« previous entry | next entry » Feb. 6th, 2009 | 09:12 am OBAMA SHOUTS “FIRE” TO AMERICAN PUBLIC If you or I shouted fire in a crowded theater we would be arrested! Free speech stops when your speech can cause disaster and panic to the USA population.It is a just and necessary exception to the right of Free Speech. But does that exemption apply to our elected officials? specifically Our President? Well, President Obama exceeded that standard today, when he essentially called “fire” to get his “spedulus”program passed in the Senate and eventually put a Bill on his desk that would allow him to spend as Susan Collins a Republican Senator from Maine, said would include 800 million dollars! The President had this to say today to the media” “it is time to stop talking, it is time for actions now”. To put emphasis and threats of dire disaster if he does not get his Bill he had this to say. “This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse,” Obama wrote in the newspaper piece. Source:Associated Press He wants to spend, at latest count 1.2 trillion dollars,and to begin his march toward Socialism by bankrupting the government he was sworn less than a month ago, to defend and protect! Despite the fact that polls show that at least 50% of the USA believe that his “stimulus” package will not save the economy. Many Conservative Economists are saying that if passed the “spendulus” program will do just the opposite! Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.,introduced an amendment that would have eliminated all the spending and replaced it with a series of tax cuts. It was defeated 61-36. He tried to save the taxpayers by introducing an amendment that all conservatives believe is the only way we can eliminate the downward spiral of the economy. Not by spending more of the taxpayers money, but by legislating tax cuts that allow Americans to spend their money on what they want, not what Obama wants to start his march to socialism. If you need any additional information that proves that all but die hard Obamaphiles believe the plan Obama is pushing will cause rapid inflation and devaluation of our money. Just look at the amount of gold being bought by those who have the money to buy the precious metal. Gold speculators predict that by summer the price of gold will be over $1100! Not since the Carter administration has gold been over $850! And in those years T-_Bonds brought 18.5% interest. Carter was elected over Gerald Ford in 1976. His tenure was a time of continuing inflation and recession, and it appears to me that Obama will exceed this in less than one month! Posted by BILL Tags:
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IN THE FIRST OF WHAT I BELIEVE WILL BE MANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS GIVEN BY THE ‘MESSIA’ IN THE OVAL OFFICE. The President is about to direct that those executives that received federal bail out money can only make $500,000 as salary.
Never before has a president interfered in the daily activities of our banks and financial institutions. Closing the banks is a Constitutional authority delegated to the government in times of crisis as did FDR in the 30’s.
But dictating the salary of executives in the private sector are not within the control of the president, unless he thinks he is Our dictator!

The job of limiting the pay of executives of private corporations is the duty and responsibility of the Board of Directors and stock holders, not the POTUS!

The president is the leader of the free World, but not the leader of the Free Enterprise system that operates the machine that allows people like Obama to be in the “princely…nbsp; places like the White House.

The “Obamaphiles…nbsp; are not satisfied with just limiting the pay of CEOs. They also proposed the following:
The administration will also propose long-term compensation restrictions even for companies that don’t receive government assistance.

* Requiring top executives at financial institutions to hold stock for several years before they can cash out.

* Requiring nonbinding “say on pay…nbsp; resolutions - that is, giving shareholders more say on executive compensation.

- A Treasury-sponsored conference on a long-term overhaul of executive compensation.

Top officials at companies that have received money from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program already face some compensation limits. But elected officials want to place more caps.

“I do know this: We can’t just say, ‘Please, please,’…nbsp; said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who has proposed that no employee of an institution that receives money under the $700 billion federal bailout can receive more than $400,000 in total compensation until it pays the money back.
The figure is equivalent to the salary of the president of the United States.

Predictably, the leak of this threatening news has brought an immediate negative reaction from the private sector.
“Compensation experts in the private sector have warned that such an intrusion into the internal decisions of financial institutions could discourage participation in the rescue program and slow down the financial sector’s recovery. They also argue that it could set a precedent for government regulation that undermines performance-based pay†. Source: MYWAY.com

Even some Republicans see no harm in setting the principals that if government gives you money they can attach rules of operation.
“In ordinary situations where the taxpayers’ money is not involved, we shouldn’t set executive pay,…nbsp; said Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee.
“But where you’ve got federal money involved, taxpayers’ money involved, TARP money involved, and the way they have spent it, with no accountability, is getting close to being criminal.†

This principal has been in operation under the cover of affirmative action for years. The rules of employment for companies that employ more than fifty employees have had quotas for all levels of management based upon numbers set by the federal government to ensure that se percentages of minorities and women occupy supervisor positions.
And Medicare has had rules for doctors and hospitals dictated to them for accepting Federal funds, but the “Change That has Come to America…nbsp; appears to me to be reaching into the heart of the free enterprise system when the President dictates what the maximum can be for CEO’s of our banks. What will be next?

Our Constitution details the powers of the President, and essentially they are a follows: The President is the chief executive of the United States, putting him at the head of the executive branch of the government, whose responsibility is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.…nbsp; To carry out this duty, he is given control of the four million employees of the federal executive branch, including one million active duty personnel in the military. Both the legislative and judicial branches maintain checks and balances on the powers of the President and vice versa.

Various executive and judicial branch appointments are made by Presidents. Up to 6,000 appointments may be made by an incoming President before he takes office and 8,000 more may be made while in office. Ambassadors, judges of the federal court system, members of the Cabinet, and other federal officers, are all appointed by the President with the “advice and consent…nbsp; of the Senate, granted by a simple majority. Appointments made while the Senate is in recess are temporary and expire at the end of the next session of the Senate. He may also grant pardons and reprieves, as is often done just before the end of a presidential term.

In addition, while the President cannot directly introduce legislation, he can play an important role in shaping it, especially if the President’s political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress. If Congress passes a bill of which the President disapproves, he may veto it; the veto can be overridden only by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, making it substantially more difficult to enact the law.

Perhaps the most important of all presidential powers is command of the armed forces as commander-in-chief. The framers of the Constitution never intended that the president would reach into the private sector and limit the salaries of executives of business even if he uses the excuse that it is in the name of saving the economy!

Feb. 4th, 2009 | 09:50 am
THE ECONOMY IS IMPORTANT BUT OUR SAFETY IS BEING IGNORED!
Posted by Jax Hawk on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:50:14 AM

while Obama MAKES THE ROUNDS OF MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORKS. Actually they come to the White House for his speeches, but you get the point. There are two disturbing events that occurred this week that should be in the minds of all Americans.

Today the Iranians launched a satellite into orbit using a three stage rocket that was constructed with the help of the Russians.
And Communist North Korea is preparing to test a long ranged rocket capable of reaching the United States!

The following are direct quotes from “The New Media. com”
“The launch of Omid (Hope), Iran’s first home-made satellite into orbit early Tuesday, Feb. 3, is a breakthrough demonstrating the Islamic Republic has managed to develop long-range, three-stage, solid-fuel ballistic rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Israel and Western officials have been playing down this fast-developing capability while proving helpless to hold back Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Omid was launched by the Safir rocket, whereas a previous launching was boosted by a Russian rocket. DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report the new satellite is designed for tracking, research, telecommunications and carries digital measuring instruments. They stress that it is a feather in the hat for Iran’s “Military Group” – the team of scientists and technicians working on its clandestine nuclear bomb program. They are clearly moving ahead undisturbed by UN sanctions or technical difficulties toward rapidly finishing work on nuclear warheads for their ballistic rockets. In weekend interviews, International Atomic Energy Agency director Muhammad ElBaradei contributed to the international effort to talk down Tehran’s nuclear advances. He admitted Iran was in the process of constructing nuclear weapons despite his agency’s monitoring efforts. But in his view it needed another two to five years to attain this objective.

And to emphasize the problem even more, Dave Eberhart of News Max is reporting that: “A panel of experts has concluded that time is dangerously running out for the U.S. to put in place a protective anti-missile umbrella. The biggest threat is Iran, which the panel forecasts will have the A-Bomb this year”.

“North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning. The Yonhap News Agency in Seoul quoted South Korean officials who described satellite image showing a long cylindrical object being transported on a train through the North Korean countryside. The sinister object has been identified as a Taepodong-2, an intercontinental missile with a range of more than 4000 miles, capable of crossing the Pacific and striking targets in Hawaii or Alaska. It is impossible to confirm independently reports from North Korea, one of the world’s most isolated and hard-line dictatorships, where government of information is almost total. But the country is known to have an active missile program, as well as nuclear warheads – although crucially it probably does not have the technology to mount a nuclear device on a long range missile. The unnamed sources quoted by Yonhap said that any test launch was unlikely for at least a month or two. The train appeared to be heading from a missile factory in North Pyongan province in the country’s north-west to a newly constructed launch site on the west coast”.

It seems to me that while President Obama “fiddles” with his massive budget busting “stimulus” package, the rest of the “evil empire” is devoting their time, money and energy to prepare weapons that will surround the USA. When Iran, China, Russia and North Korea have the capability of killing tens of thousands of Americans in a Milli-second. They will not have to fire one missile if we are not properly prepared to target and destroy them with nuclear weapons that are targeting their cities.
It is called nuclear deterrence, and unfortunately we elected a President who believes in talk not military preparedness. He even is rumored to be considering calling a halt to the placement of a missile defense system in Poland because of the sabre rattling of the Russians.

While they fight in Congress how to spend money we do not have. The Russians are visiting Cuba and Venezuela with a small fleet of war ships. For all I know they are making agreements with these countries to establish naval bases in our hemisphere in the near future!

Combining this possible threat with the dedicated radical Islamists who are dedicated to bringing terror and damage to US. This is a time to concentrate on spending money to defend ourselves, not spend a trillion dollars to guarantee that the Democrats can build a voter base of government dependents that will guarantee their power for decades to come!

Feb. 3rd, 2009 | 09:53 am

Posted by Jax Hawk on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:47:30 AM

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
REACTING TO THE REPUBLICAN REJECTION (ENMASSE) TO the House version of OBAMA’S BUDGET SPENDING BILL. MASQUERADING AS A STIMULUS PACKAGE.
OBAMA HAD THIS TO SAY ON NBC’S MATT LAUER SHOW;”Mismanagement by the nation’s lending institutions was so extreme that the losses sustained by banks still cannot be calculated and more are likely to fail, President Barack Obama warned. In my opinion he left out the role of Barney Frank and his Committee!

In an interview airing Monday on NBC’s TODAY show, Obama said the nation’s banks were in “very vulnerable positions” because of the reckless risk-taking that led to the meltdown of the financial services sector late last year. The situation he inherited 13 days ago is so bad that “it is likely that the banks have not fully acknowledged all the losses that they’re going to experience,” Obama said in the interview, which was conducted Sunday at the White House.

Stressing that ordinary Americans’ deposits, which are insured by the federal government, would be safeguarded, the president said banks were “going to have to wring out some of these bad assets.”
He forgot his plan to take over all the bad loans by forming a government bank to hold the bad paper!

Inevitably, he told TODAY anchor Matt Lauer, “some banks won’t make it.”

The president’s message appeared to be a shot across the bow of Senate Republicans, who have objected to the $825 billion bailout of the financial system that was approved last week by the House. Leading Republican senators said they would oppose the bill unless there were major changes, echoing the concerns of their counterparts in the House, none of whom voted for the legislation.

This is classic Saul Alinsky! His primer for Radicals lists as number three of his principles: “A threat is more terrifying than the thing itself”! The “thing” in this instance is the threat of banks failing as they did in the Great Depression!

Once again OUR new President has shown me that he learned his lessons well during his formative years in the city of Chicago.
In Chicago the activists of is time called Mr. Alinsky the “jesus”
of community organization/ Source: Bio. of Jack Mendelson

And while Obama is giving scare tactics speeches to “beg” Americans to back his spending Bill. He has appeared on all major networks to try to scare the people into doing what most people are resisting, commit economic suicide! Congresswoman Sheila Jackson (D-Tex.)has proposed a bill that would increase the number of legal immigrants from 480,000 family visas to 960,000.

“Chain migration is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990. As such, it is one of the chief culprits in America’s current record-breaking population boom and all the attendant sprawl, congestion, school overcrowding, and other impacts that reduce American’s quality of life”. Source:Numbers USA

H.R.264 (Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2009) - would double the number of family-based visas from 480,000 a year to 960,000 a year. In addition, this legislation would make a number of technical changes to family-based visas that would further chain migration. And in my opinion will contribute to deepening the economic drain on the U.S. Treasury, with the incumbent taxes that accompany the rapidly growing number of goods and services that new immigrants who are here legally are entitled to.

AMERICANS WAKE UP! WE HAVE A LEFTIST IN THE OVAL OFFICE WHO WANTS TO CREATE A BROADER BASE OF VOTERS WHO ARE DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR LIVELY HOOD, AND WILL SECURE THE “change” THAT OBAMA INTENDS TO MAKE. CONVERTING OUR GOVERNMENT TO SOCIALISM!!

THE FALSE LOGIC OF POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS

I know very little about the qualifications, and strengths of the new Republican National Party Chairman. The fact that he is a Black man impresses me or depresses me not one iota.
What does depress me, and give me pause to think where the Republican party has disappeared to is the fact that it seems important to many people that a Black man lead the RNC.

Wikapedia has this to say about the fifty year old Black man the Republicans have chosen to lead them out of the "dessert"!
"Michael Stephen Steele (born October 19, 1958)is an American elected official and chairman of the Republican National Committee, and is the first African-American to hold the position. Prior to this, Steele served as chairman of GOPAC and worked as a partner at the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf. He also served as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007.

Steele was the first African American to serve in a Maryland state-wide office and the first Republican lieutenant governor in the state. From 2003 to 2005, Steele and Lt. Gov. Jennette Bradley of Ohio were the highest-ranking elected African American Republicans in the United States.

His election resulted from his defeating five other candidates according to the Votmaster.com.
"Originally six people were competing for the job of RNC chairman, but one by one they dropped out. Chip "Barack the Magic Negro" Saltsman bit the dust Thursday. Then current chairman Mike Duncan quit after the third round when it became clear that he was dropping. Ken Blackwell (who is also black), dropped out next. Blackwell urged his supporters to vote for the other black candidate, Steele, with whom he has major ideological differences, rather than the white candidate, Katon Dawson, with whom he sees eye to eye on most issues. After the fifth ballot, Saul Anuzis tossed in the towel but did not endorse either of the remaining candidates, At that point the Republican state leaders had a choice between a very conservative white southerner, Katon Dawson, who only recently quit a whites-only club, and a conservative black man from Maryland. Probably many RNC members realized that if they picked Dawson, the headlines the next day would read: "Republicans Choose Racist over African American." They went with Steele, even though many of them think he is not conservative enough. Once again affirmative action raises it's ugly head!

The RNC could have considered the demographics of Obama's election if they really want a person that is in a group that helped elect Obama over McCain. Exit poles showed that 66% of those voters aged 18 to 29 voted for Obama, and only 32% of that generation voted for McCain. Rather than concentrate on race. Republicans must find a way to show the young voters that their future will be brighter if Republicans run a smaller government, not a mega-govt. like the Democrats propose, and all the baggage that comes with it. Devaluation of the dollar, hyper inflation and a possible severe Recession during their future years.

Continiuing to use Race as a tool in politics should be over now that a Black man sits in the Oval Office.
Predictably, the Press is full of quotes by pundits and there are talking heads on the television, making comments about why this man was picked. Too many feel it was because he is Black! I would hope that the Republican party has become color blind in the area of selection of whom they choose to lead their party. If not they are making a big mistake that could cause them to move into the area of extinction.

This quote from a Democrat Congressman is a perfect example of the quirky thinking going on in peoples heads since Obama was elected.
"Clearly Obama’s success contributed to Steele’s victory,…nbsp; said former Rep. Martin Frost (D-Texas), who served two terms as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Had Obama not won, I can’t imagine the Republicans would have elected an African-American chairman.†

"Obama’s historic presidency, the way in which he won and the scale of the crises he inherits have scrambled some of the underlying assumptions about American elections and politics and altered the laws of political logic". Perhaps the fact that Congressman Frost is only the second Jewish man or woman to be elected to Congress from Texas, has influenced his thinking. I would hope that both he and Steele were selected because they were thought by those who put them in the office that they now hold were the best candidates for their particular job, and race or religion had nothing to do with their selection. From what he says it appears not!

Blacks make up approximately 20% of the population in the USA, and when voting in a block as they did for Obama can be a significant influence on the election outcome.Before the election this was said by Jesse Jackson: "I am convinced… that the black vote is going to be not only a bigger vote than ever before, it is the swing vote.…nbsp; Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., speaking on CNN

But to think that appointing a man of color is going to change a group of people who think that "whitey" is the main reason they are kept from succeeding in life. Is pure folly! And it is an insult to the Black man that people think because you chose a Black leader for your party the issues have changed.

The Democrat party has chosen the Socialist way to govern. Cradle to Grave entitlemrnt,and employment of the majority of Americans by the government is the way for the Democrat party.
Republicans used to be for free enterprise, and as little government as was needed to protect us from foreign and domestic enemies, control the money supply and let the States decide how we should live. In plain English, as little government as possible to function and protect the public.

Lately the Republicans have become what I call "RINOS", Republicans in name only, as they tried to spend their way into power along side the Democrats. They were aided by president Bush, who failed to veto a spending Bill in the eight years he was in office.

The Republican Party’s immediate prospects for recruiting more black voters to punch a chad or touch a screen on behalf of its candidates seems remote at best these days. This seemingly glacial reality causes no end of dismay and hand wringing on the part of black Republicans. Jack E. White, who is black and writes for Time magazine, has declared that the Democrats “virtual monopoly on the black vote is bad for African Americans… a demeaning form of political serfdom.…nbsp; One black conservative analyst, La Shawn Barber, recently attributed the sway that Democrats have over black voters to “years of damage caused by liberal ideology and misinformation pumped into the black community for the past 25 years.…nbsp; Despite this, a super majority of Blacks voted for Obama not because of his Socialist platform, but I believe because he has Black skin.
There are some Conservative Blacks. Thomas Sowell, J.C. Watts and Walter Williams to mention just a few. They realize that the "cradle to grave" programs offered to Black people does not "set them free", but puts them in a state of perpetual bondage to the Democrats.
Lets get back to issues!!