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Fed Up? Democrats Are Now Publicly Lashing Out At Pelosi

(Uh oh... Poor Nancy.  Demo-Rats... a regime full of arrogant pricks.)

Via Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/nancy-pelosi-democrats-112962.html

    The discontent with Nancy Pelosi is breaking out in the open.

    Democrats in the House have quietly grumbled about Pelosi since suffering devastating losses on Election Day, but there is a growing number of members willing to go public on their party leaders.

    The list of grievances — from the election losses, to routine procedures erupting into nasty fights — has shaken the confidence many Democrats hold in their leader. So while Pelosi will be unchallenged for the top House Democratic post on Tuesday during a closed-door party meeting, the incoming minority leader is about to be in the worst position with her caucus since the end of their short-lived majority back in 2010.

    "They wiped the floor with us, so no, we're not feeling good,"said Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), the Congressional Black Caucus' chairwoman."We think clearly there was a lack of a coherent and compelling message. We believe that certainly our leadership worked hard, but there obviously was something lacking because we lost so many seats. I want to see members who have a better handle on the caucus brought in, whether they be young or old. I want people who have a good pulse of what is going on in our caucus...people who are more inclusive."

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Instant Classic: Berkeley Moonbats Hold "Funeral" For Frozen Chicken Inside Whole Foods

(My favorite line: This frozen chicken "had a rich, emotional life")

(Move over "hippies crying over dead trees," you have some serious competition)

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After The News Reached Brisbane,
The Hitler Regime Plans To Confront Field Marshal Jonathan Gruber On Obumacare

Hitler:  I knew he couldn't keep his mouth shut!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKhkQqA53v0&feature=player_embedded#t=0

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24 Reasons Why Millennials Are Screaming Mad
About Our Unfair Economy

By Michael Snyder, on November 11th, 2014

(This following article makes some good points.  Particularly a generation obsessed with entertainment and the electronic boxes that they've become addicted to.  And, the student debt situation which is out of control.  Is the economic structure fair and equal?  No way!  Never has been.  But, there are some flaws in the arguments.  A Mortgage Loan Officer had this to say:

" I deal with a lot of 20 to 40 year olds and 1st time homebuyers. I see who's employed and who is not.  Just a few examples:

*Woman with a Masters in Social Work. Unable to find a job in her field for 22 months after graduation has finally found a job making $14.75 an hour.  Her husband with no college drives a forklift and makes $15 an hour.  She has $80,000 in student loans to pay back.

*A 19 year old woman who graduated a Welding Tech program at her High School had 3 companies bidding against each other to hire her.

*Another 19 year old boy who just graduated from a similar Welding program was immediately hired and they are sending him to Electrician school so he has dual skills they can use him for.

*A guy who Graduated with a Batchelors in Accounting last year is making $15 an hour and happy to have found a job.  He said every other Accounting opening wanted a minimum of 5 years experience.  Some required 10!

*A 22 year old guy who graduated from a Diesel Mechanics program at his High School made $73,000 last year."

Student loans are piling up at such a rate because of bunch of the so-called
"students" are quitting jobs and using these loans for living expenses.   Another form of welfare.  I heard of many borrowing $15,000/yr while taking 1 course at a community college or on-line university costing $350.  One racked up $200,000 in student loans some of which went to a 3 month summer vacation in Europe and winter holidays in Hawaii.  Ending up with no job.  When the loans run out, they end up as part time burger flippers or store clerks.  This has been growing by leaps and bounds and needs to be stopped.   In my day, students had to meet academic requirements to get into college and went into fields where the jobs were.  Today, it's basically open enrollment and party time.  A lot of these "colleges" don't even require a high school diploma.  Screw education, we run on money, money, money!  The fundamental problem with the education system is very few are learning anything useful in the job market.  "Movie appreciation" and "lesbian interpretive dance" aren't high on employers qualification lists.  So, the problems are self-inflicted to a great extent)

Do you want to know why Millennials seem so angry?   We promised them that if they worked hard, stayed out of trouble and got good grades that they would be able to achieve the "American Dream".  We told them not to worry about accumulating very high levels of student loan debt because there would be good jobs waiting for them at the end of the rainbow once they graduated.  Well, it turns out that we lied to them.  Nearly half of all Millennials are spending at least half of their paychecks to pay off debt, more than 30 percent of them are living with their parents because they can't find decent jobs, and this year the homeownership rate for Millennials sunk to a brand new all-time low.  When you break U.S. adults down by age, our long-term economic decline has hit the Millennials the hardest by far.  And yet somehow we expect them to bear the burden of providing Medicare, Social Security and other social welfare benefits to the rest of us as we get older.  No wonder there is so much anger and frustration among our young people. 





The following are 24 reasons why Millennials are screaming mad about our unfair economy...
#1 The current savings rate for Millennials is negative 2 percent.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Not only aren't Millennials saving any money, they are actually spending a good bit more than they are earning every month.

#2 A survey conducted earlier this year found that 47 percent of all Millennials are using at least half of their paychecks to pay off debt.

#3 For U.S. households that are headed up by someone under the age of 40, average wealth is still about 30 percent below where it was back in 2007.

#4 In 2005, the homeownership rate for U.S. households headed up by someone under the age of 35 was approximately 43 percent.  Today, it is sitting at about 36 percent.

#5 One recent survey discovered that an astounding 31.1 percent of all U.S. adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.

#6 At this point, the top 0.1 percent of all Americans have about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of all Americans combined.  Needless to say, there aren't very many Millennials in that top 0.1 percent.

#7 Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, close to 40 percent of all 27-year-olds have spent at least some time unemployed.

#8 Only about one out of every five 27-year-olds owns a home at this point, and an astounding 80 percent of all 27-year-olds are paying off debt.

#9 In 2013, the ratio of what men in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket were earning compared to what the general population was earning reached an all-time low.

#10 Back in the year 2000, 80 percent of all men in their late twenties had a full-time job.  Today, only 65 percent do.

#11 In 2012, one study found that U.S. families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

#12 Another study released back in 2011 discovered that U.S. households led by someone 65 years of age or older are 47 times wealthier than U.S. households led by someone 35 years of age or younger.

#13 Half of all college graduates in America are still financially dependent on their parents when they are two years out of college.

#14 In 1994, less than half of all college graduates left school with student loan debt.  Today, it is over 70 percent.

#15 At this point, student loan debt has hit a grand total of 1.2 trillion dollars in the United States.  That number has grown by about 84 percent just since 2008.

#16 According to the Pew Research Center, nearly four out of every ten U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 40 are currently paying off student loan debt.

#17 In 2008, approximately 29 million Americans were paying off student loan debt.  Today, that number has ballooned to 40 million.

#18 Since 2005, student loan debt burdens have absolutely exploded while salaries for young college graduates have actually declined...
The problem developing is that earnings and debt aren't moving in the same direction. From 2005 to 2012, average student loan debt has jumped 35%, adjusting for inflation, while the median salary has actually dropped by 2.2%.

#19 According to CNN, 260,000 Americans with a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum wage last year.

#20 Even after accounting for inflation, the cost of college tuition increased by 275 percent between 1970 and 2013.

#21 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for Medicare for our aging population will fall on Millennials.  It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.  In addition, it has been estimated that Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years.  That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.

#22 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for our exploding Medicaid system will fall on Millennials.  Today, more than 70 million Americans are on Medicaid, and it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.

#23 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for our massive Ponzi scheme known as Social Security will fall on Millennials.  Right now, there are more than 63 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits.  By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million.  In 1945, there were 42 workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.  Today, that number has fallen to 2.5 workers, and if you eliminate all government workers, that leaves only 1.6 private sector workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.

#24 Our national debt is currently sitting at a grand total of $17,937,617,036,693.09.  It is on pace to roughly double during the Obama years, and Millennials are expected to service that debt for the rest of their lives.

Yes, there are certainly some Millennials that are flat broke because they are lazy and irresponsible.

But there are many others that have tried to do everything right and still find that they can't get any breaks. 

For example, Bloomberg recently shared the story of a young couple named Jason and Jessica Alinen...
The damage inflicted on U.S. households by the collapse of the housing market and recession wasn't evenly distributed. Just ask Jason and Jessica Alinen.

The couple, who live near Seattle, declared bankruptcy in 2011 when the value of the house they then owned plunged to less than $200,000 from the $349,000 they paid for it four years earlier, just as the economic slump was about to start. Jason even stopped getting haircuts to save money.

"We thought we'd have a white picket fence, two kids, two dogs, and we'd have $100,000 in equity," said Jason, 33, who does have two children. "It's just really frustrating."

Can you identify with them?

Most young Americans just want to work hard, buy a home and start a family.

But for millions of them, that dream might as well be a million miles away right now.

Unfortunately, most of them have absolutely no idea why this has happened.

Many of them end up blaming themselves.  Many of them think that they are not talented enough or that they didn't work hard enough or that they don't know the right people.

What they don't know is that the truth is that decades of incredibly foolish decisions are starting to catch up with us in a major way, and they just happen to be caught in the crossfire.

Sadly, instead of becoming informed about what is happening to our country, a very large percentage of our young people are absolutely addicted to entertainment instead.

Below, I want to share with you a video that I recently came across.  A student at Texas Tech University recently asked some of her classmates a series of questions.  When they were asked about Brad Pitt or Jersey Shore they knew the answers right away.  But when they were asked who won the Civil War or who the current Vice-President of the United States is, they deeply struggled.  I think that this video says a lot about where we are as a society today...

Also, checkout this video from 2012:

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Since when is the Federal government supposed to be in the lending business?
Ever think about that or do you think that's just super great? 

Could we call it predatory lending?  If not, why not?

[Ross]

Great post Warph.
Keep up the good work

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Finally, A Gift For That Hard To Shop For Liberal In Your Life...
The Multicultural Christmas Sweater!

(Goes great with a COEXIST bumpersticker)

So, with the huge growth sales of festive sweaters over the last few years, it was only a matter of time before someone invented the 'Multicultural Christmas Jumper.'

And the website Britishchristmasjumpers.com are the first past that particular politically correct finishing post.

Their multicoloured offering features several different signs of faith including; Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Sikh, a form of scientific atheism, Chinese philosophy and also the peace sign.

The woolly garment can be pre-ordered from the site for £40, with the company shipping the prodcuts from December 1 onwards.

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Emperor Obuma Speaks For 15 Minutes – Refers To Himself 31 Times

(I, me, my...  it's all about me!)

Transcript:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech/2014/11/20/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

Demo-Rat Rep. Gwen Moore: Don't Forget About Transgender Immigrants While You Watch Emperor Obuma Amnesty Address

(Which is probably the last thing anyone will be thinking about)

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Disturbing: Major Democratic Fundraiser Arrested On Charges Of Sex Abuse Of 15-Year-Old Boy

Emperor Obuma and sodomist Terry Bean

(Can you imagine the media coverage if this were a major Republican fundraiser?)

Via Truth Revolt:
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/major-dem-fundraiser-arrested-charges-sex-abuse-minor

A national "power player" for the Democratic party and the gay rights movement was arrested Wednesday on charges of sex abuse of a minor.

Terry Bean, a Portland-based fundraiser for Democratic causes, is being charged with sex abuse and two counts of sodomy involving a 15-year-old boy. Bean's attorney claims that his client is the victim of an "extortion ring" and expressed full confidence that his name would be cleared.

The Willamette Week reports that law enforcement sources say Bean, 66, will be charged with two counts of sodomy in the third degree (a felony) and sex abuse in the third degree (a misdemeanor). The arrest followed a six-month investigation concerning a concealed video camera over Bean's bed that accuser Kiah Lawson says was used to illegally film him and at least half a dozen other men "in a state of nudity engaged in intimate acts with [Bean]."

    As WW reported in June, Bean accused a former lover, Kiah Lawson, of attempting to extort him over the discovery of a hidden camera. In the spring, Bean sought to keep the allegations secret and tried to reach a $40,000 settlement with Lawson.

    After WW began asking questions, Bean went to the police asking them to investigate his allegations. Bean also handed over to police what he said was evidence of additional illegal activity by Lawson and others.

Bean's attorney, Kristen Winemiller, denied that the camera was used for illegal or improper purposes, claiming that he installed it because he'd been the victim of theft. Winemiller initially accused Lawson of attempting to extort Bean; however, the investigation eventually turned against Bean leading to his arrest this week.

In a written response to the arrest, Winemiller maintained that her client will be exonerated:
    "Terry Bean is a highly respected community leader who has devoted his life to bettering our community. Over the course of several months in 2013‐2014 Terry was the victim of an extortion ring led by several men known to law enforcement. This current arrest is connected to the ongoing investigation of that case in which Mr. Bean has fully cooperated. No allegations against Terry Bean should be taken at face value. We look forward to the opportunity to clear his name."

Bean, a millionaire real estate developer, has been a major fundraiser for liberal political causes, particularly gay rights. He founded the leading gay rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, personally donating over $1 million to the cause.

He has also been instrumental to the Democratic Party. As the Willamette Week reports, in 2009 Obama called Bean a "great friend and supporter" and is hosted by Bean every time he visits Oregon:   

    No Oregonian has raised more money for President Barack Obama. At a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, Obama called Bean a "great friend and supporter." The president in 2012 hosted Bean on Air Force One, and when Obama visits Oregon, Bean has had the honor of greeting him as the president gets off his plane.

Bean will be arraigned later in Lane County, where the crimes allegedly occurred last year.

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PETA Compares Fight Against Presidential Turkey Pardon To
Civil Rights Struggle

(Now, if you'll excuse PETA, they have a frozen chicken funeral to attend)

Via The Hill:


    The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on President Obama's daughters to go vegan for Thanksgiving and urge their father to end the "offensive turkey pardon" ceremony.

    In a letter Thursday to the president's daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, PETA suggested the family follow its "values" during the holidays, citing the struggle for civil rights.

    "You come from a family whose members don't hesitate to fight for those who have been oppressed by standing up for civil rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights," Rachelle Owen, a senior manager in the group's youth division, wrote to the Obama daughters.

    "Obviously, you're familiar with the horrible ways that people often treat others who are viewed as 'different' simply because of superficial physical differences or cruel traditions. This year, we would like to ask you to lend your powerful and influential voices to another group whose voices often go unheard: animals."