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A Fable for Our Times
The ‘CO’, the Oak Seed,
the Dream and the Mechanic
the Dream and the Mechanic
By Rajjpuut
Once upon a time there was a lawyer and community organizer (CO) who really, really wanted to become a mechanic. There was an industrial arts college near him but he wasn’t making much money with his law degree and couldn’t yet afford the tuition. He didn’t know what to do so he asked his pastor.
“God damn, America,” said the pleasant older man. “Those Jewish White bankers are standing in everybody’s way . . . if you want to do God’s will the Wright-way, and find a way to make them stop obstructing our Black Liberation Theology goals and get them ponying up for the good of God’s earthly representative then you, son, will be justly rewarded!”
The community organizer was astonished. “You mean Jesus is back here on earth? In my reading of the Koran, I knew that would happen some day, but now?”
“God-double-damn, America, son! You’re interpreting things all wrong or my name isn’t Wright! Yes, Jesus is found in both books, but the earthly representative I’m talking about is ACORN! Put your trust in ACORN and all will work out Wright!”
The CO was very confused. “What,” he said to himself, “does an oak-seed have to do with me becoming a mechanic?”
But he put his faith in Wright-thinking, it had never failed him before . . . . And the community organizer took on another job where he could use his law degree working for a pleasant little group called ACORN. His new ACORN job was actually a lot of fun and he was very good at it. Using the techniques from a course he taught called “Rules for Radicals” based upon the thinking of a sweet man now deceased named Saul Alinsky, the community organizer would call upon mortgage-companies and persuade them to make very, very stupid loans to people who couldn’t ever be expected to pay off their loans . . . .
If he found a man without any ID, his job was to get him a housing loan. If he found a family with neither partner working, his job was to get them a housing loan. If people had to list food stamps as “income,” his job was to get them a housing loan. If people had terribe credit ratings, his job was to get them a housing loan. If people didn’t even have a rental history to show on the application forms, his job was to get them a housing loan. If people were on welfare or even were illegal aliens, his job was to get them a housing loan.
Once while he was talking to a friend named Bill (who used to make and plant bombs aimed at killing policemen, whose main job now was telling teachers how to inspire their students) who was now ghostwriting the community organizer’s first book about his communist father’s dreams, the community organizer said, “Ayers, how exactly does all this work?” I know it’s good that we pull off the Revolution and all so that everybody’s equal . . . but isn’t it dangerous getting all these billions of dollars in loans for people who won’t ever be able to repay them? I mean where’s the hope and change in bankrupting the whole system like that?”
Ayers, pushed away the stack of disorganized, notes, tapes and other collected jibberish he had in front of him . . . “B.O., my friend, the country is a lot like these notes of yours you left me to fit together . . . right now, it’s just a mess. But one of these days with the right intelligence behind it, it’ll be a masterpiece. In the case of the book, the right intelligence is me organizing the whole thing, planning it out and then making all the little things ‘sing’ like I did in my own two books. In the case of the country it’s the Revolution. When we’re done with it, it’ll be a Utopia and the whole country and everyone in it will ‘sing,’ that is, everyone will cooperate perfectly and we’ll see that all the necessaries are given to everyone in accordance with his needs and everything will be taken from everyone in accordance with their abilities.” At that moment, Michelle, the CO’s wife came in, “Barack baby, quit bothering Bill it’s your turn to wash the dishes.”
Well yes, Ayers’ ideas did make sense but still he’d read where in 1975 only one in every 404 home loans was made for 3% downpayment or less; and today (1995) thanks to his work, one in every seven home loans was made with 3% downpayment or less. And he was getting a lot of his clients into $500,000 homes . . . oh well. And he’d go to bed every night, dreaming of becoming a mechanic and of the Revolution and he’d say his meditations and end with ‘God-double-damn, America, AMEN!’ and sleep sound happy-dreamfilled sleep.
In his favorite dream, one that repeated all the time, he was talking about a ditch and a car in the ditch. Somehow, some fool had driven the car into the ditch because the CO’s mechanical work had been really, really poor and he’d gummed up the steering and messed up the brakes by getting a huge ACORN jammed in under them and even made the windshield wipers stick out on either side of the car . . . and here he was talking to a big crowd just like the Reverend Wright might and he was talking about the poor fool that had driven the car into the ditch because he was drunk or something . . . but really in his dream the CO knew that somehow his mechanicking and his ACORNing had really done it and yet even though it was a mess and he had caused it, somehow he was sure it would work out all Wright and Utopia was on the horizon. And he slept very soundly.
The End
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
The homely fellow calls out to a gorgeous girl passing him on the street, “The world’s going to end unless we have sex right now!” Astonished she turns quickly and replies, “Do we have time to get to a motel or must we do it right here?” scene from the movie “The Invention of Lying.”
Obama Puts Integrity and Honor
in the Ditch, Geithner** Says,
Bush Saved Car from Ruin
For those who fancy sound-bites and many people do:
ACORN and ACORN lawyer Barack Obama and progressive Dems deliberately pushed the car toward a 500-foot cliff. George W. Bush braked and steered the vehicle into a controlled skid and allowed it to coast safely into a friendly ditch instead.
For those who believe everything Barack Obama says, Rajjpuut dares you to read this blog . . . . the truth contained in the preceding paragraph relies upon a recent statement by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and a short string of logical and statistical facts that anyone with a 5th grade education can understand. But first a bit of background . . . .
A love letter is not a recipe for turtle soup; a suicide note is not a travelogue; a court summons is not graffiti; a nursery rhyme is not a thesaurus; an encyclopedia entry is not a page in a joke book; etc., etc. To people who think clearly . . . it’s starkly obvious that different styles and distinct types of communication have different purposes altogether. And it’s dramatically evident that some people use “communication” for utterly different and more sinister purposes than honorable folks usually do. For a good example of a bad example, let’s think about Barack Obama.
If one piece of Barack Obama’s medium-length communication can be seen to be “successful” in his eyes, it is clearly the parable of the car in the ditch. He’s repeated that little story at least thirty times. He’s repeated it on all sorts of occasions for a wide variety of audiences. He’s taken to embellishing the story like an old time serial writer getting paid by the word by talking about the heat, having other Democrats help him push the car out of the ditch, even talking about mud and insects in the ditch. Barack Obama loves that story!
If one slogan has been utterly positively met by his audiences over and over and over again, it can be summarized this way: “It’s all George W. Bush’s fault.” He’s repeated that statement or some corollary of it perhaps 500-600 times. He’s repeated it on all sorts of occasions for a wide variety of audiences. In some speeches he’s used that slogan or a corollary four or five times. And he’s seen to it that his administration and his party use the slogan repeatedly. Often the “Blame it all on Bush” slogan and the car in the ditch story are clearly the only really certain applause, however muted, that’s awaited his speeches of late.
Just like the parables of Jesus, Obama’s two terse communications are powerful in part because they are so short. Obviously the car is a metaphor for the U.S. economy and the ditch is a metaphor for the economic collapse. What do these two sound bites have in common? They both sidestep all blame and accuse Obama’s predecessors; they’re both used to create an immediate gut response rather than a thoughtful response; and they are both designed more to obscure the truth than to reveal it . . . in a phrase they’re both examples of a propaganda technique called “the Big Lie.”
Adolf Hitler in chapter 10 of Mein Kampf coined the term “the Big Lie” to refer to two purported Big Lies that he claimed the Jews, Communists and other “November Criminals” (these were his three main scape-goats) had propagated at the end of World War I as they sold Germany out: A) that the German army had been defeated in the field and B) that General Ludendorff was mostly responsible for Germany’s defeat. Of course, Mein Kampf and most of Hitler’s communications were in themselves Big Lies including his creation of the November Criminals idea; repetition of the Zionist Conspiracy among the Jews fable; and fabrication of the notion of Aryan superiority in blood and cultural achievement.
Among the propaganda techniques Hitler discussed, the Big Lie, he said, was a “a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone ‘could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously’ ergo it must be true." He continues, “In the Big Lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the Big Lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
Hitler also advised upon how to exploit the Big Lie which was later summed up by American OSS intelligence officials this way in the profile they created of Der Fuhrer: “His primary rules of conduct are never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough virtually all people will sooner or later believe it.” Since Hitler also advised never admitting a lie was false, but just keep hammering away at it even if you look a bit ridiculous . . . we can predict that his spiritual godson Barack Obama, who seems to operate under the same megalomaniacal modus operandi will never stop blaming Bush and will never stop telling the car in the ditch story.
So for those of us who believe in clear thought and who can spot a “false prophet” miles away . . . . What exactly is wrong with Barack Obama’s “Blame it all on Bush” slogan and his “car in the ditch” parable? And why are Obama and ACORN deliberately pushing the car toward the cliff, in the more accurate sound bite given above?
Again, the Obama soundbites are designed to hide the truth and convince people of the validity of a Big Lie viscerally, in their gut, while bypassing their brains. They have the hyper-added benefit of being wonderful sound-bites themselves while at the same time hiding a truth so damning and yet virtually difficult to convey that ostensibly no sound bite can clear things up. It’s a lot like Mondale’s (“Where’s the beef?”) accusation of Gary Hart during the 1984 Democratic Presidential Primary Campaign which implied that Hart was little more than a pretty boy. So let us now show Barack Obama’s car in the ditch story up for the falsehood it is . . . .
ITEM: some statistics and some facts . . .
A) Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, two leftist Columbia U. professors (NYC) published their article, “The Weight of the Poor: a Strategy to End Poverty” in The Nation magazine in 1966. They opined that a welfare registration drive would put the entire nation in a crisis and the result of the crisis would be the Democratic party would institute (GNI) a guaranteed national income and presto that would be the elimination of poverty. The Cloward-Piven Strategy is based upon one of (self-avowed neo-Marxist community-organizer) Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” (from his book, Rule #4 “Make the enemy live up to his own book of rules.”) Their idea is to manufacture a crisis to move the country to their socialistic ends. In 1967, they enlisted another radical community organizer George Wiley to create the (NWRO) National Welfare Rights Organization to test their theory by hook or by crook, he enlists over six million new welfare recipients. In eight years (1975) New York City is bankrupt and needs to be bailed out by the federal government. New York state barely escapes the city’s fate. Wiley, Cloward and Piven brag openly about their great deed hardly regretting that the GNI idea failed. Cloward and Piven suggest to Wiley and other radicals that housing and voter registration are the next two areas where C-P Strategy should be employed.
B) 1946- 1992 USA has 62-65% private home ownership, the envy of the world, the system was NOT broken and required NO fixing.
C) 99.76% of all US homes are bought with more than 3% down payment in 1975
D) To “fix” the broken home ownership problem, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is passed by Jimmy Carter and progressive Democrats to force lending institutes to make bad loans they would otherwise not make. In Arkansas in ’77, ACORN is quickly created by George Wiley’s lieutenant Wade Rathke who will also later found the SEIU union. ACORN goes to work on both C-P recommended new territories: voter registration and housing. The organization also hooks up with Bill Clinton just elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, an up and coming politician who they will help and who will help them mightily. The group is mostly ineffective at first because CRA ’77 was so poorly crafted that smart lenders could avoid most of the forced lending to unqualifed people. But ACORN is patient.
E) By 1985, little has changed 99.5% of all home loans still are made with 3% or more down payment. Clinton was elected governor in 1978 at the age of 32. He’s defeated in ’80 but elected again four more times and serves a total of almost 12 years.
F) In 1992, George H.W. Bush who successfully vetoed 44 out of 45 bills he disliked fails to veto a big housing bill. Unfortunately, one of the small portions he hates about the bill expands CRA ’77 so that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the two huge government agencies) are now made part of the CRA mortgage-guarantee progam. The plot only sickens from here on out.
G) Clinton with the support of ACORN whips Bush and becomes President. One of the first things he does is create the Motor Voter Act (called by conservatives “a license for voter fraud”). He signs the bill into law with Cloward and Piven standing directly behind him in the official photograph (available in several places on the internet). ACORN can finally go to town on voter registration. In 1995, Clinton passes two laws expanding CRA ’77 mortgage-guarantees. Even before that, at the end of 1994, a community organizer named Barack Obama begins working as an ACORN lawyer. He has taught Alinksy’s “Rules for Radicals” to Chicago students and is very good at browbeating and shaking-down unwilling lenders to make them comply with the expansions of CRA ’77. Obama will work for ACORN for parts of the next three years. By 1995, the situation has changed dramatically in housing now 14% of all home loans are made to borrowers who cannot afford a 3%^^ or more home down payment. That is, since CRA ’77 was created lenders are now making 55 times as many questionable loans as they were in 1975.
H) In 1998, Bill Clinton, Democrats and especially Progressive Democrats and Progressive (we need to “progess” beyond the limitations of the "outdated and flawed" U.S. Constitution) Republicans pass a final expansion of CRA ’77 which puts the whole arena of mortgage-guarantees on steroids. Clinton, the first ACORN president, has delivered for them in a huge way on voter registration and on housing. Barack Obama is gone, but now ACORN goes nuts (pun intended). With Clinton’s new bill they immediately start browbeating loans for those without ID; those without jobs; people claiming food stamps as income; other welfare recipients; people without rental histories; people with horrific credit ratings; and even illegal aliens. Worst of all, ACORN gets real aggressive and finds they have little more trouble getting an impoverished applicant qualified for a $400,000 home than for a $120,000 one.
I) In November, 2003, James Stack of investech.com revealed a graph he called the “Housing Industry Bubble” (housing prices had soared, yes, but stocks in the housing industry had risen an amazing 1300% in a relatively short time) and began talking about a coming “sub-prime lending crisis.” We had ample warning, you see. Bush and the Republicans saw the problem within a year themselves and sought to correct things with a bill in January, 2005 that would have undone most of the steroid-like ills brought about by the 1998 final version of mortgage-guarantee legislation. They were defeated. Meanwhile thanks to ACORN and Clinton's law 34% of all home loans are made to applicants who pay less than 3% as a down payment. Roughly 135 times as many questionable loans are being made in 2005 as were made in 1975.
J) Finally in July of 2007, enough Democrats agreed that a problem existed to pass a heavily-diluted law based upon Bush's January, 2005 efforts. It proved to be way too little, way too late, but it did enough good that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recognized five days ago that Bush had saved our bacon. Without Bush’s administration passing that law, Geithner said, the recession would have been much, much deeper and housing prices would have dropped far, far lower. Americans that watch FOX News find this out three years after the fact, most Americans inundated by the mainstream media (MSM) will never find this out . . . . and in sum, the facts in a nutshell shaken together to make an accurate parable are that:
ACORN and ACORN lawyer Barack Obama and progressive Dems deliberately pushed the car toward a 500-foot cliff. George W. Bush braked and steered the vehicle into a controlled skid and allowed it to coast safely into a friendly ditch instead.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** Actually, the Treasury Secretary could have told a fuller story here: because Bush's original attempt to stop the bleeding and undo the damage in January, 2005 was rebuffed . . . . almost all of the CRA '77 legislation and its four expansions (including many horrific Clinton-Steroid version of '98 features) is still on the books like a timebomb waiting to explode the next time an ACORN-like entity wants to cause havoc. We need to return to the 1975 levels with perhaps 1/400 home loans made at 3% or less down payment. In other words we need to get out of the private sector's way. One other "tiny detail" should be mentioned to wrap up the last loose end. In 2003, Bush and the Republicans sought to change the oversight for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (contending that congressional oversight was far too lax) but that initiative was also defeated by the Congress and most particularly the progressive Democratic wing of the congress that was abetting the whole process all along. Thank you, Barney Frank.
^^ It bears saying that 3% loans were originally created for fiscally-responsible veterans who qualified under a special program created for them. Once CRA '77 is created; almost anyone can get ZERO-Percent downpayment loans.
On MSN’s news page today, we read about the Virgo sun sign. “With an acute attention to detail, Virgo is the sign in the Zodiac most dedicated to serving. Their deep sense of the humane leads them to caregiving like no other, and their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is missed. The Virgo is often gentle and delicate, preferring to step back and analyze before moving ahead.” My sun sign is Virgo.
My thoughts: Ground Zero, a shrine of American capitalism and a shrine of Sharia law next door have nothing to do with religious freedom, so why would Obama use religious freedom as an excuse? Obama is a divider, a socialist. Islam and socialism have this in common: Neither give the individual any rights. For its base, capitalism gives the individual the right to life, liberty, and property.
To show his hand by supporting a mosque near ground zero is one more reason to suspect that Obama has something up his sleeve we all need to know. It makes no political sense. Obama has said he is going to “transform” America. To what is the question? He didn’t explain. We are left to assume. Obama has surrounded himself with socialists and communist revolutionaries, most of whom were members of SDS, the hippie bomb throwers of the sixties.
From his apparent lacking in political savvy, one would think that Obama doesn’t care if the Republicans win and become the majority in the House. One can assume that Obama’s transformation is from capitalism to socialism. He has already gone a long way in that direction. One can assume that the Tea Party opposition has to go. This means freedom of press has to go, namely, Fox News. Obama is in compliance with Sharia law. We are a short step away from the spiting up of the world between socialist dictatorships and Islam’s theocracies practicing Sharia law.
Not only is my sun sign Virgo, but my rising sign is Aquarius. Here’s what Jeanne Avery in The Rising Sign, under “Aquarius Rising” says: “He can express strong humanitarian concern, have a strong sense of freedom for himself and for others, and be ahead of the time. . .He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer. He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries.”
In Astrologer’s Handbook, we read that when Saturn is trine Pluto (my Saturn is trine Pluto), “This trine gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling them to use these laws consciously or unconsciously. . .They are able to work slowly and make fundamental and irrevocable changes in their own and others’ lives.”
We read on the back cover of Cosmos and Psyche, “Distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history and biography.”
On page 209, we read: “The successive quadrature alignments (the most unfavorable alignments) of the Saturn-Pluto cycle coincided with especially challenging historical periods marked by a pervasive quality of intense contraction: eras of international crises and conflict, empowerment of reactionary forces and totalitarian impulses, organized violence and oppression, all sometimes marked by lasting traumatic effects.” On page 214, we read, under “The Saturn-Pluto Cycle,” that in November 2009 through August 2010 Saturn and Pluto were in exact quadrature alignment.
On earth as it is in heaven, this prophecy from Astrologer’s Handbook: The Piscean personality unconsciously absorbs the ideas and mental outlook of authorities. They desperately want to do the right thing. They don’t have strong wills; they are influenced by external factors. They will generally suffer injury rather than fight for their rights. Pisces is a water sign. Pisces is mutable and compassionate. We are moving away from the Age of Pisces, moving into the Age of Aquarius.
The Aquarian personality, humanitarian—his brother’s keeper—has for his symbol the water-bearer, although Aquarius is fixed sign. Aquarians, in contrast with Pisceans, are stubborn and determined. It’s like mixing oil and water. While the Piscean personality can jump from being strongly optimistic to terribly pessimistic, the Aquarian personality is likely to feel that these unsure souls, who are unreceptive to his ideas, actually incapable of comprehending, are a great source of aggravation. Aquarians hate hypocrisy. They operate as equals with equals. They are extremely independent.
Aquarians enjoy working with others on an ideal. Ultimately, their interest in human problems wins them respect and confidence. Rather than compassionate, though, their sympathy is impersonal and their response intellectual. They are tireless workers. Do you make the connection? Welcome to the Tea Party. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.
http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#life
INTRESTING
According to the U.S, Constitution, "All men are created equal" There are NO EXCEPTIONS made for religious commandments that are obeyed by their believers to kill U.S. Citizens on the basis of religion, rejection of religion or changing religion (which Islam teaches).
IS THIS A WAY TO GET THE TEA PARTY UNDER SCRUTIINEY ~ PEOPLE WILL NEEDTO BE WEEDED OUT JUST LIKE ANY OTHER ORM OF CORRUPTIN ~ HOWEVER ~ IT APPEARS AS THO TEA PARTY SUPPORTERS WILL NOT ALLOW T TO LINGURE ~ GIRT ~R ~DONE~
“Democrats on the Board of Commissioners are very concerned about allegations that an employee of the county party may have had a role in fraudulent Tea Party candidate filings. We have been strong advocates for open and transparent county government, and there is no place in our politics where deception can be tolerated. Without commenting on the legal merits of these accusations, we ask for the immediate removal of Jason Bauer as an employee of the Oakland County Democratic Party. Our caucus members and candidates demand the highest ethical standards of ourselves, our government and our party, and any violation of those standards must have real and significant consequences.”
Barney Frank Breaks Out Smoke,
Mirrors, and Mirrored Truth
“The devil,” it’s said, “can quote scripture for his own purposes.” Certainly it seems that the devilishly clever and resourceful Barney Frank has discovered that a bit of truth can serve to obscure greater truth and as a very useful red herring against minor-league journalistic entitites.
Once you get past Obama, Pelosi and Reid . . . the “top-flight nincompoops” . . . a huge number of progressive lesser nitwits come into focus. Among these lesser lights, Barney Frank has long been distinguished for his extreme ideological nitwiticity. Frank, Democratic Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, as recently as September, 2008, was telling anyone who’d listen that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were “in great shape.” Frank was infamous for saying, “Oh, look, the private sector has brought the country down again, here comes government to rescue them . . . again” and seeming far more interested in marijuana and gay rights than actually understanding the ins and outs of the influential House committee he chairs.
But now Frank has come, however, to an epiphany. In a recent interview on CNBC, Frank said, "I hope by next year we'll have abolished Fannie and Freddie, it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn't afford and couldn't really handle once they had it." He continued "I had been too sanguine about Fannie and Freddie." Behind his weasel word “sanguine” lies the truth. Frank hadn’t just been extremely optimistic about the status of Freddie and Fannie, the two government funded mortgage giants, he had been covering up his own incompetence and deliberately lying to the American people about the causes of the sub-prime lending crisis and the ensuing financial collapse.
In the interview Frank discussed a long-term plan to shrink Fannie and Freddie portfolios and merge the agencies into the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Frank also said federal housing guarantees should be transparently priced and made fiscally sound, but that the private sector must be encouraged to re-enter housing finance just as the government gradually withdraws from it. If ever an “ooops, I goofed” seemed politically-timed and save-my-own-butt motivated, Frankie’s “I done wrong” is the ultimate in political chicanery. Among the hardball questions that interviewer Lawrence Kudlow refused to put to Frank is this one, “Since the latest bailout the country’s faced with is the likely $400 Billion rescue of Fann-Fred and since those two entities are loathed by the taxpayers, Mr. Frank, isn’t this sudden shift just a cynical ploy aimed to ingratiate yourself with the voters one more time?”
If Kudlow had played hardball, one can imagine the Representatives response, “Actually, the rescue would take $150 Billion . . . ONLY . . .” ignoring the latest Congressional Budget Office’s projections. Kudlow’s follow-up question should have then been . . . “You do realize, Sir, that those two failed agencies had to borrow $1.5 Billion from the Treasury Dept. to pay off the dividends of $1.8 Billion to the very same Treasury Dept., in any case do you approve of or disapprove of President Obama’s giving $42 million in bonuses to the top dozen Fannie and Freddie executives with $6 million apiece to their two top administrators? Shouldn't bonuses be reserved for people who do good jobs?”
Kudlow, just doesn’t get it. In a follow-up article to his interview with Frank, he excused Frank and said “I think he has come to realize that the whole system of federal affordable-housing mandates that was central to the real-estate collapse -- including the mandates on Fannie and Freddie and the myriad bad decisions made by private banks and other lenders in response to the government's overreach -- simply needs to be abolished.”
How naïve and self-serving can one politician and one reporter get? Except, of course, whatever else he is, Barney Frank is NOT naïve, he knows what plays in Peoria or Roxbury or wherever. Mr. Chairman and Mr. Kudlow, those “myriad bad decisions made by private banks and other lenders” were forced upon them by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and its four expansions (in ’92 Fannie and Freddie were included; and then Bill Clinton presided over three more expansions – twice in ’95 and the steroid version in ’98) that took the best housing system in the world and made it insolvent. From 1946 to 1992 America’s 62-65% private home ownership rate was the envy of the world. The system was NOT broken although the progressives were mightily trying to ruin it under Cloward-Piven, ACORN and CRA ’77. As ACORN perfected the art of shaking-down lenders the percentage of closings with 3% or less downpayment went from less than ¼% in 1975; to less than ½% in 1985; to 14% in 1995 with Freddie and Fannie involved; to 34% in 2005 on Clinton’s steroid version of mortgage-guarantee legislation.
Also unstated by Mr. Frank: Barack Obama’s role** as an ACORN lawyer between 1994 and 1997 shaking down those besieged lenders trying mightily to avoid giving in to demands for bad loans required by the government’s laws. If ever there was a series of government interference laws designed to bring down this country and its great economic system, these were the laws.
And Mr. Kudlow could never be expected to research back into Richard Cloward and Frances Piven. Those two Columbia University (NYC) leftist profs published their 1966 article on the Cloward-Piven Strategy and then joined with George Wiley in bankrupting New York City (between 1967 and 1975 after creating Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization) and almost bankrupting New York State. Their goal? To force the country, more particularly the Democratic Party to institute NGI (a national guaranteed income program). While publicly bragging about their great accomplishment, Cloward and Piven expressed little regrets that they didn’t actually get NGI, but looked to the future and said their followers should “get involved with housing and voter registration.”
Accordingly when Jimmy Carter and his progressives passed CRA ’77, George Wiley sent his lieutenant Wade Rathke to Arkansas to create ACORN that same year. The “A” in ACORN in those days stood for “Arkansas” but later came to mean “Association” as the group expanded to all 50 states. Why Arkansas, because an up and coming politician there very sympathetic to their ends (his wife had done her honors thesis on Saul Alinsky) had been elected Attorney General there in 1976 at the age of 30. From that point on the fortunes of Bill Clinton and ACORN were tightly intertwined as he became the first ACORN president. Besides the three mortgage-guarantee expansions Clinton made, he also signed the Motor Voter Act into law in 1993 with Cloward and Piven both standing behind him in the infamous picture all over the internet. Clinton had answered the Cloward-Piven call for action in housing and in voter registration in SPADES. Mr. Frank, himself as ugly a progressive as ever lived, is just buying time with his insincere little mea culpa while continuing to hide all the salient little details hiding the progressive/communist agenda to destroy capitalism and this country so that ultra-socialism can prevail.
Of more interest is the fact that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has come to a similar conclusion as Kudlow says Frank has made. Geithner told a recent Washington conference on the future of housing finance that the system needs fundamental change. He said, "We will not support a return to the system where private gains are subsidized by taxpayer losses." Geithner also praised George W. Bush’s 2007 legislation** which according to Geithner greatly moderated the recession and kept housing prices from undergoing a complete swoon. The story behind that little fact is also one Mr. Frank would prefer you and I not discover.
In November, 2003, investment advisor James Stack of investech.com started publishing a “Housing Industry Bubble” chart he’d maintain on his website for almost five consecutive years. According to Stack while home prices had surged, the prices of stocks involved in the housing industry had risen 1200% (they would go up more, up to a 1300% rise hitting 1400% of their 1997 values) and while this was a very dangerous bubble sure to pop, the underpinnings of both the housing price increases and the stock market surge for the housing industry was an unsustainable sub-prime lending situation. Bush and his administration came to the same conclusion in January, 2005, and sought to pass a law removing all the teeth from Clinton’s ’98 steroid version of mortgage-guarantee expansion. The Democrats and some progressive Republicans stopped him cold. By July, 2007, even the blind congress could see what was happening and they passed a watered-down version of Bush’s 2005 effort. That law is the reason that Geithner praised Bush. By the way, so far Barack Obama has not actually officially fired anyone. Geithner’s burst of recent truth-discoveries may soon change that, Rajjpuut suggests that Tim Geithner is not long for the Obama administration (praise George W. Bush, oh my God!) if he continues to shoot off his mouth with truthful utterances.
In any case, Kudlow, did not miss some of the implications. In his follow-up article he said, “The broader lesson here is that government planning doesn't work. And if left to their own devices, market processes will work.” He then concluded, “I don't know if President Obama gets this. But my hat goes off to a man who does, Chairman Barney Frank.” Ah well, you CAN fool some of the people all of the time, can’t you Barney?”
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** it seems, Mr. Obama, that you drove the car into the ditch deliberately and Mr. Bush brought a tow-truck along
^^ Didn't anyone in our government notice that after Clinton's '98 mortgage-guarantee expansion, ACORN was shaking-down lenders to comply with the new law so that folks without ID; folks without jobs; folks with outrageously bad credit scores; folks listing food stamps as income; other folks on welfare; folks without even a rental history; and even illegal aliens could qualify for $300,000 and more expensive homes?
ATTENTION: You must not show up at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28 2010. This is a set up to pit Whites and Blacks against one another, do not fall for it. instead meet at the federal reserve or 200 Penn Ave. Leave the Memorial to those who wish to honor the man with the dream.
ATTENTION: Tea-Partiers, you must not show up for the rally at the Lincoln memorial on aug. 28th 2010. This is a set up to pit Blacks against Whites. Let it go, there are more appropriate venues for us to assemble. 200 Penn. AVE. for example, or outside the Federal Reserve. Leave the Lincoln Memorial to those who wish to honor Martin Luther King and the dream he spoke of. We are all Americans and color should not be the issue. The criminal conduct of those men and woman who are leading this nation into poverty and socialistic slavery is. We need to narrow it down and see things as they really are, we are all in this together. Please...REMEMBER THAT!
MASQUE A party of guests wearing costumes and masks.
MOSQUE (Islam) a Muslim place of worship.
Who in their right mind can have a house of worship on or near a sight that caused such pain and suffering at the hands of the same religion which sponsors the Mosque?
I call it not a Mosque but a Masque. Guest not coming to worship, but to make a show, wearing costumes to a party, hiding behind the mask of friendship and tolerance.
I have a hard time believing they only come to pray in their Mosque, but find it very easy to celebrate in their costumes behind the hypocritical mask of religion.
Please read the current Tea Party Newsletter and see where I made the differential between Mosque and Masque. A few will understand, many will think it is a misspelling.
Steve Eichler - Tea Party Member.
THE BATTLE FOR GRANADA IN SPAIN, 1492. ENDED
MUSLIM RULE, AFTER 780 YEARS, THE MOORS WERE
DEFEATED !!!
A Savage Injustice in Great Britain
"Whether you listen to him or not, or consider yourself a fan or not, radio talk show host Michael Savage has been the victim of a graveinjustice by the British government. He has literally been told that hecannot enter the United Kingdom based on what he has said. The Britspride themselves on being an open-minded and tolerant lot. Heck, theyare willing to accept outrageous sermons by angry mullahs in Britain,all on the grounds of free speech. Well, free speech apparently stopswith Michael Savage.
You can object to some of the things Savage has said over the years. But you can say the same about the British press.
Jaqui Smith, Home Secretary of Great Britain issued a list of people banned from entry into the country. Savage is on that list…..along withmembers of violent terrorist organizations and murderers.
Says Ms. Smith: “If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort ofattitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that thisis likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence orinter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the rightthing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not toopen the stable door then try to close it later.” She concluded: “It’s aprivilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviors thatmean you forfeit that privilege.”
Excuse me, but what evidence is there that Savage has ever caused violence? Which of Savage’s ”behaviors” is she talking about?
It’s pretty clear that Savage is on the list because the British government, wanting to prevent certain jihadists from entering thecountry to preach violence and terrorism, were desperately looking for a“moral equivalent” that they could prop up as proof that they are notanti-Muslim. In Savage they found a convenient person. But to compareSavage to jihadists is ridiculous. Has he ever called for theassassination of anyone? Has he ever conspired with others to bomb ahouse or blow up an airliner? I don’t even need to answer thosequestions. We all know the answer.
Great Britain needs to reverse itself and prove that it still believes in freedom of speech."
A year later, Savage is still banned from entering Britain.
From A Muslim’s Love Affair: “Obama himself agrees with Muslim fanaticism as normal, as a form of nationalism, and thus protected speech, protected expression, because, again, Obama "once studied the Koran with them."
I’m an Aquarian water-bearer with this message today:
Glenn Beck says, speaking of journalists, “if they ever care to redeem their soul, and actually look into the corruption and things that are going on in the administration, this administration will be exposed as the most corrupt on all times.”
In light of what Beck says, think on this: The political spin doctor Imam Faesal Abdul Rauf, who is on the U. S. payroll, says Osama bin Laden was made in the U. S. and that U.S. law is Sharia law (Allah’s law) compliant, the idea being that the Islamic terrorist threat would go away if the American people would only accept Rauf’s (and Obama’s) Islamic truth.
President Obama maintains that under America’s law Muslims have the “legal right” to build a Mosque near ground zero. America’s leftists agree. Obama and America’s leftists also agree that by redistributing America’s wealth worldwide peace could be maintained. By his words and deeds, Obama does not accept American traditional law—the individual’s inalienable or God-given rights. Obama believes in redistribution—take from the rich and give to the poor: Marxism. In order for Obama and America’s leftists to accomplish their lawless goals, they must rewrite the Constitution—“transform” America, according to Obama. Now we know.
Keep in mind that Hitler was legal. Obama is granting Muslims the “legal right” to build a Mosque near ground zero. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, it is not their “lawful right.” Legal is merely a form of law. “Thus ‘legal fraud’ is fraud implied or inferred by law, or made out by construction.” To be lawful, according to Black’s Law Dictionary, the law must be ethical and have substance. The judges at the Nuremburg trials did not accept the idea of a “legal right” to murder 6,000,000 Jews. Many leftists and Muslims don’t have a problem with that, if, in their estimation, it is for the good of all. For the good of all, understand, supersedes inalienable rights.
Who knows best what is for the good of all? By construction, according to Rauf, Allah knows and you don’t question Allah. In other words, you don’t question Rauf. Likewise, you don’t question Obama, or leftists; that is, if you are easily influenced and want to do the right thing. It means you are of the Piscean personality, according to Astrologer’s Handbook, can’t make up your mind, non-combative, and will generally suffer injury than fight for your rights. “They (Pisceans) must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with a simple faith.”
The U. S. Constitution has for its background Higher Law, “simple faith,” which the most corrupt of all presidents, Obama and his leftist revolutionary friends do not accept. Both Obama and the forked tongue spokesman for the United States, Islam’s Imam Rauf, want to ignore the fact that Islam is responsible for terrible brutality and death. Typical for Obama, he refuses to comment on the wisdom of a Mosque near ground zero. This snake in the grass speaks in platitudes and then lowers the boom. Look out! With no explanation, clearly, the American people are being asked, for the sake of peace—peace at any price—to accept Islam. This is the guy who frequently speaks favorably for Islam. What is it going to be when Iran has the atom bomb? Obama is selling out America. In Black’s Law Dictionary, a traitor is defined as one who, being trusted, betrays.
On earth as it is in heaven, we are leaving the Age of Pisces, an age when people have been responsive to authority. They have not had strong wills. We are entering the Age of Aquarius. Aquarian people have much spiritual energy. They believe in the individual—therefore “Higher Law.” They are stubborn in this belief. They hate hypocrisy. They believe in equals among equals. They are independent.
This is a time of upheaval, and prophesized. According to philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas in Cosmos and Psyche, a time of “epochal closure: the end of an era, the end of innocence, the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence.”
It is now your choice. You can either let Obama and Islam lead your thinking or accept “Higher Law.” The truth will set you free.
History-Changers Fool
Some Americans ALL the Time
That great American philosopher Forrest Gump once said, “Stupid is as stupid does,” in other words not by their words but by their deeds do we know who people actually are. The next time you hear someone who loves America called a racist, sexist, or a fascist or whatever, by the left wing progressives or the liberal media remember, that despite all their efforts to change history the Democratic Party is . . .
. . . the party of slavery which justified the practice as “economic necessity” for the plantation system of cotton- and tobacco-growing.
. . . the party of slavery which forbid Black’s learning to read.
. . . the party of slavery which condoned White males raping Black women.
. . . the party of slavery which insisted upon creating new slave states as the young nation expanded westward, just to keep themselves in power.
. . . the party of Robert E. Lee who summarily hung John Brown for freeing slaves.
. . . the party of flogging slaves for minor violations; and hanging them for trying to get their freedom.
. . . the party of selling slaves for profit and breaking up their families.
. . . the party of Jefferson Davis who presided over the Confederacy which was created to keep slavery intact and inviolate.
. . . the party of the Ku Klux Klan.
. . . the party of Dred Scott and allowing slave-chasers to pursue runaways into northern states.
. . . the party of Jim Crow laws for almost 100 years.
. . . the party of ‘separate but equal’ for almost 100 years.
. . . the party of lynching.
. . . the party supporting honor killings by husbands of unfaithful wives.
. . . the party of Woodrow Wilson, the greatest racist who ever occupied the White House.
. . . the party of D.W. Griffith, the racist film-maker who premiered his racist masterpiece “Birth of a nation for Wilson in the White House.
. . . the party of Woodrow Wilson, who first created the idea of propaganda and proved to be the most Fascist president in American history jailing those who talked against his administration; closing down newspapers opposed to his agenda.
. . . the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who prolonged an ordinary downturn 8 ½ years (until the Second World War saved the economy) into a GREAT Depression.
. . . the party that segregated the armed forces under Wilson.
. . . the party of FDR who forced people to relinquish gold at $20.76 an ounce and then raised the price of gold to $35 per ounce effectively stealing 61% of all private wealth for the government.
. . . the party of Richard Cloward, Frances Piven and George Wiley who deliberately used Cloward-Piven Strategy to bankrupt New York City and just missed bankrupting New York State.
. . . the party of Wade Rathke (Wiley’s lieutenant) who created ACORN and the SEIU and sought to use ACORN to get what Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization could not: guaranteed national income.
. . . the party of Jimmy Carter who created the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA ’77) which required mortgage companies to make very bad loans that ACORN could take advantage of.
. . . the party of the Black Panthers as clearly Fascist a group as the last half of the 20th Century ever created
. . . the party of Bill Clinton, the first ACORN president, who oversaw three expansions of CRA ’77 and creation of the Motor Voter Act which he signed in a ceremony with Cloward and Piven standing directly behind him.
. . . the party of ACORN which used the weak Motor Voter Act to attempt all sorts of voting fraud.
. . . the party of ACORN which used the various CRA ’77 expansions to get zero-down payment $300,000 homes for people without ID; people without jobs; people who listed food stamps as “income”; people with horrific credit ratings; people without even a rental history; people on welfare; illegal aliens; and all manner of people who had NO hope of ever repaying their home loans.
. . . the party of Barack Obama who worked parts of three years as an ACORN attorney brow-beating and shaking-down lenders who tried to avoid making bad loans to deadbeat clients . . . Barack Obama who slashed the brake lines and fouled up the steering cables that put our national economy “in the ditch.”
. . . the party of ultra-left progressives who jumped all over George W. Bush for firing U.S. attorneys that refused to prosecute voter fraud; voter intimidation and to investigate allegations of Motor Voter Act discrepancies.
. . . the party of Barack Obama, a community organizer who taught classes in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for radicals” in conjunction with ACORN.
. . . the party of Obama appointee Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandez, who dropped the case of the New Black Panthers intimidating White voters in Philadelphia and threatening a Black poll watcher with a beating; who also instructed Department of Justice (DOJ) employees NOT to pursue cases of voter intimidation or other crimes against Black perpetrators if the victims were White; and instructed DOJ employees to cease investigations of Motor Voter Act discrepancies “because that will just lower turnout.”
. . . the party of Barack Obama who gave us in one law (Obamacare) almost 390 new government agencies.
. . . etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
