LOAN SHARK IN CHIEF

How does the mob (as in mafia) get hold of business? Loans, that's how. That is not to say that banks are loan sharks, but I am saying that the game of finance today is being directed by the government....and that banks have been sucked into it because bankers have been controlled by government regulations that have caused the banks to lose solvency. If you want to see how the government creates a weak financial sector there are many examples from which to choose.

The United States was not created to be a bank. The United States government has no business whatsoever granting loans, i.e. student loans, mortgage loans, business loans, etc. Using our tax dollars to prop up certain universities, housing areas, or particular businesses is corrupt. First of all it is being done without the consent of the taxpayers. Secondly it skews the market and inhibits property ownership. Thirdly, it gives government control where there should be none. The entire premise of the government being used as a tool of finance is corrupt. It picks winners and losers depending on the administration in power at the moment. And when defaults on loans occurs, the government steps in and grabs ownership of what used to be privately owned property. This is to the advantage of the government bureaucrats and to the disadvantage of the economic well-being of the people, however it weakens both government and economic prosperity for the people in the process. Instead of "spreading the wealth around," it spreads risk and poverty around.

I say this applies to local governments as well. We have a perfect example here in our county. An entrepreneur comes up with a commercial enterprise, in our case; an Olympic Whitewater Center. The OWC is presented as an opportunity for Olympic atheletes to train and a recreational outlet for people who want to go rafting in a controlled environment. All well and good, but the entrepreneur can't get enough private financial backing to get the rafts in the water. In steps the local area governments to say they will use taxpayer money to back the construction and operation of this enterprise. The excuse is that the OWC will bring tourism and create a healthful recreation activity for all. (Nevermind that "all" do not have rafting on their list of preferred activities.) "All" will pay to get it up and running and the local governments will heavily back this for several years they say, until it becomes financially viable on its own. In the meantime, banks have also backed this operation to the tune of 12 million dollars. I am guessing that the banks were getting some preferential tax reductions in order to back this operation, but I have no evidence to prove that.

Time tells the story. After three or four years, the OWC has not turned a profit, is operating in the red and cannot pay back the loans. As usual with government bureaucrats running the show, everybody loses and nobody wins. The announcement has come recently that the banks are forgiving the 12 million in loans to the OWC. How interesting and convenient. What back door negotiation figured that one out? I honestly don't have all of the particulars in the financial maze set up for the OWC, but me thinks there are some rotten smelling fish in that White Water. The government is still on the hook. Or should I say the taxpayers are still on the hook, but now the taxpayers don't have to pay back the 12 million. Rejoice everyone. We only have to pay back the government backing, not the private bank backing? Hmmmmm....how does that work?

Well, I would think the banks have to make up that 12 million somewhere. Who can just swallow a 12 million dollar loss? Some things have to happen. The banks have to increase their fees and charge more to their customers to make up that kind of a loss. The banks have to get some tax exempt status to help them cover the loss, which in turn the taxpayers end up covering. The government, which takes over the remainder of the OWC costs, now has to charge the taxpayers more to cover the rest of the expenses of the OWC and to make up the difference for the tax exempt part the banks are getting. The local government, for all intents and purposes, either now owns or will end up owning the commercial enterprise that originally was supposed to be a private enterprise, unless they can find a sugar daddy private buyer to take on a failed enterprise.

Again, government is not supposed to be in the business of financing private enterprises. And when it does, it is usually for someone's pet project that isn't even close to necessary infrastructure like roads and bridges.

Moving on to the Loan Shark in Chief: On the Federal level we have seen this government loan situation turn into rotten fish on several stages. One of them is Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act which raped the public of billions in government backed loans that defaulted. The government ended up owning "toxic assets," i.e. lots of housing. And the banks ended up owning "toxic assets," i.e. lots of bad paper loans. Obama sees the banks are failing due to the government mandated CRA loans they made and subsequent derivatives they created to get themselves out from under the bad loans, so he puts the banks on the dole of the taxpayers. Now he is talking about loaning taxpayer money to private power companies to construct nuclear power plants. That way, the government will eventually own the energy from those plants and the taxpayers will pay twice; first for the energy and second for the loans from the government. Barack Obama loves government ownership of all things, so what does he do? He takes advantage of failing car industries and puts them on the dole of the taxpayers. He sees government usurpation in health care, energy, housing, education, all an opportunity to increase the power of the federal government. Who benefits from that? It certainly isn't the private enterprise sector. It isn't individual businesses, as they are paying through the nose to prop up the public sector. Like a parasite feeding off the host, Obama's policies will eventually kill the host, i.e. the private enterprise sector of the U.S. His loan operation is forcefully sucking the breath out of the country he needs for support.

I don't care if you call this socialism, communism, fascism or downright stupidity, all of it is unconstitutional. The United States government, nor the local governments were supposed to become banking institutions, operators of car companies and White Water Centers, or mortgage companies. It just isn't the function of government to do these things. And for those of you who think "a little European socialism" is such a great thing, you should take a good hard look at Europe right now and notice how bankrupt and desperate the EU is becoming. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are all under water and failing due to socialist EU policies. We had a revolution in the 1700's to rid ourselves of financial tyranny by government and to separate ourselves from the oppressive policies of Europe. Why now would anyone think that following the irresponsible financial policies of European socialism would be a sane path to take? Watch out for those government loans and subsidies, folks. You may find yourself with a loan shark in chief at your door.

DEAR VLADIMIR

A Valentine letter to Vladimir I. Lenin
From the desk of Cheryl A. Pass
February 12, 2010

My dear Comrade Lenin,

I've been thinking a lot about you lately. So much so that I decided to go looking for some of your legacy of knowledge that you gave to the world when you were the leader of the Soviet Union. You left us with such great insight into your leadership and I am reminded of you nearly everyday now that we are one year into Barack Obama's presidency. Sometimes I think I hear your voice echoing across the decades since you left us. Like Chris Matthews, I, too, get a thrill, but mine is more like a chill up my spine rather than some tickle up my leg. I'm amazed that your lessons have been repeated so often through our schools and our government over the last decades and now it looks like your utopian dream is in the works here in contemporary America. There are those who are implementing your methodology who never met you. Isn't that a remarkably amazing accomplishment for you? I wonder if you are smiling in that glass casket they put you into in Lenin Square for all to see and revere your life. Somewhere in there must be a glimmer of self-satisfaction....though you denied the "individual self" to the people whenever you could.

You were a faithful (dare I use that word?) actor implementing into Russia the theories of Karl Marx, whose writings you studied at Kazan University. I am sure Marx was ecstatic at your success. You established a "free universal healthcare" program for all Russians. Barack Obama is eager to realize your health care system into America despite the fact that the American people do not want that. You didn't stop to ask what the people wanted. You created the "red terror" to shut down opposition and just did what you wanted to do. What strength! You used force rather than waiting around for democratic decisions. No moss grew on you, Vlad! And Barack Obama is doing all he can to silence the voices who oppose him, only hinting at exterminating them, but we can tell he would if he thought he could get away with it. His method today is making use of conspirators within the branches of Congress to impose your laws under the cloak of secrecy, before the people can find out what is happening. In case of that failing, he has appointed executive regulators to implement edicts and just take an "end run" around Congress and the courts. How clever he is. A good student, no? Some of your statements were kept for posterity.

Here I will recall them to you and then I will show you how your offspring Obama has learned your lessons so well.

Here are some examples:
You said: "...the concentration of capital and the growth of their turnover is radically challenging the significance of the banks. Scattered capitalists are transformed into a single collective capitalist. When carrying the current accounts of a few capitalists, the banks, as it were, transact a purely technical and exclusively auxiliary operation. When, however, these operations grow to enormous dimensions we find that a handful of monopolists control all the operations, both commercial and industrial, of capitalist society. They can, by means of their banking connections."

Obama has taken control of the biggest banks and car industries, so now they are completely beholden to Obama and the Federal Government and cannot operate without explicit orders from him. Pretty good move, eh, Vlad?

You said: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

Obama has signed America into decades of servitude by increasing the debt load on citizens that they will never get out from under. He is planning to indebt the citizens further by forcing them into the state run health care plan he would like to have, and creating energy policies that will make it impossible to operate a capitalistic business in the U. S., crushing the middle class and the businessmen into oblivion. You must applaud!

You said: "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."


Obama has doubled down on the indoctrination of public school children. Since this initiative had already begun decades ago, this was easy for him. He even managed to get little grade-school children to sing songs of loyalty to him. The studies of freedom and the American dream have been replaced with social mandates of collectivism. Your hero, yes Vladimir??

You said: "..first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate."

Obama has, while outwardly lamenting the banks' inability to loan money, mandated loans to go to people unable to make loan payments. He has frozen money out of the capitalist system and demanded that banks send money to "community organizations" for reparations to the under-class. He is undermining various capitalists at sonic speed. In only one year, he has caused higher unemployment and grown the statist controlled government by leaps and bounds. No moss grows on him either, dear Vlad.

You said: "The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this."

Obama insists on a program of "Net Neutrality" which is devoted to using the press and all media outlets to promote the Marxist agenda. He is working hard to rid America of the freedom of speech and using "political correctness" he is targeting the opposition with threats of regulations and shutting them down. A good Marxist is never going to allow voices against him, as you would no doubt agree!!

These are but a few examples of how your legacy lives on. You must be very proud. In America we have been fortunate to escape the "red terror" you so efficiently directed. But your deeds in government are being forced on the people nonetheless. Congratulations dear, departed Vladimir. Your influence has spread just as you would have liked. Barack Obama has brought forth where you left off in his attempt to turn the United States into the Soviet Socialist Union of Amerika.

With regards for your ability to kill the middle classes, create workers' unions, undermine the industrial and banking sectors, control messages, and indoctrinate generations of school children, I end my letter now.

From a student of how not to proceed, I thank you for your example. You have given us much to ponder,
Cheryl

Glossary note: Bourgeoisie: def. the middle class.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/vladimir+ilyich+lenin

TIP OF THE ICEBERG

The giant sucking sound Ross Perot used to describe as jobs going to Mexico has been replaced by the giant sucking sound of money going straight down the tubes to Global Warming / Climate Change insanity. If we can't stop the insidious greed of carbon traders who are pushing government policies toward the Ice Age, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.

You only need to look at Spain to see what Cap and Trade does to an economy. From Dakota Voice.com"The release also says that 9 out of 10 “green jobs” created in Spain over the last decade are now gone. What’s more, Spain spent $753,778 to create each job, including subsidies of $1,319,783 per wind industry job."

Note that Spain is one of four countries in the European Union that is now nearly insolvent and is at the brink much as Greece is right now. The Cap and Trade model in the EU, which is rife with fraud, is what some of our government officials are pushing us toward, most of all the Community Organizer in Chief who has picked global socialists and a few outright communists for his top ranks.

I hear they are diverting the mission of NASA from space exploration to climate information mining. Hmmmmm....

And the government has recently announced a new climate agency headquartered not far from here in Ashville, NC. This agency is part of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Their mission is to warn us of global warming disasters that will take place centuries from now and make sure we think it will have been all of our fault.

Soooo....let's fraudulently scam the public and take masses of money from the taxpayers to pay for .....??? Job losses. Higher energy prices. Not harvesting fossil fuels. Shutting down farming in the San Joaquin to save a half inch fish. Turning over sovereignty of our National Parks to the UN under some Biosphere project. Building windmills that produce miniscule energy, cost more to build, blight the landscape, chop up raptors, and are inefficient sources, etc. Shut down a sugar plantation, costing us over a billion dollars in Florida, to save some very prolific alligators, so we can import more sugar rather than grow it here. Growing corn for ethanol that makes food prices higher which makes it harder for the poor to eat.

From the Pork Report:

"More than three-quarters of the $2 billion in federal stimulus funds intended to create green-energy jobs in the U.S. has gone to foreign-owned companies

Despite millions in federal tax credits, wind-equipment manufacturers cut thousands of jobs in the U.S. last year"

And this news flash:

WASHINGTON — "Despite the Obama administration’s efforts to create jobs making wind turbines in America, some companies say that sluggish demand for wind energy is holding them back.The U.S. installed more wind power last year — 9,900 megawatts, or enough to power 2.4 million homes — than in any other year.

The growth in wind farm installations in the U.S. was a product of federal stimulus spending. Nonetheless, wind equipment manufacturers cut as many as 2,000 jobs last year. According to the American Wind Energy Association , a trade group, the drop in U.S. jobs is due, in part, to the lack of a long-term national policy that would require a certain percentage of American electricity to come from renewable sources."

I have a suggestion. Let's take all of the billions of dollars out of the climate / "Green" insanity and pay off some debts to China. What do you say???

And I wish that Washington DC would stay snowed under and out of business for about 3 more years 'til we can take the ship of state back from the Captains of the Titanic.

MORNING JOE, O'REILLY, and JON STEWART = MORE NONSENSE

Sometimes I make the mistake of watching Morning Joe. I do it to see if I can get a handle on what the elitist, globalist, anti-American media message is at the moment.

This morning I caught a discussion by Joe Scarborough and cronies regarding Jon Stewart's appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show....on which show was some pretty silly repartee regarding whether or not Obama is a "socialist" or a "tyrant." Joe's show played clips from the O'Reilly show. Jon Stewart had some very clever come-backs saying if Obama is either of those he is totally inept because he isn't succeeding at being socialist or tyrannical. The clips show O'Reilly as completely unable to counter the assertions of Stewart. I'm not much of a fan of O'Reilly to begin with, but his lack of ability to throw that back in the face of Stewart with legitimate counter argument really makes me lose respect for him.

Normally I hear this nonsense on Morning Joe, shake my head, and try to get on with the day, but it occurred to me this morning that the conversation on Morning Joe is so convoluted that if anyone in America doesn't have a solid understanding of the word socialist or history, they would actually believe what is said. The people on Morning Joe's show this morning were trying to say the Tea Party people, those on the side of the Constitution, are too stupid to actually understand socialism and therefore are mislabeling Obama as such. Part of the argument was this; If Obama is a socialist, then how come he is bailing out Wall Street? Continued argument was; Rather than redistributing the money to the people, Obama has redistributed the people's money to the already wealthy bankers and hedge fund managers. I'm paraphrasing that, but that was the gist of it.

So, here I counter Jon Stewart's ridiculous assertions:
Socialism proposes to be a worker's paradise where all proceeds are shared equally. But in reality, it never comes close to that. Does Obama promote the redistribution of wealth? Yes. Has Obama set up an executive branch full of regulatory czars who usurp power from the people by going around the U.S. Constitution and Congress? Yes. Does that make him a totalitarian socialist tyrant? Yes. Has he vowed to enact government health care and cap and tax programs whether the people want those or not? Yes. Does he look inept by being unable to, so far, force those programs down the throats of the American people? Maybe.

But here's the deal...Socialism does exactly what Jon Stewart suggested Obama has done....it takes the money from the people and puts it in the hands of a few elite power brokers and bureaucrats. That IS Socialism. That IS tyranny. Read the definition below...

From Conservapedia.com "As a political ideology based on the redistribution of wealth, socialism stresses the privileges of the many over the rights of the few, but in practice when socialist economic principles are forced onto a nation by a totalitarian government a new Upper Class appears which is much better off than the Lower Class."

O'Reilly failed at exposing the socialist's favorite game...the Alinsky game of twisting the facts, targeting the enemy, and lying through your teeth. And then, Morning Joe just throws that out at the American public as if Jon Stewart won a game of "gotcha" with O'Reilly, as if to say the Tea Party movement in America is just a bunch of stupid dolts who don't know Stalin from Valerie Jarret. C'mon folks...they're playing with our lives here. The arrogance on the Morning Joe show is intolerable most every day...and is insulting to anyone with half a brain.

As I said, I watch it sometimes just to see what the enemies of America are saying on this day or that. It's a good thing to know what your enemies are saying. But it is a disappointing way to start the day.

SUCKING BLOOD OUT OF A TURNIP

Do you wonder or ask yourself, what exactly is it that Obama loves so much about unions? The guy has never manufactured a widget or participated in any type of free market business in his entire life. He hasn't worked the line at Ford. He hasn't been chopping chickens in a chicken factory. He hasn't so much as worked as a clerk in a store. So what is this adherence to unions? Where is the credibility? Doesn't it strike you as odd that an academic in a suit, coming out of Acorn's mafia organization, steps out there and beats the drum for "the workers of the world?" When you think of union thugs, who comes to mind? Jimmy Hoffa? The President of the United States as Jimmy Hoffa? Now there's a visual.

So here is the answer to the conundrum of Obama's big love affair with unions. The public sector unions are now bigger than any other union force in the country. Government unions have taken over where the private sector unions left off. All union contributions amounted to somewhere around $400,000,000 given to Democrats in the 2008 election cycle. When government and unions marry, who gets the screws? Private sector industry and taxpayers, that's who.

For the first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday.

This from Michael Barone "Public-sector unionism is a very different animal from private-sector unionism. It is not adversarial but collusive. Private-sector unions strive to elect their management, which in turn can extract money from taxpayers to increase wages and benefits - and can promise pensions that future taxpayers will have to find."

"Barack Obama is probably the most union-friendly president since Lyndon Johnson. He has obviously been unable to stop the decline of private-sector unionism. But he is doing his best to increase the power and dues income of public-sector unions"

If you think about the states who are going bankrupt faster than you can say "bankrupt," you can find the culprit of public-sector unions who are sucking the life blood out of the private-sector. Teachers unions, prison worker unions, transportation workers unions, etc. etc. are all soaking the states for not just higher than private-sector salaries, but for benefits and retirements that only Al Capone could dream of. Now that the private-sector in America is going down the tubes, Obama is in the business of sucking what is left out of the turnip, taxing everyone else to redistribute our money to unions. Or giving tax breaks to unions while the rest of us find our wallets bleeding.

The turnip is dry already...so what does Obama do? Borrow money from China and elsewhere and create a debtor nation for our children and grand-children. Nevermind the deficits and the national debt....let's just screw the producers and their kids so the government will have to take over everything and put everyone in the "government workers union." Obama mentioned a "Bolshevik plot" last week....as if it was some ridiculous conspiracy. Sorry Obama....it isn't ridiculous nor conspiratorial to see the deliberate destruction of American solvency, economic freedom, and the dark days of Soviet Socialism descending upon the "Shining city on a hill."

A MESSAGE FOR OBAMA VOTERS

Soros + Obama VS. America

I hate to sound like a one note samba, but everywhere I look at Obama's policies, there stands a network of Communists / Socialists / Progressives who have not just infiltrated our government and culture, but that they are funded by Soros and other Communist activists, all of whom hate America. My research leads every time to an elite group of very wealthy manipulators who are taking America down. For those who think they are remnants of the 1960's protest groups or the do-gooders who like to sing Kumbayah (better yet, Lennon's "Imagine"), I want you to know what has taken over our country is not some kindly, sweet, collectivist, utopian, group of Nuns. If you voted for Obama you need to know just how dangerous and thuggish he and his cronies are. If you know that already and still voted for this....you don't deserve to live here. If you love Communism so much then why don't you get yourself, your family, and your buddies on the next plane to Bejing and stay the hell out of America. If you love Mao, Stalin, Castro, and Che so much then march yourself down to Venezuela and spend some time with Hugo Chavez. If you want to ruin your own life, go right ahead.....but stop wrecking our America. It isn't yours to wreck..... it belongs to patriots who believe in the U.S. Constitution.

That said, here is a page: Commie Blaster.com I found today that could clue you in on who is pulling the strings. The monster is huge and you are feeding the beast. If you have lost your job, or lost your investments, or are watching your freedoms disappear...and you voted for this regime, you deserve what you get. The rest of us don't deserve it and resent the hell out of you.

Here is a list of some of Soros' organizations (only a partial list). These groups are anti-American and hate the U.S. Constitution :
Soros-Funded Communist Organizations

• The Democratic Party
• ACORN
• SEIU (Andy Stern)
• NAACP
• MoveOn.org
• Planned Parenthood
• American Civil Liberties Union
• AFL-CIO
• United Steelworkers Union

• Abortion Access Project
• After Prison Initiative
• AFSCME

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

So....I can't stop myself from imparting what I believe to be important information. Maybe my heart is breaking and my mind is silently screaming, but I want very badly to save America for my children and their children so I, impulsively must share some intelligence with someone now and then.

On American Exceptionalism, I want to say up front that this is not about jingoism. Blind nationalistic fervor is not the same thing as American Exceptionalism. American Exceptionalism comes from realizing our Constitution is like no other premise for government that has ever existed in the history of the world. Every other government, past or present, has been set up to favor a few elitists and use the rest of the population to prop up the ruling class. Not America. America was created to give every person an individual opportunity to succeed. That was never done before or since. That is why America is "exceptional." And that is also why the loss of our America is so devastating to the citizens of our country and to the world. (As Reagan would say..."America is the shining city on the hill.") To lose this is an unimaginable loss to each individual who lives and breathes. It is a tragedy of global proportions. To lose this to Socialists who are funded by the likes of George Soros, Steven Bing, the Rockefellers, the Annenburgs, the Clintons, and all the rest of the global elitist Socialists, is a defeat intolerable to each of us who have lived and breathed American Exceptionalism as the foundation for our lives.

Excerts below written by Leo Emmanuel Lochard published here: Talking Points Memo


"Human and civil rights come from God and they are INALIENABLE - No other nation or country in the world, or in human history, has such a universal Declaration as the only basis for its foundation and establishment. And that's why people from the four winds of heaven and from the four corners of the Earth flock to the United States of America. No other nation is like ours! "

"The right way to express the uniqueness or Exceptionalism of the United States of America as a nation, is to affirm the undeniable historical fact that America is the first democratic country in the history of the world whose nation-builders created the most secure foundation for Representative Government (Constitution, voting, elections, amendments, individual Bill of Rights etc.), a first in human history since preceding forms of government up to AD 1776 only exemplified the tyranny of monarchies and the despotism of princes and autocrats."

I highly recommend you click on the link above and read the entire article. Mr. Lochard has written the crux of the matter and explained what is at stake in this fight against Marxism, as a Marxist in Chief has taken over our executive branch with many Marxist minions who have infiltrated the rest of our government at all levels.

Our lives depend on re-establishing the Constitution of the United States as the law of the land and throwing every Marxist / Progressive out of our government forever, amen.