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[TiFeMb]

Hey Lifetime: I totally agree with EVERY point in your last post! 

[lifefeedsonlife]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610040924143158.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular

A nice article in the WSJ regarding the Healthcare Bill in the Senate. Emotional arguments and anecdotal "support' arguments are being made by the said that wants this done - but the real impact is going to be more centralization of power.

[Zipper]

[Zipper]

[lifefeedsonlife]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/barack-obama-council-of-governors.html

A Council of Governors now?

WTF?

I love the comments section . . . .

[Puffin]

so if there is a problem with the Nat'l security apparatus not communicating effectively,  what is the condition of the state's organizations
 
http://www.pema.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/homeland_security/14251
 
YTDAW or are they not working. Better ask the Gov.

[Lifetime]

Look.... OFFICE of HOMELAND SECURITY.... my big hairy.....A$$. This was a "GIFT" folks...spell it now..... G-I-F-T to Tom "Rocky" Ridge. It was invented to keep him out of wanting a position, at the time, as POTUS/VPOTUS...nothing more. In it's initial stage, it was to cost the taxpayers NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS... LOL Check the bill now. Then it had a mission..... to get the ALPHABET orgs... like FBI,CIA,NSA,ASA,CIS of all military, Embassies and GOD..have we now ...from an executive order, have to include INTERPOL as well, to cooperate and share info. Well folks..it didn't happen and.... IT WON'T We saw this with the "Undy Bomber". These investigative segments WILL NOT give up any chance to toot their own horn. We can't even get the Bureau of Unemployment and the Department of Public Welfare to share info on clients.
 
This Cabinet entity should be abolished and the job given back to those who had it in the first place.... Same results ...either way, so, save the Freaking money. Homeland Security has always been those willing to don the uniform of lawenforcement and yes.... National Guard. We have them, use them. Yes, I understand Posse Comitatus and know that Law Enforcement is the one who can arrest and detain.... but the National Guard was used in places like KENT STATE and even the G-20 in the Burgh..IN CONJUNCTION with the Police entities. They paired up and can be done again. Please, let us quit inventing "positions" for friends in politics. No matter how it progresses, it ends with US/ The Tax Payers... being put in the only position our own Government puts us in... Untrowed, bent over and grabbing our ankles..... without even the benefit of Vaseline.

[lifefeedsonlife]

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

This is disturbing. The "spending freeze" being proposed by the President only affects about 4% of the budget. Most of our spending occurs in the areas he said there WOULDN'T be a freeze on. Oh - yeah - and the 'freeze' won't happen till next year . . . by which time the short attention span of the masses will be on something else. (And likely won't be reported on by the American Pravda. (read mainstream media.)

The Oligarchs have an agenda - and the regular schmoes are chattel in their scheme of things. Since the gold standard went by the wayside is when the real slippery slope started.

So - when's the revolution? I don't wanna eat this cake.

[Puffin]

No note was made on this forum of the Supreme court ruling that corporations could now finance elections directly, with no limitations.
Being a Chicago alumni, I am somewhat amused when people rail on about the seemingly unbounded corruption of Chgo politics. Basically it's politics without rules.
We have now moved "politics without rules" to a national level.

[Lifetime]

Tell that to Supreme Court Justice Alito  . Though not the same, but some have zeroed in and remain on target... the emotional "YOU LIE!!" comment last year.... there is some rethinking. What we can only hope for is , come Nov....
 
1) Idiots should cut down on straight ticket voting.... ( Even the best sports teams have at least ONE lousy player and he/she WILL be traded off.)
 
2) Idiots should take the time to ACTUALLY study those they vote for.... ( If you don't know who they are... find out before you touch that screen.)
 
3) Idiots...though elected... will begin to realize that about 49% of our population, supports and pays for programs for about 51% of our population. ( Tax Payers are the backbone of our country and economy.... don't break it. )
 
4) Idiots, should again, read, understand and follow one of the most basic documents we have.... the Constitution and follow it's guidance. ( We have a majority of 535 people who don't seem to have done that. Have you?)
 
5) Idiots who chase the "fast dime" instead of a "slow nickel" will understand when they loose everything, it isn't everyone elses fault for their stupid decisions and ... (Billionaires now reside in jail )
 
6) finally... Idiots have to begin to realize at least this truth..... "LIFE IS NOT GOING TO ALWAYS BE FAIR!" It is lived. ( Go back and read your Constitution when you start thinking you have RIGHTS that aren't in there!)

[NightmarePatrol]

It's sort of and odd situation with election financing. If you're wealthy you can get elected. But if you're not and can get corporate financing then you can get elected. However you will get "owned" so-to-speak. However the wealthy get financed by special interest groups and get "owned" by them. It's a vicious circle ain't it?

[lifefeedsonlife]

And the conduit is through the money parties.

That's why i found the Jesse Ventura phenomenon interesting. though he couldn't get too much done because he had to deal with a money party legislature.

[lifefeedsonlife]

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/01/29/the-state-of-president-obama%E2%80%99s-key-failures/

I think this sums up the SOTU Address the other night.

[NightmarePatrol]

This I am not happy about!

[GROK]

This makes my blood boil! I have not had a chance to check the veracity of this but this would not surprise me in the least.
 
 
Stimuls money at work----I love it JOBS JOBS----
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
 
Mamie Eisenhower: One-- paid for personally out of President's salary.Jackie Kennedy:         OneRoseline Carter:         OneBarbara Bush:            One
Hilary Clinton:          ThreeLaura Bush:              OneMichele Obama:         Twenty-two
 
How things have changed!  If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms. Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU,
John Q.Public.Michele Obama's personal staff:One..      $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)Two..      $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of                                 Policy And Projects For The First Lady)Three..    $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House                                 Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)Four..      $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications                                 for the First Lady)Five..      $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First
                                 Lady)Six..          $90,000  - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)Seven..      $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)Eight..      $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)Nine..       $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)Ten..        $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)Eleven..    $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
 
Twelve..    $62,000 - Goodman,  Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First
                                  Lady)Thirteen..  $60,000  Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)Fourteen..  $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)Fifteen...    $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M.. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
Sixteen..    $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)Seventeen..  $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)Eighteen..  $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)Nineteen..  $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)Twenty..    $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)Twenty-One.. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)Twenty-Two.. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of  Correspondence for the First Lady)Total..    $1,591,200 in annual salariesThere has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .