Obama’s Department of (In)Justice Revises FOIA To Lie To Americans

This is the brand of “transparency” Obama has brought to the American people. He ran on the promise of transparency and has become the most secretive President in history. Now his DOJ is revising Freedom of Information Act rules to allow the government to knowingly lie to Americans.

Jennifer LeFleur reports via ProPublica:

A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.

Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.

The new proposal – part of a lengthy rule revision by the Department of Justice – would direct government agencies to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist.”

Translation: The Obama administration can hide the truth about their crimes to the American public.

Open-government groups object.

“We don’t believe the statute allows the government to lie to FOIA requesters,” said Mike German, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the provision.

The ACLU, along with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and OpenTheGovernment.org said the move would “dramatically undermine government integrity by allowing a law designed to provide public access to government to be twisted.

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Democrats Propose Trillions in Tax Hikes to Continue Their Spending Spree

Yes. The word is trillions. Instead of ending their spending spree that has already caused one credit downgrade on top of another looming downgrade, Democrats want to raise taxes by the TRILLIONS.

The Hill reports:

Democrats on the congressional supercommittee this week presented Republicans with a plan to cut the deficit that included billions of dollars in stimulus spending, aides told The Hill.

In a private meeting of the deficit panel Tuesday, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, presented a proposal backed by a majority of Democrats on the panel that includes more than a trillion dollars in tax increases. The revenue would partially cover stimulus spending for the economy, aides said.

More than 50 percent of the deficit reduction in the plan would come from tax increases, one source said.

Basically the Democrats will continue to spend. Where is their budget for the past two years? Where is their plan to cut their spending by 50%, instead of raising taxes on Americans? That’s tax and spend liberals for you.

The plan from Democrats approaches the $3 trillion in deficit reduction that was included in the “grand bargain” that lawmakers debated over the summer.

Paul Ryan had a plan that cut $4 trillion and the Senate Democrats voted it down. Remember Cut, Cap and Balance? This move by the Democrats is just political. Like Obama, they know Republicans want to cut spending and will vote against raising taxes to continue this Democratic spending spree.

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Can We Call Them Socialists Now? Obama Education Secretary Says Obama’s Student Loan Bailout Will Address Income Inequality

The Democratic Party is dead. Let’s call them what they are and rightfully so because of their actions. Those who have the (D) behind their names are pure-breed socialists. Their words and actions prove it.

Obama terrible Education Secretary (look at the Chicago school system for evidence), Arne Duncan, said that Obama’s 10% cap on college loans will address ‘income inequality.’ That is socialism.

From The Hill:

President Obama’s education reform efforts will address growing income inequality in the U.S., Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Duncan promoted the administration’s jobs plan, portions of which are targeted at updating school facilities and hiring teachers.

He also blasted Congress for not moving forward with Obama’s jobs bill, saying the nation needs to “stop subsidizing banks and give that money to young people.”

Arne and Obama forget to tell these young people that Obama bailed out the banks, auto industry and unions with his stimulus.

…“What we’re trying to do is help on the back end, to reduce those monthly payments on those loans,” Duncan said. “To make sure folks have a better opportunity to be successful there — less defaults will strengthen the economy, and we can do this by ourselves. We don’t have to wait for Congress — we can’t wait for Congress. We’re moving ahead today.”

The socialist dictatorship is being exposed. This administration continues to usurp Congressional powers to push their socialist agenda. Obama can’t run on his record and its hard to explain to college students why there are no jobs for them. It’s easier for Obama to buy them off.

According to Duncan, the Know Before You Owe plan will cap monthly student loan payments at 10 to 15 percent of the graduate’s income.

They claim this will cost the taxpayers nothing. However, when the government takes taxpayer money to subsidize education, via student loans, and now will cause a 5% loss in interest rates, that’s a loss in revenue.

“Basically we want people to have more disposable income,” he continued. “We want to reduce those monthly payments, and this can reduce those monthly payments by up to a couple of hundred dollars, so this is very significant both for recent college graduates as well as those currently in school.”

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Welcome to the 53%: We are Not Occupy Wall Street…We Pay Taxes

F*ck the so-called 99%ers. Call them what they are. Parasitic leeches who depend upon the 53% who pay federal income taxes. It really is a battle between the responsible and the adult baby movement.

I am a 53%er!

NEW YORK (CNN) — Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there’s a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd.

They call themselves the 53%…as in the 53% of Americans who pay federal income taxes. And they are making their voices heard on Tumblr blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages devoted to stories of personal responsibility and work ethic.

Personal responsibility and work ethic isn’t commonly found among liberals or the Occupy Wall Street movement. They tend to be like the grasshopper who depends upon the hard  work of the ants.

The number originates in the estimate that roughly 47% of Americans don’t pay federal income tax, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. The 53 percenters stress the fact that they are paying the taxes that support the government assistance the protesters say they want.

47% pay no federal income tax, yet President Obama continues to campaign on the lie that the top 1% don’t pay their ‘fair share.’

Kevin Eder was among the first to galvanize those who wanted to differentiate themselves from the thousands of people rallying across the nation to raise awareness of thegrowing economic gap between the rich and everyone else.

In early October, Eder created the Twitter hashtag #iamthe53, which has since been posted in hundreds of tweets as the backlash to Occupy Wall Street mounts.

“I would never identify myself with those occupying Wall Street,” said Eder, 26, a business analyst in Washington D.C. “The frustration was born out of people claiming to speak for me who don’t.”

Many of those tweeting share the belief that the protesters need to stop complaining about the government and financial institutions and start looking for work. Ken Gardner, an attorney in Dallas, joined the conversation because he opposes government handouts.

“We don’t want to be the 53% who carries the 47% on our shoulders,” said Gardner, who thinks more people should pay federal income taxes.

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Paul Ryan Speaks Out About Obama’s Rhetoric and Class Warfare Tactics (Video)

Obama is a classic socialist liberal. He can’t run on his record, so he has turned his campaign into one based on class warfare and blame. Paul Ryan calls out the hypocrite we all know Obama to be.

“We do not want to have a country of a majority of takers — we want to have a country of a majority of makers.”

Obama wants the opposite. He just said that if he loses in 2012, we will have a government that tells you that you’re own your on. This is our problem. We have 47% who live off the 53% that pay taxes.

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Paula Deen Sounds Off on Michelle Obama’s Food Hypocrisy

I love Paula Deen and after hearing her call out Michelle Obama’s hypocrisy, I love her even more. Paula took on the food Nazi and pointed out what we all have known. Michelle talks, and eats, out of both sides of her mouth, just like her husband. Obama also pointed out Michelle’s hypocrisy.

MICHELLE OBAMA is now furious with Southern cooking queen PAULA DEEN for crowing that the first lady, a healthy-eat­ing advocate who’s waging a war against childhood obesity, pigs out on fatten­ing foods.

While plugging her new book, “Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible,” the feisty TV chef took a pot shot at Michelle for gorging herself on greasy french fries, fatty hot chicken wings and sug­ary deep-fried Snickers bars!

…The trouble first be­gan before Barack Obama was even elected president in 2008, when Michelle made a guest appearance on Deen’s popular “Paula’s Party” show and revealed that fried shrimp was her family’s favorite meal.

Then in an interview af­ter filming the program, Paula quipped that Michelle would be serving high-fat, greasy and sugary foods in the White House if Obama won the elec­tion!

Now Paula is rehashing those at­tacks on Michelle in an attempt to plug her latest cookbook and offset Michelle’s new book about eating healthy, noted the source.

“She’s no different than the rest of us,” Paula said about Michelle in a new interview.

Paula added: “She probably ate more than any other guest I ever had on the show! She kept eating even dur­ing commercials. Know what (the Obamas’) favorite foods are? Hot wings. Y’know – those kinds of foods that aren’t necessarily top-of-the-listhealthy foods.”

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Former Soviet Union Citizen Faces Off With Socialist-backing Occupy Wall Street Protesters (Video)

Someone who has lived under the rules of Socialism schools Occupy Wall Street idiots about the differences between capitalism and socialism.

Notice how angry these Socialist are? These are the people Obama support.

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Former Goldman Sachs Executive, and Obama Donor, Indicted on Securities Fraud

Another crook who donated to Obama and other Democrats has been charged with insider trading. The Associated Press conveniently leaves out that Raj Rajaratnam is a Democrat who gave campaign contributions to Obama, Hillary and Chuck Schumer.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble surrendered Wednesday to face a six-count securities fraud indictment that makes him the latest defendant in the biggest insider trading case in history.

The charges against Rajat Gupta were unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where the indictment accused him of cheating the markets with Raj Rajaratnam, the convicted hedge fund founder who was the probe’s prime target.

Gupta, 62, of Westport, Conn., was awaiting an arraignment on one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and five counts of securities fraud.

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Reuters: Obama Is Full of Shit….or Something to that Effect

You know things are going bad when the liberal media points out that Obama is a fraud.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is bombarding Americans with job initiatives that may lack economic heft but show him as an activist leader compared to a ‘do-nothing’ Congressas he campaigns for re-election in 2012.

Reuters is helping pitch Obama’s campaign idea. Obama can’t run on his dismal economic record, so he wants to blame Congress for his failed policies. Thanks for helping him out Reuters. Notice how they admit that Obama’s economic plans have no economic heft?

Obama will have rolled out three separate measures in three days when he wraps up a tour of electorally vital western states on Wednesday, and more moves are coming.

All of Obama’s plan are through executive order so he can usurp Congressional power to spread the wealth in the hopes of buying votes.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfieffer said the Democratic president will use executive orders and other tools to deliver initiatives “on a consistent basis for months to come.”

Someone wants to be a dictator so bad.

“While the policy benefits of this new proposal are at best small, this is unquestionably a useful political weapon for the president,” noted Keith Hennessey, who worked in Republican former president George W Bush’s White House.

With 14 million Americans out of work, the economy is struggling to gain momentum amid fears that an intractable European debt crisis may tip the United States back into recession.

Opinion polls showed Obama’s approval ratings stuck near record lows, although a new survey by Gallup detected a tiny improvement in confidence.

Obama deployed an executive order to help homeowners on Monday while in Las Vegas — the epicenter of the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble since 2006.

On Tuesday his administration issued a “challenge” to community healthcare centers to hire 8,000 military veterans over the next three years.

On Wednesday Obama will announce at an event in Denver that he is changing the rules to ease the growing burden of student loans.

These steps could help 1 million borrowers who owe more on their homes than the properties are worth, lower the income cap on loan payments for 1.6 million graduates, while cutting monthly student loan rates for 6 million more.

Got to give out freebies to keep the gullible voting for a failed president.

William Galston, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said such measures will do little to boost growth of the $14 trillion U.S. economy but will enhance the image of Obama as an economic leader.

Only to those devoted to Obama and who have no grasp of reality.

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Tax Cheat, Timothy Geithne: Obama Has Been ‘Relentlessly Focused’ on Jobs

Obama has been relentlessly focused on his own job. He’s been campaigning since he first took step into the White House.

From theL.A. Times:

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner strongly defended President Obama from criticism that he was distracted from dealing with the economy in 2009 as he tried to pass healthcare reform.

“Absolutely not,” Geithner told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell when asked if Obama had taken “his eye off the ball on jobs.”

“He was relentlessly focused on it,” Geithner said in the interview that aired Tuesday night. “And in fact he was doing things that were deeply difficult politically for him.”

Paying back his campaign donors wasn’t difficult for Obama.

Geithner cited the $825-billion stimulus package passed in early 2009, along with the government rescue of General Motors and Chrysler, as well as enactment of financial reform as proof Obama was focused on reducing unemployment.

Spent trillions, bailed out politically-connect car companies and their unions and took over the financial industry for what? Higher unemployment, billions of taxpayer dollars lost and the banks still may need another bailout. This is what Geithner calls “relentlessly focused?”

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