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* Don't depend on the MSM to do their job * * * *You are invited [email protected]<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slick_eZine/post?postID=7UJCxW0NBtJM4OzKh4p6gxsH79qbbF_F5SPU_F_DElqL6lmMpFgPjYCJ78yTus_ku-Preuu0w-bPYN3unYuHSQ1m0tJsc1sCiRb0IXhnNA> ** or check the archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SLick_Ezine/messages * * * *From the Home of Rich & Peggy Martin* *“Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey...” Pat Buchanan** **_________________________________ * ** *RICHS RANTS - Czars* * * Seems to me we know precious little about Obama’s czars, except that they report directly to the POTUS. Depending who you believe, the US now has somewhere between 16 and 23 czars now. I’ve heard numbers in the 40’s and more being added all the time. Only one I know is that 31-year-old running Chrysler and Govt Motors who admits knowing nothing about car making. I do know they created another car czar to help him, maybe to run the finance side. Or maybe to replace him. Why else would they tell US about his lack of experience when we know nothing about the guys running the banks, natural resources, the environment, etc. At first glance, you gotta think, so what? That makes sense. The prez needs people to carry out his policies. True, but isn’t that the job of the President’s cabinet? Why do we need a czar of banking and a Secty of Treasury? Or 2 czars of the automakers and a Secty of Commerce? And even then, who has the power to create the position, determine duties, salary, etc? And correct me if I’m wrong, how can he delegate authority he does not, as president, have! And what about these envoys doing the job traditionally the responsibility of the Secty of State? How many envoys are reporting to the prez? Any reporting to the Secty of State? Or, Congress? Who knows? Who cares? What about the czar of Health care in charge of “end of life decisions”? Care about that? In the good old days, when the Constitution was in effect, Congress had to vote to create czar/envoy positions, responsibilities, compensation, etc., and like Cabinet members, they had to be ratified by the Senate. I guess the 1st happened under the radar of transparency. And Sen Robert Byrd was the lone voice heard on the Hill saying, czars should go thru the Senate ratification process. Well, so much for the Constitution and the USA. I think this really does come under who cares, but there’s another factor to be acutely aware. If you look at the Organizational Chart of a large corp you will see the CEO with 3 to 5 VPs/Officers reporting to him; then several more positions reporting to each of them. The person with the most people reporting to him is at the bottom of the pyramid, a foreman, maybe, directing 25 workers. This is pretty typical in all corps and agencies. The bigger the corp, the more layers of management personnel, but the several tiers at the top do not change much. The number of people reporting directly to the CEO remains the same not more than 5 for a very good reason. The decisions made at the top level are more complicated and time consuming than at the lower levels. The ideal is 3 to 5. Here’s the point I’m trying to make. There’s no way in hell’s half acre there are dozens of czars reporting directly to the POTUS along side the Press Secty and his Cabinet. ThIs just isn’t feasible. There must be another layer of govt that these czars report to, not the president as they claim. To do otherwise, the prez would not have time to have a beer with an old friend from Harvard, meet with the unions bosses every week, give weekly parties for the press, read a teleprompter or take his wife on a date Friday nights. * * *A shadow govt is running our country.* * * * * *I have a granddaughter I’m as proud as hell of. She recently passed the bar after attending a nationally known East Coast Univ and Law School . She was visiting us recently and we were talking of all things--believe it or not---politics. We started to discuss the Birth Certificate issue when she said, “grampa, haven’t you ever heard of case law.”*** * * *Harvard prof goes ballistic on Cambridge cop* The POTUS’s prejudices came into question last week when he chose to defend a black friend in Cambridge on natl TV without caring about the facts. After the truth came out, they “solved” the problem by lifting a few bruskies. The MSM acted like they were reporting an NBA game, “no harm, no foul.” They refuse to see the obvious. Coming down on the “stupid” cops like he did is bigotry, “straight up”, as a certain Hollywood soft-headed twit said. There’s one more thing about Mass that the loud mouth president seems not to have been taught while attending Harvard. Once upon a time, not too awful long ago, the state was lily white. The pols started believing their own civil rights rhetoric and decided they needed to save the poor blacks trapped in those evil Southern states. The guvs wife orchestrated convoys of buses to transport these poor people to Boston , thus proving she (and hubby) weren’t prejudice. With the help of the USG, they arranged housing and supported them on welfare and made them eligible for MedicAid. Pretty good deal. I’ve admitted on these pages before: in my younger idealistic days, I was the Director for Finance at one of the bigger black housing “projects” in the country---37 buildings, including 2 power plants, 1,216 units. It was actually 3 projects in one, Bromley-Heath-Bickford in the Jamica Plain section of town. I only got jumped once while on the way to work. The other time…nah…this isn’t about me. I know only the fedl dept of fedl civil rights or something is supposed to ask this question, but: exactly how many of the czars are black. Do they reflect the population they serve. Unlike the guy referred to above, I’d like to know the facts before I jump to any conclusion. Actually, I couldn’t care less about the color of their skin. My point. A person reading the above paragraph could easily jump to the conclusions that I’m racist---in which case, you were as wrong as BHO. By the way, I’ll bet a lot of readers applaud the Dem’s effort in saving those poor black families from a life of poverty. Well, they’d be wrong too. Gov Peabody was a Republican. But you say, it was the POTUS that should get the credit, not the guv. Well, the president was a guy named Richard Nixon. You may have heard of him. And that place I worked with a million dollar budget, that was a 5-yr Nixon program too. It worked this way. The public housing project was turned over to the residents who voted for a Board who hired an Executive Director who hired the staff. After 5 yrs of success, it was canceled with the guy who gave them the plan that would have saved the housing projects later torn down. *Question(s) of the week* Does it make any sense for tax payers to subsidize new car buyers to the tune thousands of dollars who can afford to buy new autos costing tens of thousands? All they have to do is turn their old car in to be melted down and shipped to the other side of the planet where it will be used to make things to sell to US? Our junk yards are filled with “clunkers” stripped of their usable parts. To tell the truth, a new car never made it to the top of my list of wants/needs, but now I wonder how long will it be legal to drive my 1996 Pathfinder even if I do find replacement parts. They are destroying perfectly good vehicles which is in fact, negative production. This is insane. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124903908261696593.html Assuming our ring masters aren’t as dumb as a box of rocks, what do you think their ulterior motives might really be? *PRICE OF OIL* After the price of oil was driven up to $160/bbl+ by speculators Goldman Sachs and friends, it fell to $30/bbl last year before rebounding to $60/bbl this year. These big companies, like Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil, Citi-Groups, Bank of America, American & United Airlines and other “too big to fail” corps, need to be broken up under the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws because they pose an unacceptable risk to the economy and we have come to learn that the USA isn’t so big it can’t fail. *ILLEGALS*** Don’t think for a minute that our shadow govt doesn’t plan to erase our southern border. It’s just a question of when. Laws are only being only enforced Vs employers, not the illegals. *OBAMACARE* Tx Gov Rick Perry says he will consider invoking states rights protection under the 10th Amendment of the constitution if the progressive democrat’s socialized medicine bill is passed and signed by Obama because it would be disastrous for the state. Duh. *TEXAS GOVERNOR RACE* Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison’s, by far the most popular politician in TX, on-again, off-again, campaign for Gov, is on for real. Unlike Barack, Joe, John, etal, she has announced she will resign her Senate seat and forgo her fedl salary while campaigning. I never remember a sitting Senator running for gov before, have you? First thought, she wants to husband the NAFTA Super Hwy thru Texas because the Hutchison Family’s Zachary Concrete has the concrete contract with Cintras---but wouldn’t it be a kick in the butt if after she quits the younger Gov Rick Perry appoints himself Senator of Texas.?!!! *F- 35 Lighning II* The 9th F-35 proto type rolled off the assembly line. It is the first F-35C, the Navy version designed to land and take off from an aircraft carrier. It’s expected to take it’s first flight later this year. A Rolls Royce engine is being considered as an option*. * *F-22 Raptor* Congress removed 12 additional F-22’s from Natl Defense Bill. 8,100 employees shot down. Fleet to stand at 187 fighters. * * *BELL** HELICOPTER*** *Defense giant Textron named John Garrison to be Bell Helicopters new CEO. 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