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Monday, September 19, 2011

Worst Poverty Record Ever. James Carville: "Panic."

     To add insult to injury, o'tax'n spendwho has already added more to the national debt than all previous presidents combined, proposes spending still another $1,700,000,000,000.00 to further his robin hood-esqe "tax the rich to pay the poor" 'redistributive wealth' agenda to dismantle American capitalism! -- rfh 
     P.S.  If you read his latest jobs "plan" you will find those who earn as little as $150,000 he considers "rich."  [ Read it yourself at http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2011/09/orobin-hood-announces-447b-jobs.html ]  Since the federal government is broke, where will his 'throw money at it' solution get $1.7T?  Consider too that of the 2012 voter base nearly 50% pay no taxes while drawing above their $22,000 "poverty level" numerous government funds.
     Many, of the so-called "poor" live with amenities that would make most of the world envious.  Notwithstanding the fact that some "impoverished & down-trodden" spend more dollars directly, using tax augmented incomes  or consume more indirect government subsidized programs,  than the average 'so-called' middle class family which will be taxed still more under his 'pie-in-the-sky' scheme.  This is not to say that a truly indigent population does not exist but that it will always exist.  But, guess who he'll pander to in his speech stumping and how do you suppose they'll vote in 2012?
     He wants to keep the poor right where they are while he rewards his $1B unions' campaign donors with more millions and billions of tax payer fiat spent monies to keep his anti-capitalist socialist Marxist czarist regulatory business (and baby) killing economy destroying policies going...as long as he can...right up to voting day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - only 414 days away.
     His attacks against conservative talk radio/media, 'executive ordering' piecemeal dismantling of the 2nd Amendment, and his deliberate suppression of American energy development directly fills the coffers of "Great Satan", Western Civilization, and Israel's enemies.
    Unless a Democrat savior (or savioress) appears soon, America's fate may be sealed.
From: Chaplain Klingenschmitt  Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 Subject: Obama: worst Poverty Record ever. James Carville: Obama should "Panic."
Obama breaks Poverty Record.  James Carville: Obama should "Panic."
       President Obama already presided over the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression, but now America's poverty rate has dramatically increased as well, reports the U.S. Census Bureau, who counted the number of Americans in poverty as the highest ever since they started tracking the number 52 years ago.  
     While Obama proposes job-killing tax and spend policies, the unemployment rate, national debt and number living in poverty continue to skyrocket to historical record highs.   In his speech to Congress, Obama proposed to borrow and spend another $447 billion for yet another Big Government bailout paid to his corporate friends, (just like he privately pressured the Pentagon to help big Democrat donors, like Solyndra and LightSquared).  Helping the unemployed find work is clearly not his priority, since Obama regulates and raises taxes on small business employers.   
     Even Democrats fear Obama's poor handling of the economy.  In a CNN editorial, Democrat icon James Carville said it was time for the President to "Panic" and "the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction that [Obama] is headed."
     We voters told Obama to change course a year ago when we fired Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.  But sadly, the Obama Administration continues to fight against 3 good bills that could really fix the economy.  We must demand Congress act on these issues:  
     1) Fair Tax Act -  H.R. 25 promotes freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a Fair Tax, which is a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. 
     2) Cut, Cap and Balance Act - pass a Constitutional Amendment to force Congress to cut, cap and balance the federal budget every year. (Passed by House, but stalled in Harry Reid's liberal Senate.) 
     3) Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act - S.1438 provides no agency may push any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate drops to less than 7.7%.

Pass the Fair Tax 
     My dear friend Alan Keyes, with whom I stood as national campaign chaplain in 2008, said the IRS is a 20th century socialist tyrannical experiment in taxation, and it has failed.  The income tax is now over 85 years old, and before that the federal government held no claim on our personal income or possessions.  The only taxes allowed were on sales, excise, and tariffs.  Economic liberty was sought by our founding fathers, as the bulwark of our political liberty.  But the income tax gave the government control over us, overturning a government of the people.  Politicians now have power to decide how much income we can make, turning us all into slaves of the state.  As Alan Keyes says: "True economic liberty and moral revival go hand in hand."
     The Fair Tax is undoubtedly the best "Jobs Bill" before Congress today. By replacing all personal and corporate taxes with a single sales tax on new items only, the bill would increase the amount money Americans have to invest, save, and spend. As the amount of investments and saving increase, banks will have a greater supply of money to lend for mortgages, and make interest rates more competitive.  Americans could save faster for a new home or new car, and pay off old debts and credit cards.  Increased buying power would also mean more jobs across America. With fewer punitive business taxes, American companies and jobs overseas would come back home.
     The Fair Tax would apply evenly to citizens and immigrants.  All taxes generated on our current total consumption of $11 trillion would generate $2.6 trillion per year, which is  $400 billion more than the government currently collects.  A Fair Tax can solve the deficit!
     Most importantly, every individual would decide how much of their own hard earned money the government should get, based on their own consumption.  Spend less money, pay less taxes!  Earn more income, save as much as you wish.  Since it's only a tax on new products, you could buy an old house or used car, and pay no taxes on it, making it much easier for young Americans to buy a first home or a family car, giving every American a fair chance to fulfill the American Dream.
Cut, Cap and Balance the Budget
     Obama plans to bully the American people out of yet another $447 billion bailout, just one month after he agreed to rein in his spending addiction.  Do we trust him yet?  Anyone who thinks the solution to fixing our economy is borrowing more money, is insane.
     Just look at Bank of America, who received $45 billion in cash with another $97 billion if they need it.  President Obama gave our money to bail out their bank, and now they're foreclosing on record numbers of Americans!  According to the watch group ForeClosureRader "Bank of America appears to be primarily responsible for the surge in foreclosures" and according to CNBC defaults are up 15% nationwide, and Bank of America has increased its foreclosure rate 200% in the last few months. BOA's slogan should be "kicking hard working Americans out of their homes with the money we gave them."  And BOA just announced it will cut 30,000 jobs.
     The Obama Administration and his Federal Housing Finance Agency are now suing Bank of America and many other companies, from Citigroup to General Electric, for "misleading" the government over the quality of loans sold to the public debt.  Bank of America has also been sued by AIG for securities fraud, for $10 billion according to AIG.
     But their leaders still got $9.05 million and $14 million bonuses, proving Obama lies when he claims to be the party of the workingman and the poor.  It's time to petition your congressman: No more bailouts.  Our national debt is already $14.8 Trillion, exceeding our $14.4 Gross Domestic Product.  DON'T INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT another $447 billion for more Wall Street bailouts.   

     Sadly Obama appointed a "SuperCongress" to frighten Senior Citizens and rob the Pentagon budget, without passing any meaningful breaks for small business.  

Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act
     Questions about sustainability of the United States economy continue to plague Obama, and keep his leadership ability in constant doubt.  The high unemployment rate is squarely President Obama's fault, due to over-regulation of small business:  99.7% of employers!   
     Stocks were down last month on poor jobs reports, as if more proof were needed of President Obama's failure to create jobs. "The U.S. economy failed to add any new jobs in August caused European and Asian stock markets to sink sharply Monday," reported AP.  "That jobs figure [ZERO JOBS CREATED] was far below economists' already tepid expectations for 93,000 new U.S. jobs and renewed concerns that the U.S. recovery is not only slowing but actually unwinding. U.S. hiring figures for June and July were also revised lower, only adding to the gloom."  
     New reports from the Department of Labor show the unemployment rate has nearly doubled in the first two years of President Obama's leadership.  In 2008 under President Bush unemployment averaged just 5.8%, but by 2010 after two years of Obama the unemployed rate rose to 9.6%.  This is second highest unemployment rate in over 60 years.  In 2011 the unemployment rate is averaging 9.01%, making this the first time since the Great Depression that unemployment has held above 9% three years in a row. Obamanomics has created the worst economy in four generations.
     But we have good news. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has proposed a bill that would actually create jobs, called S.1438, the Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act of 2011.
 According to the Small Business Association, small businesses employ 99.7% of all working Americans, and are responsible for 75% of all new jobs created. Small business is the driving force of the American economy as much today as ever.  
Sen. DeMint is sponsoring a bill that calls for all Government agencies to STOP
expanding regulatory compliance costs, until unemployment shrinks to 7.7%.  Let's petition 100 Senators and 435 Congressmen to STOP OVER-REGULATING SMALL BUSINESSES... 

    
The Obama Administration has been over-regulating small businesses with "fees" as a "hidden tax" that cost American business more then $1.75 trillion each year.  Obama spent trillions bailing out Big Wall Street banks in 2009, has not offered so much as a penny to help the small town firm or farmer many were the hardest hit in the recession, and had to lay people off and in many cases closed their doors entirely. 
    
Now as scary as these numbers are, they only hide the real depth of the problem.  The "dirty little secret" about unemployment numbers is that they only count unemployed people actively searching for jobs.  Obama does not count what economists call "discouraged workers" or "underemployed" workers with part-time jobs.  A discouraged worker actively seeks employment but did not find a job in one year of searching. Some people have been out of work so long, that Obama no longer counts them as unemployed.  Even if you look for a job every day, you no longer matter to the politicians, who only care about their re-election, so they fudge the unemployment numbers to make themselves look good, (despite the fact they over-regulated YOU out of a job).  Another group of people the "underemployed" or over-qualified for the job they have. The medical doctor who drives a taxi because it's the only employment he can find, is not counted as unemployed. Also not counted:  people who work seasonal jobs, and students who just graduated college and are still looking for their first job.  When all these people are counted, The Economic Policy Institute adds at least 11 million unemployed Americans. According to the Department of Labor 9.1% equals 14 million, so if you add the missing 11 million, Obama's true unemployment rate is closer to 16%. 
     Stopping the White House and its agencies from bullying extra "regulatory fee" taxes out of small business owners forces them to employ less people.  Obama's greed for big-government power has directly cost millions of Americans their jobs.  Unlike big banks, the small business man of America is not asking for an $8 trillion government handout, rather "They want the regulators off their back, the National Labor Relations Board to stop pushing the union agenda, and try to help companies that create jobs," said Senator DeMint.  Let's help put America back to work, by petitioning Congress to get off the backs of small business owners, so they can hire folks off the street. 

    
Let's get Obama, Pelosi, and Reid off employer's back, and help get folks back to work.
God Bless you, in Jesus' name, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt
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Friday, September 16, 2011

o'one & done - W.H. Panic! (James Carville, Young Turks, Chris Matthews) 3 videos & Where's Hillary?

What should the White House do? Panic!
By James Carville, CNN - Contributor, Thu September 15, 2011
article source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/14/opinion/carville-white-house-advice/?hpt=po_r1
(CNN) -- "People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things.  Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question.  What should the White House do now?  One word came to mind: Panic." -- James Carville
Uploaded to Youtube by TheYoungTurks on Sep 15, 2011
"Democratic Strategist James Carville had incredibly harsh, justified
 criticism for President Obama.  The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it 
down."


Trouble in River City
Is Chris Matthews getting religion? -- rfh
Where's Hillary?
Hillary for president
August 05, 2011| By Christopher Sprigman 
[excerpts - rfh
Read the full article at: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-05/news/ct-oped-0805-hillary-20110805_1_spending-cuts-gop-controls-hillary-clinton
    "I didn't have a high-profile role in the campaign; I worked behind the scenes drafting policy documents.  But I traveled to Denver to speak at a policy debate held during the Democratic National Convention, and spoke at a Richmond, Va., campaign event alongside Google CEO Eric Schmidt."
     "The Obama campaign ran on the hard work of many thousands of people like me.  But President Obama won't be able to depend on the same kind of help in 2012.  Because, it turns out, Hillary Clinton was right."

     "Hillary, I'm sorry for not listening to you back in 2008.  But perhaps you'll give me another chance.  Resign as secretary of state, and run against Obama in 2012.  I will work my heart out for you.  And I bet that millions of other angry Democrats will be with me."
Christopher Sprigman is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. 

Sunday, September 4, 2011

President Obama Job Approval - Real Clear Politics: Polling Data Su.4Sep11


Real Clear Politics: [President Obama Job Approval] Polling Data, Sunday, September 4, 2011
Polling Data: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html










Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread
RCP Average 8/1 - 9/3 -- 43.7 51.4 -7.7
Rasmussen Reports 8/1 - 9/3 1500 LV 44 55 -11
Gallup 8/31 - 9/2 1500 A 42 51 -9
FOX News 8/29 - 8/31 911 RV 44 47 -3
Quinnipiac 8/16 - 8/27 2730 RV 42 52 -10
CNN/Opinion Research 8/24 - 8/25 1017 A 45 54 -9
Associated Press/GfK 8/18 - 8/22 1000 A 46 52 -6
Pew Research 8/17 - 8/21 1509 A 43 49 -6
See All President Obama Job Approval Polling Data

Friday, August 12, 2011

Prepare - "The Natives Are Restless" (under-reported news)

"It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are "civil rights," government handouts are "entitlements," and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are "compassionate," while hard-working, ambitious people are "greedy," punishment of crime is "oppression," and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an "Uncle Tom."
     -- J. Tucker Alford Source: Heroics, Letter to The American Spectator, P. 72, February, 1996.
        http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J..Tucker.Alford.Quote.D203

From: Lee Bellinger Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 Subject: I'm ratcheting up to help you get ready for anything...
Recent Events Have Sharply Refocused My Attention
Urgent Dispatch from Lee Bellinger
Ready for Anything Report
     This time it's personal. Let me explain what recently transpired just steps from my own front door... why this incident has raised my level of concern about your personal security as well as my own... and how this and similar events have led me to today's SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
     I am blessed to live in the beautiful southern city of Charlotte, North Carolina.  Life is good here.  The weather is temperate, and the city has just the right balance of cosmopolitan flair and true southern charm.
     But what happened here in the Queen City just weeks ago, on an early summer weekend, came at me like a cold slap in the face.
     Charlotte police in riot gear had to quell a disturbance of hundreds of violent party crashers – leaving some 70 arrested and one dead.  Our fair city awoke the next morning to entire blocks roped off by yellow police-line tape as detectives worked to determine who spoiled our downtown family-friendly event and turned it into a crime scene of mayhem and death.
     "Chronic unemployment is spilling over into civil unrest..."
     But I don't need to see the police blotter to understand the forces at work here.  Chronic unemployment is spilling over into civil unrest, as idled workers team with those who are simply too lazy to work and act out in rage and anger against those they perceive as privileged.
     As this latest incident of social unraveling played out right here at my own doorstep, I found my attention very sharply refocused.  When it happens in your own town, you realize that yes, the you-know-what has officially hit the fan!  The need for preparedness – for having a personal "Plan B" is now a matter of urgency.
     Eerily similar scenes of rioting and violence occurred throughout the Eastern Seaboard that same weekend, from Long Beach, NY to Nashville, TN.  It's a warning sign of pent-up rage as a disturbing sense of entitlement and permanently high unemployment sinks in. Consider:
  • In South Beach, Miami, permanent residents who dared to object to widespread vandalism and violence from the annual "Urban Weekend" crowd are being vilified as racists, not victims.

  • In Myrtle Beach, another absolutely charming town here in the Carolinas, the annual Black Bike Week gathering led to 8 hours of violence, including multiple robberies and stabbings.  Objections by locals who had the courage to complain about bloodshed in their streets have not only fallen on deaf ears, but have been dismissed as bigotry.

  • In Nashville, special police units had to break up violent, unruly crowds who had taken over a local water park, Wave Country.

How many times have we all tuned into a news report covering the latest disaster or brutal crime spree only to hear victims, neighbors, and bystanders say:
    • "I never imagined it could happen here."

    • "I thought these things only happened to someone else."

    • "Who dreamed this could happen in my own back yard?"

     You know, I've been observing and writing about news and current events in this country for a quarter of a century now.  And, as deadly serious as things have become in our beloved nation in just the last two or three years, I like to think that I've just about seen and heard it all – that nothing is going to actually rattle me.  Then BOOM – it happened virtually in front of my very own doorstop.
"Greater self-reliance and being ready for anything is a new skill set that smart Americans must tackle and master."
Such disturbances by themselves mean little – until you actually do the work to connect the dots. Which is probably why the stodgy national media largely ignored these "local" news stories.  Yet for those of us with our eyes open, there are ample warnings out there that America's social fabric is coming undone.  Greater self-reliance and being ready for anything is a new skill set that smart Americans must tackle and master.
The Age of Preparedness is at Hand
     In the wake of the recent street riot here in Charlotte, I've already redoubled my own personal preparedness efforts.  I'll tell you more about my own personal preparations in an upcoming issue.  And because I don't want to keep you waiting for your first "official" issue of my Ready-for-Anything Report, let me spell out some simple steps you can and must begin to take now to protect your interests and those of your family:
Stash some cash: Keep at least $1,000 in small denominations around the house or other secure location.  Small bills are preferable.
Stash some silver: I strongly recommend you obtain a stash of one-ounce silver rounds or pre-1965 dimes, quarters, or half dollars from a reputable bullion dealer.  Our sister company, Independent Living Bullion (1-800-800-1865), has great products and very competitive prices.  If you don't want to obtain them from my in-house service, that's okay by me!  Any reputable bullion dealer who does not try to upsell you on overpriced "collectibles" is fineWhat matters is that you take action, not from whom you buy them.
Stash some food: I recently produced a FREE report on how Independent Living subscribers can SAVE UP TO 40% on their food bills!  If you are not following these simple steps, you are not only leaving big money on the table, you are leaving yourself at the mercy of the vulnerable food supply chain which stocks your local grocery store.  You can access this great free report right here.
Install an alarm system in your home: Home break-ins and home invasions are on the rise.  An alarm system will encourage thieves to look elsewhere for their next score.
"What you don't want to have to do is fight crowds to get to your pharmacy, or get groceries, or get water."
Get a gun for home defense: I realize that not everyone is comfortable with a gun in the house.  My suggestion is to get this essential component of home defense anyway.  The National Rifle Association offers great safety courses for beginners.  And if your state has a concealed carry law, get a permit.  Pepper spray isn't a bad idea to have in a home, car, and purse.
Load up on ammunition: The Obama Administration has taken steps to limit the public's access to ammunition.  There have been shortages as more and more people are stocking up.  I suggest you even consider obtaining an ammo reload kit.
Establish an emergency escape plan: Don't wait for an actual emergency before you work out the details of leaving your home in a hurry.  Make a checklist of travel essentials, place them in a duffel bag, and place it in a closet for immediate departure.  This can also save your life if you decide to stay home and ride it all out.  What you don't want to have to do is fight crowds to get to your pharmacy, or get groceries, or get water.  Establish an emergency meeting place for your family to regroup, and put the written plan as well as the routes in the glove box of every family car.
The Bottom Line: I Will Help You Get Ready for Anything
Personal preparedness is the wave of the future.  Being ready for anything liberates you from the herd.  You will not only sleep better at night, you will in fact be safer.
"Being ready for anything liberates you from the herd."
Yours in Savvy Preparedness, Lee Bellinger, Publisher: Independent Living and Money, Metals, and Mining 

It's against this backdrop that I've decided to launch a brand new service – Lee Bellinger's Ready-for-Anything Report. As a subscriber to Lee Bellinger's Executive Bulletin, you're automatically being granted Charter Subscriber status, so you don't have to do a thing to sign up for it. Initially, I plan to send you a new issue once a week. As I mentioned, this new email letter is totally free, from me to you.  The Charter Issue of Lee Bellinger's Ready-for-Anything Report will land in your email in-box this week. Please watch for it. You'll find news, views, and, from time to time, product reviews – all around the topic of understanding the threats that are out there.  These include weird weather (which itself is more than enough reason for any clear thinking individual to make themselves ready for anything), man-made disasters, social chaos – any of which could require you to "bug out" of your home in five minutes flat or to "shelter in place" until the threat blows over.  The Charter Issue of Lee Bellinger's Ready-for-Anything Report will be deployed any day now... likely in the next 48 hours. We'll cover everything from civil unrest to public infrastructure failures, from natural disasters to weird weather events.  Please watch for your Premiere Issue, and accept your Charter Subscription as my free gift to you for being a loyal reader and for being with me in the cause of taking care of ourselves and our loved ones and truly being ready for anything.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Newsbusted Tu.9Aug11 & Fr.5Aug11 (2 videos)

NewsBusters: http://newsbusters.org


video source: http://youtu.be/Dsn25aQgAw0 (9Aug11)
video source: http://youtu.be/Xlk0eRUQNI0 (5Aug11)

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Sa.30Jul11 Poll Results: President's performance

See All President Obama Job Approval Polling Data
RCP Polls Average
President Obama Job Approval
Black=Positive Red=Negative


Obama's Job Approval / Disapproval
from Real Clear Politics

example from - Rassmussen:
Date: Sa.30Jul11
Presidential Approval Index -21
Strongly Approve 23%
Strongly Disapprove 44%
Total Approve 44%
Total Disapprove 56%


also see:
Rasmussen Reports' Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

also see:
Rasmussens' Favorables:
Congress Members, Presidents & Other Major Figures

also see:
"USA Today's" Interactive Presidents Comparison Chart (1945-Present)


bcc'd "red diaper babies", some of their "fellow travelers" & RINOs

Monday, July 11, 2011

o'quantitative - Why QE2 Failed: "The Money All Went Offshore" (Ellen Brown, GR)

From: kd Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 Subject:  Ellen Brown: Why QE2 Failed - The Money All Went Offshore
We all knew we had been had but what could we have done about it?
Remember when we next vote out every rat incumbant. ...KD


The url address of this article is: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25566
Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Offshore
By Ellen Brown, Global Research, July 9, 2011
     On June 30, QE2 ended with a whimper.  The Fed's second round of "quantitative easing" involved $600 billion created with a computer keystroke for the purchase of long-term government bonds.  But the government never actually got the money, which went straight into the reserve accounts of banks, where it still sits today.  Worse, it went into the reserve accounts of FOREIGN banks, on which the Federal Reserve is now paying 0.25% interest. 
     Before QE2 there was QE1, in which the Fed bought $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities from the banks.  This money too remains in bank reserve accounts collecting interest and dust.  The Fed reports that the accumulated excess reserves of depository institutions now total nearly $1.6 trillion.    
     Interestingly, $1.6 trillion is also the size of the federal deficit – a deficit so large that some members of Congress are threatening to force a default on the national debt if it isn't corrected soon. 
     So here we have the anomalous situation of a $1.6 trillion hole in the federal budget, and $1.6 trillion created by the Fed that is now sitting idle in bank reserve accounts.  If the intent of "quantitative easing" was to stimulate the economy, it might have worked better if the money earmarked for the purchase of Treasuries had been delivered directly to the Treasury.  That was actually how it was done before 1935, when the law was changed to require private bond dealers to be cut into the deal.   
     The one thing QE2 did for the taxpayers was to reduce the interest tab on the federal debt.  The long-term bonds the Fed bought on the open market are now effectively interest-free to the government, since the Fed rebates its profits to the Treasury after deducting its costs.   
     But QE2 has not helped the anemic local credit market, on which smaller businesses rely; and it is these businesses that are largely responsible for creating new jobs.  In a June 30 article in the Wall Street Journal titled "Smaller Businesses Seeking Loans Still Come Up Empty," Emily Maltby reported that business owners rank access to capital as the most important issue facing them today; and only 17% of smaller businesses said they were able to land needed bank financing.      
How QE2 Wound Up in Foreign Banks 
     Before the Banking Act of 1935, the government was able to borrow directly from its own central bank.  Other countries followed that policy as well, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; and they prospered as a result.  After 1935, however, if the U.S. central bank wanted to buy government securities, it had to purchase them from private banks on the "open market."  Former Fed Chairman Marinner Eccles wrote in support of an act to remove that requirement that it was intended to keep politicians from spending too much.  But all the law succeeded in doing was to give the bond-dealer banks a cut as middlemen.   
     Worse, it caused the Fed to lose control of where the money went.  Rather than buying more bonds from the Treasury, the banks that got the cash could just sit on it or use it for their own purposes; and that is apparently what is happening today.
     In carrying out its QE2 purchases, the Fed had to follow standard operating procedure for "open market operations": it took secret bids from the 20 "primary dealers" authorized to sell securities to the Fed and accepted the best offers.  The problem was that 12 of these dealers – or over half -- are U.S.-based branches of foreign banks (including BNP Paribas, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, UBS and others); and they evidently won the bids.   
     The fact that foreign banks got the money was established in a June 12 post on Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden (a pseudonym), who compared two charts: the total cash holdings of foreign-related banks in the U.S., using weekly Federal Reserve data; and the total reserve balances held at Federal Reserve banks, from the Fed's statement ending the week of June 1.  The charts showed that after November 3, 2010, when QE2 operations began, total bank reserves increased by $610 billion.  Foreign bank cash reserves increased in lock step, by $630 billion -- or more than the entire QE2.  



     In a June 27 blog, John Mason, Professor of Finance at Penn State University and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve, wrote:  
     In essence, it appears as if much of the monetary stimulus generated by the Federal Reserve System went into the Eurodollar market. This is all part of the "Carry Trade" as foreign branches of an American bank could borrow dollars from the "home" bank creating a Eurodollar deposit. . . .
     Cash assets at the smaller [U.S.] banks remained relatively flat . . . . Thus, the reserves the Fed was pumping into the banking system were not going into the smaller banks. . . .  
[B]usiness loans continue to "tank" at the smaller banking institutions. . . .
     The real lending by commercial banks is not taking place in the United States. The lending is taking place off-shore, underwritten by the Federal Reserve System and this is doing little or nothing to help the American economy grow.  
Tyler Durden concluded: 
. . . [T]he only beneficiary of the reserves generated were US-based branches of foreign banks (which in turn turned around and funnelled the cash back to their domestic branches), a shocking finding which explains . . . why US banks have been unwilling and, far more importantly, unable to lend out these reserves . . . .  
. . . [T]he data above proves beyond a reasonable doubt why there has been no excess lending by US banks to US borrowers: none of the cash ever even made it to US banks! . . . This also resolves the mystery of the broken money multiplier and why the velocity of money has imploded. 
     Well, not exactly.  The fact that the QE2 money all wound up in foreign banks is a shocking finding, but it doesn't seem to be the reason banks aren't lending.  There were already $1 trillion in excess reserves sitting idle in U.S. reserve accounts, not counting the $600 billion from QE2. 
     According to Scott Fullwiler, Associate Professor of Economics at Wartburg College, the money multiplier model is not just broken but is obsolete.  Banks do not lend based on what they have in reserve.  They can borrow reserves as needed after making loans.  Whether banks will lend depends rather on (a) whether they have creditworthy borrowers, (b) whether they have sufficient capital to satisfy the capital requirement, and (c) the cost of funds – meaning the cost to the bank of borrowing to meet the reserve requirement, either from depositors or from other banks or from the Federal Reserve. 
Setting Things Right
     Whatever is responsible for causing the local credit crunch, trillions of dollars thrown at Wall Street by Congress and the Fed haven't fixed the problem.  It may be time for local governments to take matters into their own hands.  While we wait for federal lawmakers to get it right, local credit markets can be revitalized by establishing state-owned banks, on the model of the Bank of North Dakota (BND).  The BND services the liquidity needs of local banks and keeps credit flowing in the state.  For more information, see here and here.  
     Concerning the gaping federal deficit, Congressman Ron Paul has an excellent idea: have the Fed simply write off the federal securities purchased with funds created in its quantitative easing programs.  No creditors would be harmed, since the money was generated out of thin air with a computer keystroke in the first place.  The government would just be canceling a debt to itself and saving the interest. 
     As for "quantitative easing," if the intent is to stimulate the economy, the money needs to go directly into the purchase of goods and services, stimulating "demand."  If it goes onto the balance sheets of banks, it may stop there or go into speculation rather than local lending -- as is happening now.  Money that goes directly to the government, on the other hand, will be spent on goods and services in the real economy, creating much-needed jobs, generating demand, and rebuilding the tax base.  To make sure the money gets there, the 1935 law forbidding the Fed to buy Treasuries directly from the Treasury needs to be repealed. 


Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute, http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how the power to create money has been usurped from the people, and how we can get it back. Her websites are http://webofdebt.com and http://ellenbrown.com  Please support Global Research -- Global Research relies on the financial support of its readers.  Your endorsement is greatly appreciated -- Subscribe to the Global Research e-newsletter


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Saturday, July 9, 2011

2nd Amendment - POTUS involved: Impeach/Indictment/Fire/Charge


"Fast and Furious" and "Operation Gun Runner" ...BATFE, DEA, FBI, DOJ, and POTUS
If 'the man' lies (even if by omission) over a botched operation such as this, what else is he concealing and lying about? -- rfh

also, see the video below.
From: kd Subject: Oblama knew Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011
Obama needs to be fired - Absolute Proof Obama knew about Project Gunrunner

Obama signed funding for Project Gunrunner into law

This information was found at http://www.freerepublic.com

So Obama did not know anything about this, but he signed $10,000,000 in funding for the program. This thing would stink on a dung pile. It is time for indictments.

First he tried to pass H.R.495 Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2009, Read the Bill
Click Here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h495/text, asking for 15,000,000 for Project Gunrunner.  But it never made it out of committee.

So he rolled into the stimulus package a month later, H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, For an additional amount for State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border.

$10,000,000 shall be transferred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses for the ATF Project Gunrunner.  What does $10 million pay for here?  They did not hire any new agents. Read this Bill
Click Here: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1/text?version=enr&nid=t0:enr:232 
"Fast and Furious" and "Operation Gun Runner" ...BATFE, DEA, FBI, DOJ, and POTUS


How could this be if President Obama and AG Holder are telling the truth when they say they knew little or anything about the operation[s]?  All these agencies and U.S. dollars involved and the White House knew nothing?

"The evidence gathered raises the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in those activities," Issa and Grassley wrote.

We would like to see Eric Holder and Ken Melson testify side by side to answer these and one other important question: What did the president know and when did he know it?

It is time to demand it be investigated.

     Unwilling to be made a scapegoat in the affair, which resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry using one of the trafficked guns, Melson, acting ATF director since April 2009, testified behind closed doors on Monday before two congressional oversight committees. He appeared with his own private attorney, rather than lawyers from the Department of Justice. His explosive testimony needs to be heard loudly and publicly.
     ABC News reports that Melson wanted to appear before oversight committees earlier, but Eric Holders Justice Department sought to delay his testimony. Pressured to resign and unwilling to take the fall, Melson seized the opportunity to tell his story.
     "If his account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand," the letter said. "That approach distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation."
     Among the things that made Melson ill was the discovery of the activities of other agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, perhaps even the U.S. Attorneys Office and the Department of Homeland Security.
     Learning not only that guns were allowed to "walk" into Mexico after being bought by straw purchasers acting on behalf of criminals, but also that the purchases may have been financed with taxpayer dollars is enough to make anyone queasy. That Holders DOJ would lie to Congress and hide what it knew and when it knew it is, well, absolutely criminal.
     At an oversight hearing last month, three federal firearms investigators testified that they wanted to "intervene and interdict" the guns at the border, but were repeatedly ordered to step aside and let the traffickers proceed.
     "Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals this was the plan," John Dodson, an ATF agent, told the panel. "It was so mandated."
     Agent Olindo James Casa said that "on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms."
     Just how high up did this order originate? Just which federal agencies were involved and what were their roles? Did taxpayer dollars buy the guns for the criminals? Why did DOJ cover this up?