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Live From WalMart, Obama Discusses Minimum Wage In The Heart Of Silicon Valley - Live Feed
In perhaps the most ironic telepromptering ever, President Obama is visiting a WalMart in the heart of the West Coast money bubble today - after attending a number of multi-thousand-dollar-per-plate fund-raisers in the last 24 hours - and intends to discuss minimum wage in Mountain View today (among the Maseratis and Lambos). As Walmart Pres & CEO Bill Simon notes, its the first time a sitting US President has visited a Walmart.
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I think TOTUS missed his calling as "Walmart Greeter in Chief"...
His mouth is promiscuous
The dumbass has no clue what inflation is and what it does to wages. Fucking Harvard retard.
What a nauseating propaganda song after he was done....crazy.
Anyone notice the baby being held up for a hopeful baptism by some clue-less daddy-o!
Whut a wurld...
ori
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/life-and-death/
Fuck that filthy, lying, racist, communist pile of dogshit!
I'd also like to thank of the Liberatrian Voters who ensured Obama's two victories, by not voting, or voting for someone like Ron Paul, who was not even on the ballot.
Obama would not be President w/o YOU!
Maybe in your perfect world you could FORCE us to vote for (in your opinion) the better puppet?
pods
In my world, I prefer the greater of two evils.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is like coming in 2nd at the Indy 500.
Same here. I much prefer the wolves look like wolves, rather than sheep.
May the bloody cunt above RevRex die in a fire. The outright stupidity of the GOPers is astonishing. Yes, 2 terms of McCain or 1 of Mitt Romney would have us on a better trajectory, I'm sure... /sarc
Ron Paul voters have not only principles, but the vision to see the dog and pony sho for what it is. The cunt above posses neither.
I's be less irriteated if he was just troling. But I'm sure he's a true believer in the valant struggle of John BONEr and Mitch McFucktard to save us from those evil socialists while taking every kickback imaginable.
Seriously, fuck you revRex.
+1000 At least someone is trying to break this false left right paradigm. Will never happen without Ron Paul voters. I voted for Gary though..
i did too. I was a ron paul supporter the whole time, still am, and up until shortly before the polls closed i was on the fence between not voting at all, writing in ron paul, or voting for gary johnson. In the end, I voted for gary because he was actually on the ballot, and the the way my states voting laws handle write ins, a write in for ron paul wouldn't even be counted. Since it would go unnoticed, i voted for gary just to say no to both parties. And there was a push towards the end to get 1 mil LP voters, which i thought would help send a message that we the people are fed up with both sides, and the false left right paradigm is not working on us any more. And you are corect, the GOP will not win another major election without the majority of Ron Pual supporters, and since most of us will never vote for a mccain or romney, they can't win when they put people like that up. Although I think those at the very top of the republican party would rather see obama or billary win than RP, since they do pretty much the same shit anyway, although they obviosly would never admit this. He was the only person polled to beat obama in a general election, since he funneled away so many independents and those on the left who are very anti-war, but they went with romney anyway. Serves them right.
Hey, why don't you go fuck yourself. Seriously.
Hey all you idiot savant engineers, what's wrong with you? Didn't you learn your place in the social pecking order when the bullies beat you up in junior high school? You're supposed to be the cows we milk for taxes to fund my free stuff! You didn't build that! You didn't learn that! You didn't earn that!
Gallop poll just publised Tiberias Oblunder's approval rating at 47%.....really
doesn't his approval rating match those who receive some sort of government assistance? coincidence? I think not.
Since this double-posted, let me take this extra opportunity to inform you that if you think voting is the most important way you can influence the future of this country and the limit of your expectation as a "citizen", you're a pretty crappy American. Voting is about the least effective thing you can do.
You are welcome.
Yeah. 'Cause Ro-Money or McStain would have been sooooo much better.
How tragic, that you think voting for a new master willchange anything.
Voters don't win elections. Counters do.
Ask Mr. and Mrs. Carville how much it matters which "side" wins.
Shit. What's wrong with the video? Can't bring it up. And it doesn't seem to be posted anywhere else. Has it been pulled?
Health of nation metric is measure by chassis sag of Walmart Scooter. Intelligence of Head of State is measure by idiocy of economic prognostication. There is no hope for Amerika.
That was funny even for Boris.
I've seen some mighty sagged chassis around here of late, so I guess we're doing fine. Miller Time!(R)
Don't give up hope yet Boris.
We still have a chance to vote sHILLARY in as POTUS.
Just think what that'll do to the cankle impaired.
I can hear the Cluck, Cluck, Clucking now.
Hillary, champion of women's rights (whatever the fuck that means), healthcare, contraception for women under obamacare, continuing the Neocon foreign policy agenda. At least his fuckhead husband made being a sociopath seem cool. fuck we have no hope. Why bother voting.
Whisper Rumor that Queen Michelle was overheard referring to The People of Wal-Mart as "those kind of people."
Queen Michelle is glamorous, bitchez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SyUgw98tE
How wonderful of Fergie to inlcude spelling lessons in her songs. For all those who were unfortunate enough to have matriculated through the gummint run edewkayshun system.
Hey, Nanny u spelt sistem rong....
A perfect backdrop to pick on inequality would have been right there in D.C. and he wouldn't have had to spend $ to move Air Force One one farking inch. But that, or NYC, or La Jolla would have forced his own supporters to confront it instead of letting them continue their Two Minutes Hate against "privileged" white male tech workers so the Fed and Goldman and the contractors can tell themselves they aren't the problem. "But we're Democrats! We're for diversity and the little guy!"
He cares even less than he has a 'clue."
Let me be clear, not only doesnt he not care, but he has an agenda....
I'm introducing legislation to force executive administrations to be fed Walmart meat and gmo veggies.
"Legislation?!" That's so Constitutional. Just use an "executive order."
"Executive Order?" That's so onerous & burdensome.
Just appoint a 'Wal-Mart forced ration Czar."
My wife and I rode our bikes past his motorcade last night. Didn't even know he was in town.
My bike is home-made and looks like a SR-71. I felt just like a terrorist.
It was epic.
Pics/links? I want to see a bike that looks like an SR 71...
http://madscienceunlimited.com/thebike/img/blackbird_mk2.jpg
Big engines in the back. The thing is wicked fast -- for a bicycle.
Anyone happens to be in the SF Bay Area the weekend of May 17th can meet me and the "Blackbird Super Cruiser" at the Makers Faire, San Mateo Fair Grounds.
So much awesomeness, you'll think you've been fed to a tiger.
That is just super awesome Cougar. Hat tip!!!
So when you say engine you mean motor or internal combustion engine?
Super cool.... :-)
Makers FTW!
A pair of 1kW DC motors. That's a 15" rim from a car or truck I found behind the bike trail. Knocked out the flange, welded on some custom spokes, and bolted on the motors. The whole thing is 2kW total at 48 volts. Barely street legal, but barely is just right.
Nope, the cops never bug me. Was pulled over by the highway patrol one time, but he'd made a mistake. Thought I was a custom Buell chopper or something without plates, so that was fun.
That is just a make your day kind of story there Cougar. 2 kW on a bike frame, must be fast.
Nice, I'll post my own projects pictures sometime also.
Very cool bike Cougar, the batteries must have cost you...
So the pedals are for recharging the batteries?
How long does it take the wife to put a full charge on them?
There are two batteries, big LiFePo industrial grade 48 volt, used in parallel. About $750 each.
The pedals are just like on a bike, they drive the rear wheel via (a lot of) link chain. Pedalling extends range and provides a little extra power. And it needs functioning pedals to qualify as a bicycle. But you don't have to pedal if you don't want to, it just goes.
Wife? She won't stand within 10 feet of the thing.
As a rule, it clears intersections. I'm not even joking. In motion it looks evil. People just stay completely out of the way.
You bein' racist?
Community Organizer in Chief.................SIC
The dumbass couldn't do anything about Putin so he goes back to the GREEN meme..............at Walmarts.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA................ total EMBARRASSMENT............
Yeah...Green...Walmarts...that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
Manufacturing shit in China, where "externalities" have resulted in 75% of drinking water sources being unfit for human consumption:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4cb1e486-d761-11e3-80e0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz...
Where PM2.5s are off the charts:
http://japandailypress.com/japanese-students-at-schools-in-china-declini...
Out of sight is out of mind, libtards...
Dat's GREEN!
0: "You EBT card holder must thank the masters who gave you your handouts to buy the wondrous items inside this temple of consumer thrift: vote Dem in the fall or no more EBT and O-phones."
How did you design that so fast and stay on the top of the thread?!
"WB7" is not a single person. Like "Tyler Durden" he is a sweat shop in Bulgaria.
Factory in Bulgaria is make top quality AK-47 and Makarov.
And yet they still have time and creativity to run ZH on the side? America will be buried ...
and the workers probably make more than at Walmart
SKSs are made by chimps taught to use lathes in Romania, and are paid minimum wage of 40 cents per day in peanuts & bananas.
Those are some smart chimps!
With AK in its hands, who needs salary.
Skate to where the puck is going to go and wait.
If Sun Tzu were an artist ...
As Walmart Pres & CEO Bill Simon notes, its the first time a sitting US President has visited a Walmart.
It's like Nixon going to China.
What a corporate shill asshole!
Since nearly everything on the shelves in Walmart is from China, it is exactly like that.
Except you don't have to go to China to be in China.
We are all a part of Greater China...
Comment of The Day!
Well played.
SITTING BULLshit
Que: Cleanup on isle 7, sporting goods, cleanup needed on isle 7!
Nice, another poeple of walmart picture!
You just made me barf up a ball of yarn.
and they only had to shut down 101 and all the arteries onto 101 so odumbo can visit his wal-mart minions and pander to the illegals. surprised he didnt start washing feet too.
Shutting down 101? That's like the Apocalypse come to town.
I don't drive so I do not give any actual shits.
aren't the 101 and the 405 parking lots anyway?
Yeah the 405 is like that, but the 405 is in LA and part of South California, therefore the enemy, and of SoCal we do not speak lest we provoke the local gangs to displays of righteousness.
....we need to start selling them their water & divide CA in 1/2.
Shitty music and dumber than stone movies are their contribution.
it took an extra 4 bong rips to get myself motivated enough to make the miserable trek (trail of tears v2.0) to the silly valley and was running later than normal. Poncherello and Jon had blocked 101 at the 87 off ramp and all the streets up to san thomas. knowng san jose had every pig on duty to serve the weanie arm in chief, i lit up a jay and had a cold beer. just what i needed to realize i should have been a full time drunk
Dude. That's near my house. Hey you should be riding in the SJ Bike Party. Catch up to me some time and we'll drink.
I'm the huge guy riding a black steam-punked bicycle made mostly of alloyed evil. Ask anyone, I'm famous, they'll point me out. 'Cept this weekend I'm at the Makers Faire in San Mateo so I'm skipping BP. Pisser.
c@
How do you know he was hanging out in the men's bathroom giving someone a tongue washing?
Whisper Rumor of a Reggie Love Glory Hole in the men's restroom at the District of Colombia Wal-Mart.
So that's where the undisclosed bathhouse is located.
Illegals? They are a little farther south. Watsonville, Salinas, etc. Silly Clone Valley is miles of Pho shops.
WinCo is an employee owned grocery chain which pays its 15,000 workers at least $11/hour, offers health and dental insurance-even for part-time staff, and invests 20% of an employee's salary into a pension which has turned 400 cashiers and clerks into millionaires. They are Wal-Mart's worst nightmare!
Some scandal will befall WinCo in 3...2...
Get ready for costs passed on and inflated goods.
This explains why the market just fucking exploded higher.
Raise prices 30% (Thanks Obama!) while continuing to replace people with robots, net net labor costs stagnant as revenue increases; bonuses all around.
This is a super bullish development!
S&P 2000 by Thanksgiving.
"Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming superstores."
Oh so you've shoppped there I take it. Tell us what was it like being trampled to death at the bargain bin?
I survived, but lost my virginity.
What happened? Did a guy bury 3 fingers two knuckles deep while reaching for the last Elsa doll?
They'll do that to you fighting over the last chimichanga at the deli.
For a toy it's straight to knives. If you ever saw their children you'd understand why. Man, you do not what to disappoint the children of Walmart.
I don't kiss and tell. Step away from the handcream.
I've been noticing of late that discretion is becoming a lost art. Truly, sad times. Thank you for helping to support the empire.
Listening to Obozo really is like listening the the adult voices on Charlie Brown. Wah,Wah,Wah. A true zero!
Lets see...
4billion in solar investments over 4 yrs...will create 10's of thousands of new jobs, and save billions in taxes to the american public...
Thats the most efficient 4bil investment Ive ever seen
So... if they invested say 40bil everyone would have a job and the deficit would go to zero?
O.o
Yeah and the $14T invested in Wall Street paid off nicely.
Scale, man. Learn something about scale.
Panderer-in-Chief.
This is very true. He's just trying to contain the riot until he's out and setup in the Hamptons.
It would be wise though to outsource him back to Kenya.
Thanksgiving already.
Don't listen to this turkey.
It ain't cool bein' no jive turkey, so close to Thanksgiving.
70% of the country is on welfare, who the fuck cares about the minimum wage? Americas back is broken, and this idiot is trying to put a bandaid on it that will only make things worst, jacking up wages, driving up inflation etc. will only do the following:
-More people will get fired
-The price of goods will go up
-Those on fixed incomes will have less discretionary spending, which means economy contracts as spending decreases
-The NOMINAL value for GDP may go up (because of inflation), but the total VALUE added to the economy will be zero or negative.
You can make GDP go up 1000% by inflation, doesn't mean that you actually produced any real value.
If you make 1000 chairs and the economy is worth 1000 chairs, and next year you made 2% more chais, your GDP went up 2%.
If you make 9000 chairs, and the price of the chair went up 100%, your GDP probably looks on paper like it went up around 90%+, but the entire net economy actually contracted 100 chairs.
America has been hemorrhaging chairs(value) for decades.
The plan if you have not figured this man out is to screw the economy up as much as possible. In his mind it puts America back on a level footing with the rest of the world by bringing us down a notch and that will make us safer in the new world order.
If $10 an hour is good then why stop there? $100 an hour must be mo betta.
Don't worry we'll get there. And by the time we do it won't matter for fuck-all.
If the government actually wanted the economy to improve, all they have to do is declare a debt jubilee, and wipe out all CCards/Mortgages/Car Loans etc.
The economy will roar back to life over-night as all the fraudulent debt gets wiped off the books.
The American people should just declare their own "unilateral" debt jubilee.
"My guillotine asks, 'Wouldn't it be more "jubilee" to be bankster free AND debt free'?!"
For $10 trillion, they could give every American $30,000, with the stipulation that it goes first to cover debts, then backtaxes, then the remainder if left over you get to spend however you want. That way, at least savers would get something out of it.
Just erasing debt would punish savers badly while rewarding people based on how much they borrowed, which would incentivize really negative behavior.
How are you punishing savers? The housing market will cool down, making it easier for people who saved to buy a house.
The debt being erased, means that you essentially erased money from the system, (since DEBT IS MONEY) under this system, which means less money in circulation = money gains in value (helps savers).
Besides, this is America, No one Saves, Savings rates are at record lows, WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO PROTECT? WHAT SAVERS? SAVERS ARE AN EXTINCT SPECIES, its like trying to save the wooly mammoth 10,000 years after the fact.
;P
stop worrying about savers, they dont even exist.
You think people have all their savings in cash?
Retirement funds, pensions, social security, municipal bonds, treasuries. All savings. If you just wipe out all the debt, you wipe out probably 80% of liquid savings.
You have to love the working man's Springsteen outtro.
Fuck you president scumbag!
He was there supporting Schiff's 15 for 15 right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLr5oWfoWRY
Beat me to it! Lol!
Schiff's point is good, but higher wages effects more than just prices.
If they are operating at or near optimal profit, then higher wages leads to higher prices which leads to lower sales, which leads to lower returns on capital, which leads to lower profits, which leads to additional investments on "wage saving" devices ('same for less' vs 'more for same' devices), which means fewer workers. And that not so bright guy that can only be depended on to do maintenance and gather carts is priced out of the market and is now breaking into our homes for money and food--i.e. not breaking into 1600 PA Ave. or 10141 Daria Pl. etc.
"Damn it! Now my guillotine wants more."
If you have $200 to buy groceries every month, and groceries go up 15%, you are still going to buy $200 worth of groceries, you'll just have 15% less.
It may cut into consumptive spending on things people like, but don't need, which can be both good and bad. In that case, people might cut $30 out of buying something else, and buy $230 worth of groceries per month.
This is the reverse of the ridiculous argument that if there was deflation, people would just save and not buy. If this were true, no one would ever buy a computer, cell phone or television, since the prices keep dropping and the performance increases. In real life, we see the opposite; people have been buying computers more and more as the prices have gone from $8000 to $500 for a computer that is 1000 times better.
Schiff was there only to expose the hypocrisy of it all...Say one thing, and do another! Pinko Libs are such tools. Getting into a debate if its a good idea or its ramifications is just mental masterbation. Nothing will change in a Fiat Debt based monetary system, until you end the system.
A blackbird is to a crow as a turd is to a corvette.
He must be for the people - they are playing Springsteen.
what a clown festival - absurd
Did anyone see the buck-tooth bitch trying to get a selfie with the O?
The Senate crushed Barry's minimum wage legislation.
Another Obama failure. Whatever.
Executive order in 3...2...
Not sure why O would be in Silly Valley pimping the minimum wage. We all work for stock options here.
Exactly why he is pimping it there. What better place than an area of the country where the wealthy are so out of touch with small business that they will just nod in agreement. After all what does it matter to them? Work a few years, collect options, move on to the next company, rinse and repeat.
You say it like its a bad thing.
I don't think it's a bad thing that they work for options...more power to them. But don't support burdensome ideas because it sounds good and helps relieve some of the guilt of their wealth.
He just dropped in to pick up some fresh mom jeans and a new bike helmet.
And a new pink and white trike.
Not sure why O would be in Silly Valley pimping the minimum wage. We all work for stock options here.
exactly. and Walmart on the way back to the airport after hangover from 10k per plate dinners last night.
I notced he was in the mens dept, not the sporting goods next to the gunracks...
That was the front for the behind-the-scenes mega-pimping the multi-million-dollar political contributions from the progressive billionaire "smart set".
o i c! thank you for clearing that up for me I was really at a loss.
Glad to be of help, especially on a Friday. Sometimes it's hard to lay off those softball pitches. Ha ha.
Impeach Obama. Nobody listens to him anymore.
Okay guys, it's Friday and O is ignoring the ramp up to WW3 to pimp chump change to the ill-eagles at WalMart.
Fuck that. Just totally forget it. You should be reading my blog instead:
http://fedtoatiger.blogspot.com/2014/05/goldman-sachs-is-fed-to-tiger.html
Yeah I killed Goldman Sachs. The entire outfit, fed to a tiger. It's subtle, but I liked it. You low-brow types into your typical hack-em-up instant gratification FedToATiger insanity may have to read it twice. Consider doing so to be part of your continuing adult education.
Caution: Contains adult language (that means, curse words), high finanaces, really shitty deals, and animal tricks.
Looks like Jamie and Lloyd read it and weren't amused. ;-)
No no that can't be right. Jamie and Lloyd, we're all good. Were knocking back beers just last weekend at Dimon's place down by the fair grounds. Almost nobody knows this but Blankfein is funny as hell when you get him drunk. He read the entry at FedToATiger and bust a gut laughing. Great guy, what a sport.
Pretty good cougar! If only it were true.
More like ClintonMart, right?
Fixed your post.
Puts the whole thing in the correct perspective.
When threatend with anilation by nuclear tipped ICBMs go straight to Wallmart and chat a bit with the locals. It's therapeutic.
"...first time a sitting US President has visited a Walmart."
"Some call you the FSA, some call you Wardrobe Challenged,
I call you My Base"
Little different crowd than W had....
Nice catch.
I Just ate so I dare not watch but did The Big O finally come clean and apologize to the American People?
Sorry, but this was too easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghrDIQ-K8mg
Michelle went shopping at Target - I think it was before the last election - to show the serfs that she's just regular people, too. Did you catch the photo op? They hadn't yet conceived of the idea of placing an indigent waif in the background yet, but as they say, the Obama storyline wasn't built in a day. I'm glad to see Barack is so in touch with working Americans.
Hard to fit Target in with Michelle’s $50,000 shopping spree at a luxury lingerie boutique in New York two years ago at Agent Provocateur's boutique in Madison Avenue, New York.
But then you can't disgrace America by having Michelle wear discount underwear under her designer labels at her lavish Halloween parties or disgracing the expensive wardrobe she packed for her $4 million all-expenses-paid-by-the-taxpayers Hawaii Christmas break trip in December ‘11, which included a $2,000 dress and $1,000 skirt, now can you?
What if there's an accident?
A comment on Naked DC pretty well sums up Michelle's let-them-them-eat-cake, White House attitude: 'She claims to be a champion of the poor and a fellow bargain shopper, but yet, here she is, sporting a dress that no unemployed American can afford.”
Like the fucking minimum wage will solve anything. Did he arrive at Walmart in a car and was he doing roof hits along the way?
It is fitting that Obama is visiting Silicon Valley, a political annex of Hollywood and a story of “money so big that more of Obama’s 2012 campaign haul came from California than from any other state,” where the City of San Jose just increased its minimum wage from $10.00 to $10.15 per hour effective January 1, 2014.
Silicon Valley, where Google and industries of six of the world’s ten richest Jews reign supreme: industries owned by Larry Ellison (Oracle), Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg L.P.), Sergey Brin (Google), Lawrence Page (Google), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Michael Dell (Dell Inc.)…
Interesting how tech industries, Obama and an increasing lack of privacy go together. As hedgeless_horseman put it to MillionDollarBonus, who said (tongue-in-cheek) regarding ID of the Boston bombing suspect:
“This incident has highlighted some serious shortcomings of our national security policy. We need to seriously review what went wrong here and rethink our anti-terrorism policy. One area that needs to be developed is our ability to track and identify all people on American soil. This data is freely accessible from mobile phones and the identities of the users can simply be stored with the associated mobile phone number in a government database. What's so complicated about that? Why aren't we doing this? This is the kind of slack government that drives me crazy.”
Hedgeless: “Hmmm, good idea, MDB!
“I will use my Dell computer running Microsoft to use Google to search Oracle databases so I can research your concept. Maybe I should try a Bloomberg terminal?”
Ten to one odds that he picks up a few pair of new mom jeans whilst he's there..
More like ChinaMart.
He can tell ChinaMart to open more Super Centers around the ghettos of Chicago.
The people in the hood, around Obummer's house, are always looking for 5 finger discounts.
Obama has no clue. Walmart is done. Good luck in buying food from Emerging markets. Thank god all the emerging company executives drove itself into the ground.
Google: who is the Walmart pioneer. That’s why this company is done
https://www.google.com/#q=who+is+the+walmart+pioneer
Give that Negro US President a banana and send him on his way,