I VOTED today; but No Matter What, Meg Whitman Still Loses, However, Carly Fiorina’s GOT Great Shot to Unseat Barbara Boxer! Gravy Trains & Sweetheart Deals pretty Much Over for San Francisco’s Public Employees & Their Unions:

I VOTED today; but No Matter What, Meg Whitman Still Loses, However, Carly Fiorina’s GOT Great Shot to Unseat Barbara Boxer! Gravy Trains & Sweetheart Deals pretty Much Over for San Francisco’s Public Employees & Their Unions:

By Marc Chamot

I voted this morning. I went to San Francisco Silly Hall, excuse me, City Hall and voted early. What happened was I never received my absentee ballot in the mail. It was getting closer to elections deadline, I had to act fast, and I had to vote so I did.

I want to clarify something here and now, about those myths. Those news stories coming out, saying Democrats are coming strong and early with their ballots are not true at all. Actually, at Silly Hall, I specifically told my poll worker, I’m Independent, and where are those ballots? She replied with, “they are all the same and we don’t distinguish party affiliations here.”

So how do some news media’s come out and say, who’s voting, which party and so forth? There weren’t any pollsters around to ask me, so, how do they know this, unless it is made up from thin air? I can happily debunk this theory as pure nonsense!

Since I don’t have the time to talk about everything that was on the ballot, however, I will talk about key issues that concerned me.

First with California’s governor’s race, I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for anybody else, but Meg Whitman. Okay, Okay, I said, I wouldn’t vote for her, but governor “Moonbeam” again? No freaking way, José!

I cannot in myself conscious ever VOTE for left-wing Democrats, one that is in bed with government/public employee’s unions. Increasing taxes, just to pay their ill earned loots. 

You can count Meg Whitman out; sadly she’ll be the losing party for the California governorship. She’s ten points down to Brown and as I said before, she lost her bid for governorship not too long ago. She began strong, and then wavered from traditional Republican conservative values, and then began sounding very Arnold Schwarzenegger “RINO” like. For anyone who wants to know, “RINO” are Republican in Name Only, Democrats dressed up as Republican in sheep clothing.

She was going so far left in the past few months that California conservatives, had to threaten her to stop. She reneged on getting tougher on illegal immigration, as well as California’s Cap and Trade issues, which are damaging state JOBS with so many out of control Green regulations. And she even flirted with the idea of accepting Obamacare!   

Meg Whitman angered her base and potential Independents through rampant flip-flopping on issues. Despite spending over 162 million dollars on her campaign, she wasn’t credible. My candidate was Steve Poizner, and Meg’s multi-millions spent on the campaign, made sure he wasn’t able to be the nominee for governor.

At first, I was pretty high on her, flip-flops after, flip-flops, pretty much did me in. She didn’t have the character we’re looking for in conservative candidates for California governor.

Carly Fiorina, Republican battling to unseat liberal Barbara Boxer, is entirely a different story. Where Meg Whitman failed, she succeeded. She stuck to her guns on issues crucial for conservatives and for the state of California, such as getting tougher on illegal immigration, dealing with run-away public employees’ pensions and their unions, stopping the Cap and Trade fiascos and undoing Obamacare.

Carly Fiorina has absolute chances to topple Barbara Boxer, and there is no question about it! Democrats are pretty unpopular with the populace, however, most voters, and even Latinos have seen jobs decimated, because of environmentalists and their political cronies, destroying farmlands due to lack of water and other demented policies.  

I voted in favor of San Francisco’s propositions B and G, ENDING gravy trains for special interests groups  and sweetheart deals for city’s public employee’ and their unions.  It will pass, we’re not dummies! 

Passing propositions B and G on Election Day is urgently necessary. The City’s taxpayers need to put the brakes on public employee pensions and benefits right now to head off a quickly approaching breakdown of cash-starved public services for everything from street repairs and public safety to kids’ and seniors’ support programs.

The numbers could hardly be more ominous, leading unavoidably to civic bankruptcy unless major changes are made at once. City budget deficits close to our current $462 million appear likely to keep repeating. But this year alone, The City is spending $829 million on pensions and benefits for all municipal employees.

The city controller forecasts that these costs will nearly double in five years and continue rising nonstop. City employee benefits are on track to cost twice as much as the school district’s entire budget by 2012, or 40 times more than we can currently afford for upkeep of our streets and parks.

Prop. B would have all city employees contribute 9 percent to 10 percent of salaries toward their defined-benefit pensions, instead of the current 0 to 7.5 percent. Right now, most city employees pay little to nothing for their personal health insurance. With Prop B, they would still pay far less than private-sector workers. That’s essentially all there is to it, and these reasonable changes would quickly start saving San Francisco taxpayers approximately $120 million a year.

Prop. G would amend the City Charter to require that Muni operators negotiate for their wages, benefits and work-rule changes — just like our well-paid police officers and firefighters, plus all other San Francisco public employees.

There’s no denying that driving a bus through the streets of San Francisco is hard, demanding work. But unfortunately the members of Transport Workers Union Local 250-A have repeatedly proven they will continue wasting millions of our scarce transit dollars on their absurdly self-serving work rules unless they have something to gain as part of a collective bargaining deal.

Obamacare “Failures” Employers Looking to drop Job Based Healthcare for Employees & Public Employees Unions & Their Democratic Allies Fighting for their Political Lives:

Obamacare “Failures” Employers Looking to drop Job Based Healthcare for Employees & Public Employees Unions & Their Democratic Allies Fighting for their Political Lives:

By Marc Chamot

As predicted, Obamacare, the federal healthcare “failure,” is going to be a royal fiscal nightmares for this nation. It has already begun, employers looking to drop job based coverage’s for all employees.  Obamacare wasn’t supposed to undercut employer plans that provide majority of health coverage’s for Americans.

Boeing notified their workers, healthcare costs are “boing-up,” just a pun on Boeing. Democratic Governor, Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, lays out plans for employers to get out of healthcare, by shifting workers into taxpayer subsidized insurance markets that will open in 2014, through Obamacare.

This is financial disasters' just waiting to happen. Even a big dummy like me, understands the implications and ramifications of this national disaster. The demise of employer based healthcare could be costly, and extremely destructive, for American healthcare and the nation’s bottom lines.  Obviously, they aren’t going to do this publicly, I’ll be done quietly.

The new incompetent law in Obamacare gives them the right loopholes to do it. The first one, a hefty tax on high-cost health insurance, aimed at the most expensive coverage. The infamous, “Cadillac Tax” doesn’t hit until 2018.

That tax was Boeing’s primary reasons and concerns, as to why they are looking to eliminate it, it’s because they got a whopping 50% increase in deductibles from insurance companies. The tax is 40% of the value of plans above $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for families.

Even though employers could face fines of $2,000 per worker, it’s still way cheaper paying the fine than insuring workers’ healthcare.

Political lines on the proverbial sands have been drawn. It’s pretty clear now, this Midterm elections, it’s going to be between the haves and have not’s right down the line. Labor unions, mainly government employees unions, are fighting for their lives and futures death battles for survival.

If it were any other time, other than current economic chaos, the American people couldn’t have cared, whether union backed Democrats would get the nod, they probably would have never known about the deceits and cahoots, emanating between Democratic politicians and big government unions.

The cat is out of the bag! This upcoming election will probably be the biggest defeat for U.S. government unions all over.  Maybe, not as bad in California, where they are so politically intertwined and deeply entrenched within the “unbreakable” and corruptive California Democratic machines.

People who work in the private sectors, none government JOBS, know they are getting the RAW deals. A sector that once created jobs, prosperities and grand opportunities for the majority of Americans is gone. But these people are seeing shameful displays from Democrats along with their union allies.

People have taken sides on this great divide.  On one side, are the Tea Party, Republicans, some Democrats and majority of Independents, Main Street and small business, while on the other, who STEAL from the private sector, to further enrich and empower themselves, along with their political allies, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Democratic majorities, with Labor Unions, radical Green environmentalists, trial lawyers, most mainstreams medias and college professors.

“The biggest political spending in 2010 is by the American Federation of State, county and Municipal Employees, AFSCME will have funneled an estimated $87.5 million into the campaign by Nov. 2, all of it going to Democrats and an amount far exceeding the chamber's $75 million. More millions are being poured into Democratic campaign coffers by other public-sector unions. 

On Friday, for example, the National Education Association spent $500,000 on ads aimed at helping Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak defeat former Rep. Pat Toomey, the Republican in the Pennsylvania Senate contest.

But there is a fundamental problem here that FDR understood years ago and that AFSCME President Gerald McEntee inadvertently highlighted when he told the Journal: "We're spending big. And we're damn happy it's big. And our members are damn happy it's big -- it's their money." 

Actually, it's not simply "their money." Every dollar paid to a unionized government worker was taxed away from somebody who earned it in the private sector. So when these unions spend millions to elect Democrats who will vote for bigger government, they are literally using money from the productive part of America to enable more government taxing and spending.

Obama the BIG Hypocrite; Seeking DOJ on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ruling & California’s Marijuana Initiatives: "I can't simply ignore laws that are out there, I have got to work to make sure that they are changed." Yes, Mr. President, But, However, You’re Ignoring Federal LAWS on Sanctuary Cities & Tougher Border Controls:

Obama the BIG Hypocrite; Seeking DOJ on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ruling & California’s Marijuana Initiatives: "I can't simply ignore laws that are out there, I have got to work to make sure that they are changed." Yes, Mr. President, But, However, You’re Ignoring Federal LAWS on Sanctuary Cities & Tougher Border Controls:

By Marc Chamot

"If you think these charades will make us forget about Arizona’s AB 1070, sanctuary cities or the Mexican border? We’re not being FOOLED!"

It’s all fine with what he’s doing, but enforcing “federal laws,” should be on even grounds. If HE thinks these lawsuits directed against his base, attacking popular left-wing based agendas, will convince the rest of us otherwise, he’s totally mistaken. This won’t work.

It's all for VOTES! Like I've been telling YOU folks all along! Illegal aliens, Latinos, amnesties and Open Border Groups are Obama's number one agendas and priorities, while economy and JOBS for Americans are left behind!   

If President Obama’s wondering why his popularity polls collapsing? Maybe, it is because of hypocrisies’ like these.

Attorney General Eric Holder: Federal laws enforced even if marijuana bill in California passes

"Attorney General Eric Holder has a message for Californians who think the state's ballot measure legalizing the recreational use of marijuana will be approved: Even if it passes, nothing will change.

Holder said federal authorities would continue to enforce U.S. laws that declare the drug is illegal, even if voters approve the initiative.

In a strongly worded letter to former officials at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration — who wrote him expressing concern about the measure — Holder said the Obama Administration "strongly opposes" Proposition 19.

He argued the passage would complicate drug enforcement efforts.

"Accordingly, we will vigorously enforce the (Controlled Substances Act) against those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use, even if such activities are permitted under state law," he said.

Unlike the Bush Administration, Obama has taken a more lenient stance on medical marijuana. Last year he said federal attorneys would no longer go after patients who use medical pot — which is legal in California — or the dispensaries that allocate it.

Supporters of the initiative argue that decriminalizing marijuana would reduce drug-related violence and bring tax revenue for the cash-strapped state.

According to a recent poll, California voters were more likely to vote against the measure 53% to 43%.

Several in favor of Prop. 19 pointed out the response was similar to when California passed its medical marijuana bill 14 years ago.

"This is 1996 all over again," Stephen Gutwillig, California director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which backs Prop. 19, told the Los Angeles Times. He noted that now 13 states and D.C allow the use of medical pot.

"All that happened without a single change in federal law."

'Don't ask, don't tell' appeal puts Obama in a tough spot  At a time when President Barack Obama is trying to rally his political base, his administration is fighting to temporarily preserve the ban on gays serving openly in the military, even though his core supporters want it ended now.

The Justice Department is appealing a court ruling that would stop the Clinton-era "don't ask, don't tell" policy even as Democrats fighting hard to hold their majorities in Congress are looking to motivate the voters who delivered the White House to this president.

The appeal, although expected, will do little to help Democrats trying to inspire those voters and hold back a Republican tide on Nov. 2.

As the Justice Department sought a temporary delay in the court order, pending an appeal, the president vowed in a meeting with young adults Thursday, "This policy will end and it will end on my watch."

But he cast himself as constrained by the legal process.

"I can't simply ignore laws that are out there," he said. "I have got to work to make sure that they are changed."

A Menlo Park, San Mateo, California Illegal Alien, With no Drivers License, Eric Olvera Nieto Plows into Motorcyclist & Says “NO,” When Injured Cyclist BEGS for HELP and Bailed OUT After Arrest!

A Menlo Park, San Mateo, California Illegal Alien, With no Drivers License, Eric Olvera Nieto Plows into Motorcyclist & Says “NO,” When Injured Cyclist BEGS for HELP and Bailed OUT After Arrest!

By Marc Chamot

Outrageous! Since when do illegal immigrants get bail in this country?

“Authorities say a heartless driver who plowed into a motorcyclist and said “No” when the victim begged for help is an unlicensed illegal immigrant.

Eric Olvera Nieto, 21, allegedly struck the motorcyclist, who was stopped at a red light, in a horrific crash in Menlo Park on Monday, police said.”

And this illegal alien, gets bailed out! Can you folks believe that? Well what do you know? San Mateo County bail out illegal immigrants!

An illegal alien driver, without driver’s license, plowed into a motorcycle and says NO, when the injured motorcyclist begged for help.

How many more Americans will have to get hurt, maimed, or KILLED by these illegal trespassers? This is outrageous! We’ve got disgusting illegal alien problems in this country, many who don’t even care for human lives, or OUR lives roaming around!

This is why; we need to RID illegal aliens OUT of this country, no matter what.

And Obama, Democrats and some Republicans are pussy footing around on sanctuary cities, counties like San Mateo and border issues! And that's why Americans are getting pissed off!

Man hits motorcyclist with car, flees on foot

By: MIKE ALDAX
October 7, 2010

The victim survived the 5:50 a.m. wreck but suffered several fractured vertebrae, they said. Nieto was allegedly driving at high speed when striking the motorcyclist, who was thrown onto the car’s hood and then onto the concrete, according to San Mateo County prosecutors.

Nieto allegedly stopped, got out of his vehicle and walked up to the victim. The victim asked for help, and Nieto said “no” and fled on foot, prosecutors said.

Cops said they later found Nieto at his girlfriend’s home in Ripon.

The “suspect fled because he is illegally in the U.S. and an unlicensed driver,” prosecutors said.

Nieto pleaded not guilty to the felony charges Wednesday. The case was set for preliminary hearing on Oct. 19. Bail was set at $50,000 and Nieto remains in custody, police said.

Were NOT Getting What We're Paying For! Members of Congress’ Perks & Salaries, Living high off the Hogs; While Regular Folks ARE Going Broke & Living like Paupers:

Were NOT Getting What We're Paying For! Members of Congress’ Perks & Salaries, Living high off the Hogs; While Regular Folks ARE Going Broke & Living like Paupers:

By Marc Chamot

I saw this on OpenEdNews.com. A VERY good progressive and Liberal site, I belong to, but never posted. You JUST got to weed out the GOOD from the bad.

I think Michael Collins drives home his point. The GOOD news, I think, I believe, eventually, a NEW third party will develop out of all this mess. It’s got to, because these federal governments of ours are way out of touch with all Americans and definitely they’re OUT of whack! 

I agree, WARS should be declared by U.S. congress, NOT by a sitting U.S. president. However, I do not buy into the rest of Michael Collin’s article.

We ARE definitely NOT getting what we're paying for, with these sorry bunches, we've got now.  

Lawless Nation - Congress

Placed in office through legalized bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we're expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the law. (Image)

Members of Congress are different. They get to retire at age 62 with lifetime pensions and health benefits. To qualify, they need just five years of service. They get free phone, mail, and other communications plus paid domestic and foreign travel. Supposedly, they're not allowed to take gifts but the list of exceptions offers plenty of room for luxurious appreciation.

The biggest gift of all - a six to seven figure job with a major corporation or lobbying firm right after retirement - is still fair game for any member. The revolving door never stops.

But supposedly Congress passes laws for the public benefit. They come to power based on contributions from their patrons, usually large donors. Then members resolutely deny that these contributions translate into legislation favorable to the donors. If pressed, member's state that the contributions merely buy access not votes.

In fact, members routinely vote the interests of their largest patrons. Thus, the contributions are a form of legalized bribery ("a favor or promise given to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust.").

The financial industry contributed hundreds of millions to current members. When Wall Streetwas about to fail in late 2008, they called in their markers and got an immediate bailout of $700 billion and "total potential Federal Government support (that) could reach up to $23.7 trillion" from the Federal Reserve and other government sources. This was in the midst of the 2008 federal election cycle when members solicited funds from the very people they bailed out.

Would this have happened without years of contributions by the financial industry?

What other incentives were involved that were not revealed?

The people face a health care crisis of epic proportions, losing insurance, under coverage for life threatening conditions. They have to delay or cease medication due to ever rising costs. Health care is unaffordable to many.

Congress addressed the problem much like they did the financial crisis. A bill was passed that left health insurance companies at the center of health care taking a handsome profit for doing little to nothing. Prior to passage of the health bill, the insurers raised rates shamelessly and did so again after the legislation was enacted, using the very health reform passed for the people to gouge the people for more money.

In the midst of total unemployment at about 20%, with the poverty on the rise, what has Congress done? The vast majority of citizens get little or no attention while those who cause the financial meltdown are handsomely rewarded. Members of Congress fret that they simply can't get the votes to help the people. 

But we know different.

Congress routinely ignores the Constitution. Article I outlines "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress." Section 8 of the article lists this power: "To declare War." When presidents make war without congressional authorization, Congress passes legislation that negates its war making powers in order to legitimize the illegal act by the executive branch.

These wars are funded by Congress even when a war was found to be based on lies, as was the case in Iraq. Congress continues to fund the efforts claiming it is necessary to protect the troops. They fail to acknowledge that the absence of illegal wars harmful to the nation is the best troop protection available.

With the illegal wars underway, Congress passes legislation to address the problems created by the illegal wars in the name of national security. As they do this, the real issues of national security, the legal rights of citizens and the economic well being of the nation, are violated or ignored.

Michael Collins is a writer in the DC area who researches and comments on the corruptions of the new millennium. His articles focus on the financial manipulations of The Money Party, the abuse of power by government, and features on elections and (more...)