A College Tuition Grant of $3,000 per year? That might buy a book at Harvard...............
I would hold out for free premium beer.
This will prepare them to be taxpayers where we work for 5-6 months for the government with no pay.
I’m sure it will work to perfection. Don’t all government plans work exactly as designed and under budget?
I thought Obama was going to buy my gas and pay my mortgage.
The three most scary things about the Obama presidency:
1. The economic crisis giving them an excuse to further globalize world finance (e.g. world banksters controlling the world economy like a puppet).
2. Plugs Biden’s “generated crisis” giving them an excuse for a power grab that would make GWB’s Patriot Act and other such legislation seem like kindergarten.
3. The draft and/or forced youth labor under the Orwellian title of “Universal National Service”
4) a universal pension that replaces all exisitng IRA-type accounts...................any links for this tidbit?...............
How in the world are you going to cut American gasoline use in half over the next decade?
As for ending corporate welfare, if that is what I think it is its following Saul Alinsky to the letter.
From:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theclowardpivenstrategypoe.html
“They’ll be more people, (mostly because we will let in illegal aliens by the droves).In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.”
All Americans between 18 and 25 should serve their country by reporting for 3 months' of basic civil defense training and community service.
I have to admit a certain perverse pleasure from this one. I really like the idea of all those smartass kids who voted for Obama finding out he's going to force them to do national service.
And all of it, except fiscal responsibility and the part about strengthening the military (neither of which they really intend to do), is unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwanted and un-American!
You know what Rahm? I would prefer to go work for a government agency such as Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, and then weasel an $18 million severance package after only working for a few years. You can have the rest of your agenda, I would just like the $18 million that you took.
...”Add to the Special Forces”...
Sure, Rahm, “Shake-and-Bake” Special Forces...What a fool.
Rahm Emanual is not my chief of staff
All Americans between 18 and 25 should serve their country by reporting for 3 months' of basic civil defense training and community service indoctrination into the Democrat party line.
There, fixed that....
If college tuition was made free students would treat it is they do high school. When you have to pay to take a class over because you failed it, you either decide college is not for you (which is true for many people) or you take it seriously the next time.
Rahm Emanuel is a draft-dodging, ballerina boy.
Barack Obama’s now official White House chief of staff, House Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), was profiled by the New York Times today. Rahm has a lengthy Democrat history, but the NYT left something out of the piece… Rahm’s stint on the board of fraud-riddled mortgage giant Freddie Mac. When Emanuel left the Clinton White House, he was given the plum seat on Freddie’s board, just as it was expanding it’s subprime lending. According to Freddie Mac insiders, Emanuel opposed EVERY reform of the quasi-governmental agency proposed by the Bush administration.
In 1998 it was the Clinton administration who ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations (mandated for banks by the Clinton administration) by purchasing subprime mortgages. This ultimately made it possible for Fannie and Freddie to add a trillion dollars in junk loans to their balance sheets. As we all know, this led to their own collapse, and to the development of a market in these mortgages that is the source of the financial meltdown affecting our entire economy. Having Rahm as a director, fresh out of the White House, helped grease the skids we’re sliding on now.
Emmanuel was part of a small crew that created the CRA-the Community Reinvestment Act, (some call it the Credit Redevelopment Act), and allowed applicants to secure mortgages without income verification. As the idea grew the “crew” formed the Freddie and Fannie programs as a (sort of) “job” for out of work democrats. After 6 years, the CRA grew, and Emanuel was able withdraw almost 200 million dollars.
Emanuel worked for investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, from 1999-2002, at the same time he was a Freddie director. He reportedly earned $18 million during his stay, largely by brokering large mergers and acquisitions deals. His client base was almost exclusively the Democrat party’s biggest financial supporters.
So, thank your new Chief Of Staff-elect for doing his part in facilitating the biggest global financial crisis of, perhaps, ever. Rahm won’t be making the kind of coin he did in the private sector, and with Obama’s income tax-hikes looming…that’s a good thing for Rahm. Fortunately for him he doesn’t have to pay property taxes either! He lists his home as a non-profit charity
11/9/2008 11:58:38 AM