AAFMAA - Insuring American Troops Since The Little Big Horn

Dear Readers, 

I was recently contacted by AAFMAA to find out if I would write a blog about that organization. 

Frankly, I didn't know anything about them other than the fact that they were called the American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association (AAFMAA).

I found out that they are a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, member-owned association that provides life insurance and survivor services to the U.S. Armed Forces communities.

I found out that in 2012, AAFMAA membership exceeded 90,000. That's right, 90,000 of us!

Specifically, AAFMAA membership includes life insurance benefits, Member/Survivor Assistance Benefits with no war clause, no terrorist clauses, and no aviation clauses or exclusions, Wealth Management and Trust Services.

"Let's Pass The Hat Around!"

In my life, I've "passed the hat" around asking people to put money in a hat for friends in need, neighbors in trouble, students needing help, military friends and families who were having a tough time making it from paycheck to paycheck or fix the family car.

To "pass the hat" around is a way to collect donations of money from people to help others.

While I was in the Marine Corps, we passed the hat around to help others in the same way that many others in our military have done over the years.

"Passing the hat" has everything to do with AAFMAA

Everyone who reads my blog knows that I love history, especially Old West History.

Well, come to find out, the AAFMAA was started as a result of a huge event in American Military History in the American West. 

And yes, you'll probably be a little surprised at the connection. 

Believe it or not, AAFMAA was actually founded in 1879 by a group of U.S. Army Officers in response to the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Big Horn or "Custer's Last Stand" in 1876. 

In the Old West, during frontier times, when an soldier died, the remaining soldiers would literally "pass the hat" to raise money for the surviving family.

A dollar or two from the troops went a long way, at least for a while. And yes, a survivor could depend on the help of the other troops to help ease the burden and the loss.   

But what took place at the Little Big Horn was not seen since the Civil War, an entire unit was wiped out.

In the solitude of the Western Frontier, for that unit, there was simply no one to pass the hat to for any sort of help. 

That was really the moment in time when the soldier's system of passing the hat collapsed.

Along with Custer and his over 200 troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, another casualty of that battle was the ability for the survivors to fend for themselves.

There were simply too few survivors to pass the hat, thus leaving the deceased soldiers' families in need.

To remedy this situation, a group of U.S. Army officers stepped forward and established the association that today we know as the AAFMAA. 

What started as the Army Mutual Aid Association, later evolved to include the Air Force, as in the Army Air Force Mutual Aid Association. 

During its time, some of the notable AAFMAA members include:

• Gen. John J. (Black Jack) Pershing
• Gen. George C. Marshall
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Gen. Carl A. (Tooey) Spaatz
• Gen. Omar N. Bradley
• Gen. William C. Westmoreland
• Gen. Creighton W. Abrams
• Gen. Walter T. “Dutch” Kerwin
• Gen. Michael S. Davison
• Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

In 2013, the Army Air Force Mutual Aid Association name was officially changed to the American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association (AAFMAA) as it is known today - and it included all branches of our military.

One vital Mission: Secure our Military Families during Reduction in Force
Since starting my small blog, I'm contacted from folks in the military seeking guidance about what to do for their families if they are affected by the draw down — big choices about life insurance, retirement benefits, survivor services and much, much more.

Many military members across our country face choices in the days ahead that could have a permanent impact on the security of their families. The costs of poor decisions could be high and they know it.

As a blogger, one who has made my own poor decisions in the past. I know first hand how poor decision making is usually a case of getting bad information.

Since I was asked to help our troops, our men and women in uniform, by informing them about their rights and their options, I'm proud to say that after a lot of research -AAFMAA could be the difference between a secure financial future and one that is not so secure.

I told the AAFMAA that I would help spread the word to members of our military - explaining to them that they have rights and a choice.

I know I speak for many when I say that if you served your country — if you put your life on the line for your country — then household budget issues like higher life insurance premiums should never stand in the way of family security.

So with us knowing that, where do we start?

Well, let's start by talking about the AAFMAA's stability

• As I mentioned before, AAFMAA was found in 1879 after "Custer's Last Stand"
• They have more than $1 billion in assets
• There are over 90,000 members
• And Membership Eligibility is your service to our nation.

The AAFMAA is open to all ranks of Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force who are:

■ Active Duty (or within 120 days after separation)
■ Guard or Reserve (full or part time)
■ USMA, USNA, USMMA, USCGA, and USAFA cadets or midshipmen
■ ROTC contract/scholarship cadets
■ Retirees

It's also available to Honorably Discharged Veterans residing in Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, or Virginia.

And how about "Low-Cost" Insurance

AAFMAA offers some of the lowest-cost insurance in the business.

The details of their plans, their costs and their benefits are considerably different than anything available in the commercial marketplace

But really, price should not be the only comparison.

All insurance policies are not the same and military families have to understand what they are getting for what they pay.

Many commercial plans have exclusion clauses that mean they don’t have to pay if the policyholder dies in battle, by an act of terrorism, or in an aircraft crash, for instance.

That's not the case with AAFMAA.

Not only are AAFMAA life insurance policies less expensive than the competition, they also have no exclusion clauses.

And yes, AAFMAA coverage is available up to $1,000,000 regardless of the dangers faced.

All AAFMAA Life Insurance Policies Include:

• Competitive rates for service members and military spouses
• Survivor Assistance Services for members’ spouses
• No war, terrorist or aviation clauses, exclusions or surcharges
• No coverage limitations based on deployment status
• Coverage available up to $1,000,000 ($800,000 term)
• Continuation after separation or retirement from the Military (as policy allows)


They also have Low-Cost Loans

Everyone knows the feeling of being stretched a bit too thin at times.

The AAFMAA offers low-cost loan program known as CAP, which dishes-up as much as $4,000 in cash at just 1.5% interest to help service members get through hard times.

These loans are for AAFMAA members who are on Active Duty, including Guard and Reserves in pay grades E5-E9, WO1, CW2 and 01-03. There are other requirements which may apply, but I'm not going to go through all of the what have you here.

The point is that help is available without costing anyone an arm and a leg in interest.

I made the mistake of getting a loan when I was in the Corps. Yes, they had loans back in the Stone Ages!

I needed it to help my folks who were having a tough time at home. The interest rate was huge and I ended up learning the hard way from that horrible experience.

I can only hope that that doesn't happen to you.

And how about "Spousal Services"

One of the reasons that some of the guys who I knew in the Corps who never got married was their not wanting to leave a widow behind with no support and maybe a child to raise.

Today, while the loss of a loved one is still the greatest challenge a military family will face - there are ways of preparing that simply weren't available years ago.

Dealing with these decisions is hard enough, and making life-long choices in a time of anguish can be overwhelming.

AAFMAA Survivor Services is there with sound and caring advice and a steady hand in navigating the maze of benefits and entitlements.

Survivor Assistance Services is included with all member policies.

Losing a loved one is never easy. AAFMAA’s Survivor Assistance Services Team helps with immediate, personal and knowledgeable assistance.

• Notify DFAS of the member’s passing and assist widows and widowers with all necessary forms
• Initiate the life insurance policy death claim and discuss settlement options
• Notify the Veterans Administration of the member’s passing and assist with all necessary claim forms when applicable
• Claims Initiation and continuous follow-up

SpouseLink.org

Anyone who has been in the military knows that we are more than a collection of individuals.

When you serve, your families serve as well. And yes, I've said it before and I'll say it again, military families are the true backbone of our military.

Those left at home to worry and wait, all while taking care of home and family with money and other pressures - they are our warriors at home.

They don't have it easy! And yes, they have my respect and admiration.

From the information that was sent to me by the AAFMAA, I gather only AAFMAA offers SpouseLink.org

This is an invaluable online tool connecting and strengthening the broad network of military spouses who hold these families together.

For advice, the latest news from the military community or just a sympathetic ear, SpouseLink.org is the place for military spouses.

So what are the Member Benefits?

As one of the AAFMAA family, you have access to a range of services to help you through every stage of life — in the military and beyond.

AAFMAA Member Services Team offers expert guidance on military benefits and entitlements.

AAFMAA Survivor Assistance Services Team offers compassionate and caring assistance in difficult times from the moment of death notification through the surviving spouse’s entire life.

Premier Services (Only $5.95 per month)

•Digital & Physical Vault Document Storage
•VA Disability Claims Coordination
•Military Benefits Analysis and Transitions Readiness Assessment

Wealth Management

For over 134 years, AAFMAA has had the best interests of its members at heart.

Their Wealth Management experts work closely with you to develop and implement a plan appropriate for your — and your family’s — specific financial situation and goals.

As for Financial Planning

Buying a home. Saving for college. Retirement planning.  We all have financial goals we want to achieve.

From financial road maps and cash flow analysis to retirement and estate planning, the AAFMAA may be able to help you plan for a secure future.

Investment Management

Managing and growing your hard-earned money is key to a secure future.

Their experts can help determine your optimum investment strategy, define and manage a portfolio customized for your goals in a way that suits your needs.

Trust Services

A well drawn trust manages and distributes assets on behalf of its beneficiaries.

As your trustee, AAFMAA Wealth Management and Trust works to ensure that your wishes are carried out.

Their attitude is "Members First, Always"

Commercial insurance companies often keep proceeds from death benefits in separate bank accounts held in a general corporate investment account.

These accounts earn investment income for the insurance company, while survivors receive uncompetitive rates.

AAFMAA does not have retained asset accounts. All funds are always invested for the benefit of members or their survivors at competitive rates.

The AAFMAA invests settlement amounts for the survivors, as well. All income after expenses is returned to the members or their survivors.

AAFMAA is based on the principle of “mutual aid.”

It is this "all-for-one, one-for-all" spirit that means military men and women know that someone else always has their back, no matter what the circumstances.

If you would like to look them over, just click AAFMAA

For me, I like the folks at AAFMAA.

Most of this information comes from the information that they made available to me. I checked most of it out and so I felt comfortable about posting it here.

As a matter of full disclosure, I am making absolutely no money for writing this blog about AAFMAA. 

AAFMAA is not paying me to write this blog, nor are they paying me to "advertise" their organization by way of this article.

In fact, the AAFMAA does not advertise with me on the American Cowboy Chronicles at all.

Fact is, I was contacted and simply asked if I could take a look at their organization and write an honest evaluation of what they have to offer - all in an effort to help our troops.

"Members first always," tells me a lot about them. 

As a former Marine, as a disabled veteran, I really wish I had these sorts of services available to me back when I was serving - and later when I was ready to get out.

If there were something like AAFMAA actually available at the time, I didn't know it. And yes, that's why I am writing this blog today.

Besides telling Kara, the rep for AAFMAA that I would do this, this blog post is to help you, my brothers and sisters in the military.

This is being provided to you so that you can take a look at AAFMAA in the future. You might find that it fits your needs, and the needs of your family.

If by chance you are one of my readers in the military right now, I hope and pray that you don't mind me saying how much I appreciate your service.

I am proud of who you are. I admire and respect your sacrifice. I believe with all my heart and soul that you are the hope of America.

And yes, you are my heroes!

Tom Correa
Editor
American Cowboy Chronicles


 

Speaking A Language Other Than English In America

Dear Readers,

I've always had a great respect for language, and I've admired people who can speak different languages.

Being brought up in Hawaii, a true melting pot, as a kid there I was exposed to many different languages.

And yes, like most people from Hawaii, I picked up a lot of foreign words here and there - some were Chinese, some Filipino, Japanese, Samoan, and of course some Hawaiian.

While "Pidgin English" or "broken English" was spoken daily, at home where my great-grandfather could not speak English - we spoke Portuguese.

Since my first few years of going to school was at St Patrick's Catholic School in Kaimuki, we learned Latin because in those days Sunday Mass was always in Latin. And since it was a French Catholic Order, the nuns taught us French a few days a week.

In High School, I took a class in Japanese - and I didn't do too bad.  But as for "proper" English? Yes, I admit it. I got straight F's in English in High School.

Like many in Hawaii, I found Pidgin English easier and not so anal as "proper" English with all of its rules and pronunciations. And yes, believe it or not, I still get it wrong.

While in the military, the Marine Corps made me take MCI courses to help "clean up" my English.  But in the meanwhile, I was also picking up bits and pieces of other languages from friends from around the country.

Living in California, one can't help but learn some Spanish. I call my knowledge of Spanish, "bar-Spanish". Other than being able to order another beer or shot of tequila, or ask where's the banos, or how someone's day is - I'm definitely limited.

I worked for an Italian family back in the '80s who taught me some Italian. Today, because of my association with them, I can swear a blue streak in Italian!

To me, hearing foreign words in our everyday conversations is just a part of being an American.

But though we are a melting pot of different languages, we need to speak a common language if we want to communicate in a half-ass understandable way.

Like it or not, that language is American English.    

What has me thinking about this? Well, a few days ago my nephew left this facebook post:

Anuanu i kēia kakahiaka, akā, pono au e hana!!! Aloha kakahiaka kākou!!!

I answered:

I looked up what you said in Hawaiian. My translator says you wrote "Your feet stink this time of the day and you don't like taking a bath!' Good to know! Thanks for posting it."

Then, after more thought, I wrote:

Send me a link to your Hawaiian translator - the New England Missionaries who translated Hawaiian into a written language for the Hawaiians might have left out a few letters.

I can't find a translator for your version of Hawaiian. At least not one that will accept what you wrote. It keeps saying that no such language exists. What gives?

After leaving it alone for a while, I went back to see if I received a reply. I did, but not from my nephew.

I then wrote:

I've just been informed that about 7,000 people in Hawaii speak Hawaiian on a daily basis. Out of a population of 1.7 Million people, that ain't that many?

So now, the question is, how many people in Idaho speak Hawaiian on a daily basis to know what my nephew is saying?

If you are my nephew's friend in Hawaii, do you speak totally Hawaiian on a daily basis? Now I'm sort of curious - because there must be someone out there who knows what he's saying on every post?

Just as a matter of full disclosure, back when my grandfather (my dad's dad) got to Hawaii in 1909. He learned to speak Hawaiian because a lot of people still spoke it daily back then.
But, he said by the 1930s hardly anyone did.

And yes, I do know a little being from there. But I don't know anyone who speaks conversational Hawaiian - especially on a daily basis at home or work or talking on the phone or anytime.

I'm now curious how common is it?

This morning my nephew wrote:

Cold this morning but, I have to work... Good morning everyone!!

Then he wrote:

My translator works.... It's called "I worked hard hard for the past three years and learned my language

He then wrote:

I have a linguistic professor for a friend that told me, what I'm doing is actually cool and amazing, he also speaks Hawaiian and we converse as much as we can.... I don't think you realize what your telling me, and how I am understanding it... You said, only 7,000 people speak Hawaiian out of 1.7 million.... Well that's why I'm doing what I do.... I really don't need a reason to do anything..".

While leaving the whole "my language" thing alone, I replied the following:

I agree that its cool to speak another language - but just do it with people who understand it and don't need a translator every time they hear from you!

By the way, I speak my rotten bar-Spanish with my Mexican friends all the time. I throw out a word here and there in Portuguese when I'm with your grandma (my mom). I've been known to use a phrase of two of Italian when I'm with a few friends who are old Italians who I once worked for back when, a few Chinese and Tagalog words here and there, and I still remember some Japanese from when I was growing up in Hawaii and took a class in Japanese in school. But with the majority of my friends, I speak American English so that we can understand and communicate with each other.

When someone asks me, "How am I doing?" I don't respond, "O ia mau no! Pehea oe?"

First, I don't do it because it is impolite. Second, why be pretentious? And third, they understand it easier if I simply say "Same as usual! How are you?"

A common language puts people and friends at ease. It unites people. It even allows Uncles to read a post from their nephew on facebook or anywhere else!

This essay has more to do with the need of Americans to speak one language than it does with my communication problems with my nephew in Idaho.

He's just a good example of someone who wants to speak a language that most people do not understand - or as a matter of fact can even pronounce. 

There is an old Hawaiian proverb that goes: "He lawai'a no ke kai papa'u he pokole ke aho; he lawai'a no ke kai hohonu he loa ke aho."

Translation in English: "A fisherman of shallow seas uses only a short line; a fisherman of the deep sea uses a long line."

Explanation: You will reach only as far as you aim and prepare yourself to reach.

If any of us decides that we want to speak Hawaiian or any other language to everyone, then we should understand that like the fisherman in the proverb who uses a short line - we will only reach a few people.

Of course, that is hoping that they understand us in the first place and does not misconstrue what we may be trying to say.

A common language is no different than that fisherman using that long line. A common language doesn't limit us.

And before someone writes saying that we limit ourselves by speaking only one language, remember that I'm not against speaking as many languages as one wants.

All I'm asking is what's so wrong with speaking American English as a common language?

Germans speak German, the French speak French, the Spanish speak Spanish, the Chinese speak Chinese.

What's wrong with Americans wanting to speak American English as an official common language?

Since there are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today, with about 2,000 of those languages having fewer than 1,000 people speaking them, and since America is made up of people from all of the world, why shouldn't America use its one common language to communicate among our people?

Since an American version of English has been used for centuries here, why not use English as an official way of speaking to communicate better?

In the world, the #1 spoken language is Chinese (Mandarin), #2 Spanish, #3 English, #4 Hindi, #5 Arabic, #6 Portuguese, #7 Bengali, #8 Russian, #9 Japanese, and #10 Javanese.

English as America's one common language unites us, make us more efficient, and allows us to understand each other better.

And really, isn't understanding each other better a good thing?


Story by Tom Correa

 

Obama Criminal Indictment - Part Three

In this, part three, we will start by looking at the Department responsible for ObamaCare.

Department of Health and Human Services

President Obama has made this department responsible for setting up and running Obamacare including issuing regulations pursuant to it such as the abortion mandate that requires nearly every health insurance plan to provide for free access to abortion inducing drugs and contraceptives.

This mandate flies in the face of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment as it forces employers, individuals, and many religious institutions to provide health insurance that covers items that they find objectionable under the tenants of their faith.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is also using her position to raise funds for Obamacare from the very businesses and industries she regulates.

Secretary Sebelius is also in some hot water for violating the Hatch Act when she used her official position to campaign for President Obama at an event in North Carolina during the 2012 presidential election cycle.

Secretary Sebelius also took it upon herself to grant waivers to parts of Obamacare to various Unions and even whole states without statutory authority to do so.

Yes, it's called extortion. And yes, she can get away with it because the president doesn't see anything wrong with what she has been doing - and keeps doing.

As for Obamacare?

The ObamaCare individual mandate which requires that a person must purchase health insurance that meets the government’s approval or be fined is criminal in itself.

It was originally argued that the individual mandate was lawful under the commerce clause of the Constitution, that argument was torpedoed by the Supreme Court.

But the Supreme Court ruled that the mandate was permissible under the governments taxing authority.

There is just one problem, as pointed out in a brief by Landmark Legal Foundation, the individual mandate doesn’t qualify as a tax under any of the taxing provisions of the Constitution.

The individual mandate is not a direct, excise, or income tax, it is not a duty or import, nor any of the other things permissible under the Constitution.

In effect, you - as a free man or woman - will be penalized for not entering into a contract of the government's liking simply because you are alive.

And yes, those are only a few of the many many problems with ObamaCare.

The Department of Homeland Security

The DHS is responsible for the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement(among others) and is thus at the front lies of both border security and enforcement of our nations immigration laws.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Obama had taken it upon themselves to usurp the powers of Congress and rewrote our immigrations laws by granting people who were brought to the US illegal as children by their parents de facto amnesty.

According to the head of the Union representing ICE agents anyone who merely claims that they meet criteria for deferred deportation(i.e amnesty) are automatically given that status with no verification at all.

Reports indicate that 99% of all people who have applied for deferred deportation status have had it granted.

The criteria used to determine who is eligible for deferred status are nearly identical to those found in a piece of legislation called the DREAM Act, however neither the DREAM Act or deferred deportation have ever been approved by Congress which under the Constitution has the authority to set immigration policy in this country.

Again according to ICE Union head Chris Crane even criminal illegal immigrants and those who have assaulted law enforcement are given deferred status effectively putting the brakes on Immigration and Customs Enforcements ability to enforce the laws enacted by Congress.

Crane also alleges that DHS and Obama administration officials have threatened to punish ICE agents for enforcing existing immigration law.

The Department of Homeland Security was created following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and has been responsible for preventing another terrorist attack on our homeland.

They and the FBI failed miserably at that in the case of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who are responsible for the April 15th, 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon that killed three, injured nearly 100 others, and subsequent murder of a Boston area police officer.

The Tsarnaev brothers came to the US with their parents seeking political asylum after they left the Chechen region of Russia.

Years later Tamerlan would spend six months in the area meeting with a known terrorist leader.

Russian authorities would alert the US to Tamerlan and his suspected ties to terrorist and the FBI conducted a brief investigation that obviously didn’t dig deep enough.

In addition to DHS not monitoring Tamerlan on his overseas travels or re-entry into the US, they also failed to check to see if the Tsarnaev’s were eligible to remain in the US given that they were on welfare for years and that Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence against his then girlfriend.

That girlfriend according to media reports says Tamerlan pressured her to hate the US like he did.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shoot out with police following a car jacking and chase in which explosive devices were thrown at police.

The younger Tsarnaev brother, Dzhokhar, was found by police the next day hiding in a boat and had written a note in his own blood calling the Marathon victims collateral damage and claimed to have carried out the terrorist attack in retaliation for the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq allegedly writing, “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims”.

There were multiple warning signs and ample evidence provided to us by the Russians that at a minimum Tamerlan was a potential threat, and yet nothing was done that would have prevent the deaths of those four people at the hands of these terrorist brothers and that is unacceptable.

Obama and his administration of criminal incompetents

They have to answer for what action they did and did not do during the terrorist attack on the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.

On September 11, 2012 100-150 members of the Al Qaeda linked group Ansar al-Sharia laid siege to the compounds with heavy weapons fire killing Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith, and CIA security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods over the course of an 8 hour attack.

During the course of the fighting Gregory Hicks, the head of US presence in Libya with the Ambassador out of contact, made repeated request for military assistance.

Those request went unanswered all the while some 30 American were in harm’s way. At no point during those 8 hours did the US seek the approval of the Libyan government to enter their airspace with fighters of helicopters to repel the terrorist.

With two unarmed UAV drones taking turns providing real-time video to officials in Washington no help ever came for our fellow Americans.

It took more than a day for a special forces unit meant to respond to this kind of situation to get out of the Balkin country they were in.

No aircraft from Italian air bases or US aircraft carriers were launched. Keep in mind a commercial plane could travel from London to Benghazi and back in the time the attack was taking place.

It is the contention of Mr. Hicks that had any US aircraft arrived on the scene the terrorist would have retreated.

That could have possibly saved the lives of Doherty and Woods who were the last to die when a mortar hit their position.

Then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta contends that no military assets could have reached Benghazi in time to help, which he couldn’t have known since no help was sent and no one at the time knew how long the fighting was going to last, whether or not there were any hostages or the status of Ambassador Stevens who went missing during the siege.

In the days and weeks following the terrorist attack President Obama, Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did the unthinkable and blamed the deaths of four of our own, not on the terrorist who had killed them, but on a little seen Youtube video.

Susan Rice would do the rounds on the Sunday talk shows blaming Benghazi on the Youtube video.

Hillary Clinton and President Obama would cut a commercial that ran in Pakistan doing them same.

Two weeks after the attack President Obama would speak to the United Nations and continued the Benghazi Youtube video line.

The problem is they were lying. During the attack Mr. Hicks and others specifically called what was going on terrorism and even named the group responsible Ansar al-Sharia.

Talking points crafted by the CIA called what had happened a terrorist attack, named Ansar al-Sharia, and documented previous terrorist attacks in the months prior in Benghazi.

Those talking points were changed by State Department officials who took out the truth and inserted the lie about the Youtube video which the Obama administration ran with.

Then CIA director David Petraeus said that he would rather not use the State Department altered talking points. Why, because they were bull crap.

Even after emails and other proof emerged that the talking points used by Susan Rice were lies Obama administration officials continued to downplay the significance of using them instead of telling the American people the truth, which was what the original CIA talking points were.

It is clear that President Obama’s reelection and narrative that Al Qaeda had been defeated and was on the run was more important than the truth.

Aside from being briefed in the first few hours of the attack by Leon Panetta and a late night phone call to Hillary Clinton, which many contend was to begin to establish the cover-up, we have no idea what President Obama did or where he was during the attack on our people.

To this day we still do not have any hard copies of orders, if any, President Obama gave.

We do not know who in the administration came up with the notion that what happened was a result of a video.

We don’t know who decided to run with the Youtube video lie over the terrorist attack truth.

And no, we don’t know why no help was sent to our people under attack which is the most intolerable action taken by this President and his subordinates to date.

These are but a few of the intolerable actions taken by President Obama and those he has appointed to various post.

Now The Last Straw!

Along with all that has been document, there are also Obama’s unconstitutional recess appointments, the failed $1 trillion stimulus, the fact that Obama has the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression, the auto bailouts, and the screwing over of GM bond holders, the multiple examples of crony capitalism including Solyndra, and dozens upon dozens more examples of government overreach.

But as a late, they all pale in comparison to the straw that has finally brought even his allies in the liberal media to take a harder look at what he has been doing to our nation.
Since compiling all of this, the government has been in a "partial" shutdown.

And yes, what Obama and his administration has done since the shutdown has started leads us into Part Four.

Obama Criminal Indictment - Part Two

As stated in part one, it is my belief that President Obama and his cohorts have abused their positions of power, over-stepped their authority, sought to intimidate and coerce the citizery, and have even commited felony crimes against the citizens of the United States.


All with no accountability or actions taken by the president to remedy these actions - and yes, that clearly indicates an approval of those activities on the president's part.

This is Part Two, of a detailed indictment of the crimes that have been perpetrated against us, the citizens of the United States, by President Barack Hussein Obama and the Federal Government which he commands.
Let's continue and take one agency or Department at a time:

The Environmental Protection Agency

Simply known as the EPA, they are being used as a tool to accomplish what President Obama wants them to do - stifle agriculture through over-regulation and bankrupt small family farms.

The EPA has tried to do this by using unmanned drones to spy, they say to "monitor" as if they have the right to do that, farmers and other agriculture producers without just cause.

The EPA has released the private information of thousands of farmers to radical environmental groups.

The EPA is using the Freedom of Information Act to reward, by nearly always waiving the fees for Liberal environmental groups - while at the same time forcing Conservative groups to pay those fees with nearly no waivers ever granted.

Former EPA head Lisa Jackson used a fake name and email account to converse with other Obama administration officials and outside groups in the crafting of regulations in violation of various laws and standard procedure.

In a laughable moment that fake name used by Jackson won EPA awards.

President Obama is using the EPA to wage a "War On Coal" by forcing coal mines and coal-fired power plants to shut down, putting thousands out of work and increasing our dependence on foreign energy.

The Obama EPA has also retroactively revoked coal mining permits issued to a coal mine under the Bush administration.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture

The USDA has been using taxpayer dollars to advertise the Food Stamp program in Mexico, explaining in Spanish how people can apply for and receive this welfare benefit.

Food Stamps currently account for 75-80% of the Departments total $100 Billion budget with a record 45 million people enrolled in the program.

Then there is the "Pigford Scandal," where black farmers have been awarded billions of dollars for alleged past discrimination.

The problem here is that a large number of the people seeking to get money from this program have never farmed a day in their life - and what few there are that are actual farmers don’t have to prove or display any evidence of any discrimination.

Simply fill out the form and receive your money - if you are a black.

The Department of Veterans Affairs

The VA currently has a massive backlog processing claims by our wounded warriors and aging veterans inhibiting their ability to get medical care and treatment.

Tens of thousands of veterans are waiting a year or more for their claims to be processed.

And yes, this backlog has existed for years and only gets worse as time goes by.

President Obama has cut veteran services while he gives billions to ensure more college graduates in Indonesia.

The Department of Energy and Interior Department

These two agencies of the Federal Government are combining their efforts to ensure that the United States does not become energy independent.

How? By denying, stonewalling, or blocking permits to energy companies for the exploration and development of oil and natural gas on federal land.

If it were not for a boom in energy production on private land thanks to hydraulic fracturing domestic energy production would be down under President Obama.

The Obama administration has used the Energy and Interior Departments to stop production of oil on federal lands while colluding with the EPA and State Departments to block the Keystone XL pipeline.

Department of Education

This department does not directly employ any teachers nor does it directly teach a single student in our entire nation, but it does however have a SWAT team to knock down people’s doors and arrest them in a very Soviet style display of government power.

The Department of Education is also helping to push "Common Core" on the states.

Common Core is a set of national education standards that dumb down our children, promote liberal propaganda like man-made climate change, de-emphasizes American history, and much more that is detrimental to our nations education system.


Obama Criminal Indictment - Part One