This is the most dishonest, dysfunctional and incompetent political Administration I have ever witnessed in the United States.
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TERM LIMITS ARE THE ANSWER! We have them for Presidents (two terms of four years each), now we need them for US Senators (2 terms of six years each) and House members (four terms of two years each.) Then get out! Go home! Get a real job!!! That's how to get rid of all this special interest nonsense! Look at it like this:
Do you think politicians care about you or me or just about themselves? Check it out.
Everyone knows federal union entitlements are breaking our budget. Union members of over paid and under worked and the vast majority of union members now work for government.
So if Obama dared to consider reigning in Union excesses – the people that make up a huge part of his political base – he would lose their support and their money and their vote. So he won’t do it. What does that tell you? It tells you the President cares more about votes than about doing the right thing. It’s all about him and his party.
It the same with congressmen. Say a congessman is not happy with the positions taken by his party and he begins to vote against his party. What will happen to him. He will get a note from his party superiors telling him if he expects their support and their money in his next election campaign, he’d better get in line.
So, what does he do? He gets in line. And why does he compromise his beliefs? Because he needs and wants their help in his next re-election campaign. Without their help, he can’t get re-elected. So you see, it’s all about him too. It’s always about the politician and it is never about you and me or even what’s right. Special interests control campaign money and therefore they control the politicians because the politicians are all self-serving, egotistical, power hungry leeches. A little harsh perhaps and there are exceptions, but that’s how the system works. MONEY (special interests) talks and you know what walks (the voter).
So what’s the answer? Term limits. Two for Senators and four for House members and then they can all just go out and get a real job.
That way they won’t have to worry about re-election money or special interests and they can just go do the right thing.
TERM LIMITS: NOW!
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Okay, so that's special interests. But what are are they? WHO are they? Let's take a look at that.
Question. What IS a special interest group?
Answer. Any group that gives money to a politician to influence his vote.
Question. Like whom?
Answer. Like almost everybody. For example, the American Trial Lawyers Assoc., The Chamber of Commerce, the American Medical Association, AARP, The American Board of Realtors, Labor unions - etc. EVERYBODY gives money to one party or other to buy their vote. You hear the Democrats talk about special interests like they don't take money from them. That's funny. They take huge amounts of money from Special Interest groups.
Question. Big Oil gave the most money in the 2008 campaign to John McCain. So who got the second most?
Answer. Barack Obama. He got a million dollars. After all, they knew he might get elected. Better safe than sorry.
Question. I read that Fannie May gave millions of dollars to political candidates in the 2008 campaign. Who got the most from Fannie and Freddie?
Answer. Barack Obama got the most, another million. Senator Chris Dodd got the second most about 800 thousand. Representative Barney Frank got the 3rd around 650 thousand. They are all Democrats. Also, Dodd and Frank respectively chair the Senate and House committees on FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT. See how it works?
Question. Who were some of the CEO’s at Fannie Mae?
Answer. Well at one time or other Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson were both CEO's of Fannie May. Both are closely associated with Barack Obama. Johnson in fact chaired Obama's committee that recommended Joe Biden as Obama's Vice Presidential candidate.
Question. When they left their CEO's positions at Fannie Mae, did they get GOLDEN PARACHUTES – the type Obama was complaining about in his campaign speeches?
Answer. Of course they did. Raines got over 96 MILLION dollars (he later had to give back half). Johnson got around 26 MILLION. Nice parachutes, don’t you think?
Question. But I thought Obama was against CEO's getting Golden Parachutes.
Answer. Don't be silly. You confuse political rhetoric with truth. No, he is not. Not for his friends anyway. Obama has many CEO friends and they all make tons of money. And they gave a lot to him to help him get elected.
Question. Okay, so who are the biggest special interest groups in America today.
Answer Well, labor unions are very powerful now that Democrats are in power. Particularly unions like the Teamsters, AFL, CIO, and SEIU who are in the private sector and the NFT, NEA, and AFGE that are government employee unions. By the way, most union workers in America today are government workers including our teachers. Have you noticed how political the classrooms have gotten recently? Unions, that's why. Unionized teachers.
On the Republican side I assume we could say organizations like "The Chamber of Commerce" and certain Corporations (but most give to both parties just to be safe.)
Government union-based excessive employee entitlements are one of our biggest financial problems but we can't do anything about it since these fat cat unions don't want to give back one cent! They are as bad as the government leeches in Greece that rioted and actually KILLED bankers when it was suggested THEY give something back.
Hell, employees that are part of goverment unions are underworked and overpaid and not worth what they are getting so they should give something back. Or maybe we should all simply stop paying taxes. Did you know government workers get paid twice the salary you would get for doing the same job? Yep their average is $71,000.00 a year while the average worker in the private sector earns $37,000.00 a year. They would say YOU need to get more, not that THEY should get less. But that flies in the face of reality. Government doesn't make money, it spends money. Every department they run is billions of dollars in debt. Why do you think that is? Well a part of it is those ridculous salaries and entitlements the unions get from government. But they are spending OUR money. They are in bed together and it's time for us to un-make that bed.
Remember, governments don't earn money, governments don't make money, governments lose money. Then they take more from the taxpayers to make up for their shortfall. And if that isn't enough, then they borrow it. That's why we are in debt trillions of dollars! A lot of it went to cover these absurd salaries and entitlements of government workers of whom there are far too many!
This can't go on. We can't borrow money just to give it to people who don't produce enough to warrant the wages and entitlements they are getting. That's insanity. It is also the road to bankruptcy and in bankruptcy, they would be forced to take big cuts or lose their jobs. Why not do it volunarily where they would have something to say about the amounts?
In the private sector, a company must make a profit or go out of business. They can't take money from the rest of us to overcome their own financial shortages. But the government can and does. And unions are one of the principle reasons. Government unions are one of our biggest problems in this shrinking highly competitive world.
But Government unions poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Democratic Party in recent elections, and to Barack Obama in 2008, so now they are in the catbird seat. They are a very powerful "Special Interest Group". Sadly they are cutting off their own noses to spite their own faces - and they don't even know it.
Note: The problem is we do need protection for workers. We do need the workers to have their own organization to see they get a fair shake from owners. If there is no protection for workers - workers will suffer. The question is how do we accomplish the one (protecting workers) without permitting the other (abuse by unionization?) Unions must have certain restraints because without them, we would end up with another "People's Republic" and you can see how well they have done in Marxist countries around the world! No Thank You!!!
Question. What single politician has the record for raising and SPENDING the most money in any single election in the history of the United States?
Answer The top spender in our history is Barack Obama in 2008. He "raised" over $600 million dollars for his campaign. That's over half a BILLION dollars! I really would love to see where all that money came from but you can bet that isn’t happening. Most of it came from private donors they wouldn't want us to learn about. I bet they weren’t even Americans but that’s just me.
Conclusion: Don't believe politicians. They are always going to fix the problems they created if you just vote for them again. And they always strike out at those nasty “Special Interest” groups saying that their opponents take their money. Well they do. But so does the speaker. God knows who gets the most - it varies - but one thing stays the same: the guy that can deliver the most gets the most.
That's politics in America. Bought and paid for.
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Here's an interesting tid bit about BP, the oil Spill and possible White House influence.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free in Washington, D.C., for years, thanks in part to a friend under contract with oil giant BP. Several media sources have questioned whether the White House was compromised by Emanuel's financial ties to BP. What do YOU think?
Read the "Daily Comments Board" that follows for more on the coziness of the Obama Administration and the folks at BP. Very interesting.
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To Black Americans: The majority of American Blacks today live in our bigger cities. These cities are run by Democrats (including 154 Black Democratic Mayors in 2009) and Democrats have been running our cities for over 50 years! So if you are Black, how are you doing? The politicians are doing fine thank you, they continue to afford all those luxuries they enjoy in the lifestyles YOU have given them all these years. But how are YOU doing?
Stop blaming Republicans and/or Whites who haven't been in power in cities for over 50 years and start blaming the people you put in charge - the Democrats. It's about time you all stopped acting as dumb as they think you are.
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BTW, YOU MUST READ MY ARTICLE ON "CAP & TRADE" below. It will open your eyes.
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Do you remember when Al Gore warned the world that sea levels were going to rise by 20' destroying coastal cities and towns the world over. Yea, right. Al just bought a 9 million dollar BEACHFRONT HOME IN CALIFORNIA! lol. What a scam artist.
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Here are some of the Articles following "THE DAILY COMMENTS BOARD": (1) "Cap and Trade - Scam Of A Lifetime", (2) "Kanzius - A Cure For Cancer", (3) "How To Solve The Immigration Problem" (4) "Why Gay Unions Are NOT Marriages" (5) Did Obama have a gay lover?" (6) "On Oil, Gas, and Energy - someone Is Lying To You", and (7) "A Journey to Nowhere", (a critique on Space Exploration).
And don't miss the article on Islam titled: "The Battle Against Muslim Ascendancy." It's an eye-opener.
Other interesting Articles follow such as, (1) "Tomorrow", (a Look Into The Future), (2) "Do Women Really Have The Right To Choose?" (not if we want to survive they don't), (3) "The New Story of Noah's Ark", (4)"The Origin of Faith", (5) "The History Of Slavery", (6) "Looking For bin Laden - try The Graveyards" et al. Lots to read here. Just scroll down and begin reading - and then, come back. And please tell a friend about JOEY'S NEWSPAGE. After all, it's their world too. __________________________________________________________
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When I look at President Obama I am reminded of something my mother used to say: "show me your friends and I'll show you what you are".
I have seen his friends. Now I know what he is. And it's not pretty.
Joey
