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1 MILLION ROBOTS IN A SINGLE COMPANY...IS THIS THE REALITY WE FACE IN USA?

1 MILLION ROBOTS IN A SINGLE COMPANY...IS THIS THE REALITY WE FACE IN USA?




Foxconn to replace some workers with a million robots

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Foxconn will act on promises and replace some of its assembly line workers with robots, founder Terry Gou said at a company party Friday night. The company will move from 10,000 robots this year to 300,000 in 2012 and one million within three years. Many of these will be used to handle simple, repetitive tasks that are still being handled by human workers, such as certain kinds of assembly, spraying, and welding, the Xinhua News Agency understood....

This isn't about debt or deficits -- Republicans just want a Reason to Impeach Obama

I guess this entire issue can be called a fiasco. Then, well, Unfortunaty,

Source: Crooks and Liars

Author: David Neiwert

Not very many people seem to have caught the drift of this recent Glenn Beck rant, which was noted at Media Matters for its classic Beckian illogic, with the Mad Hatter declaring that if we can't use Hitler analogies in "logical conversation," then "We are going to be a society of gas chambers!"What he and his sidekick were talking about, though, was comparing the Obama administration to Hitler and the Nazis in the event the president decides to simply invoke the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling by executive order. Because then, you see, he would just be a dictator.This is the narrative that's gradually building on the Right as a counter-narrative to the obvious point that if Obama uses the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling, it will be because Republicans in Congress failed to act. No, instead, it will be because he is intent on seizing dictatorial powers.And for that, they will then argue, he must be impeached.Andrew Sullivan lays it out:Here's the scenario. The House GOP pushes for completely unserious Boehner plan (including a balanced budget amendment) that they know will be vetoed; they then filibuster the Reid plan in the Senate, forcing Obama to invoke a 14th Amendment executive prerogative, which they will then turn around and impeach him for.Far-fetched? I hope so. But every time you think you have reached the end of Republican extremism, they manage to move further out of the solar system.It's not really that far-fetched, considering that Republicans have been mouthing the I-word with great lust for some time now. Last we heard, they wanted to impeach him over Libya.If he resorts to the 14th Amendment, they are already lining up to impeach him. Right-wing talk-show host Mark Levin said it explicitly two weeks ago:
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If Barack Obama attempts to destroy the Separation of Powers doctrine, if he intends to seize Congressional power when it comes to borrowing and spending despite the plain wording of Article 1 Section 8 Clause 2. In other words if he’s going to violate his oath of office…then he needs to be impeached.…Should he attempt to seize explicit Congressional power, we’ve got to make a case that we don’t like dictators in this country and that we will not accept dictators in this country. There’s not even a colorable argument that can be made that justifies the President of the United States seizing for himself the authority to “borrow money on the credit of the United States.” And should Chuck Schumer continue to urge this and should the President do it, then Chuck Schumer should be expelled from the United States Senate when the Republicans take it back over as they will.We already know that Republicans believe it's smart political strategy to destroy the economy so that it can be blamed on Obama. They're willing to throw the country into economic ruin just in the hopes that it will work to their political advantage.And if the president stops them? They will make him pay.
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Action Page: The President Can And Must Invoke 31 USC 3102 To Pay Our National Debts

> There has been some talk that the President can act unilaterally to
> raise the nation debt limit based on Section 4 of the 14th Amendment
> to the Constitution, which provides in pertinent part that "The
> validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law .
> . shall not be questioned". The argument has been made that since
> Congress has ALREADY authorized BY LAW each obligation represented in
> the national debt, by appropriating the funds for various
> expenditures, any overall "debt limit" is artificially redundant. It
> would be like writing a bunch of checks and then refusing to deposit
> the funds in your account to cover them. While a constitutional
> challenge of the debt limit law may be a defensible argument in the
> spirit of the 14th Amendment it is not unequivocally compelling, as
> the 14th Amendment does not expressly authorize what proponents are
> asking the President to do.
>
> President Must Invoke 31 USC 3102 Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1082.php
>
> With this context, it is astonishing that apparently nobody has
> bothered to read the text of Public Debt Law of 1941 itself, embodied
> in 31 USC 3101, which is what codifies a national debt limit. That
> law states that
>
> "The face amount of obligations issued under this chapter and the
> face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are
> guaranteed by the United States Government (except guaranteed
> obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury) may not be more
> than [some arbitrary huge number] . . . "
>
> Please take careful note of the words "EXCEPT guaranteed obligations
> held by the Secretary of The Treasury". By undeniably clear law as
> passed by Congress, such obligations are NOT constrained by any
> so-called debt limit. Now all you have to do is run your finger down
> to the very next section 31 USC 3102 [Bonds] and you will read
>
> "With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury
> may borrow on the credit of the United States Government amounts
> necessary for expenditures authorized by law . . . "
>
> By this section Congress gives the President the EXPRESS, inherent
> and unilateral authority to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to
> incur obligations to cover all expenditures authorized by law, which
> is to say the sum of the appropriations bills Congress has already
> passed. And as we have just so clearly demonstrated such obligations
> are immune from any so-called debt ceiling limitation. Surely there
> is some White House attorney smart enough to figure this all out as
> we have.
>
> The President must invoke this authority now, as he is fully
> empowered to do by 31 USC 3102. And then Congress needs to get
> serious about raising the revenues to pay its bills, and not just on
> the backs of poor people.
>
> President Must Invoke 31 USC 3102 Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1082.php
>

Image: Congressperson Tom McClintock Getting Well Deserved Recognition For Debt Crisis

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Click To Enlarge. Hat Tip To Nonni9999

Is Washington looking like the State of California Annual Budget nightmare to just me? Did not think so.

If you are gonna be an elephant (vs Republican) have a long memory.

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Think how many times we were one vote from passing a State Budget. My guess is not a lot of Democrats will forget.

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jeffpelline | July 30, 2011 at 6:18 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pq6kF-a4j

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