Posted on 08/23/2016 8:07:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Never let a crisis go to waste" was the pithy advice of Rahm Emanuel, who has since gone on to become the mayor of America's most violent large city. "And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Rahm was speaking in November 2008 about the newly elected president, Barack Obama. That was three weeks after Obama had told a campaign rally: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
With only five months left in the White House, Obama is still hard at work "fundamentally transforming" our country into something much different from the nation we all grew up in. Here are recent examples of how he is determined to transform America by undermining our common culture and language.
This month's catastrophic flooding in Louisiana is said to be America's worst national disaster not caused by an earthquake or a hurricane. While Obama continued playing golf on the exclusive island of Martha's Vineyard, his federal bureaucrats are making sure that the crisis won't go to waste.
On August 16, five federal agencies issued an incredible 16-page, single-spaced "Guidance" warning relief agencies not to discriminate in the use of disaster funds. Agencies receiving funds must "post a statement of nondiscrimination" on all public notices and "should also identify a point of contact for the public to submit complaints of discrimination."
The Guidance refers to "unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin" which is prohibited by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but it doesn't stop there. It also tries to ban discrimination on account of "limited English proficiency," which Congress has never prohibited.
The sneaky part is the way the federal Guidance includes the phrase "limited English proficiency," as if the language you speak is part of your "national origin." In fact, people from every country can and do learn English, and there is no good reason for our government to conduct official business in any other language.
The document was issued jointly by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services.
The Guidance goes on at great length to require agencies to serve "LEP persons" and "LEP populations" in their own languages. Agencies are told to "provide translated materials," "translation services," and even "monolingual communication in the LEP person's language."
The idea that federal grant recipients must provide services to "LEP persons" in their native languages other than English originated exactly 16 years ago when Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 13166 in the waning days of his administration. Federal agencies have continued to enforce that executive order by regulation, even though the Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that Clinton's order was not justified by any law passed by Congress.
Congress had a chance to stop this nonsense last month when Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, introduced an amendment to prohibit funds from being used to enforce EO 13166. King's amendment fell short by 21 votes because 50 House Republicans voted no, along with all the Democrats.
Don't assume that the only other language is Spanish. The vast wave of over 100,000 illegal immigrants who came here from Central America in the last three years includes tens of thousands of people who do not speak or understand either English or Spanish.
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times reported that "ancient Mayan languages are creating problems" because there are so few qualified interpreters. With so many new arrivals from Guatemala and Honduras, the primitive languages spoken in those countries are now more common than French in U.S. immigration courts.
Don't assume that the Obama administration is merely responding to a genuine need for services by recent immigrants who have not yet learned English. In the name of multiculturalism, the administration is actively discouraging the transition to English by immigrants and their children, and promoting other languages instead.
The $9.2 billion federal Head Start program has published Multicultural Principles for Children Ages Birth to Five which says immigrant children have a right to be taught in their native languages. A 32-page policy statement from the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services promotes Dual Language Learning and even warns immigrant families not to "prioritize the learning of English" because "children may inadvertently lose their home language."
We should have a national policy requiring immigrants and their children to become proficient in English. Even if they "lose their home language," that's a small price to pay for the far greater benefit of English proficiency, and the importance of a common language for all Americans.
As Theodore Roosevelt said a century ago, "We cannot tolerate any attempt to oppose or supplant the language and culture that has come down to us from the builders of this Republic."
Transforming—new speak for destroying.
Didn’t his brother said everyone should die at 75? How old is he now?
I’m just sitting here if Obama and the Mooch have figured out how to get that weekly pallet of ‘product’ without paying for it.
Oh he is not done by a long shot - he still has SIX MONTHS of destruction planned. Aren’t there new regulations and decrees coming out every week from this a$$hat DESTROYER OF AMERICA?
GREAT PHOTOS!
Yes. if only that idiotic mayor of Baltimore had said "we also gave those who wished to transform our city space to do that as well.”
Look for a "Globull Warming" speech today in Louisiana from the golfer in chief.
From White and Christian (in his mind) to non-White and muzlim. His hatred is very powerful, and he is willing to destroy this country to put his hatred into action.
Can somebody please make this trash go away?
Head Smashed In?
There is a town in Alberta, Canada with the evocative name of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. It takes its name from a geologic feature that North American Indians used to hunt bison. The Indians would stealthily arrange themselves around a herd of bison and, at a signal, jump up and alarm the herd into a stampede. By their strategic positioning, the Indians would cause the herd to stampede over a cliff (the buffalo jump) thus killing or sufficiently injuring the animals so that they’d be short work for Indians waiting below the cliff.
The Obama administration has been using buffalo jump hunting on the Congress and the American people. It is at the root of Rahm Emmanuel’s now notorious comment that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” The “Stimulus” was one such stampede — Congress didn’t even take the time to read the bill before running [us] over the buffalo jump. The current one is the “Health Care Crisis”. Everyone run in fear! Obama will show us the “escape route”; in our rush to “safety” we won’t heed the fatal drop in front of us. Next will come the “Carbon Crisis”. And then...well, save something for next year.
If the American people don’t stop stupidly rushing headlong from every phoney Rahm-crisis their first awareness of impending doom will be on the ride down from the buffalo jump of disaster.
The Mooselimb faggot is the worst... Evah!...
“Dual track language learning” was called “bilingual education” in CA back in the 1980s. It was found to be a complete flop. It held immigrant students back from learning English, and so it HURT their academics. Been there, done that. Now Obama wants to bring that disaster back.
Can’t wait until this guy is past history or he gets to use Saddam Hussein’s old hangin rope. F%$%^er makes me projectile
GET READY FOR ANOTHER POLITICAL MONEY-MAKING MACHINE
Boobamba already has two Clintonesque get-rich-quick foundations
(that we know of)....mission statements sounding suspiciously like the Clintons.
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SOURCE http://www.barackobamafoundation.org/
President Obama said, "the change we seek will take longer than one term or one presidency. "
(TRANSLATION: Me and Michelle want the money pouring in faster than we can spend it.)
" Real change—big change—takes many years and requires each generation to embrace the obligations and opportunities that come with the title of Citizen. "
MISSION STATEMENT: The Obama Foundation will inspire the next generation of young leaders all over the world. It will convene the brightest minds with the newest ideas from across the political spectrum and draw strength from the rich diversity and vitality of Chicago, the city where the President and First Lady started a family and raised their daughters.
But most of all, the Foundation will ask all of us to take on big challenges and to believe that we can meet them together. Our history and President Obama’s legacy give us hope that even the most difficult change is possible, and the Foundation exists to carry on that great, unfinished project of renewal and global progress.”
In form visitors about our civic rights and responsibilities and inspire citizens to get engaged.
Empower individuals who are leading change around the world, and help develop new ways to enable all citizens to take action.
Connect people from different communities and disciplines to create new approaches to solving our biggest challenges.
Translate new ideas into concrete actions that will have a measurable impact, enlisting partners across all sectors to scale what works.”
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