Obama Regulations Four Times more than Bush

Obama Tops Bush With More, Costlier Major Regulations: In his first three years of presidency, President George W. Bush imposed 28 major regulations at a cost of $8.1 billion. Obama imposed 106 major regulations at a cost of $46 billion. “This is almost four times the number—and more than five times the cost—of the major regulations issued by George W. Bush during his first three years,” according to the report.
Red Tape Rising: During the three years of the Obama Administration, a total of 106 new major regulations have been imposed at a cost of more than $46 billion annually, and nearly $11 billion in one-time implementation costs. This amount is about five times the cost imposed by the prior Administration of George W. Bush. This regulatory tide is not expected to ebb anytime soon. Hundreds of new regulations are winding through the rulemaking pipeline as a consequence of the vast Dodd–Frank financial-regulation law (the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), Obamacare, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s global warming crusade, threatening to further weaken an anemic economy and job creation. * Major regulations, as defined by the government, are regulations that cost up to $100 million or more each year. Read the full report here.

Lottery Winner on Food Stamps (Video)

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK Lottery winner using food stamps: “I thought maybe it was okay because I’m not working and I have bills to pay…I have two houses.” The Daily Caller reported: Amanda Clayton, a 24-year-old from Lincoln Park, Mich., …won $1 million from the Michigan State Lottery this fall, but she is still collecting and using $200 a month in food assistance from the taxpayers with her Michigan Bridge Card.

GOV’T WASTE: $7 Billion of Taxpayer Money Wasted on Stupid Programs in 2011

POLITICIANS’ EXCESSIVE SPENDING AS U.S. DEBT EXPLODES In 2011, the U.S. government wasted $7 billion of taxpayer dollars on frivolous projects like: Why chimps throw feces, Sesame Street for Pakistan, the effect of cocaine on birds’ sex lives, mango farmers in Pakistan, benefits to dead federal employees, foreign aid to China, happy people in 120 countries, how Rock music helped with the fall of the USSR, drug-themed pizza, how to improve local government in India, video game simulating Michelle Obama’s garden to combat obesity, water pipe smoking habits of Jordanian students, TVs for rural Vietnamese villages, online soap operas, pancakes, online dating, etc.
Government spent $10 million of taxpayer money on a remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan
A new report lists over $6.9 billion worth of examples of some of the most egregious and frivolous ways our tax dollars were wasted by government bureaucrats in 2011. (H/t: CBN News) “Nearly $2.5 billion was added each day in 2011 to our national debt, which now exceeds $15 trillion,” the report indicates. Examples of government’s wasteful spending in 2011:
	● $1 billion for energy efficient home improvement tax credits awarded to people who don’t own homes – including prisoners and children (Example #19) ● $231 million for weatherization program riddled with waste and abuse (Example #49) ● $200 million to subsidize prosperous industries (Example #25) ● $168 million for unnecessary and duplicative Neighborhood Revitalization programs (Example #37) ● $120 million in retirement and disability payments to dead federal employees (Example #7) ● $50 million in duplicative programs for retrofitting diesel engines despite declining need (Ex. #78) ● $30 million to mango farmers in Pakistan to boost their sales (Example #2) ● $18 million in foreign aid to China for social services and to improve China‘s environment (Example #10) (The U.S. owes over $1.1 trillion to China) ● $14 million Air Force green energy effort to convert radar stations from diesel to wind turbine energy (Example #3) ● $12 million for failed energy-saving project in Pakistan (Example #35) ● $10 million for the remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan (Example #13) ($20 million more has already been awarded to a Pakistani arts organization over the next 4 years) ● $10 million for duplicative program to help other countries manage their forests (Example #44) ● $2 million for a new Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center (Example #24) ● $1.35 million for Entrepreneurship Training for young people in Barbados (Example #50) ● $936,818 to stimulate online soap operas (Example #20) ● $862,000 to store unused furniture and equipment (Example #33) ● $765,828 to subsidize pancakes for yuppies in Washington (Example #5) ● $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking (Example #46) ● $702,558 for TVs and gas generators for rural Vietnamese villages (Example #17) ● $611,000 to survey how happy people are in 120 countries (Example #67) ● $606,000 to study online dating (Example #85) ● $592,527 to study why chimps throw feces (Example #91) ● $550,000 for documentary about how Rock and Roll contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union (Example #16) ● $500,000 to analyze the spread of political info on the web (Example #71) ● $492,005 to analyze the trustworthiness of social sites like Twitter (Example #34) ● $484,000 for drug-themed pizza restaurant (Example #11) ● $425,642 for study to tell India how to improve its local government (Example #80) ● $358,005 to survey the impact of anti-HIV videos for L.A. city buses – (Example #26) ● $306,000 to pay for European student’s leadership skills (Example #84) ● $300,000 to study how European Union leaders frame their legislative debates (Example #60) ● $206,214 for online video game simulating Michelle Obama’s garden to combat obesity – (Ex. #56) ● $200,000 for a study: Political Candidates Should Adopt “Green” Positions (Example #29) ● $176,000 to study the connections between cocaine and the sex drive of Japanese quail (Ex. #23) (The total awarded to the project will be $356,933) ● $147,138 to study the audiences of magic shows (Example #14) ● $96,000 to buy iPads for kindergarteners (Example #27) ● $55,382 to study Jordanian students’ water pipe smoking habits (Example #63) (Nearly $170,000O have been awarded over the past 3 years)
Read the full report: here (PDF).

Rush Limbaugh’s Parody of Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America” (Video)

EL RUSHBO SCHOOLS DIRTY HARRY This is what Clint Eastwood should have said in the controversial Super Bowl halftime Chrysler ad. Video via The Right Scoop:

MORE - Rush Limbaugh on Eastwood’s Chrysler ad - Mark Levin: It’s a propaganda piece for Obama and his bailouts - Obama camp happy with Eastwood’s Chrysler ad subtly praising Obama’s auto bailout (U.S. taxpayers lost $1.3billion in Chrysler bailout) - Clint Eastwood: ‘I am Certainly Not Affiliated with Mr. Obama’ - Eastwood’s politics: Liberal on social issues; conservative on economics: (Interview with Los Angeles Times – Nov. 7, 2011) EASTWOOD: “I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves,” said Eastwood, who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and environmental protection. “But I’m a big hawk on cutting the deficit. I was against the stimulus thing too. We shouldn’t be bailing out the banks and car companies. If a CEO can’t figure out how to make his company profitable, then he shouldn’t be the CEO.”

Red Light Cameras Failing at Revenue Generation and Public Safety

TRAFFIC CAMERAS ARE ABOUT REVENUE, NOT PUBLIC SAFETY
Via Canada Free Press:
	The whole thing [of Red light cameras] is about revenue generation, not public safety. Most city administrations try desperately to hide their greed behind hoary claims of safeguarding the public… …[R]ed light cameras are increasingly failing at both revenue generation and public safety. Many cities that once had them have pulled them out because revenues dropped over time while maintenance costs continued to rise not to mention that some cities have found that the red light cameras actually cause more accidents instead of improving driver safety. Worse, some cities have played games with the cameras in order to keep revenues flowing into their profligate hands. At least six cities were caught shortening yellow light times in order to catch more drivers running red lights. …[N]ew red light cameras won’t bring in a never ending stream of spending cash. Ohio native Maggie Thurber notes that Toledo has already seen revenues fall from other red light camera installations. …Since 2009 when the city added speed cameras and negotiated a higher percentage of the fines, the revenue has steadily decreased. This means that the city, in order to continue to collect their targeted budget amounts, must constantly expand the big-brother-type surveillance.
Read the whole article here. MORE - RED LIGHT CAMERAS: Locations, News, Laws, Opponents…

OBAMA SCANDAL: 11 More Solyndras in Obama Energy Program

POLITICAL PAYBACK

Real Clear Politics reports:
	CBS News counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five have filed for bankruptcy: The junk bond-rated Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES’ subsidiary Eastern Energy and Solyndra. According to CBS News, Beacon Power, a “green energy storage company,” recieved [sic] $43 million from the government.
The Right Scoop explains the gist of the scandal:
	Obama is simply pouring our tax dollars down the ‘clean energy’ crap hole with no regard for whether it is a good investment or not…They only thing missing in this story is how these clean energy CEOs are politically connected to the Obama administration. Just like Solyndra, this smells a lot like political payback and why this isn’t running 24/7…
MORE Here.

Obama’s Lavish 2009 Halloween Party was Kept a Secret (Photo)

NO TRANSPARENCY IN OBAMA’S WONDERLAND
The Obamas partied while Americans were struggling during the recession Via UK Daily Mail
	After it was revealed that the Obamas hosted a lavish Halloween party in 2009 during a low point of the recession, people are now questioning how the event was kept a secret for two years.  [...] The New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor who exposed the party in her new book, The Obamas, maintained that the reason why it was kept so quiet at the time was because the administration was aware that it would be in poor form for them to host an extravagant party when so many were suffering financially.  [...] The Alice in Wonderland themed Halloween party was held in the State Dining room and was complete with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Tim Burton-arranged decorations. They even talked to Star Wars director George Lucas and convinced him to lend them the original Chewbacca costume for the entertainment of their guests. ‘White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,’ recounts Jodi Kantor in her book, ‘The Obamas’. As is tradition, the Obamas handed out treats to Washington, D.C. school children earlier in the day, and while that event was covered heavily by the press, their later festivities were very actively kept secret. …[T]he guests at the invitation-only party had bone-shaped meringue cookies and fruit punch served in blood vials. [...] The Halloween party took place five months before Mr Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film was released, so the kids served as informal taste-testers and gave an indication of how his spooky take on the Disney classic would be received. As the children walked into the State Dining Room, they were greeted by a fully-costumed Johnny Depp standing on a table decorated with vintage-inspired table cloths and surrounded by giant stuffed animals.
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Planned Parenthood Got $487.4 Million in Taxpayer Money to Abort 329,445 Babies

OBAMA’S FRIENDS AT WORK
CNSNews reports:
	According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions. In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline. The latest annual report covers the period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, the PPFA’s fiscal year. The report states that the organization received “government health services grants and reimbursements” totaling $487.4 million.
What are taxpayers getting for their buck?
	329,445 abortions, making up 91% of Planned Parenthood’s services to pregnant women. Of the three million people that walked through the doors of a Planned Parenthood clinic, one out of 12 received an abortion. 31,098 prenatal services for women, making up just 8.6% of overall services to pregnant woman. 841 adoption referrals, a mere 0.2% of services to pregnant women. (This number continues to drop. In 2008, PP reported 2,405 adoption referrals).
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