January 19, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
Blacks in Retreat
It has been easy for
people to forget in the decades since we lost the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. that he was a passionate fighter for economic justice as well as civil
rights. The two goals were as closely linked as the hydrogen and oxygen atoms
in water.
The historic gathering
in 1963 at which Dr. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech was
officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
And when Dr. King was
murdered in Memphis in 1968, he had gone there to support sanitation workers
who were striking for higher wages and better working conditions.
Jobs and freedom. In
America, you can’t have one without the other. Democrats are in deep trouble
right now — just a year after their giddy celebration of Barack Obama’s
ascendance to the presidency — because so many millions of Americans are out of
work, unable to find the gainful employment that would unlock the door to a
stable future for themselves and their families.
The president and his
party may be obsessed with health care, but unemployed and underemployed
Americans want a job. Why this has been so hard for the Democrats to realize, I
can’t say.
As the nation continues
to wallow in the trough of widespread unemployment, black Americans are bearing
a disproportionate burden of the joblessness. The election of a black president
may have been important to African-Americans for myriad reasons, but it hasn’t
done much for their bottom line, which continues to deteriorate.
For example, without a
dramatic new intervention by the federal government, the poverty rate for
African-American children could eventually approach a heart-stopping 50
percent, according to analysts at the Economic Policy Institute. Already more
than a third of black children are living in poverty.
Present trends are not
good. Communities of color are being crushed economically and the national news
media have not fully focused on the carnage. The official unemployment rate for
blacks is 16.2 percent and could well pass 17 percent before the year is out.
The real jobless rate is far more ghastly. The Boston-based group United for a
Fair Economy noted that even “college-educated black men are nearly twice as
likely to be unemployed as their white, college-educated counterparts.”
In some poor
neighborhoods, a man or woman with a traditional full-time job is the
exception, not the rule. In five Midwestern states — Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Oklahoma — the jobless rate for blacks is at least three times as
high as that for whites.
Some decades ago, you would
have heard a sustained outcry against such dire conditions among blacks, and
there would have been loud demands for policy changes designed to bring more
black Americans into the economic mainstream. You don’t hear much of that now.
Too many so-called black leaders are much more interested in invitations to the
White House and positive profiles in mainstream publications than in raising
any kind of ruckus that might benefit people in real trouble.
What the politicians and
today’s civil rights types won’t tell you is that we’re looking ahead to many
long decades of grief and strife in America’s black communities because of our
failure to respond effectively to the horrendous impact of the Great Recession
and the policies that led up to it. Black Americans are going backward
economically, and right now no one is stepping up to stop the retreat.
United for a Fair
Economy, in its latest “State of the Dream” report, which is released annually
around the time of Dr. King’s birthday, is urging Congress and the president to
identify communities with the highest unemployment rates and develop specific
job-creation initiatives for them.
That kind of targeted
effort is desperately needed, but don’t hold your breath. There is precious
little sentiment for programs that would provide real help to communities
trapped in the nightmarish depths of this downturn, whether the residents are
mostly black, mostly white, mostly Hispanic, or whatever.
Speaking about one of
his many antipoverty initiatives, Dr. King told Look magazine in 1968: “We
called our demonstration a campaign for jobs and income because we felt that
the economic question was the most crucial that black people, and poor people
generally, were confronting.”
That was then. The
loudest voices against poverty and economic injustice of all kinds have long
since faded. The government, reclining comfortably on a vast cushion of
campaign contributions, has allied itself with big business and the big banks
against the interests of ordinary Americans. Millions upon millions of families
are suffering, but mostly in silence.
We honor Dr. King with a
national holiday, but his long campaign for economic justice has been all but
forgotten.
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Is
This Our America Anymore?
The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the
rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and xenophobes for demanding a
timeout on immigration.
In the April-May-June
quarter, foreign-born workers in the U.S. gained 656,000 jobs. And native-born
Americans lost 1.2 million.
From July 1, 2009, to
June 30, 2010, foreign-born Hispanics gained 98,000 construction jobs.
Native-born Hispanics lost 133,000. Black and white U.S. construction workers
lost 511,000 jobs.
According to the Center
for Immigration Studies, from Jan. 1, 2000, to Jan. 1, 2010, 13.1 million
immigrants, legal and illegal, entered the United States, a decade in which
America lost 1 million jobs.
From 2008 and 2009, the
figures are startling. In 24 months, 2.4 million immigrants, legal and illegal,
arrived, as U.S. citizens were losing 8.6 million jobs.
Query: Why are we importing a million-plus workers a year when 17
million Americans can't find work? Whose country is this?
Why do we not declare a moratorium on all immigration, until our
unemployment rate falls to 6 or 5 percent? Charity begins at home. Ought we not
take care of our own jobless first before we invite in strangers to take their
jobs?
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, each year between 300,000
and 400,000 "anchor babies" are born to illegal aliens. These
newborns are entitled to citizenship, free health care and education, welfare
and food stamps
Their parents -- almost all are poor or working class -- rarely
pay any state or federal income tax.
How long can we keep granting citizenship and full social welfare
benefits to the children of people who break our laws and break into our
country or overstay their visas? How long can we keep bringing in workers to
take jobs when our unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent?
Again, according to the Pew Center, the number of anchor babies
here now is about 4 million. Add to that 3 million to 4 million born each
decade, and it will not be long before Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and Texas
resemble California, which is on the brink of default.
If no action is taken, the Republican Party will soon be unable,
even in wave elections, to win the presidency, as it won nothing and indeed
lost state legislative seats in California in 2010.
The border will disappear, and America will be a geographical
expression, not a country anymore.
Legal scholar William Quirk describes a new phenomenon in the
invasion of America: "maternity tourism." Pregnant Asian women pay
$15,000 to agents to ensure they are in the United States when their child is
born so that they can return home secure in the knowledge he or she will be a
U.S. citizen with the right to a U.S.-taxpayer subsidized education in college.
Though the nation has awakened to the threat to social cohesion
and national solvency, Harry Reid is still attempting to ram through a
lame-duck Senate an amnesty for illegal aliens up to age 30 who claim they were
brought here before they were 16, have a high school diploma or GED and state
that they intend to go to college within six years.
An estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens would be amnestied, put on
a path to citizenship, and be eligible for student loans and more.
According to Alabama's Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican on the
Senate Judiciary Committee:
"Aliens granted amnesty by the DREAM Act will have the legal
right to petition for entry of their family members, including their adult
brothers and sisters and the parents who illegally brought or sent them to the
United States, once they become naturalized U.S. citizens. In less than a
decade, this reality could easily double or triple the 2.1 million green cards
that will be immediately distributed as a result of the DREAM Act."
Lawbreaking would be rewarded. Chain migration would continue. A
permanent powerful magnet would be provided to all foreigners to sneak into the
United States and be sure to bring the kids.
As Rep. Dana Rohrabacher argues, one effect of the DREAM Act will
be to move illegals applying to college ahead of many Americans, as 80 percent
of illegals are Hispanics and eligible for affirmative action.
U.S. soldiers coming home from Afghanistan will "sit in
back," as Obama puts it, when competing against amnestied illegals.
Several days ago, UCLA's Kent Wong addressed a pro-amnesty rally
in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. Wong turned the race card face up.
When Reid's bill passes, said Wong, "the young people of the
DREAM Act movement will go on to accomplish and do great things. ... You will
go on to become lawyers, teachers, doctors and members of the U.S. Congress to
replace those old white men ... ."
If the DREAM Act passes, Wong is right about whose time has come
and gone. May the tea party take names at the call of the roll.
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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS
TO CUT WAGES!
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs
taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of
Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on
the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should
support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they
need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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OBAMA, LA RAZA PARTY DEM FOR BANKSTERS AND THE RICH…
American middle class gets the bills for all their crimes!
“President
Obama’s summit with US corporate chiefs on Wednesday was a shameless display of
the complete subordination of the administration to big business. In the midst
of the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression, with millions losing their
homes and falling into poverty, Obama met for five hours behind closed doors to
reassure the leaders of 20 major corporations of his unquestioning support,
while plotting new initiatives to boost profits and reduce working class living
standards.”
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“The
corporate elite, having been bailed out to the tune of trillions of dollars,
wants more. Two years after the Wall Street crash, it is cracking the whip on
its political representatives more imperiously than ever. In Obama, it has a
president who is eager to please.”
OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY AND
PUT HILDA SOLIS, A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST IN AS SEC of (illegal) LABOR!
The economy, like
everything else adverse, is someone else's fault. But if only we borrowed and
spent a trillion dollars, unemployment would stay beneath 8%, Obama promised.
It soared far above. It's still above. No apology. No acknowledgment. Now, he
hails any dip as proof of progress when, in fact, it comes because so many just
give up seeking work.
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS
TO CUT WAGES!
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs
taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of
Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on
the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should
support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they
need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS THEIR JOBS WILL BE PROTECTED AND THEY
WILL NEVER BE PROSECUTED FOR THEIR CRIMES…
OTHER
THAN HIS OWN JOB, OBAMA HAS PROMISED ILLEGALS OUR JOBS, NO E-VERIFY, OPEN &
UNDEFENDED BORDERS TO EXPAND THE MEX OCCUPATION, GRINGO-PAID DREAM ACTS, NO ID
MAY BE REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING, LAWSUITS AGAINST AMERICAN STATES ON BEHALF
OF HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF MEXICAN FASCIST.
CAN
WE AFFORD 49 MORE MEXIFORNIA’S? THAT STATE IS A MEX GANG INFESTED DUMPSTER! THE
STATE HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE
PRISON SYSTEM IN THE NATION. HALF THE INMATES ARE MEXICANS! THE CA ATTORNEY
GEN KAMALA HARRIS DECLARES THAT HALF THE MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEX GANGS! THE
STATE PAYS OUT $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS! ON TOP OF THAT
COUNTIES HAND THEM MORE TO BREED ANCHOR BABIES. L.A. COUNTY PAYS OUT $600
MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS…. NEXT TO DRUGS AND CRIMINALS, MEXICO’S
BIGGEST EXPORT IS PREGNANT WOMEN!
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN
FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY. THESE FIGURES ARE DATED. CNN CALCULATES THAT WAGES ARE
DEPRESSED $300 - $400 BILLION PER YEAR!
“The principal
beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire
immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George
Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed
wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”
Christian Science Monitor
THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the
jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas,
co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on
the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should
support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they
need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH org
Illegal Immigration
Today, between
eight and fourteen million illegal aliens reside in the United States, draining
our nation’s economy, while presenting a security threat to the people of the
United States. Public officials have not only repeatedly failed to protect our
borders from this illegal alien invasion, but they have also been complicit in
the effort to undermine our nation’s immigration laws.
Judicial Watch
has an active investigation into the Obama administration’s policies and
actions on immigration. For instance, Judicial Watch had uncovered documents
indicating collusion between the Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union with
respect to legal challenges of Arizona’s SB 1070. Recently, Judicial Watch
obtained documents revealing that administration officials misled Congress
regarding the scope of deportation dismissals in Houston, Texas. Additional
documents were obtained that detail a behind-the-scenes effort by the
administration to suspend deportation proceedings against “DREAM” Act aliens
and other illegal immigrants. Judicial Watch also routinely obtains smuggling
statistics and has revealed details of a shocking sex slave trafficking
operation in Houston, Texas.
FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing
the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she
described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the
administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to
serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and
workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In
Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under
“effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of
immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard
to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything,
the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of
future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re
printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security's Hotline for
reporting suspected illegal employees and employers: 866-347-2423 (YOU MAY BE
WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. HISPANDERING OBAMA SELECTED LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO TO
HEAD “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” FOR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED
BORDERS)
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Shaping up to be the most corrupt
administration in American history:
administration in American history:
- Obama’s team:
Not the “best of the Washington insiders,” as the liberal media style
them, but rather, a dysfunctional and dangerous conglomerate of
business-as-usual cronies and hacks
- In the first two
weeks alone of his infant administration, Obama had made no fewer than 17
exceptions to his “no-lobbyist” rule
- Why the fact
that the massive infusion of union dues into his campaign treasury didn’t
trouble him in the least reveals Obama’s credibility as a reformer
- The lack of
unprecedented pace of withdrawals and botched appointments -- and how
getting through the confirmation process was no guarantee of ethical
cleanliness or competence, even as Obama’s cheerleaders were glorifying
the Greatest Transition in World History
- Inconsistency:
How Obama, erstwhile critic of the campaign finance practice known as
“bundling,” happily accepted more than $350,000 in bundled contributions
from billionaire hedge-fund managers
- How Obama broke
his transparency pledge with the very first bill he signed into law --
helping make hostility to transparency is a running thread through Obama’s
cabinet
- Michelle Obama:
Beneath the cultured pearls, sleeveless designer dresses, and eyelashes
applied by her full-time makeup artist, is a hardball Chicago politico
- Joe Biden: It’s
not just that he lies, it’s that he lies so well that you think he really
believes the stuff he makes up
- Treasury
Secretary Geithner: His ineptness and epic blundering -- including how he
nearly caused the collapse of the dollar in international trade with a
single remark
- The appalling
story of Technology Czar Vivek Kundra, the convicted shoplifter in charge
of the entire federal government’s information security infrastructure
- Obama’s “Porker
of the Month” Transportation Secretary, Roy LaHood: An earmark-addicted
influence peddler born and raised on the politics of pay-to-play
- SEIU:
Responsible for installing a cabal of hand-chosen officers who exploited
their cash-infused fiefdoms for personal gain and presided over rigged
elections -- in the process, becoming all that they had professed to stand
against as representatives of the downtrodden worker
- How Obama lied
on his “Fight the Smears” campaign website when he claimed that he “never
organized with ACORN”
- ACORN: How the
profound threat the group poses is not merely ideological or economic --
it’s electoral
- ACORN’s own
internal review of shady money transfers among its web of affiliates: How
it underscores concerns that conservatives have long raised about the
organization
- Liar, liar,
pantsuit on fire: How Hillary Clinton has already trampled upon her
promise not to let her husband’s financial dealings sway her decisions as
Secretary of State
- How even a few
principled progressives are finally beginning to question the cult of
Obama -- even as Obama sycophants in the mainstream media continue to
celebrate his “hipness” and “swagga”
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ARE AMAZED AT HOW UTTERLY BRAZEN THESE CORPORATE OWNED
POLITICIANS ARE?
GET THIS BOOK!
Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats,
Crooks, and Cronies
by Michelle Malkin
Editorial Reviews
In her shocking new book, Malkin digs deep into the records
of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and
abuses of power throughout his administration.
From the Inside Flap
The era of hope and change is dead....and it only took six
months in office to kill it.
Never has an administration taken office with more inflated
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Idol and his entourage fallen so fast and hard. In her latest investigative
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that surrounds Team Obama's brazen tax evaders, Wall Street cronies, petty
crooks, slum lords, and business-as-usual influence peddlers. In Culture of
Corruption, Malkin reveals:
* Why nepotism beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and
Vice President Joe Biden are Team Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites--bashing
the corporate world and influence-peddling industries from which they and their
relatives have benefited mightily
* What secrets the ethics-deficient members of Obama's
cabinet--including Hillary Clinton--are trying to hide
* Why the Obama White House has more power-hungry,
unaccountable "czars" than any other administration
* How Team Obama's first one hundred days of appointments
became a litany of embarrassments as would-be appointee after would-be
appointee was exposed as a tax cheat or had to withdraw for other reasons
* How Obama's old ACORN and union cronies have squandered
millions of taxpayer dollars and dues money to enrich themselves and expand
their power
* How Obama's Wall Street money men and corporate lobbyists
are ruining the economy and helping their friends In Culture of Corruption,
Michelle Malkin lays bare the Obama administration's seamy underside that the
liberal media would rather keep hidden.
• Publisher:
Regnery Publishing (July 27, 2009)
• Language:
English
• ISBN-10:
1596981091
• ISBN-13:
978-1596981096
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WHAT DID THE BANKSTERS KNOW ABOUT OUR ACTOR OBAMA THAT WE
DIDN’T KNOW?
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors
are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG
($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
BARACK OBAMA HAS COLLECTED NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH MONEY AS
JOHN McCAIN
BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
July 1st 2008
Wall Street firms have chipped in more than $9 million to
Barack Obama. Zurga/Bloomberg
Wall Street is investing heavily in Barack Obama.
Although the Democratic presidential hopeful has vowed to
raise capital gains and corporate taxes, financial industry bigs have
contributed almost twice as much to Obama as to GOP rival John McCain, a Daily
News analysis of campaign records shows.
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