Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat and potential presidential contender in 2016, demanded Lopez leave public life immediately. 'Vito Lopez should not spend another day in office, let alone a whole month,' Cuomo said, according to the New York Post. 'He should resign effective immediately and if he does not, he must be expelled.' Lopez's announcement comes one day after a damning report of his pervy shenanigans was released. Al Gore disease ?
Lopez bombarded eight female aides with orders to massage him, wear skimpy clothing and spend the night in hotels with him - but State Assembly officials let him get away with it, the report said. The massage bomber.
He told one woman he was dying from his cancer and Low-T 'needed' her while forcing her to feel the tumors on his neck, shoulder and armpit. Here, I'll hold your latte.
One aide told how Lopez forced her to massage his hand while he was driving in Atlantic City - even though she told him she had been raped, was crying and said she felt uncomfortable. Faster please, faster, faster, we're almost to the casino.
#3
Start by A) putting all Federal Employee Pension funds in Social Security, retroactive for 5 years; B) cut Federal Employment, other than military, by 10% over the next 6 months.
Then when this regime fires all the really needed people to save their cronies and lackies; we'll know who to fire next.
The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable
It's already been negotiated by ruinous spending and hackery into a fiat currency in which the printer demands (ie non-negotiable) you accept it whether or not it has any real value.
#6
There is a natural limit on how much the USG can borrow. It's called the market. The limit is what creditors are willing to lend.
It's quite entertaining, watching these schmoes try to engineer a socialist utopia while the national credit card is already nearly maxed out. It's like that never occurred to them, LOL.
Pubs need to allow default and credit downgrades, because it's the most reliable check on the whole scheme. Besides, the USG isn't creditworthy anymore, despite all the extend and pretend.
Foreign creditors were free to choose whether or not to lend, and should've seen this train wreck coming. Someone is going to get screwed here, so I'd rather it's them, than US taxpayers.
#7
There is a natural limit on how much the USG can borrow. It's called the market. The limit is what creditors are willing to lend.
For the last couple years the 'market' has been the Treasury printing money to buy Fed Bonds. If Americans didn't operate in opposition to the 'learned' economists [ie spending when they should save and save when they should spend] inflation would be making Zimbabwe and Argentina look good.
#8
Right, P2k. There are many tools in the box and QE has been a big one. But that's slowing down because they know they can't inflate/devalue the currency too much more. Treasury is just about out of fudge factors, which I imagine is why Lew is sounding kind of panicky here.
#10
It's incredible that 42% of Americans think that this unqualified, incompetent, dishonorable, ego-driven fraud is doing a good job. Take a moment. Admit it to yourself. You know who his supporters are. They are the people that YOU support -- financially.
Did you notice who Obama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling?
He threatened to not pay:
- Social Security Retirees
- Military Retirees
- Social Security
- Disability and
- Federal Retirees.
Those he did NOT threaten:
- He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens.
- He did not threatened to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates.
- He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired.
- He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around. $20 Million already spent on family vacations. (One Million on a FL golf outing). All our money...why not?
- He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff.
- He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients or to stop the free cell phones they get.
- He did not threaten the food stamp programs.
- He did not threaten to reduce payments in foreign aid.
- He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters.
#12
Oh yeah - fuck em, no question. But once the debt passed $10T or so, there was no realistic way it was ever going to be paid back. So the difference between $16T and $17T or $20T is like the Titanic ramming a third iceberg and then a fourth. Let him have his stupid debt increase - it doesn't matter. What matters is, who gets a spot in the life rafts, and who gets trapped in steerage.
#13
Great! So how do I get out of steerage and get a spot in the lifeboats?
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#14
Well, Bobby, the good news is, this bucket is taking a long time to sink. Long-term, I'd suggest:
1. Don't be a foreign government to whom the USG owes money.
2. Don't count on the government for any benefits.
3. Fully divest from any investment the USG can welsh on.
Basically, assume the USG will go bankrupt. Laws don't matter when math is driving the train. The best way to be sure you won't be the last in line of USG creditors, is to not be in the line at all.
#6
Finding out where Champ was that fateful night should not be difficult.
Data feeds from intelligence platforms are classified as are Video Tele-Conferences (VTC), so they go to a SCIF, or Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). . The WH Situation Room is bound to be in SCIF of some sort. SCIF's require access, members of the press or the idle and curious can't just walk in and plop their tired arsses down to listen in. Access is gained through the appropriate security clearance, via badge and cypher lock or physical guard or both. Cypher locks are computerized and track who has come and gone, ie, records are kept. As I have said previously, the WH Communications Detachment maintains all coms.
Failing that, the US Secret Service has "eyes on" POTUS [or the room he is in] 24/7.
If congress wants to know where he was or is, it's really not that difficult.
#10
An old Alaskan long-liner once told me a story about getting so many fish on the line they couldn't reel it in without sinking the boat. They had to cut the line.
Obama's strategy may be the same. Overwhelm the low interest public to the point that they simply ignore it all.
The MSM cuts the line, the fish all rot on the bottom, and Obama whistles all the way back to safe harbor.
As horrific as Obama's (Benghazi) actions may have been, (like the Monica Lewinsky Scandal), pinning the President down on any specifically illegal act is probably doubtful at best.
The IRS and AP scandals, on the other hand, clearly exibit illegal actions committed by individuals directly under the supervision of the Obama Administration.
Whether anything concrete comes of any of this, in my opinion, hinges entirely on whether or not Congressional Investigators have the guts, tenacity, and fortitude to force investigations all the way to the top of the food chain.
I don't see any high level politicians actually or honestly assuming the grit, attitude, or courage, necessary to bring any of these accusations to any actual or beneficial fruition.
Peggy Noonan at WSJ is absolutely correct, but (without boots on the ground in Congress and Senate) it all adds up to nothing more than Republican political efforts to "out parrot" Obama, and his pretty words.
#11
Overwhelm the low interest public to the point that they simply ignore it all.
That's a strategy, but it yields to the 'they're all crooks anyway' mentality. Which means that when the system is in danger, the vast majority won't give a damn. See the collapse of the Politburo.
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