Thursday, March 12, 2009
Bailout Schmailout: Welcome to the New Socialist Republic
"For all the talk of US government bailouts, the 1300 page economic stimulus bills that are so heavily laiden (sic) with pork that the actual bailout portion is but a small percentage of the document, and getting America working again, has there been any mention of repealing the ridiculous, congressional mandates that require lending institutions to knowingly make bad loans? As I recall, that's how we got in this mess in the first place.
"Sure, the federal government is on the hook to solve all this, because the federal government put in place the inane legislation that caused it. But can't we go about righting a wrong by ensuring that it does not happen again? Where is the CHANGE, Mr. Obama? What happened to, 'No more pork barrel spending,'- Senator McCain?
"The truth is, there is no change. If you were to read every exhaustive page of the bailout and stimulus documents floating around the federal city, this morning, it would be so very clear that there is no change: the basic goal is to start the same pyramid scheme economy back up again. Same as it ever was."
Newsweek: Is the honeymoon over?
"The rest of the article is an equal mix of propaganda (the people still love Obama!) and rehash of what many have been saying for some time: that the Trillion Dollar Spending Bill will not in fact create immediate jobs, that Obama’s budgets and additional spending bills are larded up with wasteful pork barrel projects for people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and that Obama is failing to provide the sensible leadership we need (which is tough) and instead prefers to sit on the sidelines enjoy the fact that he’s President (which is easy, and makes Michelle proud for the very first time in her adult life).
"But, what it fails to address is the central question we ask every day: where is the change we were waiting for?
"Obama promised to solve all of our problems, and deliver all of our hopes and dreams.
"He swore he was going to change the way things are done in Washington. Dumping trillions of dollars of taxpayer money into wasteful pork barrel projects is not change.
"So, Newsweek claims the public still loves Obama — but what they don’t talk about is how many of these people believe 'stimulus checks' are in the mail, headed their way to solve all of their problems? What happens when those checks never come? What happens when people see Obama has no intention, or ability, to deliver on all of his promises?
"If the honeymoon’s already over now, what marriage related metaphor will be used when people realize just how empty all of those campaign promises really were? It’s only been 50 days. The grace period’s 100.
"That gives Obama until April 29th to deliver some of the magic he promised on a daily basis for the last two years.
"We desperately want to be wrong about this man, who Oprah swore was 'The One', the Lightbringer, the Deliverer from All Evil. So, start delivering us from economic disaster, get your Treasury Secretary whipped into shape, and stop dithering while the nation burns. "
Glenn Beck: Obama gift gaffe
"GLENN: We mentioned it last week. Nobody in America is upset about this. You remember last week we told you that Barack Obama, when Gordon Brown came into town, he decided that he wasn't going to have a press conference. He also decided that there wouldn't be any British flags in the press conference, when they met, there wouldn't be a British flag. What are you even thinking? So there's no British flags. They met in the oval office. This set, the diplomatic core for the English back, the press corps and they didn't know what to do. They didn't know how to spend this. What does that mean? And Barack Obama just said, I'm not going to have a joint press conference. Well, you don't do that. I mean, I've seen him with the president-elect Iceland. Hello, it's Great Britain, our greatest ally. But then he also gave a gift. He gave a gift of a bunch of videos. Well, okay. That's usually not what the president gives. Usually it is a gift to the head of state of something of significance, something of real importance, something that signifies how deep our friendship goes and also says something about our country and our resources and, you know, our heritage. To me it's appropriate that Barack Obama, when he looks to what could be a statement gift that I can give the leader of our greatest ally, what is something that says everything you need to know about America, he goes and gets a bunch of DVDs from movies that we've made. I mean, it's -- and he didn't even get the movies that they can watch over in England. It's not the same technology. So all of the movies that Gordon Brown was given as a gift from our president he can't even watch. And what did we receive as a gift? Barack Obama was given a pen made from the wood of the HMS Resolute. The Resolute was one of their big warships and it went -- these two ships went up and they were going up into I think it was the Arctic Circle, I'm not sure. They went up to the Arctic Circle. The Resolute gets stuck in the ice. So does the other one, but the Resolute never gets out, and the captain of the Resolute says, "Get out of the ship, get onto the other one; we're going home." When he gets home, he's court-martialed because he's left the HMS Resolute, a perfectly good ship, and he abandoned. And so he is court-martialed for it. Well, eventually the ice breaks and America goes up and we pull that thing out of the ice and we sail it over to England and we return her in, like, 1850 something or other as a gift. Well, the Resolute is in service for England and, you know, it signifies our gift to England and we say, please forgive us for everything that we've gone through in the past 50, 75 years. We are brothers. The Resolute is a big deal. So when the Resolute is decommissioned, Queen Elizabeth decides, I'm going to take the wood and I'm going to make two desks. I'm going to make one for me and one for the president. This is as significant as France giving us the Statue of Liberty. So she takes this and she makes it into two desks. It's the desk that -- remember little JFK, Jr., he opens up the trap door and he looks, you know, through it? That's the USS Resolute desk. There's only two of them: One with the queen, one with us. FDR put that door there. This is such a historic desk. He put that door there so it would hide his wheelchair so nobody could see his wheelchair. The door is the only place where the seal has the eagle looking down at the arrows instead of the olive branches, okay?
Obama breaks his 'No Lobbyist' vow -- again
"How does he do it? With a straight face--and a quick slight of hand--he rationalizes the lobbyist is absolutely, positively the best person for the job and is absolutely, positively indispensable. Unless, of course, the indispensable person has some embarrassing secret that the famed Obama vetters haven't discovered. The latest indispensable lobbyists , brought to the attention of the US by lobbying waivers, are Jocelyn Frye who will be director of policy and projects for Michelle Obama's office and Cecilia Munoz who will be director of intergovernmental affairs in the president's executive office."
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Welcome to global governance
Before he left office, President Bush called a meeting of the G20 to set the agenda for an April meeting in London. They hope to create a global system to finally control the global economy. Whatever the structure that comes out of the meeting, it will likely be empowered to control the global economy and to connect economic actions with ecological and social justice issues as well – just as prescribed by the Commission on Global Governance.
"The creation of the World Trade Organization went a long way toward giving a 'world body' power to regulate trade. The United States ceded significant sovereignty when it agreed to conform its rules and laws to the dictates of this U.N. agency."
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"Throughout the Clinton years, and the Bush years, members of the Council on Foreign Relations have pushed to advance global governance. Opposition in the House and Senate, and sometimes, an obstinate President Bush, blocked U.S. participation in the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the imposition of a U.N. tax on international currency exchange.
"Today, opposition to global governance has diminished in Congress and has vanished from the White House. With eyes wide open, the United States is welcoming global governance. This administration, with approval of the majority of Congress, will cede our sovereignty to an international system that is beyond accountability and devoid of morality. The U.N. is eager to fund its nefarious adventures with money placed under its care by those who bought the promise of hope and blindly voted for change.
"Once the U.N. has an independent revenue stream to fund its 'peacekeeping' forces, which can enforce treaties and the decrees of the International Criminal Court, there will be no force on earth with the power to overthrow it. When the United States realizes the true cost global governance, it will be much too late. The U.N. will control the flow of both money and energy available to the U.S."
Lies in plain sight
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"So, what does the press think ought to be important to Americans? An unbalanced baby machine with an Angelina Jolie complex, Rihanna's Stockholm Syndrome, Miley Cyrus and, of course, global warming."
and
"If the far left learned anything from the collapse of the Soviet Union – which literally spent itself out of existence – no doubt it was that the best way to bring a powerful nation down was to break it economically.
"When the government has appropriated or sufficiently devalued all private resources (read steals all our money):
- a. We won't have the means to resist.
b. We will be destitute.
c. We will be beholden to anyone who has the means to provide us aid.
"And guess what? That very government will be the only entity capable of providing that aid. They will declare that the system (capitalism) has failed us, and that state control is our only hope.
"We will be slaves."
Why we elect liars as leaders
If we fail to find this inner fidelity to the One who created and sustains us and directs our paths, then we automatically designate someone or something else to fill that necessary role: We will worship another god. Moreover, when we are in rebellion against the true God, we need lies and deception to keep our pursuing conscience at bay – and people who enjoy power are all too eager to step up and play that role for us.
That's right: We elect liars as leaders because we actually need lies if we're rebelling against God's inward leading. Lies do a great job of "serving" us with an illusion of worth and righteousness (that's why we believe them compulsively), as we rebel against the real God, Who is always revealing our faults to us – except that most of us don't want to hear it.
Since bad government relies so totally on persuasive lying, let's take a look at that phenomenon. There's more to it than you might think.