The Complete Obama Timeline October 2016
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The Complete Obama Timeline October 2016 On October 1 the 2017 fiscal year begins. Fiscal year 2016 (October 2015 through September 2016) ended with a one-year increase in the national debt of $1.42 trillion (about $4,500 for every man, woman, and child in the United States). The national debt is $19.57 trillion. (It was $10.63 trillion when Obama entered the White House. The blame, of course, belongs not only to Obama; it is shared by the politicians of both political parties who relentlessly persist in buying votes with borrowed money that can never be paid back.) [99626, 99660, 99790] At 3:25 a.m., Hillary Clinton tweets, “Too many talented young people pass up on programs like @Peacecorps because of student loans. Let’s use GOOD JUDGMENT & lighten that burden.’ (By “good judgment” Clinton—or whoever sent the message while she slept—means “other people’s money.”) [99524] A few minutes later, another tweet follows: “Remember, don't believe the haters who describe America as hopeless and broken. We should lift each other up, not tear each other down.” (That and several other pre-dawn tweets are. Of course, a set-up for a debate comment. Clinton will mock Donald Trump’s tweets and declare that she says something important in her middle-of-the-night messages.) [99525, 99526] On Fox & Friends , former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee says, “Hillary Clinton is an elitist snob. She believes she’s smarter than you. She thinks that she’s more sophisticated than you and she believes that the people who don’t agree with her are part of the great unwashed of America and the best they can do is just fall in line let her lead them and then be done with it.” [99604] Obama succeeds in giving up U.S. oversight control over ICANN. WND.com reports, “A federal judge in Texas who was appointed by Barack Obama, George C. Hanks Jr., on Friday [September 30] refused to delay the… planned giveaway. …The states of Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas had sued to block the U.S. from giving up oversight of the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which maintains databases for Internet domain names, the Internet’s phone book. …Filed in U.S. District Court in Galveston, Texas, the lawsuit argued the U.S. funded the foundations of the Internet and for decades has been managing it appropriately, including through contracts such as the NTIA’s agreement with ICANN to perform Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions. But the lawsuit wasn’t the only opposition that has arisen in the fourth quarter.” [99501, 99556, 99770] “A coalition of 77 national security, cybersecurity and industry leaders wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just days ago asking for intervention. …They warned: ‘In the absence of U.S. government involvement in IANA, it seems possible that, over time, foreign powers— 1 including potentially or actually hostile ones—will be able to influence the IANA process. Even coercing the delay in approving IP addresses could impact military capabilities. From a broader view, given the well-documented ambition of these actors to restrict freedom of expression and/or entrepreneurial activity on the Internet, such a transfer of authority to ICANN could have far-reaching and undesirable consequences for untold numbers of people worldwide.” [99501, 99556] For Obama to act to relinquish U.S. oversight over ICANN is unconscionable. Without that control, there is little to stop the “international” overseers to taking action against U.S. Internet users. Such action could range from merely delaying the assignment of domain names, to outright censorship. (For example, ICANN might agree with Obama that “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” and cancel the domain of an individual or group that warns against Islamic jihad. (What recourse would Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, or even this Timeline have if the foreign “powers that be” decided their three web sites were “dangerous?”) Obama has essentially consented to possible foreign censorship of American speech. He should be impeached— but he did what he did because he knows he won’t be. Katie Kieffer later explains at Townhall.com, “Our story begins in 1998, when the organization of the Internet’s ‘address book’ of domain names (such as Townhall.com) as well as related technology and structure was assigned to a California nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The U.S. Department of Commerce has had oversight of ICANN since 1998. …On Saturday, Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s contract to oversee ICANN quietly expired. ICANN immediately and joyfully announced on its website that it would now be overseen by a ‘global multistakeholder community.’ (If you think that sounds a lot like the U.N.— you’re right—the global multistakeholder community is aligned with the UN.) Under the new arrangement, the United States will have one seat at a 164-member global table that may include representatives from anti-free speech countries like Russia and China.” [99570] The White House proposes a new category for “race” on census and other federal forms. MSN.com reports. “…[T]he White House Office of Management and Budget advanced the proposal with a notice in the Federal Register, seeking comments on whether to add Middle Eastern and North African as a separate racial or ethnic category, which groups would be included, and what it should be called. Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation—or MENA, as it's called by population scholars—is broader in concept than Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would include anyone from a region of the world stretching from Morocco to Iran, and including Syrian and Coptic Christians, Israeli Jews and other religious minorities.” [99518, 99615, 99751] Islam is not a race; it is a religion/cult. Nor is “Muslim” a race; a Muslim is simply a person who is a follower of Islam. By inventing a new “race,” however, the Obama administration can make it possible to use racial discrimination laws to prosecute Americans who might persecute Muslims. Of course, leftists would still be free to 2 persecute Christians and Jews. (Pamela Geller observes, “The new race would be ‘Middle Eastern/North African,’ so it would include some Christians, but mostly this is still more Islamopandering from the [administration]. Hey Obama, would Israelis be included? Somehow I doubt it. This is about making the ‘racism’ charge against counter-jihadis stick and securing for Muslims the perks that are available for racial minorities.”) [99615, 101295] In his weekly radio/Internet address, Obama repeats his demand for mandatory paid sick leave. “It will help about one million workers when they or a loved one gets sick. It will cover time you need for preventive care. It will cover absences resulting from domestic violence or sexual assault. And it means everyone else is less likely to catch what someone else has got—whether it’s a coworker or the person preparing or serving your food. Paid sick leave isn’t a side issue, or a women’s issue, or something that’s just nice to have. It’s a must-have. By the way, so are economic priorities like child care, paid family leave, equal pay, and a higher minimum wage. We need a Congress that will act on all these issues, too, because they’d make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions of Americans who are working hard every day.” Obama is economically ignorant. Tens of millions of American workers already have paid sick days from their employers. Those businesses that do not provide such benefits cannot afford to do so because they would lose business to their competitors—especially in low-wage industries like food service. If a restaurant gives its part-time workers such benefits, it will have to increase prices to cover the cost. That would result in business lost to competitors who can keep their process lower by not providing such benefits. If Congress were to mandate paid sick-leave, all businesses would have to raise prices—and low-wage industries would further automate their processes and lay off workers. Obama apparently does not understand that a low-wage job with few benefits is better than no job at all. (The same logic follows Obama’s demand for a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Low-wage workers who are not worth $15 per hour would lose their jobs.) With regard to “equal pay,” it has been against the law to pay a woman less than a man simply because she is a woman since the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. No new laws are need. All that is needed is for Obama to enforce existing law. Any woman who is the victim of gender pay discrimination should file a complaint with the Department of Labor. [99602] The Daily Caller News Foundation reports, “More than 114,000 people have signed a petition to withhold …Obama’s pay while he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” [99582, 99583] Newsmax.com reports, “Minnesota will let the health insurers in its Obamacare market raise rates by at least 50 percent next year, after the individual market there came to the brink of collapse… The increases range from 50 percent to 67 percent, Commissioner Mike Rothman’s office said in a statement. Rothman, who regulates the state’s insurers, is an appointee under Governor Mark Dayton, a Democrat.