Showing posts with label Self Interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Interest. Show all posts

January 11, 2016

How Long Will People Accept Abuse, Before Questioning Their Leaders




[From article]
Other black relatives and friends were equally racially seduced; enthralled with Obama. But after seven years, at what point do Obama loyalists reinstate their brains? When do Obama sycophants begin questioning his actions; asking, “Why?”
[. . .]
According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report and Census Bureau figures, blacks have lost ground in income, employment, and education under Obama. Black Leftist pundit Travis Smiley had to admit, “The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
[. . .]



The mainstream media does not want you to know that black and Hispanic parents protested in front of the capitol against Obama trying to shut down their school voucher program. Isn't it reasonable to question why this self-proclaimed savior of the poor and minorities would do such a thing?
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Obama vetoed a bill that would end gifting the butchers $500 million annually of taxpayer money to, in essence, murder black babies. Why, Mr. President, why?
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Obama said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” He also said, “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.” Isn't it about time you black Christian Obama sycophants ponder why? Does your loyalty to Obama's skin-color trump your commitment to Christ?
[. . .]



Obama ignores blacks murdering each other in record numbers every weekend in cites with strict gun laws and controlled by Democrats. Why?
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“Death to America!” is chanted at government-sanctioned rallies in Iran. So why would Obama make a deal paving the way for Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb? Obama's deal also gifts Iran $150 billion to fund their efforts as the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, targeting Israel, our ally. Obama lied again claiming there are ballistic missile restrictions in his Iran Nuke deal. There are not.
The Pentagon warns that Iran's ballistic missiles are a threat to America.
[. . .]



Obama's unprecedented assaults and undermining of America and Americans. Still, it would not make a difference to black racists and many Obama walking dead zombies. Nothing will cause them to question Obama's actions.
It reminds me of a story in the Bible. A man was suffering in hell. He asked to return to earth to warn his brothers not to follow his path. God said not even a visitor from beyond would change their minds.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/at_what_point_do_obama_loyalists_begin_asking_why_.html

January 11, 2016
At What Point Do Obama Loyalists Begin Asking 'Why'?
By Lloyd Marcus

May 19, 2015

Clinton Cash, Book Review





[book review]
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,
by Peter Schweizer
(Harper, 256 pp., $27.99)

George Washington Plunkitt, a late- nineteenth-century New York State legislator, made his extra money in a straightforward way. “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em,” he said after people criticized him for patronage, corrupt land sales, and other business-as-usual Tammany Hall goings-on. But Plunkitt distinguished between “honest graft” and the regular kind.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton are good students of Plunkitt’s first lesson, according to Peter Schweizer’s new bestseller, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Since Bill left the presidency, the Clintons seen a lot of opportunities—and took ‘em all.
[. . .]
Between 2001 and 2012, Bill made $105.5 million in such speeches.
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In 2010, Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake. The impoverished nation would require billions in foreign donations to rebuild. Who got himself put in charge of directing those donations? Bill Clinton, as co-chairman of the Interim Haitian Relief Committee. Where would much of the relief money come from? Hillary Clinton, via the U.S. Agency for International Development, a State Department arm. USAID approved cash for a “mobile money initiative” run by Ireland’s Digicel, whose owner, Denis O’Brien, is a key Clinton patron. Bill and Hillary, directly or indirectly, also approved Haiti contracts for companies controlled by Clinton sponsors in housing reconstruction and economic development. The housing contractors performed poorly. Here, too, it’s hard to avoid concluding that the Clintons took money out of the hands of Haitian earthquake survivors. The money again took a circuitous route.
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Schweizer’s deliberate writing style strengthens his case. There’s no sex and few women. The author relies almost entirely on public documents, from State Department cables via Wikileaks to global tax records to foreign-language press accounts. When he isn’t sure of something, he says so. This is no breathless, Clinton-hating book dependent on third-hand speculation. Even Schweizer’s subtitle is careful: “foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich,” he says. They didn’t do it all.
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If, to defend Hillary, you must rely on debating whether the secretary of state indeed has control over the State Department, or, alternatively, if you must whine that Republicans behave badly, too, you have a weak case. With months’ worth of warning, the Clintons have not answered the overriding question: Why take this money and create even the appearance of a scandal? Do they need the millions that badly?
Hillary, now a presidential candidate, participated in actions that seem little different from the alleged actions that got both the New York State Senate leader and the New York State Assembly leader indicted this year—essentially, bribery. Outside of New York, the abuses of these state officials won’t matter much. It matters a lot, however, that the Russians control much of our uranium. That foreign dictators and oligarchs now believe that the American government is biddable matters, too.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0517ng.html

Nicole Gelinas
The Kickback Kids
Peter Schweizer’s new book documents the Clintons’ disturbing financial dealings.
May 17, 2015

February 25, 2015

One More Dedicated Self Serving Massachusetts Official Takes The Money And Runs



Another member of the Massachusetts Dedicated Self Serving Public Officials Party, licking the plate as Howie Carr says.

[From article]
Just 55 years old, Cabral is arguing that her 23 years in public safety, first as an assistant district attorney and later as Suffolk County sheriff, qualify her under a so-called Category 4 classification intended for law enforcement officers who risk their lives in the line of duty, according to papers she filed with retirement officials last month.
The classification would essentially allow Cabral — who made $160,000 last year as the state’s secretary for public safety — to collect a maximum benefit typically reserved for state workers who wait until they’re 65 to retire.
Using the state formula for calculating pensions, Cabral could be due at least $58,000 a year in retirement benefits, factoring in her nearly 28 total years of service, her age and the $140,400 average of her three highest-salaried years.
But if retirement officials allow her to qualify under the Category 4 classification for the majority of her time in state government, Cabral’s pension could jump to roughly $91,000, a Herald analysis found.
The state retirement board is expected to take up Cabral’s case tomorrow at its monthly meeting, according to state Treasurer Deb Goldberg’s office, which oversees the panel. But Matt Sheaff, a Goldberg spokesman, said it was too early to calculate exactly what Cabral’s pension would be.
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Cabral has already cashed in other taxpayer-funded benefits. The Herald reported Sunday that she scored a $33,725 payout upon leaving office, including $20,242 in leftover vacation time and another $13,483 in unused sick time.
Two years ago, Cabral also hit up the taxpayers for $11,847 in unused vacation time as Suffolk County sheriff when former Gov. Deval Patrick appointed her public safety secretary, even though she hadn’t accrued paid time off as an elected official.
Suffolk sheriff officials admitted Cabral’s vacation time was never documented but calculated the payout based on her “20-plus years of service in the state system.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/02/andrea_cabral_seeks_pension_payout_meant_for_cops_correction

Andrea Cabral seeks pension payout meant for cops, correction officers
Hazardous-job perk could hike annual take
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
By: Matt Stout
Boston Herald

November 11, 2013

Iranian Political Leaders as Greedy as Russians and Americans


[From article]
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei controls a business empire worth around $95 billion - a sum exceeding the value of his oil-rich nation's current annual petroleum exports - a six-month Reuters investigation shows.
The little-known organization, called Setad, is one of the keys to the Iranian leader's enduring power and now holds stakes in nearly every sector of Iranian industry, including finance, oil, telecommunications, the production of birth-control pills and even ostrich farming.
Setad has built its empire on the systematic seizure of thousands of properties belonging to ordinary Iranians - members of religious minorities, Shi'ite Muslims, business people and Iranians living abroad.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/us-iran-setad-news-idUSBRE9AA0CY20131111

Exclusive: Reuters investigates business empire of Iran's supreme leader
BY STEVE STECKLOW, BABAK DEHGHANPISHEH AND YEGANEH TORBATI
Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:11am EST

November 13, 2012

Rotten Population Brought Obama Victory

Romney was only the candidate. The problem is the citizens who voted
for Obama. That indicates a population corrupt, self centered and only
interested in now, and what they can get from taxpayers. Ben Franklin
observed that a corrupt population leads to tyranny. Fixing the damage
done by Obama and his mindless, misguided greedy colleagues is easier
than fixing the mindless, misguided voters.


http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333237/nice-losers-thomas-sowell#

NOVEMBER 13, 2012 12:00 A.M.
Nice Losers
Romney never bothered to expose the flaws in Obama’s argument.
By Thomas Sowell
National Review

October 12, 2011

Politicians Pass Laws To Help Themselves

[From article]
"You almost have to admire the audacity of the state’s political class in writing a law that constitutes such a comprehensive attack on citizens’ First Amendment rights of speech and association -- of assembling to petition for redress of grievances.
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This rigging of a process threatening to the political class’ serenity is proof that protection of that class is always a -- in this case the -- purpose of government regulation of politics in the name of “campaign-finance reform.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/speech_gags_to_save_pols_CmmZuYPN7nDQDX5nABgFiJ

Speech gags to save pols
George Will
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:33 AM, September 24, 2011
Posted: 9:56 PM, September 23, 2011