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Earthwalk-USA on Monday, August 31, 2009 8:09:37 PM
Where We Are Today
Hard to keep up with the overwhelming amount of information, betrayals, lies, cover-ups, money figures, strategies. ..Maybe this will help.
TARP. Remember that? All Bush right? Ben Bernanke, Barney Frank, and Nancy Pelosi pushed Bush and told him TARP was needed or there would be a meltdown. Does the urgency sound familiar? Did TARP funds make the banks more solvent? 84 banks have failed this year and the FDIC is in jeopardy. Remember that Geithner (the tax cheat and ex-President of the Federal Reserve) said the limits on the FDIC had to raised? Instead of 100k insurance for every investor, it was raised to 250K, so when banks fail and no one purchases the assets, the FDIC has to pay each individual account up 250k.
GM and Chrysler, remember them? They needed bailouts(bailouts are loans with interest, borrowed from our tax dollars without interest.)Ford refused the money and has a 23% profit for the last 3 quarters. GM re-emerged as Government Motors after more than 50 billion of our money made the government a 70% shareholder. SO, we have cash-for-clunkers. Gov gives a $4500 rebate to a dealer to pass on to a consumer, Consumer isn’t told that the $4500 is taxable income and non-GM dealers have to wait for their checks. SO, our tax dollars, loaned to the Gov. with no interest, help pay for someone else’s new car which is taxed while the dealers pay for crushing perfectly good automobiles and end up selling Toyotas instead of Chevys. SO, now, GM is investing $293 million of OUR money in a company in China so China can make a profit.
Stimulus, remember that? $787 Billion for “shovel-ready” job creation that was supposed to create or save 2-3 million jobs and really stimulate the economy. Here are a couple of reminders from Hannity on 101 stimulus waste projects injected into the bill by both Repubs and Dems that include bridges to nowhere, tearing down trees that burned in 1973, providing turtle crossing signs…well, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8iAM-pwUQ and then part 2 to really get disgusted. The bill was allowed 1 hour on the Senate floor, was over 900 pages, and Congressmen were told there would be Martial Law if they didn’t sign it.
Omnibus bill is additional stimulus, remember? This money went to $25 million fund for a wind technology testing center and $250 checks sent to more than 20,000 dead people and 10,000 prison inmates.
Budget Let’s see, Obama finding $100 million in waste to offset the budget deficit. Watch this 1 minute example of what that meant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE Obama and crew needed to keep a certain percentage because of their agenda for CHANGE. Let’s see what kind of math they used (Geithner’s Mom and Dad.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTW6mmbp9GM
Guantanamo First executive order was to close Guantanamo. Big T.V. splash on this. The problem is, nobody read what Obama was signing. It called for closing Gitmo by the end of August, but it also said prisoners could be taken to any country and imprisoned indefinitely. It also said that NEW detainees would be kept in foreign countries indefinitely. Sounds like rendition to me.
Lobbyists Hey, Indiana, listen up. Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AknbG8LaEc Remember Tom Daeshle? He was going to be the HHS secretary before Sebelius(tax cheat) was appointed, but he cheated on his taxes. He also makes more than $5 million a year as a pharmaceutical drug company lobbyist. Though Obama has yet to fill 500 posts in his cabinet, Michelle Obama has more than 25 aides, many of them past lobbyists for community and hospital groups, mostly in Chicago.
Cap and Trade Part of the $1.6 trillion dollar budget. Regressive tax, state by state, raising utility rates up to 400%! Pushed through by the House, not yet done in the Senate. Electrical Grid is being worked on now, even though we haven’t heard about it because it was slipped into the passed budget bill when it went back to Pelosi. That grid will eventually allow the Gov. to monitor your energy use and turn off the heat, air conditioning, stove or lights when you use too much and use a sliding scale UP to tax you on usage. Warren Buffet doesn’t like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SlBlvirqA0
Health Care Reform This finally got people mad when they SHOULD have been marching on Washington months ago. $1.3 trillion dollars, but Obama says 2/3 will be covered by cuts and the last third covered by taxing the rich. $586 billion in cuts to Medicare advantage, meaning seniors (and we will be seniors someday) will lose this program. It helps to pay for medications, the prices of which are marked up by pharmaceutical companies anywhere from 220% to 4000%! Some say Medicare is a government option. Yes and no. I have been paying for my medicare since I started working at 16 years old. I’ve also been paying Social Security, another bankrupt Government trust. I paid taxes for everything else since I was 16. I guess when you reach 55 and become “useless” according to Obama’s Health Advisory Panel, you don’t deserve any of your money back. After all, you only kept the country going and helped to build it with your sweat and tears. $101 trillion dollars - believe it? Watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inAJVKO1Kkg And we can afford health care for the “40 million” who don’t have health care? $10 million are illegal. 12 million have opted out of insurance for many reasons- don’t like doctors, follow alternative health, want other things in their lives. The argument from Obama is that everyone pays for the uninsured when they get in an accident and go to the hospital. Hmmm. I pay car insurance because I CHOOSE to own a car. That insurance pays my medical bills in case of an accident, and pays another’s bills if it’s my fault. The answer to our health care problems are fairly simple. 1. Allow nationalized insurance. When companies have to compete with many other companies in each state, the premiums will go down. 2. Tort reform. Congress doesn’t like this because they’re all lawyers. Simple. Get rid of the lawyers in Congress. 3. Drug company reform. The largest corporations in the world are the drug companies. They even beat oil. 4. Medicare and Medicaid fraud enforcement. Some people know how to beat the system, and they do it.
We are only 230 days into this administration. We are close to $13 trillion dollars in debt and that’s a low estimate and barring any disasters or “attacks.” We are still in Afghanistan and will be for several more years. We may have to go back to Iraq(which only cost $860 billion- small change compared to the Dems spending plans.) A new census with ACORN knocking on your door and changing voting districts.
People are marching on Washington on 9/09-9/12 with the big rally on 9/12, but I just heard that only 15 busses from the Atlanta area are going. Fifteen? Fifty-five people per bus? There should be 500. I have heard every excuse imaginable- “I have to pick blueberries for my husband’s breakfast that day.” “My wife doesn’t want me to get involved.” “I like Palin, but I’m not into politics.” I suggest people read what many are sending to you. Listen and watch the videos if reading isn’t your thing. I suggest you find a copy of the Constitution and read that because it may be the LAST time you ever see it.
There’s more coming. Congress comes back on September 8th. They’ll try to push Health Reform, start Immigration Reform and Obama will change the 9/11 day of remembrance to the day of service as he introduces Rahm Emanuel’s agenda for change. Time to take a stand, America. No fear. No excuses.
Glenn Beck’s 5 pledges. Ask your Mayor. Ask your Congressmen. Ask your President.
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
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