COST OF OBAMA’S OLYMPIC FAILURE

OBAMA + MICHELLE x OPRAH= ZERO (Hat tip: Drudge Report)
THE EGO HAS LANDED – World rejects Obama:
-Chicago receives the least votes
-Chicago eliminated in first round

MILLIONS SPENT FOR THIS OLYMPIC FAILURE
	Estimated Expenses For Barack Obama: About three planes 747s, multiple cargo planes: -2 planes 747s: Presidential trips require both 747s (as one is a backup) -1 plane 747: A National Airborne Operations Command Post 747 from Offutt AFB, NE will accompany him to keep POTUS in constant communications in case of national or word emergency -Several Air Force cargo planes of equipment are loaded and flown to the destination with: –armored limos, –security personnel from the Secret Service and –the relevant military branches, –fuels specialists, etc. -Dozens, if not hundreds of people start preparing every detail of the POTUS trip: –security, communications, protocol, logistics and transportation -Costs for personnel who fly commercial ahead of POTUS
(The Pentagon estimates the cost at $100,219 an hour without Obama aboard) AT LEAST 3 PLANES WERE USED: $1.2 Million x 3 = $3.6 MILLIONS
PLUS ADD MICHELLE’S PLANE & ENTOURAGE	Estimated Expenses For Michelle Obama: -Add another 757 or 737 for her and her staff, entourage, hangers-on, with attendant security, logistics, etc. -Plus operational costs -Add a few more million dollars for staff in Denmark who will cover preparations for both POTUS and FLOTUS.
CARBON FOOTPRINT OF BARACK OBAMA: (for those who believe CO2 is a pollutant)	CARBON FOOTPRINT OF MICHELLE OBAMA: (If Michelle & her entourage used only one plane 737)
Source: Examiner.com

U.S. PRESENTATION TO INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (c-span)
Obama bashed America during presentation

Who will be blamed?
Brazilians goof on Obama: “Yes We Créu”
Can You Blame Obama for Olympic Loss?
Danish News: Obama’s Arrogance Turned Off IOC
An illustrated guide: All the president’s Olympic cronies
Tax-increment financing

FACTS: WHY VOTE AGAINST CAP & TRADE (HR2454)

LATEST: The bill passed the House, but the fight is not over…. NEXT STEP: Senate to vote…start calling your Senators with FACTS TO OPPOSE

HOUSE’S BILL INFO: HR2454, related H.R. 2998 THE AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009 OFFICIAL TITLE: (Trojan Horse) To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution & transition to a clean energy economy SPONSORS: Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. Edward J.Markey FINAL VOTE: Passed 219-212, ROLL CALL: Traitors who voted ‘YES’:
● 211 DEMOCRATS ● 8 REPUBLICANS: Mary Bono Mack (CA): 202-225-5330, Michael N. Castle (DE): 202-225-4165, Mark Kirk (IL): 202-225-4835, Leonard Lance (NJ): 202-225-5361, Frank LoBiondo (NJ): 202-225-6572, John McHugh (NY): 202-225-4611, David Reichart (WA): 202-225-7761, Chris Smith (NJ): 202-225-3765 ● 3 COWARDS who did not have enough cojones to vote: Jeff Flake (R-AZ): 202-225-2635, John Sullivan (R-OK): 202-225-2211, Alcee Hastings (D-FL): 202-225-1313	GOP turncoats
CONTACT INFO: Call Congress, legislator contact info, Representatives by State, here, Elected Officials, House Directory VOTE CHRONOLOGY: Liveblogging, On the House Floor on 6/26/2009, Pre-vote count, 300 pages added to ‘Climate Bill’ at 3:09AM

REASONS TO OPPOSE CAP & TRADE:
● IT WILL BE THE LARGEST TAXATION IN U.S. HISTORY (WSJ, Gateway)
● IT WILL RAISE ENERGY TAX & THUS RAISE ALL PRICES -It is an energy tax in disguise that by 2035 will raise: (Heritage, CBO) -Electricity prices by 90 percent -Gasoline prices by 58 percent -Home heating oil by 56 percent -Natural gas prices by 55 percent	OBAMA SAID: “CAP & TRADE WILL CAUSE ELECTRICITY RATES TO SKYROCKET !!”
-Energy is at the center of our economy, everybody needs it. So, raising energy costs will raise prices across the board -High energy prices will hit American industry & American consumers -Raising prices will hurt senior citizens, the poor, and the unemployed the worst -It will make you choose among energy, groceries, clothing, etc. -It will cost American families nearly $3,000 a year (bet you this will be more) -It’s in effect a hidden regressive tax -The poor are hit hardest with what is in effect a hidden regressive tax -Leaves taxpayers at the whim of government to redistribute income rather than letting taxpayer keep their hard earned dollars
● IT DOESN’T HELP THE ENVIRONMENT: -The maximum drop to the earth’s temperature might be no more than 0.07 degrees Celsius by the year 2050.  -This decrease is so negligible that we cannot even estimate the absolute mean surface temperature of the earth within 0.07.  -It provides incentives to emit MORE carbon, not less.  It will turn carbon emissions into commodities that can be bought & sold -In Europe carbon emissions have gone up despite the EU’s cap and trade of 2005. -EPA doesn’t want you to see this report ● IT DOESN’T WORK WHERE IT HAS BEEN TRIED:   -EU’s carbon emission levels have risen despite their 2005 cap and trade system  -12 of the 15 EU nations participating in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (greenhouse gas reduction) failed to meet their reduction targets -EU emissions rose 2.1 % between 2000 – 2004.  But the U.S. only 1.3% without cap & trade system -EU is moving away this regulations because the taxing did nothing for the environment -Australia efforts are failing as well ● IT WILL COST AMERICANS JOBS:  -The energy costs will rise, so U.S. businesses will:  (1) produce less (which hurts jobs as companies would have to compensate for a drop in production), or (2) buy carbon allowances to keep production up (threaten jobs as companies would have to devote more internal resources to allowances) -About 1.2 million to 2.3 million jobs would be lost under a cap and trade scheme -It will outsource manufacturing jobs and hurt free trade (other countries like Mexico do not have cap & trade regulations) -It failed in Spain: It costed 2.2 regular job for every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years. 1 in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job. ● IT THREATENS TO PUT THE U.S. AT A COMPETITIVE DISADVANTAGE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES: -Though the E.U. and the United States may be buying into cap and trade, China and India and Mexico (countries without cap and trade) are more than willing to pick up the U.S. slack and bolster their already robust manufacturing sectors. ● IT PREVENTS MARKET FORCES FROM WORKING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT:  -Major energy companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in technologies that capture and store carbon as well as lower carbon alternative energy sources.  A cap and trade system however, sets up perverse incentives that will distract these and other companies from market-based solutions to curb carbon output.  Resources instead will be funneled to the artificial market for carbon allowances that cap and trade sets up. -What will happen next if cap-and-tax passes? ● IT OPENS THE DOOR TO MASSIVE FRAUD & CORRUPTION: -Britain’s biggest polluting companies are abusing a European emissions trading scheme (ETS) designed to tackle global warming by cashing in their carbon credits in order to bolster ailing balance sheets.”  -Enron’s support for a cap and trade scheme that would allow them to dominate this new, made-up market for carbon. ● IT THREATENS TO BUST THE FEDERAL BUDGET:  -It adds undue pressure on our fragile budget & sink us deeper into recession (remember the failed “stimulus” and “bailouts”?) -Government will also be affected with the same challenges of higher energy costs that consumers do (CBO) -The fall in production would lead to a loss of federal government tax revenues. ● IT WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER TO CONTROL OUR LIVES -It will impose 397 new federal regulations and 1060 new mandates. (Ht: Graph) -Government will control who will get the carbon credits

● IT IS BASED ON THE HOAX OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING: -Global Warming: 31,000 Scientists Reject It -Global Warming Is Less Than 1% -The Comprehensive Link List Disproving Man-Made Global Warming -CO2 is not a pollutant, we exhale it!!!!	THE GREEN REVOLUTION - Not all green is good for you
● IT SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT: -Extremist environmentalists believe such proposals don’t go far enough and are willing only to endorse them as “a good first step.” -They will force for more draconian regulations in the future. Once you open the door….
● EPA DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW: (…developing…more info to come) CEI reports: The Environmental Protection Agecy (EPA) suppressed an internal study critical on their climate science. Internal EPA emails “indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.  The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.  New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.”  - Video: EPA dissenter Alan Carlin speaks - The climate change e-mails EPA doesn’t want you to see - EPA plays hide and seek; suppressed report revealed - Cap-and-tax job loss chart of the day; Plus: A Senate reading assignment

 

SOURCES:
Nationwide protest against socialized medicine & cap-and-tax
Why Cap & Trade is wrong
Reasons to oppose Cap & Trade
The Cap and Tax Fiction
Melt the phones: Cap-and-tax target list
Energy tax
Waxman-Markey an Energy Tax That Doesn’t Work
Cap and Trade = Predatory Taxation
Cap and trade vote today
It’s Cap & Trade Friday– The BIGGEST LIBERAL TAX In US History
Who Pays for Cap and Trade?

OBAMA-ANTOINETTE

OBAMA INDULGES HIMSELF BUT EXCORIATES OTHERS

Opulence & Power for Obama... Debt & Oppression for us (by FactReal.wordpress.com)

meet the new Marie Antoinette

Obama-Antoinette:

“Indulgence & Power for me,

—Debt & Misery for you“

 

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►OBAMA INDULGES: CELEBRATES WITH $100 STEAK
Obama’s menu included Wagyu beef….

What is Wagyu?

One of the most expensive meats:
$2,299.99 for 15 lbs at Costco

● Obama’s cocktail party celebrated the House
passing the ”Stimulus” $850 Billion Bill.
● Obama celebrates Spending binge with cocktails and Wagyu steaks
● King Obama dines on $100 wagyu Steak while 55,000 Americans lose their jobs

 

 

 

 

 

►►BUT OBAMA PREACHES: NO PROFITS, NO BONUSES King Obama has declared: “…there will be time for them to make profits and there will be time for them to get bonuses…. now is not that time…” (minute 1:49)

 

● Obama calls Wall Street bonuses “shameful”
Obama said, “It is shameful. And part of what we’re going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help
to show some restraint and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility.”
● Obama: Pork good for me, bonuses bad for businesses

NOTES TO PONDER
☼ Mr. Obama where is your restraint with that $100 per pound beef?
☼ How about that $1.1 trillion Pork? Yes, pork since it’s a spending plan to buy interest groups while keeping us in debt for generations and will not stimulate the economy nor create jobs. Americans are against this waste. Read Top 10 reasons to oppose the Spending “Stimulus” Bill Wasting money is not stimulus. Tax cuts are an easy way to stimulate businesses and consumers to start participating in the economy. How about a flat tax (especially now that we have seen how Obama’s nominees have problems ‘understanding‘ the tax code.
Economy 101: Businesses create jobs. So, businesses are the ones that need the long-term stimulus, such as tax cuts.
☼ Obama, you said, ”All of us are going to have responsibilities to get this economy moving again”. Are you going to be responsible and put on hold your salary since you get paid with our taxmoney as well?

That is the problem with allowing government to anex the free market:
What government gives, government can take away….anytime.

►OBAMA INDULGES: CRANKS UP THE HEATER
Obama likes it hot….so he keeps his thermostat on high…and jacket off.

Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat

 

 

 

 

►►BUT OBAMA PREACHES: NO HEATER FOR YOU
Obama said last year: video (go to remaining minute 1:30)

● Obama excoriated us for keeping our homes’ thermostats at “72 degrees at all times.”
● Obama turns up the thermostat but tells you not to.
● Obama to Washingtonians: Toughen up, pansies. Obama taunted Washingtonians when schools were closed due to sleet and freezing rain. “Because of what? Because of some ice?” said Obama.

NOTES TO PONDER
Of course is easy for Obama to criticize and censure Americans….he has a different rule for himself.

 

 

►OBAMA INDULGES: HIS INAUGURATION MOST EXPENSIVE
● Obama’s inauguration is most expensive ever at $160 million
● Obama’s inauguration more than triple of Bush’s first inauguration in 2001
● Bush spent $42.3m for inauguration in 2005 but he was demonized for the spending…. see here, here

►►BUT OBAMA PREACHES: EVERYONE MUST SACRIFICE

Obama: “Everybody’s going to have to give.
Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game” video, transcript

ABC’s Stephanopoulos asked Obama: “…everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something,
accept change for the greater good?”
“Yes,” Obama said. report

(H/t: HotAir, WashingtonTimes)

 

►MORE HYPOCRISY FROM WASHINGTON
Obama & Dems go to spa resort paid by taxpayers
Democrats use taxpayer money to go to luxurious resort for annual “planning” retreat…all during economic crisis
● Obama recently blasted Wall Street executives for their “excesses”
but he will join Democrats at the resort.
● Obama chose this luxury resort to be his first trip aboard Air Force One.
● About $500,000 of taxpayer dollars have been spent by Democrats to attend these retreats.
● About $70,000 are spent each year for an Amtrak train to ferry Democrats to the resort.
● Security helicopters fly above the train.

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►►BUT POLITICIANS CRITICIZE OTHERS

● Wells Fargo Defends Then Cancels Vegas Retreat Amid Controversy
● Politicians slammed AIG executives for spending more than $440,000 at a company retreat…just days after receiving …$85 billion bailout in taxpayer funds
● Lawmakers excoriated banking and financial companies for flying in corporate jets to Washington to request bailouts

NOTES TO PONDER
☼ It is greatly disingenuous to demonize companies for lavish retreats after receiving taxpayer money via bailouts when Democrats are using taxpayer money to finance their trips to resorts. If this is work, they can stay in Washington.
☼ Using taxpayer money for these retreats is worse than using lobbyist/nonprofits funds since
taxpayers get robbed with so many taxes and then do not have dedicated personnel fighting for us in Washington like interest groups (lobbyists, non-for-profit organizations.)
☼ Obama used Air Force One for a 9-minute flight! ‘What is the cost?’ ‘What is the damage to the environment?’  Stop the double-standard!
☼ Democrats herald that, unlike Republicans, they don’t use lobbyist money to finance these retreats. They use our money. Is it much more noble to steal from voiceless taxpayers?
☼ They pretend to dislike lobbyists but there are plenty of lobbyists in their administration.

Obama calls for sacrifice during this economic crisis, but he cannot lead Democrats not to misuse our money.

 

►POLITICIANS INDULGE: HIGHER SALARIES
Congress gets raise

Congress now gets paid $174,000 for working only 3 day work week.

(H/t: GatewayPundit)

 

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►►BUT OBAMA PREACHES: NO HIGH SALARIES FOR BUSINESSES

Obama bans corporate executives from earning more than $500,000 a year
Obama caps salaries at $500,000
 
NOTE TO PONDER
Give power to government and you will never get it back.