Thursday, January 26, 2012

36 of Obama's staff owe $833,970 in back taxes.

"You folks have got to start paying your taxes. It really looks bad"
Washington DC, Jan 26, 2012. President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya constantly tells us that "the rich must pay their fair share" as he beats the drum for higher and higher income tax rates. He wages class warfare, implying that the rich aren't paying enough.

But if he took a close look around him he would discover that at least 36 members of President Obama’s executive staff owe back taxes to the federal government, Investor’s Business Daily reported on Thursday.

The Internal Revenue Service revealed that the three dozen Obama staffers owe a total of $833,970 in back taxes from 2010.

Nearly one third of Obama’s aides make more than $100,000. Twenty-one of them are paid $172,200 per year, the top White House salary. In total, Obama’s staff of 457 aides made more than $37 million last year.
“It’s ironic, the same week that President Obama says that people who paid their full obligation should pay more, it’s ironic that people who work for President Obama haven’t even paid their own taxes.”  Ryan Ellis, tax policy director of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Daily Caller.
The IRS report also said that thousands of federal employees owe a shocking total of more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. Many of those who are delinquent on their tax obligations include employees of the U.S. Senate who worked on tax-offender laws enacted by Congress.
“The people who wanted to raise taxes to expand the size of government at the same time aren’t paying their full part,” Ellis said.
The IRS will attempt to negotiate back-tax payment plans with those who owe. None of the federal employees will be let go: According to federal law, only IRS workers can be fired for not paying.

Departments with employees who owe the IRS include both branches of Congress, the Department of Education, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice and the Postal Service.How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.

Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

The Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million.

As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most -- almost $270 million.

At the SOTU address Obama said we need to pay more taxes
Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra folks has 322 employees owing $5 million.

The country's chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Are you better off today than you were $5 trillion ago?

I just have one simple question:

"Are we better off today than we were three years ago?"

There is absolutely no doubt that this current administration "inherited a mess" but it is also true that no problems inherited have been solved.

And there have been very little progress towards solving them, despite adding $5 trillion to our national debt in a very short time period.

One would think that there has been sufficient time, money and effort spent to at least see some progress out of this recession.

But there has been very little, and most of that was claimed by using creative accounting techniques. And by inventing new statistics that are impossible to prove or disprove... like "jobs saved."

Here are some key statistics to help you decide...

The unemployment rate is up. Food stamp use is way up. There are more people living below the poverty level. Our national debt has skyrocketed. The price of a gallon of gas has almost doubled. And we now have inflation that hurts the poor and those living on fixed incomes.

So was it worth it?

Are we getting anything by spending more money than we have, and borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend?  Should we continue the very same policies that made every problem we had into a worse problem? Does it make a lot of sense to do four more years of this? I really wouldn't mind so much if the Obama plan was working. But it isn't.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

John Kerry Nominates Himself for Another Purple Heart

"$300,000 worth of cosmetic surgery ruined!"
Boston, Jan 24, 2012. Former 2004 Democrat Presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, D-MA, showed up at a White House event honoring the Boston Bruins yesterday sporting a broken nose and two black eyes.

President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, was hosting the event to honor the Bruins for winning the Stanley Cup last June. Senator Kerry, a Bostonian himself, is a longtime Bruin fan.

The 68 year senior citizen athlete said he was in "playing ice hockey with a bunch of teenagers, and the game got pretty rough."

Kerry says he was injured when an opposing player committed a charging foul, "viciously crashing him into the boards." Since this was an amateur hockey match, there were no referees and no penalties assessed.

"This was an especially viscous hit," the Senator said. "I was slammed into the boards by this young thug player and felt my nose snap when his shoulder hit me in the face." Kerry, realizing his insensitivity and quickly added "by thug, I don't mean to imply he was black. This was a thuggish white boy. I hope everyone is clear about that." 

President Obama thanked the Senator for making that point clear.

After the event concluded, Senator Kerry submitted a request for a citation to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Kerry wrote that he "should get his 6th medal for sustaining this injury while informally representing the U.S. Navy." 

While serving in the Vietnam War, Senator Kerry racked up an impressive collection of five medals - a silver star, a bronze star, and three purple hearts. If his latest request is approved he will have six medals, including a fourth purple heart.

Generally speaking, a Purple Heart is awarded for being wounded in combat. A superior officer normally submits the request for a medal, but Kerry had to nominate himself for each medal.

Monday, January 23, 2012

President Obama Creates Thousands of New Jobs

Woman faints when hearing Obama speak
Washington DC, Jan 23, 2012. True to his word President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, has finally gotten around to creating some jobs as he promised he would four years ago.

The President admitting that he should have done this sooner, told us "better late than never."

The Obama 2012 Election Campaign has announced they will be hiring 3,500 paid fainters for the upcoming election campaign. 

During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the paid fainters worked out pretty well for the President. Whenever Obama spoke before a crowd, his campaign managers would hire local fainters to swoon and faint.

This would invariably make the local news and end up on YouTube as proof that Barack Obama was a spellbinding and powerful speaker who could motivate the masses. In fact, it worked so well that many non-paid amateurs started fainting too, probably due to the power of suggestion.

Applications for the job will be accepted by local SEIU offices, and the candidates will be tested for the spontaneity and sincerity of their fainting and swooning skills.  The job pays $13.85 per hour, and all applicants who are hired must join the IBFS&S, The International Brotherhood of Fainters, Swooners, and Sycophants, Local 342, which is associated with SEIU.

"Always faint after the President makes a good point"
The new hires will be given a three week training course, taught by professional behavioral scientists, in which they will learn basic fainting and swooning techniques.

It is essential that the fainting and swooning appear to be naturally induced by the powerful speaking skills of the President.

Many of the better fainters from the last election campaign went on to careers as Social Workers or Democrat Congressional staff members.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Biden finally gets something right. And by accident!

National Idiot
San Francisco, Jan 22. 2012. Notorious village idiot Vice President Joe Biden, D-DE, while speaking in San Francisco earlier this week, told the crowd that he thought the 49ers would lose to the New York Giants on Sunday.

"The Giants [are] on their way to the Super Bowl," Biden enthusiastically told a group gathered at a private fundraiser, apparently referring to one of New York's NFL teams. He received "good-natured boos" for the comment, according to a pool report.

After suggesting that the Giants were heading to the Super Bowl, Biden quickly recognized the gaffe and explained he was accustomed to thinking in terms of the San Francisco Giants and their baseball wins. His next reference was to the "49ers on their way" to the Big Game.

However it turns out that Biden was accidentally correct, because the NY Giants actually beat the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional playoff game tonight. It was an excitingly close game that had to go into overtime. The NY Giants won it 20-17.

So... the "Giants" really are going to the Superbowl. But not the San Francisco Giants (sic) that Biden had predicted would go there. And this isn't even one of Biden's most outrageous gaffes. Just his latest one.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Shock Poll: Obama Overwhelming Choice of Dead Voters

Some of the President's most loyal supporters
Washington DC, Jan 21, 2012. According to a recently released Zogby Poll, President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, is the overwhelming choice of voters who are deceased.

In the telephone poll taken during the week ending Jan 14, President Obama has a commanding 48-1 lead over the nearest Republican rival John Huntsman.

The poll of 3,500 likely dead voters was taken in Chicago and had President Obama with a 96% to 2% for Huntsman, with another 2% saying they were still undecided.

The previous record was set by Bill Clinton in the 1996 election, who captured 93% of the dead vote.

Ironically, Governor Huntsman dropped out of the GOP primary race a few days after the poll was taken, and given their past voting record it is unlikely that any other Republican will inherit his support among dead voters.

A 48-1 lead can be called nothing short of remarkable, and it seems this key demographic group is firmly in the Obama camp for the upcoming election. Spokesman for the voter advocacy group  DVA (Deceased Voters of America) Teddy Kennedy called this "a commanding lead, that will be impossible for the Republicans to overcome."

Yolanda Johnson-Washington
President Obama is also polling extremely well in other key Democrat voting groups. He has solid leads in polls taken of Illegal Alien Voters, Convicted Felon Voters, and Imaginary Person Voters. But in no case is his lead as great as it is among Deceased Voters.

Yolanda Johnson-Washington, a spokesperson for WANRAA ("We Are Not Really Acorn Anymore"), a Chicago based community organizing group, attributes the president's huge lead to him being the best advocate for issues affecting dead voters.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Opinion: Mainstream Media Campaigns for Obama

"I  can't help it if they love me"
The mainstream media is working hard to reelect President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya.

Their strategy is to pick off the Republican challengers one by one, to make certain there is no dominant frontrunner who can gain momentum going into the election this fall. 

As each Republican candidate starts getting some traction, they will target them and find some real flaw to exaggerate or misrepresent to make them fall to the bottom of the pile.

This sort of treatment is reserved only for those who might replace Obama, because they will treat the President with kid gloves, overlooking all his flaws, and never asking him any really tough questions.

Want proof?

Lets review what has happened during the Republican primary race....
  • Michelle Bachmann got an early lead by winning the Iowa straw poll. The mainstream media immediately went to war against Bachmann, portraying her as a lightweight and a holy roller. Eventually they "Palinized" her right out of the race. If you got your information from the mainstream media, you were informed that she is "crazy," a "zombie" a"phony-ass broad" and a "skank." The score is now Obama 1, Republicans 0
  • Rick Perry, another Tea Party candidate, enters the race, and leads in the polls. He seems to be the obvious choice for the nomination. But then the media, working in conjunction with the White House, goes to war with Perry and the Tea Party, calling them domestic terrorists. Perry does poorly in the first few debates, and this becomes headline news that gets constant play until his lead evaporates. Eventually, he too is forced out of the race. The score is now Obama 2, Republicans 0
  • Herman Cain becomes the new frontrunner, and the media goes to work on him. They discover he has a "female friend" that he was less than honest about, and they run with it. They play this to the hilt, eventually forcing him out of the race too. It needs to be said that this was the same media that defended President Clinton, telling us that "his personal business shouldn't matter because we are electing a President not a Pope." But once again, a different standard is applied to the Republican. Obama 3, Republicans 0
  • Newt Gingrich starts gaining momentum, and pulls ahead in the polls. Then the media is shocked to discover that he isn't on good terms with his ex-wife, so this becomes "bombshell news." They immediately schedule damning interviews with the disgruntled ex-wife (and she may have had good cause to be unhappy, but no Democrat ever gets this treatment.) Also note, this was considered a bigger deal than Bill Clinton leaving DNA evidence that proved he was a liar, or John Edwards producing a love child he denied was his. But, remember they were Democrats. Obama 4, Republicans 0
The media didn't bother destroying Republican candidates they felt couldn't beat Obama in the general election, so John Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Gary Johnson were pretty much left alone.

And they are "saving Mitt Romney for later." Because they actually WANT Romney to get the nomination. so they can destroy him during the general election campaign. Their strategy for this will be to run dozens of special reports and documentaries in October that prove Mormonism is a dangerous cult. The goal will be to undermine any support Romney might have gotten from the Christian Fundamentalists.

45th President? Not if the media can prevent it
You can even see them now demanding to see Romney's tax returns, even though they had no problem with Obama making all his own personal records off limits. We still have no real proof he ever attended Harvard, just his word for it. We have no transcripts, no college roommates who remember him, no professors who can recall seeing him there.

He is alleged to have been the editor of the Harvard Law  Review, even though he never wrote a single piece for it. The media does not question these things.

If the media is successful in getting Obama reelected, then one thing will be certain. In 2013 when Obama starts whining about him having "inherited a mess" this time it will be totally truthful.
Because he will be following the worst president in our history. Himself.