While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst—and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us.
President Herbert Hoover - May 1930
we’re starting to see progress. And if we stick with it, if we don’t flinch in the face of some difficulties, then I feel absolutely convinced that we are going to get this economy back on track.
President Barak Obama - April 2009
Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas’ Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
Here is a list of the 85 Republican members of the United States House of Representatives that voted for the 90% tax on bonuses for AIG and others. Clearly a violation of their oath of office to uphold the Constitution. See my post, “House Violates the US Constitution” from March 19th. These are the Republicans that need to be turned out of office in 2010. This included my own Congresswoman, Ginny Brown-Waite who shall no longer receive any support from me. Letter time! Here’s the list.
Aderholt, Alexander, Barton (TX), Biggert, Bilbray, Bilirakis. Blunt, Bono Mack, Boozman, Brown (SC), Brown-Waite, Ginny, Buchanan, Calvert, Camp, Cantor, Cao, Capito, Cassidy, Castle, Crenshaw, Davis (KY), Diaz-Balart, L., Diaz-Balart, M., Duncan, Ehlers, Emerson, Fleming, Forbes, Fortenberry, Frelinghuysen, Gallegly, Gerlach, Goodlatte, Guthrie, Heller, Herger, Hoekstra, Johnson (IL), Jones, Kirk, Lance, Latham, Lee (NY), Lewis (CA), LoBiondo, Manzullo, McCaul, McClintock, McHugh, McMorris Rodgers, Mica, Miller (MI), Moran (KS), Petri, Platts, Putnam, Rehberg, Reichert, Roe (TN), Rogers (AL), Rogers (KY), Rogers (MI), Rohrabacher, Rooney, Ros-Lehtinen, Roskam, Royce, Ryan (WI), Schmidt, Schock, Shimkus, Smith (NJ), Smith (TX), Stearns, Tiberi, Turner, Upton, Walden, Wamp, Whitfield, Wittman, Wolf, Young (AK), Young (FL)
Maybe you can find a way to educate these wayward Republicans by sending them a copy of Mark Levin’s new book Liberty and Tyranny, A Conservative Manifesto
That’s if you think they are redeemable.
Personally, I don’t think a company should pay out bonuses unless they are profitable. In AIG’s defense these bonuses were contactual obligations that were due the employees by contract. The cost to AIG if they refused to pay them in court and legal fees would have been at least double what they were obligated to pay.
His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.
“You’re sitting here. And you’re— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.
“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft says.
“No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.
The interview is Obama’s most detailed explanation yet of his view of the world economic crisis, and he makes clear that he’s afraid the nation hasn’t seen the worst of it – even invoking the possibility of a “depression” if a series of financial institutions collapse all at once.
From novelest Honore de Balzac:
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it
No advantage unless you are a Democrat and want to manipulate the American people’s emotions for political advantage. The dumb masses will fall for it every time…
He said it and he meant it.
No apologies Mr. President, we know what you realy meant to say.
He bowled a 129, the president said.
“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.
It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.
Joshuapundit, in his post, AIG - Obama And the Democrats Unconstitutional Shadow Show, compared the governments behavior to….
targeting a new class of rich kulaks as Enemies Of the People…
For those of you who don’t know who the kulaks were, they were a class of prosperous, land owning farmers who resisted Stalin’s collectivization. Because of that, they were doing far better than Stalin’s forced collectives and making the government look as incompetent and short sighted as it actually was. The way Stalin dealt with them was to use propaganda to demonize them to the masses, appropriate their wealth ‘for the people’ and then send the NKVD in to ship them to Siberia as criminals.
That’s exactly what we have here..where American citizens are being intimidated into returning money they lawfully earned to make tax cheats like Charlie Rangel and Tim Geithner look good and cover up what the Obama administration and its allies in Congress tried to slip through.
In Stalin’s Russia, the term ‘kulak’ was easily expanded to include any of the State’s enemies once the original kulaks were disposed of. Remember that before you succumb to the Obama Administration’s little class envy shadow show.
RE: Breitbart.com, House passes bill taxing AIG and other bonuses
Democrats pressed for quick action Thursday on a bill to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.
Article 1 Section 9 of the United States Constitution states…..
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
And Article 1 Section 10 states that:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Webster’s Dictionary defines Bill of Attainder as:
a legislative enactment by which a person is pronounced guilty, without trial, of an alleged crime, orig. a capital crime, esp. treason: prohibited in the U.S. by the Constitution
The Law Encyclopedia defines ex post facto laws as:
Laws that provide for the infliction of punishment upon a person for some prior act that, at the time it was committed, was not illegal.
Fox News, Pelosi Tells Illegal Immigrants That Work Site Raids are Un-American
The speaker of the House told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants recently that enforcement of immigration laws in the United States is “un-American.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is “un-American.”
The speaker, condemning raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, referred to the immigrants she was addressing as “very, very patriotic.”
“Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?” Pelosi told a mostly Hispanic gathering at St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco.
It must be stopped….What value system is that? I think it’s un-American. I think it’s un-American.
AIG Gave More Than $630,000 During the 2008 Political Cycle
AIG employees kept doling out donations to politicians, including presidential candidate Barack Obama, after getting bailed out with federal funds last year, raising the question of whether those politicians will now return the money.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance reports, more than $120,000 of that money was donated after AIG received its first $85 billion in federal bailout funds in September. The company has since received a total of $170 billion in taxpayer cash to prevent its collapse.
Their generosity included more than $23,000 to Obama’s campaign.
From Yahoo News: The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President’s Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment
WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/—The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
“It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan,” said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. “He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it.”
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Something happened to the Republican Party after the turn of the Millennium. Republicans look a hard left turn and abandoned me. They forgot all about the Goldwater wing of the party, the Regan Revolution, they are all a distant memory now.
My name is Steve and I’m an orphan.
An American Political Orphan.
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