MEANWHILE BACK AT THE WHITE HOUSE --

Did you hear Obama’s State of the Union (campaign) speech this week? Maybe you did, but I watched the first 5 minutes, and that’s all I could stomach. I turned it off after I heard the first reference to “fair share.” I wondered how long it would take for him to get to those two words, and it sure didn’t take long. Turns out he made half a dozen references to his favorite slogan, no surprise there.

But wait, shouldn’t fairness begin at home? An IRS report just out reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. The Mr. Fair Share-hired-workforce hasn’t paid any taxes, much less their “fair share.”


These Tax Dodger Obama cohorts can’t exactly claim poverty as a reason for not paying their taxes. Reports show that the Obama White House staff includes 457 aides earning more than $37 million last year. That’s up nearly $4 million from the Bush administration’s last year.


More stats for your reading pleasure? One-third of Obama’s aids make more than $100,000 per year, with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200 each. That’s an extremely high wage for anyone, lots of moolah, especially with 20 million Americans unemployed.


And there’s lots more “fair share” to go around. Turns out that the 25,640 U. S. Postal service employees owe nearly $270 million. Employees in the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives owe more than $10 million. Military personnel owe more than $100 million.


The bottom line as reported by the IRS report is postal workers, congressional staffers, military personnel and federal workers, both active and retired, owe $3,420,168,684 in unpaid taxes for 2010. Yes, that’s over $3 billion. This is an increase of more than 3 percent over the previous year.


When Mr. Fair Share continually castigates the “rich” for paying exactly what the current law says they should, he sounds like an uninformed buffoon. He should concentrate on getting his own White House employees and all other federal employees to pay the “fair share” they currently owe. Collecting $3 billion in back taxes would certainly help in improving our budget picture.


Obama talks about wanting more tax breaks for the middle class. Well, I call this one HUGE tax break for federal employees. If you don’t pay your taxes, that’s a tax break. But if the rest of us didn’t pay our taxes we’d be sitting in front of a federal judge, bingo-bango. Turbo Tax Cheat Timothy Geithner should be instructing the IRS to go get ‘em, now! Oh, I forgot. Turbo Timmy is also a tax cheat.

TEXAS CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE RUNS JACKASS AD

Roger Williams, candidate for Congress from Texas, brings a bit of levity to the campaign.  See it here, The Donkey Whisperer.  Pretty clever, very non-conventional. 

A HUMDINGER OF A HYPED-UP HUSTLE

“With or without Congress,” Obama says he’s going to get ‘er done. He suddenly wants to streamline this and downsize that, too much paper, too many reports, consolidating, merging, combining, joining, uniting a variety of super-sized departments and branches and offices of the Executive Branch. Well, howdy, doodie, what a Joke! What a total, phony baloney, Jim-dandy, utter unqualified jive-talking scam.


All of a sudden the biggest spending president in history, the president who has expanded the size of the federal government unmercifully, has hired one highly paid government employee after another, has created more bureaus, committees and Czar led boards than any president ever, now he wants you to believe he has seen the light and has become a small government reformer. Streamlining? Oh, sure. Obamacare, the president’s trademark legislation, will blow a hole in the size of government that the public cannot even imagine and from which we will never recover. You think Medicare and Social Security are in financial trouble? Just wait for Obamacare to bankrupt the Nation.


Well, let’s take a look at what the Great Small Government Reformer wants to do, shall we? These are the agencies our Esteemed Leader wants to merge, consolidate, downsize, you name it. The Commerce Department, The Small Business Administration, The Office of the US Trade Representative, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, The Export-Import Bank, The Trade and Development Agency. What do all of these agencies have in common? They are all PRO BUSINESS. That might mean that they tend to see things in a Conservative way. But no surprise here, targeting businesses is nothing new for this president. Why isn’t he targeting the departments who support Planned Parenthood and NPR or a million other Liberal giveaway grant programs, like smoking monkeys and Chinese prostitutes and bridges to nowhere or other stupid spending which you can find at Dirty Spending Secrets?


The hiccup? Obama needs the cooperation of Congress to enact his proposal. He has to ask Congress for the power to merge federal agencies. I hope Congress responds with a big, fat, emphatic NO.


The fact is this president cannot be trusted on anything he says. Give him this power, and the next thing you know, he’ll figure out how to abolish Congress with the stroke of his Executive Order pen or when Congress is in “recess.” This Great Pretender has been defying the Constitution and Congress since he took office. He has no respect for either. He has an agenda and he’s going to run with it as fast and as far as he can, Congress and the Constitution bedamned.


The true picture of his total ignorance is that he is not recommending abolishing any of these departments, rather he wants to lump them all together. Look what happened when the Department of Homeland Security was established by Bush, and 23 agencies were consolidated into one behemoth of a department. It grew to well over 200,000 employees and in 2011 was allocated 96.8 billion dollars. It is now the third largest cabinet department. No savings or downsizing or increased efficiency here.


And that is exactly what will happen under the Pretenders consolidation proposal. I’d like to grab him by the shoulders and ask him point blank, “What Is Wrong With ELIMINATION Of Some of These Departments?”

Don't trust anything he says.  This is nothing more than another political we-get-the-shaft gimmick designed to convince his Obamatrons to vote for him again.  If you fell for it the first time, don't be stupid enough to fall for it now.   

Want to know what America's public schools are teaching our kids?  Watch this video and weep.  Jack Chambless, Valencia College economics professor, had his college class write an essay on how they view America.  The result?  80% expect the government to provide them with everything. The American work ethic for this upcoming generation is dead.  Talk about an "entitlement generation," it's staring us in the face right now.  This is where Occupy Wall Street came from.  Frightening?  This generation of entitlement brats is going to be in control of this country while you and I continue to get taxed to pay for their expectations.  Get rid of the Department of Education. That's the first thing that should be done in 2013 after the election.  Though I don't know if turning education back to the states would make much difference.  Same mindset, same liberal gimme agenda, same entitlement result. 

SMITHSONIAN SPENDS YOUR MONEY

See what your tax dollars paid for during the Christmas season.  The taxpayer funded Smithsonian has done it again.  With a $15 trillion dollar debt and 40 cents of every dollar either borrowed from China or funny money printing from the Federal Reserve, the Smithsonian could be defunded. 

SMITHSONIAN SPENDS YOUR MONEY

OBAMA DUMPS AMERICAN JOBS AGAIN

OBAMA MAKES ANOTHER

MOVE-MORE-JOBS-OUT-OF-AMERICA DEAL

BEFORE EXITING THE WHITE HOUSE

Obama says to big business, bring back the jobs from India and China. And what does he do? He outsources to Brazil –again. He must like Brazil, maybe it’s a great vacation place (which O & M are fond of) because a year or so ago he gave Brazil billions of dollars to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, after he shut down our oil rigs in the same area, and then he proudly announced to Brazil that we would be their best customer. Oh, job creation, what an admirable goal.

And now this week the Obama administration has done it again. Obama told U.S. owned Hawker Beechcraft that they are excluded from bidding on the US Air Force contract for a light attack aircraft to be used to train Afghanistan’s pilots. Yes, that's EXCLUDED, NOT ALLOWED TO BID.  That leaves Embraer, a Brazilian owned aircraft company, as the recipient of this very lucrative deal. How much U.S. taxpayer money is going to Brazil? Oh, about a cool one billion dollars.


What a triple slap in the face of American workers. We need jobs, Barry. Our economy needs the infusion of the money these workers would spend here. And what about our security, Barry? Why are you giving a DEFENSE contract to Brazil, a foreign owned company? You show up on TV with your numerous teleprompters and rag on the Republicans for not passing your “jobs” bills and stating it’s their fault, they are stopping your “jobs” program. And then you turn around and kill jobs with the wave of your hand and the scratch of your pen.

You want to force companies to repatriate billions of overseas dollars. You want to raise taxes so you can spend billions more on stimulus that doesn’t stimulate anything except the pockets of your Socialist Democratic donors. But you don’t have enough brains to award an American defense contract to an American defense company.


There’s lots of stupidity to go around in the Obama administration, but this is not just a colossally ignorant decision. It’s a perfect example of Obama’s Chicago-style political payback with a billion of your dollars. Because guess who owns part of Embraer? Yes, Obama’s socialist fund-raising buddy, George Soros.


The constant payback scams evident in the Obama administration are bad enough, but this biggie is at the expense of our national security.


Did the main stream mess cover this outrageous security issue? Not much. They are too busy covering Obama’s re-election campaign, again following him around like little puppy dogs waiting for a pat on the head, their tongues hanging out, drool dribbling, tail wagging, and urinating on the floor.


How much more damage can Barry do in the next 14 months? Too much, I fear. But maybe, just maybe, the Tea Party people in Congress can shut him down until he’s kicked out of office. I sure hope so. Of course, we the Taxpayer will be supporting Barry and Michelle for the rest of their lives. No way for us to get out of that.


Here are the links, Folks.  Find out for yourself just how much ignorance and payola slink through the halls in Obama's White House. 



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CZAR APPOINTMENTS ON STEROIDS!!

CZAR APPOINTMENTS ON STEROIDS!


Mr. I-Refuse-To-Take-No-For-An-Answer is at it again. Oh, how quickly The Head Czar forgets what he said in 2008. And I quote, “This is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he is going along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution, and I will obey the Constitution of the United States.“ Obviously He didn’t teach Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. He has no understanding of it.


Article 2 talks about the president’s power to fill vacancies during the recess of the Senate. All well and good, except the Senate is not in recess. Article I, Section 5 states that neither House shall without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days.” Article 1, Sec. 5 was defined by the Clinton Justice Department in 1993 to mean that Congress must remain adjourned for at least three days before the adjournment constitutes a “recess” for the purposes of the recess appointment power. In 2010 Obama’s Solicitor General, Elena Kagen, agreed with the 1993 DOJ ruling.


In a nutshell, a president can only “recess appoint” when the Senate has adjourned for more than three days, and the Senate cannot adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the House. House Speaker Boehner has properly withheld consent for the Senate to adjourn, meaning the Senate is NOT IN RECESS. Such a simple concept, yet so hard for the Head Czar to understand. He obviously doesn’t grasp what our Constitution means.


So now he recess appoints Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama wants this appointment in place to implement provisions of the Dodd Frank bill. The Republicans don’t want an appointment to this position at all until the powers of the position are changed. The CFPB, as written in Dodd Frank, is one of the least accountable and most powerful agencies in Washington. It is subject to no checks and balances and will have unprecedented reach and control over every consumer financial transaction. It will be funded out of Federal Reserve operations and thus will not be subject to congressional appropriates, avoiding any congressional oversight. All of this power is vested in ONE individual with no board, no commission and no Legislative branch overseeing funding or having veto power over all the new rules and regs that will surely be birthed by Mr. Cordray.


Senate Republicans have correctly called for reforms to make the new agency accountable before confirming any nominee and allowing that nominee to begin writing rules that would have a major adverse impact on the economy. The Republicans’ position is that we do not need more job restricting regulations coming out of Washington. Another governmental bureaucracy will cost billions and will be no more effective than the thousands of committees already in existence. It’s just another way to put more people into government jobs so they continue to vote for their benefactor, and the patronage cycle continues. Hope and Change? You decide.


But Obama doesn’t care how many more private sector jobs he kills with over-regulation. He’s on a mission to cripple America, and he’s succeeding. He’s making up his own tyrannical game plan as he goes along, and we will all pay the price for his folly.  Impeachment sounds like a great option to me, but the Republicans don't have the guts to do it. 

OBAMA SAYS AMERICA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION. HE'S WRONG.

Mr. Obama says this is not a Christian nation. Oh, yeah?


This map gives you the percentage of Christians, and all faiths in each state...Click on the link and see the different religions by state and elsewhere by holding the cursor over a state.  The map was created by USA Today. 


CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FAITH BREAKDOWN IN EACH STATE.