Friday, January 15, 2010

Cloward/Piven Strategy - See It At Work


In a move about which I blogged weeks or months ago: The Obama administration appears to have come up with a novel way of financing trillion-dollar budget deficits - demanding IRA and 401(k) holders buy trillions of dollars in Treasury bonds. Bloomberg reported Friday that Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Mark Iwry are planning to stage a public comment period before implementing regulations that would require private investors to structure IRA and 401(k) accounts into what could amount to a U.S. Treasury debt-backed government annuity. CNBC's Rick Santelli broadcast the rumor the same day from the trading floor during CNBC's "Power Lunch" show. Spokesmen from both the U.S. Treasury and Department of Labor confirmed to WND that the federal agencies about to enter a pre-regulation public comment phase on the proposed rule change. [In my recollection, the government gave tax advantages to these vehicles of savings to encourage people to not spend all they make, and to actually prepare to take care of ourselves in old age! Now the government wishes to not only remove the tax advantages from our savings, but to put them in a pool of government annuities! Of course, when we die, it will be the GOVERNMENT and not our families who will benefit from our diligence in saving. As I wrote, if the government can decide that contracts (for salary, or mortgages or investments, for instance) can be broken by the heavy hand of government, what contract won't they be able to declare null and void? Have we had enough yet? Hopefully, Brown will beat the Democrat in next Tuesday's Massachusetts election. It would be a start.

On another subject, word is out now that the Democrats are thinking of paying for the 6 billion dollars of benefits which the health care bill will give only to union workers via their health care plans by taxing our CDs, bank interest, and any other thing they can think of.....]

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/joe-biden-update.html In fact, today's Biden schedule highlight is a meeting with the chief of transparency for economic recovery. But, unfortunately, the transparency meeting is non-transparent, closed to the press. (See his full schedule below.) Which makes it -- what? -- secret openness or open secrecy?

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resident Obama's approval rating on handling health care is at an all-time low, according to a new CBS News poll, something that is helping to drag down his overall approval rating. Just 36 percent of Americans approve of Mr. Obama's handling of health care, according to the poll, conducted from Jan. 6 – 10. Fifty-four percent disapprove
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THE CLOWARD/PIVEN STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
From the American Thinker

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up.

The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.

Obama adheres to the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals method of politics, which teaches the dark art of destroying political adversaries. However, that text reveals only one front in the radical left's war against America. The Cloward/Piven Strategy is another method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. This strategy explains Rahm Emanuel's ominous statement, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.


Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation... [Emphasis added.]

Making an already weak economy even worse is the intent of the Cloward/Piven Strategy. It is imperative that we view the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's spending on items like food stamps, jobless benefits, and health care through this end goal. This strategy explains why the Democrat plan to "stimulate" the economy involves massive deficit spending projects. It includes billions for ACORN and its subgroups such as SHOP and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Expanding the S-Chip Program through deficit spending in a supposed effort to "save the children" only makes a faltering economy worse.

If Congress were to allow a robust economy, parents would be able to provide for their children themselves by earning and keeping more of their own money. Democrats, quick to not waste a crisis, would consider that a lost opportunity.

The Cato Institute reports that the plan will harm a faltering economy, intentionally causing increased job losses leading to increased demands for the aforementioned programs. Even the jobs to be created are set apart to render social justice, not economic revival. Robert Reich believes new infrastructure jobs should not go to white construction workers. Meanwhile, workers at Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, and the retail market find themselves experiencing the life of the welfare poor.

If highly educated and trained workers continue to lose jobs and business falters as a whole, where will these jobless workers go? Could this be construed as revolutionary social reorganization that puts the underachiever above the achiever? Where is the future economic strength when jobless professionals collect welfare and unemployment while dreaming of a minimum wage job? For whites, there's not even the hope of a good paying construction job.

Because these programs are financed with deficit spending, the effect of the Cloward/Piven Strategy becomes doubly destructive. Talk about a perfect storm! The Democrat stimulus plan is a mechanism whose goal is the destruction of the traditional American way of life. It is bitter irony that the American taxpayer will actually fund the destruction of his own ability to live according to the values of our Founding Documents. It is not alarmist to identify this situation as a coup d'etat.

As the flow of money from the top of the economy dries up, job losses and mortgage busts will mount exponentially. The Democrat stimulus plan provides for welfare expansion but not for a robust economy that creates high paying jobs. Is this what Obama means when he warns, "It's going to get worse before it gets better?" If we are not bailing out corporate America so they can regain profitability, we must conclude Obama is working toward another end goal. Recognizing these attack methods reveals the only logical response -- an unwavering wall of "No!"


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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Class 5 Blizzard in Michigan, Global Cooling

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html#ixzz0cJhl1wTn The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.

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NOAA reports: The average temperature in December 2009 was 30.2 F. This was -3.2 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 14th coolest December in 115 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade. [ So much for global warming.... It makes me predict that Al Gore will find some way now to bilk us all for the funds to prevent global cooling... it's a crisis!]
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This following text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snow storm ...

The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI

WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we just recovered from a
Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical
Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow
and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility
poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL
roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of
thousands.

Obama did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an
expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

Our Mayor's did not blame Obama or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either.

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or even report on this
category 5 snow storm.

Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.

Nobody expected the government to do anything either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No
Geraldo Rivera.

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand,
No Brad Pitt, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.

The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
penny.

Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments
delivered it to the snow bound families..

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman
lanterns
.

We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or
Die".

We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of
a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades
votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know
it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
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Here is another email making the circuit, and it is powerful! A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite. This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen…forward and backward. This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant. Take a minute and watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA



Monday, January 11, 2010

2010 Choices, Terror, and Massachusetts Politics


"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else." Auguste Rodin [Perhaps it is time for our President to stop blaming everything on his predecessor and, not just in a speech, truly blame himself and his failures......]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fort_hood_pentagon_review A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan's medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through the ranks. The picture emerging from the review ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates is one of supervisors who failed to heed their own warnings.
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As Republican Scott Brown’s campaign warms up to take Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, Frank Quaratiello of the Boston Herald is reporting something shocking: if Brown wins, Massachusetts Democrats may drag out his certification as the victor to enable appointed Sen. Paul Kirk (the former DNC chairman) to put ObamaCare over the top.
  • CBS News reports: British Intelligence has confirmed perhaps the most chilling boast that accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab made to investigators after his arrest: that close to 20 other young Muslim men were being prepared in Yemen to use the same technique to blow up airliners, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports exclusively.

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  • as Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan conceded, the NCTC was well aware Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was seeking foot soldiers to attack the U.S.

    Even though the NCTC had gotten screamingly clear warnings that Abdulmutallab was likely one of those recruits.

    President Obama announced remedial action, including ordering his intel crew to accountably pursue terror tips. How basic is that?

    Obama's performance was his strongest to date in struggling to get command of an administration that was clueless as to the seriousness of the attack and its own bumbling. So clueless, NCTC boss Michael Leiter took to the ski slopes after the bombing attempt. So clueless, Brennan fessed up to having given Leiter the okay to go.

    While accepting responsibility and promising accountability, Obama blamed the system and took no action against anyone, not even Leiter, who after three years at the top of NCTC produced an operation that was neither "comprehensive or functioning." That doesn't come close to accountability. That's bunker-mode insanity.


  • Let me review: the Administration had non-specific details that Al Quaeda was planning a Christmas holidays threat on the US airlines. The National Counter Terrorism Center head asked if he could still go on a ski vacation. Barack Obama then decided that even though one attempt had nearly succeeded, and America was at great risk of others intent on jihad, the two of them could each continue their vacations. Now Barack Obama states that he will get tough on terrorism, but he is "not one to point fingers of blame" (or fire ones who totally failed in their jobs). Oops, another lie by Obama, for he consistently points the finger of blame away from himself for every criticism - by blaming George W. Bush. I for one won't believe his words until someone or some people are actually fired for their poor performance and or their outright incompetency. They need to take responsibility for their failures, and perhaps actually focus on Homeland Security instead of health care and cap and trade..
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  • Only 12 days after the panty bomber tried to blow up an airplane over Detroit, our government has decided to revoke his Visa! Isn't that just great?!
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  • The most important three-year period in the history of the United States will start on January 1, 2010. The choices that we as a people make during this time may well relegate our country to secondary status (easily dominated by those who wish to make us subservient to their power, influence, and ideology) -- or, in the alternative, allow us to continue as the greatest nation in the history of mankind. Is this unadulterated hyperbole? The choices we have made in the past and the policies that we are in the process of ratifying may well achieve what the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II did not: the downward spiral of the American people and nation. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_most_important_three_year.html
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  • From Bloomberg.com: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer’s payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show. AIG said in a draft of a regulatory filing that the insurer paid banks, which included Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA, 100 cents on the dollar for credit-default swaps they bought from the firm. The New York Fed crossed out the reference, according to the e-mails, and AIG excluded the language when the filing was made public on Dec. 24, 2008. The e-mails were obtained by Representative Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. [Now we can see what kind of executive decisions led to our President's appt. of this man to be out Treasury Secretary: the willingness to bend the law and to hide what he is doing to our country.]

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    Perhaps the following is the type of fraud our government should be attacking, instead of taking over 16% of our economy for what will become a single payer system for health care in America. According to the Charleston Daily Mail: For three years now, a woman has left her home in Poughkeepsie, New York, five days a week and taken a taxi to visit her child at St. Margaret’s Center, a nursing home for disabled children in Albany, New York. Each night, she rides home by taxi. That costs $300 a day. What dedication — by taxpayers. That is right. Taxpayers have shelled out $196,000 over the past three years so that she can make the trip.

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    With campaign radio ads billing the five-term Republican senator as "Arizona's last line of defense,'' the GOP's nominee for president in 2008 is attempting to bolster his 2010 campaign for reelection to the Senate with a slam at the president.

    "President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America,'' McCain says in one of the radio ads his campaign is airing. McCain got his own head-knocking in the 2008 presidential election, and now he could be facing a party primary contest from a former Republican congressman, J.D. Hayworth, who is an outspoken critic of immigration reform -- an issue which McCain has championed in the Senate, and an issue on which McCain, Obama and some of the Senate's leading Democrats happen to agree. They support a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. [Isn't this the person who, on the Campaign trail, assured us that we have nothing to fear from an Obama Administration?]

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    http://www.publicopiniononline.com/news/ci_14149826

    A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.

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    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Surprise-Leading-Obamacare-economic-advocate-was-being-paid-by-Obama-administration-81008382.html

    Jon Gruber, a prominent MIT economist [has] been one of the country's leading advocates of Democratic health care reform legislation. Except it now appears that Gruber didn't do a very good job of disclosing an enormous conflict of interest, according to Firedoglake:

    He has consistently failed to disclose that he has had a sole-source contract with the Department of Health and Human Services since June 19, 2009 to consult on the “President’s health reform proposal.”

    He is one source for the claim that the excise tax will result in raises for workers (though his underlying study is in-apt to the excise tax question). He is the basis for the argument that the Senate bill reduces families’ risk–even if it remains totally unaffordable. Even Politico stenographer Mike Allen points to Gruber’s research.

    But none of the references to Gruber I’ve seen have revealed that Gruber has a $297,600 contract with HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] to produce,

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    StrStrangers on my flight,
    turbans they're packin'.
    Wonderin' if they might,
    plan a hijacking.
    They could pull a stunt,
    before this flight is through.

    Something's on their minds.
    I saw them mutter.
    What that in their hands?
    Looks like box cutters,
    I'm gonna kick some ass,
    if they make a move.

    Strangers on my flight.
    Two smelly people,
    and they're not talking right;
    and in a moment,
    I will grab base ball bat;
    and that will be that.
    Swing like Joe DiMaggio,
    and rip them both a new a-hole.

    And if they pick a fight,
    and try to screw us,
    I'll punch out their lights,
    just like Joe Louis.
    It would feel so right,
    for strangers on my flight.

    Ratta Tat Tat Tat,
    Budda Bing Bang Boom,
    Zooma Zooma Zoom.
    angers on my flight,
    turbans they're packin'.
    Wonderin' if they might,
    plan a hijacking.
    They could pull a stunt,
    before this flight is through.

    Something's on their minds.
    I saw them mutter.
    What that in their hands?
    Looks like box cutters,
    I'm gonna kick some ass,
    if they make a move.

    Strangers on my flight.
    Two smelly people,
    and they're not talking right;
    and in a moment,
    I will grab base ball bat;
    and that will be that.
    Swing like Joe DiMaggio,
    and rip them both a new a-hole.

    And if they pick a fight,
    and try to screw us,
    I'll punch out their lights,
    just like Joe Louis.
    It would feel so right,
    for strangers on my flight.

    Ratta Tat Tat Tat,
    Budda Bing Bang Boom,
    Zooma Zooma Zoom.