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Obama’s Stash: Telemarketers Calling to Give it Away

Hello? Need some Stimulus money? 
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I just could NOT resist the opportunity to report that a seemingly endless pile of money being given away by Washington, D.C. is now being marketed to people. Directly. By telemarketers.Can you hear the cash register sounds? Cha-ching, cha-ching. For better sound effects, I’ve included the video of the Pink Floyd song, “Money”, below. Anyway, I should have asked, can you hear the telephone ringing, followed by the cash register noises?

Reportedly, telemarketers are calling people offering “Federal Government Stimulus money” to make peoples’ homes more energy efficient. Many thanks to my friend, Sandie Crosnoe, for reading me the Facebook thread she found last night (and for taking the snaps of it), which was posted by Jen Hall, reporting such a call.

I’ve embedded the Facebook thread, below, for everyone’s reading pleasure:

Jen deserves the praise she received. Perhaps her effort at least caused the telemarketer to scratch her head…for a second.

When Sandie read Jen’s report aloud and I heard, “Well, it’s from Obama…”, I had to contain my laughter. Randy Hilton, the final commenter in the thread, had the very same thought. If the money is “from Obama”, it must have come from that stash.

For those who missed it, what Randy and I recalled was the 2009 cash giveaway in the Detroit, Michigan, which garnered attention from some media (mostly on the right, of course), primarily because a Detroit radio host captured a couple of interviews with some of the “give-ees”. I have included the YouTube clip of his audio, here:

Obviously, the federal government is not literally calling people to give them money. This is actually worse. What Jen unfortunately experienced is bona fide corporatism in action. A company is marketing its product, which has been chosen as a winner in the winners-and-losers-lottery one sees in corporatist systems. Corporatism was an important element in Mussolini’s development of fascism, which we all know was soon adopted by Adolf Hitler.

But forget Mussolini and Hitler for a second. Did you ever think you’d live to see a day in America when people are receiving calls offering government money as a selling technique? Once again, bravo to Jen.

Note on Jen Hall…Jen is the sister-in-law of David Hall, the keeper of the traveling Liberty Bell. 

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts