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POPSWill Zionist Destroy America?
Israel is setting the agenda and the USA follows, to its folly.. U.S. VP is in Israel today and talked about "being allies," with Israel and the need to stop Iran from getting nukes. Thus the Zionist agenda is now the American agenda. No talk about stopping the genocide in Gaza. And outrageous ongoing lies about ME "peace talks," (really talks about Arab evictions, not peace) and lies about stopping expansion of Israeli settlements (a prime Palestinian demand). You can read this barefaced lie at the end of this clip, an Israeli spokesperson talking about a 'freeze on construction." But - hideously -- while those words are being said construction is ongoing. Hideously, one day after the Palestinians agree to the next round of phony peace talks (evictions)...one day later more Israeli expansion announced. See: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100309/FOREIGN/703089835/1002 http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100309/FOREIGN
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POPSUS Gov. Pay Freeze. Thousands. No work. These Republicans suck. The Senate sucks. The Congress sucks. The only thing they have done successfully is foreign invasions and bailing out banks. The process seems designed to fail in all other ways; it gets stalled, obstructed, log jammed. It's gonna take a lot of work to pull all the non-functioning parts out and replace them with something that works. One thing for sure, we have to keep voting these war mongers and hate mongers out of office. Vote for Main St., not Wall St.
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POPSabout that "warming" in DC... I won't try to explain the science, where climate change produces bigger storms, with greater precipitation, and that precipitation in February, when it's still cold enough for water to freeze, produces snow. Nor will I point out that we had a week of 60 degree weather in January, one of the warmest in 2,000 years. Not to people who can see this happening and willfully disbelieve something is wrong.
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POPSAmerica Rising Of course, every economist and statistician I have talked to on air says the stats don’t exist and this statement in most part is a fabrication. The Congressional Budget office said there were only 600,000-1.6 million of potentially created jobs. It said it was impossible to determine how many of those jobs could have existed without the stimulus package. Another lie Obama smoothly threw out was about the White House and Congress doing their work openly as the people deserve. What a bunch of bull rot! Obama promised if you remember that the health care negotiations for health care legislation would be aired openly on C-SPAN, so the folks could see what was going on and how it affected them. WRONG. Instead, most has been done behind closed doors. Obama declared in his speech that he and his staff excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions. However, once again this was a proven lie. http://bit.ly/UJs5y http://teaparty.org
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POPSClimate Fight Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze The extreme weather, Mr. Inhofe said by e-mail, reinforced doubts about scientists’ conclusion that global warming was “unequivocal” and most likely caused by human activity. Nonsense, responded Joseph Romm, a climate-change expert and former Energy Department official who writes about climate issues at the liberal Center for American Progress.... more ... http://www.nytimes.com http://nyti.ms/c7tqK6
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POPS Moody’s Warns US Of Credit Rating Fears
the federal financial picture as presented in the projections for the next decade will at some point put pressure on the triple A government bond rating,” the rating agency added in an issuer note. This week, the White House forecast a $1,565bn budget deficit for 2010, which represents 10.6 per cent of gross domestic product and is the highest such ratio of debt to GDP since the second world war. While the budget gap is forecast to fall to about 4 per cent by 2013, it is based in part on economic growth not falling below government expectations, Congress agreeing to tax rises and a spending freeze on non-security discretionary spending. Crucially, projections of the overall debt-to-GDP ratio for the US are seen rising from 53 per cent in 2009 to 73 per cent in 2015 and 77 per cent by 2020. Moody’s, however, says this understates the overall US debt level. “Using the general government measure, including state and local governments as well as the federal government ....
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POPSThe Sanctity of Military Spending is Obscene The facts about America's bloated, excessive, always-increasing military spending are now well-known. The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously. That explosion occurred even as overall military spending in the rest of the world decreased, thus expanding the already-vast gap between our expenditures and the world's. As one "defense" spending watchdog group put it: "The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."
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POPSArrogance in our face! When did "PUBLIC SERVICE" become the road to prosperity, recognition and ladder climbing? It was once considered a priviledge to serve one's country, and it's people, accomplish something good and then go home and resume what you did before. I say............kick them all out, cancel their healthcare, and pensions, and revert back to a volunteer position! Speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing, Hoyer explained that Congress had already frozen its pay by rejecting a cost of living increase. However, extending that freeze was too much for Hoyer to support.
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POPSVisualing Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal Great visual from the New York Times showing President Obama's 2011 budget, the chart is fully interactive and very informative. Will we look back and talk about the the 'big-budget freeze' of 2011? His gamble with deepening the deficit to stimulate job growth will have to be macro-managed better then the previous stimulus or these could go very badly, especially in regards to the US influence around the globe. Peace
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POPSPelosi bucks Obama's spending freeze So those who pledged to support the Constitution; ie..."provide for the common defense..." are now using threats to our defense system and military personnel for personal/political bargaining. I dislike this person intensely.
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POPSObama to Propose $3.8 Trillion Budget the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau, which this year is conducting its decennial count of people living in the United States. The president is also proposing to cut back or eliminate 120 government programs, including projects by the Army Corps of Engineers and NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon. It puts a three-year freeze on discretionary spending outside defense. That excludes the fastest growing parts of the budget -- entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as well as national security. The president will outline some steps tomorrow, including freezing non-discretionary spending -- spending that since 1995 has almost doubled in our federal budget," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on CNN on Sunday. According to the White House, the freeze would be $250 billion over a decade if those programs were to increase at the rate of inflation. "I think the presidents proposal on freezing non-security domestic .....
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POPSRasmussen: Americans Not Buying What Obama Was Selling At SOTU On the spending freeze: Regarding another initiative detailed in the speech on Wednesday night, just nine percent (9%) of voters believe the president’s proposed freeze on discretionary spending will have a big impact on the deficit. (http://bit.ly/9w6CTH) The numbers get worse why party affiliation is taken into account. On all questions, only Democrats believe what Obama was selling and even then by small margins. The majority of Republicans and Independents simply were not buying any of it. The only silver lining for Obama is that Democrats opinion of Obama increased after the State of the Union address. There was no change for Republicans and Independents. The problem for Obama is that he is using very old Chicago style politics in a very new political era. Many voters on the right and in the middle have become much more active. They are now following political news much more closely than before.
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POPSU.S. Military Serving as Chauffeurs, Babysitters for Pelosi Kids: Receipts With the economy in a shambles and teetering on the brink of disaster thanks to the insane policies of the Democrats, this kind of waste is an outrage. Pelosi needs to resign as Speaker. Linked by: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, Memeorandum, Pundit & Pundette, Sister Toldjah, Atlas Shrugs, DBKP, Doug Powers, Sipsey Street Regulars ("So, if they freeze the military budget as Pelosi wants, will they still use military aviation as a personal airline & babysitting service?"), Be John Galt, Weasel Zippers and Antareptic. Thanks! S. Military Serving as Chauffeurs, Babysitters for Pelosi Kids http://bit.ly/aMD0Tk http://directorblue.blogspot.com
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POPSMr. Freeze: Why Obama’s Latest Budget Change Won’t Put His Agenda On Ice Obama's "Freeze" By Philip Klein President Obama is set to announce a three-year "freeze" in non-security discretionary spending during his State of the Union as part of his efforts to convince independents that he cares about reducing the deficit. I say "freeze" in quotes, because some programs will go up, while some will go down -- thus providing the Obama administration wiggle room to say that Obama isn't reversing his position on an across the board freeze of the kind that he criticized John McCain for during the campaign. "An across-the-board spending freeze is a hatchet and we do need a scalpel because there are some programs that don't work at all," he said (video here). My position is, yes, this is mainly a symbolic gesture -- after all, the White House claims it would save $250 billion -- less than a third of the cost of the economic stimulus bill alone. It's only a temporary, three-year freeze that follows years of unprecedented spending and it comes as ....
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POPSAssociated Press: Review State of the Union Speech. Reality 8 Obama 0 coverage " the majority of Americans under age 65 " in the plans they already have. But Obama can’t guarantee people won’t see higher rates or fewer benefits in their existing plans. Because of elements such as new taxes on insurance companies, insurers could change what they offer or how much it costs. OBAMA: The president issued a populist broadside against lobbyists, saying they have “outsized influence” over the government ... THE FACTS: Obama has limited the hiring of lobbyists for administration jobs, but the ban isn’t absolute; seven waivers from the ban have been granted to White House officials alone ... OBAMA: “Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed… THE FACTS: The success of the Obama-pushed economic stimulus that Congress approved early last year has been an ongoing point of contention. In November, it reported that the stimulus increased the number of people employed .....
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POPSCongressman Bob Latta on President Obama's State Of The Union Address Any "jobs" bills that are brought before Congress should focus on tax cuts and incentives for businesses who hire new employees instead of another "stimulus" package that we now know to be nothing more than a bloated government spending program that has failed miserably, leaving taxpayers with the $862 billion dollar cost. House Republicans continue to offer cost-free legislation that will create jobs and invigorate our economy, as opposed to the Administration’s position of trying to spend our way out of our predicament. As the President laid out his preliminary spending proposals for the next fiscal year, specifically his proposed spending "freeze", it comes as no surprise that his plan does not go nearly far enough to address the serious spending problem we face as a nation. The spending freeze outlined this evening hits only the tip of the iceberg, as it applies to only a small percentage of discretionary spending.
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POPSObamanomics in Six Words ----- John J. Pitney Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. http://corner.nationalreview.com
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POPSIt's the Deficit, Stupid A closer look at this diet reveals that the freeze would apply to a budget that enjoyed a 20 percent increase in 2009, courtesy of the Democrats' largesse. Under the guise of "tacking to the center" in the wake of his trip to the woodshed in the Massachusetts election, the president's proposal would actually lock in a sizable spending increase during those years, as opposed to a real freeze. (No wonder Republicans burst out laughing during the SOTU.)
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POPSYour Identity Theft Nightmare ....this front man for a pack of Chicago gangsters and con artists is going to stand up in front of the nation Wednesday night and propose a 3-year freeze on discretionary spending. He's not going to reduce the deficit spending (hovering around $200,000,000,000.00 per month). He just wants to freeze it at the current level. Imagine your worst identity theft nightmare. Imagine that East side crack whores have stolen your I.D. and your Visa and Mastercard. They know your ATM and bank account passwords, and they are running wild through every mall in the DFW Metroplex. You know they're doing it, and the police know they're doing it. The police come back to you, and say that the crack whores have agreed to keep their spending at a certain ridiculous level, and that you should be pleased by their heroic self-sacrifice. Feel better? I didn't think so. Posted by The Whited Sepulchre Your Identity Theft Nightmare at http://bit.ly/d0v7zh
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POPS Ah, Excuse Me, Mr. President, $$$! The good Lord knows that, huh, ….sorry, Mr. President, I was referring to GOD in heaven, creator of heaven and earth and not your MessiahMess " sorry to have confused you, sir… anyway, Mr. President, you have shrunk the private sector job market so substantially during your first year that maybe taxpayer funded jobs are the only jobs anyone can find. Which the good Lord, sorry, Him again, not you … knows pays good !!!! Enough already about you creating or saving all those GOVERNMENT (taxpayer funded) jobs, Mr. President, let us get back to your proposal to freeze government spending. Let me see if I can explain this in terms the regular folks might understand. Your proposal, Mr. President, is much like the wife who wasn’t satisfied with the 40 dresses and 40 pairs of shoes she bought in 2008, so last year she bought 50 dresses and 50 pairs of shoes. Now her closet is overflowing, the credit cards are beyond maxed out, and the husband is more than a little miffed.
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POPSIt was as if we were being lectured on marital fidelity by John Edwards or Mark Sanford. Perhaps the most striking aspect of last night's speech, though, was that Obama spoke as if the last year hadn't happened; as if he had not been president; and as if Congress had not been controlled by Democrats. He sought to portray himself as an outsider and a reformer, an antidote to cynicism, and a post-partisan, unifying force. He wanted to cast himself as an idealist, an inspirational figure, Mr. Hope & Change.
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POPSNon-Defense discretionary spending freeze...YEA! I wish some of them tea-partiers would stop yelling about how much this government is spending on social safety nets, and think more about how much this government is spending on unfunded wars! You don't see China squandering its wealth on military spending. They have a plan...and that plan is to become the new super-power...and it won't be because of bombs.....except for the carpet-bombing they lay on us everyday at Wal-Mart!
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POPSThe Sun IS Slowing Down.... Quick- light a fire, go for a drive, do something- anything- just make some more CO2 before we all freeze to death.. Wish I was joking, but the lack of sunspots too makes me think we could soon be very grateful for our atmospheric blanket! Mind you, we only have to ground the airplanes for one day a week to reduce global dimming and presto!- global warming at the stroke of a pen....
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