Retro 2 -Part 3, Freedom and Liberty Guest Speaker, Tim Powers: The Many Impressive Accomplishments Of President Obama (Sarcasm Implied)

Given family engagements in town this week, we will be rerunning some of our most popular posts, posts that have garnered the most attention and which showed that we are currently enduring the worst set of politicians America has ever had.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Part 3, Freedom and LIberty Guest Speaker, Tim Powers: The Many Impressive Accomplishments of President Obama (Sarcasm Implied)

This is our third in our series of guest speakers who present their views of how the political class and the Federal government are shredding the Constitution and destroying liberty in this country. The first two posts can be accessed at :

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/part-1-freedom-and-liberty-guest.html

http://www.loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/07/part-2-freedom-and-liberty-guest.html

The first of these posts was written by Thomas Sowell and is where we contended that his random thoughts had more meaning, purpose, and common sense than the combined thoughts of every Washington politicians COMBINED. The second speaker was Steven Foley who does a great job of comparing the Obama Care PR effort vs. the actually disastrous affects of Obama Care’s tenets and regulations.

Today’s guest speaker is Tim Powers who wrote the following piece over a year ago on May 22, 2012 for the Western Center For Journalism website. It has recently resurfaced and is getting some attention.

The hope of his piece was to document the many failures of the Obama administration’s first term in the hope that this losing streak and losing administration would not get a second term. Unfortunately, this hope was not fulfilled.

The title of his piece is sarcastically entitled “Obama’s Rather Impressive List Of ‘Accomplishments.’” We say sarcastically since Mr. Powers list is a list of misdeeds, screwups, and pomposity that any other President would find difficult to live up to, or down to.

We have covered many of these misadventures before but include them here to keep Mr. Powers’ article intact. Certainly nothing to be proud of as President of The United States:

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Obama’s Rather Impressive List Of Accomplishment
Tim Powers, May 22, 2013

Whoever said that Obama hasn’t acomplished anything in his first term?

WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS!…

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party, a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

First President to recommend changing our National Anthem as it portrays and promotes violence and is warlike in its theme.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer Breakfast and activities.

First President to initiate a Cash for Clunkers Program to clean up exhaust that adds to global warming, then extended it because it was so popular — wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to bypass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company which state they are allowed to locate a factory in.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to fire an inspector general of Americorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.

First President to pledge complete transparency while campaigning, then hide his medical, educational, and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an and tells us that the early morning Islamic call to worship is the most beautiful sound on earth.

Now it is up to us Freedom-loving Americans to see to it that he is voted out after his FIRST term. May God bless America again. Stay safe, and be aware of your surroundings.

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I cannot not attest to the validity of ALL of these points but I can attest to the validity of MOST of these points since we have covered them in the past with appropriate documentation. The very sad thing is that Mr. Powers has not presented the complete list of dubious "accomplishments" of this administration, a service we provide below:

First President to approve the assassination of American citizens without due process of law, with multiple assassinations of Americans already successfully completed.

First President to have his administration incur a single year TRILLION spending deficit.

First President to have his administration incur four years of annual TRILLION spending deficits.

First President to authorize the collection of just about EVERY electronic communications of EVERY American EVERY day.

First President to have a wife compare living in the White House to living in a nice prison.

First President to take time to go on TV to annually discuss in detail his March Madness basketball picks and brackets.

First President caught secretly confiscating phone logs of reporters who wrote less than stellar reviews of his administration.

First President to kill hundreds of innocent civilians and hundreds of children via drone missile attacks in foreign countries.

First President to incur over 40 consecutive months with an unemployment rate over 8%.

First President who could not deliver a coherent speech or address without a teleprompter present and operating.

First President to purposely violate international arms control treaties with his disastrous Fast and Furious gun running program.

First President to purposely not save U.S. diplomatic personnel by not allowing a timely military rescue mission to proceed to save the two dozen or so U.S. members of the diplomatic staff at Benghazi, resulting in the unnecessary murders of four brave Americans.

First President to have food stamp participation levels go well past forty million Americans.

First President to waste tens of billions of dollars on failed, bogus, and crony-infested alternative energy projects with no societal benefit in return.

First American President to spend approximately $100 million on a First Family vacation.

First President to take absolutely no responsibility for the failings of his administration, the antithesis of Harry Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here” integrity, blaming among others for his failures: it was the fault of the Bush administration, it was the fault of the Tea Party, it was the fault of the Republicans, it was the fault of Congress, it was the fault of the Japanese tsunami, it was the fault of the Euro crisis, it was the fault of wealthy Americans who do not pay enough in taxes, it was the fault of ATM machines that help cause high unemployment, it was the fault of ordinary Americans who have grown “ a little soft” and who “have lost their ambition” over the years, it was the fault of the Chinese, and last, but not least, it was the fault of the Bush administration.

First President of have a First Family budget of over $1 billion a year.

Sad, sad, sad.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

January, 2014 Political Class Insanity, Part 1: Obama's Lies Of The Year, NASA's Wasteful Earthbound Spending, ESPN's Tax Breaks, and More

It is the start of another month which means another round of reviewing all forms of political class insanity from the American political class. We have spent the last week reviewing the myriad of ways that the politicians in this country waste our hard earned wealth on insanely stupid and unnecessary programs and projects. We have spent the middle of the past four months discussing the worst piece of legislation ever written by Washington, Obama Care, and its reign of terror. Over the next few days we will be reviewing general political class insanity in all of its forms.

1) The Bankrupting America website documented some of the latest stupid and wasteful spending from the NASA organization:

• $18,000 to study what happens when 20 individuals spend 70 consecutive days in bed.
• $3 million for a seminar hosted with Georgetown University on how Congress works.
• $390,000 to develop a comic superhero to teach children about the climate change.
• $125,955 to build a 3D pizza printer.

Not only are these stupid expenditures but one has to wonder why NASA of all organizations is trying to find out how Congress works or are worried about teaching kids about climate change. I could have answered their questions a lot more cheaply: 1) Congress does not work and 2) climate change is still open to scientific debate and question.

2) We have reported on many, many shameful instances of the American political class giving unneeded corporate welfare tax breaks and dollars to major corporations. Auto and bank bailouts. Insurance company perks via Obama Care. Marketing dollars for foreign and domestic marketing activities (e.g. the Ex-IM Bank which caters almost solely to Boeing’s aircraft customers).

To this list of corporate welfare recipients, the New York Times recently did an investigative piece on how well ESPN, the premier sports network has worked state level politicians for unneeded tax breaks and benefits:

• With nearly 100 million households paying about $5.54 a month for ESPN, regardless of whether they watch it, the network takes in more than $6 billion a year in subscriber fees alone every year before counting advertising revenue and other sources of revenue. 
• However, ESPN has received about $260 million in state government tax breaks and credits over the past 12 years.
• These figures were compiled by a New York Times analysis of public records. 
• Included in these tax breaks is $84.7 million in development tax credits for a film and digital media program and savings of about $15 million a year after the network successfully lobbied the state of Connecticut for a tax code change in 2000.

Seems everyone gets tax breaks in this country now except for the people that actually pay the bulk of the taxes. Pathetic waste of taxpayer wealth and an insult to those that pay for these tax breaks to unworthy and wealthy corporate welfare recipients.

3) We have been fighting in Afghanistan for over ten years. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives of our brave armed forces. However, the Associated Press reported on December 25, 2013 that the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Kabul was hit by at least two Taliban rocket or mortar rounds before dawn on Christmas. So much spent and after more than ten years we have not even secured the capital of the country from attacks. 

Pathetic leadership, pathetic strategic thinking, wasteful use of valuable human and financial resources for nothing in return by the Washington political class, spread over two Presidential administrations.

4) The following insanity is both a good news and a bad news story. According to a Newsmax report from December 17, 2013, a $2.8 million fraud by Florida welfare recipients was busted in a two-year sting by law enforcement authorities that is expected to bring more than 60 arrests. The sting operation was operated by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Sixty-one arrest warrants had been issued, with 21 people arrested so far and facing federal charges, Bradshaw said.

The sting operation was called "Operation Money Tree" and it was started after a grandmother called authorities when she learned that the father of her granddaughter traded his electronic food stamp card for money instead of buying groceries for her granddaughter, authorities said.

The cards were allegedly traded at a small grocery store in Palm Springs, authorities told WPTV. The clerks at that store would give the suspects cash and keep half the profits for themselves. For example, if a food assistance welfare recipient sought $100, the clerk would charge $150 to the card — handing the cash over the suspect, authorities said. 

The good news is that finally someone in the government at some level is doing something about the rampant fraud and taxpayer ripoffs in government welfare programs, ripoffs that waste tens of billions of dollars every year. The bad news: these types of operations should be going on every day in every state and at every level of government to protect taxpayer assets from criminal fraud.

The sting operation brought some high tech tools into play that the article estimates will save just the state of Florida over $60 million a year. It can be done, we just do not have the politicians in office that have the time, smarts, and desire to fix what robs taxpayers.

5) The Washington Post has always been a strong advocate, and many cases protector of President Obama and his administration. Thus, when they attribute three of the biggest lies of 2013 to the President, you have to assume they were whoppers and not open for being biased. 

In fact, as we have previously reported, the Post named one of the President’s lies as the biggest lie of the year in 2013, namely the falsehood that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” under Obama Care. The following were the three lies from the President in the Post’s annual “Biggest Lies of the Year Analysis” from their website along with their justification for their putting the lie in their top ten:

“If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it.” This memorable promise by President Obama backfired on him when the Affordable Care Act went into effect and millions of Americans started receiving cancellation notices. As we explained, part of the reason for so many cancellations is because of an unusually early (March 23, 2010) cut-off date for grandfathering plans — and because of tight regulations written by the administration. This was our most popular fact check of the year — and Obama’s pledge also was also named PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.”

“The Capitol Hill janitors just got a pay cut” President Obama offered an evocative image at a news conference when the sequester struck – janitors sweeping the empty halls of the Capitol, laboring for less pay. But it turned out that he was completely wrong. Janitorial staff did not face a pay cut — and Capitol Hill administrative officials even issued a statement saying the president’s remarks were “not true.” Then the White House tried to argue that janitors at least faced a loss of overtime. That was not correct either. The episode was emblematic of the administration’s sequester rhetoric.

“The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.” President Obama did refer to an “act of terror” in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack, but in vague terms, wrapped in a patriotic fervor. He never affirmatively stated that the American ambassador died because of an “act of terror.” Then, over a period of two weeks, given three opportunities in interviews to affirmatively agree that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack, the president obfuscated or ducked the question. So this is a case of taking revisionist history too far for political reasons.

Given the Post’s previous Obama positive bias and the fact that it had no problem putting three of the President’s statements in their top ten lie list, including giving him the top spot for lie of the year, it makes it difficult to believe anything this President says or his administration spokespeople say going forward. 

The bond of trust has been broken when the integrity of someone’s lies are proven time and time again to be false and self serving. Makes it difficult to believe that anything good will come out of this administration going forward when most people will not believe anything it says.

And these three in the top ten lies do not include a bevy of other lies and falsehoods from the Obama administration:

• The targeting and destruction of the First Amendment rights of Tea Party citizens and organizations was not the result of “rogue” IRS agents out of the Cincinnati IRS office as was claimed.
• The Benghazi terrorist attack was not the result of an obscure video as was claimed repeatedly by Obama administration spokespersons, a lie they knew was false from the get go.
• The lies and coverups about how the Obama administration, via the National Security Agency, was not secretly collect mega amounts of communications data from EVERY American are too numerous to mention here.
• The Obama Care lies that did not make the top ten list could have included the false promises that if you like your current doctor you can keep it, if you like your current hospital options you could keep them, that the average American family will see an annual $2,500 drop in their health care premium costs, that the legislation will not add a single dime to the national debt, that the ten year cost of the legislation will be less than $900 billion, etc.

Lies, falsehoods, and deceptions, Hardly the type of behavior Americans expect and should receive from the leader of the nation. Insanity.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

We are just getting warmed up. The insanity from the American political class, along with the lies, continues in a never ending stream of insanity and insults.