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?
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.
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."
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."
• $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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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