Let's look at just one:
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." ~Benjamin Franklin
Ok, Democrats & Republicans are the wolves. Average citizens are the lamb. Have you figured it out yet?
While there are many Conservatives who respect, quote and admire our Founding Fathers & defend the Constitution, why do the vast majority of Liberals work so hard to rob Americans of everything the our Founding Father's Constitution stands for?
Liberalism is a pathetic sickness of anti-Americanism with hatred directed at destroying the Constitution. Liberals are but a class of loosers who are mean spirited political bigots who are not interested in the values, liberty or freedoms that made this country great.
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Showing posts with label Liberals. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Bailout for the Spending Monsters of CA?
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Don't even think about it! The Speaker cannot even take care of her home
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refused. Now I live in MO. Don't even think about using my $2,800.00 paid
in Federal taxes for these loosers in CA!
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The day of reckoning that California has been warned
about for years has arrived. The longest recession in generations and the
defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are
expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they
could rewrite the social contract between California and its citizens.
They could also force a fundamental rethinking of the proper role of
government in the Golden State.
"The voters are getting what they asked for, but I'm not sure at the end
of the day they're going to like what they asked for," said Jim Earp,
executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, which represents
the hard-hit construction industry. "I think we've crossed a threshold in
many ways."
California is looking at a budget deficit projected at more than $24
billion when the new fiscal year starts in July. That is more than
one-quarter of the state's general fund.
This week, voters said they no longer want the Legislature to balance
budgets with higher taxes, complicated transfer schemes or borrowing that
pushes California's financial problems off into the distant future. In
light of that, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it clear he
intends to close the gap almost entirely through drastic spending cuts.
The governor's cutbacks could include ending the state's main welfare
program for the poor, eliminating health coverage for about 1.5 million
poor children, halting cash grants for about 77,000 college students,
shortening the school year by seven days, laying off thousands of state
workers and teachers, slashing money for state parks and releasing
thousands of prisoners before their sentences are finished.
"I understand that these cuts are very painful and they affect real
lives," Schwarzenegger said. "This is the harsh reality and the reality
that we face. Sacramento is not Washington — we cannot print our own
money. We can only spend what we have."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sincerely,
Mark Wxxxxxx
314-XXX-XXXX
Message sent to the following recipients:
Senator Bond
Senator McCaskill
Representative Clay
President
Message text follows:
Mark WXXXXXX
9999 SXXXXX Ave.
Saint Louis, MO
May 22, 2009
[recipient address was inserted here]
[recipient name was inserted here],
Don't even think about it! The Speaker cannot even take care of her home
state. For 12 years I tried to tell these idiots to stop spending and they
refused. Now I live in MO. Don't even think about using my $2,800.00 paid
in Federal taxes for these loosers in CA!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The day of reckoning that California has been warned
about for years has arrived. The longest recession in generations and the
defeat this week of a package of budget-balancing ballot measures are
expected to lead to state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they
could rewrite the social contract between California and its citizens.
They could also force a fundamental rethinking of the proper role of
government in the Golden State.
"The voters are getting what they asked for, but I'm not sure at the end
of the day they're going to like what they asked for," said Jim Earp,
executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, which represents
the hard-hit construction industry. "I think we've crossed a threshold in
many ways."
California is looking at a budget deficit projected at more than $24
billion when the new fiscal year starts in July. That is more than
one-quarter of the state's general fund.
This week, voters said they no longer want the Legislature to balance
budgets with higher taxes, complicated transfer schemes or borrowing that
pushes California's financial problems off into the distant future. In
light of that, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it clear he
intends to close the gap almost entirely through drastic spending cuts.
The governor's cutbacks could include ending the state's main welfare
program for the poor, eliminating health coverage for about 1.5 million
poor children, halting cash grants for about 77,000 college students,
shortening the school year by seven days, laying off thousands of state
workers and teachers, slashing money for state parks and releasing
thousands of prisoners before their sentences are finished.
"I understand that these cuts are very painful and they affect real
lives," Schwarzenegger said. "This is the harsh reality and the reality
that we face. Sacramento is not Washington — we cannot print our own
money. We can only spend what we have."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sincerely,
Mark Wxxxxxx
314-XXX-XXXX
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
So What is the real problem with ACORN?
The Inside Story of ACORN
ACORN (American Community Organizations for Reform Now) is among the most misunderstood and most powerful organizations in the country. Its structure is extremely sophisticated and often terribly secretive and it's likely this is done on purpose in order to hide or misdirect from many questionable and often illegal activities. While this last campaign brought to light a series of accusations of voter fraud, the reality is that the malfeasance that goes on at ACORN only scratches the surface when talking about voter fraud. The most significant case of malfeasance so far brought to light was the case of Dale Rathke who embezzled millions from ACORN. This case is important mainly because Rathke is the brother of Wade Rathke, one of the founders of ACORN. When someone so close to the top commits such a brazen act of criminality, questions should be raised. More troubling still is that the embezzlement occurred in 2001 but didn't come to light till months ago, just after the statute of limitations had expired.
ACORN is in fact not really one organization but rather a collection of many affiliates. These affiliates are all classified in a number of different ways. For instance, some are 501 (C)3's. A 501 (C)3 gets special treatment from the government and as such, it also must remain non partisan. Other affiliates are 501 (C)4's. This is a different classification of the tax code and such an organization can be partisan. The flagship, ACORN itself, is a 501 (C)4. It's get out the vote arm, Project Vote, is a 501 (C) 3.
Much of the malfeasance of ACORN comes from its nebulous relationship with a private company called Citizen's Consulting Inc. CCI is a sort of accounting and financial services firm. CCI also only has one client, or shall I say a series of clients...ACORN and all its affiliates. Whenever ACORN receives any money, be it from the federal governmnent or other resources, it first goes to CCI. Then, CCI filters that money to anyone of ACORN's affiliates. Of course, this creates all sorts of room for malfeasance. If the government were to give money to say Health Care for America Now to provide health care services in poor neighborhoods, that money will first wind up at CCI. Where that money ends up is anyone's guess. Why? That's because CCI is a private company and so getting a look at its books is no easy task. In fact, I doubt more than a handful of politicians even know the relationship between ACORN and CCI.
In fact, ACORN is such a sophisticated organization that often politicians will get on the floor of the legislature to rail against ACORN and then turn around and meet with one of their affiliates and authorize funding. That's because more times than not a politician has no idea that they are dealing with an ACORN affiliate.
The structure of ACORN is also rather sophisticated. ACORN has a board of directors but these folks have largely ceremonial titles. Most of the board are zealots of the cause. They rose through the ranks of ACORN often starting as foot soldiers fighting for causes near and dear to them. Since ACORN is often associated with causes for poor, most of the board are themselves poor. As such, they are often rather unsophisticated and thus will be overwhelmed by the sophisticated nature of the organization itself. In fact, the real power at ACORN lies in it executive committee. The executive committee is currently made up of Maude Hurd, Alton Bennett, Maxine Nelson, Carol Hemmingway, Alicia Russell, Pedra Reavis, and Marie Pierre.
There is no question that ACORN is ideological, however in reality ACORN is really driven by something much different than ideology. That drive is greed. ACORN's real goals aren't necessarily any sort of change but rather to create a plethora of constant campaigns. The work on such campaigns as living wage, universal health care, and providing housing for the poor. As such, whatever accomplishments like the Community Reinvestment Act had in influencing society, what they really did was provide ACORN with a nearly never ending platform.
The Community Reinvestment Act
United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings
associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] The Act was intended to reduce discriminatory credit practices against such neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.[4] The Act requires the appropriate federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage regulated financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered, consistent with safe and sound
operation. (See full text of Act and current regulations.[1]) To enforce the statute, federal regulatory agencies examine banking institutions for CRA compliance, and take this information into consideration when approving applications for new bank branches or for mergers or acquisitions.[5]
allowed ACORN a never ending campaign in which ACORN would "enforce it". Enforce it they did and often with heavy handed tactics. They would picket banks, show up at homes of bank managers, and often demand boycotts of those banks they felt weren't complying with CRA. Because enforcing something like CRA is perpetual, CRA became a perpetual campaign. Worse yet, often ACORN would go directly to the federal government, through HUD, for funding. In other words, their heavy handed tactics were being subsidized by the tax payers. Of course, we'll never know how much money these campaigns got because all of it first started at CCI and then who knows where it wound up.
The mac daddy of ACORN, if you will, is Project VOTE. Project VOTE is their voter registration arm. It is also where their biggest malfeasance occurs. Because Project VOTE is a 501 (c) 3, it cannot support anyone candidate. What Project Vote is supposed to do is register voters anywhere anytime. Here's what really happens. ACORN, the 501 (C) 3, will back some candidates, often in local, county, and state elections, then they will disperse Project VOTE only in those areas where the candidates they support have a significant voter advantage. This sort of cherry picking is completely against the law. It also allows a 501 (c)3 to get around their supposed non partisan status. Do they register voters? Absolutely, except the overwhelming majority of the voters registered favor one candidate, the one that ACORN is backing. They get away with this because most politicians don't even know that Project VOTE is affiliated with ACORN let alone the scheme they run.
ACORN has hundreds of affiliates though no one, outside the insiders, knows exactly how many. It likely receives hundreds of millions of Dollars from the government. Though again, no one is sure because all of it is hidden by using the private CCI as an initial weigh station. It works with HUD, HHS, and the Department of Labor along with a host of philanthropies in order to continue its operations. All of it is done in the shadows through a very sophisticated network of affiliates and one private company, CCI, doling out the money. By doing this, it becomes nearly impossible to track its activities. What I have brought to light is only scratching the surface but should give everyone an idea of just how powerful and dangerous ACORN is.
Posted by mike volpe at 7:47 AM
Labels: acorn, Corruption, domestic policy, universal health care
ACORN (American Community Organizations for Reform Now) is among the most misunderstood and most powerful organizations in the country. Its structure is extremely sophisticated and often terribly secretive and it's likely this is done on purpose in order to hide or misdirect from many questionable and often illegal activities. While this last campaign brought to light a series of accusations of voter fraud, the reality is that the malfeasance that goes on at ACORN only scratches the surface when talking about voter fraud. The most significant case of malfeasance so far brought to light was the case of Dale Rathke who embezzled millions from ACORN. This case is important mainly because Rathke is the brother of Wade Rathke, one of the founders of ACORN. When someone so close to the top commits such a brazen act of criminality, questions should be raised. More troubling still is that the embezzlement occurred in 2001 but didn't come to light till months ago, just after the statute of limitations had expired.
ACORN is in fact not really one organization but rather a collection of many affiliates. These affiliates are all classified in a number of different ways. For instance, some are 501 (C)3's. A 501 (C)3 gets special treatment from the government and as such, it also must remain non partisan. Other affiliates are 501 (C)4's. This is a different classification of the tax code and such an organization can be partisan. The flagship, ACORN itself, is a 501 (C)4. It's get out the vote arm, Project Vote, is a 501 (C) 3.
Much of the malfeasance of ACORN comes from its nebulous relationship with a private company called Citizen's Consulting Inc. CCI is a sort of accounting and financial services firm. CCI also only has one client, or shall I say a series of clients...ACORN and all its affiliates. Whenever ACORN receives any money, be it from the federal governmnent or other resources, it first goes to CCI. Then, CCI filters that money to anyone of ACORN's affiliates. Of course, this creates all sorts of room for malfeasance. If the government were to give money to say Health Care for America Now to provide health care services in poor neighborhoods, that money will first wind up at CCI. Where that money ends up is anyone's guess. Why? That's because CCI is a private company and so getting a look at its books is no easy task. In fact, I doubt more than a handful of politicians even know the relationship between ACORN and CCI.
In fact, ACORN is such a sophisticated organization that often politicians will get on the floor of the legislature to rail against ACORN and then turn around and meet with one of their affiliates and authorize funding. That's because more times than not a politician has no idea that they are dealing with an ACORN affiliate.
The structure of ACORN is also rather sophisticated. ACORN has a board of directors but these folks have largely ceremonial titles. Most of the board are zealots of the cause. They rose through the ranks of ACORN often starting as foot soldiers fighting for causes near and dear to them. Since ACORN is often associated with causes for poor, most of the board are themselves poor. As such, they are often rather unsophisticated and thus will be overwhelmed by the sophisticated nature of the organization itself. In fact, the real power at ACORN lies in it executive committee. The executive committee is currently made up of Maude Hurd, Alton Bennett, Maxine Nelson, Carol Hemmingway, Alicia Russell, Pedra Reavis, and Marie Pierre.
There is no question that ACORN is ideological, however in reality ACORN is really driven by something much different than ideology. That drive is greed. ACORN's real goals aren't necessarily any sort of change but rather to create a plethora of constant campaigns. The work on such campaigns as living wage, universal health care, and providing housing for the poor. As such, whatever accomplishments like the Community Reinvestment Act had in influencing society, what they really did was provide ACORN with a nearly never ending platform.
The Community Reinvestment Act
United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings
associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] The Act was intended to reduce discriminatory credit practices against such neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.[4] The Act requires the appropriate federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage regulated financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered, consistent with safe and sound
operation. (See full text of Act and current regulations.[1]) To enforce the statute, federal regulatory agencies examine banking institutions for CRA compliance, and take this information into consideration when approving applications for new bank branches or for mergers or acquisitions.[5]
allowed ACORN a never ending campaign in which ACORN would "enforce it". Enforce it they did and often with heavy handed tactics. They would picket banks, show up at homes of bank managers, and often demand boycotts of those banks they felt weren't complying with CRA. Because enforcing something like CRA is perpetual, CRA became a perpetual campaign. Worse yet, often ACORN would go directly to the federal government, through HUD, for funding. In other words, their heavy handed tactics were being subsidized by the tax payers. Of course, we'll never know how much money these campaigns got because all of it first started at CCI and then who knows where it wound up.
The mac daddy of ACORN, if you will, is Project VOTE. Project VOTE is their voter registration arm. It is also where their biggest malfeasance occurs. Because Project VOTE is a 501 (c) 3, it cannot support anyone candidate. What Project Vote is supposed to do is register voters anywhere anytime. Here's what really happens. ACORN, the 501 (C) 3, will back some candidates, often in local, county, and state elections, then they will disperse Project VOTE only in those areas where the candidates they support have a significant voter advantage. This sort of cherry picking is completely against the law. It also allows a 501 (c)3 to get around their supposed non partisan status. Do they register voters? Absolutely, except the overwhelming majority of the voters registered favor one candidate, the one that ACORN is backing. They get away with this because most politicians don't even know that Project VOTE is affiliated with ACORN let alone the scheme they run.
ACORN has hundreds of affiliates though no one, outside the insiders, knows exactly how many. It likely receives hundreds of millions of Dollars from the government. Though again, no one is sure because all of it is hidden by using the private CCI as an initial weigh station. It works with HUD, HHS, and the Department of Labor along with a host of philanthropies in order to continue its operations. All of it is done in the shadows through a very sophisticated network of affiliates and one private company, CCI, doling out the money. By doing this, it becomes nearly impossible to track its activities. What I have brought to light is only scratching the surface but should give everyone an idea of just how powerful and dangerous ACORN is.
Posted by mike volpe at 7:47 AM
Labels: acorn, Corruption, domestic policy, universal health care
Friday, March 27, 2009
If You Like California......
If You Like California’s Sorry State of Affairs, You’re Gonna Love Obama’s Vision for America
By Jon Kraushar
Communications Consultant
Some of President Obama’s critics say he wants to turn America toward European-style socialism but maybe he’ll settle for imitating California.
California, once known for its robust capitalism, growth and sunny optimism (after all, it’s the state that brought us Ronald Reagan), has become a pitiful giant, pinned down by the same kind of big government that Obama envisions for the country.
Obama has struck a deal with Crown Publishing Group to write a book after his term ends. If he succeeds in making America resemble California, perhaps Obama will title it “Dreams From California.”
California is virtually bankrupt after years of out-of-control state government spending (it leads the country in spending on government employees) and is begging for a federal bailout. Its extreme “green” environmentalism and health care costs (it keeps flirting with universal health care) are among the reasons that its economy is crippled. It has the nation’s fourth highest unemployment rate, ranks 48 out of 50 states in K-12 education (even though it spends twice the national average on education), and is swamped by illegal immigrant families overwhelming its social services and welfare system.
Fortune magazine points out that in California…
“In the past year more people have lost jobs . . . than in any other state. More homes have gone into foreclosure. More banks have failed . . . businesses are moving out at an alarming rate, most often citing excessive regulation and intolerable taxes. For top earners, California’s taxes are the highest in the U.S. And to what end? California’s credit rating is the lowest in the nation.”
“California here we come” has become “California here we go.” Last year, 144,000 more people decamped from California than entered it. — That’s the worst out-migration in the nation! A few reasons:
- According to The Milken Institute, California is the costliest place in America to do business
- It has the second highest tax rates in the country
- It is a trial lawyer’s paradise where there may be more nuisance suits than bathing suits.
For public employee unions, California is truly the Golden State. Its teachers and prison guards are the highest paid in the nation. According to Investor’s Business Daily, California long ago “granted recognition to unions on a card-check basis, without a requirement for secret-ballot elections. Not surprisingly, California’s public-sector work force is now much more unionized than the nation’s as a whole.”
For even more background on the California crack-up click here.
Democrats hold sway in California government. The state’s Republican governor—Arnold Schwarzenegger—keeps flexing his political muscles further and further to the left while his government balloons into a grotesque, intrusive bully on steroids, kicking sand in the faces of taxpayers.
In short, California is over-taxing, over-spending, over-regulating and over-suing its good citizens—and its unsustainable debt, soaring deficit, Democratic Party domination and dependency on big government—make it a model for the sequel to Barack Obama’s best-selling book “Dreams From My Father.”
Obama has struck a deal with Crown Publishing Group to write a book after his term ends. If he succeeds in making America resemble California, perhaps Obama will title it “Dreams From California.”
Communications consultant Jon Kraushar is at www.jonkraushar.net.
By Jon Kraushar
Communications Consultant
Some of President Obama’s critics say he wants to turn America toward European-style socialism but maybe he’ll settle for imitating California.
California, once known for its robust capitalism, growth and sunny optimism (after all, it’s the state that brought us Ronald Reagan), has become a pitiful giant, pinned down by the same kind of big government that Obama envisions for the country.
Obama has struck a deal with Crown Publishing Group to write a book after his term ends. If he succeeds in making America resemble California, perhaps Obama will title it “Dreams From California.”
California is virtually bankrupt after years of out-of-control state government spending (it leads the country in spending on government employees) and is begging for a federal bailout. Its extreme “green” environmentalism and health care costs (it keeps flirting with universal health care) are among the reasons that its economy is crippled. It has the nation’s fourth highest unemployment rate, ranks 48 out of 50 states in K-12 education (even though it spends twice the national average on education), and is swamped by illegal immigrant families overwhelming its social services and welfare system.
Fortune magazine points out that in California…
“In the past year more people have lost jobs . . . than in any other state. More homes have gone into foreclosure. More banks have failed . . . businesses are moving out at an alarming rate, most often citing excessive regulation and intolerable taxes. For top earners, California’s taxes are the highest in the U.S. And to what end? California’s credit rating is the lowest in the nation.”
“California here we come” has become “California here we go.” Last year, 144,000 more people decamped from California than entered it. — That’s the worst out-migration in the nation! A few reasons:
- According to The Milken Institute, California is the costliest place in America to do business
- It has the second highest tax rates in the country
- It is a trial lawyer’s paradise where there may be more nuisance suits than bathing suits.
For public employee unions, California is truly the Golden State. Its teachers and prison guards are the highest paid in the nation. According to Investor’s Business Daily, California long ago “granted recognition to unions on a card-check basis, without a requirement for secret-ballot elections. Not surprisingly, California’s public-sector work force is now much more unionized than the nation’s as a whole.”
For even more background on the California crack-up click here.
Democrats hold sway in California government. The state’s Republican governor—Arnold Schwarzenegger—keeps flexing his political muscles further and further to the left while his government balloons into a grotesque, intrusive bully on steroids, kicking sand in the faces of taxpayers.
In short, California is over-taxing, over-spending, over-regulating and over-suing its good citizens—and its unsustainable debt, soaring deficit, Democratic Party domination and dependency on big government—make it a model for the sequel to Barack Obama’s best-selling book “Dreams From My Father.”
Obama has struck a deal with Crown Publishing Group to write a book after his term ends. If he succeeds in making America resemble California, perhaps Obama will title it “Dreams From California.”
Communications consultant Jon Kraushar is at www.jonkraushar.net.
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