Read the article with full Graphics and Media on the Diner Bloghttp://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/2012/02/25/cops-imminent-expansion-of-the-police-state/Taking another Page from FDRs Playbook, Obama-sama is now promoting hiring
Unemployed Vets to rebuild trails, roads and levees on Public land, a sort of
Civilian Conservation Corps redux. He proposes Printing $1B to hire 20,000 of
the estimated 160,000 Active duty and 95,000 in this Worthy pursuit.
This gets the Headline and lead paragraphs in the attached story, but the real
MEAT here is not in the "CCC", but in the "COPS" program. He wants $4B for the
"Community Oriented Policing Services" program. If he gets his Wish and if you
assume quardruple the numbers here, this would hire 80,000 more COPS Nationally
in the first year. I feel SAFER already, don't you?
Yes, what we really need are 80,000 COPS recently discharged from the Killing
fields of Iraq and Afghanistan dressed in full Riot Gear keeping the peace at
the National Political Conventions next year. Municipalities are Fresh Out of
Scratch to hire more Cops, so the Feds will GIVE them the money, and who wants
to bet me on which cities will get the first grants here? The ones holding the
Conventions, that's who. LOL.
Let's do a little Math here though. If you sprinkle $4B at 80K COPS, that would
be $50K per COP, but actually quite a bit less due to the Admin costs of the
program. You know, all the Fed Goobermint Apparatchiks necessary to administer
the program. Minimum, this takes 20% off the top here from the get go. So
maybe you can pay the new COPS an average starting salary around $40K. However,
to keep them on the Payroll next year, you gotta allocate the same amount of
money. If you want to hire next year's crew of Retiring International Killers,
you'll now need to double next year's allocation to $8B. The most this gets you
is a one year pop depressing the UE number of returning Vets, coincidentally in
an Election year.
You can of course see how the Police State is being Evolved Up here. You don't
have to take Active Soldiers and put them on the streets, you take the
EX-Soldiers currently UE and give them jobs as COPS! 80,000 New ones is a nice
Expansion of the Gestapo, especially if you Deploy them in the particular Big
Shities you are expecting Trouble Coming.
With the regular multi-Billion expenditures on everything else here, $4B for new
COPS next year is a Drop in the Bucket of course. This money would also
actually recirculate some in the economy, as said COPS would be off UE and able
to pay Rent/Mortgage etc. Inthe grand scheme of things though, 80K COPS
distributed out nationwide is a Drop in the Bucket, since local Police forces
are laying off more than that number each year already. All it does is keep
these police forces at somewhat Steady State for a short while. Eventually, as
the Municipalities start filing for Bankruptcy, Da Federal Goobermint in order
just to MAINTAIN the current level of Police "Protection" will have to pick up
the WHOLE TAB, which of course is far more than $4B.
Running a Police State is a VERY expensive Bizness, as the Soviets found out.
For Da Feds to just maintain current levels of COPS nationally in the Big
Shities is probably at least a $100B/yr commitment to start, and will grow
substantially as there is more Civil Unrest. helicopter Ben of course can Print
at Will to fund this, but it's sure not going to help the Deficit any. LOL.
I do expect that this little Intitiative will get passed by CONgress, since the
Pols of course want to feel Safe eating their canapes at the Parties following
the Convention activities of the day. The Police Presence at these Conventions
is going to be absolutely OVERWHELMING. Every Park is going to have 1000 COPS
assigned to it even BEFORE any OWSers show up. Wherever they do Congregate, the
COPS will then redloy and SWARM around them. Every minor violation from
Vagrancy to Littering will be STRICTLY enforced, Protesters will be Kettled and
then shipped by Bus FAR out of town to Holding Pens to await Arraignment for a
week or so due to "backlog" until the Pols are safely out of town.
Obviously, the only way this can be counteracted against would be through an
equally overwhelming turnout of OWSers, in the Millions. It remains unclear as
to whether OWS will be able to muster up such Numbers by then. I would guess it
is probably unlikely though at this point, since not enough people are truly
Starving yet as they are in places like Greece.
An alternative Plan which would require many fewer OWSers would be to use
Vehicles, drive them into the towns and then clog up the whole roadway system.
Buy $500 clunkers you can Abandon as necessary. However, Roadblocks may be
established to keep this from occurring if TPTB get wind of such a Plan, which
they certainly would since it would have to be organized up through the Social
Networks.
Tactically speaking, as soon as you lose your Freedom of Assembly rights either
explicitly or defacto, it becomes very difficult to engage in any kind of Mass
Actions, even Non-Violent ones. This is going to be the major problem OWS will
face in trying to get anything going at the Conventions.
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Obama proposal for jobless vets includes effort resembling 1930s Civilian
Conservation Corps
By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, February 2, 9:09 PM
WASHINGTON — In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, the Obama
administration is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans
to work rebuilding trails, roads and levees on public lands.
The administration also will seek more grant money for programs that allow local
communities to hire more police officers and firefighters.
.The efforts are particularly geared to those veterans who served after the 9/11
terrorist attacks, a group experiencing an unemployment rate of 13.1 percent
versus 8.1 percent for non-veterans.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the Civilian Conservation Corps that
operated during the 1930s could be viewed as a model for what the administration
will try to accomplish through its "Veterans Jobs Corps." He said that the
administration will propose spending $1 billion that would be used to put an
estimated 20,000 veterans to work restoring habitat and eradicating invasive
species, among other activities.
"When one looks back at the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, we take
great comfort that those who take on these kinds of activities will leave a
lasting legacy for the United States," Salazar said.
The backdrop of presidential politics is also playing a role in the Obama
administration's new efforts. Several states that will be heavily contested in
November have a significant military presence. Veterans will be evaluating
specific ways the next White House administration intends to help them.
Administration officials said the initiatives are focused on helping veterans
who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Communities that hire veterans to work as
police and firefighters will be given preference in the grants competition.
Obama will also seek to increase spending for the grants programs. He will
propose an additional $4 billion for the Community Oriented Policing Services
program, or COPS. He will propose an additional $1 billion for the firefighter
grants.
The administration will also propose a training program designed to help
veterans wanting to start their own small businesses.
With GOP lawmakers stressing the need to cut government spending, it remains to
be seen how far the proposals will make it in a deeply divided Congress. Many
conservatives have in the past voted to cut spending for the COPS program, while
Obama is calling for a major expansion. Obama is expected to unveil his
proposals Friday at an Arlington, Va., fire station that was one of the first to
respond to the attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Administration
officials outlined the proposals in advance of his speech.
Congress also has been focusing on the problem of unemployment among veterans. A
House subcommittee on Thursday examined the unemployment rate for those who
serve in the National Guard or Reserves. Witnesses estimated that about 1 out of
every 5 returning guardsmen is unemployed.
Theodore Daywalt, CEO and president of a jobs board called VetJobs, told
lawmakers that veterans who totally separate from the military are for the most
part finding work, even in today's economic environment.
"But if a veteran remains active in the National Guard, they are having a
difficult time finding meaningful employment due to the constant call-ups and
deployment schedules," Daywalt said in his written testimony.
Daywalt said some employers have become wary of hiring someone who is called up
for as many as 24 months at a time. And the difficulty in finding work has led
some guardsmen to volunteer for second or third deployments. He also predicted
that the unemployment problem for guardsmen and reservists could get worse as
the military downsizes because it will result in more competition when openings
do occur.
About 160,000 soldiers leave active duty annually, and some 95,000 members of
the National Guard and Reserves join them. The Labor Department already operates
some jobs programs to help soldiers with the transition to civilian life. For
example, there are employee workshops that help vets with advice on job searches
and labor market conditions. The department also provides grants to states that
in turn hire workers to conduct job training workshops and reach out to
employers on behalf of vets.
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July 28, 2012, 01:48:29 PM