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I am supporting Jill Dodds for Coralville City Council. Dodds has done her homework over the past years and has become familiar with the issues that have come before the council. She studies the agendas, asks questions and often provides input through public comment or contact with councilors or city staff. She will be ready to serve the residents of Coralville from Day One.
While I do not expect to agree with Dodds on every issue, I know that I can expect that my opinion will be considered. There is no question that Jill will be an accessible city councilor.
I will be voting Dodds for Coralville City Council Nov. 8, won’t you?
People are being paid to protest.... Isn't this supposedly a "leaderless" movement?
Fox News is reporting that the former New York office for ACORN is heavily involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Their report indicates that former members are organizing door-to-door canvassing, events, and other related activities. From the Fox News report:
The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.
NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.
Fox goes on to report that the NYCC has hired 100 or so former ACORN staffers who were once affiliated with the defunct organizing group.
According to sources, the former staffers are utilizing the same tricks that landed them in trouble. Staffers are allegedly targeting union members based on an address list and then knock on their doors to ask for contributions. Apparently, this is done under a union guise and the people being solicited aren’t told that the money is actually going to be used to fund Occupy Wall Street.
“All the money collected from canvasses is pooled together back at the office, and everything we’ve been working on for the last year is going to the protests, against big banks and to pay people’s salaries—and those people on salary are, of course, being paid to go to the protests every day,” one of the staffers told Fox News.
The rude Occupy Protester in the video below wants to tax the rich for housing and health care, she claims to speak for 'The 99%'. I'm not in the 1% and she's definitely not speaking for me. Housing and healthcare are my responsibility, not government's.
Watch financial expert Peter Schiff confront ‘The 99%’ at Occupy Wall Street with legitimate questions about taxes, entrepreneurship, employment, and giving back to society. The Occupy folks couldn't provide a clear answer, they just kept reciting talking points.
The Blaze has run a GREAT story on reports that some Occupy protesters have been leaving their tents at night and fleeing to the comfort of capitalist hotels for better accommodations.
It's another piece of evidence demonstrating how the Occupy movement is one big charade.
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The Blaze recently reported that at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 9th, The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission will conduct the first-ever national test of the Emergency Alert System, where radio and televised broadcasts across the country will be disrupted for roughly…three-and-half minutes:
“In essence, the authority to seize control of all television and civilian communication has been asserted by the executive branch and handed to a government agency,” wrote Buck Sexton in our earlier report.
During the upcoming test, an audio message will likely recite, “this is a test” while text at the top of the screen might read that an “Emergency Alert Notification has been issued.”
While emergency broadcast tests are typically used by state and local governments to issue severe weather alerts and other emergency information, there has never been a nationwide activation of the system before. Federal agencies cite the reasons for the national test are to ensure emergency preparedness and to pinpoint flaws in the new EAS system.
Meanwhile, the thought of the nation’s broadcast systems being completely cut off for nearly four minutes — in addition to broadcasters being stripped of control — has left many, including Glenn, feeling unsettled over who, exactly, will have power over our airwaves.
When speaking about the old EBS tests, Glenn said that it “didn’t take control away from the broadcaster.” The new system, however, “seizes control of the broadcast frequency.”
“If the state wants to take control…they can just take it and there is nothing I can do about it” Glenn stated.
Watch Glenn discuss these unsettling developments in the video below:
Appearing on Fox News Monday morning, GOP strategist Karl Rove unveiled a laundry list of gaffes made by Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain on a variety of political issues.
Using a whiteboard to outline Cain’s missteps on: abortion, taxes, terrorism, neoconservatism, the Mideast, and other topics, Rove stated, “The whole effect of this is to not create an image, I think, of him being a flip-flopper.”
“I think it’s to create an image of being not up to the task.”
In a phone call response with Washington Examiner correspondent Byron York, Cain blasted, ”It‘s a good thing the voters are not looking at Karl Rove’s little whiteboard.”
Cain added, “I believe it is a deliberate attempt to damage me because I am not, quote unquote, the establishment choice. But why not go with the choice that the people seem to like?”
Remember how the housing crash was caused in large part by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the government) buying up mortgages, repackaging those mortgages in bundles - many of those being bad loans - and resold them?
That's what Obama is proposing to do with student loans and he's not even bothering to submit a proposal to Congress, he's doing this via executive order.
His *deal* not only recklessly bundles loans in irresponsible Fannie Mae fashion, Obama's plan also caps loan payments and lowers interest rates. He's duplicating what big government did to banks in creating the housing crisis.
Remember, the government took over the student loan business in 2010. Obama kicked banks out of the student loan business and gave that responsibility to the Department of Education. Why? So he could make this move, it's a blatant manuever to buy student votes. Who is paying? You, the taxpayer.
In the housing crisis, big government unwisely dictated what banks could and could not do with home loans and mortgages. The private enterprise element of bank-wise lending practices for home mortages was taken out of the mix. Government instructed banks to be lenient with loan risk and interest rates were superficially reduced. The housing market crashed as a result. The same kind of thing is going on here with Obama's *deal." Obama has taken private enterprise out of the mix, he's literally thrown it out the window. Big government has taken over and the future won't be bright. So let's go back to King Obama's *deal*.... His *deal* not only recklessly bundles loans in irresponsible Fannie Mae fashion, Obama's plan also caps loan payments and lowers interest rates.
What does that mean?
The King is bundling the loans, putting high risk loans in with low risk loans - just like Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac did - guaranteeing loans with taxpayer money to all regardless of the risk, just like Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac did. There's no accountability here because now YOU the taxpayer - not a bank - are providing the cash to pay tuition. Risk level is out the window. Loan criteria is out the window. No screening, it's green light, rubber stamp, no matter the student, no matter the type of education, good fit, no fit, it doesn't matter.
The King is capping the loan payment and reducing interest rates. A student will make a low monthly payment, not a reasonable payment, a superficially LOW payment. Why bother students with a loan payment dictated by interest rates and terms when YOU the taxpayer are underwriting the loan? Obama has *guaranteed* that YOU will pay.
The King is also reducing the time period to pay off the loan. It used to be that if you failed to pay off your student loan in 25 years, you would face a collection issue with the bank. Throw responsibility out the window! The King will forgive your student loan after 20 years. Can't pay that loan off with the ultra low monthly payment off in 20 years? That's OK, don't worry about the balance due. The max time under the Obama plan a student has to pay on the loan is 20 years, whether the loan gets paid off or not. The balance due is irrelevent, it's forgiven. Why? Because YOU the taxpayer.... Picking up the tab.
And like the bundled mortgage loans of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - operating with taxpayer money - the student loans getting bundled and by the government is a VERY BAD thing.
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