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The Obama Watch
Slickness With a Straight Face
Obama giveth and Obama taketh away.
Clearly the Obama administration has not brought comfort to the markets in its initial weeks in office. The President and his team have also failed to bring clarity or coherence. Their massive agenda is not only ambitious, bold, and expensive, it is contradictory.
Take the President’s new budget proposal, for instance. In order to pay for the massive expansion of government spending, including $634 billion for health-care reform, Obama proposes to resort to the time honored populist tradition of “taxing the rich,” meaning families making in excess of $250,000. Despite the administration’s incessant cry that the government should prop up the housing market and increase home prices, the budget contains a provision that would reduce the amount of mortgage interest deductions “wealthy” families can take on their home payments. In other words, Obama would like to take the seemingly few remaining people in our society who can actually afford homes and reduce one of their biggest incentives for home ownership. Not surprisingly, the National Association of Realtors opposes the provision, saying it “will result in further erosion of home prices and home values.”
Similarly, the administration keeps talking about greasing the credit markets, encouraging banks to lend again, and driving down the costs of borrowing money, particularly in mortgage markets. However, Obama favors legislation that would allow bankruptcy judges to alter a bankrupt mortgager’s payments and cram down new terms on the creditor. Lenders may react by appropriately increasing mortgage rates that account for a greater risk premium in financing home purchases.
Obama and many of his Democratic allies in Congress are also remarkably haphazard in their approach to dealing with the automobile industry. They will likely shower billions of additional taxpayer dollars on the ailing Detroit companies. Yet, they want to enact onerous new cap and trade legislation that will hamper the industry, as well as grant states exemptions enabling them to impose their own more stringent emissions standards on automobile companies. Furthermore, while even elected representatives realize full well that the automobile companies need to make changes to return to profitability — specifically, they need to break free from the shackles of UAW driven labor costs — politicians think they can mandate the companies into making money by insisting upon green car production that the market has overlooked.
And what would a discussion of economic waywardness be without addressing the financial sector? The American taxpayer now has trillions of dollars at stake in the banking industry (although do not expect a dividend check anytime soon). We all know, or should realize, that we have a vested interest in seeing the industry recover, not only because a well-run banking sector is imperative to our economy but because of how much taxpayers stand to lose if banks fail.
But rather than encourage financial institutions to retain the best talent to help resuscitate the industry, Congress and the administration have imposed mandated pay scales that will in result brain drain. This is because the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 (ARIA) limits the relative size of bonuses for executives at firms that accept Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. In addition, the ARIA limits the ability of banks to hire foreign workers holding H-1B visas. The provision, designed to encourage banks to hire American workers first, is just another anti-free market provision that will discourage banks from hiring the best employees.
It is also not the only way in which the Democratic government is engaging in misguided protectionism, while speaking the language of international cooperation. The ARIA requires domestic production of iron, steel, and manufactured goods for stimulus-funded projects.
Inconsistent is one thing; disingenuous is another. That, however, is the best way to describe the President’s new budget proposal. It is also the genius of Barack Obama, because while he recently proposed a $3.6 trillion budget that would increase the federal deficit to $1.75 trillion, he harps (with a straight face) about making “hard choices where to spend and where to save.” He talks about how this is “just the beginning of the cuts we’re going to make” and about “fiscal discipline.”
So are we saving and investing in the future? Well, not if you consider the $787 billion “stimulus” package Congress just passed at Obama’s urging or the massive budget he just proposed. Are we stimulating then? Not if you consider the massive tax hikes for the “rich” that Obama wants to fund his new programs.
Perhaps the only thing we can say about Obama’s plan is that it aims to redistribute. And it should do a damn fine job of spreading the misery around.
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dennisl59| 3.9.09 @ 6:58AM
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -
Winston Churchill
The future is now-Directive 10-289 is in effect.
Doug K| 3.9.09 @ 7:16AM
Elections have consequences.
Actions speak louder than words.
A wolf in sheeps clothing.
All simple but accurate phrases that apply to the current administration that has mastered the art of deception while leading this country into an Obama version of Maxist Socialism.
Melvin| 3.9.09 @ 7:20AM
There is two ways that we can and should describe the President. First his is a lawyer and this dovetails with the second, being a liar.
stefie| 3.9.09 @ 7:47AM
Pay no attention to the purple lipped man behind the telepromters.
How did we get here? He will take more of our money to give to those who don't want to work, pay their health care, their rent/mortgage and he wants to talk to the taliban, Iran, is Korea next? Perhaps we can all hold hands and sing campfire songs. God, who elected this charlatan.
We all saw the signs during the campaign and he still got elected. I wonder if their is any buyers remorse among those who pulled the lever for this Marxist.
Deborah | 3.9.09 @ 7:48AM
Hey dennisl59, great Churchill quote.
Makes one wonder -- is that why Pres. O sent the bust of Churchill back to the British Embassey? And, what will he do with the Churchill books Prime Minister Brown brought as part of his gifts to the president?
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.9.09 @ 7:49AM
Never has a more duplicitous liar taken office.
He has lied about lobbyists in his administration, he has lied about earmarks, he has lied about pork in the Porkulus Recovery Act, he has lied about ethics in government, he has lied about his personal ethics, in short, he lies just about everytime he opens his mouth. A psychopath if ever there was one.
stu.b.con| 3.9.09 @ 7:58AM
As Doug K says it is clear that the obama is in the process of attempting to remake America into a socialist/Marxist state, not only by applying the Alinsky model but the fascist model of the National Socialists (Nazis for you interlopers with your new age education) as well. It's as if Goebbels has been reincarnated in Axelrod or Plouffer or Michelle and is whispering sweet fascist nothings into his ear.
Deborah | 3.9.09 @ 8:05AM
Yes, stu.b.con, and the MSM is the Pravda or the Leni Riefenstahl of today.
jvc| 3.9.09 @ 8:40AM
Now I'm just waiting for the inevitable bust out of the FDIC, and soon the SIPC (thanks to Madoff). This will lead Obama to declare that, since our retirement accounts can no longer be insured against loss, he is going to require that all plans be folded into a new gov't retirement plan running parallel to Social Security. He will now have trillions in free cash to spend, and replace with IOUs, just like SS.
Becky| 3.9.09 @ 8:57AM
WE are the problem. Many of my fellow citizens suffer from a poor background in history and civics, as well as science and economics, etc.
What some of them do learn, they seem to be unable to apply to life. Engineer teachers will tell you that farm kids make the best students, they've already problems solved on the farm.
We were raised and are raising the current generation to be consumers, not producers, or contributors to the welfare of the family. How many parents both work to provide a comfortable life for their kids? Like the "poor" taking a picture of Michelle with his cell phone, the irony doesn't stop with the President.
Michele San Pietro| 3.9.09 @ 9:18AM
Obama gives? What on earth does he give? He only takes away!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.9.09 @ 9:34AM
Another late breaking update!
Current and former administrators and advisers in the Obama campaign and in his administration who got sweetheart deals from mortgage companies are going to refinance those mortgages, through the new government mortgage rescue program.
Even a few members of Congress who received those sweetheart loans, while the rest of the suckers in the American public subsidized those loans by paying higher rates, are considering this option.
Yes, they are going to come clean and get clean, only this time it will all be done legally. They are considering stopping making payments on their sweetheart mortgages through Countrywide and will, when the mortgages are two months behind, be allowed to "wash" the transactions through the new government rescue program. And here all of you readers at this Conservative web site have been saying how dishonest they are. They're coming clean and getting clean. I certainly think for once everyone should applaud his administration for making an effort at transparency and honesty.
mark of fish| 3.9.09 @ 10:09AM
The incompetence demonstrated by Mr. Obama (potus), Mr. Geithner (sot) and Ms. Clinton (sos) is intentional and a cover for their lack of interest in the well being of actual people.
Mr. Obama wants the market to collapse, hence Mr. Geithner's monumental incoherence. Mr. Obama wants to reconcile with third world and muslim nations, hence his and Ms. Clinton's gaffes and insults to our allies - England, Western Europe, Israel - and lesser democracies - Argentina, India, Canada.
Mr. Obama sees himself as perfection. He will remake us in his image. All will be well once we've bled enough. We will rise from the ashes, now he has set us alight.
Bill| 3.9.09 @ 10:18AM
B.O lies and the libs in congress are a den of robbers.
Time for a few tax tea parties. He can't lead if no one follows. Leadership is earned the hard way and not by just shooting off ones mouth.
Frank Marschino| 3.9.09 @ 10:37AM
BO is a confirmed narcissist, liar and prevaricator. Have you seen how he walks...it's a gait born of misplaced arrogance, of someone who has accomplished nothing, but thinks the world of himself. We can't, and shouldn't, believe a word he says. We're screwed.
Tom| 3.9.09 @ 10:46AM
I see that the Pro-Diversity Eric Cantor Crowd runs the American Specatator!
The H-1B Visa program was started in the 1990’s because the NIH wanted more scientists but had a low budget. Then convicted felon and lobbyist Jack Abramoff (A lobbyist for Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation) lobbied to have the number of H-1B Visas expanded dramatically during the late 1990’s so Microsoft could get cheap labor.
If you combine the H-1B Visa program impact with the impact of the 1965 Immigration Act (Hart-Celler) Act which has mandated that 90% of immigration to the U.S. come from non-Western European countries it’s easy to see how U.S. demographics have changed since the 1960’s. In 1968 over 88% of American babies were white. Now, 49% of American babies are white. That’s a 39% difference in 40 years and is a direct result of government backed social engineering and not a natural process. For instance, in 2007 the U.S. let over 250,000 people from India, China, and Mexico become U.S. citizens and less than 50,000 from Germany, U.K., Ireland, France, and Italy which is where our heritage and culture are from.
The important thing is that prior to this massive immigration from non-Western Cultures and prior to the fixation on turning the world into a globalized economy at the expense of the U.S. Middle Class/Working Class and Manufacturing Sector the U.S. was clearly the world leader in every sector of technology and manufacturing. We also had a thriving Middle Class and a working class that had jobs in the Manufactoring Sector that paid well and not simply Service Sector jobs like we have now where two parents working at Wal-Mart with no health insurance can barely pay the mortgage and foret about the savings rate.
Finally, the U.S. was the clear leader in “innovation” and manufacturing prior to the change in U.S. demographics. Now, every new App on an iphone is considered “innovation” especially if the guy doing the “innovation” isn’t from Western Culture. The bottom line is that we can easily do without these people and we’ll actually be better off especially when you consider the “family reunification” part of our immigration laws. Since 1970 crime in the U.S. has gone up, our nation has become Balkanized, we are no longer the clear leader in technological innovation, and our healthcare system is down the tubes. It’s time we ended the H-1B and L1 Visa programs, repealed the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, repealed NAFTA, went back to National Origins immigration policies, and started building our manufacturing sector once again. If we don’t do these things we will become a Bloated with Deficits, Balkanized, High Crime, Low Wage, Narco state in the future.
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Slickness With a Straight Face–Obama Giveth and Obama Taketh Away | links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Linda E| 3.9.09 @ 11:18AM
I am Still in shock! I did not realize so many of my fellow American's were Ignorant and Blind like Stupid Sheep. Barry (Barak) is leading us to Spring Slaughter. Wake Up America!!!!!!
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Slickness With a Straight Face links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Slickness With a Straight Face links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Tim| 3.9.09 @ 12:25PM
I don't agree with this notion that Obama has not been clear or that his agenda has not been clear.
In fact his agenda is crystal clear to any thinking person.
Case in point.....and while I think that "science and scientific research" is a very important part of our society....the following is a direct quote from Obama as he reversed the long standing Bush stem cell order early this morning.....
"medical miracles do not happen simply by accident, they result from painstaking and costly research--from years of lonely trial and error,much of which never bears fruit--and from a government willing to support that work"...... Obama.......March 9, 2009
Hmmm, I recall hearing somewhere that falling on your knees in prayer sometimes result in unexplainable medical miracles.
But then again, perhaps I was wrong, after all what do you expect from the 94% of us poor old fashion fools who still believe in a God and miracles while hopelessly "Cling" to our Faith and Religion!
The "New Godless Order" has arrived, make no mistake about it.
Ark Ashamed of Bill| 3.9.09 @ 12:28PM
No surprise here; it’s been obvious for some time that Obama is Slick Willie in blackface.
Given the fact that the banking industry ran itself into the ground, the word brain is singularly inappropriate. The problem is that there wasn’t a “brain drain” in the banking industry before the boardroom boneheads loaded up on junk mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Joshpe should start reading the Dilbert comic stip, whose commentary on the fecklessness of the country’s business leadership is only a slight exaggeration.
Appleby| 3.9.09 @ 1:41PM
Brother, You Asked For It.
See you at Galt's Gulch. You know the way.
Michael Tomlinson| 3.9.09 @ 2:36PM
In 2008 households making $250,000 or more (wealthy or rich Americans) favored Obama and the Democrats. While I oppose Obama with my heart and soul I can feel no pity for the fools who empowered him and his party that in less than 2 months destroyed the savings of the majority of middle-class Americans like me. They deserve our scorn not sympathy.
I have the same contempt for the bankers and stock brokers who bankrolled Obama. As for a brain drain the current problems in the banking industry, auto industry and the stock market reveal that there was a brain drain in those industries long ago when they came to be dominated by rich liberals from the Ivy League. Conservatives should find the angst some on the right have for these liberals nauseating. They are as much a part of the problem as is Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
While some conservatives wring their hands when morons like Henry Waxman excoriate bankers I find it both disgustingly hypocritical and hilarious, because these squirming financial boobs are big contributors to the Democrat party. Rather than defending their exorbitant bonuses conservatives should reveal they’re Democrat ties and demand their scalps for their incompetent and in some cases criminal handling (Franklin Delano Raines and Jamie Gorelick) of their fiduciary responsibilities.
Conservatives should oppose Obama’s tax policies, because their bad for the economy, but they should not defend the liberals who draw these unearned fat paychecks (most deserve the boot for their incompetence). But we should not merely oppose we should come up with real alternatives that will help the economy.
One thing we should champion is a total reform of the Federal tax system. Now is the time to champion bold innovation not the status quo or the stale mantra of “what would Reagan do?” We need to quit looking backwards and cast our vision forward. We need to push for a three tier flat tax (10%, 15% and 25%) that replaces Federal income, payroll and capital gains taxes with a simple and fair system that strengthens our economy and limits Democrats ability to fleece taxpayers. Simply all income below $250,000 should be taxed at the 10% level and everything up to $1,000,000.00 at 15%. As for deductions there should three – housing interest, medical expenses and charitable giving, because Americans would demand them. This would shore up the middle class and take away the class warfare argument from Democrats. As for the argument that this would absolve much of the middle class from paying Federal taxes – GOOD! The more Americans who keep their own money the better, because it keeps it out of the hands of incompetent and greedy Democrat bureaucrats.
As for the argument Federal revenues would drop – GOOD. The Federal government needs less of our money not more of it. This argument about the “drop” in Federal revenue would afford us the opportunity to champion legislation to ban earmarks, eliminate Federal bureaucracies, cut needless programs that subsidize Democrat special interest groups and adopt zero baseline budgeting. Sound tax and spending policies may not be the vogue in the Obamanation at the moment, but as the country continues to go down the toilet thanks to Obama’s policies conservatives and Republicans should be the voice of real change.
Marc Jeric| 3.9.09 @ 3:39PM
There is in the "stimulus" bill some $576 million for the new "Accountability and Transparency Board", including added moneys for the Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office. That means some 6,000 new, unionized government bureaucrats with their "work rules", pensions, and health care costs. These new employees will never be fired but will "restore the public's faith in government" by confirming their status as rejects of private enterprise.
Scott A Joseph, MD| 3.9.09 @ 4:08PM
I make over $250,000 yearly. I voted early on November 4th for a straight Republican ticket, as did my wife. I did not drink the kool-aid. I also voted for Norm Coleman as part of that ticket.
I hope the movie and TV people go bankrupt, along with the NYT.
Louis Jenkins| 3.9.09 @ 4:54PM
Obama could not tolerate the watchful cast gaze of Winston Churchill. As OB paced the room the Britisher steadfastly followed his every step with a scornful brow, as though about to speak some phrase of wisdom. In private moments OB dared to strike up conversations with the man who vowed to defeat an unjust regime and never surrender. It was too much for Obama. He sent the bust of Churchill packing. But the old bulldog got in the last word, "Yes, I'm a statue, and tommorrow I'll still be a statue, and you'll still be a blundering idiot."
ST| 3.9.09 @ 4:56PM
Tom's comments about the H-1B and L-1 Visa programs are spot on. Critics of the TARP H-1B policies claim that the new restrictions will, in practice, prevent the banks from hiring the so-called "best and brightest" under the H-1B program. This claim is patently false for the following reasons:
1) Very few of the H-1B candidates are truly outstanding innovators. The vast majority of H-1B workers are simply ordinary people who are willing to do routine tasks for lower pay than Americans, in return for a chance to obtain sponsorship for permanent residence visas (also known as green cards). Once they do obtain green card sponsorship then it is extremely difficult for them to change jobs (for better pay or working conditions) without starting the lengthy green card process all over again, so they effectively become indentured servants to their employers.
2) Those few foreign nationals that are world-class talents can be hired under the O-1 visa program, which is specifically designed for people who have demonstrated truly outstanding ability.
3) Some foreign nationals graduating from American universities could be hired for a period of 29 months under the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program.
The H-1B visas regulations are also riddled with loopholes that allow employers to legally underpay the foreign nationals with respect to their American counterparts.
ST| 3.9.09 @ 4:58PM
The employment-based green card program for foreign professionals is a scam as well. If a company wishes to sponsor a foreign national for an employment-based green card, then federal law states that the firm must make a “good faith” attempt to hire Americans first. However, there are many ways around this requirement. In fact, many so-called open jobs are not really open at all, but are actually filled with H-1B workers who are desperately trying to get that green card sponsorship. Americans who apply for these jobs will be summarily rejected with absolutely no transparency in the hiring process. For evidence of this you can view the following videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGBIHmv7jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx--jNQYNgA
America is the only country which allows discrimination against its own citizens in the workplace. These programs and practices should be ended immediately.
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Era of Obama, American Weakness Emboldens Russia, China, Iran, Noth Korea « Peace and links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Robert Rosencrans| 3.9.09 @ 6:29PM
It seems rather innocuous to worry about American corporations hiring highly trained foreign nationals, when the Obama administration is going out of it's way to hire the most corrupt group of tax cheats and close to indicted scum it can get it's hands on.
jgo | 3.9.09 @ 6:41PM
H-1B Dependent Employer Attestation language is:
A. Displacement: The employer will not displace any similarly employed U.S. worker within the period beginning 90 days before and ending 90 days after the date of filing a petition for an H-1B nonimmigrant supported by the application.
B. Secondary Displacement: The employer will not place any H-1B nonimmigrant employed pursuant to this application with any other employer or at another employer's worksite UNLESS the employer applicant first makes a bona fide inquiry as to whether the other employer has displaced or intends to displace a similarly employed U.S. worker within the period beginning 90 days before and ending 90 days after the placement, and the employer applicant has no contrary knowledge.
C. Recruitment and Hiring: Prior to filing any petition for an H-1B nonimmigrant pursuant to this application, the employer took or will take good faith steps meeting industry-wide standards to recruit U.S. workers for the job for which the nonimmigrant is sought, offering compensation at least as great as required to be offered to the H-1B nonimmigrant. The employer will (has) offer(ed) the job to any U.S. worker who (has) applied and is equally or better qualified than the H-1B nonimmigrant.
chemman| 3.9.09 @ 7:07PM
And your point is what jgo;
It is actually quite easy for an employer to game the system and provide the backup to prove they complied with the letter of the law. If you think this doesn't go on then I have some valuable beach front property in N. Arizona I will sell to you.
ST| 3.9.09 @ 7:56PM
JGO,
The restrictions that you listed only apply to that (small) percentage of employers that are deemed "H-1B dependent" by the Federal Government. The vast majority of U.S. – based employers are classified as "H-1B non-dependent". These employers can freely substitute H-1B workers for American workers.
For proof of this, refer to the U.S. Department of Labor Strategic Plan for 2006-2011, which is available at:
http://www.dol.gov/_sec/stratplan/strat_plan_2006-2011.pdf
On page 35 you will find the following passage:
"... H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker."
This applies to all "H-1B non-dependent" employers. Since most U.S. based companies are classified as "H-1B non-dependent", this means that the vast majority of firms in the U.S. can legally discriminate against American workers in favor of alien workers.
Therefore, as the economy continues to contract, Americans are, in my opinion, in even greater danger of being displaced by foreign workers on H-1B visas.
The H-1B visa and employment-based green card rackets should be shut down.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.9.09 @ 8:20PM
Another promise by Obama goes down!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/09/obama_pulls_back_from_signing.html?hpid=topnews
But longtime Bush critics hammered Obama for failing to put a complete end to the practice. The American Bar Association in 2006 called signing statements "contrary to the rule of law."
"There should be a clean break with the past on this," said Christopher Anders, the senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "The president shouldn't be asserting -- as President Bush did -- wholesale objections to entire sections of statutes and claiming some kind of presidential authority to ignore them."
Anders said his group appreciates Obama's pledge to reduce the number of signing statements. But he said the danger still exists that the new president will use the tactic to ignore the will of the legislature.
"It's not enough to take any president at his or her word on an issue like this," Anders said.
And former Bush administration officials said they could detect little difference between Obama's new promise and the standards the former president used when issuing signing statements on legislation.
"This has been a standard practice going back decades. It's just when President Bush did it, his critics pounced," said former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer. "They're going to do the same thing, whenever they feel like it."
In the memo, Obama pledged to use signing statements sparingly and to be bound by "interpretations of the Constitution that are well founded." And he promised to avoid signing statements by fixing constitutional problems before they reach his desk.
But the new White House stopped short of invalidating all of the signing statements that Bush issued during his eight years in office. The memo, first reported by the New York Times, says agencies should seek the attorney general's advice before enforceing the prior statements.
A former Bush lawyer said that instruction is no different than what the 43rd president gave upon taking office. "You couldn't just rely on President Clinton's statements," the lawyer said. "You would have to go to the Department of Justice, the White House to make sure that Bush agreed. That was just standard procedure."
MT| 3.9.09 @ 11:05PM
Obama is slick as snot and just as slimy.
Margaret| 3.9.09 @ 11:06PM
The H-1B Visa guest worker program has “RESERVED” millions of
high-value jobs for citizens of foreign countries.
"Fake Job Ads” consistently and routinely DENY, DEPRIVE, EXCLUDE and DISCRIMINATE against United States Citizens during the hiring process.
Here is Cohen & Grigsby, a prominent immigration law firm,
displaying their Good Faith Efforts To Recruit American Workers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Have Immigration Law Firms been Harming American Workers?
Who’s To Blame For The Affirmative Action Fiasco?
by Hugh Murray
http://www.barnesreview.org/html/affirmative__action.html
Has The EEOC done anything to protect
individuals whose National Origin is USA
and whose Age is over 40?
Does EEO data collected from companies track
National Origin ? Why not?
Over the last 40 years, how many Age Discrimination
cases has the EEOC decided to NOT allocate any
resources and simply dismiss the cases?
Is it a fact that the EEOC has done a disservice to US Citizens
given the EEOC's failure to interpret of Age Discrimination Acts (1967 & 1975)?
Do you think that was an accident?
Why is EEOC routinely and consistently dismissing
Age Discrimination cases?
To redress past wrongs, should Affirmation Action be implemented for
US Citizens over the Age of 40 to ensure Equal Employment Opportunity?
DJ Fisher | 3.9.09 @ 11:08PM
The have major media, They have Washington, They have control of the money, The trap is ready to snap closed. The time for talk and half-measures is done. God Bless Us All.
Alan Brooks| 3.9.09 @ 11:55PM
however, he is going to be re-elected.
he is black, after all. he might be the last black president;
after Jindal an Asian such as Jindal, then an hispanic, then Native American...
MT| 3.10.09 @ 2:34AM
Then a space alien, wait---we've already had one of those.
ruth| 3.10.09 @ 2:35AM
Wait a minute, Alan. What about Palin? You promised.
Brian| 3.10.09 @ 6:04AM
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”
— Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital
During the campaign president soteoro used the phrase "To make an omlet, you have to break a few eggs. " Most of the uneducated were under the impression that Mr. Soteoro thought that one up on his own but it to is a quote from Marx. go figure.
Mark | 3.10.09 @ 3:54PM
Welcome to the KKKlan website
Michele San Pietro| 3.10.09 @ 6:13PM
I have never heard a stupider comment than the previous one... personally, I hate the KKK and any kind of racism, and any true conservative thinks the same, whereas racism does exist among liberals and it is the worst one... the so-called "liberals" have no other argument than sheer insults... Obama and his clique are only acting in order to make America go further and further down...
Willey| 3.10.09 @ 8:46PM
LOL!! Look at the Nazi calling us Klanners, that's a good one, libturd.
Denise-Mary| 3.10.09 @ 11:24PM
Just finished reading Atlas Shrugged again - the first time was forty years ago. Directive 10-289 is, indeed, now in effect - or will be shortly. Too bad Galt was a fictional character. Looks like we'll have to get ourselves out of this debacle on our own - if we can survive until the 2010 elections, and then 2012...
Cary Donham| 3.11.09 @ 4:37PM
You American Spectator readers have apparently all drunk the Rush Limbaugh kool aid. What planet are you living on?
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Screw you, Cary. Loser libturd.
Recall Indian Caucus Members| 3.11.09 @ 10:33PM
We need to start RECALL ELECTIONS for all 184 Representatives who are part of the House Indian Caucus: http://www.zazona.com/SHAMEH1B/Library/Archives/IndiaCaucus-108th-membership.htm This caucus includes: ERIC CANTOR, PETER KING, FRANK LOBIONDO, ZOE LOFGREN, FRANK PALLONE, LINDA SANCHEZ, ANTHONY WEINER, etc., etc.
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