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The Obama Timeline: Part II

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Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) remarks in support of the legislation, “This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘philias’ and fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.” Obama supports the legislation—even though it may result in ministers who preach against homosexuality being charged with committing a federal hate crime. Apparently, Hastings, Obama, and many of their fellow Democrats believe that child molesters should not have to “live in fear because of who they are.” (Among the 547 types of sexually deviant behaviors whose practitioners would be protected from criticism if the bill passes are: incest (sex with one’s own child); necrophilia (sex with a corpse); pedophilia (sex with a minor); zoophilia (sex with animals); voyeurism (spying on people engaged in intimate behavior); fronteurism (a man rubbing against the buttocks of a stranger); coprophilia (sexual arousal from feces); urophilia (sexual arousal from urine). For some unknown reason, Obama and many of his fellow Democrats feel obligated to protect people who engage in those practices from punishment or criticism. Apparently, the owner of a funeral home cannot fire an employee who has sex with a dead body because that would be “discrimination” and a “hate crime.”) House Republicans who attempted to add language to the bill stating, “pedophilia is not protected as a sexual orientation” were outvoted by Democrats, led by lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). [2731, 3421, 3422]

 

It is reported that the Obama administration is still considering releasing 17 Chinese Muslim terrorists (”Uighurs”) from the detention center at Guantanamo into the United States; they would not be moved to American prisons—they would be released into society. Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) asks for additional information about administration plans but the Department of Justice is under orders not to discuss the issue. Attorney General Eric Holder has not responded to two letters from Wolf. [2732]

 

Business leaders strongly criticize Obama’s plan to increase taxes on American companies that operate overseas, saying it will cost jobs in all locations. The U.S. corporate income tax rate is the second highest in the world (35 per cent), but the tax code allows American companies to operate in other countries, where they pay local taxes and defer U.S. taxes until the profits are returned to the United States. Obama wants to do away with those tax deferrals to increase tax revenues from those businesses—forcing double-taxation (from two countries). Such a change would make it more difficult for American companies to compete with foreign competitors, causing the loss of jobs in the United States as well as overseas. If American companies are forced to pay higher taxes on overseas operations, they will generally not bring those jobs to the United States; they will simply close the plants and lose sales in those other countries. They cannot afford to compete with foreign manufacturers if they have to pay higher American wages, plus the 35 per cent U.S. corporate tax rate, plus the cost of shipping the products overseas—where no one will buy them because of their higher prices. In the meantime, lower corporate taxes in other nations (like Ireland) will encourage other manufacturers to take the place of shuttered American-owned factories. A better policy would be for Obama to push for a lowering of the U.S. corporate tax rate to encourage companies from other countries to build factories in the United States. That would ultimately increase tax revenue while providing jobs for Americans. John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable, calls the Obama business tax increase “the wrong proposal at the wrong time for the wrong reason,” and will make American businesses “…less competitive in the international marketplace where, by last count, 95 per cent of the world lives.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he “…cannot endorse a plan that gives preferential treatment to foreign companies at the expense of U.S. companies.” [2733, 2734, 2740, 2797]

 

Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN), commenting on Obama’s “cap-and-trade” energy tax proposal to “stop global warming,” says that “Indiana would be one of the states hardest hit by the Democrats’ so-called cap-and-trade legislation, focusing as it does on coal-burning power plants that predominate across the Midwest. Not only will the cap and trade bill result in higher utility rates for all Americans, but that burden will fall most harshly on states across the Midwest like Indiana.” Based on the amount of tax revenue Obama expects to receive from the legislation, the average American family would see an estimated $3,000 per year increase in energy costs. (During the campaign, Obama said, “Under my plan of cap and trade, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” [2735]

 

Obama appoints Dalia Mogahed to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mogahed, a hajib-wearing Egyptian-American Muslim, is senior executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. [2736]

 

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) has 124 co-sponsors for his proposed legislation that would require an audit of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and Federal Reserve Banks (H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009). Paul has been a harsh critic of the Federal Reserve (which is not federal and does not actually maintain a reserve), arguing that the U.S. Constitution grants the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency only to Congress. The Federal Reserve’s continued printing of money causes inflation, a hidden tax that hurts all Americans, but which harms the poor most disproportionately. Paul states, “Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913, the dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy. How long will we as a Congress stand idly by while hard-working Americans see their savings eaten away by inflation? Only big-spending politicians and politically favored bankers benefit from inflation.” Paul further argues that every problem in the economy “…from the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the ‘70s, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble,” can be traced to actions taken by the Federal Reserve. [2737]

 
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