WORLD'S WORST… MOONBAT KEITH OLBERMANN
Keith Olbermann said the Republicans are all "hypocrites" for voting against the auto industry bailouts….
GM and Chrysler went bankrupt even after they accepted the government bailouts. It's likely that the taxpayers will still have to pay an additional $50 billion dollars to the new Government Motors that emerges after bankruptcy. The bailouts failed and yet the Republicans are the hypocrites?
Ford is exhibiting the American principles which has seen us through many difficult problems the U.S. has faced through its creation. Our present financial difficulties is being made more difficult by our government excessive spending and intervention, they are becoming more the problem than any potential solution.
Keith Olbermann and his son Rachel Maddow are the perfect example of what is wrong with this country. They criticize anybody that opposes this failed administration and their current path to Socialism.
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Columbus Blue Jackets Need Bailout!
The owners of the money-losing Columbus Blue Jackets want a tax increase on beer, wine and cigarettes to underwrite a county takeover of the arena where they play.
Such a move would defy the will of local voters who repeatedly rejected public financing of the facility built by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Get the full story from our newspaper affiliate, Business First
The prospect of significant tax hikes also has touched off a battle between financial backers of the Blue Jackets and beer brewer Anheuser-Busch, which operates one of its 12 U.S. breweries in the city.
The company's president flew to Columbus on Thursday for meetings with Gov. Ted Strickland and leaders of the Ohio Legislature. The team wants the proposal inserted into the budget that starts July 1.
This news comes just days after Mayor Michael Coleman announced that 297 police officers will be laid off if the voters do not pass his proposed tax increases. Among those to be laid off will be the 25 officers President Obama used in his photo op. to sell everybody on his spending package.
The only thing this administration is capable of doing is tax and spend. We may have to wait until 2012 for our stimulation!
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It's Vacation Time For Mayor Coleman And We Are Paying For It!!
By Denise Yost
Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio—There's no question the City of Columbus is suffering in uncertain economic times.
Every dollar spent is being examined, including business trips overseas.
Toward the beginning of the nation's economic decline, the mayor and other city workers traveled to Israel to visit our sister city in an effort to bring tech jobs to Columbus.
Mayor Michael Coleman and his chief of staff were sponsored by the Jewish Federation and went free of charge, but two other city workers also went, using thousands of taxpayer dollars.
Tonight, NBC 4's Matt Alvarez gets answers directly from the mayor about the trip.
The City of Columbus has a current budget shortfall of $16 million and that budget crunch has lead to cuts in yard waste pick-up, to shuttering rec centers, from furloughs to hiring freezes. Now, there's a move to raise taxes.
"The consequence of not achieving this tax will be devastating for our community," Coleman said.
Against that dramatic backdrop, the mayor has also worked to drum up business for the city and it has led to a trip nearly halfway around the world. But has the benefit of this mission justified the cost?
In April of last year, the mayor, his chief of staff, as well as education and business leaders traveled to Israel to see if technology companies in the region could bring business and jobs to Columbus.
We sifted through the records of the trade mission. Here's what we found:
The mayor and chief of staff were sponsored by the Jewish Federation, but two development department employees went to Israel for advance work and the trip costing you, the taxpayer, $21,000.
"First of all, the reason we went to Israel is because it is a marketplace that is expanding technology and are focused on new products," Coleman said.
The mayor points to the following developments:
A major Central Ohio company says this trip has resulted in product development that is likely to result in millions of dollars of new lines.
Also, Columbus is marketing an Israeli electronic medical records company that is looking for a city in the U.S. to land.
The mayor also says there's momentum building in the region to develop an investment fund to help attract businesses from Israel to Columbus.
In addition to that, a technology-based business incubator is also considering a move.
But it's been more than a year since the mayor's trip, and so far, lots of interest and speculation, but not a lot of jobs.
"I'm telling you, there's a company that says there's several product lines that will generate millions of dollars and jobs and opportunities in this community," Coleman said.
The mayor went on to say, it takes time to move international companies to Columbus. He also says due to the city's current economic situation, he turned down two other International Trade Mission trips—one to Saudi Arabia, the other to China.
"We gotta fight for every job even if it's international. Will I ever go to Israel again for the purpose of bringing jobs to the city of Columbus? Yes I will," Coleman said.
NBC 4 has learned Monday that an Israeli company that produces surgical items is outsourcing some jobs to Central Ohio—specifically Bridgehead Solutions will have gained ten jobs because of the mayor's trip to the Middle East.
Below is a copy of the trip costs:
Business Mission to Israel
Planning Trip:
Airfare $1,329.70
Partial – Living Expenses $652.15
Ground Package $2,992.00
International Cell phone $115.00
Total Planning Trip: $5,088.85
Business Mission:
Meal Allowance/Misc $1,256.17
Total Business Mission: $6,425.94
Cell Phone/misc. $205.36
Total Business Mission: $11,862.00
Total Planning & Business Mission: $21,260.67
Who are the lucky 10?? Maybe they are 1 of the 1,500 teenagers Obama promised would have jobs this summer…
Ohio's unemployment rate rose to a 25-year high in March as the state continued to lose jobs amid the recession, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said reported in April.
The state's unemployment rate increased from a revised 9.5 percent in February to 9.7 percent last month, the highest rate since April 1984, department spokesman Brian Harter said.
Maybe Mayor Coleman is still star struck from his meeting with the anointed one!! WAKE UP MIKE!!!
Tags:Bailouts, Barack Obama, Capital Hill, congress, constitution, Democrats, General Motors, government, Isreal, mainstream media, Michael Coleman, Unemployment
Amateur Night!
The only thing sick and tired is Wanda Sykes. Her pathetic jabs didn't even leave a mark. It's pretty sad when the "anointed one" was funnier than the comedian. I am not going to waste anymore time on this has been.
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GM hosts fleet buyers at spa in scaled back event; critics unmoved
By Max Jarman and Sharon Silke Carty, USA TODAY
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Just weeks before a deadline that could send it into bankruptcy, General Motors is entertaining 500 of its biggest customers at a luxury spa and golf course in Arizona.
GM, (GM) which has borrowed $15.4 billion from the U.S. government in the past six months, shipped in 150 cars and trucks to the event this week at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, and paid for airfare and hotel lodging for 90% of the guests.
The affair is scaled back from previous years, says GM spokesman Terry Rhadigan. Guests have to pay for their own golf outings, he says, and most of the days are packed with informational sessions on GM's 2010 product line. The guests are GM's fleet and corporate customers, which accounted for 27.6% of GM's business in 2008. Fleet customers can buy dozens of vehicles at a time.
GM is operating on a taxpayer-funded lifeline, having taken $15.4 billion in government loans. It has said it needs up to $30 billion. It faces a June 1 deadline to slash debt and sign new contracts with its labor union, or the government has said it won't provide any more money.
A small number of the customers attending the event were government employees who paid their own way, Rhadigan says.
Helio Fred Garcia, a professor of crisis communications at New York University, says GM's fleet meeting isn't the same as events by other companies that have been criticized for sponsoring lavish entertainment while taking taxpayers' dollars.
"If GM is going to survive … it has to maintain sales in a competitive marketplace," Garcia says.
President Obama has called for "shared sacrifice" among all of GM's stakeholders.
"I would hope that GM management would spend our financial dollars wisely, and in a manner that would be certainly appropriate in the taxpayer's minds," says Jack Dickinson, president of GM retiree group OverTheHillCarPeople.com. White-collar retirees lost health care benefits at the start of 2009. "I would hope that our management has the foresight to stay away from things that would project a negative image with the public."
GM, Chrysler and Ford executives were harshly criticized last fall for flying on private jets to Washington to ask for government aid. Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste says it's clear GM didn't learn from that.
"GM has a tin ear to these things," she says. "There shouldn't be any wining and dining right now. They took taxpayer money. If you're going to do that, you need to make some very public displays that you get that the taxpayers are part owners of the company now."
Tom Donaldson, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, says GM and other companies accepting government aid should be working hard to stay under the radar.
"Even legitimate functions that help sales, that create partnerships, that are not over the top and luxury, they are almost out of bounds from the public standpoint," Donaldson says.
GM says the Treasury wasn't consulted on the event, nor would it ask for permission. The Treasury has said it doesn't want to interfere with GM's day-to-day operations.
I guess the only people that have to scale back during these tough economic times are the people paying for it!!!
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ANOTHER MISTAKE FROM THE FORMER COMMUNITY ORGANIZER
Scary…thank you USA !!
Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. Needs to know ….
Something happened… H.R. 1388 was recently passed, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news… Just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN (Communist News Network) screen.
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza.
The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here within the U. S., but within the world, using U. S. Tax payer funds. He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11.
These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.
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