CABPRO Report

Red Waters

By Marc Cuniberti
 
In my humble opinion, there are a handful of politicians in Washington I deem as downright dangerous to the Constitution and the freedoms of our country and one of those is Maxine Waters, self professed liberal and elected Democrat representing  the 35th Congressional District of California.
 
Sworn in way back in 1991 and in office for more then 2 decades through 11 terms, she epitomizes what’s wrong with America and the wrong direction it is headed because of misguided agendas from politicians like her.
 
One needs only to listen to her September 12, 2009 confrontation with a Shell Oil Executive available on UTUBE (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BdKkEKTrs) where she lets slip her real agenda for America by saying “this liberal would be about socializing..(stops herself and babbles for a minute) then says “having government run your companies”.
 
Ms. Waters characterizes our industry as “your companies” in the video and that alone should tell you something about her view of the world.
 
She fails to comprehend many things obviously, but calling our great industry “your companies” polarizes the backbone of America (the worker) against the entity that employs them. America’s companies are “our companies” which no doubt employ many of her constituents as well as supply jobs to thousands of Americans if not tens of thousands as well as meeting America’s much needed energy requirements.
 
Pitting her “final solution” against the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of free enterprise and private property, the precedent moves America ever closer to the very policies our forefathers fled and these same socialistic type polices have proven detrimental to all economies that have adopted them.
 
Has this “liberal” even read the Constitution?
 
Perhaps she has mistaken America for Russia, China, Venezuela or North Korea where nationalizing private enterprise for garnering their profits to further feed the government and its tyrants is acceptable.
 
It's no wonder she thinks private money is for the taking however. She receives a public paycheck and lavish pension which dwarfs any previous employment. This career politician has never run a business and did not work a career in the private sector, a common theme among those trying to tell us businessmen how to run our business.
 
It’s no wonder many of our politicians never worked in the public sector. Half-baked ideas never fly far when you have to make an honest living. In public office however, these “world improvers” discover the public teat then never look back. They continually set their sights on whose money (other then their own) they can “redistribute” next.
 
That there are many devoted but closet socialists in Washington comes as no surprise but what is surprising is that anyone takes them seriously considering our nation's background of fighting against this very same ideology in many wars and conflicts which came before.
 
According to them, our largest industries would have government padlocks, thousands of zombie government employees processing reams of government paperwork only to bring us gas and other products at 3 times the price and then skimming off whatever profits they do manage to make to feed government coffers and further their agenda of installing their view of the world on the rest of us.
 
If that’s not enough to make you lose your lunch, brace yourself. There is a distinct possibility that Rep. Maxine Waters will take over as the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee after Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) retires. Not that we’ll miss Barney much, he is just as clueless, but at least we haven’t seen a red star moment from Frank like we witness so often from others. We can only hope Ms. Waters and those like her stick their feet in their mouths once again, only this time it gets stuck there.
 
Permanently.
 
This article expresses the opinions of Marc Cuniberti. Mr. Cuniberti hosts “Money Matters” on KVMR FM 89.5 and 105.1 F on Thursdays at noon. He has been featured on NBC and ABC television and on a host of made for TV documentaries for his economic insights. His website is www.moneymanagementradio.com

Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?

By Bristol Palin

Bristol Palin is following the fighting spirit of her famous “Mama” Grizzly!  On her blog (March 19, 2012), she wrote a very compelling message to the President.

".... Dear President Obama,

You don’t know my telephone number, but I hope your staff is busy trying to find it. Ever since you called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, I figured I might be next. You explained to reporters you called her because you were thinking of your two daughters, Malia and Sasha. After all, you didn’t want them to think it was okay for men to treat them that way:
“One of the things I want them to do as they get older is engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on,” you said. “I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way. And I don’t want them attacked or called horrible names because they’re being good citizens.”

And I totally agree your kids should be able to speak their minds and engage the culture. I look forward to seeing what good things Malia and Sasha end up doing with their lives.

But here’s why I’m a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung. Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)

If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you. After all, I’ve always felt you understood my plight more than most because your mom was a teenager. That’s why you stood up for me when you were campaigning against Sen. McCain and my mom — you said vicious attacks on me should be off limits.

Yet I wonder if the Presidency has changed you. Now that you’re in office, it seems you’re only willing to defend certain women. You’re only willing to take a moral stand when you know your liberal supporters will stand behind you.

But…
What if you did something radical and wildly unpopular with your base and took a stand against the denigration of all women… even if they’re just single moms? Even if they’re Republicans?

I’m not expecting your SuperPAC to return the money. You’re going to need every dime to hang on to your presidency. I’m not even really expecting a call. But would it be too much to expect a little consistency? After all, you’re President of all Americans, not just the liberals.

Source: FreeRepublic.com

County Government shutdown due to snow

By John Spencer

Recently, February 29th, the community was functioning properly, doing the things they do every day, only we were in the middle of a storm that brought expected snow to our area mid-day. Around 2:00 PM it was getting kind of dangerous up at the County offices and the County CEO decided to close the offices and send everyone home. Not unusual, general public safety was a big concern.

Meanwhile, at our only local Title Company, because it was the last day of the month, the title officers were putting the final touches on some 12 escrow closures set to record that day. This wasn’t unusual, it happens all the time; our County Recorder does this same thing every month and day for that matter. These kinds of recordings are income producing, growth, a benefit to the whole community. What goes into putting together and finishing an escrow represents a huge amount of work by realtors, escrow and title officers, lending institutions, and buyers and sellers. All of this work is culminated by the Title Company to the point they bring the recordable documents into the Recorder’s office and record the transaction. This operation is probably one of the more important operations the Recorder does. The final culmination has a closure sheet where a whole host of numbers have been calculated to the penny for that moment in time. Everyone is in agreement, funds are set to be wired, people are ready to exchange house keys, and the paperwork has to record that day or everything does not work. If it is the last day of the month, it really has to record that day. If it does not record that day (and goes into the next month) everything has to be refigured, and you may have to go back to everyone to get re-approval. Re-approval may mean you can’t even do the deal, to say nothing about extra fees the bank will charge, losing a lock on your loan, penalties, and a recalculation on property taxes. When the County shut down the operation, some 12 escrows could not record. Big, big problem.

So who cares?

DANGER AHEAD, OBAMACARE

By Patrick Wagner, MD

Obamacare, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), is a dangerous law which has been imposed on the American people.  It is the final blow in a series of laws that have been steadily inflicted on Americans for the past 20 years.  These laws have slowly taken away the liberty of all of us, and the irony of it is the means by which this oppression has occurred.  It’s called DUMMY DOWN.

Let’s review the recent history of American medicine.  Most of you likely remember our traditional means of health care, because it wasn’t too long ago that PRIVATE PRACTICE was our way of getting better when we got sick.  We had a special process called the DOCTOR PATIENT RELATIONSHIP that was its foundation.  Everything seemed to fall into place.  Either the doctor was able to handle the problem in his or her office or was able to utilize the hospital or other referrals to get you better.  There was trust and you recognized that you were getting the best health care possible.  Although at times costly, you recognized that the payment you or your catastrophic health insurance company was paying was well worth the services you received. Goodwill flowed.  Things were PRIVATE.

It was 1992, the year that MANAGED CARE took over, that the DUMMY DOWN process began.  In that year, your health insurance companies, who paid claims for your higher cost treatments (example the admission, surgery and 4 or 5 day stay in a hospital), and I might add responsibly, as they were required to do, changed their vocation.  Health insurance companies, with the aid of contract law and the federal government, became ADMINISTRATORS of health care.  What we as physicians and you as patients didn’t recognize is that this new entity, which was before a simple means of exchange of money for services, bullied their way into a leadership role over you and me.  The DUMMY DOWN had begun, and the propaganda used was based in humanitarianism. These administrators craftily pitched decreased cost and increased quality for you, the patient.

How did our federal government assist in all of this?  First of all, they allowed it.  It was all about crooked big business, lobby and legislators. Most of us have a sense of that nowadays.  But a second and crucial aspect of the assistance relates to a law passed in 1989 called the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, with emphasis on physician reimbursement, activated in 1992, that dealt the final blow.  In simple terms, this law set a price on a doctor’s head, the fee that Medicare would allow for services rendered to a patient by a physician, without the input of the physician!

This law in conjunction with the legal and binding administrative function of managed care organizations (all of them!) are the agents of socialized medicine.  We have been at this for 20 years.  In this period of time, between 1992 and 2012, Medicare has continued to cut payment for physicians and hospitals drastically.  The managed care organizations (health care providers) have cut payment way deeper than Medicare.  Doctors were forced to join hospital staffs, fee for service is gone, private practice is gone, the doctor patient relationship is gone, and DUMMY DOWN is alive and well. These administrators tell doctors what to do and how to do it.  They know nothing about the practice of medicine and surgery and what is safest for patients and could care less.  NO LIE!

California Split?

By CABPRO Staff

From time to time the idea of splitting California into two or more states is floated out. This is precipitated by the sheer size and population of our state and its wide diversity of cultures and geography, as well as its problems.

There was discussion about California’s boundaries at the time of the founding of the state in 1849-50, just before the time of the Civil War, on up to as recently as last year when a Riverside County Supervisor again proposed dividing the state into two.

(www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/government/riverside-county-supervisor-proposes-splitting-california-into-2-states-487239.html )

A useful discussion of how states get split up, written by Michael Warnken at California Political Review, may be found at www.capoliticalreview.com/?s=splitting+california

Sometimes a proposal is for our state to become two separate states, as discussed here:

www.redstate.com/nickottens/2011/07/12/splitting-california-in-half/

while for others, three is the magic number, as described here:

www.3cals.blogspot.com .

For a proposal to join up parts of northern California with southern Oregon to form a new state called Jefferson State go here: www.jeffersonstate.com

Perhaps California was just too big and beautiful to begin with for its own good!

HOW DO YOU KILL 11 MILLION PEOPLE?

BOOK REVIEW By Kim Janousek

HOW DO YOU KILL 11 MILLION PEOPLE?

WHY THE TRUTH MATTERS MORE THAN YOU THINK

By Andy Andrews

The title alone is enough to get your attention and when a friend of mine urged me to get a copy of this book I did just that.  The author, Andy Andrews, is a highly regarded motivational speaker who has written numerous New York Times bestsellers such as The Noticer, The Traveler’s Gift and The Butterfly Effect.

This book is short, blunt and extremely sobering.  The first 20 pages (80 pages total) reveal some staggering numbers that show what populations allowed to be done to themselves in the last century.  Consider the number of people exterminated by their own government from 1914 to 2000.

Mexico, Pakistan, Baltic States - 1 million people each

Turkey – 2 million Armenians

Cambodia – 3 million people (almost half the population)

Soviet Union – 69,911,000 people

Nazi Germany – 11,283,000

The author tells us to study the past and learn from it.  His premise is that in many ways the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany “allowed” themselves to be killed.  He presents the question this way:

From page 20:  Why, for month after month and year after year, did millions of intelligent human beings – guarded by relatively few Nazi soldiers – willingly load their families into ….cattle cars to be transported by rail to one of the many death camps scattered across Europe? How can a condemned group of people headed for a gas chamber be compelled to act in a docile manner?

The answer to this question is so simple….you lie to them.  A complex web of lies, told in various stages. The Nazi’s told the Jews that they wanted only the best for them. Good jobs, fine homes, good schools for their children. They were told this over and over again until they began to believe it.  And finally they found themselves on the train cars heading for the death camps.

The message of this book is as direct as the title.  Andrews suggests that the danger to America does not rest with a single politician or even a group of them. But what does threaten a nation is a citizenry that trusts a liar to lead them. The liar can be voted out of office, but the citizens who believe the liar must come to their senses or the nation is doomed.

Think about it:  WE hear every day on the news that the economy is getting better. IS IT?  Unemployment is down. REALLY?  We must have energy independence. HOWEVER, THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED!  We must create new jobs. THOSE MUST BE GOVERNMENT JOBS!

We all want what is best for our country, The United States of America.  And we all want a safe, secure and prosperous future for our children.  With that said, I urge you to buy this book.  Read it.  Talk about it. Pass it along to others so they can read it.   Remember, the burden is on us, the American citizens, to become informed and judge the integrity of all our elected officials.

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

"The Question In This Election Is Not 'Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?' We Know The Answer To That. The Real Question Is, 'Will This Country Be Better Off Four Years From Now?'" (Senator Barack Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Sarasota, FL, 10/30/08)

OBAMA SAID THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER THE COUNTY WOULD BE BETTER OFF FOUR YEARS FROM NOW. THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES:

14,241,059 Increase In Americans Receiving Food Stamps Since January 2009

2,730,000 Increase In Americans Unemployed For At Least 27 Weeks Since Obama Took Office.

1,004,000 Decrease In Construction Jobs Since Obama Took Office.

$15,316.70 Increase In Each Citizen's Share Of The National Debt Since Obama Took Office.

894,000 Decrease In Construction Jobs Since Stimulus Was Passed.

864,000 Decrease In Jobs Since Obama Took Office.

757,000 Increase In Unemployed Workers Since Obama Took Office.

603,000 Decrease In Manufacturing Jobs Since Obama Took Office.

557,000 Increase In Marginally Attached Workers Since Stimulus Was Passed.

495,000 Decrease In Manufacturing Jobs Since Stimulus Was Passed.

458,000 Increase In Marginally Attached Workers Since Obama Took Office.

274,000 Decrease In Private Sector Jobs Since Obama Took Office.

63,000 Increase In People Working Part Time For Economic Reasons Since Obama Took Office.

103.5% Increase In Price Per Gallon Of Regular Gas Since Obama Took Office.

50.1% Increase In American Households Receiving Food Stamps Since January 2009. 

20.2 Increase In Average Weeks Unemployed Since Obama Took Office.

15.9% Increase In Americans Living In Poverty Since Obama Took Office.

3.1% Percentage Point Increase Of Youth Unemployment Rate (16-19) Since Obama Took Office.

$1.911 Increase In Price Per Gallon Of Regular Gas Since Obama Took Office.

1.4% Percentage Point Increase In African American Unemployment Since Obama Took Office.

0.7% Percentage Point Increase In Hispanic Unemployment Since Obama Took Office.

0.7% Percentage Point Increase In U-6 Real Unemployment Rate Since Obama Took Office.

0.5% Percentage Point Increase In Unemployment Rate Since Obama Took Office.

(Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics 3/9/12; AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, Accessed 3/9/12; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 3/9/12; Department Of Agriculture, Accessed 3/9/12)

The Obama Jobs Gap is up to 15 million missing jobs

By James Pethokoukis

A much-needed reminder that despite the recent upturn in the jobs market, there is still an awfully big employment hole to fill, as JPMorgan economist James Glassman points out:

A useful way to assess the challenge for the US economy is to ask, How many jobs would need to be created to recover the ground lost in this last recession. Focusing only on official unemployment, currently 12,806,000 million are classified as officially unemployed. In a normal, fully-employed economy, the unemployment rate would be expected to be 4.5 to 5.0 percent. In that case, the natural number of unemployed people would be 7 to 8 million, respectively. So, for the unemployment rate to fall from 8.3 percent to 4.5 to 5.0 percent, the economy would need employ 6 million to 5 million people, respectively, of those who currently are unemployed.

What about the larger picture that includes the hidden unemployed? How many jobs are needed to restore the ratio of employed people to the total population back to where it was in 2007, prior to the economic downturn. Under normal circumstances, there would be 153,000,000 jobs, including parttime jobs that people hold voluntarily. Currently, however, the number of full-time jobs and those who are holding part-time jobs voluntarily stand at 138,189,000.

In other words, to restore the job market to the state it was in back in 2007, before the recession, would require the creation of 14.8 million jobs in today’s terms, a daunting task to say the least.

(Source:  http://blog.american.com/2012/04/the-obama-jobs-gap-is-up-to-15-million-missing-jobs/040212obamajobsgap/)