Failures and Abuse of Power
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War on Terror … winning debate topic and campaign issues for Bush 43 over Kerry in 2004. Dick Morris video 5/31/14
2014 and 2016 elections:
Open US Border. US law not enforced. Illegals wanted. Dems advertising in Mexico. Catch and Release of illegals. Homeland Security inaction. Domestic gun and ammo purchases. Big Dem Gov militarizing the police. Friendly with the Muslim Brotherhood. Lack of respect for US internationally = China, Iran, Russia. Deserting US Embassy staff. AG ignoring crime. EPA decrees that weaken US economy. Big Dem Gov expansion.
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Postal Service Faces $100B in Debts and Unfunded Benefits … “At the end of fiscal year 2013,” said the GAO, “USPS had about $100 billion in unfunded liabilities: $85 billion in unfunded liabilities for benefits, including retiree-health, pension, and workers’ compensation liabilities, and $15 billion in outstanding debt to the U.S. Treasury—the statutory limit.” – [cnsnews.com] 3/14/14
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See the budget details in the article. Unfunded benefits seem to be a continual big money problem in many Democrat-controlled cities. Basic Math is not in the Democrat DNA - income vs expenses. A partial solution is for postal employees to begin paying for their own healthcare benefits while reducing or eliminating those golden retirement plans.
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Obama Then and Now
VIDEO: Obama Slammed Bush Over Executive Power in 2008, Promised to "Reverse When I'm President"
The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United States of America. [blog.heritage.org] 2/13/14
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We are #1 … ooops… make that 19th
This study exposes the level
of corruption in the US government
… Overall, the 2013 study
concluded that more than two-thirds of the 177 nations surveyed scored under
50, indicating that there is widespread government corruption throughout the
globe. … According to the 2013 CPI report, America is the world’s 19th least
corrupt country. The US held the same spot in 2012. [dailycaller.com] 12/3/13
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Could it be a transparency
thing?
30%. Fraudulent payments on earned income tax payments according to IRS … and they are not able to identify those who are defrauding the US Taxpayers. Heard on a radio news report on 10/25/13
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If Big Gov cannot get this EITC right, how can it possibly manage the massively larger ObamaCare effectively and efficiently?
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Big Dem Action: Save financially troubled and debt-ridden Post Office. End postal delivery to individual residential customers.
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Obama and Big Dem Gov spying
on you thru Verizon. Obama campaigned against this when Bush 43 was President,
and BAM, now that he is Pres he expanded it rather than dismantle it. The
intent under Bush was to look for connections among known terrorist phones
overseas and unknown domestic phones. Now Obama is spying on all US taxpayers.
6/6/13
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AG Holder assigned by Obama to investigate AG Holder and DOJ. ;-)
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Profiling by IRS. Obama IRS Team selectively reviews Conservative groups who are seeking Not-For-Profit status. Asks many intrusive personal questions about members, their views, their church affiliation, what they read, do they protest and if so, who, etc. Delay tactics go on for months. Democrat and muslim groups slide through the process very quickly. Appears to have been happening since 2010. 5/31/13
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IRS takes the 5th. Is that legal? What happened to the Obama and Pelosi promises of transparency!
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Failure: Obama Adm cannot protect the lives of our US Adm staff in Benghazi Embassy with the entire US Military at their beck and call. Now these same politicians want to take away our guns so we cannot even protect ourselves. Just wait until you see the Big Gov ObamaCare disaster that is coming. 12/21/12
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41. With an average of 41 gun related deaths per month in Chicago, there is no effort by Big Dem Gov nor Big Dem Personalities to address this violence. Ditto educational failure in the Big Dem Cities.
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Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute union terrorist-type threats, intimidation and violence.
Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute vote fraud in 2012 election.
Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute black on white crime.
Bonuses. US Post Office administrators to receive large bonuses despite massive debt. Rewarding poor performance.
Waste. Big Dem Gov agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, NIST MEP, spent between $3 to $5 million dollars on an annual conference at a lavish resort near Walt Disney World in Florida. [dailycaller.com] 7/12/12
House votes 255 to 67 to hold Holder in contempt of Congress with 17 Democrats siding with the House Republicans. [freedomoutpost.com] 6/28/12
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Both Obama and Holder act as if our laws and the US Constitution do not apply to them. Give them four more years and they will prove it. On examining the past 3.5 years, it is my view that once Democrats have control of the House, Senate and Presidency again, the US Constitution will forever be changed from the original intent of the founders. ... and there are many who do not care.
Failure of the highest degree. It is insulting to amateurs to call Obama “The Amateur” as he has been so labeled in the recent book of that title. I have seen far too many amateurs who are quite well skilled and knowledgeable in their field of interest. As president of the USA, the abilities of Obama to govern fall far below the knowledge and experience of most amateurs, except for the beginners. The abilities of Obama are similar to those men who enter “tough man” contests and look like fools. Who was responsible for vetting this man? =TheRightJack on 6/9/12
Voter ID Scam. Obama and AG Holder campaigning against voter ID requirements claiming that it is done by Republicans to intimidate blacks and reduce the black vote. Democrats claim that it is a hardship for some people to get photo/voter IDs. Democrat strategy to get all the legals and illegals to vote as many times as possible. It is all about votes, not hardships. 6/3/12 NYC Welfare. Nancy Pelosi's daughter is an aspiring film producer. She made this short but disturbing video which has caused quite a stir in the "progressive" community. Was her mother furious? [YouTube] 3/18/12
$18B-b-billion Federal job training program has waste. … Example: In one state, workforce agency employees took more than 100 gambling trips to casinos mostly during work hours. [thenewamerican.com] 5/19/12
$25 million a day. US Post office losing $25 million dollars a day. Congress still deliberating about it. Network news report heard on the radio 5/13/12
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No Big Dem Gov outcry for new postal regulations compared to what is being said about the $2 B-b-billion JP Morgan Chase losses from bad trading. USPO operating at $14.1 B-b-billion "deficit" in 2012.
$16 B-b-billion. California shortfall. More tax money needed but it will not be enough. Was $9.6 B-b-billion in January. Gov Moonbeam might actually make some budget cuts. [foxnews.com] 5/13/12
Hmmmmm ...
1.3%. Increase in Social Security payments for those who have paid into the system.
30% or more. Increase in payment to welfare recipients under Obama. Heard on a radio commercial 10/24/13
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The Social Security Ponzi Scheme has been funded by US tax for decades and it is among the first thing that Big Gov threatens to cut. ... But we cannot ever cut the badly needed welfare payments. Something fraudulant going on, eh what!
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Big Dem Action: Save financially troubled and debt-ridden Post Office. End postal delivery to individual residential customers.
Consequences: How long will
it be then for Them to discover that they absolutely need to construct thousands of
new Union-Built US post offices so every resident can have a post office box.
Evaluation: Increased spending
and inconvenience to many elderly people and those without transportation.
Solution: Use non-union rural
and suburban newspaper carriers, paperboys and papergirls to deliver the mail.
Just a thot. = TheRightJack on 7/24/13
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IRS sent $46 million in tax refunds to 23,994 “Unauthorized aliens – all at the same address in Atlanta … for example … 10 addresses in the U.S. that were issued anywhere from 1,846 to 23,994 tax refunds each. Four of those 10 addresses were located in Atlanta. … IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth. … Read on. [theblaze.com/stories] June 21, 2013
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Is this Obama - Pelosi transparency in action?
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$330,000. $181,000.
Malifornia transit exec not working, collects $330,000 in salary and $181,000
in pension. Guess who is going to bail out Malifornia for its extravagant
salaries and unsustainable pension funds. Report in local newspaper. Story
not found on line. 6/10/13
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Profiling by IRS. Obama IRS Team selectively reviews Conservative groups who are seeking Not-For-Profit status. Asks many intrusive personal questions about members, their views, their church affiliation, what they read, do they protest and if so, who, etc. Delay tactics go on for months. Democrat and muslim groups slide through the process very quickly. Appears to have been happening since 2010. 5/31/13
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IRS takes the 5th. Is that legal? What happened to the Obama and Pelosi promises of transparency!
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Failure: Obama Adm cannot protect the lives of our US Adm staff in Benghazi Embassy with the entire US Military at their beck and call. Now these same politicians want to take away our guns so we cannot even protect ourselves. Just wait until you see the Big Gov ObamaCare disaster that is coming. 12/21/12
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22 of the Worst Government Expenditures of 2012 including … Congressional salaries total almost $100 million. Seems like they should be able to get something done for that much money, ey? [ijreview.com] 12/21/1/2
22 of the Worst Government Expenditures of 2012 including … Congressional salaries total almost $100 million. Seems like they should be able to get something done for that much money, ey? [ijreview.com] 12/21/1/2
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41. With an average of 41 gun related deaths per month in Chicago, there is no effort by Big Dem Gov nor Big Dem Personalities to address this violence. Ditto educational failure in the Big Dem Cities.
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Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute union terrorist-type threats, intimidation and violence.
Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute vote fraud in 2012 election.
Abuse. AG Holder, a partisan Democrat, will not investigate nor prosecute black on white crime.
Bonuses. US Post Office administrators to receive large bonuses despite massive debt. Rewarding poor performance.
Waste. Big Dem Gov agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, NIST MEP, spent between $3 to $5 million dollars on an annual conference at a lavish resort near Walt Disney World in Florida. [dailycaller.com] 7/12/12
Fact Act. Trial lawyers opposed to legal reform related to transparency and the big bailouts. [Institute for Legal Reform] 6/30/12
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Let me see. Who was it that said they would have the most transparent government ever. Oh yes. It was Obama and Pelosi
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Let me see. Who was it that said they would have the most transparent government ever. Oh yes. It was Obama and Pelosi
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Deep down, lawyers are pretty good people ... six feet down!
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Both Obama and Holder act as if our laws and the US Constitution do not apply to them. Give them four more years and they will prove it. On examining the past 3.5 years, it is my view that once Democrats have control of the House, Senate and Presidency again, the US Constitution will forever be changed from the original intent of the founders. ... and there are many who do not care.
Failure of the highest degree. It is insulting to amateurs to call Obama “The Amateur” as he has been so labeled in the recent book of that title. I have seen far too many amateurs who are quite well skilled and knowledgeable in their field of interest. As president of the USA, the abilities of Obama to govern fall far below the knowledge and experience of most amateurs, except for the beginners. The abilities of Obama are similar to those men who enter “tough man” contests and look like fools. Who was responsible for vetting this man? =TheRightJack on 6/9/12
Voter ID Scam. Obama and AG Holder campaigning against voter ID requirements claiming that it is done by Republicans to intimidate blacks and reduce the black vote. Democrats claim that it is a hardship for some people to get photo/voter IDs. Democrat strategy to get all the legals and illegals to vote as many times as possible. It is all about votes, not hardships. 6/3/12 NYC Welfare. Nancy Pelosi's daughter is an aspiring film producer. She made this short but disturbing video which has caused quite a stir in the "progressive" community. Was her mother furious? [YouTube] 3/18/12
$18B-b-billion Federal job training program has waste. … Example: In one state, workforce agency employees took more than 100 gambling trips to casinos mostly during work hours. [thenewamerican.com] 5/19/12
$25 million a day. US Post office losing $25 million dollars a day. Congress still deliberating about it. Network news report heard on the radio 5/13/12
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No Big Dem Gov outcry for new postal regulations compared to what is being said about the $2 B-b-billion JP Morgan Chase losses from bad trading. USPO operating at $14.1 B-b-billion "deficit" in 2012.
$16 B-b-billion. California shortfall. More tax money needed but it will not be enough. Was $9.6 B-b-billion in January. Gov Moonbeam might actually make some budget cuts. [foxnews.com] 5/13/12
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Plan B is to raise taxes and cut spending to go along with out migration by California's Hollywood elite and job producers.
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Plan C is a request for Obama to bail them out with US Taxpayer money.
Thought for the day: Secret Service scandal was uncovered when a disagreement on how much a prostitute wanted for her services came to light. She wanted $800. The Secret Service Agent offered $30. How ironic is it that the only person in Washington willing to cut spending gets fired?
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Plan C is a request for Obama to bail them out with US Taxpayer money.
Thought for the day: Secret Service scandal was uncovered when a disagreement on how much a prostitute wanted for her services came to light. She wanted $800. The Secret Service Agent offered $30. How ironic is it that the only person in Washington willing to cut spending gets fired?
Free Speech gone as Congress and Obama pass legislation – HR 347 – giving sweeping powers decided by Secret Service agents when escorting the President. It is a felony = more than a year in jail for speaking your mind. Signed in secret. 3.5 minute video. [youtube.com] 4/26/12
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The ACLU view of HR 347
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According to Slate.com
Billion$ more for Fannie and Freddie under consideration for the mortgage disaster that Fannie and Freddie created under the watchful eyes of Barney Frank [D-MA] and Christopher Dodd [D-CT]. 3/1/12
History lesson: These two quasi-governmental agencies were at the center of the mortgage disaster when Congress, during the Bush 43 presidency, threatened mortgage lenders with Big Dem Congress destruction if they did not make loans to people who could not afford to pay for these loans. 3/2/12
Post Office (Mis)Management
• Last 5 years in the red
• $5.5 billion due to Treasury for retiree health benefits
• $14.1 Billion deficit predicted for 2012
• $20 Billion needs to be cut in 5 years to become profitable
• 45 cent stamp coming January 22, 2012
• Will close about 250 of 500 distribution centers [AP] 12/5/11
It is well past time to privatize the US Postal Service. Recent history has shown that private companies can run public/government endeavors better at less cost than can US Big Gov. Read more at Government Failures at TheRightJack.
Obama supporter receives $443M for smallpox drug for a threat that may not exist. … Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. [LAtimes.com] 11/13/11
Bribed. Terry Spicer [D-AL] pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from lobbyists and a casino developer. [TheDailyCaller] 11/15/11
Bribes, IPOs, perks, and sweetheart deals like the land and home deal that Obama received while in Chicago are just a few of the ways that our elected representatives become wealthy and fail the electorate. =TheRightJack
Government schools are one of our most incideous government failures. First, school leaders and politicians cry out for more and more money. Then, when it occurs, more money has absolutely no effect on student performance. Secondly, teacher indoctrination of students into favored political postitions takes precedence over the unbiased education of students. This is criminal behavior befitting the world’s worst despots. =TheRightJack 11/15/11
Test. National Alert on radio and TV. November 9, 2011 at 2:00 pm. Done either by FEMA, FCC, Homeland Security or The White House so Obama can show you how much he cares. There are countless shady activities going on with this Obama group in Washington that we must be very suspicious about any project they bring forth.
Apparently the test did not work! 11/9/11. Yet another reason Big Gov should have nothing to do with health care.
Lights out. Highland Park, Michigan cannot pay its bills. Shrinking tax base when Ford and then Chrysler moved out. 42% of population live in poverty. Vandalism on the rise. [YahooFinance] 11/3/11
Jobs. Obama threatens seniors that checks will not be mailed as there is not enough money unless Republicans pass the budget amendment. The failure: Obama holding out on money that has been paid into the Social Security system by seniors. That is what you call a Ponzi scheme.
Haiti:
1. Destruction everywhere.
2. People without work everywhere.
3. US Gov money and donations from other nations.
Why not put native Haitians to work cleaning up their own devastation? Makes perfect sense to me. Why does it not make sense to governments?
Turf war. The FBI succeeded in undermining and finally ending the successful FBI Art Crime Team with internal "Turf War" disputes over who is in charge and who gets credit. See the book "Priceless" by Robert Wittman.
Accounting blunders or deception? Big Gov grant program for 18,000 black US farmers gets 84,000 applicant pay-outs. More expected. This is just like Big Gov payments to dead people. 12/1/2010
Big Gov still sending over $1 billion annually to dead people via Social Security, HHS, HUD, Medicare, Aids. How will Big Gov ever manage any kind of national health care system without massive fraud and waste?
Massive vote fraud nationwide threatens individual rights, freedom and democracy.
Democrat State Governments could not or would not send absentee ballots to people oversees including our soldiers. This has been an ongoing problem over the past three US election cycles.
Absentee ballots not counted.
Big Gov Accounting. 72,000 stimulus payments of $250 went to dead people. $4.3 million went to more than 17,000 prison inmates. 89,000 checks = $22,250,000 snafu. Source: government investigator report. 10/8/10
US Postal System. Postal Union election ballots lost in the mail by US Postal Service. 10/7/10
California. Welfare checks and cards used on cruise ships and in Las Vegas casinos. [Any wonder that California is broke. Government in general, seems totally unable to account for the US Taxpayer money they spend.]
US Pledge for Haitian 7.0 earthquake relief: Since January 2010, Haitian $1.15 Billion relief package is still tied up in the US Congressional red tape.
US Post Office said to have selected 1,125 workers each day to sit in ready rooms. Cost to US Taxpayers is $50 million annually. [Did you know that we also have thousands of teachers sitting in rubber rooms each day because they are not fit to teach but cannot be fired - a union thing.]
US Government - Democrats attempt to "spread the wealth" in 2009 and 2010 with control of Congress since 2008. Government workforce up. Government salaries up. Foreclosures up. Bank failures up. Unemployment up. Joblessness up. Pension defaults up. Republicans and Conservatives fired up. Home values down. Business creation down. Immigration down. Dollar down. Birth rate down. Family income down. International opinion of USA down. Newspaper readership down. Big Time Dying Media down. Democrats down.
Pentagon - Defense Department cannot account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion designated for reconstruction in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. Congress appropriated $53 billion for the reconstruction effort. Who is enriching their pockets at the expense of the US Taxpayers. July 27, 2010.
BP Oil spill - Stalling. Oil is released into the Gulf of Mexico while Obama and the Democrat Congress talk and talk and talk. Democrats focus on reparations while ignoring possible solutions. Democrats will not allow a disaster to go to waste when it can further their political agenda.
Calif city goes bust - Maywood CA south of LA, a sanctuary city . . . "Crushed by the recession and falling tax revenues, the city is disbanding the police force and firing all public sector employees," Matthew Garrahan wrote in the Financial Times, never mentioning that illegal immigration was the problem. 96% of the 45,000 population, legal and illegal, are Hispanic. May 28, 2010.
Housing Tax Credit for first time home buyers - Nearly 1,300 prison inmates received nearly $9 million in tax credits. More than 14,100 tax filers wrongly received $26.7 million in tax credits. One home was used for 67 tax credit filers. Some taxpayers got the credit for sales before the tax break started. June 24, 2010 news item. - - - the right jack is anxious to see Big Sugar Daddy Government manage health care. Read example and example below of government mis-management.
Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 – US Government inspectors headed by the Obama administration gave that BP Gulf of Mexico oil well passing grades. Environmentalists do not want drilling on US soil where oil is easy to find and can be brought to the surface without disastrous oil spills.
Los Angeles – Out of cash. Cannot pay their bills and cannot print money like the Federal Government. Gee. Why not raise taxes and institute more fines. Certainly would not want to cut spending. That would make way too much sense. April 2010
Border with Mexico – Virtual fence shut down. $50 million taken from the project. In 2009, Big Gov gave $100 million to cover 53 miles with this technology. Budgeted at $6.7 billion by 2014. Israelis use low tech approach - multiple fences, razor wire and nicely raked sand that reveals footprints where breaches are made by terrorists.
Illinois Pension System – Taxpayer contributions were used for other Illinois projects. The state cannot pay the pensions as promised. That is the same reason our US Social Security program is broke. 3/23/10
Massachusetts Health Care program is broke. No money to fund the program. It took only five years from inception to death.
California is broker than broke. Big Democrat majority keeps adding to budget perks for more people. In fact, one California city gave full pensions at age 50 or 55 and they had to default. No money. Is that what it takes to get their attention.
Michigan. Do not even go there. A wasteland. Massive unemployment. Corruption part of the problem with Democrats rulers. African Americans and women hit hardest. Cities are shrinking as people evacuate the cities and the state.
In other states, Democrats are crying and whining because they do not want their new Republican administrations to cut any program or budgets to balance the budget. These Democrat protesters cannot run their own household budgets this way but some how believe that government can spend and spend without restrictions or consequences.
Census, 2010 – Our US Government lost $2B to $3B on specifically designed wireless PDAs. They failed to live up to expectations. Nice way to say they did not work. Census decision-makers junked the whole project. Officials have gone back to hard copy mailed out census forms. 3/2010 media report.
Cash for Clunkers – The first $1Billion auto industry stimulus was used up and government has yet to figure out how to repay the auto dealers. Dealers are carrying the government note. Then an additional $2 billion was added to this government program. Apparently just 2% of the rebates have been paid at this time. Wow . . . and Obama wants our government to take over 1/6 of the US economy.
Health Care – Are Obama Administrators going to take 1/6th of the US economy and put government in charge of it? If this bill becomes law, they will put all health care insurance companies out of business.
GM in 2009 – Obama appoints Edward Whitaker, 67 year old former head of AT&T, as Chairman to run General Motors. He has no experience in the auto industry. Now he is out. Many top executives around the nation have both advertising and sales management credentials.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/10/new-gm-chair-i-dont-know-anything-about-cars-hes-just-latest-long-line
Historical Evidence of US Government management failures . . .
Bank Bailouts - Billions of dollars spent, some without accountability, has resulted in high unemployment, company failures, decreased consumer spending and a horrible real estate market. There is not enough tax money in the USA to pay for these shot-in-the-dark boondoggles.
Amtrak - May 1, 1971 thru 2009 – Still running at a loss despite massive government subsidies. Now the Obama Administrators want to add more city bus lines for people who do not or will not ride the bus.
Schools. Many big city blue state school systems have become educational wastelands. Absenteeism, dropouts and violence run rampant. City and county public - government schools continue to dumb down the curriculum to the point were many students entering college spend their first year in remedial courses. Remedial courses enable them to pass college level courses. Private schools, charter schools and home-schools are quite successful at much lower costs.
Social Security – Established in 1935. Destined to go broke for several reasons. Congressional legislators have taken money intended for Social Security and used it for their pet projects. These same legislators, our Masters of Regulations and Oversight, have given benefits to people who have never put a single cent into the system. The year 2042 is the current insolvency date.
Medicare – Established in 1965. Going broke. Our Legislators have been unwilling to address the problems of Social Security and Medicare for fear of NOT getting reelected. The year 2019 is the current insolvency date. Estimated costs as start up was $4B. It now costs over $400B annually. Gee. Do you think Obama Health Care Change will follow this pattern.
Iraq War I in 2003 – The US Congress would not allow the US Military to finish the job.
Iraq War II in 2005 – The US Congress and the US Military did not have contingency plans for events that might transpire when the existing Iraqi military government was defeated and removed from power.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – Local. State. Federal. Local citizens did not know how to flee the hurricane area as an uncounted number of school buses were abandoned in parking lots. People waited for the government to come in and take them to safety. Emergency shelters [ie., trailers] were purchased and set unused. Same for water and other supplies. Crime was rampant.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 – Government entities. Government requirements on lenders [i.e., lenders were ordered by members of Congress to give loans to people who could not pay the loans] brought disastrous results. Then the very members of Congress who caused the problem blamed the default problems on lack of government oversight. A Democrat Congress rejected inquiries by President Bush noting that everything was fine.
Congressional Cafeteria – Congressional leaders were not able to run it at a profit so it was turned over to a private company.
US Postal Service – Every time you turn around, they raise rates. In the meantime, private companies like UPS and Fed Ex are doing fine while the US Postal Service struggles to get the mail through come rain or shine. By August 2009, they were $7 billion in debt for the year.
4/13/10 update: US Postal Service set to lose $7 Billion in fiscal 2010 that ends in September with 553,000 government employees who play no taxes on Federal retirement income. $238 Billion projected losses in the next decade.
The House Post Office in 1994 – Members of Congress were writing US government checks for $100 worth of stamps for example, taking one stamp, and putting the “change” in their pocket. Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues put a stop to it. This is one of the events that lead to Gingrich's bad reputation among the Leftist Congressional members and the Democrats in the news media.
Viet Nam War in the 1960s and 1970s – Members of Congress would not allow the US Military to fight this War to win it.
And the beat goes on. Our elected legislators do not have the knowledge or experience to run anything. All they really know is how to talk as they continually run for office and spend without regard to the unintended consequences … the right jack
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The ACLU view of HR 347
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According to Slate.com
Billion$ more for Fannie and Freddie under consideration for the mortgage disaster that Fannie and Freddie created under the watchful eyes of Barney Frank [D-MA] and Christopher Dodd [D-CT]. 3/1/12
History lesson: These two quasi-governmental agencies were at the center of the mortgage disaster when Congress, during the Bush 43 presidency, threatened mortgage lenders with Big Dem Congress destruction if they did not make loans to people who could not afford to pay for these loans. 3/2/12
Government union employee
pensions for regular workers yield $6 million to $10 million payments over a
lifetime. “Watch Wayne Allyn Root report on the true 1 percent: government
employees. This is the privileged class that is straining taxpayers to the
breaking point and bankrupting the U.S. economy. Will you retire with $5
million to $10 million? Average government employees are doing it every day.
Watch here to understand the greatest scam since Bernie Madoff.”
[personalliberty.com] 3/1/12
And then there are the golden
retirement plans of our elected members of Congress. They are just obscene when
compared to what ordinary workers and ordinary business owners can achieve.
NPR. Political ponzi abuse. Interview with former
Clinton cabinet member, Robert Reich, now a college professor, calls Social
Security an entitlement while sticking it to Republicans. We bought and paid
for our Social Security while food stamps, unemployment and welfare payments
for having kids are entitlements created with Golden Handcuffs to bribe more people into become Democrat voters.
Heard on NPR 2/8/12.
Earlier during the so called budget crisis in 2011, Obama threatened to withhold social security payments.
• Last 5 years in the red
• $5.5 billion due to Treasury for retiree health benefits
• $14.1 Billion deficit predicted for 2012
• $20 Billion needs to be cut in 5 years to become profitable
• 45 cent stamp coming January 22, 2012
• Will close about 250 of 500 distribution centers [AP] 12/5/11
It is well past time to privatize the US Postal Service. Recent history has shown that private companies can run public/government endeavors better at less cost than can US Big Gov. Read more at Government Failures at TheRightJack.
Obama supporter receives $443M for smallpox drug for a threat that may not exist. … Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. [LAtimes.com] 11/13/11
Bribed. Terry Spicer [D-AL] pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from lobbyists and a casino developer. [TheDailyCaller] 11/15/11
Bribes, IPOs, perks, and sweetheart deals like the land and home deal that Obama received while in Chicago are just a few of the ways that our elected representatives become wealthy and fail the electorate. =TheRightJack
Government schools are one of our most incideous government failures. First, school leaders and politicians cry out for more and more money. Then, when it occurs, more money has absolutely no effect on student performance. Secondly, teacher indoctrination of students into favored political postitions takes precedence over the unbiased education of students. This is criminal behavior befitting the world’s worst despots. =TheRightJack 11/15/11
Test. National Alert on radio and TV. November 9, 2011 at 2:00 pm. Done either by FEMA, FCC, Homeland Security or The White House so Obama can show you how much he cares. There are countless shady activities going on with this Obama group in Washington that we must be very suspicious about any project they bring forth.
Apparently the test did not work! 11/9/11. Yet another reason Big Gov should have nothing to do with health care.
Lights out. Highland Park, Michigan cannot pay its bills. Shrinking tax base when Ford and then Chrysler moved out. 42% of population live in poverty. Vandalism on the rise. [YahooFinance] 11/3/11
Jobs. Obama threatens seniors that checks will not be mailed as there is not enough money unless Republicans pass the budget amendment. The failure: Obama holding out on money that has been paid into the Social Security system by seniors. That is what you call a Ponzi scheme.
Haiti:
1. Destruction everywhere.
2. People without work everywhere.
3. US Gov money and donations from other nations.
Why not put native Haitians to work cleaning up their own devastation? Makes perfect sense to me. Why does it not make sense to governments?
Turf war. The FBI succeeded in undermining and finally ending the successful FBI Art Crime Team with internal "Turf War" disputes over who is in charge and who gets credit. See the book "Priceless" by Robert Wittman.
Accounting blunders or deception? Big Gov grant program for 18,000 black US farmers gets 84,000 applicant pay-outs. More expected. This is just like Big Gov payments to dead people. 12/1/2010
Big Gov still sending over $1 billion annually to dead people via Social Security, HHS, HUD, Medicare, Aids. How will Big Gov ever manage any kind of national health care system without massive fraud and waste?
Massive vote fraud nationwide threatens individual rights, freedom and democracy.
Democrat State Governments could not or would not send absentee ballots to people oversees including our soldiers. This has been an ongoing problem over the past three US election cycles.
Absentee ballots not counted.
Big Gov Accounting. 72,000 stimulus payments of $250 went to dead people. $4.3 million went to more than 17,000 prison inmates. 89,000 checks = $22,250,000 snafu. Source: government investigator report. 10/8/10
US Postal System. Postal Union election ballots lost in the mail by US Postal Service. 10/7/10
California. Welfare checks and cards used on cruise ships and in Las Vegas casinos. [Any wonder that California is broke. Government in general, seems totally unable to account for the US Taxpayer money they spend.]
US Pledge for Haitian 7.0 earthquake relief: Since January 2010, Haitian $1.15 Billion relief package is still tied up in the US Congressional red tape.
US Post Office said to have selected 1,125 workers each day to sit in ready rooms. Cost to US Taxpayers is $50 million annually. [Did you know that we also have thousands of teachers sitting in rubber rooms each day because they are not fit to teach but cannot be fired - a union thing.]
US Government - Democrats attempt to "spread the wealth" in 2009 and 2010 with control of Congress since 2008. Government workforce up. Government salaries up. Foreclosures up. Bank failures up. Unemployment up. Joblessness up. Pension defaults up. Republicans and Conservatives fired up. Home values down. Business creation down. Immigration down. Dollar down. Birth rate down. Family income down. International opinion of USA down. Newspaper readership down. Big Time Dying Media down. Democrats down.
Pentagon - Defense Department cannot account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion designated for reconstruction in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. Congress appropriated $53 billion for the reconstruction effort. Who is enriching their pockets at the expense of the US Taxpayers. July 27, 2010.
BP Oil spill - Stalling. Oil is released into the Gulf of Mexico while Obama and the Democrat Congress talk and talk and talk. Democrats focus on reparations while ignoring possible solutions. Democrats will not allow a disaster to go to waste when it can further their political agenda.
Calif city goes bust - Maywood CA south of LA, a sanctuary city . . . "Crushed by the recession and falling tax revenues, the city is disbanding the police force and firing all public sector employees," Matthew Garrahan wrote in the Financial Times, never mentioning that illegal immigration was the problem. 96% of the 45,000 population, legal and illegal, are Hispanic. May 28, 2010.
Housing Tax Credit for first time home buyers - Nearly 1,300 prison inmates received nearly $9 million in tax credits. More than 14,100 tax filers wrongly received $26.7 million in tax credits. One home was used for 67 tax credit filers. Some taxpayers got the credit for sales before the tax break started. June 24, 2010 news item. - - - the right jack is anxious to see Big Sugar Daddy Government manage health care. Read example and example below of government mis-management.
Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 – US Government inspectors headed by the Obama administration gave that BP Gulf of Mexico oil well passing grades. Environmentalists do not want drilling on US soil where oil is easy to find and can be brought to the surface without disastrous oil spills.
Los Angeles – Out of cash. Cannot pay their bills and cannot print money like the Federal Government. Gee. Why not raise taxes and institute more fines. Certainly would not want to cut spending. That would make way too much sense. April 2010
Border with Mexico – Virtual fence shut down. $50 million taken from the project. In 2009, Big Gov gave $100 million to cover 53 miles with this technology. Budgeted at $6.7 billion by 2014. Israelis use low tech approach - multiple fences, razor wire and nicely raked sand that reveals footprints where breaches are made by terrorists.
Illinois Pension System – Taxpayer contributions were used for other Illinois projects. The state cannot pay the pensions as promised. That is the same reason our US Social Security program is broke. 3/23/10
Massachusetts Health Care program is broke. No money to fund the program. It took only five years from inception to death.
California is broker than broke. Big Democrat majority keeps adding to budget perks for more people. In fact, one California city gave full pensions at age 50 or 55 and they had to default. No money. Is that what it takes to get their attention.
Michigan. Do not even go there. A wasteland. Massive unemployment. Corruption part of the problem with Democrats rulers. African Americans and women hit hardest. Cities are shrinking as people evacuate the cities and the state.
In other states, Democrats are crying and whining because they do not want their new Republican administrations to cut any program or budgets to balance the budget. These Democrat protesters cannot run their own household budgets this way but some how believe that government can spend and spend without restrictions or consequences.
Census, 2010 – Our US Government lost $2B to $3B on specifically designed wireless PDAs. They failed to live up to expectations. Nice way to say they did not work. Census decision-makers junked the whole project. Officials have gone back to hard copy mailed out census forms. 3/2010 media report.
Cash for Clunkers – The first $1Billion auto industry stimulus was used up and government has yet to figure out how to repay the auto dealers. Dealers are carrying the government note. Then an additional $2 billion was added to this government program. Apparently just 2% of the rebates have been paid at this time. Wow . . . and Obama wants our government to take over 1/6 of the US economy.
Health Care – Are Obama Administrators going to take 1/6th of the US economy and put government in charge of it? If this bill becomes law, they will put all health care insurance companies out of business.
GM in 2009 – Obama appoints Edward Whitaker, 67 year old former head of AT&T, as Chairman to run General Motors. He has no experience in the auto industry. Now he is out. Many top executives around the nation have both advertising and sales management credentials.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/10/new-gm-chair-i-dont-know-anything-about-cars-hes-just-latest-long-line
Historical Evidence of US Government management failures . . .
Bank Bailouts - Billions of dollars spent, some without accountability, has resulted in high unemployment, company failures, decreased consumer spending and a horrible real estate market. There is not enough tax money in the USA to pay for these shot-in-the-dark boondoggles.
Amtrak - May 1, 1971 thru 2009 – Still running at a loss despite massive government subsidies. Now the Obama Administrators want to add more city bus lines for people who do not or will not ride the bus.
Schools. Many big city blue state school systems have become educational wastelands. Absenteeism, dropouts and violence run rampant. City and county public - government schools continue to dumb down the curriculum to the point were many students entering college spend their first year in remedial courses. Remedial courses enable them to pass college level courses. Private schools, charter schools and home-schools are quite successful at much lower costs.
Social Security – Established in 1935. Destined to go broke for several reasons. Congressional legislators have taken money intended for Social Security and used it for their pet projects. These same legislators, our Masters of Regulations and Oversight, have given benefits to people who have never put a single cent into the system. The year 2042 is the current insolvency date.
Medicare – Established in 1965. Going broke. Our Legislators have been unwilling to address the problems of Social Security and Medicare for fear of NOT getting reelected. The year 2019 is the current insolvency date. Estimated costs as start up was $4B. It now costs over $400B annually. Gee. Do you think Obama Health Care Change will follow this pattern.
Iraq War I in 2003 – The US Congress would not allow the US Military to finish the job.
Iraq War II in 2005 – The US Congress and the US Military did not have contingency plans for events that might transpire when the existing Iraqi military government was defeated and removed from power.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – Local. State. Federal. Local citizens did not know how to flee the hurricane area as an uncounted number of school buses were abandoned in parking lots. People waited for the government to come in and take them to safety. Emergency shelters [ie., trailers] were purchased and set unused. Same for water and other supplies. Crime was rampant.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 – Government entities. Government requirements on lenders [i.e., lenders were ordered by members of Congress to give loans to people who could not pay the loans] brought disastrous results. Then the very members of Congress who caused the problem blamed the default problems on lack of government oversight. A Democrat Congress rejected inquiries by President Bush noting that everything was fine.
Congressional Cafeteria – Congressional leaders were not able to run it at a profit so it was turned over to a private company.
US Postal Service – Every time you turn around, they raise rates. In the meantime, private companies like UPS and Fed Ex are doing fine while the US Postal Service struggles to get the mail through come rain or shine. By August 2009, they were $7 billion in debt for the year.
4/13/10 update: US Postal Service set to lose $7 Billion in fiscal 2010 that ends in September with 553,000 government employees who play no taxes on Federal retirement income. $238 Billion projected losses in the next decade.
The House Post Office in 1994 – Members of Congress were writing US government checks for $100 worth of stamps for example, taking one stamp, and putting the “change” in their pocket. Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues put a stop to it. This is one of the events that lead to Gingrich's bad reputation among the Leftist Congressional members and the Democrats in the news media.
Viet Nam War in the 1960s and 1970s – Members of Congress would not allow the US Military to fight this War to win it.
And the beat goes on. Our elected legislators do not have the knowledge or experience to run anything. All they really know is how to talk as they continually run for office and spend without regard to the unintended consequences … the right jack
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