Thursday, January 26, 2017

GEORGE WASHINGTON SHOWED US HOW MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE WALL!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
GEORGE WASHINGTON SHOWED US HOW MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE WALL!
I don’t think the majority of Americans understand investing and financing, but to a lot of Americans that’s not their main responsibility and chosen path in life. Working hard, paying the bills, putting food on the table, and doing their best to provide, and max out every opportunity to aid and assist their children to succeed in life, is what the main focus is, and should be. 
Once in a while Americans get a little taste of how finances works, and if you ever bought a car, bought a house, paid for your children’s college, and had a credit card, you are dabbling in the world of finance. So, what’s my point, and where am I going with this you’re probably asking yourself, and what does George Washington have to do with anything, let alone the wall being built?
In 2006, These Democrats Still in Office Voted to Build a Wall, but I guess what’s out of sight, thanks to ‘Agenda Journalism,’ is out of mind!
Democrats are already grumbling about Donald Trump’s proposed border wall though Barack Obama and other leaders in their party, but not so long ago they all voted for George W. Bush’s proposal to build a major wall on the border with Mexico.
Bush signed the proposal into law in 2006 after it was passed by huge bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate.
The law ordered the Department of Homeland Security to construct about 700 miles of fencing along the southern border, and authorized the addition of lights and cameras and sensors to enhance security. The law explicitly required the wall to be constructed of “at least two layers of reinforced fencing.”
Two-thirds of the Republican-led House approved the bill, including 64 Democrats, and 80 of 100 senators approved the bill in the Senate.
Then-Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton were among the 26 Democrats who approved the bill. Supporters also included Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is set to take over leadership of the Senate for Democrats in 2016.
Other Democrats in the Senate who voted for the wall in 2006 are Sens. Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio—then in the House), Tom Carper (Del.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Barbara Mikulski (Md.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), and Ron Wyden (Ore.).
There are also a number of Democrat representatives still in the House who voted for the bill: Sanford Bishop (Ga.), Corrine Brown (Fla.), Michael Capuano (Mass.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Jim Costa (Calif.), Peter DeFazio (Ore.), Steve Israel (N.Y.), Ron Kind (Wis.), Daniel Lipinski (Ill.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Bill Pascrell Jr. (N.J.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.), Tim Ryan (Ohio), and Adam Smith (Wash.).
Former Democrat Rep. Barney Frank and now-disgraced former Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner also voted for the bill.
Bush signed the bill into law Oct. 26, 2006. “This bill will help protect the American people,” he said. “This bill will make our borders more secure.” ~~By Rachel Stoltzfoos, a Friend of America!
But nearly a decade later, DHS has built only 35.6 miles of the double-layered fencing. That’s because a ‘Democrat-controlled’ Congress later amended the law to allow DHS officials to build whatever sort of barrier they deemed appropriate! Doesn’t this remind you how monies, like the funded by the American people Social Security piggy bank was robbed of some 5 Trillion dollars, and left us a vault I.O.U’. s? ~~
Barack Obama, in 2009 came up with ‘The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’ aimed to create or save about 3.5 million jobs, many of which will come from transportation, environmental, broadband and other infrastructure projects. But despite the president's early efforts to win bipartisan support for the plan, it failed to win the backing of a single House Republican, and only three moderate Republicans voted for it in the Senate.
The measure won approval in the Senate by a vote of 60-38. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown cast the decisive vote after flying back to Washington aboard a government plane from his home state of Ohio, where he was mourning his mother's death. GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama's former rival for the White House, decried what he saw as the lack of bipartisanship in the legislation.
"We want to work together with the other side," McCain said. "And this is not the example that I think the American people want us to exercise."
The House passed the measure earlier Friday on a 246-183 vote with no Republican support. Seven Democrats also voted against the package, and one Democrat voted present.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the bill is an investment in the nation's success. "By investing in new jobs, in science and innovation, in energy, in education ... we are investing in the American people, which is the best guarantee of the success of our nation," she said.
But not everyone agreed. "This legislation falls woefully short," said House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio. "With a price tag of more than $1 trillion when you factor in interest, it costs every family almost $10,000 in added debt. This is an act of generational theft that our children and grandchildren will be paying for far into the future."
The Congressional Budget Office said the compromise package would cost $787.2 billion, slightly less than the $789 billion lawmakers had earlier estimated.
White House and congressional negotiators worked quickly to reach a compromise on competing versions of the legislation, putting them on track to meet Obama's goal of signing the bill into law by Presidents Day. 
Speaking to a group of business leaders at the White House, Obama said the economic downturn has brought opportunities, as well as hardships.
"We have a once-in-a-generation chance to act boldly and turn adversity into opportunity, and to use this crisis as a chance to transform this economy for the 21st century," Obama said.
Obama said support from the business community and organized labor paved the way for the bill's quick passage. He has spent much of the week building support for the stimulus plan, a component of his strategy for lifting the country out of recession.
"Once Congress passes this plan and I sign it into law, a new wave of innovation, activity and construction will be unleashed all across America," Obama told a crowd in East Peoria, Ill., where he visited a Caterpillar equipment plant on Thursday. "Rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our dangerous dams and levees so we don't face another Katrina — think about all the work out there to be done — and Caterpillar will be selling the equipment that does the work."
The legislation, more than 1,000 pages long, was posted on the House Rules Committee Web site late Thursday. About 65 percent of the money usages measure goes toward spending, while about 35 percent goes toward tax cuts, including:
• $27.5 billion for highway projects
• $340 million for watershed and flood-prevention operations and watershed rehabilitation
• $2.5 billion for distance learning, telemedicine and broadband programs
• $150 million for economic development assistance programs
• $4.7 billion for a broadband technology opportunities program
• $6 billion for local clean water initiatives
• $21 billion to aid laid-off workers with employer-provided health insurance through COBRA
• $53.6 billion to help states deal with budget deficits
• $36.2 billion for energy spending
• $19.9 billion for aid to poor families
• a tax credit of up to $400 for low- and middle-income individuals and $800 for families
• a one-time payment of $250 to recipients of Social Security and government disability
Meanwhile, Obama economics adviser Lawrence Summers warned the public against thinking the plan would be a quick fix for the nation's ailing economy.
"We're not promising some silver bullet for the economy," Summers said in an interview Friday on NBC. "Indeed, what really is very important about President Obama's approach is his commitment to working this through step by step in its many aspects." ~~By Deborah Tedford, a Friend of America!
SO, WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE BIG BUCKS THAT WERE SPENT BY A CLUELESS NON-BUSINESSMAN IDEOLOGUE WHO DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE WHAT IT TOOK TO BUILD AMERICA’S ECONOMY?
The 10 Most Outrageous Stimulus Projects!
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Commonly known as the stimulus, the nearly $1 trillion law was hailed as an opportunity to bring America into the “21st century.”
Just two years after the bill was signed into law, President Barack Obama admitted, “shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.” While the law failed to create jobs as promised, it has provided plenty of examples of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Five years and at least $816.3 billion later, here are 10 ways the government wasted taxpayer money. (Countdown)
10) $1.3 Million for Stimulus Highway Signs
9) $152K to Get Lesbians Ready for ‘Adoptive Parenthood’
8) $600,000 to Plant Trees in Wealthy Neighborhoods
7) $384,949 Study of Duck Penises
6) $1.2 Million Study of Erectile Dysfunction in Overweight Men
5) $100,000 Anti-Capitalist Puppet Shows
4) $389,357 for College Students to Keep a Diary of Their Marijuana and Malt Liquor Use
3) $3.4 Million Turtle Tunnel
2) $8,408 Study to See if Mice Get Drunk
1) $535 Million on Solyndra
Just two years after receiving $535 million from the stimulus, Solyndra filed for bankruptcy. The company was the first to receive a federal loan guarantee from the stimulus. Solyndra’s biggest investor, George Kaiser, was a bundler for the Obama campaign.
At least four other companies received stimulus money only to later file for bankruptcy, including Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Co., which received $10 million to increase employment, and Evergreen Solar Inc., which received $5.3 million to install 11,000 photovoltaic panels.
LET’S LOOK AT THE OTHER HALF OF THE INSIDER EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER’S FINANCIAL DEALINGS!
CGI Federal, which secured a $678 million ‘no-bid’ contract to build the Obamacare exchange web portal, has come under increased scrutiny for ties between senior executives and the Obama administration following the disastrous rollout of the healthcare website.
Toni Townes-Whitley, a senior vice president at CGI Federal, is a Princeton classmate of First Lady Michelle Obama, the Daily Caller reported. In addition to being college classmates, both Obama and Townes-Whitley are members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
The Examiner reported that visitor logs show that "CGI Federal President Donna Ryan visited the White House six times prior to her company being selected to do the IT design work behind the high-profile website."
 "Two of the meetings attended by CGI executives were with Vivek Kundra, Obama's chief information officer. Kundra was a key figure in Obama administration information technology initiatives across the government," the paper reported.
In addition to the $88 million contract awarded to CGI Federal for the health-insurance exchange website, the company has received a total of $422 million in contracts related to Obamacare since the legislation was signed into law, according to Bloomberg News.
 According to Federal Election Commission Records, Toni Townes-Whitley gave $500 in 2011 and 2012 to Obama's reelection, and another $1,000 to the Obama Victory Fund.
 Close access to the White House was also enjoyed by other senior CGI officials, reports The Washington Examiner.
The Examiner reported that visitor logs show that "CGI Federal President Donna Ryan visited the White House six times prior to her company being selected to do the IT design work behind the high-profile website."
 "Two of the meetings attended by CGI executives were with Vivek Kundra, Obama's chief information officer. Kundra was a key figure in Obama administration information technology initiatives across the government," the paper reported.
In addition to the $88 million contract awarded to CGI Federal for the health-insurance exchange website, the company has received a total of $422 million in contracts related to Obamacare since the legislation was signed into law, according to Bloomberg News.
Fox News reported a number of occasions in which the company had failed to meet deadlines or experienced botched launches similar to that seen with the launch of healthcare.gov.
 "In projects stretching from Canada to Hawaii, parent company CGI Group and its subsidiaries ran into complaints about its performance," Fox reported.
Despite the problems with other projects, the company has been awarded numerous government contracts from other federal departments.
In April, CGI Federal was awarded a five-year contract worth a total of $11 billion from the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard for Technical, Acquisition and Business Support Services (TABSS), according to Washington Executive magazine.
CGI Federal is also assisting the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the distributing of $1.7 billion relief aid for Hurricane Sandy victims, the Daily Caller reported.
In 2012, the company also won contracts worth $15 million with the Environmental Protection Agency and $900 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development to design and operate its IT security operations. ~~By Jennifer G. Hickey, a Friend of America!
GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND THEN MARTHA WASHINGTON WILL HELP EXPLAIN HOW THE ‘WALL’ WILL BE PAID BY MEXICO!
Workers built the six-lane George Washington Bridge in sections. They carried the pieces to the construction site by rail, then hauled them into the river by boat, then hoisted them into place by crane. Though the bridge was gigantic, engineer Othmar Amman had found a way to make it look light and airy: in place of vertical trusses, he used horizontal plate girders in the roadway to keep the bridge Steady. Amman used such strong steel that these plate girders could be relatively thin and as a result, the bridge deck was only 12 feet deep. From a distance, it looked as flimsy as a magic carpet. Meanwhile, thanks to Amman’s sophisticated suspension system, that magic carpet seemed to be floating: The bridge hung from cables made of steel wires–107,000 miles and 28,100 tons of steel wires, to be exact–that were much more delicate-looking than anything anyone had ever seen.
The bridge opened to traffic on October 25, 1931. One year later, it had carried 5 million cars from New York to New Jersey and back again. In 1946, engineers added two lanes to the bridge. In 1958, city officials decided to increase its capacity by 75 percent by adding a six-lane lower level. This deck (the New York Times called it “a masterpiece of traffic engineering,” while other, more waggish observers referred to it as the “Martha Washington”) opened in August 1962.
Today, the George Washington Bridge is one of the world’s busiest bridges. In 2008, it carried some 105,894,000 vehicles.
SO, HOW IS MEXICO PAYING FOR THE WALL?
To finance the George Washington Bridge, the states of New York and New Jersey each advanced $5 million and $50 million in bonds were issued.
'Tolls' were set to pay off the bonds, which would mature serially starting in 1953. It was assumed after paying off the bond holders, the tolls would eventually be reduced or even eliminated. (Hah! Good luck with that Mexico!)
The original toll for passenger automobiles was 50 cents each way. Motorcycles and bicycles were charged 25 cents, and trucks were charged up to one dollar depending upon their weight. A simple bus ride from one end of the bridge to the other cost a dime.
Hmmm…
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