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Green Energy Failure

Let me ask a question. Has any of the Green Energy Programs Obama gave our tax dollars to become successful?  The answer is an unfortunate no. I wish they were. The only way we can win the war in the Middle East is by cutting off their oil money. Once we gain energy independence, we have effectively put a nail in the war on terror’s coffin.

However, Obama and his administration continue to naïvely give away our money to green energy firms without much potential for economic success––creating even more debt. And this is why socialist policies don’t work. If the president really wanted to make a positive investment in green energy, he would have let the free market take over.

By giving tax breaks to businesses, it would incentivize them to invest and compete against each other to produce the best green energy products. With more government incentives, more businesses would be interested, more jobs would be created and better and more ideas would materialize. That’s how things are done successfully and that’s how things are done properly in a capitalistic society. Have we not all not learned this simple fact?

Below is the latest example of Obama’s green energy failure:

 

Washington Times:
The Energy Department conceded Friday that the federal government will lose $42 million on a loan to a shuttered Michigan van manufacturer — part of the same program that provided a $529 million loan to an electric car maker that also has gone under. Vehicle Production Group (VPG), which made vans for the disabled, ceased operations in February and laid off 100 workers, two years after receiving a $50 million federal loan under the same clean-energy program that provided a $529 million loan to electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc., according to the Associated Press.

VPG pad back 5 million of the $50 million federal loan this spring, and the remainder of its debt was sold at auction this week to Humvee manufacturer AM General,which paid $3 million to buy the loan. In an email to AP, an Energy Department spokesman said sale of the VPG loan was the “best possible recovery for the taxpayer.”

Fisker had received $192 million before federal officials froze the loan in 2011. The company has since laid off 75 percent of its workers, though the government has recovered only about $28 million of the money.

The losses come after federal government’s failed risked on solar panel maker Solyndra, which went under in 2011 despite receiving more than $500 million from the Energy Department.

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Another Obamacare Exemption?!

 

Another exemption? How is this legal? The jurisdiction of the executive branch of office is to enforce the laws made by the legislative branch, not make them. Now, using Chicago-Politics instead of the Constitution, Obama is in the middle of making another exemption for union workers.

This act is not only unconstitutional but it is also illegal. He wants to silence the Unions’ dissent by buying them off. This is un-American. What about all the other businesses in America? What about all the other companies who are cutting employees and hours? I guess they don’t matter. Truthfully, we don’t matter to Obama. It’s all about his power and the takeover of the economy.

Through improper deficit spending and entitlement programs we have enabled someone like Obama  to take control of the country. And what has he done? He’s decimated the economy and made crony politics the norm.

Please read the following article for more information about this political corruption:

President Obama and White House officials have called Union Leaders to try and persuade them to tone down their complaints, pledging an accommodation. The AFL-CIO, though, on Wednesday approved a resolution anyway calling the law “highly disruptive” to union plans.
 

But reports have surfaced on a plan that would give union workers — and only union workers — subsidies to help pay for health insurance even if they’re covered through their job. The purported “carve-out” could soothe the simmering discontent within Big Labor. The loyal Democratic supporters and early champions of ObamaCare say they have been slighted by the act’s final regulations, which they say is pushing some employees into part-time work and threatens their health insurance plans.

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on Monday introduced the “Union Bailout Prevention Act,” which would stop the granting of subsidies to offset premium costs for the multi-employer plans held by many union members. Separately, the House voted on Thursday to stop all subsidies until the administration launches a system to verify recipients are eligible.

Big Labor argues that workers without additional subsidies will switch to less-expensive, major-insurer plans, creating a withering effect on the so-called Taft-Hartley plans.

Thune and others argue the plans are already government-subsidized and the workers’ contributions are already tax-exempt.

“A deal such as this by the administration for the union would be illegal,” Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and Michigan Rep. Dave Camp said in a letter Tuesday to the Treasury Department. “Giving union workers exchange subsidies in addition to the income-tax exclusion would be double dipping.”
News reports about the plan have been circulating for days, including an early one by the Inside Washington news service. The Health and Human Services Department did not return calls or emails from FoxNews.com asking about the veracity of those reports.

Labor unions launched a multi-targeted attack this summer to force changes to ObamaCare, including one on the mandate for employers to offer insurance to full-time employees, which they say has resulted in more part-time jobs. Though that provision has been delayed, the concern is that employers are shaving the number of full-time employees in order to stay under the law’s threshold for when they have to start offering coverage.

“Unless you and the Obama administration enact an equitable fix, the (Affordable Care Act) will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week,” union leaders wrote in a letter this summer to congressional Democratic leaders.
The letter, co-signed by the Teamsters union, was sent to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada, and followed a resolution by a Nevada chapter of the AFL-CIO hammering on the same issues.

“The unintended consequences of the ACA will lead to the destruction of the 40-hour work week … and force union members onto more costly plans,” the resolution stated.
Labor unions also feel slighted because low-income Americans are eligible for subsidies to help them purchase insurance through exchanges or marketplaces created by ObamaCare, when enrollment begins Oct. 1.

 
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And Down We Go in a Foreign Policy Sinkhole

Is it me or are we looking more ludicrous by the day? First, obama insists, despite all contradictory information, that America should start a new war in Syria. Yet, we don’t have the support of the UN, the British or most other democratic countries in the free world. The scenario is leaving us alone, without support from our allies, and appearing like a bunch of war mongers without true provocation for attack. Plus, the irony is that the treaty we signed in the UN clearly states that one sovereign country cannot attack another sovereign country without UN consent unless their welfare is imminently in jeopardy. Does anybody know how Syria is currently posing an imminent threat to America? Does anybody understand why we willfully want to be in contempt of the treaty we signed in the the UN? It seems absurd!

Secondly, Putin created a viable disarmament plan for Syria’s chemical weapons (which ironically came from Russia) that helped forge a reasonable out for our president. Now, Putin seems to to come out on top as he looks like the peace keeper while we seem like the bully on the block.

Third, Putin then went on to disparaged our country in an op-ed article in The New York Times urging President Obama to back off the threat of strikes and telling Americans they are not “exceptional”. In the end, we Americans looked liked a bunch of wayward kids being admonished by an authoritarian father.

What makes it worse is now Kerry is stating that Putin’s plan did not go far enough and Assad should begin submitting data on this disarmament immediately. Kerry then went on to caution that a U.S. military strike could happen if Assad doesn’t agree to dismantle his chemical arsenal properly. But truthfully, what does “properly” mean? Are we making up the rules as we go?

Is Kerry serious with this statement? Is he just making up excuses to attack Syria? Are we all missing some hidden agenda in the obama White House? I don’t know but it seriously makes one wonder.

Lastly, now Assad is admonishing America in his recent interview to Russian TV, stating that he will comply to the chemical weapons disarmament only if the US stops bullying him–creating sympathy for both himself and his country.

We are in a no win situation. Our national image and pride have been damaged if we do or don’t attack. The only thing that would make us look stupider or totally not in touch with reality is if we continued pursuing the situation with ardent tenacity–and wait…that’s exactly what we are doing!

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Who’s Covering the Tea Party’s March on Washington?

As the name of the post asks, “Who’s Covering the Tea Party’s March on Washington”? First of all, did anyone know there was a march on Washington DC today. Does anybody know what the march was about? The answer most likely is no. And that is sad. And what is sadder is that I could find absolutely no pictures or articles about the event today. It was like there was a total media blackout on the story- a story that threatens to destroy America. The sarin gas supposedly used by Assad will not do it but Obama will.

If you want the answer, here it is. Taxpayers and Tea Party Patriots flooded the streets around our Nation’s Capitol today with the purpose to pressure the U.S. Congress to De-Fund ObamaCare- scheduled to begin January 1, 2014.

As Obama gives one smokescreen after another, Obamacare slowly gets implemented, taking away our individual freedoms by the day. Syria, Miley Cyrus, Zimmerman, Gun Control and other stories obscure what is really happening now in America. While Obamacare threatens to eat away at the heart of America, we are inundated with another inane speech,filled with overused rhetoric and devoid of any true meaning or substance, tonight by Obama . As we listen to this socialist drone on, reading from his teleprompter, his overall goal to take over America’s entire economy is coming to fruition. And the sad part about it is nothing is stopping him. Not his foreign policy failures, domestic policy debacles, numerous scandals which he remains unaccountable for and disastrous economic policy seem to stop the Obama cancer that has invaded our country.

While we all might feel secure that another war may have been averted, we all forget the war that obama and his cronies currently wage on America and her great Constitution. We must not forget what he is doing to our country nor must we forget the road that he has taken our country down. The road is filled with scandal, bankruptcy, moral decay, lawlessness and economic ruin.

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There is Finally Hope for the Liberal Media!

I’m the first one who will criticize the liberal media. However, when credit is due, they should justly receive it. Today is one of those days. Above is the cover of the most recent Newsweek magizine. Traditionally liberal, the cover conveys the sentiments of most of us informed Armericans. Between the scalndals, his vow to enter us into another war, the debt and the lagging economy, there is more than enought reasons to conclude that our president is failing us. The only thing more impressive than the cover of this magazine was the opinion article which it included. I have added it to this post so you all can see that there are true journalists out there:

I Too Have Become Disillusioned
By Matt Patterson (Newsweek Columnist – Opinion Writer)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer;” a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, less often did he vote “present”); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor;” a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were ‘a bit’ extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass – held to a lower standard – because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon – affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin – that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is.
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people – conservatives included – ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth –
it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
(An example is his 2012 campaign speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches)
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other day he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to get our economy and country back on track). But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such an impostor in the Oval Office.
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No One is Working!

So the unemployment number last month was 7.3%. It should be good news. Obama is, of course, taking praise for his “achievements” but is it praiseworthy? I’ll let you decide:

The number of Americans who are 16 years or older and who have decided not to participate in the nation’s labor force has pushed past 90,000,000 for the first time, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS counts a person as participating in the labor force if they are 16 years or older and either have a job or have actively sought a job in the last four weeks. A person is not participating in the labor force if they are 16 or older and have not sought a job in the last four weeks. In July, according to BLS, 89,957,000 Americans did not participate in the labor force. In August, that climbed to 90,473,000–a one month increase of 516,000. In January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, there were 80,507,000 Americans not in the labor force. Thus, the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 9,966,000 during Obama’s presidency.

The Labor Department’s snapshot of the job market in August had several discouraging details underneath a relatively mundane headline number, which showed the economy added an estimated 169,000 jobs which a disproportionate number were part time.

Because many of the jobs are only part time or that previous full time jobs were switched to part time, the US food stamp usage has escalated astronomically. Now, over 48 MILLION people require food stamps. That’s over 11 MILLION more in less than 3 YEARS. Just click on the following link, and you can personally see how its has risen in your area:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/04/food_stamp_recipients_by_county_an_interactive_tool_showing_local_snap_data.html

So you be the judge. Are we really moving in the right direction? Is our economy improving? And not to be a pessimist but just think of the negative impact Obamcare will have on the economic scenario?

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Why Republican Men are Happier

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Obama’s Foreign and Domestic Policies

That about sums up Obama’s foreign and domestic policies.

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Occupy Wall Street Sues Fast Food Restaurants

As the Occupy Wall Street movement of hippies is coming to a well overdo demise, these same people are now turning their attention to fast food restaurants. On their website it reads the following:
Rise Up New York! Smash Austerity! Support Workers! The article had the above picture along side of it. Call me a little paranoid but doesn’t their slogans and the picture have a strikingly similarity to the slogans and pictures of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin? Well if it doesn’t, it should.

Now the Occupy Wall Street movement has turned their misguided attention and communistic diatribe to the fast food industry. Calling for a living wage, they demand fast food companies increase their minimal wage from 7.25 up to 14 or 15 dollars. Emotionally, I hope one day all people can earn a livening wage. Rationally, what I know that these people in the Occupy Wall Street movement fail to realize, is that such a rise would essentially bankrupt all small business.

You may scoff at this statement, but crunch some of these numbers. I will low ball it. Say McDonalds is open 16 hours a day and has on average 6 employees there at a time. It would be an increase of 7 dollars an hour X 16 hours X 6 employees = 672 dollars a day. Then you times that by 363 days open and you have a total of $243,936 dollars per year.

Because the profit margins are relatively low for fast food restaurants, there is not much room to make up the difference. Fast food comes cheap and for a reason. The only way they would be able to pay 15 dollars an hour is if they raised their prices. And if they did that, no one would go there- especially when the hot ticket items exclusively come off the dollar menu.

Plus, who would have to make up the quarter of a million dollar increase in expenses? The answer is, the owner of the local McDonalds chain. And I can tell you that if that owner received a pay cut of a quarter of a million dollars, they would be bankrupt. Then, they would have to shut down their store and not ever open a new one. And where does that leave all those employed by that McDonalds or the possible future employees if the owner opens up a few more restaurants? It leaves them unemployed. Also, not to point out the elephant in the room, but who is going to pay all their health benefits once Obamacare comes into play? Money doesn’t grow on trees.

You want a true American solution to the problem and not another socialistic/communist approach that raises taxes or makes running a business no longer profitable? How about the government make proper monetary incentives for the business owner to raise the employees’ income and start new businesses. Instead of making the economic burden always on the entrepreneur or tax payer, give that person financial incentives to raise their employees pay and grow their business. That’s how the government can help. That’s why Obama’s plans are all failures and the Occupy Wall Street movement has no legitimacy- because neither understand how the real world works!

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Are we Doing More Harm than Good in the Middle East?

I’d like to add onto the post that I wrote yesterday and ask the question, “Are we doing more harm than good in the Middle East?”. The answer over the 2 years seems to be a resounding no. Yes, we have made great strides in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And yes, our returning military say they have been seeing a significant amount of good being done in those countries. When President Bush went in there was a clear policy, goal and directives to our military presence.

And then came Obama with no consistent or even rational foreign policy. As I mentioned previously, Egypt was and is a failure. However, what people don’t know the continuing disaster unfolding in Libya. Nor do most realize the gravity of the situation in that country or the high potential of an exact same  scenario unfolding in Syria if we intervene. The following was an article I just read on the Drudge Report:

A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defense Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources.Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.

Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market. Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July.

As world attention focused on the coup in Egypt and the poison gas attack in Syria over the past two months, Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi two years ago. Government authority is disintegrating in all parts of the country putting in doubt claims by American, British and French politicians that Nato’s military action in Libya in 2011 was an outstanding example of a successful foreign military intervention which should be repeated in Syria.

In an escalating crisis little regarded hitherto outside the oil markets, output of Libya’s prized high-quality crude oil has plunged from 1.4 million barrels a day earlier this year to just 160,000 barrels a day now. Despite threats to use military force to retake the oil ports, the government in Tripoli has been unable to move effectively against striking guards and mutinous military units that are linked to secessionist forces in the east of the country.
Libyans are increasingly at the mercy of militias which act outside the law. Popular protests against militiamen have been met with gunfire; 31 demonstrators were shot dead and many others wounded as they protested outside the barracks of “the Libyan Shield Brigade” in the eastern capital Benghazi in June.

Though the Nato intervention against Gaddafi was justified as a humanitarian response to the threat that Gaddafi’s tanks would slaughter dissidents in Benghazi, the international community has ignored the escalating violence. The foreign media, which once filled the hotels of Benghazi and Tripoli, have likewise paid little attention to the near collapse of the central government.
The strikers in the eastern region Cyrenaica, which contains most of Libya’s oil, are part of a broader movement seeking more autonomy and blaming the government for spending oil revenues in the west of the country. Foreigners have mostly fled Benghazi since the American ambassador, Chris Stevens, was murdered in the US consulate by jihadi militiamen last September. Violence has worsened since then with Libya’s military prosecutor Colonel Yussef Ali al-Asseifar, in charge of investigating assassinations of politicians, soldiers and journalists, himself assassinated by a bomb in his car on 29 August.

Rule by local militias is also spreading anarchy around the capital. Ethnic Berbers, whose militia led the assault on Tripoli in 2011, temporarily took over the parliament building in Tripoli. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has called for an independent investigation into the violent crushing of a prison mutiny in Tripoli on 26 August in which 500 prisoners had been on hunger strike. The hunger strikers were demanding that they be taken before a prosecutor or formally charged since many had been held without charge for two years.

The government called on the Supreme Security Committee, made up of former anti-Gaddafi militiamen nominally under the control of the interior ministry, to restore order. At least 19 prisoners received gunshot shrapnel wounds, with one inmate saying “they were shooting directly at us through the metal bars”. There have been several mass prison escapes this year in Libya including 1,200 escaping from a prison after a riot in Benghazi in July.  

The Interior Minister, Mohammed al-Sheikh, resigned last month in frustration at being unable to do his job, saying in a memo sent to Mr Zeidan that he blamed him for failing to build up the army and the police. He accused the government, which is largely dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, of being weak and dependent on tribal support. Other critics point out that a war between two Libyan tribes, the Zawiya and the Wirrshifana, is going on just 15 miles from the Prime Minister’s office.
Diplomats have come under attack in Tripoli with the EU ambassador’s convoy ambushed outside the Corinthia hotel on the waterfront. A bomb also wrecked the French embassy.

One of the many failings of the post-Gaddafi government is its inability to revive the moribund economy. Libya is wholly dependent on its oil and gas revenues and without these may not be able to pay its civil servants. Sliman Qajam, a member of the parliamentary energy committee, told Bloomberg that “the government is running on its reserves. If the situation doesn’t improve, it won’t be able to pay salaries by the end of the year”.