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Comment by J.R. on April 13, 2011 at 4:06pm

Roma, what was the name of your blog and when did you post it?  All I can do is copy and paste it and don't know if that will work for a video, unless you have the video link posted,  also.  I started looking for it, but it would help to have a date to go by.  Thanks.

Comment by J.R. on April 13, 2011 at 3:27pm

Roma, if you go back and edit the earlier blog you posted, add the new information and cartoon, then publish it again, it should publish as a new blog. It will immediately say "waiting for approval." That's what happened when I went back to edit something in one of my blogs.  Or, you could copy the old blog and paste it into a brand new blog, add the new information, and just change the heading a little bit.  That would definitely put it up front and not take much time.  I haven't been blogging here very long and still need to learn more about posting visuals and videos.

Comment by J.R. on April 13, 2011 at 1:12pm

Roma, this just blows me away! After going to Matt Taibbi's website and reading the uncut version, I'm having a hard time holding my jaw up off the floor.  Even Taibbi's unmatchable humor, which had me laughing out loud at his analogies, didn't soften the blow as the realization of the profligate and criminal handing out $Billions$ of the American peoples' money, as if it were penny candy, to allied campaign donor cronies and campaign donor big businesses, while leaving our government stuck with worthless paper and unmeasurable losses, sank in deeper and deeper.

Another stunner is the cartoon on the website, showing two capitalist pig "sweeties" (for lack of a better word) batting their eyelashes adoringly at a well-pleased, learing Uncle Sam.

Here is the link to Taibbi's website:  

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wa...

Roma, why don't you post a new, separate blog, about this heretofore Secret FED Rape of the U.S. Treasury and include the video and the cartoon there? No budgets or laws have been passed by Congress that would even hint of permission to engage in this astronomical theft and money give-away that makes Bernie Madoff look like a penny-ante piker. This is something that damages all of us and everyone needs to know about everything that has been done behind our backs to destroy our financial system and our country.  What's their philosophy?  Just give away all our money and allow George Soros to finish collapsing and destroying our economy? Like he has already done in other countries, even to the extent of bringing down the country of Yugoslavia that no longer exists. 

This happened on Soros-purchased Obama's watch and Obama must be held accountable.  Yet, Obama had the audacity to, in the face of economic disaster he has helped engineer, cavalierly throw his hat in the ring for re-election.  Only a drooling, knuckle-dragging moron would vote for him.

Comment by tamara stephenson on April 13, 2011 at 11:51am

Roma and Tom,  I just read the Rolling Stone Article you posted.  I would say it is unbelievable, yet I am not surprised.  When TARP was passed with no strings attached, we should not be surprised that this is happening.  What is even more disheartening is that Rolling Stone is doing the investigative reporting and asking the tough questions.  Where is CNBC, Fox Business News, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, anyone!  It's because when your network or magazine is owned by those same people on Wall Street, I'm pretty sure we won't be reading/hearing much about their shenanigans. 

Comment by J.R. on April 11, 2011 at 8:54pm

"Obama: Time to Talk Tax Hikes"

April 11, 2011

President Barack Obama will lay out his plan for reducing the nation’s deficit Wednesday, belatedly entering a fight over the nation’s long-term financial future. But in addition to suggesting cuts—the current focus of debate—the White House looks set to aim its firepower on a more divisive topic: taxes.

In a speech Wednesday, Mr. Obama will propose cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, and changes to Social Security, a discussion he has largely left to Democrats and Republicans in Congress. He also will call for tax increases for people making over $250,000 a year, a proposal contained in his 2012 budget, and changing parts of the tax code he thinks benefit the wealthy.

“Every corner of the federal government has to be looked at here,” David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser, said Sunday in one of multiple television appearances. “Revenues are going to have to be part of this,” he said, referring to tax increases.

The White House move caught Democrats in Congress off guard, according to aides, and details of the president’s proposals were sketchy..."

Link to rest of article: 

http://patriotupdate.com/5398/obama-time-to-talk-tax-hikes

Comment by J.R. on April 11, 2011 at 8:35pm

"HOUSE PASSES CONTINUING RESOLUTION"

"On Wednesday night, the United States House of Representatives approved a $1.1 trillion continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the federal government through September 30, 2011. A Continuing Resolution was Congress’ last resort as it failed to pass any of the 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2011, as well as a budget resolution.

The Hill reports, “The bill, which passed 212-206 largely along party lines, freezes 2011 discretionary appropriations at the current level, providing $45.9 billion less than President Obama requested for the year.”

House Democrats also managed to sneak into the continuing resolution the Food Safety Modernization Act, a food safety legislation that very nearly died in the House as a result of unconstitutionality issues. The bill was passed in the Senate, but as it contained provisions that virtually created new taxes, the House gave the Food Safety Modernization Act the old “blue slip” — a rejection of the law that sends it back to the Senate for another vote.

However, instead of making its way back to the Senate, the bill found its way into the Continuing Resolution and voilà, the progressives are one step closer to their dream of total control..."

Link to rest of article:  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/congress/5452-house-...

Comment by J.R. on April 11, 2011 at 6:07pm

Well, Roma, the good old boy career Republicans are determined to hold onto their power and control that has become not only a habit, but an assumed entitlement. All U.S. Representatives' proposed budgets, as well as other proposed legislation, should be brought to the floor on an equal basis. Rep. Michelle Bachman, whose proposed budget got high marks from some other legislators, as well as outside entities that analyzed it, was deliberately ignored.  But, she's the founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, came close to winning the Speaker of the House position, and is considering a run for President. So, she's a threat to them. The good old boys aren't going to want to see her gain any more power, especially with increasing talk surfacing about replacing John Boehner as Speaker.  I wish they would.  Bachmann would not have backed down in negotiations demanded by the President, although he would have tried to bully her.  She might well have done what I would have done, refuse to allow the president to unconstitutionally insert himself into a legislative process he had no legal right to be in.

Comment by J.R. on April 11, 2011 at 3:38pm

Thanks for posting these telling graphs, Roma. It's good to see the five-year and ten-year projections graphically to get a good picture of how spending rises or falls, by comparison, over time with these three budgets. A picture is often worth more than a thousand words and helps put into context what our financial situation will be at a given point in time..., at least as closely as it can be projected.  When you just read or hear someone talk about it, it's much harder to grasp conceptually.  However, I found the written analysis of Ryan's proposed budget very helpful.

Also, I learned last night that Rep. Michelle Bachman has 127 Representatives who have committed to vote with her against the devil's bargain arrived at under unconstitutional pressure on the part of the President, aided by his political yes-man, Harry Reid.  And, I read today that the $39B saved was put in the shade by the $54B increase in the national debt during the period of negotiation.  Seems its up the down staircase at all points.