I hate to say I told you so but on June 27th, 2011 I posted an article on “gas fracking”, a growing, efficient, and cost effective drilling and fracturing technique to release the gigantic reserves of natural gas trapped in shale rock. The U.S. has more shale gas reserves than anyone on earth, including the Mid-East, which gives us a chance to reach our, heretofore, seemingly unreachable goal of energy independence.
My Prediction Came True
In that post I said that this administration will attempt to slow or eliminate this chance because they are hell-bent on so- called “green” energy and are against the continued use of oil and gas. The fact is natural gas is actually more “green” than many of the so-called green energy options!
Well, just as I predicted the Obama-appointed leadership of the EPA just released a report that “fracking” many have contaminated drinking water in Pavillion, Wyoming. It may make for a good and scary headline but does not hold up to scientific scrutiny. It is neither definitive nor applicable to anywhere else but Pavillion.
The Facts
1. The EPA acknowledged that the “dangerous” chemical in the drinking water was 2-butoxyethyl phosphate a chemical not associated with fracking fluids. In fact, it is a fire retardant associated with plastic components used in drinking water wells.
2. The “pollution” was actually found in deep water monitoring wells drilled by the EPA which were located near the natural gas reservoir not the actual drinking water wells.
3. The EPA admitted that drilling chemicals detected in monitoring wells may be from old wells that were drilled many years before fracking was ever developed.
4. The fracking activity in Pavillion takes place in unusually shallow wells (1,000-1500 ft.). Most fracking occurs at 10,000 ft., far below drinking water wells. Even the EPA acknowledges this. This certainly questions the relevance of the Wyoming findings.
Why the “Greens” Are Upset
I’m not saying that our drinking water should not be protected. I think we all can agree on that. What I am saying is that this EPA’s credibility is open to inspection. It is dominated by people from this administration bent on raising the prices and limiting production of carbon-based fuels. Natural gas has a much smaller carbon footprint than coal and oil, and shale gas can price wind and solar out of the market. Solar companies are going out of business in droves. The “greens” are terrified by the specter of natural gas becoming the preferred alternative fuel even though it would mean freedom from relying on foreign sources of energy and is the best option for our economy and the job market.
This attack on our only hope for energy self-sufficiency won’t stop until we make a change in who is living in the White House after 2012. One of many reasons this election is so important!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
How to Convince Obama to Quit
Recently, the Wall Street Journal had an op Ed column written by two moderate Democratic pollsters who were not very happy that the extreme left wing of the party is firmly in control, and the pollsters did not like the direction the Left is taking the country. They advocated that Obama should step down and be a one term President and pass the gauntlet to Hillary Clinton. They then proceeded to elaborate on Obama’s failed Presidency.
Of course, the premise of the article was not very feasible in the first place, but the idea that you can convince a bona fide narcissist to step-down because he is a failure, is totally wrong. The way to do it is exactly the opposite of that point of view. This was clearly illustrated this morning on the “Morning Joe” program, which I occasionally watch to get my conservative blood flowing and pressure up for the day.
Jon Meacham, an uber-liberal “historian” of sorts and author, and Mike Barnicle, a former liberal columnist for the Boston Post, were in a discussion trying to rationalize why Obama has been so ineffective thus far. “I cannot understand it, he is so eloquent, so smart and convincing”, bemoaned Meacham, “it must be that the job is not commensurate with his great gifts”. If that doesn’t get you to switch off MSNBC what will? Eloquent? Maybe, as long as he has a teleprompter, but in a debate on his feet with no notes, a resounding NO! Why, Hillary whipped his back-side in almost every debate in the 2008 Democratic primary, and who can’t beat John McCain in any debate?
So smart? Based on what? They don’t even want to tell us his grades. He was virtually kicked out of Occidental College in California and hardly anyone knew him at Columbia or Harvard. In fact, we still can’t figure out how he got into those Universities. Convincing? The polls show that less independents and young people will note for him again, 75% of the country thinks we are on the wrong track, and 66% think he is doing a poor job. Convincing?
While the Republican primary candidates have to take an anal exam on their religion, we still really don’t know Obama’s religion. He actually went to a Christian church this past Sunday, the first time since last Easter. His early education in Indonesia was in a Muslim school and we know that for almost 20 years he went to a church that promoted “black liberation theology”. Do we know his religion? I know that Perry is Protestant, Gingrich is Catholic, and Romney is Mormon, and the liberal media is concerned about this but Obama gets a free pass.
Then Meacham said, “He is stuck in an 18th century constitutional government structure and that’s why he cannot get anything done.” Well, that doesn’t seem to have bothered all of the Presidents before him! Meacham thinks we or our governments are not good enough for Obama’s great gifts, he needs to be in a world job. The world needs him. Well, you get the idea. That’s how you tell a narcissist to quit. You tell him he’s too smart for us, that his skills are best suited for a bigger job than President of the United States. How about those really productive jobs; like a University President, or Head of the UN, or the nominating committee for Nobel Prizes. Maybe, just go back to the old neighborhood with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, and be a community organizer; but I understand you weren’t very good at that, either.
Of course, the premise of the article was not very feasible in the first place, but the idea that you can convince a bona fide narcissist to step-down because he is a failure, is totally wrong. The way to do it is exactly the opposite of that point of view. This was clearly illustrated this morning on the “Morning Joe” program, which I occasionally watch to get my conservative blood flowing and pressure up for the day.
Jon Meacham, an uber-liberal “historian” of sorts and author, and Mike Barnicle, a former liberal columnist for the Boston Post, were in a discussion trying to rationalize why Obama has been so ineffective thus far. “I cannot understand it, he is so eloquent, so smart and convincing”, bemoaned Meacham, “it must be that the job is not commensurate with his great gifts”. If that doesn’t get you to switch off MSNBC what will? Eloquent? Maybe, as long as he has a teleprompter, but in a debate on his feet with no notes, a resounding NO! Why, Hillary whipped his back-side in almost every debate in the 2008 Democratic primary, and who can’t beat John McCain in any debate?
So smart? Based on what? They don’t even want to tell us his grades. He was virtually kicked out of Occidental College in California and hardly anyone knew him at Columbia or Harvard. In fact, we still can’t figure out how he got into those Universities. Convincing? The polls show that less independents and young people will note for him again, 75% of the country thinks we are on the wrong track, and 66% think he is doing a poor job. Convincing?
While the Republican primary candidates have to take an anal exam on their religion, we still really don’t know Obama’s religion. He actually went to a Christian church this past Sunday, the first time since last Easter. His early education in Indonesia was in a Muslim school and we know that for almost 20 years he went to a church that promoted “black liberation theology”. Do we know his religion? I know that Perry is Protestant, Gingrich is Catholic, and Romney is Mormon, and the liberal media is concerned about this but Obama gets a free pass.
Then Meacham said, “He is stuck in an 18th century constitutional government structure and that’s why he cannot get anything done.” Well, that doesn’t seem to have bothered all of the Presidents before him! Meacham thinks we or our governments are not good enough for Obama’s great gifts, he needs to be in a world job. The world needs him. Well, you get the idea. That’s how you tell a narcissist to quit. You tell him he’s too smart for us, that his skills are best suited for a bigger job than President of the United States. How about those really productive jobs; like a University President, or Head of the UN, or the nominating committee for Nobel Prizes. Maybe, just go back to the old neighborhood with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, and be a community organizer; but I understand you weren’t very good at that, either.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Letter to the WSJ Editor That Didn’t Make It
Last Saturday, Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) entitled, “Clean Energy is Winning”. It was full of mistruths and half-truths which many in the public would not appreciate. I could not let him get away with this, so I wrote a letter to the editor refuting his points. Well, as of today it did not publish. Here is his letter and my retort.
His letter:
Regarding your editorial: A Better Idea for Green Jobs: (op-ed. Oct.15): Here are the facts. Employment in the U.S. solar industry has doubled in the last two years. Solar energy now employs more than 100,000 Americans, tens of thousands more that in coal mining. The wind industry employs 85,000. According to the Brookings Institutions, the clean economy now employs 2.7 million Americans, more than the fossil-fuel industry.
By comparison, Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell, and Chevron, which made $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, actually reduced their U.S. work forces by a combined 11,200 workers.
Despite rhetorical attacks, clean energy is winning. New wind projects are selling their power for as little as three cents per kilowatt-hour, cheaper than natural gas. America is currently a net exporter of solar technology. We have a renewable energy technology trade surplus with China. From 2007 to 2010, America constructed nearly 32,000 new megawatts of wind, solar and biomass electricity. That is more than three times the amount of new coal during that time. Yet the only clean-energy company that conservatives seem to be able to talk about is Solyndra.
Clean energy employs millions of Americans and provides power to millions more. Most Americans want to see their nation dominate a sector estimated to be worth $12 trillion over the next two decades.
Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass)
My letter to the Editor:
Representative Ed Markey’s (D. Mass) letter in response to your editorial “A Better Idea for Green Jobs”, Oct. 15th once again illustrates how liberal Democrats will provide you with “facts” to make a point but don’t put the “facts” in perspective. The premise of his letter, “Clean Energy Is Winning in the U.S.”, is an extremely misleading thesis and far from the truth. The fact that the solar energy industry employs more than 100,000 Americans, slightly more than coal mining, he says, is nothing to brag about since with this administration many coal companies have been forced to shut down and new ones haven’t started as a conscious result of government regulations which makes it too expensive. He also asserts that 2.7 million people work in the “clean economy” more than what he calls the fossil-fuel industry. This is ridiculous, since more than 9 million are employed in the oil and gas industry alone. Also, he forgot to tell you that if you drive a school bus with a hybrid engine you are counted, by this administration, as working in the green energy industry. He also boosts that America is a net exporter of solar technology with a trade surplus with China. The reason is, there is no market in the U.S. because energy costs are among the lowest in the world, so solar is not competitive. Also, Mr. Markey, we will be soon hearing about many more fiascos’ like Solyandra, and if you would vote for more U.S. oil development and encourage shale-gas production, we would generate more than 1 million jobs almost instantly. You may think “clean energy” is winning, but we are losing because you are in the House of Representatives.
George Ahearn, Ph.D.
Naples, Florida
His letter:
Regarding your editorial: A Better Idea for Green Jobs: (op-ed. Oct.15): Here are the facts. Employment in the U.S. solar industry has doubled in the last two years. Solar energy now employs more than 100,000 Americans, tens of thousands more that in coal mining. The wind industry employs 85,000. According to the Brookings Institutions, the clean economy now employs 2.7 million Americans, more than the fossil-fuel industry.
By comparison, Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell, and Chevron, which made $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, actually reduced their U.S. work forces by a combined 11,200 workers.
Despite rhetorical attacks, clean energy is winning. New wind projects are selling their power for as little as three cents per kilowatt-hour, cheaper than natural gas. America is currently a net exporter of solar technology. We have a renewable energy technology trade surplus with China. From 2007 to 2010, America constructed nearly 32,000 new megawatts of wind, solar and biomass electricity. That is more than three times the amount of new coal during that time. Yet the only clean-energy company that conservatives seem to be able to talk about is Solyndra.
Clean energy employs millions of Americans and provides power to millions more. Most Americans want to see their nation dominate a sector estimated to be worth $12 trillion over the next two decades.
Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass)
My letter to the Editor:
Representative Ed Markey’s (D. Mass) letter in response to your editorial “A Better Idea for Green Jobs”, Oct. 15th once again illustrates how liberal Democrats will provide you with “facts” to make a point but don’t put the “facts” in perspective. The premise of his letter, “Clean Energy Is Winning in the U.S.”, is an extremely misleading thesis and far from the truth. The fact that the solar energy industry employs more than 100,000 Americans, slightly more than coal mining, he says, is nothing to brag about since with this administration many coal companies have been forced to shut down and new ones haven’t started as a conscious result of government regulations which makes it too expensive. He also asserts that 2.7 million people work in the “clean economy” more than what he calls the fossil-fuel industry. This is ridiculous, since more than 9 million are employed in the oil and gas industry alone. Also, he forgot to tell you that if you drive a school bus with a hybrid engine you are counted, by this administration, as working in the green energy industry. He also boosts that America is a net exporter of solar technology with a trade surplus with China. The reason is, there is no market in the U.S. because energy costs are among the lowest in the world, so solar is not competitive. Also, Mr. Markey, we will be soon hearing about many more fiascos’ like Solyandra, and if you would vote for more U.S. oil development and encourage shale-gas production, we would generate more than 1 million jobs almost instantly. You may think “clean energy” is winning, but we are losing because you are in the House of Representatives.
George Ahearn, Ph.D.
Naples, Florida
Sunday, October 2, 2011
America’s Becoming a Robin Hood Republic
I heard something on the radio which really illustrates what is happening to this country, and it is quite disturbing. Apparently, Governor Cuomo of New York was a guest on the Today Show this past week and they showed a clip of his visit to a 2nd grade class in Jamaica, Queens , which is predominately an African-American neighborhood. Cuomo asked a young girl, probably a 7 year old, what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said “President”. Then he asked what would you do as President? “I would have the rich people give me their money so I could give it to the people who need it”, she said. Then Cuomo said, “What if the rich people didn’t want to give you their money?” The little girl answered, “Well then, they’re just greedy”.
I’m sure she will get an “A” from her teacher for that answer. Probably because the teacher believes that and the little girl likely heard her parents talking like that. Unless this little girl read “Robin Hood”, and I don’t think that’s required reading in the 2nd grade, where would she get that kind of a value system? When I was seven, I wanted to be a doctor, a fireman, or a baseball player, so I could make money and be successful. I knew that I had the freedom to be anything I wanted to be. I had the desire to improve myself, and the opportunity in this great country to achieve my dream, even though my family was far from rich. In addition, I had a support system, my parents, my teachers, and my friends encouraged me. That was the American culture we lived in, and that was the value system most of us had.
Is this the kind of culture we are building today? It certainly doesn’t look like America anymore and I’m beginning to be glad I’m 76, because I don’t want to live in that kind of America. I was not born in a Banana Republic, or Russia, or Sweden, where we have a state controlled government, a police state, or socialism, where the economies are stifled and you can predict what your future will be because you cannot control your destiny.
President Obama is a role model for kids, particularly black children, therefore everything he says influences their value system. This is what they hear from him….. It’s only fair to spread the money around and I get to decide what is fair, I pick the winners and the losers, I give you money and I decide who needs it.
This is tyranny, this is slavery, this is Un-American, and history tells us this will eventually end in failure and tragedy. America is a great country and no one can change us by force. The only way we can be defeated is from within. And unfortunately, we elected a President who brought in people , like him, who don’t really know or understand this country. Crony capitalism is not a substitute for a free market and fair competition. We must remove these people from our government, or else this successful 250 year experiment in democracy cannot be saved and the damage will be irreversible.
You can’t be complacent about this, it’s too important!
I’m sure she will get an “A” from her teacher for that answer. Probably because the teacher believes that and the little girl likely heard her parents talking like that. Unless this little girl read “Robin Hood”, and I don’t think that’s required reading in the 2nd grade, where would she get that kind of a value system? When I was seven, I wanted to be a doctor, a fireman, or a baseball player, so I could make money and be successful. I knew that I had the freedom to be anything I wanted to be. I had the desire to improve myself, and the opportunity in this great country to achieve my dream, even though my family was far from rich. In addition, I had a support system, my parents, my teachers, and my friends encouraged me. That was the American culture we lived in, and that was the value system most of us had.
Is this the kind of culture we are building today? It certainly doesn’t look like America anymore and I’m beginning to be glad I’m 76, because I don’t want to live in that kind of America. I was not born in a Banana Republic, or Russia, or Sweden, where we have a state controlled government, a police state, or socialism, where the economies are stifled and you can predict what your future will be because you cannot control your destiny.
President Obama is a role model for kids, particularly black children, therefore everything he says influences their value system. This is what they hear from him….. It’s only fair to spread the money around and I get to decide what is fair, I pick the winners and the losers, I give you money and I decide who needs it.
This is tyranny, this is slavery, this is Un-American, and history tells us this will eventually end in failure and tragedy. America is a great country and no one can change us by force. The only way we can be defeated is from within. And unfortunately, we elected a President who brought in people , like him, who don’t really know or understand this country. Crony capitalism is not a substitute for a free market and fair competition. We must remove these people from our government, or else this successful 250 year experiment in democracy cannot be saved and the damage will be irreversible.
You can’t be complacent about this, it’s too important!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Now We Know the Problem – It’s Us!
Just yesterday President Obama finally gave us his scholarly analysis of the cause of our economic problems. I was eagerly waiting for this, since many economists have had conflicting views. In a radio interview in Orlando, Florida he said, “Well, we just got soft and complacent over the last two decades, and it just caught up with us”. Wow, is that deep! So we are the problem, we just got lazy and soft in the last 20 years. Boy, I’m glad it’s not him and his policies that kept this recession going.
I wonder where he’s been living for the last 20 years. Africa? Indonesia? South Chicago? What happened during those great Clinton years when we actually had a budget surplus? Those first seven years of the Bush administration, as the market boomed and corporate profits and growth was something never seen before in the free world. I guess we got soft, started giving loans to poor people just to bring them up to the status of rich people, and started thinking we could actually eradicate poverty.
We’re just too lazy to implement his economic plans, let’s get out there and get a job, “take off your bedroom slippers”, and get out there. Why should I, Mr. President? You keep giving me unemployment money and more food-stamps. And thanks for controlling those energy markets, so we can use those subsidized sources of energy, rather than that dirty oil and gas. Maybe you can manipulate the markets, so that the price of oil and gas increases and then I can change to solar, and windmills. But what’s going to happen when we can’t afford those subsidies? Like that Solandra company that was making solar panels for $6.00/ft and selling them for $3.00/ft in order to compete in the world market. I guess they were going to make it up on volume, except that the loan money you gave them ran out.
Anyway, I am glad Mr. President that you can do no wrong and the problem is us. The lazy American worker, who just built the greatest economy the world has even seen, and all of a sudden got soft, just before you got elected. What a coincidence, just your luck. I for one, hopes that your luck runs out in November, 2012.
I wonder where he’s been living for the last 20 years. Africa? Indonesia? South Chicago? What happened during those great Clinton years when we actually had a budget surplus? Those first seven years of the Bush administration, as the market boomed and corporate profits and growth was something never seen before in the free world. I guess we got soft, started giving loans to poor people just to bring them up to the status of rich people, and started thinking we could actually eradicate poverty.
We’re just too lazy to implement his economic plans, let’s get out there and get a job, “take off your bedroom slippers”, and get out there. Why should I, Mr. President? You keep giving me unemployment money and more food-stamps. And thanks for controlling those energy markets, so we can use those subsidized sources of energy, rather than that dirty oil and gas. Maybe you can manipulate the markets, so that the price of oil and gas increases and then I can change to solar, and windmills. But what’s going to happen when we can’t afford those subsidies? Like that Solandra company that was making solar panels for $6.00/ft and selling them for $3.00/ft in order to compete in the world market. I guess they were going to make it up on volume, except that the loan money you gave them ran out.
Anyway, I am glad Mr. President that you can do no wrong and the problem is us. The lazy American worker, who just built the greatest economy the world has even seen, and all of a sudden got soft, just before you got elected. What a coincidence, just your luck. I for one, hopes that your luck runs out in November, 2012.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Elevating Our Guilt Rather Than Our Triumphs
Most of you who actually read some of the posts I write probably think that all I do is pick on President Obama. The problem is that there is such a fertile field here, that every time I look it’s another stupid or rather insensitive thing he does.
Since AOL purchased the leftist Huffington Post (for an outlandish price), I get daily news items on my computer which I would not normally read on purpose. Today they featured an article showing our President and his wife hanging a rather controversial Norman Rockwell painting, illustrating a dark period in our history, in the West Wing adjacent to the Oval Office. It shows a little black girl being escorted to her elementary school in the South accompanied by federal marshals with graffiti splattered on a wall showing the word “nigger”. The painting was made in 1963 and is titled “A Problem We Have to Live With”. It apparently was on the cover of Time Magazine in the 60’s during the civil rights integration crisis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/ruby-bridges-visits-the-w_n_904710.html
Maybe the Huffington Post and Mr. Obama should instead recognize the multi-million dollar memorial to Martin Luther King soon to be unveiled in our Nation’s capital which celebrates our triumph over bigotry and shows how far we have come on the race issue. Mr. Obama and his wife have certainly benefited from the affirmative action we have implemented over the last 50 years which allowed them to go to schools “unescorted” or be admitted to Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard even though their grades may not have warranted it.
If we think that the White House should be a place to hang pictures about some dark periods in our history why don’t we hang paintings of dead bodies lying in the battlefields of the Civil War, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or perhaps a painting of our current unemployment lines, or conditions in the ghettos of some of our major cities where drugs and all sorts of crime occur every day and call that a “Problem We Have to Live With”.
This event got me thinking and just hit me the wrong way, I really feel for that little black girl in the painting, but like the exceptional country we are, we acted to address and rectify this injustice. So, if you think I sound like a racist, well you’re entitled to your opinion, but I think Obama’s decision to hang that picture in the White House was insulting and racist to the American people. If you disagree, I’d like to hear your perspective.
Since AOL purchased the leftist Huffington Post (for an outlandish price), I get daily news items on my computer which I would not normally read on purpose. Today they featured an article showing our President and his wife hanging a rather controversial Norman Rockwell painting, illustrating a dark period in our history, in the West Wing adjacent to the Oval Office. It shows a little black girl being escorted to her elementary school in the South accompanied by federal marshals with graffiti splattered on a wall showing the word “nigger”. The painting was made in 1963 and is titled “A Problem We Have to Live With”. It apparently was on the cover of Time Magazine in the 60’s during the civil rights integration crisis.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/ruby-bridges-visits-the-w_n_904710.html
Maybe the Huffington Post and Mr. Obama should instead recognize the multi-million dollar memorial to Martin Luther King soon to be unveiled in our Nation’s capital which celebrates our triumph over bigotry and shows how far we have come on the race issue. Mr. Obama and his wife have certainly benefited from the affirmative action we have implemented over the last 50 years which allowed them to go to schools “unescorted” or be admitted to Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard even though their grades may not have warranted it.
If we think that the White House should be a place to hang pictures about some dark periods in our history why don’t we hang paintings of dead bodies lying in the battlefields of the Civil War, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or perhaps a painting of our current unemployment lines, or conditions in the ghettos of some of our major cities where drugs and all sorts of crime occur every day and call that a “Problem We Have to Live With”.
This event got me thinking and just hit me the wrong way, I really feel for that little black girl in the painting, but like the exceptional country we are, we acted to address and rectify this injustice. So, if you think I sound like a racist, well you’re entitled to your opinion, but I think Obama’s decision to hang that picture in the White House was insulting and racist to the American people. If you disagree, I’d like to hear your perspective.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
More Dirt On The Chrysler Deal - Part 2
“With that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas , North Louisiana, and Southern Missouri . It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealerships in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson, Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter.
These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one! While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were closed! Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone. Isn't that amazing?
There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what was done.
Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.
No More Car Czar
Then an amazing thing happened as this story progressed. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom. According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family." Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future." By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York .....UGH!
But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation. And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family."
Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority. But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"... as Tim Geithner likes to say!
SOOOOO. HOW’S THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?..”
These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one! While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were closed! Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone. Isn't that amazing?
There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what was done.
Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.
No More Car Czar
Then an amazing thing happened as this story progressed. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom. According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family." Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future." By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York .....UGH!
But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation. And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family."
Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority. But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"... as Tim Geithner likes to say!
SOOOOO. HOW’S THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?..”
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