Learning on the Job
The U.S. government doesn't know anything about how to make cars, nor is it anywhere empowered by the Constitution to run an automobile manufacturing company. Nonetheless, in the new Soviet-style Obama-run America, that's what it is going to do -- make and sell cars. And the guy the government chose to run the newly acquired General Motors says he's ready to learn how to do it. "I don't know anything about cars," admitted Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who was picked by Obama's aides to run the government-owned GM. "I think I can learn about cars," he said. He used to run a telephone company.
Oops -- Oh Well, It's Only Taxpayers' Money
God apparently sometimes makes mistakes. Last month, thousands of people across the country received government checks from President Barack Obama's famous "economic stimulus" plan. For example, Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream, New York, was expecting a $250 "stimulus" check. But when she opened the mail, she discovered the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago. He'd been a U.S. citizen, but had returned to Italy. The Social Security administration, admitted it sent out at least 10,000 checks amounting to millions of dollars to dead people because the agency had no record of their deaths.
America's Dying Cities
Life in some cities, such as Detroit, Michigan, Gary, Indiana, and many others, is so utterly intolerable in the new multicultural America that employers openly admit they are being driven out by the crime rate. New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm in Maryland, told Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon last month that the company was leaving the city because crime is too high. The firm said, "our decision will cost the merchants in this neighborhood at least $200,000 per year in revenue as we are terminating, among others, our cleaning service and security guard, and will no longer be paying for parking spaces in the local garages, and no longer buying our lunches from local restaurants... Our decision was the result of the high level of crime in our neighborhood. Over the last several years, many of our cars have been broken into...our employees have been robbed at gunpoint, drug needles and used condoms have been left on our front stoop, and psychotic homeless people have menaced our employees and threatened to kill them."
Apologizing to the Dead
The idiots who run Connecticut decided to apologize for slavery. The state's House of Representatives passed the apology resolution by a voice vote, which was followed with self-congratulatory applause by the apologizers. One of the leaders of the self-abasement was Republican leader Rep. Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk who said, "This resolution is the General Assembly's way of saying, 'we're sorry.' The apology means nothing to those who were slaves, of course. They are all dead. The real purpose of the apology is to curry favor with newly dominant non-white political forces, which are very much alive.
Immigrant Sensitivities
In the new multicultural America, simple old-style patriotism is regarded as offensive. That's why an Arlington, Texas, woman was told to remove an American flag from her office. Debbie McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, hung a flag at her desk in an office she shares with three coworkers. Her daughter serves in Iraq as a combat medic. The complaining coworker, an immigrant from Africa, didn't like having to look at the U.S. flag every day. So Debbie's bosses told her she must remove the flag. "I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag, what other freedoms will I lose before all is said and done?" Stifling tears, she told a reporter, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there [in Iraq] are really doing this for nothing."
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Senate Chutzpah
Left-wing Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, powerful chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has introduced legislation that will allow homosexual citizens and homosexual immigrants living in the U.S. legally to bring in their homosexual lovers from foreign countries, just as spouses can petition to bring in foreign-born husbands and wives. Leahy had the nerve to call his bill the "Uniting American Families Act."
Newsweek Says Obama is God
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas revealed last month just how far the corporate media's worship of Barack Obama really goes. No need to wonder why the knees of Evans' pants are so worn, or why his nose is so brown. In an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Mathews, Thomas praised Obama's famous Cairo speech, telling viewers, "He has a very different job from Reagan who was all about 'America,' and he talked about it. Obama is, 'we are above that now. We're not just parochial, not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial, we stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together ... I think the president's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive ... The question now is whether the president we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world." Hallelujah!!
Kentucky Goes Multilingual
Here's a prime example how the multiculturalist ideology of U.S. political elites threatens the safety of Americans. In May, Democrat Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky reversed a decision by Kentucky State Police to offer the written driver's license test only in English. Beshear spokesman Jay Blanton told reporters, "Kentucky has a long standing tradition of being a very welcoming state. We're seeking foreign investments in our state. We want people to come here form other countries to do business, and Gov. Beshear doesn't want to detract from that." So now Kentucky will offer the license exam in 22 different languages, ensuring that Kentucky's roads are filled with legally licensed drivers unable to read traffic signs, which are all in English.
They Want 'Em Young
Using data from the Department of Justice as well as state and local law enforcement data, Deborah Shurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta found that there are 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders in the U.S. You can thank America's open borders policy for that. In a recent Texas case, illegal alien Julian Vasquez, a Mexican, was sentenced to 15 years for breaking into an apartment in Lubbock and assaulting a 13 year-old girl. Mexicans grow up in country where the age of consent in 19 states is 12. The age of consent is 13 in one Mexican state, and 14 in seven others.
Unofficial Amnesty
America's political elites have already granted a virtual amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S. from Mexico. That was illustrated last month by the apprehension of Manuel Penas-Varsenos, a.k.a. de Dios-Garcia, as he attempted to sneak illegally into the U.S. near Hidalgo, Texas. He had been previously apprehended 13 times. David Sloan, a lawyer who defends illegals, said getting arrested 14 times is no big deal for aliens. "I've had guys in the 10s and teens, some as many as 20 times," he said. Dios-Garcia was granted voluntary departure from the U.S. nine times, and deported to Mexico four times. In other words, there is no punishment whatsoever for illegal entry.
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