So far the Speakers include: Carl Demaio, John Stahl and Dan Hughes and more
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City Councilman Carl DeMaio holds a slim lead among registered voters in the San Diego mayor’s race, but support for Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher has surged, creating a three-way heat a month before the June 5 primary, according to a new U-T San Diego Poll.
DeMaio, a Republican, leads the way with 22 percent while Democratic Rep. Bob Filner and Fletcher, an independent, are neck-and-neck for second place with 18 percent and 17 percent, respectively. Republican District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is fourth at 8 percent.
The race appears far from settled: 35 percent of city voters remain undecided.
In the last three years, Michelle Obama has taken sixteen vacations on the people’s dime. Sixteen. I haven’t taken sixteen vacations in the 40 years I’ve been working for a living! And may we hasten to add that Michelle Obama doesn’t even HAVE a job from which to vacate!
This time Queen Michelle and her brood are swooshing the slopes of Aspen on another well deserved vacation away from Washington, courtesy U.S. taxpayers. One has to wonder why the Old Media is turning a blind eye to these million-dollar extravagances? Especially in this time when millions ofAmericans are out of work and cannot find suitable jobs the Old Media says nothing while Michelle lavishes herself with expensive vacations. Did I mention we are paying for all this?
One would think that these many, many, many indulgences would be ripe for ridicule by the Old Media. But since more medidiotes are joining the Obama administration everyday, it’s no wonder that they don’t want to bite the hand that is feeding them — not just stories, but literally feeding them at this point.
It takes the British Press to note these extravagant “holidays” and add up the costs.
Here are the costs for just a few of Michelle’s imperial junkets:
SPAIN: AUGUST 2010
HAWAII: DECEMBER 2010
According to the Hawaii Reporter the costs were:
SKI TRIP TO VAIL: FEBRUARY 2011
MARTHA’S VINEYARD: AUGUST 2011
HAWAII: DECEMBER 2011
According to the Hawaii Reporter the costs were:
President Obama speaking on the economy at Florida Atlantic University
Forget Warren Buffett, or whatever other political prop the White House wants to use for its tax agenda. This week the Administration officially endorsed what in essence is the Obama Rule: Taxes must be high simply to spread the wealth, never mind the impact on the economy or government revenue. It’s all about “fairness,” baby.
This was long apparent to those fated to closely watch the 2008 campaign, but some voters might have missed the point amid the gauzy rhetoric about hope and change. Now we know without any doubt. White House aides made it official Tuesday in their on-the-record briefing on the new federal minimum tax that travels under the political alias known as the “Buffett rule.”
The policy goal is to impose an effective minimum tax of 30% on the income of anyone who makes more than $1 million a year. When President Obama first proposed this new minimum tax he declared that the rule “could raise enough money” so that we “stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade.”
Then he added: “This is not politics; this is math.” Well, remedial math maybe.
The Obama Treasury’s own numbers confirm that the tax would raise at most $5 billion a year—or less than 0.5% of the $1.2 trillion fiscal 2012 budget deficit and over the next decade a mere 0.1% of the $45.43 trillion the federal government will spend. When asked about those revenue projections, White House aide Jason Furman backpedaled from Mr. Obama’s rationale by explaining that the tax was never intended “to bring the deficit down and the debt under control.”
