Dr. Quack, Opinion & News with the harsh cry of reason.

Good News, Unemployment Benefits will be Extended... Bad News, Not Long Enough.

Good News, Congress most likely will pass the, 'American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010' (H.R.4213), today or over the next week, with President Obama signing quickly. This legislation will; "Amend the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account. Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through November 30, 2010. Postpones the termination of the program until April 30, 2011." H.R.4213

 

Bad News is, the extension is just another cork in the hole of the haul of a seemingly sinking ship. Yes, we need the unemployment benefits extended to that unemployment, but as Senator Feinstein commented in June, "We have 99 weeks of unemployment insurance now. The question becomes how long do you continue it before people just don't go back to work at all? June 16, 2010 Trust me, Senator Feinstein isn't joining the ranks of her conservative colleagues in the Senate, nor touting the laziness inherent in all mankind as being the sole reason why Unemployed (Benefited) Americans are not returning to work. Though you could reasonably argue the fact that many benefiting unemployed Americans take too long to find work because they are taking advantage of America's recessional economic tail-spin, and a hot political climate, which is over compensating everyone and everything for the votes. Never have I seen a more polarizing political stranglehold on the welfare of the people of this United States. 

 

It's a fact, President Obama and Congress promised America this Administration would practice transparency and use pay-go with new legislation. At the end of 2009, Congress and the President funded the last extension of unemployment Insurance, " by extending a longstanding federal unemployment tax on employers through June 30, 2011." CNNMoney.com Considering all the rhetoric by a campaigning Obama, on how He'll be the 'One' to unite this country and return her to a position of unity and strength if elected President. This President has done nothing but the opposite. President Obama has lacked in the ability to compromise and unite this Congress to move forward in the, 'Will' of the people. It has been partisan play by this Administration since taking office, and the Republican minority hasn't been any better.   

 

Yes the unemployed need an extension of their Unemployment Insurance, but the President and Congress have had the time to find and must extend the Unemployment Insurance Benefits using Pay-Go, to pay for this extension without any increase to U.S. Debt. They've done it each time, what's different now?  Please, don't tell me it's political. 

 

The worst news is that regardless of the extension, it will not be long enough, that is, unless the President and Congress can fix the problem of unemployment from the root of the problem. Pull back, ease back, on all the federal intervention and regulated mandates that are scarring the hell out of small businesses (Private Sector) across America. At this point in his presidency, Obama has been no help, no friend, to small or large businesses throughout the greatest nation on earth. From complicated new taxes, mandates, healthcare and regulations, small business is in the choke hold of a beefed up Uncle Sam. 

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...7 21 10.

Divisiveness in Politics and Social Justice

The Obama Administration has polarized, to a point, the greatest nation (The United States of America) on earth, walking us down a path argumentatively to a return of 1960's civil rights unrest. Clearly not following through on his promise to have transparent Government, nor of being the 'One' bringing Congress together for the better good of the people. President Obama from taking office has literally closed the doors to open and clear transparency when it has come to legislation, Healthcare, Earmarks, Special Funding, Stimulus expenditures and recently with his nomination of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Do I care if Berwick brings an extreme socialist point of view to the job President Obama nominated him to, by doing an end run around Congressional approval of this appointee during a summer Congressional?  I do! Why you ask?

 

Yes, I know most if not every President of this United States has ran this play in the game of politics. However, let's remember, more than most, if not all previous Presidential candidates elected to our Lands highest Office. Candidate Obama promised repeatedly  and without a doubt was elected carrying the majority of the Independent vote and a good portion of the Republican vote as well, on the promise to clean up and change Politics as usual in Washington. NONE of that has happened, NONE. This president's tone has been of anger, jealousy and malice rhetoric. I'm tired of the media giving President Obama the excuse of "let's give him a chance and time, because I am sure he means well." Baloney is all we the people have been given since Barrack Obama has taken office. Along with Divisiveness that has disengaged Washington from the people of America.    

 

Social Justice ignored by the Administration and the entire Left Wing of the Democratic Party, champions of the term 'Social Justice' not to mention a setback  for Civil Rights, when the U.S. Department of Justice dropped any real persecutory charges against the 'New Black Panthers' welding their club at citizens using a polling station in a Philadelphia precinct, 2008.  

I'm not going to waste my time with all the reason and logic, you've seen the video and read the articles. I'm just going to post a link HERE for you to visit the website and review the philosophy of the 'New Black Panther Organization. You come to your own conclusions as to why Eric Holder nominated by and works for President Obama, decided there was no reason to carry out a real charge and subsequent prosecution of these New Black Panther Party members. I'm not out for blood, but is it only me, when I say that every case against, for example, our military men and women that have involved intimidation or misuse of authority...etc. They are prosecuted to the fullest degree of the law, distinguishing their guilt or innocence. There seems to be a moratorium on who sees the fullest degree of the law and who doesn't. This can't be good for Civil Rights nor for the Unity of People, promised by the candidate Obama.  

 

I'm Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of reason...7 12 10.

DOJ lawsuit against Arizona, divisive at best

Rather than fix Illegal immigration and set a path to legalizing current Illegals living in America now.(20million or more) President Obama has decided to stall any kind of pro-active, progressive, bi-partisan Reform and literally avoid the problem with a DOJ (Department of Justice) lawsuit against the Governor and State of Arizona to block SB1070 the new Immigration Law passed by Arizona's elected Legislature just a few months ago. This is an unwarranted move by President Obama and divisive at best in that it may destroy any chance of real, well thought and reasonable Immigration Reform, badly needed in this the greatest nation on earth.

 

No President, any more so than President Obama had been elected on the promise of change and unity, unity of government, unity of the people. However, it would appear Americans were misled like sheep to the slaughter, as to exactly what we were getting with an Obama presidency. Obama changed Washington, for Chicago bullying style leadership and politics. Choosing to sue Arizona over its new SB 1070 Immigration Bill, and not confront the real problem, with a real solution, has me believing, this President hasn't a clue as to what to do with Immigration Reform, unless instructed by a teleprompter.

 

Now, conveniently, President Obama has time to avoid the real issues of Illegal immigration and Immigration Reform, since no real reform can be discussed in Congress let alone voted on until this Federal lawsuit can be finalized in court. Talk about 'Convenient Truths' there's a big one, and you can bet, President Obama's advisors conveniently thought it out. What President Obama doesn't seem to get! He is not doing his job, or maybe he does understand and rather than confront millions of legal voting Hispanic voters, he'd rather mis-direct the issue to that of Arizona's new law. Bad choice as the President of the United States rather mis-lead than lead at all.

 

Governor Brewer in what I'd call her best statement to date on the new SB 1070 Immigration Law had this to say;

 

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Statement on US vs Arizona

 

By On the Net, on July 6th, 2010

Here is the text of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s July 6, 2010, press release responding to the lawsuit filed today by the United States vs. Arizona:

 

“Today I was notified that the federal government has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona. It is wrong that our own federal government is suing the people of Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law. As a direct result of failed and inconsistent federal enforcement, Arizona is under attack from violent Mexican drug and immigrant smuggling cartels. Now, Arizona is under attack in federal court from President Obama and his Department of Justice. Today’s filing is nothing more than a massive waste of taxpayer funds.  These funds could be better used against the violent Mexican cartels than the people of Arizona.

 “The truth is the Arizona law is both reasonable and constitutional. It mirrors substantially what has been federal law in the United States for many decades. Arizona’s law is designed to complement, not supplant, enforcement of federal immigration laws. Despite the Department of Justice’s claims in paragraph 62 of today’s lawsuit, Arizona is not trying ‘to establish its own immigration policy’ or ‘directly regulate the immigration status of aliens.’ Arizona Revised Statutes § 11-1051(E) states that the federal government, along with local law enforcement officers authorized by the federal government, can only determine an alien’s immigration status.

Subsection (L) of that same section goes on to state that the law ‘shall be implemented in a manner consistent with federal laws regulating immigration.’

 “The irony is that President Obama’s Administration has chosen to sue Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law and not sue local governments that have adopted a patchwork of ‘sanctuary’ policies that directly violate federal law. These patchwork local ‘sanctuary’ policies instruct the police not to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

 “The best thing government can do is to create a stable, predictable environment, governed by an easily understood set of rules or laws. We do not need to make this more complicated than it already is. We must first and foremost create a secure border. Enhanced trade, economic opportunity and freedom will surely follow.

 “I am pleased that President Obama and the Department of Justice did not pursue the baseless claims of illegal racial profiling in the lawsuit. When signing S.B. 1070, I said, ‘My signature today represents my steadfast support for enforcing the law — both against illegal immigration AND against racial profiling.’ Arizona’s law expressly prohibits unconstitutional racial profiling. However, words are not enough. For this reason, I ordered the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (AZPOST) to develop training on the new law for Arizona’s police officers. AZPOST has completed the training course and has published it for the all world to

see at www.azpost.state.az.us/SB1070infocenter.htm. AZPOST has done its job professionally and served Arizona well.

 “I will not stop fighting to protect the citizens of Arizona, and to defend Arizonans in federal court. I have set up a legal defense fund to pay the substantial legal fees that Arizona has been, and will be, forced to incur as a result of all of these lawsuits. Contributions to the Border Security and Immigration Defense Fund can be made at www.keepazsafe.com. My legal team will not hesitate to assert the rights of the State of Arizona in this matter. Arizona will ultimately prevail against the lawsuits – including this latest assault by the Obama Administration. Our laws will be found to be constitutional – because that is exactly what they are.” Gov. Jan Brewer

 

President Obama can save the State of Arizona and American taxpayers a whole lot of money, by being the leader he promised on the campaign trail and not the bully politician he has shown, since taking office.

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason, with the hope we can still see a president who can lead, in President Obama…7 06 10

Did Obama Dupe America?

Reading Paul Starobin's recent opinion in 'The Washington Post' titled 'Don't expect Obama to be Superman' " America needs to grow up -- some problems elude even the most powerful people." is a bit of misplaced indignation (: anger aroused by something unjust  or unworthy) Webster. Placing any blame on the American people for having over, exceptionalized (my word) President Obama's abilities to that of Superman, come on Paul, Superman is a comic book hero, we know that, the question should be, do most of America's journalist know?

 

If Americans as Mr. Starobin's says "Americans are his culpable enablers." of Obama's Superman image, thus setting him up for failure, Paul's words "Why can't President Obama stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Why can't he get the Israelis and Palestinians to stop squabbling and make peace? Why can't he get the Europeans to contribute more troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan? Why can't he forge a global treaty to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases?" Well Mr. Starobin, it's because Americans were duped. Simple as said, duped. A beautiful campaign full of promises, an amazing comprehensive use of the internet (to this day) and Supernatural like charismatic statements "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"(President Obama)February 2008. Unfortunately, for us all, the "we" turns out to have been 'I'm the one you've been waiting for.' The campaign slogan of 'Change you can believe in' turned out to be 'Change, I believe in.' We were given the hope of a savior, and simply got an immature narcissus of a sort.

 

All over the net, you are reading Maureen Dowd's critique of President Obama "The former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines." calling the President a "crybaby." And the shoe fits. Sorry Paul Starobin, your comment on the American people needing to grow up and give some room (patience) for Obama to do his job...does not wash here at the Daily Quack, nor resonates with the citizens of America.

 

Starobin points out FDR and President Reagan's failures, as a way to show no president has been or could possibly be a superman. However, presidents Reagan and FDR never posed themselves as 'The One' nor carried on their shoulders the aura of elitism. This President squalors in it. And yes, it is nasty, dirty and shameful the way this president looks down, rather than out on to the people of this, the greatest nation on earth, for his guidance. We've been duped.

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...6 14 10. Post date: 6 20 10

Juvenile Propagandistic Journalism at AZ Republic...What's New?

Propaganda is, what it is, nasty, distasteful, and when written by an editor of the largest newspaper in the state of Arizona, it’s shameful and dishonest. When a headline news article is opinionated, misleading and irresponsible to the point it could very well incite good people on both sides of the immigration debate to anger and potential crimes against one another, it is more than propaganda, its militant writing. And I hold the Arizona Republic accountable for what it may incite. God willing, people from all fronts of the Immigration issue who even bother to read the Front Page Headline article written by Alia Beard Rau, titled "Immigration law's broad wording has legal Arizona residents worried"  in Sunday's Arizona Republic. Will see through its militant propagandistic language and trash it for what it is, bird cage paper for a collection of foul dung.

 

Shame on Rau, shame on the Arizona Republic Newspaper, this article abuses Rau's right to Freedom of Speech, and once and for all eliminates any question as to the Arizona Republic's Left Fanatical lean or not. Alas, we know it leans baby, it leans. Alia Beard Rau is the Tempe/Ahwatukee editor for the Arizona Republic/The Tempe Republic, reasoning the front page spot given Alia's article, and the Position held at the AZ Republic Newspaper, Alia speaks for the paper. Too bad, too sad, wish we all had red ruby shoes with heels, we could click together back to a time the Arizona Republic was a fair, well rounded newspaper and not the rag it has become.

 

Read for yourself Rau's propagandistic trash and tell me if I am wrong, but I think not. I won't even dignify Rau's trash with a point by point debate, if you bother to read it, then you'll know, rebuttal is not necessary.

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...6 13 10.

SB1070 Draconian or not...sit down, shut up and get over it...

Before you get your tail feather into an uproar, know this. My wife of many years was a Mexican national(citizen) with papers living and working here(the United State of America) in the greatest nation on earth. A Mexican Duck she is, having migrated to the United States legally, completing and carrying proudly always, her legal documentation required to live and work in America as an immigrant. In the over (30) years as a documented immigrant my wife has never been asked for her papers or legal documentation with the exception of employment. This has been true under the past immigration laws and will be so under this new law.

 

Under the new sb1070 immigration law I have read (completely)and have noted nothing new from that of the current and weakly enforced Federal immigration laws pertaining to Illegal immigrants. Sb1070 may be a Robo-version of the Federal Law giving it the stereo-type, draconian of sort, but that would be an Ugly Lie. Mama Quack always told me an ugly lie was one with, vicious, hurtful, hateful intent to do as much harm to one, one could do. And many have done do much of that...so to speak. All the lies coming from mealy mouthed activist, journalist, politicians, multi-media outlets and so-called responsible human rights organizations has effectively light the fires of divisiveness in the souls of otherwise good people.(Immigrants, illegal or not)

 

Sure I have my concerns that an overzealous police officer will racially profile my wife and she's a bit nervous with sb1070's Robo- enhancement of the current Federal law. However police officers good or bad are more than aware of Arizona's false arrest laws, and the millions each year States and Cities lose to such cases when officers act improperly in accordance with any law. The instruction and guidance, training and the LAW itself that police officers are taught, makes it clear as to their responsibility to the people and the laws of engagement in preventing such possibilities of false arrests.

 

That being said, false arrest laws isn't my reason in supporting or not sb1070. Illegal Immigrants living and working in America are caught between two weak spine, politically self-serving governments, Mexico and the United States, that have not, since Ronald Reagan was President, put forth any real effective legislation to deal once and for all with Illegal immigration and legal immigration into the United States from Mexico. An effective and expedient immigration policy program for coming into the United States to live and work would be a great start. Better yet, match that with an aggressive and affective policy and enforcement of the entire border between Mexico and the United States, collaboratively between the two and you've got a start to something great for all.

 

SB 1070 is an enhanced, tough and perhaps more rigid law by words than the current Federal Law on immigration. But what it isn't is what the Ugly Liars want you to believe, Nazism, how stupid are writers and journalist that spew ugly lies and comparisons. Are "These the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine...I think not, and irresponsible journalist, writers, media celebs and such, if they can't read and tell the simple truth about a (17) page bill(sb1070) then they should just sit down, shut up and get over it. Because their voices carry ugly lies that darken the souls of many good people, immigrant, illegal or not and every citizen of this great nation.

 

I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...5 04 10

Reconciliation isn't the problem, and the New York Times, knoooows that.

In Sunday's New York Times (3/7/10) 'Reconciling with the Past' the point of three writers was; "The history is clear: While the use of reconciliation in this case — amending a bill that has already passed the Senate via cloture — is new, it is compatible with the law, Senate rules and the framers’ intent."

Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Raffaela Wakeman is a research assistant at Brookings. Fogelson-Lubliner is a graphic design studio in Brooklyn.

 

The bill is the health care package and the point noted in their final sentence is non-argumentative. It's their intent, that I take to task. I've posted their Op-ED as well as the chart they created to make the point that reconciliation has been used by both parties several times and America has survived. Yet their own chart shows how wrong, and the difference between the reconciliations of the past and  the Obama health care package, now being considered for a vote. Starting with a $700billion dollar difference and the beginning of another big government bureaucratic boondoggle.

 

I want health care reform, but graduated with common sense budgeting, built with a lot of conciliatory deliberation. None of that was used in the creation of either the House or Senate Bills from Congress. And let me be clear, any health care legislation that is put  upon the good citizens of America as a Federal Mandate, does not have my backing. Constitutionally I challenge such legislation that would stymie the growth and dictate to me what the responsibility of my business is, when referring to a social contract like health care. That as a citizen of the greatest nation on earth, I'd be forced by threat of financial penalties and or else, to carry health care insurance for myself and employees, as a new government mandated social entitlement, is a  real, infringement upon my Constitutional rights.

 

In none of the charted examples by the New York Times Op-ED above, did Congress ever enact legislation so clearly in contrast to the views of what seems the majority of Americans. This current health care legislation is an overwhelming bureaucratic and budgetary albatross around the neck of America's future, not to mention, 'Lady Liberty's.' This grotesque piece of Constitutionally devoid legislation, needs to be cleaned up, shaped up and for the peoples sake, brought down and back to earth.

 

Though it be imminent that Congress & President Obama will pass this health care package, it will then be left to the voters in November and 2012 to send this Administration a clear message, "we've taken all you could shove at us, and we'll take no more." No more Mandate, no more big government, no more big brother attitude from a government that took an oath to serve the people, not compel them (us) with unconstitutional mandates. I could opine till the cows come home, for now I'll wait, pray and hope that the President will open his eyes to the realization that he was elected because he offered 'change we can believe in' and hope that we'd have a president who actually listened to the people, setting an example for Congress, that has failed to listen for some time.

 

I'm Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of reason...3 11 10

Obama & Andy Stern, hold that thought. Pinky & the Brain,now hold that thought.

Not taking away any of President Obama's intellect for what so many in the media have declared god like, but there's one who appears to be one up on the President. And since they appear attached to the hip one might say the duo of Obama and Stern can be likened to, 'Pinky and the Brain, respectively. You know Andy Stern, he is no simpleton and no one's Pinky, he is the calculating demonstrable leader of the S.E.I.U., (Service Employees International Union.) And you know the 'Brain' from 'Pinky & the Brain' the

Emmy-winning animated television series and spin-off of Animaniacs from 1995-1999.

 

Before you get your tail feathers ruffled, I'm not saying as above, that President Obama is mentally likened to Pinky, only that he is a side-kick to Andy Stern, as the Brain. As intellectual you may believe Obama is, he is blinded by the clear and present fact, Andy Stern is out to rule the world, so to speak. We can only hope that as in the toon, 'Pinky & the Brain' that like Pinky the President in an unintentional way will ruin the plans of the Brain, to rule the world. I can imagine the President and Andy Stern during one of their so-called non-lobbyist meetings (22 or more times last year) Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"

The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!" With the President just laughing the idea off, not Andy Stern, he knows what he wants and he has a plan.

 

Andy Stern may have a great smile, but wields a heavy hand, cold and calculated. His ideology is not of union bosses from time past, rather from political revolutionaries from a time, we should not, and must not forget. At (59) Andy Stern is from the old school of walk softly and carry a big stick, the swan song of socialist and communist revolutionaries. Now don't ruffle your feathers yet. I'm not calling Andy Stern a socialist or communist, but, if his ideology talks the talk and walks the walk or for you Duckeons, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Just a thought, not an accusation, yet.

 

Now this duck, oops, I mean Andy Stern, has been appointed by President Obama (aka Pinky) to the just created National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Oh boy! Another government committee, another bureaucratic smoke screen to not face head on, the problems of the economy, that this government just refuses to get. Just think, if President Obama had included the word Government in the committee title (National government Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform), it would have been an oxymoron. Does this appointment of Andy Stern sound a little like a fox in the hen house or as Investor's Business daily put it, "is like having a serial arsonist organize Fire Prevention Week”. And Pinky, is holding the match.

 

As the president of the fastest growing union in America, Andy Stern and the S.E.I.U., which contributed $60million to President Obama's campaign, from one Duck's point of view, has argumentatively single handedly added more to health care costs than any single issue on the topic. Unionizing hospital workers under the S.I.E.U. has contributed to poorer care (Patient care) and extreme costs that have not argumentatively inflated the cost of health care to beyond, and to use a Left Loon term, entitlement.

 

Andy Stern is a bad choice by a President that has promised "change we can believe in" at a time when a quarter of the way through his presidency, the only legacy for President Obama at this point, is none.

 

I'm Dr. Quack, with the harsh cry of reason...3 08 10