Wednesday, September 25, 2013

WATCHDOG WIRE - FLORIDA 09/25/2013

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FL REP. GRAYSON DECLARES “STEALTH SOCIALISM” IN AMERICA
“Stealth socialism’s been created,”Grayson, a second-term congressman from Florida’s Ninth District, said in an interview with Salon.com on a range of political and economic issues. ”We’ve had a government takeover of the bond market,” he said in describing what has happened since the financial industry crisis of 2008. He continued,

Government simply ends up owning more and more and more. If government had taken over the steel industry, maybe it would have been more noticeable. They’ve taken over the financing of housing industry as well, with a desired result
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HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA STEPPED INTO A RUSSIAN BEAR TRAP?
The Detroit Free Press reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad would like the United States to bear the estimated $1 billion cost to destroy his chemical and biological weapons.

According to The Atlantic magazine, “Estimating the dollar cost of destroying the roughly 1,000 tons of Syrian chemical weapons in the middle of a civil war is challenging. But it’s possible to come up with a ballpark estimate.”...



TURNING SMOKERS INTO CRIMINALS
America is filled with groups of people clamoring for their “rights” or claiming they are being discriminated against. One group, however, has been successful silenced and, broadly speaking, turned into criminals. They are people who enjoy a cigarette, a cigar, or a pipe. There is no one left to speak for them, so I will ...

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FLORIDA’S 303 PUBLIC PENSION SYSTEMS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE
Florida has the third highest number of public pension systems in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau the states with the most public pension systems were Pennsylvania (1,425 systems), Illinois (457 systems) and Florida (303 systems) ...

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WHY THE H#*L DO I NEED TO GET AN EPA BURN PERMIT?
I hung up the phone. I don’t know what facial contortions I was making … but the phone calls had left me shaken. I needed to count to ten … my style … so I leaned back in my chair to think, cope, and rest my eyes. I dozed off. I had a dream.

I dreamt I was on the phone and no matter where I turned, someone was blocking my very next step and not answering any question. Then I was at the local town hall …

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