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Robert Beadles  By Beadles on December 7th, 2009 From The Washington Times (Terence P. Jeffery, “All Is Not Well”, 12/5/09):
“In March, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, led by former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, calculated the total value of the federal government’s “unfunded liabilities” as they stood at the end of fiscal 2008. These liabilities include the publicly held portion of the national debt plus the amount the government must pay to cover all the entitlement benefits it has promised to living Americans through Social Security, Medicare and other welfare-state programs minus the tax revenue the government can expect to collect to pay for these entitlements under existing tax law.
“The sum of these unfunded liabilities, the foundation discovered, stood at $56.4 trillion. That equals $435,000 for every full-time worker in the United States.”
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“In 2008, President Bush’s last year in office, the federal government spent $2.983 trillion. Under Mr. Obama’s plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office, annual federal spending will climb to $4.982 trillion by 2019. In 2008, the federal deficit was a record $459 billion. Over the next decade, Mr. Obama’s plan would increase the national debt by a total of $7.137 trillion, running annual deficits averaging $713.7 billion per year.”
Without controlling spending, Obama and his Democrat colleagues are going to bankrupt this [read more]
Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 7th, 2009 This past week the White House issued a statement on President Obama’s upcoming attendance at the International Climate Summit in Copenhagen:
“The United States will pay its fair share of that amount and other countries will make substantial commitments as well. Providing this assistance is not only a humanitarian imperative — it’s an investment in our common security, as no climate change accord can succeed if it does not help all countries reduce their emissions.”
So how much is that fair share amount? The White House statement noted, “There appears to an emerging consensus that a core element of the Copenhagen accord should be to mobilize $10 billion a year by 2012 to support adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.”
With the recent controversy surrounding allegations that climate scientists were manipulating and deleting data and with our ongoing unemployment problems, record deficits, and a recent troop surge, is contributing $10 billion a year the best use of our precious taxpayer dollars?
Our current University of California students are going to see their tuition increased by 32%; wouldn’t that money be better spent investing in our own students? Helping them find the next technology to make energy production cleaner, safer and more reliable.
With our current economic situation, how is spending $10 billion a year on an issue that is currently embroiled in international investigation, a good investment of [read more]
Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 4th, 2009 Last month, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George recently noted that at least 19,000 “first-time home buyers” hadn’t purchased a home when they claimed the federal credit, another 74,000 filers weren’t first time buyers, and at least 500 people were under the age of 18, including a 4-year old.
According to the Wall Street Journal: “Speaking of the IRS, apparently its own staff couldn’t help but notice this opportunity to snag an easy $8,000. One day after explaining to Congress how many ‘home-buyers’ were climbing aboard this gravy train, Mr. George appeared on Neil Cavuto’s program on the Fox Business Network. Mr. George said his staff has found at least 53 cases of IRS employees filing “illegal or inappropriate” claims for the credit. ‘In all honesty this is an interim report. I expect that the number would be much larger than that number,’ he said.”
Would it be too much to ask that accountability and transparency measures be put in place before giving out our tax money?
The cost of this program is running at about $1 billion a month and $15 billion for the year.
Your tax dollars [read more]
Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 3rd, 2009 The Orange County Register has an article where a mobile phone application is being created to help border-crosser find nearby water, routes, and a series of poems to make them feel welcome along their way. This application is also supposed to help them “safely navigate the treacherous desert crossing between Mexico and the United States.”
I guess they have an app for everything, even on how to break our immigration laws.
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Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 3rd, 2009 From the New York Times (November 10, 2009):
President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them.
“There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo” on abortion, Mr. Obama said in an interview with ABC News. “And that’s the goal.”
On the one hand, Mr. Obama said, “we’re not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.”
On the other hand, he said, he wanted to make sure “we’re not restricting women’s insurance choices,” because he had promised that “if you’re happy and satisfied with the insurance that you have, it’s not going to change.”
I hope that [read more]
Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 2nd, 2009 An Associated Press investigation found that President Obama’s economic recovery plan overstated the number of jobs that were created or saved through his stimulus program. A mistake the White House has now refused to correct.
According to the review:
A company working with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.
The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.
Barbara Moore, executive director of the Child Care Association of Brevard County in Cocoa, FL, reported that the $98,669 she received in stimulus money saved 129 jobs at her center, though the cash was used to give her 129 employees a 3.9 percent cost-of-living raise. She said she needed to boost their salaries because some workers had left “because we had not been able to give them a raise in four years.”
Officials at East Central Technical College in Douglas, GA, said they now know they shouldn’t have claimed 280 stimulus jobs linked to more than $200,000 to buy trucks and trailers for commercial driving instruction, and a modular classroom and bathroom for a health [read more]
Robert Beadles By Beadles on December 2nd, 2009 On November 1, 2009, government officials said the U.S. economy had turned a corner and the growth resumed in the third quarter marking the end of the worst recession since WWII – according to reports, economic growth increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent.
Yet the economy shed another 190,000 jobs in October, taking the total jobs loss to 3.5 million since January 2009.
When you include people who stopped looking for jobs, those who have settled for part-time work, and where benefits have run out, the underemployment rate jumps to 17.5%.
Closer to home, the Schwarzenegger Administration projected some $22 billion in shortage through the middle of 2012 – our state faces a $7 billion in the next 6 months.
Maybe if Congress spends another $787 billion, the Democrats can get the jobless rates to [read more]
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