Posts Made By: david elosser

All the money you want, free of charge, no matter what the law says: just give the feds fake information. They take all kinds of fake information to give you money: you can fake your voting district, tell em you're dead ($2.5 million went to dead people so far, and if all that fails, give them fake ZIP CODES

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Phantom-zip-codes-also-found-in-Virginia-80795072.html

David E

Who sez the Demos in Congress are not open and transparent about health care reform? Who sez they're doing it all behind closed doors? Why, they are very open and honest about what they are doing! Here's proof:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100112/D9D6661G1.html

"A Monday evening meeting at the White House between Obama and about a dozen heads of the country's biggest labor unions capped a day..."

See? Everybody knows what everybody is doing. Right? Everybody's happy. Right?

David E

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

David E

Okay, I'm a bit confused. I thought one big issue with Americans is loosing our jobs overseas. Then why: "In a March 27 speech, Obama threw his support behind the measure to allow duty-free imports of textile items such as towels, sheets and curtains from Pakistan and Afghanistan,"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQYXtfmr4_oU&pos=9

David E

Judge Alito had a "Joe Wilson" moment last night. I imagine a lot of American Citizens watching last night had a lot of Joe Wilson moments. There may be some argument as to exactly what, if anything, Judge Alito said to the President as he was addressing a reference to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court, but IMHO there is no doubt that he is muttering the words "That's not true". Judge for yourself:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/justice_alito_mouths_not_true_to_obama.html

David E

...spends more money on nuclear weapons than Bush. It's Bush's fault of course.

"Barack Obama-Nobel has allocated £4.3billion to spend on maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile - £370million more than what was budgeted by George Bush...The budget will also be increased by more than £3.1billion over the next five years...The announcement comes despite the American President declaring nuclear weapons were the ‘greatest danger’ to U.S. people during in his State of the Union address on Wednesday."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247049/Nobel-Peace-Prize-winner-Barack-Obama-ups-spending-nuclear-weapons-George-Bush.html

David E

In spite of the fact that Obama has given more than $17.2 billion dollars of American tax money to GMAC, they are loosing money hand over fist, and shutting down or reducing several offices nationwide and laying off more than 550 workers. You could say that's $15.6 million dollars per job lost or destroyed. In North Carolina, where unemployment is at 11%, GMAC will close two offices in Charlotte. GMAC, of course, is important to Obama because they are the primary lender to Government Motors. GM also still owns about a 25% stake in GMAC, and its collapse would severely damage the assets of GM. GMAC just disclosed that they lost $10 billion last year. Can you say, taxpayer dollars down the drain?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atuO11432sug&pos=7

David E

It hasn't worked for a number of reasons, according to the Inspector General Barofsky (IG). One big reason is that Congress seems to have forgotten the main ingredient, banking reform: "Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car," Barofsky wrote. The 700 billion bailout has actually encouraged more risk taking with banks because they figure the government will still come to their rescue with more of our tax dollars (case in point: GMAC). "The market mentality now seems fixed that the U.S. government will continue to step in and bail out giant financial institutions," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "The IG's findings confirm my decision to oppose releasing $350 billion in TARP funds last year and my recent vote to terminate the program altogether."

TARP also has done nothing to stave off personal forclosures, which surged to a new record 3 million last year or up 21% from 2008. In fact, out of all those that received modifications on their mortgages, 1/4 of them are still behind on their payments. "That qualifies this program as being one of the most spectacular failures in the history of government."

In summary, grabbing $700 billion of our tax dollars and funneling them to big banks has failed all around: it failed to curb the risk-taking while bank execs continue to roll in big bonuses; it did nothing to make bank lending easier especially to businesses; and it did nothing to stop the spread of record-breaking forclosures.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/ig_barofsky_tarp_not_working.html

David E

This is sad. Be sure to link to the video at the bottom of the page.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1248754/Last-member-65-000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-worlds-earliest-languages-grave.html

David E

...is not working. Never mind running our health care system, he can't even properly negotiate Uganda's HIV program.

"A US [Obama] decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed."

"President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration's [Obama's] programme has shifted away from emergency treatment...the US [Obama's] switch in emphasis [from emergency treatment to prevention] means that clinics are now being forced to turn new patients away.

"'George W. Bush is a hero in this country,' said Peter Mugyenyi, who heads Uganda's Joint Clinical Research Centre, a leading AIDS treatment clinic.'"

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.169744debaf5335a7a4d717617961178.1f1&show_article=1

David E