President Barack Obama recently took time out from his busy Black Lives Matter world tour to remind the American people and various state governors that, as a Constitutional scholar and someone who clearly knows his way over, under, and around the hallowed document, that they have no authority to refuse Syrian “refugees” into the country and various local neighborhoods simply because the immigrant ranks will be shot through with suicidal Islamic terrorists.
As a reminder of Obama’s generosity with other people’s money, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) told state resettlement officials they may not deny benefits and services to refugees based on their country of origin or religion, which will no doubt boost the food stamp rolls to new heights and relieve the federal and state governments of excessive funds growing in their treasuries.
The letter, dated Wednesday, indicated that the heavy Federal boot of compassion will come down hard on the necks of those who do not comply and bend to the will of Obama, and they will be subject to suspension, termination, and possibly the endless screeching of Hillary Clinton preaching the evils of the Republican war on women. In any case, everyone better toe the line.
The other gentle persuasion being proffered is to remind any objectors that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which has successfully eliminated racial division and anger throughout the United States, prohibits discrimination based on race and national origin, and the Federal government will be more than willing to withhold all federal financial assistance to those states objecting to the coming flood of Middle Easterners, meaning they will not be sending the money back that the states sent into Washington in the first place, especially, one assumes, to the red states.
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counting the days til Jan 20
Looks like what I have been saying is true we have a Muslim dictator
f**k you! you are a muslims$#%&!@*from nigeria you have no say in america get out go back to your own country or drop dead!
Won’t be the first time we’ve been threatened won’t be the last !! Americans stand united as one and we shall win
Ignore Obama. He is not legally president. Obama is not his legal name. Nothing that scum signed is legal!
OBAMA YOU ARE NOT DICTATOR OR KING! WE ARE A FREE PEOPLE WITH RIGHTS. KISS OUR$#%&!@*
See what’s happening while the fuss of what Trump said 11 years ago.
F**k you$#%&!@*hope get cancer and die
This should be sent to everyone on your list. The main street media liars are continuing their support of the Islamic Communist in the white house and his criminal partners in the congress.
Who Shut Down the Government?
By Thomas Sowell – October 4, 2013
Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.
There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for ObamaCare.
This is not a matter of opinion. You can check the Congressional Record.
As for the House of Representatives’ right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either.
You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.
ObamaCare is indeed “the law of the land,” as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.
But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.
The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies — unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.
Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who — if anybody — “wants to shut down the government.” But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.
The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a “clean” bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word “clean” like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?
If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.
When Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply a bald-faced lie. You can check the history of other examples of “legislation by appropriation” as it used to be called.
Whether legislation by appropriation is a good idea or a bad idea is a matter of opinion. But whether it is both legal and not unprecedented is a matter of fact.
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.
Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.
None of this is rocket science. But unless the Republicans get their side of the story out — and articulation has never been their strong suit — the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.
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