Obama’s FCC Chief Hurting Low Income Consumers

Steve Sherman / Townhall Columnist

What does the Obama Administration and his FCC appointee, Travis LeBlanc, have against immigrants calling home? LeBlanc is the Chief of the Bureau of Enforcement at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and he is seemingly out to make a name for himself by hurting immigrants and low income Americans by attacking companies serving those communities. It doesn’t matter who gets in LeBlanc’s way while he is building up his tough reputation.

Who is in LeBlanc’s way are a bunch of smaller phone service providers who serve the lower income bracket Americans with cheap long distance phone service to foreign countries, most in Central and South America. These small companies have complained that they are under attack from the federal government and the feds are driving these companies out of business one by one.

This is typical of the Obama Administration. Because these companies charge more than the Obama Administration wants, regulators have gone after them. Same with industries like online loan companies. Because the Obama Administration does not like the rates that these businesses charge, they have used the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to issue new rules that attack online lenders. That new regulation would hurt middle and low income consumers in need of a quick short term small dollar loan.

Disgusting: Palestinian Authority Gives Money To Families Whose Members Kill Israelis

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Some of you may already know this, but the Palestinian Authority pays the families of terrorists. It’s a tradition that predates the establishment of the PA in the 1990s when the Palestinian Liberation Organization paid families of “martyrs” who launched attacked Israelis, according to Bloomberg’s Eli Lake. Lake added that the U.S., and recently Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would start deducting aid payments to the Palestinian Authority for every dollar sent to families whose members have attacked innocent Israelis:

According to the latest report of the Russian, European, U.S. and U.N. group known as the Quartet, there have been 250 of these kinds of attacks since October. It says, "These terrorist attacks, which have been carried out mostly by young, unaffiliated individuals, contribute to the sense among Israelis of living under constant threat." 

But this misses important context. The Quartet's report, which is even handed to a fault, makes no mention of the "martyr's fund," through which the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization pay the families of all Palestinian prisoners and the families of martyrs. So while there is no evidence that the Palestinian government plans these killing sprees, it encourages them as a legitimate act of resistance.

Al Quds Day and the jihadist mantra: “death to America, death to Israel”
By Christine Williams / Jihad Watch

 

Tens of thousands of Iranians joined anti-Israel rallies across the country to express solidarity with Palestinians. They chanted “death to Israel, death to America” and burned the Israeli flag. The day is known as al Quds Day, an annual event held on the last Friday of Ramadan that was initiated by Iran during its 1979 revolution to […]
 
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Three American students among 20 people hacked to death by ISIS in CAFE ATTACK – who only spared MUSLIMS WHO COULD RECITE QUR’AN 

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs 

Muslims testing their victims’ Qur’anic knowledge in order to separate the Muslims from the non-Muslims (and apostates) for slaughter. If you recall, devout Muslims did this at the Westgate Mall, the Mumbai massacre (Jews got it the worst), Mali, Tunisia beach massacre, (even in Michigan) etc.

The jihadis in Dhaka hacked 20 people to death, sparing only those who could recite the Qur’an, before engaging police in a 12-hour standoff. Clearly Muslims who could not recite Qur’an are considered apostates, and apostasy is punishable by death under the Sharia. The Islamic State means to purge the ummah of lapsed Muslims (apostates).

ISIS terrorists shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they hacked victims to death

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