OMJC Signal's equipment being used in Milwaukee.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is out running for president this afternoon in Iowa. She issued a statement about President Obama's new jobs plan, an economic stimulus package that is paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and raising taxes for the wealthy. Representative Bachmann writes:
"Two businesses I will visit in Iowa today are examples of why the President's policies continue to dig us deeper into the hole toward another recession."
The first business on her itinerary makes equipment for the heavily subsidized farm industry.
The second is OMJC Signal -- short for Our Master Jesus Christ. OMJC makes traffic signals for roads and school zones, and especially the stuff you see when streets are under construction. Their customers include towns and cities. On its website, the company writes that its future will be driven in part by "[t]he national road infrastructure desperately needing routine maintenance compounded with the government shortage of labor & funds" and on developing "alternative energy markets."
In the American Jobs Act (pdf), President Obama proposes spending $50 billion on infrastructure the American Jobs Act. That might not matter much at the Bachmann campaign stop, even if it matters for the bottom line of companies that build big stuff. Also, the American Jobs Act is kinda popular, in its particulars, and that might matter a lot.
Bonus: Former Bachmann campaign manager says she's done after Iowa.
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Rachel I watch you all the time, hubby and I appreciate your views and comments on the current affairs. I just wish that someone like michelle bachman was the only thing we could comment on today. I am totally in disagreement with who she is, how she carries herself in public and her politicl views. She is definately NOT Hilary Clinton and ever could she be a standard bearer for my belief in Truth and sensibillity. Someone needs to check out her birth certificate because I truly believe she is from another planet!!! Thankyou Rachel for posting this website on facebook,
signed Lizliz aka Sheila
She can stay in Iowa too.
I think a lot of people like the jobs act and want it to pass, but I also know that Republicans will never allow it. They will draw out the arguments for a year and not get anything done while we sit in this slump.
OMJC makes signals, if they made signs that read "This sign for the American Jobs Act, is your tax dollars being wasted.", they'd be rolling in it.
Infrastructure is a waste of tax dollars? How do you figure that?
Light rail.
I love light rail! The Gold Line here in So Cal has been a God/dess send to me.
7 million has been spent in OH without 1 rail being laid down....it's a waste. How much of fair is tax payer supported/subsidized? Total waste.
OH didnt your governor refuse money for rail?
why OF COURSE HE DID
guess they only got that one rail done before he pull the plug on jobs and money for his state.
dam its not HIS state its the People of OHIO`s state!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric
It sounds more like who was managing the money not the light rail itself. We've been doing fine with light rail here in So Cal. There will be a new section of the Gold Line going out to Montclair and eventually to Ontario. Hopefully this will include a L.A. County Fairplex stop. That way I won't loose my car the that f*^%ing parking lot anymore when I go the the L.A. County Fair.
No rail being laid down is a problem with the company at the state level and it's your state's responsibility to follow that up and make sure they are using the money correctly. You should be calling your state congressional representatives about it. The government waste, in this instance, appears to be because the private business doesn't want to do what it's being paid for. So, in other words, this is an example of private sector waste and abuse.
She's put her foot in her mouth so many times it's a wonder that she still has any toes left...
the fork is ready and this turkey is done!!
think its been over done along with the jibblets (Perry) and stuffing (Romney)
Michelle Bachmann's new theme song:
How can you have a political platform that opposes your own views?
Answer:
Strong medication.
This is too much.
I actually found a recording of Michelle Bachmann's theme song at Youtube.
I.m sure it's an interaction between the tea and the migraine meds. She'll be in rehab soon enough. Hope they have a deprogrammer on staff.
Bachmann is clueless. All of these teabaggers are clueless. They hate America. The American economy has been demolished by anti-growth policies coming from Republican lawmakers in the states and congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill. The country cannot recover and grow with a wave of massive spending cuts mandated by Washington and by the new crop of Tea Party radicals running the show in the states. Americans need jobs, they need government spending. austerity has killed our economy.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org
I don't think they hate America, they simply will not except America unless it mirrors the image they want. Take care of yourself and do as they and God demands, if you don't you are not worthy of thier time or assistance and are on your own.
Isn't it amazing that a minority is in the process of using the wealthy to confiscate government in order to construct a theocracy using the media?
It is even more amazing that everyone cheered when the exact same thing happened in Germany in 1937.
OMJC Signal
they smile then ask Bat-lady >>> Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ what are you doing OF COURSE this will HELP us.
LOL in which she just takes another pill for her migrans. and sobs for Marcus.
Bachmann gives new meaning to the words... BLAH BLAH BLAH!
She speaks the same legalese gobbledygook that Casey Anthony's lawyer babbles. Facts don't matter. Confusion, second-guessing, and wild goose chasing take center stage.
If they have a better plan...lets see it...not all talk...so far no plan I have seen help regular working people only their rich friends...... all talk! and confuse trick people to believe her...what a fake!
I guess it's time for Ms Bachman to go back to being big nut in a small shell.
Not ready for prime time.
We have many qualified teenagers over 18 in this country who have studied politics and are well versed in begging money from mom and dad but have better MORALS. Michelle needs to go back to the house and clean up her mind and her morals before she can even beat anyone in a political race such as this.
No wonder the Republicans want to get rid of the US school system.
Here's someone who not only is college educated, but a lawyer. I don't know if you have to pass the bar in Minnesota, or not.
Could you imagine showing up in court to find that this woman was your attorney?
So you'd get 20 years for jaywalking.
Bachman has warped her mind with her brand of religion that God has forsaken her, otherwise he would not let her make such a fool of herself.
I hope she stays in the race.
I want to see her at the Statue of Liberty talking about how it's a symbol how American jobs are lost to foreign countries... Because everybody knows that the French made the statue and we had to import it.
She's a job killer, that Lady Liberty.
She will stay in the race. She honestly believes that she is the best candidate. Rollins has too many profitable ties to say anything but exactly what he is saying. The fact that he is a pro that knows it is not kosher to saying anything about a former client, its not hard to get the impression that significant pressure is being put on him.
If Perry wins, a northern moderate will get picked as VP. If Romney gets nomination, he will hold his nose and sign Bachman on rather than Palin, and Bachman knows it. But her chances over Palin diminish if Bachman bows out. So she goes the distance and takes as many delegates as she can in each state race demonstrating her cred with the Tbaggers- always going to the right of Perry.
John, this is very scarey!
What's scary is that her antics keep her in the forefront of the news, allowing people like Rick Perry, who really could win, to quietly work on his own dangerous agenda.
Her campaign manager said she'd be "done" after this visit. I hope he means, done running for president. She's using up all the good people's oxygen. Don't they have enough money to retire? Just go do something other than politics or anything that involves other people's lives. Just.....go.