DEBT LIMIT

A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT

MADE EASY.

(hat-tip: Jeanne R.)

When Dear Leader Reader compares the #OWS to the Tea Party Movement - he is obviously trying to legitimate and mainstream their ideas. So who else are supporters?

Communist Party USA, American Nazi Party, Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran,  The government of North Korea, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Revolutionary Communist Party, Hugo Chavez, Revolutionary Guards of Iran, Black Panthers (original), Socialist Party USA, US Border Guard, Industrial Workers of the World, CAIR, Nancy Pelosi, Communist Party of China, Hezbollah, 9/11Truth.org, International Bolshevik Tendency, White Revolution, International Socialist Organization, PressTV (Iranian government outlet), Marxist Student Union, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, ANSWER, Party for Socialism and Liberation...

 
Just think how different our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights would be if any of the above groups had help draft them? For that matter, think how much different (for the worse) the course of human history would be if Communists, Socialists,Nazis, Hezbollah had been the founders of our Republic!

As I blogged tried to warn my fellow Americans - a couple of years ago - in Our winter of Discontent post, Dear Leader Reader  had much help from overseas including call centers in Palestine - yes the Gaza Strip - during his 2008 campaign.

 

"... The then Sen. Obama's [2008] presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed.

Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.
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The problem with such cards, campaign finance lawyers said, is that they make it impossible to tell whether foreign nationals, donors who have exceeded the limits, government contractors or others who are barred from giving to a federal campaign are making contributions..."

So now we have Dear Reader -er, the Artful Dodger himself accusing the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of accepting foreign money and using it to sway the election. Aside from the ridiculousness of the claim, There is nothing like the Pot call the Kettle Black.

The real reason the Chamber of Commerce doesn't want to release the names of it's donors is to protect them from some  fresh manner of hell reigned down from the unholy cabal of the Executive branch, SEIU, ACORN,  thugs sent at the behest of the Tides Foundation and just plain old willing dupes - who may show up to "protest" your contribution - in your front-yard, on your front porch  when your not home and scare the crap out of your kids or parents!

Not that long ago, when we thought Animal Farm was just fiction, we read:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

Now we know - it not fiction. Now we know that one man/woman one vote - Not so much! Indeed, some are more equal voters than others! Just how much more equal and why - that's the question that would make our founders turn over in their graves!


As published in the Washington Post

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The court-ordered election that allowed residents of one New York town to flip the lever six times for one candidate - and produced a Hispanic winner - could expand to other towns
 ..."   Read the entire article at the Washington Post

And for those of you not particularly worried about the 2010 Census and all the brouhaha over statistical sampling - where they guess, rather than actually go out to see who is really there - should get ready for more voter machinations - if not out right voter fraud. Oh yea, we should also get used to having your vote count 1/6 as much as other voters. Unbelievable!

We are at 50+ days and counting since the explosion of a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and we still haven't just plugged the "damn hole."  The destruction of our coastal environs is an unmitigated disaster, not only for the southern states directly affected, but for our whole nation.

Now our Dear Leader has announced that we will have a moratorium on drilling in water deeper than 500 feet.  Secretary of the Interior Salazar's May 27 report to BHO said a panel of seven experts "peer reviewed" his recommendations, which included a moratorium on all ongoing drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet.  Now we find out the the peer reviewers and others who contributed to the report said that they only reviewed an earlier version that wanted a moratorium on new drilling in waters deeper than 1,000 feet.

In a joint letter written by the panelists to various politicians, they stated: 

"We broadly agree with the detailed recommendations in the report and compliment the Department of Interior for its efforts.  However, WE DO NOT AGREE WITH THE SIX MONTH BLANKET MORATORIUM ON FLOATING DRILLING.  A moratorium was added AFTER THE FINAL REVIEW and was never agreed to by the contributors.  A blanket moratorium is not the answer.  It will not measurably reduce risk further and it will have a lasting impact on the nation's economy which may be greater than that of the oil spill.  We do not believe punishing the innocent is the right thing to do."

According to Minerals Management Service, a division of the U.S. Interior Department, 33 deep-water drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico must halt operations and not issue new permits under the Obama administration's moratorium.
 
According to state estimates, the oil industry employs roughly 58,000 workers in Louisiana; and its total of 260,000 oil-related jobs accounts for roughly 17 percent -- one of every six jobs in the state.

Now call me crazy, (I've certainly been called worse) but doesn't it seem odd that we have shut down 33 oil production facilities that supply almost 20% of our nation's oil and provide employment for almost 20% of Louisiana's population?  How are we going to replace that oil?  The more important question is:  will we?  And how will we replace the jobs?  Or can we?

We have a president who on many occasions has publicly stated his intent to move the United States away from fossil fuels; no matter the cost.  Did this crisis give him the fuel (no pun intended) that will propel his agenda more quickly than he had planned?  In his report, Secretary Salazar blatantly lied about the reviewers recommendations.  Why, you may be so bold to ask?  Well, obviously the truth didn't fit the agenda.

When BHO was running for president, he said he would have the most transparent administration in history.  A lot of Conservatives have taken him to task over that and have said that he has done just the opposite.  Well, I hate to be disagreeable, but I say nay, nay. 

Mr. President, when you ignore a massive oil spill for almost two months while you attend parties and concerts and play golf; when you ignore governors' of affected states pleas for assistance; when you do not seek advice from experts who offer their services; when you turn away offers of assistance from countries with the expertise we need, and when you use this crisis as an excuse to create another massive government program which will increase the cost of energy to consumers exponentially through onerous taxation, then I think you are transparent.  In fact, I can see right through you.  And I don't like what I see. 

What I see is a man who has no love for his country; a man who is vapid and narcissistic, and a man who is detached from the people he is supposed to serve.

I'm sure you'll keep looking for more crises that you can't let go to waste.  But remember this, with each crisis, you become more transparent. 

And for America, that's a "damn" good thing. 

 

Last Wednesday evening Inspector General Gerald Wilpin was unexpectedly and unceremoniously let go by the Obama administration.  He received a phone call from the White House Counsel's office telling him he had one hour to either resign or be fired.  He refused to resign.  The next day, his head was handed to him.  And not on a silver platter.

IG Walpin was the inspector general for the AmeriCorps program.  This is the national service program that just got its budget trebled and received $5.7 billion a couple of months ago.  His job is to investigate allegations of stolen money, misspent money, fraud, and other nefarious activities associated with misappropriation of public funds.

Because they often step on some political appointee's or elected official's toes, Congress has given them special protections.  There was a law passed in 2008 that said, if the president wants to fire an IG, he has to give Congress 30 days and show cause for the firing

One of the co-sponsors was none other than then-Senator Barack H. Obama.  Ah, it's so easy to be anti-corruption when you're not the one corrupting.

What got Mr. Walpin in trouble it seems, was that he went after the wrong guy.  Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and current mayor of Sacramento, California, at one time headed a non-profit group for children called St. Hope. He was accused of misusing thousands of dollars in federal AmeriCorps grant funds.  Mayor Johnson also was a big supporter of and contributor to President Obama.  Mayor Johnson also made millions of dollars as a professional basketball player.  Did he really need to use taxpayer money for his own personal affairs?  Is he really that cheap?

The subsequent investigation by IG Walpin confirmed the allegations.  Mr. Johnson did indeed use federal funds for personal uses.  The report didn't quite please the administration so it seemed action was necessary and they took it.

Now, just in case you think IG Walpin is a Republican hack, I'd like to point out that he prosecuted Roy Cohn (one of Senator Joe McCarthy's bulldogs) and was the person responsible for the indictments against Richard Nixon's cabinet members John Mitchell and Maurice Stans.  So it would be hard to label him as a "vindictive right-wing nut case."

No reason has yet been given for firing Mr. Walpin, but a concerted smear campaign against this dedicated public servant is now being given exposure by an ever-accomodating mainstream media.  They actually have accused him of senility because of his age (he's in his 70s.)  By the way, Teddy (The Swimmer) Kennedy is 78 and Robert KKK Byrd is in his 80s.  Maybe we should fire them.  Dare we hope?

Clearly, our Dear Leader is afraid of IG Walpin.  If he lets him get away with this, other Inspectors General may start looking into other people in the Obama circle of friends.  Maybe some would be a little too close to the president.  Maybe we would find out some things about the new messiah that he doesn't want us to know.

And we can't have the truth about him coming out him, now can we?  

That would just spoil everything.  Maybe even create a crisis that we couldn't let go to waste.  

( Déjà vu daise your view )

The peek in the rear view mirror of life is usually "20/20" or at least much clearer after the fact than a priori!  

And, occasionally we can catch a side glance of a current event that will give a clear glimpse into the future - as does the European Union fine of Intel. Soon, all too soon if fact, someone in "Dear Readers" circle of thugs -  will be using a similar tactic in an extortion attempt on all American business owners.

This is an event that turns the clouding old crystal ball from a murky tea leaf laden snow globe into a high def vision of what the future will be: and it's all about greed!

Like some untethered Inspector Poirot miming a bumbling Clouseau, the clowns in Brussels have fined the US based computer chip maker Intel Corporation 1.06 Billion (yes, that's billion with a "B") euros. That's approximately 1.45 Billion in (what used to be real money ) US Dollars on the premise that European consumers have been harmed by paying too much for their computers.

Yet, since 2001 actually chip prices have fallen dramatically nearly a 100 fold   and the computing power has increased exponentially. Chips that used to sell for a thousand dollars now cost ten bucks and the net result is that the for all consumers is the price of computers has fallen and even Intel's rival - AMD has garnered more market share in the EU.

And even in the most cruelest of fates the EU will not return money to the 'harmed' consumer, instead they will put the ill gotten gain directly into the coffers of the EU. Furthermore Neelie Kroes EU Competition Commissioner is now quoted as saying that Intel is not "sponsor of the European Taxpayer"



It sure seems we have a global recession on truth and it should be obvious that the EU attack on Intel has never been about the harmed consumer. Instead it has been about getting access to the revenues of the company. To which the leaders at the EU are all too eager to convince everyone of the great lie - "that we can all live at the expense of someone else"

Well, without so much as a glance at the final de-stimulation bill, the House democrats have sold us all into slavery. More likely to be truth is that they have sold our children into slavery. 

 

With a casualness that should be considered criminal, the United States House of Representative Democrats are stealing from every hard working America by taking that which was earned through effort and hard work to be distributed dishonestly to those who did nothing to earn it. Well almost nothing to earn it, nothing except to vote these monstrous thieves into office!

 

The obvious moral hazards are not enough to shame these violators of the public trust - oh - and violators their constitutional oath into abandoning their feckless charge. Instead, they move ahead in secret , without transparency  to debase themselves in an economic riot  of orgiastic theft.

 

Sadly house Democrats are stealing the future, they are stealing the "full faith and credit" from the nation, they are stealing domestic tranquility, they are stealing posterity and they are stealing our Blessings of Liberty.

 

Like thieves in the night they come to devour what was once one of our nations greatest assets - Freedom!

The 'Tin Man'

"I thought I had beaten the Wicked Witch then, and I worked harder than ever; but I little knew how cruel my enemy could be. She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves. Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever. But, alas! I had now no heart, so that I lost all my love for the Munchkin girl, and did not care whether I married her or not. I suppose she is still living with the old woman, waiting for me to come after her.

"My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me. There was only one danger--that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me. It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her."

Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart.

"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."

"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." Source

 

The back-story on L. Frank Baum's tin woodsman egregiously absent from the movie, is a vivid reminder to us all to:  NOT LOOSE HEART. I was reminded of this when some friends and I were discussing a chapter in John Eldredge's book:  Waking the Dead. 

 

With the ongoing crush of bad economic news, discouraging political machinations like the 'Porkulus bill', and outright fraud and deceit in nearly every corner of public life, it is easy to become habituated to the demoralizing consequences of our post-modern life and be lessened by it.  Wave after wave, it pounds and we become hollow, mechanical, and like the tin man, our capacity for humanness is reduced.

 

And it is to that battle that we are currently called: To stand on the ramparts of our own life and push back against all who would willingly "steal our joy".  Speak loudly against those who gladly diminish our humanity and shout to the heavens that while we yet breath we have do have faith!

 

From there, we can crawl back to life, heal our wounded spirits,  and stand ready at the parapet with a stout heart prepared for the hard tasks ahead. Our future depends on it, our children's future depends on it. Our way of life depends on it.