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So is pork bad, or not? Obama cannot make up his mind. Sure, he made promise after promise after promise that he would eliminate pork, but c’mon! He is a politician! What are promises? Now his Administration is back to making more promises to cut pork, just not right now.

After all, you have to payback the people who got you elected. Nothing like a little pork and pet projects, at the taxpayers expense of course.

The best part of this interview is when Obama’s budget director said that Obama has “little power” over this year’s spending bill…. Uh…. HE IS THE PRESIDENT!!!! He has the ULTIMATE power! It’s called NOT SIGNING THE BILL!

Idiot.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Facing mounting criticism of a spending package packed with billions of dollars in earmarks, the Obama administration made a vow Sunday: This president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.

Peter Orszag says it is too late to cut earmarks from the spending bill inherited from the Bush administration.

“[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,” Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.”

He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. The bill would keep the government running through 2009.

 CNN

Yea, poor Obama. He just doesn’t have any power or influence right now!

By now we have all heard of the fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff. After a successful career he started his own firm, which we now know was just a front for a massive Ponzai scheme. You see, Bernie raised money from people to payback former investors. So he had to keep raising more and more money from one group of people to hand it to another group. Eventually this scheme collapsed, as they always do.

Now we hear of another Billionaire, Allen Stanford, perpetrating another huge ponzai scheme. Just like Madoff, Stanford raised money from new investors to pay previous investors.

Does this sound familiar to you? It should, and for one key reason - this financial fraud that will undoubtedly result in prison for these two men is fundamentally identical to the US Tax System. Think about it. They took money from one group of people to give money to another group. And when the money ran out, they were exposed and their systems failed. Robbing with the right hand to give a handout with the left hand is exactly what Obama and the Liberals envision for the US.

We have had a “progressive tax” system in the US for a long time. The top 1% of wage earners pay 34% of all taxes. The top 10% pay  66% of all taxes, and the top 50% basically pay for it all - a whopping 97% of all taxes. This means that a solid HALF of the people who WORK (this doesn’t count the unemployed and unemployable) pay nothing in federal income tax.

So the way the system works is simple, take money from one group of people to give money to another group. The US tax system is especially insipid and unjust because they take the money from a powerless minority. When you rob from 1% of the population to get 34% of your income, what is that 1% going to do about it? Vote against you? That doesn’t sound very threatening when you can use the money from that 1% to buy the votes of 50% of the population. Oh, but Obama wants to cut the deficit. Yea, right. He has no plan to do that and the numbers speak for themselves.

Obama and Pelosi will never admit it, but they are no better than Madoff, Stanford, or any other scam artist. They stand up on their pedestals and decry the fraud and scheming of these people, but they create laws so they can get away with it. Liberal politicians are common crooks. Thieves. No different from someone who robs at gunpoint to line their own pockets. But since they are the Aristocracy put into power via Manifest Destiny, they feel like they have moral authority over us. They rob, and steal and deny freedom, liberty, and justice from a powerless minority to purchase support from the majority. It is the opposite of justice. It is the antithesis of liberty.

It is thievery; perpetrated by the worst kind of criminal - the kind that feels like they have a moral authority to commit their crime against liberty, freedom, and justice. Tyrannical rules such as these should be criticized and called out for what they are. They are even worse than Madoff and Stanford because they take your money by force. Nobody was forced to give their life savings to Madoff, but if you don’t pay your taxes you are going to prison. Period.

So spare us your moral superiority complex, Pelosi, Obama, and all the rest of you liberals. You are no better than the con artists and schemers that you decry from your pulpit.  In fact, you are worse.

Most folks already know this, but Al Sharpton is a, blackmailing, extorting, shakedown artist. He threatens and boycotts and protests big companies until they give him money. He uses race and his black followers to extort money from companies, or risk his wrath. Check out this research from the NY Post. They dug this up in June, and Sharpton has been after them ever since.

Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy’s and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s charity.

Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton’s National Action Network annual conference in April.

Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton - who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a consultant.

The rest of the story is shocking and has a cool pic detailing his blackmail. Check it out here.

• The Dow at a 10-year low
• A tax cheat running the IRS
• Another tax cheat as the Chief of Staff
• A trillion-dollar plus federal deficit
• Over one-half of voters relieved of any federal tax liability
• Government mandated limits on executive compensation
• Three failed attempts and still no Commerce Secretary
• Tom Daschle rides his free limo into the sunset - after paying taxes he evaded.
• The White House performance czar turns out to be a tax cheat also
• Lobbyists hired to work for the Obama Administration
• The census gets politicized
• Double government spending in one year
• The word “freedom” fades into obscurity
• Increasing home loan mortgage rates across the board
• Millions of Americans made dependent on government
• Moving unionization-by-intimidation forward
• Welfare checks become “tax cuts.”
• Illegal aliens free to work on taxpayer-funded “stimulus” projects
• Welfare reform reversed, states ordered to increase welfare roles
• Move to silence critical talk radio shows
• Selling Senate seats
• Obama books in religious sections of book stores
• More government workers, not private sector jobs
• Government bureaucracy to intrude on doctor/patient confidentiality
• Stage set for medical services rationing
• Annual welfare checks for middle income families

Thanks to neal boortz

Well then, that makes it easy.

Don’t survive.

You, and your Union employees, do not deserve one more dime of taxpayer money. Your cars are crap and your workers are overpaid extortion artists.

Good riddance to GM.

Too bad the liberals will never, ever let GM fail. They rely too heavily on Union support to let that happen. So the liberals will bail them out with taxpayer money to buy the Union vote. Don’t believe me? Just wait. They are probably already pulling out the checkbook.

You can read more about the disaster that is GM, but I wouldn’t if I were you. It will only make you mad.

The White House is officially “dampening” the stimulus expectations. Despite campaigning on the promise of change, and millions of new jobs, and free gas, and no more war, and an end to all foreclosures, etc etc….. , Obama is now taking it all back and saying he basically has no @#$%ing clue what is going on or how to fix it. Which is probably exactly what we should expect from someone with 2 years of actual work experience and a Cabinet of tree-hugging, Prius-driving, ivory-tower liberal goons.

But helping all the lazy peoples of this country feels good, and that is what matters, right? I mean, isn’t the government’s job to just, like, help people and stuff?

However, the realities of Economics never stopped Obama from making a bunch of crazy promises. As it turns out, all of his campaign promises were all a load of crap. Granted, those of us in this country with, you know, jobs and intelligence and logic and stuff, already had this figured out. But for all the white-guilt crowd, the lazy-unemployed crowd, the “green”-crowd, and the others - Whoops! Looks like your Messiah can’t fix all your problems after all! Whooda thunk it?!

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Barack Obama’s aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the $787 billion economic stimulus bill he will sign this week, but said it would help eventually.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs used similar language on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that we’ve seen this economy has gotten worse just in the last few months. The acceleration in job loss probably means that this economy is going to get worse before it gets better,” he said.

Obama himself said last week that if he failed to heal the economy, he would be out of a job by 2012, when he faces re-election.

At least you got that last part right, Obama!

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I think anyone with half-a-brain realizes that Union workers are overpaid, under-worked slugs. The US auto industry has no chance of survival as long as they are forced to pay the workers 500x what they are worth. You could take a high school graduate, give him 3 days of training and $10 an hour and he could do the job of a Union-worker making over $100k a year. Face it, Union jobs could be replaced by anyone with a pulse. Actually, most of them could be replaced by robots, so I guess a pulse isn’t even a requirement.

After 5 decades of using Extortion to jack up their wages, prevent Automakers from investing in automation and technology, and protecting even the laziest and most worthless workers, their demise is near. Yet for some reason they are either too stupid or too ignorant to recognize it. Now we learn that the UAW has walked away from concession talks with GM.

These goons are hell-bent on making sure they are completely eliminated from existence.  Rather than accept a salary that is merely triple what the workers are worth, they are refusing to negotiate. The ONLY thing that the Auto makers should consider at this point is Bankruptcy and the downright destruction of the Union.

Besides, The Union should be an illegal Cartel. If every employer got together and fixed wages they would be sued, fined, and probably imprisoned for Collusion. But when the Unions do the exact same thing on the Supply Side of the labor equation, it is not only acceptable but supported by Liberals.

If you are a Union worker wondering why you are about to lose your job, don’t blame Management. Blame your Union officials that collect insane paychecks to extort your employer.

DETROIT (AP) — Negotiators for the United Auto Workers walked out of concession talks with General Motors Corp. Friday night in a dispute over payments to a union-administered retiree health care fund, a person briefed on the talks said Saturday.

The breakdown comes at a critical time as GM races against a Tuesday deadline to submit a plan to the government showing how it can become viable.

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This week’s plan crash in Buffalo brings a surprising fact to light - Airlines knowingly operate planes prone to icing up and crashing to save on fuel.  Planes like the one that crashed are known to accumulate ice and do not have the safety features of other planes. Airlines continue to use them, however, because they are “cheaper”.

I don’t know anyone that likes to fly on prop planes. Now we have another reason to hate them - they truly are less safe than the other planes. It isn’t just an unwarranted fear.

So how does that make you feel?

What really freeks me out is that the airlines are subject to the same Federal oversight as the Banking industry - and we all know how well that turned out.

Oh, one more thing, this Canadian-built P.O.S. also apparently has a long history of landing gear problems. Yet the FAA still thinks it is safe for us to fly?

Lawsuits, anyone?

The owner of the peanut company responsible for the Salmonella outbreak disclosed in internal emails that he knew peanuts were tainted with Salmonella, but ordered them to be shipped anyway. If this is true, he has the blood of the 9 (so far) who have died on his hands. Such intentional and gross negligence deserves nothing less than substantial prison time.

The owner of a peanut company blamed for a salmonella outbreak has appeared before a House subcommittee, but is refusing to testify.

Lawmakers ordered Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell to appear at the hearing Wednesday. He showed up, but refused to answer questions, invoking his constitutional right not to incriminate himself.

Earlier, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the company’s internal correspondence showing that Parnell was ordering tainted products to be sold even after confirmation of salmonella. Parnell complains in e-mails about losing money and says he’s frustrated by the delay in shipping products.

Parnell was ordered by subpoena to appear before Congress on Wednesday to discuss the outbreak that has led to 600 illnesses, eight deaths and one of the largest recalls in history, more than 1,800 products pulled. His Georgia plant is blamed for the outbreak.

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