March 13th, 2009  Comment On This Post
Some interesting articles to read:
Jonah Goldberg on never letting a good crisis go to waste.
In 2008, US household wealth fell by over $11 trillion. Here’s an idea. These people haven’t been punished enough. Let’s increase their taxes and let the government take whatever they have left.
The CEO of Blackstone says that 45% of the world’s wealth has been destroyed by this financial crisis.
The honeymoon is fading quickly .. which means that the Obama administration has to work even faster to get its agenda passed before it’s too late.
Barack Obama’s tax policies are going to turn Silicon Valley into a ghost town. How is that? By increasing taxes on the achievers. Let’s kill innovation for the sake of government power.
The Senate still has to have its way with this “cramdown bill” and it looks like we may have a vote on it this month. Look for the interest rates on new mortgages to go up as soon as these ignoranuses pass this thing.
Some politicians, including Republicans, are actually starting to feel sorry for Timothy Geithner. No way. The guy is a tax cheat - a willful and conscious tax cheat. If he can’t handle the job, find someone who can.
Obama’s third pick for Deputy Treasury Secretary has officially withdrawn his name from the candidate pool. That’s his third pick in just one week, by the way.
Freddie Mac is going to tap into another $30.8 billion in taxpayer dollars.
Some governors like Rick Perry of Texas rejected some of the federal stimulus money for unemployment because it would require a change in the state’s definition of unemployment.
Obama is going to be the first president since Grover Cleveland to miss the annual Gridiron Dinner. Not much of a jock sniffer, I guess. Maybe if they could just make hammering high-achievers a sport. Wait! It already is.
Utah’s solution to budget woes .. put a tax on caffeine. I know it’s hard to believe, but I drink decaf.
What would Bernie Madoff’s punishment be if he lived in countries without our judicial system? I rather like the idea of hanging him by his …….. oh hell, never mind.
How come we never heard about this guy trying to build a dirty bomb in Maine last year?
Atlas Shrugged updated for the financial crisis? WTH?
March 12th, 2009 Comment On This Post
Interesting articles to read:
What do economists think of Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner so far? A majority are dissatisfied. Yeah, that’s a nice way to put it. Nothing like a willful tax cheat running the IRS.
Here’s what Newt Gingrich has to say about this card check legislation that was introduced into Congress this week. If this stuff becomes law it is going to destroy countless businesses in this country.
The U.N. Secretary-General says that the United States is a “deadbeat” donor. That’s fine. Then stop taking our money. See how you get along then. Really … it’s time to cut this insipid organization loose, but it certainly isn’t going to happen with Obama in office.
The British government says that it is “unbelievably hard” to deal with the Barack Obama administration. I’m trying to hide my astonishment.
The Republicans weren’t too happy about the idea of a second stimulus plan. The idea just sends little tingles down Nancy Pelosi legs however. Sorry .. didn’t mean to put that image into your mind.
Meanwhile, only 27% of Americans say that they support a second stimulus package. Doesn’t matter. There are votes out there to be bought.
Obama decided to downgrade the position of Drug Czar from a cabinet rank. That’s something I can agree with, but guess who didn’t agree with a move like this back in 1989? I’ll give you a hint, nobody messes with Joe.
Barney Frank says that the $787 billion stimulus bill could have been 20% larger. And he also has some choice words for those evil Republican, capitalist policies.
This should make you feel all warm and fuzzy … More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion omnibus bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
Florida wants to stimulate its economy by dismantling the agency that is in charge of managing growth. Does this mean that Florida wants to turn the private sector loose to do what it does so well?
A politician in Maine wants to make it mandatory to have a license in order to operate a canoe or kayak. If they don’t license politicians in Maine, they ought not license paddlers.
How many government employees and tax dollars, does it take to study disposable coffee cups. Here’s a program we really need.
Do you think that global warming is being hyped up by the mainstream media? An increased number of people seem to think so. People are starting to wise up.
How much tax revenue has Las Vegas has been lost thanks to comments by Barack Obama and other politicians critical of companies hosting business meetings or conventions in Vegas?
More and more people are lodging federal job discrimination complaints against private employers.
Florida Senator Mel Martinez is catching hell from the Barack Obama birth certificate crowd. They’re called “Birthers,” and their Internet headquarters can be found here.
Apparently New York Governor David Patterson has scrapped numerous tax hikes on consumer goods from the proposed state budget.
50% of Americans are just two paychecks away from having big financial problems.
First clue this guy is a moron? He leaves his door unlocked in San Francisco. More reasons in the article.
Hey, it’s never too early to start planning your Halloween costume. I think she’s missing 6 larger ones although I’m not sure there’s space to strap them on. Remember folks, it’s not a clown car.
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March 5th, 2009 Comment On This Post
Some interesting articles to read:
The Prime Minister of Great Britain wants to outlaw tax havens for all those evil rich people who hide their money overseas to avoid taxes. Pass all the laws you want my friend, the high-achievers will always find a way. It’s a matter of survival.
Democrats in the Senate want the Republicans to join them in creating a “Truth Commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s supposed abuse of power.
Obama’s tax hikes are meeting opposition from … Democrats?
The chairman of the FDIC says that the fund used to protect consumer deposits could soon dry up. Wonderful, just wonderful.
A Russian general has taken a page from the “911 was an inside job” crowd .. saying that the United States planned the satellite collision that happened in early February. Too much fermented potato juice, I suspect.
A bill currently in the House Energy and Commerce Committee would place tobacco under control of the Food and Drug Administration. Uh oh. Something else I can agree on? What a day!
Looks like Obama’s plans for energy-independence have run into a little snag … in New York, green projects are tied up in red tape because their projects will endanger bats, birds and other wildlife.
Can anybody please tell me why this news about Google giving out million dollar bonuses is a big deal? The company managed to turn in a profit, even in this economy. Darn right they should be giving bonuses. I have family members working for Google. Maybe I can float a loan.
Is anyone going to call out the AFL-CIO executives for having their winter meeting at a luxury resort in Miami? No Democrat, that’s for sure. I would like to know how many of them flew down there on a private jet.
Michelle Malkin keeps us updated on where your stimulus money is being spent .. on bike paths, sidewalks and beautification projects! Sounds like economic stimulus to me.
Apparently some Republicans in Missouri have downed the Obama birth certificate kool-aid. They have proposed a “voter bill of rights” to take care of any future situations.
Do you qualify for Barack Obama’s foreclosure prevention plan? The Washington Post has created a little interactive survey to find out.
Can listening to sexually aggressive lyrics prompt teenagers to have sex at an earlier age? Yeah … like they actually need prompting.
Here’s a classy 21-year-old woman who punched a flight attendant on a flight leaving from Tampa.
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March 4th, 2009 Comment On This Post
| President Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress passed a massive $789 billion expansion of government literally overnight, while not one member of Congress or the public had an opportunity to read the legislation, let alone provide any input. You may recall that the President campaigned on transparency.
The President also campaigned on passing legislation without pet project earmarks. He is about to sign the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2009, which contains 8600 pet projects by members of Congress. He and his staff calls that “last year’s business, let’s just move on.”
We have heard the President, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi talk of bi-partisan cooperation many times in speeches. Yet, Republican ideas or alternatives have been ignored and met with responses of “we won, we wrote the bill”.
Despite the thousands of emails and phone calls we and others have generated, they continue to pass runaway spending legislation loaded with sneak-a-taxes, new taxes and funding for new government programs, while not seriously addressing the big problems of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending.
An equally big problem is the soon to be “Worse Than Expected” shortfall in federal tax revenue, which puts us on a certain trajectory for an extended recession.
In the first 100 days of President Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress, it’s been business worse than usual in Washington D.C. We now have an economic crisis and a leadership crisis.
Be reminded that our IT movement is a not a “sprint”.
It’s a “marathon”.
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March 4th, 2009 Comment On This Post
Some interesting articles to read:
Russia says that it does not want to haggle over this missile defense shield and Iranian nuclear plans. This is Putin telling Obama “We’re calling the shots here.”
Here’s a real shocker .. Tim Geithner said that stabilizing the financial system is probably going to cost more than the original $700 billion plan.
Tomorrow the Congress is going to vote on this mortgage “cramdown” bill.
Does anybody find this a little humorous? Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is going to set rules to limit the ability of international companies to avoid U.S. taxes.
Dick Morris explains how Obama and the Democrats are waging a war on prosperity.
Yesterday the Senate voted to keep all of their 8,500 earmarks in the omnibus spending bill.
The next looming $1 trillion bailout? Government pension plans.
Harry Reid say that Senate Republicans want Barack Obama to fail.
Do you know the truth about Obama’s scary Hoover-style taxhikes? With his new energy taxes, Obama is going to be raising taxes on everyone .. not just those filthy, evil rich people making over $250,000 a year.
Victor Davis Hanson says that after just five weeks, we can already tell what the next four years are going to look like.
Tony Blankley has a new bumper sticker slogan for ya .. Obama lied; the economy died.
“Creative tension.” That is how Henry Waxman describes the future of our healthcare system that includes both private and government insurers.
Jim Cramer said that “this is the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a President.” The White House’s response was to say that Jim Cramer’s opinions are “geared to a very small audience.”
When you are trying to drive away the urban youth from your local mall .. Barry Manilow is the ticket.
A woman in Niagara Falls put on a sign on her private property saying “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.” The police weren’t too happy about this one.
Someone has created a “bail me out” application for the iPhone where you can just press a button and magically be free of responsibility.
All articles were obtained from boortz.com
March 2nd, 2009 Comment On This Post
Some interesting articles to read:
Obama’s spending bill has over 9,000 earmarks and is going to increase spending by nearly 9% .. yeah, this is change we can believe in. This is Change that Will Destroy Us.
Here’s a real shocker .. the states received all of this money from this economic stimulus bill , but it still isn’t going to be enough for many of them. Please, sir. Can I have some more?
Barack Obama named Adolfo Carrion to be his Director of Urban Affairs … too bad the guy pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money. By the way … if we’re going to have a Director of Urban Affairs, may I be the first to say: Secretary of Hip Hop?
Obama has officially chosen Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be his health and human services secretary.
This is a simple breakdown of how Obama’s tax plans are going to affect each tax bracket. If you’re achievement oriented you may not like this.
The Financial Times says that the Republicans were right all along about Obama .. this budget reveals the fact that Obama is, in fact, a liberal. It took the FT this long to figure that out? They need to listen to more talk radio in the FT editorial offices.
Obama reminds America, “You know that tough times for America often mean tougher times for African Americans.” Tough times mean tough times for people who revel in their victim status. As Dr. Robert Schuller says, “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.”
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is headed to Washington to convince Barack Obama that we need a “global grand bargain,” otherwise known as a global new deal.
In Germany, the wealth-envy crowd is torching luxury cars in order to get back at all those greedy capitalists.
How bad could the union card check bill be? Apparently even worse than we thought.
Here are some thoughts from Mitt Romney on how Obama is doing so far. Imagine how different things could be if this guy was running the show. Oh … but he’s a Mormon! A socialist is OK .. but a Mormon?
AIG is getting another $30 billion in taxpayer assistance.
Sheriff Joe out there in Maricopa County, Arizona has some boxers in a bunch. Protestors are upset with his stance on illegal aliens.
When the times get tough, states start to think of any way they can to impose new taxes. And I mean any way …
FEMA employees in New Orleans have been accused of purposefully slowing down post-Katrina recovery in order to keep their government jobs. Sounds about right for government employees.
Studies show that older Americans are working longer, which means that younger Americans are being squeezed out of the job market. Reason? Older Americans have a work ethic.
Water authority officials in San Diego are spending $68,000 to print and distribute door tags to houses that use too much water.
A woman in Dayton was given a ticket for breastfeeding and talking on her cell phone while driving.
How about an $81 billion bill for gas? That was the case for one driver in Washington.
And now for a list of The 15 Strangest College Courses In America.
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February 28th, 2009 Comment On This Post
 An interesting article by Herman Cain:
A National Bad Attitude
Consistent bad news will eventually lead to a bad attitude, and a bad attitude leads to failure. Just ask any high achiever in business, sports or any endeavor of life.
Since the summer of 2008, we have been fed a constant diet of more and more bad news about the economy, the credit crisis, the housing crisis, the recession, political scandals, a dysfunctional federal government, crooked politicians, crooked lenders, crooked borrowers and crooked executives. Read the full story.
February 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
 After I read this story, the Republicans deserved what they got this past election. But we must start from the beginning of this economic mess.
President Clinton’s tenure was characterized by economic prosperity and financial deregulation, which in many ways set the stage for the excesses of recent years. Among his biggest strokes of free-wheeling capitalism was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, a cornerstone of Depression-era regulation. He also signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which exempted credit-default swaps from regulation. In 1995 Clinton loosened housing rules by rewriting the Community Reinvestment Act, which put added pressure on banks to lend in low-income neighborhoods. Read this 1999 NY Times article: Fannie Mae eases credit to aid mortgage lending.
Second, in a 2003 NY Times article, the Bush administration wanted regulation on both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.
I found the original bill that was intrduced as H.R. 2803: Housing Finance Regulatory Restructuring Act of 2003.
Rep. Edward Royce (R-CA) was the only sponsor, there were no co-sponsors and the damn bill never made it out of committee which means it never even made it to the house to be voted on. And guess why? Because of major lobbying that was done by Fannie and Freddie, we’re talking $200 million in lobbying.
Which brings me to this story that I read today.
Lawyers hired by mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac are quietly investigating the firm’s own $2 million lobbying campaign, The Associated Press has learned. The lobbying effort helped quash proposed new regulations on the company before the housing market collapsed.
Back in 2005, the Bush administration tried again at getting oversight on Fannie and Freddie through the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 which was sponsored by Chuck Hagel (R-NE).
The inquiry inside Freddie Mac follows stories by the AP about the company secretly hiring Republican consulting firm DCI Group of Washington to stop a proposal in the Senate in 2005 sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. The legislation would have forced Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to sell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets from their portfolios of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. At the time, the portfolios were highly lucrative but their value plunged when the housing market collapsed.
_An accounting of the work done for the $2 million in payments to the DCI Group. It targeted 17 Republican senators in 13 states working to defeat Hagel’s regulatory legislation by convincing prominent constituents and financial contributors the bill would hurt the housing boom. The measure was never brought to a vote and died.
Well thanks alot assholes! I have been so ignorant this entire time and putting a substantial amount of blame on the Democrats and now the real truth finally comes out. This one is really on the Republicans. They had control of Congress and could have done something about it. But, Democrats and Republicans are all the same. They will screw their own kind for money and have no respect for the citizens that they are supposed to serve. The people that were involved in this should be hung publicly!
February 13th, 2009 Comment On This Post
 Hello Intelligent Thinker!
As the legislative sausage called “Economic Stimulus” continues to move through Congress for approval, it still contains a lot more spending than incentives for businesses and workers.
That probably will not change as the legislation moves to conference between the Senate and the House, and the new estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of $838 billion will probably go up and not down.
As expected, Republican Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voted with all the Democrats to advance the bill. I guess bi-partisan means three Republican votes in the Senate, and no Republican votes in the House as voted on last week.
President Obama and Senator Harry Reid still claim that it will create four million jobs, provide a tax cut for the middle class, and invest in America’s future.
The devil is in the details, and there are a lot of devils in this bill. Many of the detail devils we do not even know about yet, because it is moving so fast.
Because of all the media attention on the hundreds of billions of dollars in the “Stimulus Bill”, the public paid little attention to the $35 billion SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) signed by President Obama. The amount is not the issue by Washington standards, but expanding the eligibility requirements to include adults and higher income families is the issue. It is supposed to be about covering children in low-income families, not about a back door approach to socialized medicine.
We have a whirlwind SCHIP bill passed into law, and a soon to be whirlwind “Stimulus Bill” that is a long way from the rhetoric of President Obama.
Next up on the Democrat controlled whirlwind agenda, the “Employee Free Choice Act”. My latest article (Card Check Lies) makes the case for replacing the words ‘free choice’ with ‘no choice’ in the title. You make the call.
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February 2nd, 2009 Comment On This Post
Some interesting articles to read:
The Republicans have elected a new National Chairman - former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. One of his first statements was to point out that the GOP lost its way in the 1990s and expanded the size of government.
Congressman Jeff Flake brings up a very suspicious rule included in the economic stimulus bill that could prevent earmark challenges.
Iran says that Obama’s offer to talk shows that America’s policy of domination has failed and Western ideology has become passive.
A question floating around the Internet this weekend … Is Obama’s post-partisan politics dead on arrival?
Outrageous: Milwaukee Public Schools will get $88.6 million from this economic stimulus bill for new construction, “even though the district has 15 vacant school buildings, a large surplus of property and no plans for new construction.”
The other day we told you about Congressman David Obey’s son getting billions of dollars in stimulus for his national parks program .. check out how Obey’s office is handling the report.
This is not good news .. while the private workforce is losing jobs, the number of people working for the government is growing.
Obama is considering appointing a Republican senator to his cabinet .. but apparently this will not affect the delicate balance in the Senate as his replacement will be a Republican.
The White House is looking for ways to control the commercial use of Obama’s image.
A ranking member of the GOP wants to reconsider stimulus funding for the National Science Foundation after it was discovered that top staff members spent most of their days surfing the Internet for porn.
I’ll admit that we have been pre-occupied with this economic stimulus bill lately .. and for good reason. But something that is quietly slipping by is the slow implementation of government healthcare, thanks to the Democrats.
Canada and other nations are concerned about the “Buy American” requirement of the economic stimulus bill.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus is at it again .. saying that global warming is a hoax. Gotta love it.
Great Britain’s green advisor says that couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” because they are creating an “unbearable burden” on the environment.
How is California’s experiment with “green jobs” working out? Well .. judging by their current financial woes, I’d say not so well.
Government schools in Pittsburgh are delaying school for 2-hours this morning because of the Super Bowl last night.
Bruce Springsteen is upset that he made a deal with Wal-Mart to exclusively sell his album because Wal-Mart is “anti-union” and Bruce Springsteen is a bed-wetting liberal.
And now for the biggest story of the day .. Michael Phelps has been caught smoking marijuana.
Speaking of marijuana, Barack Obama’s half brother was arrested in Kenya for possession of marijuana.
Do you think someone in the newsroom got fired for this one? You gotta see it. It’s hilarious.
In case you care, YouTube has set up a channel where you can view and vote on Super Bowl ads.
Are you the cool parent that lets kids drink at your house? In Georgia, a woman has been charged for doing just that after a kid died after drinking at her house then driving. With mugshot. And here are Neal’s thoughts on the story from last week.
All articles were obtained from boortz.com
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