As the rolls of the unemployed continue to swell, banks and businesses continue to fold, and real estate - both residential and now commercial - foreclosures are on the rise; it is interesting that the press and pundits continue to tell US that we are in a recovery; when the so-called growth index had to be revised from 3.5 per cent to 2.8 after four quarters of consecutive downticks in the negative area. The figures are being doctored, and even doctored as they are; there is nothing that can be done to mask the depression several sectors of the economy and many states such as California, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Chicago, and others.
It is interesting how the press is spinning this. Twenty years ago, during Ronald Reagan's first term, as the nation was pulling itself up form a double dip recession and hyper inflation, and the growth was at 8 per cent yearly for four years, the press was bemoaning how bad things were, and how impossible it seemed that we would get out of the recession. Yet today, with a fraction of that growth evident, and the figures can be disputed, the same press is telling US that we are in a recovery; even after many experts have stated that a recovery is not to be expected at least for another two years. It's like the proverbial tooth ache that doesn't go away, yet we keep trying to convince ourselves that it is, while we put off going to the dentist for the inevitable painful root canal or extraction.
There are painful solutions to this mess, and it entails putting every politician and the baggage of special interests they carry out of office next year. Is the country ready to do this? Will they? And what about those who will replace them? Are there any credible leaders out there who will serve the public good and not themselves? Who will serve with honesty, integrity, and protect and defend our nation and its interests above all else? Are they out there?
Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke is facing congress to be reconfirmed for another four years. His monetary policies have brought ruin to countless lives, destroyed businesses, driven others out of the country, and have consolidated the power of government in Washington and in the hands of a few http://video.foxnews.com/12183326/repeat-performance The American people are tired of the shell game being played by this administration with their tax dollars.
For example, we have recently heard that AIG has had enough earnings that it will be able to pay back some of the TARP money it received ten months ago. The Obama Administration has trumpeted this as being the successful result of TARP working, but what he and AIG, and the Fed will not tell the American people is the truth. The Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve claim that they're getting the "tax payers'" dollars back because of an accounting trick which is the greatest lie and deception ever concocted by public officials in the history of this republic. The accounting trick the Federal Reserve uses to place AIG "in the black" is by arbitrarily placing zeroes at the end of AIG's balance sheet in their account, then afterwards the Federal Reserve prints greenbacks in order to meet the liquidity. If you, or I, or anybody else did this, we'd be arrested by the Secret Service for counterfeiting and be up on federal charges for it. We'd go to jail.
The Federal Reserve does it, and has been doing it for decades. It is called "monetization." The reason it gets away with this year after year is because there is no congressional oversight of these activities. Isn't it interesting that this private central bank has for decades conducted this criminal activity - counterfeiting is a federal criminal offense - because congress and every president since Woodrow Wilson has allowed it to? Why the double standard? Because it has allowed politicians for decades to buy their votes by spending lavishly and adding to the federal debt without notice. So that congress is complicit in criminal activity along with the Federal Reserve in a criminal enterprise called monetization, but which is in actuality nothing less than the printing of fiat money; counterfeiting.
The double standard must stop. It has cost America too much, and it has ruined livelihood, and diminished the American people's ability to build a life for themselves. The double whammy of monetization (inflation due to the Fed's monetary policies we just examined), high taxation, and the increased cost of compliance to greater federal regulation imposed on small businesses, will not have the added weight of Climate Change legislation in the highest tax ever imposed on business in this nation's history; what is commonly called Cap and Trade, or more accurately called by its detractors as "Cap and Tax." If passed, it will break the economic back of this nation, ruin three quarters of its small businesses, and impede once and for all America's ability to be able to recovery in the following years from this Depression they call the Great Recession. Remember, when business is taxed higher so are we, and if business is required to pay more, they will pass the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) added to their Overhead (the cost of doing business) to the consumer.
The multi-trillion dollar scam known as the Global Warming Cult, now termed Climate Change, a more palatable term; is being foisted on the American electorate by politicians, academicians, and hundreds of Communist front groups which moved their activities to the Environmental Movement as a means to press for Socialism through increased government regulation when the Soviet Union collapsed years ago. Among them are groups of so-called scientists who have allowed their ideology to prejudice their opinions in pushing for an agenda far from that of science, and in the process have created a quasi-religious cult of pseudo-science called Climate Change; with prominent politicians and celebrities as their PR men and women promoting their false data upon an unsuspecting and largely ignorant public.
They don't care and have chosen the age old method of debunking; ignore the charges and claims of the opposition and continue business as usual as though Climate Gate had never happened, and their movement had not been discredited as nothing but a farce. But, what makes this movement so dangerous is the fact that the current president of the United States, himself a militant radical and child of the Communist Left, is himself a proponent of this scam, and is bringing to bear the pressure of the federal EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) upon our elected officials to comply with Copenhagen or face what it calls a "command and control" role in forcing the Climate Change - Global Warming agenda through more draconian regulations which by its own admission will hurt business. This is unheard of. This is the tyranny of government run amok. This is unrepresentative government pushing down on the freedoms of the people it should be accountable to, not the other way around. This is the agenda of the radical Left which has taken over the most powerful levels of our government, and is steering this nation ever increasingly into tyranny and bankruptcy.
There are billions of dollars unaccounted for which President Obama promised when entering office just ten months ago, he was going to post on the Internet. Has he done this? No. he promised transparency, and the end of politics as usual in Washington, and the end of partisan politics; he has done just the opposite. He has closed every negotiation from Republicans, and has only allowed members of his own political party into these sessions. What's more, he has kept the public from knowing what has been discussed in these session, and has not even allowed a sympathetic press to know about what was discussed in them. Then he has had the temerity of claiming that he had attempted to be by-partisan, but was not allowed to be because the GOP had not agreed with his policies, and because of this, had not taken part in these discussions. They didn't take part in any discussions simply because they were not invited to them. What's more, when some GOP members of congress tried to enter them, they were barred by the White House from doing so.
Is this by-partisanship? For years the Democrats claimed that President George W. Bush had been hyper-partisan. that he kept the Democrats out of his policy meetings. Yet, he never kept Democratic members of congress from legislative negotiations at the White House when he was the one conducting the meetings. Why the double standard? Why accuse him of being what he was not? And why claim that Barack Obama is a political healer, a messianic figure who would transform politics in Washington from the hyper-partisan cesspool it had been become under the Clintons to a new era of by-partisan cooperation, amity, and openness and accountability? Because the longer you tell a lie, the more people will believe it. If they can tell you that they're being bi-partisan, and that they're out looking for you, and tell you that they're for the poor and the common man, they might just have you believe it after awhile, and they might even get you to go out for them by voting for their candidates and even campaign for them and give them more of your hard earned ever diminishing money in support of their causes.
We are being forced to accept the most expensive and most destructive pieces of legislation in our nation's history because the politicians who are promoting them claim they're for our good. H.R. 3126, the “Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act" is one such legislation that will destroy small business by increasing the cost of compliance on expensive federal regulations which will do nothing to protect consumers and drive three quarters of the private sector into bankruptcy.
“While I agree that we need to strengthen consumer protection laws, I am concerned this bill will have significant unintended consequences that will harm consumers, rather than protect them. It is all ready difficult to run my business, which has twelve employees. With new restrictions that would further decrease the options for people to do business or pay for services; I can only see more of the same spiral that we are in. I know that my business might not seem like a big problem, but I am not alone. I am like the regular Joe American. I am like what makes up America.” — Greg Welch
The excesses of the banking industry, Wall Street, and congress (Barney Frank, D. Maryland, Christopher Dodd, D. Connecticut, and others) was not because there weren't regulations on the books; it was because the regulations already in place were not being enforced and congress was complicit in the very corruption which led to the collapse of the banking industry, Wall Street, and the real estate bubble through Barney Frank's and Christopher Dodd's Community Reinvestment Act. It was the Community Reinvestment Act which brought federal pressure for the banking and real estate industry to finance questionable investments in private and commercial real estate ventures. It was not under-regulation. This is also how people like Bernie Madoff was able to use the system and his allies within the Security and Exchange Commission to destroy the life savings of countless thousands of people, and help bring the system down. You see folks, you'd almost think that the people behind all of this wanted this to happen so they could convince you that additional regulation on business will help protect you and me from such excesses in the future, when in fact, it is wholly unnecessary. The laws are already in the books. All we need are public officials we elect to see to it that they are complied with. We do not need congress to reshape the American socio-economic landscape and restructure our government in order to be protected from unscrupulous men and women. When the politicians we elect are themselves behind the mess, and are themselves unscrupulous in the affairs of government, then they must be put out by the American electorate.
There is an agenda to reshape the American form of government, and the free enterprise system. The press - the alphabet soup channels are complicit in promoting this agenda and are nothing more than mouthpieces of the White House. During the debate on Obama's so-called Health Care Reform, ABC News blocked all rebuttals and moved its operations into the White House itself. MSNBC and its counterpart NBC are nothing but propaganda pieces of the Obama Administration in their reporting. CBC has for years been in tank for far left causes and politicians. Yet the more information that gets out about Cap in Trade, what some call Cap and Tax, the so-called Health Care Reform which some call Obama Care, the imposition by the EPA of greater regulations, the increased government involvement in business and in every sphere and area of our lives, the more people are beginning to see that government is not their friend, but their foe, and the more people are being moved to act by holding T.E.A. Parties, holding peaceful yet forceful demonstrations in ever increasing numbers, contacting their elected officials through e-mails, phone calls, and faxes, and in the end next year; will make their voices heard as they did this year with the Gubernatorial Elections in Virginia and New Jersey, and the congressional election in upstate New York.
Members of the Obama Administration and a bunch of other so-called world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark at this very moment... plotting ways to impose job-killing measures, under the guise of so-called Global Warming, that would severely cripple the U.S. economy. Specifically, the Obama Administration is pushing an international Cap-and-Trade scheme that experts believe will cost each and every American family literally thousands of dollars per year. The Cap and Trade legislation being promoted by Barack Obama is based upon what has been discovered to be a pseudo-science manipulated by crafty "experts" to promote an agenda that will enrich and has already enriched in the billions those insiders involved in it, and ever more destructive policies by this government. It is based upon false premises which were developed by these so-called experts who, according to their own admission in their own e-mails, did everything possible to manipulate, destroy, and fabricate premises of their own creation, and not based upon raw and unbiased data. According to the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Pershing, the Obama Administration's deputy special envoy for climate change said of the Copenhagen Summit:
"We are committed to achieving the strongest possible outcome in the next two weeks.... There is a deal to be done."
And Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has jumped on the bandwagon as well. The Times added:
"Punctuating the remarks was an announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which formally declared greenhouse gases a danger to human health and subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. ... That decision allows the Obama administration to cut down on emissions even if Congress does not pass legislation dealing with climate change."
If this administration and its allies in congress were more responsible than ideological in their approach to government, and to the service of government, they'd boycott Copenhagen (as Sarah Palin, G-d bless her, has advocated they do), and abandon their quest to penalize American business and cripple this economy with Cap and Trade. Cap in Trade, the Green Agenda, so-called Green Jobs, and every action being taken by this government is nothing more than a continuation of its efforts to redistribute wealth and power to unions, politicians, organizations, and specific business partners it is allied to politically and ideologically. It has absolutely nothing to do with Climate, but it has everything to do with change, yet not for the good. It will break the economic back of the American electorate, and change the balance of power in Washington from a representative form of government to a bureaucratic monstrosity. The Constitution is being ripped to shreds as they draft the legislation and treaties in Copenhagen. Your tax dollars at work, and the person you elected to office right there in the middle of it, pushing it forward with daring and tenacity. Oh yes, make no mistake about it, this is change you can believe in, but not quite the way you thought.
Part of the Green Agenda of which Climate Change Legislation and the Global Warming Cult is a part of, is now promoting 150 billion tax dollars be allocated to the prison system in employing with so-called "green jobs" convicted felons who are behind bars within our prison system. America's unemployed stand at 10 per cent. America's underemployed stand at 17.5 per cent. And if you add to this Americans who are no longer employed or looking for work, who do not exist as far as government is concerned, because they are no longer collecting unemployment benefits and have ceased to look for work; the figure stands as high as 28 per cent. In the face of such misery, the Obama Administration is committing 150 billion tax dollars to employ felons and criminals now within our prison system - the Green Jobs Obama has been talking about.
Perhaps the best way to illustrate the lunacy of the Climate Change/Global Warming crowd is by explaining in plain English what they intend to do, with the Obama Administration and Barack Obama taking the lead. The EPA which now controlled and influenced by radical environmentalists from the Obama Administration, intends to tax and regulate Carbon Emissions; that is they intend to tax and regulate what every living organism on this planet exhales. Every living being on this planet breathes oxygen, and exhales Carbon Dioxide, which the plants take in in order to release oxygen, which we then breath, and then when we exhale, the Carbon Dioxide we exhale is again taken in by plants which afterwards releases oxygen that every living being then inhales. This is what your government in Washington, D.C. led by the Obama Administration, wants to regulate and tax from you and everyone else. This is insane. They want to tax and regulate what we have no control over; our exhaling which is critical for plants to take in for them to release oxygen into the atmosphere which is critical for all air breathing life! Ladies and gentlemen, these people are out of their minds! Their ideology and political agenda for wealth redistribution has brought them to this point, and they are attempting to impose it and its gargantuan costs on US.
At a time when America and the World teeters on the precipice of a Great Depression (unemployment is at 10 %, the latest figures for those whom have filed for unemployment for the first time is up by 17,000, where the official figure stands at 474,000 first time filers), this government seems to be hell bent on imposing every policy measure that will assure to extend the suffering of the American people it claims it is looking out for. What is going on!? What is happening is precisely what I had warned would happen last year when the Democrat Party chose the junior senator from the most corrupt city in Illinois as its presidential candidate. But, he has more than exceeded what I had warned about, because I never thought that the Democratic Party had been so compromised, so penetrated with the level of corruption I've witnessed these past ten months, that elected officials from it would give this man a blank check to do whatever he pleases and get away with it. They've done worst than that; they have and are doing everything in their power to pass legislation which destroy free enterprise and transform this nation, and impoverish the American electorate into serfdom, with they as the powerful aristocracy ruling over them from their perches of power.
America has never faced an enemy like this one, because, with the exception of the Red Scare of the late forties and early sixties, America has never had to face the enemy from within its own gates quite like this one - public officials who are using every trick, every loophole, every law to transform our system of government into one never intended by our Founders. Change you can believe in has become to US a Trojan Horse of unforeseen proportions, though the warnings were there a year ago, but not enough people were listening. But, they're listening now, aren't they? You bet they are. The problem however is that the people they elected to congress and the house and senate leadership pushing this agenda don't care and are not.
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