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Friday, February 17, 2012

CRONYISM Defined

INVESTING IN OBAMA HAS BEEN HIGHLY PROFITABLE



















Obama is an "equal opportunity" CRONYISM participant.  He doesn't advocate it PUBLICALLY, but he participates in it at every opportunity behind the scenes.  As a candidate Obama promised that the allocation of all federal "stimulus" monies would be nonpartisan and fair:  "Let me repeat that.  Decisions about how Recovery money will be spent will be based on the merits.  They will not be made as a way for doing favors for lobbyists."  So many unfulfilled promises - why are we surprised at Obama's lack of promised transparency, his frequent use of the "race card", his failure to stop LOBBYISTS, EARMARKS, AND CRONYISM?





He has his family crony's
Family vacations, including the recent $4+ MILLION in Hawaii, all on the taxpayers.  Federal jobs for his daughters.  Michelle's brother.    Uncle Onyango Obama.


And then there is Aunt Zeituni.






He has his crony's in Kenya
Obama administration promotes abortion in Kenya with $18 million of taxpayer's money.















He has his business crony's
ACORN where Obama was one of their attorneys before he and his wife lost their attorney's licenses, and ACORN stealthy iterations after ACORN was prohibited from receiving federal funds for fraud.

















He has his crony's in Chicago
Radical Weather Underground terrorist and activist Bill Ayers and wife Bernadette.  The Chicago Daley cartel.  Tony Rezko. Rahm Emanuel.  Rev. Wright

















He has his Governor crony's
Blagojevich who he claims to have only seen once.








He has his Democrat Party crony's like Nancy Pelosi and her brother, and Warren Buffett.

















He has his "green energy" crony's
80% of Obama's green energy loans went to top Obama donors.    Solyndra.  












He has his Department of Energy crony's







Thursday, September 29, 2011

Place ObamaCare On Hold!




America needs your vote on the "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bill number S.281, authored by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX).

This amendment would COMPLETELY halt the ObamaCare health care nightmare from being implemented pending a final judicial ruling on its constitutionality.

ObamaCare is bad medicine for America because it kills jobs, bankrupts the government, drives up everyone's health insurance costs, puts bureaucratic “boards” in charge of rationing care, and ruins the world's best health care system – NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM, BUT THE WORLD'S BEST!  The 2800+ page ObamaCare bill was INTENTIONALLY set up with hidden agendas and “costs” which were not to be revealed to the public until AFTER the November 2012 elections.  There are currently 26 states in court to repeal this bill, and currently the number of waivers granted stands at 1400+ including seven entire states.  Most of these waivers have gone to Obama constituents who SUPPORTED ObamaCare, but do not want to suffer under its oppression.  More than 1400 waivers have already been issued to businesses and unions, AARP, more than 50% of all waivers have gone to unions, 20% of all waivers have gone to Ms. Pelosi’s district, and Mr. Reid’s whole state has been waivered, ALL supporters of ObamaCare.  This is CRONYISM in it’s ugliest form!  The sheer numbers of waiver requests has been so large that the House and Human Services (HHS) announced they were shutting down all waiver requests as of September, 2011, but appears to still be issuing waivers because of public outcry.  HHS has still refused to release details or criteria on how waivers are granted and refused.  Selective implementation and enforcement of ObamaCare OR ANY LAW is the first sign of tyranny.  A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law inevitably leads to corruption, ultimately resulting in tyranny.

Polls have consistently shown that a solid majority of Americans want Washington to reverse the GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of health care and adopt a patient-centered approach.  The Obama Administration is rushing to implement this unpopular law in the face of the opposition of a majority of the American public, a majority of the House, a near-majority of the Senate, and a majority of the states, which latter are suing to have the law stayed on constitutional grounds.  Obama’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has found that Obama’s promise of 4 MILLION new jobs is false, and CBO estimates that ObamaCare will ACTUALLY destroy more than 800,000 EXISTING jobs.  Before casting his vote in favor of ObamaCare, Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, described it as "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of"(sic).

Since December, 2010, two federal district judges, in Virginia and Florida, have declared unconstitutional ObamaCare's "individual mandate" requiring all U.S. residents to purchase health insurance (the linch-pin of the entire, 2801-page law).  The rulings in these and other cases are being appealed by the Obama Administration's lawyers. The judge in the Florida case made clear that he is effectively ordering the government to stop enforcing the law on the 26 states who are parties to the lawsuit; yet the Obama administration has indicated it WILL NOT halt implementation.

To avoid wasting more time and money imposing costly burdens on individuals and employers that may eventually be ruled null and void by a decision of the Supreme Court, Congress MUST vote on and ultimately adopt Sen. Hutchison's "Time Out on ObamaCare" Act, bold legislation that would impose a moratorium on further implementation of ObamaCare the until the courts render a final judicial decision of its constitutionality.

WE THE PEOPLE ARE REQUIRING YOU TO SUPPORT THE CONGRESSIONAL OATH YOU TOOK WHEN YOU ACCEPTED OFFICE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS, TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

This fax was sent to POTUS, Gov. Perry, GOP Candidates Romney, West, Senators Cornyn, Hutchinson, Rubio, Snowe, McConnell, Reid, Feinstein, Reed, Murray, Boxer, Tester, Kyl, Representatives Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, DeMint, Poe, Rand Paul, Levin, Pelosi, New first-term House Republicans Berg, Noem, Crawford, Gosar, Benishek, Nunnelee, Guinta, McKinley, Griffin, Huizenga, Ellmers, Rigell, Womack, Runyan, Heck, Kelly, Herrera, Gardner, Palazzo, Nugent, Lankford, McCarthy, and various Conservative and Liberal media outlets.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Where is the BLACK OUTRAGE at Obama's Dismal Leadership?

My playlist auto plays but can be started/stopped, change songs, volume controls - scroll down and find playlist on the right side.

Where is the BLACK OUTRAGE at Obama's dismal failures to America as a whole, but even greater failure to his own CONSTITUENCY?

MAYBE HERE, MAYBE NOW, AND MAYBE JUST IN TIME!

The Obama dismal record has demonstrated itself from BEFORE he was elected by a DIVERSE constituency.  But the black outrage is only getting here now.
CNN's complaint of the lack of transparency of the Obama administration as promised by "candidate"Obama!

They also Remind Pelosi of her statment supporting "transparency", but left out her statement "Pass the bill so we can find out what is in them"
Most secretive administration in the history of government?  OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION IS THE MOST SECRETIVE ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE LEAST TRANSPARENT.  He also, after three years in office has done NONE of the promises he makes here in this video!
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), sweating and spinning profusely in a town-hall meeting with her black constituents, who seem a bit "RACIST" towards her?
Congresswoman Pelosi's (D-CA) previously mentioned "infamous" statement.  Is anyone out there BELIEVING" THIS KOOL-AID?  If so please leave a comment explaining HOW ON EARTH YOU CAME TO THAT CONCLUSION.
CNN caught candidate Obama on his "NO LOBBYISTS" campaign pledge.  NO KIRAN, IT IS NOT "CUTTING OUT A LOT OF TALENT" IF OBAMA HAD NOT LIED, IT WOULD BE CUTTING OUT A LOT OF CORRUPTION, CRONYISM, AND SAVING TAXPAYERS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IF ONLY HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID.
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS - BLAH, BLAH, BLAH          BLAME, BLAME, BLAME - BLAH, BLAH, BLAH
START NOW, START NOW, START NOW - BLAH, BLAH, BLAH          OBAMA LIES, MORE LIES, MORE LIES!
MSNBC discussion of the Waters CBC "near riot" - SPIN, SPIN, SPIN - GETTING DIZZY YET?
Congresswoman Waters (D-CA) and CBC member slips and outs herself as a SOCIALIST!  AND NO JAMES, FOR "THIS DOG & PONY SHOW" LETS JUST CALL IT SOCIALISM AS MS. WATERS DID, AND NOT TRY TO "SOFTEN" IT BY REDEFINING IT "NATIONALISM"!  BUT NICE TRY JAMES.  CONSERVATIVES 1 - FOX NEWS 0
FOX News points out that the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is trying to "SPIN" the CBC constituancy revolt to the MEDIA.  THE SAME MEDIA THAT REPORTS NOTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT OBAMA ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS TRUTH!  The video points out that some CBC Congressmen are seriously considering LEAVING the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)  THE OBAMA ERA or error SEEMS TO BE CRUMBLING?
C-SPAN VIDEO CAPTURES OBAMA SWEATING, STRESSING, AND FREAKING OUT AT A CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS (CBC) SPEECH WHERE HE COMPLAINS TO HIS LARGEST SUPPORTERS TO "STOP THE COMPLAINING, QUIT FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF, SLIP OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM SLIPPERS, STOP THE GRUMBLING, STOP THE  WHINING", ETC.  CONSERVATIVES DON'T BUY IT WHEN HE ATTACKS US AS RACISTS, AND DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE BLACK PEOPLE WILL TAKE IT EITHER?  WHERE DOES OBAMA GET THE MALIGNANT NARCISSISM, AND ELITIST BILE TO RANT AGAINST HIS BIGGEST SUPPORTERS LIKE THIS?  HE ALMOST SEEMS RACIST?
Rev. Perryman with a new perspective on Obama's RACISM


Friday, August 19, 2011

Plenty of "Shadiness" on This Obama Property

SENATOR OBAMA



Tax fraud suspected in Obama land deal

Posted August 14, 2011 5:21 pm EST By Jerome R. Corsi  © 2011 WND

The "buffer zone" parcel at the OBAMA FAMILY mansion in Chicago's upscale Kenwood neighborhood purchased by the wife of convicted felon Tony Rezko was transferred to Barack and Michelle Obama without ever being assessed or taxed, in apparent violation of Illinois law, according to a debt-collection expert.


"The Cook County assessor's office told me that there is no record of any tax assessment having been done on this transfer of the buffer zone property into a Northern Trust Co. Deed in Trust," Albert Hendershot told WND.
Hendershot, president and owner of Innovative Portfolio Recovery Inc, a debt collection and skip tracing company based in Birmingham, Ala., noted the buffer zone "does not have an address attached to it, which is probably how the assessment and tax were avoided."

Hendershot was the previously undisclosed source for the April 20 WND story WHY DO 3 SUPPORTERS OWN OBAMA’S HOME?

He noted that the records of the Cook County recorder of deeds shows that the buffer zone parcel was deeded by Rita Rezko to Northern Trust No 10209, a real estate investment trust.  A trust was created for the Obamas to give them "a measure of privacy," then-Obama spokesman Bill Burton told the Times of London during the 2008 presidential campaign. Records of the Obama trust established for the mansion have been made public here.  However, Northern Trust No. 10209 is actually a bundle of a number of different properties, and the public documents do not explain the legal transfer processes by which the deed for the Obama mansion was bundled into Northern Trust No. 10209.



WND has confirmed with the assessor's office that there is no record of a tax assessment on the parcel Rezko sold to the Obamas, and a search of the assessor's database online using the property's PIN produces no results, as seen below.




Hendershot explained that the buffer zone added 1,907 square feet to the Obama house lot, creating a total of 12,047 square feet for the lot containing the mansion, which is property identification number, or PIN, 20-11-115-037-0000.

"Even if the transaction were considered absorbing the buffer zone into the larger property that the Obamas bought," Hendershot said, "that would have constituted two separate transactions for the same parcel – the transfer to the Obamas and the absorption of the buffer into the larger property – without a proper tax assessment being completed on the property in question."

What is the problem?  "It has the look of real estate and tax fraud," Henderson answered.   "If a property is transferred without a tax assessment being completed and without taxes being paid on the property, my professional background causes me to be suspicious a crime may have been committed."  Hendershot, who has been studying the Obama mansion purchase for the past six months, explained to WND that the transaction involved a complex multi-layer structure that resulted in multiple PINs being created for the 5046 S. Greenwood property, as recorded in the offices of the Cook County recorder of deeds and the Cook County assessor.

WND previously reported that at least three people are listed as current owners and taxpayers on the Obama mansion: William Miceli, a Tony Rezko attorney and fundraiser who practices law at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, the firm that employed Obama when he did legal work for Rezko;  Chicago Probate Judge Jane L. Stuart;  and Obama accountant Harvey Wineberg.  In Exhibit 3, Hendershot summarizes the multi-layer transaction his research has tied to the property at 5046 S. Greenwood.



Exhibit 4 details the transfer of the Rita Rezko buffer zone parcel.



Hendershot's research report submitted to WND can be read in its entirety HERE.

When the Obamas bought the mansion in 2005, Rita Rezko purchased the vacant lot adjoining the house, permitting the Obamas to afford the house. Listed at $1.95 million for the house and the vacant lot together, the Obamas purchased the house for $1.65 million, while Rita Rezko bought the vacant lot for $625,000.

Rezko then divided the parcel and in January 2006 sold one-fifth of it to the Obamas for $104,500. In December 2006, when Tony Rezko was indicted, she sold the remaining portion for $575,000, claiming she needed the funds. She netted an estimated $54,500 from the latter sale.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE REPORTED land records of the Cook County Recorder of Deeds showed Rita Rezko sold the lot to a company owned by former Tony Rezko business attorney Michael J. Sreenan that planned to develop housing on it.

RECORDS POSTED BY THE INTERNET BLOG “REZKO WATCH” showed Sreenan made a $2,000 contribution to Obama on June 20, 2003.
POLITICO.COM REPORTED Sreenan made five other contributions totaling $3,500 to Obama on the same days other Rezko associates and employees contributed often matching sums.  Apparently, the Obamas had little reason to fear that Sreenan would actually construct any condos on the lot purchased from Rezko.
According to the Rezko Watch report, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle rejected plans from a prospective buyer who wanted to build a single-family home on the lot adjoining the Obama home, as well as a developer's plans to build condos there.  Preckwinkle declared that any home built on that land would have to be compatible with the neighborhood's mansions.  Preckwinkle, Rezko Watch noted, is not only the Democratic committeeman of the 4th Ward, but she is a known Obama supporter.  ACCORDING TO THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES, Rezko was the long-time head of Preckwinkle's campaign – finance committee.


UPDATE: Tony Rezko sentenced to Ten and a half years for fraud scheme with then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevitch. 
Obama has tried to downplay his relaionships with Blagojevitch, but see my post here for more information..

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Nepotism, Cronyism, and Favoritism





A post by John Hayward on Daily Events

“Prior to this week, Kathleen McGrade was a “contract specialist” for the State Department.  That means she had a hand in doling out million-dollar contracts.  A lot of those contracts were doled out to the Sterling Royale Group, which offers design and construction services.  Over $52 million taxpayer dollars flowed into Sterling Royale’s coffers before it was discovered that its president and vice-president are Kathleen McGrade’s daughter and her husband, respectively.




Just as the public was gathering its breath for a good, old fashioned howl of outrage, the State Department sacked Kathleen McGrade.  Huzzah!  Big Government is clean once again!"


Where are the criminal charges for the “redistribution” of $52 MILLION taxpayer’s dollars?

Or do you think there could be more Kathleen McGrades out there?  Instead of joining with Mexico in federal lawsuits against TWO American states, to prevent them from enforcing EXISTING federal immigration law, maybe Mr. Holder should be directed by President Obama, to find all the Kathleen McGrades out there?  And prosecute ACTUAL crime.

How are those massive Obama subsidies for politically favored projects being ladled out?  Looks like favoritism, cronyism, and nepotism are the yardsticks of the Obama administration.  When the government picks winners and losers in the marketplace, tossing around bailouts and penalties, what criteria are used to select the “winners?”  It’s obviously not efficiency or productivity, or else we wouldn’t be caught in a death spiral of stagnant growth, rising inflation, and sky-high unemployment.  


There is no such thing as “clean” Big Government.   The only way to increase the honesty and transparency of the State is to reduce its size.   Clean governments are, without exception, small.   Government control of the economy, from bailing out corporate failures to subsidizing politically favored “transformative” industries, is all about neutralizing the results of competition.   The opposite of competition is monoply and corruption.   Anyone who wanted to compete with Kathleen McGrade’s daughter and husband for those State Department contracts could tell you all about it.  What stories they must have to tell?”