Remember When Obama Ended 2 Wars? Obama Drops Plan to Withdraw Forces From Afghanistan

[Willie99]

Keep getting in trouble with the IRS. What trouble? I don't see any of them in jail.

Obama's head of the Treasury Department omitted hundreds of thousands of dollars of income

JFK-erry (yacht registered in RI)

Alcie Hastings (oh never mind, he just took bribes as a federal Judge, although I suppose he didn't claim that income either)

 

[PatsFan1283]

No kidding. Because everyone can and should be a professional gambler in Vegas.

"But those are the choices we all make" face)(*^%

These days pretty much everything the govt does is redistributive in one form or another - inefficiently reallocating capital to special interests, rich AND poor.

In a true free market with limited govt, other than property taxes, the rate for pretty much everyone would be 0%.

Will anyone point this out? or screw it, making Hitler Germany comparisons works better?

[h=1]Why aren't GOP candidates blaming the Fed?[/h]Judy Shelton, a Sound Money Project Co-Director
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When Republican presidential candidates meet for the next GOP debate on Wednesday, they will surely have to address the issue of income and wealth inequality. Unlike the Democrats, though, whose main remedy is to condemn Wall Street "greed" and seek retribution through redistribution, the Republicans need to bring up the role of monetary policy in skewing financial outcomes.
It won't be an easy task – it's not sound-bite material – but it's vital to counter the narrative being put forth by leading Democratic candidatesBernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton that attacks "millionaires and billionaires" for racking up big profits in financial markets. Let's hope that someone on the Republican dais on October 28 will have the courage to wade into the role of the Federal Reserve as a major contributing factor to the 2008 global financial crisis – the one that devastated our economy and pitted citizens against each other.

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Republican presidential candidates (L-R) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Carson, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush participate in the presidential debates at the Reagan Library on September 16, 2015 in Simi Valley, California.

And GOP candidates should unite in pointing out that the Fed's remedy for recovery, which has served to channel low-cost funding to affluent investors and big corporations while starving small business, has yet to enable the real economy to grow at a decent pace. Living standards for a broad swath of the nation have not improved over the last three years, while those at the top have been able to finance the accumulation of assets by leveraging their access to cheap credit.
It's time to make the case to Main Street: If America's economy has been rigged in favor of Wall Street and the wealthiest 1 percent, it's because of monetary policy decisions made by our nation's central bank.
Republicans need to call out the Fed for its failure to anticipate the 2008 crisis – despite its own complicity in providing easy money – and for its ill-conceived efforts in the aftermath of that financial debacle to emphasize regulatory overkill over fundamental monetary reform. Otherwise, it will be difficult to challenge the alluring pitch of Democrats who seek to punish those who have benefited from the Fed's mistakes, rather than prevent the next meltdown.


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Sanders thinks an income-tax rate over 50 percent for America's richest class isn't too high, and is vowing to make Wall Street "pay a tax on speculation,whether they like it or not." Clinton, who claimed at the Democratic debate that she fought against wealth inequity as a New York senator – "I went to Wall Street and said, 'Cut it out'" – now promises to step things up. Under her administration, regulators would be given more authority to go after big banks and "would have the potential of actually sending the executives to jail."
There's no time to waste in setting the record straight about how our nation's central bank facilitates the boom-and-bust cycles that periodically kneecap the economy's prospects for productive growth.
Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been promoting his newly-published book "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath" with comments that dovetail nicely with Mrs. Clinton's new found aggression toward Wall Street. In an interview with USA Todayearlier this month, Bernanke lamented that individuals, versus financial firms,were not adequately punished for their role in the financial crisis. "You can't put a financial firm in jail."


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To which the Republican riposte should be: Where were you, sir,when the credit bubble was brewing prior to the 2008 meltdown? When over inflated house prices were creating a glut, when government-backed mortgages were becoming toxic assets, and when confidence and trust in the financial system was vaporizing? Answer: At the helm.
Bernanke joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 2002 and served as its chairman from 2006 to 2014. So it seems a trifle ingenuous to suggest that banking and investment firm executives should beheld criminally culpable for financial irresponsibility while proclaiming the heroism of Fed officials who oversaw the entire set-up and its consequences.
But the goal for GOP presidential candidates should not be to emulate Democratic opponents in demonizing individuals – whether on Wall Street or ensconced behind the wood-paneled doors of the Fed's board room in Washington, D.C. The task for Republicans should be to explain to the American public how monetary policy alters private sector risk-reward considerations for allocating financial capital. When our central bank manipulates the interest rate on borrowed funds through the buying and selling of government debt obligations, it distorts financial markets and causes anomalies within the real economy.


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We have seen that the Fed's decision to keep interest rates at zero these past seven years has not accelerated economic growth. Instead of financing capital investment to expand production, companies used the cheap money to buy back their own shares and pursue mergers and acquisitions at a blistering pace. Great for boosting stock prices and enriching investors, but hardly productive when it mostly amounts to window dressing and dubious synergy claims.
Guess who has been subsidizing Wall Street's deal making? Thanks to the Fed's repression of interest rates, people with ordinary savings accounts are forced to contend with pitiful returns from their own efforts to be financially responsible. At the end of 2006, the average yield on a one-year CD was 3.8 percent, according to Bankrate.com; currently, the average yield for a one-year CD is 0.28 percent.


If the GOP presidential field rises to the cause, Americans might readily embrace reforms that would constrain the Fed's power to use monetary artifice to reward one sector of the economy over another. As Jack Kemp,conservative icon, astutely observed: "In my experience, honest, sound, stable money is a popular, blue-collar, bread-and-butter, winning political issue."
Republican candidates should take Kemp's advice and make the issue their own.
Commentary by Judy Shelton, a Sound Money Project Co-Director which strives to engage and collaborate with organizations to raise awareness about the inherent problems of our current monetary system. Follow her on Twitter @judyshel.

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]UN says 2015 was worst on record for civilian casualties in Afghanistan[/h]

Remember when Obama was going to show the dummies supporting that hick Cowboy Bush how it was going to be done with this "good" war?



He fucks up everything he touches. Everything.

 

[superbeets]

UN says 2015 was worst on record for civilian casualties in Afghanistan



Remember when Obama was going to show the dummies supporting that hick Cowboy Bush how it was going to be done with this "good" war?



He fucks up everything he touches. Everything.

America has been run for nearly a decade by a clever incompetent.


IN QUOTES

Barack Obama

On the 'N' word: "We are not cured of [racism]. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'n-----' in public"
On war: "I'm not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars"
On Isil: "Isil is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents"
On hope: "The absence of hope can rot a society from within"
On his wife: "The rock of our family and the love of my life... Michelle Obama"
On fatherhood: "I know I have been an imperfect father. I know I have made mistakes"
On interviews at breakfast: "Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”
On his favourite food: "Broccoli"


America has been run for nearly a decade by a clever incompetent.

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]U.S. sets up firebase in Northern Iraq[/h]
The existence of the firebase had not been made public. The Pentagon had planned to acknowledge the firebase this week, a defense official tells CNN.
The rugged location for now has a "couple of hundred" Marines living in tents near Makhmour in northern Iraq. It's assumed ISIS observed the Marines moving into the area and saw them firing practice rounds with their howitzers, the official said.

ISIS on Saturday fired two rockets from about 15 km away. One fell inside the base killing one Marine and wounding several others. The Marines returned fire with their artillery.


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That seems rather odd since the war is "over"

FACT: President Obama kept his promise to end the war in Iraq. Romney called the decision to bring our troops home “tragic.”

 

[Acebb]

"Obama has now been at war longer than any other American president"

If the United States remains in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria until the end of Mr. Obama’s term — a near-certainty given the president’s recent announcement that he will send 250 additional Special Operations forces to Syria — he will leave behind an improbable legacy as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.

Mr. Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and spent his years in the White House trying to fulfill the promises he made as an antiwar candidate, would have a longer tour of duty as a wartime president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon or his hero Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Willie99]

my wife did retire and works for me full time

I pay about 14k annually in premiums, for two people, plus a 6k deductible (which is still far less than Cobra would have been)

boy, I sure do appreciate Obamacare

I wonder how, with all the info that's out there, with all the facts about higher costs and higher deductibles and higher co-pays and lesser quality for many, how people can still not know the truth?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

my wife did retire and works for me full time

I pay about 14k annually in premiums, for two people, plus a 6k deductible (which is still far less than Cobra would have been)

boy, I sure do appreciate Obamacare

I wonder how, with all the info that's out there, with all the facts about higher costs and higher deductibles and higher co-pays and lesser quality for many, how people can still not know the truth?

Oh they know they just don’t seem to care.

 

[superbeets]

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]Obama approves broader role for U.S. forces in Afghanistan[/h]

President Barack Obama has approved giving the U.S. military greater ability to accompany and enable Afghan forces battling a resilient Taliban insurgency, in a move to assist them more proactively on the battlefield, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision would also allow greater use of U.S. air power, particularly close air support.
However, the official cautioned: "This is not a blanket order to target the Taliban."
Obama's decision again redefines America's support role in Afghanistan's grinding conflict, more than a year after international forces wrapped up their combat mission and shifted the burden to Afghan troops.

 

[vitterd]

Obama approves broader role for U.S. forces in Afghanistan



President Barack Obama has approved giving the U.S. military greater ability to accompany and enable Afghan forces battling a resilient Taliban insurgency, in a move to assist them more proactively on the battlefield, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the decision would also allow greater use of U.S. air power, particularly close air support.
However, the official cautioned: "This is not a blanket order to target the Taliban."
Obama's decision again redefines America's support role in Afghanistan's grinding conflict, more than a year after international forces wrapped up their combat mission and shifted the burden to Afghan troops.

Why did you stop posting picks?ointer:

 

[Willie99]

I remember when ending the Iraqi war was one of Omama's greatest accomplishments

but now that he created ISIS with is carelessness and idiocy, his greatest accomplishment turned bad is now Bush's fault

fucking idiots

 

[superbeets]

Taliban now holds more territory than in any year since 2001, when the Islamists were ousted from power after the 9/11 attacks....

 

[Acebb]

[h=1]The Taliban now hold more ground in Afghanistan than at any point since 2001[/h]

The Taliban's warm-weather offensive has shown the insurgents to be bolder and better organized, holding more territory now than at any time since 2001, when their regime was overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion, according to recent U.N. estimates.

 

[ScottL]

Now see from my memory Obama said Iraq wasn't a real war on terror as "all the terrorists are still in Afghanistan." So it was time to end the bad war in Iraq and fight the real war in Afghanistan. And the Left clapped like seals and the Far Left grunted. And then Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin what magazines she liked to read and Palin stuttered and the election was over.