Thursday, October 20, 2011

Costs of the Occupiers



The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps
piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic,
anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the tea party.
But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of
the costs of the aimless occupiers.


In New York City, government officials estimate the month-long
siege of Zuccotti Park has now imposed $3.2 million in overtime
police costs on the public. On Thursday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
office pressured left-wing activists to vacate the park for cleaning,
Occupy Wall Street urged sympathizers to flood the city’s customer
services lines: “Call 311 and tell Bloomberg not to evict us!”


In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter told the press that
demonstrators outside city hall have incurred $164,000 in
overtime public employee costs and $237,000 in regular time.
“At the current rate, if Occupy Philly continues to the end
of the month, the city would spend another nearly $690,000
on police overtime alone,” the local NBC affiliate reported.
“Besides the extra police presence being dedicated to the
Occupy Philly protests, other city departments have also
incurred costs.”


In Seattle, police have so far billed $30,000 in overtime,
and the parks department racked up nearly $4,000 in additional
costs related to the protests there. Occupiers have blocked
traffic, assaulted an officer and pitched illegal tents.


Merchants in the area have been hurt as the riff-raff deter customers.
One business owner in Westlake Park, where hundreds of protesters
remain camped out, told Seattle TV station KIRO:
“There’s definitely fewer people you can identify as people out,
just walking through the area.”


Seattle’s pushover mayor, Democrat Mike McGinn, now faces
even greater demands from the insatiable mob — which wants
a “guaranteed parking space near City Hall Plaza that allows
for around-the-clock parking,” “24-hour access to the first
floor of City Hall for restroom access, and a written statement
from the mayor approving the protesters’ long-term occupancy
of City Hall Plaza.”


In Boston, City Council President Stephen Murphy anticipates
a $2 million hit to taxpayers if the protests refuse to
disband by the end of October. The local Fox affiliate notes
the tab represents 8 percent of the yearly budget for police
overtime. “While we’re all sympathetic with our protesters
down there,” Murphy said, “Wall Street isn’t picking up the
tab on this thing. It’s the Boston taxpayers.”


When fiscally conservative tea party activists held protests
over the past two years, they filed for all the required permits
and paid for their own power. Occupy Boston, by contrast, neither
sought nor obtained any proper permits at any level, according to
the Boston Globe. Instead, city and park officials have been cowed
into providing them gratis electricity and camp space lest there
be “conflict.”

Many of these occupiers are primarily occupied as paid
rent-a-mobsters for unions, left-wing think tanks and the
radical Working Families Party. While one collective hand
soaks the taxpayers, the other hand is busy soliciting free
stuff. Occupy Los Angeles activists took to Skype on their
laptops to solicit donations of iPhones and iPads.


Occupy Wall Street members on Twitter organized an ongoing
“#needsoftheoccupiers” drive for everything from batteries
and tarps to “gently used” coats and sweaters, wool socks,
sleeping bags and energy bars. Occupy Austin organizers
publicized their wish list, including a free barbecue grill,
portable toilets, extension cords, a Bobcat forestry cutter
for clearing brush and network cameras for a livestream.

These are not principled advocates 
of fiscal responsibility.
They are professional freeloaders.


Unlike tea party activists who focused like a laser beam on
politicians in both parties responsible for redistributing
wealth to Big Business cronies by force, the Occupy Wall
Street movement is everywhere and nowhere. The entitled
Kamp Alinsky Kids are poaching WiFi and trespassing on private
property under the guise of “social justice” but in plain
service of themselves.

Their T-shirts and speeches glorify Marxist radicals Che Guevara,
Emiliano Zapata and Chairman Mao. They lionize convicted death row
cop killer Troy Davis and WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning.
They condemn “Nazi Bankers,” Jews, Fox News, the American Legislative
Exchange Council, Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, the Koch family and
the New York Police Department (“Pigs!”). They promote the illegal alien
DREAM Act and 9/11 Trutherism.

They spout bumper-sticker profanities and inanities: “F**k banks.”
“Unf**k the world.” “Fuuuuu*k.” “Free education.” “Smash nationalism.”
“People not profits.”

They flash peace signs while celebrity supporter Roseanne Barr
calls for beheading financial industry workers and fellow marchers
call explicitly for “violent revolution” or for Obama to
“Send SEAL Team 6″ to Wall Street.

Then they huff and puff (preferably in a creepy uniform chant
they call the “human microphone”) that we just haven’t taken
the time to understand what they’re all about — as they hawk $20
“Eat the Rich” polo shirts and license their protest photos to
Getty Images.

Viva la revolucion! Up with people! 
Stop the greed!
(Cha-ching. Cha-ching.)

Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption:
Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies”
(Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

West counters Obama: MLK would not have backed Wall Street protests



By Alicia M. Cohn
The Hill News

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) rejected President Obama’s comparison
between Martin Luther King Jr. and what he called the
“Occupy Wall Street gangs.”

“Martin Luther King Jr. would not have backed these types of
protesters,” West said, noting that he was born and raised in
King’s neighborhood. “First of all, Martin Luther King, Jr.
had a focus, a message. He was divinely inspired. I don’t know
what the inspiration is for these individuals.”

Obama last weekend suggested the civil-rights leader would
have sympathized with the ongoing demonstrations against
Wall Street, indicating both movements sought justice.

West slammed the protest movement as hypocritical and unfocused
in comparison to the Tea Party movement in an interview with
Newsmax published Tuesday evening.

“I think the hypocrisy of this movement is somewhat laughable,”
he said. “[Unemployment] has nothing to do with Wall Street.
It has everything to do with the failed policies coming out of
the Obama administration.”

West said he is wary of the movement because it seems to want
to end capitalism and replace it with something else.

"This progressive movement is really what communists were called
back in the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. We're starting
to really see the face of who liberal progressives are," West said.
“I think there is a danger in the people on Capitol Hill starting
to embrace this movement.”

West's sharp remarks about the movement, which has drawn Democratic
support, follows a week in which the Republican leadership
seemed to tamp down their early criticism of the protests.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declined to
criticize the movement on Fox News Tuesday night.

“I think people are free to express themselves in this country
on any subject they choose to,” he said. “People can have their say.”

However, West's perspective seemed to echo that of many of the
larger Tea Party-affiliated groups, who have pushed back against
comparisons between the conservative, grassroots movement and the
progressive Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

West, a favorite of the Tea Party, vigorously defended the Tea Party
movement in comparison to the Occupy Wall Street crowds, saying the
comparison was like "a shotgun as opposed to a precision-guided munition,”
with the Tea Party being the more focused weapon.

“When you talk to somebody with the Tea Party, they can tell you what
they want — limited government that’s constitutionally mandated, fiscal responsibility — they also want to see our free market and free enterprise
systems adhered to, as well as our national security,” he said.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Who is Ed Mezvinsky ?

Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky born January 17, 1937, is a former Democrat congressman. 
As a Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congression district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. He sat on the House Judiciary Cmt. that decided the fate of 
Richard Nixon. He and the Clintons were very politically intertwined for years.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 
charges of  bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.
Nearly $10 million was involved in ponzi schemes and Nigerian e-mail scams.
After serving five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008. 
He is expected to remain on federal probation until 2011, and still owes 
$9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
So who is he???
*
*He's Chelsea Clinton 's father-in law.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Sunday, October 2, 2011

         Herman Cain is running for President 
                                 of the USA....

 He's  not a career politician (in fact he has never held political office). He is known as a pizza guy, but there's a lot more to him. 
He's also a computer guy, a banker guy, and 
a rocket scientist guy.
Here's his bio:
  • Bachelor's degree in Mathematics.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science.
  • Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics 
  • (making him a rocket scientist).
  • Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.
  • VP of Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury 
  • (this is the top of the ladder in the 
  • computer world, being in charge of information systems for a major corporation).
All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!
  • Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury's 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia area, which were the company's poorest performers in the country. Spent the first nine months 
  • learning the business from the ground up, cooking hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned them into the company's best performers.
  • Godfather's Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather's Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it profitable in 14 months.
  • In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather's Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the ladder of another industry.
  • He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time. This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the non-politician side.
Having reached the top of a second industry, 
he changed careers again!
  • Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes would affect American businesses.
  • Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that impact the monetary system.
After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!
  • Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. 
  • His books include:  
  • Speak as a Leader,  
  • CEO of Self,  
  • Leadership is Common Sense 
  • They Think You;re Stupid.
  • Radio Host. Around 2007,after a remarkable 40 year career, he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
He did all this starting from rock bottom 
(his father was a chauffeur and his mother 
was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his life, including 
reaching the top of three unrelated industries: information systems, business management, and banking!”

STACK THAT  UP AGAINST THE 'COMMUNITY ORGANIZER'....

Herman Cain may have the most impressive resume of anyone that has run for the presidency in the last half century.

NOW
Where is the Community Organizer's resume??
If YOU CAN FIND ONE 
compare it to Herman Cain's!!