Posted on 02/27/2009 3:17:42 AM PST by Scanian
WASHINGTON - Emblazoned on every page of President Obama's budget are the words: "A New Era of Responsibility."
That would be a responsibility for you to fork over more taxes.
That would be a responsibility for your company to pay even higher taxes.
That would be a responsibility for you to foot the bill for one of the largest expansions of government welfare in history.
Obama's budget schemes to drain staggering amounts of money from people who worked for it and steer it to people who didn't.
This isn't the free market. It's the freeloader market.
"It is not just misguided but dangerous to raise taxes on small businesses and families that can't afford to pay them," said Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
According to the IRS, the top 20 percent of wage earners already pay 85 percent of the taxes in this country. Under Obama's new redistribution alchemy, the percentage they shoulder invariably will rise.
And the ranks of people reliant upon this fattened government will surely go up, too.
In addition to spending billions more on government welfare programs, Obama takes one of the few widely acclaimed programs in the federal government and turns it into a ticking time bomb.
Buried deep in the spending plan, Obama proposes spending even more on the Pell Grant program, which pays tuition costs for select students.
Most alarming, Obama wants to turn it into an entitlement. In other words, he proposes to dramatically increase its size and make it a permanent and untouchable part of annual federal spending with further built-in yearly increases.
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But in the Obamacracy, white folks who aren't anarchists and activists need not apply for student loans, grants or any scholarships for high education...
No more college for whitey!!!
I’m sure of that.
[he proposes to dramatically increase its size and make it a permanent ]
I don’t understand this. How can one Congress and President make anything “permanent.”
All sending everyone to college has done thus far is create a country of people who feel they are entitled to a better paying job. Convincing all americans that the only path to wealth is college has made us a nation of poor folks, burdened with student loans, while businesses send jobs overseas because american college grads want/need to make so much money to live the lifestyle they have been convinced is their right to live after attending college. We need manufacturing/factory jobs, non unionized so they don’t get out of control price wise with legacy costs, for the masses of people to work. Service sector jobs as well as construction and financial jobs are over while people are broke. Manufacturing and healthcare are the only 2 sectors that provide actual jobs for the long run. Why are these 2 things not being courted? Because they will fix the problem not create one. Sad........
[Go to any college you choose and examine the students that are working hard to learn and make good grades. Then look at the slackers, dopers and ones doing the minimal amount of work to get by. Guess which ones are getting a free ride and which ones are paying their own way?]
This is so true.
Although I can't find it writing, I heard on the Joyce Kaufman show that governor crist invited Obama to send 10 to 20 thousand Palestinian "refugees" to Florida. So I guess they can use some of the stimulus money to set up schools for Palestinian refugees like the Caribe center has been set up for Haitian and Cuban immigrants.
It is outrageous that recent Cuban immigrants, often hand selected by the Cuban government since Clinton helped put the Cuban lottery system into place, get to go to college for free. They should flip burgers, wash dishes in the early morning and work as security guards at night like my Cuban born husband had to do to put himself through college and graduate school. I thought they wanted to take on jobs that Americans wouldn't do? They can waitress, work in the college cafeteria, student teach, etc., to get through school and work extra jobs to pay off student loans the same as the majority of hardworking Americans have to do.
The demoncrats will extend eligibility to illegal aliens which is what they wanted to do with the DREAM act. They can continue to provide Pell grants to pedophiles and other prisoners who have been reported to cancel their classes and use the Pell grant money to buy CDs, clothes, (drugs?). Meanwhile, Pell grant monies are denied to graduate students and most middle class students because there is a finite amount of money to go around.
Also, if you are middle class, or part of Obama's nouveau riche, YOUR tuition will increase to make up for the increase in Pell grant students.
1998 testimony before congress re: Pell grant fraud
Pell grant money goes to sex offenders Do you think that their victims qualify for a Pell grant? Probably not.
Nancy Pelosi backs tuition breaks for illegal aliens (including pell grants)
Read Senator Sessions congressional arguments against the DREAM act and you will see WHY the group of marxists Lt.Col. Allen West so aptly named The PC Club have put Pell Grants in the stimulus package. According to Senator Sessions, self employed illegal aliens are given legal alien status for 6 years during which they can apply for citizenship. Self employment can mean that they only work ONE day a year!
He also said "...Under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, legal permanent residents and certain other eligible noncitizens receive Fed- eral student financial aid, including Pell grants and Stafford student loans. That is part of the 1965 act. The committee bill will add illegal students, illegal alien volunteers, and illegal alien military members to the list of people eligible, by changing, heir immigration status to that of a legal permanent resident. This change in status would make them eligible for Federal financial aid. Pell grants and Stafford loans currently comprise 85 percent of postsecondary student aid available to citizens and eligible non- citizens. In fiscal year 2002, 8.8 percent of the individuals receiving Pell grants were eligible noncitizens over 380,000 people."
"We want to help people and be generous. But if you are in an illegal status, I do not see why there is an obligation to give the same extra benefits that you do to those who are lawfully here."
"Pell grants. The Federal Pell Grant Program is the single largest source of grant aid for postsecondary education funded by the Federal Government. There is already a current fiscal year Pell grant shortfall of over $2.5 billion. We have done a lot of different things to try to get money as high as we can get it this year. The fiscal year 2003 estimated program costs are approximately $12.5 billion. The annual appropriations is $11.4 billion. Now we want to open up Pell grants to illegal aliens? Although Pell grants are a discre tionary program, the cost of increasing the number of eligible recipients in an award year is considered direct spend- ing, when the appropriations and max- imum grant award for that year are al- ready set in law and a payment sched- ule is published. Thus, we could be fac- ing a budget point of order with this bill. In other words, since in a number of these instances the right to have a Pell grant for qualifying persons is an entitlement, making more people eligi ble for this entitlement could subject this bill to a budget point of order. The Congressional Budget Office esti mates that 58,500 additional Pell grants would have been given within 1 year if last year’s DREAM Act had passed, with an average grant being $2,420. How many people do not get a dime who try to send their kids to college, out of State maybe, people who have worked hard all their life, middle-class Ameri- cans? They do not get a dime. But somebody who is here illegally gets $2,400? I do not think that is fair." Sen. Sessions, 2006
This is so true.
I am a specific example of that. I had monetary help for the first couple years of college. I was meandering along, switching majors and experiencing all the trappings of college life. Once the expense burden fell on me and me alone, I got exceptionally serious about getting done.
Obambi Speech:
Hope = FEAR
Change = CRISIS
“This isn’t the free market. It’s the freeloader market.”
Perfect.
Somewhere I once saw a graph that charted the effect of increasing government grants on college costs. The gist of the graph was to show that every time the financial aid limits were raised, tuition/costs went up.
I would also like to see colleges subject to the same restrictions that the liberals so blithely attach to bailout funding. Let’s see limits on the salaries for college personnel: college presidents, professors, coaches. I’d also be curious to compare some of the perks that college professors get with those that are so criticized when they occur in the private community. No more “cruise the Mediterranean with our esteemed lecturers” type of stuff.
But does college in the USA increase the power of American students to produce the things that we need?
BACKSTORY Back in the 90's, Pell Grants were looted---completely emptied----the populations targeted for assistance got nothing.
The looters were later pardoned---Hillary was running for the Senate. The Clintons bought Senate votes with pardons. The looters' Hasidic community then gave Hillary 1200 votes.....some voted more than once--- the "underprivileges" Hasidics used their "second" residences as voting addresses.
Excerpts from the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT August Term 1999 (Argued: May 15, 2000 Decided: August 25, 2000 ) Docket Nos. 99-1671(L), 99-1672, 99-1673, 99-1674 -UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, -v.- CHAIM BERGER and AVRUM DAVID FRIESEL, a/k/a "David Friesel," a/k/a "Avraham Friesel," a/k/a "A. David Friesel," a/k/a "Aron Friesel," Defendants, KALMEN STERN, DAVID GOLDSTEIN, Esq., JACOB ELBAUM, a/k/a "Yitzchok Elbaum," and BENJAMIN BERGER, Defendants-Appellants.
The original indictment charged the appellants and two other defendants (now fugitives), Chaim Berger and Avrum David Friesel, with conspiracy and substantive counts based upon their participation in a massive conspiracy to defraud the Department of Education ("DOE"), the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"), the Small Business Administration ("SBA"), the Social Security Administration ("SSA"), and the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"). Count 1 of the redacted indictment charged all four appellants with conspiracy to defraud several federal agencies.
The remaining counts charged the appellants, in various combinations, with substantive crimes relating to this conspiracy, including embezzlement, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements, money laundering, filing a false tax return, and failing to file a tax return.
The evidence at trial revealed that the appellants -- most of whom resided in New Square, a Hasidic Jewish community in Rockland County, New York -- participated in a massive conspiracy to obtain by fraud millions of dollars in student financial aid, rental subsidies, social security benefits, and small business loans. All four appellants participated in a fraud upon the DOE, which formed the centerpiece of the government's case, but the government also proved that the conspirators or subsets of them victimized other agencies as well.
They also concealed their income to increase the amounts they could obtain under federal subsidy programs and reduce their tax liability. The conspiracy involved a number of other participants, including major figures in the New Square Hasidic community.
We now examine the scheme in greater detail.
First, the conspirators defrauded the DOE's Pell Grant Program by falsely enrolling thousands of New Square residents and others in schools offering mentor-based independent study programs.
Many students never actually studied at these institutions, even though the conspirators prepared a paper record of their academic progress. Ultimately, most of the false students were enrolled at Toldos Yakov Yosef Seminary ("TYY"), an institution that purported to employ all four appellants and received over $11 million in Pell Grants but never existed except on paper.
As part of the conspiracy, the conspirators made extensive efforts to deceive the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training ("ACCET") in order to gain accreditation for TYY so that the school could qualify for federal aid. Each of the appellants played a role in TYY.
Elbaum was named as Board Secretary and had signature authority over bank accounts into which Pell Grant funds were wire-transferred and out of which payments were made to community organizations, to conspirators, and to the DOE (to repay student loans).
Stern was named as administrator (1987-88); pretended to be Arye Reich, the supposed Registrar -- who was living in Israel at the time -- during ACCET visits; and made false statements to the accreditors in this capacity. Goldstein was named as Administrator (1988-91) and helped deceive the accreditors in 1989. He resigned in 1991 and later served on the ACCET Board of Trustees. In addition, he made statements to a DOE investigator in 1996 that maintained the fiction of TYY, identifying officials and claiming to have fulfilled the duties of Administrator while at TYY.
Finally, Berger served as an alleged mentor, and paychecks for supposed TYY employee Cheindel Bernat -- Ayre Reich's daughter, who also lived in Israel -- were deposited into a bank account controlled by Berger in Bernat's name.
Second, the conspirators defrauded HUD's Section 8 housing subsidy program. Elbaum and Stern failed to report to HUD payments they received from accounts controlled by Chaim Berger, thus fraudulently increasing the amount of Section 8 subsidies for which they could qualify as tenants.
Benjamin Berger fraudulently obtained Section 8 rent payments as a landlord by disguising his ownership of property in New Square -- placing it in Cheindel Bernat's name -- and then depositing checks from HUD in an account he controlled in Bernat's name. In addition, Berger obtained greater subsidies as a Section 8 tenant in Spring Valley by failing to report the income he received as a shadow landlord.
Third, various conspirators, including Goldstein and Stern, participated in schemes to defraud the SSA and the SBA, the details of which are not relevant to this appeal.
Fourth, the conspirators attempted to disguise from the IRS the income that they had diverted to the New Square community and to themselves through the above schemes. Elbaum and Stern received proceeds through off-the-books payments made from accounts controlled by Chaim Berger. Elbaum also failed to file a tax return for one year. Finally, Berger received and concealed income through his control of an account in Cheindel Bernat's name.
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BGRND Orthodox Judaism was designated a "disadvantaged minority" under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." This meant that Orthodox became beneficiaries of millions upon millions of tax dollars----federal community development funds. Federal and city assistance received over the years include CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) monies, Section 8 housing assistance, school meal funds, Headstart, HUD grants, and low interest loans. In 1984, federal aid was expanded when the federal government included Orthodox in a priority group of six disadvantaged minorities recognized by all federal agencies.
Investigators need to determine why Orthodox Brooklyn, NY residents registered some 800 tax-exempts in Lakewood-----a small flea-bitten central New Jersey town.
SOURCE Read more about this subject on the PBS web site---PBS aired a three-part series on the activities of Orthodox in America.
“But does college in the USA increase the power of American students to produce the things that we need?”
Depends, is it Americans attending college or someone from another country.
In a market headed towards stagflation which is a certainty with the furious spending of the last three weeks, "earning potential" does NOBODY any good! That is akin to the gubmint saying everyone gets a new car, but the kicker is that these new cars only run on enriched uranium pellets!
At some point the ChiComs who underwrote all of our debt are going to take notice of our spending bender and tell us we're over the credit limit.
“At some point the ChiComs who underwrote all of our debt are going to take notice of our spending bender and tell us we’re over the credit limit.”
And then their economy will crash. They have a hungry tiger by the tail.
“Ah, excuse me. College is no longer about education. It is about indoctrination. “
So fix the indoctrination and not eliminate college. The baby boomers have left us a HUGE mess in many areas. Its time they started to clean it up or don’t whine when they are left out in the cold in their old age.
—ChiComs—
Is it 1950 again? Better check my radio (it’s a Philco!), maybe “Amos n’ Andy” is on.
BGRND Orthodox Judaism was designated a “disadvantaged minority” under Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.” This meant that Orthodox became beneficiaries of millions upon millions of tax dollars——federal community development funds........
I think it is just Hasids who got this designation. And many of them are poor
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