Grand Theft Obama: the Biggest Heist in World History Unfolding Before Our Eyes By James Simpson Our

nation is being stolen before our very eyes as we speak. Like a street conman, President Obama makes grand sweeping gestures and delivers soaring rhetoric, drawing our attention while his crime partners reach into our pockets. But this is not merely monetary theft. We are being stripped of our laws, our security and our standing in the world right down to our nation s very character. !his is the fundamental transformation of "merica Obama promised. #oodbye "merica, welcome Obama$ation. %e is being aided and abetted in this crime of the century by the institutionally corrupt& ideologically power mad mass media, which conspire with his advisors behind closed doors, greet each new outrageous revelation with a wall of silence, misinformation or aggression, attacking, smearing, libeling assassinating the character of anyone with the gall to speak the truth. !oday s media does not provide information, it provides misinformation. "s Pat 'addell famously said, the mainstream media has literally become the (enemy of the "merican people.) We are being had, folks, and it is way past time to stand up and take notice. *f we wait much longer, we will find that the damage is beyond repair. De eit and !orruption as Trade raft +or ,emocrats, lying is not merely something one does to avoid getting caught, lying is tradecraft. !hus our president lies. But these are no ordinary lies& they are grand, sweeping, allencompassing lies. %e lies fre.uently, flagrantly, even defiantly. %e says e/actly the opposite of truth, consistently, to confuse people, and tops it off by accusing his opponents of doing what he does. "s the saying goes, (*f you can t da00le them with your brilliance, baffle them with your B1.) With the media covering for them, Obama and the ,emocrats channel billions to political allies and friends, and dump the bill on the "merican ta/payer. !he methodology even engenders our collaboration, because we cannot bring ourselves to believe that someone we put our trust in could treat us with such contempt. Our nation has developed a form of 1tockholm syndrome. Like a battered wife, we make e/cuses for Obama rather than admit he is making fools of us while engorging himself and his allies on our hardearned ta/ dollars. "edia "alpra ti e !he national news media provide ,emocrats with 2 billions in free adverti0ing and promotion, transparently advocate everything ,emocrats do while lying or suppressing bad news to protect them and viciously attacking political opponents. !he media rigs the game, right down to who is chosen to moderate presidential debates.

!his has been true for decades, but when Obama came on the scene, the media pulled out the few remaining stops. ,uring the 3445 election one commenter stated, (*t s like running against #od. !he media have anointed him.) 'linton 'ampaign manager !erry 6c"uliffe claimed 74 percent of the media were behind Obama during the 3445 election. !he film (6edia 6alpractice) catalogs the breathtaking conspiracy of media advocacy for Barack Obama during the 3445 election. "nd despite the Obama administration s 8#B-style campaign of intimidation toward whistleblowers and media who report on them, they still run interference for him in important political battles. Shutdo#n $oli e State Ta ti s +rom what you probably heard in the media, 9epublicans forced the government shutdown. "ctually, 9epublicans provided funding for all government activities e/cept the problematic Obamacare. Obama orchestrated the shutdown to pin blame on 9epublicans and improve chances for ,emocrats to retake the %ouse of 9epresentatives in 34:;. With media help, the strategy worked perfectly. <nlike previous shutdowns, agencies got specific orders to (make life as difficult for people as we can.) *n many cases this actually cost the government more than if they left things running. Breitbart compiled a list of ;= outrages the Obama administration committed to pressure 9epublicans, while Obama consistently refused to negotiate. !his included> %& (& *& -& /& 2& 3& 6& :& %8& Suspending Treatments for !hildren Suffering 'rom !an er Barri ading World War )) "emorial Blo +ing sports and entertainment programming to o,erseas troops !losing .ietnam "emorial and O,erseas "emorials !losing base e0 hanges but lea,ing 1ndre#s Golf !ourse open for Obama 'or ing residents out of pri,ate homes 4o +ing 5ello#stone tourists in hotel rooms under armed guard !losing %7%88 s9uare miles of 'lorida o ean to fishing !losing pri,ate businesses on federal land 1ttempting to blo + people from e,en 4OO;)<G at "t& =ushmore

+inally, Obama 'urloughed )ntelligen e Operations7 putting our entire nation at risk, according to his own ,irector of $ational *ntelligence, ,ennis 'lapper. 6ost of this was never reported beyond local news. When protests made that impossible, the media smeared the protesters. 'omedian Bill 6aher said, (?WW ** veterans are@ the greatest generation - nobody said they were the brightest generation.) 9adio host Bill Press called Aeterans of the 6illion Aets 6arch (*diots.) 6eanwhile ,emocrats called 9epublicans, (Bihadists, arsonists, blackmailers, terrorists running around with bombs strapped to their chestC) 9ep. 1hirley Dackson Lee E,-!FG even called for martial law. Debt 4imit Brin+manship

Prior to the latest debt limit agreement, Obama threatened to default on the federal debt sending Bitters through financial markets. *t would have been the first default in history. Obama s !reasury ,epartment also issued a report titled, The Potential Macroeconomic Effect of Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship. But President Obama was the one engaged in (brinkmanship). !o avoid default, the government needs only pay interest, about 2HI billion per month. !he !reasury collects about 23I4 billion per month, more than enough. But Obama claimed he didn t have the authority. !hat was a lie. !o call him on it, 'ongress passed %.9. 54=, the +ull +aith and 'redit "ct, making the authority e/plicit, but Obama promised to veto it implicitly admitting he could avoid default if he wanted. But Obama was willing to threaten a major financial collapse to achieve short term political obBectives. "ll we heard from the media however, was a non-stop barrage of angry (news) reports accusing 9epublicans of trying to destroy the economy. With no messaging strategy and little obBective media, 9epublicans capitulated to what was essentially an act of economic terrorism by President Obama. Whither the Stimulus> "s a board member of five non-profits in the :774s, Barack Obama used his position to shower money on friends and political associates. When he later ran for office, they returned the favor. President Obama has applied this corrupt, 'hicago machine method universally, most spectacularly with his so-called (economic stimulus,) the "merican 9ecovery and 9einvestment "ct E"99"G. !he secret goal of the stimulus was to e/ecute Obama s political agenda. !he bill was originally crafted by Obama transition staff and 'ongressional ,emocrats almost as soon as he was elected. *t recommended a 9ecovery "ccountability and !ransparency Board E9"!G, to oversee disbursement of stimulus money, and incredibly, gave 9"! power to block *# investigations into their activities. 1ubse.uent events demonstrate why the (most transparent administration in history) needed 9"!. *n 344;, the "pollo "lliance a constellation of radical leftist labor, environmental, civil rights, business, and political leaders, was specifically created to direct (green Bobs) funding. *ts $ew Jork branch was led by Deff Dones, a former Weatherman terrorist and friend of (Bomber Bill) "yers. %e .uit when his identity was revealed. "pollo s national steering committee included Aan Dones, self-described communist who was Obama s (#reen Dobs '0ar) until e/posed by !revor Loudon and 'liff 8incaid. " total of 2:I4 billion including 254 billion from the stimulus is being spent on (green energy) proBects between 3447 and 34:;. 1o far, HH companies provided 2=.; billion in ta/ dollars have either gone bankrupt, are declaring bankruptcy or are on the edge. "nd this is Bust the beginning.

!he entire (green energy) program has been (infused with politics) according to the Washington Post, with Obama supporters invested in green energy companies selected for stimulus funds, and others Boining the administration to oversee the program. 6eanwhile, wind energy companies have lost :4,444 Bobs compared to a gain of =I,444 Bobs in oil and gas. Kurope is abandoning its alternative energy efforts. 1pain found that 3.3 Bobs are lost for every subsidi0ed green energy Bob and accordingly cut subsidies. I4,444 1panish companies are now facing bankruptcy as a result. President Obama promised that the (1timulus), would (create or save) H.I million Bobs by 34:: and that the unemployment rate would never rise above 5.I percent. his economic advisors predicted that unemployment could rise to 5.5 percent if the 1timulus was not enacted. " 34:: study by the 6ercatus 'enter showed Bust how wrong they were. 'hart : compares the President s forecast unemployment rates assuming the 1timulus bill was passed EblueG, and the unemployment rates that actually obtained EredG.

!hart % !he President s advisors further forecast that by 34:3, unemployment would be down to L.4 percent. !he official civilian unemployment rate is now =.H percent. !he more accurate measure of unemployment, however, includes discouraged workers those who have given up looking for work. !his stands at :H.= percent, over si/ percentage points

higher than the official rate. +urthermore, the gap between the official rate and the discouraged worker rate has grown, suggesting that a greater proportion of the working age population is staying out of the labor force. E1ee 'hart 3G.
Chart 2. Official Unemployment Rate and Rate Including Discouraged Workers
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!hart * !his is borne out by a number of different measures. *n 3445, the civilian labor force stopped growing for the first time in L4 years, and has been flat ever since. Between October 3445 and "ugust 34:H, there have been a net total of L:4,444 new entrants to the labor force. 1ome claim this is due to the baby boom generation going into retirement. But 1eniors have actually increased labor force participation since 3445. E'hart HG. " 34:3 %udson *nstitute study found that the 1tartup Business Dobs 9ate had not bounced back by 34:: despite two years of recovery. This is a critical statistic. "lthough new startups represent only about :4 percent of total business in the <.1., they create on average H million new Bobs each year, while e/isting businesses lose : million Bobs per year. Between 3447 and 34::, new business Bob creation fell to 3.H million per year. Between :755 and 3445, there were :: workers hired at new startups for every thousand "mericans. !hat number dropped H4 percent, to =.5 during Obama s term. E'hart ;G.

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!hart / 'hart I measures the percentage drop in non-farm employment from peak to trough for every postwar recession and the number of months it took for employment to regain its previous high. !he red line shows that this recession has cost more employment and lasted far longer than any previous post war recession. "fter L5 months, the unemployment rate has still not recovered fully despite a 2: trillion stimulus that has saddled us with massive deficits for five years and levels of debt not seen since WW **. $one of this is rocket science. 8eynesian-style stimulus programs cannot work. Kach dollar spent by government, which produces nothing, is taken from the private sector, which produces all the Bobs. *t is basic economics. !he stimulus was not implemented to create Bobs& it was created to provide Obama and his cronies untold power and wealth. !he same is true of Obamacare, which will hand := percent of our economy to his corrupt 'hicago machine. !hat buys a lot of votes. Obama are !ould !ost O,er ?% Trillion Per Year !he .uantity of lies, deceptions and payoffs that went into enacting Obamacare could fill an encyclopedia. People who critici0e !ed 'ru0 for his historic 3: hour 1enate speech should thank him. !hat single event focused the nation like a laser beam on Obamacare s many flaws. !he 'ongressional Budget Office E'BOG initially estimated Obamacare s :4-year cost at under 2: trillion. !hey dishonestly counted costs from 34:4, though the program wouldn t start until 34:;. "nd with 2744 billion in (savings,) from increased ta/es and 6edicare cuts, Obamacare

would be freeM "s humorist P.D. O 9ourke .uipped, (*f you think health care is e/pensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it s free.) 'BO s cost for 34:; 343H is 23.I trillion. But 'BO ignored additional burdens faced by businesses and individuals that government does not pay. !his and other factors raise the ten year cost to over 2L trillion. Kven this doesn t tell the full story. 6arket distortions and future law changes are sure to add more costs as Obamacare morphs into a single-payer system like Britain s. Britain s e/penditures have grown :,444 percent since the program began. 'urrently they spend 2:=4 billion annually, serving a population of IH million. K/tended to "merica s H:I million people, it would cost $1. trillion per year. Whatever the final cost, Obamacare will not save money. "ccording to a 1enate Budget 'ommittee report, Obamacare will add 2:= trillion to the government s unfunded mandates over the ne/t =I years, raising the total to 253 trillion including 1ocial 1ecurity and 6edicare. Obama claimed health insurance premiums would go down by as much as 23,I44. !e lied. *ndividuals and families will see increased premiums in ;I of the I4 states. %ere are some average premium increases for key groups>
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+or many it will be much worse. 1ubsidies will lower costs for about :I percent of the population who will defend the program once it becomes entrenched, but .uality will decline for everyone. <ltimately it will fail, Bust as Britain s system is failing now. !he <8 has since begun privati0ing their system. ,id you know thatN *t won t happen here, because Obama s goal was not improved healthcare, but more power. 'onsider> 'anadian Website 'ontractor '#* +ederal received 27H.= million Obamacare website contract, as part of a 2L=5 million contract for work on 6edicareO6edicaid websites.

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Website 'ontractor '#* +ederal s 1enior AP attended Princeton with 6ichelle Obama. '#* 'KO became Obama donor following award contract. '#* gave website design subcontract to former Obama campaign manager when this became news, all evidence was erased. When evidence that it was erased became news, they put it back. '#* received an 2:: billion contract for *! security from ,%1 this spring. '#* received a no-bid contract to distribute 2:.= billion aid to %urricane 1andy victims. Aictims are still waiting. '#* was fired by 'anadian government following three years of failures in developing medical registry. ,espite being told they could keep their healthcare plans and doctors, 'BO estimates up to 34 million people may lose employer plans. Obama knew this all along. Obamacare provides millions to leftwing community organi0ers, including "'O9$ descendants. " radical illegal alien is running $J' navigator program. Obamacare website is being used to boost low-income democrat voter registration. Progressive activist Deanne Lambrew, now in charge of Obamacare implementation traded confidential ta/payer information with *91. %%1 1ecretary 8athleen 1ebelius waited to issue regulations until after the 34:3 election to avoid politically damaging criticism. *n an attempt to hide the cost of Obamacare, web programs were changed to force people to register before being allowed to price shop. !his created many of the delays. " new test program of a subcutaneous 9+*, 'hip is being tested on people of %anna, Wyoming. !his is a permanently implanted *, card that could track your whereabouts 3;O=. +ounder of 6c"fee, the most popular anti-virus software, says computer hackers could wipe out your bank accounts. Obama illegally provided a subsidy to 'ongressional staff, even though the law was enacted with a provision specifically prohibiting it.

Before the Obamacare website rollout, the media mindlessly fawned over it. '$$ 'rossfire"s communist co-host, former (#reen Dobs '0ar) Aan Dones heralded Pa huge breakthroughQ for the uninsured& "S<B!@s Ed S hultA enthused it #as easy to na,igate& BloombergQs Peter #osselin e9uated it to shopping on 1maAon. 'B1Qs Dill 1chlesinger thought it #as li+e Tra,elo ity. "B'Qs 9ebecca Darvis compared it to mall shopping. "B', $B', 'B1, '$$ and others all glowingly .uoted %ealthfinder.gov as their own words. $remeditated7 "anufa tured !haos +ollowing the shutdownOshowdown debacle, Obama gratuitously accused 9epublicans of (manufactured crisis.) *t is interesting that Obama accused 9epublicans, given the title of a viral 3445 article, (Barack Obama and the 1trategy of 6anufactured 'risis.) !here is such a strategy& Obama has known about it for decades and is using it now. *t was developed in the :7L4s by 'olumbia <niversity Professors 9ichard 'loward and +rances +o/ Piven, who published an article in #ation maga0ine titled (The $eight of the Poor% & 'trategy to End Po(erty.) By packing welfare rolls with new beneficiaries, they hoped to bankrupt local governments and foment a bla0ing revolution when benefits dried up. *t came to be known as the ('loward Piven 1trategy,) or simply ('risis 1trategy.) !he strategy helped e/plode welfare rolls in the :7L4s and :7=4s, and precipitated $ew Jork 'ity s near bankruptcy in :7=I. 1peaking of that crisis, $ew Jork 6ayor 9udolf #iuliani accused the pair of economic sabotage. 'loward and Piven created the organi0ations tasked with e/ecuting this strategy, most notably "'O9$. 1ubse.uently, the strategy was applied to> :. housing, where "'O9$ %ousing and similar groups colluded with the 'linton White %ouse to foment the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the 3445 crash& 3. voting, through enactment of the :77H $ational Aoter 9egistration "ct, Eaka 6otor AoterG, again with 'linton complicity& and H. illegal immigration. 'loward and Piven were the authors of 6otor Aoter, which turns motor vehicle and other state offices into defacto low income voter registration drives. !his law allowed the nationwide e/plosion of voter registration fraud conducted by "'O9$, and is largely responsible for today s 3; million bad registrations nationwide. 6otor Aoter also made Obamacare s online voter registration possible. Obama has connections to 'loward and Piven, "'O9$ and its voter registration arm, ProBect Aote, going back to the early :774s. !he %older Dustice ,epartment has been caught colluding with ProBect Aote in 6otor Aoter lawsuits. 6atthew Aadum, author of "'O9$ e/posR, 1ubversion *nc, reports that former "'O9$ leaders are still working with Obama. 1ince Obama s election the 'risis strategy has metastasi0ed into an epidemic of chaos. %is repeated unconstitutional actions, countless scandals, political payoffs, endless e/travagant vacations, misuse of government property and defiance of enacted law, is a deliberate strategy to o(er)helm the &merican people )ith crisis *pon crisis until they throw up their arms in despair and give up.

Wholesale .ote Theft Obama and the ,emocrats latest complaint is that voter *, laws suppress the vote. !he %older Dustice ,epartment has turned that accusation into a legal assault against voter *, laws. !he charge is absurd on its face. ,emocrats don t want voter *, because they don t want their various vote fraud schemes e/posed. We kno) they engage in vote fraud. But even if they had not stolen a single vote& ,emocrats have been using ta/ dollars to buy off entire voting blocs of "mericans with trillions of dollars in benefits and created thousands of ta/payer-funded non-profits that are actually ground armies for leftist activism. *n :7L:, 9ichard 'loward co-founded a welfare program that became the model for President Dohnson s (War on Poverty): which birthed the Office of Kconomic Opportunity. 'onservative activist %oward Phillips ran OKO in :7=H, and identified 'loward and Piven as OKO s (ideological architects.) %e said OKO financed (:4,444 organi0ations employing several hundred thousand people) to radically transform <.1. policy outside the political process.3 ,emocratic politicians Bustify the burgeoning welfare state as reflecting compassion for the (poor and oppressed.) 'loward and Piven were much more honest> (*f organi0ers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to e/pect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors.) *t worked. *n :7L4, only I5 percent of black voters were democrats. By :7L5, 73 percent were democrats and only H percent were republicans. *t is difficult to argue with free money. *n :7H3, +,9 used this same strategy to deliver ,emocrat maBorities in congress for the ne/t L4 years. 'loward and Piven e/plained> "lthough these ?$ew ,eal@ measures were a response to the imperative of economic crisis, the types of measures enacted were designed to secure ?a@ new ,emocratic coalition. !oday close to I4 percent of "mericans pay no ta/es and lower income groups can obtain government benefits that provide the e.uivalent of up to 2I4,444 per year, strongly encouraging welfare dependency. ,emocrats don t care. *t was 'loward and Piven s e/plicit goal to create misery and strife sufficient to trigger a bla0ing revolution. "s they reported in their Weight of the Poor article, 6oreover, this kind of mass influence is cumulative because benefits are continuous. Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitelyC
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6atthew Aadum, '*b(ersion +nc.% !o) ,bama"s &C,-# -ed 'hirts are 'till Terrori.ing and -ipping ,ff &merican Ta/payers, W$, Books, E$ew Jork, 34::G, p. ==. 3 *bid, p. =7.

!he conse.uences of welfare state policies are evident everywhere. 'onsider the following statistics> ;7 percent of "mericans receive some kind of public assistance. 6ore people collect means-tested benefits today E:45.L millionG than there are full-time workers E:4:.= millionG :.3 million homeless children attend public school, up =3 percent since the recession began. ;L.L million people receive food stamps, the highest number in recorded history. ;L.I million "mericans live in poverty. !his is the first time the poverty rate has remained at or above :IS three years running since :7LI. 6edian household income is 7S below what it was in :777.

Witness the burned out, abandoned buildings staining our cities. !hink of the entrenched crime, drugs, prostitution, and abandoned children that are the face of inner city ghettos, and reflect on 'loward and Piven s enthusiasm that (the drain on local resources persists indefinitelyC)

Obama and the ,emocrats are now feverishly working to inflate this roster of the needy by pushing through amnesty for illegal aliens, officially numbering :: million, but probably more like H4 million people. Spending is THE $roblem !he "99" is the largest single 8eynesian stimulus program since the :7H4s. "nd that wasn t all. !here was the 2:44 billion auto bailout, endless unemployment benefit e/tensions and the 23L billion teacher bailout. Obama proposed an additional 2;;= billion (Bobs) bill in 34::, which fortunately never passed. "s the unemployment analysis showed, these programs do not help& they merely transfer dollars from the private market to government. With a government led by one of the most corrupt, politically motivated administrations in history, the only people getting stimulated are the President and his friends.

'hart = #overnment spending will continue to increase substantially in the coming years. "nd while 9epublicans have helped grow government, most of the massive spending growth that has occurred over the past I4 years comes from entitlements. 'loward and Piven knew their business, as does President Obama. We must reform or we will collapse.

0ames 'impson is an economist1 b*sinessman and in(estigati(e jo*rnalist. !is articles ha(e been p*blished at "merican !hinker1 "ccuracy in 6edia1 Breitbart1 PD 6edia1 Washington !imes1 World$et,aily and others. !is reg*lar col*mn is ,' *ndependent K/aminer. 2ollo) 0im on !witter T +acebook