Giving away the store. . . .

[Foxfyre]

Does anybody else get the impression that the current administration is slowly but surely selling off the USA to foreign powers? Consider the current Cap and Trade initiative already passed by the House that will give huge advantages to our largest economic competitors PLUS the President's willingness to legally commit the USA to 2% or more of our GDP to legal oversight of the international community to combat global warming.

And, on a smaller scale, there are more and more instances in the news like the following:

Bloomberg Slams Clinton: She Stabbed NYC In Back
Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS)

Hillary Clinton was accused Monday of stabbing the Big Apple in the back.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said her betrayal has cost the city $260 million in lost tax revenues and counting.

It didn't take long for Clinton to double cross New York City. Six months into her tenure as secretary of state she has suddenly exempted diplomats from paying some property taxes here.

"It is totally unfair," Bloomberg said.

The mayor said it's not only a double cross but a double flip flop. As New York's junior senator, Clinton fought to make diplomats pay up. And he said her reversal changes a longstanding policy.

"Since 1873 they've been saying this is taxable," Bloomberg said.

What's more, the mayor predicted that -- freed of paying property taxes -- some governments would see it as a business opportunity to buy up properties and make money renting them out.

"It's just patently unfair to New Yorkers and Americans and it contravenes established policy for 130-odd years and it just doesn't make sense," Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg Slams Clinton: She Stabbed NYC In Back - wcbstv.com

Here's the gist of the law before Secretary Clinton apparently did away with the part highlighted in red:

Other Exemptions Diplomatic agents in the United States and the members of their households are generally exempt from federal, state, and municipal taxes. They are responsible, however, for indirect taxes that are part of the price of goods, taxes on property inherited from a citizen, taxes on any real property they own privately, or capital gains taxes on profits from personal investments. Diplomatic agents have no obligation to serve in the U.S. armed forces. These exemptions also apply to the administrative and technical staffs of the mission and their families. The service staff and private servants are exempt from taxes on wages received from their employment with the mission or its members.

Ambassadors and Consuls legal definition of Ambassadors and Consuls. Ambassadors and Consuls synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Those Tea Parties are starting to look really important folks.

 

[RodISHI]

It has been a push by the World Bank for years. The program action started when Clinton signed NAFTA. The people are now feeling the effects as their leaders decry "free trade."

The will be just one more way to limit the people of America and spread that wealth around the world while big corporates take their shots at deforestation in the rain forest. Why not make the rich American public pay for it? Obviously they can get away with it they have for years and no one has stopped them yet.

 

[Foxfyre]

I never had all that much problem with NAFTA and CAFTA before, but may have to take another look. It seems to be becoming pretty obvious that America First is not going to be a priority of this administration, nor protection of any American interests except those the unions are concerned about.

 

[editec]

Does anybody else get the impression that the current administration is slowly but surely selling off the USA to foreign powers?

The CURRENT administration?

Try every administration since FDR.

 

[Foxfyre]

Well you do have a point, but lately the process and the speed by which it is happening seems much more ominous.

 

[AllieBaba]

Clintons are particularly nauseating about it, though.

I actually get a gag reflex thinking about them. That goes for her, too.

 

[Dr Grump]

Stop whining. Welcome to the real world. You want protectionism? Cool, do so, and watch your GDP disappear. USSR tried that, look where it got them...

 

[Darkwind]

Well, not to put to fine a point on it, but what has changed?

We've been selling ourselves to the Chinese for the past 16 years.

 

[Lycurgus]

Well Obama never claimed "America First" ............... But God-Damned America, well you decide!

 

[editec]

Well you do have a point, but lately the process and the speed by which it is happening seems much more ominous.

We're at the end game of denationalization, now.

It's a LOT easier to see how the policies that have been in place for the last 40 years are screwing the American people and our way of life.