Fucking Welfare Queens

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54. One part of the puzzle that you are leaving unmentioned is

That Any Presidential Administration's accomplishments occur because of appointments.

Obama appointed Tim Geithner to his current position as head of the US Treasury. He did this immediately after the period of time in which good ol Tim had maneuvered the various Federal Bailout programs around, in his capacity to do so as the Head of the NY fed. This meant he made major decisions as to which firms went under, like Lehman Bros, and which firms like AIG and Goldman Sachs got the lion's share of the rewards of the various TARP and tax programs helping the "Too Big to Fail" crowd.

Also, Obama has re-appointed Bernanke to continue in his role as head of the US Federal Reserve. We now know through the "peek" we got at the working s of the Fed Reserve brought about by the audit of the Fed that some 4 to 16 trillions of dollars have gone from the Fed to the "Too Big To Fail" crowd, some of which to went to Big Banks not even inside the boundaries of this nation.

So you would think, with all the generosity floating around, that maybe when the governor of the state of California, one Arnold Schwartzennegger, made the request to Geithner that the state BE LOANED some twenty billions of dollars, that maybe the request would be granted. After all, this state of 37 million people has coughed up huge amounts of monies for the Federal Government, with only 73 cents of every dollar sent to Washington DC coming back to the citizens here.

But Geithner, having the power to do this, said No. He added that this sum would hurt the nation's deficit.

Then the people of the state of Calif., realizing that within their boundaries is the remarkable ability to supply a worthwhile plant for domestic medical needs started putting together the medical marijuana clinic programs. Even though this program was set back by almost every jurisdiction demanding many meetings with the activists behind the medical marijuana implementation,
entailing discussion of zoning, road use, curfews, useage of property that the clinics was on (for instance, clinics can supply the substance,but it cannot be smoked out in the parking lots or nearby, but must be taken to residents' homes.) Over the years all that gets hashed out (no pun intended.) It wasn't simply that voters voted it the medical marijuana provisions. But that the activists spent long dreary hours putting it together.

And Obama at first respected the states' rights issues involved. But once the program was going full force, providing some 8 thousand jobs to people,and pulling in some 125 millions of dollars into the beleagured treasury of the state of Calif., what happens? Why, Obama does his old Swicheroo tactic, and lets the DOJ and IRS descend on the clinics.

So leaving out the discussion of what the President has done sure makes it all seem like some distant entity needs to be dealt with. But it is an election year. Maybe somebody can get Obama to actually reverse his bad decisions. (Bruce Springsteen, you have his ear, don't you? Can't you twist his arm a bit, saying no more concerts for the Oval Office if the Tom and Thomasina Joads of the USA don't get some help from Geithner?) And sop, Mr President,loan the states that have troubling deficits money directly rather than having these "stimulus packages" that require so much massage on the parts of so many. Just have Geithner give the states the damn money Mr President. And get the DOJ to go away and stop punishing those running the medical marijuana clinics in various states.

I realize that this means maybe Obama won't get the money he is counting on for campaign pledges from Big Pharma, and from Big Bankers (who profit greatly from the laundering of illegal drug monies.) It also won't win him favors from the privatized Big Prison industry. But it might get people who have been hurt by the Geithners of your administration to forgive you, to be enthused about you. Believe me, Mr Obama, people living in their cars who understand the situation are not going to worry that much about finding their polling place on election day, when you haven't been finding solutions that are readily available to you, through the arms of the various officials you have appointed.