Dem Capos Demand Don Obama Enforce Loyalty Oaths

Senate Democrats want a crackdown on companies that have fled their extortionist policies.  Capos Durbin, Warren and Reed want Don Obama to remind these taxpaying soldiers of their obligation to the federal government.  They want undying loyalty to this thing called Cosa Nostra.  Here is an excerpt from their letter to the Godfather, as reported by the Hill:

“Corporations that renounce their U.S. corporate citizenship should not be able to reap all the benefits that American tax dollars provide,” they wrote. “We urge you to use your authority to stand up for American companies which are proud to be part of our nation and reduce U.S. incentives for others corporations which would abandon their responsibilities to their country for a nod of approval from Wall Street.”

The senators warned that 47 corporations have inverted operations in the last decade, with over a dozen more announcing plans to do the same. If the government does not act soon, the U.S. could lose billions of dollars in tax revenue from companies that enjoy perks provided here, they cautioned.

“Inverted corporations take advantage of all the things American tax dollars provide—from tax credits for research and development, investments in transportation infrastructure, and strong patent and copyright protections, to profiting from taxpayer-supported programs like Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration. Yet, these companies claim to be foreign corporations when it’s time to pay their tax bill,” they wrote.

The federal mafia needs those soldiers producing.  And they had better.  After all, they have all the benefits of this thing called a family.  By the way, once you’re in, you can’t leave.

Source:  http://thehill.com/policy/finance/214343-senate-dems-urge-obama-to-act-alone-on-inversions#ixzz39ee5Fscv 

Princess Pelosi Throws Pearls at the Middle Class

Princess Pelosi is astounded at the charge that Democrats are playing one group of citizens against another. That charge of course is class warfare:

“Am I missing something here?” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked Sunday at the 2011 New Yorker Festival. “That is an illegitimate charge in a country that has life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in its founding documents.”

And isn’t it convenient that the princess would invoke our founding documents, especially after she denounced our Constitution as antiquated.

But I digress. The princess has more gems of wisdom:

“We reward success. I’ve got these pearl earrings,” she joked. “God bless [corporations] for their success, God bless the shareholders who participate in that success. But let’s not forget the workers who contributed to that success. And as long as productivity and wages continue to go like that — productivity up, wages not rising in any relation to productivity — we’re going to have an erosion of the middle class. We’re going to have people slipping down from it. Most people in the country, no matter how poor they are, believe they are in the middle class, and that’s where they want to be, and we have to honor that aspiration.”

The reason we have an erosion of the middle class is because we have companies fleeing the United States, thanks to the regulatory state and burdensome taxes that her Grace has helped to create. The princess doesn’t reward success. She demeans it and taxes it. And if you don’t fit into her little rubric of what a company exist for, then you can kiss your business goodbye.

Pearls before swine, Princess!

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/185123-pelosi-says-gop-is-using-class-warfare-term-as-a-defense?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

Van Jones's Lie #1: America's Not Broke

Here is Van Jones, the prince of deceit, expounding his LIES to a bunch of gullible, ill-informed wannabe social revolutionaries.  According to this Soros toady, the United States isn’t broke.  Why, just look around at all the wealth in this prosperous country.  Never mind that it doesn’t belong to him or the federal government; after all, what are property rights to a Marxist.

Than the prince of thieves goes on to name a litany of villains who robbed the country blind.  Of course, you know it’s the “corporations” and Wall Street fat cats who caused this terrible mess.  But he doesn’t go into details as to why these companies got bailouts, or as to why they don’t pay taxes.  That’s because it has the stench of Washington D.C. all over it.

If you really want to know why the economy collapsed read this book: 

Reckless Endangerment:  How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner.

  Maybe the authors should send an autographed copy to this statist pig.      

Barack Obama Should Have Disclaimer

Barack Obama is again compelled to bash corporations. He has an unhealthy outlook on the United States, and particularly free speech and enterprise.

It's alright if his anti-American minions place ads and hide behind shadowy 527 programs, but God forbid a corporation runs an advertisement to defend themselves against an unscrupulous politician.

Maybe Obama should have a disclaimer every time he appears on television: funded by SEIU, The Teachers Union and George Soros.


Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
August 21, 2010


As the political season heats up, Americans are already being inundated with the usual phone calls, mailings, and TV ads from campaigns all across the country. But this summer, they’re also seeing a flood of attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don’t know who’s behind these ads and we don’t know who’s paying for them.


The reason this is happening is because of a decision by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case – a decision that now allows big corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections. They can buy millions of dollars worth of TV ads – and worst of all, they don’t even have to reveal who is actually paying for them. You don’t know if it’s a foreign-controlled corporation. You don’t know if it’s BP. You don’t know if it’s a big insurance company or a Wall Street Bank. A group can hide behind a phony name like “Citizens for a Better Future,” even if a more accurate name would be “Corporations for Weaker Oversight.”


We tried to fix this last month. There was a proposal supported by Democrats and Republicans that would’ve required corporate political advertisers to reveal who’s funding their activities. When special interests take to the airwaves, whoever is running and funding the ad would have to appear in the advertisement and take responsibility for it – like a company’s CEO or an organization’s biggest contributor. And foreign-controlled corporations and entities would be restricted from spending money to influence American elections – just as they were in the past.


You would think that making these reforms would be a matter of common sense. You’d think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections wouldn’t be a partisan issue.


But the Republican leaders in Congress said no. In fact, they used their power to block the issue from even coming up for a vote.


This can only mean that the leaders of the other party want to keep the public in the dark. They don’t want you to know which interests are paying for the ads. The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.


Well, we cannot allow the corporate takeover of our democracy. So we’re going to continue to fight for reform and transparency. And I urge all of you to take up the same fight. Let’s challenge every elected official who benefits from these ads to defend this practice or join us in stopping it.

H/T:  Weazel Zippers