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    NEWSPAPER SPANKS OBAMA: 'SHOVE IT, MR. PRESIDENT'

    NEWSPAPER SPANKS OBAMA: 'SHOVE IT, MR. PRESIDENT'

    Editors scorch 'umpteenth different' jobs plan

    BOB UNRUH
    July 30,2013


    A newspaper editorial today greeted Barack Obama in an entirely new way as he traveled to Chattanooga, Tenn., to visit an Amazon.com business center and lobby for his newest strategy to try to create jobs for Americans.
    “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” said a commentary in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

    “Forgive us if you are not greeted with the same level of Southern hospitality that our area usually bestows on its distinguished guests. You see, we understand you are in town to share your umpteenth different job creation plan during your time in office. If it works as well as your other job creation programs, then thanks, but no thanks. We’d prefer you keep it to yourself,” the newspaper said.

    “That’s because your jobs creation plans so far have included a ridiculous government spending spree and punitive tax increase on job creators that were passed, as well as a minimum wage increase that, thankfully, was not. Economists – and regular folks with a basic understanding of math – understand that these are three of the most damaging policies imaginable when a country is mired in unemployment and starving for job growth.”

    At Amazon’s Chattanooga fulfillment center, Obama praised the operation for being “kind of like the North Pole of the south right here. … Got a bunch of good-looking elves here.”

    He boasted of creating “7.2 million new jobs over the last 40 months” because of the “grit and resilience of the American people.”

    “But as I said last week, and as any middle-class family will tell you, we’re not there yet,” Obama said. “Even before the financial crisis hit, we were going through a decade where a few at the top were doing better and better, but most families were working harder and harder just to get by. And reversing that trend should be Washington’s highest priority.”

    He said he wanted to lay out his ideas for creating good jobs but lamented that the Republicans in Congress wouldn’t give him everything he asked for.

    Obama cited a strategy to offer incentives for manufacturers to keep jobs in the U.S. or bring them back from overseas, spending billions to catch up on “deferred maintenance” in the U.S., creating jobs in wind, solar, and natural gas industries, and exporting more.

    He also said he wants corporations to hire more people.

    “We’re not lacking for ideas, we’re just lacking action, especially out of Washington,” Obama said.

    The newspaper noted “64 percent of Chattanooga respondents said they would rather you hadn’t chosen to visit our fair city,” but the editorial said it actually was good that Obama visited.

    “It will give you an opportunity to see the failure of your most comprehensive jobs plan to date, the disastrous stimulus scheme, up close and personal,” the newspaper said.

    The commentary cited the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009′s funding of the “Gig to Nowhere.”

    That’s a $552 million “socialist-style experiment in government-owned Internet, cable and phone services orchestrated by EPB – Chattanooga’s government-owned electric monopoly.”

    “The Gig to Nowhere is a Smart Grid, a high tech local electricity infrastructure intended to improve energy efficiency and reduce power outages. After lobbying for, and receiving, $111.6 million in stimulus money from your administration, EPB decided to build a souped-up version of the Smart Grid with fiber optics rather than more cost-effective wireless technology. This decision was supposed to allow EPB to provide the fastest Internet service in the Western Hemisphere, a gigabit-per-second Internet speed that would send tech companies and web entrepreneurs stampeding to Chattanooga in droves.”

    The reality, however, is that the project is “an absolute bust.”

    “While the Smart Grid will cost taxpayers and local electric customers well over a half-billion dollars when all is said and done, there has been little improvement in the quality of EPB’s electric service. Worse, despite being heavily subsidized, EPB’s government-owned Internet, cable and telephone outfit that competes head-to-head against private companies like AT&T and Comcast is barely staying afloat, often relying on loans from electric service reserve funds to afford its business expenses,” the newspaper pointed out.

    “Further, there has been no credible evidence to suggest that EPB can even provide a gig of service consistently and reliably. Any companies hoping to utilize the Gig to Nowhere are quoted monthly billing costs that make the service unfeasible. As a result, Chattanooga has remained a relative ghost town for technological innovation. Almost no economic development whatsoever has resulted from the gig,” the newspaper said.

    The newspaper said what the government program has achieved is a “shocking price tag.”

    “Because of your unwillingness to balance the budget, Mr. President, the $111.6 million federal handout to subsidize the Gig to Nowhere will actually cost federal taxpayers $158.2 million, due to interest. Once EPB received the stimulus infusion to fund the pork project, the electric monopoly took out a $219.8 bond that will balloon to $391.3 million by the time Chattanoogans are done paying it off.

    “The bond’s first payment comes due this fall and there remain significant questions about how EPB can manage to pay the debt without hiking electric rates on EPB customers,” the newspaper said. “Building a Smart Grid to get into a telecom sector already well-served by private companies was a bad idea from the start. But getting government involved in places it doesn’t belong is a hallmark of your administration.”

    Obama’s explained his newest strategy is a plan that “simplifies the tax code for our businesses and creates good jobs with good wages.”

    He said he would be willing to tax code reform – but only if it allows the government “to use money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middle-class jobs.”


    Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/newspaper...GbkXpB6ih6O.99

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    What? Is there a newspaper with a circulation of more than 12 that is conservative, or is this simply a token conservative editorial that liberal newspapers run to maintain the fiction that they are impartial? I would hope we have at least one large newspaper on our side.

    O.k. back to the telephones people. And don't forget local offices of politicians, state and county offices of the Republican Party, college Republican groups, tea party groups to remind them stopping amnesty is every patriot's battle. Nag friends and family until they runand hide when they see you coming, Yard signs, bumper stickers (make your own), organize a demonstration, circulate open letter petitions and other stuff you can think of. If you are not doing all of these things, you are not doing enough.

    WE NEED TO RECRUIT MORE NEW PEOPLE TO MAKE TELEPHONE CALLS. One useful tool is a DVD " They Come to America II." look it up on the WEB by that tile. They are selling it really cheap because they want to get as many viewers as possible -- $19.99 for 5 copies.
    Don't worry it is a very professional looking documentary. There is also a "They Come to America I," but I haven't seen it. It ought to be good also.

    Get that DVD and distribute it to everyone who seems likely to watch it. Most people will not read a book but they will watch a DVD. Time is running out order it now before any bills are passed.
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    Sounds like subscriptions should be canceled.
    Newspaper Fires Opinion Editor who told Obama to “Shove It”


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    Aug 1, 2013

    By Todd Starnes

    The Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial page editor who criticized President Obama’s jobs plan courtesy of a Johnny Paycheck song is now out of a job.

    Drew Johnson’s editorial, titled “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough,” went viral and drew national attention earlier this week when President Obama visited the city.

    The newspaper released a statement today saying Johnson had been fired for “placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.”

    “The headline was inappropriate for this newspaper,” the statement read. “It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline.”

    Johnson, who had been with the newspaper for just over a year, addressed his firing on Twitter.

    “I just became the first person in the history of newspapers to be fired for writing a paper’s most-read article,” he tweeted.

    Johnson defended the headline, noting that “we change headlines all the time without incident or issue.”

    The newspaper denied Johnson’s firing had anything to do with the content of his editorial.

    “The Free Press page has often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies,” the newspaper stated.

    The Times Free Press has two editorial pages — one conservative and the other liberal.

    “This newspaper places high value on expressions of divergent opinion, but will not permit violations of its standards,” the newspaper stated.

    Conservatives cheered but some of Johnson’s fellow journalists were not so pleased. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jim Galloway called it “rude” and “downright hostile.”

    On the bright side, Johnson tweeted that “I do have time to work on the roasted chestnut business now.”

    http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes...-shove-it.html


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