Fake CPI Data From The Federal Government Explained

The CPI or CONSUMER PRICE INDEX is all BS and the American Consumer knows it!

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I know you have been to the grocery store and purchased gas etc. The price of gas goes up and then down a little. When it goes up it takes more money out of your pocket and everyone's pocket. The price of gas is set on the futures market along with the price of oil. Both are artificially higher than they should be.

The increasing price of oil and gasoline causes inflation, (inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time), to increase.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOESN'T FIGURE IN THE PRICE OF OIL, GASOLINE AND FOOD INTO THE CGI OR CONSUMER PRICE INDEX.

This is why you see the price of food and energy going up but the CGI does not go up. Most Americans use energy and food to live. :) The federal government doesn't think this is important and does not report it in their con·vo·lut·ed, contrived and skewed "consumer price index".

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LIES ABOUT INFLATION!

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Consumer Price Index

Walter J. "John" Williams

he source for most of the information in this installment is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which generally has been very open about its methodologies and changes to same. The BLS Web site: www.bls.gov contains descriptions of the CPI and its related methodologies. Other sources include my own analyses of the CPI data and methodological changes over the last 30 years as well as interviews with individuals involved in inflation reporting.

Payments to Social Security Recipients Should be Double Current Levels

Inflation, as reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is understated by roughly 7% per year. This is due to recent redefinitions of the series as well as to flawed methodologies, particularly adjustments to price measures for quality changes. The concentration of this installment on the quality of government economic reports will be first on CPI series redefinition and the damages done to those dependent on accurate cost-of-living estimates, and on pending further redefinition and economic damage.

The CPI was designed to help businesses, individuals and the government adjust their financial planning and considerations for the impact of inflation. The CPI worked reasonably well for those purposes into the early-1980s.

In recent decades, however, the reporting system increasingly succumbed to pressures from miscreant politicians, who were and are intent upon stealing income from social security recipients, without ever taking the issue of reduced entitlement payments before the public or Congress for approval.

n particular, changes made in CPI methodology during the Clinton Administration understated inflation significantly, and, through a cumulative effect with earlier changes that began in the late-Carter and early Reagan Administrations have reduced current social security payments by roughly half from where they would have been otherwise. That means Social Security checks today would be about double had the various changes not been made. In like manner, anyone involved in commerce, who relies on receiving payments adjusted for the CPI, has been similarly damaged. On the other side, if you are making payments based on the CPI (i.e., the federal government), you are making out like a bandit.

In the original version of this background article, I noted that Social Security payments should 43% higher, but that was back in September 2004 and only adjusted for CPI changes that took place after 1993. The current estimate adjusts for methodology gimmicks introduced since 1980.

Elements of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had their roots in the mid-1880s, when the Bureau of Labor, later known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), was asked by Congress to measure the impact of new tariffs on prices. It was another three decades, however, before price indices would be combined into something resembling today's CPI, a measure used then for setting wage increases for World War I shipbuilders. Although published regularly since 1921, the CPI did not come into broad acceptance and use until after World War II, when it was included in auto union contracts as a cost-of-living adjustment for wages.

The CPI found its way not only into other union agreements, but also into most commercial contracts that required consideration of cost/price changes or inflation. The CPI also was used to adjust Social Security payments annually for changes in the cost of living, and therein lay the eventual downfall to the credibility of CPI reporting.

Let Them Eat Hamburger

In the early 1990s, press reports began surfacing as to how the CPI really was significantly overstating inflation. If only the CPI inflation rate could be reduced, it was argued, then entitlements, such as social security, would not increase as much each year, and that would help to bring the budget deficit under control. Behind this movement were financial luminaries Michael Boskin, then chief economist to the first Bush Administration, and Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Although the ensuing political furor killed consideration of Congressionally mandated changes in the CPI, the BLS quietly stepped forward and began changing the system, anyway, early in the Clinton Administration.

Up until the Boskin/Greenspan agendum surfaced, the CPI was measured using the costs of a fixed basket of goods, a fairly simple and straightforward concept. The identical basket of goods would be priced at prevailing market costs for each period, and the period-to-period change in the cost of that market basket represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a constant standard of living.

The Boskin/Greenspan argument was that when steak got too expensive, the consumer would substitute hamburger for the steak, and that the inflation measure should reflect the costs tied to buying hamburger versus steak, instead of steak versus steak. Of course, replacing hamburger for steak in the calculations would reduce the inflation rate, but it represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a declining standard of living. Cost of living was being replaced by the cost of survival. The old system told you how much you had to increase your income in order to keep buying steak. The new system promised you hamburger, and then dog food, perhaps, after that.

The Boskin/Greenspan concept violated the intent and common usage of the inflation index. The CPI was considered sacrosanct within the Department of Labor, given the number of contractual relationships that were anchored to it. The CPI was one number that never was to be revised, given its widespread usage.

Shortly after Clinton took control of the White House, however, attitudes changed. The BLS initially did not institute a new CPI measurement using a variable-basket of goods that allowed substitution of hamburger for steak, but rather tried to approximate the effect by changing the weighting of goods in the CPI fixed basket. Over a period of several years, straight arithmetic weighting of the CPI components was shifted to a geometric weighting. The Boskin/Greenspan benefit of a geometric weighting was that it automatically gave a lower weighting to CPI components that were rising in price, and a higher weighting to those items dropping in price.

(Mr greenspan has managed to make sure you and I eat hamburger instead of steak. Manipulated data is like a hidden tax or unfunded mandate tax. The federal government made sure you and I would take home less and be told it was more. It is obvious the CPI manipulated data was formulated to steal money from Americans.) Story Reports

Once the system had been shifted fully to geometric weighting, the net effect was to reduce reported CPI on an annual, or year-over-year basis, by 2.7% from what it would have been based on the traditional weighting methodology. The results have been dramatic. The compounding effect since the early-1990s has reduced annual cost of living adjustments in social security by more than a third.

The BLS publishes estimates of the effects of major methodological changes over time on the reported inflation rate (see the "Reporting Focus" section of the October 2005 Shadow Government Statistics newsletter -- available to the public in the Archives of www.shadowstats.com). Changes estimated by the BLS show roughly a 4% understatement in current annual CPI inflation versus what would have been reported using the original methodology. Adding the roughly 3% lost to geometric weighting -- most of which not included in the BLS estimates -- takes the current total CPI understatement to roughly 7%.

There now are three major CPI measures published by the BLS, CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) and the Chained CPI-U (C-CPI-U). The CPI-U is the popularly followed inflation measure reported in the financial media. It was introduced in 1978 as a more-broadly-based version of the then existing CPI, which was renamed CPI-W. The CPI-W is used in calculating Social Security benefits. These two series tend to move together and are based on frequent price sampling, which is supposed to yield something close to an average monthly price measure by component.

The C-CPI-U was introduced during the second Bush Administration as an alternate CPI measure. Unlike the theoretical approximation of geometric weighting to a variable, substitution-prone market basket, the C-CPI-U is a direct measure of the substitution effect. The difference in reporting is that August 2006 year-to-year inflation rates for the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U were 3.8% and 3.4%, respectively. Hence current inflation still has a 0.4% notch to be taken out of it through methodological manipulation. The C-CPI-U would not have been introduced unless there were plans to replace the current series, eventually.

Traditional inflation rates can be estimated by adding 7.0% to the CPI-U annual growth rate (3.8% +7.0% = 10.8% as of August 2006) or by adding 7.4% to the C-CPI-U rate (3.4% + 7.4% = 10.8% as of August 2006). Graphs of alternate CPI measures can be found as follows. The CPI adjusted solely for the impact of the shift to geometric weighting is shown in the graph on the home page of www.shadowstats.com. The CPI adjusted for both the geometric weighting and earlier methodological changes is shown on the Alternate Data page, which is available as a tab at the top of the home page.


Hedonic Thrills of Using Federally Mandated Gasoline Additives

Aside from the changed weighting, the average person also tends to sense higher inflation than is reported by the BLS, because of hedonics, as in hedonism. Hedonics adjusts the prices of goods for the increased pleasure the consumer derives from them. That new washing machine you bought did not cost you 20% more than it would have cost you last year, because you got an offsetting 20% increase in the pleasure you derive from pushing its new electronic control buttons instead of turning that old noisy dial, according to the BLS.

When gasoline rises 10 cents per gallon because of a federally mandated gasoline additive, the increased gasoline cost does not contribute to inflation. Instead, the 10 cents is eliminated from the CPI because of the offsetting hedonic thrills the consumer gets from breathing cleaner air. The same principle applies to federally mandated safety features in automobiles. I have not attempted to quantify the effects of questionable quality adjustments to the CPI, but they are substantial.

Then there is "intervention analysis" in the seasonal adjustment process, when a commodity, like gasoline, goes through violent price swings. Intervention analysis is done to tone down the volatility. As a result, somehow, rising gasoline prices never seem to get fully reflected in the CPI, but the declining prices sure do.

How Can So Many Financial Pundits Live Without Consuming Food and Energy?

The Pollyannas on Wall Street like to play games with the CPI, too. The concept of looking at the "core" rate of inflation-net of food and energy-was developed as a way of removing short-term (as in a month or two) volatility from inflation when energy and/or food prices turned volatile. Since food and energy account for about 23% of consumer spending (as weighted in the CPI), however, related inflation cannot be ignored for long. Nonetheless, it is common to hear financial pundits cite annual "core" inflation as a way of showing how contained inflation is. Such comments are moronic and such commentators are due the appropriate respect.

Too-Low Inflation Reporting Yields Too-High GDP Growth

As is discussed in the final installment on GDP, part of the problem with GDP reporting is the way inflation is handled. Although the CPI is not used in the GDP calculation, there are relationships with the price deflators used in converting GDP data and growth to inflation-adjusted numbers. The more inflation is understated, the higher the inflation-adjusted rate of GDP growth that gets reported.

(This means the GDP or groce national product is bullsh-t also!) Story Reports

S.C. Republicans allege intraparty spying by GOP good ole boys

S.C. Republicans allege intraparty spying by GOP good ole boys

The RINO's are listening in.

Allegedly GOP staffers listened in on activists.

John O’Connor

COLUMBIA --

State Republican Party staff members eavesdropped on a conference call organized by party activists to strategize ways to convince GOP candidates adopt more of the party platform, according to several people who participated in the meeting.

Republican activists have been critical of chairman Karen Floyd's tenure, arguing the party is spending too much money on consultants at the expense of promoting conservative ideas and candidates.

S.C. GOP 1st Vice Chairman Patrick Haddon organized the early September call with party activists including Randy Page, Chad Connelly and Justin Evans. Organizers said the call was intended as brainstorming session for fall campaigns, and not to discuss party leadership or direction.

But when the call ended, the list of participants contained an unknown number. Organizers called the number and reached a phone within Republican Party offices.

State party officials declined to discuss the conference call.

"No comment," S.C. GOP executive director Joel Sawyer said. "I'm not confirming or denying anything."

Haddon said the organizers are concerned about the impact on November elections.

"It's about getting our candidates elected," Haddon said of the discussion. "This is a family deal. We're not going to do anything until" after Nov. 2.

Joining a conference call uninvited can have serious legal consequences. A former director of the Virginia Republican Party, Ed Matricardi, was convicted of a felony in 2003 for listening in on two Democratic Party conference calls discussing redistricting.

The conference call is also the latest evidence of the uneasy relationship between activists affiliated with the tea party movement and more traditional party members. After the S.C. GOP and tea party activists struck a deal to work together last spring, tea party groups criticized Floyd for subsequent national media appearances and attempting to co-opt their movement. A similar debate played out in the GOP gubernatorial primary, where nominee Nikki Haley defeated three more established rivals.

Tuesday, House Republican leadership held a press conference with Floyd to reassure voters of their conservative beliefs and that GOP leadership in Columbia - the S.C. House majority since 1994 - "isn't anything like Washington," as Speaker Bobby Harrell said.

(The good ole boys in SC are very similar to obama scum. They will do anything to gain and stay in power. These are the people who "We The people" must remove from elected and unelected offices.) Story Reports


S.C. Republicans allege intraparty spying by GOP good ole boys

Anything out of the ordinary is a challenge for the imposter obama

Obama's teleprompter didn't tell the dummy to realize a book was thrown at his head. The dummy keeps smiling and does not notice the flying book.

This picture reveals what an idiot obama really is. If he is not told to do something by a teleprompter or someone his reaction is not normal.

Most normal persons would note the book about to hit them in the face and quit smiling or move to avoid the thrown object.

Obama is not normal but retarded. His "normal" actions are scripted. Anything out of the "ordinary" is a challenge for him.

America has elected a "democrate jackass", the symbol of stupid, as president. Rush is right.

All employers are required, by obama, to withhold FICA tax on the cost of the life insurance coverage over $50,000

Obamacare hidden tax on life insurance.

All employers are required, by obama, to withhold FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) tax on the cost of the life insurance coverage over $50,000 when an employee’s benefit exceeds $50,000.

If you now have $100,000 of life insurance coverage, you will be taxed on the additional $50,000 starting Jan 1, 2011 thanks to that to the crazy imposter in the white house posing as president.

Here is a link from a company explaning this "hidden benefit" from obama I just found out about.

Hidden obamacare tax on your life insurance over $50,000.00 information and IRS tax tables

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This cost is not based on the actual cost of the premium charged by the insurance company, but on costs established by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Before making a decision, to vote for a democrate again you may want to calculate the additional tax that would be imposed on your life insurance over $50,000.

The two examples below are based on the following table:

IRS CALCULATION OF MONTHLY COST PER $1,000 OF LIFE INSURANCE ON THE EXCESS OVER $50,000


Under age 25 $.05
Ages 25 through 29 $.06
Ages 30 through 34 $.08
Ages 35 through 39 $.09
Ages 40 through 44 $.10
Ages 45 through 49 $.15
Ages 50 through 54 $.23
Ages 55 through 59 $.43
Ages 60 through 64 $.66
Ages 65 through 69 $1.27
Over age 69 $2.06

The FICA tax for 2008 is 7.65% (6.20% for social security and 1.45% for Medicare). The taxable wage base for the social security portion is $102,000. This means that no social security tax is imposed on wages over $102,000. There is no limit for the Medicare portion

Example 1: An employee, age 37, earns $17,700 per year. Rensselaer provides this employee with a life insurance benefit equal to 2.25 times the July 1 rate of pay ($17,700 x 2.25 = $39,825), rounded up to the next $1,000. In this instance the benefit is $40,000. As the benefit is under $50,000, the benefit is not considered excessive by the Internal Revenue Service and is not taxed.

Example 2: An employee, age 55, earns $47,500. Rensselaer provides this employee with a life insurance benefit equal to 2.25 times the July 1 rate of pay ($47,500 x 2.25 = $106,875). In this instance the benefit is $107,000. The amount considered in excess is $57,000 ($107,000 - $50,000 = $57,000).

According to the IRS table, the cost of each one thousand dollars of excess is $.43. The taxable amount is then $24.51 per month ($.43 x 57 {the number of excess thousands} = $24.51).

Rensselaer is required to withhold FICA tax of 7.65% on that $24.51, or $1.88, each month ($24.51 x 7.65% = $1.88). The annual FICA tax is therefore $22.56 ($1.88 x 12 months).
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Group-Term Life Insurance IRS Burden On American Taxpayers Via Obamacare

(Crazy obama has made sure the IRS get its your money via your life insurance. Obama must be stopped along with his other thugs in congress!) Story Reports

Total Amount of Coverage

IRC section 79 provides an exclusion for the first $50,000 of group-term life insurance coverage provided under a policy carried directly or indirectly by an employer. There are no tax consequences if the total amount of such policies does not exceed $50,000. The imputed cost of coverage in excess of $50,000 must be included in income, using the IRS Premium Table, and are subject to social security and Medicare taxes.

Carried Directly or Indirectly by the Employer

A taxable fringe benefit arises if coverage exceeds $50,000 and the policy is considered carried directly or indirectly by the employer. A policy is considered carried directly or indirectly by the employer if:

1. The employer pays any cost of the life insurance, or
2. The employer arranges for the premium payments and the premiums paid by at least one employee subsidize those paid by at least one other employee (the “straddle” rule).

The determination of whether the premium charges straddle the costs is based on the IRS Premium Table rates, not the actual cost. You can view the Premium Table in the group-term life insurance discussion in Publication 15-B.

Because the employer is affecting the premium cost through its subsidizing and/or redistributing role, there is a benefit to employees. This benefit is taxable even if the employees are paying the full cost they are charged. You must calculate the taxable portion of the premiums for coverage that exceeds $50,000.

(This kind of government law really makes me mad and I'm sure it does the same for most Americans except those looking for a free handout from obama.) Story Reports

Not Carried Directly or Indirectly by the Employer

A policy that is not considered carried directly or indirectly by the employer has no tax consequences to the employee. Because the employees are paying the cost and the employer is not redistributing the cost of the premiums through an insurance system, the employer has no reporting requirements.

Example 1 - All employees for Employer X are in the 40 to 44 year age group. According to the IRS Premium Table, the cost per thousand is .10. The employer pays the full cost of the insurance. If at least one employee is charged more than .10 per thousand of coverage, and at least one is charged less than .10, the coverage is considered carried by the employer. Therefore, each employee is subject to social security and Medicare tax on the cost of coverage over $50,000.

Example 2 - The facts are the same as Example 1, except all employees are charged the same rate, which is set by the third-party insurer. The employer pays nothing toward the cost. Therefore there is no taxable income to the employees. It does not matter what the rate is, as the employer does not subsidize the cost or redistribute it between employees.

Coverage Provided by More Than One Insurer

Generally, if there is more than one policy from the same insurer providing coverage to employees, a combined test is used to determine whether it is carried directly or indirectly by the employer. However, the Regulations provide exceptions that allow the policies to be tested separately if the costs and coverage can be clearly allocated between the two policies. See Regulation 1.79 for more information.

If coverage is provided by more than one insurer, each policy must be tested separately to determine whether it is carried directly or indirectly by the employer.

Coverage for Spouse and Dependents

The cost of employer-provided group-term life insurance on the life of an employee’s spouse or dependent, paid by the employer, is not taxable to the employee if the face amount of the coverage does not exceed $2,000. This coverage is excluded as a de minimis fringe benefit.

Whether a benefit provided is considered de minimis depends on all the facts and circumstances. In some cases, an amount greater than $2,000 of coverage could be considered a de minimis benefit. See Notice 89-110 for more information.

If part of the coverage for a spouse or dependents is taxable, the same Premium Table is used as for the employee. The entire amount is taxable, not just the amount that exceeds $2,000.

Example 3 - A 47-year old employee receives $40,000 of coverage per year under a policy carried directly or indirectly by her employer. She is also entitled to $100,000 of optional insurance at her own expense. This amount is also considered carried by the employer. The cost of $10,000 of this amount is excludable; the cost of the remaining $90,000 is included in income. If the optional policy were not considered carried by the employer, none of the $100,000 coverage would be included in income.

SEE PAGE 12 Of this IRS publication to figure now much more obamacare will cost you.
Employer’s Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits

(The crazy IRS and obama consider your life insurance a FRINGE BENEFIT!) Story Reports

Obama's Sick Puppy Arne Duncan Is Trying To license Colleges In The US

President Obama's Department of Education, where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime homosexual activist who was part of the sometimes-violent Act Up organization to head his "safe schools" office, now is proposing to force colleges and universities to submit to a political agenda, according to critics.

Under the proposed federal rule change, institutions of higher education "would be required to have a document of state approval … to operate an educational program, including programs leading to a degree or certificate.

The Department of Education is attempting to subject every college and university in America – public and private – to political supervision.

Accreditation, now established by relatively independent educational councils, already is a life-or-death rating that requires institutions to meet high educational standards. But the new requirement for a "state approval" provides that "the State is expected to take an active role in approving an institution and monitoring complaints from the public about its operations and responding appropriately.

As a practical matter, the department's power grab carries with it an implicit invitation for various pressure groups to seek legal mandates requiring colleges and universities to implement their pet theories about curriculum, degree requirements, faculty qualifications, teaching methods, textbooks, evolution, phonics, ROTC, climate change, family policy, abortion, race, sexual orientation, economic theory, etc.

If adopted, regional accreditation will be denied to any institution that has not first been given 'substantive' state 'authorization.

The move is more of the same. The Obama administration does not much trust liberty. If something out there sneezes, regulate it. Surround it with endless pages of rules, blankets and blankets of rules, enough rules to smother the slightest hope of autonomy. Do more if necessary. Take over things. Take over health care. Take over the auto industry. Take over financial institutions. Government knows all. Government should do all.

Duncan's has also appointed Kevin Jennings, the founder of the pro-homosexual advocacy organization Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network to head the office of "Safe Schools" in the Education Department.

(Obama himself is a sick puppy. The above article from WND makes me want to puke.) Story Reports

Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed with the US Supreme Court for Kerchner v Obama Congress by attorney Mario Apuzzo

"If Obama was not born in the United States, there exists a possibility that Obama could be an illegal alien". Mario Apuzzo

The fact is obama has admitted he IS NOT a natural born citizen in Senate Resolution S 511. April 30, 2008. Obama has admiited he is an IMPOSTER president. All orders from obama are illegal. All laws signed by obama are illegal also.

Obama has defined the term natural born citizen in S. RES. 511. April 30, 2008

Text of S. Res. 511 [110th]: A resolution recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen containing obama's signature/sponsorship and his definition of the meaning of the term "natural born citizen"

Obama became a FRAUD the day he entered the presidential primaries because he had previously cosponsored and signed a resolution, S. RES. 511, stating a natural born citizen must be born of two US citizens at birth. It is not only a possibility, it is a probability that Obama is not a natural born citizen and also an illegal alien. Story Reports

If obama was born outside of the US he became an illegal alien at birth and for 33 years until 1994 when he became a citizen Check Out These Facts

What is important, is the law that was in effect at the time of Barack Obama's birth to his parents. The law in 1961. Not the law 10 years later or now.

U.S. CITIZENSHIP LAW AND OVERSEAS AMERICANS

Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed with the US Supreme Court for Kerchner v Obama Congress by attorney Mario Apuzzo

WND

A petition for writ of certiorari has been filed with the high court in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold the dismissal of a case brought by attorney Mario Apuzzo on behalf of Charles F. Kerchner Jr., Lowell T. Patterson, Darrell James Lenormand and Donald H. Nelsen Jr.

The case alleges Congress failed to follow the Constitution, which "provides that Congress must fully qualify the candidate 'elected' by the Electoral College Electors."

Named as defendants are Barack Hussein Obama II, the U.S., Congress, the Senate, the House of Representatives, former Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The case alleges Congress failed to follow the Constitution, which "provides that Congress must fully qualify the candidate 'elected' by the Electoral College Electors."

Apuzzo said Obama not only has not proven, as required under the Constitution, his status as a "natural born citizen," but "he has hidden all his early life records including his original long-form birth certificate, early school records, college records, travel and passport records needed to prove he is even a born citizen of the United States."

Barack Hussein Obama has not yet conclusively proven that he was born in the United States. His father was never a United States citizen nor was he even a permanent resident. Obama sr and obama jr both became Kenyan citizens when Kenya got its independence in 1963.

"Obama was born a British subject/citizen to a British subject/citizen father and a U.S. citizen mother. Obama's father was not a U.S. citizen and never intended to be one. Obama's father was never even an immigrant to the USA nor was he even a permanent legal resident. Obama's father was a foreign national sojourning in the USA to attend college. Obama is still a British subject/citizen to this day because he has never renounced that citizenship. According to this lawsuit, Obama was born a dual-citizen with dual allegiance and loyalty and is therefore not constitutionally eligible to be the president and commander-in-chief of our military," Kerchner explained.

The lawsuit simply seeks a trial on the merits "to determine the true facts of Obama's legal identity and exact citizenship status and to require Obama to prove to the courts that he is eligible for the federal office he sits in per our Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, which states: No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Apuzzo also said, "Whether he is legitimate is also vital in maintaining the proper chain of command in our military and in giving legality to all military orders … Since the president signs all acts passed by Congress into law, it is vitally important that the president be legitimately in power so as to give those laws domestic and international legality."

Other documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.

Justice Clarence Thomas, in an appearance before Congress, previously said the court has been "evading" the Obama eligibility issue.

Supremes get case against 'putative' President Obama Petition: 'There exists possibility that he could be an illegal alien'

Failure is obama's greatest accomplishment.

(I agree with Chuck, obama is nothing but a failure. A successful failure. Obama is a traitor to America and the enemy within.) Story reports

Chuck Norris WND

Failure is obama's greatest accomplishment.

The fact is, Obama entered office with no executive experience, and his business plan to get our economy out of hock has been a miserable failure. The failure was on purpose.

At that town hall-type CNBC meeting last week obama defended his economic policies while being hammered by citizens from every stratum of our economic society.

The chief financial officer of AmVets, a veterans organization, who was also respectively an African-American woman, Mrs. Velma Hart, stood to her feet to address the president. By the time she was done, you could hear a pin drop.

Mrs. Velma Hart told BO:

"I'm one of your middle-class Americans, and quite frankly I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for. I'm deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I have been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I'm one of those people. And I'm waiting sir, I'm waiting. I – I don't feel it yet. … I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran, and I'm one of your middle-class Americans. … My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs-and-beans era of our lives. But, quite frankly, it is starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we are headed again."

She even silenced pro-Obama comedian news commentator Jon Stewart on his "Comedy Central" show a few days later. Having shown the clip of Mrs. Hart's diatribe, Stewart labeled her "Obama's kryptonite" and the "perfect Obama zapping machine." Lacking for pro-Obama comic material, Stewart gave evidence to her words by playing a video string of broken promises from the very mouth of Obama over the past couple years.

He then likened Mrs. Hart's representative disappointment of Obama to the purchase and disenchanting reception of an overly exaggerated infomercial product.

Most telling, however, was what sounded like Stewart's own concluding contrite and sincere confession of displeasure with Obama:

"I guess what I'm saying, Mr. President is, I don't know who's to blame: You, for making this s--t look so good, or us for believing it."

Within the past 15 months BO has made his ecnomic s--t look good and many Americans have believed him.

* The national unemployment rate is now at 9.7 percent, essentially unchanged from a year earlier.

* At this moment, 13 states have a 10 percent or higher unemployment rate – with Nevada leading the way at 14.1 percent, followed by Michigan at 13.1 percent California at 12.4 percent, Rhode Island at 11.8 percent and Florida at 11.7 percent.

* In August, 27 states recorded unemployment rate increases. In July, it increased in only 14 states.

* In August, employers took 1,546 mass layoff actions involving 150,192 workers.

* The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris concludes that the U.S. unemployment rate will not fall to pre-recession levels until at least 2013.

* One in 10 homeowners face foreclosure – with 9.9 percent of homeowners behind at least one mortgage payment.

* The U.S. Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell 12.4 percent in July, the slowest pace on record dating back to 1963.

* The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales from June 2010 dropped a record 27.2 percent to an annual rate of 3.83 million units, the lowest level since May 1995.

* Foreclosures are up 4 percent, with more than 300,000 filings for foreclosure each of the last 17 months – and a record 24.5 percent increase in foreclosures in July alone.

* Of the $1.4 trillion of commercial real-estate debt coming due by the end of 2014, roughly 52 percent is attached to properties that are underwater.

* In 2009, a record number of one in seven people in the U.S. (roughly 45 million) were considered in poverty – the highest single-year increase since the government started calculating poverty figures in 1959.

* Forty-five percent of 401k participants who took a hardship withdrawal in 2009, also took another one in 2010.

* And as I pointed out in Part 1 of my economic series, according to the Bureau of Public Debt, as of Aug. 20, 2010, after just the 19 months of Obama's four-year term, the public debt has grown to $8.8333 trillion, an increase of $2.5260 trillion.

* And according to the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, analysis released on Sept. 7, by the end of the current fiscal 2010 year, which ends with the closure of this month, there will be another deficit of at least $1.3 trillion – what the CBO labeled, "the second-largest shortfall in the past 65 years," second to last year's deficit of 9.9 percent of GDP.

My conclusion is Glenn Beck is covering up for obama and his eligibility requirements for president

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I heard glenn beck on the radio interviewing someone about the real reason obama loathes America. Glenn beck asked the author to talk about the 'birther thing". The author concluded that it is a fact obama was born in Hawaii just because a notice was printed in an Hawaiian paper at the time his "birth certificate" was generated. He said the birth certificate thing was a diversion from the real facts about why obama was trying to destroy free enterprise in America.

Glenn beck nor the author acknowledged that anytime a certification of live birth was generated it automatically was printed in the newspaper. Neither man talked about the fact a certification of live birth could have been requested for a birth outside of Hawaii because of Hawaiian law.

Beck nor the author talked about the fact obama's certification of live birth cannot be verified or validated by the information on the document itself. No hospital or doctors names. No signatures of any kind.

Glenn Beck is smart enough to know obama's jpeg "birth certificate" CANNOT be verified or validated by the information on the document. The question is why is beck ignoring this fact? Beck is good with facts and numbers. The fact that beck is ignoring the facts about obama's certification of live birth tells me Glenn Beck doesn't pass the SMELL TEST about the ILLEGITIMATE "president" obama.

To me beck's obsession with ignoring the birth issue of obama by degrading "birthers" or anyone who questions obama's illegitimate certification of live birth is more than just strange.

Beck, like obama, wants you to believe obama has a legitimate certified and verified "birth certificate".

Beck and obama in this case are both LIARS.

Beck ignores the fact obama's certificate of live birth has NOT been certified or verified by ANYONE. Beck and others point to the Hawaiian officials who have stated their opinion about obama's "birth certificate". Its just their opinion without any verification or certification. Their verbal statements are not worth anymore than a used car salesman selling you a lemon and telling you it is guaranteed "AS IS" which means there is no guarantee of any kind.

The question is why does beck ignore the truth about obama's certification of live birth?

He is to smart to think it is legitimate. He is to smart to think those whose question the FRAUD birth certificate are just harping on an illegitimate issue. This means Glenn Beck is also part of the coverup about obama's eligibility requirements for president.

Beck pounds obama about various crimminal deceptions and reveals obama as a FRAUD yet he ignores the facts about obama's eligibility requirements for president. Beck ignores also the fact the DNC Failed to Certify Obama as Eligible in 49 States

My conclusion is beck is covering up for obama and his eligibility requirements for president.

This fact alone makes me question Glenn Beck and his modus operandi

Not only should American's question anything that comes out of obama's mouth but we should also question anything that comes out of the mouth of Glenn Beck who is covering up the facts about obama and his eligibility requirements for president.
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Hawaii's local Democratic Party refused to include the certification on its paperwork that obama was qualified under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.

Only one state – Hawaii – was sent a document from Nancy Pelosi in 2008 certifying that obama was qualified under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.

DNC Failed to Certify Obama as Eligible in 49 States!

The DNC never certified constitutional eligibility for Barack Hussein Obama, despite their many claims of proper vetting and certification, all of which we now know to be false

Two documents were prepared by Democrats to certify Obama as their nominee for president. One contains language affirming his constitutional eligibility, filed in Hawaii where state law requires the specific language, and another omits the language, filed in the remaining 49 states.

Democratic Party documents posted online from the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections reveal the change in wording that Hawaii Democrats adopted when Obama was their candidate.

Democratic Party documents posted online from the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections reveal the change in wording that Hawaii Democrats adopted when Obama was their candidate

DNC documents missing statement candidate 'qualified' under U.S. Constitution

In 2008, the words missing include "the provisions of the United States Constitution."

By omitting the above words, the Democractic Party of Hawaii (DPH) was signaling the following: 1. DPH is merely certifying that Obama is legally qualified to serve as president by virtue of the ballots of the Democratic Parties of the 50 states. The DPH is not certifying that Obama is legally qualified to serve as president under the provisions of the U.S. Constitution! 2. The DPH is also saying that Obama and Biden are NOT the chosen candidates of the state of Hawaii.

THE DNC PARTY IN HAWAII DID NOT CERTIFY OBAMA AS LEGALLY QUALIFIED TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT UNER THE PROVISIONS OF THE US CONSTITUTION IN 2008!!!!!!!!!!

The Hawaii Democratic Party actually ignored their protocols in 2008 in order to specifically NOT certify Obama's eligibility as they had done for candidates in the past.
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Passport records for Obama’s mother most likely included information about obama's documentation of citizenship. A claim was made that passport applications through 1968 were destroyed in the 1980′s after the retention period was changed from 100 years to 15 years for 5-year passports and 20 years for 10-year passports.

This is another obvious coverup of obama's constitutional eligibility to serve as president. Beck ignores this also.

In an affidavit filed in the Strunk case to see passport records for Obama’s mother, a claim was made that passport applications through 1968 were destroyed in the 1980′s after the retention period was changed from 100 years to 15 years for 5-year passports and 20 years for 10-year passports.

In 1981 the GAO published recommendations for the passport office which have been used to support the claims in the Strunk case, because the GAO did recommend that retention periods be shortened. But the report actually reveals things that are VERY problematic to the claims in the Passport Office’s alleged “cable” which claimed the passport applications had been destroyed.

GAO 1981 Recommendations for Retention Changes reveal the coverup up of the destruction of passport records for Obama’s mother which most likely contained information on, or documentation of, the citizenship of obama if any existed.
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Hawaii continues to coverup for obama as does glenn beck.
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What the Hawaii DOH HAS INDIRECTLY confirmed via their official, legal responses to UIPA requests is that Obama’s birth certificate was amended sometime in 2006 when Obama was considering a 2008 run for the presidency (an amendment which must be noted on any genuine COLB but isn’t noted on Factcheck), AND that the certificate number and “date filed” on the Factcheck COLB are incompatible so that one or the other (or both) had to have been altered on the Factcheck COLB. IOW, The HDOH has indirectly confirmed that the Factcheck COLB is a forgery.


Hawaii law (HRS 338-17) says that an amended birth certificate is not prima facie evidence. The probative value of an amended BC is determined when it is presented as evidence to a judicial or administrative person or body. Until that happens the amended BC has no more legal weight than Monopoly money. Even if Nancy Pelosi or anybody within the DNC or Hawaii Democratic Party had ASKED to see Obama’s documents (which the HDOH confirms none of them ever has), they could not legally determine his birth facts because they are not administrative or judicial. Likewise, Chiyome Fukino could not make an announcement declaring what Obama’s birth facts are because there is no procedure whereby his birth certificate would be presented to her AS EVIDENCE.

WND has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records. Obama hides all these records because it hides his NON ELIGIBILITY to be president.

Hawaii Democratic Party Did Not Certify Obama’s Eligibility

NOT ONLY HAS THE CERTIFICATION OF LIVE BIRTH NOT BEEN VERIFIED BUT THE HAWAII DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 2008 DID NOT CERTIFY OBAMA"S ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT Glenn Beck where are your facts and figures on this?

Glenn beck has ignored and covered up these facts also for obama. Story Reports

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Glenn Beck: "will you deny the Birther thing?"

GLENN: Okay, hang on. Before you go on, when I read this in the article, I immediately looked at Pat and I said, this will connect with people if you say the Story of Stuff. The left, have you seen the Story of Stuff? The left has done the Story of Stuff and we went over that like 18 months ago. That America is consuming all of the world's resources, that America has stolen things from other countries. So this is not a first of all, will you deny the Birther thing?

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GLENN: You have to go to a Manchurian Candidate.

GLENN: At birth.

GLENN: Right. Now listen, if you, if you want to look at Barack Obama and make sense of his policies, you cannot. For instance, last week the federal government okayed a billion dollar loan to Mexico to drill for oil in the Gulf where we have where we've stopped drilling. Why are we loaning them a billion dollars to drill where we can't? Deep sea, I told you this about five months ago. We've made a gigantic loan to Brazil so they can go and do deep sea drilling off the coast of Brazil. What was it, twice as deep as what we had a problem with? And we shut down all of our oil rigs? Now, why would we take our money and give it to Brazil and give it to Mexico to do the things that we are telling that a president is telling us is too dangerous for the environment to do?

D'SOUZA: This is absolutely critical and in fact I think even Obama's own supporters are misunderstanding him. They think he's a conventional liberal. They think he a he like Al Gore: He thinks the planet is too hot, he thinks that energy consumption for the world is too high, he wants to decrease it across the board. But then we see no, he doesn't. He wants to decrease energy consumption by us while increasing energy availability and consumption by them. In other words, he wants to decrease the wealth of the colonizers, the rich West, and increase the availability of wealth and energy. That's why he proposes huge global transfers of wealth from the wealthy west to the rest. So this anticolonial key opens the lock. We have a lot of other arguments and they're like hammers. They bang around at Obama, they try to fit him into some theory and then there is the rage. The reason I call the book The The Roots of Obama's Rage is that this isn't ideology, this isn't something he picked up in college, flirted with as sort of a quasi Marxist. This is rooted in his own deep personal history. He's a little bit like the guy in the Schwarzenegger movie who comes home and his whole family has been massacred and he becomes a man on a mission. He's got to go back, he's got to settle scores, he's got

GLENN: See, I have to

D'SOUZA: This is Barack Obama.

(Glenn Beck is quoted above as saying obama was a Manchurian Candidate at birth if you question obama's birth certificate authenticity. Not exactly glenn. Obama is a manchurian or FAKE president not just because of his FAKE certificate of live birth. Obama was not illegitimate at birth because he was a Manchurian Candidate at birth. This is becks attempt to coverup the fact obama is an illegitimate president. He protrays the certificate of live birth obama has presented to the world as fact and portrays "birthers" as those who think obama was illegitimate because he was conceived as a Manchurian Candidate at birth.

Obama's birth and the Manchurian Candidate "president" he now is are two different issues. Obama's birth record has never been verified for the public to see. The fact obama is a "Manchurian Candidate" has been verified by obama himself. Glenn beck knows this yet covers up the most important fact about obama that he is an illegitimate president because his birth has NEVER been verified by the American public!. It leads to the question is beck a Manchurian commentator?) Story reports

Fake Science and the Destruction of America

Mr Odinga (right) says that Obama's late father was his uncle on his mother's side.
O Baum a Mau-Mau

Obama and the Mau Mau

To sum up, Cap-and-Trade and any control of CO2 is in its simplest terms, a vehicle to destroy the nation’s economy.

Barack Obama has never known a normal person, his grandfather’s support for the Mau Mau was sufficient to get himself arrested. The struggle for independence from the Brits may have been a noble one, but not justification for the kind of depravity indulged by the Mau Mau. Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama worked as a cook for a British army officer when he became involved with the Kenyan independence movement. Grandpa Obama was arrested in 1949 as a sympathizer for the Kikuyu Central Association, the organization that ultimately spawned the Mau Mau.

The left wants to paint the Mau Mau as yet another misunderstood group of oppressed victims. The truth is, the Mau Maus were vicious guerrilla fighters. Contrary to popular folklore, the Mau Mau slaughtered far more Kikuyu citizens than the whites they were supposedly rebelling against.

Mau Mau membership required taking an oath which was not exactly frat boy material. The colonial secretary, Oliver Lyttleton wrote:

“The Mau Mau oath is the most bestial, filthy and nauseating incantation which perverted minds can ever have brewed. I have never felt the forces of evil to be so near and as strong as in Mau Mau. As I wrote memoranda or instruction, I would suddenly see a shadow fall across the page-the horned shadow of the Devil himself.”

Barack Obama has never known a normal person, his grandfather’s support for the Mau Mau was sufficient to get himself arrested. The struggle for independence from the Brits may have been a noble one, but not justification for the kind of depravity indulged by the Mau Mau.

(Obama's chief of staff was called "the spawn of the devil". It would be more accurate to call barack obama sr, jr and hussein onyango obama the spawn of the devil. The mau mau devils. You ask what has this got to do with fake science and the destruction of America? Hussein Onyango Obama taught his son obama sr to hate the white man. Obama sr taught obama jr to hate the white man. I believe obama's main objective is the destruction of America via any means especially using government institutions and the subversion of sovereignty via un agenda 21. Longtime nationalist leader and Mau Mau manager, Jomo Kenyatta studied economics in Moscow in 1932. We are not supposed to make too much of that. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a Kenyan senior governmental economist. This is a known socialist tactic. Use the existing government institutions and laws to corrupt and destroy the existing government. Obama like his mau mau grandfather and corrupt father exists to destroy capitalism and freedom, ie the "white man". Obama is a chip or "mau mau" off the ole block.) Story Reports

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No Science, Fake Science and the Destruction of the Nation

By Alan Caruba

No Science, Fake Science and the Destruction of the Nation

Any scientist who has not sold his soul to the environmental movement will tell you that the reason that greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), do not cause any warming is due to the fact that they have to conform to the laws of thermodynamics. The first law states that “energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change form.”

Energy produced by coal, natural gas, oil, or nuclear is energy that has changed from one form of matter to another. The attack on these sources of energy is a direct attack on the economic success of America and it is one that is at a dangerous peak of activity generated by the Obama administration, primarily through the Environmental Protection Agency.

There is simply no such thing as “dirty energy.” The push for so-called clean or renewable energy is a fiction to advance the use of the two worst, most unpredictable and unreliable forms of energy, solar and wind. They exist solely because of government subsidies and mandates. They produce little over three percent of the energy used nationwide every day.

The September 12 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek addressed this in an article, “Lisa Jackson’s High-Wire Act on Carbon Controls.” What the article did not say was that, if the EPA gains the authority to control carbon dioxide, it will literally control all business and industrial activity in the nation as well as the lives of all Americans.

What the article did not say is that there is no scientific justification for controlling CO2 because it plays no role in the so-called “climate change”, the new language being used to avoid saying “global warming.” It should be evident to a kindergartner that humans not only do not affect the climate, but have no control over it.

The environmental movement that has devoted decades and millions to perpetrate the greatest science fraud in the history of mankind has backed away from “global warming” for the obvious reason that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the past decade, the result of a reduction in solar activity, a dormant period that has a long history of preceding periods of cooling.

One of President Obama’s goals has been to secure legislation, known as “Cap-and-Trade” that would authorize a scheme by which “carbon credits” would be bought and sold by utilities and industry for the right to produce and use energy. It is part of the global warming fraud and its sole purpose is political power while enriching a few insiders betting on the expansion of alternative energy sources.

As the Business Week article noted, the EPA has been attempting to exert authority over CO2, but has been doing so “cautiously” to avoid evoking a public outcry against it. Thus, Lisa Jackson has offered a “tailored” approach “that exempts mom-and-pop dry cleaners and pizza parlors and initially regulates only power plants and oil refineries.”

The effect on oil refineries would drive up the cost of gasoline and every other oil derivatives.

Under the Clean Air Act, however, the EPA does not have this authority as CO2 is exempt from such action. Moreover, as noted, there is zero need to control CO2 as a threat to the environment because, without it, all life on Earth would not exist. It is CO2 that is the plant life equivalent of oxygen that maintains all animal life. The two are symbiotic and have been for billions of years.

Americans and people worldwide have been deluged with fake science based entirely on computer models whose results have been deliberately skewed to produce results that affirm CO2 as a primarily factor affecting the Earth’s climate. It is not.

As Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser has noted in his book, “Convenient Myths”, and in articles on the subject, “The atmosphere contains currently a bit less than 0.04% CO2. The rest is mainly oxygen (20%) and nitrogen (79%).” This represents an increase since the Industrial Age when the amount was an infinitesimal 0.03%.

If all the CO2 produced by power plants and the use of coal, oil, and natural gas was reduced to levels the EPA and environmental groups deem “safe” it would have zero affect on the atmosphere.

As Dr. Klaus noted, “Nearly all life on earth depends on the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere. Without any CO2, the Earth would be a barren place like the moon, or our neighboring planets, Venus and Mars.”

The EPA is lying to Americans using fake science. On July 29, 2010 it refused to “reconsider its greenhouse gas endangerment finding.”

It avoided citing any of the scientists in its employ, instead it quoted the chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization that is entirely devoted to the global warming fraud. That so-called scientist, Dr. Steven Hamburg, said “The science behind EPA’s finding is strong. Now America needs to forge clean energy solutions that reduce the vast pollution discharged into our air.”

That is a lie. Indeed, more CO2 in the atmosphere would be extremely beneficial, aiding larger crop yields to feed Americans and others worldwide. It would improve the health and vitality of the planet’s forests. Ads on television touting “carbon sequestration” are part of the lie.

To sum up, Cap-and-Trade and any control of CO2 is in its simplest terms, a vehicle to destroy the nation’s economy.

You won’t read that in the BusinessWeek article, but it is a truth that cannot be denied and it is a battle for the future of the nation that must be won against this administration, against the EPA, and against the environmental organizations that have devoted themselves to this purpose.

Fake Science and the Destruction of the Nation

You and I both know that howdy doody has got more sense that barack obama or any of the Liberal democrates in congress

(You and I both know that howdy doody has got more sense that barack obama or any of the Liberal democrates in congress. So even if howdy doody is supported by the tea party patriots it makes more sense than supporting barack obama and his fellow thugs. Its howdy doody time obama!)

It seems Christine O’Donnell is "howdy doody". She was a "created" tv character. Now she is a senate candidate. Obama is a created character. Like I said even howdy doody makes more sense than obama. I would prefer to choose someone other than howdy doody. Which would you pick? Howdy doody or obama? If I could only choose between the two I would pick howdy doody every time. Its howdy doody time, its howdy doody time, its howdy doody time, its howdy doody time boys and girls in the peanut voting gallery.

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