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Obama: U.S. Needs More Taxpayers; Calls for Fewer Babies
But 'More Immigrants'
President
Barack Obama said today America needs “more immigrants” to increase the number
of people who pay taxes to the federal government and to populate the national
workforce. Yes, we don't need a more prosperous nation, we only need more tax
payers to fund his ridiculous programs.
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Rating President Obama As A Leader
Positive
assessments of President Obama's leadership have fallen to their lowest level
in over a year of regular tracking. A new Rasmussen Reports
national telephone survey finds that 43% of Likely Voters now consider the
president a good or excellent leader. Thirty-eight percent (38%) give
the president poor marks for leadership.
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Ted Cruz Introduces Legislation To Completely Defund
Obamacare by Tim Brown
On
Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced legislation in the Senate that
would completely defund the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. He wasn’t alone
in proposing the legislation either. The bill has 19 co-sponsors, all
Republicans, including RINOs. Amazingly simple, the Defund Obamacare Act of
2013 is only 2 pages.
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Obama spending $650 million on shorelines - Prepping for
'climate change' floods everywhere but in U.S. - Steve Peacock
The
Obama administration wants to spend as much $650 million to improve urban- and
local-government service delivery, which includes the development of strategies
to adapt to climate change and respond to natural disasters. The
endeavor will target cities and towns around the globe – with the exception of
those in the United States. Many coastal cities around the world are
ill-prepared to deal with rising sea levels and extreme weather events that the
administration expects from “climate change.” The Helping Access Basic
Infrastructure Technical Assistance and Training, or HABITAT, initiative
therefore hopes to improve the ability of such places to withstand flooding,
earthquakes and other events. WND
revealed HABITAT in a report last year, when the U.S. Agency for International
Development released a pre-solicitation notice containing limited information
about the program, which it had not yet officially launched.
Within
months, Hurricane Sandy battered municipalities along the U.S. Eastern
seaboard, causing an estimated $50 billion damages, primarily in the New York
City metropolitan area. USAID for unstated reasons delayed releasing a detailed
Request for Proposals from interested contractors until this week. WND located
the RFP, which is dated July 8, through routine database research. The RFP
claims that cities are responsible for producing about 78 percent of
“greenhouse gas emissions.” Consequently, the 600 million people who live fewer
than 10 meters above sea level – 360 million of whom live in cities – are “highly
susceptible to the risks posed by climate change, including flooding, storm
surges, and rises in sea levels.” In light of the rapid urbanization of the
globe, the U.S. must step in to help, USAID contends. "Urban areas must
become better prepared for disasters before they strike and to rebuild stronger
and smarter after a disaster,” the agency says in the RFP.
“Urban
areas need to be able to identify risks are prepare action plans towards
mitigating those risks and providing safer places to live and work.”
HABITAT
is the most recent metamorphosis of similar programs that existed under
President Bill Clinton and continued with President George W. Bush. President
Obama, through USAID, has more than doubled the cost of previous endeavors.
The
contract ceiling for the Sustainable Urban Management II, or SUM II initiative
– HABITAT’s predecessor program under Bush – had been set at $300 million over
five years. Unlike HABITAT under Obama – which delayed release of the RFP for
one week short of a full calendar year – availability of the SUM II RFP came
within days of the initial pre-solicitation notice. Recently obtained
procurement documents do not provide an estimated total cost of related
Clinton-era programs, such as Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade/Urban
Programs, or EGAT/UP, and those falling under the Making Cities Work strategy.
HABITAT
over the next five years is scheduled to award contracts for individual work
orders ranging from $1 million to $5 million each, capped at a $650 million
total. And you thought we were broke!
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