My Demented Space

WND MONEY

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By Richard Gleaves

Originally posted to RebirthofReason.com

Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with

President Obama.

I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for

computers and portable electronics.

There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the

administration, but I paid it no mind.  I live in a free country.  There’s

nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws.  My wealth

was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President

is an honor.

I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the

President in a yellow dining room.

We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen.  The Great

Seal was embossed on the china.  Uniformed staff served our dinner.

The meal was served , and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached

out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate and began nibbling it as he walked

back to the kitchen..

“Sorry ’bout that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”

“I don’t appreciate….” I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes

across from me,  I felt immediately guilty and petty.  It was just a dinner

roll. “Of course,” I concluded, and reached for my glass.

Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away

and swallowed the wine in a single gulp.  ”And his brother, Eric, is very

thirsty,” said the President.

I didn’t say anything.  The President is testing my compassion, I thought.

I withheld my comments and decided to play along.  I don’t want to seem

unkind..

My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite.

“Eric’s children are also quite hungry.”

With a lurch, I crashed to the floor.  My chair had been pulled out from

under me.

I stood, brushing myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the

room.

And their grandmother can’t stand for long.”

I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool.

Obviously I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game.

I reached for my coat, to find that it had been taken.

I turned back to the President.

“Their grandfather doesn’t like the cold.”

I wanted to shout, “that was my coat!”  But again, I looked at the placid

smiling face of my host and decided I was being a poor sport.  I spread my

hands helplessly and chuckled.

Then I felt my hip pocket and realized my wallet was gone.  I excused myself

and walked to a phone on an elegant side table.

I learned shortly that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts

emptied, my retirement and equity portfolios had vanished, and my wife had

been thrown out of our home.

Apparently, the waiters and their families were moving in.  The President

hadn’t moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I lowered the

phone into its cradle and turned to face him.

“Andrew’s whole family has made bad financial decisions.  They haven’t

planned for retirement and they need a house.  They recently defaulted on a

subprime mortgage.  I told them they could have your home.  They need it

more than you do.”

My hands were shaking.  I felt faint.  I stumbled back to the table and

knelt on the floor.

The President cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak, and drank his wine.  I

lowered my eyes and stared at the small grey circles on the tablecloth that

were water drops.

“By the way,” he added , “I have just signed an Executive Order

nationalizing your factories.

I’m firing you as head of your business.  I’ll be operating the firm now for

the benefit of all mankind.

There’s a whole bunch of Erics and Andrews out there and they can’t come to

you for jobs groveling like beggars..”

I looked up.  The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which

had been his crème Brule.

He drained the last drops of his wine.  As the table was cleared, he lit a

cigarette and leaned back in his chair.

He stared at me.  I clung to the edge of the table as if it were a ledge and

I were a man hanging over an abyss.

I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived.  The life I had

earned with a lifetime of work, risk and struggle.

Why was I punished?  How had I allowed it to be taken?  What game had I

played and lost?  I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise

that there was no game board between us.

What had I done wrong?

As if answering the unspoken thought, the President suddenly cocked his

head, locked his empty eyes to mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling

wryly as he folded his hands.

“You should have stopped me at the dinner roll,” he said.

WAKE UP AMERICA !!!

It all starts with No Child Left Behind and Federally Funded Day Care..

Unions control what and how our children learn The American Federal Teachers Union. Is there any wonder why the greatest country in the world ranks near the bottom in world education rankings this according to CBS News World report in 2002.

Union hoodlums twist the arms of corporations to pay upwards of $55.00 per hour and fund health care for the life of the member. Wow think of that the next time you go car shopping. And that is a new deal Ford struck with the union in 2009, down from $70.00 per hour. Because they control so much of what little manufacture we have left in this country,  they earned a chair at the table with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid during their secrete negociations yesterday. An what do you know we have a done deal for the biggest ripoff of the American tax payer, Obama Care. This hoolum has been running the largest union in the country the Teamsters, his father ran it before him (still can’t find where he is buried)So they get their deal NO TAXES on their big ass health insurance plans that corporate America has to pay for. So what just happened. Obama made a deal with the mob to get his lame ass health care plan passed. Is there nothing this sophomoric president will not do to get his way?

Vote in November to balance the power in politics! Our founding fathers did not set it up for the President to own companies, and negotiate with the Mafia, and give our rights away to enemy combatants.

If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor.

If you go into China illegally, you are considered a spy and get hard prison time.

If you go into England illegally, you are immediately jailed and then deported.

If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.

But if you cross the U.S. border illegally you get:

1. A drivers license
2. A Social Security card
3. Welfare
4. Food Stamps
5. Free health care

I guess I still don’t understand. Maybe we need to vote our lawmakers out.

Rene Tieche

Crescent Beach, Florida

Published in the St. Augustine Record January 14, 2010

Washington Examiner Editorial

December 23, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light.

Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of ObamaCare is Reid’s anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation.

Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ”. it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”

In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise.

Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to “reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending.”

That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.

No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of ObamaCare before the critical vote on cloture.  And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.

True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.

The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate “procedures.” Why is that significant?

Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate’s standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid’s amendment received.

Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?

SOURCE: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/The-impudent-tyranny-of-Harry-Reid-8665439-79935422.html

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