Poor economic choices by President Obama

He can't afford to fight Idaho wildfires ...

Copied from an article published August 21, 2013 (today) by Politico:

Running out of money to fight wildfires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap.

The nation’s top wildfire-fighting agency was down to $50 million after spending $967 million so far this year, Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers said Wednesday in an email.

Chambers says the $50 million the Forest Service has left is typically enough to pay for just a few days of fighting fires when the nation is at its top wildfire preparedness level, which went into effect Tuesday.

There are 51 large uncontained fires burning across the nation, making it tough to meet demands for fire crews and equipment.

Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/federal-government-wildfire-95778.html#ixzz2ceV0zUcl

... because he decided to spend money on this instead

Copied from an article published August 20, 2013 (yesterday) by the Cato Institute:

With dead protesters littering the streets of Cairo, Secretary of State John Kerry’s theory that Egypt’s military rulers “were restoring democracy” isn’t looking very good. The dead won’t be able to vote in the new and improved Egypt.

Instead of acting as the regime’s enabler, the Obama administration should cut off foreign “aid.” If there is influence for Washington to exercise, officials should do so quietly and informally.

Unfortunately, U.S. policy toward Egypt has rarely focused on the Egyptian people. The $75 billion in “aid” was largely a payoff to successive dictators and their military Praetorian Guards. Washington worried about “stability,” not democracy.

Economics means you have to make choices based on your preferences

$75 billion could pay for a lot of firefighter overtime, with money left over for their equipment, their food, their water, their medical bills, their housing, their phone calls home to their families, and many other vitally important details. Because our Muslim President decided to give away $75 billion to some terrorists in Egypt, who have used this money to burn down Christian churches, this money isn't available to prevent Idaho homeowners from losing their homes.

video of the 2013 Colorado flood

Copied fr4om an article published on August 20, 2013 (yesterday) by the Tribune-Review

AL NAZLA, Egypt — Weeks ago, Egyptian Islamists marked Christian homes here with red graffiti that vowed to defend ousted President Mohamed Morsy with “blood.”

Last week, as police and soldiers assaulted two sprawling Islamist protest camps in Cairo, Christians say members of Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood organization looted and burned two churches and a monastery dating to the 16th century.

“There were a lot, like a thousand or more,” said Milad, a custodian at Emir Tadros Monastery, founded in 1598. “As they attacked us, they yelled, ‘Allah is Great!' ”

Like other Christians in this village, Milad would give only his first name, fearing retaliation. He said his son needed 13 stitches to treat a head wound.

The attackers looted all of the monastery's rooms, he said, “and then they burned everything.”

Christian-Muslim confrontations, long a problem in Egypt, turned more frequent and deadlier since the country's 2011 revolution and again after the Brotherhood and other Islamists won control of the government in 2012.

Since Morsy's ouster on July 3, scores of Christian churches, homes and shops have been looted or torched. So many attacks have occurred in the past week that human-rights groups are struggling to track them.

Maspero Youth Union, a Coptic Christian activist group, reports 38 churches and monasteries destroyed and 23 damaged; Bishop Ermia, president of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, puts the total at 65.

This was e-mailed to me

When Obama died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates.  He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the Nation I helped conceive?"

Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed."

James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson was next, beat Obama with a long cane and snarled, "It was evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence."

The beatings and thrashings continued as James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the radical socialist leader.

As Obama lay bleeding and in pain, an Angel appeared.  Obama wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 VIRGINIANS waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?  You really need to listen when someone is trying to tell you something!"

Four videos, one wonderful woman

Michelle Dowery, during the 2012 presidential campaign. This video was uploaded to YouTube in September 2012. It has been watched more than nine million times.

The following two videos were broadcast online on January 14, 2013 and uploaded to YouTube the next day.

Two minutes out of a one-hour online broadcast. The first conversation: Interviewer: "Who are you going to vote for in 2016?" Michelle: "It darn sure won't be Obama."

Five minutes from the same broadcast. Recorded January 14, 2013.

This next video is the full one-hour online show that was broadcast on January 14, 2013.

The last two videos show parts of this one-hour video.

Thank you, Michelle Dowery, for your honesty. I wish America had seen this honesty earlier.

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Unfortunately, there are millions of people who voted for Obama and who didn't know what they were doing until it was too late.

Many of these conversations were recorded in Detroit, Michigan, which filed for bankruptcy recently.

Uploaded to YouTube in September 2012. This video begins with Michelle before she knew who Obama really was, but it also shows brief interviews with other Obama voters who only like him because he's giving them things like free food and housing assistance. The Constitution calls this bribery, and it says explicitly that this is a valid reason to impeach him.

The last president didn't cause this many problems

If President Obama truly wanted to help the middle class of this country, he would do more to help the businesses that offer jobs to the middle class.

That means reducing the regulations that put unnecessary burdens on American businesses, including these costly regulations:

• The U.S. Coal industry begs the President to reduce industry regulations August 9, 2013 article


• Regulation of commercial fishing boats by the U.S. Coast Guard


• Regulations are destroying the commercial fishing industry in New England, May 14, 2011 article


• More about the commercial fishing industry, posted on the website of a New Hampshire television station, May 11, 2011 article (good luck to any potential Presidential candidate who likes these regulations and who visits New Hampshire, looking for votes)


• From the Heritage Foundation: 20 Harmful Regulations published on their website January 26, 2011


• From Breitbart, the regulations that are associated with Obamacare, when printed on paper and stacked up in one pile, are more than seven feet tall.  March 11, 2013 article, including a photo of the seven-foot-tall stack of paper.


• How the Dodd-Frank law paved the way to bad outcomes, a blog dated August 10, 2013 on The Hill website.  The Hill covers Washington, D.C. politics.


• The Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to make bad loans, according to an article published December 21, 2012 on Reason.com.


• The regulations of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), specifically the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules, are harming electricity-generation in Ohio (and other places).  Article dated November 1, 2012 on RedState.com.


• As reported by Bloomberg (article dated November 7, 2012): President Obama "may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc."  I have an idea to reduce the deficit.  Stop giving hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars every year to people who are in this country illegally!

Every dollar that a business, large or small, has to spend on any of the above regulations is a dollar that cannot be given to a company employee, no matter how much he or she deserves to have that dollar in his or her paycheck.

That means that no matter how much you may want people in the middle class to do well, Mister President, your own regulations are driving them out of the middle class and into the lower class.

But don't worry about that tiny little detail.  The government has lots of money to spend on food stamps, subsidized housing, free telephone service, tax refunds to people who aren't even U.S. citizens, and lots of other benefits, right?

$4.2 billion was given to Mexican children, reported May 2, 2012 by the Examiner.  The link in the paragraph below is in their original article.

Investigative television reporter Bob Segall of Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR TV Channel 13, was contacted by a long-time central Indiana tax preparer, who blew the whistle on a multi-billion dollar tax fraud about which the IRS has done nothing, according to the TV news show video segment that aired on Monday.

"There is not a doubt in my mind there's huge fraud taking place here," he said, slowly flipping through the pages of a [heavily redacted] tax return.

"We're talking about a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme here that's taking place and no one is talking about it," he said.

The scheme involves illegal immigrants that are filing tax returns, claiming child credits for multiple dependents under their support in "their" U.S. household, and collecting enormous cash refunds--such as one persons tax return that showed income of over $14,000, who collected a cash refund of over $10,300.

Barak Hussein Obama, stop wasting our money and start allowing U.S. businesses to support our middle class by using the savings from reduced or eliminated regulations to hire people and give the deserving ones bonuses and raises.  That's something you're supposed to do but haven't done yet.

It's that simple, MISTER President.

Would you rather have me call you Bam-Bam?

Update on my 100th Twitter follower

The essay that mentioned a contest and my Twitter followers was published before I had 100 followers on Twitter.  Since then, I have been fortunate enough to have enough followers to push me over that milestone.  At the moment, I have 145 followers.

My 100^th Twitter follower is named Upstate Criminals.  This is the person who I have chosen to have early access to a special essay.

The essay wasn't finished when this Twitter follower became my 100^th follower, but I finished writing the essay yesterday.

The essay accuses President Obama of taking actions that harm his own country and mine.  Under United States law, he could be arrested and charged with a very serious crime called Treason.

Treason is usually defined as taking actions that "give aid and comfort" to one of this nation's enemies.  The essay names one country as being one of America's enemies (with documentation of that statement) and it says that Barak Obama, at the end of 2011, gave aid and comfort to that country.  I document those actions as well.

I began writing this essay more than a week ago.  I finished it yesterday, as I said.

Soon after I finished writing the essay, I logged onto Twitter and sent a message to Upstate Criminals, telling him that he should contact me.  As a condition of his early access to this essay, I also required that he be a subscriber to my "Conserving the Nation" blog.  That is the blog that will publish the essay.

I have not heard from that Twitter follower yet.  I can only guess why he has not contacted me so far.

I sent him a message, also visible to all my other followers, saying that if he did not contact me by Monday morning (July 29), I would publish the essay anyway, and he would lose the privilege of early access.

The essay took a long time to write.  It includes a video and a few photographs.  Most of my essays also have several links.  This essay also includes several links.

President Obama is a dangerous man to be in control of the White House and all of its' power.  It is my strong hope that many Americans will read that essay and be so outraged at his treasonous actions that they write to their representatives in Congress, urging them to begin the impeachment process that is in our Constitution.

Obama's popularity ratings are very low, but I am not satisfied, because he still has the power to order many U.S. Government agencies to take actions that hurt this country and its' citizens.  This is something that he has been doing ever since he was first sworn in, January 2009.

Obama can also order the U.S. military, as the civilian Commander-in-Chief, to take actions that harm them, even without the formal approval of a Congressional Declaration of War.  He has already used U.S. military forces against Libya when no declaration had been provided to him by the U.S. Congress.  That alone should have been grounds for impeaching him.

President Obama must be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, Convicted by the U.S. Senate, and forced to remove himself from the power of the White House, power that he has abused ever since he became president in 2009.

Whether my new essay is published today or Monday, it will help in this very worthwhile goal.

Barak Obama, save my nation the embarassment of an impeachment.

RESIGN.

[August 10, 2013 update.   I tried many times to contact my 100th Twitter follower in order to give him the early access to that essay, but he never followed up on my repeated attempts.   I then contacted another follower of my Twitter account, someone who is also a member of the U.S. Congress, but he also didn't respond to my attempt to give him early access to the essay.  Finally, I published the essay called "Barak Obama is a traitor to his country"on Monday, July 29th]

Shout out to a fellow patriot.

I have an essay that lists about 40 reasons to impeach the President of the United States, Barak Hussein Obama.

For the benefit of my international readers, impeachment is a peaceful method of removing many elected officials in our government who have taken actions that violate our Constitution or who have performed their jobs exceptionally poorly in other ways.

Another person who writes a blog has published his own essay that lists reasons to impeach President Obama, which are called "Articles of Impeachment" in the U.S. Constitution.  His essay lists 115 reasons to impeach him, about four times as many reasons as I have.  Many of his 115 Articles have links to other articles, such as this one.

Those other articles serve the purpose of documenting the facts that he offers in support of the impeachment resolution that he and I both want the U.S. House of Representatives to produce and approve, followed by a historic vote in the U.S. Senate to convict Mr. Obama, which would result in him being forcibly but peacefully (I hope) removed from the White House.

Well done, Peter Paton, well done.

Readership Statistics

Total number of readers: 27,815 as of February 10, 2020.

This blog does not have as much readership as my other blogs, but I want my readers to know the names of the most popular essays so that they can find them with the help of these links, read them, and send links to these essays to their friends.

When I started this blog, I intended it to have shorter essays that could be read easily on "mobile devices", including personal digital assistants like the Blackberry, shown on the left, which was very popular at that time.  I tried to accomplish this goal by copying some of my most popular blog pages on my other blogs, while reducing the number of photos and videos that were on these pages.

As a blog author, I have access to some analytical information about my blogs.  That information includes the names of the operating systems that are being used to read these pages.  When I looked at the analytical information for this page, I discovered that "mobile devices" weren't being used by a majority of the readers of this blog, so I "rededicated" this blog to shorter, more "lightweight" essays.

I have a separate page on this blog that lists the 20 most popular essays on all six of my blogs combined, but this page is dedicated to the essays on this blog.

This update was made on February 10, 2020.  The last update was made on June 22, 2018.

The ten most well-read essays on this blog

Name of Essay	Readers
My 20 most popular essays	2,801
Two of my seven blogs have most of the essays, and
those two blogs also get most of the readership.
This blog page lists the 20 essays, on all of my 7 blogs,
that have the largest number of readers.  However,
this page also lists the four most well-read pages
on the other five blogs, including this one.
Boycott the National Football League on Veteran's Day	2,016
This page mentions Alejandro Villanueva, who was an
Army Ranger and until recently, a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers.  Because he stood for the National
Anthem prior to a September 2017 game, when his
teammates were all in the locker room, the sales of
his football jersey skyrocketed.  I quoted one story
and linked to 16 other stories about this event.
My Twitter information	1,437
This page includes a statement of my standards for
retweeting messages, and it also includes a list of some
of the people who follow my Twitter account, including
members of Congress and past presidential candidates.
Voter identification prevents voter fraud	1,115
This essay compares voters in the United States with
voters in other countries, including India and Mexico,
that must show identification when they vote.  India
has over a billion people, yet their voters all have an
identification card, and Mexican voters also have them.
Now you know why college is so expensive	744
This blog page was inspired by a photo of a U.S. Senator
who is a hypocrite.  The photo, with the caption on it,
was spotted on my Twitter account.  I copied and pasted it
onto an empty blog page and added a short explanation.
Summary of the Sample Articles of Impeachment	643
This is a summary of another essay on another blog.
That essay is a long list of President Obama's impeachable
offenses, which is one of the most popular pages on any
of my blogs.  This essay includes a clickable link to that essay.
Boycott the National Football League - updates	553
This page mentions the N.F.L. Player's Association, the
2017 meeting attended by owners and the Commissioner,
Colin Kapernick,and various well-known people who agree
with the fans that players should stand for the Anthem.
The economics of the N.F.L. boycott	511
This page has information about the revenue of the
teams and the league.  It mentions sponsors who have
decided to stop sponsoring teams.  Colin Kapernick's
lawsuit is discussed.  I also include news stories about
half-empty football stadiums and slow sales at stores
that sell N.F.L.-licensed clothing.
Why I am a Republican	255
This page includes a YouTube video of a state legislator
named Elbert Guillory.  He is a State Senator in Louisiana.
He says why he switched from the Democrat Party.
His reasoning is hard to disagree with, partly because
he talks in a calm, quiet voice without strong emotion.
Seeing racism and sexism where it doesn't exist	432
This essay is based on my personal experience attending
a chess club at a public library many years ago.

Also worth reading on this blog

This gun saved lives. This page includes a 2013 news story about a woman who successfully defended herself and two small children when a man broke into her home.

Richard Nixon's second impeachment article. There are similarities to actions taken by President Obama.  There is a detailed explanation of those similarities in this page on another blog, that shows how Obama committed every one of the impeachable offenses that President Nixon did in his two abbreviated terms, which ended when he resigned as President in August 1974.


Why I am a Republican.  This page has been read 311 times as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2013.  At that time, a man named Elbert Guillory, a member of the Louisiana State Senate, had just switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.  He recorded a video of himself stating his reasons why he made the switch.  Since then, he has retired from the Louisiana Senate, but he is now part of the executive team in the Louisiana Republican Party.

Race for Dummies

Starting in the late 1990s, a company published a series of popular books that helped people with limited skills in certain areas improve their skills by reading these "How To" books.  One sample book is shown on the left.  My essay, written in March 2015, explained the basic principles of social color-blindness that had been discussed in much more detail in the third essay I had ever written for any of my blogs, The End of Racism.

In its' most simple form, the concept of color-blindness is the natural result of an inconsistency in the concept of race.  If you believe in race, and if two people from two different races become the parents of a biological child together, then the child cannot be a member of either of its' parent's races because it shares the DNA of both parents.  The definition of those two races is instantly unusable as a way to define the race of the child.

Water Economics for Students, 328 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written on July 26, 2016.  At that time, my essay "Water Economics" on my main blog was receiving thousands of readers daily, and from many different countries around the world.  I wrote this page for students in elementary schools and middle schools, so that they would understand how the scientific principles that they were learning in school could be applied to the problem of the drought in California.  This same concept, using science to solve a problem that affects a large economy, is the basic concept of the original 2012 blog page "Water Economics'.

This page uses many more graphics than my original 2012 page, meant for adult readers.  It uses some animated graphics, and it also uses colored text for everything but quotes of other people's words.  The page has a different feel, too.  It copies the style of some children's literature, which encourages them to take a "hands-on" approach to the task of learning the science concepts that give them the tools to understand the other ideas.  I even included two versions of a diagram that explained something called a Water Cycle.

Both diagrams show the same science principles.

A message for Kevin, 252 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2015 when I saw a cartoon drawing about a soldier with an amputated leg inside of a public school classroom that included one student, named Kevin, who didn't want to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  I added more information later, including some information about a Major General in the Army who had been killed in Afghanistan in 2014.  Many people were outraged because three high-ranking officials went to a funeral for Michael Brown, who had been killed by a police officer after robbing a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, yet no high-ranking people in Obama's White House attended the military funeral for an Army general.  I also added some photos of the funeral for some soldiers who served at Fort Hood, Texas, and who were murdered by a jihadi who was a psychiatrist at that base.

The ten countries that have sent the most visitors to this blog

These are the names and the numbers since I began writing this blog on December 10, 2012.

The names of these countries and their readership numbers have been verified by Google.  The number of readers from Brunei hasn't changed since the last update in June 2018, but that number is still high enough to qualify that country for this list.  Ireland only added two readers to this list since the last update.

Another piece of analytical information that I can see as a blog author is the number of readers during the past 30 days.  During the past 30 days up to the date of this update (February 10, 2020), there were 9 readers in Turkey, 5 readers in Argentina, 5 readers in Indonesia, and 5 readers in Mexico.

The June 2018 update of this page included 107 readers from Poland, but the number of readers from unknown countries (probably using virtual private networks) is now more than that number, so Poland is no longer on this list.
 

This part of this page will be updated whenever I update the list of the ten most popular essays.

Country	Visitors
United States	17,723
Russia	1,966
Germany	1,631
France	1,179
India	664
Ukraine	614
Canada	255
Brunei	236
Ireland	188
"unknown region"	154