Study: Non-Citizens Are Voting And Could Decide The Election Derek Hunter 5:24 PM 10/24/2014

A new study has found a disturbing fact for anyone interested in election integrity – non-citizens are voting in America’s elections and they could ultimately be the difference makers in close races.

Voter fraud is routinely dismissed as a myth by Democrats, something so insignificant that it doesn’t matter. Even after investigative journalist James O’Keefe recorded undercover video of poll workers offering Attorney General Eric Holder’s ballot to someone who wasn’t him, Holder and the Justice Department had no interest in the subject.

Republicans, by and large, support laws that would make the Holder ballot situation much less likely to happen. They support voter ID laws that would require people voting to prove they are who they say they are, to prevent people from voting on behalf of others.

Conversely, the right to vote, progressive activists like the Attorney General insist,

Possible Black on White hate crime in Cleveland, Ohio caught on tape

Obama’s Blue-Green Bust

Townhall Magazine | 

In the April issue of Townhall Magazine, Conn Carroll discusses how the engine of the Obama Recovery never made it out of the garage.
“This is the worst economic recovery America has ever had,” Scott Pelley informed “CBS Evening News” viewers on July 17, 2012. And it hasn’t gotten any better since.
Yes, unemployment has fallen from 8.2 percent then to 6.6 percent today. But that fall in unemployment is not due to strong job growth. Job creation under President Obama is still anemic. In fact, the U.S. economy still supports fewer jobs today (137.5 million) than it did at its pre-recession peak (138.4 million).
But if the U.S. economy still has fewer jobs today than it did before Obama was elected president, then how come the unemployment rate is still falling?
Because, for myriad reasons, more and more Americans are dropping out of the workforce entirely. If the same percentage of Americans were looking for work today, that were looking for work in 2008, the unemployment rate today would be a staggering 11.2 percent.
The Obama economy was not supposed to turn out like this. In 2008, even as President Bush’s mortgage-debt based economy crumbled around them, progressive activists were downright giddy about their new unified plan for America’s recovery.
For decades, efforts by the environmentalist wing of the Democratic party to push for stringent regulations on fossil fuel-based industries had been frustrated by the labor wing of the party that was desperate to protect

2005 - Daffy Duck - Daffy Duck For President (explanation of american government)

A Waste - For Everyone But Obama's Donors

Carol Platt Liebau | Mar 12, 2014

Despite the existence of a dangerous world -- Russia and Iran just for starters -- Secretary of Defense Hagel recently proposed cutting the US military to pre-World War II levels.
Not only is that a terrible idea, it's particularly galling given that President Obama has wasted $120 billion on global warming over the past five years. That's more than twice the annual Social Security deficit. That's enough to have bought 1,400 F-35's -- or even "buy an iPad for every kid in school, pay for a months worth of gas for every American or give a $323 tax rebate to every American."
Angry yet? Keep in mind that fully 80% of the Energy Department's "Green Loan" program went to Obama backers. Cozy.

If These Students Are The Future Of America, We've Got Serious Issues

At America’s “least good” schools around the nation, the students fall woefully short of even basic competencies in math, reading and writing. The New York Post publicly identified one of these “fail factories,” Murry Bergstraum High School in Manhattan.
Once the high school’s PR guy (yes, you read that right) got wind of the Post’s expose, the incomprehensible letters came a-flyin’. From the NY Post:

These kids should learn write from wrong.
Earlier this month, The Post exposed a scheme at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers in which failing students could get full credit without attending class, but instead watch video lessons and take tests online. One social-studies teacher had a roster of 475 students in all grades and subjects.
Red-faced administrators encouraged a student letter-writing campaign to attack The Post and defend its “blended learning” program. Eighteen kids e-mailed to argue that their alma mater got a bad rap.
Almost every letter was filled with spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.

Krauthammer on Obama: "The Great Irony...He Has Created the Greatest Inequality"

10 Stupid Things You Won't Believe Congress Blows Our Money On

• Mike Miller
• On December 17, 2013
• http://mikesright.wordpress.com/

Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has released his annual report, “The Wastebook,” which he calls “a compilation of about $30 billion of stupidity, incompetence, and waste” by the federal government.
Here are some of the “greatest hits” from Coburn’s 2013 Wastebook report:
#1. $390 thousand to NASA to create a cartoon superhero – “Green Ninja” – to teach children about “global warming”

A Big Message from a Little Country

I have seen it before – people thoughtlessly renouncing their individual liberties upon the promise of gaining a little collective security. I have seen it happening through the corrupt ways of the government, the politicians, the welfare system, the national single-payer healthcare system, the social security system and the leviathan of debt that was created by all these governmental programs that were supposed to promote and protect the wellbeing of the public. This country is Greece. I grew up and lived there during the earlier part of my life. Now, I see it witlessly dragging itself into the spiraling chasm of economic collapse because it refused to release itself from the bounds of economic protectionism and social nannyism.

The vast span of the government’s power and control over the lives of the Greek people has fostered a culture of corruption and irresponsibility throughout society. Nepotism is rampant, accountability is non-existent and bribery is the name of the game. Need an operation? The doctor from the state-run healthcare system will be conspicuously busy until you convince him that handling your case could be quite profitable. Want to have water, power and phone service installed in your home? The bureaucrat from the respective state-run company will overlook your application unless you refresh his memory with a friendly ‘gift’. Politicians and government ministers, unsurprisingly, do not lack this characteristic either. In effect, one cannot go about one’s daily business without contributing to some bureaucrat’s personal ‘pocket padding fund’. Naturally, this element of corruption does not cease to exist when it comes to the issue of government contracts, nay, it is merely magnified and enlarged to match the sums of money at stake. And that is not all, the worse aspect of this issue is that since the government

Thought Process of an Obama Voter

Thomas Sowell -- Dismantling America

John Wayne on Liberty, Freedom, and the Role of Government

Taxpayers Lose $139 Million After Energy Dept. Loan to Electric Car Maker is Sold

Leah Barkoukis | Nov 23, 2013

The Department of Energy sold part of its $192 million loan to electric carmaker Fisker Automotive on Friday to a Chinese investor. The sale represents yet another loss for American taxpayers over a stimulus-backed “green” initiative—this time to the tune of $139 million.
The Daily Caller has the details:

Including the $25 million loan sale, the DOE has recovered only $53 million of the original $192 million disbursed — netting taxpayers a $139 million loss.
Fisker was awarded a $529 million loan guarantee by the Obama administration in 2009 to produce a luxury hybrid car, the Karma, which sold for a $103,000 per unit. However, failure to meet Energy Department benchmarks to receive funding resulted in the company losing its loan guarantee in 2011. The company drew down on $192 million before having its federal funding pulled. The Obama administration seized $21 million from the company in April to help repay taxpayers for its loan.

Earlier this year, reports came out that Fisker had violated its loan agreements multiple times before being cut off by the Obama administration in 2011. Bloomberg reported that Fisker’s technical defaults began in 2011 partly due to “lower-than-required earnings before interest,

Death and Taxes

Click on the picture to enlarge

The European Crisis (and American Future?) of too Many Over-Compensated Bureaucrats

Daniel J. Mitchell | Nov 10, 2013

The only sustainable way of achieving more prosperity and higher living standards is to increase the quality and quantity of labor and capital in the economy.
This may sound like boring econo-speak, but labor and capital are the two “factors of production” and our ability to consume is limited by what we can produce.
That’s one of the reasons why it’s important to reduce the burden of government spending.
People sometimes assume it’s important to reduce the budget to lower the threat of tax hikes. That is a good reason to impose fiscal discipline, but it’s presumably even more important to restrain spending because we don’t want labor and capital being misallocated by fiscal policy.
A big public sector, after all, presumably means a large bureaucracy. And when you have lots of people employed by government, that means that they’re not working in the private sector. In other words, they’re consuming economic output rather than adding to economic output.*
Or, as these cartoons illustrate, they’re riding in the wagon rather than pulling the wagon.
This is why advocates of economic growth should strive to limit the amount of bureaucrats and how much they’re paid. The bad news is that the public sector is far too large in the United States, and that means (as explained in this video) we have too many over-compensated bureaucrats.
The good news, however, is that we’re not Denmark, which has the most expensive bureaucracy of all developed nations.
But it’s important to look at what’s happening Europe because BIS, OECD, and IMF data all show that we are going to become a European-style welfare state if nothing is done to reform our poorly designed entitlement programs.
That’s why a new study from the European Commission is worth a look. The report measures both the size

Census Updates Confirm that a Record 1 in 6 Americans is Living in Poverty

• Emily Hulsey
• On November 9, 2013
• http://IJReview.com

Recent updates to the 2010 census show that a record 49.7 million people across the country are living in poverty – that’s over 3 million more than was previously thought.
The updates come from a revised method of measuring poverty, which is supposed to be more accurate and inclusive:

Put in place two years ago by the Obama administration, it generally is considered more reliable by social scientists because it factors in living expenses as well as the effects of government aid, such as food stamps and tax credits.
Administration officials have declined to say whether the new measure eventually could replace the official poverty formula, which is used to allocate federal dollars to states and localities and to determine eligibility for safety-net programs, such as Medicaid.
Congress would have to agree to adopt the new measure, which generally would result in a higher poverty rate from year to year and thus higher government payouts for aid programs.

Additionally, more than 40 million people would be in poverty if it wasn’t for programs such as Social Security, tax credits and food stamps. Click the image to enlarge it:


The main costs that are driving families into poverty include medical expenses, work expenses and taxes. However, the #1 cause? Lack of adequate employment. Sure, the unemployment rate is relatively stable, but

CEOs: Quite possibly the only Americans benefiting from our miserable economy.

Is There a Way Out? By Walter E. Williams

 

According to a recent Fox News poll, 73 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, up 20 points from 2012. Americans sense that there's a lot going wrong in our nation, but most don't have a clue about the true nature of our problem. If they had a clue, most would have little stomach for what would be necessary to arrest our national decline. Let's look at it.

Between two-thirds and three-quarters of federal spending, in contravention of the U.S. Constitution, can be described as Congress taking the earnings or property of one American to give to another, to whom it does not belong. You say, "Williams, what do you mean?" Congress has no resources of its very own. Moreover, there's no Santa Claus or tooth fairy who gives it resources. The fact that Congress has no resources of its very own forces us to recognize that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first -- through intimidation, threats and coercion -- confiscate that dollar from some other American through the tax code.
If any American did privately what Congress does publicly, he'd be condemned as an ordinary thief. Taking what belongs to one American to give to another is theft, and the receiver is a recipient of stolen property. Most Americans would suffer considerable anguish and cognitive dissonance seeing themselves as recipients of stolen property, so congressional theft has to be euphemized and given a respectable name. That respectable name is "entitlement." Merriam-Webster defines entitlement as "the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something." For example, I am entitled to walk into the house that I own. I am entitled to drive the car that I own. The challenging question is whether I am also entitled to what you or some other American owns.
Let's look at a few of these entitlements. More than 40 percent of federal spending is for entitlements for the elderly in the forms of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, housing and other assistance programs. The Office of Management and Budget calculates that total entitlement spending comes to about 62 percent of federal spending. Military spending totals 19 percent of federal spending. By the way, putting those two

CNN Anchor: Obama Administration Not Afraid to Threaten Jobs of Journalists Who Actually Do Their Job

What Would John Wayne Do?