Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama’s Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security

by Michael Savage

  43 Suzanne Malveaux and Ed Homick, “Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarks,” CNN, October 16, 2009. www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html

  44 “Top White House Official Says Obama Team ‘Controlled’ Media Coverage During Campaign,” FOXNews.com, October 19, 2009. www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/19/white-house-official-says-obama-team-controlled-media-coverage-campaign/

  45 Stephen Dinan, “Obama Climate Czar has Socialist Ties,” Washington Times, January 12, 2009. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/

  46 “Browner is an Environmental Radical—and a Socialist (Seriously),” Editorial, Wash ingtonExaminer.com, January 8, 2009. www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Browner_is_an_environmental_radical__and_a_socialist_seriously_010809.html

  47 Ibid.

  48 Kelley Vlahos, “Obama Regulatory Czar’s Confirmation Held Up by Hunting Rights Proponent,” FOXNews.com, July 22, 2009. www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/22/obama-regulatory-czars-confirmation-held-hunting-rights-proponent/

  49 Aaron Klein, “Sunstein: America too Racist for Socialism,” WorldNetDaily.com, October 7, 2009. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112243

  50 Ibid.

  51 Aaron Klein, “Obama Czar’s Shocking Communist Connections,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 3, 2010. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126872

  52 Ibid.

  53 Ibid.

  54 Larrey Anderson, “Obama: Bush Made Me Do It,” AmericanThinker.com, March 9,2009. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/obama_bush_made_me_ do_it_1.html

  55 Ibid.

  56 Jordan Fabian, “Congressman Wants all ‘Czars’ to Testify,” The Hill, September 9, 2009. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/57849-congressman-wants-all-czars-to-testify

  57 “Head of Marxist-led institute joins Obama team,” Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily.com, 5/28/2010. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=159337

  58 “Head of Marxist-led institute joins Obama team,” Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily.com, 5/28/2010. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=159337

  59 John Reed, Ten Days That Shook The World, (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922), 371.

  60 Jeffrey Lord, “The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment,” The American Spectator, May 12, 2010. http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/12/the-socialist-judge-elena-kaga

  61 “Lecture Notes: The General Election of 1945.” http://web.univ-pau.fr/~parsons/45Elections.html

  62 Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste,” New York Times, July 31, 2009. www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02FOB-onlanguage-t.html

  63 Chelsea Schilling, “Obama: Where Have all his Records Gone?” WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2009. www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=100613

  64 Hayley Tsukayama and Liz Lucas, “Thousands Cheer Obama at Rally for Change,” The Missourian, October 30, 2008. www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/10/30/obama-speaks-crowd-40000/

  65 Frank Newport, “Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans,” GALLUP. com, February 4, 2010. www.gallup.com/poll/125645/Socialism-Viewed-Positively-Americans.aspx

  66 Victor Davis Hanson, “Obama and ‘Redistributive Change,” NationalReview Online, August 26, 2009. http://article.nationalreview.com/404120/obama-and-redistributive-change/victor-davis-hanson

  Chapter 3

  1 George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 (New York: Prometheus Books, 1905).

  2 Sangeeta Parameshwar, “Spiritual Leadership Through Ego-transcendence: Exceptional Responses to Challenging Circumstances,” The Leadership Quarterly 16, no. 5 (October 2005): 689.

  3 Karl Dannenberg, Karl Marx: The Man and His Work (New York: Radical Review Publishing Association, 1918), 75.

  4 Mark O’Neill, “Marx Appeal Alive and Well Inside the ‘Communist Plots,” South China Morning Post, August 16, 2004, 12.

  5 Rush Limbaugh, “One Year Later, Democrats are Desperate and Backed into Corner,” RushLimbaugh.com, February 22, 2010. www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022210/content/01125113.guest.html

  6 Jenny Marx, Short sketch of an eventful life, Reminiscences of Marx and Engels, Eng. Ed., (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1940).

  7 Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen, Karl Marx—Man and Fighter (Caven Press, 2007), 239.

  8 Ibid., 241.

  9 Eugene Kamenka, The Portable Karl Marx (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), 41-42.

  10 Mark O’Neill, “Marx Appeal Alive and Well Inside the ‘Communist Plots.”

  11 Morgan Neill, “Cuban Leader Looks to Boost Food Production,” CNN.com, April 17, 2008. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/16/cuba.farming/index.html

  12 Ibid.

  13 Eric Driggs, “Deteriorating Living Conditions in Cuba,” Focus on Cuba, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, October 14, 2004.

  14 Irving Louis Horowitz, Cuban Communism (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988), 662.

  15 “Vladimir Lenin quotes,” Thinkexist.com. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/vladimir_ lenin/3.html

  16 Trotskii, Dnevniki ipis’ma, 100–1, cited in Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924 (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 638.

  17 Ronald Clark, Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask (London: Faber & Faber, 1988), 456.

  18 Aaron Klein, “Obama Helped Fund ‘Alinsky Academy,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 18, 2010. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=129361

  19 David Kupelian, “Barack Obama and the date-rape of America,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 5, 2010. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127027

  20 Aaron Klein, “Obama Helped Fund ‘Alinsky Academy.”

  21 “Nation & World,” U.S. News & World Report, June 22, 2003.

  22 “Quotes Against Communism,” Wikiquote.org. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Communism

  23 “Nation & World.”

  24 Boris Brutzkus and Walter J. Roth, “Russia’s Grain Exports and Their Future,” Journal of Farm Economics 16, no. 4 (October 1934), 662–679. www.jstor.org/pss/1231182?cookieSet=1

  25 Tony Barber, “Private Farms Set to Export Russian Grain,” The Independent, September 7, 1994. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/private-farms-set-to-export-russian-grain-1447216.html

  26 Les Blumenthal, “WTO Rules Airbus got Subsidies Illegally, Damaging Boeing,” McClatchy Newspapers, September 4, 2009. www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/09/04/74936/wto-rules-airbus-got-subsidies.html

  27 “Quotes against Communism.”

  28 J. Edgar Hoover, Masters Of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America And How to Fight I, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958), 97.

  29 “EUROPE: The Odd Renaissance of Karl Marx,” Time.com, May 14, 1973. www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907226,00.html

  30 Scott Baker and Liz Stephans “Was Obama A Committed Marxist in College?” Interview with Dr. John Drew and The B-Cast, Breitbart. TV, February 12, 2010. www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-interview-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/

  31 Ronald Kessler, “Obama Espoused Radical Views in College,” Newsmax.com, February 8, 2010. www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/obama-college-marxism-occidental/2010/02/08/id/349329

  32 Scott Baker and Liz Stephans, “Was Obama A Committed Marxist in College?”

  33 “Old friends Recall Obama’s College Years,” Associated Press, POLITIO.com, May 16, 2008. www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10402.html

  34 Ibid.

  35 J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit, viii.

  Chapter 4

  1 Zubi Diamond, Wizards of Wall Street (Diamond Publishing, 2009), 57 ff.

  2 Ibid.

  3 Noel Sheppard, “‘I’m Having A Good Crisis’: Will Soros Be Attacked For HIS Profits?” NewsBusters.org, March 26,2009. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/03/26/having-good-crisis-will-soros-be-attacked-his-profits#ixzz 0nTyU5GUQ

  4 Oxbury Research, “Cassandra John Paulson Hedge Fund Manager Makes billions from the Finan
cial Crisis,” The Market Oracle, January 30, 2009. www.market oracle.co.uk/Article8581.html.

  5 Diamond, Wizards of Wall Street, 39.

  6 Nelson D. Schwarta and Louise Story, “Surge of Computer Selling After Apparent Glitch Sends Stocks Plunging,” New York Times, May 6, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/business/economy/07trade.html

  7 Kimberly Amadeo, “The Dow Jones Industrial Average Historical Facts,” About.com, December 29, 2009.

  8 Dave Burdick, “SEC Chairman Christopher Cox Strikes Back at McCain,” Huff ingtonPost.com, September 18, 2008.

  9 Rockefeller, David, Memoirs (Random House, Inc.: New York), 2002, p. 405.

  10 Estulin, Daniel, The Bilderberg Group (Independent Publishers Group), 2005, p. 20.

  11 “Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy,” Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com, 6/7/2010. http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-nato-secretary-general-admits-bilderberg-sets-global-policy.html

  12 http://euro-med.dk/?p=11850

  13 Watson, Paul Joseph, “Hillary & Obama in Secret Bilderberg Rendezvous,” InfoWars.com, June 6, 2008 (http://www.infowars.com/hillary-obama-in-secret-bilderberg-rendezvous/).

  14 Allen H. Meltzer, “Market Failure or Government Failure?” Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2010, A19.

  15 Michael De la Merced, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Report Details How Lehman Hid Its Woes as It Collapsed,” New York Times, March 11, 2010. www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/business/12lehman.html

  16 “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis,” TIME, February 12, 2009.

  17 “Fallen Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld sold his $13.3 million mansion to his wife for just $100 last November, according to Florida real estate records,” Reuters, January 15, 2009. www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50P04A20090126

  18 Susanne Craig “Lehman Brothers’ Dick Fuld Has a New Gig,” Wall Street Journal, Deal Journal, April 3, 2009. http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/04/03/lehman-brothers-dick-fuld-has-a-new-gig/

  19 Mike Whitney, “Lehman Died So TARP and AIG Might Live,” LewRockwell.com, September 18, 2009.

  20 Ibid.

  21 Dean Baker, “Bernanke’s Bad Money,” CounterPunch.org, September 10, 2009. www.counterpunch.org/baker09102009.html

  22 David Glovin and Bob Van Voris, “Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records,” Bloomberg.com, March 19, 2009. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= 20601087&sid=a2rzjENZQV5k.

  23 “A Detailed Look At TARP.” www.visualeconomics.com/a-detailed-look-at-tarp/

  24 “Mohegan Sun Casino Owners Received $54M in Stimulus Cash,” NYPost.com, June 17, 2010. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mohegan_sun_casino_received_in_stimulus_RwulO6UDSkO3lPO0QRIVoJ

  25 www.sigtarp.gov/reports/audit/2009/Emergency_Capital_Injections_Provided_to _Support_the_Viability_of_Bank_of_America…_100509.pdf

  26 Jonathan Weisman and Joann S. Lublin, “Obama Lays Out Limits on Executive Pay,” Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123375514020647787.html

  27 Ibid.

  28 “Blankfein got $9.8M,” New York Post, March 20, 2010. www.nypost.com/p/news/business/blankfein_got_98WuC85gaHwdYQCGOtji6J

  29 www.ombwatch.org/node/10724

  30 Cameron Reilly, “Why Obama Is Owned by Goldman Sachs,” October 23, 2009. http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2009/10/23/why-obama-is-owned-by-goldman-sachs/

  31 Bob Ostertag, “Goldman Sachs, Obama, Money,” Huffington Post, March 23, 2009. www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/goldman-sachs-obama-money_b_177611.html

  32 Daniel Golden, “Countrywide’s Many ‘Friends,” Portfolio.com, June 12, 2008. www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/06/12/Countrywide-Loan-Scandal

  33 “Sweeping Wall St. regulations may not prevent another crisis: Analysis,” The Associated Press, 5/23/2010. http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/05/sweeping_wall_st_regulations_m.html

  34 http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/analyst-wire/mi_8077/is_20100422/april-22-2010-msnbc/ai_n53271996/.

  35 “Sweeping Wall St. Regulations May Not Prevent Another Crisis: Analysis,” The Associated Press, 5/23/2010. http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/05/sweeping_wall_st_regulations_m.html

  36 “Sweeping Wall St. Regulations May Not Prevent Another Crisis: Analysis,” The Associated Press, 5/23/2010. http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/05/sweeping_wall_st_regulations_m.html

  37 Taylor, John B., “The Dodd-Frank Financial Fiasco,” Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2010. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575338732174405398.html

  38 “Summary: Restoring American Financial Stability,” (http://banking.senate.gov/public/_files/FinancialReformSummary231510FINAL.pdf).

  39 Rasmussen Reports, May 22, 2010 (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con tent/politics/general_politics/may_2010/72_are_not_confident_congress_knows_ what_it_s_doing_when_it_comes_to_the_economy).

  40 Matt Taibbi, “Obama’s Big Sellout: The President has Packed his Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders Intent on Turning the Bailout into an All-out Giveaway,” RollingStone.com, December 9, 2009. www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_!sellout/

  41 www.dotpenn.com/index.php/Economy/Samurai-Trains-AIG-Executives-In-Ritual-Suicide.html.

  42 John D. McKinnon and John D. Stoll, “U.S. Throws Lifeline to Detroit,” Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2008. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1229693675 95121563.html

  43 David Goldman, “Auto Bailout: 78% Spent So Far,” CNNMoney.com, December 10, 2009. http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/10/news/companies/automakers_tarp/index.htm?postversion=2009121016

  44 http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/11/crippling-burden- of-legacy-co sts-gm-is.html

  45 “Unfunded Liabilities and the Coming Class War.” http://unfundedliabilitiesand classwar.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

  46 Carl Horowitz, “Obama Arranges Takeover of GM and Chrysler; Auto Workers Union Gets Huge Stake,” National Legal and Policy Center, May 1, 2009. www.nlpc.org/stories/2009/05/01/obama-administration-arranges-takeover-gm-and-chrysler-auto-workers-union-gets-huge-stake

  47 Kimberly Morin, “Obama appoints far left progressive, Andy Stern, head of SEIU, to Fiscal Commission, Boston Conservative Independent Examiner, February 28, 2010. www.examiner.com/x-9100-Boston-Conservative-Independent-Examiner~y2010m2d28-Obama-appoints-far-left-progressive-Andy-Stern-head-of-SEIU-to-Fisc a l-Commission

  48 Michelle Malkin, “‘Brown Shirts’ vs. Purple Shirts,” Townhall.com, August 12, 2009. http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/08/12/brown_shirts _vs_purple_shirts?

  49 Morin, “Obama Appoints Far Left Progressive, Andy Stern, Head of SEIU, to Fiscal Commission.”

  50 John Carney, “Sorry, Taxpayers, You Aren’t Getting Paid Back By Goldman Sachs,” Business Insider, April 15, 2009. www.businessinsider.com/sorry-taxpayers-you-arent-getting-paid-back-by-goldman-sachs-2009-4

  51 Laura Meckler, “Obama Signs Stimulus Into Law,” Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123487951033799545.html

  52 Cheryl Gay Stolberg, “Democrats Threaten to Block More Bush Nominees,” New York Times, March 26, 2004. www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/politics/26CND-NOMI.html?ex=1395723600&en=75637f40aa22dd96&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

  53 Ibid.

  54 Jon Ward, “Obama Rewards Unions with Key Labor Appointee,” Daily Caller, March 27, 2010. http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/27/obama-appoints-union-lawyer-to-key-labor-relations-board-despite-gop-protests/

  55 “Andy Stern’s Go-To-Guy,” Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124226652880418035.html

  56 “Craig Becker, now of NLRB, admits SEIU represents illegal aliens, opposes ‘punitive sanctions’ against employers,” 24ahead.com. http://24ahead.com/craig-becker-now-nrlb-admits-seiu-represents-illegal-aliens

  57 James R. Hagerty, and Jessica Holder, “U.S. Move to Cover Fannie, Freddie Losses Stirs Controversy,” Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2009.<
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  58 Ben Tracy, “Housing Crisis Getting Uglier in 2010,” February 10, 2010. www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/02/eveningnews/main6167610.shtml

  59 “Geithner Claims Mortgage Modifications a Success Despite House Probe,” Uppi-tyBanker.com. http://uppitybanker.com/2010/02/

  60 http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/spread-the-weal.html

  61 Rea Hederman Jr. and Patrick Tyrrell, “European Levels of Taxation: Barack Obama’s Tax Plan,” American Heritage Foundation, June 26, 2008. www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2008/06/European-Levels-of-Taxation-Barack-Obamas-Tax-Plan

  62 Charlie Curnow, “Are Public Employees Bankrupting the Nation?” Advisor Perspectives, April 13, 2010. www.advisorperspectives.com/newsletters10/Are_Pub lic_Employees_Bankrupting_the_Nation.php

  63 Dennis Cauchon, “For Feds, more get 6-figure salaries,” USA Today, December 11, 2009. www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

  64 www.lonelyconservative.com/2010/03/20/video-dem-rep-alcee-hastings-there-are-no-rules-we-make-em-up-as-we-go-along/

  65 Amity Shlaes, “Republicans Should Blow Up Party, Not Marriages,” Bloomberg.com, June 30, 2009. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aEdjk7naC.zY

  66 Pamela Villareal, “Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2009,” National Center For Policy Analysis, June 11, 2009. www.ncpa.org/pub/ba662

  67 “Senate Health Bill Would Up Costs for millions in Middle Class, Analysis Finds.” www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/11/senate-health-care-raises-taxes-middleclass-analysis-finds/

  68 Dana Blanton, “Fox News Poll: 79% Say U.S. Economy Could Collapse,” FoxNews.com, March 23, 2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/23/fox-news-poll-say-economy-collapse/

  69 “Obama to Wall Street: I Do Think At A Certain Point You’ve Made Enough Money,” Real Clear Politics, April 28, 2010. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/04/28/obama_to_wall_street_i_do_think_at_a_certain_point_youve_made _enough_money.html

  Chapter 5

  1 Jeff Poor, “Al Sharpton: ‘The American Public Overwhelmingly Voted for Socialism When They Elected President Obama,” NewsBusters.org, March 22, 2010. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/03/22/al-sharpton-american-public-overwhelmingly-socialism-when-they-elected-pr