This is the original link with a lot of great pictures, I reposted the text here to insure that this great and crucial work will not go down the memory hole.
by Jeff Hook
AS A VETERAN ACTIVIST, Rosa Parks earned a major role in a Communist production entitled “The Civil Rights Movement.” She played her part convincingly for fifty years, from 1955 to her death in 2005: that of the courageous little seamstress who refused to relinquish her bus seat to a White man.
Parks wasn’t the first Black to be arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus, just the first to pass the audition. The other two candidates were rejected as wholly unsuitable as they exemplified the violent-prone nature and low-average I.Q. that makes segregation a necessity. More importantly, unlike Rosa Parks, they had not been properly inculcated in the writings of Karl Marx or tactics of the Party.
The Script
We are told that on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded a Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On that bus on that day, Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality.
She sat in the “Negroes Only” section, near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for Whites. When the ten seats were filled, the driver ordered her to give up her seat so that a White man could sit there. Mrs. Parks quietly refused to give up her seat.
Her dignified action was spontaneous and not pre-meditated. “When I made that decision,” she said later, “I knew that I had the strength of my ancestors with me.”
She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation. The arrest inspired local citizens who spontaneously initiated a boycott of the Montgomery bus system.
A group named the Montgomery Improvement Association, composed of local activists and ministers, organized the boycott. As their leader, they chose a young Baptist minister who was new to Montgomery: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sparked by Mrs. Parks’ courageous action, the boycott lasted 381 days, into December 1956 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses were integrated. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the beginning of a revolutionary era of non-violent mass protests in support of civil rights in the United States.
In the South, city buses were lightning rods for civil rights activists. It took someone with the courage and character of Rosa Parks to strike with lightning. And it required the commitment of the entire African American community to fan the flames ignited by that lightning into the fires of the civil rights revolution. By the sheer force of her will, she set in motion a revolution that continues to this day.
The Inconvenient Facts
On 2 March 1955, eleven months before Parks’ arrest, Claudette Colvin refused to move to the back of the bus. When Montgomery police arrested Colvin, she went kicking and screaming, hurling profanity at police and bystanders, and was charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and violating the segregation law. Colvin was eventually convicted of assault, fined ten dollars, and placed on probation for a year. The other charges were dropped.
The 15-year-old Colvin, described in numerous texts as being “prone to outbursts and cursing,” became pregnant by a much older man soon after the arrest. To this day, no one speaks of the unidentified rapist, and no charges were filed.
Colvin was active in the NAACP’s Youth Council, and mentored by none other than Rosa Parks.
“It was the organization that pushed her up front,” Colvin said later. “Police accused me of clawing them. I may have, I don’t remember. I was very emotional. I did have long nails.” [Detroit Free Press, 4 November 2005]
On 21 October 1955, six weeks before Rosa Parks, 18-year-old Mary Louise Smith was arrested for defying a bus driver’s order to relinquish her seat to a White man. She was released after paying a nine dollar fine.
Smith was a high-school dropout and housekeeper. Apparently illegitimate, she lived in a clapboard shack in the country with her father who was well known to the community as an abusive alcoholic. [Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963.]
Long before Rosa Parks made her valiant stand, Jim Crow laws had been outlawed in interstate train travel, and Blacks in several Southern cities were busy picketing the practice of segregated bus systems. There had already been a major bus boycott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1953.
At the time of Parks’ arrest, standing by with bail money was her attorney, Clifford Durr, who entered a plea of ‘not guilty’ on her behalf. Photo-ops had been arranged.
Durr was a close associate of Jessica Mitford, an official of the Communist Party. In 1949, he joined the communist front National Lawyers Guild. He subsequently became President of the Guild. Later, Durr opened a law practice in Washington, D.C. representing federal employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the loyalty oath program. Durr subsequently represented Frank Oppenheimer, first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and member of the Communist Party.
Jo Ann Robinson, a Black activist who taught both high school and college at Alabama State, served as president of the Women’s Political Council (WPC) in Montgomery. She had devised the strategy for the bus boycott months before the Parks episode.
Robinson was tasked with printing and distributing leaflets condemning Parks’ arrest and announcing the bus boycott. More than 52,000 of the leaflets were on the street by the next morning. The official tale has Robinson “staying up all night typing and mimeographing.” [The Torchbearer Rosa Parks, by Rita Dove, Time Magazine's 100 most important/influential people of the 20th century]
As Secretary and Youth Director of the Alabama chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), Parks was a seasoned activist. In actuality, she wielded great power in the chapter; she was the one who had noticed Martin Luther King Jr. and asked him to join the executive committee. She also participated in the meetings where the Montgomery NAACP leaders decided against using Colvin or Smith as the test case.
Prior to Rosa Parks’ planned arrest for violating the segregation law, the Alabama NAACP leadership arranged for her to attend the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Parks attended summer training there in 1955, 1956, and 1957.
In a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a field agent wrote: “This school is a hotbed of communism and anarchy. It is the opinion of this writer that this beloved East Tennessee is being ‘Honey-combed’ with communism and anarchy. And the Highlander Folk School is the hot-bed. If it were possible an agent of the Dept. should be sent there as a student. He would find that a statute was being violated — possibly treason.” [FBI memorandum, 3 April 1936, Highlander Folk School files, Freedom of Information Act release]
Another FBI memorandum to J. Edgar Hoover described the school, which was founded in 1932, as a “Communist front” whose purpose was to “better control their unions and to give instruction on how to cause and carry on their strikes.” A third memo described the school as “spreading Communist propaganda and training agitators and propagandists.”
In a book published in 1995 entitled, “Speak Now against the Day,” by John Egerton, the author writes: “Highlander had started summer workshops on school desegregation in 1954, right after the Brown decision. The Montgomery NAACP wanted to send a delegate to Highlander the next year. They chose their youth director, Rosa Parks.”
Mr. Egerton’s book contains a photograph of Parks at the school in 1957. However, according to Edgarton, her first training session took place only a few months before she sat down in the front of the bus in December, 1955.
After the boycott, the “little seamstress” moved with her husband to Michigan, where she became the manager of Congressman John Conyers’ office.
The NAACP
In 1909, the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was urged by the leading left-wing radicals of the era. Moorfield Storey, an attorney from Boston, was recruited to be its first president (1910-1915). Storey was an active member of the Communist front Anti-Imperialist League.
From 1915 to 1939, the NAACP was dominated by Joel E. Spingarn who served as Chairman of the Executive Board, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and President. He was succeeded as president by his brother, Arthur Spingarn (1940-1966), who handed the baton to Kivie Kaplan (1966-1975). All three men were Jews.
The founding board of directors had only one prominent Black: W.E.B. DuBois, the organization’s director of publicity and research and the editor of its monthly magazine, The Crisis. Dubois hailed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and he traveled to Moscow in 1926 and 1936. He especially liked the racial attitudes of the Communists, and was known for referring to Negroes as the “national minority” rather than ‘Black minority’.
In 1923, the NAACP began to receive grants from the FBI-identified Communist front Garland Fund. Officials of the Fund included Moorfield Storey.
At the fourth national convention of the Workers (Communist) Party in 1925, the comrades were told that it was “permissible and necessary for Communists to enter NAACP conventions and make proposals calculated to enlighten the Negro masses to the nature and necessity of the class struggle…”
In 1928, the Communist International worked with the NAACP for a Negro-controlled State composed of all contiguous Southern counties having majority-Black populations — the so-called Black Belt. In 1930, the Communist International worked with the NAACP to organize the “Negroes of the South” for the purpose of setting up a separate state and government in the South.
Meanwhile, W.E.B. DuBois’ views were so overtly Communist, he became an embarrassment to the NAACP Jews who, of necessity, had to depend upon financial and other support from White America. In 1934, DuBois was booted from the NAACP, and devoted his energies full-time to working for Communist projects.
The departure of DuBois from the NAACP did not mean that the organization had moved away from Communism. In 1938, the NAACP was represented in the World Youth Congress, a Communist enterprise. And, in the 1940′s the NAACP was affiliated with American Youth for a Free World, the American affiliate of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, a Communist clearing house.
In 1953, an unusual and total endorsement was given to the NAACP by the Communists in their Daily Worker (September 30): “It should be clear that we Communists… should give every possible support to any and all campaigns conducted by the NAACP.”
Four years later, a similar endorsement appeared in the Daily Worker (February 19, 1957): “Communists in labor unions are thus pledged to get their unions to support the NAACP… Communists in communities are pledged to aid in increasing our membership and financial strength in the NAACP.”
In 1965, the NAACP joined with notorious Communist leaders to memorialize the passing of DuBois, who chose Communist Ghana as his burial site. In The Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois, Dubois wrote: “I believe in communism… I believe that… wealth and services should be distributed according to need. Once I thought that these ends could be attained under capitalism. I now believe that private ownership of capital and free enterprise are leading the world to disaster. I know that the triumph of communism will be a slow and difficult task, involving mistakes of every sort.”
For ten years prior to his appointment in 1939 to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Jew Felix Frankfurter, an unreconstructed Bolshevik, served as legal adviser to the NAACP. That intimate association never deterred Frankfurter from sitting and writing decisions on cases where the NAACP was directly involved.
Frankfurter was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Frankfurter was credited with drafting the Balfour Declaration, the 1918 statement of the British government favoring the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
On May 5, 1920, two Italian immigrants with ties to the Communist Party, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The Communist International urged all Communists, socialists, anarchists, and trade unionists to organize efforts to rescue Sacco and Vanzetti who were convicted and sentenced to death. Comrade Frankfurter, then a law professor at Harvard, did more than any individual to rally “respectable” opinion behind the two men. He accused the prosecutor of exploiting the public’s fear of communism and prejudice against immigrants. The effort failed, and the pair were executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927.
In 1917, early Black nationalist Marcus Garvey became famous for storming out of the NAACP’s headquarters proclaiming to be “dumbfounded” by the apparent domination of Whites. These “Whites” included Board Chairman Joel Spingarn, his brother Arthur who was pro bono counsel, Herbert Lehman of the Executive Committee, Arthur Sachs, Herbert Seligmann – director of public relations, and his secretary Martha Gruening. All Jewish. In later years, Jews had their revenge when Garvey ran into trouble with the law concerning his part-ownership of a steam line business. “I am being punished for the crime of the Jew Silverstone, an agent of the Black Star line,” he complained. “I was persecuted by Maxwell Mattuck, another Jew, and I am to be sentenced by Judge Julian Mack, the NAACP board member.”
The Highlander Folk School
Highlander Staff:
• Myles Horton – Director
Before founding the Highlander Folk School in 1932, Myles Horton — a member of the Young Communist League — was President of Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas. Commonwealth College was controlled by the Peoples Institute of Applied Religion, which had been organized by the Communist Party. [William Nolan, Communism Versus The Negro, Chicago, Henry Regnery Co., 1951, pp. 129-131.]
The purpose of Commonwealth College was to prepare people to infiltrate and influence the churches in the strongly religious South, indoctrinating them with Marxism expressed in religious jargon. Commonwealth College was closed by the state of Arkansas because it showed a lack of discretion. Among other odd practices, it flew the hammer and sickle flag.
• James Dombrowski – Chairman
Dombrowski was Executive Director of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF). The organization was an outgrowth of an earlier one, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. In 1944, a congressional committee characterized the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in these terms:
Careful examination of its activities will disclose that the Conference is being used to further Soviet policy. Key posts are in most instances controlled by persons whose record is faithful to the line of the Communist Party. [Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Hearings on ClO Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, p. 147.]
Cited again in similar terms in 1947, the Southern Conference For Human Welfare did a quick-change act and reappeared in 1948 as the Southern Conference Educational Fund. Surprise. The organization maintained the same headquarters, the same address, the same telephone number, the same publication, and the same executive director. [Activities of the SCEF, Inc., LA, part 1, Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities, State of Louisiana, 1968, p. 2.]
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1954 described SCEF as “one of the Communist transmission belts” for the South — an organization through which the Communists send forth the Party line. [SCEF Hearings, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1954, p. v.]
Dombrowski had approximately sixty citations from government investigating bodies of affiliation with various Communist fronts or Communist projects. Paul Crouch, who defected from Communism after serving for many years as the top U.S. Communist in the South, and who taught Revolution and subversion for the Communists in Moscow, testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as follows: “Dr. Dombrowski told me on several occasions that he preferred to be called a Left Socialist rather than a Communist; that he could serve the revolutionary movement better under the Socialist label than the Communist label.” Asked if that was a customary practice among top-flight Soviet operators, Crouch answered, “Yes sir.”
Crouch further testified that during a conference he attended with Highlander leadership, the following strategy was discussed: “The purpose was to work out a plan by which the Daily Worker would be made accessible to Highlander students, the instructors would refer to the Daily Worker and encourage the students to read it, and it was agreed that the Communist Party should have a leader sent there as a student. Mildred White, now in Washington, D.C., was selected to attend the Highlander Folk School for the purpose of recruiting for the Communist Party and carrying the Communist Party line among the student body there.”
Working with Dombrowski was SCEF Field Secretary, Carl Braden and his wife Anne. In 1954 Braden was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in prison for bombing the home of a Negro who had just moved into a White neighborhood, and for attempting to place the blame on the Caucasian neighbors — a frequent Communist tactic. During Braden’s trial for sedition, he and his wife were identified as Communist agents by Alberta Ahearn, an undercover FBI agent who had surfaced from the Communist Party to testify in court that Carl Braden was a southern district organizer for the Communist Party and national sponsor of the notorious Fair Play For Cuba Committee. [Congressional Record, 16 May 1968, pE4309]
Ann Braden was also indicted for sedition by the State of Kentucky for her work with the Communist Party, prompting the ACLU to challenge Kentucky’s law against advocating a violent, Communist overthrow of the government. Within a year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Kentucky’s sedition law, and both Bradens were released. [Congressional Record, 16 May 1968, pE4752]
• Zilphia Horton – Wife of Director Myles Horton. Teacher of Music and Dramatics. Co-author of the Communist battle hymn “We Shall Overcome.”
• Richard Gothe – Youth Camp Director. Also Director of the American Youth Congress (Communist front). Described in FBI memorandums as “that commie kraut.”
Highlander Advisory Committee:
• Dr. Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr – Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Communist. Founder of the anti-National Socialist “American Friends of German Freedom.”
• Dr. Rev. Arthur Swift – Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Communist.
Note on the Union Theological Seminary: Rev. Harry Ward, Dean of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City was Chairman of the ACLU in 1920. In 1908, he was the founder of the oldest, officially-cited Communist-front group in America, the Methodist Federation for Social Action. A year later, he played a part in organizing the Federal Council of Churches, forerunner of the present day, National Council of Churches. Ward is described in FBI memorandums as “the Red Dean.”
• Mary Van Kleeck – Leader of the Women’s Trade Union League. Communist.
• Dr. George S. Counts – Teacher’s Union Organizer. In the early thirties, he wrote several books highly laudatory of the Soviet dictatorship, indicating that it had introduced a “new era.”
• Dr. Rev. Sherwood Eddy – Episcopalian. Communist. Union organizer. Advocate of birth control. In the spring of 1936 Eddy was flogged by a band of plantation owners for helping to organize a strike of the Georgia Cotton Picker’s Union.
• Franz Daniel – President of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America. Official of the Amalgamated Clothing Worker’s Union. Communist.
• Roger Baldwin – Founder and Director of the ACLU. Jew. Communist.
• Rev. William Spofford – Episcopalian. Textiles Union Organizer. Closely adhered to the Soviet line.
[Source: Stalin's Christian Soldiers: The Hammer, the Sickle and the Cross, 1933-1953, by Jim Tuck. Perception Press, St. Augustine, FL. 2000]
According to the Highlander Folk School brochure, their stated goals were: The creation of pamphlets, posters and other printed materials. Training in journalism, union organizing, union dispute resolution, democratic methods, and fund raising. Study of the philosophy and methods of the co-operative movement. To conduct plays and community discussion groups. To develop educational and cultural programs.
In 1960, Highlander had its charter revoked by a Tennessee court after State Police raided the school and made arrests for illegal possession of liquor, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Soon after, its buildings mysteriously burned to the ground.
The Props
On 1 December 2000, Rosa Parks was guest of honor when Troy State University Montgomery dedicated its ten million dollar Rosa Parks Library and Museum — a 55,000 square-foot facility that sits atop the spot where on the same day in 1955 Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a White man. (At least that’s what we’re told.)
The theme park/book store lovingly preserves the official version of events that resulted in Parks being crowned “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” They also sell hats, t-shirts, coffee mugs, and other memorabilia, not unlike a Holocaust museum.
The facility includes an actual 1950s-era bus where visitors can hear a harsh recorded voice tell all Blacks to move to the back. The refurbishing of the 1956 General Motors transit bus took about nine months and cost $125,000. The federal government provided 80 percent of the funding and the city paid for the rest.
Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright said that he hoped the bus would be a step toward bridging the racial gap in the city, which remains segregated, unofficially. “This bus not only is important to the black people in this community, but also to the whites,” Bright said. “We need to find a way to make an effort to unite the citizens of Montgomery and then the world.”
The city operates the bus as a ‘White guilt trip’ on the “Lightning” Route Circulator on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bus is also part of the transit system’s school outreach program to give school-age children a rolling history lesson of the bus boycott.
In 1996 Rosa Parks received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1999, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Both are on display in Montgomery.
Rosa Parks is the first woman to lie in state in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol. And now U. S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill to memorialize Parks in the hall with a statue.
“It will emphasize, in no uncertain terms, the values that have broken down and the great contributions that African-Americans have made,” Kerry told reporters.
Kerry introduced his bill Nov. 3, the day after Parks was laid to rest after nine days of tributes, including a seven-hour funeral in Detroit and flags flown at half-staff.
“I can’t think of a person more deserving,” Kerry says. “Every American needs to be reminded of her legacy, and one way to keep her legacy alive is to remind everyone who walks through the Capitol — schoolchildren, families, members of Congress and presidents — that she refused to go quietly to the back of the bus, and we need to follow her example.”
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Prepare The Lube
From Americans for Tax Reform
8-23-10
In just six months, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.
They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves.
On January 1, 2011, here's what happens... (read it to the end, so you see all three waves)...
First Wave
Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011.
Personal Income Tax Rates Will Rise
The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed).
The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent.
All the rates in between will also rise.
Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as highermarginal tax rates.
The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
The 10%
bracket rises to an expanded 15%
The 25%
bracket rises to 28%
The 28%
bracket rises to 31%
The 33%
bracket rises to 36%
The 35%
bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher Taxes On Marriage And Family
The "marriage penalty" (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.
The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.
The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level.
The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.
The Return Of The Death Tax
This year only, there is no death tax. (It's a quirk!) For those dying on or after January 1, 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes, a business, a retirement account, could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones. Think of the farmers who don't make much money, but their land, which they purchased years ago with after-tax dollars, is now worth a lot of money. Their children will have to sell the farm, which may be their livelihood, just to pay the estate tax if they don't have the cash sitting around to pay the tax.
Think about your own family's assets. Maybe your family owns real estate, or a business that doesn't make much money, but the building and equipment are worth $1 million. Upon their death, you can inherit the $1 million business tax free, but if they own a home, stock, cash worth $500K on top of the $1 million business, then you will owe the government $275,000 cash! That's 55% of the value of the assets over $1 million! Do you have that kind of cash sitting around waiting to pay the estate tax?
Higher Tax Rates On Savers And Investors
The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.
The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
The Second Wave
Obamacare
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:
The "Medicine Cabinet Tax"
Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The "Special Needs Kids Tax"
This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children.
There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States , and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education.
Tuitiion rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington , D.C. ( National Child Research Center ) can easily exceed $14,000 per year.
Under tax rules, FSA dollars can not be used to pay for this type of special needs education.
The HSA (Health Savings Account) Withdrawal Tax Hike.
This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 0 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAsand other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
The Third Wave
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and Employer Tax Hikes
When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they'll be in for a nasty surprise-the AMT won't be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired.
The major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.
According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center , Congress' failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families-rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.
Small business 'expensing' will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear.
Small businesses can normally 'expense' (deduct) rather than slowly-deduct or 'depreciate' equipment purchases up to $250,000.
The traditional $250,000 figure will be cut all the way down to $25,000!
Larger businesses can currently expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, ALL of it will have to be "depreciated." (The depreciation period over which a business must write off a major expense is often THIRTY YEARS.)
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses
There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the "research and experimentation tax credit," but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced
Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses.
Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut.
Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed.
The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed
Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA.
This contribution also counts toward an annual "required minimum distribution." This ability will no longer be there.
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And Worse Yet?
Now, your insurance will be INCOME on your W2's!
One of the surprises we'll find come next year, is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . the dupes, er, dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!
Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort.
If you're retired? So what... your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.
You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year.
For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse.
This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.
Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....
On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."
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Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters.
Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.
8-23-10
In just six months, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.
They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves.
On January 1, 2011, here's what happens... (read it to the end, so you see all three waves)...
First Wave
Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011.
Personal Income Tax Rates Will Rise
The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed).
The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent.
All the rates in between will also rise.
Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as highermarginal tax rates.
The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
The 10%
bracket rises to an expanded 15%
The 25%
bracket rises to 28%
The 28%
bracket rises to 31%
The 33%
bracket rises to 36%
The 35%
bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher Taxes On Marriage And Family
The "marriage penalty" (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.
The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.
The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level.
The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.
The Return Of The Death Tax
This year only, there is no death tax. (It's a quirk!) For those dying on or after January 1, 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes, a business, a retirement account, could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones. Think of the farmers who don't make much money, but their land, which they purchased years ago with after-tax dollars, is now worth a lot of money. Their children will have to sell the farm, which may be their livelihood, just to pay the estate tax if they don't have the cash sitting around to pay the tax.
Think about your own family's assets. Maybe your family owns real estate, or a business that doesn't make much money, but the building and equipment are worth $1 million. Upon their death, you can inherit the $1 million business tax free, but if they own a home, stock, cash worth $500K on top of the $1 million business, then you will owe the government $275,000 cash! That's 55% of the value of the assets over $1 million! Do you have that kind of cash sitting around waiting to pay the estate tax?
Higher Tax Rates On Savers And Investors
The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.
The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
The Second Wave
Obamacare
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:
The "Medicine Cabinet Tax"
Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The "Special Needs Kids Tax"
This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children.
There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States , and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education.
Tuitiion rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington , D.C. ( National Child Research Center ) can easily exceed $14,000 per year.
Under tax rules, FSA dollars can not be used to pay for this type of special needs education.
The HSA (Health Savings Account) Withdrawal Tax Hike.
This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 0 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAsand other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
The Third Wave
The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and Employer Tax Hikes
When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they'll be in for a nasty surprise-the AMT won't be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired.
The major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.
According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center , Congress' failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families-rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.
Small business 'expensing' will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear.
Small businesses can normally 'expense' (deduct) rather than slowly-deduct or 'depreciate' equipment purchases up to $250,000.
The traditional $250,000 figure will be cut all the way down to $25,000!
Larger businesses can currently expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, ALL of it will have to be "depreciated." (The depreciation period over which a business must write off a major expense is often THIRTY YEARS.)
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses
There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the "research and experimentation tax credit," but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced
Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses.
Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut.
Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed.
The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed
Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA.
This contribution also counts toward an annual "required minimum distribution." This ability will no longer be there.
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And Worse Yet?
Now, your insurance will be INCOME on your W2's!
One of the surprises we'll find come next year, is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . the dupes, er, dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!
Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort.
If you're retired? So what... your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.
You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year.
For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse.
This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.
Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....
On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."
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Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters.
Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Jewish Race Baiting Coming Back To Bite Them
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for he Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
Now that was 98 years ago, today their plan has been implemented in full. For several generations now the dumb blacks have taken the bait and you end up with the following scenario.
It should be noted that I agree with what Dr. Laura says on this tape, however I will not defend or pity her since it is her own people who caused this problem. This is of course the way marxism is done, since we all know that the system itself is flawed and cannot work long term they go from nation to nation destroying and once their host is effectively dead, they move on. Or in some cases they are found out and promptly kicked out, I write this blog to help insure that scenario is the one that plays out.
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for he Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
Now that was 98 years ago, today their plan has been implemented in full. For several generations now the dumb blacks have taken the bait and you end up with the following scenario.
It should be noted that I agree with what Dr. Laura says on this tape, however I will not defend or pity her since it is her own people who caused this problem. This is of course the way marxism is done, since we all know that the system itself is flawed and cannot work long term they go from nation to nation destroying and once their host is effectively dead, they move on. Or in some cases they are found out and promptly kicked out, I write this blog to help insure that scenario is the one that plays out.
Quote Of The Week
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for he Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for he Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
Friday, August 13, 2010
Don't Lie To Yourself, You Have NO Representation
We are all taught in government run schools albeit subtly that the US government derives it's legitimacy to govern because We The People elected the various representatives who control Washington.
So while we might not agree with who currently sits on Capital Hill, we have the option to vote them out next election. This of course is a process which has been going on for at least the last 60 years and undoubtedly longer. As Carrol Quigley said
"The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so the that American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."
The typical American soothingly deludes himself into the notion that he has a say in what transpires in this nation. That although his voice is small and his vote is only one in millions it is still powerful. If you feel like you are somewhat in control of the direction you are headed it is comforting, and while their may be some unpleasant detours along the way you remain quiet because after all you will speak up next election cycle and make your voice heard.
When you think of the reality of the situation the conclusion you reach is much different than the relatively pleasant dream world you have lived in. (which is why most people don't think)
Let's consider the reality.
Nobody in America today is happy with where we are, or are headed. Other than the few who benefit of course. I'm talking about the average American, and I mean all of them, now granted I think 90% totally miss the boat in regards to steps needed in restoring the republic but they DO know that something is wrong. Whether it is the liberal tax and spend democrats who were beside themselves when Obama got the nomination, the bible belt "conservative" who was duped into buying the neo con lie and currently worships at the altar of Palin, or the working Joe who doesn't get into politics unanimously they can sense that something is amiss.
So how is it that if these politicians are supposed to be our proxies in Washington and do what WE elect them to do, that the system is failing, that our will isn't being done? This is their sole job after all.
Here are 2 glaring examples of work that we want done, they seem to agree to do it, but in the end nothing gets done, and basically by magic you can't pin the blame on anyone.
The first is Prop 8 in California voted on by the masses and their verdict? No sodomite marriage in CA. Cased closed right? Nope some judge just overrules what the people voted on. Clearly this goes against what the people want. Where is the "democracy" in that? The citizens of Californias voices weren't heard.
This is another example which I was thinking about the other day. That is HR 1207, the Audit The Fed bill. The very vast majority of Americans supported it, 73% of the entire House of Representatives supported it, in the Senate 32 senators co sponsored the bill. So surely a bill with such vast amounts of support would sail through right? Nope it gets caught in the gears of the confusing, nonsensical way in which laws are passed. Who can be blamed for it not passing? It's pretty much a mystery to me, which is exactly the way they want it since their jobs rely on the blame game and always blaming someone else for why the country is in the toilet using any metric you choose.
Now these are just 2 examples, mainly because it's 1AM and I'm tired. But the bottom line is, you don't have a say in what finally goes on. The bankers do, the military industrial complex does, the huge multi national corporations do. This is the fascist state in which they get FILTHY rich at the expense of the little man.
They get the bailouts you get the bill. It's a pretty nice racket they have going, and the best part is everyone runs around with cherished delusions of vague notions of "freedom" and "land of opportunity" rhetoric.
"If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Samuel Langhorn Clemens
So while we might not agree with who currently sits on Capital Hill, we have the option to vote them out next election. This of course is a process which has been going on for at least the last 60 years and undoubtedly longer. As Carrol Quigley said
"The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so the that American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."
The typical American soothingly deludes himself into the notion that he has a say in what transpires in this nation. That although his voice is small and his vote is only one in millions it is still powerful. If you feel like you are somewhat in control of the direction you are headed it is comforting, and while their may be some unpleasant detours along the way you remain quiet because after all you will speak up next election cycle and make your voice heard.
When you think of the reality of the situation the conclusion you reach is much different than the relatively pleasant dream world you have lived in. (which is why most people don't think)
Let's consider the reality.
Nobody in America today is happy with where we are, or are headed. Other than the few who benefit of course. I'm talking about the average American, and I mean all of them, now granted I think 90% totally miss the boat in regards to steps needed in restoring the republic but they DO know that something is wrong. Whether it is the liberal tax and spend democrats who were beside themselves when Obama got the nomination, the bible belt "conservative" who was duped into buying the neo con lie and currently worships at the altar of Palin, or the working Joe who doesn't get into politics unanimously they can sense that something is amiss.
So how is it that if these politicians are supposed to be our proxies in Washington and do what WE elect them to do, that the system is failing, that our will isn't being done? This is their sole job after all.
Here are 2 glaring examples of work that we want done, they seem to agree to do it, but in the end nothing gets done, and basically by magic you can't pin the blame on anyone.
The first is Prop 8 in California voted on by the masses and their verdict? No sodomite marriage in CA. Cased closed right? Nope some judge just overrules what the people voted on. Clearly this goes against what the people want. Where is the "democracy" in that? The citizens of Californias voices weren't heard.
This is another example which I was thinking about the other day. That is HR 1207, the Audit The Fed bill. The very vast majority of Americans supported it, 73% of the entire House of Representatives supported it, in the Senate 32 senators co sponsored the bill. So surely a bill with such vast amounts of support would sail through right? Nope it gets caught in the gears of the confusing, nonsensical way in which laws are passed. Who can be blamed for it not passing? It's pretty much a mystery to me, which is exactly the way they want it since their jobs rely on the blame game and always blaming someone else for why the country is in the toilet using any metric you choose.
Now these are just 2 examples, mainly because it's 1AM and I'm tired. But the bottom line is, you don't have a say in what finally goes on. The bankers do, the military industrial complex does, the huge multi national corporations do. This is the fascist state in which they get FILTHY rich at the expense of the little man.
They get the bailouts you get the bill. It's a pretty nice racket they have going, and the best part is everyone runs around with cherished delusions of vague notions of "freedom" and "land of opportunity" rhetoric.
"If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Samuel Langhorn Clemens
Monday, July 19, 2010
Obama Is A Lying Sack Of Shit
In the following videos you will hear some of Barack's campaign promises regarding taxation. He swears that if you make under 250k per year you will not see a dime in any sort of tax increases.
Sounds good to me.
Interestingly enough it turns out he's a liar. Let's compare his PROMISES with reality.
• Individual income tax rates go from 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35% to 15%, 28%, 31%, 36%, and 39.6%.
• Child credit falls from $1,000 per child to $500 per child.
• Capital gains tax rates would revert back to 10% and 20% (depending on AGI), while they are currently at 5% and 15%.
• Dividends would once again be taxed at the ordinary income rates (see above), while today they are currently at 5% and 15%.
• After being fully phased out for tax year 2010, the estate tax would be fully reinstated with a top rate of 60 percent and a $1 million exemption.
Now call me crazy but the way I learned math, 15% is higher than 10% on the LOWEST INCOME BRACKET, this isn't families that make more than 250k this is everyone. Taxes are going up across the board so be prepared for the day of reckoning because it rapidly approaches.
Sounds good to me.
Interestingly enough it turns out he's a liar. Let's compare his PROMISES with reality.
• Individual income tax rates go from 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, and 35% to 15%, 28%, 31%, 36%, and 39.6%.
• Child credit falls from $1,000 per child to $500 per child.
• Capital gains tax rates would revert back to 10% and 20% (depending on AGI), while they are currently at 5% and 15%.
• Dividends would once again be taxed at the ordinary income rates (see above), while today they are currently at 5% and 15%.
• After being fully phased out for tax year 2010, the estate tax would be fully reinstated with a top rate of 60 percent and a $1 million exemption.
Now call me crazy but the way I learned math, 15% is higher than 10% on the LOWEST INCOME BRACKET, this isn't families that make more than 250k this is everyone. Taxes are going up across the board so be prepared for the day of reckoning because it rapidly approaches.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Google Shows It's Commie Roots
If you go to Google today you will see an ugly painting. If you hold your mouse over the ugly painting the words "Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo" will appear. So who is this Frida Kahlo?
From kikepedia.
"Active communist sympathizers, Kahlo and Rivera befriended Leon Trotsky as he sought political sanctuary from Joseph Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. In 1937 initially, Trotsky lived with Rivera and then at Kahlo's home (where he had an affair with Kahlo).[4] Trotsky and his wife then moved to another house in Coyoacán where, in 1940, he was assassinated."
So this is the type of people jewgle likes to memorialize? Lesbian, wetback, communists? I mean get with the program. Can you even fathom the outrage if they wished Happy Birthday to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The world would be turned upside down as the media descended upon the googleplex demanding an apology.
From kikepedia.
"Active communist sympathizers, Kahlo and Rivera befriended Leon Trotsky as he sought political sanctuary from Joseph Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s. In 1937 initially, Trotsky lived with Rivera and then at Kahlo's home (where he had an affair with Kahlo).[4] Trotsky and his wife then moved to another house in Coyoacán where, in 1940, he was assassinated."
So this is the type of people jewgle likes to memorialize? Lesbian, wetback, communists? I mean get with the program. Can you even fathom the outrage if they wished Happy Birthday to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The world would be turned upside down as the media descended upon the googleplex demanding an apology.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Assistant State Attorney Fired For Speaking To Tea Parties
If you would like to tell this marxist asshole Robert Jarvis what you think, here is his contact information.
Source
An assistant state attorney in Live Oak was fired Monday after she refused to stop speaking to tea party rallies and other groups, her boss said.
Prosecutor KrisAnne Hall asked a federal judge Friday for a ruling that would have allowed her to keep speaking and prevented her boss, State Attorney Skip Jarvis, from following through on threats to fire her if she didn’t stop.
Courtroom arguments on that request hadn’t been scheduled by Monday afternoon, when Jarvis said he fired Hall shortly after receiving a copy of her federal complaint.
Click here to view a .pdf of the complaint filed by Hall
He called her a good prosecutor, who crossed an ethical line with her speeches and radio appearances.
Read one of Hall's speeches
“You can’t take a job advocating for the state and go out and take a position against the state,” Jarvis said. “I advised her from my first learning of her activity that she was free to say and do whatever she desired within the law, but she could not do so while assistant counsel for the state.”
Hall, 40, said she spoke about the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, smaller government, budget deficits and Florida’s lawsuit against health care reform. Describing herself as a disabled Army veteran, she said all are federal issues she’s passionate about.
“I never said anything bad about the state. I never said anything bad about Mr. Jarvis,” said Hall. “I love being an assistant state attorney, [but] I’m not ready to give up on my constitutional rights.”
Now instead of an injunction, she and her lawyer plan to amend their complaint to sue Jarvis for retaliatory conduct.
“To fire someone over their political views doesn’t set well with most folks,” said her attorney, Gary Edinger of Gainesville.
Jarvis said he first learned of Hall’s activities last month from a constituent after she spoke at tea party gatherings in North Florida and on a Lake City radio station.
“They were confronting me about my office being used to legitimize what they consider to be a fringe right-wing group,” Jarvis wrote in an e-mail attached to Hall’s lawsuit. “I hate to do this, but I have to ask you to disassociate yourself from these folks.”
Hall responded that she was speaking on her own time and was careful not to be introduced as an assistant state attorney. She said she spoke in response to a request to help educate people about the Constitution.
Nevertheless, Jarvis responded that she was identified as an assistant state attorney and had to stop. After several more e-mail exchanges, she replied that he was being unfair.
“Even when I was in the military, restrictions on my constitutional rights were never so unreasonable,” she said. “... I fought for these rights in the military, and as a sworn officer, I am sworn to defend them.”
The e-mails were followed by a letter from Edinger to Jarvis, warning about a potential lawsuit and challenging the state attorney’s view that Hall’s activities were in any way disruptive to the State Attorney’s Office.
Jarvis responded by letter, also attached to the lawsuit, noting that his assistants serve as appointed representatives of the state and do so knowing their outside activities have boundaries.
“She has been given a directive and now must decide whether her desire to speak outweighs her desire to retain my appointment,” Jarvis wrote May 10. “It is her decision.”
The issue balances free speech rights and a public employer’s desire to protect the integrity of the workplace, according to labor and First Amendment lawyers contacted by the Times-Union.
Lawyer Ed Birk said an elected state attorney can weigh whether an assistant’s comments impair the public’s perception of the office.
“There’s a legitimate interest of the state attorney to operate the office in a way that instills public confidence, so there are limitations he or she can put on the assistants,” said Birk, who has several media clients. “The rule is generally does the employee’s public conduct interfere with the proper operation of the office.”
In a small community, Birk said, prosecutors often are easily recognizable, and people will naturally associate an assistant state attorney’s public comments with the office she works for.
But labor lawyer Tad Delegal said Hall has a legitimate First Amendment claim if she was speaking on her own time and her expressed viewpoints weren’t associated with her official duties.
You might also try this number (386)364-4970it is listed as his campaign phone number from 2008 along with his PO box here Robert L. Jarvis Jr Post Office Box 595 Live Oak, FL 32064- http://www.stateattorneythird.org/sao3/contact.htm Columbia County 173 NE Hernando Ave. Suite 420 Lake City, FL 32055 Phone: (386) 758-0470 Fax: (386) 758-0489 Lake City Misdemeanor Phone: (386) 647-7291 | Dixie County PO Box 1770 Cross City, FL 32628 Phone: (352) 498-1248 Fax: (352) 498-1250 |
Suwannee County 100 Court Street SE Live Oak, FL 32064 Phone: (386) 362-2320 Fax: (386) 362-5370 Watts: (800) 262-9799 | Taylor County 108 N Jefferson Street Suite 301 Perry, FL 32347 Phone: (850) 584-2886 Fax: (850) 584-8857 |
Source
An assistant state attorney in Live Oak was fired Monday after she refused to stop speaking to tea party rallies and other groups, her boss said.
Prosecutor KrisAnne Hall asked a federal judge Friday for a ruling that would have allowed her to keep speaking and prevented her boss, State Attorney Skip Jarvis, from following through on threats to fire her if she didn’t stop.
Courtroom arguments on that request hadn’t been scheduled by Monday afternoon, when Jarvis said he fired Hall shortly after receiving a copy of her federal complaint.
Click here to view a .pdf of the complaint filed by Hall
He called her a good prosecutor, who crossed an ethical line with her speeches and radio appearances.
Read one of Hall's speeches
“You can’t take a job advocating for the state and go out and take a position against the state,” Jarvis said. “I advised her from my first learning of her activity that she was free to say and do whatever she desired within the law, but she could not do so while assistant counsel for the state.”
Hall, 40, said she spoke about the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, smaller government, budget deficits and Florida’s lawsuit against health care reform. Describing herself as a disabled Army veteran, she said all are federal issues she’s passionate about.
“I never said anything bad about the state. I never said anything bad about Mr. Jarvis,” said Hall. “I love being an assistant state attorney, [but] I’m not ready to give up on my constitutional rights.”
Now instead of an injunction, she and her lawyer plan to amend their complaint to sue Jarvis for retaliatory conduct.
“To fire someone over their political views doesn’t set well with most folks,” said her attorney, Gary Edinger of Gainesville.
Jarvis said he first learned of Hall’s activities last month from a constituent after she spoke at tea party gatherings in North Florida and on a Lake City radio station.
“They were confronting me about my office being used to legitimize what they consider to be a fringe right-wing group,” Jarvis wrote in an e-mail attached to Hall’s lawsuit. “I hate to do this, but I have to ask you to disassociate yourself from these folks.”
Hall responded that she was speaking on her own time and was careful not to be introduced as an assistant state attorney. She said she spoke in response to a request to help educate people about the Constitution.
Nevertheless, Jarvis responded that she was identified as an assistant state attorney and had to stop. After several more e-mail exchanges, she replied that he was being unfair.
“Even when I was in the military, restrictions on my constitutional rights were never so unreasonable,” she said. “... I fought for these rights in the military, and as a sworn officer, I am sworn to defend them.”
The e-mails were followed by a letter from Edinger to Jarvis, warning about a potential lawsuit and challenging the state attorney’s view that Hall’s activities were in any way disruptive to the State Attorney’s Office.
Jarvis responded by letter, also attached to the lawsuit, noting that his assistants serve as appointed representatives of the state and do so knowing their outside activities have boundaries.
“She has been given a directive and now must decide whether her desire to speak outweighs her desire to retain my appointment,” Jarvis wrote May 10. “It is her decision.”
The issue balances free speech rights and a public employer’s desire to protect the integrity of the workplace, according to labor and First Amendment lawyers contacted by the Times-Union.
Lawyer Ed Birk said an elected state attorney can weigh whether an assistant’s comments impair the public’s perception of the office.
“There’s a legitimate interest of the state attorney to operate the office in a way that instills public confidence, so there are limitations he or she can put on the assistants,” said Birk, who has several media clients. “The rule is generally does the employee’s public conduct interfere with the proper operation of the office.”
In a small community, Birk said, prosecutors often are easily recognizable, and people will naturally associate an assistant state attorney’s public comments with the office she works for.
But labor lawyer Tad Delegal said Hall has a legitimate First Amendment claim if she was speaking on her own time and her expressed viewpoints weren’t associated with her official duties.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
ADL: It's "Anti-Semitic" To Mention How Many Jews Are On The Supreme Court
Source
If Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, it will make the Supreme Court 33% Jewish and 0% Protestant. It will also make white Christians a minority on the court in general.
Many Jewish publications praised the appointment of Kagan and boasted of her Jewishness. However the ADL, one of America’s most well funded extreme left-wing outfits, says it is “unacceptable” and “anti-Semitic” for anyone else to mention she is Jewish.
From the Washington Post…
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called Pat Buchanan “a recidivist anti-Semite who doesn’t miss an opportunity to show his fangs,” in response to remarks he made about the Jewish faith of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the current court.
Buchanan wrote in his May 14 syndicated column, “If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?”
Buchanan continued, “Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian, or Polish Catholic … What happened to the party of the Daleys, Rizzos and Rostenkowskis?”
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Pat Buchanan is a recidivist anti-Semite who never misses an opportunity to show his fangs. His remarks about the Jewish background of Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the Supreme Court are bigoted and unacceptable in a pluralistic society such as ours.
Kagan’s nomination for the Supreme Court should be considered on its merits. She is a highly qualified candidate for the judiciary, an exemplary Solicitor General and a great legal mind.
Notice that ADL chief Abe Foxman heaps praise on Kagan. The accusation of “anti-Semitism” is just childish name-calling on the part of Foxman. Foxman supports Kagan, because they are both on the extreme left. Foxman, however, can not debate Pat Buchanan on the facts, so Foxman simply calls him names. Crude name-calling is the only weapon of left-wing extremists like Foxman.
Timeline of Jewish people serving on the Supreme Court. This chart is from the Jewish Virtual Library. Do you suppose that Foxman will denounce the Jewish Virtual Library as “anti-Semitism unabated?”
If Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, it will make the Supreme Court 33% Jewish and 0% Protestant. It will also make white Christians a minority on the court in general.
Many Jewish publications praised the appointment of Kagan and boasted of her Jewishness. However the ADL, one of America’s most well funded extreme left-wing outfits, says it is “unacceptable” and “anti-Semitic” for anyone else to mention she is Jewish.
From the Washington Post…
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called Pat Buchanan “a recidivist anti-Semite who doesn’t miss an opportunity to show his fangs,” in response to remarks he made about the Jewish faith of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the current court.
Buchanan wrote in his May 14 syndicated column, “If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?”
Buchanan continued, “Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian, or Polish Catholic … What happened to the party of the Daleys, Rizzos and Rostenkowskis?”
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Pat Buchanan is a recidivist anti-Semite who never misses an opportunity to show his fangs. His remarks about the Jewish background of Elena Kagan and the religious makeup of the Supreme Court are bigoted and unacceptable in a pluralistic society such as ours.
Kagan’s nomination for the Supreme Court should be considered on its merits. She is a highly qualified candidate for the judiciary, an exemplary Solicitor General and a great legal mind.
Notice that ADL chief Abe Foxman heaps praise on Kagan. The accusation of “anti-Semitism” is just childish name-calling on the part of Foxman. Foxman supports Kagan, because they are both on the extreme left. Foxman, however, can not debate Pat Buchanan on the facts, so Foxman simply calls him names. Crude name-calling is the only weapon of left-wing extremists like Foxman.
Timeline of Jewish people serving on the Supreme Court. This chart is from the Jewish Virtual Library. Do you suppose that Foxman will denounce the Jewish Virtual Library as “anti-Semitism unabated?”
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Want To Reduce Your Property Taxes?
There is a reason why the 10th Plank of the Communist Manifesto is
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
It is vital for a government to own all the land and therefore make you a serf in your own country. This is achieved many ways but primarily through property taxes. If you have never done it before, stop and think about it. If you fail to pay your property taxes to the government they take the land away literally at gun point. So explain to me how you actually own the land. You rent the land from the government and as long as you do what they require they leave you alone, pretty much like paying "protection money" to the mafia.
I came across this article and would like to share it with everyone so hopefully you reduce the amount of money that they steal from your pockets.
How To Reduce Your Property Taxes
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
It is vital for a government to own all the land and therefore make you a serf in your own country. This is achieved many ways but primarily through property taxes. If you have never done it before, stop and think about it. If you fail to pay your property taxes to the government they take the land away literally at gun point. So explain to me how you actually own the land. You rent the land from the government and as long as you do what they require they leave you alone, pretty much like paying "protection money" to the mafia.
I came across this article and would like to share it with everyone so hopefully you reduce the amount of money that they steal from your pockets.
How To Reduce Your Property Taxes
Pelosi to Aspiring Musicians: Quit Your Job, Taxpayers Will Cover Your Health Care
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that thanks to the new health-care reform law, musicians and other creative types could quit their jobs and focus on developing their talents because taxpayers would fund their health care coverage.
“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
Pelosi made the remarks while speaking at the Capitol on Wednesday to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit.
“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
Pelosi made the remarks while speaking at the Capitol on Wednesday to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit.
Businesses Abandon Kommiefornia In Droves
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California has the potential to be such a nice state, but it is completely ruined by the marxist trash that currently inhabit it (illegals aside). The government there (and everywhere) seem to think they run the show and can tell business how, why and where they can run their operation. Yet in the end it is the government that needs the people not the other way around. Which was so clearly pointed out in the Deceleration Of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
1. Alza Corp. in 2007 eliminated about 600 jobs in drug R&D while also exiting its Mountain View HQ. At the time the company said that its 1,200-person Vacaville facility will continue to operate. But the Vacaville Reporter on Oct. 23, 2009 revealed that the plant is being offered for sale by J&J, its parent company. It’s unclear if more layoffs are in the facility’s future.
2. American AVK, a producer of fire hydrants and other water-related products, moved from Fresno to Minden, Nevada .
3. American Racing moved its auto-wheel production to Mexico, ending most of its 47-year operation in California.
4. Apple Computer has expanded in other states, most recently with a $1 billion facility planned for North Carolina .
5. Audix Corporation relocated from Redwood City and to accommodate growth moved to a 78,000-square-foot facility in Wilson , Oregon .
6. Apria Healthcare Group of Lake Forest is shifting jobs from California to Overland Park, Kansas , a K.C. suburb.
7. Assurant Inc. cut 325 jobs in Orange County and consolidated positions in Georgia , Ohio and South Carolina.
8. Automobile Club of Southern California placed 1,100 jobs in Texas.
9. Barefoot Motors, a small “green” manufacturer, moved from Sonoma and will grow in Ashland, Oregon .
10. Bazz Houston Co. located in Garden Grove , has slowly been building a workforce of about 35 people in Tijuana . In early 2010 the company said it expects to move more jobs to Mexico, citing cost and regulatory difficulties in Southern California .
11. Beckman Coulter, a biomedical test equipment manufacturer headquartered in Brea, relocated part of its Palo Alto facilities to Indianapolis, Indiana, two years ago. In early 2010, it’s making a multimillion-dollar investment to expand and create up to 100 new jobs in Indiana. The company said the area offers a “favorable business environment and lower total cost of operations, plus a local work force with strong skills in both engineering and manufacturing.”
12. Bild Industries Inc., which specializes in business news, directories and market reports, moved to Post Falls, Idaho, from Van Nuys.
13. Bill Miller Engineering, Ltd., suffering under the “hostile business climate” in California and Los Angeles County, moved from Harbor City to Carson City, Nevada .
14. BMC Select has conducted an unusual relocation. The company, which had shifted its headquarters from Idaho to San Francisco , relocated its H.Q. back to Boise in January 2010. The building materials distributor said that regaining its footing in Boise retained access to high-quality employees while reducing wage and occupancy costs.
15. BPI Labs, which formulates, manufactures, and fills personal care products for the health and beauty industry, relocated from Sacramento to Evanston, Wyoming , a move the company’s owner called “very successful . . . . It felt good and I’ve never looked back.”
16. Buck Knives after 62 years in San Diego moved to Post Falls, Idaho.
17. CalPortland Cement has announced in late 2009 closure of its Riverside County plant because of new environmental regulations from a state law (AB 32). The company’s CEO wrote, “A cement plant cannot be picked up and moved, but the next new plant probably won’t be built in California meaning more good, high-paying manufacturing jobs will be lost to Nevada or China or somewhere.”
18. California Casualty Group left San Mateo for Colorado, cutting operating costs to remain competitive.
19. CalStar Products Inc., headquartered in Newark in the San Francisco Bay Area, in January 2010 was awarded $2.44 million in federal clean energy tax credits. The company said in the future it expects to build additional plants in the Mississippi Valley and the East Coast. In late 2009 CalStar opened a plant in Caledonia, Wisconsin.
20. Checks To-Go moved to Utah where workers’ comp rates helped make the troubled company healthier.
21. Chivaroli & Associates, a healthcare-related insurance service based in Westlake Village moved a regional office to Spokane, Washington.
22. CoreSite, A Carlyle Company, is delaying a Santa Clara project while it expands its data center in Reston, Va.
23. Creators Syndicate may flee L.A. because it operates like a “banana republic.”
24. Creel Printing Left Costa Mesa for Las Vegas and So Cal loses 60 more jobs.
25. Dassault Falcon looked at building an aircraft services facility in Riverside County but instead located in Reno.
26. DaVita Inc. moved its HQ from Los Angeles to Denver; expects to see millions of dollars in savings over time.
27. Denny’s Corp. - the large restaurant chain—once had its headquarters in La Mirada, later in Irvine and then moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. The company was founded in California and its growth over time created HQ jobs in another state.
28. Digital Domain, the Academy-Award-winning visual effects studio based in Venice placed new studios in Vancouve , British Columbia, and Port St. Lucie, Florida.
29. Ditech, headquartered in Costa Mesa, announced in January 2010 a 269-job cut and is moving most activities to the GMAC Financial Services (parent company) headquarters in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. In 2007, Ditech relocated some workers from Costa Mesa to Phoenix . A once robust Costa Mesa facility employing hundreds will be down to 20 or 30 workers.
30. DuPont Fabros Technology suspended a $270 million Santa Clara data center project in favor of one in Ashburn, Va.
31. eBay, based in San Jose , will create 450 jobs in Draper, Utah , in a new $334 million operations, customer support and data center.
32. EDMO Distributors, Inc., a world-wide wholesaler of aircraft avionics, test equipment, and pilot supplies, moved its HQ from Valencia , Calif. , to Spokane Valley , Wash. Since, it has built a larger headquarters in the city's Mirabeau Point community complex.
33. Edwards Lifesciences based in Irvine will expand with 1,000 employees not in California but in Draper, Utah .
34. EMRISE Corp. completed its HQ move from Rancho Cucamonga to Eatontown , NJ , in May 2009. The company said the move "will result in additional annualized cost savings of approximately $1 million and facilitate improvements in operating efficiency. . . . The cost savings associated with relocating our corporate headquarters will start immediately. . . The aggregate total of these expense reductions will increase our profitability and cash flow in this and succeeding years and, over time, substantially improve our ability to further reduce our long term debt."
35. Facebook, based in Palo Alto , will expand in a major way in Oregon by locating a custom data center in Prineville. It will be a 147,000-square-foot facility costing $180 million and will employ 200 workers during construction and another 35 full-time once operating in 2011.
36. FallLine Corporation Left Huntington Beach, where they were being "hammered" with multiple governmental regulatory fees, for Reno , Nevada .
37. Fidelity National Financial left Santa Barbara for Florida , spurred by California 's "oppressive" business environment.
38. First American Corp., based in Santa Ana , will open a call center in March 2010 not in California but in Phoenix , where it expects to employ about 400 people within two years.
39. Fluor Corp. moved its global headquarters from Aliso Viejo to Irving , Texas , with about 100 employees asked to relocate while the company planned to hire the same number there. In 2006, when Fluor moved into its new headquarters building, a company statement said: "The official dedication had a decidedly Texas theme" as a horseshoe was raised on the building, a time-honored Texas tradition.
40. Foxconn Electronics, a large contract electronics maker, moved some of its Fullerton operations to Dallas .
41. Fuel System Solutions moved its headquarters from Santa Ana to New York .
42. Gregg Industries, owned by Neenah Enterprises Inc. in Wisconsin , closed a 300-employee foundry in El Monte foundry under pressure from the South Coast Air Quality Management District to make $5 million in upgrades. The company didn't want to make the investment in the difficult economic climate so it decided instead to leave the state.
43. Helix Wind Inc. may move its research and development, engineering, and testing departments from San Diego to "more supportive" Oregon .
44. Hewlett-Packard, HQ'd in Palo Alto , at various times has moved jobs to Tennessee and Texas .
45. Hilton Hotels Corp. in 2009 is moving from its longtime corporate H.Q. in Beverly Hills to a new office in Tysons Corner , Virginia .
46. Hino Motor Manufacturing USA moved from California to Williamstown , West Virginia , in 2007, where it now employs about 100 workers. The company has growth plans to "Raise Hino's presence from medium-/heavy /heavy-duty trucks to all ranges of trucks" and an aggressive program to improve fuel economy and emissions. The company builds trucks under its own brand and also manufactures Toyota-branded vehicles.
47. Intel Corporation, HQ'd in Santa Clara, has chosen to expand operations in neighboring states
48. Intuit of Mountain View created a customer support office (110 people) not in California but in Colorado because of lower operating costs.
49. Intuit placed a data center near Quincy , Washington .
50. Intuit also located Innovative Merchant Solutions LLC in Las Vegas as part of a $1.8 million investment in Nevada.
51. J.C. Penney closed it Sacramento call center and moved the work to five out-of-state centers.
52. Kimmie Candy Co., a manufacturer that was started in 1999, moved from Sacramento to Nevada in 2005. "I really don't have a lot of regrets about moving up to Reno ," said owner Joe Dutra.
53. Klaussner Home Furnishings in closing its La Mirada manufacturing plant will maintain its NC and Iowa operations.
54. Knight Protective Industries moved to Oregon "where 4-day work weeks were permitted by the state" and wanted by the employees.
55. Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. announced in February 2010 that it is closing its Irvine plant, laying off 56 people, and will shift the work to Malaysia and Singapore . The facility had been owned by Orthodyne Electronics Corp., which Kulicke & Soffa bought in 2008.
56. LCF Enterprises, which makes specialized high-end amplifiers used by researchers, medical professionals and others, moved from Camarillo, Calif., to Post Falls, Idaho.
57. Lennox Hearth Products Inc. in Orange , Calif. , will lay off 71 workers and by March 2010 will transfer the jobs to Nashville and Union City , Tennessee , "to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies."
58. Lyn-Tron, Inc., a supplier of electronic hardware, moved from Los Angeles to Spokane , Wash. Their website has a rather California(ish) statement: "Our commitment is to maintain a manufacturing environment that is progressive and safe, where our employees are able to achieve their personal objectives, thereby adding to their quality of life and to the community in which they live."
59. Mariah Power, a "green" manufacturer of small wind turbines, moved from California to Nevada and in 2009 teamed up with another company to begin production in Manistee , Michigan .
60. Maxwell America, a boating equipment maker, in February 2010 closed its Santa Ana offices and moved them to Hanover , Md. One reason given was the indirect impact of California environmental regulations. A company official said over the years many California boat builders relocated to the Midwest and East where they don't face the same restrictions.
61. MiaSolé, based in the Silicon Valley, was reported in January 2010 to be planning a 500,000-square-foot plant, which could be one of the largest solar factories in the United States . The location is not near its in Santa Clara headquarters but in the Atlanta , Georgia , area where its workforce eventually could exceed 1,000. The news came one week after MiaSolé received $101.8 million in federal tax credits.
62. MotorVac Technologies announced in February 2010 that it's leaving Santa Ana for Ontario , Canada . MotorVac's CEO said he "really fought hard to keep MotorVac here, but unfortunately the numbers didn't support it." The move cuts costs because it's new owner, UView, has its own plant with excess capacity in Canada . "And the general cost of doing business in California is much more expensive."
63. Nissan North America moved its Los Angeles headquarters to Nashville , Tenn.
64. Northrop Grumman by 2011 will relocate its Los Angeles H.Q. to the Washington , DC metro area. It's the last major aerospace company to leave Southern California , the birthplace of the aerospace industry.
65. One2Believe, a specialty religious-toy maker, left California for East Aurora , New York .
66. Patmont Motor Werks, Inc. (GoPed manufacturer), after being hit by California regulators for hundreds of thousands of dollars in small fines even though his company has a stellar safety record, moved to Nevada.
67. Paragon Relocation Resources moved from Rancho Santa Margarita to Irving , Texas .
68. Pixel Magic, headquartered in Toluca Lake , Calif. , ( Los Angeles metro area), is locating a studio in Lafayette , Louisiana , where it will create 40 new jobs between 2010 and 2013. The company, which provides digital effects for motion pictures and television, said the Louisiana people they were in contact with have an immediate understanding of technology and data handling.
69. Plastic Model Engineering, Inc., a custom plastic injection molder and mold manufacturer, moved from Sylmar , Calif. to the "Inland Northwest," notably Post Falls , Idaho .
70. Precor will stop manufacturing fitness machines in California and re-open in North Carolina .
71. Premier Inc., the largest healthcare alliance in the nation, will move its HQ from San Diego to Charlotte , involving an investment of $17.7 million and adding 300 jobs in North Carolina . The announcement was made Oct. 14, 2009.
72. Pro Cal of South Gate, in Los Angeles County , a unit of Myers Industries, expanded its Sparks , Nev. , operations to become the company's primary West Coast production and distribution facility. Pro Cal is a plastics manufacturer of nursery containers and a big recycler.
73. Race Track Chaplaincy of America started 2010 by shifting its headquarters from Los Angeles to Lexington , Kentucky . The non-profit group said it had wanted to relocate from the Hollywood Park Race Track for several reasons, one of which is the significant cost of doing business on the West Coast.
74. Red Truck Fire & Safety Company left Fresno for Minden , Nevada in 2007 because of California 's myriad fees and regulations that meant "death by thousand cuts."
75. SAIC will move its headquarters east, from San Diego to McLean, Virgina, which the Washington Post called "Another Coup for Area." The announcement was made Sept. 24, 2009; it is unclear how many employees will move east in 2009 and 2010.
76. Scale Computing, a data-storage developer and manufacturer, is leaving Silicon Valley for Indiana .
77. Schott Solar Inc. will close its sales and customer service office in Roseville and will relocate the office to Albuquerque , NM .
78. SimpleTech transferred its manufacturing work from Santa Ana to Asia more than a year ago.
79. Smiley Industries, an aerospace manufacturer, moved to Phoenix , where productivity improved.
80. Solaicx, based in the Silicon Valley, said in early 2010 that it will expand its manufacturing plant in Portland , Oregon . Solaicx received $18.2 million in federal tax credits as part of Washington 's efforts to advance green energy.
81. SolarWorld, a maker of solar technology founded in Camarillo , consolidated manufacturing in Oregon after that state offered property tax abatement and business energy tax credits. The company will employ about 1,000 in Oregon by 2011
82. Special Devices Inc. brought 250 jobs to Mesa , Arizona , from Moorpark , Calif.
83. StarKist headquarters is leaving San Francisco for Pittsburgh , Pa.
84. Stasis Engineering moved from Sonoma County to West Virginia , a "friendlier business climate."
85. Stata Corp., which specializes in data analysis and statistical software, moved from Santa Monica , California to College Station , Texas .
86. Tapmatic, a metalworking firm whose owners were "fed up with the onerous business environment," moved from Orange County , California to Post Falls in northern Idaho .
87. Teledesic moved to Washington state in anticipation of better capital gains.
88. Telmar Network Technology Inc. moved from Irvine to Plano , Texas , consolidating some 150 workers there.
89. Terremark postponed a Santa Clara project earlier this year to invest $50 million in a Culpeper, Va. project.
90. Terumo Cardiovascular Systems is moving R&D from OC to Ann Arbor , Michigan , involving 65 jobs and $3.5 million in investments.
91. Toyota will stop making cars in Fremont , will idle 4,700 workers, and move work to Canada and San Antonio , Texas .
92. True Games Interactive Inc. will its H.Q. from Irvine to Austin , Texas , where it expects to have about 60 workers by the middle of 2010.
93. TTM Technologies will leave L.A. & Hayward and move to other states and China to achieve big cost savings.
94. Twentieth Century Props of L.A. has gone out of business as film-making has moved to lower-cost states
95. Understand.com moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Reno, a loss for California in that the company is a leader in web-based patient education content and shows strong growth. The company was named 2007 Innovator of the Year by a Northern publication and the company's founder and received a media and Reno-Tahoe Young Professionals Network "20 Under 40" award and was selected as a 20/20 Business Visionary by Nevada Business Magazine.
96. US Airways is realigning operations and California is no longer considered part of its "core." The airline is closing its John Wayne Airport maintenance station and in early 2010 will redistribute the mechanics across its system.
97. US Press shifted work from Los Angeles and San Diego to Portland , "where union rules were almost rational."
98. USAA Insurance closed its 625-person Sacramento campus in favor of other states.
99. Yahoo opened a data center in Quincy , Washington , a community that now hopes to land high-tech manufacturing.
The list will grow as Sacramento considers more measures that will increase corporate taxes, increase workers' comp costs, increase regulatory reporting requirements (along with higher fines for minor infractions), increase gasoline and diesel-fuel taxes, increase water rates, increase electric-power rates, and increase assorted fees that will cause services to become more expensive.
California has the potential to be such a nice state, but it is completely ruined by the marxist trash that currently inhabit it (illegals aside). The government there (and everywhere) seem to think they run the show and can tell business how, why and where they can run their operation. Yet in the end it is the government that needs the people not the other way around. Which was so clearly pointed out in the Deceleration Of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
1. Alza Corp. in 2007 eliminated about 600 jobs in drug R&D while also exiting its Mountain View HQ. At the time the company said that its 1,200-person Vacaville facility will continue to operate. But the Vacaville Reporter on Oct. 23, 2009 revealed that the plant is being offered for sale by J&J, its parent company. It’s unclear if more layoffs are in the facility’s future.
2. American AVK, a producer of fire hydrants and other water-related products, moved from Fresno to Minden, Nevada .
3. American Racing moved its auto-wheel production to Mexico, ending most of its 47-year operation in California.
4. Apple Computer has expanded in other states, most recently with a $1 billion facility planned for North Carolina .
5. Audix Corporation relocated from Redwood City and to accommodate growth moved to a 78,000-square-foot facility in Wilson , Oregon .
6. Apria Healthcare Group of Lake Forest is shifting jobs from California to Overland Park, Kansas , a K.C. suburb.
7. Assurant Inc. cut 325 jobs in Orange County and consolidated positions in Georgia , Ohio and South Carolina.
8. Automobile Club of Southern California placed 1,100 jobs in Texas.
9. Barefoot Motors, a small “green” manufacturer, moved from Sonoma and will grow in Ashland, Oregon .
10. Bazz Houston Co. located in Garden Grove , has slowly been building a workforce of about 35 people in Tijuana . In early 2010 the company said it expects to move more jobs to Mexico, citing cost and regulatory difficulties in Southern California .
11. Beckman Coulter, a biomedical test equipment manufacturer headquartered in Brea, relocated part of its Palo Alto facilities to Indianapolis, Indiana, two years ago. In early 2010, it’s making a multimillion-dollar investment to expand and create up to 100 new jobs in Indiana. The company said the area offers a “favorable business environment and lower total cost of operations, plus a local work force with strong skills in both engineering and manufacturing.”
12. Bild Industries Inc., which specializes in business news, directories and market reports, moved to Post Falls, Idaho, from Van Nuys.
13. Bill Miller Engineering, Ltd., suffering under the “hostile business climate” in California and Los Angeles County, moved from Harbor City to Carson City, Nevada .
14. BMC Select has conducted an unusual relocation. The company, which had shifted its headquarters from Idaho to San Francisco , relocated its H.Q. back to Boise in January 2010. The building materials distributor said that regaining its footing in Boise retained access to high-quality employees while reducing wage and occupancy costs.
15. BPI Labs, which formulates, manufactures, and fills personal care products for the health and beauty industry, relocated from Sacramento to Evanston, Wyoming , a move the company’s owner called “very successful . . . . It felt good and I’ve never looked back.”
16. Buck Knives after 62 years in San Diego moved to Post Falls, Idaho.
17. CalPortland Cement has announced in late 2009 closure of its Riverside County plant because of new environmental regulations from a state law (AB 32). The company’s CEO wrote, “A cement plant cannot be picked up and moved, but the next new plant probably won’t be built in California meaning more good, high-paying manufacturing jobs will be lost to Nevada or China or somewhere.”
18. California Casualty Group left San Mateo for Colorado, cutting operating costs to remain competitive.
19. CalStar Products Inc., headquartered in Newark in the San Francisco Bay Area, in January 2010 was awarded $2.44 million in federal clean energy tax credits. The company said in the future it expects to build additional plants in the Mississippi Valley and the East Coast. In late 2009 CalStar opened a plant in Caledonia, Wisconsin.
20. Checks To-Go moved to Utah where workers’ comp rates helped make the troubled company healthier.
21. Chivaroli & Associates, a healthcare-related insurance service based in Westlake Village moved a regional office to Spokane, Washington.
22. CoreSite, A Carlyle Company, is delaying a Santa Clara project while it expands its data center in Reston, Va.
23. Creators Syndicate may flee L.A. because it operates like a “banana republic.”
24. Creel Printing Left Costa Mesa for Las Vegas and So Cal loses 60 more jobs.
25. Dassault Falcon looked at building an aircraft services facility in Riverside County but instead located in Reno.
26. DaVita Inc. moved its HQ from Los Angeles to Denver; expects to see millions of dollars in savings over time.
27. Denny’s Corp. - the large restaurant chain—once had its headquarters in La Mirada, later in Irvine and then moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina. The company was founded in California and its growth over time created HQ jobs in another state.
28. Digital Domain, the Academy-Award-winning visual effects studio based in Venice placed new studios in Vancouve , British Columbia, and Port St. Lucie, Florida.
29. Ditech, headquartered in Costa Mesa, announced in January 2010 a 269-job cut and is moving most activities to the GMAC Financial Services (parent company) headquarters in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. In 2007, Ditech relocated some workers from Costa Mesa to Phoenix . A once robust Costa Mesa facility employing hundreds will be down to 20 or 30 workers.
30. DuPont Fabros Technology suspended a $270 million Santa Clara data center project in favor of one in Ashburn, Va.
31. eBay, based in San Jose , will create 450 jobs in Draper, Utah , in a new $334 million operations, customer support and data center.
32. EDMO Distributors, Inc., a world-wide wholesaler of aircraft avionics, test equipment, and pilot supplies, moved its HQ from Valencia , Calif. , to Spokane Valley , Wash. Since, it has built a larger headquarters in the city's Mirabeau Point community complex.
33. Edwards Lifesciences based in Irvine will expand with 1,000 employees not in California but in Draper, Utah .
34. EMRISE Corp. completed its HQ move from Rancho Cucamonga to Eatontown , NJ , in May 2009. The company said the move "will result in additional annualized cost savings of approximately $1 million and facilitate improvements in operating efficiency. . . . The cost savings associated with relocating our corporate headquarters will start immediately. . . The aggregate total of these expense reductions will increase our profitability and cash flow in this and succeeding years and, over time, substantially improve our ability to further reduce our long term debt."
35. Facebook, based in Palo Alto , will expand in a major way in Oregon by locating a custom data center in Prineville. It will be a 147,000-square-foot facility costing $180 million and will employ 200 workers during construction and another 35 full-time once operating in 2011.
36. FallLine Corporation Left Huntington Beach, where they were being "hammered" with multiple governmental regulatory fees, for Reno , Nevada .
37. Fidelity National Financial left Santa Barbara for Florida , spurred by California 's "oppressive" business environment.
38. First American Corp., based in Santa Ana , will open a call center in March 2010 not in California but in Phoenix , where it expects to employ about 400 people within two years.
39. Fluor Corp. moved its global headquarters from Aliso Viejo to Irving , Texas , with about 100 employees asked to relocate while the company planned to hire the same number there. In 2006, when Fluor moved into its new headquarters building, a company statement said: "The official dedication had a decidedly Texas theme" as a horseshoe was raised on the building, a time-honored Texas tradition.
40. Foxconn Electronics, a large contract electronics maker, moved some of its Fullerton operations to Dallas .
41. Fuel System Solutions moved its headquarters from Santa Ana to New York .
42. Gregg Industries, owned by Neenah Enterprises Inc. in Wisconsin , closed a 300-employee foundry in El Monte foundry under pressure from the South Coast Air Quality Management District to make $5 million in upgrades. The company didn't want to make the investment in the difficult economic climate so it decided instead to leave the state.
43. Helix Wind Inc. may move its research and development, engineering, and testing departments from San Diego to "more supportive" Oregon .
44. Hewlett-Packard, HQ'd in Palo Alto , at various times has moved jobs to Tennessee and Texas .
45. Hilton Hotels Corp. in 2009 is moving from its longtime corporate H.Q. in Beverly Hills to a new office in Tysons Corner , Virginia .
46. Hino Motor Manufacturing USA moved from California to Williamstown , West Virginia , in 2007, where it now employs about 100 workers. The company has growth plans to "Raise Hino's presence from medium-/heavy /heavy-duty trucks to all ranges of trucks" and an aggressive program to improve fuel economy and emissions. The company builds trucks under its own brand and also manufactures Toyota-branded vehicles.
47. Intel Corporation, HQ'd in Santa Clara, has chosen to expand operations in neighboring states
48. Intuit of Mountain View created a customer support office (110 people) not in California but in Colorado because of lower operating costs.
49. Intuit placed a data center near Quincy , Washington .
50. Intuit also located Innovative Merchant Solutions LLC in Las Vegas as part of a $1.8 million investment in Nevada.
51. J.C. Penney closed it Sacramento call center and moved the work to five out-of-state centers.
52. Kimmie Candy Co., a manufacturer that was started in 1999, moved from Sacramento to Nevada in 2005. "I really don't have a lot of regrets about moving up to Reno ," said owner Joe Dutra.
53. Klaussner Home Furnishings in closing its La Mirada manufacturing plant will maintain its NC and Iowa operations.
54. Knight Protective Industries moved to Oregon "where 4-day work weeks were permitted by the state" and wanted by the employees.
55. Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. announced in February 2010 that it is closing its Irvine plant, laying off 56 people, and will shift the work to Malaysia and Singapore . The facility had been owned by Orthodyne Electronics Corp., which Kulicke & Soffa bought in 2008.
56. LCF Enterprises, which makes specialized high-end amplifiers used by researchers, medical professionals and others, moved from Camarillo, Calif., to Post Falls, Idaho.
57. Lennox Hearth Products Inc. in Orange , Calif. , will lay off 71 workers and by March 2010 will transfer the jobs to Nashville and Union City , Tennessee , "to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies."
58. Lyn-Tron, Inc., a supplier of electronic hardware, moved from Los Angeles to Spokane , Wash. Their website has a rather California(ish) statement: "Our commitment is to maintain a manufacturing environment that is progressive and safe, where our employees are able to achieve their personal objectives, thereby adding to their quality of life and to the community in which they live."
59. Mariah Power, a "green" manufacturer of small wind turbines, moved from California to Nevada and in 2009 teamed up with another company to begin production in Manistee , Michigan .
60. Maxwell America, a boating equipment maker, in February 2010 closed its Santa Ana offices and moved them to Hanover , Md. One reason given was the indirect impact of California environmental regulations. A company official said over the years many California boat builders relocated to the Midwest and East where they don't face the same restrictions.
61. MiaSolé, based in the Silicon Valley, was reported in January 2010 to be planning a 500,000-square-foot plant, which could be one of the largest solar factories in the United States . The location is not near its in Santa Clara headquarters but in the Atlanta , Georgia , area where its workforce eventually could exceed 1,000. The news came one week after MiaSolé received $101.8 million in federal tax credits.
62. MotorVac Technologies announced in February 2010 that it's leaving Santa Ana for Ontario , Canada . MotorVac's CEO said he "really fought hard to keep MotorVac here, but unfortunately the numbers didn't support it." The move cuts costs because it's new owner, UView, has its own plant with excess capacity in Canada . "And the general cost of doing business in California is much more expensive."
63. Nissan North America moved its Los Angeles headquarters to Nashville , Tenn.
64. Northrop Grumman by 2011 will relocate its Los Angeles H.Q. to the Washington , DC metro area. It's the last major aerospace company to leave Southern California , the birthplace of the aerospace industry.
65. One2Believe, a specialty religious-toy maker, left California for East Aurora , New York .
66. Patmont Motor Werks, Inc. (GoPed manufacturer), after being hit by California regulators for hundreds of thousands of dollars in small fines even though his company has a stellar safety record, moved to Nevada.
67. Paragon Relocation Resources moved from Rancho Santa Margarita to Irving , Texas .
68. Pixel Magic, headquartered in Toluca Lake , Calif. , ( Los Angeles metro area), is locating a studio in Lafayette , Louisiana , where it will create 40 new jobs between 2010 and 2013. The company, which provides digital effects for motion pictures and television, said the Louisiana people they were in contact with have an immediate understanding of technology and data handling.
69. Plastic Model Engineering, Inc., a custom plastic injection molder and mold manufacturer, moved from Sylmar , Calif. to the "Inland Northwest," notably Post Falls , Idaho .
70. Precor will stop manufacturing fitness machines in California and re-open in North Carolina .
71. Premier Inc., the largest healthcare alliance in the nation, will move its HQ from San Diego to Charlotte , involving an investment of $17.7 million and adding 300 jobs in North Carolina . The announcement was made Oct. 14, 2009.
72. Pro Cal of South Gate, in Los Angeles County , a unit of Myers Industries, expanded its Sparks , Nev. , operations to become the company's primary West Coast production and distribution facility. Pro Cal is a plastics manufacturer of nursery containers and a big recycler.
73. Race Track Chaplaincy of America started 2010 by shifting its headquarters from Los Angeles to Lexington , Kentucky . The non-profit group said it had wanted to relocate from the Hollywood Park Race Track for several reasons, one of which is the significant cost of doing business on the West Coast.
74. Red Truck Fire & Safety Company left Fresno for Minden , Nevada in 2007 because of California 's myriad fees and regulations that meant "death by thousand cuts."
75. SAIC will move its headquarters east, from San Diego to McLean, Virgina, which the Washington Post called "Another Coup for Area." The announcement was made Sept. 24, 2009; it is unclear how many employees will move east in 2009 and 2010.
76. Scale Computing, a data-storage developer and manufacturer, is leaving Silicon Valley for Indiana .
77. Schott Solar Inc. will close its sales and customer service office in Roseville and will relocate the office to Albuquerque , NM .
78. SimpleTech transferred its manufacturing work from Santa Ana to Asia more than a year ago.
79. Smiley Industries, an aerospace manufacturer, moved to Phoenix , where productivity improved.
80. Solaicx, based in the Silicon Valley, said in early 2010 that it will expand its manufacturing plant in Portland , Oregon . Solaicx received $18.2 million in federal tax credits as part of Washington 's efforts to advance green energy.
81. SolarWorld, a maker of solar technology founded in Camarillo , consolidated manufacturing in Oregon after that state offered property tax abatement and business energy tax credits. The company will employ about 1,000 in Oregon by 2011
82. Special Devices Inc. brought 250 jobs to Mesa , Arizona , from Moorpark , Calif.
83. StarKist headquarters is leaving San Francisco for Pittsburgh , Pa.
84. Stasis Engineering moved from Sonoma County to West Virginia , a "friendlier business climate."
85. Stata Corp., which specializes in data analysis and statistical software, moved from Santa Monica , California to College Station , Texas .
86. Tapmatic, a metalworking firm whose owners were "fed up with the onerous business environment," moved from Orange County , California to Post Falls in northern Idaho .
87. Teledesic moved to Washington state in anticipation of better capital gains.
88. Telmar Network Technology Inc. moved from Irvine to Plano , Texas , consolidating some 150 workers there.
89. Terremark postponed a Santa Clara project earlier this year to invest $50 million in a Culpeper, Va. project.
90. Terumo Cardiovascular Systems is moving R&D from OC to Ann Arbor , Michigan , involving 65 jobs and $3.5 million in investments.
91. Toyota will stop making cars in Fremont , will idle 4,700 workers, and move work to Canada and San Antonio , Texas .
92. True Games Interactive Inc. will its H.Q. from Irvine to Austin , Texas , where it expects to have about 60 workers by the middle of 2010.
93. TTM Technologies will leave L.A. & Hayward and move to other states and China to achieve big cost savings.
94. Twentieth Century Props of L.A. has gone out of business as film-making has moved to lower-cost states
95. Understand.com
96. US Airways is realigning operations and California is no longer considered part of its "core." The airline is closing its John Wayne Airport maintenance station and in early 2010 will redistribute the mechanics across its system.
97. US Press shifted work from Los Angeles and San Diego to Portland , "where union rules were almost rational."
98. USAA Insurance closed its 625-person Sacramento campus in favor of other states.
99. Yahoo opened a data center in Quincy , Washington , a community that now hopes to land high-tech manufacturing.
The list will grow as Sacramento considers more measures that will increase corporate taxes, increase workers' comp costs, increase regulatory reporting requirements (along with higher fines for minor infractions), increase gasoline and diesel-fuel taxes, increase water rates, increase electric-power rates, and increase assorted fees that will cause services to become more expensive.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Obama Stacking The Courts With Non White Marxists
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WASHINGTON
Lost in the gathering debate over President Barack Obama's next Supreme Court pick, a profound shift in the federal judiciary is taking place below the high court.
Working methodically, and drawing sporadic fire from left and right, Obama is gradually reshaping the U.S. courts.
Already, he's tipped the balance of two appellate circuits to Democratic-appointed majorities, with a third about to flip. He also is choosing a larger proportion of women and minorities for lifetime federal judgeships than other presidents.
The diversity of his nominees is "striking. He's clearly, I think, eclipsed everyone, and so early in the administration," said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who follows federal court issues.
A leading example of Obama's judicial makeover: the appeals court that serves Maryland, which is influential in national security matters.
Half of its judges were Republican appointees when Obama took office. One of them, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, argued, in a January 2009 article, against the prospect of a liberal Obama "takeover" of the court.
The Reagan appointee also noted the widespread reputation of the Richmond, Va.-based court, covering Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas, as the most conservative in the country.
"I don't think you can say that anymore," said Gregory G. Katsas, a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
Obama nominees, including Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore, have given the circuit a 7-5 Democrat-appointee tilt that could grow to at least 10-5.
Nationwide, Obama is slowly eroding a partisan advantage Republicans created by holding the White House for 20 of the past 30 years.
"Few presidential decisions are more important than lifetime appointments to the federal bench," Alberto Gonzales, then George W. Bush's attorney general, said in 2006. "Judicial appointments often represent a president's most enduring legacy."
Whether a judge was appointed by a Republican or a Democrat "makes a huge difference," said Katsas, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. While judges sometimes surprise presidents with their actions, Katsas said, "it's fair to say Obama's nominees are more likely to lean to the left than to the right."
The first black president, who once taught constitutional law, is already reducing the historic dominance of white men on the federal bench, by favoring women and minority nominees.
A recent study by the Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group, found that Obama in his first year chose a higher proportion of female, black and Asian-American judges than other presidents during their terms.
That has been particularly true of his picks for appellate benches, the most powerful other than the Supreme Court. Of his first 19 nominees, six were women, five were African-American, two were Asian-American and two Hispanic; only six were white males.
Obama's initial 4th Circuit choice was Davis, a black U.S. district judge from Baltimore whose formal investiture ceremony was held Friday. The Senate has also confirmed Obama's second nominee to the circuit, Barbara Keenan, a white woman from Virginia.
The next nominees — one Hispanic, the other black — would, if confirmed, mean that white male judges were no longer a majority on the 4th Circuit.
Measuring Obama's impact on the ethnic and gender makeup of the federal judiciary is easier than gauging the effect he's having on ideology.
Conservative advocates and Republican politicians, in an effort to condition public opinion for the coming Supreme Court confirmation fight, are casting his appellate nominees as "activist judges."
The Republican argument is in line with a long-running attack theme that has kept Obama and the Democrats on the defensive.
Republican National Chairman Michael S. Steele, in a recent blog post, referred to the "out-of-the-mainstream judicial activists" Obama has chosen. A new Republican website highlights what the party describes as "shocking" examples of "liberal judicial activism" by Obama appellate nominees.
Liberals, meantime, have criticized from the other side.
Some are frustrated by what they regard as Obama's unwillingness, or inability, to begin duplicating a highly successful Republican strategy: planting young lawyers with strong ideological leanings on lower courts, then elevating them to the Supreme Court.
Ellen Lipton Hollander, recently nominated for a U.S. district judgeship in Maryland, fits the pattern that bothers critics on the left. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals judge from Baltimore will turn 61 this month.
She has long experience on the municipal and state bench, another hallmark of Obama judges that distinguishes him from recent presidents.
Judicial careerists are "very conservative choices, because you're not left to wonder whether this person will be a good judge," said Tobias.
The latest nominees to the 4th Circuit, which handles major national security cases because of its geographic jurisdiction over agencies like the CIA and states where 9/11 terror suspects have been held, are a pair of North Carolina state judges. James Wynn and Albert Diaz have backgrounds in the military justice system, and neither is considered particularly liberal.
University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn A. Ifill has praised Obama's nominees to the court, which encompasses a region with the highest percentage of African-Americans of any circuit. But she also wrote in The Root, an online magazine, that he should seek "greater ideological diversity" and more women.
William P. Marshall, a University of North Carolina law professor and a director of the American Constitution Society, a liberal advocacy group, describes Obama's nominees as "high quality, high caliber, moderate and mainstream."
And yet, "mainstream now is a different definition than it was 20 years ago," Marshall said in an interview, noting that retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, a centrist Republican nominee when he joined the court, is regarded as perhaps its most liberal member today. "Some liberals are disappointed that there hasn't been an effort made to place the kind of people on the bench that can do battle with the trend."
Obama's push for his stimulus and health care plans, and other priorities, made the administration "very reluctant to expend political capital" on fights with Republican senators over liberal judges, Marshall said.
The pace of Obama's efforts to remake the courts was slowed by last summer's time-consuming confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, disorganization in the White House counsel's office and an effective Republican strategy that has blocked routine Senate confirmation of even the most noncontroversial picks.
With his term nearly one-third over, Obama has nominated 66 district and appellate judges and has 83 more vacancies to fill, according to the latest figures from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Only 20 Obama nominees have been confirmed, and some liberal supporters worry that he is losing the opportunity to redirect a federal judiciary still dominated by Republican-appointed judges.
This year, though, Obama's nominations are coming more rapidly. He chose nearly as many judges in the past four months as in all of 2009. And he pleased liberals by selecting University of California-Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu, 39, who would be the only Asian-American appellate judge and a potential future choice for the high court.
With another Supreme Court nomination fight about to slow other judicial confirmation activity — and with 2010 elections after that — Obama will need the rest of his term to reduce the backlog on the federal bench, perhaps with fewer Democratic senators to help him install left-leaning judges.
WASHINGTON
Lost in the gathering debate over President Barack Obama's next Supreme Court pick, a profound shift in the federal judiciary is taking place below the high court.
Working methodically, and drawing sporadic fire from left and right, Obama is gradually reshaping the U.S. courts.
Already, he's tipped the balance of two appellate circuits to Democratic-appointed majorities, with a third about to flip. He also is choosing a larger proportion of women and minorities for lifetime federal judgeships than other presidents.
The diversity of his nominees is "striking. He's clearly, I think, eclipsed everyone, and so early in the administration," said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who follows federal court issues.
A leading example of Obama's judicial makeover: the appeals court that serves Maryland, which is influential in national security matters.
Half of its judges were Republican appointees when Obama took office. One of them, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, argued, in a January 2009 article, against the prospect of a liberal Obama "takeover" of the court.
The Reagan appointee also noted the widespread reputation of the Richmond, Va.-based court, covering Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas, as the most conservative in the country.
"I don't think you can say that anymore," said Gregory G. Katsas, a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
Obama nominees, including Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore, have given the circuit a 7-5 Democrat-appointee tilt that could grow to at least 10-5.
Nationwide, Obama is slowly eroding a partisan advantage Republicans created by holding the White House for 20 of the past 30 years.
"Few presidential decisions are more important than lifetime appointments to the federal bench," Alberto Gonzales, then George W. Bush's attorney general, said in 2006. "Judicial appointments often represent a president's most enduring legacy."
Whether a judge was appointed by a Republican or a Democrat "makes a huge difference," said Katsas, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. While judges sometimes surprise presidents with their actions, Katsas said, "it's fair to say Obama's nominees are more likely to lean to the left than to the right."
The first black president, who once taught constitutional law, is already reducing the historic dominance of white men on the federal bench, by favoring women and minority nominees.
A recent study by the Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group, found that Obama in his first year chose a higher proportion of female, black and Asian-American judges than other presidents during their terms.
That has been particularly true of his picks for appellate benches, the most powerful other than the Supreme Court. Of his first 19 nominees, six were women, five were African-American, two were Asian-American and two Hispanic; only six were white males.
Obama's initial 4th Circuit choice was Davis, a black U.S. district judge from Baltimore whose formal investiture ceremony was held Friday. The Senate has also confirmed Obama's second nominee to the circuit, Barbara Keenan, a white woman from Virginia.
The next nominees — one Hispanic, the other black — would, if confirmed, mean that white male judges were no longer a majority on the 4th Circuit.
Measuring Obama's impact on the ethnic and gender makeup of the federal judiciary is easier than gauging the effect he's having on ideology.
Conservative advocates and Republican politicians, in an effort to condition public opinion for the coming Supreme Court confirmation fight, are casting his appellate nominees as "activist judges."
The Republican argument is in line with a long-running attack theme that has kept Obama and the Democrats on the defensive.
Republican National Chairman Michael S. Steele, in a recent blog post, referred to the "out-of-the-mainstream judicial activists" Obama has chosen. A new Republican website highlights what the party describes as "shocking" examples of "liberal judicial activism" by Obama appellate nominees.
Liberals, meantime, have criticized from the other side.
Some are frustrated by what they regard as Obama's unwillingness, or inability, to begin duplicating a highly successful Republican strategy: planting young lawyers with strong ideological leanings on lower courts, then elevating them to the Supreme Court.
Ellen Lipton Hollander, recently nominated for a U.S. district judgeship in Maryland, fits the pattern that bothers critics on the left. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals judge from Baltimore will turn 61 this month.
She has long experience on the municipal and state bench, another hallmark of Obama judges that distinguishes him from recent presidents.
Judicial careerists are "very conservative choices, because you're not left to wonder whether this person will be a good judge," said Tobias.
The latest nominees to the 4th Circuit, which handles major national security cases because of its geographic jurisdiction over agencies like the CIA and states where 9/11 terror suspects have been held, are a pair of North Carolina state judges. James Wynn and Albert Diaz have backgrounds in the military justice system, and neither is considered particularly liberal.
University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn A. Ifill has praised Obama's nominees to the court, which encompasses a region with the highest percentage of African-Americans of any circuit. But she also wrote in The Root, an online magazine, that he should seek "greater ideological diversity" and more women.
William P. Marshall, a University of North Carolina law professor and a director of the American Constitution Society, a liberal advocacy group, describes Obama's nominees as "high quality, high caliber, moderate and mainstream."
And yet, "mainstream now is a different definition than it was 20 years ago," Marshall said in an interview, noting that retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, a centrist Republican nominee when he joined the court, is regarded as perhaps its most liberal member today. "Some liberals are disappointed that there hasn't been an effort made to place the kind of people on the bench that can do battle with the trend."
Obama's push for his stimulus and health care plans, and other priorities, made the administration "very reluctant to expend political capital" on fights with Republican senators over liberal judges, Marshall said.
The pace of Obama's efforts to remake the courts was slowed by last summer's time-consuming confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, disorganization in the White House counsel's office and an effective Republican strategy that has blocked routine Senate confirmation of even the most noncontroversial picks.
With his term nearly one-third over, Obama has nominated 66 district and appellate judges and has 83 more vacancies to fill, according to the latest figures from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Only 20 Obama nominees have been confirmed, and some liberal supporters worry that he is losing the opportunity to redirect a federal judiciary still dominated by Republican-appointed judges.
This year, though, Obama's nominations are coming more rapidly. He chose nearly as many judges in the past four months as in all of 2009. And he pleased liberals by selecting University of California-Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu, 39, who would be the only Asian-American appellate judge and a potential future choice for the high court.
With another Supreme Court nomination fight about to slow other judicial confirmation activity — and with 2010 elections after that — Obama will need the rest of his term to reduce the backlog on the federal bench, perhaps with fewer Democratic senators to help him install left-leaning judges.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The High Cost Of Illegal Immigrants
These figures are eyepopping. I've collected various articles over the last year. This is why our US economy is disintegrating and pushing us into another great depression:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
3. $2..5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt....0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt....01.HTML
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt....01.HTML
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the US from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation.PDF
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation.PDF
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States. . .' Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml http://ww%20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml
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