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STOP CALLING CHICAGO !
Corrupt Journalism Top Story of the Decade
Come the late October or early November 2010 stock market collapse which the present “Hindenburg Omen” readings (a hit and a near miss on August 12th and August 11th this week respectively) are pointing at . . . a lot of Keynesian economists and other leftist pundits are going to be blaming Republicans for “obstructing” the tax and spend policies of Obama-Pelosi-Reid and their cohorts. They will, of course, neglect to put even .0001% of the blame on themselves or the five great scandals they have helped perpetrate. Those five scandals and their associated sub-scandals, in order of importance now, are . . . .
1. A. The Mainstream Media Sellout to the Left
B. The Mainstream Media Redefining “Racism”
2. A. Cloward-Piven Strategy Undercutting the economy and the consitution
B. Housing and Stock Market Abuses Going Unexamined
3. Progressives hijacking the Democratic Party
4. Republican Party Abandoning Conservativism, while Some
embrace Progressivism
5. Voting Fraud institutionalized in Motor Voter Act
If a TRUE story of the hijinks of the early 21st Century ever gets written, the failings and corruption of America’s “fourth estate” (the journalism profession) will prove to be the major cause of America’s woes. It’s been a long time coming, but the first key indicators were the widely disparate treatment of Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings and the unsubstantiated sexual harrassment claims of Anita Hill on the one hand; and the virtual free ride given Bill Clinton considering the well-documented (tapes and blue dress, for instance) sexual shenanigans and Clinton’s eventual admitted confession that he lied to the American people.
In the one case, a good man’s reputation was outrageously trashed by the media and particularly the feminist reporters and commentators without one shred of evidence. In addition, the alleged victim was a lawyer who had the wherewithal to protect herself had even one of the charges she raised been true and a woman who had deliberately followed Clarence Thomas from one job to another.
In the other case a man with a history of covering up his nasty little philanderings (even with state troopers helping him find mousy unassertive women without the benefit of education or status) who was elected by “the soccer moms,” was not attacked and his integrity was never questioned (even after admitting to the lie) by the mainsteam media (MSM), most particularly the feminist reporters while the total lack of stories requiring comment from the National Organization for Women or other feminists was astounding.
Of course two months ago we discover the JournOList scandal where 400+ individuals on a special server were communicating strategies to boost the Democratic party and slam conservatives of all ilk. The mainstream media, naturally enough, did NOT cover this JournOList scandal in their own midst that had been ongoing for at least 12 years in which feminists in the media deliberately “bit their tongue” about Bill and Monica . . . where over 400 liberal journalists, academicians and media personnel conspired to downplay the Reverend Jeremiah Wright “Not ‘God Bless America,” but God Damn America” scandal and to seek stories of “Republican racism” as a diversion to make the story go away.
We also find out that this group had been conspiring since 2007 to make Barack Obama president, even to the total ignorance of a string of stories that showed that Hillary Clinton was cheated out of the presidency by fraudulent tactics that won Obama 13 of the 14 caucus states after losing a majority of the 44 primary voting states (some states had both a caucus and voting) including voting states Hillary Clinton had won by comfortable margins.
The media conspired to give us an Obama presidency and they’re now conspiring to make him look good and get him and his supporters re-elected. For example, in the Shirley Sherrod story, the leftist MSM tried without evidence to paint the problem child of the story as FOX news’ racist commentators (the timeline of events refutes that) while they’ve deliberately refused to cover a much more important story . . . did Barack Obama (and Sherrod?) conspire to defraud the country out of a good part of $1.25 Billion in the Pigford v. Glickman class action suit revived by then candidate Barack Obama. In that suit alleging racial discrimination by the Department of Agriculture, Sherrod got the largest award ($13 Million); and Obama appears to have multiplied the number of claimants to 86,000. Since the census shows we have at most 39,000 Black farmers and since its extraordinarily unlikely that even all of those 39,000 applied to the Ag Dept for a loan or felt they were discriminated in the process . . . Obama has a lot of explaining to do, but the media is not holding his feet to the fire.
Americans still blame conservatives and particularly George Bush for the financial collapse of 2007 to present. Don’t be shocked, but the liberal media has refused to cover . . . .
ITEM: What is this “community organizer” thing, anyway? Saul Alinsky was the most well-known community organizer, one of his famous quotes from his book “Rules for Radicals” is this one, “"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that ‘all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists.’ From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism."
ITEM: Perhaps six percent of Americans know who Saul Alinsky is and perhaps 55% of those in the know are MSM journalists, for example on the day following our last Christmas, just five days after affirming on air that he is “a liberal,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews exclaimed that radical community organizer Saul Alinsky is one of his heroes, “Well, to reach back to one of our heroes from the past, from the ’60s, Saul Alinsky once said that even though both sides have flaws in their arguments and you can always find something nuanced about your own side you don’t like and it’s never perfect, you have to act in the end like there’s simple black and white clarity between your side and the other side or you don’t get anything done. “I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused,” Matthews said on his “Hardball” show. In other words, one of the most powerful journalists in America, chooses sides and aligns himself with radical leftism in the person of self-avowed Marxist Saul Alinsky. But, for the most part, this “taking sides” is hidden and more insiduous, they never let you know that they want the Left to win.
ITEM: the MSM hasn’t covered Chicago Community Organizer Saul Alinsky’s infamous book “Rules for Radicals” or Obama and Hillary Clinton being Alinsky’s “Teacher’s Pets;” or Obama teaching “Rules for Radicals” and becoming a community organizer in the Alinsky mode and an ACORN lawyer. Alinsky dedicated his book this way, ““Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
ITEM: the creation and publication of Cloward-Piven Strategy in 1964 based upon Rules for Radicals.
ITEM: The MSM has not covered George Wiley, Frances Piven and Richard Cloward creating the NWRO (the National Welfare Rights Organization) in 1968, with the express purpose of bringing the system to collapse-point and getting the Democrats to institute a National Guaranteed Income (NGI).
ITEM: Nor has the MSM covered the 1975 bankruptcy of New York City and the near bankrutpcy of New York state being crowed about by Cloward, Piven and Wiley and Cloward and Piven regretting that it didn’t bring about the NGI, advising their people to move their activism into housing and voter registration next.
ITEM: Nor has the MSM connected the dots with the creation of ACORN in accord with Alinsky and C-P models; and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 requiring mortgage companies to deliberate give bad loans; and the further expansions of CRA ’77 in ’92, twice in ’95, and the steroid version in 1998.
ITEM: Nor has the MSM allowed Americans to see ACORN attorney Barack Obama in action shaking down banks and lending organizations to make bad loans and ACORN donations.
ITEM: The MSM understands all these connections, but say nothing about who really caused the sub-prime lending crisis . . . ACORN and others who forced lending organizations to make loans to folks without jobs; to folks with abysmal credit ratings; to folks without I.D.; to people without even a rental history; and even to many illegal aliens. The related problems that arose after the sub-prime lending crisis was first noticed (November, 2003, by James Stack of Investech.com along with his “Housing Bubble” chart) were severe, but the buildup of the sub-prime problems in the decade after 1998, when the steroid version of mortgage-guarantee legislation was created, were the primary cause of 99% of our fiscal problems. And those problems were not just something that happened, they were problems created by ACORN overloading the system in C-P fashion just as the NWRO did between 1967 and 1975.
An almost equal disservice from the MSM is their new definition of “racism.”
ITEM: Take the recent case of Omar Thornton. Omar was caught on tape stealing from the company. According to the union records and testimony Omar had never alleged racism before he shot and killed nine fellow employees, all White, during a disciplinary action against him. He was prepared for his own action after hiding a pistol in his lunchbox. The liberal media took Mr. Thornton’s last words a cell phone call alleging racism as GOSPEL. Mr. Thornton added that he’d killed the people and just wished he could have killed more of them. The MSM spin was that Omar acted in justifiable counter-attack to a racist environment. Logic says that the opposite was true: angered and ashamed at being caught stealing and about to be fired, Omar made a racist attack on White co-workers. But that doesn't play in the Oval Office, for Obama and the Dems and the MSM "racism" means being against the progressive agenda, nothing more and nothing less. When a Black man is not only elected president but gets more votes from Whites than the last two presidential candidates of his party and 48% of the White vote, the "race" card needs to be torn up. When Blacks only give his White adversary 4+% of the votes, perhaps we should discuss the true definition of racism, eh?
ITEM: The recently dropped case by the Obama Department of Justice against four New Black Panthers in paramilitary uniforms, one with a billy-club, shouting threats and racial slurs at White voters and threats at one Black poll watcher at a Philadelphia voting site in November, 2008 was abhorrent. The men were caught on videotape and arrested with cause. Three were let off. The other man (who on another video-tape is yelling about “killing crackers and killing they (sic) cracker babies”) was likewise unpunished . . . his sentence? He couldn’t go to that polling spot until 2012. Wow, talk about painful punishment! Of course he’s NOT a racist.
Americans still blame conservatives and particularly George Bush for the financial collapse of 2007 to present. The liberal media has refused to cover . . . .
ITEM: Perhaps six percent of Americans know who Saul Alinsky is and perhaps 55% of those in the know are MSM journalists, for example on the day following our last Christmas, just five days after affirming on air that he is “a liberal,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews exclaimed that radical community organizer Saul Alinsky is one of his heroes, “Well, to reach back to one of our heroes from the past, from the ’60s, Saul Alinsky once said that even though both sides have flaws in their arguments and you can always find something nuanced about your own side you don’t like and it’s never perfect, you have to act in the end like there’s simple black and white clarity between your side and the other side or you don’t get anything done. “I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused,” Matthews said on his “Hardball” show. In other words, one of the most powerful journalists in America, chooses sides and aligns himself with radical leftism. But, for the most part, this “taking sides” is hidden and more insiduous, they never let you know that they want the Left to win.
ITEM: the MSM hasn’t covered Chicago Community Organizer Saul Alinsky’s infamous book “Rules for Radicals” or Obama and Hillary Clinton being Alinsky’s “Teacher’s Pets;” or Obama teaching “Rules for Radicals” and becoming a community organizer in the Alinsky mode and an ACORN lawyer. Alinsky dedicated his book this way, ““Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
ITEM: the creation and publication of Cloward-Piven Strategy in 1964 based upon Rules for Radicals.
ITEM: The MSM has not covered George Wiley, Frances Piven and Richard Cloward creating the NWRO (the National Welfare Rights Organization) in 1968, with the express purpose of bringing the system to collapse-point and getting the Democrats to institute a National Guaranteed Income (NGI).
ITEM: Nor has the MSM covered the 1975 bankruptcy of New York City and the near bankrutpcy of New York state being crowed about by Cloward, Piven and Wiley and Cloward and Piven regretting that it didn’t bring about the NGI, advising their people to move their activism into housing and voter registration next.
ITEM: Nor has the MSM connected the dots with the creation of ACORN in accord with Alinsky and C-P models; and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 requiring mortgage companies to deliberate give bad loans; and the further expansions of CRA ’77 in ’92, twice in ’95, and the steroid version in 1998.
ITEM: Nor has the MSM allowed Americans to see ACORN attorney Barack Obama in action shaking down banks and lending organizations to make bad loans and ACORN donations.
ITEM: The MSM understands all these connections, but say nothing about who really caused the sub-prime lending crisis . . . ACORN and others who forced lending organizations to make loans to folks without jobs; to folks with abysmal credit ratings; to folks without I.D.; to people without even a rental history; and even to many illegal aliens. The related problems that arose after the sub-prime lending crisis was first noticed (November, 2003, by James Stack of Investech.com along with his “Housing Bubble” chart) were severe, but the buildup of the sub-prime problems in the decade after 1998, when the steroid version of mortgage-guarantee legislation was created, were the primary cause of 99% of our fiscal problems. And those problems were not just something that happened, they were problems created by ACORN overloading the system in C-P fashion just as the NWRO did between 1967 and 1975.
How, could this happen? You ask. Well, the liberal media somewhere after the First Gulf War began openly rooting for the ultra-left or progressive wing of the Democrats and when if doubt where to find justification began calling any and all conservatives racists and anti-woman, the same strategems they and the progressives employ so successfully today. If conservatives are racists, then none of their ideas are any good since they’re all based in racism. If conservatives are racists, no decent person could ever vote for them If conservatives are all anti-woman, no woman or decent man can vote for them.
Progressives believe we must “progress” beyond the Constitution, an inadequate and out-of-touch document and as Saul Alinsky taught them, “Even when you see the weaknesses in your argument, treat it all like it’s black and white and your adversary is wrong.” In other words, the “noble” progressive ends always justify the progressive means however slimy. This strategy shifted the Democratic Party sharply right toward a radical agenda that most Americans could not identify with. The Republican Party also became a much more big-spending groups and gradually progressive Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine became more and more common.
And so we approach the single most important “midterm” election in our nation’s history and hold it, hold it, there’s one more scandal to deal with. ACORN, you see was also involved with voter registration. 32 ACORN members have been convicted of voter fraud since 2008. The state of Washington was a beautiful example. Of some 1200 ACORN registrants there, less than 50 were genuine registration of real people. Now . . . .
ITEM: The MSM has claimed that no voter intimidation involving the Black Panthers occurred and then dropped coverage of the story.
ITEM: The MSM seemingly barely knows who Julie Fernandez is.
ITEM: Obama appointee to the Department of Justice (the folks who dropped the Black Panther story), Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandez told a roomful of DOJ employees there was “Zero interest in prosecuting” cases of Black racism exercised against Whites.
ITEM: Julie Fernandez has also been quoted as another time before another large group saying the DOJ would not be investigating possible violations of the Motor Voter Act “because that would just decrease turnout.” Ms. Fernandez thinks dead voters; voters who’ve moved out of an area; illegal felons; and fraudulent voters registered by ACORN and others; ought to have as much right to vote as you and I do.
Item: The Civil Rights Commission investigating the dropping of the Black Panthers voter intimidation case has run into a stonewall. Ms. Fernandez has commanded the DOJ employees not to answer CRC subpoenas or to testify . . .
Oh, by the way, in the famous picture of Bill Clinton signing the Motor Voter Act (which conservatives rightly called "a license for voter fraud) who are the man and woman standing directly behind Mr. Clinton as he signs this weakened voting bill that Obama's not going to enforce? ** If and when America dies from one mortal blow after another, then consider the MSM willing accomplices and foul abettors of the crime.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, of course. The photo and information about what they’re wearing is found here:
Beware of the scorned ex-wife. Newt Gingrich's ex-wife (Marianne) is making all sorts of reckless claims in an effort to derail Newt's 2012 White House aspirations. This is another liberal media sponsored pack of
lies.
Newt represents all that is good about America and what is good about the Tea
Party. He's a true American and would go to great lengths to purify America.
Marianne's shameful claims are likely motivated by a liberal media paper trail.
Marianne's shameful allegations against Newt include:
Newt proposed to Marianne (she was 28, he 36) in 1980 while his first wife, Jackie, was in the hospital recovering from treatments for uterine cancer. He hadn't yet even asked her for a divorce.
Newt met Jackie in high school. She was his geometry teacher. He was sixteen,
she was 25. When he left, Jackie was nearly destitute. Jackie had to get
a court order just to pay her utility bills.
---- AND ---
Callista Bisek, Gingrich's current wife, became his mistress first and his wife second (really third, if one is counting wives), while Marianne was home visiting her mother. In 1999, Marianne
had just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Newt asked Callista to marry
him before he and Marianne had agreed to divorce. The affair had been going on
for years. Newt compared Marianne to a "Jaguar" and Callista to a
"Chevrolet" and said he needed a Chevrolet, not a Jaguar.
THESE ARE FLAT OUT LIES!!
THE COMMUNTS PARTY OF THE U.S. A.
235 W.23RD. ST. 8TH FLOOR
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PICKET !!!!
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Author: Brian D. Hill
Source: USWGO Alternative News
Investigative Journalism of possible Super Rich pushed Fraudulent schemes by Brian D. Hill. I won't allow the Fair Tax if it's anotherscheme to take more money from the middle class and the working poor. Iam tired of the super rich stealing from the people.
I had my suspicions over the Fair tax proposal because the Bilderberg's have used false messiahs, Environmentalism, incrementalism,and anything to push American citizens into socialism not to mentionanything I do to attack the fair Tax Trap gains me lots of negativecomment attacks.
So I got even more suspicions because I haven't received this many attacks since the Bilderberg Group hand picked the false messiah andpuppet Barack Obama to become the next president and many attacking meon YouTube over my anti Obama videos. So then I have decided to do alittle investigative journalism on FairTax.org and did background checkson all of the High Ups of FairTax.org.
According to my investigation Leo E. Linbeck Jr. the Founder of FairTax.org used to be apart of Duke Energy's Board of Directors and he is a past chairman and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Texas.
Now the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Texas is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks inthe Federal Reserve System. Also the Federal Reserve System is run byBilderbergers not to mention has stolen trillions of dollars and so theonly way that can be legally proven to get them indicted is to Audit theFederal Reserve System.
The fact that the Founder of the Fair Tax used to be a director of Dallas TX Federal Reserve System could mean the possibility that theFair Tax Proposal is a trap and a fraud that will only make the poorpoorer, make the super rich richer, and destroy the Middle Class.
There's also a chance this could tie the Bilderbergs into the Fair Tax Organization and it's not just Leo E. Linbeck Jr. who could beinvolved with the horrible Super Rich criminal bankers that want toenslave the world but also there is Robert C. McNair who is ranked 242 in the Forbes 400 Richest Americans. Robert who is the second founder of the Fair Tax Organization has a net worth of $1.5billion discovered on Forbes.com. Also only Billionaries can join theinner circle of the Bilderberg Group Billionaires club so there is achance since he has made a net worth of $1.5 billion then theres a verygood chance he ties into the Bilderberg group even though he is not onthe Attendee List or he could at least be a puppet.
So why would a bunch of rich elitist people want to propose the Fair Tax on all Americans? Well we know this tax won't be fair to allAmericans because anytime the super rich propose something it is onlyfor power, and greed. Also the super rich including the Bilderberg Groupwant to enslave humanity by spreading their ideals of socialism underthe guise that we will have fair pay, fair taxes, fair vacation time, adecent home, universal Health Care, and even be treated the same aseveryone else but the flaws to socialism is that as long as the superrich elite bankers control over Government then this socialism systemand taxation won't apply to them.
People keep telling me it's better to have a Fair Tax then a income tax but the super rich will again flee the requirements oftaxation as always or finds a way to sock it to the poor so in otherwords we will be charged more so the super rich can stay materialisticwhile the poor will be completely trapped on Government welfare whilethe Middle Class may be downgraded to the poor.
Also when Billionaires recommend the Fair Tax it makes me suspicious that these super rich men aren't just doing it because theywant a fair tax, they are doing it to get something in return. Obama hasalso been advocating for the Value Added tax which would be just as badif not worse then the Fair Tax where when raw materials get sold to thefactory it gets taxed then the factories sell it to the stores thengets taxed, and then sold from the stores to the consumers it gets taxedagain.
So will my investigation end, not just yet. I have also found out the Howard W. Horne, Sr. the director of FairTax.org is also a George W. Bush supporter according to Intelius. Also George W. Bush plus the Bush Family is at the heart of the Military Industrial Complex and the New World Order.
Also Allen C. King according to LinkedIn is under the industry of Venture Capital & Private Equity.
This is what Private Equity means:
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. Investments in private equity most often involve either an investment of capital into an operating company or the acquisition of an operating company. Capital for private equity is raised primarily from institutional investors. There is a wide array of types and styles of private equity and theterm private equity has different connotations in different countries.[1]
Among the most common investment strategies in private equity include leveraged buyouts, venture capital, growth capital, distressed investments and mezzanine capital. In a typical leveraged buyout transaction, the private equity firmbuys majority control of an existing or mature firm. This is distinctfrom a venture capital or growth capital investment, in which theprivate equity firm typically invests in young or emerging companies,and rarely obtain majority control.
So are there Billionaires and serious business money makers interested in the Fair Tax? Well there has to be a larger benefit thenloss when the Fair tax is enforced because a business is never supposeto make poor business decisions. Businessmen, especially an elitist aswell as Bilderbergs, is suppose to always gain more then loses. Abusinessman is suppose to gain as much profits as possible so whatsprofitable with the Fair Tax? well for one thing they can circumvent itby traveling across the border into Canada or Mexico to purchaseanything without being taxed and then avoid the Income tax as well.
So people for the Fair tax were wrong and I am not a liar because the Fair Tax is a way the Super Rich won't have to pay taxes ever againbecause they can purchase goods from other countries and then won't haveto pay income taxes since the IRS will be abolished so in other wordspeople like me that can't afford to keep going across the border will beforced to pay more heavy taxes every time I go shopping.
So is this a way of the super rich making the poor poorer? You Bet!
Could the Fair Tax Organization be run by a Bilderberg Group member or puppet? Highly likely!
What proof do I have? Well I did investigative Journalism and source links are below as well as links within the article.
Why only super rich businessmen? Does this mean the poor are again being strung along like labmice to support another legal theft of thepoor and middle class by the super rich and powers that be.
Source Links:
#242 Robert C McNair - Forbes.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/25/BAP01EIKK2.DTL
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html
Did Shirley Sherrod, Barack Obama
Lead $1.25 Billion Fraud?
There was once a thought that the 1997 legal case Pigford v. Glickman might someday rival the famous Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka as an example of institutional and systemic racial discrimination finally refuted by the courts. Indeed the junior Illinois senator, pushing the reincarnation of the case in 2007, was purportedly sure to get a big boost from the case in his run for the presidency . . . but today . . . matters seem a little bit murkier.
Discussing a recent high-profile instance of supposed “racism,” Black political blogger Willie Brown of the famous “Willie’s World,” blog apparently agrees with Rajjpuut’s assessment in a recent blog that Shirley Sherrod is a sewer, ‘er “suer” . . . Mr. Brown put it like this, “ . . . you don't fire someone without at least hearing their side of the story unless you want them gone in the first place. This woman has been a thorn in the side of the Agriculture Department for years. She was part of a class-action lawsuit against the department on behalf of black farmers in the South. For years, she has been operating a community activist organization not unlike ACORN. I think there were those in the Agriculture Department who objected to her being hired in the first place.”
Actually, Willy, “thorn in the side” doesn’t quite say it all: you see, Shirley Sherrod and her husband received the single largest payoff, $13 Million, in the Pigford v. Glickman lawsuit. She was definitely a leader among the claimants which won their suit against the Ag Dept. for racism shown by the department’s supposedly continual policy of denying loans and lines of credit to Black farmers. Eight years after Shirley’s big payday, the revival of Pigford v. Glickman by former ACORN lawyer, Barack Obama, resulted in 86,000 claims for a total of $1.25 Billion dollars in payouts an average of $14,500 per farmer. Only one problem, the census in 2000 showed far fewer than 40,000 Black farmers in the entire country.
That amounts to less than half the 86,000 claims in the class action suit. How likely is it that all 39,000 of them joined the suit and averaged 2 1/3 claims each against the Ag Dept . . . when you add in the fact that the case was settled quietly without the media even knowing about it and that monstrous $1.25 Billion settlement makes one wonder if the “fix was in,” Mr. Obama. Of course, Ms. Sherrod’s successful claim amounted to almost $1,000 times the size of the average claim so that just one of the 86,000 claimants received 1% of all the money awarded. Like so much in this administration, here’s just one more matter that begs to be investigated by an independent counsel . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
A Mortal Wound for America and Americans?
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/08/03/if-only-barack-hoover-obama-was-barack-harding-obama/
The worst has happened . . . the 10th Amendment, the most important and unappreciated of our Bill of Rights, may have just been beheaded and America as we know it KILLED. Does Rajjpuut exaggerate? You be the judge . . . .
While Boobus Americanus could NOT be bothered to leave his sitcoms and reality shows and pay attention to the needs of America, the Obama to Pelosi to Reid dance with the devil just fired potentially the final shot of the WAR going on right in front of Boobus Americanus’s eyes and potentially won that war to institute a communist-like socialism upon America. Here’s what happened:
Patriotic and informed Americans thought we had at least a month to relax because the tax-and-spend-and-bend-and-urinate-on-the-Constitution-and American-tradition-parade was ended while congress went on summer vacation. But no, suddenly, Harry Reid found himself voluminously and astoundedly thanking the two Maine** Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for betraying you, betraying the Constitution and our founding fathers and betraying America . . . for betraying America, perhaps to death . . . . it’s a short story but extremely ugly. Miraculously (ugh) a $26 Billion spending bill was passed in the Senate. If you ever thought that progressives (“we must progress beyond the outdated and imperfect U.S. Constitution”) were just “well-intentioned” blundering idiots who really did love America the Republic born in 1776, think again. This bill, sent back to the House (once Pelosi rallied the troops back from their vacations) for quick approval and back even more quickly to the Senate (officially, only the House can originate spending bills) before heading to Obama’s desk . . . does three despicable things:
1) It raises a minimum of $45 million dollars for unions to immediately bring to the rescue of Democrats running for office this November. Nifty how that works out, eh, your tax dollars and your DEBT are financing the election of Democrats who’ve spent the last nineteen months undermining everything patriotic Americans have believed in for the last 234 years . . . but that’s just the tip of the icing on the cake to mangle a few appropriate metaphors . . . .
2) It does potentially provide some money for a very few teachers etc. that would have lost their jobs in 47 states (IF state governments decided they’d rather fire essential workers than get rid of non-essential wasteful spending in their budgets). Mostly it’s a bailout for California, Michigan and New York so that their fiscal stupidity won’t be punished and the other 47 states will be punished instead. So it rewards three states that ran themselves into bankruptcy and penalizes 47 other states . . . but that’s not so bad . . . .
3) Most importantly, it does indeed potentially behead the 10th Amendment of the United States by FORCING all fifty states to act irresponsibly and against the best interests of themselves and their citizens for the next several years and instead willing bankrupt themselves, because . . . here’s the rub . . . states who take part of this new bailout money will be forbidden by the provisions of the $26 Billion bailout bill itself from reducing their state budgets in coming years . . . that is, they will be forbidden from saving themselves from bankruptcy by the sensible measure of reducing spending.
Now Boobus Americanus doesn’t get it, but you, the loyal Rajjpuut reader already smell a huge rat don’t you? Economies are saved from severe financial collapse in states and at the federal level when one of two things happens: the country goes to war^^ (WWII provided 16 million jobs effectively ending$$ the Great Depression); or somebody gets the great idea of simultaneously cutting spending and cutting taxes.
History has several good examples for us of what’s works and what fails miserably. The link at the top and bottom of this blog will give you the ugly details . . . in a nutshell@@, however: When government gets involved economic downturns, turn sharply downward and endure much longer. When government gets out of the way (taxes are cut, government spending is slashed or both) economic slumps disappear.
So this bill prevents states who receive this money from acting sensibly. Why in hell, would anyone pass such a law? It’s our old friend Cloward-Piven&& Strategy.
You remember C-P, the “we can fundamentally transform into socialism by creating crises to undermine the capitalist system” strategy . . . the strategy Cloward, Piven, and George Wiley bragged about using when a manufactured welfare crisis bankrupted New York City in 1975 (it took them eight years) and almost bankrupted the entire state of New York. You remember, the strategy that created ACORN and set them about using poorly thought out mortgage guarantee legislation to undermine the country by creating the sub-prime lending crisis (that took them thirty years) that almost bankrupted the nation, but did get their own ACORN lawyer and Saul Alinsky activist Barack Obama voted into the Oval Office). And, of course, loyal Rajjpuut readers know that when the NWRO bankruptcy of New York City worked, Cloward and Piven and Wiley called for moving into housing and voter registration.
What? You forgot about voter registration? In 2006, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in Washington state. All but six of the names submitted were bogus. The secretary of state called it the "worst case of election fraud in our state's history."
According to Fox News, “ACORN workers told state investigators they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms.”
ACORN explained this was an "isolated" incident, yet similar stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Colorado — all swing states by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a number of states.
But now the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a clear voter intimidation suit against the black panthers and Obama appointee (Deputy Attorney General) Julie Fernandez has instructed a roomful of DOJ employees not to prosecute Black on White hate crimes or voter intimidation; and not to involve themselves at all with violations of the Motor Voter Act. Are we starting to get the picture here? Let’s wrap it up.
What’s going on? The most important and least understood and appreciated of the Bill of Rights amendments, the 10th Amendment has just had its legs cut out from under it. States who take the money are forbidden from exercising fiscal responsibility. Short of almost immediately tens of thousands of Boobus Americanuses and TEA Party folks demonstrating on their own State Capitol steps demanding that their own state legislators REFUSE their part of the $26 Billion . . . short of that and short of that strategy succeeding in about 37-38 states . . . the deepest and most lethal wound so far from the progressive dagger has just been inflicted.
In addition, the most crucial election in American History since the Civil War is coming in November and the DOJ has just told its employees to ignore enforcement of the ultra-weak (yep, that was Richard Cloward and Frances Piven standing right behind Bill Clinton in the 1993 picture when he signed the Motor Voter Act into law) Motor Voter Act that conservatives in ’93 called a “license to commit voter fraud.” So your vote in November is liable to be cancelled out and superseded by votes from the dead, duplicate voters, illegal felons, and other fraudulent voters . . . are we happy now?
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** It sounds “noble” doesn’t it? Saving the jobs of teachers, firefighters, etc. (and Obama’s successfully used that ploy upon taxpayers nine different times) . . . but the devil is, as always in the details. That $26 Billion will incidentally dramatically increase the war chests of the teachers’, firefighters’, etc.’s UNIONS and that money will immediately funnel to the Democrats that UNIONS support 100% and hit the air waves to save the real jobs, Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan to save . . . those of Democratic congressmen. OUCH!
Virtually all of the misery since Republican Scott Brown’s election to the Senate seat once owned by Ted Kennedy has come from the failure of three “Republicans” (Brown himself and the two Maine senators) to actually read and understand the proposals that Harry Reid was presenting in the Senate. Instead of standing strong with the Republican filibuster, one or two or all of this threesome joined Reid to pass some monstrous-sized evil bill forcing greater government and greater debt upon us. It started with Obamacare and continued to the new $26 Billion bailout.
In each case, since February, a big-government big-debt bill whose real purpose had nothing in common with the noble-sounding name of the bill was stymied by a Republican filibuster and America was far, far better off because of it . . . and then, oops, one or more of this triumvirate caved in and the country was stabbed in the chest.
^^Yes, yes we know . . . this is the “Broken Window Fallacy” hiding under the “Blessing of Destruction” disguise . . . .
http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html
http://jim.com/econ/chap01p1.html
http://jim.com/econ/chap03p1.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/broken-window.html
And, yes, besides all the human misery WAR brings, there is a huge economic downside, even for the victors. But the fact, is that, before you get into all the 75-80 evils of war and the 20-21 economic evils of wars . . . it does tend to solve unemployment (regardless of the litany of other evils that ensue)! Rajjpuut is guessing, Mr. Obama won’t be using that ploy anytime soon, however.
$$ There was, indeed, a speculative bubble which burst nastily, but the real damage from the simple panic that hit Wall Street in October, 1929, was created by the reactions of the two progressives Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt that turned a simple recession into a 12+ year Great Depression. Months earlier Hoover immediately upon taking office had proven himself the greatest “economic tinkerer” in American History when he abandoned the low tax, low spend policies of Harding and Coolidge (he assumed office upon Harding’s death) which ended the “Invisible Depression” of Wilson very quickly and set about with social re-engineering. The economy was definitely NOT broken when Hoover became president, but he proceeded to fix it . . . .
FDR’s campaign painted Hoover as a socialist for all his government interference and government spending and promised to return to the successful recipe of Harding-Coolidge and dramatically cut taxes and cut government spending. In any case the economy was rebounding in July 1933 before FDR’s own interference set things spinning badly the other way. Among other measures, FDR created 40 new government agencies (Obamacare, one law, created 390 new agencies just this year); and he confiscated all American gold; then a few months later the gold he’d confiscated at $20.76 an ounce was proclaimed worth $35.00 an ounce, effectively stealing 61% of the America’s private wealth and putting it into the government’s hands.
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/08/03/if-only-barack-hoover-obama-was-barack-harding-obama/
@@ Some of this is repetition, but here’s the history of the last 93 years of severe American recessions-Depressions . . .
A. Progresssive Woodrow Wilson’s “Invisible Depression” was handed off to Warren G. Harding but (despite Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover’s insistence upon draconian interference measures) simply dried up and blew away when Harding did three things, he paid down the debt 33%; he cut taxes and cut government spending. Notably the cuts in taxes and spending were between 45-49%.
B. Coolidge continued Harding’s policies and boom times resulted
C. Coolidge chose “not to run” and Hoover was elected and immediately began fixing the economy with higher taxes, higher spending and the creation of a whole litany of new government agencies. The Wall Street bubble burst, a financial panic ensued and Hoover (despite the lies of progressive historians who say he did nothing and just fiddled while the economy “burned”) ran around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to intervene in any way possible to stop the bleeding (you have heard of the Hoover Dam, eh?
D. FDR after promising to follow the Harding-Coolidge model made Hoover look like a thumbsucker and nine more years of bad times ensued ended finally by WWII.
E. In more recent times, the stock market collapse of 1973-74 was actually proving rather benign because the whole country was consumed by Watergate and almost no government interference took place. Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford introduced Draconian measures which along with the inflationary policies of the Viet Nam era caused prices to rise across the board. Ford is given the boot (more for pardoning Nixon then anything economically) and inflation got worst under Jimmy Carter (who among other things gave us the Community Reinvestment Act, CRA ’77 which started us on the path to four more mortgage-guarantee expansions and our 2007 collapse) and then much worse and became “stagflation” a stagnant economy during an inflation. Reagan is elected.
F. Reagan with the Democratic congress cuts taxes like madmen. Eventually 20 million new jobs are created and inflation and stagnation are ended. Not a pure example because Reagan wanted his military buildup and the Dems wanted their social programs buildup so spending was high . . . but taxes were cut deeply and the economy boomed.
&&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/acorn_obama_and.html
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2009/01/barack-obama-and-strategy-of.html
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/08/03/if-only-barack-hoover-obama-was-barack-harding-obama/
Title: 1958 SBA 8(a) Program Responded to America’s Melting Pot - Economic World Small Business Ownership Diversity
Outlandish Federal Government Spending and Budget Deficits
In the early and late 60's an upstanding gentleman from Illinois, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, commented on budget authorizations and appropriations before him by saying’ ‘Billion Here, Billion There and There; and after awhile IT'S some REAL MONEY’. Now, It is a Bail Out Trillion Here, There and Anywhere the Far Left Can Buy Voters.
The National Debt is a BAD deal for TAXPAYERS’, Children and Grandchildren. IT’S REAL MONEY; and IT IS NOW GOING TO BE THE FAR LEFT BASIS OF THEIR LONG TEAR POWER.
Recently, I reviewed the Congressional Research Service (CRS) 1958 SBA (a) Program Report, and have presented this economic development issue to local groups and congressional associates. I look forward to your review of this economic development issue. I believe that resolving this economic development issue is directly in line and on track with Congressional Republican action planning to get our economic system going and growing to achieve our National Prosperity and Personal Self Esteem and Objectives. I hope that you see it the same way and we can meet with Congressman and Senators on these economic development issues.
Economic Development Issue:
1958 SBA 8(a) Program Responds to America’s Economic Melting Pot Diversity
In the original 1958 SBA Section 8(a), the SBA subcontracting authority was not limited to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged. It was the 1978 amendment that gave the 8(a) Program a minority business focus. Now, the government allows sons, daughters, and other family members of minority owned 8(a) businesses to become socially and economically disadvantaged owners of 8(a) Program small businesses. It hasn’t occurred to government and SBA regulation makers and approvers that after the millions of dollars the owners acquired in the nine (9) years of 8(a) program operations, their sons. daughters and other family members are no longer socially and economically disadvantaged. If this is not stopped, it will continue to expand the Federal government’s separate and unequal treatment of many current and new American Small Businesses.
We need to change back from the1978 exclusive, separate, and unequal ethnic and racial business operations to the 1958 SBA Act Inclusive operational support for any and all of America’s small business 8(a) participation. We also have sons, daughters, and grandchildren who need to fully participate as small business owners and professionals. Their SBA 8(a) Program participation in the growth and development of our much needed economic and financial world employment opportunities is demanded now.
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1958 SBA 8 (a) PROGRAM BACKGROUND:
In the 50’s, the Federal government recognized the contributions being made by the American Melting Pot of people with diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds that were developing a strong and growing nation-wide economic system. The Private and Public Business Sectors were productively engaged in producing and distributing goods and services for domestic and international markets that provided Economic and Financial World Business and Employment Opportunities for all Americans.
“The Congress first authorized a federal agency to enter into prime contracts with other agencies and subcontract with small businesses for the performance of these contracts in 1942” “The Small Business Administration (SBA) Act of 1958 transformed SBA into a permanent independent agency with subcontracting authority included in Section 8(a) of the act.” Under the legislative language, the Small Business Agency could subcontract with Any Small Business concern for Section 8(a) Program (2) set-asides and sole source and (3) related matters government business opportunities.", (see CRS) This legislative language was not exclusive. The 1958 legislation describes the diversity of small business ownerships- not just small businesses owned and controlled by only socially and economically disadvantaged.
Initially, SBA started implementing the 1958 Act with Presidential Executive Orders that were using small businesses to help improve employment opportunities of “Negros, Spanish-Americans, Orientals, Indians, Jews, Puerto Ricans, etc “. SBA offered the loan programs to any participating small business; and began using the SBA Section 8(a) subcontracting authority.
The 1958 SBA Act did not give SBA Statutory authority to change its focus from any small business participation in the 8(a) program to an only minority owned business participation focus. However the 1966 urban riots and later Vietnam War protests, Dr King and B. Kennedy assassinations and riots cause a 1978 amendment to the 1958 SBA Act. The 1978 amendment to the 1958 SBA Act provides that the SBA can only subcontract under Section 8(a) with “socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns”.
This 1978 amendment language excludes a group of American Small Businesses that were included under the 1958 SBA Act as participants in the 8(a) Program. As a result, SBA Small Business Operations began providing separate and unequal services to small businesses that were owned by people of Western and Eastern Europe ethnic and racial backgrounds. This 1978 Amendment does not provide the American Melting Pot, which is a full diversity of ethnic and racial backgrounds, to get out of the current man made economic recession and rebuild a strong and growing nation-wide economic system.
Ref: Congressional Research Services Report, The“8(a) Program” for Small Businesses,’ May 18, 2010
PROPOSED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE RESOLUTION
As the 1958 Small Business Act legislatively proscribes, any American Small Business Owner is considered for participation in the SBA 8(a) Program. We are asking for inclusion in this Government Business Opportunities Environment. The Original 1958 Act defined “Full Ownership Diversity” as including ‘Any Ethnic and Racial Small Business Owners’ Participation in the 8(a) Program’.
We, the Melting Pot of American Citizens and Taxpayers, fully participated in building and defending this country's economic system and international markets in the 50's, 60's and through 2010. We Care about, Contribute, Campaign and Vote for nation-wide economic growth and prosperity. Please let us know what you think about this economic development issue; and what you see as the possible next political action steps.
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August 17th is a special state Senate election in a runoff between John Laird (D) and Sam Blakeslee (R). Laird has recently been endorsed by Obama, and if Laird wins, the Democrats would be within one vote of the two-thirds majority they need in the state Senate to approve tax increases and the state budget. Over the last 19 months, we have witnessed what happens when there is no balance of power.
CALIF. PRIMARY REMINDER: LAIRD ENDORSED BY OBAMA VS. BLAKESLEE AUG. 17th
Every vote counts in this closely run liberal California District 15.
Author: Brian D. Hill
Source: USWGO Alternative News
Remember when I believed I was hacked on Alternet and even asked facebook users to send polite emails asking Alternet torestore USWGO. Well now facebook took down my event that was askingpeople to send polite emails and also Alternet ended up attacking mynext account titled UswgoLives.
So now I know this hack was deliberate and that now Alternet is engaging in active censorshipagainst different political viewpoints and then claims that the users have elected to delete their entire accounts worth of data.
This was a screenshot I taken from my UswgoLives Alternet Account:
So it's official, even with many facebook friends public support toemailing Alternet to restore my posts, USWGO has been officiallycensored by Alternet and they masked it as a hack.
Also the entire Alternet page has been transformed into an Obama propaganda siteworking for the offshore elite bankers. You can tell they have totallytransformed Alternet into an Obamanation piece of sh*t:
Just like all other Obama run WebPages it talks only about the elite pushedpropaganda illusions of talking about the GOP, the usual Sarah Palinis evil, democrats are wonderful, republicans are evil, left right wingparadigm propaganda, and even promotes Change.org even though they refused to allow me to have a petitionon their website demanding that the 9/11 commission shouldre-investigate 9/11 while they were okay with banning offshore drillingto force America to be completely dependent on unreliable and foreignoil.
What scares me is that after people foolishly vote Republicans back in Political Office, Alternet will temporarily let meback on their website months later just to pull the same stunt to getpeople to re-vote democrats like We The People are becomingstupid hamsters running on hamster wheels till we die and will keepvoting in Bilderberg covered political parties.
This means that the truth will be forever censored, the war against blogs is stillcontinuing, and Alternet will be favor of Pro Obama, Pro Socialist, ProFair Tax, Pro Cap and Trade, and even Pro left right paradigm.
Alternet is a tax deductible nonprofit organization that has apparently becomeanother one of Obama’s Boys, another Bilderberg sponsored Coup-da-ta,that favors Big Governments controlling every facet of human life andenergy, and Free Trade doesn't exist anymore.
The WebSites the elite have taken over and taken control of before Alternet are:
- Yahoo
- CNN
- MSNBC
- Myyearbook
- RonPaulForums
- and thousands of other widely popular websites that may attract negativeattention against the elite and may start raids against the Bilderbergorganization.
AlterNet’s censorship will be a major blow since USWGO Statistics software says that lots of visitors thatdiscover the truth on USWGO has came from USWGO Articles mirrored onAlternet.org.
So if more and more sites such as Alternet will cater to Obama then the Bilderberg’s will be able to shut down prettymuch any Free Speech anywhere online since the Government factions andBilderberg’s can hide behind private entities they have the right totake down anything against the New World Order. The War on Free Speechis getting even more intense because the elite (Demons) know their timeto rule the world is short so they continue to harass and desolate thetruther protesters.
Freedom of Speech is in its last days...
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/08/03/if-only-barack-hoover-obama-was-barack-harding-obama/
Boobus Americanus Understanding Little
Believes History’s Biggest Lies,
Do We Need a Negative Stimulus Package?
The great cynical journalist H.L. Mencken often talked about that utterly strange creature he called “Boobus Americanus.” Mencken would be greatly heartened to know that in this era of “endangered species” Boobus Americanus has multiplied twenty-fold thanks to cross-breeding with Couch-us Potat-us Americanus and Sitcomus Addictus. Here are four great myths from the 20th Century spread by Progressive historians (“we must progress beyond the outdated ill-conceived Constitution”) and Progressive politicians . . . myths that Boobus Americanus believes with all his heart and soul.
I. Progressive Woodrow Wilson was one of our greatest presidents
II. Warren G. Harding was one of the worst presidents and a crook
III. Herbert Hoover, who did nothing to head off the Great Depression, was a conservative who “fiddled like Nero while Rome burned.”
IV. Progressive Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our greatest president and he saved us from the Great Depression.
Here are the facts:
A. Democrat Progressive Woodrow Wilson was, among other failings, a racist who premiered D.W. Griffiths’ racist classic “Birth of a Nation” in the White House and instigated segregation in government hiring from the White House. He was also our first true tax-and-spend President. He left behind a much worse recession than G.W. Bush did. He also wrote a history of America that called into question virtually everything noble about the country and the founding fathers. He was definitely a progressive and tried to change history to move things more along the progressive path with much greater government size and control of our lives. As Wilson’s last year, 1920, ticked away the economic situation was grim . . . unemployment had jumped from 4% to 12% and GDP dipped 17%. It would get worse.
B. Things got so bad that new president Warren G. Harding’s Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover (falsely characterized as a do-nothing laissez-faire conservative) urged Harding to consider a huge array of interventions in order to turn the economy around. Harding ignored Hoover and calmly paid down the national debt by 33%.
Harding facing a GDP drop of about 25% because of Wilson’s policies, also cut taxes and spending both between 45%-49% and the recesssion became known as the “Invisible Depression” because it ended within 15 months. Indeed within six months signs of recovery were already visible. In 1922, unemployment was back to 6.7% and had dropped to 2.4% by 1923. His vice president Calvin Coolidge continued Harding’s policies and the resulting “Roaring 20’s” was the single most prosperous decade in American history as the standard of living rose dramatically. For the first time Americans in large numbers owned automobiles, indoor plumbing, electric lighting, and appliances like the ice box and radio and took yearly vacations. The Teapot Dome scandal that’s been blamed on Harding by the Progressive historians occurred after his death and was created by fraudulent dealings initiated by his Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
C. Hoover, who replaced Coolidge in 1928, was a Republican Progressive and up until FDR was the most interfering president in American History. Almost as soon as he took office he abandoned the business friendly policies of Harding and Coolidge and jumped in to interfere in agriculture and business. To be specific:
Hoover . . . .
1) increased taxes on top wage earners from 25% to 63%
2) increased government spending by 47%
3) ran a deficit of 4.5% of GDP
4) against the wishes of over 1000 economists, he signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, effectively shutting down international trade
5) established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to the state governments
6) appropriated money for public works construction (Hoover Dam among others)
7) met with major industry leaders and put significant pressure on them to maintain wages at current levels, despite the amount of money in the economy falling by one-third. This led, predictably, to massive unemployment thanks to those first wage controls in American history.
8) the myth or misconception of Hoover’s non-interference gets so absurd it’s almost unbelievable. The truth is diametrically opposed to that myth, for example, during the 1932 campaign, Franklin Roosevelt’s first vice president, John Garner, accused Herbert Hoover of “leading the country down the path of socialism.” Furthermore, FDR brain-truster, Rexford Tugwell admitted that, “most of what (Hoover) began would be taken over by Roosevelt and renamed the “New Deal.”
D. Progressive Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigned against virtually everything Hoover did. He promised to return to the policies of Harding and Coolidge (low taxes, low spending and non-interference), but once elected continued Hardings policies with a vengeance. Higher taxes, much higher spending. He also confiscated gold and then soon changed the exchange rate from $21.76 per ounce of gold to $35 per ounce, effectively robbing all savers and investors of 61% of the value of their holdings. FDR made even Hoover’s interference look like penny-ante stuff . . . among other things he created 40 brand new federal agencies. Far from saving the country from the depression, he and his policies turned a little ‘d’ depression into the Great Depression which the rest of the world suffering a little ‘d’ depression avoided. In fact, except for the outbreak of World War II, almost nine years after he was first elected, the Great Depression showed no signs of ceasing under FDR.
E. Just for comparison, Barack Obama is making Hoover and Roosevelt both look like pikers. Imagine this, in just one law (Obamacare), Obama has created more than 385 brand new government agencies about ten times what FDR did in 12+ years . . . in just one law. And, of course, like Hoover and FDR, Obama is raising taxes, raising spending, raising deficits, and raising the national debt while doing nothing about unemployment.
So what’s to be learned now that real history’s been unearthed? Well, the very first time (under Hoover and FDR) that government involved itself seriously in intervening to stop an economic downturn . . . just happens to coincide with the onset of the greatest downturn of all . . . almost as if government interference made things much worse, do you think? In comparison Harding 12 years earlier did what any sensible family or business would do in hard times . . . took in the belt a few extra notches. According to the Cato Institute:
“Harding inherited (Woodrow) Wilson’s mess—in particular, a post–World War I depression that was almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933 that FDR would later inherit. The estimated gross national product plunged 24 percent from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million to 4.9 million.”
So what did Harding do? He cut government spending from $6.3 billion in 1920, to $5 billion in 1921, and then again to $3.2 billion in 1922. This would amount to a negative stimulus package! Income taxes were left as is and corporate taxes were cut. There was no push for new regulations and the Federal Reserve did nothing.
What was the result of Harding’s negative stimulus package? By 1922, unemployment was down to 6.7% and the Roaring Twenties had begun. The economy set new production records year after year until the infamous Black Tuesday on October 29th, 1929 created by Hoover’s profligate policies.
Of course the Progressive historians have altered the facts significantly and made FDR a hero and Harding a villain. And befuddled by their own histories, they’ve made all the wrong conclusions over and over and over again and the country enamored of the false-legacy of FDR has eagerly joined them . . . .
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
My friend Tish Gance forwarded me the following which explains perfectly how false history comes to dominate our reality . . . .
Monkeys --
Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string
and place a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another Monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the snot out of him. After another attempt and attack,
he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked.
The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs
OR even why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Finally, after replacing all of the
original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not?
Because as far as they know, that is the way it has always been done around here.
And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates -
And precisely why we need to REPLACE all the original monkeys this November
If you think a government run economy is better, you are not keeping up with the latest news.
What are God-given rights? What does "in God we trust" mean? Is there a "Higher Law" that backs the U. S. Constitution? Your present government is doing everything it can to see that you do not know your God-given rights, or that you should trust God or your Constitution. We are free to do what government wants us to do--sacrifice our rightful existence to income redistribution. For the good of all comes down to the end justifies the means; that is, your government's means of owning you, whatever your race.
America is now as divided as she was prior to the Civil War. A house divided soon falls. America's greatest enemy of freedom is Amereica's own government.
Bill Ayers, Ghostwriter for
Obama’s ‘Dreams from My Father,’
Still Angry with Obama and MSM
Well over a year ago the long-suspected fact that Bill^^ Ayers, the Weather Underground bomb planter, edited; and also wrote great portions of Obama’s first autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” was made official in a book by Christopher Anderson, “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.” It was also revealed at that time that Bill Ayers was angry with Obama for not forwarding his share of the royalties and not acknowledging his efforts; and ultra-angry with the mainstream media (MSM) for not giving him coverage for his “well-deserved” anger.
The same Obama-praising and Obama-protecting media which has long refused to cover stories harmful to the president or his administration has, a year later, still not covered the tiff between Ayers and Obama; not reported on Ayers’ authorship of the book; barely covered the existence of the book at all; and certainly not vetted the book which strongly hints at Barak (no ‘c’) Hussein Obama, Sr.’s (his father’s) vehement communism and how it got him thrown out of Kenya’s socialistic government as a radical. Naturally they MSM has not hinted that in the matter of “Dreams from My Father,” the Dreams from our president’s father clearly included 100% taxation, confiscation of foreign businesses by Kenya, confiscation of private property, redistribution of wealth from Kenya’s White and Asian populace to their Blacks, frced governmental control of key businesses, etc., etc., ad nauseum . . . .
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
Anderson confirmed the fact that Ayers gave Obama “considerable help” in writing; and actually edited “Dreams from My Father.” “Michelle asked Ayers, a family friend, to help Barack with the book after first telling Barack he needed to get Ayers’ help,” according to Anderson’s best-seller. The close relationship between Ayers and Barack came up in several places in the book which also revealed a few times when Barack’s ambition seemed on the verge of destroying the marriage; how Michelle decided it must be Sotomayor nominated for the Supreme Court; Michelle’s extreme jealousy related to a female campaign worker; and that with deadline looming, Ayers received a bit of “finished writing” a huge compilation of notes and tape recorded material and taped interviews of African relatives, and several sections of partial manuscript . . . in short a mess . . . which he than rather expertly turned into the President’s first autobiography.
Anderson, who’s written books on the Bush Family, the Kennedy’s and other polical notables said that Obama took his wife’s advice and got Ayers’ help “. . . they were friends and had worked on various projects together, it was no secret.”
Ayers, who helped in the first effort at bombing a statue in Chicago (for the purpose of “inflicting police casulties”) has, after a long initial silence on the matter told several media people, “Yes, I wrote “Dreams from My Father, I ghostwrote the the whole thing. I met with (Obama) three or four times and then I wrote the entire book. And now I would like the royalties.” That complaint is still heard from Ayers today and still ignored by the MSM.
Anderson in his book said, “in the end Ayers’ contribution . . . would be significant . . . so much that the book’s language, oddly specific references, literary devices and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers’ own writing.” Certainly the subtle but never absent connection to Barak Obama, Sr.’s love of communism which cost him his cushy job in the Kenyan bureaucracy “because he could not keep his mouth shut” according to Barak, Jr.’s half sister . . . is a constant Ayers’ theme.
While his own communistic leanings continue today, Ayers’ who co-authored the book “Prairie Fire” in 1973 (dedicated to over 200 persons from the great Harriet Tubman; convicted Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan; “and all political prisoners in the United States”) with several other members of the Weather Underground and wrote and published “Fugitive Days: a Memoir,” has a distinctive style that is little changed over the three decades since his first book. However, the two books strike completely different tones: the first book defiant; the latter one more thoughtful and even apologetic when describing his days with the “Greenwich Village Bomb-makers.”
Columnist Cashill on the American Thinker website complained about the liberal mainstream media’s desire to shield Barak Obama from all suggestion of problem activities and acquaintanceships. Americans, for example, got a five-minute story on the disgrace and resignation of Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" communist Van Jones where something similar in the Bush Administration would have surely garnered two or even three weeks worth of coverage. Cashill said, "There is no more stunning example of this than the reporting on Christopher Andersen's new best seller. Every major news outlet in the English-speaking world felt compelled to review the book," Cashill wrote, "Yet not a single reviewer, as far as I could tell, dared mention the book's most newsworthy revelation, namely that Bill Ayers substantially aided Barack Obama in the writing of his 1995 memoir, 'Dreams From My Father.'"
Only one oblique media reference mentioned Ayers’ part in creating the book, noting that a conservative blog connected Ayers to Obama’s first book and their Hyde Park (Chicago) friendship contained video of Ayers’ admission, but that “Ayers was joking, of course” without explaining how they had established Ayers’ frame of mind and lack of sincerity. As far as the “conservative blog” in question by Anne Leary in the Backyard Conservative website describing her interview with Ayers the blog was mentioned and discredited (and that was that) without any evidence for doing so by all the liberal media.
So, Weatherman Underground bomber Bill Ayers wrote Barak Obama’s first book and is angry that he’s not received his royalties; and with the liberal MSM who won’t give him coverage to express his ire . . . it’s enough to make any radical furious.
Every time, it seems, Obama has sought to distance himself from someone like Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, and Bill Ayers (on several occasions) and other unsavory types the media has obligingly dropped the matter immediately . . . apparently only patriotic conservatives need to be “followed up on” by the newshounds and extreme leftist presidents are presumed innocent forever. So much for the integrity of the American MSM and the once great "fourth estate."
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
^^ Today, by the way, the NY Times ran an extraordinarily sympathetic article on PFC Bradley Manning and the torments of his growing up “a geek” and gay to boot. Too bad that won’t stop any of the U.S. Military or Afghan deaths caused byManning’s willful leaking of 160,000 secret and top secret documents. Rajjpuut remembers a similar compassionate NY Times article on Bill Ayers that even showed understanding for Ayers’ bomb-planting . . . it ran on the morning of September 11, 2001 --- OOOOPS!
** dare we use the phrase “JournOList”???
In light of the recent Senate vote (thank you Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe) to pass a $26 billion bail out for states and government unions, financed in part by an $11 billion tax hike, Nancy Pelosi smells the blood in the water, and has called congress back from their summer break to pass this in the House so it can be on Obama's desk [quickly, now, it's critical] before anyone has time to think about it.
HOUSE CALLED BACK TO CONGRESS TO PASS MORE BAIL OUTS
Why should forty-seven states have to pay for CA, NY, and MI?
