Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Bush Tax-cut = GREED, Corruption, Fraud
“Restlessness and discontent are
the first necessities of progress.”--Thomas Edison
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html
How can anyone be so indifferent and deceptive
at the face of "Fraud" and "Scams"
-- only those who are brainwashed and lunacy of the grand scam.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/chicken_crap_by_the_numbers.html
http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-national/boehner-chicken-crap-video
How can anyone be so indifferent and deceptive
at the face of "Fraud" and "Scams"
-- only those who are brainwashed and lunacy of the grand scam.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Bush Tax-cut = GREED, Corruption, Fraud
Take Back My Tax Cut!
Meet the millionaire cofounder of Seventh Generation who is part of a growing movement of wealthy Americans urging Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire.
by Nancy Cook
October 07, 2010
Seventh Generation CEO and founder Jeffrey Hollender
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/07/why-some-millionaires-want-their-tax-cuts-to-end.print.html
Bush Tax-cut = adding 3 trillions of US debt
Bush Tax-cut = GREED, CORRUPTION, FRAUD
Some republicans and politicians have misled Americans and our country into bankruptcies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/john-boehner-chicken-crap_n_791155.html
RICH DOES NOT SPEND MONEY! THIS IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM WHICH WE ARE FACING NOW.
We have a few very rich who does not spend money. They took the money from mass, but they do not spend money -- THAT IS THE PROBLEM!
GREEDY PIGS who defrauded Americans and America -- now still want to continue greedy corruption in bright day light
In Exchange, Obama May Get Extension of Unemployment Benefits
It is Greenspan-Clinton-Bush bubble/crash greed manipulation which bankrupted millions of Americans and is leading America into massive debt.Americans are in long term economic down cycle after Greenspan-Clinton-Bush literally robbed many Americans personal savings and home equity loans using market hype bubble/crash.And also globalism manipulation against Americans.It is the greedy Politicians under the Fed Reserve deceived and mislead Americans into massive bankruptcies in multi-millions, and Rich does not spend money just because of tax scheme.
"There are no signs that millionaires are suffering in this economy. It's everybody below that,"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/04/senate.tax.vote/index.html?hpt=T1
Democratic procedural votes on extending Bush tax cuts fail in Senate
December 4, 2010 11:45 a.m. EST
Washington (CNN) -- Two Senate procedural votes on Democratic measures to extend George W. Bush-era tax cuts for people who are not super wealthy failed on Saturday, preventing the measures from moving forward.
The votes sought to extend the Bush tax cuts for families making under $250,000 and $1 million, respectively.
Both votes garnered the support of 53 senators, but the Democrats needed 60 votes to end debate.
Despite the realization that neither would get the 60 votes to succeed, many Democrats said before the vote they wanted to get on-the-record in support of extending the lower rates to lower earners. They also want to contrast their ideas with Republican proposals to extend tax cuts for everyone, even those who are very wealthy.
"I think we want to lay it out there," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said on Friday. "Who's for which approach on this? That's why we're doing it."
"There are no signs that millionaires are suffering in this economy. It's everybody below that," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California. "You have to stand up for what you believe and you have to vote on what you believe."
Both votes were on Democratic amendments and included extensions of other expiring tax programs as well as the extension of benefits for the long-time unemployed.
A Republican leadership aide dismissed the Democratic effort as "political show-votes."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/04/senate.tax.vote/index.html?hpt=T1
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the outgoing House speaker, slammed the Republicans’ insistence on extending the cuts for the top two marginal rates, saying: “Giving $700 billion to the wealthiest people in America increases the deficit, and the record shows that it does not create jobs.”
Lower tax literally bankrupted USA and Americans.
Lower tax does not help when politicians and banks literally defrauding
Americans and America.
Take Back My Tax Cut!
Meet the millionaire cofounder of Seventh Generation who is part of a growing movement of wealthy Americans urging Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire.
by Nancy Cook
October 07, 2010
Seventh Generation CEO and founder Jeffrey Hollender
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/07/why-some-millionaires-want-their-tax-cuts-to-end.print.html
Although Congress has decided to hold off on voting on the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts until after the November election, the delay has not slowed down the efforts of some wealthy millionaires. The 700 or so members of a Massachusetts-based group called the Responsible Wealth Project have spent the last several months courting politicians to make their case, arguing that the country simply cannot afford to keep tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and that, as billionaires and millionaires, they hardly need that cash. NEWSWEEK’s Nancy Cook recently spoke with one of the group’s members, the cofounder of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey Hollender. Hollender talked about his disdain for the current tax code, the need for more compassion among the wealthy, and the way being rich often seems relative. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: So why do you oppose extending the tax cuts for families that make more than $250,000 a year?
Hollender: This is a time when the wealthiest Americans need to give back to the country. I know this well, as someone who has been financially successful, the vast array of benefits available to me that are not available to other people. It’s a moral question, but it’s also equally economic, because I don’t necessarily need everyone to agree with my morals and my perspectives. We can agree that the country can’t afford the tax cuts. This is the absolute wrong time, because where is that money going to be made up from? It’s going to come from social services. The government will have to reduce expenses, probably by providing fewer benefits for less affluent Americans. I can’t remember the government dealing with economic problems in a way that has inflicted pain on me, but that’s the not the case if you’re living below the poverty level.
* Rich Camp: Teaching the Wealthy About Money
* Millionaires: Take Back My Tax Cut!
* Does Raising Taxes on Rich Hurt the Economy?
* Photos: There's Rich and There's Super-Rich
What kind of organizing has the group you’re involved with been doing?
As with any kind of legislation, it is hard to maintain the same level of pressure on the government. Politicians’ attention drifts, but a few weeks ago, I was in Washington, D.C., visiting with senators and congressmen as part of a business group to discuss a broader range of issues. We’ve seen the Republicans back off on continuing the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans at the moment, but who knows what happens after the midterm elections if they pick up more seats?
In this climate, with the growing gap between the rich and the poor, do you feel like rich people are afraid to openly talk about their views on the tax cuts, especially after a University of Chicago professor blogged about feeling cash-strapped and was then widely criticized for his views?
I’m an opinionated person on many issues, but there is no issue that stirs greater passion than issues that have to do with money. I got more threatening e-mails than anything I have ever spoken about in my life after speaking out against the tax cuts. There is one group who philosophically say, “The last thing I want to do is to give any more money to the government for any reason.” Those are people who may or may not be affluent or object to big government, but you know, somehow sadly, there is another group of people for whom no matter how much they have, they never think they have enough. They always think they need to have more. It’s a sad state in this country when those of us who are so privileged fight for more rather than fight for those among us who have so little. People tell me to keep my hand out of their pocket—that they don’t want me giving their money away—but letting the tax cuts expire is a small step to what’s required for a more equitable wealth distribution. Why should I be able to deduct my second mortgage, for instance? If you have two houses, do you need a deduction on your second house? There are so many benefits the wealthy have.
What else would you like to see the government do to close the gap between the poor and the wealthy?
The tax code is a disaster. It needs to be simplified. There is a huge amount of taxes collected out of people’s paychecks. Unfortunately, we tax too much of the good stuff, like income, and not enough things that pollute our air or that cause many of the problems we face. We have an economic system that encourages bad things and bad behavior. Why should organic food cost more than nonorganic food? If you want to create that kind of negative impact, you should have to pay for the right to do that. I really think that we send very confusing messages to the marketplace and that makes it hard for people to do the right thing.
Olivier Douliery / ABACAUSA-Corbis
Photos: There's Rich and Then There's Super-Rich
Net-Worth Smackdown: Rich Versus Super-Rich
If the tax cuts do expire, where would you like to see that money go?
There are two answers to that question. One, we need to make investments in this country to make us more competitive and to take better care of our citizens. We need to invest in things like infrastructure, so everyone has access to high-speed Internet and so we also can take better care of the poorer among us. But the other issue of equal importance is that we as a country have lost our way. In a global economy you need to have an economic strategy like China. You can’t do everything well. You have to say, “We’re going to be the leading manufacturer of global technology.” We need to decide in this country what we’re going to be the best at and invest in education and invest in starting business in those sectors that we know over the next decade will create jobs. But now, it’s almost taboo to talk about government discussing a plan for our economy. We need to make strategic long-term investments.
Do you think you approach this subject from a different vantage because you both grew up with money and then created your own wealth as well? Do you think the self-made wealthy may have a different experience?
I felt so uncomfortable about my family’s money that I left home when I was 17. It’s a possible viewpoint if you came from a much less affluent background, I could see someone having a more hard-edged attitude about money—like, “I made it all myself, so let me keep every penny I can.” [But] I would hope that someone who came from a less affluent background would have more compassion. The challenge is that I don’t believe in starting out poor or starting out rich. A lot of it is luck, and we’re standing on the backs of those who came before us.
Meet the millionaire cofounder of Seventh Generation who is part of a growing movement of wealthy Americans urging Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire.
by Nancy Cook
October 07, 2010
Seventh Generation CEO and founder Jeffrey Hollender
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/07/why-some-millionaires-want-their-tax-cuts-to-end.print.html
Although Congress has decided to hold off on voting on the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts until after the November election, the delay has not slowed down the efforts of some wealthy millionaires. The 700 or so members of a Massachusetts-based group called the Responsible Wealth Project have spent the last several months courting politicians to make their case, arguing that the country simply cannot afford to keep tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and that, as billionaires and millionaires, they hardly need that cash. NEWSWEEK’s Nancy Cook recently spoke with one of the group’s members, the cofounder of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey Hollender. Hollender talked about his disdain for the current tax code, the need for more compassion among the wealthy, and the way being rich often seems relative. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: So why do you oppose extending the tax cuts for families that make more than $250,000 a year?
Hollender: This is a time when the wealthiest Americans need to give back to the country. I know this well, as someone who has been financially successful, the vast array of benefits available to me that are not available to other people. It’s a moral question, but it’s also equally economic, because I don’t necessarily need everyone to agree with my morals and my perspectives. We can agree that the country can’t afford the tax cuts. This is the absolute wrong time, because where is that money going to be made up from? It’s going to come from social services. The government will have to reduce expenses, probably by providing fewer benefits for less affluent Americans. I can’t remember the government dealing with economic problems in a way that has inflicted pain on me, but that’s the not the case if you’re living below the poverty level.
* Rich Camp: Teaching the Wealthy About Money
* Millionaires: Take Back My Tax Cut!
* Does Raising Taxes on Rich Hurt the Economy?
* Photos: There's Rich and There's Super-Rich
What kind of organizing has the group you’re involved with been doing?
As with any kind of legislation, it is hard to maintain the same level of pressure on the government. Politicians’ attention drifts, but a few weeks ago, I was in Washington, D.C., visiting with senators and congressmen as part of a business group to discuss a broader range of issues. We’ve seen the Republicans back off on continuing the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans at the moment, but who knows what happens after the midterm elections if they pick up more seats?
In this climate, with the growing gap between the rich and the poor, do you feel like rich people are afraid to openly talk about their views on the tax cuts, especially after a University of Chicago professor blogged about feeling cash-strapped and was then widely criticized for his views?
I’m an opinionated person on many issues, but there is no issue that stirs greater passion than issues that have to do with money. I got more threatening e-mails than anything I have ever spoken about in my life after speaking out against the tax cuts. There is one group who philosophically say, “The last thing I want to do is to give any more money to the government for any reason.” Those are people who may or may not be affluent or object to big government, but you know, somehow sadly, there is another group of people for whom no matter how much they have, they never think they have enough. They always think they need to have more. It’s a sad state in this country when those of us who are so privileged fight for more rather than fight for those among us who have so little. People tell me to keep my hand out of their pocket—that they don’t want me giving their money away—but letting the tax cuts expire is a small step to what’s required for a more equitable wealth distribution. Why should I be able to deduct my second mortgage, for instance? If you have two houses, do you need a deduction on your second house? There are so many benefits the wealthy have.
What else would you like to see the government do to close the gap between the poor and the wealthy?
The tax code is a disaster. It needs to be simplified. There is a huge amount of taxes collected out of people’s paychecks. Unfortunately, we tax too much of the good stuff, like income, and not enough things that pollute our air or that cause many of the problems we face. We have an economic system that encourages bad things and bad behavior. Why should organic food cost more than nonorganic food? If you want to create that kind of negative impact, you should have to pay for the right to do that. I really think that we send very confusing messages to the marketplace and that makes it hard for people to do the right thing.
Olivier Douliery / ABACAUSA-Corbis
Photos: There's Rich and Then There's Super-Rich
Net-Worth Smackdown: Rich Versus Super-Rich
If the tax cuts do expire, where would you like to see that money go?
There are two answers to that question. One, we need to make investments in this country to make us more competitive and to take better care of our citizens. We need to invest in things like infrastructure, so everyone has access to high-speed Internet and so we also can take better care of the poorer among us. But the other issue of equal importance is that we as a country have lost our way. In a global economy you need to have an economic strategy like China. You can’t do everything well. You have to say, “We’re going to be the leading manufacturer of global technology.” We need to decide in this country what we’re going to be the best at and invest in education and invest in starting business in those sectors that we know over the next decade will create jobs. But now, it’s almost taboo to talk about government discussing a plan for our economy. We need to make strategic long-term investments.
Do you think you approach this subject from a different vantage because you both grew up with money and then created your own wealth as well? Do you think the self-made wealthy may have a different experience?
I felt so uncomfortable about my family’s money that I left home when I was 17. It’s a possible viewpoint if you came from a much less affluent background, I could see someone having a more hard-edged attitude about money—like, “I made it all myself, so let me keep every penny I can.” [But] I would hope that someone who came from a less affluent background would have more compassion. The challenge is that I don’t believe in starting out poor or starting out rich. A lot of it is luck, and we’re standing on the backs of those who came before us.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
11/8-10/2010 Fed Bernanke vs Americans
Fed Greenspan comment on "Fraud". The fact is that I was fraudulently deceived by the Fed Reserve fraudulently disguising as if it is a government entity, for example. Also millions of Americans are deceived, but it is their choice if they want to remain silent about the reality that our nation is going bankrupt due to the fraudulent activities, schemes, and scams. The Fed Reserve is owned by private banks -- Fraudulently deceiving public until now that Americans are discovering facts.
Americans are robbed, bankrupted and USA is going bankrupted. What will be the next? Only naive Americans would believe in market hype, Bernanke scheme/scam, Obama misleading statements.
All faith is manipulated, and the reality is that people is being robbed and killed because of Greed.
Christian areas targeted in Baghdad attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11724378
I love my country and Bernanke, and don't want him to be impeached. Hopefully, we will see "Sanity".
Time to begin the Chairman impeachment proceedings.
By Monty Pelerin
Did you see this video? It says how WW I got started - JPM show drama start stamp 25 ~
Tax cut for the top 3% rich?
It's disappointment that Americans have to deal with the 3% high income tax cut.
The bottomline is that:
1) Americans are defrauded,
2) Politicians are puppets,
3) Don't trust what politicians or media is saying,
4) Always check on other side of any stories being hyped
5) Millions of Americans' unemployment payment being expired as of 11/30/2010,
6) Most of Republicans-Democrats are defrauding Americans,
7) Republicans are fighting over Bush tax-cut -- working for rich 3% to get tax-cut,
8) USA is going bankrupt while politicians and the Fed Reserve is spinning stories, etc -- Americans and all must see realities.
BUSH BOOK NIGHTMARE -- he is not going to fool me again!
The Republican Tax-cut and the Bush new book could be prelude of the Republican-Bush nightmare.
As for praying for America and Americans as well as all around the globe - as a Christian, I was praying for my country and all, but evidently millions of Americans are completely fooled. It's was the Bush alert which I responded in July 2004 -- and ever since then, I am having Nightmare after Nightmare -- deception after deception. Almost all which I believed was deception and fraud and it seems that Bush is trying to fool Americans again.
Most of Americans are still being fooled and naive about realities.
I AM NOT GOING TO BE FOOLED AGAIN!
Bush's 14 Decision Points
Despite former President Bush's decision to appear in selected venues of the media circuit to promote his apologia, I still stand by my judgment.
Among President Bush's many bad decisions I would list the following fourteen, in my opinion as a presidential biographer and historian, to have been his most egregious, both in getting to the White House, and then as Caesar of the United States:
1. Bush's decision in 1999 to leave the Texas governor's mansion and pursue the U.S. presidency -- a post he knew, in his heart of hearts, he did not have the intellect, qualifications, or qualities of character to occupy successfully. Even his own wife begged him not to do it.
2. Bush's use of Karl Rove and the "dirty tricks brigade" to destroy his Republican rival, Senator McCain in the 2000 primaries -- just as he had, together with Lee Atwater, destroyed Governor Mike Dukakis' bid for the presidency on behalf of his father, twelve years before.
3. Bush's decision to take Dick Cheney as his vice presidential nominee -- an ambitious apparatchik who had, in running the selection process for the VP position, damned all other contenders.
4. Bush's decision to abandon peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and concentrate on war in the Middle East, instead. ("A show of strength by one side can really clarify things.")
5. Bush's decision to make Karl Rove his Presidential Adviser, with no less than four Political Offices on the second floor of the White House -- further polarizing the country.
6. Bush's decision to demote his inherited Counterterrorism Czar, Richard Clarke, and rely on his inexperienced National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, in the months before 9/11, despite more and more evidence pointing to an imminent attack on the U.S.
7. Bush's subsequent decision to call for a general "war on terror," rather than targeted pursuit and destruction of those responsible for 9/11 -- dubbing his response a "crusade."
8. Bush's decision to invade and occupy the whole of Afghanistan -- without seizing the head of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
9. Bush's decision to then attack and occupy Iraq, without evidence of WMD, and against the advice of his own Secretary of State, General Colin Powell.
10. Bush's decision to disband the Iraqi army and declare "Mission Accomplished" -- leaving the very country that the U.S. had invaded prey to civil, ethnic and religious war.
11. Bush's decision to pursue a policy of secrecy and deceit, and ignore those members of the Justice Department who called for accountability in dealing with suspects -- recklessly sullying America's reputation in the free world to satisfy Vice President Cheney, who became a law unto himself -- unaccountable to anyone.
12. Bush's decision to authorize the virtual assassination of his rival in the 2004 presidential election, the courageous and combat-decorated Senator John Kerry - just as McCain and Dukakis had been trashed by his team, only this time hiding behind "Swift Boats For Truth."
13. Bush's decision to appoint a director of the Arabian Horse Federation as his FEMA chief, his complete failure to federalize the response to the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and his congratulation of Michael Brown for doing "a heck of a job" on the people of New Orleans and Louisiana.
14. Bush's decision to pursue policies of minimal Wall Street regulation, lower tax for the rich, zero interest in the Kyoto protocols, the growing national deficit - and an almost complete absence of preparation or response to the housing crisis, derivatives trading and collapse of Wall Street which came on his watch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nigel-hamilton/bushs-14-decision-points_b_780505.html
Americans elected Republican congress because our nation has problems of high deficit, constitutional issues, greed, fraud, etc; but they do not get the message.
It is American Nightmare. 3% wealthy Americans didn't elect nearly 60 Republican congressional members over Democrats.
Americans are robbed, bankrupted and USA is going bankrupted. What will be the next? Only naive Americans would believe in market hype, Bernanke scheme/scam, Obama misleading statements.
All faith is manipulated, and the reality is that people is being robbed and killed because of Greed.
Christian areas targeted in Baghdad attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11724378
I love my country and Bernanke, and don't want him to be impeached. Hopefully, we will see "Sanity".
Time to begin the Chairman impeachment proceedings.
By Monty Pelerin
The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is "printing money" (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). "Cheating, debasing and inflating," as in stealing from the public, is a more accurate description.
Bernanke indicated from 600 to 850 billion additional dollars would be created. To put this in perspective, the Tarp package was in this range. The total Federal Reserve balance sheet was $829 billion at the end of 2004 and only $869 billion in August 2007. At the end of 2009 it had ballooned to over $2,200 billion. This announcement means it is headed to $3,000 billion (3 trillion).
Ben Bernanke weakly defended his action with the following justifications:
- ... further support to the economy is needed
- Easier financial conditions will promote economic growth.
- higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth and help increase confidence, which can also spur spending.
Palin Tells Bernanke to 'Cease and Desist' on Easing
09 Nov 2010 | 04:38 AM ET Thomson Reuters
Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin on Monday weighed in on the global debate over the Federal Reserve's $600 billion plan to buy up government debt, suggesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke should "cease and desist."
"We shouldn't be playing around with inflation," Palin, who is widely seen as a prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidate, said in remarks prepared for a Monday speech in Phoenix.
"We don't want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation, which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings. We want a stable dollar combined with real economic reform. It's the only way we can get our economy back on the right track."
Excerpts of the remarks were published online by the conservative National Review magazine. Palin's staff was not immediately available for comment.
The report said the remarks would be delivered in a keynote address at a trade association convention.
Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, is a top Republican Party figure and leader of the Tea Party movement, which helped Republicans recapture control of the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
Fed Audits, Abolition?
The loosely organized political network includes conservatives and libertarians, some of whom would like to abolish the Federal Reserve system, which operates independent of the federal government.
Voter outrage over Fed bailouts and other actions helped propel many Republican candidates on Election Day, including Kentucky Senator-elect Rand Paul, who has favored abolition of the agency.
His father, House Republican Ron Paul, another Tea Party favorite who has run for president twice, intends to push to audit Fed monetary policy decisions next year if - as expected - he wins control of a congressional subcommittee that oversees the central banks.
Representative Paul Ryan, expected to become chairman of the House Budget Committee when Republicans take control of the chamber in January, said on Sunday the advantages of the central bank's move to inject more money into the U.S. economy "are very low."
"I think it's going to give us a big inflation problem down the road," Ryan said.
President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials defend the Fed's decision to buy $600 billion in U.S. Treasury debt as a means to stimulate the economy and maintain global stability.
Palin's remarks add her to to a growing list of critics, including officials from China, Germany and Brazil, who are concerned that the Fed plan could bring instability instead.
"If it doesn't work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What's the end game here?," she asked. "All this pump priming will come at a serious price."
She appeared to align herself with recent criticism from German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
"The German finance minister called the Fed's proposals 'clueless.' When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it's time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist," Palin said.
Palin has not said whether she will make a White House bid in 2012. But she has been using public appearances to build up her political and policy credentials for the job.
Did you see this video? It says how WW I got started - JPM show drama start stamp 25 ~
Tax cut for the top 3% rich?
It's disappointment that Americans have to deal with the 3% high income tax cut.
The bottomline is that:
1) Americans are defrauded,
2) Politicians are puppets,
3) Don't trust what politicians or media is saying,
4) Always check on other side of any stories being hyped
5) Millions of Americans' unemployment payment being expired as of 11/30/2010,
6) Most of Republicans-Democrats are defrauding Americans,
7) Republicans are fighting over Bush tax-cut -- working for rich 3% to get tax-cut,
8) USA is going bankrupt while politicians and the Fed Reserve is spinning stories, etc -- Americans and all must see realities.
BUSH BOOK NIGHTMARE -- he is not going to fool me again!
The Republican Tax-cut and the Bush new book could be prelude of the Republican-Bush nightmare.
As for praying for America and Americans as well as all around the globe - as a Christian, I was praying for my country and all, but evidently millions of Americans are completely fooled. It's was the Bush alert which I responded in July 2004 -- and ever since then, I am having Nightmare after Nightmare -- deception after deception. Almost all which I believed was deception and fraud and it seems that Bush is trying to fool Americans again.
Most of Americans are still being fooled and naive about realities.
I AM NOT GOING TO BE FOOLED AGAIN!
Bush's 14 Decision Points
Despite former President Bush's decision to appear in selected venues of the media circuit to promote his apologia, I still stand by my judgment.
Among President Bush's many bad decisions I would list the following fourteen, in my opinion as a presidential biographer and historian, to have been his most egregious, both in getting to the White House, and then as Caesar of the United States:
1. Bush's decision in 1999 to leave the Texas governor's mansion and pursue the U.S. presidency -- a post he knew, in his heart of hearts, he did not have the intellect, qualifications, or qualities of character to occupy successfully. Even his own wife begged him not to do it.
2. Bush's use of Karl Rove and the "dirty tricks brigade" to destroy his Republican rival, Senator McCain in the 2000 primaries -- just as he had, together with Lee Atwater, destroyed Governor Mike Dukakis' bid for the presidency on behalf of his father, twelve years before.
3. Bush's decision to take Dick Cheney as his vice presidential nominee -- an ambitious apparatchik who had, in running the selection process for the VP position, damned all other contenders.
4. Bush's decision to abandon peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and concentrate on war in the Middle East, instead. ("A show of strength by one side can really clarify things.")
5. Bush's decision to make Karl Rove his Presidential Adviser, with no less than four Political Offices on the second floor of the White House -- further polarizing the country.
6. Bush's decision to demote his inherited Counterterrorism Czar, Richard Clarke, and rely on his inexperienced National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, in the months before 9/11, despite more and more evidence pointing to an imminent attack on the U.S.
7. Bush's subsequent decision to call for a general "war on terror," rather than targeted pursuit and destruction of those responsible for 9/11 -- dubbing his response a "crusade."
8. Bush's decision to invade and occupy the whole of Afghanistan -- without seizing the head of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
9. Bush's decision to then attack and occupy Iraq, without evidence of WMD, and against the advice of his own Secretary of State, General Colin Powell.
10. Bush's decision to disband the Iraqi army and declare "Mission Accomplished" -- leaving the very country that the U.S. had invaded prey to civil, ethnic and religious war.
11. Bush's decision to pursue a policy of secrecy and deceit, and ignore those members of the Justice Department who called for accountability in dealing with suspects -- recklessly sullying America's reputation in the free world to satisfy Vice President Cheney, who became a law unto himself -- unaccountable to anyone.
12. Bush's decision to authorize the virtual assassination of his rival in the 2004 presidential election, the courageous and combat-decorated Senator John Kerry - just as McCain and Dukakis had been trashed by his team, only this time hiding behind "Swift Boats For Truth."
13. Bush's decision to appoint a director of the Arabian Horse Federation as his FEMA chief, his complete failure to federalize the response to the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and his congratulation of Michael Brown for doing "a heck of a job" on the people of New Orleans and Louisiana.
14. Bush's decision to pursue policies of minimal Wall Street regulation, lower tax for the rich, zero interest in the Kyoto protocols, the growing national deficit - and an almost complete absence of preparation or response to the housing crisis, derivatives trading and collapse of Wall Street which came on his watch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nigel-hamilton/bushs-14-decision-points_b_780505.html
The bottomline is that:
1) Americans are defrauded,
2) Politicians are puppets,
3) Don't trust what politicians or media is saying,
4) Always check on other side of any stories being hyped
5) Millions of Americans' unemployment payment being expired as of 11/30/2010,
6) Most of Republicans-Democrats are defrauding Americans,
7) Republicans are fighting over Bush tax-cut -- working for rich 3% to get tax-cut,
8) USA is going bankrupt while politicians and the Fed Reserve is spinning stories, etc -- Americans and all must see realities.
* Bankrupted most of major nations, western Christian nations, around the globe while Fed Reserve having multi-trillions.
* 0.1% owns 99% American wealth
• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
Americans elected Republican congress because our nation has problems of high deficit, constitutional issues, greed, fraud, etc; but they do not get the message.
It is American Nightmare. 3% wealthy Americans didn't elect nearly 60 Republican congressional members over Democrats.
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