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No Rescue for the Hungry

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:43:58 PM
The Washington Post today published an article No Rescue for the Hungry.  Here is my response to it.

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No Rescue For the Hungry

It should be unthinkable to look the other way as tens of millions of low-income Americans go without food or shelter.
 - 

By Joel Berg

 
Comments
jace1 wrote:
My daughter works for a food bank so I have a little insight into this problem. 
Yes the USDA food comes into the food banks and is still coming in. USDA is meant to be a supplement.  
No Food Pantry can run on USDA food alone that is stated in the USDA food manual.  
With the recent passing of the Farm Bill act the amount of funding to USDA was raised from $180 million to $250 million this year.  
Even with the increase of USDA Food, food banks are still dependent on local donations. 
The Food Banks are running short of food. In-fact the food bank where my daughter works closed one of it's satellite offices last week.

First one must understand a few things about a food bank and who they serve.

The churches, soup kitchens and various other programs in your area come to the food bank to purchase food for their work. 
The food is not free but at a greatly discounted price to agencies and given free to those in need.
Rarely do individual people receive food at the food bank when they call they are directed to the Churches and Salvation Army 
(also a purchaser at the food banks) to have their needs met.
My daughter and other members of the food bank where my daughter works has at times delivered food directly to a family in need 
when other agencies were closed. 

The bulk of the food at any food bank has always been from donations from corporations and individuals like each of us. 
Food banks do food drives and collect money to purchase food in bulk at a discount price.

So it is wrong to claim that the decline in federal funding for food bank's use is the only problem with the shortage.

Corporations are cutting back in their contributions and individuals well a large majority do not care.

The writer of this article would have better served all of humanity had they taken the time to understand how a food bank 
operates and simply said. Times are tough for all of us, there are others in need, one day it may be you. 
People get involved. Do not expect the federal government to do it all and do not write about a problem simply for political gain. 
All the writer of this article has shown me is that they are part of the problem not part of the solution.

I feel we may all be saying in the future BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME.
Look in your local grocery store do they have a bin for food to go to the food bank? 
Call your local food bank they are in the phone book. Find out where food drives are happening and contribute.
You know even a can of tomato soup is a G-d send to a hungry person and one day you may just find that out for yourself. 
You would be surprised just how much a dollar will buy when give to a food bank instead of you purchasing a dollars worth of food.
9/28/2008 1:10:47 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603265.html

It should be pointed out that during the debate when asked witch programs each candidate would cut out 
John McCain spoke of a spending freeze. Obama still wants to make you think his campaign of 
wonderful programs will still take place by just cutting out a few items here and there.

Goodness with a $700 billion dollar bailout and the government is not sure that will stop the slide.
Who do you think is more realistic in looking at the future?  
When you make your own budget do you not freeze your spending and
realize the vacation you were going to take is not now something you can do if you want to pay your bills 
and keep a house over your head.

Think about that when you go to the voting booth.

Dreams are one thing reality is quite another.

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Video Obama Supporters Don't Want You to See

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:41:28 AM
My goodness it seams we have upset some of the Obama supporters with this video so let's do some more sharing. Shall we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o

And just so they will have another shock. The following video is from Missouri.
Such a nice title: Obama campaign cracks down on misleading TV Ads

http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1

Of course the Gov. of Missouri was not to happy so he issued this statement.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Contact: Jessica Robinson, 573-751-0290

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson . I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson ’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”


The web page for the above is: http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem

Feel free to pass on the information or direct others to this blog.
Thank you
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Just what the Heck is going on here? Obama and Buffett

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:04:29 AM
The Washington Post had an article on Sept 23, 2008 titled Buffett to Invest $5 Billion in Goldman

It Stated:  Billionaire investor Warrne E. Buffett will pump at least $5 billion into Goldman Sachs, restructured this 
week as a bank-holding company, as the firm tries to quell concern about its access to financing, 
Goldman Sachs announced Tuesday.

I had been wondering why most of the articles in the Washington Post 
were pro Obama and very negative towards John McCain.

Here is my response to the above cited article.

Now is this not interesting Mr. Buffett has 10% of the Washington Post.
And in the Washington Post today two articles: 
Economic Fears give Obama Clear Lead over McCain in Poll and Democrats on Hill Speak as One.

Not a major surprise as the Washington Post and ABC report about Obama the same way and then 
you poll your readers and listeners.  Kind of like stacking the deck would you not say?

Guess we should see just exactly what they have been doing seeing as they speak as one.

The Democrat majority in the U.S. Congress, led by Sen. Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, 
has completely failed in their oversight, responsibliities and in their responsibilities to the American Taxpayer.  
They blocked GSE reform for years and it is clear now that the most recent Dodd-Frank housing bill 
simply made matters worse.

The web address I copied the above from at Scott Trade is no longer there.

Last weekend, empowered by the Dodd Frank bill, the Dept of Treasury moved to place 
the quasi-private mortgage lending giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack into federal "conservatorship."  
the treasury plain contains no structural reform and actually expands Freddie and Fannie lending and 
underwriting activity through 2009.  Taxpayers will eventually be directly responsible for GSE losses.

The web address I copied once again from Scott Trade is no longer there.

For years, while Fannie and Freddie and other financial institutions were buying favor and cover 
on the hill through campaign contributions, and making multimillionaires out of politicians 
and their friends, few people cared, because they didn't see how it could affect them.  
Now they know.  Now the american public should demand that politicians like Cris Dodd, 
Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer explain, under penalty of perjury, 
why they protected these "house-of-cards."

The web address I copied once again from Scott Trade is no longer there.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett himself had a soft spot for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 
or Freddie Mac, to the degree that he recommended it as Americas Safest and most profitable company. 

The web address I copied once again from Scott Trade is no longer there.

Mr. Buffett is a friend of Obama's from Obama's 2005 Senate Web page is the following:

http://obama.senate.gov/news/051121-obamas_national/

Obama Supporter Buffett just today is reported to have stepped up to the plate 
to help out Goldman Sach.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pld=20601087&sld=aH9olSJHVEvl&refer=home

And the article here in the Washington Post I am now replying to tell us that Buffett owns 
10% of the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302487_Comments.html

Just so you are aware Goldman Sach is the biggest financial bank contributor Obama has.

http://opensecerets.org/news/2008/09/bundlers-for-mccain-obama-are.html

You might note in the above link is a statement on how Obama is not very forthcoming 
in reveling who the people are that are contributing to his campaign.  
And further investigation and comparison of funds from each candidate will revel that Obama has
been receiving the Lions share of contributions from financial institutions.
Obama supporters just a note when you post contributions to McCains campaign on blogs 
remember to compare them to what Obama has received from the same people 
the honesty would be refreshing.

It may come as some comfort to us the taxpayer that the FBI is investigating the companies 
at the heart of the meltdown.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080924/D93CP7MG0.html

The unfortunate part of this is that an investigation by the FBI will not be fully known until after the election.  
Should Obama be elected I worry that Obama and his administration would shut it down.

So I now ask the Washington Post and ABC news are you by your bias reporting trying to aid 
the Obama campaign in getting elected so the American taxpayer can continue to be fleeced?

Any taxpayer who is tired of having only one side of events reported should let others know 
the other side of the coin.
Obviously connecting the dots and doing research is beyond 
some of the newspapers and media in this country.
Here ends my post to the Washington Post.

In an effort to check that all of the web pages I posted when I wrote the above blog post were accurate 
and still there I went to my bookmarks and also retyped in the addresses from my post that I had cited.  
Being new to blogging I was surprised that the information was no longer there.
I do not wish to imply that Scott Trade has removed it.  
I just find it Odd as other links I have bookmarked are still working.
My use of web links is to show the accuracy of the information I am quoteing.











 




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How Fannie and You bought a Hapless House

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:10:33 AM
The title for this is from a Washington Post article today.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702587_Comments.html
Here is my response:
jace1 wrote:
Let's see as we the taxpayers are now co-owners can we now get a lawyer and sue a few people?
I know a few I would like to have answers from.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_acorn_obama_knows.html
And for some more of the crowd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086379/posts
And let's not forget the ones in Congress right now trying to sneak in more funding for Acorn.
Pelosi, Reid and Frank to name a few.
The truth of how we got here really needs to be put out for public display before this election is decided.
9/28/2008 8:04:33 AM


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Outragous

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:49:46 AM
I have been following other blogs for the past month and posting to them.  
Being new to this form of communication I hope those who come to this blog might be interested 
in some of the comments I have posted previously on other blogs.  
At times it is hard to see a pattern in events and follow a time line when so much is being thrown out 
for consumption.  By posting here my various responses to information 
that has appeared daily I hope to do the following:

1.  Show the information I have gathered.

2.  Show how I connected the dots so to say and reached my conclusion.

On Monday September 22, 2008  I posted this response to an article in the Washington Post.

Obama's ideas are just the same policies he has been peddling in his speeches for months.  
Pelosi has taken up the call in Congress to earmark on to the package 
many of Obama's campaign promises.
Pelosi and her crew are going to try to hang another $50 billion on to what will be possibly 
a $1 trillion dollar taxpayer bailout.

Obama's ideas include a $1000.00 rebate to taxpayers (I feel it is a bribe) and loans to top auto makers to retool.  
I feel this is another bribe to win over the voters in battle ground states.  
All done under the guise of helping the middle class out.

The Secretary of the Treasury is working on stabilizing the financial markets here.  
Not Christmas presents for the Democratic party at the taxpayers expense.

Had Congress been doing it's job in 2003 and 2006 we might not be in the mess we are in now.  
Warning bells were sounded but some people were to busy stuffing their pocket to do anything.

John McCain's warning from May 2006 on the Congressional Record can be found at the following:
http://www.gov.track.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-168&bill=s109-190


In 2003 when a new agency was proposed to oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Barney Frank 
of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee stated the following:

"These two entities--Fannie Mae an Freddie Mac--are not facing any kind of financial crisis,  the more 
people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see 
in terms of affordable housing."

Touting the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for the current economic crisis 
and pinning it all on Gramm is beyond silly.

Let's look at this.

Please use this web link to view the bill:  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s106-900

Note first the name of the Bill S. 900 (106th): Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Note next the Sponsor, Sen. Phil Gramm. Being the sponsor does not imply that 
was the only person who authored the bill look back at names of the bill for that information.

Gramm may be credited with this bill but let's look a little deeper into who Obama 
is not speaking about when he points the finger solely Mr. Gramm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act#Congressional_history_of_the_Act

Congressional history of the Act

The bills were introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and 

in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA). 

The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote along party lines with Republican support 

in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives. 

Nov 4, 1999: After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved 

to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. 

The final bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90-8-1 

and in the House: 362-57-15. 

This veto proof legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999[1]


Please note the name of Jim Leach,  who is this man 

and what is his connection to the Obama Campaign?


Well with Mr. Leach's name on the bill it looks like he is a co-author.  
Mr. Leach is also the Leader of Republicans for Obama I do believe when we look into this 
we will remember he had a speaking part at Obama's recent convention.

Now let's look at a Mr. Larry Summers, now an Obama Advisor on economic affairs.  
Mr. Summer's was Clintons Treasury Secretary and on the day of the bills signing had this to say.

"Let me welcome you all here today for the signing of this historic legislation.  
With this bill, the American financial system takes a major step forward towards the 21st century, 
one that will benefit American Consumers, businesses, and the national economy for many years
to come."

Mr. Summers's also said on that day in November 1999.
" And I want to thank especially my predecessor, Bob Rubin, who cared deeply that we get this bill right."

I do believe that Obama has more then a few economic advisors behind him involved 
in this mess we now have.
Mr. Rubin is also one of his advisors on economic policy.

Robert Rubin, supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, and lobbied for 
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act became law at the urging 
of Mr. Rubin to former President to sign it.

And let's not forget that this bill passed the Senate with a vote of 90 to 8. 
Joe Biden, Obama's VP pick voted for the bill.

Perhaps we could say that it is dishonorable for Obama to point the finger only at Mr. Gramm 
when so many on his present staff were so fully involved in the process.

It looks like Obama is trying to rewrite the history of how this financial mess came about 
and he claims McCain plays fast and loose with facts.
You be the judge.

This morning 9/28/08 while checking to make sure I was accurate 
I ran across the following that will be of interest. 
Others have been connecting the dots like I have.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086379/posts









 
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Obama and Acorn

Posted by Jace on Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:46:25 AM
Last week I did some research on Acorn and Obama. 
Interestingly when I just now went to the web sites I had visited last week that were Acorns own sites that had promo pictures of Obama with people in the community I could no longer get to the articles. It appears they may have taken it off the web.
I suppose it is in advance of the anger most of us are feeling about the 20% of funds recovered from the sale of assets bought from the $700 billion bailout going to the group in stead of all of the money being returned to the treasury. The following is a link about Acorn and it's connection to Obama. Even thought Acorn.org appears to be cleaning up others have reported the connection. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_acorn_obama_knows.html Another interesting tidbit I came across is what has been going on in Missouri.  
It appears that Obama's campaign is trying to block ad's they feel are lies or misleading and tried to use a Missouri law to enforce blocking them. 
A link to the News video that reported it and the response by the Gov. of Missouri are listed below. http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1 http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem Obama should be exposed as to his ties to Acorn, Fannie and Freddie and what I feel is a suppression of Freedom of Speech. I heard Pelosi speak yesterday she is no longer calling this a Rescue Bill she is calling it Bush's Rescue Bill. McCain by going back to Washington has done several things.
1. Shined the light on Congress and drawn the American Publics attention to this bill. 2. Gotten the Republicans in the House a seat at the table. Pelosi is now trying to say now that the Republicans boycotted the meeting earlier in the week and were unpatriotic by doing so. Unfortunately for Pelosi, she and the others who wrote the first draft of the bill ignored them. Now the inclusion of earmarks like Acorn are being exposed and hopefully stripped off. 3. Some in the media are now reporting what is happening and the time line involved, this exposure is not making the Democrats happy. McCain is doing more for this country by working the phones in Washington then being on the campaign trail. Obama is trying to draw him back on the trail because he wants to move the focus away from what is happening in Washington. Obama should not be able to tap dance to the election.
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