Middle East and Other Musings: Liberal Lemmings Prepare For The Gestapoing FCC Noose Because One Day It Will Be Round Your News Necks!

Putin is in charge of Obama's foreign policy and has him skating on thin ice!

More of my sardonic humor and lack of PC training.

THE ULTIMATE ETHNIC JOKE:

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Canadian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 2 Africans,

.... Walk into a fine restaurant.

"I'm sorry," says the maître d', after scrutinizing the group.

"You can't come in here without a Thai"

and then: Click here: Ray Stevens - Come to the USA - YouTube

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The Obama Gestapoing of America continues as the FCC announces it wants to send its gum shoes into news organizations for the purpose of asking them questions.about how they construct their news programs etc..

Liberals should be concerned about what they have spawned because one day the noose will be round their necks as well as the liberal lemmings who report the news etc.
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Peter is good but he has been early in some of his predictions which probably will occur but not as soon as he thinks,

At least he has the courage of his convictions and is willing to stick his neck out as he did when he ran as a Republican in Rhode Island which is equivalent to a death wish.

That state is controlled by the mafia and unions which may be an oxymoron. (See 1 below.)

This is why Obama's income disparity pap is dangerous. We may have reached a labor employment point where, if we continue as we are ,we are,pushing on a string. (See 1a below.)
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The future if Obamacare is left to stand? (See 2 below.)
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Why I support Dr. Bob Johnson to ascend to Jack Kingston's First District Seat as Jack Seeks The Senate seat of retiring Sen. Chambliss. (See 3 below.)
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Dick
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1)Peter Schiff to Newsmax TV: US Careens Toward Twin Crises

By Dan Weil

Investors should overweight foreign stocks and underweight U.S. stocks, because the U.S. economy and financial system are headed for crisis, says Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital.

"People have to look beyond the U.S. to try to get out of what's going to be a much worse financial crisis than what happened in 2008," he told John Bachman on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV.

"It's going to be a dollar crisis, ultimately a Treasury bond crisis, and people need to look abroad and own real hard assets through stocks, but through international stocks with good dividend yields."

That's a much better strategy than "to be over-concentrated in overpriced, hyped-up U.S. stocks on the verge of what I see as a real economic collapse here," Schiff said.

As for emerging markets, they made a mistake in absorbing so many dollars created by the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing, Schiff says.

"We ran these huge trade deficits with the emerging markets. And then rather than allowing their currencies to rise, they fought this currency war where they tried to debase their own currencies," he said. "They imported our inflation and also mal-investments that temporarily screwed up their economies."

But here in the U.S., "we're going to be the submerging market, because when the dollar tanks, and it's very close to happening, Americans aren't going to be able to buy anything," Schiff said.

That's going to have a major impact on companies, he says. "Look at all of the companies that are reporting bad earnings here in the United States," such as McDonald's, Schiff said.

"It's America that's going to be the problem, because Americans are broke. We have no savings, we're leveraged up to the hilt, we're borrowing money just to keep our economic heads above water."

The rest of the world isn't doing too badly Schiff says. "They actually have savings. They are working. They are producing," he said.

"So they are going to be enjoying an appreciating currency market. They're going to be able to buy a lot of these products. It's America where the party is over. We're not going to be able to shop."

Meanwhile, Schiff says the 6.6 percent U.S. unemployment rate doesn't accurately reflect the sorry state of the American job market.

"So many people have just given up looking for work," he said. "They're so discouraged by the poor labor prospects that they're no longer being captured by the statistics or they're working part time but they really want full-time jobs."

Beyond unemployment, people are suffering from an escalating cost of living, Schiff says. "The government denies that there's inflation. But the real cost of living — food, energy, basic necessities — is rising rapidly as people's paychecks are diminishing in purchasing power."

1a)The Economist: US Labor Market 'May Be Permanently Stunted'

By Dan Weil

The unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low of 6.6 percent in January, but that's not a sign of strength, according to The Economist.

"Recent research suggests the unemployment rate is saying something important," according to an editorial in the publication. "It's just that the message is a depressing one: America's labor supply may be permanently stunted."

If that's true, the economy is growing closer to its potential than many economists estimate and "there is less downward pressure on inflation than the Fed has assumed," the editorial says.

As for signs of a stunted workforce, the proportion of adults with jobs has hardly moved after plunging below 59 percent in 2009 from 63 percent in late 2007, according to the editorial. The labor participation rate has slumped to 63 percent from 66 percent in 2007.

In addition, unpublished research by Princeton University economist Alan Krueger shows that 24 percent of the long-term unemployed abandon the workforce each month, up from 18 percent in 2010, the editorial says. The portion finding jobs has slipped to 10 percent a month, and many of those jobs are temporary or part-time.

"Thus, with each passing month, more of the unemployed are drifting to the fringes of the labor market than re-entering it," the editorial states.

"Policymakers will need to put more effort into making the long-term unemployed once again employable."

Michael Ivanovitch, president of MSI Global, an economic research firm, has a much more positive view of the job market.

"While operating more than an entire percentage point below its potential growth rate, the U.S. economy still raised its business sector employment by nearly 2 million people over the last 12 months," he writes in a commentary for CNBC.

"That is a remarkable achievement because companies usually don't step up hiring until a sustained increase in capacity pressures them to start adding to their labor force."

And Ivanovitch expects even better job growth this year
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2) The Bay State's model of health care 'reform': Wait for it

by Jeff Jacoby

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/14391/the-bay-state-model-of-health-care-reform-wait

IS MASSACHUSETTS, now in its seventh year under Chapter 58, the health-care overhaul
signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney in 2006, a preview of what the rest of the country
can expect under ObamaCare? If so, my fellow Americans, you'd better get used to waiting.

According to a national survey of approximately 1,400 medical practices in 15 major metropolitan markets, the average wait for new patients scheduling a non-emergency doctor appointment between June and November 2013 was 18.5 days. In Boston, however, patients had to wait an average of 45 days, and considerably more than that for some specialties. The wait was 66 days to see a family physician and 72 days to see a dermatologist.

With 450 doctors per 100,000 residents, Boston has a higher ratio of physicians to population than any other metro market in the study, which was conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a Texas-based health care search and consulting firm. All other things being equal, such an abundance of providers ought to mean shorter waits for an appointment, not the longest in the country.

But all other things haven't been equal for Massachusetts, especially since the enactment of Chapter 58. Romney accurately predicted that the law would be "a model for the nation," and indeed it was the template of the Affordable Care Act — as President Obama and many Democrats have readily acknowledged. Which suggests that what's happening in Boston is unlikely to stay in Boston.

"Long wait times in Boston may be driven in part by the health-care reform initiative that was put in place in Massachusetts in 2006," the new study notes. As the share of residents without health coverage has shrunk to 3 percent, "many patients in Massachusetts are encountering difficulty in accessing physicians. . . . Long appointment wait times in Boston could be a precursor of what is to come nationally should some 25 million people or more eventually obtain health insurance through the ACA."

The Massachusetts Medical Society raises similar concerns. In a statewide survey last year, it found that half of primary-care practices were not accepting new patients. Among those that were, wait times averaged 39 days for an appointment with a family physician, and 50 days for an internist. The numbers have fluctuated over the years. But the trend is clear, and disturbing: The share of family physicians and internists available to new patients has dropped by one-fifth over the last seven to nine years.

Health insurance doesn't guarantee accessible and affordable health care, not even in the state with the nation's highest concentration of medical providers. Through a combination of penalties, subsidies, mandates, and moral suasion, Massachusetts has succeeded in achieving near-universal insurance coverage for Bay State residents. But that doesn't mean that those residents are getting the care they need, from the providers they prefer, at prices they can afford. Chapter 58 hasn't brought down health-insurance premiums, as its proponents were sure it would. Nor has it saved the commonwealth millions of dollars, freeing Beacon Hill to concentrate on other public priorities.

Last fall, amid the disastrous rollout of the ObamaCare exchanges, the president flew to Boston to defend the law in a speech at Faneuil Hall, where Romney had signed the Massachusetts legislation seven years earlier. "I'm confident these marketplaces will work," Obama said, "because Massachusetts has shown that the model works.

Seven years later, it is clear that health-care "reform" in Massachusetts was easier to proclaim than to actually accomplish.

What Massachusetts really shows is that it's possible, in a state where roughly 90 percent of population already had health insurance, to deploy an elaborate series of carrots and sticks and boost coverage levels to about 97 percent. Beyond that, as the Pioneer Institute's health-policy analyst Joshua Archambault demonstrated in a series of eye-catching graphics at the time of Obama's Boston visit, the Massachusetts experiment only confirms that health-care reform is a lot easier to proclaim than to accomplish.

Romney's law didn't make a dent in the number of patients showing up in the state's emergency rooms. It didn't keep insurance premiums from racing ahead of inflation. It didn't relieve taxpayers from having to pour hundreds of millions of dollars annually into more and more "free" care for safety-net users.

And it hasn't made it any easier to get a doctor's appointment without a long wait.

Andrew Dreyfus, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, often introduces himself to out-of-state audiences by telling them: "I am from the future." Now there's a scary thought.

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3) This is a second reminder and appeal to support Dr.Bob Johnson, who is seeking Jack Kingston's Congressional Seat.

As I noted before, whether good or bad, this seat will remain in the Republican column due to Gerrymandering and thus it is in our communal interest to elect the best qualified candidate.

I believe Bob is that person for these reasons:

1) He is closest to Jack's basic political philosophy and Jack has won re-election overwhelmingly each time so he must have been doing something right.

2) Bob is very constituent prone because he is a practicing physician as is his charming wife, Stacie.

3) Because our district has a large retirement and military component the fact that Bob served 26 years in The Army Rangers and, I repeat, is a practicing physician, are compelling reasons why he is qualified.

4) Now I will get subjective. I have come to know Bob, have had many face to face meetings and believe he has a good heart and yes,h he is tough minded. He and nine others do surgical team work in Costa Rica every year and he owns a farm so he appreciates nature.

Bob is a man of faith and he has helped raise three fine, responsible kids. One son is currently at West Point, his daughter has been accepted to Harvard and his other son attended West Point but left after two years to pursue other interests

5) Bob has no intention of becoming a professional politician and seeks the office as a private citizen who will, if elected , gladly return to private life after several terms.

6) Bob, notwithstanding what you may have heard, is not running a campaign on social issues though he has strong beliefs in these matters. He is more concerned about our nation's fiscal and military posture and, obviously, is distraught over the implications of Obamacare.

7) Finally, Bob does not need to run for this position. He enjoys a secure medical practice and has served his nation admirably. He is doing so for what we both deem are the right reasons. - he is very troubled by the direction our country has taken vis a vis the break up of the family structure, the decline in public education, mounting debt and declining stature as a nation.

He does not believe expanded government is the answer to our problems. He understands the need for government. However, he, like myself, believes it has become too intrusive and therefore, threatens the very freedoms he and those like him,fought for and for which many have given their lives, and which we citizens wish to enjoy and perpetuate.

Only today the FCC decided it would enter news agencies to make inquiries. This in a Constitution bound America?

Therefore, I ask you to please consider what I have written and support, Bob Johnson,my candidate.

Hope to see you there February 27, and if you cannot come at least you can contribute at whatever level you find comfortable.

We complain our politicians are captives of special interests. That is not a problem that we, the people, cannot over come if we are willing to help support candidates from our own pockets!

Thank you,

Dick Berkowitz

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