Real estate mogul Neil Bluhm is tossing a private birthday party here for President Obama, who turns 49 on Aug. 4.

The shocker:
The dinner invite to the Barack bash at Bluhm’s home requires a $30,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee!

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While Liberals cheered and applaued the passage of ObamaCare, those who actually read the bill quivered in fear of what was soon to fall upon us.

People don’t realize that the provisions in the bill, now law, are set to ignite on us in stages. Stage 1 was the billions of
dollars it cost corporations to be in compliance. Stage 2 is the IRS as Enforcer. And let me tell you right now, folks, it’s gonna be painful.

“National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who operates inside the IRS, highlighted the agency’s new mission in her annual report to Congress last week. Look out below. She notes that the IRS is already “greatly taxed”–pun intended?–”by the additional role it is playing in delivering social benefits and programs to the American public,” like tax credits for first-time homebuyers or purchasing electric cars. Yet with ObamaCare, the agency is now responsible for “the most extensive social benefit program the IRS has been asked to implement in recent history.” And without “sufficient funding” it won’t be able to discharge these new duties.

Ms. Olson also exposed a damaging provision that she estimates will hit some 30 million sole proprietorships and subchapter S corporations, two million farms and one million charities and other tax-exempt organizations. Prior to ObamaCare, businesses only had to tell the IRS the value of services they purchase. But starting in 2013 they will also have to report the value of goods they buy from a single vendor that total more than $600 annually; including office supplies and the like.”

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The White House on Friday released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

Emanuel, press secretary Roberts Gibbs, senior adviser David Axelrod and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett make the top salary amount of $172,200 per year. Three staffers have their salaries listed as $0.

In total, the White House pays its staff $38,796,307.

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Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.

A year in the making and 22 months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a worldwide panic in credit and other markets, the bill cleared its final hurdle with a 60-39 Senate vote. It now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature.

The law will give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to guard consumers in their financial transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators.

Anyone that reads the part, “the law will give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy” and doesn’t feel a chill go down their spine doesn’t know what is going on here.
Then is says, “a powerful council of regulators will be on the lookout for risks accross the finacial system”.
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While everyone is doing their hate blogs and talking about race and liberal vs conservative we are ALL giving up our freedom and country to a corrupt government. They now control our health (if we live or die) and control the money that use to flow freely in a capitalistic republic. Getting the American people biggering about race and such was predicted by outside extremist as a way to bring down this country and it is WORKING. We (all AMERICANS) need to wake up or it is all over.

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The First Family has scheduled another getaway. And in order to show their solid support for the people of the Gulf Coast, they’re going to Maine.

The Bangor Daily News reports the holiday plans:

The first family will spend next weekend vacationing on Mount Desert Island, according to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree.

President Barack Obama and his family are scheduled to arrive Friday, July 16, and stay through Sunday, July 18.

Information about where the family would stay and the sights they might take in while visiting Maine was not available Friday night. The visit is a personal family vacation and no public appearances are scheduled, Pingree said.

“What an honor that the Obama family has chosen Maine for vacation when they could have gone anywhere in the country,” she said. “I think the Obamas will really enjoy the quiet woods, beautiful coast, wonderful people and everything else that brings thousands of families here every year.”

Thank God this is not George W. Bush, otherwise the headlines on the news networks and web sites, would be ‘bogged’ down with viewers and traffic looking for a reason to go berzerk on what’s wrong with the world.

Bluegrass Plundit

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