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Friday, May 3, 2013

AREN'T WE BROKE, POS PRESIDENT? THEN WHY ARE YOU SENDING MONEY OVERSEAS FOR THIS?



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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............. I am sure there are a lot more to this than this list shows.
Ohhhhhhhh.................and we are so broke, we have to cut back on servives for vets/troops/military, schools, hospitals, senior citizen services, etc.............while we support all of these.........our tax dollars at work!!!!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Just accidently found this site:
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/08/list-of-foreign-countries-receiving-billions-in-obama-stimulus-funds-taking-american-jobs-appalling/


List of Foreign Countries Receiving BILLIONS in Obama Stimulus Funds: Taking American Jobs – Appalling!

August 13, 2012
By Maggie

If you are not aware that Obama’s obscene $787 BILLION stimulus program now stands at $1.2 TRILLION and growing, please read that story here, but not before taking a look at the foreign companies receiving your tax money from the ever growing Obama Stimulus. Let your friends know the BILLIONS intended to stimulate the American economy, stimulated the rest of the world, and in the tsunami that resulted, thousands of Americans lost their jobs: A record of a President’s stimulus failure goes round the world:

AUSTRALIA: $162,000 for Melanoma Tumor Samples to be sent to the National Cancer Institute
CHINA: Outsourced jobs to China.
● $30 MILLION to an American LED manufacturer to open plants. It did, and half of the company’s employees are now located in China.
● $337 MILLION for an Arizona solar plant – the panels will be supplied by a Chinese solar panel manufacturer.
● GE cancelled a contract with an American manufacturer of parts for Wind Turbines, and then ordered from China. The company, ATI, offered to match the price from China. GE refused the order and the American company laid off 302 workers.
● GE has used Chinese-made Wind Towers over American Towers at Stimulus funded Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon.
● A solar power company received $5.4 MILLION in grant monies, then laid off America workers based on an increased reliance on imports from China.
DENMARK:
● $51.6 MILLION in Obama Stimulus Grants to build factories in the US. Layoff of 180 US workers have been announce,
● and possibly another 1,600 by the end of 2012. $218 MILLION Stimulus grant for wind turbines for the US assembled in Denmark.
● $25 MILLION for the construction of a “Demonstration Scale Biorefinery.”
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Obama Stimulus funds for Renewable Energy Call Center (could have been a US project).
EL SALVADOR: Stimulus funds used to hire hundreds of workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to administer Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program (could have been a US project).
FRANCE: Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. $69 MILLION in cash grants
FINLAND: $100,000 to build luxury electric sports cars
GERMANY:
● $440 MILLION for Wind Farms before Stimulus was passed. Turbines for US used were manufactured in Germany.
● Another $100 MILLION to Spain in grant monies for Wind Farms. In September 2011, the company announced the would lay-off 10% of their American workforce.
GREAT BRITAIN/UK: UK:
● $39 MILLION in Obama Stimulus funds to build electric delivery trucks.
● Another British private equity firm received $40+ MILLION in Obama Stimulus Funds by buying an American company days before the Stimulus funds were designated.
INDIA: Stimulus funds for Wind Turbines manufactured in India for the US use. $69 MILLION in cash grants.
INDONESIA: $1.5 MILLION to reduce pollution in Jakarta, one of Obama’s home cities
ITALY:
● Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. Italian company, Brevini Wind was given a $12.75 MILLION Tax Credit to manufacture gearboxes in Indiana. The company promised to hire 450 Americans. So far, only 70 jobs have evolved and the facility will not be in operation until late 2013.
● Other Italian Wind Turbine manufacturers received of $84 Million in CASH GRANTS throug Obama’s Stimulus
JAPAN: Before the Obama Stimulus was passed, we sent money to Japan to build a Wind Farm. $91.4 MILLION in grants – 180 Turbines manufactured in Japan by Mitsubishi.
LUXEMBOURG: $31.5 MILLION in Obama Stimulus funds for a Waste Heat Recovery Unit
MEXICO:
● Obama Stimulus funds for Mexico. Mexico’s SunPower says some of the solar panels for the $1.3 BILLION stimulus-backed California Solar Valley Ranch will be manufactured in Mexico – not California.
● Another $16 MILLION to create green manufacturing jobs in Mexico, while the US company laid off workers here and sent work to Mexico.
NEW ZEALAND: Stimulus funds go to NZ contractor – work that could have been done by a US contractor. $817,000 awarded to Connexionz to install bus monitors for the city of Santa Clarita.
RUSSIA: We funded a company in Russia. It went bankrupt. Russian investors bought it. $118 MILLION from Obama’s stimulus to produce vehicle batteries. The Russian investor’s company may do work for the US Military!
SPAIN: Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. $1.5 BILLION in loans and grants. The company claimed it had created over 15,000 American jobs but the company has only 850 US-based employees.
SWITZERLAND: A Swiss-based company received $50+ MILLION in Stimulus contracts for Smart Grid Meters. Cathy Zoi, a former Obama Energy Department Official held over $250,000 in stock in the company. Zoi has previously served as an Executive Director with the company before joining the Obama administration.
THAILAND: $200 BILLION for General Motors plant in Thailand – after GM took a taxpayer-funded bailout they build the Thailand lant to build diesel engines for the Chevy Colorado Pickup truck.
VIETNAM: GE builds Wind Turbine plant. GM’s GE’s Jeffery Immelt chairs the President’s Job Council and GM received over $1.2 BILLION in Obama Stimulus funds.
SOUTH KOREA:
● Obama Stimulus funded America jobs used to hire foreign nationals. $300 MILLION to manufacturer electric vehicle batteries after building plants in Michigan. Unions are balking and saying foreign nationals are being brought in to fill jobs for Americans.
● The Department of Energy admits that 11 of 18 contractors are Asian firms. $179 MILLION for parts from South Korea.
Linked at Grumpy Opinions who has a nice companion article – Barack Obama’s Never-Ending Lies.
Graphic credit to Vicki McClure Davidson at Frugal Cafe. She has the details on the Obama Stimulus money used to relocate a Manzanita Shrub growing “wild.” 
Linked at BadBlue (thank you!)the baaadddest news on the planet!
Linked at nachumlist – thank you!
Linked at Doug Ross and Larwyn’s Linx – thank you! – Read the latest: How to Secure the Black Vote for Obama.
I Own the World linked. Thanks!
Linked at Grumpy Opinions – take a look at some great conservative graphics.
Linked at California Political News – thank you.


 




Thursday, May 2, 2013

THE STORY OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, OR INSANITY IN GOVERNMENT

 
NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.
Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."
So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"
So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"
So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"
So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"
So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."
So they laid-off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2012 -- 35 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
Hello!! Anybody Home?
Signed....The Night Watchman
 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

SEQUESTER EVE DEALS. TSA'S $50 MILLION DEAL FOR NEW UNIFORMS BUT NAPOLITANO IS REALLY SORRY FOR THOSE LONG AIRPORT LINES

http://minutemennews.com/2013/03/tsas-50-million-sequester-eve-deal-new-uniforms-but-napolitano-is-really-sorry-for-those-long-airport-lines/

WE ARE SUCH ASSHOLES FOR  ALLOWING THIS!


ASK YOUR CONGRESS THUG IF HE OR SHE VOTED FOR THIS GARBAGE.

1-866-220-0044 and leave a message below.  I want y'all to read them.

OH - AND MORE LIES FROM BIG SIS HERSELF!

http://minutemennews.com/2013/03/airports-contradict-janet-napolitanos-sequester-claim/ 

And then I get this from sometimes-contributor to this blog, Merlin.  

Yesterday, I flew from Phoenix to Raleigh with a layover at Chicago. Security waits were shorter than when I flew out before the sequester. Looks like another one of Pharoah's lies caught up with him. The sky did not fall, and neither did my planes. Long live the sequester !

~J

About Those ‘Airport Delays’ Supposedly Caused by Sequestration.....Who Do We Believe.........

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during last week’s sequester scare-fest warned that automatic government spending cuts would lead to massive delays in waiting lines at airports nationwide.
And she repeated the claim on Monday, saying that the cuts have already caused delays at major U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX) and O’Hare International in Chicago.
“We’re already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend,” she said Monday at a POLITICO-sponsored eventRead More:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Claims Sequester Cuts Have Already Caused Massive Delays in Customs Waiting Lines At Two Major Airports (At Least)
Oh the sky is falling, the sky is falling… OMG we are all going to die!
Oh, just kidding…. just following orders from the Boy King! Can’t let a fake crisis go to waste!!!
Where’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz? She should be here talking it up!
Okay, so my wife and I got our coffee at (gun friendly) Starbucks this morning and guess what. There were no cops on the streets, the fire stations were empty, and all the kids were milling about on the street in front of the school. We’re doomed now.
This is Bull, they can hire plenty of rapists from prison to replace the leaving TSA agents.
We need to De-fund this “American Gestapo” branch oh the gov. anyway!
The FBI and CIA can manage just fine!
Napolitano liar-freak… the one who wants us to believe that the borders are just peachy keen while her department buys up ONE BILLION BULLETS including 450 M (as in MILLION) hollow point Rounds + Tons of TANKS …This women could care less if half of America got killed. She is anti-GOD, anti-AMERICAN, anti-CONSTITUTION, anti-PATRIOT…
These fools are absolutely insufferable. The Obama/Democratic gang will repeat talking points whether they are true or not and whether you KNOW they are lying. They will report aliens from out of space landed on the white-house lawn while people all over the lawn are saying…’nope..no aliens here’. They don’t care if they lie. They think they are all powerful. Your opinion means nothing. They are not talking to us anyway. They are talking to their low IQ voters who were stupid enough to vote for them in the first place.
End of the day the sequester is 85B, only 44B this year and we spend 38B on “foreign aide” to include 20 F-16 s and 400 tanks to Egypt, really? We couldn’t have cut that BEFORE our military? Arse-clowns are in charge of our government.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

MOOCHELLE OBAMA - NOW WHAT WERE YOU THINKING DROPPING $50K ON LINGERIE FROM AGENT PROVOCATEUR LINGERIE. WHY NOT YOUR FAVE STORE, TARGET?

http://constitutionclub.org/2012/01/30/did-mishy-spend-50000-on-lingerie-in-one-shopping-spree/

Because even if they airbrush the hell out of your photo shoots, and you shop for the world's most exotic lingerie, and those hideous schmatas with designer labels, you still can't put lipstick on a pig (you know...that would be a great Democratic icon...just saying).

Friday, November 18, 2011