[Ynet] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... will announce on Tuesday he is issuing an executive order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for federal contract workers with new contracts, the White House said.
Ensuring they stay in the D column forever.
In his State of the Union address, Obama will call on Congress to pass a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage for all workers. The executive order for new contracts or existing contracts in which terms are being changed would take effect at the beginning of next year. Issuing the order allows Obama to bypass Congress' Republican opposition.
Clearly, a law is needed mandating that total federal payroll costs cannot increase more than an increase of tax receipts or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower, followed by Wisconsifying federal union rules. Of course that will cement federal employees in the D camp, but some things can't be helped.
Update from ABC News: Boehner Says Obama's Plan to Go Around Congress Leads to 'Brick Wall'
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It's not "government workers". It's government contract-workers. Employees paid by a contractor, said contractor having a contract with the USG.
The only ones I figure will be directly affected are those doing low-level work like food service.
However, it also may force overall increases, because contractors will have to raise their 'floor' salaries at the higher levels.
In any case, it will force an increase in what the USG will have to pay out in contract payments, or the USG is going to get less for its money because contract firms are going to cut costs someplace, or the USG is going to have to modify the contract performance work statements, because there won't be extra money to cover the minimum wage increase.
And- in where union labor is required as part of the contract, the costs will also go up. It will also likely percolate down to the state levels as well.
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2013 gov't spending on "contracts" was 0.46 Trillion Dollars. "Direct payments" like Social Security, unemployment, Pell Grants total 1.00 Trillion Dollars.
See usaspending.gov for details
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Direct payments aren't being affected by 'budget issues'. And won't be under this administration. Unless, the minimum wage boost is used to recalculate payments in some areas...
[SOFREP] Charlene Lamb, cited for failures in leadership from the Department of States (DOS) own Accountability Review Board (ARB) report, has been promoted assigned to Regional Security Officer (RSO). Weve heard rumor that shes slated for international duty in Canada. She started RSO in-service training last week much to the dismay of many within State.
Lamb formerly served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Programs, and was responsible for managing Diplomatic Security programs that protected all of the Departments international missions, and personnel from terrorism and other threats.
One US Ambassador, one State Department employee, and two US Navy SEALs/CIA GRS contractors dead in Benghazi, Libya.
All under the watchful eye of Charlene Lamb. Not certain if Regional Security Officer (RSO) position in Paris or Ottawa is a promotion, but it certainly gets her out of the country, the prying eyes of the media and first in line for a butt-load special pays, per diem and travel.
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Seems to me that if the rumors of Ms. Lamb leaving the country are true and if the Congress REALLY wanted to hear from her, they could get a judge to issue a supoena (sic?) to restrict her travel. And if she refused, then that should be grounds for a contempt of congress warrant. but that assumes there is the will to really find out what happened. just like F & F, IRS, etc, etc.
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In her case, not a promotion as she'll be working for someone in a position she previously supervised. BUT ..she wanted a better spot in Europe and didn't get it. The Senior RSO job in Canada is up there as she'll oversee numerous agents and Consulates. Canada is a cushy spot to say the least.
I have a lot I could say but it won't change anything.
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Dept. of State's Charlene Lamb Hillary Clinton Cited For Leadership Failure, Assigned To RSO Run For President of The United States
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I have a lot I could say but it won't change anything. Posted by Bangkok Billy
Perhaps she can still score an extended Paris language immersion training session....;-)
Amid concerns about gun owners who failed in their last-minute attempts to register now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, lawmakers are considering granting an amnesty period for people who missed the registration deadline.
Is that before or after it goes to the Supreme Court?
About 50,000 assault weapons were registered last year, and close to 40,000 people declared possession of magazines -- many of them doing so during the final days of December. But legislative leaders in recent weeks have raised concerns with the governor's office that some individuals who attempted to register their weapons were prevented from doing so as a result of early post office closings on New Year's Eve.
The governor's office responded Tuesday with a letter to legislative leaders in which they maintained the law prevents them from processing the late applications.
"We said, well, it's too late," said Michael Lawlor, Under Secretary for Criminal Justice and Policy Planning for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Lawlor's letter to legislators included guidelines for individuals whose late registrations were not processed: they can render the firearm or magazine inoperable, sell it to a licensed gun dealer, remove it from the state, or turn it over to law enforcement. Lawlor said the General Assembly must pass new legislation if the late applications are to be processed.
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"These clauses of the Constitution are not of the broad, general nature of the Due Process Clause, but refer to rather precise legal terms which had a meaning under English law at the time the Constitution was adopted. A bill of attainder was a legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. Such actions were regarded as odious by the framers of the Constitution because it was the traditional role of a court, judging an individual case, to impose punishment." William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court, page 166.
"Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. ... The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less-informed part of the community." James Madison, Federalist Number 44, 1788.
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A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without privilege of a judicial trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted persons civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself. Bills of attainder were used in England between about 1300 and 1800 and resulted in the executions of a number of notable historical figures. However, the use of these bills eventually fell into disfavour due to the obvious potential for abuse and the violation of several legal principles, most importantly separation of powers, the right to due process, and the precept that a law should address a particular form of behaviour rather than a specific individual or group. For these reasons, bills of attainder are expressly banned by the United States Constitution as well as the constitutions of all 50 US states. - wiki
That which was legal, now declared illegal. Meets the bill.
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OK, they passed a regulation at odds with what people plainly want. The people ignored it.
Next, they'll offer amnesty with veiled threats of possible repercussions.
Then comes refusing to let individuals do business with the state unless they visibly comply. Think drivers licenses, etc. They're a privilege, not a prerogative. (Unless you're an illegal alien.)
Then comes lockdown and search.
BTW, the effort to require background checks on private sales, e.g. the the gun show loophole, I to prevent you from saying "I sold it."
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I agree TX ed. In order to do a junk mail turn them in or else they need to:
Register
Freeze in place
Accountable location of
"Fell off the truck" would be like a traffic camera violation, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent. See, its a tax, and if you can't prove yourself innocent you will open to fines, property confiscation, unannounced inspection, and possible jail time. You will receive a permanent note on your record, and your children will be required to wear a raspberry beret when in public.
Funny how democrats can come up with a ten year plan to disarm the citizenry, but a ten year energy independence, impossible. Ten year balanced budget, absurd.
Hey, if guns were banned, and they were in the country illegally for a few years, would they have earned the right to be legal?
As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research to prevent phone company employees or eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that would allow the government to discontinue storing Americans' phone records, but still search them as needed. In other words a head fake accompanied by another layer of secrecy to continue the Gestapos lawless spying on Americans at will.
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Reminds me of the rat Joe Nacchio, driven out of Qwest with a $500M retirement package into a Federal Country Club. Mr. Nacchio said he still believes his insider-trading prosecution was government retaliation for rebuffing requests in 2001 from the National Security Agency to access his customers' phone records. His plans to use that belief as a defense at trial never materialized; some of the evidence he wanted to use was deemed classified and barred from being introduced.
This is NOT a new strategy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Ynet] President 
You'll get my Model-25 when you pry it from my..... 
As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research to prevent phone company employees or eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.
