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This happened in Florida when a woman by the name of Henrietta Hughes asked President Obama for a job, home, vehicle, kitchen and a bathroom.
Here’s YOUR chance to ask President Obama for whatever you want. Rest assured a member of his staff will be in contact with you shortly…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 10, 2009
PULLEN PRAISES AZ GOP DELEGATION FOR HANGING TOUGH AGAINST STIMULUS BILL
GOP Chief Critical of AZ Democrat Congressional Democrats
Phoenix, AZ – Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, today lauded Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl and Representatives Jeff Flake, Trent Franks, and John Shadegg in opposing the Democrat stimulus bill.
“Our elected representatives in Congress showed true grit and fortitude in opposing a bill that was bad for America,” said Pullen. “This was a one-sided Democrat bill that was the brainchild of an overreaching Democrat President and a Democrat Congress anxious to pay off their campaign supporters. This bill will hurt far more than it can ever help and these same Democrats will have to answer to America in 2010.”
Pullen continued, “I am proud of the efforts our Arizona Republican delegation made throughout this very trying process. While the votes weren’t there to win the day, our Republican representatives took the fight to the Democrats and continued a constructive dialogue with the American public.
“By way of contrast, Arizona Democrat Representatives Giffords, Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, Mitchell, and Pastor voted in favor of this massive and irresponsible spending plan.
“The Democrats will find, once again, that you simply cannot spend your way into prosperity,” concluded Pullen.
Here’s a YouTube clip of Congressman Paul Kanjorski speculating that our current fiscal crisis was triggered on September 18, 2008 with an electronic run on the banks. According to Kanjorski, some entity rapidly began withdrawing money markets out of the financial system at the tune of $550 Billion! (2:22 into the clip)
Leading into his response, you can hear the anger and unrest in a woman caller’s voice. Expect a lot more of this as the market continues to melt, people lose jobs, hyperinflation begins to creep into the picture and gun/ammo sales skyrocket.
Listening to the commentary and reading the various takes on the stimulus package in Congress, an old phrase came to mind… “wetting the bed to get warm”. While it might offer momentary relief of pressure and a warm feeling all over; it quickly turns to a wet, cold, mess with no way to go back and only expands the originating problem.
Is this the bed Congress is making for all of us?
We appreciate the Arizona Republic drawing our attention yesterday to the $2 million piece of “art” the City of Phoenix is installing downtown, a floating replica of a flower. Meanwhile, hundreds of City of Phoenix employees are being laid off, parks are closing, and utility and parking rates are being increased as Phoenix cuts $270 million in spending. Downtown had a perfectly nice park until the Mayor and City Council decided they wanted to use taxpayers’ money to tear it down and subsidize some businesses to move in. Wonder how much those subsidies to businesses cost? A costly piece of art like this should NEVER have been commissioned using the public’s money.
Looks like the Phoenix New Times is going to be losing some of its sleazoid advertisers…
A recent report says that Phoenix-based Village Voice Media, one of the largest alternative weekly newspaper publishers in the nation, has been “gaming” a social media network to boost the number of hits on its various websites.
The report from a Minnesota blog called TheDeets.com took a closer look at reports that CityPages, the local alternative weekly there, saw a startling 700 percent increase in web traffic in about two months. The increase in traffic meant the newspaper was bringing in lots more cash from web advertisers.
Take the chart above for instance. It looks at the website of the Phoenix New Times, the flagship of what used to be the New Times alt weekly chain before its owner purchased Village Voice Media. The top line in red shows fairly steady traffic for phoenixnewtimes.com over the past year, while the bottom line in blue shows a huge, 937 percent increase in the number of readers of the Phoenix New Times blogs over the past year.
Democrat County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox has written an op-ed in the Phoenix Republic insisting on no cuts to the brand-new Taj Mahal Superior court tower being built because “it will create 100 jobs.” Remind anyone of the so-called Stimulus Bill in Congress, which will create jobs at a cost of $206,000 per job? This is even worse. The Court Tower will create 100 jobs at a cost of $3.4 million per job. At that rate, why not build TWO court towers and create twice as many jobs!
Meanwhile, county law enforcement is being told they must cut 20% of their budget. A Sheriff’s Deputy told us that they are trying to get to this 20% number by not replacing employees when they quit, and since they usually lose about 15-20 employees each month, they are about there. But it is making things difficult to take care of the inmates, and there will eventually be lawsuits.
According to a recent article in the Arizona Republic,
Maricopa County’s new revenue figures released Wednesday are horrendous, with the county recording the sharpest declines ever – and no indication of where the bottom is.
Combined, revenues from sales tax, vehicle-licensing tax and jail-excise tax are below budget by $25.5 million so far in fiscal 2009, about 9 percent lower than at the same time last year and 7 percent under budget.
Officials are revising this year’s budget, and they are preparing for harder times in 2010.
Seems pretty irresponsible for the fancy new tower to continue being built while law enforcement takes the cuts.
This ought to scare the hell out of everyone!
Bloomberg is reporting,
he bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.” (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version)
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