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(Ask yourself; are you better off today than you were year ago?)
Sunday August 08, 2010
More bad news for seniors and future retirees.
The First Time Ever I Saw Social Security in the red,
Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes and the first time since 1975 that Social Security beneficiaries didn’t receive a cost of living increase. The badly needed Social Security payments would have helped 57 million discouraged seniors. Only time will tell what the total Impacts on Seniors will be..
What are they waiting for; we need jobs now……
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July Fourth
"Another Obama Promise Broken: "....
President Obama on nationally televised last month promise to contain as much as 90 percent of the spewing oil by the end of June
and on June 15, 2010 Gibbs said on "Good Morning America" that President Obama promise to contain as much as 90 percent of the spewing oil by the end of June. That Gulf Fishermen Say it right "Obama's Words Can't Stop the Oil"... Another Obama Promise Broken:
This July Fourth everything is being destroyed, damaged or killed in the Gulf of Mexico by BP and the unemployed now know that Congress, Obama and Nancy Pelosi has done zip about jobs…... What are they waiting for; we need jobs now……
Recession killed off 7.9 million jobs and many unemployed would take a low-paying jobs if they could find one…$64 for 8 hours of hard work (before tax) isn’t worth much today, but it serves to keep you fed or gas money. $64 in 1957 is worth $7.50 today after inflation not much in your pocket. In 1980 $20 was worth something but today it can't even buy a tank of gas. I think that we need jobs that pay a decent salary or wage. Remember that no matter what your job is, it is important! ... The pay gap between rich and poor is increasing ,
this is because competition between American workers and illegal immigrants rives down the wage for those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale. Homeland Security is suffering when large number of illegal aliens and drug dealers is coming across the border and pose a great threat to U.S. national security.More than 100 coalition troops died in Afghanistan in June, making it the deadliest month for soldiers so far in the war there.
Closing the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center has been one of Obama's signature issues since he was a candidate and Obama pledged to close down Guantanamo Bay immediately and it still in use today.If you’re a smoker, don’t forget about President Obama signed into law February 4. 2009 a large Federal tax hike on cigarette ... from 39 cents per pack to $1.01 per pack — a huge 159 percent increase after Obama pledged that "no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase. What is next? I have to believe that a higher Federal gas tax increase in the near future for us Joe....a $1.00 Federal gas tax or more to plug budget hole. ….President Barack Obama and the Department of Justice need to enforce the rule of law in America better, so they can protect America from illegal aliens and drug cartels, suing the people of Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law is wrong and sending the wrong message.
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Wednesday June 23 2010
"Obama's Words Can't Stop the Oil or the war in Afghanistan"....
Obama sack McChrystal on this Wednesday of his command over Rolling Stone magazine article, General David Petraeus named to take over troubled Afghan war and we all know that Obama is defending his new war strategy and Gulf effort and we all know that the Gulf of Mexico is getting to be a bigger mess. We’ll have to wait and see how it unfolds.
Obama knows that a corporation is not going to look after the environment and much of the Gulf ecosystem already been destroyed. I think BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and Obama is just saying what the small people want to hear just to shut them up, that's how they think of us... $20 billion over 5 years probably no where near enough money unless Obama and BP is going to nickel-and-dime those good folks of the Gulf…..Did you know that a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration who now represents BP. The whole mess can never be cleaned up ever like it was……Obama administration's can't keep their foot out of their mouth," they plan to contain as much as 90 percent of the spewing oil by the end of June. I think the Gulf Fishermen Say it right "Obama's Words Can't Stop the Oil"...
Cold hard facts for June 2010
(1) President Obama to Request another $33 billion mainly to move 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, where the largest operation since the war started – to secure Kandahar – is under way. $100 billion-per-year war in Afghanistan and the top command is frustrated and burnt out. Yet we keep sending young American bodies into Afghanistan, in a war we hear little about on most major news.
(2) Do they really think $20 billion over 5 years will be enough for the country's worst environmental disaster?
(3) People are yelling, OBAMA how about some jobs.
(4) The containment strategy that the Coast Guard and the federal government pushed BP to accelerate should have been done the first week in the Obama administration, not two months later, turning down British help and the Dutch skimmers just three days after the Gulf spill, shows a lack of leadership and now the whole mess can never be cleaned up ever like it was.
(5) The American people lost confidence that OBAMA administration, have a plan to finally end the wars and a strategy for the Gulf.
(6) The nightmare of the gulf oil spill won’t end until we get some leadership on Capitol Hill. If Obama administration and Capitol Hill fought as vigorously on this oil spill disaster as they did on health care, we would be seeing much less damage to the Gulf than we are now.
(7) July 2011 drawdown date is really a message to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to wait out U.S. forces
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The horrific damage that has been done in the gulf, it has killed and harmed so many animals, taken away people’s livelihood, cost 11 people their lives, ruined the marshes and polluted every thing around.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Where were you when we needed you?
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Barack Obama Disaster, Deepwater Horizon the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
In an interview broadcast on U.S. television Tuesday morning June 8, 2010, President Barack Obama said he was speaking with fishermen in the region and experts to determine, "whose ass to kick."
A month and a half after the spill began and Barack Obama reacting like it happened last week. The federal response negatively. Many are becoming increasingly angry with the president for maintaining too much of a hands-off approach, Obama administration didn't act with "sufficient urgency" to clean up the oil. The administration took too long to make its own measurements of the size of the spill, and didn't push BP hard enough early enough on skimming boats to contain the oil spill near the site….. WHERE ARE OUR CONGRESSMEN??? What are they waiting on, we need you to monitoring progress I don't think much is getting done and those floating booms are just a false sense of security. Are they working for us or big oil?
Talking tough about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t get it clean up….We needed Containment and Cleanup from day one.... Unfortunately, Plenty new Gulf of Mexico patients for the cancer treatment and Where are the jobs from the stimulus funds?
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
California's Eighth District can made History this November 2010.
It is true they can made Nancy Pelosi the third House speakers deposed by voters…. "If she was just representing the people, that would be fine," "Nancy's got to go," if California's want Change they need new blood… not the old blood with politics as usual and low morale….
(Ask yourself; are you better off today than you were year ago?)
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
"This Memorial day weekend" US toll reaches 1,000 deaths in Afghanistan warRemember our country at war this Memorial Day; remember our nation’s combat veterans; remember the cost of our nation’s freedom; and never forget what our veterans have done. Remember the legacy of our nation’s combat veterans, who served our country, we can honor the sacrifices they made for us by keeping their stories alive for our children, and future generations.
We hope you all have a safe and happy Memorial Day
By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end and President Barack Obama pledged to have all troops, including "residual forces out of Iraq," by the end of December 31st, 2011
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Change our laws .
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, sharply criticized Arizona's tough new immigration law and the United States' refusal to ban assault weapons. Barack Obama administration and Mexican President Felipe Calderon has done little on border crackdown or brings into effect a plan to stop the drug cartels and both heads of state publicly criticize Arizona's new immigration law. Barack Obama administration needs to look at Mexico's immigration laws before criticize Arizona's new immigration law. Barack Obama administration, refusal to enforce the laws already on the books, and is pandering to the corporations that hire the illegals.
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March 24, 2010
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln quote).
While Obama celebrated his signature healthcare law with public events on Tuesday 24 March 2010, he signed the executive abortion order behind closed doors, and closed to the press.The Four thing that are important to the common Joe with out special privilege, rank, or status is to keep insurance premiums down, improving quality of health care, leveling the rate of growth in spending and take care of our Seniors they deserve better. They have paid their dues in the past. Did you know Congress got a Pay Raise 2010– How About You? They took seniors 2010 cost of living away and now they are making Medicare cuts. I think we will have a nation of underinsured Middle Class and Seniors who will be paying money they can hardly afford for health plans that will never meet their needs. Woo Hoo! Thanks Nancy!!! for Pelosi Health Care I wanted to bring up to date on where the common Joe with out special privilege, rank, or status see it from here.
First World Health Care -- Capitol Hill, The White House and upper classes
Middle Class: More Costs and Less Coverage ...
Third world Health Care -- Millions of underinsured Americans and Seniors will be on a health plans that will never meet their needs.
PS: Medicare's Hospital Trust Fund Will Be Insolvent by 2019, According to Trustees Report Medicaid going broke by 2017. We need a complete and accurate balancing of the books. Medicaid program is a federal and state funded program that serves needy individuals and families and Seniors
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March 21, 2010
"Whether you like the new health care reform bill or not Obama will soon sign the bill into law.".
The Democratic leaders and Pelosi defy the will of the American people tonight and passed the Senate health care reform bill by a vote of 219-212 with 34 Democrats voting no and not one Republican Member voting for the legislation. Obama promised an executive order stating that the Hyde Amendment, which bars the federal government from funding abortion, will remain the clear law of the land.If Pelosi and the Democratic leaders think this is a great health care bill why don’t they accept the same Health Care Program that they are giving us or give us the same Health Care Package that they have?
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February 14, 2010
"Biden Flip-Flopper".
U may not have seen "CBS's Face the Nation" February 14, 2010 Vice President Joe Biden Thank George Bush for success in Iraq war ... Last week he credits Obama and himself for all of the Great Achievements in Iraq. I wish more people would be honest and trustworthy in Washington so credit goes where credit is due!!) ...
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February 09, 2010
Having trouble getting a job go over seas .
Where are the jobs from the stimulus funds?
U may not have seen "The News" on CBS February 09, 2010 about "Green jobs". The package includes billions aimed at "green" jobs to make wind turbines, and solar panels. As reported by CBS, seven out of every ten jobs went to China to build these wind turbines.
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President is showing leadership he didn't wait, he took quick action in Haiti.The world is focused on Haiti and the American leadership. President Obama pledged his administration would place Haitian relief at the forefront, saying $100 million will be set aside for immediate needs and more later for rebuilding it, at the same time he has deemed job creation a priority 2010, he also must deal with a renewed threat of terrorism as he winds down the war in Iraq and escalates the war in Afghanistan."Yes, we can"
"We have the ability to make things better"
The people of Massachusetts have spoken. Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Pay attention to us! Get off the health care yada yada yada and get the Economy moving again...
Obama's & Biden's First Year - Report Card
Look at this first year in office.Some Obama Highlights from 2009(1) How can this happen, so many Americans disapprove of Healthcare and the Obama administration and Senate Democrats have locked in the 60th vote for health care, are they living in the twilight zone. Ordinary Americans are more concerned about having a paycheck then health care. We don't like backroom deals that have been used to buy votes when the taxpayers is paying for it. Obama pledged total transparency, and bi-partisan participation in all legislation and fiscal responsibility
(2) Obama promise to end or reduce Partisan Rancor in Washington he has failed on this major campaign promise.
(3) Where are the jobs? Obama pledged no unemployment over 8 % with his Economy Stimulus package, creation of 3 million new jobs. The President, Senate or U.S. Congress didn't pass a jobs bill for 2009, they were to busy on health care which dominate most of 2009.
(4) Obama's handling of the budget deficit which has skyrocketed under the costs of the financial bailouts and a recession that has caused sinking federal revenues? Record high for the U.S. National Debt which will top the $12-trillion this year and 2010 deficit is expected to reach $1.5 trillion. Lawmakers raised the country's debt limit to $12.4 trillion in December and the Treasury Department is running out of funds, now the Lawmakers want to raise the limit by at least $1.8 trillion.
(5) There will be no cost-of-living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients 2010 but Federal Government Employees and Federal Retirees will not get a cost of living increase for 2010. Do they truly need that when FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AVERAGE $71,206 and the average Social Security recipients make $14,000 so who really need the cost-of-living increase...
(6) Not a good year in Afghanistan, 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and security in Afghanistan at new low and President Obama's will start removing U.S. forces from that country in 2011, bad idea announcing such a date in advance and growing concern that Yemen is our next battleground for terrorists and where is Bin Laden that is a mystery to us and the world.. The administration is expected to ask Congress for $33 billion for the troop.
(7) Executive privilege for a Social Secretary? White House is protecting Social Secretary Desiree Rogers from testifying about the dinner crashers (Tareq and Michael Salahi). We Joes don't see how her testifying will be a threat to our intelligence and our national security, which is what "executive privilege", is supposed to be used for. Is this the change and "transparency" we voted for?
(8) President Obama promised to "go line by line" through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs. In the Economy Stimulus package (Loaded with more than 9,000 Pork Barrel Projects)
(9) President Barack Obama, vowed during his campaign that lobbyists "won't find a job in his White House. " Now the campaign is over President Obama made exceptions for them by making rules. (Give me a break)!
(10) Obama pledged to close down Guantanamo Bay immediately and $80 million to implement the shut down, bad idea.
(11) With its rocket launch, North Korea slams USA. And Iran has shown no interest in the president's outstretched hand.
(12) Bo the Dog (Obama broke his pledge. The president promised that he would adopt a dog from a shelter.) After many disappointments we were certainly hoping he would reverse the pattern of recent presidents, including both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who bought dogs from breeders.
(13) Mexico's drug cartels pose a great threat to U.S. national security and the Obama administration need to carry out border crackdown or bring into effect a plan to stop the drug cartels.
(14) Cash for Clunkers has been a fiasco. According to research from Edmunds.com, taxpayers paid an average $24,000 per clunker.
(Ask yourself; are you better off today than you were year ago?)
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$4 billion per day since new administration took office!
Concerned? Then tell your US Senators (you have two per state)!
To find out who your US Senators are, see the Senators-by-State list at http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm.cfm
November 2008
We are congratulating President-Elect Obama, and wishing him and his family and our USA the very best...Voters made clear they want Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) , the new Democratic Congress and Obama administration to make "change" a top priority.This is the billion dollar team who pulled off the most expensive campaign in history talking about change, President-Elect Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
| We are watching Ms. Pelosi, the new Democratic Congress and Obama's administration. We will see if we get a fresh new start on change with in the first 100 days out of the gate with the five major issues (1) Economy, (2) Iraq, and Afghanistan, (3) Energy, (4) Terrorism, (5) Health care. |
Five major issues cited as most pressing in this 2008 campaign
Joe doesn't understand the US economic system and how it actually works. We do understand are you better off today than you were last week?
Ask yourself; are you better off today than you were four weeks ago? |
| Issues | February 20, 2009 | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | Demember | January 20, 2010 |
| Economy | continues to worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | ? | ? | ? |
Iraq and
Afghanistan |
Iraq OK,
continues to worsen | OK
worsen | OK
worsen | OK
worsen | OK
worsen | Better
worsen | Better
worsen | Better
worsen | Better
worsen | Better
worsen | Same
worsen | Same
worsen |
| Energy | going up,up,up | UP | UP | UP | same | same | same | same | UP | retreat slightly | UP | UP |
| Terrorism | little worse than it was | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | little worse than it was | little worse than it was | little worse than it was | little worse than it was | same | worsen | worsen |
| Health care | little worse than it was | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | worsen | ??? | ??? | Same |
| January 2009 | February 20, 2009 | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | Demember | January 20, 2010 |
| 7.6 |
8.1
| 8.5 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.7 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 10 | 10 | 9.7 |
The official unemployment rate exclude people who have stopped looking for work
| January 2009 | February 20, 2009 | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | Demember | January 20, 2010 |
| 80 percent |
67 percent
| 66 % | 65% | 64% | 63% | 57% | 57% | 56% | 52% | 46% | 44% | 44% |
The Quote that had impact in 2009 and had made Yale's annual list of quotations.
"You lie"
Another Quote that had impact in 2009.
"Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
Here's one for the history book “The System Worked”.
December 27, 2009 “The System Worked”.Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, (Sunday Dec 27 / 2009) insisted “the system worked” Now there's a quote for the history books “the system worked”.
“System” is really broken if the “system” requires passengers to respond to potential terrorist attacks.
May be we need a Joe Arpaio - type of lawman to change our approach on Homeland Security "America’s Sheriff" by many Americans.
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December, 2009 "Why do so many disapprove of Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration:" Will we ever hold anyone accountable for anything anymore? Just saying "mistakes were made" seems to be good enough these days. No mistake about it, we have a real need for better security so that we're not always one step behind? Security breach at the White House dinner, Fort Hood Shooting Massacre and Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight 253. Their handling of the budget deficit which has skyrocketed under the costs of the financial bailouts and a recession that has caused sinking federal revenues? Record high for the U.S. National Debt which will top the $12-trillion this year and 2010 deficit is expected to reach $1.5 trillion.Their handling of taxes, can't guarantee middle-class Americans won't see tax hike and a 62-cent increase in the cigarette tax, so what next: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families a couple thousand dollars a year. Unemployment at a 26 years high and the largest job losses were in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade and white-collar are losing their jobs to overseas markets. Unemployment at 10% for November where are the jobs.How can this happen, so many Americans disapprove of Healthcare and the Senate Democrats have locked in the 60th vote for health care, are they living in the twilight zone. Ordinary Americans are more concerned about having a paycheck then health care. The administration need to work on paychecks instead of lining the pockets of Wall Street executives with taxpayer money.
Not a good year in Afghanistan, 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and security in Afghanistan at new low and President Obama's will start removing U.S. forces from that country in 2011, bad idea announcing such a date in advance and growing concern that Yemen is our next battleground for terrorists and where is Bin Laden that is a mystery to us and the world.....
Executive privilege for a Social Secretary? White House is protecting Social Secretary Desiree Rogers from testifying about the dinner crashers (Tareq and Michael Salahi). We Joes don't see how her testifying will be a threat to our intelligence and our national security, which is what "executive privilege", is supposed to be used for. Is this the change and "transparency" we voted for? There will be no cost-of-living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients next year. When does big government stop and think about the people who really need the money… Happy New Year! Will Federal Government Employees Get A 2.6 % Cost Of Living In 2010? FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AVERAGE $71,206 and the average Social Security recipients make $14,000 so who really need the cost-of-living increase... Cash for Clunkers, We need more transparency on the actual cost to taxpayers of each clunker. According to research from Edmunds.com, taxpayers paid an average $24,000 per clunker. The New Clunkers Deal also created a lot of Green Government make-work jobs.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 "The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama" comes as the Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, force levels are higher than ever, the U.S. military situation is worse than ever and more troops die in Afghanistan. The administration need to work on Afghanistan; pull US out of Afghanistan or give the military what they need to win.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 "Dow Jones Industrial Average just broke through 9000 today"The Dow Jones Industrial Average have improved greatly!
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 "Obama stupidity remarks disappoints Joe Mugs"In a news conference Wednesday night, July 22, 2009 Obama, who is a friend of the renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., said police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates.Now, if one of my neighbors called to report someone suspicious at my house and it was me--Joe Mug and a cop asked me for my I.D., I would gladly give it to him and thank him for checking up on the call. I respect them and President Barack Obama but like it or not Obama himself admits he did not have all the facts . . . President Barack Obama could have easy said, "I don't know all the facts. ... The biggest mistake is that he spoke without knowing the facts. Part of the President's job is to uphold the rule of law and know when to speak and when not to speak. I think the American public will remember Obama stupid remark as an embarrassment to President Obama and his administration and how this huge mistake impact our world about trust and distrust among members of different racial groups.
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Monday, July 20, 2009 "Army is being increased by 22,000 soldiers "Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced that the size of the Army is being increased by 22,000 soldiers to help meet deployment needs of the wars around the world.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shed the black sling she has worn on her right arm and downplayed North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
American deaths in Afghanistan 34 military personnel have died in July 2009 thus far
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Thursday, July 2, 2009 Addition to the latest increase in war funds, Obama is also asking for an additional $130 billion and with a new offensive in Afghanistan, he has completely reversed course from the Bush administration and this is President Obama's war now.There is no timetable for withdrawal, and the White House said it had no estimate yet on how many billions of dollars its plan will cost defeat al-Qaida terrorists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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June, 2009 Where is the money, the jobs and face-to-face "talks"Making sure every American has access to high quality health care is one of the important challenges of our time but where is the money!The Obama and Biden health care plan support shrinks as its price grows? and the deficits is getting worse and the economy is not getting any better.... Unemployment at 9.5% for June where are the jobs.The North Korea underground nuclear blast's yield at 10 to 20 kilotons, comparable to the bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki. North Korea's message too the USA is that they are heading towards status as a nuclear nation also North Korea has custody of two American journalists. Where is the face-to-face "talks" offered by Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and for now sidelined by a fractured elbow. With its rocket launch, North Korea slams USA. And Iran has shown no interest in the president's outstretched hand.
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Monday, May 25, 2009 "Joe Mug Grateful for the United States of America and we urges Americans to pay tribute to veterans "We respect and admire all our men and women in uniform and I salute each and every one of them for the sacrifices they have made. May God bless them.
Remember our country at war this Memorial Day; remember our nation’s combat veterans; remember the cost of our nation’s freedom; and never forget what our veterans have done. Remember the legacy of our nation’s combat veterans, who served our country, we can honor the sacrifices they made for us by keeping their stories alive for our children, and future generations.
We hope you all have a safe and happy Memorial Day
American deaths in Afghanistan fifty-six military personnel have died in 2009 thus far – which puts the war in Afghanistan on a record-setting pace and 72 casualties in Iraq for 2009 so far and suicide rate is up for U.S. Military 2009.
By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end and President Barack Obama pledged to have all troops, including "residual forces out of Iraq," by the end of December 31st, 2011
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they’ve made a difference...U.S. Marines don’t have that problem"
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Monday, May 18, 2009 "Vice President Joe Biden extremely poor judgment."Mr. Obama needs to find a topic to poke fun at other than Joe Biden’s loose tongue. It was funny at first, but not now. I bet you know that some press reports have suggested that Vice President Joe Biden loose tongue has revealed the secret location of the Vice Presidential bunker, where Dick Cheney and his top aides were taken immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. This guy is like a kid who run out of things to say to keep the attention on him, so he blurt out things he shouldn't say.
Great, with the U.S. economy in bad shape we will have to spend more billions to build another bunker, for Vice President Joe Biden. What a Joe……
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Friday, May 15, 2009 "War Spending Bill passed even with 51 Democrats voted against the bill."House votes $97 billion war funds. Obama has been critical of Bush's use of similar special legislation to pay for the wars and when he was senator he opposed it. There are no preconditions or benchmarks for progress by the Obama administration that is a reversal for Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, who had demanded that Bush administration set such benchmarks in Iraq. The massive $97 billion war funds did not include the administration requested for $30 million for the salaries and expenses of the task force Obama created to review each Guantanamo captive's case as part of the closure and $50 million to pay the cost of closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | 
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Friday, May 15, 2009 "The Dow Jones average is not getting any better (8,268.64) and steady rise at the gas pumps, 26 cents in the last 3 weeks." The Dow Jones average continues to worsen and prices on steady rise at the gas pumps. October 2008, Gas prices below $1.99, oil falls to 20-month low $61.04 from $150 a barrel that money in my wallet and that less money going to a terrorist state. And now oil prices are $56.34 a barrel and gas prices average $2.31 but continued to inch higher in advance of the Memorial Day Weekend 2009. in my area, less money in my wallet. Over the past five days Dow Jones industrial closed down 306.01 (8,268.64). When are they gong to get the facts, the economy will not pick up with less money in Joe Mugs’ wallet. |
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Friday, May 15, 2009 "Barack Obama Flip-Flopper"Mr. Obama’s decision to revive military commissions devised by the last administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay President Barack Obama's criticized the use of military tribunals at Guantanamo during last year’s election campaign and he suspended them the day after he took office as president. |
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Friday, May 15, 2009 "Is Nancy Pelosi Being Honest About Waterboarding?"Obama release of Bush Administration memos regarding EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) I’m sure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is third in line of Presidential Succession already regrets it. With all of her tortured explanation of what she knew, and when she knew it, and claims that she was "misled" by the CIA regarding the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Nancy Pelosi’s credibility is not very good with us Joe Mugs when she says the CIA lied to her? Ms. Pelosi's criticism of interrogation techniques by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for protecting the country from terrorist attack… Ms. Pelosi clearly knew what was going on regarding EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) years ago and did nothing to stop it. ....One of her aides said she had been briefed in 2003 that the CIA had waterboarded suspects. Should we trust Ms. Pelosi, Absolutely not! Frankly Nancy should step down.
If Obama have a full investigation , that is something the Obama Administration initially opposed, we need to look at the actions of the last administration but also at what Nancy Pelosi’s and Congressional leaders were told and what they did, and why they did nothing to stop it.Joe Mug saying...You can tell same lie 10,000 time (Nancy) but will not change the truth! |
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Friday, May 15, 2009 "The closing of GM and Chrysler dealerships"We was saddened by Chrysler's eliminated Dealerships in every state but Alaska and meanwhile, General Motors Corp. is notifying 1,100 of its 6,200 dealers that their franchise agreements won't be renewed when they expire at the end of September 2010. About 187000 jobs could be lost from the closing of these dealerships. |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 "Change of Heart or Flip-Flopper doesn’t matter."Barack Obama is doing the right thing by declared he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, the last administration argued against the release of these same photographs. This may not be transparency and accountability Obama's promise during his campaign, but he will save American lives. |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 Obama fired the Top Four Stars U.S. general in Afghanistan.
Gen. David McKiernan Today President Barack Obama has a new policy in Afghanistan. The President has a new strategy, a new mission and a new ambassador and now we got a new U.S. general in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley Chrystal. By year's end, the United States will have more than 68,000 troops about double the total at the end of the last administration in Afghanistan to shore up the war effort as war worsens.
Four Stars don’t get fired everyday, so is th ere something we are not being told about. Did Gen. David McKiernan perhaps have something derogatory to say to or about the fresh eyes? This could be Ms Pelosi, the new Democratic Congress and Obama Viet Nam all over again.American soldier guns down 5 fellow troops at U.S. military base in Iraq today |
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Sunday, May 10, 2009 "The president laughing at the Wanda Sykes smack down jokes."U may not have seen "The News" on TV ....but they had Wanda Sykes off-color and tasteless Limbaugh and 911jokes at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Guess what, Obama laughed at the jokes.
The Joe Mugs of America didn’t like Wanda’s performance and I’m disappointed in the President. Yes, Wanda Sykes was off-color and tasteless and Obama laughed at the joke, and kept watching Wanda Sykes and continued to chuckle. Sykes took aim at Limbaugh's stated desire for Obama to fail, calling it treasonous and comparing the talk radio megastar - famous for battling an addiction to painkillers - to 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"Maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight," Sykes quipped, adding she hoped Limbaugh's "kidneys fail."
Maybe next time, the White House should examine and approve all comedic material before they are made public any use of 9-11 for humor is poor, in bad taste and although this should never happen, unfortunately it did at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with President. The White House beginning to sound more like good ole boys on Capitol Hill, that brings a deep sadness to us Joe Mugs, and that unfortunately is not a change. |
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Friday, May 08, 2009 Obama makes push for credit card legislation."Putting himself on the side of fuming consumers, President Barack Obama is pushing for Congress to send him legislation by Memorial Day that would put a tighter rein on the credit card industry. |
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Friday, May 08, 2009 Obama promises a Change" "don't ask, don't tell." (DADT)Obama promises a lesbian soldier who was fired for coming out that he'll "change" "don't ask, don't tell." |
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Friday, May 08, 2009 Resignation of Louis CalderaThe Obama administration has released a statement confirming the resignation of Louis Caldera as head of the White House Military Office |
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009121 Buget Cuts Totaling $17 Billion = 1/2 of 1% of the Budget. Wow! $17 billion is chump change by anyone's accounting when the federal budget is $3.6 trillion
$3,600,000,000,000 or $3.6 trillion
- $17,000,000,000 or 17 billion (chump change)
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$3,583,000,000,000 One-half of 1 percent of the $3.6 trillion budget
Interesting how they put their little "twist" on the budget cuts. They are correct, for an individual human being that’s a lot of money, but for the USA with a federal budget of $3.6 trillion that wouldn’t be loose pocket change for ours standards.
At the first presidential debate, Obama says $18 billion Pork-barrel spending it isn't the real problem, much less than 1 percent of federal spending. Where is the scalpel, on the 9,000 Pork Barrel Projects and the $300 billion tax cuts that would go to the wealthiest people and corporations? |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009Vice President’s words: Swine InfluenzaU may not have seen "The Today Show" on NBC ....but they had Vice President Joe Biden and he said he would advise his family not to get into any subway, classroom or airplane. Vice President’s words:"I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom it’s a different thing."
Joe Biden Swine Flu Warning for His Family: Don’t ride the Public Transportation, Trains, Planes, Subways.
Are they Being Honest About Flu Crisis?
Chrysler, filed Chapter 11President Barack Obama’s administration is doing such a great job with Chrysler that they filed for bankruptcy protection in New York Court Thursday and will restructure with that other renowned Italian carmaker Fiat and Chrysler will temporarily idle most of its vehicle plants. The Obama’s administration has already poured $4 billion in loans into Chrysler, would provide $8 billion more n U.S. government financing, in the hopes that the company will emerge in four to eight week. Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Bob Nardelli will leave the auto maker after it completes the bankruptcy protection process. |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009Obman's First 100 Days
I ask that all thinking Americans Republican, Democrats, and independents be more cautious in accepting MEDIA NEWS as the truth, we need to check out all sources.
- Bank and auto bailout (corporate welfare)
- Economy Stimulus package (Loaded with more than 9,000 Pork Barrel Projects)
- Spending too much - We need to get our deficits under control and move from recovery to prosperity.
- The economy is getting worse . (Everyone I know has some common sense and knows that the economy is getting worse)
- Obama administration Torture Probe (making the country less safe from the threat of terrorism)
- Bo the Dog (Obama broke his pledge. The president promised that he would adopt a dog from a shelter.)
- $80 million to implement the shut down of the facility in Guantanamo. ( Most Joe Mugs think Guantanamo Bay should remain open.)
- Low-flying photos shoot by a presidential plane (Louis Caldera Should Be Fired)
- His new $83.4 billion for special troop funding for U.S. military would push the war money approved for 2009 to about $150 billion.
- Honesty and integrity back in the White House but with all the nominations for the cabinet who have disregarded the need to pay their taxes and deliberately say something untrue, we are loosing hope.
- (President Obama promised to “go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs)
(Ask yourself; are you better off today than you were 100 days ago?)
Swine Influenza
Texas Toddler 1st U.S. Swine Flu Death
Elevates Pandemic Level to Phase 5 (April 29)
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Monday, April 27, 2009Chilling memories of 9/11Low-flying photos shoot by a presidential plane that panicked New Yorkers and cost taxpayers $328,835. The White House military office (WHMO Louis Caldera) approved the photo-op. Obama administration should have been more careful about the presidential plane and F-16 fighter whizzing past the Statue of Liberty and the lower Manhattan financial district and it does seem like it was a waste of taxpayer’s money and the Obama administration kept the public in the dark.
Louis Caldera, oversees policy related to WHMO functions and Department of Defense assets and ensures that White House requirements are met with the highest standards of quality. Should Be Fired) |
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Thursday, April 9, 2009$83.4 billion for special troop funding for U.S. military President Barack Obama asked Congress for $83.4 billion for special troop funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama has been critical of Bush's use of similar special legislation to pay for the wars and when he was senator he opposed it. It would be money for Barack Obama's initiative to boost troop levels in Afghanistan to more than 60,000 from the current 38,000 Americans already fighting in Afghanistan. |
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Afghanistan, Obama War.
On March 27,2009, Obama set new benchmarks and ordered 4,000 more troops to the 34,000 Americans already fighting in Afghanistan the plan does not include an exit time line.. Obama said the situation in Afghanistan is not as bad as when the Taliban ruled and Al Qaeda operated with impunity.
Gates said, Al Qaeda terrorists are still a serious threat and retain the ability to plan attacks against the United States even though they have been inhibited over the past several years.
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Thursday, March, 2009
Red Ink will average above $1 trillion a year over the next decade.
President Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget would produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink by the congressional auditors… averaging above $1 trillion a year over the next decade. The only thing I got to say is we are leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation. |
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Thursday, March 19, 2009Think about it: when is the last time you made a joke about the disabled?President Barack Obama, recent comment on the Jay Leno Tonight Show. Remember, this is the smartest man in the room, smartest president ever by some, making a joke about the Special Olympics …... Mr. President, once a word is spoken, the words are available and can never be recalled even by your team; what has been said cannot be unsaid. Remember the Nancy Reagan séance joke at your first news conference as President and your campaign quotation about small-town people coping with uncertain times by clinging narrowly to guns and religion.Obama facing tough questions about the performance of Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, $165 million in bonuses for AIG executives and anticipating a few problems over his $3.55 trillion budget, the president don’t need any more bad jokes. This is a Win for Leno, but not for the president. |
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March 16, 2009Dow up 9% Friday's modest gains pushed the Dow up 9% over the past four days. |
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March 16, 2009"No, I'm not mad, I'm mad as hell"$700 billion taxpayer dollars and Uncle Sam own 80% of AIG (American International Group, Inc.) insurance giant helping Americans plan for and enjoy retirement. We should at least have a say. The business suffered a loss of $61.7 billion for the fourth quarter of last year, the largest corporate loss in history. It is unconscionable that while Obama administration asking Americans to do more with less in these trying economic times we are about to spend $165 million in BONUSES FOR FAILURE, we wonder how a provision that specifically protects bonuses paid at companies receiving federal bailout funds made it into the economic stimulus bill and why some of European banks were the major beneficiaries of billion in taxpayer dollars from AIG bailout. Ms Pelosi, the new Democratic Congress and Obama administration failure to ban all bonuses in the most expensive government bailout in history and we was anger over how the first bailout was operated during the last administration. "No, I'm not mad, I'm mad as hell", no apparent concerns about where the taxpayers dollars are actually going and we got people in tent cities living in third world conditions and we are giving out BONUSES FOR FAILURE and the taxpayers own 80% of the business.According to www.opensecrets.org Senator Chris Dodd was the largest recipient of campaign dollars from AIG and Obama was the second largest recipient of campaign dollars from AIG about $112,000. |
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March 16, 2009
Mexico's drug cartels pose a great threat to U.S. national security.
The Mexico's drug war is on both sides of the border worsening and Mexican cartels control the illegal drug market across the entire United States, according to the US Justice Department. Drug cartels are growing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of marijuana in the thick of California’s Sequoia National Forest. I hope this increase Americans awareness of the great threat and get Obama administration into action to carry out border crackdown or bring into effect a plan to stop the drug cartels. |
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March 11, 2009
Americans living in tents are now forced into third world conditions
The term tent city is used to describe a variety of temporary housing facilities made using tents. Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization and in Sacramento, California tents are springing up in the city and this time it is for hard-working middle-class Americans who have lost their jobs and homes and have nowhere else to go, the housing shelters are full and turning away hundreds of women and children while we give billions to PORK BARREL projects. Authorities estimate that the tent city is now home to more than 1,200 people who have no toilets or running water, creating unsanitary conditions. Families living in such poverty are unacceptable in this day and age. Sound like a shovel ready project for the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act package which is aimed at rescuing the economy and creating jobs and those folks living in the tent cities are ready to work right now to make shelters for the homeless population This is how you put folks to work and right now and give people hope…. "It should be an eye- opener for everybody," tent city is a situation like we had during the Great Depression. |
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March 11, 2009
Obama signs $410 billion spending bill in private
Now is not the time to squander money on wasteful projects. While campaigning for change Obama said, "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." Obama signs 'pork barrel' spending bill in private. Why? Unfortunately that's not the "change" we are looking for. Obama is hardly the first president to promise to stop pork-barrel spending but where we come from you take a promise seriously. This bill is the biggest increase in pork barrel spending in America history. Why didn’t Obama veto this bill? Why can't he keep his campaign promise to eliminate unnecessary earmarks and NOT sign the bill? The real tragedy is Obama and his administration is not restoring faith in government without which he cannot deliver the changes that he were sent there to make and that bothers me. We needed to stop pork barrel wasteful practices, unfortunately we got politics as usual! |
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March, 2009
Not a good way to restore faith in government
Quote from Obama "Families are tightening their belts, and so should Washington
In his first seven weeks in office Obama has spent more tax payer money than any other president in the history of this country and his Trillion dollar spending bills are loaded with more than 9,000 Pork Barrel Projects. What is pork, taxpayer money awarded by politicians to their supporters or to win favor…..?
The following are just some examples:
$1.7 million to study the effect of swine odor in Iowa on the environment
$59 million to study the mating habits of the Pacific salmon
$400,000 to train teachers on bullying
$200,000 for Tattoo removal in Los Angeles
$475,000 for a parking garage in Provo City, Utah
$500,000 for the fruit fly research
$5 million for salaries at the Sugar Beet Lab in Michigan
$8 billion for a rail system from Las Vegas to Los Angeles
$800,000 to study catfish genetics
$1.7 million for a honeybee lab
$2 million for the awareness of astronomy in Hawaii
$300,000 to build a Montana World Trade Center
$150,000 for a rodeo museum in South Dakota
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March, 2009
Too Many problems to fix in a year or four…..
The unemployment rate surged to 8.1 percent, from 7.6 percent in January, its highest level in a quarter-century and the decline of 785,000 jobs in February is the largest one month decline in 60 years.
Health care reform could cost $1 trillion or more, according to experts.
The Dow lost 300 points on March 2, well below the 7,000 mark, at 6,763. The Dow lost 27% in the last 6 weeks or 3000 points.
AIG bailout totals a whopping $162 billion in March (corporate welfare).
The old-timers with fixed income are suffering from problems relating to the economic crisis and honestly we can't wait 20 year. We need to fix the economy problems now…….Trying to fix too many problems at once will end up in a bigger mess... Who pays? Well, unfortunately, younger workers and the little Joe's, new taxes, new spending, new debt.
We are worry that Obama may have over promised, with program changes and worker benefits that will be impossible to achieve.
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March, 2009
FIGHT FOR JOBS, NO PORK BARREL PROJECTS !
JUST SAY "NO" TO MASSIVE $3.10 trillion federal budget.
Veto it. Show congress and the American people you mean business…
Fight for jobs, PORK BARREL projects need to be put on a back burner!
We all know that first impressions can mean so much so don’t be like other Presidents going along with business as usual Obama score points with us Joe Mugs when he put a FREEZE on salary of aides making over $100K, might not mean much by itself, but you add a billion here and a few billion there from PORK BARREL PROJECTS, sooner or later you're talking
Some real money… Veto $3.10 trillion federal budget put a FREEZE on congress salaries and get the pork out of the budget. President Barack Obama's promising voters he would end or limit pork barrel projects.
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Feb 23, 2009
The Dow Jones average is terrible in 2009
Dow above 9,000 level at the begining of the year.
On February 23, 2009, due to further market speculation of nationalization the DJIA closed at a 11-year low of 7114.78, last reached in Oct. 1997
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Feb 17, 2009
Ford Motor will not have to depend on government loans to stay solvent in 2009
My next car will, with out question, be a Ford and I was a Chrysler Joe.......
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Feb 17, 2009
Most Americans oppose auto bailout
The White House announced the formation of an auto task force run by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council director Larry Summers to oversee the restructuring of the auto industry. Chrysler and General Motors spent $13.4 billion from (Dec 19, 2008) to (Feb 17, 2009) in government loan and asked for up to $22 billion more in federal loans today and many taxpayers are skeptical that the companies will not survive with out more emergency loans
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Feb 17, 2009
About 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan
The United States has slightly more than 33,000 troops in Afghanistan now. Obama campaigned on a pledge to bring combat troops out of Iraq in 16 months; as Obama said we can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010. That might begin to happening this summer because an Army brigade and thousands of Marines from already approved deployments to Iraq later this year to new destinations in southern Afghanistan. As a result, the number of combat brigades in Iraq will drop by two by early summer there are 14 brigades in Iraq now. So whatever "leave Iraq" might mean Afghanistan, Presidential elections are expected to take place in Afghanistan in August 2009 will Obama add more troops to provide security for Afghanistan elections..
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Feb 17, 2009
President Obama turns on the Trillion-Dollar Faucet
Let me put this all in perspective -- our country is currently nearly $11 trillion dollars in debt. Our projected deficit for 2009 alone is an alarming $2 trillion dollars. President Barack Obama sign in law the most expensive economic stimulus plan in history $787 billion and Congress Release the remaining 350 billion dollars of the first stimulus bail-out in January 2009 that give President Barack Obama 1,137 trillion for the economy and the Stock Market continues to Fall, even after Barack signs the Bill.
Who pays? Unfortunately, younger workers and everyday Joe's, with a average job, average pay, with a average house and who pay his mortgage on time
.....and what do we get from the Trillion-Dollar package, $13 a week being a good American Citizen we are thrilled about that and that really going to change our lifestyle and help the economy. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT now $10,775,387,447,478.03, so each citizen's share is about $35,000 with a family of four your share is about $140,000 the cost of the average Joe house. Middle-income and wealthy taxpayers will be spared from income tax increase that would otherwise hit them.
We need to come to terms with the implications of our debt for the future of your children
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Lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House,"
President Barack Obama, vowed during his campaign that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House." Now the campaign rhetoric is over President Obama making exceptions for them by making rules "If you are a lobbyist entering my administration you will not be able to work on matters you lobbied on or in the agencies you lobbied during the previous two years." I was hoping this President turn Washington upside down. So much for hope!
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President-elect Barack Obama team hit the ground running on January 20th 2009 and the stock market greeted Obama with its worst Inauguration Day Stock Decline In History.
Barack Obama’s inauguration was the most expensive swearing-in ceremony in history, the $170 Million Inauguration has Been Financed Partially by Bailed-Out Wall Street Executives, celebrities, and the federal government estimates that it will spend roughly $50 million. The 2005 inauguration "cost roughly $40 million, and in 1993 inauguration "cost roughly $33 million.
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Country First Politics Second
What a CountryA picture is worth a thousand words and this complex transition of power only could be described as the most successful transition in American history.
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This could be a small change for the good. I loved the use of "mutt" They are the best……Millions of healthy, dogs are put to death in shelters every year simply because there are not enough homes for them. President-elect Obama and his family are to be commended if they adopt a "shelter dog". I certainly hope they will and reverse the pattern of recent presidents, including both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who bought dogs from breeders.
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Everyone is talking about President-elect Barack Obama First news conference.When a reporter asked President-elect Barack Obama if he had spoken with any ex-presidents since his election on Tuesday, he responded that he had spoken to all former presidents "that are living." I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan (wife of 40th President Ronald Reagan) thing about, you know, doing any séance, he said.
It sure looks as if we have a president-elect who is supremely competent. He got us Joe Mugs off the economic crisis and on to Nancy Reagan séance jokes, that sound more like good ole boys on capitol hill, that brings a deep sadness to us Joe Mugs, and that unfortunately is not a change. |
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| What would a good country boy do about Terrorism and Energy for short term? |
I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist to realize that the American people did it all ready, cut back on driving, when gasoline-consumption is down less money for terrorist and more money in my wallet. Budget-minded Joe Mugs simply will not pay $4/gal gasoline and look what we did in October 2008, Gas prices below $1.99 in Joe County, oil falls to 20-month low $61.04 from $150 a barrel that money in my wallet and that less money going to a terrorist state. We got a great branch of people in all five military branches we need to do ours part by buying less gas and keep the money out of the terrorist state wallets and we will win in Iraq and Afghanistan with fewest American casualties. It doesn’t takes courage to send them into combat, it take courage to win a war…….all of the American people have to cut back on energy if we are going to win the Iraq and Afghanistan war and that is the best overnight fix for our energy crisis.
Light, sweet crude for February (2009) delivery at $38.74 per barrel and March contract, where the vast majority of trading took place, $40.68.
Oil prices for May are $56.34 a barrel and gas prices average $2.31 but continued to inch higher in advance of the Memorial Day Weekend 2009. |
Social Security, Medicare Finances Worsen.
‘We need to act quickly and effectively to address Social Security and Medicare’s fiscal health’ Social Security is the major part of the income of the vast majority of Americans. And the only income for a majority of senior citizens and baby boomers retirees. President Franklin Roosevelt established it in 1935 and the giant trust fund will be depleted by 2037. . If no changes to Social Security are made, by 2037 surpluses will be gone, and benefits will have to be cut 27% rising to 33% in 2,080.
Medicare's Hospital Trust Fund Will Be Insolvent by 2019, According to Trustees Report
Medicaid going broke by 2017
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/index.html
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| Obama's Cabinet and positions outside the Cabinet |
The most important decision Obama (President-elect) can make is appointing a cabinet. The tradition of the Cabinet dates back to the beginnings of the Presidency itself. One of the principal purposes of the Cabinet is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of their respective offices. The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments, the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General..
| Call me crazy, but Obama's change looking more and more like the third term Harvard-Yale of the former President Bill Clinton administration. |
| Cabinet | Picks | Democratic | Republican | Clinton administration | Bush administration | Male | Female | Comment |
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Former Senate |
| Vice President |
Joe Biden |
yes |
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One-time foe of Obama and Former Senate |
| White House chief of staff |
Rep. Rahm Emanuel |
Yes |
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmaker from Chicago. |
| White House director of scheduling and advance |
Alyssa Mastromonaco |
Yes |
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yes |
A task similar to the one she had in his campaign |
| White House political director |
Patrick Gaspard |
Yes |
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yes |
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He was Obama's national political director during the general election campaign |
| Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
Lisa Jackson |
Yes |
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She was a member of Governor of New Jersey Jon S. Corzine's cabinet from 2006 to 2008, serving as Chief of Staff to the Governor and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
| Director of National Drug Control Policy |
Gil Kerlikowske |
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36-year law enforcement veteran, Seattle police chief, former deputy director for the U.S. Department of Justice, police commissioner for Buffalo, New York, Fort Pierce police chief and Port St. Lucie Fl. police chief, police officer for the St. Petersburg Police in Florida, and served in the U.S. Army Military Police. Obama intends to remove the US drugs czar post from the Cabinet. |
| The number of high school students using drugs dropped by 900,000 during January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009. |
| Cabinet | Picks | Democratic | Republican | administration | administration | Male | Female | Comment
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Ron Kirk |
Yes |
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He's the fourth Obama pick that has come under fire for tax issues. Former Dallas, Texas, Mayor and he were, as of March 2007, one of the four highest paid lobbyists for Energy Future Holdings Corporation. |
| Chief performance officer |
First PickNancy Killefer
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Withdraw her nomination 02-03-2009 following the revelation that she failure to pay taxes. Chief financial officer and chief operating officer at Treasury during the Clinton administration |
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| Secretary of State |
Hillary Clinton |
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Clinton a One-time foe of Obama and junior two-term U.S. senator from New York, former first lady, presidential candidate (2007-2008), and ready to take that 3 a.m. phone call and Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to dodged sniper fire. Claiming that she has foreign policy experience because of her interactions with foreign dignitaries as first lady, give me a break. One major policy experience for Clinton, the health care battle of 1993, ended in abject failure due in large part to her involvement Great credibility |
| Secretary of Defense |
Robert Gates |
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It is a wise choice..... that Gates hold on to his job as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense with strong ties to President George W. Bush. Millions of anti-war activists who carried Obama to the nomination would like to see an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. |
National Security Adviser
Senior foreign policy position outside the Cabinet |
James Jones |
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| President Obama top economic advisers | | | | | | | | |
| Secretary of Treasury |
Tim Geithner |
Yes |
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He failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes in the past. Geithner worked in three administrations for five Secretaries of the Treasury in a variety of positions in the Clinton administration and president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York. |
| Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers |
Christina Romer |
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Co-director of monetary economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
| National Economic Council director (NEC) |
Lawrence Summers |
yes |
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Treasury secretary under former President Bill Clinton and former Harvard University president. |
| Domestic Policy Council director |
Melody Barnes |
yes |
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Barnes previously worked at the Center for American Progress and as chief counsel to Sen. Ted Kennedy |
| Deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council |
Heather Higginbottom |
yes |
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She was Obama's policy director during the campaign and earlier served as Sen. John Kerry's legislative director. |
| Economic Advisory Board |
Paul Volcker |
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Paul Volcker is best known as Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). |
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| Attorney General |
Eric Holder |
yes |
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Washington lawyer and was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. |
| Secretary of Energy |
Steven Chu |
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Steven Chu Nobel Physics Prize (1997), director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Maybe this time we can actually incorporate the technical changes of energy self-sufficiency….
Jimmy Carter had a chance to solve this energy problem in the 70’s and 80’s. Jimmy Carter had a proven technology that would have helped reduce the dependence on foreign oil and lower the cost of energy for everyone, but he helped kill the nuclear power. |
| Secretary of Commerce |
Fist Pick
Bill Richardson |
yes |
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Withdrew from consideration over an ongoing grand jury investigation. Was a United Nations ambassador and energy secretary under President Bill Clinton administration and one- time Democratic rival of Obama. |
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Second Pick
Judd Gregg |
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Thursday, 12 February, 2009 Judd Gregg's withdraws bid for US Secretary of Commerce saying he had “irresolvable conflicts” with President Obama over his economic stimulus plan
A former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. |
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Third Pick
Gary Locke |
Yes |
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He is the first Chinese American to serve as governor of a state in United States back in 19-97. |
Health & Human Services Secretary |
Fist Pick
Tom Daschle |
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Tom Daschle's withdraws bid for US health secretary Tuesday, February 03, 2009. Failure to pay his taxes ( $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest ) -- Former Senate Democratic Majority Leader -- Received $220,000 in speaking fees from health care groups. |
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Kathleen Sebelius
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Governor of kansas and the Democratic respondent to the 2008 State of the Union address
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| Director of the White House Office for Health Reform |
Nancy-Ann DeParle |
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In the Clinton Administration, DeParle handled budget matters for federal health care programs, and took on the tremendous task of managing Medicare and Medicaid |
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Management and Budget |
Peter Orszag |
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He was, until recently head of the Congressional Budget Office - He served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy (1997–1998), and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers (1995–1996) during the Clinton administration. |
| Deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget |
Robert Nabors |
yes |
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Rob Nabors majority staff director of the House Appropriations Committee. |
| Secretary of Homeland Security |
Janet Napolitano |
yes |
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Democratic governor, Arizona and has angered foes of illegal immigration by failing to support the fence along the Mexican border. |
United Nations ambassador
Senior foreign policy position outside the Cabinet |
Susan Rice |
yes |
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A scholar, on the National Security Council, and Assistant Secretary of State |
| Secretary of Agriculture |
Tom Vilsack |
Yes |
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Iowa state senator, Iowa governor (1999-2007), chair of Democratic govorners' association, presidential candidate (2007-2008)
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| Secretary of Interior |
Ken Salazar |
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Colorado attorney general (1999-2005), U.S. senator |
| Secretary of Labor |
Hilda Solis |
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California senator, U.S. congress (2001-2009) |
| Secretary of Education |
Arne Duncan |
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Education - Harvard University and CEO of Chicago Public Schools (2001-2009) |
| Secretary of Transportation |
Ray LaHood |
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Illinois congressman, U.S. House (1995-2009). |
| Secretary of Veterans |
Eric Shinseki |
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Four-star general, chief of staff of Army |
| Secretary of Housing & Urban Development |
Shaun Donovan |
Yes |
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Deputy assistant secretary at housing and urban development for Clinton |
| Obama's pick to head the CIA |
Leon Panetta |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Former Clinton staffer, who lacks an intelligence background. |
| Director of National Intelligence |
Dennis Cutler Blair |
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A former United States Navy four-star admiral. He was confirmed by the United States Senate as DNI on 28 January 2009. |
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