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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout

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To: Charles Macdonald who wrote (16250)3/17/2009 3:21:42 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 50291
 
re: "This IS happening..."

That's incredible Charles, that they actually cut the
lock to your gate, entered your property, and were
accompanied by an "armed" deputy.

In talking to friends all across the country, this trend
is accelerating at an alarming rate. Many of them live in
rual areas like you do... and consider themselves somewhat
insulated from the problems of "the city."

Apparently, that line has now been crossed.

One of the best friends you can have is your County Sheriff.

Consider yourself blessed if you have an old school Sheriff,
and you know him. These guys are the eye's and ears of what's
coming down. And there's a lot of good ones out there who
will not turn on the people, or drink the Kool-Aid.

Make sure every law enforcement agency in your community
is aware of this site. Post it's link on local blogs, and
in Op-Ed pieces, emails, and faxes to your local law
enforcement agencies.

oath-keepers.blogspot.com

I have close friends and family in law enforcement, and there's
a story about what's coming out of FLETC that I'd love to share, but can't.

I will say this...

We are merely scratching the surface here people.

It's becoming clear that 2% to 5% of the population is
going to have to spread the message, carry the water, and
fight the battle.

And to reiterate...

"The Battle" can still be a peaceful and lawful one,
and I pray every single night, that it remains so.

The "outing" of the Bilderberger group, and the viral explosion
of "The Obama Deception" is going to educate millions.

Someone did a media survey off the politico.com article,
and only like 7% of readers even knew what, or who, the
Bilderberger group was.

When 90%+ of "sophisticated" readers do not even know what
the Bilderberger Group is, or does; and believe the media
pundits who for years have insisted that the CFR, and the
Trilateral Commision don't even exist... it's clear what
easy pickins' the sheeple of America were for the Banksters.

When we have Obama posturing and spewing absolute 110%
utter bullshit lies about "how upset he is about the AIG
bonuses" and how "he is going to try to get it back"...
and people believe it and slurp it up... it's seems
almost hopeless.

Check this out...

In all due respect to the "pitchman lackey" we call "Mr. President"...
his feigned anger over the AIG bonuses is a blatant lie,an
insult to the American people, and a complete and total
Dog & Pony Show, as he is already completely aware...

And here's why...

While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.

Also, Sen. Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, and Obama got $101,000 from AIG according to opensecrets.org.

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"The futile arrogance of AIG outrage"

March 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

The Barack Obama administration needed a new target for their populist rabblerousing, since they’ve apparently decided that Rush Limbaugh fights back and the oil companies don’t make enough of a profit to matter.

The contractual bonus payouts at AIG came just at the right time for them to demonstrate moral outrage and get the people to aim their ire at a shared enemy. So far, few have figured out that the Obama administration enabled the bonus payouts...

A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn’t show up at all.

“It’s a mob effect,” one senior executive said. “It’s putting people’s lives in danger.”

Politicians and the public spent yesterday demanding that AIG rescind payouts that they said rewarded recklessness and greed at a company being bailed out with $170 billion in taxpayer funds.

But company officials contend that the uproar is scaring away the very employees who understand AIG Financial Products’ complex trades and who are trying to dismantle the division before it further endangers the world’s economy.

“It’s going to blow up,” said a senior Financial Products manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the company. “I have a horrible, horrible, horrible feeling that this is going to end badly.”

Maybe it’s an Obama stimulus. After all, someone has to pay all of those guards, answer those threatening phone calls, and screen the mail for anthrax. Just think how many jobs got saved by the White House turning AIG into a pariah — after dumping tens of billions of dollars into it.

The nasty little secret at the center of all the outrage is that the Obama administration could have stopped the bonuses by simply stopping the bailout.

They could have forced AIG into bankruptcy, which would have voided the company’s contractual compensation obligations. Instead, the Obama administration chose to inject liquidity into AIG, following the lead of the Bush administration, which had done the same thing. That kept AIG’s doors open, and therefore kept its contractual obligations to its employees intact.

Now Obama is outrageously outraged, as Allahpundit put it yesterday, but over what?

A company complying with its contractual obligations? AIG has no more right to abrogate those contracts than any other employer would with its union contracts.

Whether or not the compensation agreements reflect wisdom and managerial brilliance, they exist — and as a matter of law, AIG has to honor the commitments.

Screeching about the bonuses now is not just futile, but a demonstration of the arrogance involved in these bailouts. If the government wants to tear up all the contracts, it will have to nationalize AIG and get Congress to approve it.

In the future, we can avoid having taxpayer dollars go to Wall Street bonuses by not bailing out private companies with taxpayer dollars.

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What's wrong with this country when we have people like
Chris Dodd, Barney Frank... and the President of the
United States... looking right into the Camera and lie
their asses off to our face?

...and we do nothing.

-- "Read my lips - no new taxes."

-- "I did not have sex with that woman."

-- "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction."

Just keep the sheeple distracted over a "bullshit" straw man
argument, and feigned outrage over $165 million in bonuses,
while the real looters wheel barrow HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS out
the back door.

Baaaaaaaaaa,

SOTB

Spread the word:

"The Obama Decepetion"
...learn who your real leaders are...


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