Obama's 4 Years Of Deficient Leadership: 47 Mistakes

I expect that most of you have already cast your vote in this presidential election.  Hopefully you voted for Romney as I did.  For those of you who have yet to vote because you still haven't decided how you will vote, the following article, published in the IBD's Issues & Insights section, hopefully will help you reach a conclusion.  I urge you to both read it, even if you have already voted, and forward it to others with your encouragement that they read it as well.

Please read this article.

America cannot withstand another four years of Obama's inept leadership!

Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All

A political flyer landed on my doorstep the other day that identified an Orange County Democratic candidate for Congress as a supporter of a plan to DO AWAY with tax deductions for existing 401(K)s and a plan to FORCE WORKERS & EMPLOYERS to contribute to a new government run 401(K) IN ADDITION TO Social Security.The flyer cited a source (*) so I decided to check it out.  Here’s what I found.

Prosperity Economics:

Building an Economy for All

By:

Jacob S. Hacker and Nate Loewentheil

·         Quick Overview

·         Executive Summary

·         Full Report

“Prosperity Economics” by Jacob S. Hacker and Nate Loewentheil, is endorsed by Campaign for America’s Future, AFL-CIO, Center for Community Change, Economic Policy Institute, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Council of La Raza, SEIU and more.

Now … I don’t know about you, but whenever I see AFL-CIO, SEIU and NCLR backing something, red flags start going up for me.  In my humble opinion, when union leadership backs or endorses something, it’s not because of benevolent and magnanimous motivations.  To the contrary, it’s invariably because they see it as contributing to an increase in union membership [and member dues] and an improvement in the income and power of union leadership at the expense of non-members.

While the Hacker and Loewentheil report seems at first blush to be a logical and well thought out plan for resolving the nation’s economic woes, you’ve got to ask yourself how it is that it has only now, at this eleventh hour in the election process, been released.

As for the congressional candidate who backs yet another expansion of already “too big” government and another confiscatory grab at individual income under the guise of “social fairness for all”, I say take your socialist proclivities and stick ‘em where the sun doesn’t shine.  We already have enough problems stemming from like thinking incompetents such as our current president.

So much for my thoughts!  How about yours?  I rarely receive commentary and feedback on my blog postings so for all I know they are not even being read or just aren’t that thought provoking.  In this case, I am particularly interested in hearing your opinions of the Hacker and Loewentheil report.  Let me hear from you.

Obama's Deficit Reduction Claims - More Lies!!

As political pundits delve into Obama's poor debate performance, not as much attention is being bestowed upon what he actually said Wednesday evening. The President repeated his thoroughly debunked deficit reduction claims, claims even his own budget plan proves to be false.

Hear what he said:

Listen to what he said at “Debate Dissembling: Obama's Own Budget Proves His Deficit Reduction Claims Wrong”.  [Click & Scroll down to the video]

Accuracy: At one point in Wednesday night's debate President Obama boasted about his "balanced" plan to cut the projected 10-year deficit by $4 trillion. One problem: His own budget exposes this claim as flat-out false.

Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100412-628242-obama-massive-deficit-cutting-fib-.htm#ixzz28Z9Nxd7q

Interestingly, the link [http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets%20/budget.pdf], provided in the IBD article to Obama’s budget plan at has been taken down.  Gee … I wonder why?  No matter, I found it here. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf

Review the President’s own budget document.  For those who don’t want to wade through pages of numbers, I’ve provided a highlighted page[206] from Obama’s own budget that clearly refutes his false claim about what he's doing for reduction of the deficit from the first 2012 presidential debate.

Those who want an unbiased review of his budget complete with graphical charts can be viewed at A Congressional Budget Office Analysis of the President’s 2013 Budget.

Now … I don’t know about you, but in my view a $1.98 trillion deficit reduction is more than a little short of the $4 trillion claim made by Obama.

It’s just one more proof that he will say anything he thinks will get him re-elected.  Just whose interest is he looking out for?  Certainly not American citizens.

Handy Links To California November Ballot Propositions

Like it or not, California invariably includes a number of propositions on every statewide ballot and that always means more time to invest in an attempt to figure out what they really mean unless you just plan to use a dart board.  This November will be no different so I've assembled a few links for you to use in attempting to sort out the good from the bad and the ugly.  I've also included a few opinions of my own for what they're worth and, as usual, I'm against most anything that gives the state more money.  In my humble opinion, California is already far overextended and views it's citizens as a never ending source of funds for all manner of socialist programs.  It's time for the voters to force our elected officials to get California out of our pockets and back to fiscal responsibility.

2012 propositions	Ballot Title	Dogger's Opinion
Proposition 30	Sales and Income Tax Increase (2012)	No
Proposition 31	Two-Year State Budget Cycle (2012)	No
Proposition 32	The "Paycheck Protection" Initiative (2012)	Yes
Proposition 33	Automobile Insurance Persistency Discounts (2012)	Yes
Proposition 34	The End the Death Penalty Initiative (2012)	No
Proposition 35	Ban on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery (2012)	Yes
Proposition 36	Changes in the "Three Strikes" Law (2012)	No
Proposition 37	Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food (2012)	No
Proposition 38	State Income Tax Increase to Support Education (2012)	No
Proposition 39	Income Tax Increase for Multistate Businesses (2012)	No
Proposition 40	Referendum on the State Senate Redistricting Plan (2012)	Yes
Local measures

Incidentally, my opinions as stated above are shared by Ken & John on AM640.  To see the reasoning behind their opinions, click here.

Orange County November 6 Local Propositions

§  Measure M: Coast Community College District bond proposition

§  Measure N: Fountain Valley School District bond proposition

§  Measure O: La Habra City School District bond proposition

§  Measure P: Ocean View School District bond proposition

§  Measure Q: Rancho Santiago Community College District bond proposition

§  Measure R: Rowland Unified School District bond proposition

§  Measure S: Tustin Unified School District bond proposition

§  Measure T: City of Brea Accountability Act

§  Measure U: City of Brea Open Governance Act

§  Measure V: Adoption of a Costa Mesa City Charter

§  Measure W: Fullerton West Coyote Hills Development and Nature Preserve

§  Measure X: Fullerton Sales of Fireworks in the City

§  Measure Y: City of Garden Grove Hotel Tax

§  Measure Z: Huntington Beach Levy of Property Tax for Municipal Purposes

§  Measure AA: Huntington Beach Equal Taxation and Assessments for Sunset Beach

§  Measure BB: City of Irvine "Support Our Schools Initiative"

§  Measure CC: Laguna Beach Parcel Tax for Open Space

§  Measure DD: City of Los Alamitos Utility Users Tax

§  Measure EE: Newport Beach Charter Amendments (Including a Ban on Red Light Cameras)

§  Measure FF: City of Orange Referendum on Orange Park Acres

§  Measure GG: City of Santa Ana Mayoral Term Limits

§  Measure HH: City of Tustin Elimination of City Council Pay and Benefits

§  Huntington Beach revocation of public safety employee retirement tax

Regardless of how you vote, vote!

Obama Presidency Facts

Who ya gonna vote for this November?

“Nothing here … move along!”

“Nothing here … move along!”  So say Obama’s supporters and his propaganda media flunkies about his history of affiliations with organizations, people and institutions with socialist and far left inclinations.  His New Party endorsement in 1995 is just one of many of his radical leftist/”stealth” socialist links and easily confirmed by anyone who cares to do even a modicum of investigation.

Yet the following is a typical personal attack statement by one of his adoring supporters:  “No, the President isn’t a socialist; everybody sane knows he isn’t a socialist …”.  There you have it folks.  If you think Obama is a socialist, you’re insane!  Oh yes; disregard any and all publicly available and verifiably factual evidence to the contrary.

 I believe it was Euripides (480—406 a.d.) who said, “Every man is like the company he wont to keep.”   So let’s have just a small look at some of Obama’s “company”.

Saul Alinsky	link	He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals
Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour	link	Al-Mansour is an outspoken hater of the United States, Israel, and white people generally & patron of Barack Obama & recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School in 1988.
William Charles Ayers	link	ACORN CO-FOUNDER and Obama neighbor. SDS member.  Weather Underground member.
Heather Tobis Booth	link	Founder & President of the socialist Midwestern Academy & "initiator" of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (forerunner of Democratic Socialists of America)
Paul Booth	link	One of America’s key leftist activists. In the 1960s he was National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society.  Paul Booth - A real power in AFSCME, Booth serves as Executive Assistant to Gerald McEntee, and is regarded by many as the ‘brains’ of the organization.
Caroline Boss	link	Marxist Occidental College Obama classmate
Harry Boyte	link	Theorist favored by Midwest Academy.  Obama studied his work and he advised Obama's 2008 campaign.
David Brock	link	Founder of MediaMatters.com (liberal blog)
Mohammed Hasan Chandoo	link	Marxist and Pakistani associate circa 1980 and major campaign bundler for Obama
Frank Marshall Davis	link	Communist writer and poet (1905-1987) and Mentor to a young Barack Obama in the 1970s
Bernardine Rae Dohrn	link	Lifelong socialist and Obama friend. SDS member
John C. Drew	link	Marxist - Met Obama & Chandoo 1980 thru Caroline Boss
Gregory A. Galluzzo	link	Gamaliel founder & United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago co-founder with Mary Gonzales , was one of Obama's teachers
Patrick Gaspard	link	Obama political advisor, ex-activist & agitator for far left organizations such as New Party, the Communist Party offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw	link	Activist Obama neighbor & friend. Served as a senior advisor & director of intergovernmental affairs under Harold Washington, Chicago's far left Mayor, who was backed by Communist Party USA
Anne C. Hallett	link	2004 - 2005 worked with Illinois ACORN and National ACORN - A Bill Ayers & Obama supporter
Thomas Emmet Hayden	link	former husband of actress Jane Fonda.  A co-founder of SDS.  Obama supporter.
Keith Kelleher	link	Keith Kelleher is the head organizer for the SEIU Local 880 and contributes to Progress Illinois.  He is the husband of Madeline Talbott.
Jackie Kendall	link	A high official of Midwest Academy & on Public Allies board.
John McKnight	link	Obama’s "community organizer mentor".  Helped recruit Obama to Midwest Academy.
Cecilia Muñoz	link	Appointed by Obama, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council & ex-La Raza Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation
Alice Palmer	link	ex-Illinois socialist leaning senator.  Recommended Obama as her successor in Illinois senate
Wade Rathke	link	founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100
Madeline Talbott	link	Was the head organizer for Illinois ACORN & has been a field organizer, lead organizer & head organizer in many ACORN cities across the country. In 2000, she celebrated her 25th year as an organizer with ACORN & early organizers of the Chicago New Party
Jeremiah Wright	link	Obama's pastor.  "...not God Bless America. God damn America."[
Quintin Young	link	Obama confidant & high official in Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Progressive Chicago	link	The creation of SEIU, ACORN, Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party USA breakaway group Committees of Correspondence
Midwest Academy	link	Obama's organizing mentors had ties to it & his early funding was indirectly controlled by it.  Created a new way of blending socialism, community organizing & electoral politics

A lengthy feature by the Associated Press earlier this week asked the rather strange question, "Is Obama A Socialist?" A better question might be: Why doesn't the public know it?

It should come as no surprise that President Obama stands farther left on the political spectrum than any president in history.

After all, his $831 billion stimulus, TARP, auto industry takeover, crackdown on Wall Street and the banks, housing market manipulation, ObamaCare, wealth redistribution, and demonization of American business and profits are only a few examples of Obama's abiding belief in leftist principles.

What's strange is the mainstream media's continued efforts to debunk the idea that Obama is a socialist — recently going so far as to liken him to President Reagan, an absurd idea if ever there was one.

Fact is, Obama's socialist background runs deep — as IBD showed in a 21-part series that ran in 2008.

Read more …

One doesn’t spend a lifetime fraternizing with, studying and advancing the philosophies of liberal activists and extremists to become a center-right conservative.   Every socialist movement since the dawn of mankind has resulted in the failure of the society that embraced it.  One need only study the history of such countries as the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, Salvador, and France to name just a few.  As the presidential election approaches this year, the voters of America would do well to consider the outcome of President Obama’s wealth redistribution inclinations if he is re-elected.