G8 austerity? Not for free spending Obama

Barack Obama has been hard at work pressuring European leaders to ease up on fiscal austerity during the Camp David weekend G8 summit. Since Obama has no commitment to belt-tightening, his concern centers on his own upcoming reelection bid as he promises government-run health care and college educations for all.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed austerity as a means of bringing down huge debt levels that are burdening European economies. But furious Europeans, long used to government nannism have fought spending cuts. The euro currency is further destabilized as Greece tries to survive its massive debt crisis.

On May 6, the want-it-all, anti-austerity French voters ousted conservative French president Nicolas Sarkozy and elected Socialist Francois Hollande— who has pledged to defy Europe’s austerity trend.

The French, whose 35-hour work week and eight weeks of vacation is de rigueur, consider Americans “workaholics.” Their shortened work week actually affords French workers 22 extra days a year. Retirement comes at age 60 for most, with exemptions allowing some jobs to offer generous pensions to those age 50. Pensions for private-sector employees average 85% of the their final net salary, 100% for low-income earners and 65% for high earners. Women in the workforce accrue two years per child. Their program, not unlike American Social Security, is unsustainable. As life expectancy increases the European birth-rate has plummeted to numbers below replacement, resulting in fewer workers to maintain the program. Money collected from younger workers is not invested, as with Social Security (also in deep trouble), but immediately redistributed to retirees.

The French tossed out Sarkozy not because he was taking away the generous perks, but because he wanted the country’s citizens to tighten their belts.

Interestingly, the newly elected Socialist President Francois Hollande acknowledges it is vital to limit immigration. “In the period of crisis we are going through, limiting economic immigration is necessary and essential,” he said. “I also want to fight illegal immigration on the economic front. It is not right that a certain number of employers, in a cynical way, are hiring illegal migrants,” he said. Both he and ousted President Sarkozy vowed to “defend the French way of life, reduce immigration and secure France’s borders.”

Sound familiar?

 This photo is worth a thousand words. It was taken during election night celebrations at La Bastille Plaza in Paris. You’ll notice the dearth of French flags.  The other flags? Palestinian (2 flags top right +1 center left), Algerian, Turkish (towards center of photo), Syrian (left side of photo, below Palestinian flag), Moroccan (star in center), and European union flag. The other flags include Syndicates or Unions’ flags.

The face of France is changing. French no longer predominate in their own country. But the replacement revelers clamor for even more nannism, fewer hours of work, greater benefits and  a larger trough to rut at.

Last year we reported on the riots in Great Britain as a crowd estimated at near 500,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters, National Health Service workers, other public sector employees, students and pensioners from across the UK took to the streets of London in violence-laced demonstration where union officials condemned “brutal” cuts in jobs and services. At issue was privatizing the unsustainable, publicly funded National Health Service.

Is Obama tone deaf?

Mexico: Our delightful neighbor to the south

Escalation of border violence, includes beheadings, mutilations

Police found at least 49 mutilated corpses of dozens of men and women with their heads, hands and feet chopped off. The bodies were dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a highway that connects the city of Monterrey with Reynosa, adjacent to McAllen, Texas

The bodies, victims of warring drug cartels, were discovered before dawn Sunday. An estimated 50,000 people have been killed since December 2006.

Read more and watch the accompanying video here.

Those who set policy at the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) — unwavering supporters of open border policies and amnesty provisions — relegated this horrific report of the war at our border to minor page 4 coverage. Obviously their push for increased trade and promotion of Mexico as a prized tourist destination, takes front and center over gruesome realities.

Mother’s Day? Not if mom is a boycotting liberal

Moms urged to take a hike from their families

A sprinkling of quasi-celebs join others encouraging mothers to disappear this coming Sunday, rather than allow their families to set aside this holiday to celebrate them for dedicating their lives to the most challenging yet rewarding of jobs — motherhood.

While most mothers look forward to Mother’s Day, the Every Mother Counts campaign invites them to boycott the holiday, remain out of contact, silent, and — in fact, disappear. In yet another “raising awareness” scheme, mothers are urged to insult their own families to show their solidarity with women – globally — who die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. The gambit urges women to “share this video to be part of the solution.”  Oh, yeah. And don’t forget to stop talking to your family and refuse to accept their gifts.

Debra Messing and Blythe Danner (Mother of Gwyneth Paltrow) are among those appearing in the ad. Click on their linked names for a partial listing of who receives their political contributions. You’ll get the drift.

 

A case of the gimmes: Recipe for disaster

New French president pledges “to finish with austerity.”

Anti-austerity backlash by voters in France  — where strict programs imposed by conservative French president Nicolas Sarkozy resulted in his ouster yesterday — have ended in the election of Socialist Francois Hollande — who has pledged to buck Europe’s austerity trend. When spending sprees get out of control, the rational tighten their belts and make sacrifices.  Not so with those who have grown complacent with government nannism.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had openly supported Sarkozy who had been her partner in a valiant attempt to manage Europe’s debt crisis, to no avail. The sheeple are too used to the slop at the trough.

Now the euro currency is wobbling and stocks tumbling further as Greece’s economic future hangs precariously, while that nation tries to survive its own massive debt crisis. 

Last year we reported on the riots in Great Britain as a crowd estimated at near 500,000 teachers, nurses, firefighters, National Health Service  workers, other public sector employees, students and pensioners from across the UK took to the streets of central London in violence-laced demonstration where union officials condemned “brutal” cuts in jobs and services. At issue was privatizing the unsustainable, publicly funded National Health Service. Click on this link and read the parable (bold type lead-in) about capturing wild pigs.  It’s a quick read, but one you won’t forget. It certainly applies.

Electing Socialists, as Americans now know all too well, is a losing proposition. And the new French president?  He says “he will not be difficult for Barack Obama.”  What a surprise. The two peas in a pod should get along swimmingly.

UN examines US elections, demands return of tribal land

International interference should please globalists

The Far Left is making an unprecedented two-track move to derail states’ efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box for this November’s elections. While the Department of Justice is blocking state efforts, liberal activists are taking this issue to the United Nations as a human rights violation.

That’s right! 

Our voting process which was violated as never before by ACORN activists and other radicals in the 2008 election is now being subjected to international review. Ken Blackwell reports that requirements to verify voters have enraged groups such as the NAACP. So much so, in fact, that the issue of voter-ID laws is being taken to the United Nations Human Rights Council claiming that such ballot-box integrity measures violate the human rights of racial minorities under international law.

Nations comprising this supposed champion of human rights include dictatorial and authoritarian regimes such as China, Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya and Russia. China, as an example, imposes a strict policy of one child per family and forced abortions.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is invoking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as giving him the power to block Texas’ voter-ID law, which simply requires that voters show that they are who they say they are before they cast a vote to influence an election outcome, Ken Blackwell a man of considerable credentials, reports this outrage for CNS News.

But the U.N. insanity doesn’t stop there. A United Nations investigator who visited reservations in Alaska and Hawaii claims bias against Native Americans and “has called on the U.S. government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combating continuing and systemic racial discrimination.”

He reports on having received “exemplary cooperation” from the Obama administration, but is unable to pin down a meeting with any members of Congress.

Last month Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a $1.023 BILLION settlement of lawsuits with 41 tribes against the United States covering nearly 56 million acres of trust lands.

Pitzl’s baseless attempt to demean Rep. Stevens

His facts speak louder than her jargon

The newspaper is at it again.  How the leftists at the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) love to demean Republicans!  The more conservative their views, the more they can expect to feel the pain of a thousand cuts.

The most recent object of derision is state Rep. David Stevens.  Here in the “Political Insider,” Mary Jo Pitzl did her best to make the Sierra Vista Republican (Dist.25) sound like an escaped inmate from the State Hospital’s mental facility.

His “blunder?” According to Pitzl, Rep. Stevens became a “one world conspiracy theorist” when he dared mention the Amero. It’s the “stuff of urban legends,” she mocked in the column.  Ditto CANAMEX, the strategic mega Super Corridor intended to link the United States, Canada and Mexico as part of a plan to create a North American Union along the model of the European Union. It’s been in the works for years and explains the accompanying “comprehensive immigration reform” scheme to allow the vast majority of illegal aliens now in the U.S. to remain under a “guest worker” or “pathway to citizenship” provision. The underlying agenda is a creation of a NAFTA on steroids environment in which workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the trilateral North American community consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Presently, the United States has 84% of the series of highways completed, Mexico is 86% compliant. The Canadian portion was completed in 2007. Rail lines, pipelines and fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure are also part of the plan.

Last week in the Arizona House, responding to legislation to create toll roads connecting the three counties and enforce payment structures through Arizona, Rep. Stevens rose to object, saying, “You may have heard the term ‘Amero.’ I am a citizen of the United States of America. I don’t want to be a member the North American Union.”

That was enough to thrust Pitzl into hyperbole overdrive, dredging up her “one world conspiracy theorist” and “stuff of urban legends” rhetoric.

But on October 11, 2007, Seeing Red AZ wrote that Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox, verified the very same monetary scheme in an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live. Our post at the time was titled Mexico’s former President confirms plans for regional currency. Click on the link and read it. Unfortunately, the accompanying video is no longer active due to copyright issues, but the word-for-word text of the exchange remains for you to see.

For further verification, watch this:

Obama: Literally stuck on stupid

Danish Broadcasting Corp. host Thomas Buch-Andersen does the job America’s left-leaning media refuse to do. This embarrassing video indictment clearly exposes Obama’s flamboyant superficiality and hypocritical insincerity. Words are only words to him. He’s obviously a fool but the US voters who elected him are the biggest fools of all.

Watch as he habitually uses the boxing metaphor “punches above their weight” to consecutively describe the leaders of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland and the Philippines.

Then he repeatedly uses the exact terminology, as he declares that America has “no stronger ally” than The Netherlands, Australia, Poland, Great Britain, Germany, Korea, Israel, France, Italy and Japan.  Denmark?  Not so much.

You’ve got to see this to believe it.

Weekend reading guaranteed to make you smarter

 National Review’s Clifford D. May covers Valley physician, M. Zuhdi Jasser in a two page article titled CAIR’s Crusade against the Third Jihad.

The New York Post carries Dr. Jasser’s The (NY) Times buys Islamist lies — an outstanding accompaniment to May’s article.

Spend a few minutes learning what could well be the most important messages you will be exposed to.

Seeing Red AZ has written about Dr. Jasser previously here, here and here.

M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the President of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander and a national treasure. Get to know this man. His articles will introduce you.

Energy efficiency “standards” exposed

Fed light bulb mandates get temporary reprieve

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questions the Department of Energy’s commitment to protecting consumer choice during consideration of Appliance/Light Bulb Energy-Efficiency legislation. Although not recent, it is well worth watching the doubletalk from Obama’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, Kathleen Hogan.

Seeing Red AZ wrote about this scam and that of under performing low-flush toilets, in December 2007. It’s worth reviewing since government mandates implementing the use of compact fluorescent bulbs, while effecting a ban on incandescents was scheduled for implementation in 2012. The green game has been responsible for putting many Americans out of work. The last American light bulb factory closed last year.

This past October, with the Winchester Lamp Plant closure, the last 200 factory workers making General Electric light bulbs in the United States lost their jobs. GE which backed the job-killing government regulations, will still be manufacturing traditional incandescents — but in Monterrey, Mexico. The bulbs will be available in the emerging markets inIndia andChina, where more people use electricity every day, and no such restrictions exist.

With no money budgeted to implement this federal overreach in last week’s passage of the  massive $1 trillion, 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, the measure has a temporary reprieve.

The spending bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards — for the time being

Mark Levin outs Ron Paul as a “crackpot”

Ron Paul: 9/11 prompted “glee” in Bush administration

Listen to this audio:

 

Levin includes a clip of Fox News‘ Megyn Kelly asking Ron Paul about his controversial comment made to supporters: “Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.”

Gallup’s recent poll found that 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters view Paul as an unacceptable nominee.