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State Controlled Terrorism

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:18:00 +0000

Terrorism. That seems to be the word of the moment following the colossally horrific act of violence the world watched during the Boston Marathon.

Our nation is filled with terroristic acts from bombing abortion clinics, to sending poison through the mail, to assault “rifling” an elementary school. The United States is overrun with perverts and sociopaths.

To define the word terrorism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

The United States engages in terrorism on a regular basis. Our government has legitimized the use of terrorism through its state run acts of aggression against nation states, its people, and through its behavior.

We just learned, and this was no surprise, that the Bush administration’s deniers of torture were liars.

The problem is that the U.S. engages in violent acts of terrorism, yet we also have to acknowledge that the U.S. government has legitimized non-lethal force of terrorism, which is used to intimidate or coerce for specifically defined political purposes.

It begins with the radical right-wingers on the Supreme Court, which through their legal decisions have created their own version of non-lethal violence against average Americans. Citizens United is a significant decision that unleashed extraordinary amounts of money into campaigns and into advertising that is in itself violence against the average American’s way of life. When billions of dollars are handed out to political candidates that address the mandates authorized by the corporate elite, we have a plutocracy that orders how the country runs its policies and laws.

Citizens United funds influential “think tanks” and lobbyists to roam the halls of Congress muscling the people’s representatives to write legislation that is in the best interests of the corporate elite and the 1%. And, we have lobbyists, such as those hired by the NRA, who manipulate, coerce, and intimidate for political purposes. That is terrorism.

President Obama spoke about how terrorism cannot keep the will of the American people down, and how he will authorize whatever it takes to find the actors, yet he has not done a darn thing to stop the non-lethal form of terrorism unleashed by the megabankstas, the NRA, the Religious Right, the Tea Party, and those in Congress that are hell-bent on controlling women all over this nation through the closing down of women’s health clinics that discuss abortions, or do nothing when American jobs are sent overseas to countries that exploit workers.

The White House, the Congress, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court and all the others spend a great deal of time oppressing hard working people through their non-lethal forms of terrorism. The issue here is just how dulled the American people have become to what has actually been done to them. They accept it. The only form of terrorism that upsets them is the violent type that we saw at Newtown, and now in Boston, yet don’t even put the pressure on their legislators to do anything about it. Only until the violence comes knocking on their door do they open their mouths.

People cringe when they see innocent people mowed down for no apparent reason, yet there are reasons, although insane, that exist. The White Supremacists have their insane reasons; the radical Christian right have their insane reasons; the radical Israeli right have their insane reasons; the radical Muslim right have their insane reasons; the radical Tea Party have their insane reasons. The corporate elite have their insane reasons. Insane reasons are everywhere. The United States is filled with perverts and sociopaths.

Sadly, it will never end until the American people take back their government from the perverts and sociopaths that walk the halls of Congress—especially Congress, and stop accepting dangerous Supreme Court nutcases that should have never been allowed to sit on the bench for the rest of their lives!!!

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The 2013 CPAC Clown Car Needs Recon

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:26:00 +0000

The CPAC clown car filled with GOP loonies is in need of a reconstruction job. The clown car is totally damaged.

The GOP is in full blown panic. They have to be in order to allow the losers in the party to stand up on stage and act the fool. Palin, Romney, Santorum, Paul, and the rest are running scared that their agenda of crashing the country, while being driven by Democrats on the road to recovery, is being derailed. The Jihadists in the GOP are trying to grab the steering wheel, while the Democrats are driving in hopes to crash the Country Squire or sail it off the cliff.

In spite of all the efforts to derail the country’s economy, the Democrats have kept on a course of recovery. It appears to be working. What the GOP has done was to spend trillions of dollars on two wars and the follow-up occupations with nothing to show for it. That has been their big fail. In addition, they have allowed the Too Big To Fail Bankstas to grow even bigger creating another giant squid that might strangle the nation in the future.

The GOP is nothing more than ‘American Jihadist Movement’ working for the richest and greediest oligarchs we have. The Grotesquely Oligarchian Party believes in a plutocratic oligarchy ruled by the richest corporatists in the nation. The GOP does not want to see the nation’s infrastructure repaired for future growth. They would rather see the rich benefactors get another tax cut at the expense of everyone else. They would rather see working class Americans pay more for their health care, their Medicare and Medicaid, and see their Social Security privatized.

When assessing bridges alone, 24% of all of America’s bridges are in need of repair and failing. The nation’s overall infrastructure is failing.

http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-20/business/37846858_1_report-card-infrastructure-improvements

They would love to sell off the nation’s “common wealth”—bridges, roads, parking meters, etc. to the rich so they can charge rent back to the taxpayers.

They have no conscience when it comes to those who work hard, while trying take care of their families, but end up bankrupt or close to it because their health care carriers have robbed them of premiums while failing to cover them when they become very sick.

I once read that the Anti-Christ is greed; therefore, the GOP and those American Jihadists within the party serving the ‘Corporate Masters of Greed’ have to be the Anti-Christ. How ironic that these fakes and frauds go to church and pretend to be followers of their Christian faith. They carry a False Flag!

In the beginnings of WWII, Italy was ruled by Mussolini—a fascist. His government served the corporatists, who dictated the rules of government and policy, and in return toese corporatists rewarded those government trolls with jobs and cash and gifts for serving them. This is what we have today, especially in the GOP.

It is interesting that when the GOP have the White House and Congress, they spend like there is no tomorrow, but when Democrats take over after their debacles, as we saw

between 2000-2008, they complain that spending to repair and recover the nation’s damage is wrong. But, it is perfectly fine to reward the villains that destroyed the economy under their own watch and rule even when they are out of power. They become so angry when their masters within the elite corporate hierarchy aren’t given what they want. The hungry parasitic beast must be fed according to the GOP.

In 2010, the top 1% had income growth of over 11.6%, while the 99% had an income growth around .02%. Wage inequality continues to grow under the GOP’s leadership in the Congress, along with governorships and GOP state legislatures.

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2010.pdf

The GOP is not interested in growing the economy, and putting people back to work. They appear more inclined to continue the outsourcing of jobs their corporate benefactors love to do. 2/3rds of all jobs created in the private sector are outsourced.

The largest corporations that are the GOP’s benefactors have outsourced 2.4 million jobs.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/04/19/159555/us-corporations-outsourced-americans/?mobile=nc

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/07/09/11898/5-facts-about-overseas-outsourcing/

Approximately 26% of the nation’s infrastructure is in need of repair. The GOP fights tooth and nail to keep President Obama and the Democrats from spending money to fix America and put people back to work. They hate people working! They want people indebted instead of paying down their debts.

http://www.naturalnews.com/036744_national_infrastructure_civil_engineers_roads.html

Nearly a third of Americans are experiencing credit card debt, yet the GOP continues to rail that the U.S. government needs to be out of debt with a balanced budget. Rand Paul and his fellow Jihadis can’t keep from looking stupid when discussing this issue. The U.S. government has had debt along with prosperity. President Obama has lowered the nation’s debt by around $330B while in office!!! But, the Paul-Paul’s keep spewing the fact that the nation needs to have a balanced budget, otherwise, we won’t see a recovery.

The facts are that home prices are increasing and homebuilders are building. The car companies are selling again. More people are working again. And, consumers are spend, although cautiously. The nation is in recovery, although slowly, but the GOP can’t and won’t admit it because they are afraid if they do, they will lose votes from the Kool-Aid drinkers in their own states and districts. They are afraid to admit that the economy is in recovery in spite of their efforts to derail it.

On the downside, the Fed is working against the economy by falsely inflating housing prices pulling many of those with “underwater” mortgages above the surface, once again,

through a smoke and mirror game plan. As the banking crime syndicate and their Shadow Banking brotherhood members keep around 10 million foreclosed homes from reaching the market (around $1T in value), home prices are falsely inflated higher. And, that is not counting the currently available foreclosed and short sell inventory. In addition, the Banking Crime Syndicate is heavily writing more toxic Mortgage Backed Securities, once again, creating bundles of toxic and healthy mortgages and selling them as bonds. We are also seeing their CDO products hitting the streets and Congress has done nothing about its potential catastrophic consequences if they again explode. Congress is doing nothing to really fix this.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/michael-olenick-10-million-shadow-inventory-says-housing-market-is-a-long-way-from-the-bottom.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/synthetic-cdos-return_n_2918704.html

The CPAC clowns paraded up on stage in with their campaign-financed look and in Palin’s case drinking her Big Gulp soda. Is this the best the GOP has to offer Americans? Pitiful is a nice word to use to describe it.

Huffington Post wrote, “Bachmann made comments about the supposedly lavish lifestyle Obama leads inside the White House during her speech at CPAC, slamming the professional dog walker and multiple chefs she said were being paid with taxpayer money.”

"The claims of $1.4 billion in White House perks and excess, they fail on the facts in simple fairness". Bachmann was busted by a CNN reporter and Anderson Cooper for spewing these lies while parading around CPAC in her clown outfit.

Jeb Bush says, “"If you're fortunate enough to count yourself among the privileged, the rest of the nation is drowning." No comments on how to fix this problem.

Sarah Palin: "If you don't have a lobbyist in DC, you are not at the table, you are on the menu." So, Sarah, what is your solution?

Dr. Ben Carson said, "Many people don't know this, but socialism started as a reaction to America." WOW Ben, I had no idea that American began long before it was ever founded.

Bachmann spoke of more funding for cancer, Alzheimer's research. Sadly for Bachmann, who appears to not know what her colleagues are saying, the Ryan budget proposed cutting funding for medical research.

Bachmann believes that the GOP austerity programs fits into her statement that conservatism is "the movement of love, the movement of care."

“Our Founding Fathers knew that without the Second Amendment and that freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy… If you aren’t free to protect yourself when government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you aren’t free at all,” Wayne LaPierre proclaimed. He went on to say, “Let’s get this straight. To protect our children in school, we recommend a trained professional with a gun, they recommend scissors. And they say we’re crazy?”

This guy blabbers about guns being taken away when there is not a shed of fact to back it up. And, his solution to arm a person in the schools is going to be the solution. Who do we arm? We arm the custodian who might be too busy to know when a person shoots his way into the school with an automatic weapon? Or, how about the kids? Let’s arm them.

"Face it -- the left can always promise more stuff," Santorum said. Here we go again with the “stuff” comments. If he is referring to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as “stuff”, then I believe even Republican working class people want them Rickie.

This is the CPAC Clown Car! This is the Republican Party of today. Paulie Walnuts Ryan says it time to clear out the Old and bring in the New. This is his idea of new.

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The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It Hasn't

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:36:00 +0000

From Truth-out.org, by Dr. Ellen Brown, 2-24-13. Read link here.

As QE is practiced today, the money created on a computer screen never makes it into the real, producing economy.

Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money to the money supply, increasing demand. But so far, it hasn't been working. Why not? Because as practiced for the last two decades, QE does not actually increase the circulating money supply. It merely cleans up the toxic balance sheets of banks.

A real "helicopter drop" that puts money into the pockets of consumers and businesses has not yet been tried. Why not? Another good question.

When Ben Bernanke gave his famous helicopter money speech to the Japanese in 2002, he was not yet chairman of the Federal Reserve. He said then that the government could easily reverse a deflation, just by printing money and dropping it from helicopters.

"The US government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent)," he said, "that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost." Later in the speech, he discussed "a money-financed tax cut," which he said was "essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money." Deflation could be cured, said Friedman, simply by dropping money from helicopters.

It seemed logical enough. If the money supply were insufficient for the needs of trade, the solution was to add money to it. Most of the circulating money supply consists of "bank credit" created by banks when they make loans. When old loans are paid off faster than new loans are taken out (as is happening today), the money supply shrinks. The purpose of QE is to reverse this contraction.

But if debt deflation is so easy to fix, then why have the Fed's massive attempts to pull this maneuver off failed to revive the economy? And why is Japan still suffering from deflation after 20 years of quantitative easing?

On a technical level, the answer has to do with where the money goes. The widespread belief that QE is flooding the economy with money is a myth. Virtually all of the money it creates simply sits in the reserve accounts of banks.

That is the technical answer, but the motive behind it may be something deeper.

An Asset Swap Is Not a Helicopter Drop

As QE is practiced today, the money created on a computer screen never makes it into the real, producing economy. It goes directly into bank reserve accounts, and it stays there. Except for the small amount of "vault cash" available for withdrawal from commercial banks, bank reserves do not leave the doors of the central bank.

According to Peter Stella, former head of the Central Banking and Monetary and Foreign Exchange Operations Divisions at the International Monetary Fund:

Banks do not lend 'reserves....' Whether commercial banks let the reserves they have acquired through QE sit 'idle' or lend them out in the internet bank market 10,000 times in one day among themselves, the aggregate reserves at the central bank at the end of that day will be the same.

This point is also stressed in Modern Monetary Theory. As explained by Prof. Scott Fullwiler:

Banks can't 'do' anything with all the extra reserve balances. Loans create deposits; reserve balances don't finance lending or add any 'fuel' to the economy. Banks don't lend reserve balances except in the federal funds market, and in that case the Fed always provides sufficient quantities to keep the federal funds rate at its ... interest rate target.

Reserves are used simply to clear checks between banks. They move from one reserve account to another, but the total money in bank reserve accounts remains unchanged. Banks can lend their reserves to each other, but they cannot lend them to us.

QE as currently practiced is simply an asset swap. The central bank swaps newly created dollars for toxic assets clogging the balance sheets of commercial banks. This ploy keeps the banks from going bankrupt, but it does nothing for the balance sheets of federal or local governments, consumers or businesses.

Central Bank Ignorance or Sabotage? Another Look at the Japanese Experience

That brings us to the motive. Twenty years is a long time to repeat a policy that isn't working.

UK Professor Richard Werner invented the term quantitative easing when he was advising the Japanese in the 1990s. He says he had something quite different in mind from the current practice. He intended for QE to increase the credit available to the real economy. Today, he says:

All QE is doing is to help banks increase the liquidity of their portfolios by getting rid of longer-dated slightly less liquid assets and raising cash.... Reserve expansion is a standard monetarist policy and required no new label.

Werner contends that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) intentionally sabotaged his proposal, adopting his language, but not his policy; and other central banks have taken the same approach since.

In his 2003 book Princes of the Yen, Werner maintains that in the 1990s, the BOJ consistently foiled government attempts at creating a recovery. As summarized in a review of the book:

The post-war disappearance of the military triggered a power struggle between the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan for control over the economy. While the ministry strove to maintain the controlled economic system that created Japan's post-war economic miracle, the central bank plotted to break free from the ministry by reverting to the free markets of the 1920s....

They reckoned that the wartime economic system and the vast legal powers of the Ministry of Finance could only be overthrown if there was a large crisis - one that would be blamed on the ministry. While observers assumed that all policy-makers have been trying their best to kick-start Japan's economy over the past decade, the surprising truth is that one key institution did not try hard at all.

Werner maintains that the Bank of Japan not only blocked the recovery, but actually created the bubble that precipitated the downturn:

Those central bankers who were in charge of the policies that prolonged the recession were the very same people who were responsible for the creation of the bubble....

They ordered the banks to expand their lending aggressively during the 1980s. In 1989, [they] suddenly tightened their credit controls, thus bringing down the house of cards that they had built up before....

With banks paralyzed by bad debts, the central bank held the key to a recovery: Only it could step in and create more credit. It failed to do so, and hence the recession continued for years. Thanks to the long recession, the Ministry of Finance was broken up and lost its powers. The Bank of Japan became independent and its power has now become legal.

In the US, too, the central bank holds the key to recovery. Only it can create more credit for the broad economy. But reversing recession has taken a backseat to resuscitating zombie banks, maintaining the feudal dominion of a private financial oligarchy.

In Japan, interestingly, all that may be changing with the election of a new administration. As reported in a January 2013 article in Business Week:

Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party swept back into power in mid-December by promising a high-octane mix of monetary and fiscal policies to pull Japan out of its two-decade run of economic misery. To get there, Prime Minister Abe is threatening a hostile takeover of the Bank of Japan, the nation's central bank. The terms of surrender may go something like this: Unless the BOJ agrees to a 2 percent inflation target and expands its current government bond-buying operation, the ruling LDP might push a new central bank charter through the Japanese Diet. That charter would greatly diminish the BOJ's independence to set monetary policy and allow the prime minister to sack its governor.

From Bankers' Bank to Government Bank

Making the central bank serve the interests of the government and the people is not a new idea. Prof. Tim Canova points out central banks have only recently been declared independent of government:

Independence has really come to mean a central bank that has been captured by Wall Street interests, very large banking interests. It might be independent of the politicians, but it doesn't mean it is a neutral arbiter. During the Great Depression and coming out of it, the Fed took its cues from Congress. Throughout the entire 1940s, the Federal Reserve as a practical matter was not independent. It took its marching orders from the White House and the Treasury - and it was the most successful decade in American economic history.

To free the central bank from Wall Street capture, Congress or the president could follow the lead of Shinzo Abe and threaten a hostile takeover of the Fed unless it unless it directs its credit fire hose into the real economy. The unlimited, near-zero-interest credit line made available to banks needs to be made available to federal and local governments.

When a similar suggestion was made to Ben Bernanke in January 2011, however, he said he lacked the authority to comply. If that was what Congress wanted, he said, it would have to change the Federal Reserve Act.

And that is what may need to be done: Rewrite the Federal Reserve Act to serve the interests of the economy and the people.

Webster Tarpley observes that the Fed advanced $27 trillion to financial institutions through the TAF (Term Asset Facility), the TALF (Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility) and similar facilities. He proposes an Infrastructure Facility extending credit on the same terms to state and local governments. It might offer to buy $3 trillion in 100-year, zero-coupon bonds, the minimum currently needed to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. The collateral backing these bonds would be sounder than the commercial paper of zombie banks, since it would consist of the roads, bridges and other tangible infrastructure built with the loans. If the bond issuers defaulted, the Fed would get the infrastructure.

Quantitative easing as practiced today is not designed to serve the real economy. It is designed to serve bankers who create money as debt and rent it out for a fee. The money power needs to be restored to the people and the government, but we need an executive and legislature willing to stand up to the banks. A popular movement could give them the backbone. In the meantime, states could set up their own banks, which could leverage the state's massive capital and revenue base into credit for the local economy.

The coming drone attack on America

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:00 +0000

By Naomi Wolf, from The Guardian, 12-21-12

Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised.

People often ask me, in terms of my argument about "ten steps" that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both US military and by commercial interests, into US airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in surveillance and with the capacity for weaponization – which is due to begin in earnest at the start of the new year – it means that the police state is now officially here.

In February of this year, Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically. Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that this followed a major lobbying effort, "a huge push by […] the defense sector" to promote the use of drones in American skies: 30,000 of them are expected to be in use by 2020, some as small as hummingbirds – meaning that you won't necessarily see them, tracking your meeting with your fellow-activists, with your accountant or your congressman, or filming your cruising the bars or your assignation with your lover, as its video-gathering whirs.

Others will be as big as passenger planes. Business-friendly media stress their planned abundant use by corporations: police in Seattle have already deployed them.

An unclassified US air force document reported by CBS (pdf) news expands on this unprecedented and unconstitutional step – one that formally brings the military into the role of controlling domestic populations on US soil, which is the bright line that separates a democracy from a military oligarchy. (The US constitution allows for the deployment of National Guard units by governors, who are answerable to the people; but this system is intended, as is posse comitatus, to prevent the military from taking action aimed at US citizens domestically.)

The air force document explains that the air force will be overseeing the deployment of its own military surveillance drones within the borders of the US; that it may keep video and other data it collects with these drones for 90 days without a warrant – and will then, retroactively, determine if the material can be retained – which does away for good with the fourth amendment in these cases. While the drones are not supposed to specifically "conduct non-consensual surveillance on on specifically identified US persons", according to the document, the wording allows for domestic military surveillance of non-"specifically identified" people (that is, a group of activists or protesters) and it comes with the important caveat, also seemingly wholly unconstitutional, that it may not target individuals "unless expressly approved by the secretary of Defense".

In other words, the Pentagon can now send a domestic drone to hover outside your apartment window, collecting footage of you and your family, if the secretary of Defense approves it. Or it may track you and your friends and pick up audio of your conversations, on your way, say, to protest or vote or talk to your representative, if you are not "specifically identified", a determination that is so vague as to be meaningless.

What happens to those images, that audio? "Distribution of domestic imagery" can go to various other government agencies without your consent, and that imagery can, in that case, be distributed to various government agencies; it may also include your most private moments and most personal activities. The authorized "collected information may incidentally include US persons or private property without consent". Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told CBS:

"In some records that were released by the air force recently … under their rules, they are allowed to fly drones in public areas and record information on domestic situations."

This document accompanies a major federal push for drone deployment this year in the United States, accompanied by federal policies to encourage law enforcement agencies to obtain and use them locally, as well as by federal support for their commercial deployment. That is to say: now HSBC, Chase, Halliburton etc can have their very own fleets of domestic surveillance drones. The FAA recently established a more efficient process for local police departments to get permits for their own squadrons of drones.

Given the Department of Homeland Security militarization of police departments, once the circle is completed with San Francisco or New York or Chicago local cops having their own drone fleet – and with Chase, HSBC and other banks having hired local police, as I reported here last week – the meshing of military, domestic law enforcement, and commercial interests is absolute. You don't need a messy, distressing declaration of martial law.

And drone fleets owned by private corporations means that a first amendment right of assembly is now over: if Occupy is massing outside of a bank, send the drone fleet to surveil, track and harass them. If citizens rally outside the local Capitol? Same thing. As one of my readers put it, the scary thing about this new arrangement is deniability: bad things done to citizens by drones can be denied by private interests – "Oh, that must have been an LAPD drone" – and LAPD can insist that it must have been a private industry drone. For where, of course, will be the accountability from citizens buzzed or worse by these things?

Domestic drone use is here, and the meshing has begun: local cops in Grand Forks, North Dakota called in a DHS Predator drone – the same make that has caused hundreds of civilian casualties in Pakistan – over a dispute involving a herd of cattle. The military rollout in process and planned, within the US, is massive: the Christian Science Monitor reportsthat a total of 110 military sites for drone activity are either built or will be built, in 39 states. That covers America.

We don't need a military takeover: with these capabilities on US soil and this air force white paper authorization for data collection, the military will be effectively in control of the private lives of American citizens. And these drones are not yet weaponized.

"I don't think it's crazy to worry about weaponized drones. There is a real consensus that has emerged against allowing weaponized drones domestically. The International Association of Chiefs of Police has recommended against it," warns Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU, noting that there is already political pressure in favor of weaponization:

"At the same time, it is inevitable that we will see [increased] pressure to allow weaponized drones. The way that it will unfold is probably this: somebody will want to put a relatively 'soft' nonlethal weapon on a drone for crowd control. And then things will ratchet up from there."

And the risk of that? The New America Foundation's report on drone use in Pakistan noted that the Guardian had confirmed 193 children's deaths from drone attacks in seven years. It noted that for the deaths of ten militants, 1,400 civilians with no involvement in terrorism also died. Not surprisingly, everyone in that region is traumatized: children scream when they hear drones. An NYU and Stanford Law School report notes that drones "terrorize citizens 24 hours a day".

If US drones may first be weaponized with crowd-control features, not lethal force features, but with no risk to military or to police departments or DHS, the playing field for freedom of assembly is changed forever. So is our private life, as the ACLU's Stanley explains:

"Our biggest concerns about the deployment of drones domestically is that they will be used to create pervasive surveillance networks. The danger would be that an ordinary individual once they step out of their house will be monitored by a drone everywhere they walk or drive. They may not be aware of it. They might monitored or tracked by some silent invisible drone everywhere they walk or drive."

"So what? Why should they worry?" I asked.

"Your comings and goings can be very revealing of who you are and what you are doing and reveal very intrusive things about you – what houses of worship you are going to, political meetings, particular doctors, your friends' and lovers' houses."

I mentioned the air force white paper. "Isn't the military not supposed to be spying on Americans?" I asked.

"Yes, the posse comitatus act passed in the 19th century forbids a military role in law enforcement among Americans."

What can we do if we want to oppose this? I wondered. According to Stanley, many states are passing legislation banning domestic drone use. Once again, in the fight to keep America a republic, grassroots activism is pitched in an unequal contest against a militarized federal government.

By 2020, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 drones will be in use in US domestic airspace. Photograph: US navy/Reuters

President Obama's Second Inauguration

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:01:00 +0000

Here we are celebrating the second inauguration of President Obama, yet we are still hearing from the stonewallers on the right. Listening to NPR this afternoon, I heard more delusional grandstanding by rightwing pundits.

Their old and stale presidential campaign slogan of the “takers and makers” is still being pulled up from the grave, and their belief that the corporate elite are the makers, when in reality they are the nation’s most dramatic, and at times, grotesque takers!!! They cannot make the profits they have experienced unless the government steps in to offer them significant handouts, perks and favors, along with opportunities to feed from the government gravy train.

They have loved their government no-bid contracts, government bid contracts, government military support in regions of the world where they are mining and drilling and need public protections to make their profits, along with shipping lanes protections; tax write-offs, tax breaks, corporation protections; patent and copyright protections; tax abatements; good roads, bridges, shipping ports, rails all paid for by the taxpayers; government grants; bailouts; government subsidies; cheap Federal Reserve borrowing; inexpensive government leases on public lands; and more!

When will they stop getting drunk on the Kool-Aid that they mix up for each other and serve in their fantasy beakers? I guess it will never end until they are further marginalized by a public that will wake up to the truth-one person at a time. Then and only then will the voting public choose candidates that represent THEIR own best interests and not the interests of the corporate elite who want to deny then health care, good wages, educational opportunities, and truth. Too many people have not a clue other than they are haters and deniers of fact.

The sad truth now is that more and more people are leaving high school without the skills that would allow their brains to read for meaning, analyze and formulate deductions from the content they are reading. Fiction is too abstract for many; therefore, schools are using non-fiction instead. Often we blame the teacher instead of blaming the individual, their family, or other factors.

Our GOPsychopathetics want to rail about their individualism and that people need to take care of themselves instead of having the government take care of them. Yet, this thinking fails when they blame teachers instead of the individual for not taking responsibility for their own learning. They want all of us to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps!

I would like Bobby Jindal aka Alfred E. Newman, and Mitch – the – Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz) – McConnell to sit on the floor and try pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps. It cannot be done. It is a delusion. It is very clear that neither of them, nor their sociopathic cellmates in Congress or in various governorship positions have NEVER EVER accomplished a damn thing totally by themselves. Nor has BP or any other corporation, for that matter.

What we are hearing today from the rightwing GOPsychopathetics is that Obama needs to be less divisive and more uniting. How hypocritical these blank-slated humans are to their own history. Don’t they remember their last president LilboyBush who upon winning a second term said that he had gained political capital and was going to use it?

President Mission Accomplished spent his political capital giving more to the Real Takers of this nation while the Democrats felt it should be spent differently. On the other side, President Obama has always tried to compromise, find consensus, and communicate to the GOP, yet has found them not willing to do the same. The difference in the use of political capital is that President Obama has clearly stated his commitment to those who have paid into their payroll tax commitments and who expect to receive them upon retirement, while those in the GOP want to alter that commitment in favor of more and more offerings and transfers of wealth to those 1%ers buying up all the political favor cards.

One GOPie said on the radio that too many people are receiving Social Security and that should stop. The middle class don’t require such a benefit, since they are not that needy when compared to the less fortunate among us. Social Security is not a pending issue!! It can be fixed by simply removing the cap on wages over $106,800. At that point, a means testing formula could be implemented for those at the top of the earning’s scale.

I do believe that these GOPsychopathetics seem to ignore the fact that it has not been President Obama who has been divisive but the very folks on the right. We have had Boehner and McConnell both preaching how their objective was to stand in Obama’s way throughout his first term in hopes of making him a one-term president. Well, what they had hoped for just didn’t happen as they had expected. They decided to nominate Mr. 47% as their presidential candidate, and had their rape denying zombies run for congressional seats as they flushed diversity down the toilet. Don’t forget their hatred for anyone voting against them to do it easily. Or, their brigade of psychopaths led by the likes of Allen West hoping to retain their spot in the congressional dining room. And then, there is the Tea Party, which is totally bent over showing its array of obstructionist assholes.

So, the fact is that it has been the rightwing style jihadist (modified definition: refers to a person who believes that a far-right state governing the entire community of Americans must be created, and that this necessity justifies hateful and hostile conflict with those who stand in its way.) that have been standing in the way of progress, jobs, growth, stimulus, reforms in health care, banking, finance, taxes, military spending, global climate change, alternative energy development, and more.

We all know what the GOP playbook was throughout President Obama’s first term, now we have to see if Barack is able to use HIS political capital to set the stage for a turn over in 2014 that will send those obstructionist GOPies back home for good; and, if that would make a difference.

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Mr. Incompetent Himself-Alan Greenspan Is The Heart Of The Fix The Debt Jihad

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:23:00 +0000

Whaddya Know? Professional Economy Wrecker Alan Greenspan Is at the Heart of the Insidious 'Fix the Debt Campaign, by Dean Baker, Alternet.org

Alan Greenspan will go down in history as the person who has done more damage to the U.S. economy and society that anyone who was not a foreign enemy. In fact the destruction he wreaked through his incompetence would also exceed the damage caused by almost all would-be enemies as well.

Greenspan accomplished the remarkable feat as Fed chair of ignoring the growth of the $8 trillion housing bubble. This bubble could not have been easier to see if it had been 500 feet high and lit up with huge neon signs saying "Huge Housing Bubble." But Greenspan insisted the bubble was not there.

And Greenspan somehow didn't recognize that the collapse of this massive bubble would devastate the economy....

If we had a political debate that was driven by evidence, where the accuracy of one's past judgements played any role in the credibility granted their current opinion, then Greenspan would be relegated to the role of ranting fool. His opinions on the economy would be given slightly less credibility than the mumblings of a street drunk...

"The Campaign to Fix the Debt started to come together at a salon dinner held in the backyard of Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, in the fall of 2011. An influential group of economic, political and business leaders — including the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Mark Bertolini, the chief executive of the Aetna insurance company — huddled in a too-small tent in the pouring rain."

Click the link to read the complete article.

These predators, or I should say sociopaths, really want to convert the United States into a total kleptocracy ruled by the corporate royalists who feed their underlings consulting fees and duty-free jobs after doing their corporate bidding while serving in government or in mindless think tanks funded by the corporate royalists.

The latest to receive a duty-free job is PA Congressman Jason Altmire, who now has a job with Florida Blue, since his Blue Dog role in the Congress was ousted by a Teabagging nutbag from his district. The revolving door of do-nothing jobs with benefits continues.

Their desires are to keep wages and salaries low or stagnated, jobs at a premium, and the consumer indebted to them via credit cards, and mortgages.

When will the working class voters wake up to their manipulation by the GOPsychopathetics they elect?

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The Fiscal Cliff and the CEO Corporate Psychopaths Inside the Campaign To Fix The Debt

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:04:00 +0000

This country is filling up its time with frenzied talk about the Fiscal Cliff. The real story is how the corporate financial clots are hardening up the arteries of the nation’s circulatory system, which is made up mostly by hard working middle and lower class Americans. But, the GOP, which are “clot” deposits clogging the arteries restricting the flow of blood, or prosperity by layering their austerity proposals, or fatty deposits, upon the clots. Instead, they want to produce a cardio infarction that would lead toward a middle and lower class austerity diet, while those have caused the infarction would continue to suck off the government’s teat feeding from the glutinous trough of tax cuts, tax abatements, tax write-offs, bail outs, low tax rates, no-bid/bid government contracts, benefits from discounts when using public lands, benefits from military protections, such as trade lanes, government grants, subsidies, and list can go on and on and on.

Currently, we are seeing a feeding frenzy facilitated by the Campaign To Fix The Debt corporate groupies who want to stick-it to working people. They don’t believe that people, who don’t wear $1000 suits to work, or have padded expense account credit cards, or drive high end luxury cars to work, or have their executive assistants do their dirty work for them should be able to retire at 65 and receive their Social Security checks.

These corporate crybaby predators want the age extended so those who get their hands dirty, or strain their bodies, or are on their feet all day have to work extra years to receive what they have paid into by the age of 65.

These corporate crybaby predators don’t want these hard working people to receive Medicare, or Medicaid, at the price they are hoping to pay. They want cuts to Medicare so these people, who make the things that corporations make and sell, have to pay more for it straining their retirement budgets, while these CEO and CFO corporate predators, who, on average will receive $9 million, will retire in luxury.

These corporate crybabies are today’s modern day psychopaths.

From Dr. Brian Moench, written on Truthout.org—“Schizophrenics, Psychopaths Holding America Hostage”:

“A 2005 British study compared the psychological profiles of 39 senior business executives at leading British companies with those of mental patients in the UK's Broadmoor Special Hospital. The business leaders scored a clear "victory" in the three traits normally used to identify the emotional dysfunction of psychopaths: histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and compulsive personality disorder.

  Other studies suggest that financial elites, like psychopaths, are more likely to feel like rules and societal constraints don't apply to them. Mitt Romney's entire business and political career, especially his approach to paying taxes, is the freshest, most conspicuous example of this personality trait.”

The piece goes on to talk about the CEOs behind the Fix The Debt efforts:

“Enter the 71 corporate CEOs behind the current Campaign To Fix The Debt. These are CEOs making the media rounds and spending $30 million dollars pounding the table on achieving federal deficit reduction exclusively by dismantling the social safety nets - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - while they sit on their own massive retirement funds averaging $9.1 million. These are the same CEOs who have contributed mightily to and benefited personally from the deficit they now want closed. Their companies have received trillions in federal war contracts, subsidies and bailouts, as well as specialized tax breaks and loopholes that virtually eliminate the companies' tax bills - companies like Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, AT &T, and Boeing. And no, they are not offering to reduce their feeding at the public trough, instead they want us to turn away the poor, disabled and the vulnerable, calling government support for them "low priority spending."

“Meanwhile, CEOs of the major fossil fuel companies have enough scientific expertise to know that their business model of extracting all the carbon they can get their hands on threatens the very survival of all of mankind, yet they are undaunted in doing exactly that. Who cares about the collapse of civilization when there are quarterly profits to be made? How are these captains of the fossil fuel industry not psychopaths?”

This is what America is dealing with inside our legislative branch of government. We have all kinds of deniers. Those who believe the Earth is only 6000 years old. Or, that climate change does not exist. Or, that a woman’s body can naturally abort the seed of a rapist. Or, that an aspirin held between a woman’s legs will prevent pregnancies.

We have psychopaths and the mentally deranged making decisions for the rest of the country. Most live inside the GOP, ie. The Grotesquely Oligarchian Psychopathic Party. This GOP is made up of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, and other “fatty deposits” that are not wanting to believe that a majority of the American people have said “NO” to their agenda and their presidential candidate.

They don’t want to hear what the American people have said:

Raise tax rates on all those earning over $250K.
Leave Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone.
Make deep cuts in the defense budget.

And, here are some added pieces that the American people want to include in this Fiscal Cliff budget deal (or some facsimile thereof):

Eliminate the cap on Social Security and then, means test anyone earning over $500k.
Put into place a Wall Street financial transaction tax on all short term transactions.
Tax dividends and capital gains at a 32% tax rate for anyone earning over $300K per year.
Raise tax rates on all income over $250K.
Cut tax loopholes for anyone earning over $500K.
Demand that the government negotiate with drug companies for lower drug prices on behalf of all Medicare and Medicaid recipients just as it is done for the Veterans Association.
Begin to reduce the amount of private contracts for work that military personnel can do.

Doing what I have listed could save the government a great deal of money, and bring about the desired level of new revenues the president is asking for.

Eliot Spitzer wrote on Alternet.org instituting a financial transaction tax in his piece titled

“Tax the Traders! It Would Solve Economic Crisis and Stop Reckless Activity”.

These high end corporate crybaby psychopaths and their legislative stooges in the GOP don’t want to see any government stimulus in order to put Americans back to work doing jobs that cannot be exported. They hate that!!!

They don’t want to admit that China is the world’s leader in manufacturing as a result of huge amounts of government stimulus. They love to ship jobs overseas, especially China, because of their large injections of government cash in the building of a successful industrial infrastructure.

In the article written by Dr. Stephen Leeb, on Seekingalpha.com, titled “A Bright Spot in the Global Economic Landscape”, we read just how successful China is and how Japan, in spite of its fiscal problems won’t institute austerity programs upon its people, but instead, believes in adding more stimulus into the economy.

“One bright spot in the global economic landscape, despite its many detractors today, is China. That country's economy appears to be stabilizing and is likely to accelerate in the months ahead. We learned recently, for instance, that China's manufacturing activity increased last month for the first time in more than a year. This is the latest in a string of reports in the last few months supporting a turnaround in China's economy. The de-stocking cycle there appears to be ending, and the rebuilding of inventories coupled with greater investment and government spending on infrastructure should drive domestic demand higher.”

“Looking further east: Japan, the world's third-largest economy, contracted by 3.5 percent in the third quarter on an annual basis - and the fourth quarter is shaping up to be equally bad. If so, it will mark the fifth time in the past 15 years that Japan's economy has fallen into recession.

Japan is less concerned with austerity, but still has a tough road ahead. To combat this situation, Japan's government is adding more stimulus, announcing a new fiscal package last week worth 880 billion yen ($10.7 billion), while the Bank of Japan expanded its asset purchase program in October to about 91 trillion yen ($1.1 trillion). Moreover, Shinzo Abe, the presumptive next prime minister after elections are held in a couple of weeks, has vowed to take additional monetary measures to drive down the value of the yen to spur the economy.”

These high end corporate crybaby predators, led by Peter G. Peterson, of the Peter Peterson Foundation and founder of the Comeback America Initiative, are wanting to gorge themselves on more and more government money and profits.

This is from Huffington Post, Richard (RJ) Eskow, in the piece “'Fix the Debt' Shows Its True, Billionaire-Funded, Anti-Tax Colors”:

“Peterson's Hydra-headed operation has gone by many names over the years, including the "Comeback America Initiative," "The Can Kicks Back," and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to name just a few. But while the guises have been many, the message has always been the same: Gut Social Security and Medicare. Shrink government. And absurdly, reduce tax rates for millionaires and corporations in the name of deficit reduction.”

This is the agenda of American’s current number of corporate psychopaths.

Here is some propaganda spewed by one of the financial sucking predators on the right.

[Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt] “MacGuineas herself has been an extreme anti-tax ideologue for quite some time, using her billionaire-funded platform for years to write appropriately revenue-unfriendly commentary, often with chirpy sales-brochure-ish titles like "The Corporate Tax Is Dying!" (Exclamation point included.) That 2005 piece, published in Legal Affairs, included statements like this one:

"American corporate tax rates are higher than those imposed by most of our trading partners, and that disadvantage takes its toll."

Not so. The official tax rate is on the high-end, but the actual taxes paid by US corporations are lower than those of most other industrialized countries.”

This is what the GOP is great at---lying, and then, lying some more!!

Here is more from the Maya Monster:

“MacGuineas proposes a severely regressive consumption tax that would hit consumers far harder than corporations. (There are arguments for well-structured "VAT" programs; MacGuineas doesn't make any of them.) She also argues for eliminating home mortgage deductions and employer health benefit tax breaks, which would have a devastating impact on the middle class.

MacGuineas is also given to arguing for another position: means-testing Social Security and Medicare. That's not surprising, since the idea was first widely promoted by another Peterson entity, the Concord Coalition. And while the idea may sound reasonable, the Concord Coalition's idea of "high earners" who ought to see their benefits cut starts at a lifetime average annual income of only $20,000 per year.”

Here is more from the Huffington Post author:

“With all these tax breaks for high earners and corporations, do MacGuineas and Crew have any ideas for raising revenue? Actually, they do: take it from the struggling middle class. MacGuineas co-authored a paper with economist Martin Feldstein arguing for a cap on individual income tax deductions -- a move that would effectively gut employer health insurance and other vital middle-class programs. (Feldstein's name may ring a bell with viewers of Inside Job, which explored his use of government positions to promote deregulation -- to the great advantage of corporations he served as a board member.

That's the hidden agenda behind the Peterson/corporate/billionaire lobby: cut tax rates for millionaires, billionaires, and corporations; end the payroll tax; downsize government, including Social Security and Medicare; and gain a little added revenue by shifting the tax burden onto the middle class. And that's why the lobby's "Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget" runs articles promoting "rate-reducing tax reform" and others with titles like "Reducing Both Tax Rates and the Deficit is Possible."

Mr. Eskow concludes:

“Let's be clear: This crowd doesn't really care about deficits. It never has. It's an anti-tax group, which pursues its goals by fighting to downsize government programs and "reform" the Internal Revenue code. Its natural allies are the Republican Party, the nation's mega-corporations, and billionaires.”

“Fix The Debt Campaign's Bipartisan Veneer Masks Conservative Backing”, written by Paul Blumenthal and Christina Wilkie, you will find a link to the list of the high end corporate crybaby psychopaths comprising the Campaign To Fix The Debt cabal.

Here is link for you.

http://www.fixthedebt.org/uploads/files/CEO-Fiscal-Leadership-Council-Membership.pdf

I want to conclude this piece by saying that President Obama and the Democrats MUST squash the dangerous group of psychopaths inside the Congress who are “clotting” up the system preventing it from moving forward toward improved health.

In addition, the Congress, the President, and Eric Holder must go after people like Florida Governor Rick Scott, and others around the nation that worked very hard to suppress the vote, intimidate voters, and control the outcome of the election through their tampering of the process.

We have learned that the organization called Anonymous had allegedly “firewalled” Karl Rove’s computer servers that were programmed to sabotage the Obama vote in Ohio. Rove did not know that his servers were blocked by Anonymous’ interventions numerous times. That is why Rove was shocked when Ohio went to Obama and was trying to convince Fox News to just wait for the real results.

http://www.examiner.com/article/anonymous-claims-karl-rove-tried-to-hack-steal-the-election

Scott must be investigated, along with those in Ohio, and elsewhere, who did what they could to Fix The Vote in favor of Romney. We cannot allow this corruption, and treasonous acts to go untouched. We must speak out and push for justice, along with the Congressional Democrats and the President to not waver in regards to the debt problems.

The clot thickens!

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Barack Obama Sheds Tears For Those Who Did The Work

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:56:00 +0000

This video shows to all of us what Barack stands for, and who he is as a person. The tears are symbols of his upcoming agenda and push to help all of us in the middle.

I am proud to have worked for him. Stay positive.

As Bruce Springsteen wrote, "No Surrender."

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President Obama's Speech at Bristow, VA-Amazing!

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:26:00 +0000

Watch this amazing speech!!

Barack Obama was incredibly inspirational.

Watch here!!!!

Mitt Romney, ie. Mr. Fantasy, Profited From The Auto Bailout

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:48:00 +0000

Mitt has morphed into the person that the band---Traffic--wrote about in their song, Mr. Fantasy:

Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years.

The truth is that no one has known this guy at all. He is a non-person. He is a Nowhere Man.

Mr. Fantasy benefited from the auto bailout, yet he has stated time and time again that the auto industry should have gone into bankruptcy. Now that the bailout is history and he profited from it, it is easy for him to say that the industry should have gone into bankruptcy.

Here is an excerpt from the piece written by Jason Cherkis and Zach Carter:

"In 2000, a financially struggling plastics company that supplied car parts received emergency funding from auto manufacturers General Motors and Ford Co. The plastics company was owned by Bain Capital, the firm co-founded by Mitt Romney."

Read the entire article here.

GM Helped Bain Capital Profit By Giving Funding To Struggling Parts Supplier Owned By Investment Firm.

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Flap-jackin' Mitt Romney Has No Core Beliefs

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:16:00 +0000

Mr. Nowhere Man is nothing but an empty suit with a sociopathic milky center. The guy is a pathological liar and this behavior appears to be sanctioned by the Mormon Church.

Just listen to this Mormon Moron. He is a disgrace and embarrassment to the United States as the rest of the world looks on.

Hey Pat Robertson--- could Hurricane Sandy and the possible winter storm nearing New England in the coming days be a message telling Republicans that they have chosen a very scary, and mentally ill candidate to run for president? I say yes!

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Is Mitt Romney Engaging In Domestic Terrorism?

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:16:00 +0000

The question is is Romney's political tactics a form of domestic terrorism? Instead of using death and killing as we typically imagine terrorism to be, could the use money to buy ads that are filled with lies promoting fear and intimidation be a form of domestic terrorism?

To define Terrorism, one might say it is:

The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

To define Violence, or might say it is

swift and intense force. Or, rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment. Or, an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws. Or, rough or immoderate vehemence, as of feeling or language.

So, we could extrapolate from the above definitions that, yes, Romney is engaging in domestic terrorism. Some of his ads are expressed in rough and intense force in the form of lies. His vehement lies are damaging, and intimidating in his pursuit of political aims.

They begin with his lies about Jeep and GM cutting domestic jobs and moving Jeep to China at the expense of domestic jobs. This is shameful and corrupt. This propaganda is what dictators do to stir fear and hate in order to align the population behind this kind of liar, who uses these techniques to maintain power and control.

In Romney's case, he is using these techniques to grab power and control from Obama in this election cycle.

Now, we have learned that the UAW has filed an ethics complaint against Romney due to his hiding of his financial investment in the auto parts manufacturer Delphi, located in Ohio.

According to documents, Romney stated that there should not have been any auto bailout to GM or Chrysler. They needed to go into bankruptcy. Yet, Romney purchased millions of dollars worth of shares in Delphi at the time for 32 cents a share after the stock price tanked. Now, those shares are worth around $32 per share. What is that? Is that a 4000% gain?

Once the bailout occurred, Romney decided to intimidate GM by demanding that GM pay higher prices for Delphi auto parts used in GM products, which, ultimately cost the taxpayers even more money than before the stock purchases by the Romney family.

Romney was already running for president, yet he was profiteering from the auto bailout knowing full well that Americans would be paying higher prices for Romney's auto parts.

The ethics complaint is asking if there was a conflict of interest by the Romneys. Since Romney has refused to reveal their tax returns that would show their investment in Delphi, the American people don't know just how powerful Romney is in the decisions made by Delphi executives.

Romney is NOT using weapons in his act of terrorism against American, but using lots and lots of money to intimidate votes with lies and fraudulent messages to try and capture control of power and the White House.

Read the story here.

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The Romney Clan As Slave Owners

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:03:00 +0000

The Mittology of Mittens

Mitt Romney: I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves

March 13, 2012

By Sarah Wood

In yet another seemingly faux pas moment for the former governor and presidential candidate, Mitt Romney tells a crowd of supporters in Alabama that he can relate to the plight of black individuals because his ancestors were slave owners in the 1800′s.
Mitt Romney was addressing a crowd in Prattville, Alabama this past Monday when he stated:

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

Even though this latest statement by Mitt Romney will undoubtedly be spun so that it will be seen as being taken out of context, someone needs to tell this man to just keep his mouth shut and smile. So far, he has told citizens that he is friends with NASCAR owners, NFL owners, and now that he is related to slave owners. Stick to economic policy Mitt, that’s your strong point. Your history at Bain Capital speaks for itself.
The Romney campaign has yet to release its version of the speech made in Prattville.

(I guess Romney also understands pimps and hookers, since his ancestors had multiple wives, too.)

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Ford Motor Company Uses Mike Rowe To Endorse Romney and Other Romney Mistakes

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:36:00 +0000

How stupid is Ford Motor Company? By marching Mike Rowe, Ford Motor Company's television shill, on Romney's stage, they have demonstrated their support for Mittens Romney in spite of what they say.

Romney pretending to say that Rowe was non-partisan was a pile of bull shit, which is Romney's middle name.

The neo-liberal agenda Mittens Romney has embraced, which is a radical conservative view of the world, will collapse our economy, if he is elected. We will see a significant drop in the stock market throughout his entire presidency, making him a one-termer, too.

Austerity is a fail even before it begins.

If you want to write Ford and tell them what you think, here is their email address.

See here.

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On another note----FEMA:

Mittens Romney had stated that he would eliminate FEMA and other federal emergency agencies and shift the responsibility solely upon each individual state.

After Hurricane Sandy, how do the citizens of the affected states and communities feel about that?

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Ford Motor Company Endorses Mitt Romney!!

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:24:00 +0000

Here we are people just days before the presidential election and while watching television I saw a Romney ad with a group of people sitting on stage behind him. One of those people just happened to be Mike Rowe, the pitchman for Ford Motor Company.

Yes!!! Ford was willing to allow Mike Rowe to attend Romney's campaign event, which so happened to become a television ad.

Is Ford brain dead? Who at Ford said that that would be a great idea?

As I recall, Mittens Romney wrote an Op-Ed piece saying that GM and Chrysler needed to go bankrupt instead of getting a loan from the US government in order save millions of jobs most of which worked in and around the US auto industry.

Had GM and Chrysler gone into bankruptcy, a great many of the related businesses: distribution companies, delivery, parts, electrical, tire, restaurants, groceries, etc. would have been crushed, or gone into bankruptcy themselves.

Does Ford actually believe that they would have survived the turmoil? Don't they believe that the American consumer, as well as world wide consumers, would have stopped buying American cars and trucks? Don't they believe that the American consumer would have held onto their wallets fearing that another major US corporation would have gone into bankruptcy, as well?

America---I will NEVER buy another Ford vehicle every again because of Ford's mindless idiocy in their support for Mitt Romney for president.

Oh, Romney said that Rowe is non-partisan. What BULLSHIT!!! He and Ford had to agree and sign permission over to the Romney campaign to allow that ad to be televised.

Democrats---send this post to everyone you know letting them know that Ford, who was saved, too, by President Obama when he decided to save millions of American jobs with his "Auto Bailout" program.

This is the thanks Ford has given President Obama for what he did. Ford basically shit on Obama's shoes!!!

If you want to email Ford, you can do it HERE.

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The Bain Worker Bus Tour Is Rolling

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:30:00 +0000

There is a new Rolling Thunder Review and it will be causing many headwinds for the sociopath--Mitt Romney. The new Rat By Another Name--Willard Mitt Romney needs to be prepared with a rain and wind proof slicker because the storm is comin' his way. Bain will be the bane of Mittens.

Here is the website for this group of Bained workers. See here.

Another day, another stop on the Bain worker bus tour. Please see updates to the calendar below.

Sunday 9/23 Janesville, 3 p.m. local (GM Plant: 1000 General Motors Drive)
Monday 9/24 Quad Cities (Moline Public Library, 3210 41st Street/Congressman Schillings office, 3000 41st Street, Moline, IL 61265)
Tuesday 9/25 Milwaukee
Wednesday 9/26: Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo
Thursday 9/27: Detroit
Friday 9/28: TBD
Saturday 9/29: TBD
Sunday 9/30: TBD
Monday 10/1: TBD
Tuesday 10/2: Youngstown
Wednesday 10/3: Pittsburgh
Friday Oct. 5: Frederick, MD
Saturday and Sunday Oct. 6-7: Northern Virginia
Monday and Tuesday Oct. 8-9: Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday Oct. 10: Bucks County, PA
Wednesday Oct. 10: Hudson Valley, NY
Thursday Oct. 11: Paterson, NJ
Thursday Oct. 11: Burlington, NJ
Friday – Sunday Oct. 12-14: New Hampshire
Monday Oct. 15: New York, NY
Tuesday Oct. 16: Hempstead, NY
Wednesday and Thursday Oct. 17-18: Boston, MA
Saturday Oct. 20: West Palm Beach, FL
Sunday Oct. 21: Miami, FL
Monday Oct. 22: Boca Raton, FL
Tuesday Oct. 23: St. Petersburg, FL

Mitt Romney Continues To Show Himself To Be A Sociopath

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:32:00 +0000

Romney jumped all over President Obama for violating “American Values” after the attack and murder of our diplomats in Libya, and the assault on our Egyptian embassy.

Slick Mitt railed against the president yet he, too, spoke about those same “American Values” which President Obama spoke about in spite of hailing vitriolic criticisms all over him. And, then he accused President Obama for the lack of “resolve”, in spite of the fact that Reagan and LilBoyBush saw attacks; therefore, they, too, must have lacked “resolve”. Romney makes no sense, whatsoever. This insane response shows, again, that he is a sociopath. He just spews stuff with no reality. His surrogates are saying that if we had a President Romney there would be no protests in the Middle East following an attack on our embassies because he would have shown “resolve” throughout his presidency. Where is the beef here, Mittens. Show us the beef. Give us examples how you have shown resolve. What we have seen are gaffs on your recent trips to Europe.

No resolve there or grace, for that matter!

Romney lacks grace, therefore, he shows dis-grace. Romney attacked Obama 6 hours BEFORE the U.S. embassy in Libya. 6 hours before there was a breech of this embassy Romney attacked Obama by saying that the president was apologetic and violated “American Values”.

In the eyes of Romney, lies and misrepresentations are “American Values.” Romney is not capable of apologizing for anything he does that is wrong—dead wrong. This shows clearly that he is a full blown sociopath!!!

By politicizing the deaths of foreign service officers without the facts, he demonstrated his sociopathic behaviors.

Romney, McCain, Ryan and other GOPsters have been accusing Obama of leading from behind, and his foreign policy judgment is weak and amateurish. Let us get it straight—Under LilBoyBush there were 12 attacks upon U.S. foreign embassies, and don’t forget the attack in the U.S. called “9/11”.

I am very sorry to have to say that McCain’s judgment is lacks credibility—he picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential choice!!

Hey Slick Mitt, what about LilBoyBush apologizing around the world for America. Yes—Bush apologized while in Africa for America’s role in slavery. How about apologizing for what happened in Abu Ghraib prison? Obama has NOT done any world apologizing. He did infer that the attack on our embassy was related to anti-American feelings.

“It is unclear whether Stevens' death resulted from the broader anti-American protests or a separate, local plot against the ambassador, former State Department official James Rubin said.

Here is what President Obama said, “I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens…”

There were no apologies delivered in any message spoken by President Obama. Romney lies about it. Those are Romney’s American Values.

Romney actually said that if he misspeaks and lies, then he won’t spend anytime correcting those lies, but instead, will speak about the campaign issues. Romney is a sociopath!!

Paulnochccio also is a sociopath. He ranted about how Obama is leading from behind and that our military strength is the only language our enemies understand. Well Paulnochccio, did our military strength worked for us in Vietnam? Or, in Iraq? Or, now in Afghanistan against the Taliban and al-Qaeda?

It doesn’t seem to be working in these Islamic countries. Our force cannot stand up to violent hating, and radical Islamists who don’t believe in “American Values”, such as free speech, and a separation between church and state. They have no understanding of the difference between collective speech versus individual speech. Our collective speech did NOT support this 14 minute hateful Youtube video speaking against the religious prophet--Mohammed. I would have to say that the violent uprising is much more hateful than this crude 14 minute amateurish video. Nothing compares to killing four Americans in a violent way and destroying private property.

Finally, the right-wing radical nutcases, such as fundamentalist evangelical Christian former Army Lt. General William Boykin, and his pal Frank Gaffney incited Egyptians to attack Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because they wrote that she “was participating in a Muslim Brotherhood plot 'to penetrate our government'.” This statement written by them and posted on related websites had been read by Egyptians who then decided to attack the Clinton motorcade as she traveled through Alexandria, Egypt. They need to be held accountable for this.

Here is federal law on riots:

http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C102.txt

Chapter 102 - Riots (112-90) - U.S. Code

18 USC CHAPTER 102 - RIOTS 01/03/2012 (112-90)

-EXPCITE-

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I - CRIMES

CHAPTER 102 – RIOTS

Sec. 2101. Riots

-STATUTE-

(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television,

with intent -

(1) to incite a riot; or

(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry

on a riot; or

(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or

(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in

or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in

furtherance of a riot;

and who either during the course of any such travel or use or

thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for

any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this

paragraph - (!1)

Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five

years, or both.

(b) In any prosecution under this section, proof that a defendant

engaged or attempted to engage in one or more of the overt acts

described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) of

subsection (a) (!2) and (1) has traveled in interstate or foreign

commerce, or (2) has use of or used any facility of interstate or

foreign commerce, including but not limited to, mail, telegraph,

telephone, radio, or television, to communicate with or broadcast

to any person or group of persons prior to such overt acts, such

travel or use shall be admissible proof to establish that such

defendant traveled in or used such facility of interstate or

foreign commerce.

laws of any State shall be a bar to any prosecution hereunder for

the same act or acts.

(d) Whenever, in the opinion of the Attorney General or of the

appropriate officer of the Department of Justice charged by law or

under the instructions of the Attorney General with authority to

act, any person shall have violated this chapter, the Department

shall proceed as speedily as possible with a prosecution of such

person hereunder and with any appeal which may lie from any

decision adverse to the Government resulting from such prosecution.

(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to make

it unlawful for any person to travel in, or use any facility of,

interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of pursuing the

legitimate objectives of organized labor, through orderly and

lawful means.

(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed as indicating an

intent on the part of Congress to prevent any State, any possession

or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia,

from exercising jurisdiction over any offense over which it would

have jurisdiction in the absence of this section; nor shall

anything in this section be construed as depriving State and local

law enforcement authorities of responsibility for prosecuting acts

that may be violations of this section and that are violations of

State and local law.

Would anyone believe that both of these liars and fanatics could be considered traitors, or in violation of the above law and, therefore, should be investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s General for undermining the operations of the United States government?

And, in regards to “no apologies” I guess if Mitt Romney were the prime minister of Germany following the second war, he would not apologize for the genocide that occurred against the millions of Jews, gypsies, and gays, along with other persons that were exterminated by their own people.

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)

President Obama Deserves A Second Term To Improve The Nation Just As Bush Got A Second Term To Destroy The Nation

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Bain and Company was founded in 1973 and was near bankruptcy by 1993. It took 20 years before the founder and executives drained the profits from the business. In just only a few months, Romney got an FDIC bailout to the tune of $30M, while he scammed the FDIC into accepting a $20M haircut. The agency was paid back only $10M, while Romney rewarded his “people” bonuses using the bailout money. It took 10 years for this scenario to play out.

Romney meets the definition of a Confidence Man. Here is what it means: a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim. In one case, he exploited the confidence of the FDIC.

Now, Romney wants to exploit the confidence of the American people with his lies, which appears to be truths.

Obama inherited the largest financial failure since The Great Depression brought to us by the reckless spending of LilBoyBush. LilBoy took 8 years to destroy Clinton’s balanced budget surplus. 8 years to run the nation into the ground as he ginned up two wars on top of it all prior to having occur on his watch a nightmare of a terrorist attack on the nation.

We have been listening to the Romney As A American Confidence Man by stating that even though he has been trying to reach across the aisle to the Party of NO to quicken the nation’s recovery. Romney believes that the Party of NO in spite of being a Party of Jihadis working against a recovery because they have pledged to disrupt Obama’s presidency at all costs. This is what was declared by-- the GOP’s Wizard of Oz Scarecrow---Mitch McConnell on network television. They have had no desire to participate in any national recovery if it doesn’t include the reduction of business regulations or huge tax cuts for the 1%. This response does not indicate any effort for bipartisan decisions.

As we head toward our presidential election in about 60 days, we hear from Slick Mitt and Paulnochccio that Obama doesn’t deserve a second term because he did not deliver enough jobs to the country even though they and their party were not engaged in the process of creating an environment for jobs to grow. They stood in the way at every Congressional vote.

It is very interesting that the Party of NO had no problem supporting the failed GOP presidency of LilBoyBush after 4 years of zero net job growth, a massive and mounting debt, the continuation of his government borrowing from China to support his war machine, the outsourcing of jobs, and much, much more.

Yet now, we hear that Obama just did not deliver jobs fast enough for the Grand Obstructionist Party of NO; therefore, he must go and Romney/Ryan must step in. How odd that they and the supporters of LilBoyBush were very willing to give “W” his second term to further move the nation into added debt, more war, as we stepped closer to a massive economic meltdown freezing credit markets, losing middle class savings, destruction of housing prices, and the near collapse of our financial institutions.

The majority of the American people were willing to give that failed GOP president a second term to add to more failure, yet those same people are not willing to give a president who has saved American jobs, improved the jobs picture---building jobs, although modestly, as opposed to losing 800,000 jobs per month.

Currently, we are seeing a slow, yet steady job growth: 29 straight months of job growth. This is not good enough for the Grand Obstructionist Party of NO. How funny!! In just under 4 years, Barack Obama has begun to turn the economic picture around in spite of the pledge by the GOP to stand in his way at every turn. Obama did it in spite of THEM!!! And now, they are whining about it. They are crying about it. They are tantruming about it. Boo Hoo is their election message.

It took Bain and Company nearly the same amount of time that LilBoyBush took to destroy the country’s economy to destroy their own economy (of Bain and Company) and now, Romney wants US to believe he can do better than Obama? What a laugh. The only way Romney and company could save their economy was for a bailout.

I do believe that Obama deserves a second term just on the principle that LilBoyBush received a second term in order to further destroy the nation. Obama deserves a second term just because he has been improving the nation. His plan requires the same amount of time it took LilBoy to destroy the nation in order to improve and heal the wounds of the nation.

There is nothing wrong with that simple request!

We have heard from conservative talking heads that one reason why the unemployment rate was low was because of the lower demand for natural gas. This resulted in a job loss for drilling and fracking seasonal jobs. I heard from one “head” that what we need is more use of natural gas for the use of a surface fuel.

Surface fuel---humm. How does that happen unless we have government stimulus and intervention to begin using natural gas vehicles as government fleet vehicles. This would spur more sales and service, as well as natural gas pump stations especially around larger populated regions. This sounds like bigger government from the mouth of a smaller government, the debt is too big, GOPster.

Also, I heard David Brooks talk about the Obama acceptance speech, as well as the overall production of the DNC event. He said that he wanted to hear more about a big Obama plan for the next four years, but he was disappointed that such a presentation was not spoken about. Hey David--have you heard any “big plan” from Mitt Romney? How about a reasonable plan, for that matter. Not a thing.

Brooks said that those with college degrees are fairing pretty well in the job market, but for those without a degree, they are suffering and they need job skill training.

Hey David, what have you heard from Slick Mitt about such a program? Nothing but that government is too big and government programs need to shrink. President Obama spoke about the need for training workers for the new job market. How do we train workers in this nation for skills they lack but need? I guess it happens through government intervention and a jobs skills stimulus package. That means more government spending. David is a moderate conservative Republican and realizes that government needs to play a significant role in job training development; therefore, more spending; therefore, more tax revenue.

The hypocrisy by the GOPsters when speaking about jobs and job training, they seem not to be able to make up their minds how this gets done. They have no plan. They have no ideas. They have no vision. They lack leadership qualities. All they have are stale, old, Cold War ideas and visions.

What is heard from right-wingers is that the Democrats need to stop blaming Bush for what Obama has not done. This doesn’t make a bit of sense.

If we are believe them, then we are to have ignored the rise of Nazi regime back in the 1920s for their creation of World War II, and its aftermath. Such deniers want us to forget the fact that Bush ignored the data and recommendations from the Clinton administration prior to 9/11, and its aftermath in its Domino Affect that led the nation into a prolonged recession.

If the deniers could have their way, then we should ignore that the banksters and lenders brewed up strategies to sell the American people and the world the same shady financial securities and debt obligations time and time again leveraging out each transaction with little to no collateral ultimately creating the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.

If the deniers had their way, we would ignore that Bush borrowed trillions of dollars from China taking a Clinton budget surplus and making it a budget deficit in order to finance two wars and a war machine without raising taxes.

The deniers want all of us to forgetaboutit when it comes to Obama’s struggle to create more jobs than he already has and lower our debt.

How interesting that neither George W. Bush or Dick Cheney spoke at the GOP convention, let alone attend. If these two horrible people were so important to the deniers, then where were they? They were asked NOT TO ATTEND because everyone knows just how terrible they were and how responsible they were to the conditions of the country today.

If the last president and vice-president were so significant, they why didn’t the GOP convention speakers talk about how important it was for the Republican Congress to have supported their destructive agenda, which contributed to the conditions of the nation, at this time?

The truth of the matter is that it is relevant and significant to the discussion of why it has been difficult for Obama to repair such a damaged economy in just four years. No one can ignore the ills of the past administration unless those deniers want to lie to themselves—again.

Now, here is the latest from Slick Mitt the FlipFlopper. He actually had one of his aides tell America that the marketplace will take care of those with pre-existing conditions.

Here is the quote: "[I]n a competitive environment, the marketplace will make available plans that include coverage for what there is demand for," the aide said. Is Romney totally insane? Is he so far gone into the realm of sociopathology that he has no real sense of reality? I believe that is true.

We have a program for seniors called Medigap, which was created under LilBoyBush in 2006. It is provided by private health insurance companies. Over these years, the price has increased in spite of its existence in the free marketplace world of Mitt Romney. What we will see if Romney is elected a major increase in health care costs being paid by the citizen, as he erodes Medicare.

The only reality for Mitt Romney is the reality of corporate takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and big profits for the 1%. He knows nothing, absolutely nothing else. He has made is own living doing just that. He drains the average person of his wealth in order to transfer that wealth up to the 1%.

It appears to be very clear- President Obama is the only choice for the next four years. The other choice has nothing.

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)

Bill Clinton's DNC 2012 Speech

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:12:00 +0000

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

Mitt Romney Didn’t Build That—The FDIC Did!

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:44:00 +0000

Mitt Romney continues to portray himself as a gifted businessman; but is he? Slick Mitt appears to have enjoyed Bain and Company’s bailout by the FDIC when the company was on its way to bankruptcy! Yes, bankruptcy.

The owner of the company Bill Bain and his top executives drained the company of most of its capital assets, stealing them for their own greedy desires sending the business into a tailspin. That is when Bain decided to have Slick Mitt come to the rescue with a plan. And that plan was to scam the FDIC into a bailout, ultimately hitting on the taxpayers through bank fees for the cash and a Bain bonus bonanza.

In Rolling Stone’s September 13, 2012 edition, Matt Taibbi (MT), one of the nation’s best investigative print reporters, and Tim Dickinson (TD) wrote terrific pieces on the Romney bailout of Bain and Company. This post will summarize and extract pieces from those great articles. I will use my copy of the magazine to reference the story of just how Mitt Romney never built that, which he believes is IT.

To take a phrase from Bill Clinton: “ It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘that’ is.

Mitt Romney never built anything in his life. What he created were the very financial smoke and mirrors transactions that brought this nation’s economy to its knees leading up to the Great Recession of 2007-8. Had the FDIC not stepped in offering a bailout of the business, it would have gone into bankruptcy leaving investors holding worth-less paper sending Slick Mitt, and Paulnocchio to look from the outside into the Tampa RNC convention hall wishing they could be there, too.

Instead of building cars, as his father did, and airplanes, tractors, machines, and products as other Americans have done, Slick Mitt built swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and other toxic financial products to sell to rich customers. Instead of building new companies, in order to make a product made by American workers, for American consumers, he took out massive bank loans and used them to acquire existing firms, liquidating every asset in sight and leaving the target companies holding the debt. (MT)

As we all recall, it were similar shysters dressed in Romney outfits bringing $2-3 million dollar bonuses for selling crap to managers managing retiree retirement funds, and mortgages that sent the economy into a nosedive. And, Romney was a symbol of it, as well as an actor on the stage of immorality. Romney was a takeover artist who now wants to takeover the White House in order to takeover the process which would likely spin the nation into another Great Recession.

What Matt Taibbi found out was that in spite of the hocus-pocus financially destructive takeovers that Bain Capital engaged in, they, nevertheless, made lots of money for their investors between 1984 to 1998. Had those same investors invested in the stock market, they would have come out earning the same returns—somewhere around 30% per year.

The only ones who profited in a big way from all the job-killing debt that Romney leveraged were Mitt and his buddies at Bain, along with Wall Street firms like Goldman and Citigroup. Barry Ritzholtz, author of Bailout Nation, says the criticisms of Bain about layoffs and meanness misses a more important point, which is that the firm’s profit producing record is mediocre, especially when set against all the trouble and pain its business model caused. (MT)

Here is a sample of Romney’s business model:

“A private equity firm like Bain typically seeks out floundering businesses with good cash flows. It then puts down a relatively small amount of its own money and runs to a big bank like Goldman Sachs or Citigroup for the rest of the financing. (Most leveraged buyouts are financed with 60 to 90 percent borrowed cash.) The takeover firm then uses that borrowed money to buy a controlling stake in the target company, either with or without its consent. When an LBO is done without the consent of target, it’s called a hostile takeover.

Romney and Bain avoided the hostile approach, preferring to secure the cooperation of their takeover targets by buying off a company’s management with lucrative bonuses. Once management is on board, the rest is just math. So if the target company is worth $500 million, Bain might put down $20 million of its own cash, then borrow $350 million from an investment bank to take over a controlling stake.

But here is the catch. When Bain borrows all of that money from the bank, it’s the target company that ends up on the hook for all of the debt.

Now, your troubled firm—let’s say you make tricycles in Alabama—has been taken over by a bunch of slick Wall Street dudes who kicked in as little as five percent as a down payment. So in addition to whatever problems you had before, Tricycle Inc. now owes Goldman or Citigroup $350 million. With all that new debt service to pay, the company’s bottom line is suddenly untenable. You almost have to start firing people immediately just to get your costs down to a manageable level.” (MT)

And, the interest payments just drain the profits right out of the company.

“Fortunately, the geniuses at Bain who now run the place are there to help tell you whom to fire. And for the service it performs cutting your company’s costs to help you pay off the massive debt that it, Bain, saddled your company with in the first place, Bain naturally charges a management fee, typically millions of dollars a year. So Tricycle Inc. now has two gigantic new burdens it never had before Bain Capital stepped into the picture: tens of millions in annual debt service, and millions more in “management fees.” Since the initial acquisition of Tricycle Inc. was probably greased by promising the company’s upper management lucrative bonuses, all that pain inevitably comes out of just one place: the benefits and payroll of the hourly workforce.

Once all that debt is added, one of the two things can happen. The company can fire workers and slash benefits to pay off all its new obligations to Goldman Sachs and Bain, leaving it ripe to be resold by Bain at a huge profit. Or it can go bankrupt—this happens [with] seven percent of all private equity buyouts – leaving behind one or more shuttered factory towns. Either way, Bain wins. By power-sucking cash value from even the most rapidly dying firms, private equity raiders like Bain almost always get their cash out before a target goes belly up.” (MT)

This is what Slick Mitt meant when he said in his presidential nomination acceptance speech that, “I will help your family.”

What Mitt Romney has done is to ‘saddle companies with nightmarish debt and assign the crushing interest payments not to Bain but to the children of the company’s workers and their children who would be left holding the financial note long after Slick Mitt said his good-byes.’ (MT)

“Which brings us to another aspect of Romney’s business career that has largely been hidden from voters: His personal fortune would not have been possible without the direct assistance of the U.S. government. The taxpayer-funded subsidies that Romney has received go well beyond the humdrum, backdoor, welfare-sucking that all supposedly self-made free marketers inevitably indulge in.” Romney siphoned off an incredible $1.5 billion in aid from the U.S. Treasury as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake—a sum greater than all federal spending for the previous seven U.S. Olympic games combined. Romney, the supposedly fiscal conservative, blew through an average of $625,000 in taxpayer money per athlete—an astounding increase of 5,582 percent over the $11,000 average at the 1984 games in Los Angeles. In 1993, right as he was preparing to run for the Senate, Romney also engineered a government deal worth at least $10 million for Bain’s consulting firm, when it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.”

And, don’t forget that without a provision in the federal [tax] code, companies like Bain would not be allowed to deduct the interest on the debt they use to acquire and loot their targets. (MT) So, Mitt, did you actually build that? Or, did the government give you some help along the way?

Speaking of help along the way, let us now explore how the FDIC bailed out Bain. Government documents on the bailout obtained by Rolling Stone magazine showed that the legend crafted by Romney that he was a success in business is basically a lie. Bain and Company was actually a disaster around November 1993, leaving the firm so financially strapped that it had “no value as a going concern,” as was reported in the documents. Even worse, the federal bailout ultimately engineered by Romney screwed the FDIC out of at least $10 million. And, in an added insult Romney rewarded top executives at Bain with hefty bonuses at the very moment that he was demanding his handout from the Feds. (TD)

Romney’s firm owed the government $30 million in bailout money, but he manipulated the FDIC and others so badly that he only paid back a small portion. Here is how it all came down:

“The FDIC agreed to accept nearly $5 million in cash to retire $15 million in Bain’s debt—an immediate government bailout of $10 million. All told, the FDIC estimated it would recoup just $14 million of the $30 million that Romney’s firm owed the government. In other words, the bailout negotiated by Romney ultimately wound up being paid by the American people through higher fees charged by banks because the FDIC had to recoup bailout losses through charging banks higher insurance premiums.

How ironic that “a banner at MittRomney.com declared WE HAVE A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO SPEND MORE THAN WE TAKE IN. (TD)

When it comes to presidents who improved the economy of the nation, we can look at those who dedicated their lives not to business in the private sector, but to those who dedicated their lives to working in the public sector: FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. When we look to presidents who were in the business of business, and ended up damaging or destroying the economy, we can look directly to Herbert Hoover, George Herbert Walker Bush, and LilboyBush, all of who were involved either in finance, or big oil. Now we have Slick Mitt, who touts his expertise in business, which is beginning to prove that Emperor Wannabee has no clothes. He had to beg for a bailout of Bain and Company; and, he out spent other Olympic committee chairmen, while portraying himself as a fiscal conservative.

Now, we are reading that Bain is being investigated by the Attorney General of New York for possible tax fraud. Hum—is Slick Mitt really qualified to be president? Slick Mitt accuses President Obama for not being qualified to be president because he had no business experience, yet it appears that Mitt’s qualifications don’t give him any bragging rights whatsoever. Actually, it seems he was a slight-of-hand financial artist. Hey Mitt, show us your tax returns? Let the American people see for themselves what kind of business person you actually were.

What this bit of hypocrisy indicates is that Mitt Romney is a full-blown sociopath. He makes the rules fit for him at the expense of other, including the entire nation. Mitt Romney has no moral code. He has no ethical code. He portrays himself as a religious person, but he fails to follow the guiding principles of morality and ethical integrity that such a true believer would follow.

Mitt Romney is basically a scorched Earth, one-dimensional fake.

A reason for all of this could be found by listening to this podcast on “limits”.

http://www.radiolab.org/2010/apr/05/

In the final discussion of the show, they were discussing if the mind has limits to retain data, and if the mind can capture insight into that data.

It is my opinion that Mitt Romney lacks total insight in the struggles of middle and lower income families. He has absolutely no insight into the problems of real people. He only sees the world in turns of winning and losing. It is an either/or phenomenon. A black and white viewpoint. The GOP aligns with the Romney perspective---no insight in the real struggles and plight of the 99%.

This is what makes Obama different from Romney and his followers. We are in trouble!!

Here is more:

Mitt Romney Tax Returns May Have Employed Legally Dubious Maneuvers, Tax Experts Say

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/mitt-romney-tax-returns_n_1827632.html

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)

Clint Eastwood and The Chair

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Mitt Romney Delivered To The GOP Last Night

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Romney delivered his “Earth is flat” message in the form of an acceptance speech to a crowd of shallow, narrow-minded, Kool-Aid drinking followers.

How nice and fine it was to listen to his “I was just a normal guy growin’ up” introduction. And, how he worked hard at shuttering United States companies in order for his investors to make billions of dollars on deductible interest off the debt created, which allowed these moneylenders to take it all to tax haven locations, instead of keeping it in the United States building America. No—building America was not their intention; it was only an afterthought.

If Trickie Mittie was living hundreds of years ago, he would be proclaiming that the Earth was flat, and not round; nor was it revolving around the Sun but just the opposite.

We listened to his most important part of the acceptance speech when he said that his first order was to help families instead of climate change. Hey Mittens, tell that to farmers who are suffering from drought conditions. Or, areas around the country where drinking water is becoming scarcer due to diminishing winter snow melt. Or, the coming grocery prices heading upwards because of food stock shortages.

What we learned about Mitt Romney is that he is one dimensional. He is a flat Earther-type alive and well and now heading the GOP. He just cannot think multi-dimensional. He appears to believe that he cannot do more than one thing at a time.

He cannot help families while doing something useful to help curb climate change.

Throughout his speech, and since we have been observing Mittens, one can agree that he is an angry person. He internalizes his anger, and tends to say things that he doesn’t agree with. This can be observed when he stops talking—pauses—then purses his lips together slightly filling the top lip with air allowing it to protrude a bit more than the lower lip. Such body language might indicate that he is disagreeing with what he is saying. This validates his consistent flip-flopping over the years on serious issues.

One can say that he is untrustworthy to tell the American people exactly his heartfelt beliefs. Here are some notations about this behavior.

Barely noticeable lip-clenching may signal unvoiced opposition or disagreement.

Lip-compression is an unconscious sign controlled by the limbic system acting through emotionally responsive paleocircuits of the facial nerve (cranial VII). See also Lip-Pout; Lip-Purse.

http://members.aol.com/doder1/compress.htm (2 of 2) [27/04/02 05:59:58]

This from Changingminds.org, “Lips which are pulled inwards from all directions are an indication of tension and may indicate frustration or disapproval.

Pursed lips are a classic sign of anger, including when it is suppressed. It is effectively holding the mouth shut to prevent the person saying what they feel like saying. This may also be an indication of lying or withholding the truth as the person stops themselves from telling the truth.”

What was heard from the GOP presidential nominee was his anger over the successes of President Obama, which Romney had to suppress when speaking about him. All Romney could do was to perpetuate the lies, and distortions regarding the record.

Mittens spoke about how he would create 12 million new jobs, yet the CBO has already predicted that this number of new jobs are already on track to come on-line over the next few years regardless of who becomes president, unless a Romney presidency creates another new recession. And, that is very likely.

Reducing taxes leads to reduced spending leads to reduced revenues leads to reduced demand leads to reduced supply leads to reduced jobs leads to reduced wages. This is the Romney economic plan.

His idea of sustainable job growth is increased military spending. What is clear is that Romney has no economic plan. He is totally clueless. His record has been to send jobs overseas. Romney has never been a job creator. As governor, his state ranked near the bottom in job creation, which improved by the time he left to 28^th out of 50. He gave his state Romneycare. He increased the state’s debt by over $2 billion leaving it with a grand total of $18 billion in debt service. Manufacturing job growth was negative 14% when the national job growth half as bad. Growth output of goods and services was 9.4% during a time when the nation’s was 13.1%. Resident employment growth was negative .3% when the nation’s was positive 5.8% (2003-2007).

Mittens complained how much better U.S. international relations has been under Obama following the disastrous presidency of LilboyBush and Condi Rice. He lied about the fact that Obama has been apologizing around the world. President Obama has done more to reconcile the mistakes of LilBoyBush than Romney wanted to admit.

Then Trickie Mittie went on to bring us his new vision of a modern day Cold War by threatening Vladimir Putin and Russia, and warning Iran that talking no longer works when it comes to dealing with them. So Mittens, what does work?

He went on to say that Obama has thrown Israel under the bus when, in fact, he has encouraged Israel to show restraint when it comes to a potential air strike against Iran’s nuclear enrichment underground sites. We do not need $10.00 a gallon of gas at the pump right now, Mr. Nominee.

Mr. One Dimensional Romney only knows how to talk about small business creators and mega-corporate job deporters. He went on to speak about the rising costs of fuel, food and more. This is because wages are not keeping up with inflation, but have significantly declined since 2000. The GOP resists raising the minimum wage, or allowing a “public option” health care plan allowing workers to be able to take their health care with them when they shift jobs. Such an action would likely raise wages because workers would not have a lag time when their new health care policy kicked in. Such health care mobility would be good for workers who want to change jobs, but instead keep workers stuck in lower paying jobs.

It appears that Romney does not believe that a person can be successful without being a small business owner, since he never once spoke about successful people who were not the head of corporations.

We heard more garbage about how Obama said, “You didn’t build that”, when, in fact, the lip pursing Romney knows he lies about this slogan over and over again.

Here is the quote spoken by President Obama:

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” (knowyourmeme.com)

American business did not become strong in a vacuum. Government and other enterprises were engaged to allow for others to follow and become prosperous. But Romney loves to lie and distort. Just watch his lip-pursing behavior when he speaks of such lies. Romney wants us to believe that business is created without the help of the U.S. Patent office, or energy transmission lines, or water filtration plants, or highways, and rail systems, or lending institutions, or minimum wage laws, or tax breaks and incentives, or government subsidies to stir business creation. Hey Mittens, You didn’t build that by yourself!!

Bain Capital would not exist if it were not for the government and what it has allowed them to do legally.

From the Huffington Post:

"The latest example comes from Rolling Stone, which in its Sept. 13 issue tells how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ended up footing a bill of at least $10 million in bailing out Bain & Co., the consulting firm that spawned the private-equity firm Bain Capital. The story is based partly on documents the magazine received under the Freedom of Information Act. It will probably get a lot less attention than Matt Taibbi's cover opus on Romney in the same issue, but is no less interesting.

Bain & Co. got into deep financial trouble in the late 1980s, partly because the founding partners of Bain Capital had stripped it of cash and saddled it with debt. But since the personal reputation of Romney was so tied to the fate of the Bain & Co, he jumped back into the company in 1990, after six years as CEO of Bain Capital.

In that time, he refused to let the company simply slip into bankruptcy,RS claims, reportedly inspiring a frustrated Goldman Sachs banker to tell Romney to "go fuck" himself.

Ultimately, Romney managed to convince Bain's creditors to take a steep discount on Bain debt, using a threat to pay Bain executives big bonuses that would have stripped it of the cash it had left, leaving creditors with next to nothing, according toRolling Stone.

One of those creditors was the FDIC, which had taken over a bank that loaned money to Bain. The FDIC ended up collecting about $14 million of the $30 million Bain owed it, according to the magazine. Taxpayers didn't foot the bill for this, FDIC banks did, but RS points out that those costs were in turn probably absorbed by bank customers in the form of higher fees.

If this reed feels a little too thin to beat Romney very aggressively with, then there areplenty of other examples of companies owned by Bain Capital benefiting from government tax credits and subsidies. Bloomberg news detailed several of these back in June, writing:

The public-private agreements, which began in the first decade of Romney’s tenure as CEO, show that government played a supporting role in establishing Bain as among the nation’s most successful private equity firms and enabling him to accumulate a fortune his campaign says could reach $250 million."

Above written by Mark Gongloff.

Here is more from the liars and Kool-Aid drinkers speaking at the RNC who believed that they built their businesses without the help from anyone else or from government support.

"Steven Cohen, the president of an Ohio construction equipment manufacturer, who spoke at the party's national convention in Tampa on Wednesday, benefited from about $2 million in government contracts. His company, Screen Machine Industries, which provides equipment to the military and other government agencies, also received nearly $220,000 in stimulus contracts, according to a story reported last year by the Associated Press." (Huffington Post, Emily Peck)

The truth remains that Romney thinks in a single dimension. The world is two dimensional, and tasks must be done while engaged in performing other ones, as well. Juggling is best done with more than one ball in hand. Romney has trouble with that.

Overall, his acceptance speech was flat---Flat Earth-style. He came off as a bully and complainer. His vision lacked substance.

Now it is time for President Obama to bring forth his vision so we can all compare which one has “The Beef”.

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)

Is The Wrath Of God Coming Down On The GOP's Tampa Convention?

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:32:00 +0000

What did the wacko Christian Fundies say about 9/11? Pat Robertson said, “He blames 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina on gays and lesbians, cozies up to the Chinese coercive and murderous one-child policy…”

Here is a smattering of the insane viewpoints of those in the GOP’s sociopathic and pervert division of their party.

The Reverend Pat Robertson, of CBN, aka 'The Christian Broadcasting Network.' To Robertson, Katrina was not merely punishment for legal abortion but also a blessing for the Right because the storm diverted the nation's attention away from the Senate confirmation hearing of George W. Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr.

Out of this tragedy, the focus of America is going to be on these victims, and inflamed rhetoric in the United States Senate is just not going to play well now because this is a time of healing and compassion and reaching out to people, and if they start going on a vendetta against Roberts in the Senate, it's just going to hurt them. And I think they know that, so, I mean, Judge Roberts can, maybe, you know, be thankful that a tragedy has brought him some good.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) was preaching the message that hurricane Irene was a divine warning to our nation's capital.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?

Rev.Clyde Higgins delivered to the readers of Christwire: Irene was punishment for New York legalizing same sex marriage.

You have betrayed America’s duty as a Christian nation to make homosexuals miserable in their sins. You have allowed the biggest city of America to be a modern Sodomy Megalopolis.

Texas pastor John Hagee claimed that the 2005 storm was sent to punish New Orleans.

All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came...And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.

Oregon's David Crowe, an ordained minister who is the founder and president of Restore America, agreed that it was America that was being punished, not just the immoral pagans on the Gulf coast:

Katrina was an act of God upon a sin-loving and rebellious nation, a warning to all who foolishly and arrogantly believe there is no God, and that if He did exist, "would not have done such a thing!" It is also a serious call to repent, to turn away from our wicked ways, from the heart of a loving Father.

The Writer of Psalm 107 closes by saying, "Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things, and consider the Loving kindness of the LORD."

Newsvine.com, from Carloz, 9-25-12

Now that Hurricane Isaac is about to land in Tampa disrupting the GOP’s nomination convention, what will the psychopaths, sociopaths and perverts filling the halls say about this ocean drenching upon their lies, fraudulent presentations, hypocrisies, junk science garbage, and overall bullshit?

Will Bachmann and Romney come out and say that the sins of the Party of No are being punished for damaging the country? Will they come forward and admit that they have a platform that will seriously injury those who already have been damaged by their serious policies implemented by their last Evil Lilboy occupying the White House?

Will we see a transformation, or an admission of guilt by these conartists for destroying working class savings, the destruction of working class wages, the give-aways of the nation's wealth to the bankstas, the politicizing of the Supreme Court, the fascist process of controlling elections, the theft of American jobs, which were sent overseas by the likes of their chief nominee—Pinhead Romney?

Or, will they just proclaim that God is trying to wash away their sins by having the ocean’s waves sweep over their convention in order to cleanse their souls of their evil ways.

Doubtful. They will say nothing. They will ignore their hypocrisies of berating Democrats, and spew inept and stupid criticisms along with the chastising of liberal and centrist viewpoints and policies that were better for the nation, but instead traded them for more damaging and painful policy decisions that were devastating to hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans, and just bad for the nation.

Glenn Beck said this about Katrina and hurricanes, and it appears to be true in regards to the GOP’s convention in Tampa. Was this a prophecy directed to the regressives having their nomination party?

...this hurricane is a blessing. It is a blessing. It is God reminding you, as was the earthquake last week, it’s God reminding you, ‘You’re not in control.'

Amen, Glenn, Amen!!

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)

Romney is the Harvard Version of Sarah Palin, but worse!!

carlandjerry@gmail.com (Carl and Jerry) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Romney travels abroad and decides to criticize two of three host nations. He is just a foolish sociopath believing that he is better than those he shakes hands with.

In Britain, he criticizes their Olympic security, and then, the Brits give it right back to the foolish Sarah Romney.

He travels to Israel and does the same thing there criticizing the Palestinians as inferior minded people and praising the Israelis with Sheldon Adelson, the wealthy casino mogel, pulling his puppet strings in exchange for fat wads of cash.

Romney has no mind of his own, and when he speaks it is not unlike the foolishness that comes out of the mouth of Sarah Palin. The GOP has decided to nominate the male version of Sarah Palin for their choice of president. They haven’t learned a darn thing!!

Romney, while in Israel, uses the information written in a book by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs and Steel. Mr. Diamond has been very upset with Romney’s misrepresentation of the contents twisting the writings to fit his own perverted and sociopathic viewpoint of the Palestinians.

Romney said, "And as I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation, I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things," he said. Romney also mentioned the "hand of providence," and how the Jews have "long recognized the purpose in this place and in their lives that is greater than themselves and their own particular interests."

Romney failed to say that containing people in a restricted area and controlling their fate, in many ways, could damage their lives and economies. This is what Mr. Diamond had written in his book.

Here is more from Romney, which he wrote for the National Review in his piece called “Culture Does Matter.”

“During my recent trip to Israel, I had suggested that the choices a society makes about its culture play a role in creating prosperity, and that the significant disparity between Israeli and Palestinian living standards was powerfully influenced by it. In some quarters, that comment became the subject of controversy.”

Romney’s viewpoints appear to be rooted in racism. We heard this type of garbage by racists in regards to why African Americans have had problems adapting to a one-time white American society. As our nation evolves, whites are becoming the minority, and people of other races and cultures dominate. And now, we have a Tea Party and others who are darn scared that they will no longer run the show as they have done in the past. They are angry that they will have to share the game board with others.

Romney is a White Supremist racist put out in front by the GOP to send 90% of the nation back into the dark ages of economic prosperity, while handing over the wealth to the top 10%. As we have just learned from Sarah Romney that he will put 12 million more Americans back to work in his first term by lowering an already near record low tax rate and cut budgets—in other words Austerity Drives Prosperity, ie. Trickle Down Economics, to rebuild the country’s economy. But in fact, the Center for American Progress predicts the Romney Economic Plan will kill 360,000 jobs. Romney is a pervert with a delusional mind. Austerity pushes down prosperity and increases unemployment and refuels a recession.

This is from the Huffington Post piece written by Luke Johnson:

He repeated the argument in a subsequent National Review article, entitled "Culture Does Matter."

"The linkage between freedom and economic development has a universal applicability," he wrote, citing the differences between East and West Germany and North and South Korea. But South Korea was an authoritarian country until the late 1980s, and China and Singapore are strong counterexamples to the notion that freedom and economic development are universally linked.

This isn't the first time Romney has seemingly mischaracterized a book he's read. Journalist Noam Scheiber said he wrongly used his book, "The Escape Artists," to accuse Obama of pushing the Affordable Care Act to intentionally slow down the economic recovery.

Jared Diamond says that Romney appears to have not read his book. If he has read Mr. Diamond’s book, then he purposely manipulated and twisted it to fit his perverted mind.

Now we have a kerfuffle between SlimmieDog Romney and Harry Reid. Mr. Reid decided to up the Rumor Mill Ante by doing what Fox News does all the time, which is to say that ‘someone told me that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years’. And, this someone was a Romney investor, so he should know.

Romney told Reid to put up or shut up in regards to this rumor, yet Romney clearly has no clue that the burden of proof lies with him!!! The American people, along with many inside the GOP, have told Romney to put the tax issue to rest and lay out his completed tax returns going back to 1999, when he supposedly “retired” from Bain Capital.

Romney wants Dirty Harry to lay down his “weapon” and give up his source, instead of Dope-slapping Harry by laying out his completed history of tax returns to prove that he did pay taxes, even if the rates were possibly below 10%.

Romney is just the class bully yelling back to his peers that their mothers are fat, too!! So there!!!

It is very clear that Sarah Romney is just another GOP perverted sociopath who believes they are right to lie, and manipulate at the expense of millions of others in order to achieve their goals.

(http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com)