Posted on Israel National News-By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu-On June 5, 2011:

“A Congressional law that would stop funding for the United Nations if it recognizes the Palestinian Authority as a state would stop the plan in its tracks, says John Bolton, former American Ambassador to the international body and a possible presidential candidate.

The United Nations is slated to discuss in September an Arab League motion to recognize the Palestinian Authority with borders based on the temporary 1949 Armistice Lines that defined Israel’s territory.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Bolton dismissed the possibility that U.S. President Barack Obama would take such action on his own. He wrote, “Mr. Obama is highly unlikely to do anything so decisive, which is why many in America and Israel remain gravely concerned about this latest Palestinian diplomatic ploy.”

Bolton noted that although U.N. recognition of the Palestinian Authority does not mean it would have membership in the United Nations, “It would nonetheless be a major Palestinian success.”

As far back as 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a “declaration of statehood” and changed the name of its observer delegation to the United Nations from the PLO to Palestine.

“The Palestinians then campaigned to join U.N. bodies like the World Health Organization, reasoning that since U.N. agency charters allow only states as members, the admission of ‘Palestine’ would prove that it, too, was a state,” Bolton explained in his op-ed article.

He noted that at the time, Secretary of State James Baker warned publicly, “I will recommend to the President that the United States make no further contributions, voluntary or assessed, to any international organization which makes any changes in the PLO’s status as an observer organization.”

Bolton stated, “Although defeating the PLO campaign required further maneuvering, Mr. Baker’s statement was the death knell of the ‘statehood’ push.”

After writing that President Obama will not take such action, Bolton turned to Congress, which he said “has a rich history of dealing with U.N. actions it doesn’t appreciate. Rather than wait for a Baker-like threat, Congress should legislate broadly that any U.N. action that purports to acknowledge or authorize Palestinian statehood will result in a cutoff of all U.S. contributions to the offending agency….

“Reducing U.S. funding to the U.N. is the next available, highly visible, target of opportunity. It presents the U.N. membership with a fascinating question: Would they rather recognize Palestinian statehood, or keep America’s money?”

Source:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144743#replies

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

House Resolution: Stop U.S. Funds to U.N. General Assembly If Palestinian State Is Recognized!-Posted on The Weekly Standard-By DANIEL HALPER-On June 3, 2011:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/house-resolution-stop-us-funds-un-general-assembly-if-palestinian-state-recognized_573234.html

Syrian Arabs Test IDF at Border, 'Five Killed'!-Posted on Israel National News-By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu-On June 5, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144751#replies

Obama Inspired Ship to Join IHH Gaza Flotilla!-Posted on Israel National News-By Gavriel Queenann-On June 3, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733#replies

Obama Continues US Routine of Keeping Embassy out of Jerusalem!-Posted on Israel National News-By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu-On June 4, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144740

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/is-israel-the-next-arab-facebook-campaign/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Obamanomics - False Hope, Marxist Change - Proof of the Failure of Keynesian Economics

Alarming Economic News: Double Dip Housing, Double Dip Recession, & Ferociously High Unemployment; All Highlight The Fact That Keynesian Policies of the Obama Regime Are Unsustainable Failures

While Glenn Beck and others have buttressed Rush Limbaugh's efforts, it wasn't until the 9.12 Project/Tea Party woke up in 2009 that we had a real opportunity to begin the process to restore America. Obviously, the decline into a totally Marxist economic hell has been rocket booster-assisted since the Obama Regime
assumed power, taking us from a ridiculous $8 Trillion to $14.4 Trillion in national debt in less than a single term, with real national debt many times that number. But our movement has really thrown a wrench into the works, and the Obama/Reid/Pelosi juggernaut was vastly reduced by our movement throwing out a
huge number of 'Progressives' in both parties last year.

Since the day he screwed up his own swearing-in, Obama & Co. have been driving America relentlessly toward the cliffs of economic desolation, and he has accomplished much: America, stung by Bush's lame-duck betrayal of the conservative principles he claimed to believe in, was sucker-punched by the Obama Regime, including Obama's fellow Soros minions.

Our current economic system is faltering, but not because Capitalism is failing. Our socialist-capitalist hybrid has become overwhelmingly socialist, and it grows more sick from the cancer of 'progressivism' with each passing year.

Obviously, the decline into a totally Marxist economic hell has been rocket booster-assisted since the Obama Regime assumed power, which is why the brown stuff is beginning to hit the fan now, rather than in another ten or more years.

The truth of the matter is that IF WE HAD A CAPITALIST SYSTEM, America would be experiencing unprecedented growth, and we'd be able to pay off our national debt. But that would require a return to Constitutionally-limited government. And THAT is going to take massive amounts of work.

Is it too late? I don't know, but I DO know that if we make it to the 2012 Elections (I have never harbored persistent doubts that we would until this year), we MUST win, and win big. We MUST re-take the White
House and the U.S. Senate, while increasing our dominance in the House of Representatives. There's little time, and much to accomplish.

No matter how one looks at it, we're in for tough times. We should all be prepared with food, WATER, fuel, clothing (INCLUDING clothes & shoes for growing kids), and cash, other currency, guns/ammunition, and gold/silver coins, as possible. If You Don't Get Food Insurance, Please Get Something; If You're Prepared, You Need Not Fear!

Before I get into the news, here are some video clips which discuss the horrible economic numbers the Obama Regime has allowed to be released (beginning with the most recent clip):

Just look at the news of the day for confirmation that we're about to fall off of a cliff; it's WAY past time to prepare for what's coming:
--------

Housing Shocker: Home Prices Still Falling

MAY
31, 2011, 9:03 AM ET

The housing double dip is official: US home prices fell in the first quarter to a new recession low, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller price index.  “This month’s report is marked by the confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the nation,” said David Blitzer, chairman of S&P’s index committee. “The National Index fell 4.2% over the first quarter alone, and is down 5.1% compared to its year-ago level. Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight,”  he added.

As we’re all about silver linings here, we’ll note that the Case-Shiller 20-city price index was down 0.8% in March, slightly better than expectations of a 1% decline. So, yay.

This news is not shocking, in any event. Stock-market futures have responded by adding to their gains. Dow futures are up 108 points, S&P up 12 points. Ten-year Treasury yields are unchanged at 3.09%. Update: The folks at Capital Economics write in with this gloomy tidbit: “The further fall in house prices in the first quarter means that, on the Case-Shiller index, prices have now fallen by more than they did during the Great Depression.”

By their calculations, prices are now down 33% from their 2006 peak, compared with the 31% decline during the Depression.

“The remarkable thing about this downturn is that even though prices have fallen by more than in the Great Depression, the bottom has yet to be reached. We think that prices will fall by at least a further 3% this year,
and perhaps even further next year.”

--------

Horror for US
Economy As Data Falls Off Cliff

Published:
Wednesday, 1 Jun 2011 | 2:09 PM ET | By: Patrick Allen

The last month has been a horror show for the U.S. economy, with economic data falling off a cliff,
according to Mike Riddell, a fund manager at M&G Investments in London.

"It seems that almost every bit of data about the health of the US economy has disappointed expectations recently," said Riddell, in a note sent to CNBC on Wednesday.

"US house prices have fallen by more than 5 percent year on year, pending home sales have collapsed and existing home sales disappointed, the trend of improving jobless claims has arrested, first quarter GDP wasn’t revised upwards by the 0.4 percent forecast, durables goods orders shrank, manufacturing surveys from Philadelphia Fed, Richmond Fed and Chicago Fed were all very disappointing."

"And that’s just in the last week and a bit," said Riddell.

Pointing to the dramatic turnaround in the Citigroup "Economic Surprise Index" for the United States, Riddell said the tumble in a matter of months to negative from positive is almost as bad as the situation before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

"The correlation between the economic surprise index and Treasury yields is very close, so the lesson is
that whatever your long term macro views are regarding hyper inflation vs. deflation or the risk of the US defaulting, the reality is that if you want to have a view about government bond prices, the best thing you can do is look at the economic data to see what’s actually going on," said Riddell.

"And right now, the economic data is suggesting that however measly you may think a 3 percent yield is on a 10-year Treasury, the yield should probably be a fair bit lower given what’s going on in the US economy," said Riddell.

"You’ve also got to wonder at what point the markets for risky assets start noticing, too."

"QE3 anybody?" asks Riddell.
--------

Surviving the Double Dip in Housing Prices

by
Gerri Willis | May 31, 2011

Take a close look at those housing numbers out today - and you'll begin to understand how deep the housing crisis really is. U.S. single-family home prices dropped in March to fall below the low hit in April 2009 - that was right smack dab in the middle of the financial crisis. In other words - as I've been saying - we really are facing a double dip in housing prices.

The S&P/Case Shiller data released today tells the story: Its composite index of 20 cities declined two-tenths of a percent from February. The national index, the 20-city composite and 12 cities all hit new LOWS through
March 2011. The national index fell 4.2 percent over the first quarter alone, and is down 5.1 percent compared to its year-ago level.

For homeowners - a quarter of whom are already underwater - owing more than their home is worth - the news is not encouraging. And , it's clear that you won't be able to rely on any government programs to bail you out. The first-time homebuyer's tax credit is simply extending the pain of the downturn rather than fixing it; while
President Obama's HAMP program has had precious little impact.

The good news is that owners don't have to realize this loss unless they sell or need to refinance their mortgage. If you're in that position, you may well be able to hang tight until the market improves.

In other words, you're going to have to survive on your own. My advice if you are waiting out this downturn:
Don't overinvest in the house you are living in. If you're tempted to drop a lot of cash building an addition or a state of the art kitchen, don't even consider it unless the improvements are matched by your neighbors' homes. The last thing you want to own is the fanciest home in your neighborhood. You'll have a hard
time reaping the benefits of that investment. If you can drop your costs by refinancing - 30-year fixed rates are at 4.5 percent for people with good credit - do it.

--------

US Home Price Double Dip Erases Post-Crisis Gains

By
Robin Harding in Washington | Published: May 31 2011 14:43 | Last updated: May
31 2011 19:15

US house prices are in a double dip that has erased all of their bounce since the recession and threatens to derail a stuttering economic recovery.

The S&P/Case-Shiller house price index fell by 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, breaking through a 2009 low to hit its weakest level since 2002.

Declining house prices may cause households to rein in both consumption and home buying plans, leading to further falls in house prices and overall weakness in the economy.

House prices are now 33 per cent below their peak in 2006 – a sharper fall than the 31 per cent drop recorded
during the Great Depression, according to analysts at Capital Economics.

Prajakta Bhide, an analyst at Roubini Global Economics in New York, reiterated a forecast of a year-on-year fall in house prices of about 8 per cent for 2011, but said that “we have to be worried about prices overshooting on the downside”.

House prices dropped in 18 out of 20 cities in March. The worst decline was in Minneapolis, where prices fell 3.7 per cent, while the biggest gain was in Washington, where they rose 1.1 per cent.

However, the rate of decline stabilised, suggesting the fall in prices is not getting any worse.

Based on measures such as the ratio of prices to rents, housing was somewhere close to fair value, Ms Bhide said, but it was more important to look at the overall health of the recovery.

More evidence that the economy is bogged down was provided on Tuesday by the consumer confidence index, which fell to 60.8 in May from 66 in April, consistent with economic growth little faster than the long-run trend of about 2.5 per cent.

The economy needs to grow much more rapidly if it is to create enough jobs to absorb a rising population and cut a 9 per cent unemployment rate.

“We’re still of the view that this is a soft patch,” said Michael Feroli, chief US economist at JPMorgan Chase in New York, “but you can’t rule out the possibility that the soft patch persists.”

He pointed to higher petrol prices and disruption to manufacturing supply chains after Japan’s earthquake as factors unlikely to persist all year. The Chicago purchasing managers’ index dropped to 56.6 in May from 67.6 in April, pointing to weaker manufacturing growth.
--------

Back Towards A U.S. Double-Dip

By
Robert Reich | Published: June 1 2011 12:51 | Last updated: June 1 2011
12:51

The US economy was supposed to be in bloom by late spring, but it is hardly growing at all. Expectations for second-quarter growth are not much better than the measly 1.8 per cent annualised rate of the first quarter. That is not nearly fast enough to reduce America’s ferociously high level of unemployment. The labour department will tell us on Friday whether the jobs situation improved in May, but there has been no sign of a surge in hiring. Nor in wages. Average hourly earnings of production and non-supervisory employees –
who make up 80 per cent of non-government workers – dropped to $8.76 in April. Adjusted for inflation, that’s lower than they were in the depths of the recession.

Meanwhile, housing prices continue to fall. They are now 33 per cent below their 2006 peak. That is a bigger drop than recorded in the Great Depression. Homes are the largest single asset of the American middle class, so as housing prices drop many Americans feel poorer. All of this is contributing to a general gloominess. Not surprisingly, consumer confidence is also down.

The recovery has stalled. It is unlikely that America will find itself back in recession but the possibility of a double dip cannot be dismissed. The problem is not on the supply side of the ledger. Corporate profits are still healthy. Big companies continue to sit on a cash hoard. Large and middle-sized companies can easily borrow more, at low rates. The problem is on the demand side. American consumers, who constitute 70 per cent of the total economy, cannot and will not buy enough to get it moving. They justifiably worry that they will not be able to pay their bills, or afford to send their children to college, or to retire. Banks, with equal justification, are reluctant to lend to them. But as long as consumers hold back, companies remain reluctant to hire new workers or raise the wages of current ones, feeding the vicious cycle.

The timing is unfortunate. Foreign consumers will not help much even if the dollar continues to slide. Europe’s debt crisis and embrace of austerity, Japan’s tragedy and China’s fiscal tightening have reduced global demand. At the same time, the federal stimulus in the US has almost run its course. The Federal Reserve is about to end its $600bn of purchases of Treasury bills, designed to bring down long-term interest rates and make it easier for homeowners to refinance. Worse yet, state governments – starved for revenue and
constitutionally barred from running deficits – continue to cut programmes. Local governments are now in worse shape, laying off platoons of teachers and firefighters.

Under normal circumstances, this would be the time for the federal government to take bold action to ward off a double dip. For example, it could put more cash in peoples’ pockets while giving employers an extra incentive to hire by exempting the first $20,000 of earnings from payroll taxes, for a year or two. It could lend money to state and local governments. It could launch a new Work Projects Administration (modelled after its antecedent during the Great Depression) to put the long-term unemployed to work on public projects. It could amend the bankruptcy law to allow people to include their prime residences in personal bankruptcy, thereby giving homeowners more leverage to get mortgage lenders to mitigate the terms of their loans.

But these are not normal circumstances. America has been through a devastating recession that poked a giant hole in the federal budget. And with a presidential election coming up next year, both parties are already manoeuvring for tactical advantage. Since taking over the House of Representatives in January, Republicans have focused on cutting government spending and paring back regulations. Their colleagues in the Senate, whose leader has proclaimed his major goal to unseat President Barack Obama, are almost as single-minded. Cynics might suspect Republicans of quietly hoping the economy stays rotten up until election day.

Democrats, meanwhile, are behaving as if they are powerless to affect the economy, even though a Democrat occupies the White House and his appointees run the federal government. They would rather not dwell on the
slowdown because they do not want to spook the bond market or add to the prevailing gloom (Jimmy Carter’s ill-fated comment about the nation’s “malaise” during the stagflation of the late 1970s has served as a permanent admonition for presidents to stay upbeat). Democrats are staking their electoral hopes on
continuing disarray among Republican presidential aspirants, as well as the Republicans’ suicidal plan to turn Medicare, the popular health insurance system for seniors, into vouchers that would funnel money to private, for-profit insurance companies.

The result is as if Washington were on another planet from the rest of the country (many Americans would argue this is hardly a new phenomenon). The noisiest battle in the nation’s capital is over raising the statutory debt limit – a game of chicken in which Republicans are demanding, in return for their votes, caps on future federal spending while Democrats insist on preserving the possibility of tax increases on the wealthy. Countless budget analysts are combing through endless projections of government revenues and expenditures in five or 10 years. Think tanks and blue-ribbon panels are issuing voluminous reports on how to tame the budget deficit in decades to come. The president, meanwhile, is trying to appear as fiscally austere as possible – keeping a lid on non-defence discretionary spending, freezing the wages of civil servants and offering his own deficit-reduction plans.

Washington’s paralysis in the face of a stalled recovery is bad news – not just for average Americans but for the world. Ironically, it also worsens America’s future budget crisis because it postpones the day when the debt begins to shrink as a proportion of GDP. Yet as the 2012 campaign season looms, the prospects for sensible policy seem to decrease by the day.
--------

Double Dip in Housing; Could Double Dip Recession Be
Next?

Jun.
1 2011 - 12:22 am | By Kenneth Rapoza

You know that $400,000 house you want to buy; offer them $350,000. If they don’t take it now, they will soon enough.

This chart from Business Insider shows what the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Index looks like on a graph chart: bad. National home prices are back to their 2002 levels, according to the index data released May 31.

As of March 2011, US home
prices fell 4.2% in the first quarter after falling 3.6% in the fourth quarter in 2010. Home prices are down 5.1% from the first quarter last year, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller report.

“This month’s report is marked by the confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the nation,” said David Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Indices in a press statement on Tuesday. The three major national indices all hit new lows in the May 31 report. “Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight,” Blitzer said.

New real estate price lows were recorded in 12 cities, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Oregon and Tampa.

Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit and Las Vegas real estate is now valued below their January 2000 levels.

It was the housing market that helped pull the US economy into the black hole it has yet to escape from nearly
three years later. Investors will turn now to the $14.26 trillion debt crisis in the US to see where the country is going. Standard & Poor’s thinks it’s going the way of pending default on some of its debt. Even Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing the idea, though that may be more politicking than reality.

The S&P credit watchdogs changed their outlook on US sovereign debt in April. US debt is ranked the highest credit quality in the world at AAA, but the country could conceivably have one of those As trimmed off the end if the government fails to reduce its deficit. The US is not at the risk of losing its investment grade status, S&P said last month. However, the possibility of a reduction in the US Treasury credit rating would affect the
bond markets, and corporate debt as well, which would be forced to pay a higher insurance premium for its debt going forward in the case of a US downgrade.

“I think the threat of a downgrade is enough to actually get both political parties in Washington to realize you have to raise the debt limit and soon,” says Joel Smolen, a hedge fund manager at Axion Capital in San
Francisco. The fund was ranked No. 1 for its long-only macro strategy by BarclayHedge in Iowa this month. Barclay Hedge is not affiliated with Barclays Capital.

Also on Tuesday, Republicans in the House of Representatives nearly unanimously shot down their own party’s proposal to raise the debt ceiling by around $3 trillion. Geithner gave Congress until the first week of
August to raise the debt ceiling.

“The market is betting on an increase to the debt ceiling, but if that debt ceiling goes up and the dollar goes down and the deficit stays the same, then what is now mild concern will become tangible fear of a downgrade and that could lead to a double dip recession in a worst case scenario,” says Smolen.

US public sector and intragovernmental debt broke through the debt ceiling in April when it ended the month at $14.28 trillion.

US housing prices are still declining from the “irrational exhuberance” years, when real estate rose like a double leveraged ETF in some cities. The destruction of housing values left many US consumers without
collateral for loans, and without a means for refinancing as their properties were becoming less than what they had paid for them. With property values declining, Americans were no longer borrowing against their homes to buy cars and jacuzzis. Foreclosures that resulted from the popping of the housing bubble fed into a massive loss of jobs created by the ensueing credit crisis. The US labor force is not expected to recover from those job losses for several years to come.

Moreover, consumer confidence unexpectedly declined in May to its lowest level in six months due to the lackluster job market and declining home values. The Conference Board’s confidence index dropped to 60.8 on Tuesday from a revised 66 reading in April.
--------

More Job Seekers Give Up, Reducing Unemployment

By
PAUL WISEMAN | Jun. 2, 2011 8:08 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Where did all the workers go?

The labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — is getting smaller, even though the economy is growing and steadily adding jobs. That trend defies the rules of a normal economic recovery.

Nobody is sure why it's happening. Economists think some of the missing workers have retired, have entered college or are getting by on government disability checks. Others have probably just given up looking for work.

"A small work force means millions of discouraged workers, lower output in the future and a weak recovery," says Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the ranking Republican on the Congress' Joint Economic Committee. "Those are unhealthy signs."

By the government's definition, if you quit looking, you're no longer counted as unemployed. And you're no longer part of the labor force.

Since November, the number of Americans counted as employed has grown by 765,000, to just shy of 139 million. The nation has been creating jobs every month as the economy recovers. The economy added 244,000 jobs in April.

But the number of Americans counted as unemployed has shrunk by much more — almost 1.3 million —
during this time. That means the labor force has dropped by 529,000 workers.

The percentage of adults in the labor force is a figure that economists call the participation rate. It is 64.2 percent, the smallest since 1984. And that's become a mystery to economists. Normally after a recession, an
improving economy lures job seekers back into the labor market. This time, many are staying on the sidelines.

Their decision not to seek work means the drop in unemployment from 9.8 percent in November to 9 percent in April isn't as good as it looks.

If the 529,000 missing workers had been out scavenging for a job without success, the unemployment rate would have been 9.3 percent in April, not the reported rate of 9 percent. And if the participation rate were as
high as it was when the recession began, 66 percent, in December 2007, the unemployment rate could have been as high as 11.5 percent.

A majority of the 42 economists in the latest Associated Press quarterly economic survey said they expect the labor force participation rate to start growing consistently before the year ends. Twelve don't expect it to happen until next year at the earliest. Five think it never will.

It's certainly not happening yet. The labor force grew by just 15,000 in April from March — not even enough to keep up with population growth.

Economists say many would-be job seekers remain daunted by the odds against finding work: There were 4.3 unemployed people for each job opening in March, more than double the ratio before the recession. And job vacancies are running 35 percent below the pre-recession peak.

"I basically have stopped looking for work because there is just nothing out there," says Kim Rinde of Minneapolis, who was laid off in December 2008 from a customer service job at a company that makes cleaning equipment.

Longer-term trends are working to keep the participation rate down. The Congressional Budget Office expects the participation rate to fall steadily to 63 percent by 2021 as baby boomers retire.

The share of men 20 and older in the labor force peaked long ago, at 89 percent in 1952. It's been falling ever since and is now under 74 percent.

John Bound, a University of Michigan economist, suspects the long-term decline in men's participation is due partly to a drop in job opportunities for workers with few skills. Manufacturing jobs once offered good wages for workers without college degrees. But the number of factory jobs has dropped 40 percent since peaking in 1979.

Some who have left the job market are getting by on government checks, particularly Social Security's program for the disabled More than 8.3 million Americans were on Social Security disability last month, up 1.2 million,
or 17 percent, from the end of 2007.

The recipients include people who lost jobs that had allowed them to work despite disabilities and who can't find new employers to accommodate them.

The share of women working or looking for work, after expanding from the early 1950s through the mid '90s, has plateaued at about 60 percent, where it was in April. The CBO notes that more women with high-income husbands and those with young children have been staying out of the job market.

Teenagers have been leaving, too. Their participation rate dropped from a peak of 59.3 percent in 1978 to a record low of 33.5 percent in February. (It ticked up to 33.7 percent in April.) More young people are choosing college or vocational school over work. One reason is that fewer good-paying jobs are available to teenagers right out of high school.

"There was no way I was going straight to work" after high school, says Zachary Simmons, 19, who's studying computers at Surry Community College in North Carolina. "I have to get a degree. That's what gets you in the
door for an interview."
--------
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 4, 2011:

“Much information has been reported – and much more still is being sought – about Barack Obama’s original birth documentation, and whether it reveals his eligibility to be president under the Constitution’s requirement those in the Oval Office be a “natural born Citizen.”

But under the radar of most new organizations a case has been moving forward in Washington, D.C., through which California attorney Orly Taitz is seeking the original application for Obama’s Social Security number, a document that could reveal a multitude of factors about the president’s early life.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth this week rejected a defense concern over procedure in the dispute, and Taitz told WND today the case has moved into discovery and she can issue subpoenas to those holding the documentation she is seeking.

Get the New York Times best-seller “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President,” by Jerome Corsi.

WND previously has reported on the issue that Obama holds a Connecticut-based Social Security number despite allegedly being born in Hawaii, starting his work career in the Aloha State, and never having lived in Connecticut.

For those who never wondered about how Social Security Numbers are generated, the first three digits represent the state of the recipient’s mailing address. In other words, if you live or work in Connecticut, for example, the first three digits of your SSN will correspond to the Connecticut code.

The first three digits of Obama’s SSN are 042. That code of 042 falls within the range of numbers for Connecticut, which according to the Social Security Administration has been 040 through 049.

The national news media has been virtually silent on this potentially criminal fact.

Indeed, when Fox News finally attempted to explain it, it broadcast false information and then scrubbed it from its website.

When WND asked the White House about it, then–Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged the question.

Taitz’ case is against Social Security commissioner Michael Astrue and explains that because of the multitude of questions surrounding Obama’s eligibility, his birth certificate and his other records, the Freedom of Information Act request was submitted.

The Social Security Administration rejected it, and that decision was affirmed by a district court ruling that found the administrative procedures still had a course to run. But that now has been completed and the case is before Lamberth again.

He ruled this week that FOIA actions “are exempt” from a local court “meet and confer” requirement and he gave Astrue 30 days to file “any dispositive motions.”

The federal government had argued that Taitz’ process to subpoena individuals with access to the long-sought documentation was out of order, but the court ruling means it is within procedures.

According to a report in the Post & Email online blog, Taitz reported, “We’re now in discovery, so I can issue subpoenas.”

That is a level that no other case challenging Obama’s eligibility or birth certificate ever has reached.

She said she already has contacted the Hawaii Department of Health, which is custodian of Hawaiian records, about her requests, and she said another recipient very well could be the White House.

She noted that White House Counsel Robert Bauer resigned that post just yesterday, and suggested Bauer might not have wanted to be deposed regarding questions about Obama’s “Certificate of Live Birth,” a document presented to the nation as genuine when the White House released it on April 27.

However, a multitude of experts have said it is a document assembled on computer and unlikely to be legitimate.

Taitz suggested that Bauer’s move back into private practiced may have been speeded by worries over the eligibility dispute.

In fact, Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., and author of “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President,” said he’s convinced Bauer’s move is because he fears the “Certificate of Live Birth” document would not stand up to the scrutiny of any serious investigation.

Corsi believes Bauer “felt compelled” to resign because of the growing substance to worries that the eligibility issue will blow up into a full-scale investigation.

“Bauer sent Perkins and Coie attorneys to Honolulu to pick up from the Hawaii Department of Health what he believed would be two certified copies of Obama’s 1961 long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate,” Corsi said. “When the White House released to the public the birth certificate in the form of a PDF computer file obviously created on Adobe software and a Xerox copy, Bauer realized the Hawaii DOH had participated in the fraud.”

He said he had been tipped off early in February that a long-form birth document for Obama had been forged and that the document was to be released.

“The information came from a mole within the Hawaii DOH who had been examining the vault logbook for months,” Corsi explained. “Until just prior to February 24, no Obama long-form hospital-generated birth record could be found in the Hawaii DOH.”

As WND has reported, there long have been concerns about the Social Security number.

“There is obviously a case of fraud going on here,” says Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels. “In 15 years of having a private investigator’s license in Ohio, I’ve never seen the Social Security Administration make a mistake of issuing a Connecticut Social Security number to a person who lived in Hawaii. There is no family connection that would appear to explain the anomaly.”

Does the Social Security Administration ever re-issue Social Security numbers?

“Never,” Daniels told Corsi. “It’s against the law for a person to have a re-issued or second Social Security Number issued.”

Daniels said she is “staking my reputation on a conclusion that Obama’s use of this Social Security Number is fraudulent.”

“A person who wants to hide their true identity often picks up the Social Security Number of a deceased person, thinking that nobody would ever look into it,” Daniels added. “I think it was sometime in the 1980s that Obama decided to hide who he really is.”

There is no indication in the limited background documentation released by the Obama 2008 presidential campaign or by the White House to establish that Obama ever lived in Connecticut.

Nor is there any suggestion in Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” that he ever had a Connecticut address.

Also, nothing can be found in the public record that indicates Obama visited Connecticut during his high-school years.

An affidavit filed by Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson specifies that as a result of his formal training as an immigration officer and his 27-year career in professional law enforcement, “it is my knowledge and belief that Social Security Numbers can only be applied for in the state in which the applicant habitually resides and has their official residence.”

Daniels told WND she believes Obama had a different Social Security Number when he worked as a teenager in Hawaii prior to 1977.

“I doubt this is President Obama’s originally issued Social Security Number,” she told WND. “Obama has a work history in Hawaii before he left the islands to attend college at Occidental College in California, so he must have originally been issued a Social Security Number in Hawaii.”

The published record available about Obama indicates his first job as a teenager in Hawaii was at a Baskin-Robbins in the Makiki neighborhood on Oahu. USA Today reported the ice-cream shop still was in operation one year after Obama’s inauguration.

Just last month some 11 months after WND began publicizing Obama’s Connecticut-based SSN, Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel briefly addressed the issue while reading his viewer mail on the air.

Unfortunately for O’Reilly, the news anchor falsely asserted the president’s father lived in Connecticut.

In his viewer email segment April 13, O’Reilly was asked: “What about Obama having a Connecticut Social Security Number? He never lived there.”

“His father lived in Connecticut for several years,” O’Reilly claimed, adding that “babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents.”

In reality, there is no evidence Barack Obama Sr. ever lived in Connecticut. He left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard in Massachusetts and then returned to his home country of Kenya.

When WND publicized O’Reilly’s major error, the information vanished from the Fox News Channel’s website, as well as BillOReilly.com.

O’Reilly’s full explanation of the “truth” of Obama “myths” is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJYMbnpr3is&feature=player_embedded

The BirtherReport.com website, responding to complaints by Fox podcast customers that O’Reilly’s Social Security claim, broadcast on Fox, had gone missing from the audio archive, trumpeted the headline: “Busted: Fox News scrubbed Bill O’Reilly’s 4/13 mailbag segment on Obama’s Social Security Number reserved for Connecticut applicants.” The site added, “Not only did Fox News scrub the podcast, they also left out the viewer email about Obama’s Social Security number at O’Reilly’s website. I report, you decide!”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=306873

Note:  The following videos and articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Video: Is Obama a Terrorist?-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On June 4, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/06/04/video-attorneys-explosive-claim-obama-changed-name-in-1982/

Video: Sleepers Emerge and Messiah Appears!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZHRgTskEhE&feature=related

Video: Obama's End Game Revealed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz3VjoHXLA&feature=related

Video: The KGB Connections in America!

Video: Obama And Odinga Exposed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh10-w351MI&feature=related

Video: The Obama and Odinga Connection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvLV3d1Eq4&feature=related

Senator Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, is accused of ethnic cleansing and is currently battling for power in Kenya!

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/01/great-obamas-cousin-charged-with-ethnic.html

Sen. Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is a Luo Activist!

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-militant-muslim-brother-abongo.html

Barack Obama's Early Years as a Muslim!-Posted on DanielPipes.org-By Daniel Pipes-Updated on October 23, 2008:

"I am a Muslim” Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister!-Posted on Atlas Shrugs-On June 12, 2010:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html

US Government Makes It Impossible to Get New Passport!-Posted on Consumer Traveler-By EDWARD HASBROUCK-On April 22, 2011:

http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/state-dept-wants-to-make-it-harder-to-get-a-passport/

The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

Sen. Obama’s Radical Islamic Past and Ties To Terrorist Groups:

Active complaint to the FEC over President Obama’s campaign finances!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/active-complaint-to-the-fec-over-president-obama’s-campaign-finances/

Did Saudis Buy Obama 2008 Election?

Why is Obama Handing Out Millions of Dollars to Terrorist?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/why-is-obama-handing-out-millions-of-dollars-to-terrorists/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-russian-view-of-what-has-been-happening-in-america-2/

Extensive Research Into Senator Obama’s Background Completed on November 3, 2008:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/extensive-research-into-se...

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes

Jerusalem, a mosaic of different peoples, faiths, and nationalities. Nevertheless, despite this diversity, under the sovereignty of Israel, Jerusalem is a city that works. But has it always been this way?

Thanks to Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs for bringing this video to our attention! Ck Out Atlas Click Here: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

I just want to take this little bit of cyberspace to personally thank:

Glenn Beck, Pastor John Hagee and Jay Seckulow (ACLJ) for everything and all that you do in the promotion and for the security of Israel.

That is all I have to say about that .

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Is it possible that the Shadow Government is purposefully confounding the Federal Government in order to destroy the Middle Class?  And why would they want to destroy the Middle Class?  Is it because the destruction of the Middle Class is an express train to the establishment of a One World Government?  Why is Washington so intent on playing the blame game instead of implementing the several hundreds of solutions that taken together will solve the economic problems of the USA?  Is the blame game a smoke screen which is causing confusion and is obfuscating what is really going on behind the scenes?  Why are the Republicans and the Democrats afraid to implement the many and varied solutions that will solve our economic problems?  Why are they afraid of allowing the "other" party to make some solid solutions come to fruition?  Why are they at each others throats?  Are they unwittingly being dis-unified to create a smoke screen of confusion and chaos on purpose?  What is the Shadow Government doing behind the smoke screen to our country?  Most Americans are willing to give credit to both parties regardless of who brings to bear solid solutions to our economy.  At this point in time there has been discussion after discussion and the leadership is well aware of the many and varied things which need to be done to reverse this economic depression.  Why won't they implement these well known and well discussed solutions?  Is it a conspiracy?  It may very well be a conspiracy to undermine the Middle Class.  They talk and talk and talk and talk but don't do a darn thing to solve the problems.  They know how to fix the economy.  Are they afraid to fix it?  Who are they afraid of?  What group is causing them to have a paralysis of analysis?  If our politicians are incapable or afraid of resolving the problems because by doing so their careers are in jeopardy or they simply lack the leadership skills to coordinate all of the solutions and bring them to bear, then the answer is simple, i.e., VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE.  In that way they can balance the fear of the Shadow Government against the fear of being voted out of office and I would bet that under this kind of duress they would  be motivated to solve the economic problems currently bringing this country to iis knees.  We have had enough of this blame game nonsense and the unending lack of solutions.  The time for solid well thought out economic solutions is NOW!  If the unemployment rate goes up to 11 + percent we will have another depression otherwise currently being called a double-dip.  If you have paid attention to all of the economic debates on TV even as simplistic as they are we know that even these simplistic economic solutions taken collectively will create growth, increase tax revenue, reduce unemployment, solve the housing forclosure problem, etc.

We need to support honest, descent, God-fearing, patriotic, unselfish, intelligent, politicians who believe in and trust God and who support the Constitution of the U.S.  And by the way, we the taxpayers who voted, did not vote for a Shadow Government who remains hidden behind the scenes and who has an inordinate amount of political power which is being used to drive their hidden agendas and not being used for the good of the majority of the citizens of the USA.  We need to send a message to those shadowy people who make up the behind the scenes Shadow Government to take a hike and take their hidden agendas and shove them up where the sun doesn't shine.  By this time I would think that the majority of Americans are sick and tired of this BS.  If you want to understand what is happening turn to the Creator and pray for enlightenment and you can bet that these Shadowy and unfortunately influential people don't want you to do that.  PrayER leads to enlightenment and these characters want you to remain confused and in the dark.

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Posted on America’s Survival-By Roger Morgan, Founder/Director
Take Back America Campaign-On June 3, 2011: 

6/3/2011

Dear Mr. Beck:

After the great job you have done exposing George Soros, how is it that you not only post the article on his drug policy Summit with former world leaders, all influenced by his money, but also run a video of Ethan Nadlemann of the Drug Policy Alliance, Soros’  number one paid drug peddler in the world?  Have you sold out to Soros?

This isn’t about ideology.  It’s about corruption.  The “harm reduction” mantra pushed by Soros and Nadlemann is simply intended to inflict the disease of addiction of the masses.  They call it “addiction slavery” in Western Australia, where the Soros/Nadlemann influence has already put one addict in every three families, increased the still birth rate by 400% and led to addiction of 70% of aborigines.

Soros financial backing of drug legalization in America is all about pricking the bubble of American supremacy.  In his words, not yours,”….. the biggest obstacle to a new world order is the United States.”

Annihilating significant portions of society through addiction is just part of his plan to achieve his New World Order.

The basic premise of these world leaders is preposterous if you know anything about drugs and addiction.  The concept of human rights to use drugs, which “do no harm to others” is blasphemous.  One’s diminished academic achievement and productivity alone costs society enormous sums in lost income and competitiveness.  But substance abuse (alcohol, tobacco and drugs) costs taxpayers about $1 trillion and year and claims over 600,000 lives.

The world leaders say the War-On-Drugs has failed, and they want policies that have “…empirically proven to reduce crime, lead to better health and promote economic and social development.”  Good idea.  The root cause of most problems of health, mental illness, crime, education, welfare and traffic safety are alcohol, tobacco and drugs.  So lets deal with those factors.

According to research at CASA (Columbia University), 80% of crime is committed while people are under the influence of alcohol or drugs; 66% of inmates have an addiction; and 33% meet the clinical definition of mental illness.  Do you think increasing the availability of drugs is going to solve that problem?

Better health, economic and social development?  According to the latest figures from the CDC, 3,200 Americans die monthly just from drug overdose, and that’s probably 25% of the total of all drug related causes.  According to CASA again, drugs and alcohol contribute to 72 major illnesses, and for every $1 collected in taxes for alcohol, the social costs are $8.95.  Legalization of one more drug will put the nail in the coffin of our already beleaguered deficit.

Addicts can’t work effectively, if they can work at all, thus they become a parasite on society until death.  To feed their habits, they have to beg or turn to crime.  With public services trimmed to the bone, the mentally ill have no place to go except the streets, and turn to crime to get a free night in jail.  How is increased availability of drugs going to help?

Prohibition could have worked much better had anyone done what works to prevent it, instead of spending $1 trillion to simply interdict supply.  Thirty years ago, when parents and kids learned of the true harms of marijuana, consumption dropped 50-60% and remained at that level until 2009, the first year of Obama’s administration, when it jumped 11%.  Why? Because of no enforcement of federal laws to curtail the hoax of “medical marijuana” and because the media is largely controlled by Soros, The Drug Lord.

Glenn, your past statements on legalizing marijuana are cause for concern, if you truly have the best interest of America at heart.  Today’s pot is 20 to 80 times more potent that in the 70’s (Up to 40% THC vs ½-2% in the 70’s).  Because it is fat soluble, like DDT, it attaches to and damages every cell and organ in the body for weeks, even longer, particularly the brain and gonads.  It not only causes birth defects and brain damage on the fetus, it is mutagenic, meaning it can leap over one generation and harm the next.

The 3 lb human brain is one-third fat, the prime collection point for THC.  Unlike water soluble alcohol, where one-ounce of alcohol is excreted from the body in 12 hours, it takes 3 to 7 days for the body to rid itself of ½ the THC, and up to a month for the balance.  Frequent use, even weekend use, stacks THC on top and causes impaired cognition, motor skills and ability to perform complex tasks.  That explains why pot smokers are less productive in the work force, cause more injury accidents and because of the deleterious effects on health, increase the level of absenteeism.  Good for employers?  I think not.

Nor is an impaired brain good for traffic safety?  The death rate in California from marijuana impaired drivers doubled since 2004, from 631 the previous five years to 1240 for the five years hence. (Al Crancer)

How about academic achievement?  America is now 24^th in the world academically, and in decline and drugs are a major part of the problem.  Marijuana particularly impairs memory, motivation, maturation and ability to learn.  In California, the drop out rate is 24.2% (UC Santa Barbara High School Drop-Out Research Project), which cost taxpayers $46.4 billion per cohort ($392,000 per drop out).  That equates to about $470 billion nationally based on 1.2 million drop outs.

Because of brain scan technology, scientists have now affirmed that marijuana can cause permanent damage to an underdeveloped brain, and the brain is not fully developed until age 25.  Marijuana use during adolescence has been proven to cause deficits in cognition even later in life, and it is also confirmed now as a causal factor in schizophrenia and paranoia as well as depression leading to suicide.  The two largest age groups for marijuana consumption are 18-25 followed by 12-17, both before the threshold of a mature brain.  This doesn’t bode well for our future.

Soros gets much of the credit for the problem: 1) Kids think marijuana is medicine, which it is not; 2) They think its legal, which it is not; 3) They don’t know any better because Soros largely controls the press and the propaganda; and 4) Because the Democratic party is largely controlled by Soros, as stated by Eli Pariser of Soros’ organization MoveOn.org in 2004 … “ We bought the Democratic party.  We own it.”

When politicians base decisions on financial contributions from the master of subversion, whose intent is to destroy our country, we have a problem.  They can’t serve Soros and serve the people.

What has been proven empirically to reduce crime and lead to better health and promote economic and social development is abstinence.  Total abstinence may not be practical, but the disease of addiction is preventable if we have the wisdom, courage and will to do what works to prevent it where it almost always begins, with kids.

According to Joseph Califano at CASA if we get young people to age 21 before they start smoking, abusing alcohol or using drugs, they should virtually never have a problem.  How do we get them there?  In all ways possible, but for certain, we need a mandate for non-punitive random drug testing for all middle and high school kids is a must.  Making drugs even more available through legalization is insanity.

The inability of these world leaders to fully understand that prevention is the missing link in the War-On-Drugs suggests maybe they weren’t the best leaders to begin with.  Or have they been influenced by Drug Lord Soros?

Glenn Beck, featuring drug legalizers like Nadlemann on your website, in addition to your exodus from Fox News, implies that you may have crossed over to the enemy camp.   Please … say it isn’t so.

Roger Morgan

Founder/Director
Take Back America Campaign”

Source:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.03-1.2011.html

Note:  My following blog post contains numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

New World Order By Executive Order!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/

Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/powerful-men-who-meet-secretly-and-plan-on-how-to-run-our-country/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Posted on Pajamas Media-By Matt Patterson-On June 3, 2011:

“Americans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the freest people on Earth. Except that according to the Heritage Foundation’s 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, the United States stands at a dismal 9^th in international rankings for economic liberty, embarrassingly behind social democracies like New Zealand (4^th) and Canada (6^th) and well behind Asian powerhouses Hong Kong and Singapore (first and second, respectively).

It is safe to say that these depressing stats would come as no surprise to the higher-ups at Boeing, who had the temerity to act as if they were a private company operating in a free market when they decided to relocate the company’s 787 Dreamliner assembly from Washington state to a new production facility in South Carolina.This new relationship was poised to be mutually beneficial — South Carolina would get about 1,000 new jobs, Boeing a less regulated, less unionized — read: cheaper — business climate in which to operate.

But it was not to be. In April, Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against Boeing to block the move and thwart the South Carolina relocation, charging that Boeing’s decision constitutes an unlawful retaliation against the unionized workers of Washington state.

Boeing contends it simply cannot afford the constant work stoppages of the Washington unions (roughly one every three years over the past decade), and no wonder:  In 2008 alone, a strike instigated by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) lasted 39 days and accrued roughly 1,053,000 in lost work days for some 27,000 employees in Washington, Oregon, and Kansas. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), “Some analysts have estimated that the shutdown of jet production during the work stoppage cost Boeing more than $2 billion in profits.” Ouch. One can hardly blame the company for looking toward the warmer climes and more attractive labor market of South Carolina, one of the 22 states with so-called “right-to-work” laws forbidding the compulsory unionization of workers.

But the Obama administration has, through the NLRB, sided with the unions, in essence affirming Big Labor’s self-assumed right to blackmail and bankrupt private industry. The decision against Boeing (which the company is set to challenge in a June hearing) is indeed a dark and ominous sign:  As Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore poignantly put it in the Wall Street Journal, “It’s the first time a federal agency has intervened to tell an American company where it can and cannot operate a plant within the U.S.” It’s as if a government agent blocked your way while you were fleeing a mugger and ordered you to go back and hand over your wallet.

Of course, Obama is under tremendous pressure to deliver some favors to the unions, who have spent hundreds of millions to put him and other Democrats into power. Having failed to deliver labor’s long-cherished “card check” legislation before last November’s GOP tide swept over Congress, and seeing unions withering under the assault of Republican governors like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker and New Jersey’s Chris Christie, the White House undoubtedly felt it had to give its money masters something.

So it has, and only at the expense of liberty, economic growth, and common sense. So much for land of the free.

• Matt Patterson is senior editor at the Capital Research Center and contributor to Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation. His email is mpatterson.column@gmail.com.”

Source:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-free-is-america/?singlepage=true

Note:  These recent articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. As Gov’t Plays ‘Father,’ ‘Black Males Have Become Dispensable’!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Jeff Poor-The Daily Caller-On June 4, 2011:

“It’s perhaps not the most politically correct take on welfare in America’s black community, but an interesting one nonetheless.

Walter E. Williams, a George Mason economist and author of “Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?” is not a fan of the welfare state that exists in the country. In an appearance on Thursday night’s “Stossel” on the Fox Business Network, Williams argued that welfare has done more damage to black society than slavery or Jim Crow.

“[T]he welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery could not have done, the harshest Jim Crow laws and racism could not have done, namely break up the black family,” Williams said.

“That is, today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two parent families. Historically, from 1870s on up to about 1940s, and depending on the city, 75 to 90 percent of black kids lived in two parent families. Illegitimacy rate is 70 percent among blacks where that is unprecedented in our history.”

But this isn’t just relegated to the American welfare state, but is seen in European welfare states as well.

“Now, it’s not just a matter of a racial thing. Sweden is the mother of the welfare state and illegitimacy in Sweden is 54 percent,” he said.

Williams explained to host John Stossel that this is a natural effect of welfare policies.

“Well, because, look, if you subsidize anything, you’re going to get surpluses of it, and if you tax something you’re going to get less of it,” he said. “If you did not get welfare, then people would decide, I’m going to go out and get a job, I’m going to live more responsibly.”

And with these policies, they have taken a toll on the black family, specifically the black father.”

Source:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/04/walter-e-williams-on-welfare-as-govt-plays-father-black-males-have-become-dispensable/

II. General Motors not eager to be political talking point in 2012-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Amanda Carey-On June 3, 2011:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/03/general-motors-not-eager-to-be-po...

III. Economy adds paltry 54K jobs, raising fears for recovery!-Posted on The Hill’s On The Money-By Ian Swanson and Bernie Becker-On June 3, 2011:

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/164575-may-jobs-report-meets-low-expectations

IV. Half of Last Month's New Jobs Came from a Single Employer — McDonald's!-Posted on The Weekly Standard-By MARK HEMINGWAY-On June 3, 3011:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/half-last-months-jobs-came-single-employer-mcdonalds_573220.html

V. New World Powers Move to Shove Dollar Aside!-Posted on Investment Watch-By MarketWatch-On April 18, 2011:

VI. China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On June 3, 2011:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/china-has-divested-97-percent-its-holdin

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Is the Fed’s concept of buying $600 billion of Treasuries just a smokescreen?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/is-the-fed’s-concept-of-buying-600-billion-of-treasuries-just-a-smokescreen/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

There is a huge percentage of public who has no clue about Obama because they spend time watching American Idol, Simposns, etc. If you do not educte them, no one will and Obama will get re-elected.

Talk to people who are "NOT" in the know. Time is running out.

1) Marxist Democrats still do not know what is in the Marxist Obamacare Healthplan.

2) Democrats did not read plan before or after they voted for it.

3) Democrats did not write the Obamacare Bill. Not one Democrat had any part of writing the Bill. Not one.

4) The Entire Healthcare Bill was Written by George Soros Special Interests groups.
5) Congress was told by Pelosi to Shutup and "VOTE" for it or they would not get Election Campaign Funding.
6) So, Marxist Democrats knowlingly Voted for Obamacare without one clue what was in the bill.

7) They still do not have a clue what is in it.
8) Ask one Democrat Congressman what is in the bill, and not one knows or can tell you.

9) Marxist Democrat do not read bills before they vote in it.

10) They  are told to "VOTE" Yea or Nea and they do what they are told.

11) And every Marxist Democrat must go and cunsult with their "Lobbyists" to make sure Lobbyist are OK with them voting for or against the Bill.
12) Feel like you have no input? You don't. NONE!

13) Congress just shows up, votes the way Pelosi wants them to and then goes out to lunch. Every day.

Posted on Judicial Watch-June 2011:

“Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that indicate officials at the FCC colluded with the leftist Free Press organization to publicly push a new plan to regulate the Internet under the FCC’s so-called “net neutrality” program.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents pursuant to a December 27, 2010, Freedom of Information Act request.

In December 2010, the FCC voted 3-2 to advance its “net neutrality program.” This decision seems to fly in the face of an April, 2010 federal appeals court ruling that the FCC had exceeded its authority in seeking to regulate the Internet and enforce “net neutrality” rules.

The supporters of “net neutrality,” including Free Press, argue that high-speed Internet access is a “civil right,” and are recommending new government regulations to provide taxpayer-funded broadband Internet access to all populations, especially those deemed “underserved.” Opponents of “net neutrality” argue the program is designed to impose greater government control over the Internet and will result in less access, not more. Moreover, opponents of “net neutrality,” also dispute the claim that Internet access is a basic civil right protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Judicial Watch uncovered internal correspondence showing unusual coordination by some officials at the FCC and Free Press in pushing the “net neutrality” agenda in the run up to the controversial FCC vote in December:

• On November 2, 2010, Free Press Associate Outreach Director Misty Perez Truedson sent an email to John Giusti, Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Michael Copps asking if Copps would write an op-ed for the Albuquerque Journal in advance of a November 16 hearing on Internet access: “Would Commissioner Copps be interested in drafting an Op-ed in advance of the hearing? It’s a great way to get the word out and to spark conversations in advance of the event,” Truedson wrote. “We’re working on the op ed,” Giusti wrote back on November 9.
• The documents also include a series of emails sent to set up meetings between Copps and former Free Press President John Silver. “We are starting to get a good sense of how we’d like to proceed during the next three tricky months on NN [net neutrality]…” Silver wrote in the same October 8, 2010, email: “I think it may make sense for us to get together next week when I’m in town.” The documents also include a written summary of a phone call between Silver and Copps on November 28, 2010, just prior to the FCC vote in December: “Silver emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation and cultural expression…” the summary noted.
• One set of documents includes correspondence between FCC Special Counsel David Tannenbaum and Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott establishing lists of speakers for FCC “internet workshops.” Among the speakers proposed by Scott: “Joe Respars (ran online activism for the Obama campaign – he’s at Blue State Digital);” “Alex Nogales – National Hispanic Media Coalition;” “Jay Stanley – ACLU;” and “Clothilde de Coz [redacted] Reporters without Borders.”
• When Tannenbaum asked Scott about inviting a speaker from Color for Change in a November 17, 2010 email, Scott writes: “Yes – we know them well. I should have put James Rucker on my list. He’s very good. Up and coming civil rights leader. They are awesome. 
However, you should be aware that Color of Change is rather highly politicized. They are lead on the campaign to strip Glenn Beck of advertisers. And Van Jones is one of the founders. Not that these things should dissuade you from inviting them – I just wanted you to know.” (Van Jones was forced to resign from his position as Obama’s “Green Jobs czar,” in part because he had signed a petition in support of the 9/11 “Truther” movement, which believes the Bush administration masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks.)

Free Press has deep ties to radical leftists and socialists.

Robert McChesny, former editor of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, is the co-founder and president of Free Press. Kim Gandy, the Chairman of the Free Press Board of Directors, served as the President of the National Organization for Women from 2001-2009. Craig Aaron, Free Press’s President and CEO, formerly worked as managing editor of the socialist tabloid In These Times.

Free Press is financially supported by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and other hard-left groups such as the Ford Foundation and Democracy Alliance.

“Net neutrality is just another Obama power grab. This is nothing less than the Obama administration’s attempt to stage a government takeover of the Internet under the guise of ‘net neutrality.’ So it should come as no surprise that Free Press, the hard left organization with socialist ties, is improperly driving the so-called net neutrality agenda from inside the Obama administration. The FCC is supposed to be an independent agency that follows the law,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The American people should be deeply troubled by the fact that the Obama administration, on issue after issue, seems to be run by shadowy leftist organizations. Our government is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’, not ‘of the Left, by the Left, and for the Left.’”

To access the FCC-Free Press net neutrality documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, please click here.”

Source:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2011/jun/fcc-colluded-leftist-organization-free-press-push-government-regulation-internet-docum

Note:  The following video relates to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Former Soviet KGB Operative Talks About Communist Takeover of USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcZiNt6ypI&NR=1

Note:  What follows is a YouTube web site that contains a series of videos that bring to light a most startling revelation, which is that the collapse of Soviet Communism was in fact a staged deception to mislead the West and open the way for Russia’s domination of the free world. Since the fate of Western Civilization hangs in the balance, I suggest you ‘play all’, go to full screen and sit back and watch all of these videos. It’s important for freedom’s sake-You Decide:

The Untold Story About The Collapse of Communism!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheSpiritOfTruth-On May 19, 2006:

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F37A04E836694EF6&annotation_id=annotation_972225&feature=iv

Note:  The following recent articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Video: Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Admits She Wants Gaddafi-Style Government In USA!-Posted on The Blaze-By Naked Emperor News-On June 3, 3011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/green-book-socialism-former-congresswoman-cynthia-mckinney-in-libya-admits-she-wants-gaddafi-style-government-in-usa-to-solve-all-the-problems-of-america/

Who Is Behind Adam Kokesh and Russia Today Television?-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On June 1, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.01.2011.html

Russian TV and Code Pink Disrupt Memorial Day Activities-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On May 30, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck05.30.2011.html

SEIU drops mask, goes full commie-Posted on Pajamas Media-By Zombie-On May 6, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/05/06/seiu-drops-mask-goes-full...

Communist Party Predicts Huge May Day Rallies Across America – Left Exploits Immigrants-Posted on TrevorLoudon.com-By Trevor-On April 28, 2011:

http://trevorloudon.com/2011/04/communist-party-predicts-huge-may-d...

Video: Revolutionary Socialist Group Planing to Recruit Children in JR High School!-Posted on The Blaze-By Naked Emperor News-On April 24, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revolutionary-socialist-group-planning-to-recruit-children-in-jr-high-school-to-join-and-become-leaders-in-the-movement/

Happy Easter from the Communists-Posted on Conservative Byte-On April 22, 2011:

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/04/happy-easter-from-the-communists/

ACLU: 'Communism is the Goal'-Posted on Town Hall-By Matt Barber-On March 25, 2011:

http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2011/03/25/aclu_communism...

FBI Files: Ted Kennedy Met With Communist Traitor-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On March 24, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/fbi-files-ted-kennedy-met-with-communist-tr...

Socialist Mantra Hidden In Grade School Chants-Posted on The Blaze-By Mike Opelka-On March 2, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/socialist-mantra-hidden-in-grade-sc...

Judicial Watch Obtains Previously Redacted Material from the FBI File of the Late Senator Ted Kennedy-Posted on Judicial Watch-On February 25, 2011:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2011/feb/judicial-watch-obtains-p...

The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The FCC Should Not Interfere With The Internet!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-fcc-should-not-interfere-with-the-internet/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fair-and-balanced-airwaves-and-news-outlets/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

       If Barack Obama were caught on camera raping . . . how much support, if any, would he lose in the liberal mainstream-lamestream media?   Would the headlines read: “Obama Makes Outreach to . . . ?”

I'm sorry guys. Every time you flood me with emails attempting to convince me Palin can not win; is too toxic, not smart enough, a hypocrite and is only in it for the money, the courageous woman boldly does another extraordinary interview that makes me stand up and cheer, “Sarah Palin, you go girl! I love you!”

On the Hannity show, Palin launched another “in your face” attack on Obama, the GOP and the liberal media. I LOVE IT! http://fxn.ws/cxt8dv

Nothing frustrates me more than GOP candidates walking on eggs cautious not to offend or anger the despicable, lying, agenda driven and evil liberal media. Why should we show respect for characterless people who are committed to lying and putting a negative spin on everything we say and do? The liberal media's mission is to politically “kill” the tea party. Get it?

Sarah Palin gets it. Palin does not give a rat's behind about what the liberal media thinks of her.

On numerous occasions, without the slightest hint of reservation or FEAR, Palin has attacked Obama “the man”; his lies, his anti-American associations, his socialist agenda, his assault on our freedom, liberty and culture and his horrific record, thus far. Thank You Sarah Palin! God bless you!

I realize I sound like a broken record, but I can not express the following point strongly enough. To beat Obama and “his media” in 2012, our candidate MUST embrace Palin's aggressive fearless battle plan.

It has been said, only a fool brings a knife to a gunfight. Without restraint or mercy, Obama, the democrats and Obama's liberal media gang will show up at the 2012 DC fight for the White House with mega guns firing at the tea party and the republican presidential candidate.

Any republican presidential candidate who is timid due to the historical context of Obama's presidency saying, “God bless Obama's heart. He meant well, but his policies have failed” is like entering this crucial battle for our country with a butter knife. Such a restrained effort would insure political death to our side and the end of America as we know it.

Patriots, we need a fearless political gunslinging hero. And so far, our heroic pistol packin' mama is Sarah Palin.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Vice Chair, www.CampaignToDefeatObama.com