HR 1913 – Hate Crime – Perceived intent added to offenses

Text of H.R. 1913: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009

Another redundant unnecessary feel good law passed in the house by democrats that will let the justice department have someone put on trial because a politically appointed lawyer (prosecutor) perceives that the person on trial for committing a crime may have thought something before or during the committing of a crime.

Some excerpts from the law

(1)OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person–
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(2)OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY-
‘(A) IN GENERAL- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerouse weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person–

I am pretty sure is is already against the law for anyone to burn, shot, beat, stab or blow up someone else in America. It should not matter if any perceived prejudice is present just that one individual (or group) tried to harm or succeeding in harming another individual.

Passage of this bill and signing into law will make any crime a hate crime because one can now be prosecuted on the perception of a prejudice.

Under this law any crime in which the attacker can be categorized as different is some way from the victim is now a hate crime.

So much for equal protection under the law, one is only equal to one that the government classifies as the same not everyone. This is a tragedy and a shame that the punishment for all crime is not the same regardless of government classification for the perpetrator and the victim. Everyone will now be unequal under the law.

This is the “thought” police at work. Bring on Big Brother, it is 1984 Mr Orwell.

1st 100 Days & the future failure of America

I thought after the 1st 50 days that things could only get better, lots of new people making new people mistakes, these people really have pride in America just not reacting to well to the new power and environment.

It has just gotten worse except for the distraction game, the Obama administration has gotten very, very good at distraction while the real agenda of the government take over of a majority of American business marches forward.

Some of the highlights/lowlights
1) The American Apology tour through Europe. I thought only look at how important I am, self-indulgent Hollywood types (Penn, Glover, Bellafonte) and ex-presidents (Carter) went around the world saying America is evil. Now the sitting president is apologizing to the world because American Capitalism over the last century and a half has brought an improved standard of living to a large segment of the world population.

2) Cut 100 million dollars from federal budget, same as a family making $45000 a year taking a $1.22 annual pay cut. I wonder what will be cut in the family budget to make up for the income loss, need to drink water instead of the bottle of soda at today’s lunch. savings achieved, no more cutting needed.

3) Media lapdog to the president – ignores hundreds of thousands of protesters who think that government is overstepping its bounds and government intervention into private society needs to be curtailed.

4) Continue to ignore friends and prop up enemies. (Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea) And listen to them speak while they rant about how evil America is.

5) Politicize the security of America by releasing CIA memos

All of these are a distraction as they push through a universal health insurance and energy cap and trade plan.

Universal health care will result in limiting access, it is the only way to decrease costs is to limit access. See Charles Krauthammer collumn. The government has convinced a majority of the people that the America Health Care industry is broken and can only be “fixed” by the federal government.

The federal government is going to do the same thing with the energy industry under Cap & Trade. Cap & Trade will result in significant 300 to 400% increases in energy prices which will raise the prices for each American household about $3900 dollars more a year. This will result in American’s becoming enraged against energy companies and utilities giving the government the support to price cap and nationalize the energy industry. This will result in less energy for everyone to use.

It is called hidden taxes on business which gives those in power the ability to create a crisis and then solve the crisis by taking more power.

America is on a road to rapid failure and lower standards of living for the good of everyone.

POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPT ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!

Obama Plans to increase debt by 2.3x by 2019

Yes, if you are reading this, you heard that right. The current national debt is ~ $10 Trillion. It took 220+ years to accumulate this debt. Under the very rosy economic growth in the Obama forward looking budget the debt in 2019 will be $23 trillion dollars.

Obama launches message war

The White House on Sunday began harnessing every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.
At a time when Capitol Hill has begun to resist the sweep and cost of his agenda, Obama’s aides used the Sunday interview programs to launch an aggressive case that his bold budget for health care and other issues will help fuel an economic recovery
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The Obama grassroots network—now known as Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee—has launched an e-mail pledge drive on MyBarackObama.com in which supporters sign their e-mail address to the statement: “I support President Obama’s bold approach for renewing America’s economy.”
The pledge drive was announced with a video called “Ready for the Fight.” Plouffe e-mailed supporters over the weekend with a challenge labeled “The next few weeks”: “In the next few weeks we’ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign—talking directly to people in your communities about the President’s ideas for long-term prosperity.”
This is not an easy message war for Democrats. Obama’s budget calls for the largest deficit in U.S. history and a doubling of the national debt to $23 trillion in 2019.
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Read the entire article, the plan is clear, destroy anyone who actually wants to talk about the issue of fiscal responsibility by painting them as an obstructionist and politically motivated.

I am not sure about anyone else but how does one cut the annual deficit by 50% in the next 4 years while spending more money than every before an adding more to the national debt than the total accumulated in the history of the country.

Spend, spend, spend until debt free.
Change,Hope,Hope, Change, etc…

CPSIA & Job Killing – Democrats seem not to care

As with all consumer protection laws, it sounds good at the start, then a vague law is passed by congress, some government bureaucrat makes a ruling, somebody disagrees and goes to a judge with a private lawsuit. Judge rules against government official and bans lots of items not intended by the original law. Democrats claim they care about people and jobs in public, then when something actually needs to be corrected, nothing happens while millions and millions of dollars of goods are thrown away destroying hundreds of businesses and charities along the way.

A correction would require admitting a mistake was made, this is the flaw in all elected officials now of both parties, they do not make mistakes. They only point out the mistakes of the other party, never their own.

read all about it.

Makers Are Pushing Back on Toxic-Toy Law

Dems dragging feet on consumer bill

New lead toy law bans sale of small ATVs

Zero tolerance for lead sidelining kids

Everyone stand up and say thank you to the federal government and poor law writing.

Remember, do not eat your ATV or Motorcycle.

Why Universal Health Insurance will be reality in 2009

This is a very simple reason if people would pay attention. A union-run health care trust known as a voluntary employee benefit association, or VEBA is what it is called. Starting in 2009 the UAW will need to pay for the retiree health insurance instead of GM, Ford, Chrysler. This means the union is actually responsible for a tangible service for the union members. Since the auto industry has all but failed the companies are not putting the money aside the contract says is required.

Read about it here and here and here.

Under the 2007 contract, the Big Three and the UAW agreed to the following:
* To transfer, starting in 2010, retiree health care obligations to a Voluntary Employee Benefits Association (VEBA) run by the UAW. The automakers agreed to collectively pay $60 billion into the VEBA, after which time the UAW would have full responsibility for providing retiree health benefits. This agreement takes the cost of providing health benefits off the Big Three’s balance sheets.

The unions must have at a minimum government paid universal retiree health insurance by Jan 1, 2010 so that they can’t be held responsible for people losing their health insurance.

If GM, Ford & Chrysler can live through 2009 since the removal of this huge cost from the car production overhead costs will remove one hurdle to the chance for profitability.

The only reason that the union leaders would make any “concessions” on this topic for underfunding is if they have been assured by the democrats they will never have to fund this anyway. Obama, Pelosi & Reid are so deep into the union pockets that they will put through a universal health insurance law in 2009 so that the retired union members will not get upset when the benefits are lost. Even if the big 3 only fund half of the $60 billion, the unions will get to keep this money since they will not have to spend it on the intended purpose because the rest of the taxpayers will pay for this. I wonder which party will get campaign funds from this pot of union money.

Obama & Democrat Congress 50 day Speeding Spree

Congress at work: ‘$1 billion an hour’

McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been in office.
“In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus,” McConnell says. “To put that in perspective, that’s about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour—most of it borrowed. There’s simply no question: government spending has spun out of control.”
The math: 50 days times 24 hours equals 1,200 hours. 1,200 times 1 billion equals 1.2 trillion (a thousand billions is a trillion).

Bush and the republicans started the free spending ways and the change for America is that we are so far in debt that we will spend our way out of debt.

Change, hope everyone has some pocket change because that is all that will be left.

US Government spending will bankrupt the world

The US federal government is in the process of bankrupting the world as accounting practices that the federal government does not allow private companies to use are used to hide the real government debt. This cuts across party lines and the end of liberty and personnel freedom in the world.

The total economic of the world based on the ponzi scheme known as government spending is close (if not already beyond) the tipping point. Paper currency will be virtually worthless since the governments that print them have no possible way to back their value.

Government spending is the problem and drastic government spending cuts (real cuts not decreasing the rate of increase) of 50 to 90+% in some cases are required.

Federal obligations exceed world GDP, Does $65.5 trillion terrify anyone yet?

As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.

The total U.S. obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits to be paid in the future, effectively have placed the U.S. government in bankruptcy, even before new continuing social welfare obligation embedded in the massive spending plan are taken into account.

The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government” as released by the U.S. Department of Treasury
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“The federal government is bankrupt,” Williams told WND. “In a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary.”

Assuming 330 million Americans, 65.6 trillion debt is equal to $198,484 per American. This is on top of any state, local or personnel debt.

If you want to really understand the what the future holds and the consequences read the A Citizen’s Guide published by the treasury department.
It would be nice if government would live by this motto in the report.

Using the government accounting methods that if any private business used, the CEO, CFO and board of directors would be in jail, here are some tables from the report on future predictions.

These projects do not take into account the money spent since Oct 1, 2008. TARP and the new stimulus plan are on top of this staggering debt.

Americans need to hold our employees the elected government officials responsible. New blood is needed.

Why America is failing and the stimulus will make it worse

I have found some graphs on the St. Louis Fed’s web site.
US Employment by sector

Total, Private vs government employees – looking at the these charts, it would look like government employment is growing at a rate about equal to private employment. One needs to dig deeper into the private industry numbers.

Total Nonfarm Payrolls: All Employees

Private Industry Employees

All Employees: Government

The problem is the mix of private jobs, I divide the private jobs into 5 categories
1) Those who make items

Durable Goods Manufacturing

Nondurable Goods Manufacturing

Goods-Producing Industries

Construction

Natural Resources & Mining

2) Those who move the goods made by the first group of people
Trade, Transportation & Utilities

Wholesale Trade

Retail Trade

3) Those who coordinate, support and make money off groups 1 and 2
Information Services

Professional & Business Services

Financial Activities

4) Those who provide services to those in the 1st three groups

Education & Health Services

Service-Providing Industries

Leisure & Hospitality

Other Services

5) Those who take a share from each of the 4 groups to give to those who are not in the 1st 4 groups
All Employees: Government

As America continue to produce less and less finished products from raw materials the result is a fixed amount of anything with real intrinsic value. This results in a capping of the amount of wealth America has. Since the capping of the amount of wealth is occurring as the population still grows everyone must get a smaller piece of the pie. The only way to make the pie bigger at this point is time is for the government to add more money into the pie without hard goods backing the money. Eventually what happens is that there is so much money for so few goods that significant price increases will occur due to low supply and high demand.

I know this is a simplistic analysis, I do not know if eventually is yesterday, today, tomorrow, 5 years or 10 years from now but it is inevitable.

Stimulus Real Cost – The lying, cheating, theft act

True Cost of Stimulus: $3.27 Trillion

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the impact of permanently extending the 20 most popular provisions of the stimulus bill. What did the CBO find? As you can see from the table below, the true 10 year cost of the stimulus bill $2.527 trillion in in spending with another $744 billion cost in debt servicing. Total bill for the Generational Theft Act: $3.27 trillion.

A 30+% increase in the national debt in just under 30 days and a flat to declining GDP for the next decade.

CBO estimates that by 2019 the Senate legislation would reduce GDP by 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent on net.

From Townhall.com

I certainly hope America has hope because that is all that there will be left in a year or two.
Flat GDP means constantly rising unemployment. No GDP growth means no net new jobs.

Thoughts on 1st Obama Press Conference

I did not want to write what I was thinking during the press conference because I wanted to think about the questions and answers taken in their entirety instead of one piece at a time. I also did not watch any of the pundits analysis of the press conference.

My impression of the Obama answers to the questions:

1) I will negotiate with Iran who has leaders that publicly espouses that America needs to be destroyed because it is the great Satan.

2) I will not negotiate with Republicans who believe that government is not the total solution to America’s issues and that private business is at fault for all that is wrong with America.

3) I will talk about partisanship and blame the republicans for not agreeing with me and praising me since I agreed to listen to their ideas. I will not mention that the democratic leadership of the congress totally ignores the republican ideas for which I am bragging about listening.

4) If I do not get what I want America will be a catastrophe and anyone who disagrees is ignorant.

5) I will not look into the camera as I answer the questions giving the impression that I am above the common man since I do not need to look them in the eye. I also will tilt my head to one side while responding to questions which is a body language sign for begin uncomfortable and lying.

6) Republicans and the Bush administration are totally at fault for everything that is wrong in America and I am the savior who will right their wrongs.

7) Even though 0% down and interest only mortgages caused this crisis in the short term more of this needs to be done and in the future sometime we will fix the problems caused by the short term fixes.

8 ) Even though Social Security (entitlements) will be paying out more than is collected on a monthly basis is 6 to 7 years I am going to ignore that since I think any crisis is 10 to 20 years away.

9) Elimination of the current health care industry is a necessity and being rebuilt as I see fit it required for America to go forward.

I tried very hard to find something positive from the press conference. I wish I could have found something positive but the body language, repeating of campaign talking points and failure to look at the camera (the American people) while talking leads me to believe that Obama is hiding his true beliefs or he is lying.