New Polls; Only 48% Believe President Obama can be trusted to keep His Words & 49% Say America’s Best Days are Forever Gone:

New Polls; Only 48% Believe President Obama can be trusted to keep His Words & 49% Say America’s Best Days are Forever Gone:
By Marc Chamot & Source: Examiner.com

“Mounting doubts are growing on President Obama, being able to re-employ the millions of OUT of WORK Americans.”

“Those who said Obama could be trusted TO KEEP HIS WORDS, dropped to a SHEER 48% this month, from 58% in April."

That's the big problem with President Obama:

While we’ve got a little good economical news on unemployment, unemployment claims are going down. But there are still hundreds of thousands weekly who are still going out of work.

Fewer people are filing unemployment claims, and maybe we’re finally reaching the bottom of gutter in jobs loses, but there doesn’t seem to be any solutions in re-employing the millions of Americans who had lost their jobs within the past three years. We recently went from a staggering high 741,000 lost jobs in January, down to 467,000 in June to a projected July of 340,000.

But regardless what were the job loses so far, this president and his Democratic cohorts have a daunting task to begin re-employing the over 16 million out of work Americans.

The real economic indicators for this country will be when millions of Americans begin to get back to work, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, regardless of the declining jobs loses and what the Wall Street stock market TELL us.

We couldn’t care less what this stock market is doing, while millions of out of work Americans are still jobless, “stupid.”

This is where President Obama will either shine into American political glory, or it will be his ultimate demise.

I’ve posted the solutions to address this problem, and I will do it again soon.

The plan includes bringing back thousands of lost factories and manufactories that went abroad, revamping these one sided trade deals that’s killing our economy, increasing foreign tariffs on all imports, and figuring out how to get Americans back into these predicted 8 million jobs, which illegal immigrants have taken away from desperate jobless Americans.

But the problems for President Barack Obama are still lingering and mounting.

New poll numbers just came out, and the free fall in approval ratings for this president is still hitting him head on. He is still slipping badly, and Obama had to actually reboot his presidential strategies with his cabinets.

Poll numbers show that the president’s usual rhetoric’s are just that rhetoric, he’s becoming less believable and credible among Americans. He’s losing the “trust” and “his popularity” in support for his policies.

An ABC News and Wall Street Journal poll found Obama’s job approval at 53 percent, down from 61 % back in April.

But meanwhile at Rasmussen Reports, they show Obama breaking below the 50% margin, to a LOW 48% and a high 51%, who are now disapproving/discontent in the way President Obama is running this country.

This also includes 49 percent of Americans who think that the country’s best days are behind and gone, while only 38% believe it will get any better. And I’m sure that these stats are deep doubts that President Obama can EVER get these over 16 Million unemployed Americans, re-employed again.

A startling 10% point’s drop for Obama among those who believe he would bring “real” change, from a 61% in February.

"Take one look at this key poll folks, “those who said Obama could be trusted TO KEEP HIS WORDS, dropped to a SHEER 48% this month, from 58% in April."

Polls also show that the harder Obama pushes for his Obamacare, or healthcare reforms, the worse it gets for him. 42 percent of Americans believe that the Obamacare plan is very “flawed” and a bad idea, another 10% jump down from what it was a month ago.

If President Barack Obama keeps on ignoring American economical and jobs issues, it will be over-rover for Democrats in these upcoming midterm elections, especially with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, possibly considered by some historians as the “worst” house speaker EVER in American history.

And if these “Blue Dogs” Democrats, keep rolling over for Obama and don’t listen to their more conservative constituents with their pet issues, they will be over and out soon.

The way things are heading, it will be a matter of time before the Democrats hand over the Senate and the house to either Republicans or Independents.

A great strategy for Republicans and Independents, for the upcoming elections, would be to claim/reclaim their lost conservative territories from these failed “Blue Dogs” experiments.

Death of Lily Burk; California’s Dysfunctional Court Systems’ Three Strikes Law, Fails to protect another Teenager’s LIFE from a Dangerous Criminal:

Death of Lily Burk; California’s Dysfunctional Court Systems’ Three Strikes Law, Fails to protect another Teenager’s LIFE from a Dangerous Criminal:
By Marc Chamot

“What’s good for one race should be equally as good for the other, right?” Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama brought up race during the campaigns and most recently.

Oh yeah, I forgot, this wasn’t another “black” Harvard professor being under the illusion of being racially discriminated by white cops.

It was a precious 17 year old white girl being kidnapped, robbed and murdered in her own car, by a black man, a habitual dangerous criminal, and one of those thousands who roam around the state of California with rap sheets a mile long.

Here is just another black on a white child crime, but where are President Barack Obama and Eric Holder on this one? Let’s talk about race; I’m not a “coward,” shall we?

How many more of our precious children, whether black, Latino and white, are going to be raped and murdered by California’s dysfunctional felon laws and its CRAZY court systems?

Liberal California judges and its court systems allow mainly “minorities,” and “white” sex predators, to be let loose and free in this society, and to even circumvent California’s “three strikes laws.”

This scumbag, and dirt bucket, Charles Samuel, should have been locked up for life; his criminal record qualified him for it. But no, he was let out, and then brutally murdered this promising scholarly girl the other day.

What in the HELL is California’s three strikes law FOR, if our idiotic court systems don’t want to follow its mandates?

This law was enacted by angry California voters in 1994, those who were getting sick and tired of these criminals running amuck and killing in their cities.

The first true "three strikes" law, voters approved Initiative 593. California passed its own in 1994, when that state voters passed Proposition 184 by an overwhelming majority, 72% in favor and 28% against. The initiative proposed to the voters had the title of Three Strikes and You're Out, referring to de facto life imprisonment after being convicted of three felonies.

The law was intended to put murderers, rapists and hardcore violent criminals in prison for 25 years to life, but 65 percent of those imprisoned have been sentenced for nonviolent offenses.

California’s Three Strikes law is the harshest in the country. No other state allows someone to be convicted under Three Strikes for a nonviolent offense.

Charles Samuel was a prime candidate for California’s three strikes law, and for life in prison, after a felony and series of serious misdemeanors. And on top of it, he racked up three none drug related felonies!

But to this guy, EVEN three felonies did not equal life in prison under the California three strikes law:

1987: Felony home invasion robbery, felony burglary, unlawful taking of vehicle in San Bernardino.

1997: Felony burglary in San Bernardino.

2006: Felony petty theft with prior theft in Los Angeles.

Samuel should have been locked up before his third felony in 2006, but he was not, and yet he was allowed to murder an innocent 17 years old child three years later.

This poor sweet girl, Lily Burk was only running errands for her mom, when this MONSTER grabbed her, kidnapped, robbed and murdered her.

Folks, I will keep on saying it again and again, California’s justice system on minorities and other felons is a system in total shambles.

Another by-product of a failed enforcement of the tree strikes law, do you all remember Lovelle Mixon, the killer of the four Oakland cops? This guy never belonged in the streets, but did anyway, and four GOOD cops got murdered.

This liberal court systems in the state of California, has become protectionists for these viperous and extremely dangerous criminals.

Rather than providing a safer society for its law abiding citizens, mainly security for children and for those who want to run about free from dangerous criminals. This state government and its court systems, keep putting everybody’s lives in deeper danger.

This Charles Samuel has better get the death penalty for his crime, just as I supported the death penalties for those three white racists, in the viscous dragging death murder of an innocent, and decent black man, James Byrd of Jasper Texas.

Suspect in Lily Burk's slaying had 10 prior convictions, DA says
1:02 PM July 29, 2009

The man charged in the slaying of 17-year-old Lily Burk has 10 criminal convictions in the last 30 years including felony burglary and home invasion, according to information from the L.A. Dist. Atty.'s Office.

Most of the convictions were for misdemeanor crimes such as DUI and theft, according to the information, which The Times requested.

Charles Samuel, 50, was charged Tuesday with murder, kidnapping and robbery -- charges that could make him subject to the death penalty.

Burk never returned to her family's Los Feliz home Friday after running an errand for her mother at Southwestern Law School in the city's Mid-Wilshire area. In the afternoon, she made two odd calls to her parents asking how to use a credit card to withdraw cash at an ATM. About 7 p.m., they contacted police to report her missing. Later that night, police tracked Burk's cellphone and ATM activity to the skid row and Little Tokyo areas, but a search into the early hours of Saturday morning turned up nothing.

At dawn, however, Burk's lifeless body was discovered in the passenger seat of her Volvo in a downtown parking lot. She had been beaten about the head and her neck was slashed.Here is the list of the suspect's convictions:

1978: Misdemeanor grand theft in San Bernardino County.
1981: Misdemeanor petty theft in San Bernardino.
1985: Misdemeanor providing false information to a peace office in San Bernardino.
1985: Misdemeanor under the influence of a controlled substance in San Bernardino.
1986: Misdemeanor under the influence of a controlled substance in San Bernardino.
1987: Felony home invasion robbery, felony burglary, unlawful taking of vehicle in San Bernardino.
1997: Felony burglary in San Bernardino.
2003: Misdemeanor driving on a suspended license in Los Angeles County.
2006: Felony petty theft with prior theft in Los Angeles.
2009: Misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in Los Angeles.

Samuel has not entered a plea in Burk's slaying.

Police said they have collected footage from surveillance cameras showing Samuel driving away from the area of the law school in Burk's car with her in the passenger seat, with Burk at a downtown ATM machine and then abandoning the car late Friday afternoon in the parking lot where Burk's body was found.Fingerprints lifted from the inside of the car have been matched to Samuel, who reportedly made incriminating statements to detectives after his arrest. They believe that Burk was killed within about 45 minutes of her last call to her parents and hours before she was reported missing.

America's New Political Power Tool for the People, the American Press is Losing/Taking a Backseat to the Net, in Influence over American Politics:

The Internet Revolution; America's New Political Power Tool for the People, the American Press is Losing/Taking a Backseat to the Net, in Influence over American Politics:
By Marc Chamot

It was back around November 1986 when then former President Ronald Reagan signed America’s first immigration amnesty law, a law that was being pushed by the majority Democrats in congress at the time. It was a law which the majority of Americans did not support.

Back then we had a sold out media press corps, who were asked by these politicians to sell to the American people, to sell the idea of amnesty for five million illegal aliens running loose in this country, but those were the times when Americans had no computers, no emails, just a lowly typewriter and the U.S. snail mail services, which most Americans didn’t have the time to fight back.

To sell the idea of amnesty to Americans, it was pretty simple, let’s promise them that we will shut down the border with Mexico, and this will be the last of illegal immigration we’ll ever see in this country, we promise.

Then Reagan and congress passed this new law, against the better wishes of most Americans at the time. American’s voices weren’t being heard by these politicians, we were all screwed.

The only thing that disgusted Americans could do was bitch and moan in local bars, or at work, then someone would cry out, “Well hell man, that’s our government, they can do whatever they want, right? Didn’t you know that man?”

Well, yeah. I guess.

Let’s fast forward to 1994, the year of the Republican revolution in the U.S. congress.

That was under former President Bill Clinton. These Republicans wanted to begin enforcements of an agreed past trade treaty between Canada, Mexico and the United States, NAFTA. Most Americans were dead set against it, but these politicians, coolly beckoned the American press corps once again, to sell Americans on the cool things about NAFTA, like being able to by your next drill set for half the price you’ve been accustomed to paying for. Imagine folks, what the cheap labor will do for you, you’ll save a whole lot of money for future consumer goods. Your money will go a very long way.

It was quite ingenious really! Basically government pitted American labor vs. American consumers, it was a great strategy, and government let Americans with their greed to have affordable imported products win over American labor and lost jobs.

Bill Clinton and the Republican congress signed this into law, the NAFTA bill against the better wishes of most Americans at the time. And once again, American voices weren’t being heard by these politicians, we were all screwed again.

But guess what folks? These cheap prices for those drill sets never materialized. These corporate magnates were wowed, by the extra cash from cheap labor which provided them, they decided to keep their prices the same at Wal-Mart and other places, they racked in billions of dollars in pure profit!

But those were the times when Americans just started with computers, with the Internet, and emails, but these services were in its infancy.

The only thing that disgusted Americans could do was bitch and moan in the local bars, or at work, and then someone would cry out, “Well hell man, that’s our government, they can do whatever they want, right? Didn’t you know that man?”

Well, yeah. I guess.

And now in 2009, 24 years after the 1986 amnesty bill, our 5 million illegal immigrants who got amnesty, most got their citizenships, while our borders were never sealed, and now we’ve got a bursting 12 plus million more illegal aliens in this country.

In 2009, 15 years after the 1994 NAFTA bill, our manufacturing job loses have exceeded 4 million lost American workers. China has benefited the most, and they are the country of origin of most flooded products that is found on most of our store shelves around this country.

But something very interesting happened right before President George Bush’s second term, in 2004.

This was the time the Internet began to get into high gear. Political blogs, political message boards, political discussion boards, political community boards, and political websites were beginning to blossom. That is where it all began, the negativities on former President Bush and the Republicans.

While the usual mainstream media and the suck-up press stayed on the sidelines to watch, the Internet was becoming relentless and ruthless on President Bush and his Republicans. The majority of the people on the Net were so punishing hard, and unfortunately when the press began to catch on; George Bush was into his second term as president to affect his re-election.

In 2005, the negativities on Bush and the Republicans began to spill unto the mainstream media, which caused the toppling of the Republicans majority in both the senate and U.S. congress in 2006.

Then in 2009, walks in the Internet and media savvy, President Barack Obama.

Barack Obama won the presidency, not only it was because of the mainstream media who were eating out of his hands, Obama also had the gazillions of Internet volunteers who were trolling around the net posting his messages all over. He had the best of both worlds in that election.

Things were once pretty rosy for President Obama, and it still is with most of the mainstream media around, but what I am now seeing, are more of the same Bush negative strategies being deployed on the Net against President Obama.

All of this can be a devastating jobs approvals killer and a popularity killer for any president, and for the political party in power, especially when Americans are not being heard, ignored, and issues facing most Americans are not being met.

It’s quite noticeable, while the mainstream presses are trying hard to suppress some of Obama negativities; the Internet is on fire with them. Why is that?

Well folks, I’ve got great news for you all. We all through the Internet; we now control what we want done in our country.

We through the Internet can also raise armies of voices and allies in matter of hours, we can flood all of our elected politicians with millions of monthly emails if we have to, it’s all something that was virtually impossible to do in the past, under traditional letter writing campaigns and snail mails.

Most Americans have totally disavowed the traitorous press, which is why their circulation is dwindling at an alarming rate; Americans now days go to the Net to read like minded opinions and articles, mainly about the ills and wrongs happening in this country.

Take the racial issue with professor Henry Louis Gates as an example, when Obama made his negative comments on the cops, Obama’s press, his media darlings, covered it up for hours, and they were hoping it wouldn’t ignite on the Internet, but it caught fire on the Net anyway, and the press could no longer ignore the story.

And the latest Obama healthcare reform is a big example on how Americans put the immediate brakes on an insane deficit busting healthcare program, which Democrats were blindingly going for and still are.

If you don’t believe me about the power of the Net, check out how the Internet almost brought down the totalitarian Iranian regime, and others. China is doing all it can to curb, restrict the net from creating a rebellion against their own communist and anti-human rights government.

This is no longer 1986, or 1994, it’s the new age of the Internet for Americans.

The Internet and most regular Americans will now rule America, whether these politicians and their media corps of cronies like it or not. The Internet is our new domain and source for power, and we are going to be heard this time around. We will no longer tolerate contrarian Washington decisions being made against our wills, ever again.

Obama, a Presidential Bust? Polls Showing Hope for Change isn’t working according to many:

Obama, a Presidential Bust? Polls Showing Hope for Change isn’t working according to many:
By Marc Chamot

Is Obama a presidential bust? Independents certainly think so.

From the Wall Street Journal-"On Monday, the Washington Post/ABC poll reported that 49% of Americans approve of his handling of health care while 44% disapprove.

What many people missed is that those who strongly disapprove of the president’s approach on health care now outnumber those who strongly approve by 33% to 25%. That presages further decline. (check out my Independent folks on Obama?) Already, 49% of independents disapprove of the president’s approach, up from 30% in April, a staggering shift in 11 weeks.

Mr. Obama is also slipping on the economy. Those who strongly disapprove now outnumber those who strongly approve of his handling of the economy (35% to 29%), of deficits (38% to 19%), and of unemployment (31% to 26%). On Tuesday, Gallup showed Mr. Obama’s personal approval was 55%, down from more than 60% a few weeks ago and lower than the 56% George W. Bush had at this point in his first term."

“At the rate Obama is dropping off the charts, I predict a Republican comeback in the 2010 midterms.”

President Barack Obama reminds me of a little kid in a toy store. When you let a kid loose in a toy store, he’ll run and touch every thing, from one toy to the next. He’ll even make a big fuss if you don’t buy these toys for him, unaware that you, the parents, haven’t got the money to buy him everything.

Obama’s immaturity as president is showing big time. There’s another untold reason as to why his poll numbers are dropping. It isn’t just about his outlandish policies; it’s about his inexperience, maturity, and his qualifications to be president in the first place.

I’m going to go back when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential choice, and Obama and company blasted her as inexperienced, even though she was a governor of state, whereas Obama never had any political administrative experiences in his life. Well, except as a community organizer, I guess. It was a shameful kind of thing, the pot calling the kettle black, but Obama prevailed.

He was the carrier of hope and “change” mantras that Americans were hungry for, and many believed in him, but unfortunately he’s been showing us to be the carrier of the “same” old Washington politics that never changes.

If I’m a betting man, I predict that his poll numbers will keep going down, and there are many reasons as to why I believe that it will happen.

Things are stacking up politically against Obama badly.

Number one, the blame former President George Bush tactics is no longer credible and will no longer work with Americans. He’s demonstrated that he’s got firm control of the presidency, and these backfires from his ineffective policies are his mistakes, not the former president’s.

Now President Obama is on a new blame game to cover up for the potential disaster of his failed healthcare plan. He’s on a complaining mode; he’s now blaming his problems on the culture of Washington, the 24 news cycle, i.e. FOX News, cynics, naysayers, and the Internet for hindering and doubting his progress on his signature issues.

Even though Obamacare could set this country back into poverty, Obama is insistent to push this through regardless to what it could do to our deficit, and without any regards as to what happened with his $800 billion dollars stimulus bill, which looks like may have been a total failure and a waste of money for American taxpayers.

The stimulus bill was a failure, because President Obama made it a failure. Obama is stonewalling on bailout expenditures, one of his “change” mantras was supposed to make government more transparent to the people they serve, unfortunately President Obama refuses to let American taxpayers see what TARP recipients’ are doing with our tax money.

The Obama Treasury Department is not requiring any of the billion dollar stimulus recipients to report and show how billions of our dollars are lavishly being spent. In other words, the Obama administration has blackened out from public view, in how much our taxpayer investments are worth, and to whom our money is going at Wall Street.

Without these oversights, a key government source now says that the potential costs to totally bail out this country, from these financial nightmares, could end up costing taxpayers a whopping $23.7 Trillion dollars!

But the truths to Obama’s possible demise for his healthcare, and other outlandish costly policies may be due to the old “Blue Dogs” Democrats, and yes, those conservative Democrats I’ve been writing about.

You do the Math. Source: One of my most favorite political writers around, Michael Barone Examiner.com. Twenty-nine of these “Blue Dogs” defeated or replaced republicans by voter backlash around 2006 and 2008. Thirty three of them come from districts that carried John McCain during the presidential elections. These fellows are definitely going to stand in the way of future outlandish Obama policies, mainly those that are not fiscally responsible, and may do a whole lot of damage to the country fiscally.

A Bloody Wednesday for Obama, do you folks see any Obama's hope and changes in this article?

Democrats dismayed by Obama signing statements
Anne Flaherty, Associated Press

"President Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same.
Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were surprised and chagrined by Obama's declaration in June that he doesn't have to comply with provisions in a war spending bill that puts conditions on aid provided to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

In a signing statement accompanying the $106 billion bill, Obama said he wouldn't allow the legislation to interfere with his authority as president to conduct foreign policy and negotiate with other governments.

Earlier in his 6-month-old administration, Obama issued a similar statement regarding provisions in a $410 billion omnibus spending bill. He also included qualifying remarks when signing legislation that established commissions to govern public lands in New York, investigate the financial crisis and celebrate Ronald Reagan's birthday.

"During the previous administration, all of us were critical of (Bush's) assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of congressional statutes he was required to enforce," the Democrats wrote in their letter to Obama. "We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude."

The letter was signed by Reps. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as Reps. Nita Lowey and Gregory Meeks, both of New York, who chair subcommittees on those panels.

Obama needs Obey and Frank in particular to push through Congress key pieces of his agenda, including health care and financial oversight reform.

The White House said Tuesday the administration plans to implement the provisions of the bill and suggested that Obama's signing statement was aimed more at defending the president's executive powers than skirting the law.

Bush issued a record number of signing statements while in office as he sparred with Democrats on such big issues as the war in Iraq.

Democrats, including Obama, sharply criticized Bush as overstepping his bounds as president. In March, Obama ordered a review of Bush's guidelines for implementing legislation."

A month of gloomy Thursdays for health care plan
By: Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst

“That same day, freshman Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder, Colo., sent Pelosi a letter signed by 21 House freshmen and one sophomore opposing the increased taxes on high earners imposed by the two House committee bills. "Especially in a recession," the letter read, "we need to make sure not to kill the goose that will lay the golden eggs of our recovery."

There are 256 Democrats in the House, with one vacant Democratic seat. Only five Democrats signed both the Blue Dogs and the Polis letters. That means that 57 Democrats signed one letter or the other, pledging to oppose central features of the Democratic health care bills. Few if any Republicans are expected to support either bill. You do the math. The Democratic leadership seems well short of the 218 votes needed for a majority on the floor. No wonder Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said it was time to "go back to the drawing board."

Obama and congressional Democratic leaders are blaming Republicans for their problem. Obama noted that Republican Sen. Jim DeMint and Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol wanted to "kill" the Democratic bills. But the Blue Dogs and Polis letters showed that the mortal threat came from elected Democrats. Twenty-nine of the 57 letter signers defeated or replaced Republicans in 2006 or 2008. Thirty-three of them represent districts carried by John McCain in 2008.

What we're seeing is the people speaking through their politicians. Obama and many Democrats assumed that the financial crisis would predispose most Americans to favor a larger and much more expensive government than we have ever had before.

Plausible hope for change, perhaps, but polling shows it hasn't happened. The prospect of huge federal deficits extending out as far as the eye can see is not appealing to most voters. The prospect of having the health care sector of the economy designed by the people who gave us the $787 billion stimulus package is even less appetizing.

But we should not cynically underrate the importance of strong argument, which may prevail despite the transcendent aura of a new president. Some of the Blue Dogs' concerns may be parochial (rural health care), but they make a strong case, buttressed by Elmendorf's expert testimony, that Congress should not rush to transform the health care sector at huge cost and with little cost-cutting effect. And the Polis letter signers' concern about the negative macroeconomic effects of higher taxation of high earners can find support in the writings of Democratic as well as Republican economists.

What will this Thursday bring? We'll wait and see what comes from the buzzing on Capitol Hill. In the meantime, as I read the text of the Blue Dogs and Polis letters, I suddenly heard the voice of the late Jack Kemp proclaiming at the 1984 Republican National Convention that if you subsidize something you get more of it and if you tax something you get less of it.”

Obama popularity slips in light of realities
Nancy Benac,Trevor Tompson, Associated Press

"The number of people who think Obama can improve the economy is down a sobering 19 percentage points from the euphoric days just before his inauguration. Ditto for expectations about creating jobs. Also down significantly: the share of people who think he can reduce the deficit, remove troops from Iraq and improve respect for the United States around the world, all slipping 15 points.

On overhauling health care, a signature issue for Obama, hopes for success are down a lesser 6 points.

Add it all up, and does it mean Obama has lost his mojo? Has "Yes We Can" morphed into maybe?

"I think it's just reality," said Sandy Smith, a 48-year-old public relations worker from Los Angeles. "He's not Superman, right?"

Indeed, it's not unusual for approval ratings to slide once presidents actually get to work. They're pulled down by things going on in the real world, by people who don't agree with the ways they're addressing problems, by criticism from political opponents.

In Obama's case, the problems he's confronting domestically and internationally are legion, and his ability to blame them on his predecessor is fading.

It's all taking a toll on expectations. The number of people who think it's realistic to expect at least some noticeable improvement in the economy during Obama's first year in office dropped from 27 percent in January to 16 percent in the latest survey.

There's been slippage, as well, in how people view the president personally, although he's still well regarded. About two-thirds now think he understands the problems of ordinary Americans, down from 81 percent in January. Sixty-nine percent think he's a strong leader, off from 78 percent before the inauguration.

It's not just Obama who's feeling the drag. Approval of Congress - already low - has gotten lower, slipping 6 percentage points to 32 percent.

Overall, the number of people who think the country is going in the wrong direction hit 54 percent in the latest AP-GfK poll, up from 46 percent in June.

That's not necessarily surprising. In years past, the public has tended to be more pessimistic than optimistic about the country's future. Recent exceptions have been short-lived, at the start of the Iraq war, after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, after the capture of Saddam Hussein and late in the Clinton administration.

Perhaps most troubling for Obama may be where he is losing ground. His approval rating was down 9 points among Americans overall but 20 percent among independents. Similarly, the increase in those who think the country is headed in the wrong direction came mostly from independents and Democrats.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted July 16-20 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. It involved interviews on landlines and cell phones with 1,006 adults nationwide. The survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points."

The Heat is On Part II; President B.H. Obama’s Feeling Public Pressure to Begin thinking and Act, for Americans on Economic Recovery & Jobs:

The Heat is On Part II; President B.H. Obama’s Feeling Public Pressure to Begin thinking and Act, for Americans on Economic Recovery, Runaway Deficits & Jobs:
By Marc Chamot

“I was once told that if one cannot stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen, and it would be a pretty damn good advice for President Barack Obama at this moment, if he cannot handle the current presidential pressures.”

As I had predicted folks, that eventually President Obama’s day of reckoning with the American people was coming sooner or later. It was just silly for this President to arrogantly think that Americans weren’t going to call him on his numerous failed campaign promises, especially the ones about jobs and the economy.

He jumped from one issue to the next, without making sure that his previous policies like the billion dollars stimulus and bailouts were actually helping the average American or not.

He’s been getting blasted on the Net by bloggers all over, while his buddies in the mainstream media were defending him. He had gotten pretty much a free pass from the press, but bloggers on the Net were relentless. The pressure’s he’s been getting is definitely from the Internet.

I was among the few bloggers on the Net that noticed that President Obama’s been getting onto the hot seat recently, mainly with the American people and was beginning to lose his cool.
No one in the mainstream media brought it up, until Politico today.

I did two postings on President Obama, one in July 15th “for a president who marveled himself as a cool-cat, someone that couldn’t be made to anger really poured it on yesterday. “I love these folks who helped get us in this mess, and then suddenly say this is Obama’s economy, that’s fine, give it to me, my job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe.” And on July 12th, a practically ignored story on my other blog, President Obama’s on the Hot Seat over Massive Job Losses & State of Economy; 18% American Children Living in Poverty & Going Hungry:

People have criticized me, mainly liberal Democrats for being too hard on this young American president, especially after being in office for just seven months.

But, there were a series of actions and inactions by this president and his Democrats; instead of actually promoting better programs to improve our economy and save mass losses of jobs, those were just ignored.

He recently tried to push for amnesty for illegal aliens, and realized the votes weren’t there, knowing the jobless situation and that majority of Americans don’t support amnesty. He’s pushing for trillion dollars healthcare program, when our deficit has just broken to a record high trillion dollars. With his healthcare program, he also wants to provide free taxpayer financed healthcare for 12 million or so illegal aliens.

Special Note: Update July 20th 2009 - I had previously mentioned that President Obama originally wanted to provide healthcare to include the nation’s illegal aliens, but the house plan that Nancy Pelosi is pushing for, eliminates medical coverage for these undocumented aliens.

But if people, those who have been following my blogs for a while, I had been excruciatingly meaner and nastier with our former President George Bush, so much so, I had even lost some of my good conservative readers.

I am bipartisan and Independent, I do not tow party lines, I just sit back and write about what I observe and read.

We all know that these new politicians always promise the world to you, it’s a vote getting gimmick that’s getting pretty old and worn out, but never deliver on their promises. Americans are wising up, if President Obama thought that the presidency was easy pickings, he’s got a bigger surprise ahead of him. It’s a fact that those Independents were the swing voters that placed him in office over John McCain.

These American politicians always seem to go for issues that only benefit foreign and corporate entities over American’s interests. And I truly sense, and believe, from California to Washington D.C. that Americans are at their boiling point, with frustrations from these politicians. And they’ve about had it.

If I can't be blunt, hard, and to the point, how else can I get my points across?

I may be mean and nasty with our politicians and judges on my blogs, but all I want, like most of you too, is that they all DO THEIR JOBS.

UNLESS YOU'RE ONE OF THESE, Heads in the Sand People, I really Can't do Much for You:

Whether you like my blogs, me, and my opinions, it’s up to you. But I definitely think you might miss something big, you’ll miss the real truths, about what’s really going on, from an unbiased Independent’s perspective view, instead of getting your news from one sided party line towers.

Obama feels the heat, changes the play
Ben Smith Ben Smith – Sun Jul 19, 8:03 am ET

Finally, we’re starting to see him sweat. President Barack Obama made his personal icy cool the trademark of his campaign, the tenor of his White House and the hallmark of an early run of successes at home and abroad. But as the glamour wears off and a long, frustrating summer wears on, he is being forced to improvise — stooping to respond to political foes and adjusting his tactics and demeanor for the trench warfare of a legislative agenda.

The root of the change is one that faces every president: Economic and international realities that resist political charm. Iran and North Korea have shown no interest in the president’s outstretched hand. The economy has delivered a double-whammy, with rising unemployment stirring voters’ concerns while sluggish growth deprives the government of tax revenues Obama would like to spend on new programs.

Health care reform, which once appeared flush with momentum from earlier congressional victories, is now on a slog through no less than five committees, which include Democrats who either aren’t sold on Obama’s expansive vision or can’t figure out how to convince voters to pay for it.

“This is when it gets harder,” the president told supporters June 30.
And so it has.

In turn, Obama has adjusted, deviating from the playbook on every front.

The cool president has turned hot on the stump, stripping to shirtsleeves to lambaste doubters in New Jersey Thursday. He departed from his prepared remarks last week to accept a Republican challenge to take personal ownership of the economy: “That’s fine. Give it to me,” he said.

Even Obama's scripted speeches are deliberately more forceful, aggressive and direct in taking on critics, aides say. Friday remarks at the White House had a trash-talk edge – count me out and you’ll be sorry.

Obama’s political operation has dispensed with its post-inauguration cocktails for Republicans – or more often, ignoring them outright — in favor of the old politics of engage, attack and cajole. Obama’s even engaging in a little Democrat-on-Democrat politics, as his ex-campaign arm is beaming TV ads into the home states of moderate fence-sitters on health care.

The tightly programmed White House also is champing at the bit, kicking off what officials say will be a relentless three-week push on health care, starting with the hastily scheduled Friday address. But its first event might have backfired a bit. Its main consequence was proving that the magnetism of Obama’s personal appearances has worn off, as it drew little media attention and a dismissive tweet from the key Senate Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa: “Waste of time.”

The sum has been a new sense of uncertainty and strain, and a growing murmur among Democrats in Washington nervous about the White House’s tactics, and a rising tide of concern in the states as local Democratic parties’ eye midterm elections that are traditionally a challenge for a new president.

“That honeymoon period is over, “said Chris Redfern, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. “Now they have to push back, and push back hard.”

White House officials and allies brush off any notion that this new sense of unease is meaningful. The only true test, they say, will be results. Obama still might win major health care reform legislation this year that could be the most important new government program in decades. He has a fighting chance to pass regulations on greenhouse gases, in the form of a “cap and trade” mechanism, through the Senate. And Obama continues to press hard, if with no clear progress, for a breakthrough in the Middle East.

“It’s the third quarter, he’s down by a point, and he’s got his best player on the bench – what really is going to be important is the fall,” said James Carville, the veteran Democratic observer.

“If he gets what’s perceived to be some kind of a major health care thing, gets the climate bill through, if the economy recovers, then we’ll all say he had a hell of a summer. Conversely, if the thing falls apart, we’ll say that by July the 19th we could tell the thing was going bad.”

White House Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer dismissed the suggestion that Obama should be expected to succeed effortlessly – or that he’s on a path toward failure on any of these varied fronts.

“Obama and his team have been down this road dozens of times and been declared dead many times and always succeeded,” he said. “No one gets rich betting against Barack Obama.”

The most visible aspect of the White House’s new feistiness is an increasing willingness to engage Republican legislators whose criticisms Obama earlier had been happier to overlook. Relentless criticism of the stimulus package from a House Republican leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, drew a furious barrage from the Democratic National Committee and a visit from no smaller figure than the Vice President of the United States. Rank and file Republicans who criticize the stimulus have also suddenly found themselves under a concerted DNC assault that asks if they’d prefer the federal funding left their districts out. And criticism from Sen Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) drew letters from no fewer than four Cabinet secretaries to his state’s governor, asking if she would prefer they withheld stimulus money.

That pushback has been urged, and welcomed, by state leaders like Redfern and Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer.

“The DNC has been and we were quickly able to rebut and demonstrate all the money that is being spent in their respective districts,” said Brewer of two GOP congressmen attacking the stimulus. “They’ve backed off.”

Still, many Democrats say the Republican attacks on spending are taking their toll.
"The rhetoric is so empty, but it is fairly consistent and I think it’s had an impact on those in middle," said Ohio's Redfern.

But when the White House pushback focused not on Republicans but Democrats on health-care – in the form of Organizing for America ads running in the home states of moderate senators -- some in the party called foul, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

The vote last month in the House on the American Clean Energy Security Act showed a willingness to get White House hands dirty in a different way.

Wrangling votes for the “cap and trade” legislation in the House, Obama backed off a campaign promise to auction off all “allowances” – permits to release a set amount of greenhouse gases. Instead of selling them to raise money for other environmental initiatives, the White House allowed congressional Democratic leaders to trade them for votes, assigning allowances to the refinery-heavy district of, for instance, Texas Rep. Gene Green in exchange for his support.

The battle over health care, the centerpiece of the President’s summer, has also hardened into a fairly conventional Washington fight, a new president’s sweeping agenda colliding with congressional caution. Obscure Washington figures like Congressional Budget Office chief Doug Elmendorf and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have shown the ability to pose a real threat to the White House juggernaut. And some of the White House’s close allies have grown jittery about what they say is a strategy to spend the three weeks leading up to the Senate’s August recess – the insecure deadline for health care votes in both houses – with a series of events aimed at building public pressure on Congress.

“They’re great at campaigns, but legislative battles are different,” said a senior Democrat close to the White House. “It’s not about persuading 51 percent of the American people – it’s about seven senators.”

In another mark of Obama's constant adjustments, his latest remarks didn't mention the August deadline.

White House allies acknowledge the new strains, but say the hard work will pay off.
“A lot of the hard stuff he’s doing now will pay dividends,” said John Del Cecato, a former Obama campaign aide.

Meanwhile, admiration of Obama’s personal qualities has been tempered, even among sympathetic observers, with anxiety for where his agenda will stand at summer’s end.
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart noted recently that Obama told a Pakistani interviewer that he is an accomplished chef of Pakistani cuisines and reads the great Urdu poets.

“Mr. President,” Stewart said, “while I am impressed with your Renaissance Man-level of knowledge in a plethora of subjects, may I humbly say: That’s great. Just fix the economy!”

Government Run amuck; you’re on the “No Fly List,” But Child Molesters are Free to Fly & Move about the Cabin:

Government Run amuck; you’re on the “No Fly List,” But Child Molesters are Free to Fly & Move about the Cabin:
By Marc Chamot & Source: SF Weekly

“Before you send that very precious cargo on that next flight to somewhere land, get acquainted with this story first.”

We’ve got a big problem in this country when decent Americans and foreign travelers are unjustly being placed on the “No Fly List,” out of revenge, because of their political views, or just because they have opposing views in the way this country is being run by these brainless idiots, and these lame headed politicians in Washington.

When you got a ruthless pit bull like the Janet Reno wannabe in Janet Napolitano, of course you're GOING to have these government IDIOCIES around.

I’m sure that a “don’t tread on me” supporter, and possibly an accused extremist by Homeland Security to control people like me, those who oppose the insanely manner in the way this country is being run, and because of what I write and say on my blogs, I might just be on their list too.

To these governments “jackasses” (Freedom of Speech Suppressors,) it is okay to place a Marc Chamot on the “No Fly List,” because of his political views on his blogs, but allow “child molesters” to roam around freely in airline cabins molesting children during flights.

Hundreds and thousands of children fly unattended without their parents by their side yearly.

In doing a Lexis Nexis, a news search engine, turned up ten cases of child molestations on airline flights. There may even be more than what we know of, because some of these kids have kept silent and haven’t told anyone about it.

Are airlines that broke not to be able in taking care of our kids during flights?

Some have been prosecuted and jailed for their crimes, but the blame should also lay on the airlines. When minors are on board, their flight attendants should make special efforts in keeping an eye on these kids. It’s just plain common sense, and for our hapless government? May God have mercy on their souls?

Here are some of the details on S.F. Weekly-“Although an airplane full of potential witnesses may seem an unlikely place for a child to be molested, criminal and civil lawyers who have handled these cases say that the controlled and confined environment is well suited for these predators.

In going over the news stories, court documents, and FBI reports on the molestation cases, certain patterns begin to emerge. The predators were all adult males, although they did not fit any other stereotype. One was a computer consultant from India. Two were Hasidic Jews. Another was a world-renowned hairdresser from Savannah, Georgia.

In a majority of the instances, a man switched seats to be next to a child traveling alone. Also, a significant number of the reported molestations occurred on evening flights, when the victim and any potential witnesses were asleep. Several children reported that when the touching began, it seemed accidental or even well intentioned, and only later crossed the line.

In many of the stories, a representative from the airline explained that short of placing a flight attendant beside each traveling minor, there was nothing that could be done to prevent these incidents. America's Aviation Consumer Protection Division — a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation — declined to comment on the issue of unaccompanied minors, although it does put out an information packet titled "When Kids Fly Alone." The first two lines read: "Many children fly alone. There are no Department of Transportation regulations concerning travel by these 'unaccompanied minors.'"

Left to regulate themselves, the airlines vary in their policies, the packet explains. Most allow children as young as 5 to fly solo, and those between 5 and 11 often incur an additional fee, usually between $40 and $100, for a certain amount of chaperoning. In some cases, those children are given a special button that allows the crew (and perhaps watchful predators) to easily identify the minors. Children between the ages of 12 and 17 are usually not required to purchase a special service ticket, but they have the option.

Although a special ticket doesn't specifically protect the child from molestation, of course, airlines have in some cases chosen to settle civil lawsuits brought against them for negligence and breach of contract due to a molestation accusation. Northwest settled one for more than $500,000, and although the airline subsequently changed the language on its materials about the unaccompanied minor program (airline representatives declined to answer questions about the changes), most other airlines have continued to encourage parents to pay additional service fees for "entrusting your child to us," as the mother's receipt from United Airlines states.

Although the U.S. Attorney's office has successfully prosecuted a handful of airplane molesters, others have walked away. For the same incident that cost Northwest upward of half a million dollars in a civil settlement, a criminal case went nowhere. There were no witnesses other than the victim, and the jury acquitted the defendant. In some instances where the victim has gone to the police and appeared to have a case, the accused hasn't been prosecuted at all.”

Want more details? Read it on the S.F. Weekly.

Predators are free to move about the cabin
The girl flew as an unaccompanied minor, and she's still experiencing turbulence.

San Francisco Grand Jury Blames Corrupt Democrat Politicians/Unions for Soaring Fire & Police Pensions:

San Francisco Grand Jury Blames Corrupt Democrat Politicians/Unions for Soaring Fire & Police Pensions; More Proof as to why Democrats Cannot Be Trusted with Taxpayer Moneys:
By Marc Chamot

“San Francisco fire, police, unions and Democrat politicians are being accused of “gaming” the system through “spiking.” The practice of artificially inflating retirement benefits by increasing their compensation just before retiring, often through temporary promotions. They receive a pension more than their highest pay, and it’s costing the city taxpayers $132 million dollars.”

Back around 2004 to late 2005, I used to put out a publication called the Muskogee Free Press in Muskogee Oklahoma. It was a free monthly; it was like an anti-good old boy’s network kind of publication. When I started this publication, it was supposed to be a fair and impartial view on politics. It grossed well, it started out small, but as the months went by it made money.

When I went out to sell ads, I noticed that there were roadblocks in acquiring advertisers, the advertisers that I did have, wanted a publication that exposed things around their community and they avidly supported my publication. There were others, part of the good old boys network that didn’t support my publication, they actually wanted to kill it, and it took those about two years to do it.

During the span of my publication, I learned a whole lot about small town politics, after having being in San Francisco, and seen their types of corruption, I’d figure that Muskogee politics were small fries compared to Frisco. Boy was I wrong. I’ve never seen any dirtier and nastier political people in my life, like what I saw in Muskogee Oklahoma.

The beginning of the end for my publication was when I made a public records request for all the salaries of its police and fire departments. Any taxpayer involved issues such as salaries of any public official it is considered public records.

What I did notice was that I did have enemies, but I didn’t know whom? My publication then was like my blogs, conservative leaning, and never went for neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. I was Independent as I am now.

But something was bothering me badly, I had enemies, they were putting me out of business, and I wanted to expose them before my monthly went out of business.

Originally I bashed the local Republicans, because I accused them of being the deceitful and scornful people that they were, those who were intentionally screwing with my newspaper.

Muskogee politicians were reeling from a just defeated tax increased to help increase the pay for their fire department, which I had supported. A good friend of mine told me “you’re crazy for supporting tax increases to help the fire department they are making out like bandits, just check on it Marc.” So I did.

Holly Toledo! When I studied the 160 or so names as to who were in the police and those in the fire department, I noticed that they were directly related to someone or had wives, brothers and sisters who were in Muskogee city and county payroll, and in politics, and some even owned profitable businesses who had treated me like the plague when I walked in to ask for ads.

Believe me folks; you wouldn’t believe the wheels of fortunes that lay before me with these payroll records right before my eyes. What pushed me to go for it, were the lies that these city firemen who were spreading to folks around town. They were claiming that they were very underpaid, and that they couldn’t live on firemen wages, so they had to do other jobs and run other businesses to get by.

In a state of Oklahoma where average wages at the time were $32,000 a year, these firemen and police officers were making from $40,000 to $70,000 a year! Only first year cops and firemen made the $40,000. So I exposed the names and how much they each made, over 20,000 were printed and distributed within the Muskogee County area. You should have heard the explosion!

I discovered pretty quickly that I was barking up the wrong tree, it wasn’t the Republicans who were killing my newspaper; it was the Muskogee Democratic machine and their city/county employees, mainly those from the fire department, police and their unions.

The Muskogee Democratic political machine had such an airtight political powerbase among the fire, police force and their unions, them and their families and friends; they all basically controlled the outcomes of every Democratic local election in Muskogee.

Having said all this, we’re now going back to San Francisco California. Where a grand jury is questioning the police and fire, along with their unions and San Francisco Democrat politicians about their untenable skyrocketing pension costs, they are all to blame for abusing the system by negotiating extraordinary pension and retirement benefits without considering the burden on future generations.

It’s business as usual in a city that is only 46.7 square miles, and a Democrat controlled city, which has an annual budget of twenty American states, 6.5 billion dollars!

Source: San Francisco Chronicle-San Francisco fire, police, unions and Democrat politicians are being accused of “gaming” the system through “spiking.” The practice of artificially inflating retirement benefits by increasing their compensation just before retiring, often through temporary promotions. They receive a pension more than their highest pay.

The jury calls this practice institutionalized, it’s on going and it’s costing the city taxpayers $132 million dollars over ten years. More than half of the fire and police have retired this way since 1998. If this corrupt system keeps up, it will increase by 300 percent, from $178 million to $520 million over the next three years, because 40% of current employees are now eligible for retirement.

It doesn’t matter from what part of the U.S.A you’re in, most of these Democrats; they are in total cahoots with their city and state employees, without a doubt! One gives them your hard earned money, and the other promises the VOTES. How much more corrupt can it be?

CFR-Council on Foreign Relations Report Says; Continued Failure to Devise, Implement & Enforce Sound Immigration Policies Threatens America’s Economy:

CFR-Council on Foreign Relations Report Says; Continued Failure to Devise, Implement & Enforce Sound Immigration Policies Threatens America’s Economy, Security & Future:
A Special Report By Marc Chamot

Testy, testy, President Barack Obama lashed back at his critics. Amid new numbers that are showing this president with declining approval ratings, and with the growing deficits and massive job losses, it’s the first time that this president had totally lost his sense of coolness.

For a president who marveled himself as a cool-cat, someone that couldn’t be made to anger really poured it on yesterday. “I love these folks who helped get us in this mess, and then suddenly say this is Obama’s economy, that’s fine, give it to me, my job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe.”

Well Mr. President? I got big news for you, you’re right Mr. Obama, your JOB is to solve our problems, and you’re just not doing it at this moment. You’re a total failure in solving these job problems and the country’s economical ills, especially when there are credible solutions at your immediate disposal that you still want to ignore.

Before President Obama went for that outrageous stimulus bill, this president promised us that unemployment will hang around at 8 percent, but after the stimulus passage, it has escalated to over 9.5 percent in national unemployment, with Michigan at 14.1 percent.

Secondly, Mr. President, you don’t promise things that you cannot deliver.

Mr. President here is another lie of yours; actually, this wasn’t what you said during your presidential campaigning efforts, “the hard truth is that some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won’t be coming back” said Obama yesterday in Michigan, but the other hard truth, while campaigning you said that you would “revise NAFTA and make it more advantageous for Americans and that you would penalize American companies that kept on sending jobs abroad.” Actually, another hard truth is what you said yesterday, is what then candidate John McCain said during his campaign for president.

But, I’ve got even harder truths for President Barack Obama, and here it is:

Okay folks; on July 8th the Council on Foreign Relations, a well known and politically connected think tank, also known as part of the “New World Order” group by many New World Order enthusiasts, just came out with a complex and scathing report on American immigration.

Two back to back bi-partisan government connected reports say that we've got to stop these out of control migrations into this country. This report basically expanded on the previous congressional report of the 1997 Jordan Commission Report on Immigration Predicted Mass Importations of Low Waged & Low Skilled Foreign Workers Would Decimate Jobs & Wages:

“The bipartisan Jordan Commission Report specifically stated that the United States MUST curve immigration. It specifically said that it must secure the border with Mexico and cut back on visas, and visa overstays, and these H1B, H2B work visas. It also stated that the massive influxes of low skilled immigrants would eventually destroy jobs and lower incomes for most Americans. This report specifically said that the United States doesn’t benefit from foreign low skilled workers and undocumented aliens, only they do.”

This new CFR report says that if the United States doesn’t get their out of control immigration in order, both legal and illegal under some kind of control soon, it would be curtains for this country. They suggest that we must SEAL our southern borders, and stop allowing low skilled and uneducated immigrants to keep on coming, otherwise it would totally destroy this country’s identity, financial structures and technological place in the world.

According to the report, the high level of illegal immigration in the country is increasingly damaging to U.S. national interests—"[it] diminishes respect for the law, creates potential security risks, weakens labor rights, strains U.S. relations with its Mexican neighbor, and unfairly burdens public education and social services in many states.

“The Task Force believes that the continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America’s economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security.

The Task Force finds that the widespread presence of illegal immigrants has weakened the rule of law, created unfair competition for the American workforce, and strained the education and health budgets of many states. It also finds that taking steps to resolve the festering problem of illegal immigration is necessary for improving U.S. relations with Mexico.

It envisions an America that effectively controls and secures its borders, denying entry to those who are not permitted and denying jobs to those who are not authorized to work here.

The Task Force finds that border and immigration measures, used in a targeted and focused way, can help make the United States less vulnerable to another terrorist attack. However, if those same measures keep out talented immigrants or significantly disrupt legitimate cross-border travel or commerce, the long term foundations of America’s economy and military strength, and consequently its security, will be weakened. The challenge is to find approaches that ensure that these two goals need not be mutually exclusive.

The Task Force believes that maintaining robust levels of immigration, allowing for fluctuations based on the state of the economy, is firmly in America’s national interests. In particular, continuing to attract highly skilled immigrants is critical to the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, and to America’s ability to remain the world’s leader in innovation. The United States must open its doors more widely to such people.

The Task Force believes that how the United States handles its immigration policy speaks to America’s core values. Americans have a right to determine who will come to live in this country, and to enforce those rules, but they also have a responsibility to treat those who may have violated those rules with respect and fairness.

The Task Force believes that serious criminals—those who commit felony offenses—can and should be deported, even if they are in the country legally. The United States needs, however, a more discriminating system that separates serious offenses from minor ones, and allows for greater flexibility in dealing with extenuating circumstances.

The Task Force believes that U.S. immigration laws are enforced poorly not because of inadequate funding or a refusal to take tough measures, but because they are overly complex and unenforceable as a practical matter. Until the United States can reform the immigration regime to bring it more in line with economic realities, enforcement will remain an uphill struggle

The Task Force believes that an effective enforcement regime centers on three elements: first, a comprehensive and accurate system that discourages employers from hiring unauthorized migrants; second, tougher enforcement at the borders that stops those who should not be admitted at a U.S. land border or port of entry; and, third, closer cooperation among federal, state, and local law enforcement officials in enforcing immigration laws.

The Task Force believes employer sanctions need to be strengthened to discourage employers from hiring unauthorized workers; there should be clear guidelines to enable employers to comply with employer sanctions law, and these laws should be enforced to achieve optimal deterrence.

The Task Force believes that enforcement between legal ports of entry has three central components: first, the United States needs the ability to detect illegal border crossings; second, it needs enough manpower to apprehend a high percentage of those detected; and, third, there must be serious consequences for those caught repeatedly crossing the border illegally.

The Task Force finds that U.S. interests are best served when immigrants are integrated into American society, and particularly when they acquire the English-language skills that are a prerequisite to success in most occupations and to full participation in civic life. This objective is perfectly consistent with immigrants maintaining vibrant ethnic identities, just as millions of the descendants of previous waves of immigrants—from Irish-Americans to Japanese Americans—do today.

The federal government should develop a national policy on immigrant integration that focuses in particular on helping state and local institutions provide English-language training, civic education, and other forms of support.”

In essence this task force is saying let’s make it easier to bring in foreign talents, those who want to assimilate, learn our language and customs, and especially those that can help us excel, but keep the uneducated and the unskilled out.

How did we get into this mess in the first place? We’ve got former President Bill Clinton to blame for this dilemma.

The incredible CFR Chart shows that to1990 the U.S. averaged 400,000 - 600, 000 immigrants per year, until the beginning of the Bill Clinton presidency, the flood gates for immigrants were opened up, and since 1990 we’ve more than tripled foreign immigration to an average of 1.8 million a year! Then during the Bush years they went down somewhat, but the floods of both legal and illegal immigrants just came pouring in.

And we are the number one destination of world immigrants; just take a look at this chart, the United States imports more than FOUR times immigrants than any other country in the world!

Table 2. Top nations by number and percentage of immigrant
World Rank—
Percentage Immigrants
Number of World’s as Percentage
Country Immigrants of Population
United States 38,355,000 20.56 42 12.81
Russia 12,080,000 6.47 57 8.48
Germany 10,144,000 5.44 43 12.31
Ukraine 6,833,000 3.66 36 14.70
France 6,471,000 3.47 50 10.18
Saudi Arabia 6,361,000 3.41 19 25.25
Canada 6,106,000 3.27 25 18.76
India 5,700,000 3.06 167 .52
United Kingdom 5,408,000 2.90 55 8.98
Spain 4,790,000 2.57 46 10.79
Australia 4,097,000 2.20 23 19.93
People’s Republic of China 3,852,000 2.06 187 .29
Source: UN World Population Policies 2005 report.

Here are the top 20 American companies who hire foreign workers rather than our own college educated Americans:

Top Twenty Companies —Most H1-B Visa
Petition Approvals in 2008
Rank Company A pproved Petitions
1 Infosys Technologies Ltd. 4,559
2 Wipro Ltd. 2,678
3 Satyam Computer Services Ltd. 1,917
4 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 1,539
5 Microsoft Corporation 1,037
6 Accenture LLP 731
7 Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation 467
8 Cisco Systems Inc. 422
9 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. 403
10 IBM India Private Limited 381
11 Intel Corporation 351
12 Ernst & Young LLP 321
13 Patni Americas Inc. 296
14 Terra Infotech Inc. 281
15 Qualcomm Incorporated 255
16 MPhasiS Corporation 251
17 KPMG LLP 245
18 Prince George’s County Public Schools 239
19 Baltimore City Public School System 229
20 Deloitte Consulting LLP 218
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2009.

Here is more on the CFR report that the mainstream media failed and refused to report once again on immigration. It seems like the mainstream media, when they don’t like the news or the reports, they just don’t let folks know about it.

Will the pols listen this time? Even though this report believes in some kind of amnesty for illegal aliens, which I DON’T support, the core ideas on immigration reforms aren’t bad at all.

Broken Immigration System Risks Serious Damage to U.S. National Interests, Warns CFR Task Force
July 8, 2009Council on Foreign Relations

"The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken America’s economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security," concludes a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty.

"The stakes are too high to fail," says the report. "If the United States continues to mishandle its immigration policy, it will damage one of the vital underpinnings of American prosperity and security, and could condemn the country to a long, slow decline in its status in the world." For this reason, the report urges: "The United States needs a fundamental overhaul of its immigration laws."

Judge; Legal/Illegal Immigrants Can Sue United Sates Over its “Fees” & Congress to Allow Border Midwives to Legalize Birth Certificates for Mexicans:

Judge Says; Legal/Illegal Immigrants Can Sue the United Sates Over its “Fees” & New Bill in Congress Will Allow Border Midwives to Legalize Birth Certificates for Mexicans:
By Marc Chamot

I don’t know what the heck is wrong with California federal judges, especially the ones out of San Francisco. Another lame headed, and idiotic, pro-immigration decision was made by Judge Thelton Henderson, to allow 400,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to challenge our federal Fees to being here on our land.

They got a green light to go with their class action lawsuit, they are seeking to recover over $100 million in reimbursements for over paid fees; this judge agreed with them that the fees violated federal law.

Say what buds? Excuse me if I’m wrong? But don’t the feds make immigration laws and its fees accordingly? If the feds made the laws, then what are they violating?

These immigrants say that the U.S. has been overcharging them to be here and it wasn’t fair.

These malcontents were allowed to come in under another American archaic and chaotic immigration law of 1990, the law granting temporary residence to foreigners who fled their homelands because of war or natural disasters.

These idiotic fed officials approved entry for Hondurans and Nicaraguans in 1999 because of a hurricane, and for Salvadorans because of a 2001 earthquake.

Most have been allowed to keep staying here, WORK here, because damages from most of these disasters have not been fixed yet.

The law requires a $50.00 fee, but the feds have been charging these malcontents an additional biometrics services fee since 1998. The fees included costs of fingerprints, photos and electronic signatures at each re-registration, with an average of $80.00 fees per applicant that raised $25 million dollars a year for our treasury, which in turn helped to cover the costs for identity and background checks of these people.

The Justice Department argued that the $50.00 fees weren’t enough to cover these yearly costs and for American taxpayers to carry the brunt of these costs was absolutely absurd.

So here is another prime example folks, where we Americans open our doors to these third world malcontents, they not only get American benefits, they get the whole enchilada, social security numbers and work permits. They are earning a whole lot more than what they would earn in their own miserable little country where they once came from, and we get crapped upon like always, by these ungrateful lot.

But if you think that is bad, wait till you hear this one. A new bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would essentially make it easier for pregnant Mexican women to use American/Mexican midwives and U.S. border birthing facilities inside our borders to birth their children, and immediately acquire U.S. citizenships and passports on the word of midwives!

Do anchor babies sound familiar to you?

H.R. 2812 was introduced by Rep. Solomon Ortiz D-Texas and co sponsored by four other Hispanic congressmen, mainly Democrats representing the border jurisdictions of Texas and Arizona.

This law would require that any birth certificate signed by any midwives anywhere would be legally binding for American citizenship and passports.

The problem with this ill gotten idea is that midwifery is a Mexican custom for child birth. This practice is very common along the U.S.-Mexican border. This would open up the floodgates for more illegally brought in children into the United States. It’s been known to happen before, where midwives are being bribed up to $10,000 to falsify certificates of birth, to make Mexican children look like they were born in the U.S. instead of Mexico.

Its corruption is so rampant that the United States has had to slow down and verify all of its applicants, but now these open borders “nutcases” want us/U.S. to look away and ignore these problems. But I should say a FAT NO to that notion. Tell your reps to trash this bill, H.R. 2812.

is B. H. Obama a Puppet for Bankers, Wall Street & Federal Reserve Agendas, Out to Destroy Main Street & the Middle Class for World Globalization:

The Obama Deception; is B. H. Obama a Puppet for World Bankers, Wall Street & Federal Reserve Agendas, Out to Destroy Main Street & the American Middle Class for World Globalization?
By Marc Chamot

Is Obama a liar, deceiver and a manipulator for the world banking oligarchs?

Updated July 11, 2009: As of this writing, the Examiner.com came out with a tremendous editorial confirming some issues that are being brought up by this CD. For example, the Homeland Security’s Obama million youth/man military outside our military and once again they are questioning these internment camps being built:

Examiner Editorial: Congress shouldn’t outlaw political opposition
July 10, 2009
What’s wrong with this picture? The federal government spends billions on homeland security, but apparently can’t stop foreigners from illegally crossing the border or overstaying their visas. The Obama administration wants to bring violent terrorists captured overseas to the mainland and close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yet in the latest bizarre twist, legislation quietly making its way through Congress would give the White House power to categorize political opponents as hate groups and even send Americans to detention centers on abandoned military bases.

Rep. Alcee Hastings — the impeached Florida judge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to install as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee until her own party members rebelled — introduced an amendment to the defense authorization bill that gives Attorney General Eric Holder sole discretion to label groups that oppose government policy on guns, abortion, immigration, states’ rights or a host of other issues.

In a June 25 speech on the House floor, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., blasted the idea: “This sounds an alarm for many of us because of the recent shocking and offensive report released by the Department of Homeland Security which labeled, arguably, a majority of Americans as ‘extremists.’”

Another Hastings bill (HR 645) authorizes $360 million in 2009 and 2010 to set up “not fewer than six national emergency centers on military installations” capable of housing “a large number of individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster.” But Section 2 (b) 4 allows the secretary of the Homeland Security Department to use the camps “to meet other appropriate needs,” none of which are specified. This is the kind of blank check that Congress should never, ever sign.

It’s not paranoid to be extremely wary of legislation that would give two unelected government officials power to legally declare someone a “domestic terrorist” and send them to a government-run camp. After all, the federal government has done exactly this sort of thing before.

During World War II, more than 120,000 law-abiding Japanese-Americans were rounded up by the government and confined for four years in 10 internment camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. Joy Kogawa chronicled the trauma her family experienced firsthand under President Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order: “Families were made to move in two hours. Abandoned everything, leaving pets and possessions at gun point.”

It was wrong then, and it would be doubly wrong now should members of Congress somehow fail to learn from past mistakes.

I just came across an Alex Jones’ Infowars.com CD being distributed around San Francisco, of all places. I happened to get my copy of the Obama Deception. As you all know, the Marc Chamot Report is very political and I was curious to see what it was all about.

Being in San Francisco, I assumed that it would be open borders, pro-illegal immigration, and pro-gay disgruntled groups voicing their concerns about President Obama’s failing to meet some of his campaign promises.

Nope, not at all, it’s actually more about major bankers, who own and control most of the mainstream media, and who are pumping up President Barack Obama, to Americans and the world for the elites.

It’s about the Wall Street dream of world nomination and us, driving Wall Street OUT of our government’s grasps.

It’s about Al Gore’s Global Warming fraud, a prelude for a centralized offshore banking system to begin receiving tax revenues from American and other world citizens on carbons use. Do Obama’s renewable energy and Trade and Cap ring a bell?

If you thought that Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 was really something, wait till you see this one?

It also talks about NAFTA and GATT, and as to why Obama did a 180 on it.

It also mentions about Hillary Clinton’s and Obama’s whereabouts when they mysteriously disappeared during their presidential campaigns from their perspective press corps, by locking them up in their campaign planes and moving the plane unto the tarmac. They were both seen at the Westville Marriott meeting with the global elites, the Bilderberg Group.

“The Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, or Bilderberg Club is an unofficial, annual, invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of politics, business, and banking.

The group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world — normally in Europe, and once every four years in the United States or Canada. The 2009 Bilderberg meeting took place from 14-16 May in Athens, Greece.[1]”

There are good thought provocative questions being brought up here. Like, why did Obama and congress bail out the banks and insurance industries with multi-billion dollars bailouts and regular Americans were left out in the cold?

Do these world banking conglomerates owned by key families worldwide, mainly by Europeans, do they really want to seize control of the United States political structures?

There are some questions that are bringing serious concerns to most Americans; that keeps dropping Obama’s and congress’ approval ratings.

Some house members have publicly stated that the Obama administration had said that there would be martial law had that stimulus bill not passed.

Why did President Obama place most of former Wall Street think tanks into his administration?

Why do Wall Street and this president want more open borders and illegal immigration? Is it because to destroy the American middle class with slave labor for more profits?

Why aren’t Obama and congress seriously addressing the high numbers of unemployment?

Why was congress slow to react to the massive real estate collapse?

Obama pledged to get out of Iraq within six months being president, now, he’s waffled away from that. He even increased troops in Afghanistan.

Obama had sworn to keep lobbyists and special interests groups out of his administration, his picks and he have placed hundreds in office.

Obama swore to repeal the Patriot act, but voted for it.

Gun ownership will not be allowed to any Americans on the No Flight List. Many Americans are indiscriminately being placed on this list daily.

Why did Obama do a total 180% on NAFTA and GATT? He does seem to be pursuing globalization agendas at full steam ahead.

And then why are the mainstream media totally ignoring these issues, and practically censoring blog postings in regards to these issues? I should know, I am syndicated by two networks, you can see them both displayed on my blog.

My postings have access to major media websites, including mainstream mediums, and they have totally ignored all of my Tread on Me, negative Barack Obama postings, anti-open borders, and anti-illegal immigration stuff. And including this one, Polls Showing President Obama is Losing Ground With Independents on Domestic Policies & Now 39% Call Themselves Conservative: Why?

That is why the media in general are going down the dumps, and the Internet is becoming the new informative super highway. And that is why there’s a movement that want congress to regulate and restrict bloggers on the Internet.

Why did Obama place most members of these two organizations within his administration to mastermind economical recovery? And why is Hillary Rodham Clinton a member of the Bilderberg Club and the Council of Foreign Relations? And why did Obama have that secret meeting with former Bill Clinton right after he won the Democratic nomination, and a known member of the trilateral commission?

Why are all of these same people going from one administration to another, like the Larry Summers group, into both Democrat and Republican administrations since former President Richard Nixon?

Where are the 9.7 trillions of missing dollars from our U.S. TREASURY, under the control of the Federal Reserve a private bank?

Why is the Federal Reserve, a “private bank” still in charge of our monetary affairs?

Other New World Order groups; The Trilateral Commission website http://www.trilateral.org/ and the Council of Foreign Relations at http://www.cfr.org/
Get more information at Alex Jones’s Infowars.com; http://www.infowars.com/