Debunking yet another bull shit right wing e-mail

Tim Spent alot of time on this last night so I wanted to share it on his behalf. He reseached and told the truth on yet another bull shit right wing e-mail. All of Tim's responses are in green ~ Christine Marting

CLICK ON THE LINK TO "SNOPES" AT THE END. GIVES CREDIBILITY TO THESE COMMENTS, also on factcheck.com and truthorfiction.com Why is this guy still in office????? Obama's roommate speaks out. 2-16-11 This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA . OBAMA'S COLLEGE ROOMMATE SPEAKS OUT By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010 Barack Hussien Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

The first thing the email says is “Obama’s roommate speaks out, click on link to “Snopes” at the end. Gives credibility to these comments”. So I go to the link and on the homepage it says “Snopes.com Rumor Has It” ….Snopes is just that, a site of rumors and does not claim to be anything else. In fact Normally I and any other intelligent person who was so passionate about politics enough to pass this to everyone they know would stop reading or believing anything from it from that point on. What’s really fucked up is that Snopes takes urban legends and tries to prove them true or false. The one rumor referenced by Snopes about Obama getting money during college from questionable sources, Snopes actually says is false.

Barack Hussien Obama was my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). He is a devout Muslim do not be fooled. Look at his Czars...anti-business..anti- american. As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbi University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. Universal health care . The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?

It’s funny for someone (Obama) who this letter accuses of turning the U.S.A. into a Socialist Marxist state; he has Bill Daly, former head of JP Morgan Chase Midwest Division, and Jeffrey Immelt General Electric’s CEO in his inner circle. I would call these two capitalists. I would also call them pieces of shit and for Obama to hire them is inexcusable. Another example is, Obama is not giving free health care to 30 million people. He is making thirty million people enroll (Purchase) in publicly owned (Stockholder) health insurance plans. Why do you think companies like United Health Care and Blue Cross, Blue Shield stocks have gone through the roof?

Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."

Cap and trade. Do we want clean energy? I do. We need to get off of foreign oil. Much of the debt this country has is because we have borrowed the money to support a military that is the world’s police force, guarding the oil rich Middle East. How much do you think three wars cost.

Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Barack Hussien Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

The people of Puerto Rico have to vote whether they want to become a state, before Obama can just make them one. Then there are U.S. Laws that would apply also. Obama does not have the authority to just make P.R. a state.

Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security .

Obama wants to legalize 12 million immigrants. Really? Wasn’t it Ronald Reagan who gave 6 million Mexican immigrants amnesty in the 1980s? Many of whom are now citizens or have children who were born here, that are now citizens. The immigration problem is because business’s want low cost workers so they keep flooding over the border. Lock up enough business owners who hire them and they would be spilling back over the border because no one would hire them anymore.

Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).

The bailouts started long before Obama took office. TARP was devised by Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson, working under G.W. Bush. Obama has carried on the bailout programs something I totally disagree with. One thing’s for sure though, when the auto industry was bailed out, their executives were removed. The bank executives remained in place, in fact collecting the largest bonuses ever. The stock holders of the auto companies were wiped out. The banks kept their stock. The workers of the auto industry got pay and benefit cuts, while the bank workers got bonuses. But by bailing out the auto industry Obama saved over two hundred thousand jobs, while the banks stopped loaning to small businesses (Part of the bailouts intention) which in turn led to more layoffs. Chris is a good example of this kind of layoff. I am heavily involved in my union and we did not receive a penny of the bailout money, and if ACORN received any why are they out of business?

All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means. Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system. Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussien Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan .

Actually taxes have gone down for everyone at the federal level. Businesses, rich people, poor people, and middle class, all those taxes are down. In fact in order to get Republicans to vote for the stimulus, 40 percent of it had to be in tax cuts, resulting in Obama’s taxes being even lower than Bushes tax rates. Notice the scare tactic of using his middle name Hussein every time it is mentioned in this article. That’s just chicken shit. Scare people; sell distortion of the truth and outright lies to people who are too lazy to spend the time looking these things up for themselves. But they sure can find the time to forward something like this to everyone they know. People need to get over it. WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT. It was going to happen sooner or later. Newt Gingrich criticized Obama on March 7th telling Fox News that he would start a no fly zone that evening never mind that not even he could get congresses approval that fast, but on March 23rd after Obama started the no fly zone, he told NBC that he would not have intervened. Obama is in a no win situation when he does exactly what the mighty Newt said to do and then after he does Newt rips him for doing it. It’s no wonder that when Glenn Becks contract is up at the end of this year, Fox will probably not rehire him as he is too far out there even for Fox News. Hope this clears up any confusion. As for the size of government, it was G.W. Bush who expanded the size of government and created more debt than any other President in history. If you want hard numbers I will be happy to post them as I realize I generalized on most of my responses. One number that is fact is that the richest 400 Americans have as much wealth as the bottom 150 million Americans. Why can’t someone give me a good explanation of how that happened and why that is a good thing.

Rants and Irony's

So I am talking to my friend at work today and he mentions that the only reason that we are in Libya is because of the oil. He says that's what all of us "Liberals were saying during the invasion of Iraq and now he is raising the question of "If that's not the case then why didn't we protect the people of Congo or Sudan", yep it's all about the oil. Lets look at it a different way. We pay a tax to keep oil at around four dollars a gallon as opposed to somewhere like Germany or France who pay huge tax on gasoline. In fact their gasoline price would be the equivalent of around ten dollars a gallon. Oh we pay that ourselves and more. You see they pay that tax directly to the gas pump, their government uses that money to invest in infrastructure such as the Autobahn. Yes the first class highway we have all heard about and I have driven on. We on the other hand finance through our income taxes a military based on keeping peace in the middle east's oil rich nations. We keep douchbag dictators in power (Sadam Hussein, The Shah of Iran, The King of Saudi Arabia)and meanwhile their citizens are some of the poorest people in the world while the ruling elite are some of the richest from the oil dollars that flow from the United States. Obama has proved that he is just like the rest. My friend you are right, its all about the oil.

Obama can't do anything to satisfy certain Republicans. Back in 2004 Newt Gingrich said that you can't be a flip flopper and be Commander in Chief. On March 7 2011 Fox News Greta Van Susteren asked him what he would do about Qaddafi attacking his opponents in Libya. His reply "Exercise a no fly zone this evening, slaughtering your citizens is unacceptable and we are intervening". Can the mighty Newt, if elected President get approval from Congress in hours? Better yet he flip flopped himself on March 23, 2011 telling NBCs Matt Lauer "I would not have intervened" Funny he changed his mind after Obama gave the order to start military intervention. Guess the mighty Newt just ruled himself out of the 2012 Presidential race. By the way this story came from the Christian Science Monitor a right wing publication. Guess they don't like the way he operates either.

And in an ongoing debate I have about Rush Limbaugh, it was his short lived T.V. show on October 5th 1995 he said "Drug use some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs...And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up" I guess it didn't apply to him because in 2006 he was arrested in connection to his addiction to prescription pain pills.

Less Taxes Equals More Jobs-----BULLSHIT-----

So all of my right wing friends that told me back in December that in order to create jobs, big business must get further tax breaks. What did that idiot Obama do? Why he listened to the right wingers and gave more tax breaks for the very same people and corporations that don't need them in the first place. On Tuesday the House Democrats put a motion to stop giving tax breaks to the big oil companies. You know the ones who are about to charge us 4.00 dollars a gallon or more for gas. The same big oil companies who have been the most profitable of all businesses over the last 10 years. In fact they have made over a trillion dollars in profit. Not income but profit. But when the Democrats motion got to the floor, every single Republican voted no on ending the tax breaks big oil gets. If we are in such a budget crisis why would they do that? Let's look at one company in particular. Exxon Mobil pays not one dollar in corporate taxes to the U.S. Government. Not only do they not pay anything, but our government then gives them a check to keep doing business here. It's called a subsidy. Those subsidies to big oil will total over forty billion dollars over the next ten years. That money is not there, we have to borrow it. The Republicans screwed the subsidizing of home heating oil for low income families, but for big business such as oil companies, they find a way to fund it. That's why the Republicans are full of shit when they say they are for cutting the deficit. Getting back to the issue of less taxes equals more jobs issue, Exxon Mobil over the last five years has paid no taxes. Every year their profits go up. And every year the amount of people working there has gone down. This company pays no taxes and then gets rid of workers. This is just the opposite of what the Republicans say will happen with less taxes. That is the Republicans opinion but the opinion is wrong because in the case of Exxon Mobil it is fact.

Chart of Exxon Mobil
Year Net Income Number of Employees
2005 36.1 Billion 83,700
2006 39.5 Billion 82,100
2007 40.6 Billion 80,800
2008 45.2 Billion 79,900

The facts do not support the opinion of the house Republicans that say less taxes equals more jobs. Making matters worse is that they want our financially broke government to give what money is left to go to a company that does not pay it share of taxes while at the same time laying off workers. Good thinking.

Bonus A CEO, a Tea Party person, and a Union Worker are sitting at a table where there are a dozen cookies. The CEO grabs 11 of the cookies and asks tells the Tea Party person are you going to let that Union Worker take some of your cookie?

Unions and Pensions

All right its time to write something and that something is what is going on in Madison Wisconsin. I am sure you all have heard the story and have your own opinion so lets just stick to the facts. First of all Wisconsin actually had a budget surplus for the 2011 fiscal year of about 120 million dollars. Governor Walker then gave tax breaks to business owners wiping out said surplus. Governor Walker then demanded the teachers and other public union employees not only give up some pay and benefits such as part of their pension to balance the budget, he demanded that their right to collectively bargain be ended as well. The unions then agreed to help the states deficit by giving up the pay and benefits but would not budge on their right to bargain. For two weeks there has been protesting going on at the capitol in Madison, all of it peaceful. Fox News has shown footage of rowdy protesters, but if you look at the background you catch a glimpse of some palm trees. Didn't know Madison had palm trees. So when we look at the facts, some say why should I pay tax dollars for a pension fund for public employees? Good question. It's part of their pay. Educated public employees make less than their counterparts in the private sector. In fact the average pay for a teacher in Wisconsin is 48 thousand a year. Not a lot of money for someone who has a Masters Degree which is what you need to be a tenured teacher. In return for taking less pay, they negotiate a pension. In 2003 the company I work for came to our union and told us if we did not take pay and benefit cuts they would file bankruptcy, which would destroy our pension fund. One reason our union voted for pay cuts was to keep our pensions. Since then our management has taken millions in bonuses. This is the same thing that's happened in Wisconsin without the threat of bankruptcy. I think it's crazy that Governor Walker would give tax breaks to millionaires and then try to make up the deficit by taking more from someone making less than fifty thousand a year. Communism is redistribution of wealth, but it works both ways, not just from the rich to the poor but from the working class to the rich and its going on all over this country right now. The problem with public pensions is the school administrators (management) who work a few years and then collect a full pension. Or the Governor himself who could be voted out of office after only one term and collect a pension for the rest of his life. Lets take this a step further. In Ohio, Governor John Kasich along with their legislature is trying to do the same thing Wisconsin is doing citing budget shortfalls. It doesn't help that their pension fund is about 480 million dollars short. Why is it short? Governor Kasich used to be a manager at Lehman Brothers, the now defunct investment bank. While at Lehman he convinced the state to invest 480 million dollars from its pension funds in Lehman and their toxic mortgages. Lehman is now gone and Kasich is the Governor. As Governor he wants the workers to make up for that shortfall he created. What a piece of shit. So hear are the facts. A Wall Street Journal poll (Readers who are educated, professional and generally well off) shows that 81% of people polled feel millionaires should be taxed higher. 74% of people polled said that tax subsidies to oil companies should be stopped. 72% of people polled feel that public employees should have the right to be in a union. And 68% of people polled said the Bush tax cuts should be eliminated. The government is not listening to the people any more. They listen to the businesses who give them money to get re elected and that borders on Fascism.