Daily Archives: December 21, 2008

Dec 21 2008

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass Slams Barack Obama for inviting the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration

The longest-serving openly gay member of Congress said Sunday it was a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
“Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest. I found that deeply offensive and unfair,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said in a broadcast interview.
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Obama own party is slowly starting to bad mouth him and their liberal smearing is showing! Obama will have a hard time getting anything done by congress if he keeps upseting  the sheep!  Pastor Rick Warren is a good man and just because he does not agree with the gays then he is smeared by Barney Frank!

Dec 21 2008

Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals?

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect’s transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin “Tony” Rezko.

According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama’s former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.
Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. And it is no stretch to say that she was a slumlord,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “We have real concerns about Jarrett’s ethics. Washington already has plenty of corruption. We don’t need to import more of it from Chicago.”

Characterized as “the other side of Barack Obama’s brain” by CBS News, Jarrett first met the Obamas seventeen years ago when she offered Michelle Obama a job. While speculation has arisen that Jarrett could take Obama’s place in the U.S. Senate, the New York Times reported that it is more likely she will become a senior White House adviser, thus continuing her long record of being an important influence and mentor to Barack and Michelle Obama. November 14, 2008
SOURCE: Judicial Watch

Surrounded, Surrounded by all these important influence and mentors. And we’re not to think that something isn’t right with this situration! Will Obama last his 4 year term without being impeached?

LINKS: Rezko attorney ‘owns’ Obama mansion (Really?)

Dec 21 2008

Federal Workers Pay Higher Than Private Sector

Newly released data show that federal employee wages and benefits continue a rapid ascent above and beyond private sector pay levels.
The new data show that the 1.8 million federal civilian workers earned an average wage of $77,143 in 2007, which is 61 percent higher than the $48,035 average in the U.S. private sector. That 61 percent pay advantage has increased from a 34 percent advantage in 2000.

Looking at total compensation (wages plus benefits), federal workers earned an average $116,450 in 2007, which is more than double the $57,615 private sector average.
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I think back during the campaign when Obama said that he would only increase taxes on the rich, the ones earning $200,000 or more. At the time I was trying to figure out what wage group Obama was calling middle class Americans and at what level the poor class cuts off! At the prices of today someone making $50,000 is just getting by and not being able to save for later years! What income range would you say is the middle class Americans?  What would you say the cut off point between poor and middle class is or should be?