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Similar ratios, if not higher, will be found in the OWS crowd.
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The figures raised concerns that many alleged rioters were cheating the benefits system.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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If they're well enough to riot, they're well enough to hold down a job. Cancel their "benefits."
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IIRC CHINA DAILY/PEOPLES DAILY FORUMS > [United Kingdom] PAKISTANI + BANGLADESHI MIGRANT WORKERS ARE DELIBERATELY HAVING LARGE FAMILIES TO EXPLOIT THE PUBLIC BENEFITS/WELFARE SYSTEM: EX-MP ASIA BARONESS [Lady Flacher].
IIRC ARTIC = Essentially any + all Asian Immigrant Workers-Laborers to the UK, legal or illegal, but espec the illegals of which ethnic Muslim Pakistanis + Banglas are the top abusers or exploiters???
As Muslims, many of same also support Sharia Law in the UK.
A proposed revision to Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain records, telling them the records don't exist.
The Justice Department has proposed the change as part of a large revision of FOIA rules for federal agencies. Specifically, the rule would direct government agencies who are denying a request under an established FOIA exemption to "respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist," rather than citing the relevant exemption.
The proposed rule has alarmed government transparency advocates across the political spectrum, who've called it "Orwellian" and say it will "twist" public access to government.
The draft FOIA revisions were first published in March, but the Justice Department re-opened comment submissions in September after several open-government groups raised objections. A Justice Department spokesperson said the agency is committed to public input and transparency, which is why it re-opened public comments on the rule -- an unusual step in the process.
In a public comment regarding the rule change, the ACLU, along with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and OpenTheGovernment.org, said the move "will dramatically undermine government integrity by allowing a law designed to provide public access to government information to be twisted to permit federal law enforcement agencies to actively lie to the American people."
Anne Weismann, the chief counsel of CREW, said the Justice Department has a legitimate purpose behind the rules: to protect sensitive information about ongoing investigations. However, she said lying about the records "is an overbroad and improper response."
"The problem is, if you're a FOIA requester and the agency says they don't have the records, you have no reason to doubt that," Weismann said. "But if they cite an exemption, you have the option to sue."
Those groups have suggested an alternate federal response that would not require any revisions to the rules. "We interpret all or part of your request as a request for records which, if they exist, would not be subject to the disclosure requirements of FOIA pursuant to section 552(c), and we therefore will not process that portion of your request."
Conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch has also lambasted the proposed rules change. (RELATED: Obama admin. pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says)
The news is "not surprising, coming from the Obama administration," said Christopher J. Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch. I wonder if it applies to Congressional inquiries of DOJ? Only when Democrats are in office...
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"Plato's Noble Lie". Pappy thanks for posting that. I have had a difficult time with this group in power. I find the Europeans are doing the same.
This is a slippery slope. No honor among thieves.
[Don Surber at Daily Mail (Charleston, WV)] Democratic congressmen must have turned back their clocks 5 years because many of them automatically rejected the president's new housing plan. Democratic Congresswoman Anna Eshoo ...Democratic Congresswomen-for-Life from Caliphornia, representing Silicon Valley. She was first elected in 1993 and when she leaves she'll probably be carried out... told the Hill: "There has been a complete failure on the part of the B.O. regime to address the catastrophic wave of home foreclosures across the country, leaving families in despair and wreaking havoc in countless communities...In order for our economy to expand, an effective policy must be put into place to turn this devastation of housing around. The administration's weak responses have barely touched 'the tip of the iceberg'."
She is not alone. Democratic Congressman Dennis Cardoza ...the guy who replaced Gary Psst! Chandra! See you tonite! Wear my favorite underpants! Condit, who was also a Democrat, in 2003. He announced he was retiring at the end of 2012. He will be replaced by another Democrat... told NBC: "With regards to the president's housing proposal, I'm very concerned that it's more of the same."
Cardoza told the National Journal: "Home foreclosures are destroying communities and crushing our economy, and the Administration's inaction is infuriating."
Democratic Congressman John Tierney ...Representative-for-life from Massachusetts, first elected in 1997. His priorities include green energy and more student loans... told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... : "The lack of urgency being shown by various agencies and the White House is hurting our economic recovery and unnecessarily putting families at risk to lose their home."
Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... also told the New York Times: "In my opinion, this is a national economic crisis that has been inadequately addressed for too long, and strong, bipartisan efforts are urgently needed."
When this fails to garner congressional support, it will be killed by Democrats, not Republicans.
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These Dems want EVEN MORE of what the USA doesn't need.
[L.A. Times] Removing any trace of doubt about their actions, Michele Bachmann's staff in New Hampshire released a letter Monday stating unequivocally that they had in resigned en masse and that they expressly blamed a lack of communication between the staff and Bachmann's campaign for the decision.
Citing a failure to communicate as the cause of the departures was laced with irony, after a mini-drama played out Friday in which Bachmann's campaign didn't appear to realize that its New Hampshire staff had walked out, instead claiming that all was well.
All is not well in the Bachmann camp, as the letter released Monday made clear.
The ex-staffers took pains to refute the spin by Bachmann's national staff that there had been no walkout, saying "it should be clear that the entire N.H. team has departed." The ex-staffers also said they have no confidence in Bachmann's national campaign team.
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Your staff is a valuable commodity. Where would Moses be at the Red Sea without his?
[L.A. Times] President B.O. was airborne Monday morning, winging his way aboard Air Force One to six fundraisers in Nevada and Caliphornia over the next two days.
Obama is at the nadir of his popularity but that doesn't mean his fundraising will be lagging. On the contrary, members of Obama's finance team say he will meet and probably exceed all fundraising goals, continuing to place him far ahead of any GOP rival. That's because for incumbent presidents, there is little correlation between popularity and fundraising.
Donors are a small percentage of the electorate and they often are a candidate's most loyal backers, getting fired up when their man (or woman) is under attack. Donors to an incumbent president also include what we at the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau call "investors" -- donors who make contributions as a very practical way of protecting their financial interests. It makes sense to back an administration that can still help or hurt with government-related decisions, grants and projects.
Like Obama, former President George W. Bush continued to do well financially when he was at the lowest points in his popularity during his second term.
And incumbent presidents at this point in a reelection race have another advantage over all other candidates: Obama faces no primary fight and can raise money beyond his traditional campaign account by fundraising for the national political party, which is allowed to accept contributions in larger amounts. It's a big advantage in the traditional world of candidate fundraising.
For example, GOP presidential prospects can charge attendees only the maximum contribution that the Federal Election Commission allows individuals to contribute to an official candidate. The FEC has limited such contributions to $2,500 for the primary campaign and $2,500 for the general election. But an incumbent president can charge far more by raising additional funds through an account that is linked with the national party committee.
With the GOP nomination still looming, there is no settled Republican candidate to raise those big contributions on behalf of the national party committee.
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Obama seems to be able to identify the 1 percenters a lot easier than the Occubaggers.
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..you'd think with all those pics of occupiers with laptops and smart phones, they'd be able to check those donor lists of the 1 percenters. Unless, they were, you know, the useful idiots in a grand astoturf production.
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Silly Hellfish - it's only illegal for Republicans.
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Jerry Pournelle's take on this: Los Angeles braces for an imperial visit. The bards are preparing the panegyric. The police are turning out to barricade many citizens in their homes, lest they inconvenience the President or his 30 vehicle cavalcade of minions. The President will meet more or less exclusively with the 1% actually, given that its about $20,000 to attend his fund-raiser in Hancock Park, its more like the .01% before disrupting traffic at rush hours to go to Burbank where he will appear on a TV show directed at the 99%. He will probably make some kind of symbolic gesture of support to the OWS 99% denouncing the 1%, but not until his treasurer has made certain that the checks clear the bank. President Obamas cavalcade in Los Angeles may be a bit smaller than his Virginia-Caroline motorcade, so it probably wont be as big as Colonel Qaddafis last parade, but it will be big enough.
(Rooters) - President Barack B.O. Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, according to a White House official.
The actions come as Obama is facing resistance from Republicans to a $447 billion jobs package he has urged Congress to pass.
The first of the initiatives will be unveiled during Obama's three-day trip to western states beginning Monday.
He will discuss the changes in mortgage rules at a stop in Nevada, which has one of the hardest-hit housing markets in the country.
The B.O. regime has been working with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to find ways to make it easier for borrowers to switch to cheaper loans even if they have little to no equity in their homes.
The FHFA intends to loosen the terms of the two-year-old Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), which helps borrowers who have been making mortgage payments on time but who have not been able to refinance as their home values have dropped.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the changes should boost refinancing because they will let banks avoid the risk of any "buy-back" on a HARP mortgage as long as borrowers have made their last six mortgage payments and they prove that they have a job or another source of passive income.
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The USA can never get enough of what it doesn't need.
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There is something like $1 trillion in outstanding student loans. Earlier BO was talking about loan forgiveness. If this is about loan forgiveness, that is a bad precedent--but then what isn't a bad precedent in this administration? The OWS bunch wants free college education. Forgiveness would feed into this.
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trailing wife
Loans are secured on the asset the debt purchases.
In student debt cases this is he contents of their heads.
How can you move ownership of the contents of your mind? You cannot. Not discharging these loans is a sensible idea.
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"Discharging loans" is not the same as "loan forgiveness" and neither are the same as "bankruptcy."
If student loans are secured by anything other than rent-seekers or imaginary assets, that is news to me.
Not making generations of young people "debt slaves" aka "peons" is an even more sensible idea.
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Making student loans dischargeable through bankruptcy will not make college educations free (ultimately) but it would make the cost of such educations for the next generation much, much cheaper.
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Jerry Pournelle on the significant of unlimited student loans: over time more and more money has been injected into the University and College system. If they have the money they will spend it. Eventually the Iron Law governs, faculty, administrators, and staff get ever increasing raises and benefits, admission requirements fall, demand for more public money rises well, you get the idea. Tuition rises. The answer to that is to inject more money in the form of loans. Unforgivable loans. Loans that will destroy social mobility, as everyone who doesnt inherit a college education finds himself herself a bondswoman for life. But as tuition rises, fewer want to pay, so more and more students must be admitted regardless of qualifications. Public programs that were supposed to be restricted to the smart people who might become boffins have to be extended to everyone regardless of qualifications or even of background. A program that was supposed to be for veterans is replaced by programs that must be available to all. Programs expand. Campuses multiply. The bubble continues.
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Debt clock is running "student loans are set to surpass $1 trillion in total notional for the first time in history". Then the next insult, no jobs for arts majors.
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> Making student loans dischargeable through bankruptcy will not make college educations free (ultimately) but it would make the cost of such educations for the next generation much, much cheaper.
Er how?
1 Educate then Bankruptcy!
2 ????
3 Cheaper Education!
The underpant gnome theory of education.
There's only ONE way to make education cheaper.
Lower the wages cost. Whether by less teachers or less pay for teachers.
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I was reading today that Germany is leveraged 32 to 1. France is like 26 to 1. Guess who is leveraged the most? Fed is leveraged at 53 to 1. I would like to get off this crazy ride. I'll let this fellow go first:
In trips to Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania -- all states that he carried in 2008 -- members of Congress were notably missing from the president's side. Though none came out and said they were deliberately avoiding him, they didn't have to: Dodging a presidential candidate who's riding low in the polls is a time-honored political practice.
The past three elections -- the Sept. 13 House special elections in New York and Nevada and the Oct. 4 West Virginia gubernatorial special election -- haven't done much to inspire confidence about Obama's ability to help the entire ticket: The president was unquestionably an anchor on the Democratic nominees in each race.
For Obama, who has led a charmed political life since bursting onto the national stage in 2004 -- he was in high demand on the campaign trail even before he won his Senate seat that year -- it's a harbinger of a humbling election year to come.
In North Carolina, only Sen. Kay Hagan, Niece of former senator and Florida governor Lawton Chiles, married to a "transaction lawyer," who has a net worth between $10.7 million and $40 million. He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot. She defeated the listless Elizabeth Dole in 2008.
who isn't up for reelection until 2014, and veteran Rep. Mel Watt, Representative for life from North Carolina's very safe 12th Congressional District. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor called the 12th District's gerrymandered shape "bizarre."
who represents a majority black district, appeared with the president. The state's six other Democratic House members took a pass, offering a variety of excuses.
"[Obama] may end up being Walter Mondale Jimmy Carter's vice president, who was trounced by Ronald Reagan in 1984, losing every state except for his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
of 1984," said Raleigh-based Democratic strategist Brad Crone, recalling that the only elected official who risked being seen with the party's nominee that year was the longtime agriculture commissioner.
When Obama visited Pittsburgh, Pa., two weeks ago, the story was much the same -- no members of Congress to be found. Though two of southwestern Pennsylvania's three Democratic congressmen greeted the president on the airport tarmac, neither of them attended any of the public events Obama held, choosing instead to return to Washington.
"Southwest Pennsylvania has become over time a difficult place for Democrats because of the perception they are left of center," said T.J. Rooney, a former Pennsylvania Democratic Party chairman and state politician.
Some Democrats believe that attempts to keep a distance from the president can only backfire. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell ... who has been a professional politician since 1977, about the same length of time Ali Abdullah Saleh has been in office in Yemen ...
called it "political idiocy" for Democrats to purposefully avoid a president from their own party.
This article starring:
Brad Crone
T.J. Rooney
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So, does that mean that the Democrat coalition is quacking up?
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So that's what he means by "Pass this bill."
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No wonder his approval rating is down.
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Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitress.
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[Don Surber at Daily Mail (Charleston, WV)] Democratic congressmen must have turned back their clocks 5 years because many of them automatically rejected the president's new housing plan. Democratic Congresswoman 
[L.A. Times] Removing any trace of doubt about their actions, Michele Bachmann's staff in New Hampshire released a letter Monday stating unequivocally that they had in resigned en masse and that they expressly blamed a lack of communication between the staff and Bachmann's campaign for the decision.
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