The Presidential Planner: Obama Signs Executive Order

As the President continues his executive signing assault, I thought of what probably
happened during the Great Depression. So I used Google and found”Riots during
the Great Depression”. It was on a site Washington’s Blog. Very interesting footage
and commentary. And with all the crowds now in the major Cities protesting I
find this very similar.

So what is he going to do magically make the ingredients for the drugs appear, tell Pharma what to make, and when to make it. Tell companies that they have to sell he first and everywhere else only if there is anything left over, or is he going to print or borrow more money creating more artificial demand driving drug prices up even higher. It is impossible fr everybody to get the same level of quality care, we can all get substandard care, but we all cannot get quality care, the best medicine, equipment, doctors and procedures.

This afternoon, in yet another executive action intended to boost the economy, President Obama signs an executive order that addresses prescription drug shortages.

LMAO “boost the economy” Mary bruce stop carrying water for this failure of a president, He’s put jobs on the back burner for almost 3 years to make his buddies richer, the culture of corruption grows

Wait, this is the same guy who secretly met with Big Rx during the crafting of a really big bill about health, right?!

“Obama has set a precedent for future presidents”

-”precedent”?? How many executive orders and privileges did Bush claim again?

RE: Obama and Drug Companies

Devin Dwyer
Oct 28, 2011 11:32am
Obama Campaign Bundlers Have Ties to Lobbying Industry

“Pfizer executive Sally Susman, for example, chairs the company’s political action committee and leads its “public affairs activities, including relations with governments,” according the Pfizer website. She has bundled more than $500,000 in donations for Obama so far.”

Obama is like a person who just has a habit of spending. You know some sort of mind problem and facination with signing his name to checks to spend money and it has now become a total rush for him to just spend and spend with NO regard to how much money he has in his bank account. Only problem is he spends our money and listens to his economic advisers who bankrupt the companies they came from. GOD save us please

Well, thank goodness somebody cares about drug shortages.

Profound 120V. While you joke people are going without chemo drugs. It’s a national disgrace. On a lighter note, I’m sick of paying more for allergy meds due to a shortage as well.

“It’s hiigh time we started cutting back these too powerful regulatory agencies like the FDA, EPA and etc. Too much government at too much cost”

Claiming cutting these agencies and the protective services they provide will save the public money is a scam. It will not.

“The signing marks yet another move in the president’s “we can’t wait” campaign”

Yet, all these bills have been passed by the House, and Reid won’t let them come to the floor of the Democratic controlled Senate:

The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
H.R. 872 – Senate has taken no action to date

The Energy Tax Prevention Act
H.R. 910 – Senate has taken no action to date

Disapproval of FCC’s Net Neutrality Regulations
H.J.Res. 37 – Senate has taken no action to date

The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act
H.R. 2018 – Senate has taken no action to date

Consumer Financial Protection & Soundness Improvement Act
H.R. 1315 – Senate has taken no action to date

Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act
H.R. 2587 – Senate has taken no action to date

Transparency In Regulatory Analysis Of Impacts On The Nation
H.R. 2401 – Senate has taken no action to date

Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2681 – Senate has taken no action to date

EPA Regulatory Relief Act
H.R. 2250 – Senate has taken no action to date

Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
H.R. 2273 – Senate has taken no action to date

3% Withholding Rule Repeal
H.R. 674 – Senate has taken no action to date

Southeast Arizona Resource Utilization & Conservation Act
H.R. 1904 – Senate has taken no action to date
Veterans Opportunity to Work Act
H.R. 2433 – Senate has taken no action to date

Maximize Domestic Energy Production
The energy sector is crucial to our economic growth, and high energy costs have a major impact on job creation. We need policies that allow us to harness our abundant supply of natural resources in America, develop new sources of energy, and create jobs here at home.

Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
H.R. 1230 – Senate has taken no action to date

Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act
H.R. 1229 – Senate has taken no action to date

Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
H.R. 1231 – Senate has taken no action to date

The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011
H.R. 2021 – Senate has taken no action to date

North American-Made Energy Security Act
H.R. 1938 – Senate has taken no action to date

Pay Down America’s Unsustainable Debt Burden
The federal government is spending and borrowing so much that the United States will soon go broke. Washington’s spending binge has put our nation in debt, eroded economic confidence, and caused massive uncertainty for private sector job creators. It’s time to live within our means.

Budget for Fiscal Year 2012
H.Con.Res. 34 – Senate has not yet considered a budget of its own

The Democrat controlled SENATE is holding up jobs creation.

Hope this works out better than the failed stimulus. To prove it was a failure this guy now wants another half trillion for more band aids.What we need is somebody that knows what they are doing.

Posted by: wheresmymoney—The uncompetitive nature of the US workforce, business environment, and regulatory environment is what is holding up job creation. The jobs that made the middle class 20, 30, or more years ago are gone, and they are not coming back, we could add tariffs to imports, and people just wouldn’t be able to afford what is in the stores, and companies would not move back immediately, because in the end it is cheaper to produce in other countries than here, and like it or not the US is only 1/20th the global consumer base.

The uncompetitive nature of the US workforce, business environment, and regulatory environment is what is holding up job creation.
Posted by: snewsom2997 | October 31, 2011, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm

Then why is Obama placing the blame on the Republicans?

More bull, why is he bragging about going around Congress? Sounds like a dictator. Mr. President, please shut up and have your Democratic controlled Senate pass a budget and vote on the 15 bills awaiting them. Don’t think I can handle 12 more months of his constant campaigning and complaining.

“It’s time to live within our means”

Note again how all Republican ‘solutions’ involve cutting benefits and protections for working class Americans while asking nothing further from their favored constituents in the top 1% who hold nearly half of the nation’s wealth while paying the lowest tax rates in 50 years, and are just sitting on trillions of dollars which they aren’t investing in jobs.

The RECESSION is what has murdered job growth. Maybe “the business environment” due to a serious lack of demand. Housing is a giant driving force in the US economy and it’s in the tank. Republicans are completely making up that regulations are the cause.

“Profound 120V. While you joke people are going without chemo drugs. It’s a national disgrace. On a lighter note, I’m sick of paying more for allergy meds due to a shortage as well.”

Too bad you don’t have friends in low places and a regional office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. People like me do. And we get what we want and your money. We’ll spend it well, trust me. Soon we will all have solar panels and poor Mr. Sachs won’t have to live on the street either…

“Then why is Obama running around the country on our dime blaming the Republicans?”

Because they deserve every bit of it. The Republicans are doing nothing about job creation besides token peddling of their corporate giveaways because they want unemployment to stay high till the election.

The middle class is shrinking by devouring itself. I don’t blame the corporations and big business for this. They do what they get paid to do and protect their bottom line and they’re smart about it. They sell their agenda to the American people like they sell soap and potato chips.

I do blame those Americans who have bought into to the corporate propaganda that discredit the labor unions. The corporations have neutralized labors power for a basic reason; so they can out-source to a cheap labor market with no consequences.

The labor unions gave America the highest standard of living in the world and built the middle class. Many of these union bashers enjoy the benefits those guys on the picket lines earned for them. The middle class will continue to shrink until these misinformed people get some common sense and see the real motive behind all the anti-union propaganda.

Posted by: tmferretti—The labor Unions gave us uncompetitive standard of livings. The Chinese and Indians were not in the game when the labor unions drove up standard of living, we were a US economy and not a global one, the majority of our GDP was from Exports not services and government. Today there are 4+ billion people that you now have to compete against that were not playing 30-40-50 years ago. The more people that try out for the team, does not increase the number of people that make the team. The success of the 40′-50′s-60′s etc, was based on the fact that the team was just the US, and our good standard of living came at the expense of billions living hand to mouth in dirt in places like, China, India, Africa, and the Warsaw Pact.

Republicans are completely making up that regulations are the cause.
Posted by: Secondlook | October 31, 2011, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

And Obama is completely making up the assertation that Republicans are the cause.
He has COMPOUNDED the problem with his uinion and energy fundraising donor giveaways.

the real problem is lack of consumer demand and spending.
Posted by: numbers | October 31, 2011, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

“Then why is Obama running around the country on our dime blaming the Republicans?”

Because they deserve every bit of it. The Republicans are doing nothing about job creation Posted by: numbers | October 31, 2011, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

You can’t have it both ways numbers. There either is a need for jobs, or there isn’t. AND the government doesn’t CREATE jobs. But the Republican’s bills (posted by yours truly at 12:10) are trying to create a friendly environment for job creation in the private sector. Reid (Obama’s water carrier) won’t allow them to come to the floor. If some passed, Obama wouldn’t be able to whine about a do nothing Congress.

“Communist China doesn’t need labor unions.”

It’s fun to watch a pro-labor-union pro-Chicom mind protect itself from itself.

They brought you the 40 hour week, safer work conditions, paid sick, etc. Thank them the next time you vacation.
Posted by: Secondlook | October 31, 2011, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

They also got us here:

State Budget Solutions reports:

The state governments have been increasing the fringe benefits of their employees. As Bob Williams explains, this is because the government cannot afford the cost of employee union demands-often regarding retirement and health care benefits. State Budget Solutions found that heavily unionized government worker states, like California and New York, have the largest unfunded pensions and retiree health care.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Databases, there is an increase in state and local government fringe benefits. Public employees are receiving pension and retirement benefits that are 337 percent greater than private sector employees. The cost of employee compensation, specifically retirement and savings, averages $0.97 per hour in the private sector. This is compared to the $3.27 per hour that public sector employees accrue.

New York and Massachusetts both illustrate the differences in retirement benefits between the public and private sectors. In New York, the Census Bureau recorded that the average private sector retiree was receiving an annual pension of $13,100 in 2009. State and local employees earned over twice as much in annual benefits, resulting in $27,600. For public sector retirees, this number is free of state and local taxes–a luxury that private employees don’t have.

Massachusetts is running into the issue of potentially losing some of its municipal services because pension and health care benefits are increasing rapidly. The number of state employees with receiving $100,000 or more in pensions has increased to 20 percent in one year. Massachusetts’s state pension fund has a current unfunded $4.9 billion guaranteed to current retirees. ”

Public sector employees are being paid better retirements than we are receiveing…..BY US.

The President is suppose to work with Congress, not around Congress like a dictator. Maybe if he would go back to work (instead of campaigning and fund raising) he would see there are 15 bills awaiting in the Senate to be voted on. Funny how he forgets to add that the Democratic Senate is holding up all these bills and his jobs bill, seems it’s only those bad old Republicans.

Whereismymoney – No, what brought us here was states agreeing to salaries and then not funding the pension plans like they were supposed to because it was too easy to use that money for something else. THEN we had a recession that wiped out a wad. And they began to blame the employees vs. what really did it. Retirement accounts are not evil and it was vested salary. Their incomes were not excessive either. But then again I’m writing this to some anti my fellow man republican that bought the mantra that the entire ills of this country are all because of some citizens so you won’t blame the stinking politicians that did it.

On FOIA, Obama wants a license to lie
By: Examiner Editorial | 10/30/11 8:05 PM
It’s not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration’s lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama’s Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains to an ongoing criminal investigation, concerns a terrorist organization, or a counterintelligence operation involving a foreign nation.

Republicans have absolutely NO interest in creating jobs or making life better in any way for the average American. They will hold their stand and keep on doing NOTHING, unless you call 4 different bills regarding ABORTION doing anything – but they will do NOTHING about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, as they LIED about that to get elected in 2010 (as if MOST of us didn’t know they’d be lying). Then they will wait until the next election in HOPES that the people of this NATION are so dimwitted as their OWN base the Republican voter and will actually be DUMB enough to chose a Republican. FAT CHANCE. Most people do NOT want the Republicans to complete their total DESTRUCTION of the USA by greed and religion. President OBAMA in 2012!!!!

The latest DoE loan recipient to declare bankruptcy is Beacon Power Corp:
Here we go again with Obama dumping taxpayer money…What a SCAM he is running

media goes silent

wheresmymoney…. They did pay it. It was removed from a pay check and then not put into an account by those in charge. And as far as age? Well, they only have so much money and it’s theirs regardless. So it really doesn’t matter what age they begin to collect. If they die it’s part of the estate. These same people don’t get SS I might add. Though that would matter on insurance now that I think about it. And for what it’s worth? I have no problem moving said age either.

Obama has never been a leader before so it’s understandable that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He has a hard time making decisions and even when he does he’s unsure of himself. Valerie tells him what to do anyway.

The drug companies will probley make even fewer drugs now, because Obama has no Constitutional authority to order a private company to make anything! – Few presidents have trampled the Constitution like Obama has!

Few presidents have trampled the Constitution like Obama has!

Posted by: RadioMan77 | October 31, 2011, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

yawn . . . it the President had done ANYTHING even vaguely against the Constitution, you can bet the belligerent Republican House would have been on it like a dog shaking a rag. There is nothing. You seem a little hysterical and beyond reason.

“yawn . . . it the President had done ANYTHING even vaguely against the Constitution, you can bet the belligerent Republican House would have been on it like a dog shaking a rag. There is nothing. You seem a little hysterical and beyond reason.”

Posted by: Judd | October 31, 2011, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Jude already posted this earlier:

“If there were anything even vaguely unconstitutional about these, the belligerent Republicans in the House would be on this like a dog with a rag in its mouth. There is nothing.”

Now you’re stealing her exact phrases as well? Don’t you have any original thoughts? Shameful.

Posted by: numbers—-We grow the economy by bringing new resources to market, everything else is just cannibalization or reallocation of resources. Take Computers for instance, Computers didn’t grow the economy, people adapted, computers cost the people who did anything with typewriters to go out of business, as new software was written, thousands of accountants, and statisticians, lost their jobs, people adapted and did new things, some people thought up new ideas, but the new ideas are taking fewer and fewer people, every improvement reduces the number of workers, productivity is and has been growing faster than our ability to make new jobs. Yes we can grow the economy with ideas, but not on a massive scale like you can with manufacturing or exporting of raw materials and resources. Our government policies, stop new resources from being brought to market, or it increases the cost beyond what is competitive on a global scale. We are a global economy, there is no going back, and reduction in the amount of customers that Americans have access to, will not improve the bottoms 50% lot in life, adding tariffs will not improve the bottom 50% lot in life. Raising the cost of imports will only reduce consumption, making stuff here will only raise prices and thus reduce consumption. In either case we consume less, and 70% of the economy is consuming, that is what employs the majority of the people, providing goods and services, that is what the majority of Americans do, and they will be the ones that loose their jobs. The economic growth of the past 30 years, the growth not related to government spending, has increased solely because of productivity increases, mainly through technology, the people that do that stuff have jobs, and will have jobs, making stuff has always been a safer economic bet, than just selling stuff. That is why the 50-60-70 were more or less halcyon times for the US, most people made stuff, as a result most people did OK economically, their standard of living improved and their kids did as well. The difference today is that the Chinese are out competing everyone in the manufacturing field, so people adapt and do what isn’t in the manufacturing field, so that leaves us producing ideas and knowledge, the number of people required or even able to do that is far less than the armies of factory workers that made it in the past.

A basic freedom is a human beings right to fight for a fair and appropriate wage, safe working place, and a share of the profits their labor generates. Take away the middle class’s right to collective bargaining and you’ve taken away one of the most important rights we have. As I said, the republican attack on the middle class starts with taking away the middle class’s power by discrediting the unions. They see nothing wrong in making sure the truffle eaters are taken care of but insist that only the middle class make the sacrifices..

Posted by: Jake | October 31, 2011, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm

Please stop lifting my talking points from other threads!

Posted by: Jim | October 31, 2011, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

They’re excellent facts Jim. Glad to use them to straighten out the liars. Thanks.

Posted by: Jake | October 31, 2011, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
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Talking to yourself again?

“ABSOLUTELY NO memory of how their lack of regulations usually take over ANY sensibilities”
Posted by: demNme5 | October 31, 2011, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

Yes I do remember when Barney Frank and other liberal Democrats did their best to resend regulations to make it easier for people to get “Liar’s Loans” that led to the mortgage melt down that resulted in our current economic problems! And please don’t deny that happened, because Frank has already admitted it was a ” mistake” during a video interview!