As the A.F.L.-C.I.O. prepares to endorse President
Obama on Tuesday, labor leaders say they will mount their biggest campaign effort, with far more union members than ever before — at least 400,000, they say — knocking on voters’ doors to counter the well-endowed “super PACs” backing Republicans. Trying to make Barack Obama America’s newest founding father.
Link: Labor Leaders Plan to Apply New Clout in Effort for Obama
Remember the Fiskar Karma? It’s the product of an electric sports car company that the Obama administration gave a $529 million loan guarantee to. Not only did it not create jobs in this country, but the one delivered to Consumer Reports locked up after 180 miles. Had to be towed.
So we subsidize a car company whose target market is “millionaires and billionaires.” Then we give them $7,500 more of our tax dollars to incentivize them to buy it. All that from the guy that calls himself a ‘warrior for the middle class.’
There is a consistency to be concerned about when it comes to ‘green investments’ by the government. The companies either fail, go bankrupt, send jobs overseas, any two, or all three.
Such a great job Obama is doing on this green energy front. What else could he possibly do?
Whether from ignoring illegal immigration, as is the official position of the Obama administration with their Mexican Dream Act, or by an open border agreement in the EU, the problems remain the same. No assimilation, and overloading of support systems.
A wave of immigrants who began arriving in Italy and southern Europe following the Arab Spring last year has put the 27-year-old zone under unprecedented pressure. French president Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday threatened to wreck the European free travel zone unless there is a new pact to cut down on illegal immigration.
Link: France could quit EU open borders deal because of illegal immigration, warns Sarkozy
Not to beat a dead horse to death or anything, but there’s one more little diddy about Carbonite CEO David Friend’s political leaning.
Which pretty much explains why Carbonite still advertises on the Ed Shultz show.
Never missing an opportunity to prolong our dependence on foreign oil, and high gas prices, President Obama lobbied the Democrat controlled Senate to oppose a bill that would, if passed, be the start of the Keystone Pipeline project with our Canadian neighbors.
The message to the president was clear. There is majority bi-partisan support for the pipeline. The senate voted for it 56-42. But because the Senate rules required 60 votes for passage, it was defeated.
In all, 11 Democrats joined 45 Republicans to support the pipeline. Only the fact that 60 votes were needed for passage saved the White House from an embarrassing defeat.
How does a president justify turning down a project that would build a measure of energy independence and energy infrastructure and lower gas prices?
How does a president justify turning down a project that would create 20,000 jobs now, and over 140,000 jobs once complete? Union jobs in fact. (Big Labor supports the pipeline.)
Today it’s out. President Obama doesn’t want jobs if they have anything to do with the oil industry. He doesn’t want energy infrastructure improvements nor any oil from Canada to come to our refineries and our ports. He made that known today.
President Obama finally gave us his blueprint for the nation’s energy future, beginning today apparently. He told us that oil is the energy of the past.
Oh really? Here’s what the United States Energy Information Administration has to say about it.
EIA projects that most petroleum-based and non-petroleum based liquid fuels — including those derived from fuels such as coal, biomass, and natural gas — will continue to be used for transportation over the next two decades.
Who at the EIA is going to update President Obama on this?
I read the statement from your CEO, Mr. David Friend about dropping advertising from the Rush Limbaugh radio show. It is obvious to me that his statement was based on what the Media Matters (or similarly minded leftists) folks have told him.
Two things I’d like Mr. Friend to know. I originally bought Carbonite from Rush’s website, based on his recommendation.
Now that I see you have succumbed to the Left-wing blogosphere that can pump out several hundred thousand emails to threaten advertisers of conservatives they don’t like, I have disabled Carbonite and wish to cancel my subscription and request a refund for all of the 346 unused days remaining.
Following Mr. Friend’s actions and his longing for ‘a more civilized public discourse,’ he may be surprised to see that, taken to its logical conclusion, he is contributing to shutting down speech. He can advertise somewhere else if he wants. And I can get my online backup somewhere else too!
Looking forward to a speedy resolution and refund.
Above is what I sent to Carbonite’s customer service department. Your mileage may vary.
Did you happen to see the 30 yr old college (over $40,000/yr) student confess in front of a bunch of Nancy Pelosi news cameras, that she is so sexually active that she is going broke over her cost for contraceptives. It’s so bad, she said she spends $1,000/yr. for her contraception needs.
As unbelievable as that may sound, I mean, condoms are free for the asking at the county health department, Planned Parenthood, and anywhere else. And I’m told that a month’s supply of birth control pills is $5 at Wal-Mart.
So no! This isn’t about the cost or availability of contraceptives. This is about an ever-growing government dictating to insurance companies what insurance companies must cover, if not give away. You remember seeing that power granted the federal government in the Constitution, don’t you?
It also represents the next entitlement program coming out of The White House.
The problem with this whole made-up controversy, well, aside from it being a 
made-up controversy, is that its intent is to make women fear Republicans. You know, scare them onto the Democratic plantation. Says a lot about their character doesn’t it? It’s what community organizers do.
I’ve got the solution to this problem. It is, by nature, the conservative alternative relative to this issue. Rather than heaping on more government, and smaller everything else, the conservative alternative would solve the problem. And do it totally in the private sector. And it requires no government money-laundering bureaucracy to run it.
Three words, ‘bring your protection.’
Those three words alone can save that women $1,000 a year. Which might be well spent in counselling. Doesn’t say much for the success of the Women’s Movement. Be your own woman. Responsible for your own self. Now we have a 30 yr. old whining for the government (you and me via our taxes) to force private companies and religious institutions to do something that they may not want to do, that is free or practically free anywhere else.