Then it was banks who got bailed out and used the money to buy other banks, meanwhile increasing homeowners mortgage payments.
Then insurance companies became banks to get helping hands.
Then it was 2 of the Big 3 who got bailed out just so the UAW could pay its retirees health benefits and pensions.
Moneywise, more than $1.5 trillion in FDIC loan guarantees, including a $139 billion assist tot he lending arm of General Electric Corp. is given out.
$1.8 million in cash, tax breaks and loan guarantees from the Treasury Department to financial institutions and credit companies.
$300 billion for homeowners from the Federal Housing Authority
$25 billion in cash assistance for auto companies.
And $5 trillion worth of new money, loan guarantees and lending requirements from the Federal Reserve Bank.
For a grand total of about $8.7 trillion dollars’ worth of potential taxpayer commitments for loans, guarantees and other bailout “items”, yet we as the wallet holders can’t see the exact details of all these deals according to the Feds.
NOW,
The newspapers want bailed out.
The Governors of 5 states want $1 trillion in federal assistance.
And the US Steel Industry wants bailed out.
And all this while, the taxpayer stimulus package is still on the backburner while foreclosure rates increase and unemployment increases. So how’s your year looking?
Can I just have my Federal tax refund this year and not an IOU?
STATE BAILOUTS
The governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin – all Democrats – urged the federal government to provide !1 trillion in aid to the country’s 50 states to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure as states struggle with steep budget deficits.
The initiate is for a two-year package and was backed by other governors and follows a meeting in December where governors called on Obama to help them.
Gov. Paterson of NY said 43 states now have budget deficits totaling some $100 billion as tax revenues plunge.
The latest package calls for $350 billion to create jobs by building or repairing roads, bridges and other public works; $50 billion to maintain educations; and another $250 in “counter-cyclical” spending such as extending unemployment benefits and food stamps. The remainder would be used to fund middle-class tax cuts, stimulate the housing market, and stem the tide of home foreclosures through a loan-modification program. [Yea, we’ve seen how well those loan-modification programs are, with increases of $300 a month to a homeowners mortgage.]
STEEL INDUSTRY
Industry executives are pleading for a huge public infrastructure investment program – of up to one trillion dollars over two years – under Obama’s proposed stimulus plan.
“What we are asking,” said Daniel DiMicco, chairman and chief executive of the Nucor Corporation, a giant steel makers, “is that out government deal with the worst economic slowdown in our lifetime through a recovery program that has in every provision a buy America’ clause,” the New York Times quoted him as saying. Only two U.S. steel makers are in the top steel producers of 2007.
Basically, the steel industry is petitioning Obama for major infrastructure development, thus stimulating the steel industry.
Igor Panarin, 50, a former KGB analyst, a professor [Dean] at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, well-known political scholar (in Russia), and author of books such as “Information War in Russia”, “Information War and Election”, Information War and Power”. He began his career in the KGB in 1976. In post-Soviet Russia, he got a doctorate in political science, with the topic of his thesis, “Information- psychological providing of national security of Russia”. He then studied U.S. economics, and worked for FAPSI, then the Russian equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency. He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are “classified.”
He also states that Russia facilitated the US independence twice: during the Katherine the Great rein and the Civil War, when two Russian Navy squadrons weighed anchors at San Francisco Bay and New York and defended the East Coast from the British.
In 1998, he attended a conference in Linz, Austria, devoted to information warfare, the use of data to get an edge over a rival. It was there, in front of 400 delegates, that he first presented his theory about the collapse of the U.S. in 2010.
“When I pushed the button on my computer and the map of the United States disintegrated, hundreds of people cried out in surprise,” he remembers. He says most in the audience were skeptical. “They didn’t believe me.”
He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysis, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.
And since 1998, he has said that the United States will fall in 2010 splitting into six independent pieces. Renewed interest in his theory as come into the spotlight due to a recent interview with Izvestia, one of Russia’s biggest national dailies. And those in Russia are listening.
So why does he think this will happen? “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.” Panarin calls U.S. foreign debt “ a pyramid scheme,” and predicts China and Russia would usurp Washington’s role as a global finance regulator.
Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces.
The White House’s reaction to Panarin’s forecast at a December news conference was a “I am perplexed and therefore I think I will have to decline to comment,” from Dana Perino, which received laughter from the press.
From the November, 2008 interview: [Video, in English/Russian from Russia Today]
Q[Izvestia]: Will the entire American economy collapse?
A [Panarin]: It is collapsing now. Three out of the five largest and oldest banks on Wall Street ceased to exist because of the financial crisis; and the other two are on the verge of surviving. Their losses are the largest in history. Now we are talking about replacing the regulation system in the world: America will no longer be the world regulator.
Q: Which country will replace it?
A: Two countries are making a claim for this role: China with its large reserves, and Russia as a country which could play the role of a regulator on the Eurasian territory. … The gold reserves of Chian come to more than 2 trillion dollars. It is the largest creditor to the USA.
Q: What makes you believe in the possible division of the country?
A: There are a number of reasons. First, the financial problem of the USA will increase. Millions of citizens have already lost their savings. Prices and unemployment keep growing. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse which means that entire town will end up unemployed. The governors are not harshly demanding money from the federal center. Complaints are growing. They’ve been restrained so far by the presidential election and by hope that Obama could perform a miracle. However, by spring it will become clear that a miracle will not happen.
The second factor is the vulnerability of the political mechanism in the USA. There is uniform legislation on the territory of the country. There aren’t even general uniform traffic rules. The skeleton which keeps the USA together is fragile. Event eh armed forces in Iraq are represented by the non-citizens of the United States to a large extent. They fight for the promise of American citizenship. Thus the army, as a melting pot has stopped fulfilling a consolidating function for the American state. And finally, the split of the elite has made itself especially clear under the conditions of the crisis.
Q: How will the country be divided? Mexico is obviously in the south. What else?
A: There are six part altogether. The first one is the Pacific Ocean coast of the USA. I can give you an example: 53% of San Francisco’s population is Chinese. The Governor of Washington state was an ethnic Chinese; its capital, Seattle, is called the gate of the Chinese emigration to the USA> It is obvious that the Pacific Ocean coast has been gradually influenced by China. The second part in the south is definitely the Mexicans. In some areas, Spanish has become the official language already. Then comes Texas which has been openly fighting for independence. The Atlantic coast has a totally different ethnos and mentality. It could be split into two parts as well. And then we are left with two central depressed areas. May I remind you that five central states where the Indians live had announced their independence. It was perceived as a joke or a kind of a political show. But the fact remains the same. Canada is making a strong influence in the North. By the way, Russia may require returning Alaska, as it had been rented out… [And Hawaii goes to Japan or China.]
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Q: Could you tell us about the division of the elite. Are these democrats and the republicans?
A: No, that is not right. There are two groups in the US authorities. The first one may be called the globalists, or the Trotskyites. Leon Trotsky had already formulated their idea in the past: it’s not Russia that we need, but a world revolution. Soviet Russia was viewed by them as a base for control over the world. The second group is the statists which want prosperity for their country. Representatives of these two clans are present in both Democratic and Republican Parties. Take voting for the anti-crisis plan of Paulson, which was suggested by the Republican administration, for example. It was voted down in the Congress by the Republicans first of all.
Q: Who is in charge of the clans?
A: The key persons of the globalists are Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney. The key persons of the statists are Robert Gates, Defense Secretary; Michael Hayden, CIA Director; and Admiral Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence. Globalists are mainly the financial elite, and statists are the armed forces, special services and military and industrial complex. Recently the confrontation between these two clans have become open. In December last year the statists presented a reported which completely denied the existence of the nuclear program in Iran. It directly contradicted conclusions made by Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney. The second important event took place at the hearings of the US Congress concerning the 5-day war in the Caucasus. The globalists represented by Condoleezza Rice insisted that Russia had started the war an d that it would be punished for it. Georgia was the project of Condoleezza. And representatives of the intelligence community presented a diametrically opposite statement: that Georgia had started the war. We see an open confrontation between very outstanding political figures.
Q: And who’s Obama company?
A: The statists with Gates in charge were the key players who had enabled Obama to win. They are demanding that he change the general line in return. IN this light, a very interesting factor is that Gates the Republican is viewed as the most important candidate as to whether he remains the US Defense Secretary or becomes the Secretary of State. This is the influence of the statists on the President. By the way, the first session which Obama held was with the American Intelligence community.
NOT THE FIRST TIME RUSSIA PREDICTS DEMISE OF THE US
Perhaps the most famous was when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev promising before the United Nations to “bury” the United States and again in his famous “kitchen debates” telling Richard Nixon that the superiority of the Soviet Union would overtake the U.S. and the Soviets would say “Dasvidania” to the U.S.
In the “Kitchen Debate”, which took place in 1955, then Vice-President Nixon and Khrushchev discussed the merits of each of their respective economic systems, capitalism and communism. While Nixon focused on American technology such as supermarkets filled with foods, dishwashers, lawnmowers, makeup, cake mixes, TV dinners, Pepsi and the washing machine, Khurshchev stressed that the focus on “things that matter” rather than luxury was more important.
This guy is really clueless about many parts of the United States and is nothing more than Communist propaganda. He obviously doesn’t realize that here in the US, states are allowed to make their own laws, but you as a regular civilian don’t need “papers” to cross the border to enter another state.
Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina in the same country as New York or Maine and them being part of the European Union? Yea, as IF. Obviously he doesn’t know much about that little thing called the Mason-Dixon line and the south believes it will “Rise Again” versus the North.
And Idaho and Utah, with the Mormons being a part of the same country as California, under Chinese influence. Forgive me with a valley girl expression but, “As If! Like, I am SO sure, ya know?”
And Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana becoming part of Mexico….. umm.. yea.. okay. I can just see it now, deep in the heart of Dixie, Mexicans in the bayou, drinking Budweiser, and four-by-fourin in the mud listening to Alan Jackson singing “Chattahoochee”.
And Mexico not taking California? Heck, hasn’t that pretty much already happened? Or will the Pacific and the “South TX region” “sell” California, along with Arizona, and New Mexico back to Mexico. Or would Mexico just say it’s theirs, and we stole it. Wait.. that’s already happened too….
And then there’s Texas. As IF they would even become part of Mexico, remember they have been screaming about their own independence for years. To expect Texas to submit to Mexico? Talk about the start of a new MX-TX war….
And Ohio being part of the same “country” as Montana? Sha… right! Maybe part of the NE but not the Midwest.
I wonder what Sarah Palin would have to say about Russia taking back Alaska. NYET?
Perhaps Panarin got hold of some bootlegged Vodka, and is suffering from a permanent case of the DTs….. and his years with the KGB and communist ways are showing. And he’s trying to shed light on the US failing, while trying to minimize the fact that Russia’s own economy is in failure with his “Nothing to see here, move along and look at the US falling apart” story. Sorry, no “Red Dawn” fantasy here.
But ultimately, I think Panarian has been watching reruns of Jericho lately, where nuclear detonations around the US spirals the country into division, with one country based in Cheyenne, WY and the other in TX.
Ya know, I have to take a recent quote from the mayor of Baltimore MD here about this family. “…we have some very mentally disturbed individuals in the city.” There’s a joke somewhere in here about a “master race” family and needing some bleach in the gene pool of this specific family, but I’m not going to go there.. oh wait… I just did.
And there is another joke, which some may think tasteless that Nazis have invaded Holland Township. But hey, I never said I was politically correct, now did I?
In a living room decorated with war books, German combat knives and swastikas, a 2-year-old boy, blond and blue-eyed, played with a plastic dinner set.
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“Say Adolf,” said Campbell, a Holocaust denier who has three children named for Nazism.
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Adolf Hitler Campbell – it’s indeed the name on his birth certificate – turns 3 today, and the Campbell family believes the boy has been mistreated. A local supermarket refused to make a birthday cake with “Adolf Hitler” on it.
The ShopRite in Greenwhich Township has also refused to make a cake bearing the name of Campbell’s daughter, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in February.
Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, a girl named for Schutzstaffel head Heinrich Himmler, turns 1 in April, who can be seen to the left here, held by her father.
“ShopRite can’t even make a cake for a 3-year-old,” said Deborah Campbell, 25, who is Heath’s wife of three years and the mother of the children. “That’s sad.”
Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the grocer tries to meet customer requests but rejects those deemed inappropriate. “We believe the request to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate,” she said.
The grocer offered to make a cake with enough room for the Campbells to write their own inscription. But the Campbells refused, saying they would have a cake made at the Wal-Mart in Lower Nazareth Township. The Campbells say Wal-Mart made cakes for Adolf’s first two birthdays.
A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said the store won’t put anything illegal or profane on a cake but thinks it’s important to respect the views of customers and employees.
“Our No.1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability,” Anna Taylor, the spokeswoman, said from Bentonville, Ark.
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The Campbells have swastikas in each room of their home, the rented half of a one-story duplex just outside Milford, a borough in Hunterdon County. They say they aren’t racists but believe races shouldn’t mix.
The Campbells said they wanted their children to have unique names and didn’t expect the names to cause problems. Despite the cake refusal, the Campbells said they don’t expect the names to cause problems later, such as when the children start school.
“I just figured that they’re just names,” Deborah Campbell said. “They’re just kids. They’re not going to hurt anybody.”
Heath Campbell said some people like the names but others are shocked to hear them. “They say, ‘He [Hitler] killed all those people.’ I say, ‘You’re living in the wrong decade. That Hitler’s gone,’” he said.
“They’re just names, you know,” he said. “Yeah, they [Nazis] were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They’re not going to grow up like that.”
“Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time,” he said. “It’s not fair to my children.”
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The Campbell home is kept neat aside from scattered toys and other evidence three small children live there. It’s small, but it’s what the Campbells can afford.
Disabilities, the couple says, have left both out of work: Heath Campbell can’t landscape or pump gas because he has emphysema, and Deborah can’t waitress because she has a bad back. They live on Social Security payments.
In the foyer, Heath Campbell, who said he has German ancestry and a relative who fought for the SS, took off boots he said were worn by a Nazi soldier named Daniel.
He laid them next to a skull with a swastika on its forehead, the first of dozens of swastikas seen by the Campbells’ rare guests.
There are swastikas on walls, on jackets, on the freezer and on a pillow. The family car had swastikas, Heath Campbell said, until New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families told him they could endanger the children.
The swastikas, Heath Campbell said, are symbols of peace and balance. He considers them art.
“It doesn’t mean hatred to me,” he said. Deborah Campbell said a swastika “doesn’t really have a meaning. It’s just a symbol.”
Umm yea… two parents in their 20s, living on social security with three children is the master race who says that the names are just names and mean nothing, and live in a house of swastikas while their social security and food stamps pay for a cake.
If the names are “meaningless” and the swastikas have no significance, they why are they associated together for Nazism? Obviously, Children’s Services have already been involved since the family was told the swastikas on the cars could endanger the children. And these “people” seem to think that the names they gave their children won’t endanger the kids? That kids are harmless? Where the hell have these people been? One day their eldest child will come home, in tears saying “Why do all the kids make fun of me daddy? Why do they hate me?” These idiot “parents” have chosen to make these kids lives a living hell by their “free right” and self political expression. If you have a political message to send, don’t use your children.
So let’s recap, shall we? Twenty-something parents, who live on disability, which would have been a death sentence under Hitler, and use said disability money to purchase swastikas and Nazi memorabilia to fill their home, name their kids after Nazis. Remember “arbeit macht frei” or “work brings freedom” not “beihilfe macht frei” or “subsidy brings freedom”. So a local supermarket refuses to make a “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” cake, but Wal-mart is just fine with it. And the parents are considering suing…… Clearly a perfect example of the “master race”….. Only in America.
There’s a new website on the net and its from John Ziegler who is working on a film titled, “Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected”. Needless to say, after looking at the website, the video, and the statistics, all I can say is wow…… people are stupid…uninformed… uneducated. And I am NOT saying that all Obama voters are stupid, I’m simply saying some of them are, so don’t even go there…… The right to vote comes with an understood responsibility to be informed and to make educated decisions.
But for example, when asked which candidate said they had campaigned in 57 states, the answers were Palin and McCain when in fact it was said by Obama during a speech. [Video]
People had no clue as to who was the majority in congress, but they knew that Palin’s daughter was pregnant.
Additionally, the point of the video is to show how the media influenced the election so obviously there was some “education” however, it was more on gossip issues than on important facts and agenda.
BTW, before reading on, anyone want to buy oceanfront property for $100.00 an acre in Arizona?
From the website:
On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.”
From the Zogby Poll.
Demographics
■ 512 Obama Voters polled 11/13/08 – 11/15/08 (+/- 4.4 points) ■ 97.1% were High School Graduates or Higher, 55% were College Graduates
Results to 12 simple multiple choice questions.
■ 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50% chance by guessing)
■ 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% change by guessing)
■ 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot. (25% chance by guessing)
■ 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket. (25% by guessing)
■ 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
■ 86.3% COULD identify Sarah Palin as the person who spent $150,000 in clothes.
■ 93.8% COULD identify Sarah Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter.
■ 86.9% THOUGHT that Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her “house”, even though it was Tina Fey who said the statement on an episode of Saturday Night Live.
■ Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
■ Only 0.5% got all of them correct ( And one answer was “given” away that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey.”
On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.” 
