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Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 9:06pm

Thank you so much JH, i have been so busy calling, and emailing Congress this week on the budget, spending, HC repeal, defunding HC and various other groups and bills, el etc., and also the Governors in various states, that are working to get their budgets back in the black, to let them know many Americans are supporting them, i have several friends in various states that i have been working with.

This is great NEWS!

I heard Congressman Ron Paul say earlier today, that there are only about 22 in Congress who are really serious about stopping the spending and rolling back the federal government and that they need to hear more from the people. Many Congressional members still don't get it.

This is a new to me group, i will sign up. Thanks again, We the people need to speak up, i will keep spreading the word. This is great. I will also call the committee chairs also.

Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 8:55pm

John, John, you do not get it. 

 

You really need to get the facts...

 

Dodd was chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Committee for several years. Frank was the chairman of the House Financial  Services Committee that over sees Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae. They both relaxed the regulations, allowed the banking rules to be ignored, so that people who could not afford to buy a house because of lack of down payment could, then they allowed the financially institutions to create loans that started off with low payments and interest and some would gradually go up, some actually doubled and tripled after a few years. They were not the traditional mortgage with a fix interest rate and a 20 to 30% down payment. 

 

The previous administration was concerned because of the rising cost in single-family homes accelerating at such a fast pace and they questioned Dodd and Frank who told them not to worry everything is fine.

 

Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae who now own or guarantee around 60% or more of single-family homes in the USA.

 

Dodd also ran for President in 2008, with one of his biggest contributor being Bear Stearns which collapsed in March 2008, the start of the market meltdown.

 

Do you know how many new regulations went into effect January 2011?

 

Interesting when you connect all the dots, that a lot of things that you do not understand begin to make sense. Many members of Congress received what you call 'Sweetheart' loans at almost zero interest. Chris Dodd brought a ocean front Irish estate in Ireland at a third of it's market value. His current wife is one of the biggest lobbyist in D.C..

 

Since you keep making negative comments about Governor Rick Scott, did you support Progressive Liberal Alex Sink who completely supports President Obama and his agenda? She tried to pretend to be a conservative, but thankfully a lot of people did not listen to what she said but looked at her voting records and watched what she did, who and what she supported and connected the dots.

 

Did you know that the progressive liberals have just recently formed their own Tea Party? I guess since they can not debate truthfully on issues they must try to deceive people.  

Comment by John Harvel on March 10, 2011 at 8:50pm

I found it...

Click here: YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED: Call Your Representatives NOW! -...

Comment by John Harvel on March 10, 2011 at 8:29pm

JL.. Just heard a piece of a conversation on Mark Levin with Michele Bachmann and Steve King about a Wednesday Vote on something that should include defunding of Obamacare and the party leaders are whimping out. They wanted listeners to call congress between now and Wednesday. I don't think it was a "best of" show and I'm not seeing the info anywhere else. If you see it post it.

Comment by John Harvel on March 10, 2011 at 7:57pm

John S... CAFR, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, is the most boring, mind boggling, eggheaded thing you will encounter. My accountant prepares my financial statements and I have to say he needs to get a life. On a CAFR you need to skip the first two thirds or you will never make it to the good stuff. By design it is prepared to discourage comprehension. The various levels of government, federal, state, local and municipal each began producing a CAFR to catalog an accurate picture of: institutional funds, enterprise or financial holdings, assets and total investment incomes, for those government and nongovernmental entities using the report. This measure is above and beyond the budget process and replaced what was regularly an "off-the-books" practice called the "general fixed-asset account group". General Purpose government "Budget" reports did not and still doesn't reflect accounting of this financial data and in effect with the co-operation or silence of any media reports, hides these assets and investments from the public by only reporting on the budget or "rainy day" funds or pension fund investments. What should be obvious is the control factor associated with such vast amounts of capital within financial institutions and the implications of how our economy reacts to it. We won't even discuss how funds could potentially leave the system in market fluctuations. I wouldn't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist or something, but hey, I am a taxpayer. I want to hear about the surpluses as well as the deficits. State capitalism isn't a China only club... And I do believe some of your posts do tend to show a bias toward a certain ideological tendency of dominance. We are here to share and learn.

Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 7:37pm

John… John… i do not know where you are reading these so called facts but here they are, regulations were not part of the economic meltdown, the progressive deregulation on mortgage loans, they allowed sublime loans with interest rates that would rise each year, or in so many years, many doubling in payments, that along with zero to just 1 to 2 % down payments for the house. They did this because in their wee minds do not understand the way tradition banking works and why, they did not understand the checks and balances of it all, instead they played GOD and changed the rule and they allowed speculation on this sector which Wall Street went wild with because of the obvious chance at large profits. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank over saw this and a few more idiots. Congress has no business being involved.  History will bring this to the surface since right now no one is willing to look into it or at least make it public.

 

Massey Energy, look at all their violations and tell me WHY didn't the Federal government oversight in the MMS (Minerals Management Service.) called them down? Stop them? Nothing to do with regulations it has to do with accountability, ethics and having a moral compass, just like the mortgage meltdown. BP? They submitted a plan that was from a plan that was for drilling in Alaska, the gulf has no seals or caribou, like the plan outlined. The MMS department accepted it. By the way a former BP employee had oversight. My husband is a pilot and i am aware of regulation in the Airways and FAA and regulations. If everyone had to have a annual FAA check up on their vehicles like you do with your airplane, our roadways would be a LOT safety and they do not come cheap.

 

Enron again, people knew what was going on, both in the company and in the Federal government. People in the company blew the whistle, several times just like was done with Bernie Maydoff (sp?). The FDA should be shut down and a new agency built from the ground up, there are so many overlapping departments it is a regulatory nightmare, the newest food safety bill passed last year just added to it.

 

The problem is the government is way too, big and slap full of corruption, waste and fraud. In Florida alone during the last round of hurricanes here, there were literally millions and millions of dollars of false claims that were paid out by FEMA and they were never repaid. In one year over 200 or more funerals were paid for by FEMA and the coroners' records proved that they were NOT hurricane victims as claimed. 

 

Again BIG government is the problem not the solution. Our governments from the federal level on down need to abide by and follow the guidelines of our constitutions, period.

Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 7:10pm

John, you just DON'T GET IT...

 

The federal government created HMOs, PPOs, etc., to control rising health care costs, before you dealt with your doctor, then your insurance company. The federal government NOT Governor Rick Scott.

 

Rising costs were created through Medicare and Medicaid because every few years the government would pay less to the doctors and the medical facilities for reimbursement, so being in business, like good business people, the doctors and facilities had to pass the cost on to the other consumers, the American people, we have been subsidizing both of those wonderful entitlements through our costs of health care.

 

Then we had to deal with another middle man HMOs, PPOs, etc., instead of directly dealing with our doctors or health care facilities, which dumb down people as to the actually cost of a doctors visit or medical procedure or actual total costs because the HMOs, PPOs, etc., handled driving up costs again because Medicare and Medicaid were getting less reimburstments by the Federal government passed on to the private sector again driving up costs, while HMOs, PPOs, etc. drove up costs because NOW the doctors, medical facilities had to hire insurance clerks to deal with all above, driving up their cost that had to be passed down to us, because remember they are in a business to make money, not loose money. And now we have the OBAMACARE. 

 

Guess what John? Now instead of dealing with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, we have another MIDDLE MAN, we must now report not to our insurance company (which remains the same) but the United Healthcare and then they go to the insurance company then back and forth to the doctors and medical facilities who are probably going to have to hire more clerks to deal with the United Healthcare as well as the insurance company and a couple of legal lawyers not the ones they have to hire for lawsuits but the ones the Congressman in New York talked about when he stated "Read the bill? WHO reads the bill before voting? Why you would have to have two lawyers and days just to read the bill." then he laughed.

 

DO YOU GET IT NOW, John?

 

I would like to get back to just dealing with my doctor myself and the medical facility, where i know the cost and i can tell, no the price is too, high, can you recommend something else? Consumers NOT the government keep prices and the cost of living low and in check.

Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 6:49pm

This is probably your source from secretary of Interior Department Ken Salazar, 

Actual Gulf Production Doesn't Match Secretary Salazar's Rosy Outlook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkLM9JAmTcQ&feature=player_embedded

 

One of many articles, this one from the Washington Examiner: 

By: Mark Tapcott 03/03/11 6:23 PM

Salazar tells House Gulf oil production at ‘all-time high;’ Energy Department shows 300,000 fewer barrels produced per day. Was it a lie? Or is he just ignorant? Does it really matter? This is what is running our country. Scary isn’t it?

 

Salazar claims oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has remained at “an all-time high” despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the federal moratorium and permatorium that have stopped all deepwater drilling activity, put thousands of people in Texas, Lousiana, Mississippi and Alabama out of work, and kept the region’s energy economy mired in a deep recession.

 

But according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration, Gulf oil production has dropped nearly 300,000 barrels per day since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Imports of foreign oil have not slowed as a result of the Middle East crisis, so it must be the Gulf slowdown that is forcing retailers to raise gas prices.

 

Did Salazar purposely misinform the House committee or does he just not know? 

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Have you listen to the head of our Intelligence, James R. Clapper,  lately? 

 

Comment by John Harvel on March 10, 2011 at 6:33pm

Wow... JL, you just nailed it all the way through. Definitely the HMO's was the beginning of the end for healthcare in the private sector.

Comment by JL Gawlik on March 10, 2011 at 5:58pm

John you are out of touch, drilling has been banned, many drilling platforms pulled out the Gulf of Mexico when the President banned drilling in the gulf.

Oil drilling is not at a all time high, it is at a all time low in the United States of America.

 

Crude oil stocks are at a ALL TIME HIGH because of FUTUREs predicting prices are going to go up because of the problem in the Arabic countries, where were you when the previous administration lifted the drilling bans in 2008 and prices immediately went way down? World wide?

 

I am just glad i live in my reality and not yours, you really need to get the facts and the truth of it all.

 

Profits on oil for oil companies drilling is only around 9% or so, the oil must be refined then you have transportation costs, taxes, goodness knows how many more costs are lumped in. Have you ever brought stock in oil? Ran a business? If you have you would understand more of the costs. To drill it is a very expensive proposition and many times you do not even hit a vein, even with advance geological information. Even the equipment is so expensive as in DEEP WATER drilling, you paid a company to use their equipment. I have friends who are invested in oil drilling and understand the facts of it all. IF there HAD not been all the restrictions because of all the progressive liberal environmental groups, they would of been allowed drill in shallower water and the spill would of been capped a LOT sooner. You have no idea what all is involved, you just read certain media and run with what they say. 

 

As far as wanting the government to take another industry?  Or you nutts? Where in the heck did you get that from? The government had been hiking up our medical costs via Medicaid, Medicare, HMOs, PPOs, etc., every time the government gets involved or tries to control anything costs greatly (like they have been with housing, interest rates, etc..), increase, why is that? Because they are not a business, they only can spend, if the money isn't spent then it is taken away, so they spend, spend, spend, they do not worried about the bottom line.

 

The government has NO BUSINESS in any industry. Read the U.S. Constitution and perhaps you will get it ,but right now buddy, you are way out in the *TWiLiGHT*ZONe*

 

The government is the problem not the solution, i hope, pray and i support the 22 Congressional members up on the hill that do GET IT, can turn this mess around and stop the spending, downsize the government and get us back on the road to prosperity.

 

And hopefully it will be at the death of the Progressive Liberals ever being involved in our government ever again.

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