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Missouri Lt. Governor: Obama Ordered National Guard to Stand Down in Ferguson

Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder makes stunning claim

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder

National Guard and police failed to protect businesses targeted by rioters during last night’s chaos, leading to charges that the Obama administration issued a stand down order.

Earlier this morning, Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder made the stunning claim, telling Fox News, “Is the reason that the National Guard was not in there because the Obama Administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out? I cannot imagine any other reason why the governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this.”

His comments followed Ferguson Mayor James Knowles’ complaint that his request for National Guard assistance was repeatedly ignored by Democrat Governor Jay Nixon last night.

Watch the video above to see Kinder and Knowles’ remarks.

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With Everyone Focused on Ferguson, Obama Quietly Passing 3,400 New Regulations Before Thanksgiving

 

Melissa Melton
Activist Post
Although the government and mainstream media perfectly timed the Ferguson grand jury decision to go off right after President Obama passed executive amnesty (which, magically, no one in the mainstream media is talking about anymore), it also works out well for the White House that this event transpired right before the upcoming holiday.
Why, you might ask?
Because the Obama administration has prepared, for the fifth time now, to oh-so-quietly release 3,415 brand spanking new regulations right before Thanksgiving while everyone just so happens to be totally distracted and focusing on the orchestrated civil disorder going on in Ferguson.
Via The Daily Caller:

The federal Unified Agenda is the Obama administration’s regulatory road map, and it lays out thousands of regulations being finalized in the coming months. Under President Barack Obama, there has been a tradition of releasing the agenda late on Friday — and right before a major holiday.
“It’s become an unfortunate tradition of this administration and others to drop these regulatory agendas late on a Friday and right before a holiday,” Matt Shudtz, executive director of the Center for Progressive Reform, told The Hill newspaper.

The White House’s regulatory agenda for spring 2014 was released on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, when millions of people set out on weekend getaways or family vacations.
“It’s unfortunate because it’s an update on protections for Americans of all stripes,” Shudtz told the Hill. “It lays out the administration’s plan and it deserves more attention.”

Nice, right?
Apparently, this release comes new and improved with even more regulations than last time, and it even comes complete with the added bonus of having 189 rules which come with a nice fat price tag of $100 million.
It’s funny… Once upon a time, throwing out an amount like a hundred million would’ve made some people’s eyeballs literally pop out of their heads. I can use the word literally in a figurative sense now without being incorrect, because apparently we live in such an Idiocracy society that the official definition of the word “literally” has been updated to include “used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.”
… I’m not even kidding.

literally

See?
Anyway, who knows what evil will be lurking in those 3,415 new regulations. No, really. Who knows? Hardly anyone knows, because these regs will be slipped in under cover of concocted protests in Ferguson, a plate full of turkey and stuffing, and a football game.
Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!

With Everyone Focused on Ferguson, Obama Quietly Passing 3,400 New Regulations Before Thanksgiving
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Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom

 

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By Ron Paul
It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When Congress wants to do something particularly objectionable, they tend give it a fine-sounding name. The PATRIOT Act is perhaps the best-known example. The legislation had been drafted well before 9/11 but was going nowhere. Then the 9/11 attacks gave it a new lease on life. Politicians exploited the surge in patriotism following the attack to reintroduce the bill and call it the PATRIOT Act. To oppose it at that time was, by design, to seem unpatriotic.
At the time, 62 Democrats voted against the Act. On the Republican side there were only three no votes: former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), former Rep. Butch Otter (R-ID), and myself.
The abuses of the Constitution in the PATRIOT Act do not need to be fully recounted here, but Presidents Bush and Obama both claimed authority based on it to gut the Fourth Amendment. The PATRIOT Act ushered in the era of warrantless wiretapping, monitoring of our Internet behavior, watering down of probable cause, and much more. After the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, we know how the NSA viewed constitutional restraints on surveillance of American people during the PATRIOT Act period.

After several re-authorizations of the PATRIOT Act, including some cosmetic reforms, Congress last October unveiled the USA FREEDOM Act. This was advertised as the first wholesale PATRIOT Act Reform bill. In fact, the House version was watered down to the point of meaninglessness and the Senate version was not much better. The final straw was the bill’s extension of key elements of the PATRIOT Act until 2017.

Fortunately, last week the USA FREEDOM Act was blocked from further consideration in the US Senate. The procedural vote was significant and important, but it caused some confusion as well. While some well-meaning pro-privacy groups endorsed the FREEDOM Act as a first step to reform, some anti-liberty neoconservatives opposed the legislation because even its anemic reforms were unacceptable. The truth is, Americans should not accept one more extension of the PATRIOT Act and should not endorse its continued dismemberment of our constitutional liberties. If that means some Senators vote with anti-liberty colleagues to kill the extension, we should still consider it a victory.
As the PATRIOT Act first faced a sunset in 2005, I had this to say in the debate over whether it should be re-authorized:
“When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the emotional aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, a sunset provision was inserted in the bill that causes certain sections to expire at the end of 2005. But this begs the question: If these provisions are critical tools in the fight against terrorism, why revoke them after five years? Conversely, if these provisions violate civil liberties, why is it acceptable to suspend the Constitution for any amount of time?”
Reform is often meant to preserve, not repeal bad legislation. When the public is strongly opposed to a particular policy you will almost never hear politicians say “let’s repeal the law.” It is always a pledge to reform the policy or law. The USA FREEDOM Act was no different.
With the failure of the FREEDOM Act to move ahead in the Senate last week, several of the most egregious sections of the PATRIOT Act are set to sunset next June absent a new authorization. Congress will no doubt be under great pressure to extend these measures. We must do our very best to make sure they are unsuccessful!
You can see more of Dr. Ron Paul’s work at RonPaulInstitute.org where this article first appeared.

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Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:08:00 GMT

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Shocker: Up to 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails “Recovered” “Does anyone else find it funny that suddenly – shortly after midterm elections – these emails have been recovered”

 

Lily Dane
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Well, well, well…what have we here?
Here’s what the Washington Examiner reported today:

Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

Does anyone else find it funny that suddenly – shortly after midterm elections – these emails have been recovered?
Is this timing a coincidence? I doubt it.
Remember, back in June, the IRS told us that they could not locate most of Lois Lerner’s emails. Lerner is a key figure in the Tea Party targeting scandal. The agency said that a computer crash in 2011 caused an untold number of emails to be wiped out.

Then the Watchdog organization Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request for the documents, and naturally, the IRS refused to provide them. It was only after the group filed a lawsuit that they were able to obtain the documents – which were quite damning:

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained the implications of the new information:
“These new documents show that officials in the IRS headquarters were responsible for the illegal delays of Tea Party applications. It is disturbing to see Lois Lerner mislead the IRS’ internal investigators about her office’s Tea Party targeting.  These documents also confirm the unprecedented pressure from congressional Democrats to go after President Obama’s political opponents.  The IRS scandal has now ensnared Congress.”

The IRS claimed to have gone to great lengths to try to recover data from Lerner’s computer in 2011:

In emails provided by the IRS, technicians said they sent the computer to a forensic lab run by the agency’s criminal investigations unit. But to no avail.
The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 82 other IRS employees.
But an untold number are gone. Camp’s office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, “such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.”
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist called the episode “the worst attempt to blame technology in service of a cover-up since the infamous 18-minute gap” in former President Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes.

In July, two US District Court judges ordered the IRS to start coughing up some answers. One judge gave IRS officials an August 10 deadline to provide a declaration – signed by an IRS official,  under oath – explaining exactly how the agency managed to “lose” two years’ worth of Lerner’s emails. Another judge gave the IRS until July 18 to find out what happened to the crashed hard drive responsible for erasing two years worth of Lerner’s emails. He also wanted to know if the hard drive is traceable through a serial number. If the information was truly gone, that judge said he wanted an affidavit written under penalty of perjury by an IRS IT professional with “firsthand knowledge” of the situation.
Then, surprise! In August, Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS admitted that Lois Lerner’s emails DO exist on a backup server, but said they would be hard to find.

Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe.  The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search.
The DOJ attorneys also acknowledged that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is investigating this back-up system.

And now, here’s what a Congressional aide told the Washington Examiner:

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes.”

TIGTA said it will take a few weeks to sort through the emails. Private taxpayer information will need to be redacted before the emails are presented to Congress.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said late Friday that his committee is ready to examine those emails, and said he was hopeful they might shed light on how Lerner operated:

“Though it is unclear whether TIGTA has found all of the missing Lois Lerner emails, there may be significant information in this discovery,” he said. “The Oversight Committee will be looking for information about her mindset and who she was communicating with outside the IRS during a critical period of time when the IRS was targeting conservative groups.”

So much for a “phony” scandal. Looks like this is about to become more real than ever.
Lily Dane is a staff writer for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. Her goal is to help people to “Wake the Flock Up!”

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Here we go Ladies & Gents –everybody is crazy so off to the camps with you! CT Report Lays Groundwork for Nationwide Psychiatric Surveillance

 

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Vivien Leigh and James F. Tracy
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On November 21, 2014 the State of Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate issued a 114-page report, Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (PDF), focusing on the ambiguous profile of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza that may become the basis for mental health practices throughout the United States.
With contributors including psychiatrists and academicians from education and social work departments, the publication comes just two months after the US Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education announced over $160 million in funding for widescale research and deployment of mental health initiatives in the nation’s public schools.[1]“OCA began a comprehensive collection and review of records related to the life of AL,” the document’s preamble reads, “including his medical, mental health and education records, as well as un-redacted state police and law enforcement records.”(p. 6).
Among 37 “key findings,” the statement expresses concern over “siloed systems of education, physical health, and mental health care for children” that “strongly implicate the need to assist parents with understanding and addressing the needs of children with complex developmental and mental health disorders” (p. 9).
Mandatory mental health “screenings” and “evaluations” are recommended to remedy the potential threat of further “Adam Lanzas.”

The following is a summary overview of the OCA report’s key recommendations, many of which will likely be recommended or mandated by federal education and public health authorities for adoption throughout the US.

  • Universal screening for behavioral health and developmental impairments for children ages birth to 21.
  • Referral for thorough evaluation and assessment by outside experts for a child “displaying the types of multidisciplinary developmental challenges AL presented…”
  • Access to “quality care coordination” for children and their families.
  • Access to training and information concerning mental health issues for teachers, administrators, service personnel, pediatricians, and parents.
  • Staffing and financial supports for providers.
  • Effective and sustained family engagement work as part of mental health treatment for children.
  • Addressing of the “role of denial in illness.”
  • Access to therapeutic services, psycho-education, and peer support for families.
  • Readiness of “systems” to respond when a parent appears unwilling or unable to meet the needs of their child [aka refuses to medicate].
  • Better outreach to parents who have difficulties “reaching out” or feel “mistrust in the medical and educational systems…”
  • Active participation of schools concerning the mental health and wellness of their students.
  • Support to schools to enable them to “retain or import therapeutic and other related services…”
  • Evaluation of children by schools “in all areas of suspected disability, including conducting social-emotional evaluations…”
  • A more “holistic approach to identification for special education eligibility that encourages attention to multiple aspects of disability…”
  • State consideration of “an audit of existing homebound practices and procedures…”
  • More attention paid to “post-secondary readiness for disabled youth and young adults…”
  • “State and local educational and mental health and developmental services agencies must work together to identify current capacity and service delivery needs, training opportunities, and must create capacity-building services at all levels.”
  • Increased workforce, technical support and expertise to help meet the needs of “children with complex developmental or mental health disorders, and their families.”
  • Support for schools to provide and import “comprehensive health or developmental supports” to children with “highly specialized needs.”

In reality, the OCA report lays the groundwork for implementation of a nationwide program similar to the one presently being beta tested in Scotland, “Getting it Right for Every Child,” or GIRFEC. The GIRFEC project mandates assignment of a “Named Person for every child and young person, and a Lead Professional (where necessary) to co-ordinate and monitor multi-agency activity” that renders the traditional family to the role of a distant caretaker.
Using verbiage and notions remarkably similar to the the Harvard-affiliated and Newtown area psychiatrist John Woodall,[2] GIRFEC emphasizes the development of “resilient” young people who are capable of developing emotional detachment from instances of profound loss–such as natural disasters and active shooter events and evident in the recent promotion of slogans such as “Newtown Strong,” “Boston Strong,” and, most recently, “FSU United.”
Indeed, GIRFEC advocates maintain the program “enables children and young people to get the help they need when they need it” and overall “supports a positive shift in culture, systems and practice … to improve life chances for children, young people and families.”
Such a project increasingly lays bare the opportunistic use and perhaps true intent of the Sandy Hook massacre event: dramatically intensified bureaucratic and quasi-scientific control over the everyday lives of children alongside the continued erosion of the family itself.
[Image Credit: New York Daily News]Notes
[1] James F. Tracy, “Protecting Our Children in the Wake of Sandy Hook: Psychiatric Surveillance of US Public School Children,” GlobalResearch.ca, November 4, 2014.
[2] James F. Tracy, “Global Governance and the New World Order Religion,” GlobalResearch.ca, April 14, 2013.
Vivien Leigh is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at a US east coast university.
This article first appeared at MemoryHoleBlog.com, the official blog of Dr. James Tracy.

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Another Banker Found Dead Under Strange Circumstances

 

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Joshua Krause
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Over the past several years there has been a long string of deaths in the financial community. Top executives and advisers in the banking industry have been dying off in droves, and often under very peculiar circumstances. This year alone has seen 16 banker deaths, with most of them ruled as suicides. Now we can chalk that number up to 17, with the death of Shawn Miller of Citigroup.
Miller was found dead in his apartment with his wrists and throat slashed, and the case is now being investigated as a suicide. He was apparently a well known advocate for responsible business practices.

Police believe Miller killed himself, Detective Martin Speechley, an NYPD spokesman, told Bloomberg News Wednesday. However, the official cause of death will remain a mystery until the autopsy report is concluded. Miller “was highly regarded at Citi and across the financial services industry as a leader and tireless advocate for environmental and sustainable business practices,” top managers at Citigroup wrote in a letter to staff in his department, Bloomberg reported.

“He will be greatly missed by all who knew him,” the letter said.

Miller had a strong background in advocating corporate social responsibility throughout his career, first at the World Bank and then at Citigroup.

After winning a US government-funded fellowship to study Bengali in Calcutta, India, Miller worked for the International Finance Corp, the investment arm of the World Bank, for nine years, advocating “public consultation” and better cooperation with environmental and human rights groups.

At Citigroup from 2004, he was responsible for policies drawn up by the Equator Principles Association, a group of 80 lenders worldwide that called for banks to defend environmental and social conditions when financing projects, Bloomberg News reported.

He co-authored standards for “responsible risk decision-making,” according to Citigroup’s website.

However, not everything is as it seems with the death of Shawn Miller.
Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshua’s reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshua’s website is Strange Danger.

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Congressman: Obama Has “Gone Rogue”

Congressman: Obama Has “Gone Rogue” http://www.infowars.com/congressman-obama-has-gone-rogue/

In the wake of announced executive action, more elected representatives have come forward to warn of an unprecedented power grab by the president.

Appearing on Fox News Friday, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) said Obama has “gone rogue” and that the only way to stop the subversion of the Constitutional process is to pursue legal action.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTelz8UBhM]

“I would prefer not to hire an attorney. Nobody wants to do this, but what do you do when you have a chief executive who has gone rogue?” Schock said, referring to the change in federal law regarding employer mandates as part of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

Republicans announced the initiation of a lawsuit Friday, with House speaker John Boehner saying “Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and rewrite federal law on his own without a vote of Congress.”

“There is a lot of the things that the Democrats when they passed it, they gave great leniency to the president and the administration to change the rules, and come up with the rules and have the latitude to change them…,” Congressman Schock added Friday, explaining that the aim of the lawsuit is to show that Congress has “standing,” rather than trying to repeal Obamacare.

Schock also indicated that the action on Obamacare will likely be followed by similar action regarding the amnesty executive order, announced Friday.

“It will play into what we do on immigration with what he has just done illegally with an executive order, pushing on him trying to do legislation,” he said.

Republican Senator David Vitter echoed those sentiments Friday, saying that the executive order “is illegitimate, unconstitutional, and flat out horrible policy.” In an appearance on CNN, Vitter further noted that Obama’s immigration policies make it “exceedingly difficult” for people to legally go through the immigration system.

Vitter added that there are “virtually unguarded borders in some areas” which is “encouraging implicitly illegal immigration.”

The Senator added that it is “absolutely crazy” that non citizens can currently be represented by Congress.

“This is the only country where just because an individual is born here physically, he or she is a citizen. That’s an outlier rule. No other industrialized country has that rule,” he said Saturday. “I don’t know why we have that rule.”

The White House has responded to the GOP lawsuit by calling it “unfortunate”.

“At a time where I think the American people want Washington focused on jobs and the economy, the House Republicans choose to sue us, sue the president for doing his job,” spokesman Eric Schultz said.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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The Best Political Cartoons About King Obama’s Amnesty

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The Best Political Cartoons About King Obama’s Amnesty

Obama admitted several times that executive amnesty is unconstitutional and lawless

The Best Political Cartoons About King Obama's Amnesty

Here are the best political cartoons that sum up King Obama’s amnesty for
millions of illegals and Obama’s own statements admitting that executive
amnesty is unconstitutional and lawless.

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IBDeditorials @IBDeditorials

Michael Ramirez cartoon: President Obama has the Constitution on his mind http://ow.ly/EDraA  #amnesty #tcot

Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center, San Francisco, Cali.:

Now, what you need to know, when I’m speaking as President of the United

States and I come to this community, is that if, in fact, I could solve

all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so.

But we’re also a nation of laws. That’s part of our tradition. And so

the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something

by violating our laws. And what I’m proposing is the harder path, which

is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you

want to achieve. But it won’t be as easy as just shouting. It requires

us lobbying and getting it done.

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Daron Fraley @711Culper

MT @betbell3: I’m not….. pic.twitter.com/NNFpVhsNNd Don’t believe the cartoon? 22 reasons it’s true: http://ow.ly/EFz2L  #TCOT #immigration

July 25, 2011, President Obama’s speech to La Raza:

Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my

own. And believe me, right now dealing with Congress — believe me —

believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I

promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how — that’s

not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions.

That’s not how our Constitution is written.

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Ophidian Pilot @ophidianpilot

Obama Welcome Mat (Cartoon) #tcot http://buff.ly/1BU1GjW  via @RightWingNews

March 28, 2011, Univision interview:

With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through

executive order, that’s just not the case…. There are enough laws on the

books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to

enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive

order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my

appropriate role as president.

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Let’s Politick @LetsPolitick

Perhaps the most accurate cartoon ever! “@Speeder_14: So you voted my party out of office? Take this…Obama pic.twitter.com/ddbGkT3DC0#USA

Sept. 28, 2011, Hispanic Roundtable at the White House:

I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change

the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can

administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the

books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great

disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting

comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that

somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true….

We live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature,

and then I can sign it.

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Amil Imani @ImaniAmil 

Lame duck session may bring in amnesty by Obama against the will of the people. Cartoon by A.F.Branco ©2014.

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Mike Doran @Doranimated

This cartoon succinctly caputures Obama’s immigration policy |

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10 Reasons Why Minimum Wage Is A Bad Idea

10 Reasons Why Minimum Wage Is A Bad Idea
1. Minimum wage jobs are a stepping stone to better job. They are not meant for person to live on or to support a family. Unless you have another         source of income or low expenses, such as parents, retirement, roommates, etc, you should not accept a low wage position permanently.

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2. Current minimum wage employees will be forced to do more work. In order to keep labor costs down, minimum wage employees will have to take on more responsibilities and job duties to make up the difference in man hours available.

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3. Since more people are willing to work for the higher wage, the current minimum wage workers are more likely to be replaced by higher quality workers or automated systems, such as computer checkouts, and instead of earning higher wages, current workers will find themselves unemployed.

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4. No wars have been fought over minimum wage. Wars have been fought over nuclear weapons, taxes, tariffs, land use, religion, slavery, etc., but not a single person has ever died fighting for minimum wage. If it is as important as those other things why does the USA do so much business with countries that don’t pay an equivalent minimum wage? Why are we not invading those countries so that we can institute minimum wage policies? Are the proponents of minimum wage ready to kill and be killed for minimum wage?

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5. The minimum wage law currently has so many exceptions that it is practically useless today. Where are the protests outside of Goodwill? Or for prison labor which is essentially slavery?

1.    Family Farmhands – $0.00/hr
2.    Paper delivery persons – $0.00/hr
3.    Outside Sales and Real Estate Agents – $0.00/hr
4.    Mentally or physically disabled workers – $fixed/part produced
5.    Goodwill disabled workers – $0.22 – $1.57/hr
6.    Prisoners – $0.12 – $1.46/hr
7.    Golf Caddies – $10.50/18 holes
8.    Tipped Employees – $2.33/hr
9.    Camp Consoler – $210 / week
10.    Apprentice Training < 90 days – $4.25/hr
11.    Part Time Student – $6.16/hr

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6. Minimum wage causes job loss and employment to move overseas. The most recent example is American Samoa, a US Territory subject to federal law, which had to incrementally increase its minimum wage starting in 2007. The unemployment went from 6% to 29%, and while average earnings went up by 27%, prices went up 34%, making life more difficult on the island. It got so bad that President Obama had to freeze the increases until 2015, leaving the minimum wage at $5.59/hr currently.

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7. Minimum wage laws close the gap between the middle class and lower class at the expense of the middle class. There is only so much money available in a company for raises. If it all goes to minimum wage workers, it will not go to middle class workers. While raising prices may help cover some costs, middle class workers will lose buying power due to frozen wages and higher prices.

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8. Minimum wage leads to price increases, but the price increase is not distributed fairly. A popular example is if a box of Mac & Cheese went up $0.01 to cover Walmart workers. But how much of this penny goes to the farmers, bakers, cheese makers, manufacturers, packagers, inspectors, marketers, and everyone else it took to make that Mac & Cheese? Why does the person that carries it from the back of the store to the shelf get all of price increase? Shouldn’t the price increase be distributed based on the work put into the Mac & Cheese?

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9. Change it yourself. If you think the person taking your order at McDonalds doesn’t make enough, give them some extra money when you order. Or better yet, start a restaurant chain where everyone makes a living wage, so that no one has to take a minimum wage job. There is no reason to use the force of government to change something people could do on their own.

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10. It’s your decision to work for less than minimum wage. The government should not be involved in voluntary transaction where both parties agree to a certain wage. Slavery is already illegal. Fraud is illegal. Workers who choose to work for less than $7.25 an hour cannot be exploited if that choice is made freely. If you don’t like minimum wage, don’t work for minimum wage, but stay out of other’s people business.

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