Obaman vastainen kampanja Yhdysvalloissa

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Hesari tuskin uutisoi mitään asiaan liittyvää niin kopioin koko artikkelin tähän.

Lyhyesti suomeksi: Osa Obaman tilapäisestä elvytysohjelmasta jää pysyväksi ja suunnitellun terveydenhuoltouudistuksen mahdolliset säästöt ovat mitätöntä puuhastelua pysyviksi jäävien uusien ohjelmien rinnalla. Nämä uudet ohjelmat tulevat maksamaan 94 miljardia vuodessa kun terveydenhuollon kaavaillut säästöt olisivat vain 18 miljardia. Lisäksi todennäköisesti myös muita kuluja on tiedossa koska tilapäisten ohjelmien lopettaminen olisi yllättäen huonoa kannatukselle.

Jälleen kerran tilapäinen muuttuu pysyväksi.

A Sickening Deficit - The nauseating stimulus bill may be worse than the health care bill

A key driver behind the president's health care agenda is to, "help bring our deficits under control in the long term," and yet the latest health care bill will reach annual savings of only $18 billion by the end of the decade. Before deficit hawks try to applaud Congress for fiscal responsibility, Americans should recognize that the recently enacted stimulus bill will push up the deficit by $140 billion a year.

The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (ARRA), was rushed through Congress on the grounds that fast-acting and temporary measures were needed to counteract the recession. The bill included $288 billion in tax relief, $144 billion in transfers to states and $357 billion in federal spending.

However, many of the provisions in the stimulus will not be temporary. Less than two weeks after ARRA was enacted, the Obama administration released its Fiscal Year 2010 Budget, which proposed to make five major components of the stimulus bill permanent, at a cost of $94 billion per year. Permanently extending the Making Work Pay Credit, the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the child tax credit, and the expansion of the American Opportunity Tax Credit would cost $82 billion per year. Expanding Pell Grants for college education would cost $12 billion annually. All told, the Obama administration's budget seeks to make at least 37% of ARRA's spending and tax cuts permanent on an annual basis.

A number of other provisions are likely to have a permanent impact on the budget as well, since it would be political suicide to eliminate them now that they are enacted. Permanently extending just a subset of tax or spending provisions could further enlarge the deficit by over $48 billion per year.

--The Obama administration has recently expressed support for extending the $8,000 first-time home-buyer credit that is set to expire on Nov. 30, 2009. A permanent extension could cost $6 billion annually.

--Second, the stimulus package provided additional aid to laid-off and low-income workers and their families by subsidizing the cost of COBRA benefits, granting more funding for Supplemental Nutrition Program (food stamps) and excluding $2,400 of unemployment benefits from gross income calculations. Although the number of eligible workers and families will decline as the economy recovers, we estimate that the annual cost of extending these popular programs to be $12 billion per year.

--Third, education was a major theme of the stimulus bill and $100 billion was directed to this cause. While we do not assume that all of this spending is to be permanently expended, the termination of additional funding for disadvantaged children and special education would be particularly unpopular; an extension of these programs would increase spending by an estimated $12 billion per year.

--Extending funding for a subset of other federal programs run by the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Labor, among others, would add another $18 billion in permanent spending.

In total, we have identified policies in the stimulus bill that will add over $140 billion annually to the federal deficit forever, representing roughly 57% of the total average annual cost of the bill. It is important to stress, however, that this estimate is likely the floor and not the ceiling for what this bill will eventually cost. Our analysis was restricted to those policies estimated to cost $1 billion or more. But this legislation will create hundreds of distinct programs. Furthermore, we also excluded policies that were included in the stimulus bill but that existed previously, such as the alternative minimum tax patch and an array of energy tax provisions. Finally, we generously assumed that many other programs that potentially could be extended would not be, including the $144 billion in temporary aid to the States and the one-time $250 payment to Social Security recipients that now appears likely to reoccur at least in 2010.

While there is no question that rising health care costs pose a serious threat to our fiscal outlook, the health care proposals being debated in Congress will do little (if anything) to solve the problem. While this debate consumes our public attention, don't forget that a bigger fiscal wound has already been inflicted. Not only has the stimulus bill failed to turn the economy, but it promises to be a permanent drag.

[OlliH]

Entisen islamistiterroristin mietteitä yhdysvaltain nykyisestä presidentistä Barack Hussein Obamasta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXejCfj_Mjk&feature=related

"Hussein is an islamic name...no one is named Hussein unles he's born muslim. At least he could say he's born muslim."

Täysin absurdi väite. Miten kukaan voi olla syntyessään muslimi? Barack Obaman nimi tulee kokonaisuudessaan suoraan hänen isältään.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Sr.

Eikös muslimien teologinen kanta ole, että kaikki ovat syntyjään muslimeita? Islamiin kääntymistäkin kutsutaan Islamiin palaamiseksi.

Huomioikaa, että myös Obaman isäpuoli oli indonesialainen muslimi. Obama myös käytti Indonesiassa nimeä Barry Soetoro isäpuolensa mukaan. On myös väitetty, että hän kävi Indonesiassa koulua, jota saivat käydä vain muslimit.

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Eikös muslimien teologinen kanta ole, että kaikki ovat syntyjään muslimeita? Islamiin kääntymistäkin kutsutaan Islamiin palaamiseksi.

Huomioikaa, että myös Obaman isäpuoli oli indonesialainen muslimi. Obama myös käytti Indonesiassa nimeä Barry Soetoro isäpuolensa mukaan. On myös väitetty, että hän kävi Indonesiassa koulua, jota saivat käydä vain muslimit.

Dreams reveals an Obama who, from an early age, has had little spiritual inclination, as the term is commonly understood. Granted, due to his mother's choice in husbands, he did attend a Muslim public school and a Catholic private school in Indonesia, but he didn't pay much heed to his religious instruction:

In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies. My mother wasn't overly concerned. "Be respectful," she'd said. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and thirty brown children, muttering words. Sometimes the nun would catch me, and her stern look would force my lids back shut. But that didn't change how I felt inside. [p. 154]

Today's Islamic extremism is largely a reaction to the failures of the panaceas popular in the Third World in Obama's parents' era— Communism, socialism, nationalist anti?colonialism, Nasser's Pan-Arabism, Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism, and the like. Back in the 1960s, the fundamentalist Islamic revival had barely started in the Arab heartland of the Muslim world, much less in distant Indonesia, and especially not in the upscale neighborhood to which the Soetoros had moved in Jakarta. His stepfather, laidback Lolo, would take Barry along to services at the mosque, but he was hardly doctrinaire. Although the Koran disparages alcohol, Lolo was a heavy drinker who eventually died of liver trouble.

http://hommaforum.org/index.php/topic,7967.msg133033.html#msg133033

Soetoro was more of a free thinker than a devout Muslim, according to friends and neighbors.[15] He died of a liver ailment in Jakarta in 1987 at age 52,[16][17] and was buried in Tanah Kusir Cemetery, South Jakarta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolo_Soetoro

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LOL WUT

Cash for Clubbers - Congress's fabulous golf cart stimulus.

We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama's stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.

The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don't have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. "The purchase of some models could be absolutely free," Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. "Is that about the coolest thing you've ever heard?"

The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.

In South Carolina, sales of these carts have been soaring as dealerships alert customers to Uncle Sam's giveaway. "The Golf Cart Man" in the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida is running a banner online ad that declares: "GET A FREE GOLF CART. Or make $2,000 doing absolutely nothing!"

Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. "This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!" You can't blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.

The IRS has also ruled that there's no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, so some enterprising profiteers are stocking up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later. We should note that some states, such as Oklahoma, have caught on to the giveaway and are debating whether to cancel or limit their state credits. But in Congress they're still on the driving range.

This golf-cart fiasco perfectly illustrates tax policy in the age of Obama, when politicians dole out credits and loopholes for everything from plug-in cars to fuel efficient appliances, home insulation and vitamins. Democrats then insist that to pay for these absurdities they have no choice but to raise tax rates on other things—like work and investment—that aren't politically in vogue. If this keeps up, it'll soon make more sense to retire and play golf than work for living.

Keskusjohtoinen talousnerokkuus, fuck yeah!

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Obis antaa Teslan Roadsterista 42 000$ alennusta

Ei ole reilua peliä. Jenkit saa ilmaisia golfautoja ja sähköautoja törkyisillä alennuksilla, mutta me saadaan vastaanottokeskuksia. (talouden) Piristyksessäkin on eroja