World’s Richest Man – Not a Santa Claus
Mexico’s Carlos Slim, named the world’s richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family. As a youngster he also kept accounting ledgers of what he earned and spent and bought a government savings bond from which he learned valuable lessons about compound interest. More than half a century later Slim, 70, has amassed a fortune … Read entire article »
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Obama Health Care: Soprano Tactics?
I am only one of many, a majority of people, who recognize that the health care system in the USA needs help, but are totally against the one Obama has ready for us. For those who still favor the idea, perhaps they should ask themselves, is it a good bill? If so, then why did it take so many sweetheart deals to get it pushed through this far, and that STILL might not be enough? Why can’t this bill stand on its own merit??? From the New York Post: President Obama’s attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of “The Sopranos.” Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa’s bizarre accusations of locker-room confrontations and conspiracies … Read entire article »
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Pride…Secretly Fears All Competition and Dreads All Rivals
An article from Chuck Norris: Obama’s Oscar by Chuck Norris I am no pinnacle of humility, and I’ve learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I’m not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride. It’s one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it’s quite another in the Oval Office. We were promised change, but it seems to me this White House’s smug swagger and strut rival the great taunts and bluster of Muhammad Ali in his heyday. In fact, if I were handing out awards, President Barack Obama would win hands down the Oscar for overconfidence and arrogance. Here are a few examples of his Oscar-worthy political … Read entire article »
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Grandma Buried Alive
Keep in mind as you read this, that China makes up the people that own most of our economy these days. From Fox News Grandma in China Fighting Property Developers Reportedly Buried Alive Wang Cuyun from Hubei Province was struggling with workers trying to tear down her house and was allegedly beaten by a worker wielding a wooden stick. She was dumped in a drainage ditch that ringed her property and a bulldozer covered her with earth, burying her alive. Witnesses said three policemen were present to supervise the eviction but did nothing to intervene or protect her. Her son joined other relatives trying to rescue her. It took more than half an hour to pull her free from the ditch, by which time she was dead. Wang’s son moved her … Read entire article »
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Pelosi Wants to Pass it So You Can Know What’s In It.
If you ever had a doubt that our representatives read the bills they sign into law, spending trillions of dollars, or if they really care about transparency about what is IN the bills they sign, let Pelosi answer this for you. In answer to the Health Care Bill, she says, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” … Read entire article »
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Health Care Gets Ugly
It’s getting ugly this health care thing… To push his health care bill through, Obama has been trying to vilify the Insurance companies. ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted. “(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They’re telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under … Read entire article »
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Entice Travel to the U.S. Charge $10?
Apparently travel to the U.S. is down. So to help this we will charge visitors $10? I don’t get it. According to Breitbart: The US Travel Association industry group estimates that a 10-year drop in US tourism — much of it after the September 11, 2001 attacks — has cost some 440,000 jobs and a half-trillion dollars in related spending. Yahoo posts: President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers.The U.S. Travel Association calls it a major step in addressing the drop-off in such visits to the U.S. during the past decade. The association says the U.S. welcomed 2.4 million fewer overseas visitors last year than in 2000. And that, the group … Read entire article »
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John Stossel says Get Government Out of Energy Game
John Stossel says free markets, not politicians, should lead way on energy research. … Read entire article »
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Bogus Green Jobs
‘Anti-Lobbyist’ Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ‘Green Jobs’ From Pajamas Media: After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies. Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore’s company’s former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros’ Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama’s wind energy proposals. The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being … Read entire article »
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Nuclear Option
From Fox News: House Panel Paves Way for ‘Nuclear Option’ in Health Care Reform Bill A key House committee on Thursday quietly altered its health care legislation in a way that could allow the Senate to mow over Republican opposition to Democratic reforms by exploiting a budgetary loophole. The Ways and Means Committee adjusted its health care overhaul package so that the Senate, down the road, could avoid a filibuster and pass health care reform with a smaller number of votes than normally required. The long-discussed process, nicknamed the “nuclear option,” is known as reconciliation. It’s coming into potential play after the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday became the last of five committees to approve health care reform legislation, sending the overhaul proposals a … Read entire article »
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Gold Medals, Beer, Champagne, Cigars, Condoms
Somehow, the following doesn’t meet my image of an Olympic Athlete: Drinking beer, champagne, and smoking cigars celebrating a win in plain view. I don’t know what was the message here… Canada’s top Olympic official sees no reason to put a damper on the women’s hockey team’s beer-swigging, cigar-smoking celebration of its gold-medal victory over the U.S. team. In Whistler and Vancouver, Olympic sentiment largely supported the players who went back onto the ice … Read entire article »
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Majority Says Government a Threat to Citizens’ Rights
From CNN A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans. It seems Republicans and Independents think fairly alike on this issue. … Read entire article »
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Health Care Summit – Seek Immediate Medical Help
I didn’t watch or have time for the health care summit on the television. I don’t need politicians spin on a Health Care Bill that I already know I don’t want. I am not alone in that, most people in this country don’t want it either. So why are they trying to push it on the American people? If you read the bill, you will find little about health care, and more about control of our lives. Why spend billions that we don’t have, call it about health care, and have it control our every move? Well, a good question to ask its supporters. I surely do not know. Knowing this, I just opted to wait and see what the news agencies would have to say on the summit today. I learned from … Read entire article »
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As Despotic as They Need to Be
Politically, there has been a lot to blog about, but I have resisted. I think it’s that overload often talked about. We are saturated with this stuff to the point that we turn it off after awhile, and some think, yes, that’s the idea – saturate them and they will turn it off. One thing is for sure, Obama and the Democrat controlled congress is losing it’s appeal to the everyday American. Even so they are trying … Read entire article »
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Obama Administration Denies Public Access to Fannie and Freddie Documents
If you had a 400 billion dollar bill, and you were partially responsible to pay for it, wouldn’t you like to know WHY and HOW this bill came to be? Fannie and Freddie Mac alone will likely comprise 400 billion of the trillions that went out in the bailouts. The American people are paying the bill and told very little. Don’t you think we have a right to know? What about the transparency this administration promised? Unfortunately the Obama administration disagrees. Just last month the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the agency responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, responded to our FOIA lawsuit by telling us that all of the documents we seek are not “FOIA-able”! “…Any records created by or held in the custody of the Enterprises … Read entire article »
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Alarming Homelessness Under Obama
Remember the lady who was going to be so thankful to Obama, because she wasn’t going to have to ever worry about paying her mortgage? Maybe in a backwards way, she was right. I mean if they foreclose on your house, there is no mortgage anymore to pay for and there is ALARMING homelessness under Obama…. On Yahoo News: Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families. Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits — a “perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing,” in one official’s eyes.”We are seeing many families that never before sought government help,” said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island. “We see a spiral in food stamps, … Read entire article »
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Bailout Greece?
Greece in is financial trouble and The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, dashed hopes of a swift bailout of debt-laden Greece yesterday. The euro continued to fall today amid disappointment that the European Union has not come up with a solid rescue plan for Greece. Figures showing that Germany’s economic recovery unexpectedly stalled in the final quarter of last year added to the euro’s woes. A small headline barely a notice for most Americans maybe, but perhaps we should be closer attention. Pat Buchanan has a very interesting take on the subject, I think we should pay close attention: They are called the PIGS — Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. What … Read entire article »
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Biden Credits Obama with Iraq War Success
We all know that Joe Biden can say the most interesting of things. But recently on the Larry King Show he truly surprised me. “I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a … Read entire article »
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Obama Flip Flops on Big Bonuses
Obama shows again his doublemindedness. Remember when big bonuses were a bad thing? In March 2009, President Obama called the AIG bonuses an “outrage.” Flashback: Obama Says Bonuses Are Violation Of “Our Fundamental Values” NOW: Obama Doesn’t “Begrudge” Millions in Bonuses for ‘Savvy’ Bankers Of course not! Not when the bankers are his “friends” and big campaign contributors. President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is “an extraordinary amount of money” for Main Street, “there are some baseball players who are making more than … Read entire article »
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Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Obama underwrites offshore drilling, and while you might not be hearing this story in the mainstream media, even WSJ is trying to look positive on this story. Digging deeper, as Glenn Beck did, here is what you find out: “Today, even though President Obama is against off shore drilling for our country, he signed an executive order to loan 2 Billion of our taxpayers dollars to a Brazilian Oil … Read entire article »
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Polluters, Ant Watchers, Slumlords, Oh My!
From Fox News Federal agencies are spending stimulus money at the rate of $196 million an hour. And they will do so every hour for the next eight months until a September 30, 2010, deadline. “When you put that kind of money out the door that fast, there’s a possibility of $55 billion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse connected with it,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday before a Senate Finance Committee hearing examining the lack of oversight in the $878 billion dollar economic stimulus bill passed a year ago. The dollars and the amounts are starting not to mean anything anymore I think…Anyway, have a look and see if these are the kind of “jobs” America needs. Most, from my point of view, are questionable and that is putting it mildly. … Read entire article »
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Lech Walesa’s Warning for America
In a video-taped interview by a group known as foundingbloggers.com, Walesa indicated that the U.S. was heading toward socialism because of two factors: “The issue with the banks; and the government wastes all the money; they build a bureaucracy; just for itself.” He nailed it. “The government wastes all the money, they build a bureaucracy…..JUST FOR ITSELF. That just says it all, doesn’t it? He went on to reassure: “But we will not let you devolve to communism here. The … Read entire article »
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Stimulus for Fraud
Michael E. Mann is an American climatologist, and author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has attained public prominence as lead author of a number of articles on paleoclimate and as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph” for the shape of the graph. The graph received both praise and criticism after its publication in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Mann was implicated … Read entire article »
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Allowance for Climate Policy
Ah that sneaky Obama… From Informed Citizens The big news in last year’s budget release was the revelation that the Obama administration planned to use cap-and-trade to raise $646 billion dollars over ten years to finance its big spending programs. At the time I wrote here in the Fox Forum that estimate was a lowball of what actually constituted the biggest tax increase in U.S. history, something White House economist Jason Furman later admitted when he revealed the real revenue would likely be triple the official estimate. So the first thing I checked in this year’s budget was how much revenue was expected from the cap-and-trade energy tax, to which the president reiterated his commitment in his State of the Union address last week. The surprising answer is the budget actually has, … Read entire article »
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Canada Health Care
We’ve heard stories of Canadians crossing the border to the U.S. to get health care. Now in the midst of Obama trying to change our system completely, we have a story of Premier Danny Williams coming to the U.S. for heart surgery. Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States. National Post Story HERE Mr. Williams, 59, has said nothing of his health in the media. The premier’s press secretary confirmed … Read entire article »
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Backdoor Taxes to Hit Middle Class
Obama promised no taxes on middle and lower class, but there is one way the common folk like you and me could feel that promise broken is if Obama allows the Bush administration’s Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to expire. Some little reported news on Reueters: In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth. While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases. The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration’s Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act … Read entire article »
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Dem. Senators Spent Weekend with Bank, Energy, Tobacco Lobbyists
From Politico Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by POLITICO. The guest list for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s “winter retreat” at the Ritz Carlton South Beach Resort doesn’t include the price tag for attendance, but the maximum contribution to the committee, typical for such events, is $30,000. There, to participate in “informal conversations” and other meetings Saturday, were senators including DSCC Chairman Robert Menendez; Michigan’s Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow; Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; freshmen Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Begich of Alaska; and even left-leaning Bernie Sanders of Vermont. This seems so much in contrast to President … Read entire article »
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The Cost of Illegal Immigration
Lisa sent this to me. Mind you, I am all for legal immigration, but this surely makes you think. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.0.html 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 6. $3 Million Dollars a … Read entire article »
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