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            Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, speaking before the European (Union) Parliament on March 25, strongly criticizes Obama’s unfathomable spending plans and calls it a “road to Hell” that EU governments must avoid. Obama has argued that the European nations need to engage in even more deficit spending to stimulate the world economy. Most Western European nations have, in fact, been digging themselves into financial holes as quickly as is the United States under Obama, but the Eastern European countries (like the Czech Republic) are more familiar with the failures of socialism and are less willing to head back in that direction. Obama nevertheless insisted at his March 24 press conference that his budget “is inseparable from this recovery, because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.” [1960]

            Eager for additional revenue for Obama’s massive spending plans, the administration announces plans to close the “tax gap” by finding ways to be more aggressive in collecting taxes, with a goal of an additional $300 billion per year—approximately $1,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. Budget Director Peter Orszag states on March 25, “The task force on tax reform that will be formed by the Volcker board will be examining ways of being even more aggressive on reducing the tax gap, which could provide funding for tax provisions.” [2000]

            In an apparent effort to keep the United States dependent on foreign oil, on March 25 the House approves (285–140) a bill placing 1.2 million acres of land in Wyoming off-limits for resource development. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) states that the legislation (which has already passed the Senate) “…would permanently take 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 300 million barrels of oil out of production.” The bill creates 60 federally protected wildernesses in nine states, and prevents oil and gas exploration in 26 million acres of existing BLM-managed land. Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) comments, “This is not the agenda of the American people. With Americans looking for economic relief, now is not the time to obstruct American energy production.” [1999]

            On March 25, Geithner remarks that he is “quite open” to China’s suggestion to move away from a dollar-based reserve currency. (Just the day before Geithner had told the House Financial Services Committee that he “categorically renounces” the idea.) In order to stop critics from assuming he is a supporter of a single, worldwide currency, Geithner adds that his viewpoint should be viewed as an “evolutionary building on the current architecture rather than moving us to a global monetary union.” His clarification will likely do little to stop the rumor from spreading that he supports a global currency. Just ten minutes after Geithner’s “quite open” statement the dollar falls 1.3 per cent against the Euro. Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) later criticizes Geithner, saying “Beginning with his tax difficulties, and continuing through the puzzling narrative of when and what he knew about the AIG bonuses, Treasury Secretary Geithner has done little to inspire the confidence of the American people. Oddly, Secretary Geithner continued his bizarre and puzzling conduct this week, making flatly contradictory statements about the dollar in a span of only 24 hours. This weakens confidence not only in him, but in the currency he is entrusted to protect… Is it too much to ask that (his) position remain unchanged over a 24 hour period?”  [1962, 2001]

            Within days of Geithner’s conflicting remarks, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) introduces legislation barring the recognition of any currency other than the dollar as the reserve currency. Bachmann warns, “If we give up the dollar as our standard, and co-mingle the value of the dollar with the value of coinage in Zimbabwe, that dilutes our money supply. We lose control over our economy. And economic liberty is inextricably entwined with political liberty. Once you lose your economic freedom, you lose your political freedom.” [2019]

            George Soros, billionaire friend of Obama and financial supporter of far-left organizations like MoveOn.org, states, “I’m having a very good crisis.” While millions of people worldwide were losing trillions of dollars in the stock market, Soros made a fortune in 2008 by betting the U.S. economy would fall apart. (Many wonder if Soros acted behind the scenes to help the economy collapse, as he had previously manipulated currency markets to increase his personal fortune.) The world economic collapse prompted an increased growth in government worldwide, and the election of Obama and the rise of his socialist policies in the United States. “It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,” Soros tells the newspaper The Australian. [1967, 1968, 1969]

            Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mexico and meets with President Felipe Calderon to discuss the worsening problem of drugs and violence in Mexico and at the U.S. border. Clinton states, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” and “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.” Clinton announces that the United States will give Mexico helicopters and night-vision goggles to help with its enforcement. Meanwhile, Congress has failed to fund the Merida Initiative, a $1.4 billion drug counter-trafficking program. Many contend that most of the weapons in Mexico are not in fact smuggled across the border from the United States. The Mexican drug dealers obtain many weapons by bribing the Mexican military. U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) states that “The heavy weaponry is not coming from the United States” and points out that the many Mexican Army deserters (more than 110,000 over the last few years) take their weapons with them when they flee military service so they can sell them on the black market. [1970, 2036]

            Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, says that Obama is not doing enough to control drug violence or protect the U.S.-Mexico border. Obama has asked for 500 additional federal agents for border posts; Lieberman wants funding for at least 1,600. “I don’t think it’s enough,” says Lieberman at a committee hearing. “The danger here is clear and present. It threatens to get worse.” More than drugs and illegal Mexican immigrants cross the border; Hizbullah uses the same routes for getting its terrorists into the United States. (Some downplay the danger of terrorists sneaking across the border; Michael Slackman of the New York Times has called Hizbullah not a terrorist organization but a “military, political and social organization…”) [1975, 2041, 2354]
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