It's Not Fair (Part II)

Written : Apr. 30 and May 8, 2012

Mainstream talking heads used terms such as vicious, hateful, violent, among others, for the peaceful, polite, and orderly Tea Party protests. CNN reporter Susan Roesgen, with a condescending, sarcastic, and angry manner, reprimanded and lectured several intellectual men and women in Chicago on April 15, 2009. Visibly upset that anyone might their right to protest the current president’s policies, she tried to educate the crowd to the benefits of the stimulus bill. Ms. Roesgen labeled the gathering a party for Obama bashers, but why would a reporter use such a partisan tone? The supposed objective observer, at times sporting a scowl, interrupted her interviewees many times. For no apparent reason, and with no proof to back her up, she went off about how FOX News instigated the protest. She said, although no foul language permeated her report, that the segment was not for family viewing. Mainstream Media reporters covered the Tea Party in the same, slanderous way (using the charged pejorative "tea baggers," for example), as if to defend President Obama against an imaginary onslaught. The Tea Party protesters, actually from different political parties, oppose taxes and skyrocketing debt, and the inability to have a say about where their money gets spent.

At the same time, when Occupy Wall Street protesters, some violent, took to the streets, many of the same microphone holders took them seriously. They described these mobs as peace rallies, often using understanding and sympathy for the ruffians. Clearly divisive, they pitted the one percent vs. the 99 percent. How clever! Occupiers, appearing unaware, uneducated, and disorganized, committed sex acts and perpetrated violence against one another. They illegally blocked thoroughfares, called for the beheadings of bankers, promoted theft and vandalism, and defecated on police vehicles. Yet, the media portrayed them as geniuses. You're right, it's not unfair, it's unbelievable!

CNN, doing the right thing, did not offer Susan Roesgen a contract beyond July, 2009. Ms. Roesgen, (I tip my hat to her), instead of quitting, quietly works in Illinois to salvage her career by moderating local news shows. However, CNN and the rest of the lame-stream media should examine their distorted, unethical, and biased-beyond-belief reporting.

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President Obama’s Report Card #3 – Failure – Red Alert – Danger, Will Robinson…

Written : Feb. 13, 2012

We find President Obama, a good family man, but the one president the media decided not to vet, three years into his presidency. We gave him a hopeful chance, and he promised the most open administration in history, with the least corruption - ever. What did he do so far? First, he allowed others to write his Health Care legislation, and with a majority in both houses, they passed it by the skin of their teeth. One must wonder why he concentrated so hard on Health Care, when so many of us needed jobs instead.

The president and his fellow Democrats made deals in back rooms, most notably the Louisiana Purchase. Sen. Mary Landrieu accepted a handout of at least $100 million in federal dollars to her state in exchange for her yes vote. Don’t forget the Cornhusker Kickback; Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson received a bribe - if he voted for the bill, Nebraska’s share would be covered by the other 49 states – forever – and he accepted it! Others reportedly also received money for their yes votes. Rep. Bart Stupak caved because Democrats crow-barred his resistance to the bill. He voted yes in exchange for a promise that the president would issue a weak executive order stating that the bill would not pay for abortions. Why did the president and the Democrats hold closed-door meetings, and exclude the Republicans from the discussions? So much for more openness and less corruption!

President Obama promised to unite the country; yet, his actions and speeches filled with bitter emotion inflamed many and inspired the violent Occupy Wall Street protests. He riled up the poor and divided us by using class warfare rhetoric, previously reserved for left-wing radicals. He often scolded America in condescending tones. The rich must pay their fair share of federal taxes! But, who is rich, how do politicians know what each family can afford, and what is a fair share? We’ve heard many different definitions for the word rich, set at various and arbitrary income levels, but no one knows for sure what it means. His VP compared soaring levels of patriotism to more money given up to government, and yet many poor don’t pay any federal income tax - and many members of the Obama administration cheated on their returns. (So, what does Vice President Biden’s comment really mean?)

From the promised shovel-ready jobs - which he admitted with a sarcastic laugh weren’t really shovel-ready, to the bungled Fast and Furious gun-runner operation, to his failed stimulus, our president failed to deliver. From the Solyndra Scandal, to the discarded Keystone XL Pipeline jobs, to our weakened military, to the czars he appointed – in order to avoid their approvals by Congress - he presided over the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. From his bowing to Saudi kings, his berating America tour, his support of the wildly radical Islamic Arab Spring, the massive debt he accumulated in just three short years, not to mention our limping economy, he failed to lead. From ignoring the Bowles-Simpson Commission’s recommendations, to the steady, high unemployment numbers, his administration is a complete failure.

Even though he used President Bush’s track record, infrastructure, and tools to get Osama Bin Laden, this president deserves an F- grade – so far. Let’s be fair - he has a year left. But, if we give him another four years on top of that, he’ll become even more radical, because he’ll have nothing to lose. If he wins the next election, he’ll wreck America. Just look at what he’s accomplished so far!

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Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, 2011

Businessman, author, and commentator Peter Schiff is a self-proclaimed member of the one percent, as the richest Americans are known. He paid a visit to the Occupy Wall Street protest a few days ago. Schiff conversed for several hours with many in the crowd. He supports their right to be upset over the Wall Street bankers’ bail-outs during both the Bush TARP and the Obama stimulus. He voiced his agreement with their general feelings and has compassion for the plight of the 99 percent, but thinks the protesters should be in Washington, D.C., rather than on Wall Street. Companies should not be selected to succeed or fail by unqualified officials, the markets should determine their plight. Put another way, businesses which collapse should not be rewarded and continue. They need to pay the price of failure and close up shop. This sounds harsh to some, but it’s a part of capitalism. People aren’t murdered, they simply move on to the next company. Various members of group Occupy said they support our current system and many of those who spoke with Mr. Schiff claimed no affiliation with either the left or the right.

Mr. Schiff’s desire to find common ground between the one and the 99 percent motivated him to appear amongst the mob in Zuccotti Park. The numbers one and 99 represent arbitrary percentages of poor and wealthy. When hit with common questions concerning greed and capitalism, Peter Schiff made some great points while remaining unemotional, calm, and collected. With corporate tax rates low, businesses create jobs. Someone offered that the rich should give 75% of their incomes to the Gov. in the form of taxes. The rates did once approach such unthinkable heights, but “nobody paid those rates,” Schiff said. When confronted with an angry protester who complained that Steve Jobs used overseas workers, Mr. Schiff answered that the government, through excessive regulation, caused the conditions which forced Jobs to shift his employees across the oceans. The protester lost it – and the argument - by calling Mr. Schiff an idiot.

Video reveals Peter Schiff asking protesters if they liked the idea of climbing into the one percent rather than remain a part of the 99, and these suggestions caused them to stammer. When someone called Schiff greedy, he pointed out that everyone is greedy. As the protester disagreed, Schiff proved that the young man, too, wanted more material things and a better life for himself and his family. And Schiff addressed the most common left-wing view – that each individual pay their fair share. “I am paying 35% of my income,” he said. “Do you think I should pay more?” The woman refused to answer, insisting that we should get rid of the Bush tax cuts, instead.

The Occupy Wall Street crowd is making a big mistake, Schiff said. Don’t lump all business people in with Wall Street folks, he scolded them, these are two different types of entrepreneurs. Agreeing with the protesters, he emphasized that collusion between government and the financial institutions is crony capitalism, and it’s wrong. Peter Schiff says such corruption is a disgrace, and I agree. The Tea Party and Occupy are polar opposites in my opinion, but perhaps they have one thing in common. They both oppose seedy relationships between government officials and corporations.

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Mark A. Cohen will speak during the Republican First Friday Breakfast at the Warhorse Inn in Parker CO, on Dec. 2, 2011. The event will be held at 7AM. Mark will speak about his upbringing at the hands of his radical, left-wing parents, his political transformation, and about his as yet unpublished manuscript, From The Left to the Right.