This is an all time fav of FRG. The stuff on the Clintons is priceless.
Ye Olde Green Dragon: Politics
Items of a Political Nature
"Mine will be the most ethical administration in the history of the republic!"
President-Elect Bill Clinton, November 1992.
[the United States] can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the
rights of ordinary Americans...
President Clinton, March 1, 1993: Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3
"I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the
agony of this impeachment and removal proceeding," Clinton said. "I think the country
could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a
lot of other problems if he'd go on and resign."
Clinton, a law professor at the University of Arkansas, said there was "no question
that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering
with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense."
Arkansas Democrat, 8/6/74
This is the area which generated most of the requests for me to set up a
non-career web page. The items referenced from here are derived from official
records. The beauty of the Internet lies in its placing in the hands of We
The People the raw data and the tools to become our own authorities. Check
everything for yourself.
As to the Green Dragon used to decorate this page, allow me to explain.
There is a well known pub in Boston, which goes all the way back to Colonial
times. As most colonists did not read, the pub was marked by a copper sculpture
of a dragon above the door. It did not take very long for the Boston climate to
corrode the dragon a bright shade of green, so quickly that the pub's owners did
not waste the effort to keep the dragon sculpture polished. The pub came to be
popularly known as the "Green Dragon".
During the birth of our country, many of the founding fathers would gather at
the Green Dragon to hoist a tankard of ale and invent a new nation, along with
deciding if this was the week they got to dump some tea into yon harbor.
Along with Ben Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere and the rest of the
patriots was one physician, a Dr. Josiah Bartlett (my ancestor), down from New
Hampshire to represent the interests of the Granite State. A distinguished
medical practitioner, family tradition portrays Dr. Bartlett as a curmudgeon who
suggested that the Declaration of Independence be written on hemp paper such
that if the British succeeded in putting down the rebellion, the signers could
smoke the evidence of treason!
Being the senior delegate from New Hampshire, then the northernmost of the
colonies, Dr. Bartlett was the first man to cast a vote for the Declaration of
Independence. Along with the other delegates, he signed the Declaration of
Independence on August 2, 1776, and his signature is seen in the upper right
corner of the block of signatures on that document.
Dr. Bartlett's career in public life included the delegation to ratify the
Constitution, a brief stint in Congress and the governorship, retiring only when
his health began to fail.
Were Dr. Bartlett still alive, I would hope he would look on this web page
with a proud eye and approve of what his descendent hath wrought.
There's no alcohol here, alas. There's a state license required for such
things, and the Founding fathers neglected to include a pint of ale among the
inalienable rights of man. A glaring omission to be sure, but on the whole, a
minor one.
Not surprisingly, there is another website called the Green Dragon Tavern
which has included me as a member.
Many years ago, men of
strong mind, strong will and strong character used to meet in The
Green Dragon Tavern. Coming together secretly, and often late at night,
they met upstairs in the Long Room. Here . . . they planned the destiny of our
country, and plotted the course of freedom which we now
sail. This meeting site
is owned byWhat Really
Happened
OTHER TEXT FILES
The Senate Whitewater Report, THE CLINTON VIDEOTAPED TESTIMONY,
How To Tell If You're A Liberal (Humor)
Kerry Report on Government Drug Running
"The Clinton Chronicles"
The CIA and the Media
The UNIBOMBER manifesto
"The Prince by Niccoli Machiavelli - The Handbook for Dictators
"The Pentagon Shrine to Bill Clinton
Judicial Watch
This is Larry Klayman's group, founded three years to seek reform through the
court system. Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch are doing the job Kenneth Starr
claims to do but doesn't. Klayman is on Carville's "top ten" enemies list.
Klayman was offered a two million dollar out of court settlement by the White
House, in effect a bribe, to cease his activity. He turned it down.
Larry walks what Kenneth talks. Keep your eye on this man!
ANOTHER PLACE YOU MUST VISIT!
The Waco
Holocaust Museum
The very best site on the worst mass murder of our century, in which the
government of the United States gassed a church full of women and children to
death with a gas that's illegal to use in war!
Clinton filmed a video praising Obama and encouraging voters to re elect. Well one liar in chief endorsing another liar in chief does nothing for me. How about you?
July 1991: Question: "Have you ever used Marijuana or any illegal drugs?"
Answer: "I've never broken any drug law." - Arkansas Gazette, July 24th, 1991,
p. 8B
Asked this 3 times, on 3 separate occasions, by 3 different interviewers,
your Great White Hope repeated this claim. Until faced with irrefutable proof,
that is.
Then he said:
March 29th, 1992: "I've never broken a state law. But when I was in England I
experimented with marijuana a time or two..."
Later, in that same interview, "No one has ever asked me that question
point-blank."
- The New York Times, March 30th, 1992, p.A15.
On Jan. 19, 1992 Bill Clinton said, "I want to make it very clear that this
middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make
to have a short-term economic strategy."
But on Jan. 14, 1993 at a press conference, Bill Clinton said, "From New
Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought
the most important issue in the race was the middle-class tax cut. "I never did
meet any voter who thought that."
On Sept. 8,1992, Bill Clinton said, "The only people who will pay more income
taxes are the wealthiest 2 percent, those living in households making over
$200,000 a year."
In response to a Bush-Quayle ad that people with incomes of as little as
$36,000 would pay more taxes under the Clinton plan, Bill Clinton said on Oct.
1, 1992, "It's a disgrace to the American people that the president (Bush) of
the United States would make a claim that is so baseless, that is so without
foundation, so shameless in its attempt to get votes under false pretenses."
Yet the NY TIMES in the analysis of Clinton's budget wrote, "There are tax
increases for every family making more than $20,000 a year!"
"While Clinton continued to defend his middle-class tax cut publicly, he
privately expressed the view to his advisers that it was intellectually
dishonest." (The Agenda, by Bob Woodward, p. 31)
In Business Week, July 6, 1992, Bill Clinton was quoted as saying, "When I
began the campaign, the projected deficit was $250 billion. Now its up to $400
billion."
However in Time Magazine. 2 weeks later, Bill Clinton was quoted as saying,
"When I started in New Hampshire working with those numbers, we felt the deficit
was going to be around $250 billion a year, not $400 billion." Which is it,
Bill?
But then he said on Feb. 10, 1993, "The deficit of this country is about $50
billion a year bigger than I was told it was going to be before the election."
--our President said this after "discovering" that the deficit was $290 billion,
$110 Billion LESS than he had claimed in July! Which story are we to believe
from our president??
President Clinton said on March 23, 1993 at a press conference: "M economic
package will cut $500 billion from the deficit in five years." Yet the projected
deficit in 1998 with Clinton's budget is $234 billion, the projected deficit in
2001 with Clinton budget is $401 billion.(These figures come from Bill Clinton's
budget document, "A Vision of Change for America."-Feb. 1993.
The Wall Street Journal Opinion-Editorial Page 2/21/95
NUMBERS GAME
It's the season to cut government, or at least to claim to, so we perked up
when we heard President Clinton declare in his State of the Union address that
he had cut (quote) more than 100,000 positions from the federal bureaucracy in
the last two years alone (unquote).
As they say in detective work, interesting - if true. So we decided to pull
out the new federal budget to check. What we discovered is that Mr. Clinton
isn't lying, but he isn't telling the whole truth either. His speeches need an
asterisk.
From 1993 to Fiscal Year 1996, the Clinton Administration will in fact have
cut the federal government by 157,000 full-time positions. But there's a catch:
131,000 of those positions are civilian Defense jobs. Those cuts reflect the
inevitable post-cold War decline in military spending, not some brave
retrenchment in the overall size of government.
There's another catch: Of the 26,000 positions to be cut from the non-Defense
side of Leviathan, 9,500 come from the Resolution Trust Corp. and Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. Those two banking agencies grew like Topsy to manage the
savings and loan debacle, but are now cutting back as the bailout ends. The RTC
is even supposed to go out of business this year. The bottom line is that over
the course of the Clinton presidency, the non-Defense, non-S&L part of the
government will cut a measly 16,500 full-time positions out of some 1.2 million.
In essence the domestic government is conducting business as usual.
Mr. Clinton also says he's making the federal establishment (quote) the
smallest it has been since John Kennedy was President (unquote). But again,
excluding Defense, total executive branch employment will be 1,181,000 in 1996.
Back in 1963, when JFK was President, total non-Defense employment was a mere
861,000. Maybe that should be the 1996 goal for Republican budget- cutters; they
could say they got the idea from the President.
Are you referring to the guy who absolutely, positively guaranteed that if he
was elected governor of Arkansas in 1990 he would serve 4 years? The one who
said that a 4% income tax rate on the wealthiest 2% of the population would
raise 165 billion dollars, reduce the deficit, and allow a middle class tax cut?
The one who claimed that the republicans had killed the Lani Guinier nomination?
The one who claimed that he had decided to make himself available to the draft
after 4 acquaintances were killed in Viet Nam (rather than after his birthday
had been drawn #311 in the draft lottery)? The one who claimed that "affirmative
action "benefits white men?
Are you referring to that Clinton?
No, he said that the new gasoline tax (4 cent per gallon) would go to a
deficit reduction trust fund. No such fund has been established to date... it is
going to the general fund to fund their increased social programs... check it
out... call the government accounting office and ask... they are stealing your
money...
And I give you my word to do it without the blame game of the last twelve
years of Reagan and Bush.
Good, OOPS, that lasted almost a whole day!
The NY Times reported that people earning under $100,000 paid an additional
$3 billion in '94.
But wait, Clinton and the media claimed that only the top 2% were going to
pay more taxes. Was that another lie from the Clinton administration?
According to liberal Democrats, anyone who makes a dollar more than you is
the "rich". On the issue of "taxes on the rich", consider the following:
Most of the "rich" are smart business men & women... they own and run
their own businesses. In addition, Clinton passed a 1% increase in corporate
income taxes...
If you owned your own business, or if you were the CFO of a corporation, and
your cost of doing business went up, what would you do ? You'd pass this cost
on...
Should they feel the heat, so to speak, they pass the new costs on to the
principle consumers of the goods and services they offer...The middle-class and
poor....So who really is paying Clinton's new taxes ?
As the saying goes. "When the "rich" get a sniffle, the middle-class catches
pneumonia."
The real problem with this attack on the rich is the underlying assumption
that this is a static class of people. Not so.
A great many people start off "poor" and as they move up in the business
world become successful and eventually become what the Democrats would currently
characterize as "rich." Indeed most of the wealth in this country is in the
hands of senior citizens. Many of these people at one time had no money at all.
So, the attack on the rich is not an attack on some evil group. Its mostly an
attack on people who after much sacrifice and hard work have finally reached
their peak earning years and are trying to enjoy and pass on the fruits of their
labor.
There were many other Clinton proposals that didn't fly (thank you) which
would have further parted people from their capital....Here's a couple of
winners he proposed in 1992....
Imputed rent...You would pay tax on "rent" that you would have collected FROM
YOURSELF...Tax real, only...NO RENTAL INCOME !!!!!
Lower the inheritance threshold...From about $650,000 to around $200,000.
What has been an exclusive tax of the rich, Clinton wanted to give as a gift to
the middle-class...
Newsweek reports that Clinton and the Democrats will no longer pursue the
rich vs. middle class America class warfare strategy. They realize that it won't
help them politically and, according to Newsweek, "President Clinton...doesn't
really believe in it."
Newsweek noted that they are abandoning it, so apparently, they do not agree,
nor do their sources. Clinton has been bashing the rich since his campaign,
claiming disingenuously that they are not paying their "fair share" of taxes,
i.e. falsely implying that they are paying less than they did in '80. Hillary
went after the "greedy" pharmaceutical companies, after selling their stock
short. They have made many self-serving moralistic statements about the "greed"
of the '80's. Clinton and the Democrats condemn Republican. tax cut plans
because they claim it will "help the rich."
If this is not class warfare, what is?
Clinton has pursued this strategy for about 3 years, and now he claims he
**doesn't really believe in it?** Hey, I'll buy that!
Newsweek reported it as "news." How strangely non-judgmental that they would
not question the sincerity of Clinton's claim when his actions speak otherwise.
Clinton's economic policies ???
1) A massive tax increase
2) "Hope" that interest rates would remain low
3) A few R & D credits for Al Gore's pet high tech industries
Was there anything else ?
In reference to the Social Security trust fund --
"But its important that we not panic; there is no immediate danger to
retirement. Our accumulated surpluses would be sufficient to pay the liabilities
to 2029 at current payroll tax rates."
From an interview; published in the May '95 issue of Money magazine.
Hasn't anyone told him that the Social Security trust fund has no money --
Congress borrowed it all and left IOUs with no plans yet on how to redeem those
IOU's?
Given that Clinton seems so concerned about the hateful rhetoric in: politics
these days, I wonder if he intends to limits such violent: statements as "taking
food from the mouths of children", "war on the poor", "throwing the elderly out
on the streets", and "contract _on_ America, Evil, Extreme, Mean Spirited and on
and on and on.
We've given more power to states and localities and to private citizens. Our
proposals would further accelerate those trends. Bill Clinton, White House press
conference, 3/3/95
Fact: Clinton lobbied to defeat the Balance Budget Amendment in the Senate,
so states and localities are prevented from getting the chance to even debate
the amendment. His Administration opposes giving block grants to the states. He
is opposing all Block Grants as well.
We support adding 100,000 new police officers. Bill Clinton, same news
conference.
Fact: There are no "100,000 police officers". Never has been, never will be.
Even liberal columnist DeWayne Wickam concluded in USA Today: "Many of the
100,00 cops promised in the crime bill will never materialize". On the day AFTER
Clinton signed the bill into law, The New York Times reported that "some law
enforcement analyst said the Administration has in effect misled local officials
by vastly overstating the number of police officers who can be hired under the
program".
It's called lying where I come from, how about where you came from?
Everyone knows that I have tougher ethic rules than any other President. Bill
Clinton, news conference 3/3/95 defending the ethical standards of his
administration.
Fact: In addition to his own Whitewater troubles and many high-level
resignations, several members of his cabinet are currently facing probes in
their conduct, including four "Special Prosecutors..
The budget which came from the President said,, I've given up; that as long I
am President of the United States there will never be a balanced budget. That is
an astonishing statement. Paul Tsongas, at a Capitol Hill press conference,
2/7/95.
Clinton said, "Who do these people think they are?" referring to people who
stockpile guns, "No other government in the world would allow their citizens to
do that."
How about this!
Sara Brady was quoted in several papers and magazines at an Hand Gun
Incorporated rally a couple of weeks before the Senate vote saying..." Our main
agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It
doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie.
"Our task of creating a Socialist America can only succeed when those who
would resist us have been totally disarmed." -- Sarah Brady (President of
Handgun Control, Inc. and wife of James Brady, whom the Brady Bill was named for
and was recently "honored" by Clinton)
Democratic Rep. David Obey said "I think most of us learned some time ago
that if you don't like the president's position on a particular issue, you
simply need to wait a few weeks."
Foreign Policy?
Well, let's see, start with Somalia. It's not the first, but its one of the
best known. In the winter of 1992 George Bush ordered US troops to guard food
shipments in and around the ports. The deployment ended in March, a resounding
success. A couple of months later Clinton got suckered into sending the Marines
back in as 'nation builders'. In the course of which he deliberately violated
Executive Orders of the Presidency not to engage in deliberate or willful
assassination of foreign political or military leaders; you DO remember the
AC130 gunships firing wildly into civilian occupied apartment buildings, in an
effort to murder a Somali warlord and his followers, don't you? I didn't think
so. Long term memory is not a strong suite of the Clintonestae.
Want a small disaster? At the opening of the Holocaust Memorial, 1993. A
luncheon was served afterwards for the distinguished Jewish guests and foreign
dignitaries. The main entree' was Honey baked Ham.
Bosnia. Bosnia is always good for a laugh. On the campaign trail, Candidate
Clinton said that he was qualified as Commander In Chief of the Arkansas
National Guard to make military decisions. As an example, he bragged that if he
were elected, he would bomb the Serbs. In May of 1993, he sent Warren
Christopher to convince the Europeans to allow him to do just that. Christopher
went with the 'strongest message possible' to urge England, France, and Germany
that he was fully committed to this course. Even as the Secretary of State was
waiting to meet with them in Geneva, Your Great White Hope appeared on the tube
and said that 'bombing the Serbs probably wouldn't be necessary'. Warren
Christopher is not noted for emotional displays: Some have suggested that he has
had the centers in his brain responsible for emotion surgically removed. After
Christopher heard what Fearless Leader did, he ALMOST cracked a frown. The
Europeans went ballistic. This year Clinton pushed the bombing schtick again to
make himself look tougher than the average weenie and we all know what happened:
The Serbs have basically gone on to conquer Bosnia. In that sad country you now
have Serbian held territory and UN funded and run Serbian concentration camps
disguised as 'safe havens'. The only reason these haven't been overrun is the
Serbs haven't got the vaguest idea what to do with the refugees huddled in them.
"OH!" you shriek hysterically, "PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE HAD FAILURES,
TOO! IT'S NOT FAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIRRRRR THAT BILL
CLINTON IS BEING JUDGED SO HARSHLY!!!!" Previous administrations had more
successes than failures. George Bush built an international coalition to defeat
Iraq in the Gulf War - even got the Arabs to talk to the Israelis afterwards.
Ronald Reagan stopped the advance of Marxism in this hemisphere and cracked the
will of the Soviets hard-liners to continue the Cold War. Carter, whatever else
he may have failed at, can always look back at the Camp David Accords. Ford
wasn't President long enough to do more than handle domestic problems, but Nixon
reopened the dialogue with China. And so on back through American history. Yes,
they had failures, but never were so many failures in so short a time the result
of INCREDIBLE INCOMPETENCE by an Administration.
Dan Rather responding to congratulations to him and Connie Chung during and
interview shortly after they teamed up together, "If we could be one-hundredth
as gret as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together in the White
House," the supposedly objective newsman said, "we'd take it right now and walk
away winners."
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans"
- President Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
Vice President Al Gore's interview on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley,"
Sunday, August 25, 1996
Vice President Al Gore made a number of assertions during this interview
which we feel require additional clarification.
Medicare
"Beyond that, the Republican Party, specifically Speaker Gingrich, said that
he wanted to make changes that would cause Medicare to wither on the vine." --Al
Gore, ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," 8/25/96
Wrong! Al Gore quoted Speaker Gingrich out of context. What the Speaker
actually said was:
"Okay, what do you think the Health Care Financing Administration is? It's a
centralized command bureaucracy. It's everything we're telling Boris Yeltzin to
get rid of. Now we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think
that's politically smart. We don't think that's the right way to go through a
transition. But we believe its going to wither on the vine because we think
people are voluntarily going to leave it -- voluntarily." --Speaker Newt
Gingrich, remarks to Blue Cross/Blue Shield conference, 10/24/95
In their 1992 campaign, Clinton and Gore endorsed scrapping the Health Care
Financing Administration:
"We will scrap the Health Care Financing Administration and replace it with a
health standards board -- made up of consumers, providers, business, labor and
government -- that will establish annual health budget targets and outline a
core benefits package." --Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Putting People First, 1992
100,000 Cops
"The president has formed an alliance with the law enforcement officers
around this country and experts in fighting crime, passed legislation, over the
opposition of Senator Dole and Speaker Gingrich, that is now putting 100,000
extra community police officers on the streets." --Al Gore, ABC's "This Week
with David Brinkley," 8/25/96
Wrong again!
"What I am advised is that there are 17,000 officers that can be identified
as being on the streets." --Attorney General Janet Reno, media availability,
5/16/96
Worse, not all of these cops are fighting crime:
"At least $7.2 million in COPS grants has been used to hire 86 officers for
state parks, marinas and other areas seemingly far removed from violent crime."
--Investor's Business Daily, 7/16/96
Reducing government
"We have downsized the federal government during the last four years by
250,000 people." --Al Gore, ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," 8/25/96
What Gore didn't say was that Clinton accomplished this by gutting Defense:
"President Clinton's plan three years ago to 'reinvent' government and cut
the federal work force by nearly 252,000 jobs never mentioned that the military
would absorb 75 percent of the cuts." --The Washington Times, 8/23/96
The national debt
"The debt, which was just ballooning out of control under the previous two
administrations, has now been cut by 60 percent." --Al Gore, ABC's "This Week
with David Brinkley," 8/25/96
Wrong! According to statistics released in February, 1996 by Clinton's own
Office of Management and Budget, the gross federal debt for fiscal year 1992 was
$4.002 trillion. By fiscal year 1995 it had "ballooned" to $4.921 trillion -- an
increase of 23 percent.
Bill Clinton during a visit in Italy, to his hosts: "Just think, we are
walking on the very ground where Romulus and Remus walked".
-- Bill Clinton (They are fictional characters)
"There is a feeling among reporters that the truth and Clinton don't often go
together. Reporters have a feeling he is a man without conviction." -- Ken
Auletta, a media columnist for the New Yorker
Back To The Farm House. Back To The Farm House.
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What Really Happened
Can you imagine if a white president created a video announcing the 2012 launch of white people for so and so. Or maybe a Christian president creating a video announcing the 2012 launch of Christians for so and so at Christmas time? He says he's about bringing folks together, but brother and sisters I think he's set us all back 100 years.
Cousin Sissy does it again. She's a badddd Sister!
Roger Hedgecock was the Mayor of San Diego for many years and now writes a column and has a Syndicated Radio Show which does very well. Worth the read.
Written by Roger Hedgecock - former mayor of San Diego
I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.
California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat Left
enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.
California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has added
so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it "Medi-Cal."
Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers, with smaller
classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates with twice the
per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.
This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown had to confess that the "balanced" state budget adopted five months ago was billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower than the
airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.
After trimming legislators' perks and reducing the number of cell phones
provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that drastic budget
reductions had already hollowed out state programs for the needy, law
enforcement and our schoolchildren. California government needed more
money.
Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners
currently pays 50% of the state's income tax.
California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is 9.3%,
which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year.
Income of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'"
surcharge tax rate of 10.3%. Brown's proposal would add 2% for income
over $250,000. A million-dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that's just for the state.
Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would bring sales taxes (which vary by county) up to 7.75% to as much as 10%. Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012.
The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest from
the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at UC
Berkeley and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, "We've paid
enough. It's time for millionaires to pay."
At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor's proposals are the most conservative.
The Obama way doesn't end with taxes.
The governor and the state legislature continue to applaud the efforts of
the California High Speed Rail Authority to build a train connecting Los
Angeles and San Francisco . Even though the budget is three times the
voter-approved amount and the first segment will only connect two small
towns in the agricultural Central Valley . But hey, if we build it, they will
ride. And we don't want to turn down the Obama bullet-train bucks Florida and other states rejected because the operating costs would bankrupt them.
Can't happen here because we're already insolvent!
If we get into real trouble with the train, we'll just bring in the Chinese. It
worked with the Bay Bridge reconstruction. After the 1989 earthquake,
the bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was rebuilt with steel
made in China . Workers from China too. Paid for with money borrowed from China . Makes perfect sense.
In California , we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in Hollywood,
in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people who have broken into
California to eat the bounty created by the productive rich.
Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free medical
care, and free schools for their kids, including meals, and of course,
instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Nothing's too good for our guests.
To erase even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the California
Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty. Democrat State
Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative that would bar
deportation of illegals from California.
Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a
federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce
federal immigration laws he won't enforce, what will the President do to
a California law that exempts California from federal immigration law?
California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of
de-industrialization.
After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example, air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies that were
supposed to be California's future.
The California cap-and-trade tax on business in the name of reducing CO2
makes our state the leader in wacky environmentalism and guarantees a
further job exodus from the state. Even green energy companies can't do
business in California . Solyndra went under, taking its taxpayer loan
guarantee with it.
No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even banned
weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold mining streams in the
Sierra Nevada Mountains . In fact, more and more of California 's public
land is off-limits to recreation by the people who paid for that land. Unless
you're illegal.
Then you can clear the land, set up marijuana plantations at will, bring
in fertilizers that legal farmers can no longer use, exploit illegal farm
workers who live in hovels with no running water or sanitation, and
protect your investment with armed illegals carrying guns no California
citizen is allowed to own.
The rest of us only found out about these plantations when the workers'
open campfire started one of those devastating fires that have killed
hundreds of people and burned out thousands of homes in California over
the last decade.
It's often said that whatever happens in California will soon happen in your state.
This sent in by my every ready field reporter Cousin Sissy.
Curious about the Obama Care Bill? Click on the website below for the entire bill – 2409 pages. Read it yourself.
I am no fan of ObamaCare or its namesake, but "HB3200" was never passed. In fact, House bills are numbered H.R., not HB. ObamaCare is H.R. 3590. Introduced by Charles Rangel which tells you something.
The actual Act is at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590eas/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590eas.pdf
All 2409 pages.
Please read below...
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> Obama Care Highlighted by Page Number
> THE CARE BILL HB 3200
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> JUDGE KITHIL IS THE 2ND OFFICIAL WHO HAS OUTLINED THESE PARTS OF THE CARE BILL.
> Judge Kithil of Marble Falls, TX - highlighted the most egregious pages of HB3200
> Please read this........ especially the reference to pages 58 & 59
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> JUDGE KITHIL wrote:
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> Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to
> all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.
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> Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an
> individual's bank account and will have the authority to make
> electronic fund transfers from those accounts.
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> Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the
> government) for all union members, union retirees and for
> community organizations (such as the Association
> of Community Organizations for Reform Now -
> ACORN).
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> Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section
> will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their
> right mind come up with that?)
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> Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same
> regardless of specialty, and the government will set all
> doctors' fees.
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> Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care
> according to the patient's age.
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> Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on
> hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an
> exception.
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> Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care
> planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be
> required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five
> years. (Death counseling..)
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> Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify
> which doctors can write an end-of-life order.
> HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on to identify:
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>"Finally, It is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to
> members of Congress. Members of Congress are already
> exempt from the Social Security system, and have a well-funded
> private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on
> our Social Security plan, I believe they would find a very quick
> 'fix' to make the plan financially sound for their future."
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> -Honorable David Kithil of Marble Falls, Texas
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