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Apparently Obama’s weekend is more important than the Economic Stimulus that he rushed through the House. Nobody had time to read the 1,100 page bill because Obama insisted it be passed immediately. But he hasn’t signed it yet because his weekend plans are more important. While he is eating at Table Fifty-Two in Chicago, the Americans he supposedly cares about (ha!) suffer another weekend without his magical economic stimulus gifts from heaven.

“After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway.

Obama arrived at his home in Chicago on Friday, and treated wife Michelle to a Valentine’s Day dinner downtown last night. The couple was spotted leaving upscale Table Fifty-Two, which specializes in Southern cuisine, with the first lady toting what appeared to be a doggie bag.

The president plans to spend the Presidents’ Day weekend in the Windy City, and is not expected to sign the bill until Tuesday, when he travels to Denver to discuss his economic plan.

Both the House and Senate passed the bill Friday night.

The push to get the bill through before the holiday weekend was so frantic, members of Congress didn’t have a chance to read all 1,071 pages of the document before they could vote.”

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I think anyone with half-a-brain realizes that Union workers are overpaid, under-worked slugs. The US auto industry has no chance of survival as long as they are forced to pay the workers 500x what they are worth. You could take a high school graduate, give him 3 days of training and $10 an hour and he could do the job of a Union-worker making over $100k a year. Face it, Union jobs could be replaced by anyone with a pulse. Actually, most of them could be replaced by robots, so I guess a pulse isn’t even a requirement.

After 5 decades of using Extortion to jack up their wages, prevent Automakers from investing in automation and technology, and protecting even the laziest and most worthless workers, their demise is near. Yet for some reason they are either too stupid or too ignorant to recognize it. Now we learn that the UAW has walked away from concession talks with GM.

These goons are hell-bent on making sure they are completely eliminated from existence.  Rather than accept a salary that is merely triple what the workers are worth, they are refusing to negotiate. The ONLY thing that the Auto makers should consider at this point is Bankruptcy and the downright destruction of the Union.

Besides, The Union should be an illegal Cartel. If every employer got together and fixed wages they would be sued, fined, and probably imprisoned for Collusion. But when the Unions do the exact same thing on the Supply Side of the labor equation, it is not only acceptable but supported by Liberals.

If you are a Union worker wondering why you are about to lose your job, don’t blame Management. Blame your Union officials that collect insane paychecks to extort your employer.

DETROIT (AP) — Negotiators for the United Auto Workers walked out of concession talks with General Motors Corp. Friday night in a dispute over payments to a union-administered retiree health care fund, a person briefed on the talks said Saturday.

The breakdown comes at a critical time as GM races against a Tuesday deadline to submit a plan to the government showing how it can become viable.

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Hope? Try Hopelessness. Transparency? Try total secrecy and threats. Leadership? How about caving in to politics as usual. Obama is a failed President. Already. Yes, I said it. I mean, I know we are still giving the guy on-the-job training since he has less work experience than the lady helping you find the pooper scoopers at your local Wal-Mart, but Obama is nothing but a mouthpiece for rhetoric. Now he is touring the nation giving his stump speeches, probably because that is all he knows how to do. Hey Obama, the campaign is over! How about rather than travel around giving speaches you get to the Hill and tell Pelosi it may be wise to postpone her little junked to Rome to, you know, DO YOUR JOB!!!!

But that takes leadership, and Obama is an empty bag of hot air. This piece from the WSJ Editorial sums it up quite nicely.

“President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.

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In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.

This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don’t come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate. Consider the job losses that Mr. Obama always cites. In the last year, the U.S. economy shed 3.4 million jobs. That’s a grim statistic for sure, but represents just 2.2% of the labor force. From November 1981 to October 1982, 2.4 million jobs were lost — fewer in number than today, but the labor force was smaller. So 1981-82 job losses totaled 2.2% of the labor force, the same as now.”

Hmmm…. I always thought that the Democrat’s campaigned against using Fear to pursuade people and win support. So much for that idea. “Do as I say, or else!” seems to be Obama’s new slogan.

This is from CNN. There is really nothing to say. Just look at the Winners and Losers and it really speaks for itself. And keep in mind, this is from CNN… Not exactly a “right wing” spin here….

Winners

High-speed and inner-city rail: Went from $300 million in House bill to $2.25 billion in Senate to $8 billion in final version. There also is a $6.9 billion provision for public transit.

Amtrak: Picked up $500 million from both House and Senate versions to total $1.3 billion. The bill stipulates that no more than 60 percent can go to the Northeast Corridor.

National Institutes of Health: Ends up with $10 billion in the final bill. The House proposed $3.5 billion and the Senate wanted $10 billion — $8.2 billion goes to the NIH director for his discretion.

Government oversight: Board to oversee stimulus bill spending will get $84 million to do the job. House bill allocated $14 million while the Senate bill called for $7 million. There is also more than $100 million more for various inspectors general in different agencies.

NASA: Banked just more than $2 billion, including $400,000 for science/global-warming research. Watch congressional comments on the stimulus bill »

Losers

• Veterans: Nearly all items for Veterans Affairs were reduced and the $2 billion the Senate wanted for VA construction was wiped out altogether. The VA did get one thing: $1 billion for medical facilities renovation and retooling.
• Military construction: Cut and put into a general pot, a change from targeted money for each branch of the services. Army construction alone went from $600 million in the Senate and $900 million in the House to $180 million in the final bill. But negotiators compromised over a general military construction fund — the House wanted $3.75 billion while the Senate allocated $118 million and settled on $1.45 billion for all services.
• FBI: Senate had allocated $475 million but all was cut out of final bill.

Right…… So Veterans, the Military, and the FBI are the “Losers” and NASA’s global warming research, government oversight (whatever the @#%# that means) and trains are the big “Winners.” Says a lot about the liberals doesn’t it?

Oh yea, one more thing. Can someone tell me again how exactly this BS is going to save our economy? Trains? Global Warming research? Government oversight? Boy, these intellectuals really pulled out their A-game to save us, didn’t they!

This week’s plan crash in Buffalo brings a surprising fact to light - Airlines knowingly operate planes prone to icing up and crashing to save on fuel.  Planes like the one that crashed are known to accumulate ice and do not have the safety features of other planes. Airlines continue to use them, however, because they are “cheaper”.

I don’t know anyone that likes to fly on prop planes. Now we have another reason to hate them - they truly are less safe than the other planes. It isn’t just an unwarranted fear.

So how does that make you feel?

What really freeks me out is that the airlines are subject to the same Federal oversight as the Banking industry - and we all know how well that turned out.

Oh, one more thing, this Canadian-built P.O.S. also apparently has a long history of landing gear problems. Yet the FAA still thinks it is safe for us to fly?

Lawsuits, anyone?

If this does not shock and outrage you, you do not belong in this country. The House has passed the Economic Stimulus package - which is nothing more than a massive increase in the size and power of Government - without even READING THE BILL. Think about it; 1,100 pages of text with less than 24 hours to analyze. Yet they passed it anyway.

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And now Pelosi is on her way to Rome. She had to make sure the bill got passed before going overseas, so screw reading the thing! Just pass it!

The liberals are a sick and disgusting bunch of Marxist pigs. Shoving legislation down our throats that will bankrupt this country without even bothering to read it.

This is the “Audacity of Hopelessness”.

Oh man, I first read about this on HotAir. Obama is going around lying (surprise, surprise) about Caterpillar offering to hire people back if the Stimulus package passes. Apparently Obama forgot that CEOs usually have, you know, like TVs and the Internets and stuff. Now the CEO is setting the story straight.

EAST PEORIA, ILL. — President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”

Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.

But after the president left the event, Owens said the exact opposite.

If you are up for a good laugh, check out the CEO clearing the air.

Daschle and Geithner’s tax problems and now another problem with a cabinet member, although this one is resigning because he is a Republican and does not agree with Obama’s handling of the “Bailout” plan. Oh well, we cannot expect much from a President who has no real work experience. All of this, you know, responsibility must be really challenging for him!

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, citing “irresolvable conflicts” with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economic stimulus and 2010 census. “We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy,” Gregg said in a statement released by his Senate office.

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“If it were not for the wealthiest 5% of the population, the other 95% would starve to death.”

- Unknown

We all know this country is full of Obama-bots with their hands out and mouths open, but yesterday’s (staged?) request from a homeless lady for a new house and new car has garnered a lot of attention. Apparently this overweight lady…. Yes, the fact that she is overweight IS relevant because the US is one of the few places on earth where our “poor” are overweight…. Anyway, this OVERWEIGHT lady tells Obama that she and her unemployed son need a house and bigger car…. apparently on the taxpayer’s dime.

First, I think this lady was planted. It was just too convenient. Second, if this lady really does need a job, why is she spending her day waiting in line to attend an Obama speech. But then again, you really can’t be surprised when someone who is permanently unemployed has their priorities out of whack…..

So what is the solution? Simple! Raise taxes on the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil, hated “rich people” and give handouts to everyone else! After all, if it were not for the eeeeeeeeeeevil, hated, corrupt rich people, we wouldn’t be in this situation, right? That is how liberals think, and sadly that is how most of America thinks these days.