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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 29, 2011 8:14:01 GMT -5
Crony Socialism: Obama Gives $737 Million to Solar Firm Linked to the Pelosi Clan
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12:14 PM
It’s as if Solyndra never happened. The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG.
Obama admires solar panels during a trip to Florida. (Yahoor)
Team Obama is spending $737 million to create 45 permanent jobs.
The Hill reported, via Free Republic:
The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized a $737 million loan guarantee for a Nevada solar project.
The decision comes several weeks after a California-based solar manufacturer that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009 filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers, setting off a firestorm in Washington.
The $737 million loan guarantee will help finance construction of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a 110-megawatt solar-power-generating facility in Nye County, Nev. The project is sponsored by Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve.
Crescent Dunes is the latest solar project to receive a loan guarantee from the Energy Department in recent weeks. The department announced a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar for a solar generation project in California and a $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies for a Massachusetts solar manufacturing project earlier this month.
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This project while good for Tonopah and Nye county is a Ponzi scam built on the back of the taxpayers. Another publicly funded worthless project that provides part time ‘mirror washing jobs”? Also look at the back door connections between Reid and the developers of the foolish Coyote Springs project to see where the major benefit of being a dirty politician comes into play.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 29, 2011 9:23:57 GMT -5
Porkulus price tag: Around $400,000 per made-up job
by elenaon February 25 2011in Current Affairs
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as Porkulus, bought us between 1.3 and 3.5 million “saved or created” jobs for about $229,000 to $586,000 each.
Why don’t we just split the difference and figure we paid $400,000 per job? And, by the way, congratulations to the administration for finding all those “saved” jobs up its sleeve to add into the equation, or we’d be looking at some really ugly – or I should say uglier — numbers here.
…the CBO estimated that in the fourth quarter of 2010 there were somewhere between 1.3 million and 3.5 million people who were then employed who would not have been had the stimulus not been enacted. “CBO estimates,” says the report, “that ARRA’s policies had the following effects in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2010: … Increased the number of people employed by between 1.3 million and 3.5 million.”
This estimate seeks to state the net impact the stimulus had on the number of people employed in the United States as a result of the stimulus, taking into account not only the new jobs believed to be created and the existing jobs believed to be killed by the stimulus, but also the existing jobs that were saved that otherwise would have been lost.
I actually feel kind of sorry for the CBO bean counters. After the Healthcare debacle last March, they must be really weary of their role as the Obama administration’s personal propaganda Pez dispenser. But they’re stuck, being as their services are only required on the right side of the equal sign. The numbers on the left side of the equation are always delivered to them pre-cooked into what will ensure the best BS total possible to, in this case, rehabilitate a colossal historic blunder.
This time it means diluting brutal employment statistics with unverifiable facing-saving flotsam called “saved” jobs. Vague, elusive, existing jobs that President Obama declares with absolute certainty never would have survived in a free and unfettered market without his expert assistance.
Too bad that the Wall Street Journal says that his “saved jobs” statistics are “pure fiction.” (Hat tip to Lonely Conservative.)
Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama’s jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures “jobs saved.” As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama’s jobs claims are “based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs.” Nice work if you can get away with it.
And so the spin is that we’re darn lucky that wiser heads saw the necessity of flushing spending upwards of $1 trillion on swine odor research, tattoo removal, beaver management, etc. — because if we had been silly enough to entrust an economy already sickened by government meddling to the cleansing ministrations of the free and unfettered marketplace, the engines of innovation, competition, and productivity would still be stalled (or more stalled), and unemployment would be way way worse than it already is.
Because, of course, free market principles have never worked in the history of America, have they?
As a matter of fact that is the only thing that does work. What has drains the lifeblood out of the an economy like a million ticks on a zebra is busybody, smother-mother, bossy-cow lefties who have made it their life mission to intercept and confiscate everyone else’s money and distribute it where they think best.
The scary thing is that this smother-mother is taking it beyond anything anyone ever imagined. She’s refinanced the house, maxed out every credit card she can get her hands on, raided the youngsters’ piggy banks and college funds, and is at this very minute down at Cash Connection with the deed to your car.
And, no, I’m not referring to one of those 690,000 clunkers that President Obama bought for $24,000 each last year and then scrapped.
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Post by dent on Oct 31, 2011 12:45:41 GMT -5
"And so the spin is that we’re darn lucky that wiser heads saw the necessity of flushing spending upwards of $1 trillion on swine odor research, tattoo removal, beaver management, etc. — because if we had been silly enough to entrust an economy already sickened by government meddling to the cleansing ministrations of the free and unfettered marketplace, the engines of innovation, competition, and productivity would still be stalled (or more stalled), and unemployment would be way way worse than it already is."
Now wait a minute!! You know as well as I do that an unmanaged beaver is nothing but trouble!! Has caused more havoc and destruction than most anything else!! People MUST take control of their beavers!!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 1, 2011 8:31:40 GMT -5
 ![]() RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities. [/img] RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities. ````````````````````````````````````````` Virginia Republicans spent Monday in damage control after the state party was forced to condemn an email sent around to some of its supporters featuring a zombie collage that depicted President Barack Obama shot in the head. In what’s clearly a Halloween-themed mailer, an image of a zombie horde from The Walking Dead comic books, several other pieces of zombie art including a photo of Obama supporters and a jack-o-lantern are spaced apart by the defaced portraits of President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Obama’s render, a modification of his campaign’s famous “Hope” poster by artist Shepard Fairey, is seen zombified, making him appear severely wounded. There’s a bullet hole in his forehead, and his brain is exposed. Pelosi does not appear zombified, but her facial features are inexplicably deformed. Both bizarre portraits were part of a mass email sent out by the Loudoun County GOP, which immediately became the subject of a post by the Republican blog Too Conservative. “I am no fan of Barack Obama, but putting up a photo of him as a zombie with a bullet hole in his head?  ??” the poster wrote. “Like him or not he is the legitimately elected the President of the United States and Commander in Chief of our armed services in a time of war. THIS IS DISGUSTING AND SHAMEFUL. Someone should send this to the US Secret Service.” The email was intended to solicit attendance at a local fair. “We are going to vanquish the zombies with clear thinking conservative principles and a truckload of Republican candy,” it reads. The Loudoun Republicans did not create either image, they simply pulled them off the Internet. Responding to the controversy, the statewide GOP condemned Loudoun County’s actions in no uncertain terms. “The disgusting image used today on a mass e-mail has no place in our politics. Ever,” Pat Mullins, chairman of Virginia’s Republican Party, told The Washington Post. “The Republican Party of Virginia condemns the image and its use in the strongest possible terms.” Now, if only they could find some braaaaains. |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 2, 2011 7:22:53 GMT -5
“The Affirmative Action President” – Washington Post
August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President By Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.
And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:
To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:
And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?
In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 2, 2011 7:30:54 GMT -5
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama Presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their President."
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Post by Cyberman on Nov 2, 2011 7:58:40 GMT -5
Hoosier Hillbilly Join the community Greensburg, IN 17 min ago "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama Presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their President." I agree Hoosier. We the people are to blame. We the people should educate ourselves and quit voting along party lines and vote for the best candidate regardless of party affiliation. We the people MUST initiate change in our government. We the people must demand fair and unbiased media coverage. We the people must be able to detect bullshit media games. We the people are here. We the people are organizing. We the people are standing up. We the people are SPEAKING OUT! OCCUPY DC! If people don't think some of our voters are uneducated go to the following link and watch the video. www.howobamagotelected.com |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 2, 2011 15:26:40 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 4, 2011 6:31:46 GMT -5
U.S. pledges financial aid for PakistanSecretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks as Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar looks on during a joint news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 21, 2011. The Obama administration is pledging robust assistance to Pakistan despite demands on U.S. finances and a sometimes rocky relationship with Islamabad, according to a status report on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Come on Obama, let's not spend all "OUR!" money "WE" don't have in one place! "WE'r" sending them money and drones @ the same time "?". The money must be to fix the holes the drones made. When is Obama and our gov going to learn that sending money to these arab countries is throwing good money after bad! IN other WORDS, "WE" give'm lots of money and it goes for 'bad' results-name one that hasn't? ?
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 7, 2011 7:22:34 GMT -5
"IT MUST BE NICE TO HAVE A *LOT* OF LEISURE TIME?" Obama was not at the White House when the protest (CONCERNING PIPELINE FROM CANADA INTO THE "US") took place. As he often does on the weekends, the president was playing golf. ````````````````````````````````````````````` I THINK YOU [glow=red,2,300]OUGHT[/glow] TO READ THIS !!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline. . . . . . . . "&". [glow=red,2,300]this[/glow]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_SystemMy opinion: in the form of a question, is this our future form of self-destruction {or} is it our salvation? |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 21, 2011 14:57:59 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 22, 2011 16:36:26 GMT -5
Obama Administration Criticizes Egyptian Authorities for Violence
**Do you think this man as the right to criticize anybody, what Gail!
If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand anyway!
He's got "MUCH" more than (he is handling) right here in the "US", so for him to try and direct anyone or anything
on any matter is "WAY BEYOND HIS ABILITY!"
I mean, after all he's a 1/2 white {'i' presume} politician that promised miracles if elected that's produced nothing but hardships and problems on the entire Country.
Why don't he just concede his presidency and we'll elect Hillary?
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Post by dent on Nov 22, 2011 16:38:24 GMT -5
A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . The Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request that...before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.
'Times are hard ' , said Joe Biden, ' it ' s only fair to the cattle guards and their families! '
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Dec 4, 2011 7:51:33 GMT -5
Paraphrased statement Obama made:
"I" don't just think about what's good for me, but "I" also think about what's good for "my" world," he said. "That's what makes 'me' special. That's what makes 'me' exceptional."
Classic case of (NPD) ...Narcissistic personality disorder
=look it up on Wikipedia and see if you don't agree=
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Dec 12, 2011 17:06:02 GMT -5
=*= Why I couldn't be President =*=
We've asked for it back," President Obama said of the spy plane, "We'll see how the Iranians respond."
I'd have said: "GIVE"US" the damn drone back immediately or you won't have to worry about getting nuclear materials from other countries you'll have more than you know what to do with!
I'll bet they'd understand that!
And I always keep my promises - not like Usama!
Maybe it would draw too much attention to myself, but the next time I had to deal with other countries I'll bet they'd listen!
BUT! a campaign promise is I wouldn't stick my noise in anywhere I didn't have too!
As long as I'm president the "US" comes 1st - no noth'n to nobody, once "WE" get back on our feet we'll talk!
Can "U" tell I don't have 'much' patience! esp. with a**holes!
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