Jeff Davis
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Jeff Davis is a retired radio-TV journalist living in Gainesville, GA. Active in
civic and political affairs, he is past president of the Georgia Jaycees and former campaign chairman of the Georgia
Republican party. He volunteers as chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.
He is a collateral descendant of President Jefferson Davis and a member of SCV Camp 1404 in Gainesville and National
Chairman of Public Relations and Media for SCV.
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Tsunami of Corruption & Economic Ignorance Commentary by J. A. Davis, 10/19/2009
Are You Ready to Say I'm Not Taking It any More?
With so many assaults on what we used to know as our constitution by some 34 new un-elected and mostly un-approved new czars in
the newly formed government in Washington, more and more people are left wondering what they can do.
So that you might have some idea of myriad programs that have either been introduced and put in effect or some that are going
through the formalities of some rigged approval process as only a dominating monopoly party can do, we are featuring news stories
in our Hate Watch and
Notable News categories at the heading of our
website (see above).
Also note we are including (on the home page) second by second accounting of our national debt. Click
the link and you will get a breakdown of the
the various categories of debt. It might make you aware, if you're not already, that the adminstration in Washington and the national
news media for the most part is not telling the whole truth that you need to know.
"How big government gets that way: It takes over new turf in time of crisis, then hangs on to much of it after the
crisis is over." --Fortune Magazine, describing Crisis and Leviathan, by Robert Higgs
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not
do before." --Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal CEO conference,
Nov. 19, 2008
Some believe we are being set up for a financial collapse of such proportions that only a complete take over by a new order can
ultimately restore some form of government. For those doubters, world history going back to biblical times is a reference point.
Folks in my age range have witnessed it in the past century first hand in other places.
This nation has never experienced anything like the plight we find ourselves in---and it's all self-inflicted. Prior to the recent
presidential and congressional
elections, we could never have imagined in our wildest nightmares that so-called Americans, even of the most liberal stripe would
do, or attempt to do, what we are seeing take place before our very eyes.
In reviewing our meticulous, well-sourced postings in the GHC web links mentioned be forewarned you're going to see evidence that
your bank account is under heavy strain as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is now
admitting it is broke and will be for
several years in advance. Their main job is to guarantee bank deposits and accounts.
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FDIC Will Operate in the Red Through 2012 At Least - AmericanBankingNews.com, 10/19/09
You'll find evidence showing the very same people who caused the financial crisis the nation is in are being backed by the new
administration to
do
the same type things they did to collapse our economy years ago, namely, issue mortgages to people who
for the most part have questionable ability to maintain them, and at a down payment of three and half percent or less to buy as
home.
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Easy-money mortgages still provided, by the feds - WashingtonTimes.com, 10/19/09
Barney Frank, Predatory Lender - Peter J. Wallison, Wall Street Journal, 10/15/09
Watchdog in Congress Now a Target Himself - NY Times, 10/15/09
Experts now predict the lending agency, FHA, the Federal Housing Authority, will go bust in a crash worse than Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, which have been bailed out by more money than most of us could count in a lifetime.
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Housing Chief Rebuts Warning of FHA Bailout - WashingtonPost.com, 10/9/09
"Our political economy is rife with such catastrophes in waiting, yet the public always seems startled, and outraged, when the day
of reckoning can no longer be deferred, and another apartment collapses in the state’s Hotel of Impossible Promises, loading onto
the taxpayers more visibly the burden of sheltering the previous occupants." --Robert Higgs, from
Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public Is Shocked, 9/10/08
That was all part of a the monstrous
Stimulus Plan that was supposed to put people
back to work. Here's the scorecard. Billions
have been allocated, but each month millions more Americans lose their jobs. Unemployment has grown hovering around 10%. When
we count the folks who have given up searching and benefits, and the underemployed, those who have taken lesser jobs to buy a few
groceries, the number becomes 17% which is getting close to the numbers of the great depression.
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Broader Unemployment Rate (U-6) Hits 17% in September - WSJ, 10/2/09
Meanwhile, we continue to absorb more than a hundred thousand alien workers each month
(1.3 million per year).
Part of this stimulus is going to programs such as just took place in Detroit where citizens can make application for a government
cash bonus. Those who watch the interviews on TV couldn't have missed the people applying stating the money was coming from
Obama. Where does he get it they were asked. One said "He's got it in his stash."
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Rebate Program To Offer Cash For Clunker Appliances, 10/19/09
Cash for Clunker Mortgages Program Unveiled - reuters.com, 10/19/09
Cash for Clunkers, RIP - Karen DeCoster, 9/30/09
Why "cash for clunkers" is a terrible idea - Steve Chapman, reason.com, 8/10/09
Note also the item where millions are being added to Pell grants so that applicants can enter beauty, cosmetology and masseuse
training for $12,000 a year. More than tuition to the state university.
$2.3 million in federal stimulus money is going to pay for Tampa Bay area beauty school tuition - tampabay.com, 10/17/09
The problem is there are hundreds of experienced beauticians in the area who are among those who have lost their jobs because of the
economy.
"Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path---meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster
than the economy over the long run." --Summary,
Congressional Budget Office Longterm Budget Outlook June 2009
Not long ago the Congressional Budget Office reportedly opined that somewhere around 50% of the money allocated in the federal
budget is bound for corruption and fraud. (As they say, the ACORN doesn't fall far from the Community Organizer tree.) This is
consistent with General Accounting Office (GAO) audits of fraud in basic government purchases.
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50 examples of U.S. government waste - heritage.org, 10/8/09
Think about it, if correct, a lot of crooks by whatever means are getting wealthy off our tax dollars. Despite promises to the
contrary, virtually every program being foisted on the taxpaying public calls for huge increases in either taxes or costs which---
when mandated by the government--- are nonetheless taxes despite any semantics and sophistry to the contrary. [Define taxes ]
"When Medicare was launched in 1965, Part A was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When
Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was added in 1987, it was supposed to cost $100 million annually, but it already cost
$11 billion by 1992. When Medicare’s home care benefit was added in 1988, it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993, but ended
up costing $10 billion." --Cato Tax & Budget Bulletin, June 2009,
"Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?"
Check out the various healthcare plans,
Cap and Trade legislation, greatly accelerated
plans to add thousands of federal workers to
such programs as the Youth Corps, added enforcement for gun control along with increased efforts to police certain First Amendment
rights (hate speech codes) as has been announced by the Department of Homeland Security in collaboration with the
Southern Poverty Law Center and
the Anti Defamation League.
If you're not already mad as hell, see what they're doing to senior citizens in cutting out roughly $400 billion from Medicare.
He that giveth can also taketh away. Especially when it's not his money.
There are many substantiating articles and essays on these an other subjects under
Hate Watch and
Notable News at the very
top of our GHC website. I hope you care enough to take a little time to follow the old railroad crossing admonition. Stop,
Look and Listen.
God Save America.
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or
perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves
with the power which knowledge gives." --James Madison
"...the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large
scale." --Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Joseph Taylor,
May 28, 1816.
"The country is filled with people who have been clueless about the economy for years. In fact, it’s worse: the country is
being run by such people. There are few things you can be certain of these days. But one of them is that whatever
Washington does with regard to the economy, it will be the exact opposite of what anyone with any sense would do."
--Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Feb. 27, 2009
"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who
are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political
creed." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Priestley, 1802.
Jeff Davis is a retired radio-TV journalist living in Gainesville, GA. Active in
civic and political affairs, he is past president of the Georgia Jaycees and former campaign chairman of the Georgia
Republican party. He volunteers as chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.
He is a collateral descendant of President Jefferson Davis and a member of SCV Camp 1404 in Gainesville and National
Chairman of Public Relations and Media for SCV.
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