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Posts Made By: david elosser

May 10, 2010 03:42 PM Forum: Politics

Are we bailing out Greece?

Posted By david elosser

That's what it looks like to me. :C

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100510/D9FJTOQO0.html

"The European Central bank will buy government and private debt to keep debt markets working and lower borrowing costs, a crisis measure dubbed the "nuclear option," while the U.S. Federal Reserve joined with other central banks in the effort, reactivating a currency swap program used during the earlier stages of the financial crisis to ship dollars overseas to be pumped into banking systems as short-term credit."


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amiI5qIW8gDI

"The U.S. Federal Reserve will restart its emergency currency-swap tool by providing as many dollars as needed to European central banks to keep the continent's sovereign-debt crisis from spreading.

The swaps with the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss central bank will allow them to provide the "full allotment" of U.S. dollars as needed, the Fed said late yesterday..."

David E

May 10, 2010 03:50 PM Forum: Politics

This is some economic rescue!

Posted By david elosser

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6465E220100507

"The Agriculture Department said 39.68 million people, or 1 in 8 Americans, were enrolled for food stamps during February, an increase of 260,000 from January. USDA updated its figures on Wednesday." HOW CAN THIS BE??? Why Obama just said his stimulus plan was working! Is THIS how it's supposed to work???

"[Food Stamp] enrollment has set a record each month since reaching 31.78 million [the month after Obama was elected president]." Never mind Cash For Clunkers, we all need Cash For Empty Cans! sad

David E

May 10, 2010 03:54 PM Forum: Politics

Obama has lost the Jewish vote

Posted By david elosser

In the presidential election, Obama got 8 out of 10 of the Jewish vote. Today, it looks like that support has eroded considerably.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137449

"The US Jews polled were asked whether they would: (a) vote to re-elect Obama, or (b) consider voting for someone else. 42% said they would vote for Obama and 46%, a plurality, preferred the second answer. 12% said they did not know or refused to answer."

David E

May 12, 2010 04:10 PM Forum: Politics

Are you ready?

Posted By david elosser

You pay local taxes, state taxes, federal taxes. Now are you ready to pay taxes to the world?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/10/world-health-organization-moving-ahead-billion-dollar-internet-tax/

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online...

David E

May 12, 2010 05:08 PM Forum: Politics

GSA's connection with Islamic Terrorists

Posted By david elosser

Federal law enforcement officials call it a front for Hamas terrorists which "has been under numerous investigations for financing and [providing] aid and comfort to bad orgs and members"...The U.S. Census Bureau calls it landlord...The United States government is spending $582,000, or about $23,000 per month, to lease the space from November 2008 through the end of this year.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1944/government-pays-mosque-it-considers-radical

David E

May 12, 2010 10:58 PM Forum: Politics

What's this? A DEFICIT???

Posted By david elosser

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64B53W20100512
The United States posted an $82.69 billion deficit in April, nearly four times the $20.91 billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record for that month, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday...It was more than twice the $40-billion deficit that Wall Street economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast and was striking since April marks the filing deadline for individual income taxes that are the main source of government revenue.

How can this be??? A budget deficit of $82 billion in April? The month we all pay our income taxes? Why, I thought Obamanomics was working? I thought he said he created 2 million jobs, and last month he created 300,000 more jobs. Why that's a total of four and a half million jobs! Somebody at the IRS must have added up something wrong. Yeah, that's it. Faulty calculators, probably made in China. wink

David E

May 13, 2010 01:00 PM Forum: Politics

This time it's not Bush

Posted By david elosser

Nope. It's Obama and the liberal Democrats in Washington that now want to spy on your purchasing habits. You can bet your last unemployment check these same Democrats would be howling mad if Bush has made this same proposal years ago.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/data-248115-financial-bill.html

First, the Democrat's answer, as always, is to set up even more government agencies and suck up more tax dollars in the process:
[SIZE="Small"]The bill sets up two new supersnooping federal agencies to collect data on ordinary Americans:

*The Office of Financial Research. This supposedly would predict risk in the system by collecting massive amounts of new financial data, such as patterns of credit card use.

*The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It would collect data, especially on consumer transactions.
[/SIZE]

Second, as with the Health Care Bill, you will have little or no rights. They would be collecting without your knowledge or consent:
[SIZE="Small"]Another problem, he added, is that the law "is extremely vague and empowering of the regulators. You as a consumer will have no opportunity to opt out. They'll be collecting, anyway, and you won't even know."[/SIZE]

And, as in the case of illegal immigration, the problem is not really that we need new laws, but that we need ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAWS:
[SIZE="Small"]He noted laws on the books made illegal what Bernard Madoff did in his massive Ponzi scheme; and that the Securities and Exchange Commission repeatedly had been tipped off to Madoff, yet did nothing. So, no new laws are needed, just enforcement of existing fraud laws.[/SIZE]

And like the Health Care Overhaul, this new bill will be a 2000-page boondoggle:
Giving more snooping powers to a government that failed to act in the past, despite many warnings at all levels, is not the answer.
AMEN TO THAT!

David E

May 13, 2010 01:05 PM Forum: Politics

Liberals NEVER use their own money!

Posted By david elosser

This is sick, and yet such a teachable moment. First, Bill Clinton, with all his million$, allows his own niece to take food stamps instead of helping her out. And now this:

By 2007, seven years after leaving the White House, the Clintons had earned a combined $109 million through speaking engagements and bestselling memoirs. Even so, apparently they would prefer American voters to settle Mrs Clinton’s remaining $771,000 debt rather than paying it themselves.

Wanna spend a day with America's first Black President, Bill Clinton? A chance costs as little as five smackers.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7124638.ece

David E

May 14, 2010 12:20 AM Forum: Politics

Speaking for 8 million adults...

Posted By david elosser

http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/13/the-story-behind-the-mr-president-i-need-a-freakin-job-sign/

May 14, 2010 01:58 PM Forum: Politics

Trial by NYT

Posted By david elosser

Attorney General Eric Holder has been given the task of reviewing Arizona's new illegal immigration law. As of yesterday (May 13th) he still, by his own admission, has not read the law. He has not read it, and yet he has made numerous comments about the new law as being unconstitutional and leading to racial profiling. He claimed yesterday in a House committee hearing, that he made those comments based on what he read in the newspapers! Wow. I guess he will determine it to be unconstitutional based on an editorial in the LA Times. :C

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/holder-hasnt-read-ariz-law-he-criticized/

David E