...according to Obama’s own ten-year deficit projections (see chart), a New Era of Responsibility produces bigger deficits every single year than during the Bush years: $1.75 trillion in 2009 to $533 billion by 2013 — this budget projects higher deficits in 2014 ($570 billion), 2015 ($583 billion), and 2016 ($637 billion). In 2019, the final year in the budget, the deficit is projected to be $712 billion.See what Hope and Change (HAC) gets ya? Well FMR.
| By Adrian Schofield |
 Airlines are concerned by strong signals from House lawmakers that they want to institute new penalties to compensate passengers for delayed bags. Language was added to the House reauthorization bill requiring the Government Accountability Office to study the issue of baggage delays, and report back within 180 days. GAO would be directed to “make recommendations for establishing minimum standards to compensate a passenger in the case of an unreasonable delay in the delivery of checked baggage.” The bill says GAO should “take into account the additional fees for checked baggage” introduced by many airlines, and how these fees “should improve an air carrier’s baggage performance.” The Air Transport Association said it opposes the baggage compensation language. “It is unreasonable to expect an airline to incur costs for delayed bags when the vast majority of delays are driven by factors beyond the airline’s control…Imposing penalties on baggage delivery performance will increase the cost of handling checked baggage,” ATA says. Bag delays can be caused by weather delays, congested ramps and “limitations on baggage claim area capacity.” ATA believes it is “impractical” to try to establish a uniform standard for baggage delivery. The group notes that ramp and terminal configurations “vary widely” at different airports, and this is a big factor in the time it takes to get bags from the aircraft to the terminal. |
North Korea says any attempt to intercept satellite launch — which many fear is a missile test disguise — 'will mean war' and orders its military to 'be fully combat ready.'
TRUMPS 
But do the rest of us understand what we are doing to ourselves by accepting this leadership? Rush is to the Republicanism of the 2000s what Jesse Jackson was to the Democratic party in the 1980s.Rush as Jackson? Holy Mother of God. Jesse is a race-baiting, Jew-hating extortionist. Rush is a leader with great conservative ideas.
How does it work? The state buys the home and then sells it to the buyer at an inflated price, more or less masking the market interest rate as principle. They they set a 30-year payment schedule where the family pays down the debt, but without any interest. The state makes a profit eventually, and people get to buy homes rather than rent.If you read the comments from the original post, they bring up all the questions that I had. Number 1 problem: When they default, the State of Minnesota (that means the taxpayers) are on the hook. The other biggie for me: What happens when the wife comes in to sign the loan documents and she's covered head to toe, and you can't see her face? How do you know it's really her? Most banks I know won't let you in the door with your face covered. Think about it: if you're there to rob the bank, the cameras usually get a good pic of your mug. But if you have a burka on? Not so much.
From THE BOSS:
This man in the White House seems to forget he is living in the "People's" White House.
For him to return the bust of Winston Churchill is a slap to the face of every British subject. The article of justification in the London Telegraph only shows Obama is making this personal and forgetting that the White House and everything in it represents "all the people" of this country. Not just him and his ancestors.
Obama is lacking in Diplomatic Etiquette, to say nothing of his table manners. This man should be ashamed of himself and his staff for not knowing how to handle diplomatic protocol when dealing with foreign dignitaries.
As a citizen of this country I am ashamed as to how Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife were treated while in this country and I apologize to them.
Some may argue that this “is no big deal” but pile onto that his wife’s lack of table manners, his lack of military protocol, his flat out dumbness in the area of gift giving to foreign visitors of the people's White House shows him and his family for what they are, which is Little Leaguers trying to pitch in the majors.
Where I'm from, we'd call someone like this "white trash". -- TiW
The London Telegraph attempted an explanation: "Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr. Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather."And here's what I say...Mr. President, you are the President of the entire USA, not just for yourself. You dishonor all of us when you show a lack of good manners and insult our greatest ally.
“Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket” [Yuval Levin]
If anyone has any doubt that a cap and trade system will raise the cost of electricity for American consumers, here is a video of Barack Obama (from a conversation with San Francisco Chronicle editors in January of 2008) clearing it up:
Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, even, you know, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
