Showing posts with label super congress. Show all posts
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Obama Requests $1.2trillion/Super Congress Set to Complete the Destruction of U.S.


SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
January 24, 2012

Recently Obama has requested raising the Debt Ceiling by another $1.2 trillion. Currently theceiling is at approx. $15.3 trillion. Although a "Super Congress" has been put into position in order to bring cuts necessary to reigning in debt, it is apparent that these moves are merely "smoke and mirrors" to placate the American people and give the appearance that all is well on the homefront.

I spoke about these things back on July 29, 2011

Wall Street firms donated $11.2 million to members of debt ‘super committee’

The Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
 
The bipartisan "super committee" created by the debt ceiling deal is comprised of lawmakers who have received big bucks from special interest groups, according to a report by MapLight.

The committee is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over ten years.
In total, the twelve members appointed to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction got nearly $64.5 million from special interests groups over the past decade, with legal firms donating about $31.5 million and Wall Street firms donating about $11.2 million.

Of that $11.2 million, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase donated approximately $2 million combined.

The members appointed to the committee are Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Rob Portman (R-OH), Patty Murray (D-WA), John Kerry (D-MA), and Max Baucus (D-MT) and Reps. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Fred Upton (R-MI), Dave Camp (R-MI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), and Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

Democratic and liberal groups donated the third most amount of money, with about $9.6 million in political contributions, and the health industry donated the fourth most, with about $9.3 million.

Club for Growth, a conservative free market group, donated more money than any other organization, contributing a combined $990,066 to the twelve lawmakers. The vast majority of that money went to Sen. Toomey.
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