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From Big Journalism:

By John Sexton

January 29, 2012

This is what real journalism looks like, folks. Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes a 2,300 word piece about Newt Gingrich’s relationship to ethics charges (those brought by and against him) that ends with this rehash of his fall from grace:

In the end, nearly all of the charges were dismissed. But the ethics committee did find that Mr. Gingrich had used tax-exempt money to promote Republican goals, and given the panel inaccurate information for its inquiry.

Mr. Gingrich formally apologized, conceding he had brought discredit on the House. He had always   regarded himself as a “transformative figure” who would change the course of history, but on Jan. 21, 1997, he made history in another way.

The House voted 395-28 to reprimand him and fine him $300,000, making him the first speaker ever disciplined for unethical conduct.

That’s it. That’s how the tale ends. It’s as if they’ve quoted Newt’s history but added an invisible ellipsis over the final portion of the story. This is a doctored quote of the record. This is “agenda journalism.”

Do you think it’s relevant that after the events described above Democrats campaigned for a further investigation? Is it relevant that the IRS took them up on it, and that after more than three years determined that Newt did nothing wrong? Simply put, all the charges, even the ones Newt was reprimanded for, were bogus. Is any of that worth mentioning in a front page story on the topic at the New York Times?

The real journalists at the NY Times have simply decided their readers don’t need to know the rest of the story.

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WHY doesn’t an MSM ask Obama:  WHY are his school records, social security records, Harvard Law School writings being sequestered at Interpol?  Or why Obama pays THOUSANDS of dollars a year for lawyers to protect his history?

RELATED LINKS:

Assploding Hypocrisy: Obama Campaign Rips Romney For Refusing To Release Records…

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Executed December 15, 2009

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425

Obama Executive Order Alters Your Legal Protections

Excerpted:

Specifically, Interpol’s property and assets remained subject to search and seizure by American law enforcement, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Interpol had to answer to the FBI and U.S. courts under Reagan’s order. These safeguards were stripped away by Obama’s action the week before Christmas without debate or explanation. Obama picked the holiday season to make this radical change to minimize media coverage.

This order marks a significant change in federal policy and usurps the constitutional power of our government by yielding it to an international organization. Michael van Der Galien writes, “This foreign law enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse. Property and assets, including the organization’s records, cannot now be searched or seized. Their physical operational locations are now immune from U.S. legal and investigative authorities.”

Obama has given an international organization unsupervised freedom to investigate Americans on our own soil without recourse or the supervision of our own government.

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While YOU were Busy Watching GOP Candidate Rivalries: Warning! Progressives’ NPV Plan for White House Control, 2012 & Permanently

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Robert Bauer and Anita Dunn (Spouse) in Obama’s White House. Nepotism? Or Political Protectionism? UPDATE! Bauer is “IN”

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The Pro-Obama biased, protectionist MSM’s the likes of the New York Times are bloviating about the “One”, but WHERE are the true Muckrakers when it comes to actually looking into Obama’s background?

Paid off?

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From American Thinker

By Rick Moran

January  29, 2012

I think she actually believes that she isn’t a wealthy investor. This kind of radical disconnect from reality is typical of many rich liberals because they believe that the care so much about the rest of us, that they are actually one of us.

Business Insider:

“I realize there are some wealthy individuals – I’m not one of them, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock portfolios” she told him.

Hard to see how Warren wouldn’t be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she’s worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.

She also has a portfolio of investments in stocks and bonds worth as as much as $8 million, according to the form, which lists value ranges for each investment. The bulk of it is in funds managed by TIAA-CREF.

Warren would not, of course, be particularly wealthy by the tony standards of the Senate. But she’s also unlikely to draw the sort of popular identification with her financial status that might attach to Marco Rubio, whose home is underwater.

And efforts to pass herself off as one of the 99% for whom she aims to speak appear likely to backfire.

Evidently, most of Warren’s stock is in the form of mutual funds. Why this would make a difference since all congressmen and senators put their stock wealth in blind trusts is a mystery.

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Added from The Blaze:

The issue with that statement is that Warren — who’s running against Republican Scott Brown — could be worth as much as $14.5 million, Buzzfeed pointed out. Financial disclosure forms show she and her husband own between $100,001 and $250,000 of IBM stock, and between $2.8 million and $7.9 million in TIAA-CREF funds, the Boston Globe reported.

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Elizabeth Warren claims she is “not wealthy” and NOT part of the 1%?

Elizabeth Warren’s net worth is $14 MILLION.

Elizabeth Warren lives in a house valued at $5 MILLION.

Elizabeth Warren has a portfolio of investments in stocks and bonds worth as as much as $8 MILLION.

Yet Elizabeth Warren attempts to pass herself off as one of the 99% she says she represents?

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From Canada Free Press:

By Jerry McConnell

January 28, 2012

**Eliminate the possibility for reelection and you eliminate all of the bad that accompanies it**

On Thursday, January 26, 2012, the wise, intelligent and extremely talented wordsmith, Thomas Sowell authored an article in the GOPUSA Eagle titled, “Sowell: Is Anybody Serious?” accusing the Republican candidates of being in a “circular firing squad” mode and in a particular damaging one using machine guns.

Sowell warned that “Whoever the eventual ‘last man standing’ turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on his feet—and he may be a pushover for Barack Obama in the general election, thanks to fellow Republicans.”

Is that what America, regardless of party affiliations, wants to see happen? I think not.  Four more years of Obama and his ‘way beneath the norm’ in matters of decency, loyalty to the country, and helpfulness to his fellow Americans would without question destroy any last vestiges or similarities to the once strong and fearless bastion of freedom that our Founding Forefathers envisioned and initiated back in the late seventeen hundreds.

After a short period of time into Obama’s second term we would more likely be prisoners without chains and shackles but with oppressive debt and poverty, groveling to his Administration and ministers of darkness under the oppressive overall yoke of United Nations One World Autocratic dictatorship.

That “last man standing” that Sowell envisioned after the constant suicide commentaries of, in particular, the two most acknowledged leaders, Gingrich and Romney or Romney and Gingrich as even the polls do declare that the only thing constant is the constant change in who has the lead and in what polls. Either of those two combatants will be in no condition to carry on and wage a knock-down, drag-out battle with the well rested and overflowing money chests of Obama and company.

Sitting back and observing the daily, and with the heavy number of prime time televised debates, demagoguery and accusations by both of those now recognized ‘last standers’, one has to wonder if this loss of human-ness, brotherly love and familial common decency is worth the expected prize of facing one of this country’s largest anti-American ideals and disparagement purveyors for the title of leader of a country that is on the edge of annihilation of its own accord.

What has changed our principles and morals and the values that holding public office once brought pride in accomplishing?  Greed and power lusts are certainly two prime responses to that question.  But greed for one just doesn’t seem to be a prime factor given the ample financial status of both candidates.  More money is always a magnet but my belief is that the given power that accompanies ascension to the lofty POTUS title and its world-wide notability and weightiness is the key premise of most presidential office seekers.

There is no doubt that many office seekers, especially in the area of ruling governance such as either house of Congress, know of the almost instant access to personal monetary accrual and the steady accumulation of such wealth as the length of service increases over the years.

The congressional office holders are among the wealthiest of Americans even if they didn’t start off that way and as their personal portfolios grow their effectiveness as legislators for all Americans dwindles while they reward the others most responsible for the size of their riches.  This is why cumulative reelections are mandatory for many, if not most, of our elected solons.

This seemingly ever cumulative and additional years entrenchment in the legislative offices of the federal government becomes the primary reason for deteriorative conduct such as outright theft, to multiple practices of deception and deceit and blatant corruption.

To guarantee prevalent status as a continuing congressperson or senator is the prime reason for “anything goes” from direct criminal activities, to lying, cheating and yes even stealing and coercion of anything with a possibility of helping to insure continuing reelection.

For proof or verification of what I say here ask if the politicians will make their financial records available for inspection of growth of income since taking office.  Or just ask if their accumulated wealth has substantially increased since they were first elected.  I think you’ll find that the answers are ‘yes’ to both question.

This country desperately needs TERM LIMITS on all elective offices, including the Presidency and Vice President.  The title should be changed to SERVICE LIMITS and the U. S. Constitution should be amended to provide for a SINGLE period of service not to exceed FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS.  The person elected to the office of the Vice President or any other federal elective office shall not be permitted to seek election to the higher office of president until a period of four consecutive years out of federal elective service has passed.

The single word “REELECTION” is the basis for all that is criminal and nefarious within the halls of elected government.  Eliminate the possibility for reelection and you eliminate all of the bad that accompanies it.

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RECOMMENDED READING:

Throw Them All Out

by Peter Schweizer

Description:

One of the biggest scandals in American politics is waiting to explode: the full story of the inside game in Washington shows how the permanent political class enriches itself at the expense of the rest of us. Insider trading is illegal on Wall Street, yet it is routine among members of Congress. Normal individuals cannot get in on IPOs at the asking price, but politicians do so routinely. The Obama administration has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to its supporters, ensuring yet more campaign donations. An entire class of investors now makes all of its profits based on influence and access in Washington. Peter Schweizer has doggedly researched through mountains of financial records, tracking complicated deals and stock trades back to the timing of briefings, votes on bills, and every other point of leverage for politicians in Washington. The result is a manifesto for revolution: the Permanent Political Class must go.

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FIRST THIS:

Good Grief… Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft

January 27, 2012

Yup. He’s a socialist alright… A hardcore committed socialist.

Barack Obama, the worst jobs president since the Great Depression, told an audience today that people don’t get rich without government investment.

And, you wonder why his economic policies are a complete disaster?

Via Breitbart TV:

From the video:

“We’re successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We’re successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet…. We’re successful because somebody built roads and bridges…. And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that’s not right. That’s not who we are.”

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Now listen to Elizabeth Warren running for U.S. Senate (against Scott Brown) in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren on Fair Taxation

September 21, 2011

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.  You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.” - 

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Don’t think Elizabeth Warren is a Socialist?  LOOK at the picture below:  Elizabeth Warren is meeting with Congressional Progressive Caucus. (Started by Openly Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont)

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How many times will Americans hear the Union contracts,pensions and healthcare provisions have bankrupted a company?

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From the Communist Party USA’s newsier People’s World:

Unions scramble to protect pensions in Hostess bankruptcy

By Mark Gruenberg

January 16, 2012

KENSINGTON, Md. - The Bakery Workers (BCTGM), the Teamsters, and other unions representing Hostess Foods employees scrambled to protect their members as the snack food company filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 11 for the second time this century.

The 2011 filing, like that of ’04, could affect some 5,500 BCTGM workers at Hostess plants nationwide, union President Frank Hurt told Press Associates Union News Service. The Teamsters report that they represent 7,500 Hostess drivers and merchandisers. Several other unions have smaller contingents at Hostess.

Regardless of the final details, Hurt predicted his members would be harmed by whatever the federal bankruptcy judge in New York City permits the firm’s owners – mostly a group of venture capitalists – to do.

“Those with the gold make the rules,” he said, including the company’s lawyers in that group. “And hourly workers are left holding the bag.”

The big question, Hurt said, will be if the bankruptcy court gives the reorganizers of Hostess so much leeway in cutting workers’ pay, pensions, and benefits and tearing up union contracts that it doesn’t make sense to continue the effort to save Hostess.

“I haven’t heard from our attorneys to what extent the law will let them” – the company’s bankruptcy overseers – “gut our contracts,” he added. “I’m telling our members we want to keep the company in business.”

Hurt instructed his union’s attorneys, appearing at the Jan. 11 hearing, to get the court to order company officials “to tell us the bottom line you need to keep it in business – and let us decide whether we will work under those conditions or not.”

Hostess first flagged the unions that it was headed for the financial rocks last summer[2011], Hurt explained. It approached the unions and told them it would stop paying the firm’s share of pension plan contributions. It also wanted to cut costs by proposing “a lousy-ass” health insurance plan for the workers, he added.

In a formal statement, Hurt said Hostess’ financial problems – which have prompted the firm to stop its payment into the jointly run union-management Taft-Hartley multi-employer plan covering the industry – were the result of mismanagement. Hostess claims its pension obligation of $1 billion is too much.

“I find it deeply offensive and highly disingenuous for the company to claim [that] its financial woes are the result of its union contracts and pension and health benefits obligations,” Hurt’s statement said. “We contend the company is in dire financial shape because of a string of failed business decisions made by a series of ineffective executives who have been running this company for the past decade.

“BCTGM has contracts with dozens of baking companies across the country, including Bimbo Bakeries USA, the nation’s largest and most successful. The vast majority of those companies are doing just fine because they have experienced baking industry professionals managing them,” he added.

BCTGM called Hostess “a longstanding participant” in the Taft-Hartley pension fund. It said $1 billion is the Hostess’ “withdrawal liability”-the cumulative amount it would have to pay present retirees and workers when they retire if Hostess dropped out of the multi-employer plan.

“Contributions Hostess paid into the fund were negotiated through the collective bargaining process and are part of an overall economic compensation package. Pension benefits that retirees receive each month are paid by the fund and not the individual companies,” BCTGM noted.

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Taft-Hartley pension fund.

It said $1 billion is the Hostess’ “withdrawal liability”-the cumulative amount it would have to pay present retirees and workers when they retire if Hostess dropped out of the multi-employer plan.

Let’s REPEAT the above:  $1 BILLION is the Hostess Foods “withdrawal liability”  from the Taft-Hartley pension fund.

Unions find this offensive:  Hostess Foods state its financial woes are the result of its union contracts and pension and health benefits obligations.”

Nope it is NEVER the fault of the UNIONS; just the “evil” Capitalists.

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The Taft-Hartley Act (also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act) was passed over the veto of Harry S. Truman on 23rd June, 1947. When it was passed by Congress Truman denounced it as a “slave-labor bill”.

The act declared the closed shop illegal and permitted the union shop only after a vote of a majority of the employees. It also forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Other aspects of the legislation included the right of employers to be exempted from bargaining with unions unless they wished to.

The act forbade unions from contributing to political campaigns and required union leaders to affirm they were not supporters of the Communist Party. This aspect of the act was upheld by the Supreme Court on 8th May, 1950.

The Taft-Hartley Act also gave the United States Attorney General the power to obtain an 80 day injunction when a threatened or actual strike that he/she believed “imperiled the national health or safety”.

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By Josh Peterson – The Daily Caller

January 27, 2012

President Barack Obama, at a Las Vegas UPS facility Thursday, pitched a plan to boost the American use of natural gas, a plan that would not only benefit long-time natural gas proponent billionaire T. Boone Pickens, but also long-time Obama supporter, billionaire investor and progressive philanthropist George Soros.

Westport Innovations, a recent purchase by Soros, would benefit from the windfall of policies that pursue the use of natural gas for transportation. The company, whose shares have been projected to explode if Congress were to approve the Natural Gas Act, makes natural gas engines for heavy-duty trucks.

“Soros’s investment funds have pumped about $122 million into WPST, and he’s added to his control as recently as December and March, when he picked up over a million shares, bringing his total to 5.5 million shares,” reported BigGovernment.

“If Westport reaps the predicted windfall, one of the chief beneficiaries will be George Soros, a major Obama donor and supporter. Soros’s hedge fund holds 3,160,063 company shares (as of its last SEC filing),” reported the Heritage Foundation.

As of September 30, 2011, the oil and gas sector ranked third in his portfolio after consumer goods and technology, according to investment strategy site, GuruFocus.com.

Obama’s recent rejection of TransCanada Corp’s Keystone Pipeline oil permit also benefited another one of the president’s men, billionaire Warren Buffett. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is the nation’s largest rail transporter of coal.

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Has Obama’s Energy Policy been ONLY about his heavy hitting donors and NOT the American people?

Has Obama’s Energy Policy been a BIG failure?

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From The Blaze

By Becket Adams

January 27, 2012

Peter Schaumber appeared on Fox’s Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss a troubling new development within the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Board Chair Mark Pearce is introducing a series of new regulations. One of these regulations, if passed, would require businesses to surrender their employee’s personal contact information to campaigning union heads.

“If the National Labor Relations Board gets its way, companies could be forced to hand over your contact information, whether you like it or not, to union leaders,” Fox host Neil Cavuto said. “Union leaders having access to your phone number, your email address?”

Schaumber, himself a former NLRB chairman, joined Cavuto to discuss his great fear: that unions will use that information to harass people not in a union.

“I think it’s terrible. Workers have a right to be left alone,” Schaumber said.

“They have a right not to be harassed during a union organizing campaign. If a worker has given his or her employer their home phone, their personal email address, their cell phone, it was in the expectation that it wasn’t going to be given to third parties but was going to be used by the employer for the purposes of what it was intended to be given for. And in most instances that’s to contact the employee under emergency situations.”

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As a worker, would YOU like your boss giving away YOUR personal information?

Once the UNION gets your information, you may experience what these workers experienced when a Union tried to Unionize a business:

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Workers Experience Card Check, Warn About Lies, Harassment and Intimidation

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Union Organizing Victims Speak Out

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President Barack Obama & President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka

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Someone should ask Obama’s bud Richard Trumka about Eddie York:

Trumka — The Eddie York Slaying

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Energy Independence Obama?

Obama’s plan to destroy the coal industry advances

January 26, 2012

FirstEnergy Corp. will close 6 coal power plants. They cite new government regulation as the reason. President Obama promised to destroy the coal industry. This looks like one campaign promis he is keeping.

Akron, Ohio, January 26, 2012 — FirstEnergy Corp. generation subsidiaries will retire six older coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland by September 1, 2012.

The decision to close the power plants is based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which were recently finalized, and other environmental regulations.

The total capacity of the competitive plants that will be retired is 2,689 MW. Recently, these plants served mostly as peaking or intermediate facilities, generating, on average, about 10 percent of the electricity produced by the company over the past three years.

The following plants will be retired: Bay Shore Plant, Units 2-4, Oregon, Ohio; Eastlake Plant, Eastlake, Ohio; Ashtabula Plant, Ashtabula, Ohio; Lake Shore Plant, Cleveland, Ohio; Armstrong Power Station, Adrian, Pa.; and R. Paul Smith Power Station, Williamsport, Md.

In total, 529 employees will be directly affected. Existing severance benefits will apply to eligible, affected employees. However, the final number of affected employees could be less as some are considered for open positions at other FirstEnergy facilities and work locations, and eligible employees take advantage of a retirement benefit being offered to those 55 years and older.

President Obama ‘s original plan was to bankrupt the coal industry by charging power plants for CO2 emissions under a Cap-and-Trade bill. That bill failed to get past the Senate. Plan B is to regulate them out of business by ratcheting up other regulations that don’t require new laws.

RELATED LINK:

Hypocrisy Alert: Obama Says he is Protecting Our Children From Mercury Poisoning, yet Mandates it for Our Homes?

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Failed “Green Projects”:  Solyndra, Lightsource, Tennessee Truck Charging Station, Tonopah tied to Nancy Pelosi, US Navy paying $15 per galloon for jet fuel (Obama Crony involved),then today we hear about the parent company of electric car batteries, supplied with Obama cash has filed for bankruptcy.

No Keystone Pipeline with TransCanada to ship oil from Canada to US.

Obama Vetos Keystone Pipeline; What Does He Have Against Jobs and Freedom to Have our Own Oil Production? Crony Capitalism, Donor Repayment, and Political Idealism……

Remember this?

Obama Supports Offshore Drilling… in Brazil

AND THIS?

U.S. Backs $1B Loan to Mexico for Oil Drilling Despite Obama Moratorium. Another Foreign Oil Company? What About American Oil Rig Workers?

NOW THE HEADLINES TODAY FROM THE BBC:

Cuba oil project drilling to start

January 27, 2012

By Sarah Rainsford

Cuba will begin exploratory drilling in search of oil this weekend, when drilling will start on a rig just 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Florida.

The operation is raising concerns over what happens under the terms of the US embargo, in the event of an incident at sea.

The embargo states that neither American firms nor the coast guard could come to Cuba’s assistance or provide equipment to help contain or clean up any oil spills.

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Even after Obama loans to “Green Companies” have ended in bankruptcy, Obama shells out more taxpayer money/loans for “Green Jobs.”

Idiocracy:  Repeating something over and over and expecting a different result.

Failed Obama Energy policies?

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From CNS News:

Obama Says He’s ‘Protecting Our Kids From Mercury’ – While Mandating It In Their Homes

By Craig Bannister

January 25, 2012

Last night, Pres. Obama reaffirmed his determination to protect our country’s children from the dangers of mercury, despite his vigorous defense of a mandate that all Americans put more of it into their homes.

“I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning,” Obama promised in last night’s State Of The Union address.

But, Pres. Obama, apparently, isn’t concerned with the health risk he’s subjecting Americans to by requiring them to put mercury light bulbs in their homes – a risk his own EPA even warns about on its Web site.

When the mercury light bulb breaks in a home, “some of the mercury is released as vapor and may pose potential health risks,” the EPA says. [Emphasis added]

And, in December, Obama touted new regulations to protect coal power plant workers from the evil stuff:

“Just a few weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of so many of you, Lisa and I were able to announce new common-sense standards to better protect the air we breathe from mercury and other harmful air pollution.”

And, let’s not forget the extravagant clean-up requirements and potential costs associated with getting rid of this hazardous substance if you break one of these mercury bulbs.

So, exactly how is Obama “protecting our kids from mercury poisoning?”

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From Investor’s Business Daily:

By Andrew Malcolm

How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their “fair share” of taxes.

Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet’s secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven’t paid any share, let alone their fair share.

Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama’s White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That’s up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration’s last year.

Nearly one-third of Obama’s aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.

The IRS’ 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees’ tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.

The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That’s up 3% in the past year. [Emphasis added]

That scale of delinquency could annoy voters, hard-pressed by their own costs, fears and stubbornly high unemployment despite Joe Biden’s many promises.

The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws imposed on everyone else. They owe $2.1 million. Workers in the House of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million and over at Homeland Security, 4,697 workers owe about $37 million. Active duty military members owe more than $100 million.

The Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million.

As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most — almost $270 million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra folks has 322 employees owing $5 million.

The country’s chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.

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What would happen if everyday Americans said to the Federal Employees…..   “I’ll pay mine if YOU pay  yours?”

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