterprise. Everything is either owned or controlled by the government. The socialists are taking over America through the bailouts. The bailout money comes with strings. Through the strings and mandates that come with the money the government becomes your partner. It’s called “Public Private Partnership.” Create the financial crises, offer the solution (bailout money) and you have a complete totalitarian state. These huge bailout/stimulus packages will create hyperinflation and result in a worldwide economic disaster dwarfing the Great Depression. It will indenture you, your children, and your children’s children under Socialist tyranny.
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