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Monday, September 6, 2010

President to propose companies get to write off 100 percent of new investment in plant and equipment



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Krauthammer on Obama’s Latest 6 Year Stimulus Plan: “Even Lenin Stopped at Five” (Video)

Charles Krauthammer responded to President Obama's latest announcement of a six year stimulus plan..
"Even Lenin stopped at five."








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Good Grief: White House Wants Doctors to Prescribe Drugs for Fat Kids

Right on the heals of my earlier post today about why the BMI is discredited on a its scientific merits (or lack thereof), comes this video of Michelle Obama publicly telling the little people that the government will be tracking your BMI and pushing doctors to make healthcare decisions for you, in direct contradiction to what Barack Hussein Obama was saying on the stump in the runup to ObamaCare:
As usual, whatever Hussein says, the opposite is true. The man has no shame. None. This is not the kind of change Obama promised.







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PAPER: Small businesses feel squeezed by Obama policies...



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Los Angeles school named after Al Gore -- but it's on toxic contaminanted soil!


Los Angeles school named after Al Gore -- but it's on toxic contaminanted soil!


(Third column, 1st story, link)








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PAPER: Small businesses feel squeezed by Obama policies...



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Figures. Obama Administration Bashes Arizona; Defends Card Check & Delcares Union Organizing a Human


In late August the Obama Administration hauled the State of Arizona in front of the UN Human Rights Council over its immigration policy. For the record, this sham council includes human rights offenders Cuba, China and Libya. The Obama administration told the United Nations Human Rights Council that America's human rights record was less than perfect in the report they submitted to these brutal regimes.

Instead of securing the US southern border the Obama Administration turned Arizona over to the UN for doing the federal government's job… And they didn't even let them know before the report was released.

Now we find out the latest nugget of lunacy in Obama's UN report.
The radical Obama regime believes the un-democratic card check legislation is a human right.
Bluegrass Pundit discovered this in the Administration's UNHRC report.

Among the tidbits buried in the first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report of U.S. Human Rights issues was the section excerpted (starting on page 6) below. The Obama administration has declared unionization a human right and indirectly equated it to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and other normal human rights.

23. Freedom of association also protects workers and their right to organize. The labor movement in the United States has a rich history, and the right to organize and bargain collectively under the protection of the law is the bedrock upon which workers are able to form or join a labor union. Workers regularly use legal mechanisms to address complaints such as threats, discharges, interrogations, surveillance, and wages-and-benefits cuts for supporting a union. These legal regimes are continuously assessed and evolving in order to keep pace with a modern work environment. Our UPR consultations included workers from a variety of sectors, including domestic workers who spoke about the challenges they face in organizing effectively. Currently there are several bills in our Congress that seek to strengthen workers' rights—ensuring that workers can continue to associate freely, organize, and practice collective bargaining as the U.S. economy continues to change.

Of course, this surprises no one.








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Democrats: If at first you don't succeed, spend, spend again

According to the Associated Press, President Obama is currently working on a plan that he hopes will increase job creation before the November elections.  The bill, which will cost taxpayers at least $50 billion, will focus mainly on infrastructure.  The AP reports:

The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also installing a new air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.

The President will also call for increased bureaucracy and red tape as he hopes to set up "a permanent infrastructure bank that would focus on funding national and regional infrastructure projects."

The Democrats made infrastructure spending one of the key elements of their near-trillion dollar stimulus package.  Remember the promise that "shovel ready" jobs would be an essential part of the 3.5 million jobs that it was supposed to create in the first year alone?  Now, with unemployment at 9.6 percent and job creation lagging, it is becoming abundantly clear that their spending bill has failed.  And, in typical Washington fashion, Democrats are looking to throw even more taxpayer money at the problem.

Rather than continue the policies that have exacerbated joblessness--the unemployment rate has been above 9 percent for over a year-- Democrats need to focus on proven job creators.  One such fundamental economic strategy is to ensure that tax levels do not increase.  According to J.D. Foster of the Heritage Foundation:

The Administration needs to abandon its attachment to the Obama tax hikes—the expiration of the most economically important elements of the 2001 and 2003 tax provisions.  Allowing any of these tax provisions to expire at the end of the year is irresponsible economic policy.  It is also unnecessary as a matter of fiscal policy, as projected deficits are the result of excess spending, not a dearth of revenues.  Cutting spending back to historical levels is all that is necessary to get budget deficits under control.

Increasing taxes in the middle of a recession isn't merely foolish fiscal policy.  It is a move that will undoubtedly raise unemployment levels and leave millions of Americans jobless for years to come.  As Foster points out:

Such an indefensible economic policy under current conditions sends a strong signal to families and businesses alike: Either the President is completely lost at sea when it comes to economic policy or he is willing to put his big-government, high-tax ideology above the need for job creation.

If a new, deficit-increasing "jobs bill" is passed in place of the tax cuts that the American people want and desperately need, then the Democrats' message will be clear: winning elections because of a short-term job increase is more important to them than the long-term sustainability of the American economy.

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The Liberty Sphere: MAJOR EXPOSE: BEHIND THE MASKS: HOW THE RADICAL LEFT INTENDS TO SAVE ELECTIONS FOR OBAMA

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Beat Whitey Night Deemed Not Racial

What a relief. Remember all the folks who were assaulted at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Beat Whitey Night? Authorities have determined there was no racism involved. A spokeswoman who suggested otherwise has been punished:

After a report filed by Sgt. Dave Murillo noted that 30 to 40 goons were loping around the fairgrounds assaulting the innocent and crowing that it was "Beat Whitey Night," Sgt. Lori Lavorato committed a thought crime by telling the media,

"It's all under investigation, but it's very possible it has racial overtones."

No doubt Murillo's report has gone down a memory hole now that top brass has declared there to be no evidence the assaults were racially motivated. This should be obvious, when you remember that only white people can be racist. If you suggest otherwise, then you are a racist.

Having been reassigned to the lowly traffic division, Lavorato is losing her take-home unmarked police car and the extra pay she got for always being on call. She can be thankful she wasn't banished to Siberia.

On tips from E G, Judith M, Incitatus, viking04, and Jodie.








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RASMUSSEN: Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans Lead by 12: GOP 48% Dems 36%...


RASMUSSEN: Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans Lead by 12: GOP 48% Dems 36%...


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Credit Card ‘Reform’ Will Force All Credit Purchases to Exceed $10

-By Warner Todd Huston

Previous to the current meddling by Congress, stores were technically not allowed to require a minimum purchase for credit cards. If you wanted to charge ten cents or ten dollars merchants were supposed to accept the charge. But the Durbin Amendment (Sen. Dick Durbin, D of Ill.) to the credit card "reform" bill passed by Congress will change all that by allowing stores to set a minimum charge amount of $10 before you are allowed to use your credit card to purchase something.

This is just one more way that Congress is reaching into your pocket and taking your money. It is easy to realize that millions of people, when told they have to spend $10 to use a credit card, will charge to the minimum despite what they really intended to buy. It's an obvious and unseen tax, in essence. It will become a common sight at cash registers when someone gets a bill of $6 or $7 rung up, a credit card will be brought out, the cashier will tell them of the new minimum charge rule, and the consumer will grab a few candy bars or some other nearby item to push the charge over that $10 minimum. This will be money spent that wasn't intended to be spent but it will happen a lot from here on out.

Of course, there is another aspect of the Durbin Amendment that could be beneficial. Merchants will be permitted to give discounts for favored credit cards. If a merchant prefers MasterCard, for instance, he can give a percentage discount for using that card while other cardholders will have to pay full price.

Still, if minimum purchase rules spring up all over, the discount idea will not amount to nearly as much savings as the increased spending to reach that minimum will incur.

Already several credit card companies have <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/09/amex-visa-mastercard-all-give-thumbs-up-to-10-credit-card-minimums.html'>changed their user rules</a> to allow minimum purchase rules by merchants. So expect to see signs popping up in stores all across the country telling you that you won't be able to use a credit card for purchases under $10.</p>








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Fwd: Morning Bell: Labor Day Has Become Government Day


Morning Bell
09/06/2010

Labor Day Has Become Government Day

This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement. It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government. In January the Department of Labor reported that union membership in government has overtaken that in the private sector. Three times as many union members work in the Post Office as in the entire domestic auto industry. The face of the union movement is not a worker on the assembly line but a clerk at the DMV.

This is a dramatic shift for the union movement. The early trade unionists did not believe that unions had a place in government. They believed the purpose of unions was to redistribute business profits from owners to workers ... and the government makes no profits.  Not until the 1960s did unionizing government employees become widespread. Now government employees make up 52 percent of all union members.

So what? Why should Americans care if unions are now dominated by workers who get their paychecks from governments, instead of workers who get their paychecks from private firms? There's one simple reason: private firms face competition; governments don't.

It’s Alive!… Obama Wants Another $50 Billion Road Stimulus to Save Ailing Economy

It didn't work the first time. They admitted it didn't work the first time. But that won't stop them from doing it again.
Please, someone kill this thing.

Obama wants another $50 biliion stimulus to boost the struggling economy.
Never mind the fact that by every objective measure the democrat's Trillion dollar stimulus bomb was a complete disaster.

Barack Obama is incapable of learning new tricks. He's a committed Keynesian.
The AP reported:

Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and airports that would cost at least $50 billion, administration officials said.

The infrastructure investments are one part of a package of targeted proposals the White House is expected to announce in hopes of jump-starting the economy ahead of the November election. Obama will outline the infrastructure proposal Monday at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee.

While the proposal calls for investments over six years, officials said spending would be front-loaded with an initial $50 billion to help create jobs in the near future. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the proposals ahead of the president's announcement.

The goals of the infrastructure plan include: rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads; constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of railways, enough to go coast-to-coast; and rehabilitating or reconstructing 150 miles of airport runways, while also installing a new air navigation system designed to reduce travel times and delays.

Just so you know you're not crazy… The first stimulus was already supposed to fix the roads.








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Video: Al Sharpton Calls Alabama State Senate District “Heir Property” for African-Americans

Welcome to Obama's post-racial America. Race-baiter Al Sharpton claimed that Johnny Ford should win his State Senate Primary runoff against white candidate Billy Beasley because that district is "heir property" to black people:
Guess what happened? White man Billy Beasley easily won the primary over Ford by garnering 62% of the vote. Perhaps Sharpton gave Ford a kiss of death with that race-baiting speech?








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