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"It is a felony, Muse says. It is a federal offense violation of campaign law to have a campaign committee that doesn't exist."
But don't look for prosecution in election fraud. The DOJ is too busy with bringing lawsuits against the Arizona governor and law enforcement officials.
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The problem with infrastructure projects is that they usually end up with the 'usual suspects' who've been doing business with the usual people in government all along. Those usual suspects are generally the same two or three contract fronts that get nearly all the contracts in that geographical area with little or no competition. They just rehire the same people they keep on a revolving roster, like calling up (baseball) players from the minor leagues in the farm system. Real competition doesn't exist when the pool of available bidders has contracted to the level we witness today. So, either you put up with cost inefficiencies to maintain a larger pool or you pay for less competition. You can't win, you can't lose, you can't quit the game.
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It's already constrained by Davis-Bacon Act to pay 'prevailing wages and benefits'. That puts an artificial basement, usually the boom time level, upon wages just like propping up home/commercial property prices rather than let them sink to what the market can bear. Quantity of employment is trumped by quality of employment.
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Meanwhile, about $4.7 billion of the $7.3 billion in stimulus money has been earmarked for "budget relief" -- feeding the city's own payroll and allowing it to continue to fund entitlement programs, such as food stamps.
This does not create jobs! The make-work shovel-ready jobs are at best a temporary stop gap measure. These are not good, long term-jobs that come from a healthy economy. Much like the CCC depression-era jobs with better pay and union benefits.
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The trick is that this is another bailout to the states, allowing them to shift internal state funds away from transportation and infrastructure projects and use these dollars, sustaining his union and entitlement allies before the upcoming election.
But Pelosi and Reid are no longer able to push the Congress to spend more, as incumbents are feeling the searingly-white hot anger of the people over spending/borrowing.
In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.
The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:
We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.
This just shows that the dhimocrats are pulling out all the stops to try to stay in power. Watch for more blatant attempts at power grabbing, corruption and intimidation from the feds as Bambi and Company as November gets closer.
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Republican candidates for Congress, are you listening? This guy is giving you all the material you need to defeat your Democrat opponents in November. Use it.
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Obama and Holder are encouraging voter fraud, refusing to prosecute in hopes that Democratw can set up mechanisms to rig the elections before November. Obama and Holder must be stripped of their offices and prosecuted.
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A lesser-known provision also obliged the states to ensure that no ineligible voters were on the rolls including dead people, felons, and people who had moved. Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.
This is the provisions which Obama's DOJ is not interested in enforcing. Looks to me like they are encouring anyone and everyone (dead, felons, imaginary friends, etc...) to be registered - and no need to 'cleanup'.
Look soon for a provision to require that all received registrations be accepted unless they are deemed 'invalid' by the above provision which the DOJ refuses to enforce.
Since when can the DOJ pick and choose which laws it will or will not enforce?
I guess this is no longer a nation of laws but a nation of whims by our ruling class.
We are Americans. We have a legacy of putting this type of regime. Start supporting the so called "Young Guns" in DC. Young Republicans who are wanting to launch Congressional investigations. But also stay on top of the election offices in your districts. Should be a high priority for your local Tea Party chapter. If not, make it priority for them. That will be your local fire wall against this crap.
John Kasich leads Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland by 49 percent to 37 percent, with 4 percent preferring some other candidate and 10 percent undecided. For the Senate seat being vacated by the GOP's George Voinovich, former Bush cabinet member and congressman Rob Portman leads Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher by 50 percent to 37 percent, with 3 percent preferring another choice and 9 percent undecided.
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Must be some buyer's remorse with the 2008 purchase.
Money grubbing vote buying, filthy, nasty Democrats. I suppose they need the money to sue Law men trying to protect American citizens from illegals.
Starting Sept. 8, travelers flying to the states from certain countries will be required to pay a $14 "operational and travel promotion" fee if they do not possess a U.S. visa.
Dubbed the "tourist tax," the new fee has been criticized by the European Union as "inconsistent with the commitment of the U.S. to facilitate transatlantic mobility." The fee affects air and sea travelers from: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Since January 2009, travelers from these nations have been required to complete an online form and receive prior approval of entry under the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) program. Run by the Department of Homeland Security, the ESTA program is designed to give U.S. authorities extra time and resources to check a traveler's name against "no fly" lists and other terrorist databases. Until now, that registration process was free. To participate in the program, travelers must also have Internet access and a credit card, The New York Times reported.
Travelers are urged to register at the denied, the traveler must apply for a more expensive nonimmigrant visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate. The reason for the denial will not be provided.
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Expect the countries list to reciprocate. Except the European countries will charge Americans 14 Euros. More smart diplomacy in action.
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