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	<title>Michigan Taxes Too Much &#187; NBC</title>
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		<title>Obama&#039;s Pet Peacock Bites&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabies?  Mistreatment?  A sudden realization that our president and his administration has not a clue (or doesn&#8217;t care) how to reduce the deficits, pay back our debt etc.. Be prepared to laugh.. then cry. Absolutely incredible.. Hats off to SNL for the sheer accuracy and performance quality of this. Especially incredible considering all other things]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rabies?  Mistreatment?  A sudden realization that our president and his administration has not a clue (or doesn&#8217;t care) how to reduce the deficits, pay back our debt etc..</p>
<p>Be prepared to laugh..  then cry.</p>
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<p>Absolutely incredible..  Hats off to SNL for the sheer accuracy and performance quality of this.</p>
<p>Especially incredible considering <a title="Michelle Malkin exposes Sheer Whiteness of NBC" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/23/the-indelible-whiteness-of-msnbc/" target="_blank">all other things</a></p>
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		<title>Same As It Ever Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First&#8230; There was the Reporting by KG One over at Right Michigan&#8230; Then there is the report of the MSM totally BOTCHING reporting.. and using their mistake as a sleight against conservatives?  Tell me again WHY NBC is still in business? Oh yeah..  Graft.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First&#8230;</p>
<p>There was the <a title="Dingell Town hall" href="http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2009/8/7/02825/25208" target="_blank">Reporting by KG One</a> over at Right Michigan&#8230;</p>
<p>Then there is the report of the <a title="Busted" href="http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/08/busted-obama-as-hitler-poster-was.html" target="_blank">MSM totally BOTCHING reporting</a>.. and using their mistake as a sleight against conservatives?  Tell me again WHY NBC is still in business?</p>
<p>Oh yeah.. <a title="A Little like Enron" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/business/07norris1.html?em" target="_blank"> Graft.</a></p>
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		<title>NBC Just cant resist.. no really.. they cant.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decisions, decisions.. Obama had to move his conference time to accommodate an already promoted shindig..  But never fear, NBC laid that egg, and continues to incubate it, and wouldn&#8217;t let the big guy down.. From the LA Times.. &#8220;And NBC initially balked when the White House announced that the news conference would be at 9 p.m., because it had put a lot of promotion behind a special episode of &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; featuring an interview with that surprise British singing star, Susan Boyle. &#8220; But they will carry it, because NBC is all about change&#8230; right? No.. Its because they have even more invested in that failure who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I guess we all have our priorities..  like screwing the grand kids.  Thanks a bunch to the green peacocks. Obama will be talking about his &#8220;health care&#8221; to be sure, but he probably won&#8217;t mention the illegals who will enjoy the perks (while they last) The Democrat congress that is still on board with &#8220;the one&#8221; refuse to make sure illegals wont be participating..  From Michelle Malkin: &#8220;Immigration analyst James R. Edwards, Jr. reported last week in National Review that “no health legislation on the table requires [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Decisions, decisions.. Obama had to move his conference time to accommodate an already promoted shindig..  But never fear, NBC laid that egg, and continues to incubate it, and wouldn&#8217;t let the big guy down.. From the LA Times..</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;And NBC initially balked when the White House announced that the news conference would be at 9 p.m., <a href="http://michigantaxes.recallposse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/oblivious.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2629 alignright" title="oblivious" src="http://michigantaxes.recallposse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/oblivious.jpg" alt="oblivious" width="331" height="255" /></a>because it had put a lot of promotion behind a special episode of &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; featuring an interview with that surprise British singing star, Susan Boyle. &#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>But they will carry it, because NBC is all about change&#8230; right? No.. Its because they have even more invested in that failure who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I guess we all have our priorities..  like screwing the grand kids.  Thanks a bunch to the green peacocks.</p>
<p>Obama will be talking about his &#8220;health care&#8221; to be sure, but he probably won&#8217;t mention the illegals who will enjoy the perks (while they last) The Democrat congress that is still on board with &#8220;the one&#8221; refuse to make sure illegals wont be participating.. <a title="Obamacare for Illegals" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/22/obamacare-for-illegal-aliens/" target="_blank"> From Michelle Malkin</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Immigration analyst James R. Edwards, Jr. reported last week in National Review that “no health legislation on the table requires federal, state, or local agencies — or private institutions receiving federal funds — to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens.” Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a new preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Can you say DOHBAMA! ?</p>
<p>As long as Obama has tingly little legs doing his footwork it will last a little longer, and the public may just give in from pure exhaustion, right GE?</p>
<p>Sit on that egg a little while longer GE, NBC, whatever the heck part of you needs the attention.. My bet is you&#8217;ll never get rid of the stink.</p>
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		<title>Words from Jeffrey Immelt&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late June, General Electric&#8217;s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, was in Michigan announcing an investment where GE will bring 1,100 jobs to the Michigan economy. He had a few things to say.. A selection of his quotables below..  along with a few thoughts of my own. 1.  &#8220;Americans need to save more than they earn.&#8221; I suppose this is the next wave of logic from the current face of fascism appeasers.  Please re-read what he said.. (or is reported to have said.)   Save MORE than you earn?  I suppose under the right circumstances, with the proper influx of stimulus to those who would save.. it might be possible, but no.. it doesn&#8217;t work.. 2. &#8220;The U.S. has already lost its leadership in many growth industries.&#8221; Define growth..  What the hell.. define leadership while you are at it.. 3. &#8220;America needs move more from a service economy to a more industrial and manufacturing one.&#8221; OK, I know you were talking to a Michigan audience, but I need to know if Granholm was listening.  I should also like to ascertain how we might do such a thing given the incredible drive to strangle manufacturing by our leadership with the willing help of YOU [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In late June, General Electric&#8217;s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, was in Michigan announcing an investment where GE will bring 1,100 jobs to the Michigan economy. He had a<a title="Excerpts from Immelts speech" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/General+Electrics+(GE)+CEO+Comments+On+The+U.S.+Economy/4760832.html" target="_blank"> <strong>few things to say.</strong></a><strong>. </strong> A selection of his quotables below..  along with a few thoughts of my own.</p>
<blockquote><p>1.  &#8220;Americans need to save more than they earn.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">I suppose this is the next wave of logic from the current face of fascism appeasers.  Please re-read what he said.. (or is reported to have said.)   Save MORE than you earn?  I suppose under the right circumstances, with the proper influx of stimulus to those who would save.. it might be possible, but no.. it doesn&#8217;t work..</span></p>
<blockquote><p>2.  &#8220;The U.S. has already lost its leadership in many growth industries.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Define growth..  What the hell.. define leadership while you are at it..</span></p>
<blockquote><p>3.  &#8220;America needs move more from a service economy to a more industrial and manufacturing one.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">OK, I know you were talking to a Michigan audience, but I need to know if Granholm was listening.  I should also like to ascertain how we might do such a thing given the incredible drive to strangle manufacturing by our leadership with the willing help of YOU sir?  Your &#8220;green Peacock&#8221; folly, alongside an obvious skewering of your editorial policies at NBC has placed us in a predicament.  You own a piece of this crisis, Mr. Immelt. While raising the costs on energy with the emphasis on creating an artificial point where your wind and alternative energy products are competitive with fossil fuels, you have helped make the wealth creating manufacturing process too expensive for the remainder of industry.<br />
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<blockquote><p>4.  &#8220;The U.S. needs to become a large exporter and to do that American companies need to invest heavily in R&amp;D. Each year, GE puts 6% of its industrial revenue back into technology and because of this more than half of the products it sells today didn’t even exist a decade ago.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">See #3..  To have something left to put into R&amp;D, it does require an initial profit.  Profit that gets eaten up by artificial crisis driven government mandates is lost forever.  I wonder how much of that 6% you put into this years R&amp;D budget came from GE capital which got a healthy helping of Taxpayer Pie?</span></p>
<blockquote><p>5.   &#8220;America needs to get busy addressing the two biggest global challenges – clean energy and affordable health care.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Nuclear is an option I support.  I even support wind farms etc, but there are many considerations that should be made before mandates are established punishing taxpayers and small business.</span><span style="color: #0000ff;"> And HEALTH CARE frankly, gets more expensive for the private payers as GOVERNMENT becomes involved.  Government needs to limit its providing of benefits and encourage through tax breaks personal HSAs..  THAT would be a solution.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>6.  &#8220;Price of commodities will rise due to increased consumption in emerging markets.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">I understand that a TRUE businessman would understand competition for product and goods.  I HOPE you are not so far excluded from that classification, that you don&#8217;t realize the implications.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>7.  &#8220;The American consumer cannot lead the recovery. This economy must be driven by business investment, manufacturing and exports.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">The consumer cannot lead the recovery if the government has their money already tied up.  Exports cannot happen if a regulatory climate which benefits remote development of our technology by crafting government induced cost barriers.  Small business struggles to fight the eco nazis, and GE finds a friend in government barely keeping the the eco nazi off its back.  And Investment in larger concerns that are apparently TOO BIG TO FAIL now appears to be worthless..  Ask the former &#8220;preferred&#8221; owners (investors in)  of GM and Chrysler..  they are still scratching their heads trying to figure out how they were buggered so bad.</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> I wouldnt throw a DIME in ANY business until this regime is changed.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>8.  &#8220;The US should set a national goal to create high value added jobs and have manufacturing jobs be no less than 20% of total employment, about twice what it is today.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Again.. See #3  goals are wonderful things.. let logic dictate a course of action.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>9.  &#8220;Business should reinvest in new American jobs which will create leadership in the future.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">See #4.  BUSINESS needs to have a couple of dollars left to do such a thing.  As long as it is being stolen by rent seeking conglomerates which use media arms to promote their vision for profit, the powers that they promote use that vision to drain the &#8220;seed corn&#8221; of the rest of business if you will.  Soon this golden goose will be inside out Mr. Immelt.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>10. &#8220;We should welcome the government as a catalyst for leadership and change.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">BULL$&amp;%*  Government is YOUR vision. A Vision YOU promote MR. Immelt.  We should put that beast of government back in its cage, if  for even YOUR good sake sir. For after we are gone, it will look to you for its final meal.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>11. &#8220;The U.S. needs to see this new Government spending for what it is: an opportunity to turn financial adversity into national advantage – to launch innovations of lasting value to our country.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">The US needs to see it for what it is.  NBC-PRAVDA might well promote government spending as an opportunity, but theft is theft, innovation needs no intervention by political reward systems.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>12.  &#8220;Businesses must engage, because status quo is not an option. The country has massive problems and social unrest. Fighting to protect the past is just wrong.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Is that the next story line for the Media arm of the GE Empire?  &#8220;Social unrest?&#8221;  Are you speaking of those violent Tea Party Protesters?  The Grannies whom have lost their life&#8217;s savings to inept government interference in free markets?  What about the four and five year olds who are already being fitted for their &#8220;mule packs?&#8221;   &#8220;The Past&#8221; sir, worked quite well, but don&#8217;t let that stop you from trying to cement your lips firmly on the posteriors of our congress and president.  When the crap hits the fan at least we will know WHOM it had to travel through first.</span></p>
<p>13.  &#8220;An American renewal will be shaped by the public and private sectors, and – more than ever – by a willingness to act boldly for the good of the country.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Pretty bold activity in your position I suppose..  You obviously are a picker of winning strategies&#8230;  Since 2000 (Immelt becomes GE CEO) GE stock has tumbled by 75%.  I should point out it was not all due to the market crash caused by other GOVERNMENT  &#8220;Bold Moves.&#8221;  (the history of CRA is well known by now)  I wonder now what happens as a result of<strong> <a title="Garage wont hold 687 Windmills" href="http://www.hpj.com/archives/2009/jul09/jul13/0708PickenscallsoffTXwindfa.cfm?title=Pickens%20calls%20off%20massive%20wind%20farm%20in%20Texas" target="_blank">T. Boone Pickens garage being too small?</a> </strong>Will the market become weak for GE windmills? </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"> BOLD would be putting them up with NO RESERVE on eBay..</span></p>
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		<title>Elkhart Indiana..  Tell Your Tale.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JGillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NBC news is cashing in on the food distribution services story in Elkhart IN where unemployment approaches 20% and the Feed The Children group has set up shop to give food to those who because they have lost their jobs cannot feed their own.  The NBC News team decried the ongoing troubles we all face through out the country in the piece as times get tougher. So Elkhart, as the home of the destroyed RV industry which has seen the sudden downturn as a result of green politics and irresponsible government tell your story.  Elkhart, which in flyover country, must endure the partisan results of the insanity spawned by left and east coast politics which destroy incentives to business.  Elkhart Indiana, a proud middle class, midwestern working folks populated town. Elkhart, tell that GE Owned government teat sucking pig NBC news your tale.. Tell them that THEY did this to you with green peacocks, misleading reports and highly slanted journalism.  Tell them to take their now taxpayer subsidized money losing, socialist looting operations and get the hell out of your town.  Tell them your tale and tell them to shove it up thiers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NBC news is cashing in on the food distribution services story in Elkhart IN where unemployment approaches 20% and the Feed The Children group has set up shop to give food to those who because they have lost their jobs cannot feed their own.  The NBC News team decried the ongoing troubles we all face through out the country in the piece as times get tougher.<span id="more-1505"></span></p>
<p>So Elkhart, as the home of the destroyed RV industry which has seen the sudden downturn as a result of green politics and irresponsible government tell your story.  Elkhart, which in flyover country, must endure the partisan results of the insanity spawned by left and east coast politics which destroy incentives to business.  Elkhart Indiana, a proud middle class, midwestern working folks populated town.</p>
<p><strong>Elkhart, tell that GE Owned government teat sucking pig NBC news your tale..</strong> Tell them that THEY did this to you with green peacocks, misleading reports and highly slanted journalism.  Tell them to take their now taxpayer subsidized money losing, socialist looting operations and get the hell out of your town.  Tell them your tale and tell them to shove it up thiers.</p>
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