De facto Commander-in-Chief Obama (either a natural born subject of the United Kingdom enclave of Kenya, or a natural born resident of the republic of Hawaii) intensifies the Afghan-American War by ordering an additional 17,500 United states Armed Forces (a nearly 50% increase) into the conflict.

       [added 9/28/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto President Obama (either a natural born subject of the United Kingdom enclave of Kenya, or a natural born resident of the republic of Hawaii) signs the thousand-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, one day after it was passed by CONgress.  The act authorizes the expenditure of 825,000,000,000 “dollars” — 5.8% of the nation’s Gross National Product — on “economic recovery” (pork barrel) projects.  The plan is aimed at saving or creating 3,500,000 jobs and boosting consumer spending and rebuilding infrastructure.  Among the specifics of the act,

• 1,300,000,000 “dollars” to bailout National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) — which has never made a profit in its four-decade history,
• 45,000,000 “dollars” for all-terrain-vehicle trails, and renovations to Federal government offices, and
• 300,000,000 “dollars” hybrid and electric-powered vehicles for Federal employees (French for “government workers”).

       NOTES:

• As a candidate, Obama promised not to sign legislation until it had sat on his desk for five days.
• Also, Obama promised not sign spending bills with “earmarks” (spending that is not specifically authorized, competitively awarded, the subject of congressional hearings; requested by the president, and serves only a special interest).  Yet the ARRA has over eight thousand earmarks worth over 5,000,000,000 “dollars” which include:
  • 455 “dollars” for the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers to rent two ice machines,
  • 2,655 “dollars” for a reach-in freezer in the cafeteria at the cafeteria at the Robert J. Dole Federal courthouse, in Kansas City, kansas,
  • 8,223 “dollars” so the National Park Service will have an electric golf cart to scatter oyster shells at the DeSoto National Memorial in Bradenton, florida,
  • 20,000 “dollars” to freeze fish sperm at the Gavins Point National Fish hatchery in Yankton, south dakota,
  • 50,000 “dollars” for a National Endowment for the Arts to fund a “kinky art pornohorror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla” (Is this what Obama means by “stimulate?” — TAC),
  • 51,500 “dollars” to the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers for the purchase of nine mascot costumes and robots to teach children about safe boating and swimming,
  • 71,000 “dollars” for Colchester, vermont to purchase, two hybrid vehicles, one to be used by student drivers (), the other for municipal employees (French for “government workers”) with signs publicizing their energy efficiency,
  • 219,000 “dollars” to study the sexual habits of female students at Syracuse University,
  • 300,000 “dollars” for a helicopter equipped with a global positioning system to locate radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, in washington.
  • 356,000 “dollars” for the University indiana to study childhood understanding of foreign accents against domestic speech.
  • 380,000 “dollars” to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kansas,
  • 430,000 “dollars” to repair a bridge in Iowa County, wisconsin, which is used by less than ten vehicles per day,
  • 462,000 “dollars” for 22 concrete toilets for the Mark Twain National Forest in missouri (Why are these not paid out of entry fees? — TAC),
  • 550,000 “dollars” to construct a skateboard park and overhaul tennis and basketball courts at a junior high school, in Pawtucket, rhode island, which is trying to reduce a 10,000,000 “dollar” deficit.
  • 800,000 “dollars” to build an alternate runway at the airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania that serves about 20 passengers per day,
  • 823,000 “dollars” to the National Institute of Mental Health to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash themselves after sex,
  • 883,952 “dollars” for benches, bike paths, decorative lighting, trees and other street beautification projects in Ann Arbor, michigan,
  • 1,000,000 “dollars” to analyze the results of environmentally friendly government housing on 300 residents in Chicago, illinois,
  • 1,000,000 “dollars” for Portland, oregon, to construct a garage for 250 bicycles, and replace 100 unserviceable bicycle lockers,
  • 1,150,000 “dollars” for a guardrail at a perennially dry lake bed in Guymon, oklahoma,
  • 1,300,000 “dollars” for at least 65,500 government arts jobs to make wicker baskets, tell story and perform music festivals in maine,
  • 1,500,000 “dollars” for a fence to prevent suicides off the All-American Bridge in Akron, (Federal enclave of) Ohio,2,300,000 “dollars” for the United states Forest Service to raise insects,
  • 2,500,000 “dollars” to U.s. subject/enemy/citizens no longer living (will that stimulate them? — TAC),
  • 3,100,000 “dollars” to convert a canal barge into a floating museum to travel the Erie (new york state Barge) Canal.
  • 3,300,000 “dollars” for attorneys to support the 25,000,000,000 “dollar” Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturers Loan Program at the Department of Energy,
  • 3,400,000 “dollars” for a “turtle tunnel” for animals to cross underneath U.s. Route 27, in Lake Jackson, florida,
  • 6,000,000 “dollars” to manufacture snow in Duluth, minnesota (Don’t they have enough already? — TAC),
  • 8,380,000 “dollars” to renovate a train station in Lancaster County, pennsylvania, which has not been used for three decades,
  • 11,000,000 “dollars” for computer software corporate giant Microsoft —  which had an annual net income (after all expenses were paid) of 17,681,000,000 “dollars” — to build a bridge across a limited access highway to connect the two campuses of its international headquarters,
  • 30,000,000 “dollars” the major league baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies to build spring training facilities.

• And funding for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the nation, at 300 “dollars” apiece, announcing that the projects are paid for by Federal stimulus funds,
• The ARRA creates the “Making Work Pay Tax Credit,” a temporary, two-year tax credit coupled it a permanent increase in the withholding thresholds that gives the Federal government in interest free loan to be refunded every year on April 15th.

       Postscripts:

• Ten months later, instead of adding 3,500,000 new jobs, another 2,700,000 jobs were lost.

• Obama promised unprecedented transparency in his administration, that U.S. subject/enemy/citizens would be able to use the Internet to track appropriations “down to the street level.” But three months after the biggest pork-barrel spending bill in the history of the nation was signed, little is available beyond occasional press releases, the vaguest analysis of expenditures, and technocratic spreadsheets.

       [added 9/28/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix, Ellen Brown and Bill Holmes for this entry.

       President James Bullard, of the privately owned Federal Reserve (central) Bank of St. Louis, speaking to the New York Association for Business Economics, at the Harvard Club, in New York City, warns of the very real danger of deflation, in which prices decline making consumer goods and services less expensive: “[T]he weak economy, disinflation … are raising the specter of deflation. By making its long-run inflation objective explicit, the Fed could help provide a credible commitment that the growth of the monetary base will slow as deflation risks recede.”

       NOTE: The editors strongly disagree.  It is not deflation that is the enemy; it is inflation (depreciation of the Federal Reserve Note) that is the real enemy.  Inflation erodes the value of non-commodity based savings.  Deflation increases the value of savings, and thus encourages it.  One of the greatest periods of economic prosperity in the nation’s history was one of prolonged deflation from the end of the Second American Revolution (War of Federal Aggression) until the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks.  Falling consumer prices results in more discretionary income for savings and investment, and contributes to an overall improvement in the standard of living.

        [added 9/28/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix, Bill Holmes and Esther O’Brien for their contributions to, this entry.

       Leo Ribas, Director of the Community Services Division, of the Department of Social and Health Services, of washington, mails one “dollar” checks to 250,000 food stamp recipients, which triggers another 43,000,000 “dollars” in Federal aid.

[restored 9/28/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

       Trump Entertainment Resorts files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  This is the sixth time a Trump Group company has declared bankruptcy.

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