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Time to Impeach Obama

The Obamas Family Trip to Africa to Cost $60 to $100 Million

Fox Nation

Many details about foreign presidential trips are classified for national  security reasons, and there is little public information about overall costs. A  report from the Government Accountability Office found that Clinton’s 1998 trip  to six African nations cost the U.S. government at least $42.7 million. Most of  that was incurred by the military, which made 98 airlift missions to transport  personnel and vehicles, and set up temporary medical evacuation units in five  countries.

That figure did not include costs borne by the Secret Service, which were  considered classified.

Obama’s trip could cost the federal government $60 million to $100 million  based on the costs of similar African trips in recent years, according to one  person familiar with the journey, who was not authorized to speak for  attribution. The Secret Service planning document, which was provided to The  Post by a person who is concerned about the amount of resources necessary for  the trip, does not specify costs.

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21 Facts About Rising Government Dependence In America That Will Blow Your Mind

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The Daily Sheeple

Government dependence in the United States has reached a level never seen before.  50 years ago, the federal government handed out about 10 cents for every dollar that American workers earned.  Now, the federal government hands out about 35 cents for every dollar that American workers earn.  Yes, there are always poor people that cannot take care of themselves.  We never want to see a single American going hungry or sleeping in the streets.  But we are rapidly approaching the point where so many people are jumping on to the “safety net” that it is going to break.  If you can believe it, more than 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program, and more than 70 percent of all spending by the federal government goes to “dependence-creating programs”.  If we really are “the greatest economy on earth”, then why is the number of people dependent on the government absolutely exploding?  Of course the truth is that all of this just shows that we are in the midst of a long-term economic decline that is rapidly accelerating.  Our economy simply does not produce enough jobs anymore, and there are a whole lot of people out there that are really suffering.

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Obama Built This Forgery

American Thinker

I  don’t normally display lawn signs or bumper stickers during political campaigns;  I usually keep my voting preferences to myself.  (That’s the point of  secret ballots, right?)  But the November 2012 elections got me charged up  to the point where I felt the urge to do something public, and since my friends  already knew how I felt, I didn’t think I would be divulging any secrets by  doing so.

 

But  I didn’t like the bumper stickers offered by the campaigns, or any of the clever  ones being sold over the internet, because I was really against certain  candidates rather than for the opposition.  So I designed and  ordered my own, shown below in Figure OB:

 

 

Figure  OB.  “Obama Built This Forgery” bumper sticker.

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Obama Administration Colludes with Terrorist Front Groups?

Judical Watch

The Obama administration tends to take a “see no evil, hear no evil” approach to the problem of Islamic radicalism and terrorism.

In November 2009, when  Maj. Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded dozens of others in a Fort Hood shooting spree, while repeatedly shouting “Allahu akbar,” most Americans realized at once that the faithful follower of the extremist imam Anwar al-Awlaki (the spiritual leader of a number of the 9/11 hijackers) was a radical Muslim. But not Barack Obama – whose administration misleadingly mislabeled the assault “workplace violence,” thereby depriving the victims of benefits commensurate with combat injuries.

On September 11, 2012, when al Qaeda terrorists stormed the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the Obama administration covered for the Islamic terrorists by blaming the incident on spontaneous reactions to a rudimentary Internet video critical of Islam. This false claim was repeated by both Ambassador Rice and Secretary Clinton in multiple public statements.

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Obama Fizzles Out

The  man is slipping from the limelight. The marquee man from MSM and Hollywood and  Vine is headed for Sunset Boulevard.

Right  from the start of his 2008 campaign, the MSM gave Obama the star treatment. He  was their main event. He was billed as a transformational figure — a visionary  who would (1) unify the country and (2) lead us to a fairer economic prosperity  and (3) bring us respect abroad in a world of lessened  tensions.

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Time to Sequester Air Force One Vacation Flights

You know, if Obama actually did some work, he would deserve a vacation once in a while. However, from day one he has blamed everyone else for his problems. From George Bush, Congress, the internet, ATM’s,  the list goes on and on. He asked for the job but apparently he either can’t do the work, doesn’t know how to work or doesn’t want to work. I say it’s all three but that’s just my opinion.

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$423,500 Obama Stimulus Funding Went to Study Proper Condom Use – No Jobs Created

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Gateway Pundit

$423,500 in Obama stimulus funding went to study proper condom use at Indiana University. The project created no jobs. The money is gone. The Weekly Standard reported:

The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website. The study, titled “Barriers to Correct Condom Use,” is now completed, according to the website, and the university received $423,500 of stimulus funds to perform the study.

The money could have kept the White House doors open for two months.

The Obamas’ Unending Summer Vacation

CFP

A record-breaking 47.8 million Americans are on food stamps, an increase of about 1.3 million from a year earlier. The official unemployment rate is 7.7 percent, a number that obscures the reality that millions of Americans who have given up looking for work aren’t counted, and that the labor force participation rate of 63.6 percent measured in December 2012, is the lowest in 32 years. The national debt is $16.7 trillion and growing. White House tours have been cancelled due to sequestration. And amidst it all, Barack Obama and his family have taken four lavish vacations in three months.

 

Every president deserves time off. Yet the unabashed luxuriousness of the Obamas’ lifestyle reflects a genuine tone-deafness with regard to the pressing concerns of millions of Americans, as well as the president’s priorities. Even as he blamed sequestration for the decision to cancel White House tours that would have cost a total of $2 million for the rest of the year, it was revealed that the known cost of Obama’s Christmas vacation in Hawaii last year was at least $4 million. That vacation was also the fourth one taken in Hawaii in four years, three of which involved separate flights First Lady Michelle Obama took to get there ahead of her husband. This year’s separate flight, necessitated by the president’s trip back to Washington to complete the fiscal cliff deal before returning to Honolulu, cost taxpayers an additional $3.24, and ran the total tab for the 2012-13 trip to more than $7 million.

The total for the four trips combined? More than $20 million.

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Judge Napolitano: Government Can Steal Your Money

In order to fund a bailout of Cyprus, European leaders have proposed the institution of a tax on bank deposits for residents of the small island nation. A vote is expected on the plan on Tuesday.

Cypriots rushed to pull their money out of banks and ATMs before the tiny Mediterranean nation’s government could finalize a plan to seize depositors’ funds to satisfy austerity demands from euro zone leaders, sparking a run that prompted banks to be closed until at least Thursday.

The island nation’s leaders were huddling to come up with a way to soften the blow on average depositors, with one proposal targeting accounts with deposits above $130,000.

So, could the same thing happen in America? Judge Napolitano says yes. “The people who have more than $100,000 in the bank are targets for any government that’s looking for money to shore up its own inability to manage its finances.”