As if we didn’t already know how useless and unnecessary the EPA is, following the government shutdown we saw just how little we really need them. When various government agencies were releasing many of their workers on furlough with lack of funding, the EPA went through its employees and decided which were “essential” and which were “non-essential”.

According to an EPA guidance, which Reuters obtained, the agency said it only had 1,069 of its 16,205 employees listed as “essential”. That is only 6.6 percent of their workforce! This guidance, which is used in the event of a government shutdown, also said that “most workers in the Office of Air and Radiation, which is in charge of writing and implementing most of the EPA’s major air pollution rules,” would be furloughed.

Why is it that we have an agency that could run on less than 7 percent of current staff?

To be clear: the EPA openly admits more than 9 out of every 10 employees at the EPA are non-essential.

Although this government shutdown may not be considered as the greatest way to get through funding differences, perhaps there is a silver lining here.

When agencies are forced to go through their list of employees and whether they are integral to the organization’s work it seems we get quite a sneak peek into how we could gut and cut the government bureaucracy.

Is it just me, or should all employees be essential in order to remain at their jobs?

This could be a good way to go forward with finding places to cut money in the budget.

-Heather Ginsburg

OOPsss….

Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S. averaging $110,000/year.
Their pensions average 80-90% of their income.

Yet Chicago school system is rated one of the worst in the country.

You can’t blame Republicans because there aren’t any!

Wow, are Illinois and Chicago great or what?

Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago .
221 killed in Iraq
AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.

. Here’s the Chicago chain of command:
. President: Barack Hussein Obama
. Senator: Dick Durbin
. House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr. (Resigned)
. Governor: Pat Quinn
. House leader: Mike Madigan
. Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
. Mayor: Rohm Emanuel
. The leadership in Illinois – all Democrats.

. Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .

. Of course, they’re all blaming each other. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .

And he was going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for us???

. George Ryan was Governor but he is in the big house.

. Of course he was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is…also in the big house.

.Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. had to resign because he and his wife are being sent to… the big house.

. The Land of Lincoln , where our former government officials make our license plates.

But you know what? As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does – it’s helping the country go broke every day.

“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him should look at the American Indian.”

WASHINGTON — Two momentous decisions involving the Federal Reserve are coming to a head, with significant implications for the U.S. and global economies.

Janet L. Yellen, a former University of California, Berkeley economist, stands in the middle of both of them.

As vice chair of the central bank, Yellen will take a leading role this week, when policymakers decide whether to start rolling back the Fed’s massive monetary stimulus after several years of providing extraordinary support for the weak economy.

The prospect of an imminent policy shift by the Fed has already shaken financial markets from Brazil to India, marking the end of an era of super-low interest rates.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/14/202170/janet-yellen-at-a-crucial-point.html#.UjcrphaAfS-#storylink=cpy

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‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?”
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,” says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.

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Healthcare costs in the United States are like a tapeworm eating at our economic body.

Those words come from famed investor Warren Buffett, who said he would scrap Obamacare and start all over.

“We have a health system that, in terms of costs, is really out of control,” he added. “And if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So we need something else.”

Buffett insists that without changes to Obamacare average citizens will suffer.

“What we have now is untenable over time,” said Buffett, an early supporter of President Obama. “That kind of a cost compared to the rest of the world is really like a tapeworm eating, you know, at our economic body.”

Buffett does not believe that providing insurance for everyone is the first step to take in correcting our nation’s healthcare system.

“Attack the costs first, and then worry about expanding coverage,” he said. “I would much rather see another plan that really attacks costs. And I think that’s what the American public wants to see. I mean, the American public is not behind this bill.”

Editor’s Note: Even though Buffett opposes Obamacare, the legendary investor knows the government will spend billions making sure Obamacare works. Specific companies will see windfall profits because of this. To see which stocks will benefit most from Obamacare, click here.

Newspapers simply won’t publish letters to the editor which they either
deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they’re pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published;

From:
“David LaBonte”
My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to “print” it myself, in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. They also stood in line for a physical exam to determine if they were eligible to come into the country to work. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people

When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900’s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed)
Rosemary LaBonte

Frances president Holland, who rolled back many of his predecessors budget cutting measures, like raising the retirement age in France from 60 before government benefits, to 62, have been reversed by Holland.

2 Months ago Holland announced “France is Broke” and went to the EU begging for a bailout and was firmly refused. “Holland”, they said, “You are doing things that are driving the job creators and investors out of France. We will not give France a bailout. You need to change your policies”.

Holland went on to push gay marriage, against countless riots, and a 77 year old man protesting by blowing his brains out at the alter of the famous tourist attraction Church of Notre Dame. Undaunted by the financial crisis in France and the EU telling him to chaned his ways, Holland stubbornly pushes his bankrupting agenda to the unsuspecting in France. Like one of the protestors who pinned a sign on the butt of a Jack Ass saying “I too am an ass, I voted for Holland.”

Holland, a true Frenchman, holds firm to his french tradition of wealthy are the wicked and tax the working and create more government handouts, is now proposing to spend 300 million euros more money the already broke French government dosnt have on tax rebates for people who hire? No on creating government handouts to kids who do not have jobs.

Keep in mind, in France, once you hire someone for a job, it is a life contract. If that kid is unstable (i.e., protesting all the time, drunken binges, late to work, not showing up… welcome to France) it could destroy your business and your families livelihood.

This reporter has been in France for sometime, and watched waiters with attitudes drive business away. The sad part is the owner of that business cannot fire them, without paying endless years of unemployment to that youth. The solution? Keep your business small mom and pop shops. And the Americans say, how cute these little boutique shops.

When tourism dropped in Paris in 2008 financial problem, some restaurants owners cut workers hours because there were no customers. The workers responded by kidnaping the owner and holding them hostage until they paid the full amount. The youth and workers do not seem to understand that customers bring in the money needed to pay their wages and keep the store open. They think if you are stupid enough to have a dream, mortgage your home and take out a bank loan to start a business, and especially if you are stupid enough to hire a French kid with the current attitude of entitlement they have, then you are evil and your money is their money, and they will drive customers away to prove a point.

The other French youth that are just beginning their own business are looking to establish it outside of France saying: “Why should I be taxed 75% to pay for people that don’t want to work”.

But Holland, taking the lead from Obama, tax and spend, tax and spend…
This does nothing to develop a sense of pride in working and learning to offer something completive and cater to your clients…

France only has 8 % GDP left to spend until the ship is completely sunk.

During the last 2 months in Paris, there have been no less than 15 riots, 5 strikes for more money?? (where is the money coming from?), one shutting the airport, costing tourists hundreds of thousands of dollars… wonder if those strikers will make up for france, what was and will be lost in tourism revenue as those tourists warn other people not to go?

The Bulgarian children thief’s are out in droves robing many tourists at the ATM’s. Bill Clintons own press secretary lost his credit card, pin number and cash to these children that swarm the tourist. Pick pocketing is rampant. And the police can do nothing. Shop owners are scared for their life’s as these vagabonds, now rampant in France threaten the shop owners lives.

This is because of dropping the borders. All the poverty came into all the prosperity and brought the prosperity down. Today in France if you have money, you are evil and stealing from you is their Job and they have absolutely no remorse. They do not speak the language, they just came because the borders were down, and the tourism was thick..
Happy hunting…

In life guard school they teach you that a panicking swimmer will try to climb up on you, pushing you underwater and thereby drowning you, and they drown anyway…

So a life guard is taught, first to save himself, and not allow the drowning man to take him with him.
Then that life guard can go on to save more people, who will corporate with his instructions.

Unfortunately, Holland and France never went to life guard training school and trying to save everyone, seems to be killing France.