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Obama´s Regulatory Cliff Is The Bigger Problem
Investors Business Daily, by Staff
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 12/21/2012 7:47:50 PM
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| Rules: Even if President Obama and John Boehner work out a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff," the U.S. is still careening toward a another cliff, thanks to Obama´s massively expensive, if little noticed, regulatory agenda. As IBD reported before the election, Obama´s regulatory minions had temporarily put several costly new rules on ice to protect the president from charges that he was anti-business and to shield the economy from the effects of all these huge new regulatory burdens. But almost as soon as voters decided to give Obama four more years, his regulators once again sprang into action.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/21/2012 7:56:55 PM (No. 9078601)
Don´t expect to hear a whisper of this from the Obama loving Press, they are also committed to the destruction of America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Penney, 12/21/2012 8:23:00 PM (No. 9078627)
With 0bama´s re-election, ´´creeping socialism,´´ seems to have assumed its long sought, ´´giant leap FORWARD,´´ eh? mmm mmm mmm
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oh-heck, 12/21/2012 10:20:50 PM (No. 9078721)
The scary thing is that industry only has a so many billion in capital to invest each year. If 100 billion go to modifying plants to make the products, those same products will have to go up in price 10 billion dollars to pay the carrying cost. If the price can´t be raised, 10 billion dollars in salaries will need to be cut.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 12/22/2012 7:51:59 AM (No. 9079019)
Neo-communists don´t want to own the means of production, they want to hobble it and put custom yokes on it. They take almost a sadistic pleasure in watching businesses struggle with the absurd controls they impose. And most of all, they love turning them into tax collecting machines that aren´t evident as tax collecting devices by the sheeple.
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Adam, 12/22/2012 8:39:10 AM (No. 9079099)
This is a very underreported story. As bad as raising tax rates to 40% would be, if job creators have a sense that they can run their affairs without too much interference from the State and some confidence rates won´t move up yet again, they will adjust to the 40%. It´s the poor schlub looking for work who gets hurt in that scenario. But these regulations are the death knell. And here they come!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LZK, 12/22/2012 9:26:10 AM (No. 9079187)
And the beat goes on and on and on.....
The damage this president is doing day by day -- will be on the backs of our children and grandchildren for years....
The MSM -- is so committed to validating their agenda it will a shock for them when they finally see the damage....
LZK
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
owl, 12/22/2012 10:24:48 AM (No. 9079282)
Why exactly are the politicians looking to ´ regulate ´ guns into extinction ? . See Gabby Giffords , not a school with kids . Why are the feds arming local police as if they were military ? . They may be greedy , corrupt and absolute uncaring , unpatriotic socialists , but they aren´t stoopid enough not to know that when the public has had enough , heads will roll . Any bets Harry Reid has someone look under his car each day ?. Well when a business owner loses his lifes passion - his business , because of a regulation that belongs in a book of laughs , or a lifelong employee gets the axe because of it , you get the idea . The time will come when enough is enough .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Timber Queen, 12/22/2012 2:23:47 PM (No. 9079657)
Suppose they gave a Marxist revolution and nobody cared? New strategies and tactics are needed, and if necessity is the mother of invention, its time to fill the maternity ward.
I submit for discussion the strategy of intentional non-compliance. A lesson learned from “Atlas Shrugged” is the importance to socialists to have the consent of their victims. Socialists cannot be shamed because they have no virtue, but they can be ignored because they value conformity. Perhaps its time to resurrect that old 1960’s put down, “Sounds like a personal problem.”
The strategy of intentional non-compliance by conservatives will leverage off the ‘wall of apathy’ surrounding our citizenry that the socialists used to gain governing power. It may be most effective at the local level against Agenda 21 rules and regulations.
The strategy of intentional non-compliance employs simple tactics: 1) Live your life. 2) Stay off the bureaucratic radar as long as possible. Ignore all letters and written notifications, be too busy to talk on the phone and do not return voice mail. Force them to come to you in person. 3) The bureaucrat will likely be a nice person just trying to do their job. Let them give their shtick. Do not sign any forms, but request time to read them carefully later. Thank them for being so kind to explain all these new requirements. Offer them a cookie. Smile and wave goodbye. 4) Continue to not comply.
This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote a few weeks after the election. I’ll post it on the Connection.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
horacer, 12/22/2012 3:25:39 PM (No. 9079715)
Reagan cut the per capita cost of regulations by 40%. That was the reason the economy boomed.
Under Zippy the economy will never generate the needed growth to increase employment, raise revenue or meet it´s obligations. No tax policy, no austerity measures can save us.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bogeegolf, 12/22/2012 6:03:38 PM (No. 9079850)
#8 I agree and have thought along thos lines.It´s the best non violent defense we have. I f the battle needs to escalate from there, let them start it.
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President Obama has been struggling to push his agenda through Congress and boost his popularity, but now there is another bit of bad news for him to chew on: A poll indicates that Obama would lose an election to Ronald Reagan, the champion of conservatism, if such a choice were possible today. And it would be a landslide. Fifty-eight percent of Americans would choose Reagan, according to a survey conducted by Kelton Research for the National Geographic Channel. Reagan, a Republican who won the elections of 1980 and 1984, would even
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Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 9:42:21 PM
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NORTH KOREA is a tiny dictatorship with a bankrupt economy, but its leaders are remarkably adept at manipulating global public opinion. In recent weeks, we have been exposed to yet another brilliant example of their skill. Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war. Upon arrival, though, it is difficult for them to find any South Koreans who are panic-stricken. In fact, most people in Seoul don’t care about the North’s belligerent statements: the farther one is from the Korean Peninsula,
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Michelle Obama on gun control: ‘These reforms deserve a vote’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 9:27:00 PM
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CHICAGO — First lady Michelle Obama, with tears in her eyes and her voice cracking, spoke out for the first time here Wednesday about the gun violence afflicting young people in cities across the nation. She took a rare step for any first lady into the legislative fight of the hour, saying her husband, President Obama, is “fighting as hard as he can, and engaging as many people as he can, to pass common-sense reforms to protect our children from gun violence.” “These reforms deserve a vote in Congress,” she said, drawing loud applause from hundreds of Chicago’s
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Social conservatives warn Priebus they could abandon GOP
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NBC News, by Michael O´Brien
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 9:09:20 PM
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A group of high-profile social conservatives warned Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in a letter this week that their supporters could abandon the GOP if the party seeks to change its position on social issues, particularly same-sex marriage. Thirteen social conservatives, representing various influential groups, wrote Priebus ahead of the RNC´s quarterly meeting this week in Los Angeles to sternly rebuke the conclusions of a post-election report that advised Republican elected officials to adopt a softer tone toward social issues. "We respectfully warn GOP Leadership that an abandonment of its principles will necessarily result
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:29:54 PM
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Terrorism: As Syria´s Islamist rebels merge with al-Qaida, Secretary of State John Kerry mulls more U.S. support for them. Can anyone explain what President Obama is doing to the Mideast? ´How´s that hopey changey stuff workin´ out for ya?" Sarah Palin famously asked, mocking Obama´s campaign slogan. The same could be asked of "that Arab Spring stuff," largely sparked by President Obama´s 2009 Cairo University speech seeking "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world." For over three decades, Egypt was a key U.S. ally, first under Anwar Sadat, who paid with his life,
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Rubio joins GOP colleagues for Obama dinner at White House
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The Hill, by Daniel Strauss
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:28:41 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joined President Obama for his second closed-door dinner with Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Rubio had been invited but had not committed for most of the day of the dinner. The Florida Republican´s office said immigration meetings might get in the way of him going to the dinner, but later said he would attend. Besides Rubio, Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), John Boozman (Ark.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Deb Fisher (Neb.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Johnny Isackson (Ga.), Pat Roberts (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) Roger Wicker (Miss.) dined with Obama.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:26:33 PM
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The President´s Priorities
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:23:09 PM
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President Obama is pitching his new budget proposal as a fiscal peace offering to Republicans, but the details suggest everyone should expect more conflict. The fiscal 2014 plan he released Wednesday is a very slightly modified version of his previous budgets that reduces the deficit by raising taxes and trading defense cuts for more domestic spending. The real news is that his budget ratifies much of the spending increase of the first term and tries to lock it in. He wants the feds to spend $3.78 trillion next year ($11,944 per American), which would still be 22.2% of national
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 7:20:55 PM
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 5:54:21 PM
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For young Europeans, it must be difficult to imagine the routine deprivation that existed behind the Iron Curtain when Margaret Thatcher came to power. As a refugee in London during the Eighties, I had to smuggle necessities to my family in Poland: toothpaste, shampoo, washing powder and, hidden in the parcels, miniature editions of books that were banned there. Occasionally, these were found and confiscated – including, in 1984, a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Mrs Thatcher’s role in changing all this cannot be overstated. For those behind the Iron Curtain, she was
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Inside the Gang’s Immigration Bill
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National Review Online, by Katrina Trinko
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 5:51:24 PM
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In the immigration-reform legislation soon to be released by the Senate’s Gang of Eight, there will be a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants — but it will require proof of the border’s having been secured, and it will involve an arduous process that could easily take two decades for those eligible. The mark-up process for the Gang’s legislation will begin during the week of May 6. There will be no limits placed on how many amendments can be added, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. These are the broad outlines of the legislation: Modernizing the legal-immigration system.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/10/2013 5:41:24 PM
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RUSH: We played for you a sound bite of Melissa Harris-Perry. Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor at Tulane. She has a show at PMSNBC. She is a standard-issue leftist. There is nothing extraordinary about her, and by that I mean she´s not extreme; she´s not way, way far out there. She is a mainstream American liberal today. Folks, that´s very important. This is the woman who thinks that the whole notion that kids belong to their parents is outdated. That idea is cockamamie. The government is really the parent.
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Posted By: magnante- 4/9/2013 11:49:09 AM
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Posted By: Drive- 4/10/2013 7:17:19 AM
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse. Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn´t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Ben Carson steps down as Hopkins commencement speaker
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Baltimore Sun, by Andrea K. Walker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:11:23 AM
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds in ‘Public Preschool;´ Will Save on ‘Child-Care Costs´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:18:38 PM
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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The Week, by Chris Gayomali
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/10/2013 7:30:26 PM
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Daughter of Obama´s former pastor charged with fraud
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Reuters, by Mary Wisniewski
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/11/2013 1:11:19 AM
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The daughter of President Barack Obama´s controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on charges of money laundering and lying to federal authorities, a Justice Department spokeswoman said. Jeri L. Wright, 47, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, was accused of participating in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the chief´s husband that involved a $1.25 million state grant, according to the Attorney´s office for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield. Wright, of the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest, was charged with two counts of money
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AG sues florist who refused flowers to gay wedding
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Student to Rand Paul: I don´t want government to leave me alone
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 4/10/2013 12:45:12 PM
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During the Q and A session after Sen. Rand Paul’s speech at Howard University, one student explained that he was not a fan of his view of government. “You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone, quite frankly, I don’t want that,” the student said. “I want a government that is going to help me.” The student insisted that he wanted assistance for his college education and asked if Rand Paul supported a culture change within the nation. “Do you Sen. Rand Paul have a formulated solution to come up with new American values
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Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare More ´Difficult´ Than Anticipated
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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